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5 Areas To Watch Out For In 2024 | Pr Kenneth Chin

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message

  2. will light up your day. I asked a lot in the beginning of the

  3. year what he has for ex church, and he spoke to me on a

  4. Saturday, and I had to preach it the first message on the Sunday,

  5. I preach you to excot the communing. And he spoke to me at ten

  6. o'clock at night, and he went on to about twelve thirty and the twenty

  7. a half hours of just you know, downloading what the Lord I wanted to

  8. give you. And so for the moment of January Pasasandra has scheduled me to

  9. be in as many churches as I can and as many church plans, so

  10. that I can give you this message from the Lord, a message for the

  11. new year. And if you take it to this word, I believe that

  12. you will do well, even better than twenty to eighty three. I want

  13. to prophesy that and speak that in confidence in the Lord. Because God gives

  14. you a message, and when he gives you a word, it will not

  15. return to you avoid but he will accomplish a purpose for which he sent it.

  16. So this is the title. If you have the slides, thank you

  17. so much. Who's Oh? Okay, I was gonna say ring Horn is

  18. the one president button. No, Wesley. Wesley is good to see you.

  19. Have you been playing badminton lately? Yeah? Yeah, West is a

  20. very good badminton player. Do you know that? Yeah? He represented his

  21. country. Yeah. Okay, So five areas to watch out four in twenty

  22. twenty four. That's the word that God gave me. So these five areas,

  23. our areas are important to look out for, to watch out for,

  24. and to invest in. If you saw in it, well you will read

  25. well. If you don't, then you won't. So I'm just gonna share

  26. it to you as a lot putting on my heart. Take control of these

  27. five areas, and you will probably take control of life itself. Okay,

  28. So let's read the word of God in the New King James version in Proverbs

  29. four twenty to twenty seven. The official Bible that extious users is the NKJV,

  30. because we have seen that it's the most accurate of all the translations.

  31. But sometimes we also like to look at other translations because they have different perspective.

  32. But let's read from the NKJAV. First. Is that, okay,

  33. my son give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings.

  34. Do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of

  35. your heart, for they are live to those who find them, and health

  36. to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of

  37. it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth,

  38. and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead,

  39. and your eyelids look right before you ponder the path of your feet, and

  40. let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or to

  41. the left. Remove your foot from evil. So these are the five areas,

  42. the ears, the heart, the mouth, the eyes, and the

  43. feet. Okay, invest in these, investing well so the right seats,

  44. and do it, and you will definitely reap harvest. And so let's now

  45. read the message. I thought. After reading a couple of versions, I

  46. thought the message was pretty contemporary and cool. So let's read the same verses

  47. we read from the message. Translation, dear friend, listen well to my

  48. words. Tune your ears to my voice. Keep my message in plain view

  49. at all times, concentrate, learn it by heart. Those who discover these

  50. words live, really live. Body and soul. They're bursting with health.

  51. Keep vigilant, watch over your heart. That's where life starts. Don't talk

  52. out of both sides of your mouth. The avoid careless banter, white lines,

  53. and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead, ignore all sides, show

  54. distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you

  55. are what the promise. Look neither right nor left. Leave evil in the

  56. dust. Okay, so let's deal with the first thing that God wants to

  57. deal with. But before that, let's just talk about this. The five

  58. areas escalating in nature, meaning that it goes whatever you do with your ears

  59. will escalate to your heart, will escalate to your mouth, will escalate to

  60. the way you see life, and will escalate to the way you walk or

  61. live your life. It's all connected. It can either go up or it

  62. can go down. They all connected. So if you will take care of

  63. the first thing that I will say to you, the others will be easier

  64. to watch out for. If you don't take care of the first thing or

  65. the second thing, it will just go down the you know, go down

  66. the drain. But the Lord is very gracious, it's very kind. He

  67. wants to teach us to do it right. Somebody say amen, And when

  68. we do it right, we will prosper according to the promise of God.

  69. All right. So God has good of order, and every time we read

  70. the Bible we find that he's really when he says something first is first,

  71. and anyway second he means second, and then when it's fifth, he means

  72. fifth. And that's why I could share with you some years ago a message

  73. that says five steps to know when the Holy Spirit is hovering, and that

  74. comes from Genesis step to one. And then I shared with you from Genesis

  75. step to three, five steps to know when the serpent is slithering. And

  76. I even wrote a book on that. So if you really want to know

  77. how and when and what the Holy Spirit is doing in your life, you

  78. just follow the steps and you'll see it. And if you want to know

  79. that, whether the devil is working in somebody's life or in your life or

  80. in your situation, the devil also works in that kind of order. And

  81. God is the God of order. So I'm gonna tackle this today in order.

  82. Here we go the ears so problems for in the NKJV says incline your

  83. ear to my sayings. Incline your ear to my sayings. In the message,

  84. it says, tune your ears to my voice. Tune your ears to

  85. my voice. So, uh, those of you are old enough to remember

  86. that we used to use the radio with the dial. See some people in

  87. loading their head. Now, of course it's we use different kinds of gadgets.

  88. But I remember the time when we wanted to have ninety nine point four

  89. we we you know, and those days that it was also clear. So

  90. now it's digital, so it comes up very clearly. Those days it was

  91. just you know, there's a needle, yeah and yeah, analogue and it

  92. goes and and and whatever uh indication they had there. It was not that

  93. clear. So your only clarity is the voice. And so so you know,

  94. it was sound something like this, right, and I'm going to try,

  95. uh to to you know, mimic what we would have experienced. You

  96. know, we go closer to what we want to hear and goes and my

  97. mother said, I don't know I brought him, okay, and then you

  98. go backwards, right, and life is surprimes like this. We actually want

  99. to hear God's voice, but there are many other voices that comes away in

  100. our mamac sessions, in our golf sessions, in our free time. You

  101. know, we actually want to hear God's voice. And sometimes we settle and

  102. and get satisfied by what we think is God's voice, because just because you

  103. heard a little bit, I think it's God. I think it's God.

  104. I think it's God. But actually it's not that clear yet. I want

  105. to tell you right now, if you get the clear voice of God,

  106. you'll always get peace. If your heart is still not at peace, it's

  107. probably because you haven't heard him clearly. You heard him a little bit,

  108. yes, no, no, all right. So this year, I don't

  109. know, I don't know what happened last year twenty twenty three, But this

  110. year I want to encourage all of us, including myself, to tune to

  111. tune. I totally before us, maybe a year ago, that one of

  112. the devil's strategies is to create so much noise in this world that we can't

  113. hear God's voice. The devil doesn't even have to say anything to you.

  114. He just has to create enough noise, noise everywhere you look, noise,

  115. noise, noise, noise, noise, And sometimes we just have to pull

  116. away and open the Bible, spend some time with God. Turn on the

  117. worship music if you have to, but just God, I just really want

  118. to tune in. I don't just want to think is your voice. I

  119. want to know it's your voice. And one of the indications that there's going

  120. to be peace. And this is the thing, though, when you hear

  121. bad news and still walk away in peace, is because God's voice is clear

  122. in your heart that even though you get a bad report from the doctors,

  123. you remember that he's your healer. You see and and and peace. It's

  124. still in your heart even though what you see may not be what you want

  125. to see, and things you have been praying for may not yet come.

  126. But if you're really hearing God's voice, So that's an indication. If you

  127. go away from a Mama session and you go away and your heart is stirring,

  128. no peace, maybe whatever you guys have been talking about was not God.

  129. It's a very good indication. But when people come together and talk about

  130. God, talk about his word, talk about his testimonies, and talk faith,

  131. then you go away even though the situations have been changed, your heart

  132. has. You see, it's very very important when we all go away from

  133. this room today, I pray that the peace of God will go with you

  134. no matter what you're facing, no matter what you're going through. Everybody,

  135. okay, So the Bible says in Psalms, no, no, no,

  136. come sorry, let's let's do romans. Let's do romans. It's ten seventeen.

  137. So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

  138. So is what we are hearing and what we hear will either build fear or

  139. faith. I have a very strong statement. You can agree or not,

  140. but I want to share with you because I believe it came from the Lord.

  141. The Lord spoke to me, is it, Kenneth? Your condition where

  142. you are today is very much base or determined by what you have heard in

  143. twenty trade three. So you can sit on that for a while, malon

  144. over it. But if you're very angry on the first of January, it's

  145. probably because of what you heard on the thirty first of December, or what

  146. you choose to hear. If you're very happy today's probably of what you allow

  147. yourself to hear yesterday. So I realized that Wow, with God, hearing

  148. is very key and what we allow. If you lost money in the stock

  149. market, I'm guessing that you probably hurt something that caused you to buy into

  150. that. If you want money in the stock market, you probably hurt the

  151. right pundits or the right thing. Or maybe you heard the lord say bye,

  152. or you hurt the lords say don't buy. I don't know. It's

  153. basically where we are. The condition of where we are now is based usually

  154. usually mostly on what we hurt the day before, or the week before,

  155. or the month before. If you're frustrated, it's probably of what you allow

  156. your ears to keep hearing. And don't forget. When you allow your ears

  157. to keep hearing what you have been hearing, your heart will also be filled

  158. with what you're hearing. Okay, let's move on to I think it's Revelations

  159. now. I don't want to spend too much time on this, but if

  160. you have time, read Revelations. Revelations, of course, you know,

  161. is the last book in the Bible. And I pay close attention to the

  162. last things in anything. For example, like if someone is about to die,

  163. maybe all uncle or all grandma, and her time is up, and

  164. she says, I want to see you, tells your mom, I want

  165. to see Stephen, I want to see Kenneth, I want to know as

  166. he mentions your name when you come to that bedside of your dying relative.

  167. Because her time is up and she's going home to be with a lot.

  168. She's not going to tell you in the last ten minutes of her breath,

  169. her last breath, please remember to comb your hand the morning. I don't

  170. think she'll tell you that. I don't think she'll say a please, I

  171. don't forget to turn on the light outside the porch, sure, or to

  172. turn off the water heater. I don't think she or he is going to

  173. tell any things like that. Last words are usually very, very precious,

  174. and it might go like this, I haven't told you this, but I

  175. want to tell you that I love you. I've never said this to you,

  176. but in my dying breath, can I say, I'm so sorry for

  177. the things I've ever done that made you sad? You with me? So

  178. Revelations is the last book, and so I take heed to what he says,

  179. because God means it and he wants us. In all the books that

  180. we've read, from Genesis all the way to just before Revelations, you know

  181. he's trying to speak to us. But he's probably saying, this is my

  182. last chance Revelations, I'm going to tell you, and he spoke to seven

  183. churches. And when you read the Bible in Revelations, you will find that

  184. to all the seven churches there was a different introduction. So like, for

  185. example, Philadelphia Church, it was a faithful church. Another church was the

  186. Loopwarp Church. Another church was a church that had everything right except they left

  187. their first love, you know. And it goes on and on, seven

  188. churches. But while the introduction to every church is different, the ending is

  189. the same. And so I wanted you to take heat to this. He

  190. was an ear. Let him hear not here has an eyes. Yeah,

  191. the importance of guarding what we hear. That's not only applied to today,

  192. but even all the way to Revelations and the end times. You guard your

  193. ears, now you'll be able to guard it at the end, and you'll

  194. be able to be saved. I want to say that to you. Let's

  195. look at eleven to the second church, he says, he here is an

  196. ear, Let him here to the third church. In seventeen he says,

  197. he who has an ear, let him here to the fourth church. In

  198. chapter first twenty nine, sorry, here is an ear, Let him here

  199. to the fifth church, he says something else just before that, Can I

  200. see that just before that? Okay? Three six Relation Revelations three six,

  201. here is an ear, Let him here? Okay, to the sixth church.

  202. Three thirteen, he says, here he who is an ear, Let

  203. him hear. Uh. To the seventh and last church, he says,

  204. he here is an ear, Let him here. I want to just make

  205. sure you understand the the how important God sees our hearing. And if you

  206. want to see your life changes, change your hearing. A man, if

  207. you've been living listening to too many gossips and too many naysayers, change it.

  208. Change your mama's shop talk, change your golf talk, change you know,

  209. your your fellowship talk, change it. Let it be faith, not

  210. fear, and not gossip, but the gospel. So this is important.

  211. All right, let's move on. This is the final chapter, really,

  212. you know. And still he adds one more time, as if you didn't

  213. get it. So the spirit says, come, when the spirit of the

  214. bride say come, and let him hear who hears say come? So you

  215. realize that what comes out of your mouth will and can be in alignment with

  216. what comes out the spirit's mouth or not. So the Spirit says come,

  217. and you want to be able to say what the Spirit of Words say.

  218. You want to be aligned with him. You don't want to say things that

  219. the Spirit of God is not saying, otherwise you'll be misaligned and walking down

  220. the wrong path. So this year, I want to say what the Spirit

  221. says. But as the Spirit says come, the way I will also say

  222. come is where I hear, So you your mouth will only speak what you

  223. allow your ears to hear. Is what I'm trying to say to you.

  224. So if you really want to be aligned with the Holy Spirit, then make

  225. sure you're also hearing what God is saying. Everybody, Okay, this is

  226. important, So again, once once again, please watch what you hear and

  227. discipline yourself if you can, and not if you can, with God's help,

  228. please do it. Discipline your hearing, and that's how it starts,

  229. and you will be in the same alignment with God. How many have you

  230. wanted? I want what the spirit wants. I want to be aligned with

  231. God. I want his will to be done in my life. So I

  232. very rarely listen to nonsense. Although nonsense and gossip is actually very tempting,

  233. it's you know, the Bible actually says it's like trifle that goes down to

  234. the inward parts. You know. Basically, it's sweet, it's savory,

  235. it's I don't know what you want to call it. It's it's just tasty,

  236. you know. And that's why people love a good gossip. But the

  237. way it leads you at the end of the day is death and destruction.

  238. So don't go that way. Okay, how you ended up twenty two three

  239. is really how you or what you allow yourself to listen to. I'm going

  240. to encourage all of you. Twenty three four is going to be better,

  241. and it's going to start without ears. Let's go on now. The heart

  242. so proverse. For in NKJV it says it says, keep your heart with

  243. all diligence, for out of it bring the issues of life. Wow.

  244. In the message, it says, keep vigilant watch over your heart. That's

  245. where life starts. However, you know that there's a scripture that says Man

  246. looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart. God is

  247. after the hearts. And we want to talk about this the n ivy.

  248. If you are using n IV translation of the Bible, it says, God

  249. your heart, and a lot of us like the word God. Passanda loves

  250. this phrase. When she's talking to young ladies. She says, ladies,

  251. God your heart, God your heart. Don't just let any guy come and

  252. take it away, all right. Don't let the six packs you know,

  253. or the eight packs you know get to you. Keep your eyes up,

  254. not down, my wife, God your heart. It's very easy to get

  255. offended these days now, every little thing we get offended. God your heart.

  256. Don't be so to get a friend. Just God. Actually I feel

  257. like I want to retell it. Got your heart, because out of it

  258. comes life is where it begins. God looks at the heart because heart is

  259. really really not only powerful, it's also deceiving. The Bible says, it's

  260. gotta guard it. Now. The question is how do we got our hearts?

  261. Is there a supplement for it? Is there a spiritual supplement for it?

  262. Well, hopefully we can find one today is found in Philippines four six

  263. to seven. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayers application.

  264. Let your requests we make known to God with thanksgiving, and the peace of

  265. God, which pass us all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds true

  266. Christ, Jesus, So God, it really gives you an answer of how

  267. you and I are going to got our hearts, because by ourselves and in

  268. our own strength, we find it hard to gout our hearts, especially when

  269. we're offended, especially when somebody says something that we didn't like, especially when

  270. we get rejected, forgotten. You know, birth day? How come you

  271. know you're got all the hole list there, but my birthday is not there?

  272. Right? And then we find out that actually you just came today,

  273. uh you know? Uh? And the names there are people who are part

  274. of our homes and part of us for some time. So we got to

  275. know that birthday and we're able to put it up. Actually, I was

  276. asked a question two Sundays ago from a newcomer to our supposed to my birthday

  277. is tomorrow, but my name is not up there. I said, welcome

  278. to Extan, brother, where you join our homes and when you are a

  279. longer part of us, you know we will have of course we that's how

  280. we get to know your birthday anyway. Oh, I see, I see,

  281. I see. Sorry Sorry I said no, no, no, happy

  282. birthday anyway, Happy birthday tomorrow. Uh So we gotta you know, we

  283. got got our hearts because you know, get offended and we get hurt so

  284. easily. These days, we we we are lacking a resilient generation. Now.

  285. I went to Japan before we start started ex Osaka, and they tell

  286. me that the Japan that we know today is built by people who went to

  287. the war, and they are so resilient that there's a statement that they say

  288. in Japan that they are they're unafraid of anything. Even if a tsunami comes

  289. out, we will build tomorrow again. And that's why it's so hard for

  290. them to give their lives to Jesus, because people in their needs, they

  291. will cry out. Japanese have learned not to cry out. They have learned

  292. to depend on themselves. And that's why I tell you it's not stopped when

  293. we talk to the pastes there. Japan has continuously come under bombardment, whether

  294. it be natural disasters or whether it be economy. Economy in Japan is still

  295. bad after twenty years. Maybe you might argue it's not as bad as Malaysia.

  296. I don't know, but the thing is it's not as good as they

  297. would want it to. Because God wants to show Japan that he is God.

  298. And as long as Japan continues to think they are God, uh,

  299. they're going to have to come to a place whereby God is gonna have to

  300. put them in the corner, whereby uh, he's gonna say this time around

  301. you you can't help yourself. You're gonna have to look up and you're gonna

  302. call me. Okay, But this is Japan, very resilient, don't care.

  303. Why no, so why tomorrow you bill? It's not that this is

  304. the attitude, but there's a generation that grew up when when their dads went

  305. out to build Japan, they grew up with their moms. So their moms

  306. did a great job raising them. But there is a softer side to them,

  307. all right, a more feminine, softer, gentler side to them.

  308. So not as hardy, not as strong. Uh. This is them telling

  309. me, and it is not my observation. And this is them telling me

  310. past this. This is what we're faced. And so I think in the

  311. spiritual realm, in the Christian realma, it is also like that those of

  312. us who are built things. Uh. And that's why this church believes in

  313. planting judges so that our people don't become soften, they become resilient because they

  314. get to be as well. Otherwise you're only hearing past the energy stories of

  315. how he built, and then you won't get to Bill. So we keep

  316. sending people out to Bill so that they can be strong and they can know

  317. what it means to carry instruments as well, and maybe getting rejected because oh,

  318. you know this place, I don't like you, I don't like your

  319. wish. I only want guitar on here. You know. Now, mind

  320. let them rub you the wrong way, because rubbing you the wrong way gets

  321. you stronger, all right, because I went through that, and I think

  322. that the Lot has made me stronger for for things that I can carry now,

  323. I can carry more because the Lot made my shoulders broader and stronger through

  324. the experience. But he's doing that for you as well. And that's why

  325. I love what I see is because you know. And then that's why we

  326. continue to plant. We want a resilient generation of believers in Christ who don't

  327. just give up this because it's raining outside it is rainy, or said,

  328. do you want to watch it? It's so hot that today thirty five degrees.

  329. I don't know, you know, no, come on, you know,

  330. don't don't get so soft on the lot. Amen. So so,

  331. but this is the thing. We do get hurt very easily this day.

  332. So how to get your hearts? You got your hearts the peace of God.

  333. I'm sorry, I'm just yeah, thank you so much. I'm still

  334. on this and I know I'm going longer than usual, but I just want

  335. to make sure you understand it's not you that will got your heart. Really,

  336. it's a peace of God that will got your heart. But how does

  337. your the peace that surpasses all understand income how it comes by you not being

  338. anxious, but in everything by prayers, application, with thanksgiving. Let your

  339. request be made so it comes with prayer. Peace comes with prayer. And

  340. I want to encourage you this year continue to trust in the Lord and grow

  341. deeper in your trust. Take prayer seriously, Bring everything to God before you

  342. bring anything to men. Sometimes people have to complain to man first. No,

  343. bring it to God first. And I tell you what, after the

  344. peace of God comes into your heart, you don't even want to complain to

  345. men anymore. You're like, actually got a thousand and one things to complete

  346. to you, But I went to God first. After I go to God

  347. and he put such peace in my heart. Okay, it's gonna be okay.

  348. And you come back to the person you want to complain to it.

  349. Actually I had a thousand things, but now they got one and even that

  350. one. So I just want to tell you construct constructive criticism. Uh,

  351. you know, my leader. Actually, if you could do this better,

  352. you know, and be all right. But Nola, you know I won't

  353. simply live church it because you don't do it better. You know. I

  354. know the Lord caught me to this church and I'm at peace, you know,

  355. So it's fine. Even if you don't change. I'm fine. I'm

  356. at peace. We cannot be at peace when people change one. I want

  357. the way, and the people change on peace, and then there's not real

  358. peace. If you change the way you do be you, then I will

  359. be at No. Your peace comes from God. And when that peace comes

  360. in God's your heart and mine through Christ. Thank you for the next one.

  361. Where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. So all

  362. these are practical tips. The next practical tip is that the reason why sometimes

  363. we're in a mess is because our treasure is not in the right place.

  364. Yeah, for the younger ones, maybe your treasure was your boyfriend twenty three

  365. eight three. He was higher than God. Right, You spend more time

  366. with your boyfriend or your girlfriend more than you spend with the Lord, okay

  367. for example. And so that's the where your treasure is. So when your

  368. boyfriend or your girlfriend that's something that you don't like, he or she will

  369. break your heart and you will end up in a place whereby you are a

  370. mess. Uh, maybe money is your God. Right. I remember hearing

  371. one person say he left the church, not my church, but not our

  372. church, but another church. And the pastor told me the story he left

  373. that church and then he he said, oh, yeah, I pray,

  374. pray, pray, pray, pray in this church, so I never get

  375. money in Yeah. I don't know what he was asking for. All he

  376. was asking for his first million, maybe first million. A God, never

  377. give me that my first million, and I pray eighty for two years.

  378. No first million, no break through, so he said, So he went

  379. to join another religion, another religion. No, no, another judger,

  380. because Jesus doesn't give you me his one minute. So you went and within

  381. six months that he became a multi millionaire, actually broke into his first million

  382. and then the pastor met him one day at the coffee shop, say,

  383. brother, how are you hi? Fine? Fine? Where you know?

  384. We church? No? No, no, I joined the temple. I

  385. won't say withala, but I said, oh okay, I mean you forgot

  386. Jesus. You don't love you anymore. You know. I pray, pray,

  387. prayer to him. He never give me. You know, my breakthrough

  388. one million? This one I joined six months gave me my first million.

  389. And the pastors look at him with love, but with sternness. Your God

  390. is not Jesus, and your God is not good. Your God is money.

  391. You will go wherever you can get the one million. You go wherever,

  392. and to wish ever god that can give you. So your God is

  393. not even just any Your God is money, and you will go where money

  394. dictates. Are you with me? A very quiet in this room. I'm

  395. not speaking to anybody right, I'm not speaking to anybody. I'm not right.

  396. Long times it's like, come no. So I don't know whether you

  397. want that one million on if you want one minut know, Lord please bless

  398. their please please? Yeah, it might it might not be in your time.

  399. God will bless you always. He will always make sure that He provides

  400. for all your needs. So I'm not against millionaires. A pleaser. You

  401. know, the more the merrier. Yeah, yeah, why why not?

  402. Right? That's all you're giving to the Lord God. Okay, So so

  403. watch your treasure. Sometime people just want to just want to get your hearts,

  404. but you don't know where to start. So now I'm not even saying

  405. hat you got your treasure your heart to be thinking of. So question is

  406. what is your treasure? So you watch your priorities, watch your priorities.

  407. God the treasure, what treasures? What do I really treasure in life?

  408. You treasure your family, that's that's okay, But also you must be careful,

  409. don't treasure your family. Above God, I have to remind you because

  410. for me, Passandra will tell you I'm not her first love. Jesus is

  411. and I will tell you the same, and we will tell you in front

  412. of each other, because if I was her first love, I will feel

  413. her for sure, and then she'll be broken. Then she'll be done.

  414. But when I feel her, because I'm not her first love, she has

  415. Jesus. And when I feel her, she looks up and say, Lord,

  416. I don't know why you make me marry this man. But I forgive

  417. him, and I forgive him because you forgive me. And Lord, I'm

  418. not asking you to change my husband, but just give me the strength to

  419. live with him. And I in my own room pray all. Lord,

  420. you know of all the women, you know you gave me Sandra. You

  421. must have a plan. Although sometimes I don't see it. I don't don't

  422. say that, you know, because my wife is just awesome. But the

  423. thing is, you know, there are days where I tell you, there

  424. are days where actually I'm right and she's wrong, and I still have to

  425. end up saying sorry, because I go to Jesus. Just if just you're

  426. just arguing with men, you just want to win the argument, but you

  427. come before the Lord. You don't argue. We've got one. You might

  428. lie, but he would always win. And then he says, Kenneth,

  429. you are the man. The man is the one. I know. God,

  430. I know what you're about to say, the leader, So leadler,

  431. lead if you want to wait for your wife to say sorry, yeah you're

  432. not leading. Aye, Yeah, there you go again. Open my prayer

  433. room door, knock on her door, and before I can knock, actually

  434. open the door, because she knew her husband was coming, heard his footsteps

  435. in the cool of the garden. It's got tears flowing from her eyes,

  436. really because she's spending time with God. And I my eyes, you know,

  437. I also welled up with tears, and I like, I just want

  438. to say, I'm sorry. Oh actually, no, no, no,

  439. I'm sorry. What did he safe for the has we then? The wife?

  440. Yeah? Actually I'm sorry. I I I was out of line and

  441. no, no, no, it's okay. I no, no, no,

  442. me me, no. No. It's like the time when you were,

  443. you know, calling your girlfriend. I mean, it's how you don't

  444. understand his line. You put down your phone first. I know you put

  445. down your phone first. No, you put that you say good night first?

  446. Do you say good night first time? That's why you know? You

  447. bore for it. And that's so late. So okay, So God your

  448. treasure, that's it. It's so difficult. I don't know how to get

  449. my heart God your priorities. Put God first this year. Family can come

  450. second. Yeah. Fine, you know, don't even put the money to

  451. the place, okay, because the love of money is the rude or what

  452. all? Even put it? Number five, number six? Okay, those

  453. things that money cannot buy. One put them first. Money cannot buy the

  454. relationship I have with my wife, You oldren maybe yeah, yeah, okay,

  455. so let's move on romans child too. Do not be conformed to this

  456. world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may

  457. prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Now I

  458. brought this scripture to you because in the Bible, very often the heart and

  459. the mind is interchangeable. Actually, when you talk about the heart, you're

  460. not talking about the one that be like, you're talking about the spirit of

  461. the heart. The heart means the inmost thoughts. His body is here in

  462. Xbu, but his heart is not. So you're sitting here, you're listening,

  463. but your heart is going elsewhere. That you're real you, the real

  464. inner thoughts of you. That's why it's interchangeable with mind. Uh. And

  465. the way we're going to be transformed this year is by the renewing of our

  466. minds, renewing of our hearts, the inner thoughts. Y. Okay,

  467. that means don't just in front of somebody here and think differently. You gotta

  468. know, Lord, help me, help the real me be transformed. Help

  469. the real me, start to think properly about people. How the don't let

  470. me not be double minded less. I don't even receive answers to my prayer

  471. because don't. The Bible says, right, he is a double minded man.

  472. He will not get what he's praying for. Is very clear right in

  473. book Book of James read that. So we don't be double minded. We

  474. want to be single minded, single hearted. And so what you see is

  475. what is me? Is that? Okay, what you see is what you

  476. get. What you see this is the real me. Uh. And it

  477. takes practice, but it's less stress because you don't have to be two persons

  478. in one church. You can just be you. And I pray that you

  479. will become more like God, become more like Jesus. And I think that's

  480. the that's the journey we all have to take, all right. And of

  481. course we also know the perfect will of God. So you maybe still struggling.

  482. Should I do this? Should I tell my business? Should I start

  483. another business? Should I migrate? Should I? And there's no peace right

  484. because you haven't really heard from God. But when you hear from God,

  485. there'll be peace. But the only peace you will know God's will He's perfect

  486. will. So how do you do it? You just change the way you

  487. think. Be renewed. The word renewed in the Greek is also the word

  488. renovate. Yeah, and so I have not heard even myself of anyone renovating

  489. any house or apartment. They have to make it smaller, have you.

  490. I'm going to renovate my apartment to make it smaller. I think my room

  491. is just to be. I'm just gonna really make it so small. I'm

  492. going to make it very rare, very rare. Maybe or twice. Because

  493. your room is so big, you're gonna you're gonna you want to make two

  494. rooms out of it. Most of the time renovations to make it bigger.

  495. So can I prophesy over all of you in Jesus name that this year,

  496. be a bigger person, be a bigger Christian, be a bigger believer,

  497. have a bigger heart, have a bigger faith, have a bigger hope,

  498. have a bigger love for the ones that are unlovable, renovate, renew So

  499. when you re how do I know that I'm actually renewing my mind or renovating

  500. my mind? My heart is when it's bigger. Maybe last year you didn't

  501. get all that God wanted you get because your heart was too small to receive

  502. it. Maybe, so train your heart and your mind to be bigger.

  503. Make more room. You see in that song, right, I will make

  504. room. Then remember this message, Lord, I want to make room,

  505. more room. How do you do it? You renovate your heart, You

  506. renovate your mind. Bigger room for you, God? What extra room for

  507. you? God. I'm gonna double two kitchens God, so you and I

  508. can cook in one. Okay, I don't know. I'm just just getting

  509. into some funny thoughts, but you know it's it's renovation. Come on,

  510. be bigger this year, Be bigger, be a larger Christians, larger than

  511. life. We will see you to go. Wow. I love that.

  512. And I want to come to the church that you're going to because they teach

  513. you to be a bigger person, not small, small minded, small heart.

  514. You know, no, be bigger, renovate, Amen, And you

  515. got more room now for the things of God that God wants to do in

  516. your life. Amen. Okay, let's move on. Thank you. XTV

  517. Luke six forty five. A good man of the good treasure of his heart

  518. brings forth good and evil man of the evil. Treasure of his heart brings

  519. forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

  520. So again we are about to go into mouth, because that's the third

  521. area. But I want to show you a scripture that shows you how does

  522. your mouth speak? It actually speaks. It's connected to your heart. And

  523. when your heart is full, your mouth begins to speak. So before the

  524. mouth speaks, the heart needs to be filed. Okay, so now let's

  525. move to a mouth. We will look at that scripture again in Luke six

  526. forty five, but in Problems for it says in the NKJAV put away from

  527. you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. In the

  528. message, it says, don't talk out of both sides of your mouth,

  529. avoid careless banter, white lives and gossip. What do you mean, I

  530. don't don't talk? How many of you know? We got two sides to

  531. our mouth. And I never quite understood that, you know, except that

  532. when I see some of us do it. You know, Actually, Steve

  533. Stephen, it's really quite good looking guy. But actually no, not really,

  534. yeah, he looks like that, you know, what's to you?

  535. And actually he's a pretty good leader. Actually, you made both sides of

  536. your mouth. And I tell you, when I'm doing that, most of

  537. you go like, yeah, I think I've seen that before. I've heard

  538. that before. I might even have done that before. M hm hm Wow.

  539. Look at her the dressfuliser you bought the sale on. She's a chief

  540. skid, you know. Okay, So don't talk both sides of Okay,

  541. So let's let's move on. Let's move on out of the abundance of the

  542. heart. His mouth speaks. Okay. Maybe about twenty years ago, when

  543. I heard from the church and I heard from the Lord how important it is

  544. to preach the gospel. I wanted to preach a gospel to my family and

  545. friends, and I seemed to always chicken out at a time when I should,

  546. you know, I go for family. Hey, family reunion coming up.

  547. A lot of Chinese New Year by uh visitations and reunions. It's a

  548. great time to share with your family about what God is doing for some of

  549. your families, are there not Christian? Majority of them? Some Christian easier

  550. right that you know that expects a testimony from you, So you know very

  551. quick boom share ah. All you know so all those are like Jesus again,

  552. the Holy roller you know, uh, goody two shoes coming, you

  553. know, see past the pasta coming. You're not bustard, but it calls

  554. you past because you you preach Jesus all the time. Huh did you get

  555. a bit worried? Right, a bit anxious? Scared? And I was

  556. like that, No, And then I asked the Lord for boldness and courage.

  557. I said, Lord, I'm so scared, I'm so shy. You

  558. know what the Lord told me. And I'm gonna tell you are free of

  559. church again. I want to go to church for this. It was my

  560. personal thing with a lot. So I'm just gonna say to you are if

  561. you agree, agree you don't agree, that might not too bad because it's

  562. my own personal revelation. Here here it is. God said to me,

  563. Kenneth is not baldness you need. But I'm scared, I'm shy. He's

  564. not courage you need. You just need. And he used this scripture to

  565. feel your heart with more of me. And when your heart is so full

  566. of me your mouth can't stop talking. He's not just boness and courageess,

  567. ah, because your heart full. Right, we do this for a lot

  568. of other things. If our heart is filled with our favorite sport and Liverpool

  569. one and you watch nineteen minutes of that game and wow, you go like

  570. you know, you're, you're, you're, You're so happy you think it

  571. can stop your mouth phone talking about it at every chance you have. When

  572. you're in love, your heart is full, right, and then you're And

  573. that's why for'm America supposed to be married for a long time. If you

  574. are not talking about your wife or your husband the same way you've been talking,

  575. you may have to check your heart. Now, what's so quiet?

  576. You know? This is this is my this is my way of of measuring

  577. it. Why don't I talk about my wife as much as I did before?

  578. Or you know, I mean, yeah, maybe because my heart is

  579. half full, maybe I have to feel it up again. You can be

  580. filled up again and it also can be empty. Maybe what maybe once upon

  581. a time you came to church and you were so overwhelmed with as in a

  582. good way wows you every Sunday you couldn't wait to come and after a while,

  583. no, maybe you've been hearing things and there's things that go in here,

  584. goes in here, and then it's getting filled up with different things,

  585. and now your mouth goes not really that great lie. And it can happen

  586. anywhere and in anything. If you find a really really good chocolate tale,

  587. I'm sure you're not, because you know a lot of people like a good

  588. chuck with tail here. And you were eating it with the you know,

  589. cockles, and with the eggs and with the you know whatever, and you

  590. were so your heart was so filled with love for this chocolateal and the chocolate

  591. chocotail seller. I want everybody to know. And just within twenty four hours,

  592. everybody knows. Because you are so in love with that which you just

  593. ate, you can't stop it. You you can. It's very hard to

  594. stop diary, you know, sooner or later you have to get to it

  595. and it has to come out. And uh, you know, sometimes it's

  596. like that, right is even bad news. It just comes out of the

  597. mouth and it's not that you want to say it, but because your heart

  598. is so filled with anger, maybe you're angry about that person, so you

  599. keep talking about that person because and the more you talk about the more it

  600. gets feeled. So the only way to actually not be angry with him anymore

  601. is to stop talking so much, then it will go down. You go

  602. down, I am you know the Chinese was gonna. My grandmother, don't

  603. know, used to have a very famous Cantonese word, yeah, yes see

  604. poon see yes see poone means like a little bit like here and then you

  605. know it's like uh a famous phrase my grandmother used to have her which my

  606. anti just reminded me. Eyes, I see dong suicie susie, tongue mousie.

  607. My grandmother lives in that big issue, make like small issue, small

  608. issue, make like no issue. That's why my grandmother lived there until a

  609. dying day. She was smiling, laughing, streaming. You know, swimming

  610. is my job. Ah can we live like that? Right? How do

  611. we live like that? So you got to feel your heart, allow your

  612. heart to be feel. It starts you're hearing. You're in. The more

  613. you hear, the more it feels if you're hearing is wrong. Change your

  614. hearing. Start to hear. Okay, Lord, this year, I want

  615. to hear good news. I want to hear good about people. I don't

  616. want to hear bad about people. And then you feel feel feel feel,

  617. feel feel filed the right, So the Lord said to me Kenneth feel,

  618. feel your heart with me, and watch your mouth speak. So I've been

  619. trying that all these years. Lord, I just want to feel. You

  620. don't have to just give me courage in bondness. No, you just feel

  621. my heart. You cannot stop a person who's totally loved for talking about the

  622. person he loves. Can't. He's trying to stop people or stop her cannot.

  623. All right? Is that cool? But but thankfully it can be added

  624. and it can be yeah, all right, subjected. So even if you

  625. are feel we hatred or feel with the frustration, good news is it can

  626. also go down. It can be reduced. Just watch what you hear,

  627. right, and and and and and it can also be feeled. If you

  628. think that old person, no wonder, I'm not preaching the goos because I

  629. don't love Jesus enough. He's not a condemn mission this year feel it more

  630. of you, Jesus, more of your Lord, more of you. Okay,

  631. let's let's go. Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

  632. So when your heart is feeled, your mouth speaks, and then you

  633. will speak either death or life. It's very important, very very powerful.

  634. You can really speak blessing on your life and family. You can and you

  635. can also speak cursus, so be careful how you speak. Let's move on.

  636. He says, Yeah, God gives life to the date and calls those

  637. things we do not exist as though they did, so even though it's not

  638. existing in your life yet, you can call it for I've been trying to

  639. speak to some young working adults who've got children who are either special needs or

  640. they just you know, just really really very active. Okay, let's just

  641. use that worder bouncing off the wall and you know, dancing with other people

  642. so far and stuff like that. So I don't know. I think I've

  643. been I've been given a very active child. I've been given this hand.

  644. I've been given this destiny too bad. I've been given this legacy so sad.

  645. I've been given this hereditary sickness. My father had diabetes. I've been

  646. so sometimes you feel like, oh, Heaven dealt you cruel hand. But

  647. I've been trying to say to my leaders, you can actually you don't really

  648. need to accept all of it. You accept what you accept. I will

  649. love this child anyway. That's acceptance. But you can also say every day

  650. I can speak into this being and call those things that don't exist as though

  651. they did. You can. Many years ago in FGA, when I was

  652. still young and not in ministry yet, I heard a pastor come and he

  653. preached. He told a story. I won't forget it until today, right,

  654. I won't forget it because he was like, I'm like, explain that

  655. again. But of course he was using the example in his message, so

  656. he was not going to explain it further. But he said, you know,

  657. my daughter was born with club feet. He's a pastor, he's a

  658. preacher. And she went on like that. I couldn't walk right for about

  659. four years. By the time she reached four years old. He said,

  660. I'm going to decide today to make a difference. I'm going to decide today

  661. to actually not just accept stuff that has shown at me. I'm going to

  662. make things happen because the Word of God tells me I can. I will

  663. speak out of my mouth life, and I will eat the fruit of it.

  664. The Bible says you will eat the fruit of it. So at four

  665. years old, he will go into her room every night, he said,

  666. it not mere. Every night you'll go into the room. She'll be asleep

  667. ready he'll take both her feet and he will rub it and massage it.

  668. And as he massages, he'll say, I command the toes to straightened,

  669. or I command the feet to straighten, and I command this, and I

  670. speak to this right, and long story short, by fourteen years old,

  671. she was like a normal child while walking and running and jumping and having a

  672. normal life. And after that he continue his message, right, hold on

  673. minute, Can I ask more? You know? And I didn't get to

  674. ask more, But years later I understand this. I understand that Xbu didn't

  675. just come. It was spoken into. And we met and we talked and

  676. we prayed, and then we couldn't find a space, and then we said,

  677. come on venue, you'll come, and the Lord says, have you

  678. tried one world? Right? And then we spoke into that. Now the

  679. Lord might have another plan in the days to come to another place. I

  680. don't know, but we speak into we speak into situations. Once upon a

  681. time there was no Xbu, and today there is because we've learned to speak

  682. into it. At Osaka, how do you plan a church in Japan?

  683. When Japan is like what it is, right, less than one percent Christian?

  684. Why do you want to plant there. Well, of course we want

  685. to plant there because it's less like one percent Christian. But it's tough.

  686. I know it's tough. But we have been given the authority and the power

  687. to speak. Don't give in so quickly. Don't give up so quickly.

  688. Learn to exercise the authority. But your heart must first believe, because out

  689. of the abundance of the heart speaks. Sometimes we try to control our mouth.

  690. Actually, don't control your wealth is making sure our heart first believes and

  691. really believes. Your mouth will go automatically. Okay, and we will speak

  692. life and you will speak things into being. All right, let's move on,

  693. all right, Romans ten nine to ten. I won't spend too much

  694. time. But it speaks about the assurance of our sulvation. Why do we

  695. know we are safe because we believe in our hearts and we confess with our

  696. mouth. See the combination of it. Believe in your hearts, confess your

  697. mouth. Let me tell you very quickly why confession is very important. And

  698. I know that when I was a lawyer. I was a lawyer, and

  699. there's something about confession that very powerful. Sometimes you can say confession out of

  700. due rest, and then you know that might not be MISSI willing court.

  701. You get walloped in the side of the room to get your confession and then

  702. they say, no, actually I was I was forced to get this confession

  703. out, and you know, the courts might throw it up. Okay.

  704. There are different situations where they might not. But the true confession. You

  705. know, why it's powerful is because number one is truth. You'll be fighting

  706. it, fighting, fighting it because you're scared to go to jas, scared

  707. to be hung for killing the men. Then finally, out of conviction in

  708. your heart, you say I'm going to confess and you said I killed him.

  709. Truth is very powerful and based on the truth that the case can be

  710. closer ready, okay. And number two why confession is very powerful is because

  711. there is a submission. To get to the place where you want to confess

  712. the truth is to be able to submit your life now into the hands of

  713. the authority of the courts. I submit. I think I'm going to be

  714. punished up, but I'd rather tell the truth. Truth. Submission Number three

  715. is acceptance. I accept whatever it is to callt dishous up to me.

  716. And then before there is expectations whatever is gonna happen, They're gonna give me

  717. a sentence, and they're gonna follow through with a sentence. I don't know

  718. how many years I have been in prison or whether I will go to the

  719. gallows. But if you reverse that into biblical truth is also the same.

  720. When you confess of your mouth doesn't go by your feelings, it goes by

  721. truth. And the word of God is truth, and the truth will make

  722. us free. So the doctor says one thing, but then the Bible says,

  723. by his stripes, you are heal. So that's truth. You confess

  724. that, and you submit now to God's timing and God's love and God's way.

  725. I won't demand God to do it tonight. God, I confess you

  726. are my healer, and I submit to whenever it is you want to heal

  727. me, because you see me, you know me. I accept God,

  728. your ways are higher than mind. I accept God that you are a loving

  729. father, that you are a good God. And even though I'm in pain,

  730. you see it. And finally, I expect you to move according to

  731. your promise, according to your word. I expect God to move you.

  732. See why how powerful confession is. It's not just saying anything nonsense, it's

  733. confessing the word confessing the truth, and you have those four things. Same

  734. as a criminal with the courts, same as a child of God with the

  735. Lord. Truth is very powerful. Submission is very powerful. I submit to

  736. God's will, accepting whatever that God wants to give you and expecting him to

  737. fulfill it. Amen. So that's important. Okay, so your mouth,

  738. Okay, let's move on. We're going to draw towards the close. I

  739. see this is one and I told you about right. The words of a

  740. tale better are like tasty trifles. If you thought I was joking, is

  741. in the word and they go down into the immo's body. Furthern lips with

  742. a wicked heart are like earthenware covered with silver drass. So basically, you

  743. know, gossip is very tasty and uh and all this so so that's why

  744. a lot of us buy into it this year. Please you can watch.

  745. You can watch over this, take control over it, over it and invested

  746. it properly. I guarantee you God will show you his blessing and what you

  747. show you will reap. So, so please stay away from tail bearers,

  748. stay away from gossipers, or maybe you would encourage them. It's not gossiping

  749. a brother sister, you've been talking like this the same way of one year.

  750. A right, come on, new year, New year? Knew you

  751. amen? All right, let's move on. Let's we draw. Okay,

  752. I think we can gone. Ah wow, okay, time is not on

  753. the outside, so I think I'll go on. Eyes eyes okay. So

  754. how far have you gone? Yes? Heart mouth watch these three now watch

  755. your eyes okay. So proverbs for keep your eyes straight ahead, ignore all

  756. sides show distructions, side show distractions in life as well, side show distructions

  757. to distract us. All right. A lot of cartoons going on left and

  758. right, a lot of comedy going on here, and then nonsense. And

  759. we are so caught up right because we are a generation that swipes right.

  760. So if we see something for too long, we want to we want to

  761. swipe. So when we when we live us swipe life, we always want

  762. to swipe left, swipe right kind of thing. And so the Lord is

  763. encouraging you. I know, se Yeah, the Bible's written many many,

  764. many many years ago. But the lot knew that Instagram will come out and

  765. Facebook will come out and say stop swiping, start getting your eyes on the

  766. Lord. The author and finish of our faith. Yeah, don't get so

  767. edgy. Uh, you know so impatient. Uh, don't be an entertainment

  768. generation that entertain me. You know, the Holy Spirit didn't come to entertainers,

  769. one preacher said to me many years ago. The Holy Spirit didn't come

  770. to entertainers. He came to empower us. I like that. Okay,

  771. let's move on. Okay, lamb of the body is the eye. If

  772. therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

  773. Wow, your eye is good? What does it mean? Good eye?

  774. Ladies German? This is my good eye and the left on the bad?

  775. No, I don't know. Hey, hold on, but if your eye

  776. is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Or we don't

  777. want to be there. We don't want to be a person full of darkness.

  778. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is

  779. that darkness? All right, let's move to betthew seven bed. This heaven

  780. says this judge, not that you be not judge. For with what judgment

  781. you judge, you will be judged, and with the measure you use,

  782. it will be measured back to you. Why do you look at the spect

  783. in your brother's I always laugh and I read this verse because it's so funny.

  784. If it's visualizer, it's that I'm coming to Stephen or to Josiah.

  785. Maybe I use you now, you know, I can see a few dusts

  786. on your eyes up, but there's a plan in my eye. You know,

  787. have you ever seen I don't know. I can't even imagine a plank

  788. kyu bala or your eye. And there we are trying to look at people's

  789. little faults, and we you know, I have become so judgmental. Anyway,

  790. do not consider the plank in your own eye. Let's look at the

  791. next one. Or how can you say to your brother, let me remove

  792. the spec from your eye and look, a plank is in your own eye?

  793. Hippo create? What a way to start the year by being called hipocret

  794. right. So it's not my intention to call anyone and Hipro created this room,

  795. But the word of God says it. So I'll say, hip create.

  796. First, remove the plank. See God, that's always he's very orderly.

  797. Do this first, and then watch what I'll do. So first remove

  798. the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove

  799. the spec from your brother's eye. Okay. Now, as I was preparing

  800. for this message, and especially for this point, I thought, I see

  801. you wh in ahead of God. I thought, okay, God, I'll

  802. just write the notes down because I think I know this part. I know

  803. this part. I've been speaking about the eye for many years. Uh.

  804. And you're gonna encourage the church to watch what they watch, right, So

  805. after I finish, I hope that no our people will watch less Netflix,

  806. watch less extro, watch less YouTube, watch less pornography. Actually it's not

  807. lesser. You should totally not watch pornography. I watch whatever, less K

  808. pop or okay, and then done, let's all pray. Let's go home,

  809. and then you go home, going going like Okay, Pasta taught us

  810. this year. Okay, I like the one on the ears. It's true.

  811. I've been letting too many nonsense go to my ear, and he's been

  812. feeling out my heart. That's right, and then my mouth speaks on on

  813. my heart. Okay, I got you, past I got you. So

  814. if I can control my hearing, control my my heart and all that's going

  815. inside, and then I'll control my mouth, I'll speak live. Wow,

  816. It's gonna be a great year, Lou. Yeah, and my eyes all

  817. very easy, okay, less extro less Netflix. No, No, this

  818. is not what the word of the Lord is saying. Yes, please go

  819. ahead and watch what you watch. Okay, be careful about what what you

  820. watch, because it's important as to what you let in. But the Lord

  821. said to me, Kenneth, why you're going ahead of me. You're writing

  822. notes that I didn't give you. Okay, what do you want to say

  823. a lot? He says. I want to say to the people is what

  824. goes out of their eyes? That's important? What does it mean? God?

  825. Yeah, you know I knew you're going to tell the people just watch

  826. what goes in. I want you to tell them watch what goes out because

  827. the way you judge people in twenty twenty three has also brought you to where

  828. you are today. And if you judge people wrongly, you alsoso also change.

  829. Suddenly. I uh, you know, I really like John and he's

  830. like best friends with me for years, and suddenly I hear some rumors,

  831. I hear some things. You know, I didn't check it out with him,

  832. and then you know, my eyes start to change. Do you know

  833. you can you can judge before your eyes. You can actually kill your eyes.

  834. Have you ever seen it? I'll show you, I show you.

  835. Do you know, your eyes tell a story, Your eyes judge, your

  836. eyes condemn. And And actually everything was going well with this relationship, you

  837. know. Then suddenly my eyes see you differently, even though it's not right.

  838. I didn't check it with you, I thought because somebody said they saw

  839. you outside smoking gie. He was a candy and it was a cold weather,

  840. so that who was smoke coming out here? You know what that hey

  841. don't smoke? Huh? I knew idea. I knew it was he with

  842. Adriance. You remember Adriance define was so good. He used to smoke a

  843. lot. So yeah, yeah, I knew it. And from they always

  844. my eyes, I don't even have to speak to you know. And then

  845. my attitude change towards him, and my life changes also. And actually you're

  846. supposed to be a blessing to me, and I don't receive the blessing.

  847. I don't receive the blessing because now now I change because the way I see

  848. you his perception. Perception is very powerful. Perception is very powerful. A

  849. speaker comes in here, you like you will receive everything. He says,

  850. Wow, yes, you don't like so much half you my uh sure no,

  851. and you don't even have to speak. You can just look your eyes.

  852. Your favorite preicature even if he say it wrong, he quote wrong scriptures

  853. of you. Amen. Another day is apologize the day I give you a

  854. scripture. It's not even found the Bible, so sorry, yeah uh.

  855. It was actually by Anthony Robbins. And because sometimes the Guru's I got such

  856. great quotations, it sounds like bioh sorry, yeah, I quote it wrongly,

  857. forgive me. Then you go it's okay, it's all right. Huh

  858. before you don't like what huh? I knew you're gonna quote wrongly because people

  859. told me about that about you. You know. It's like how I remember

  860. remember a story about how a piece of cake with two guys sitting next to

  861. you. One guy takes his fork cut straight into it without asking you,

  862. but because he's your friend is sharing. The person who don't know take the

  863. same his folk and cut straight into your cake because he's a stranger is stealing

  864. perception. How we see people will actually affect our life. You think it's

  865. affecting him, it's affecting you, And then we suddenly go like one whole

  866. year. We're supposed to this relationship is supposed to be so power that you

  867. can bring forth life. He didn't brought forth death because I refuse to work

  868. with you. And the devil is going to continue to mess people around that

  869. he's he's out to break relationships. God is out to building may Okay,

  870. are you getting something from this? So remove that plank? Loves. Yeah,

  871. sure, your brother also got some back in his eye God, which

  872. others are perfect. But when you judge like that, you got a big

  873. plank on your eye. You better get rid of that first. Hey man,

  874. okay, let's let's let'sdraw to a close. Guys. Uh wow,

  875. you see I I you know, I was googling because it was so late

  876. at night. I google something that I hurt many years before. The eye

  877. is the window to the soul, and I believe it was from the scripture.

  878. Google can't get no, Google another way can't get it always brings me

  879. back to this. I'm like, hey, this doesn't say the eye is

  880. the window to the soul. He just says the eye that mocks his father.

  881. So your eye can mock people. And you may have to say rich

  882. people come in, poor people come in sit in the back here. Yeah,

  883. we judge, we score on our mother. But you know, and

  884. then he says that the raven, you know, raven are like cross right,

  885. and they ask avengers. They don't go for life items, they go

  886. for dad items. So a raven goes for a dead eye. Because while

  887. we live, when we judge people, our eyes are as good as dead.

  888. So this year, let's not have any dead ice. Let's have life

  889. in our eyes, love in our eyes, faith in our eyes. Come

  890. on, okay, let's try to close fait last one. Somebody say last

  891. one? Hallelujah. It means lunches near all right, here we go.

  892. Watch your step and the road will stretch out smooth. What a promise,

  893. right, the road will stretch out smooth. Before you look neither right nor

  894. life. Don't swipe right, No swipe leave evil in the dust. Next

  895. scripture, I love this. Your word is a lamb to my feet and

  896. a light to my path. How do I start this message? I started

  897. with the year. What did I say about the year that faith comes by

  898. hearing and hearing by the word of God. And now we close it by

  899. also saying that it's God's word that should guide our steps and our path.

  900. The word of God never changes. It's it's truth that sets us free.

  901. It's life. When you talk about the feet, you talk about the walk.

  902. And so in second Conincience five seven, it says walk by faith,

  903. not by sight. Ladies and gentleman brothers, this is that I love.

  904. How have we been walking twenty twenty three? What path have you been taking?

  905. What road have you been journeying on? Has it brought you peace?

  906. Joy? Has it made you a bigger person or smaller feet? Is your

  907. walk? How have you and I been walking? Walking in frustration, fear

  908. or faith? And you go all the way back to the ears now,

  909. because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So you

  910. can start your ears and you end with your feet. So really I can

  911. see from your life and my life. We can see from people's life what

  912. they have been hearing. You know, yesterday those of us who went to

  913. homes, maybe the whole week, people who were going to homes Wednesday,

  914. Thursday, you know, And there was a scripture John fourteen six. I

  915. am the way, the truth and the life. Do you know if I

  916. look at this gentleman here, I won't be able to see truth, and

  917. I won't be able to see way. I can only see his life.

  918. I can only see his walk, the way we will have lunch later.

  919. I will be able to see his walk, the way he treats others right,

  920. and stuff like that, okay, and then not disappointed him. It

  921. can be yours, all right. I see from your life, from the

  922. way you do church, I see your walk. I don't know. I

  923. can't see truth, I can't see a way. But from your life I

  924. will know the truth that guides that life. And from that life I will

  925. know the way that you have chosen to walk in. That's how powerful the

  926. work is. The work actually reveals the walk, and the life reveals what

  927. it is that you have been seeing. I'm backing up now, why is

  928. it that you've been saying? Why is it that you've been filling your heart

  929. with? And finally, why is it that you've been hearing? So I

  930. know sometimes it sounds like, oh, this message is strong buster and because

  931. there's a lot of negative connotations and negative examples, but it doesn't have to

  932. end that way. It's meant to be good, it's meant to be positive,

  933. is meant to be that if you watch for these five things and invest

  934. into it, so into it properly you will prosper. That's the way you

  935. do it, all right. Don't have to go and do a master's degree

  936. for this and not a PhD. You don't have to Yeah, seriously,

  937. you don't have to go and visit a guru or counselor or psychiatrist for this.

  938. This is the word of the Lord. Watch your eares, okay,

  939. everywhere? Stand up? Please? Is there anything else? Yeah? Okay,

  940. all right, as you stand up, I'm just gonna give you five

  941. slides of summary this year. Watch not just what you hear, but how

  942. you listen, somebody say, amen. Next one, watch not just what

  943. you feel, but how you feel your heart and mind. Number three.

  944. Watch not just what you say, but how you confess. Number four,

  945. Watch not just what you see, but how you perceive. Remember the woman

  946. who said the well, Jesus came to her and immediately you know what she

  947. saw, Jue, what does the Jew have to do with a Samaritan?

  948. See, sometimes when we see things, we see things that cuts off on

  949. them the blessing. But no, Jesus spoke to her, spoke to her,

  950. spoke to her and She's like ah, And the next word she says,

  951. that I perceive that you are a prophet is to go beyond your sight

  952. and Jesus says yeah. And then she asked him a question, you know,

  953. where do we worship? And he says to her, you should worship

  954. in spirit and in truth. And then she says, the Messiah is coming,

  955. and he says he who speaks to you? And he so she goes

  956. from I see you as a Jew to now I see you as a Messiah,

  957. and she goes out to bring the whole city to hear. Do you

  958. see how she could have missed her blessing. She could have missed her breakthrough,

  959. but she didn't because sight went to perception and what you perceive is very

  960. very powerful. Last one, watch not just where you walk, but how

  961. you walk? And how are we to walk by faith not by side.

  962. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more information on our church,

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  964. We're believing that this week is going to be a good week, a

  965. hit for you. God bless