The Power of God | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from ex Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I want to ask you if I ask you

to think of a name for God that you have been intimate with or you

know him, what would that name be? The name of God? Okay,

just give me one? Just everyone shout out. What what is the

name of God that you are very familiar with or that you know? Jova

Rapha That means the Lord, heals great? What else? Jovahjirah means God?

I'll provide? What else? Awesome? God is awesome. I don't

know the Hebrew word for that, but yes, God is awesome. What

else? What other words can you think of? Sorry? Shepherd? Yes,

God is our good Shepherd, Thank you? Awesome? What else?

What else? Savior? Thank you? Sorry? The roles of Sharon?

Okay? Wow? Nice? Do y'all know that it's in your Bible?

You know? What else? What other names do you know of? God?

Father? Thank you? What else? What else? Abba? Father?

Yes? What else? Friend? Yeah? That's from Abraham? Right?

Oh, you don't know Okay, I still don't know that he Brew

it okay, not he Brew scholars? What other names do you know of?

God, I am who I am? What powerful? Right? Never

go home some more? Okay? By the way, that's what we are

learning in our homes our small group series. So please attend a small group

if you haven't. And why is it important that we know God's name?

What is it important? Do you want God to know your name? Yes?

Right? And so how we know God shows the character of God that

we are most familiar with? Right, So we always share about God.

No one say God is love? Right? Did anyone say that? Okay?

Did you experience that? Right? And so why it's important to know

God's name is because all of God's names. I think there is at least

two to three hundred names of God in the Bible, right, And so

many times you're just familiar with one or two and that's about it. That's

all we know of God. But do you know that God is so much

more multifaceted than we can ever think of or imagine? Right? And I

want to bring to you this name of God that many of us we might

not really experience so much because we're not familiar with this side of God.

And this is the name el should die, l should die? You heard

of it? What does it mean? A God that is more than enough.

God is great, all sufficient God. So another name for el Shadai

is God all mighty. Yes, I'm sure you've come across that in your

life. And if you're visiting X for the first time. In X our

theme for this year is Heaven rules right, and it speaks a lot about

God as sovereign, God, as almighty, God as all powerful. Again,

we learned in homes the last week, right, what is the three

nature attributes of God that we learned? Omni omnipotent means God is all powerful,

almighty? What else omnipresent That means He's present everywhere? One more omniscience

omissions? What does that mean? He is all knowing, very good.

I'm testing you because you'll be teaching that to others. True, because it's

what you know of God that you will present as a gospel to those around

you from Mondays to Saturdays. So whatever day you're doing here right now on

a Sunday in church is equipping ground. It's training ground. So I hope

that you are ready to receive and to learn and to study because you will

go out and begin to teach others. What was Jesus's greatest and last commandment

to us go and make disciples of all the nations. Right. So your

task and my task every day is to go out and make make disciples,

teaching them to observe everything that the Lord has commanded. Were agreeable, right?

Praise God? And so we want to learn about God's power. Now,

I want you to just close your eyes for a moment. Close your

eyes for a moment, and I'm going to say a word, and I

want you to think of an image immediately pops into your mind. Are you

ready? All right? Okay, so close your eyes and the word is

power. Okay, you can open your eyes. Power? What image came

to your mind? Sorry? Supermart Oh Superman? Superman? Superman? Okay?

Power? So Superman came into your mind? What else? A tombomb?

Okay, that's powerful? What else? What else? Resurrection? Power?

What else? Lightning? Lightning? Has anyone been in a close encounter

with the lightning before? No? Electrocuted before? Oh? No? Yes?

Powerful or not? Okay, you get fired? Okay? What else?

What image came to your mind? Joe? I know where your reference

or power is now, Okay. I don't know whether that is all powerful

or is corrupting? Power? Oh okay, let's not go there. Let's

not go there. Okay, okay, so power, so the Bible tells

us. So, so we want We don't have a lot of time,

but I just want to go into God's nature. Right, And the first

thing that we want to understand is that God is a God of power,

the God that we worship every day, every day of our lives. Right,

it's not a weak God. Amen, He's not weak. Many people

think, right, well, God, is this like Mary her the little

lamb, little lamb? Right, he's just a little lamb led to slaughter.

Right, And that's sometimes the image that we have of this God that

we serve, his gentle, meek and maul. But can I tell you,

when Jesus comes back, he's not gonna be the weak and maul and

gentle Jesus. He's gonna come back with uh sword. He's gonna come back

writing on her. When when Jesus went to the cross he wrote on her,

he wrote on a donkey, And that when he's coming back again,

what is he gonna write on a horse? And horse symbolizes power. Do

you understand that when Jesus come back, he's going to be a god that

is supreme, sovereign, ruling over everything, and everything is subject to his

name, and he's gonna be all powerful. And if you don't recognize God,

this God, now, you will be in for a shock. You're

like, huh, God is like that. Yes, God means business.

Jesus is going to mean business with your life. You know, everything that

you do with your life right now, and everything that has done before,

and everything that's gonna happen in the coming days, you will have to account

for it. Do you believe that? And Jesus is very serious? All

right? So let's look at Collusions Chapter one. God is the source of

our God is the source of all power, is says here. For by

him all things were created. How many things, some things, ninety percent

things. All things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth,

visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers,

All things were created through Him and for us. No I thought for us,

no for him. And He is before all things, and in him

all things consist, all of us living and breeding here, standing or sitting

down here right now? Do you know that you are here by the power

of God? The very fact that you are breeding, that oxygen is going

through your ways, there is a going through your lungs. Is God's power

in you? Do you know? Another thing about power is energy? Right?

And if a person is dead, the first thing that you do is

you check what reading you check? Most of us check breeding for la,

No air means no life, No life means no more power in that body.

Right. So everything that we are, even us just living and breeding

like we we could be in a vegetative state. But the very fact that

we are still functioning our body is God's power in us. Oh just just

you know, can you just let us sink in yourself for a while?

It's like God, wow? Sometimes? Right? I feel that as Christians

we might feel God. You know, our idea power is something that the

big thing, right, the powerful, like the God splitting the ocean into

too, the race into two. Right. We think of God's power as

raising the day. But do you know that our life itself is evidence of

God's power. I want to show you that we are evidence of God's power

every day in our lives. We might think that, oh no, my

life is not Powerfuler, I'm just a normal Christian? Are you a normal

Christian? The very fact that you're a Christian means you're supernatural already. Amen.

The very fact that you are a believer of Christ is supernatural in itself.

Right. And the thing about let me see where it is? Ah,

okay, where is my word? Okay? Now, this word power

in the Greek comes from this word donamis. Have youd of this? Okay,

So let's go to this. Let's go to dunamis. There is one

hundred and seventeen times used in a New thousand. That's a lot, right,

talking about God's power. Of course, it means force, power,

energy and strength. And many times it refers to the miraculous words or the

morally excellent acts of God. Wow, and of people as well. Right.

And so this power, this is word dunamis is is very very precious

and powerful. But there is another word that comes that denotes the power of

God. We only know dunamis. Right, what's the other word that we

can learn? So it's this word that's called excusia. For give you a

bit a Greek lesson. It's used one hundred and three times, so that's

as almost as many times as the word dunamis. And it talks about power

or authority that is delegated. We understand now. The first point is God

is the source of all power. Agree. Okay, God is a source

of power, and he's keeping all the power to himself, right is it?

Do you agree with that statement? God wants to keep all the power

to himself. No. So the Bible tells us in New Testament that this

is what excusia is, a means of God delegating his power to others.

Okay, let's see where I'm getting this from. Okay, So in Matthew

twenty eight Matthew twenty eight eighteen, and Jesus came and spoke to them,

saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven on earth. What

does that mean? It means that Jesus' authority was given to him. Someone

had to give it to him. Right, who gave it to him?

God the Father? So, God the Father delegated authority to Jesus. Did

he stop at Jesus? No, what's the evidence of that. Let's go

to Matthew again, Chapter ten, verse one, And this is what Jesus

says. Jesus says, and when he had called he's twelve disciples to him,

he gave them power over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal

all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. Amen. Do you know

that Jesus is wanting to give you power? Amen? Do you believe it?

Would you receive it? You might believe it, but you're like God.

I don't want this power because I think where great powers comes great court

spider Man right, And many times I find that as Christians we live as

though we are weak. So I thought it was very prophetic that John started

off our worship this morning by saying, we have the victory. Where are

we standing from? What is our position? Guys Christians? What is our

position? A position of defeat or victory? You have to believe that,

because if you don't believe what position you're standing on, everything in life will

be a downfall to you. Every circumstances, every trial, every tribulation,

every sickness, every failure will look as though you are living in defeat rather

than from a position of victory. Do you understand how important your position is?

Our position? We have to understand our position. We have to understand

that God is this God who is so big, So oh my, this

is so awesome as you meditate on him, right, and that God has

chosen you and me mere humans to delegate his authority and power. Guys,

you gotta rise up in our spirits. I think there's something for us that

needs to be awakened within us. Amen, there is this dunamicist that's within

us, that's waiting. Right, dunamis right, we understand it. It's

just power, right, correct, Dunamis is power. But another understanding of

this Greek word dunamis is potential. So you have this potential within all of

us, but it's not used. Let me give you an example. We

all have this right, all of us like this right. So so within

it there is a dynamo cha or a battery right, battery battery battery,

So, battery is there, it's within it. I can choose to use

it or I don't use it, as simple as that. It's within you.

But it's your choice whether you want to turn it on or not.

Correct, And so that's it's the potential that do not miss within us.

And many times as Christians we walk around like, oh I don't know what

to do. Oh I'm weak, Oh you know, I'm trapped in this

and I don't know how to get out of it because many times we don't

know how to activate the power of God within us. Already, it's within

us. God has given us the Holy Spirit. If you believe that,

say amen, the Holy Spirit is within you. Right when you accepted the

Lord, you repented, you said the prayer, you asked the Holy Spirit

to come within you. That is the first in dwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Yes, so we all have the Holy Spirit. The question is are

you activating and being filled with the spirit daily. It's different to have the

battery pack inside you, right, But then none of us turn it on

because we are saying, oh, okay, I didn't even know. I

don't know how to turn this on. Okay, So let's learn how to

turn this power of God on. Now another thing that we want to understand,

so firstly, the power of God. We know that He is the

source of it. Yes, And we know that God has delegated this power

and authority to us. Yes, Okay. I hope that you're feeling more

authoritative about what God has given us. And God has given us so much.

Do you know that we are so rich in Christ? Amen? Amen,

don't live in this poverty mentality that I have nothing in my life.

If you are a believer, I don't care how much you have in your

bank account. I don't care where you are in your career. Leather,

your position is Prince. You know, do you know that you're cold air

with Jesus Christ. Do you know what that even means? Co air with

Jesus Christ. That means everything that Jesus has you get to have. Also,

you know how good our Father is, how good God is? Amen?

And so we want to to take up that position. Okay, I

don't want anyone of us to feel that, Oh no, you know my

situation is too big for God. Ever felt that my position, my situation

is too big for God? Then I'm saying, is God God or your

situation? God? Who's aboth? Who's aboth? If you believe that God

is all powerful, he is el should die. That means He's above everything.

And you bring your situation and you say, God, this situation is

under your command. This situation is not above you, it's beneath you.

And Lord you are working all things out for the good of those who love

him. Amen. Amen. Remember that now the power? Then, So

what is the power that we receive. So God is a source of all

power. He delegates the power now to us. So what do we do?

How do we experience this power? The very first one is this.

Do you know that the power that we believe us receive is a game.

It's an inheritance and it's a responsibility. Whoa, it's a gift. None

of us can ever work for it. It's an inheritance and it's a responsibility.

Let's go through what that means, all right. The very first one,

the very first evidence of God's power in your life is your salvation.

Can I hear an amen? The resurrection power of Jesus Christ. There's very

same power that resurrected Jesus from the day. Do you know that Jesus is

no longer in the tomb? Guys, Jesus is at the right hand of

God right now interceding for us. Thank you Lord he is. You're not

praying for yourself, all right, Jesus is praying for you. You know

that. Amazing. The more you meditate upon God's goodness, you begin to

realize, man, I have a lot to live for I have so much

within that God is waiting to unleash. Right the power and the goodness of

God. The it says in efficients to it, for by grace you have

been saved, true, true good works faith, and that not of yourselves.

It is the gift of God. Can you just give God praise right

now? Just give God praise, Give God praise because God has given us

this gift of salvation. This is the power of God that it just blows

my mind when I think about it. Do you know that everyone of you

seated here, if you are a believer and a disciple of Jesus Christ,

that is God's power at work. This is the greatest miracle of God.

Do you know that even more than raising the dead, even more than healing

sickness and cancer or TV or dangy is the is the power of your salvation?

Because you know what the devil is trying all he can to stop one

child who is in the kingdom of darkness to come into the Kingdom of light.

And the very fact that we have crossed over the greatest jurang boundary depth

to come into the Kingdom of light, that is miraculous. That is God's

greatest power on that. Do you know how many people have prayed for you

for you to come to know the Lord. Did you know that all the

people that have sown in prayer, in sweat, and in tears, you're

not here by accident. None of you are here by accident. Sometimes we

take our salvation for granted. We think it's it's just a prayer, right,

it's just one prayer. But it's not just one prayer, because Jesus

every blood and drop of sweat and his very life for you to have this

living hope in Jesus Christ, Amen, the power of salvation. Do you

know that sometimes we feel that it's very impossible, right, it is an

impossible thing because with men it is impossible. None of us can work for

our salvation. But we got all things. Ah, we call all things

are possible. Remember Jesus was telling his disciples, you know, they were

teaching, They were asking him, you know, who then can be saved?

Because Jesus was talking about the rich young man, rich young men who

had followed everything about God. He was a good guy, Hey, good

guy. He followed all the rules. And then he came to Jesus and

he says, what must I do to be saved? Right? And Jesus

says, well, you follow everything ready, But sell everything and come and

follow me. The man's like, oh, I got too much, well

of sorry, Jesus, maybe another day. And so he turned to his

disciples and say, it's very hard for the rich men to end to the

Kingdom of God. It's like entering into a needle, like the camel entering

a needle hate impossible. And that's where Jesus says with men, this is

impossible, but we got all things. Ah Amen, all things are possible.

You have to confess that, and you have to believe that all things

are possible. Can you think of an impossible situation in your life right now?

Just think about it. I'm sure there are Is there an impossible situation

in your life right now? Can you just speak to it and say,

with God, all things are possible, declare that we've got all things are

possible. We got all things are possible. I want to share a quick

story around this, and this just happened like over the weekend, right,

God's power and I got to witness God's power at work. So on Friday,

I receive a call from a friend and she she just broke down on

the phone and she was just saying, you know, her husband has been

having this relationship with a colleague, right, a female colleague that has gone

beyond what is supposed to go. Right, He's talking to her late at

night, sending her flowers on a birthday. I'm like, okay, this

is not going great, right, And so, in fact, she has

discovered this, it's been going on for two years, okay, and it's

probably yeah, it's not a situation that you want yourself to be in.

And so when she confronted him, and she has confronted him over a few

times, and he has denied everything. He's like, no, it's just

a colleague, just a colleague, just a friend. I was just being

nice, right, And he became very cold, very harsh towards her,

And so she was just in the positions like I don't know what else I've

done. So even since two years ago, you know, when she first

discovered she she's like, Okay, I don't know what's going on, but

I think God is asking me to change. Guys, how many of you

would say if your husband is cheating on you emotion and say no, I

need to change. How many of you will do that? You basically go

and bash the pallab Right, I would what is this about me changing and

me being humble, and that's what she did for two years. She humbled

herself, She went to God, she prayed, she faster, she cried

out to God. And when this last straw happened, she's like, I

don't know what else to do, but I am at peace. I am

at peace, but I don't know what to do, and I'm seeking counsel

right now. So I just told her, girl, this is something no

counseling can change. No counseling, even if you're the best professional counselor or

coach, whatever it is, will not changing because he has shut off because

I sense, you know, when I was talking to her, and before

I say, he has no fear of God. They are Christians, he

has no fear of God in his life, right, And because he has

no fear, he's like, I can do anything I want. And you've

been putting up with this for the last two years. Just continue putting up

with it, right, And so I just say, we just need to

pray and ask God for what to do next, because I don't know what

to do next, honestly, And she was gonna confront him again, right,

And so so with all these things, that, she says. She's

like, I'm broken, I'm lost, I'm disheartened. I just don't know

what else to do, okay, And so we just prayed. I say,

we just need God to come in right now, and God needs to

intervene because no one else can with a hardened heart. Only God can soften.

Right. So we pray, and I was a bit uneasy about this,

really really uneasy about this. I was like, God, your power,

God, we need you to show up. Twenty four hours later,

she's at the brink of despair. Okay, she said, the brink of

despair. She's like, my child. They have a child, and the

child is really sensing. Do you know that your child knows picks up everything

that's going on. You can't be a fool, okay and think that,

oh yeah, just because we don't argue in front of the kids, the

kids don't know. So so the child is aware of what's happening. And

things had been very, very full of friction at home and tension. Right.

So, twenty four hours later I received a text, so she said.

When I confronted him, I was just at total calm and peace.

I didn't raise my voice, and I'm like God, that's you at work

right. Any sane woman will probably be scratching somebody ready or or I don't

know, throwing some things. She's like, I was just at peace.

I just told him. She said that I was in my room and I

cried before the lord. After shower. I just went to him and said,

I forgive you, give you. He didn't ask for forgiveness. You

know, he was still cold, he was still not talking to her.

He's like, I don't care about you. And she just repented and just

asked him for forgive and said I released forgiveness and the balls in your court.

And in that moment, he actually broke down and cried and he cried

and he cried and he cried, and he he said, Okay, look,

I think I have wronged you and and we need to make this right

right, and we need to go seek counsel, look for a marriage counselor

whatever it is. And then she said that I don't know how this is

possible, but the impossible has happened. Amen, the impossible has happened in

twenty four hours. I'm like, God, I've never seen this in my

entire marriage counseling session before. Usually it's like, Okay, yes, there

is time to heal, and there's time to work things out. Yes that's

all that. But for a man to have his pride broken, and I

believe that's only by the power of God. Amen. And this is God's

business, guys. His business is in restoring broken relationships. His business is

in healing people, not just healing in your physical body, but healing of

that relationships that is so precious to God. Do you see the power of

God at work here? Just like that. I'm like, I was bored

over. I was like, God, this is just evidence of you working.

Can we say that God is dead, He's alive. He's alive working

in your lives and my lives even right now, because God wants to save

us, and not just save us from What is God saving us from?

By the way, do you know this? I'm not sure. Let me

ask you what is God saving us from our sins? Sometimes we think that

God is saving us from hell? Right? Do you know that that's just

a bonus? God is actually salvaging us from the sin that causes death.

Right. And so now we have the power of God. Whish goes to

my second point. We now have the power of living a godly life?

And what does it say in Second Peter One Tree It says this, as

his divine power has given to us some things? Is it some things?

Read your Bible, Papa, Is it some things? It's all things.

God has given us all things, everything that we need that pertain to life

and godliness through the knowledge of Him who caught us by glory and virtue.

Do you know that we have everything, every power in our lives to live

godly life? Do you know that? Question? For you? Can you

live a sinless life? Truck question? Right? We can go into the

whole theology around it, but do you believe that you have what it takes?

You know, when God set us free, right, the power of

God it was to set us free. The freedom that we have is we

have the freedom not to sin. I want you to just let us sink

for a while. Do you know that you now, as the believer of

Jesus, have the freedom and the power to not sin? Yes, because

we have broken free from the penalty of sin. And so now the battle

that we have every day. You know, if you're non Christian, right,

there is no battle. You're on the defeated site. Ready, you

are constantly defeated because there is no Holy Spirit. There's nothing to help you

make that choice. I can choose not to sin, but as a believer,

as bearers of the Holy Spirit, every day now becomes a battle of

choice to say I will look at that porn site or not. And now

you have that power activated within you to say I'm going to ask that I'm

going to get out of here. Christians, you have this. It's not

will power, guys. Yeah, it's different. Yes, some people have

very strong willpower, but willpower can bring you that far. The rest of

it is Holy spirit power. It really is. Holy Spirit has been given

to us to live a godly life. Think about your life right now.

If someone looks at your life right now, and they will say, wow,

that's a reflection of Jesus. Wow, that's a godly life. I

like the way you are talking to people. I like how you're treating others.

I like the way you are serving. I like the way that you

are giving of your finances, of your time, of your talent, of

your treasure. Do they see God in us or not? Guys, when

people look at our lives, do they see God at work or do they

see us at work, striving, striving, striving so hard, you know,

using all our efforts, all our strength, all our connections, so

that we can be successful in this life. Do people see God in our

lives? Do people see that when I am nothing? You know, when

I'm beaten, when I'm down, when I'm thrown and unfair cut in life?

And many of us have unfair cuts in our lives. When right,

when you are given a bad hand in life, what do you do?

You try? You try, you try? Right, many of us miss

the surrendering of that cut and say, God, you see my card,

I show you my cut. Nah, God you know it? And God,

you think God doesn't know you already see his omission? Right, He

knows everything, and he's like, it's okay, you wait, the right

cut will come. And the right cut has come. And his name is

Jesus. Do we believe that everything that we see is just on the surface?

But is there a deeper knowledge of God? Which is my next point

is this God has given us the power of knowing him and knowing his power.

Let's go to Ephesians chapter one and he says this, right, I'm

gonna read quite a bit of efficiens and I encourage you to read this for

yourself, because you will begin to If you put on the lenses and you're

looking for God's power right, you will see you begin to see it all

come alive. In the Scriptures Ephesians one, chapter seventeen to twenty one,

he says that the God of our Lord, Jesus Sus Christ, the Father

of Glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the

knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, you know that

these are all gifts of God. He's given us his wisdom, revelation.

He's given us understanding that you may know what is the hope of His calling?

What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance? In the Saints,

tell your neighbor, I have an inheritance. Do you know what your

inheritance is? In verse nineteen, he says, and what is the exceeding

greatness of His power towards us who believe according to the working of His mighty

powers which he works in Christ, when he raised him from the date and

seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality

and power and might, and dominion, and every name that is named,

not only in this age, but also in which is to come a man.

Amen, are you excited? Excited? Let's read on what else is

God giving us verse four in Emphician chapter two. But God, being rich

in mercy because of the great love with which He loved us even when we

were dad in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. Amen,

by grace you have been saved, and raise us up with Him and seated

in us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, so that

in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness

towards us in Christ Jesus. Amen. And this one is something that we're

all familiar. We love to quote these ephicients three twenty. Now to him

who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,

according to the power that is at work within us. Is that power I

work within you to him the glory in the Church, by Christ Jesus,

to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Amen, Amen, I want

to come back to this illustration right. So we have the power, and

all of us have twenty four hours? Right? What do we do with

this power that we have, the time that we have, the remaining days

that we have, I say remaining because we don't know how many days we

have left. How are you using your days? Right? So we have

this power, and sometimes we go around the whole day, right, And

the thing about it is, I don't know what are you using your power

for? We use our power, but what do we use it for?

Okay, that's something for you to think about. Like God has everything that

I used. The applications that I choose to use have brought you glory.

Ooh, maybe they're a lot absinal lives that needs to go. Ooh.

Time to clean up some apps guys, because they are distracting you. They

are draining you. I don't know what your epps are doing to you.

You know, think about it. This is something that we look at all

the time. Right, So I'm just gonna use this lustian as our lives.

Our energy, our power is used up so much, and I think

some games take up a lot of energy. I don't know. And then

we realize that sometimes, right, we walk around with a five percent energy

left battery and you one of your experience that before maybe nowadays not so much.

Nah. But when we first had our Nokia three to one zero ah,

okay, oh the Butterfly one. We walk around and when it's like

five percent, what do you do you penny? Right? Oh? You

know o killer some people who are you know, we walk around with five

percent as Christians sometimes and we go, hey, wondering why my life are

so so weak? So weak five percent? And the immediate thing that we

will do is what any irrational person will do, is what charge? So

you you bring look for your charger, right, and then what do you

do when you're looking for you You can just charge by yourself? Is it

plug in? Okayay? So I plug you know, okay, like that

chage red is it chocodia? I'm charge what I got a connector? I

got a charger, saws. I need to look for the sauce. Okay,

let's where's where's the sauce? Okay? We go looking for the sauce,

right, and then we plug in and then we say, oh,

no charge you read oh oh you're in the same generation as me. Huh.

Still need to turn on on right? It's charging yay. But many

of as Christians, we walk around with a five percent battery pack. And

then we go like, hey, why why am I? Why is my

life not reflecting God's glory, God's power? Why do you think it's like

that because you didn't go look for the source of power? Right? And

who's the source of power? God? Can I just impring this into your

mind and your heart? Every time you come across any situation that is beyond

you quickly look for that source. Can you quickly look for the source?

Bring God into your workplace, Bring God into your presentations, Bring God into

your marriage, Bring God into your friendship, Bring God into your parent thing.

Many young parents they come, Oh, you know, it's so tiring,

I don't know what to do. I want to give out everything.

Really, bring God in. Don't you know that he's the one who gave

you the child and here's the one who can help you raise this child.

So why don't we go to the source? And when you try everything,

every self help, gurule, you do whatever, whatever you want to learn

is there. But we forget that the ultimate source of all life, all

wisdom, all understanding is where God. And you know God, right,

it's not somewhere where I can only come to this point and get charged.

I can only come to x Umbug on a Sunday and get charge. You

think God's like that. Of course, this is a great charger. Okay,

x I'm from You're a great charger. You come here, get charge?

Right, You feel the electricity, goose bumps, you get filled up

in your power on a Sunday and that way, you know, we go

away on Sunday feelings so revived. But do you know that God is everywhere.

He's a charger, right, He's a source of power that you don't

have to go and look or only in this place. Is it at the

very moment of help that you eat him? You say, God, I

need you right now, boom. You need to be open for the power

to flow. Do you know many times you can block God's power from flowing.

Do you know God, It's just waiting waiting for you to ask?

But we never asked? Why don't we ask? God is just waiting.

He's like, I have all the answers, you know, I have all

the gifts. You know, I have all these things that I want to

reveal to you. You know, it's like God, it's just like come

turn to me, Come come, and you're like, okay, let's let's

look somewhere else and some else, you know, like sheep, bad bed

bed. You know you're going, you know, shit, very bordering.

Okay, by the way, if you don't know what that means, it's

very stupid and as an animal, right, have you seen the video kid

before you know you saved the ship? Right, it fell into a long

tongue, which is a drain. The moment you lift it up, right

in a moment, he runs and he jumps back in again. That's that's

us. We love ditches. We just love ourselves into another ditch, all

very nice and comfortable. So so we go around looking for other things,

other sources, not knowing that we have we have God to pluck into.

And then we need to turn on right, and turn on can mean a

lot of things for all of us. It can mean just saying, Holy

Spirit, you take over. I'm gonna submit myself unto you. And many

times I realize why God's power doesn't flow through us is because there's a lot

clog. If you think about it as a channel, right, a channel

for God's power. Do you know that we are just a channel of God's

power and blessing? We are that channel right? But what happens when your

channel is blocked with a lot of junk? Let your nose right. We

all can breathe so nicely, but you have your flu and your sinus right

stuck with a lot of mucus, So you need to wash it out,

clean out. And a lot of times God's power is not evident in our

lives because there's a lot of junk, and he can't work through junk.

He wants to get rid of that junk first. Are there any junk in

our lives that you know God is not pleased with? If you really sincerely

desire God's power to be evident, it's like God, use me, use

me, God, whatever I have used me, unclock me. Remember God

has given us the power to live a godly life. Don't you want a

godly life? A godly life and a happy life is very different. I

see you're nodding because you know what I mean. A godly life and a

happy life is very different. I heard this precher say once, and I

want to quote him. He says, many Christians want God, you know,

to bless us, and we want, you know, we want to

live this earth a happy life, and we think that when I meet Jesus,

when I'm in heaven, then I will live a holy life. Right,

So happiness first. God in this life, give me everything I want,

everything I need, you know, because you're good. If you don't

give me, you're not good. We live our lives as Christians wanting a

happy life on earth and thinking that we want to live a holy life in

heaven. But God has it the other way around. God is saying no,

no, no, no, no, you got it all wrong.

I want you to live a holy life here on earth, in this sinful,

corrupted world, so that you become my evidence of My power, so

that you will live a happy life later on when you're with Jesus. Amen.

It takes a bit of a change in perspective. Right, do you

desire to live a godly life? God? I want to live a godly

love. What does that mean? You're going to find out ask God what

that means? Okay. And finally, the thing about power is, and

I think this is probably one of the most important things. Why do you

want God's power in your life? Who is it for? Because ultimately the

last point is the power that God gives us is to flow in us.

But through us. It flows out of us so that it can impact us.

If you're one thing and desiring God's power just for yourself, wow,

just so that I can become famous, I can become the most you know,

influence, the most famous influencer, so that I can have power and

riches and glory for myself. Sorry, you know what happened to the king

Nebukenizer. I'm sure you heard a lot about the message. Ready, when

he wanted all of the power for himself, God humbled him and he ate

grass like a cow until he said, and he came to his realization that

God, all power, all glory, all honor be unto you. And

the power that God wanted to flow through king was so he could bless his

nation, the people, the kingdom. So ask God, what is the

motive of me one thing? This is God's power. Many of us want

to experience God's power. Right? Is it for your glory or for his

glory? His glory? And I love this and I'm gonna end with this

in X chapter one, verse eight, this is what Jesus means, right,

he says, But you will receive power. Do na miss the very

same way that we've been talking about when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and

you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samarah, and

to all the ends of the earth. What is the purpose of God's power

So that we can be witnesss Amen, So that we can be witnesses to

God's power. I believe in the case of my friend, as God begins

to heal their marriage, one day they will share and give a testimony of

how God can turn around such a broken relationship and restore that it's not about

them, you know, It's about how willing they are to come under the

submission and allow God to heal that relationship. And that is a witness of

God's power. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For

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