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Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church - Session 6 | Eld Terence Atkinson

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from as church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. Session six, we are going to dive into it just

  4. to recap. You know, what's God's diet? What is God's diet?

  5. We talked about that previously. That is the word of

  6. the Lord telling us what to do. God's purpose, his desired,

  7. He's planned for us, and he shares it with us.

  8. And what is his daily bread? His daily bread is

  9. who of us are there ready to be used of

  10. the Lord, ready to take his word and run with it.

  11. And then our time is actually the time. We always

  12. talk about money. Yeah, money great, praise the Lord, but

  13. it's also about our time and effort. What do we

  14. do with that which he has planned for us? It's

  15. our effort. And then we talk about the eleven. The

  16. eleven is the thing that grows and grows and go

  17. what's the eleven? The eleven is the plan, the exact purpose.

  18. We put it in a way that it works the

  19. thoughts that we have. It's not hidden. Miss. You don't

  20. throw a stone, hope it hits somebody on the head

  21. and that person comes to the Lord. No, what do

  22. you have to do? You have to go share with them.

  23. I praise the Lord. I reached the age of sixty

  24. five this year. Okay, you know I praise the Lord

  25. because now I don't care what people think of me.

  26. I don't care. I can go up to someone and say,

  27. do you know Jesus he loves you very much? No,

  28. I don't want to know him. That's your problem. I

  29. go to the neck. Gone are the days where I

  30. come on my face? So tell you I'm scared to

  31. be rejected. So I don't want to talk about Jesus.

  32. When we are telling someone about the Lord, are we

  33. not giving them something good and they don't want to

  34. receive it? Do we fall to pieces?

  35. No?

  36. So you know what age has taught me. Don't care

  37. about your face lack. Just see it like it is.

  38. And so I have been saying it like it is. La.

  39. You know, I try and be tactful. I try sometimes,

  40. not all the time. You know how many have you

  41. read this story in Facebook? But this teacher that spent

  42. one year in jail because he called a guy a guy.

  43. He didn't call them they or them or some pronoun fantasy.

  44. So I wrote in the Facebook I say I respect

  45. this teacher because he refuses to get caught up in

  46. the insanity of the world. So I had someone write

  47. to me, so you don't understand there's a difference between

  48. gender and sexy. I said, really, that is your fantasy.

  49. If you want to believe you're a chair or a

  50. cow or a cat, by all means, but do not

  51. impose it upon me. He says, but you don't understand.

  52. That's not that you should come. You know, you're in

  53. a Western We're in a western country. That's the way

  54. we live. You are in Asia, so you don't don't

  55. get involved. So my response was, I guess you're right.

  56. I am sixty five and like to think, and you

  57. may think I'm a dinosaur. Then I said, but I'm

  58. a sane one at that. So a sane dinosaur. Guys,

  59. when you come to this age, why you want to

  60. wait till you're sixty five before you lose that fear

  61. of keeping your face while you're young. Do it? Go

  62. up to that friend and say, you know, what can

  63. I share with you? Jesus loves you. So they say

  64. I'm not ready to hear it. Okay, I'm here whenever

  65. you're ready to. I've told you testimonies of how I

  66. shared with my friends when they were seventeen years old,

  67. when I was you know, in Singapore, I shared with them.

  68. Do you know forty years later I find out that

  69. they're born again serving the Lord, going out there building churches,

  70. being saved because of a word I wrote in an

  71. autograph book. We are not supposed to worry about whether

  72. they get saved or not. You know what we're supposed

  73. to worry about. Are we putting ourselves in a place

  74. to hear and share the word. That's what's important. So

  75. now it should be the same for everybody, right, the

  76. same across the board. Pastor was sharing. If I believe

  77. that we should share, and and and and target at

  78. least one person a year to be saved, it should

  79. be the same for everybody. Guys, if you don't target,

  80. if you will, you will get your bullseye. You know

  81. what kind of bulls eye? You get nothing? If you target,

  82. you will get someone. You know. When I lost my

  83. fear of sharing the Lord, that was the time I

  84. started to see people come to the Lord. Just before

  85. they passed away. I saw people come to the Lord. Wow,

  86. because I no longer fear, So you don't like me

  87. so what I live. That's a very a good way

  88. to live, all right. So it's the same for everybody. God. Uh,

  89. you know, we gotta download God's dailberate what does God

  90. want us to do? All right? And we have to

  91. keep doing it faithfully in church. No matter what plan

  92. we are, we have to think the same, We have

  93. to speak the same thing. What is X the purpose

  94. of ex church to get out there, to preach the

  95. gospel and to make disciples? Is this our vision? Whose

  96. vision is it? It's God's vision? What do we do?

  97. It's our diet? Okay, So now what do we do?

  98. We support each other to get the job done. None

  99. of us can do it alone. None of us can

  100. do it alone. Guys. I know someone in church whose

  101. family member is sick, not doing so well because of cancer.

  102. I told the person please tell them I want to

  103. come and see them. So at this point of time,

  104. a person saying no, I don't want to see so

  105. I just said, I said, tell them I don't care,

  106. let me come and see them. So that's still a

  107. work in progress, you know why, because I really have

  108. it in my mind that if I can get one

  109. time with that person, that person will come to the Lord.

  110. Is it because I'm great? No, I've seen it happen,

  111. so there's confidence it will happen again. It's not my power.

  112. Whose power is it? It is the Holy Spirit? All right?

  113. The Bible said, well, you know, we gotta store new

  114. wine into new wineskins, meaning that okay, all plans have worked,

  115. But now do we stick with the old plans? Well,

  116. stick with what works, but there's also new plans, new ideas.

  117. We are supposed to be the Daniels that go into

  118. the marketplace. We're not marketplace Christians, but we are Christians

  119. in the marketplace. We are to go into the world

  120. and what influence them to do? What we don't know,

  121. influence them to know Jesus Christ. Let Jesus Christ show

  122. them what to do. Put new wine into new wine skins.

  123. There's going to be a lot of new ideas. And

  124. you guys are great when it comes to new ideas.

  125. My word, look at them. Look at the ideas you

  126. come up with and you put them on what Instagram

  127. and Facebook, and it's quite captivating. Some of those ideas,

  128. some of those ideas that other ideas should not be

  129. printed or shown anywhere. Okay, So let's never say it's

  130. never been done before. Only the Westerners do it. Guys,

  131. do you think that the word of the Lord came

  132. from the West. No where did they come, came from

  133. the Middle East. You can do great things. The Bible

  134. did not say I can do all things. The Bible

  135. said I can do all things to crisis strengthens me.

  136. The Bible did not say, if you're a Westerner, you

  137. can do all things. To chrisis strengthens you. I think

  138. I broke this. Okay, let's be radical and believe. Wow,

  139. believing is radical. Yes, if you believe, you can do

  140. great things, great things. I believe that I can get

  141. one time with this person who needs to know the Lord.

  142. They'll get They'll get to know the Lord, just one time.

  143. I need to see them. You need to see who

  144. is God put on your heart. Go and see them.

  145. You know, when God puts somebody in your heart, you

  146. have to go and see them because you may be

  147. the last hope. I remember one of the people I

  148. shared a christ with. They became a Christian right and

  149. today that person's a pastor. But he had a brother

  150. who worked on the ship. He had a brother who

  151. worked on a ship. The ship docked in the port,

  152. he met with his brother. He shared Jesus Christ with

  153. the brother. The brother accepted the Lord. Praise the Lord.

  154. One week later, he had an accident on the ship

  155. and he died. Timing, don't wait, share the Lord. Don't

  156. plan forward looking backwards. Don't plan forward looking backwards. What's

  157. done is done. You've seen great success in the past.

  158. Doesn't mean your success in the future will be any

  159. less great. It can be even greater if you will believe.

  160. You think you believe in a small God whose mind

  161. is small. Our minds are small, but the Holy Spirit

  162. is limitless. Who is the one who is helping us?

  163. The Holy Spirit? He will give you new ideas to

  164. reach out and save the lost. What are the Philippian

  165. Street twelve sixty in says not that I have already attained,

  166. not that I have already arrived. You know, you hear

  167. some people say I have arrived. Hey, you have never arrived.

  168. The only time you can say you've arrived there when

  169. you meet the Lord. Then you say I have arrived,

  170. not that, or I am already perfected. I'm not. But

  171. I press on that I may lay hold of that

  172. which Jesus Christ has laid hold of me. Behold rether

  173. than I do not coun myself to have apprehended, But

  174. one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind,

  175. reaching forward to those things which I press towards the

  176. goal for the price of the upward call of God

  177. in Christ Jesus. Therefore, let us, as many as mature,

  178. have this mind. And if in anything you think otherwise,

  179. God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the

  180. degree that we have already attained, let us walk by

  181. the same rule. Let us not be let us, but

  182. let us be of the same mind. You to know this.

  183. Paul was already having successes, and then he says, forgetting

  184. what lies in the past. It also means whatever failures

  185. you've had in the past, And most of us would

  186. have taken it that way right when we read the scripture.

  187. Most of us will naturally gravitate to forgetting all the

  188. failures of the past. But you know what Paul is

  189. also saying, don't be so concerned about your successes of

  190. the past, because it's forward you're pressing, You're moving forward.

  191. Don't let all those things that happen in the past

  192. pull you down, because God has better things ahead. For you.

  193. When you go and meet the Lord, He's not going

  194. to ask you how many cars you own? What's your

  195. business value? At? He will ask you, did you do

  196. what I tell you to do? Did you make disciples?

  197. Did you preach the gospel? Guys, let's be connected. What's right? Okay?

  198. So church is not telling you, Puss is not telling

  199. you how to run your business, but how to run

  200. God's business. You see, the church administers only the ten

  201. percent which you and I give, but the ninety percent

  202. is yours, yours to do with what the Lord tells you.

  203. So you and I we've got work to do. We've

  204. got the ninety percent also to live. Oh God's direction,

  205. so hints for success. We can be successful fulfilling the

  206. vision if what we make the disciples follow me as

  207. I follow Christ. That's what Paul said. Why are you

  208. and I so concerned that we don't make disciples? Oh

  209. we cannot disciple people? How many of you hear parents?

  210. Can I see your show hands? Let's put it straight up,

  211. you're either parent or not. All of you are disciples

  212. because whether you and I agree with it or not,

  213. your kids walk like you, they talk like you, they

  214. look like you. They have your characteristics true or not,

  215. You by your action are discipling your kids. When you

  216. get down on your knees and pray, and your children

  217. see you praying, guess what, it will be natural for

  218. them to get the on their knees and pray. But

  219. if they see you missing church to go and play pickleball, okay?

  220. The ones who say, oh, well, I hope you're not

  221. one of them, okay, But if your children see you

  222. do that, guess what. When their time comes, they will

  223. be pickleball champions because all the championships will be held

  224. on Sunday. Do you know when my kids were concerned?

  225. My kids were learning taekwondo. You know, for all the

  226. time they learned tekwondo, they were still white belt. Do

  227. you know why because grading was always on a Sunday

  228. And we used to tell my kids it's more important

  229. for you to be graded by Jesus Christ than the

  230. taekwondo people. Do you know that they never attended school sports?

  231. Do you know why because it was on Sunday? And

  232. I used to tell my kids, if you need to

  233. run for the prize, run for God's price, not for

  234. the price that you'll win on Sunday. But did we

  235. just do that? No, we actually told the school why

  236. didn't you hold the school sports on a Friday? No,

  237. we cannot because why afternoon? You know what happens on

  238. Friday afternoon, So why do you think it's okay to

  239. hold it on Sunday? And guess what? They changed it

  240. to Saturday? And then my children could take part in

  241. the school sports. If you stand your ground to do

  242. what's right, God will back you up. Okay, do it

  243. in smaller, smaller groups, think about one too. Plant churches

  244. on every street, in every school, being a church near

  245. you are a church man. If you have one person

  246. agreeing with you where you are, you are at church.

  247. So you go to office, you get one person to

  248. agree with you. Let's have this person healed. Can we

  249. pray for him? That's church. This is church, but it's

  250. not necessarily the only church there is. You carry church

  251. wherever you go. If you're willing to be two or

  252. three gathered in the name of the Lord. Guys, that's

  253. the way you know you carry a power that the

  254. Lord has given you, the power the Holy Spirit to

  255. see miracles happen. I'll share some in you later. No, No, okay,

  256. so Matthew nineteen twenty six said, but Jesus looked at

  257. them and said to them, with men, this is impossible.

  258. What God all things are I don't know. With men

  259. all things are impossible. With God, all things are possible.

  260. You say I can run a church. Really, what church

  261. means you worship with the guitar. Then after that you

  262. got announcements and then messager. You know what is church?

  263. Church is doing what the Lord tells you. There is church.

  264. You and I we carry church everywhere we go. Get

  265. somebody to agree with you in prayer. That's church. So

  266. that's why it's not impossible to have a church on

  267. every street, in every school, in every business. In Matthew

  268. four nineteen it says, follow me, and I will make

  269. you fishers of men. I think you prayed that pray

  270. just now for a little girl, that she be a

  271. fisher of men. You think it's important impossible to be

  272. fishers of men? I mean, who did Jesus pick? Yeah,

  273. he picked fishermen. But you know fishermen they kind of

  274. sat in their ways, you know that, right? You know

  275. how you know they are set in their waist because

  276. they kept throwing their net in the same part of

  277. the water, and they caught no fish. Jesus had to say,

  278. just try the other sidler. The moment they threw the net,

  279. they caught the fish. So when we find that we

  280. are slow in people coming to the Lord through our ministry,

  281. ask the Lord Lord, where do I cast my net?

  282. Who am I looking for? Do you know the greatest

  283. joy you will always or you will ever have is

  284. seeing your friends come to the Lord. Guys, you're from

  285. a CF right, okay, praise the Lord. Do you know

  286. that the greatest joy you'll ever have is when you

  287. meet your college friends twenty years thirty years down the

  288. road and they say, because of you, I came to

  289. the Lord. Do they need to know Jesus Christ? While

  290. your dad no, you just need to sow the seeds.

  291. Our Let's go fishing with the power of God to fish.

  292. We need effective bait, right we do. Isn't it You

  293. think the fish will just come to you unless the

  294. Lord commanded commands the fish into the net. But the

  295. Lord has given you a kind of a bait, right,

  296. God did not leave us alone. The bait is the

  297. power of the Lord, the supernatural, the anointing, the signs,

  298. and wonders, the miracles, healings and deliverance. For yours is

  299. the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever, and the

  300. ever Kingdom comes first. Then God gives us power, and

  301. all it goes back to God for his glory. My

  302. friends came to the Lord because they remembered the stories

  303. that I was telling them. Because when I was in Singapore,

  304. I used to stay in this church hostel and every

  305. day after school, I'll take my bus back from school.

  306. I'll reach back at seven o'clock in the night, I'll

  307. go and have my dinner, wash my clothes. And then

  308. the church was next door. Because I was staying in

  309. a church hostel, I'll go over to the church on

  310. eight thirty pm and pray together with the pasta for

  311. deliverance cases until three am four am in the morning.

  312. I did this every day. I don't know how my

  313. body managed to take it, but I just kept doing

  314. it and doing it and every time and I get

  315. to the get in the morning. In the morning, I'll

  316. go to my friends and say, you know, this morning,

  317. I was praying for this person together the Pasta, this

  318. person delivering needing deliverance, needing heally, and I will be

  319. sharing with. I did not know at the time that

  320. it was making an impact. I only found out years

  321. later when they tell me, Hey, those things you used

  322. to tell me Da da da da da, So wow,

  323. I did not realize. So, guys, everything you do has

  324. an impact. Okay. Um the issue of lack of confidence.

  325. How do you feel when you hear the partners were

  326. heal of cancer? Do you know that? In ex church

  327. pastor was saying this when he was preaching. These two

  328. people were hell of cancer. And really the feeling brings confidence.

  329. That's why I'm very confident. I'm very confident to go

  330. and share Jesus with those who do not know him.

  331. You know why because when one person was sick and

  332. I was going to see that person in hospital, the

  333. Lord told me. So, I asked, Lord, Lord, what do

  334. I say? He said Toalp Badminton, I said, Lord, he's

  335. dying of cancer. No, no, no talk Badminton. Okay, Lord.

  336. So I met this guy and I said, I that

  337. I'm sixty four, right, don't care anymorement So I said,

  338. do you know you're dying or not? How many of

  339. you would tell that to a person who is here

  340. in sick in hospital I said, do you know you're dying?

  341. So because I was honest with my question, he was

  342. honest with his answer. Yes. My next question to him

  343. was do you want to know Jesus? No, that was

  344. not my next question. My next question was do you

  345. like Badminton? I like Bedmington? Well, life came back into him.

  346. Oh you like Bemington? Yes, I said, Well, Jesus has

  347. served the shuttle to you when he gave his life

  348. for you. You want to play the game with him.

  349. You got to hit the shuttle back in faith and

  350. receive him and then the game can continue. Then I

  351. asked him, you want to receive Jesus Christ. He said yes,

  352. that was the day. From now on, when it comes

  353. to people who are I just go ahead and see them.

  354. Got confidence because the confidence is not mine. If I

  355. can listen to what the Holy Spirit tells me, they

  356. will come to the Lord. And the main reason this

  357. person didn't want to accept the Lord was because he said,

  358. I will only receive Jesus if I see him. So

  359. when I spoke to him, I said, you know you're

  360. asking to see the Lord, but the Lord actually done

  361. it for you. First. You know he's made the first

  362. move you got to respond. Do you know after he

  363. received the Lord, his niece came back and said, one

  364. day Jesus appeared to him in the room. This is

  365. his words. He was all in white, his face was growing.

  366. I could not see the face. He came. He stood

  367. by me for a while, and then he left. A

  368. couple of days later, he said, two men in white,

  369. shining bright came stood. He had a discussion in the room,

  370. and then they disappeared. I told his niece he's going

  371. to pass away very soon. A couple of days later,

  372. herd left the world. He got what he wanted to

  373. see the Lord, but you know it came only after

  374. he received Jesus. Confidence when you were serving the Lord,

  375. the Lord is looking after your business. When you are

  376. doing what God tells you to do, He's taking care

  377. of your issues. Can I share a testimony with use?

  378. Some of you we already have heard it, but never mind,

  379. I would share it. A couple of months ago, in November,

  380. my daughter calls him up and said, I have a

  381. growth in my neck. It was a goiter. So her

  382. neck was quite swollen, quite big. So she had a goiter.

  383. And those of you that no goiter is usually as

  384. a result of white me, sorry, the result of iodine

  385. or are you dying deficiency? So anyway, it was a

  386. little bit big. So she says, I'm going to have

  387. it checked out. Pray with me. So he said, yeah, yeah,

  388. we'll pray with you. Don't worry about it. It'll be okay,

  389. it'll be okay. So she went for the test. Then

  390. later in November, two weeks later, she called me up.

  391. When she called me up, it was in the office. Now,

  392. in my office, my door was open. I never see

  393. Pastor Kenneth, you know, in the office because he's got

  394. a lot of things to do. But that day he

  395. passed by the office and he stood in front of

  396. the door and he was talking with someone. So I

  397. thought it was pretty stranger. Anyway, the call came through

  398. and my daughter said, they found a growth in my

  399. tyroid and the doctor has advised me to remove it

  400. straight away. So that's a tyroid deck to me. Okay,

  401. So I told my daughter get a second opinion, and

  402. then she put down the phone call and I had

  403. a word with Pastor pasta, I need to tell you this.

  404. Then we chatted for a while about this, and he said,

  405. don't worry. I will pray with you for next morning.

  406. Five A M passed the rights to me. He says,

  407. I've prayed for Ashley. Hey, praise the Lord. Pray the

  408. moment Ashley told me because she called me in the

  409. office and she called my wife. The first thing when

  410. she called me, I heard the Lord say cancer. Now

  411. for many of you, they say, oh, so negative are

  412. the thought you think negative things? Guys, the Lord is

  413. speaking to me to do something about it. Okay. Until

  414. that point of time, I did not know other Maybe

  415. was always waking up at two or three am in

  416. the morning and the Lord would tell her pray. So

  417. she sit up in the bed and she'd pray. She says,

  418. without fearing the Lord was waking her up to pray.

  419. So she prayed. So that day when my daughter, the

  420. Lord told her operation. So now God told me cancer.

  421. God told her operation. It was on the same day.

  422. The tests went to the United States for a second opinion,

  423. and it was the opinion of a professor of a

  424. leading university hospital in the States, one of the top

  425. This is one of the top top people. Endocrinologists send

  426. back a twenty page report which says, do not wait,

  427. get it out straight away. So my daughter come and said,

  428. can you find a surgeon. I got to find a surgeon.

  429. I prayed, say, Lord, lead me to a good surgeon.

  430. I asked my doctor friends. They all came back with

  431. people who are just generalists. Surgeon, if you need to

  432. cut off your hand, you know how to cut off

  433. your head, you know if you need to do but

  434. not an endochronologist specialist. Which the Lord led me to someone.

  435. And I found a guy. So I met him, nice,

  436. nice person. He says, yes, I will do the operation,

  437. so even without the doctor seeing. But based on the report,

  438. he set the operation for December third. My daughter came back.

  439. She had bronchitis. The operation was postponed another week. On

  440. the day of the operation, we're waiting. We're waiting. We're waiting,

  441. We're waiting. The operation did not take place because that

  442. day he had another case and when he operated, he

  443. found that that there was a cancer that spread from

  444. his from the throat all the way to the back

  445. of the year. So he was too tired. He went

  446. to sleep. At three am. He tells the nurse, Ky,

  447. get my daughter ready. My daughter went in for surgery

  448. three am the next day, so she had a complete

  449. tyroid actomy, complete removal of the tyrol glenn and the

  450. limit not in that area. And so the operation was

  451. four hours. So the next day when we went to

  452. the hospital in the evening, we met the doctor says,

  453. Doctor said, okay, the results have come back. So I said,

  454. so it's benign. He says, no malignant cancer. We got

  455. it all, every test, every blood that shows she is

  456. one hundred percent. Okay, you know you can tell me.

  457. Why couldn't you pray for her healing. Yes, we could

  458. pray for her healing, which we did. But what was

  459. more important for us was the Lord spoke to us.

  460. We were calm and we were just sharing you with

  461. my daughter, It's going to be okay. Our confession was

  462. what we were prophesying. We were prophesying what faith to her.

  463. We were prophesying she was going to be okay. We

  464. were prophesying, don't worry about it. It's going to be

  465. all right. Don't worry about the operation, don't worry about anything.

  466. It's going to be okay because the Lord had put

  467. in our heart already what was going to happen, and

  468. she is totally fine. So when she came out of

  469. the operation, she had one bead here and one bead here.

  470. It looked like she had a tattoo over actually the stitches.

  471. So she asked, I don't know why I got two beads.

  472. I said, when you remove the stitch, they will cut

  473. one side and pull. I said, that is a joke. Right.

  474. Then one week later she went to remove the stitches.

  475. They cut one side and pulled, and in one pool

  476. all this teachers came out. That was how it was done.

  477. So you said there was terrible. I said, by you live,

  478. isn't it? They? Yeah, today she's back, she's working, She's fine.

  479. What I want to tell you is when you are

  480. doing what the Lord has told you to do, which

  481. is go out and preach the gospel, go out and

  482. make disciples. Hey, you got a friend, make a disciple

  483. of that friend. Yeah, it occupies your time. Right. Let

  484. me tell you how much more time would have been

  485. of My time would have been occupied My daughter was sick.

  486. Do you know that the God, the Lord saved me

  487. tons of time by taking care of the issue. You

  488. and I we gotta get our head in the game.

  489. We gotta understand what's right. This is what it is. Okay,

  490. Confidence conviction comes with revival. If you're convicted about the Lord,

  491. guess what revival comes your heart. You're praying for revival.

  492. Are you convicted that Jesus Christ is the way, the

  493. truth in the life. Do you have that conviction that

  494. He will save those call upon him? Conviction? Conviction, well,

  495. comes with revival. Your spirit has got the revival. Clarity

  496. comes with revelation. What do you think we're doing now

  497. unpacking the vision? We're giving you an idea why it

  498. is important to get on board with God's plan for

  499. the world, which is what preaching the gospel making disciples.

  500. Confidence comes with results. You see salvations. Man, I am

  501. so confident that if I share Jesus with someone, they

  502. will receive the Lord. Is it because my speech, your

  503. speech and my speech is nothing. The Holy Spirit is

  504. not involved in our speech. We will not save anybody.

  505. But if you have no good words to say, Jesus,

  506. you say, but the Holy Spirit is there, the whole

  507. congregation will be will accept the lot. It's not about

  508. how the quality of our words. It's about the quality

  509. of a heart. It's about the quality of a relationship

  510. with the Holy Spirit. So you cannot do it. I

  511. cannot do it. I agree with you. We cannot do it,

  512. but who can do it? The Holy Spirit can do it.

  513. So why don't we get involved in the program. We

  514. are being helped anyway. Courage comes with resolve. You've decided

  515. that you will not be moved in this area, you

  516. will have the courage to do it. I don't care

  517. if I get rejected. I live, go out, and I

  518. still share. Conquer comes with reliance. You will achieve because

  519. we're relying on who the Holy Spirit. And celebration comes

  520. with reward. I celebrate my wife and me celebrate. We

  521. don't only celebrate my daughter. I celebrate my friends who

  522. know now go out and build churches. I celebrate one

  523. friend who was healed of cancer, gave his business a side,

  524. and now what is He's a missionary in Southeast Asia.

  525. I celebrate that. I celebrate the one who was dying

  526. on the water and the Lord came and healed him,

  527. saved him, and he gave all his riches away, and

  528. today he serves the Lord as a pastor. Why I

  529. celebrate that? Confident leaders? You know what is a confident leader?

  530. Confident leaders a confident servant. Hey, when we are called leaders,

  531. you know what we're actually leading. We're leading in the

  532. show of how to be a servant. We are a

  533. servant of the Lord. Leaders of the Lord are actually

  534. leaders of the Lord, are actually servants of the Lord.

  535. What did what did? I think it's David who said,

  536. better to be a servant at the gate, be at

  537. the gate rather than be in a house and a king.

  538. I think it was David who said that if I'm

  539. not mistake, I could be mistaken. Guys, you could. There

  540. was I think it was Steve Jobs who said, you know,

  541. what's the use of having billions of dollars and you

  542. know something to do with billions of dollars and be

  543. in a grave something like that, And it happened for him.

  544. Didn't know, Jesus, with all these billions of dollars, what

  545. good did he do? Confident leaders. Conviction leads to clarity.

  546. If we are convicted about God's plan, we will get

  547. involved in it. Clarity leads to confidence when we are

  548. clear about something we are willing to do true not true.

  549. Not.

  550. If we did not know how to use a car,

  551. would we be confident enough to drive it. We would

  552. be absolutely crazy to drive it. Right. But when we

  553. learn how to drive. As time goes on, we become

  554. more confident, and confident leads to courage. Those days we

  555. hold a steering wheel like this, Now we hold a

  556. steering wheel like this. True. Not how many when you

  557. first started to drive you drive like this? Is that

  558. you drive now? Or you now like this? Okay? Don't

  559. do that? Okay. Confidence leads to courage. Courage leads to conquering. Hey,

  560. you want to see things happen. Be courageous. No one

  561. will get saved if you don't open your mouth. No

  562. family member of yours will get saved if you don't

  563. open your month. Granted. A prophet is not welcome in

  564. his own town, in his own village, in his own household, granted.

  565. So you know what you do, get somebody else that

  566. is still sharing. Ma, you think you only have to

  567. do it? No, sharing sometimes means get somebody else. Lah,

  568. who can talk? You think my brother came to the

  569. Lord because I shared with him. No, you know why

  570. he came to the law because I shared with his friend.

  571. The friend accepted the Lord, and then the friend got

  572. him safe. Why is it not then my friend gets

  573. another one of my friends safe. Guess what he says

  574. in my younger brother, and my younger brother gets it.

  575. You see, that's the way it works. Sometimes you don't

  576. have to do it, but courage and believing that it

  577. can happen. You can, God will give you ideas and

  578. conquering leads to celebration. We celebrate the victories we sell.

  579. Why do you think the whole heaven rejoices when one

  580. person comes to the Lord. Why do you think that

  581. is because one person has come home? They've come home?

  582. Okay one John five fourteen. How are we doing for time? Okay?

  583. I go to Russia. Now we have this confidence that

  584. we have in him. If we ask him for anything

  585. according to his will, he hears us. If we ask,

  586. what is the key word? Any thing according to his

  587. word that means a Lord, I need my friends saved.

  588. Is that according to his word? Yes, for God's love

  589. all the world, for God to love the world. So

  590. does that qualify yes? Yes? If you ask for yourself,

  591. it's hit and miss. You know, because if you ask, Lord,

  592. I want a new car, it's hit and miss. You know,

  593. I hit and miss. If it's in the Lord's will,

  594. you'll get it. If it's not in his will, you won't.

  595. That's what scripture says, if we ask anything according to

  596. his will, he hears us, we don't have the confidence.

  597. We don't have confidence because of lack of results. But

  598. let's pray that the results will begin to flow. Verse

  599. Joshua one nine says, be strong and of good courage.

  600. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and a good courage.

  601. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

  602. We are not alone. It's a bad version of that song.

  603. Thank God, we are not alone. He has given us

  604. the Holy spirit. In Zacharia for six, he says, so

  605. he answered and said to me, this is the word

  606. of the Lord to Zerobebell. Not by my nor by power,

  607. but by my spirit, says the Lord. Everything can be

  608. achieved because God is on your side. So you're going

  609. through a difficult time. God is on your side. Hey, guys,

  610. you're students, right. Do you ever lay hands on your

  611. books and pray that the law will help you understand

  612. what's inside? Do you know I did? Because who is

  613. the one who invented every subject you're learning? Is it

  614. not God? So what can't God teach you? He can

  615. teach you everything. In Luke eleven eleven thirteen, he says,

  616. if a son asks for bread from his father among you,

  617. will you not give him a store? Will he give

  618. him a stone? Sorry? Or we ask for a fish,

  619. will he give him a servant? And say? Hey, when

  620. you ask God for good things, that God is going

  621. to give you something bad? Is God wicked? He's God Teasingessir,

  622. you ask me for bread, here I give you poison. No,

  623. your God, my God, not like that. You ask your

  624. your children ask you for ice cream? You give them chillier.

  625. I know that was not my question. Will you give

  626. them chillier puddy? No, your father is not like that.

  627. You ask him, he will give you all right? Uh,

  628. will give him a serpent instead? Or if he ask

  629. for an egg, will he offer him a Scopyo? Like that? Okay?

  630. If you then being evil, we are known as evil. Okay.

  631. This is what the scripture saying, know how to give

  632. good gifts to his children? How much more you have

  633. any father? Give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.

  634. Your God is in the business or doing good for you.

  635. Your God is in a business or doing good for

  636. somebody else using you. Hmm? Could it be that our

  637. daily bread is the Holy spirit? Look for eighteen ninety says,

  638. the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he

  639. has anointed me to what preach the Gospel to the poor.

  640. The first thing that Jesus said about what his purposes

  641. is what to help the poor? You know why, because

  642. if you don't have money, or money in your pocket

  643. or food in your mouth, you will never pay attention

  644. to whether Jesus Christ means to save your soul, because

  645. your basic need has not been met. Hamny, if you remember,

  646. I preach this a long time ago Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

  647. Even the Lord says Gospel to the poor, heal the

  648. broken hearted, proclaimed liberty, the captain, receive recovery, the recovery

  649. of the side to the blind, to set it liberty

  650. those who are pressed to proclaim the acceptability of the Lord.

  651. And this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel,

  652. and it came to pass it in the last says

  653. the Lord, I would pour out my spirit. All flesh.

  654. Are we all flesh? If we are metal, no lie

  655. doesn't qualify. We are flesh. We qualify on all flesh.

  656. Your sons and your daughters shall what profit side. That's

  657. why I do not speak negative things to people. You're

  658. such a fool. Don't ever say that you know why

  659. you're prophesying. If you got children, please don't do that.

  660. And one of the worst things you can say is

  661. you are so clever. Why is that bad? That is

  662. a false sense of security you will give them because

  663. they will do well in school, and one day when

  664. they don't do well, they will say, it's because I'm

  665. not clever. Wrong validation. What's the right validation for your child?

  666. Well done? You have done so well because you worked hard.

  667. You know why that it's a good validation. One day

  668. if they failed their subject, they will realize, oh, it's

  669. because I didn't work hard enough. I will put in

  670. the effort. I will get the results. Oh flesh, Your

  671. sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your young man shall

  672. what see visions. Your old man shall dream dreams. And

  673. on my men servant, my maidservant, are pour my spirit

  674. in those days? And they shall what prophesy? You know

  675. what is prophesy? Speaking in faith, that's prophecy. That's prophesying.

  676. So you want to know very loose definition. When you

  677. speak the word of the Lord, when you speak the

  678. word and it's covered with faith, that's prophesying, you shall

  679. be well. Don't worry, It's going to be okay. God

  680. is on your side. That's prophesying, huh. I will show

  681. wonders in Heaven's above and signs on the earth beneath

  682. blood and fire and weapon and smoke. The sun should

  683. be turned to darkness, the moon to blood, before the

  684. coming the great and as day of the Lord. And

  685. it shall come to pass it whose ever calls on

  686. the name of the Lord shall be what save. But

  687. if all prophesy and an unbelievable and uninformed person comes in,

  688. he is convinced by all, he is convinced by He's

  689. convinced by all. He's convicted by all, And thus the

  690. secrets of his heart shall be revealed. So falling down

  691. on his face, he will worship God and report that

  692. God is truly among you. God will anoint us afresh

  693. with the Holy Spirit to prophesy, to preach, to give

  694. solutions and answers. Guys, what is prophesying. Prophesying, like I said,

  695. is when you do something in faith like that man,

  696. do you like badminton? Because that was what the Holy

  697. Spirit told me to do. I was prophesying into his life.

  698. God has made the first move. Now you need to respond.

  699. It clicked, It clicked. Oh, another man who was also

  700. sick with cancer, right, and I met him, and you

  701. know he had had so many people come and talk

  702. to him and share with him. He would not receive

  703. the Lord. When I went to see him, had to

  704. ask him this. He said, do you know that your

  705. children love you? He said yes. Do you know that

  706. your children want to see you again? He said yes.

  707. Said do you know your children only see you if

  708. they meet you in the Kingdom of God with Jesus.

  709. Do you want to receive the Lord? He said yes.

  710. So did I immediately pray for him? No, he wanted

  711. to receive the Lord. Right, I said, let me call

  712. your children together. So I call his children together, and

  713. then only we prayed for him. You see, that's what

  714. it is. God will anoint us a fresh with the

  715. Holy Spirit, to prophesy, to preach, to give solutions and answers,

  716. to speak into situations. It must eight eleven. Behold it

  717. is that coming, says the Lord. And I will send

  718. a feminine land, not a famine of bread, not a

  719. thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the law. Hey,

  720. you know that this is coming to pass already in

  721. the world today. Do you know in England if you

  722. keep quiet and bow your head, you'll be put in

  723. jail breaking the law because it is offensive for Christians

  724. to be able to pray in public. Even if you

  725. don't say a word, but you bow your head, you're

  726. offending people. You get put in jail if you don't

  727. believe me. There's a man who is actually now waiting

  728. for his case. It's in appeal. He was actually convicted.

  729. That's how crazy the world famine is. It's becoming a

  730. norm when there will be a famine for the world.

  731. Word be ready, be ready, be ready. There will be

  732. a feminine the word. Let us pray that it will

  733. always be found in through x church we are, we

  734. are already living in it now. Or say now we

  735. can see, let's speak seeing is what the vision? The vision?

  736. The vision? The vision? Then I said, remember, proper cy,

  737. let's not stop talking. Let's just stop talking. You know

  738. what is talking? Talking is talking without reference to God,

  739. or not in accordance with God's work, or not having

  740. the Holy Spirit backing you up. Silly talk. So if

  741. we are talkative, my parents always say I came out

  742. from the womb talking. So I was very talkative. Now

  743. I try and talk Jesus because every word becomes a prophesying.

  744. Let's stop talking, start prophesying. Ready to prophesy, wat you

  745. we begin with? Well, what do we begin with? Purpose? Prophesih? Purpose? Lord,

  746. we are to reach and save the loss. We are

  747. to disciple. That's prophesying purpose pray the Lord's prayer daily.

  748. I'm giving you some passes, actually giving you some really

  749. great ideas. Our Father. What in heaven, Hello, be a

  750. name your kingdom. Come, You will be done on earth

  751. as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily brain,

  752. and forgive us us since even as we forgive those

  753. who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation,

  754. but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the King,

  755. the power, and the glory forever and ever. Do you

  756. know that that prayer, that simple prayer that Jesus taught us,

  757. puts everything in perspective and in order or what to expect,

  758. what to do, what to live? How to live? Ah?

  759. This is one of its power. Speak that God is

  760. with me, all things are possible. I've seen great things

  761. happen because I believe this rotten, all me can do

  762. things because it's not about me. Who is it about?

  763. It's about him? So rotten all me can do things.

  764. And now some of you rotten, you're are pretty nice people.

  765. You know how much more you can do? Paul says,

  766. I'm the worst sinner, which is true because Paul used

  767. to kill the Christians right when he was Saul. But

  768. then the Lord spoke to him. He received the Lord,

  769. and he completely did some really amazing things. Plan God's died,

  770. the daily bread, the tide, the leven, We've gone over that.

  771. It's about planning. Everything is a conscious effort. It doesn't

  772. happen just out of the blue. You've got to be

  773. decisive about it, all right, you got You've got to

  774. be intentional about it. Prosper You know, when we prophesy

  775. God's blessing and praise him, we see God prospering us.

  776. We keep seeing it, we keep saying, we keep doing it.

  777. That's to pass it on. Oh, I guess I'm done.

  778. That's the last light. Where there's some questions, right, okay,

  779. these questions, So how can I go and speak about

  780. my lack of confidence? How can I tap into the

  781. power of all the spirit each and every day. What

  782. do I want to focus on speaking more about in

  783. the coming days. These are questions you can look at

  784. to answer for yourself, because God loves you. Remember I

  785. started off by saying, is it an amazing that this

  786. vision that God has given us is not about ex judge?

  787. You know you know what it is about. It's about

  788. seeking and saving the loss. It's about reaching out to

  789. the people who do not know Jesus. Will your life's

  790. blessing come? They will as you're doing the Lord's work.

  791. Trust me, you can ask the older ones here today.

  792. We will tell you. We do not know how we are,

  793. where we are and why there has been this way,

  794. But we do know one thing, because we love them,

  795. we serve the Lord. God has brought us very fun.

  796. If we look at our lives, we say, how did

  797. we reach here? I don't even know how we got here.

  798. The only thing we can tell you is it's God.

  799. The only we can tell you is He helped us,

  800. He led us. Even when we we did wrong, he

  801. changed it around. And when we were doing things for him,

  802. the blessings were just flowing and they are and they will.

  803. You are most of you, if not all of you,

  804. except for a couple of you are younger, so you've

  805. got a whole long life to live where you just

  806. see one blessing, one glory, from glory to glory. He

  807. will change you and he'll help you understand yours is

  808. going to be a great life if you will believe it,

  809. if you will believe that God wants to do it

  810. for you, and he will. What do we do? We

  811. have to be intentional about it.

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