Mission Posible | Elder Terence

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We hope this message will light up your day.

And so today this message is entitled Mission Possible, Mission Possible.

We're so used to hearing about impossible missions, right, but

I want to tell you that the impossible missions are

only in the movies. So that's good. That means in

reality we can have mission possible. Right. So we're reading

from College Collosuons book or Collosions. Okay, let me just

get rid of this. It's getting in the way. Okay.

So we're reading from Collosus, chapter one, and let's read

verse one and to first Paul and an apostle of

Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy a

brother because both of them two were together. So he's

writing to the church, to the saints and faithful brethren

in Christ who are in coloss Grace to you and

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

So Paul was greeting the church, and he was greeting

the church in Coloss. And I did a little bit

of reading about this, and you know what was Paul's

relationship with the church in coloss Do you know that

this was not one of the churches he started, and

Paul started many churches, but this was not one of

the churches that Paul had started. So why would Paul

be very interested in this church? Why would we be

interested in the church the world at large? For the

world at large. In the seventies, I remember, I just

became a Christian, and in the seventies one of the

biggest things that the churches were praying for was for

the people in the churches in Russia. You see, at

that time, in the seventies, if you were a Christian,

the Russian government would come, they would take you away

and they would torture you. They would torture you, they

would beat you up, they would rape your children and

your wife in front of you. They would throw you

into prison. They did all these kinds of things. This

was the seventies, sixties, the seventies, because under the Communist doctrine,

people were nothing more than matter. The chair is matter,

this pulpit is matter. You are matter. So they had

absolutely no affinity and love for people. You know, Stalin

was a wicked man. You know what he would do.

He would take a chicken and while the chicken was alive,

he'd pull all its feathers out, and the chicken would

be screaming and screaming, you know, all over the place.

Then he would throw a little bit of food and

the chicken would go and eat the food. And then

he would say, you see people like that. You can

torture them, you can treat them badly, just give them

a little bit of food and they'll be all right.

That was Stalin. That was communists, and the churches around

the world would be praying for these people in Russia.

They would be getting down and he isn't you know.

That was one of the things that if you were

in a church at that time, you would always be

praying for these people in this land, be praying and say,

God do something, God do something, God do something. But

God did something. He broke Russia up because Christians were praying.

He broke that land up. It completely splintered Russia, and

then those who professed Christ could now start professing Christ openly.

I believe this was in the mid to late eighties.

Fast forward to today, the Christians in that land have

forgotten to pray for their own country, and Christians in

other lands have forgotten about this group. Great work that

God did in relieving his people of the evil of communism.

You know what's happening. There is a revival not of

good things, but there's a revival of Russian hegemony, Russian aggression.

Russia wants to start taking back the lens that it

gave up. If you and I do not pray for

the other churches, how do we expect God to see?

How do we expect God to move? We're not meant

to live for ourselves. You know, there's okay, let's be honest,

how much fun there is living for yourself? It's fine,

right doing things for yourself. You're hungry, You're gonna eat right,

You're like ice cream, You're gonna leave ice cream. You

want to sleep, you go to sleep. But you want

to know something, After a while, these things will not

satisfy you. And then when you cannot satisfy yourself, what

do you have left? Nothing? Well, you know, talking about missions.

So it was not one of those things that I

usually wanted to talk about because I felt, you know,

I hadn't really gone on missions until just last week.

The Lord corrected my thoughts. So I said, Lord, you know,

I've never been on missions before. So you remember what

I shared with you from Corinthians Chapter two, No Corinthians one,

Corinthians one, where Paul say I came. And what did

I say? Paul came because he went. You see, if

Paul stayed in his bed, he would not have gone.

If he did not go, he would not have, you know,

interacted with the church. Great things would not have happened.

So the thing is this, if you stay where you are,

nothing much happens. So the Lord reminded me, didn't you

go and study in Singapore? Yeah? And what did you

do when you were there? Oh? I shared the word

of God. Every opportunity I had, I would be telling

people about this Jesus who is bringing relief to people

through deliverance. I remember sharing in this church, sharing here

that when I went to Singapore after going to school,

I'd come back at seven o'clock, go and have my

dinner and wash my clothes, do my homework, and then

I'll pop into church. Because I stayed in the church hostel,

so the church was by the side. I'll pop into

church and you know what I'll do till about three

four in the morning, I'll be praying together with the

pastor for deliverance cases people who were pressed by demons,

people who were possessed by demons, and we will be

praying and praying and praying, and I saw great miracles

take place. And then I'd go back, have about two

hours sleep, get up, go to go to school. And

when I went to school, besides actually studying when I'm

in class, one hundred percent attention on my schoolwork, when

it was break time or after school, I would be

sharing with them about what Jesus did and how Jesus

delivered people from the oppression of the devil, and how,

you know, great things that had happened. You know, I

remember telling you. One of the cases was, we were

praying for this guy, all right, and while we were praying,

three sin says or three of these priests came up

to the church. They were they're gonna come in, and

you know, they're gonna come in and disrupt everything, because

who are we to pray for one of their own.

Let me tell you the three of them did. I

was there with my own eyes. I'm seeing this right.

They took one step and before their foot landed in

the church gate, they all fainted. After a few minutes,

they got up, and you know what they did they

ran away. See, you cannot come against the power of

God and not see him work and not see people delivered.

And this is amazing. Who was I was a nobody.

What did I know. I only knew Jesus saved me.

I had no theology except if you know Jesus, he

can do something for you. That's all I needed. And

there I was helping with the pastor praying. Of course,

a lot of it is the anointing of the pastor.

I was learning from him. But I remember telling you

one testimony where the demon would not come out. The

demon would not leave this person, and despite all the praying,

just would not happen. The pass I said, go back,

sleep and come in tell us what the Lord reveals

to you. I went back, I went to sleep. I

had a dream, and in the dream, I'm actually on

the fourth floor of the hostel. So in the dream,

I had watched my uniforms and I hung it out

to dry on the balcony, not on the outside of

the inside the balcony. And the second uniform my my

uniform that my trousers had fallen to the ground on

fallen all the way. So in the dream, I'm thinking

to myself. This is a little bit strange. If something

has got to fall, why not the thing closest to

the balcony edge, why the second one. So anyway, in

the morning, before I left, I spoke to I had

a strange dream, and in this dream, this is what happened.

Then I went to school, I came back and my

you know, did my usual stuff. Eight nine o'clock, went

back to the church, and then the pastor said, Terrence,

let me tell you about your dream. We were led

by the spirit to go to this guy's house, and

we went to his house. We were, you know, searching

through his cupboard, and the second uniform fell to the ground.

When we picked up the second uniform, we found in

it a talisman, a charm. And when we removed that

charm and destroyed it in the fire, the demon came out.

Who was I and nobody? But you see, I went

and the Lord used me. Guys, missions is like that.

You know, when you go you're literally going out of

your comfort zone. You know why, because the moment you

get out of your bed and you go to a

place that's not your old you need the power of

God to be working through you. And then you'll see

that God is doing some really great things for you.

Because you're not comfortable. And when you're not comfortable, who

are you relying on? You're relying on him. You're relying

on him. So the Lord ministered and say, hey guys,

He said, Terrence, you have been to missions before. Your

missions was in Singapore for that two and a half

years you were there. How many people you witnessed to,

how many people you shared with? I told you about

the other guy who who got saved when his yacht

he was about to die, and then he remembered what

I told him or wrote on him, wrote in a

scripture says run to trouble, call the name of Jesus.

He'll come and help you. And when he was on

his yacht, here's a very rich guy, he said he

was about to die, and he remembered what I wrote

in the autograph book. He called on Jesus name, and

Jesus came on the water and saved him. He came

to shore, he gave up all his his wealth and

he became full time. So he was in Kiel. He

was in Call. A couple of weeks ago. I ran

and he supposed to say, hey, you're here, and call

let me know. I'll come and see you. He says, oh,

I didn't know's Tamantun far from you. I say, it's

not a problem. Say anyway, I'm going back tomorrow, but

i'll come again. When I come again, we'll meet up.

Then he sends me a picture of him ministering to

a church in kl Okay. He sends me this picture.

He said, I was invited by Pastor Jerry. I don't know.

I didn't know the name Jerry. But when I saw

the picture, I told him, you see this guy, that

pastor you're speaking. This pastor was brought to the Lord

by the guy I brought to the Lord. He's my schoolmate.

He's two years my junior. He was a very good

friend my late brother, and we were part of the

same beginning in church. He said, that's interesting, he said, well,

the Lord the Lord brought someone. I mean, it's amazing.

They're meeting people we know and connected with the other

day the other. So last year I said to myself,

I think it's time to go for missions. I thought

it was the first time I'm going for missions. So

I thought, pasta, okay, I'm going to go to one

of these places that's not easy. If you're going to

go for the first time for me, don't take the

easy one, you know, go for what you think it's difficult,

and then you can see I've done it, okay, rather

than go for an easy one and then work your

way up to something more. So I say, Pastor, I

know myself. I'm a person that likes creature comforts. So

I tell you what, let me go to one of

the Indonesian one of the Indonesian missions. All right, So

I said, okay, I'll go for lake Toba. Okay, I'll

go for lake Toba. So Pastor is very kind. By

the way, they send you your love. Pasta Kennon passes heenra.

She was very kind, she says, Terence, you're a little

bit advanced. Okay, so I'll help you. I don't think

we'll send you to Lake Tobar, never mind, will send

you to Bercassi. The reason why I hear is lake Toba.

You gotta go, and you get into the car and

then you gotta drive another four hours on muddy roads

and your brain gets rocked about and you get scramblings

in your head. You know that kind of thing. So

so I went to Bacassia. So this is supposed to

be the easy trip, right BECAUSI try going to a

place where you have to sit on the floor and

you're in your sixties and you're not quite used to

sitting on the floor. And I tell you, my knees

were singing songs. I mean every five seconds. I didn't

know whether it stretched them or fall dam or sit

on my knees because every I was like a FIDGETI

you know, I was so because I was all the time,

you know, getting up, stretching the leg, putting it this ways. Okay,

not ma, I'm not used to it. I'll tell you why.

What I discovered when I went to Bacasi was a

different kind of lifestyle that I had not seen. The

people's house, the whole house. That means the house, the room,

the kitchen, the toilet. Maybe maybe this is it. And

then it's divided into two. So you know, if I

would sit on this wall and stretch out my legs,

and if somebody else sits on the other wall and

stretch out the legs, our legs would cross. That was

the reason why I was finding it so difficult to

move because if I put my legs out somebody will

trip or I put my legs in I cannot. You know,

it was it was difficult. They had no furniture. The

bid was the mattresses against the wall, and in the

nighttime they will just pull the mattress down to sleep

and they ate their food on the floor. Their toilet

was you know, it was a tough life. And these

are the kind of people that we ministered to. Now,

I'm telling you, one of the fears for me to

go to a place like this is can I speak

the language? Until that time, I had not practiced my

Bahasa in easily thirty years or many many years. Why

would I? Why would I? I'm in the corporate line

where we don't really speak Bassa. So how will God

do a miracle in your life if you do not

get out of your usual way of living. So I

went and I talked to myself, oh, when I go

on this, And I went with Elder Rows, and my

elder rose her Basa Basa Indonesia. Basa is next level. Okay,

if you need to go somewhere and have somebody speak,

you have to have Elder Rows with you. So anyway,

I went with her, and then I said to myself.

I think what I'll do is I will keep quiet.

I'll just go and pretty quietly. I'll keep quiet and

I let them take the lead because they experienced ones

I'm not, and someboe there they find it easy to

talk in basa. So we went to the first place

because there several things that we did. One of the

things that we did was house visitation. We go to

the house and be visiting and this person is telling

me his story. They're telling they're sharing with us the story,

and before I can catch myself, I start sharing with

him prophetically in basa. And I'm listening to myself and

I said, hmm, this sounds pretty smooth. It's not me,

you know, you can you know what's you? This is

the Holy Spirit using you to speak in a language

that you're not accustomed to, and it's so fluent. Then

you ask yourself, is it really gonna help somebody. We

went to one house and the person was there, two children.

The husband and wife were successful business people and the business,

because of the pandemic, went completely bankrupt. Now they owe

the bank a huge sum of money. And they said,

this is our last week in the house. We've been

asked to vacate. We have no place left to go.

So I shared with them the word of God. I

can't remember which scripture I shared with them, but the

Lord ministered and I was just sharing from scripture and

I'm telling and I'm listening to myself, this is really interesting.

And I'm sharing and sharing and telling them and left it.

One week later, Pastor Franz sends a mission, sends a

letter to us an email, and he says, you know

this couple that you prayed for, the bank came back

to them and gave them such a fantastic deal, never

heard of before. It was so good and so easy.

Their life is completely turning around. They did not lose

the house. They're doing very well. Now. How is this?

You see, you had to go. If I had stayed

where I was, maybe I would not have given that word.

Maybe somebody else might have. I don't know about what

if nobody else gave the word. We went to another house,

and all the houses the same, all very small. So

this guy was running a business. It was a motorcycle

repair business. Okay, what I'm about to tell you was shock.

You remember the size I told you the house, how

small it was? Okay, that means the house would be

like this chas line put these chairs together is and

that would be the house, everything in it, even his

repair shop. You know how much the owner wanted to

sell him that little plot. One hundred and fifty thousand ringed.

One hundred and fifty thousand ringed. You think it's a

nice area. You see a watermark. The watermark is up

to here. So I asked him, why is this watermark?

He says, well, when it rains. If you look out

the window, you see a big monsoon rain. That big

monsoon rain comes from the front and it turns the corner.

So when it rains, the water comes in with such

a force the house is flooded until that high every

time it rains. Yes, and it's green water coming in. Okay.

Then I asked him, don't the authorities do anything. Yes,

but the problem is the authorities keep the money for them,

So so we pray. You know what my prayer was.

I'm sorry that I'm mean. Okay. When I talked to

the Lord, I talked to the Lord the way the

Lord leads me. I said, Lord, solve this problem. Send

this drain water into the houses of the politicians who

have stolen the money. I do not know whether that

will happen or not, but I do know this God

is able, So I expect if ever I go there again,

and I suspect I will, something would have taken place. See,

you have to go. You know, have you seen people?

We got such nice ex kids, right you go there

to becassie. I saw all these kids, maybe from about

fifteen years old, eight to fifteen years old, all painted silver.

They call the silver people. You know what kind of silver?

Not not makeup silver? Okay, you know you go to

the hardware store that little tin or silver which you

pain your bicycle that was rusting. They pained themselves completely

with it. They completely covered. They call the silver kids

or silver children to gain money. So they walk around

and these kids are head to toe painted silver. You

know how toxic that is. This is shocking to me.

We went for we gave food to the poor. It's coked.

We packed it. One day, we went in the night,

one day we went in the morning. One hundred hundred

and twenty packets. You know how fast it took us

to clear it? Less than five minutes. Just go to

one place and there's so many poor people and we

were giving out. There is the cart people. Have you

heard of the cart people? The cart people have got

no place to live, no place to live. They live

in a cart. The cat is about one and a

half feet wide, about two and a half feet deep

and about three feet long. And then there's the piece

of wood over there. And the man pulls his wife

and his children in the cart. That's where they live,

and he walk. Have you seen something like this? I

couldn't believe. Now, this is where they live. And when

you go and you bring Christ to them, you bring

food to them, you see the smiles on their faces.

It's amazing. There's another place we went. The guy was

fishing from a huge drain river drain, horribly dirty water.

You know what he's fishing out of the river? Bandaraya?

You know it's Bandaraya. You know that fish that everybody

throws away in the ponds, the ugly fish. Yeah yeah, yeah,

but they don't eat it, Okay, you know what they do,

So they catch the fish, but twenty thirty forty fish.

Just catching the fish, they're cutting it open and squeezing

out the eggs. They sell the eggs. Oh my guys,

it's very important for us. To care for the church

and you. Pastor France is an amazing person. He goes it.

There's so many poor people on the street. They all

know him by name because he's ministering to them, he's

reaching out to them, he's sharing Jesus with them. Some

of them got no shoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll see

you on Sunday. Sunday comes. You don't see them. You

need to go out there and share this Jesus who

has changed your life to them, because the only one

who can bring them out of that situation is Jesus Christ.

I must tell you about the children we went for

Christmas party. The Christmas party was in a room maybe

about six by six, maybe about thirty six or forty

forty square feet, twenty to thirty children in that one room.

When they sang those little kids, I was literally tearing outside.

I mean I was. I was because the presence of

the Lord was so strong. I didn't understand the song

that they were singing, but they were worshiping the Lord.

Kids small maybe up to year, all cramped up in

that little room. When they sang. It was just simply amazing.

And yeah, you got these poor people, they're so poor

but because we came, they gave us food, buns, drink.

I felt so bad because the buns and the drink

that they bought from us maybe one week's salary, but

they was so generous. Guys, That's what missions all about.

Inasmuch as you bringing Christ to them, They're touching your heart.

They're touching your heart, They're doing something to your spirit.

They're changing the way you think. Paul did not have

the kind of relationship with the church as he did

with the churches he started. But did that stop him? No?

It was Epaprass who started the church. So why would

Paul concern himself with the church that he has not started?

Why would you and I concern ourselves with the church

that we have not started. It's not about whether the

church belongs to us. We have started us, but the

church belongs to our father. And when we say no,

I'm not going to go, I'm not gonna do anything

with the church. You know what we are saying. We're

telling the lorder. I don't care for my brother and

my sister. You know, I praise the Lord. I really

thank God for the brotherhood that we have in Christianity.

My brothers come from Sudan. But when you come here,

you're still my brother. And I guarantee you if I

were to go to Sudan, you would welcome me the

same way. Why is that? Because there is something in

our heart that draws us together. And it's much more

than the color of our skin or the looks on

our face. It's who we are have in our hearts. Jesus, Jesus,

can we love enough to go? We give thanks is

what Paul says in burstory. We give thanks to God,

our Father, of our Lord, Jesus Christ, praying always for you, guys,

praying always. Why would he pray for someone he has

not even met. Why would you and I pray for

the Russian Church? Why would you and I pray for

the Christians in China? You know what's happening in China.

China is practicing the same principle that made a donkey talk.

You read scripture, and in scripture we have Balem, and

those days when you're the prophet, if you speak whatever

you speaker will be honored. So the king of the

Foreign Land tried to pay Balem money to speak against

the children of Israel, to prophesy against them. So eventually

Balem was making his way all right, and he sat

in his donkey, and then the donkey wouldn't move, and

then he's beating the donkey, and the donkey just wouldn't move,

And finally God opened the mouth of the donkey. I

want you to read that scripture very very carefully. In

that scripture, God says, or the word says, that God

opened the mouth of the donkey. The scripture does not

say God put the words in the mouth of the

donkey to speak. Do you know what that means to me?

At least, it means that animals can think. Animals have

the ability to reason. Because the donkey more or less

told bail them, what's the matter with you? Are you crazy?

Don't you see the guy down there with a big

so he can lop your head off? It was an angel,

by the way, can you mentione the donkey can see

an angel? And then the donkey sitting on the donkey couldn't.

And the donkey spoke to Bailim and said, I'm saving

your life. How many we got pets at home? One?

Only one? Okay? Two? Anyone with dogs? Do your dogs

know when they've done wrong they do right? Do your

dogs know how to ask you for food. It's true,

they can reason how many times have you tried to

eat something very very quietly so they don't know. And

then when you look there they are cragna. You know,

we cannot say the word ice scream. In my house.

I got two dogs who understand what it means. So

when we talk, we have to spell it out serious.

The moment we say the word, they're there and then

they look at you with the puppy, your guys, and

you'll give They can think and it's Tomina, But that's

not the message. The message is this. The message is this.

Bail them. Then told the king you want to get

that very easy, inter marry and affect them that way.

What is China doing? China found that it could not

stop Christianity because China, by the way, is now one

of the biggest torturers of Christians. Okay, the biggest people

who persecute Christians is China. So you know what they've

decided to do. You can't beat them. Change the word.

They are now rewriting the Bible in such a way

that it will diminish or make it of no power. Now,

when you do that and you disseminate it among the masses.

It becomes that much harder for real Christians to share

the word, because what would be the real word? Who

would know? I'm told in China they can do miracles

just from having one page of the Bible, just one page,

and they can run with it and their lives can

be so blessed. And here we are, we've got so

many versions the Bible, we don't even read it. Guys.

That's what missions does for you. You know, it opens

your heart, It opens your mind to see just how

much you can be a blessing to the ministry or

to the church at large, and how much of a

blessing they can be to you when we have missions emphasis.

Why are we doing this? We're doing this missions emphasis

is so that you and I can realize that we

have a bigger part to play. I can assure you

the jobs you and I have, the work that we have,

our daily life that we have, it's not for God,

if I may be honest, it's not for God. It's

for you. That one is for you. If you've got

to know why you got to work, thank Adam and

if yeah, when they were given everything, they wanted it

their own way. Now we have to work because of them.

I mean, that's the fact. So if you ask yourself,

the jobs that you do, the lives that you live,

the excesses and successes that you have in the commercial world,

they are yours, they are for you. But I can

assure you when you and I meet Jesus, he will

make no mention of our commercial success. He will make

no mention of how much we have in the bank,

He will make no mention of our properties. All that

was for us. He will ask us, what did you

do for me? As our hair becomes less like mine,

as it changes color, I did have black hair once.

It tells me. You know, the candle burns on both ends.

You know what I say. When the candle burns on

and the Bible says that Jesus Christ will come again.

With each day that passes, his day of his return

comes sooner. So for me, the candle burns on board,

and so it was the other end. The other end

is as I lose more hair and as it becomes

more gray, I will my time of meeting the Lord

is also coming sooner. So there's two ways to meet

the Lord. One he comes while you're alive, and one

you meet him when you're not. So, I've already lived

sixty four years of life, so you can quite tell

that I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I

better do something for the Lord factor the message. I

better do something. The Lord said, did you go for missions?

I said, Lord, you saw me struggle on the floor,

I mean I couldn't sit straight. Then say yeah, yeah, okay, okay,

that's fine. You try. Hey, you know, the Lord is

only interested. We try, but you see, we don't try it.

We are like the ones who take the talent and

push it and bury it. Today's message a little bit

different I usually, you know, sort of like teach. Today

is like preach. Okay, I hope you don't mind. You

and I we've got to be ready for the Lord,

and he is coming again soon, you know. I read somewhere.

I read somewhere scripture says that Jesus will return, and

he will return from the Mount of Olives through the

east Gate in Jerusalem. How many we have heard that

prophecy before that? I mean that that's actually in scripture. Now,

if you go to Jerusalem, the east gate is shut

because during the early you know, dark ages, or just

before or after that what the Ottomans did was they

seal the gate. Because they know the prophecy, they seal

the gate. And then when they seal the east gate,

they started bearing dead bodies outside the gate because according

to them, no holy man would cross over dead. They

forgot one thing. What did the Bible say about Jesus.

He defeated death, he died, and he rose again. If

there's anyone here who does not know Jesus Christ as

Lord and say, well, this is what Jesus did for

you so you don't have to go through it. He

paid the penalty in the price for you. And here

we are. When we're given the opportunity to receive Jesus

Christ as Lord and savior, many of us let it

pass by. Today when you're given that opportunity, don't let

it pass by, because Jesus did come for you to

save you. He did so that's why it doesn't matter

whether they are graves there or not, because Jesus overcame

the grave. Scientists have discovered something slowly but surely, the

gate on the east side, the east gate is beginning

to open. Scientifically, now they're studying why the gate is opening,

but the gate is starting to open. Jesus Christ is

going to come again soon. Man. Whether you believe it

or not makes no difference. You know, there are many

people who say, I don't believe in Jesus. It doesn't matter,

you know. To me, it doesn't matter. You know why,

because the Bible says, one day every nie shall bow

and every time confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Do

it as a friend, or do it on the other side.

But whichever side you're on, you still have to bow

your need in Jesus. Paul really was interested in anyone

who confessed Jesus. It says, yeah, we heard of your

faith in Christ, Jesus, and of your love for all

the saints. It was very important for Paul that the

church loved Christians, not just where they were, but everywhere else.

When one of your brothers is hurting in another country,

he's told your brother, what can you do? Scripture says

that number one Paul gave thanks, and he was always praying.

In this particular case, he went. Then, it says, because

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

which you have heard before, the word of the truth

of the Gospel. It's very simple. Can we thank God

for somebody else. This pastor whom I used to study

with or used to pray with in Singapore, he always

tell us this funny prayer, Lord, bless me my wife,

my two children, us four and no more. Guys. Let's

not pray like that. You know. What he was basically

saying is pray prayer. It's got to be more than

just for you. It's got me for somebody else. Could

we pray for a people we don't know? Would we

would we get excited about somebody else that's not us?

Can we get excited about somebody else that's not us?

You know? I went to Pakistan and I heard that

there was a big church in Pakistan, though I had

not seen it. And on the table was this magazine.

You know, like those days in Malaysia we had the

Asia magazine comes with a Sunday newspapers, a small little

magazine that would calm and there will be stuff. Now,

of course the newspapers are dying, right. The The Star

used to be this stick on a Sunday. Now it's

become turn two pages is finished. Okay, you all are

too young. Okay, don't know, you don't know. You all

are too young, those of us who are older will know,

and unfortunately there's no one here old enough to really know.

But so I saw this magazine and in this magazine

was showing a Christian, a Pakistani pastor, and he was

preaching to a congregation of about forty thousand people. I

got so excited, Wow, there's such a church here. Then

I found in a magazine that Pakistan is a Christian channel. Wow,

a Christian channel. So the moment I saw that, I

went to the TV flick click and on it came amazing.

I got it chance to see forty thousand people. Why.

They have no place to build, so what they do

is to sit on the ground and they hear the

word of God. You know who that Pakistani pastor was?

You know Edison? Edison who was in Acts, Edison who

acted as Jesus in the play a few years ago.

That Edison, that is his uncle, his father's brother. Is

that pastor of that forty thousand church. Immediately after that time,

this was one week or so after I saw this

on TV and it was reported their persecution started. That's

why Edison had to leave. I think, if I'm not mistaken,

Edison was one of the TV producers of that that

particular event that I was watching on TV. Wow, just

one week after that persecution started there. But you know what,

it excited me that there was such a vibrant move

in a land I thought that was just not possible.

God deals in impossibilities. God works in impossibilities. How will

you and I see it if we don't go, When

we stay where we are, you know what we are doing.

We're only living in our possibilities, right, We're only living

in what we know will work, because if it didn't work,

we wouldn't be living in it. We are so used

to living in what works for us. You know when

your faith is needed. When you start living in a

place where you haven't seen it work yet, you need

to go. It strengthened your life. You won't soon forget it.

And then when your Christian hat starts to grow cold,

you will remember these people who got so excited with

so little, who did so much with so little, who

achieved so great things with whatever they had. I told

you I did not get saved in a church like this.

I got saved in a church there was a hat

in a jungle because of the worship of poor people

who maybe earned thirty ring it a month, twenty ringit

a month subsistence living. But when they worshiped the Lord,

the spirit of the Lord came now with such great

power that my unbelief could not stand. And I gave

my life to Christ. Even before I was offered the opportunity,

I was never told, those of you that want to

accept the Lord raising hand, I wasn't told that the

Lord just spoke to my terance. You're not a Christian,

accept me now. And I did that. Guys, you know

the Lord can work through you in the same way. Oh,

I'm not a holy person. I'm not great. I'm just

a sinner. Hey, let me introduce you to all of us.

You know. One of the things that the Lord asks me,

I pray for the service today. I started my praying

at three thirteen in the morning. So I'm walking and

I could hear, you know, at three thirteen the morning,

some house, maybe six hundred and seven hundred meters away,

people are talking. You can hear, you know. So I'm

hearing the stocking and I'm walking. I'm hearing the stocking.

I cannot see. I just continue the walk and find me.

When I come around, I see a group of people.

I think they must be all relatives, they must have

been having a good night together and all that. Then

one of the men says, wow, very good. Now you

walk here every morning, so good to see you. I say,

what to do I have to lose with? Then he laughed.

I laugh, and I continued walking. But actually it's my

time with the Lord. I pray. I ask the Lord, Lord,

speak something that's going to help change people's life. Then

the Lord asked me a question, not what he asked me,

what's so great about your face? The Lord asked me

this question, what's so great about your face? Meaning that,

why do you think so highly of yourself that you

can get offended easily? Why do you think so highly

of yourself that you feel you need a certain thing

in order for me to work through you? Are you

that great? See? When you realize that there's nothing special

about you, there's I'm speaking reality. The Lord is speaking

to me. There's nothing special about you. You realize that

things happen only because God is real. Things happen because

God is the one using you. So when you're not

in the equation, you're not the reason God works. God

can work because if you're saying a God, you cannot

use me. You know what you're telling God? God, Only

when I'm great, then your power can work through me.

It's not like that. It's not like that. When you

are you, your ordinary use got nothing to sing a

shout about. The Lord can work through you because then

you and I both know who gets the glory, who

gets the glory Godness. So now you understand when the

question what's so great about your face? It simply means

it's a very positive statement. By the way, it simply

means because you're not great, I can work through you

because you are going to be the one who's giving

me all the glory. You're going to be the one

who is actually saying it's God. And as long as

God is getting the glory, he can continue to work.

It's a it's not a vicious cycle. It's a fantastic cycle.

And more and more and more and great things happen.

I don't know whether I told you the last time

that the Lord was working something very very special with

a very big organization. By the way, I won, if

you can remember that. But what I want you to

know is God was the one who won. He let me,

He showed me what to do, and it's amazing. This

is what God does for us. Guys, would we get

excited about someone else that's not us. I'm not going

to get to all the other verses, by the way,

so don't worry, okay, because you know I was actually

supposed to share until verse eleven. But I think you

must be panicking. Oh no, you know, and this is

only what verse verse five. If I have to go

at verse eleven, there will be another hour. No, I'm

not going to do that. Relax, it's going to be okay.

I just want you to know that there is liberation

in being normal. There's liberation in being ordinary. There is

liberation in being able to say I am not great.

You know why because you and I both know then

who is getting the glory. It's Jesus. And you know

when Jesus is getting the glory, great things will always happen,

Great things will always take place, because who's the one

who's great Jesus. It's not you, it's not me. So

when something happens, something happens great. You think I can

boast about it? No, I hope you'll don't take what

I these testimony is that I share that I'm boasting

about myself. No, you see, if it happens for me,

much more it will happen for you. That's what I'm

trying to tell you. Because I'm a nobody and God

has blessed What about you? God will do great things

through you if you will just give him an opportunity.

How do you give him an opportunity? It's not you,

it's not you, it's him. Would you go? Would you go?

Would you not stay? Would you be like Paul who

could say I came? Would you give God an opportunity

to show you how great he can use you in

another place? God's wisdom? Can we have the ministry team

to come up and I can hear the people say

praise the Lord. Last week I shared in some money

and in some monya. I said, you know, God is

able to do great things to you and through you,

if you will give him an opportunity. I share a

nam this testimony. When I first became a Christian, this

was in seventy nine, I couldn't sing. In fact, you

know the piano keys, You've got the black keys and

the white keys. I used to sing in the cracks.

In fact, the church that I was in the Houston

tell me, talants, can you please keep quiet? You're throwing

everybody off. That's how bad it was. But thank God

for a wise pastor who said, let him be. If

he's praising the Lord, if he's worshiping Jesus, great things

can happen.

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