The Power of Perspective | Pr Alvin Keng

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the power of perspective, right, the power of perspective. I'm sure you

know that perspective is a very powerful thing. You know. You know during

union last time, I remember learning a lesson about perspectives. You know where

we are supposed to draw this on? If your architect or if you asked,

you know, what does it mean to drop perspective? You know,

you have a vanishing point, and then you have to draw the line from

the vanishing point, and then you have to draw, you know, the

different things according to the line. You know, you guys look like you

have no idea what I'm talking about. Do you know that you learn about

perspectives in primary school? You'll know, right, don't remember? Okay,

anyway, perspectives is a very powerful thing. Okay. And we're gonna read

a little bit in Matthew chapter sixteen, and then we're going to learn a

few things from the word okay, ken, Okay. So we're gonna read

okay, it says here Matthew chapter sixteen, verse one. Then the Pharisees

and Sadu Sees came for those of you who may not be familiar with the

Bible and who these two people are. Pharisees Sees. Basically, they are

the religious leaders in the Bible at those days. Okay, you've got the

religious leaders on the top, and then you've got the Pharisees, and said

to Sees, Okay, what makes them different? Basically, if you want

to know why, and I'm trying Pasama under the bus, you can ask

past the men. He'll tell you what. But basically, I think their

belief is some of them believe in something about like the work of angels and

some not rest something to the effect. Okay, I'm not really really one

hundred percent sure, but there is a significance to them. And then they

call themselves, Oh, we're the Pharisees. You know, It's like,

how now this we call ourselves different? The nomination we say, Oh,

I'm a Baptist, or I'm an Anglican, or I'm at this, or

I'm a Charismatic or I'm a pentecosteal. Friends, I've had many people ask

me what is ex church. Basically they kind of know what we practice lat

and most of the time I rather answer them, I'm a disabled Christ.

Solve the problem. So Pharisee said to Seas, came testing him or testing

who Jesus? Well? Last time MISU got people? How many of you

here feel you're tested in your life? Always tested, tested by your kids,

tested by your boss, tested by your words. Do you know that

Jesus was tested as well? They tested him, you know, right?

And you want to know the ridiculous thing about them testing him is Matthew chapter

sixteen. If you read the chapters before, you will learn that Jesus himself

have performed many, many miracles a day. By now you should kind of

believe lah, you know, I mean if he just appear first time and

say it's any just appear, hey guys, I'm the sort, and then

that's nothing. Never do anything, approve himself, never do anything, right,

I would kind of guess people want to test that. You're not sure,

but he's done miraclels, he's he's healed people, and he still want

to test him? And what he did test him about? They said,

and testing him and asked that he would show them a sign from heaven.

How funny is that? Right? It's kind of like if I can use

this our church as an example, we have someone that comes here and then

sees all that is happening, seize the praise, report you know of uh,

you know, you know secret search and and and seize our homes and

seize all these things, and sez we'll get healed. And then still come

and will come and talk to me and say, Passelvin, is this just

legit or not? I don't know to answer it. You know I will

legit. You'll get that terminal. I'm so sorry if I use them.

They don't understand. Okay, some people say I'm a bit hit. So

he answer and say to them, when it is evening, you say,

it will be fair weather, for the sky is rad. It's very interesting

analogy. Jesus gay and in the morning it will be foul weather today,

for if the sky is red and threatening. And then straight away he haunt

them. This line, which a lot of people say Christians are sometimes hippo

creates. You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you

cannot discern the signs of the times. A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after

the sign, and no signs shall be given to it except the sign of

the prophet Jonah and he left them and departed. He dropped Mike and he

left. Wow, last time got no mind. I hope you guys follow

me in this journey okay today because we're gonna read it, be a Bible

and try and learn and again in no way, whatever that's being shared today,

it is just to hunt them. You can. I can. I

make that clear. I might be a little bit harder because this is my

home home chore. Well no home church are ex just my home church,

but this home ground. I hope you guys are can catch that, okay,

because when I speak to you, I don't speak to you just as

a preacher. I speak to you as a shepherd. And sometimes you got

to be well not heard, but sometimes you got to talk about heart things

so that always can learn together. Right. So the first point is are

we seeking signs? Think about it in your life? Are you seeking signs

in your life? God? Are you there? There has to be something

that happens before you believe. There has been something that happens you know that

will really convince you before you fully commit? Are we seeking signs? Are

we still seeking signs from the Lord? Or are we fully committed? Do

we seek signs to test God. God. You know, when I read

Lisa, I repent a little bit a lout because sometimes you will ask God

for science. And again it's biblical as well. Gideon ask God for a

sign in the Bible for confirmation, not to prove things. He said,

God, if you really want me to do it, and I will,

please show me a sign because I need the encouragement. So he asked for

science. But the Pharisees, when they asked for science, it was a

little bit different. They asked Jim to prove himself. So the question today

is are we seeking science? And when we say we are seeking science,

what are we looking for? What is our perspective? When God has already

spoken, do we still need to seek science in our lives? Think about

it a little bit. We pray so hard for the job. God gives

us a job. For the first three months honeymoon period, we love it

or everything is awesome, and then the first problem happened, and then suddenly

the lingo change, Suddenly, the perspective changed. Suddenly is not so great

after all? God, show me a sign. But then before that three

months ago, can give that simoney here on this stage and say again,

if this relates to any of you, please, I don't remember any of

your detimonies. I'm just giving you a perspective. Okay, if God has

really spoken, do we steal six signs? And Jesus said, we can

discern whether yet they seek signs from Jesus to prove his legitimacy? Your cash

there or not? Do we still need to see signs in our Christian faith

or do we fully believe? That is a question I have for us this

morning. Perspective firstly our own faith. Why do people get discouraged when things

don't happen or things don't go according to what they hope for in their lives,

and then they give up on church, they give up on Christ,

they give up on this because things don't happen. But then we forget the

testimonies of the past, We forget how God has restored our family. We

forget all of these things, and we get discouraged and we steal sick signs.

Don't forget where you came from, friends, Don't forget where you came

from. Don't forget the testimony that you shed. Just because something good happen

doesn't mean later on in life bad things won't happen, doesn't mean that bad

things are bad. I watched this TikTok video about this sales guy, business

guy, and he gave a reference of another guy. He said this line

said, This line that he mentioned, or this statement he said was very

revealing. So he gave this example. He said, if we were to

run a business, okay, businessman, my connect. If we were to

run a business and we're gonna create human beings, okay, let's say we're

gonna create human beings, and we're gonna build human beings, and we wanna

build human beings that are resilient, human beings, full of character, human

beings that are you know, really just reliable. Would you put easy things

for them to do or difficult things? My son kind of got it right,

because you put easy Do you think that you'll build people that are reliable,

strong of character? And all? No, see, we know this,

But then when we come and look at our own lives, when the

going gets half, then we get discouraged. When the going gets half,

we get discouraged, and then we start questioning and resinking signs. Be careful,

friends, let's read on. Okay, I guess okay, let's read

on now when his disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten

to take bread. How many of you forgotten to take break? Me and

my wife our weekly conversation confirmed with us on did you buy braid? Right?

We will always talk about it? Why because our kids need bread in

the morning. And if forget to vibrain or if the braid expires, then

no food. Then oh no, two grumpy kids with no food every parent's

worse nightmare. They forgot bread, Jesus said to them, take bread,

and beware, take he it, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees

and cetaceas. This that's why they really say Jesus fing in parables. They

forgot the bread. But straight away he talked about leven of Pharisees and Scetasees,

and the reason among themselves saying, is it because we have taken no

bread? But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, oh,

you have little faith. Why do you reason among you over yourselves because

you have brought no bread? Do you not yet understand or remember the five

loaves or the five thousand and how many baskets you took out, not the

seven loaves or the four thousand and how many large bucket baskets you took out?

How is it you do not understand I did not speak to you concerning

bread, but to be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Setucees.

Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven

of the bread, but the doctrine of the pharaoh sees and sattle seas.

Okay again, a bit more contexts. Okay, Pharisees settle sees against See,

they don't really like Jesus, and Jesus don't really like them. Law

Okay again, when jeeves don't relate like them. I don't think he don't

like the Pharisees as human beings. I think he just doesn't like their doctrine,

the way they approach things, because it's holier than down. That was

what he was they were at. There was where they were at. Okay.

And when Jis came, he changed a lot of things. He he

he gave a lot of people a new perspective about the Kingdom of God.

He gave a lot of people an understanding. And he didn't just talk.

He showed the way. There was signs and miracles that followed him, right,

and that was where Jesus is and when I can get out of this.

When I read this, he said, we sometimes got to be careful

of the doctrine of others who do not proclaim that Christ is the son of

God. Right because the Pharisees do not admit the miracles of God. Can

I go a little bit deeper? In this day and age, friends,

we got to be really careful who we follow and who we believe in.

Recently, I posted up something I thought it was a good comment, and

then someone corrected me and said, hey, do you know this guy that

you just posted up? And I'm like, no, I don't know.

And he said, this is the head of days, Days, days,

and he don't believe in this is there? Like, oh sorry, I

took it down. But his comment was very good about a family and parenting.

It's just one thing, man. But then it didn't look good.

I posted it up. Right. Nowadays, what we consume and what we

see, it's very easy to go like because of the algorithm. You know,

if you're if you're not careful, you can actually whatever you watch,

right, you consume to consuy, especially on the phone. The algorithm gives

you more what you want, gives you more people that will agree with your

viewpoint and agree with you. Right, And that is actually very dangerous,

right, because then you will definitely feel good. Lad. That's one.

Number two is that you might believe in other doctrines. I'm not just talking

about Christian I'm talking about a lot of other things. Right, So we

got to be very careful about this what we see, because what we consume

goes in. It affects our perspective. It's rare powerful, right, what

we hear. Sometimes we believe what we hear more than the word of God.

We got to also be very careful, right, first thing we got

to ask ourselves is do they proclaim that christis God? We were basic,

lave Okay, we got to be well of being distracted as well, worrying

about the things that God can provide. That was what the disciples were worried

about. They were very simple. Oh yeah, we forgot braid lah how

right, and then Jesus of course through them a curve pall and say beware

of the level of the Pharisees, like, wow, I'm talking about break

you're talking about eleven. I don't understand what you're trying. You mean,

we need to buy them. You know they're going to that direction. And

then he said, hello, guys, why are you so worried about bread?

Don't you remember that we fed the five thousand with five those two fish?

Don't you remember with seven breaks we fed the four thousand. Don't you

think I can provide Christ? They forgot who they were with, You know,

Jesus. I think he can just create things or nothing. Okay,

And he did love. He was with that, they were with him,

But they got distracted. Right. We got to be careful of being distracted

in this same age, and a lot of us here are distracted with our

daily stuff. We are because it's the most important thing. The disciples forgot

the miracle that Jesus fed the five thousand and four thousand. They were preoccupied

with bread. Friends, It is not about the miracle. Can I encourage

you? It is not about the miracle, but it's about the one who

made the miracle happen. It is not about the gift, but the one

who made who gave the gift. Don't pray pray, pray for the house.

God give you the house, and you forget. God always remember that

when we're close to the Giver, everything will be taken care of. Matthew

six thirty thirty three siky for to kee out God. Why is the scripture

there in the Bible? Why do Jesus have to or why do Jesus have

to remind us that God will take care of everything? So why we so

preoccupied and worried about tomorrow? Tomorrow will have his own problems. Let's be

faithful today. It is always about the character of God and not just the

gifts of God. That is the main point. That's the main point I

want to share with you today. Amen, Jesus did it twice and they

forgot friends, don't forget the testimonies that God has done in your life.

Yes, maybe now life is difficult. Maybe now you're going through a challenge,

you're climbing a mountain, right, But don't forget the testimony that God

has done in your life. He is faithful, He will always be faithful.

Can I encourage you? You got a testimony? Generally down, write

it down, write it down somewhere. Why you will forget one if you

think you remember, if you think your memory is very good, you will

forget it. One you got to write down your testimony is you know.

One of the things that I always ask people when they are in a challenging

time, I always ask them, can you remember the last time God gets

something for you? And they say yes? And I say, if he's

done something for you, then don't you think he can come true for you?

Now? Why do you doubt? Of course? Not easy, liard,

because the new problem is always the harder problem one guys. Right,

New is always harder one? Okay, sorry yer. Nowadays when I speak,

I have to give some for gim reference. Okay, new problem is

always hard to one? Right? Why because recently I asked my coach,

I say, hey, coach, I think I want to get down dumb

bells at home, so like an exercise, and I was thinking about getting

Then again we talked about ways, sir. I was thinking about getting maybe

ten to fifteen kg. Okay, course I can manage, right. My

mex kg right now is twenty max okay. And if you look at me,

he's like, get twenty. I'm like, huh, that's like the

heavior stone. And then I'm like, okay, you know, Soorry bought

it ready. Then later on what happened was while we're exercising in the in

the gym, because again not not so strict loud okay, So we go

with the weights that were comfortable with. And then some of the people that

were exciting me there was have a tendency to go for l the weight it's

on, and then we always dis temler and I say, and go for

heavior. It's because when you see them do the movement, it's way easy

okay, and then you say go harder so that you can build your muscle.

Right. So the recent one right, because I know I have twenty

kg dumb bells at home. I was telling myself you want to start using

them? I think I better go heavior right. And again I know this

might not be okay, please do it with a trainer. Don't go in

or possibly I wanna say, hey, I'm gonna go to the behaviors.

Please don't is very dangerous. Don't do that. But I went heavior than

what I was used to or what I was comfortable with, and it was

hard. I'm still feeling it today. I exercise on Friday. Right,

but I was able to overcome right, and I thought, coach, I

say, hey, coach, I see the motivation of why you asked me

to get twig rather than fifteen or ten? I understand because yeah, because

if we get fifteen or ten, you will tell yourself that you want to

go lower and a higher and right, that's why you'll tell yourself. But

when you go give yourself no choice, then you'll do it and get it

done. Okay, why am I sharing this to you in our lives?

I just give the example. You want to be resilient, full of character.

Do you think that taking the easy way all the time is going to

help us? No? No, how is our perspective coming here in God's

house? Yes it feels good in the beginning. Yes it's great in the

beginning, but don't you think iron shod sharpen iron. Eventually when we get

close enough. Sees the thing about family? Right, Eventually, when you

get close enough, you have a tendency because you're so close, right,

you are accidentally stepped on each other. Those on painful. So then go

further that. No, but you're still family is still close. So sometimes

where that happens, right, then we got to overcome. That's why Christ

say we forgive, we work things out, we work together. We don't

be stubborn. We try to make things work. We understand, you know,

the roles that we all have and the purpose that we have. Amen.

Friends, don't just rely on old testimonies, but believe God for new

ones. I'm very encouraged all the time when I hear testimonies from our young

working adults, our families, our fathers and mothers. Here, don't keep

it to yourself, don't keep it under the rock, share it with your

homes. Don't be shy. It is not about you. Right, Your

testimony is not about you your testimony, but it's about glorifying God and saying

that God is really life. Amen. Right, because He's working in our

lives. Amen, we will not just be encouraged with living the abundant life,

but also be used by God as witnesses of His wondrous works in our

lives. That is the wonderful thing about having a testimony. X one.

It says, and you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon

you, and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea

and Samaria and to the end of the earth. When we share our testimony,

we are witnesses for Him to proclaim His good works, because we should

all here be living a life of faith and testimony. It's a life of

faith easy, of course not. It's not going to be easy. But

it's not about easy. It is about trusting the character of God that even

when we're in a difficult situation, when even things don't go according to our

plan, God is there. Walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

I will fear no evil for your word and your staff they comfort me.

Do we have that conviction? Friends? Do we have that perspective?

Perspective is very important. If we have that perspective when we see trouble,

we will know how to react or respond. But if we don't have perspective,

every problem is the devil that it is. That it is that will

get quite a lot of credit sometimes if we do. I'll tell one no,

friends, perception is a rare powerful thing. That's my encouragement for you.

Perception is a rare powerful thing. I'm not going to read the remaining

of this scripture. Okay, So we talk about science proving whether Christ is

really Christ or not. I think my encouragement for that is really, friends,

you are here in church, not just because we are an organization,

or it feels good to have a Christian name, and all, do you

believe? Really? Do you really really believe in Christ, our Savior,

the Son of God, the one that died for Since I ask you that

question, everything else will come later. Matthew sixteen thirteen nineteen. Okay,

when Jesus came into the region of Syria Philippi, he asked his disciples,

saying, who do men say that I the son of Man am? So

they said, some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others

Jeremiah or one of the prophets. See, they're familiar with all these prophets,

right, and Elijah was used because Elijah was an awesome, awesome prophet.

He literally called down fire from heaven. Right. And before that,

all the miracles that happened in the history of the Israels and Jews were happening

in Moses time. Okay. So they all thought, oh, it is

a I don't know anotherh Okay. But he said to them, say,

all these people say who I am? He asks his own disciples, who

do you say I am? Simon Peter answered and said, you are the

Christ, the son of the Living God. Jesus answer and say to him,

blessed are you Simon bar Jonah? For flesh and blood has not revealed

this to you, But my Father, who is in heaven. Do you

know that flesh and blood will not be able to reveal who Christ is to

you in your life? Only God can. Only God can. That's why

we say. It is not by the eloquence of speech that you know that

people receive Christ as their Lord and savior, but it is by the conviction

of the Holy Spirit they receive. I pray that you open up your ears

to hear today. I pray that the spirits speak to you to their friends.

Amen, who do you say I am? And I also today say

to you that you are Peter verse eighteen. And on this rock I will

build my church, and the gates of haities shall not prevail against it.

And he really built his church on Peter. And I will give you the

keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And whatever you bind on earth will be

bound in heaven, and whatever you lose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

And he commanded his disciples that they should tell no one that he was

Jesus Christ. Friends, who do we see Christ. As I think more

importantly, how do we perceive our faith in Christ? Do we know and

see the purposes we have even in this church? Do we see that?

Or is it just I come every Sunday when hecaus I'm Christian? Friends,

as a bigger purposonal and a lot of things, we need to step up

and say I'm on board because it's what we see. Right? Do we

see that God is the one who led us to this church and his family.

That's another important question. If you are here and you've been coming to

act for a long time, friend, I want to challenge this to you.

Is this going to be your home or are we just a club?

When we are club, you come, you pay your fees, you use

the facets, and you go home. You don't need to talk to anybody.

Everybody is your surf staff. They serve you, they wait on your

hand and food. But when this is a family, I'll score my kids.

This is not a hotel. Pick up your own bags. Because you

are family, you have a well I won't use the word right, but

you have a privilege to be here. Shouldn't you be involved? Different ones

here who are serving you. We already said that we are family. We're

in this for the long haul. We're rooted, you know, or are

we still on the fence? Do you know that when you're on the fence,

you won't be able to experience the fullness or where the lot has placed

you are not me? No, I'm not trying to convince you anything.

This one is between you and God. My encouragement is That's why we always

encourage people wherever you go, even if you go overseas you study. I

always tell young people find a church, root down, build a community that

because God has to come first, whire me, myself and I and Jesus.

Enough right, well enough, But you won't survive if you're alone.

You need other believers to challenge you. You need other billers to speak to

you. You need people to remind you, hey today go home, some

please comer. You need that because the cares of the world will chock you.

The cares of the world and the doctrine of other people will affect you,

and then you lose your way and then you think to yourself or last

time, when I younger, I'm on fire, what happened? Well,

life happened, But have we taken that step you know, to move forward.

Let me share with you a personal story on perspective and the change of

perspective. And this happened to me really recently. Okay, So after a

meeting, I had a ministreet meeting, I was a ministream meeting. After

the ministream meeting, I was a bit discouraged. Lot, friends, I

was a bit discouraged, and not just that I was overwhelmed. You know,

can I be honest, I have never felt overwhelmed in my life.

It is my soar action. But no, no, no, I've never

had the feeling of like, well, I feel overwhelmed, stressed out,

maybe discourage, maybe tired, maybe overwhelmed. Never, but that day I

was very overwhelmed. I felt like I was sinking. I was drowning.

That's why I felt like after the meeting. A ministrea meeting is supposed to

be more encouraging, right, I don't know why. I know it's the

first ever time I felt like that. I felt like I was the only

one who was doing most of the work. How many of you feel like

that? Right? You know? If not all the work or at least

rely on by everybody means that I don't do means everything dies. That that's

a feeling, feeling, feeling on he Okay, it may not be true

feeling on me, right, You don't feel like I had to do I

had to make it, get it done. The weight was on my shoulders.

That's why I felt, And honestly, I really felt I want to,

you know what, I think, maybe I should. I started making

plans, you know what, I think I want to step out already.

I think I want to not do it. I think I want to,

you know, because I got more important things. I stick at my family,

you know, my health, right, I don't think I want to

do this, La. There was a thought that came from my mind.

It affected me for a while. You know. After that, I had

some you know, gatherings and all, and I tried my best to put

a bold friend or at least a smile, but I was really bothered,

very bothered. My wife also don't know, maybe she didn't, but I

didn't tell anything, right, I was really bothered, you know, And

I was trying to process it, like why am I feeling this way?

This is so weird perspective. Everybody just relying on me again, you know,

yell is all this again? Right? I couldn't shake the feeling.

Thank God. Next day was a Sunday, Thank God for Sunday, and

I had to preach someone. I remember in the morning I was praying asking

God, God, I feel very overwhelmed, helped me. And you know

what God did. God just did one thing I wish I will tell you.

Oh, you know he feel my heart with warm You know that I

feel like, you know, someone hugging me and all nothing. He just

changed my perspective, he said, Elvin who and in this this is the

way he did it. Okay, I don't think he said it this way,

but just me and Okay, who are you to think that you?

How hard do I say this are? It's kind of like, who are

you to think that you're so bigger that everything is just relying on you?

Kind of like an ouside. And then I'm like, okay, God,

where are we going with this? And then he said why did you started

serving me? There was a question came, Okay, why do you started

serving me? Why are you doing what you're doing today? There was a

question I do I do, like check my heart? And the answer is

simple, Well, because you caught me up, because of you, La,

because God's call and I'm following God's call. And then the next question

came, then, why don't you rely on me perspective? It totally changed

my perspective. I was relying on myself. I was relying on my talent.

Honestly, friends, I will not claim that I'm talented in media at

all. In fact, I feel nowadays I'm feeling older and older. Of

course, the new people, the new young person will come on new ideas

and I'm ah, I have no idea what you're talking about, you know,

so please please don't trust all. My wife just said, Okay,

I am not I am not talented in the aerial media. You know,

they are more talented people out there. They can do wonders in their phone.

But the perspective was changed. It was no longer, well it's me,

everybody relying on me, but I was just it changed to Okay,

God, I humble myself because I'm nothing. You have to help me.

So all the problems are there. I saw that was hating my way in

the next few months was no longer again it is the project say coming,

It's still coming. The avalanche is still coming, but I'm not doing it

myself. My perspective is different. The situation didn't change. Friends, situations

still same. Me, things still have to meet, problems the same.

I'm still in charge of X amount of things. Still no change. The

thing that's changed is my perspective. God. If you don't come true,

I cannot do this. God. I'm doing this because of you, not

me. God. I need you. Maybe I get Daniel to help me

because I've got a little bit of a illustration for you. It came to

me this morning. What did I learn about this? And this is something

that I've I've caught recently, and I want to caution you guys, discouragements

are very powerful discouragements. So I was overwhelmed and discourage discouragements are very powerful

because discouragements can really derail you from your destiny. Maybe God has sent you

here to do something for him. Maybe he sent you here to either impact

the lives of young people, or maybe if you're older, he's sending you

here to help young couples in their marriage. I don't know what God has

caught you to do. I don't know what friends, but you know,

especially if you've been to another church or you've been to another place and you

get discouraged and then when you come to a new place, right, You're

like, I want everything clean, I want peace. I don't want to

get involved. I don't want to get hurt anymore. Right, the perspective

is still the same. Do you know that God very hard forgot to use

you because you're discouraged. Nothing wrong. If you are, you have the

giftinger. Once God give you, give you. You know he kind of

want to get back ready, right, but it can really derail you from

your destiny. I wanted to quit, no, guys, because I foresaw

my next few months doing what I'm doing, Like, oh Lord, I'm

not gonna have life anymore. Right, But he changed my perspective. So

we've got to be careful of discouragements and be wary of how we see things.

Okay, I've got a little bit of a yeah, I can.

You'll know the phrase glass half full or glass half empty. Again, I'm

not trying to teach you, guys. You must a positive thinking. No,

no, no, no, That's what I'm trying, Mina. So

I got a little bit of a thing, thanks Daniel, So glass half

full. Yeah, let's talk about perspective, Okay, just simply perspective,

right, can so if you're being served this in the mama and they chage

you ten ring it and they say this is the full glass of rabina.

They'll ask you no eyes or whatever. I think half of you here make

a lot of noise, really because you see the glass as half empty.

Right if my kids they will see it as half full, because as long

as right we don they don't really care how much it is right and in

life, right in life? Right? You know I just talked about perspective

and perspective very powerful. What is your perspective in this church? Are you

just well, this was not very nice to use it. I'm gonna use

it anyway. Sorry, guys, pure warmer? Or are you a partner

and a participant? Gotta think to ourselves? Okay, when I'm in my

homes, am I just a participant? Or am I involved? Right?

And it's very hard to join a gym membership and not join the classes and

say I'm losing weight or maybe we sorry gym reference again, join the gym

membership and all we do is go put money inside the vending machine, press

the button, get the drink, drink, go out. I've done my

job. I was at the gym. It's different. If you have to

exercise, it's painful. Can I show you a testimony. I've come to

the stage, right, I'm not boastinger because I say, if you're a

travelinger, where if I don't go to gym, it feels weird, And

if I go to gym, I don't feel pain. It feels weird because

I'm not working hard enough. Right, it's come to that stage. I

become an irritating person. Yes, I know, I apologize, I irritate

past it then in office. So to some of us is glass half empty

and glass half full. But do you know that if we humble ourselves,

that's a smaller glass to other people. Whatever you see as half empty,

it's almost full. Don't you see that? It's different now? But perspective

what has not changed? Ye, The drink has not changed. The situation

has not changed. Nothing has changed, but the container has changed. Who

is the container? Do you know that some people, if you have the

right perspective, it is not just going to feel but overflow. Friends don't

think about it too logically. I've used a smaller couple as like that.

I'm talking about perspective. How do you see your situation? Lord humble?

Myself or am I too big? Or am I going to humble myself?

Elijah, come here, come, come, come, come. You say

you want to drink right, you can finish this nah? Okay, yeah,

take it down, take it down to mame there. Okay, I

think then I need your help to phinis. Friends, I asked you a

very simple question. Do you always want to see the glass half full or

empty? Or do you want to experience the our pouring of God? Humble

yourself? Humble yourself? Are we too big for good to do something in

our life? Matthew six three says the lamb of the body is the eye.

If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of

light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full

of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how

great is that darkness? When you talk about perspective, you talk about what

you see right nowadays, when I see problems and when I hear people going

through challenges. For me, it's a very simple response. It is a

discipleship opportunity. It is an opportunity for God to do something. That's how

I see it. When I see problems in your own life. Right now,

that's what I see. Okay, it's an issue, it's a problem.

Lord, it is an opportunity for you to move in my life.

Or is it a problem? I give up? Right, Let me read

from the amplified Bible, and I hope that you'll catch something about this today.

Matthew six two twenty three. Just now, he talks about the lamp.

Right, what we see, right, what we perceive? Right,

the eye is the lamp of the body. So what you see, what

you perceive is the lamp. Okay, whatever you see goes inside. So

if your eye is clear, if you're clear, spiritually, you're perceptive,

right, you see things the way God sees things, your whole body will

be full of light, benefiting from God's presepts. But if your eye is

bad, spiritually blind, your whole body will be full of darkness, devoid

of God's precepts. So if the very light, so, if the very

light inside you, your inner self, your heart, your conscience is darkness,

how great and terrible is that darkness? Your current situation? What do

you see? That is my encouragement for you mayver get extreme to come up.

Amen, friends, as God gave me this message, and again,

this affects your perspective. Okay, I feel I want to pray for people

today and I don't pray for two groups. And again, if you are

not a pout this two groups, it's okay. If you want to pray,

it can come up as well. I want to pray for you if

you are discouraged, or you're overwhelmed, or maybe you have been carrying discouragement

in your life, because I recognize how discouragements can really affect you and really

cause you to derail from your destiny. And it can cause people to be

constantly looking for something to solve that feeling, but you will never find it

because the only answer is God. And you will see them try new things

and new things and new things and new things and searching for it again and

again in other areas. But you don't look for it and God, you

don't deal with your hurt, you don't deal with your offense, and then

you're stuck in this vicious cycle. No more today, let it end.

I encourage you to see the possibility. So if you're discouraged, if you're

overwhelm, maybe someone will You're overwhelm, friends, over It's not a fun

man. I felt very overwhelm. Sometimes we can be overwhelm with good things.

Good things happen in our lives and we'll be super overwhelmed by it.

It's not always bad things, though. I was overwhelmed with all the good

things, and I felt I want to run away. God had to open

up my ice to see Elvin, trust in me, don't trust in yourself.

Second group, Maybe it's been hard for you to see. Maybe you've

been looking at a problem so long that you have accepted and said, Okay,

maybe this is my life and I will accept it. It could be

discouraged when again. If that is you, I want to pray that God

will open your spiritual eyes to see what God wants you to see. Amen.

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