Sermon
Do Not Spare-Elder Wong Kien Yiak
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You're listening to a message to go from acts Church.
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We hope this message will light up your day.
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I won't speak about missions, all right, We've been asked
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to speak about missions, but I want to take it
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from the perspective of wifes. Missions so important, not so
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much to encourage yours to go for another mission trip,
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which normally that's the case. You know, sign up, you
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know puts a couple of really set pictures out there,
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and you know, sign up right, No, no pictures, nothing forever.
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But you know, Isaiah fifty four, okay with me, right now,
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Isaiah fifty four. Right, I'm not sure I'm going to
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turn this a mission message, but Isaiah fifty four starts
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off with this sing al baron sing all barons sing
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when you don't have you know, it's it's really like
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the world of God's asking us to do stuff whereby
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we cannot afford it. All right, I'm not sure how
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many of ursel could lift up a voice and sing joyfully,
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not sadly, not not not like not like one of
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those moments whereby you just don't feel like singing, but
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in a moment whereby God's been asking us to declare
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something when we have not seen it yet, to worship
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him when we don't have the strength to worship him,
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or rather to go when we cannot afford to go
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already we may not understand. There's so many reasons why
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we don't do certain things for church or for God.
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Maybe because we are on the journey. But whatever the
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reason is, where we still allow God to move Because
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the Bible here say in verse one, sing or barren.
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It's hard to sing when you've never had the break
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to yet. It's hard to go where you can't see
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the fullness of it. It's hard to give and you
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don't understand the full picture. But God this morning was
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to remind us again it is not about the breakthrough
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as in the end product. It is not about whether
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you have a child already you have not had. It
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is not about your environment or not. But it's the
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commandment of God asking us to do something even though
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we may not have the full understanding of it. So
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worst one start off is singing. If you have sing
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before friends and it's a karaoke or in church, there's
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two ways to sing. Either you sing it believing right
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or you don't. I've seen many people who are in
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loving doing songs in karaoke thing. They're almost replica of
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the original singer, almost replica of the original singer, which
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been saying, if regardless of how a person sounds, how
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it turns out to be the person who will still
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sing like truly enjoying. I've seen people singing rock songs
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whereby the boys can't even you know, sing right, stuff
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like that, okay, and they are enjoying themselves. And think,
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I think, I truly believe that's what God wants us
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to do as well, to enjoy singing when we have
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not seen it yet. Help me of us know that
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when we are supposed to do something, we're not seen
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it yet. First it is it's a sacrifice. It is
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a sacrifice whereby God asks us to do something when
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we have not seen it yet, when we have not
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received it yet. For example, that coming to church to
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serve is a sacrifice of some of us here. For example,
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you have you well umpunk, it's aid ten thirty. If
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you're not serving, you come by nine right, ten thirty one,
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all right, no judgment whatever. But if you are serving friends,
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extreme whattem the extreme? Come here, hit o'clock. We've got breakfast.
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And no breakfast, No breakfast right, bring your own breakfast?
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All right? Good because a lot of please open you
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really close. You suppose it right, PG or I tell
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you the so sports seventy Ye've got breakfast? Someone? No,
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oh what is this? That's right? Come on man, it's
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also come as earlier, you know, six or breakfast right,
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that's what how to write anyway. So what I'm trying
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to say here is that coming at nine is a
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second fice some of us here. You look at the
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weather right now, how many we want to wake up
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for chich and nine? Come to chich and nine? You
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want to enjoy a bit more because it's hard to
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get this kind of weather during the weekdays. And they said,
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but coming to church early is the secrifice to some
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of us here. And God's asking us that even though
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you may not see ye, would you give it up
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to worship? And the word I want to use. We're
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very familiar with the surroundings that we are used to.
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I don't want to use the word comfortable and uncomfortable,
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because comfort varies two different people. If you're grown up
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in Malaysia back in the eighties, lying now on the
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cement floor with a fan on. That's comfort. That is luxury,
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That is nice, cold, nice semen floor with a pillow
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on the floor, right, So we grew up with environment.
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I love it. But to some of us see it
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right now on the cement floor, it's dirty, right, your
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pillow cannot touch your floor on? Is that correct? Yes? Right? Ah?
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For me and my pillow goes to the floor or
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the bit of everywhere, they still can go out and
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it's yes, cant right again. You see what's comfort for me,
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it's uncomfortable for some other people. So it's not about
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comfort at the end of the day, friend, it's about
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familiar I want to use the word familiar because friends,
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some of us are very familiar with this surrounding. For example,
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a church needs to have this environment. But what if
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the church is in a different environment, not something we're
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familiar with. Can we still sing when something we're we're
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not familiar with? Not? The Bible says in Luke chapter
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one was forty seventh fall. With God, nothing is impossible,
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right if we trusts this scripture. Therefore, it ties in
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with Isaiah fifty four asking us to sing because for
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with God nothing is impossible, asking us to go for
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missions for with God, nothing is impossible. Many times our journey,
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why we choose to go and not to go is
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because we can't see the fullness there. I'm I am
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in a place or environment whereby I'm not familiar where
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you And when you're on a few fence, you have
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no option but to do everything everything. I'm not going
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with church ministry. I cannot serve in church ministry. I
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truly believe all of us here a gifted for children,
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ministry of yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, pay attention, thank you, ah,
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high five, high five, peace right obvious yeah, gift of
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for when you're on the field, you can't say that
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I'm not good at you with children, I'm selective. I'm
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good with yeah, were king of downs, but I'm not
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good with children. Friends. I truly believe at the field
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you need to allow God to even the word is
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stretched being being comfortable with the unfamiliar, being comfortable with
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the unfamiliar friends. I was sharing earlier on with XPGA,
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I thing many times we are very selective, very selective.
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So savill know that I'm still in the midst of
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So I moved out from my house just to fertility.
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Some things in my house right, I've moved out from
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my house, so my wife is staying with the parents.
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I'm staying with my dad for almost two weeks. Really,
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so I was selling past the John Paul. Although I
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heard that you have your wife have to sleep separate places,
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I say yes, because my parents' place is not very comfortable. Right,
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I'm almost living in the halfway house and half of
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my queen size mattress is full with clothes, the other
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half is on the floor and stuff like that. All right,
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no place, okay, even though my dad says the double
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story tarrist house by himself, you understand, okay, how they
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having shown things away? I discovered my dad got a pet.
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Got a pet. It's a rad been living with a
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red for almost couple of years. Really, I'm not there
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was the sound. It's a rad. No, it's not rather no,
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it's been freends. It is not. I saw it though, clean,
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not clean, red clean, okay, red clean, because my house
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cause not neat single anyway. So I told my dad,
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how on earth can you continue stay in the house
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right with this pet there? I was trying to catch
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it the other day. Couldn't. I cannot take it. Anybody
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said that I'm going to look for a trap for you, Milasia.
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Cannot find the old trap very hard, okay, excuses like
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very hard to find more when you search. I went
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down to the hardware shop where hardware shot down the
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road where how I shut down the road, and I
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knew my dad didn't have the strength to look for
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the trap anyway, or the one caught it this morning.
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Ah praise so hallelujah. Right anyway, I was telling you
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by I was still gonna tell I was gonna tell
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my dad. Dad, you have to say, go back to
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your friend. Really, all right, okay, animal activity, I'm so
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sorry about what. Let you know. I will send the
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red to somewhere else in a different form after that,
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all right. But why I'm sharing this because first, I'm
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I'm right now. Twenty years I got married twenty years ago,
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moved on from my parents, are now moving in with
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my dad. It is familiar, but yet not that familiar. Familiar,
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but note that familiar. My dad is repeating stories to
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me every other day, the same story, repeating the same
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story to me every other time. I smiled to my
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dad only because I did that. It's okay, don't read
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all of us go to eat one my dad's the
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early early stages of dementia. I can't remember a lot
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of stuff, that's all right, So I spend a lot
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of time having a conversation. Every night. I go back
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home tired, tired, friends, tired, because you know what I'm saying.
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You come back to work, but you got no choice
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but doing sit in front and have conversation. So I
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have conversation my dad every night, no matter how tired
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I am falling asleep. Yes, that correct, that's right. Let
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let me speak. Sing when you don't have yet, no
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more strength, by yet, minister and day. They are days
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whereby I tell my dad, Dad, can you just cut straight? Actually,
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what is it that you want to tell me? I
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do that sometimes because no more strength. You just feel
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like that's sill. Don't repeat the same story, treat it
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again and again. The days I told my dad that
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I'm so sorry, I'm just so tired. Tell me what
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you want. But there are days where by I got
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trying to just listen. I'm sharing these many times you
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will only do stuff, and we have many times you
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only do stuff for the lot when we have but
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sometimes the lot asking us to do stuff, and we
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don't have no strength. But would you still minister no strength?
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Would you still minister? I'm not good with Chiuran, help
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me feel that Johny will be good with Youance Ministry, right,
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can I can? I believe that Johnny is very good
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with you in the smile on his face and stuff
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like that. Financially say Amen, Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Finance
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their own college education after that, Amen, or the parents
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say Amen, hallelujah. John They said, your ministry started to
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read it so many times. First, we don't see that
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as a sacrifice, but it is a sacrifice for us.
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We need to understand there's no such thing as serving
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God without a sacrifice one because obedience is what God
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is after we can't say there is obedience without sacrifice.
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For example, point number two and pass away point number
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two for me is this is that many times we
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think sacrifice, this is the ect of doing. You just
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want me to serve only no friends. It's not just
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one thing you deserve. If you ever grew up in
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the back in the eighties watching television between eight thirty
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to ninety right, there was air Wolf mcguiver write all
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your favorite TV program If you grew up in the
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era somehow right up with your parents? Know one, friends,
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when to interrupt you to carry out the trash? No,
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the most cantil moment. Take out the trash now, and
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you cannot reply to your parents. Wait until ever, this
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one time you can't because you were asking for it.
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You have a possibility where by your parents you turn
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off the TV. Help me, you understand, And what do
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you do? You take out the trash. Not with the
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right heart. You quickly just want to discharge your duty,
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just to go back to what's for me so worse.
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Two states, this rest and last the place of your tent.
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Come on and let them stretch out the curtains of
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your dwelling. Oh wor here needs interruption in our life
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where other people will stretch our capacity. Friends, that's why
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going to the field serving God, we are letting them
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to stretch us out. If you've ever done any stretching before,
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how many we can touch your toes? You can write
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praise to Halladaijah. I can't because I got three layers
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of goodness in between. Right that that that that they're
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stopping me from touching my toes, And my wife will
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look at me to say, it's so easy look at me.
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I've been doing this when I was since ten years old.
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I looked at her touching her toes. I got like,
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good for you. I don't know what else you can
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do with it, but you know praise, so hallelujah. I
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look at you touching your toes. Ready, I felt like
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accomplished mine. Then she say, maybe it's your form that
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you're not doing right. Stand up, set up, and she
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doesn't stand up, set up right? Now, go a bit lower,
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Come on, push yourself a bit push. Come on, you
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can't do it just one more friends kind of nowhere
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and your tree is in between you. See that, right?
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It's very hard anyway, So she push and push and
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see got improvement a few more millimeters it. Keep doing this,
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guarantee by the end of the week, you can touch
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your toes. Now, what happened if we do it on
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our own? What happened if you do it? Yeah? Today,
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back aglar, today, back ela. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow.
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Today I got accomplishment today a bit longer then tomorrow.
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I can think we likes a bit because today I
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work out extra ready. Tomorrow I think it'll be easier.
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We allow ourselves space to grow because you know why nobody.
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Nobody's pushing as well. But the Bible here says, let
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them stretch out the curtains of your dwelling frids. Curtains
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are meant to be stretched out, but we need others
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to stretch out our capacity. Friends. That's why sometimes when
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you go to the feud, Oh, I didn't know I
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can minister to disgroup of people in regardless of language, race,
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or color of food. How many from Sarah here, sarawak here,
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Sarah a Joe? Oh? Okay? I thought you say, anyway,
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sego worm, sego worm, sago worms. That's right, best, right,
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best you know, sego worms, sago worms. This this, this
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looks like a cornelle of butter moving around. One is
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in yellow color. Anyway, Some people like it, some people don't. Right.
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The question is is that I've heard I'm not. They
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said that I've heard. It tastes like butter, very very creamy. Right,
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That's why people say, okay, some people you try it? Right?
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I told God, I said God, I can eat anything,
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except please don't send me the Philippines and ask me
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to eat balut. I just praise Anabelle. Can you be
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on my mission tiep and go right, I said, I
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cannot understand biting of the egg, with the with the
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with the with the texture tright tex I love, I
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love the word texture. Right, you got, you got, You've
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got crunchy element in there. Ah, you've got feathers as well.
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Okay to me, like there, But what happened first? What happened?
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I'm not asking you to do the extreme, my friends,
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I'm asking this down down it, back down it back here,
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accusing that you're not used to But I always see
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it has the capacity to do it if you want
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to allow ourselves to do it. Given the choice, we
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won't look for it. True, not given the choice. I
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have a clique. I know that malikusine is not the
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choice Elther. Given the choice, I rather not. I rather
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not eat Malik cuisine because I didn't grow up with
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the taste. I don't understand the taste profile. I rather
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big Chinese food along the way. But when you go
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on the treat, friends, it's the odds that stretch your
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capacity for you to know that you can do it.
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So sacrifice, friends, It's not just about I'm here here,
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I'm sacrificing. I'm I'm signing up for extreme. So I'm
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here nam ready. But friends, that sacrifice is pretty normal
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about they have the obedience is what God is after.
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It's not just anything on the altar, friends, it's Isaac
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on the altar. And many times in our life see God,
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I show up in church, Ma, I'm at homes and
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therefore it's like a sacrifice. I'm at homes ready, I'm
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a prior service. But God is going something deeper whereby
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he's using other people to stretch you. Patience you need
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Come on, how Ma, you don't need other people to
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stretch your patients. You need one. Friends, You need other
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people to stretch you so that you know where you
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are at. So words to say, at large a place
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of your tech.
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Come on.
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We all love to enlarge, our friends. We all love
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to enlarge, and therefore it means to say that we
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are desired reading us the capacity to be enlarged. Design
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within us is a capacity to be enlarged. And many
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times our journey of life, we will select or I'm
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not ready yet. There's nobody to go to gym and
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just say I'm radio. We go to gym because I
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say our health, your cries of it. We need to
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lose weight. We need to feel. But that's that's why
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second part was to say let them stretch out the
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curdersive of your dwelling words, to say, let them stretch
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out the curdersive of your dwelling friends, and do not
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spare Come on when you are in large and stretched.
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Comes the next part of the scriptures that do not
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spare friends. It's the mindset that God wants to deal
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with at the end of the day. It's not the
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mindset of just abundance or not friends. It's the mindset
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of not holding back. There's a scripture I think in
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Genesis where by Abraham and Abraham offer Isaac and God
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provided a ram right. And this is what God said
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to Abraham Abraham, you did not with help. And I
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was stuck with this phrase, you did not with hell,
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and just got me thinking about a person's life journey
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heavy with health. You're feeling the heavy with hell and
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not times when we can heavy with hell or not thanks,
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we couldn't heavy with hell or not friends. Because we
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love worst tree, we should expand to the left and
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to the right. Come on, not overus. Nobody despribes worst tree.
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In Isaiah fifty four. Should explain to the left and
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to the right. We love that public scripture. But God says,
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before you could experience expansion, you need enlarge first your
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tenth and ladge your tent. Friends, don't be like other
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people say. And last, someone else is that Selena you
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need Moki, you do more? Okay, Selena, do all? Right? Next,
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you want to see you all extreme leading worship. Right,
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this is what we do normally do We go up
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and you need to be able to speak in mandrid. Okay,
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I want you to see you preaching in mandrid. And
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this is what we do do. We tell other people
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what to do. And because you know why, it makes
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us feel good. God, I'm obliged someone for you. God,
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I'm obliged someone for you. Right, we feel good. But
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what happened? Friends, if we ourselves sign up for it,
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sigence for it. Enlarge your ten, not your neighbor's ten,
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not your mom's ten, on your father's tand but yours,
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your ten. Friends. God is speaking to us right now,
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because I truly believe sometimes we push the resone of
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the other people we see other people should do this.
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You should read more that you should read the Bible more,
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should pray more. Always good encouragement. Don't get me wrong,
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but many times our own life, we don't even do
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what we say. We don't and that's why it's very
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hard why some of the creatures we always keep repeating
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back the same things, because it's a reminder for us
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creatures as well. When I move on from my house away, friends,
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you know I discovered let me just share with you,
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I discover my ceiling. I have to remove my ceiling
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on the first floor, my whole ceiling on the first floor.
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I had to remove it right because it was it
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was something I wanted to get it done. When I
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removed the ceiling box, friends, I got the horror and surprises.
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I found stuff I was supposed to we turned away
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kept in the ceiling stuff. There was a broken roof,
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towels and hiding inside one corner there. I got some
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extra seamen stattered on top there. I got extra row
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of stuff on top of the seamen there on top
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of the roof ceiling there and the worst interest, the
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best discovery was that my ceiling support wasn't mounted correctly
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to my roof, so half of it was that sort
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of like in between, like you know, going to fall down.
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By the grace of God, didn't this after twenty years
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of staying in there and me and my wife go like, oh,
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by the grace of God, we didn't go up to
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the ceiling. I stepped on the on the on the
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stuff A right. But it's your tenth at the end
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of the day, how you want to deal with it?
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Think about it? How is it that you want to
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renovate your tent? We love ideas, fans. You look at
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the pictures, We love all these pictures, and how you
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want to renovate your house? Praise hallelujah. But at the
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end of the day, it's still required the very first step,
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and God is challenging our heart strength with you enlarge
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your ten? Would you enlarge your ten? You know? Look
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one worst one to for the reader with the two
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mites you But the Bible says that she gave her
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best compared to the people who give out from the abundance.
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God never says the people who give out from the
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abundance are bad, bad people that give us know people,
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you know, every giving is a sacrifice. Fris I truly
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believe the rich people give out an abundance. It's also
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a sacrifice but that kind of giving doesn't changes the
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person's heart. The lady with the two mines gave in
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such a way, but it changes her heart and her
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whole view. And sometimes now journey of life, God is
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asking us to dig deeper because God wants ears at
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the end of the day to have a change of heart.
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And when we do give like that and large and
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let them stretch out, friends, what happens we grow in
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the capacity come worse three friends. Worst three says this
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that for you shall expand to the left and to
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the right. Come on, who doesn't love this? Who doesn't
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love expressions to the left or to the right? We
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all love this right, but it requires these friends. In
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chapter six in John jep to twelve verse twenty four.
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In John jo of the twelve verse twenty four, as
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you could say, I'm making for lost time here because
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I know how you're hungry, Really right, don't jup the
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travels twenty four? Most surely, I say to you, unless
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a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
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it remains alone. Friends, I have not seen anyone puts
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up a weed and frame it up. Say have you
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look at this seat? Fantastic weeds are supposed to A
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grain of sea is supposed to be buried so that
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it produces. And this is how I'm going to just
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solve one thing else to understand this scripture of friends.
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When I was reading this and Lord just reminding my
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own life as well. We like to remain the same,
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the form, the read shape, the grain where it's nice,
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you see the structure, everything like that. People know. But
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to be burying the ground, friends, requires other people's help.
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Have not seen the grain of jumping in the ground ground,
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that's it. I'm diving in, Okay, don't care about me.
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I'm gonna dive in straight. That's it. No, every seat
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are in the hands of a farmer that buries the
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seat in the ground. So to produce much grain in
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verse twenty five requires a farmer, a farmer. It takes
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faith to put our life in God's hands. God, this
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is my life, would you quote unquote bearing me so
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I can produce. It takes much faith to trust God.
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Say God, WoT you have your way? Because but we
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love stories and encouragement. But God says, there's their story
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about you, about yours. The grain of seed, Friends, is
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not supposed to remain in the shape because that was
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now with the intention. In fact, God's reminding us again
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that if we're in the grain, there's a capacity to
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produce much grain. So we sis mean to say that
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everyone of us here, if there is no excuses, we
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can produce it. Can can go for missions on, can
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can eat almost any cruisine. Also can But these days, friends,
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I've learned the new learned the new way way of escape.
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My doctor said, I can't. I got had condition, Ma Leona,
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I can't conditions, I can't okay, health reasons, okay, I
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love for brem comes. Brenklemar is a missionary friend of
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ours in Australia. He also had a heart attacked glasses,
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had to stand downe these days he's hes advocated eat
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anything that served in front of you. But I say,
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these days I'm very selective. I say you have to
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eat all the taks anyway, coming back to that right,
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the grain of seed, green of sea, that force to
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the ground I speak about seeing when you don't have
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requires faith, requires faith, requires faith. Some of us here
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are waiting for the answervers before we could sing. Well,
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in the midst of my renovation, when I move all
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that that was so happy okay, one month, I will
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move back in next next thing, I got a phone call.
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Local councer decided to stop in front of my house.
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Local counseer decides, sorry, find my house. Say do you
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have a permit to reno? It could? I'm working everything
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inside right should be okay? Right? No, I better get
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a permit. He was very nice. Okay, was asking for anything?
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Just apply for a permit, all right. I'm like, I
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don't need. I don't need this additional stress. I really don't.
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That was a moment. I don't feel like singing. So
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imagine I moved out already. I got this notice came.
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So the time I go back to my dad at
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the house, I still have to talk to my dad
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with a smile on my face. I don't feel like talking,
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but I know I still need to talk. The Bible
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is singing when you when you don't have me. So
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I have the conversation with my dad and the same
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story repeated a couple of times. This is I X
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MEJ one one gentleman to me, I was thanking so
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much for sharing. I really cried this down because my
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daughter tells me that I repeat the same story again
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and again and when you told me about that. It
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just reminds me of my conversation I had my daughter
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and I was just sharing with my dad about my journey.
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I felt like, I don't know, I say, I don't
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need another episode with a local counsel. You know, there
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could be good, there could be challenging moments. And I
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was like, Lord, how long would this project be they
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lay for? Would I stay by that in another two
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more months? The days why I thought aboutself, I'd rather
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check into the hotel or get airbnb, stay somewhere else,
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all right, and not having to deal with anything just
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can you use the word run away from that situation?
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Just but Lort just reminded me again, you know that
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this is the time I'm giving you. It's over, adding
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back to you that. So local counter came and I
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went see the local councters give me a book to
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feel up everything that every one of my neighbors just
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say this, who's the neighbor that that that that there
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complete about you? Who's that I said, we complete about
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the pothole for the longest time, that will come and
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repair one phone call on the council for license already
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permitted and stuff like that. So we I know who
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I know which neighbor complained that by anyway, it doesn't matter,
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it's a cycle as a cycle neighbor anyway, it's okay,
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not it's not not not not by me, but my
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other neighbors. Or right, he chopped down my neighbor's and
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nuncle tree poisoned, then stuffed toward his house and stuff that.
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So we we deduced that's anyway coming back. So I
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was going to all this process feeling very tired, very drained.
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They want to go treat and this stuff like that
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and a lot just reminded me again again again singing
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when you don't have it's not the time in church
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you sing, your friends, there's a time when you're going
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treat you can still sing. It's a time whereby the
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Bible says that more are the children of the desolate
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than the children of the married one. It's that we
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don't look at other people's success, but you just begin
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to look at God's fitfulness and say, God will see
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me too. My encouragement for you and to it's just
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this that, friends, no matter what we're going through right now,
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it's not the brick shoe will come immediately, but then day,
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God is still in control. And that's a reminder for us. Friends,
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as I begin to put I just put in my
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application last Friday, already, praise so Halladia. I just scout
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him this summit every day, got my neighbors. Thank you
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for a wife. There's very administrative just for the copy
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of everything. For me, I have the sign on the
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document and something that point in time, friends, I was
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every day for the doors to open and went like God,
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I don't say that you are in control. You are
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in control. Whever it is you are in control, comes
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worse to enlarge. And the Lord reminded me at this
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age the enlargement, friends, it is not a one time enlargement.
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A lot of people like to enlarge this one time mane.
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For example, I achieve touching my toes already, Praise Hallijah.
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For the next twenty years, I know to continue touch
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my toes. You know why, achievement a lot already. I
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did it when I was younger. Praise a lot, hallelujah. Right.
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And and as you grow older, and this is the
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story where we tell me, but when I was young,
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I can touch it. Don't say one minute, I can
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touch one hour easily but then lutchment is continuous until
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the day the lot causes home. It is continuous. Friends.
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We may not touch it for one hour. Friends, But
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the fact that would you still touch your toes when
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God asks you to think about would you still touch
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your toes? You and God asked you to put this
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in our church context. Would you still do the things
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that God asked you to? Maybe some of us have
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been hosting for some time and then God said, hey,
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you've got the amazing voice. Would you still sing? Don't
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just sing for the karaoke. Don't just sing for the karaoke.
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Would you just allow yourself to be used by me?
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With these friends, I'm going to close. Friends, it starts
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off with singing when you don't have having faith, and
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it's a sacrifice. Come worse two. Emphasis of worse two
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is that let others stretch out. The criticis of your dwelling.
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It's in the field you get stretched. It's in the
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field you get stretched many times your journey. Friends, we
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won't stretch ourselves the point where we want to give
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up one. When you go to the gym by yourself, friends,
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you know where you are at. But when you go
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to your gym with a bunch of crazy people, our friends.
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They'll ask you put that actual way where you think
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you cannot want one more posh. I want to say,
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I'm not deaf, I'm just beside you. Poo, you can't
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do it. I don't want you can't do one. I
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have not said, oh you can't let me take out
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the ways of key. I have not seen any any
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any video, any any social medias like guys said, oh
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you can't let me just take it out. It's okay
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to see. They will ask you to push because other
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people know that we can. God knows that we can. Friends. Finally,
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the expansion the left and to the right. We love this,
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but it requires a sacrifice to be buried. It requires
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a sacrifice to be buried. I'm not sure as I
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end right now, how many of us here really say God, Here,
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I am Lord. I know that this message should be
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speaking to me for past some time ala day, But
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here I am Lord. Regardless of your age, your education, background,
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your social sending. But would you allow God really to
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just go deeper? Like you know, there's a scripture to say,
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how how long? Lord? How long? And many times our
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journey right we want to break through in one area.
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But this brick tore one area is really the worse.
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Two worse two means, says this, And launch your ten
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and let them stretch out on your the curtis of
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your dwelling. Do not spare, Do not spare, Do not spare.
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I know some of us here have been giving out sacrificially.
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The day will come. Friends. I'm a firm believeable that
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God is so true to his word doing just church
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for twenty five years. There is no such thing as
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that they and for the Church of Friends, we may
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script the bottom of the barrel we do. We are
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not a church to have five years worth of everyday.
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No.
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Sometimes the lot bring us to a journey whereby everything
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we have we just do it for the church. That's it.
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Not in buildings, not in buying a building, No in
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running a service and stuff like that, renting out for
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the weekend, extremally going to start. You know, I share
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with your truly believe that it's gonna be a blessing
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over that sight there. But there were many more churches
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to be planted, not big churches, but sponsors sad in Karawachi.
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Wherever they go, God call them to work in Vietnam.
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They went to Vietnam to work, but they didn't go
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to Vietnam just for work. When we are random, they
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say that Lord helped me to be a part of
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a church here. They when to serve in the local church,
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underground church. They say that, let me do a cell group.
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When they got called to Indonesia, they just want to
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attend a church, help me to start something where I am.
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And it's the amazing thing about God. Friends. Once you
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start on these journey, friends, it's never off button money.
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It's never about the say God that I've done too
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ready enough? Really but lor I do you call this homer?
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I wanted to do it.
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