BOLDNESS IN THE SPIRIT | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from at church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

I wanted to start off by by showing you this

little clip, but maybe can I see a show of hands.

How many of you know of this very pretty girl

called Molly?

Right?

Okay, so x dby, can you help me show the

slide the second slide? I believe? Yeah, pretty right? Oh

we're pretty girl. And anyone have you have heard? Okay?

Those who Eleen and my I give your okay, four

of them. No, the rest of us probably never heard

of her before. Right now, this is her in three

years ago, three years ago, and she is seven years old,

giving her very first ted talk Take it away.

What if I was to tell you very time of

peakable could change the world. Thanks the scientist, we now

know just how important the first five years are for

our health and development, especially our brains are healthy. Development

depends on these top five things one connecting, two, talking, three, playing, four,

a healthy home five community. All of this helps our

brains and does reach our for potential. So what's something

you can do that can really make a difference? Scientists

call it serve and return. That's just the grown up

way of saying, each time you talk to us, play

with us, make us laugh. It not only builds and

strengthens our relationships and mental health, it actually teaches us

some of the most important life skills. Imagine the difference

we could make if everyone everywhere did this.

All right, can I get some reactions from the floor?

What did you think of this video? Awesome? Very inspiring?

What else? Guilty? I heard that? Guilty? Guilty of what? Why? Guilty? Albert? Depressing?

Are you? You want to share a little bit? Let's

do be a counseling for Albert? Now? Why why is

so depressa? Oh? Why am I kid ant like that? Okay?

This is such an Asian parent? Okay, Asian parent? Why

am I kid at like that? Okay? Okay? Of course

when I first saw this video a few weeks ago,

I was so impressed, blown away. So take it up.

This is her at seven years old, seven years old,

and now she's ten years old. What a life ahead

of her? Right now? If I ask you, any of

the teens here, let me look at this gentleman, this row,

gentleman here with your day? Huh? Bubbay boy? Is it?

How old are you? Bobby boy? Thirteen years old. Okay,

would you be able to come up here and you

don't share a five minute story? Okay? Well, very our

young generation very brave, right, whow, very good, very good.

Now I want to go to the adults adoubts. How

many of you would dare to do what she did? No,

I say no, But then you want your kid to

do it? La. You don't want to do it, but

you want your kid to do it?

Lah.

Okay, Okay, now the thing is right, Okay. I just

wanted to get us into thinking about the fears that

we have in life. Right, many of us carry fears.

And one of the common fears that all of us have,

and this is regardless whether you're American, Australian, Chinese, Indian,

Malaysian is fear of public speaking. Correct, true, true. Yeah,

it's not easy to come out here and to be

able to present you know something. And you know, she

was actually speaking about connecting with children. So she's a

child herself. She's seven years old, and she's telling the

whole world. She's telling parents like, hey, guys, you got

to connect with us, you gotta play pick up with us,

you gotta say hi, you know, and engage with us

talking and that's why she said serve and return, right,

So so there is a connection. There's like a ping

pong thing happening right between interactions between humans. And what

you were recognized is that more and more, more and more,

And that's why we can be in the place. But

we can leave that place without having known anyone true

or not true. Church every Sunday, same thing. Eh, you

can come in, you can go away and then not

having connected with someone. And she's saying, as a little girl,

why she can do what she did was because her

parents made time for her. Her parents invested in her

just by playing pickaboo, just by playing. And that's what

you know why we have timmy Right, It's just a

place to connect because we are living in such a

disconnected world. Correct. You know we can be on all

the social media and all of that, you know what's

exactly what's happening, but no one knows you and you

don't know anyone. Can I just oh, yoh, this seta

Can I just say that whatever that you see on

social media? Can I just tell you that that's probably

like ten percent of their life? Yeah, and don't be

full into thinking wha I wish I can have their live,

you know, every time go for a holiday, every time drink.

I don't know what you'll like to drink nowadays, right,

And we think that that is the real life, but

actually there's the ninety five percent of their life of

reality of the days when the hair is not so nice,

the day when there is no makeup, right, And that's

real reality. And so sometimes we need to pause. And

that's why become the church. We come to church to

pause our busy lives, to say, Okay, God, can you

help me connect back to you? And that's why we

plead everyone, if you're a believer of Jesus Christ, if

you're a follow of Jesus Christ, never neglect the meeting

of together this way because this is what stirs our faith.

Do you know, right, what's the business? Okay, if we

are running a business, what is the church business? Sorry? People, yes, correct?

But what else are we selling? What is the church selling? Guys? Life?

Jesus so hope, excellent, well done. So we are in

the And I always remember this. I heard pastor cannot

mention this right, and he says, right, if anything else,

can you please remember that the church is about the business.

Of faith. That means every time you come together like this,

a fellowship of believers, you will be stirred up in

your faith. Amen. Don't think about anything else. Okay, don't

think about oh what is the angle? Is it? Is

it more community outreach? Is it more giving? But it's

all about having more faith. So you think about it.

Every time you come to church, is your faith being challenged?

Is your faith being stirred up more and more every Sunday?

If it's not, then the church has failed you. Okay, Wow,

that's addlest. But don't say exta communing. You're doing well? Okay,

I'm sure every time you come here you're being challenged

in your faith. And that's what it's all about right now.

The opposite of faith is, of course, fear. True not

because what we can do in faith by faith and

what stops us from going forward is fear. And fear

is something that is very really in all our lives,

right And I mentioned this earlier to the earlier service.

Who are some of the Bible heroes that you know?

Come on, tell me who's your favorite character in the Bible?

Joe?

Wow, streaming Joe? Who's this young man you're going through

a lot of life, hard life, now, right, that's how

you can resonate with Joe. Okay, did you think that

Joe was a man who had fears in his life? Yeah? Sure, okay,

he was a man, right, He struggled, he wrestled with God.

Thank you for that. Any other Bible characters, your favorite

Bible characters anymore? Anymore? Daniel Daniel is what'ster Daniel? By

the way, gone gone, gone with the wind. You need

to recharge. Yeah, Daniel Daniel was a man. I mean,

we love Daniel, right. He was a man who did

great exploits, you know, all the things that he did.

But did you see any part of his life where

he was fearful? I'm sure. I'm sure before he could

go into the lions that he's like, oh my goodness,

you know what's happening here? And so different by every

character that you can see in the Word of God,

there were men. They were men and women like you

and me, And so we recognize that fear is very real.

Any one of you who say that I don't have

any fears in your life, you're lying to me or

you're lying to the Holy Spirit, because we all have fears. Right,

But so what is what happens when we are caught

in fear? What is your reaction? What is your reaction

when you're caught in fear? Do you know there's a

psychological response right when you encounter a threat, something that's

threatening you, what's your normal reaction? Yeah, fight or flight? Right,

so you either you fight or you fly away? All right?

How I must tell a story because Poseidenia's not here. Yes,

So we were having our SPO retreat. I don't know

if you know this story, you know, And so we

were walking walking just along the streets of KL. Okay,

if you're walked along the streets of KL. He's like no, no,

And so suddenly there was a squill. I heard a

squill and a jump quite a high jump, right, and

it was like that really like that. And then we

found out that one of our passes is so scared

of rats because there was a date red right, so

the reaction of and then it happened one more time

because there was another day, so that we're walking along

the streets of KL. It was so funny, la, I mean,

we we will remember that for a long time. But

you see the things, right, when when we have fear

in our lives. It's something that threatens us. We either fly,

we fly, you know, we go away from it, or

we fight. Some of us will fight, you know. I

don't know how many of you. If you there was

a rage, you know, an in just situation, you will whah.

I want to make it right. I don't know some

of us react that way. But do you know that

there's another reaction when we are fearful, and that's freeze? Yes.

Do you know some people when they are put on stage,

they you know, they straight away like dry, everything dries up.

Your tongue is sticking to the roof of your mouth,

and you're like, oh my gosh, I'm so and you

forget everything. You go blank. Have you had your experience

at you go blank? You don't know what to say. Yeah,

that's that's the reaction of fear. Write everything about you

just kind of like freeze. Okay, so that's some of

our reaction and and the things right. Maybe I'll share

a little bit about my own journey growing up. Actually

I don't like doing this one. Yeah, I know. So

growing up I was a very shy child, very shy child,

very awkward, very awkward, and very timid. And I remember

this incident once when I was I think about eleven

or twelve years old. We were going grocery shopping right

with my parents, and so they they of course they

bought stuff, right, And so one of the things I say,

I will carry everything except that one back. What is

that one back that I refuse to carry no matter

what oilet paper? I you know, it's like, but why

was I so fearful to even carry them? Because it

was associated with something that's like shame, and and you know,

it's like, oh, it's so not cool to be carrying

doll but guys, you know carry toller people walking around, right? Uh?

And and I that that became like a mark in

my memory. I don't know why. I don't know why,

but that refusal and that fear of like what if

someone saw me carrying toilert people? Right, U if people

for a long time on my life? And and but

the thing is right, we we don't stop there. Right

as human beings, we grow, correct, we continue to grow

in faith. And that's true also of our Christian faith.

And I recognize right that this morning, wherever you are

in your faith, we can start off being timid. We

can start off being very shy, very awkward with our faith.

But can I tell you that as you move further

with the Lord, as you grow in the Lord, right,

he will give you that bondness and that courage. Amen. Amen, Amen, Amen. Yes,

we want to grow in our bondness, and so I

want to share this with you. Right. This is taken

from Second Timothy chapter one, Versus seven to eight. Second

Timothy Chapter one, Versus seven to eight. Can we read

this together? You're ready one to treat? For God has

not given us a spirit of fear, but of power

and of love and of a sound mind. Therefore, do

not be a shame of the testimony of our Lord,

not of me his prisoner. But share with me in

the sufferings for the Gospel according to the power of God. Amen. Amen.

Can you take this as your verse? Say I receive

this word, Oh Lord, this morning. This word is for me.

Say tell your neighbors, for you tell your other neighbor

is for me. Because I think for too long we

have been walking as Christians who are fearful. There's so

much things that stops us from doing what God wants

us to do. Right, And let's be reminded again that

God says, I have not given you the spirit of fear. Yes,

it's there, but I want to give you something else.

I want to give you power. Turn to your neighbor

and say, dunamus. Do you know what dunamis is? Don't know?

All right? So dunamis is the Greek word for power,

and do not miss. Do you know the word dynamal?

Do you know the word dynamite? All right? When you

try a dynamite someone, what happens? Explode? Power, power, might, right, strength, ability,

That's what power means. Do you want more of God's

power in your life? Amen? I think we all do.

We recognize that without God it's impossible to do anything.

Without God. I will not be here preaching to you

on God's word. And it's because I recognize that it

is God who's working in me and tru me, and

I pray one day all of you wouldn't have an

opportunity to share God or witch on whichever platform. Amen.

It doesn't have to be this platform. It doesn't have

to be in front of a church. It could just

be you having a conversation with your best friend. True,

not church. That is your platform. That's your platform when

you need God's dunamis, because without God's tsunamis, you'll be

talking about the weather, what to eat for lunch, your color,

your hair color, your make up. Yeah, without God's power,

that's where our conversation can go. But with God's power,

then you will receive power to speak about the truth

of God. And that's what we lack church, if I

can be very honest with you, that is what we

are likeing. It's not that we lack the vision. I

think we all know what to do, right, correct, No,

all of you. You are smart enough. You know it's

simple enough. God has given us the commandment, go and

make disciples of all the nations. Go ahead and make disciples.

And yet why is it that in our lives we

don't see that happening? And I recognize it's because we

lack that power on our own, On each of us

on our own, we won't be able to move. Okay,

So I want to go into the Book of Acts

and let's see how the early Church disciples did this

all right, now, I asked you this question. Do you

think that the early disciples they were very brave people? Hey, Noah,

I thought they were the most brilliant people from the

University of Jerusalem. No, what were they fisher man, Yeah,

fisher man, University of Fishing. Right, So these were the men.

And do you know that every stage of their life

do you know that Jesus at the cross, Jesus has

spent how many years with them? Three years? Three years? Okay,

three years? Wow? You think about it. If you had

personal Internet time with Jesus, or you slept with him,

you walk with him, you d with him three years,

do you think that you'll be like, why, I know

I am so full of God's power? Yes? Actually no?

And you recognize that even though you've been with Jesus,

you can still be fearful, you can still be powerless,

you can still doubt. Because I was reading again the gospels, right,

and of every gospel Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, it

seemed that even though Jesus appeared to him, to them

again after resurrected, you know, some of them doubt it

his own disciples, so many of us, right, we will

probably go through our journey and even though you have

been in church for twenty five years, that could still

be doubt. Why? Right? And when we have doubt, we

will not be able to move forward. But let's go

to and so you know that these were a bunch

of you know, uneducated men who didn't know a lot,

but they knew God, all right. So now let's go

to X chapter two. Now we want to think about, Yes,

there are fears in our lives, but what is the

thing that can help us overcome our fears? Okay, so

then let's notice some of these things. Let's read X

chapter two Versus one to four. So I don't know

whether XTV has it on the screen. Okay, shall we

read together God's wor Radia one to treat. When the

day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with

one accord in one place, and suddenly there came a

sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, and

it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then

there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and

one set upon each of them, and they were all

filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with

each other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance A

man Amen. And this is what it means by Jesus saying,

remember in ect chapter one, verse eight, and you shall

receive power and you shall receive power. And who is

this power? The Holy Spirit. And even as I'm preaching

to you right now, right, I recognize that the reason

why there is no power in my life are those

moments when I have not been filled with the Holy Spirit.

Do you know it's possible to be unfiled Christians, unfeeled

by the Holy Spirit. You can walk through your life,

you can attend church, you can give all your tithes

and offerings, you can go for all the mission trip,

but not be filled with the Holy Spirit. Yes, very possible,

because everything else is you can do on your own strength. True,

you can do everything else. But what is the one

thing that we need as we are called to witness

is the Holy Spirit. And that's why the Holy Spirit

was given to us. All right, So that's what we

want to understand now. There are three key ingredients to

Christian boldness. Okay, do you want to be both? For Jesus? Yes,

I love it. I love your conviction. I love that

you are ready to say yes, you know. And I

recognize again that it's not because we don't know what

the mission is. It's because there is no boldness in

our lives. And as I'm learning and this is for me,

and so as I'm preaching to you, I'm preaching to

myself and my God God. The first one that needs

baldness is me, because I'm very scary, kid. I'm afraid.

I'm afraid of what people think about me. I'm afraid

of you know, what if they don't respond? Right? That's

what our fears are. What if I share and then

the person laugh at me? What if I'm not making sense?

What if I quote scripture wrongly? These are all our fears.

And I recognize, first of all, Lord, I think I

want more of your boldness. I want more of your

spirit than ever before. Amen. So what are the three

Greek key ingredients? The first one is we must firstly

have conviction through the word of God. Amen. Without having

the conviction of the Word of God, we will not

go out in boldness. I will tell you that for sure,

for sure, we will not be able to act when

we need to act. All right, So there needs to

be a conviction of the Word. Now let's go to

you know, so we painted we agree, right? We agree?

Before this, before the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples,

there were a bunch of scared men correct. There were

a bunch of men who deserted Jesus, who left him

when he was at the cross, who doubted Jesus even

when he appeared. I don't know which category you're at.

It could be all, because many of us have been

at one point or another in that category. But what

is the difference now? What is the difference now that

after the Holy Spirit came? And let's look at this man. Now,

let's go to act chapter four, verse thirteen. Are you there? X?

Chapter four, verse thirteen. Now, let me give you a

bit of context right before this. What's happening? So X

chapter one, ACTUAPT the two You know that? Okay, So

let let's back try on, back track, back track X

chapter one. They were filled with the Holy Spirit. Amen,

full of the Holy Spirit. And they begin to speak

out in tongues. And by the way, do you know

where this happened? Can I give your Bible trivia quiz?

Where were the disciples when the Holy Spirit fell on

them on Pentecosts? Upper room? Upper room? Yes? Agreed? Wrong?

Read your Bible carefully? Hah this one? Okay? No? No, no, okay, no,

no that they are wrong. Of course, many of us

think right, that the Pentacosts happened when they were they

were praying, correct ext. Chapter one. They were praying in

the upper room, one hundred and twenty of them, correct.

And guess what that's all the maximum of one hundred

and twenty people that can fit like here, like here la,

like excut comunila. How many can fit in these bleachers?

One twenty? Yeah, but one twenty. Right, So they were praying,

and but what happened was the day of Pentecost came,

so that means they were not in the Upper room

that time. What do Jewish people do on the day

of Pentecost? They go to the temple, all right, and

so they were actually at the temple grounds. Does it

makes sense? Because I always wondered, right, if they were

at the upper room, how did the multitudes come around? You? You

read x Chapter two, verse six, because when they prayed

and the Holy Spirit there was a sound of true

rushing wind, right, it came and then there was this

multitude war in chapters two, verse six. And when this

sound occurred, the multitude came together and were confused because

everyone heard them speak in his own language. Can you

see the connection? Now? Was it possible for them to

still be in the upper room. And then there was

this multitude that came no. Right, So the better how

you could think about it is they were actually on

that day in that temple they were praying. Of course

you would say what about the because it says, right,

it feels the whole house where they were sitting. Do

you see that? That's why we thought it was in

the room, right. Actually, when the Jewish people think about house,

they're thinking about the house of God. So this is

the house of God. They were at the temple. They

were at the House of God. Yes, correct, not in

that small upper room. And so they were there, and

then the multitudes came. Right, they heard each one pray

God in their own language. How can that mal right?

Cantonese English, some of your English? Yeare I know? Because

that's the only language you know how to speak, right,

And they heard God in all their languages, their mother tongues,

and they were praising God. And this says, what manner

is this? Are you crazy? Are you drunk this morning?

And then of course Peter was the one who bully said,

men ah, no, Peter, right, man, it's only nine o'clock

in the morning. We haven't drank yet, but we drank

the Holy Spirit, different kind of spirit. And this is

what it says, right, And this is what I want

to read. This is chapter two, verse sixty. Are you there, Yeah,

Chapter two, verse sixty, let's read it says, but this

is what was spoken by the prophet Joel. So this

is now Peter trying to tell the whole crowd. They're

in the temple, guys, these are Jewish people in the temple.

There was a multitude coming to them. And he says,

this what was prophesied by Joel. And it shall come

to pass in the last day, says God, that I

will pour out my spirit on all flesh. Your sons

and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions,

your old men shall dream dreams, and on my men's

servants and on my maid servants. Thank you God for

being fair to all gender. I will pour out my

spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy. I will

show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth.

Beneath blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun

shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood.

Before the coming of the great and awesome Day. Of

the Lord, and she shall come to pass that whoever

calls on the name of the Lord shall be Amen.

So this is what Peter spoke to the crowd, and

you know what happened. Do you know what happened after that.

Let's go to verse thirty seven. After he spoke all

these things boldly, right in verse thirty seven, he says,

now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart.

These are Jewish men in the tempo Yah. They were

cut to the heart and said to Peter and the

rest of the apostles, men and brethren brothers, what shall

we do? And Peter said to them, repent, and let

every one of you be baptized in the name of

Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall

receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Amen. How powerful. Sometimes we don't read the whole word

of God right, and we recognize that this is what

was needed. And I wanted to go to this in

xt chapter four. Then we move on, right, we move on.

So so this is suddenly a fisherman or fisherman suddenly

stand in front of the temple, in front of all

the people. And you know that three thousand turned to

Jesus that day. That's how the three thousand could happen.

It must have been in the temple situation, not in

the upper room. Right. And so he said, wow, you

know these, but you see her. You see there will

always be the Pharisees and the scribes and they will say, wow,

what is this? You know? Who are you unlearned? Right?

And let's go to X chapter four, verse thirteen. Now

this is talking about the Pharisees and the scribes. They say, Now,

when they saw the baldness, can you say bondness? Bondess?

You want bonness? Right? When they saw the boness of

Peter and John and perceive that they were uneducated and

untrained men, they marveled and they realize that they had

been with Jesus. Can I tell you church that you

don't have to have a bubble degree. You don't have

to go for ten years or ten weeks of seminar

on the Gospel of God. You just need to be

with Jesus. My question to you this morning, have you

been with Jesus? When was the last time? Don't tell

me last week, last Sunday. Okay, every time you come

through church, that's when you have been with Jesus. But

can I tell you that being with Jesus, being with

the Word of God isn't everyday thing? Yes, amen, is

an everyday thing. We cannot think that we can be

filled with the Holy Spirit and with God's power without

spending time with Jesus. It's an easy equation, guys. It's

not gonna be like, oh, I want to do that

great miracle. But you have not even spend time with God.

You have not even read his word. When was the

last time you read God's word? That personal devotion? Right? So,

so the thing is right that the Holy Spirit comes

when we are ready, when when we prepare our hearts.

And I realize the days that I'm very busy right

trying to get things done for God's work. I can

be very busy doing church thing. But if I had

not prepared my heart, then I don't allow the Holy

Spirit to enter. Did you see that? And that means

that I can be doing everything? No do these do that?

Do that, preach, minister, counsel, pray, but without power? Do

you see that? What a waste? Right? What a way

to be doing all of that? And then you profit

so little because without God's power you can only profit

so little. It is god power that enables us to

see that one multiple multiply into the thousands. It is

only God's power that can cause growth. Do you know

you want to convict someone of a truth? Right, you

can all until the cows come home. The person will

not be changed. But if you had come and you

have prepared yourself, do you know that? That's why we

see preparation is key to worship. Before the guys came

up here to play and sing, they were preparing for

us at home, because worship begins at home. Yeah, before

you can offer something to God, You're like, I'm here.

You know, I'm going to Timbaktu, I'm going to Netba,

spend five thousand ring it right to minister to the people.

But if you had not prepared your heart, it would

have been a waste because with one word, one word

of truth, that God, that Holy Spirit speaks to you

at that very moment, you could have released that person.

Do you see that? Do you see how how much

we need the Holy Spirit? When was the last time

you spoke to the Holy Spirit? Do you know the

Holy Spirit is a person, It's not some wishy washy

feeling kind of thing. He's a person. And so you know,

when I learn this truth that the Holy Spirit is

a person, I say good morning every time I wake up.

Good morning, God the Father, good morning, Jesus, Good morning

Holy Spirit. I need to recognize and I need to

give him a place so that he can work in

my life. Amen. So we've got to be convicted by

the word of God. We gotta know. You know that

Jesus himself saying, don't go anywhere until the Holy Spirit come.

Are you all guys? Then why we go here, go there,

go there everywhere? Without the Holy Spirit? It would have

rendered all our work ineffective. Right, or we could be

doing things and we could be achieving material wally gains,

but without a gain in the Kingdom of God. Amen.

So conviction of the word have you? And you know

that the word is Jesus. Right, You got to have

a fresh revelation, a fresh conviction of who Jesus is.

And it's not just about you doing a checklist. Oil today,

I read my bibleary d oil today, I go to cheaturity.

It's not that it's a personal relationship. It's like, have

I been with Jesus? You know? I know yesterday. Yesterday

some of the teens, right, I had spend time with

Pasadeniel and Rachelle. Thank you for hosting them, housing them,

feeding them. But because they spend time with them, now

they can catch a little bit more of their heart.

Do you see that? Without that, right, Parsidonia and rachel

will be like, hey, teens, you're going to do this,

You're going to do this, do that, do that. But

without having spend time and personal time, without that intimacy,

they would not really know where they're coming from. Right.

It's the same thing with our relationship with God. Until

we can come to a place where it says, I

want to be interred with you, Jesus, I want to

know you. I want to just be in your presence.

It's not about doing a checklist, guys, It's really not

about that. It's about saying that the checklist is there

to help. That's it. But you don't want the checklist.

You want Jesus, right, you want to be in his presence.

So I want to challenge us, right, can we before

we ask for bonus? Can we just say God, I

want to be with you more than anything else, more

than I want to see soul safe I want you first. Amen,

we want Jesus first before anything else. So the first

thing to have conviction your hearts is to to to

ask God for you to be real, to go to

Him to make time. I know time is is shot

for everyone. We all have twenty four hours. But in

that twenty four hours, what do you choose? It's a choice.

I think we cannot give the excuse anymore. I got

no more time. I will ask you back, what are

you doing with the time that is given to you? True?

Not don't say you don't have time, but what are

you doing with that time? And what you spend your

time on is what tells me was important for you.

And here we are, we're saying God, we want to

do great things for you, but we put you last.

We don't spend time with you. Right. Can I say

that anything that you want to do for God, you

go to God first, be filled with Him first? Right?

Which is my second point? So it's you. You gotta

come from a place of confidence in the spirit. You know,

the boldness that people have right in preaching God. What

Peter showed, what the disciple show, it was not confidence

that they were so all well trained, they had all

the degree, master's degree, doctorate. It was not. Their confidence

came from being with Jesus. I know Jesus, and Jesus said,

I will give you the Holy Spirit. Now I will

receive that Holy Spirit. It's because it came from a

time of believing in Jesus. So now everything that Jesus says,

I believe, Everything that Jesus wants to give I received.

Correct Otherwise you'll be like, oh, yeah, what Jesus is

saying now, because you know who introduced the Holy Spirit,

It's Jesus. So if Jesus says holy spirit is what

we need, how come we don't desire more of the

Holy Spirit? Right? We gotta have more confidence in the

Holy Spirit. And and so do you know? Every and

and I'm gonna bring us to this part right where

firstly we have conviction through the word of God. Right,

this this is the if you say I don't know

how to spend time God, can I say reading God's

Word is the best way to spend time with God? Okay?

Are we gonna drill this unto you until you make

it to say God every day? Do you know? Okay?

So this is my personal conviction for me? All right?

When I wanted to be serious with God, and I

know all of you want to be serious with God.

I told myself this that God, the first things that

I will put into my eyes every morning before I

open my phone is your word before anything else. This

is my personal conviction. I say God before anything, as

any other thoughts feel my mind. I want to be

filled with your mind. I want to be feeled with

your thoughts because anything else will give you life or not.

Nothing else will give you life except this. So why

are we feeling ourselves with death when we should be

feeling ourselves with life first thing in morning? Right? It's

like you know, every time I read the news or

TikTok messages that comes from shore, I get depressed with

you and shure, I'm firm because God, what haven't done yet? La?

This one chasing me for this? And con why not

accepts the life out of you? So I told myself,

why do I put myself through this? I would just

charge it lave. I will refuse to even look at

it until I go to God and say, God, what

is it that you want to speak to me? I

think that's crucial. Right? Would you make it your convention

to say God. If there's anything I should read so

recently I'm trying to get myself to read a bit more.

If there's only one thing that I can read today,

let it be your word. If there's only one piece

of news, or whatever time I have time for reading,

let it be of your word and nothing else. And

you will begin to see how God will renew and

transform you. Amen. And God wants to do And as

I love how Rachel puts it, this is the life

giving word of God. Amen. So let's put life into ourselves.

There's too much bad news around me. We don'ated first

thing in the morning. Yes, you will attend to your

emails later on, Yes, I know, yes there will be

texts that you will need to attend to. Yes, I

understand all that. But why don't you challenge yourself and say, God,

if before anything else, I want to put you first. Right,

that's being convicted by the word of God. And then

when you do that, can I tell you, friends, that

your confidence will begin to build in the spirit of God.

And do you know that Holy Spirit is just waiting

you know every morning? Ah, every morning He's waiting to say, Hello,

I'm here, excota goo morning, I'm here, anyone recognized me

or not? Everyone wants my time or not anyone. I'm here,

and we miss him completely. We usually miss the Holy

Spirit complete, and we think like, are you how come

my prayer hitting a ceiling coming back? How come I

feel so tired? Do you know this tiredness? I know

there is a physical tightness, but what's more scary is

a spiritual tiredness. We can be doing things week after week,

month after month, and then we feel that how come

I'm so tired? So I will always check is this

a physical tightness. If it's a physical tiredness, praise God.

Go to sleep a leap, please, children, teens, adults don't

last girl until one am. And then you say, are

you if you're a tired loer or church? The next

morning one am is optimistic to sleep? Are you serious? Guys?

What no wonder? You're tired? Lo no wonder? Try and

sleep at top o'cloth piece ten o'clock. Okay, that's my standard.

If I can sleep by eleven o'clock, Praise the Lord.

Anything else is really just draining yourself for no reason.

But really really like, if you're physically tired, it's okay,

But can I guard you and warn you against a

spiritual tightness. And that's where you know you're in dangerous

grounds because when you're spiritually tired, you become spiritually dry.

Have you heard of that word? Yeah, it's like I'm

so dry? Long yeah, no, wonder because you haven't been

feeling yourself with life and you know that the spirit

is like the water that cleanses us. Right, is it

making sense Jesus words to you? Right when when you

feel dried and you're like, oh, I'm thirsty, thirsty for what?

Not vodka? Okay, Malibo, You're thirsty for the spirit because

without the spirit in your life, you shrivel up and dry.

And that's why we must have sure on our face. Yeah, moisture, right, ladies,

you know this. You always slept on a lot moisturizer

right right, dry Like I got it every time. But

what about the moisture of our hearts to keep it soft?

I don'tays wrinkle up? Okay? Now now another thing, okay,

So first one is conviction of the word. Second one

is you gotta have confidence in the spirit as it

begins to give you utterance. And can I finally say

this that if you are emboldened by the Holy Spirit,

it will automatically come out through your mouth. Yes, do

you see that every time it says that the Holy

Spirit feel them, the Holy Spirit feel them, out comes

the truth of God. Do you notice that? Because I

really believe and I share this with the morning Service,

that out of the abundance of your heart, your Ma speaks.

This is the overflow. Guys. Can you touch your your

throat a little bit? Everyone touch your throat. This is

the overflow. You know when you pump patrol, right, you

pump patrol and then you feel feel, feel fel fool

already what happens come out right? Same thing with us.

When we are so full of the Holy Spirit plow

the truth of God comes out. And you will know

that people who begin to speak truth right and become

bold is when they are able to write. You recognize

that they have been filled with the Holy Spirit, and

out of that comes boldness to share about God. I

want to quickly share this story because I'm so proud

of them. We have two teens here from Subunjai entity

and so what happened was it's a simple thing, simple thing. Ah,

what happened was one of the us I don't know

what dayla. They were in the mall in Summit. They

were in a ball in Summit, and they were there

making traditional clothes, all right, so thank god for traditional clothes. Okay.

So they were there trying to buy all the clothes.

I don't know where they were, they were in the shop.

And so then came this auntie. It's like, oh, wow,

why you want to you know, make or was it

making buying buying this traditional clothes? You know? And what

was the occasion and all that. And they could have

just said, oh, it's nothing like right, like teens, nothing, nothing,

just go on with their business. But they, I don't know,

in the boldness of their heart, they just say, yeah,

it's because we go to a churchair in Summit, right,

uh and and lo and behold, then they had they

were so scared. I think they're probably afraid that now

now it's like Nola, no, I can't see really anytime.

But at that point, what I heard from the parents

was they were of course china, right, shy, awkward, and

then they did but they just say, anyway, we have

a church. And guess what. The following Sunday, the antie came.

She came to church, she read, dedicated her life, and

today she is still worshiping with us a man praise God.

Can you see it's something as simple as that. And

I think that experience, you know, as much as it's

so encouraging for us, right, it did something to them.

Can I say that you two can be that one

person just by saying, hey, we meet in a church

on a Sunday, just by I don't know what you do.

You know later on when you go out here to

have your lunch and that would you just say, hey,

we actually have a church here, right, and brought someone

back to Christ. How precious is that? Isn't that what

we want to see more and more of our lives,

to see the bonus come into our heart and our minds. Right?

We want to see bold Christians. Amen. I want to

pray for you, and I know many of you love God,

but we don't want just to love God. We want

to be bold for Jesus. Amen. Amen, Halleloah. Can I

invite the band to come on stage as we draw

to a close. Amen, I just want to declare this.

I want to declare this because let's not go away

from here after receiving another message, but without any transformation

in our lives? Would you pray? Do you know that

after the disciples will persecuted again and again, And this

is what they pray, And I pray this becomes your

personal prayer, as He has become my personal prayer. In

x chapter four, it says after they were together, they

knew that they were gonna be persecuted, possibly executed. They

pray together in their brethren. They say in verse two says, now, Lord,

look on their threads. Whoever is threatening you. I don't

know who is threatening you say, look on their threads,

and grant to your servants that with all boldness, they

may speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal,

and that signs and wonders may be done through the

name of your Holy Servant Jesus. And when they had

prayed versty one, he says, the whole place where they

were assembled together was shaken or exco documenting I want

to say that this place is going to be shaken.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and

they spoke the word of God with boldness. Amen.

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