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Speaker 3: You're listening to a message from Victory. You hope it
Speaker 3: inspires you to honor God and make disciples in your humanity.
Speaker 2: We are going to look at what needs to change
Speaker 2: as believers.
Speaker 1: If we are to move forward again.
Speaker 2: One last question, how many of you here you want
Speaker 2: to see growth and progress in your relationship with God? Okay,
Speaker 2: you want your faith to become ten times better this year. Okay,
Speaker 2: you don't want your relationship with God to be the
Speaker 2: same year after year, but you want to grow and
Speaker 2: so we're going to look at that today. If you
Speaker 2: have your Bible with you, we're going to read from
Speaker 2: First Peter, Chapter one, beginning in verse thirteen.
Speaker 1: To sixteen.
Speaker 2: It says, therefore, preparing your minds for action and being
Speaker 2: sober minded, set your hopefully on the grace that will
Speaker 2: be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: As obedient children do not be conformed to the passions
Speaker 2: of your former ignorance.
Speaker 1: But as he called you is holy, you also be holy.
Speaker 2: In all your conduct, since it is written you shall
Speaker 2: be holy, for I am holy. Can you join me
Speaker 2: in a short word of prayer before we continue, Lord,
Speaker 2: we commit to you this time. We thank you that
Speaker 2: it's your desire for us to grow. It's your desire
Speaker 2: for us to grow from strength to strength, from faith
Speaker 2: to faith, and from glory to glory. And Lord, we
Speaker 2: pray that you will bless the pre of your word
Speaker 2: today and use this time that we have today in
Speaker 2: order for our faith to increase and to know you better.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, we pray Amen.
Speaker 2: Okay, just to give you a short background for the
Speaker 2: passage of scripture that we read. The context, it says,
Speaker 2: Peter said, therefore, and every time you see that word, therefore,
Speaker 2: it's pointing to the previous conversation or discussion. So he said,
Speaker 2: in light of what was mentioned before, therefore, this is
Speaker 2: the implication. So therefore Paul was talking about their salvation,
Speaker 2: the salvation they received. Okay, I'd like to read verse three.
Speaker 2: Let's just backtrack a little. In verse three, it says,
Speaker 2: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: according to his great mercy, he has caused us to
Speaker 2: be born again. Can we also say that born again?
Speaker 2: He said, he has caused us to be born again
Speaker 2: to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Speaker 2: from the dead. And you would see that word in
Speaker 2: the Bible, the word born again. It's not pertaining to
Speaker 2: our religion. The first mention of that word was in
Speaker 2: John and it was from the mouth of Jesus. And
Speaker 2: when Jesus talked about born again, he was not describing
Speaker 2: a religion or recruiting people to join a certain sect.
Speaker 2: He's talking about what needs to happen in order for
Speaker 2: us to have a relationship with him. And here Peter
Speaker 2: was talking about what happened to the Christians when they
Speaker 2: encountered Jesus.
Speaker 1: He said, you'd been born again. And I like that.
Speaker 1: He said, he has caused us to be born again.
Speaker 2: You know, I did that plan to be born It
Speaker 2: wasn't my plan or prerogative. I was born in the
Speaker 2: seventies indikopuplina and how I wish nineties sahaak. But I
Speaker 2: was born in the seventies and it wasn't my It
Speaker 2: wasn't my initiative. It wasn't my decision. So in the
Speaker 2: same way, the Bible says He has caused us to
Speaker 2: be born again by his great mercy. We're lost. We
Speaker 2: don't know how to find our way back. There's no
Speaker 2: way we can change ourselves. We cannot save ourselves. We
Speaker 2: did not find God. God found us, and we are
Speaker 2: saved by His great mercy. The reason you are here
Speaker 2: today is not because you are good, but because God
Speaker 2: is good.
Speaker 1: You are here today.
Speaker 2: Because in spite of our unfaithfulness, God remained faithful, and
Speaker 2: so we are here today.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: We had participation on patayotdaupanbagum labakan my participation kayoma kayo y.
Speaker 2: But you know it was through the pain and the
Speaker 2: sacrifice and the suffering of our moms that we are born.
Speaker 1: You know, in the same way, we are here today.
Speaker 1: We are born.
Speaker 2: Again because of the pain and the sacrifice and the
Speaker 2: death of Jesus Christ on the cross, because of someone suffering.
Speaker 1: We are all born again.
Speaker 2: Because Jesus lost everything on the cross, we can now
Speaker 2: have everything in Christ. That's why we rejoice today. How
Speaker 2: many of you are grateful for your salvation? How many
Speaker 2: of you are grateful that you've.
Speaker 1: Been born again. You know, born again means new beginning,
Speaker 1: a fresh start.
Speaker 2: It means a new life. God made everything new. That's
Speaker 2: why the Bible says we are born again to a
Speaker 2: living hope. If you are a Christian, there is something
Speaker 2: to look forward do. You're born, and it's not a
Speaker 2: one time experience. It's a grad dual unfolding of this
Speaker 2: new nature and relationship. I have a two year old
Speaker 2: kid at home, and since he was born. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not a one time experience. It's a continuous process.
Speaker 2: And in the same way, we are in a continuous journey.
Speaker 2: Now that in First Peter one, verse six to seven.
Speaker 2: In this you rejoice, though now for a little while,
Speaker 2: if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so
Speaker 2: that the tested genuineness of your faith, more precious than
Speaker 2: gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may
Speaker 2: be found to result in praise and glory and honor
Speaker 2: in revelation of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Is that now you rejoice. But being born again doesn't
Speaker 1: mean life will be easy.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean now that you're in Christ you will
Speaker 2: be exempted from temptations and trials of life. In fact,
Speaker 2: we will go through suffering, we will face trials. But
Speaker 2: if we respond right by the grace of God, our
Speaker 2: trials will.
Speaker 1: Become our testimonies. I was talking to a young businessman
Speaker 1: just this.
Speaker 2: Week, and we're talking about the challenge just he's facing
Speaker 2: in his line of work pressure Sabina sometimes three times.
Speaker 1: This week no Sabina.
Speaker 2: Employees, Tang Dung Paul stress and stress because of dead lines.
Speaker 2: But I was encouraging him, he said, I said, if
Speaker 2: you respond right, by the grace of God, you will
Speaker 2: be able to help lots of business people in the future.
Speaker 2: You will be able to help lots of people are
Speaker 2: going through pressures and trials by your testimony, because you
Speaker 2: went to the trial. But by the grace of God,
Speaker 2: you're able to went through it and you're able to
Speaker 2: honor him. Our trials will become our testimonies. And here's
Speaker 2: really the message that I want to share with you. Therefore,
Speaker 2: Peter said, in light of the salvation we receive and
Speaker 2: the tests and trials that's about to come, he said, Therefore,
Speaker 2: because of the salvation and in light of the challenges
Speaker 2: we're about to face, Therefore, here's the exhortation of Peter
Speaker 2: here's what needs to change if we want to continually
Speaker 2: move forward. First one, he said, prepare your mind for action.
Speaker 2: Prepare your mind for action. And according to one study,
Speaker 2: an average person have seventy thousand thoughts per day.
Speaker 1: Average person okay, I'm sure in.
Speaker 2: Two thousand Langhata for a monthly on pastor seventy thousand thoughts.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine a lot of things going on, And
Speaker 2: a lot of things were processing, minor and major things.
Speaker 2: A lot of things are going on in our mind.
Speaker 2: Seventy thousand thoughts per day. Now, think about this. And
Speaker 2: as I was studying this, think about this. Everything was
Speaker 2: once a thought. Everything was once a thought. Just this
Speaker 2: main hold that we're using this facility in Deeputuna exists before.
Speaker 1: But even before we've we've seen this in the physical.
Speaker 2: This already existed in the imagination of the designer and
Speaker 2: the team of Pastor Dennis.
Speaker 1: This was first conceived in the mind.
Speaker 2: On stage air con and colored and walnating my touch
Speaker 2: of red and orange, even before we experience its reality.
Speaker 1: It first well, it was first conceived in the mind.
Speaker 2: Whatever change we want to see in the physical, we
Speaker 2: need first to win the battle in the mind. That's
Speaker 2: why Peter said, prepare your mind for action. These Christians
Speaker 2: are being persecuted for their faith, experiencing suffering and difficulties.
Speaker 1: There they're living in the midst of a pagan culture.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know God and they're living differently,
Speaker 2: so they're being persecuted. And here's the exhortation of PAULA
Speaker 2: and I'm in paul in the persecute.
Speaker 1: Kame.
Speaker 2: That's a software come and here again, Christiano. Right now,
Speaker 2: we don't know if we can still move forward.
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 2: Peter said, prepare your mind for action. You know why,
Speaker 2: because it starts in the mind. The battle starts in
Speaker 2: the mind. And I think Paul was expressing the same
Speaker 2: concern to the believers in Corinth when he wrote his
Speaker 2: letter in Second Christians, Chapter eleven, verse three. But I
Speaker 2: am afraid that as the serpent deceive E by scunning,
Speaker 2: your thoughts will be led as ray from a.
Speaker 1: Sincere and pure devotion to Christ. Even from the book
Speaker 1: of Genesis, this has been the style of the devil.
Speaker 2: He would play your mind. He would try to plant
Speaker 2: accusations about God. He would try to plant doubts. He
Speaker 2: will plant worries. He will plant fear, he will plant
Speaker 2: toxic thoughts. He will just put all these deceptions and lies.
Speaker 2: And if you believe that, then he will be able
Speaker 2: to put you in an invisible prison, the alone, the
Speaker 2: Konamaha move forward.
Speaker 1: You know why not.
Speaker 2: Because really what you're facing is bigger than God. But
Speaker 2: because you're imprisoned by a lie. And Peter said, prepare
Speaker 2: your mind for action, because the enemy will inject lies.
Speaker 1: And here's how we prepare our mind for action. What
Speaker 1: do we do?
Speaker 2: In second Christianstent three to five? He said, for though
Speaker 2: we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war
Speaker 2: according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare
Speaker 2: are not of the flesh, but have divine power to
Speaker 2: destroy strongholds, We destroy arguments. That's going on in our
Speaker 2: mind and every lofty opinion raise against the knowledge of God,
Speaker 2: and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
Speaker 1: So how do we prepare for our mind for action?
Speaker 2: We take captive every thought me, Mama, my thoughts banapuma
Speaker 2: passosa mind mo that's trying to discourage you from following Christ.
Speaker 2: Are their thoughts that's causing you to be fearful? Are
Speaker 2: their thoughts that's causing you to worry. Are their thoughts
Speaker 2: that's causing you to go back to your old way
Speaker 2: of life. The Bible says, take captive and make it
Speaker 2: obedient to Christ. And we do that by daily reading
Speaker 2: of the Bible and by prayer. You young Bible. You
Speaker 2: know it's not positive thinking. It's the word of God
Speaker 2: because every day as we read, as we read the Word,
Speaker 2: the Word of God.
Speaker 1: Renews our mind.
Speaker 2: Maybe we don't want to an on college students. No
Speaker 2: before it's a U belt a pastor.
Speaker 1: Then behind all, my mama, you know why we need
Speaker 1: our minds to be washed by the word of God.
Speaker 1: Because there's so many lies and we need the word
Speaker 1: of God. We need to pray. Saba is a Bible.
Speaker 2: Do not be anxious about anything, money, tuition, help, marriage, children, business,
Speaker 2: Do not be anxious about anything.
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 2: By prayer and petition, present your request to God and
Speaker 2: the peace of God will guard your heart.
Speaker 1: And mind in Christ Jesus. But I mean, have you
Speaker 1: heard but pray? You feel better.
Speaker 2: When you before you go out of the house and
Speaker 2: you go back to work, or or face a client,
Speaker 2: or or or face whatever situation you're in but pray
Speaker 2: and the Lord.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do, but my eyes is
Speaker 1: on you.
Speaker 2: I don't know where the help would come, but I know,
Speaker 2: I know you are in charge and in control, and
Speaker 2: I lift you up my situation and I know, Lord,
Speaker 2: I will just be still and I will know you
Speaker 2: are God. And when you lift up your concern, the
Speaker 2: Bible says, the peace guards your heart, prepare your mind
Speaker 2: for action.
Speaker 1: Second one is.
Speaker 2: Set your hope fully on the grace of God. Set
Speaker 2: your hope fully on the grace of God. I like
Speaker 2: what Tim Keller is. A is a pastor in the US,
Speaker 2: And here's what he said. In one of he said,
Speaker 2: the whole world is going to be redeemed. How many
Speaker 2: of you are longing for the coming of Christ. How
Speaker 2: many of you want to go to heaven today? Man pastor,
Speaker 2: He said, the whole world is going to be redeemed.
Speaker 2: Jesus is going to redeem spirit and body, reason and emotion,
Speaker 2: people and nature. There is no part of reality for
Speaker 2: which there is no hope. Because of Jesus, there is
Speaker 2: always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.
Speaker 2: You know, even in death, even in bankruptcy, even in divorce,
Speaker 2: even in lack, even in sickness, even in breakup, even
Speaker 2: in failure, rejection, persecution, wrong decision. The Bible says, in
Speaker 2: Jesus there is always hope. How many of you are grateful.
Speaker 2: There is no hopeless situation in Christ. When you look
Speaker 2: at your marriage, it's not a hopeless marriage. When you
Speaker 2: look at your children, your children are not hopeless. When
Speaker 2: you look at what at your at your walk with God,
Speaker 2: it's not a hopeless case. In Christ, there is always
Speaker 2: hope because there is ongoing redemption that is going. There
Speaker 2: is grace available for us. There is a grace waiting
Speaker 2: for us, and there is grace available for us today
Speaker 2: like you bas a Christian grace Langton Lloyd Alum.
Speaker 1: With that in the command Indanion.
Speaker 2: If I'm going to attend church tables manus a preacher, Sabina.
Speaker 1: You know I can only preach by the grace of God.
Speaker 2: But award and encourage, no gelling the man, promote the man,
Speaker 2: Grabi bro by the grace of God.
Speaker 1: Lama, what do you mean? Well, you know what that means.
Speaker 2: I don't deserve anything good from God, and everything good
Speaker 2: that I have it's made possible by the grace of God.
Speaker 2: If not for the grace of God, I won't be
Speaker 2: here today. If not for the grace of God, I
Speaker 2: will not be a pastor today. If not for the
Speaker 2: grace of God, I will not be faithful to my wife.
Speaker 2: If not for the grace of God, I won't be
Speaker 2: able to go and make disciples.
Speaker 1: Everything I have and everything I'm.
Speaker 2: Able to do, is simply by the grace of God.
Speaker 2: This is started by the grace of God. This will
Speaker 2: be sustained by the grace of God, and the grace
Speaker 2: of God will bring this to completion. It's grace of
Speaker 2: God from start to finish. How many of you know
Speaker 2: and how many of you are glad? It's not up
Speaker 2: to us. It's all about the grace of God. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure how many of you've been to be GC
Speaker 2: flying for peace. I'm sorry, I don't have a picture.
Speaker 2: And let you mana go acrobat, young Mata. Do's my
Speaker 2: hardness my net and they would try to to do
Speaker 2: some exhibitions up in the air. Can you imagine, you know,
Speaker 2: Papalit and Pusilla. One time I was passing by with
Speaker 2: my daughter and I saw ten year old three ten year.
Speaker 1: Old kids and doesn't know amazing ten years old one.
Speaker 2: Time the Manchu Acrobatzilla, Siga, Sma sammers, long, young crabby
Speaker 2: tangling kato or young harness. You know, it's amazing what
Speaker 2: we are willing to try if we know there is
Speaker 2: something to catch us when we fall. You know that
Speaker 2: net and harness represents the grease of God. It's amazing
Speaker 2: what we're willing to try if we know the grace
Speaker 2: of God is there for us. How many of you
Speaker 2: are grateful for the grace of God. That's why you
Speaker 2: can be the husband that God wants you to be.
Speaker 2: You can live the life God wants you to live.
Speaker 2: You can work with integrity. You know why, because there's
Speaker 2: the grace of God. So set your hopefully now. I
Speaker 2: like this verse in Second Corinthians, Chapter four, verse sixteen
Speaker 2: to eighteen.
Speaker 1: So we do not lose heart.
Speaker 2: Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self
Speaker 2: is being renewed day by day. For this light, momentary
Speaker 2: affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory
Speaker 2: beyond all comparison. As we look not to the things
Speaker 2: that are seen, but to the things that are unsin,
Speaker 2: for the things that are seen are transient but the
Speaker 2: things that are unseen are eternal compared to eternity. That
Speaker 2: answer that lack, that's suffering compared to eternity. The Bible says,
Speaker 2: is light and temporary. You break up new it's temporary. Class,
Speaker 2: it's temporary. Yomaganda did delay, mumbills, it's temporary, and yumagasa
Speaker 2: why it's temporary?
Speaker 1: Now? I like the message version.
Speaker 2: You know our Bible of different translations, right, and sometimes
Speaker 2: it's just good to just see how it's how it's
Speaker 2: written in other versions.
Speaker 1: It's so refreshing.
Speaker 2: So I'd like to show you the message. And then
Speaker 2: we're moving on to our last point, and we're closing
Speaker 2: in prayer, he said, So we are not giving up.
Speaker 2: How could we, even though on the outside it often
Speaker 2: looks like things are falling apart on us. On the inside,
Speaker 2: where God is making new life, now a day goes
Speaker 2: by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes.
Speaker 2: Everyone says, small potatoes. I don't know, small potatoes. No,
Speaker 2: I don't know about American culture, small potatoes compared to
Speaker 2: the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.
Speaker 2: There's far more here than midst the eye The things
Speaker 2: we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the
Speaker 2: things we can see now will last forever. So whatever
Speaker 2: you're going through, set your hope fully on the grace.
Speaker 1: Of God so we can move forward. This is not
Speaker 1: the end, This is not a dead end. This is temporary.
Speaker 2: I can move forward matatappas dinto sabbing as a Bible.
Speaker 1: It's just a small potato.
Speaker 2: But ever challenges or difficulties you're facing, don't lose heart.
Speaker 2: Fix your eyes on Jesus and rely on this grace
Speaker 2: and lasting. Peter said, be holy, be holy. You want
Speaker 2: to move forward, then you're relationship with Jesus. You want
Speaker 2: to see progress. You don't want your Christianity to stay the.
Speaker 1: Same year after year. He said, be holy. Now.
Speaker 2: The word holy literally means too separate, or to be
Speaker 2: set apart by Him and for Him. You're set apart
Speaker 2: by God, and you're set apart for God.
Speaker 1: Be holy now.
Speaker 2: It's interesting because in verses fourteen to sixteen, Jesus said,
Speaker 2: as obedient children.
Speaker 1: He then continued on, he said, be holy.
Speaker 2: What's the connection about holiness in us becoming God's children?
Speaker 2: You know the connection because children naturally inherit the nature
Speaker 2: of their parents and consequently with that nature, that nature
Speaker 2: dictates the appetites and the action ka nana napoosa, nanna pusa.
Speaker 1: They don't act as humans.
Speaker 2: At umaa humans but pinanganak we don't act like catsa.
Speaker 1: Malic din of milk. But you know, there's two different nature.
Speaker 2: So because of that nature, like for example, the jacao,
Speaker 2: even though they're both animals, they act differently.
Speaker 1: They have different appetites. You don't see a cow running
Speaker 1: for bones a vegetarian. They have different appetites.
Speaker 2: They they have different actions because of the nature they've inherited.
Speaker 1: In the same way, if.
Speaker 2: You are born of God, I mean you hear you're
Speaker 2: born of God, you are born again.
Speaker 1: God is your father. If you really had an encounter
Speaker 1: with God and you you experience to be born again,
Speaker 1: you inherited the nature of God.
Speaker 2: That's why you have a new appetite. Bible and Kanana
Speaker 2: victory group. Mayona p pray Kanna mari. You and I
Speaker 2: can khandam preaching the Kandaatutu in the Kala Papalami Dito
Speaker 2: every Sunday.
Speaker 1: Why all of a sudden you don't want to go
Speaker 1: to church.
Speaker 2: Now you go to church a change of appetite, you
Speaker 2: know why, because of a change of nature.
Speaker 1: That's why Peter said, be holy, because your Father is holy.
Speaker 2: So make sure don't allow yourself to be pulled back
Speaker 2: to your former way of life. The devil would try
Speaker 2: to remind you who you are. The devil would try
Speaker 2: to temp you with the same old sin. But Peter said,
Speaker 2: be holy. Don't allow yourself to slide back to your
Speaker 2: old life because you've been born again. Don't be shaped
Speaker 2: or influenced again. Now, what will happen if you allow
Speaker 2: the holiness of God to permeate your life? What will
Speaker 2: happen if every day you say, Lord, make me holy, Lord,
Speaker 2: make my mind holy, make my heart holy Lord. In
Speaker 2: the Paco holy matelas holy, per Lord.
Speaker 1: I want to be holy.
Speaker 2: What will happen if you embrace God's holiness in your
Speaker 2: life and you allow God to make you holy more
Speaker 2: and more?
Speaker 1: You know what will happen?
Speaker 2: In Second Timothy Chapter two, Verse twenty one. Therefore, if
Speaker 2: anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be
Speaker 2: a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful
Speaker 2: to the Master of the house.
Speaker 1: Ready for every good work. How many have you here?
Speaker 1: You want to be used to God? I am bench
Speaker 1: kan who wants that.
Speaker 2: I'm watching basketball today, the playoffs the NBA while i'm
Speaker 2: player an.
Speaker 1: I'm boring on highlights perk.
Speaker 2: You're wearing the jersey, You're always sitting there, You're always present,
Speaker 2: but you're not doing anything.
Speaker 1: It's not really what you want for your life.
Speaker 2: If you're given this window to live, if you only
Speaker 2: have a short time to live, do you really want
Speaker 2: to spend that sitting every Sunday in church doing nothing?
Speaker 2: Or you want to say, Lord, here I am use me.
Speaker 2: I want to make a dent.
Speaker 1: In the universe.
Speaker 2: I want to do something that will impact the world.
Speaker 2: Guess what, That's God's desire for you. You are born
Speaker 2: to do something great.
Speaker 1: You're destined and God is a great, destining purpose for
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 2: That's why there's this desire in us the time contento.
Speaker 2: We're longing for something, We're longing for fulfillment. You know
Speaker 2: why there's this desire that God.
Speaker 1: Placed in our heart.
Speaker 2: We know we're born for something bigger, bigger than ourselves.
Speaker 2: You know you're born not just to work and secure
Speaker 2: your retirement. You know you're born not just to graduate
Speaker 2: and get a diploma, get a job or start a business,
Speaker 2: have a family, have a big house, get a saving,
Speaker 2: grow old and die. You know, there's more to life
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 1: Alamo.
Speaker 2: You're born not just to exist, not just for survival.
Speaker 2: You know, God is a purpose for your life. And
Speaker 2: when you embrace God's holiness, it will usshure you to
Speaker 2: God's destiny for your life. That's why the devil likes
Speaker 2: to tell you holiness boring in and the devil would
Speaker 2: try to take away your holiness because if the moment
Speaker 2: is able to take your holiness's able to take away
Speaker 2: your destiny. God is a great plan for you. I'm
Speaker 2: just having a coffee before this service. I think I
Speaker 2: have a picture in ha we have leaders in the
Speaker 2: seven o'clock service. I think my three years palm as
Speaker 2: a church when they got save, they God save a
Speaker 2: little late this Elena save Ahampus. The Alna Saa singles
Speaker 2: the same empty nester in actually my three years Palanzi church.
Speaker 2: But you know not only that they were born again,
Speaker 2: but they caught and hold the vision of God for
Speaker 2: their life. Uh see young wife, si honey, then your
Speaker 2: husband silly and they're talking and telling me about an
Speaker 2: update about Bhutan, because last year a door was open
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 1: You cut the long story short.
Speaker 2: Young wife patanist own organization and a grant nam free
Speaker 2: books some developing countries and they've chosen Bhutan and as
Speaker 2: a representative she was sent there. But when prior to that,
Speaker 2: she attended the missions meeting here giving updates to all
Speaker 2: our leaders about our plans for the coming years, where
Speaker 2: do we are going to plant a church? And that
Speaker 2: exact year that Bhutan opened to her arrow the a
Speaker 2: Botani al Rayan Tan beginna open twenty sixteen. We're going
Speaker 2: to plant a church in Bhutan.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And from that time on, Alama, this is not a coincidence.
Speaker 2: God wants us to be part of what God is
Speaker 2: doing in Bhutan. They're not missionaries.
Speaker 1: They have day job business. That's what they do.
Speaker 2: But when this door opened, they said, Lord, we don't know.
Speaker 2: We may be late for this, we are not trained,
Speaker 2: but Lord.
Speaker 1: Here we are.
Speaker 2: Use us their last visit, they're giving me an update.
Speaker 2: They were able to hold the seminar for the Speaker
Speaker 2: of the house. They're in partnership with the people heading
Speaker 2: the education department of the nation. They are in partnership
Speaker 2: with their young people. There's so many plans. They're coming
Speaker 2: back this June and they have a meeting with the
Speaker 2: King in these coming trips, and it's amazing how God
Speaker 2: is connecting. And they said, we don't know, we're just
Speaker 2: taking it one day at a time. We don't know
Speaker 2: how God will do these things, but you know, here
Speaker 2: we are. It's just amazing to think that God wouldn't
Speaker 2: trust an entire nation to a couple, that they will
Speaker 2: be part of what God is doing. You are part
Speaker 2: of something big. God is a great plan and destiny
Speaker 2: for your life. My prayer is that we're not going
Speaker 2: to miss.
Speaker 1: God's purpose for our lives.
Speaker 2: Like David in the Book of Acts, he said, and
Speaker 2: David serve God's purpose in his own generation. May we
Speaker 2: serve God's purpose in our generation. May you and I
Speaker 2: serve God's purpose for our life. Last quote, and let's
Speaker 2: pray in D. L.
Speaker 1: Moody.
Speaker 2: You know an evangelist who lived in the eight and hundreds.
Speaker 2: Here's what he said. Let God have your life, for
Speaker 2: he can do more with it than you can allow
Speaker 2: God to take hold of your life. Amen, Let's just
Speaker 2: bow our heads and close our eyes right now, Lord,
Speaker 2: we thank you for your word.
Speaker 1: First of all, we say.
Speaker 2: For the salvation we receive, and it's not something we deserve,
Speaker 2: but it's something that you gave by.
Speaker 1: Your great mercy, and every day we are grateful for that.
Speaker 2: Lord.
Speaker 1: We are here today because of your grace. Lord. That's
Speaker 1: our prayer.
Speaker 2: Today, that we will be able to prepare our mind
Speaker 2: for action. Lord, help us to learn how to take
Speaker 2: captive of every thought that is not from you.
Speaker 1: Lord.
Speaker 2: If there are lies that's holding us, if there are,
Speaker 2: Lord God, things we believe that is stopping us from
Speaker 2: moving forward, I pray, Lord God, that we will be
Speaker 2: able to identify it and will be able to take
Speaker 2: captive of it.
Speaker 1: Lord Lord, I pray that you will destroy strongholds.
Speaker 2: I pray that you will approve wrong beliefs and ideas
Speaker 2: that maybe we picked up along the way.
Speaker 1: I pray Lords that we will have the mind of Christ. Lord.
Speaker 2: I also pray Lord that we will learn to set
Speaker 2: our hope fully on the grace of God. Lord, we
Speaker 2: thank you that in Christ there is no hopeless situation.
Speaker 2: Thank you that in Christ there is no hopeless person. So,
Speaker 2: Lord God, we thank you for the hope that we
Speaker 2: have in Christ. And I pray also, Lord, that we will,
Speaker 2: Lord God, be able to be holy just as you,
Speaker 2: who call thiss is holy. By the grace of God,
Speaker 2: we can live pure and holy. And as we do, Lord,
Speaker 2: I pray that you will use us, every one of us.
Speaker 2: We are here today our prayers that Lord here, I
Speaker 2: am use me, here, I am use me. Lord, Father God,
Speaker 2: I pray Lord, that you will use us for a
Speaker 2: great and mighty way, more than what we could ask
Speaker 2: for or imagine. I pray for that sense of greatness.
Speaker 2: I pray for that sense of purpose to be stared
Speaker 2: up in every heart.
Speaker 1: God. I pray we will, our hearts will be stared up.
Speaker 2: Lord, and we will no longer log and stay in
Speaker 2: our comfort zone, but we will step up in faith
Speaker 2: and say, Lord, we are willing to move forward. We're
Speaker 2: willing to be used by you because we want to
Speaker 2: give you honor and glory.
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