Revival: Half Time | Elder Kien Yiak

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We are on the team of Reviver and want to

speak about half time. I won't say halftime. We are

in the mid We are in the month of June.

June is six months of the whole calendar year, and

it's a really good time for to take stock, really

to just ask yourself, are we going in the right

direction to your neighbor right now? And just as are

you going in the right direction? Oh, because I do

find that if we don't ask ourselves those questions right,

we can be the word they said, we can be

on the journey. On the journey, but yet I'll say,

get there to a place whereby you just ask yourself,

like how did I get here?

How that arrive here? I didn't sign up for this.

And sometimes we could be also on the wrong path,

on the wrong track. And this morning the lad wants

to remind us to get back to the right path.

Right now, as you look back from January to June,

we should just the word is that? Just ponder? I

just think, true, Wow, our highlights for this year? You

think for a moment, what has been our highlights. What

is the thing that pop up to you, like you

talk about the whole year, like from January to June, right,

and you are just just think about, like, yeah, what

what what can I celebrate this year six for the

first six months. It could be you know, like you

painted your room finally amen, hallelujah. Right, it could be

finally you wake up under your bait after well yeah, no,

it could be you know you work, you under your

bid after like years of procrastinating or doing that to

look and what's what's below your bait. I just wanted

to think, really, what can we give thanks for the

whole for for the past six months, because if if

you're not careful, we can just allow what God has

meant for celebration to go down and just be one

of those events that happens in your life. I remember

that you know that this year, man should go go

back to Clanton after many years, I went to Clanton

at the age of twelve, and UH had the privilege

stepped driving up to Clanton with the team and if

we ever from Clanton.

The love bless you. But we drove. We drove for

almost like close to twelve hours. I left.

Yeah, close to travel because I left Charlah and five

forty five got to go and with some at one pm.

The car broke down at one thirty stuck there for

two hours class to three. It's carrying because I want

to let you know that if you ever do plan

to drive to Clanton, please make sure your vikers it's

new and stuff like.

So hours was about thirteen years old by FAF. We

drove up.

I thought everything was all right, but you know, lo

and behold one part broke. And you know when when

things break down halfway, it's it's it's it's not a

bad thing, all right. It's not like you know your

life is cursed or your life is bad. But things

does happen. I let you know, the Bible says it

real on the righteous and unrighteous, right, so therefore meaning

to say that things will happen in your life. So

we shouldn't reflect and just say, oh woe, it's me

and my seeing and stuff like that. And uh and

and and I think when things happened, it does bring

you down. So the low points, it does bring you down.

When things happen, it does bring you down. The thing

is not for us to stay down for not for

us to like pity me and stuff like that. Ah,

I was feeling really down because like, oh man, I

thought I checked out. I check everything, but you know

you can't really check everything right. So anyway past just

we have to just tell the team a reminder and

say that God did not bring us all the way here.

We are about like maybe about half an hour to Kotabaru.

God did not bring.

Us all the way here for this mission to fail.

So then I words, God did not bring you all

the way until whatever it is you're at right now

for your life to fail. God You're not bring you

all the way to this hotel here for extra to fail.

So it is not about that failure or not about

that that the thing that sort did not work in

your life.

It's fun for us to stay there, right.

So the next thing we should ask that when you

saw a giant in your life, for example this year, right,

did you walk towards it or did you walk away

from it? Now, I won't quantify the word giant here.

Many times we think the word giant is huge, it's big,

it's just stuff like that, But it could be irritant

in your life, as small as a cockroach. That sometimes

we run away from instead of tackling the cockroach in

our life.

Right, It's one of.

Those things that we we look at it and go

like something you have to go through, something.

You have to overcome. But yet at the.

Same time, if you look towards it, you go like,

I'm so too tired. I'm too tired to tackle this again.

I'm too The word is that one out And if

you're not careful again that if you keep taking the stands,

if you keep taking.

The approach of like giant, I forget it.

I'll just detour like okay, I ditoy so many things

in my life read it myself, just tour to another path.

Another directions.

Okay, the Lord maybe not wanders to go to the

path because there are there are days in your life.

Want to let you know, there are days in your

life where by some music, instead of.

Bringing you strength, you will drain you.

Even before you start taking up the giant, drain you

really you or something.

You can imagine the conversation you're.

Going to have, right, you can imagine like by the

time you finished having this conversation with your boss, your management,

you just feel like one to go for another holiday, Right,

and I want to encourage you this morning, really that

we can draw lets from the parle of the ten Virgins.

We can really draw lessons from them. All right, So Matthew,

Chapter twenty five, I'm apologize again. I speak really fast

because I got about thirty slids in fifteen minutes.

I can't.

Okay, Methew, Chapter twenty five, Okay, verse one, I'm really

from the amplified version, all right. Then the Kingdom of

Heaven will be like the ten virgins who took their

lambs and when to meet the Bright Groom. Verse one

reminds us that life is about traveling and going on

a journey. Life is about going on to this power

where God wants us to go right, and the Lord

doesn't want us to go to a journey empty handed.

You know, sometimes when we go choosen. For example, you

wake up every day, you wake up every day, you

wake up every day. Right, I'm not sure how many

of us are prepared to go to work. And I

say prepared to go to worl I'm not talking about

getting dressed and just stuff that. Mentally, you seek the Lord,

ask God for wisdom, because if you're not careful, we

can just go admit the bright good without the lamb.

I want to let you know God has prepared the

lamp in your life for us to take it out

for this journey.

But I over show how many of us really that you?

When you wake up a huyo, I'm lily, Really, what

happens you rush out to the door?

Right? Have you ever made a U turn before in

your life? Half way?

I left my hand from behind all right, I left

my wallet behind right, I left.

I don't know love, I love my socks behind right.

Things does happen in first We do leave things better,

but that's because somebody.

We rush to things.

And many times I realize that when we rush you,

for example, especially when we finish work, finish work right,

five thirty maybe got another appointment? You know that you

have to live. It's a certain time to award the

jam right, and you rush to like you peck up

your stuff. You rush tough the dog, go to your

car and zoom off all in this car. That you've

got to take something in your house. Key happened to

me before, and I realized I tried to put the

practice up before I exit a room. Before I exit

a room, I need to need to just look at

it one more time slowly before you exit and go

on the journey.

We need to ask her did I bring everything?

So I have a privilege of taking Past to the

airport most of the time, and every time passes favel Oasis.

When passing center gets to the car, before I start driving,

you'll ask Past a question did you bring your passport?

Because you can forget everything.

You can forget your clothes, you can buy some over there, right,

you can forget everything, but you cannot forget a passport

because without the passport you cannot get onto the plate.

And sometimes in our life we think that it's okay,

maybe I make friends with Come on, if I make friends.

With the immigration officer Casie Chancellor. We haven't.

We have been there before, because we think that it's

okay to go on the journey to meet the bragger

without the lamb. As Christians, sometimes we operate on this level.

We think that it's all right to go on the journey.

It's okayller as so as I maintain my faith and

maintain my faith. And so I just kept coming to

church every Sunday. My faith is all right, and so

I just kept doing my religious I say religious, We

say that the reputation just coming to church giving an offering.

It is okay, God, what's going deeper?

Friends?

He wants us, he wants us to bring the lamb.

You know when you bring something for a trip, right.

Number one, everything you bring is away. Everything is a way.

It's a way. Even your handbag. It's like it is

a way because after a while, friends, he will asked,

I want to carry for you.

It is a way. Number two.

When you go on the trip, whatever you carry, Freds,

you'll find that there are things that you carry you

never use on you will never use. I'm not sure why.

So I went for a mission trip to but Cassie

one month ago, one man ago. I like to pack

like Freds, really like all the clothing. That's all you need,

all right, not the extra everything is used. Then you

feel check one hundred percent points all right? Not show

why that Sunday or rather that trip. I've decided to

bring extra pens. I've never want one pence, guys, come on, right,

been a mission treat one pence that's all you need.

That's all you need because what could happen? Carrie stage,

you can still wash it right and stuff like that.

I tell what happened. I got to the airport. I

got to the airport. I went so many mission treats

for the past twenty four years in church, so many

mission trips. Nothing happened before except last Bakassi trip. My

zip broke. Huh, it's never happened before. Friends, I just

talk to myself, well, thank you Jesus for asking me

to peck the extra pants.

You see, we can go to life.

Go to life thinking that it's okay because I've been

there before and therefore I don't need to or maybe

I've done that before, I've done mission trip before.

I nothing will happen one.

It's different if the zip broke when you're in Indonesia

because you can always buy another pants. It's very different

before you fly the zip bro because you can you

can't hide you stand up. People will be like, uncle,

your zip down there, right. You go to your You're trying,

you know what things happen. You try to cow up

and you want like you don't know, you just very

slowly because you're trying to come up. So the ten

virgins friends the time were just brought the lamb now

verse two.

Five of them were foolish.

How we think about foolish go like, oh, maybe they're

a bit there, but the Bible here said toddlers silly

and careless.

Maybe they were told but they didn't pay attention.

It's it's a generation thing, friends, every generation hire You

didn't tell me that I didn't do a low.

It's every generation grow up people like that one.

If you told me I've done it, if you've told

me you have done it, Yes, it's true. Something need

to be told, but not everything. Can we tell told?

Not everything that you know. It's it's house. I've met

people before, like elder, you didn't tell me, So now

do I say true? Maybe if I didn't tell you,

but I also want to see. The other thing was

as well, pretty much counsel. We did tell you how

to do it. You can still do it because I'm

let direct. Because if we were the plat consistency, pat consistent,

everything right?

What is sin? But you still sin?

Think about it for a moment because sometimes the protection mechanism.

Oh you didn't tell much, so I didn't be extra

all right?

So the five were there were foolish, and five was

why the wise had fast, sighted, practical and sensible meaning

they actually talk about the trip, they actually taught about

the trip. So sometimes in your daily life, have you

ever actually paid attention to what are you going to

do on the daily basis? What are you going to

do on a daily basis? My wife recently went for

medical checkup. Everything everything was okay, healthy and good. Accept

ah accept her liver or slightly fatiuty. Not because she

indulges herself with food. It's just because she just once

in all snack too much, peanuts, cheese and stuff like that.

It happens to our friends, the best of us, right,

So she said that I think I'm she's determined, determined

to get herself back to health. Determined to get herself

back to health, so she ran on the program right

when on the program not supposed to eat for certain hours,

only in for certain hours.

Two meals a day.

The meal is as size as the power of her

face a hand. That's it, right for at least forty

five days now, she said, in the journey of doing this,

In the journey of doing this, she discovered that it's

not about the program really alone. But we don't really

pay attention to what we eat. We don't we think

that just because something is labor organic and that's all

is good, just like life as well. You go to

on the journey, friends, we don't really pay attention. We

rush through the day. Rush you get to work. When

you get to work, the first thing we think about

is lunchtime. Where to eat right, because it's tough. Right

after lunch, friends, you come back, you're trying your body,

trying to overcome the cups in your stomach because between

that after lunch and one hour after lunch you fall asleep.

But here the Bible says the five wives were practical

fast that they knew there was on a day they

were going on the journey. Friends, Therefore they had to

make preparation. If you knew in a day what you

need to do, don't you think that you need to

ask God for wisdom? Because many times even't the best

of Christian friends, we don't the word is that do

our quiet time enough to ask God for wisdom? If

you're honest with our heart, friends, we think that we

can manage. God has never asked for management, friends, He

asked us to renew our mind.

It goes on worse three.

For when the follish took their labs, they did not

take extra oil with them. Come on, the foolish took

their labs. Wow, you rush to your right. It's always

they had the capacity, you know. Think about it. They

have the capacity to bring extra oil, but they didn't.

There's a lot of Christian they have got capacity to.

Do things, but they did not.

Really, I want to let you know, friends, God has

white everyone, you and me friends, for extra capacity, one

extra capacity. But sometimes because our shortsightedness, sometimes because our

silliness and carelessness, we forget or we opt not to

thinking that it is all right to go on the

journey without the lamb. Worse for but the wise the

wires took the flowers of oil along with them, and

then we could read on. Now, the bright group was delayed, delayed, delayed.

First in life, you get delayed, and they all begin

to knock out and fall asleep. But at midnight there

was a shout, Look, the bright Group is coming. Go

and meet him. Then all the wigs got up, put

their lambs in order, trim the wicks and add oil

at oil and lit them. Was it the foolish regions

say to the wise, give us some of your oil,

because our lambs are going out, the wedding feast and

the doors. Sorry, it was great. I'm sorry. I think

I can't pay wrongly there, give us some oil because

our lamb was going out.

I'm gonna pause you.

I'm going to go with my first point reflection or meditation,

you know, wors. It really reminds us of this, that

we can go to our entire life thinking that it's

all right, it's okay, it's all right, it's okay. Because

you're Christian, Ma, you're supposed to help me. Ma, you're

supposed to understand my predicament, my situation. Friends, when he

reads it really paused. Yes, it was a full day.

We had a we had a leader's meeting followed by

a shepherd's meeting. I got an evening birthday celebration without

the homies. But we went back to office, friends, just

to unload the staff, all of these cour friends. Our

office got flooded. It's not all the small. The pipe

is a four inch pipe. Water gosh down from level five.

Part of the school got wet flooded to level four office.

I called my table go because my table was pat

because I handed the accounts. My table was pat. Thank god,

my documents was there. My other Collique, who handed the

other accounts the fowers of the floor was wet. So

I told her that I think you have to repent.

Okay with her, I think you have to repair. Maybe

something's not right in your life, skinny skiddy. But we're

cleaning up. We removed all the tables. Friends, from what

supposed to be half an hour to unload became another

four hours of cleaning, vacuuming or wiping the table down, cowering,

and the entire office of plastic. So, friends, I want

to bring it to the first point. We have to

reflect or meditate because the wise brought extra oil, the

foolish didn't. Life is the journey and not destination. I

want to say this again, if it's the journey and

not destination. Because if it's a destination, Friends, we want

to rush to all the packing. Think about it for Momona.

If it's really the destination, you rush to your mornings.

I hate rushing too mornings because I felt that I

cannot leave the house unprepared. I cannot leave the house

unprepared when we come to church. I'm not sure how

much preparation we have before coming to church, or we

just turn on our faith or sign the prais law,

so you turn on the praise or a sudden or

did we start praising from the house to here? Because

this Sunday is a practice for Monday. Because if you

can do that for Sunday, friends, could you imagine what

could you do from Monday to Friday?

Right?

If life is a journey, friends, how have we been

walking through the destination? We all say life is the

journey of your understanding, but how have we been walking?

Very important for you and me to understand this because

in life, friends, sometimes pipe will break in your house. Yesterday,

one of our leaders, she was about to leave the house. Uh,

water hit, the plot got burned.

Burn. She got that.

She got a family member in the house. But she

text us, They say that I can't live my family

member alone. She not able to handle the contractor. I

could imagine the whole scenario. Last week I was at

Exepok church, cam down there, driving down to Jeho Barru.

I got a text for my brother say that had

a fall.

My dad fell down, cracked three reaps, three reaps got cracked. Crack,

thank god also broken just crack. Then texted me could

you could you come back I thought to myself, Oh,

easy for you to say her. You migrated to Singapore

the work I see, youngest sister migrated the proof to

work and whoever ever in Malaysia have to take care.

Of that, said my one. The only time to travel

that you asked me to make a youthurn. You know

at that moment in time, that was going through my mind.

Friends, because if life is journally, how have you been walking?

We can become very bitter friends. Why is it always

me just because you choose to stay and work in

Malaysia and your other sibling my great oases and what

over seys.

For our friends? Right?

And you have to take care of your aging parents.

We become very bitter. Every time got problem, you have

to make a you turn, can see your plans and

I pray about it. Friends, I pray about it. I

talked the past, I pray about it. I had to

call my brother asked how is that okay? When to

the hospital?

Right?

Right now?

I see you just checking everything that I thought in

the hospital is the best place right?

Number one? Number two? Is that that?

What can I contribute when I come back? Because even

if I make a youth turn, even if I make

a you to what can I contribute when I come back.

It's not like I'm a doctor. I go straight that

I see you fix him up and take it back

home a lot. I thank god I didn't say the

medical profession. So anyway, I thought about all this and

stuff that I told my brother this, when you're hitting

back to Singapore, he told me when Monday I said,

I'll be back on Tuesday.

There should be no problem.

I say, let that say in the hospital as long

as he needed, then I'll come back in this stuff

that he got this charge on Monday and I came

out on Tuesday.

See Fred's if.

Life is journey house, be walking because we can go

to live threads and carry all the bitterness, disappointment, anger

unknowingly friends, because if we knew that it was bad,

you won't take it up. I want you to understand this.

If we knew that it was bad, you won't take

it up. If we knew it was trash. Come on,

you won't carry back to Malaysia when you go to

Japan because when you go Jeope, there's.

No Babi's been right. So what you do?

You keep your trash in your back and you reash

back to your hotel. We can trade there. But how

we always actually take trash back from oz street one?

We don't.

But the problem here is is that sometimes in life, friends, disappointment,

hurt anger comes in a very nice packaging, and that's

why we keep them. But we'll never actually a pay

attention to what we take on our journey, what we

take on our life, because those things that we keep

friends will influence how we see things around us. So

what was the requirement that was needed to be with

the bright room?

Lamb and oil?

Come on, not just oil, friends, lamb oil and extra oil.

The problem here is these friends, a lot of us

are carrying lemon oil by no extra. And that's sometimes

the challenge is this that we need the extra in

our life.

Come on, we need the extra in our life.

To really overcome the tightness. You need the extra in

your life? Friends, what's the extra? Friends, passion? What's the

extra in your life?

Reds? Maybe sleep?

I used to operate on the four hour sleep cycle.

Four hour sleep cycle. My mom was a staff nurse.

She worked on she worked on sheaf. So I caught

this heaby from her. I saw her coming back from

work at seven am in the morning for night sheaf.

She sleeps until eleventh plus breaks up a cook for

the family and after that, somethimes go back to work

because something that's back to back sheaf and stuff like that.

So I caught this heabit from my.

Mom and because of that, I grew up the time

went to work. I don't know why, maybe because everybody

was doing it. Decided to work and study at the

same time. Not the wisest thing to do, friends, because

I just do my MBA without way for classes, I

are quite easier by first and this sales speech. But

this is the sales speech every everyone in education life.

It's very easy one. It's very easy one. It's a

repeat of your third year in your degree. Costs do

your MBA is very easy one. So with the sales

speech I brought into the sales speech. I studied that

I took. I took up the day and some subjects

I have to meet. It was very easy to pass.

I was am I was aiming to pass with me.

But there's some subjects I feel three times. So I

was studying and working at the same time. I thought

to myself halfway through the journey, asking myself, like why

on earth, the eye sign up for this? Why the

eye sign up to torture myself this way? Because it's

not about the lamb or the oil. Friends, it's about

the extra. Because though five foolish brought lemon or they did,

they beat the requirement. But it's the extra, the tough

fullness that's required. So in life friends, In life friends

you have disappointment, You will have disappointment, discouragement, everything.

On friends, you will have that. The challenge is not

about how to award all this you can't.

In life you will face discouragement, You face disappointment, You.

Face grieving as well. I lost my mom three years ago.

And sometimes I do think about her and stuff like

you do face moments like that. But in those moments

when it's not supposed to the word is bring you

to a place whereby the how do I get here?

It's those moments you say, God, thank you so much

for even allowing me to have time. So what is it,

friends in your life that you have been bringing in

your journey? If the fire fully shoes were slow were

to slow down assetself, why did the others being extra?

Perhaps you'll be prepare for the extra. It's not like this.

No, it's not like the five yes decide to go

on one car the five foolish said, go another car.

I guess they went on the same carrier went together.

The question here is is that how did they last

a long haul? And how why are they bringing extra?

Because sometimes in life you look at other people that

how do you overcome that disappointment? How do you overcome

the anger issue? How do you overcome that path? Because

sometimes we see but we don't ask. I guess the

five foolition saw the extra. It's not friends, I want

to let you know. The extra was those small little

like like a sample perfume that they give up at

the Counterwe you know.

They get put in your pocket. I don't think so

that it would last loer.

I guess it has to be a jot at least

or something like that, right or two? So if we do,

if they actually did slow down and ask themselves a question, yeah,

what do you be extra, maybe they could have understand

the situation. Because our heart and our mind run faster

the biblical process on. Maybe you look at the church,

for example, you look at the church. Oh yo, you

you come to extras to go maybe like so small,

but I presented some numbers of the leaders yesterday and

every attendance, every shit.

I wish attendance for our church in HM thank Medley.

Right, it's about thousand, thousand, one hundred or added up.

We saw about twelve salvation and twenty four reddication from

January to June. So if we want to slow down

and go that, Hey, the reason why we're doing this.

We want to make sure that everyone gets involved in church,

involved in the life of the church, involved in serving

the Lord. The bigger the church is something that we

can hide and we be so so many people when

we are only one service. People were weren't serving the Lord,

just coming because good people fitfully serving one friends, and

we don't be a church whereby the next thirty years

the same people serving so passa can have really caught

from the lassa. You grow small so that everyone has

opportunity to serve. Right, So we brook it down with

the leaders threads. We went straight to homes, some homes

that were submit the homes reposses last year. I want

you to know that some homes does submit the homes

reposses last year. See, when you grow small friends, you're

able to zoom in and there's one home belongs to

extra us. There was submit the homes reposses last year.

The person is laughing in front of Hey, he's the

home leader. That's why. See first, if you were to

slow down and said so, we have to tell the

leaders we are not here to embarrass anyone. Maybe you

have submitted, so please go easy on the leaders. Please

go easy on the leaders. Okay, please don't scream and

shout at there. Why you're so lazy and we could

serve it. Please, going by the way of encourage us,

I say, yeah, I think you submitted, and maybe the

email you look Sometimes email go wrong with a first,

but I have to see it. Maybe you submitted your

report and they didn't get to us, so it's our thought.

Don't worry about it. Can you submit right now?

All right?

If we were to slow down, friends, we remember the

birthdays he would have slowed down. We remember to say

thank you if we would just slow down or a bit.

We remember to take our car keys or house keys

from the office. In life because the pressure, because of

the pressure, maybe not just pressure, friends, I'm not saying

pressure is bad. I'm just saying that life itself, how

we see things how we couldn't let certain things go

causes you to push you forward immediately to exit a room,

to go to another room. If only the five fully

showed to ask himself when they talk to the five

wise one, Yeah, why do you being an extra oi?

But why do you see you serve so many years

you could up the easy way out?

Why if you take some time to ask, maybe you

can find an answer. So it's not about asking the

world friends, I want to say again, it's not about

asking because the warld friends every and the word this

is that everyone gets hooked up with an either we

have one, they miss people all can't. People are very

successful out there. It's not wrong, but it's not the right.

It's not totally right as well. Right, So it's not

about asking the world or the surroundings to slow down.

Come on, sometimes we asked we want thing to slow,

We want everything around us to sol out. First the

world is slowing down. Things around won't slow that one?

You can't tell your boss, can you so for me

to catch up? Most probably ask you to leave. I

know of a person who actually told the boss this, boss,

thank you so much for hiring me. But the job

that you give to me is a lot. Can you

hire extra stuff for me? You know, can you hire

extra stuff for me to accomplish what you hire me

to do in the first place. This is after two

months in the job. I'm not sure how many of

us really can tell our bosses there because it don't

you know, there's a one way ticket, friends for whole

storage to show that you're not really competent or understanding

how the office works. But so about asking the world

around us to slow down. It's all asking this around

about but it's it's about us taking time to be

still with the Lord. Joshua one was insists, I'm going

to close with these words. This mode of low shall

not depart from your mouth, but you shall read meditate

on it. Come on, read, meditate on it, day and night.

The problem here is that we found out that some leaders,

some people survive on one scripture a.

Day on the Bible app. That's my Bible reading plan.

Come on, one scripture a day, that's my Bible reading plan.

Now, if that's you you first, I do not know

who you are.

My last time is for extras was about four months

ago or something like that.

While you're still in the BA Black come.

Site, right, so I not know who you are by friends,

do not do not, do not just survive or on

scripture to day, because that ain't gonna help a lot.

How about you're supposed to meditate on the day and night.

So if Joshua in the Book of Joshah, God reminds you,

this book shall not be put from you. Therefore, the

most important thing when you start the day is should

they be the book? We prepare our breakfast very well

one friends, all night oats takes all the dedication.

Praise the Lord, hallelujah. Right, we prepare breakfast great to most.

We prepare meal prep meal prep right, you mall prep

for one or one whole month. We prepare everything except

for our spiritual life. So by what here says that

this book of the Lord shall not depart from your mouth?

We missed to say. Friends, have you ever tried reading word? Allowed?

Think about it for a moment.

Now, really, God's well, it's different from just reading the

book the silent Leo and friends. But you're really there

and night, so that you may be careful to do

everything in the gardens with all this written for, then

you make your way prosperous and then you'll be successful.

This how I'm going to close and just want to

just courage you off first to meditate, before you could

even meditate. First you need to slow down. Before you meditate.

You need to slow down because in life, like I

say again, it pushes you on friends. After these friends,

you'll be pushed to make a decision where to eat,

and that's one of the life toughest decision.

Where to eat.

Tomorrow you'll be pushing making a lot of decision before

before friends, you get push you need to slow down

and meditate.

God, what you're saying to me? God, what are you

speaking to me?

I've learned for Passic Is this that before you go

into meetings, ask God for wisdom, not just the minute

before the meeting. Pass cannot give me an insight. Sometime

before a big meeting, he thinks about two weeks to

pray and say, God, give me wisdom, tell me speak

to me journey like, Lord, what do you want.

Me to say?

Because sometimes we rush to even sometimes our prayers. Is God,

I'm going for my next meeting right now, give me wisdom.

Thank you Lord, Jesus name Amen, right, thank God.

Listen. There's one prayer, but could you imagine you actually prepared?

So I got these gleams, really these gleams.

From some other people, axing up Aul, our camp command

and Vivian. Vivian prepared for the camp one year and

at once fast of all close to a year before

the camp. The camp committee for its is thirty people.

The church is seventy plus people, so fifty percent sign up.

A ready for kem think about it? She fast, She prayed.

She just say, God, revive us, God speak to us.

Use every session. It's not about just before the next.

There's power in it because sometimes now something is not

planning on, but some many things I plan.

Pray.

You have to slow down, friends, because it's halftime right now.

Come on, you have to slow and say God, is

this something I need to let go? Because it can't

be friends, I'm gonna say that it can be every

time every time I think about the person, anger comes

in the first. The first feeling is anger. The first

feeling is disappointment, the first feeling that I don't.

Talk to you. I do want to what you.

It can't be dead friends, it can't be you come

to a place whereby everything else is rushing and pushing

you you're just going with the flow.

How is your quiet time?

Because quiet time is the time when you slow down

nothing else really matters. So it's so important, friends, It's

really so important to slow down. God, what is it

that you want me to do? What is it that

you want me to hear? Because here I am Lord,

I'm listening. This book of the law shall not depart

from your mouth. But you'll meditate on the day and night.

I'm not asking us to resign from our job, to

go to obsircular place to just get stoked in by

masking us. Really to slow down, to meditate, to pause

for a moment if you read something. I'm not sure

where they have time. I just don't kill I'll just

tell example. I'm going to be late for a while,

but turn with me right now, just quickly. The sum

step the tree, just that I just want to show

you something, Okay, I'm reading for the amplifying Uh, some

chep the tree? Who was stept the three worse two?

Many are saying to me, there is no help, no

salvation from him in God, many are saying.

Many people are saying there's no help.

And somebody you get respell like you know, things around

you tell you that no help comes from here and

from God. But the something you put there, pause for

a moment. Between two and three, there's the word selah.

There means pause for a moment, next the next worse.

When you pause for a moment, friends, it helps you

to think about you. Although are a shield for me,

my glory and my honor, and the one who lifts

up my head with my I was cryings for with

my woice. I was crying to the Lord. He answered

me from his holy mountain. Come on, he answered me,

from his holy mountain. Pause, he answered me. God came

to for you. Pause for a moment, because God answers

your God, because you know that God is real, comes

the next words here, which is worse. For I'm able

to lay down and sleep. The problem is not about

the mountains and the promise that we don't pause.

Right now.

In our church, we are trying to move away a

lot of things from a person. We grow the church

from tree to where we are right now. You know

when you're small, because everything surrounds your decision making. But

when you're bigger, ready you have to work through system,

money and many times in our life as we don't

go work to a stir.

We golden.

You just work depends on a person. And why if

the person is not well not able to everything all

fails after that. That's why, after all the church are

we hating to the right place? If you were one thing,

the church to grow, church to go. Therefore, we need

to realign certain things. As I close, friends, I want

to encourage you. Life is really a journey. It's not

a journey whereby you just go empty. The word is

say you don't know what to bring. The lords reminding

you bring your lamb, the oil and extra oil. Don't

rush shoe the day We'll ask yourself like, hey, why

are you bringing the extra oil? Because you can miss

the moment where you meet the bright groom. You can

miss the moment of your opportunity. Friends, we can go

to life, like I say again, carrying stuff they're not

meant to carry, not meant to somethings that really packaged nicely.

Your disappointment, discouragement are all packaged so nicely. If you're

bringing things with us we have we let these certain

things go just a close.

I pray with you all.

I'm so sorry if I rush through these apologies again,

but let me just let me pray for your possibly

back the chairpersis.

Will you look to God right now?

Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus, thank you Holy Spirit.

Father.

In the name of Jesus, we look to you right now. Lord,

that you are a god for sustain us, who loves us.

For I pray for everyone here.

Lord, that we learn to just take a pause, moment,

a halftime right now, to look where we are at,

to look into our own hearts, to ask ourselves. Am

I not just hitting the right direction? Am I going

to the direction with the right attitude? Gladness of heart?

Is my heart pure before you? Lord? If just if

my heart is not in the line of your Lord,

I want to learn to surrender before you right now.

And Lord, would you help me to align b my heart?

Would you help me to have the extra oil? Because Lord,

with the extra oil, Lord, I can enter into the banquet.

With the extra oil, Lord, I can enter the opportunity

you have prepared for me.

Lord.

So I pray for everyone here when we experience you

in a fashion new way. Lord, in Jesus' name, Lord, Amen,

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