Renovation | Joel Loi

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We hope this message will light up your day.

Say we want revival, but if we keep settling with

the old stuff, keep using the old, we will look

the same, we will think the same, will behave the same.

You need to ask ourselves, what's the point, guys? If

we want to go through renovation, the renewing of our

mind to be transformed in our lives Roman Chapter twelve,

US one to two, to welcome revival in our lives,

what are the changes that we're seeing in us now?

One of the major struggles in our renovation right, just

to be real with you all, we're talking about new, right,

talking about new. One of the major struggles in my

renovation process is that we wanted to keep a lot

of things. No, when I say okay, I don't, I don't.

I don't reveal to much. I don't real Okay, okay,

we are we all right. We want to keep a

lot of things. You know, we wanted to keep furnitures

like hey, this so far, we spend so much money.

You know, last time I got no hat to you know,

get rid of it. Hey, you know this dining table,

last time you know when Daddy was only like Arnie

how much you know he bought this tick table. You

know it's supposed to last five generations, you know, the

only the generation. Why get rid of it? You know?

We started getting like so emotional, you know, we we

we our struggles was a lot of like, oh, hey,

you know all these books are this exercise book or

your primary school exercise book? You know how you go

to renovation? You know what I'm talking about, right, you

know I'm looking at hey, these clothes are hey, last

time my sports Day T shirt? You know, spots Day?

Like yeah, noah, we love this, No, I would love this? No,

what is sports Day? Books? So many books? You know,

so many books, you know, and we're like what cannot

trou cannot true? Oh? So many things and and and

by keeping all these things a seriously, we kept so

many things. You know, I'm telling you my house right

of all all the wedding dinners, Irana, that all of

you got wedding favor right, my mom kept it aside.

So if you want to know, hey, so you're twenty fourteen,

the wedding dinner you went, what dog if you went,

oh twenty fourteen, my mom kept here like kendle kendle. Okay, Oh,

I shouldn't say it's my mom ah me me me,

me all right. Me. I also I like to keep

all these kinds of things. Yeah, ah, hard to throw

in our lives, so many things we find it hard

to throw. But you know what made it hard. It

made it hard for the workers because when the workers

needed to fix the flooring of the upstairs, they need

to move all the things to the downstairs, and then

the contracted us. Uh, Jola, we need to start doing

the downstairs. Honey, you start doing the downstairs, Doula, about

all your things from upstairs move to the downstairs. Oh,

move upstairs, and then the workers move everything to the upstairs.

Move everything to the upstairs, okay, and then move everything

through upstairs. Then the contractor, you know, like two weeks later, Jola, Oh,

your things are the upstairs, right, need to move her?

Why because we're done with the downstairs. So it's time

to clean the upstairs. Huh. Corying out you know, after

you fix the flooring, after that you need to clean. Ma.

You allow it to set, then you need to clean.

So then it's like huh oh, now you need to

clean upstairs. Uh, move everything downstairs. So the workers move

everything downstairs. And and just this week I went to

my house, just this week, all right, I went to

the living room full of boxes and they're like, hey,

what what happened to all these boxes? They like, I

don't know the boss, you're our boss. Just tell us

to move up down, up down, up down. I tell you,

they move up down so many times, so many times,

and every time. Because the amount of boxes guys the

amount of things that we are not willing to throw,

it costs so much extra work for the workers, right

that sometimes they take days to move just the boxes.

So the hours that could have been spent fixing, renewing, transforming,

is spent moving the old things around. Are you guys

catching the point on that, Because just this week, just

a few days ago, leon I and I went over

to the house, we were still throwing all things away.

We're still throwing all things away, books, magazines, clothes, We're

still throwing all things and a lot of things that's

left behind. It makes it hot for the people to

do the work of transformation in our lives. So when

when we reflect it on our own life, right, we're

talking about renovation, we're talking about revival. Sometimes we're like that.

You know, God wants to renovate our lives. God comes

to you in your quiet time. God comes to you

in a church setting like this and say, Hey, you

need to let go of the old. But God, I

love this comfortable thing that I'm holding on to. Hey,

you need to go for prayer service, you know, But God,

it's such a hassle going through traffic on a Tuesday night. Hey,

you need to wake up. The need to do your

quiet time, you know, But God, I love my sleep.

A lot of our old habits all thinking. We're not

willing to move, and it makes it very hard for

God to do the renovation in our lives. If you

guys are catching my point. So what we end up doing,

we end up doing like what I tell the workers.

So we just shift things around. When God wants to

deal something, we ship downstairs upstairs, downsairs upstairs, downsairs upstairs.

But it's never dealt with. You know, all stuff needs

to be thrown out, not shifted around. But we are

expert in moving things. You know. Some of us have

been moving things in our hearts and our lives for decades.

I have my hands up I also shift things around.

I'm like God, no, now, not now, not DCL, not DCL.

Next year I'll improve. Next year, I'll improve. We're expert

in shifting when we should be ex but in throwing

things out of our lives. You guys are catching it

all right. We got to stop moving all stuff around

and we got to get rid of it. What God

might take weeks to sort out things in our lives? Right?

You know? You turn is only you turn twenty one

days of prayer and fast thing only twenty one days?

You know? Sometimes God just needs twenty one days, you know,

to sort out our lives. But because we're so good

that in like downstairs, God sometimes takes years to sort

out what's in our hearts. You know how I know

because when you read the word of God, remember the Israelites,

remember them in the wilderness. You know it took them

how many years? Forty years, guys, forty years for God

to test their hearts? You know it's written theme in scripture.

You know, if God didn't need to sort out their hearts,

you know how long with the Jenney te eleven days

eleven days versus forty years? Guys, wish on with you

one eleven days. But sometimes in our lives when we're

going through expansion, when we want the new God, I

want you. I want new Lord, new anointing, new blessing,

new grace, new mercy. Oh, I want to hold on

all hold on to the old habits. I want to

hold on to this old untia so much nostalgia. God,

I want to hold on to this way. But God,

this has always been the way. This has always been

the way I give offering. What should I change? Oh?

But God, this is the always been my way of

doing quiet time. W should I change? Then? How is

God going to give the new and we keep holding

on to the old? All right? Friends, everyone, okay, everyone, okay,

it's my as fa as fas all right, okay, all right.

I received this from the Lord and I'm just sharing

you my heart. I'm also going through this. I'm also

going through this. So how do we get rid of

the So like, hey, Joelle, you keep talking about getting

rid of the old. So you tell me how to

get the old. I will tell you how to getry

of the old, all right, Romans, Chapter twelve, Verse two. Okay,

So the word is prove. The word is prove. Romans,

Chapter twelve, verse two. The word proof in Greek is

doc in ad zo dock in at zo doc in

ad zo. All right, to test examine proof da da da.

But the last one I want us to focus on.

The word is deem worthy. The word is deem worthy

proof proof. When we're looking at Romans chapter twelve, verse two,

do not be conformed to the things of the world,

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that

you may deem worthy what is good and acceptable and

perfect will of God. So when we look look at

our lives, Okay, Joelle, tell me now how to throw

See what it is worthy or note? Is it worthy

holding on to? Is it worthy representing God? Is that

something that's worthy of the name of Jesus? Is that

worthy for you to pass on to the next generation.

If it's not, let it go. If it's not, throw

it away, deem worthy proof proof everyone. Okay, deal with

your debris before it causes delay. What could take forty

years can be done in eleven days. Think about it, guys.

It's going with new costly, Yes, it's going with new,

going to demand sacrifice, Yes, it will. Every change that

is good and beneficial and that will improve us will

cost will require sacrifice imbuilding our house. We have to

get a lot, a lot of new things and it

costs a lot. But he also force us us to

carry off a lot of old things to make way

for the new. Amen. Everyone, Okay, when we want moving

on to oh oh oh oh oh stands for outline outline. Okay,

actually I wanted the word plan plan, but reno r

E n P. Can so r E n oh outline

outline or the plan? You know, when we go through

our renovation right from March twenty twenty four, let me

tell you what happened. So match twenty twenty four. You know,

we we we made the paid first payment to the contractor,

and we say, okay, we agree on the court, We

agree on what needs to be done and stuff like that.

So match twenty twenty four, Okay, first payment, go through,

project begin, Demolition work starts, demo demo, demo, demo, demo.

Demolition goes on in March, in April, in May, in June,

in August, demolition works still going on, you know, every

single month. And then right it reached a pointer towards

the end of twenty twenty four. Right, I go over

to the house right, because demo should be done in

Nima cornal demolition work can be. Demolition work is the

fastest and the eat like like such a stress relieving

job man hammering down walls, you know, and stuff like that.

So by towards the last quarter of twenty twenty four,

I went over to the house right, and guess what

I notice? I notice all the workers just sitting around. No,

just sitting around cheap chatting. Almost every other day that

I go over. I don't go there every day because

every day like no point. I go every other day

and the workers all just there one another, you know,

And I'm like, and every time, I guys, I'm not

exactually everything. Every time, hey Samapur, give boss, good morning,

good money, They're like, hey, so what are you guys

doing today? I don't know. I'm like, huh, what do

you mean, don't know? Waiting for the boss. Waiting for

the boss. They're like, uh, Boss, Heaven give instruction. I'm like,

Bo's Heaven gave you instruction? Okay, okay, I check with

the boss. I check the boss. So I go and

check with the boss, like, hey, Boss, I saw the

worker today. They're all just sitting around like, yeah, yeah,

I told them what to do today. Okay, all right.

A few days later I go over, I'm like, open

the door, and then you're like, hey, good morning, Hey

Morney Money. They're like, what are you guys doing today?

I don't know. You asked Leona. You asked Leona every

other day for months. He was like, and you know

what I found out. I found out the reason for

this cluelessness going on in the renovation was because the

workers didn't know what the plan was. They don't know

what to do. They don't know what to do. And

then when I checked why, and when I really dig

and checked, and I found out it's because they're way

for the boss man, right. The boss also got no

plan because the boss is supposed to come up with

a plan, you know, and outline of like, oh, this

is what we're gonna do, you know, wish room first,

which floor first? But it was never shaped with me.

If it was never shut with me, means the boss

heaven't do. If it's never shaped with me to approve,

boss haven't do, means got nothing to pass on to

the workers to do. So that's why they every day,

every day, every day, that's what they're doing every day

for months, and I'm wondering what's going on, what's going on?

And of course, you know, after being frustrated with all

the different things, you know that I got to homes help.

He came came out with a plan, He came up

with an outline for the workers, and then things started

progressing to March twenty twenty six. He came in in

a I believe March twenty twenty five much. I just

checked what'sapp last night, So yeah, thank you, thank you, Jean.

So in our lives, when we want revival, when we

want revival, we need to random weight our lives, expansion

new We got to have a plan and outline. When

there's no outline, there's no plan, then there's unnecessary delays

and there's a lot of wastages, waste of any, waste

of money. And revival begins with renovating our lives. And

to accomplish that, right, we need someone like a Chune

Hong to come in with a plan. And he is saying,

this is where all the wiring will go, This is

where you should place your fan, This is where you

should place your air con, This is where the best

angle of the toilet this is where there's a plan,

there's an outline because he's expected it, his experience in it.

And then and then Chantong is going through like, oh,

this is where we should place the security systems as well.

We should consider this for the children. Is it friendly

for the older folks? You know that will be going

up and down? Is it okay? We have to think

about all that. So when there's a plan, you look

into all the details. You're going to look into all

the execution. Then we got to think about how when

there's a plan means nothing happens by accident. Revival doesn't

come by accident. Revival doesn't come if all right, good

morning everyone, you know, brush tape, get ready to go

to work. Revive you know in the middle of the road.

It doesn't happen by accident. Man, you know, it doesn't happen.

You know why you're doing work in your office, emails

in office. No, it doesn't happen. Revival happens because there's

a plan for it. There's a plan for it, and

we have a part to play in it. Everyone, Okay,

So we got to ask ourselves how is a quiet time?

These are basic things, but it is important. How is

our giving onto the Lord? Have we started serving? God

wants you to sacrifice our social media can and not?

Are you under disciple ship? You can't ranovate until that's

a plan. You can't better your life until there's a plan.

You can allow God to transform you until there's a plan.

And who has the best plan? God? God has the

best plan. You know when we started the renovation, right,

this is the plan I came out with. I don't

know what is what you ask me now? I also

don't know what this is. You know, guys, I just

know that that's a doll because it looks like a

slice of pizza. That's about it. And then when you

have someone that has experienced, someone who's a master, someone

who's an expert, come in to come out with a plan.

This is how it looks like. This is how it

looks like. And sometimes you're thinking, out of our lives,

where is my breakthrough? Where is my testimony? Where is this?

Where is my dad? Where is my anoint thing? Why

am I still struggling through these kind of situations? You

gotta look at your own plan, you know, you gotta

look at your own plan, and you're gonna wonder it

doesn't seem like looks Let's look at our own plan,

our own plan, Matthias. Yeah, I don't know where quiet

time looks like in this. I don't know what offering

enties look like in this. I don't know what is what.

But when we surrender our lives to someone that can

do a proper plan for us, and we follow accordingly,

then we'll know how our quiet time will look like.

We'll know where to prioritize different things. There's an order.

Revival doesn't come by accident. It comes because there's a

plan for it. There's a plan towards it. Okay, eron

all right, Jeremiah twenty nine, verse eleven. What does it

say for? I know the okay, seven of you got

it for? I know the plans I have for you. Friends.

If you are wondering, right, oh, this year, what's God's

plan for me? What's my plan? Who knows the plan?

God knows the plan? Ask God, Ask God to come

up with an outline for your lives so that you

can know what to prioritize, what to focus, what to

expand what to throw away to welcome the new. We

need a plan, everyone, Okay, if you want revival, follow

the one that has planned. Now, okay, so e and

oh done? Everyone, All right, let's go back to the

r eyon. Okay, we're about to close. We're about to close. Ready, Okay,

we want to end with our and our stands for

reasonable Romans Chapter twelve, verse one. Romans, Chapter twelve, verse

one says I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies

of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice

holy acceptable to God? Which is your reasonable? So when

I read this scripture, right, I'm like, what is reasonable?

What is reasonable? Subjective? You know, what is reasonable to you?

Maybe reason? Maybe it may not be my reasonable correct

or not. You'll be like, we need no one needs

a new shoeler, new shoer. We can buy this one.

It's about uh, you know, fifteen ring, Like fifteen ring

it that sounds unreasonable, Joelle. And I'm like, huh, fifty ring,

I'm reasonable. Then get the nine nine and I on, Okay,

that sounds reasonable. You know. We are we going for

lunch and after this and then we're like, can I

you know, get this or they're like, oh, you know

he went up one ring? When up one ringate, that's

so unreasonable, and then you go to another person like, oh,

we're not one ring when you go, oh, thank god man,

because the other stor rang up to ring it. You know,

so what is reasonable to you and to another percent

may be different. I thought to reasonable is so subjective,

you know, how how are we going to be able

to break this down? But let's let's let's look at it.

What is unreasonable first? What's unreasonable? Unreasonable is let me

tell you a renovation without a plan. Unreasonable Is renovation

without a plan? Why? Because every day I have to

go through the site and the workers are just you know,

doing that. That's unreasonable. Unreasonable is renovation without removing the

rubbish that we're supposed to get rid off? Unreasonable? That's unreasonable.

It's unreasonable to stick with the old ways, compromise your

structure and foundation? Is it unreasonable? That's unreasonable? But if

you look at this portion of Scripture and Romans, chapter twelve,

verse one, and we go into the Greek. All right, guys,

we're about to rap parady okay, running the last leap

the word the word reason, Okay. I think that's the

type of the reasonable is logic costs. Logic costs this

is the word logic comes from reasonable logic costs in Greek.

And what does it mean pertaining to speech or speaking

pertaining to the reason or logic? Agreeable to reason, following reason, logical, logical?

Everyone okay with the meaning? So I thought to myself,

so reasonable means logical. Okay, that's not too hard to understand. Now.

Now I decided to like, wait, what is the root

word of logic costs? And I was led by the

Lord to study the root word of logicals. And the

root word of logic causse is logos. Everyone knows what

logos mean. It's not as a shipper. Everyone knows what

logos mean. Logos means the word of God. Logos means

the word of God, a word uttered by a living voice,

the sayings of God, decree, mandate, or all the moral

precepts given by God. So the word reasonable here when

we go into the root meaning, the Greek root meaning

what reasonable is is the same as in John Chapter one,

verse one, reasonable logos logic, Cause that's the word. The

word in the beginning was the word, and the word

was with God, and the word was God. Reasonable is

what God is saying, all right? So if you guys

are still wondering, Oh, what does reasonable mean? How do

I receive revival in my life? How do I go

through renovation to us to welcome revival. Let's look at

Romans chapter twelve. It's okay. This is the portion of

scripture that we started today with. Romans Chapter twelve, Verse

one to two. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the

mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living

sacrifice holy acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be

transformed by the reading of our mind, that you may

prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will

of God. So if you replace the word reasonable to

the root meaning of what reasonable means, which is logic, costs,

and logosts, Let's let's read the scripture again. Let's read

the scripture again, and this is how it sounds. I

beseech you, therefore, I think it should be the next line.

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,

that you present your bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable

to God, which is your what God says service. And

do not be confirmed to this world. So if you're wondering, right,

what is reasonable? It's not subjective. Reasonable is what God says.

So the next time we're wondering, what is my reasonable service?

Because reasonable can be subjective. Man, No, it's not subjective

when we go down to the root meaning of it.

Reasonable is what is God telling you to do. What

is God telling you to expand in your life? What

is God telling you to renew in your life? To

get rid in your life? To stop holding on in

your life? What is God telling you in terms of

the plan and the outline of your life? He knows

your end, He knows our every why not we seek him?

He knows every single detail or life. He has a plan.

So our reasonable service is what God says. What is

God saying to us today? What is God saying to you?

What is God saying to me this morning? Friends? If

we want revival, if we want God to transform our life,

we need to do what God says. And if you're

wondering how this wel comes revival, if we do what

God says Verse two doesn't start with the word all

He starts with the word, and the formula to welcome

revival in our lives is to do what God says

and don't be conformed to this world. And he continues everyon, Okay, everyon. Okay,

I have a problem with told. Sometimes I sound very stern.

I love you guys, all right, all right, I'm just

sharing you. You're from my heart. Okay, eeryon, Okay, do

what God says, Do what God says. Okay, reasonable expansion,

new and outline. Okay, we're gonna close. Can welcome the

extremity on stage? Amen. I hope you guys receive something.

Revival is not something that happens by accident. Revival is

something that we prepare ourselves for it. We need to

prepare for revival. We prepare revival by allowing God to

renovate our lives. And how does God ranovate our lives?

Are e? And Oh, we gotta do what God says.

That's the first thing. We gotta do what God says. E.

We gotta expand. Stop being so small, stop thinking so small,

stop making your heart so small. Make it big so

we can receive more, so we can do more, so

we can be more, so we can well come more

people in our lives. You want revival, you need new wine.

But to receive new wine, we're gonna get rid of

the old wine skins. There's so many things in our

lives that were shifting around, moving upstairs, moving downstairs, moving

to the corner room, moving to this room that no

one opens, the door, no one touches. It's a storeroom

in our hearts. My God is telling us this morning,

car rid of the old thing, carry of the old mentality,

get rid of the old perspective. That's how I used

to run my cell group. Lord, that's the whole way.

What am I telling you this morning? My God? This

is how I give. That's that's the way you gave

last time. How should you give this year twenty twenty six?

You're earning more. Shouldn't you give more? You're blessed with more.

Shouldn't you bless others? You're given more time now, shouldn't

you give more time to God? But we're filling it

with all other things you know that we shouldn't be

filling it with. Then we end up compromising our structure. New,

new guys, come on, new. We gotta have an outline.

We've got to have a plan. Revival doesn't come by accident.

You know how I know when you read all the

stories of revival, right, the revival you know in baklaaland

the revival in Barrio, the revival in the US, you know,

the revival in Pensacola. I've read all these different revival

stories and you know what, there's so many similarities. You know,

it doesn't happen by accident, doesn't happened in back La

la Na. You know that they are just tending to

their field and then suddenly the spirit got to come

upon them. No, they hunger for God. It comes to

so much desire of one thing to be transformed by

the renewing of their minds that they welcome revival. How

is twenty twenty six for you, guys? How is twenty

twenty six for me? How can we keep on with

the old and expect the new to come? We can't

operate like that. We can't operate like that. When you

read how revival happens in the Old, you know how

it's going to happen again the same way. You know

how I know it's the same God, same God, So

it's going to be the same way. It requires sacrifice,

It requires us getting read of the old to welcome

God in our lives. And in closing, I just want

to every eyes closed and every hit put in this place.

You know, we heard this famous phrase many times. You know,

we heard him mentioned in movies, many times, we heard

him mentioned even in conversations with different people. We always

hear people saying that, hey, you know, when you want patience, right,

God doesn't give you patience. You know, he gives you

the opportunity to practice patience. Sometimes. You know, when you

want to be courageous, right, you don't just say God, God,

I want to be courageous. No, no, no, God does

give you courage. He gives you the opportunity to be courageous.

So if I tweak the question, friends, as we close,

we keep saying we want revival, we want revival. We

even pray that. You know, sometimes God sand revival, sand revival.

But you know, actually the question is God is giving

you opportunity to welcome revival. He's not just gonna drop revival.

He's not just gonna drop courage. He's not just gonna

drop patience. He's gonna give you the opportune to receive revival.

It starts with you, It starts in your heart, It

starts in your quiet time, It starts in the way

you give. It starts in the way you serve, It

starts in the way you look at people. It starts

in the way you seek him. And when you welcome revival,

revival will come upon his life.

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