The 12+1 Core Values Part 1 | Pr Gloria Paul

You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

And we are starting on this this series called the

twelve plus one Core Values. Yeah, because we believe that values.

Is the way to go right.

Sometimes as a church we can focus on a lot

of things that could be also important, right, like for example,

how the service is run, you know, the lights and

and everything else, right, But I think what keeps a

generation to go on is the values, right, is the values.

And so this this whole series were written by our

very own founding senior pastor, Pastor Kenna Chin, right. And

so we are going through this series and you know

for a couple of weeks just to align because as

the church grows bigger, the unity has to be stronger, right.

And so that is why we're all given this privilege

to actually bring God's word to align the church with

the direction that God calls us.

Because for us to do great things for the.

Lord, we've got to first catch the heart of it

to be revived within us, right, leaders in the house, right,

you know, we have to first be revived to catch

the spirit of God, to catch what is it that

God wants to do? In us, then we can bring

it out to others as well.

Yeah.

So I think catching it and aligning is very important.

So this handbook will be useful for you, right as

you go through the different notes that are there. And again,

it's not just a Sunday one off things, right, It's

about what you do on your Mondays to Saturdays, the

things that you learn, the values and how could you

actually apply it in your own lives as well. Right,

So join us in this season of just going through

these values, and if you have any questions, you'll be

even talking about it in our small groups right in

our homes as we meet, you know, for cell groups,

and we'll be discussing this in more depth as well.

So there's the time you can ask questions and explore

and see how can this very much be applicable in

your own lives. I always believe that the Word of

God is practical, right, It's meant to be lived out,

you know.

It doesn't just look good.

It's meant to be lived out, to be felt, to

be exercised, you know, and only then we can feel

the power of God in us as well.

Yeah.

So, so take this, take ownership of it. That's what

I'm telling church. Yeah, take ownership, it's your faith, it's

your journey with the lot, right, take down notes, ask questions,

explore because only then you can grow deeper with him

a man. Right, And so thank you Richard for helping

you with the slides. Yeah, So just to give you

a bit of an intro as we go on, and

feel free to take down your notes as we move.

Yeah. So why values? Right? Why are we going through

the values?

What's the heart behind the values that we're going through?

Well? Vision and mission?

Okay, I'm sure you know we've all heard of this

vision mission, right, even if you're working in a company,

or if you're going into if you're studying antitude, every

other place has their own vision and mission, right, But

all this actually tells us where we're going and why

we're doing something.

Right.

But values are the fuel in the vehicle. So we

can have a great vision written, we can have a

great mission. But it's those values that a person carries

that keeps us going. Yeah, because you know, we can

see each other every other Sunday or in any other

events that we have in church. At the end of

the day, who is living out those living out our lives?

It's you, yourself, me, myself right in our quiet doors,

closed doors, in the different challenges and the values that

you go through, it is you, and how would you

make decisions? You know, who do you turn to? It's

the values that you hold on to. Right, So, values

are the one that fuels the vehicle. They are what

gets us there, especially when we face oppositions, testings and trials. Right,

how many of you know that when good times, it's

easy to praise the Lot, right, to dance and to sing.

But when life hits us, it's not as easy to

clap your hands, Right, it's not as easy to smile.

Would you still say? Yes, Lord?

Nevertheless, I will still praise you, Right, Nevertheless, I still

praise you.

So it is those values that are within us.

It's not just a feel good looking value that just

because my past has said I should believe in this,

but it should be a value that you hold on

to that you believe in.

Right.

You came to church this Sunday because I hope it

was not because someone called you and told you to

be here, right, But it was because you have your

personal relationship with the Lot. You want to honor him, right,

You want to receive something from God to be touched

by him. So it's a very personal decision.

Right.

So values are the one that keeps us going, especially

in tough times. Values are also character, right, values are

also character. Where we are in the dark, when no

one else is watching, what are those decisions that we

would actually take. Yeah, that makes a good leader, or

not just a leader, but a Christian because when you're

out there, you know, people are not going to know

Jesus just because you carry a Bible, but people will

know Jesus with the way we live, our lives, our conduct.

Right.

And he just takes one Christian who says I'm a

Christian but doesn't leave the life the way God Jesus

wants us to leave, then we may not be giving

the right message. So we're all walking examples, right. So

the character that we that we carry or have is

very important.

Yeah.

So just a bit of a background, Like I mentioned,

you know when Past the Cannet started this church in

two thousand. The reason how we got the name X

is from the Book of X itself, right, so X

chapter two. And so we want we believe in being

a church like the Church of X as well, right,

And so That is why these core values that we're

going through, they're not just values that are drawn from experience.

You've got to be very careful with that because sometimes

values can be because of my experience. Therefore it's a

value that hold on too. But these values here are

very much scriptural. Okay, it's scriptural. It's all taken from

the scriptures, Yeah, especially from X two. So they're not preferences,

they're not programs, and they're not negotiable, okay, But they

are the rock because the Word of the Lord is

the rock.

Yeah.

They cannot be shaken and we cannot be without it,

without the Word of God. Right, So it is the foundation.

These core values are built on the foundation.

So how can the.

Church grow strong in the midst of change and challenges?

Like I always tell our church. You know, in Malaysia

we count it a blessing and a privilege to have

church freely, right, But in different parts of the world

it may not be the easiest. Yeah, it may not

be the easiest to oftenly worship the lot or police

say that you're a Christian. So let us not take

this for granted, yeah, because there might become a time

when you know, you might need to make a decision.

Would you still choose to stand for your faith, right?

Would you still choose to say no, I'm I want

to believe in Jesus, I'm a believer of the Lord, right,

And so we are preparing the church for that, not

just you know, to always think that, Okay, things are

just going to be fine, right, Yes it is, you know,

and we are blessed with that. But when challenges happen,

when change takes place, would a church stand strong? How

can we stand strong? And so that is why we're

going through this series to hold the church together in

the Word of God. And this word of God becomes

our values, and so that is how we're making the

Word of God more applied, more practical for all of

us to live it out.

Yeah.

So values are non compromisable, Okay, it's not something that

we should choose and say or try to interpret it ourselves.

We've got to be careful with that, right, And there

are more and more in the times we are living

in with the digital world. You know, people just have

a say on what is the Bible like or what

is Christianity all about? So if someone is going to

come and preach to you, would you know, your word

to test and see who's that prophet? Where is he

coming from or is he taking it from the word

of God or is the word of God being twisted? Yeah,

so we need to know the Word of God inside out.

You've got to own your Bible, and that's why we

encourage our you know, our partners in church to bring

your own Bible right. Just don't always be trying to

googling your answers in the internet, right, because things can

change anytime. But when you have the word of God,

and when you know what the word of God is,

you know what's the truth, and the Word of God

says the truth will set you free.

Right, And so.

We've got to hold onto the word of God. So

it's non compromisable, and we want to succeed and be

victorious in this life. You know, we need to set

what cannot be compromised. Okay, there are things that we

cannot make a compromise. Yeah, And so I think it's

also very important, you know, if we want to take

this the next level, you know, not to compromise.

To hold on to the Word of God. We've got

also speak it out right.

What are those things that are non negotiable for you

as a believer.

Right.

The word of God says to be unequally, Yo, you

know you cannot be unequally yoke, you know, or how

should you live your lives?

Right?

The different ten commandments that are given to us, Honor

your parents. You should love the Lord your God with

all your heart.

Right.

So what are those things that If these are your values,

it will dictate your decisions, right, It dictates your actions, your.

Steps that you take.

Yeah, And these things are so important, especially when we're

living in the world when there can be opinions that

doesn't seem to be wrong, It seems to be all right?

Why not right? Why can't I listen to it? Yeah?

And you know, I remember when I was teaching back,

I mean, not teaching any longer, but when I was

when I was teaching before this, you know, when I

was in the university. You know, there's just all form

of distructions when these students walk in to the campus. Right,

And if you're a student here, I'm sure you can

you know for yourself. Right, there's just all kinds of opinions.

People are dressing up in different manners. Everything seems to

be okay, right, So then how do I still stand

on my own grounds on my values? And even if

I stand firm, what is the foundation that I'm standing

firm on? Is it just because it's a principle that

I have? Because anyone, even people who do not know Christ,

may have their own principles. I have very good friends

who who have not known Christ yet, but they are

very good people. Right, they do great things, they are

very successful, So they're good. But does good also mean

it is what the Word of God tells us to

do as well?

Right?

So how do you then draw the line there? So

you have to be very clear with what the Word

of God tells us. What are the values that it carries?

So as we unpack, yeah, just want to encourage you

to write those things in your own journals or in

your own hearts as well. What are those things that

are non negotiable for you?

So when we speak.

About vision here, you know, vision is the one that

builds our character, especially when no one else is watching us.

And when we look at the scriptures here, okay, when

we look at where these values comes from, or this

whole series, where is it derived from? We can look

at a scripture here it says in Matthew twenty four

versus thirty five. Okay, heaven and earth will pass away,

but my words will by no means pass away.

Right.

And that's the promise that the Word of God has

given to us, and that is why we need to

hold on to it even more Right, it.

Says in Psums.

One hundred and thirty eight versus two, for you have

magnified your word above all your name man. So the

word of God yourself teaches us what it means to

hold on.

To the Word of God magnified.

This is the one and only thing that will never change,

will remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. People will come,

people will go opinions will change. The world evolves so quickly, right,

But what doesn't change is the word of God. Even

more so important for us to hold on to the

word of God. So a very important question for you

and I to reflect on today is how much do

I know the Word of God? Because if you know

the Word of God, you know your God as well. Right,

Because there can be two voices running in our minds,

sometimes a voice that tries to condemn tempt or that

could be a voice who's trying to encourage us or

there's a voice who's trying to convict us. Right, nothing

wrong with conviction because it just wants you to turn

the right way. But if it's there to tempt and condemn,

then you know it's not from the lot. Yeah, so

we've got to be discerning.

Yeah. One of the things that I.

Notice, you know, when journey with different ones in church.

I think we've got to catch the heart of discernment

as we grow, you know, as you grow as a

martued believer. But what if God tells us you can't

just rely on a Sunday message, right, you can't just

drink milk all the time.

You're not going to be filled. You need to have

the meat.

You need to be filled with something that is more deeper,

something that's more stronger, right, and that is through the

world of God and with the gift of discerning. Right now,

let's just go through the first the first value for today, right,

And we're going to start off with the first one, which.

Is spirit filled.

All right, spirit filled, And let's just open with a

couple of scriptures from the Book of X chapter two.

Are we doing good church to forget to say your amens? Yeah,

you're saying amen. To the Lord. All right, So X

chapter two versus two. Here, right, are you all there?

Yeah? All right?

Says here in verses two A Book of X, chapter two.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of

a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where.

They were sitting. All right.

So this is the if you if you've not read

the chapter chapter one a Book of X, you'll see

that this is when Jesus has sent it. And he

says that Hay sent you Hew, which is the Holy Spirit. Right,

So this is where the church was experiencing the Holy

Spirit for the first time, the coming of the Holy Spirit. Yeah,

now let's read on. Okay, let's look at this whole

scripture here. Yeah, it says in versus five, and there

were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews devote men from every nation

under heaven.

And when this.

Sound occurred, the multitude came together and were confused because

everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they

were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, look,

are not all these speak Galileans? And how is it

that we hear each in our own language in which

we were born? Patians and Meddies and Aliphites, and those

dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cafe de Care, Pontus and

Asia Perugia. These are all the names of the places.

I'm not going to try to to you know, say

it all right, vers leven. It says Cretans and Arabs,

we hear them speaking in our own tongues, the wonderful

works of God. So they were all amazed and perplexing

to one another. Whatever could this mean? Others mocking say

they were full of wine. So there was this whole

confusion when the spirit of God came. They're trying to

understand what's going on. Now, let's see what Peter tells

us here. He tries to get them to understand. Yeah,

in Verses fourteen. But Peter, standing up with the eleven,

raise his voice and say to them, men of Judea

and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known

to you. And ht my words, for these are not

drunk as you suppose, since it is only the third

hour of the day.

But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel.

And it shall come to pass and the last day,

says God, that I will pour up my spirit on

all flesh, Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your

young men shall see visions, all men shall dream dreams.

And on my men servants and on my maid servants,

I will pour out my spirit in those days, and

they will prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above,

and signs, and the earth beneath blood and fire and

vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness

and the moon into blood before the coming of the

great and awesome Day of the Lord. And it shall

come to pass that whoever calls on the name of

the Lord shall be saved a man a man.

Right.

So this is what Paul, I'm sorry, Peter says to

the church the people at that time, and there was

such a confusion. But this is when the start of

the Holy Spirit begin, right, people begin to speak in tongues.

And what happened after that, When you read on the

chapters to come, you will see how people experience the

power of God.

The church was just added, right.

Disciples were just going on doing what they were commissioned

to do. They were just paidful, they were obedient, right.

But when the spirit of God moved, the church grew right.

The church grew, there was such an hunger and terst

for the Lord. They saw miracles. People were healed right,

broken hearted, the sick were healed. And that is what

the spirit of God does when we actually activated. As

he says, the help is always there and the Holy

Spirit is there, but it's whether we call upon the

Holy Spirit.

Yeah.

So you know, many churches can be christ scentered. That's

very important, christ centered, but when you don't have the

Holy Spirit. We will not have the fullness of Christ

without the Holy Spirit, right, because His Father's Son and

the Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit as well. Yeah,

you know, in fact, we could have started the first

value in the first teaching of today as Christ sentered,

but we started with spirit, feel because that is our

ex too started as well. It started with the Holy

Spirit verst right, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Yeah.

So the Holy Spirit is not something that is optional

or something additional, but he is essential.

Yeah.

As a church sort of X, we believe that Holy

Spirit is something we believe in. I know there's sometimes

debates among different Christians as well, you know, but praying

in tongues and all, but we believe in it, right,

Praying in tongues is edifying of our spirit. Yeah, and

that is why we got to also be discerning. Right,

And so it's not a it's not an option. It

is essential. He leads us to Christ. The Holy Spirit

leads us to Christ. Yeah, and reminds us of Christ

teaching and in fact empowers us to obey what Christ

as commanded.

Yeah.

So when you read the Word of God, if we

read the Word of God without the Holy Spirit, we

may not even get the understanding. And some of us,

if you know, if you're read the same scripture in

different seasons of your life, it speaks to you very differently, right,

because that's how the Holy Spirit moves, Right. He knows

what is it that you need in that season of

your life, and then he ministers to you. Yeah, or

he prompts you know, you just tell it reminds you, Okay,

this is what you need to pray for. This is

the word that I have for you.

Right.

And the more you sit in the presence of the Lord,

these are the things that are sharpen as you go.

Right.

We all have these gift things. You all have the

gift of the Holy Spirit. But the thing is that

if we don't activate it, or we don't call upon

the Holy Spirit, then you're not going to feel it, right.

But when the more we do it, when we praying things,

when we pray in the spirit, that is when you're

going to catch it. Yeah, if you're new in the faith,

then this can be something very new to you as well. Yeah, understandable,

and that is why we want to bring our chirch

through this series to help you understand what is the

role of the spirit in our faith? Yeah, and why

is it so important? So there can be many Christians

who can be walking in and out living our lives

but not living a spirit filled life.

There's a big difference. Yeah, there's a big difference.

You see two believers, someone who is just you know, knowing, Yes,

God is good, I'm going to live for the Lord,

and then there's another person who's living and their spirit feeled,

they're activated. There's a big difference because the way they

look at their surrounding is through the lens of God,

not just through your lens. There's a big difference there. Yeah,

when you look at someone, you don't just see them

as just another person, but you're seeing them as a

child of God and in fact, something God in part,

certain words in you to speak it out to prophesy,

and that's how you prophesy, right, that's how you give

a prophetic word to give.

It's because the Spirit of God moves in you. Yeah.

So it's not the matter of how long you've been

a believer, but how young you are, right, or how

old you are, But it's about how close you are

with God and how much you know the Spirit of God.

And the more you sit in His presence is when

you feel him.

Yeah.

And I can testify in all my life the one

thing that keeps me doing church and serving Him is

the Spirit of God living. So sometimes you're physically you

can do it, you know, or you go through different struggles,

but when the Spirit of God is seeing you, when

your spirit fills, when your soul is in the right place,

then you just do it. Nevertheless, Yeah, you still choose

to praise God, and then He gives you the strength

to do.

It as well.

Yeah.

So the spirit of God.

And you know, when I think about the times when

I've encountered God, it's not just in you know, in

big congregations or in conferences or in church alone, but

it's most of the time in my room all by

myself with the Lord. When you spray in tongues, when

you pray in spirit, God speaks to you. Right, and

even more so, like the Word of God, says he,

he edifies. He feels you afresh, so that you can

do what you can't do, but only true the Lord.

Amen. Yeah.

So that is the power of the Holy Spirit. It's

not additional, is essential. Yeah. So X Church is a

spirit filled church, okay, and we want each one to

be empowered with the gifting of the Holy Spirit as well.

So let's go through a couple of pointers here. First,

the Holy Spirit is the promise of God. Okay, everyone

say the promise of God. Yeah, the Holy Spirit is

the promise of God, you know, it says in Ects

One fourteen. And being assembled together with them, he commanded

them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for

the promise of the Father. Now this work, Jesus tells

the disciples. You know, though they have been walking and

they know the Lord, you know, for you know, for

a couple of years.

But yeah, Jesus was telling them to tarry and wait.

For the Spirit. Jesus himself knew the importance of doing that.

To wait on the Lord, to tarry, to wait. What

is it that God wants us to do? Not just

to rush and do the ministry right? Rush and open

and and and and you know, answer a door that's

opened for you. Or how should I approach a certain situation?

You know, there's a big difference, you know, when we

just do it our way compared to sitting and just saying, God,

I'm waiting on you.

Could you give me the right.

Words to speak if I'm needing to speak to someone

right or dealing with a certain situation. You'll be surprised

the kind of words that God gives you to approach

that particular situation. Yeah, even in ministry, Uh, there are

times sometimes, you know, when I've got to deal with

different people right, people that people we love at the

same time, people that we need to love more. Okay,

it's not that's not the easiest to to to.

You know, care and and take care of different ones.

And you know what I mean. I started ministry at

a very young age. Okay, most of you would know

this story. And in fact, we just went celebrated our

birthday and we talked about, you know, how this church started.

And I remember starting off as a fresh graduate right

and very young in ministry. And you know what that

kept me going was the Holy Spirit. And and of

course I'm blessed to be in a family who has

been in ministry.

Mom and Dad.

I've been seeing them doing the word of work of God.

But then again, I had to encounter the Lord myself,

not just because I grew in a family of you know,

pastors and missionaries. I had to first know God for myself.

I had to be first filled with the Holy Spirit. Right,

and doing church no longer becomes just because I know

what I need to do. But you rely on what

God tells you to do. Who do you how do

you speak to this person?

Right? How do you start off this initiative? You know?

How do you pray for people? How do you bring

the Word of God? How do you prophesy all? That

is just through the spirit of God that is in you. Yeah,

he enables you a man, He enables, So terry wait

on the spirit. M It says in John sixteen seven. Nevertheless,

I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage

that I go away, For if I do not go away,

the helper will not come to you. But if I

depart I will send him to you. So Jesus says

that it is to our advantage that he go so

that the helper will come. So meaning it's been the

plan of the Lord. In fact, it's the promise of

God that Jesus was there to be to minister, to

do what he was called to do, and then there

was a time that he had to as send and

therefore the.

Holy Spirit is given to us.

So meaning church, it is not just okay, you can

choose it if you want to, but it was given

to us, right. It is something that we just need

to call upon to embrace, to leave it to be

filled with the Holy Spirit. Yeah, it's always been the

plan of the lot Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Yeah, So Holy Spirit is our priority and we've got

to be filled by him.

Amen. Now.

The second thing is that the Holy Spirit is the

power of God. Right, The Holy Spirit is the power

of God. In fact, we cannot do God's work in

human strength. In in fact, we've got to be very

careful if we're doing it by human strength. Right, And

that is why we always encourage our leaders here there

as you serve, as you lead others, your cup has

to be filled us, right, If not, we can be

so caught up knowing what to do after some time, right,

how church runs how to speak, But are we moving

in the spirit? And that is why sometimes things can

just go very you know, we're just managing, right, but

we're not growing deeper, we're not going higher. Because if

the Spirit of God is there in our lives, then

we'll expect.

More, right, desire more. We can do great things for God.

We can pray, we'll have faith to pray for someone

because we know that it's not just me praying, but

because the Spirit of God is in me and he

gives me that power to pray for someone, So we'll

not hesitate. Yeah, and so when we have the Holy Spirit,

we have the power of God moving as well.

Yeah, it says in Zachariah for.

Six, not by might, not by power, but by my spirit,

says the Lord of course. Right, So not mine, not power,

but by my spirit. So we've got to catch this

truth as believers of Christ. Yeah, the power of the

Spirit of God is powerful. Now, we cannot obey Christ's

commands walking in His will and word if we don't

have the Holy Spirit.

Yeah.

In fact, the Holy Spirit is the one reminds us

of his teachings. Right, the Holy Spirit reminds us of

his word, it says in John fourteen twenty six. But

the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send

in my name, he will teach you all things and

bring to your remembrance all things that I say to you. Right, So,

if you just unpack the scripture itself, he says, he

will teach you. He will bring remembrance. Okay, things that

you may have forgotten. But that is what the Holy

Spirit will actually do for us.

Yeah.

So if you're seated here thinking, okay, I still don't

quite understand the Bible, trying to read it, and I'm

trying to encover it, well, you need the Holy Spirit

then to help you to understand even deeper. Yeah, you know,

and sometimes, you know, the Holy Spirit even reminds us

of things that we may have forgotten, the encounters that

we have experienced.

You know.

You know, when you look at a person, sometimes there

can be different seasons of them being revived. Okay, maybe

you'll be Yeah, when you younger, in your campus days,

you're more revived. And then as life hits you different

priorities and all this, then the fire goes down. But

we need the Holy Spirit to revive that fire once

again to remind you, Hey, you know what you did

when in your younger days. Don't miss out that calling him.

And so we need the Holy Spirit to keep reminding

us of our calling and what He can actually do

through us as well.

Amen.

Right now, the next thing is that the Holy Spirit is.

It's so important, it's so powerful. Where it actually tells

us in Matthew twelve that you one that blessoming the

son of Men can be forgiven, but not blessing the

Holy Spirit. That is how precious and important the Holy

Spirit is. Yeah, it says in Matthew twelve that you won. Therefore,

I say to you every sin and bleshem me will

be forgiven men, but the blessed me against the Spirit

will not be forgiven. Yeah. So this itself tells us

the importance of the Holy Spirit and how much reverence

we got to give it, how much of the fear

of God we need to have, you know, And we're

seeking the gifting of the Holy Spirit. So the encouragement

for all of us as a church, you know, as

we even leave these values out together, right, is to

actually prioritize the Spirit of God because where the spirit

of God is, that is where Christ is exalted and

we are free. Yeah, and we are free. So Church,

it's time for us to come back again. Only you

know yours journey with the lot and where you're at

in this point of your lives. Right, So how much

of the spirit is living in you? How much of

the spirit of God is living in you? Because if

you're not careful, there can be other spirits that may

come and come in us.

Do you know that right?

Because we are we are living in a fallen world.

And it's either we are filled with the spirit of

God or we are filled with the spirit of the world.

You can't put your legs on both sides, that's the truth. Yeah,

it's either you believe in the truth fully one hundred

percent or you're not. You can't just say that I'm

a lukewarm That's what the scripture tells us about not

being a lukewarm Christian. And I pray that all of

us here will be on fire for the Lord until

it takes us home. Yeah, no compromise on that, you know.

And to be fully in the spirit of God.

Amen.

So just have a heart check for ourselves, you know,

in the seasons of your life. Wherever you are, you

know how much of the Holy Spirit lives in you?

Are you filled with the spirit of God?

Right?

And how can you even know? This is the way

you see the Lord?

Right? Are you walking in faith? Are you moving by

the spirit?

Because not all things can be Let me wait first,

let me test first. If Peter was just testing, you

wouldn't have walked on water. But the moment is his

naked eyes opened, then he started drowning, right, So it

takes faith. It takes the Spirit of God to enable

us to move forward. Yeah, So how much of the

Spirit of God is living in you?

Right?

And the thing about the Spirit of God is, you

know you shouldn't just put it in a box and

think that, Okay, I'm going to only visit this spirit

when I need. But the Spirit of God is supposed

to be living with us, walking with us, journeying with us.

So wherever you are, you could be in your office,

you could be teaching your class, right, and suddenly the

Holy Spirit comes and you know, you know, talk to

this one student. You never know what that child is

going through, right, And you pray for them, and then

you realize this person has been going through a tough time.

Yeah. So you the thing about the spirit of God I've.

Learned is that you the moment you miss, you may

miss the opportunity to actually reach out to that particular person,

right if you're not sensitive enough at that point of time, Right,

because you're just caught up with different kind of spirit

or different kind of distraction.

Yeah.

So, as a church, just want to encourage all of

us to not miss the moment, right, because that moment

could be a time when that person just needed an encouragement, right,

that person needed a prayer, or that person needed was

almost giving up, but because the spirit leaves in you,

you were just sensitive enough to say, hey brother, can

I pray for you?

Right?

Or hey brother, Jesus loves you. Do not give up? Yeah,

God loves you. And maybe that was just a turning

point for that person.

Right.

So can you imagine how God can use you if

you're filled to the spirit of God.

Right.

The way is God can work the spirit, the Bible say,

is beyond what we can.

Imagine or expect.

Right, if only you allow the God allow God to

use you. Yeah. So can we prioritize spirit, Yeah, can

be activate it? Can we live our lives, you know,

and when you wake up in the morning, when you

do your devotion, I think it's time for us. I mean,

I'm looking at the faces that I know here journing

together for a while. Now, I think enough, it's enough

just turning to a devotion app right, I think there's a.

Time for that when you're new in a faith.

But I think it's time to sit in the presence

of the Lord, to turn the Bible, to spray in tongues.

If you've not gotten the gift, pray for it. Yeah,

and just wait, don't rush your prayers and say, God,

what is it that you're speaking to me today?

Time to go deep? Purchase right, time to go deeper.

Don't wait.

Life will always hit us in different ways. There's going

to be always things that seems to be it's more important.

But at the end of the day, but what's most important,

right is you and I answering the Lord and what

is it that God is going to tell us? Good

and faithful servant? Right, So focus on what's important. Prioritize

and you're never too young to think about I have

a long way to go. Yeah, start today because today

will never come back. Right, Sit in the presence of

the Lord and allow him to fill you so that

you can know Him more and be used by him

as well.

Amen.

All right, So the power of God is through the

Holy Spirit. Now, the next thing, for the last point

that we're going to look into is walking in the spirit. Right,

How do we walk in the spirit? So when we

receive the Holy Spirit, God wants us to have a

relationship with him and to make him our best friend. Right,

And he says in Galicians five sixteen to seventeen, I say,

then walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill

the last of the flesh. For the flesh lasts against

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

are contrary to one another, so that you do not

do the things that you wish. So if you're ever wondering,

you know, why is it so hard sometimes, you know,

to to just make myself wake up and come to church,

or to make myself to worship the law, or to

prioritize the things of God. Well, then you're sometimes battling

with your flesh. Yeah, But when the Spirit of God

is in you, it actually fulfills what needs to be fulfilled,

and he enables you to do that, right, because it

says your engalitions that this are contrary to one another.

Yeah, and the enemy is always going.

To try to use our flesh, you know, to tempt us,

to pull us away from his work, his things, right,

and that is why we've got to keep filling ourselves

to the spirit of God. Yeah, keep feeling, keep reminding

us that I'm a child of God and I'm not

going to make room for temptations like this.

Yeah. So it's walking in the spirit. Yeah.

We must receive the Holy Spirit and make him our

best friend. And that is when he leads us, right,

that is when he guides us. And in fact, you know,

when we are constantly filled with the Holy Spirit, will

be filled. If you're not fulfilled constantly with the Holy Spirit,

will be filled with other things. Right, So we've got

to be very watchful. So waiting upon the Lord is

also part of walking with the Holy Spirit.

Yeah. When we wait on.

The Holy Spirit, we acknowledge that he is with us

and that he is greater than the challenges that we

are facing. Now, the thing about waiting is the toughest

for us, Right. We sometimes want to go from one

thing to the next. In fact, sometimes the way we

say our prayer can be so rushed. Right, we have

a to do list to check out. You know, God,

I need you to do this, this, this, or these

are things that need to be done. Well, good, bring

your petitions to the lot. But at the same time,

I'll be making time to wait in his presence because

that is walking with a spirit as well. Because when

you wait, God speaks to you.

Right.

It's no longer just my words that I want to utter,

or my knowledge or my understanding, but it is what

He wants me to know at this point of my life. Right,

So don't feel awkward with the pauses that you can

have in your prayers or the quietness, because that is

why the Word of God says, be still and to

know that I am God. See, if you want to

know God, you've got to be still in his presence. Yeah,

you've got to be still. You know, when we read

the Book of Sums, you'll see the word Sella coming

in between the scriptures and there's a pause. Right, there's

a pause there reminding us there's a time to wait.

There's a time to be silent. Yeah, there's a time

to give reverence and just sit and say God, what

is it that you're speaking to him in any kind

of conversation, a two way conversation. If you're not a

good listener, no one wants to talk to you. Right,

Imagine you're the only ones chatting and chatting all the way.

And the same thing is with the Lord as well. Right,

you can go on talking and talking. He listens. Definitely,

God is a good listener. The thing is, are we

a good listener?

Right?

Are we making time to take a step back and say, God,

it's not what I know or what I want, but Lord,

I want you to tell me what is it that

you're teaching me in this season all my life? Yeah,

because that puts us in a poisture of receiving. It's

not about who what I want, not wrestling any longer,

but I'm positioning myself in a place where I can

just receive from the Lord.

Yeah.

So walking in the spirit is also part of, you know,

being able to wait in his presence. Yeah, you know,

just to share a testimony, you know most of you

would know. We we did flying last Monday for our students, right,

So a couple of us actually went around the campus

and we were giving out flyers to invite new students,

you know, to a welcome dinner that we're having this week,

and of course to the heart of being able to

reach out to this you know. And mostly new students

when they come to campus, everything is new, you know.

Sometimes they can either go with the right friends, you know,

so all those kinds of distractions. So we want to

be a community where we can be a blessing to them.

So you're doing that. And so what we did, of

course before the flying we prayed together, right, we prayed

and and so I was just walking with another student

and I saw this girl seated on the stairs towards

the classroom, you know. So she was just sitting there

by herself, and she didn't look like she wanted anyone

to speak to her, right, like, I'm in my own world,

don't disturb me. But I felt a very strong prompting

in my heart. No, you should go to her right,

you know, because this girl needs the lot. Yeah, So

so I went to her right and I just asked,

you know, are you in news tod And she said, yeah,

I'm yes, here for a three weeks. So she didn't

look like a new student, right, so I asked her,

you know, what are you studying. I was having a

conversation with her and I said, hey, you know, we

like to welcome you for a welcome dinner. Why don't

you join us and you can make friends and you know,

just have fun.

And then she said, oh, I, you are from a church.

I said, yes, we are from a church, you know,

and if you're looking for a church to belong, we

do have as well. And then she opened up and

she said, I haven't shared this with the team, you know.

But she opened up and she said, you know what,

I've been away from the lot for many years now.

I'm a Christian, but I've been away because I just felt,

you know, what's the point. God has not been speaking

to me. I don't find my faith relevant, you know.

She went on and on. Then she said, but you

know what, I'm back to campus. I think it's time

for me to discover my faith. And you know what,

you came to You came to me at the right

time because I was having those questions in my mind,

thinking about God, are you there?

Are you real? Right?

And so when we came to her and we had

a little bit of gift to give her, and I

told her, you know, it's not a coincidence that I

came to you. It's not just because you sat there.

But Jesus loves you, and he's not done with you yet.

He has a beautiful plan. You're just starting off as

a young student here and you have greater days.

I hit you, know, and feel free to join us.

But more than that, I just wanted to know that

God loves you and he has a wonderful plan for you.

Yeah. And she just smiled. Yeah, she just smiled. And

that is the.

Work of the Holy Spirit. Yeah, the work of the

Holy Spirit. At that moment, I could have just looked

at her. I mean, she she didn't seem like I said.

The way she was seated is like I don't want

to talk to anyone. In fact, when we reached out

to her, she seemed like, Okay, who are you?

Stay away? You know, they're kind of a not very

welcoming right.

But I just went on anyway because I just sensed

that this girl needed a reminder of who she is

as a daughter of Christ, right, that Jesus loves her.

And I just hope that that few words should have

reminded her of who God is.

I'm not going to give up. Yeah, And so the

same thing is like that.

In every you know, every day, right, we can walk

in and out to our campuses, to our workplaces, or

even within our families, and if you're not sensitive enough,

we may miss that moment to actually say something to

that person, right, to pray for them, or to remind Yeah,

and that is what it means by walking in the spirit.

You don't have a on and off button. It's on

all the time. The moment you wake up, right, you

say good morning, Holy Spirit, I'm just ready to face

the day, right, and use me, just use me as

your vessel. And that's just powerful. You see how God

opens doors for you. Yeah, and you it's no longer

by what I can do by my own strength, but

it's what God enables you to do.

Yeah.

So just thank God for that that student, and we

just pray and hope that there'll be many more students

will walking through our doors, you know, wanting to experience

the Lord.

Amen.

Yeah, So I hope that you can have your own

stories as well. Right as we go through this series

about you know the values, right, this value spirit fields

is the number one value that we've got to hold

on to.

So wherever life takes you, you.

Know, you could be a young person seated year and

one day when you graduate and when you go on,

or you could be a parent. You know, you could

be from different parts of the world forever life takes you.

If this value is just part it's within you, then

no matter what hits you, you know what I need

to fall back to. It's not about just being under

this covering of a church. Therefore, this is what I

got to do. But it's just you as a believer. Yeah,

and that is what we are so big in to

build a generation that knows their values that no matter

how fast the world changes, no matter how you go

through different stages of life, from a young person to

a parent or a grandfather later on, yet I know

what are my values as a person. The roles in

your life can change, but your number one role first

comes as a child of God, as a son of God,

as a daughter of God. And to do that is

first to carry those values within you. Yeah, these twelve values.

And so we pray that this point that you've learned right,

the first value would be something that you can cultivate

throughout the week. Like I mentioned, these are teachings that

are supposed to be practical. Right, it's supposed to be

something that I can ask myself and say, am I

spirit filled?

Am I living my life.

In a way where I'm allowing the Holy Spirit to

move in me?

Right? Am I speaking to God?

Am I walking with him by giving space for him

to actually speak to me rather than me just saying everything.

Ask those questions, because only then you take ownership of

your own faith.

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