Seek First the Kingdom of God - That All May Know | Pr Sandra Chin

You're listening to a passage to go from AXTS church. We hope this message

will light up your tea. Our theme is that all may know, and

but we can look at it in different angles. Okay, So today Matthew

Chapter six, verse thirty one to thirty two and h and thirty three to

thirty four. So you know this verse. I'm only taking this portion and

our references to the earlier portions later. Okay, So verse thirty one,

thirty two, thirty three, thirty four. Here we go. We got

the word there. Do you want to read it with me? Maybe we

can read it together. Okay, all right, let's good to read God's

word. Here we go. Can read from the screen one to three.

Therefore, do not worry saying what shall we eat, what shall we drink?

Or what shall we wear? For after all these things, the gentle

seek for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things verse thirty three.

But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these

things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow,

for tomorrow we'll worry about its own things sufficient, for the day is its

own trouble. Amen, the reading of God's word, Amen, just for

versus. And it comes from a whole passage in Matthew chapter six, which

is part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mound. This was when Jesus started teaching,

and he would just he went up on this little mound and overlooking the

Sea of Galilee, and there he and the acoustics. There was no microphone,

no mic system. The acoustic must have been amazing because there was just

I don't know me thousands of people there. Maybe I'm not sure. It

says he was speaking to his disciples, and maybe while he was talking,

everybody started together and that's where he launched this whole chapter six that you get

the Sermon on the Mound on the be attitudes. We start with be attitudes

and then he goes on to teach on the whole thing about life, and

this is one of the topics here. Don't worry, Amen, do not

worry. But why you know what was God's Jesus purpose of sharing the word

teaching his disciples. So I just want to encourage us and understand where where

he's speaking, because if you read them be Attitudes, you know where it

says Blessed are the poor in spirit blessed, or those who want blessed are

those who are hungry. You know, the whole eight beatitudes, because after

he goes with the eight beattitudes, he actually leads them into the next portion,

which is about being sold and like, all right, and so Jesus

is actually teaching us the lifestyle to live, the lifestyle to live, so

that others are going to want what you have. Amen. They're going to

see something how you do your marriage, how you raise your children, how

you work, how you do business, how you know, how you deal

with challenges in life. And he was just teaching because he was wanting to

give to them something that they could live and then live out so that those

who have not known him will want to know him through their lives of his

disciples. And so that still works for us today. Amen, hallelujah.

So if you're saying, oh, what is the lifestyle I should have,

Well, they're all in there in Matthew chapter six. As you read it,

and of course as you study you you learn more things. So I

have a little bit of a focus here for us today, and again leaning

on the theme that all may know. So we start with him saying,

well, before I say that, I mean, Jesus starts with it.

Don't worry, you know, don't worry what you're gonna eat, what you

drink, what you drink, what you eat, what you're gonna wear,

what you're gonna do. Tomorrow already tomorrow got their own problems. But if

you read even further than verse thirty one, he already also says, Hey,

guys, you know I clothed the sparrow, and the sparrow is this

common bird, you know, common bird. If the sparrow he takes care

how much about you? How much more will he take care of you?

Are so precious to him? And He's made you and I in his image.

We were made in the image of God, so you will care for

you. They don't look at the lilies, He said, the lilies are

so beautiful. Why are you worried about what you eat, what you do?

And I clothe them, and I made these beautiful natural flowers, you

know, or just whatever the la lang, Oh, so more beautiful than

Solomon's whatever glory right, And then he comes back to saying that, hey,

don't worry about all these things that you need, but seek first the

Kingdom of God. So let's look at the picture here. I love this

picture. I mean, don't we want to be there. It's calm,

it's relaxing. And sometimes when you're you know, just looking out the water,

was so peaceful, right, And many times we want to be like

this. We want our minds and our hearts, we want to be in

this place. But how many and sometimes we have to be in the other

place as well, the next light. Oh okay, there's this storm in

our lives. Sometimes not an actual storm. You're not in the boat.

I don't know how many If you have ever been on sea, at the

sea with this kind of storm, I don't think I've ever been, though

I might have. Have you ever been, I think I might have been

once. Uh. It's terrible, but but not as bad as this La.

All right, you throw up, you'll be crying, But there you

are. The fishermen will probably have this experience when it's a bad day,

bad rain or whatever. Nobody wants to be in the storm. But but

sometimes life is like that. Some days we are at the peaceful days,

and some days we're we're here and life will will will bring us through La.

But with the Lord who leads us and guides us. He will teach

us how to come through this these kind of circumstances in our lives. A

man and and that's like our lives. Some days he's in the storm,

some days it's just a calm beach and we are so at rest, and

other days we're like, wow, what do we do? And that's also

something to say, Hey, don't worry. Wll things don't go the way

we want it. Don't worry, Jesus says, because these are things I

will add to you. But why does he say that? So perhaps the

view that we need to take a look about our own lives is what is

our priority? What is our priority? Do we want to align with the

Lord God or do we want to align with just ourselves? Again, Church,

as we live in the twenty first century and in this season, in

this time a lot of people are talking about loving yourself, help yourself,

take care of yourself. Giki kako gieki kika, don't not do sayikiki cheer

tigar ah. So you take care of yourself, all right, but of

course you have to take care of yourself. But God is also saying,

hey, I'm also taking care of you. Don't worry I'm here, all

right, so what is our priority? And may perhaps Jesus was trying to

teach his disciples the priority in their lives. So of course we can skip

the other the slide and let's go to stop worrying. The first thought for

you is don't worry. Stop stop worrying. I someone said, when past

the precious message, stop worrying speaking to the women? So bad? Right

as hee? No, women only worry. Hello, hey, guys also

worry right? How to provide for my family? How to do this?

Do that? Men not so worry, so naughty, and they'll say,

pre stot worries about the women? What? Oh the woman? Stana schol

you. I think at some point our lives we have different types of worries,

right, and and we do worry about things. But then there's this

coming message that when you read Matthew, the Lord's reminding us not to overdo

the worrying until we worry like as if we can add the the solution to

that problem. And sometimes it will also affect your health. If you're over

worry and worry and worry, you can't worry? Are you? Are you?

I'm thirty and I'm not married yet please don't worry, and you cry

and crying and you forgot about your saday. You don't juggert yourself. Then

you oh, oh, you know God, this job that jo you worry,

and you worry and you worry until you make yourself have oursours and you

stress. Jesus knew better than that. That is not good for you.

Don't worry because your body will go in hair wire, all right, So

don't worry. But why does he say that? Because he wants you to

trust your heavenly father. Trust your heavenly Father. He says that if I

can take care of the sparrow, I know the sparrows, how much you

I know the number of hairs on your head? Wow, Jesus, no

number. I don't even know the number of hairs my head, but you

knows. So we have to trust our the next life, trust our heavenly

father, so that you know there's a stronger arm that you can lean on

and not on your own strength and your own arm. Because God wants us

to get a priority right, and then this one you have to choose,

of course, But I'm just sharing with you, and I'm still saying this.

I also have to look into my own heart as I share with you.

So we're gonna be worried that a lot of this. I also sometimes

worry about different things. I always their concerns and many concerns for the day.

But I also have learned to just take a deep breath. Okay,

Jesus, I need your help with this problem. Sometimes he's dealing with people.

Sometimes it's managing a circumstance. Can you imagine when I was walking with

my dad through the cancer circumstance and he couldn't walk. Can you imagine the

worry. I'm thinking, I don't even know where to start from. I

don't know what do I do? You know? And then everybody has so

many things to say, and I just needed Jesus to guide me, especially

to the last month of his life. And and you're thinking how worst.

I'm thinking, how I'm gonna pay the bills because they slapped me with a

twenty thousand bill sing he needs what I thing called radiotherapy. They just cough

out the wor twenty dollars, Like, hello, you think I got twenty

thousand to give you? Now? What now? Because he made me decide?

Now, now you've got to decide, I said, I can't decide

now because I can't pay the bill. If you give me instombuns, maybe

I can do this, But now you're me toll for twenty thousand, then

I cannot give my father the best, isn't it? Because I'm thinking,

oh Am, I going to meet this bill and I didn't even know whether

we should go through it. I have no clue what's going on right.

That can be a worry for those of us that can care of our elderly

parents. And I tell you just had to just okay, I say it

out really a lot downy K. I don't know where to get from.

I don't have twenty k. I mean ten k maybe I can, but

I can't manage twenty k. I went and find where. And you just

have to say, Lord, I can't worry this because I worry. I

cannot at my father's healing, I cannot do anything. He will be feeling

so bad as well. So you just rest in the lot. You just

have to say, Jesus, you will provide for me. And truly the

law provided the money. He provided enough the twenty k care so that I

could do whatever. And of course later I found out other things about the

whole radio terraby of things. So I'm like, yo, okay, But

God took care of all the bills. Can you imagine how good God is.

He took care of every the hospital bills that I needed to pay.

And you know, every time we did treatment was a couple of thousands,

couple of thousands, and I just had to go ahead and just pay first

with the credit card right and then and then you pay us slowly. But

God provided. God provided, and the hospital even give you back money.

So you talk about worrying. If you worry, you can't add to it.

But you can't say thank you Jesus, you please help me. And

I was not in a government hospital. I was a half government. You

age is not full government. I couldn't do government because of just the way

I had to take care of my father, take care of the work as

well, and traveling and traveling up and down work. So God knew what

we needed. I will tell you we cannot worry, because if I worry,

I don't take I can look like this today. The heir ready turning

white every day white more. I was coming up and then you know,

you're not enough sleep, And I really worked. I work, and then

I to be there with my dad and surgeries and oh so many things.

I guys, I want to tell you you may go to something like this.

You know all of us we have aging parents. We need to take

care of our parents at some point, or maybe sometimes your child. Maybe

you know it's a family member, maybe it's I don't know your business.

It's not just going here. Why you need to learn to rest in God's

word and in Jesus and trust your heavenly Father for him to make a way

for you. And this is where our faith needs to what do you call

it to, tire, mister Rodler, Don't just preach it, live it.

Don't just preach it, live it. Don't just hear a message,

live it. So you gotta live it like That's when I have to my

own faithor have to rise out Carolina. My husband's favor, right, he's

so much Yea's I learned around him. But tire me the regard, how

would you provide? And the law provided every bill for me that I could

pay. Don't worry trust him because what is my priority? I got to

remember what's my priority? I'll come there. So therefore I bring you this

third third point. Here seek God's kingdom first and his righteousness. Brother sisters,

many of us forget to seek God's kingdom and his righteousness, and we

run around doing our own plans, thinking this is the way to go.

Jesus would not say it if it was not important, true or not.

So we want to know. So when I was preparing this the first round,

when I was preparing, I didn't think too much. Then later I

think again. I say, if I want to tell people see God's kingdom,

what is God's kingdom? Right? We gotta know. I want to

know what is God's kingdom? What is it about seeking his righteousness? So?

Firstly, what is God's kingdom? If I ask you to see God's

kingdom? What would what would you go to your mind? Do know?

La? Maybe you know? Maybe you don't know? Right? So what

is this? Seek God's kingdom when we are going through different things, when

we're trying to align our lives, as you are making parity, what is

the priority? We'll get to it. Firstly, whatever you're doing in your

life, seek God's kingdom first and the kingdom of God. What is it

mean? It means the reign of Jesus. The Kingdom of God is where

Jesus. Is he is the king, right he is the lord. And

where Jesus reigns, this is to acknowledge, to acknowledge that Jesus reigns,

that this is his authority, and we are to obey. Amen. There's

a desire for Jesus's rule in three areas of our lives. Of the three

areas our lives, Jesus rule in our lives. So we all have to

search our husband. Is Jesus really is in the center of our lives?

Is he the authority in my life? Is he the first word and the

last word in my life? That's that's called the Kingdom of God. If

I allowed the Kingdom of God to already live and I'm living in it in

my life. Number two is our circle of friends. Is the Kingdom of

God in our friends' lives? Or are we bringing that kingdom into their lives?

So that's where the priority will start. Right that that how the only

no kind of thing. Firstly, the closest people to us in our influence.

And third, where Jesus wants to rule is that all may know meaning

to the ends of the earth, to every your next, your suramban and

your you know, people Okay, whatever right, your your other other know

our our call to bring the good news. Amen. This is really it's

not just about us being blessed and bless and blessed, but what God wants

you to take your blessing? How to take your blessing? Uh to other

people? Amen? Campus cam you learn that right? I thought I shed

that so so so if you say what am I seeking about God's kingdom?

When you seek first the kingdom of God, you are putting God ahead of

you, not yourself, not what you want, not not your your guard

that you want to buy the new car, not you know, your comfort.

Is saying, God, what is it that I can align to your

kingdom rule? And and that is his lordship, is his authority, and

it's it's desiring Lord rule over my life. And as you rule over my

life, can it even be a blessing to my immediate circle of friends?

And thirdly, how can I carry it to the ends of the earth?

And when I say the ends of the earth, I mean let's being it

close. It could be to Oronashly, it could be you know, my

Hindu friend, it could be my Buddhist friend. I'm just saying there are

three areas, got rules in our lives, got rules in our friends' lives,

got rules in those who have yet to know him. Amen, because

he wants people to know how much he loves them, and it is he

who forgives Amen. So we want to see God's kingdom and put him first

instead of of course you have. We all have a desires, we all

have these things that we want in our lives, but we want to seek

first. So you know when you say sick first, when Jesus said sick

first, you know what's Jesus saying to you. Jesus is inviting you into

a sonship relationship. He's giving you first hand, first choice. Why don't

you come into the sunship when Sin came into the world. When Sin first

came in during Adam and Eve's time, Adam had a relationship with God.

That sonship that he had was cut off when Sin came in. Now,

Jesus offer us to become the sons of God through Christ, Jesus, the

who is our salvation. So when Jesus is come and seek first, he's

inviting us into that sonship. Amens. It's not what you do for the

kingdom, it's who you are. You are the sons and daughters of the

mouse High God. So if we are a son and daughter of God,

then what's our first sake? We seek first God's kingdom. We seek the

rule of God in our lives. We don't own ourselves everything we do.

We have to ask the Lord Lord, do I do this? Do I

take this up? Do I go here? Do I do this? Seriously?

Many of us keep planning our own plans and then ask God for it.

I think he cannot answer you already. But if you said, Lord,

this is a desire, what what do you think you know? And

see if God wants to wants that for you? And I believe see because

he says sick first the kingdom of seek for the kingdom of God, and

then seek His righteousness. And then all these things shall be added to you.

What you will wear, you want your gucci? Okay? Balance pronounce

what really like? Okay? You want that? Or you know you you

need that? Or you want that, you need that, And all these

things shall be added to you. Because why, Father, God knows.

And that's why we're talking about priorities. Where's our priority? God just wanted

to turn our eyes looking at him knowing how we are so blessed, so

blessed that you can be a blessing. Remember that God bless you so that

you can be a blessing to someone. But we so many times forget you,

and I forget that we are meant to be a blessing to those who

have yet to experience God's love. Amen? Are you so excited to tell

you? You know? And you seek God's kingdom first and his righteousness?

Are I tell you he will add to your life? Not? Really,

that's my last point in love, add to your life? Love so even

shady before you heard this. Hey, even if you have a one,

because what you need he has he will give. But even if it's a

one, Now, always tell people about my silly pot, even my silly

pod. Got want to bless me? You know it's not just any pot,

right, it's my leg save pot. It's a silly pod because the

pot that can buy from the Gina shop can make the same curry. Right,

But why must I? I want the legal sepot because he's from Fancois,

so hopefully my curry might become French one. I don't know. Hey,

you know I say you're going already so old you know I'm saving it

all. Every cent we have, we keep giving it away. Already in

my fifties said I'm gonna be sixty's one the silly pod. It's a sillipod

because my curry will tastes the same. Right. I just like the color.

I just like the wait looks. It's like the Mercedes compared to a

Proton. Yeah, it's a silly pod. But you know, God want

to bless me with a silly pod one number two part and not like I'm

go king I God, no time to go. But I'm telling you he

adds to you, even your once, and he knows you don't really use

it, but but you you are. Sometimes you can. I have that

really nice and nice you're nice to have. Not necessarily have it LA,

but it's nice to have LA. And even that I get my silly pod.

Oh. I tell you, God loves us to give us what we

need need first, and even if it's the one, he will also add

to your life, not take away. But you must understand I have to

prioritize my life. And this has taken place many years back where we said,

Lord, let's say I'm gonna serve you right this is you call me

a doesn't matter. I could have been even in corporate, and I could

still have been in corporate. But I will still say I seek first your

kingdom, Lord, and I will seek your reign, your authority, and

I will obey Lord. And that's why I did as a corporate person.

Oh my twenty I don't know how many days leave all was saved up a

missions trip and cam camp camp you came? What camp? I can't remember.

I was you forever, So all the camp and all the mission trips

I wanted to make, I just saved them all. There was no But

then you see that time we had no everybody can fly? Yeah, now

we have everybody can fly. Live. It's very good. I can do

missions you seek. I can take a cheaper flight than the normal flight.

But so all our leaves was done that because we are aligning and the priority

of my life. I want to ask you what is your priority? I

want to say that God knows what you need and you don't have to worry

that he won't take care of your need. God has taken care of every

need that Masquan I have need of. But we didn't always start having everything.

We had to make the sacrifices. We went to the hard road so

that we really appreciate what God gives us, really are thankful for the people

that have come around us where they didn't even know we had a need,

and that I didn't. We didn't want a house. I didn't want a

house. I don't want a house. I don't want just rent la and

I say, you have to buy a house. I don't want to buy

a house. But yet God bought us a house. Do I need a

house? I don't know. Just rent so that any time God calls to

go somewhere else, I just do the renting and go away and rent somewhere

else lived, you know whatever. So there was our life. We just

keep prioritizing where it is not that it's wrong. It's not wrong to have

your own house and own whatever. As I say, God chose to give

us a house, and we do have a house this in our name now.

But we're paying every man. But He gave us the deposit, gave

us all that we needed to start with, and provided the loans, et

cetera. I want to tell you sick, first the kingdom of God your

parity, and then seek His kingdom that is the authority of Christ, the

rule of Christ, the reign of Christ in your life. Think about the

friends and mediate circle, and number three to the ends of the other people

that you have yet to meet. What is God's righteousness? Well, when

Jesus says sick for the Kingdom of God, because your sons and daughters.

Number two when you seek is righteousness, you are actually applying God's principles in

your life and my life. Amen. So so, actually, the principles

of God actually happening every day, even though other even though we have been

living on planet Earth, and people have been applying the principles, whether we

know it consciously or not. For example, marriage, nobody goes around getting

married so that they can divorce. Right now, we are married to have

a lifetime marriage. But sometimes along the way divorce does happen. There's some

things that happen. Children need to honor your parents, which religion tell you

no, parents don't. Children need to honor your parents. There is a

principle of God honoring your elders, honoring people that are above you. This

is a principle of God. So there are a lot of principles in our

lives. Is already God given thing, although we don't realize it is from

the Lord. So if we are now aware of who God is in our

lives, we seek God's righteousness, all right. We we we apply the

principles that we read, we study, we put it into our life.

That's why the Lord said to the to the disciples, hey, firstly get

the rain and the authority of Christ. Seek as you seek God's authority and

reign, you seek also he's God's way of doing life, his way right,

sick, the righteousness, the right to do things the right way.

There are principles in life that we can follow. Do it the right way,

do it the right way. So there are a lot of things we

do. You know, sometimes we think your time, but actually there's the

right way to do it. As a for example, so many timess maybe

you have experienced it where you get your bill and then and then the guy

doesn't charge you, and then I passed to say it, I praise the

Lord, not chudge today, and then you walk away think praise lod bless

you. But you know the stuff is going to be charged. So it's

the right thing to do. At least go and say, I think you

didn't charge me for the burger. How many of us would do that's the

right thing to do, all right, don't don't like you're happy? Happy?

Of course, if you had no money and really didn't charge you,

maybe that's goods us. I don't know. God knows your need. God

knows your need right, or didn't charge you for something, or or you

know that the right thing to do, even though it's like you felt like

it's a blessing and I've done this, I cannot. I cannot. You

don't chuge me. I'll go you didn't judge me, please, you know

or you know you just do it the right way, even if it's just

going s sorry to someone who you didn't even hurt. It's the right thing

to do because that person is misunderstood us. So we go ahead and say

that. And there's so many things that are right to do, but we

don't do it. I don't think it's I saw one day one particular person

who we catered food from, and they had a whole box of ice some

years ago, and as I was driving away, we all packed up,

and then I saw this wasn't throw the whole box of ice for the ice

in the cappa. I cannot. I cannot because it's a cappa, you

papa, not throw ice right now, It's called the cappa, not ice

parkright, it's not an ice park. And it's just thought nobody so and

he's through the whole box of eyes and I'm like, that was my event,

and you to the ice that I'm responsible. I'm like, oh no,

it's not the right thing to do, because the right thing to do

is take the very take the ice back, very well, take it back

and throw it wherever you brought it from, because you are to get the

bucking lord. Where is the ice gonna melt too in the bucket. I'm

like, that's not the right thing to do, and so bad because we

hired the services. Oh but I cannot go back and pick up the ice

cause there's nothing to pick up the ice. We I'll pick up my hand

maybe. So the principles of God is the righteousness of God. There's a

way to do the right thing. Amen, right thing. I mean I've

seen like sometimes a husband might have been unfaithful, and the right thing is

to actually own up to your wife, even though you know you're gonna get

it, or the wife own up to your husband. That's the right thing.

To not do the right thing is to birth even further sin for the

for the keep covering up the right thing to do. Or in the first

place, don't even go there, don't even be unfaithful, don't even start

talking to your colleague, your pa, whatever, or more and more and

more, do the right thing. That's why I say, six God's kingdom

first, and seek his righteousness. Amen. There are principles in life unconscious

to the world that these are God's principles, and people agree that they are

the right thing. It came from the very thrown of heaven. So,

friends, why do we want to see God's kingdom first? Why do we

see his righteousness? Because He says all these things will be added to you.

God wants us to know the priority of our lives. It is at

the end of the day that we are ready to live out this life so

that our There are many others who do not know God. How can they

know him by living? By looking at how we live? We're not perfect.

I also want to say to us, the Lord knows we are made

a little lower than the angels. We are not perfect. We are being

perfected, and we will be perfect when we get caught up with the Lord

when he comes back. But in our imperfection, his grace is there for

us. So some of course sometimes I do sit down thing like I'm still

singing. I still got a problem with that person. The I'm not perfect.

They're like shocks. I'm not perfect, la, So what happens?

Ask God's help, la, Right, don't be so proud and ask God's

help to learn to forgive, then to be kind, to be don't be

jealous, don't be whatever the word. The word is need validation all the

time. Get over it by coming to Jesus and all honestly say yeah,

I am Lord, so shoot me. He doesn't He let you walk through

that thing and say learn it, humble yourself. Okay. So I believe

Jesus wanted the teachers this so that as we seek God and we prioritize him,

God is able to lead you to do what he wants you to do.

I don't know what it is that God has for you to do in

your business. Maybe doing your business. Wow, you are getting opportunities to

new opportunities to meet new people that you've never met before, and you're bringing

the Kingdom of God there and you're sharing the very fruit and life of Christ

there, and then they're gonna ask you, hey, how come you're like

that? How come you do business this way? These are opportunity. The

thing is that God will bring across our our our life. So I just

want to encourage myself and also you. Let's ask God's agenda, not our

own agenda. So if we are able to accept God's agenda, no,

because it's it's it's beyond our own law. It's no longer our own is

God's agenda and we we are putting God's concerns first. So really, if

ever you speak to God, if you're ask him Father, God, what

is your concern? What do you think His answer is going to be,

this is your little toys paining, no, pining English. No, his

concern is that person over there doesn't know me, That tribe over there in

China they don't know me. That that person over there in Thaire, London

know me. There's this mission trip, will you go. That's putting God's

agenda first. God's is beyond our own cares first, and that's why when

you put him first his concerns, he says, I will add these things

to you because you're seeking and aligning to my kingdom. And then you're also

seeking my righteousness, which is my principles. And I will bring all these

things to you our add to your life. Amen, hallelujah. Right.

So it's like giving ourselves to God first, the cause of God first and

uh and then he will he will continue to bring our needs to Urusla.

It's very exciting to live like that because you will get more than you bargain

for. We're not like we did a bargin law, right God buget Like

what do you ask what you get more than you imagine? You know?

I tell you God is just can use people and he will you and not

like he uses us that he employs us. He he has to think of

so many ways to reach the Lass because the world is under the rulership of

Satan. He was hurled out of heaven before the Adam and Eve time because

he wanted to be God. And he keeps wanting to us, wanting us

to lure us to be God's as well of our own gods of our own.

But the Lord loves us so much he wants to give everything. Imagine

Adam and Eve one hundred percent of God's brain. You know, he wasn't

stupid. He Adam and Eve had the brain of God, had the image

of God, had had the everything of God. He did was nothing that

they did not have. If he could name all the animals on the planet

Earth, he had a lot of brains. Now we only use thirty percent,

right, so there was the other seventy percent, and Adam used all

hundred percent. He could have used all hundred percent and said no to that.

No, not Nola, You've gotta say no to that fruit or whatever?

Or why is she talking to a slithering animal for crying out loud?

You and I ever speak to a lizard. Do not speak to a lizard.

It's the very thing you want to kill. All right, I'm sorry,

I cannot take lizards whatever the ah right, sorry, but not about

killing it, but just saying, oh my goodness, God has God is

calling us to himself. The Lord is reminding us and church, each of

us will have to give an account to the Lord if we are church.

If extras truly want to follow God, we have to preach the full Gospel.

No full gospel. We cannot hide the gospel. That means that I

cannot keep some and then tell you some after tell you what you don't like

to hear and what you like to hear. I don't know what we like

to hear. All about me. It's not all about me. But he

will give you all about you. He do, He does make you.

He does. He's was the verse one hundred and thirty nine, some one

hundred and thirty nine. The Lord knows you. He made you wonderfully and

beautifully and incredibly, put all of that good things in your life so that

you would worship him, so that you would know him, and in knowing

him, you would carry his love and bring it to somebody who doesn't know

it yet. You are blessed, so they can be a blessing. But

I know we are dealing with people. People are not the easiest because we're

all special. You are special. I am special, maybe even special needs

sometimes yeah right, so, but God's this fingerprint on Esler, your thumb

print, and my thumb brain different. I'm special. But if you think

you are special, so am I. So so everybody's special, uh huh.

And that's how God made a special only to him. And therefore we

learn to manage our expectations, manage how we want to help each other.

Manage so much. I mean, even if we even even if you said

yes to the Lord. Okay, and you go into the jungles of sabah

al right, like I guess still around rung tribes people groups are not rich.

And now you're thinking, wow, I'm here a lot you mean,

and then there you meet the whole grow people cannot agree with you. How

you still gotta think or how you can get the word out? You still

got a thing? How are you gonna work with this group of people?

Nothing goes our way. Here's got to be open that if God has a

calling, that he will help you make a way for you to get to

be understood, because you want to get a job done, because you want

to reach the laws. And people need to be saved firstly in their spirit

and their soul. And then of course there are needs. So as I

also share with the campus students, not only are we doing we need to

do the social action, We need to hear the needs, speak up for

those who can't speak, help d da da. But then there's also the

part of evangelism, a part of sharing the good news and bringing that word

to them. But don't do only that and don't do this or do this

only and not do that. So we have to balance out both that God

has given us the opportunity to meet the needs in our congret, in our

community and at the same time live the light, live the salt. Then

they can ask you why do you even bother? Because a lot of people

don't bother, and you can tell them why you bother? God loves me

and I love you you. That's what they say. Right in the revel

team. They always do that, And I'm like, wow, you're so

brave to say that. I don't know to say that, cannot say,

Oh, my goodness. Yeah. So if as you look to God and

His Kingdom first for your every need, I tell you God, God comes

true for your purpose in life, for your daily provision, for your creative

inspiration, a man for your business, ideas, for your family relationships,

everything as you put His kingdom first, because you're saying, seek God's kingdom

first and his righteousness. So I'm listening down all these things that you need,

even like I said, my silly pot and and God adds to us.

He never ever takes away from us. He adds these things to you.

As you put God at the center of your life, and from the

center you start moving out and doing the things that He needs you, wants

you, or he wants to use you as a blessing. It's amazing when

God can use you. It can be any of us, any of us.

Seriously, you can you say, oh, I don't have this gift,

I don't have this talent. But there is one thing that you have,

and you let God use you for his glory. Stop stop holding back

and you know all you know my me time and your time and his time.

I tell you, if you're not generous with your me time before the

Lord, you will not get that be able to do things that within the

twenty four hours you can do so much. That is the supernatural that God

wants to give you. And I tell you very few people experience the supernatural

because we haven't yet wanted to trust the supernatural God. The things that it's

not how long you live, it's the quality of things that you do in

your life. Amen, hallelujah. I lost my friend yes yesterday, my

very young actually she's just younger by two years. In our fifties already,

this lady, I think pasta posted up my friend from my school. She

died of cancer. She battled through cancer. But I met her when she

was fourteen years old and I was probably sixteen and uh, and she had

back slidden and angry with God. Can you imagine a fourteen year old angry

with God? Sometime? Think what do we know? At fourteen? They

were so angry with God. And by the time she was fifteen, I

led her to back to the Lord. I had a chance to follow her,

and she gave her life back to Jesus. And then from then on

she just was all out for Jesus. And we all had a mentor in

school and and she followed that mentor on to follow the church because that mentor

also was from a Brethren church, you know, don't believe in Holy Spirit.

And one day though, when she saw me praying in to she said,

I want what you have. I said, really, okay, I'm

gonna pray. You're gonna pray. The Brethren Church people don't believe in speaking

in tongues, are you? And there's warman pant God just boom, Holy

Spirit speaking in tongues. And this is our mentor. And she followed her,

and then she went on to become a missionary in India. Uh.

Jesse you know. And she married an Indian national. They met at Tumbling

Bible School and then and they just that's where we plant We built the school

be her. The school in beh was ex church initial seat money that we

planted a school. So we actually have a school in Bha that puts children

to school, learn English and get an education properly dressed up. And the

people who aren't Christians, the Hindus, they love the school and they will

protect our school. And I was back in the day that we did it.

I've not been supporting fully because the other people supporting it. Now.

This girls who is my friend, is a missionary and has been there for

many many years. But she battled through cancer. But you know, she

aligned her life the moment she met Jesus and we give her life back to

Jesus at age fifteen. She hasn't stopped. She just kept going, kept

going, kept going. Mary quite young and left for India and we visited

them and did ministry with them, and I knew that she was battling.

We were talking together. Every time she comes and see come back to kl

she will meet me and and she will tell my husband. I always pray

for Sandra, you know, I'm so, it's also very happy that I

am serving the lot as well. And she moves in a prophetic So when

she was battling of cancer she got well in twenty twenty twenty one. When

the moment she got well, what does she do? She doesn't hide away

and just try to take care. I don't know. She stayed away and

wanted to go in minister to people. Wow. Oh, so she showed

me pictures of her doing a semi not teaching how to hear the voice of

God, praying, delivering people from you know, unclean spirit. And then

she just served and then boom, she came back again. And when you

got relapsed and this time it was tough. It was tough. But throughout

her tough times of cancer again seek first the Kingdom of God. While in

pain, she just said, I'm just looking to the Lord. The Lord

will heal me. I will be healed. If if he doesn't, then

I will be I will see him. And then I tell you, you

really put a little lot perspective in our lives. When we think of our

lives, it's not in how long you live, it's in how the quality

of life that you live, what you do in your life. Hallelujah,

you know. And and I lost a good friend, you know, and

and but you know only only fifty something years old, younger than me.

So so we were also sad to see her go. But I also know

she lived quality life. She lived what she believed that God had called her

to do, went the Bible school and then went on to serve and you

yourself and have children. Wow. I want to say to us, not

all of us will be missionary, not all of us will be doing what

we are doing. But you will be doing something that is of the Lord.

That you align to the vision that God had do, the calling of

God, and to God's word, which is go Go. If we all

became involved with the going, we don't have time for a lot of other

troubles. We would just be so focused with what the Lord's asking us to

do that we will experience his miracles. He's supernatural. He will as you

seek his kingdom first, as you prioritize I'm just I just employ you partners,

and you know, grand sisters, as I also continue to align myself

to God's kingdom and sick his kingdom and his righteousness, how he brings purpose

to your life how he brings your daily provision without fail. How he causes

you to have creative inspiration. How he causes your business ideas to boom.

You know, and there you are God allowing you to just make money because

that's your calling. You know. How he helps you your family relationships.

I just encourage you. Sick first, the Kingdom of God. What is

that? Sick first, his authority, Here is rain, here is rule,

you know. And then sick first, his righteousness. Hallelujah. Sick

the principles of God. How do I go about these things? Sometimes it's

a very humbling thing you have to do. Just trust God. You do

that, God will will do what he needs to do for or on our

behalf. Seek God's Kingdom first and his righteousness. Be assured. Friends,

my next life he adds to your life. Be assured he adds to your

life. Our Father is faithful. I have not seen Father God, you

know, do anything less. Harllelujah. The one thing he wants to do

through your life is God wants to manifest his life through you. The manifestation

of God's powers through your life. Are you ready? From you got scared?

I've got many fests who me means must be holy. Hello. Holy

is not a bad word, la. It's not like you know those kind

of bad words lot the for letter words. This is a holy. Four

letter word is a good one. It doesn't mean holy, Moly. Don't

be a supernet superspirituala that bit vanilla, right, Nolah, be holy as

he is holy a man. So and and when you say holy, it

just means set apart. Is your life set apart for the Lord, so

that you can do what he's calling you to do and shine for him.

Some of you might be I don't know celebrity shine for him. I don't

know any celebrities. All right, Yeah, you gotta shine for him.

I don't know. You know, don't going to hide your light? Shine

and be so be assured he will at your life. Man, I don't

know what happened to myself? What's my next lighter? Because mama looks funny?

Oh? Okay, all right? Living the eternal life God has for

you now, which is John three sixteen. You forgot so loved the world

that's whosoever believed in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. So my

question is you have your everlasting life? Have you told somebody you have ever

lasting life. I know they'll laugh at you, ah, but you have

to handle laugh at you admit that they were laughing. What do you mean

ever lasting? I'll never die. Really, you have been so braved saying,

yes, I'll die in this body, but I won't die in my

spirit. That's why we scared to doubt before, because they think you loco.

What you mean you have internal life? That's why the Jesus was so

radical when he lived on planet Earth. He was too radical that they had

to get rid of him. I tell you Jesus was so radical and that

they couldn't take him. They had to len for an exit plan for him

to get out of the picture. They couldn't take him. He was just

too radical. We don't like radical people, right, yeah, we don't

like radical people because radical people will hear what God is saying and then you'll

have to do it, and then we will go like, you're rocking the

boat. I'm happy as I am. Stop planting another church, paster.

They planted Melbourne, now, they planted this next to You don't know what

they're planning A all right, don't say no, don't say no. The

Lord knows what you can do. You're living the eternal life God has for

you. Now, if you settle, you're not living the eternal life.

If you settle, that's it. You're saying, these are my boundaries,

then you are not seeking for the Kingdom of God. You are seeking your

own agenda. I have to rock your boat. I also have to rock

my own boat. And I have to say, yeah, sorry, Lord,

if I ever thought that I'm settling, I cannot settle. I'm just

living every day by faith. When you tell me to go, I have

to go do this, go there, do that. It was very hard

for me for a few years to have to about five years of us traveling

between the UK, then to Australia. Can't come home to k l look

after Singapore, go back again to the UK for five years, and I

think I might just leaders are thinking, we are mad people. Why are

you going there? Five weeks here, four weeks here, two weeks here.

But it felt like God told us that's what you need to do to

establish the church. I missed all of your weddings, I missed your babies,

I missed the birthdays, all of it. I felt so sad.

But for five years we were up and down, in and out, up

and down, and God said, there's the five years? Are you?

Oh? When is it all gonna end? And yet I knew when I

was going through it and sitting there in London, don't think it's great.

No, I'd rather be in Malaysia any day, any day, any day.

Yeah, I feel like I'm first class in Malaysia. Yeah there.

I don't know what I am. I just I'm just don't bang the garde.

I sit there and I knew it, and it got I knew that

I was complaining in my hand. God, you know right, it won't

be forever. I said, yes, Lord, this won't be forever.

So I will be faithful to just keep cooking for the students, whatever I

can cook. I'll keep going until you say enough. And I've not gone

back, as you know, guys, I've not been back to the UK

for a couple of years. Now. I don't have to go Australia,

Elene knows, and we're there for a few weeks and now again, now

go no weeks there or so get a chance to go. God knows there's

a season in our lives, don't I won't tell you nothing is forever.

In terms of you think you're going to stay here and you're going to lay

eggs and hat your eggs. No, everything it's going to and we'll have

a season in time. Get ready for God to take you on to the

next thing. There has to be. Yeah, always new in the Lord,

always new. We've done more things. I'm not lived forever, but

we've had so much good experiences and also challenging experiences. Because walk in your

assignment. That's what carry I was saying. You say, walk in your

assignment as ambassadors of reconciliation. That's it. This is our calling. You

have all been assigned the moment you said yes to Jesus, unless you say

you want to give up on Jesus. You said yes to the Lord.

He winn you to his kingdom. He loves you, but he also gives

you an assignment. I tell you, like normal day, like this,

okay, normal normala right now. If you don't have a job, you

feel set right now. I thought that if we're not hyed, now we

feel set. Why I know we're king. You know I've got all these

gift things. I'm not being used in ministry. I don't use you.

You have a gift I feel like that. Know, I got so much

to give my husband. Let meself, don't tell him, Okay, I

can do so much more, but he says, no, you have to.

All right, Then you feel very set. You feel a set one.

No, you well right, That's why God, when God gives you

and employs you, you get to do something. Why you have an assignment?

You don't if you if nobody give you an assignment. Jesus gives you

an assignment. Why you are now the ambassador of reconciliation. You are ambassador.

Sometimes you have to walk in the SuperNature as ambassador. Serious. Just

sometimes we forgot that we are ambassadors and we just say are yo. We

laugh at Nola, Nola, Ahila. Don't be shy, don't say are

you not me? Not me? It's you because only you have connection with

that person, that group, that crowd, it's you. You have an

assignment. You take your business, You go somewhere. I don't know.

You're selling COFFEEO, you're selling gigo, whatever. You're an ambassador there.

That's your your marketplace. And you begin to live the principle the city first,

the kingdom, God and his righteousness. You you live out You let

God manifest himself through you because second Contents five eighteen twenty. Even pains share

this also in our church, in our service there, friends, we are

ambassadors of reconstelation. That's how we're calling the dog. We got no other

job, you know, as in no other assignment, a man assignment,

be ambassadors of reconsiliation? Are you really are really looking off? Praying every

day? Lord? Who I can? Who I can make friends with?

New friends? You can start with my own family members. So I'm gonna

meet my cousin who I've never met for a long time. I ask her

for lunch. I know she needs Jesus, but I have to make friends

for Ler going ma can My Muslim brain is so not so easy to Shla.

But I just love Demlo. Just love Demla. Care for Demla.

Have some care for Demla, so that they know if ever they need a

prayer, they know who to us and they have come and they have us.

Just show a little care. Just just make those bridges somewhere? Are

you? I tell you you? Those of you are working marketplace a very

excitingly my office? All safe ready? Surella? Maybe? All? Oh

God? Why not safe yet? Not safe? Why not yet? Yeah?

We're praying for her salvation. Yeah, I have one person, not

a non believer. I hired a non believers. Believe they want to work

for me. Now mine. But you're so exciting because God bring you different

people. Maybe you're in a business, maybe you're wow. I pray it.

You ask God know you as you're a liner. Then you say God,

where where you know? What? Where do I go? What business?

And wish client? And then and then you you exercise Gods principles or

and you don't compromise. I tell you what the favor of God will be

upon you, and you will see God working through your life. And you

will give you the creative ideas even to solve a problem in maybe your job,

Creative ways to overcome a situation, creative ways to do budgets. I

don't know. Come on, people, stop living the norm the norm anyone

else can live. But the child of God, who is an ambassador of

reconciliation has so much more. I believe you have so much more. A

man, walk in your assignment as ambassadors. Wait when you dress up and

go to an ambassador for you drive the copter DC the promat God. Oh

your God, my God, don't have, don't have aything, but you

believe yourself and messages you should want. I'm a message of God. Can

I Who can I tell about hope? How can I shine and be a

help you? None of us go there say you need Jesus. No one

know. We don't say that. But we make friends persona, We we

bill bridgers, we build friendship. We shine, always smiling, not a

long face. You're not always helpful, always trying to find ways to be

a peacemaker. Those are things that people don't find every day law in the

world. But as a child of God, I hope we can loot.

We can start with the body of Christ and then we can move pu just

we practice with each other day. We practice outside. Okay, we show

gracey, show great. We can show grace other people outside. Amen,

because I have to say in my last life, we have a message that

people around us need to hear. We have a message. What the message

is is God's hope in your life. How how has God worked in your

life? There's a message the Lord who saved you, the Lord who helped

you, the Lord who guided you through. Amen. You have a message,

and there's a message of the good news of Jesus Christ. That people

need to know that that that we have a savior, We have someone who

wants to forgive us of our sin, Amen, hallelujah. And and so

that that the twist to this is that loas not just yes, God is

concerned for us, but but he also has he has an assignment for us.

He will bless you regardless. That means that you already will be blessed.

Loah, that's all I can say. You already will be blessed.

So think versus Kingdom and his righteousness to know exactly where he wants you to

be. Don't even have a doubt that he won't provide for you. He

will, Amen, he will. It will come very supernaturally. I told

you before I my father lost everything. I got no education fee, a

fair fee fee fear. I don't want that word. He's paid for my

further education don't have. So does that mean that's it? You ask God

for it? He said, Lord, Now, how are you going to

provide for me? Lord? How? God? I will go out and

work. So you do the first thing, you go out and workla work

pit my own education first first year and then the lot provided the scholarship or

the sponsorship. He will cover for you, He will add to you,

but you take the heart road first. That don't know what to do,

they might do first, don't ever give up wherever you are at. If

you seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness. Remember what God's kingdom. Remember

what is it? God's authority, God's reign, his rule over your life.

This is the kingdom of God. He is the Lord. And then

his righteousness, and what his principles? Hey, say something back, do

Mila. What is God's kingdom, authority, his rule over our lives?

Say man, Because if you cannot repeat it to me, you cannot repeat

it after you leave it. Session. I don't know what a met woman

spoke about. All right, all right, you have to be ever repeating

then you can do it. Oh all right. And his righteousness is his

principles, He's righteous principles that you can already practice because we can't find in

scripture. You can see we already have good practice. Some things are different

that It's principles are godly principles, principles that sometimes it's hard to do because

yeah, you know, but it's the right thing to do, right thing

to do. Yeah, okay, So I really want to encourage you to

let the be reminded her. John tan Tanna, you are not men to

live lesser life. You're men to live the life. There's John Dent abundant,

more abundantly. The devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy.

He steals our health, he steals our marriage, he stills our friendship.

He's still our money. He robs us, and he joys us. But

Jesus comes to give us life, but life more abundantly. I have lived

this from today I found out about this scripture. I experienced the devil robbed

me, okay, very badly robbed until I found Jesus, God restore my

life, restoring, restoring, and and now walking with Jesus, very thankful.

I want to say, you have abundant life, So don't let the

devil rob you and tell you you have made for less. You are not

made for less. Amen, hallelujah. I pray that each of us will

become channels of God's blessing. Channels, become the conduit, the channel that

got place you wherever. People will just see blessing coming out from your life

and they want a friend you want if they want you, they want you

on their team. Uh huh, uh huh. You know like we play

game and we want we want our tea because you can guess all the answers.

Well, you know, I wonderful love my team. We don't want

to people get answer all right, So you want to be you want to

be chosen to be on their team because they see something in your life.

Be the channel of blessing. God has blessed you, bless you with his

blessing from heaven, life, eternal life, and anything you need you ask

the Lord. I believe you will give it to us. He will show

us the way. But be patient because not everything happens like Lisa, it's

not a snap of finger. Is by our like I said, consistent connection

with the Lord, walking with him like how you build a relationship knowing that

he's for you, not against you. Amen. So I really really will

encourage us. Remember this script is not just so that we alone are blessed.

It really God wants us to really shine for him. We hope you've

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