12+1 Core Values: Kingdom Minded | Pr Gloria Paul

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Today will be going through the third core value, which

is kingdom okay, kingdom minded yeah, and so they are

going to be three things. If you look at your

book to fill in, I'll just guide you through so

you'll know what to also take down as in your notes. Firstly,

we'll try to understand what do we mean by kingdom?

What is kingdom? Why? Okay, why are we looking at

the kingdom? Right? And what and how or what is

kingdom mindedness? So when someone tells you, okay, you have

to have a kingdom mind, what do we mean by that?

And how can we do that? All right? So by

the end of today's summoned this is what you need

to catch right and be able to live it out

as well. Okay, so what is the kingdom? All right?

What is the kingdom? If you can just look at

this picture here? What is this picture? It's a castle, right,

It's a a castle. I'm sure you have passed through

passed by our Istana Nagara as well. Okay, what kind

of an impression does the palace give to you? Royalty

Majestic agay. And if you know, the colors that we

have in Malaysia is goal right, So that is what

symbolizes royalty, kingdom, right, a castle. Yeah. And then the

next picture, who is this a king? Right? A king?

Do we have a king in Malaysia? Yes, we do

have a king, right? And do you have another king? Yes?

Jesus right, the king of kings and the law of law. Right,

So we have a king. And then what is the

next picture. What does this tell you? In the palace

his people right, you know, everyone is you know, devoted

to the king. Everyone follows what the king says, you know.

And so it's like a government, right, a government where

it rules and leads the people. Yeah. So basically when

we speak about a kingdom, this is what it has. Okay,

it has a place like a palace, right or in

our context a country. Right. And then we have a king,

someone who rules because we need someone who leads us, right.

And then we have someone that we actually this person

who leads us that we can look up to so citizens. Right.

So when we speak about the kingdom in the context

of you know, our faith Christianity, this is exactly what

it means, right. And the thing about kingdom is that, yes,

we leave in this world, we have a king that

we follow. We are called when most of us your

Malaysians or you know, all Malaysians, right right, whether to

say Brunei no okay, oh, yes, Singaporean we have one

Singaporean yeah, okay, but technically a lot like Malaysia already yeah,

for all these years with us, okay, so yeah, we

are all called Malaysians and we vote right, and you know,

we know what's going on and things like that. But

the thing is what we want to learn about having

a kingdom mind is that the world that we're living

in is temporary. Okay, I hope we catch that because

until and unless we don't realize that, right, we're going

to think that this is my life and my world

until the end. Well, this is where you're going to stay.

But as believers, we have the kingdom that is that

it's going to be permanent, right when Jesus comes to

take us all or when God calls us back. There's

a kingdom that we're all looking for. The meaning we

are citizens here, but in a kind of like a

temporary citizens okay, but we are true citizens of his kingdom. Yeah.

And so we have to be able to catch that.

So let's look at some you know, scriptures here to understand.

So we can look at Matthew for seventy Okay, says

Jesus says here, repent for the Kingdom of God is

at hen Right, Repent for the Kingdom of God is

at henn. And in fact, when you read the different

teachings that Jesus used to give in the Gospels, he

spoke a lot about the kingdom. Yeah, and so you

know when he says at hand, meaning the coming of

the Lord is so near, right, it's time for you

to repent. Right. But we all know what happened when

Jesus was on earth. Many didn't believe. Okay, there were

those who believe, some who did not, and they chose

to crucify him. They chose to put him on the cross. Yeah,

And that is why we have Matthew of twenty five

thirty one. It says, when the Son of Man comes

in his glory and all the Holy angels with him,

then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

And so this talks about the second coming of the Lord. Yeah.

So the Bible itself shows us a lot of signs

or what it is about the kingdom of God that

we got to catch. Right in Matthew six ten, it

says wherever his will is done, that's where God is right.

And so the question for us I think to think

about when we speak about kingdom is is God's will

in your life? You know, like me saying this not

the song as well? Right, your will be done? So

when we speak about God's kingdom, in a simple way

of understanding, it is whether in every day when I

wake up, do I say God led your will to

be done? Because as long as you can say that,

as long as you can leave that way, meaning you

are living in God's kingdom, right, you are living in

God's kingdom. Because the thing is that God has this

beautiful plan for all of us, for mankind. But at

the same time He has given us the free will

to choose whether we want to live in accordance to

His will or in the world's will. Right, there's a

choice that we make every other day when we wake up. Yeah,

So just like how you are citizens of Malaysia or

citizens of Singapore, there are rules that you got to

leave by, any rules that you can think of of

being a Malaysian what you can or what you can't do?

Don't speed on the road, very good driver safe, save driver,

don't Yes? What else? What are the rules that you

need to abide on? No smoky ah okay okay, yes, yes,

most restaurants now you can't. What else? Don't throw rubbish?

Oh yeah, Singapore is very strict about it. Malaysia. Yeah,

we got a long way to go there, Okay, but Singapore, yes,

you get fine, right and you throw rubbish? What else?

Echingham in Singapore? Singapore is or you all those Singapore

rules better than Malaysia any any other rules? Don't drink okay, yeah,

don't drink while you're driving, Yeah, don't what don't bring

Dorian's hotel? Well, your rules are all very funny okay

and cute okay, okay. You know when you say something right,

yet she shows what's important for you and all so

we know, even Dorian puff okay. Yeah, so rules right

when you leave or when you are working in a company,

or when you're in a school, there are certain rules

that you abide in and we all are aware of it. Yeah,

And sometimes it comes in the form of reminder whether

we are a very law abiding person. So you're very

cautious or you learn from lesson, you make a mistake

and then you realize, oh, this is something I can't do. Right.

Sorry that baster Sandra said with us, she didn't renew

a road text, right, So that is a rule as well. Yeah.

So at the same time, we need to know the

laws of God to live in his kingdom and under

his governance makes sense, right, because if you want to

be under someone's ruling, if you want to be able to,

you know, be under someone's authority, you've got to know

what is it that How is it that God wants

us to leave? What is it like to be his

sons and daughters? What is it like to be able

to experience when we say let your will be done?

Is it just merely words that we say or meaning

We've got to make certain choices in life. Right that

all of you chose to come on a Sunday, Well,

that's a choice that you made. We chose to serve right,

all these things is in the matter of whether you're

trying to say, yes, I'm living in the Kingdom of God. Yeah,

you know. So it's and the decision that we tell

to make, right church, it would determine whether we are

believing or waiting for God results or world results. They

have big difference there, right, God's results versus the world results.

If you say God's will be done, meaning you are

wanting God's results. But if you say God, maybe my

will and a little bit of your will, then that's

the world's results. Yeah. So what do we choose, should

say and do? Every other day? I pray that we

do not become a church where we just choose certain

things and some things my way. Yeah. It's either you're

all in or you're all not in. Right, So that

is what it means by living under God's will. So

you know what's the heart behind this value? Right? You

know when God said just now, what we read repent

for the Kingdom of God is that, Hey, God is

not just after our salvation, yeah, which was laws in

fact in the Garden of Eden when Adam and is sinned. Right,

salvation is not the end but the beginning of sonship,

meaning the moment you say yes, I receive Jesus as

my savior, meaning we're called his sons and daughters. Yeah.

And God's intention was always from the very beginning that

his children will spread his kingdom across the earth. Yeah.

So it's not just only when you're a merchid believer

or when you are a leader or whatever. It's not

just that. But the moment you say yes, God, I

follow you, I receive you, that has always been a

splend that you will also spread the Kingdom of God

to the earth. So we are saved to become sons

and daughters who bring God's reign and rule to every

sapphire of our lives. Yeah. So if you think about it,

if you're an called the son of God or the

daughter of God, it just means that when we say

the indom of God, meaning we are to bring the

good news to this earth as the citizens that we're

living in. Yeah. And that is why we do missions,

and that is why we spread the gospel, right, that

is why we show acts of kindness, because that just

means we are living under the authorished authority of the

Kingdom itself. If we don't do that, then meaning we're

not fully abiding in it. Yeah, or we may lose

the sense or the purpose of why am I a believer?

If we only feed ourselves, right, because there always has

to be bored. We're feeding ourselves at the same time

we are spreading is kingdom. Yeah, So now let's just

take some time to understand. I mean, we have an

idea of what is the kingdom. What is kingdom mindedness? Right?

What is kingdom mindedness? When we say kingdom minded meaning,

our minds are filled and committed to seeing what God

intended in the beginning and the end. Yeah. So it's

not just a knowledge, but it's in our minds that

we know and we are filled. We are making a

commitment right that God, I want to see what You're

going to do from the beginning to the end. Yeah.

And when we talk about this, it just means that

we're not only about leading people to Christ, yeah, but

it's also making sure we matter to them, making disciples

who represent God. So when we say making disciples, that

is part of being in the Kingdom of God as well. Right,

I means we don't just Okay, you receive Jesus, that's all.

But we walk with each other, right, we journey together.

And that is why when we read the Book of

X right X chapter two, when the church grew, there

was a scripture that we can see at the very

start of that chapter. It says that people came together,

they broke, break together, they fellowship, they pray together, right,

and that is what it means to be living in

the Kingdom of God. Amen. Yeah, So you know, let's

try to understand, you know, how can we develop this

kingdom mindedness. If you have that kingdom mind, great, okay,

you're living it on you've caught the heart of it

and you're living in His will. But if you're just

too very new to this, let's try to understand how. Yeah.

You know, when we read about the Gospels, you can

see that the Jews was very much and baded into

this whole concept of kingdom minded. Yeah, they had that

idea of what it means to be kingdom minded because

they came from such a generation, right. They came from

a time when you know, there was that gap between

New Testament and the Old Testament where they were waiting

for a Messiah to come. Right in their teachings from

the Jews time, they always knew that there's always going

to be the Kingdom of God, right, and so there

was always that anticipation. Yeah, So it was not so

difficult for them to catch it right because it's all

has been in the in the religion it's been in

the teaching. Yeah, so it's been there. And we can

look at few references from the Bible as well. Okay,

we can see X one tree where the Church always

reference back to the Kingdom of God. Yeah, there will

be a time where the Kingdom of God is to

be established. And then we read Matthew twenty twenty one. Okay,

we know these two criminals right where the mother will

actually tell Jesus agay, says, grant, these two sons of

mine may sit one on your right hand and the

other on the left in your kingdom. So meaning this

was the lingo that the citizens actually had. They know

that there's such a thing as a kingdom, right. And

then we have Joseph. Okay, Joseph is the person who actually,

you know, after Jesus, you know, died, and then he

was in the tomb, he was the one who wanted to,

you know, do the ceremony for him. So he was,

you know, of follower of Jesus as well. So then

it says in Luke twenty three fifty to fifty one.

Now behold there was a man named Joseph, a council member,

a good and just man. He had not consented to

their decision, indeed, meaning the crucifixion, right, the act of

crucifying Jesus. He was from Arimata, a city of the Jews,

who himself was also waiting for the Kingdom of God. Yeah.

So these are just some references of how we can

see the people in the Bible times, you know, where

they were always anticipating there for the Kingdom of God. Yeah,

but it could be a bit different for you if

you have not come from such a background, right, maybe

you're new in the faith, or maybe you have not

had a deeper understanding of the scripture. So that is

why we are trying to teach the church to understand

that it's not just something that's mentioned in the Bible,

but it's a value that we are holding on as

a church as well. Because when you say your kingdom minded,

it's not just about ex church, but it's about churches

as a whole. How do we stay united when you

have conversations with friends who are not believers yet are

yet to know Christ, right, and when they ask you

things about churches, how do we explain is it just

in the context of X, or is in the context

of kingdom? Right? Kingdom is having a wider lens, a

bigger lens. Okay, there's a unity that we have to

come together. Sometimes people may have a misconception of churches,

you know, why every church is so different, or you know,

sometimes we may look down at another smaller church, but no,

X has never been that way, right. In fact, Pastor's

vision has always been that with whatever God has given

to us, the talents and the gifts, we want to

bless other churches as well, right, And that is what

we have been doing with the Dream Malaysia that Passes

started to actually equip the pastors from different parts of

the world, especially smaller churches you know, in small states

like Klantan and Trenga and all these where the youth

comes over to kl and there's no other younger ones

who are rising up. And these are the places that

Passes have been actually equipping and growing. Yeah. So that

is what kingdom minded is is it's about building the

whole kingdom that God has given us. Are we getting

something from this? Yeah? All right, So it's important for

us to have the awareness when we talk about kingdom mindedness, Okay,

for us to have the awareness and to know that

we are called to live in the Kingdom of God,

not just get so caught up of being a I mean,

be a good citizen of Malaysia. By the same time,

be a good citizen of God's kingdom, because that is

what that will last. Yeah. So now let's look at

a couple of scriptures here to help you understand. What

does the Bible tell us about becoming kingdom minded? Right now,

let's read the first one here in coalitions chep the

tree versus one to four. Okay, so what does it say?

It says, Yeah, if then you were raised with Christ,

seek those things which are above where Christ is sitting

at the right hand of God. Set your mind on

things above, not on things on the earth. For you

died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then you will

also appear with him in glory. What do you see?

What does this scripture talk about kingdom? But do you

catch her? What does it tell us? Yes, setting your

mind on the things above? Does it make a difference

the way we leave our lives? If you do, then

how would it make a difference? That's right? Yeah, you

remember God's promises, so you may see a date end

in front of you, or you may see an unanset prayer.

But then you know what God's promise tells me something else, right,

he tells me I will never leave you, I'll never

forsake you. Yeah, ask and it should be given to you.

So when you do these kind of things, it means

that you're setting your mind on things above. You're setting

your mind on the ways of God. You're setting your

mind on what God is able to do, not based

on what you see in the world or your human eyes. Yeah.

So that is what it means to be kingdom minded,

to have your eyes thin above. So you may be

going through your normal day, You're going into work, You're

going through certain situations. Suddenly your boss tells you something

that really hits you hard. Yeah, you didn't see it coming,

and you know, you just feel like you're in a

date end at work. But you know what, when you

have a kingdom mind, you will just take a step

back and say it's going to be okay. God, may

you take over this project, May you take over this boss,

and you lead the way. If you can say something

like that, that means you have a kingdom mind. Right,

Because God's word tells us to not be anxious, but

to bring it to God in prayer. So ask yourself,

how do you live your life every other day? You're

not talking about only on a Sunday or on great days. Right,

we're talking on your mundane usual days, because that is

when you can test how your mind is. Is it

on the kingdom of God? Yep, this's the first one

that we can draw. Now, let's look at another scripture

here Ephesians chapter two versus four to six. Yeah, Ephicient

chapter of two Versus four to six. Let's look at

a scripture. It says, but God, who is rich in

mercy because of his great love with which he loved

us even when we were date in trust passes made

us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved,

and raise us up together and made us sit together

in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the

ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of

his grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Now,

what does this tell you about having a kingdom mind?

If you have a kingdom mind, what does this tell

you sharing God's love together with other people? There are

greater days things to come. I love that right, because

you know what it says here that we are made

to sit together in the heavenly places. That is the

greatest thing to come. Meaning it's not something that God

just says, if he doesn't just say maybe, but it's

something that he is very sure about that we're all

going to be sitting together with him. We are all

called to be in the kingdom of God. Right, God

is very sure. It doesn't change. He's the same today, yesterday,

and forever. Yeah. The only thing that changes is us

that we may doubt God. Am I good enough to

be in your kingdom? Or am I good enough to

be a call your son and daughter? I'm making mistakes

and I'm sinning every other day. But what does God

tell us here in the scripture? By his mercy, by

his great love, he forgives our trespasses right, if only

we can humbly come before He's throne and say, God,

forgive me, right, forgive me. So sometimes we can go

down the lane of condemnation because of certain mystics or

certain unbelief. By all God wantswers is to just come

before him and say, God, I'm sorry, forgive me. Teach

me how to leave, yeah, and then hold on to

his promise. So I want us to remember that kingdom

mindedness means to hold on to his love. Yeah, and

to remember there's already a promise Mete for you and

I that we are going to be sitting in the

Kingdom of God. Right, We're going to be sitting in

the Kingdom of God. Yeah. And so meaning your life

should be in such a way every day when you

wake up you are set on this. You know what.

I'm a child of God, I'm a child of the

King of Kings. And when you tell yourself those things,

you will leave in such a way. Right. If you

know you come from the royal Richard, if you come

from the Brunei Royalty, I'm sure you dress differently, you

talk differently, right, Ah, there'll be so many friends around you,

you know, you just change, right. And the same thing,

if you know that you're in the Royalty of God's Kingdom,

the Holy Priesthuit, the King of Kings, you would change,

you will. You'd be so different with how you make

your choices, the way you look at things. You know

that it's not just about like what Eline said, not

just what you see in front of you. But you

know that there's things beyond that. Greater days to come. Yeah,

greater days to come. That is what it means to

have a kingdom mind. Yeah, just look at Philippine chap

the Tree versus twenty right, Philippines three twenty. It says

for our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also

eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who

will transform our lowly bodies that is made maybe that

it may be conformed to his glorious body, according to

the working by which he is able even to subdue

all things to himself. So what does it tell us

here that we are citizens of Singapore, citizen or Malaysia

citizens in heaven. Turn to the person next to you

and tell them you are a citizen of heaven. So

when someone asks you, right, if someone asks you if

God is going to take you back today, that's reality, right,

that's life. Where do you know where you're going to go?

I hope that's your answer. I don't just say maybe heaven.

Don't say that. Okay, the moment you receive Jesus as

your savior and when you're walking with him, meaning you're

going to heaven. Yeah, and that means even more so

we've got to pray for our friends and family who

do not know Christ, because that's the reality, guys, is

either heaven or not heaven. Yeah, and we've got to

eagerly pray and bring the gospel to the artists, push

the Kingdom of God, because if we can enjoy the

goodness of being a citizen in heaven, how about our

loved ones. You don't want them to miss out as well, right,

So let's pray and declare God's word in their lives

as well. Yeah, so citizens, you are citizens in heaven. Now,

let's look at Second Corinthians five, verses seventeen two twenty one. Okay,

it says here therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he

is a new creation. Things have passed away. Behold, all

things have become new. Now all things are of God,

who has reconciltius to himself through Christ Jesus, and has

given us the ministry of reconcoliation. That is that God

was in Christ reconstolizing the world to himself, not imputing

their trospasses to them, and has committed to us the

word of reconciliation. And there's a lot of words here,

take some time to take it in. Yeah. It talks

about we are a new creation and God himself reconsults

for us. Yeah. And then he says in verses twenty. Now,

then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were

pleading through us. We implore you, on Christ's behalf, be

reconciled to God, for He made him who knew no sin,

to be sin for us that we might become the

righteousness of God in him. So we are called what

are we called ambassadors for Christ? What does an ambassador

do represent? Right? So, if you're going to be an

ambassador from Malaysia to another country, what would you be doing.

You'll be talking about Malaysia. You're representing Malaysia, right. You're

proud to be who you are. If you're ambassador for

a brand, Okay, if any of you have been into

advertisement or whatever it is, you speak so proudly about

that thing, right because you're going to be living it

out or looking at genescon Okay, because you are leaving

that brand out. Right, You can't you you mean, if

you're paid to be an ambassador, you can't say the

other brand is better, you know, or the other person

is better, you're gonna get you into trouble. Right, So

when someone sees you and I out there, can they

tell for sure that you're an ambassador of Price or

we ambassador of something else? Yeah? And it says that

we are a new creation. So when you have accepted Jesus,

have you become a new person? A new person, not

meaning you change everything your face and all that, or

your hairstyle. You don't need to do that, but just

the way you carry yourself right, the way you speak?

Are you a little bit more gracious? Are you a

bit more forgiving? Are you loving? Right? Loving to people?

Like the Word of God says love your enemy? Can

you still do that? Right? Can you do that? Or

are we just not different with anyone out there? Because

there must be a different right if you're an ambassador

of Christ and if you're not an ambassador of Christ.

So that is what it means to have a kingdom mind. Yeah,

so there's four scriptures tells us something. Right, setting your mind.

We are made to sit on the throne of God. Yeah,

we are called citizens and we are the ambassadors of Christ.

So if you can just think about it again and

ask yourself, do I have all this for If you

have it, then yes, you have a kingdom mind, right,

or if not, we're all still working progress. Ask the

Lord God, can you help me to do a little

bit more of this? Right? Every other day you're making

a choice to be better and to grow closer to Him. Amen. Right,

So I hope you're taking down some notes on your books, yeah,

so that you can actually use this as your reflection

during your quiet time as well. That's why we created

this handbooks. Yeah, so you can every time you go

to God, you say, God, I just need to be

a little bit more of a new creation and keep

my always aside, right, And so that could be your

prayer when you wake up, or you're saying, God, I

need to set my mind on what's above and not

always on what I see down here on earth. Then

that could be your prayer. Yeah, so ask the Lord. Yeah.

So now I'm just going to close with this. You

know this scripture from Philippians four Versus six to nine,

and this is going to be serving as a checklist

for you as well. Right, Let's try to make God's

word as practical as possible. Okay, So by the end

of today, when you walk out, you can tell yourself

how many if I take Tanana ask you. You know,

don't have to tell to the person next to you.

But it's your own reflection, okay, to know whether, yeah,

I think I've ticked all this and I have the

kingdom mind right, or maybe I just don't need to

do a bit better, okay, to embrace this value in

my life. Yeah. So if you have your bible's listened

to Philippians four, Okay, Philippians four Versus six to nine. Okay,

I'm going to just read this whole passage first, and

then we will look at this point as are we

all there? Okay? So it says here be anxious for nothing,

but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving. Let

your requests be made known to God, and the peace

of God be surpasses all understanding. Will guard your hearts

and minds through Christ Jesus versus eight. Finally, Brethren, whatever

things that are true, things that are noble, whatever things

they are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely,

whatever things that are of good report. If there is

any virtue, and if there is anything praise worthy, meditate

on these things. The things we should learned and received

and heard and saw in me this do and the

God of Peace will be with you. So Paul teach

us teaches the church and the Philippines about what it

means to leave as a kingdom minded person. Yeah, he

gives us this guy. And I'm sure this scripture is

not new to many of you who have been in

the church for some time. Right. We always talk about

do not be anxious, pray about it. But is it

the easiest to do sometimes? Yeah, But I just want

to give us a challenge and encourage us as a

church that we can take our faith to the next

level if we can just do this checklist and ask

the Lord God, can you work in things that maybe

I need to do a little bit better. Yeah. So

the first one that we read in verses four here

it says to rejoice in the Lord always and again

I say rejoice. Then to the person next to you

and smile to them. Rejoice. What's your rejoice face like? Right?

So you know, rejoicing is not something that we just

it's just a nice thing to do, but it's something

that the Word tells us to do to rejoice. Yeah.

And the challenge here when we have a kingdom mind

is not just to be rejoicing when you are in

a good mood, but to be able to rejoice during

hard times as well, because the Bible tells us here

at all times. Yeah, but this does not mean you're

being ignorant, you're forgetting your problems and you're just in

your own wonderland. Yeah, but it just means that beyond

every circumstances, beyond every challenge, I can still say God

is good. Yeah, I can still say God is in control.

I can still declare God's promises. That is what it

means rejoicing, because anyone can rejoice in good times, but

it's only someone who has a kingdom mind, who knows

who is in control, can say I'm just still going

to rejoice. You don't have to smile to rejoice. Sometimes

you just need to have the joy of the Lord

in your hearts, right, the assurance, the peace, and to

carry it on. Right. So that's going to be the

first point, Yeah, rejoicing in the Lord. Now as we

go on to the next verse, Okay, it says here

in versus five, Yeah, let your gentleness be known to

all men. The Lord is at hen right. So the

next point or the checklist for you to ask is selfless?

Are you gentle? And I'm not saying just gentle as

in gentle like we may all think of it, right,

but just sometimes the way we treat our this Okay,

you don't know. You can be a loud, outspoken person.

You can be an extroverty that's completely a different thing. Yeah,

but we're talking about gentleness. I mean, what's going on

in your heart? How do you look at others? Are

you quick to give mercy? Or are we so quick

to sometimes judge a person and say, hey, so this?

So you don't know, but if God can be just

so patient to us, so gentle to us, why can't

we be to others? Why can't we be gentle to ourselves?

Sometimes you can be so hard on yourselves? Right? Why

am I not getting this? Why am I not doing

what I need to do? But the Word of God

tells us here to be gentle, and it says, here,

let your gentleness be known to all men so many.

It's not just for yourself, but it's the way we

treat others. Only then they can see that this person

is as an ambassador of Christ, this person has the

Kingdom mind in him. And why do you do that

because the Lord is at hand. That is what Worse

five tells us, meaning you can't do that because you

know who's in control. You can forgive the person so

quickly even though it was not your fault, because you

know that you know what God is in control. And

I submit this brother or this sister to Christ. Okay,

I'm going to love this person nevertheless, because God tells

me to love my enemies. You know why, because the

Lord is at Okay, gentleness, yeah, gentleness. Now the third point,

the third point in Versus six, it says, be anxious

for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,

let your requests be made known to God. So what

the Word of God tells us here to do is

to acknowledge that the Lord is near and to go

to hum. And you're feeling anxious, just think about the

past week that you just got through. What did you

do when you felt anxious? What is the first thing

that you did? Well? Pray? Well, then so you can

think a checklist for yourself. Right, Or the first thing

I did was grab a chocolate cake and just have

it because I'm feeling anxious, right, or called a friend. Right? Well,

these things are not completely wrong. Yeah, but to fully

be in the Kingdom of God is to know that,

you know what, I'm feeling anxious, which is a very

human thing. But I'm going to turn to the Lord.

I'm going to bring this petition to God and say, God,

I'm feeling this way, I'm frustrated, I'm feeling heavy. That's

why the world of God says, come to me, all

of you are heavy laden, right, And when you bring

this to God, you'll see that your anxiousness are surrendered

to him. Because if you think about it in a

bigger lens, who can actually solve your problems? If it's

not the lot, Right, you can speak to every other

person that's around you, well, they can listen to you,

they can give you advice. But what if it's a

situation that you can't do anything, if it's out of

your control, what can men do? What can all the

money in the world can do to solve that? Right,

some situations, you just need God's intervention. Yeah, and that

is what it means to not be anxious. So can

you just tell this to yourself, tell this to your

inner man, to your spirit, that I'm going to not

be anxious even if I'm anxious. I'm going to bring

it to the Lord. And if you did that, I

hope you are smiling and saying well done, because it's

not the easiest to do. But that's because you've adapted

a kingdom mind and you know who's in control. Amen. Right,

So that's the third thing. Now, let's look at the

thought point. It says here in verses six again the

same scripture, it says to pray, to ask, and to

be humble, right, because he says prayer, supplication, thanksgiving, and

let your requests be made known to God. So the

thing about praying about, you know, when you have a

kingdom mind, is that they're not just so caught up

of what I want. Right, But could we say prayers

when we are meaning that God led your will to

be done? We are humble before the Lord? Because so

what if what you're asking the Lord is a completely

different thing that he wants to give you, would be

be ready to as accept that? Because sometimes if you

want to be real and strong, you just got to

accept certain things that happens in your life, right, certain

situations or struggles. So would you be able to first

come to a place take a step back and say God,

whatever I'm saying to you, my prayer, this is my desire,

this is my petition. At the end of the day,

led your will to be done, so that whatever comes

after that you know that and your rest assured that

it happened because God knew better. God knows better. In fact,

God knows you more than you know yourself.

Right.

Sometimes we think that we know everything about ourselves. But

the thing is that He's your creator. He molded you.

He knew what kind of eyes to give you, what

knows to give you, what mind to give you, what

kind of a heart? Where to grow up, whether Militia

or Singapore. All these things God already predestined He has

planned for you. The truth that you all, all of us,

need to catch is that God knows you beyond how

you even know yourself. So shouldn't be trusted even more? Right,

we should trust the Lord even more? Yeah? And then

in versus seven, it says, and the peace of God,

which surpasses all understanding, will God your hearts and minds. Yeah,

And so it just means that you go to God.

You know the peace of God and the peace of

God gods your hearts and mind. How many of you

actually felt God's peace, right, And it's the peace of

God that gods our hearts and minds. And if it's

been a while since you've gotten to the place of

experiencing God's peace, maybe it's time to welcome God's peace

and ask the Lord God, I'm in this situation. I

need your peace, I need your love. And the thing is,

it says it gods, Gods your means. It also kind

of sometimes holds you back from doing suddain things, or

it might also push you to do certain things right

when it gods your heart. It might so if your

heart says, oh, I want to tell this person off,

I speak my heart out. But you know, when the

peace of God comes in you, it gots and say, hey,

hold up, don't say it. I have other plans, right,

And so the piece of God sometimes so there's Christians

you think, oh, peace is just all serene and nice

and quiet. Well, sometimes the peace of God doesn't just

work that way. The peace of God sometimes still something

within us and say, you know what, this is what

you should do instead all sit down and don't do anything.

Just trust me, right, because it gots the key word

year is Gods, it gots your minds, it gots your hearts.

And that is why sometimes the Lord puts something in

your spirit and you share it to someone, or you

speak it in the world right, or you encourage a

person because the peace of God is in you. Because

someone who doesn't have the peace of God, how is

God going to speak in you? Because you are you

are mixed up with your voices, You're mixed up with

our wisdom, our understanding. So where is there going to

be room for God to actually speak to us or

speak true us right? Because I may have a different

impression about y infinn, I'd be thinking about it something else.

So what if God wants to put something in my

heart to tell her? I can't hear that right because

I am clouded with everything else that I'm seeing in

front of me. But the peace of God. If the

peace of God God's my heart and mind, I don't

see all of that. I can just speak out the

word of God. Yeah, that is what the peace of

God does. So Church, it's time to rise up and

to hear the voice of the Lot. Don't just be

caught up on a Sunday service message, which is good.

You listen to it, but what you do on every

other day. Are you listening to God? Are you able

to listen to him? Are you able to feel his

fees and say, Okay, God, just tell me what to do.

Let your peace, God be right. Let that be a

decision that you want to do this week to draw

closer to Him. Yeah. Now the last point here, okay

in verses eight to nine, Okay, it says a couple

of words here, right. It talks about things that are true, normal,

just pure, lovely, good, report, virtue, and praiseworthy. In fact,

if you can just list out all these words on

your journal or on your phone and just have a

thick right, what are these things that I want to

work on a little bit more? Right? Or thank God

for maybe the things that He has been working in you? Right?

Because it first tells us to be pure true. Being

pure is so important in the eyes of God. Our thoughts,

our relationships, the way we treat others, to speak the

truth at all times. Sometimes it can be tempting to

say a lie just because you want to look good

in front of people, but that is not what God

wants for of us. He wants us to be truthful,

because if you can't be truthful to yourself. You can't

be truthful to people around you, how are you going

to listen the truth from God? Yeah, so it's time

to put our lives back to the right place. Yeah,

we speak about being at the mid of the year. Now,

have a check in. Take some time with your Bible

with the notes that you've taken down, and asked a lot,

what is it that I can work on a little

bit more to be a better person, Not in the

eyes of men alone, but in the eyes of God,

because that is what matters. Yeah. So I've just put

it down together in this way so that you can

see how practical the Word of God is. It's not

meant to be just you know, deep and you know

spiritual in that way. But it's meant for you to

leave it out as well. Right, It's meant for you

to make a decision every other day, because when you

look at all these pointers here, it's a decision that

you have to make. I can choose to rejoice, I

can choose not to rejoice, right. I can choose to

be gentle and to be merciful to someone, or I

can choose not to be right. I can choose to

be anxious and feel like my world is tumbling down,

which is normal to feel that way at times. But

I can still choose to take a step back and say, God,

I bring my anxiousness to you, and could you lead

me right? And I can be all of these words

that I hear to focus on what matters, because if

you look at all the ones in number six year,

that just means you have a kingdom mind. Because if

we can't be pure, if we can't be lovely, we

can't be true. That means we're just missing out the

point about how God wants to leave our life. Remember

we spoke about being the rules of being a citizen

in a country, and the same thing, these are the

rules of being a citizen of the in the heaven,

being a citizen in the Kingdom of God, the authority,

the king of kings. If we want to leave that way,

we've got to have this in our lives. Yeah. So

I pray and hope that you can country to use

this as a reflection, Country, to use this as a

way of you bringing things to God. If you're thinking,

where do I get started? If I want to get

things right back right, if I want to get deeper

with God, this is where you can get started. Yeah,

if you want to take this one step further, why

don't you pair with a friend in church, right, you know,

a sister or brother and have these conversations right, talk

about it. You know what, can you help me to

be accountable? You know? I just want to be better

in this? Can you pray for me? You know, for

those of you in discipleship or you know someone that

you're closed with in church, do that right, so that

you're not just doing this alone in that journey, but

you're also having someone who is spraying along with you

and journeying with you. Amen? Can we do that?

Church?

Can extra us be Kingdom minded? Yeah? Every time we're

coming to church, we know God, you know what I'm

doing this for your Kingdom. Let your will to be done. Amen.

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