Speak Jesus | Celina Tan

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The title of my sharing is called speak Jesus. Okay,

So for those of you parents who have kids in

X Kids, you might must be thinking speak Jesus. Isn't

this the theme for EX Kids this month as well? Yes,

it is okay? And I was one of the writers

for EX Kids curriculum for this particular month. So as

I was preparing the lesson for EX Kids for the

past few months, you know, for them to have one

month worth of lesson to run every Sunday, I was

just reflecting and I was just reading the Word of God,

and the itself really spoke to me, and I was

like thinking, Wow, these terms speak Jesus is so relevant

not only for the young children, but it's also relevant

to us as an adult as well.

Yeah. So the question is why we speak Jesus? Right?

Where we know we.

Talk about the words speak is the word that comes

for from our mouth, right, And the question to all

of us here is that how are we using our speech?

How are we using our tongue to speak? How are

we using our mouth to deliver message to the people

that is around us? So do our words build someone up?

Or do our words destroy someone?

Right?

So this is really a very important question for us

to reflect because we talk every day, right, we see

people every day we talk. But how do we talk?

You know, that's our our way of talking. Help to

encourage someone? Or every time we open our mouth, right,

people will leave the conversation feeling defeated, feeling broken, feeling

you know, discourage.

Which one are we? Right?

So in line with the team of ex church that

all may know. Okay, So we want to come in

the position of being able to speak Jesus, to speak

his name with faith, to proclaim his truth with love,

and to share his message with the world so that

everyone will come to know the saving knowledge of Christ.

All right.

So in this world we are filled with different noises, right,

We constantly hear different thing right, So let us be

the agent to be used by God to be the

right voice. Okay, not just noise, but be the right

voice to the people that is around us, all right.

So the message is The key text for this message

is from Psalm seventy one, verse fifteen. All right, So

if you had brought your Bible with you, let's turn

to p seventy one, verse fifteen.

Okay, So just give me some time, okay.

So we're going to read quite a number of scripture today,

so just bear with me, okay. So reading from seventy one,

verse fifteen, I'm going to read from the NLT.

Okay.

So the scripture says, I will tell everyone about your

righteousness all day long. I will proclaim your saving power,

though I am not skilled with your words. And then

the next one Haberkull two fourteen.

Okay.

So Habercul two fourteen says that for the earth will

be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the

Lord as the waters cover the sea. So this is

the two key text that we're going to look into

as we shed about the word of God. Okay, So

what are we going to use our mouth with? And

what is the purpose that we're going to use use

our mouth with? All right, So let's look at the

first point, the power.

Okay.

So just now all of us have watched the video

that Passasandra has shed, Okay about bringing our own bible.

Why why is it so important to own a bible,

a physical bible, right and not just a digital bible.

And why is it that is it only Pasta wants

us to spend money just to buy a bible, that's it.

No, but to read it. Right.

If we can read the newspaper, we can read, novels,

we can read, you know, whatever things that we are reading,

we need to spend even more time reading the Word

of God because that is the food that will fit us.

That is the very element that will help us to grow.

That is the very word that will help us to

change our life and turn our life around. Right, So

this morning we're going to look into to how the

word help us to grow as a person even as

we speak. So first of all, we're going to look

into problems Chapter eighteen, verse twenty one. Okay, so Problems

eighteen twenty one. Here it says that death and life

are in the power of the tongue, and those who

love it will eat its fruit, all right. So the

scripture is very clear about the power of our words,

and the immense power means that our words hope very

strong power.

Right.

We always say is that you know the strongest weapon

is not the knife nor the gun. The strongest weapon

is our word. You know. Yeah, we know that the

gun or the knife you just hit someone with it,

you will kill the person. But our words is the

same as well. Okay, So it is really powerful. So

just as I mentioned just now, your word can either

bring someone up or it can bring someone down.

Okay, it can even bring life or death.

So we read the news enough to know that how

verbal abuse will cause people into depression and eventually kill themselves.

Right, So that that is how powerful it is.

So we need to be very mindful of its power,

and we need to be very mindful that every time

we speak, we need to be aware of the choice

of words we use. Okay, when we talk about speaking

Jesus right, it simply means we choose to speak words

that give life. We choose to speak words that encourage.

We choose to speak words that uplift and point others

to the truth of the Gospel. And our speech should

reflect the love and grace of Christ, offering hope to

those who are lost, hurting, and in need. So how

can we do that. It's by constantly feeding ourselves with

the Word of God. Because if we don't fit ourselves

with the word of God, we won't know how we

can speak that will reflect the love and grace of Christ. Right,

so it's really important. And another scriptures in James chap

the Three Words three to six, it says that indeed

we put bits in horses mouths that they may obey us,

and we turn their whole body. Look also at shapes.

Although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds,

they are turned by a very small rather wherever the

pilot desires. Even so, the tongue is a little member,

and both great things. See how great forests a little

fire kindles, and the tongue is a fire a world

of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members

that it defouls the whole body and sets on fire

the cost of nature, and it is set on fire

by Hell. So similarly, this scripture also tells us that

our tongue can either lead us into righteousness or it

can cause destruction. Okay, our tongue is not the biggest

organ in our body, right, it's very small only, But

imagine how powerful it is that the Bible even emphasized

that it can either cause us into righteousness or it

can cause us destruction. So Jamie illustrated, where is very

clearly you know a small the fire is only started

by small sparks. Right, the fire doesn't come with a

great fire. It's just a small spark. You use the matches,

you just like small sparks. It will go into big fire.

Same goes to our word, all right, The same goes

to our words. Okay, so let's not use our word

to ignite conflict, but use our word to spread peace.

Okay, So speaking.

Jesus involved using this power to direct the conversations. Okay,

every time you speak to someone, use the opportunity to

direct people towards God's truth, bringing light and grace into

every situation. Okay, So consider the impact of the words

spoken to someone who is struggling. So imagine you try

to have a conversation with someone who is struggling. Okay,

So if you are the person is struggling, and you

come on too hard with the person with your word,

just imagine what kind of impact it will bring to

that person.

But if you.

Turn it the other way around, your simple and sincere

expression of encouragement, you probably just go to the person

and just say that, Yeah, it will be all right,

I'm here with you.

Let's pray.

Imagine how the person will feel, or you just go

to the person, how you so simple? You so don't

know me? You know you imagine what the person will

feel when you just say that such a simple thing.

Or so you can make a mistake and the person

was like, am I useless? Or word? Or when you

go to a person even though you very much wanted

to say that so simple? Also you don't know where

you just go there? It's fine, everyone made a mistake.

Let's correct it together. How will that person feel?

Right? The difference? So let's remember that.

You know, when we show encouraged to someone, right, we

will be able to uplift their spirit. We are able

to renew their strength. We will be able to remind

them that hey, this world is not so cruel after all.

That is still love. And what kind of love do

we want to bring to people? God's love? Okay, so

just remember that. So, as a believer of Christ, we

are called to be intentional with our speech.

Right, people always say that I words is cheap.

Hello, we as a believer, our words are not cheap

because our words are able to buy someone's salvation. You know,

our words are able to lead someone towards God. Our

words are able to help to set people free by

offering the hope the grace.

That is from Christ. Amen.

So just remember when you speak, all right, bring about

the hope the love to the people. So as I

was writing this, you know, I was preparing this sermon.

As I was writing, this particular statement that I've heard

recently came to my mind. And it's something that I

constantly remind myself as well. So you can look on

the screen, Okay, in this particular code, I put that

someone's mother because I heard it from two percent who

say that the mother told them this. It says, if

you have nothing good to say, don't say at all.

You know, sometimes when we are in a situation, right,

when people share something, they struggle, Right, it's very normal

for us to react, you know, and say not so

good things. And when we react, every word that come

up from our mouth it is just not right. So

when every time I wanted to do when in a

moment of hit the anger or argument, especially in my workplace,

I wanted to say something, I was being reminded of

this statement. If you have nothing good to say, don't

say at all, and that helped me to hold my tongue. Okay,

it helps me not to say anything bad.

Okay. So I also wanted to share with you.

A story about how words kind of like destroy my

life when I was younger.

Okay.

So a lot of people say that, aya, it's just word, Okay,

how much can it hurt someone?

Right? So I grew up in an Asian family, okay,

and every Asian here will know this, okay.

And the day I was born, I was constantly being

told that I am ugly. Not I am not beautiful.

It's basically I am ugly.

Okay.

So my grandma from the day I was born until

I come into understanding, she will always go around telling everyone, hiya,

this is my granddaughter. She's very ugly, you know. So

I grew up thinking that I'm very ugly. Yes, So

I grew up thinking I'm very ugly. I grew up

not having the confidence. I grew up not wanting to

mingle with people because I thought that I'm ugly.

All right.

So because she said so much, no amount of things

that other people told me will be able to.

Change my mindset. And my parents being Asian too. They will.

They are not the kind of person will give word

of affirmation. All they did was, it's okay, don't bother

what your grandma said. Don't bother what your grandma say.

That's all they say. So in my heart it's like

Grandma said, I'm ugly, and you tell me don't bother

what grandma said?

So who should I believe in? Right?

So I grew up not having any confidence. And it's slowly,

it slowly kind of like kills my desire of one thing,

to do anything, to even dress up. So, okay, all

my kids were thought all gone being eaten by termite.

I think the term I also thinking that I'm ugly

enough to eat it up, if you for those who

know me, sis, I was young, I dressed like a boy.

I don't grow long hair, I don't like to wear dressed.

I will just be just like my brother, running around

like a boy, climbing trees and all those whatnot. Because

Grandma said I'm ugly, why should I behave like a girl? Right,

So I just behaved like in whatever way that I like.

So you can imagine the severity of the word. But

how was I being set free? I was being set

free by the word as well. It's by the word

of God.

You know.

I accepted Christ when I was fourteen, and that was

when I started going to church and I started hearing

the word of God. Okay, So at that time I

kind of like read a lot. Okay, I only chose

a few books to read because it's easier to my understanding. Okay,

from my priorsone I think I told you all that

I grew up my English not so good. So I

only chose certain book in the Bible that I read

that I can't understand. So one of it is from

the is the Book of Some. So I read it

because I like it. You know, it's like how David

wrote the Book of Some. It's really very edifying. So

when I was reading, I came about this.

Scripture that says that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

And when I read that rite, I'm like, it's just

another story. Why should I believe?

And as I was reading.

As I was reading and I was growing up, I

went to conferences, you know, I went for church service.

Somehow a lot of time when I was struggled with

my confidence, this scripture came up and I remember very clearly.

There was one I can't remember was a conference or

a Sunday service. These bussers shed this word and the

buss said very clearly, the Lord says that you are

fearfully and wonderfully made. And what God said is good.

No one can deny it. And God and the person

said that if you are struggling with self image, remember

that you are God's creation and God say it's good,

no one can deny it. And after that he gave

an auto call and went for prayer, and I received

my breakthrough.

And every time I struggle with.

My self image, I tell myself that, hey, Selena, you

are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God.

No amount of uglyness that humans say will be able

to deny God's creation. And that is how powerful the

world of God is is able to set people free

as well. So that is something I want to remind

all of us that you know, sometimes we may speak

freely our own words, and a lot of times when

we speak freely with our own words were destroying people.

But when we speak kindly and we couple it with

the word of God, we are building people. So remember

that the word of God is powerful, okay. Inas much

as our own word is powerful, God's word is powerful

as well. So the next scripture that we're gonna talk

we're going to look into, is that how powerful is

the spoken words, especially the words that come out from

the mouth of God. From some of the tree was nine,

he says, for he spoke, it was done, he commanded,

and it stood.

First.

God's words are powerful and alive. So when he speaks,

things comes into existence. So we read from the Book

of Genesis, right, how did the whole universe came into existence?

Did he say that God went into his work room

and he created no, right, every single thing. He says

that he spoke and it came to life. He spoke

and it came into existence. So the same power is

at work where we declare his words and speak in

the name of Jesus. When we declare his name, he's

teaching his promises. We are aligning our words with his will, okay,

and allowing his.

Power to work through us.

So every time we speak his word, we are aligning

with his will and allowing the power to flow in

us and true us as we deliver up to other

people or even for ourself.

So our words were spoken.

In faith and in truth can bring about real change

in the life of others. So maybe you can reflect

upon yourself, when was the last time you declare God's

word over your own life and you see changes, especially

over your some difficult situation that you may have, and

you witness a transformation. If you have not experienced such,

I encourage you to do so from today onwards, because

it's the same thing that I.

Tried and it happened. You know.

For those of you who follow ex ampug you know Instagram,

y'all would have seen my testimony about the healing that

I went through.

Okay, I shed before that. You know.

I found a growth in my body and I was

so worried that it is you know, some some weird

sickness I have, or cancel whatsoever. And I was so

worried and I do not know what to do, you know.

I was so worried that the doctor will give me

a bad report. I was so worried that I need

to go through surgery. And I was remembered of all

the testimony other people shared, and I do the same

for myself. I declare over my own body every single

day that Lord your word says in Isaiah fifty three,

verse five. By your stripes, I am healed by your stripes.

I am made whole by your stripes. You know I'll

be set free. And I declare it every single day

until I received the doctor's report, and every single day

that I have to or every single year that I

have to go for a full up check. Right because

I worried. You know, we sang right. Speak to your worry,

pray to your doubt. Our God will never fail, and

true enough, he never fail.

So I just want to encourage you.

You may be praying for healing, you may be praying

for provision, you may be praying for peace. Speak the

name of Jesus over your situation or maybe your family member.

It's the same thing.

When my dad got a stroke, I was so worried

and I do not know what to do. I speak

the Word of God over him. I say that, Lord,

you need to heal him. Lord you need to make

him mobile once again. Lord, you need to make him

able to stand and walk. Lord, you need to make

him be being able to be independent.

He came to church.

Y'all seeing him, I don't think y'all will be able

to tell that he's actually a strong patient. Right, So

that is what I do. I have nowhere to turn to.

I speak the name of Jesus over my situation. And

because of that, you know, I have testimony to testify.

So we as a believer, we have the privilege and

responsibility to speak the word of God in area of

our situation. So, church, I just want to encourage you.

Don't think that you are at the day end that

you have you know, it's basically that's it.

No, you still have God, you still have the Word.

That's why it's very important for us to read the

word of God, because if not, you will not know

how to speak his word over your situation. You will

not be able to declare He's worth over your situation.

Memorize the scripture. And if you're like me, finding it

hard to memorize by reading, go and listen to all

the children ministry song.

Okay, all those that sing on the scripture.

You were sure remember when you know how I remember

that all the whole book in the Bible, I sang it,

the books of the Bible.

You know how I.

Can remember the whole something the tree I sing it?

You know how can I remember the twelve Disciple?

I sing it. Okay.

If you ask me to just read like that, I cannot. Okay,

I sing it. You know, that is how I deposit

the word of God into me. But that doesn't mean

that you only go to the song and then you

don't read the weather because the songs it's only a

portion of the scripture. But you still have to read

the Bible in context, Okay, don't take the text out

of the context. You still need to read from A

to Z Genesis all the way to Revelation to know

what is God's plan and his purpose for us.

Okay, all right?

So what else it tells us about the power of

the world of God. In March chapter four wards thirty nine,

you know, this is the one that we always talk about.

When the when the disciples was out in the sea

and the wind and the wave hit, you know, hit them,

and they were so scared, and they called.

Jesus, Jesus, how care?

How come you can still sleep in the midst of

a storm? And what did Jesus did? He woked up,

and he say do and he rebuilt the wind and

say that peace be still, and the wind ceased and

there was a great come.

Okay, so we can see that.

You know, even Jesus exercised his authority over the nature

by simply speaking the word, and the wind and the

wave obey his command, and that demonstrates the power of

speaking Jesus in faith, we can do so too.

Okay.

So when we speak in alignment to God's will, things

will come to pass. The Lord will answer, whether it

is your personal challenge, whether it's a community issues, whether

it's your company situation, or whether you're praying for the

nation Malaysia or your own nation. All right, believe that

his power can bring peace and transformation. And all you

need is just faith. Because in Mattel seventeen, verse twenty,

it says that you know, with faith as small as

a mustard seed, when you say to this mountain, move

from here to there, it will move and nothing will

be impossible. Right, And that is what is stated in

the world of God, is not what is.

Stated by me. Okay. So Jesus taught us that, you know,

as long as we have faith as small as a

muster seed, we need to exercise it and.

We will be able to accomplish great things. Okay, So

what is this in this scripture? What does the mountain

symbolize us. Okay, It symbolize things that is insurmountable challenge

in our life. You know, something is symbolize the challenges

that nothing we do will be able to change. Just

like what I mentioned to you just now, my dad's sickness,

my own sickness. You know, I'm not a doctor. I

can't do anything. Maybe I can't go and see a doctor.

But the doctor can need do what the doctor can do?

What else can what else can the doctor and myself do?

Nothing? Right?

All I need to do is hang on to Jesus

in faith, okay, and continue to practice my faith field

speech over my life. Okay, So instead of declaring defeat,

we need to declare victory in Jesus name. You know,

in Chinese, every single thing that we face, every single

problem we face, right, we always say say or miss

a dialog. Okay, we need to change our speech. When

you face a situation, you have to tell yourself, with

Christ by my side, there is victory. No matter how

difficult it is for you to believe that is victory.

You have to believe that is victory.

Right when I enter into my current company, all I

see was dry bones. All I see was date and

I'm like, what did I land myself in this job?

But I pray every single morning.

I say that, Lord, I do not know how, but

I know that I can hold on to you to

give me the eye, give me the wisdom to settle

the situation that I'm required to settle in my workplace.

And the testimony that I didn't share here, I think

was that two months into the job, my founder praised

me in the board, in the in the management meeting

that we just want to thank Selena for helping us

to solve all the issue that we didn't manage to

solve for the past many years. Was it my was

it my experience? Was it my own capability? It's not

because when I went in, I look at the situation.

I'm my Lord, I have no idea how to do this,

But God gave me the idea how to do it.

And that is a testimony. So when my boss said that,

me being me, I turned to him.

I pray to Jesus every day and that was it,

and I say thank you. That's what I do, okay,

because seriously, I have no idea what to say but

to thank God for it. So remember, when you have

a situation remember this tag line that is very famous.

Push pray until something happened. Prayer is speaking Jesus, speaking

his word, okay, and aligning with his will. So understanding

there is power in our spoken words and speaking in

the name of Jesus, how are we going to use

our words responsibly?

Okay?

So the practice when we look at Matthew chapter twelve,

verse thirty four, okay, the word says for out of

the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Okay. So in Matthew twelve thirty four, okay, ah. Where

is my book of meth too? Okay.

So here it says that in Menteal telve, the twelve

worse thirty four, I'm going to continue for whatever is

in your heart determines what you say. A good person

produces good things from the treasury of a good heart,

and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury

of an evil heart. And I tell you this, you

must give an account on Judgment Day for every idle

word you speak.

Okay.

So when I read this scripture, I was reminded what

I learned in my diploma in it.

Okay.

In it, there's a term called garbage in garbage out

It basically meant that the not good thing goes in,

the not good things will come out right. So in

this scripture tells us whatever we posit inside our heart,

it comes out from our mouth eventually. So you may

think that, yeah, whatever I do in secret, right, I

keep that positing in my life. Nobody will know one

trust me, it will come out eventually. Because whatever garbage

we put in is whatever garbage will come out. So

our words is a reflection of what is in our heart.

So if our hearts are full of love, compassion, and righteousness,

our words will naturally reflect those qualities. So on the contrary,

our hearts are feeling bitterness. If our hearts are feeling bitterness, anger,

or malice, our words will reveal that as well. So

when we talk about speaking Jesus, we must first ensure

that our hearts are aligned with His right and this

means nurturing a relationship with Him through prayer, to scripture,

to worship, and allowing his love and truth to feel

our hearts and overflow into our speech. So again it

comes back to the word of God. So my question

to all of us here is that what have we

been feeding our hearts with right? What are we storing

in our hearts word of God or garbage? If it's garbage,

it's time. It's time for us to do the talks now,

all right. So if we've been feeding ourselves with the

things of the world, okay, how you know, we can

go to a lot of seminers or talks that taught

by the gurus of this world on how to you know,

talk to people, it will not be as good as

what we learn from the word of God. Because why

we need to align ourselves with the word of God

if we want to see power to transform okay, the

power to transform life and to win our loved one

to Christ.

Okay.

So having the right contact in our hearts doesn't mean we.

Are able to speak it right too, okay.

So sometimes we we will have a lot of we

will we have the truth in our hearts. We have love,

we have compassion, we have you know, all the good things.

But how we deliver it sometimes also is a challenge, right,

because sometimes we can be we call it a quick tongue.

What is it? We're very fast in the way we talk.

So it's like we talk right. We always say that

it when it comes straight from our mouth and never

go through our brain before it comes out from our mouth.

Okay.

So having all these good things also we also need

to exercise on how we deliver it. So sometimes we

can have too much righteousness that we fail to show love,

or sometimes we can too much compassion that we fail

to speak the truth. Does that mean we do not

have all this? We have, but it's not balanced. So

what the Bible teaches on this? In Effesion four fifteen,

it says that speaking the truth in love may grow

up in all things into him who is hate and

the Christ. Okay, So when we talk about speaking Jesus,

it's not just proclaiming the truth, it's also about doing

it with love. We need to make sure that it

is balanced. Okay, it's not one more than the other.

So imagine this truth without love can be hush and alienating,

while love without truth and be weak and effective.

Okay.

So imagine that you when when you need to correct someone,

you have the truth and you love that person and

you want to make sure that this person know that

it makes a mistake. But you go straight into the

person that and just straightway tell the truth so eagerly

to correct the person that you forget to show compassion.

Imagine how the person will feel. Right, imagine you, Okay,

I come and correct you as something. I'm so eager

to correct you that I've forgotten to show compassion. You

will sure say that, Wow, this Selina's word is so

sharp that it kills me.

Right, But does that mean I don't love you?

I still love you, but I've forgotten to show compassion

when I speak. But on the on the flip side,

I love you so much that I I'm afraid that

when I tell you the truth it might hurt you.

So I sugarcoat every single thing. After finish a conversation,

you still have no idea what I'm trying to tell you,

and you are still thinking, Hm, maybe Selena is accepting

that I can still continue making the mistake, right, does

it you know?

Does it fulfill the purpose? No? It doesn't. Okay.

So when we speak, Jesus, when we talk to someone,

we must ensure that our words are seasoned with love okay,

reflecting Christ his character, but at the same time able

to bring about the truth to.

Someone as well.

Okay, So always remember truth that is spoken with love

will the impact will be positive and healing, bring about

spiritual maturity and reconcilation, okay, And when we do it

the right way, it will bring about a good change.

Okay. All right.

So in James Shep the Tree, verse seventeen to eighteen

says that but the wisdom that is from above is

first pere them, peaceable, gentle, willing to yield full of mercy,

good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now, the fruit

of righteousness is sold in peace by those who make peace.

So just now we talk about balancing both truth and love,

and we know that it is not easy. So we

really need to depend on God to give us the

wisdom to know how to speak, okay. And wisdom plays

a pivotal role in our speech. And the wisdom that

we need is pure, peace loving and full of mercy.

And this kind of wisdom can only come from God,

all right. So remember that when we speak, it should

promote peace and understanding and not division and conflict.

Okay. And we need to speak with heavenly wisdom, okay.

We need to become the peacemaker, using our words to heal, reconcile,

and build others, solving seeds of righteousness as well.

Okay.

So to be an effective witness for Jesus. Let's start

that positing our life with the things of God. Okay,

exercise love and wisdom as we speak, okay, and the

word we speak, we'll be able to edify someone, live

them up and result in many coming to know the

saving knowledge of Christ.

Amen. All right.

So again, like I say, if you do not know

how prayer is number one. Number two is to read

the word of God. You know, a lot of times

we can we can imitate how Jesus speak, right, we

can imitate how the how he correct Okay. Of course

sometimes we know that you know, the way Jesus talk

is also very sharp, but that requires wisdom as well.

So what we can do is that before we have

conversation with someone, pray and say that you know, God,

give me the words, grant me the wisdom, and help

me to understand. You know, when I have a conversation

with someone, how should I speak it? And one of

the things that I learned, you know recently, is that

when you speak to someone, don't keep on talking with me.

Okay, bye bye, you go back, all right. Even though you.

Are speaking a lot of words of love, encouragement and whatnot,

it will not help another person if you do not

stop and listen. You know, when we speak Jesus, it

comes hand in hand with listening as well. When you

have a conversation with someone, remember this. Listen to what

the person has to say. Listen with the intent of understanding,

not the intent of trying to reply or correct or

fight back. Listen with the intent of understanding. And when

you understand, and when you listen, that is when you pray, Lord,

what is it that you want me to pick up

from this conversation that I will be able to speak

to this person to help this person to grow. It's

the same thing when you speak to your pre believing

friend friends who do not know Christ. Lord, what is

the one thing that you want me to pick up

from this conversation that when I speak, I will be

able to direct this conversation to share your love, your hope.

To this person.

And God will show you one and it will always

result in either you sharing the Gospel to this person

or it will result in you end in the conversation

with a prayer for this person, and you will realize

that soon this person will come to you.

Can you help me? Can you pray for me? And

eventually you will slowly see this person coming to know

the Lord. Amen. All right.

So that is the practice, okay, So always remember that

pursued your life with the things of God. Speak in

a conversation that brings about love and truth that is balanced, okay,

And pray for the wisdom of God even as you speak.

All right?

And what is the point and what is the purpose

for me sharing about these two points here? It leads

to the purpose, all right, which is from Mattel twenty eight,

verse nineteen to twenty. And this scripture is no stranger

to all of us, is basically about the great commission. Okay,

go therefore and make disciples of all nations.

Okay.

And that is our command and that is our mission

to go out and make disciples of all nations. So

when we speak and our conversation, we need to always

remember this. Will my word bring someone to Christ? Will

my word be able to show people the love of Christ?

Will my convert stasion be able to bring about hope

to someone? So remember our mission and our mandate is

to speak Jesus until all nations hear his name. Maybe

in every single conversation you keep on talking about Jesus

and Jesus. People will say that heyo you Jesus free

is it?

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter because after all, we are all followers

of Christ. We need to talk about our biggest cycle,

our Jesus. Right, So if we say that we are

a follower of Christ, we shouldn't be ashamed of his name.

You know, in every single conversation that we have, we

can always bring about his name for good purposon not

using his name to score someone. Okay, so remember when

we talk, we need to share about his name. So

in the early days, the early disciples, after they received

this commission, they really take it on seriously.

They really take it on body.

They really go out and proclaim the name of Jesus

despite persecution. If during that time I'm so difficult, the

disciple can do it our time. Now, it's not as

difficult back then, Why can't we do it?

Let's do it. It's not that difficult.

Right.

So if let's say me being two treatments in my

new company, I can share it with the founder of

the company, say that all I did was because of Jesus.

I'm caller. I probably may cause myself to lose my job,

but I don't care. Okay, who's my biggest boss is Jesus? Right?

If I can do it, all of you can do

it too. You know, all of you can do it too.

Just proclaim because a lot of things that is in

our hand today, it really is not a result of

our heart work, is really a blessing from God. You

think that you have a job now is because of

your heart work, it's not.

It's a blessing from God.

You think that you have a house now it's a

result of your heart work, it's not.

It's a result of God's blessing to you.

Whatever we have in our hands now, even the fact

that we can stand here today and breathe. Do you

think it's a result of our heart work of keeping

taking care of our health?

Partially?

Yes, but it's a result of God's grace towards us.

So whatever we have in our hands belongs to Jesus.

So are we going to use it to share it

with the people that is around us? Maybe you say that, yeah,

my life, my life is a wreck, is heavoc It's

a result of God's grace towards you as well, So

that you can come to Him and say that Lord,

here I am use me, take me and heal me

and set me free. You know, the Lord doesn't put

us into a situation just so that he enjoys seeing

us suffer. It's not it's so dead. We will run

back to him. Remember the story of the prodigal Son,

so that we can run back to him again. Maybe

our prayer today may not be answered immediately, but continue

to press on and trust him. So that is something

that we can hold onto. So are we going to

just go out there to just to share that, Ah,

my life is good because of Jesus, does it No?

The message that we need to deliver in together, hand

in hand with our testimony, is the message of salvation.

When you share your testimony, already share with the person

as well. For God so love you that he gave

his one and only son so that you can have

eternal life.

John three sixteen.

If you cannot remember the whole Bible, at least remember

John Tree sixteen. For God so loved the world that

he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believed in

him will not perish, but have everlasting life. And that

is the reason, that is the message of salvation that

we need to carry out in our conversation so that

people will know that they are loved. They do not

need to seek love anywhere else because our God is

loved and God's love is the foundation of everything we proclaim. Right,

And when we speak Jesus, we are declaring his love,

his grace to the people that is around us, so

that they will be able to accept Him and inherit

eternal life.

Amen.

All right, So that is the whole giessus of why

when we speak is important. So if people were to

tell you that word is cheap, it's not. Use your

word wisely, use your word with purpose.