Faith Creates | Pr Kenneth Chin

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very very simple title. This morning, Faith creates.

Faith Creates.

The second slide will give you a little bit of

an introduction to why this message came about.

Now. I was at a meeting.

Not too long ago, maybe two months ago, and they

invited me to give them some sort of idea or

some sort of wisdom or direction as to the things

that they were struggling with. And so at day one

I was seated at this sort of board meeting with

leaders and they had like, how we have right youth

pastor young adults past missions past, et cetera. So I

got to here, one by one stand up and say,

this is the report for the year, and it's been

good but right, and they are but uh seem a

bit longer uh than the good stuff that has been happening.

And this is what they said, if I can remember correctly.

It was not enough leaders, uh, not enough houses to

have more cell groups, not enough assistance, not enough adults

to volunteer for youth service, familiar, not enough musicians.

Maybe it's not happening here in the x X is

very blessed, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, not enough instruments, not enough I don't know,

there's so many, not enough stars. Okay, So the slide

has that question that says, what do I still lack?

So there was a lot of lack on that first

day as I was listening in a lot of lack,

A lot of lack.

Pastor, you don't understand, Uh, we are not like KL church. Uh,

you know.

I went up to Alostar and spoke to a pastor

who told me, Pastor Kenneth, we don't have young people

in our church.

They all go down to KL or maybe Pinang or Singapore.

So by the time they come to Form five, we

don't have we don't have camp, we don't even need

campus ministry, you know. And the pastor was telling me

this story with a sadness because he knows that I

am involved in youth ministry and I believe that God

is using us, you know, to go around the country

to encourage people all across. And I really am praying

for a reverse missions that we will start sending back

people to cities and states and towns. Maybe not necessarily

full time, but I'm praying for jobs in Alosta. I'm

praying for jobs in Glanton, and praying for jobs in Tregano, Bahang.

Another leader came up to me the idea and.

Said, Pastor, a lot of churches have closed down in

Pahang because of the lack of the second generation of leaders.

And he says, you'll have You're happier. You're getting all

our people, you know, from all the different towns and states. Ah,

You're very happier. You're getting thousands of people in your church.

But all these people are from us, you know. And

if they stay on in kl know, we're gonna die

one by one across the country.

This is the reality.

And so that's why I've retired as a senior pastor

of ex church, because the Lord has called me into

Malaysia now, so I travel quite a bit, and I

will travel more to minister and to encourage pastors all

across the country, even in Saba Sarawa, Saba Sarawah, sorry,

let me just be more specific, and even in Bintulu.

When I was speaking the other day, they told me

that they have seven hundred churches SIB seven hundred churches

in Sarawa alone, and out of the seven hundred churches,

maybe about five hundred and forty have got pastus. I mean,

you say that there are one hundred and sixty churches

that don't have pastes. So they're trying to train, right,

And they said, guess what pasta? I said, Yeah, what

he said? He said, we just graduated seven Bible College students.

He says seven is nowhere near one hundred and sixty.

And he's telling me that less and less people are

signing up a Bible school to be equipped to be pastest.

So actually, if you look at the total picture of Malaysia,

it's quite a challenging picture to look at.

But with God, all things are possible.

So I'm coming up with this thought of loaning people,

loaning our people back to so that people can go

back for a few months, or go back for six months,

or go back for a year, and then we connect

with our leaders as they go back to Glantan Tregano

Kada Jojo and just go and bring life and light

and hope. But they will not be sent alone. We

will connect and we will send mission teams and you know,

so a lot of things are on my mind to

see how don't just talk about the problems, don't just

talk about the lack be the answer, provide a solution.

But I know that it's going to be the work

of the Holy Spirit because a lot of people are

quite comfortable where they are, so the Holy Spirit has

to stir up hearts to move. And yet we must

also come out with a plan so that when young

people go back, they don't feel alone, abandoned, isolated. And

we don't fight with churches and their policies that has

gone on for ages. So when I speak to pastors now,

Senior pastor, I said, we can do something in the

name of Jesus, by the grace of God, with the

health of the Holy Spirit, but we must not fight

when it comes to doctrinate, because when I send a

young person back to Alosta, I said to this pastor,

there's not even in my message.

But I don't know why I'm saying. Maybe the Holy

Spirit is leading me to say.

I said, when I send someone back past her, you

must not say that communion is only done this way

and we don't speak in tongues. And I said, let's

not let's not make it harder for young people to

come back. And I know that my job, therefore, my

calling is to actually work with senior pastors all across

the country so that we can make a way for

the younger ones to come back with joy and with

you know, just a sense of like it's going to

be fine. And if you want to fight, let's the devil.

And let's not fight each other. Let's not fight denominations.

Let's fight demons, not the Okay, not denominations.

Okay.

So uh yeah, So I thought I thought i'd just

say that to you. It's a very interesting, exciting time

to be alive in Malaysia. God has planned great things

for this nation. Yes, he might seem that he's taken

a long time, but God is not done with Malayia.

If you believe, you say amen, He's just beginning. And

the things that God is doing with even our I

p G students, and and and and and fire is

spreading across our teacher training institutes. And I'm hearing that

God is beginning to Yeah to wonders, uh and Pastor Yvonne,

if you get to hear her testimony of what's happening

is amazing. And you know how when our teachers are touched,

they were going to our government schools and touch many students.

So God is on the throne, He is in control,

He is great, and he is just beginning to do

something awesome. But he just continues to call us men

and women to respond to him, to say, yes, Lord,

here I am send me. And I pray that the

ex church will be the example of how to be

generous to serve the nation. And of course I have

pastor friends like in sibkl Pasadaniel Hoe from DMC. We

are we're friends, and I haven't gotten to sit down

with them to share more of this dream. Twenty years

ago they were part of something called Dream Lasia together

with me. But I feel like large churches have a

responsibility to not just grow large, but to say God,

why do you give me so many young people and

feel a sense of responsibility for the nation and not

just keep them. You know, why do you need four

thousand young people in your church where not all can

serve it at the same time, Not all can be pastes,

not or can we worship you with me? And yet

I'm sure all of them have got some more to

give and so sometimes I think they're wasted. The talent

is just wasted in just one place. So we've got

to be generous. We've got to go like, Okay, Lord,

use the young people that you brought here. Let me

train them, let me disciple them, let me give them

an opportunity to uh yeah, tryout ministry. But then let

me also give them a bigger vision that's not just

in this place, but in other places that God can

use everybody. Okay, And so this is a good example

both of you, you know, going to Iskanda. I mean

you could have enjoyed your time here. I mean, who

wants to go anywhere if you're enjoying where you are.

But thank you for being an example, because if I

can multiply you guys, buy another thousand times, the need

will be met in Malaysia.

The need will be met. But you know, God, it's

got to do creatively.

I don't think he's going to do it like how

he used to do it full time by school three years.

I don't think he's going to do that. I don't

think I think this just just be open to what

the Holy Spirit is saying. The need will be met

by you will be met God's way.

Amen.

So is there a lack, Yes, there is a lack,

but faith creates, and we are called to be people

of faith.

Can I hear good?

Amen?

The next light.

Let's go on. So we know that Jesus turned water

to wine. Faith creates it does it really does create?

How do you create water and make it wine? Faith?

All right?

Where did you faith come from? Just Jesus himself, you think,

or the servants who fill the water pots with water

up to the brim. Yes, Jesus, you know, if he's

the only one that has faith, that all of us

are doomed. But no, he teaches us. He says to

the servants, fill those water pots up. Now. They could

have said, for what you know, the problem is wine lahalla,

you ask you for water?

You know so.

But they didn't have They didn't have doubt. They just

feel and when it reached the brim the top, it

turned into wine, even without Jesus praying. Do you see

Jesus waving his hand in the Bible, say that and

when they feel it to the top, he waved his hand.

When they feel it to the top, he said a prayer. No, no,

he just said do it. When they did it it

turned to wine.

Do you understand when you do it?

Fill your life with the word of God, and the

water is the word, and things happen. Faith creates five lows,

two fish. The young lad didn't even have a name

in the Bible, no name. And I believe that in

the days to come there will be a lot of

no name champions in our country. No name evangelists, no

name healing evangelists.

Are you with me?

No name preachers. We're not into celebrities. Went into obedience

a man, a whole generation of people saying, yes, Lord,

call me in no name.

Lad took his lunch.

Maybe it was his dinner and lunch, because there's so

much five loaves, two fish for a young boy could

have finished it all in one meal, right, I don't

think so. Maybe it was two meals in one. But

he gave it up.

And it fed five thousand.

We know that. We know in Elijah job of oil

been a flower. So Elijah said to the widow. The

widows just.

Told him, if you read this scripture.

She just told him, I'm gonna bake my last few

cakes and me and my son, I gotta survive on

this and then we die. She just told him that.

And you know what, Elijah says, Bake me some first,

make me some first. What kind of a pasta it is?

She just told you why I have enough only for

my son and I And then you say, please give

me one or two cakes first. The word is first,

you know, because God is always first first, not you

eat first and give me the remnant. The prophet asked

for the food first. God is first, mm first love.

And then he said, right after that, you will find

that your jar of oil and your bin of flour

will never run dry.

Faith creates, It.

Creates something out of nothing. That's why God said to

us live by faith, walk by faith. He knows the

way we are going to overcome the lack in our lives.

Not the world's way, not the university's way. Here Jesus way.

The widow in the Elisha, okay, last bit of oil,

she said, she said to him, the last bit of oil.

You know what he said to her, Go and borrow

as many vessels or jars or bottles that you can, right,

remember that one, and then fill up the bottles with oil,

with a little bit of oil. And as she poured

a little bit of oil into every bottle. It never finished,

you know when the oil stopped. The oil stopped when

the vessels stopped. But think about this woman, the widow

who had to knock on her neighbor's door, excuse me,

you have any empty bottles? Any empty bottles?

Yeah?

Sure, two, three maybe? Yeah? Four or five?

Maybe?

Do you have any more? And then maybe she was

asked a question, why you need so many here? And

what was her answer? What's your answer where you don't

know what in the world you're doing except obeying? As

she was collecting her hard anybody say you collected five

for me? You need some more?

Yeah?

Yeah, I'm supposed to collect as many. But why why

was she able to say? Because I'm going to fill

them all with oil? So she told her sons to

help her. They went out borrow, and then it said normal,

so she paused, and then the miracle happens. Faith creates, creates,

it creates.

And another side truth you need to know about this,

that is that the anointing stops when the vessels stops,

meaning that when you stop serving the Lord, the anointing stops.

So God is every day looking for vessels, even here

in exe money. Will you serve me? Will you be

a vessel for me, because as long as there's vessels,

there's oil. The oil stopped when the vessels.

Stop, So don't stop.

I'm in my fifties now, my wife as well, and

we don't even not even in our nightmare, do we

think of stopping you with me, Because that's how the

anointing continues to flow flow, all right, Abraham, Isaac, Wow, Abraham,

to look at the sky and count the stars. If

you're able to number them, so will the number be

of your descendants. But he didn't even have a son.

And when he had a son, God said, give him

to me. Faith creates one son, stars in the sky. Amen,

praise the Lord. Let's go into the next slide. Faith

without without faith, it is impossible to please God. So

let's begin our faith journey or our faith lesson from

this slide.

Why faith faster? Why faith?

Well, besides, faith creates, let's let's begin. Let's back up

a little bit more. Faith really pleases God. It really does.

And there's no other portions of Bible that is clearer

of how God is to be pleased, no other scripture

found from Genesis to Revelation.

That is so clear.

What pleases God is faith, and all of us in

this room live to please God, don't we. The way

I put it is this, I just want to put

a smile on Father God's face in everything I do.

When I sat there to give offering this Now, Father,

you smiling on me when line as we let me worship,

and I stood there and I took a video. You know,

I have to be reminded, hey, just take a short

video because you forget.

You're not here to take videos.

You're here to worship because you want to put a

smile on Papa's face when you're dressing up for church.

It's not for you, right, it's not for you. It's

not for my mother. I want to put a smile

on Papa's face when I dress up. Everything is for

the Lord. Everything. When you your younger ones here who

are not married yet, find a girlfriend, boyfriend, yeah, you're

can be blessed to have a relationship, but you do

it to put a smile on Papa's face. I had

to pray tree in a half years for Passa Sandra.

You know I liked her already, and the Lord says

you are not allowed to say you like her. You

are to see me and talk to me about it first.

So I said, okay, Lord, could I have Sandra? He says,

keep praying? Could I have Sandra? Is she the one

for me? Keep praying? Finish my law degree. Thought that

was the time to do it. No, keep putting her

on the altar, because at the end of the day,

God knows the best for you, and you just want

to do it his way, not the world's way. Oh,

my friends said, I just like, just tell her you

like her, labal la. Don't be so stupid, you know.

And you go like, no, it's not stupidity, it's just submission.

And then we got married. And I got married without

any money, and the Lord provided. You know, I remember

that I wanted to save up for my wedding. The

Lord says to me, I gave you the woman. I'll

give you the money to marry her too. And I said, Lord,

shouldn't be you be saving up, you know? He says, yeah,

the world does it.

Like that way.

But you can seek me for the date. The date

comes from me, Kenneth Chin, it doesn't come from you.

I mean, the date also pleases you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

a lot of people find their own date. No, no,

and then lead their mother. Father said, one, I can't

marry because it's a lot of goals going around. Yeah,

a lot of goals going around. I just I'm just

interested in the holy gooes. I want to please you God.

I don't want to go and I don't want to

mess around with the things of the world. And then

you know, Oh, Father, God says, why do you choose

that date, Kenneth? Is it my date or is it

your day? Well, God, I was scared to do it

in August. My mom said, don't do it in August September.

I want to please you God. Faith. Faith pleases God.

Faith pleases God.

Let's move on to the next slide.

Faith is the substance of things, hope forl So let's

go deep enough. Why do we want to have faith

in our lives? Because it pleases It puts a smile

on Daddy God's face. Oh hallelujah. Live like that every day.

I'm telling you right now, you will prosper, You will

be happy. You will only be happy here on earth.

You will have a home in heaven that you can't

wait to see God, because if you can make him smile.

Now, what do you think.

When you it will be when you are there up there,

you'll probably see him continuously smiling. But let's move deeper. Faith.

What is faith? So why do we have faith? Please God?

Now?

What is faith is a substance of things, hope for

the evidence of things not seen. What does that mean?

So when you have faith, you must have hope, because

faith without hope is not complete. You must have hope.

So you hope for this venue. You hope for more souls,

You hope for a companion, you hope for someone's healing.

Now it's a substance. So when you are believing God,

for example, for financial blessing, your faith is not well,

it's hope. But it's not just hope. It's substance. When

you pull out a note for example, it's not just talk.

This is called substance. Faith is just talk. A lot

of people don't understand that. It's not even just prayer,

because faith without works is you guys had faith from

this place, but you know how I knew you had faith.

You turned up to set this place up because you

knew that God was going to come through for you.

It's substance. When it was the next when was the

last substance? That could be held that you brought to

the Lord in relation to your.

Hope with me.

I had hopeful Passana to be my wife, but my

faith was to wait and to pray and to obey

the Lord. Now, like next line says the evidence of

things not seen. Okay, so you want something it's not seen,

but yet the Bible says, is evidence of things not seen.

And let me explain it to you this way. Not

seen meaning that you haven't seen it. You haven't seen

what you hope for. But someone else has seen the

evidence of your faith. You know who is that God?

So when he says evidence of things not seen, it

means that the young boy, for example, who gave up

his five flows and two fish, they haven't seen the

five thousands people fed yet, but God saw the boys

five lows and two fish. So we haven't seen, true,

but God has seen.

And I'm going to ask you a question right now.

What has God seen in your life in the last

twenty four hours that will cause him to move? What

has he seen? You put forward first before you see.

So it's very important in faith that God sees first

before we see.

Everybody.

Okay, this is very important. Okay, I'm gonna talk more

about it. I'm gonna share some stories so that you understand,

but I want to lay down the foundation next slide,

please for we walk by faith. So faith is a walk.

Faith is something that you need to begin to put

feet to. Okay, it's not just talk. Is walk and

sometimes we say walk the talk. So it's about living.

It's a living faith. It's a faith that you can

take with you wherever you walk into your school, your university,

your family, your marriage, your office, your business. Walk. It's

a walk. Now, there's another scripture in relations very clearly

stated that now that we live with the spirit, also

walk with the spirit. You know why the Bible even

have to say, because many of us can be living.

With somebody and not walking with somebody. Those of you are.

Parents here, you will know a teenager can stay in

the houser in his room for twelve twenty four hours

without coming down for breakfast, without coming down for lunch,

without coming down for dinner, without seeing you saying hi, nothing,

good morning, good night.

Nothing.

Yes, the teenager lives with you, but doesn't walk with you.

Are you always do with me? And the Holy Spirit

could be living in us. Are but we are not

walking with him. So it's very important. And Christians you

can do this too. I realize it's very easy to do.

Oh I'm a Christian. Oh I have Jesus in my heart.

Oh I have the Holy Spirit. But are you walking

with Him in your relationships, in your finances, in your decisions?

Are your stay with me? There is walk.

It is a walk. Somebody say, walk is your life,

is your journey. It is God wanting to walk with you.

So walk with the Holy Spirit, not just live with him?

All right, don't.

Live by side? Oh I see therefore no, no, no,

we already said faith is something you cannot see, but

God can see because there's something before you see that

He sees that you have put forward in faith and

in obedience. Okay, next flight, So then faith comes. So

now you need to know. Say, oh I want to walk.

I want every day. I want to walk now, Okay,

in every decision wherever I go, I want to walk

by faith. But how does it come? How does it come?

How does it even come?

It comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

And the word is not logos. The word is Ramma.

So for those of you who don't understand this. When

the word of God speaks about the Word of God.

The word is defined in two forms and two ways.

One it's called the lawgs and the logos is the

written word sometimes called scripture because scripture is written, is there.

For you for all to read the Bible that you

hold written word.

But the rama is the spoken word or the now word.

The rama word is the real time word. Give you

an example. I could be sharing the same sentences and

words with you now, everybody getting the same, everybody get

in the same, but all of you go home with

something different, so logos, but you go home with Ramma,

and every one of you need to change or at

least respond to the rama that came from the logos.

Because the Raalma is never going to be in conflict

with the logos.

It's always going to be one with the logos. But

it's alive, it's now. God's word is living and powerful,

sharper than any you understand. So you and I need

to abide by the Ramma. You know that word that

says Jesus says, if you abide in me and my

words abide in you.

You know that word word is rama, that.

Means he wants your He wants his rather his Rama,

to abide in you.

So as you're walking, you're walking in ramma, not just logos.

Logos is very powerful. In fact, do you understand that

Matthew four fours also ramma not logos. What does Matthew

four four say? It is written man shall not live

by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out

of the mouth of God.

By every word Ramma that God is speaking says.

You're walking into your company in the morning, Yes, you

already had the logos in your quiet time. The logo

says love your neighbor, for example. But as you're walking

into your office, the Lord says, say good morning to

your boss. That's ramma, buy some fruits for your colleagues.

I lunch for the person that's working really hard at night. Uh,

and that doesn't doesn't have time.

Where I said lunch acually should be dinner.

But you know, by dinner for for that person because

working very hard, but someone cares, someone loves. And then

enter the opportunity to share the gospel one day, why

you always buy dinner for me because you're working so

hard but nobody cares. I care, Grandma, what is God

asking you to do now, Abide in that word, walk

in that word. Hear that word now, because faith comes

when you hear God say to you. Forgive your mom. Yeah,

but she was unreasonable last night. She told me I'm

really married. No, and she told me why you didn't

come back, you know, for soup. Bought soup for you.

You know, thank you, Mama, But you know I'm married, right,

I mean, I mean it's kinda you should know that

I cannot come back every night for soup. Don't forgive

her because she loves you and that's why she made

soup for you.

She might be a.

Reasonable but she's mom. Right, So you know, think like

the randma now and you and you do it because

you want to please. You want to put a smile

on his face. Well done, son, I know it was hard,

but well done done. Right. You want to hear well done,

my good and faithful servant. Next one, Now that you

know how it comes, now you need to know what

to do with it. What do you do with faith?

So let's recognize that faith is a seed. If you

have faith as a mustard seed, So don't worry about mustard.

The word mustard just means he's very small. Very very small.

Have you ever seen mustard seed? I first saw master

seat when I was in Israel many years ago, thirty

years ago, and they said, this is mustard seed. My

word is so small. But don't worry about mustard. It

could be a dude and seed. As long as you

know it's a seed, it's a seed. How have you

know that seat is not good in your hands, it's

not good in your pocket, it's not good in your wallet.

It's not good.

You know you said, O pass, I can, I can.

I can break guitar very well. You know, the whole

family says, I can blak it up. But you don't

want to play for church. You know why you keep

the guitar seat in your pants or in your pocket,

right in your I don't know. Right with me, It's

like I can play drugs, I can't sing. I can

share that the money you keep it right. That's why

I love it when people go for missions. It's so

and then they reap because the Bible says, if you show,

you will reap, and you will reap according to how you.

So, and and and and and and.

We don't get into that situation where by we become

like that that that servant that hit his talent in

the ground. Always say, Okay, what seats have got given you?

What talents?

Time?

Honey, what has he given you? Because when you have faith,

you will take that seed and sow it. Because unless

a seed falls to the ground and dies, it will

he will he will reap nothing, He will have no

power at all. I don't care if you have a

thousand seeds in a bag. So what I'd rather you

sow one seed and reap a tree, and from the

tree reap a bunch of trees, and from a bunch

of trees.

Reap a forest.

For God, don't please don't carry into heaven or not

your big bag of seats. Oh God, you gave me

so many seeds.

Thank you.

Now here you go take it back. It's like, don't

you understand why I have put you on earth for?

Did you not have faith enough?

Faith is a seat? Somebody say amen, and you will

say to mountains. Yeah, all of you in this room

are mountain movers. All your mountain movers. In Jesus' name.

Mountains are to be removed, especially mountains in your lives.

That's stop you from being all that you can be

in God, Yeah, there are men to be there to

be moved, but only faith moves him. Okay, nothing will

be impossible for you. Turn your neighbors and nothing will

be impossible for you. Come on, believe it with all

your heart.

What is your lack?

What is your trouble? What is your problem? I'm saying

to you right now, and I'll give you stories, okay,

to encourage you before we close and go for lunch. Yeah,

I'm still on lunch. Let's look at it next light

for whatever man's souls he will read. We know that.

A yah, we know that.

You know that what you don't do, Ah, come on,

twenty twenty five is coming. Yes, round the corner. You

wanted to be just like twenty twenty four. No, even

if you had a good twenty twenty four, you still

want you better. Right, come on, please, don't waste another

year of your life.

Do something we planted ex Germany. You know that right.

Oldest missionaries were sent out so far. Gird is sixty

seven going on sixty eight, Doris is sixty four or

sixty five, and yet they seem so young in their hearts.

Because I'll tell you what that if you keep doing this,

are so so so you will be young, you will

keep your youth. So you are young, but yet you're

already old because you're like, oh, nothing to live for. Ah,

you're only twenty two, but you know you might still

be eighty two, you know, and even eighty two or

so is more alive than you.

Come on, and man, no, I'm not talking to ex one.

I'm not.

I mean, I'm talking over your heads into another church

down there, down the value there.

I don't know where. It's not just down the value,

but anyway, I don't know. Examining.

I know you guys are rocking, you know, but twenty

twenty five, how many have you? I can believe for

better days, brighter days. I'm believing with all my heart.

I'm really believing for Malaysia, you know, Lasia. I'm speaking

into Malaysia now, speaking into this nation because this nation

belongs to Jesus. I'm telling you right now, he made it,

He formed it.

Everyone. Okay, all right? Is there another slide? And I

think this is one of the last ones.

He says here. So one he gave five talents to another,

two to another, one to each according to his own ability,

and immediately he went on a journey that he who

had received the five talents, who went and traded with them.

You know this scripture the five two and one talents

in the original is written in business language, so a

businessman that reads this will know that trading means do

business with it. And in all businesses are everyone who's

in business wants to prosper multiply. So you're supposed to

take the five and trade with all five. Some of

you in this room are maybe you have five, but

you're only using three. If you have five and you

use only three and don't think you're going to use

the two anytime soon, then you are as bad as

a guy who hit the one, because now it works

you you're hiding two five. God give you trade all five.

That's why something's God gives us more time in life.

They go like, hey, why am I sixty? Why am

I seventy? Actually the Bible says three score and ten,

so you should only end up at seventy. You know what,

somebody gives you eighty?

I tell you why.

I know. One of the reasons why is because you

have you haven't used yet. There is something about you

or you didn't even know. God kept you alive so

that you don't go back to heaven saying, oh do

you know? And God has to open up and you know,

it's like your life is going to be like glass

now and he's going to be able to see right,

it's transparent, like you know, He says, the even the

floor would be transparent, so our lives would be transparent.

Before the law, we all of us have to be

given account. And God says, what's that?

Uh?

What look? God?

That one that's a seed? No, right here, I can

see it. Uh that one I didn't even know it

was there.

Not there's that. There's another one here? Do you know? Ah? God,

someone I thought I did everything for you. Lord.

You know why because at fifty five you retired and

play golf, so you didn't pay attention.

At sixty you retired and the gardening.

You know what I'm saying, gardey is good, it's very

very But what was the word therapeutic?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, But the reason why if you're just only

doing that in your retirement age, you can't support the

other part because you're not tested. And so at sixty

someone told you to go emissions and maybe when you

wed omissions that you would have found that he didn't

see it, but you didn't. Man, you want to do

your gardening, you want to sleep, dom bother me. I'm

so old ready, Hello, You're all for a reason, as

in like you got life still on earth for a reason.

So every test turns into a testimony. But we've refused

to be tested because a lot of us are creatures

of habit and comfort. Fifty two years old at one time.

Remember I told you I had to start X got

the company. People are saying, pass the ken. You're fifty two, eady,

all right, about three years ago?

Fifty two ready? Huh?

Someone a trant judge that accident? All right, leave it

to the younger ones. That's what we do. Leave it

to the younger ones. You know what you say that

you sound like the older ones that you never wanted

to become with me.

Please, don't grow all on you want to grow grow

over a pretty okay, don't grow all in that you got.

As the Lord leads you older, he challenges you in

things that you've never done before. At fifty two, I

was still carrying instruments. But I tell you what, something

was developed with me I got. I never knew it

was there. I never knew I had it in me.

So this message for both younger and older here, amen,

don't hide your talent. Okay, he's going to come back

and he's going to take account. All right, Praise the Lord.

Let's now talk about some stories. Let me start with

some Bible stories. Some more Bible stories. Here we go.

You know, when Jesus asked the man with a willed

hand to stretch out his hand, I'm so sorry. I

shouldn't be laughing because this man had a problem right

in his hand was probably with it. And really, I

know none of us should be laughing about this, but

just thinking about it for will, just just humor me

for a Okay, I mean, Jesus is finally coming to

his town. I don't know how long your hand has

been with it. I don't know how long this particular

potential in your life.

Has been stifled. I don't know how long your dreams

were dormant.

But then he says, as he sees you stretch out

your hand, Listen, brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen. If

the people who are standing around Jesus, they go like,

why is he so cruel? Why is he so not

politically correct?

Stretch out your hand or.

And he stretches out the very thing that he never

thought could stretch up, and it grows because faith creates.

He asked for a blind man to go and wash

in the pool of sea. Lom Oh, Lord Jesus, I

wonder some people couldn't understand you. He's blinder, really right?

Heal him loud the spot. Please don't ask him to

do anything else. Please, like blinder?

Really you?

Why are you all at that one? Next church, the

young did you see? Ask them to go and plant church?

No money, you see? Ask them to give what's going on?

Next church? Give him a break line? Blind war, you

want to be healed. Let's go and wash in the

pool of love. Where's that?

I don't care where he washed? He didn't say I

don't care, But you know.

Faith is a substance of things. Hope for substance.

When he was walking, it was substance. He was not

play play, he was not pretend. The evidence of things

not seen. Yeah, he didn't see it, but God saw

him walk to the pure pool of se loam because

he wanted his healing. Can somebody please help me? I

don't even know where had to go? Where it's the

pool of se loam.

Let the blind man walk.

Maybe when the blind man actually started walking to the

pool of se loam, he already saw.

In his spirit.

He asked Peter to launch out into the deep and

let down the nets for a catch. Lord. We toil

all all night and caught nothing. And before I want

to say anything else that I'm the fisherman, you are

the carpenter. Are you teaching a fisherman how to fish?

Go and launch out into the deep, let down your

nest for cash. All right, I'll do it, even though

I caught nothing the whole night, and as a fisherman,

this is not the right time to go out. But nevertheless,

at your word, how does faith come? Faith comes by

hearing and hearing the word. It wasn't just logos, It

was a rammer God. Now he can't even pull the

fish in. The nets were breaking, the boats were thinking,

Are you also with me? Faith creed? Silver and gold

have I none?

No?

Nowe is Peter's turned out to follow off to Jesus.

Looks at the man laying from birth. Peter said, silver

and gold have I none? But what I have I

give to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,

rise up and walk. Huh, a lame man, riser and walk. Yeah,

you know, he's falling off. To Jesus, I'm going to

do the same thing as it was done to me.

And I you know, many many, many, many, many, many,

many generations later, you find a Kenist China who is

asked to start ex Church with three people. And where

we are, of course is by the grace of God.

But I'm going to be teaching you the same thing

I was taught by the Holy Spirit, and all the

way back to how Peter was taught. And it's the same.

It might be modernized a lot. You don't even recognize me,

not even in Jerusalem. But faith still remains faith. The

word of God still remains the Word of God. And

I want to tell you right now before I close,

faith creates.

Maybe just two.

Stories, because I was already told that there was only

a few minutes left.

Two quick stories.

So I remember one time when ex Church was growing

and we were three hundred people. Okay, we went from

three people to three hundred, by the grace of God,

thanks be to God, Glory to Him. Three hundred people.

But for one year we didn't grow, and so I

was really really upset. I said, Lord, how can in

that time? You know, I think I was very radical

in this thought. How can people are dying every day

going to a christless eternity and this church not even

grown one percent? Three hundred in January and then three

hundred still in December.

I was really upset.

I said, Lord, how can we go on every single

day when people are dying and we are not growing?

Cannot Lord cannot? I said that? No, I said that,

I remember so passionate. Cannot.

Lord, you know what a lot to me, Kenneth. You

really want the schach to grow? I said yes, please, Lord.

Then he said to me give up the twelve thousand

ringit support that you're getting from the Dato. I said, Lord,

in my mind, I didn't say it with my mouth.

I didn't there.

I said, Lord, I was asking you about numbers growing.

Why are you going to touch the money for I

think that's two different things, right, Lot? And the Lord

is saying, here my voice, I'm about to teach you something.

So I tell you this Christian nice men and uh

I believed in the vision of a Ya and even

ex church, and he gave me twelve thousand doing it

every month, and with that money I was able to

pay for bills and pay for salaries. He said, give

it up.

How big is the church? Three hundred?

But all young people, all young people know, three hundred

young people. You know what that means, right, no money

because young young people. Okay, you know it's tough. All right,

even the young people here. All right, you get your

allowance or whatever, you get that. I mean the young adults.

We'll be getting more money now, our pace got but

the young people. It's students by the middle of the

man they no money. And you right, and then Maggie

me and all that start coming in. Uh and then fasting,

you know, for for non spiritual reasons, just have to spas. Yeah,

we understand that food ministry is always a big ministry

for campus students. Yeah, yeah, we know that.

Amen.

Praise God.

Uh So.

And I'm I'm thankful that even our young adults now

are blessing the students, you know, from time to time.

Very very good. Uh So. Anyway, I I.

Finally got the guts to write an email to the

detO and I wrote, you know, I tell you I

edit it. I wish for chech gipt those days, but

don't I didn't have and and and uh anyway, I

don't use church gipt very much. So but I had

to write. I had to write like che Gipt. I

had to be very very good with my words. I

didn't want to make him feel angry. So I finished

the letter to finish the email in two weeks. I

do too. It's almost I writing the t season because

I was going to write to this dotal friend of

mine and said, uh, you can stop giving the twelve thousand.

I tell you what you really have to belie that

God spoke to you not to do that, because people salary,

I stay and bills and the Lord every day gave

me peace.

I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you. This

is me.

So I remember two weeks to write that letter to

make sure that it sounded as good as as clear

as possible. I didn't hate him, I didn't hate his money.

I just wanted to obey the lot. Anyway, to me,

two weeks to write it took me two days to

press the button. Said, because after I was very happy

with you, just to send it me as a case closer.

You know that done deal. So I send it, he

read it. He called me.

He called me and scolded me on the phone for

half an hour. Do you think my money that is it?

No? No?

No? So finally, then why you know God hasn't spoken

to me? In my mind was things saying, if God

hasn't poken to you, please call do you give? But

but but but as for me, I must tell you

that you know you know what it does it because

you must be faithful with what God told you. So

if you say, please that thought, stop giving, and then

so you have done your part, God's please with you

now because you've done your part. And if he says

I didn't receive anything, keep giving. Brains got a bad

So both both of us do our parlor. Okay, anyway,

that's that's real. But also side jo and anyway, he said,

is it?

Is it so God told you?

Is it?

Yes?

We'll see if God told you not put on the

phone challenge you know, So I have to put on

the phone.

Raise slowly.

But I'll tell you my house beating so fast because

I said, Lord, please, are you better than you better

have told me? Okay, I guess I'm so. The twelve

thousand stopped that man Elder King came into my room.

He's a pastor.

Have you done it? Because the account of the night, have

you done it? Say?

I just did it? And both of us are look

at each other and we had tears coming out of

our eyes. You know, elderk here, don't cry easily. No,

don't crazy one even have high at text. So good

was they didn't cry? No, But this is why he cried,

because how in the world in two weeks time are

we going to pay the bill?

And so I learned him he know at me, and

he said, let's trust a lot.

Towards the end of the month, Elder Kre comes into

my same room, looks at me as you passed, Kenneth,

I just want to let you know what. I just

counted the offering for the month, and we have thirteen

thousand ring it extra in the offering. Thirteen thousand ring

it extra, all right, praise God, you can give up

a client offering. So we cry again. By this time

right around, it's not cry. So you're like, oh Lord,

you you know, you know, And and right now God knows,

he knows every need in this room, He knows what

you're going through. He knows he knows.

The next one elder kre comes into my room.

Is it passer? There's twenty six thousand ring it extra.

And then the next man passed, there's thirty thousand ring extra.

I say, where's his money coming from? See, I don't know, pastor,

but I just heard that some one of our young

mookie adults just had a promotion salary and he's given

his salary as a thanksgiving to the Lord. Another young

adult had a bonus. So you know, when the pastor

or the leader or the head of the family obeys

a lotter, the rest get is blessed them.

The rest get bless them. Tank you right now.

And we grew from three hundred people to six hundred

people in six months. Three hundred more people came to

the church in just six months. That God doubled it.

Because it's not about just money or it's faith.

It's faith.

And one last story about growth is this EXCTA communing

now is two plus years old. By next March is

three years old. Okay, we've grown for fourteen people to

now one hundred and eighty. Praise God, right, Glory to God.

Every week new people coming here.

Every new people come in prison or prison.

But there's one time, about nine weeks or so, no

newcomers every week, no newcomers every week. So by the

second week that week, I'm looking at the scoller. We

call it the weekly scorel like, oh you know evenly

way we look. We support our best football teams, are

we always look at the score right Liverpool all right?

Being well Noliverpool, yeah, praise yeah so so yeah, so

I look at the score. Oh, no newcomer, no new

com and new comer. So I was very busy, so

I didn't really bother. But then by the six seven week,

no newcomers. So I asked a lot, said Lord, why

even my leaders, I think to be I don't know

what's happening. There will always be a lack run in

our lives that we can't understand why or how to

get out of this.

And for us it was alt, what's happening?

So I asked the Lord, and this is my last story,

and now close and now we'll pray.

So I said, Lord, what's happening? Seventh week?

Aredea, no newcomers getting on into the eighth week. And

so I remember walking to church like this. I walked

Samuel right into the church and then there was the

welcome table right here. So I walked in and the

Holy Spirit stopped me, Kenneth, you want to answer, look

at the welcome table. So I look at the workome table,

and I couldn't see anything wrong with you know, I

could see. I said, it looks very nice, actually, and

he says, look harder, closer, And then he dawned on me.

There was one will come back, one newcomers card, one pen,

one new believers packed, And then all said to me, Kenneth,

do you know that all these were laid out.

Ah to make sure that the table looks nice. And

for sure.

Your people have come to a place where by they

don't believe that it's going to be any new people

coming today. Because if you put out five, you have

to pack five. It's all packing involved. You see. Now,

I've been part of just Pudding for a long time.

I know what it means. I know about carrying instruments.

I know all this.

So I have since seven weeks iday nobody came. Yeah,

you know, and you need to realize how some sometimes

not sometimes most times, attitudes, especially attitudes that can't be seen,

are the very attitudes that got answers. Sometimes we are

praying one way, but attitude say another way. God can

see attitude. Do you understand when the Bible says that

God sees in secret and answers, so all the external

that you're all you can see, he doesn't see that.

He sees secret stuff, and he answers according to secret stuff.

So if you really believe, are you better believe from

the inside out because he will always The Bible says,

verake clearly, he sees in secret and will reward you openly.

So I know how God works on whenever I go anywhere,

if I'm jealous about somebody, I'll saye hear I'm not

jealous inside. He sees, he answers according to that anger.

You're not angry outside, but you're angry inside. He sees

the secret. God doesn't see that all of you see.

He sees the secret because God looks at the heart

as men look at the outer appearance. So make sure

if you want to be consistent, be consistent inside out,

because He will always see what man cannot see and

answer according to that. So I knew the problem. I

went into church and it was prayer time. Now pre

service preyer pre service a pre worship preyp I came

up and I knew the Holy speak told me m

rama work came. I said, ushes can you do me

a favor? God just spoke to me. Can you carry

that welcome table to the altar? Get the head of

our ushes is at Ward puts you won the table

to the altar, said yeah, it's prayer time. We better

pray for this.

Okay, I want to show you something.

So that they brought in. It was quite lightly because

so little things on the table. So they finally prey

on the table and I preached to them for three minutes.

I said, people, this is work, God told me all right,

and they all felt it because we can come to

a place where whereby we actually.

Want more people will come, but we don't believe they

will come.

And so we repented and we prayed Lord from today onwards.

And then Edward said, pass we bring more backs. You

bring according to what the Lord's telling you. So we

brought five backs, five backs, five welcome cards or that

he brought. So we're praying for the table or at

the althar. I said, okay, now done, but actually I'm

not praying for the table. I'm praying for your hearts.

This is as a visual so to carry a table,

put it back up there that Sunday itself. Five new

comers that Sunday itself.

They all learned something.

And Edward now says Pastor, even when you don't call

it for the come to the author. We are, we

are all. All the ashes are going around and were

surround the table. Every Sunday we pray because it begins there.

Do we believe?

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