Who fills you cup I am the Living Water | Pr Gloria Paul

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

We hope this message will light up your day.

Yeah, drawing from believing water and I hope it becomes

a message where you know, God, you know, puts something

in your heart right, reminds you of who eats, who

truly is in your lives. Okay, and what he offers

no man can offer to you. Right. And so we're

gonna go into a scripture first. Okay, if you have

your Bibles right, you can turn with me to the

Book of X. Okay, the Book of X chapter one

Versus seven to eight. Okay, maybe most of us might

know this scripture by heart. Okay, X chapter one versus seven. Okay,

it says here and he said to them, it is

not for you to know times or seasons which the

Father has put in his own authority. But you shall

receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and

in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of

the earth a man. Right. And so this is the

very words of Jesus himself. You know where he says

that he has given us the Holy Spirit. You have

given us the power and the authority. How many of

you know that you have that authority? Yes, you have it, Okay,

don't doubt. Right, it's not about being a pastor or

a long time Christian. Only then you have it the

moment you say yes, thought, I receive you as my

personal Lord and Savior. As you walk with him, he

is moving, right. He has given you. You've got to

just use it. Okay. It's not rocket science. It's not

something that you've got to learn a difficult formula. It's

about just walking with him, right. It's the simplest way

of just getting into the spirit. Yeah. And so we're

gonna go through a couple of scriptures here to understand

what the Holy Spirit does. Okay, when Jesus tells us

here in this scripture that is given us a spirit

of I mean, the power of the Holy Spirit. What

does the Holy Spirit do in our lives? Yeah, We're

gonna look at a couple of scriptures, and then from

there we're gonna look at an example of a story

in the Bible of how this took place. Okay, when

Jesus reached out to a person. Yeah, from the Gospels. Okay,

So we're gonna look at a couple of scriptures. So

I need you to turn to your Bible, okay, and

if you can write this scriptures down, it will be great, Okay.

And throughout the week as you journey through, why don't

you just try to see God moving in this way, okay,

that he's guiding you, is directing you. Because this is

what the Holy Spirit is, exactly what Jesus means when

he has said I've given you the power of the

Holy Spirit. Yeah. So the first scripture that we're going

to turn to is John chapter fourteen, Right, John Chapter

fourteen versus sixteen. Are you all there?

Okay?

Right? So it says here John chapter fourteen Versus sixteen,

and I will pray the Father and he will give

you another helper that he may abide with you forever. Right.

That's the first promise of what the Holy Spirit does.

He helps you. And I want you to also recognize

these scriptures as truths that sometimes you may not even

know or feel it. But this is the truth. That

is what truth is. Right. You don't sometimes always feel it,

you don't always sometimes are assured because you go through

different trials and you know obstacles, right, But this is

the truth that never changes. So the next time you

go through a crossroad or a struggle in your life,

always come back to this and say, you know, I'm

not alone. Jesus has given me the power of the

Holy Spirit and he helps me. Yeah. So that's the

first one. Now, the second thing is that the Holy

Spirit convictses. Yeah. Let's look at John sixteen versus eight. Okay,

what does it say and John sixteen versus eight, And

he has come. He will convict the world of sin

and of righteousness and of judgment. Okay, this is what

the Holy Spirit does. No man, no amount of words

that men can say to change a person's heart. Right,

Sometimes we try so hard to to share the gospel

or to change a person's perspective. Remember we're just vessels.

You've got to partner along with the Holy Spirit. Yeah.

And this is what he does. He convicts, He brings forgiveness,

you know of since he gets people to recognize what

is true what is not. Yeah. So that's the second one.

And the third one is that the Holy Spirit guides you. Okay,

let's look at John sixteen thirteen in the same chapter. Okay,

it says here, however, when he the Spirit of Truth

has come. He will guide you into all truth. For

he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever

he hears, he will speak, and he will tell you

things to come. So if you want guide, you want

someone to guide you. If you're looking for direction, you

have it here. You've just got to go to the

Holy Spirit. He directs your path. Yeah. And so what

we're learning today is about how can we access to

all of this that's just made available for us? Okay,

But it's just about drawn being close to him. Yeah,

John fourteen seventeen. He dwells in you, Okay. John fourteen

Versus seventeen. It says the Spirit of truth, whom the

world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him.

But you know him, for he dwells with you and

will be in you. How many of you know the

Holy Spirit dwells in you? Yes? Okay, come on, church

be alive. Yeah, it's church. It's God is here. Right,

We've got to respond, We've got to, you know, declare

his word over our lives. Yeah. So he lives in us, right,

he dwells in us. So whenever you're feeling alone, remember

you're not, Okay, because he is with you. John fourteen

twenty six the same chapter, right, what does he say, Yeah,

in verses twenty six. But the helper, the Holy Spirit,

whom the Father will send in my name, He will

teach you all things and bring to you remembrance all

things that I say to you. If you're looking for

a teacher, there you go. The Holy Spirit is there

too teach you. And lastly, Romans eight twenty six. Right,

Romans eight twenty six, it says him likewise, the Spirit

also helps in our weaknesses, for we do not know

what we should pray for as we ought, but the

Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groundings which cannot

be at it. So if your friend is not praying

for you, if someone you know is not praying for you,

remember he is interceding for you in prayer. Yeah. In fact,

when the last thing that he did before he went

to the cross geesez himself, he prayed for each one

of us. Yeah, that is how precious you are in

the eyes of God. You know, he has each one

of us in his mind all the time. Right. So

these are just a couple of points, okay, to help

us understand what Jesus meant when he said he has

given us the power of the Holy Spirit. And now

that we can leave this all out, if you can

look at all this here, you can even ask us

that if I actually experienced the Holy Spirit in such

a way as he been my teacher, as he been

my helper in the lowest times, you know, have I,

you know, seen that the time when I have no

help at all, he came and gave me the help. Right,

Because how much you've experienced this is how you can

do the second part of what we read in the

Book of Eggs, where you can be witnesses to the

ends of the earth. Right. You can't tell someone something

that you have not experienced yourself, am I? Right? Yeap?

You can't tell someone that, oh, this person is a

good person and if you have not encountered him or

her as a good person. Right. Or it's a very

good place to eat if you have not eaten yourself. Yeah,

it's about experiencing it yourself first before you can bring

this message to others. Right. Okay, Now we're going to

go through a story in the Bible to understand or

to see how this different point is of the Holy Spirit.

What it does happened, okay, and how Jesus himself reached

out to someone. Yeah. Now, if you go to your

Bible's John chapter four. Okay, we're going to read through

this story and see how Jesus moves and what it

means by being our helper convicxers. How many of you

know this story about the Samaritan? Yes? What do you

know about her? You said? You know? She was thirsty?

What many husbands? Okay, some written it is many husbands?

What else or what do you remember about this story

for those who have read it? Sorry, Jesus was thirsty. Yes,

Jesus was thirsty, so she she e went and asked

her for water? What else? She went there at noon?

What do you think she went there at noon? Nobody

else was there? Okay, so maybe there was a reason, right,

she didn't want to meet anyone. She didn't want to

have any social interaction, right. Okay, Come, let's read this

passage for those of us who have not Yeah, and

to understand how Jesus reached out to her. Yeah, so

let's read from versus one, okay, and then we will

stop for a while from there. Okay, So John chapter four,

versus one, it says here. Therefore, when the Lord knew

that the Pharisee had heard that Jesus made and baptized

more disciples than John h though Jesus himself did not

baptize but his disciples. He left Judea and departed again

to Galilee. It was four but he needed to go

through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria,

which is called scar, near the plot of ground that

Jacob gave to his own to his son Joseph. Now

Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey,

set thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus

said to her, gave me a drink for his disciples

gone away into the city to buy food. Let's just

paused there for a while. Yeah, so we can understand

that we can just if you can just imagine, Okay,

that's a good way to understand scriptures. Yeah, to read

God's word and to just you know, put a picture

behind it. Yeah, so we can see that Jesus was

there himself. Disciples were all journeying together with Jesus, of course,

doing missions and reaching out to different ones. Yeah, and

then they came to this place, and the disciples went

somewhere else to get food, and Jesus stopped by, right.

And as we know, Jesus was a very intentional person.

He was not just trying to roam around the city,

but he knew what he was doing and where he

were as well. Yeah, and so he came to this place. Yeah,

and there's this Samaritan woman. Okay. And if you look

at the contact, this is six hour, So like what

Nick mentioned just now, it's about our time of a

noon hour, so you can imagine how hot it is

at that time, right, and who at the right mind

will actually want to go and get water at that time? Okay,

But yeah, we have this Samaritan woman who decided to

do that, right. So she did that, and that could

be the very reason of why she just didn't want

to see anyone. Okay. Usually they would go early in

the morning or later in the evening when the sun

has gone down, right, But she decided to go during

this hour. So that kind of give gives us a

picture of where she were, you know, with how she

felt about the people looking at her, you know, the

way she looked at herself. Right, So she was there

at that time, and interesting enough, Jesus chose that particular

time because he knew that she's going to be there. Yeah,

and then from there we can see that, you know,

she Jesus would actually ask her for water, right, Jesus

would ask her for water. Now, the first thing that

we can see from this scripture as we spoke about

the Holy Spirit. Yeah, uh, the very act of Jesus

himself asking her for water. I mean we're talking about

Jesus here. I'm sure she could find water anywhere else, right,

But he knew that this lady has a need, right,

she has a need. He didn't just offer the help,

but he first asked her for something. Right, What does

it tell you about Jesus He first asked her for

something because he knew what was the very purpose of

coming in that place. First of all, I'm sure Jesus

is very good in building relationship, right. He knew how

to just connect with people and not just you know

and say, hey, you have a need, let me pray

for you. Right. He didn't make things so awkward that way,

but he first you know, made things as usual. Right,

Can I have a cup of water, right, and he

reached out to her first. Yeah. And I think this

speaks a lot about how the heart of Jesus is

to us. You know that he waits for us. He

was there waiting for her to come to the well

to get water from her, and he would ask us

something that we would know, right, because it was something

very familiar to this Samaritan lady taking water at that context,

at that very place. Yeah. And the same thing is

with us. You know, when he comes to us in

the time of meat, right or in time of help,

usually comes to us in the times where we are

now familiar grounds. Beat in your schools, beat in your workplace.

Or it could be like what we studied the other

day about Moses encountering the burning bush right on his

every day, normal day. Right. It was not on a

very drastic revival meeting that God came and encountered to

give you an encounter for the person. But it was

on that normal day that she just came by to

get water. Yeah. And that is how Jesus works, right.

He gets to us in our very place. You know,

He doesn't get you to like come out of your

your your surrounding and your environment and then search him.

But he comes to you. And what a god be self?

Right for someone who knows us, this is where you are,

this is where the need is, and therefore let me

come to you. Right. This is the heart of Jesus himself.

And so my question for all of us today is

that when Jesus comes to us, could we be aware

enough that this is Jesus reaching out to us, right,

Because the same written lady could have just okay, given

the water and left or didn't respond back to this

person who's asking me water. Infect she is very puzzled

with the old act of Jesus coming to him coming

to her. Right. But here we have a conversation been

started when Jesus came to her. Right, how many of

you have encountered Jesus in that way in your quiet

moments while you're working, while you're studying, or while you

were driving, or in the middle of a chaotic moment

Jesus says something to you, And how would we respond

to death? Yeah, And what I'm trying to show us

here this morning is that we don't have to get

everything figured out to encounter God. Yeah, we don't have

to get everything figured out when we're all in peace,

you all, we are all in the right behavior. But

that's not how God works. He meets you where you are, right,

He meets you where you are. But the question goes

back to us, to you and me, whether can I

be aware of God's presence. Of course, we don't see

Jesus in the time and asia we're living in. We

don't seem as a person walking. But He moves through

people around us, right, He moves by speaking to us

in a sound, still voice. He moves through his word. Right.

But sometimes with the hustle and bustle of life, we

tend to miss out the presence of God. Right. But

let me encourage you church this morning that God truly

meets you where you are. So never be little the

every day of your life, not only on Sundays. Yes,

Sundays we come because we can hear the Word, we

can worship. But like I always say, the real deal

starts on Monday when you go back to the quiet

of your home, right, when you go back to your office,

when you go back to your relationships. That is where

God not just right, that is where God says, hey,

I have something for you, Hey, why don't you do this?

Your call to be my witnesses. Right, he opens that

door for you. Yeah, can we be a church or

you know, people of God that would answer that call,

you know, and be sensitive to his encounter? Yeah, because

when you go through this story here, this Samaritan women,

a woman, as we know her background, though she had

you know, I'm sure maybe mistakes things that she would

have regretted, but she kind of knew that there was

something extraordinary about this encounter and that is why she

went on having this conversation with Jesus. Yeah. Now, let's

continue to go back to the scripture here to see

what happens after Jesus was asking her for water. Yeah,

it was a seven Okay, It says a woman of

Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, give

me a drink, for his disciples had gone away into

the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria

said to him, how is it that you, being a Jew,

asked of a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? For

Jews have no dealings with Sammaritan So that's something she

found a bit off, right, Why are you coming to me?

And Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew

the gift of God. And who it is who says

to you, give me a drink? You would have asked

him and he would have given you leaving water. The

woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw it,

and the well is deep. Where then do you get

that living water? So you can see, it's a very

interesting conversation. She's not asking for a physical container or

something to get the water, but she's wondering, what do

you mean by this living water? Yeah, and then she

continues in verse twelve, are you greater than our father Jacob,

who gave us the well and drag it himself, as

well as his sons and his livestock. Jesus answered and

said to her, whoever drinks of this water will tasts again.

But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give

him will never tast But the water that I shall

give him will become in him a fountain of water,

springing up into everlasting life. So this was the very

respond that Jesus gave her. Yeah. So the second point

that we can learn from this is that the Samaritan

women responded, Okay, she responded to Jesus, and that is

why he could minister to her, right, he could minister

to her because God is always waiting to move in

our lives.

Right.

God is always waiting to give us a word, to

minister to us, especially when we learn the power of

the Holy Spirit. What it does, It helps us, It

guides us, it convicts our hearts. Right, He's always waiting

to do that. But it's the matter of whether we respond. Yeah,

and that's why if you look at her respond she

didn't just say immediately, oh, yes, you're the prophet, Oh yes,

I want to follow the living water. Right? But what

was she filled it? She was filled with doubts? Right,

who are you actually? You know, why are you coming

to me? Of you're a Jew? Right, when do you

come to me? I mean you're not of the same

background or the community. Right, So she came with doubts.

And what does this teach us is that when God

comes to us, you can come to him with your doubts.

You can go to him with your questions, right, you

can come to him with your regrets, confusions and like, God,

why is this happening to me? Yeah? That is real relationship.

If you can remember a friend that you're very close with,

that you can have heart to heart conversations. I'm sure

you don't hesitate to tell anything to them, right, You

pour your heart out, you ask things, You have real conversations.

You're not just trying to feel, you know, just trying

to make things look good, right, but you speak your

heart out. And I believe that it should be that

way with our father in heaven. Of course, with all

reverence to him, but we can also be all honest

to him, right, all honest to him. How many of

us are honest because sometimes we feel that I may

not be even worthy to come before him because of

the past mistakes I've done right, because of the past regrets.

But you know what, he didn't even need your permission

to go to the cross, right, He just went to

the cross anyway because he knew of the days to come.

And that's why you overcame the world for us. Yeah,

So can I encourage us to come to him just

as we are, because that is when you experience your

true healing, That is when you experience your true break

truths right, come to him with all that's in your heart.

And I'm sharing this out of my own encounter the

very times that I've received my whole own healing my

own acceptance, my own breakthroughths is when I've got to

Him with all my questions, right, with all my doubts.

You know, I'm sure some of you would know the

stories that I've shared about after losing my mom. There

was a season that all I could do was just

to cry out to him. Right, you go down to

your knees, you cry out to me and ask God, why?

Why me? Why does this happen? Right? Because you're only human, Right,

You're only human to accept to accept things. But it

is true those questions, It's true that confusion and the doubts.

You feeling more, right, you encounter him more, you say, God,

yes you are here. It is true what your word says.

I will never leave you nor forsake you, because you

feel it at that moment. It's only through the brokenness

that you encounter God. Right, when and everything is going good,

sunshine and rainbow, do you cry out the way you

cry out during the upsoence during the down moments? It's

very different. Right when you're praying so hard and you're like,

there's no other way than only God, Right, that is

when you seek him. So let's come to Him with

all honesty, Right, let's go deeper with him. It's no

longer just happy, happy time, you know, but it's time

to go deeper with God. Right. It is the time

where God is calling, our church is calling each one

of us, and to see move is when we can respond. Right,

we can respond. So the question for us to ask

ourselves is how do we respond when He reaches out

to us? Right? How do we respond? And sometimes the

respond can come in different ways. You know. Sometimes you

may hesitate first, you may be reluctant about it, but

eventually you're saying, God, You're all that I need. Yeah,

And that is how the Samaritan woman encountered God. Right,

he knew that. Okay, this is who Jesus is. He's

a prophet, That's what she asked him. Right, or you're

a prophet you know because you know my past. That's

what Jesus knew. Yes, you don't have an one husband,

you had five husbands. So how who else would know

this if it's not him? Yeah, and that is when

she received an encounter, and she brought that out to

others around her as well. Yeah. That is the power

of your respond. Right, turn to the person next to

you and tell him could you respond, Yes, could you

respond to God when he calls you? Yeah, don't be silent, Okay,

let's not be a silent church or a silent generation,

especially when you know the truth, right, you know the truth? Amen. Now,

the third point that we can see here is that

when she responded to Jesus, what he did was that

he offered to her no man could offer, which is

the living water. Yeah, you know, I'm not sure about you,

but when I have you know, when I talk to

my friends, when I talk to my colleagues, you know,

people are always finding for answers. Can you relate to that? Right?

They're always trying to make sense of things. What's the

purpose of life? You know? What else is there to

look forward to? You know, people are searching, and that

is when they go for the temporary fix, you know,

whatever that can satisfy my soul for now, right, the

different pleasures of life. But you and I know, for

journeying with God for a while now, that those things

are just temporary. What remains is the living water that

God can offer us. Right, And we are made as humans.

We are made as a physical right, our physical, our spirit,

our mind, and we've got to feed all of that.

But sometimes when we just feed our physical and not

care for our sprint, virtual or our mind, that is

when life go Hey warrior, Yeah, we don't realize priorities,

we don't realize what we need to be filled with. Yeah,

and this is when Jesus says that what I give

to you, no man can give you. Right. And for

some of us here this morning, maybe that is what's

exactly you need. You may be feeling her happy for

a long time. Akay, be it in your family, your career,

your marriage, whatever it is. But what God is telling

you today is that if you want to step forward,

if you want to experience a breakthrough, you must first

encounter my living water, because only through that you can

sense a freedom. Not only sense, but you can experience

that freedom for yourself. Yeah. So this woman a self

was searching for love, right, it's encounter. You were searching

for freedom, But what she needed was God's love that

never runs out. Yeah. And you know, we can read

a couple of scriptures here. In Isaiah twelve three, it

says with joy, you will drink deeply from the fountain

of salvation with joy. Okay, God gives us the joy

in Isaiah forty four three. For I pour out water

to quench your tists and to irrigate your patched feels.

And I will pour out my spirit on your descendants

and my blessings on your children. This living water is

for generations. Right, It's not just for you, but it

is your family, your children, people around you. Yeah. And

so I always believe in the power of prayer because

you're not just speaking life to yourself, but to a generation, right,

to a generation. And so how you respond today is

going to influence an entire generation as well. Right, And

so that's how powerful it is, you know, when we

know this truth and respond to it. Yeah. In Revelation

seven seven, it says here for the lamb on the

throne will be their shepherd. He will lead them to

springs of life giving water, and God will wipe every

tear from their eyes. Amen. And Revelation twenty one six, Okay,

it says it is finish. I am the Alpha and Omega. Right,

he is the beginning, he is the end. Any time

of your life you're wondering what's going to happen in

the coming days, Remember he holds the freely from the

springs of the water. Of life. All who are victorious

will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God,

and they will be their children and church. This is

the promise, the promise that God has given to us. Amen.

Can you take on the living water? If you're seated

here today and you feeling dry, if you're feeling thirsty within,

and if you're looking for something for answers, can I

encourage you to come back to God? Right? Because he

is something. He offers you something that nowhere else you go,

to the ends of the earth. Yeah, you will never

be able to encounter such fresh living water. Amen. Right now,

what happens when you drink from the living water? Okay,

when we look at the scripture here, let's read on

a couple of verses. Okay, when Jesus says, okay, whoever

drinks of this water will tast again, will teast again,

verses thirteen year but verse fourteen it says, but whoever

drinks of the water that I shall give him will

never teast. But the water that I shall give him

will become in him a fountain of water, springing up

into everlasting life. And the woman said to him, Sir,

give me this water. That I may not terse not

come here to draw. And Jesus said to her, go

call your husband and come here. And the woman answered

and said, I have no husban. Jesus said to her,

you have well said I have no ausben, for you

have had five husbands, and the one whom you now

have is not your husband. In that you spoke truly,

I mean, who would know these things if it's not

God himself. The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive

that you are a prophet. Our Father's worshiped on this mountain.

And you you say that in Jerusalem is the place

where one ought to worship. And Jesus said to her, woman,

believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither

on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. You

worship what you do not know. We know what we worship,

for salvation is off the Jews. But the hour is coming,

and now is when the true worshippers will worship the

Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is

seeking such to worship him. God is spirit, and those

who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. And

what did this woman do? In verses twenty five, the

woman say to him, I know that Messiah is coming,

who is called Christ. When he comes, he will tell

us all things, all things. And Jesus said to her,

I who speak to you? Am he? And this woman

went on and shed this to the others as well,

especially when it comes out of a person that the

community would have perceived as a sinner who made mistakes.

And then we have Jesus here using someone like her

to bring the message. And that is how he works, right,

He uses the least expected person in the eyes of men.

But to him, you're all equal. Right. He did not

go around and point fingers that you're a sinner, but

he went he reached out to her right with love,

and that is how she turned back to him. And

you know what happens when you respond to the living water,

when you say, yes, Lord, this is what I need

to be filled. You worship in spirit and in truth.

It is only when you come through the valley and

you rise up. It is only when you go through

the brokenness and you come out you will know what

does it truly mean when we say joy? What does

it truly mean when we say worship in spirit and

in truth? Not when things are all going fine, but

when I went through and I came up, I know

that this God is real because you know what, He

did not leave me alone. And this is exactly what

this lady experience. Right, she could worship in spirit and

in truth. Yeah, you are set free. Worship becomes a

lifestyle to you. When you say worship. It's not just

about you coming to church and having a band in

the front and then you can raise your hands, but

it's wherever you are. Your life is a worship unto God.

When someone sees you, they'll say, hey, there's something different

about this person because of the way she praises God.

You know, the way she interacts with people, right, the

way you love others when everyone else is negativity in

your community. But you, you are speaking life right here.

You are speaking the truth. Do you know how powerful

is that? Never be little, the words you speak, the

actions you do, because it's all those small actions. It's

not the big things that you do in life, but

it's the small every day decisions, the small everyday actions

that will go far. Right, that will go far. And

that is what we mean by worship in spirit and

in truth. And I pray that all of us will

catch that. Then when we go back tomorrow, then we

go back to all the places that God has positioned

as to be at. We will worship in spirit and

in truth. Yeah, we will not keep this goodness to

ourselves because, like I said, the world is lost out there, right,

Why are we keeping this goodness to ourselves? We need

to bring this truth back, first encountering it for ourselves

and then sharing it to others. You know how good

it is when someone else can experience God and then

it just goes on like a fire, right, it just spreads,

keeps spreading. Let's move church like what Richard shed is

Now it's time to run. If you feel that pain,

if you feel that it so difficult, that's when you

need to rise up even more. You know. Sometimes in

the mornings when I wake up to do my devotion,

that's the hardest time to wake up. Right, It'll be

raining out there, It'll be also gloomy like this morning,

it's just so nice a snuggle in your bit. But

you know what, that's the time you'll say, no, I

need to do this. I'm gonna rise up and I'm

gonna pray, you know. And in those days when I

do it, I have a great time of prayer because

you know what, you've overcome your physical, right, the physical

is always going to be there to like tell you

the opposite. Okay, the bit is better, this food is better,

this place is better. But remember we are not You're

not gonna be walking only in your physical but in spirit. Right,

in spirit. That's very important. So let's not be so

caught up with what we just see with our naked eyes.

But how can we move in the spiritual realm as well,

especially if you want to go deeper with God? Yeah,

if not, you're just going to remain the same. And

that's why it'll come to a point of time in

our Christian faith where you'll wonder, Okay, what is actually

going on? It's got really there. The moment you start

asking questions like that, it just means you're not going deeper, right,

because you just don't see the point of it anymore.

I just come on a Sunday to warm the seeds,

have good food, the express will prepares and then by

I see the following Sunday. It can become that way

because you're just humans right until and unless we take

ownership or something and say this is my faith. I

want to encounter God. I want to feeling more, not

just from the day I said yes, Lord, but as

I grow with our age, as we grow up, we've

got to have a deeper sense of God. Yeah. And

when you step out there in the world, there's just

going to be so many destructions. There's gonna be so

many kind of temptations. Are we going to pull be

pulled out with that? Or are we going to stand

firm like what the Bible says, right, the man who

builds his house on a solid foundation. And if you

can think of your foundation today, is it solid enough

or would it just take a win to blow the

house away? Right? Let's build our foundation, Let's build our

faith because you know what it goes back to your

every day. Don't just expect what you see on a Sunday, right,

but it's what you do on every day that bills you.

And then when we come on a Sunday, we are

here to praise God as one family, and that is

when we bring our testimonies, we encourage each other, and

then we go back again to the battlefield. Right, that

is what missions is, right, what we do every other

day blessing and you know, just being there for others. Yeah,

that's should be how we become our meies of God. Yeah,

not to be just stagnant, right, not to just be comfortable,

but to answer the call and to worship in spirit

and in truth. Amen. Are you catching something? Yeah? I

hope you're catching something, because that's what the Word of

God is meant to be. It's meant to be practical,

it's meant to be applied. It shouldn't just be a

feel good message. Yeah. Second Quarantine three seventeen. What does

it say is for the Lord is the spirit, and

wherever the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.

Or some of your scriptures would say freedom right, liberty right.

It gives us freedom. But how we living our lives

as people who are free? Or are we still like

a bird in a cage? You're meant to fly, right,

and if you just not make a birdfly, it's one

day is going to just forget how to use the wings.

And the same thing is with us. If we don't

learn how to use our wings or our faith or

the power of the Holy Spirit that God has given us,

we're going to forget how to use it. And that

is when we realize what's the point or we feel

what's the point. Right, But we've got to exercise our faith.

Anything that you don't put in action, you're going to

lose the momentum. Right. I'm sure all our runners. If

you stop running one day, you can't run or you

lose your speed. Right, But you've got to keep doing it.

Be in that momentum. Remember we are running a marathon. Right,

there's rays of life and we've got to keep running.

Troubles comes, bring it to God. We have a church

to cheer each other on. But then we should keep

going and keep running until the coming of Jesus. Amen. Right, Okay,

could you all stand and can invite extreme forward? Okay,

we're gonna worship in spirit and in truth. Yeah, we're

just gonna even respond to God of the word that

we heard this morning.

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