Now I Can | Pr Kenneth Chin

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Now I can, okay, now I can.

And subtitle is making preparations for God to move.

Okay. Let's look into some scripture now.

First, Kings eighteen, let's turn to that read some scripture,

and then I will move on to tell you what

God wants me to say to you today.

One Kings eighteen.

Many of you know that that portion of scripture is

when Elijah went up on Mount Carmel and began to

do that whole story of fire coming down on you know,

the sacrifice. They did not use their own fire, but

Elijah called down fire from heaven.

Remember that. Let's look at verse to verse thirty seven.

Here we go. Then Elijah said to all the people,

come near to me.

So all the people came near to him, and he

repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.

He repaired the altar of the Lord.

And Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of

the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the

word of the Lord had come, saying, Israel shall be

your name Verse thirty two. Then with the stones he

built an altar in the name of the Lord, and

he made a trench around the altar, had enough to

hold two siers of c and he put the wood

in order, cut the bull in pieces, laid it on

the wood and said, fill for water pots with water,

and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the

wood said do it a second time. He did it,

the second time, time, third time. Okay, good. So my

point to just bring you this first portion of scripture

is to tell you that preparation was very important even

with Elijah. You know, Elijah could have just prayed and said,

okay God, now that you see, you've seen that the

profits of Baal have tried and they couldn't.

God, now strike the sacrifice with fire.

And some of us, if we are not, if you're

not knowledgeable of how powerful preparation is, we will always

try to skip preparation and just go straight for you know,

whatever it is that we hope to achieve. You know,

we are more performance oriented than preparation oriented. I want

to tell you that the reason why fire came down

is largely because Elijah knew the power of preparation. He

did not go straight to just ask God for fire,

He prepared the altar, He repaired the altar, He.

Put the wood in order.

That the reason why the Bible says why he says, No,

he didn't, he says, and he threw a few wood,

he put it in order. And sometimes when I read

that that that that that that, just just that phrase,

I get reminded that God loves that our lives be

put in order.

And so you know the power of preparation.

And then only after everything is prepared, he said, Now, God,

do your thing. I mean, I'm paraphrasing. He didn't say that.

He says, say, God, you know, send fire. But for me,

it can be as good as now that I prepared everything. God,

do your thing, have your way, everything is prepared. Okay,

Now let's look at the next portion of scripture, John

chapter one.

Okay, let's not.

Let's now go from All Testament to New Testament. Okay, John,

the book of John. All right, all right, here we go.

Now this is the testimony of John. When the Jews

send priests and levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who

are you? He confessed and did not deny. He but

confessed I am not the Christ. And they said, they

asked him what then are you, Elijah? He said, I'm not.

Are you the prophet? And he answered no. Then they

said to him, who are you? Then, that we may

give an answer to those who sent us? What do

you say about yourself? Now this is what he said,

virtual entry. I love it. He said, I am the

voice of one crying in a wilderness. Make straight the

way of the Lord. As a prophet. Isaiah has said.

Even John understood that he was He was sent to prepare.

The way of the Lord. Preparation is key.

It's it's so important in the economy of God, in

the ways of God, preparation is key. Let me just

start by talking about ex Germany, all right, Let me

talk about X Germany now, okay, ex Germany, all right?

How did it come about? Why did he come about? Now?

I was, you know, for many months now in conversation

with Gert and Doris. Both of them are Germans, and

they they are the ones who actually before they left Malaysia. Now,

if you didn't know, Gert was the general manager of

Royal Slango's jewelry arm. It's called Salbran and Salbran makes

jewelry and they weren't doing well and so they got Gert,

and Gert came in Jess to do one thing only

because he was training Germany.

He went to Goldsmith school forty years.

Ago, forty five years ago, and and he was very

good in his trade.

But the Southeast Asia.

Economy opened up and the Germans began to go out

for cheaper production. So they got production in Vietnam, production Thailand,

production in Malaysia. So a lot of people in Germany

lost their jobs because they didn't need them anymore. They

sent their jobs to this part of the world. So

Gerd came and he first worked in Thailand. Remember his

testimony in Thailand. He said, Pastor, before I went to Thailand,

I checked out where should I go for church first?

And so even before he checked out where he was there,

he wanted to check out church first.

So this is a man of God. He loves God.

And he had to walk through a street that had

prostitution every single day.

And that he walked to work. And he said the

Lord preserved him because his wife was not with him

for two years.

And he said, Lord preserved me as I walked through

the value of the shadow of death. Preserved me all right,

and and and the Lord preserved him. He's a good guy,

good man, good husband, fears the Lord h. And then

from there he went back to Germany and then from

there he got his job in Pinang.

And then from Pinang he met me.

Because his pastor Passa Palen, so he went to Pasta

Palan's church in Pinang r GBC Reservoir Baptist Church.

Don't let me say anything more about that, but just kidding,

but Gird came.

I like Gert immediately because when I first met Gert

in Pinang, when Passa Palen introduced me to him, we were.

Eating at a banana leaf restaurant.

Okay, banana leaf is my middle name, and and I

must have it at least once a week, you know,

once a man lian now, because you know, I just

like it really bunge their you know, I like flooded

with curry. And my recently, my dietitian said you can't

flood your rice with so much curry because it's not.

Good for your heart. So I have it once a month.

So Girt.

Girt sat in front of me and he said, but

noana leave, you know, and he used his hand, uh

you know.

Then then when he.

Started using his head, I put away my four and spoon,

and I said, you know, I cannot lose to a German.

And so we were eating when I leave. Gird was

eating when I leave, and there he said, after this

we go Duran. And Gert's record of Duran is he

told me this, uh is eleven fruits. Eleven fruits, and

he says, why are you Chinese all believe in hot

and cold?

Hold and coler. I don't have any hot and cold.

I was just cool anyway. So he had eleven fruits.

My my, my, my record is only six right, six,

but he's eleven, okay anyway, So I guess he's more

Malayian than me. Uh.

So I like Gert immediately right okay?

Uh and uh he came to kal and Uh he

worked for sal Brand, but he was so good at

what he did. He knows exactly from start, that's how

to choose a stone.

All the way to you know, putting together.

Uh, the the final product. So he's the only one

in the whole of Malaysia to know how to do that.

And so immediately the boss of roy s Lgo said,

gm uh, not only to you know, have you seen

his designs? He can draw very well, so you can

draw whatever design you want. Now he's being asked by

roy s Lango, even though he's no longer working working

for Royce Sligo found it. They couldn't they didn't have

the expertise to do a tiara for one of our

sultan's wife here in Malaysia. So they called him and

so for the next one year he'll be drawing out

and putting the diamonds and all that because he knows

how to find it. He knows exactly the best kind

of jewels and all that. So he's going to he's

I mean, he's still very involved in Malaysia if he's

doing a tata for one of our sultans or sultanas.

And he said, there's another job that came to him

for two hundred and fifty thousand ring for a ring.

So so basically there are quite a few rich people

are in Malaysia who.

Only wants good to do their jewelry. So that's how

good it is.

But he's a man of God and he wants to

start a church now. Before he left uh Germany, left

Malaysia for Germany. And the reason why he even left,

of course, Royal is like oh, doesn't want to let

him go. Uh, they want to keep him until eight.

I think, I don't know because he's so good. So

he's trying to train people, but he says it's sometimes

a Malaysian mindset of doing jewelry is not so.

Not so excellent. Uh, there's a lot of like Tina

up upper attitude.

He says, I'm trying to train your your Malaysian guys,

but they don't learn the way I had to learn.

And he of course, forty five years ago they learned

the hard way. They learned through apprenticeship. And he says,

I don't know why I trained for one year. Still

don't get it anyway, So uh, Royal Slango wanted to

keep him, wanted to renew his visa.

But Doris had a stroke.

Uh and and uh in Germany, you know, there's this

big argument about the vaccine causing.

Some of these things.

But but anyway, Uh, she shared a stroke and uh

they cut shot their plans by.

Two years, two years.

But the thing is that Doris was in a place

where I think she got the best treatment. She was

in the car and her son, who is a military man,

looked at her and she a little bit and I

think she was showing some signs. And she said, Mama,

you okay? And uh Dorri said, yeah, I'm fine. You know,

Doris is very strong that she Doris drives the truck.

She has a truck license. Uh and strong, strong German lady.

I'm okay. And the son says, I don't think you are.

So he swung the car to the side called I

don't know what their number is, but it's nine, one

of those numbers. And the uh and and and they

asked why, I think my mother is having a stroke.

And so the ambulance came in five minutes. They picked

her up, took her straight to the hospital. Everything from

car to hospital was under twenty minutes. Very important in

the first half an hour when you have a stroke

was the first hour probably, And so she got the

treatment and she was well. Within about six months she

was well. She recovered well. So it was very important

and Gerd was very thankful that my wife was. She

was supposed to go back to Malaysia, come back to

Malaysia the next day. So the Lord allowed it to

happen the day before. I'm telling you, you know, this

is how good our body is. He allowed it to

happen the day before and the doctor that she met,

she said, you know, I got to catch I'm all right,

I'm all right. Doctor said you're not all right. And

Dori said, I got a fly tomorrow. And doctor said

in German way, that flight will leave tomorrow without you.

And because Doris is very strong, she needed a strong

doctor to tell her of that flight is leaving without you.

And so she said, wow, that doctor was so strong,

but she said, I think he meant business.

And so she recovered. And now their life is very,

very different.

But God has allowed all this to happen and has

has a plan for ex Germany. And even the week

before ex Germany was actually planted, I was in Germany already,

all right, I uh, and I was praying in my

I tell you what. The apartments very nice, but you know,

we were we had we had taken the guest room girl,

and Doris is in master bit room, Simon is in hall.

So I had to do my quiet time. Okay, it's

one of those things, you know. The Lord has helped

me not to miss so. But it's cold now in Germany.

Not that caller sixteen degrees, but and I usually I

mean I do my quiet time, I have to kneel.

So I went out to the balcony and it's very,

very cold.

The next day Dorries left me a big blanket because

she said I could see you shivering from the back.

I said, how do you see me? Actually there's a

window at the back of you. Everybody can see you

kneel outside at the balcony.

I was okay. I thought it was close, and I

knelt down and I was praying.

I think this was like five thirteen in the morning,

so that's why it's also extra call. And I said, Lord, actually,

why why ex Germania. You know sometimes it just hits

you and some of you even before you get married.

You know it's a woman, you know it's a man,

but you know there will still be one question when

am I sure this is the man? Am I sure

there's a woman? Every you know, it's it's like, it's

it's it's it's it's quite sure already, but you still

have this little doubt.

So I said, Lord, ex Germany.

Right now, it's only Gerd and Doris and maybe Simon

or Simeon or Simon I actually say Simon, and uh, Lord,

you know I'll only be here for one Sunday and

then I will be here next week. Actually today they're

having another church service, and I think they think that

two people are coming.

And one of the things for Malaysia is landing in

the morning and going.

Straight to church. Jude, No, Jude of ex Ampunk. Yeah

you know Jude. Yeah, anyway, Uh, he's he called ready Okay.

In fact, the spelling of Carle's sure is wrong. Okay,

so I send it to pass and it is Carl's rue.

Hey are you hey Carle's y. So anyway, so I

I pray, I said, Lord, why can really go on?

I know Good and Doris are very excited to start

X because they were part of X for ten years.

So they love the DNA. They love give your best

to God. They just on that spirit. They love it

giving your best to God always. They love that about

church because as a summary of your Christian life, give

your best.

To God always. Wow, you know, a summary of Christian life.

Gift to God your best always. And so they love that.

They say, I want to bring the back to Germany.

Goes Germany, they said, you know has gone far away,

not everyone, but you know as a country. You know,

when I first heard from the Lord that I should

start ex Germany. Sixteen years ago when I went to

Germany to speak in a church in Cela. Sella is

just about I think one half hours away from Hanover

Airport and then from from Sela, the pastor drove us

down on Autobad and it's the first time I was

on Attoban all the way down to Berlin. He has

two churches, so first time I spoke there was sixteen

years ago. And I loved the auto band because many

parts of the Autoband does not have a speed limit.

You know that when you see a speed limit, then

you better slow down.

Slow down to one hundred and twenty.

When you don't see a speed limits, all go okay,

if you're going at one hundred and sixteen hundred and eighty,

please take the slow lane or the middle lane because

cars are passing.

You by, all right.

The Mercedes bands the ferraris the BMW's okay, okay. The

minimum is two hundred ten to twenty. And the pastor

who's driving his Volkswagen, tried to say passa, I show you, okay,

we can go fast.

And he did about one hundred and ninety, but the

car was shivering.

It was not made for one hundred and you know

what I'm saying, Just because the numbers in your car

doesn't mean it was made for that. And behind him

people of fleshing A slow slow care move.

Asis one hundred and ninety.

So slow, okay, the slowest you can be on auto

bandy sixty if you if you drive less than sixty,

they will think you off the road. So but so,

the thing is uh is an experience.

You know.

I took a video so of the pastor you know, shivering,

you know, trembling under the annoying thing of the Holy Spirit.

No.

So first time I was there, me and my wife,

and the Ross spoke to me one day you will

planned here, I said, you know, my old heart wire Germany,

and it was Germany even before you came. That's that's

how I got it. And the Lord says, you know,

there's a man called Martin Luther in in Germany. I

think they spell it as all the day they pronounce

it as lud Luder Luder. We say Luther, right, Martin

luderuh and Matherin Luther was the one who actually found

out from the Bible that salvation is by faith and

so he were, and you know, did this famous thing

and nail you know, this particular whatever declaration that salvation

is by faith onto the door of the Catholic Church.

And then he got, of course ostracience and oscar stuff.

But that salvation by faith message, of course, it's always

been there the Bible. But someone stood up to the

organization of the day, to the institution of the day,

that thought, like, I think it's by work, So so

you know, and he says, no, no, it's only by

faith that you will be saved.

No works will ever save you. Can I hear a

good amen?

No works, No, how much you put in a donation box, no, no, no,

No is by faith. You've got to put your faith

in Jesus Christ. Can I hear good amen? He is

your savior, my savior. He's the only way truth in life.

No one comes to the Father except through him. John fourteen,

verse six. So this is important. Then he said to me, Kenneth,

the whole world has benefited from what came out of Germany,

and now Germany is struggling in their faith.

You got to give back.

You've got to give back to the nation that gave

us the fresh message that salvation is only by faith.

So I caught that so strongly I told my wife,

and my wife remembers it, said Kenneth. Wow, sixteen years

seventeen years later, we are doing this, We're stepping here,

dreams come true. But I'm still asking God why one

week after all this has happened, word of the Lord,

you know, conviction, you know, God moving gird and dorries

to come back earlier and all that, and I'm still saying,

why do we really need another church in Germany?

Okay, here we go. I'm going to tell you what.

God told me, he says, Kenneth, plant it, because after

you plant it, after you do it, even though you

don't know the answer to every question, you're asking, who

will come, who will be the musician, who will speak

on the fifth, teen of September, what would be the message,

who will come next week? You know, et cetera, et cetera. Okay,

so many questions? How many of you got questions even

here right now, not about extremity, but about your own life.

You've got questions you have, and most of the time

questions are un answered. Questions will stop us from doing

what God wants us to do.

How many of you think that God must answer all your.

Questions first before you start. Then you don't need faith,

you only need facts. But the Bible doesn't say and

the jud shall live by facts. It says the jazz

shall live by faith. Tewod Corinthians five seven says walk.

By faith, not by side.

So I'm still asking why because I'm still human, And

the Lord says, I'll tell you why, Kenneth, because as

soon as you start, see the thing is, God wants

us to start.

There's a big difference.

Between her When do I start? Ex Germany again eighth

of September last Sunday. There's a very big difference between

seven and September and eighth, just because we started. And

if you don't start, your eighth will look like the seventh.

And you will not go beyond nine.

In your dreams, and tenth will remain the same as

last year, and fifteenth we will not be talking about

the things you were talking about today. It's the starting.

It's to prepare the way for the Lord to move.

That will make the eighth totally different.

From the seventh. And the ninth is the day your

dreams begin. You with me, this is.

Very powerful, people, I want to tell you what God

spoke to me while on my knees on a cold floor,

Lord says, Kenneth, if you start, if you prepare the

way for me, then I can. That's where I got

the word. Now I can, Kenneth, if you start, now

I can. Let me see where my phone is because

I wrote it down on my notes. Okay, let me

tell you what he said to me, so that you

catch what he's trying to say. He said, Kenneth, if

you start, if you plant, if you prepare the way

for me, like Elijah prepared, like John the Baptist prepared.

They didn't know the future, they didn't have answers to

all the questions, but they started. They prepared the way

for me. By starting, you're saying, God, the food is

on the table. I don't know who will eat, don't

know who will come, but my job is to cook.

And I did exactly that.

Lord. Now there's twenty dishes on the table.

Now do what you want to because if I don't

put it on the table, then there's no story. The

table remains empty, my life remains the same as it's

always been for the last twelve months, twelve years. But

when you start saying, Lord, I'm willing to turn on

the fire, put on the quali, put on the oil.

I'm willing to get my hands dirty. I'm willing to

have my hair smell like run down. I am ready

to have my whole hole, my lounge, my reception smell

like Malaysian food. Lord, I don't know who you're going

to bring, but I'm going to do what you have

caught me to do. So this is why he said

to me, Kenneth. If you start, I can now touch

the people I want to touch. I can heal the

people I want to heal. I can reach the people

I want to reach. I can revive the people I

want to revive. I can save the people I want

to save. I can do the miracles I've always wanted

to do. I can make disciples who are not yet disciples.

I can raise leaders who don't even know their leaders today.

I can send workers that I've always wanted to send,

but because you haven't started, that's why I can't. I

can create testimonies I've always wanted to create. All you

have to do is do your part, because I will

change hearts that are hard to change. And I can

transform situations. That are impossible. Let me be God. Let

me be God. Let me be God. I can now,

I can say the Lord. Let me look at gerd

and Doris. Now very quickly, let's put a name up.

So girl, Doris, they didn't know when to start. Doris

was actually both of them are part of a church

called Gospel House, and they went because Good and Doris

they can't Tahana, they can't stand not serving. So in fact,

the pastor in Gospel House, he's a German or so

he said, you are the first couple who has come

to my church, Gospel Houser, who want to serve the

very first week, I have not found a person like you.

They're on firemen said no, how can we not serve

the House of God on Sunday? We must serve the

House of God. So the pastor allowed them up to

the stage where they are given.

Now three or four responsibilities.

One of the responsibilities is God and Doris drive one

van each sixty nine years old sixty five driving vans

to pick up young people.

To church. They do it.

Twice a month. Why are not four times a month?

Because they said, Pastor, I just want to remind you

why we're here. We're here to give our bears to

serve the Lord, but we're also here to start X.

So I don't want to do so much that I

have to disappoint you one day when I had to leave.

So we will serve, but we will also raise up people.

Great Dorris was very clear of the vision, and so

was the pastor. So a week or two before I came,

the pastor already called Good and Doris Abbah to pray

for them befront of the whole church.

Great Dorris will soon plan X.

So we want to bless them today because we don't

know when their pastor comes what the details will be.

When I went, I also didn't know the foo details.

I just asked, Girt, are you ready to start?

Say? Of course, I'm ready, Pastor, I'm ready. If you

are ready, I'm ready. Now.

How do I know that God is ready? Three main

criteria that God is ready to plan the church? I

know by three criteria Number one and God is about

ready to do something great. He always raises a man

or a woman up. You read the Bible. He wants

to do something great. He raises Abraham. I want to

do something great. He raises Moses. He wants doing something great.

He raises Daniel all the time. When God is about

doing something great, he will raise up a man and

a woman. That is most of the time the most

impossible thing in human language, because you cannot convince. You

cannot convince a multi millionaire to give up his business,

for example, to go and serve the Lord until the

Lord touches heart. You can't convince a young person who

is like, ah, I just want to party, to sacrifice

a party for the purpose. It's very hard to find

a young person like that, very hard. But when God

touches our hearts up, he gets the man, he gets

the woman, number one, number two. He always raises a

team so that one man or one woman will become

two or three. So Simon who picks us up from

the airport two and a half hours away from his house,

he picks u up from Frankfort Airport in the car

for about how long did it take us to get

about one half hours nineteen minutes from Frankfort Airport to

Cow's Ruher.

And we're talking, I said, Simon.

Somethless, I go from Simon to Simon when I feel

German as Simon, and when I feel you know Malaysian Simon. Simon,

actually I didn't know that you were going to be

part of X Germany, he said, past I sludy know,

but two or three things. One is that we're spoken

to you and Bassandra and we know that in our

hearts we really love X and we want a part

of it. Just don't know when, don't know how to

know you know where, he said. In fact, he said,

we pray to the Lord, and Lord showed us Frankfort.

And now this one is messaging us out because he

is nineteen minutes away from Frankfort.

Said Lord.

I said, I thought you said Frankfort. And then this

is Cow's Ruher. So how you can't even pronounce it?

Took me about two days. How rule.

No Kyle's Burger. I know that's what bad thinking about.

But now it's just kidding.

Help It is the one that makes sense. Col's Ruher. Okay,

so he says, he says, He says, to be in

the car.

You know, I I'm I'm still I'm still having questions, Pastor.

How many of you in this room has questions? I

still have questions, Pastor. I thought it was Frankfort. I said,

where you went to the Frankfort to pick me up from

the airport, so, you know. And then he drives me

down nineteen minutes and he says, secondly, I spoke me

and my wife spoke to Goodden Doris and good and

Doris says, come down, come down to Col's ruher find

a job here, you know. And so he says, I

don't want to be influenced by manas I want to

be influenced by God. But you know, thinking about good

and Doris, you know, in their late sixties, you know, doing.

This for the first time. This, this this couple is

our oldest.

Missionary in excess. I've never seen someone so, you know,

mature in age. Yeah, come on, those of you are

your six season.

Don't give up. Okay, don't give up.

Okay, all right, God has got still something in stall

for you.

All right, amen. Okay.

So I was just shown the time, but I'm I'm

looking at her saying this this is introduction.

Okay. So now I'll get there. I'll get there, okay.

So uh and then he says, uh and uh, finally, passer,

I'm here picking you up from the airport because I

feel like spending this next six days with you. I

think I'll get a clearer direction from the Lord if

I can just spend time with you hear from you.

So he said, I want to spend as much time

with you in Passendra and see what God.

Has to say.

So he slept in the hall, as I said, actually

in the hall. The first day in the hole was

too hot, so he slept in the balcony. They have

two balconies. So he stepped me in the balcony on

what do you call it?

That the air better? You want to blow on.

Inflatable better, big one and you know so, so he

stepped outside there and then by the third day he

went out to sixteen degrees.

Then he came in.

But that's that's why Simon came along. So I said

to Girt and Norris, Girt, Doris, are you ready to start?

They said yes, But why can we started to thirty?

Doris says, And I said, oh yeah, Doris, also because

we still have responsibilities in their church. I said, oh,

I say okay, I said, but you have to say

no when you start church, you have to say you

cannot be in two day ten tomorrow to thirty next week,

to thirty next week ten You've got to be consistent.

If you are to grow anything, you've got to be consistent.

Consistency is very important in wanting to grow, wanting to develop,

wanting to be better.

Consistent.

You want to lose mead consistent, you want to do

anything consistency.

You want to have a good habit overcoming a bad habit. Consistency.

If you're smoking and you want to give it up, you.

Cannot say Okay, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I smoke Tuesday, No

canno one cannot You just gotta be called so uh

dori Is said, you know, I think as a woman,

women always feel more motherly, more responsible towards things that

they have. Men are more like, okayl I know we

can just turn the pustle the puzzle understands one I

don't read, I know, which is what Gird said. Gird said,

you know do is you know the person knows to

be print Forest last week? Really? You know? And uh So, anyway,

I just want to say this in all my sharing

with you, I just want you to catch that we've

got to come to a place in life where we

just start, where we just do it, where we just

take that step of faith, where we just say whatever,

But to do it's scary, and I've got questions, but

I've got and this thing that you do is just

a preparation so that God can do the rest. And

if you don't, then either God can't. And I don't

like to say God can't go Bles's nothing that God can't,

but he only can't because He wants to work through you.

So if you take too long to start and to

make preparation for him, he will then one day have

to choose someone else that is not so nice.

So just there at that, at that reception that.

We hadd Dorris and I was able to come to

a place whereby let's just start. And Doris look at

her husband. Okay okay, okay, okay, okay okay. I think

what she's saying, okay about ten times she's trying to

convince herself. Okay okay, okay, oh okay, okay, okay, okay,

okay okay. She look her husband and I think twice

you look her husband, husband like her husband influence, you know?

Oh okay okay okay, okay okay.

She would say, okay Lah, you know ten years of

being in Malaysia, okay Lah, if you look at me.

Is it passa? Is it? Yeah? You know you just

got you got one start because it's and.

So this was important, and it was important because there's

a man called Simon who also needed it to start.

So can you see by starting, you get a new gut.

And Doris, especially at Doris, she was very willing, but

again motherly instinct. Hey, you women will have this one.

They're not wrong, you know, they just have this, but

you know, and he husband's work. Come on tomorrow next year, okay,

not January. Started early in the year.

And re first, what what is September eight?

September eight eight is number on you beginning? It's God's time,

not out time. But women, And I'm not blaming you,

and I'm saying this. I'm saying that you are very caring,

You're very responsible. And then's why I go, Oh, I

know I will upset a few friends, you know if

I do that, you know, but I got still something.

You know, I got still at dance club.

You know I haven't I'm supposed to my carena with them,

and now we're only halfway through. I only have to

hear you know, I haven't done her give me money.

You know, I haven't done to help myself? Can I

finish this commitment?

Yeah? I understand, I understand.

It's not it's not that you're bad and guys, it's

not that you're also ruthless and uncaring and you know

non compassionate is just the timing of God and both

as My wife got.

To look go like how past you're sitting next to mesage.

Yeah, So that means that even this visit was important

because I had to sit in front of them and

say how are you know, sometimes go or bring people

into your life out to say how and you think

it's pressure, but it's not. It's something that you need

to go like, actually, how the difference between twenty twenty

four y twenty five is how? The difference between your

past and your future is how? What do we do

with today? What do we do with the opportunities are

there before us? Are you also with me? So we

have a new gird of nourris because we started.

We have a new Simon and Micaeh.

Because Simon, by the seventh day he was after church

on Atha. He stayed with us for six days. Seventh

day he's going back to his wife, he said. Pastor

Canneth I want to tell you that this last six

seven days with you, I am now very clear and

confident that is the Lord that wants is here. And

then you know what he did. The wife had a

call from a company that wants to offer her a job.

In Cal's rule, I'm.

Telling you right now.

You probably don't understand this, but things begin to happen

when you make decisions.

They don't happen before. I know, because before it's like.

God, you showed me everything first, then I go, no,

he doesn't again. He wants you to live by faith.

So you know how exciting it is to start. The

excitement comes from you start seeing God move. And she

was it faster. My wife was offered a job that

is specifically for her, and the boss is willing to wait.

But not too long, I say, And I tell you

why not too long, Simon, is because in your plans

you want to come here in January, but Exchange needs

you here asap.

And that's why some.

Press you will move. Someone's harder to cause you to

make a dicision.

A sap is not your plan, but his plan. Are

you willing to change?

And Simone looked at me and said, past, if you

ask me this one week ago.

No, I'm not willing.

But one week with you and talking to you and

hearing testimonies and hearing from God, I can say now

I'm willing to change my plans for His plans. So

we got a new Simon just by starting. I want

to believe that I will have a new you, and

you will have a new you. But before this year ends,

I don't know what God is challenging you do how

he stepping causing you or stirring in your heart and

causing you to even consider. And yet you say to me,

but Pastor, there's you know, twenty one questions I ever

answer it. But I got confirmation because number one, he

gave me. God gave me Gerd and Doris. Then God

gave me a team in Simon and Micah, and then

God gave me a venue.

Let me tell you about the venue very quickly.

The reason why we couldn't start was because Gerd and

Doris were staying in and apartment rented by their daughter

for them.

At the back.

It is you know those kinds like dual key on

the housing door key and in Germany do worky. That

room was so small, the bathroom was so small they

just passed. We definitely couldn't start changed there. I don't

know how to tell you so how small it is.

It's maybe twice the size of our Kampong house up there. Okay,

I mean it's smaller, it's more I think they told

me it was. Was it thirty five meters or okay?

Okay.

Basically it's a hotel room cow size all right, and

bathroom you know when you go in the hotel bed

maybe one chair, one table, and the bathroom there's a

size of their room.

Okay.

But because we are now praying and preparing, God when

chose us when to start ex Germany, the Lord opened

the door and I will I can still remember because

I was in the Exportswana and I was about radio

to stand up to speak. I told you the story

I think I was. I was on the seat and

buzz Lasos was introducing me, about to say, uh, we're

going to have our founding sea and pasters to come.

And as he's talking that, my phone begins to buzz

for the telegram and I'm looking. I'm looking at telegram

is Gird. Gird says Bastard. We have found the perfect place.

I rejoiced, and then Sally, I heard my name, Kenneth Chin.

There it's me, and I wasn't hearing the whole introduction.

Hey, this is Mentor.

So I came up and I said, hey, guys, can

I just read out girds telegram? The houser now from

thirty square meters to one hundred and twenty five square

meters with two balconies, one which I use for quiet time,

the other one that Simone slept out.

There a beautiful garden outside.

The owner's tall. The owner's tall, Gert and Dorris. As

long as you bring life to this place, I'll be happy.

We are going out to the gardener plucking fresh figs,

figs and eating like that. I don't eat figs or no,

I don't, but this fresh green, nice sweet figs we're plucking. Wow,

I said, Lord, is this how the garden of Eden

feels like? And they're plucking tomatoes? You know?

So they get this garden that they can use.

And twenty five meters a square meters I should say

of living space, two rooms, two bathrooms.

Stuff like that.

No not, I say only one bathroom law, which was

of course for me a mission tripler. After after six

days of being in a place. In fact, when Doris

and Girt took us out on the eighth night to

celebrate our anniversary for the ninth but the ninth was

on Monday, so eighth night he took us out and

it was a beautiful villa, a wonderful restaurant, and Girden

Doris just lean over to us and say, it passed

us so sorry. I know that we could have put

you up in a hotel, but you were so gracious

to stay with us. We just wanted as much time

as we could could with you and Passandra to fellowship

with you, uh to you know, do you hear your

heart and pray with you? And so forgive us for

the one bathroom situation. It's not easy, you know. So

a new Simon, a new Micah, a new apartment, beautiful

apartment and and and uh, you know, we ran and

bought a TV. Okay, a girl wanted a sixty five inch,

said Pottle, so people can see. I said, I can

see even fifty five. And we got, you know, we went,

we went and shopped for it. We went shopped for

a sound bar so that people can hear. And you know,

it's just exciting when you start. You see God's hand.

When you start, you see God's favor. Oh there you go,

sixty five inch and a happy German. His wife was like,

why you buy so big? The wife just brought into

you know, why are you buy so big? And girl says, no,

this is the smallest I can find, the first lie.

And then of course I prayed for him of that.

Uh and uh.

And then after when we put the TV, we say

he should have bought big GIRLA. So we drilled the

wall ourselves, you know all that this this, this is,

this is the door that if you open, of course,

is the cool ever come in? And just right outside there, Yeah,

this is my meeting with the worship past's office because we.

Were talking about if.

If Simon or Simon is not there, if I'm not

there and different ones are not there, how is gonna

lead in worship. So we're gonna now design something to

send worship songs so that they can just sing like

ka okay, something that you know, you know what I mean,

I mean, just guided guided songs.

Okay, all right, So yeah.

It's always worth there's always food in gird in Dorris's house. Uh.

And then outside there's the gardener and the gardens about

maybe one acre uh and all kinds of fruit trees

out there.

So every day we did that.

So, ladies and gentlemen, before I draw towards the last lap,

there's a new girt and Doris, there is a new

Simon and Micah there is a new apartment. And I'm

on my knees praying as if God, now touch the neighbors.

He says, of course I'm going to because you start,

I'm going to touch the neighbors. Now, you didn't start

hunging to touch the neighbors. So that we pray a

lot of things that, but it's really what was to

start you do? If God was Malayia, I'd be like,

you do you do?

I can work to you.

Let me show you the photo of that that treat me.

Bassendra and Debbie Debbie Debbie. Ladies and gentleman knew both

me and Bassender thirty years ago when she was a

student in Taylors. She came up to a y a.

I knew her brother first. Her brother's name is calm Ming.

Calm Ming. Now I just found out it's in Kyoto.

So when I go to Osaka next month, I will

get to meet Calming hopefully because I think he sort

of like backsided.

Uh.

And when I first spoke in ePol, calm Ming was

a youth leader. And when Calming came to Kdu to study,

Camming became the CF president. And as he president, he

remembered me and he said, Pascan, would you want to

speak for KDU camp. I spoke that year and three

years after that in a row. That first year we

met a backsident guy called Ryan Foo. And Ryan Fuo

was back Sidan and he came because calm Ming was

his good friend from EPO. And Ryan came to the

camp I spoke at and got revived. And now Ryan

is the pastor of Harvest Gen Church. Okay, if you

don't start, God cannot do. Are yours do with me?

He's very important. But Debbie, Debbie backslided big time. She

told me and Passendra, I went around the world. I

was in the world, out of the world. I was

back in the world pastor. I was messed up. But

during the COVID time, the Lord just you know, I

had I had nothing else to do at home, and

you know, I cried out to God and God met

me in a very fresh and new way.

And she said, I became a new person.

And she said, I haven't been back to church at

all for two years.

And she said, when I.

Heard that ax Germany was starting and that you and

passenger was coming, she said, I had to make this trip.

And so on that day she came driving two hours.

The Dories already knows Debbie because they've been in touch,

and Doris said, wow, Debbie is coming. She got to

the train for two and a half hours. Wow, this

morning's coming.

Do you know two and a.

Half a half hours. Your church starts at ten? What

time you have to come out? Okay, but before that

you gotta get ready. Prep this time round. On the

eighth of September, her husband, who's a non believer, said,

I'll drive you. We'll say it again and again until

you're until you become bored. And I hope you don't

you become bored if I If we didn't start, there

is no Debbie. There is no husband driving her to church.

Do you understand the stuff that God has planned? When

you start? You will not see it until that day.

He has got so much more we didn't know in

one day. Debbie says, Pastor thirty years ago was the

last time I met you. I have come back to

the Lord, but I have not come back to church.

Thank you for Satday, Germany. Do you know that God

can start that just for one person? Of course he can't.

He went all the way to the well with one woman,

and that one woman brought the whole city.

He would do that.

Jesus would leave the ninety nine in search of the

one because he loves us so much.

He loves Debbie.

And Debbie comes and she's in tears the whole service,

from worship to the n y because she's not been

back to church for two years, actually all together thirty years.

And I'm there saying, wow, just starting, ex Germany, just

starting can cause God to do this one miracle for

this one person. Isn't it worth it? But he's even more.

Let me look at the next photo, the one with

the whole group. That's her husband. I can't pronounce his

name and I don't even remember it. Let's just call

him Franchois because he's from France.

Monjeu, monjouj ten. Pierre, Oh, oh.

You're calling him, Pierre said, okay, Pierre, No, don't know

his name, but I'm so sorry. He hasn't had a

long French name. Okay, I'm still trying to get my

French correct, like like like how you you know you

people will want to order Croisson, you know, but but

actually it's Croissant. Uh So, so I really tried to

struggle with Croisson his name. So but it's almost he

was shortening. He said, just call me, just call me

something right, And I said, even now I couldn't get it.

But that man is very precious.

Why because he also has not stepped into church, and

he tells his wife.

Don't go to church, La, you know, don't go to church.

He has a house in France, brought his wife to

France for two years while the house in Germany was

being renovated. Uh. They had a little bit of a

struggle in France because I had to stay with the

in laws and Debbie was not used to it. So

their marriage was really under a lot of tension. And

then finally they came back, came back to their new

house two hours away, two and a half hours away,

say passed, you must, you must come and stay in

our house. One days in black Forest. I only no

black forest cake. When he there's my favorite cake? Any

other black forest. But she said, we built a very

beautiful house and you know it's it's wood wood, you know,

the kind of like cottage house. So I said, one

day I'll come. One day, I'll come, by the grace

of God. But that man said today I'll drive you.

And then he didn't come for the service, but he

came for the hospitality. Thank you Jesus for espresso. The

wife tried because when they don't come to church, and

they did, don't want to come there. We'll just wait

for you in the car.

Pierre, I got, come on the level.

Ah, Okay, honey, would you like to come up in

because she's expecting a no idea which had to come

up in this fellowship.

You know, there's food on the table.

Okay, comes up and he has a great time fellowshiping

with all of us. And then I found out that

he likes pickaball and I said, I'm a pickaball champion.

I act like it. Like course, my my pickuball bat

is expensive.

Those of us who want to just shake our opponent

up a littleit we just have to buy expensive records first. Yeah,

but actually don't know how to play, went mister Frenchman.

God is saying you don't know, but I wanted to

reach him. You didn't even know his name before you

start the ex Germany. I knew his name when he

was born. I knew that forty five years later, he

will come to ex Germany if you only prepared the way.

His son is called Marcus, and as you can see,

he's already very comfortable.

Marcus.

And Marcus knows a libert of Malay. Just came back

to Epo to visit Debbie's parents in Epo. And I

want to tell you, ladies, gentlemen, just look at this photo.

Is ex germaney worth it? And I'm going to look

at you right now and say, there's so much more

in stare? Can I prophesy over you? There's so much

more in store for your life. You don't belong in

the grave yet. No, you should live, and you should

live life to its fullest. Let me show you another slide.

The next slide is the name. There's another name, right, Matthias.

I want to tell you about Matthias. Matthias is sixty

four or sixty five years old, German to the max.

They tell me.

Doris, and God tells me Matthias doesn't speak a word

of English except hello, Is it me you're looking for?

No?

No, Matthias, Matthias, Matthias. He lives alone. Sometimes a friend

or two visits him. He's alone. He lives on the pension,

stays upsas Matthias. God knows Matthias. Before ex Germany was

ever even dreamed off. He knows Matthias. Let me tell

you about Matthias. Matthias heard the worship music at ten

o'clock coming from downstairs. He wrote to God and Dories

at ten twenty five, when I worshiped this finish, he says,

that is the most beautiful music I've ever heard. And

Dorris wrote back to him, you must come and join

us one day. Do you know how worship music is

very powerful? And then Matthias met Gert at the front.

When Gert came back, you know, got had to rent

a car to take us to the airport, so he

rented a car. As he was walking in, Matthias was there. Oh, good,

go to talk. And you know what Matthias added, He

told Doris, most beautiful music.

You know what he edited? He said, good.

I had a friend who came at nine something in

the morning, and at ten we were supposed to go

out together to do something. And as we were taking

my keys to go to the door, and my friend

was with me, your music started. And when I heard it,

I told my friend. She told sit down, now, let's

listen to this. And I listened until you finish, and

I was so happy, and then only we ran. Now,

God knows Matthias, and God knows the people downstairs, and

God knows the neighbors. Let me talk to you about

the neighbors, very very quickly, very quickly, can I talk

to you about the neighbors. They smoke ganja. I was

on my knees in prayer. I said, Lord, your presence

has a very unfamiliar Oh lord o Lord. I was

getting high myself.

Yeah, heck you Jesus No, I was gonna get high.

But I know the smell because my father was on

ganja for twenty twenty five years. I know that smells

so well because I lighted up my father's ganja bong.

I know that smell.

And a guy who was so excited he thought nobody

saw him. And I'm there on my knees, really my knees,

and he's just about maybe twenty feet away, and the

aroma just came.

The burning of incense. Listen, and then I began to

pray for you.

The starting of ex Germany in this place will also

one day, as the Ganja aroma came over, so will

the presence of God's aroma go over there. You must

believe people, You must believe why ex Germany? Because God

knows so much more than you. He knows the people

around you. He knows the people under you, he knows

the people above you.

He knows.

There was a Matthias who's gonna go out at ten o'clock,

but he stayed back anyway because for the first time

he heard worship. And then later on when talked to

him about church, he said, I was hurt by my

previous churches.

Was hurt and I.

Never want to step in to church ever again.

Only God knows there. But here's worship.

And he loves it and true relationship. He doesn't have

to go to a traditional church one he has friends.

We church downstairs. Only God new that. Let's close. Let's

let's go with the remaining slides. I just want to

make sure I don't miss anything. All we needed to

do was start. Somebody say amen, Let God do the rest.

What else?

Jesus said to them, fill the water pots with water,

and they fill.

Them up to the brim. That's all.

That's all, Hey, servants, can you just do this I'm

about to do to the next muscle. So what are

we supposed to do? Just fill up the water boss,

you water hats are easier and not just fill up,

fill up to the brim. You mean, we don't have

to do mumbo dumbo, hallelujah.

You know, we don't have to do anything else.

No, just feel the water, boss, to the brim. Let

me do the rest. And so they took it. They

took the water that was made into wine. And you

know the rest of the story. The wedding was saved,

the bride and bridegroom, their face was saved, their reputation

was say why, because Jesus was in the house. He

was ready to do something amazing, just like he's about

to do something amazing in your life.

Come on, can I hear good? Amen? Come on, amen,

I hear somebody say I receive it. Good good. And

of course there's teacher on the other side.

You know, their teachers right opposite the apartment where Doris works.

That those teachers will come to hear about Jesus. So

let's finish. Let's finish now I can. God says, reach

the neighbors, heal the say, make disciples, raise leaders, plan

more churches, reach people.

Now I can. This is the extra story.

It's always been like that because at the communing was

started two plus years ago.

We are here.

And more, oh will be accomplished by God's grace. Somebody say, Amen,

this church is a church that has stories, a story

that will bring about many other stories that has been written,

is being written and will be written.

It is a gift that keeps on giving.

As long as we abide in him. Jesus came and

spoke to them, saying, all authority has been given to

me in heaven and on earth. The go therefore and

make disciples of all nations. That's what the Lord told

us to do. And then he promises, and I will

be with you always. You start, I'll be with you.

You start, I'll be with you.

You do it.

I'm around you, I'm with you. I will never leave you,

nor forsake you. God keeps showing that He's with us,

and that's really all we need to know to keep

going on.

I'm reading for my slights.

Now as I go to a close, God Lord keeps

showing that he's with us. What's God asking of you today?

How can you make preparations for him to move in

and through your life?

Ladies and gentlemen, brothers, Si says, Questions never end, doubts

never cease, fear never stops. You know.

There was a question that Peter had for Jesus.

And this is the last scripture I'm going to turn

us to, and then I'm going to close John twenty one,

twenty to twenty two.

John twenty one, twenty to twenty two. Here we go,

We're going to read it. Peter had a question.

Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved, following,

who also had leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord,

who is the one who betrays you? Verse twenty one. Peter,

seeing him, said to Jesus, But Lord, what about this man?

What about?

Here's the question? What about this man? And this is

what Jesus had to say. Jesus said to him, if

I will that he remained till I come.

What is that to you? You follow me? What is

that to you? Just means this.

It's not your business, Lord, But how if only a

few people come next week?

In extremity, not your business. But Lord, however I start EXK.

Go to comuning and only ten people come, Not your business,

but Lord, how if no.

Lives are changed? Not your business?

But how Lord, if there's not enough people or our musicians,

it's not your business.

You start.

I'll bring you start, I'll touch you start, and our race,

new worship leaders.

You start, and our race, new backup singers.

You start, and our race, new x TV people knew

the sound people you start, And I will touch families,

and I will heal the sick.

You start, and I will. Now I can say the Lord.

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