Jehovah Sobaoth | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I wanted to bring to you just a message

that the Lord had given me. And so before I start that, maybe

I'll do a little pop quiz okay with some of you. Pop quiz?

Are you ready for pot quiz? Canna Gela can? Okay? So this

is a little bit of like a Bible trivia. I want to ask.

Okay, firstly, names are important, yes, okay? If you right

now, can you just turn to your neighbor on your left and right?

Do you know your names or not? Yes? Or not? If you

don't know, now it's a good time. I give you two minutes to

get to know your neighbor. Yeah, I get to you know your neighbor's

name left and right? Yeah, it's good. Good. Sometimes we sit

together in a chest so long name you never know a neighbor's name. On

right you cannot liw okay? Can on? Not? Next time when you

go to church and make sure you know everyone around you. The names are

the people around you because church is a community, right, Church is a

family, so we kind of know each other lla right, Okay, don't

like stranger, strangers from path. You know, you don't know each other

every way you come to church, I cannot lie, okay, So so

get to know one another, get to know your neighbor. New people,

welcome them, make them feel so warm that they're like, wow, I

feel so hot inside here. Okay, okay, so ex church is known

for our warmth. Right. So names are important, and you know that

your name is very personal, right just now. I got to know a

young gentleman and he was telling me his name and I totally missed it,

you know, and I say something else. Yeah, And it's not nice

when people call your name wrongly, right, or even if they spell it

wrongly. So I got to know a beautiful lady called Testamin, not Jasmine,

all right, it's we always say it's justmine on you, right,

but it's Testamine with a tea. So you remember her name now, okay,

say hello to her after this, Okay, find out who she is

and going to say hello to her. Okay, that's your task afterday now

okay. So names are very important, and there's a reason why God also

has many names. Did you know that God himself has many names? Okay?

Just you know, shout out all the names that you know of God,

God's name. But the Bible has probably a few hundreds of God's name.

Okay, So so tell me some of the names that you know of

God. Yahweh, thank you great, start Yahwegh? Okay? What else?

Jehovah Good? What else? I am? Yes, I am woe.

That's powerful. That's a message for another day, Okay, not today?

What else? What else? Emanuel, Jehovah, Shalom okay, Shalom,

Yes, God's name is Shalom, peace, great? I love these

names? What else? What else? Elo him? Right? What else?

Else? Should die? Well? Beautiful? Good? What else?

What else? Come? Come? Come, don't I some more? Jehovah,

Ralpha? What else? Jehovah, Jirah good? Sid already okay,

okay, good. At least we know ten names are so now your job

is to find out the rest of the two hundred and ninety names. I

think there's about three hundred other names of God right in a Bible. It's

just that I think, because of our language limitation, we only know God

as God many times, right, we know him as Father, yes,

Father, We also know him as Jesus. Say you never say Jesus I

know we're praying the name of Jesus, God's name. Hey, I know,

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. We are here to make the name of

Jesus known. Amen. That is what it's all about. Right. We

are followers of Jesus Christ. Right. And when we say Jesus Christ is

it means Jesus the Savior, the Messiah. Have you heard of this name

Messiah? Yes, that's another name of Jesus, and it's very important because

the name always talks about the character of God. Yes. So what does

Jehovah Jirah mean? Provider? So many of us have lack and in need,

right, and we always like to call upon the name, you know,

Jehovah Jirah. You are our provider. Right. What's the other familiar

one that you know, Jehovah Rapha. Okay, so all of us kind

of like guessed it, really, right, What is Jehovah Rapha? What

does that mean? Healer? Okay? Many of us also have aches and

pains, you know, and we fall sick. So we also call a

name of God Jehovah raffa heal. Right. There is power in God's name.

Amen. Now I want to introduce a new name that you may not

be familiar with. But it's all across in the old test. Mean,

it's okay, you want to learn a new name, right, And it's

very interesting that I'm want to give you a context of where this name was

first mentioned. Now, this is something called the principle of the first mentioned,

meaning when it's the first time mentioned in the Bible, it's very important.

And so we want to go back into the context of it. Now,

this was taken in the Book of First Samuel. You're not the book

for Samuel. Who is Samuel a prophet and he was a very important prophet

in whose time there was a very important man in that time. His name

is King Saul. Right, his name is Saul, and he was made

king. And without Samuel they might not have been a Saul. Did you

see how important that is? Right? Without a Samuel opening the scene of

the Book of First Samuel, they will not be king Soul all right.

So, so this is how the I want you to be so intrigued with

the word of God. Oh, I need to find out what's happening here.

You know, God's word is just so so it's not just powerful,

it's not just morally useful. It talks about who God is, right,

and when you read the Bible, you're reading about God. You're learning about

God. You want to know who he is right now? Of course,

before Samuel was born, there needs to be a predecessor, right, who

was before Samuel? His mom? Moms? If you're here, you are

so important. Okay. Without you, great sons will not be born,

great daughters will not be born. Right, and there's an importance here now.

Okay, so let me introduce to you Hannah. Do you know Hannah?

Right? What do you know about Hannah? She was barren? How

do you say this scene like that? Uh? First first opening? See,

there was this woman who was married to this man named Alcanor, and

she's barren? A how to talk about heritage and legacy? So weird?

Right? Why is this written in the Bible? I thought Bible say everything

can But why is it starting with an impossible situation? Right? Okay,

so let's go to First Samuel. If you have your bibles turned with me

to First Samuel, chapter one, verse eleven, Yes, do you have

your bibles? Over here? In acts we encourage everyone to bring a physical

Bible. Yes, that's a reminder that I have every time before I leave

the door, Bible, Bible, I'm going to church. Hello, don't

forget your Bible when you come to church. Okay. Now I'm reading from

the NLT version. So this is First Samuel, chapter one, verse eleven.

Okay, maybe before that I go to verse eight first. Okay,

let me give you a context. So so let's see him. Um okay,

all right, verse three. Let me let me read verse three.

Okay. Every year El Kannah this is the man. He would travel to

Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of Heaven's armies at the tabernacle.

The priests of the Lord at the time were the two sons of Eli Hofney

and Pinnahas on the days Elkanah presented his sacrifice, he would give portions of

the meat to Panina and to each of her children. And though he loved

Hannah, he would give her only one choice of portion because the Lord had

given her no children. So Panina would torn Hannah and make fun of her

because the Lord had kept her from having children. Year after year it was

the same. Panina would tourn Hannah as they went to the tabernacle. Each

time Hannah would be reduced to tears and would not even eat. Why are

you crying? I'll ConA with us. Why aren't you eating? Why be

down cottage just because you have no children? Oh, what a bad thing

to say, right, husbands, don't do this to your wife. Don't

say such things. Okay, he said, you know, why be down

hearted just because you have no children? You have me, I'm the man.

Isn't that better than having ten sons? Oh? Ego, ego?

You go there? So once after a sacrificial meal, as she Hannah got

up and went to pray, Eli, the priest was sitting at his customary

place beside the entrance of the tabernacle. Hannah was in deep anguish, crying

bitterly as she prayed to the Lord, and she made this vow. Okay,

let's hear her vow, right, Oh, Lord of Heaven's armies,

If you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a

son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours

for his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been dedicated to

the Lord, his head will never be cut. All right, So you

understand this context now, So this is Hannah. She's praying, she's crying,

she's you know, lifting and surrendering this need that she has to the

Lord. Right. I wonder how many of us do that. We come

to a quiet place and we come before the Lord and say, God,

this is the need that I have. Many of us run everywhere else.

Right, we call this friend, we go Google search, we ask gibt,

but we never ask God. Right, So this is something that we

recognize because she knew that it was God who opens the wombs or closes the

womb. You have to you have to recognize some things in your life.

There are some things in our life that only God can do. We always

take things for granted, right, But you know it's it's it's very different

when you begin to understand that it's only God who can do the impossible things,

all right, even things like having children. It's God's grace and God's

gift. So let's not never take it for granted. Now, No,

So this is can Okay, what is the name that she calls God?

Can you read that? What is the name that she called God? I

mean there's so many right, he could have been Jehovah Provider is Jovah Jira,

like God, provide for me for a son. Right, but she

didn't call God that? Why not? What is the name that she called

God? Oh, Lord of Heaven's armies. Hey, what's this man?

This is just a woman who's crying because she got no children. Why do

you think she calls God the Lord of the Heaven's armies. And let me

introduce you a new name. It's called Jehovah Sabah. Oh. Okay,

can you say that with me? Jehovah Sabah oath. You have give you

a new name to learn. Now you can use this in your prayer,

right, not just any name, but Jehovah Saba Oath. Now, why

do you think a woman and insignificant woman maybe at that time will call out

to God as the Lord of Heaven's armies, Jehovah Saba. Has anyone ever

called God that here here in your own personal prayer? No? Right now,

when you think about this, what the Lord of Heaven's Army is?

Okay, look at your translation? What other names do you see? What

other types of Yeah? I think different translation uses it differently? Any any

other different names? So one translation is the lot of Heaven's armies. What

else? Lot of hosts? Yes, anything else? Lord or mighty great

tree aims there, right, Lord almighty, lot of holes and the Lord

of heavens arm Now when you think about this, right, a lot of

heaven armies. What's the first thing that comes to your mind? Just just

imagine the Lord of Heaven's army is what? What? What comes to?

What picture comes to your mind? A general, soldier, commander, captain

correct? Correct, Now you can see this in the next slide. Now,

Jehovah sabah oath. It connotes just three meanings, right. The first

one is this, he is the commander in charge of a group of fighting

men. Right, wow, like this one, no play player, fighting

men? Okay, all men in the house. You know you can sit

up straight a bit. Of course, in Malaysia, we don't send you

out to army. Love. I think we should have buff you up a

little bit, you know, strengthen you a bit. A group of fighting

men. But he is the commander, Jehovah Saba. The other meaning is

he is the commander of the multitudes of the angels in the skies. Wow.

Wow, yeah, I know. Wow. Is the only reason like

whoa all the angels, of all the skies, all the legions of angels.

He is the commander of the multitude of it. And of course the

other one is all the stars in the sky. Have anyone gone out to

cheer us lately and look up in the stars and look up in the sky?

Can see stars or not? I cannot do polluted, Maybe you have

to go out scars right and try and catch the stars. But have you

ever looked at the stars, the multitude of it, and say, God

is the commander of the multitudes of the stars in the sky? Wow?

Wow. The first thing that strucks me is God's power. Do you know

that a military manner, a general a monday. Do you think he's someone

that it's like very weak? Hello, everybody, soldiers, get in line,

please like that? No, right, totally not. You You see

someone who is in charge. You see someone who is of strength and of

power. Yes, there's authority and power and this is this is Can you

imagine now? This is Hannah calling out the Lord of Heaven's armies, whoa

to come and give me a Chile? Anyone you ever think about you're praying

for Chila, go to like a soldier or captain. You know or the

police was come and help my situation. No, right, we never think

about that. But there's the reason why she's saying this, Because when you

think about a captain and a general or armies, you're thinking about battle.

Yes, are you thinking about war? Yes, many of our lives are

in the battlefield every day, every day. As you started the new year

until now twenty twenty first, right, twenty one days of January twenty twenty

four, I'm sure you have gone through many battles. Right, I'm sure

you've gone through different challenges. I know we say it's a new year,

but many of the challenges we still have to fight daily. And so for

Hannah, she was fighting this shame, this pain of not having a child,

of being barren for many many years. It was a fight. It

was a battle. Can you imagine having the enemy Panina taunting you hair you

look at you not right, cannot have a child? What is this?

God has forsaken you? All these voices in our hit voices from the enemy.

It's a battlefield, Church. Can I just let you know that today

our battlefield is not really out in the world. All our battlefield is here.

Our mind is the greatest battlefeel that and the enemy messes with our minds

every second. If we allow him to. He knows that if he can

break you here, you are gone. You are useless in the Kingdom of

God. You will not be effective as a follow of Jesus Christ. So

we're gonna watch what's going on here. And the first thing to know is

to align ourselves, align our minds to say, who is this God that

I worship and I pray to Do you know your God? If you don't

know your God, then we will always feel like, ah, my life

is so difficult. My life is in pain, you know, and there

is no hope that that's how we will view because we do not know our

God. So that's why I wanted to introduce this name Jehovah Sabah Oath as

a way for us to know this part, this character of God, which

we are not so familiar with. Right, I think we're very familiar with

Jesus the gentle Lamb. We can come to him, you know, Jesus

full of grace and mercy, Jesus the Baby. But do you know that

when Jesus comes back in his second coming, He's not gonna come back as

a baby. Right. Did you know that he by the way, just

in case, he's not gonna come back as a baby, He's gonna come

back as a fool adult. He's gonna be commanding the heaven's angels. Did

you see that in revelations there will be a rider on the horse right,

and he will be mighty. I want you to know Jesus who is mighty,

Not Jesus who's just meek and ma but Jesus who is mighty. Amen,

God is mighty. I think sometimes in our journey as believers, right,

I mean, of course we're called to be meek, we're called to

submit, but that doesn't mean we don't know our God and we don't know

his authority. We don't know his power. You know, the power to

heal, the power to raise people from the day is power. You know,

it's it's pure power. I don't know how many of you know what

power is. But power can be very very dangerous, right, how many

of you like to go if there's a live wire there, live wire,

open wire, and you want to go and touch it? Anyone try?

Please don't you get excuted. And so this is a name that you know,

God just suddenly revealed to me, and many times I read the Bible,

right, I never saw that. It's just like a lot of heavens,

no meaning one. Right. Sometimes read Bible. We just read,

really read, and then we pause, we pause to think about it.

And you will see David, you know, after king saw that was King

David, right, and he was the king that was at the climax of

the israel nation, the kingdom where they conquered the most land. It was

under the reign of David, and he conquered a lot of land that people

lived in peace after that. And so David himself when he calls and you

now you look through first King, second kings, first Samuel, second Samuel.

You read through all of David's prayer. He will call the Lord of

Heaven's armies. He knows this name because David was a man of war.

Yes, David was a man who used to go and fight, who used

to go and conquer land of He killed a lot of people as well,

But he was a man. He was a warrior. So a warrior gotta

know a warrior, right. David started off, as you know, feeding

the lamb and sheep and all that. But even then in the field he

killed the lion, so he knew how to fight. How many of us

know how to fight? Oucha. I think we need to learn a bit

of self defense skill this year. I think we really need to buck up

a little bit church because the enemy, the battle that we fight, is

not against human flesh, but it's against principalities. You know this. We

live in a world where it's spiritually dark, yes uh. And and sometimes

we just go around our daily lives routina routina, my negro door da da

da da yay Friday, then we can we chill Sunday, we come to

church and we go on and on like that. But how many of us

are really digging in this year? We say, God, I want to

dig in this year, and I want to fight this spiritual battle. And

the most most of the world oblivious to it. Run right, they are

chasing after whatever wealth. You know, every day I get on my YouTube

channel ry like, how to you know track the millionaire mindset? Don't know

what la? You know all these kind of things law alpha brainways da da

da da. I know all these things. This is what the world is

trying to tell you, because you know, it's all about material, It's

about how to be financially free at the ts old don't have to work forever

already. After that, you can just drink coffee at all the cafe.

Let that write. This is the life that allways young people want write,

is it? No? I tell you this is not the life. Okay.

I just want to be an influencer, you know, don't need to

work on I just post a few videos. Then I can get a million

hits on YouTube. I can earn money. Okay, reality check a bit.

Okay. We are called soldiers of Jesus Christ, Amen, and that

means we have a battle. And the battle is really not just a bad

boss or datelines or exams for students. I know that's that's hard, and

that is the battle that you will have to fight. But guess what you

can call on jehovah'saba Amen, his name me know God? They were like

God. I cannot understand Mets. You help me and suddenly God will give

you that clarity. But you know that we you know, our relationship with

God is a partnership. It's a partnership. It's not just God. You

do everything like God. You do my homoe sola, thank you very much.

I want to watch Netflix or TikTok, what's the viral? Now we

spend more time doing that, and we hope that our our mets will improve

h or whatever, science or biology. You know that there is a part

that we also need to play right, and God has called us to rise

up, rise up, do what we need to do. What's our role,

what's our responsibility? We need to do that. Let God do the

rest. Amen, Amen, God is powerful. I want to give to

you a verse from Isaiah forty four, verse six. He says, this

says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of

Hosts. I am the first, and I am the last. Besides me,

there is no God. Amen. Can we settle this once and for

all in all our hearts here today? That there is no other God?

And he is the first, He's the only one, and he's the last

one. And that is the message that we need to really deepen on.

He's like, oh, what about this other religion and what about the religion?

Just be very careful in this day and age. There are many many

teachings that will really sway you, all right, So just just be very

very careful. Just know what is the truth and the Tricia self. You're

free, amen. Know that God alone and he is you know, He's

just one thing us to know him. If there's anything you know, our

theme for last year is Heaven rules. Right. Yes, we are still

in that team until we hit our anniversary. But Heaven rules is something that

we have to know for ourselves. There's Heaven rule in your life. There's

heaven rule in your finances. There's heaven rule in your relationships. There's Heaven

rule in your habits. What are some of the habits that we have,

like, oh, God, you know, I like to slip at two

am because I'm watching all these things and I cannot wake up in the morning.

But like, God, you need to rule over this part of my

life as well. What is the discipline that says, you know, I

will wake up in the morning and do my quiet time. Is Heaven ruling

over that? Otherwise, don't say Heaven rules. And when we don't experience

Heaven rules in our own lives, and we cannot tell others that this God

is real, that this God is powerful to change. You know. God

is after our transformation. God is after our character. It's not about our

success. I want to be very careful here. Many of us think that

God wants us to be successful, right, okay, am I getting you

there? You're like, God doesn't want me to be successful. The success

that God wants for you is not as the world paints it. It's not

having a big, fat account bank account. It's not about living in a

nice big house, having the nicest car. It's not about that. God's

measure of success is oh, this one even are more like Jesus Man.

That is success, more patient success, more grace success, more forgiveness.

That is success in God's eyes. Amen? Do you see how different God

defines success compares to us ourselves. You're like God, I want all the

five seeds, right, But God is no, I only have one one.

See character. I am after your character everything that you are going through

right now, God is after your character. Amen. He wants us to

be more like Christ. Imen. So we understand that God's name itself denotes

power, and God's power is above every forces of evil. Do you agree

or not agree? Not? So? Does any of you still feel like

scared if you go to a haunted house? God? Not? Yes?

Or so? Right? So some of these things are we need to like

ah No, But God, this is all you know in my mind.

You see, fear is in your mind. Fear is always residing in our

mind. It's not in the circumstances, it's in our mind. And God

wants to tell us that he's above everything. He's above all the fears that

we have. So you know, a good practice is right if you are

feeling scared over Something's like, why am I feeling scared? It's Jesus above

this or not? Correct? Not? So you turn your fear around to

faith, church, can or not every time you encounter a fear. Oh,

I feel mad? Right, students, Oh, I don't understand algebra.

I don't know why it is that I know, ze brownie. But

how how when you have fear, that's when you need to take a step

back and say, God, you are a god over a mets. Hey,

hello, you you think God didn't calculate everything? Hey, God is

a beautiful mathematician. Okay, Seriously, everything in the Bible, in its

number in Hebrew and Greek, right, is perfect. Man, Everything adds

up perfectly. Anyways, I'm not going to go and do that. But

God, you're the God of Mets. You make me, and you can

make me understand mets Okay, turn your faith fear into faith, and then

you begin to work at it, find resources, ask people for help.

Don't sit there alone. Oh I'm so scared and nothing will change or no,

seriously, if you sit in your fear, nothing is gonna change,

except that you would get more fearful. That's the only thing. If you

sit in fear, fear gross. If you sit in faith, whoa what

gross? Faith? Wow? I think we want to be living a life

full of faith, amen, Church, I think we want want to walk

every step of our path in faith, not fear. Let's what. Let's

walk cancer scary, but Jesus you have overcome cancer. Amen. Faith.

I'm gonna speak it, I'm gonna believe it, I'm gonna claim it.

And then you walk, You walk, step by step. It's not asking

you to take a long jump, you know. And that's it. No,

No, No, our walk with God is a daily walk. It's

a step by step. Jesus is gentle that way. He says walk with

the Holy Spirit. Right. He didn't say run, you know, he

didn't even say jock with the Holy Spirit. No, everyone can walk,

right, Praise God that all of us can walk. Here some people cannot

even walk. But you know, I'm saying, what in the spirit,

walk by faith, step by step, God teach me wisdom, wisdom,

wisdom. I was just talking to someone yesterday, you know, we were

having a huddle catch up is our discipleship, you know group. And then

this person is doing her business. She runs a business. Entrepreneurs run a

business, right, Yeah, I know it's it's not easy, not easy,

And she does. She she she sells like Japanese curry right, and

she sells either chicken or pork or tofu right. You would think likes something

so simple, a something so simple. But she says, you know,

every day I will ask God, God, how many pop portions should I

make? How many chicken portions should I make? He's like, huh,

I thought you you business woman? You go to the CC like. No,

No, I go according to what the Holy Spirit tells me. Wow,

I know, right, like And and as she does that in obedience,

then she sees because what she's trying to manage, she's also a wast

stage. Undertimes, you prepare too much, you waste, then you throw

away then roogular no matter how much you make right, but if you're not

enough. Then you cannot make customers demands. Oh your it's tricky. Tricky.

Food business is very tricky. Any business is tricky, right, So

she asked God every day. I'm like, wow, do we ask God

every day? Not for our daily sustinance? Do you know the Lord's prayer?

Give us daily our daily bread? Do you ask not? It's not

like, uh, you know, I know I have food enough for this

money ready, thank you Jesus. No, but our daily sustenance, It's

like, God, give us this day. You know. That's why the

children of is your God had to teach them right forty years every day you

go and collect manner and to go for that day. Only enough for that

day. Because you keep for tomorrow you are rot. You will rot.

And many of us keep things like that, right, keep keep, keep

so selfish, don't give it, don't give neighbor. Wait, I don't

have enough tomorrow because no, tomorrow, I give you a new one.

Tomorrow, I give you fresh brain. Why we so scatless today? One?

Keep enough, kivla. If you got extra today, gif ye,

we keep, we keep for ourselves. But that's saying that God, I

don't know whether tomorrow you'll provide for me. I don't know whether your grace

is enough for me tomorrow. Right, and so we hoard humans be hard.

I'm hold by the way, confession. I have to learn to let

go of things. Learn to let go of things right, and know that

God, Jehovah, Supper oath. You you you fight. You're fighting my

battle. You're fighting every battle that I have. It's amazing, right,

you know that the miracles? What are the sum of the miracles that you

remember in the Old Testament? As I talk about the manner every day,

God Provider? What else? What else do you remember the miracle the power

of God that you see in the Old Testament? Sorry, leprosy, the

healing of the leprosy. Right, yeah, there's healing there in the Old

Testament. Thank you for that. What else? What else do you remember

of God's power at work in the Old Testament? Parting of the racy?

This is the general one. Hey, have you ever seen the party of

the RACI? You know, no, right, guess what the Lord of

Heaven's armies, he says, send the wind to blow and eat blue and

you could walk through dry land. Wow, it's amazing. It's amazing how

God's power is displayed in the Old all across. I want you to recognize

that in every part of the Bible, God's power is at hand. God's

power is at work. What about in the New Testament? What are some

of the great power that you witness or you read in the New Testament?

Woman with the issue of blood, this one, right, Jesus didn't have

to do anything. He just stand there and then the woman touched him.

And what flow? What flowed from Jesus to the woman? Power? Power?

It stopped immediately. She knew immediately what was flowing there. The blood

that flowed stopped because power of God flowed in her. It's amazing. Jesus

raised lazarous. Yes, from the date, I have not seen that before.

I'm like, oh wow, I want to see that one day one

day. It's amazing God's power. And you know, the biggest miracle I

think is that Jesus himself overcame death. Yes, right, anyone, okay,

there's any undergo profits in this world, any other good teaching is there

is great. But has anyone ever risen from the dead? Has anyone died

and been risen from the dead. There is only one and his name is

Jesus. And if there's nothing else you can believe in, you gotta believe

that there is no body there. You can go to Israel and look for

the tomb. It's empty because our Jesus has overcome death, and in overcoming

that, he has proven everything that he said to be right. Amen,

everything that he said is true. You can only have these three thoughts about

Jesus. Okay, he is either a liar. Right, he's either a

liar there means some things he said are not true. One Okay, I

don't know what is your perception of Jesus. He's either a liar or he's

a madman crazy sal sail alanga Jesus your would be seal. Or he is

the truth, and that means that everything that he says is true. Sometimes

we cannot believe. So the problem with us is our unbelief. That's our

biggest issue, unbelieving Jesus can do that. Are you sure Jesus can raise

Gyrus's daughter? What Jesus can make mud in someone's eyes and the person can

see. We cannot brain it because it's supernatural. We are only comfortable with

natural things, right, But Jesus is supernatural and so we are understand that

this is the God. So I want you this year to begin to understand

that we serve a God who is powerful. You know, at the snap

of his fingers, he can say win, stop blowing. And that's why

we pray for the weather sometimes. You know it's true and it's true.

Do you believe that everything that's happening right now God doesn't have control? You

will only pray if you believe God can do something about it. Right.

There's the reason why we don't pray, because we're like, yeah, God,

either you don't care, you're too busy, or you cannot do it.

Oh, that's why we don't pray. We don't pray because we don't

believe God can do it, or we believe that he don't want to do

it. All right, So let's just check our hearts and say, God,

actually, why don't I come to you more? Why don't I come

to you to think about how many pop or chicken to buy or to prepare?

Or which part of you know the subject of you know English that I

should study right now? Which you should I focus on biology? Which part?

Why don't I go to God first? Our default is go to ourselves

first. Okay, I do what I can. I do what I can?

But why don't our default is God? Drop everything? God? What

do you think God? What is your way? God? What is your

solution? You have very difficult customers all over the world, very demanding a

lama. They ask you for ten thousand things. You're like, God,

what do I do? How do I serve them? Scoot for wisdom?

In that instant you ask God. He will answer. You go to a

very meeting with a very difficult colleague or a boss. Why are you scared?

Hey? Hello? The person is subject to Jesus, you know.

Hey, come on, sirius, I want you to be so serious.

Like no one else, not even the prime minister whoever wished prime minister in

the world are They are subject to Jesus Christ. Everyone, all the powers

of the earth as we know it right now, is subject to Jesus Christ.

So I myself go back to the most high, to the most high

God. I have direct access. You know, I have direct access just

by saying, in the name of Jesus God, what do you think about

this? Should I go? Should I not go? And you if you

read in Samuel the Book of Samuel, David was like that. He was

a man of war. Right, He's like God, should I go in

fight the emilkits? Not God say hiss, go okay, go bamn win.

God' gonna fight the emmonis or not okay, don't go? Okay,

you say so, don't go because you see, we gotta develop this habit

of one thing to depend on God more and more, one thing to rely

on him because you know that only his thoughts, His thoughts are high than

our thoughts. His ways are better than our ways, much much better.

You know that. That's what we want. We want to say, God,

not my wheel, but yours be done. That's the that's the why

the prayer is there. I pray that every day to remind myself God,

not my way, not roseway, God's way, Jesus way right. And

a lot of times it's saying no to Mi la. You say no to

me, but you say yes to God. Amen. Now see the things

right. This is the God that we serve. And God's power doesn't stop

at him only. Let's read in Matthew twenty eight, verse eighteen, it

says when Jesus came and spoke to them his disciples, saying, all authority

has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make

disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and

of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things

that I have commanded you. And lo I am with you always, even

to the end of the age. Amen. This is something that we want

to drill in you, and you're probably gonna hear it again and again.

But what are we doing about it? How are we making disciples? Jesus

says, all authority has been given to him. Right, so we know

Jesus has all authority. Now I want to point to you something else which

is very interesting. In Matthew chapter ten, verse one, he says this,

and when he had called his twelve disciples to him, he gave them

what he gave them. He gave them power. Wow, Jesus, you're

quite generous. Ah. He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast

them out and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.

Do you know that out of God's abundance of power he gives it over to

whom us. But I want to be very careful to say us does not

mean everybody, US means disciples. Jesus didn't give power to everyone, you

know. Jesus gave power only to his disciples. So sometimes we have to

think, Hey, how come I got no power in my life, no

power, no God's power. Maybe check and say, am I really following

Jesus? Am I really his disciples? When Jesus look at my life,

you will say, oh, yes, I know you. I know you,

evel In, I know you, I know you, Heidi, I

know you. The worst thing is are Jesus. You know you come to

Jesus and jes say, who are you? I don't know you? Then

you know the typo says, hey, by you know, be cast out

in the name of Jesus. You know we heal orchis of sickness and Jesus.

But Jesus says, I don't know you. Does God know who we

are, our hearts, our motives, our intentions, And I want to

give to you another more powerful thing that kind of wow. In John chapter

fourteen, verse Tcheff, he says this most assuredly, this is Jesus word.

Yeah, this is Jesus. Say most assuredly, I say to you,

he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will

do also, Amen, And greater works than this he will do because I

go to my father. Now. I struggle with this verse a lot,

because I'm like saying, God, I'm so weak? How can I do

greater things than you? Even the things that you're doing are I don't think

I've done half of it. I've not raised anyone to live yet, have

you have? You haven't not? Oh my God, I want to see

that. But do you know? Right? God, in his gentle way,

he he showed me. You know that every day that as you're having

a conversation with someone, right, you can either bring this person from death

to life or you can speak death over that person. Yes, every day

you talk to people every day and right, Okay, you're humans, not

ai. Right, So every time you have a conversation with person, are

you using that opportunity to bring this person to life? Or you're killing this

person with your words? Are your words edifying? Are your words uplifting others?

Do you know every day we kill people with our words without knowing?

Oh, because we're very good it words? Right? You do the cut

the person down? Be sarcastic but every every every day you have an opportunity

to raise someone to life, speak life, encourage them. Wow. If

you do this every day, right, I think you begin to raise more

people to life in Christ. Amen. You share the gospel. You know

that when you bring someone into God's Kingdom, you're bringing them life. Hey

hello, it's bring the person from spiritual death into spiritual life. So this

is what Jesus is saying, you would do this and greater than this.

Wow. Church got three hundred over days this year. Some oh no,

wow, every day I got three hunder opportunities, you know, to bring

someone to life. Greater this, greater than this, God says he will

do. I want to share a short testimony and as I you know that

this message I received from the Lord when I was out on a missions trip

last year. So I went for an international missions trip to Lake Toba in

Indonesia. It was a good, good trip. Every night we had the

Christmas night rallies and the whole church was packed. Usually in the church right

there, it's about like beneath the deep people. But on the night rally,

so one hundred over one hundred and fifty people were outside the church,

you know, like this is like, can imagine this is a church premise

and there's a door behind and people were outside. They were coming to church.

I'm like, wow, great revival. Right, and during ministry time

they will come and they will pray. So you know, just be minister

and you really feel you sense God's presence. And on a different level,

I'm not saying you don't feel God's presence every day, but when you are

together intentional, right, See, when you go a missions trip, you're

praying, You're praying for God to work. You're praying that God will purify

you so that you can be used. Right, So it's the intentionality that's

important. And if you don't have it in your life, then may the

mission trip help you get that intentionality so that you bring it into your daily

life. It's just a kickstarter, right, a mission trip is a kickstarter.

But so that's what happened Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night.

You know, we saw all these things. People were coming up, children

ten years old, they were up for ministry. They were crying, right,

ministered by the Lord. Not like we could do anything great, not

like you know, it was us, but it was God's presence, God's

presence, just healing, the ministrying to the people, and on Sundays.

So I was given a privilege to preach in Bahasa. Oh my gosh,

yes, I know in Indonesia is all Bahasa. And can you imagine pretty

in English is already so challenging. Pretty in Bahasa is another challenge altogether.

And in dawn it's a different word, right, some of the words are

different. So so God gave me this message to teach about Jehovah Sabah oath

and I began the first five minutes, right, Jehovah Sabah oh bahamgah yeah,

okay. So then I'm like processing everything in basa right, and suddenly

at the corner of my eye, I saw that there was some commotion happening.

Sounds like, what's happening there? You know, why not paying attention

to me? Right? And what happened was there was a family. There

was a mom, there was a dad, and there was a boy.

I think he was about fourteen fifteen years old. He looked like a teenage

boy, but he looked like he was a special needs child. He was

in a wheelchair. And what happened was, as I began to preach right,

he started having fits. You know what fits are when people go into

a convulsion, like like you know, like that he was shaking violently,

he was shaking. So I was like, oh my god. And so

what was happening was the mom was like about the claw, about the claw,

bring him out of the church, right because he was he was going

to his fits. I don't know how often it has happened to him or

whether it was common, but so she was like getting embarrassed, right,

because you know, the whole church was like, Oh, what's happening to

you know, church people get on what's happening there? What's happening there?

So and at the moment they were like about the claws, you know,

so, and I was like, oh my god, what's happening there?

Right. I had a decision. I had a choice to make in that

split second. I could either say, okay, just about the claw and

then restore peace, and then I can just go on and preach a good

word. Right, but at the very moment the Holy Spirit just say pray

now in the name of Jehovah's saba oath for his healing. I was like,

okay, then I straight away I took them mind and said, no,

don't bring him out. We'll pray right now in the name of Jehovah,

Sabah. We'll pray. Everyone prayed. So we prayed, right,

we prayed, and he was still shaking. Within thirty seconds, he just

calmed down. He just calmed down. Praise God, a man, Praise

sCOD. He just come down immediately. I have never witnessed an instant healing

like that miracle of God. And you know what after that, right,

the message just became God, you just take over redeala because right and I

later found out was the father. It was his first time to church,

father, first time to church, and I was just telling the church church,

you know, God just wants to show you his power. Today.

I can preach about God's power, but it's very different when you experience and

you see God's power for yourself. And the boy was quiet and shalom peace

throughout the entire time. The whole message was there, and we got to

pray for the family and pray for the father, who at that time did

not know Jesus yet. So I'm like, oh my gosh, God,

you you're serious about this thing. You know, you're serious about your name

and we don't take God's name lightly, you know, and then we are

serious about God. He's gonna show up. He showed up. And after

that, I'm like, after that the whole thing was done. I was

still still like, whoa, what just happened? You know? It was

not me at all. It was just God, in his grace and his

mercy, decided to show his power to this family. Even if it's one

person that he needed to show that power. I think he will do it.

But can you imagine how it edified the whole church. The whole church

was encouraged by this. Amen. So I just want to encourage your church

that our God Jesus is alive. Amen. He's alive, and he is

powerful. And there's nothing, nothing, nothing in your life that God cannot

resolve. Amen. Amen, we are empowered. And you know, this

whole idea of Jehovah Sabah got the lord of Heaven's armies. He's not just

the lord of the Heaven's armies. He's the Lord of the Earth's armies as

well. Amen. And we are called to be soldiers for Jesus Christ.

What do soldiers do? What is the responsibility of us a group of soul

the army. Think about it? What is it? Protect? Sorry?

Obey? Yes, great, I love that. Okay, remember well,

brothers say obey. We gotta obey God. We gotta obey the commandments,

right, we gotta obey the commander. We gotta protect what's not. But

that's one thing that we don't really talk about is called offense. We are

called to attack, we are called to take land, we are called to

take directory for God. We like to stop at like, okay, like

let's just defend ou. I think maybe it's an Asian thing. We don't

like to catch your people and right, but but God is sometimes on the

offense to say no, I will not allow another young person die to suicide.

I want to take back that. I want to take it back at

that life. We cannot allow that to happen. We cannot allow people to

just go into spiritual eternity of darkness. Do you know we need to take

land, We need to take lives for God. Amen, We need to

bring them back into God's kingdom of lights. You know we are called and

our purpose is to fight. Fight that all may know right. This is

our theme for next year, well, actually this year that all may know

right, do you know, do you know who your God is? Now?

Maybe I've given you a little bit of a glimpse of who God is.

Does your neighbor know who God is? This is your mom and that

know who God is. We want to help them know God. Amen?

And so I want to end. How do we move on from here?

Right? So now you know a little bit about who God is. Now.

I hope you've been encouraged. I hope you've been strengthened. And this

is from Joshua Chapter one, Versus sixty nine. This is for us.

You know I talked about taking territory right and Moses is there. So twenty

twenty three is day gone. Now Joshua is the new leader of the children

of Israel. And this is what God reminds him. And I want to

remind all of you this in verse sixty six. Be strong and of good

courage exchu us, for to these people you shall divide as an inheritance the

land which I swore to your fathers to give them. Only be strong and

very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which

Moses, my servant commanded. You do not turn from it to the right

hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. Amen.

Do we want to prosper this year? You know? Let's observe.

Amen, observe verse This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth,

but you shall meditate it day and night. Yes, not once a

week, yeah, not on Sunday. Only a day and night, day

and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written

in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you

will have good success. Have I not commanded you exters, Be strong and

of good courage. Do not be afraid nor be dismayed, For the Lord

your God is with you wherever you go. Amen. We hope you've been

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