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5 AREAS TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2024 | Pr Kenneth Chin

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message

  2. will light up your day. The lot put on my heart a message for

  3. the new year, and the title, if we have it is the five

  4. areas that I would like us to watch out four in twenty twenty four.

  5. Five areas I would like us to watch out for, to look out for,

  6. to invest in. And let's not only think about Oh I think past

  7. I say watch out for this means is negative. No, we want to

  8. invest in these five areas. Also, we would like to take control of

  9. these five areas because these five areas will be a blessing to you if you

  10. do it right. So let's begin Proverbs chapter four. We read the Word

  11. of God, and the official Bible for X Church is the New King James

  12. version, because we have found that to be the more accurate of all versions.

  13. But you know, sometimes we also like to read other versions to see

  14. the different angles. But NKJV. Let's read the Word of God, my

  15. son. Give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings,

  16. do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of

  17. your heart, for they are alive to those who find them, and health

  18. to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of

  19. it spring the issues of life. Put away from you a deceitful mouth,

  20. and put perverse lips far from you. Let your eyes look straight ahead,

  21. and your eyelids look right before you. Ponder the path of your feet,

  22. and let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or

  23. the left. Remove your foot from evil. All right, So these are

  24. the five areas that I would like to show you. Now. These five

  25. areas are the ears, the heart, the mouth, the eyes, the

  26. feet, five areas that we should take care of, invest in, watch

  27. out for. All right, Let's now read Proverbs chapter four of US twenty

  28. three seven, the same scriptures that we just read, but in the message

  29. message. Okay, dear friend, listen well to my words. Tune your

  30. ears to my voice. Keep my message in plain view at all times,

  31. concerned trade learn it by heart. Those who discover these words live really,

  32. live body and soul. They're bursting with health. Amen, keep vigilant watch

  33. over your heart. That's where life starts. Don't talk out of both sides

  34. of your mouth. Avoid careless banter, white lies and gossip. Keep your

  35. eyes straight ahead. You know all sight show distractions. You know they are

  36. a lot of sight show distractions. Watch your step and the road will stretch

  37. out smooth before you look neither right nor leave leave evil in the das.

  38. All right, So this is the word of the Lord, and I want

  39. to speak to you about it. But before I go into the five areas,

  40. let me say to you that these five areas are also escalating in nature.

  41. They are connected, and I will show you that what you allow into

  42. your ears will also begin to feel your heart, and what you allow to

  43. feel your heart will also begin to be your speech. The way you speak,

  44. and when you speak, things will happen, and you know it will

  45. even cause your eyes to begin to have a perspective, either right or wrong.

  46. You will have a perspective that will influence your future. And of course,

  47. as you begin to see, you will also begin to walk. And

  48. if you see right, you will walk right. If you see wrong,

  49. you will walk wrong. And so it's all connected. And when we invest

  50. in them, you will find that from your ears you will end up on

  51. your feet. I'll show you that in a while. Okay, So it's

  52. number one connected, number two escalating. So it just keeps going higher and

  53. higher, either for good or for evil. Okay, So I don't want

  54. any of you to experience evil or unproductive year. I want all of us

  55. to have a good year, a great year. And I should stop saying

  56. I want is God who wants this? And so God put it on my

  57. heart? Is this, Kenneth? I love as I love my people here,

  58. and I want them to prosper. I want them to be in good

  59. health. I want them to be in good health, not just bodily,

  60. but also financially. And all that's good, right, But there are biblical

  61. ways to do it, and God's ways. His word is a lamp to

  62. our feed, a light to our path. So we want to follow God's

  63. formula God's way? Is that okay? All right? So let's now look

  64. into the areas one by one. The next slide, let's begin years,

  65. all right? Yes, So improverts for that's how it starts. And let's

  66. just read it again in proverts for my son gives attention to my words.

  67. Give attention to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings, and do

  68. not let them depart from your eyes. So the first thing that the word

  69. of God deals with or I can read the message. The message is,

  70. dear friend, listen well to my words, tune your ears to my voice.

  71. You know, I don't know how many of you are old enough to

  72. remember the radio that has to be tuned. Now we just press button right.

  73. Once upon a time, you know, tuning was like this. You

  74. get into the I don't know, ninety whatever, ninety four point five or

  75. whatever, one hundred and four point nine whatever are your favorite channel, and

  76. it's not always you get it spot on. But as you're coming nearer to

  77. that channel, you already hear some voices. When you pass that channel,

  78. you still hear some voices, but it's not that clear what you and I

  79. want, because it's very irritating to have unclear buzzing, you know, static

  80. voice. You want it to be crystal clear. But to be crystal clear,

  81. you've got to be spot on, spot on with your tuning. And

  82. so maybe in our lives it's like that we walk twenty twenty two, twenty

  83. three, Z can here a bit. I think he said that. I

  84. think he meant that, you know, and it sudden you go past I

  85. said, I want to Oh, I think that's what God meant. You

  86. know why I want you to. I want to then go back now.

  87. So it's a constant discipline of trying to hear. And then when you gonna,

  88. when you get it, spot on, wow, it's like joy to

  89. the world the Lord. It's like wow, you rejoice because oh wow,

  90. you got it and now it's clear. And then you you take your hand

  91. off the dial and you're driving. You're smiling because it's all so clear.

  92. Now you can't get it wrong. And so that's what the Bible says in

  93. message right, just tune, got to tune. And so maybe in January

  94. start tuning. Yeah, tune in, tune in Lord, I really want

  95. to hear your voice clearer, clearer. So proverbs for okay, let's move

  96. on. So Romans ten seventeen says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by

  97. the word of God. So faith comes by hearing. So the way you

  98. and I are going to really overcome Romans eight thirty seven. Yet in all

  99. these things we are more than overcome us through Jesus who loved us. But

  100. the way to overcome is to walk by faith, live by faith. But

  101. before you can even live or walk by faith, you need to hear by

  102. faith. And it says faith comes by hearing, So it's so important to

  103. not just hear, but hear the word of God. Now, can I

  104. just release a statement to you here and you can say yes to it or

  105. you might not totally agree to it. But I can tell you right now

  106. that our lives right now, today, here and now is largely due to

  107. what we have allowed into our ears. Meaning whatever decisions that you've made,

  108. however you feel, whatever situation you're in, is because of what you've heard.

  109. In twenty twenty three, if you've lost money in the market, in

  110. the share market, before you even invested, you heard something, and you

  111. hear you invest rightly or wrongly. Maybe you thought about giving up ministry because

  112. you heard something that causes you to go, Yeah, you know this is

  113. my decision. Maybe you want to leave church? What have you heard?

  114. Will be my question to you? You see, yeah, maybe you change

  115. your mind about something. Uh, And then I'll ask you you look so

  116. discouraged and out of the discouragement you are making that decision. So before the

  117. discouragement is what have you heard? You see? Have you heard negative sayings,

  118. fearful sayings, ah, pity sayings. I don't know, you know,

  119. so many sayings. The world that we live in is full of voices,

  120. and some of these voices are even inside of us, and it speaks

  121. to us the devil. It was said of the devil by one, you

  122. know, old creature. He said, I believe the devil's strategy is to

  123. make so much noise in this world that we can't hear voice. But the

  124. Bible says faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

  125. Now, so for this year, you need to understand you're gonna get victory

  126. and overcoming results by the decisions you make. Are we in agreement? How

  127. you treat your children, how you treat your marriage, how you treat your

  128. It's just decisions every day, right, But decisions would either be based on

  129. faith or fear. It would be either based on God's word or someone else's

  130. word. Right. So God is saying to us, start with your ears

  131. this year. Whatever that you have heard lasted, have caused you fear,

  132. that have caused you sadness, that have caused you to want to give up,

  133. They've got maybe change your hearing. How to change your hearing past tuna

  134. tune. I want to hear God's clear voice Lord, the sadness that I

  135. went through last year is causing me. This is the disappointment I went through

  136. last is causing me to you know this doubt. Doubt has come into my

  137. mind. But the Bible says here by faith, not here by doubt,

  138. not here by anger, not here by frustration, not here by what the

  139. markets are telling you. Amen, Because markets were up and down, volatile.

  140. But God's word is never volatile. And then he Jesus is the same

  141. yesterday, today and forever he Brews thirteen, verse eight, the same,

  142. steady, the true north that you're in. You're lost in the in the

  143. jungle, the compass. The north is always true, right, God's word.

  144. You can count it. Yeah. You might feel, oh, dark

  145. and cold and I'm lost. Yeah, given we are human beings, we

  146. will feel the emotions. But you're gonna get out of this year. Follow

  147. the north, follow the You're gotta get out. You're gonna get out your

  148. debt. This year, You're gonna get out of your anger. This year,

  149. you're gotta get out your frustrations. This year, you gotta get out

  150. of your pain. This year, you got to get out of your regrets.

  151. This year. I want to prophesy that to you. Because God gave

  152. me this word, I'm confident to say it to you. But you've got

  153. to start to hear by faith. Here by the word, because this word

  154. is faithful. It doesn't change. Amen. God is good. So start

  155. with your hearing. Let's move on Revelations to seven. Now I'm just going

  156. to show you very quickly the word of the Lord in Revelations to seven churches.

  157. Remember, God spoke to seven churches. In each of the churches when

  158. God spoke, the beginning of what he said was different to the faithful church.

  159. I think the Church of Philadelphia. He said something to the church in

  160. Sardis or you know, this just goes down. You read it for yourself.

  161. There's seven churches, and you know somewhere look warm. I will spew

  162. you up, my mother. The beginning of the seven churches. As he

  163. spoke to seven churches, the introductory was different, but I'm about to show

  164. you now the ending is all the same. He was an ear. Let

  165. him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. You know, Revelations is

  166. the last book read. You know, he didn't say he was an eye.

  167. Let him see. He didn't say those who have a heart. Let

  168. them feel the importance of the ear to God in Revelations the Last Book and

  169. found as a message to every seven church, every one of the seven churches.

  170. I should say sorry by my English A few nervous when I thought in

  171. front of a Pazza Gloria and an English teacher. So as as soon I

  172. say, I look at her and she's just like past, I will be

  173. leanient to you today. This this is the first Church. Okay, seven

  174. to eleven. I think I think it's two eleven. I'm not sure.

  175. Okay, So he who has an here let him hear. Okay, this

  176. is the Second Church. Different introduction to the second Church, but same ending.

  177. Like it's like this. No, all of us will have different situations,

  178. different challenges, but to all of us, the same ending, the

  179. same any meaning that as you all come to this at Cheras worship service today,

  180. you've got the same word from the Lord. Go make sure your hearing

  181. is right. You said your personal you know, I don't you not understand

  182. because the thing I've gone through is different. And then another person siting next

  183. to usually you you know the things I've gone through is so yeah, yeah,

  184. okay understood. Everybody has different challenges, different uh, you know,

  185. things to overcome, but the same word, your ear. Start with your

  186. ear. Okay, I think it's seventeen. Okay, sod Church. Now

  187. third Church, seventeen he who is an ear, Let him hear what the

  188. Spirit says to the churches. Move on. I think it's twenty nine.

  189. He's a fourth church. Now, same thing. Here is an ear,

  190. Let him hear. Revelations three, six fifth Church. Now, oh sorry,

  191. let me just read that tree six, just the one before. Yeah,

  192. he was an ear. Let him here, fifth church, sixth church,

  193. Revelations tree thirteen. Sixth church. Here is an ear. Let him

  194. here, seventh church, last one, he has an ear. Let him

  195. here. You hear what the Lord is trying to say to us, no

  196. matter what problems and troubles and challenges. Let it start with your ear,

  197. amen, because you will hear the Lord tell you what you need to do

  198. and how you need to walk. And yeah, maybe it'll be different answers

  199. or solution from the Lord, but he starts with hearing. Faith comes by

  200. hearing. It will be faith and hearing by the Word of God. That's

  201. going to be the similar solution to all of us. Start there, Start

  202. there. Okay. Now the last book of revelations is Revelations twenty two,

  203. and you still find that. As if God was not clear enough, he

  204. said before I finished the Bible, la by last chapter. I'm going to

  205. add it one more time, just in case you didn't catch it. How

  206. important the hearing is to me. All right, So the spirit and the

  207. bride say, come. Let him who hears say come. Let him who

  208. hears say come, not let him who season not, let him who has

  209. great faith, Let him who hears say come. So he really really starts

  210. without hearing. Stop hearing all those stuff that has caused you all those pain

  211. enough, stop hearing all those stuff that's caused you all those poverty. How

  212. am I always poor? Because maybe you're here. Stop hearing all tho stuff

  213. that's caused you all that anger and frustration and want to give up, give

  214. up, give up? No, no, no, hey enough? Amen?

  215. You know what training training for is gonna be different for you because you're

  216. gonna hear differently. And as soon as you say, God, help me

  217. to hear differently, it starts, It starts, and it will be a

  218. different year from training. Trainy tree, you can hear good? Amen?

  219. If you had. If you had a good year and training tatry year,

  220. it'll be better. If you had a bad year, it's gonna be great.

  221. It all starts with hearing, and I want to hear God's voice,

  222. and I want to hear by faith. Amen. All right, let's move

  223. on. So the heart. Ah, So Proverbs For we all start.

  224. We all go back to Proverbs For because that's the main text. What does

  225. it say here? He says, keep your heart with all diligence, for

  226. out of it spring the issues of life. Okay, what does the message

  227. say. The message says, keep vigilant watch over your heart. That's where

  228. life starts. Okay, all right, The heart is very important. God

  229. looks at the heart, even as man looks at that oar appearance. God

  230. loves your heart. He wants your heart. The heart is the center of

  231. your life. It's where all it all begins. Okay, So there is

  232. another translation in N I V. The n I V translation is God your

  233. Heart. I think a lot of us like that version because we even use

  234. it for each other. Hey, God, your horror, God your horror.

  235. You know, just don't just don't give it to any other guy,

  236. or don't don't give you to any girl. Okay, don't not just any

  237. girl. Choose the right one now. Okay. That's why he starts with

  238. hearing fir Us ah, and the Lord says it is this girl. Ah.

  239. Then you Ah starts with that here fir Us Oh Lord, okay,

  240. great, okay. So then to this person that God shows for me,

  241. I will give my heart. Okay, So let's move on. So,

  242. Philippines four, be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication,

  243. with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known to God, and the peace

  244. of God, which surpasses all understanding. Will God your hearts and minds to

  245. Christ Jesus. You know why I love this two versus so much is because

  246. we just were told that we have to guard our hearts. But as you

  247. tell your friend got your heart, they don't know what to do. Passa

  248. Gloria, tell me how to God? Just what do I do? I

  249. can't even put my hand around my heart? I how do I? What

  250. do I do? Supplements? I can't imagine if I came out with new

  251. supplements a heart guarding supplements. Take this twice a day, I think I'll

  252. be rich. You know, because so many people would have got your heart,

  253. but don't know how to start. So take two, you know,

  254. one in the morning, one in the evening, and your heart will be

  255. guarded, you know, and as you go to the x ray or em.

  256. I guess what that's like, A like a seel. I I see

  257. you around your heart. Nick knows what I'm talking about, but no,

  258. so how do you do it? And I thank God? That's such a

  259. clear unsaying. The Bible is the peace of God that surpasses all understanding,

  260. that will God our heart and mind. I love it because it says the

  261. only peace, the kind of peace that surpasses all understanding, meaning to say

  262. that in your own understanding, it should be this way. And so that's

  263. why you don't know what to do. Because if something bad happens to your

  264. family, sure have to be you know, the result has to be this.

  265. It's all the natural. If something happened bad in your company, then

  266. the result is this. I have to lay off people. I have to

  267. you know, close down whatever you know. So many natural things that come

  268. from natural understanding, and even the world that does not have Jesus will will

  269. react that way too. But Christians, we don't have to always react we

  270. can respond by way of peace, meaning to say that when we surrender everything

  271. to God. See if if our understanding is at this level, maybe let's

  272. say at level two, we can only do level two things. Uh,

  273. that's why your child and he standard two or said it four. That's that's

  274. that's only said too. You don't expect your child is to do form two

  275. things. It won't be fair to put maths form two maths if I was

  276. said a two students, But in all our lives we have a certain understanding

  277. two trees and four form one form two, and according to our understanding,

  278. we see greater victories in our lives because we understand. Okay, I know

  279. after thirty years of walking with the Lord, we might say, I know

  280. this is how he works. And so in your understanding, you're able to

  281. respond and then see God move. When you're a child, you don't understand,

  282. so everything will so your panic right now, your promise a peace that

  283. surpasses even the understanding you have. That's really cool. And because of that,

  284. my heart and my mind is going to be guarded. You see it

  285. A really says that out of your heart will flow the issues of life,

  286. or this is where life starts meaning to say that if our hearts are not

  287. in the right place, we will begin to produce or react to different things

  288. in our lives. That may not be the reaction that God wants. That

  289. will not be the reaction that will bring breakthrough everybody. Okay, So but

  290. when when when the peace comes and it guards your heart, it then only

  291. allows your heart to begin to spawn the way God wants it to. Imagine,

  292. Now, if there's a lot of puppies here, puppies here, I

  293. like golden retrievers. There's like one hundred golden retrievers here, all right,

  294. and then there is no gate. Let's start with that first, okay,

  295. and you release one hundred puppies will be everywhere, right, I don't mind.

  296. You know. I really love God in retriever as the puppy one.

  297. Oh my word, you know, thank you Lord. And I had a

  298. golden retriever no until she went to heaven. Uh and so so so so

  299. so whatever the situation is in life, your puppies go everywhere without a gate.

  300. Right, Ah, you know, sell this, you know, leave

  301. the country. Uh, stop going there, you know, stop reading your

  302. Bible. No time for the good things. And you know let's you know,

  303. think of ending it all, you know, just everywhere. And then

  304. suddenly the peace of God comes, surpasses all understanding, puts a God over

  305. this right. And now that there's the piece of God becomes the god or

  306. the gate It only allows the puppiece that should go out. My my puppy's

  307. name was spring. Spring, your turn, and the rest of summer,

  308. winter, okay, come only spring account. So Spring comes up right and

  309. just giving you illustration, because this is how it works. That means the

  310. respond or the reaction that God wants to give you victory that will be allowed

  311. out. So Spring comes out and spring doesn't create a heavop because because God

  312. knows, or the gatekeeper knows that spring is mature enough for this, or

  313. spring is ready and we can manage this. But sometimes when our hearts are

  314. not guarded, we make all kinds of regretful decisions, and it's hard to

  315. bring all these hard puppies back into the cannot you're with me, But when

  316. it's God that God allows, okay, you you go. No, No,

  317. you stay, I'm angry and anger. Stay, I'm so frustrated and

  318. I want to end it all. You you stay, you know radio come

  319. out. Yet Yeah, I think I think I rather forgive him. You

  320. know, God, God said, so, okay, you come out,

  321. So then our decisions are guided. We leave no room for regret, and

  322. and and and and and and so that's how it is. That's a god.

  323. See, the God doesn't just uh you know, I mean I have

  324. a god uh in my estate. And the god does two things right.

  325. He gots from the wrong people coming in. He also guards let the right

  326. people go out, so the devil can't he wants to attack you with.

  327. I want to give Kenneth Chin another thought, you know of evil, you

  328. know, because there's a god standing there, caught piece you doubly myself,

  329. you know. You know, some person our mind can go into Koran movie.

  330. You know it's just over time when from a small thing become very,

  331. very big because he plays the movie two and a half hours, right and

  332. after that you want to diary, you know, and you go like how

  333. cover started with just the following? You want to give me a piece of

  334. his cake? How come can I end up wanting to die? One?

  335. I mean, the kick and die is two big things now, but I've

  336. been two different things. I should say. One's so very small one very

  337. big. But it's because what we allow in our hearts, we feel aub

  338. our hearts. We anger and pity. Maybe O pull me, pull me

  339. on, You might say, oh, come sub me down some money or

  340. okay, So the Koran movie is playing and it just becomes very drama.

  341. That's why some people are so we call them, I mean, not nice

  342. as you call him there, but drama queen, I know, but you

  343. know, yeah, what to do? I mean, it's not nice to

  344. come people with names are. But you know sometimes we say because I really

  345. low like it a little bit drama, you know, but because you allow

  346. it. So the peace of God will God our hearts. Because guarding of

  347. the heart is important. Issues of life flow out. This is where life

  348. starts, the Bible says, so you must must make sure it starts right.

  349. Move on for where you're all. I love this Matthew six twenty one.

  350. Where your treasure is there, your heart will be also. So this

  351. year, God what you treasure? Because I know if I just leave you

  352. with God your heart, you go away thinking how do I do it?

  353. So you God your priorities? Yeah, just I mean, that's easier to

  354. define treasure. My girlfriend as if she was number one in my life,

  355. then that's where your heart will be. And if she fails you, your

  356. heart will definitely be broken, broken in a way that you can never survive

  357. because God was not number one. She was number one. Now your girlfriend

  358. might even be number five, number seven. She can be on the list.

  359. Your boyfriend can be on the list, your family can be on the

  360. list, your job can be on the list, but it's not first on

  361. the list. God has to be on the list. Number one, always

  362. number one. So even when people fail you, and they will fail you,

  363. I don't love my wife beyond I mean, I love my wife.

  364. She's probably number two or number three in my life. But God is definitely

  365. number one and my wife, if you ask her, she also say my

  366. husband is not my number one. God is. And I thank God for

  367. that because I will fail her and I have failed her, and she will

  368. fail me and she has failed me. But we go back to God,

  369. who keeps bringing us back together. But if you was my God and she

  370. fails me, then who do I go to. That's why the world that

  371. does not have God always finds their lives broken to pieces when something happens,

  372. and then they don't have anyone to turn to, so they turn into crazy

  373. sometimes stupid things. We call it to pop up to them. It's very

  374. real. That's why we have to preach the gospel, tell them about Jesus

  375. so that they can look to him because life will fail you again and again.

  376. But we have the rock of our salvation, Jesus Christ, on which

  377. we stand and will never be shaken. So please, people, how do

  378. I get my heart? Paster just God your treasure and says like, God,

  379. what is your treasure? Maybe this year? Sit down and what are

  380. my priorities? Actually? And you can't bluff your someone. The one that

  381. you treasure, the mozart is the one that you give most time to.

  382. I'd be very honest with you. Care bluffer you give most time, most

  383. attention to. So I thank you all for coming to church on a Sunday.

  384. I mean some of you could have played golf and I would then know

  385. who is your God. You know it's not rocket science, it's not rocket

  386. sized, but you can see it. Of course, it's harder for someone

  387. else to tell you love. You know that is not God, but golf.

  388. That is your number one love. It's very hard that people can't can't

  389. take it from music? Oh what you mean? But actually, if you

  390. look in the mirror and honest, you know your first love right is your

  391. video games for example. So you have to be careful because where your treasure

  392. is there you're heart will be also. So you want to God your heart.

  393. Make sure you watch out for your treasures, as in like, what

  394. are your treasures? Go to the list, rework your priorit is this year?

  395. Is that okay? Red? What your priet is? Make sure that

  396. Jesus is number one. Let's move on too. Sorry, Do not be

  397. conformed with this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

  398. that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and the perfect will of

  399. God. Now there is know word heart in this scripture, but I want

  400. to tell you many times when you read the Bible, heart and mind are

  401. interchangeable. And so what mind or what heart really means. It means your

  402. internal person, your deepest thoughts, the real you. You can be here

  403. smiling, and you can be here looking like you' all right, But what

  404. are your most inner thoughts? That's your heart, that's really you. We

  405. can sometimes you know pr with people, but you know you now say,

  406. if you ask a question, what do you really think about him? In

  407. your heart or in your deepest thoughts? And then you've got to actually,

  408. I think I think this or that, and it could be totally different from

  409. when you actually shook his hand and smart in his face and you know wish

  410. you dead, And you got to those are your internal thoughts, your heart,

  411. the deep and deepest part of you, the real you. God is

  412. after that, so to love him with all your heart, your mind.

  413. So it's all this internal, deepest, in depth, the real you.

  414. Do you love him or do you just do this because you know you're afraid

  415. Pastor Gloria will call you for a meeting. Right, So even in the

  416. dressing, I got to believe this with all my heart, that God is

  417. worthy of me to dress my best. Then you realize that even when I'm

  418. not speaking, I will do this because it's not about showing people here,

  419. It's about Him and me. So in the depths of my heart, I

  420. believe that God deserves the best. So when I go to Japan and I'm

  421. not speaking, the Japanese pastors saying, pass your dress better than us.

  422. We are the speakers. We are the chairperson. I said, sorry,

  423. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. But I didn't dress

  424. for anybody. I dress for the Lord every Sunday. I didn't want to

  425. give him my best. So I packed my suit and I packed my tie

  426. into my back, which is quite inconvenient to pack extra stuff in your back.

  427. It's quite inconvenient, but it's okay because in my heart of hearts,

  428. in my true self, I really believe that God deserves nothing less than my

  429. best. So I don't have to answer really to anyone. I answer to

  430. the Lord. Are you all with me? That is that's most important,

  431. And I think in heaven that would be what we will be judged by,

  432. not just external but really what did you really believe in? Who are you

  433. really? And? Uh, you know this is important, so it says

  434. mine meaning the heart is the spiritual mind. The heart is what you think

  435. deep inside you and how to be transformed this year to three for be renewed

  436. in that mind. Stop thinking the way you thought into a tree and you

  437. see such transformation happen. Amen, So you've got to change your the way

  438. you think. Okay, Earlier I said change the way you hear now I'm

  439. saying, change the way you think, renew, renew, renew or don't

  440. think like that. Don't think like that. Lord, help me not to

  441. think like that, not to go down that path, not to go on

  442. the corent movie that keeps ending with set you know news want to die one.

  443. Lord, No, I please change the script, change the script,

  444. change the script. Lord, help me to have really good, powerful,

  445. godly endings in my movie. You know, let me have you know,

  446. a powerful, powerful transformational movies. In my mind, it all starts with

  447. the way I think. Renew your mind. Okay, So our hearts need

  448. to be renewed, our minds to be renewed. Were we now XTV as

  449. a good man as good? Sorry, a good man out of the good

  450. treasure of his heart brings forth good, and an evil man out of the

  451. evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of

  452. the heart, the mouth speaks. So the next thing we've got to talk

  453. about is the mouth. But I want you to know where it starts.

  454. It starts with the abundance of the heart. Remember I told you earlier it

  455. was escalating. Your mouth won't really speak what your heart doesn't mean. And

  456. even if you are joking around, it's fine. You know some of us

  457. kidding around. So I was just, you know, casually say something.

  458. But some of your most strongest words, most effective words, most powerful speak

  459. comes from your heart. So if you will guard your heart, your mouth

  460. will be taken care of. That's what I'm trying to say. They were,

  461. okay, And the mouth is very very powerful, So the abundance of

  462. the heart. Okay, let me say something before I move into mouth.

  463. Many many years ago, I asked a lot. I said, Lord,

  464. why am I so scared to preach the gospel to my friends and family?

  465. And when I explain this to you, please don't get a friend with me,

  466. because it's a lot ministering to me. And I just have to tell

  467. you the truth of what God told me. And the Lot minises to me

  468. and said Kenneth, it is not that you're scared. It's not about fear.

  469. Even it's not about like sometimes you know, I ask a question to

  470. campus students once upon a time, what is stopping you from preaching the gospel?

  471. And the first on top of all the lists, I interviewed about one

  472. hundred students campus students, I think about eighty of them put fear of rejection

  473. as top. So fear or fear of rejection is the top. Okay.

  474. They want to hang out with this crowd, and to hang out this card,

  475. they have to be cool. So immediately when you say Jesus, it's

  476. not cool. So they're afraid they'll be rejected. This guy are yes,

  477. okay, all this Jesus free automatic, So they don't want to be different.

  478. Okay. So I thought it was fear. I thought, Lord,

  479. give me more bonness for my price, give me more boness to preach your

  480. word. Then the Lord says, no, Kenneth, I tell you I

  481. review something to you. Okay, the Lord didn't tell me. Don't get

  482. angreed, I think the Lord I won't say that they don't get angry,

  483. the poor thing. No, okay, the Lord isn't worry about getting angry

  484. away. Okay, But the Lord said to me, Kenneth, when your

  485. heart is filled with me, your mouth will speak automatically. Oh that was

  486. a real to my heart be goes like that means my heart is a feeler.

  487. Probably is half You need to feel it more so you watch people who

  488. can share. But Jesus everywhere your hearts are full with him, and so

  489. it just comes out. I won't. I don't want to call it verbal

  490. diarrhea like because it is it's gospel. But even if you think about diarrhea

  491. and verbal diarrhea, very hard to keep a diary inland? Are you only

  492. one? Your only thing? Even if you are keeping it in And because

  493. you're in church and you can only even past or let go at Homer,

  494. you will be keeping it. But when you get Homer, no choice,

  495. some of you are not enough time to take off your pants. Don't know

  496. so so sorry to be so grosser, but have you been in a direct

  497. situation before it has to come out? It has to. I pray no

  498. one is having that feeling, even right now. In Jesus name, everyone

  499. everyone here be healed. I had the Lord bless your stomach so that you'd

  500. be so fine. You'll be all right, you be able to have lunch

  501. later, et cetera. You know how it feels. Abundance has to come

  502. up. Have you been abundantly happy about something because you went to a holiday,

  503. you saw something that you said, I have to tell everybody. It

  504. comes out, and automatically people need to force you. Is he about fear

  505. of rejection. No, you can't wait, you know, to get home,

  506. to get to your office, to get your friends, tell them the

  507. best chuck with nou in jedis your heart is filled with abundance you because you

  508. taste it and seen that the Lord is good. Yeah, yeah, so

  509. fill your heart this year? How do you do it? Well? Here,

  510. keep listening to good things, because if you're listening to gossip and white

  511. lies and all this and that it will happen also your heart will get filed.

  512. And every meal that you have with your friend and family, are you

  513. say the same thing a day? Your family is so bodedly because your heart

  514. is so filled with anger and bitterness and frustration because you are Lama. Everywhere

  515. you go, so the same gossip, the same person you're gossipping about,

  516. the same church you're gossipping about. So everywhere you go it becomes that have

  517. you ever been in that situation? So our words have been there, but

  518. have you been among friends who talk about the same topic like, hey,

  519. come on, five years ago, I did get on with it and get

  520. on because and you don't understand that actually every time he's sitting down in the

  521. Mama shop talking but same thing. He's feeling his heart again. That's why

  522. it doesn't go down. It's supposed to go down when you feel it with

  523. different things. Have you ever put a Milo cup after you drink a day,

  524. put it under clean water, clear water. As a clean water goes

  525. in there, it's coming up, right, it's coming up, it's clearing

  526. the cup. But the first few seconds of half a minute, the Milo

  527. is still in there and your water is still chocolate. And then after that

  528. it clears, clears, so you have to feel more clear water to get

  529. the junk out. So why don't you and I this year just learned to

  530. come under his showers of blessing. Just come under this Lord, fill me,

  531. fill me with clear water. And the Bible says the word of God

  532. is like water washes, you know, just come yeah, first few seconds,

  533. first few days, first few weeks. You know you might still see

  534. your God. I don't know why I'm feeling myself with your word, but

  535. still I can't see chocolate, chocolate. Dooc come here? You no?

  536. No, no Zanella like the couple. You know, Yeah, but wait

  537. for a while. Let could you let the water flow flow, flow freely,

  538. flow into your heart? And then watch the color change. Oh,

  539. now it's clear water in the cup the Lord. So so if you've been

  540. feeling your heart in a way you shouldn't be feeling your heart twenty twenty three,

  541. uh, and speaking the way you shouldn't be speaking. Change okay.

  542. Next one mouth proverbs for it says, I all still okay, because I

  543. don't't be speaking and you're not being blessed. No, you're right. Okay,

  544. here we go. Put away from your deceitful from you a decitful mouth,

  545. and put perverse lips far from you. Okay. That's proverbs for the

  546. message says, don't talk out of both sides of your mouth. Wow,

  547. No one side you say something, yeah, side you say something else.

  548. Be consistent, avoid careless banter. White lives, the white lives a little

  549. bit of truth. The rest are just lies and gossip. All right,

  550. So let's look on for the next few words. So this one we start

  551. with this one. We ended with this at the heart point, and now

  552. we start with this at the mouth point. So out of the bundance of

  553. the heart, the mouth will speak. So if you got your heart,

  554. your mouth will do better. All right, But let's move on. Eighteen

  555. twenty one is our favorite verse. If you really want life in twenty twenty

  556. before beginning to speak life. If you want success in trade you before speak

  557. success. If you want achievement, if you want prosperity, if you want

  558. good health, speak speak it. I cannot overemphasize this, I'm telling you

  559. right now, I cannot overemphasize this. Of course, it comes from my

  560. heart first of all, because anything that doesn't come from your heart, that

  561. has no meaning. As though, right even when you love somebody, it's

  562. going to come up with your heart. When you're angry, you're alwa's going

  563. to come up from your heart, Then then you really mean something. If

  564. I just say to my wife in a joking way, I yeah, you

  565. are you know whatever? I ah, you know today? Are you dressed

  566. like a clown? Okay whatever? I never say that. I never say

  567. that. I'm just finding hard to find an example. Uh. Then you

  568. go like and like, what do you say? And might will be joking

  569. because she knows it's not from my heart. But some things from the heart

  570. or not. The other person that hears it knows it. They know,

  571. and then they don't know you want to want to say anything, they'll be

  572. turning away and go because things from the heart are very powerful, but it's

  573. not as powerful if you voice it up, because it doesn't say what you

  574. feel will change the world. It says what you say. So it's got

  575. to come out of this mouth boom, and it's either death or life,

  576. and you will eat the fruit of it. That means that if you keep

  577. confessing good health, you will eat the fruit of good health. Even Hey,

  578. hello, some things are like maybe some vegetables can kong maybe take very

  579. fast? Huh. Some of you want Durans in your life. Amen,

  580. Amen, so do I so do I. But longer? This all depends

  581. on what you want. All depends on what you're believing. For say,

  582. my friend have been confessing but kan Kong and you came Kong after one week.

  583. I've been confessing Duran and I you took three years or so. I

  584. know that's right, because it takes about three years, you know whatever I

  585. do know how long that grows by? Longer I think, I'm goo.

  586. All depends. Now you're praying for a dog and you're praying for a life

  587. partner, two different things. Hey, you know he got his golden retriever

  588. after two months. You know I'm still with you for two years. You

  589. know, haven't found the right one. The golden retriever can be with me

  590. for tive to fourteen years, but my life partner will be with me forever.

  591. So you better choose right. No, now, you better wait.

  592. Let's meet upon the Lord. Are you okay? So learn to speak because

  593. you will. Somebody say you will eat the food of it. It's not

  594. even my word. No, this is God's word. You gotta trust it.

  595. You you will eat the food of it. Okay, here, good,

  596. Amen, Let's move on. Romans for seventeen. I love it.

  597. I love it. I love this one so much. You know, God

  598. who gives life to the day and call those things which do not exist as

  599. though they did. Do you know? The Bible doesn't say God wish for

  600. it, doesn't say God thought about it. He says God called. That

  601. means even God Almighty. I have to call, Hey, you get it?

  602. Come? So how much more? We who are made in Got's image

  603. also have this privilege. But very seldom we call. Very often we complain,

  604. yeah, this one not good year, that we're not good. Yeah

  605. I don't have oh yeah, I don't have money. Oh yeah, I

  606. don't have stuff. Yeah, why don't you call? I call good stuff

  607. to join my company in Jesus name. Wherever you are, I don't even

  608. know your name, but I call you from the north. I call you

  609. from the south. I call you from the east. I call you from

  610. the west. Come to my company. You've got one hundred companies to choose.

  611. You will choose mine in Jesus name, speaker, caller. I call

  612. money, you know to come. I know some of you don't like this.

  613. I think is because it sounds like a prospectic or spell, you know.

  614. But don't you call money for money's sake. I have a bill to

  615. be paid. So I called forth the provision for this bill. So a

  616. lot of us don't know why we sit down in this wish I hope,

  617. I wish. Don't. It doesn't say wish and the things that are not

  618. there will come. No, It say's call. And part of it is

  619. prayer. Right when we are praying, we're calling. You know what intercession

  620. is. This is intercession. So in ex got the coping, I look

  621. at empty chairs, I will say God in Jesus Name, I call forth

  622. people who need to be in this church to fill up those chairs. You

  623. must have some authority when you pray, call them forth Lord today. I

  624. know when people wake up in the morning on Sunday, some of them are

  625. going to half thing. That never mind, I don't go to church.

  626. So I call them forth and when they wake up this morning, all they

  627. can think about this, you Lord, When they wake up this morning,

  628. they will have strength to get up from it. Push that pillow away,

  629. turn off the aircord it's too comfortable. I called for strength. I called

  630. for confidence. I called, you know, mouth man, tryler this year

  631. if you didn't try it last year. I didn't try this year. Of

  632. course last year. I'm sure you use your mouth as all. But what

  633. use your mouth for? I don't know. To mm hmm. Cannot this

  634. year. I love you enough to say, hey, this is gonna be

  635. a great year. But you've got you're given the authority those things that do

  636. not exist as though they were, And so they did. I've got a

  637. I've got a project now at the back of my house. It's a renovation

  638. project. And I didn't have money eleven years ago to finish it. So

  639. I said, okay, Lord, you know, I think I can live

  640. with this stuff. Some of us living with less, not less. See,

  641. God wants it for us. You know what happened. I prayed and

  642. one day, let me look out my window where I was praying. She's

  643. kind of looking at the outside. I look. I was like, I

  644. don't look at it because it's so ugly. You still got the metal rots

  645. going out from you know, you know how those unfinished projects, metal rods,

  646. you know, rebar whatever they call it, sticking out. I don't

  647. want to see, you know, I really like there's some pass in our

  648. lives that we don't to look at it one m h save for another day.

  649. Maybe you have bad tempt don't look at the right. So I didn't

  650. want to look at it. And God says, finish it. And then

  651. my mind was like, I don't have the money. Cut long story short.

  652. I had to hear La. Start with hearing right, if this of

  653. you Lord, then Faith tells me that it can be done because you can

  654. provide. Yeah, but I only had a couple of thousand ringing in my

  655. bag. You probably know that I leave by faith. I have no salary

  656. for the last three years. But the thing is, I live by your

  657. social God provides whatever I need. And so she finish it. I said,

  658. see what, you know what your neighbors have been putting up with for

  659. ten years and ugly neighbor's house, and you are supposed to be a child

  660. of God, the pastors and more finishing, LA give me the glory.

  661. I said, okay, God, I'm going to give you the glory,

  662. but I don't have the money. It rhymes God was the glory. I

  663. don't have the money. God says, I've been your provider all these years.

  664. I said, okay. To day, I say, yes, Lord,

  665. okay, right. I called a lot like me to call Daniel Slong.

  666. You know who's the architect who just only passed his papers and now is

  667. a fully licensed architect. Praise got he said to me, was I'll draw

  668. up the house. He drew a very nice picture. All that, and

  669. then now I got to call a contector. Contactor came told me it's one

  670. hundred and ninety thousand milliate to finish. Yeah, and I think I had

  671. about three thousand, five hundred game my bag. Very big difference. So

  672. the law says, you believe me or not, it did not exist.

  673. Nothing existed there. I said, yes, what? And then every day

  674. I think the drawings architect drawings. I lay my hand, it shall come

  675. to pass. I look out at the ugly outside. I said, you

  676. shall no longer be ugly, I said, neighbors, all of you will

  677. see my God at work again, and we shall give God the glory.

  678. Right, the project started, and our contractor said, pastor, I just

  679. need some money, and I just start without some money twenty nine thousand ringate

  680. to buy materials. I had how much three thousand five And by then when

  681. he asked me, he went down to tree thousand and two because I had

  682. to pay my tights, and so my money is going lower. His request

  683. is going higher. And so I said, Lord, he told me to

  684. do this. It's twenty nine thousand Ringit he thinks is small, but to

  685. me it's big. I don't have it, Lord, I call it forth.

  686. And a man two weeks later send me a text. I know this

  687. man, and he was so kind to have sent me a text of a

  688. picture of a banking slip. He said, this is for you as a

  689. carrier to build your house or I think, whether build your house or start

  690. on your house. It was for fifty thousand. I guess the way it

  691. works. The fifty thousand is really there in the air. The angel is

  692. probably carrying it ad for you. And sometimes we don't learn the principle of

  693. claiming it and calling it forth, and the devil doesn't want you have it,

  694. so you're gonna sold out in your mind. Mind. And you know

  695. when the devil sold out in your mind and your mouth starts to shut.

  696. Have you ever seen a depressed person talk. A depress person doesn't talk want

  697. to. It's very because the devil wants to stop your mouth from talking.

  698. It makes you depressed, doubtful. No, don't, don't. Don't live

  699. under the devil's lives. Don't let him shut your mouth up because your mouth

  700. was put there as an agent of God's miracle. It starts there, but

  701. no, you didn't start there, you say. It starts with your hearing.

  702. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God, and then

  703. you fill your heart up with this faith. Ah, it gets filled up.

  704. Oh, you know, last week you didn't believe that much, but

  705. this week maybe you believe a little bit more. And then next week,

  706. hopefully you believe more, so much so that your mouth begins to speak it

  707. like it was natural. Yeah, sometimes it takes time to fill up a

  708. tank. Fill up a tank takes time to fill up a tank, but

  709. let the tank be filled up so that your mouth can speak. Let's move

  710. on. Okay, I don't think I need to go further this Romans ten

  711. ninety ten. The reason why we know we are saved is because the Bible

  712. says, if you confess and if you believe, See how powerful confession is.

  713. You confess. Confession just means that you speak what is true. There

  714. are three things about confession that makes it very powerful. Let me see that

  715. I can remember it. Number one is truth. I was a lawyer by

  716. training, and when we talk about interviewing people and getting the truth out of

  717. them, meaning getting a confession, because confession is very powerful. On that

  718. confession, the case can be made or break. Of course, there's also

  719. something called a confession out of duress. That's a legal term, so it

  720. means you force a person for confession and the person says I was forced it

  721. was. So basically you're going for the truth and finally the person will say

  722. I confess I killed her or whatever. So okay, fine, and of

  723. course I will ask you to please take me to the place where you true

  724. away the knife, so all evidence will back up that. Okay, fine,

  725. So no confession under the rest. Confession that is true is about a

  726. true confession. It's about truth. That's why it's so powerful because truth can

  727. set you free. But the second thing about confession is that it's a surrender.

  728. You know, if I was a lawyer and I was sitting in front

  729. of client and he was talking about all other things. No, no,

  730. I didn't do it, and then suddenly he found out that, you know,

  731. I don't think I can live like this. I'm gonna just tell the

  732. truth. Number one, truth very powerful. The court wants to hear this

  733. truth. You did it. But number two before you can even come to

  734. the truth that you had to surrender to like, Okay, I think I

  735. might be hung for this, I might go to jail for this, but

  736. I have to do it. I surrender to the process. I surrender to

  737. come what may some people say case you know, I surrender. But the

  738. number third one is expectation. Every confession has an expectation. Okay, I

  739. don't know, they'll give me five years, ten years in jail, twenty

  740. years life imprisonment. You expect a sentence after that. Now you apply it

  741. to God. Number One, truth when you confess something. Let's say you

  742. confess Jesus is Lord. That's truth. That's why it's powerful. Number two,

  743. you surrender because all these years you've been fighting. Who's Lord? I'm

  744. Lord. You fight, then you surrender. That's why confession is so powerful.

  745. You surrender. Okay, Lord, I've been fighting all these years,

  746. but I don't want to fight anymore. You are Lord. And number three,

  747. you expect, you expect God to move on your behalf. That's why

  748. confession is so important and so powerful. Confess the truth, confess God's word.

  749. Speak over your children, speak over your marriage. You know, I

  750. remember a two friends of miner. You know how their parents came to know

  751. the lot? The father is my head master, very strict man, who

  752. doesn't believe in anything else, saying himself. You know how you came to

  753. know the lot? The children told me only much later. I know the

  754. head master before I know the children. When I went to Fja, I

  755. saw the children there, I saw my hat master there, so all worshipping

  756. Jesus together as the roger. My friend, he said, bass again,

  757. he can call me Kenneth. Uh. You know how I think my dad

  758. came to know the Lord. I said, how me and my sister will

  759. go sneak into their room every day pray over the pillow. Every day,

  760. pray over the pillow because Daddy, Mammy going to sleep on this belower.

  761. So I hope the pillow will speak to them. The simple child like faith.

  762. They pray over the pillow, they confess Lord when they sleep. May

  763. they have dreams of you Lord when they sleep. May they hear your voice

  764. Lord when they you know? Two thirteen, fourteen year older child like faith

  765. on the pillow because every night Mammy, Daddy going to sleep on that pillow.

  766. I confess the word of God that doesn't change on the pillow. And

  767. then after a while the parents said, I also don't know why I am,

  768. but I just decided I want to know this Jesus. And then it

  769. might be the pillow. All right, very very powerful confession. So stop

  770. confessing. Ill health must be canceller. I think it must be cancellor because

  771. my grandmother had cancer and my mother had cancer, so I mustn't please please

  772. hold on, hello, stop confessing. I won't make it because my father

  773. was poor, La and my grandfather was poor, so I will always stop

  774. confessing that they are better things to confess that will bring about salvation. Move

  775. on, Thank you for XTV for helping me. And then of course it's

  776. wow. You know why gossip is so powerful? Gossip is very powerful.

  777. If you keep hearing it, guys, it becomes truth, you know.

  778. So why the words of a tale better are like tasty trifles. They go

  779. down into the inmost body. That's right, It goes right deep, mam.

  780. I told you the heart and the mind is inmost thoughts. So it

  781. goes in and then it becomes truth when it's actually a lie. Right if

  782. fervent lips with a wicked heart are like earthenware covered with silver draws. So

  783. enough enough. All these things that you've been listening to gossipler probably social media.

  784. They've been going to time and time again. You know it's not right,

  785. but it sounds very juicy. Everybody loves a good gossip. No,

  786. you stay away from it. Somebody say, man, okay, it's not

  787. tasty chapatia, it's tasty trifles, all right, Okay, let's move on.

  788. He who hates these guys is it with his lips? All right?

  789. Okay, I think we can move on. Let's move on a okay,

  790. let's move on. Because of time, I think i've you know, I've

  791. been explaining so many things with my heart to you because I really want you

  792. to get this. I really want you to be so blessed. So but

  793. I think time is really running okay, So I want to be honoring to

  794. you your time also, and lunch all right? So eyes proverbs for probles

  795. for again, back to the main thing. The main text. It says,

  796. let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eye let's look right before

  797. you are. Bible has something you say, but eyelids? Okay? Uh?

  798. And then what does message say? Message says, keep your eyes straight

  799. ahead. Ignore all sight show distructions, A lot of side show. That's

  800. why, you know what they put on horses the blinkers right, so the

  801. horse can keep running forward. No, no side show. The horses all

  802. get this. I think it's called blinkers are the site of their eyes,

  803. so the horse can keep going straight. And God sometimes wants us to put

  804. some blinkers in our eyes, you know, and stop concentrating. All these

  805. side shows are going on, all right, So let's move on to other

  806. scriptures, and then we'll try to finish this as fast as you can.

  807. I love this. The lamp of the body is the eye. The lamb

  808. of the lamb of your body is your eye. If therefore your eye is

  809. good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye

  810. is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore the light

  811. that the light is, that it is in you is darkness. How great

  812. is that darkness? I read to you another version. Uh, this version,

  813. I just copy it and put it on my iPad. The light of

  814. the body is the eye. Therefore the eye. What say the eye is

  815. good? Okay? This translation say is good. Another translation says if the

  816. eye is single, single focus. So the meaning is, your eyes must

  817. to be clear, your eyes must be undivided without hypocrisy. This is the

  818. Greek meaning your eyes must not be with hypocrisy. Thy whole body shall be

  819. full of light. But if thine eye are thine eye or sorry, this

  820. is as winna kind of a language. Okay, the yeah, yeah,

  821. king. But if thine eye be evil? And what does evil mean?

  822. Wicked? Malicious? All right, one thing bad for other people? Ah?

  823. Okay, So what is the Bible saying? Let's look at the next

  824. scripture, I think it's betthew seven. So Matthew six we read that,

  825. and then Matthew seven we read this. What is Jesus trying to tell us

  826. about the eye? He says, judge not that you be not judged,

  827. For with that what judgment you judge, you will be judged. And with

  828. the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why

  829. do you look at the spec in your brother's eye, but do not consider

  830. the plank in your own eye? Wow? Plank a big plank in your

  831. eye? Okay? And verse four, verse five, or how can you

  832. say to your brother, let me remove the spec from your eye, and

  833. look the plank is in your own eye? Hipocreate. Wow, what a

  834. way to start the year. First remove the plank from your own eye,

  835. and then you will see clearly to remove the spec from your brother's eye.

  836. Okay. So what I want to explain to you is this. I give

  837. you this message, and then you go away saying, oh, past the

  838. sitter, watch our eyes, be careful about what we see. And then

  839. you go away. The whole week you try to minimize your social media in

  840. all the gossip stuff. You try to watch less Coden movie in all the

  841. you know, the more not so good kind of input you try to manage

  842. those of you who watch pornography. When you stop watching pornography from this week

  843. almost praise God. Okay, so you think that Pastor Kennedy is just talking

  844. about that what goes in. Yes, I think it's very good to also

  845. make sure you watch what you watch. But I think the Bible is speaking

  846. about more than that. It's speaking about what goes out. So if I

  847. look at Nicholas right now, and I go like, I'm looking at you,

  848. Nick, it's always just what seeing you, which is what it's going

  849. in. I see you, and that's why I know your Nick. But

  850. how I see you is equally important. And the Lord is asking us not

  851. just watch what goes in, but watch what goes out. Because we can

  852. kill people with our eyes, right, judgment can come out of our eyes.

  853. We can look down on people with our eyes. And the way you

  854. are going to look at people or look at life, that is what comes

  855. out of your eyes. To what you see outside can change your life,

  856. not just because what goes in. It can be very personal that miss you

  857. the whole day. You don't meet people or the whole week. You don't

  858. mean people. You just watch what you watch on television. You just watch

  859. what you watch on social media. It can be but that's not myself.

  860. What is the power of that? It's just you only. But when you

  861. start meeting people and going out of face, society, church wherever, right,

  862. and you begin to watch what goes out of your eyes, that can

  863. make or break your life. You know that can help you make good decisions

  864. or bad decisions? Is what comes out anyway? Okay, what does the

  865. next? Uh? So? I was looking I google a okay, because

  866. the message came to mere. This message, this whole message came to me

  867. here at ten thirty at night on a Saturday last Saturday, and I had

  868. to speak in x Cotakebuning on the first Sunday of the year. I did

  869. have a message until ten the d that night, and a lot downloaded.

  870. I finished there thirty so some parts I went whatever that was on my heart,

  871. I googler. So I said, okay, find me this sentence and

  872. I heard it before. I just can't remember where it is. So the

  873. eyes are the window to the soul. Have you heard this take before?

  874. The eyes are the window to the soul. I thought I heard it from

  875. the Bible, right, so right, find me eyes our window to soul.

  876. And it brought me here to thirty seventeen. No, I don't want

  877. this one. So whatever variations I tried to google, doctor, google pastor

  878. google reverend, bishop, google pop Google brought me to this. So I

  879. go, like, Lord, why are you trying to tell me? He

  880. says, the eye has the power to mock his father. Just by the

  881. way you look at your dad, just by the way you look at your

  882. mom, you can scorn obedience. And I just I just waited upon the

  883. Lord for a while and said, God, all these years I've learned to

  884. God what I watch. Now you're asking me to God, how I watch,

  885. how I prepare for the message today? And I tell you what,

  886. I'm prepared with all my heart because I love you, guys, and Jesus

  887. loves you even more. But I should I only because I see you like

  888. that that it makes me want to give you my best. If I see

  889. you anything less and a waste of my time, do you know I will

  890. try to finish it in five minutes, ten fifteen. I can't wait to

  891. finish. And then who you join us? For lunch. No, you

  892. know my wife is in another place. No, because I love having lunch

  893. with you. Guys. This is the way you see that makes you decide

  894. or whether you give your best or not, or whether you want to stay

  895. back for people because you mean something to me. I want to stay back

  896. for lunch. I count it as fellowship with precious people here in Excherians.

  897. That's how I see you. But the way you see people is the way

  898. you deal with people, and the way you deal with people will sometimes determine

  899. whether you will be poor or rich. And I'm not just create my money,

  900. eyboy, Okay, it's like that. It's life for there. Have

  901. you ever seen someone look you down in the whole message is with you and

  902. look at you. You're laughing. He goes, you can't like, yeah,

  903. I don't even have say a thing or the judgment It comes up the

  904. eyes. Yeah yeah, so it says, and then it goes on to

  905. say the raven You know what ravens are, right, it's a big version

  906. of Croisler. When you go you travel overseas and the raven that look like

  907. eagles, but they're not eagles. Eagles when they search for food, they

  908. search they search for life animals right now they pick up the snake, they

  909. go for the rabbit. Ravens and crows are scavengers now they only go and

  910. take that which is dead most of the time from the rubbish. So the

  911. most I'm saying, like when you use your eyes and the way you treat

  912. people, the way you look at people, the way you judge people.

  913. Your eyes are the way you rubbish people in your eyes, the way you

  914. know you see that's dead, nous. There's so much deadness in your eyes.

  915. There's no life through your eyes that the raven will go after your eyes

  916. because they were dead in the first place. That's how I see it.

  917. I said to myself, I said, Lord, please don't give me dead

  918. eyes. Please don't give me judgmental eyes. Please don't give me eyes that

  919. are you know, rotten. I want life to come up my eyes,

  920. I said, Lord, the way I look at my wife. I'm going

  921. to be married now to twenty nine years. If I want to have my

  922. marriage fresh and always loving each other like the first day we met, then

  923. I must see my wife the way I saw her when I first saw her.

  924. And that's sometimes we joke my girlfriend she's my girlfriend. Yeah, yeah,

  925. my boyfriend. We try to keep things alive the way we see each

  926. other and marriage will start going down the drain where we begin to take for

  927. granted each other right and friendship and church. So Lord, God, my

  928. eyes the way I see Amen, praise a lot. Let's let's let's finish

  929. this. Feed okay, very easy, feed, so easy, feed,

  930. so easy, because why feed? This is your walk, your walk,

  931. and it says here the Bible improverts fall. Okay, let's me trying to

  932. finish this in five minutes. Poinder the path of your feet, and let

  933. all your ways be established, to not turn to the right or left,

  934. remove your foot from evil. In message, it says, watch your step

  935. and the road will stretch out smooth before you look neither right nor left.

  936. Leave evil in the dust. However, you know the famous word in second

  937. Coriningtians five seven. You, you and I are called to walk by faith,

  938. not by side. So but you know why this message I can finish

  939. it in a few minutes because it's not rocket science. It starts with your

  940. ears. If your ears start with faith, your feet doin you with faith.

  941. If your ears start with fear, your feet will be Oh God,

  942. deal with fear. So all God wants you and I to do is this

  943. year walk by faith. But before you can come to area number five,

  944. you got to deal with area number one. Lord, from this year onwards,

  945. now is January. You know mid January, only very early days in

  946. twenty twenty four. Help me to no longer listen to things that are unworthy.

  947. I want to listen to your word, your truth, your life.

  948. Lord, fill my ears, so that when my ears are filled, my

  949. heart will be felled. And when my heart is filled, my mouth will

  950. speak, and there will be life and calling forth of things that did not

  951. exist into existence. Then my eyes, Lord will begin to look the way

  952. you want me to look. I look at my future the way you want

  953. me to look at my future. I do not judge according to the world,

  954. but Lord, I look with the eyes of faith. And then automatically

  955. your feet begin to walk what your ears have been hearing, what your heart

  956. has been filling with, what your mouth has been speaking, what your eyes

  957. have been seeing. Your feet automatically walks, also by faith, and not

  958. by side. One more is there is there one more scripture? Your word

  959. is a lamb to my feet. How cool is that? Faith? Comes

  960. by hearing and hearing by the word. So is your word, Lord,

  961. There is a lamb to my feet and a light to my path. Is

  962. there one more verse? Yeah? This one? Secondary five seven, very

  963. very important, and I think we'll close with that. Okay, now,

  964. XTI, if you can you help me with the last five slights of summary.

  965. Here we go summary, people, and we'll do it in one minute.

  966. Watch not just what you hear, but how you listen. How many

  967. you know that you can be in this room and you say I heard pass

  968. this message, but I can't remember, means you didn't listen. So this

  969. year not just about hearing listen. Number two, watch not just what you

  970. feel, but how you feel, but perceive the play of words, the

  971. player of voices, feel and feel. It's not just about feelings in your

  972. heart. It's about what you feel your heart and your mind with amen.

  973. Number three, watch not just what you say, but how you confess.

  974. Because sometimes we can still be joking around. I love to joke around.

  975. I love joke around, even with my wife, and sometimes we don't mean

  976. it because I'm not confessing anything. I'm just joking with her. But then

  977. there's time when you confess and you must make sure that you confess life,

  978. last one, oh second, last one. Watch not just what you see,

  979. but how you perceive. Give you a quick story. There was a

  980. woman at a well, Johge upter four. Jesus went up to her,

  981. and you know, with her eyes she judged. Ready, you know what

  982. she said, What does a Jew have got to do with a Samerita?

  983. How did she know that he's a Jew? Well, she knew that because

  984. maybe they're different, Maybe Jesus, you know, different skin color, headed

  985. differently. So the first judgement of the eyes I see, I judge,

  986. not knowing who she's talking to. He says, can you give me some

  987. water? She says, why you ask me? We have nothing to do

  988. with each other. Do you know a lot of us where we see things

  989. like that in life? We already cancel our Miraclely you cancel the next great

  990. thing that God is about to do in your life just because the way you

  991. see. So stop seeing like that. But you know what the next thing

  992. she said? After he said, uh, call your husband, she says,

  993. I have no husband. Say, yeah, that's right. You know

  994. you had five husbands. The sixth one is not your husband. Praise God,

  995. Jesus as the man is the seventh one, the perfect one who's standing

  996. in front of her. And then she says, ooh, now her eyesight

  997. change. And now she says, I perceive that you're a prophet. Ladies

  998. and gentlemen, you and I have to go deeper this year, go beyond

  999. external the facade and begin to perceive with your spiritual eyes. What is God

  1000. trying to do? And you know what finally happened. She says, Messiah

  1001. is coming, and Jesus says, he who speaks to you is he?

  1002. She was now from like, what does the Jew have to do with No?

  1003. She almost missed her salvation. Stop it this year, you know,

  1004. don't be so quick to judge. Perceive. And then finally speaking to the

  1005. Messiah. And then she went to the city, called all the people come

  1006. follow me. See meet a man I met who told me everything I ever

  1007. did. The whole city was safe because her eyes changed. Your finances will

  1008. change because of your eyes changed. Your marriage will change because the way you

  1009. change, the way you see. The whole city was safe. And that's

  1010. nothing possible with God. Last one, watch not just where you walk,

  1011. it's but where you walk, it's how you walk, not where you walk.

  1012. You think it's because you migrate to us everything will be fine. So

  1013. where just because you my great to Australia, everything's will be fine. It's

  1014. not where just because you change job, everything will be fine. Not where,

  1015. because there'll be the same problems, sometimes different problems. It's how walk

  1016. by faith. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more information

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  1019. week. I hit for you. God bless