Keep Moving Forward. A Call to Momentum | Pr Ronson

You're listening to a message to go from X Church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

So we are here to build a momentum.

And we are here because we are part of a movement,

not just in Malaysia, but we are a movement.

We are a global movement.

You know. Over the weekend it was so good to

see our brothers and sisters came back from Botswana, from Germany, UK, Australia, Indonesia, Myanmar.

And different parts of where X were planted.

And our DNA is basically this, wherever God calls to be,

we will be obedient, we will plant. So when I

look at all the videos, the faces, I felt quite touch.

I've been in this church for twenty one years. This

may will be twenty one years. So I've seen where

we were to where we are now and I can

only get excited on where God will bring us and

where we'll be. And it takes everyone to do our

part to be part of this moment, yes, moment and movement.

Amen. You know, Paul.

Illustrated it very well when he used our body as

an analogy, right, that we are of one body with

many parts.

The lake cannot say to the hand I do not

need you.

Neither can the eye say to the ears, I cannot,

I don't need you. See, in essence, when every part

of the body does it share, that's when we will

come to the unity of the none of the Lord.

That's when, as a movement we will continue to mature.

So in this church we celebrate talents. I'm so happy

to see today we have new people on cahn praise

the Lord, new keybodies.

I don't know.

Whenever I come, I don't see them, but I come

now I see and new.

People serving, which is good.

We celebrate talent, and no one talent can say that

it is less important than the other talent, and no

one talent can say it is more important than the other.

Every talent counts in a movement. So it must come

you sweep across our house and see whether there is

that one talent that God will use so that God

will raise you up one day to send you out

and to plan another ax movement.

Amen.

So I was just worshiping here and I thought about

this fantastic venue you have, and I thought about Nottingham University,

one of the best university in the world.

Amen. If you agree it's Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen.

I've seen all these people in front. They used to

be campus student, they used to be very young, very dean. Ah.

Now they're all very grown up, so very familiar with

ex Nottingham. So I was reminded about what I did

in my marketplace. I was in a local private uni

best or so, but maybe one day soon to be international,

maybe right.

So I was reminded last year God gave me that.

Burden to plan a midweek worship service within the visit

of our campus. Is not in the campus, but it's

within the vicinity, near enough, but not part of the campus.

And this whole idea, as I reflected, started in twenty nineteen.

In twenty nineteen, an alumni came back to campus on

a Sunday and decided to take her own life there

and the entire community was shaken. I was you can

see that the entire atmosphere was down rightly, so we

were in shock. And then we began to see pocket

of Christian community stepping up in prayer. On that Monday

Tuesday Wednesday, the momentum grows to pray to us for covering,

to pray for the community somehow. The following week, the momentum.

Fees all up. I guess because when.

Situation happens, when it is fresh, people get moved, people

get the urgency to want to step up and do something.

God gave me the burden and he inspired within my

heart to say, you should be proactive in praying. Try

not to pray a reactive prayer meaning when things happen,

only we pray. Proactive prayer basically means you pray asking

the mercies of God to prevent things from happening. Now,

if God allowed it to happen, there's always a reason.

Ruins aig to an he will turn things around, right,

He will turn it around for his good purpose. So

twenty nineteen I establish the Prayer Group. Formerly we pray

for a community. Every Friday, seven.

Am to eight am.

We pray and for twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, we

all know there was lockdown, there was MCO. We did

not give up to pray for a campus community. We

went online zoom. We don't have worship leader. You know

what we did in zoom. We just play YouTube and

we worship, We pray, we interceded for our community. And

it was in the year twenty twenty there was a

national movement called the Malaysian United Firewall. When initially they

wanted to pray for seven weeks I think, and then

it became one month, two months, three months, and they

gathered as many churches as possible to pray twenty four

hours for the nation. How many were part of it,

the fireworm movement? You remember those days we wake up

one am to pray two am. So I was part

of ex church actually supported and I say to my

prayer team back in my campus, I said that we

must be part of this movement. So we are one

of the few non church that participated. We took at

least two sessions, and the time that we took was

the graveyard hours that nobody wanted. So these are like

your three amm So we step up, we pray, and

I remember praying this very simple prayer. We say that

God in every campus, let there be a prayer house

in every campus. Let there be a prayer altar from

the east to the west, north to the south. Prayer

is important and as Christians we should not forget that.

So it was in September I believe, twenty twenty one.

By the generosity of the owner, he gave us a space,

not on campus, but in a commercial block close to

that vicinity. We dedicated that space for prayer, and since then,

every Wednesday we pray. Up to today, he has been

I think five or six or seven years. Every week,

once a day we dedicate it to prayer. Now, why

do I share this last year? I needed to obey God.

If you're going to be part of this church, if

you're going to put your roots down in this church,

obedience is our DNA, whatever God inspired within our heart,

guided of course with godly counsel, we have to obey

Isaiah one one, Isaiah one nineteen. I think if you're

willing and obedient, you will eat the good of this land.

You know. To be part of a movement to grow

our faith and character, we're gonna learn to pay the price,

and often it will cost you something. The only way

to growth is sacrifice. No sacrifice, no growth. No sacrifice

equals to comfort.

So in twenty twenty.

Two were very young home, whether it be three people,

four people, we.

Pray Journey twenty three. Because of.

Things that I'm going through in life, because of my

role in church, my role at work, I felt that

I needed to take a break and I told the group,

if anyone would like to lead this group, please continue

twenty twenty three.

You know what, we did not think it was like

the silent years, but the space was dead and he was.

In mid twenty twenty three, the Holy Spirit spoke to me, ronson,

why did you left my house empty? I was convicted

mid twenty twenty three. I was convicted because we dedicate

the space to God and we don't even use it now.

But my heart was hardened. I went through my day

to day. But the Holy Spirit, Praise God. He is

a gentle spirit. He will always always give you that

small knock in your heart. If that doesn't work, he

will send people to remind you in ways that you

can never imagine. So towards the end of twenty twenty three,

I felt more burden, more burden, and little did I know.

At the same time, the Holy Spirit spoke to the

owner's wife, and the Holy Spirit just revealed to her

that the space that was dedicated to God was in use.

In January twenty twenty four, I started the year by

saying that God, if you have given me this burden,

I will take this up. In April last year, we

planted together with the support of ex campus midweek service.

I can share with you a couple of testimonies. We

have people coming in reddicating their life. I'll share with

you probably one testimony out of the prayer, one testimony

of salvation. Let's talk about our prayer first. Every week

when we gether, I'll make it a point to declare this.

I say that God let there not be one more

life loss on campus. Remember the purpose of why the

group was established, prayer covering. But God is going to

send Aaron and her her is here. You are not

her to.

Lift up.

Your left hand and to lift up your right hand.

So he must keep moving forward, must keep moving forward.

So conversation with Pastor Lazarus from Botswana. Used to be

a student in nili Uni. In twenty twelve, he went

to London because of his studies and he pioneers London.

Eventually he went to Victoria in South Africa did his PhD.

In between, he was leading in the church in Hebroni

in Botswana, which have grown to three church plants Abroni,

Muchuli and Pacoalani.

Praise Good.

Next stop for him will be Prectoria because the university

is asking him to go back to do something. So

you felt that, Okay, let's pray and see where God

will lead. And he told this, say the pastor. I'm

feeling a bit comfortable.

Now.

I say, huh, what do you mean You've got three

church plan, you're so busy, you got two kids, obviously

you have one wife. Ah, so what do you mean

you are very comfortable? Say no, God is giving me

the stirring to plan to do something.

And that woke me up a bit.

It's like, huh what let me think about And you're like,

there's a comparisoner, this iron sharpen iron moment. Yeah, there's

not like, oh I might still better than you. What No,

there's an iron sharpening iron moment. They began to reflect.

I say that we sent you out. Then twenty sixteen

we send Bassus, Steven Zubian and the core theme out

to plant some money. There was twenty sixteen there, and

that was fine years ago. Of course, in between twenty

seventeen we pivoted to bilingual worship service Swangy England and Hawaii.

Ah so I say it's dual language English and Mandarin.

But ever since then, I've got to do a hat check.

Where am I at where is xdla at.

Soday. He began to awaken within me that, hey, the

church exists for a community. The Church exists so that

we can continue to grow to multiply. That has always

been the DNA of the church. The DNA of the

church has always been it's not that we get it right,

therefore we plan. The DNA of the church has always

been pray, listen, obey, because when.

We obey, that's when He will provide.

Because when we obey, despite us not being the best speaker,

not being the best musician, not being the best.

Prayer warrior, that's when he annoying.

Because if God knows that you have it all, then

you're going by your own strength, You're going by your

own wisdom.

It is at a time when you know you don't have.

It all, that's when God will use you. Why because

when you see the fruits of the ministry, you see

the fruits of your obedience, you will know all glory

goes back to Him, goes back to him.

Sack some money.

I say to you, fear not, for the Spirit of

God is with you. He will annoying to you, empower you.

You will have your own story. You have your own story.

So to build momentum, we've got to be purpose driven.

In twenty fourteen, I almost gave up X ME, like

almost because in twenty fourteen for four years long distance

just to come to some money, y'all know. Back then

the evening traffic with it you and a half hours on.

More So, I found that I was in a place

and a season where I was discouraged. I find that

I sow the Lord, but I don't see a lot

of fruits in ministry. Have you been to a place

where you gave a lot, you don't see results, and

then you get discourage. You gave a lot, you don't

see a lot of appreciation, Then you get this courage.

You give a lot, you serve a lot, people don't

meet your expectation, you get frustrated.

These are all natural and normal.

We all will go through a season of discouragement. All

of us will go through a season of disappointment. All

of us will go through a season where we feel neglected.

All of us will go through a season where we

feel isolated and we feel nobody cares. We feel my

pastor don't care, we feel that my homes leader didn't

call me.

All of us go through that season.

So I was in that season and I told my mentor,

who is a pass can enough and you can record.

I one to give up.

A pastor just told me just very one simple thing.

You take it to prayer, allow God to minister to

you and see what God wants you to do. I've

been in this church long enough to know that we

don't pressure people into doing things.

We don't.

All that we ask people to do is if you're serious,

you take it to prayer, and if you seriously take

it to prayer, God will seriously speak to you, just

like how he spoke to Winnie. Because I understand the

price that she paid. I purchased an apartment too in Eli.

I know the journey, and it was when times gets tough.

I'm not saying she me me, me, I have little faith.

Is when times get tough, I begin to be more calculative.

I said that, God, why am I spending this money here?

So in twenty fourteen, when I was discouraged, I prayed

to God. God reminded me the story of David in

the Battle of Ziicleg. He and his strong man lost everything.

David strengthened himself in the Lord strengthen himself in the Lord.

He pursued the enemy, and God restored every thing, so

that scripture became my testimony.

I didn't give up.

I said to God, if you're spoken to me, let's

go scraggs some money that planted out. Different things say

has been God is doing in NELI. But all it

takes is what men and women to obey. Even the

clock degrees. Amen, it takes men and women to step

up and obey. You're a key scripture. I know some

of you are very theological passive as the scripture. The

scripture is here Philippine. Chapter three was thirteen to fourteen,

where Paul says, bedroom I do not count myself to

have apprehended, but one thing I do forgetting those things

which are behind, reaching forward to those things.

Which are hate.

I pressed toward the goal for the price of the

outward call of God in Christ Jesus.

We all know Paul.

Amazing conversion, and ever since his conversion he went city

to city proclaiming Christ, not just in the marketplace, in

the synagogue, disputing with the Jews that Jesus is Christ.

The Romans put him in jail. When he was in jail,

He wrote this to the church in Philippi. Why did

the Romans put him in jail because the Jews weren't happy.

The Jews created a scheme to say that you know,

wherever he goes there's uproar. So our dear friend Paul

or wrote this from prison, and he says he's pressing

forward to commute grow in our life, in our faith.

We can learn to press forward, and you can only

press forward when you're reminded of your purpose. That's why

Paul said, I press forward, Sorry, I press toward the

goal for the price of the outward call.

Of God in Christ Jesus.

All of you have a calling from God. All of

you have a purpose from God. The twenty fourteen why

I didn't give up is because the purpose to see

life experiencing Christ drives me.

Today.

I don't give up my weekly Thursday to my marketplace

because that is my marketplace ministry to see life coming

to know Christ. Now, I'm not asking all of you

to be like me, because God gives different one different capacity.

But what you must do is to ask God, wherever

he placed you, what is his purpose for you and

what does he want you to do? Purpose keeps you going,

you know, actually, like we are a very small church.

Every week is forty fifty. So I told the church

we're gonna be ready to multiply. Either we're going to

send the group out or do a second worship service.

Right those who believe they some they were in shoplight.

Some I can hear from the heart move like that's

like say, say, pass, what are you talking about? I say,

for the sake of church growth, for the sake of

seeking and saving the loss as actually lying, we got

to start doing something because we are a small church.

My musicians is not as big as your band here.

You guys are gifted, which is pre scott our band

serve like three Sundays a month. I serve every Sunday. Okay,

it's simply because of where we are at. By the

time the church grow, we have more people than maybe

we will schedule. Now let me say I'm a big

believer in rest. Okay, I think ministry should we should

enjoy ministry, We should enjoy serving God. If we are

being burdened and ministry have robbed your joy and stretra

please speak to any of your leader. So I'm a

big believer in rest because I don't portray a picture

where we got time to wrest, got time, whe got time.

God will give you wisdom to manage your priority. God

will give you wisdom to manage it all around. Because

your life doesn't evolve around ministry. Your life revolve around God. Say, God,

ask you to take a break, take a rest. Please

go and take so that when you come back you

are more sharpened, you are more refreshed. Because at a

season when I was tired, got me this. Weary leaders

wear people out. Oh, very dangerous, or you're on your

pastor to be not happy come or appreach an angry sermon.

Then you'll feel like, oh, go to homes you know,

papay your face very sullen my past, and ever smile

at me. How come he's getting more critical this and that. Hey,

actually we got good leaders right, But am not saying

that If you have a tired spirit, ministry is becoming

a burden. Have a conversation. I think it can be

worked out. So I told the church in Nearli, we've

got to be ready. So I told the dream things

we got to remind ourselves of our purpose. If you

are scheduled as a host three Sundays in a row

and you're feeling tired, Please remind your purpose that as

a pre believer would have stepped in, the pre believer

may had a very tough week. Nobody cared to smile

at the pre believer, Nobody cared to even shake hands.

But on that Sunday you are the first person that

a person meet and because of your encounter, you light

up this person's spirit. When you put on this posture,

your attitude towards serving change express. So you may be

there six days in a row. Would preboly become who

have never had a hot drink that morning, maybe because

couldn't afford or different things because you went to Express.

So you make the visitors felt so welcome. There's a purpose.

We get discouraged because we forgot our purpose. We get jaded,

we get blinded because we forgot our purpose. When you're

on an extreme, you're leading people to come to worship God.

You're leading people so that they can have an opportunity.

To encounter God x TV.

You're making people too see scriptures is very important. The

word of God comes alive.

So to all Neila, I say that.

We got to be ready because we are not called

to be a big church in twenty twenty one when

we started back after MCO. I think it's Neila was

the latest twenty twenty two because cross border was shut

when we came back the first Sunday, we only have

fifteen people. Subsequent Sunday probably eighteen twenty and I as

a leader, asked.

Myself, God, how can we grow?

You know what the Holy Spirit told me, and I

believe this applies to all acts churches. God told me,

I am not interested in the size of your church.

I'm more interested in the size of the spirit of

your church. That's a big difference. We can be a

small church with a big impact, and it doesn't mean

if we are a bigger church we will have a

bigger impact. So I remind ourselves there as a church

will bring in the people. Of course, we must do

our part to go to the highways, byways, seek and

save the laws.

This our practical.

You got a witness evangelism, do your campus ravel, etc.

But don't stress over if the church is not growing.

At the pace you wanted it to be, unless the

Lord builds the house, his laborers laboring wain. So I

told the church in nearlying keep the momentum forward. We

exist also because of the community. So I end with

this story. In twenty twenty fourth December, we had Christmas chure.

How many you're a part of Christmas chair? Right, it

was homes Christmas Chair. So I had a discussion with

my homes. I say, what should we do? So we

discuss a few projects and God, let us do Let's

do something with children. Let's do something with school children.

So we prayed and we got connected to an NGO

in Neeli, but doubohan k budget Neeli. So basically what

they do is they will go to the community. Whenever

the community has a need, they will do fundraiser, they

will give wheelchairs, oxygen tank.

Whatever, all things. So we got in connect.

With them and upon meeting with the founder. Because we

met with the founder first we say we are from

a church. This is part of Christmas chure, the heart

of Christmas Chure. And he was very open. That's very open.

So he said okay. In the end we lended let's

do a school breakfast program where the underserved children or

the poor children will be given free breakfast for one year.

One year free breakfast. Okay, So we work out the calculation.

I say, okay, let's raise fund. Hey, if you really

wanted to know, okay, all these things is a result

of your belief, because you gave to your building. So

I always say, if you want to know whether people

is with you or not, you look at their giving

because it's easy to give your lips, but it's another

thing to give financially, and it's not a comparing amount.

Remember the two mics right the risk gave up a lot.

It's like the coins when they dropped, and they thought, well,

this will impress Jesus, but didn't. It was only the

two mic talk, this woman have gave more.

He gave her all.

So please don't compare people's giving. Give by faith, give

as the Lord leads you. So we rarely we raised

five thousand, two hundred and fifty ringed as the homes.

Praise God.

And majority of the givers outside of as near life.

Majority.

So they organizers say, okay, we were arranged with the school.

We wanted a first choice school. They don't do breakfast program.

In the end, we ended up in Mantin, SJKC Chung Hua, Mantin.

So the hit mistress identify five kids.

And two.

Three weeks ago we did our program with them. Because

the organizations say that the school want to do a program,

let's go give a check. Now. Let me say, if

I'm given a choice, I say, no need mock check,

no needs here Manila, because we just want to blessed,

get to know the student, okay. But because we are

partnering with the organization, the organization says that, oh, we

want to create awareness so that people get inspired and

they also want to do good.

Right.

So there's a newspaper cutting. It appeared in China press.

It appears in singh Ju is in one of the

slight So on that Saturday, first March, when we went,

we got introduced to the five students. So we have breakfasts.

I had engagement with the hit mistress. Their mistress is

the lady with the Great West. So as I Hite mistress,

I say, could you tell me the profile of your

kids here? So you say it's oh, many from broken homes.

So I say, what can we do? Say, oh, you're

welcome to do a talk. You're welcome to do a

camp for them with my school children. And I see

it as an open door. And one of the touching

moments that I head was when I was having breakfast

conversations with a hymn mistress, a grandma and one of

our sponsored kids came. I'll speak a Mandarin first, because

you feel the emotions in Mandry now are translated in

in English. Right.

So a grandparent came spoke to the hy mistress Cell some.

Warya la, what earths the ten mighty fun ska, sir, cell,

heights than here. One day you go up, broker, you

get lost. Please don't drink from stagnant water. Drink from

running water. You have higher chance of survivor. And got

revealed to me that the church cant cannot be a

still water church. You cannot be stagnant even me as

a Christian. Don't talk about the church, talk about me

as a believer. The living water is in me by

the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit.

We sank it. We sank it. Just now.

We want more of your power, We want more of

your presence. Why why do you want more of God's presence?

Why do you want more of God's power so that

you experience it and you feel good. No, it's for others,

so that others will come to know of His presence.

Others will come to know of His power. So please, church,

you have the living water in you. Wherever God calls

you too, he will use you. Don't have to do

the most bombastic event. I think there's a place for

an event. Don't have to do the most gramatic encounter,

boombastic miracle. All it takes is here, I am Lord

in my class. What can I do? Maybe it's that

one person sitting at the corner that it's slightly awkward

nobody invites for lunch. Maybe in the office is someone

that is always being misunderstood. I don't know, but I

know that if you want to be a carrier of

the living water of God, you're gonna start moving. You're

gonna start streaming, streaming. This church has always been built

by obedience to God. And with your obedience, I believe

God can use your life to be a blessing to many.

You don't even have to be you know some as

we're waiting for a life to be perfect. First, when

I get it, then only I'll do it in my

own life and the life of people that I have

opportunity to counsel and walk with. I realize God loves

to use broken lives. You guys, notice analogy It's like

a broken vessel, crack holes here and there, but when

you put a light.

In it, it shines.

So broken lives, broken vessel can shine for God. You

can shine whereever God placed you to be. The woman

at the well, she was living in an adult tree.

She had an encounter with Jesus. It wasn't a dramatic

encounter on the stage. It was an encounter in a

well at a time where it wasn't a time where

it draws water, probably was hot, burning. She was there

because she was feeling a shame, so that when no

one draws the well, she doesn't get the attention. But

at a point when she didn't want the attention, God

saw her got ministered to her. Do you know that

because of her, the entire village.

Was brought to the Lord. So I want to speak.

To my fall introverts who are like me. You may

think that what you like an extrud No, I'm not.

If you're to talk about personality, I'm an intruer because

when I walk down the stage, I feel very tired.

So don't come to.

Me chackanize a clear cut extrad right. So I'm trying

to say is don't let your personality limits you from

being used by God. God can use the loud, and

God can use the silence. God can use a one

week old Christian and God can use a twenty one

year old Christian. God can use a person with a

good degree qualification. God can you someone who don't have

a qualification.

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