Rich Towards God | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your tea. Someone you read the Bible, not the food

scripture, but a phrase from the scripture stands out. So the chapter on

Luke chapter twelve worse. Uh, let me see Luke chapter twelve worse fifty

thirteen. All right, I'm gonna read thirteen to twenty one. Now the

priory of the rich fool. Friends, before you project yourself, you know

I'm going to talk about I was just gonna talk about money and talk about

the evils of money. And you know not the word is that you know

everything about money is bad. Friends, know it's how we use it.

We need as all the purpose behind it. All right? So wor's thirteen?

All right? Now from the crowd, they say, teacher, tell

tell my brother to divide inheritance with me. I'm not sure how many of

us here. If Jesus was sending in front of you right, you asked

Jesus to sort out your personal affairts. Think about it. If Jesus was

standing in front of you right, and let's say you have a problem,

what actually would you ask God? And this is what the person says,

fought in But this is what Jesus said to him, man who made me

a judge and arbitrator over you? There is this scene that was playing on

my man when I was reading this scripture. If Jesus was standing in front

of you, right, don't you know and want to find out how to

inherit interurther life? Wouldn't you would just want to just find out? Like

what is it? Was my purpose here on earth? What is it that

you want me to do? I know life is really short, but there

has to be more right, But here's a person sighted God, Please tell

my brother to give me my inheritance. How many of you know the inheritance?

You run out? Right? You run out? Sometimes inheritance will be

taken away. You might get texts why it is. The word is that

it will diminish after a certain framed I pray that the desire for us is

that when we stand in front of God, where during our quiet time,

it's not just about getting more, but God, I want more of you.

I want more of you. And verse fifteen, he said that take

kid, beware of consciousness. Take kid, beware of consciousness. Friends,

there's somethings in life you a white wife. For example, if you see

a hole on the road, you will avoid because you know it damage your

car. You know that. Let's say, for example, if if there

is a person that's going to scam you or very dodging, you avoid.

Let's say you're walking out a street dangerous place, you will avoid. Somethings

are very obvious. But how may you know that? Consciousness? Friends,

camouflash itself very well, very innocent, very sutter. You get the words

get sucking, and you don't even know it. You get drawn into it,

and you don't even know that you're idiot. Really, it starts very

simple by it the word upgrade. Let's upgrade our lifestyle. Let's upgrade our

phones, let's upgrade our tech. Nothing wrong with that, friends, I'm

not against upgrade. I love upgrades. I love better tech, and I

like finding things of life. My wife said, you're so don't we can

buy kick for you one. I told my wife, NOA. We got

standards, so need that's all. It's not us. We just have a

be of standard, that's all. But nothing wrong with upgrade, friends,

But beware, friends, beware sometimes we get sucked in at all about life

is about upgrade. That without the upgrade, we cannot function without that.

We cannot move without that, we cannot leave without that. We don't know

how to leave. Be very careful, be very because it's so subtle.

Friends, If it's if it's the words, if the danger is there,

you would come on right now. If the danger is there, right you

would. You won't want to get into it. Ex Go you understand.

Try to say so verst If he said take, he beware of conurageousness,

for one's life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses. One's

life does not consist of the abundance of things he possesses. Friends, God

knows human being very very well. He knows. He knows that every human

being is a horder. Come on right now. He knows you like to

accumulate things. Some of us are gifted in accumulating wealth. Praise the Lord.

May you finance God's and time work. Some of us may not have

collecting wealth, but we are good in collecting the poest, very good.

Every ti your top out then goes into your collection. One day you want

to give your grand children. So we're good in collecting plates. You have

places that was passed down to you and you hope to pass out to your

children and the children after very good friends. Paperbacks come on right now,

paperbacks. My wife have a cabinet, two cabinets of paperbacks accumulated to a

span of secondary school until now. I asked her a question, when are

you going to finish using the paperbacks? Oh? You know, we can

recycle everything. You give a gift, you want the paperback, you just

open the drawer, you find it there. I'm off the veew that even

a plastic bag can be used to give recycle. Hey, this is true

recycling techniques. Okay, I one time wrap a gift with the paperbag I

bought it in, or rather paperback or plastic back. I just cut out

blasting back. I just wrap it up, wrap up as the gifts like

there. My wife said, what horrible things are you doing? Right?

Ribburns, come on, come on, Ribburns, Christmas President. The ribbuns

you're keeping it for for for rapture, right, just in case you want

to give Jesus the present you got ribbons, no rappers. Come on.

I know some of you very delicately open up the Christmas present because you want

to recycle the rapper. Come on, isn't it true that we like to

keep stuff we like because you know what, it gives us a bit of

purpose identity. Well, God knows. Friends, After a while we start

accumulating these things that were drawn this away that gives us that our lives is

all about that our lives is all about cumulation of trophies. A couple of

days ago we had the Victory Academy graduation. I was one of the persons

that was asked to give up medas, and I was giving up meadas.

My hand got really tired of so many medas? Are you all like?

You know? My wife has a collection of matters the first person to get

for public speaking, singing, and all the stuff all right them? Why

way you meads? You know like one box full of matters growing up?

I say, only go one number three spoiling. That's my entire school.

I only go one matter that. Look at her, I say, isn't

it true what the Word of Lord says? You gain all this? You

know the moth and rusts are coming through it, but we our treasures are

in heaven. Spiritual answer, right, that's that's that's that's what most people

get that will get trophy. While we just say that all this earthly pursuit

doesn't mean anything to the Lord. But my wife has a lot of collections.

Friends. Take here, the Bible says, come on. The Bible

says that life does not consist in the abundance of things that it possesses.

Now, then Jesus has to speak a parable. The ground of certain rich

men, you plentiful, the ground of certain men, you plentiful. Friends.

God is not against people who can make wealth. The Bible here says,

the ground of a rich man, you plentiful. You and I are

called to be productive. You and I are called to be productive. Every

God ground, every life have a purpose on a friends, there is no

such thing alive or no purpose. There's no suching a live Only you minimum

friends. The Bible says, God wants all of our hearts too. Many

Christians are just giving their talents to the law, but now their hearts.

And that's why giving up is so easy. One of the questions I was

asked older in x UK by a love of the campus and Love students was

this, how the how do I know God wants me to stay here in

London and not go back home? To Malaysia or Singapore. I say you

must stay beyond just a job because job comes and go. Your employment will

come and go. Today you have this job, Maybe tomorrow you might get

another job, or you might get retrench or stuff like job comes up you

must leave or bigger purpose. Purpose has to be the Lord. The purpose

has to be church. Our calling has to serve the Lord wherever you're planted.

And when you decide to do that, then your ground becomes fruitful.

But many times what happens that Christian we don't develop our ground, We don't

develop our fruitfulness, we don't develop ourselves. Come back to church next to

you. Okay, I'm not scoring you, I'm just encouraging. You're just

passionate. Right. So the Bible here says that rich man, you plentiful

Verse seventeen. But he thought to you, here's the thing he thought.

We did himself saying what should I do since I have no room to store

my crops? Actually I got no more room, Daniel. I got so

much money, I got no more place to put it. Think about it.

This is what the person say. I got no more room to store

my collection of cars. I got no more room to store my collection of

guitars or top of ways, I go no more room verse eighteen. So

I say I will do this. I will tear down my bonds and build

a greater way. I start all my crops and my goods. If you

ever catch yourself, if you ever catch yourself, and all your prayers and

all your focus is about yourself your life, ask yourself a question. I

have view drifted away from the Lord because this is what the rich men did.

I got so much Lord, I think I'm going to tear on my

house. I'm going to build a bigger one. Right, nothing will be

bigger one. There was the thing that I say to my soul. So

you have many goods later for you years. Take east, eat, drink,

be merry. Forget about everything else. You take care of number one,

yourself. God this morning really wants to minister to house because there's a

lot of people a Christian, well meaning Christians I know, fit, full

attendant, attending Christians I know, get stuck in this whereby life. It's

all about them, their lifestyle, the focus. I one time I was

preaching one day, I say that we can still serve the Lord. We

can still serve the Lord, even though sometimes we have a torn in our

flesh because God is faithful. Because God is faithful, if we still serve

the Lord a lot of times. The challenges this is that people say that

I want to serve the Lord, but I can't see a future. I

can't see if I serve the Lord one time. The Church always wants me

to give more one, not less. True, because we know everybody's potential

in the Lord. Friends, we know that if we don't get involved in

the Kingdom of God and the works of God, we speak so consumed by

ourself wherever it doesn't yield any satisfaction or any fruit. So worse treaty.

But God said to hear fool this night your soul be required of you,

Then who will those things be which we are provided for at the end of

the day. The summary of this is that all that you have collected,

all that we have own, we can't take it with us now. Friends,

I know Sunday we're supposed more encouraging. I understand. So that's why

it's worse training. One worse train. One say that he who lays up

treasure for himself, so is he who lives up treasure for himself. This

is and is not rich towards God. The statement really I was really this

Potius Scripture is the word rich towards God, being rich towards God. Now,

before you think it's about giving money and more of your money and stuff,

No, friends, how many of you know that really is not about

money, really is not. It's about our hearts. First, our church

was started and founded not because of rich people in our church. Back then,

three full time workers got together and they say God told us to start

ext church. That's it. I'm just a pure passion and a belief.

If God can use anybody, God can use us. We were reading Churisman

magazine. Not suready, you're no not, but Curtis might not a secular

magazine, but as a Christian magazine. Right about works of God happening in

South America, in America, in London, God Reviver there, Revival here

got provided for them. They want that building got provided. But first,

every is no story coming off from Southeast Asia. No story is coming up

from Southeast Asia. We asked to Southeast aren't we serving the same Lord?

Aren't we serving the same God? Because if we are serving the same Lord

and same God, then we should have access to the same sort of testimony.

We should explain the same sort of break shoe we should experience. So

our church friends, we just say this God, if we can use anyone,

use us. Even if you have to preach the forwards and nobody come

for the first three years. It is okay. God, you take care

of us. You will come true for us, You'll provide for us.

Friends, we didn't have the luxuries of air con that was working like right

now, so we're feeling cold. Our echoes are all turned on, but

we still feel very hot. Our chairs was rocking because the screws cannot be

tightened anymore. Our projector was so poor. Friends, we have to memorize

the lyrics we just put projected there just for as if we tell people become

projector back, then we're using O hashpi God, all faithful, olish bee

that never break down. What is ash be transparency with the person doing.

Always be your friends pressure, you know, because the moment one transparently finished,

the next one goes up almost immediately. When friends no break in between.

But here's the thing I want to let you know. If God can

move in all other nations, why not Malaysia. If God can move in

all other nations. Why not Malaysia? No way not Southeast Asia? Being

reached God has nothing to do with how much you have friends. But it

really starts from the heart first. It really starts from the heart because God

wants to minister to life this morning. And the first thing he said is

this that to be reached towards him, we must award the coverages lifestyle.

It's very easy to get sucked in, especially let me tell you this,

doing church. It's very easy to get tempted to follow other people's blueprint and

other people's uh strategy. Very easy you turn on you imagine right now,

right after a while, right, let's say, for example, ex goo

to commonning, just can do maybe extra camga right, extra caa maga touching

thirty people for the past six months. And know, as leaders, we

are saying God, we are praying, you know, we're asking where are

the people? Right and all sudden, maybe someone maybe we should change to

we do our songs saturn after you see worship the lot ma uh huh.

Maybe you know singing extra song doesn't really cut it, Saturn not come on,

maybe if all our worship they don't have dye the hair color more,

more in people can relate more to people Saturn, not come on, church,

We're not costing your salvation, right, satur That's why the Bible says

beware of couture because it's so subturf. Because you get drawn in, You

get drawn into this lifestyle. You get drawn in. After a while,

it's no longer the motivation from the lot is no longer. It's no longer

inspiration from the law is no longer God's DNA. For our church. It's

what you see on the net. You get drawn in. And that's why

if you don't know your identity in the lot, if you don't know your

self imassion lot you we always get drawn in. We should be more like

them instead of being more like Christ God. A lot of people suggest,

eldo, you don't want to go to church, forget about your shirt,

and forget about your coat and tie, forget about that because a lot of

people don't ma tize this to work. They don't even wear jackets anymore.

We are church, you know, we're so oh some. The color we

just black color, not how hot this is not I understand, I know,

and Ken we almost trade three years if we know we got people.

Can we do away with with the shirt with the tie, with the jacket.

Not God, but we say this that if you're meeting the King of

kings, you just want to give your best. It's very easy to dress

down, but it's very hard to dress up. Very easy, dress up

easy next week flops catch up with they these shirt jeans very easy. But

to dress up for the lot it takes effort. How many feel that it

takes some of us takes even that one iron once a week for the Lord.

First, it's not about the dressing. You no friends, It's never

been about dressing. But God will always use the excider to chain our hearts.

It's never been about the dressing. One time I flew to I mean

there was a period of time I flew to Botswana four times a year and

in Botswana treat friends if we go direct flight. So my flight has always

been kill Singapore Singapore Air flight to Joebert reached there about six am in the

morning with for the next flight. The next flight is about nine to ten

am in the morning, air Botswana halfway minute through the flight. If we've

never flewed air Botswana before, it's really an experience as We'll just give me

the name card. Sir, if you're buying computers in Bosola, please hook

me up. If we have never clear immigration in Botswana before, it's an

experience. You're the only like there's only the plane landing there, like it's

a rest WoT country. So I will in my plane. I think there's

only about eight people. I cleared custom in forty five minutes. They open

up my back. So why are you doing back up? Meggi me I

say, you do not know Asia. We'll always be Meggim wherever we go

because we are we will, we will safe whenever we can. So we

want to text you on your Maggi me I said, pascilic comes out.

No, no, no, no, whatever you bring in the country,

want the text and only that. Friends, They say it, then they

work to an encounter, wait for them for ten minutes. Sometimes God will

always use acceded to train your hearts. Train your hearts friends, Friends,

is not just a ti or jacket. What is it that we can't do

for the Lord? Think about it? What is it that we can't do

for the Lord? The Bible says, beware of courageous take keep me well

coveteousness. You know, conveteousness. Friends, it's just basically greed, desire

to have more, greed, desire to have more. I want more growth,

I want more gold. Therefore I need to be more like people other

people how they're doing it. But friends, I want to let you know,

we are very sure this is where God wants us to do, how

God wants to do. If it is start to go small, we won't

have the privilege and the opportunity to get more, to get to know most

of your We have never been big on you know, facility. Our heart

desire has always been this that to reach out to as many people as possible

in as many ways as possible. We truly believe that God has a plan

for every Malaysian. Everyone is Malaysia. God has a plan for you.

But the challenge is always going to be these friends, that when you're standing

in front of Jesus, what you ask for where you're standing from Jesus,

God, please tell my brother give me my inheritance or God, I want

to know you, like Nikmus, what must I do to it life?

You can be like the rich young man and just ask God for more inheritance

or you can be like Nico Damus. God, please tell me what must

I do to inherit eternal life. Life always presents us with the choice friends

it does, and the choice always be between God or things, Between God

or things. You know, Satan brought Jesus up. I showed Jesus the

whole friends, every kingdom, the glory. I'm not sure how many of

us really can say no to that. It's like you've never had it before.

Wealth. You can never imagine how many of will say like Christ and

say no immediately. Most Christians, you know, the answer will be let

me pray about it, because God you provided ma. I like one question

that was asking me out of how do I know? How do I know

that God wants me to be here? Because when I apply for a job,

I got my job so easily in London. I think that's too easy.

I say, what you want God to give you problems? Is it

that you know that it's a lot? Say no, I just want to

know. I say, God will give you a job. But more than

the job, I say, what are you doing for the Lord? So

we have we have people over there, right, they will take a train

one and a half hour's trained to come to church one and a half hours

trained to come to church, and one of them PERSONI key. She will

take a train, she says, about one hour and training minutes away by

the time she finished everything for the church. Sometimes evening she takes the train

back. The train doesn't stop at the station, or we we will just

continue or service this evening. Please descend back here one stop away from where

she's supposed to disembark. Then her dare will drive to the next station to

pick up. I said, do you stay next to the station after the

station, I have to work for another fifteen minutes, and sometimes it can

be scary. Sometimes you just have to be alert, just may be aware

of the surroundings. If you'll wipe them there, you'll find. We still

serve the lot of friends if it's one and a half hours away train ride.

We have a couple in eight am services that stays in Cerembered that come

to church. They work in kl after work friends. They will serve some

days or they will serve on the worship team, and then they do the

Thursday night worship practice. Thursday night worship and they will come for worship practice

and after that they will drive back the cirremband then the next morning go to

work. We still serve the lot of friends, even though everything's against you.

Friends, This is not a message count, but this is a message

of hope because you know why it's important for us, because if you want

more of God, we cannot have more of the other things. Let me

just turn you to one Scripture met chapter six twenty four. No one can

self too master. Come on, no one can self to master. No

one can self to master. The Bible did not ask so manage to Too

many Christians are managing to master. When the Bible asks you to choose one

for one for either you'll hit the one and love the other, or else

you'll be loyal to the one and despite the other. Come on, right

now, you can only choose one. Who will you choose? Every time

we do premierage counseling, we always ask a couple this. You still love

each other when all your assets, all your finances, all your business goes

down the drain. You still want to hold each other or not? Are

you really do work things out or not? If you're not really worked out,

and be be aware, sometimes life that happens not because the person gamble

away. But no, something life happens when things that you don't have your

numbers around it, you still hold each other because that advice was given to

me, to me and my wife by pastors say, we've decided that we'll

hold each other even though we have sell masilama the next day, we will

still do it together. Finance make or break marriage, it does, But

the problem is not with the finances. The probably is our attitude, our

hearts. Come on right now. Let me just going to read a few

more scripture to your right collinships, that the tree was five therefore put to

death your members, which is on earth fununication and cleanness, passion, even

desires and consciousness, which is idolatry. Fast colciousness is idolatry. You know

it is the great to have more. I got to have more, just

a bit more. I was talking to Pasta one day, and you'll know

we have plans. All these plans are hearing right now about ches planting.

I did start this yesterday or five years ago. I remember meeting Pasta one

day in years before the church started. In nineteen ninety nine. I started

many past ninety seven ninety nine. Every were actually talking about if we have

a church, work with a global church, church plants small everywhere, disciples

being planted. All these things, right, all these things. And the

thing here is is that you know all the players that we have. We

surrender the lot twenty three years right now we're seeing it come to fruition,

come to past twenty three years in making this dream, not immediately, I

don't the tree. Friends, Sometimes we have dreams. We have this the

word is this this thing that we want from the Lord. It comes and

either in our life and God sometimes removing this to show really what's on our

hearts. Really, God removed to just show really what's in your heart.

We used to serve the lot. Not now. My wife is not very

to go with anymore. So she never got a pet dog. So when

they stay over the ex London the Harp Pass, they've decided to adopt a

dog. Right. He adopted adult because I felt that just adopted. But

more than that, sometimes with animals opens up conversation with people over there.

People are more friendly if you have a pet animal with you. That's his

start, all right, he did so, he brought the pet off of

a wall and have engaged with the neighbors conversation get to know their name,

then asked a question, have you ever bumped with any celebrities here or not?

In London? They said, uh, got got the lead actor for

Loki twice and he brought his dog. We just waved to each other and

stuff like that. So my wife dot very good with animals, and she

she has this phobia, right, even cats. I say, you're bigger

size than the cat. You just show the cat away. The cat will

run away one you are bigger size. No, I just don't like cats.

So this this pet dog that she thought was a small one came up

to be medium sized up and she doesn't like if an animal come upon her

and this stuff like that. So I did else. So how we're going

to stay at the hop No it days at the harp Can you take it

not? Can you you know me? But you cannot play with the dog.

The day I saw the dog, I hug the door, I can

lick my face, lit my tongue. Everything all right, all right?

Anymore positive? You like do so much? I say, yeah, I

grew up with dogs my entire life, My my grandparents and dogs and this

stuff. Here's the thing. Eight days with any more for all around.

Now if you have, if you have never grown up with it's always a

challenger that come on right now now after you see your nose in this eff

I told my wife, please suffer for Jesus only seven days when stuff like

that. So this is what I'm trying to get, that we used to

serve the Lord and your everything even though something you don't like, no,

cannot it has to be. It has to be, has to be,

It has to be this, It has to be. This. Consciousness is

idolatry. And sometimes you have ideas in our life we don't even know it.

Yes, fornication, all those Oh, come on, you can resist,

can I'm cleanness? You see anything I'm clean? You won't even touch?

Cry not? Why not anything I'm thing? You won't even touch?

You got flights on the food you don't touch. What about consteousness? Sutter,

so subter and so sutter you don't even know it, the greed to

have more, didn't want them, So it was nna. I met you

up in front Heredia good huh nine forty five, nine fifty five My find

no one. My analogy is this that those of us who are married.

I was asked a question one, how do you know that she's the one

or he's the one? How do you know that he's the one, he's

the one? Did God give you you're a sign? I say, I

wish it's that simple. I wish it's that simple that God gives you a

message out there, posts up something on Facebook that she's the one. Then

you know that you cannot dispeaite mom, because so how do you know he's

the one, she's the one? I say, you constantly make the person

the one. You constantly make the person the one. I say. Anybody

comes after you get married, ready and you don't entertain anymore. You don't

entertain anymore. They'll be nicer people, for sure, because your wife know

you true and true. She will not give you a chance. One there

you are saying you, oh, the end of the world, and the

wife just says, start acting like, just get up, you don't care

for me. Wife can read the husband very well. One true, But

that doesn't mean that she's bad. She just knows you too and true.

So I told this, percess, So you make the person the one.

Anybody comes out nice, people do better. You're married, that's it.

Don't entertain anymore. But something is rare, Sutter. If only you can

upgrade Suturn, not friends, if only my wife is a bit more gentle

like the other person I know. Suturn or not. Come on, if

only Elbert got a nicer voice, Sutter or not innocent, Not Albert,

I sell you for local training, Okay, Suturn, not friends. If

only the homes can be more exciting, that will go for home. Suttering

or not. And we create eithers in our life either ideal condition to serve

the low ideal conditions. Friends becomes an either in our life, and God

asks us to take here beware, and this how I'm going to close and

just let us. Life is doesn't consist of the things that we own.

World is trying to find life in how much they have, how much they

have. I remember one time going for a meal, and you know,

I met a property developer talking to him. He's the Big five in Malaysia.

And the way we settled things over here is that we many years of

relationship, many years of relationship, many investments has been made, and for

us to set the things, it's just one phone call, one phone call,

and then you all don't have everyone. We all, as I looked

at him. Something came within me. Honestly, just my heart goes out

for him, not because I'm jealous of whether I'm envious of him. Good

life, I mean, that's that's that's how you see life, that's how

you see things. But this part of me just came in that there's some

things in life. One phone call can never work out him really, one

phone cock and now cult him. If you're lying on the hospital bait,

one phone cock and now culting. If your child goes crazy, one phone

cock and now culting. One student in London from Cambridge asked me a question,

Elder, I want to ask you. You know, I'm a very

hot man on myself. I'm a perfectionist. Every time I made mistake,

I rely on my own trying to get me out, my own reasonom get

me out. I find you hard to trust a lot. I finally had

to trust a lot totally because my own intellect already I can resolve my problem.

Every time. I just tell myself, how do I have faith in

God? I say, you know, God will always give us ability to

overcome suddain situations. We are good in certain things, but God will always

have another thing I call it, whereby we have to depend on him.

I say, all your intellect, all your smartness, all your degrees,

if you're married, cannot resolve child behavior because what pep are you going to

give you a child? What can you? How much are you going to

give a child to change behavior? You can't. I say, when you

argue with your as a girlfriend, I say, you do it, and

your girlfriend argue not we do? I say, what do you do?

You do you tell her to improve or not to how many times to change?

Really to improve? To change the wish think? I say, where

did they get you argument? I say, do you know it's suicide?

They tell the girl to change that it's suicide? Improve law change lah,

I say, you can't. There's some imperfection you have to embrace because there's

a God out there, and God made us very unique and we are not

all perfect. Once we are perfect, we will be with Jesus. I

say, you want to trust, to have faith? We not trust God

in your journey of life. Not everything you can resolve with your degree and

the days where God, God will challenge you to have faith in Him.

No matter how much you calculate, there's still a decision to take a step

of faith. They still a disease. Take a step of faith, and

you need to take a step of faith to trust God. If God choose

is going to marrye, trust God that she is the right one for you.

Know that the eyes of understanding this harmon will close a lot of that

will pursue so many things and make many iests in our lives. Ideal situation,

I do situation, then on only you can serve with the Lord.

Ideal condition dere can only do things every want. Sometimes God causes off from

the ideal and God wants to minister to herts this morning because I truly believe,

friends, that it's really at the end of the day, it's not

just so much more possession is God, here is my heart. The Bible

says, you don't treat that. They say that he must increase an eye

decrease. He must increase an eye decrease. The only way for God to

increase in our life is the only way for God to increase in our lives

life is when we surrender our hearts. The only way for God to increase

in our life is what past can be teaching us, saying more, Yes,

Lord. The only way for God to increase in our lives. Lord,

even though none goes with me, I will still follow you. Even

though none go with me, I will still will follow you. First,

it's like close right now, It's like share all this. The danger part

I find is this is that many times our Christian faith, our Christian faith,

is this that we have not really gone as faith? What do I

mean by that? And the get away? What I notice a lot the

question I observe and see feel is that many of our students over there,

away from the family, they go to church because family brought up the church.

Everything provided. Okay, one go to church. Parents will drive you're

the Bible, parents will buy everything. Is that you got yourself group or

rather homes leader folding up on you. Right. You don't go to church,

you'll be terrified because you'll notify your parents. Your parents will come after

you. Stuff like that. But over there, being alone by themselves,

they have a decision. They have to make the cross shoad. They have

to make for their own hearts. Whether or not this is God that deserved

doing their childhood days is still worth following this God that deserved doing when their

youth is still worth following? And the thing here is is I keep tellingone.

I say that we are a steward. At the end of the day,

our job is to give the best example, to show them the best

that God has, and for them to decide whether their God is worth following.

I said, the distructions are gonna be out there. They will be

tempted. They will be tempted to forsake the Lord. They'll be tempted to

give up when God. They will be tempted to say God is not real,

there's other God's out there. They'll be tempted, tempted, friends,

tempted not to follow the scripture because things are slower. My non Christian friends

are My non Christian is one one of the students. To me, my

non Christian friends are earning more than me. I'm following God. I'm losing

out. I say, you never lose out when you follow Christ. You

never lose out when you follow Christ. I say, yes, you look,

they're running ahead of you, but you never lose out when you follow

Christ. Yes, thing maybe slower, things may become a bit slow,

but you never lose out because when God bless you, no one can take

it away. You and I have a decision to make friends. For him

to increase, our heart has to decrease. They say, take heat,

bevail of coatuousness. Where that's coatuous first happens in our hearts. Come on

right now in our hearts. That's what God has never asked for your talents.

A lot of Christians are just offering up the talents. Oh I'm good

and doing something I offer up to you. But God wants your heart because

if God has your heart, he has your talent. But God has your

talent, that's not necessarily means he has your heart. You know, friends,

and that's a lot of Christian I don't like you or to live church.

Fir's not about living church, you know, friends, about living God.

When people break up, they don't break up with the people in their

boyfriend or they break up with God. You know idea if they're not found

in church anymore. I say I don't like the person. I say don't

like the let's say for exactly your dating excuse the commaning and doesn't work right.

Don't just live the whole faith. There's other church, but you can

visit one. Friends, but I've seen so maybe leave God totally and decide

to choose your own path. As I close now, friends, I want

to encourage every precious believer here, every every precious believer here, friends,

being rich towards a lot, how beware of the choices that you make.

Yesterday we had the privilege of doing one of our full time workers house dedication

footime workers. You know, friends, I want to let you know.

Friends, answer the call of joy full time. It's not an easy task.

It is not Every one of the full time stuff is not a failure.

They've got degrees, they got good jobs before they answer the court of

the Lord. Back then, a lot of people I know, back then

when I first joint full time twenty three years ago. Oh you feel your

example, they said joy full time got no future? Decide joy full time?

Full time is even just reading these people you right the story. My

parents keep calling me a real I can you come here for lunch or not

say that I'm working one? You know I'm working one. So friends answer

full time. Friends, it's a real big step of faith. It is.

It is so this lady that we were part of yesday. The amazing

things you just saying God's faithfulness out there with my sy and my celear being

full time every load get rejected, every load. Every she knock on banks,

every bank, local bank rejected. Some she applied twice, hoping different

officers, got different heart rejected. Then one day someone said, why do

you apply? Foreign bank? She got a load to the foreign bank.

Here's the thing God spoke to her early this year. Early this year.

The money that you set aside for renovation, the money that you set aside

for renovation. I want you right now to sew everything that you have for

renovation for the animalsy gief. But God, I save up this for many

years, saved this for many years. I want you to sow. Trust

me. I don't know how many of us really you know, being the

state, I'm not asking you to, but just sharing someone's testimony. Being

a full time friend, you understand. I understand it's hard to save ready

first place, but to have your dream just in front of you, lon

to prove next day renovation, that to get God say that that renovation money,

So that renovation money. So when she heard it, she cried in

fear, but she knew that it was God and they of the day.

So she gave to say God, right now, I gave Radia, what

next? How and she was sharing the testimony yesterday. Right, every time

there was a bill, summer rither money came in. Money came in.

So this is establish showing you whilst the wy was this that because I worked

very closely with her, say elder, I just took it a water water

fuelturny for myself. So I said this puller out there. Anybody wants a

water futurn off, just go get it for my friend in the check group

say lo and beho are but close to ten orders. I didn't do anything,

you know, I say. I told the person yelling, this is

what the Lord is trying to tell you. At the end of the day,

I am your provider. When you obey God. It doesn't seems that

there is no mining. There's a light. There is a break through immediately.

Yes, you don't get enveloped that you got back the same amount that

you sold. But every bill, say every bill that comes along the way

later I can pay the bills. It is scary, you know what scary?

Friends, You don't like to script the bottom of the barrement, to

script this manner. That's it, right. You gon't like to go to

the feeling anymore, right because right not come out. Why not's good

to the morning. You always thought, Okay, one time you test me

enough like Abraham and Isaac, one time you offer. But every month you

have to offer. Isaac, I should say every month God came to for

me. Every bill is paid. I can only stand here and say this

is my faithful God that enabled me a full time willge to own the house,

nothing else. I don't know where you are with your journey. Can

you allow me to pray for you for church? Because I know some of

us are going to some challenges. Some of us are going to our own

journey. We are and God this morning wants to minister to you, want

to encourage you. Friends. This is a message of condemnation, of saying

that you have more, and it's about you friends. No, I'm not

cogrected to people of wealth. I truly believe God wants actually to break through

in his heart, in our hearts, actually the break in our life.

It's not so much so that we have more we need friends, know,

It's about what the Lord says to us. He wants a heart source before

he wants our money. He wants a heartward before he wants our talents.

He wants a halfward before. He wants us to smile and shake hands.

Friends, He wants our hearts. Friends, you understand. So let's let's

close the eyes about his for a moment. Let me pray and minister to

life's here. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Thank you Lord, Holy Spirit.

You know the hearts of the people here or some of you are so

discouraged where you are your journey. You know you have not been exercising faith

because you have been The word is that at the dry place. And this

morning Love wants to refresh you. That my vibrs is in Dun chapter sixth

that come to me those are thirsty. I will give you waters and living

waters that will quench your thirsts ask of me. I will give the Bible,

says desire of me, and I will come and meet with you Father

the name of Jesus. I know that one or two want discourage here this

morning. I wantone minister to them by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And Lord, would you just live them up, leave them up in your

journey, live them up, and where they I at right now, cast

them to Lord to have a new song in their hearts, in their lives.

Father, I pray right now, Lord, you encourage them, encourage

them, encourage them. Father, your words says, you are faithful.

You are faithful. You are faithful, poor and written in the midst of

the tourn the flesh, that my grace, your grace is sufficient for us.

Father, I declare that right now, that your grace is more than

sufficient. They will see us shoe and will be victorious. In the name

of Jesus, Thank you, Lord, hallelujahr. Father. I pray for

those not well, if that's you just lived up there, and those not

well, those who are not well, Father, in the name of Jesus,

in the name of Jesus. Lord, your word says, by your

strength with the mede home, I proclaim healing right now in our bodies.

Lord, Father, I pray in Jesus' name, no sickness, no illness,

no diseases. Father, shall fall a pod your people about. Lord,

by the pressure of Jesus that cleanses us of for the cleanses from every

infirmity. Right now, in Jesus' name, and we declare that we are

healed. We declare it, we made hole. We declare Father, right

now, no sickness no illness will be glorified by Lord. Our lives shall

shall be lived to glorify your name. Father. There's one or two here.

Pray for direction right now, it just sensible direction. Father. I

pray in the coming days, in the coming days, in the name of

Jesus, that you make things so real to them. Lead them, Holy

Spirit, guide them, holy Spirit, cause them the world in the ways

that you want them the world. In the name of Jesus, I pray

right now, Father, you enable them, Enable them to know that Lord,

that you have a plan for them and a purpose for them. A

Father, I'm planning to give them a future and a hope. Lord,

Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray right now for different ones

here who's needing a breakthroughe Lord, your word declares that you are a muscle

of break truth and Father, I pray as how you're given victory to Moses,

to Joshua. We can only stand and declare we can have a victory

because you are faithful. You are a faithful God, a God that never

fail us, not forsake us, a God that will see us true,

a God who has a plan for us. Father, Blessed of people right

now encourage them. I pray in Jesus name and everyone say amen. We

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