Without Faith It Is Impossible To Please God | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day. I got the word actually today to chere we

all. But I just want to start by saying that without the Bible says

without faith Hebrews the level six, it's impossible to please God. No,

this the word faith, right. It is not just for us to feel

aform. What's your belief Christ Jesus. You believe that He rose from the

day and stuff like that, But this faith must be able to move mounted

in our own life, Um Philippius. I think Chapter one speaks about to

leave is Christ to die is gain? Right? You know this, You

know the scripture and everybody can say that I want to leave for Christ.

If you look at the scripture, to leave his Christ to die is gain.

The real ascid test whether we are living for Christ is to be able

to say that I'm willing to to howe that I want to see Jesus because

a lot of times I want to live for Christ, but not necessarily die

for Christ. Basically die for Christ. I'm not asking to be a martyr

to to go to that place. But really the word is to surrender.

It's easy to say that I want to live for Christ and having everything on

our terms. But you know when we after you pass about when I was

younger, much younger, like you know a few years ago, but it

was much younger. You know, Um, you always thought that you could

live like you know, you now wish fifty, You now wish sixty and

you look at the old auntie in church. Now I've now wish the age

you though, I'm forever eighteen or forever twenty one and forever twenty two.

Right, But after you pass thirty, right, they start counting like thirty

years of my life I passed once you passed forty, right, almost everything

accelerate after that. Uh and after a while, right then you begin to

realize in your life what's really important and what's really essential, and what's really

the words you need to haunt too, because after you can, you can

you can go out exit two ways. What is create a name for yourself?

But you can't carry everything with you or to really that God, what

is your plan for me? So the Bible has a plan for us.

You and I got to believe that God did not make a mistake by giving

us life. God never made a mistakes. The Bible says that before you

were fo I knew you, right, but sometimes just or rather just by

knowing us or knowing someone, it's not enough. Because God says, I

have a plan for you and me. You and I need to download this

plan for us to live a fulfilling life. Because after I was talking to

someone who just retired. You know, if you'll be working for almost like

let's say forty years, for forty five years, the moment an individual stop

with I stopped working, they lose identity sometimes because forty five years, right,

you've been trained to wake up early, get ready for work. You

know the traffic jam, right, You're sort of like you have you have

very limited choices where for lunch? Very limited? Say very limited. It's

around the five kilometer radios. How are you on the walk? Okay?

If you are the type they grab for your food one the lot bless you

all right, but most of versier you understand, okay, every day choice

is almost there. Really, when the individual stops working, your almost your

identity is gone. You wake up for the very first time after laboring for

forty five years? Why am I here for? What's the plan today?

When? Sorry? I spoke to this person will just recently retired. I

have my the words plan retirement or planned out. I want to do holidays,

you know, the dreams I have and stuff like that. And the

very first day of retirement, God intervened. I just couldn't get my holiday

and goes. God spoke to me in my quiet time, say that you

need to get back into employment, employment to will be employed by God to

do the things. I began to realize that if we can't to put the

words our identity in just in our circular job, the moment the circular job

is taken away. Right, we saw loose momentum in life when you know,

really for example, off days, public holidays. We just had my

recently public holidays. Right. Some of us had to sleep longer than normal.

Right, I know some of your sleep until like twelve pm. The

lot blessed you. Okay, you have ability to sleep. Seriously, I

slept this morning. I wanted to see them. It also woke treat the

tea. Yeah, I couldn't sleep after the five then six, then before

I came here, I was so sleepy. I was just left for ten

minutes by the side of the road. But the holiday is free for all

right, You just wake up when you want, and you eat what you

want, you do what you want. But could you imagine the next ten

years or fifteen years of your life not knowing what to do. It's quite

depressing when you know a lot of times, as you we are currently,

when you're working right now, you tend to look for us. I want

to break, I want the holiday, I want to travel, But the

moment we get the place of retirement, there's not much to look out for

unless you know what's got plan for you. So I want to share with

you. Our church team is actually heavy rules, right, you know that

towards the finishing line. But friends, to to be able to know the

finishing line, you must start without starting. There's no finishing. Think about

it. You can't say you finish a marathon if you need start a marathon.

Right. Doesn't mean you wear spots shoe you're running. There's too many

people you saw it in in in in the shopping box. They are rather

the they like to wear. Active wear doesn't mean a person where active wear

means the active. It's true right now, my wife would tell me that

this person did not exercise and they loved active web. But now exercise.

How do you know? You see when a person walks, if the person

does exercise a regular basis, there are ties will just shake so much.

This actually told me. I'm like, because my wife loves exercise. Sh

yes, basically see that it's your master's supposed to be tight. And we're

like, okay, now I'm me saying you're My wife says it's all right.

It's so wrongful me to look at judging other people. Though I'm happy

with my size. This need to lose a few more kilos. But but

this is what happens. Friends. Just because you put on sports shoe,

you have the running gear, doesn't mean you actually have started a race.

Just because we have a buyble at home, you come to church on a

regular basis, give our kivee to the Lord, doesn't mean we're are the

race. I have done and conducted a lot of funerals, and sometimes at

the funeral of people I'm very close to by no possess a believer, and

sometimes also I've tended a lot of funerals. You hear the scripture say I

thought the good fight I finished a race. But you can only finish if

you start, and too many should sometimes things they are starting, but they

actually have new started yet and we can live alive. The words the words

can use the word decept deceive because we are thinking that we are all right,

we are okay, but we are not. So the classic tests I

always help people exist that if I will do a survey right now in this

room, how healthy are you in your terms of your cholesterol level. Chances

is majority of us you just say all right, maybe border line until unless

you actually do a blood test to reveal your cholesterol level right now. But

otherwise we think we all right just because we are able to wake up in

the morning, have our breakfast, do what we need to do without much

complaints of of of of the words, um of irritation of our hearts and

stuff like that. Just our Christian book as well. Many times we think

our Christianity is all right because we can come to church, we can worship

the Lord. We have more than one version of the Bible. Really sometimes

different worship the Bible makers feels that we are most spiritual. True right,

maybe you have more than one studied Bible all right, and after a wild

wide we can go through life thinking we are all right. So we still

I pick up a book. It's called out Leaf, so it's a medical

doctor looking into people's life about cancer. And you say that in life there's

only two ways to die already, there's two death, fast death or slow

death. Fast death. If if you hit a can't hit you, you

doubt on the spot. Slow death is how I call it a heart disease.

And this stuff like that cancer heart disease very slow to say. By

the time you go and see a doctor, he says that prescribe medication for

you, it's about too late. Really, you can only prolong your life

a bit. Here's why you want to say that. A lot of times

we only we say doctor when there is pain. True medication comes when you

actually take stock much earlier in life today, if you hear the Lot's wars

of what he's speaking to you, pay attention to the word, you can

actually save your life so that by the time you reach a certain age you

look, you can look back and you can say that my God is real.

A lot of times, without the testing, there will be no testimony.

Think about it. Without the starting, there will be no finishing.

And many Christian things they are on the race because of firstimity. I thought

the group five, I kept the fifth I finished the race. We think

we are on the race, but actually able to run in any race,

there is a certain guidelines you need to run by, adhere to right not

what about Christian faith? So towards the finishing line, friends, it's a

stock remind it's a stop reminder for us. It's not a doom day profit

kind of thing, but it's just to remind us. Really, at the

end of the day, what's really portant about faith? You see our faith

that we have here the Bible sites, you can move mountains, but many

times you don't activate their faith only because that we have not the words.

We don't we don't maybe we have not seen enough role modeling. Maybe some

of you are very young in your faith, whereby you have not seen people

move in a supernatural and because of that, our version of faith is like,

oh, I'm serving one extra day. I need more faith because you

might get burned out. Our version of faith, friends, has been bigger

that No. I mean, our Christianity can just share this with our crescider

has to be bigger that struggling we burn out. Think about it because if

God just die, us die on the cross. For us to the word

is to shoot us from burning out. Then do you think the Bible needs

to be so thick man? But the Bible is there for you and for

me really to grab pole of it. So if you have your Bible with

you, just turn with me right now to metro Trade eight nineteen. You

know the scripture trade in nineteen was twenty. Let me give you the plan

that God has for us, Matthew Trade, it was nineteen to twenty.

Right. It says, go, therefore make disciples of our nation. The

Bible is very clear, friends, He has never asked our faith to remain

statenant. Matth twenty eight was ninety says go. Therefore, first, you

and I have been commissioned by the Lord to go. Too many people struggle

with this because they think it's only for the missionary, it's only for the

leaders, it's only for the one. But the Bible here the say go.

Therefore it do not say goal leaders go, missionary go food time,

workers go, pasts or elders. And many times if we continue to go

out, think about our life that this scripture verse is not for me.

You and I will not the words embrace the food plan of God for all

life. So the Bible here say, go what stopping us? What is

actually holding us back from going? I recently, Raphael used to be power

my homes. I used to be power of these homes for nine nine,

ten years. I think we drive. I already be brave to an hour

plus an hour an hour at ten fifteen minutes traffic. This is the normal

traffic. The words I got was on our ent thirty minutes or sometimes after

the big people up about two hours just to get to homes. But going

is that were easy? Never easy? So after doing homes in the particular

for ten years, I said enough ready, and therefore I want to start

another new homes. Friends. The desire to start at home, it's not

because oh I want to chalk points with Jesus, No such thing. The

desire to do things for the Lord is say that God, I only have

one life. Some people may know it. I had the time before God

spent my life in twenty twenty, twenty twenty. I know I'm living on

board time because if God wants the home means my assignment is that or maybe

prematurely I feel, but I know that God spent me for a reason,

and this reason has been bigger than just the word is earning what I need

to earn. So therefore I just spoke to a few people, say I

want to plant another home, some to reach out to another group of people

that I may not be very familiar with. The desire to go doesn't come

from the fact that, oh I saw a brochure and too many creatures are

looking for the brochure, travel brochure to go. You only pick your holiday

destination after you watch a lot of travel video locks true or not, Jesus

said, go what is stopping us? What's stopping you? I'm so tired.

Really, you don't understand. I got a lot of responsibility. Yes,

but God did not say those or those who have lesser responsibility only go.

Those with those who is not a general manager, only go if you're

even year, If you are the seal of your organization, you're supposed to

go. Because to stay stagnant is to die a slow death. To stay

stechnan, our faith will never be the word has come to full maturity.

When we started the church, we will only treat. We had no financial

backing, we had no references. You will understand, these friends that when

you start the church or anything right. We have system. No, we

just had faith to believe our God will come to for us. We have

a bill, or rent a bill on a weekly basis. It hungrid.

We rent a hotel. One time it hungrid. Our monthly collection was six

hundred. But passer by faith just declared we are going to be in a

hotel because this place we're meeting right now is too small. See a lot

of times Christian, the words get entangled with so many other things except to

go. We want the words can use the word beautify a location instead of

going. So the moment I remember the very first time we have a meeting

in the hotel, the very first day we come to the offering, there

was a lady. They just came into a service. She wrote a check

for exactly the same amount for the renter for the week. Every week the

renter is paid. Friends, it is not by coincident. God wants to

show something for us. Not by coincident. Friends, there are a lot

of stories in our church because we have nowhere. We are not. We

are not a church that actually took a name from Australia to start the church.

We got to believe the same God that moved powerfully in the West can

use us to start the church. We have to believe that our God,

that we have friends it regardless of our skin color, our education background.

As long as we have faith, the same God that empower George Mueller Hudson

Taylor can power us to do great things for him. But many times why

we don't go is because, oh, I'm nobody. I am not like

that. I'm not eloquent. I'm going shoot from scripture after it's what it

means. Go therefore and make disciples first. You cannot go without faith.

Can you say this? You cannot go without faith. If you want to

go, be ready to walk on water. Be ready to walk on water.

Friends, Savio heard the story before. I'm sure that a few preacher

I preach it. But Edinburgh was the product of X kids. Mansing attended

X kids, X tids X campus and she when she flew over to Scotland

to study, she took past a can of days. That small, petite

sized girl, maybe about five ft one past. I got no background,

but if you ask me to do it, give me a space. I'll

try. No background. Friends, but she just believed if God called her

there, I'm not here. Just here for an education. I'm here for

also for a testimony. All she did was past, I'm just going write

my friends the church. Back there was about five or six people. Right

now it's about fifteen fifteen people, and about two weeks or one month ago,

there was one we dedication with I'm not wrong. One of a friends

friend who's the Spanish guy, wanted to come to church. Friends. I'm

not sure how many can speak Spanish, but if you can, praise a

lot. But most of these people do not know how to Spanish. She

got more resources. They passed. I got this guy how how your messages

are all in English? She decided to use technology. She decided to use

AI to translate the messages into Spanish. Paintstickularly, she translated transcribes so that

this one person could hear the message. Our messages over their friends are mostjority

are stream buyer buya, zoom to there. We now made the preacher.

We'll get on about four pm. There's about eleven something and they will preach

from here to their friends. Could you imagine one five ft one girl have

faith to believe. I'm not just here for an education, I'm he also

here for testimony. And because of that, God honor her. She passed

up. She has good. She has good examine results as well. But

you got to see that this faith that we have is not just friends.

It's not just for us to fill up on the form faith Christian has to

be bigger than that. So go there for make dissembles all nations, baptizing

them a name of Father, decide Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all

things. I just want to focus on two words here, go and disciple

go and cciper. Going requires faith. Discipleship requires commitment. You cannot go

without make disciples. Though, I'm just going to bodly say these friends,

it is not enough just to go. We have to make disciples because only

a disciple can plant a hope. Only a disciper can lead. Many times,

I've saw many Christians before, and I've encountered before that elder. My

discipler is the pastor I watch on the web. All those amazing preachers that

you watch online are fantastic teachers, but they're not going to hold your hand

when you're in the hospital. I want you to know that they're not going

to be there to cry with you when the guy breaks up with you or

the girl, none of these amazing teacher and you watch on the internet.

It's gonna be there for you when you give birth. It takes a local

church over here to walk with you, to cry with you, to rejoice

together with you. That's why discipleship is so important, and why don't we

want to be descibled, because it's all therefore human who control us another personal

controllers. I won't show you from the Bible que to remain right now to

X chapter three except three verse one X chapter three, verse one, the

way I will take up the eleven ten on the second except the tree was

one right now, Peter, enjoy mine up together to the tempo at our

pray the ninth hour, where it was Peter and John going temper temper.

Very important, friends, if you're looking for a disciple, look for people

who actually attends a church. Who actually attends a church. The Bible says

Peter and John went up to the temper to pray. Look for disciples that

actually praise. Friend. Too many people just look at the stage. I'm

gonna I'm passionate. Too many people are just looking at the stage. Or

just because you can play five instruments, you must be anointed. True,

Okay, I would't I wouldn't be seeing you next week, So praise a

lot. You know. I love you, guys. I'm just passionate about

this. A person who's revived in the Lord will be found in the prayer

service. A person who's revived in the Lord will be found in the prayer

service. You think about it for a moment. Sunday is good, but

prayer it's even better because Sunday sometimes can mass. I will hide our spirituality

or where we are with the Lord. But prayer service is key because God,

I truly believe you can move. I want to pray for things to

happen. Friends. You get to know that your faith that you have friends.

So in our church, we saw one missionary son while the sun mixed

with the wrong crowd. I got in wolf with drugs, got in jail,

and I was about to be given the death sentence. But really the

father came up to us. We prayed together with him for forty days in

fasting and prayer. We pray, God, please have mercy on this family.

This man served you so faithfully. Missionary gave up his whole life to

serve you. Please give this son a second chance by sure technicality. Friends,

God came true and if he was released. The moment he was released,

the family took the first flight out. After that the police really look

at the thing again. Why did we release him? Let's get him back

to jail. We were everywhere a very young church. We wanted to reach

out to a place in India combi Har and now give them. They will

fry and raise funds to buy a piece of lead. It's cost a lot

of money. It's a outcome inment. As a small church time, we

were about fifty plus people to raise up close about ten thousand US small church.

We were about ninety percent campus than a ten percent working in right,

you're working adults, no millionaires, no billionaires. You know, ten thousand

maybe to some of us could be a small amount, but but if you're

a campus, so then it's a huge amount of But we truly believe God,

if this is your plan for us, you'll provide. And God came

to we actually raise up the money and give it to the past, so

that this is what we men should raise up. Friends, you got to

see it and you got to believe, friends, that this is what we

have. So Peter and John went up to temple because they believe. You

will only do what you believe. Friends, if you believe in prayer,

you'll be there at prayer. I'm not saying, I'm not asking, I'm

not saying that just because you know a Temperaire series don't believe. But you

understand, man, I say that you when you believe, you will make

time for it. You believe. So, I think last Friday the homes

you did on quiet time, right right, quiet time. If you believe

in quiet time, you do it quiet time. If you believe in reading

the Bible, you read the Bible. So you only do what you believe.

Peter and John the Bible says and the our prayer. They went to

the temper. The pray was two. A certain man name from the Manu's

world was carried and late that daily at the temper, which is called beautiful.

Friends, what irony it is? Right? The temper is called beautiful.

But here's a life and individual life. Since young was lame cannot walk.

The church could be a very pretty place, but that doesn't mean a

lot if you have life that's under bondage. The church, friends, could

be a very pretty place, but if our life is still in bondage and

in chain. There is no brick true God this morning wants to remind us

and teach us that is not enough just to be in fun a temper.

It's not enough. Just sounds like I'm broken record just to attend church.

Because there's so much more. Friends, You got to believe, there's really

so much more. I shared this last ridea I was given a privilege to

share what really you know, as a Christian, you heard a lot of

messages, right, not as a believer, you hear a lot of messages

radio. The real one of the ass it's really is to go for a

mission. It really when you go for a mission trip to our our Astley

indigenous people group here and you're scaredul to preach, scedul to speak of to

share, it really suggests your heart because what are you going to share to

a group of people that just really wanted they're veeable to grow. You can't

tell them tive ten percent the lawyer, what's your washable grow? They are

playing guitar without strings because that's all that they have in the interiors. So

you got to believe, friends, that this God that we have is not

just for the urban, but it has to work wherever God plants us,

so some we may not know that. No, we have our Pastle kind

of wrote out of honestly a past a couple of songs. We have one

of the songs translated to a local language, not Massa Malaysia, but the

world of the local tribe language Iban. We translated that. So last sweet

Pastor kenn Of was bin to with the group of SIB leaders over there and

say, hey, we have this song. Let's just let me play it

for you and see if you're missed to it, and also please help us

to check our translation whether we are correct or not, because you know,

this language is not a common language. So they played it, they loved

it, and they came up to us, or came out to Pastor and

they said this, Pastor, can we use your song to reach out to

the long house in the interiors of Sawa. Pastor, can we use this

song? Then you translated. We don't even have a proper person that's very

fluent in this language. We have someone in our organization who speaks a bit.

Her relative. We help to translate a bit. We put everything together.

We big will never be a basta Malaysia, because that's what they say

he uses at the other side of the country. We just this song out

of obedience God, if can use anyone, can you use us? Not

so friends. The gate can be called beautiful, but if you're not inside

the temper, it doesn't really mean a lot. One of the preachers I

heard recently shared this in his quiet time say God, I'm not a good

speaker, but if any time all this a list superstar Christian, I will

say no to you called would you consider my life or not and use me?

He just said this though he's just This was his almost his daily prayer,

and this individual found the World Vision and Samaritan purs He just shared this,

God, I started when I speak, I can't sing in tune,

but if you can just consider using me when everyone who those really talented individuals

who sit who say they've got no time to serve or do you want to

go there? God, I'm willing to go. That was his simple prayer,

and God brought him to a journey whereby he started the World Vision.

When I heard that, I went like, Wow, our faith really can

move the moutains. So this man limb from Mother's world carry to the in

front of daily to the temper gate asking for money for everyone who went into

the temper. It's funny, right, not in front of banker, because

if you want to ask for money, wouldn't you put the person in front

of the bank, right, Not because of one transaction? What do you

do it at the bank transact money? What do you do at the temper?

Threads? Of course he's tapping into people's see that or right, the

compassion. But a temper is a place for the supernatural. Thing about it,

Why do we pray because there are certain things in life we can't do

right? Why do we need to pay? Because there certain things in our

life we know that we need the anchor. A temper is place where you

pray, you seek God, and you want the supernatural to take place in

the natural. Here's a guy laying from birth. Once he passed through the

doorstep that was supernatural, but he remains outside. Maybe because I got a

couple of curious I'm just trying to just just go with me on this line,

right, Maybe because he went inside before nothing happened and he came out.

You know, your disappointment will actually set you on the path whereby all

this is not for me. Your disappointment will set you on the path whereby

you'll miss out on God's planet. Your disappointment will actually literally the power by

I don't want to believe anymore, but God this morning want was to remind

us and the words resurrect that belief again. Maybe you could be burned out,

discouraged, disappointed, but God, this morney wants to remind us that

I got so much more for you, so much more for if only you

believe. So. The layman was Tree, seeing Peter and John about to

go into type, He asked money from them, fixing his eyes on him.

Peter, and you're saying, look, look at us. It was

Tree and for Okay, let's let me try to break this out for your

Too many times we are asking for a physical answer, a physical answer for

spiritually, a physical answer for spiritual it. I was talking to one educator

about a month ago, he said the elder, Oh, no, no,

no, let me just reminder. I was talking to our school administrator.

We have a school, coll Vic Tree Academy, and we have a

student in that came in to our school. And this student came in front

our school, came a very very well known international school Summer located in Striatamas,

very well known international school. Parents brought us, brought the child our

schools and told this our school administrator, please help my child. I do

not want to lose my child. Please help my child. Friends. Our

school is call VIEC. Tree Academy. It's not even an international school.

It's just a home school. It's such a simple, humble home school meeting

at summit, not a fantastic location like streets and this parents just say this

that I'm afraid if I allow my child to remain in the school, I

will lose my child. This parent knew that the natural cannot answer the deepest

longing in an individuous heart. Doesn't mean that we have all the toys and

gadgets and every nice cleaner get in touch with by can give you a sense

of who you are, your identity and your self worth. But today many

times people are looking at longer that God, I just need money. Money

can solve my problem, Money can solve my thing. Just give me what

I want in the natural, I'll be happy. And this is what the

layman was asking Peter and John. This was what the layman was asking God.

God, if you were to grab me this, I'll be more than

happy. Friends, God's plan has never moved by just giving us stuff.

One because if it was his plan to give us stuff alone and make us

happier, go there for us or being a car house a life partner,

then you make disciples. It doesn't work that way, friends. The Bible

says it met two sixty three sicky for the kingdom of what everything I should

be added? Unto you, friends, you and I got to believe fave

doestick time. Can I just say this, sometimes you pray today, you

can't be realization the next twenty years, only you realize that. No,

I'm not saying that you pray for life partner now and then only sixty you

find your life. But no, no, he doesn't something. But I'm

talking about character. I'm talking about our spiritual it all right? So have

you been asking the natural to answer all the purslonging? Have you been just

asking God? If only you give me a better job. I'll be happier

if only have been schedule wants in every two months. I'm I'm more happy

to serve you, a Lord. So if that's our art, if that's

what I've been praying for Can I just encourage you to re look at that

again, Do not fall in to the trap of just thinking too small because

this lame person couldn't recognized be then John, all he can just ask for

you must be a man of wealth. Therefore give me money. Friends,

you and I got to be We need you. We need to have these

confidence friends that I regardless of who sit across the table, just because the

persons more wealth than you physically doesn't mean you're a lesser. Think about it.

Just because the persons sity across you have more cars than you doesn't mean

that you are poorer. It doesn't mean that way. I've sat down with

people who have more zeros in the bank account than me and more numbers in

them me, but not even generous friends, I want to encourage you.

Really sick the Lord. Ask the Lord what exactly does he want from you?

Why would be asking from the Lord? So I'm just gonna share a

few more storry. I not gonna end the next fifteen minute story. Our

church, we were led to do a concert for Malaysia. Really very strange.

I will go this very weird calling from the Lord. So anyway,

let's do a concert from Malaysia and one of them I remember. The first

one was a community concert. You know we do the world community there.

You know that you definitely cannot chart you adio right. So we wrote to

Sunway Group and they gave us an MP dater this place that we can do

some you know Sunday this is part quite empre theater. We had a concert

and we just didn't. So I got by chance that there was a band

from New Zealand came over the Malasia said hey, they want to holds the

band aout. We say okay, sure, but friends, this let you

even though even though it's a Christian band, you have to pay for certain

things. This is how the january was coward there they're at part of the

etiquette and this stuff like that and the honorarium. So when we did that,

friends, we had something called it's called Christmas at the part concert to

bless the community. We invite your friends from Christmas. This band came again.

Our organization not backed back out by anybody. We just if God,

if you want us to do this, you orchestrate everything and we know the

money will come. I remember attending the concert. We pastor and power of

the organization team. After the concert, a businessman came up, the word,

I was so blessed by tonight. Here's a stack of cash for you

to pay whatever need to pay. I remember in my black pocket and right

pocket. One size is about ten k, says about ten k. After

I was sorry about the past, some much top off my LIGs. That's

pret decayed there with you. But this guy with this business, this was

back in the night early two thousand. No, no electronic transfer, nothing

at all, brought a stack of cash. It this cowared Abut because I'm

so blessed, minister to it. I'm sharing this, you know, not

because of the money sharming you, because the testimony coming up from it.

Without the step of faith and obedience, you're not going to see a brick

shoe. So this man, lame man, sitting out there. So Peter

and John said, look at me, friends, let's get our eyes eyes

off the lameness in our life. You want to finish too, you want

hit those a finishing line. Let's get our eyes off the excuses of why

we cannot get up. Let's get our eyes off of things that they're holding

us back. How they only you understand, if you only you know my

background. If you knew my background, I can't be used by God in

a way. You're asking me too. So one month ago I had a

chance to speak to these I'm working it out. He came from a background

whereby mom died when he was young, about fifteen years a mom died.

Parents are a small hock stare and stuff like all right, right, uh,

fritus right and uh and uh. And he came to our church,

his ex good friend body in our church. He got saved in our church.

And the story went by. Have you asked him, why do you

become a leader? We deciphered become No, cannot do one. You know,

once you become a leader, no more freedom really, no more life

really, no more joy. Your life would be very busy. Really maybe

it's truer, all right, But I say, no, what I can

serve? I don't that tight that I can serve. So for the longest

time we'll be asking him. Serves already be a leader. Then one day,

one day he came out for autocore crying because during the message, the

preacher spoke the exact word that was in his heart, exactly what you know.

Sometime friends, I want to let you know, no matter what sales

can you use the what sales plan? You you want to? You want

to as person full time, serve, serve, become a leader. No

matter what you do, what when the person won until unless God moves the

person out. So this individual sit down from me. Oh that camera for

all to crying because the preacher spoke exactly the same word I was asking God

for. Then when you pray for me out there, I've just sense that

I have served God in this capacity. You and I need to get our

eyes off, that's what you say. Look at me, friends, look

at me. Why we've been looking at friends? Just a circumstances. Let's

look towards God. When you look towards God, you're looking towards your future.

When it looks towards God, you're looking for a brickshoe. It's not

enough just to remain. Maybe we're supposed to look towards the future God has

for us if regardless of what we went to pass the past the past,

friends, let's move and say God, here I am again. She I

am again and maybe the only girl, but I'm going to serve you,

I mean the only individual. I'm here to serve your Lord, I don't

want to let the circumstances to limit me from experiencing your fullness. And this

is what Peter enjoyment. He looked at the layman, come on, look

at me, Come on, look at me. Let sen me read to

you a few more, just a few more post of the scripture at the

end. Ready, So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something

from them. It's true he thought he would receive money just by looking at

them, But he received a greater break true, the ability to walk again.

I truly believe he's not just a physical walking that he experienced. There

was a breakthrough in his spirit, because the Bible says that he was found

in the temple with shipping God. If it's just a physical break true,

you don't want you never had before. You really want to enjoy it.

Remember, we just trading one days or fasting? Is it to those who

who went to the new fast? Trading one day is the first thing that

you're able to eat again? What do you do? You went meat right

right? Now? Come on, you're went meet right right, you're you're

you're went all out by all the stick that you want, and just just

decide pick out right, this man, the Bible says you read except three

went back to the temper, because I truly believe he experienced more than the

physical healing. Heals her experience of spiritual healing as well. But here's what

I'm going to how I'm gonna end worse. Seven. Okay, I got

no time to bring this out to you. I've got a few more notes.

Just try to do this great verse seven, Peter took him by the

right, can lift him up immediately his feet and can bones receive strength?

Peter lift him up. Peter left him up. Friends, earlier, my

scripture was go and therefore make disciples. Right, your disciples is the only

person to lift you up. Friends, see this right now? Many times

you say I don't need anyone. I can lift go on my own.

You can't, because our life was not to meet on our own. Known

friends, you are caught to be accountable. Likely enough, friends, That's

how it is. Even in marriage, husband is accountable with the wife,

The wife is accountable to the husband. What more, our own life as

a believer. Because you know how easy to see that? Like, say

again, right, if I had to ask you how healthy are you?

I'm healthy, very healthy, but the moment you did the blood test.

And this is what happened when I had a conversation with one of our church

members that I said, mcle how are you okay? My BP good hallie

fatty foot on. Maybe during Chinese New you only, but friends, we

celebrate Chinese you almost every other month. If you understand I'm trying to say,

because you never quantify, how are you even your friends? Or you

forgot really well because never think about it. Right, I'm okay, what

if it wants wants to do well? I feel irritated. My chest area

got be an irritation. I said, I'm gole. The best way to

know where they not go to an endiogram of your heart and then you know

where this block or not. But the one now, the one I think,

I'm okay, I can one. I'm good, It's okay. One.

Just go it. They say this is endogram. They won't actually drink

it. They just give you an injection. Just feel warm a bit,

Just go do the X ray. The radiology will call you in it.

Just show your heart. He did that. Horrors of Horror found out that

three of his main are three almost about to be almost about to be don't

have to do a surgery. One more is a tea joint area, which

is impossible to do anything except for or bypass. You see what I'm trying

to get that before the introgram, before the heart scanner. I'm okay,

I still k mc all right. I still can't walk a bit. Maybe

once in the wilda once in the wild, but I two can manage.

But until unless you put yourself to the test. And that's why you and

I need a discipline in our life, because we will always make excuses.

I'm sorry use the word We're always gonna make excuses why we cannot well ship

Let the one lah you know how scary it needs not to lead to stand

for our people. They all got like fifty pairs I looking at you know,

the moment you sing a wrong note, really though, like the eyebrow

go up. Really the one chapters that cannot h I Craig Joe, nobody

laugh, huh. A lot of reasons why you cannot. You need you

need a discipler saying it's okay, just lead God, you not ask us

Craiger Joe. You just ask us to lead, because if it was Craig

go Therefore, I become a joker. No, friends, That's why I

disciple. So I bought because I descibler where it carrias you lift you up.

The moment you stand up, you get strength. You see many times

I can stand on my own. Yes, maybe you can. But what

happened when you fall? You fall on your own as well. That's why

the scripture is true. I think somewhere I've forgotten if we always cood this

for a wedding, one one person is cool. I think it takes two

persons to keep each other warm. Mm hmmm, mm hmm. Many times

in our own life we go through our life thinking that I just can survive

from my own. You can't. Because if that's the case, could you

imagine why the God create Eve to put together with Adam. My mom and

my dad attends a Methodist church in their home area. One of the ministry

or the ministry. They they have a passion to reach out to the to

the singers who are in their seventies or mid seventies, already neglected of them

are neglected by the children. So she will tell me of different individuals that

they are alone here in Malaysia, or nobody cook for them and stuff like

that. Even the person whose singer needs needs companionship, needs someone to talk

to. So we silely. I found out my dad was entertaining a bunch

of j w your warwinesses in in my own house. The whiting strangers say

that, do you know how dangerous is the vice stry interest in the house

and not? She's o Kayla just having a composition with dead people on your

See, you're not see. What I'm trying to say is that I'm not

talking talking about about that. I'm just saying that you're not meant to be

alone a friends. That's why you need people to lift you up to encourage

you. Otherwise I can honestly let you know, I'm going to close.

Ready. The alarm talk that you have in your life, you snooze.

Think about it, the alarm talk in your life, your snooze, your

succor suker. Today you decided to snooze another fifteen minutes. My wife is

a queen of snoozing alarm. I don't understand why one, I say,

why do you God created alarm the first place for you to wake up?

Why you need to snooze? The greatest joy in a person life to wake

up before the alarm. I took this, this myteria. So she sets

it at eight, it oh five, it ten, fifteen, it twenty

twenty five thirty. I say that why on earth that you need no?

So the act words slow, wake up, slow wake up. If I

wake up media again, he is how I'm going to end. Okay,

if there's nobody challenging and telling them person no, there will be days whereby

you can first wake up one sure the redation life, you can do it.

One who said that you cannot leave the homes, who say extras can

must only remain one service? So I feel like, because who say extrast

You're always going to remain one keybodies only you think bye for a moment?

Who said that you are not able to for fill God's plans in your life?

So bitter and John lift him up, strength him to his anchors.

He followed Peter John into the temper, worshiping God therefore for filling the scripture.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nation, teaching them to observe all

things, teaching them to observe all things friends. At the end of the

day, the anger of disciples ship is to make sure the person's plucked into

God via a church, not away from church. Can you say this because

if and if you find yourself drifting away further, get plucked in again.

I'm going to close right now and pray for us. Friends. I don't

know where you are, your journey and how you have been. But there's

a scripture that says, what profit does it wouldn't get if everything that you

want but you lose a real you? What profit do? You get everything

that you want but you loses the real you. The true encouragement for you

and for me today is to know that God has a plan for me.

God has a plan for you. If only you just the word is that

you come to a place whereby you receive. Do you know how hard it

is to receive from the Lord? It's a standards through the words. I

was doing this illustration at home, so I see that. You know,

we're so staved by encouragement of affirmation. You're so not used to it when

people score ears or when we experienced scoding in our childhood, where we're used

to it. Kenna can't take it one just when someone say that you're able

to you're beautiful. You know when you compliment someone and you look good to

the Yeah, I got this on discount. It's the first thing that we

say because we never think too much about our self. Friends, your life

is not a discounted life. Ext church, the way we do church,

you want to encourage everybody that it's possible. The greatest joy is to be

able to invest in someone's life, not just a stage, but really invest

in someone's life. The greatest joy is to see someone get delivered marriages here.

The greatest joy is to see someone that wants wants to take their own

life because there's no hope in the future to come back to a pace whereby

I could see a light, I could see a future. The different individus

are walking in our church who the word is that I wish I could die.

And we've been praying for individuals like that. My wife ministering to some

of these people, going out there on a weekly basis. She got to

believe God has a plan for you. See, the greatest joy is for

us, not just us to make millions from the greatest choice, even to

the means that we make. God, I know that you have a plan

for what you blessed me with. Because purpose can only be found in God,

not in things. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For

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