Draw near to God | Pr Sandra Chin

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Man. The Bible tells us in Corinthians that actually it

is good to serve the Lord, and we are made

to serve the Lord. Some people say, are you I'm

so tired to serve the Lord. No, it's good to

serve the Lord. It's good to serve the lot. Just

do whatever it is that will give glory to God

and honor God. When it's all, you know, arranging tables

where there's getting the water, butter is weaker where there

it's you know, setting up this place where there is

at home, serving served the lot and you continue to grow. Amen, hallelujah.

This God's house. God's House is filled with life. God's

House is filled with the presence of God. And as

we are seated here and worshiping the Lord, and you know,

to you, to the individual, as you worship the Lot,

it is the Lord who speaks to you. It is

the Lord who ministers. And you know what, we don't

just say the Lord God, but his presence, the Holy

Spirit is what makes the difference. So you know, Church,

as we shared this morning, I want to encourage us.

You can't do anything without the Holy Spirit, so you

must desire for more of the whole. Just want to

get involved with the Holy Spirit and let him be

involved in your life whatever you do. I'm was praying

for Giuliani right. And you know the Holy Spirit will

lead you to what to study? Amen, lead you what topic?

What subject? Because so many things you read, how to

read like everything, so so speak to gut you and

and so you need you want to experience that and

and see how he leads us. And then I build

that relationship with the Holy Spirit. Amen. God is so good. Amen,

raise a lot, okay, And I understand what it is

because I become a student again, going back to school.

It's terrible, but you know, I'm thirty four years and

now go back to school, and uh I can feel you.

I think you can feel me. I just finished one

the first semester and we had all our side man's

group of sigments, solo assignments and a great cosmets you

know them, and uh, I really, I really don't know

how to take the assignments because I've not done assignments

for years, for years and years and years, and I'm

I'm trained as a professional, as in a profession, in

in illegal and in in accounting. So I've never done

those kinds of assignments. And I stared at one question

only you know, doctor guy stared at it for three weeks.

I just looked at it and I just I don't

know what this. How do you answer this question? I mean,

of course, I'm just not studied for a long time.

Three weeks I started under there, Hey, you know, I

don't know. I'm so pressured. I can't help you. You're pressured.

That's not the way to deal with it. I just

you know where to start. And I've got three other

my my other cosmets, which is the Jack Pus, Sarah

and Rose stop student. So you don't even say she's like,

oh again, yo, pressure, No, these are these our masters

in education, teaching and learning. Oh my goodness. I mean

I used to teach. I was a language here I teach.

I taught English before. But this is something else, And

then you cannot pressure. It's a you know, so fussy

finished his assignment a egg there sollow as I'm a

groups I'm gonna do together, but the swallows, I mean

he didn't because I'm staring at it for three weeks.

In that three weeks he finished his assignment. I'm like,

whoa pressure. No, well, I say thank you, thank you. You

did just so I can see what you see what

you do? You know, I don't know where to start.

And and by the way, you have to write academically,

what is that wood? Yeah, no citation is I've never

done this. I don't think my time to do all

these kings? Are you cit any but right academically? So

it's not like I went to buy nasila. Mine was

a very happy day. No, you can't say their right. Yeah,

it was a it was a very very good topic,

excellent topic. The lecture spoke and he threw it and

we had to do that. You know, it was very

I could understand, I know, but writing academically something else.

So Jack, Jack didn't And I looked at his assignment

went like, oh my word, pardon me. I don't understand

England anyway. I heard that there's this thing called chat

J P. T Oh. I was doing, like what is

that A I A? I like, who's a I I?

And I'm not gonna touch it, right, I'm not touching it.

I don't know what it is like, you know. And

then I remember we were doing a sign when you

said I prompted, I prompted something. I get this because

we're doing group as. I maybe needed to research what

you prompting, money prompting, only spirit prompting. I know that,

and uh and uh. Then I was say, okay, Lord,

I got to eat back my own medicine. And I

always tell all the campus students because I didn't when

I was in school. And then, really, Holy Spirit, help

me when you're really gonna die like I cannot already

I experienced that my phone five Uh, you know, just

didn't know how. And yet the only spirit give you

the ability, and you top. I topt my school for

one particular for English literature. I'm a sign student. I

should have top for science, but no top literature. I'm like, whoa,

but Holy Spirit help me. That's okay. I gonna practice

the same thing. So I practiced that pay every day.

Help me? You know what is this assignment all about?

But I couldn't start, and did you know how to start?

And then the Lord spoke to me to the ten lepers,

you know the ten leapers you did at homes. Yeah,

but I had that word I was reading and a

lot led me to do that. And ready, and you

know there's a line that says Jesus say go and

show yourself to the priests. As they went they were healed.

I said, what you want me to write? And then

you'll come, Oh dear, I'm like, write what. I don't

even know what to write. I mean, I'm trying to

figure out everything I have to go and then when

you come. So I had to go start and start

something like so just write like something are you oh?

Because every section I think you'll know a this statement

and introductions what does that mean? I used to write essay,

but the something else and then your body and then

your conclusion are party and you it's like, oh terrible.

And I try to go YouTube and listen to people

and then and then I had to do a live

life presentation. Others easy, it's like preaching, right, So I

prepared and then I was spraying okayet time. The only

spe I said, well, she say anything, and only sep

like quickening. I felt like you missed the point. So

I missed the whole point of the question presentation. I

missed the whole chunk. One hour to go before I

leave all work and then I have to put the

presentation up because I'm not going to be able to live.

I'm not going to go to class or it's all online.

Like I say, How so I said, I asked Uncle Gipt,

what is this thing that I'm missing? I don't know.

In one hour a miracle, I got all my I

got my things already by this area was missing a

whole chunk. So I got it done. It did my presentation,

filled it up, and sent it off to my prof

and then they see it. Right, I tell you, I

just introduction alone took me three days to write. My goodness,

that's how not clever I am. Right, this is the

alone took me five weeks to write. I don't know

what is it. I don't even know what it is.

The right well, the God is kind and God is good.

The team, of course it is so good. They're already know.

I went asked for hell, the road can help me.

It's like so fast I cannot understand. And then then

you did it, and you know what, at the end

of it, the Lord give glory to God. We all

scort a. We're all at it. Wow. I don't know

what the results are. They all tell, right, they tell,

but maybe you know, and then they give us preliminary

preliminary results as well. Almost all of us almost always

had an al okay and then so yay, you know,

praise the Lord. Then came the g C g P A,

why got it? Got it? What's the GiB? I don't

even know what that is? So they gave the results

and reading it looking some you know, I didn't do

too bad. After I found out what is it? I thought,

what is this? So little? Points? Like one hundred marks?

More right? You can get three points and five? Ohssed? No, no, no,

I was getting four points something. Maybe I don't know

how what's what's the mactimum? Wow? So I'm like whoa.

But the others don't share. I didn't tell, we didn't exchange,

but I had to preach. So I had to preach

in cyber and I mentioned it. I was in JACKLA

give me pressure, but actually I helpful. We're helpful. You say,

what there's results? I said, you take. But it's my

first time writing such assignments, having to do all the diskins.

That means nothing to some people, but to me, it's

so hard. It's like many thirty years not been to

school right, and I didn't go to university. I did

a professional course. So we all work and study and

come out to work and we wrote. I wrote a

lot of things when nothing like this. So it's when

you experience. For me, it's a great opportunity to go

back to school. Although my life is like up to

here with no time. But we still have to make time.

So I say, well, what these two years? I said, well,

after two years, when he's done, and I hope I

pass and all that, I have a lot of time.

Although I don't have time, I still have to make time. Right,

go it's good. And then so praise God for his help.

The holy Holy space is very real. He does help

us in time of need, and I'm very thankful. So

I just want to say just to encourage the students

here and others whatever, whether it's a time issue or

whether it's a study issue. God is good and when

you put a lot of time to it. So I

didn't know how my results went until I took time.

We all got the a radioka appel done and move on.

Then one day I went through the whole thinking of

word by word everything they give Marx so bangle my

presentation seventeen or twenty oh so bang good, like it

was preaching like like preaching that say, because my niece

I didn't do life elder roles and all that than

me and Jack did it recorded because we couldn't turn

up the class that day, so we recordless. So like

how I teach her put my face there and on

that little face there, and it's all. But then when

I saw eld Roses, I'm like, she was so good.

I'm sure she had twenty or twenty or whatever. She

was so good. Like what did I think of that sod?

And we just learned from others? Right, was quickly go

and look her not and learn more to write. My God,

it's so good, you know, He always helps us. So

to the students, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. We can't do

it without the Holy Spirit, don't they say? You know,

talk to God, to Jesus, talk the Holy Spirit. You

have the Holy spec because Jesus is not here, She's

gone back to Heaven, gone back to the Father. He

gave us a helper help us, the Holy Spirit. We

need the Holy Spirit to work in our lives and

to help us. He is our helper. Amen, All right,

praise the lot. Okay, the year is we're just about

to end January once Chinese New Year is over. We

were bye bye already. I'm so said because my birthdays

in January, and I said, I hope January will last

a long time. No it didn't. It's flying away very fast.

So you know, enjoy January because he's gonna go real

soon after Chinese New Year, you can. He's January goodbye,

and we're entering February. So and we still as we

as we for most of its it's starting of the year.

And so this was the word that I want I've

been sharing, and it is about draw near to God. Amen.

What a good time to reflect about, you know, coming

close to God. Hallelujah, draw near to God. And I'm

reading the scriptures from the two Scriptures which you need

to turn to your Bible and look at it is

James chapter four and verse eight. James chapter four and

verse eight, which says James was encouraging, you know, the

believers to draw near to God and he will draw

near to you. Amen, draw near to God and he

will draw near to you. Man. Isn't that exciting? Which

Mama here, Papa here, h you and you were a child.

You've got two kids, Daniel. Right when your child comes

near to you, do you run away? No? Most times

you even though you're like, what do you want? But

you still you're still there, right you? When your child

draws near you, just you draw near to your child. Amen,

It's natural. Even though they's so not this sometimes right,

you still love them because they're your child, and and

most of us most general, generally generally, not the exception. Generally,

when you drawn here to your parent, to your loved

one day, draw near to you, and if a child

comes to his father or mother, the parent will come near.

Just whatever is it, whatever that need, how much more

our Aba father? And I want to call him above father,

not just oh I come to God, because God can

be any god. But I want to come to Abba Father.

When I you and I drawn near to Abba Father,

he says that he draws near to you. I remember

always passed acanas when he preaches. When he preaches, and

he says, come drawn near to God, and you just

take one step, but God would have taken ten steps already,

so fast he ran to you, just like the prodigirl son.

Every day the father was looking ah when will my

son come back? And the sun was so far, the

keys binoculars and looking, and then he saw. What did

he do? He didn't send it? And wait he ran

out to greet him. So as you draw, God, we

have taken ten steps already to you. So this is

a new day. It's a new season. If you want

to use the word new season, then in your life,

yesterday is over. Twenty four is over, whether it be

your successes, a successful year, or whether it was not

so successful year, whether there was a challenging year. It

was a hard year, it was tough, it was great,

it was fabulous. That was yesterday. Today is a new day.

It's a new season for us. It's twenty twenty five.

How many of us, those of you who just born,

you you're still living for born long time ago in

Beverlehem twenty twenty five. Couldn't even imagine when was twenty

twenty five like even here two thousand, No, those days,

what kind of things. But we're here and many more

days to live. And we want to live every day

with knowing that we can draw near to God. Draw

near to God, because it is good to draw near

to him. Homo Scripture, John chapter fourteen, verse twenty three,

John chapter fourteen and verse twenty three. Now one of

the disciples in John chapter fourteen name his name was Judas,

not Judas Iscaret, the other Judas. He said to Jesus, Lord,

how is it that you will manifest yourself to us

and not to the world. Because Jesus was telling them

in the earlier verses that I will come to you.

He said the father, you will know that I am

in my father, and you in me, and I in you.

So he said, how is it you can dwell? And

so then Jesus said in John fourteen twenty three, Jesus

answered him and said, if anyone loves me, he will

keep my word, and my father will love him, and

then what happens, we will come to him and make

our home with him. Angelie, your home God's home is

in you. You love God, yes, you love his word? Yes,

Then what happens He makes his home in you. So

sometimes we forgot that this body that's walking around and

very busy, who is living here? Not who's there? You want?

All right? Not not who's there? Is that the Trinity,

the Lord, God, Father, Son, and holy spirits said they

will come and make their home in this vessel. They

now dwell the whole God heare dwells in us when

we love him and keep his word. And that's powerful,

which means, friends, the whole Kingdom is in you. Some

of you might know this song. Don't put your hair out.

Didn't know how old we are. Oh Heaven is in

my heart, Oh Heaven is in my heart. The Kingdom

the Heaven of God. Heaven is inner hearts. The Kingdom

of God is inner arts. Why because it can only

be a kingdom when the king has domine. Amen. And

if the king of kings has dominion in your life

and my life, then the kingdom he has dominion over

the person, over the people. That's why God wants us.

He's a king and he wants dominion because he gave

dominion to Adam, the first Adam, remember the Adam, great

great grandpa Adam. But Adam the first Adam lost the dominion.

He lost it right because because he he just didn't

lead his wife. So so he lost dominion, and we

lost it two until Jesus came. The dominion God gave

you back. When you received Christ, you received dominion again.

The last Adam. There's no Adam. The last Adam is Jesus.

He restored the dominion back to you and me. We're

all learning about this still, what does that mean to

have dominion? Because when you see the cockroach, you run away,

and you're supposed to have dominion over the cockroach. Right,

I know it's creation of God, but it's a pest

we see. And yet the Bible in Genesis have dominion

over all the animals, all these in the sea, in

the way, everywhere, including the con croach. Right, oh man,

how do we exercise this dominion? I don't have issue

with cockroach. I can just kill it it. I don't

like lizards. They are small crocodile. I know. Some people say,

but they're good. They kill all the insects. They eat

up the insects. It's a nice cycle. Good for it.

Not good for me, because my walle a mural of

the poo poo theft, so that stints my floor. So

I have domini over the lizards. Right, So I say

to them, if you come into my home, you will die.

You will and you will not hide from me because

I will see you. Why will I see you? Because

you left your poo poodh And once you leave your

poodh because I'm gonna draw near to God, and God

draws you to me, and I'm going to see you.

And remember, lizards in the Old Testament are animals that hide.

Sometimes we also like leaving. People like to hide. God

doesn't let people who hide. Just come on and open, right, say,

come on, open, no hide, but I will see you

and you are dead. So in my house, I'm sorry

whatever I'm doing. If there's a lizard, I'm not like,

I'm so brave to catch it. No, I'm like, oh,

i will have my bike gone and my roll of newspaper.

I will chase it all over the house until I

kill it, because it's the poop everywhere. So I say

to it, if you come in, you will die, and

I will see you, and when I see you there

is no future gone. I will set traps. We're got

these traps, sticky stuff whatever. But I just felt like

I could speak to it and say stop it. Get

out of my house. You have no right to come in,

and if you don't get out of my house, you

will die. So if you like your life, get out.

So I've actually been clearing them out. Either they die

and I'm sorry they lost their life, or they stopped

coming and still. And for me it's spiritual. When I

see these hiding things, I have to search my own.

Am I hiding? Or is the enemy trying to put

things over our spirit? So I clear clear. So when

I see there's something, and I know there's a lizard,

I'm going to get it. It's God allow me to

see it. It's in the corners. You won't see a

lot of people won't see one. I'll see it and

I will get it. No matter how I will get it.

I will spray until you cannot breathe anymore. Why did

I get there anyway? Because God wants to give you dominion.

Not be afraid of life. God restore. He says, I

make my home with you. Who is living in your house?

Are you sleeping with the enemy? Who's living in your house?

Because Jesus says, if you love me and you keep

my word, my father will love you, and we will

come to you and make our home with you. And

if the king is living in us, whoa we're prince

and princess us daughter and sons of the Most High God,

he's with us. What the privilege the you know heaven

is in your heart, Kingdom of God is not near,

it's in you. How should we live? How should we

live full? How should we live overcoming? Challenges? Will be there,

Lisus will still be there. We overcome, I have to

take the next assignment. Alrea day I have to overcome.

Is there? But he's living in us. There's a promise.

So if I ask you who's living with you, don't

say your mother in law. Okay, No, No, Jesus, okay, Jesus,

it is living with you. Don't say, oh, Jesus, the

King of Kings and the Lord of Lord, the Holy

Spirit is living with us. So you have a castle

where the King is living. You are that house. You

are that castle. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Now I think as I thought about this, are just saying,

as the years started, why do we draw near to anything? Why?

Why are we attracted to something? Why do we come

to something? Why do we buy something? Because we draw

near to that thing? We want to see it clearer,

We want to be with that person, we want to

be in that place. Draw near. So, friends, if we

are not drawing near, if we're not coming near to God,

we must be coming near to something else, right, Who

are we drawing near to the Word of God, God's

word near? Draw near the things of God? Or are

we drawing near to somebody or a different voice or

different influence. I need you, That's why I draw near

to God. I need you, Lord. I come near to God.

I come to Papa, Daddy God. I need you Lord.

I draw near and he draws near to you. Amen,

we draw near to the one who's given us life,

or else we will draw to someone else that will

distract the So who do we draw near to? Right?

Who do we draw near to the Word of God?

Later we will we will see that verse. It is

good for us to draw near to the Lord. Amen, hallely,

it's good. It's good for us to come near. And

when we come near, we experience God and we can

then share Him with others, which is one of my points. Amen.

So I want to ask you, it's my time. Did

I take you what time? There's no good time? Okay?

Do you think Jesus drew near to God the Father? Well?

Tell me how? Tell me how? What did he do?

Anybody pray? How? What work up early early in the morning,

went away to pray? What else? How did Jesus draw

near here, you're on the right track. You're good. Yeah,

anyone else on the mountain? Yes, okay. Namely some of

the places he used to go away? Yeah, Yet so

many was a yet semni was a what place was

get semny? A garden? He went to the garden, He

went to the mountain. Where else did he go to

go away? Just just to pick your brain, it's all

not so much synagogue. You went to teach in the synagogue.

But where did he always pull away? Come away? And

he went somewhere quiet? Right? Where were these places? Garden

was one? Mountain was one? Yeah, come in wilderness, wilder nurse.

He would go into the wilderness. I don't know what

the wilderness now. Now time I'm going to force this, Si,

I ain't going to get you, all right, if you

there are nine scriptures in the in the New in

the Gospel that tells us how Jesus would go away,

And there are four areas places that you recorded he

would go to the garden like agat semony, which was

the ending. He he ended the last prayer in the garden. Amen,

get semny and out of that garden he got our

salvation for us because it was at the garden that

Adam lost it lost dominion. But he started in the

wilderness after he was baptized, and the Father said, this

is my You are my beloved son. In you I

am well please. And what happened after that? After baptized,

what do you do? He went to the wilderness, led

up the Holy spirit for forty days forty nights. He

started at the wilderness, the desert experience before he launched

out in his ministry. Himen even said, Paul, when he

got saved, nobody liked him because he was a murderer.

He spent at least three or four years how many

years in the wilderness, in the desert of the Damascus,

praying and being ministered to before he launched out into ministry.

Jesus drew near to his father. He didn't just he

didn't just have power, you know. He went the word

pray was to draw near. I don't know where he

was praying for a need, but he was just longing

for Father, God's fellowship, present of God. I asked myself,

do I long for God's presence? Do I wake up

early to do this? To meet with him? Do I

meet with him anytime? W Am I talking to him

or to the Holy Spirit. Amen. So I just want

to say to us, if Jesus, being the Son of

God who came in the flesh, would spend time to

draw near to Father God and the Holy Spirit filled

him right at the water baptism time, he would filled

him and let up the spirit. Wow. An example for us.

Don't give up. Friends. If Jesus drew near and the

last time we saw him pray, he was in the

gods semony garden. It's it now. If you go to

get semony. It's a beautiful garden filled with lovely olive

trees and those who are very sensitive to the spirit.

Probably when you're there you might cry. I didn't, but

it's a beautiful olive garden that Jesus was at the

last time he prayed was in a garden. So you see,

he would go to the garden, the wilderness, the mountain.

He would climb the mountain and once another place that

Sometimes he would draw away. How did he go boat

he was on the sea, he would take the boat away.

Sometimes he would walk around the skirt around the well.

New King James says he skirted around the Galilee Sea,

maybe walking around the beach take the boat, go in

the middle. Just what was he doing. I think it

was just saying, all the busy ministry, I just come

to you. Father. You did never gitar, never keyboard. He

just spent time draw near to God. Just fellowship we

got because he was away from me, his father. But

he would go away where nobody was. That's why his

quiet time was. Nobody would be there dark early morning,

four am, five day m he would go and spend

time with Father God. So Church, the encouragement to you

and myself. Even this year, I'm trying. I do lid

a very busy life, and I'm tired sometimes and getting older.

Not so easy to sleep so late and try to

still wake up at five the tea. It's just terrible.

So I have to sleep all list so that I

can wake up the time that I need that is

still dark, because when the sun comes up, I cannot

do quiet time. Really, I'm distracted. Once the sun is up,

my life begins. I just get distracted. I'm like, the

phones are yo. I tell you, it's just terrible. You

know my phone line globally people still awake or they're

just going to so I'm still checking with people in

the uk wanna. Last time was Germany. I do one

quiat time and then Germany will be crying and know

what time? Because I want to deal with an issue.

Let's follow the example of the one who has called us,

of the one who's showing us the way. If you

feel that it's impossible, I want to say to us, Jesus,

your Lord, your best friend, the love of your soul,

your our master. Also when to spend time with Father God.

He was very busy in ministry. I'm busy and I

need to, but I don't do enough of it. He did.

He had overnight prayer before he chose his disciples, said

overnight prayer, give me that in Mark and the next

day he would then say this, this, this, this, this.

Sometimes you will pray overnight and he walking on the water.

Then they thought he was a ghost. But spend time

drawn here to God, Amen, draw near, Come, and he

would draw near to you because you already make his

home with you when you have Jesus. I think we

should fall in love with Jesus over and over again.

Fall in love with the Lord, fall in love with

the fact that he left us the helper Holy Spirit,

the Holy Spirit is our His holy life is the

Holy Spirit, liar, but he's willing to dwell in our

bessy lives. Drawn here to the Father. Amen, So some

encouragement for us Hebrews chapter four, verse sixteen on screen.

I put the verse up there, Hebrews four sixteen. I'm

using the ESV for the purpose of the word draw.

He says, Let us, then, with confidence, draw near to

the throne of Grace, that we may receive mercy and

find grace to help in time of need. Amen, let

us you have confidence. That means that even when you

feel like I don't think God will accept me, it says, No,

have this confidence that God will take you as you are.

You come to this throne of grace. Grace is nothing

we've done. It is just God's grace. Is mercy, mercy,

but the grace of God and the mercy of God

allowing us to come to him, and says, find the

grace of God, received the mercy, find grace to help

in time of need. So if you feel like you've

done something, you're not happy with yourself, or you've hurt somebody,

you know, we always step when somebody's told somebody would

your head all right? Not you're told, but your head

somebody do some things that make you upset and really

mess up your day, and you feel that all's gone terrible.

I failed, and oh, I'm so disappointed myself. And like

our testimony, sometimes we don't ask for help, but the

Holy Spirit is our helper. Don't feel like you can't

reach out and say help me, Lord, I failed again.

I've hurt somebody. I've judged someone. Someone judged me, someone

hurt me. Says you come confidently because Jesus want it

all for us. This is coming to the throne of

grace and receive the mercy. I don't deserve it, but

come anyway because He made the way for us. Drawn

near Hebrews seven twenty five, verse twenty five. He brewce

stepped the seven was twenty five. Consequently, he is able

to save to the utmost those who draw near to

God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession

for them. The hate should be a capital H because

the age is the ESV doesn't put it in the

capital sorry and KGDS, so draw near to God through

Christ since Christ always lives to make intercession for them. Church,

Can I encourage you if you felt at your most

lowest and your most challenged time. And if nobody cares,

who is praying for me? Even if you don't know who,

You don't know whose friend, your judge, member, your leader,

your past. I want to affirm to you that Jesus

stands before the Father. He makes intercession, makes intercession for

his children. So the number one intercessor is not you

and me, It's who Jesus. The ministry of intercession is Jesus.

He stands before the Father pleading for us. You are

not alone aside from your following Liverpool, you are not

alone any Liverpool fans in the house. You never walk alone.

But why you will never walk alone is because Jesus

makes intercession for us. Sometimes I can imagine when you're

going to tough times, illness, exams, life, crossroads, and you're

very much alone, and you just got to remember for

a moment there, while the doubts come and you're and

you're angry, or you're upset and your loss, just say, Lord,

you are making intercession for me. Thank you Jesus. You

will make away for me. Whatever that way may be,

not how I would dictate it, you make it. You

are making intercession for me. So what is this encouragement?

He says, He is able to save save us to

the utmost, who drawn you to God? Just come this year,

make it your habit, your you know your point, your

your key point in your life. I no matter what,

let me draw near to God first before you draw

near to anyone else. This is the challenge, this is

the problem, This is the I don't know how this

cannot that cannot yoahwa, so drawn your first come, Just come,

just come, he says, Come confidently He can save you.

Just come confidently, confident that God will accept you. Come

confidently because He is thinking about you. Although you might think,

why did this bad thing happen to me? Why why

I didn't get the Why I didn't get this man?

I wanted this man to marry. No, save your life,

love merry wrong man, You go into the hill, into

the hole. So why God not this girl? How come

this girl got married? Drive her? It's for him, not

for you. You stand before the Lord confidently He's able

to save us. That confidence is in Christ. Amen. Hebrews

eleven and verse six. You know this, this our church

is inundated with this Hebrews chapter eleven, verse six, ESB

writes it this way. You know, a lot of people say,

I want to please God. I love young couples dating

couples say, I remember first first first one we started having.

Couples want to date and its person. We want to

please God in our relationship. What should we do? I

don't know there, he says, without faith, it is impossible

to please him. So you want a date, you better

have faith. You're gonna have faith so that you can

please God. That is the relationship that God has brought

us to. Without faith, it is impossible to please him

because whoever would draw near to God must believe that

he is not that he was Hello, he was no,

he is Jesus was if he if Jesus were black,

he would saying, I ease yo, I ease present. Not

a worse, I'm sorry. Jesus is not a worse or

I have been. He is a is man. He is

a now man. He lives forever more, resurrected from the

dead to live ever more before the Father to make

intercessions for us. So if we have faith, we please God. Hey,

even if you're a fried ache and you don't have

a fry aggre, you have to do it by faith.

You never want to kill the lisa. I have to

buy fabe, okay, change it by faith to please God,

to do the right thing. I do the bad things.

But he says it is impossible to please him for

who if we're without the faith. Faith is your currency

to exchange in heaven. Your tie bad won't work, Your

British pound won't work. One hundred pounds Lord doesn't work. Faith.

The currency of heaven is faith. What does God respond

to you faith? You go to UK, you have to

have one hundred pounds, the pounds. You go to US,

you need the US d right you go to which

country uses a one? Or one? Korea? South Korea the yen?

You can't bring the pound. So when you go to heaven,

or when you're dealing with heaven on a day to

day basis, build up your faith. Law have a bank

account called faith. Faith our faith in Christ is what

will get you to the King to please him. Draw,

he says, forever would come near to God. Draw near

to God must believe that he exists, that he is,

and that he rewards those who seek him. So what

was Jesus doing when he go and went to those

mountains and get them many two seek the Lord to

be with the Lord. To be with the Lord. Amen.

That's the amazing thing about Jesus. Wow, he he did that,

you know. But he was the son of God. He

never called on the heavenly dominion sort of thing. He

walked as a man, and so as a man, what

did he have to do. He had to spend time

with the Father to draw on the strength of God

to do the miracles that he did, because he said,

I'm doing these miracles, but greater things will you do?

When I go to the Father, I haven't done the

greater And sorry, I haven't raised the dead. I've prayed

for the sake, I've exercised my faith to believe for

God's provision. I haven't raised the dead. If the Lord said,

I will try to do it. We've tried to pray

for people to be delivered. Yes, I'll never raised the dead.

God does. Yeah, my husband does it all the time.

Goes to funeral. I'm almost embarrassed. Goes to the especially

with a young person who's suddenly and he goes, John,

rise up in Jesus, I'm like, rise up, how are

you doing? You? Never know? Exercise your faith, exercise your

faith for all the right reasons, that you know what

is right to do, you do it for all the

wrong reasons. I'm sorry, it ain't gonna happen. Okay, can

no witchcraft some girl, God, bring her to me, Bring

her to me by faith. No, ain't gonna happen. You

can only say, Lord, I'll trust you with my future

life partner. I like that one, but you give me

the okay, you're not you guy says wait, you wait

all right? So four points us to take home for

us with these three versus number one? How do we draw?

Why do we draw? How do we draw? You know

when we draw what happened when we come near? We

love Jesus in the way that you know how to love.

You love Jesus. How you know how to love? Love?

Love with what you know? Don't love it what people

I see Jane doing love as you know how to love,

and you know how we know how to love. We

love because we respond? Right? How do how do I

respond to someone? Because you love me, you are kind

to me, you you like me, so I respond and

I love back. How do we respond to God? We

respond because God first loved us and gave us his

only son, right, love Jesus. I also ask myself, Jesus,

do I love you? Do I really know how to

love you? There's a question you can to think about

it reflect you. You love Jesus? Now I love Jesus. Oh,

I love Jesus. How do you show that you love Jesus?

You answer, how do I love Jesus? What do you

do for him? You love someone or something? Your present?

You're present at that thing. Right, you go to the person,

you spend time with that person. Love Jesus with all

of your heart. Amen, be in communication with him. Talk

to the Lord a man. And when I say, to

love Jesus is to fear God, meaning not I'm scared, God,

I don't don't hit me. No. To fear God is

to honor, to honor. When you honor someone, you don't

do anything in your presence. Right to fear in another

world is to honor. When we want honor someone, we

don't do something that will make that person upset. Because

I know you don't like me smoking. I don't smoke

in front of you, not that I smoke, but if

you you know, you don't do that. You you don't

do things that will make that person upset, You don't lie.

You don't you know, shout or scream in front of that.

So when you love Jesus, there are things that you

don't do and the things that you do because you

love him and you communicate with him. Just like how

you speak to your friend, how you call your mom

every week, students who are overseas, students are outstationed, you

talk right. Same with Jesus. Do you talk. These are

basic communication skills that need to happen between friends, between

husband and wife. Because husband and wives also don't communicate.

They can live in the same house. They call each

other daddy and mummy because of the children. Now after

chilren are gone, they still call it our daddy and mommy.

They what's my husband name? Okay, you know the essence

of life we spend, we communicate. So when you love Jesus,

like he said, if you love me, you keep my

word and I'm staying with you. So don't make it

like a hotel guests. Don't talk to the guests, don't

talk anybody talk to talk to him. He's staying in us. Amen,

love Jesus, Love him with all of your heart. No

Matthew twenty two thirty seven says love the Lord your

God with all of your heart, all of your mind,

all of your strength, all of your soul. First commandment. Amen,

you love Jesus and because of the love of Christ.

And I'm still learning. We love our neighbor. When you

love your neighbor, you love Jesus. We learn Amenuber two

keep his word just following John chapter fourteen, verse twenty three,

Love Jesus says when you love me? How do I

love God? I keep his word, I read his word,

I practice his word. Imen know God's word? How do

I know God's word? I gotta read God's word. So

we didn't start bring your own bible and buy your

own bible for nothing, you know, like for fun. Now

I know we haven't stopped. We haven't continued with the

little encouragement yet because visy with other things. But he's

still on my mind. You see my face again. But

love God's word. Loer hi the word your heart Someone

one nine, Imen Someone one, nine, Verse eleven says David wrote.

King David said, you know that word? Have I hidden

in my heart that I may not sin against you?

We forget. I'm forgetful. I do things that a yo,

I've seen against God, but the word was actually knocking

at the door of your heart's Don't do that, don't

do that. I can hear you. I can hear you.

You know. It's because we're too filled with the thing

that we want to do, and we're going to do

it wrong. But if we just sensitize ourselves to the

Holy Spirit, you hear him, you guide you. This is

an adventure with the Lord Jesus Christ. Come on. Sometimes

we make other things more adventurous than rock climbing pickleball. Twice,

I look at lives right, people's lives. When you have

time for pickleball, you have time for this, you, But

we don't have time to read this. And yet this

is the Manual, the love Letter, the Way of God,

and you and I don't make time to read it.

I have my studies to drive a loads of reading words,

a master's program. You pay them a lot of money

to read. How about read this verse and go do

your studies all right? Keep his word, amen, really just

read it, know him, and then to at least practice

his word, practice his word. Be a doer of God's word.

We can learn from one another, We can remind one another. Amen,

John chapter fifteen, I have five minutes. John chapter fifteen,

Well versee seven eight says what you abide in me

and my words abide in you. You will ask what

you desire and it shall be done. And by this

my Father is glorified that you bear much fruit. So

you'll be my disciples, abiding God's word, and the word

of God abides in you. And then you practice the word,

meaning you take action, you do God's word. We're all

we're all learners. Amen. Let us continue to learn, lifelong learners. Right,

we continue to learn from the Word of God, and

we practice it and finally make him known, make him known.

We we we we know him. Hallelujah. But now it's

time for us to bear witness. Amen. Because when you've

been with Jesus and someone sees you, they'll say, why

they wan't so bold? How come you can speak like that?

Then someone who knows will say, Rebecca's been with Jesus.

Whoa if someone can actually see that you've been with Jesus.

So last week we went for class first one and

only on a face to face class. And it passes

Sarah to go and tell the lecturer, I don't know

what you went told her like, why do you tell her? No?

It's good love to tell her by I am trying

to not get there. But do you have recordings for

Sundays teaching because we can't come because we got church.

I was gonna say, because I work, I work, I work,

but my ministry is my work also, so later I

need only found out later I'm not at that I

know and I okay, break up the groups and girls, okay,

this group the church group? Did? Did I hear her say?

The church group? How catch you call it a how

cout you? How could you call it? Judge group? To

a little bit from you to okayla make him no.

Now now I have to do very good assignments and

on time. It's not just by saying I'm a Christian.

It's not good enough. It's the living. It's the living hallelujah.

What do you think I have to share? This time?

I'm gonna pray for you. You know, my husband is

doing his DBA. What's whats the debate? What does it? Do?

You know? What the debate? What's it called? What are doctor? Okay,

so he got offered to do it, so even do it.

It's also very tough for him, but he's doing it.

And so all the many layers to come through before

they say yes, you are accepted. Okay, So the profit,

the professor or whatever's going to to to see him, said,

we're gonna come to your office. Pastor Ronson was also

invited to because we need different people to assess Pasta

because it's not how many years you studied, how many

years of your profession. So a friend there said, why

don't you do it, Pastor, You've got so many years

of working with young people. Maybe there's something you can

do and you know, do your doctorate in this thing. Okay,

what does it mean? Okay? So anyway too, before he

can even get to the next that, we had to

do this. So we had to call all the managers

in our company, our organization and external one of the

external ones people who know Puss and work with him.

So I had our Linettes manager, we had Timmy manager,

we had Frod manager, we had Mordecai manager, we had

Little Legends managers. All the managers came and then and

then passed thought he would just be away from it

because they are going to talk. It was their first

time they actually did an online one. So the online

professors were also watching. We got you know, Amina and uncle,

but all the different professors all you know, I don't

know doctor who and doctor who are were online. And

then this professor Lamb or whatever yup was there. She said, no, Canneth,

you sit in s in you see it. We're not

talking behind your back. So they interview she interviewer. She

interviewed all of them, and they honestly shared she I

wasn't there. Pastor Ronson was there. He probably knows more.

What I got out of all of it was that

this professor lump yup. After everything was said and done,

she said, and this is a normal follow of Christ

who has been hurt by the followers of Christ. So

she doesn't like the follows of Christ. But in that

presence of these eight of them or ten, I don't

know how many of them, one thing one two comments.

First comment, she said, she SAIDs so much love in

this meeting. Second comment, this is a pre believer, non believe, okay,

pre believer, not yet christ Christian. She said, Wow, I

sense the presence of God in this place. Whoa because

don't Christian war? Don't like Christian? Christian failed a war?

She said, I sense the presence of God in this

place among the people. Right, they have been with Jesus,

not because they preach Christ. They just lived Christ. So friends,

let's love Jesus. Let's keep his word meaning, read his word,

practice his word, so there is ozing out of Eulah,

and then make him known. Not because I'm Christian. I

oh no, Neila, you walk in a room and there's

some presence of God goes with you. Let them find

out what is the You take some time. This woman

only spend I don't know four hours with these guys,

and then she goes like, I send the love here,

so much love because they love what they do. These

guys are not forced to do taking lower pays someone.

She said, Sarahphong, you are an accountant so high. Why

are you doing little legends? Because I love children, Doctor Jail,

you could be earning right, doctor right? Why are you

doing this? No pay to pay a liitle compared to

your doctor whatever? Whoever? Rose, she's big Timecazana right, she's

doing modecai. She said, I sends a lot of love.

Can people sends a lot of love from us as

an individual or as a group, and not just talk.

I'm very scared. Maybe just talk Oh and oh God

can do this, you know. No, live it and show

that God can do don't just say it. Live it.

If I'm going to say, God heals that, I got

to live it. When I'm not where I pray and

it will God heal me. If I got stuck in

my studies, I have to ask police. But teach me

live it so that you then can testify. Praise God.

It's a great year to start with to get to

know the Lord. We can be many years in as

a believer in Christ, but we still can draw near

to the Lord. Amen. We can still come near to

Jesus and follow Christ. Amen, and follow him all the way.

So Church, let's close this time as we pray, and

let's stand hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. Let us draw near

to God, and he will draw near to you. Not

only will he draw near when you love him and

you keep his word. Papa God, our Ba Father will

love you and me and the whole janity. The God

here will make their home with us in our lives. Amen, hallelujah.

Come on, Church, let's look up to Jesus. We wanna

leave this place a little bit more with a little

bit more of Jesus today man.

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