The 12 Core Values Part 1 | Pr. Matthew Chang

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We hope this message will light up your day.

So let's begin with the introduction and what this is about,

what these twelve core values is about, and what it

is Now? How many of you believe in the importance

of values?

Yeah? Values? You know? How many have you actually write

down your values? Yeah?

Yeah, we always but if you must have got value,

but do you write down your values? Oh? You know,

sometimes it's good to have values in it. You always say, oh,

we must have values, but we hardly write it down.

You know.

It's like, you know, it's good to have a good diet,

but you don't specify, like what kind of diet you

should have? You know, you just you know, go by

your feeling. And that's exactly what happens.

You know.

If you don't articulate, and you don't what do you

call it? Pan down and list down the specific values,

or give it flesh, give it a structure and give

it order. You will always end up going by feeling.

You know what I'm saying. No, there's a very popular saying,

you know. You know, they says a man a person

without value is what a person without value is what.

It's a person that will fall for anything.

Okay.

A person without value is a person that will fall

for anything. It's a very powerful thing. It's not it's

not bad but scripture. Okay, definitely, Okay, that's popular saying,

and I kind of agree it's very true as well.

It's true, isn't it. Like I mentioned, it's like a

food at there. You know, you say you want to

eat healthy, but then the moment you go to Nazy

the match shop, but that's it already. It's like, oh

this they got a new recipe, will be run down.

Oh then what comes into you know, into the picture,

your feelings, your hunger, and then you're you know, just

last time you were saying, I'm gonna eat healthy, but

then you know, or you know, because your surrounding, because

of your appetite. A person without value is given to

their appetite, to their surrounding, to their environment as well,

and you're given to the moment you know that you're

in as well. But a person of value don't live

by the values or the surroundings for anything.

That is why we know.

I mentioned I recap again that a person without value

is a person that will fall for anything. You.

I'm saying, no, it's so important. Okay.

Now we mentioned here that you know, a vision tells

you the destination. You know, they say, yes, I want

to be healthy. I want to spend the next make

sure that you know I live to get to sixty

seventy eighty ninety so that I get to spend time

with my family. And I don't want to be so

unhealthy that I can't go anywhere. I want to be

able to walk and not rest for a while, you know,

and talk about different things. I want to be able

to be healthy so that you know, I don't become

a financial burden for my children and everything. You know

what I'm saying. I'm using health as an example. You

know what I'm saying. You know, I don't want to

be a burn like that, and so because of that,

I see health as something very important. And so you

have a vision as well, and the vision has always

has to be very very compelling. And then the mission

tells you the reason and or the strategy that you're

about to go to achieve it. And so what this

year you have a mission. My mission is to lose

fi ky low twenty kilo, to get my heart rate

below a certain thing, isn't it makes sense or not.

So you have a mission, and after that you've got

strategy or you're going to do it. I want to

do kito toki whatever, no, whatever you know, whatever plan

you want it, all you want to do. I want

to cut cops, I want to cut fair, I want

to cut protein.

Everything.

I want to cut also, whatever you know. But you

then after that you have a strategy. But then you

must understand that values, okay, are the feel Okay, you

can have the vision, you can have the strategy, but

your values are the ones that actually carry you through

you know what I'm saying. No, your values are what

you carry that's most important. You might feel that you

want to lose weight, but your value system is what

carries you through. You I'm saying not values are what

feel you. Values are what is that that you carry

That are the what you call it. The ethics are

the moral compasses that you and that you hold true

and true in your life that you will not compromise

that that defines you as well. And so when you

are a person of strong value, it is very evident

by the people who interact with you.

You know what I'm saying, Now, if.

You feel timeliness and something important, the people around you

will know because the moment they are five minutes, not

that you're you're about to be five minutes, that people

will chase you like crazy already true, not makes sense

or not true? Not If people value their time, if

you're wasting their time, they will let you know one

it's true or not.

They will know.

They will look at you like, bro, what are you

talking about? Let's go, I'll get this gone. What you know, Hey,

we've got the things to do as well. So value

is very very clear and apparent to those who interact

with you as well.

But a lot of.

Times values get you know, I would say, get put

in the backstage because sometimes it is tangible. Sometimes it

is not that obvious, okay. And when I say not obvious,

is that some values you take a bit to see.

You know, you value integrity, You don't always see integrity

unless the person is put through a moral challenge.

You get what I'm saying.

You know you believe in a perseverance, but you don't

get to see perseverance and unless and until you go

through a prolonged DENI rejection, denial or confusion as well

that you continue to persis as well, and values are

the things that carry us through opposition, challenges, and seasons

of difficulty. I'm saying no, values. We might not have money,

we might not have the best of things, you know,

but we believe in sticking together as a family. We

believe no matter what, we will always praise God. We

believe then no matter what, we will never commit certain

things to obtain what we like. You know what I mean, right,

because you hold onto it no matter what. So challenges

often brings out or reveal the values. They are always

embedded in us. Values are character and it reveals what

we are where no one is watching. You can say

all you want, you can put on the social media

whatever it is. Yeah, success, success, success, But then who

you really are is when no one is watching. And

see what I'm saying now, it is really really who

you are now. The for this series, we are going

through the twelve core values so that the church as

not in the extracts, so that all our partners and

also our visitors may begin to understand the importance of

value and also what extra stands for as well. So

I'm not as we cover through these different series, it's

not just about Hey, you know about an institution. All

these values is at the institutional level, but it's also

at the individual level as well. Okay, So all these questions,

all these values that we cover true, we hope that

you begin to reflect and apply in your own personal

life as well. Okay, So except for example, they don't.

When I talk about the first one, which is spirit fueled,

you begin to ask yourself as well before I talk

about or whether my work is successful or not, because

all these things I have to ask, Can I begin

to ask myself?

Am I a spirit fueled person? Yeah?

What I'm saying now it's a very very important thing.

And you begin to why is Then you begin to

ask why it is spirit feel important?

So it's not just a noun.

That you're or a phrase that you always speak, but

it's something that you begin to reflect upon as well.

And the twelve plus one course, what they call values

that we cover through you must understand, these are all

be bigger and there's a not if you see not now.

But we actually recorded a series of core value videos.

Actually I was the host and Pascanda for us. The

uh you know, the guests, you know who is actually

expounding all these things. So maybe in a few months

time you'll see my face again, you know, going through

with pastor and interviewing him as well. But all these

core values come from the Scripture and especially from the

Book of X. Now you see the connection Book of X.

You know Church of X. You know X church. You know,

see the connection there. So it's actually connected there, okay.

And actually a lot of it comes from X chapter

through Okay, through two okay, okay, So let you know

it's coming from Scripture, not just from it's not from us,

but our experience confirms or what they call it gives

understanding to a lot of these values that the Bible

preaches about. Now, why do we cover through this as well? Yes,

we talked about the importance of the values, but why

this season you know why?

Through all the church as well.

And the goal is so that we begin to build

something okay, that outlast the founders. Okay, because pass can

flash this out. You know, he prayed and he understood,

you know, he begins, God begins to speak to him

and say, hey, you're not just leading a church.

You must understand that.

You know that what you are is a person, that

you are the vessel where I put all the important

values onto you that you are leading the church based

on these values. But now instead of just telling them

go do this and do that, become like a joystick.

You know, you need to give them the DNA. You

need to give them what is the feel that drives you?

So that and you unpacked it so that you begin

so that when you when you go through this, you

begin to understand, Oh, that is why a lot of

things or maybe a lot of things are done in

such a manner, why we are going into this direction,

why we practice certain things as well. So it gives

a lot of context and understanding. And also it won

all these values and the ennat will not just stop

at past the cane, but you begin to trickle down

to all of us as well, just like parents to

their children. So I tell you to wake up early

or wake up in time. It doesn't mean that you

just do it, and then when you go to college

or you go somewhere else, you don't begin to do it.

Then you begin to understand, Oh, now I understand. No,

being on time, it's not just about me, because it's

about honoring other people's time. It's to show that I'm

always prepared as well, and so you begin to understand

this value, you know, instead of doing what, you begin

to know the why for all things as well. And

it's also so that our future generations and partners will

be better than we were before. Okay, yes, you can handle,

you can let your children inherit, money, property, But the

most important thing you can leave behind is values. Okay,

this is what's the most important legacy we leave now.

Values are non negotiables, okay, non negotiables and must not

be compromised. That is why values are actually grown. They

are not suddenly out of no ware you pick it

up one because people don't just pick and choose, you know,

people actually become convinced of the values that they hold

in their life. You know what I'm saying now, Because

everybody wants to survive, everybody wants to succeed, and once

they go through a lot of experiences, they begin to

understand and begin to appreciate what why these values are

so important and sometimes even the true a toughest of times,

you see these values carry you through and you begin

like you begin to cement, and you begin to put

into concrete some of these values as well. And that

is why a lot of values. You realize that it's

very it's very very hard to change one. It's not

meant to change if it's really really important, and it's

very very true.

So that's why we talk about values.

It's not something that you can you know, negotiating A today,

I be on time, and now time I don't be

on time.

Very hard one.

And not to live a family like that. One, very

very very very challenging. Today I'll be honest, but when

I go to work, I don't need to be honest.

One very very challenging one. A no, and you'll find

yourself are being torn, you know, and not only torn,

you doubt yourself.

And then people will look at you.

And when people begin to see who you really are

and that you're not consistent, you will find you are

being conflicted and being challenged as well. Okay, And why

we must continue to not be what they collect to

not negotiate with some of these important values, it's because

all of us we have different life experiences, true or not,

all of us have different life experiences, but we must

be careful that experiences must not be the main determinant

of our values.

You know what I'm saying.

No, Yes, no, yeah, no, no, convince that a lot,

but it is. Some people say yes, some people say true. No,

you don't why because sometimes when you're young, you experience

something and you have a negative experience of it. That doesn't

mean that it's the truth. You know, maybe you when

you were young, you used to trust someone, maybe a friend,

and you share a secret, and then that one person

betrayed you. And because so that you will never trust

anyone even when you get enter into a marriage as well,

or someone that you will say you will never trust anyone,

or you know, and someone gets near to you, you

are very suspicious and you begin to examine the person

inside out, and when the person accidentally offended you, you

take on the greatest hurt and you start to rap

and pour out all these angs upon this person. And

then what I'm talking about because you never process what

you experience properly, and you think that is true.

I'm saying now you.

Never process is what you have and you think that

experience determines everything.

No, it's not that.

And actually because of that, a lot of us carry

a lot of what it hurts you know, you know,

and and I've experienced this in my family, in my

in my back in my hometown. That's what I've seen

until Like you know, sometimes you know, adults can be

very forthcoming to you, say, I'm I find it very

hard to change. I hear people telling me I find

it very hard to change the h right now because

of what I experienced. So I don't want to, but

I can't help it. You know, I'm saying, No, that's

why you've got to be very very careful. You mean,

you don't allow your experiences to become your values. Okay,

that is why we need the Bible, you know what

I'm saying. No, we need the Bible to rewire you know,

some of our experience. There are so many things that

I experience in my life when I was young. I

have to really rewire, really rier as I grow older,

as well, as I begin to humble myself.

I used to I used to be upset with certain people.

Maybe some of you are upset with God or disappointed

with God or disappointed with life as well. And you

keep holding it like that, and you look at the

world with a certain view and filter as well, you

gotta begin to humble yourself. You begin to surrender yourself.

Say God, I don't want to be this coount person.

I don't want to become a prisoner of my past

or my experiences, but I want you to come into

my life and change it. And as you got, and

your presence surrender will begin to determine your future and

also heal your past. You get what I'm saying, that

your presence surrender will begin to direct your future and

heal your past as well. So don't let your past

control you like that. And it's so so important.

Everybody, Okay, so far, it's very, very very important. That's

why I say this is not just for the child,

especially a.

Very personal thing as well, you know. And I just

want to show a slight here. It's not I don't know.

I don't know whether he's a Christian, but I think

he is. I don't know, but I just told it,

just quite profound words. Guy on the earth, dude was okay,

And then he says, I try not to become a

person of success. Try because he knows that everyone around him,

everybody has been trying to find success.

But rather try to.

Be a person of value. And that is one thing

that every one of us can choose. You know what

I'm saying. Now, we can't choose a lot of times

our circumstances and experience. You can't choose the family you

grow up with. You know, you can't choose your parents,

You can't choose your siblings, and a lot of times,

a lot of things in life you can't really choose

as well.

You know what I'm saying now.

Some of you, Hey, you know, I got to take

care of my kids and then you know, but because

of that you have to give, because you know your

children needs you. But you say, oh for me, But no,

I can choose the values I hold as well, so

that I'm not a prisoner, I'm not a victim. But

your values begin to redeem your circumstances. Okay, everybody, Okay,

so far all right, So our value is important. So

one of the thing is that you can do in

your life is that you go back. There could be

of time. You know, I thought that this was a

very good, uh exercise by pasts Andrew, now begin to

list down some of your values. You can list on

some of your values by start asking a few questions.

You know, what do you enjoy most?

What do you really fear? Why?

What are some of the things that you've been so

scared of the last week, the last month. Why why

is that fear? You don't just say I'm said, just

say bas But you know, are you fearful because you

know you're a confused?

Are you overwhelmed? Are you lacking confidence? Is your selfish

thing issue? It's your trust issue? And then ask yourself,

what do you enjoy? Oh?

Why I like to be on my own? You know,

I like to have my own time? Ask why? Be specific?

Why why do you enjoy? Is it a false negative

or a positive positive? You get me right, a false

positive or a positive? But what I mean is that

do you enjoy it because you're avoiding something? Or do

you enjoy something because of the purity and the truth

of something?

You get me right.

Some people like to have their own time because they

just don't like to be with people. But then go

be people. Why do you don't like to be with people?

Or because everybody just want to use me? There is

not a really good enjoyment. You're just avoiding me.

You get me right. But why do you do the

things that you love so that you trigger us?

Hey, I actually like drawing because it expresses myself. I

actually like singing because because you know, I feel like

I need to express you know, or I enjoy a

certain thing. Ask yourself, why was there a memory, something

triggered that make you feel like you want to do this?

And then begin to ask yourself, is there someone that

you admire? What do you admire about this person? What

is that value when you speak to this person? That's

the person give you an image that you want to become?

Why the image?

If you forty fifty, sixty, seventy year or if you

are that person who did make you happy to become

that person? Would that person's what that person hath make

you happy?

Why?

And you begin as you ask some of this question,

you begin to start a a. These are values that

are always there, but they are not ordered. Yeah, man,

they are not ordered. You never put it out. It's

like you have a pizza, but you're never deconstructed to

know what's the ingredients. You know, you can't say. Now

you begins like, oh oh, then you ask it out.

Actually I am like that, Actually I really really like this.

You start to be very intentional about your internal system

as well. Okay, ask yourself some of this question. Ask yourself, well,

what was the last time that you enjoy the memory.

Where do you like to go? Why do you like

to sleep late? You know, like, why do you say?

Why do you like to do them?

Scroll?

Sometimes doing scrolling it's not because you like content, but

because it just takes you away.

Why do you like to sleep late? Why do you

like to sleep early? Why?

Why can't you sleep one hours? These are things that

you begin to You don't settle for that you ask.

You'll intentionally interrogate yourself. You don't let yourself get away

with it. You know what I'm saying now. We also

like to lie to ourselves to get away with things.

But ask yourself, why do you do these things? You know?

You know what I'm saying now. This is intentional living,

you know. So you don't let yourself get away until

you nail it down. Okay everybody, Okay, so far all right?

So next move on to our first call value. What's

the first call value? Spirit?

Fail Ah, some of people might have a disagreement. Hey,

the first core value in our life as a Christian

should be word the Bible scripture. That's true, Okay, that's

very very true. I'm not gonna I love the Bible,

I love the reading, the work God. I love to

study as well. I don't deny it. The Bible says,

what huh for God is seeking worshippers who were worshiping

in spirit and in truth. He didn't look for scholars,

you know, he didn't look for scholars. You know, people

who are worship in spirit and in truth. Both are important.

I'm not saying that one is better than both are

equally important, but it's very important. Why I believe that

it should be spirit because first of all, God is spirit.

One of the things when we teach about people talk

about under knowoing God.

Right, God has many atribust man.

God is all powerful, God is all knowing, God is

all present, God is holy, God is strong.

You know.

One of the first things we teach people, the first

thing about God we teach people is God is spirit.

There's one of the first thing we teach them. You know,

want anything else? That God is spirit, And everything that

we do in terms of understanding God, of knowing God

and even worshiping and responding to Him has to be

done in the moment that you realize that God is spirit,

that anything that you do that pleases Him, that he

requires a whole has to be.

Spiritual, not physical.

A lot of times we focus on the physical is

because we can understand. But lives are not lived for us,

are lived for our creator. God is spirit. Turns your

neighbor and say, God is Spirit. It's very very very

very very very important. God is Spirit. A lot of

people forget about that and say, oh, yeah, there's a

spirit and the moment people we talk about spirit, people

immediately go into the intangiblesoo somewhere very very you know.

But God is spirit and.

It's a very very powerful thing that we have to understand.

Okay. Now, now, first of all, why.

We talk about why being spirit feeled is so important? Okay,

and you just want to continue, because the Holy Spirit

is the promise of God. The Holy Spirit is the

promise of God.

Okay.

I told you before that God is Spirit, that anything

we do to please God is meant through the spiritual channel,

the medium.

God is Spirit. Anything to please seem to interact with Him.

Has to be done in the spirit. But there's a problem.

There's a problem. What's the problem. We are very physically minded,

true or not. There's a problem when we say that,

when I say that we are physically minded, is that

we find it hard to connect or to participate in

this spiritual realm.

That's true, isn't it.

It's very hard to interact and participate in the spiritual

when you're not familiar with it. But God is spirit

and we are called to live in there, but we

are not very good at That is why God has

to come intoward to intervene and to.

Provide what we really need, the Holy Spirit. You know

what I'm saying.

No, And actually, because God is spirit when he created us,

we are spiritual beings. Do you know that you are

spiritual beings or you're like you or not? You are

spiritual beings one or not. You might live in the temporary,

in the physical body, but you are spiritual beings. When

I say that you are spiritual beings means that you

actually have a spiritual life. When I say life, you

have a physical life. That is that you need to eat, sleep, grow,

you interact, you touch and feel, you can get hurt.

All the aspects of a life that it happens in

the physical also applies to the spiritual as well. You

need to eat, you need to grow, you need to touch,

You can grow weak, you can grow strong or in

the same all of these also happens in.

The spirit ritual realm as well. You have that just

that you can't see it.

But we are not very good in you know, identifying

and not practicing and interacting in our spiritual side as well.

And we when we come to the.

Problem, is that a lot of the spiritual things that

we do are very poor. Uh when you know, they

always fall short of reaching the standard. And the reason

why we always fall short and are and they're very

poor because we have sin. You know what I'm saying. No,

we have sin, and sin is a.

Very very, very big, big problem in our life.

It's like your whole It's like no, every day you

want to live your life up, but then you are chained,

you know, to a door post, or you are carrying

a very big one hundred kilo you know, steel ball.

You know, whatever you want to go, I want to do.

You want to drink coffee, you want to get on

the car, you want to come to church.

You be lumping on good, good, good, good and good

and good and good. Okay, you want to do anything.

Also, it's like that you have a very very big problem,

or maybe you have a very you know, it's not

a lot of times people say it's saying, it's like cancer.

You know, it's not just.

A burden you're not, but it's affecting every part of you.

You want to when you want to do something, or

so you can. Recently, my dad, you know, I had

a brain cancer. I tell you the band cancer was

so big. It can see the lumper that he can't

even do the basic processing. You know, he look at me,

he don't he can see that I'm him, but he

can't remember my name. Also, you know he can't. You

don't really know where he is. And the moment they

remove the tumor and one of the first things you

remember was memory and basic function. Sometimes the tumor is

so big you don't even know how to swallow as well,

you know what I'm saying. No, that's how like cancer

can put me into every single thing. But see, it's

the same thing as well. It is such a big thing.

We can't see it. Sometimes a lot of times we

can see cancer. So sure now, but this scene.

Is high thing.

It's affecting and invading every part of our bodily function

that it's causing so much damage and a problem to

us as well. So God comes and saves us, okay,

and provides his Holy spirit, okay, to do God's work.

You see, when we are not filled with the spirit, right,

we tend to do what we tend to do things

out our own strength.

True.

Now we say that yay, God, I trust you, I

really believe in you, and I say a prayer. But

then after that you use ninety nine point nine percent

of your own strength. The only thing is that you

sign off with Jesus name money, I do it in

Jesus name.

Do you do things all of your own strength? Okay?

So it's a similar way. It's like, you know you're

married and not.

It's like, oh, I know I'm gonna cook with my wife,

but then you do ninety nine nine point nine nine

percent and I say, oh yeah, me and my wife

cooked together as well, But then you never cook. Your

wife is just like that, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why

the food tastes so bad and skidding.

You know what I'm saying. Now, you really you say

you do, but you don't.

Okay, it's by name money, okay. So Zakaria four chapter six.

Chapter four six says, not by mine, not by power,

but by my spirit, says the Lord of Hosts. Okay,

So the Holy Spirit is the one the secret sauce.

Okay that actually not the secrets are the main ingredient.

Okay. Then we need in our lives to.

Do God's work, to obey his commands, and to walk

his will as well.

Okay.

And this is so important that when you know, if

you read the Book of X right, you know, it

says that you know, in the very beginning that Jesus

gathered his disciples, you know, and he is going to

assent to heaven to return to the Father. Okay, and

he's gonna He gave them a commandment go and preach

and make disciples of all nations by saying you're.

Supposed to do that.

You're graduated, ready, okay, Okay, I'm gonna send you out, ready,

go to work, ready, okay. But then before you go

to world, there's one thing.

You do. Not do any of these, but you wait

for the Holy Spirit. You must do. It's so the

test are it's not done.

You know. The final test out was that will they

wait or will they do out their own strength? That

was actually a big test, you know, okay, very very

very very big test.

You know.

Actually it happened in the Old Testament as well. As

Moses went up to the mountain, there are to receive

the commandment. Okay, the people waited and waited. Hey, well

I put the Moses out. I think he went up

to the heaven already. So people couldn't wait enough. Actually,

it's a parallel with the Book of Accident. So what

did they do? They couldn't wait anymore, and they became

fleshly minded. And then what did they do? They begin

to build a golden calf. They begin to build a

golden calf. Being a golden calf, they became fleshly mind.

They love God, they follow God, they call God their God.

But yet they are fleshly minded. They are not spirit filled.

And out of their ignorance, they created a golden calf.

Their spirituality is so called expression was channel wrongly, what

was perverted into a golden car And on that day

three thousand and nine. But in the Book of Eggs,

when they waited for the Holy Spirit, that three thousand

got safe. It's a parallel, no parallel, Okay, it's quite amazing. Okay,

So the Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's teaching. You know.

John chapter fourteen, verse twenty six says, but the helper

the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name.

He will teach you all things and bring to your

remembrance all things I said to you. Okay, moving on,

just taking the time. Okay, Now we need the Holy

Spirit to guide us, to help to walk in the

spirit as well. We're all called to be spiritual beings.

But the Holy Spirit is the one that enables us.

Okay.

So that you know, it says here, being spirit filled

means we are constantly filled with the spirit. Constantly filled

with the spirit, okay. Because if you are not constantly

feeling the spirit, something else will take its space, okay,

he said. Otherwise we will be filled with other things

like you or not. You will be feeled one like

you or not. You're either are filled with the spirit

or you feel with something else one.

Okay, It's true. On something will take its place one.

It's like a physics, you know, something will just come

and feel it one, okay, you say. In non relationis

chapter five, verse sixteen to verse seventeen says I say,

then walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill

the last of the flesh. So the Bible is very

clear that you must choose either you choose one or

the other, okay. And the opposite of the spirit is

the last.

Of the flesh.

Then Verse seventeen says, for the for the flesh last

against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And

these are contrary to one another, so that you do

not do the things that you wish.

Okay.

Now some of you here will be like okay, pastor

here the spiriting ray a lot ready, okay, a lot

of spirit. But you need to boil it down for us.

What can I do after this summon?

Right?

You know, when I go and have my lunch, when

I go back to my family, when I go back

to my car, what can I do?

Because I don't know.

It's like everything is calling me to do something else already?

How can I begin to be filled with the Holy Spirit?

True?

That's the most important thing, is there? I'm telling you

why and stuff like that. How right now? How do

I begin to be filled with the Holy Spirit?

Okay? Now, this is my last.

Life, and I'll give you a few questions for you

to reflect upon as I draw to a close here. Okay,

First of all, how many of you want to be

filled with the whole spirit? You are sincerely sincerely, are okay?

And then let's go through these steps. These are actually

you go through your homes because I prepare the notes.

But I thought that these are very good questions. Think

about it now, and you're going to think about it

the homestre that this is a preview of what homes

notes would be.

Okay.

First of all, this is all scripture of one Have

you ask for the Holy Spirit?

Have you ask on not? Bible says that you know,

you know?

How much you don't say that the Father will not

give a serpent for his son who asked for a break.

How much more would the father I'm paraphrasing here, how

much more would the Father give the Holy Spirit to

those who ask of him? The first thing you have

to ask? How many of you actually ask? You say

you want one is one thing, but you have to ask.

You say, oh, I want to eat, but I never

asked for my parents. It has actually happened before. You

think it's mixed sense. But you want, but you don't ask.

Because ask is the next level of your desire, putting

it into action and into faith as well.

Do you actually ask? And why is it that you're

not asked?

This is an important question, why is it that you

do not ask a lot of people think that, Oh

I thought, saying yes immediately I got the holy spirit. Really,

actually you might be mistaken. Okay, you have to ask.

God will never put onto you what you know. He

will never violate your holy your your personal choice.

Right now, you ask. I won't force my kids to eat.

O will hoighly encourage them to eat, but I can't

force them to open their mouth and shove it in it.

And like you know, I can't know. Please eat, you know,

but you have to do it on your own as well.

And as they grow older, I expect them to ask.

You can't mean that is that on me reminding them?

You know, you have to ask. And so the first

thing you have to do is have you ask? Are

there any reasons that is stopping you from asking? Do

you believe?

And it's a very important question. Do you believe that

God is a good God?

Or like I said earlier, has experiences in your life

altered your perception about God? Either God doesn't care, God

doesn't bother with you, or God is not good? God

him saying so, it really begins to ask you, Now,

why have you not asked? You expect that God knows everything.

You know, know maybe it say God, you realize that Hey,

when you say God knows everything means you think of

God as a very impersonal God. And God is just

there to you know, automate everything you like an AI

agent day. God is a personal being, you know. Okay,

have you asked? Secondly, if you have asked, have you surrendered?

Oh? You mean I need to surrender? You need?

You mean I need to surrender my space, my time.

And it's when you when I invite it, like, please

come into my life. You can speak into all these

situations that I know when you're coming to my life.

I know what you're asking, but I need you a

lot of.

People put God as an option, but they don't really

need him. And when you ask like that from God,

God is giving his Holy Spirit are and you make

it optional it's insulting one. And no, you know what

I'm saying. No, God will not be mocked now He

is He, God is spirit. But God is a holy God. Okay,

God is the Holy God. Remember this? Okay, So have

you surrendered? Thirty?

If you ask? If you surrendered?

Have you received? When I say you receive? Maybe you

do all these things, But you're waiting for a sign. God,

give me a sign?

Why? Maybe it's in your heart? Have you why is

you asking? Have you liked faith?

And this is and it's not. It's not mockery of you,

you know, it's not mocreed. It's like, why why do

you need a sign? Some things, yes, but a lot

of things you don't need that sign one and all?

Do you need a sign to make to order latte

or not scramble or sunnyside, to sit down.

Here, share or not? Or give me a sign?

No? God is give you the wisdom, asking confidence and

receiving confidence. God, according to your word, not to my

feelings or the sign according to your word. As I ask,

as I surrendered in just the same I receive it

by faith. It's the same way when you partake communion.

I'm saying, not do you partect communion? Lord, give me

a sign before partect communion? How mean if you do that?

Give me a Signist is not the bread? I want

a sour dough bread, you know, I want the proper cracker,

perfect shape. One. Then I only eat your partic of

it by faith. You come saying, ah, so you received

by faith as well, because all the things I say

in order, you do it by faith as well. Then

the fourth thing, have you listened? You ask for the spirit,

but have you listened? Do you make space in your

head and your heart to listen to his voice? Or

if you've been too busy it's your life been too

noisy in your life?

All these are have scriptures? Why now?

Okay, however you know all these things, but then you rest.

You're too busy, you know, and there's something you have

to change. The fifth one, have you trusted? Have you trusted?

God gives you the spirit, it's like you know, but

and he's guiding you to do certain things, prompting you.

But have you trusted? You know?

Do you follow this leading even when it doesn't make sense?

Or you lean on your own understanding. You can hear

as good opinions, but then you never trust one. And no,

you know what I'm saying. No, sometimes we espouse, we

do that. You know, my wife talking, I said, yeah, okay,

good suggestion. You don't trust one, and you know I'm

talking about you're talking to a hollow men one.

You know.

Some time my wife said, yeah, yeah, yeah, you hear me,

But do you trust me? And that's another thing. Do

you trust not children as well? They listen, but do

they trust you. I'm just doing it because I'm doing it.

But do they trust? Okay? Have you obeyed? Now?

God gives the spirit to those who obey. You know

in the book Effects you must obey. It's not obedience

for the things that God is speaking to you, but

your obedience opens up for future blessings as well, for

future obedience as well.

You know what I'm saying.

Now, If you cannot obey now, what makes you think

that God is going to trust.

You to obey few the future things? You know?

So what I'm saying it's very very very important. Okay,

So when you obey God, it's going to pour out more.

It's going to review more things into your life. The

next one, have you worship? Okay, you're here, but then

has your another feeling of your hosts begin to lead

you to respond to respond by worshiping, or you're just

like normal yalla? You know see, but a person who

is spilled with the spirit is that Oh I yielded,

and I ask and.

I obey, and all this part of my life begins

to live.

You more day, God, you are more important than anything else,

and I worship you. I'm not saying. With worshiping, it's

not just about songs, you know. All worship is about

playing five songs when I get to work, you know,

and then when I come back, I put worship music.

That's worship. There's a nice things to get you into

their mind. But worship is about surrendering your life, you know,

putting God as the worship worth.

You know, utmost worth. You are more valuable.

Than anything else. Okay, That's that's what we call worship.

And are you devoted? Do you begin to build your

daily habits and disciplines that keep you continually washed with

His word? You know what I'm saying. You can do

all this, but are you devoted? Are you filled with

His presence? Are you shaped by His commands? And you

got your quiet time and all your prayers? You get mean? Right,

all this feeling must lead to a devotion as well.

It's like you're getting married, you know, with your spouse.

I like to use this a lot, you know, getting married,

but then you still live your life like a single

like that, you know or do you realize it? Hey?

After I'm married, every time I always look.

Forward to having dinner, you know, with my family, with

my children, and after a while you make time to

go on holidays or we go simple things for mama

here and there. You see you I mean right, because

you are devoted. You realize the true things in life

requires intentional showing. It requires intentional growing your family and

your romance and your Your marriage doesn't happen by chance.

You intentionally grow it. It is the result of it.

You don't just one day because you fight and that's it.

You're no longer my spouse. Ready, Okay, you actually grow it.

And lastly, you ask, now do you surround or you're

being surrounded by good and godly things as well? The

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