Faith | Pr Kenneth

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

We hope this message will light up your day.

Yeah, some of you even that word sustainability. Can this

be sustained?

How long more?

And yet the Lord says to you this morning, fear not,

I'm with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you.

I am here, and where my presence is, there is freedom,

there is liberty. And I just believe there's going to

be such a liberation that will happen this morning in

the spirit, in your hearts. Even you will feel it

in your body. You will feel lighter by the time

we finish. And when you are driving your you won't

even know why you're smiling when actually think to yourself,

actually there's not much to smile about.

But yet you will be smiling.

It will be a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit,

if you believe it's Amen. Praise God, Praise God. Hallelijah, Father,

I want to pray first for this precious couple on

my left, Jason and Jessica. To you both first, I

want to say to you that the Lord said to

me he wants to encourage both of.

You greatly, greatly greatly.

There are many times you could have given up, but

both of you stood strong.

I pray for you now. I pray for you now.

You know the Bible says I believe in Romans eight

thirty seven thirty eight, it says He has made us

more than overcomers. We are more than overcomers. I sometimes think,

why should he say more than overcomers. It isn't just

overcomers enough. I mean, all of us want to be overcomers, right,

But why it is more? And I tell you why,

because sometimes when you think about overcoming and conquering, you

just think about the result done.

You think about the score.

You think about yay, oh no, all all my prayers answered,

and yet more than Congress. Therefore must mean that even

though your prayers is not answered, you are still going strong.

So we are not just conquerors. Very easy to be

a conqueror. But you are more then because there's something

in you of God. There's something in you of God.

There's a seed in you, Jason, Jessica that is.

Off the Lord.

And I'm not sure what else God has in store

for you in the future. I don't want to declare

what God has told me, but I just want to

say to you that God has said to me, refreshing

is coming upon you both. Yes, yes, you say, how long, Lord,

when Lord, how Lord. But there's a refreshing that's coming

upon you. There's a refreshing that some of us in

this room my thing, they understand when I'm saying this

to you now, But it's going to be beyond our understanding.

It's going to be in ways that all the Lord

can plan. And then I see the word of God

coming now from Joshua chapter one. Be strong and very courageous.

Be strong and very courageous. Hallelujah. The Lord is planning,

even though you don't see. He's orchestrating, even though you

don't know.

The Lord is with you. He is for you. And

if God be for us, who can be against us?

Lord, This will travel from their heads to their feet,

and through their hands even to their children. Yes, as

for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Times of refreshing is coming upon your family.

Yeah.

Amen, I has not seen, hear, has not heard first

Corinthians chapter two, verse nine, nor has it entered the

heart of man the things that God has planned those

who love him.

The Lord bless you both.

The Lord bless your marriage, the Lord bless your ministry.

Thank you Jesus a Man and Julian Laura.

I just said so.

Also, there are different things that you guys have had

to go through and even wrestle with in the past year.

But I just want to say to both of you,

and you know this already, that the Lord loves you.

You already know this.

He loves you, he loves your whole family, and his

love sustains you both. And there are some questions that

it's not yet answered, some things that you're asking God for.

That may not have come so clearly yet.

But I see the Lord's favor upon you both in

many ways, more ways than one, and you know it.

You know He's been faithful.

And I want to believe that the days a hit

are going to truly be more glorious than the days before,

and you're going to be able to find you know,

there's something I sense that it needs to be found,

and you both are gotta find it. You've got to

find it in him and also with each other. And

I just believe that twenty twenty five is going to

be extra special for both of you.

I thank God for you.

I really do. You've been faithful. And yes, maybe they

are ups and downs, but who doesn't have it. The

one that's laying his hand on you also has a

lot of it. But God has seen me through it all,

and He will see you through it all. This year

will be a year of clarity, greater clarity for both

of you. Yes, And with clarity will come confidence, and

with confidence will come courage to do greater things for God.

Thank you, Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah, Lord, continue to do this

beautiful work that you have started this morning in Jesus say,

I want to speak about faith, creed creates and yes,

encourage you as much as I can.

Faith.

Let me move this pulpit a little bit back so

you all of you can see faith creates. So the

last year I've been sitting with leaders just to explain

to you how.

This message came.

I mean sitting down with leaders from different places, not

just ex church, but around the country, maybe even one

or two from.

Around the world.

And we always talk about different challenges that we have

in ministry, in church, in life, and the next light

just says this. The next slight says, what do I

still lack? And if you remember, this was actually a

phrase that the rich young ruler asks, uh. He asked Jesus,

what is the way to eternal life? And remember, Jesus says,

what do you call me good? Only God is good?

But if you want to have life, you know, do this.

And then he gave a few commandments. And then the

rich young ruler said, all this I've done since I

was a youth. That he says, what do I still lack?

And actually, in our lives there are many lacks, and

we wish that they were filled and met and no

longer a lack.

But the truth is all of us have lacked.

So when I'm speaking to a pastor, he says, passa Kenneth,

I lack a successor. When I spoke to Pastor quillen

Up in Alostar, a good friend Trinity Baptist Church, he said,

Pastor Kenneth, what young people are you talking about? My

young people leave Alostar at form five or after form five,

and they don't come back. Most of them don't come back.

So they are pastors like that around the country who

are looking at a very real possibility of the church's closing.

We had a lady come to ax Umpunk. She really

enjoyed the service. And then when I spoke with her

after the service, she said, passa kedeth.

Can you start x in Quantan?

I said, I was not let to start anywhere else

in Malaysia except in Slago. Uh And when the Lord

does lead me, I might, but it's going to be

very hard because I have very good friends all around

the country and I don't want to compete with them.

I want to be able to compliment them. Uh.

So the Lord has said.

No plan everywhere else in the world and in Kre,

but no, not in the rest of kl So I

not in the rest of Malaysia.

So I've been obedient to that.

And if the Lord does say otherwise, I will also

be obedient to that. And so I said, you know,

she said, churches are dying in content that she named

me a fewtureches, she said, reading a pandemic even more

closed down. So and and and the reason usually is

lack of money, lack of manpower, et cetera. So there's

a like there's a real and a real challenge. A

real problem is a real problem. I don't I don't

even think that any one of us have the answer.

I am asking God to give me the answer, So

I asked, I'm asking God to download and so the

answer is in the form of dream Malaysia. And that's

a dream for Malaysia. And that's why I retired from

being a senior pastol of care so that I can

focus more on the nation. Uh, please pray for me,

and some of you might even come with me, okay,

I have My first invitation is to uh bin Tulu. Uh.

They're gonna ask me to speak to two thousand young

people uh in Bintulu because they're going to have a

combined Easter service. It's a big thing for sib sib

or no the church sib Uh. And to invite someone

who doesn't speak Bahasa or then't preaching Bahasa as.

His normal preaching was truly an honor.

But they had to check with the headquarters to see

whether they allow a non sib, non Malay speaking to come.

But they're seeing that God has a word in my

mouth to be able to encourage the church there, and

so come with me. If you can't come with me,

there's another invitation, Sanakhan, there's another invitation to the north.

God is going to give an answer. He has to.

If God doesn't answer the lack then we all doing

you with me. We have no no way out if

God doesn't come through for us. And so I said

to this lady, you want me to start acts in

Quantin and then you tell me that a lot of

churches are closing. I say, if I start acts in Quantin,

more churches will close.

Because they will come.

And while I get two hundreds of young people from

Quantan or three hundred young people from Pahang, that's not

the it's not about me, it's not about as. It's

about how can we strengthen other churches. See, we need

to understand how it works. If really to bless the

churches in Malaysia is not just to start another church

where they, you know, because you don't want to already

there you're losing your people. Then you want to think

that young people's water and you know they will come.

You know they'll come because the fact that we have

an annointing for young people.

So that's not the way. The way to.

Strengthen other churches is not to start another one next

to them. So okay, understand, we just start wherever the

lot tells us to start, but wherever he doesn't, we.

Just know obey, okay, So what do you still like?

And maybe in this room, I don't know, maybe there

is something that you've been praying about that you don't

even know how God is going to answer it, when

he's going to answer it, So there is a lack.

And a rich young ruler asked the question because he

really wanted to know, because he definitely felt there was

a light, you see, because he was really rich, and

he already was fulfilling the commandments. And yet the after

fulfilling the commandments, after coming to church every Sunday, after

doing all the homes and the huddles and all that

kind of stuff, do you know that sometimes you can

still feel an emptiness.

Yeah, it's very real. It's very real.

And that emptiness or lack only God can feel. And

in fact, most times God even allows the lack in

the first place because he wants us to need him,

because if it's a lack that we ourselves can always answer,

you don't need God. So sometimes, in fact, most times

I find in my own life, God allows that that

cannot cannot do no, no, his leaders can do nothing.

No one else, no rich man, no famous man, no

government officer can help. Is only God is called God's

size shape. It's only God can feel that shape, okay.

Not a teddy bear shape, not a you know whatever,

blue man smurf shape, not a strawberry ship is a

God size shape.

Maybe it's maybe the shape of a cross. Okay. So uh.

In most of my answers to people who have a

lack increase my own life, faith is often the answer.

Faith means focusing on God. Faith means trusting in Him

and his word. Faith means holding on to His promises

even though nothing else it seems to be happening. Faith

is patience, Yeah, because sometimes you know, there's a scripture

that says that why are you cast down all my soul?

Remember this one some forty tree verse five? Why are

you cast down all my soul? And why are you

disquieted within me? Do you know when we are in trouble,

when we have laguer usually we just turn quiet now,

and that's why we very easily go into depression. Depressed

people are not noisy, nough, They're very quiet and looking

down to the floor. So the enemy wants to rob

you of your prayer, wants to rob you of your praise,

get you depressed. Because most of the time. Why are

you cast down all my soul? Some forty tree vers,

why why you cast out?

To you? Cast down?

Because of disappointment, discouragement? Your prayer is not answered yet.

Then he continues to say, and why are you disquie

it because you suddenly become quiet. You even forgot how

to pray for God, how to praise Okay, and then

and then it doesn't end upway praise God. It doesn't

end away. Some forty tree us says, why hope in God?

For I shall yet praise him the help of my

countenance and my God. I love the scripture, you know why.

He's actually telling you that God sometimes doesn't answer you immediately.

This scripture tells you, hoping God, just wait because I

shall yet miss not yet, but coming soon. I will

eventually at the end of this challenge praise him.

Not yet, not yet. I know I don't see yet,

but I will. That's the confession that has come out

of your mouth.

And you declare that your God is the help of

your countenance. You know, so countenance down, man, when things

won't happen right, we're down, and then this God comes

and he helps our countenance go up. It's not a pretense.

Up is God helping you because that means you can

smile in the midst of the storm, because he changes

your countenance. Anybody, okay, he changes your countenance. Yeah, when

we're down, we're sad, our face becomes like papayah. Right.

But then the Lord comes and he says, look up.

I want to say to all of you this year,

look up this year. Put your hands up. You know,

when you put your hands up and you praise, you know,

there's another scripture in Hebrews that says, lift up the

hands that hang down.

You know why because when you're said, when.

You're depressed, when you're discouraged, when you disappointed, your hands

all down. But God is saying that, even in the

midst of your pain, praise. Didn't you just sing that sound,

even in the midst of your doubt, praise? Come on,

look up, hands up, feel up, live up, because God

is up. He's all down. Who's down?

Well, you can interpret it yourself, but God is not down.

God is up.

And finally, when you are dead and God, where are

you going?

Ah? So you better encourage yourself every day.

Say hey, we're not going down there down, it's not

our destination up is and God wants us to continue

to pray up, praise up, Amen, and speak up, and

show up to work the next day and dress up, amen,

live up, and one day be.

Up with your Father in heaven forever? Can I hear good? Amen?

Praise the Lord? So what do I still like? Let's

move on to the next slide?

What is Yeah?

You know I want to I want to give you

a scripture first before I move on. The scripture is

found in Hebrews. And I won't do all the slights extiv.

I won't do all the slides because the Lord just

told me to cut these message behalf and just begin

to just pray for people, and we will close.

We're done.

The scripture that you can find also in the series

of these slights is found in Hebrews Chapter one, Chapter eleven,

Verse one. Faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is very very important.

In fact that there's another scripture in John First John

that says, it is our faith that has overcome the world.

You want to be an overcomer today as a Christian.

Your privilege because you have faith. It is not something

that is being preached or taught in many religions even

though they think they know. Oh, having faith in God

and his word and in Christ alone is very very

different faith faith without seeing. Blessed are you if you

believe and yet not see everybody?

Okay with this is.

A very very powerful formula, if I can just call

it that for now, a powerful answer that God has

given us all. Sometimes we forget to use it and

we move by facts. Oh look at my son, Oh

look at my child, Oh look at my wife, Oh

look at my mother who's in the hospital.

We let our sight take over.

And yet the Bible says in Second Corinthians five seven,

we walk by faith, not by side. So I encourage

you on the very first Sunday of twenty twenty five

remember that, because maybe towards the end of twenty four,

our eyes, like Peter, got off the Lord for a moment,

got onto the waves, got onto the storm, and then

by the time you come to the end of twenty four,

you are starting to want to decide on things you.

Don't need to decide on. It's very true, and it's

very true.

I've come to a place whereby so many times, in

a place where by yo Should I do this? Should

I do that? Should I stop? Should I continue? Should

I my grade? Should Actually, if you didn't go through

that journey, you don't even have those thoughts, wouldn't have

even crossed your mind. But because your eyes have, you know,

been on the waves and storm, you suddenly have to

consider things and think about things that you normally in

good times would not have thought about. And the Lord

wants to refocus, reprioritize, and say, get your eyes back

on me. Thanks be to God, Jesus picked Peter out

from the water. That means even if you were drowning

at the end of twenty three four, don't worry. You

will not die because as long as the Lord is

there with you, he will pick you up.

How many you can say amen to that?

And I believe that in this room a lot of

you have been picked up by the Lord out of

the merry clay, out of your waters of doom and disaster.

But we got to on the first Sunday of twenty

twenty five get our eyes back under Lord, faith, faith,

And then I tell you what you can walk on water.

So I want to declare to many of you in

this room, if not all of you are gonna be

some water walking that you're gonna make this year. If

you believe, you say, amen, some water walking in your marriage.

You thought, oh my marriage. I don't know how to

save my marriage. You're gonna walk on water? Oh you know,

maybe it is a bad report from the hospital. Oh Lord, God,

help me walk on water. Amen, and hold me up

when nobody else can. Amen, Praise God. So this is

how faith works. It works from Hebrews again, thank you Extuv,

Hebrews eleven, verse one. This is how it works, Hebrews eleven,

verse one. Please let's change it to that. And I

just want to focus on this and then I want

to tell you a few stories, and then I want

to pray. So faith, how does it work? Is a

substance of things hopeful. So hope is very important in faith.

You must have hope. You must have hope. And a

lot of times the devil likes to rob us.

Of our hope.

So if you came to the enertration four, no hopeler

because you couldn't see hope. It was just too hot.

Cannot One night, you know, I'm trying to sell my house.

You know nobody wants to buy, right, I put put

on sale for two three years a day nobody was

by it towards en traity. For twenty four you said, no, Hope,

I look at my house or eyes don't want.

To buy it.

You know, because you're so discouraged that when you're discouraging, disappointed,

you see things differently. You see things through the eyes

of doubt. And yet you know with doubt you won't

ever receive anything from the Lord. So you've got to

be faith again, right, faith, praise God. So you gotta hope.

I want to encourage all of you in this room,

come on, hope again. Why are you cast down all

my soul? And why are you disquiet it within me?

Don't be quiet? Don't be quiet you I think the

devil has got some of us to be quiet. What

for pray? I pray it is so long? What for

pray anymore? But for pray again? But for pray about this?

You know you feel like so condemned. No, no, no,

don't be quiet if you don't know how to pray.

At least praise. I know ex Guy is very good

for prayer. Praise, Oh Lord, even though I haven't seen

it yet, I'll praise you. I was saying the Bible says,

sing old baron. How does the baron sing single baron?

I think it's Isaiah fifty four.

Sing oh baron?

For greater are the children of the one you know

that that has no husband?

You know?

Yeah, then the married woman say this lady is a

walking Bible lah Anti Praise Lord, thank you, thank you.

Of course you know why you encourage me that, miss.

I'm not wrong when I scote the scripture. Hallelujah, praise God. Yeah,

only your eldness, Amen, praise God.

And to keep going. Anytime I brother, just say ah bassa.

Ah rovers wrongly quote wrongly quote that, or you say

help him Lord, help him Lord. All right, Yeah, so

you must hope. Okay, Amen, we got that, We got

that hope again. Hope again. Don't let the devil rob

you of your hope. Hold on to the very end.

But there must be substance to that, you know. I

remember many years ago someone took out his wallet and say,

I want to show you something. Actually, whaar, my wallet

is here, yeah yeah somewhere, yeah, yeah, okay, oh yeah, hey,

my pocket is so deep blah praise go for deep.

Okays.

And he says, you know when you're hoping for financial

blessing and breakthrough. Uh, you got to have substance of

what you hope for, you know. And then they lifted

up this picture many years ago, twenty five years ago.

What do you call this? A sad money?

This is also called substance, meaning there is no such

thing as nothing.

You understand, this is substance. What you hope for must

be backed up by substance. This substance, My.

Wife usually says that this is your toil and sweat,

because you had to work for your money.

There is more than money.

This is your time, your sweat, your talent, your work,

you with me, And so when you put it there,

you know, and he's putting a piece of paper, you're

putting your heart and hard work.

Not hard.

We need hard work. So the Lord receives that. But

there must be always substance backing what you hope. Don't

just stand there and hope you'll get ten a's for

I'm speaking to those maybe who are formed five. Here

I hope for ten a's and do nothing about it.

Where's your substance? Show me some substance, and God will

take that substance and multiply it.

That's the thing. Now, I like this other part. It's

actually the.

Same, the same meaning to two different sentences.

But to make it stronger.

The rights of Hebrews, make sure that he also write

the evidence of things not seen?

And I love this so much.

The boy I read into it, the more I understood it,

the more the Holy Spirit revealed the I said, Lord, Yeah,

that's right. This is how faith works. So this is

how it works. Number One, you have to have hope,

and you have to have substance backing up that hope.

Cannot be nothing cannot be. Wishing only cannot be. I

won't take that step of faith. I won't step into

the water, but I hope to walk. No, if you've

gotta walk on water, step off the boat, substance, where

are you? Where's your feet? Put your feet to your walk.

Either way, somebody else has to work for you. The

evidence of things not seen is this? I want to

see it. I want to see the healing of my dad.

I want to see the healing of my spouse. I

want to see the healing of my finances. I want

to see the approval of my visa. I want to

see this new ches building a bill. I want to

see the next church. We've got a plan, by the

grace of God, I think could be exs Mandu. Pray

for us, Pray for us, because I just met with

Pasta Palin Passa Palin Uh says there is a church

there with two hundred young people and they all want

service in English. And the pastor there might let go

of that church to go and study his masters and

PhD in And he's weighing it out because the church

is really thriving. And Uh, they said they need pastors,

they need leaders. So would you would you consider Pasta

Palin saying, would you consider ex Mandu Nepal.

You know, with me, I don't have great light, one

green light because the day Jesus said go.

Into all the world and make disciples, the green light

is all ready. The only time I see a red

light is when God says, don't do this, do something else.

Remember Paul walking going. I don't see Paul asking the

Lord about should.

I start here? Should I start there? He just goes.

You know, of course the Lord just says go, So

he just goes plan blah blah blah blah blaah and

then stop. You don't need to hear God say go.

You need to hear God say stop. So he says

stop why because there was a Macedonian call. So though

he closed his door, he was still open that window.

God has not stopped since the day Jesus went back

to be with the Father. He has not stopped trying

to tell the whole world who he is. Are you

all stay with me? And he tells the world who

he is through the Church X command. Will it happen?

By faith? It will? By faith it will.

God has also put on my heart that now is

the time for India. And oh, I tell you I

had ex India in my heart maybe about fifteen years ago,

and it didn't work out. And I'm not gonna cry

over things that don't work out because He's just got's planning.

He will He's time mean, so don't cry over. If

you really believe that God is good and God is

great and God's timing is perfect, then don't need to

cry over anything. You with me, Just say, God didn't

work I tried out. Wait for your perfect timing, amen,

But the important thing is to try. You'll just continue

to live by faith, and don't don't please this year.

Don't get used to saying no. Please continue to get

used to saying yes, Lord, here I am send me

because with yes, they are miracles. With no, you don't

even have to think about anything because there's you know

you will never know. So let's close with with uh,

with with with this verse because I want to show

you something.

Though you have not seen God move.

Listen now, listen now, though you have not seen God move,

God wants to see you move.

That's how it works.

God wants something in his hands. He want Okay, so

both are evidence. Actually both are evidence, but this one

is the evidence that is in God's hands. Only God

can do it for you. That's why you haven't seen

it yet. But before you see God move, God wants

to see you move.

I hope you catch that. And now we go into stories.

Now maybe x TV you go back to that third

slide and let's let's let's talk about water turned into wine.

You all know that story.

But Jesus said, what fill up the six water pots?

Show me evidence before I show you evidence. Five loaves,

two fish. The young boy doesn't even have a name,

or at least he was not named in the Bible.

The lad gave up not only his lunch, I don't

think he's Do you think he was just his lunch?

Five lows, two fisher, and a young lad. You think

in all five lows and two fish in just one meal.

Maybe maybe not, Maybe he's a green boy, or maybe

it was two meals in one.

He gave it up. He gave the meal of the

day up.

And I'm telling you right now the Bible is filled

with examples for us. God saw the evidence, and then

he moved. Not only was the boy fed, five thousand

more were fed, and that only counted men, having counted

women and children. Yet so he could have been ten thousand.

Out of a boy's evidence came God's evidence. And I

can go on and on we do. In Elijah, Jah

of oil been a flower never will run dry. But

what did Elijah asked, if the widow first go and

bake me a cake first, what kind of a prophet disease?

And what kind of the lady just told him? I

just told him a prophet, This is the last bit

of flower, last bit of oil.

And day am I am? I still right on the scripture.

And then I said, I'm going to beg something, and

d I'm gonna beg something. And then she said, no,

me and my sons are gonna eat this and die. No,

and die. She just told the prophet, and we're gonna

eat and die. And you know what he said, beke

me something first?

What kind of profit? Maybe you know why? Because God

is always first?

He represented God and she was to give God first out.

Yeah, that's why this was something I don't say.

So cruel and so cruel, and don't understand how faith works.

But if you understand how faith works, are miracles happen.

I can go on and on right.

Borrow vessels, go borrow vessels, and then fill those vessels

with oil.

Hey, did the oil come first or the vessels had

to come first? Yes? Yes, she had to go not

on doorslow together with her sons. I don't know, neighbor,

Can I borrow any of your empty vessels?

Evidence? The evidence came first? Can I borrow a few more?

Maybe along the way. She's probably doubting now why I

got so many?

Because back home the oil is still so much on Nino.

And then you know the sorry, as she put into

the first bottle, it never ended.

Bring the second bottle, third bottle? What did?

She probably had to look inside the where the worst

coming from evidence of God, followed the evidence of men,

seventh bottle, seventeenth bottle, twin table. You know when the

oil stopped. The oil only stopped when the vessel stopped.

You know when the oil will stop in the church,

When the oil was stopped in the church, when the

vessels stopped.

Because all of us who serve the lot are vessels.

But if we stop being a vessel in God's hands,

watch the oil stop.

You don't want it to happen in X.

So vessels are continuously available to the Lord, even though

we might be broken vessels, broken, not so perfect. God

didn't asked for perfect vessels, and he just go and

get any vessel, okay, younger vessel, older vessel, women, vessel

men that matter to God. He just wants to pour

out his oil. He's anointing. The anointing will break the yoke. Amen,

I can go on, Abraham, Isaac Isaac first, Yeah, Isaac first.

And then after he offered Isaac, come on, after he

offered Isaac. Then the Lord said to him, I promise you,

I'll give you more than one son. Everybody, Okay, is

there anything else after this? Because I don't want to

do more than what the Holy spirits for me to

do today?

This the next light. Without faith, it is impossible to

please God. Let me.

Let me yeah, draw towards the last lap, telling you

a few more things. All I want to do is

encourage you. Jesus asked for the man with the withered

hand to stretch out his hand, man's hand with it. No,

come on, guys, somebody you when you read the Bible

and you gotta start imagining, okay, the church with it.

I don't know.

Some of you may not be so obvious in your

withed hand, or some of you may not be so

obvious in your problems. Maybe the problem is outside is inside.

But listen, do what Jesus? Stretch out your hand?

Are you do?

You know what the other other people in the church, Jesus,

don't embarrass the man. Ready, his hand is with it.

You are seeing a stretch out. No, until I see evidence,

he won't see evidence. Stretch it out.

He asked for a blind man to go and wash

in the pool of sea. Loon. Hi, please imagine this

with me, blind Lord, hear me. I heard that. You

can just say the word and my eyes will open.

You know what Jesus did spit on the ground, make

clay put on his eyes. Yeah, this sliver makes week

dirt on the ground. Don't know how many people start already?

Huh and hee, huh. Okay, if I do this, I'm

not sure.

Okay to.

Actually I sometimes her pictures her when the speak on

your and intentionally is you start?

Why paying and forgiving the picture annointing spit that came

out from the mouth of God.

Anything that comes up from the mouth of God will

bring life. He said, let there be light, and there

was light. So the spit came out from his mouth.

Anything comes up with God's mouth is going to bring life.

He hits the ground. Why, because we were men and

a man. Man was made out of the ground clay.

So the mouth of God touches clay and puts it

on the ice, because man was made out of clay.

He puts clay together with the anointing of God's whatever

it came up from his mouth with his spit, and

he puts it. And then finally he says, does the

guy get here immediately? No, he says, go and wash

in the pool of siloa. Where is the pool of siloa?

Market?

Someone take me there, please, because I'm blind. Why am

I Jesus asked me to go when I'm blind? Maybe

some of you in this room the last year, maybe

coming to church. You just don't understand the Lord's ways.

Why God are you asking me to do something? Can

you see I'm in a wheelchair. Can you see I

can't see? Can you see I'm poor? Can you see

I'm left back only with five ring.

Kits in my pocket? Can you see? God?

And God is saying, it's because I can't see?

What do you mean? Is because I need to see

evidence to move on? Your behalf?

It's called faith. He asked Peter to launch out into

the deep and let down his nets for a catch.

So he was standing in Peter's boat preaching, and after

he was done, he said, Peter, launch out into the deep.

Peter said, your preaching is quite good. Laugh lord paraphraser,

the preaching is quite good. Actually you want you want

the best preachers today. But you're not a fisher. Malla

I am, and I fish all night.

Adi.

I fished all night and caught nothing. So thank you

for your suggestion. How many are you come to after

the preacher?

Bastard?

You are a pastor that that knows the Bible, but

I know business, and you can't speak to business because

you have no experience in business. Our pastor you were

married with your wife, although you're married twenty nine years,

but you have no kids, so you can't speak into

us because we have three kids. Sometimes you think like that.

I think if Jesus was here, also you because.

Jesus wasn't married.

So you say, Jesus, what you understand about marriage? Jesus said,

launch out into the deep. All he wants is evidence.

So thanks being to God, Peter was smart enough to say,

I tell you why it won't work because.

I tried it. It didn't work, But I'll tell you now.

Nevertheless, at your word again, out of God's mouth, what

is he saying.

To you today.

He's very important because he's really spoken, so his word

has gone forth. It will not return to him void.

It will touch the clay. All of you are made

of clay. They will touch the clay and will bring

about breakthrough. But will his spit touch the clay today?

I don't know, because it's also your choice, because you

are that clay, and you've got to mix with faith.

You're got to mix with whatever comes out of God's mouth.

You're gonna mix it. And then comes not just healing

for yourself, but you become a healing bomb to others.

Ah he Loujah, Praise God. Amen, this is important. Silver

and gold have I none, But what I have I

give to you. Remember this, So he had no silver,

no gold. He says, why I have I give to

you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Rise up and walk, puts his hand up.

Or down whichever way, and reaches out to the man

and pulls him up. Evidence before evidence. You can read

on and on. The Lord one day challenged me when

the church Exchich was only three hundred people and it

was not growing. I said, Lord, how to make this grow?

We all have lack in our lives. I'm just showing

you different legs. And the Lord said to me, give

up the twelve thousand ring it that you get from

the Dato the Christian that tho every man, you heard

this story before.

I'll just remind you.

I said, Lord, I've got bills to pay. I need

the twelve thousand. The Lord says, well, I want something

to work with. Give me something to work with. What

do you want God? I just told you give up

the twelve thousand ring it.

I struggled.

Finally I gave it up, and in six months the

church grew from three hundred people ex church, the church

that you belong to.

So I give you the history of your church.

From three hundred we went to six hundred double in

six months. I say, what has the money to do

with soulsa? It has nothing to do with so is faith?

Sometimes you can't connect. No, why did you God ask

me to give up that one? But I want this one.

It's not about that. It's about you please God by faith.

And now that your father is pleased in heaven, there's

nothing he won't give you.

You're with me, you and your children. Please you warms

your heart.

You're probably gonna say, son, what do you want to

up to half my kingdom?

I'll give you.

Remember that scripture esther what be goes esther? Please the

king up to half my kingdom? Is that the starting

point of any prayer answer is pleasure to God? It's

not prayer answer first? Is I want to please God first?

And without faith it's impossible, not maybe not difficult, impossible?

Are you asser me all right? Drawing to a close, Yeah,

maybe I go about five more stories while I just

share one more with you. So in ex got takeer

moaning your sister church exclaim escort moaning we are we're close. Yeah,

we're close. We do things together, you know.

Yeah, yeah, I love I love that. I love that.

I love that so much. And so he's doing well now.

So he's doing well, my wife, and thank you for

releasing him. You have training well, please.

God, please go he now I think he wears about

five hats.

Yeah yeah, and and yeah because some people left, and

then okay, I will also do x TV. I also

do exceun. I said you please don't burn out. No no, no,

I'm gonna keep us saying.

Okaye please good. So I said, thank you, exclaim made

a lot, restore to you.

And give you five moreniece hell yeah, amen, and five

more michelles.

Okay, praise a lot. I'm I'm sure you know. Just

good Lord add to.

X claient come on, I say, amen if you believe it,

and praise God him man, thank you Jesus. Yeah, we

love exclaiming as well. But anyway, go to So it

was growing. We started with fourteen people, ten adults, four

children and today's on hundred eighty on our list, and

regularly about one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty come.

But before we even got there, we were about maybe

how many, maybe about.

Seventy eighty people. And every week we saw new people.

Until at certain time there was a certain time where

it got allowed it to be dry, all right, so

that we can seek him, a call upon him, learn

a lesson from him.

That's what God wants.

He doesn't want he does. He doesn't want to cause

you trouble. He doesn't make life difficult for you. He

just wants to help you learn another lesson. They will

take you high here, that's all really. You think your

father is so bad that he just wants to not

pay you, you know, cause your children to be rebellious

and no, no, no, no no, So that you will seek

him so that U say God right, and he would

give you the answer for sure.

One is a good God. We right.

So I I heard from my leaders at what Pu

at what Pun is my hosts leader. He's a passa

call you Lisa uh set news. We've been growing every week,

got new people, then Salia for the last four weeks

are not one.

So I said, prayer.

Pray right, so prayer, pray, Oh God, please bring people,

and we pray this every week. We pray God, new people,

you know enlarge this church, bring souls, save souls, good prayer.

Then we should pray. But sometimes it's not just prayer,

it's actually so so by the six or seven weeks,

there's no people. Are I walked in one day to

ax the community. I just walked in and then.

I walked in with a little bit of a burden

in my heart because there is a lack. What do

I still like? There's a black seven weeks without a newcomer?

How can okay?

So I'm walking and I walked past while being slow

motion John Woolstar, I'm walking past the welcome table.

Welcome table, welcome table, not raise me, welcome table. And

then I stopped, and the lot says, look at the

welcome table. So I look.

So we may have heard the story before, but buried me.

I look at the welcome table and said, whatnot.

Look carefully? So I look. So I saw.

Things very well put very well laid out. We had

about one or two welcome backs.

We had one.

Newcomer's card, we had one Salvation card. We had one

of everything, and the lot says, do you see a problem?

I said, it's laid out so beautifully. You know, the

people have done their job. No, no, no, it's what's

behind the spirit, behind the layout of his God doesn't

just see the stuffer. He sees the spirit behind the stuff.

So I said one, and the Lord revealed it to

me because I was still asking. I can't understand it,

He says, Your people, after seven weeks of dryness and barenness,

has come to a place whereby they think maybe this

week or so we won't have anybody like. In fact,

when they put the one card and one bag, they

put it because they have to put it there because

as their drama, so put one just to show. But

maybe in their hearts that they are discouraged, disappointed you

with me, and thinking in their minds maybe this week

also will be the same. John, God very seldom just

answers the physical prayer. He answers hard because God looks

at the hard, so he's listening to the hard. Where

is your heart this morning, because you can show outside

everything all right now, our heart is very important.

That's where the breakthrough happens. And so you know what happened.

I said, I got it. I got it. I got it.

So I said, I came to the front, like, how

we have pre service prayer, we now call it pre

worship prayer, I said, I taking the microphone at the time,

I was still the CPC. I passed it on to

passa Daniel Cheng. Now I said, uh, brothers, we're gonna pray.

But before we pray, can I have two ushers carry

the welcome table.

Into the to the to the church, into the church.

So they're like, oh, surprise her, because I already heard

from the Lord.

Whatever must do.

So I said, bring bring kerry. So then two ushes

brought in and then I looked at the table. I said, hey, guys,

I thank you so much for laying out the table. Really,

your faithfulness every week it's amazing. But I want to

ask you something. Do you really believe that people are coming.

With this today?

And then I went on. I went on for another

five minutes. I was like preaching, discipling, helping them understand.

And I could see his slowly from looking at me,

going down and down and down because they know they

know that actually nobody's going to come anyway, so why pack?

So much right into the bag, because it's hard to

pack it out, pack it back. So easy to pack

one harder to pack five bags. I said, this will

stop today because the Lord is looking at our hearts.

I'm not blaming any of you, I said, I love

you so much, you know my heart. But God wants

to teach us something, to take us another level. Let's

all pray over this table. And as I pray with

a table, one lady evering in her name. She's very,

very on fire host that we have. She went to

the cupboards drew out another four more backs to make

it five backs. Now everything's multipla five bags, five welcome cards,

five newcomer cards, you know, five Salvation cards and all

that right, And this is what happened after we prayed

over the table, and we went on to pray over

empty seats. What people was led to. So I totally

changed the prayer for that morning. We didn't pray through

the list. We prayed whatever the Holy Spirit one. So

we pray over empetres all that so finisher, we had

two services eight fifteen.

Eight fifteen we had three.

Newcomers walking, and ten forty five we had two newcomers

walking that day silver. When our hearts changed and when

we started to go by faith again, I said to

you this is the title of this message. Faith creates

out of nothing, out of nowhere. It creates no water, wine,

five lows, two fish, five thousand, It creates one faith

as a way to multiplier stuff that you never knew

could be possible.

So God had to see evidence first.

So the evidence was the lady erin and the other

ushes put are five bags. He wants to see some

evidence and from that day can testify to you are.

And that was when we were seventy eighty people. From

that day, not a single Sunday pass without a new comer.

And my guys learn a lesson. So you know what

Edward Poon tells me. Faster since the day you thought

us to do that, we're doing it every every week.

We're putting as many backs as we can out and

if nobody come, nobody come, we'll pack it again. But

we will not allow that to change our hearts and

affect our faith. And the ushes surround the table.

Now they don't bring the table to the author on

the on the court.

Yeah, yeah, I brought it to the author pray one time,

one time in Chicola.

Now they say we surround the table, we pray.

Every week past it because we know that people go

through that door, not just when we see them physically

go through the door, they go to the door when

we see them spiritually. We've got a seed first in

our spirit Father, the name of Jesus. I will bring

this to a close now, and I want to thank

you so much that truly faith creates, and you are

ready to multiply good things into people's lives.

Hallelujah.

You're ready to mounted ladies and gentlemen, eyes close heads about.

You could just have a seed, that's all you have.

Past I don't have much. I just have a seed.

And the Bible says, if your faith is as small

as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain

be removed, be cast into the sea, and nothing shall

be impossible for you. Do you have a seed?

There's not one person in this room that has nothing,

even one ring. It is something.

Even one more welcome back on the table is something

even saying yes, Lord twenty twenty five, I'm going to

serve you. I don't know how. I don't know how

because my Sundays are so erretic maybe you're a pilot

and you're not sure when you're gonna be here on Sunday. No, no,

don't let any excuses rob you of the joy of

serving the lot. Remember years ago there was a guy

called Agnol who say, Pastor, I don't think I can

serve it all because I'm so busy.

I travel blah blah blah.

I say, no, tell me what you can give me,

he said, Pastor, probably the most one Thursday, one Thursday

night practice, and then I can play on Sunday. I

say a Now, if you only have one gift, one talent,

give it, don't hide it in the ground. And Acnel

said to me, Pastor, if you can accept I can

only serve once a month, I will do it.

I say, I accept. I accept.

I'm the pastor of this church. I will change the

rules if I have to, because you know, some of

these rules are man made anyway, so so it kind

of makes life easier. But I said, I will bend

it rule for you because I want you to serve.

And Acnel said, thank you, past that he came on that.

I say, you, as long as you say the third Thursday,

be faithful to the Thurdursday.

That one Thursday. Be faithful.

If you only have one gift, be faithful to that gift.

All I'm asking for you is to be committed to

one thing. And then from there on. He played and

played and played and played and played and played and

played until you know, there was one time we didn't

see him anymore.

Because you know, he he. I think he's gone to

another church.

But more importantly, more importantly, if you have one gift,

give it to the Lord.

If all you have is that one hour, give it

to the Lord. If all you have is shaking legs.

Why I say shaking legs because you're still fearful. You're doubtful.

But I will say to you, as Jesus said to Peter, come,

all you need to do is get out of the boat.

Keep your eyes on Jesus.

Thank you, Lord Lord.

I want to pray for these two precious antithes that

has been so faithful to ex clang you know, both

of you. If I were just to summarize your life

with one or two words, faithfulness is definitely.

One of them, but also generosity.

And you have not closed your hands to those that

God has wanted to bless. And I'm telling you you

I'm telling you right now, what God is telling me

to tell you is that God has seen every one

of your seats sold. God has seen it. You know

what he told the angel to tell Cornelius. He said Cornelius,

and Cornelius wasn't even a Christian. Yet Cornelius, God has seen.

God has seen all.

Your prayers and your arms.

Sister, my dear sister, the Lord is telling me to

tell you he has seen every bit of it. Nothing

is lost, There is no seat by the wayside, No,

nothing is lost. Nothing is lost. God's seed off because

you know why, both of you have every reason to

not do it, every reason. If you want to put

an a for paper you can write, I think the

paper will feel up line after line. Why I shouldn't,

Why I can't? You know, Lord, I'm already older in age.

You had to walk even sometimes to church, and yet

you have never made an excuse. And I tell you

what the Lord told me to tell you. He's going

to renew your youth. You know what the Bible actually

says that. No, he says, bless the Lord all my

soul and all that's within me. Someone zero three, Bless

the Lord all my soul and forget not all His benefits,

who forgives all your iniquities, heals all your diseases, who

redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with loving

kindness and tender mercies. Who sais your mouth with good things,

so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. I

speak that over your lives, in the mighty name of Jesus.

Don't you forget that the Lord use Abraham and Moses

in their seventies and eighties.

Don't you forget that?

Okay, the Lord knows, the Lord knows, the Lord sees,

and the Lord rewards the Lord rewards.

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