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Faith Creates | Pr Kenneth Chin

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

  2. We hope this message will light up your day.

  3. Sometimes we also forget that God has given us faith

  4. and on a daily basis, when we're challenged in the

  5. different areas in our lives, it's very easy to go

  6. back to the natural, go back to things that we understand,

  7. things that we are familiar with, things that.

  8. We learn, you know, from experience, from family.

  9. And we try to solve our problems with our own understanding.

  10. And yet we know there's a scripture that says in

  11. Proverbs Tree, verse five and six, to trust in the

  12. Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your

  13. own understanding in all your ways. Acknowledge Him and he

  14. shall direct our paths. So I want to speak to

  15. you this morning about faith, but the title is faith creates.

  16. So XTV will help me please with the first slide.

  17. The first slight just gives you the title faith creates.

  18. I want to encourage all of you that faith is

  19. not stagnant.

  20. Faith is not dormant.

  21. Faith actually has power to create something out of nothing.

  22. Faith has the power to multiply.

  23. Things right now it has so that means that when

  24. you are in trouble in a place of difficulty, and

  25. your challenge usually is because we don't have the resources

  26. or we don't have something we need.

  27. If we had it, we have no problems. If we had.

  28. The help, then we are not so troubled.

  29. If we have the money, then we are not so worried,

  30. et cetera, et cetera. It is because we lack. That's

  31. why we are troubled.

  32. And then we try to find our own way, our

  33. own strength, our own wisdom to feel that lack. Now

  34. not always wrong and not always bad, but God has

  35. a better way.

  36. Can I hear?

  37. Good?

  38. Amen? And that way is the way of faith.

  39. There is a word in Second Corinthians five seven that

  40. says we are to walk by faith, not by side.

  41. And yet most of us, even Christians who believe in Jesus,

  42. tend to walk by sight more often than not. Uh.

  43. And I want to encourage you.

  44. Okay, let's look at the second slide that says, what

  45. do I still lack?

  46. Now?

  47. This comes from Scripture, and if you remember the story

  48. of the rich young ruler, he wanted to have life,

  49. and he asked the good teacher. That's exactly the words are,

  50. good teacher, what good thing must I do to inherit life?

  51. And Jesus told him, you know, Obeeda commands the commandments.

  52. And the rich young ruler actually said, all this I've

  53. done since I was a youth. Then these famous words,

  54. what do I still lack? Now, it was not Jesus

  55. who said that you have a lack? It was the

  56. richer ruler who himself who identified that there was a

  57. lack in his life, and he said it, what do

  58. I still lack?

  59. And maybe some of you in.

  60. This room have a lack in your life today and

  61. you just don't know what to do about it. Although

  62. you think, all right, somehow I'll find a way, I'll

  63. call somebody who will know, and.

  64. You know, whether we know what to do or not,

  65. I think you'll be okay. And yet in you you.

  66. Feel like I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the

  67. answer will be, and I'm not sure what the way

  68. out is. I have a lack in you. In me,

  69. there is an honesty that says I feel like I'm

  70. not complete and I don't have the complete answer, and

  71. I'm not confident, and I'm concerned. Now, let me tell

  72. you the background of how this message came about. So

  73. I was sitting with a group of leaders of a church,

  74. and one by one the leader stood up and said

  75. to me, pastor, uh, we have this lack for example

  76. ex kids. For example, ex kids, we have a lack

  77. of teachers. Just don't know how to do this. We

  78. try to encourage people to join ex kids. We try

  79. to encourage for men, especially to sign up. Men are

  80. not signing up a lot of women in children's ministry,

  81. you'll know that across the board in every church women women.

  82. Not to say it's better, but children ministry need men.

  83. We need father figures. Otherwise you know it's not going

  84. to be complete, so we need men. We all understand this,

  85. hopefully we hopefully we understand this. So there's a lack.

  86. Then they sit down. Okay, how what what to do?

  87. Do we start rewarding men for joining kids ministry? Do

  88. we reward them with a golf membership?

  89. What do we do?

  90. Uh? Do we we want each man to join ex

  91. Kids with a Tesla, the brand new Tesla?

  92. Would you join if I offer you a Tesla? Now? Okay,

  93. all right, see very hard now you know it's love.

  94. How if the if the girl's name was her name

  95. was Tesla, you need.

  96. To testla la. Oh, and your test is to send

  97. to your Madella, right you mom?

  98. I send her to you see whether she can make

  99. Rundown as good as you. So see, men, no, not easy,

  100. you know, to join children? Yeah, because we got better

  101. task to do. That's terrible, right, because kids are so

  102. important and yet men, you know, yeah, hot difficult. Some

  103. women are so finding out. Okay, fine, okay, so what

  104. do you do? You sit down and you go, oh,

  105. you scratch your head? Right do we come out? What

  106. do we come with? I mean some of you are

  107. leading companies, managing companies, and you need the staff, you

  108. need the technology, and you just you just you know,

  109. you've probably put job Street ads for the last six months,

  110. You've interviewed a hundred people, and you still can't find

  111. the right one.

  112. What do you do? So you stand up, you say,

  113. I have a lag. I don't know what to do already,

  114. I don't know what to do.

  115. This is south somebody here in this room. I just

  116. don't know what to do. I don't know what to

  117. do with this child? Why so rebellious? I don't know

  118. what to do any with this husband of mine? You know,

  119. you know God gave I know God gave him to me,

  120. but I wonder whether it God takes refunds.

  121. I don't know what to do any my wife, who

  122. never understand me.

  123. You know, I remember last time, but there was a

  124. best selling book, a kid, you know, a best selling book.

  125. It was sold in mph those days, an mph, and.

  126. The book was hundreds of it, and my father took one.

  127. After that he bought it.

  128. He bought it, he laughed, brought it, but I didn't

  129. know why why he laughed at a black.

  130. Guird There were there were there were.

  131. People commenting of how genius this book was, and the

  132. front cover was I finally understand women. So he bought it,

  133. went back home. I said, Dad, you were laughing at

  134. this book? Why said you read you know blank? All

  135. the pages were blank. But it was so for forty

  136. nine ninety people buy it because he was genius. He

  137. was genius. Not one page had a word. Did finally

  138. understand women?

  139. What do we do?

  140. And then it goes for men, and so I think

  141. that women were like, hey, faster, please, you know, give

  142. us a.

  143. Chance, you know, talk about the men.

  144. Yeah, you know, men are so very hard to understand

  145. this this creature, uh yeah, because he was made from dead.

  146. The woman was made from the rapes. That's why the women,

  147. you know, came from busy the red blood, clean clean,

  148. clean and and and smooth and and kurvey and innava.

  149. You are.

  150. We made, we made, We made from dirt.

  151. Okay, so you know there we came there we go

  152. all right, men are dirt bags.

  153. Okay, so uh we just cut. We don't know what

  154. to do.

  155. We've got a business that we tried so hard, we

  156. advertise so much, Carol Jalad. So one by one, you know,

  157. they stood up past the youth ministry teens ministry. Don't

  158. know what to do with teens. You know, Uh, the

  159. same strategy we use twenty five years ago cannot work,

  160. same message, different method. What do young people's like a

  161. campus student campus student while idad you know, and then

  162. young adults, well, you know, one by one he was

  163. sending up not enough laborers, same story all across the world.

  164. That's why Jesus said, pray to the low lot of

  165. the harvest to send laborers because until today still touch

  166. it go not enough. So then the you know, young

  167. family set up your young family's so so good challenges

  168. and usually it's about people are people okay. If not,

  169. If not, man power will be money these two m

  170. M and M. No in your mouth, not in your hands,

  171. all right. So I listened to all of it, and

  172. I had no answer because all of them are saying

  173. that they tried already, and tried already, and tried already.

  174. Some of you are sitting them going like, I think

  175. I understand what you're saying fast, because I also not

  176. so much ministry.

  177. But in my life, try this therapist, try that doctor.

  178. Try Try. I feel like the woman with the issue

  179. of blood. No, try for twelve years already under no

  180. more money. Right, try the ready.

  181. And then Jesus comes to town and he offers a

  182. different solution. He offers himself. He says, I and the Way,

  183. the Truth, and the life. No one comes to the

  184. Father except through me, Jesus. You can't come to him,

  185. nor to the Father except through faith. We are saved

  186. by grace through I want to tell you right now,

  187. our faith creates. So I went to sleep the next morning.

  188. They wanted to hear from me, and I did devotion

  189. the next morning. But the Holy Spirit spoke to me

  190. the night before. He says, Kenneth, don't worry. Tell the

  191. people not to worry. They have been using all kinds

  192. of ways, but they have not tried my way. And

  193. my way is not the way of facts, is the

  194. way of faith. It will most often not even make sense.

  195. It will not make sense. And this is the problem.

  196. Doesn't make sense faith. God doesn't have to always make sense,

  197. and that is the problem with mankind. Mankind always need structure.

  198. You know, some of you in this room. Without structure,

  199. you'll go crazy. No system even worse.

  200. Huh. And then he said, God, you know, aren't you

  201. the god of structure?

  202. Show me that he must be done like this ABC

  203. one two three, because if it's three two one.

  204. CPA, I do believe. I can't work.

  205. I need systems, structures, strategy, all the s. And the

  206. Lord says, my ways are not your wayte Neither are

  207. my thoughts your thoughts.

  208. Oh it's hard.

  209. It's hard because our brain, we think it's very big,

  210. but sectually very small, very puny, like a pe like

  211. a peanut. In the sight of God, a young person said, before, oh,

  212. I thought about God.

  213. I thought about God, and I can't believe in him.

  214. And his professor said, Wow, your brain's so powerful that

  215. you can finally decide that you can't believe in the

  216. Great and mighty God who created the heavens.

  217. And the earth. Uh the drug edict.

  218. The day he was set free, he told me, was

  219. the day when somebody spoke to him into his ear.

  220. He believed it was the Holy Spirit. Later, but before

  221. that he didn't even know. He heard big is your problem?

  222. Very big? You know?

  223. He was in the sue Bunk area. Sue Bunk area,

  224. there's a member center, there was a care center by FGA,

  225. so he was He's in the field. He's in the field,

  226. in his care center for drug edicts, rehab center.

  227. And then his problems so big, problems, so big. I

  228. want to die. And then a voice came in.

  229. Look up to the sky, look to the life, look

  230. at the rye, look at the fry look to the bag.

  231. Can you see how big the sky is? And he looks, looks, looks, looks,

  232. say wow, the sky very big. And then the next

  233. question is this all? Is this all of the sky.

  234. He was smart enough to say, no, no, no, I

  235. think this is only the Malaysian sky. If I was

  236. in US, I'll see the US guy. If I was

  237. in London, I'll see the London sky. If I was

  238. in China, I'll see the China sky already. The malicious

  239. sky looks so big. If I put all the skies together,

  240. it's even bigger.

  241. And then the voice comes, do you know the God

  242. behind the sky?

  243. And there his problem, his drug problem, became so small

  244. compared to a great and awesome God who created the

  245. heavens and the earth, the seas and all that in them.

  246. There are some animals in the sea we will never

  247. get to see because we go any lower oxygen will

  248. just totally not work.

  249. Our lungs will burst. The treasure will be too great.

  250. And then you ask me, why then't he God created

  251. the creature in the sea if human beings can't see it, No,

  252. as long as he can see it, because he made

  253. all things for his glory. It's not for you that

  254. he made it.

  255. When he sees, you know, whatever, big, whatever moving under

  256. the ground of the great sea, the sea bit he said,

  257. why in a hundred years you never get to see it.

  258. God sees it every day, and he says, I made

  259. it for myself. I made it for my pleasure. I

  260. made it so I can smile, you know. And then

  261. we look at this great God and so our minds

  262. very small, and we think we know God, and we

  263. think we know a Lord, but we don't.

  264. We don't.

  265. So God says faith, because I've got a world for

  266. you to receive, to enjoy, a world that you can

  267. only enter through faith. I want you to know before

  268. you go away from this place. Faith creates everybody. Okay,

  269. with this, it creates, it's alive.

  270. You you enter a world of miracles.

  271. Pastor Jong Giecho wrote a book and called it Fourth

  272. Dimension because he says, most of us human beings, even Christians,

  273. live in a world that is known, that.

  274. Can be seen.

  275. That's factor, that scientific, that can be explained, that can

  276. you know, that can fit with your understanding. But there

  277. is a world called the foul fourth dimension where angels thread,

  278. angels tread, angels are walking that land. And he says,

  279. Christians can come to that place, and it's only by

  280. faith that you can begin to walk with angels, walk

  281. with men and women of God who live not by

  282. sight but by faith. Can somebody say, amen, Faith creates

  283. in this world, in this world called the fourth dimension,

  284. as Choyonggi put it, you know, faith as small as

  285. a mustard seed, can move mountains. Faith creates. And so

  286. I gave a devotion, and in that devotion, the whole

  287. group of leaders were moved with an anointing that came

  288. into that room that morning, because I said to all

  289. of them, every answer, every solution.

  290. In this boardroom will come by faith.

  291. When you leave this boardroom this next few days, I

  292. want you to understand. Ex Kids, teachers, for example, will

  293. suddenly appear if you would do it God's way, speak

  294. them into being, call them fourth teens, same thing, young adults,

  295. same thing. Nothing is impossible with God. So we pray

  296. to the Lord of the Harvest to send laborers. We

  297. don't just go and look for them in drop street.

  298. We don't just go and look for them in some advertisement.

  299. Are you with me? Facebook, Instagram? All? Third world? Or

  300. rather third dimension?

  301. I should say, there is a fourth dimension where you

  302. remember that it's faith that helps you overcome all your challenges.

  303. Let's look at the next slide. So you have a lack,

  304. I have a lack. We have las and God allows

  305. us to have lacked so that we can exercise faith.

  306. Because first John five four says it is our faith

  307. that has overcome the world, whatever problems and trouble and

  308. challenges you have, it.

  309. Is faith that overcomes them.

  310. Can I hear a good Amen, hallelujah, whatever it is,

  311. choose the way of the Lord. Trust in the Lord.

  312. Put your eyes on Jesus, Call upon the Lord and say, Lord,

  313. I've got one hundred and one ways I can do this,

  314. one hundred and one voices that will tell me of

  315. other ways that I can do this.

  316. But I want to choose your way. That's why I

  317. told you before.

  318. There's a scripture that says those who wait upon the

  319. Lord shall renew their strength. They shall rise up with

  320. wings as eagles. They shall write and not be weary.

  321. They shall walk and not faint. I tell you why

  322. this scripture is very important is because if we wait

  323. upon the Lord, we will hear him, and when he

  324. speaks to us, we take his solution. By faith, we

  325. put it into practice. You will start seeing your life

  326. not be drained by running around everywhere asking Tom Dick

  327. and Harry, Uncle A B and c AUNTI, d E

  328. and F and calling your you know, your your black

  329. book of than trees and datos threes, and you're crying

  330. out for help, and you're trying everything else, calling everybody's

  331. number except Jeremiah Turdy Tree.

  332. Three.

  333. You know, call unto me and I will show you

  334. great and mighty things. Call unto me, Call to God.

  335. This is very important. So this is what faith does.

  336. If you wait upon the Lord, you will hear his

  337. voice and he will tell you.

  338. Wait. He will tell you.

  339. When you're interviewing ten people, he will tell you in

  340. your spirit, the third one, the seventh one, you know,

  341. the younger one, the older. He will tell you. If

  342. you just wait upon the Lord, you go by faith.

  343. I'm telling you right now, you will save yourself a

  344. lot of trouble. You will save yourself a lot of

  345. energy that you have to expend when you're running here

  346. and running there. No weight upon the Lord, and you

  347. shall renew. You will fly.

  348. I'm telling you right now.

  349. Your business will fly, your finances will fly, and higher

  350. than twenty twenty four twenty twenty.

  351. Five will be if you believe.

  352. It's say amen, So we overcome the world that we're

  353. living in by and true faith.

  354. Let's look at the next slide. Please.

  355. The next slide says without faith, it is impossible, not difficult. No,

  356. it doesn't say difficult without faith is difficult to know?

  357. Without faith, you know it's uh, it's you know, rather difficult,

  358. rather painful. No, it just says impossible. Does anyone here

  359. understand the what impossible? It just means impossible.

  360. Okay, there's no way ho.

  361. I don't know whosey by there? No way, just no way,

  362. no ways, just impossible. So God, when he's please, he

  363. will pour out. This is how he works when he's please.

  364. Like you are a father. You know, sometimes my wife and.

  365. I will see a kid that go up to a

  366. dad and just melt his heart or melt at the

  367. other day, Pastor Albert Isaac Right, we were having a

  368. chat with him. He said, you know what, my is

  369. his grandson or granddaughter. You know what, my grandson didn't know.

  370. I was so tired, you know, me doing ministryt here

  371. and there, and I came back, you know, I opened

  372. the door and my grandson ran up to me and said,

  373. somebody like I can't remember what he called him, but

  374. somebody like granddad. Okay, so granddad, Grandpa, Grandpa, I was waiting.

  375. For you to come home on the whole day.

  376. And then brought to him a drink, right, a cool

  377. drink and something something.

  378. Like whatever it is or whatever it is.

  379. After we heard it. I said, wow, your heart must

  380. have melted. Then he said melted. I gave all my

  381. inheritance to my striends. You know what, try to say

  382. it up. You know what tries it up. You understand

  383. what tries say.

  384. He's like your heart.

  385. So, Mela, you're all the other grand Greek children, you

  386. forgot it. This one, this one shall have everything. You know,

  387. God is something like that. I'm telling you.

  388. You know why I am confident it goes like also

  389. because we are made in his image.

  390. We are made so he can feel things he feels,

  391. and he just wants the pleasure so that he can

  392. give you even greatest thing. I'm telling you, Yeah, we

  393. shouldn't be the calf. I know, Passar. Don't be like

  394. prosperity Gospel. You know you please God just to get money. No, no, no, no,

  395. We please God cause we love him, and we love

  396. him because he first loved us his simple But when

  397. he's pleased that he paws out. I'll give you another

  398. scripture just in case you don't believe me. Hebrews eleven,

  399. verse six right continues to say, but he who comes

  400. to God must believe believe that he is and that

  401. he is the reward of those who diligently seek him.

  402. Means you must not only believer, you must believe that

  403. he rewards.

  404. There is not Cannchen saying there is a Bible saying

  405. this is the Bible teaching us. We must believe not

  406. just in a God, We must believe in a God

  407. that rewards those who diligently seek him. That mess is

  408. not wrong to believe in a God who loves to

  409. pour out Richard and Elon must by a trillion times

  410. h so much more, so much more. And all you

  411. need to do is have faith. It's not bothered him,

  412. it's not butter him. But just live the way I

  413. have called you to live, what by by what, by faith,

  414. and you will please me, and I will pour out

  415. and I will reward you.

  416. Everybody, Okay with.

  417. This everything and everyone in this room listened to me

  418. very carefully.

  419. This year.

  420. You have good things in stall, great things even but

  421. you will have like you will have challenges. Why because

  422. God will allow you to go through these things so

  423. that you can continue to live by faith. If life

  424. is too easy, too comfortable, you don't have to live

  425. by faith, right or not? If life is too easy,

  426. too comfortable, you have no need in life at all,

  427. then God will create me. You've got to have so

  428. much money in your bank account, but cannot help your grandson.

  429. He's going to create things. Never cannot help your your sister,

  430. cannot help your best friend.

  431. He's going to create.

  432. I'm telling you God, he's not yeah, people like geologically

  433. or you're saying that he could know. Even if he

  434. doesn't create, he will allow it to happen.

  435. So that we will come to a place whereby we

  436. know that all that we have, all.

  437. That we we have accumulated over the years, will never

  438. be enough, except unless we choose the way of faith. Okay,

  439. let's look at the next scripture. He's very important. So

  440. we get the definition of faith from the Bible. Now,

  441. faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence

  442. of things not seen out before I go on, maybe,

  443. so we are stuck on the thing I just said earlier,

  444. and you got hope. I hope it doesn't bring sickness

  445. to me. I hope no, no, no, no, no, no,

  446. please don't. God is too good of God, He's too

  447. good a father, So please don't get stuck on that. Okay,

  448. don't get stuck on all will he test me? No, no, no,

  449. whatever that he's allowing in our lives, just remember this.

  450. He wants us to choose the path of faith. That's

  451. all you need to go away thinking. Don't go away

  452. thinking about will cancer come?

  453. Don't know? Okay. Our God is a good God.

  454. He's a loving father, and when he allows things to happen,

  455. he just wants to move us into faith. And I'm

  456. telling you right now, if you would choose faith, you

  457. will see the glory of God. I don't know what

  458. that totally means all the time, meaning that, oh, glory

  459. of God means definitely get heal, may not be. The

  460. glory of God can come in many ways. He can

  461. come even with a reconciliation of family. You know, I've

  462. seen him before that one sister and aunt antie.

  463. God sick the whole family. Right, if you go by.

  464. Faith, the whole family gets united and people have forgiveness

  465. and repentance.

  466. You know, it's a different kind of way.

  467. You gotta think. You just gotta think like this that

  468. God will not allow you because he loves.

  469. You so much. He will not allow you.

  470. To sit comfortably because he knows that there is so

  471. much more.

  472. He wants to reveal to you so much more. He

  473. wants to give you so much more, He wants to

  474. pour out into your life.

  475. I know, I'm, I'm, I'm I'm spending a bit more

  476. time on things I don't want to spend on. But

  477. because I just said some strong words earlier, I want

  478. you to understand.

  479. I know. Jesus said some strong words as well.

  480. He said, if you don't hte your father, your mother,

  481. you cannot follow me. You know, some very very strong words.

  482. But what he's trying to say is not to actually

  483. be hate your parents. But you know that there's the

  484. teachings around that that wants that God wants you to

  485. push through to another level with Him that you might

  486. not have understood before. But God is going to give

  487. you revelation in the days to come. He's going to

  488. make sure that your eyes are on Him, not on

  489. anyone or anything else. That's the point. That's the point,

  490. And I guarantee you, whatever your situation is, that you

  491. will see God if you choose the way of faith,

  492. if you tell your friends and family members, let's trust

  493. in the Lord Ah. Your heart is beating with nervousness

  494. and you you're not fully sure what God will do,

  495. but just continue to walk by faith. You know, when

  496. the Bible says walk, not jump, not jump, he says

  497. jump by faith. He says what And every time the

  498. Bible talks about what it talks about journey. He doesn't

  499. talk about overnight success. You don't don't talk about overnight healing.

  500. You know, suddenly cancer gone tomorrow morning. Sometimes can happen,

  501. doesn't always happen. He's asking us to walk every day.

  502. Choose the path of faith, choose the journey, walk with Jesus,

  503. and see what the Lord will do.

  504. Now let's move on now, Okay. I hope that I

  505. have tackled.

  506. That sufficiently so that you know twenty twenty five the

  507. way forward is the way of faith. Whatever you're going through,

  508. your answer is in faith. Can I hear good?

  509. Amen?

  510. Definition, Now, faith is the substance of things hopeful, the

  511. evidence of things not seen. Let's break it down very quickly.

  512. Number one, faith must.

  513. Have hope because it's a substance of things. Hope. For

  514. everybody say hope, you must have hope.

  515. And the devil, when he comes to destroy you, he

  516. comes to destroy not immediately your faith.

  517. He comes to destroy your hope.

  518. And even he can destroy your hope, he will destroy

  519. your faith eventually. So a lot of you, if you

  520. can remember back at the times when you were very down,

  521. very low, very discourage, very disappointed, ask yourself what was

  522. the natural thing that came. I will never do this again.

  523. I will never have a girlfriend again. I will never

  524. have a boyfriend again. I will never trust a woman again.

  525. I will never trust a man again. I will never

  526. go to church again. I will never take up leadership again.

  527. I will never serve on the worship team again. The

  528. hope is gone, and slowly but surely your faith will

  529. also go out the window. So hope is very borthant.

  530. Number one. Number two, you need to have substance behind

  531. that hope.

  532. So if you're hoping for something, I encourage all of

  533. you to have substance. What does that mean. Well, many

  534. years ago I heard a preacher preach like this. He says,

  535. you know, I want you to know when you put

  536. anything in the offering bag, you got to put something

  537. that has substance, something that has weight, something that has value. Now,

  538. this fifty ring kit is very light, but it's got wait,

  539. it is called substance. You see this is not this

  540. is nothing, and this is substance. And you can hear substance,

  541. you can feel substance. And there are many Christians going

  542. around praying for things, hoping for things, but have no

  543. substance behind it. It's very important to have substance. And

  544. may the Lord teach you what that means in the

  545. days to come, because it's not about money and talking

  546. about Some of you is time. Some of you is serving.

  547. Some of you you know, it's forgiveness. Some of you

  548. is helping your neighbor. Some of you is patience. You know,

  549. there'll be so many things that law is asking you

  550. before your hope will come to pass back it up

  551. with not very fairy dreams, but with substers that has value.

  552. You know that fifty ringing I put up this now

  553. is a is a note, but it has swept and

  554. toil and to work for that. You gotta wake up

  555. early in the morning. Maybe you will see late at night.

  556. This is not nothing.

  557. This is your life.

  558. I don't know how much you earn in an hour.

  559. Maybe I don't know twenty ringing an hour.

  560. This is a really two hours to two and a

  561. half hours of your life.

  562. This is not nothing. This is Come on, subs. You

  563. want to be a man of substance means you're not

  564. a man of nothing. I want to marry a man

  565. of substance means what I want to marry somebody. And

  566. he hasn't just been titled doctor, you know not that

  567. It means Ada got something like inside God.

  568. Weight.

  569. Another word for honor is kabad. That's in Hebrew, and

  570. kabad means weight. When you talk about God's glory, it

  571. means weight. Weight is very important to God. When we

  572. give God glory, we don't just say words that mean nothing.

  573. We give him weight.

  574. We give him our service, we give him our love,

  575. we give him our sacrifice.

  576. There is weight, There is value to your hope. Christians

  577. in this room twenty twenty five, don't just hope number one.

  578. Hope number one hope, but number two.

  579. Make sure there is something behind that hope that's worth something.

  580. Number two evidence of things hope for sorry, evidence of

  581. things not seen. Okay, Now, when you say he's not

  582. seen means you haven't seen it. That you hope for

  583. something you haven't seen it, for something you haven't seen

  584. it yet. Now the seeing part one day you will

  585. receive one day you will see it.

  586. That part belongs to God. So if I can use.

  587. My right hand not seen, hopefully one day will be

  588. seen healing for my body.

  589. God can heal me. God only and only God can

  590. heal me.

  591. A salvation from my father, who is totally against Christianity.

  592. I want to see.

  593. I want to see that, but God, only you can

  594. help me see that. But there is a part in

  595. the Bible that says evidence, which is my left hand now,

  596. and evidence is what God needs to see. So it's

  597. very important to understand before we can see what only

  598. God can do, God wants to see what we only

  599. can do. This is a principle I hope that all

  600. of you remember is very important. If God was a

  601. judge and you were waiting upon the judge for a

  602. judgment or for a sentence, the judge doesn't give the

  603. sentence or the judgment before the evidence.

  604. It's always after the evidence. And then many times I.

  605. Believe Christians don't see their breakthrough because they come to court,

  606. the court of law, the court of faith, the court

  607. of life without any evidence.

  608. They bring nothing before the Lord.

  609. And that's why in the old times many of the

  610. men and women of God will say I will not

  611. bring nothing to the Lord, David says, I will not

  612. what he say. I will not give to the Lord

  613. that which costs me nothing. Those men and women in

  614. the days of past understood that God is about substance,

  615. God is about weight, God is about kabad, God is

  616. about glory. Oh, you know, that's why the Chinese sometimes

  617. they understand this.

  618. Although they don't understand cabad. They might not understand all

  619. these but they understand that when you.

  620. Want to honest, some body feed him. The Chinese are

  621. really good at this. We eat and everything when everything, Yeah,

  622. baby born, eat, all men die eat, Yeah, because you

  623. see where I go to funerals. Actually, I find it

  624. very difficult to eat a funeral.

  625. I know.

  626. It's how you are, okay, right, uh, because you know,

  627. good food, good food, car, you know, run down who

  628. you know. But me and my wife are finding very

  629. difficult because you know, you know, people are mourning then

  630. all that kind of thing. But you know it's part

  631. of party path of eating. So part of pasta of

  632. the whole thing. Okay, graduation eat phil eat to encounter

  633. red first, work first, and they eat a ber say,

  634. work first, and they eat go away to overseas, eat

  635. come back for overseas. Why because we all get sent

  636. home heavier. The Bible says, don't just bless your parents, mom,

  637. God bless you are.

  638. But the money that I have is for the church.

  639. No, Jesus said, don't do that. You want to honor

  640. you gotta make your mom heavier a little bit. Then

  641. when she came in, you know what I'm saying. When

  642. she came in, she was only seventy two kilograms. When

  643. she goes out, she must be seventy four. You add

  644. two more kilograms with her love and fresh air.

  645. Won't at that? Give her something?

  646. All?

  647. See the head is this Indian? Or is this Italian?

  648. This one is a banana? Leave here alone? Let that hello?

  649. Oh things even ah. So I went to India to

  650. speak in India and I arrived at the airport.

  651. And they're like, oh, pastor, And they put two gardens

  652. on me. No one not enough.

  653. If I got someone had three three, But you know,

  654. because the garden is so thick, right, he went through

  655. my negative second girl.

  656. And went to my eyes. So I didn't want to

  657. take it off because it's not I felt like the

  658. first time. But they want to honor you to honor

  659. yous to make you heavier. So you're going, You're going

  660. to the car like this, and then was.

  661. Giving must stay and I must stay you know, you know,

  662. and the third guy wanted to do I say, okay,

  663. I won't be able to see want to want to.

  664. Put that one. We understand, you know, blessing people.

  665. Sometimes words words can also be wait, you want to

  666. encourage somebody. You are the most good looking guy in

  667. this room. Now you want to see when you walk out,

  668. he he heavy with encouragement, or like maybe you're walking

  669. on air. We honor, we honor, We honor evidence of

  670. things not seen.

  671. I want to see.

  672. But God is not ready to give why because he's

  673. waiting on me. Oh you see I you hear the

  674. sentence again.

  675. The sentence is this. The sentence is this.

  676. We wait upon God for only what he can do,

  677. as he waits upon us for only what we can do.

  678. Let's look at some stories and then we draw to

  679. a close.

  680. Are you ready? I just want to encoura you because

  681. I tell you what, there is not one single problem

  682. in this room. He cannot solve snap of finger soft,

  683. But he loves faith. He's pleased by faith. He's waiting upon.

  684. Us, and he will give you even more than you

  685. can imagine Ephesients three twenty.

  686. Now unto him who's able to do exceedingly.

  687. Abundantly above all that, we could ask a thing according

  688. to the richest or the power that works. Yes, wow,

  689. there miss is according to the power that works in us.

  690. And know what's the power that works in you? It's

  691. got to be something from God, right, holy Spirit, faith,

  692. the mess. He will give you all these things according

  693. to the power that works in you. Ooh, sometimes some

  694. of us don't read the last partner. We're just in God, God, God, God,

  695. God abundantly over you know above what according so everything,

  696. the whole sky belongs to you. But it's still going

  697. to be measured up with according to what's in you.

  698. And so I want you and I twenty twenty five

  699. to have within us what will pull down.

  700. From heaven.

  701. The promises and power and the potential. Oh, and the

  702. anointing and the gifts. Jesus says, I came to give

  703. you life John ten ten.

  704. The devil does not come except to steal, kill and destroy.

  705. But I have come, Jesus said, to give you life.

  706. Somebody say life and life more abundantly. This is Jesus

  707. and I want us all in this room twenty twenty

  708. five to live the abundant life.

  709. This is how it works. Everybody. I want to remind you.

  710. You already notice you heard this message before. But I

  711. want to remind you because a lot of us are

  712. just going another direction. My auntie say this, my uncle

  713. say that, my father said this, my mother said that.

  714. Good, good, good.

  715. They all they all love you, They all have well

  716. meaning intentions. They all have experience. Good, thank you God

  717. for experience.

  718. Yeah yeah, yeah, but.

  719. Too many of us are going just by facts and

  720. facts that's not produced. Facts does not create Facts does

  721. not make a new ex kids teacher. Facts does not

  722. bring in a new musician into the extreme. Facts does

  723. not raise a new missionary. Facts does not create money.

  724. In a bank account that has no money, you need

  725. to You need to understand. I've been living by faith

  726. for the last thirty years, and I will look at

  727. my bank account go down to two hundred init and

  728. I go like God, the same God that provided enough

  729. for me last month will cause my bank account to flourish,

  730. and sure.

  731. Enough, within days.

  732. You know, someone's heart is touched around the world around

  733. Malaysia especially, and I look into my bank account three

  734. days later, you know, is gone up by ten times

  735. and just enough to pay some bills, and it goes

  736. down again. Say Lord, the same God you know who

  737. opened the tap of blessing has never, never, never closed it.

  738. But that tap is.

  739. Opened by faith. It doesn't, it doesn't, it's not open

  740. by facts. My brains can't comprehend. So I need to

  741. I need to say God, I know it doesn't make sense.

  742. You know, many times God doesn't want to make sense.

  743. You know, even the crosser doesn't make sense. That's why

  744. the Bible, she says, you know, he doesn't make sense

  745. to all these people who go by the intellect. Salvation

  746. is by intellect, they think, so it's a fullish The

  747. cross is foolishness. That's what the Bible says, is a

  748. foolish message to those who are perishing. You with me,

  749. And some of the top minds in this world are

  750. perishing because they just think that their minds can save them.

  751. Science can save them.

  752. But it's faith in Christ, in the God of abundance,

  753. who says to me, Kenneth Chan, where did your money

  754. come from?

  755. Last month? He came from you. Where do you think

  756. it's coming from?

  757. This one?

  758. It comes from you? Where do you cut this next one?

  759. It comes from you.

  760. You. When you think I need two hundred thousand, you

  761. give me two hundred Thosand you think I need two thousand, regait,

  762. you give me.

  763. To the God. The tap from heaven doesn't close. Oh.

  764. I love the scripture that says, prove me now if

  765. I want to open the windows of heaven, I pray

  766. over you right now.

  767. Can I just close my eyes and do this?

  768. I pray over all of you right now, that the

  769. windows of heaven will open for all of you, and

  770. you will live under open heaven. God will not withhold

  771. from you, and God will show you the great and

  772. mighty things that Jeremiah Tenny three, verse three talks about.

  773. Let's look at some of these thoughts now. Very quickly,

  774. water turned to wine. Wine was needed, wine was hopeful.

  775. Wine was not yet seen. It's finished the bright day.

  776. Groom will be embarrassed. And they invited Jesus.

  777. And that's the most beautiful thing they did, because the

  778. Lord said in his word, those who trust in me

  779. will never.

  780. Be put to shame.

  781. Have you read those scriptures before? Never you trust in

  782. the Lord, you will never be put to That couple

  783. invited Jesus into their wedding, ran out of wine early,

  784. you know, not late early. It was gonna be the

  785. worst wedding and people are going to go away laughing

  786. at them. No money, don't call people. Are so many

  787. people do? No money, don't invite line, you know, huh.

  788. Jesus was in the house and the mother said, do.

  789. Something for them.

  790. Initially, you look at Jesus was not interested. It's not

  791. my time yet. And the mother had so much confidence

  792. in the Lord that she said to the servants, whatever

  793. he tells you to do, do it, just do it.

  794. He's going to tell you something because he's a good God.

  795. He will not allow you to be embarrassed. Even though

  796. he looks like he's not interested. Where are you, God,

  797. He's there, he's there. Somebody say, Amen, he's.

  798. Interested in you.

  799. He's interested in your life, your marriage, your family. He says,

  800. feel the water pots, He said, Phil, do you understand this?

  801. We will always be asked to do something first. That's

  802. our evidence of things not yet seen. Let God see first,

  803. then we will see later.

  804. Are you all see me?

  805. Let God see the evidence in your action, in your speech,

  806. in your life and living every day. Let God see

  807. some evidence of faith that your eyes are on him,

  808. that you have trust is in him. Let him see

  809. some evidence. Let the judge of all judges see why

  810. my son can a chin? You know, right ahead and

  811. booked the hotel room to celebrate his wife's birthday without

  812. knowing whether she had time to do it or not,

  813. because her class was supposed to finish at five pm,

  814. and the dinner that we were sponsored by a very

  815. wonderful woman in this church sponsored our dinner, and we

  816. were supposed to be there at seven. So paying for

  817. the hotel for two hours is crazy, right, But the

  818. Lord just told me, do it. Where's the money coming from?

  819. Do it?

  820. I'll pay you know daily.

  821. You know, he just expects us to have a little

  822. bit of evidence of where our trust really is, where

  823. our eyes are really on And you know, I didn't

  824. know that. My wife, her lecturer will tell her we're

  825. gonna end by two thirty today.

  826. I didn't know that.

  827. So she wrote to me, she says, there to Thtilla.

  828. I said, I'm coming now. But before I came, I

  829. was really in the in the hotel. I was doing something,

  830. and then I ran up to the reception and I

  831. said to the receptionist, because now that bassender finished to

  832. the t I would have to go by about one

  833. thirty t go and pick up because it's about an

  834. hour all right with traffic.

  835. I read a.

  836. Reception, I said the reception Uh, I just want to

  837. check whether you got my booking. All I want to

  838. know was that you got my booking or not. She's

  839. looking today. I want your name, chin, kind of chin. Okay,

  840. we got your booking, sir. I said, okay, thank you.

  841. I'm coming back. Okay, I'm gonna pick my wife up

  842. and I'm coming back.

  843. She said to me, why do you check it now?

  844. I said, I thought you said, well you need check

  845. you at three o'clock. Says no, no, we got your

  846. room now. And what else do you want to for

  847. your wife? It's above it right, I said, yeah, would

  848. you like Roase Betals on the bed? So I came

  849. in Rosse Metals on the bed, but Rose Betals filled

  850. the bathtub.

  851. Was oh.

  852. My wife looked at it like I'm not getting in there.

  853. I said, no, wife, I also loo getting in there

  854. because if I get in there, order what to talk

  855. ab out you know.

  856. Favor? How did? How do you live your life on

  857. a daily basis?

  858. If any Christian come and tell me that Christianity is boring,

  859. I'll take my socks and no, no, no, I have

  860. a friend photo says work your eyeballs with my socks,

  861. and anyone knowes so I don't know. I don't even

  862. understand what he means, work your eyeballs with my socks.

  863. But but no, please, christian is not boring. It's boring

  864. if you only live by facts, because other religions also

  865. we'll live by like that. Right now, I know I'm

  866. being very bold, but I'm trying to say to you,

  867. then mightsell be another person somewhere else doing something else.

  868. Go worship another god. This is not the god of

  869. facts only, this is the God of faith. Are you

  870. also with me?

  871. We are safe by grace through faith? Five loves. Two

  872. fish has to give up first before feeding of the

  873. five thousand, yes or no? Come on, people, How many

  874. roties and how many dolls and how many chicken tika

  875. masala do you have in your hands?

  876. Give it up?

  877. The boy had to give up his lunch, maybe even

  878. his dinner. No, I doubt the mother gave him lunch,

  879. a five flows two fish. He must have been for

  880. lunch and probably tea. Maybe he was partly indeed, he

  881. had to have we love our you know, I see

  882. you know I counted myself. But I call it d

  883. because you know I'm.

  884. I'm partly FBI FBI full bloody Indian. And and.

  885. The boy when he gave up his five flows two fish,

  886. his his name is not even here. There's no Chong.

  887. I'm a cow. There's the lad in these last days.

  888. I'm telling you it's it's gonna be a lot of

  889. nameless heroes. You in this room. Me, It's okay, just

  890. I just want to live to please God. And the

  891. only way to live, the police God is by faith.

  892. Give up your lunch, give up your dinner, and he

  893. fed not just the Bible says five thousand men, means

  894. it could be five thousand women and children. It could

  895. have been ten thousand, all from the boys giving up.

  896. What came first, the evidence of the boy first, every

  897. dance of things not yet seen. You want to see

  898. your evidence. Where's your evidence? So I'm encouraging excerpt the componing.

  899. Where is your evidence? And I'm not just talking about money,

  900. time serving where is it? How's your speech? Every day

  901. a sailor. We have a lot of sailor in the church,

  902. A lot of sailors, Ah, a lot of sailors. You

  903. know loss and see sailor because you have faced with

  904. such a preticabment.

  905. Are you dire students? Monday exam, Sunday heaven studdy? Should die?

  906. One should die one? I don't even know what that means.

  907. One day sumone should comeut with and should I too?

  908. Because I died one? That's my second diy you die?

  909. Ah Lujah.

  910. Widow and Elijah, this as that perfect perfectle can't give.

  911. You a story.

  912. A There was upon a time there was a widow

  913. who had nothing. She was picking up sticks and said

  914. that she will bake a few cakes and she and

  915. her son will eat.

  916. And I.

  917. Then she was praying, Oh God, please send help. And

  918. help came in the form of Elijah, the man of God.

  919. And when she saw Elijah, I can't imagine.

  920. She said, Wow, God, I'll send my prayer. And then Elijah, come,

  921. you got any food?

  922. Nute Elijah, the servant man of God who called fire

  923. down from heaven.

  924. He is not. Please give me a few kicks first,

  925. what kind of answer you're giving me, God, What kind

  926. of answer you're giving me?

  927. Not only that, noly that she said, we will bake

  928. this cake and me and my son will eat and die.

  929. And then the prophet says, good, go do it and

  930. give me some first.

  931. Not you'll eat firs, poor thing, murder, murdered son, eat first,

  932. whatever remainder crumbs I would take, and I will make

  933. it into a bakery.

  934. No, no, biracle ada, He says, give me first.

  935. Why because God is always, always first, always, So Elijah

  936. represented God came and said, woman, bake your cake before

  937. you eat.

  938. Let me eat.

  939. She went and did it, And what did we hear

  940. after that? Her job of oil a bino fla never ran.

  941. All right, then what else is there we do? In

  942. Elisha Shasha she was also going to die, but not

  943. just that. Her sons were going to be sold to

  944. the creditors because her husband, you know, her husband was

  945. also a prophet. But the prophet died, and the prophet

  946. died owing money, and the creditors were coming, and the

  947. creditors were going to take her sons, and she's praying,

  948. oh God, don't let it take my sons.

  949. Please send send a.

  950. Sign and comes Elisha, and Elisha, please wave your hand

  951. and kill the creditors on their way. Wave your hand

  952. and turn green leaves into green back, no green dollar whatever,

  953. turn No, do them for me in a way that

  954. my mind can comprehend. No, no, no, Elisha says, go

  955. borrow empty bottles. She said, why, I just told you

  956. I only have a little bit of oil left.

  957. Yeah, but if you go borrow the empty bottles, your

  958. oil will never run dry.

  959. She sends her sons to go knocking on doors. Hello Auntie,

  960. Hello Auntie, Hello Auntie. Yes, yes, boy, my mother sent

  961. me to get bottles from you.

  962. Why.

  963. Actually, we are very poor and there's only very little

  964. bit of oil left, and uh my mother jes say,

  965. go and borrow empty bottle?

  966. Are you sureing you what I say? Empty?

  967. You're so poor and you're so hungry. Let me feel

  968. the bottle. Anti give you, humble UNTI give your run down.

  969. Let uncle fill your bottle with naci lama. Let me

  970. feel it with corn. No, no, you're supposed to have empty.

  971. Nah.

  972. Don't go with your own understanding, don't go with your

  973. own wisdom. God wants them empty because you got plan

  974. to feel them. So I said, knocking doors. I think

  975. there embarrassed, very embarrassed. Answer, Why are your bodies when

  976. you as just for you going to Antiqukali Mutu's house? Uh?

  977. And and and why why?

  978. Why not enough men and the boys are all having

  979. the borders, Misi border as many?

  980. So I'm back.

  981. How many of you living by faith sometimes feel so embarrassed?

  982. And that's why you don't?

  983. You don't, you don't.

  984. It's not easy, though, to go around saying that I

  985. haven't been living on a salary for three years. I mean,

  986. after while, maybe I got used to it. But I'm

  987. not begging. I'm just telling the fact that I serve

  988. a very good and faithful God.

  989. Are you still with me? When I need to pay

  990. a bill, it comes. When I need to help somebody,

  991. it comes. Oh, but it's not easy.

  992. But you have to surpass the embarrassment because you're not

  993. asking just for yourself.

  994. Are you all me?

  995. You're asking because God told you to ask. Now listen,

  996. as she poured her oil into the bottles. The oil

  997. never ran dry, and one bottle get filled, another bottle

  998. get filled, another bottle get filled, and then finally she

  999. feels all the bottles and she asked the son bring

  1000. me another bottle, and the sun said there are no

  1001. more bottles. Then the oil stopped. I have a very

  1002. important message by the side to tell you you want

  1003. to be a part of a church that has.

  1004. The oil flowing.

  1005. But the oil stops flowing when the vessels stop presenting itself.

  1006. And as long as we remained as empty vessels willing

  1007. to be used by God, the.

  1008. Oil will steal, will steal, and keep flowing.

  1009. When people in church are saying no, no, no, don't

  1010. come mean I don't want to serve, I don't want

  1011. to lead, I don't want to sacrifice.

  1012. I don't want to come for practice, I don't want

  1013. to come for pregnant thing. I don't know, I don't

  1014. I know, I don't you know.

  1015. And later on they would also be the people that

  1016. leave because you would annoying things stop. Ready, the annoying

  1017. things stopped already. Where's the oil that we once had?

  1018. You know why we once had so much? All because

  1019. everybody was hungry.

  1020. Yourself ever signed me up, sign me up?

  1021. And all these vessels come before the Lord, and the

  1022. lot just feels and feels and give me more more,

  1023. and new people come up yeah, and I mean I

  1024. self too.

  1025. And then next week you people.

  1026. Come up, I want to self too, and the next

  1027. ten years people coming up, I want.

  1028. To self too. I want to I love Jesus. I

  1029. want to let him make use me. And the Lord

  1030. keeps feeling.

  1031. And for a hundred years, you know, the oil keeps

  1032. going because the vessels never stop. The oil never stop.

  1033. I always do with me the one site bonus for you.

  1034. I won't charge for that. Abraham and Isaac give me Isaac.

  1035. But God, you promised me Isaac. You know how long

  1036. I had to wait? Not my wife eighty years old?

  1037. I told her first of reasons. Now, no, how many

  1038. of you have Grandmather's year eighty years old?

  1039. Come on? Huh? This ties the year? Ah, welcome this

  1040. TI is the year I got good news for you?

  1041. Are your laughs?

  1042. Over?

  1043. Eighty five years old? I got good news for you.

  1044. You're happy for me? And then she show you the

  1045. the stick? What was it called? Against hen? What's the brand?

  1046. H we U see before it? Yeah?

  1047. Blue blue blue something? Oh yeah, says the one who

  1048. has three blue Not so clear?

  1049. Okay? Who Grandma?

  1050. Grandma used to have a stick at eighty five. Now

  1051. she says, hey, well, count the Chinese. Oh, I got

  1052. a clear blue stick for you.

  1053. It's crazy. And now when all the.

  1054. Miracle has happened, she's got she's got the sun called Isaac.

  1055. He's got the sun called Isaac. God says, give him

  1056. to me. Ah, theme, guy, how does God work? How

  1057. does God work? Mm hmm, give you a few more.

  1058. Jesus asked the man with the withared hand to stretch

  1059. out his hand. Jesus comes into Templar. He sees a man,

  1060. she's a man, and everybody Jesus goes around. You know,

  1061. you know sometimes I've heard pictures say before that if

  1062. they if the person is okay, they pray, or they

  1063. pray with fervency.

  1064. Then when they see some way harder.

  1065. They're going, okay, hold only God bless you, right because

  1066. because there's some there's something in a rumor harder than

  1067. out of people. Okay, But Jesus doesn't back out. Now

  1068. saw him worshiping uh serer or I'm not making a

  1069. job of him. I'm wanting you see, okay, I wanted.

  1070. Jesus is probably there saying I'm going to get to

  1071. him later. But it's not going to be easy. I

  1072. tell you why, because I'm not just going to heal him.

  1073. I'm going to ask him to stretch forth his hand.

  1074. Come on you there, yes me, yes, you.

  1075. You want to be healed. Yes, stretch forth your hand.

  1076. Huh you peria you're mocking me here some of you

  1077. in this roomor hey, andro, do this?

  1078. Oh past?

  1079. I sat down with you three hours. I told you,

  1080. my past. I told you that I had a with

  1081. a hand on the inside. I told you, reader, my

  1082. boss was cruel to me, and.

  1083. You still asked me to forgive him so bad? Are

  1084. you come and be a leader this year? I told

  1085. you before I was hurt so many times being a

  1086. leader in the attitude and then you you ask me

  1087. you are you want to embarrassed beak for anybody? Tratch?

  1088. How are you?

  1089. My wife just reminded me many years ago, I was

  1090. asked to be a worship leader in all girls school.

  1091. H hi, yeah, yeay.

  1092. I went with a friend. We practice four songs. The

  1093. first song, this is the day, this is the day

  1094. that the Lord has made that the very very top song.

  1095. Those days practice already two weeks.

  1096. I went Saint Mary's School, my oldest sister school, San

  1097. Mary's four hundred girls.

  1098. In the room. It was religious vega, one of those you.

  1099. Know, everybody go release versus riga, all go and pray

  1100. to their gods for examine.

  1101. Ah. You know I gonna say. You had to say, yo,

  1102. you have this own school.

  1103. Nah. So the Christians also invite in that room, boding

  1104. go forty Christian three hundred and sixteen on Christian all come,

  1105. because they said at least the Christian one not awarding.

  1106. The game they game. They invited a good looking guy

  1107. my guit that is our house, literally half my size.

  1108. Uh. And so I was nervous a ready, but I

  1109. had confidence because you had practiced. I saw all these

  1110. girls in uniform, blue color uniform, and I really should

  1111. have I should have seen the sign of the sign

  1112. of the girls all sading. It is.

  1113. Only the forty Christian girls.

  1114. Were looking the same most because you know they were

  1115. surrounded by trains the sixty so they also have to

  1116. act like they were one of them.

  1117. So I do I do know who was Christian who's not?

  1118. So I go, uh, sisters, are you ready to worship

  1119. the Lord quiet?

  1120. He was a funeral. I've been to funerals that are louder. Okay,

  1121. they are good okay, and not responding. So I asked

  1122. my wiquitar, let's go.

  1123. This is the day.

  1124. This is the day that the Lord has made that

  1125. the Lord Boo boo, four hundred girls, boo boo.

  1126. Have you ever booed a worship be there before? Boo boo?

  1127. I went on, I tek up, this is the day.

  1128. This is the boo boo.

  1129. So my hendrit that is change not dada. Change song,

  1130. change song, change song. Come blas the Lord, come blast

  1131. the Lord.

  1132. Are you boo boom?

  1133. You know? Because my time is so shot now I

  1134. have to tell you the whole Sorry, now, four songs

  1135. in two minutes.

  1136. The fastest worship beater in town. Don moan has nothing

  1137. on me, I'm telling you right now. Ah why God

  1138. make no? God didn't make any way for me to day?

  1139. Boo I went home. I'll tell you. The funnier thing

  1140. is that. The funniest thing is though, okay, I look

  1141. to my guitar.

  1142. Is by the third song, I look back to my guitarist,

  1143. what he courage went, He's gone no money. I can

  1144. only hear his guitar. He's behind get then, because our

  1145. friend thought he was very handsome. Now all day you

  1146. go one ego, become ego eg.

  1147. So I went home. I was so you know in

  1148. my car, I will never.

  1149. Disappointment, hope or gone, no hope, no favor, devil wins.

  1150. I will never do this everything anymore. I will never sing.

  1151. I will never stand, especially in front of girls.

  1152. There are wicked people, I tell you. Sometimes they reap

  1153. very so soft and nice. Sometimes they don't joe you

  1154. with that rip.

  1155. Serious.

  1156. So one year later, who is to call me chaplain

  1157. from Saint Mary's Kenneth. I was in passing at Kenneth.

  1158. We really like you coming last year, liar, We really

  1159. like you got so fast the worship. If you want

  1160. fast worshiper, call me.

  1161. Here's my card. Two minutes counting four songs for the encouragement.

  1162. I had boo boo, four hundred girls.

  1163. I tell you are one girl, is ok a hiliary

  1164. four hundred girls boom.

  1165. I choked and died. I told myself right, never n

  1166. E V E R.

  1167. Never never never, And then she says, this time we

  1168. want you come and share your testimony.

  1169. From the same school. Though you know, you know I did.

  1170. I did a very very spiritual thing. I'll pray about

  1171. it in my heart. I say never.

  1172. I put it on the phone. Now, I'll call you back.

  1173. You know, I pray, but it, I'll call you back.

  1174. I was gonna call her twodays later, just to act.

  1175. I pray.

  1176. Right, the Holy Spirit spoke to me so clearly, Kenneth,

  1177. do it, I said, get behind me, Satan, I say no.

  1178. And then God, God spoke very clearly, I'm not Satan.

  1179. Oh sorry, Lord, you need to do this because if

  1180. you don't do it, you will never break through to

  1181. see what's.

  1182. On the other side. I don't want to see what's

  1183. on the data side. Oh.

  1184. The Lord had to convince me, really convinced me, and

  1185. I went. I went four hundred girls again the next year,

  1186. the same wickedness within the room, the smell of evil.

  1187. I stood there and I gave my testimony. Lynette, my

  1188. sister was also from this school, and you know that

  1189. she died before her time. I, as a brother, has

  1190. been visiting the school cause and marriage so many times

  1191. because my sister will inviting me for things here. But

  1192. I want to tell you about a God that has

  1193. turned the tragedy into a testimony. Right. I only shared

  1194. for fifteen minutes, all right, and that day forty girls

  1195. gave their lives to Jesus. Forty girls gave their life

  1196. to Jesus. Come on that, Praise God, Praise God. You

  1197. will never know, oh what God has in stall for

  1198. you on the other side, because on this side it

  1199. just looks insurmountable.

  1200. No hope.

  1201. Can you imagine if I actually followed my own facts,

  1202. I won't even be sending front of you here They

  1203. probably won't be ex God can see much further, and

  1204. no further than even the forty girls that gave their

  1205. lives to Christ over fifteen minutes of testimony.

  1206. Stretch out your hand. No you don't understand. They booted me.

  1207. Stretch out your hand. Just hear me.

  1208. Lord, with a step of finger, I can, I can.

  1209. I can just blow on your hand and it was straightened.

  1210. But that's not the way I work. God is saying

  1211. to you, I believe do you.

  1212. God believes he can do We believe he can. And

  1213. there are days where you just have to.

  1214. Get out and stretch out. And in the stretching comes

  1215. the healing. In the walking, the ten lepers found their healing.

  1216. Go and show yourself to the priests. They won't heal yet.

  1217. But when they walk to the priests, they were heal

  1218. on the way. Can I just confess over you right now?

  1219. Your healing is on the way. If you believe it,

  1220. receive it. Say amen. Your breakthrough is on the way,

  1221. Your blessing is on the way. Your loan approval is

  1222. on the way.

  1223. Your new staff, who's gonna love your company as much

  1224. as you do, is on the way. He asks a

  1225. blind man to go and wash in the pool of salam.

  1226. How do you do that? Maybe I'll end with this, Lord,

  1227. Just do your thing. Just do your thing and open

  1228. the eyes. No ple.

  1229. When the spit on the ground, Thank god, it was

  1230. not COVID timer. It was a COVID I don't know better.

  1231. You can spit on the ground and make clay with

  1232. your hands if it was COVID time, I'm not sure.

  1233. Just heal me. No, no, hold on, hold on.

  1234. Jesus has another way. He spits on the ground, makes

  1235. clay with his hand. I can almost imagine that his

  1236. disciples whispering, Now mind no mine, Jesus, after I give

  1237. you hand sanitizer.

  1238. That day when I said to another.

  1239. Church, I said, he made clay with his hands. A

  1240. girl from the back I'm not sure whether it was

  1241. green or yellow or white.

  1242. Brown brown.

  1243. Say when you eat a NuGet, you cover the brown

  1244. and dun. There's there's something very powerful in this listener.

  1245. Whatever they got, whatever it comes out of God's mouth.

  1246. POI hits the ground, which is you and me, because

  1247. we are made of the earth, and he takes whatever

  1248. it is from his mouth, max with whatever that's on

  1249. the ground, and he makes clay that can heal the world.

  1250. Today.

  1251. If you are seated here as dirt, as ground, as earth,

  1252. let his spit touch you.

  1253. Let his word. Men should not live by bread alone,

  1254. but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth clay.

  1255. Your life, in my life can become a healing bomb

  1256. to people outside. You understand very powerful. He puts the

  1257. healing balm on the man's eyes, and then he says,

  1258. go wash.

  1259. Why do you do this? This is not right.

  1260. You're asking a blind man to go to the pool

  1261. of siloam and wash. Why are you so evil? The

  1262. pool of not next door? No, show me some evidence

  1263. before you see my evidence. Lord, why don't you just

  1264. give me mineral the bottle? Let me just watch it here,

  1265. got that.

  1266. What you no? Pool of Siloam.

  1267. Slam means sent, how many of you are going to

  1268. do what God has sent you to do, because your

  1269. healing is found in descending. It's not just any water,

  1270. not just any pool. It's the pool that you will

  1271. send to. And he goes to the pool of Siloam.

  1272. Exactly.

  1273. It's the Lord said to him, wash and he sees.

  1274. Now there's evidence from God. But before the evidence came

  1275. from God, there was evidence from the blind man. He

  1276. walked to find the pool.

  1277. And I can go on and on. My time is up.

  1278. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you so

  1279. much that for my assignment of sharing the Word with

  1280. this church for the beginning of this year. I couldn't

  1281. do it on the first Sunday. I couldn't do it

  1282. on the second Sunday. But by the grace of God,

  1283. I'm able to stand here on the third Sunday. We

  1284. are still early, although very soon. Even the first month

  1285. is gone. Then the second month will go like a

  1286. bullet train. The third month will come and go, and

  1287. then we are in the middle of the year, and

  1288. then the year comes towards the end, and then we

  1289. say Happy New Year again.

  1290. Twenty twenty six. But God has got so much more

  1291. than that. Close hits about.

  1292. God did not create twenty twenty five just to pass by,

  1293. just to pass over jes to have the same results

  1294. as twenty twenty four. God is giving us another chance. Breathe, everybody, breathe,

  1295. Breathe in the spirit of God. This morning, this afternoon.

  1296. Now it's two minutes to one o'clock, so I have

  1297. to close. But I know that you have received God's word.

  1298. His word has gone forthy, will not returned to avoid.

  1299. We're gonna ask together the Lord. We gonna say God

  1300. this year, how is he going to be different? God

  1301. is probably gonna say back to you, how are you

  1302. going to be different? You ask me for evidence, saith

  1303. the Lord. But I'm gonna ask you first for evidence.

  1304. Show me some evidence, show me some substance, show me

  1305. some seriousness behind your faith, show me that you believe.

  1306. And You're gonna ask Lord, how tell me? How is

  1307. it to go? Where you send me the pool of ce?

  1308. Long is it to borrow empty bottles from my neighbors,

  1309. even though it's embarrassing?

  1310. Is it to bake and give first to the prophet?

  1311. What is it? Is it as simple as just filling

  1312. six water jars up to the brim, not questioning at all.

  1313. Jesus didn't even pray over the water Jazz, He just spoke.

  1314. They did, and the water turned to wine. They brought

  1315. the water to the Master of ceremony, and he said,

  1316. this wine is even better than the ordered wine, because.

  1317. The wine that God will give you. Listen to me

  1318. very carefully.

  1319. The wine that will come from God is going to

  1320. be so much better than whatever wine you can order

  1321. on your own strength, and you with your own money. No,

  1322. I encourage all of you to taste the wine that

  1323. comes from Heaven pays the wine it comes from God.

  1324. How do you do it? Live by faith, not by sight.

  1325. How do you do it?

  1326. Here? God speak to you, because faith comes by hearing,

  1327. and hearing by the word of God. Every week after

  1328. week when you come, don't just listen to a good message,

  1329. say God, speak to me. God will bring speakers here.

  1330. And sometimes even though he speaks for one hour, you

  1331. might just only get one minute.

  1332. Then there's enough.

  1333. You take that one minute with you and you live

  1334. out that one minute. You live out that one word,

  1335. live out that one word. You know how God's going

  1336. to honor you you see, if your spirit is like

  1337. a womb and his word is like a seed, then

  1338. his seed will go forth and impregnate you spiritually speaking,

  1339. so that when you go away, you will go away

  1340. bigger than when you came.

  1341. You came empty in your womb, in your spiritual womb.

  1342. But if you let the seed of God's work impregnant.

  1343. The womb of your heart, what will happen is that

  1344. there will be a baby that will be born in you.

  1345. That baby means the promise of God, and his promises

  1346. are yes and amen. And you will go away and

  1347. come back, Go away and come back, And sooner or

  1348. later you're there will be a bump.

  1349. They will see, they will see that you're pregnant with something,

  1350. and one day you will give birth to it.

  1351. And you give birth to the promises of God. Yeah,

  1352. yes and amen. You understand. You understand me. So don't

  1353. just come to church, but come believing, come hearing, come

  1354. saying God, show me, tell me, teach me. What is it?

  1355. What is the evidence that I can offer you? Because

  1356. I tell you what your best years are ahead of you?

  1357. Can I hear a good Amen? Your best years are

  1358. before you? The best is it to come? Because with God.

  1359. With God, we just go from strength to strength, faith

  1360. to faith, glory to glory. Stand to your feet, everybody,

  1361. unlet's dedicate and re dedicate our lives as we start

  1362. a new year. Say Lord, help me show me, teach me.

  1363. What is the substance that you want from me? What

  1364. is the evidence. I don't want to be very fairy,

  1365. dreamy Christian. I don't want this to talk only but

  1366. not do. I also don't want to be almost spiritual,

  1367. because sometimes we just almost spiritual. We just talk so

  1368. much about you know, the concepts of you know, justification, sanctification,

  1369. or the big.

  1370. Words, and yet there is no big true in our lives.

  1371. So I don't want you just to be talkers.

  1372. I want you to be testify us that you don't

  1373. just talk, you testify of God's goodness in your life.

  1374. Somebody say, amen, Amen, testify. Don't be hearers of the

  1375. world only, but be doers of the word.

  1376. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  1379. that this week is going to be a good week,

  1380. a hit for you God, bless,