Spiritual And Practical Applications | Armond Valdez

OK guys, look. See, when I open my laptop, let

me show you. Are you ready?

You know what kills the anointing?

I know you don't want to listen to me anymore because Obanzinos,

I keep my see your own heart. But I'm telling you, you need

this. But guess what?

If we lack sleep, you rest in peace.

Later, when you hear that sound, it's too late.

Live a clear Kingdom Purpose, focusing your time, energy and

money on what truly matters. If I only knew this when I was

younger, I could have not wasted a lot of time.

So now, friends, I'm telling you this.

Don't waste time. Can I have a volunteer?

OK, Mark, what? What do you do?

Check. Check.

What do you check? So the title of this message

today is Spiritual and Practical Applications.

I'd like to focus on applications because this is

something that I want you to apply.

I don't want to sound too spiritual, but I want you to

apply these things. Are you listening?

Ephesians 5:15 to 20. It says be careful then how you

Ephesians 5:15–20

live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every

opportunity, because the days are evil.

Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's

will is. That's your goal.

Can you tell somebody that's your goal?

Understand what the Lord's will is, not your will, His will.

Lord, what is your will for me? What am I called to do?

What did you intend for me to finish?

What is your will? OK verse 18 it says do not get

drunk with wine which leads to debauchery.

Instead be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Now this is so important over earthly things is our desire for

the Spirit. Verse 19 speaking to one another

with psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit.

Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord.

You know, I want to admit to you for many years, since I was

still in college, in church, when I read this, speaking to

one another with Psalms. I remember this because we read

this in the campus ministry. But for me this is very light,

but just this week, listen up. Just this week while I was

gathering grasses or father FODDER, OK, it's a food for the

goats. And the Lord gave me a

revelation about feeding, about feeding and receiving or eating.

And the Lord gave me this insight that everything revolves

around communication. That's it.

This is something and that this verse makes sense to me.

It says sing and make music from your heart to the Lord.

Verse 20, it says always giving thanks to God the Father for

everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That makes sense to me now when I understood about communication

is that communication is constant.

Hmm, that's hard, right? Let me break it down.

Do you want me to break it down? You see, when God gives you a

revelation, only you will understand.

And now my, my goal is how? How will I explain this?

Communication is constant. Are you ready?

No, this is not my topic. That's why it has a date.

May 7, 2026. You always have to be with God,

always talking to God. That is where you get

revelation. That's why every time, anytime

somebody tells me, pastor, can you preach?

The last time in in Kagayan I was told I will be preaching in

1 1/2 hour. Amazing.

I said, my Lord, what am I going to preach first?

You don't know what they need. You have to be with God.

So we need to know that number one, communication is essential

for building relationships, deepening connections and

relations. Do you agree?

It fosters unity, safety, continuously influencing our

thoughts and behavior, facilitates learning, trust,

intimacy, conflict resolution, prevention, mental and emotional

health. So be careful with what you

transmit and receive everyday. We communicate constantly how

most people are unaware that the process of imparting or

exchanging of information, ideas, thoughts and emotions

happens as long as we're awake. The moment when you wake up, you

start to communicate. Literally switching from one way

to two way to multi way communication.

Example when you when you listen, when you talk, that's

two way OK, when you play online games, addictive games, that is

multi way communication, still communication.

But the question is who is communicating?

Who is receiving? Are you listening?

Five types of communication writing and reading listening

and talking presence and action that's non verbal visual graphs,

motion picture, movie games everything anything we do in the

day is part of communication that's why communication is

constant. Hello 4 main learning styles

reading, writing or text based it's auditory learning hearing

kinesthetic or comes with a practical or action by doing it

and visual learning it is by seeing we learn from what

auditory visual action senses all senses or we have the non

verbal communication we learn more in fact 70% we learn from

non verbal than verbal. Are you listening?

So my point is this listen up. If communication is constant,

let me ask that again. If communication is constant,

the more we need to watch ourselves because you might be

feeding yourself with something that must not.

Can I have a volunteer? This is the next page.

Communication is constant. Either you are transmitting data

or you are receiving data. Either you are influence the

influencer or you are the one influenced by you.

Get that? OK Mitch, when you wake up in

the morning, what do you do? Pray.

Pray. Pray.

Question. Question are you transmitting

data or are you receiving data? Transmit.

Transmit because she's talking to God.

When she receives a reply from God then now she's receiving.

So praying to God is a two way communication.

Is it communication? OK, after praying, what do you

do? It was like the Anand.

And then? After toothbrush.

Step by step, OK after that doing those things.

Read the Bible. Read the Bible.

Yeah. All right.

So what is that communication? Receiving, receiving.

So when, when you fix your bed, etcetera, etcetera, how does

that relate to communication? Transmitting.

I speak in. Hong Kong.

Alright, OK, OK, given, but it's it's for your family.

It's it's cleaning the room, right?

It's for yourself. So you're doing it for yourself.

So. OK, Other things.

Lunch, lunch break. What do you do?

Come on, come on. OK, she's eating.

What? What is that receiving.

Receiving. Do you understand the the

principle of communication is at work always.

Before you sleep, What do you do?

Pray. Pray again.

OK. OK.

OK. Since you're so spiritual, you

may sit. Take a sit.

OK. Next to Mark.

OK, Mark what? What do you do?

Check, Check. What do you check when you wake

up OK? What are the things that you do?

Meditate. Meditate.

OK, what is that kind of communication?

Receiving. Yeah, receiving or transmitting

because you're, you're, you're you're, you're seeking God's

space. You say, God come, I invite you.

So you start with transmitting, correct.

And then after that, the same, The same.

What is not the same with the Mitchell?

What do you do besides what she does?

What she does, Yeah. Maligo, maligo, maligo.

Prepare for work. Yeah, prepare for work.

So this something you do for yourself.

So it's receiving OK. And then and then when you go to

work, what happens? Check emails.

Check emails. And then address the emails if.

Yes. So you see when you read your

emails you're receiving, you're processing it and now you reply,

you understand anything you do with your computer is

communication. Either the you're you're

encoding something your to your computer, or the computer is the

one OK feeding you correct OK after work.

If there are reports for me to review and I need to review it

before submitting to regulatory, it's that.

Communication. OK, because we need more time,

OK, besides you besides wake up in the morning etcetera.

Let's go directly to your work ministry, OK, You do the

feeding, feeding ministry every day, OK, so area.

OK, first. Go to the market.

Go to the market, OK, All right. And then?

Slice. Slice no Correct.

Before we go into the are. You

communicating? Yes.

Yes, you see how important communication is.

Anywhere you go, you communicate.

Now, if you cannot talk, at least you do the sign language,

correct? And then.

OK, so slice. Yeah, all right.

And then? After slice cooking.

Coke and then pagna. Coke na.

After that relax and then after number me time go before me

motto Quan bidding. Area How do you relax?

Relax. Lincoln.

Lincoln with who? With with some of my my friends.

OK, OK, OK, your teammates, right.

And then when you make link code with your teammates, OK, with

sometimes, sometimes. OK, all right, all right.

So the point is, and then the learning you did to some

feeding, of course you talk to the people, talk to children,

still communication even when you don't talk.

When you feed, you are giving them, you are influencing them,

you are feeding them. So you're not just feeding them

physically, but feeding them a message spiritually and at the

same time emotionally because you are there to encourage

people to care for people. Tama, OK, thank you for your

baby. So do you understand what about,

you know, when you do this addictive games, when you watch

all of these stupid things, demonic games, you know what you

are. You are allowing the devil to

communicate to you. That's what's happening.

That is what's happening. So I'm not going to continue

with this direction. I'm going to go back to to where

we stop a visions it says speaking to one another with

some hymns and songs of from the spirit communication

communication sing and wake music from your heart unto the

Lord. That is communication to the

Lord. That's why he knows what you

need but he told he told us ask Amen.

God already knows what we need, but he told us to pray and ask

and seek and knock because he wants you to what?

Communicate? Hallelujah.

And so I'd like to encourage you to also consider reading using

amplified version because if you read the amplified version, it

says, therefore, see that you walk carefully, meaning to say,

living life with honor, purpose and courage, shunning those who

tolerate and enable evil, not as the unwise, but as wise, meaning

to say sensible, intelligent, discerning people.

Very nice, right? Verse 16, it says making the the

very most of your time on earth, recognizing and talking, taking

advantage of each opportunity and using it with wisdom and

diligence. Do you understand amplified

version is expounding it. It helps and it says because the

days are, it says, filled with evil.

If this is true before long, long time ago, around 2000,

almost 2000 years ago, how much more today, more evil?

Amen. Therefore, do not be foolish and

and thoughtless, but understand and firmly grasp what the will

of the Lord is. You see who is important for us

to be tuned with God, the will of the Lord.

It's the Lord verse 18, it says do not get drunk with wine for

that is wickedness or corruption or stupidity.

Do you recognize that we all have been stupid for a time?

Do you recognize that until now you're stupid?

I don't know. You're not stupid.

You're doing stupidity right. So these are the things Lord

show me what are the things that I'm that I look stupid before

you and repent, but be filled it says.

Be filled with the Holy Spirit and constantly guided by him.

Speak to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

offering praise by singing and making melody in your heart to

the Lord. Always giving thanks to God the

Father of all things for all things in the name of our Lord

Jesus Christ being subject to one another out of reverence for

Christ. So I I appreciate this amplified

version. So did you get the point?

Life is short. I remember many, many times, you

know, we had supposedly we had this tragic accident or I

drowned many times, but God always saved me.

What I, I'm trying to say is that I could have gone earlier

than the other pastors. I'm not saying I'm more favored.

I'm not saying I'm more, I'm better.

It's just that it's not my time. But I was stupid, right?

I was stupid to swim and follow the IDF, the young and strong

IDF Israeli to swim that far and I I lack sleep, I lack eating, I

lack water. I not that stupidity, right?

The doctor told me, pastor, next time you don't do that.

So I was sleeping in 80 feet deep high tide at sea.

So friends, that's again stupidity.

There are things that we do that.

Not necessary, right? Amen.

But the number one thing, OK, this is the scripture, the

number one thing that I'd like to encourage you about.

Please take this seriously. Are you ready #1 tenderize your

heart. You know, when I got this

revelation, when just when we were worshipping minutes ago,

It's easy to flow with God. It's easy to cry out to God.

It's easy to be carried away by God when you hear the sound of

worship, when your heart is tenderized.

That's why I was typing at the back, you know, I was so

serious. I was like, oh, come on, come

on, come on. I was racing, you know, because

I want to share fresh mana. So I was typing like that, but

then the worship is building up and I was raising my hand and I

was typing on the other hand. And then when they sang the

song, you are awesome in this place, mighty God, you know, all

the respect, all the love, all the affection, just I was like

about to cry, but ah, I closed the laptop right in front and

said, you are awesome in this place.

Ah, my father. Some people would like to

elevate themselves. When I was driving my bicycle, I

remember John said he must increase, I must decrease.

If you do that every day, what what will happen to you?

If you are like John, you say he must increase.

I must decrease. He must increase.

I must decrease. Decrease.

He must increase. I must decrease.

He must increase. I must decrease.

He must increase. I must decrease.

He must increase. I must decrease.

You know what will happen to you at the end of the day?

You're nobody. You become a nobody.

I told my wife if I get to be with the Lord, no ex, no

honoring because I'm a nobody. You don't honor me.

Honor the God who used me. You worship him.

Don't honor me, please, or else I'll come back and choke you.

Don't you ever do that? I'm telling you, he must

increase. We must decrease.

At the end of the day, you become a nobody.

There is no God is the only one that

matters. If you always spend time with

God, your heart of stone will become a heart of flesh.

All the hurts and unforgiveness, all the things that's weighing

us down melts in His presence. And I tell you, it's going to

transform us into a new person who understands love and mercy.

That can never happen only in His presence.

You will never find your way in the will of God when you always

have your will. You must surrender your will and

say God, I know nothing I don't want to do.

I don't want to move. I I will only move when I know

it's your will. It's like saying God, if it is

my will, I'm not moving. If it's your will, I'll follow

you because nothing can change it.

Tenderize your heart, you ask? God say God, tenderize me.

I'm so full of pride, so full of hurts.

I'm so full of me. I'm so full of me, myself and I

I'm so full of what I think. That's why I like it.

When, when, when, when I ride my bike every other day.

I go here and there and I, I, I, I exercise and I worship him and

I pray to him and he tenderized me and I communicate to my

animals by feeding them. Guys, I encourage you start

farming now. That's your goal in your small

area, in your house, front yard, backyard.

Start a little pat and grow your own food while you can learn now

are you, are you listening? Deuteronomy 65 to 9:00.

We need to be reminded everyday. It's been a long while.

When I told my wife, sweetheart, we have to go to the mall, I'm

going to look for a sticker, said, what are you going to do

with the sticker? I need the sticker, you know,

sticker are for little children, right?

They, they stick some things around, right?

And then I go to national bookstore and said, Hey, where

are your stickers? And of course, the guy look at

me. What are you going to do?

What kind of stickers are the small hearts that said like

what? It's somewhere.

So been looking around. I cannot find I cannot find the

one that I like until I found something in DIY of both places.

Huh. So so I have this I have

different ones. I I put it because the Bible

says let let me read that to you love the Lord your God with all

your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength.

These commandments I give to you today are to be in your hearts.

Impress them to your children. Talk about them when you sit at

home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down, when

you get up. Tie them as symbols.

OK, this is symbolism. Symbols on your hands.

Nothing in my hand. Bind them in your foreheads.

Nothing in my foreheads. Write them on your door frames

of your houses and on your gates.

Now this thing I can do. So I bought some hearts.

I put it, I said OK I sleep, I wake up I go to the CR so at the

door on the CR I put heart gold and then I go outside so it on

our door back-to-back to heart. When I open my laptop, let me

show you see that near the bottom heart?

And then here you see the page, the file, what right, the menu,

you put the heart. So every time I open my laptop,

I see the heart. Oh, love the Lord your God with

all your heart man. Love the Lord your God #1 your

priority is God, I remind myself.

OK guys, look, see. So when you take a pictures, Oh

no, I remember again, because we're so busy, we tend to

forget. We people forget.

Do you agree? And that is why the Lord said in

Deuteronomy 6, he said as a symbols to remember your

covenant with God and it works. So I go, I go outside, I see the

heart, see. So every time I see it, I said,

oh Lord. And then yesterday we were at

the mall. The Lord reminded me of Psalm

Psalms 139:23

139, verse 23. The content is this search me,

oh God, know my heart, test me, examine my thoughts, examine my

worries, even your worries correct if there's any

wickedness or hurting ways or offensive ways in me and lead me

in the way everlasting. Do you understand?

So every time you I see the heart, I remember Lord is

there's anything that is offensive in me.

Did I offend you today? I repent every day, every

moment, morning, noontime I you communicate to God and these

symbols, the heart, the stickers communicate to me reminds me

call on the name of the Lord. Are you learning something?

Tenderize your heart. How communicate where you don't

communicate, you don't build relationship.

You want intimacy with God, communicate.

Are you listening? So I'm so happy that John Wesley

is again on his mission trip with, with John, John Paul.

They, they went to Ilu Ilu and now I think Monday they have a

children's activity ministry and then they'll have a youth camp

also. And it's, it's a good thing.

And we were driving him. I mean, we, we take him to the

airport and I told him, Joey, remember these two things

because he is going to minister. I told him two things.

You remember #1 it's the anointing #2 what destroys the

anointing? He said, remember the anointing

comes with a price. It's not cheap.

When you produce oil, the the only fruit will have to be

crushed first and then it gives out.

It yields the anointing oil. For example, you have to be

crushed. You have to die to self.

You have to to surrender to God and say God, is there anything

you need to change in me so the anointing can flow through you?

But I tell you, the anointing killer, you know what kills the

anointing? Sin.

It will kill your fellowship with God.

It will kill your intimacy with God.

Sin. Careful.

And then you know, you know my son.

Yeah, Yeah. And then and then he messaged

us. He said, Dad, it's a

confirmation. He showed us a book he's reading

about oil press, but crushing about the anointing.

And it's the same. He said you, you, you.

What you said is the same. I said, yeah, you see how God

works because you, you understand now that it's not me.

It's like it's the Holy Spirit working through everybody,

through everything. It's the Holy Spirit

communicating to you through your circumstances for you to

learn something. And this, I hope, did you learn

something today. Can I add three more, three

more? But remember #1 tells, tell

somebody, tenderize your heart. Marinade if you marinade it.

Mohomokman OK yeah yeah, that can yeah, that's OK so Mahomo

kaimon ka Singh ka Singh OK #2 live a clear Kingdom purpose,

focusing your time, energy and money on what truly matters.

When I see a lot of people wasting time, man, my heart

bleeds. I even don't have time to play,

you know, just just because there's so much to do.

If I only knew this when I was younger, If some, some someone

could have told me when I was younger that there's so much to

read and so much to do, so much to learn, I could have not

wasted a lot of time. So now friends, I'm telling you

this, don't waste time. Focus your time, energy and

money on what truly matters. If it does not truly matter,

don't. It's like buying a cigarette

cigarette stick. One cigarette stick is just

cheap. It's not expensive, just one.

But you buy one every day, you multiply that to 30, multiply

that, how many years? Now that's a lot of money that

you've wasted, and you're going to stand before God one day.

How many souls were saved supposedly, if you gave that to

missions? Hello.

That's why some people in America, they sacrifice their

McDonald's so they can give more to the missions souls.

If you see the value, I tell you money, it's not easy to find.

This is treasure that God has entrusted you.

What are you doing with the treasure?

Are you wasting it or are you giving it for something

worthwhile? I don't hear Amen anymore,

right? So invest wisely on things that

will truly last for lifetime forever.

Where? Where nobody can steal your

rewards. Ask yourself this.

OK, I know your question number one.

Am I wise in the way I am living my life now #2 am I making the

most of every opportunity #3 Am IA good steward of God's

entrustments? Next, does it contribute or does

it help to fulfill the vision? Are the things you do are the

things you spend your money with?

Does it contribute to the vision?

I know this is serious, but I'm serious.

You will thank me later on Judgment Day, not today.

You will not like me today, but you will like me later.

I'm trying to save you because you know what, when I had this

experience, when the Lord lifted me with with a big hand and

showed me the city, every time I see a soul lost soul, my heart

breaks because of this great love of God.

I said, my Lord, it's hard to handle the love of God.

Are you listening? Souls are precious, very

precious. That's why all our energy and

effort should be focused on something eternal.

Amen #3 set boundaries. Don't be caught up with

meaningless distractions. If you think you have activities

and they're meaningless, drop it.

I'm talking like a Father. Now, a serious one.

Don't be caught up with a meaningless destruction.

Step away or repent from wrong relationships if you know you

are in a wrong relationship. Repent if you think you have

wrong desires. Repent.

If you think you have sinful commitments and you cannot step

out of it, step out of it. If it's, if it, if the

foundation is sin, repent. See, to be happy you have to

trust and obey the Lord, that the Lord knows His will for you.

I am telling you, not one of us here is doomed to be sad and

broken and lonely. That is not the will of the Lord

for you. The Lord wants you to be

rejoicing, to be joyful, to be happy, to be victorious.

God will use you and and it's going to you know he wants your,

your potential to come out, but you'll just have to trust him.

Don't trust your vision. Don't trust your eyes.

It's deceiving. Sometimes your desire is not

God's desire for you, you're just desiring something that is

not yours. I'm not telling this to point

out to specific people. No, this applies to all of us.

This is my experience. Wrong desires, wrong things.

You just have have to ask the Holy Spirit.

And how do you recognize tenderize your heart starts with

tenderizing your heart. Are

you? But are you getting the point,

friends? Amen.

Sinful Commission tangalo natona.

Or any meaningless distractions that will consume you, drain

you, or waste your short. You see, short live life, our

lives. Life is short, don't waste it.

Last but not the least. And I'm done.

Are you ready? I know you don't want to listen

to me anymore because Obanzena Zakitna see your own heart, but

I'm telling you. You need this.

This is what antibiotic. I'm joking.

OK, Prioritize rest. This applies to all of us.

That's why later, if I can, I sleep early.

Because you know what? Sleep is very important.

That's God designed us. God designed our body to repair

when we're asleep. So every day there is a wear and

tear our muscles as a secotes there as a pit it repairs, but

when we sleep, it repairs. I know recovery.

Yeah, they call it recovery. But guess what?

That's why if we don't, if we lack sleep, you know, I, I

joined the marathon before the training is hard, especially if

you run 42 kilometers, because I, I had to finish 3 to 4 * 42

kilometers in order for me to run the 142 kilometers.

You understand the preparation is is not easy.

And so the problem is this because I'm so busy with

ministry and I lack sleep and I continue with the training.

You know what happens? I break my knees, I break your

rose, right? Correct.

Rose because your body didn't have the time to repair.

That's why my encouragement, I've been through extremes.

I make sure is this if you lack sleep, don't do workouts, sleep

you are going against the design of God.

If if your cells can talk to you, they'll say Sir.

No, I'm telling you the truth. You have to stay balanced.

You exercise, you do you do whatever you do hiking, you do

whatever. Make sure you have you slept and

after that you rest again. But before you do this, you

know, strenuous workouts, you stretch.

You do stretching because when you work out that's contraction.

OK anyway, why are we I'm getting out of my topic anymore

so godly wisdom includes resting as excessive anxious hard work

is deemed in vain. Psalm 127 to says in vain you

rise early and stay up late toiling for food to eat for he

grants sleep to those he loves. This is the will of the Lord.

Sleep. Can you tell somebody sleep?

Guys, guys, guys. Hey, my, my, my, my priority is

the ministry. Look, if you lack sleep, you are

going to destroy your ministry because you know what?

You will not be in good mood. You cannot do ministry when you

are bedridden. You cannot stand.

You have flu. You're chilling.

Do you understand? Oh, you ask the doctors here,

they'll tell you. You know, the body has limits.

We have to sleep to be able to serve the Lord longer.

Amen. Unless you want to go to heaven

earlier, don't sleep. Stay awake, Keep doing what

you're doing, and then you rest in peace later.

When you hear that sound, it's too late.

Don't waste your time, friends. Be happy if you obey the Lord.

Trust the Lord. Black.

No, I'm not talking unfriend, unfriend not person or friend.

No, no, what I'm talking about is you unfriend the, the, the,

the spirit of anxiety and glory. Amen.

OK, so did you learn something today?

So #1 very important because life is short.

Tenderize your heart. Always talk to God and one way

to do it is to put something that you will remember God.

That's why the Jewish people in their doors, they have this

small, I forgot the term, it's a small wooden thing that has a

small scroll inside and they put it on the side of the door.

So when they go in the house, they see it, they touch and they

bless and they remember God and then they go in Lord bless this

home. Do you understand that is you

know, for us, we don't do that the symbolism.

What did God told these people as a symbol for us to remember

our covenant with him? Talk to God communication.

It's constant Amen. So either you are influencing or

you are being influenced. Don't let the world influence

you. Don't let your gadgets, your

computer, addictive games to influence you.

Amen. That's why it's better to talk

to God, read the Bible. OK so praise the Lord and I'm

happy what God is doing here and padayon time and see Jesus for

your body.