God Answers Our Thoughts | Pr Dr Kenneth Chin

You're listening to a message to go from Acts Church.

We hope this message will light.

Up your day. I want to turn to a book

of Matthew first because I want to show you something

about fourteen fourteen. I want to show you something about

fourteen before I get into the Word of God. Okay,

I know I'm in a rush, but I need to,

you know, be obedient to the Holy Spirit and just

tell you what fourteen means to God. So turn with

me to Matthew chapter one. Wow, this background music is

quite amazing.

Ear this morning.

Verse seventeen of chapter one Matthew. Verse seventeen of chapter one,

Book of Matthew. So all the generations from Abraham to

David are fourteen. From David until the captivity in Babylon

are fourteen, and from the captivity in Babylon until the

Christ are fourteen. I think God doesn't make a mistake

in terms of numbers, and I believe that fourteen is

the ending of a generation, or the ending of a cycle,

or the ending of you know, a certain plan and

purpose of God. And then starting from after the fourteen

comes a new plan, a new direction, a new exciting journey.

So I just want to believe that for you.

I want to confess that over you that the last

fourteen years was good, but may the next fourteen be great.

Okay, there's no mistake.

No, there's no fourteen and then fifteen and then seventeen

is fourteen, fourteen, fourteen. So so God doesn't make a mistake,

and he just wants you to know that He has

a plan for fourteen. So I'm believing for not only

ex Church Humpunk, but for all of you individually, all

of you. Some of you might be starting new jobs,

some of you might be starting new careers, some of

you might be you know, there's just something new. I

want you to believe that, you know, with God, all

things are possible. I just got to trust the Lord

got you to do things his way, and court you

to expect great things from him.

Amen, Praise the Lord.

So it's not by chance, it's not by accident. God

has a great plan and purpose for this church. So happy,

happy fourteenth birthday. So this just means that you're entering

your fifteenth year, all right, and so just look forward

for beautiful things.

He makes all things beautiful in its time, all right.

Praise the Lord. God answers our thoughts will be my

message for today. God answers our thoughts. Towards the end

of this message, I hope that you will just take

a hold of your thoughts and put it under control.

Is what I'm trying to get it.

I pray that you will be more responsible with your

thoughts from today onwards after this message. I pray that

you will not just let your thoughts run. Well. You know,

if God says you're beautiful, don't say you're ugly. If

God says by his stripes you're healed, don't say I'm sick.

You understand.

Don't say you know I'm a mistake. When you're actually

a mirror, you understand the thoughts, the thoughts. God answers

our thoughts. Why our prayers don't get answered, or why

they do? But it was not what we prayed for.

Let's go on, all right. I'm timing myself. And when

you pray, says Matthew six, when you pray, not if

you pray.

It's not an option.

When you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites,

For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and

on the corners of the streets, that they may be

seen by men. Surely, I say to you, they have

their reward. But you, somebody say, you tell your neighbor,

I says you. When you pray, go into your room

or room, okay, room, and when you have shut the door, Wow,

shut your door, not just the door, your door. Everyone

here has a room, not just a physical room, a

room a space.

That you have with God.

And it's not just their door or their door is

your door. Body's door is different here the way you

spend moments with God, the way you close the door

to voices of the world, and voices of fear, and

voices of anxiety, and voices of lies of the enemy.

The Bible says, the devil is a liar. I think

that's found in John eight forty four. He's a liar

and the father of lies. So you gotta shut your door.

Your door could be different than your door.

Now. Your door could be.

Like, you know, maybe something to do with your company.

You know, your door would be something to do with

your next child.

You see. So everybody has it.

But you gotta shut that door because if you don't,

then you get voices keep coming. And if you have

all kinds of voices coming around, you can't hear God's voice.

So God wants you and I to hear his voice.

So just shut that door. That door, your door, okay,

your door. Everybody has your door. Pray to your father,

who's where where? See in the secret place, and your father,

who sees in secret, will reward you openly. Now this

is these are not my words. These are the words

of Jesus. So let's take the words words of Jesus.

As it is your father who sees in secret. So

let's establish that fact. Let's establish the fact. How does

our father see in secret? Right now, I'm not God,

and so I see things very differently. I see only externals.

I see how you dress, I see your shoes, I

see you know your hair color. I see uh the

external I see whody you're sleeping or not. I see

whether you're scolding, your handful or not. I can see that.

But God sees not like I see. That's why he's God.

He sees in secret. So he sees why you're sitting here.

Maybe smile at me, you know, your your mic could

be like, what in the world is this guy talking about?

You know, right, maybe your city in front of me

saying yes pasta.

But in your heart.

You're saying, I'm so hungry, I just can't wait for lunch.

You know.

So he's not seeing like I see, I see the external.

He's actually seeing a exactly you know, who.

In the world is chubby Asian looking dude, you know,

trying to speak English as.

If you're not so. So, you know, he sees in secret.

Very important. That's why a lot of people don't understand.

Why why didn't I get anything from that service? Is

because he didn't answer your external. Amen can answer your inside. Okay,

I'll say it's a amen insight.

It's like what in the word nonsense? This guy is okay,

So he answered the inside.

He maybe the inside he said, oh so boring or

this pastor is not like the other pastor I heard.

I like the other pastor.

I like the Australian one, I like the American one,

I like the British.

So he's answering your inside.

So if your inside is saying boring, then you get

boring even though your external going. Yeah.

So a lot of people don't understand what's happening to me.

What's happening to you.

Is often not always often the prayers of the inside,

not the prayers of the outside, the prayers that I

can't hear everybody. Okay, the real prayer happens on the inside,

says the next slide. You're in a voice, your second voice,

your real voice, your last say. Learn to manage who

has the last say in your life and let that

occupy you. You know, in Japan, because we have a

church there, I went and did a little bit of

study on Japan, merried some pastors and filled up about

a good four to five a four pages on just

Japan's culture.

You know.

Took nine hours with this pastor, and you know, he says, uh,

you know, past the kenneth. They can be like this

on the outside, but they might not be like that

on the inside. They'll baow and baw and bao, no,

all of them. Let's be fair to ba and ba

ba and b and baw. You think you think they

are the most accommodating, and then leave the shop and

they will talk about you being the worst customer. Right,

which one do you think God sees the bow or

the talk after? Okay, so next one, finally, Brethren Philippines

for it. Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble,

whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things

are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there

is any virtue, and if there is anything praiseworthy, come on,

not just speak about it.

Not just talk about it, nor just declare it. Not

just shout it on the roof.

Stop, but meditate, because God knows it is the meditation.

It is what you are thinking, what I'm thinking about,

that actually brings about health and life and blessing.

I tell you this is so.

I'm just going to go through scripture of the scripture

you just to convince you. If I haven't convinced you

yet that if you can just God your thoughts, give

it to God. I tell you you see much more breakthroughs.

We are what we keep thinking about. We are what

we keep thinking about. I'm sick. I'm sick.

I'm sick, I always I'm always sick. I'm losing my memory.

I can't think. I can't remember where I put my things.

I can't remember where I put I don't know why

am I losing my memory? You are after a while

when you lose it, you don't even know why. After

a while, when you when you actually keep forgetting things,

maybe it's because you've been confessing that again and again

for three years. I sometimes forget things, you know, forgetting

things is human, but I refuse to think I'm forgetful.

I forget, but I'm not forgetful with me.

I'm very careful these days with my thoughts. I was

just encouraging my wife when I lived in Shangrila, and

then she was saying some things, you know, because ladies,

you know, they want to look good, and especially when

look good for their husband. You're gonna take some photos.

And then she said, oh, I don't think I look good,

you know. Then we had this conversation going down from

ninth floor down to the lower level as it said,

you're beautiful, You're amazing, You're great, and say, let's just

confess that. And so she said, okay, yes I'm amazing. Man.

I oh I'm fine, you know, yeah, I say you're yeah,

you're fine.

And your mind, the real you.

Versus the you you want others to hear and see,

can be very different. Your inner voice versus your outer

voice can be very different. What you want to be

in charge of today is your inner voice, your secret? Why?

Because God sees in.

Secret, you want to make sure that what God.

Sees is good.

And the Lord said to Abraham, let's look at this one.

This one's so funny, you know, so cute. And the

Lord said to Abraham, why did Sarah laugh? Remember, Sarah laughed,

but she laughed in private. No, she laughed in private,

and that mattered to God. That mattered to God, saying,

shall I surely bear a child? Since I'm all? Is

anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time?

I will return to you according to the time of life,

and Sarah shall have a son. Listen to the last one.

But Sarah denied it, saying I did not laugh, but

she was afraid. And he said, no, but you did laugh.

Do you know?

I wish I could be like the Lord Sometimes when

I do counseling, of course, people will come and then

they will try to talk to you and go like, no,

I didn't. And then can you imagine if you're like Jesus,

no you did case close, done, repent now.

But do you know how counseling is?

You know why we keep going on and on because

people keep lying or white lie your white lights. You

know what a white life is lying? So no, but

I but no, I'm not not really, you know? Can

you imagine that's why counseling is very short with Jesus.

Very sure, Lord, Jesus cann't come for counseling. Yes, sure,

how much do you charge a hour? No?

This is well, just take a minute.

I also think about you know how you if Jesus

was your boss, you cannot ask for sick leave.

Lord, I'm going to walk from home because I'm not

feeling well.

In my name, be he'll come, you know, Okay, all right,

you know, I just there's no sick leaf with Jesus. Okay,

all right, if he was your boss, if he was

your boss, if he was your boss, okay, even cancer

has to go.

No, you did laugh. No, hold on a minute. I didn't.

I didn't think like that. I didn't confess that in

my heart. No, you don't know. I know, God says I.

I know why because I see in secret everybody else

saw you didn't laugh. I saw you laugh, and it

matters to me that you laugh. So don't lie. Just

let's just get on with the truth and get on

with it, because the truth will set you. Then, behore,

they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed.

Then Jesus saw their faith. Oh, I like that Jesus

saw their faith. You know what, there are four men

bringing down their friend, isn't it?

That's true?

Bring down their friend from the roof. You know, they

tore the roof to bring their friend down because there

was those space. They couldn't come through the door, the

front door. And so Jesus saw their faith. Wow, four

men carrying their friend down, lowering down, and Jesus saw

their faith. But hey, as we all saw with our eyes,

this is what he said, son, be of good cheer.

Your sins are forgiven you.

And at once, at once some of the scribes, set

within themselves, said where sit where within themselves? Not supposed

for to be for other people to hear this man blessphemes.

But Jesus, knowing their wife, Jesus knows their faults. Why

do you think evil in your hearts? God sees where

in secret, and he rewards you openly. Ay man, I

want to encourage you today. Take a hold of your thoughts.

You take ahold of your life, You take a hold

of your future, because God answers our thoughts. Now, when

the Pharisees heard it, this is another verse altogether. They said,

this fellow that's not cast out demons except by bills up. Okay,

the lord of the flies is what bails about means

the lord of the flies, the ruler of the demons. Oh,

but Jesus knew their what. Jesus knew that what, and

said to them. Every kingdom divided against itself is brought

to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself

will not stand. Do you know if Jesus was standing

here preaching to you, looking at the external, he'll be

getting all the different thoughts that in here.

I wonder when this guy's gonna finish.

I'm hungry.

Why is this guy talking so fast?

I can't understand him. He's hearing that God answers what

we are really thinking about.

Ah. So you can pray one thing with your mouth,

but think another thing. Can so be healed. I don't

think he'll heal gout be gone.

I don't think because I have gout and last time

I prayed eating go.

Yeah. Pray that you will get this job. I pray

that you get this job. I pray that your visa

will be approved. Nah.

In the you know now, in Malaysia, it's very hard

to approve.

This guy visa.

You know you know, so which one is God hearing

if he sees his secret, the one that's going on inside.

So when you don't get your visa, you pray that

you pray that inside of you, so he answists your thoughts.

Once our thoughts and our mouth aligned, or if I

use to m words, once our mind and our mouth aligned.

If two can agree, If two can agree, it shall

be done. H Sometimes two doesn't agree, so it's not done.

Now to him who's able to do exceedingly. I love

this verse. You know, a lot of times when they

ask me to sign books, right, I will end up

with Ephesians three twenty because it's so powerful.

And to him who's able to do exceedingly.

Abundantly above all that, we ask all.

Just not just ask.

Even what you think. Amen, Wow, I can't believe it.

I'm coming to the last few slides. Am I doing well? Sam? Yeah?

My wife is happy. One of the fastest preaching ever.

And suddenly somebody says, suddenly a woman who had a

flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and

touched the hem of his government. All of you know

this story. If you have been a Christian long enough

for she said to herself. She said to her self,

She said to her, how won't you get this? I

started repeating myself. She didn't say to anyone else. She

said to her, ladies and gentlemen, can I just say

this to you? You've got to learn to say self.

Self. No one else hears you self. Get up.

Self.

He loves you self. He died for you self by

his stripes. You are here self. His blood cleanses you

from all self. He's a good God. Listen to me now.

I don't care what happens with the economy. He's a

good God.

Listen. Preach to your Preach to yourself.

Because you don't always get preachers from Monday to Saturday.

You can't wait till Sunday.

That's why a lot of us are already dried up

by Sunday, because we keep letting self dictate.

Amen, she says self self. If only I may touch

his garment, I shall be made well self.

If all only me touch the heap of his garment,

I will see the word is not I?

Maybe you know I shall.

If I can touch, If I can just touch Jesus,

I will be made well self. Listen, and then she

went out, push her way through the crowd. Oh my god,

she is a woman with an issue of blood for

twelve years. Means, as far as the old Testiman is concerned,

she's unclean. Isn't she afraid that people outside will know? Hey,

it is my neighbor. You know she never came up

the house for twelve years. She's unclean. No, go home, woman,

you don't belong here. Can't imagine the ridicule. Hey, don't

touch me. You know I have to wash me.

You touch me.

She doesn't care, because she already said to herself. Come on,

she says, self, nothing is going to stop me. Come on, self,

nothing is going to stop me from touching Jesus today,

me self, if only I can touch Jesus, Come on,

ain't nothing's gonna stop me. She pushed through the crowd,

and I love it. Jesus turned around, and when he

saw her, he said, be of good cheer. Daughter.

Your faith has made you well. Your faith has made

you well. Where did this faith start from? It started

from the inside, from the inside.

That if you confess with your mouth.

I love Romans ten nine to ten because Romans ten

nine to ten is a scripture for the assurance of

our salvation. If anyone of you in this room ever

doubt your salvation, go back.

To this scripture.

When you read it, you will know you're safe. If

you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe

in your heart that God has raised him from the dead,

you will be saved. You will, for with the heart

one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is

made unto salvation.

Do you see the agreement of two again? You see it?

You think that confession is powerful, And yes it is,

because life and death are in the power of the tongue.

We know that.

So we can speak a whole message on this confessing

what's right. But confession itself doesn't save you. It has

to be confession with your mouth and believe in your

Come on, all right, It's got to be inside and out. Amen.

It's not what I can hear, it is what God

can hear.

Amen.

I pray that you will unite your mouth and your mind.

If you're going to say cancer be gone in Jesus name,

you better believe it with all your heart. Don't let

doubt come in. Refuse it rejected. You know, the last

few months when I pray. I don't even pray long

prayers for healing anymore. I just say go now in

Jesus name, and it goes. You know, I think at

least ninety five percent of the times happened. And I

just want to go everywhere practicing now because it's so good.

I just I just unite my mind and my mouth,

and God moves. Let the words of my mouth say

sound nineteen fourteen, and the come on, oh Hallelijah, and

the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight,

Oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Many of us

can say that we've managed to practice some control with

our mouth, easy because people around us, so we take care.

But how many of us can say, truly say we

have also been able to overcome making sure that the

meditation of our heart is right, not just right acceptable.

So when God's looking down, he's hearing you pray AH

with your mouth, and then he's he's hearing you pray

in your heart.

Oh ah, and he sees in secret.

So he just sees Ah while all your friends here.

Ah, he hears.

Ah, and he's not pleasing you.

Just accept the mouth or accept the heart.

He accepts both. It's even more important today that you

understand that he sees in secret. Okay, as we draw

towards the last three slides, But the Lord said to

Samuel to not look at his appearance or at his

physical stature. This was This was when Samuel went to

look for the next king to be found.

Only in David.

But we all thought it would be this brother Eliab,

because he looks tall, strong. Everybody looks on the outside.

But the Lord has refused him, for the Lord does

not see as man sees. Man looks at the old appearance,

but the Lord looks at the heart. Amen, the Lord

looks at the heart. Drawing to the last lap, now,

Matthew twenty one eight to thirty one, what do you think?

What do you think? A man had two sons. I

love this scripture. And he came to the first and said, son,

go work.

Today in my vineyard.

I'm trying to sound like a Jerusalem father. He answered,

and said, I will not what is eh?

I will not, He said, even what his mouth.

No. But afterward he regretted, and when who pose a

pos it? Afterward he regretted, where is the regret coming

from inside? I will not come from red mouth. No,

Selena says to you, please serve No Selena, don't beta. Okay,

Selena can exercise the wrath of God in this place.

Please put the chest. No right, and she walks out.

Okay fine, and she can you regret? Then you arranged

and Selena comes away. Hey, you said no, yeah, but

inside said yes, inside said.

Yes, all right.

Then he came to the second and said likewise. And

he answered and said I go, sir, I go, yes, Selena.

But he did not go.

No.

Huh huhm.

I mean on the outside, yes, lord, no, yes, well

I will serve you no way, yes, Lord, you know

I will sign up for missions, but I won't turn out.

I'll come, but I won't be there. The wife says, come,

my husband, come come to church with me. Okay, okay,

I will go and I'll sit down there, but I'll

be so far away. Yes outside, no inside. The other

one no outside, yes inside. And this is the question,

which of the two did the will of his father?

They said to him the first. You know what the people,

not being too so spiritual a can answer. Anyone can

answer after reading this right, It's not just the external,

that's what it's meaning.

It's not just what you say with your.

Mouth, it's what you realize in your heart, and you

do the will of the Father. Doing the will of

the Father means you're pleasing him.

Amen.

When we pray according to God's will, says the word

of God, he answers.

When we pray according to God's will, he answers.

So even though you say no outside, but you say

yes inside, he answers because you do the will of

the Father.

Amen. So these days, I know.

After thirty five years of doing this a ministry, Joe,

you've been with me a long time, I'm not impressed anymore.

We be both external people's jumping, you know, and people

singing and people's sweating. I'm not impressed anymore. You know,

it's a wonderful because you know why. I know, God looks.

At something else which I can't see. So I don't

want to judge. I can't see, so I don't judge.

I said, Okay, you're jumping, great hall Prince walk away right,

keep jumping. Yeah, go ahead, Because you can also be silent.

I'm not asking you to be silent. Actually you are

never silent. I'm not asking you to be Okay, but

you can also be like that you can also be

sitting down now right now, look at me looking blur

see that. Sorry point.

I hope I didn't point at you know, I hope

I didn't point you.

Team is my name, Hallelah. Praise God.

Tim you excited to the back? No he didn't. He

didn't excite the back.

He wanted to dress his best right at the back,

right to say that people dressed right from the front

to the back. Tim Team said no, but yes, you know, no,

I'll sit at the back, but I'll dress my best Hellely. Yeah. Amen,

Praise God.

You do the way of the Father. Team, Praise God.

All right, coming to the close, and.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed.

You are going to be transformed x umpunk by what

inside again? From today onwards, I declared to all of

you in this room, you are going to experience transformation

such as you don't even imagine, far beyond your imagination

and what you can ask for and think of. But

it's according to come on the renewing of you're inside

the way you and I think so tree advice before

I close, moving forward, this is what you do. Just

stop the old way of thinking. Just just stop Number one,

stop the old way of thinking. If God says can,

you say can not cannot. If God says cannot, you

say cannot. Don't say can with me. If God says

he makes all things beautiful in this time, trust him.

It's all about timing. Amen to me thirteen months to

do my doctorate in business administration. A lot of people

ask me why didn't I do a PhD in theology.

I prayed about this. No, I prayed a few times,

and the Lord says, do d because DBA. When you

do it, the amount of non Christians surrounding you is plenty,

and Jesus wants to reach the loss. If you do it,

just a PhD in theology, everyone around you is a Christian.

They don't need my witness. So the amount of people

I've been standing before sharing my thesis, all of them

corporate giants.

Because you have to be a certain.

Age before you can do this one. You need a

minimum of twenty five years work experience. If not thirty,

you don't have that, you can't go into this path.

So I'm talking to CEOs and talking and I'm giving

my first slide as I do my vivor. This whole

thing has started from my sister's death before she turned

twenty one, and she took her life. Suicide came into

my family. But God, God turn my tragedy into a

testimony before that, before I can carry on, you know,

Malay professor says, I'm so sorry to hear that past

the PASSA kenneth cased me past the kenneth. So sorry

to hear that pass again. But there happened so many

years ago. I said, okay, pro Rosinon, it's it's okay.

It's happened a long time, but it was said, but

God turned it around. Let me talk to you about

my theoretical frameworks. I had to go on into some

you know, academic language. My first base of theoretical frameworks

I have five. The first base is the Bible, because

without the Bible, I will not be here. This has

influenced my ontology and my epistemology, and all these big

words come out lap. You know when these big words

came out, I'll tell you I want to give up

five times in thirteen months. Five times I thought I

was going smoothly, and then somebody says epistomology. I said,

what kaaba Shundai shut olahahaha bad.

You know, I thought it was towns. I said, give up.

You know, what do you know? So five times? Give up?

You know literature review, give up won the world. You

know why I want to share about my story. I

had to read other pe book. Sorry what you no

waste time? I thought it was amazing. No, I was

quite proud, but the Lord humbled me. Stop the old

way of thinking, you know, stop the w ol way

of thinking. So this, I prayed, and the Lot says,

do this. I'm standing in front of people telling their

testimony by one of the toughest professors in the whole university.

Cried towards the end of.

The Viber, saying, you wrote fourteen testimonies of changed lives

in your thesis.

Fourteen. I say I've got many more.

By only of fourteen, you know, a written testimony because

you have to justify, she said, I love the last

one made me cry. When your people went and search

for a lady who was about to kill herself, and

that day, you know, they went wipe vomit from the

cup carpet. You know, the vomita is there for two

weeks now, dried up. I'll see Yvon when search for

her white robbin all over. She got KFC eaten up,

the bones left behind in boxes there for weeks, you know,

because when people are not no longer their right mind,

they can't even clean up after themselves in the toilet.

Terrible They in the love of Christ, they clean up

the toilet, clean up the whole apartment, and her life

was safe.

She already sent one message through best mass or true text.

Today is the day. You know how they search for her,

didn't even know her apartment number.

They knocked on every door, almost in their apartment apartment block,

almost every door, just to look for her.

This is the love of God.

What is my thesis on is on change management because

it's on business administration, so I have to use the

language change management. But my fine finality my analysis is

change management happens when there's a change in man. And

the first three letters of man nature and mannagement is

m an. You cannot do management without men. You want

to change management, you change the man.

Somebody of my thesis for you.

Stop the old I can't do this, I'll never amount

to this, stop and start the new.

Think differently.

Now, come on, how do we get transformed by the

renewing of the by the renewing of the mind, we

get transformed. And then, of course, finally submit to the

word of God. If God says yes, you say yes.

God say no, You say no, God say can you

say can? God says you know, I'm with you. You

are not alone. Submit your thoughts to the Word of God.

Thank you, submit your life a to the world, because

the Word of God is living and powerful. Heaven and

earth will pass away, but my words will by no

means pass away. Oh Lord, thank you. Your word is

a land and to my feet, and a light and

to my path. I ask all of you to align

your thoughts from today onwards to the Word. And if

you don't know what the word says, read it or

cheat you know what cheap means, Google it out, google it,

chat chiep it. I don't care you go chet chipe.

This is it? What does God words say about this?

And let the Word of God come forth, Take it

and live it. Make it your inner thoughts, no matter

what happens on the external, no matter what happens on

the outside, make it the way you think. From today onwards.

We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

information on our church, please visit aschurch dot org. We

are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that

this week is going to be a good week, a

hit for you.

God bless