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Do Not Spare-Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

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

  3. I won't speak about missions, all right, We've been asked

  4. to speak about missions, but I want to take it

  5. from the perspective of wifes. Missions so important, not so

  6. much to encourage yours to go for another mission trip,

  7. which normally that's the case. You know, sign up, you

  8. know puts a couple of really set pictures out there,

  9. and you know, sign up right, No, no pictures, nothing forever.

  10. But you know, Isaiah fifty four, okay with me, right now,

  11. Isaiah fifty four. Right, I'm not sure I'm going to

  12. turn this a mission message, but Isaiah fifty four starts

  13. off with this sing al baron sing all barons sing

  14. when you don't have you know, it's it's really like

  15. the world of God's asking us to do stuff whereby

  16. we cannot afford it. All right, I'm not sure how

  17. many of ursel could lift up a voice and sing joyfully,

  18. not sadly, not not not like not like one of

  19. those moments whereby you just don't feel like singing, but

  20. in a moment whereby God's been asking us to declare

  21. something when we have not seen it yet, to worship

  22. him when we don't have the strength to worship him,

  23. or rather to go when we cannot afford to go

  24. already we may not understand. There's so many reasons why

  25. we don't do certain things for church or for God.

  26. Maybe because we are on the journey. But whatever the

  27. reason is, where we still allow God to move Because

  28. the Bible here say in verse one, sing or barren.

  29. It's hard to sing when you've never had the break

  30. to yet. It's hard to go where you can't see

  31. the fullness of it. It's hard to give and you

  32. don't understand the full picture. But God this morning was

  33. to remind us again it is not about the breakthrough

  34. as in the end product. It is not about whether

  35. you have a child already you have not had. It

  36. is not about your environment or not. But it's the

  37. commandment of God asking us to do something even though

  38. we may not have the full understanding of it. So

  39. worst one start off is singing. If you have sing

  40. before friends and it's a karaoke or in church, there's

  41. two ways to sing. Either you sing it believing right

  42. or you don't. I've seen many people who are in

  43. loving doing songs in karaoke thing. They're almost replica of

  44. the original singer, almost replica of the original singer, which

  45. been saying, if regardless of how a person sounds, how

  46. it turns out to be the person who will still

  47. sing like truly enjoying. I've seen people singing rock songs

  48. whereby the boys can't even you know, sing right, stuff

  49. like that, okay, and they are enjoying themselves. And think,

  50. I think, I truly believe that's what God wants us

  51. to do as well, to enjoy singing when we have

  52. not seen it yet. Help me of us know that

  53. when we are supposed to do something, we're not seen

  54. it yet. First it is it's a sacrifice. It is

  55. a sacrifice whereby God asks us to do something when

  56. we have not seen it yet, when we have not

  57. received it yet. For example, that coming to church to

  58. serve is a sacrifice of some of us here. For example,

  59. you have you well umpunk, it's aid ten thirty. If

  60. you're not serving, you come by nine right, ten thirty one,

  61. all right, no judgment whatever. But if you are serving friends,

  62. extreme whattem the extreme? Come here, hit o'clock. We've got breakfast.

  63. And no breakfast, No breakfast right, bring your own breakfast?

  64. All right? Good because a lot of please open you

  65. really close. You suppose it right, PG or I tell

  66. you the so sports seventy Ye've got breakfast? Someone? No,

  67. oh what is this? That's right? Come on man, it's

  68. also come as earlier, you know, six or breakfast right,

  69. that's what how to write anyway. So what I'm trying

  70. to say here is that coming at nine is a

  71. second fice some of us here. You look at the

  72. weather right now, how many we want to wake up

  73. for chich and nine? Come to chich and nine? You

  74. want to enjoy a bit more because it's hard to

  75. get this kind of weather during the weekdays. And they said,

  76. but coming to church early is the secrifice to some

  77. of us here. And God's asking us that even though

  78. you may not see ye, would you give it up

  79. to worship? And the word I want to use. We're

  80. very familiar with the surroundings that we are used to.

  81. I don't want to use the word comfortable and uncomfortable,

  82. because comfort varies two different people. If you're grown up

  83. in Malaysia back in the eighties, lying now on the

  84. cement floor with a fan on. That's comfort. That is luxury,

  85. That is nice, cold, nice semen floor with a pillow

  86. on the floor, right, So we grew up with environment.

  87. I love it. But to some of us see it

  88. right now on the cement floor, it's dirty, right, your

  89. pillow cannot touch your floor on? Is that correct? Yes? Right? Ah?

  90. For me and my pillow goes to the floor or

  91. the bit of everywhere, they still can go out and

  92. it's yes, cant right again. You see what's comfort for me,

  93. it's uncomfortable for some other people. So it's not about

  94. comfort at the end of the day, friend, it's about

  95. familiar I want to use the word familiar because friends,

  96. some of us are very familiar with this surrounding. For example,

  97. a church needs to have this environment. But what if

  98. the church is in a different environment, not something we're

  99. familiar with. Can we still sing when something we're we're

  100. not familiar with? Not? The Bible says in Luke chapter

  101. one was forty seventh fall. With God, nothing is impossible,

  102. right if we trusts this scripture. Therefore, it ties in

  103. with Isaiah fifty four asking us to sing because for

  104. with God nothing is impossible, asking us to go for

  105. missions for with God, nothing is impossible. Many times our journey,

  106. why we choose to go and not to go is

  107. because we can't see the fullness there. I'm I am

  108. in a place or environment whereby I'm not familiar where

  109. you And when you're on a few fence, you have

  110. no option but to do everything everything. I'm not going

  111. with church ministry. I cannot serve in church ministry. I

  112. truly believe all of us here a gifted for children,

  113. ministry of yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, pay attention, thank you, ah,

  114. high five, high five, peace right obvious yeah, gift of

  115. for when you're on the field, you can't say that

  116. I'm not good at you with children, I'm selective. I'm

  117. good with yeah, were king of downs, but I'm not

  118. good with children. Friends. I truly believe at the field

  119. you need to allow God to even the word is

  120. stretched being being comfortable with the unfamiliar, being comfortable with

  121. the unfamiliar friends. I was sharing earlier on with XPGA,

  122. I thing many times we are very selective, very selective.

  123. So savill know that I'm still in the midst of

  124. So I moved out from my house just to fertility.

  125. Some things in my house right, I've moved out from

  126. my house, so my wife is staying with the parents.

  127. I'm staying with my dad for almost two weeks. Really,

  128. so I was selling past the John Paul. Although I

  129. heard that you have your wife have to sleep separate places,

  130. I say yes, because my parents' place is not very comfortable. Right,

  131. I'm almost living in the halfway house and half of

  132. my queen size mattress is full with clothes, the other

  133. half is on the floor and stuff like that. All right,

  134. no place, okay, even though my dad says the double

  135. story tarrist house by himself, you understand, okay, how they

  136. having shown things away? I discovered my dad got a pet.

  137. Got a pet. It's a rad been living with a

  138. red for almost couple of years. Really, I'm not there

  139. was the sound. It's a rad. No, it's not rather no,

  140. it's been freends. It is not. I saw it though, clean,

  141. not clean, red clean, okay, red clean, because my house

  142. cause not neat single anyway. So I told my dad,

  143. how on earth can you continue stay in the house

  144. right with this pet there? I was trying to catch

  145. it the other day. Couldn't. I cannot take it. Anybody

  146. said that I'm going to look for a trap for you, Milasia.

  147. Cannot find the old trap very hard, okay, excuses like

  148. very hard to find more when you search. I went

  149. down to the hardware shop where hardware shot down the

  150. road where how I shut down the road, and I

  151. knew my dad didn't have the strength to look for

  152. the trap anyway, or the one caught it this morning.

  153. Ah praise so hallelujah. Right anyway, I was telling you

  154. by I was still gonna tell I was gonna tell

  155. my dad. Dad, you have to say, go back to

  156. your friend. Really, all right, okay, animal activity, I'm so

  157. sorry about what. Let you know. I will send the

  158. red to somewhere else in a different form after that,

  159. all right. But why I'm sharing this because first, I'm

  160. I'm right now. Twenty years I got married twenty years ago,

  161. moved on from my parents, are now moving in with

  162. my dad. It is familiar, but yet not that familiar. Familiar,

  163. but note that familiar. My dad is repeating stories to

  164. me every other day, the same story, repeating the same

  165. story to me every other time. I smiled to my

  166. dad only because I did that. It's okay, don't read

  167. all of us go to eat one my dad's the

  168. early early stages of dementia. I can't remember a lot

  169. of stuff, that's all right, So I spend a lot

  170. of time having a conversation. Every night. I go back

  171. home tired, tired, friends, tired, because you know what I'm saying.

  172. You come back to work, but you got no choice

  173. but doing sit in front and have conversation. So I

  174. have conversation my dad every night, no matter how tired

  175. I am falling asleep. Yes, that correct, that's right. Let

  176. let me speak. Sing when you don't have yet, no

  177. more strength, by yet, minister and day. They are days

  178. whereby I tell my dad, Dad, can you just cut straight? Actually,

  179. what is it that you want to tell me? I

  180. do that sometimes because no more strength. You just feel

  181. like that's sill. Don't repeat the same story, treat it

  182. again and again. The days I told my dad that

  183. I'm so sorry, I'm just so tired. Tell me what

  184. you want. But there are days where by I got

  185. trying to just listen. I'm sharing these many times you

  186. will only do stuff, and we have many times you

  187. only do stuff for the lot when we have but

  188. sometimes the lot asking us to do stuff, and we

  189. don't have no strength. But would you still minister no strength?

  190. Would you still minister? I'm not good with Chiuran, help

  191. me feel that Johny will be good with Youance Ministry, right,

  192. can I can? I believe that Johnny is very good

  193. with you in the smile on his face and stuff

  194. like that. Financially say Amen, Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Finance

  195. their own college education after that, Amen, or the parents

  196. say Amen, hallelujah. John They said, your ministry started to

  197. read it so many times. First, we don't see that

  198. as a sacrifice, but it is a sacrifice for us.

  199. We need to understand there's no such thing as serving

  200. God without a sacrifice one because obedience is what God

  201. is after we can't say there is obedience without sacrifice.

  202. For example, point number two and pass away point number

  203. two for me is this is that many times we

  204. think sacrifice, this is the ect of doing. You just

  205. want me to serve only no friends. It's not just

  206. one thing you deserve. If you ever grew up in

  207. the back in the eighties watching television between eight thirty

  208. to ninety right, there was air Wolf mcguiver write all

  209. your favorite TV program If you grew up in the

  210. era somehow right up with your parents? Know one, friends,

  211. when to interrupt you to carry out the trash? No,

  212. the most cantil moment. Take out the trash now, and

  213. you cannot reply to your parents. Wait until ever, this

  214. one time you can't because you were asking for it.

  215. You have a possibility where by your parents you turn

  216. off the TV. Help me, you understand, And what do

  217. you do? You take out the trash. Not with the

  218. right heart. You quickly just want to discharge your duty,

  219. just to go back to what's for me so worse.

  220. Two states, this rest and last the place of your tent.

  221. Come on and let them stretch out the curtains of

  222. your dwelling. Oh wor here needs interruption in our life

  223. where other people will stretch our capacity. Friends, that's why

  224. going to the field serving God, we are letting them

  225. to stretch us out. If you've ever done any stretching before,

  226. how many we can touch your toes? You can write

  227. praise to Halladaijah. I can't because I got three layers

  228. of goodness in between. Right that that that that they're

  229. stopping me from touching my toes, And my wife will

  230. look at me to say, it's so easy look at me.

  231. I've been doing this when I was since ten years old.

  232. I looked at her touching her toes. I got like,

  233. good for you. I don't know what else you can

  234. do with it, but you know praise, so hallelujah. I

  235. look at you touching your toes. Ready, I felt like

  236. accomplished mine. Then she say, maybe it's your form that

  237. you're not doing right. Stand up, set up, and she

  238. doesn't stand up, set up right? Now, go a bit lower,

  239. Come on, push yourself a bit push. Come on, you

  240. can't do it just one more friends kind of nowhere

  241. and your tree is in between you. See that, right?

  242. It's very hard anyway, So she push and push and

  243. see got improvement a few more millimeters it. Keep doing this,

  244. guarantee by the end of the week, you can touch

  245. your toes. Now, what happened if we do it on

  246. our own? What happened if you do it? Yeah? Today,

  247. back aglar, today, back ela. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow.

  248. Today I got accomplishment today a bit longer then tomorrow.

  249. I can think we likes a bit because today I

  250. work out extra ready. Tomorrow I think it'll be easier.

  251. We allow ourselves space to grow because you know why nobody.

  252. Nobody's pushing as well. But the Bible here says, let

  253. them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling frids. Curtains

  254. are meant to be stretched out, but we need others

  255. to stretch out our capacity. Friends. That's why sometimes when

  256. you go to the feud, Oh, I didn't know I

  257. can minister to disgroup of people in regardless of language, race,

  258. or color of food. How many from Sarah here, sarawak here,

  259. Sarah a Joe? Oh? Okay? I thought you say, anyway,

  260. sego worm, sego worm, sago worms. That's right, best, right,

  261. best you know, sego worms, sago worms. This this, this

  262. looks like a cornelle of butter moving around. One is

  263. in yellow color. Anyway, Some people like it, some people don't. Right.

  264. The question is is that I've heard I'm not. They

  265. said that I've heard. It tastes like butter, very very creamy. Right,

  266. That's why people say, okay, some people you try it? Right?

  267. I told God, I said God, I can eat anything,

  268. except please don't send me the Philippines and ask me

  269. to eat balut. I just praise Anabelle. Can you be

  270. on my mission tiep and go right, I said, I

  271. cannot understand biting of the egg, with the with the

  272. with the with the texture tright tex I love, I

  273. love the word texture. Right, you got, you got, You've

  274. got crunchy element in there. Ah, you've got feathers as well.

  275. Okay to me, like there, But what happened first? What happened?

  276. I'm not asking you to do the extreme, my friends,

  277. I'm asking this down down it, back down it back here,

  278. accusing that you're not used to But I always see

  279. it has the capacity to do it if you want

  280. to allow ourselves to do it. Given the choice, we

  281. won't look for it. True, not given the choice. I

  282. have a clique. I know that malikusine is not the

  283. choice Elther. Given the choice, I rather not. I rather

  284. not eat Malik cuisine because I didn't grow up with

  285. the taste. I don't understand the taste profile. I rather

  286. big Chinese food along the way. But when you go

  287. on the treat, friends, it's the odds that stretch your

  288. capacity for you to know that you can do it.

  289. So sacrifice, friends, It's not just about I'm here here,

  290. I'm sacrificing. I'm I'm signing up for extreme. So I'm

  291. here nam ready. But friends, that sacrifice is pretty normal

  292. about they have the obedience is what God is after.

  293. It's not just anything on the altar, friends, it's Isaac

  294. on the altar. And many times in our life see God,

  295. I show up in church, Ma, I'm at homes and

  296. therefore it's like a sacrifice. I'm at homes ready, I'm

  297. a prior service. But God is going something deeper whereby

  298. he's using other people to stretch you. Patience you need

  299. Come on, how Ma, you don't need other people to

  300. stretch your patients. You need one. Friends, You need other

  301. people to stretch you so that you know where you

  302. are at. So words to say, at large a place

  303. of your tech.

  304. Come on.

  305. We all love to enlarge, our friends. We all love

  306. to enlarge, and therefore it means to say that we

  307. are desired reading us the capacity to be enlarged. Design

  308. within us is a capacity to be enlarged. And many

  309. times our journey of life, we will select or I'm

  310. not ready yet. There's nobody to go to gym and

  311. just say I'm radio. We go to gym because I

  312. say our health, your cries of it. We need to

  313. lose weight. We need to feel. But that's that's why

  314. second part was to say let them stretch out the

  315. curdersive of your dwelling words, to say, let them stretch

  316. out the curdersive of your dwelling friends, and do not

  317. spare Come on when you are in large and stretched.

  318. Comes the next part of the scriptures that do not

  319. spare friends. It's the mindset that God wants to deal

  320. with at the end of the day. It's not the

  321. mindset of just abundance or not friends. It's the mindset

  322. of not holding back. There's a scripture I think in

  323. Genesis where by Abraham and Abraham offer Isaac and God

  324. provided a ram right. And this is what God said

  325. to Abraham Abraham, you did not with help. And I

  326. was stuck with this phrase, you did not with hell,

  327. and just got me thinking about a person's life journey

  328. heavy with health. You're feeling the heavy with hell and

  329. not times when we can heavy with hell or not thanks,

  330. we couldn't heavy with hell or not friends. Because we

  331. love worst tree, we should expand to the left and

  332. to the right. Come on, not overus. Nobody despribes worst tree.

  333. In Isaiah fifty four. Should explain to the left and

  334. to the right. We love that public scripture. But God says,

  335. before you could experience expansion, you need enlarge first your

  336. tenth and ladge your tent. Friends, don't be like other

  337. people say. And last, someone else is that Selena you

  338. need Moki, you do more? Okay, Selena, do all? Right? Next,

  339. you want to see you all extreme leading worship. Right,

  340. this is what we do normally do We go up

  341. and you need to be able to speak in mandrid. Okay,

  342. I want you to see you preaching in mandrid. And

  343. this is what we do do. We tell other people

  344. what to do. And because you know why, it makes

  345. us feel good. God, I'm obliged someone for you. God,

  346. I'm obliged someone for you. Right, we feel good. But

  347. what happened? Friends, if we ourselves sign up for it,

  348. sigence for it. Enlarge your ten, not your neighbor's ten,

  349. not your mom's ten, on your father's tand but yours,

  350. your ten. Friends. God is speaking to us right now,

  351. because I truly believe sometimes we push the resone of

  352. the other people we see other people should do this.

  353. You should read more that you should read the Bible more,

  354. should pray more. Always good encouragement. Don't get me wrong,

  355. but many times our own life, we don't even do

  356. what we say. We don't and that's why it's very

  357. hard why some of the creatures we always keep repeating

  358. back the same things, because it's a reminder for us

  359. creatures as well. When I move on from my house away, friends,

  360. you know I discovered let me just share with you,

  361. I discover my ceiling. I have to remove my ceiling

  362. on the first floor, my whole ceiling on the first floor.

  363. I had to remove it right because it was it

  364. was something I wanted to get it done. When I

  365. removed the ceiling box, friends, I got the horror and surprises.

  366. I found stuff I was supposed to we turned away

  367. kept in the ceiling stuff. There was a broken roof,

  368. towels and hiding inside one corner there. I got some

  369. extra seamen stattered on top there. I got extra row

  370. of stuff on top of the seamen there on top

  371. of the roof ceiling there and the worst interest, the

  372. best discovery was that my ceiling support wasn't mounted correctly

  373. to my roof, so half of it was that sort

  374. of like in between, like you know, going to fall down.

  375. By the grace of God, didn't this after twenty years

  376. of staying in there and me and my wife go like, oh,

  377. by the grace of God, we didn't go up to

  378. the ceiling. I stepped on the on the on the

  379. stuff A right. But it's your tenth at the end

  380. of the day, how you want to deal with it?

  381. Think about it? How is it that you want to

  382. renovate your tent? We love ideas, fans. You look at

  383. the pictures, We love all these pictures, and how you

  384. want to renovate your house? Praise hallelujah. But at the

  385. end of the day, it's still required the very first step,

  386. and God is challenging our heart strength with you enlarge

  387. your ten? Would you enlarge your ten? You know? Look

  388. one worst one to for the reader with the two

  389. mites you But the Bible says that she gave her

  390. best compared to the people who give out from the abundance.

  391. God never says the people who give out from the

  392. abundance are bad, bad people that give us know people,

  393. you know, every giving is a sacrifice. Fris I truly

  394. believe the rich people give out an abundance. It's also

  395. a sacrifice but that kind of giving doesn't changes the

  396. person's heart. The lady with the two mines gave in

  397. such a way, but it changes her heart and her

  398. whole view. And sometimes now journey of life, God is

  399. asking us to dig deeper because God wants ears at

  400. the end of the day to have a change of heart.

  401. And when we do give like that and large and

  402. let them stretch out, friends, what happens we grow in

  403. the capacity come worse three friends. Worst three says this

  404. that for you shall expand to the left and to

  405. the right. Come on, who doesn't love this? Who doesn't

  406. love expressions to the left or to the right? We

  407. all love this right, but it requires these friends. In

  408. chapter six in John jep to twelve verse twenty four.

  409. In John jo of the twelve verse twenty four, as

  410. you could say, I'm making for lost time here because

  411. I know how you're hungry, Really right, don't jup the

  412. travels twenty four? Most surely, I say to you, unless

  413. a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,

  414. it remains alone. Friends, I have not seen anyone puts

  415. up a weed and frame it up. Say have you

  416. look at this seat? Fantastic weeds are supposed to A

  417. grain of sea is supposed to be buried so that

  418. it produces. And this is how I'm going to just

  419. solve one thing else to understand this scripture of friends.

  420. When I was reading this and Lord just reminding my

  421. own life as well. We like to remain the same,

  422. the form, the read shape, the grain where it's nice,

  423. you see the structure, everything like that. People know. But

  424. to be burying the ground, friends, requires other people's help.

  425. Have not seen the grain of jumping in the ground ground,

  426. that's it. I'm diving in, Okay, don't care about me.

  427. I'm gonna dive in straight. That's it. No, every seat

  428. are in the hands of a farmer that buries the

  429. seat in the ground. So to produce much grain in

  430. verse twenty five requires a farmer, a farmer. It takes

  431. faith to put our life in God's hands. God, this

  432. is my life, would you quote unquote bearing me so

  433. I can produce. It takes much faith to trust God.

  434. Say God, WoT you have your way? Because but we

  435. love stories and encouragement. But God says, there's their story

  436. about you, about yours. The grain of seed, Friends, is

  437. not supposed to remain in the shape because that was

  438. now with the intention. In fact, God's reminding us again

  439. that if we're in the grain, there's a capacity to

  440. produce much grain. So we sis mean to say that

  441. everyone of us here, if there is no excuses, we

  442. can produce it. Can can go for missions on, can

  443. can eat almost any cruisine. Also can But these days, friends,

  444. I've learned the new learned the new way way of escape.

  445. My doctor said, I can't. I got had condition, Ma Leona,

  446. I can't conditions, I can't okay, health reasons, okay, I

  447. love for brem comes. Brenklemar is a missionary friend of

  448. ours in Australia. He also had a heart attacked glasses,

  449. had to stand downe these days he's hes advocated eat

  450. anything that served in front of you. But I say,

  451. these days I'm very selective. I say you have to

  452. eat all the taks anyway, coming back to that right,

  453. the grain of seed, green of sea, that force to

  454. the ground I speak about seeing when you don't have

  455. requires faith, requires faith, requires faith. Some of us here

  456. are waiting for the answervers before we could sing. Well,

  457. in the midst of my renovation, when I move all

  458. that that was so happy okay, one month, I will

  459. move back in next next thing, I got a phone call.

  460. Local councer decided to stop in front of my house.

  461. Local counseer decides, sorry, find my house. Say do you

  462. have a permit to reno? It could? I'm working everything

  463. inside right should be okay? Right? No, I better get

  464. a permit. He was very nice. Okay, was asking for anything?

  465. Just apply for a permit, all right. I'm like, I

  466. don't need. I don't need this additional stress. I really don't.

  467. That was a moment. I don't feel like singing. So

  468. imagine I moved out already. I got this notice came.

  469. So the time I go back to my dad at

  470. the house, I still have to talk to my dad

  471. with a smile on my face. I don't feel like talking,

  472. but I know I still need to talk. The Bible

  473. is singing when you when you don't have me. So

  474. I have the conversation with my dad and the same

  475. story repeated a couple of times. This is I X

  476. MEJ one one gentleman to me, I was thanking so

  477. much for sharing. I really cried this down because my

  478. daughter tells me that I repeat the same story again

  479. and again and when you told me about that. It

  480. just reminds me of my conversation I had my daughter

  481. and I was just sharing with my dad about my journey.

  482. I felt like, I don't know, I say, I don't

  483. need another episode with a local counsel. You know, there

  484. could be good, there could be challenging moments. And I

  485. was like, Lord, how long would this project be they

  486. lay for? Would I stay by that in another two

  487. more months? The days why I thought aboutself, I'd rather

  488. check into the hotel or get airbnb, stay somewhere else,

  489. all right, and not having to deal with anything just

  490. can you use the word run away from that situation?

  491. Just but Lort just reminded me again, you know that

  492. this is the time I'm giving you. It's over, adding

  493. back to you that. So local counter came and I

  494. went see the local councters give me a book to

  495. feel up everything that every one of my neighbors just

  496. say this, who's the neighbor that that that that there

  497. complete about you? Who's that I said, we complete about

  498. the pothole for the longest time, that will come and

  499. repair one phone call on the council for license already

  500. permitted and stuff like that. So we I know who

  501. I know which neighbor complained that by anyway, it doesn't matter,

  502. it's a cycle as a cycle neighbor anyway, it's okay,

  503. not it's not not not not by me, but my

  504. other neighbors. Or right, he chopped down my neighbor's and

  505. nuncle tree poisoned, then stuffed toward his house and stuff that.

  506. So we we deduced that's anyway coming back. So I

  507. was going to all this process feeling very tired, very drained.

  508. They want to go treat and this stuff like that

  509. and a lot just reminded me again again again singing

  510. when you don't have it's not the time in church

  511. you sing, your friends, there's a time when you're going

  512. treat you can still sing. It's a time whereby the

  513. Bible says that more are the children of the desolate

  514. than the children of the married one. It's that we

  515. don't look at other people's success, but you just begin

  516. to look at God's fitfulness and say, God will see

  517. me too. My encouragement for you and to it's just

  518. this that, friends, no matter what we're going through right now,

  519. it's not the brick shoe will come immediately, but then day,

  520. God is still in control. And that's a reminder for us. Friends,

  521. as I begin to put I just put in my

  522. application last Friday, already, praise so Halladia. I just scout

  523. him this summit every day, got my neighbors. Thank you

  524. for a wife. There's very administrative just for the copy

  525. of everything. For me, I have the sign on the

  526. document and something that point in time, friends, I was

  527. every day for the doors to open and went like God,

  528. I don't say that you are in control. You are

  529. in control. Whever it is you are in control, comes

  530. worse to enlarge. And the Lord reminded me at this

  531. age the enlargement, friends, it is not a one time enlargement.

  532. A lot of people like to enlarge this one time mane.

  533. For example, I achieve touching my toes already, Praise Hallijah.

  534. For the next twenty years, I know to continue touch

  535. my toes. You know why, achievement a lot already. I

  536. did it when I was younger. Praise a lot, hallelujah. Right.

  537. And and as you grow older, and this is the

  538. story where we tell me, but when I was young,

  539. I can touch it. Don't say one minute, I can

  540. touch one hour easily but then lutchment is continuous until

  541. the day the lot causes home. It is continuous. Friends.

  542. We may not touch it for one hour. Friends, But

  543. the fact that would you still touch your toes when

  544. God asks you to think about would you still touch

  545. your toes? You and God asked you to put this

  546. in our church context. Would you still do the things

  547. that God asked you to? Maybe some of us have

  548. been hosting for some time and then God said, hey,

  549. you've got the amazing voice. Would you still sing? Don't

  550. just sing for the karaoke. Don't just sing for the karaoke.

  551. Would you just allow yourself to be used by me?

  552. With these friends, I'm going to close. Friends, it starts

  553. off with singing when you don't have having faith, and

  554. it's a sacrifice. Come worse two. Emphasis of worse two

  555. is that let others stretch out. The criticis of your dwelling.

  556. It's in the field you get stretched. It's in the

  557. field you get stretched many times your journey. Friends, we

  558. won't stretch ourselves the point where we want to give

  559. up one. When you go to the gym by yourself, friends,

  560. you know where you are at. But when you go

  561. to your gym with a bunch of crazy people, our friends.

  562. They'll ask you put that actual way where you think

  563. you cannot want one more posh. I want to say,

  564. I'm not deaf, I'm just beside you. Poo, you can't

  565. do it. I don't want you can't do one. I

  566. have not said, oh you can't let me take out

  567. the ways of key. I have not seen any any

  568. any video, any any social medias like guys said, oh

  569. you can't let me just take it out. It's okay

  570. to see. They will ask you to push because other

  571. people know that we can. God knows that we can. Friends. Finally,

  572. the expansion the left and to the right. We love this,

  573. but it requires a sacrifice to be buried. It requires

  574. a sacrifice to be buried. I'm not sure as I

  575. end right now, how many of us here really say God, Here,

  576. I am Lord. I know that this message should be

  577. speaking to me for past some time ala day, But

  578. here I am Lord. Regardless of your age, your education, background,

  579. your social sending. But would you allow God really to

  580. just go deeper? Like you know, there's a scripture to say,

  581. how how long? Lord? How long? And many times our

  582. journey right we want to break through in one area.

  583. But this brick tore one area is really the worse.

  584. Two worse two means, says this, And launch your ten

  585. and let them stretch out on your the curtis of

  586. your dwelling. Do not spare, Do not spare, Do not spare.

  587. I know some of us here have been giving out sacrificially.

  588. The day will come. Friends. I'm a firm believeable that

  589. God is so true to his word doing just church

  590. for twenty five years. There is no such thing as

  591. that they and for the Church of Friends, we may

  592. script the bottom of the barrel we do. We are

  593. not a church to have five years worth of everyday.

  594. No.

  595. Sometimes the lot bring us to a journey whereby everything

  596. we have we just do it for the church. That's it.

  597. Not in buildings, not in buying a building, No in

  598. running a service and stuff like that, renting out for

  599. the weekend, extremally going to start. You know, I share

  600. with your truly believe that it's gonna be a blessing

  601. over that sight there. But there were many more churches

  602. to be planted, not big churches, but sponsors sad in Karawachi.

  603. Wherever they go, God call them to work in Vietnam.

  604. They went to Vietnam to work, but they didn't go

  605. to Vietnam just for work. When we are random, they

  606. say that Lord helped me to be a part of

  607. a church here. They when to serve in the local church,

  608. underground church. They say that, let me do a cell group.

  609. When they got called to Indonesia, they just want to

  610. attend a church, help me to start something where I am.

  611. And it's the amazing thing about God. Friends. Once you

  612. start on these journey, friends, it's never off button money.

  613. It's never about the say God that I've done too

  614. ready enough? Really but lor I do you call this homer?

  615. I wanted to do it.

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  619. that this week is going to be a good week

  620. ahead for you. God bless