Do Not Be Afraid | Elder Kien Yiak

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So I was telling X some money about about church.

You know, next to being twenty fifth you know, or

twenty five years old. How really it's important for us

to remember it's not just about celebration of just uh

which reached there. You know, sometimes we just celeb because

we are thirty.

Years old, forty years old, fifty years old.

But actually for God, what's all about and being our church?

We started off four years ago by faith, by faith,

by faith, Pascalda, myself and a guy called Ryan. We

prayed for three months and you know, and we declared

the church started really really by faith.

I didn't know anybody.

And after all, you know, I mean, if you think

of a colony for a church, you won't.

Call ex acts X. You're not called X.

You call it some other couler name or something like that.

But you know, we we we wanted acts only because

we want to see the acts of Holy Spirit come

to pass.

We really believe that God was going.

To move spiritually powerfully, not by might, not by power,

but by his spirit. All right, That's why we really

believe in and we also do believe that you know

that people are hungry for science and wonders, miraculous things

to happen in their life.

Healing will take place.

We declared that you know that you know our church,

that you know the sik walk out healed and somewhere

we started the church.

So pray for three months.

Declared the church started, and we want so aim God

give us ten percent of the college that's in front

of us. We have Taylors in Tea and Metropolitan back

then totally maybe about ten ten, ten plus thousand students.

We said, God, just give us ten percent of this.

We want to reach our ten percent. We had this

huge banner that you know, not huge banner or rather

a huge saying in our organization church back then. Still

it is right now that every campus still deserves a

chance to hear the gospel at least once, really deserve

a chance to hear the gospel at least once. You

may think that, but we are urban church. Ever, I

must have heard about the gospel. Everyone must have heard

about what is a church? I want to let you

all know, friends, I thought so until I met someone

hurt or at least two individual right now who have

not heard about the gospel at all, have not heard

about it, don't even understand the concept of it of

a church, right and God is bringing them into our

meatst right now, and don't want to let you know

that it's not by chance really what it is doing,

because all this was late in the earlier days where

we are praying God give us an in road. So

we started the church, and the church, friends, was well

in a place whereby majority of things were given given.

Out second hand second hand.

Now you mustn't imagine second hand as in good condition secondhand,

all right, chance that can barely sit there together on friends,

those type all right, The schools only tightening release so

right now it's become a rocking chair, right. And we

had air cons that was given to us, supposed to

be about four horse power, but can only cool down

the place when there's about twenty plus people maximum. Anything

more than that it will be like a gym.

Sweat tea sweat smelling and stuff like that.

We started the church back there at two thirteen afternoon,

two thirty in the afternoon. I'm not sure how many

of us here wants to come to act in two

thirteen afternoon. They want to push it. They want they

have the serviays that pushed everything earlier, right two thirteen

after they come on. It's the hardest time to do church.

It's after lunch and it's a great time to sleep.

So it's very hard. But God says start at two thirty,

and we did, and we just said we just start.

Maybe campus students can wake up, right, So we started

it and people came first. You we didn't have huge

banner our flyers. Back there was a photocopy black and

white made with a software called Microsoft word no can

back then, nothing at all we designed flyers.

And stuff like that.

But we up with this passion just reaching out by faith.

I pray that all verse here today as we end

the year and start the year, that we end the

year with faith and start the year with faith. It

has to be more than just coming to the church

on a Sunday singing so how great is our God?

But no avenue to express the faith out. And it

has to been bigger than the problem with face. Because

problems that situation causes fear to come to our hearts.

So when we were given an opportunity to partner with

a passon in India, right to raise up funds about

US ten thousand back then to buy to work with them,

to buy a small piece of land to give to

them to start the school in the poorer state there.

And we were just about fifty plus and ninety nine

percent college student all right, no time seeing nothing at all,

but just say, hey, the love with our heart to

start this right, and we give the money the passes,

well you got do you have?

Rich? People?

Know all can students giving glory to the Lord. Friends,

it's not about the amount. It is not about wow,

it's not It's about God providing every seat.

So we give the money.

The passer over there he said that you know all

what the poor state, But yet the teachers weren't teaching.

So he just wanted to give the children a future,

a place why they could study, a place whereby they

could at least break the cycle of poverty. Right because

it's in a particular state as a believer, friends, the

people wanted to burn it down. But it's the parents

that got together. They say, the school is one of

the best things that ever happened to us. Please give

our churn a chance to learn. When the church hit

about fifty, we had to move out from Subamjaya to

a hotel. Again, every Sunday we see how great is

our God. Right every Sunday we declare that by faith,

not to live by side, but by faith. But if

the church leaders don't believe by faith, friends, then you

and I when never see miraculous you and I never

see actual life. So by the time God told us,

by time you reach fifty you have to move out.

You have to move out and rent a place that

can accommodate selty people, easy to sit and done.

Friends, because all of us here know that.

Although our hearts believe, our mind believes lower. Our hearts

are racing towards the finishing line. Really, but our mind

is the breaks that's being applied. It's hot because the

rent for the hotel was eight hungered ringed. To some

of us here, it hunger ring. It is what we

spend in two days. Maybe not here. Maybe it's.

Can't pursuit in all right, hunger ringed friends.

Our offree collection back there was about if I'm not wrong,

a month is about thousand and four put together, we

can survive for two weeks. The other two weeks you

can know where I need to meet. But you hurt God, friends,

and resist golf of unbelief, of fear that we have

to step in. But God say, when you reachh fifty,

you have to move. And sometimes in our life, friends,

it is hard to move because there's there's there is,

there is that fear, there is that that that the doubt,

there is like God, are you there not? So we

move out by faith to holiday villa back then nice

place right for the very first time, do not need

to wash the toilets.

You know how difficult it is.

Friends, no matter how Christian we are, friends, guys cannot

improperly want the Christian guys messy friends.

I'm not sure what enduring faculty it is.

But because the toilet cannot flash, it like they like

to put more toiler people. It's like to cower their scenes,

not to cower the deeds. And you know what happens

if you power up the the toilet with most other people,

it cannot flush at all. And that's why every pastor,

every Sunday we have to take out toiler people. Sometimes

I'm not sure why, but when it comes to toiler people,

not sorry, toilert, not working pastor Anson, toiler not working

pastor Anson toiler not working. It's always a problem come

to us. But when cople go dating, now tell us on,

you know, like for example, if you go dating, now

there busson.

I mean she really she can't go dating. I think

a problem.

I got a problem with my boyfriend. But it's always

a problem comes to us. So what happens every Sunday?

We have the plastic man now hands and take things

out on, you know, friends. That's why that's such an

anointed service that we pray for people of friends. People

show fold down under the power one confirm, confirm with

the hands of you skid, but toilert's clean, everything clean,

moving there, friends, The very first Sunday, I know the

laws readers because a lady one parent came wrote this

exact amount of the renter, not one ringing more, one

sent more it hungered ring it just to pay for

that one Sunday fan you and now you got to know,

come to this place whereby we have to believe you though,

So now the hunger ringed testimony is done right friends,

eight hunger is no longer the barrier anymore, because the

next barrier was this one month's renter for use cinema

is about six thousand ringed six thousand ring it to

a cinema where there was a bend for at least

a year. The only way to enter the cinema is

the exit. After you watch finish the movie, right, you

you walk to the front and I the left of

the right. That was our only entrance. When we view

the place, Freds, nobody wanted to rent. Only a church.

Faith with eyes of faith say, God said, this is

your place for the next one year. But we have

to raise money of for air CONTs and stuff like that.

And first, if you you and I know, to cool

down a cinema is never easy. But God, you only

need to concentrate on the front part. We need the

back part. Make it so hot that nobody wants toy

at the back. So everybody wants to stay at the

front and near the altar there because that's where the

concentration of the aircon is. That's why we put We

put about two five two five seven forting hospital will

altogether at the front. So everybody sat in front for

the very first time in the church. Good strategy got provided.

Every chair was filled with chewing gum because people watch

movie like the chew gum and stick under the chair.

And these are the days before TGV. Okay, got to

imagine that.

Okay, if you grow up in the era, you understand

these are the days before the nice plush cinema. Right

the seats when you wake up, it falls back up

one tringer over. We've got students coming in scripping every

tewing gum off, every teeing gum because you see that.

People come to change my seat on good seats, you see,

and the armage got chewing gum now, friends, so you

script everything off all right. But we had the problem

of reds. We have a problem of cockroachures. One day

God came brought the rain. The ring that broke our

whole author was wet together with all the cockroaches that

died and the altar. Seriously, we had the auto few

with cockroaches because they were in the.

Pipes rings too heavily.

Friends, we were disappointed because brand new cuppets and stuff

like that, right, but we were rejoicing we did the

crockads problem. After that, God can turn the situation around.

After we did cinema for a couple of months. One

day we drove past we were discovering the people were

dismantling our air cons not just people, but other people

dismantling our ecns. We asked them why you dismanted our aircons? Oh,

the owner has sore of the land. So you say,

whatever that's in the building belongs to us. Of course

our heart sang. We were discouraged. You were like, We

were like, we're could grow, We really good to grow.

And we were on the peak like nothing can stop us.

The kind of thing hit this wall whereby they spent

their ear con that very week they were asking yourselfs like,

where are we going to move? We cannot afford hotel

because the next from eighty packs eighty sea the hall

You and I know to get a hall this bigger

to Cather for Sealey, the jump is quite big on

So we were like asking how so happened our tenant

The tenant nets next to us moved out, so we

have the split level situation. God say, occupy that the

next next floor. So we broke down the walls. We

met church up in the floor. Again not the best

but it's okay. But then right now we found out

who owns one block around first, second, and third all

one owner. We were paying another another landlord, land lord,

he's a chief dandana right some when the owner found

out who's a Christian, saying that how can you do

this to a church? Basically why where we were paid,

we're also paying for her rent. Whether the church is

paying at the office on the floor, we're also paying

for her rent. That this lady was so like, how

can you do this to a church? Told this lady,

by your tendency is up, I will not renew it.

I will give it to them.

And she give us the whole fourth floors ground first, second,

and third. We couldn't afford the friends we're occupying the

third and the second we couldn't afford the ground floor

because ground floors about that back then was going about

seven eight thousand ring it a month. If there's ground floor,

you can you can you can work it out. How

much is it you add all the four flows together?

But the owner just told us that you just give

me five k for all four floors. See friends, God

knows already. But our heart was just so fearful, like

this different was just go for it right. We were

like the otherly is like, no, where are going to

come from? How we're going to supply of Lisa, like

you know, fourth floors. We were really barely scripping through

the cinema and you're asking us to take these other

fourth floors like that.

We were afraid.

Honestly, you know other people we were like like, how

how are how God God come to all kept friends.

It's not like it's not like they come of rich family.

So no, they're all like this, normal just kept friends.

We're not ask a pressure type more. Please, No, we

didn't do that. First we said God provide every Sunday.

We say, Guru provide. Then therefore we have to live

and expect that God will provide. But you do the

things for God. Love, friends, you can never live your

faith or whether you're life like a normal Christian because

we serve a God that knows before we ask, So

you already a really friends, think about it, that prepared

the person beforehand, who have taught this lady who owns

his fourth floors one day ran out to a church.

We were renting in the same unit for almost four

to five years before we got to know her. God

knew what we need. God knew what you need. So therefore, friends,

do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. So do

you told me chapter twenty was one? You mean so

many many saying the slights to your what seriously?

Okay? We after this?

I thought they do normally send the slice over to

you all know her? Oh noah, Oh you don't think

you're ready about to say that. They push it nowhere?

Shure you go to epoor. Okay, okay, kid, all right,

let me let me, let me, let me just try

to do this, all right. Uh, let me see uh

send to you can send to them?

All right?

Sorry, I thought I thought I remember, I did a

circond and next thing I know, my slight was with

someone else.

Ready that I say, I'm good paciate different message? Okay. Anyway,

Uh do you tell me chapter verse twenty worst one?

All right, don't we do it? But don't we about slights? Okay,

the slice will come after all right, twenty worst one.

When you go, come on, when you go and face

your enemies. Come on, when you go and face the enemies.

I love this scripture because all r enemies come on.

Oh that we are something that we are fighting for.

Friends.

Okay, have I put a cat here? You're in losses

or your enemy? Okay, I just have to see this

all right, see I believe it's my loss.

No, and you're in lass. I know your enemy.

Please please okay, passar Ro says, your enemy all right

nowither is the church ladership is your enemy? Please okay,

don't think that we want to stop you for having

a relationship. All right. If you want to go your way,

you go your way. Okay, just don't tell what you've

got a problem after that? Only we have this, We

have this thing that right. Oh, when you sudden that

would consult God love, when you got a problem, then

say God told me to break up. No, when you

suddenly say it goes like this, maybe the first Saturday,

they think that goes. God told me that she's the one,

He's the one like that. Know, it's all stuff that way.

God told me that you know that she appeared my mind,

my heart, her name. I opened the magazine, her name

was right there.

To the pitch.

For another confirmation, I drive past, I see a billboard,

do the right name there?

The initiates of there. It's always like that. Friends.

So as a church leader, you have to believe, okay,

I mean you pray God, God, pray dot God all

the time.

The prayer life is just now pay before all a

sudden prey one. He got why so clearly?

Really, I've never heard anyone that he goes so clearly

when the more relationship.

But the clarity of God is so clear anyway, anyway,

this besides all right?

Then then then then what happens after a couple reminds

me a year they break up?

Break up? Things happen, okay, break up?

Does it?

Break ups?

Wrong?

Break up? People do go to break up on right? Friends,

It happens, Okay, it happens.

Right.

So the question we always have there, did you pray?

Not?

Why prayer? Because you pray.

Before you enter my much previous when you exit, ma,

you use God name and you want to enter then

you when you exit now we use God name. One.

Just because you fight, you don't understand you break up?

So friends, I just want to say this, okay, all right,

your leadership is on your enemy.

Okay. We want every relationship in our chanch to work.

We do, we do. We do want every marriage to work.

We do, and we really really pray.

Right. Divorce was never never never on our books at

all one all right, never the books we never Advokay, okay,

if we just say, look, if given the choice, could

you try to stay together? Work it out, work it out,

work it out, work it out, work it out, right,

work it out. And even one party one that was you.

You don't need to sign. You do not need to sign.

You just need to hold your ground. The other person

far for it. Let the other person do what they

want to do. But you, as an individual, you follow

the lord right anyway?

This better? Okay?

Your enemies, your enemies, come on. So when you go

to better face your enemies friends, some enemies can be seen.

Come on, is it it true? Those enemies can be

seen on our friends. Sometimes easier to fight. For example,

you see a dirt that let's say the dirt. Okay,

if you're married, right, your spouse gore long hair. It's

a power of hair. It irks some guys, and I know,

I know some guys like, oh, come on, can you

be like me? I told my wife, can you be

like me? You can't fight any of my hair on

the floor. You cannot fight any of my hand on

the floor. Whereas by not married for almost close to

twenty years, really can put everything the pillow really small.

It the pillow. It's kidding all right, kidding right?

Something enemy you can see, you can see, okay, but

some is within we didn't. So the Bible says, when

you see the cherishts and horses and army, come on,

when you see the cherists horses. In other words, when

things begin to overwhelm you. There are situation in your life.

Are things I'm going to overwhelm you want to come on?

Somethings what we see frightens us. It is true what

we see frightened us. So the Bible says that when

you begin to see the cherishs of horses and the army,

there's more numerous than you remember. The Lord is with you,

and many times it's our own personal journey. Friends, when

we are afraid, when we feel overwhelmed, don't we feel

so alone that, even though that you can have someone

beside you, when you're married or your dating, you got

someone beside you, you feel alone because you are yourself

are going through the fire.

You yourself are going through the fire. Friends, and everyone.

Else may seem to understand, may seem to know, sympathize,

empathize with your situation, but come on, the only person

is feeling the fire or the heavy rain is you,

and this morning the Lord ones remind you again, friends,

you are not alone. This morning the lords will remind you.

Even God, you walk through the venue of child death,

you are not alone.

The Lord is with you.

I pray that today that you know, no matter what

you face and your workplace or stuff like that, you

know the Lord is. The Bible says, it's the same

God that brought you out from Egypt. Come on, who

brought you out from Egypt? I started with stories about

extras because it's a reminder of how.

The law was with us back there for the hunger

we gate rent, and how the Lord's gonna be with

us for the future.

Renter that's gonna come f You know that every barrier

when you break friends, there is another barrier.

You know, we'll see it.

Let's say, for sample extent life, one point in time,

we used to rent about six hundred and fifty earlier

Empire's five hunger ingate rent per usage. That's a bar

good and we really try to squeeze every every week.

Right then comes price increase a bit, a bit, A

bit a bit. Now it's one thousand, two fifty on

another hall some places society a bit more, depending on

the shore. But the very first Sunday for hunger ring

rental was hunger ring one month, two thousand low. We

have to provide for us, make sure the accent like

and provide can pay for the bills once the barrier

is broken. I remember passal Ronson one time asked, but

they want to charge us at two thousand plus? Who

run one hall over here? Old, there's no other place,

only very few hotels here. Know, like you chow one stone,

you hit for hotels here, you chose one stone and

you may not let any hotel and then some people's

house and kneel. How I remember I had this conversation

pass Ronson. We say, let's pray and say, if God

wants us to be here, you open the door. And

after after you try everything. If this is still the price,

if it's this, still go elev it our faith to

believe on friends, Remember it's the Lord that brought you

off from Egypt. We were nothing. The trail was starting

to be a Bible degree. We just said God, if

you can use anyone, it can use us. And we

said this that you know white testimonies must always come

out from the West, from America alone. Come on, white

Christian testimony must can only come from America or from UK. Australia.

All right, I've seen our youth campus who went to

Australia for holiday for seven days, come back to my great.

I want to migrate because the sky that is really blue,

really blue color. Wow, I could see one here behalf

they already ah, I could see one person? Is the

moon that is really round? Then? How is a fantastic right,

don't do don't don't get me started with the air

quality over there?

Right everywhere you walk out with almost like a golf course.

That nice? When I say dogs, no stree dogs.

Right?

No friends? Correct, there were no friends? Nice?

Seven days? No, it's the worst thing. After seven days

even pick.

Up the accent.

They really pick up the accent on the accent after

seven days. The my fast forward to there with your friends.

I say Australia. I was a graduate of Australia. Friends,

I understand, and I was even for nine months with

ten months. I understand the pew. I totally understand the

pew and everything like that. Right, nine months say I

wanted my great because here is bad. They go over there,

they come back. You know what the word of the

things that can you be more like the Australian pastors

seriously because they are so encouraging, not like us.

It's like slave master as you do surf every week,

never come to church.

You get a text right before you ask me how

am I? You already say? Can anything I can pray

for you? Something wrong? Every every time? I don't know

how the Australian pastor does it right. They put the

arms around you.

You are a legend.

With those few words, they can love Asian cry you know, friends,

I want to let you know. I've seen my friends crying.

You are you are you? You are mireckless?

You are And the worst affirmation was that if you

come from the Asian background, like if only my dad

could see it, if only my parents can ever say this? Right,

I've seen if you have, if you say, I'm just

exaggerating friends, it just wants Master Chef of Australia right, seriously,

Master Chef of Australia. And introduced the contestant, especially from

the Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

Why do you want to enter this competition?

I always want to do food, but my parents as

to do engineering, finance, and I now thought I could

do something that. But your recipes are meant to be

shaped with the world with those few words. Friends, every

every agent, gods of the crying, wow, someone believe I'm

Can you not?

Friends?

Can you know what I'm sharing with you with this?

Because why is it that the west? Why is it

that our mindset? Why is it that always there? You

have testimony? But God's reminding us today that he's as

low as he review, you can overcome Egypt. Come on,

as long as he's review, you can overcome. And God

this morning wants to remind us again and again you

are not second class Christian. He has never had any class,

as he only has believer and non believer. You have

to believe, friends, Remember it is God that brought you

out from the land. So therefore the question is this

that where did we learn fear? Come on, where did

we learn how to fear things? When we were growing up,

we were fearless. Now we see a cat, we run away.

Some of us flying crockatires, we run away.

We do when when we were young, friends, there is

no tree that can stop us and say to us

that you cannot be climbing if ever of us. So

I have to qualify this, okay, see right, So we

grew up in the urban setting. The only tree you

see is part buttered by the local council. Like, oh there,

all right, So if we grew up back in the eighties,

so stuff like that. Right, if we ever climb a

ramu tree, rambutan tree, all right, the hairy fruit, the

rambutan tree. Every rambotan tree has rad ends, and the

ends you weave the leaves together and from a nest not.

Just one, but multiple spots one.

Right, There is no rambotan fruit without way ends one

very seldom unless it's greener.

But once then gray colored runs come.

Right, it's filled with rare ends, and there's some part

of the fruit is not low hanging byites on the

higher side. You have to climb the branches too. Even

though you use that long pole, you you still have

to climb the tree. I remember climbing so many rambotan

tree blacking, so many rambutants, bitten by so many ants. Coward, coward, coward.

These days if any ends, but you say, you might

die because some TikTok radio somewhere, some person got bittered

by rare ants died and because of that, friends, she

came to a life. Don't climb tree with adds, my

wife is saying, And see, I say, but you're beginning

to step on it. How did fear come into our lives?

Whereby after a while we are so fearful of things

none of us see inside of our class in our

primary school, say that feel? How do how to understand fear?

How to get more fear? The Bible says in Genesis

the Tree, verse six. So the woman saw that the

tree was good for food. It was pleasant to the eyes.

Come on, God, say do not eat of the tree.

God says, this tree cannot you? Okay, everything else but

this one you cannot. This is by commandment, my law.

You can touch anything except for this you cannot. You

cannot eat of this. The tree was the eyes, and

the tree was desirable. Come on, to make one wise.

Here's here's the thing. I have discovered that sometimes wise

people don't necessarily take a lot of faith. Come on,

I'm not asking us to better with education. I'm not

asking us to give up on wisdom. I'm asking us

to reconsider sometimes in our life. Yes, calculate the cause, Yes,

make every compulation, but.

Leave room for faith, Leave room for faith.

Because in your journey of life, friends, you got to

leave room for faith. We use be part of a

church when we were growing up, they had the largest

youth camp uh movement, or rather campus when you go

for when we go for camp back then, the total

number of campus that go for camp is four hundred

and fifty campus, about ninety five percent of youth. Some

of them will tell their parents that Mom, this year,

I do not want to go Disneyland. I want to

go for youth camp. Think where God these days where

God true? Were telling their parents, I do not want

to go disney Land. I want to go youth camp.

I do not want to go this. I want to

go youth care. I got to be part of the

youth care was five days and four nights in the

Chinese boarding school because it's the cheapest you could find.

And we had this.

A lot of youth on fire during camp say God,

there is no one else like you.

God.

I will always serve you the Lord. I'll committed my

life to you. But when you hit the working world,

wasn't graduate. They hit the working they were their faith

was put to a challenge. Their faith was challenge and

after a while they asked him, why do I still

go to chische on the Sunday when it doesn't help

my career? Why do I still go to a chis

on Sunday whereby it doesn't help my career. So they

were at the crossroad go to church or play golf

with the upper management bosses? Yes, I know God, but

my bosses doesn't know who I am. Yes, I know God,

by my bosses doesn't know who I am. And therefore

it's only wise to mingle around with the upper manchement

because once they know your name, at least your name

can be considered for promotion. To make one wise. The

Bible says, this tree wants to particular it. Once you

take this road, you'll be wise. It's a wise saying

to progress your career. Yes, it's true, So it's a

why say for upper massion know you, but at the

cost of disobedience, at the course of turning your bag,

and this youth leader I know, decided to play more

golf than going to church on Sunday.

Wise doesn't necessary make room for faith. So she ate

and she gives up to the husband worse it.

And then when they heard the sound of the Lord

God walking in the garden on the core of the

day m and his wife hit himself.

Come on.

Even though sometimes in our lives, friends, we think that

we can run away from God because of this obedience. Worse,

it reminds us and tells us again and again that

God is the one that reaches out to our hearts

that's so far away.

You could be here, but your heart is so far away.

I wanted you to.

God is reaching out to you because God knows how

needs God understand.

No matter how wise you are, we still need God.

No matter how sexs who we are, we still need

the Lord because there's some things money success can't buy.

I just got a text of someone who's really wealthy

and someone who's who I got to know through the years.

They say, you know, I think I'm in the last

slap of my life. The pain is so unbearable. I

felt that when my mind is slipping away, and I

felt I'm good to die. The irony is this is

that money is not an object. You can afford the

best of every healthcare, but the pain is just too much.

And sometimes our journey in our life is the better

we go. True, friends, is not fought on the field

of just because you got more cherished, more horses, more armies.

It's fort internally our mind, our hearts. So Adam and

Eve keep from the Lord. And it's the very first

time that men can't turn them and hide from God

because they're wise.

I pray that today you be look at their own life.

If there's anything that causes to hide from God, friends,

it is not from the Lord. If anything that causes

us to hide from God, it is not from the Lord,

because all that we do pushes us closer to God,

not away from the Lord. There was nine and you

know this part of the scripture. The Lord God called

them and say where are you? Then you say that

I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid.

Come on, for the very first time, man can experience

fear for the very first time. Because of sin, fear

came into our hearts. Friends, they did need the fruit

called fear. Friends, the Bible, you heard the world say

that you are what you eat, isn't it? So there's

not this fruit is not called fear. It must be

so tasty, it must be so looks nice and stuff

that most majority of us here we'll reach out for

an apple, correct, because we know the fruit, But why

p food you have never seen before? Would you perceive therecaution?

And therefore this fruit cannot be so so fearful. But

because of the one egg of disobedience, when the aid

of the fruit, they became fearful. So therefore my only

conclusion is this is that fear is a spirit. Common

fear is a spirit rather than there's a physical emotion.

So Second Timothy one, verse seven says this that God

has not given us the spirit of fear. Come on,

God has not given us the spirit of fear. So

if anyone of you still indulges yourself in horror shows,

still indulges yourself in.

Horror movie.

Because I remember one one campus student was saying the

an our campus student, I watched horror show because I

don't be alone.

If you catch it, you catch it. I watch.

Basically, the person was just saying that darling and our

campus Jesus gona watch her movie. You will feel at

any more. You always feel the spirits following you. Fear

is the spirit. Let me explain the sound of dripping water,

the sound of dripping water to a basin. Come on,

not fear fool is in't it not? Fearful, right, But

the sound of constant dripping water at a very slow

rate in a very old.

Hotel that you're taking for one night, is it fearful?

It's located inside the toilet rabbit is a bathtub with

the shower screen all shower screen, oh one older than you?

Where to serve the hot water in the red flask

that can only be delivered to you by a person

who looks equally as old as a red flask.

It doesn't really.

Help if the hotel is so old with faded signboard,

and opposite is a Hindu temper that which rings the bell.

At a particular time doesn't sound right, But you understand.

It's not scary when it's daylight, because daylight there's nothing

to feel. But once it reached ten one am in

the morning, things things very differently, isn't it. Although you

are Christian, you you pray, you sectify the rule, but

you just can't help, can't help, can't help. But the

feel this presence, this situation, trying to sleep, but the

constant tap that's leaking.

Fear is the spirit.

We had a camp called Attitude Big True Challenge Camp ABC.

Wasn't you know when they're said, that's actually they said

she migrated Oseis.

And h We had this camp got attitude, big two

challenge or a big big two campey plus of us men.

All right, so we wanted the help CAMPUSS stood to

overcome the fear. But it's by by introduced them to fear.

Helping them overcome the fear by introducing singing them to

us a particular thing.

All right. So it was eight pm.

We call all the campus does to come and go

to the canteen, and we turned the lights of everywhere

else off. We told the campus, hey, we're gonna send

you out two by two. One team you go first,

next fifteen minutes, another team you go. So friends, I

wanted you know it, were grouping together field begin to

build up, you know, friends, because all of a suddenly,

out off somewhere they heard the scream six check points

to the friends, only six Come on. We say that

there are there is a lot. But we watched you

put your name and sign on the book. First check

where was in the gym? A bit further out was

in the gym up there. When you go into the gym,

you see mirrors. We purposely put the book right at

the end of the hall in front of a TV

that played white noise. Friends, why now you know why

static esthetic sound? Right?

The book was right in fro front of the TV.

Sign your name there?

You know?

First, did you know that a lot of people couldn't

do it?

A lot of people couldn't sign a book in front

of the TV that's playing white noise in the gym

for mirrors? Why because some of them has watched the

movie before where they thought something to crawl from the

TV and bring them into the TV.

Feels the spirit.

Friends, there was another book, there's a there's another checkpoint.

They started located in the swimming pool. It was an

age of the swimming First, by the time they need

to sign on it, it was was one of those

I think it's a diving spot that right dive off

the platform, but by the time they need to sign

on it, they are basically looking the own reflection in

the pool.

That Friends, scare a lot of people. Why I'm sharing these?

Of course?

When did we learn to fear? When do we learn

to fear? Unless fear is the spirit that we open

doors in our life to come to influence us, to

come to soul sense of doubt. And that's why God

say move you go like, but how God, will you

come true for me? Will you come true for me?

You know? Some of us say, you know that God

has called I call you to serve, to be prob

of the home leadership. But who am I when I

teach everyone fall asleep and so much fear in our hearts.

God wants to deliver. That's why the Bible says that

He did not give us the spirit of fear and timidity,

but of love. Come on the power of us, power,

Come on, of power. God wants to remind you he's

the God of power. He doesn't set you up to

see you four. In our journey of our church for

the past twenty four years, I can share many, many,

many stories with your When the first girl people say

decide to leave our church, that was back in the

five years, the six years to start another church, we

say go, it's all right, God, you'll see us true.

A quarter of campusitans left. We got no campus pastor

and pastors just look at me. Can we just step

me me this look step into the position as a

campus leader to lead campus to the friends. This look

will never win any campus sudent for Christ, except to

frighten them to be closer, closer to Jesus. I remember

one time there was a there was a very young

boy running running okay in our church, Okay, crazy running

running right, not just running friends, running and banging his head,

A king against guys softer areas, all right, and every

guy he collided with, every guy got you understand, Okay, painful,

so wonder. I couldn't take it anymore. I put him aside. Okay,

I won't give you all the description. Okay, I could. No.

I don't know how to interact with kids because when

I grew up, my cousins age get between me about

fifteen years. By the time I and the college ship

were just like in the primary school. So no, no interaction.

I never held a baby until now. Yes again, my

wife is very goo. Okay to see I got back

to through the years. But I'm not not very good

because I don't know my strength.

Anyway.

I put this boy aside. I just told him, if

you run this mia, run, if you run somewhere out

top of your head, and I'll eat it. This is me,

this is me being entrusted with campus leadership, no friends.

I'm the boy did not find out he stopped running.

After that, I got the job done, but I frightened

the boy to Jesus realio, right, friends, why am I sharing?

Why am I sharing this to you?

Because sometimes you can be so feelful because the task

is in front of you. It's so overwhelming, right and

because of that, I cannot. I'm afraid what happened if

I messed up? One time I was supposed to do

a New Believers class. After the very first lesson, one

person say thank you so much Elder for your time

with us. I won't go back to be a Buddhist

personal choice, understand personal, but as a person facility that

very class, I felt so down, so discouraged, like wow,

I have the ability to cause someone when I teach

instar being more on fire for Jesus, Jesus and go

back to my always.

Fear comes in France. That's what God says.

Of power, then of love, perfect love, casts of all

come on, perfect love, casts of all you and I

need to know that God is loved and God powers

our mistakes, encourages us. It's already come up again, ed man,

if messed up at the garden, but God was the

one that reached out to edit if and just say, look.

You messed up.

It's all right, Let's look forward, he says of Self disciplined,

I'm going to close Self disciplined.

Why self deceive? Please?

Because our mind always project the worst case scenario, always

project the worst case scenario. The worst of the worst

will happen to us. What if you serve God, you'll

be single for the rest of your life. Just look

around you look at actually like how many people don't

have relationship in leadership? Yeah? Yeah, yes, I say, I

use the word yet And the question here is is

that who said you have to be in a relationship

in your twenties? If you ever tell founding Senior Candev

that you know every church has its own building, I

want to let you know this is how pass Kenneth reply,

God call them to have their own building, but not us.

Every church is planted in the big cities of Malaysia, Pinang, Georgetown, Joejo.

All these people fantastic, but nobody wants to go to

the smaller towns.

In our world.

Towards next year, you're going to see if you're going

to go to smaller towns. God, if you're asked us

to go. You shall supply all our needs. We shall

go there by faith because the ninety percent of our

church and Malaysia is less than fifty people, less than

fifty people, less than sixty people.

And here we have it's the only one thing. The

bigger towns.

God next year's put our hard to invest East Malaysia

to go, not just to say don't go. Don't go

to Kuching, go to smaller places because they need you

even more over there.

Would you go if God causes to go? Would you serve?

In God costes you serve?

But I'm fearful as I close friends, I just want

to remind us this fear is.

Not from God.

Come on, fear is not from God, honey at one point,

maybe again, invited again two weeks time.

Fear is not from God.

Like so many other stories to share with you all,

our church has never backed down and never look at

things in a natural way. Never God want that opened

us to try to get a building. We tried read

up the deposit ten percent by the ninety The only

one's cash.

The cash came is after that the contract.

Has finished, but the owner decided not to honors the

word took our deposit away one oh million. We'll hurt, painful,

but God heal our hearts from the day onwards.

You just reminded us again it is really about just planting.

From there. We real plant in ten different nations after that.

Never look back, because why when you're giving the gods

now lost, now in vain, Never though the world's here

has lost because you lost money. But you know your

big God. Sometimes in obedience we just just surrender, just surrendered.

Then God is right right in the center of everything.

I'm not saying this to be proud and anything like that,

but someone encourages us. We close this year, close this year,

you have the closest year be faith, and you start

the year with faith, not with fear, not with what

you read the papers that will know wars and just

have rumors of wars. But we have to start the

year with faith because so much so in our lives.

When we declare and we see how big it's our God,

we have to see translated in our.

Every day living, every day living.

We kind of come expecting our hearts when we pray

and we ask God that God will come true for us.

And not come to place of discouragement.

Disbelieve and just say God is not real and you

have to human VISI God to move. I'll just move

on my own. That's why Moses can say, God, if

you don't move, I.

Will never move.

Because it is you that brought us out from Egypt.

It is you that's gonna asher us into the Promised Land.

As like close friends. God did not give us a

spirit of fear bout power, love and self discipline. God

wants to heal us in the area of our mind,

not to overthink an over complicated process, not to just

look at the natural like the tense spires.

They say, this lens is filled with giants. Impossible.

But if we knew our mind with self discipline, because

although this is what we see, but what God says

is very different. We could be ill in a body.

That doesn't mean we can cannot still serve the Lord.

No well in our body, that doesn't mean that it's

going to stop us from praising God. People say, if

we care pass a certain age, therefore we are restricted

to it. But who sits So if God never said it,

that's not our.

Future of friends. Let's close our eyes right now.

Amen, Thank you Lord Father, We recognize Lord all of

us here do go to our daily betters. All of

us here do go to our daily betters, our daily struggles,

our daily warfare, and sometimes in our hearts, in our minds,

we are so overwhelmed with the armies, with the cherishs,

with the horses, because Lord, there are more than us.

They are more than us.

Somebody are so pressured because of the lack that we

have people these days. Lord, you know that they are

double degrees, triple degrees, and sometimes you just only go one.

And we are pressured because we felt that we're not

good enough. And I pray the Lord that you listen

to hearts today, where by Lord, you're reminding us not

the look at the cherists and the horses of the army,

but you're reminding us again to look towards you. The

Lord is with you. The Lord is with you. Because

the Lord is with Youew friends, you should have peace

because the Lord is reviewed. You should have rest because

the Lord is with you. You should have a future

and a hope. The Lord's reminding you all these years

in your life, you could have been overwhelmed, drowned, life

taken away, but it's the Lord that sustained you.

The Lord was the one that brought the churn of Egypt.

The job is off of Egypt.

The Lord, the same Lord that brings a tune up

from Egypt, will deliver.

You as well.

So I pray right now, Father, the name of Jesus,

we recognized, recognize and declare right now by faith from

second Timothy, that you did not give us the spirit

of fear.

Lord.

Next year, we do not want to operate by fear.

Lord as we and this year, we don't want to

end this year by fear. As we go from this place.

You do not want to go from this place by fear.

But Lord, with one faith, we one faith. Lord, So

I pray that you will help us.

Lord. This is all that we have.

This is our two minds, our two couple coins. But

in you you can multiply it. Lord.

This is our talents. Lord. It may not be much,

but with you can use it to make an impact. Lord.

This is our life. Lord.

We not be plant a But Lord, while we are

planned b with the ability to serve you. With that, Lord,

I know that you can do wonders. So I pray

that we don't look at our old strength. Love, We

do not look at our old life and just say

that we are nothing, but Lord, with you we have everything.

So we declare right now we receive your spirit or power,

because not by might, not by power, but by your spirit.

We do not preach or saving eloquent words. But Lord,

our speaking comes and season with power.

Lord.

So I pray as well, Lord, that you understand what

perfect love is in our lives, that that it cants

out Fear. Lord, that you bring us to a place

of maturity, a place of understand a place went by

our faith growing you even more. And you help us

in the area of our mind. Lord, that's right, help us, Lord,

the area of our mind. Lord, to have to be

self disciplined the way we think. Lord, I know sometimes

even as believers, the sound of dripping water in the

basic frightens us.

But I do also know that Lord, fear works in

the area of our mind. That you help us to

us sound mind.

Help us to be self disciplined, not to focus on

the negative, but to focus on the positive, to focusing

on Christ. Father in the name of Jesus. I pray

that some of us here do not focus on our mistakes,

but on our future in You.

Lord.

So I pray right Now, as sweet draw this year

to a close, I pray that we do not do

these years with fear. But we're going to enter the

new year with faith. So I pray Lord, faith for

a rise in this place. Faith to see our family

situation change. Fear that our health would change, faith our

health would change. Faith to see that our career will progress.

Faith Lord, to see that oh needs to be met.

Faith to believe our Gosh your supply, Lord Father. We

thank you, Praise Lord in Jesus tatement. Everyone say amen.

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