Sing When You Don't Have | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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All right, okay, anyway Isaiah fifty four? All right, I

come on, Isaiah fifty four. I'm going to just share

with your wife. Always speak about missions, is say fifty four?

Is really for me? It's a mission, is said fifty four.

Worst one speaks about singing the time that we don't

have all right, singing single baron? All right, you know

you and I understand her descripture before. So therefore, friends,

worst one is asking us to sing when we don't

have I also want to tipe with missions is go

when we can't see, Go when we don't really believe yet,

Go and do something for God when we don't see

the fullness yet. Worst one speaks about singing where out

from a place of faith, whether from a place of defeat,

singing off a place of desperation for God to move

from a place of like I'm certain, surrendering it to

my environment, seeing from a place of trusting God rather

than the place of defeat. Friends, many times in our

course of life, we normally equate blessing with possession, blessing

with the environment, blessing with everything else that what we

term as blessing. But sometimes God encourages us to sing

when we haven't got it yet, or even though we

will never get it at all, because many times we

sing only when things approve, when things Sorry, I understand, Jason,

I'm just gonna put on the floor here, right, It's okay, okay,

I'll just use this, I think, yeah, cables long enough.

So friends, I do believe, friends, all of us here,

God is asking us to sing when we have not

seen yet. I you know, I had a chance to

meet up with someone who I got to know when

he was a campus student where we're running by big service,

by big service, and you know, we chance upon you know,

after like maybe about twenty years of.

You know, not meeting up and not seeing him. So

we're just talking.

About back then, how when we were younger, Right, we

tend to jump, We tend to believe, we'revocally, you know,

express our faith like there is no tomorrow, if you

understand what I'm trying to say.

Right, We tend to assign for everything.

But as life begins to catch up with us, or

rather the bills begin to catch up with us, and

commitment begin catch up with us right. Everything else regarding

God seems to be not as exciting anymore as gun

junk anymore, as much as making sure that month and

you can set all your bills, if you understand, try

to say so, as you were just catching up and

we're just talking, and we're just thinking about the group

that was with us, and where are they right now?

How many of you know that.

The Christian faith, of the Christian journey is never a sprint.

It is never like you know, like a hunger meter dash,

you know, like the fastest, the most you know, the

one that is the most obvious, will finish the race.

It's really about pacing yourself out and making sure the flame,

the fire, the reviver doesn't stop just because the environment changes.

Some of us that came into church this morning, maybe you.

Couldn't well worship as well, maybe because the worship leader

is not you know, in uh, the right key.

And stuff like that.

You're it's quite obviously you come to church that you're

you're observing the the musician, and whenever something is wrong,

the eyebrow goes up.

The master here teachers stuff like that.

And after a while it draws you away from the

attention of worship to something else, and life as well

draws us away from attention from God to the nature.

And you'll find that in life it's not just about

what you do at twenty five, but what you're gonna

do at twenty five, forty five, forty nine, fifty fifty five.

As we were talking about saying, hey, why.

But do this person say elder, this guy stop going

to church, stop believing, and you know everything else you

get in church, she doesn't want to have anything to

do with it, although he's doing well right So, as

we were just talking about and we were just saying that,

I was just telling him, it's so good to see you.

Assume the word is.

That being on fire, being on fire and you know,

loving Jesus, serving his local church, and just wanting just

to do more at the age of I think he's

thirty eight or something like that.

So I just want to courage you.

The Bible says isaid before I say sing, oh barren, friends,

the focus is not being barren. The focus is what

you sing when even when we don't have would you

right now imagine with me that abrahams that sacrifice Isaac,

what happened if Isaac now will return. Would Abrahams continue

to believe God no what happened? If Isaac was just

consumed by the altar? Would Abraham still worship the lot

or none? I think it's a profound question, only because

many times in our journey, right well, hornet a faith

only because it works in the sense of the way we

want it to work. So God this morning reminds us, friends,

that singing when you don't have is a sacrifice. Serving

when you cannot serve any more as a sacrifice. Worshiping

the Lord where you don't have the strength to lift

up your hands is a sacrifice. God this want reminds

us again that there is a power when we sacrifice

to the Lord, not based on just because you have money,

just because you have everything, but based on the fact

that he's worthy, based on the fact that he is

the King of kings, based on the fact that he

will still come true for us. And many times in

our journey, God is encouraging us, friends, not to focus

on the natural, but to focus on his promises, not

to focus on the temporal, but to focus on eternity.

So Asaiah is reminding.

Us the power is not in the keeping up The

power is in believing we can all the facads really

of you know, if you know what I mean that

in the Christian world right you can you get serve

and everything like that.

But we don't believe.

Friends, even though we have everything going, sometimes there is

no briack true.

So Mission I want to speak to you.

Really, it's a going where we can't afford to go,

but it can't afford to go. I'm not talking in

terms of the money, says, I'm talking about how you

don't understand.

I don't have the time.

That's where we need to Transgod, say, God, help me

to cove out time, Help me to self a missions conference,

help me to.

Believe, to understand what it means to go right.

So Isaiah reminds us again, is that we shouldn't just

sing when we get, but we should sing when we believe.

I don't help me over see it will still believe

and we don't have it yet. For example, some of

you are a power of homes and you find the

homes is the most boring place on a Friday night.

It happens on friends whereby some topics you don't like,

maybe the teacher for the day, just reach to the slides.

I don't know.

Sometimes you just wish you look at some others homes

photograph their food is more exciting. Yesterday I heard the

commands pass the past. It is your homes always like that?

Not the food is abundance like that one right, and

say no, not really all the time now, but the

times whereby then someone asked another question, is that left

almost not? And then person just replied, actually know what

we just bought just enough for me? Then of course yep,

I did take photograph of dessert after that. But sometimes

you wish that, you know, our homes are like something else.

Our focus on what other people are doing drawsers away

from what God wants us to do. Friends, Now, it

look chapter one verse the sevens that for we've got

nothing's impossible. Right, you and I know this scripture for

we've got nothing's impossible. So the question here is is

that if we declare that look, chapter one verse is

study seven save for we've got nothing's impossible. Shouldn't therefore

we sing even though where we don't have shouldn't though

we worship even though that's not the right time to

worship in that sense of like I can't afford.

It many times.

Now journey friends, we equate again and we just want

to encourage us and just tell us that we create

breakthrough as God's being with us, and we don't understand

that life sometimes chose a curveball. So in the midst

of repairing my house in our shack, crabt Chevy, you're

repairing my house and just ran everything.

A bit, just two and two together.

So I have to remove my ceiling, my ceiling, not

just on one room, but the whole first floor ceiling.

Just remove everything. When they remove the ceiling face, you

cannot stay in the house. It is very dusty, and

you find a lot of surprises in the ceiling. I

found out that the previous owner do not know which

point in time there was stuff in my ceiling, which

I got the shock of my life.

They were brooken roof.

Towels deep decided they just put up there in between

that you know ethic, you know the.

Roof house and the ceiling.

The stuff in there excess, see men that dropped down,

just put it there, any rubbitions to put it there,

because once you see it up, you can all see me.

So as he began to dismantle, and I found that

you know that my ceiling support, there's a support. I'm

supposed to be mounted off to the roof. Trust if

you so, I feel like, oh, there was that the

way you come to the point. Okay, what you are prophesized.

One day you're on the place you ran away, you

discover was all this all right? But some of us understaid.

So anyway, the ceiling support is supposed to be mounted

after the roof support.

Just to borrow.

Straight, I've only found out that friends, that my ceiling

there's no support. So in other words, by the grace

of God, I've been saying the house whereby thank God love,

I heard cats running and my ceiling before my friends,

my friendly neighborhood cat that it runs from one neighbor

to another neighbor. So one time I think I was

trying to sleep. It's a very loud noise running about and.

This stuff that I just the cat.

One day, I say, you can run at my place,

but if you ever pull that's it.

You'll cross the line.

Actually, when my neighbor's cat came to my garden and

pee and pull at my ware, I put my shoes

and stuff like that before. So I told the cat

is a cat. I allow you to slip at my

pouch for free, but you ever cross the line. If

I catch you crossing line one more time, peeing and

puping at my place, let it be known that it

could be the last few days of your life. I

made it very after that. Never put anymore. Okay, I

look at the cats. I spulled the cat. I say, please, please, okay,

if you ever cross this line, there's it. No more

friendship anymore, no more Christian, no values and more review Right,

it's kiddy, but that will never happen again. The can

never happened again. Very nicely, come and sleep and go away, okay.

Put me at my other neighbor's house. Yeah, so every

door came down, friends, because I have to remove my ceiling,

our friends, I have to move out from my house.

So right now, me and my wife haven't been staying

the same house for the past two weeks. Well, going

back to our dating days again. She's staying with her parents.

I'm staying with my dad. And friends. Want to let

you know it is a very weird feeling after being

married for close to twenty years, having to do this,

sending her back to a house and driving back. After that,

I felt like, now I understand why dating is. When

you when you're a younger, please date. Okay, when when

you reach about closer to fifty, just get married. It's

tiring off at at closer the tent if you south

you're older, and said driving back to your house, getting

back to the house. After that, like, I got to

do this for another three more weeks. So I was

telling Paster John. John was just out the herd. They're

not saying with your wife? I said, yes, for how long?

For two weeks?

A week there he caught the shock. He went like this, okay,

direction out of what two weeks? I said, yes, three

more weeks ago. How do you know you're not going

to stay with her for one month? I said, I

got no choice. I go nowhere to sleep. My parents

house is not big enough. Come I saying, my parents are?

I say no, no, thank you.

It's very wed.

If you understand what I'm trying to say. All right,

so I will stay with your in laws or something.

You understand, Okay, I can't. I just say I lose

them to spend time my dad. Then I got a

call that you know that local counsel came and dropped

by and asked me whether I got permit or not.

I went like hallelujah, praised the Lord.

Then after that, after that, I said, no, I'm I'm

working on the inside, inside, inside, not not really that

you need the permitt I said that every time I

want to pay and I apply for permitting, right, do

we do my toddler and say no, no, better get

it than stuff like that. So your neighbors, if they

want to raise the point. Then after that, stuff like that, okay,

no problem. We did others. I went to local council

to wh know my submissionary should get my thing by

next trains to pay for some license and stuff like that.

As I was just thinking about the whole process.

Friends, it's so draining.

If you understand, I literally have to pack my house

into a room. It's souf of you whoever a place,

really you understand, imagine your whole house. You have to

squeeze everything, you move off from the house so that

they can work, and you pack inside one room. At

the time, I don't feel like singing. I don't feel

like singing at the time. There was the time that

I find I thought I wish, I wish neighbor complain

that completed the local counsel, and I say, pay me

a visit, because when.

He does, it's your house or renovation. I want to

be there.

If you understand what I'm trying to say, right, there's

so many things that could have done. The road to

my house. A lot of hosts will repair. This is

one phone called, one phone called come in front of ready.

It was very nice our friends, I will say, very cordial.

He wasn't asking for any funny funny just say, hey,

just apply for a permit. Easier I got to hitt

apply maybe someone complete right, be compliant. But at the time,

I want to let you know, I didn't feel like singing.

I didn't feel like, you know, like I just like, Lord,

where is like? Where are you in this whole mist

of this whole journey of house renovation and just and

it's texting, you know, draining, And I'd been reading with

my house already, fixing and rending with my house since February.

Since February February, I've been living with the dust and

everything like that. I got a wife with supercessive stiffed

with dust. Every time we'll come back, she had to

wear a face mask all the way up there to

the room. Whereas the husband is immune to dust and

this stuff like that, so I just go in and

stuff like that.

But I just want to encourage you in the midst

of everything.

I was just telling my wife this that I could

just see the hand of God. I'm gotting to spend

time with my dad, which I never knew what was

happening in the house. Staying can share chat on the

CVO because he will now come to our church, right

he's he's attending another church in Puccho. But stay with

my dad. After so long twenty years, I moved on

moving back in again.

Stay with him.

I discover a few things. He has a pet which

is in the form of a rad that's been the

house for almost a got nos red. Got knows when?

Because I was wondering, what's the noise in the kitchen? Right,

what's the noise in the kitchen? I went in there

discover a tale.

I saw it. I said that, did you know you

got red? Huh? Got red? Man?

I went like that, that's it, Okay, I'm getting it.

Did you have a red Trapnot? No, you cannot fight militia,

will sell. Don't have red trap anymore, seeing old baron,

seeing when you don't have strength go where you cannot afford.

I don't know how many I will ever go through

that journey of the very whereby the midst of adversary

just reminds you.

That God is not there. It's hot.

So my dad is early stages of dementia, at least

they just very earl. So we beeat the same story

every couple of days, the same conversation, the same the

same everything. I went that days whereby I said, if

I very very patient, listen by the days I want

to confess to you as an honest Christian brother. I

just wish I actually asked my dad that you told

me this before five times?

Treally? Oh is it? Yeah?

I forgot loa. I look at that my dad. I

just smiled him. I just say it's okay that it

happens to the best of us. Same with him after

after three weeks, I also discovered that by way this

morning I woke up, we caught the rap because you know,

let's say, I couldn't have had anymore because I cannot stay.

I cannot stay with this card pet. Okay, say that

I'm sorry, I have I have to have to end

your relationship with this pet. All right, I set up,

but he set up a chap cut it this morning. Hallujah,

praise a lot. Now please do ask me. I'm good

to be the red Okay, so of your animal activists,

I'm so sorry, but some things have to be released

in some other form, Okay, anyway, coming back to this, right,

coming back to this.

Okay, we say, for God, nothing's impossible.

Right, So, being two weeks with my parents, just want

to let you know, and now I'm closer to fifty,

it's a big challenge if you will stay with your

parents when closer to fifty.

Right.

I knew my dad as a very strong man, very strong,

very disciplined. Now if this is down with him to

talk about his you know, the remaining years of his life,

or candidly are openly they say that, or once you

know that this house that you have is just too big.

Since month passed away, everything still remains the same.

Finding very high to throw.

Things away, I say that there are shoes that my

mom's shoes are still there after three years. I understand,

but would you allow me to to chow there are

things that you need to give the who's talking about Yeah,

we work so hard to buy this thing, now we

have give it away. I say that that's part part

of life. You work so hard to get the wash

or need to discover that the watch. After all, you

can't take care of you then and you can sell

it off and praise love. But I got more sentimental stuff.

We're saying for we've got nothing, it's impossible. I've been

praying to see that. Will you open your heart right

now and just allow me to just come in and

just help me to.

Clean up stuff.

Because friends, if we's sake forgot, nothing's impossible, Therefore we

should all have strength to go to what we need

to go to. So mission is a sacrifice. Friends, it

is I want, I want you to go quote it.

It is moving out.

I want.

I don't want to use to work comfort because comfort

is different for one person another person. For example, of

you grew up sleeping on the cozy Man floor col

cement floor, you understand nice coacy Man flow. So we're

looking at me like like what on earth is there?

Yeah?

Yeah, okay the days back then at one point time

in Malaysia, we light our coacy Man floor, we lie

down there without air con with a fan, so that's

to me, that's even the coating man fan with a

coasting man flow and a fan is comfort for me?

Really? Right?

You ever do camping? Sleeping on gravel rocks? Hallelujah, praise

a lot. That is a natural massage the whole night.

So I don't used to work comfort because comfort is

different from the summer us here. Having air con is

not enough. Having air con with nice comfortabit is comfort.

Having air co without a comfortable bit is not comfort.

So I won't used to work familiar. We are very

familiar with our surroundings. God has causes out from what's

familiar to what's I'm familiar, so go to worse two

words two says this and large a place of your tent.

Friends.

The moment when God causes to enlarge, he's calling us

from a place of familiar to unfamiliar. Have you been

to a place whereby it's slightly bigger? You're not very

familiar with the space. When I first moved from my

first place of accommodation after I got married, was in

a condo, staying my father low condo, then moved out,

got my own space of house. I got the shock

of my life where but I woke up final I

can hear echo in my house because I really don't

have a lot of things, so many spaces in the

house was unfamiliar because things are enlarged. I got a

piece of garden which I called my reveel project, which

I got pet snail inside there, which I say pet

frog inside there.

That from my neighbor. Again, that's in my garden. My cat.

My neighbors can't like to come into my garden.

Because I got this huge pasture of pandan leaves that

he likes to crawl under and sleep because nice shape.

So everything is unfamiliar when we enlarge.

Everything is unfamiliar when God causes to enlarge, friends out

from a familiar way of serving to an unfamiliar place.

I'm not sure where you are with your journey, but

would you allow God to bring you to a place

or not very familiar serving in a dream team that

you're not really familiar with. I mean, some of us

see a very good with you know, for example hospitality,

so express it will be your thing. But there are

days whereby we need people as visit the guide we

do right, but I'm not good with people. But would

you allow God to enlarge the capacity of your tent.

That's what mission is all about, going to a place

whereby what you're not familiar with becomes familiar. After that,

you never get to choose when you're on the field. Elder,

I'm not going to Cheers ministry, but you're the only

one available which is still serve in the Cheers ministry

because they need you. I remember one time when when

the ex men doing they went to one Chinese New

Relationship Route Duran season. They will offer durants after that

a few times as a love offering. Subsequently that the

place was always filled up by during the Duran season

they say they want to go. I Remembmber speaking one

time to one of them, they say, hey, are you alright?

Eating food that is not familiar to you but familiar

to some of us. For example, some of us here

are not very good with Malie cuisine, the Samma blacha

and the Gulay hungry right, and all these others have

not familiar to to some of us here because it's never.

Never part of your growing up days.

As I was speaking to Elder, if I got the choice,

I rather not. If I got the choice, I rather,

I rather stick to my normal Chinese. You know the

stuff I said. Therefore, I said, would you allow God

to stretch your capacity? Because I truly believe if you

say God forgot, nothing is possible. Therefore cuisine shouldn't be impossible. Right.

I was speaking one time, and we're just saying that

hanging from anybody from Sarawak here, saraw Sarah, all right, fantastic, okay,

sego worms, right, nice? Nice, sego worms. Nice, it's nice

any for you from Sarah? They don't nice Sago worms.

It's okay to be honest here. No, no, no, it's okay,

it's all right, no, no problem. I was talking one time.

We say, and one person, how can you know it

is so nice?

Right?

Then the question comes, what but if they serve you

because you know it's and joy for them, would you

consider it or not?

Again?

And lash the capacity of your tent? I told God,

say God, I really to eat anything except for ballut

that one that one I struggle. Really I can't, And

because of my heart condition, I tell people I cannot.

That's not what I encourage you, because if he's saying,

for God, nothing is impossible. There for preaching in another

language shouldn't be impossible then, right, But friends, we need

to go to a place where by God can move.

I'm trying to say, we need to give him the environment.

That's space.

Abraham offered up Isaac and the altar right and got

provided a ran for himself. But without the environment, friends,

the space, and we expect God to move where we

are at. It's hard. So God causes to enlarge when

we think that we cannot enlarge. And the next part

of worse to say, let them stretch out the curtains

of your dwelling.

Who's supposed to stretch you? Who is supposed to stretch you? Friends?

Others at the field, Friends, you'll be stretch others will

stretch you. But you may say, although you don't understand,

I really really really cannot. I tried, I got burned.

Maybe I got discouraged. Friends, That is part of pastor

even whatever we do in life will be stretched, will

be discourage, will be disappointed. But how can we only

put this on the Christian faith and not of jobs

because our job also sometimes you do everything nice, really,

but then their disappointment. Right, maybe promotion did not come

your way. You thought deliver the best thing, really, but

only to find that the people are not please.

Your work sended.

There are days of the disappointment is you will be

there on friends, But the question would be is this

that even though those days are going to be there,

but would you allow them to stretch to stretch to

stretch you? Because your capacity requires others to develop others

who develop your capacity. Friends, That's why sometimes I'm not

hard selling missions.

Friends.

If you don't go, it's all right, but I truly

believe it is. Why do you think that Jesus said

go therefore in all the world and make disciples? Because

I truly believe as our Christian faith, it's not dependent

on just coming to church. It's in the exercising of

our faith trusting God. Say God, I only got this amount,

but would you multiply it or not? I can just

do all two songs, but if if you give me

opportunity to worship at homes, I will still do it.

Stuff like that, friends, And that's why I one to

encourage everyone here.

It's not about how young or how old we are.

It is not because if it's about the age, friends, God,

with this say, you can go for missions if you're

below sixty and after save sixties or retirement home after that. No,

I pray that all of us, if we go all

the way to Missius until we're closer to eighty O. Friends,

it is a bit more challenging. I got my friends

that when a missions I think it's about eighty something right,

and I think he had a fall right in some

way central Asia, the doctor will try to arrange his

medical event from Central Asia back to Malaysia, big haster there.

So if you want missions, do local easier. We can

fare by easily. But friends, missions not dependent on how

educated how not educator we are, whether we are rich

or poor, So we should we should at least try

to go at least a few times of our life.

So let them stretch out the curtesy there, dwellings. The

power of sacrifice is not in the action. See all

of usly sacrifice on friends, the moment we are born.

We sacrifice, for example, TV time for studies. We understand that,

right saying no to playing games, maybe to read the trouble.

We understand that parents, you sacrifice a lot for your children.

You're giving up eating outside to save money for your

childant and stuff that.

We understand that. But the power.

Sacrifice is not in just an act of sacrifice, but

it's in the obedience of what to sacrifice. For example,

some of you could be serving on the extreme and

you just say I sacrifice you really what? For example,

I come to church early?

What did you come for? Extreme?

Here? Oh?

Good breakfast? Some owner?

Oh you're shut or your seven amc one probably breakfast

shot open the DMA anyway, skin the skinnys are good, good, good, right,

But if you're serving in subang Jay, right, they are

supposed to come by the doors open at six am

in the morning, six am in the morning. And what

time do you need to wake up if your serving

at six am in the morning, five forty five?

The skid is right, you wake up a bit earlier, right.

And I was trying to write someone to chase yesterday

for the eight am service.

Hey, would you want to come for them? And been

ser resort?

Uh uh yeah, we'll pick you up by seven fifteen.

Wow, my wife, she's not gonna let people go.

Okay, tell you what, I'll reach a selling forty five? Lah,

give you extra tendy means of sleep, right right then

just use just use use the other card. Actually, I

want to have break first to my parents. I went,

like you trot your parents cart work. What more can

we say? Because I do have big faces of your parents. Right,

don't go to see don't go early morning? Servisla kidding.

What I'm trying to see here is this sacrifice sacrifice

some of us here coming at seven am in the morning.

It's not a sacrifice, right, because you're just routine. Really,

some of us here seven am is a sacrifice. What

is God trying to tell us?

Friends?

It is not just about the act or sacrifice, but

it's in the spirit of obedience because all of a

sek can take out a trash. Mom, also to take

out trash before halfway? You know you ever go in

front of the TV. You understand this. Mom, always know

what time and when to call you up to take

out treasure and halfway can't jump period?

Right? Have you do the dishes? Really not? He said, Mom,

five more minutes? No, do it now?

And what happens right when you take out the trash,

just because what the fulfill and obligation, our heart and

our spirit is now.

In the right place.

Parents, always have this if you are ever for an

outstation coming to kill the study, right and they always

call you somehow somewhere where you got church related activity

one just the one day on even where are you

right now?

I mean my church freends. Always in church? Are you

want to go full time? Is it.

Like that always happens? I don't know why, but it happens. No, Mom,

it's just on Friday nights homes. Yeah, every other day

I call you. It's always in church, Mom, you only

call me on Sunday and Friday. Yeah, always in church.

It happens. Friends, happens, and they know where to call

you at the certain time and after awhile said, So

we are doing things sacrificing.

But our spirit and our heart.

And that's why the Bible says let them stretch the

curtains you are dwelling, because if we were to stretch

our self, friends, we will know our limit. If you

ever try to do stretching when you're slightly older, stretching exercises,

I'm trying to say, how many of us really push

the limit and really try to stretch self. You can

touch your toes praise to Hallelujah. I can't for the

longest time because I got layers of happiness between that.

My wife my wife is very good. My wife stretches

since she was age fifteen. She still know all these things.

When until now so easy you await I do it,

she demonstrates, See I can touch my toes, if I

can go all the way down.

That looked at her. I said, wow, good for you.

Let me show you you're doing it correctly.

And she really tried to push me, like, go down

a bit more, just a bit more. Need just if

you ever went to a gym, you understand just a

bit more. Friends, help me of us see it without

any personal trainer, We'll do it just a bit more.

One Honestly, you ask yourself, when would you do just

a bit more?

Which part of your journey you just do a bit more?

For church, for your own life, to read extra pages

of the Bible, to pray extra longer for ten minutes,

when reaches a bit more by your own self.

Not many times.

In fact, very few of us will do a bit

more unless you're very driven. Ah yah, good enough, really

got improved from yesterday. I got a friend of mine

who got back ache, and a cairo said you should

do call exercises. So every day I've been asking her, hey,

have you done your core exercises. Though I got out.

I woke up this morning and yeah, wake up, it's

one time going to sleep. It's one time I woke

up already. There's my call for today. Then after that

I forgot to do. It's like I forgot to do

the next day. And you know I mean the next day,

next day. I promise I'll dot more one more. But friends,

if there is no dam we won't stretch out. If

not going to the field, we will know our capacity.

And then that God really truly understands us. He knows

your creatures of familiarity. We're very familiar with what we

can do, what we can do. But also God knows

our capacity. Friends, worst worst tree, I got the answer,

worst tree is this. For you should expand to the

left and to the right. For you shall expand the left.

And to the right.

This is what I'm going to close. We love expansion.

We do, especially our bank account. Expand a bit more

to the left, right, not to the right. We love expansion.

Come on this roundness, we love we love expansion. Car

maybe slightly bigger bit. You can put your IQA stuff right.

We understand that, we know right extra room space, understand

all right, expecially on the blade expansion, the leg space.

Praise a lot highly layah, God knows our capacity. But

how many of you know about without worse two? There

is no worse tree without worse two? There is no

worse tree. We love worse three. Expand to the left

and to the right. Come on, we love to be

the hit and not the tail. True or not right?

Nobody goes and order a curry fishtail? Have you ever

went I want to carry fish steel. It's always carry

fishing something you didn't get it that might and so

expensive the carry fish. It is so expensive. You understand

what to try to say? The hit and not the tail.

We love all those scripture, But what happens, Frans There

has to be a worse to let them stretch out

the curtestery dwelling first before a worst ship could happen.

And this is how I'm going to end with this

one scripture. John Chapter Travels twenty four, Just tell me

just one final scripture, John chap To Travels twenty four Right.

John Chapter Travels trenty four speaks about the potential of

a seat. He says, unless the seat falls to the

ground and dies, it remains.

As a seed. Friends, what should I say to you?

Aless, a grain of really falls to the ground and dies,

it remains alone a seat the form.

How many of you know I within the seat? That's capacity?

And sometimes why we always refers mission as a field

as a ground, because sometimes we need to be buried

in the ground to know our true capacity.

Friends.

Capacity is not for you to be trained in the

gym alone. Friends, That is just training your outer muscle

and stuff like that. Human capacity the inside. How good

shapers and developers you see, we don't plant churches for

every plant disciples. That's our moto for ex church. We

are planning more homes only because we want more people

to understand the capacity that God has given in every individual.

Here we are not just one single facet person alone. Friends,

unless the seed falls to the ground and that it

remains alone, stay the same ship, and first, nobody celebrate

the seed staying the same shape. I've not seen anyone

framing up a grain of seed. Look at this grain

of seed. Fantastic praised a lot, hallelujah. But we always

put a picture of a nice tree which happens to

be buried in the ground. We always put up a

pictures of a nice flower which was buried in the

ground beginning the end product we love, but in between

is what we hate. Unless the seed falls to the

ground and die, friends, it remains a lord, remains in

the same shape. And maybe, and perhaps I truly believe

why some of us are constantly in the same perpetual

cycle only because we'll remaining in the same seat, not

wanting to allow God to stretch.

Us to believe.

And when you may know this lady from eight am

Mandrin who is in a wheel chair one or a walker.

That's why Lydia comes in a walker. She said that

I would like to go for missions to serve, not

go for missions.

She wants to serve as hosts.

If you know these lady friends, even the sour poon

sometimes loses to her. She has this very said no,

sometimes very angry with life, like friends angrier level. I

think they're very angry with life. But through the course

of years of the love that the people shown around

her fetching her, she said this that would you allow

me to serve or not? And my wife just say please,

we welcome you. Okay, but I got this walker here,

It's okay, just come and surf unless the seed falls

to the ground and be buried. Friends, do you know

that being buried at times is not nice? Because being

buried sometimes we all alone, and none of us here

like to be alone, can accept alone. I was telling

my wife, I say, thank god, you're not staying with me,

and that's house.

It looks at me.

I'm running away from the police. Half of my I'm

being the queen's sizes be. Half of it is my

is my clothes, my bags of stuff, which I move

over right. I'm sleeping on the bait whereby I don't

even know when was the last time I cleaned the sheets,

the stuff like that. Because my dad's staying alone. I

just want to let you I look my dad to be.

It's okay, but this part pasself of life just growing

up there hes She said that, Yeah, I understand what

you mean. She sent me a photo of a picture

of a room. I feel so strange. I say, yeah,

unless it buries to the ground. Our friends, we are

celebrating the seat from and too many people, too many believers,

are just celebrating the seat from. Look I got five

bibles right now, praise God. Look I got a church

to attend on Sunday. I got home to tend on Friday,

praise God. But unless the seat goes off from the

familiar to be buried. The real purpose of every seat

is to be buried, not to be celebrated. Yeah, I

got one seat, but the seat true purpose is to

be buried. And the Bible says, and this promises this.

When the seat falls to the ground, friends, it will you,

It will you much grain. This is how I'm going

to close. On the way here, God reminded me of

cripture about Abraham sacrificing Isaac. Actually can come come on

the stage. Reminder of scripture in Abraham and sacrificing Isaac.

You just it's just God just cities to Abraham. Abraham.

This after sacrificing Isaac.

Having the Ramma, Abraham, you did not with help, Abraham,

you did not be help just this strait, you did

not be helped.

It just got me thinking about life, about the grain

of seed.

I'm not sure whether or not in my own journey

of life did ivy whole or not. I tell you

why something you hold because maybe be frustration, tightness. Everything

that's very natural, friends, nothing wrong. And because of that

we hope we remain in our seat, in a seat form.

There'st nothing wrong with the sea. God nursing the seat

was bad. God nursing the ground was dirty. He's just

say the true purpose of every seat is to be

buried so they can produce much grain.

And many times you try to remain the.

Form God to move from the familiar to the unfamiliar.

Do want to sing where we can't see it yet?

Do want to stretch? Don't want to allow others to stretches.

Stretching is never easy, but we always celebrate worse tree.

For you shall expand to the left and to the right.

If this, I'm going to close and just solve challenges.

I'm not sure where you are with your journey, friends

of life, but I do pray you look to the Lord.

I will say to sing or barren, even though you

have without a child, for more the children of the

desert than the married one. That's God's promise for us.

You'll find strength when you sing the first note. You'll

find confidence. The confidence is not in the unser prayer.

The confidence comes from knowing his presence. The confidence come

by knowing his name comes Worse two, whereby almost impossible.

The stretching than large.

It's never easy to unlearn star Friends, if you ever

try to learn anything, never easy. Try to learn swimming.

It is really hard. If you ever try to learn swimming.

It's quite humbling experience bringing a pedal bod next to

a six year old.

That's learning assuming with ther pederbod and you're full going

a doubt.

But it's necessary because you have to relearn some things.

Doesn't mean you accept christ. You know how to pray,

you are to worship, you know to seek the Lord.

You're not to read the Bible doesn't mean you're a

fifteen year old Christian. You still know how to read

the Bible.

Friends, And that's why we need to enlarge and need

other people to stretchers. Calms the promise of being buried

into the ground. Friends, I don't much time. I just

want to live in the couragement. I truly believe. Alviously

you want to be buried and want the worst tree.

But I'm just asking before I go here, friends, would

you allow God to speak to you in a way

whereby only you could understand what the stretching is, what

the enlargement is, what it means to move from the

familiar to the unfamiliar.

What have you been saying no to God for the

past couple of days, maybe years?

All these types say no God, But I say God,

I want to write you in although I'm still in

my mess or I'm still my situation, But God, I

want to learn Isaiah fifty four vers One, to learn

how to sing, because my singing is not dependent on

the environment. My singing is dependent on your faithfulness.

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