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The Secret Place | Pr Janaronson Nagarajah

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from EX Church.

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  3. Da Good morning everyone that shanha, welcome back to X

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  5. That you your week has been good, so it's you

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  7. You know, Ex Melbourne just celebrated their twelve year and

  8. it was read just now because we are two hours

  9. behind of them, right yeah, we have two hours behind

  10. of them. So both our pastors uh kind of and

  11. passendra with them and the string to them.

  12. The more hunting, the Taman the Tonian chin.

  13. So they send their blessings and regards to all of you.

  14. So migranted.

  15. She won't hold twelve year is actually a very long time.

  16. So only.

  17. I pray that God will give Ex Melbourne many many

  18. more years.

  19. To come that she gave X more open.

  20. The calling that this church has is to be a

  21. church planting church.

  22. Who just don't tell her so X Church.

  23. We are called to pioneers. We are called to plant

  24. church as where the Lord the leaders.

  25. So Norman, I don't hear the defund woman and is.

  26. Part of this plan as well.

  27. So actually.

  28. I always tell people which is true. Ex London was planted

  29. out of life.

  30. So you know it's.

  31. She turned x money is planted out of.

  32. Downtown like don't.

  33. And I know we may be a young church, young

  34. meaning probably eighty percent of our people here campus students.

  35. They currently can't bus in syrt.

  36. But this morning it is a reminder that God can

  37. do great things through young people.

  38. So she wait.

  39. And uh other ones like me too.

  40. Oh yes you it's okay, young walk all.

  41. Right, So don't despise your youth. That's what the Bible say.

  42. So you doing some somethinging.

  43. God can use anyone who is willing.

  44. Son, okay, young fan Itteran.

  45. We always tell people that the greatest ability is your

  46. availability to God.

  47. Difference sounds just like you need thing.

  48. I may not be the most talented son to run

  49. I may not be the most exciting preacher.

  50. Sing thunder.

  51. I may not sing well what can I you tun

  52. the poor? I may not play the guitar or you

  53. cannot put. I may not know how to mix the sound.

  54. Well can atual nonager in shan.

  55. But one thing I know twenty years of walking with Jesus.

  56. As long as you awail yourself to him, he can use.

  57. You in the towns of sounding years to the you

  58. can you need the sing she's so youngly.

  59. He can and I imagine myself to be able to

  60. drive the church went went. I can be because from

  61. Alagian students, right, we go take our driving license or

  62. in Manuel back then.

  63. You marant you actually manus.

  64. After successfully got our license? What we do with that?

  65. We drive a doka?

  66. No no, no with her it was so easy in

  67. your title either.

  68. But many of the wins these days it's not automatic.

  69. Since I went also theos don't it's Manuel. So yeah.

  70. So back then, when the church has the need, you

  71. were calling up for volunteers to drive the church wind.

  72. So just childhood as a whole.

  73. I needed to learn a few rounds just to get

  74. the vent right.

  75. No, no, tansity, I want to go.

  76. You know the road as you go up to this

  77. Obama the seven eleven, there's always that slope deadfunt you

  78. you can see sound. The greatest fear for any manual

  79. car or van driver is that your wind will not

  80. go up and we'll go down.

  81. So just so much it's some other.

  82. Who is she does to each If you guys been

  83. to submit where our sa church plan is, it's all

  84. going up winding up right. The greatest fear is always

  85. the win. Go up and it can't come down. It

  86. will come down. You can go up.

  87. Some other SA.

  88. In the early years when I was just driving, I

  89. just gotta have faith. I say that God give me

  90. the wisdom to balance the clutch. Very well.

  91. That tells in concerns bound you treat the ping hunk.

  92. Now, what I'm trying to say is that make no excuses.

  93. Just don't have to take.

  94. When you say yes to God, he will give you

  95. the skill. When you say yes to God, he will

  96. give you the ability.

  97. You need to sound son like she's so you need

  98. to you again. Listen you again, negative China.

  99. And when you say no to God, you would not

  100. know how big your potential is.

  101. Sounds son so like like she told us to you.

  102. So always remember the greatest ability is availability to God.

  103. The gentleman y so no woman like you need the sing.

  104. The young cannot say I'm too young, therefore I cannot

  105. do okay, so singer, So you all cannot say I'm

  106. too old, therefore I cannot do someone in time you.

  107. So you will put.

  108. Everyone must have a candle.

  109. Spirit man, you cann't and so sing ti.

  110. Because the journey of faith is very exciting, and.

  111. The singing the face around and you're saying phony.

  112. Bible says that we should walk by faith and not

  113. by sight and.

  114. Opinion.

  115. So often it's not about knowing it all, Dan need

  116. we do? You know? Woman most of the time is

  117. not knowing about a lot of things. But we choose

  118. to do because we choose to have faith in the

  119. one who calls us.

  120. Moments I put union, can hear big amens, just.

  121. Big amen at the back.

  122. Rowing is that how mad.

  123. That I caught all of them by surprise? Amen? Praise

  124. the lot. Hey after church, Uh, express will be serving

  125. some cookies to all of you, so it's especial getting

  126. it wasn't big by me obviously you watch every year

  127. during the the Pabai period, my office cleaner will give

  128. me some cookies.

  129. And the sohona wan to.

  130. Is a pink this year, right. I no longer have

  131. a physical office, you know, because uh we all go

  132. hot desking.

  133. No wit or just the bank.

  134. I used to have an office or turning you Pan

  135. company decided to take away the face to convert it

  136. to other purposes. Pay young tool so it's so cute.

  137. Is a respectful term like we give to the cleaners.

  138. Keep on calling me, sir, Where are you, sir? Where

  139. are you?

  140. You're going to have you that.

  141. This block? Can you come to that block? After a

  142. few a couple of weeks of the I finally received

  143. the cookies.

  144. You don'ta been gune.

  145. And the one thing that I want us to remember

  146. is that if you can dine with the CEO, you

  147. should be able to dine with the janitor and cow

  148. like she is like honey and c and is she

  149. you can dine with kings. You should be able to

  150. dine with the gardeners.

  151. So can one like You're not gonna.

  152. Her. Especially as we are called to love Mason, we

  153. should treat everyone, regardless of raised religion creed with respect.

  154. I'm ignorant, quanti ignorant.

  155. That is a hard bit of the gospel. So not

  156. so I'm here to share with you the fruit of

  157. the labor of my love towards my office cleaners.

  158. You can even firn sound.

  159. And perhaps it is also a call to all of

  160. you who are you know on campus in offices. The

  161. next time and you pass by an office cleaner, the

  162. next time you pass by a janitor, the next time

  163. you pass by a security guard, how are you treating them?

  164. Are you indifferent towards their presence?

  165. Actually? So holy? Do it harmon the title.

  166. Because it's easy to be indifferent to people that are

  167. day to day there doing things for the community like

  168. cleaning and all. And yet we walk past them, not

  169. even saying hello, or not even taking the interest to

  170. know them by name.

  171. Hold on face and eat. She waits, You fool, couldn't think.

  172. So. Perhaps it's a reminder to all of us to

  173. next time when we walk around our community, be courteous today.

  174. Just downside, look what amon so hold on it, Hammon,

  175. just the mind they were.

  176. There because because of them, we have a clean place.

  177. To work in time and Norman Ganting the defunct.

  178. Because of them, we have a clean toilet to.

  179. Use in with Hamon Ganting the seas because of.

  180. Them, offices on campus, secure in bank.

  181. It's a gender.

  182. So you know Christmas is coming. It is also a

  183. good time to do good to the community. So don't

  184. put on the search be part of your homes Christmas chair.

  185. Like she told the need the home cells to the

  186. towns on the Christmas hip.

  187. I'm sure this coming December we can all make a

  188. difference in this festive time.

  189. So something that titles downs on make.

  190. And truly share the meaning of Christmas. Like she don't

  191. like fun, don't get offended. If you love Center, it's

  192. never about Center, It's always about Jesus. Also amen, Amen.

  193. So the topic for today is the secret place switch

  194. mean true? Everyone say the secret place making and so

  195. in mean true. How many of you, when you're growing

  196. up you're like to play hide and seek? Yeah, you

  197. like to play hide and sick? How many of you

  198. you're still finding the person you're supposed to find it? Even?

  199. Can I say eating children?

  200. Sally? You remember fifteen years ago I played this game

  201. and this person I couldn't find and just left the

  202. person there.

  203. Out her.

  204. Is a very easy game, do.

  205. You see?

  206. You just need to have to roll. One is a

  207. person who is hiding. Another one is the person who

  208. is sick.

  209. Just food.

  210. My nephew and niece loves high and sick, you see,

  211. So after they care, they'll be dropped at my house. Afterword,

  212. the parents will come and pick them up.

  213. Hammed go to Tai Hammond.

  214. I'm always the first one to arrive home because I'm

  215. the boss, meaning the boss is not constrained by work time,

  216. and the knees will always say, let's play hide and

  217. seek now because they are so afraid of my upper

  218. my sally, my english loss by second floor hyper and

  219. they say, okay, let's play at the ground floor.

  220. One.

  221. I always remember this instance when my niece will hide

  222. herself above the sofar, taking a big pillow to cover

  223. half a body. But you can still see the lake.

  224. So you knownada.

  225. That's the kid's version of high and sick. You're not

  226. just hi to the hung like all good parents, good anti,

  227. good uncle. What do we do? All right? We'll say

  228. where are you? We pretend we don't see them, do

  229. you know?

  230. So we can't how the annualia don't come down?

  231. Five minutes later we'll come and say, oh, there you

  232. are open. Don't then you say play again and again,

  233. time one time. So I have a few techniques. I

  234. get so bored I decided to go up do my

  235. own thing and come down and find them.

  236. No, no, no, you know do you guys? That's what

  237. I tal hamma, that's uh.

  238. Sick for you always tell them why don't you play

  239. my favorite game? Instead of playing their favorite game? You know,

  240. what's my favorite game?

  241. No you gramming John. So if we apparently like one

  242. was you on you see.

  243. I always tell them let's play, sit down and do nothing.

  244. No you, Gramma Jo say so boringmon by my reasons

  245. to because you're.

  246. All of us that we are very familiar behind six.

  247. See SUSI.

  248. It requires us to go to a secret place where

  249. hopefully no one will find us.

  250. Omen she like that woman.

  251. When the Bible says the secret place, no matter how

  252. secret it is, God will always.

  253. Be there, Ni kanting woman.

  254. Times we think that we can be running away from God,

  255. hiding from God. But no matter where we are and

  256. what stage of our life we are in, God will

  257. always be there.

  258. She told you.

  259. In Mario six six ver six. It says, but you,

  260. when you pray, go into your room, and when you

  261. have shot your door, pray to your father who is

  262. in the secret place, and your father, who sees you

  263. in secret, will reward you openly.

  264. That matter food and.

  265. The call of God for us, and the reminder for

  266. us is to come back to that secret place.

  267. In woman out take in me too.

  268. If you were to hide, we should hide from the

  269. distractions of the world and to start tuning to him.

  270. So she told she has in you need just sounds

  271. likes a wrong fundament.

  272. Not to hide away from God. But we are called

  273. to hide in Him in the secret place, you know.

  274. Unissen, Like she thought, Unison, that's what anament.

  275. We live in a society where, if you were to

  276. reflect your day to day life, we are getting more distracted.

  277. You fast enough omens I meencing.

  278. It's so difficult to sit still for just five minutes

  279. and do nothing. Hence my favorite game and you'll see

  280. because it reminds me about our ability to sit still

  281. and to really tune in to God.

  282. Around and bound Roman Tudizon actually intention.

  283. So when Jesus says, when you pray, go into your room,

  284. it basically means there must be a set location for you.

  285. Don't who are you? If you know?

  286. Many people, due to our lifestyle, we often associate to

  287. say that I do my quiet time and I'm driving.

  288. I do my quiet time when uh I am making breakfast?

  289. What you leave you?

  290. One person even told me I do my quiet time

  291. and I'm in the toilet.

  292. God, friends, and that's the links you.

  293. I think we need to come back to the place

  294. where we're got to put on more reverence in who

  295. we are meeting.

  296. Down. You w agency it will.

  297. Cost you something to really have an encounter with God.

  298. And let me tell you, your encounter will not be

  299. in the toilet. Your encounter will not be in the

  300. traffic jam. So because there seems to be a culture

  301. sipping in where we would rather be convenient in our

  302. worship and seeking God rather than paying the price in

  303. the secret place to have a set aside location to

  304. encounter God.

  305. Like when the funding found a person that you need,

  306. she sees what a food t im downtown.

  307. Like many of our expressions of worship, many of our

  308. approach in how to read the Bible, how to pray

  309. comes from our perception of God.

  310. You know, she thinks by general, she do something that

  311. doesn't light the woman her like you can't die.

  312. But if you would be guided by the word of God,

  313. you will see that every time people approach God, they

  314. will approach him in reverence.

  315. Sons, she does, you cannot, and you choose tammons that

  316. she turn us turns out huh, So to.

  317. Enter into that secret place, you're gonna have confidence that

  318. God loves you.

  319. So she does the immature downtown only contains a.

  320. Thousand I do you really believe that God loves you?

  321. Turn the sound things? I?

  322. Do you really believe that God wants to have communion

  323. with you?

  324. It's done, it's under sund thing, it's a thousen don't

  325. know who is you?

  326. Do you really believe that in that secret place God

  327. will reveal to you his heart.

  328. Something like intual son intuh lie she's sounding.

  329. Because sometimes we are not drawn into that secret place.

  330. It's because we lack that faith to believe that God

  331. is interested in what we have to say in.

  332. Like Inmitual sings in two thousand Sunaho that woman woman.

  333. So what we lack the faith to even have that

  334. encounter with God?

  335. Sonata sings, sings thou like that Inmiturencient to me?

  336. Hearing from God and hearing his voice, It's not as

  337. complex as you think. So because His voice for you

  338. and me is already recorded in the Bible. Eating everything

  339. is already recorded in the Bible.

  340. You may e can the searching tho eating.

  341. So the first step in recognizing the voice of God

  342. is to read the Bible.

  343. Do something.

  344. But many of us wants the fantastic, the bombastic voice

  345. of God. And you want to hear the audible voice

  346. of God. You want to see the vision of God.

  347. Young.

  348. He can do this, but we must first have the

  349. foundation of reading his words. Because Hawaii yesterday, I share

  350. a devotion to a group of people that we usually

  351. have devotion with. And I took it from some chapter ninety.

  352. I believe it was worth child so teachers to number

  353. our days that we may obtain wisdom.

  354. So you had the gun links you gun ordering the

  355. pan like she friends are not going, lin, friends are

  356. not going. That's a pain to you, jumped out. So

  357. you need the gent woman, So sontatin maintain the rules.

  358. How gentlemen, the.

  359. Thing the number our days that we may obtain wisdom.

  360. You need the woman like she eating the roots of

  361. Howraman turns out to the thing.

  362. That words that versus basically caused me to reflect on

  363. my own life.

  364. So I got the thing. Well, not be around or

  365. she doesn't that she's mean?

  366. And I assume if I have three months to live,

  367. how would I live my life differently?

  368. What you guys? What you sunk? Like she I don't

  369. want to like you mean?

  370. If I have one week to live, how would I

  371. live my life differently?

  372. What you, because since she had who her like, she

  373. wore to the same.

  374. And very gently. I want to put out caution to

  375. all of us that we should start really reflecting on

  376. our life and see how have you been spending our

  377. life on whether we are spending on things that are

  378. of eternal value or we're spending on things that are temporal.

  379. How much it is? I mean, sheout son, what is what?

  380. I what? What?

  381. I young?

  382. And then we should never fool around with our life

  383. because you never know in the next hour whether you

  384. will still be around.

  385. And you know, I'm putting she talks to how someone

  386. you see young put.

  387. I know it sounds very somber like, but are you

  388. scaring us?

  389. You know, settlement.

  390. I'm just saying that's my reflection yesterday. What that causes

  391. me to reflect that life can be shot.

  392. Just around.

  393. Thunder, But it's what we may do make use with

  394. our life that counts.

  395. A center. Woman threw her and she si, you know,

  396. the semine like she turns the gold minist I want

  397. to be counted in God, So why your patient canting?

  398. I don't want to be counted wasting my life away without.

  399. God, just the way I would. Semin is not patient,

  400. I just get a semina's land failure.

  401. So to build our life around the secret place, it

  402. requires discipline.

  403. So you around the semin and she told Dandling they

  404. gotta homes the home appreciar you.

  405. With you, because Ess says, when you go into the room,

  406. you gotta shut the door and ing ru.

  407. The manesonia guan sumon.

  408. In other words, you gotta shut out every distraction.

  409. So now why your pastor you're nice around in fundin

  410. the seat in the front time.

  411. Why can we live without our hand phone for one hour?

  412. Misterphone and go like she? Are you taucers to just

  413. see God? Just wait like she do?

  414. I use one hour? Okay. People sometimes ask me, so

  415. how long should I pray? No? Pray five minutes and

  416. then I'm gone, okay. Can I pray three minutes and

  417. then I'm gone? Okay? Wait signs know what you can?

  418. I pray when I and then I'm gone, okay.

  419. Waitus know what you do.

  420. There's no clear mention in the Bible how long you

  421. should prayer?

  422. Change you the coun.

  423. Right, Paul says, the Tessalonians pray without seizing no.

  424. Bots and see the town.

  425. If I were to use that as a guide. Means

  426. every second you gotta pray, pray without seizing.

  427. The dog out.

  428. Jesus told the disciples, could you not watch with me

  429. for an hour? Hour?

  430. No? Yes, that she don.

  431. For an hour. I always use one hour. The point is,

  432. as our life are consistently being impacted and influenced by technology,

  433. let not technology rob you from your quality time with God.

  434. So you known is down curty that Nickson who was

  435. the negative.

  436. Go back to the basic?

  437. Did you without negative?

  438. To All you need is just your physical Bible. That

  439. don't say no, you share your All you need is

  440. just to give time just like you Fulu read decision,

  441. sit still and the social read the word of God

  442. and she doesn't know why and then allow him to

  443. speak to you only like she so like she's doing

  444. it so Hart. God is not defined by timing in

  445. Candy the surgeon, He's from eternity. Also we are defined

  446. by timing our years. She can't die, so we cannot

  447. rush God. So Dowdy, we cannot rushok Taudi. I'm just

  448. speaking out of conviction because I go through this as well.

  449. That she pins sitting surching.

  450. The pace of our life is getting.

  451. Faster down on the profar that you are your quiet.

  452. But we must learn how to wind down and be

  453. stilled before God.

  454. Because she ruled her like she found my sie holds

  455. on the size. Don't actually unsing, because.

  456. If we don't know how to be patient, if we

  457. don't know how to be free from distraction, we may

  458. miss the very thing we need from God.

  459. But like she passes the first thing that she pawed woman,

  460. she to woman the samina so quickly.

  461. There are five things in the secret Place that's immutual

  462. down the secret Place often reveals and reinforces God's purpose

  463. for you.

  464. It's immutual Downtown's ties to the gunsown down in Mark.

  465. Chapter one, verses thirty five to thirty eight. Now in

  466. the morning, having reason a long while before daylight, he

  467. went out and departed to a solitary place, and there

  468. he prayed. So there's a time. There's a location where

  469. Jesus prayed and signon. And those who were with him

  470. search for him. When they found him, they said to him,

  471. everyone is looking for you. But he said to them,

  472. let us go into the next town that I may

  473. preach there. Also, because for this purpose I have come forth.

  474. The suj two o. Yes, sushi like kan def defund

  475. your sujin simon shi Yes, the suns way how was

  476. way too?

  477. Amen? Amen, it's getting a bit solemn here. Sorry, I'm

  478. not schooling you. I'm just speaking out of conviction. So

  479. it was a time when Jesus was getting very popular.

  480. Why suju, Yeah, you're Roman.

  481. Says, everyone is looking for you everywhere where. Jesus went

  482. to teach, preach, he healed, and he delivered.

  483. Many Yes, she eats on the run.

  484. Have you ever find yourself saying to yourself, I'm so busy,

  485. I have no time for God.

  486. It's like I got people just her mamly engage.

  487. My schedule is so full. I can't really, you know,

  488. give time?

  489. Is that what the surgeon belt her? Mad came back?

  490. When I look at the life of Jesus, he was

  491. really so busy, but he made no excuses. He woke

  492. up early, he went to a dedicated place, and he prayed.

  493. So she can't usu the same I used to the

  494. tongue the ruins because you tea out like no tap

  495. for my life.

  496. Has taught me there. If I were to fix my

  497. personal prayer altar, if I were to fix my own

  498. quiet time challenges. Whatever circumstances I'm facing is will be nothing.

  499. So sounding a surgeon like she like she, Then I

  500. say the necessary the yally in the water.

  501. Jesus didn't entertain them and ask who was looking for me?

  502. Like she sens. After prayer, he just said, let us

  503. go to the next town that I may preach there.

  504. Also because for this purpose I have come.

  505. For sous a two lighter, he just exited his prayer closet,

  506. and he reinforces to his disciples he had a purpose.

  507. Your secret place will keep you grounded in your purpose.

  508. In the pound the horse I need sending down on.

  509. The more popular you are, the more you should go

  510. to your secret place.

  511. Sonny, you're like, yeah, so to so, only you can't

  512. just like she can into.

  513. The more busier you are, the more you should go

  514. to your secret place.

  515. Yeah yeah, Manluda's can't just.

  516. Yet in our life, the more busier we are, our

  517. secret place tend to take a secondary focus.

  518. Since your Manluda inmit pins season your.

  519. Lost come back to your secret place and Ima, come

  520. back to the place where you want to encounter God. Defse,

  521. come back to the place where you will see God whoheartedly.

  522. Like she doesn't changing changing like she issuation, and.

  523. Come back to the place where you're not distracted.

  524. Got the inmitu down.

  525. So many years in my workplace, I have a secret place.

  526. That would go to the downtown citing the inmate.

  527. Every Friday, I will give up my lunch.

  528. Make us think she will she found you tan sit

  529. in and I'll go up.

  530. To a stair well somewhere, and then every Friday one

  531. to two I'll give my time to the Lord.

  532. Make us think she would eat our land. Incas, I can.

  533. Tell you one of the best experience so far is

  534. always at the secret place.

  535. Okay three? How three ballets you the inn.

  536. Many will say that, oh, coming to church, going for

  537. a conference, going for camp will give you that encounter

  538. with God.

  539. Okay, I got tones.

  540. God can give you the encounter in corporate worship. But

  541. often I find in my life the greatest encounter is

  542. always that one on one encounter with God in that

  543. secret place.

  544. Okay three, balating concern it easle.

  545. I learned a lot of things in that secret place.

  546. What for many years that Friday, I will climb up

  547. the stairwell look at the secret butts because a lot

  548. of these students are smoking, and what do they do?

  549. They usually will put the butt there and you know

  550. it becomes dirty. But that's the place the Lord has

  551. called me to.

  552. So it makes us think she would do.

  553. Or she consern that she So I pray, I pray

  554. for us, I pray for myself, I pray for my company.

  555. So do we're put on the the console away migrant cup.

  556. It keeps me grounded on my purpose even in my company.

  557. The console town on pollution Hua.

  558. So when people tell me, uh, what should I do

  559. for my campus, what should I do for my company,

  560. I'll tell them build an altar first, build a prayer altar.

  561. So it's not to tell you the console.

  562. The cons you know, the representation of you inviting God

  563. to come.

  564. In even Sydney, like she type, she yauch in.

  565. Defunt so the secret place can be built where you are.

  566. So in another image of it took her. You know,

  567. she doesn't need.

  568. Because if you're really serious in seeing change in your company,

  569. if you're really serious in seeing change even in your

  570. campus or even in your family, build a secret place,

  571. build that altar, and.

  572. You're going to know definantay to defang the inmitual.

  573. Many years ago, God told me to give that up

  574. to build now a corporate altar.

  575. No sense found the current.

  576. For four to five years now, I've been leading Wednesday

  577. prayers in my marketplace.

  578. So as I.

  579. She died, I gave up that the secret place to

  580. enter into the corporate place, hoping that the heart of prayer,

  581. the spirit of prayer will be caught by many.

  582. No, no c negatility. You know see one or.

  583. So who Every Wednesday we will pray one to two

  584. in a location time maga.

  585. Since she signed it, do.

  586. And thurst day we will have our chapel service.

  587. No, since you suit us all majoriyal Oman chapel service.

  588. So I thought about this, right, I know maybe we

  589. have bosses here, but don't stone me when I say

  590. this a lot. But that's we work forty hours a week.

  591. Just omen ec. Since she's Sugerl suger cells.

  592. What if we tithe that forty hours and you tied

  593. it as four hours to the lord.

  594. So you know you're born out of Roman powerment. The

  595. Sugerl Sugerls passing and fund to somewhere suger sells.

  596. In your marketplace, you tie four hours to the Lord.

  597. Just only on past. The sugar sells the education.

  598. Think about it?

  599. She how can can without bias? I think it's a

  600. very good thing than to males sign because.

  601. When you invite what in, he gives you a lot

  602. of ideas that will bless your company.

  603. That she chunks that she told Tonto sounds she's too

  604. fully the concern.

  605. Right, students, you take your timetable, you calculate your lecture time,

  606. your calculate your tutorial time, your total up and you

  607. tipe that ten percent? How would that always look like? So?

  608. What died you?

  609. Pany the Nuggart? I know your Panny the Nuggars passion

  610. And she says some kitchen.

  611. I know it sounds radical, but I've seen God moved

  612. with that other things I.

  613. Faced on the so create gunnys or contings and the ins.

  614. So the secret place reveals and reinforces God's purpose for you.

  615. So you not take the evening to know her arounding

  616. like she sounds roundso and she said ties to the

  617. gun chounsen our chapel.

  618. It's still very small.

  619. Moving.

  620. But to me I've come to understand that I don't

  621. know it's not about the numbers, because it is to

  622. the target down. It's about being obedient to God.

  623. Soon fulish, just this church.

  624. Will conte to exist. Is that tell her to insire

  625. even if let's say one day, that's only three. So

  626. just you et angle, we will still exist from my

  627. high inside. Because we started ex church in year two

  628. thousand pasta started with three. Today, by the grace of God,

  629. we have grown to multiple locations. And all I want

  630. us to understand that God doesn't move based on numbers.

  631. So that's an interesting endilment set I put on a defound.

  632. Whole is sometimes it's easy, you know, to say that

  633. wh in this gathering the hundreds, therefore God is moving.

  634. So it's so long you're working an inch and so

  635. know you're so majory con suicide.

  636. You mean God doesn't move even in a group of two.

  637. Only not the issues.

  638. So let's not be deceived by what the world will

  639. often measure in.

  640. So to be pagn sae cheapin even when there's one,

  641. God will still move. So it is the downtown's ignorant.

  642. How always that demonstration of faith is always the demonstration.

  643. Of obedience women and sing sing women issuful.

  644. I say this because one of the greatest challenges even

  645. in starting a corporate prayer group is numbers, you know, dancing.

  646. Sometimes we feel that we need to gether that tens.

  647. We need to get the twenties. Then we start.

  648. Sugar Sugar Roman.

  649. If you need to be the one to start, just

  650. be the one to start. You're going to.

  651. Ign.

  652. God will bring in the people.

  653. Here to the department thilight.

  654. Second thing about the secret place is that the secret

  655. place gives you strength as you abide in it.

  656. They didn't Jusa, you know the image negatively down the

  657. shinter Tusai honeymen, Tusa surney men.

  658. Isaiah forty was thirty, So this is the town this

  659. sorry was twenty nine, so is forty was twenty nine.

  660. He gives power to the weak and those who have

  661. no mic.

  662. He increases strength sun Judio, so that Piva.

  663. Even the youth shall feign and be weary, and the

  664. young men shall utterly fall. But those who wait on

  665. the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up

  666. with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary.

  667. They shall walk and not think.

  668. Jus soundly Pio Tama by ruins and Su Santana triple Piva.

  669. This US's very familiar to us. Those who wait upon

  670. the Lord shall renew their strength.

  671. Sushi. And I said, your heart.

  672. This morning, God is reminding you to wait on him

  673. so that he isn't don't give up. And where do

  674. you wait for him? Hannah to me, it's in the

  675. secret place, so soon that I need im. To me,

  676. it's in that place where you encounter him, just.

  677. Like they found and actually.

  678. Waiting without encountering God will not give you that strength

  679. to go through your day to day.

  680. Don't know doesn't mean she so Holda needs you may

  681. eat him.

  682. The key to our breakthrough is found in our perseverance

  683. in the secret place, So you know.

  684. Woman, to just tell you woman died like inmitun't I

  685. couldn't know the scene.

  686. Look even nine to ten. So I say to you

  687. us and it will be given to you sick and

  688. you will fine knock and it will be open to

  689. you for everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks fine,

  690. and to him who knocks it will.

  691. Be opened out En coleman Kimen, you will fine Titus

  692. out the guen coleman Kaimen.

  693. Your ability to be consistent in the secret Place will

  694. determine how persevering you are?

  695. Nights I need so I need to deter nizing down

  696. any sarvas.

  697. We have our favorite hobbies, right man? You is I

  698. how uh? And we take it with great pride and

  699. in good discipline.

  700. No, I said, I have no face face.

  701. You were out the discipline of going to the gym.

  702. Just cheetahs and found the knights on the jins.

  703. The discipline of baking.

  704. Nights on your next realize your homepay.

  705. The discipline of shopping your neg you go right, whatever

  706. your hobby is the discipline of Netflix. But the way

  707. I heard, they're increasing their subscription fees.

  708. Right, we got in the eye houses and model health.

  709. What about the discipline of persevering in seeking God?

  710. No, no, yea your parney, the take her your.

  711. Me too. Godly prosperity is found in the secret sing

  712. needed me too ISAA forty five S three. I will

  713. give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of

  714. secret places that you may know that I the Lord

  715. who called you by your name, am the God of Israel.

  716. So this is.

  717. About in me the type of teaming down in the

  718. juices war.

  719. Yeah, leaders, I don't know, sound like the world, but

  720. how many of you here you want to be prospering.

  721. Sous city around and so because down to the semi

  722. down to your daughter.

  723. Hong Kong, I want to be prospering, home Tongue. Who

  724. doesn't so he puts on. But let us not forget yet.

  725. Prosperity is not limited to just material and financial aspects, because.

  726. And down to you each, Hono, you need to you

  727. and gonned the tinking. Something in the early.

  728. One may be prospering in material health and material wealth.

  729. But is the person prospering in health.

  730. Something the nation? Hon Tong, I.

  731. Be prospering in our relationships, Hong Kong, I'll be prospering

  732. in the areas of our life.

  733. I mean she's had a Farmiing, Hong Kong.

  734. So God says there hidden riches in the secret places.

  735. Why are you not in me? The downs on who

  736. you nigger, the type out.

  737. When you seek God in that secret place, he will

  738. give you revelation and inside that no one else could

  739. have thought of.

  740. Uni like I was just in me to.

  741. The mill, and I like Dennis's testimony and Dennis the Jinson.

  742. You know I have for fourteen years in this church,

  743. I've seen campus students come and go No, no that

  744. she recently, ANGELI won an award in her convocation.

  745. Also and I had the bear down eagle and how

  746. the jam she.

  747. Wanted to award for the best practical is it or

  748. something like that?

  749. I had a sis downs on.

  750. In our leaders group.

  751. So how you when I link to the Tels infant

  752. which she part of it not tis down.

  753. I remember saying this the God, it's easy to graduate

  754. with a degree.

  755. No you canna do so that you you're face didn't searching.

  756. But not many can say they graduate with a degree,

  757. and they graduate with the testimony, knowing that in their

  758. campus years they have given God their best because.

  759. Okay, don't be in the UK actually wrong Yels and

  760. so sell will wrong your.

  761. I've seen that God has been faithful. He will never

  762. shot change people who put Him first.

  763. Okay, containers, And I said you need and found that

  764. certain things.

  765. Sometimes in exam time, half of the people will go

  766. missing because they say exam time is coming Sunday. I

  767. want to study. So you know those.

  768. What you like about the sings?

  769. She like? She does. So for every campus student who

  770. have graduated with a testimony, I've never seen them compromise

  771. their Sunday.

  772. Because fans some nice it be and she much like

  773. meal towards how many things she really.

  774. Don't get me wrong. Study is important. It just DoD

  775. will give you wisdom to manage your.

  776. Time so that she unpandy the sision.

  777. But you must not compromise your corporate worship.

  778. With God because you book her like she season the

  779. surgeon the negative way.

  780. So I like his testimony because at the point of

  781. seeking God, he will give.

  782. You answers, even even Downley, like the city.

  783. That no one could have just a mill case. I

  784. always tell people that you know time to solve a puzzle.

  785. To solve a challenge, it may require you ten.

  786. Hours into your house is a moment.

  787. But if you were to bring that challenge before God

  788. for one hour, what could have been solved in ten hours?

  789. Maybe it gets shortens to only one hour.

  790. So different sounds on me. Are your super CEU.

  791. Your so twenty twenty, no one would have expected COVID

  792. to come so early, so mirans, and no one would

  793. have expected that the government and force m c.

  794. O Mirrans one thousands for here you negatives.

  795. In don't quantzelin which was a form of a lockdown.

  796. Just don't quantulin.

  797. But weeks before the Malaysian government announces m c O.

  798. So it's not high miltons and basons for actually shuts.

  799. Now in the secret place. The Lord gave me an urgency.

  800. So it's like the emit put up TAUSI say, Ronson,

  801. sang so Ronson, you gotta start planning for your work.

  802. Everything to go online, honey, also saying sounder, all activities

  803. go online.

  804. No shampoo, And I said, hold on, sounder.

  805. I could have never thought about it, sound out never

  806. because everyone is like okay Malaysian so far a number

  807. of COREK cases. It's one and a few days later

  808. you hear it's two. So we weren't that. We weren't

  809. in that critical state.

  810. And it's that that's a prim.

  811. So I told my team, so team that handles student orientation,

  812. so s don't guys, we will have two plans down.

  813. So first plan status quo. Every student will be on

  814. campus going through the orientation, not just a maker sea

  815. any meaning she who. Second plan, we will do online orientation, no.

  816. Sound theos instant way.

  817. Everyone was like looking at me like Blank's deaths. We

  818. planned so hard for this physical orientation. What do you

  819. mean we planned for online orientation.

  820. Mother, than it's a cancel.

  821. But train a few weeks later, the government announces m

  822. c O.

  823. You don't know and don't control in the south, no

  824. woman also eating.

  825. And I remember a couple of I remember when, but

  826. one of the discussions, when we were just doing a

  827. post mortem. Up to today, my colleague, who is a

  828. non Christian, still talk about it.

  829. You know what the society and the township.

  830. She will always say, I remember back then, Ronson prepared

  831. us for this and we were already no, no, no,

  832. how do you go down so.

  833. Fast? And because he's able to seega facing two.

  834. But honestly, it's God who helps me to see.

  835. So you know what time banker, your son.

  836. The many examples I can give you how in the

  837. secret place God will reveal to you. Thinks that perhaps

  838. your lecturer even don't know, Perhaps your students don't know,

  839. perhaps your bosses don't know. But God knows, and God

  840. will give you that wisdom. God will give you that strategy.

  841. So okay, down.

  842. Initial area of relationships as well, especially when you're in conflict.

  843. Also something you turns how the downtown.

  844. Don't know how to reconcile you don't know how to

  845. patch up that relationship her. Like Guanci, entering the Secret place,

  846. God will reveal to you what what is it that

  847. exactly you need to do. As we close, we hope.

  848. You've been blessed by this message. For more information on

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  852. for you. Godless