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Do Not Be Afraid | Elder Kien Yiak

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

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  4. a mission trip. We have never been before. But there

  5. is the initial fear of saying that, yes, Lord, the

  6. initial fear of saying.

  7. That God, I want more.

  8. But yet God has always asked us to embrace a

  9. year without fear. So I won't speak about do not

  10. fear this morning? And turn I want to turn this

  11. to the Bible. Do you try me Chapter twenty worse one?

  12. You t meach up to twenty worse one. And this

  13. is the principles of governing warfare, all right? So you

  14. twenty worse one says that when you go out into

  15. better against your enemy and see horses, chariots and people

  16. are more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them. Friends,

  17. you and I. The word is this that we are

  18. very governed by sight. Right. The Bible here says that

  19. when you go out for war, when you when you

  20. enter into a space or environment whereby everything is against you,

  21. The Bible here describes, as you know, horses and chariots, right,

  22. horses and chariots, that there's more numals that you could

  23. count right, arm me that you know that you only

  24. wish you have, but you didn't have right all these stakes.

  25. It puts a lot of pressure on earth. One time

  26. I was with a relative of mine and the person

  27. just asked me a question that if you were to retire,

  28. as you know, with my vocation right now being full time,

  29. if you were to retire, right, do you have one

  30. million in your EPM bank account whatsoever? I ran like, no,

  31. but I know I got one million in Jesus, hallelujah,

  32. praise a lot, you know, and stuff like that. I

  33. know it sounds the word is, that sounds very shallow.

  34. But we don't have means.

  35. We don't ever if you understand what I'm trying to say,

  36. If you really don't have that, you just you just

  37. can't condu you up right. The moment you face your enemy,

  38. that's your friendly. There more numerous in chariots, horses and army. Right,

  39. It's not like you could just snap your finger and

  40. walla all you go online and you buy army chariots

  41. like what they do online?

  42. Right, they go and buy army and stuff like that.

  43. You can't do that right when you don't have means

  44. you don't have, but it doesn't mean friends that you

  45. and I. The Bible here says have to be afraid

  46. of them? Right have The word is that have to

  47. allow ourselves the words hijack our thoughts, our hearts, our sleep,

  48. our attention in the place where we do want you

  49. want to go to? How many of us do you

  50. understand what I mean by the moment? That is where

  51. by when things are against you, right, your thoughts get

  52. hijacked and we get to anxiety faith and the panic

  53. attack phase. We get to a place whereby we don't

  54. even the word is that trust or.

  55. Even believe there is a God who loves us.

  56. So the Bible here reminds us that do not be

  57. afraid of them, for the Lord God is with you, friends,

  58. even though everything is against you. Everything is the word

  59. is that pointed towards a dietion wherebi it squeezes out hope,

  60. it squeezes out faith, it squeezed out future. Right that

  61. you and I this morning do not need to be

  62. afraid because the Lord is with us. I can only

  63. stand and say this because of our journey of the church,

  64. being in church, or rather seeing the church. The day

  65. we started to today and how the Lord's going to

  66. bring us to and read the Lord's gonna bring us

  67. to we can only recognize and believe if the Lord

  68. is with you, really, you do not need to be afraid.

  69. Yes, you may lose people around you.

  70. Some of us here may have really good contacts, really

  71. good friends, supporters and stuff like that all these years,

  72. but all of a sudden right that that that favored is

  73. no longer there.

  74. We do not need to be afraid. You do not

  75. need to be in fear.

  76. Our church we've seen in our own journey as well,

  77. when we did the very first event at some way,

  78. so every year we had this some Christmas at the

  79. part Right, Christmas at the part Right, and the very

  80. first time I think we had it was very long

  81. time ago. I think you tread two thousand and one,

  82. two thousand and two, right. Our childre is very small.

  83. And you know back then we had a band called

  84. Parishion Band that came from New Zealand. Very what was that, Yeah,

  85. a person worship band from New Zealand. It came down

  86. right and they did and you know, let us worship

  87. and stuff like that. But after the event is done,

  88. everyone say, fantastic every every uh lotsbout pastor say thank

  89. you very much for organizing, putting things together right, and

  90. they say hi fi, hallelujah.

  91. Will everybody left? Friends, Uh, we were left with bills

  92. to pay.

  93. Help you understand that, you know, after every after every event,

  94. people high fi, you say thank you for organizing, put

  95. it together right, while they all enjoy and had a

  96. great time. Uh, that incomes abius, the armies, the cherriers,

  97. the horses somehow ritherbulls will come and we'll know your

  98. address on right.

  99. You can't run away from them, right.

  100. So the bills came and stuff like that, and we

  101. were asked to pay. Our church was very small, and

  102. you know, and and and and we didn't have people

  103. of those the resources or bank account, right, even though

  104. we had a lot of people attending, right, friends, and

  105. you know, and sometimes we don't take up a public offering. Friends,

  106. it doesn't turn out like how you wait, you turn

  107. out you wish to turn out. And even though it's

  108. supposed to be a shared response ability with you know,

  109. all the other churches, right someone, rather it falls on

  110. the organizing that organized at the event and stuff like that.

  111. So the bills came and now we did a collection

  112. and stuff like their friends. They weren't enough to pay

  113. the bill, all the bills some but not all the

  114. bulls friends.

  115. So what do you do in a situation?

  116. What do you do in the moment that time whereby

  117. the bills are like WHOA a lot? And you're there,

  118. you're telling everything you could meet maybe fifty percent of

  119. the budget. And this is the situation whereby you trot

  120. reach up to twenty when you see the cherists and

  121. the horses and army were friends. You do not need

  122. to be afraid. The question here is is that in

  123. all that you do, in all that you do in

  124. your life, are you in alignment with the lot? Because

  125. there are some bills that we incur in life because

  126. of all disobedience, because us of our ones, not because

  127. of our needs. There are some things in life you

  128. go to right, you incur certain expenses because of our

  129. own values. That's not in alignment. We've got we've got

  130. to the place. But here the Bible here says do

  131. not need to be afraid. So what happened that during

  132. the event we were praying, and that very day I

  133. remember that there was a businessman that came because you know,

  134. from different churches. He came and this stuff that came

  135. event after the event, he was so moved, so touched

  136. by the Lord.

  137. He said, hey, can you come to the office.

  138. And and you know, we were like okay, Lord, just

  139. go up right and passed the say just follow me

  140. when we passed it, and stuff like how much do

  141. you still left? The outstanding stated a mound and he

  142. handed us cash cash. I remember it was about close.

  143. I think the outstanding was about ten. So on my

  144. left flick was five thousand because I got no back

  145. the time, I e squeeze everything one pocket, five thousand

  146. a day, five thousand year. Too big, but because you

  147. don't like that was bigger inside, so they thought I

  148. have big like masters and stuff like that. And uh,

  149. and I went and secretly went to the back to

  150. back in the money. It was hilarious because the past,

  151. for the very first time we've ever seen someone chop

  152. off by len say you know, right, but what let

  153. you know friends, But before that provision came over me,

  154. I was I was nervous because like, how do you

  155. pay the bill?

  156. I was in fear. I was afraid. I was like doubting, Like, Lord.

  157. I know I've now organized things by faith before, whereas

  158. pastor has organized so many times that the way past

  159. the say the way you will all be taken care of,

  160. or trust me all be taking care of. God will

  161. move hearts of the people to give it for their

  162. passes faith. If you know past our founding see passes faith.

  163. But for us junior level, right, sorry, I use that technology.

  164. I never understood that journey. I never understand I never

  165. understood that the pathway. Even right now, the Bible says

  166. when you see the chairs, the horses, right, when you

  167. see the army in front of you, do not be

  168. afraid the Lost review. Right, Yes, the author here understood.

  169. He went through that as he's writing about it, right,

  170. he said, do not be afraid the lost review. But

  171. we as a reader reading it, like, yeah, it's easy.

  172. That says for you to write it that way. I

  173. know the Lost readers.

  174. But when you're in the tick of the fire, come on,

  175. someone's getting married, ye end or next year they are, right,

  176. there are there two people here getting.

  177. Married our friends just in case. So you're like, what

  178. two people getting married?

  179. So they're like, you know, when you are getting married,

  180. it's it's like the al sudden the idea is great,

  181. but the bills are a different story altogether, right Tim

  182. Tiam is still paying for the wedding bills. Very quiet, sorry, know,

  183. just joking, just your k right, right. That's why team

  184. could offer by his coffee masin, yet the wife say no.

  185. The idea is ready fantastic, but the bills are different

  186. metal altogether.

  187. And because of death.

  188. Friends, sometimes we make decisions based on the chariots and

  189. horses we see, not by faith. I'm not asking us

  190. to do to go to the extment by a debt, but

  191. asking us to allow God to stretch our imagination with

  192. what we have, because sometimes in life it's not what

  193. you see your eyes first, it's what you see faith.

  194. First.

  195. There was a lady in our organization bought a very

  196. first space. You know we have we are powerful time

  197. ministry and stuff like that. All right, We're not in corporate,

  198. so we don't.

  199. Have yearly bonuses.

  200. A bonus is in heaven, Amen Hallelijah, right, so we

  201. don't have that, right. But anyway, she was sharing her

  202. destiminy right at each of thirty six, buying our own place,

  203. and her journey was just this that last year or

  204. two years ago, and they will give. God just put

  205. on her heart to soar in the mound, and this

  206. kind of things you don't take likely know. And God

  207. puts something on your heart, right, it's not for us

  208. to just discard it, but just allow you to work.

  209. What God puts on your heart requires faith. Okay, well, God,

  210. God puts your heart required faith. But the point of

  211. faith and the action, that's where fear. That's where the cherriot.

  212. That's where do not be afraid. That's where the fear

  213. comes in.

  214. She's succeed. God, is are you sure it's you?

  215. Because this doesn't I know, it sounds like you, but

  216. I just got to be sure it is you because

  217. it requires faith. And the moment when she released the

  218. funds friends, people were smiling and giving. She was crying,

  219. giving into the bag. She shared later in the whole

  220. course of journey friends, never in her entire wildest imagination

  221. that the Lord has blessed her away I would say

  222. a side, but a part time share, the part time

  223. job outside. Never in her wildest dream that God has

  224. you someone who's very timid and quiet, very very timid

  225. and very quiet, to be the top salesperson. Totally, She's

  226. here and I know this person than over years, or

  227. it is really by the grace of God.

  228. And she stood there one day and she had a

  229. place in writing us.

  230. Always you just say, I want to let you know

  231. where you're at right now.

  232. It's only because the Lord has provided. Yes, it's fearful.

  233. Yes, I couldn't do anything everything but the faith that's

  234. required to do the initious sewing. That's why the Bible

  235. here says, do not be afraid of that, for the

  236. Lord God's with you, who brought you out from the

  237. land of Egypt.

  238. Friends, if you recognize your journey in the Lord, friends.

  239. All these years, how fitful God has been in your life. Friends,

  240. you and I are supposed to build on that journey.

  241. You're not supposed to build on that faith on that journey.

  242. Friends.

  243. I know, friends that the days are by. Yeah, but

  244. you don't say, elder that the land of Egypt is

  245. so long ago. My last time was maybe five years.

  246. But hey, friends, I want to let you know, even

  247. though it's five years, you can build on it today.

  248. That's why I say, how do you welcome this year?

  249. Is it by faith or is it fear? Is it

  250. this year? Decided that you know that that you want

  251. to God, I just want to trust you a bit more.

  252. So therefore I wanted to take a step out my

  253. comfort zone. And the word is God. If you can

  254. use anyone, you can use me. And I want to

  255. be a blessing to know what is, to know what

  256. it's like to embrace to help. So one of attestimony

  257. for our school recently we heard at the teachers all

  258. night was that you know that especially boy that was

  259. so rejected in one place came to our place and

  260. you know manage The word is that managed to find courage,

  261. courage to believe again that you know that that the

  262. word's not that bad because before this puriously was in

  263. another place whereby ridiculed by all the friends and stuff

  264. like that. But the place mom said that you know

  265. my boy and now look forward to go to school,

  266. not train me all. We're not specially so anything but

  267. the love, the care that was given. I'm sharing this

  268. to you not to stretch our imagination right, our faith

  269. and our hearts, because friends, you don't need to be

  270. a specialist in something. All we need to know that

  271. the law is with us. God give me ideas right.

  272. So the question is that where do we learn fear.

  273. Where did we learn fear in our life when we're younger? Friends,

  274. fear is not something that is very evident, right. You

  275. think about the craziest thing you've ever done when you

  276. were a kid, all right, I'm sure there are so

  277. many crazy stuff.

  278. Mine was really a.

  279. Climbing up, climbing up the balcony from ground floor. Climbed

  280. to my neighbor fans after they climbed to my balcony

  281. because my parents say you cannot enter the house man right,

  282. because I was always coming back the same time, I

  283. didn't come back, so I could lock off from the house.

  284. My mother forgot I could climb over the fans from

  285. the fans that I couldn't enter the main house. But

  286. I know the balcony door was open, so I climbed out.

  287. Fans stand on the spikes. Then after they climb on

  288. the railing there there don't know back then, back then

  289. I could pull myself up. Now I couldn't himself pull

  290. it myself. I think I could put the railing down anyway.

  291. Stuff like that, and and really really crazy stuff. But anyway,

  292. when you were younger, there was no fear. But because

  293. she's way learn fear where did we learn fear. None

  294. of us here going to school and just say, hey,

  295. elected for fear. I want to sign up right, So

  296. Genesis chaped the tree. Genesis chapt the tree was six

  297. that the woman thought tree was good for food and

  298. was pleasant to the eyes.

  299. The tree was desired to make one wise. She took

  300. the fruit and she ate it, and she gave the husband.

  301. It starts from the garden, friends, It starts at the

  302. garden whereby first of all God said, do not eat

  303. of the tree of the noise of good either. But

  304. because of the cunningness of the serpent and stuff that

  305. mankind fell into the trap, fell into something which God

  306. has never wanted us to have in the first place?

  307. Was it they heard the sound of the Lord God

  308. in the garden, walking in the garden the core of

  309. the day, and the man his wife hit themselves from

  310. the presidents of God for the very first time, itself

  311. embracing God in the garden, and man even hid from

  312. the presence of God. When you only hide something because

  313. you're you're afraid of it, how many of us here

  314. did have a recollection of memory, whereby we have hit

  315. the king when our parents are looking for it the

  316. road don friends a kid that we were they were

  317. used on earth.

  318. Sorry this met my error.

  319. Okay, I'm not sure you used to use kN but

  320. my error I came boomstick and you know, and and

  321. it wasso uh hangar that was.

  322. Used on me and stuff like that.

  323. And somehow I realized it's not wise to hike king

  324. from parents because then they grab anything else and their

  325. fury goods goes a bit more higher if you don't

  326. reveal where the kidney is. Right, I hit the king

  327. behind the couple before my mom found it, and the

  328. and the waking became even harder. It is because she

  329. thinks of energy to find the king, couldn't find the king,

  330. and after after I reveal where the kidney is her basic.

  331. So we hid things because we are afraid of it.

  332. And Adam if hit from God, so from the very

  333. for the very first time in their whole journey with

  334. the Lord friends they hit. They went into hiding. You

  335. think about it, who have taught them to hide from God?

  336. But because of the disobedience and and they allow that

  337. that feeling, imagine might you're allowed If God.

  338. Found out right, then we will be we will be.

  339. Disciplined and therefore the height they allow there that emotion

  340. and feeling to hijack that destiny. You see sometimes in

  341. our life the reason why we we don't step out

  342. the experience of victu because we allow fear and to

  343. hijack us from breakthrough to a place whereby.

  344. We can't do it. You can never do it.

  345. You're like that, and that's there for your future is

  346. like that, and we make every decision because of that.

  347. What's nine? Then the Lord God said to Adam, where

  348. are you?

  349. And you say, I heard your voice in the garden,

  350. and I was afraid again for the very first time

  351. human being unders begin to feel afraid, begin to feel

  352. that fear. And because of the disobedient, friends, fear is

  353. the consequences of sin, because of one very egg, friends,

  354. the branh of being found out obedient enter into mankind.

  355. And because of that, friends, we are the words that

  356. in our own life and our own personal journey as well.

  357. I have found that many times we tell ourselves that

  358. we can't do certain things. We tell ourself when God

  359. say you can, be said we can't, And God say,

  360. you trust me, believe in me by a lot.

  361. I can't.

  362. Friends, I want to encourage you before I close, you know,

  363. the next twenty minutes, friends, I want to encourage you

  364. before I close, really this year to really the words

  365. that would you consider to take a step of faith

  366. and to believe God. These year, friends, we are looking

  367. the possibility of planting a few more churches around the globe,

  368. around the globe, around the globe, and one of them

  369. really is that you know that we are looking at

  370. it's planting something in India. We have a partner that

  371. that goes in, God that goes in, and we are

  372. just praying and asking God really like you know, if

  373. it's your real, would you show us?

  374. Would you show us where and what to do?

  375. We won't go in there blindly and just start something,

  376. not because we want to start something.

  377. If it's the Lord, the low will open the door.

  378. And the word is this that the lot will confirm

  379. things on our journey. There's a possibility we might start something.

  380. And the power, the power and if it's the Lot's real, friends,

  381. the love will open the door for us to go

  382. in there to plant something. Again, it's not something that

  383. we are most comfortable with, language difference and just stuff

  384. like that. But if the Lord is with you, that

  385. no nationn't doors will be closed. Right if the loss

  386. we few friends, the law provide the personnel people, Lord

  387. prepare the hearts of the people. And we are just

  388. a contuent. We're just a channel the wessl that God

  389. wants to use. But the question is that we allow

  390. God even to use us to say, I want to

  391. take this step of faith God, I will be a

  392. channel of blessing to that land. Right, So fear is

  393. not from the Lord. Second Timothy one, verse seven. For

  394. God do not give us a spirit of fear intimidity,

  395. but power, love, and self discipline. God has not given

  396. us the spirit of fear intimidity. Friends, if and I'm

  397. going to say this all right, and knows how we've

  398. made me know like me, But I'm not advocate of

  399. people watching horror shows.

  400. I'm sorry. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.

  401. I'm not because many times in our life we opened

  402. that spiritual door. Friends, That spiritual is a spiritual door

  403. that you open up into your life and constantly, constantly, Friends,

  404. you're always watching your back because feelful it works a

  405. new one. So one time I went for a railroad

  406. twelve will not say where, but in a smaller town.

  407. Smaller town, smaller town. Right, all hotel shot lot back

  408. in the seventies. It was built up so the signbod

  409. is older than some of your dilapidated sideboard and stuff like,

  410. So no leave for whatever. Dark one old film like

  411. bulb like thing. The staircase going up, right, They still

  412. use old school keys to open the door, but in

  413. that it's quite a big room. Right, So the tons

  414. was really old, baffed up with curtain showers.

  415. That's older than some of you here.

  416. That's but what didn't really work was the tap that

  417. couldn't shut properly, the dripping sound of a constant dripping rate,

  418. a very slow rate. Now, first I want to let

  419. you know, during daytime not a problem because there's no

  420. field during daytime one, all right, unless there's there's really

  421. a presence in the room now, but otherwise there's no fear.

  422. And you know if you understand. However, that turns towards

  423. the evening, right, I need a hot water, and I

  424. I requests of hot water. They still use the old

  425. school grad color flowers if you don't know what. Back

  426. in the sixties they're this old school rak and they

  427. still delivered the flawers there from an old gentleman wearing

  428. all white colored shit.

  429. Doesn't really help.

  430. Opposite me was a temper that there has that the

  431. rings the bell once once a while, so comes night time.

  432. Fair. I was supposed to sleep freends. I just can't help.

  433. But for curse, I was trying to sleep, but my

  434. attention was hijacked by the dripping water sound is in

  435. the toilet. I played places of worship the tol I

  436. because you can't sleep. Firsts you, you know it doesn't help. Friends,

  437. you sense a presence in the room somehow. The Bible says, God,

  438. you don't give us real fear. But the thing is

  439. is that it's very tangible and the environment around you.

  440. I really try to shut I stuff that that that

  441. that that tap with cotton and stuff like that so

  442. the water doesn't drip down. Probably if you understand what

  443. I'm trying to say, you put towers there to soften

  444. the thing. But you're you just can't help because your

  445. mind gets hijacked. So if you're if you're still indulging

  446. yourself in horror movie, I want to encourage you, which

  447. you surrender that before the Lord.

  448. The Bible says Fear is the spirit. Fear is the

  449. spirit is the spirit.

  450. Friends, that very night, I O God, God, please deliver me,

  451. because this is I'm going I'm supposed to preach tomorrow.

  452. I can't be standing up there that they people do

  453. not fear.

  454. But here I hear my in the room there just

  455. because it turned and night, ripping water sup and they

  456. become so fearful. Right, you play places and worship doesn't

  457. really help after after that, So I speaking in tongues

  458. and stuff like that for the Lord just reminded me

  459. that I'm with you. After that, I went sleep soundly

  460. after the border. After that, I say, I can just

  461. drop all you wanna. It's okay. The days where by

  462. in our ministry, the early days of our church, we

  463. have delivered a lot. We did a lot of deliverance,

  464. praying for people and stuff like that. Was there was

  465. one time I think we had an event, so we

  466. were praying for people. There was a small size particized lady.

  467. They came up for prayer. She started manifesting right, convulsion manifesting.

  468. Five guys try to hold down, but couldn't.

  469. Couldn't.

  470. Like you know, at the very moment, friends, I just

  471. realize sometimes you know when when you go to deliverance.

  472. If you ever notice that before our friends, all right,

  473. if you notice it when people start manifesting somebodt Rather,

  474. people just thought that by praying louder to cow the

  475. sound of the enemy like a right, It's not. It

  476. doesn't look that way. Friend, doesn't mean that you put

  477. you you drown the enemy. Friends, the confidence of the

  478. comps in the volume the confident really does coming over.

  479. Doesn't mean people are like screaming like telling me wants

  480. to rub our attention away from God and put it

  481. on itself. Our our job as a believer. We just

  482. look to God and say, God, you are the Lord

  483. in Jesus name, come out, and that's it. And of story, friends,

  484. no part too after that. So God did not give

  485. us the spirit of fear, but of love. Come on,

  486. of love, power and self discipline. I truly believe, friends,

  487. it takes selves discipline for us to excherience a breakthrough

  488. from fear, because if not, friends, you and I forget hydraighted.

  489. Like my experience in this particular hotel, my mind went worse.

  490. Why if I sleep then someone pull my blanket? Seriously,

  491. when we were asleep and you get knocked on the

  492. door at three m in the morning, Right, it doesn't

  493. really help.

  494. Friends.

  495. The other day I was afraid was the shower curtain?

  496. What's behind there? I'm sharing with you as as kendidly is.

  497. But at that moment, at the time for it wasn't

  498. funny for me because I was trying to rest and

  499. to sleep and just like just can't help. But there's

  500. a dripping sound there and then this shower because you

  501. enter the toilet, the old school towels really like mozaic

  502. towels on the floor, the.

  503. Mirror that's in front of the show.

  504. The basic was was all our friends comes the bathtub

  505. with the shower curtain there, and the worst thing the

  506. light bulb. There is the old school film in light

  507. about one in the toilet at least not blinking. It

  508. very funny, Selena. The shower cut I'm telling you, the

  509. shower curten was another thing that hijacked my mind. What

  510. happened if you actually turn off the thing and the

  511. shower curtain just moved. That's what the Bible says, He

  512. given the spirit of self discipline because our mind, our

  513. mind get hijacked. We are playing all the permutation that

  514. is out there. While you turn off the tap water

  515. comes out.

  516. You.

  517. We watched too many so one might find the story

  518. is that so we had one one camp we did

  519. only day Why call don't know Leonad you joined added

  520. to Break two Challenge Camp ABC.

  521. Did you join us, Leona no? Joel yes, Joel joined

  522. us back then.

  523. But anyway, at this camp, right, we want to help

  524. people to break through their fear. Fear, so we got

  525. every camper to come to the canteen and we turn

  526. off the lights of the camp site.

  527. The only left the lights that was left on.

  528. Was at the canteen area, and we told every camper

  529. that we're going to send you out two by two

  530. in the interval of twenty minutes. Right first team went out.

  531. The next thing after ten minutes, they heard screaming because

  532. there were six checkpoints they were supposed to sign their name.

  533. One of the checkpoint was in the gym in front

  534. of a mirror.

  535. Replaced the book right at the corner of the room

  536. because they have to walk past all the mirrors to

  537. go to the corner of the room. And the book

  538. was placed in front of an old TV with static

  539. white noise. You will love because your mind is imagined

  540. that somebody will crawl from the TV.

  541. After that, Right did you know that?

  542. Although that it sounds very simple, a lot of people

  543. couldn't do it because of what imagery they had in

  544. their mind, because that TV with a white noise.

  545. And another one was at the swimming pool.

  546. The book was right at the age of by the

  547. time you sign your name, and you'll be looking at

  548. the reflection of yourself on the pool.

  549. Yes, I don't know.

  550. Why, but friends, if we have people say I do

  551. not want to play the game where people just say

  552. this is too scary, no cannot. There had intervals people

  553. screaming say no please, they can crying say enough, I

  554. cannot can take two like to to stations that say

  555. I couldn't because you put one in the toilet as well.

  556. We love toilets and dripping water and.

  557. Stuff like that, as like as as I just.

  558. Tried to bring this so close.

  559. Chariots, horses, you know when you see them, it gets hijacked.

  560. I share about the static TV or mind. We know

  561. what we're thinking of. Some because of some imagery we

  562. saw before, something might crawl out from the TV, right

  563. you heard or something before but it takes self discipline

  564. in our minds, saying, yes, you acknowledge that. But God,

  565. because of your spirit, I got to train my mind

  566. to focus on your goodness. That's why the Bible says,

  567. don't look at the cherishs of horses and the army

  568. that's more numerous than you. It's a known fact already, friends,

  569. they are more numerous than you. But focus in on God.

  570. There's good that He's with you to overcome fear. You

  571. and I need to know that white spirit of power,

  572. because God is power, friends, he is. He is of

  573. love as well, and perfect love costs all fear. As

  574. I close friends, you and I, we are called to

  575. live above the waters and not below. And many times

  576. our journey and we start the year of friends. New year,

  577. same old feeling, New year, sime old attitude, new year,

  578. same results. And God, they say, when with the cycle break,

  579. when with the psychle break, the cycle will only break.

  580. Say God, your word says.

  581. You don't give me a spirit of fear, of power,

  582. love and self discipline. Power, love and self discipline. And

  583. in your quiet time you see God, help me to

  584. experience what it is to live in your power. Help

  585. me to understand why is it to live in your

  586. love and self as close friends. I just want to

  587. share one more story review and as I close this year, Solf,

  588. you may may or may not know, our church is

  589. a small church. We are not We're not big. We

  590. are not big. You know, We're not here about numbers.

  591. We don't really The word is that our desire is

  592. not so much with the numbers. Our desire is really

  593. God wants your plan for our church at the end

  594. of the day. Because God's plan is you know that

  595. it's really what's more important than anything else when He

  596. reveal to us, you know, growing small, right, it's not

  597. easy to do a small church. It's now easy because

  598. it's not like something that you want to highlight, like

  599. tell you first time to church, it's only one keyboard,

  600. what guitarist.

  601. And go like earth.

  602. But we are very comfortable with the calling only because

  603. God's in the picture. And we know for a very

  604. fact is this that this year, right this year, God

  605. has opened a lot of doors for the church to

  606. go and minister to a lot of smaller churches around Malaysia.

  607. In case you already know that ninety percent of the

  608. church in Malaysia are below fifty.

  609. Below fifty people.

  610. And all that friends, about maybe about sixty to seventy

  611. percent of the senior passes right now are in the

  612. sixties and seventies. In the next ten years, friends, they

  613. will be retiring. And the future of our church in Malaysia,

  614. especially Peninsula is very dim because there is no successor.

  615. There is no one wanting to take over the church.

  616. There's no one wanting to embrace the church. Frans is

  617. the churches which is not closing out because of no money,

  618. because there is no people. Right, I share you before

  619. there's one. But I know that the past is going

  620. to retire maybe the next five six years. Right, No

  621. young people, they want to come back to the state.

  622. And there was a guy who's quite well to do

  623. called the Sun. Come back, come back to this day

  624. and work for me that has a business running WHI

  625. we're business running the Sundays to that that they care

  626. very much. I'm not inter I want to take care

  627. of work for other people. I'm want to stay care

  628. of woe for other people because I like the lifestyle

  629. over here compared to where I come from. So if

  630. there's the future of our church, friends, then what's our

  631. role as X and we know that it's not by

  632. chance that got open that door for us to know

  633. what's happening. It's one thing to know what's happening and that,

  634. but the other thing to do something about it.

  635. There's something to do about it.

  636. So because places on the leadership hard say we want

  637. to help, we want to be part of the solution.

  638. So this year you gotta see past the traveler going

  639. to travel to something smaller towns and this, and just

  640. begin to network to say how could we help you

  641. as an urban church. And one of them is to

  642. encourage people that if God calls you back to your

  643. state to work, do answer that call, because not just

  644. because of the vocation, but the church needs you back

  645. at kuantan at Tanganu, needs you at the place because

  646. without you that the church can't survive. Just as a

  647. close it's never easy, friends, but it's not about fear

  648. of losing people or anything that For the past twenty

  649. five years of doing church, we have saw how God

  650. just move in our church. Really one time that we

  651. had the event and you know, again no big time

  652. musicians and stuff that, but it was the time of

  653. praise of worship, praise of worship that most of you

  654. was so thick. God presence came now and no one

  655. could just worship. Everyone just pustraight on the floor and

  656. say God, have your way. The next twenty minutes we

  657. will just on the floor, just say repentings and say

  658. God to have your way.

  659. That's like close friends.

  660. It is not about the cherished, the horses or the

  661. buildings or stuff like that, what we don't have. But

  662. do you know God in your journey this year?

  663. Amen? Do you know more about the Lord this year?

  664. Do you know more about the Lord this year?

  665. Like says how we are going to start new venture

  666. and stuff like that, we're gonna get married. But do

  667. you know God this year? Because God is the one

  668. that's really really is going to open the door for you.

  669. And that's why you can really say this can really

  670. you can really see these friends that the.

  671. Law is with us. We all come fear by knowing

  672. God is with us. And that's why it's very important

  673. for ends. It's very important in your journey of life.

  674. And you walk through even though the value of the

  675. shadow of death, you shall not fear because you know

  676. that His brought stuff comforts. It could be a radio

  677. shadow that you also could be by still waters, the

  678. still waters, the environment, the situation, it is the word.

  679. This is that it's nothing without the present of God.

  680. It is nothing without God's presence. So we all will

  681. come feel by knowing that God's with us. As I

  682. close friends, I pray, my prayers is that all of

  683. us here this year.

  684. We give opportunity to God.

  685. God, I want to give you this this moment, this time,

  686. this year, to know that you are with me.

  687. I just need to know that you are with me.

  688. I just need to know that you are with me

  689. in my journey this next station of my.

  690. Life, no matter what we go through at a workplace

  691. and stuff like that.

  692. And because God's with us, fans, not the cherists, the army,

  693. but the horses can overwhelm us.

  694. Amen. Amen.

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

  696. on our church, please visit axchurch do Org. We are

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

  698. week is going to be a good week, a hit

  699. for you. God bless