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Six Chapter sixth they three. You know the scripture Matthew

Chapter six worth study three or whether it was study

one versey one. Let's go we worse study one?

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Therefore, do not worry. How many of us here know that.

You know, when we don't have things, we start to worry.

When we don't have things in our wallet, we start

to worry. When people make advancement in their career, we

do worry. It's it's a very normal and very natural

human behavior because lack causes to be in a place

whereby am I doing something wrong? Am I not right?

Uh?

We just finished Chinese New Year, and some of you

really didn't had good conversation with your family relative because

the first question asked was why are you still singer?

I heard I heard the I'm not going to name names.

I just heard one, which I thought was funny in

my own sense, but I know that when the person

was going, she wasn't wasn't funny, all right.

So the mom found out that one of.

The church partners got a boyfriend and turned to the

daughter and say what about you. Then after she said, oh,

she's from a different service. Yeah, maybe you should go

to the same service as her. There must be there

must be available guys there.

That's how she can find one.

And and that's why you're still singing because you are

in the wrong service. This is long Christian mom, all right,

I heard that and I thought to myself, I mean,

as we were just conversing and we're just start of

laughing away.

I know when you're receiving it.

Friends, if you're there, if you're at the saving and

it's not that fun, right, if you're receiving and it's

not fun. And it's true, isn't it. The Bible says

that we do get worried because of what we eat

and what we drink. That's why the Word of Lord says,

do not worry. I want to encourage you friends that

if no matter what situation we are in, God understand

and God does know that we don't worry. He accepts

our behavior, but he asks, he's asking us and challenging

our mindset this morning.

Don't remain in that space.

Don't remain there because in the place of worry, nothing

comes out from it.

In the place of worry. It doesn't. The word is

that it doesn't bring life.

It adds more lines to your full head, it adds

more stress to your body.

That's what the Lord is saying to us that do

not worry. Wat shall we eat? Or what shall we drink?

Or watch it we wear? He knows.

But after all these things that the gentile six Okay,

the version I use was nalty, the pagan six after

people don't believe God's six after the words so he

two says you have Father knows that you need all

these things. Friends, the place if you are in the

place of worrying, is really good for us to re

evaluate whether.

We know or not our Father and Heaven knows our needs.

Because many times in our journey, friends, we just oh,

I'm just the words that I like to worry for example.

But the deeper root is this is that we find

our security in God.

That's why we don't worry right now.

So the Bible is encouraging us this morning that your

heavenly Father knows all your needs. Trends, and the journey

for every believer is to understand that your Father and

Heaven knows your needs. The journey for every believer is

come to this place of security whereby God, our Father

knows your need even before we bring it up. And

this requires faith, This requires trust, This requires to bring

us to a place by God.

I understand that my future is in your hands.

God, I understand no matter what I go to this

very moment, this very present moment that challenges the difficulty,

that you know my needs. You have come to this

place of being secure that you may not have it now,

or you may not have a breakthrough now, but your

breakthrough is near because your Father in Heaven knows. The

challenge for every believer is sometimes when we hit a wall,

we felt so alone and in fact problems does this

to us if you're in a health situation, no one understands.

But really, but no matter how good advice is, that

encouragement is that you are in the word by yourself.

You're in the room by yourself, and in the midst

of being alone facing the situation, you just wish someone

who understands the Bible. Here says our Father and Heaven

knows our needs. So if you ever felt so alone, friends,

hang on to this scripture. Friends, hang on to this

scripture because our Father and Heaven knows verse to the tree,

but sickly first the Kingdom of God.

Friends.

So there's one thing about God knows. The other thing

is that because of the revelation that our heaven father

and Heaven knows, therefore he's asking us to seek him.

Friends.

It is not just oh Gosh, I'll provide my needs.

That's it. Full stop. You go about your ways and

pretend nothing ever happened. Bibles are encouraging us this morning that.

Would you seek him? Would you seek him?

And this is where I want to just encourage us

or challenges that if you ever read your Bible at

night just before you sleep, fantastic, great, it comes you down,

it minister to you. But I want encourage you if

you have never read your Bible in the morning right,

try doing it. Because the Word, the Word of God,

is life. And most of our critical life decisions are

made when we are awake, true or not. And because

we make critical decisions while we are awake, don't we

need God's wisdom, guidance understanding of the situation. Very little

times I know that people make critical decision while they're asleep.

Very few And that's what the two people say. I

woke up before digits. I heard before Christian people say

I woke up before digit and I bought Okay, all right,

it's between you and the Lord hallelujah. But we make

life decision when we are awake, and therefore don't you

need to draw in on God's wisdom. Come on, most

of us here decide where we want to work where

we are awake, very seldom where we are asleep. I

only know one people or whether very few people that

say God spoke to them in their dreams. Right even then,

even then that they have to make God the source

of wisdom during the daytime. One story was that a parent,

one parent woke up the dead, the father woked up.

God spoke to me so clearly in the dream, I'm

going to stretch your faith. You're such a meticulous planner.

You plan all the way until retirement. You plan all

the way until that every child that you have, what

they're going to get and stuff that inhabited. Everything, plan

out every day, and you plan out what car to

buy because if family or tree, you have it to

the tea fantastic planner, and God spoke to him, I

am going.

To stretch your faith.

He woke up with your friends the next day with like, huh,

what do you mean, Lord, You're going to stretch my faith?

Look towards his wife and ask are you pregnant? Are

you pregnant? The wife did the test. Look to him, Yes,

I am, the wife asked him. The wife didn't ask

how they happen with our friends? Okay, we all know

how it happened. The wife says, how do you know?

God spoke to me? Because of that, everything changed from us.

Then come to MPV everything changed. Now began to ask

back he gave away the baby called gave away everything.

Can I have you back? Please? Can I have it back? Please? Friends,

I want to let you know.

Friends, because of that, he decided, decided and decided about

his whole life journ. I sat down with the family

during c n Y and just sharing up his journey

of faith, how they sought the Lord, how God guided

them to what to do? The children just say this, uh,

the children just sharing, you know, right with our parents

and we cannot lie on with our parents. We cannot lie.

We give up blyding to our parents. I say why

because every time we tried to lie or God speak

to my mom God this She was sharing the thing

in front of the mom.

Yeah, we always speak to my mama. My mom will

always ask us question and we cannot answer.

So we give up trying to bluff our parents after that,

because if we tell the problem upfront, the pain is lesser.

If she had the fighter from God, the pain is

gonna be even more painful. So we rather tell our

parents upfront than God speaking to her. And she file

out from the Lord and she has to deal with

the children. And I won't let you know, siecky for

the Kingdom of God. And these are working parents, and

they say that we just pray that our children will

follow the Lord. There's nothing wrong with seeking God's kingdom first.

There's nothing wrong with saying, God, what's your view for

my life?

Many times in a pursuit of career and stuff like that.

It's us.

But the Bible here says sicky for the Kingdom of God,

always righteousness, and all these things should be added. Unto you,

it's in it true that the first thing that we

do in our life is to look after ourself, which

is not wrong. But after wild friends, there has to

be the God element in our life. When we put

God first, He's not going to short change you. For

the past twenty five years, friends, as a church, we

have learned the principle that we value God more than anything.

Else in our church.

Because the fact is that when we begin to make

special seats for VIP people in the front, we forget.

That God is the most valuable person.

When we begin to make exception and we stop challenging people,

then we begin to make the normal world's culture as

number one rather than God's culture. And God wants a

reminder this morning, there's a better way to live, friends,

Sickly first, the Kingdom of God.

Friends, So the world ways of increase.

Is focusing on getting, but God's ways sicky first, the

Kingdom of God. And many times in your journey, friends,

we forget that God was the one that gave you

the very first job. God was the one that guided

you to give wisdom. God the world was rest to you.

Don't go out with the guy you will let up

in a mess. God was the one that that helped

you choose the car failure when you're all alone. God

was the one that opened door for you. We prayed

for why it was in our church to be blessed,

and many of you are blessed don't forget.

It's the Lord that provided for us.

Friends, Really, it's the Lord that provided.

So Therefore, but the Bible here says sicky.

First, the Kingdom of God and all is righteouses, all

these things shall be added unto you, those those of

you who are serving the Lord. Friends, I want you

to know that God will never shot change you. God

will never shot change your heale honest God, God will

honor him back. The Bible says, those of you you

have sold so faithfully, try to build homes, or rather

yourself good homes so faithfully, so faithfully, sometimes you feel

like giving up. Sometimes that you share the word, you

look at their faces. God, please help me. I want

to let you know, Fritz, don't grow tired of doing

what's good. You're doing it for the Lord. And God

is the one that will go to see your reward.

Amen.

There was a testimony I heard just recently about a

man of God who wasn't well. He had to and

he had to be admitted a hospital. And the bill

came up to be about four hundred over thousand, four

hun the man of God, no God, four hundred old

thousand and uh. They when they found the bill, they

say that we can't continue this anymore, so we have

to be sort of relocated to another hospital rather shift

on a hospital. And the story went was that his

normal doctor couldn't couldn't, couldn't come on the day, couldn't

come on the day. So there was a Okay, I

don't worry to write to miss substitute doctor. They came

for the daya right came for the day, came for

the day. That doctor that came for the day. Friends

made every arrangement possible to him to get to Uh,

you understand how difficult is to get to uge without

without so happened, Oh you're going in there. My friends

hit the department. Let me give him a call, right,

wasn't arranged? Make the call, got him a bit. My

frien will attend to you everything now. He shifted over

to the site and we were just talking about that

what what are the odds really that that that that

the doctor just cameing forward that one day.

We've got no relation, do not know the backstory? Who

followed the about the backstory?

Who happened to had a friend And we were just

as we were, just a few of the ministers coming

together just sharing We just say God, you're in control.

You're in control.

And this man of God he went around preaching and

this stuff that very weak, very very weak, and say.

God, I see one of strength to push the gospel.

So the Bible here says, sicky for the King of

got everything else, everything else. Of course, the wife is

prayed that God please hear my husband. But yeah, I

could see God's hand in the situation. God's hand in

the situation. What are the odds? We'll always say, God,

You're still in control, and therefore therefore we know that

everything else will be taken care of.

Friends, you and I need to come.

To this place whereby we say that God, all these

years of sewing we shall reap in genesy shall pay elevel.

The Bible says, that's seed time. There's horse time. Come on,

there is seed time and how's time. But the challenge

for every believer sometimes you want the howards during seed time,

and that's difficult because you can't hours when it's time

to sow. You can't sow when sid the hours. As

surely as the earth remains, the Bible says it, there is.

Seed time and howards time.

Friends, So therefore, friends understanding, what are the same moments

right now that God is giving to you for you

to be able to sew that you can reap. The

Bible always work on sewing and reaping friends. He doesn't

work on just luck. No, there's no luck in the Bible.

It's so sewing and ripping. Turn me me right now

to Genesis chapters Sorry, John chapter six, John chapter six.

You're gonna see how the uh I've got a pologized

x TV. I may I'm man not go according to

my slights, but we shall see how it comes. John

chapter six, verse five, John chapter six, vers five. Now

Jesus lift OUTSI, seeing a great multitude coming towards seim,

and said to Philip, where shall we vibrate the all

men eat? Verse five? Present us with the need? Come on,

present us with the need. The Bible says that asking Philip,

where shall we get bread for all?

May it?

You heard about any giving? You heard about the different

needs around. So the question is to us and not

to anyone else. What can we do that these people

may eat? Wor's seven, no worse six. But this he

said to test him, Come on, test. Every opportunity that

comes into your life to sow is a test.

Come on.

Every opportunity for you, for you to come to serve

the Lord is a test. The test is to reveal,

not to fail you.

Friends.

The test is to reveal what's in your hearts. A

lot of us here we are peace loving until we

put the tests. Our lot of us here, we are

loving Christians until you start serving because in our own

declaration we always see that we are good, We're all right,

we are nice people right until you put to a test.

So God will always give first an avenue so that

our hearts get revealed. Come on, church, God wants to

review what's in your heart. Not supposed to feel you,

to embarrass you, to make you like you know, like

oh right, It is to just reveal so that you

can do something about it. A couple of days ago,

my patient was really stretched, really ten, very thin. And

sometimes when you're when you're.

Stretched into a place whereby you just want to lash out.

You just want to scream, You just want to shout back,

to release all your grumness.

Sorry for that word. You want to the ones.

You want to release all your grum because at the

situation then you feel like peace will come upon you. Right,

I did that first I did that. I was so angry,

not with my wife praised a lot, halle luja. If not,

I wouldn't be here. It was a situation, all right.

I was talking to excellent people. I was so grumb

I was like.

Why did delay? Why this? And why that?

Right? And the moment after I did that, God just

began to speak to me, asking me that, yeah, so

where's your food of the spirit. Don't you just hit

God sometimes that he speaks to you back then shouldn't

he come and intervened in the early solutions so I

don't have to really decide on me, you know what

I mean. It's like He put you to a test

right at the very point you just felt that it

is your right to release the grum. It is your

right to really to reveal, really what's on your heart,

to say, to give people a piece.

Of our mind.

Right to let people know the emotions that they put

you to, right, so they understand next time they don't

do it that you again anymore. Then God spoke to me,

why do we become to church next week and you're

preaching up there? God loves you and Christians I supposed

to be peace living. How would you able to be able

to stand up in front of and say all this

and say that the fruit of the spirit is long suffering.

I said, God, please to them to church that we

are preaching, go to another church plan. I praised like

that before, because I mean, come on, none of us

here wake up in the morning.

Say God, please reveal to me who can I chew? Please?

Real to me? Who can I buck up? Please? Real

to me? Who can I get angry with?

None of us goes out of our room that way,

but situation come along our way by putting you in

the plot, in the position like the Bible here says

that God will always put the test in front of us,

not the fairst, but to reveal what's in our hearts.

Come on, so there's a need, Come on, say you need.

So there's a need there. But God understand, He knows

how the need is gonna be met. Friends, last year,

our budget was about eight hundred one thousand when we

collected the offering. Offering, about four hundred and sixty thousand

came in. Praise the Lord for every fund that came in.

We were shot of our budget. Friends, We don't really

share this real shot budget. So we prayed and especially

as you pray to God you come to first. Then

one just plant overseas transferred about close to about one

hungred and fifty thousand over say this, I'll just probably

want to sow in the annivers Three. God knows our

budget at the end of day a budget of one

hundred thousands met.

Again, you know us.

We don't put out a child needing and asking for

money and nothing at all. Say God, if you are

truly God, you will come true for us. Everyone a

partner has a responsibility to answer towards you.

That's it.

It is not what our neighbors can do or should

do friends, it's what we can do, what we should

do for the Lord.

So worse.

Seven Philip answered two hungry then is worth a braid?

It's not sufficient for them that every one of them

may have a litter.

Isn't it very interesting?

Jesus question, where can we find food for the people

was directed towards the disciple. Come on, not towards a businessman,

not wealthy people. If you talk to people, we miss

no problem. We are arranged truck back it up. We

would offload braid for everyone. And God understands that. And

God knows that Jesus want to talk to the disciple,

because the disciple must have faith to believe that this

can be done as well in your life, whatever challenge

you're going to right now, we must believe that God

is able to come true for us, come true for you.

Friends. If your homes is not doing very well.

Friends, it's easy to say something, Oh, my homies, my

homies are so boring, my homies are like that, My

homies are always late, My homies don't like sorry, don't

don't talk anyone here, right, No, non of the homeleaders.

He asked me to say all this right.

It's sometimes it's it's the way it is that we

put the blame already, the excuses of why the home

is not happening on the excellent forces, you know what

I mean, excellent people, excellent situation.

Then God always asks about what's in your hands? Are

you even excited?

Not?

Are you?

No matter what the surrounding is, would would be the

one even that nobody's gonna be shared the same excitement

as you would.

You still be excited all the way to the end.

My wife is very good.

It is no matter whether people laugh or not, right,

she's still gonna laugh. Anyway, no matter whether people talk

to her or She's gonna talk anyway. So that's why

sometimes sleep early, right and she cares. She has this

ability to talk and talk and talk. It is a gift, yes,

to a lot of people. Anyway, you got to focus

back on the world of God. Jesus was challenging the disciples. Friends,

So right now in your journey, what's God's speaking to you?

Come on to you, not to anyone else, to you,

Gods speaking to us that. What's your response in a

situation at your office? What's your contribution?

How? How will your faith show up at your office?

Because many times I've heard before we should do this,

we should do that in officers couple office, whereas it's

very normal we should do this. Great, I don't have time?

Would you do it? Also don't have time? Then my

question then what you're bringing up.

Recently?

We just had the meeting the homesboy had the meeting.

Someone just suggested maybe we should do this, and another

homesbod memory just replied, I don't have time, and majority

of us here don't have time. On we don't have time.

Would you want to pick up what you suggested? The

persons say no, they say, then what you're bringing up

then hoping someone else would do it? Isn't it true

that someone believe us are like that? Home Leader, We

should make a host exciting. Maybe we should try to

dress up for homes Mexican night.

I do not just please don't do that, right, if

you're like that?

pH his color friends, I don't have the energy thirty fifty,

I realized that it's yo, go hit.

I will come up with my T shirt and jeans. Right,

but let's do everything like that, friends, homely that you

should my excitement.

You should do this right, and you are there receiving

everything like everything's all me right?

Have you ever thought that before? Everything is of all

your shoulders?

And God wants to minister to you this morning, friends,

because he wants to reveal what's in your hearts. Phillips

said that two hunger over the narways that was needed

to fit everyone gets a little bit done with a

human answer. That's that's what we have, that's our natural answer.

If I give only got this mushal gift. We always

challenge people that if God must must be so real

and evidence in your life, because the days will come,

whereby do you really believe right, I say, really believe.

Do you hang on to him? The days will come by.

Always you go to a challenge where by to know

whether God is real or not? Really, when you are

in the space whereby it's between you and the Lord,

I pray that you you're able to discover that God

is so real in your life, friends, knowing that God

will come true for you. Sometimes in the midst of

a congression like this, there is there is encouragement, there

is hope. But most time when we go through the challenges,

is between you and the Lord. That's why God always

speak to you individually. How would this need to be met?

And it reveals Phillips answer. Phelis are the reviews of

his faith. Number one in his faith, he only see

in the natural friends, even though it was part of

Jesus group.

He only see through the lens of the natural.

If everyone gives this only so much, and if you're

going to operate the natural, friends, there is no brick

to There is nothing to glorifying to God about it.

If you're going to operate the natural, friends, there is

nothing glorifying about it because God doesn't get the glory.

That's why we always challenge people that trust God, trust God,

and many times we always say we can't, we don't,

we didn't before. Trust God again. Some of us here

trust God again because in your journey, friends, trusting God

is not just a one time occasion.

It is not Abraham didn't just trust God for the

one occasion.

God tested Abraham to Isaac, precious precious child that he

was praying for. You may think that something is so

precious that God will not and God touch it because

He wants Abraham to know whether he trusts him or not.

There was eight Then one of the disciples, Andrew Simon

Peter Andrew Simon's Peter brothers, said to him, there is

a lead here. We have five bally loaf and two

small fish. Five bally loaf and two small fish. I

want you to just look at this scripture and ask

yourself this question.

And you.

I guess he was an older gentleman looking at the

boys meal.

This is why I called you got fudda what the share?

Not? My question here is is that imagine five thousand people, Okay,

what are the odds that only one person brought lunch?

Think about it.

The Bible says they fat five thousand, right, what are

the odds that only this lad brought lunch?

I think there are the other people who brought lunch

of friends.

Come on, the other people brought lunch to that, to

the meeting one friends. And I don't think that the

boy is so special that the mom said pack your lunch, okay,

because Jesus is gonna ask from you, all right, you

shall give. I truly believe that other people in the

midst of the crowd, who has lunch. But it was

the boy that revealed to Andrew I had this. I'm

not sure what you can do, but I have this.

If you want, you can take it. The question here

is is that what about the rest who brought lunch?

What about the rest who brought lunch and did not share?

And many times now journey, we focus on this boy

who just gave. But I want to speak to the

rest who did, of the people in the Bible that

did not give the lunch, because it isn't it true?

Sometimes our journey our life, and we say that someone

else will answer the call, answer the need, someone else

will pay the price, and we just want to enjoy

the right. And many times our journey we don't like

to be challenged. You don't like uncomfortable because it's not

pleasant giving up the lunch. Friends, imagine right now, listen,

imagine you're the young lad with what your mom packed

for you, parents put aside for you. Maybe maybe this

is expensive, right, and a doubt coming over thinking over

your lunch.

It's never pleasant.

When someone take over your meal that you're maybe you're hungry,

all right, just quite back to the school days.

Then you brought lunch to school back then.

Me and my wife always talking about so her schooling days.

My parents give me money, and so when I get

the schooler, I know what to eat. You really, lunch

are exactly hit four stores, buy from different stores and

begin to eat. Yes, my wife loves to eat. I said, wow,

your parents give you money for lunch. Yeah, what about you?

I got one Pepsi water fill play water. You know

that time you buy the Coca Cola water, you feel

your water. I say, that's my lunch, because my lunch

is reating for me back home, no pocket money for lunch.

And when something was taken away from you, right, friends,

you could like, oh shuck?

Should I have said it? Should I have said to

Andrew that I got lunch. Should I review to people?

I got this to the moment I reviewed taken away,

I'm left with nothing. And that's what we go to,

something where we serve God. I give up my time

to serve. I give up things to serve the Lord.

I felt I'm on the losing end. I felt the

moment I do this, I don't have enough for myself.

Again. I want to encourage you. He honors God. God

will honor him back.

We always teach young people earlier days and now also

as well that learn to honor God.

Learn to honor God.

My earlier days of my journey with the Lord, I'm

never given my tithe seriously shared my time by now

giving my time because I came from a big church.

The big church got really got.

So many other people's well to do, and I thought

to myself, hey, other people can give. The body's always

been metma, so I don't have to give if I

give a so I just give, really like a donation

rather than a sewing time. Then God spoke to me

one day say that, hey, will you start sewing? So

I did so I enter full time ministry. After that,

many years later, I enter full time ministry without full

time pay. Friends without full time pay, it's not a lot,

so that they sware. But I really can't you say,

bring all the tithe into the storehouse. Yes, but I'm

also your servant God, I got needs right, and therefore.

Could I postpone skip one month?

Not? Sometimes you talk to God away because you got

to need my friends? So I did there our months

whever I escaped, I did confess before you.

I'm so shaved. I did. I skipped some months I

did earlier days. My tithe I thought was wise.

Oh ten percent, quite a lot, please God, hallelujah. Got

money to spare for myself. Amen, can buy the Jeanes. Finally,

whatever it is okay, we don't simply escape because by

ourself just abuse to be made now to be paid.

I remember, I remember those I didn't experiment. Really those

months I did not give. Unexpectedly, a few months later,

a bill coming to my way, very similar amount to

what I red help from the Lord, very similar amount

to what I read help from the Lord and not.

And I told God, God, I said, why but you

do this to me? It's like, can it be something else?

Someone else? Right? And God said, no, I want your faith.

So I realized this as I want to share this

with you friends. You really the word is that sometimes

you apply like like like Philip. You know so many

people here. Everyone, get a little bit natural and apply

my natural understanding to tighten offering, which got no brick shoe,

no brick shoe, no brick shoe. After those few years

of going through the hard knocks, I told God, God,

every time Saturday comes, this belongs to you.

That's it.

No negotiable. You must come to a place by some

negotiable in your life. So the young boy give up

his lunch. Then Jesus said, make the people sit down

as much there was much grass. The man sat down,

number five thousand, Come on, number five thousand.

A couple of things I want you to not over here. Friends.

The boy's lodge in his own hands can only fit himself.

Come on, the boy's lodge in his own hands can

only fit himself. But in God's hand it went beyond himself.

Come on, beyond himself to someone else's need. Being mad

and many times you look at for example, it's not

the month, friends.

It's what we have, our life, our life.

We can take care of us, maybe one or two

people around us, but God can stretch that and cause

that to make an impact to a group a community,

not just one or two people.

Friends, you know, five love and two fish.

You know how many people can spread out to to

fit five thousand with five love and two fish threads.

Even you have the tear that rapid people, so the

toper package of the tear and as well, friends, that's

not enough. But God wants us to realize that what

we have right now has a potential to touch a community.

God wants you to know this morning, what you have

right now has a potential to touch the community. Friends,

because many times in our journey we always say, yeah,

what can I do? I'm only one person ever said

that before?

What can I do? Is only me?

I'm the only ones so excited for homes and the

rest of our homies are like right, homes is so

far right, every every reason and stuff like that. But if, if,

if you're so convinced that homes is a place that

where God wanted to be connected, be the person then

because you have the potential to transform your needs. God

always uses the needs as a channer for us to

experience his blessing. Come on, God always uses the needs

of others. The needs around us as a Channa for

us to experience is blessing. What we have right now

is in the natural. But what when we so to

God that supernatural begin to happen. Why is it, friends,

that the supernatural stop happening in your life after you

become a working adult, when you're a campus student. I

remember some of us prayed so hard for break through,

and God came to some of us, our first generation believers.

And you're praying that God will open a way for

you to share your faith with your parents. You pray

so hard and God came toru for you, got opened

the door for you for a moment, we will enter

a certain age that earlier face begins to change. Your

journey of faith doesn't stop because you get older. It

gets even more exciting as you age with the Lord.

As you age with the Lord, Friends, just let me

just one or two things. The majority of people miss

the opportunity to experience God's supernatural because if you they

don't have enough, or God will not or God will

not accept what I give. Sorry that I miss out

the majority of us. You miss out. As I close it,

this is the child, and I don't think the young

boy really knew what he was doing. He just by faith,

said God, I didn't have this. I only have this

as I close and many times when to get ready

to just to serve the Lord and to give to God.

I don't know how you do you see you're giving.

I'm not sure how you see. I'm not sure how

you see what you have in your hands and how

it's going to work out. But to encourage you to

stretch your faith a bit, stretch your faith a bit.

Recently I had lunch with Sam Young from Ex London.

He was just sharing that right now we're touching eighty

old people, eighty old people in Ex London. We're looking

for a bigger venue, looking for bigger venue. I went like, Sam,

you know right in London looking for bigger venue, need costs.

It's not easy London. It's not Malaysia. We got we've

got empty warehouses, any any space and not being used

in Malaysia to pick up a card, right, I say,

if we have a lot of space by UK is

very different, very expensive? Says so expensive? I say, yeah,

how about second service? Second services it but not enough

people to serve. I say, that's where you have to

raise up, I say, I don't think you can continue

on looking for bigger venues and bigger venues and bigger

news because bigger budgets and the stress of meeting a

big budget. Friends, it is crazy. I showed Shelly my

old photograph when I came to church and hair.

Enough said. But as as as you look back, as

you look back.

Opportunities opportunists comes your way.

Right.

Why we missed those big ture moments. It's because we

fail to recognize. And I just told Sam and say Sam,

they come a point in time you have to challenge the.

People to do two services.

You have to because there's unless you begin to trow y,

you begin to use money run the bigger venue. Even then,

could you imagine the sound system you have to carry

Right now, you're carrying a very simple set. Praise God,

you've got ready to the place. To keep a bigger

venue means you have to cut it and out lorry

and you understand.

How it works. I say, let's prey, think how.

The need can be met in another way, recognizing friends

that that need friends.

It's so important. This animalstary giving is not just another time. Friends.

If you think that the church needs your money. Can

I just encourage you and just tell you that don't so.

I just want to say on onset here, don't so

because there is no power in that giving. No one

gets the glory. God doesn't get the glory as much

as donation. Yeah, you can give it as the donation

and this stuff like that. But that's why people miss

out because they just view as a donation moment. But

towards who I truly understand is it is a set time.

It is a set time for us the soul. The

Bible says those two, so we will reap as well.

It is a set time for us. Let me share

a testimony as a close four years three years ago

or four years ago, something happened in my life. I

came back from it one day and I discovered that,

you know, someone stole my site mirror. It is my

housing area, not not the site mirror. The glass only

the glass only comes the class the mirror. That that

the whole cower is still intact. The glass only friends.

Now I've no people still the whole thing now friends,

but very seldom still the glass only you know, friends,

I'm really talking to yourself. You like still like yes,

the glasses I was talking to past about it. Past

this happened, and I thought Pastor would be like, oh, no,

something happened to you. He just asked me a question,

can you I truly think that God's speaking to you.

How was your anualcy giving? I'm like past tending you

about the car. You're asking me a NSC giving. I

lost two glass of my side mirror. He asked me

about ns giving and I just look at Pastor. I

know what person was trying to get that, and I

knew that the time that time, I was doing my

mental calculation how much you give?

And I thought it was generously enough.

Really, that was one year after I had my hard

situation and stuff that I said, God, don't is because

anything happens to me, I can take care myself and anybody.

This stuff that when God spoke to me that that

very moment that was in.

January, January and three February of the time and just

around the corner, and I like, past I really thought

that you know.

That you answered that that that thing you're putting your

loss your mirror and just stuff like that.

I went back with this thought in my mind, like

have I been living by faith that.

Kim and usery.

I know God gave me a sum because I spoke

to me in December already. I didn't want to give

the sum because I say, God, when I have it later,

I will give it. But God knows I haven't. Really

I have it later, I give it when I'm already.

So my p was this sudden?

I say, God, if this is your way of getting

my attention, of all things, it's a mirror of friends,

a mirror think about you.

I think it's trying to.

Tell me, look look at our own heart. Yeah, look

at my own heart, look at my own life.

Look.

Began to observe a bit more mirrors. So important friends,

you know, and I think that we got we we are.

We are pretty good looking. I think we look in

the mirror. Obviously, we always say that our heads in place.

I think we look in the mirror. After you eat

your economy, realize you do that there's no when you

started beating your teeth.

I do look in the mirror.

So mirrors are very important friends, right, So God reminds

you just look at your own heart. But I mean,

I mean, I mean your servant, I serve you know,

and stuff like you unswer the press and pain and

the stuff like that just came up my heart. So

do all this try the reason that we got, why

I shouldn't obey, why I shouldn't follow, why.

I think this is a way of the neture?

And God just say, yes, there was last year, but

this year right, So I started, Friends started, started started.

For the past three years after that, there was every

year I gave a SuperNature giving.

Now I'm not sure caring this to entice you to

give more. Friends.

Know this is my journey. Friends, I just want to

let you know every year there was increased. So last

year of February last year. February is last year. February

I started my house renovation repair project. I want to

let you know it's gonna be one year. I never

intended it this way. I never intended I was textic

pasta passes financily committed till end. For the very first

time in my life, I'm hosting people. Pray for me,

really really pray for me, because I'm not used to

hosting people in my house. On Sam, we are very

comfortable hosting people in your house. Praise God.

There's really a gift.

I'm not I tell you how bicky, I am. I'm

not my floor at least ten times, really almost every

other day because of a clean floor of means to say,

when you put your fingers on the floor, you cannot

see any does I'm sorry, that's just me, but I

say my wife used as the reason why she shook.

In the house.

I can't clean as good as you you cleaner. I

go like clean clean the sailor right, So I'm not

good at it. And I create sometimes I go like

it's there, so I have to be the words had

to be perfect, perfect before it can perfect, before anybody

can step foot in. Right, And I was just texting

past the past. Thank you so much for challenging me.

I'm not sure remember not a few years ago you

challenged me to do this, and I did every year

without fail. Last year I did decided that I got

to repair my house if things were licking, and decided

I just got to repair it, repair, repair it. Didn't

expect the journey to take so long. Three months, me

and mad to stay separately, not because we argue, we

we just have to stay separately, because they.

Were doing every part of the house.

After that, and I sat back reflected saying Buster coming

till end. I want to sorting to give the glory

to God. All this is possible for me. This is

my journey recognizing because you challenged me past I held

the God's word. I remember my my personal prayer time

saying God, I need this X amount earlier this before

I started anything anything of this matter, and this X

amount to do the house. I wanted to know that

God showed up, he came to I didn't put out

any nothing at all. God is between me and you

this whole journey. I just wanted to honor you because

you are the one that that that.

Came to for me.

God will never short change your friends. As I close,

I wanted to share something you may or may not know.

Me and my wife Bobos.

Are serving full time and it was at one point

in time we wanted to get a house. Couldn't The

house I'm currently staying in France was a house that

was sput in auction.

For four times. Four times.

Nobody wanted to buy it.

Right.

A lot of people went in there first say they

say it was such a huge crack on the world, they.

Want to buy it. And I walked in.

Now we walked in there, we couldn't walk the doors open.

But we saw the place out there. We just saw.

We told my wife back then, this this is our

place that we're going to grow.

Fast forward.

Friends, I can only share this test to maybe you that.

God was just so good.

It was a notice of auction that we were just

put on a line, a lamp post.

My dad helped me to call God. We now shot

change your own.

Friends, as I closer, I don't know know where your

journey is, but all I do know is just that

it is not a lot of people say chance to

not God will lead you to As I closer, as

I want to challenge you this year, we would recognize

and need they're not And would you begin to sow,

begin to believe God, begin to trust God like the

boy who gave up saying, if Jesus asking for it,

let me just off for what I am.

I don't know whether they can do much or not,

but this is what I can do. Friends. I do

not know.

I may not be able to meet the fool budget,

but this is what I can do.

Friends.

And God's always asking you, so what can you do

for him?

What can you do for him? Friends?

What can you do for the Lord, if you can

smile and shake hands, if you can greet people friends,

would you serve as a host? But you understand, got

so disappointed Before shake people's hand, they will say good morning.

I would say you, I should be with them, the

seed they called me, because this being them, they're worshiping,

they're lifting up their hands.

But would you still serve God again?

As I close friends, when you look to the Lord, Oh,

on a different journey with the Lord. My encouragement to

you right now this one year, would you learn to

be like the lad they say God. I know I

may not may not mean much a lot of people.

If I were and you took the food, I think

that God succastedly got me one for I give you

a five little.

Bit two fish.

See what can you do with it? I put it

like that because five thousand people might how to feed.

Unless you understand, you don't get you before you.

Know you asked for I give you.

I pray that we come to a place where I say, God,

my hands right now, just surrender to you, and this

is what I can do.

Amen.

Would you stand right now and God's asking you right

now what can you.

Do for him? What can you bring before Him. Amen.

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