Use me For Your Glory | Steven Francis

tell your neighbor you are so loved by jesus praise god praise god one recent um conference which uh christian educators around the world they had the principles of bible schools evangelical and pentecostal came together in a part of the world which probably they all watching so i may not want to say where and they did a survey and they had the challenge is how to how to make disciples of the modern saint the modern saint he's got so many distractions more than whatever it is so how do we capture his attention how do we create content online so that survey tells me this is all he's giving his attention to so the challenge is they're only giving five minutes of content management through online apps which is not true but they have made a survey people they only spend five minutes of religion so you gotta capture the attention in five minutes give them a sermon in five minutes give them a bible verse in five minutes because if they if you lose their five minutes you lose them totally now what do you think the survey is right or wrong it's a survey now these are top world class leaders here talking about instagram offices speaking to bible educators so create content management create con content so we dumb everything inside five minutes so within five minutes i must tell you a bible story within five minutes time to capture your attention within five minutes i have to say jesus loves you and within five minutes you need to get loved what do you think right or wrong wrong some of you may say right that guy is an old fellow don't worry about him the young people it's true people will create a demographic you see that it's an older generation they need more than five do you need more than five or less than five minimum it's jesus my king standard now you see the truth is it could be true if you are reaching out to the non-believers the sinner it cannot be true to the child of god you're not in the same porn now you're no longer in the kingdom of darkness you are in the kingdom of his dear son so why are you are we part of the survey why am i giving only five minutes to capture my attention about god there is a new affection that has come in there is a new love i have for god and i've been i i need to be educated how to love god more so my discipleship must increase and not decrease right so my content management must increase because i'm we are learning how to be hooked up in god so i was trying to do the math okay let's take five minutes and one day is 224 hours so that is 1440 minutes assuming that i'm going to give five minutes to capture my attention that means i'm giving 0.3 for god in every day of my life sounds fantastic isn't it think about it for a minute now if we zoom ourselves and open ourselves to the requirement and the conditions of this world we will never grow up and no wonder then when the church conditions itself with the world's philosophy then you have a church full of babies and they are not maturing to handle the grown-up challenges the enemy is bringing against us amen there will always be in every church different level of growth there will be the newcomers there will be people who are educated not educated people who are speak deep some are simple language some want more power some like it rough some like it slow all different audiences and god have all the different churches for different kinds of people and there's nothing wrong with that but one thing that doesn't compromise or we should not compromise regardless of which type of people they are is to lower down our standards of god and give in to the philosophy of the world in fact we should be teaching the world not the world teach us but what happens is many times the saint or the church is conditioning itself to the philosophies of this world you see and that is why we'll never get we're losing we lose the saints and we think even in bible schools people are being thought uh any sermon which is longer than 20 20 minutes people will lose interest are you sure probably those are boring sermons i think because people want to hear more and listen to more and they want to be if they are hungry and it's building their spirit and not just itching their flesh provided you are teaching them appealing to the spirit more than what the books are already saying out there and floating around do you get what i'm saying i mean you can't tell a story for 20 minutes you won't buy a movie ticket for 20 minutes of a movie you cook for five minutes you eat for half an hour or actually forgot the other way you cook for two hours you eat in five minutes what a life man and we pride ourselves as fast eaters in japan people eat standing up because sitting down and eating is a waste of time so the business busy executives is called in and out burger in california in buy it quickly and go and so we want instant discipleship the answer to a dying world is deeper in god not shallow yeah in the beginning if you are a shallow christian you need five minutes but now you have grown up in god we strengthen ourselves to grow in god and go in the deeper things of god amen we were talking about zechariah chapter three for many weeks this series has been going on the grace of our lord jesus christ manifested the first area lord change me when god says no to the enemy and yes to you god doesn't agree with the enemy if god wants to judge you he will judge you and he will not take points from the devil right praise god for that so when god says no to the enemy and he says yes to you we prayed and we studied together god changed me and part of the process is when he gives you new garments trying to make external changes without inward change is a futile exercise it will not last external conformity will not last without the strength of the holy spirit we'll be discouraged because the more we are going in god the more we get tempted because of habitual order of thinking it takes time to realign those things and give yourself time till we are growing up in god and the truth is even us who are matured we do sin against god time to time sometimes all the time the blood of jesus is there to forgive us and to cleanse us amen so the first part is god change me cleanse me and then we talked about the changing of garments there are three things that i mentioned about the whole process that we were studying together in this whole process the lord first we said we are sorry the first part is lord show me which are the areas of my life that i've sinned against god which are the area of my life that i need to fix which are the area of my life that i need to repair which are the areas of my life i have to revisit areas that you don't want to visit will come back to you right i will give you an example of moses i don't think so i quoted that example just for the recap on this last probably the last session of this entire series we've been talking about lord changed me moses ran out from [Music] egypt as a murderer not a heroic sign out like the one you watch in ten commandments the movie in the ten commandments the movie it will be a sent out they'll bring him out give him a throw the the the the staff and say okay go but the actual bible tells us he ran out in fear and he just ran out from pharaoh 40 years he forgot pharaoh forgot this guy because there's no challenge for the throne so everything is good done god visits moses and now you say i want to use you know what you know where first of all you know we're back in egypt but god i don't want to go there but the area that you left and done you must go and revisit i will restart your life in the area that you had your failure are you listening and that's the hardest part of discipleship where god wants to rewrite our histories of failure to have stories of triumphant triumph and living that you overcame that part of your life so god will revisit certain areas and you're praying god i wish i will see that same person and i will forgive them after that the next day they will appear in front of you and all the old hurts will come back oh god boy you just prayed you said let them come back i'll forgive them i'm giving you an opportunity you don't have to shake their hands but you're going to release forgiveness in jesus name so that the memory is now cleansed by the blood of jesus amen and so god will have us to revisit but in that revisiting the mercy of god must take over instead of our default behavior because god is giving us an opportunity to rewrite the story so that our actions is different than before and if we don't change then the wilderness will restart itself again then go back again 40 days 40 years whatever that is there to help you change do you get what i'm saying that is why some of us we keep coming back to the starting point without any change the circumstances are not changing we are not changing so the storylines keep repeating what you don't overcome will repeat itself again so the lord changed me is an important process you can find even in an interview when people go to work during the appraisal or the resume you can see some people will draw a pattern every two years they're in a new company the moment you do it five times the sixth time you are no more credible unless you are being hit hunted otherwise you only last two years do you get what i'm saying because it is already a profile that's being created that creates a negative process it's a very different storyline that is happening what is your storyline lord show me then we talked about lord when god shows you then you have to change because you're asking god to show me so now we pray the second part lord change me then in that change process god gives us a covering a mental the ropes of righteousness authority different things he gives then the third part which is today we want to tackle my favorite subject is this part of today my favorite my all-time favorite because it's about god's house an all-time favorite for me but not necessarily for people not necessarily for some people not necessarily for some some churches or some people but if it's god then it's necessary what is that lord show me lord change me you see for every change there must be a reason there must be an end goal and so today tonight we start on a new area of thought lord youth jesus said if you love me you will serve me you cannot trap your love and not serve it's a very basic human behavior you love someone you will entertain them you will serve them you will be very hospitable to them because you enjoy their company about what happens and sometimes is in in sometimes in some church environment okay don't worry about it i know you guys are busy give us the money we will do the job so in church growth process is 10 percent leadership do the job 90 enjoy the process but in god's leadership in god's performance is hundred percent serve me amen so i wanted to think about which is the report you want to fulfill it's god's report of the world's report especially in busy singapore and busy cities like new york california and many cities around the world taiwan hong kong indonesia means jakarta where all the busy cities business environment commercial areas where people are walking on tours because those are the areas to work with they always say listen we make a lot of money we'll give you the money but don't ask me to give my time my time is making money so i'll give you the money but i can't be a disciple i can't serve now as a human i can take your money but what about him can i buy him with money does god need your money so badly that he doesn't need you money can buy your health no it can't you can only extend your health can money buy life no it makes life better but he cannot buy extension only god has this power of extension amen so there are certain things we cannot certain things we care and one of the things our favorite as i said lord use me every one of us find a different distinction in god when he uses us why let me give you a scripture to start with the book of zechariah chapter 3 now if you have not been following the zechariah series please do so the weeks of talking about it in verse 10 of chapter 3 in that day declares the lord in that day declares the lord of hosts every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his victory suddenly after god changes that person gives that person the authority in previous verses you'll find and then it's almost like every one of you is involved in evangelism every one of you is reaching out to his neighbor that means the last part of the story of this chapter is god use me it must become the cry serving god creates a different purpose in life that you have something to serve someone to look forward to that your service is not zero but it's doing something so i wanted to have godly perspectives of what god is saying about in his word lord use me and one of the area about a church is we people think that the church will be weak it will be full of problems you know humans we're not talking about humans we're talking about the people of god and so our perspective must change and then if we can go to zechariah chapter four there is a challenge in the kingdom of darkness where many people some people are starters when a new work is starting their part of the game but they don't like to continue they are the starting group they like to start they like the feeling of start they like the enthusiasm of starting things but when things get going and things start going out they they look out for another group that is starting up because they are the starting believers we pride ourselves we are the pioneers so we like to do start-ups but there is an anointing that i saw in the bible and i want to show you and i pray that we will have that anointing are you ready you know in uh zechariah chapter 4 verse 8 9 and 10. then the word of the lord came to me saying the hands of zarubabel have laid the foundation of this house his hands shall also a one person score it right let's say that again he essentially also oh you see that anointing not just a startup anointing but the anointing to finish what god has started everything they will start but nothing gets completed why there is some disconnect between starting and finishing their picture doesn't finish they will start and they will stop they'll have a dream and they'll give up they will start saving money to buy a car and they'll give in to something else and nothing gets accomplished in their life story and that's the curse we need to break in the name of jesus because god has not only told us to start but it's giving us the anointing to complete in jesus name that generation anointing we have claimed in jesus name we like to give birth to children but we don't want to see them growing up and so we run away when the children grow up it's a defect of this world the society but god is doing different things today no matter how difficult god my life looks like a serpent i'm going to give you the anointing to take this serpent by the tail i wanted to show you it will change only god has this power amen are you with me i'm not talking about you i'm not talking about me i'm talking about god man this is the breaking rights of us in jesus name even if you think your life is like a serpent he will give you the anointing to lift it up and show you it will change when he tells you to lift it up and when he tells you to throw it become a serpent he has this power to do that amen and so we have to pray god not only we should be excited we should have the anointing to finish what we start when do we finish till jesus comes it doesn't get so but at least we are completing the project step by step and we are maturing in jesus name amen the excitement is not and when people all gather everybody tell me the same thing oh god brought me to your church okay for what warm the seat why did god but now god told me to leave the church ah so fast what did you accomplish i sat wow so let me tell you about my bird i've got a bird in the house i didn't have the bird it it i bought the property the it just builds this house free so outside the porch there is this fan and there is this full-time resident a bird that builds his nest right on top of the fan and it doesn't care whether i'm coming in or going out it's there it lays his eggs and he sits there every day so two weeks ago i decided i had a spare fan take out this old fan and put the new one make sure we take the nest which is that tall put it back but because it's that tall now the clearance of the ceiling and the entrance to the nest is only that small i thought well it's a bird it should adjust itself don't worry about it i went a bit next morning is a newness is one of the blades of the fan so what i did i brought my chair made a cup of tea sat there and saw the bird picking up twigs small leaves flying up building one by one it was not interested in what i created because as i understand when there is a human interference to their nest they abundant the nest birds have got more pride in what they build than humans don't you think birds did not complain you know why they are builders i told engine come come here come here and see what he's doing is it what that's a word yes the bird did not go to a engineering school he didn't attend a school how to build he did not watch youtube how to build he just knows how to build it's the nature it's the dna he didn't complain that it's got touch he didn't complain he's a different fan he didn't complain anything about me do whatever man i'll just build because that's my nature to build i said you know what god give our church listen i said that lord give our church this anointing of this birth that no matter where god places us we will become builders in jesus name we will not be complaining about the condition we will not be complaining about the people we're not complaining about the environment we'll not be complaining about the weather but god no matter where god places us we will build avin if you want this sunday i'll call the bird pray for you isn't i was thinking no wonder jesus said look at the birds of the air they don't worry they don't ask for the food they know the father will provide i need the faith of the bird are you listening whatever god starts in your life he will accomplish it you know some people have the fear of starting new things just in case they don't finish it so better don't start they are afraid to initiate things because they are afraid of finishing it they are afraid to do new things in life and when god tells them new things they don't want to do because they have a history of not finishing it so today we have to break that curse in jesus name that god give me the anointing of a finisher not just a starter give me the anointing to run for your glory and not give up when it becomes hot and the heat starts taking up or when people become tired do you understand what i'm saying we need that continuity in our life in jesus name we've got to break the curse of charismatism i'm not sure pentecostalism i'm not sure we love other evangelical churches but they stand stronger regardless of changes matters churches are hundreds of years old yet the same church is there growing and you find a pentecostal church every five years they break and they go somewhere else gotta break that curse in the name of jesus if we know that we are filled with the power of the holy spirit then i wanted to know that the holy spirit is a finisher not just a starter when he starts something in your life he will give you the grace to finish it in jesus name therefore don't be afraid to start new things he enables you to finish some people are afraid to start new things even though it is god who's telling them oh god you know why because i'm old huh really really even if you're old god gives you a new thing to do what about that what about that i would you dare to talk to the maker and the creator i'm old oh he didn't know that he thought you were young sorry you look young probably the makeup what do you mean man oh i prayed for the anointing of caleb show me the mountain and we will conquer for you remember caleb what about that anointing you see when you don't hook up to god if you don't hold on to jesus the world will take your passion the world will steal your commitment and that is why it is important to anchor yourself in jesus one brother said he was so successful and god told him to come for full-time ministry he was right in the top of the game in the prime of his age 40-something he was right to the top ceo of an airline industry and god spoke to him come for full time and then one day in his prayer he said god are you sure are you sure you know like you wonder who's not sure and then god gave him one line a one-liner to make a decision he said do you want to give your best to me or your rest of your life to me you know sometimes we have given our best to this world and the rest of our life to god but what if god is calling you now in your best moments of your life when your energy is at your best when you are at the peak of your performance and god is asking your best as your sacrifice so that the rest of your life is anointed by the holy spirit so that you will become a finisher of your race think about that for a moment and so the brother came full time god is using him mightily he's from india he speaks oxford english man i tell you i got very mesmerized when i'm listening to when i listen to him he speaks a very powerful command of english you'll think that he he studied in oxford and that's how powerful is english and god uses him for that command and he's one of the top business trainers and he brings many business people to the lord jesus christ god uses him around the world and so can i ask you the church is not a church of retirement give your best to jesus not your rest and i've seen people being a pastor you go to the hospital to pray for people and in their last extension of their life and they'll make about god if you will extend my life i will live for your glory please god has been telling you for 55 years man you didn't give it in the last moment you are trying to throw some pics onto jesus please the rest of my life which is what are you listening so today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts because the call of god comes to everybody at different age categories some are called when they are 70 some are called when they are 15 some are called when they are seven some are called when they are sixty no matter when the call comes to you do not harden your hearts do not reply back to the creator the king of kings and the lord of lords lord i will do all these things and later i will respond to you by later that call goes to somebody else many are called few are chosen in the greek there is a connotation in that kind of a dual understanding of that sentence in the greek it says few have chosen few are chosen looks like god calls everybody and then he choose someone but the greek has a dual meaning to it all have been called but few have chosen the calling wow which part of the story are you lord use me discipleship itself is not the end to serve god for the great commission is the goal of discipleship if not we'll get very stuck up into discipleship but they're all still good christians but not serving god are you with me hear this passage god give us an anointing that we will complete what you have started for many of us could be a second chance maybe to the city is a second chance god brings us to this location to plan a church that will run prophetically are we better than any other church no we are not this is our cup of tea oh sorry cup of coffee this is america i forgot we are not better than anybody we are called to run our race thank you for three people all the oh really are you with me or not you want coffee is that think about it for a minute and so god entrusted this work to us we have to complete the process so that we become a birthing and no wonder in verse 10 it says whoever has despised in other words who has despised the day of small beginnings they shall rejoice and shall see the plum line in the hand of zerubbabel therefore i want to encourage you when we cry out to jesus lord use me do not despise the day of small beginning the problem is this statement is overly quoted but not obeyed we don't know when it's a small beginning we don't know which one is a beginning we don't know when it is to be small and when it is to grow up we just don't know and it's overly quoted all the time do not despise the day of small beginnings but no one knows which is a small beginning god says there is something about small beginnings that he always starts his work with and don't despise it because it is god working through i refuse to believe oh you know what and every church in this county it's about 1599. so be happy that we have so many people i'm not going to be happy there will be more in the name of jesus not about more believers but more souls to be saved more sons and daughters to grow up but some people like cute church no i come from a big church i want to have a cute little hugging church it's so cute and warm and nice no i don't want cute i want soldiers to fight with me sorry don't don't make me hug you even come on like you now get over the thought are you with me or not come on man it's okay to be nice and thought because your thought can stop the church from growing you can stop and you you see when you start believing that thought you will resist growth you will embrace smallness as though smallness is the goal now the lord says do not despise small beginnings only not small forever are you with me oh tell somebody now my past is breathing so good [Laughter] because this is the word of god and i refuse to give in to what i think i want to comply to what jesus is thinking oh brother you know when a church grows there's a lot of work get out of course dummy of course but you're working for the king you're not working for the world there are times when we are ministering in singapore revival meeting i was conducting a revival meeting in singapore for 13 years every month two nights 13 years and the lord told me don't stop 13 tell me which church does that we walk in although you ask james we will be flat out tired we will be serving god tonight thousands of people have been touched lord said don't stop and there are times some nights 200 people about the time i come home with 12 midnight driving so late i'll be at least i got a car to drive james and all the guys will eat supper and they'll go back late in a public transport i'll be by the time i come up i'll be so washed out tight and the next day will be bible college the next day will be praying meetings and throughout then angelina i'll tell you know what i'm totally exhausted but at least i'm exhausted from my king. i'm so happy about that i'm so happy that every ounce of my energy has been given to jesus today that i'm so flat out for jesus that i sowed in somebody's life and it's not on the wasted ground are you with me because how many of us we have done so many things got so tired and he got so angry why did i miss my time but when you're spending time with jesus when are so wasted for jesus it accounts to eternity and therefore god says do not despise it when you are starting small some of us have skills in doing small things and you know how to build it up and god is using us to start small again it's okay to start small don't get stuck small amen we go deeper and grow to what god wants us to do in the days of small beginnings when we have little people and a lot of work we will not have personal space anymore everything is everything is being done it's like what is happening with us every other month he got something to do i'm getting busy we organize this we organize that when are we going to stop thank you project is over then a new one starts you know what listen the church is not a cold storage dead people put out in book spaces and they look cold no it's a living organism they are alive and alive people they need activity and when the holy spirit is active in that life and in that church god will continue to use us for his glory amen it's really hard until the fire catches us into this county sleeping churches are not a threat to the enemy the churches that are burning with fire it will become a threat amen oh listen we may not have faith in this county but it seems to me the casino have a lot of faith in this county every day you see the updates in the newspaper now they're going to have a new opening date before the actual opening 500 slot machines are coming to the king's casino which is three minutes from my house are you with me it's coming we may not be active but the enemy is very active he has more vision of king's mountain that the people of god have and so it's time that we take the game seriously do not despise what god is doing engage yourself in growing in the lord engage yourself in the bible school that's going to start engage into yourself because we have to be equipped so that we can do what god wants us to do amen the bible says my eyes will be upon the church if you look at zechariah chapter 6 verse 12 and 13. zechariah chapter 6 verse 12 and 13 and say to him say to him thus saith the lord of hosts behold the man whose name is the brunch for he shall branch out from his place and he shall build the temple of the lord do you remember zechariah is prophesying the branch shall build the temple of the lord jesus said i will build my church zechariah saw that in the spirit what the messiah will be doing he himself will build it i will build my church and therefore church it is not like we go crazy and do things on our own we have to have faith that jesus will build the church because he is the one who told us to come and start this world amen he must be convincing it our job is not to come up with new ideas our job is to trust that god is doing a wait upon him rely upon him and then god will teach us what to do and how to do it i remember when i planted the church in singapore in my account is the fourth or the fifth one and the church was one year old i remember in a pastor's room i was praying there every sunday morning the elders will gather we'll pray for us and they will go out to the service hall i'll be alone i'll be talking to the lord about some things and one of that morning jesus came to the room and he told me this is what the church must do now so i asked jesus lord the church is like a baby is just one year old it's starting to crawl but he wanted to run how is that possible he looked at me lovingly but there was a little bit of strictness to his look are you teaching me how to run the judge i said no that's not what i said i'm just sharing my opinion how can a baby run and the lord looked at me he said when i say something and when you do it i will command the baby to run in my name and so that day i stop making unnecessary comments when the lord tells me my job is to comply and the lord will release that anointing amen eighty percent of the church have been to missions with me around the world wherever we went eighty percent eighty percent can prophesy we train them to prophesy and those who really can't we pull the tongue and we train training [Laughter] we bring them to indonesia bottom different islands and tell them to prophesy i remember one one person said you know i can prophesy but i cannot take the smell because these are squatters fishing villages people don't bathe as much they're not as clean as much as this smell i said well hold your nose and prophesy [Laughter] it was funny those who don't think they can't the moment they touch the anointing comes father we pray that god you will give us that anointing to obey you and to fulfill your will in our lives amen pastor this is out of my comfort zone well i'm good to know good to know it's not your comfort zone anymore come into god's own how's that ah man don't get stuck in your comfort zone because being you doesn't help anybody being what god wants you to be you are a blessing to the thousands of people who come to us amen think about that church in the book of zechariah chapter 6 verse 12 that we read i will build the temple that is the encouragement i have every time we come and do some things in church jesus said he will build it i don't have to fear he told us to leave singapore and come okay he will use us you don't have to impress whatever you see me that's my best impressions everything has died from then on there's nothing more to impress think about it jesus said he will build and we still have not fathom what is going to happen in the coming days why did he plant a prophetic church in this county now why are we doing what we are doing only god knows the end result our job is to comply for today's obedience amen people say you know but every church say the same thing praise god but let us finish what we said we will do when we angeline and i had an encounter in israel 10 years ago when the lord spoke to me in a very dramatic way go back to singapore and start a college of prophets for eight months program nobody have heard a college of prophets eight months program every school of prophet is three days some people do three days ministry and they become instant profit on the fourth day on the fifth day they start their own ministry incorporated are you with me because they can prophesy the gift makes money for them and they can't wait for prophecy one brother in our church but so he didn't know that prophecy is for free because he paid five hundred dollars to someone to prophesy he said that brother said if you want me to prophesy i gotta pay five hundred dollars so i called the brother the other day i prayed for him i said okay i'm done 500 please. god wants us to use but there is a minimum requirement god is asking each one of us that is to be filled with the anointing of the holy spirit not by might not by power but by the spirit of the lord by the spirit of the lord the last church when i planted angeline asked me a very important question before we planted the church what if people betray you again i said betrayal is my cup of tea it's my middle name come on i'm waiting for more why at least you did not betray others it is they were betraying you so that's good you are not changing you are growing and you are conforming to the image of christ and people will be traced part of the game you know what but you cannot lose the faith on others to serve people because that's the heart of jesus some people are so broken by the betrayals they are so afraid to serve just in case another one betray but as part of the game my brothers and sisters is to sow generously and let god deal with it don't let betrayal steal your seed of mercy and grace the pastor you don't know how many times i've been betrayed well good for you man keep counting more to come because in these end days bible says people will lose their love for one another that means more betrayals will come and we need to condition ourselves how to walk in love and overcome when the betrayal is coming we cannot show jesus loves unless we are betrayed it is part of growing up i remember i was so frightened to trust on some people when they get past so we look up to you yeah sure man sure you look up to me until you grow up but then i have to repent before jesus i said god but isn't that the goal of ministry to let them grow up and open the cage that they will start to fly like an eagle isn't that the goal the goal is not to trap eagles and domesticate them the goal is to let the eagle fly and that's what jesus did he did not domesticate his disciples he told them go to the world but you know what the jesus the disciples did they didn't want to go they sat in jerusalem and they were just celebrating their apostleship until god has to raise another man called paul who was bold enough to take the gentile will for jesus while they were still deciding whether paul is the right man of god or not or whether he's imposter or whether the jews sent him while they were so busy discussing he went from town to town and conquered the cities for jesus some people nobody loves me praise god then go be busy go and do the work please my church don't believe in me the church is supposed to believe in jesus not you go and do your work are you here are you when i was 16 i organized evangelistic meeting in my cousin's house one good christian pastor i mean christian i mean kind of weird he's a pastor so told me brother you need to wait until the church elders accept you i say when probably 20 years from now yeah sure you all wait jesus said go in safe souls he didn't ask me to wait for 20 years i understood what he's saying but there was a mismatch of what he's trying to say i was saving souls i'm not trying to be a church leader so i went so i tell you how i prayed on the first day this house that i went is in malaysia and they built a house in a in a rural farm area was a former cemetery now turned into a residential estate okay it's kind of weird but that's what it is so when you switch on light in a farm thousands of insects attract themselves to the light and they surround you and my uncle said okay you say jesus spoke to you why don't you preach so i preached and these thousands of insects were crawling man the white floor turned into dark so my first miracle took place that day they told me every night is the same problem we can't pray so we pray with our light switch off so that the insects will not fly in so i told them this will be your first miracle we prayed you know how i prayed until i leave there shall be no insects for seven days no insects came in first second outside people they came they were getting healed now i didn't know how to pray for the sick man i'll just pray for people i preach without having the guts to even open my eyes so i'll pray lord in the name of jesus i'll be preaching they think what a holy boy it's not holy fear but i trusted in the name that says serve me and i will be with you from 1 became 2 became 3 the end of the week more than 50 people gathered in the house because they came to hear a young boy is serving jesus and the anointing comes whenever he prays people are getting healed and guess who came on that saturday the pastor comes how can you preach in this house without my permission i said what permission do i need this is my cousin's house no are you ordained by the church i say which church are you sent forth by the elders yes he asked me which child jesus my brother i mean come on i'm 16 year old you want to put me down let's play this game now let the works speak for itself whether god is with me or not my brothers and sisters we are looking for admiration and recognition while not serving and accomplishing anything we want people to admire us jesus said look at the works that we do not us but the reflection of jesus therefore even in the days of small beginnings we must be busy serving the lord jesus christ not trying to show of who we are how anointed i am how many people i can prophesy recently angela and i went somewhere and they wanted to address us according to our proper titles so which are you in the fivefold i said i'm a brother of the lord jesus christ oh but that's not one of the fivefold i say yes i know please write that way i'm a brother of our lord jesus christ don't you think he's higher than the fifo to be her brother and her sister of our lord jesus christ you know what jesus said he who does the will of my father is my brother and my sister which one will you choose titles over relationship taglines over callings function over identities which one will you choose this challenge always comes to us who are you who call you who sent you we will be the people will be so curious by the time you establish your identity the timeline of god's seasons are over therefore today god has tell us to do this amen jesus himself will build we must have the faith that what god has started he will accomplish it and this is what he said look at chapter 4 and verse 14. i'm going to wrap up soon there are many pointers we'll just build it as long the way we come verse 14 then he said these are the two anointed ones who stand by the lord of all of the whole earth now the anointed ones in the hebrew means the sons of oil the sons of oil will build it how much we need the anointing what is the anointing it's not just a word it's a flow of the holy spirit in your life it's not just a feeling or we're all anointed yeah i know then show me if you are are you listening show me if you are don't just say you are anointed i know that i know which scriptures are saying that i've studied well enough but i want to show me that you are anointed god will put us in places that we don't want you know how many times the uh carl is not here kyle akal kyle kyle kyle he's not here you know the last sunday he was all dressed up with ties and you know man he just looked at me i said i couldn't recognize you bro are you getting married today what's going on and he tears is because of jesus unchanged there are many more childs like that out there who's broken and heard they don't dare to come back to church maybe more stoves must be burned and more pots must be made whole so that we will get to see him more are you with me my brothers sons of oil daughters of oil so what we need to learn is to come into a learning program how to carry the oil of jesus how to carry this oil only sons and daughters of oil can build the house of the lord not anybody else it is not the talents it's not the intellect but it's the spirit man i want to finish with this thought those who build the church something about god comes over your life and you will prosper zechariah chapter 8 verse 12. look at that even though we don't serve for the sake of prosperity but blessings is a result of serving god do you remember what jesus said let's read this first for there shall be a so sowing of peace the wine the vine the vine the vine shall give its fruit and the ground shall give its produce and the heavens shall give their due and i will cause the remnant of these people to possess all these things did he hear what i just said i wanted to remember what jesus said seek ye first the kingdom and what what is the next line seeking first the kingdom and i thought so some verses miss some translation i'm missing the next important sikhi first the kingdom and his righteousness not just about you seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness and all these things look at that you shall possess all these things so jesus statement was a prophecy of zechariah and how did zechariah know anyone who is taught by god will speak the same language because they heard from the father and jesus heard from the father and he said the same thing if you and i are walking with god then we must speak the same language seeking first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all these things that we think about worry about will be added unto us what are these things please fill in the blank when you go home lord my children are i need to study money i need health money i need that money write all the concerns he said if i will seek his kingdom all these things shall be added i'm 51 today that's not today i mean this year i'm preaching the same since i started 15 and a half the same thing i didn't differ but i came a testing moment when god tested your heart beyond your ability to endure when there is no money in the house there is no money to buy milk no money to buy diapers no money to have food for the end of the month and god tastes your heart it's not testing whether i will fail he knows i will overcome because he has taught me how to pray he has taught me how to walk in faith he knows when he pushes me the best part of me will come out which is what my faith i remember one day i was going to jesus you know god i don't have anything except you he said yeah good then hold on to me say that's cool man i thought there will be more than just hold on to me and the lord told me if you have nothing to hold on and if you only have faith then don't let it go because faith will overcome everything wow you know when i looked you up to the people i'm not looking for sympathy man i'm looking for people to energize my faith don't let god faith overcomes everything praise and faith doesn't have a denominator it doesn't mean that god doesn't know computer faith overcomes that he overcomes finance it overcomes all financial health situation it can be a housing matter it can be a matter of the livestock i just don't know faith has no limits hey you want to hear underwater story you want to hear one story i can see some of you are sleepy i think you are the sons of oil you are dripping down [Laughter] last story and we we wrapped this up i was you know i told some a couple of times i've said to uh church members that i was a dive master i was doing scuba diving so i i became a dive master and uh weekends uh some of the weekends when i get my time off i'll bring a team of people out there to dive in thailand militia islands and all of that so one of my night dives that i did we saw the waters and we saw the current readings with the weather and all of that it's supposed to be a clear good day no undercurrents it's a night dive so we jumped everybody jumped the experts they went down and they gather you're supposed to gather down know your directions and keep going where you're supposed to go break into teams by the time i went in from nowhere the mid drift came mid-drift means it's not up there it's not down here it's a mid-drift and this if you're caught in the midriff it will drag you out to the open ocean and then you'll be gone for miles because that's how powerful mid drifts are from nowhere it came and now those are my learning days advanced diver and then i'm learning my night diving skills and man i've break down because why the mid rift is bringing away from the group i'm going away and i couldn't stop and the worst is i'm getting trolled up and i was banked in the underground boulders it's hitting me this way it's pushing me or sitting that way and i'm losing control and then what do you do when you lose control you start panicking what do you do when you start panicking you start breathing more faster and faster the tang air keeps going in right there out of nowhere underwater i heard the audible voice of jesus he said don't panic i'm with you take control of yourselves okay now the lord is with me now next one while he's next what i'm being drifted out you know next one you say breathe press the emergency button and go up don't try to force yourself do anything else it is as simple as pressing that button to create your buoyancy to go out but when you panic you can forget that's all jesus said man i heard the audible voice of jesus kaboom i was two miles away from the target point drifted out so far out a little bit more is the open sea as china sea your open sea just a little bit more just because i trusted this wise you know what then i realized he can be tested even underwater isn't our god he doesn't let you go you can test him in all different environment what he has started he will accomplish but brother you don't know what kind of background i am from give me a break bro i don't want to know let's know jesus a little bit more enough of all your background story let's know jesus background his background is he will never let you go amen let's hook up to that background and what god has started we must complete lord use me for your glory please don't think that if you serve the lord especially now after kobe we need to serve this and serve them and gain all the money we have lost when you serve jesus you'll lose nothing it will multiply i'm not saying because today i'm saying it we have gone through enough economy crisis in the world and jesus has never given up on us therefore he's not going to give up on kobe by the way when jesus come to our church he doesn't wear a mask nothing wrong if you do wear i'm not saying about those things i'm saying that he's not shy to touch us he's not shy to create his miracles are you with me i pray that faith will become the denominator of jesus my king it will become a distinguishing factor i don't have anything much but i have faith that god will do it many pastors come to me for financial support while we planted church in the first year of our church we have 70 people in the first year of our church plant in singapore with 70 people we gave away more than 70 thousand dollars in missions at the end of the day when we did our accounts and they're like oh god what did i do i did a good thing yeah sure we never knew how much we were giving until we finalized our accounts but so what are we going to do next year we give more because the man of faith will not given the men of faith will not give up we will keep pressing forward and god listen in the first six months we paid a 500 000 of church building requirements we became debt free in the first six months we did not count how much we were given we were so busy serving god and god made sure everything was taken care amen in first six months god can do this here god can do this here but you know how we do these things almighty i want to know how heaven does things god can do this here amen one year is already coming may 30th right may 30th one year since we started we're going to have a flag raising ceremony where the officers or officials of the town and the council are invited to come it's going to be a powerful testimony of what god is doing let's have the faith that we will finish what we have start there are some will always say well these are the new fellas who come and they will die and they will go off so don't worry about them i've just heard it just too many times only this time what god has planted he will accomplish it can we all stand up together is this what i want to know are you part of the game you

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