YAHWEH | Pr Daniel

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All right, Malaysians, try not to pronounce this too quickly

in your Malaysian context. But the Hebrew verb high higher

okay not higher, basically means to be and to exist,

so live a context of to what Yahweh actually means.

It therefore means that's like the self existent one, the

eternal I am, and the one who causes all things

to be right. That means that Yahweh, the name Yahweh

that was given that God has introduced himself as basically

means that there is no one before him, right, and

they won't be anything after him as well.

He is the beginning, he is the end right, He's the.

All encompassing being that is self existent. He's eternal, and

he's the one who causes all things to be right,

this very divine figure name that's been given. When you

are introducing yourself that way for mere mortals, like sometimes

we may feel very distant, right, like oh am I

really even Moses himself was distant. It's like, how am

I even going to bring such a truth to your people?

And will they even believe me, I think some of

us sometimes we treat God that way. Yeah, God is

that very far, being his divine, his eternal, and we

have no right to be in His presence right as

believe us. I hope that we now know that because

of Jesus, we don't have to think or even act

that way. But there are people out there in this

world that feel that way about God. Right. I'm not

even talking just about the Christians. I'm talking about the

ones of different faiths. They view the God they are

God's in that way. It's very difficult for them to

approach them, right. And it's our privilege to know that,

even as believe, as a faith, we have the ability

the opportunity to be able to.

Know God in a deeper and more in the way. Amen.

So just a little bit background on what Yahueh actually is.

So back to Exodus chapter six, can I have the

next slight? Exodus chapter sixth verse to the tree, God

says the Moses, I am the Lord in record I

put it, Yahweh. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and

to Jacob as God almighty. But my name, Lord Yahweh,

I was not known to them. Now Yahweh is a

name that is tied to God's covenant of faithfulness. He's

a He's a faithful God. The last week just preached

about covenant, right, covenant meaning there is a part to

play God and the part to play and is in

this his creation, his love. But we also have a

part to play, right to say yes to him, to

say to say Lord, here, I am use me. There's

a part to play. There's a covenant. And I want

to just encourage us friends to basically just backtrack a

little bit to that first day. Then you have experienced

your first love with God? Right, what is how did

you feel? What did what did you feel? In your spirit?

You were ready to take on everything? Right, ready to

take on the world.

God, use me, send me wherever you want to send me. Right,

there's a covenant and God has remained faithful yesterday, today

and forever more Now. In the Old Testament, the Israelites

had another name for God. It was such a revered

name that some of them even feared to call God

as Yahweh, because to them it's something so unapproachable, something

so holy, something so set apart, that they had no

right to call even call that name hence they replaced

it with different names. I think some of these names

you would be familiar with, like L. You know L

for God. I don't know the sense for lord or master.

But yahueh in the original language, it actually means personal, relational,

and covenant.

Right.

There is a personal aspect when it comes to even

pronouncing or proclaiming the name your way, when you like

when you say God, I look to you, Lord, I

look to you. There's a difference because you now know

him in an intimate way, in a personal way, he

has came true for you. For It's different when you

go to someone that has an experience in something versus

someone who does not have an experience or something. Right,

if you has, you have experienced how good if I

wor you tastes and you ask that person to sell

how nice that food is? That that steak is? To

another person he was able to sell articulate war will

tell you what the jewice that comes out nicely?

The eyes super great for make my mouth water.

You had to explain all the details the marbles.

You ask me to explain.

What if I wor you, I'll say, after if I's

a a six, is that such a thing?

Yeah, no, correct, See, I have no idea.

If you are able to get someone who understands the

subject matter to explain it as someone who do not understand,

it's gonna be different.

The outcome is going to be different.

Right. So Yeahueh is a name right that that symbolizes

a personal relationship, personal relationship God, and I pray that

each and everyone or you will have that ability. You know,

in whatever circumstance you are, in whatever situation you are,

you have a personal story to share. Right, that God

really came true for me. Some of us may even

have testimonies in the making. Right.

God did not come for gone true for.

Me yet, but I believe I have faith that he

will because He is Lord right and his ways are

higher than my ways.

Amen.

I'm going to be very hard to be not distracted

by this cute little girl over here.

But it's okay. We we love her. Amen, Lord bless you.

But let's let's move very quickly to the next light.

Jesus, all right, A lot of us sometimes, you know,

I came across a few debates, like you know, is

Jesus God?

Oh so I'm getting quiet?

Here is the Holy Spirit Lord, the Bible doesn't mention

anything about trinity, does it? Did they say anything about

the trinity? The God here the tree in one? Yes,

it does all right. And I just want to just

right from the get go, just say that Jesus is God. Okay,

if you are ever doubtful in whatever your form, you

know He's God. Right, Jesus uses God's cover the name,

all right, Next light very quickly. Exodus three fourteen. We

read this earlier, and God said to Moses, I am

who I am. And he said, thus you shall say

to the children of Israel, I Am has sent me to you.

Next light.

Now this is Jesus. In John eight fifty eight, John

say to them most assuredly, I say to you, before

Abraham was I am. Wow. You know, Jesus use the

same the same title or the same name that God

used to introduce himself to Moses, to introduce himself to

the world. Jesus is Lord Amen Yahweh. Is a name

that's tied to God's covenant faithfulness. And we want to

believe that. You know, even as Jesus has sacrificed, was

obedient to the point of the cross, we know that

because of what he came to.

Do he accomplished, he finished the work. That's why today

we have a hope in the future. Amen.

And he is not. He is not.

So whatever it is, you know, if you are ever.

You know, trying to defend the word of God or

to explain you know, it's some of these versus scriptures

can be used. But I pray that it wouldn't just

be something that you use just because you want to

defend one plus one.

It goes to to No.

I pray it because you are defending it, you are

experiencing it, because you have experienced what it feels like,

what it tastes like right in your life. If ever

anyone of you here today have lost that love, the

first love, or you have, you know, I felt a

little bit distant. I prayed it one day you'll be

able to experience it again, right because I know for

the fact that I have experienced his love in a

new way, in the fresh way. I wrote a poem.

I'm not good at this. I wrote a poem and it's.

So my dad.

I want to to share it with all of us.

Uh and uh it's yeah for him, Okay. It goes

along the lines of this. Sometimes Comma Dad, Comma This

is how I read poems. Know sometimes that you make

me mad, But now I see the love you had,

your guiding hand, you're steadified, still shapes my heart.

Both day and night. Amen, that's it verse verse two,

still loading.

Now why why why am I able to write that poem?

Because there are days that he makes me mad, he

drives me crazy, he drives me up the wall.

But there are days where I.

See him so faithfully bringing in the harvest, the food,

the money, And every day and night I see that

on the table there is food.

I see that there is.

Pocket money into my into my pocket, sometimes even stolen

from his pocket. Great pocket money. Uh. But I'm also

able to write this because I had a personal relationship

my dad.

I knew him, I.

Knew who he was when he was alive, and now

that he has left this world, I was able to

use that memory of what I had from him to

write something that perhaps I wasn't even good at. You know,

I'm not good at writing poems. I'm not good at literature.

But because I had a personal relationship, I was able

to share that with you. And I pray that your

relationship with God is also personalizing that way that when

you come to a stranger. It won't just be do

you know who Jesus is? For God, so that you

get it's okay to do that, But it's even more

powerful when the Word of God is made life through

your life. And I pray that after today you would

not only just understand what Yahweh means, but you would desire.

To have that relationship with Yahweh. And we're not just

talking about God that is so distant.

We're talking about the same God that spoke to Moses,

the same God that spoke to Moses through the burning bush,

that introduced himself as Yeah, it's now the same Lord

that stands.

Before us in the form of Jesus. Amen.

This morning I shared with the earlyesten. I don't know

why I just felt led to just say it, but

I'll say it again that some of us here are

waiting too much for a burning bush moment. We're waiting

too much the Lord. Please give me a sign that

she is the one. Please give me a sign that

you know I should share the Gospel with this person.

Please give me a sign. Please burn a kind from me.

Let's not go ahead that far, okay, Please do something,

Please cause the my Lord thing to drop.

You know, I don't know.

Sometimes we pray, way, please give me a sign, just

making a joke, because my wife was for vico ah Is.

So sometimes we just we just we just aspire for

for something like out of the extraordinary to show up,

and then we think that it's God. By telling you what,

because Jesus had already defeated the grave, and he has

really resurrected from the grave, and now he he is

now at the rightful place, and he sent the Holy

Spirit that now dwells in us.

We no longer have to wait for burning bush moments.

Sometimes loving your neighbor is as easy as loving your neighbor.

Let me tell you what. It's the burning bush. The

Bible is the burning bush. Some of us do not

experience a burning bush moment because perhaps this book is

far tucked away in the corner of your house collecting us,

and he hasn't been open in a few weeks.

Just being kind, I don't.

Know how much, hobo, Come on, sorry, open up there.

You know where you need to wear a mask, a

habaco with my wife and my goodness, need a wear

mask when you open the Bible. You know why goes

d'st not because of COVID, but because that's tea. The

Word of God is the Word made life, flesh in

our hearts is living, is operating. And when the world

of God speaks, it speaks to each and every one

of us. I've experienced so many young people asking me today,

you know, just waiting for a sign from God. I say,

your sign is right there, and the mean you're just blind. Yeah,

you can't see the sign because you're blind. Open your eyes,

but buster my eyes wide open. I said, your physical

eyes open, your eyes of your heart close. Not willing

to accept that this is the word of God, but

you're willing to accept all kinds of other things in

this war, all kinds of other things mat Ma Gundala,

all that scripture you can accept every single court Abraham Lincoln,

you know you are coming out your courtes after courts,

off the courts.

But the Bible.

Maybe because and this this was a college, and the

young person, maybe because you know it's true. You know

that that's the only way to be able to forgive

yourself is to forgive others. That's the only way. But

yet you don't do that because when you want, you

and you forgive others. That is a sign of weakness

in the ways of this war, and you don't want

to do it. The word of God made flesh. Amen,

And I pray that each and everyone in the words

will have the encounter the same God who spoke with

Moses as young way, he now stands before us in Jesus.

We no longer have to wait for a burning bush encounter.

We often treat Jesus last nextight. We often treat Jesus

as a live meaning option. Then we go, oh yeah,

I don't know how many of you have been in

the place before. Your entire schedule is packed, everything is nice,

everything is great. And then suddenly, oh yeah, yahee. I

forgot to pray. I forgot to actually give glory to God.

I received a news that my grand application.

I don't know what's the reason. Okay, I received the

news that my application has been approved.

And then I go and give glory. I go and

give thanks up the area sunny.

You know this, you know what, this happened, happened, This

happen happen. But we forget to give glory to God.

We forget and then we go like, oh yeah, I

have been in the place so many times in my life.

There was one time I almost got into an accident. Right,

I got shot right, drive drive dry. The first person

I called was my wife. Actually, did I almost got

I got into an accident. Yes, I got into an accident.

I scratched a car.

I was the one guilty.

I called my wife, but I didn't, and then I

called my update, my pastor update, my boss. Everything nicely, really,

go all the way to the police station. Something reported,

everything done, everything done. Only after that, oh yeah, thank

you Lord for keeping me safe. Thank you Lord, because

it was my fault. Right.

But going to the police officer, I was not in

the guilty. I was on the on the straight line.

A car came into my lane, and then I nicely

went ram the follow because I was busy to get

my phone.

Yeah, I was wrong.

I was trying to tell the police officer.

Actually sair a cool salah.

Then the police officer was like, no, according to the law,

right you want to change lane, you must make sure

that you.

Can enter the lane. Then only you enter, huh, even

though you signal double it. Then I can see the

poor feller crying all there. So sorry.

So then I just told the follow I said, uh,

someone half half along you by?

Yeah, so nice?

Right, But actually I should have paid the entire three hundred.

I should have paid the three hundred, right, But I forgot.

I forgot to seek the Lord in the entire process.

I was just so overwhelming. In fact, for the first

like hour, I was just trying to establish my innocence.

He in lane down you mus mass much any I know,

I know, I'm on my phone, the camera pointing the

other side, you know, eat the camera pointing this side.

I got ki nicely to repent, repent.

Sorry was the no? No, my god? No, my name,

my wife's car?

Now I got God?

You know, maybe race lot.

Well, it's not about that. It's about how do you

how do you Where do you put God in your life?

Where do you put the Lord in your life? When

you wake up in the morning, it's the first thing

you say, thank you Lord for giving me breath?

Or is it?

What is it, student spark? How how is our attitude

when it comes to the Lord? I mean, the Lord

is just waiting, you know, I just want to wait

for a good morning from you, my dear son. Or

is it, oh, by the way, kind of thing? Is

it that? Oh? Yeah, we kind of situation like we

like we conveniently forgot instead of yeah, the first the center,

you know, God calls us to make him our priority,

not an afterthought.

I shared the earliest series this thought about after thought.

You know, some of us we often get into a

place of anger towards the Lord because we are so

overwhelmed with the situation that we're in. The trials, the temptations,

the problems that come away, and then we fall, we stumble,

and then we're in the place. We're in debt, we

are in anger, we are in a broken relationship and

all of that, and then we look to the Lord

and say, why do you allow me to go through this?

You know, I had a revelation recently that perhaps the

reason why we are in this position the first place

is because we did not start.

We've got.

When you start your day with the Lord and you

proclaim his name and you say that Lord, let your

will be done, not mine, but let your will be

done in my situation as it is in heaven. That

means it's not no longer my way, but it's your way.

And I compit my time to you. And then you

go through the trials, you go through the tribulations, you

go through the problems, and when you go through it,

you can finally say that I counted all joy that

I fall into various trials. Imagine you prayed it. You're ready, right?

I want to ask you a question. You know this

is all inspired by my late dead. When I'm supposed

to get wet nicely on the butt. Wish you prefer

surprise attack or raadi attack?

Wish are you one?

Of course you want a radiottack, right, you want to

be ready for that tack you. He gave you an option.

I give you answer. Wish are you want surprise attack?

Radio attack? Of course you chose the radio deck. You

want to be prepared for it so they can had

your your, your, your, your, the pain? Where are you underways?

I want ten layers so that I didn't feel as

much pain. But the surprise that you gotta you gotta

feel it. And sometimes we treat God this way because

we treat him as an afterthought. He doesn't reside in

our thoughts from the get and go from the beginning.

And that's why when we reached this place, we start

to question God, why did I go to those trials

as compared to if you put him at the first place,

you realize that maybe it's part of God's plan. Maybe

I lose this job. But tush wood, where's the wood?

But maybe I lose this job. It's because it's part

of God's bigger plan. But because you start, we've got ready.

But if you end, we've gone as an after thought,

then you'll be angry with God. Why why you allowed

this happened to me? Matthew sixty three says, But seek

first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all

these things shall be added to you. I want you

to focus on the word seek. The word seeking Greek

means zito is pronounced as zito. It means to pursue,

to crave, or to desire intensely, wow, to desire intensely.

This morning I gave an example. I desire my wife intensely.

That's why I pursued her. That's the meaning of sing.

Sinking is an hide and singer. Singing isn't like oh

you height in the corner, and it's not that seeing.

There is an urgency when it comes to seeking.

Can you imagine if I go to Russia, I say,

I like you, But to day that's a nice the

Can you imagine am I actually seeking her?

Am I actually wanting to seek her attention?

No? The word sig over here means to desire intensely.

There's an urgency. Another example I want to give you today.

I don't know, however, you have had an issue with

your stomach before, and you're in jam. How many are you?

I had one experience and my underway, I didn't make it. Okay,

let's damn. I I was at the finishing Okay, I

made it in the metro station. I opened everything and nicely.

The door opened and gone gone.

Yeah, when you gotta go, you gotta go.

Friends, When he's urgent, he's agent.

There's no there's no love, there's no nothing, there's no job,

there's no contract, million dollar contract. You gotta go, you

gotta go. You're saying, sir, sorry, I know you're already wortant.

I had to go now. You wait then, I wait

for your message to finish yours and you got no,

you bore already. I'll say that's agent. Now on you

to take that feeling and replaced it over here? Are

you urgently seeking the kiner of God? Are you urgently

looking for what God has intended for your life, because

the verse continues by saying, seeking the King of God

and He's righteousness, and then, and then, and then only

all of these things shall be added to you. We're

talking about the lack of clothing, the lack of food.

This is the context that Jesus are saying right in

the discriptures before. We're talking about all the worries or

that encompasses in this world. But yet there are times

in this in our lives that we often question God

by saying, why you allow this to happen to me?

But if God is faithful and he is amen, if

God is good and he is amen, that if you

seek the King of God and his righteousness, he is

faithful to bring and to add all of these things

unto you, maybe behore. Maybe the reason why sometimes we

have leg is because we have not yet been seeking

as urgently, as as intensively as you need to be

as it ought to be Amen. And that's what the

meaning sek is is not just something that you play

high and seek and then after you can all find,

you give up and then you say, oh tomorrow, I'll

seek you again. That's not seeking. Then it is not

seeking the Lord. When you seek, You look for something

until you find it. Amen, you look for something, You'll

find it. Can I have the next light.

Very quickly?

Closure is one chapter seventy to eighteen says, and he

is before all things, and in him all things consist.

And he is the head of the body the Church,

and that in all things he may have the pre eminence.

The word consists over here literally means held together, So

I can read the verse in this way. And he

is before all things, and in him all things.

Are held together.

Sometimes we often use phrases like my life is falling

a butt right, my family is falling, abut my job

is falling apart. You know, the one thing that can

only keep things from falling apart is Him is God.

And I pray that as you continue to center your

life around Jesus, your families will also continue to be

hold together by the power.

Of His love.

Amen, put him first in everything that you do. Then,

thought that in all things he may have the pre eminence. Now,

pre eminence means the first place in rank and influence,

not one among many. I want to conciand Rochelle. Let's

use Albert and Rachel. I Yeah, to Rachel, she just

wants one person's attention and love. Right, she decided no

to her, to her, she she wants to be the

only one that Albert loves as a wife, not one

among many. Okay, doesn't matter. If Albert loves Rachel with all.

His heart all he's hat right, all of his hat.

He loves us so much. But he said, actually, I

got someone else that I love for So you think

Rachel's gonna say, oh, because I feel your love, therefore

it's okay, you can go in love and another.

Do you think it works that way? He doesn't.

The same way with God.

You know.

God wants your love. He doesn't want to be shared

with another thing or another person. He wants your love.

He wants a personal love from you, not.

Needs, sir.

He wants. He desires God jealous God, Yes, and he desires.

He desires not just some of you, He desires all

of you. And encouragation Aeron of us is that it's

the same love that will continue the propellers forwards. The

same love that he desires from you He already gave

to you. He gave to you in the form of

his only son to die for your Since our since amen,

so B the first place. Let Jesus be the first

place in rang in influence.

Not one among many.

Now. I found this coote online by a guy called

Augustine that many Augustines in this world, but saying Augustinea

really is his name, yeah, not name title, but he

says if Christ is not value at all, Christ is

not valued at all unless he is valued above all.

When I saw this, I really reflected on it, and

I went like, yeah, you can't just value Christ on

a Monday and Tuesday and not value him on a

Wednesday and say that, yeah, because I value him on

a Monday and Tuesday. I therefore I value him. You

either value him above all or none at all. That

should be the attitude that we have towards God. Is

it a yes or no? Is it a memon or him?

Is it a hot?

I often use this example and I say that you

know Jesus prefers you to be cold, then to be

looke warm at least calls you can become hot look warm?

Very difficult already. I know how many of you like

loukewarm my low room temperature? My low is it a

hot or cooler?

Look warm?

That one not so nice? Yeah, sorry, we go. Can't

you use my donor praise a lot? Just kidding, just kidding.

First point I have for you today, I have two parts.

The first part I have to for you today is

don't make Jesus your yahweh. Yeah, don't make Jesus your yahweh. Right,

don't make him that. Don't don't be like you know,

oh yeah, I forgot to pray. And sometimes we often

take a food and we forget to say grace, and

then me and my wife sometimes we were like, do

we have to take out the food from your mouth?

You know? The last time my niece, the mother always

used to teach heir right had to pray for it.

She put the ready inside, he swallowed. Then she went

and tried to take it out, you know, with her hand,

so killeder. So the teacher know that the concept is

you have to pray. Remember Jesus, right, remember what Jesus

done for you, and pray. Now, Jesus is not your

plan B. Right, He's not your plan B. You know

you have plan as your plan BES. He's not your

plan B. And I prayed that he wouldn't. But he's

the beginning and he is the the end. If you

want him to be your plan. Be let him be

your plan beginning. Okay, plan beginning and bland end right,

first and last revelations to include the teen you know

when his first everything else falls into place.

Sick first, the can of God in his righteousness. Amen. No, Malaysians,

we have these yahweh syndrome, the yahweh Malaysian syndrome or

mem the Asians. Suddenly you know what was the meaning

of yahweh?

Oh? Yeahweh?

I forgot to feed the cat at home? What does

it mean?

Yeah, I forgot to take the keys to this place?

What does it mean?

There's something that's overarching this this sentence. It means that

you remembered, you remember something that you forgot. Yeah. I

don't know how many of you have been in this

place before, and it's so urgent, like, oh, you forget

to do this studly you remember. Perhaps there's something in

our lives that we have to remember. The first encounter

we've got don't even look, don't even need to go

that far with that first encounter with your spouse. Some

of us, maybe I don't know whether we are lost

that that love that's sparkling love with our spouse, that

that that that love, that God joined together, that no

man or baby separate. Yeah, that love. We forgot about it.

We forgot to wish each other good morning. We forget

to wish each other, I love you, wish say. We

forget to express our feelings towards We forget to buy

them flowers. We go like, because she doesn't like flowers,

I don't know those buy flowers. Yeah, she scolded me

once for buying her flowers by the Indian flower. Yeah,

because she's alegic. I found it litter. We we forget sometimes, right,

we forget, and then we take for granted. We take

for granted about about each other. But when it comes

to God and the things that He has done for

our lives, the breakthroughs that we have experienced personally, I

pray that we don't have to wait until this time.

This kind of situation is a moment. Then we go like, oh, yeah, God,

you actually did this for me. God, I'm actually alive

today because of you. God, you have brought me through

the depths of the valleys. And because you have done

it once, you'll be able to do it again. A

prayer and I believe by faith that you will. But

even if you do not. Even if you do not,

you are still God. And I will not bound and

worship other gods and other idols in my life. But

don't allow this to become a habit. Don't allow this

to become a habit. As Christians, as believers that we

often need to be reminded about His goodness. It's okay

once in a while. But if you make it a

lifestyle away of your life, you know, every morning you

wake up, you remember what God example you every time

of communion. You don't have to wait for Communion Sunday

to remember what Jesus done for your across You don't

have to. It can be a daily remembrance. Some people

I know even partake of communion daily, right. I know

of families that do that. When my dad was going

through cancer, there was a period of time where I

brought some communion to my mom's house and we partake

a communion the bedroom. The background is that you can

only partake if you are baptized. Yeah, but different, different people.

But in extras we believe that as long as you

believe that Jesus Christ is a personal savior, you can

partact on the communion. Right. Different, but at the end

of the day, it's about remembrance. It's about who he is.

It's not about who we are.

Amen.

Sometimes we treat Jesus as a backup blend. Oh, you

know I'm preaching all of this right, I'm not preaching

out of a place to shoot all of your own

I'm actually listing down things that I've done in my

life before. I actually treat Jesus as a backup plan

multiple times. Yeah, and I regret it, But at the

same time, I know that it's a learning experience. Give

you an example. No, we feel our calendar. We feel

our calendar, we work, we feel a calendar Tuision food Style,

Marcan Blends, Basketball, Netflix lately pickaball uh and then only

we go oh yahweh.

Oh yahweh. There's church. Oh yahweh. There's a visitation to

the hospital. Someone is laying sick.

On the bed and he needs to know who Jesus is.

I cannot ask him to come to church. I bring

church to.

Them, because church isn't just about four walls. If you

think this is church, it isn't. The church is the

gathering of the saints, the gathering of the saints to

edify one another. And if you're come in here today

and you go out not being edified, then we are

not successfully done. Church. Church, hoy to encourage one another.

The church is the people, and as we walk together

with journey together. It's not just about coming here singing

some good songs, you know, some drums bomb boom boom,

and then after that going out there and then nothing changed.

Life doesn't change. You still treat your spouse the same,

you still score your friends. You don't you don't have

any remorse for the actions that you are made. Nothing

has changed in your heart. The ground in your heart

is still rock solid and nothing can penetrate it. In fact,

sometimes even try to penetrate it. And because it tried

to penetrate it died. The twenty rounds.

The seat died. I want to encourage you. Don't allow

your life as a believer to be that way. Don't

allow Jesus to become the backup plan. He's always first

next night.

If Jesus is not first, he will eventually become lost.

This is a personal experience. If you do not put

Jesus first. Now, you some people like to come to

me than don't say that you have to put Jesus

as your center. Now, I understand you saw some TikTok

video about some preachers saying that, okay, the coubared thing

I also saw.

I also agree.

Yeah, but peaching for the word of God, he says,

sick first, stickinger of God and his righteousness, not sick center. Okay,

sick first. The meaning first also means center. If you

place Jesus as your first in your life, you will

also eventually put him as your center. Everything revolves around him. Yeah,

everything revolves around Jesus your Sometimes families will have to

come next.

What comes after? You know, I've done my due diligence,

I've done my love towards God.

What's next? Family has to compass? Is that really true?

Because sometimes your work will have to compass? Is the

reality in that season, in that day, your work perhaps

has to comforst because if you do not put your

work first in that day, perhaps you won't get that

money or the deal, the contract, and you won't be

able to fulfill the responsibility as a husband or as

a dead you know what I mean. But when you

put Jesus as the center, the first in your thoughts,

he will be able to guide you what you should

be able to do. Yeah, you can't just say oh

in every case, I must always put my dad first

and for my mom my sister. No, there's always what

if your family is all good? But then again, there's

someone dying in the hospital. Mission we share. You go

for your your wife's birthday, fiftieth birthday? Yeah, big deal? Yes, wives,

fiftieth birthday? Or will you go to the hospital and

save that stranger? Share the gospel? In the stranger is

a friend that you have come. Come, Sonny, I know

you are very good in sharing the gospel. I don't

know how to share. Can you please come and help me? Then, Sonnys,

But Michelle's birthday with fiftieth birthday, you get what I mean?

A sorry fifty.

Fifteen you know what I mean? In that way, in

that season, I pray at the Holy Spirit convey your heart.

Birthday can celebrate tomorrow, but the person is dying.

I have to go now. But how can you reach

their place? The Holy Spirit will be able to help us.

Even so, Jesus not first, you will eventually become lost,

and you will lose this guiding thought, this guiding light, the.

Will to guide you and shape your decisions.

You nominations love Maccan. How many of you don't love

Maccan in this place? Now, imagine going for nasilama yeah,

and ignoring the nasid. Have you ordered nasilama kamanasi or

only focusing on peanut sam. Have you ever asked for

nasilama that way? You know, Jesus is not. I hope

you're not. I hope you don't go into the faith

that way. I hope you don't go to God that way. God.

I want everything, but the discipline. I don't want, uh,

that one I don't and the correction. I don't want

the kind of blessing. I don't want you bless me

with that kind of girl. I don't want that girl.

Not my type.

I want that girl and that girl. Then, oh there

are two girls, right. I get to choose. God, please

stay away and then your love done?

Can you can give me a love? I feel a love?

You're warmer?

Hello, it's not that way. It's na see Lama. You

get the whole package. Sometimes it's icy, Okay, you've got

to eat it. You can't say I coolumbo tumm, But no,

when it comes to God, it's the whole package. It

comes to the discipline. It comes with the correction, It

comes with the love, It comes with the care, It

comes to the guidance. It comes with the future that

you may not see. Now, Amen, God, it's not a

site dish next night, very quickly XTV. Your calendar reveals

your Christ. Your calendar reveals your Christ. If you can't

check thekeet your phones right now and check out your

calendar right check your Google calendar.

What's filling your time?

I checked.

I just checked my mind as well.

Pick pick pick pick a ballclub, reclub reclud man I do, wife,

when you're spending time Manna, let Daniel.

Your calendar reveals your Christ. Who is the God in

your calendar?

Right? Who is the God in your calendar? Is God? God?

Did you schedule in time to pray? Do you schedule

in time to talk to him? Do you schedule in

time to actually have a decent conversation? We've got.

Because sometimes we often forget to do so.

We get so occupied with so occupied with our family,

our children, that we often forget to talk to God.

I'm sorry, remind you. I'm just a reminder, right, I'm

reminding myself reading all of us. If you can't remember schedule.

I actually got a schedule. I'm not a shame of you. Schedule,

check up, talk to God, thely reminder talk. Sometimes I

just forget right in the business, in the home. You're

so occupied doing ministry right, talking to people, talking to people.

Sometimes I come back and I complain to my wife.

You know, every time. The only thing I get is discouragement,

because why when I meet the person if cry, cry cry,

And this is the girlfriend problem, my boyfriend problem. Love

fathers call him la mother, Now giving you'll come back

all the way I come back and I told her so,

I so feel so tired, I feel so depressed, or

the eyes of them become depressed. Then the Lord just

spoke to me. You're depressed because you're complaining to her

rather than speaking to me. And I go like, oh yeah,

the joy of the Lord shall be your strength.

Yeah.

Wait, it's a thought and and and and and the

revel the revelation that you're cleander your your, your, your your,

what you.

Occupy yourself with?

You?

Who is Christ to you?

Is it God? Or is this someone posing to be

God in your life? And he has overtaken the place

of God. I'm gonna give you a few hitch and

then we're gonna close. The hate changes everything. Amen, hallelujah.

Praise the Lord that we have a hitch that will

change everything you know, just for you all easier to remember. Okay,

So if you go yahweh again, remember to add the

hte should it becomes yahweh. Okay, no longer just yahweh,

and put in the center. Don't put at a sign.

It has to be in the center. The first hitch. Wow,

my XTIV is so efficient. I haven't say come on,

thank you, thank you had a spoiler, I got a spoiler,

my vee, my god. Anyone want to buy us my

v spoiler originally can come and talk to me. Yeah,

I can give to you all. So if you just

can give free spoiler for the Okay, you don't want

know I'm talking about, look for me later. Okay, let's

get back to the thing. The first point I have

for you today is heart right, the heart the priority

of love. Two verse the seventh to the eight says

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, and with all your mind. This

is the first and great commandment. The faith isn't just

about fitting God in your schedule. It's about giving him

your whole heart. You know. Sometimes when we come to church,

or when we come to any meeting, or when come

to God, I pray that the first thing, the most

important thing, is that when you come to Him, you

come with an expectant heart. You don't just come to

a place, you know, just like hoping, Oh, I come

to church because then may come to church, or I

come to this because God, let may do this, or

I pray because God say in the right word to pray.

Sometimes we do that out of obedience when we don't

feel like it. But there are times where, in fact,

most of the times I pray and encourage that we

actually come to these coomp places with an expectant heart.

We're expecting that we are going to come into this

place and we're gonna experience my breakthrough, your break true,

your friends, break truth.

Your parents salvation, your children's change in character.

And when we come with the expectant heart, right, perhaps

that's when God will really move because God is saying that, hey,

this person is serious, he's living all the aburdance or

the side. He's coming into a place of worship, of reverence,

and it's offering as a living sacrifice, and he's expecting God.

I expect your promises, which are yes and amen. And

if there's something we didn't mean that needs to change,

then speak to me. Change this deceitful heart of mind,

this hard place of mind, and allow me to experience

what you have in store for me.

That's my prayer.

Right. Sometimes we always go into a place expecting that, Oh,

that person must change, that person must change, that person's

hand on nice, that person's you know, watch network properly,

the person has a different way of life.

No, it's always about other people.

And it's very easy to be caught in a place

where you start the point fingers at everyone. You don't

understand me, that doesnon don't understand You don't understand how

I feel. Perhaps that person really doesn't understand how you feel.

Are But you have a role to play in your

own life. Have you done anything that is not pleasing

to the Lord? Fix that part first. Don't worry about

what other people do. What other people do that God

deal with them, right, that's how you love. You love

others right by first loving God. And because God, you

love God so much that you implore the characteristics of

God in your life. And God loves so much that

he said he's wanted only begone and son. It's a

sacrifice and sometimes forgiving text sacrifice, sacrificing your ego, sacrificing

your ideology. But if you're not willing to sacrifice, you're

not willing to let go, then perhaps that's why you

have not experienced or breakthrough. I took almost seven years

to forgive a brother that hurt me, and the only

one that was hurting and that old process was me.

I was only on being being so toxic, right, even

my wife was affected. You know, keep on complaining day

nine days, Lord, I follow, don't desert that follow deserve

the rod in hell, you know. But sometimes at what

I didn't realize is I was rotting. My heart was rotting,

and I came to church day and night and day

and night a week and week day and they come, come, come,

but no expectancy to forgive. One fine day, I just

told God, God, you take over. I can't do this anymore. God,

I'm going to step in this place, and the moment

I step out, I expect something to change. Not because

I'm forcing your hand, but I believe that you are

a good God. And because you instructed, you commanded us

to love others that give me that heart to love,

give me that heart to forgive, because I, by my

own strength I won't be able to.

But so you help me. You help me, and in

that moment I experienced my breakthrough. I was able to forgive. Amen.

And that's the only way the heart is deceitful. It's

always going to tell you it's not possibila. It's not possibola.

The ways of this world will tell you that you know,

someone punch you on the right, You punch on the right.

But God is saying someone you on the right, you

offer the other side.

It doesn't make sense, but sometimes that's the only way

that will get you to your break truth.

Amen. So the priority of love, parity of love. The

second hite I have for you today is the priority

of purity, which is holiness. First Peter one fifteen to

sixteen says, as he who is called, as he who

called you is holy, you also be holy in all

of the conduct, because it is written be holy, for

I am holy. Holiness means being set apart. I think

some of you know that, right. It's not about perfection.

God is not after perfect human beings. Yeah, he's after

your priority. Do you prioritize him? He's not after a

perfect love. He knows, he knows that we are for

a blemish, and that's why he had to die for us, son,

his son to die for us.

But it's after your priority.

Despite your imperfection, you are still putting him as priority

in your life. You're still putting him as you're still

setting yourself apart for God. You know, the Israelites had

to prepare their sacrifices very carefully. Right. Part of being

set apart is also preparation. You have to be prepared

to set yourself apart. And if you know a thing

or two about the Bible, the Israelites really really really

prepared their sacrifices. I'm going to read to you Exodus

twelve nine to eleven says, do not eat it raw.

It's a sacrific Is this right? Don't eat it raw?

That means all the sashimi all cannot Yeah, no, boil

it all your water, but rosa and fire. Oh that's

why the some of the best food come in the fire.

It's his and it's with its legs and its entrails.

You shall let none of it remain until morning. And

what remains of it until morning, you shall burn the fire.

And thus you shall eat it with a belt on

your waist, your sandal on your feet, and your stuff

in your hand. It means you cannot eat it without

the stuff in your hand. You you cannot eat it

without sandals on your feet. There is there's instructions and

very clear instructions, very clear preparation, and sometimes in our

life as Christians, in our life there is a journey

of faith. Right, there's some instructions that that doesn't make

sense on it doesn't make sense, but yet it has

to happen because God is trying to prepare you for

something that you perhaps do not even know what's gonna happen.

But he's preparing you today. He's preparing you one find

day you're going to find out why in the world

I took up to your penny, not because I like

to watch nime, but because perhaps down the line there's

someone there to minister to eat Japanese. You never know,

something that perhaps starts off as a hobby or an

obedience just just obey right may end.

Up being used for the King of God.

You never know.

But God knows.

So that's why starting your day right with God is important. Therefore,

when you fall into various trials, you can kind of

all joy because you already started with that. You already

started by saying God, I'm going to allow you to

take over. Weally gonna Is it gonna be painful down

the line, yes, it will be. It might be ifact

according to the scriptures, it will be right. You desire

to live a godly Christian life, You're gonna You're gonna

go through persecution. Then you're gonna go through It's already stated.

It's really it's already something that you can already expect.

But you know, you know it's coming. You prepare yourself,

prepare your heart like how they used to rights, prepare

their sacrifices, and God will be ready to use you.

Can I have the next light that the next night,

when we live without the hate of holiness, we reduce

yah way to yah wah God, we call and convenient,

not when concentrated. I'm guilty of this a few times.

You know, we recall upon the name of the Lord

only and convenient. There's no content creation, there's no being

set up, but there's no being put a part in

a place where you're concentrated just for good. But you're

just calling him our convenience. And there's no power in that. Amen,

there's no power when you look to God, only our convenience.

Can I have the next light?

The text third point I have for you today is honor.

Where is the priority of worship? Proverbs Tree nine to

ten says, honor the Lord with your possessions and with

the first fruit of all the increase, So your bonds

we feel plenty, and your arts will overflow with new wine.

Now this verse really hit me very difficult, very hard,

because we're not just talking about money. For some of us,

maybe money is too easy already, too much money, I

have too much money. Idea that actually it doesn't really

hurt me anymore to give no no no pain, no pain,

no gain. But I want to encourage you and also

challenge you. You know, whatever is going to come out

of my mouth right now to sound you. It may

be hurtful, but just take it as if it's God's work.

It is. Yeah, I'm just going to read directly again,

and I want you to listen very carefully. Okay, Honor

the Lord with your possessions, and with the first fruits

of all your increase. I'm not sure how many of

us are doing that? Not just money again, the first

food of all your increase? Are you honoring God with

your children? Are you honoring God with what God has

given to you? The talents that He has given to you.

Has allowed you the talent to be very well with people,

the ability to talk to people. But are you honoring

Him with that talent? Are you giving unto him the

first fruits of your increase? Now, when the Lord spoke

to me about this, I felt led to really ponder

about it because there was a season in my life

where I felt very dry. In the moment, I realized

and recognized that maybe perhaps it's because I did not

really honor God with all of my possessions. You don't,

says somewhere. He says, all with your possessions, not some

of your possession. So I said, all a lot with

your possessions. Then only your bonds, so we feel plenty

of overflowing new wine. Maybe that's why my bonds were

not overflowing, not filled with plenty. Perhaps that's why I'm

feeling very dry. And I repented and told the Lord

I'm gonna try. My Holy Spirit, remind me, encourage me,

tell me when I forget. Ever since then, God has

been so good to me and my family. I gave

up a full time job in a renewed, renowned company, yeah,

to come full time for the church. I thought that

I would be, you know, drowning in depth. But God

is good. God is good. In fact, I was telling

with my wife that what I had when I left

my old company right someway, and what I have now

has not decreased, and it's stayed the same. God is good. Amen,

God is good. I don't know how it's stayed the same.

It's stayed the.

Same, la.

Maybe because God gives certain wisdom to give up this,

give up that, don't this on this are not really

needed anymore. Stop playing your computer games and give that

up to all the steam blizzards, or give it up.

No need to pay anymore the subscription based things on

a play Do you actually need to play so much games?

Stop playing?

Get it?

Give it up right, don't have to?

Perhaps, oh that wisdom or the Netflix the one it's

under estro right pretty under why you're paying Netflix double?

Or please?

Lah? So these things only come when God's wisdom hits

you laugh, sound of you. It's like the please do

proper financial branding. Okay, yes, sorry, okay, sorry. I didn't

do proper for branding last time. Didn't really value money

too much. Everything game just just we gus. I didn't

believe in private by pride, p piracy. I didn't believe

in that. Yeah, some people believe in piracy. I don't.

Whatever I want to watch, I must pay for it.

I play a game, I need to support it. Yeah,

let's that's just me.

Laha. Now I can't know money or play, then cannot

support it. Then don't play, go and play bigable. Oh

my gosh, what I expect this spot? Praise the Lord?

Oh my goodness.

I need to give up piano classes just to sustain it.

So honor right, honor God by giving him not just

the scraps, but the first and the best. Amen. What

you honor your prioritize what you dishonor you postpone? Amen,

what you honor your piodorize what you dishonor your post

spont My wife is so bad, she's making fun of

my pronunciation. Hallelujah. Finally, I want to invite ext you

to come up even as we prefare close. The last

hash I have for all of us today is the

help of the Holy Spirit. And when John fourteen twenty

six says, but the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the

Father will send in my name, he will teach you

all things and bring to remembrance all things that I've

said to you. You know, the Book of John has

a part where John actually said that if I were

to write everything that you said, I won't be able

to have enough pages to write it. Yeah, I'm beverrefacing.

There's not enough space for me to write everything that

you have said. But all of the things that I

said above here is true, right, John said that. Now,

when I was reflecting on that and I saw this verse,

something just clicked to me. Sometimes you go, like Jesus,

you will here so long on this earth. Right, you

must have said so many other things. You know, there's

things that you said that perhaps we do not understand

or we don't know. There's things that perhaps I can't

find the answer in the Bible. Trust you when I

say this, the Bible answers all of our questions, all right,

He answers all our questions. But perhaps it needs to

be reflected in a different perspective, and he needs to

be taught. And who else that will be able to

teach us other than the Holy Spirit, the helper, the

Holy Spirit, whom the Father will sending my name. He

will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance

the things that I said to you, things that perhaps

you've even forgotten. That you forgot, You forgot, you forgot

that God loves you so much. The Holy Spirit will

bring to you remembrance the things that he has said.

So today I just feel that the Holy Spirit is

trying to bring to remembrance again what we have lost,

perhaps that first love that we have lost, the desire

to want to do more for the Lord that we

have lost, that prayer that we have uttered. Lord, you

have given me this shock, you have given me this business.

I want to use it for your kingdom. I want

to use it for your glory. But along the lines,

perhaps things got busy and we forgot. Today the Holy

Spirit just reminding us of that prayer that we once said,

that dream, that desire to want to do more for him,

to want to stay pure for him. I encourage all

of us to stand even as we prepare the worship

the prayer over each and every one of us. Thank

you Jesus.

XTV.

Can just show the last light when the summarized and

we were to close this time, Amen, and we have

to the last light up XTIV. Yeah, that's not the

last light, but it's okay. Thank you Jesus. Hallelojah, Father

name of Jesus.

We look to you, Lord. We look to you not

just as I don't know.

We look to you not just as God, but Lord,

we look to you as a God that is so

interpersonal with us, a God that we can have a

relationship with, a God that we can cry out our Father.

In the days where it often is hard to explain

or to to to explain how we feel. Sometimes there

are days where we just have to cry out to you,

cry out a place of dependence, cry of a place

of desperation. God, come close to me because I need

you in my situation. I need you in my relationship,

in my marketplace. And Lord, I pray that that same

God that appeared before Moses, it's now Jesus that appears

before us in the flesh and in the power of

the Holy.

Spirit, that is accessible to all of those who believe

that it's accessible to all of those who expect, and

it's accessible to.

All of those who desire to go deeper in You,

so holy Spirit. Today, Lord, I pray that you will

speak and you will move in the lives and hearts

of our people, and your minister to their every need,

Your minister, Lord God, to their hearts. That their hearts

be good ground, that their hearts be good soil, that

the world of God will be able to penetrate and

bear much fruit in your hearts. That they will come

with an expectant heart. That you will move in their lives.

That the same God, the same God that brought the

people of Israel out of Egypt, that same God will

bring you out of your trials right now, will walk

you through your trials and you will appear victorious.

Hallelujah.

Lord, We pray that you will continue to honor you

with all that we have, all of our first food's

low will present it to you, Lord God, right now

in the name of Jesus. Friends, if there's anyone here

right now with a family that is going through a

hard moment, perhaps even cancer, a disease, you know of

a friend that has cancer, I want you to lift

up your hands right now, because you are going to

be standing in the gap. You're going to be the

person that is standing in the gap for this person.

And as I pray, as I declare, I pray that

through your faith, because you're lifting up your hands through

your faith in believing, your family, your friend, the child

will experience their breakthrough.

If there's any one.

Of you right now that is in the crossroad in

the court juncture and you're wondering what's next in your job,

I also want you to lift up your hands. You're

wondering what am I going to do after I finish

my studies. I want you to lift your hands by faith,

and we're to pray Osi and every one of you,

Father the IMAGEZ Lord, you see these hands that are

lifted up. They desire Lot God so much more. And Lord,

we proclaim lort God and no weapon form against your

people shall prosper. And that includes their friends, That includes

Lot God, those that they believe in and are praying for,

Lord God, and lo even as they stand in the

gap right now, Holy Spirit, I pray and I desire

for a breakthrough to come and to happen in their

lives right now, and the co depend on the power

of the Holy Spirit, that they will become witnesses Lot God,

in all of their surrounding your marketplaces, Lord God, they

will witness the love of Jesus Christ into their families,

into their friends, Lord God, and they will be bored

and encourage us, Lord God, to go not just receive

this prayer, but also to continue to praise that firstly

in their old personal work, in their own personal lives,

for the break truth of their friends, families, and even

those that resented here today. For the name of Jesus,

we break every bond of the enemy. We proclaim, Lord God,

your promises which are yes and amen. Lord God, and

you are a good, good father. We thank you love

for breath in our lungs. We tank you love for

the breath of life. We thank you Lord for the

ability to call you yahweh and you are indeed a

God that exists yesterday, today and forevermore. And your promises

are yes and amen. So we proclaim the name of Jesus.

We speak the name of Jesus into each and every

person that he's here today.

In the name of Jesus. You pray, hey man, the

Lord bless you.

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