Our Mission For Missions | Elder Terence Atkinson

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

will light up your day. Today's message is a mission for missions. I

know we finish Mission month last month, but the Lord said share this message

you because I think as campus students, you're going to find some encouragement here,

all right. So I think this is a message that the Lord has

asked me to share, and I hope you'll be blessed, even as I

sure I will be giving it to you. Okay. Reading from Colosians Chapter

one, Versus one and two, and it says, Paul, an apostle

of Jesus Christ, by the will of God and timothya brother to the saints

and faithful brethren in Christ, who are I in Colossa grace to you in

peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. What was the

apostles apostle Paul's relationship with the church at Colosse Do you know that he did

not start that church? And when he wrote this letter, he had as

he had never been to that church. And you may wonder what's so important

about this church that Paul wanted to do something about it? So do you

know who started the church? At Colosse it was a guy called Apper Frass

apper fraus if I pronounced the name correct. But Paul would concern himself with

a church he had not started. And to me, that speaks a lot

about what we can hear. How many of you are from different states?

Okay, it's about sixty percent. Okay, how many you are from different

countries? Oh gosh, that's about fifty percent. So fifty fifty percent of

you are really from another country. So when you come to a country that's

not your own, can you find something special about that church that you can

connect with? It's very important. What about us that I hear? Can

we find something special enough with the people who are coming to this country for

us to connect with them. I know exactly what it is like to be

away from your country when you're safe. Let me tell you. I just

want to tell you a testimony, a little bit about myself. Many years

ago. I was not a Christian. And most of the time we come

to the Christians around the knowledge of Christianity, around the ages that you probably

are. So I've been a Christian now for roughly twice the time you've been

alive. Okay, you're in your twenties. I've been a Christian now for

about forty three years. Now. How I was saved was somebody shared the

Word of God with me and I did not accept it. Instead, what

did I do? I fought with it. I fought that person, you're

wrong. This is not the way I'm going to study the Bible, and

I'm going to show you are wrong. Because that was my nature. My

nature was very you know, I'd like to debate a lot, but when

I debate, it was debate based on facts, you know, so very

you know, methodical. So I studied the Bible four years. Four years

I studied the Bible. And then one day somebody said, well, you

know, I was going to go to Singapore. But in order to go

to Singapore, these people that I was following the Singapore or being in the

same car, they said, You've got to come to church first, and

then after immediately after church, we go out. So I had no choice.

I went to church. You know where it was. Their church.

Their church was a little hut in the middle of a palm oil estate.

You had to walk there inside. Poor people, rubber tappers, you know,

very very poor people who maybe earn a dollar a day, fifty cents

a day. That kind of people. When you go to the church,

you have to be careful because a lot of booby traps on the ground,

cows, a lot of cowdown all over the place. You step in the

wrong place, then you know the smell will follow you. So the church

I went to did not smell of perfume. No, no, the whole

area smelled off cowdown. The place of worship was maybe these two flags,

say this is it? Just about sixty chairs all cramped up together. And

then the people like you worshiped, They just sang in worship. You want

to see people get safe, learn to worship. You want to see people

get safe. Bring down the presence of the Lord through your worship, and

amazing things can happen. So these poor people, these people that were not

compared to them, you and I are considered very, very, very rich.

They worshiped the Lord. You know how long was the worship? The

worship was two and a half hours, worshiping the Lord. Not no message

yet done, no message, it just worship two and a half hours.

You know what happened during that time? As I stood dead during that worship,

the presence of the Lord came down upon me. It came down upon

me in the form of a pillar, a cylinder of gold. I'm not

dreaming, and my eyes were fully open. This cylinder of gold came down

upon me, and it encompassed me, and I could look through and now

all of you looked like a golden hue. I'm looking through a filter of

gold. And in that moment a voice came into my ear and spoke its

terrance, you are not a Christian except me. Now, so quietly I

gave my life to God. During that time of worship, nobody knew.

And the moment I gave my life to the Lord, that cylinder went up.

Do you know that cylinder is actually found in scripture? It's there.

And if you think what you can look through gold? Do you know that

gold is the only metal that you can pound and make until you can see

through it? Did you know that? What do you think the astronauts' visors

are covered with They covered in gold. That it is pounded so fine until

you can see through it. It is used so that the glass does not

clog up. That was how the Lord saved me. Then the message came.

The message was two hours long, and after that we worship again another

two hours. It was the longest service I had ever attended, six to

six and a half hours. But I got saved. Three months later,

I went to Singapore to study. I went to Singapore well after my Form

five, which is your old levels. I did not go to school.

I played tennis every day. I I'd run to the tennis court five kilometers

away and played tennis from seven am to seven pm. Then I would run

home. I did this for one and a half years, so I took

a gap year to play tennis. So I went to Singapore. What could

I do to help the people there? What can you do to help the

people around you? What can you do? I mean, you don't even

know the people right, don't even know you? What can you do well?

I was in a hostel, and I lived in a hostel in a

church hostel, and by the side was the church. And I would go

to school in the morning, go to school in the morning at six am,

reach school at seven am, go through my school. Then by the

way, I became the school tennis coach. I would coach this tennis team

from one to seven in the evening seven I would take the bus back.

I would reach back about eight thirty, go and wash my clothes, go

and have dinner, and study from ten o'clock in the ninth to twelve am.

And then one would think I would go to sleep. Rite. No,

I go to church because in the church we used to pray for those

people who were possessed of evil one of evil spirits, people who were oppressed

of the spirits of evil spirits. In case you don't know what that is,

it's in the Bible, okay, where people were possessed by evil spirits.

I would join the pastor and we would pray and pray and pray,

and I would pray from twelve am for deliverance, sometimes until five five thirty

am. No sleep, Go back home, go back to the hostel,

have a shower, go to school, and repeat this process all over again.

And this is what we did. I remember one time we were praying

for one person and three sin says came to the church because we were delivering

this person of an evil spirit. And when the three sin says set foot

and tried to set for the moment they tried to set foot, their foot

didn't even touch the ground. The three of them fell at the church,

defainted. All three after a while, they got up and they ran away.

That is the power of God. That is the hour of God.

There was one time you were praying for a spirit and it wouldn't come out.

So it was time for me to go to school. Then the pastor

said, Terence, you know what you'll do is your your You know,

if the Lord reveals anything, no matter what's how strange it is, come

in tell me. So that time I had a little bit of sleep,

and during the sleep I had a dream. And in the dream, I

was on the fourth floor and I am I was on the fourth floor.

I had washed my clothes and hanging out to dry in the balcony. And

in the dream, the second uniform fell all the way down to the ground.

And I'm thinking, in my dream, this is very stranger. Why

the uniform next to the balcony gate doesn't fall down, but the second uniform

falls down. Now mine next day I came to church and I told the

pastor this is the dream I had. I went to school. When I

came back that evening, it said, Terence coming, remember that dream?

Told me? Say yes, He said, Well, the Lord revealed that

they needed to go to the house to look for some you know things that

were not wholy, Some charms, all right, some evil amulets. And

he says, while we were looking, we found a stack of uniforms,

and as we were doing it, the second uniform fell to the ground.

When we checked that uniform, we found a charm there. We picked it

up and destroyed it in the name of Jesus and treed in the fire.

And the moment they tread into the fire, the demon came up. Who

was I What level of Christian thought? Did I know? What theology did

I know? I only knew that Jesus saves. I only knew that if

I pray in the name of Jesus, something can happen, Something special can

happen. Hey, you guys, So you are in university, so you

are in college. So what you know the things that you can do to

change people's lives? You know the impact that you have on the people around

you. It's amazing. Paul believed that he had an impact on people who

did not know see him, whom he did not yet know. And what

did he do he wrote to them? What did he write? We give

thanks to God and Father of Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you since

we heard of your faith in Christ, Jesus and the love for all the

saints. You know what attracted Paul. The people loved Jesus. You know

what is very attractive. It's very attractive when you love Jesus. They were

poor people, but you know what attracted me, they loved Jesus. Guess

which church I joined when I came back. Did I join a rich church

that had instruments, pan full instruments, lights flashing from here to day,

the best sits in the house. No, I joined that poor church without

even air conditioning. Go in and praise the Lord. When you come out,

you are sweating. It's like you took a bath. But you see,

you know what attracted me, people who loved Jesus. You become very

attractive because you have something that people don't have, the spirit of the Lord,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, for

which you heard before the word of the truth of the Gospel. So can

we thank God for somebody else? Could we pray for people? We don't

know? The best thing in life is to do something for somebody else.

You will have your whole life to do things for yourself. I mean true.

Not you go out your work. You gotta con now, you want

to connow? Did you want to come when you're in college? You did?

You wanted the different ones? You wanted the different ones. How many

of your own cars now? How many of your own cars when you're in

college? Or all of you different? Now? It's like this life gets

better. What I'm trying to say is you will never stay the same.

You will start here and a few years later you look back. You have

traveled the distance, whether you knew it or you don't, because that's what

happens when you believe in Jesus. Your life never stays the same. You

get better, You get better, You get better, and I'll say it

again, you get better because Jesus is in you and he makes you different.

So if you can learn to use what the Lord has given you,

life will not be the same. You will be touching everybody around you.

And I'm going to share with you some other testimonies. If you think that

what you're doing now doesn't make a difference, you're wrong. You are going

to find out in life ten years, twenty years, thirty years, four

years from now how many lives you impacted, And they're going to come and

they're going to tell you what a difference you have made in their life because

you have Jesus in closures one sixty eighty says, which has come to you

as it has also in all the world, and in bringing fought fruit,

as it is always among you since the day you heard and you the grace

of God. As you also learn from a f us our dear fellow servant,

which is a faithful minister in Christ on your behalf, who also declared

to us your love of the spirit. I must first tell you, which

I forgot to tell you earlier, on your pastors Kenneth and Sandra send their

love to all of you. You know, as I was reading the scripture,

I was reminded of this. Why because they are people who are working

in the ministry to help develop you to be the best people that you can

be. And you know what happens, It makes other people drawn to them

as well, and other people drawn to you. You know. Stepping into

some minia today and just listening to the worship, it touched the hearts.

It did Becaulse sense the power of God in a mighty way, the same

parts God that made me a Christian just because I stood in the congregation,

you have that ability to change lives. So if I were, you go

out seek those unbelievers, those pre believers, seek those ones that do not

know Jesus, and sit down in the service of your worship, and you

will find that they will open their hearts to you. I'm going to share

with you another testimony. Remember I told you that I coached the tennis team

in Singapore. When I went to the school, they asked me, can

you give me money? I say, I just gave your government a lot

of money. You know, to go and study in Singapore, you have

to give the government a lot of money before you even set food in school.

You know that those days the going rate was five thousands sing dollars is

equivalent to about one hundred thousand these days. Okay, five thousand. Then

you go to the school in the head the head as you can you give.

I cannot give you any more money. But this is what I can

do. I can train your tennis team. But I say, you don't

have a tennis court. He says, don't worry, I'll get one for

you. So the principal built a really fantastic tennis court, a big one

lots of space, I would say, international quality. And you know what

he did. He gave me the key. This is yours, do with

it as you will. Wow. Can you imagine someone who loved tennis so

much? What a great thing that was. I was given the key to

the tennis court. So what I did was I told the school, okay,

I'm studying a tennis team. Those of you who want to come come

with me. So that afternoon, twenty people came with their tennis records.

So very good. I like this, I can work with you. Come,

let's go. I took the tennis record and then I went out of

the school and I ran ran across country route five kilometers. By the time

I got back, fourteen dropped out. Only six remained. So I said,

okay, you're the ones I will train. And I trained them and

we did quite well. For yeah, we did quite well. I then

we just lost to the eventual champions. That's okay. So during this time

I met someone, this guy. He's the youngest of his family of about

thirteen siblings or eleven siblings. The difference age group between the one before him

and him is fifteen years. So he's a real spoil kid. Okay,

all his brothers sisters will give him whatever he wants. But I became his

good friend and I went to his house and his parents loved me. Parents

said, why you want to go and live in a hostel. You come

and live with us. You can be a good influence on myself. So

I said, okay, So I went to live with them. The lovely

people. The best food in the world. Okay, she was like the

best cook. She could take anything, throw into the fire. When you

eat that, it's like the best food you've ever eaten. I'm not exaggerating.

So fantastic, you asked, hell the maighble. She's tasted the food

a few times. It's truly, truly amazing. So anyway, I went

to live with this guy and he wasn't very good in his studies, or

rather he was playful. So one day, just before the final A level

exams, he comes in he tells me, Terrence, I think I'm gonna

fail. Oh, I think I just have enough to pass. You know,

in Singapore, your pass her, even though it's a week pass,

you have to go for National service after that, so then after maybe you

cannot get a place in university. So I just told him, then fail.

If you cannot pass well, fail so you will sit one more year,

and this time, don't make a mess of it. You know he

actually did that. Okay, y'all, don't follow what I did. What

I said again, you make sure you do very well and pass. But

anyway, when he went through it again, he did very well. He

joined the navy. He became an officer in the navy. And I kept

track with him for a little while, and I tried to rub off on

him. I used to go back to my school every day after praying for

all those people, and I would tell them the stories. I will tell

them how God delivered people from from who had who this were possessed, and

how the Lord delivered them and how they became good. And every time.

I was doing this for about six months, sharing with them, sharing with

what was I sharing with I was sharing what I saw, what eye witnessed.

What are you called to be your called to be a witness? Are

you called to talk about something you don't know about? No, are you

called to talk about something you don't see. No, You're called to talk

about what you know a witness? And does it mean that the change must

happen straightday. This is what I'm trying to tell you. When you go

out and you meet your friends and you don't see any change, don't worry

about it. It's okay, it's fine, it's gonna be good. You

just tell them what you know. So this guy became a very good friend.

We were like brothers. Something happened. I lost contact with him.

Those days, computer keep all the details. It was not like today.

There was no real internet. When the computer died, all the email addresses

left, all my contact numbers left. I lost touch with him for twenty

five years, and I tried so hard to search for him. I could

not find him. About three years ago, I finally told the Lord,

I gave up. I've done everything I can to find him. I'm going

to sleep and I'm never going to look for him again. You know,

I got into bed. I just pulled the blanket over me, and then

the Lord said, go and search for him now like that now, not

no, go and search for him now. So I got out of bed.

You know, I went to my computer and I did everything that I'd

always done in the past, and you know what, I found him.

I found him on a register of golfers, and from the register of golfers,

I managed to track him to his company. I called the company the

next morning. They say he just retired. So I said, hey,

look, if you have his telephone number, say his friend is trying to

call him, get him to call me. Now. In half an hour

we connected and I said, yeah, that's worthy of a clap. That's

the Lord. There's a picture coming on the screen. This is me and

him. This was seventy pounds ago, or rather this was nineteen eighty one.

Here on the right, me on the left. Okay, so now

we are connected over the phone. Go to the next picture. This is

us when I connected with him last year. You don't hate me to know

I am the one on the left. Okay, he's the one on the

right. You know what we're singing together. We're singing gospel songs because he

now knows the Lord. Bible says some plants and the Lord water is.

We get so concerned because we don't see change happenings straight away. Hey,

change is the Lord's growth is the lords You just tell what you see.

I went, this is his house. If you notice his house is a

swimming pool. He is very, very very well to do. The Lord

has blessed him so much. Then he tells me, Terrence, you know

how I came to the Lord. He said, I'm married a Christian.

And one day we were shifting house and I had no help, and I

heard the doorbell ring. And when the door bell rang, I opened the

door and there was this group of wonderful people who said, we've come to

help you shift. It touched his heart so much that he told his wife,

I want to go to your church next week. So he went to

the church. And when he went to this church, he found it it's

a very small place also, maybe about ten feet wide. There were just

one hundred square feet upstairs and downstairs, and the church was upstassed and the

people were eating their lunch on the floor. Then he told his wife,

this is not right. They should not be eating on the floor. You

know what he did. He bought them tables and chairs. That was the

beginning of God changing his heart. Then he tells me, Terrence, I

was building a factory and there was a plot of land on the side.

They said, the Lord told me to do something. You know what I

did. I bought the plot of land on the side and I built a

church. So the next time I'm going going to visit that church. That

church now has about three hundred people. I've seen pictures of it. Wonderful,

wonderful. Then after that he says, you know, I built another

factory, and I bought the plot of land on the side. And then

I said, I built a second church. And then the third time,

he built another factory, bought another plot of land and built the third church.

All this he's a selfish guy, you know, when I knew him,

really a selfish guy, thought only of himself. But he built three

churches. Then he bought the fort factory, he bought the fort plat of

land, and he built church number four. So it tells you how how

well to do he is. Okay, he bought another plot or lad.

This time he said a yoba terrence. I had no more money. We

wanted to build a school, but I was not satisfied. So I talked

to a few friends. Somebody said, never mind, I'll build a school,

and they built the whole school. And when I meant him last year,

the school had just started one week. They had seven students. It's

a Christian school. You must remember. A Thailand is less than two percent

Christians. Isn't that wonderful? Okay, I'm gonna show you another picture.

Go to the next one. You see this. This is his rubber plantation

which he bought up north. It's a eleven twelve acres of rubber plantation.

He cleared about two acres. And you see that that dom there, that's

the heart where he goes on weekends. He goes and he stays there.

You know why because go to the next picture. I don't know whether you

can see it. You see that on the left that is church number five.

He's built the fifth church. When I shared with him in nineteen eighty

between nineteen eighty and eighty two, did I know this was going to happen?

I didn't even know, you know, what was going to happen in

my own life. Like many of us, we don't. All we know

is the Bible says that he changes us from glory to glory, meaning that

our next step will always be better than the step before. If you can

believe it, you are meant to have what does the Bible say? A

life that is a abundant, abundant life. I came that you may have

life in heaven abundant. You see your life. The Bible says, the

steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. You know what is

ordered, son, Take a step to the left, Son, take a

step northeast. One step. The Lord orders your steps. Can your life

go bad? No? No, I preached another message. Can bad change

be good? It's on Spotify. Go and hear it. Your life is

meant to be great. The impact you are supposed to have on the people

around you is meant to be great. Will you see it now? Not

necessarily can you see it now, yes, but definitely one day in the

future you will see it. Next, like he's building upon he wants to

put fish there, you know what, so churches can go and have their

retreats there. So he's now thinking about the body of Christ. Like Paul

thought about the body of Christ. So he wrote the letter to the church

in Colossa. Go to the next one. This is a closer picture of

the church. It starts like that. Okay, don't worry. When he

first started the church, it looked like that. If you look at the

church now that he first started, it has grown. So when he first

told me about the church, they had only three people. Next, like

This is his pastor on the right, and they're go and share with the

community. They're going to share the word of God with the community. You

know how many people the church has now twenty? Started with three, the

church now has twenty. That's his wife there seated on the step and they

house to house sharing the word. This is eight hours north of Bangkok,

eight hours drive started the church there. Did I know this was gonna happen?

No, go to the next line. See this guy, he was

a classmate of mine. Filthy rich? Why say filthy rich? That's what

people say, are filthy rich? He is Indonesian. And when I say

rich, I mean where you really don't have to count? Mon ear,

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. That's amazing, really okay.

Anyway, this guy was so rich. He was seventeen years old and he

had his own car in Singapore. It was a Nissan Bluebird. Let me

tell you. Let me tell you that to own a card in Singapore,

you buy a Mivie, you must have at least one hundred and fifty thousand

dollars cash. That's the difference of buying a car in Singapore. So he

had a Nissan Bluebird, the only student in the school who had a car.

He only five percent of the teachers have cars. He had his own

car. So anyway, when he when we on our last day of school,

he gave me his autograph book and I wrote him an autograph, and

of course I forgot about it. Several years later, many years later,

in just a few years later, he connected with me. He was again.

I think it was during the pandemic. He found me in you know,

and he says, you know what, guess what, Terrence, I'm

a pastor, your pastor. When did this happen? It happened, you

know, early, probably eighty nine ninety. Then he says, you know

who's responsible? I said no, He said you are responsible. I said

what, I'm responsible? How he says, don't you remember what you wrote

in my autograph book? I said no, I cannot remember. How can

I remember? Thirty years have passed. Then he told me this, He

said, I had my own yacht, not as your own. You know

what as a yacht. It's it's the kind of boat where you got bedroom

inside, you got you know, that kind of yacht. You know,

another boat. Okay, it's a luxury yacht. He had his own belonged

to him. He says, he was out on the water alone and something

happened and he was about to die, and he had no way of getting

help. Then he said, I remembered what you wrote in my autograph book.

What if ever you run into trouble, call on the name of Jesus

and he will come and help you. He said, Terrence, I called

on the name of Jesus, and he literally came to me, and he

helped me, and I survived. The moment I got to the show,

I gave up all my possessions and I became a pastor. Isn't that amazing?

You know? He became that about ten years after I last saw him,

and easily forty years before I met up thirty years or thirty five years

before I met up with him again. Do you see the impact that you

have on people? You don't realize this is the impact you have on people.

And the funny thing was, he came to study to be a pastor

in Kao. His church was here, cross one road. My church was

here. His church started at a different time, finished at a different time.

My church started at a different time, finished time. We never saw

one another her relatives are in the other church. All of them know him.

But I didn't know we were Just if we both came out at the

same time, we look, we would have seen it. So we didn't.

But you know, God knows. I can tell you so many testimonies

like this. You have an impact on people. It will change your life.

You know, we have an impact that goes over geography. So now

you have come from other countries and you're here, You're going to go back

to your country. And what do you take with you? The fear of

the Lord that's in your heart. And you know you're gonna meet up with

your friends and one day they're going to tell you the impact you had on

their lives. I have a girlfriend, Okay, don't get your mind wrong.

This is a friend who is a girl, all right. And the

first thing I did with this friend is introduced her to my wife so that

my wife also becomes her friend. You know what she tells me, She

says, Terence, you always used to tell us the devil cannot touch you

unless Jesus says so. And you know that has saved me and my friends

over and over again, because I have shared this with people and they've been

encouraged to believe and they've overcome their problems. You know, she told me

this in a message which she's just visiting, sent me about six months ago.

I had no idea. I had no idea that this was what happened.

But you see, I'm only finding out now. So you ask me,

what about the testimony is today? Ask me, lie, thirty years,

forty years. In thirty years and forty years time, I'm going to

learn of the impact that I had in someone's life right now. It is

not necessary for me to learn a bit now. Now. I got different

kinds of testimonies, okay, not to say my testimonies are not the ones

where people are getting safe. I'm going to hear as time goes on the

impact I have on people's life. As I hear, I'll tell you a

testimony today. Not well today, No, last week. A few weeks

ago, I fell down. I slipped and I fell in the bathroom.

My head missed the wall, my body missed the glass, and I was

hurt. My back was hurt, very bad, because sitting and getting up

was a problem. And then the Lord reminded me take authority over it.

So I just said pain. In the name of Jesus, I command you

to go and be gone, and immediately the pain went away. And it

doesn't bother me anymore. All right Now, whether you believe it or not,

that's up to you. But you see, I know it. So

the next time I have that kind of pain, I will tell it to

go in the name of Jesus and it will go. So anyway, why

I want to tell you the stories. I shed this in claning church two

weeks ago. You know what the lady told me. One lady came up

to me. He said, Wow, that's an amazing testimony. Let me

just tell you what happened yesterday. My friend fell in the toilet like you,

and she hit her head and the doctors say that for the rest of

her life she's going to need assistance. But you see, I fell and

I walked out, and I'm okay, what is the difference, Jesus.

Jesus makes a difference in your life. I'll tell you one more story,

okay, and I'll probably end with this. When I was very young,

I didn't know that I was going to have an impact on people's lives.

I was only eight years old. I used to walk home from school,

not because I didn't have a school bus. You know, my parents paid

for the school bus. But I didn't like the school bus because waiting too

long, waiting too long. So every day I woke up walk home man

two three kilometers in the hot sun, crossing the busiest road in Clang,

the busiest road in Clang because that time is only two ways, one way

going, one way coming, no in between. You cross. You have

to look both sides in the middle. I crossed and for some reason I

didn't see a speeding motorcycle. The speeding motorcycle hit me in the face.

Literally, because you're eight, you can shot. The bike came and slammed

ride into my face, you know, full speeder. I dropped there.

He and his motorcycle went no went flying. When I picked myself up,

I see a trailer coming for me. I rolled to the side of the

road. Then I get up my red my white uniform is now red.

It's full of blood. I just pick up my school bag. I know

one shoe was missing, and I just continued to walk home. And I

turned to the left and I saw this guy on the motorcycle. His face

was all scraped and scratched, the motorcycle. I don't know what became of

him, because I just got up and I continued walking home. One Indian

gentleman on a bicycle stopped. He said, what happened to you? I

say, I met an accident. This is where do you live? I

live over there, and he said. He put me on the bicycle and

he took me home. When my mother saw me, she was like in

a flap. She called for a cab and took me to the doctor straight

away. In the meantime, I went to the mirror. I wanted to

see where I was bleeding from. I took cotton and I wiped my face

and there was a hole. There was a hole in my face. You

see this, it's not a dimpler. That was a hole because there was

a rocket on the I think it must have been not a bad mud god

or the light and that went into my face. But you know what happened.

I went to school the next day, no pains, no eggs,

because the Lord was keeping me until I would be saved, because I needed

to be impacted people's lives. You are not here by accident. You are

here because you have a purpose. And if you think you don't have a

purpose. You're going to find out in thirty years, in twenty years,

in ten years, five years, sometimes even immediately how much of an impact

you're going to have in someone's life. So my message to you today,

which is completely different and all the things that I prepared for, is Paul

was interested in a church he never went to because they were believers there,

and the Bible says that what drew into the church was the heart of the

believers. What will draw people to church will be Jesus in your hearts.

What will draw people to church is the impact you will make in their lives.

And you will make an impact in their lives. You have to believe

that you're not here by accident. You are here by God's purpose, and

God is going to take you to different places and where wherever He takes you,

you're gonna talk to people, You're gonna meet with people, and you're

gonna be responsible for their lives changing too. Isn't that wonderful? Hey,

guys, you got just you just at the start of all this from happening.

You know, that's how exciting life is going to be for you.

You just at the start. I am through quite a bit, but it's

good. So this is nothing like what I really plan to share with you

the Lord to get on a different engine. But I want you to know

that Paul prayed for a few things, and I'll end with this. He

prayed for that church of Colossa, And this is what you can pray for

all those people that are around you. You pray for the knowledge of His

will. Okay, this is found actually in Lord just one nine to ten.

You can read that yourself. So you pray for a knowledge of His

will. You pray for a knowledge that You pray that you will walk worthy

of the Lord. You pray that you will be fully pleasing to him.

You pray for fruitfulness in God, in good works, and you pray for

an increasing First you pray for the knowledge, and you pray for an increasing

in the knowledge of Him, meaning that you will never be stagnant. If

this is where you are, pray for more when you get here. Pray

for more when you get you know when you stop, when you meet the

Lord, then no need to ask for more. You have all when you

go and be with the Lord. You have all of the Lord. So

each and every day pray for more, because there's more of him to know

because if you know all of God, than you are God. So since

you're not God, you cannot know all of God. And that's why you

can always ask for more. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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