Unpacking the vision of Acts Church session 3 | Pr. Sandra

You're listening to a message to go from AX Church.

We hope this message will light up your day.

The Lord wants us to be ready for it, and

that's what we're going to talk about today. And we're

going to continue to raise disciples, raise Daniels to be

sent into the marketplace. So that is where we left

off last month in sometime early December, and then we

stopped because everybody was on holiday, so we wanted to

make sure everyone's back. And they're still on holiday anyway,

So privileged there are people there always have time for holiday.

Are you sorry? Ellie's not on holiday, She's back for

the Lord. Amen, blessings. Yeah, on, Ellie was here with

us today from our bank service. Amen. Cool God Cole.

All right, so we're going to talk about the preparation.

So we're gonna go back a little bit in the time.

We're dinosaurs now in a time when the pandemic happened.

I feel so long ago. I remember past us sharing this,

I remember even speaking the theme uh in twenty twenty one.

In February of twenty twenty one, all was recorded. We

were all in our homes and then I was being

recorded in twenty twenty one. The Lord had downloaded this

word from Daniel chapter two. So Daniel chapter two, if

you have time you read it from the book of Daniel.

You know the story of Daniel who was the like

an administrator, like the second man to the king, King Nebukazza.

And in this chapter two, verse twenty seven to twenty eight,

if you look at the what's up on the thing there?

All right? So the king had a dream, and the

king wanted his his servants to in the the dream

all right, and and tell interprise one thing, tell him

what he dreamt. He who can dream your dream? Law,

I don't know what you I don't know what you

dream last night. But this king them more, he was

so like, so interesting a person that like he really

tested his all his wizards and all his wise men,

and said, you have to not only you know, interpret

this dream. You gotta tell me what the dream is

and then interpret it.

Right.

So he says the secret wish the king so then

so so none of them could do it. None of

them could do it. And but Daniel was given the

grace to do it. The annointing came on him. And

so Daniel answered, in the presence of the King and said,

the secret which the king has demanded, secret my your dream?

Who dreams your dreams? Right? Do you dream in color?

Black and white? Ah? Okay, the secret which the king

has demanded. The wise men, the astrologers, and the magicians

and sooth sayers cannot declare to the king. But everybody say,

but there is a God in heaven. Everybody, Amen, there

is a God in heaven who reveals secrets. And he

has made known to the king Nebukenesa, what will be

in the latter days? Amen. So this is where the

Daniel chapter two, there's a display of God's power of

the of this first of the revelation of this dream

he had, and then the interpretation, and he says, but

there is a God in heaven. So this king Nebo

is going to find out who is King of Heaven,

of the heavens, is, King of kings is? And it coincides,

doesn't it tie in with habakok Chapter two, verse fourteen. Amen,

The theme of our church that the knowledge of the

glory of the Lord the like the waters of the

sea covered the earth, because they want to know who

this glory of the Lord is. And so Daniel was

given the revelation now a bit like Joseph, but not

like Joseph. Joseph only interpreted the dreamau say, Joseph, the

King told him, no, it is what I dreamt. And

then what was the interpretation? Now the King is saying,

what is my dream? And interpret it? Double man double right? Okay,

kind of like a Joseph, but not it's one level up,

you know, not a level up. Daniel had to interpret

and also tell what the dream is. So as you

look at your books there, so this is this is

where Daniel was at. And so the only way to

do it is really by the supernatural power of God.

So from that time what was revealed to us in

twenty twenty one for our church and it's still going

doesn't mean full stop at the end of taking to anyone,

because God is every he's forever, he's eternal, he's limitless.

So from that time onwards we declared that this would

be this, this the year of supernatural power of the miraculous,

about the Spirit of God moving like never before, and

also the release of gives manifest, the gifts of the

spirit manifested and come to pass. So so what what

is what was downloaded to pass us. He had this

vision and this word was the word. The theme PROPHESI

to prophesy is to how do you prophesy? We have

to use our mouth. Okay, so if we if you

and you won't remember twenty t anyone, but I remember

speaking and telling you the Hebrew word co you know,

and the no no, no, Hebrew is not co. But

but hero is the word mouth and and it is

a picture of like an open mouth. So we need

to have a mouth, a mouth that's ready to speak,

not speak cursus speak, blessing speak truth. Amen. And so

we want to see the supernatural happen. It can happen

through you because God's spirit is working in you, the miraculous,

the healings that when you pray for your friend, here

wave healer, heydeck start with the hey deck Versla, start

with the toll pain verse. I know you scared right

to pray as you suddenly pray for get No. I

remember praying for someone, a person I don't know what sickness.

I say, I can't do this, but I had to

because I was the only one there, you know, And

I said, you want the person dies? I don't know.

And sometimes you pray people die how you how No,

God not alive. I don't know. But then you gotta

just step up to it and trust God. Right, I'm

not the healer. He is so so the year that

we said, brother sigh into being right. The Spirit of

God moving, so, the supernatural, the miraculous, the Spirit of

God just moving like never before. And it continues, it

doesn't stop it twenty twenty one, the Lord revealing to

us and each of us we actually have the opportunity

to move in the gifts of the Spirit. Yeah, we mustn't.

It's not only the pastor or the perfect it's you.

Everyone has. We believe God has released the gifts to

the body of Christ. So this word prophesy was downloaded.

And so because Daniel opened his mouth and became a vessel,

a mouth peace for the Lord to speak God's word

to the king and reveal the power of God. Amen

and man, so we can allow like make ourself when

you surrender you you are the vessel of God. Amen,

right to use you to speak that Word's in the

right time. God has placed the Daniels. You are Daniels

in the marketplace we got. You're out there working right,

and don't be so shocked that you are in this job,

in this place, and you know, making friends with your

colleagues or your clients or you know, whoever God brings.

And then then you say, I don't know why hear.

Don't say that you're here because God give you a purpersona.

So get ready your mouth must don't simply open mouth

to catch the no everything God, let God you opened

up our God give you the word? How does he

give you the word as you dwell in God's word?

As you read God's word? Right? Everybody? Remember me, yob,

I told you. I'm going to remind you. I told

all of X already buy your own biblelah, bring your

own bible. Lah. Don't give me e bible lah my bibles? Yeah, okay.

You know I grew up in a in a generation

where we carried our Bibles and our notebooks, and the

girls who all of us had baskets, and we carried

our baskets. You know, I'm not that old, but I'm

old enough, and and we used to carry our bibles,

and we love to what bible you bought, you know,

and you know now nobody want to walk with the Bible.

I don't know whether you're going to church. So how

they know you're going to church when you carry your bible?

What are you going to church?

You know?

No wearing your cross, were wearing wearing the Bible. So

bring your own bible. So we need the word of

God so that we can feel it. Right, amen. So

the theme prophesy was downloaded from the Lord in your notes.

And all of us must learn and be ready to

speak God's words at the proper time. There will be

the right time. So suddenly someone in your office, your boss,

you know you, and I'm sure you've had those experiences.

And then when your boss trusts you, they talk to you.

And then now the word of the Lord will come

to you. And you just have to be bold and

courageous and full of faith and speak that word because

the God, there is a God in heaven. Yeah we

say that, y'all. You know he and your son you

a canto, I know, managing speaking. So we are from

kay L's cante. Okay, all of you from cannot speak

and gone like this, why why hey? Why? Also? But

must learner can te? Okay? All right, what kind of

words can tho? All right? What kind of words can

you speak? You're gonna speak words or blessing. No, so

many times what's a negative? Words? Negative words? Words? Right?

Sometimes you say so are you your face? And today

if you're a mom, or if your husband or wife,

you know, we always forgot do your hair like Hella,

you know, but maybe we need to learn to have

some of God the Holy Spirit in us. Where wish

la people good morning, not bad morning, words of life,

words of encouragement, peace, words of faith, healing, deliverance, prophecy,

it's written there and sometimes it's words of discernment. You

never know how God will speak to you. Because you

stay close to the Lord, you're doing your quiet time.

The Lord will just use you to speak. Sometimes you

put a word. Sometimes you give you a name of

a person and you go up to that person. You

don't know why, but then you just say hello, how

are you? First? And then then the Lord will give

you law or he might or she might tell you,

and then you the word will be released. And then

because God wants to show his power working through you,

and it all begins with us to be willing to

speak God's word. Amen. It could be even offering, some

offering somebody, can I pray for you?

Ya?

We're so scared, you know, even do say, can I

pray for you? Don't be scared? Scared sometimes right, especially

if they are, you know, not non believer, but they

are the ones who need to experience the power of God. Amen,

prayer a prayer, open your mouth and pray in the

name of Jesus. Amen, and I tell you something will happen. So,

with all this going on, what is God doing? He's

calling us to prepare. That's why we talked about two

sundays ago about the preparation is preparation time to twenty thirty?

Then I remember people say so after twenty thirty, Oh yeah, No,

after twenty thirty, all of you are evangelists. All of

you are one thing. Judge, I don't know. You're recipling.

That is the heart of God for us, you believe

it or not. I have to keep reminding you, like, okay,

So we must all believe, re mind each other. Amen.

So God is calling us to prepare. Amen, So you

can fill in the blanks there, all right, you can prepare.

So it is therefore our responsibility to bring the umbrella. Okay,

you are not going to bring the rain. You're not

going to carry the rain like how are to get

the one thousand? How to reach one thousand? No, God

is telling us not to worry about, uh, the how

I do this? How the responsibility for us is to

bring our bred luck, not our responsibility to bring the

rain a man, So don't worry about how I'm going

to reach the masses, but be concerned and be focused

on doing our part. It's open your mouth when it's time.

It's about preparing to the world. It's about believing the

vision that God has given to us that we will

we will make disciples. A man, let's go back to

make disciples. We are going to raise leaders, and we're

gonna send daniels out into the marketplace. You hear this

over and over again. Amen, hallelujah. So the preparation for

the journey ahead? How do we do this? There must

be a how to prepare? So we are given firstly,

the three c's plus two bonus c's So got five

c's okay, all right, if you follow past the kenachin

everything got C C C E, E B B p

bbb okay. So we're all learning for him. Okay, So

what will we need to prepare for the journey ahead?

The first three c's the first C. Try to follow her.

The first C is the word conviction. Conviction Do you

believe or not? You see, if you don't believe in

what we are sharing, then how will we even begin? Ah?

All right, So if you know you've God always when

he wants to do something, he needs us to believe.

Only believe. Right, you read all of the all of

the gospels. The poor Man's Child was you know, we've

cigarette had the unclean spirit and then and then or sick,

or anyone of the people whose parents who say, oh, Jesus,

help my unbelief. I believe, but I have unbelieved, Help

me Jesus. So Jesus just said, only believe. So God

wants us to believe a man, it starts with believing

and our church motto in the short sort of short

mission statement. That's a longer one, but the short one

is helping everybody saying it. Okay, Hence we need to

catch this vision. Vision has to be caught. It cannot

be taught. Court means you have to see, you have

to observe, you have to watch, then you catch same.

Have your mother got some kong fu, make laxa or

make tim a WOA or anything. She can tell you

a hundred times. I also can. I can. I can

hear my mom tell me this is the recipe. But

until I watch her make that dish, then I learn. Right,

that's why you two is such a blessing. I think

suddenly when YouTube came alive, now everyone can cook, she came,

now everyone can fry, Now everyone can cook? Right because

I might open night, I'm like, oh, this is how

you do it so easy, And I dared to do

it because I'm not a very adventurous specific I don't

waste my ingredients. So like, yo, how oh no God, YouTube? Watch?

I watch? Okay, didn't I try? Right? So it's same

with our faith. Amen, And we started believing we have

to catch the vision. We want to have one thousand

people if our partners are one thousand, one thousand catching

it by watching and following. Amen, hallelujah. Okay, So we

must believe, all right, and that and that will help

us already open the door to see what's more. Amen.

So first one is conviction to catch the vision. Second,

see is condition all right, we need to centralize these conditions.

What are the conditions? Now? What the conviction that God

gave to pastor was that through this verse? In Judges

twenty one twenty five twenty one twenty five Judges, it

says in those days there was no king all right

in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his

own eyes. So it's true that if you run a company,

or you do even in your family, if everyone wants

to do their own thing, we will never meet the

goal of your company. Hospitals have a goal, hopefully, I

hope it's to save lives, all right, So everything you

do is to emergency is to save a life, not

let him die cannot right, is to save a life, right,

no matter how bad it is, true or not, no

matter how go. Yeah, the person looks at because we

experienced before they brought a child that was born and

led left to die. If you remember Doris German German Dorris,

all right, the child was left to die. What is

the hospital is supposed to do? The hospital is supposed

to bring life? My hospital, No, the hospital lord baby

and say it's going to die, just leave it, give

the medicine to kill it. Because it looks so the

baby was so mangled. But the goal of any medical

care is to care, not left to die, all right.

It's not up to use to say he looks like

this afore he will die. So hospital do that. Whatever

your company. If you're an insurance company, you want to

make sure people get insurance, all right, all right. So

the goal a church, a family, any organization cannot move

forward if we are not united, and if we don't

see the same things, if we don't believe the same things,

if we don't catch the same things, that's tough. That's tough.

So as a church, God has downloaded this to our

founding senior pastor shared it with leadership. We are twenty

six years old. We've been growing as we have. It's

because step by step we have followed by the guidance

of the Holy Spirit. And so we can't just decide

I want to do this way. I want to follow

that church down the street. Hello, then go and join

the church. It's okay because they have a vision. But

I can tell you every church vision is to save

the last layer. Nobody don't save the last layer you

have you don't like this vision. Extra, I went to

a lot of judge. I'm speaking of many judge. I

see Sam Sam Moore, same samere I'll also go and

make disciples. Oh, so let down the netler Yo. I

don't think there's any abdolla. Others also like to say

make disciples. Here, we also make disciples. Why may people

believe our judge because I make disciples? Way? Oh, now

to make disciple work. This is how you make disciple. Okay, here,

no nonsense, and we disciple you all right, because you're serious?

All right. I don't let you do what you do, because, however,

unites a vision important to centralize. There is a condition.

So we centralized. We set the conditions of how things

should be done so that we are all clear and

we can understand the same thing. Amen, and not left

anyone do what you want them. Anything can happen. What's

the point, right, So we must write the vision down

and run with the vision. Right. Read that Inhabit Cook

earlier chapter. So this is where we're saying, this is

the way follow it. So we're centralizing training as well

this year. Amen. We want to be able to bring

everyone through. We don't want people to don't know what

to do, then spread it out and then do other things.

Cannot law. Okay, there is no leadership. There is there's

no way to lead it's difficult, right, So we want

to say, don't just do what you think is right.

Please do this way because this way produces fruit. Now,

a lot of people might not see it. Friends, now,

but after twenty six years of running and more, I

can tell you there is a way to disciples. There

is a way to grow church, and there's a way

to do church. You're not just everybody I like you?

Where is today? Are like? No? That's why we ask

you to dress up, because we believe in dressing our best. Okay,

dress your best. There's a way we want to please

the Lord. So we said this is the way. Like it.

Don't like it, Okay, then you have redecide like you Okay,

But that's that's why we condition. All right. We want

to prepare for the journey ahead. Amen, all right, not

do what you think is right now. If you want

to do what you think is right, then it's going

to be hard to be a united team, because when

we are united, we can go further. Not one only

can a jin running the vision alone? We all run?

Can it run?

No?

No, forest gum, but maybe you're not born yet. Okay,

but forest gum, But but we all catch it and

that's important. He's not a lone ranger. He's bringing all

of us along, and any one of you can plunge,

can disciple, Amen, can go through the difficult chalness. What

we're teaching you to do that, Amen, we train you.

Third sea is cooperation. We need to cooperate. We need

to have a commitment. Amen. So commitment can to the

coffer sea is conviction. Conviction, as I says, is you

believe or not I believe to That is a conviction

that comes from the lot. And then we have the

condition and centralizing only can come through the leaders, from

leaders teaching. However, even if they are all the conviction

and condition, if there's no cooperation and commitment from everyone,

we have nothing not nothing. Cannot Oh, I cannot because

you are not agreeing? All right, we cannot, we cannot,

we cannot commit. So it says yea, the vision is

nothing without the provision. God always provide. And who is

the provision? People? Amen, Lord, your neigh say people, Oh

you are important. Amen, you are important. Phrase God. It's

not to misuse the people. It's that God choose to

use you. He always choose to use someone to help us. Well,

we have we are praying all we always choose, always

share right, live by favor, no money. You are right

noyly by faith. Then we pray God provided. And you're

hoping some monkey and the tree will throw the money

down right, But there ain't no monkey from the tree.

But it's always somebody. A person said to take from

people sometime that you if you are not like, you're

not open to take from people. But God choose the

Gloria to give you. Then then problem is you don't

like Gloria. Ha, then you I cannot think from Gloria

do like? But God use Gloria to give you all.

So wife says, God always choose people. He made you,

He chose us. It's a privilege to work with the Lord. Amen.

Is he doesn't use systems. He doesn't just use a strategies.

It's always a person. The answer is in a person.

I cannot give you a system or strategy and how

to reach your family member who is not yet in

the Lord. He will use you. He will find ways

through your lives. And you know through things that you

can you alone can bring because God speaks through people. Amen.

He didn't send a donkey, he didn't send a cow.

He said Jesus. The blood of Jesus had to be

shed for us. If a monk in mon if a

cow and a sheep's blood could have handled it, he

would have sent you the cow or gold and silver. No,

it's not by silver and gold. You have not been

saved by silver and goal. You have been saved by

a person who gave his life for every person on

the face of the earth, if we choose to receive it. Amen.

So these treaties are how to prepare ourself number one?

Do you believe? Conviction Number two? The condition we need

to have the same way length. We need to be

on the united team. And then there needs to be

called operation. Let's commit together, Amen, and God will. This

vision cannot do without God's provision. And this provision comes

in the form of you and I. Amen. Just the

two of us. We can make it if we try. Amen.

That's a song. Okay, all right, all right, there's the

two of us. We can make it if we try.

Seis two of us, Not me and the donkey, me

and the sound system. No, it's you and me. You

and I can do something. Amen with the lot. So

the bonus seas two other seas is community. Amen. So

as you follow through community. God doesn't want us to

move forward alone. He doesn't want us to work about

reaching people the one thousand by ourself. Not only can

a chain alone doing it by himself don't work in isolation. Amen,

like he give that. But if he wants to lose

weight and I keep cooking all the really yummy food,

don your style of food can go very yummy. He

will never lose weight. And I keep making all my

lovely cakes and desserts, sugar is bad for him. My

husband needs to lose weight, okay, all right, because sugar.

Now go help getting all the all these things are

you know help. So if I don't together help him

together do the weight control, we will we won't make

it right. So we need the community. I need to

be my husband's community, all right. Today, He's not alone

fighting the sugar levels. All right. I also get healthier,

all right. So husband and wife doing it together, church,

partner's doing it together. Friends doing it together. And you

know this, you know this right, community going growing together.

Don't No one goes alone. A man don't don't think

about this vision there we are talking about a huge

tumlow church. You know we will want to do this together. Amen.

We we call it community because community means support and

and a lot of people like to use a community,

but what does it mean. It means support. We need

each other. I need you, you need me, Just the

two of us, we can make it if we try,

all right. A community that truly cares really is a

safe community. We need a safe community, and and and

and there are people who have found safety in the

community to go through the hardships to do things that

are alone very difficult. Yeah, we are here as a

community to support, amen, right. And a big part of

community and over all of us serving together is communication.

Are your communication? Let's get better at it? Okay? Because

I think I think Richard knows why. I think he

cannot read my mind? What's the word? I don't know

what you want? You know? You know you know what

I don't know? All right? Same in a marriage, husband,

you know, waited for so long you found your what

you call it, the one in your life? Okay, before marriage?

Why you read my mind? After marriage? You can't read

my mind? All right? And I tell your wives you

just have to tell your husband what you want because

he cannot read your mind. Maybe after forty years. He

can loop I'm not married forty years' married thirty years.

My other reads me quite well, but sometimes he can't.

He gets me wrong because my feelings my feelings. But

I won't tell him all right? So communication number one,

number one ingredient in making a marriage work is communication.

Husband and wife must talk honestly. And this is the

church is the bride of Christ and the marriage looks

like that as well. We are God's church. We have

to communicate. But the problem is, I say, JUNI, can

you please tell that's the Gloria like that. I agree

with you her can, But the Bible says no. If

you're offended, you go and tell the person. I'm offended

by you, Edward, but were skeed? Are we scared? I

don't know. Maybe I'll lose my friendship? Maybe you get

angreet me. I don't know why we're scared. We don't

want to be the baddy, but you, I'm offended by you.

If only we can just look at it as so

what I did you see that thing?

Our hood?

What are you saying? Okay? But we don't. So I

go and tell Gloria A can you tell him he's

not a job? But Okay. If I told him and

he still says no, but I'm offended. I don't care. Okay.

Then I bring Gloria second person, and I say, Gloria,

I told Edward I don't care. Came out of the judge.

Oh I know. I'm saying. That is a way the

I will. In Matthew chapter eighteen says, if that is,

go and communicate. He don't. He still don't admit. Take

another person, your pastor, your elder, goal, your home, lead

the top. Please understand the situation. Let's try iron it out.

We need to communicate. Amen. So communication we can get better.

Any one of us can get I can get better.

Maybe when you hear me raise my voice, you say

passes and angry that I'm saying. No, I'm just very excited,

but want your sounds so ground. No, I just very excited.

Got wrong. But but you have to say, you have

to know my heart, and I have failed as a

pastor whereby my my just members that past I can't

see your heart. Oh that is true. You have to

spend a lot of time with me, then you know

my heart. So those early days I lost members because

my voice very loud. Why you never stay for prible

study or all the students you score me here, I say, no,

I want you to grow communicate nicely, say nicely, hey,

but I was studying. Will help you know, hey, I

was study of course, our communication all right, bye, I went,

I say sorry to them, cook for them, and I said,

please forgive me. Some came back like the rest in comeback,

but today they are lost in Jesus. Sorry, say ah,

I did my partner? Sorry there phone ringing also? Okay,

so communications sorry? Oops? All right, okay, So what is

the motivation of our community then? Right? Okay, so we'll

never go to a community that truly cares. Is a

community that is truly safe. We said that sometimes we

might feel we don't need anyone. Don't be like that.

We are not an island. We need each other. So

a big part is communication. The motivation of community. What

motivates the community is love. That's why you all are friends. Man.

You like each other, you call each other out, you

invite each other because you like each other, and also

you love right, you love people. That's a safe community.

I suppose when you know you are loved and accepted,

people open up and that comes with building a strong community.

Over time. Doesn't happen overnight, but over time. Amen. So

that's why in Luke chapter ten, verse twenty seven, he says, yeah,

the Lord Jesus said. So he answered and said, you

should love the Lord your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, with all your strength, with all

your mind, and also love your neighbor as yourself. So love.

We all want to be loved, and we also want

to give love. We are made that way, man, and

that builds community, that makes it a safe place. So

because of time, I just ran on first five things

we can learn about love MHM. Number one by things

I look, we must look out for each other. Okay,

so I go to it first because it's on the

screen in your book, right, look out for each other.

Then number two, we must listen, not just talking talking,

Gotta listen to people's heart, all right. See. Third one

is lend, always ready to to stop and lend a

helping hand when you see a need. I'll tell you,

I'll come back, tell you the story. Then lead, So

so we lead means that you are the example, and

I told you before a story of Aida, sister Aida

from Mandarin Service. Lead means consistently confidently and courageously by example,

meaning you go to come, you go to work every day,

and and and sister Aida will go to work every

day and she would say, good morning. I don't know

tao on all right, tao on tenn tao an nobody

nobody on her back all right. So for weeks and

weeks and nobody tell on her huh. And then finally

one day she keep doing it consistently. Finally one voice

it back to her, and then slowly two voices came

back to her and said, And finally everybody said to aunt,

all right. And then it became a habit in the company.

Why cannot say good morning? She said? And finally she

had to leave the company one day and then they said,

oh no, we're going to miss the child one person.

And then we don't have a child on person anymore.

But they can keep doing it, right, So you lead

the way and then leaves love leaves, meaning you leave

a legacy because people watch you doing and they want

to do it, a legacy worth following and continuing without compulsion.

They will they miss you and you're not around. So

Ada was missed when she was not around. Amen. So

the story about just to bring the picture of what

love does is you look. So the story it goes

with Pasta going for morning. What this happened during the pandemic.

We could still walk in our parks and a lot

of people walking the part. And there was this man

who was a stroke victim, probably getting better because he

walked with you know, you can't move one side, so

he would walk and by that day person looked first

of all, observed the first time. The next time he

not only looked, he had to listen as he was

walking the sound of someone falling, and it was this

man with the stroke disability. He fell, so he at

least I observed someone. And later as he continue every

day and hey, one day he fell. He hurt someone fall.

So we are aware of our surroundings, right, so listening

to people's heart, listening to what's happening, because this is

what love does. It cares. He then leaned a hand

and helped the man up because there was no one

else to help him. And this man, if Pastor was

not there to help, he could not have helped himself

because he's a stroke victim. And he was able to

help him by lending in my hand. And then think

about the way that you could love around your your

your family, your community, or your office place. A man

leading leading, how do you lead? Same like this, same

like Ada story. Personna walks in this park and I'm

not like him. I have to learn. He walks and

everybody is saying good morning, good morning. Nobody good morning

him back like so of course the all antis are

all the anties want to walk in the morning, six o'clock,

very dark. Then he good morning, good morning. But there

was this one lady who would walk, and then he

kept saying good morning to her, and she would never

reply him because maybe who's this man saying good morning?

Was he trying? He said, But I wasn't saying like,

you know, like hey, I want to date you kind

of thing like oh my goodness. He was more like

good morning, right, and and he kept saying to her.

She would never reply until one day she came up

to him and said good morning. You know. It changed

the environment. So I found out a lot aunties are

his friends. My good They don't know he has a wife.

That's very pretty okay, So so they always this way.

And then so when he dropped the car one day

and I was in the car and then he stops

to say hi, do all this and these you know, hello,

and then then they're looking the car and he's like,

who's this lady? And oh he has a wife. Because

I never walked with him and do my coreent time

in the house, he knows his great time in the park. Okay,

so you know you you you create, people make friends,

you you lead. They miss you right And then after

a while he stopped coming and say where you never

come out because you start walking. After that you never

could walk anymore. So so love happens like that. When

I left my company corporate, they told me, hey, we

really miss you. You know, people tell you that there's

something missing again, I miss You've not missed you forever,

but for that moment they realize, oh you're not here anymore.

Your help was was good or your work was good.

So that's what love does. Amen. So it's a good

building community, whether in your workplace, whether your family, whether

it's you know, your church or your pickup all group

or whoever you make friends. On my right is there

is how you build because we're talking about reaching people

and not just they're not a number. They are a

person that's worthy of God's love. They have a name,

they have an address. They're not just a number to God.

He knows their name. Did you bother to look up

to someone who passed your table and look at their face?

Sometimes dangerous. We're so busy we never look up. Good morning,

when never look at people's face. Learn to look at

people's face, whether it's a beggar, whether someone asking for

arms at the table. Sometimes we don't want to look

because we don't know whether you want to give money.

But it's good to look because when you look, God

touches your heart about something. Amen, so hot. Check have

you experienced love in this way before? And secondly, have

you shown love like this before? We can always get

better at this. The human race needs a little a

lot more love and less judgment. But we need to teach.

That's why there's discipleship. Don't get upset when you're being discipled. Amen, hallelujah.

All right. So, and this word here Zachariah seven nine

to ten that says, a lot of hosts, execute true justice,

show mercy and compassion. Everyone to his brother. Do not

oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor.

Let none of you plan evil in his heart against

his brother. Amen. So even the Ten Commandments teaches us

how to live with each other in the community. Amen.

The ten Commandments four first four commandments is how we

respond to God. The six commandments is how we so many,

you know, six compared to four. God wants us to

know how to treat each other. Amen. To be kind

to each other because no one else going to be

kind to us. We are the human race. Amen. And

we work as a team as a community. Do you

know that God works as a team. Did you know

that who is his team? Members? Three? Father, Son, and

the Holy Spirit? Let us let us So, even God

is a team. He's not even alone. He's a team. Amen,

working together. Amen.

So.

And then the third the fifth CE is college. The

word college means training. We're really into training. That's why

I know we're not. We haven't pushed it yet, but

this year we're going to make it nice, nice and

clearly to you. We do have apps and apps. We

call it the ex Pioneers Preparations School. It's like a

mini Bible school, our own Bible school. But we have

to start somewhere. We're not perfect, love, but we're starting luck.

So sometimes you'll say no, I want to join these days,

join our Bible school. You know everything, man, you don't

know yet, you can learn more small things subjects first. Okay,

we want to emphasize on training like never before, because

training is important. The more people are trained, the more

equipped they're excited, they're confident, they get to do what

God has called them to do. Amen. Right. We have

made the mistake where we were so excited to get

everyone going, we forgot to train them Alama. Then they crashing,

but they left Alama. Okay, so we're sorry. We're so

sorry we didn't get because I choose Gray very fast.

No enough time anybody, we got no time to train.

Of course, God's grace on us, not saying we lost

a lot of people crashion, but but it can happen

when you don't know what to do. So it's important.

Like any company, like any anything we do, there's a

even you join a club or you know, you join whatever,

there's a way to do things. They train you. Right.

I just heard yesterday my friend is now a driver

in striving instructor. And then she told me she has

to go to an academy to be licensed as a

driving instructor. She She used to work for the for

the air called the not Air Force, the Airlines, the

Young Malaysious Air something. No flight, did you, jugga? Where

you know your flight got lost? The plane got lost?

One you look at the whole thing that the radar

air traffic control. Yeah, she's an air traffic control and

if she was not on duty that day that plane

got lost. Okay. She was really mad. She said, I

don't know what the people were doing, all right, but

that's her job. So she's retired, right, And so she

decided no want to work there anymore and goes to

her lunkaey house. And then she says, I'm now a

driving instructor. So I said, how do you become driving?

He said, I had to go to an academy so

that she can teach and instruct. So we assume must

have la apps. Okay, okay, it's an Expioneers preparation school

where we train you to do different things, all right.

So we now have say to our huts, don't send

anyone out before training them, amen, because we will do

a great injustice to you. I send you out now, goal,

I blunt it. I give you nothing. Then, now how

to plant? How to plant, right, but watching and learning. Amen.

So the end of the goal of training I already

said it earlier, is so that we can make disciples.

Number two, we will raise leaders. And of course so

important to send Daniels out into the marketplace. You are

more of you are in the marketplace, less of you

in the full time ministry. But now our job is

to train you a man to equip people so that

they can do God's work. Amen, hallelujah. Okay, So the

so what do we have to do? We have these

five season the conviction. We have to have the condition,

all right. The conviction is I believe, so all right.

Now we need to be united in our vision. Okay,

we centralize everything. We must follow this is the way

to do it. And then we need to cooperate, work together.

All right. There's a commitment to get the work done,

and we do it together. By God's providing us each other,

just the two of us, we can make it right.

Remember the song that you remember? All right? Then we

need the community. People matter, and we want to build

a strong, safe community so that we can serve we

can do things together, not alone. Amen. And then we

need in the community when you know, Okay, y'all know this.

When a lot of people involved, communication has to go up,

and sometimes we forgot to communicate. I'm guilty of that.

Sometimes you expect you to know. Actually I should just

say it clearly and then people will understand. And they

don't understand, then we explain again. If they don't get it,

we explain again, and then you really cannot I don't know. Okay,

walcome type, Okay, I drop a picture for you, all right?

And then lastly we talk about the training the college. Amen,

So we can do this. So it's a step by

step thing that we want to and we are doing

it right now, just unpacking the vision to tell you

where God has led us from and where we are

hated to. So we're talking so much about discipleship. What

are the ingredients to discipleship? Three? Biblically, there are three ingredients?

How do you make disciples? What you say? How are

you asked us to make disciples? Only three ingredients? Only three?

My samba black chain got more ingredients?

You know?

Okay? Only three ingredients? All right? The basic one number

one Jesus says, follow me, Amen. The most powerful words

in discipleship is followed me. But so many of us

are so scared elate follow me. I'm not perfect anyway,

always say I'm not perfect. I know perfect. Don't follow me,

all right, But Jesus said, this is discipleship. Come follow me?

Whoa discipleship is not about following a program because a

lot of people and all over all judges I every okay,

just talking about the Christian community. They want to know

what book? What book I read in the disciplership new

people join ext church? First of what when I introduced huddles,

our Hoddle system means our discipleship system that we go through.

And what book? No, no Bible, Bible, Bible, I don't

use another men's book. Is it a book? Is it

a program? What kind of program? Ten weeks program, eleven

weeks program? No, it's life long, okay. It's about people

following people, it is. I mean, I don't know. I

have I have twelve ladies or so. I don't know

if they're following me. Do you need Gloria's one of them,

Lane's one of them, at least on them. I don't know.

I don't know if they follow me. Oh not not

how I dress I hope you han, but but how

I do something, maybe how to treat other people. So

discipleships follow me. Maybe we've never said it, said Dotter

followed me. So shy to say, right, but we need

to say it. As I follow Christ, follow me and

we teach this right. We know how to do something

because we have seen others do it, all right, So

it's about watching. I want to tell you thirty years

twenty five years ago when we started ex Church, Bus

and I were just in our twenties. We left a

very big home church that we've been part of. We love,

they love us, and then they sent us out. When

we planted the church. Do you think there was a

manual on how to plant the church? There was no manual,

but we did everything by watching our leaders, my eldest,

my pastors. So how should we do church? Well that

there were things that we learned, and then there was

a Bible X chapter two. This is how you're going

to do it. Have communion, have small groups, amen, pray

all that share. I'll bread it together. This is how

you chair the meeting. I had to come away, oh, okay,

whatever you're chairing or this is someone they did Auntie

all right. So we had to come up with a

whole system to do it, But how do you do it?

By watching? So I want to invite you to observe.

Don't sleep in a service. Watch because one day you're

going to do something in your company, in your you

know club that you're an. I don't know, you're part

of some club or something. I don't know. All right,

you sleep, then you cannot observe. Then you don't know

what the pastor said. Don't know what they do because

half the time you're sleeping. It's not a place to sleep.

Change the place. Are you the listen? Hey follow me? Yes,

that's why Saturday night might sleep a bit earlier, a

bit earlier. Okay, don't play games, watch movie, watch Goordon drama.

You want to finish the number twenty second? Hey, go lively? Okay,

So you can come to church and I keep away.

All right, then you learn so's I'm not. I don't

know what they learn. They when to change. Mothers will

tell me. You know, my y'all go to church every

they never learned anything. Come back, say one because I'm

the pastor have to watch?

Why?

Why?

Why they never change? Oh? Playing a hand phone? I'm

not listening or sleeping? Okay, all right that we know

how to do something because we have seen we're watching

at this. You know how I learned to do expresso

by watching expresso. Elena has been expressed for a long time,

and I watch. That's how I do food now, right,

at least doing espresso. No, right, we're not even expressive people,

but she's cooking, and then you make pretty pet We

don't just even no dry biscuit in ex church. There's

no such thing as if there is. Please tell me

I will do expresso for you. Okay, we watch. I

watch all these ladies do. Wow, the rotico song can

become rotique kaya and then look pretty pretty? Well, then

looks so pretty. You don want to eat? Are you

but hungry? So you eat? So we watch you learn.

I learn you learn to dress up because you see

your pastor dressing up. You didn't wear shots, wear slippers.

Why am I bossa dressed over? Okay, can so dress?

I learned by watching You've been watching, and that's how

you learn. All of us do that. How we learn

how watch our mother? Anyone youonia please watch your grandma,

your mom coke because so it's a dying art. Now

there's a dying art to cook this and cook yo.

I want to find book as or don't have? No

your mother what don't know what means choo chow? Food?

Learn?

Learn? Wow? How you have to stay there watch and

then only you learn? Yeah, you have to. How do

I see be a lost art to or not? Why

we lost some of our tradition because nobody teaches us?

And okay not nobody. Grandma was willing to teach us

by her way of teaching. I just cannot cannot you cannot,

she tell you, right, all mothers do that. And but

so we must stand there and watch, never watching. Follow

me how I do it? You follow me? Amen? Number two,

Feed my sheep. This is this ingredient for disciple ship.

We must continue to feed our sheep. Continue to teach

God's word, share God's word, discuss God's word. God's word

not a book, not somebody's book alone. We need to

refer the word of God. We need to study God's word,

and we want to present God's word to you. Amen, hallelujah.

So this is but feeding God. That's what Jesus said.

Please feed my sheep. Fit is to teach them, teach

them what I taught you teach them my word that

I've left for you. Get and thirdly, be vicious of men. Wow,

oh oh, just feed me. Now I gotta go and

fish for men. You see, if Jesus didn't say it,

that we all can run away. But Jesus said, come

follow me and I will make you fishes of men.

Who So what you cannot sit down and just be happy?

All right? That song doesn't work. Just be happy for yourself,

be happy, don't worry. Be happy. Okay, okay, you don't

want to be happy, but you cannot stay there for yourself.

Now he says, come and come and be fishes of men.

So we cannot just get spiritually fat and only be

on the receiving end. But we must exercise a faith

by giving, by acting on it through disciple ship. So

when we disciple everyone one the other one to the

other one, we we we learned. Oh, I can also

do this. Thank you for teaching me. Now I do

it to this person. This person is doing it down

the line, down the line, And that's how you can

win that one person. I'm in the same boat with you.

I'm not talking at you and tell you I very clever. No,

I learning together with you. I also have to be

a vicious of men. We have to be a witness

for Jesus. Amen. We have the five ws in next church.

What is it? First? One worldshep world works and the

final w is witness very weaker. We already going to

three fours. Not bad, but the witness are very shy.

Yesterday someone I think we were talking to Elliott, and

then we said, when I was young, I went door

to door about eighteen nineteen years old. My pastor in

the church that I was in, he trained all of

us to do door to door witnessing. So we are

we are, we are churches in this community. He target

to witness to every house who I just knew Christian. Okay,

and we have to witness in Cantonese or English or

man ring. So we go house to house. Then the

pink all knock, knock, pink all pink, call me okay,

so we know, we go door to door. I had

to be officials of men. I just accept the Christ.

But now after learning the little that I had, I

was going out to make disciples. And three of us

will go out together, and I was telling them that

I met. We knock knocked, and then this young man

opened the door. I was eighteen nineteen thereabout. He is

so about that age, and he led us in and

we led him to Christ because he was in a

Saint John's Institution school. I said, oh, my cousin is

in that school. And we talked and then I don't know,

he accepted Christ right, and then God bless you, here's

the Bible. We left. And then thirty years later I

meet him in the UMC and he says, do you

remember me? He remembered me, means my face never changed, okay,

all right, still nineteen all right. And then he goes, hey,

I'm sorry so and I said, oh my gosh, so

good to see you. And I'm saying, he's so happy

I'm serving in DMC. Yeah, I'm here and I've been

serving since the day you shared the gospel. You know,

I'm now a fall of Christ. I'm like, yay, right,

so this chap and that's it and bye bye, praise

so happy and then I go off. And then just

last last year, in November, I went for our ex

UK camp. Sorry, I'm gonna take a long time, and

went to camp and then this young man walks up

to me and he says, you led my father to

the Lord. And I said, which man did I lead?

I never simply play with any man. Ohokay, only married

to one man. I had a lot of boyfriends, but

I don't remember leading them to Christ. They were already Christian.

And they said my dad. I said, oh my gosh,

you so and so son, and you look like your father.

And then he says, I'm here now in next church

and I just graduated and I'm working and i'm serving.

He's on the worship team. And he says, I've got

a brother. I said, whoa, you got more than one,

you got three sons. And he said, I said, please

tell your dad. Hi, I'm so happy to meet the sun.

And so, you know, someone is forty oo years and

you get this next generation. And then his brother brings

another guy to church. And this young boy walks up

to my husband and goes like hYP passing Kenna. You

don't know me, but I know you. And and he

says and he says, my dad is Ray and Ray

Ray so and so, and oh I'm his son. And

he says, my dad was in your cell group forty

or four years ago. Fortunately the young dad dad that

left christ. Top banker, top banker, in one of the

Southeast Asian country's top banker. He really climbed the ladder,

but he gave up Jesus and his son's told his

friend and said, I have not been to church since

I was a child. I'm so happy to come to

church today. And he said, I said, you gotta come,

keep coming. So I gotta find out whether he's still coming.

He goes he has a brother as well, and they

want to get the older brother. And they're brilliant students,

brilliant students at top universities. But you know, we could lose.

We can lose our salvation be if we're just chasing

after things. But watching follow me, feed my sheep right,

and then fear fishes of men. Amen, you have to

be witnesses for Christ. Maybe some people don't believe that

in all, I don't think so I need to witness. Well,

I don't need to do anything else. Bible says, just

be a witness for me. Can you tell someone about

what you experience? Amen? Two foundational things that we and

our disciples must know as we disciple is the great

commandment to love the Lord your God with all of

your heart, with all of your soul, with all of

your mind, with all of your strength and mark. And

then the great commandment is that to love God. Greatest commandment.

First commandment is to love God. But then another commandment

is the great commission is to make disciples of all nations.

And right go into the world and make disciples. So

so every disciple should know these two commandments. And what

is the common word for both of these two verses?

The word all Amen, All, all right, all is what

is going to take. All is what is going to

take us to get this done. Amen. So we coin

the word pasts coin is before small small, So from

small to mall we'll take all. So the all right,

we grow small, all right, and to grow from small

to mall, and then to reach all the spelling there

all right, growing small too big. We need all our people,

all the talents, times and resources to reach people. Amen.

And we are small, We're not big. But it takes

from the little to the become big. Amen. So all, Oh,

God wants all of us involved if we are willing.

So if those who have ears to hear you hear

God's word, then you act on it. I'm also that

disciple that someone shared the gospel to someone discipled me

and and there you are. I am here. I'm knocking

door to door to door, and this one soul is

still in law today. And that proof for me is such.

It was such a highlight for me that I'm looking

at the second generation and I hope he's when he

gets married his children. Oh, that will be awesome. Just

because we went door to door and this young man

opened the door of because the sun said to the

dead dead, why did you open the door stranger? He said, Oh,

I saw a pretty girl, so I let her in.

But I wasn't alone. I had friends. Okay, pretty face

can help also, Okay, all right, so everyone counts. Everyone counts,

everything counts. All our gift things count. I can do something.

Somethings I can't do. You can do. So we need you. Amen.

So let's give God all using everything we have to

make sure that everyone we have is on board. This

is the vision that God has given to us. What

the one thousand people that God has given us, who

want to see every person able to multiply, able to

make a disciple reach someone. Don't worry about the how,

and you be ready. That's all the Lord's asking us.

Can you prepare can you get ready? Are you able

to say yes to the Lord? Amen? So question how

many people do you have in your homes, in your huddle,

in your family? Okay, you write their names down? How

many people? So each of them are precious a man?

How can we encourage them to use their talent or

their skills, or their time or their gifts or you know,

how can we do this? We all can have a

part to play a man. Not one person should be

left out because everyone counts. Amen. Hey, I encourage you.

If you ever felt that, you say, are you Nobody

want to employ me? Nobody wants me? Everybody hates me.

I'm gonna eat some worms. Not true? God wants you.

He wants to employ you. Okay, somebody might not want you,

but God wants you. Thank God, God wants me, you know,

and employed me. You know, I think a lot, but

the one mere and I all the students say you

if I God still have mercy on me, and says Sandra,

learn learn, learn to talk Betterla, don't put high boys. Okay,

all right, excite that voice. So thank God God wants

to employ you. And tell you what God wants to

employ you? Hey, come on, if he wants to employ,

Please say yes and work for him. Amen. How do

we do this discipleship? How there are four e's. You

had five seas, Now you got four e's. All right,

and we and we use this and we do this.

Maybe we can even do more of this to the

leaders here and to all of us. Actually, all of

us can do this. The first is to educate, right, educate.

I do you watch? So I'm preaching now, so you're

watching me preach? I do you watch? Equip I do

you help? So now you can't come five minutes? Well, okay,

so I do you help? She said? And the next

day I encourage you? You do? I help you. I

share the five minutes, when you share the forty minutes,

and then empower you do I watch? I mean apprenticeship

that will happened a carpenter or plumber. You know these

are very good skills. You know you're not low. You

know they earn very much. In Australia, they learn, they

charge us a lot. That's why I put finger you

my great to Australia. Poor Youla. You do yourself, ah,

because you don't want to pay the plumber who will

charge you two hundred usie dollars just to come and

touch your plumbing, your tech Malaysia we call the Indonesian

and brother following it. Hey lima pluring it. Hey see

see all these excuse Amen. So what you learn from

your parents, you learn from others. I educate. That's why

I said when we come to church, open your eyes, observe,

don't sleep. Unfortunately in this we're all living in this

general in this season. Now lives. Wait we are. We

have the handphone with us, and the handphone is constantly

taking the king, and then we are looking at it.

And then are you somebody asked questions we have to

answer now all right? Right of course it's called s

M S short messaging the system. Right, quickly replied, So

we cannot somebody teaches something I didn't learn. I mean

it happened to me, all right, But we're supposed to educate.

I do you watch equip Okay? Now I do your help?

Cannot Now? I encourage you? Ah you do? I help you,

and then later I empower you. You go ahead and do.

I'll watch you and cheer you. Amen, hall Helluijah, Amen,

we we you know we people matter, all right, Disciples,

watch Jesus, and they did the same thing. You know

how Jesus raised the little girl who was dead. Peter

did the same thing because he saw how Jesus did,

and he did it. So sometimes when we are I

don't I don't get to do it always here, but

on the mission feel it happens people with unclean spirit,

people who are possessed, and then they go there and

I'm scared. I do know how to do. Let me

tell each other. We got no time to don't know

how to do. What did Jesus do? I do what

Jesus do in Jesus' name, and you commanded to get out.

It has to come out. Do you believe in Jesus name.

So Jesus was doing all this, He and his disciples

followed him. They went with him to his house. They

ate with him. They saw how he slept, They saw

how he prayed. They said, teach us to pray. They

saw the closer in a group, saw how he you know,

raise the dead whenever that he did, how he taught,

how he spoke. They watched. So Jesus really was teaching

his disciples. Today's same with us. I also learned from

someone really A lot of things because I watched I

watched my pastors, I watch my leaders, my elders. How

did they do a benediction. I don't simply do a benediction,

but do it with faith and belief and say it. Well,

not I trained the chair person, but I don't always

get to train everyone. No, no, I don't give you

a benedicio. All right, I'll say it with authority. And

the word of God has gone for no returned to

us void? Why you watch the person? Do it? Do

and teach? Very important, do and teach a man. This

is only God's formula Bible. Everything we are doing is

in the Bible. We just want to follow what Jesus did, right,

don't just teach, I teach, I teach, but I don't

do so. No, good luck. I teach, I teach. He

you do our witnessing whitness, But I don't do. How

to follow me? All right? And then don't just do

I do?

I do?

I do, But I never teach you how the tools

we got to do. And this is how Jesus did it.

And it's in scripture. You can read it in acts.

Do and teach. That's how Jesus taught us. It's scriptural.

All right, in discipleship, Jesus did his disciple watch in

doing you are the role model, and people are following you.

I think all of us are looking for a hero,

a role model. We always we are looking. Don't know,

we don't say it. But the way you are dressed today,

the way you are doing certain things, you have a

role model. Where there's the Korean chap or the Korean girl,

or the Japanese boy or the Japanese girl or is

it the costplay one? Are you my god? All right? Whatever,

you have a hero, you are role modeling that person. Right,

So do and teach what are you discipling? All right?

Create a visual for others to watch the right thing,

the right thing? Okay, we all learned. Okay, So it

is an investment. It is an investment. If you ask me,

what person my time have been all these times? Actually

we are not doing anything of our own A lot

a lot of times you're spending with people, but you

don't realize the people we are. We don't realize when

we're talking. Do you think I'm just talking on actually investing?

Watch why he's saying this to us? How is he saying?

I watched my ass every time he counsel someoney. I'm

watching because I know that he really is led off

the lot to do given And I'm like, I've never

heard such a thing before. Wow, so clever. And then

and then it's true. How did you know? I'm like, oh, man,

he spends so much time praying and seeking the Lord.

And then he comes up with he say. I'm like,

sometimes I don't believe, but he's real. No, it's true, oops, Jesus.

So it is an investment. I'm spending time with people's

an investment. Hanging out. Sometimes Sometimes you we say you

want going and spend time with your past. You don't.

You should want to, You should wet your pascity, your house.

We can share with you more things. Yes, but you

know it's a lifetime investment. Amen. The best investment that

you can make is in another life. Really, he's just

invested in twelve men, that's all. The most time he

spent was the twelve, and then the inner circle was

the three. Still we lost one, not by his choice.

He loved him, He loved him, he would have given him.

Investment is a lifetime thing that we do. But it

will be the best investment. It'll come back checking together

running over.

Four.

So if I look back now as a nineteen year old,

I should have been studying for my Form six. But

I was out there on Sunday afternoon after church being trained,

and after training go out there. That was time. Probably

my mom would say time needed and you should have studied,

But no, I was out there just a new Christian

on here. I just became a griztia and going door

to door that investment of time and the the faith

to knock on somebody's door. A few people's doors we knock.

But this person now back forty years later is saying

to me, he's serving the Lord. He's not left Jesus.

Then his children are serving the Lord. Man. I mean,

this young man is twenty three to twenty four, he's

gonna get married one day. I hope his children will

serve the lot. But can you look at this investment.

It was time on a Saturday, on a Sunday afternoon.

I could have gone back to sleep, but pastors say,

come be trained. And we're all small church, like this church,

and we all were now like he thinks us. You

know old houses, and you like old houses around to

do that. Okay, my pastor said, we're gonna hit this

this area. We're gonna reach every house. I'm like, okay,

I really don't know how big this housing area is,

but we'll do it. And we broke up like this

number of people, three by three by three. We went out.

Some of us spokesmen can I was spoke English, and

that's how he went out. Those days, nobody spoke men

only got one high school conching Mendrin. The rest or teach,

we ask help people who is we can tollow? I

have to share law, share in gandonese, share in English.

That investment of time, I didn't know it's many years

after it's forty years after that. I'm meeting the young

boy whose father opened the door to us. He invested

time to hear us, and now I meet all his sons.

So I want to say that some things you do

might say I was really cramping my style. I want

to do this. But if the lot give you an

opportunity ticket, you never know what it could be. I

don't know what it will be. You never know things.

After years later, you see the the growth. Amen may

not see this immediately. Amen, So oh yeah, watch how

to lead the Bible study how to chair, how to

how to say grace, how to give thanks for the offering?

In homes, we get people involved, right, and then you watch.

Maybe you didn't have a good teacher, liar, no one

to follow, Lauren. That's how I raised leaders. That's how

I managed to raise leaders in the last home sales

leading and like, okay, you do this, and you do that,

Now I help you do it again. Now do that?

Is it? You're leaving us? I said, that is the

whole point. So that I will plan a new home

and I will race more leaders, is it? And so

now my leaders there to put your homes there. They're

not perfect, but I had to empower them. They had

to watch me and they will do their best. Yaday

care amen? Amen? So guys that this part three really

is about discipleship. You can disciple someone and you yourself,

are you being discipled? Watch that person? Who is that

person that you have allowed yourself to follow? Amen? And

then and then there's the follow me. There's a feed

my sheep, and be vicious of men. All of us

cannot just sit here and receive and do nothing. We

must do something. The Lord has given us something in

our hands to do. What is it. You have a talent,

you have a skill, you have money because it's treasure.

You have time. Time is a commodity now hah. You

know who is eating your time? Every time you're scrolling.

It's in economy. Somebody else is making money from your time.

It's something economy I forgot. I taught it to the students.

Time it's your it's an economy. Somebody else is making

passive money out of your time. And you don't even

want the product, but you just have to see it.

So you should consolidate your time saying what's more important

to me? I go and do this. I'm gonna spend

time with this person. I'm gonna take the kids out

with You know, there's so many young people or the

children in our church. Let's take them out and does

elands that the young moms and all that. So you

take your time, you invest. You never know what birth

out of it. But we're just doing because God has

given us the ability to do it. Amen, Praise the

Lord over time already. Okay, hard check. Have you been watching?

Have you been watching What What to be learning? If

I'm watching, what did I learn? And how can I

repeat it? Okay? How can I repeat it? Watch learn repeat, Amen,

Watch learn repeat, Hallelujah. We can do this, Jesus jeez,

it's all the word of God. It's all in the

Word of God. When we're breaking it down now to

show us step by step the ingredients of discipleship, how

we can be disciples and how we can disciple. At

this it's not that I'm great that you follow me.

I'm following Jesus. You can follow me. You I follow Jesus,

you can follow me, and later someone else will follow you.

But we are trying to get our lives aligned to

the Word of God a man Amen, Hea, Amen can.

So we educate, we equip, we encourage, you empower all right.

So when we are and we're equipping you all right,

because one day you will be empowered and you will

do it and you will do very very well. Amen.

Come Hallelujah. Let's close, and we're going to just pray

and just commit what we heard today to the Lord. Amen.

So church, come stand with me. I'm gonna ask you today.

Yes it was. It's about discipleship, and so you you

know in ex we did the whole year last year

to align that everyone can come into discipleship. If you

haven't ask yourself you know, why aren't you in discipleship?

And who are you discipling? Nobody? Do you want to

disciple someone? You can because I just we just gave

you the three there Amen. But more important, I want

to ask you as you lift up your hands the lot,

come on, lift up your hands O the Lord and

you say Lord you I want you to ask yourself,

I eye clothes. What's in your hands? Church? What do

you have? What is God given to you? You know

some of you have the most beautiful smile. God has

given you a beautiful set of teeth and a beautiful smile.

That smile can be used to be a blessing, a

host or smile more. Don't frown God, God is blessed

you with a beautiful smile. What do you have in

your hands today? Amen? Do you have a gift? Do

you have a talent? Are you the person who has

a gift of the gap means you're very good at

connecting and talking to people. Use that gift to slowly

share your experience of Christ in your life, or you know,

being able to be bold and ask people how are they?

How can you pray for them? What is in your hand,

brother sisters, beloved of the Lord. God has given you something. Amen.

And I want to ask you to consider, to surrender

and be willing to be used by the Lord. Amen,

so that you can touch another's life. Hallelujah, Thank you Lord, Hallelujah,

Thank you Jesus. Lord, Just speak to our hearts as

we speak to you, holding up our hands and lifting

up what we know that You've given to us. And

every time we invest our time, our talent or our treasure,

it multiplies and it keeps multiplying, and it keeps multiplying. Lord.

We don't hide our gift. We don't hide ourselves. We look.

I mean some of us need to look at that

person that God has brought to your office, or when

you're eating. Sometimes when you look, you might see a need.

Because God wants everyone nobody is to be alone to

work a law. You know, the foreigner, the refugee, the fatherless,

the widow, come on, you know, just people who might

be different from you. But if you would just look,

God would give you a word for them, a kind act,

an act of kindness, act of kindness, and a word Speak.

And I want to encourage you to speak even into

your own life. Speak life, not death. Speak hope and

not close doors. Amen, Speak peace and not chaos. Don't

be negative about things. Jesus says, out of our you know,

the Word of God says out of our lips our

tongue comes death or life, Life or death. We can

be speaking life or death. Would you prophesy life? Then?

Would you prophesy peace over those hearts that need peace.

That's why I'm asking you to look at your hands.

What is God given to you and all of us

have been given when I'm out, Amen, And that we

can choose to fill our hearts with God's word so

that we can speak into our present and speak into

our future. Speak into the doors that are closed that

they might be open. Speak into our bodies that are

needing healing to declare that health and life is ours.

Speak into our brokenness so that there will be healing. Amen, Hallelujah.

Speak into the confusion and say, confusion, you do not

have a place in my life. I declare clarity, and

the Word of God says as freedom in Jesus' name. Amen, hallelujah.

Prophesy into your circumstances in the name of Jesus. In

the name of Jesus. As you look at your hands

this morning. If that's you and you're saying, yes, Lord,

I just want to surrender my gift, my time, Lord,

my treasure. Or you're saying Laura and surrender my mouth

to you. Maybe I've not been speaking all the positive words,

but I'm learning today that there is a God in

heaven who can use me to speak to those who

have not heard about him, or who are confused, who

are lost, and there are people who are down. I

could be that voice that will lift them up. If

that's you, you want to just surrender your gift, you

want to surrender. Perhaps you're going through a challenge, but

today you have that authority in Christ. Lift up your

need before the Lord and just say Lo, I'm going

to speak life, I'm going to speak healing. Ready, one, two,

and three hands, lift it up. If there is a need,

you're just being humble before the Lord. Just surrender to Jesus.

Maybe you're saying Lord, yes, I recognize what you're saying. Lord,

use me, Lord, and I don't have to do this alone.

I can do this with you. Hans lift it up

across this room, saying yes, Jesus, teach me. Lord, you

have spoken in your word, help me be a witness.

I want to be a fisher of men because you

save me, and I can now be that vessel in

the name Aim of Jesus. Hans lifted up all across

this room. As the Lord sees your heart, he sees you. Amen,

he knows your name, he knows you, and he has

given you all the goodness that Heaven has so that

you can be used by the Lord. Amen. Thank you Jesus.

Hens lifted up. We're just going to declare, Father, in

the name of Jesus, thank you for the gifts that

are in this room, even this very life. These lives

are gifts, Lord, Our lives are gifts to one another,

as encourage us, as supports us, as someone who will

teach another person so that they can learn and we

can learn. Father. Thank you. Hans are lifted up, our

hearts represented crying out to you, calling out to you,

saying yes to you, saying I surrender, saying Lord, use me, Lord,

use my mouth, Lord, so that I will speak life

at the right time. I will speak a word in

season to those who need it. Thank you Lord, that

we'll be bold and courageous to speak the word of life.

Thank you, Lord, Thank you Lord, Father, that there will

be within us, Father, just a courage and bonus to

be a witness for you, Lord, to be a fisher

of men. Lord, you place us in our office. You

place this Lord in our school, university. You place us

in our family in or even the community groups that

we're in, or the games or whatever we do lot

outside of our church life. Lord, that we are there

for a purpose. Or Lord God, use as father hands

head lifting up to you, are saying to you the

heart cry and our you know. Lord, we are scared,

but you are our strength, and you our courage. And

we find confidence in you in the name of Jesus

as we surrender. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, hallelujah. Just worship.

In hell Heaven, Hell, Lord be your name, need of

your ma see.

King of fog Loy, how with the hostess we see

Holy Holy your Kingdom. Come to let you be Din,

set a fire a.

Lor weep, pray heavy away Kingdom, come worm, let you

we be done. Set a fire.

Ah, Lord, we pray.

Have be arway, have your way, Jesus, have your way,

we say to the Lord, Lord, have your way.

Have your way, Lord, Lord, you see our hearts. Have

your way. Let your kingdom come. Let your will be

done in our lives, Lord, as it is in heaven,

so that we can be the vessels of blessing Lord,

that you can speak through, that you can use to

really shine your light. Thank you Jesus, hallelujah. Receive that today, Church,

and really just be ready for the Lord to use you.

And you know anytime it's a good time, and just

speak it that the right time God will use you. Amen, hallelujah. Amen.

And right now with every hit bout, every eye close,

you know, if there's anyone here either you've never had

a chance to accept Christ, to know Christ and to

call Him as your personal Lord, Savior, the one who

loves you. Today's opportunity. If your heart is stirred up

and you never had a chance for yourself, not because

you know someone else is following Christ, but for yourself

to say that I want to follow Jesus. It will

be a privilege for us to pray together with you

to receive Christ. Or if you are here and you've

been far from the Lord, only you know how far

you are because of the busyness of life because of disappointments.

But your heart is stirred up to return to Jesus today,

like to renew your faith again in Christ, to receive

him again. Like yes, Lord, I just want to rededicate

my life. Today also is a great day. I wait

opportunity for you to give your heart to the Lord. Amen.

And we always take these three simple steps. We want

to be able to help you to take these steps.

The first is to admit that you need God, and

it's been tough those of you been away. You saying

I need you Jesus. Number two is that you believe

that Jesus died on the cross for us to forgive

us of our sins, because we could not forgive ourselves.

Nobody has taken our sins, but Jesus has and given

us new life when we accept him. And thirdly is

to say, Lord, I want to commit my life to you.

I call upon your name and Lord, come into my life. Amen.

These are the three steps you can take if you

want to. You're saying, yes, I admit that I need God.

I believe that Jesus died on the cross for me

to forgive me of my sins. Forgive me and I

want to commit my life to you Jesus. If that

is you this morning and you want to take this

step of faith, amen, I want to invite you to

say this prayer that's on screen, to repeat after me

as I lead you in prayer. And if you say

this prayer with all of your heart, Jesus will come

in to live in you and to be your master,

your best friend, the one who wants to employ you,

who wants you to be your best friend. Amen. And

so if you're ready, we asked the whole church to

pray this together to support that one person. If there

is somebody who has yet to receive Christ or wants

to rededicate your life, you can say this prayer together

with us, Amen, repeating after me. So, Church, will you

do this together all of us? Ready? Here we go.

Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for your love for me

and for dying on the cross. Please forgive me of

my sins, wash me clean by your precious blood, and

come and live in my heart. Fill me now with

your Holy spirit and teach me your ways. I now

live to worship you and please you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now,

if you have prayed this prayer with all of your heart.

Would you please tell your friend who brought you, or

to any one of our leaders with our tags, and

we will help you with some material. We have the

New Believer's Pack that we can share with you to

deepen your walk with Jesus, to encourage you again. Amen,

it's the best choice you've done today. If you haven't

had and you did this prayer, you believe that Jesus

has come into your heart. Please let someone know we

are here to walk with you. Amen. So the Lord

bless you and a great start to the year. Have

an amazing, amazing January. Amen, God bless you. Thank you

so much. Amen.

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