Speaker 1: Welcome. Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast your daily dos
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Speaker 1: speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast
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Speaker 1: in keeping everyone welcome to our five pm service. You
Speaker 1: know in history here in Victor Green Hills and across
Speaker 1: the metro, the services on the first Sunday of the
Speaker 1: year is always jump back, tap the person here, say
Speaker 1: I'm blessed that you're here today. Now I want you
Speaker 1: to tap the person to your left, but before you
Speaker 1: say anything, just give them a smile first. Give them
Speaker 1: a smile now, the best smile that you can give
Speaker 1: for the year beginning. A smile yeah, and then say this,
Speaker 1: I hope to see you every Sunday until December. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're here today. Welcome and happy New Year everyone,
Speaker 1: Happy new decade. We're celebrating a new decade as we
Speaker 1: enter twenty twenty. Are you guys excited for the year?
Speaker 1: Are you guys excited for the Word of God tonight?
Speaker 1: You know what's nice about new Year is a reset
Speaker 1: for all of us. It's a time for us to
Speaker 1: start the year, right, it's a time for us to
Speaker 1: say goodbye to last year, the things we don't like,
Speaker 1: the things we don't want to do anymore, the things
Speaker 1: that we want to turn our backs from, the bad things,
Speaker 1: the horrible things, the things that we want new we
Speaker 1: can actually set aside and look at a good future.
Speaker 1: And I hope all of us are like this today.
Speaker 1: We're excited not only for the new year, but we're
Speaker 1: talking about the new decade of our lives. This is
Speaker 1: the good thing about new year. There is newness. And
Speaker 1: I am sure, and I'm pretty sure all of us
Speaker 1: here have plans with our lives, right. We all have plans.
Speaker 1: Some of you have a great plan to start the
Speaker 1: year by entering work with the biggest smile, excited Gamas. No,
Speaker 1: you're so excited to wake up early tomorrow in the
Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, that when you go to office,
Speaker 1: when you see your boss, you will say, boss, I
Speaker 1: missed you getting to tie on christ chance. Right, We're
Speaker 1: not gonna drag ourselves to work, but we will enjoy work.
Speaker 1: Why because we have a plan to start the year right,
Speaker 1: not only in our work. We are excited about the
Speaker 1: plans that we have you're excited about the vacations You're
Speaker 1: you're gonna do this year? Right? Malay? No, No, I'm
Speaker 1: sure a lot of you have book tickets already for
Speaker 1: trips this coming year. We have plans and that's good.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, the question is have you
Speaker 1: planned out your life with the Lord as believers? As Christians?
Speaker 1: This is what I want to ask you. How do
Speaker 1: you start the new year with God? How do we start?
Speaker 1: We're going to go through the word of God today
Speaker 1: in Exodus to learn how we should start our new
Speaker 1: year as we entered the new decade, and we are
Speaker 1: going to go through the life of Moses. What do
Speaker 1: we know about Moses. He was the one who parted
Speaker 1: the red see. He was the one who brought the
Speaker 1: people of God who were slaves by the Egyptians out
Speaker 1: into the wilderness and prepare them to the promised Land.
Speaker 1: He was the one who spoke to God. He was
Speaker 1: the one who invented the first iPad, right, the first
Speaker 1: tablets you'll get there. Moses was a man of God.
Speaker 1: He had a very close relationship with God. But the
Speaker 1: thing that we will talk about Moses today is the
Speaker 1: Moses before God, who was Moses before God. He was
Speaker 1: actually a lost being. He was a person who didn't
Speaker 1: know who he was. Why he was actually born a Hebrew,
Speaker 1: but because of the degree of the Pharaoh that he
Speaker 1: would kill every child that is born. What did his
Speaker 1: mom do? He was so afraid that he puts Moses
Speaker 1: in something that would float and puts it in the
Speaker 1: Nile River. And for some divine reason, who gets Moses
Speaker 1: the daughter of the Pharaoh. So Moses was a Hebrew,
Speaker 1: but at the same time he was also an Egyptian.
Speaker 1: He didn't know who he really was. Confused. A lot
Speaker 1: of us in our lives are somewhat confused from time
Speaker 1: to time. What else do we know? He also made
Speaker 1: bad decisions. That this bad decision and actually made him
Speaker 1: kill someone. You know the story. He saw someone who
Speaker 1: was oppressing a Hebrew, not realizing I'm also a Hebrew
Speaker 1: ban and so now he defends this Hebrew, the Egyptian
Speaker 1: soldier who was whipping He actually fights him and he
Speaker 1: accidentally kills this person. What does he do? He leaves Egypt.
Speaker 1: He was so afraid that the pharaoh would kill him.
Speaker 1: He leaves Egypt and goes to a place called Midian,
Speaker 1: which is two hundred eighty eight miles. How far is
Speaker 1: that two hundred eighty eight miles, imagine is around four
Speaker 1: hundred twenty kilometers, which is from here to Bagio and
Speaker 1: going back. He walked that far, sipimno, not Glaga, to
Speaker 1: just get away from everything. Some of us, just like Moses,
Speaker 1: want to go away and get away from our past.
Speaker 1: But something happened the life of Moses that actually changed
Speaker 1: everything for him, and it was his meeting with the Lord.
Speaker 1: And so we start in our reading for today with
Speaker 1: Exodus chapter three, verse one. So if you have your
Speaker 1: bibles with you, we will go through some parts of
Speaker 1: chapter three Exodus, chapter three, verse one, and it starts
Speaker 1: with this. Now, Moses was keeping the flock of his
Speaker 1: father father in law, Jetro, the priest of Midia, and
Speaker 1: he led his flocks to the west side of the
Speaker 1: wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. We
Speaker 1: see here it was a fresh start for Moses. He
Speaker 1: was now a shepherd of the flock of his father
Speaker 1: in law. Does that mean you have to imagine he
Speaker 1: was the son of the pharaoh due to adoption and
Speaker 1: so growing up, what did he do? Kumahai in London
Speaker 1: Gripsian Bhai Pal. It was relaxed for him. Whatever he
Speaker 1: wanted he would probably get. And so now he needs
Speaker 1: to work. He runs away from everything and starts a
Speaker 1: new life, but on new year to Formoses. And so
Speaker 1: he starts the new year sabina, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: good at work. So he tends these flocks, his sheeps
Speaker 1: or whatever that he brings, he brings it to a fourplace, Abna,
Speaker 1: I can take care of them. And so he brings
Speaker 1: them to this place. And this is what happens in
Speaker 1: verse two, And the Angel of the Lord appeared to
Speaker 1: him in a flame of fire out of the bitch
Speaker 1: of the bush. He looked and behold, the bush was burning,
Speaker 1: yet it was not consumeed. This was God showing up
Speaker 1: to Moses. He looks and he sees something that was
Speaker 1: burning up, but it was not consumed. You know, God
Speaker 1: calls us is twenty twenty to a personal relationship with him.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that? And so, if there's one
Speaker 1: thing I want to preach today, it's this that we
Speaker 1: need encounters with God this twenty twenty to start the
Speaker 1: year right, We need to encounter God, just like how
Speaker 1: Moses encounters God. And so how does Moses encounter God.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the text. It says he looked
Speaker 1: and behold, the bush was not burning, yet it was
Speaker 1: not consumed. Imagine right now with me, there's a bush
Speaker 1: or a small plant when you look at it when
Speaker 1: you're walking, if you have I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: live in a place where I have a backyard. In
Speaker 1: backyard ten hectar s lam and so I would never
Speaker 1: have pomb in backyard. I'm condo polan backyard, but there's land.
Speaker 1: You know, when you see something burning, automatically you look
Speaker 1: at it and then that's it. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: so no, and then you go your way. Why it's
Speaker 1: not something that you haven't seen before. But what is
Speaker 1: different about the text? It says it was burning, but
Speaker 1: it was not consu indina UBOs? What does that mean?
Speaker 1: I'm going to share with you an illustration that I
Speaker 1: experienced when me and my wife during the holidays would
Speaker 1: actually go up the mountains to spend our holidays. And
Speaker 1: this year I was running after one of our cutest
Speaker 1: paman kins Rko. He was running around, sayah, did the
Speaker 1: branch is catch me? So I would catch him and
Speaker 1: when we when I went out of the house, I
Speaker 1: saw something near the plant rock. It was a wood,
Speaker 1: so Savio and I told you, mah tangal banana tangal,
Speaker 1: what do you think? This is? Barghana tangle from the
Speaker 1: Baha parasha in wally stinking and a ballet or something.
Speaker 1: And so I saw it and I just said, oh,
Speaker 1: that's nothing. Why I was actually running after the kid.
Speaker 1: You know, in the afternoon, I saw videos and pictures
Speaker 1: in our family biber group, and this is a video
Speaker 1: that my mother in law showed. Yeah, neglada god nah,
Speaker 1: neglaila god nah. What's the difference when I saw it
Speaker 1: and when they saw it? You know, when I looked
Speaker 1: at it, I said, it's probably just wood. But when
Speaker 1: they looked at it, and they observed it, and they
Speaker 1: intently looked at it and gazed upon it, they realize
Speaker 1: it was not a stick. It was moving. You know,
Speaker 1: some of us in life we look at things and
Speaker 1: just glance and say that's nothing. But the reality is
Speaker 1: it might be something. I want to know a secret
Speaker 1: of how you're twenty nineteen has transpired. You know, some
Speaker 1: of us missed out on God when he was showing
Speaker 1: up we just look at it and say it's nothing.
Speaker 1: And so I research about this and it's called a
Speaker 1: stick insect. Literally, it's a fasmati day. It's scientific name.
Speaker 1: And my sister in law called it. I am grude.
Speaker 1: Now we say hi to it. No, it's a stick plant.
Speaker 1: I need to pusha Yeah. You know, we can encounter
Speaker 1: God in a very personal way. The question is are
Speaker 1: we intently looking at it? Verse three, and Moses said,
Speaker 1: I will turn aside to see this great side. Why
Speaker 1: the bush is not burnt. Moses turned aside, despite him
Speaker 1: ushering this sheep that he's tending. He looks aside, even
Speaker 1: though he knew that he needed to go home because
Speaker 1: it's a far place. He looked aside, even though he
Speaker 1: knew that he might lose one of the things that
Speaker 1: he is pasting. He looks aside and gives time to
Speaker 1: that burning bush. You know, the burning bush was there
Speaker 1: for a reason. It was there to show God that
Speaker 1: he wanted Moses attention. One of the things that you
Speaker 1: can do during vacation is to watch a lot of movies.
Speaker 1: Right how long tlairdo Babo Lord or Manette flick Namana? Yes,
Speaker 1: And I was able to watch this movie. It's entitled
Speaker 1: The Case for Christ. This is a true story about
Speaker 1: lee Hs struggle. If you have an opportunity to watch it,
Speaker 1: please do. This is a true story of Lee's trouble.
Speaker 1: Is a Chicago journalist during the nineteen eight seventies late seventies.
Speaker 1: And one thing about Lee's trouble was he was an atheist.
Speaker 1: He lived his life as an atheist with his wife.
Speaker 1: And so one day they had a date after a promotion.
Speaker 1: They were having dinner and their daughter wanted to buy
Speaker 1: a gum ball Alenia nine gumball. So buys a gumball,
Speaker 1: goes to the side and then put my leg good
Speaker 1: so nachoke. Unfortunately, the couple didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: They were they were in panic, and now they shall
Speaker 1: help help. And so there's this nurse running to them
Speaker 1: and said, I'm a nurse. I can help. Thus the
Speaker 1: Heimlich maneuver for kids. For some reason, it was different
Speaker 1: from how I know the bag. So I to tapa selikod.
Speaker 1: Now she spits out the gunball and the parents were relieved.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know the first thing that the mom
Speaker 1: did was to say thank you to this nurse. She
Speaker 1: said thank you very much. You know, we're so lucky
Speaker 1: that you're here. What if you weren't here, we might
Speaker 1: have lost our daughter. You want to know what the
Speaker 1: nurse said. This is what she said. You know you're
Speaker 1: not lucky. It's Jesus. Because we were bound to go
Speaker 1: to a different restaurant, but for some reason, we end
Speaker 1: up eating here. She says, thank you very much, and
Speaker 1: that's it. They go home, But as soon as they
Speaker 1: got home, the mom was so bothered about that statement
Speaker 1: about Jesus, about Jesus saving their daughter, about Jesus bringing
Speaker 1: this couple to this area, about Jesus being the one
Speaker 1: to orchestrate that the daughter will be saved. She tells
Speaker 1: her husband about it, and the husband says, don't think
Speaker 1: about it. It doesn't mean anything. It's just luck. Luck,
Speaker 1: it's random. Let's just be thankful. You know, two people,
Speaker 1: same encounter, same burning bush, but one responded God's way,
Speaker 1: but the other turns their back. How do we respond
Speaker 1: in God moments in our lives? How do we respond
Speaker 1: in the things that God brings us in our lives.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that all of you have been blessed by
Speaker 1: God at least once in your life. Amen, you know,
Speaker 1: when we encounter the small blessings or the big how
Speaker 1: do we see it? Do we see it as a
Speaker 1: burning bush or just luck? Or is it about how
Speaker 1: you're good at things but can congratulate? Yeah, yeah, really,
Speaker 1: it's me all me. When was the last time you
Speaker 1: knew it was a God moment in your life? I
Speaker 1: want to share with you one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I wanted to preach this today. I also had my
Speaker 1: burning bush during the break. I also had my God moment,
Speaker 1: the burning bush that couldn't be consumed. I was in
Speaker 1: my PJS at four o'clock, obviously the onelligo quiet alone,
Speaker 1: and I was praying to God, and I was saying, Lord,
Speaker 1: next year, these are the things that I really hope
Speaker 1: would happen in me and my wife's life. And I
Speaker 1: hope it happens this way. They have conversations with God
Speaker 1: like that. Lord. I pray that etany manyari samon by
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and I hope it happens this way. Lord.
Speaker 1: I pray that in this area of our lives, ganito
Speaker 1: manyare Nah, go open your doorna ganito. Oh. And so
Speaker 1: I caught myself talking to God about the things that
Speaker 1: I'm believing for, but also how he would do it.
Speaker 1: And I paused for a while, and for some reason,
Speaker 1: this is the word that God reminded me. My way,
Speaker 1: my way, God said, Francis, my way, my way katabacum
Speaker 1: menga is a party and my way. I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about it. My way, my way. I was repeating it
Speaker 1: my way for some reason. After a few minutes, this
Speaker 1: is what I realized. God was reminding me of a
Speaker 1: verse that I've read not only once but several times.
Speaker 1: But it became very personal with me. I say fifty five,
Speaker 1: the Bible says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts,
Speaker 1: neither are your ways my ways. The word of God
Speaker 1: for me this year is it's gonna be through my way.
Speaker 1: It's not how you want me to do it, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be my way. I wrote down a few things.
Speaker 1: I was asking my wife about it, and I believe
Speaker 1: this is the word of God for me this year.
Speaker 1: God says, watch me do it my way. You know.
Speaker 1: My personal burning bush for twenty twenty is something that
Speaker 1: I'm excited for. Why because I know God has spoken
Speaker 1: to me in a very personal way, and so now
Speaker 1: I don't need to be pressured to ask him for something.
Speaker 1: Even with the way my experience in Adebay, you ask God, Lord,
Speaker 1: I want this to happenomuga in. I believe God wants
Speaker 1: to speak to you in a very personal way and
Speaker 1: for me. He says, Francis, It's gonna be my way.
Speaker 1: But Lord, some meanistrico, how do I level up my
Speaker 1: preaching when the five pm congregation, the tutuluks in every
Speaker 1: week maron tatum tao every week. I'm gonna wake them
Speaker 1: up my way. Watch me in the Lord, and do
Speaker 1: I give them rest. I'm gonna wake him up my way.
Speaker 1: It's a very personal word to me. And I pray
Speaker 1: that you will also encounter a very personal God this
Speaker 1: year for you. So he continued exodustrievers four. When the
Speaker 1: Lord saw that, he turned aside, when he saw the
Speaker 1: attention that Moses gave. When he saw not tominas in Moses,
Speaker 1: and he observed he went near. What did Moses? What
Speaker 1: did God say to Moses? He called him by name?
Speaker 1: He said, Moses, Moses, why is it that significant? You know,
Speaker 1: when you're in trouble with your parents, they call you
Speaker 1: to I or your full name alemnion. Why because it's
Speaker 1: very important. And so now this burning bush first words
Speaker 1: that it speaks, because we know this is God. He
Speaker 1: says the name of Moses. He says, Moses, Moses, and
Speaker 1: I want you to get this. This is the response
Speaker 1: of Moses. What did he say? Here I am? What
Speaker 1: does here I am mean? Think about it in your
Speaker 1: context when somebody calls you and gets your attention when
Speaker 1: you say I'm here, here I am. What do you
Speaker 1: really mean when you say here I am again. One
Speaker 1: of the days that we were there vacation, my mom
Speaker 1: gave me and my wife this gadget lap twenty eighteen December.
Speaker 1: You know what this is. This is what they call
Speaker 1: a phone soap. It says it cleans the phones from bacteria.
Speaker 1: Sabin Eleo, don't Pina marooming gadget that we have phone
Speaker 1: soap and so so now we need to clean our phones.
Speaker 1: It's a UVI light that this infects the phone, and
Speaker 1: so every time you put your phone, you close it.
Speaker 1: The UV light cleans it. You have to wait for
Speaker 1: the light to turn off outside. When I read the mandal,
Speaker 1: it says it's ten minutes. So I closed it. Clay
Speaker 1: cleaned the phone when I was waiting for it to happen.
Speaker 1: Sabisa wife co Sirayata paranta gal para parak fifteen minutes now,
Speaker 1: param twenty minutes now. During that time that we were
Speaker 1: in the table, we were having a light conversation with
Speaker 1: the family and we were laughing. We were talking about
Speaker 1: a lot of things. But when I put my focus
Speaker 1: now on this phone. So for some reason, my phone
Speaker 1: is still there. It's been ten minutes and it's not
Speaker 1: yet done. I thought, bahm in a textnasareen bam a
Speaker 1: viberna bram, what's up now? Barmen news barame bagun Cheesemas
Speaker 1: they were talking to me and I was answering this way,
Speaker 1: Oh let me know, you just answer out of button.
Speaker 1: Go ah. I'm so focused on this why because I
Speaker 1: realized people are actually have actually man's mastered a talent
Speaker 1: in this day and age. What's that to be physically
Speaker 1: there but mentally absent. You can be physically here yet
Speaker 1: mentally far away. How many of you agree that your person,
Speaker 1: that the person besides you, is like this, not you
Speaker 1: ba tying a man. We can concentrate. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make a confession because it's the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: As your pastor, I'm not a perfect husband, Savilla. I
Speaker 1: know we know sig No. In twenteen nineteen, I've heard
Speaker 1: my wife say this to me. Are you listening? Oh
Speaker 1: the man a listening? Ami go ah, I'm pray you know.
Speaker 1: We can actually physically be somewhere, but our mind is
Speaker 1: somewhere else. That's with people that we have in our lives.
Speaker 1: That's with Word, that's with even church. But what about
Speaker 1: your personal devotion with the Lord? When you read the Word?
Speaker 1: Are you physically there or are you just reading it
Speaker 1: and waiting for the four chapters or the two chapters
Speaker 1: to be done? Are you just waiting for that word
Speaker 1: that you like? I am blessed, Amen, Lord, thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm done with my day. Are we physically, emotionally, spiritually,
Speaker 1: mentally focused when we have our time with the Lord.
Speaker 1: One of the best books that I've read about the
Speaker 1: Word of God, about how to read the Word of
Speaker 1: God is the book entitled this book I think by
Speaker 1: Eugene Patterson, and he was talking about a concept where
Speaker 1: you actually gnarl, howlemn you bying? Gnarling? Gnarling is best
Speaker 1: described by the dog that eats a bone. Why don't
Speaker 1: he woke my head? Iron? Why it's so consumed about
Speaker 1: eating the bone? When we do our time with the Lord,
Speaker 1: are we consumed by it? Or are we consumed by
Speaker 1: other things like a game in your phone, like BuzzFeed
Speaker 1: or something what distracts us? You know, I realized this
Speaker 1: and I had to do a research about our attention.
Speaker 1: This is a twenty seventeen article and it says here
Speaker 1: the underlying reason you can't focus. The article starts with
Speaker 1: this aba, the first world has an attention problem. Twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen study of Microsoft Canava found that our average attention span,
Speaker 1: the amount of concentration time on a task without becoming distracted,
Speaker 1: was twelve seconds in two thousand and eight. Imagine twelve seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah every week Alamnam prayer, Lord, I pray that they
Speaker 1: listen to your word? Really? Why? Because the attention is
Speaker 1: very quick? Take how manifoonia oh Indina, man kind of
Speaker 1: maniuma tex ninety nothing in it. But this is bad news,
Speaker 1: It says five years later it was only eight second second,
Speaker 1: one second less than the goldfish. Goldfish has nine seconds
Speaker 1: attention span. Do you know that the style down on
Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen. It is now only eight seconds. What
Speaker 1: does that make of us? You know what silverfish? Second place,
Speaker 1: the article goes to say, is our new wealth of
Speaker 1: information has created a poverty of attention. We have a
Speaker 1: poverty of attention. What does that mean? We are poor
Speaker 1: in paying attention? We can't focus. Sad Really, I read
Speaker 1: this poem Lemnium and Plenum may rest Caano, I read,
Speaker 1: I watch, I appreciate poems. I read this poem, and
Speaker 1: here's what it says. Holy One, There's something I wanted
Speaker 1: to tell you, But there have been errands to run, bills,
Speaker 1: to pay arrangements, to make meetings, to attend friends, to entertain, washing,
Speaker 1: to do, and I forget what it is I wanted
Speaker 1: to say to you, and mostly forget what I'm about
Speaker 1: or why, oh God, don't forget me, please, for the
Speaker 1: sake of Jesus Christ. You know, we're so concumed about
Speaker 1: the business of life. But the problem is we need
Speaker 1: to put premium time for a time with the Lord.
Speaker 1: This year, God wants to encounter you. That's a promise,
Speaker 1: and that is sure. The question is are we missing
Speaker 1: out on those encounters? Are we missing out on the
Speaker 1: most important time? That God wants to tell you his
Speaker 1: plans for you. Are we missing out just because we
Speaker 1: need to do something else? Are we missing out just
Speaker 1: because we need to do the next task, to watch
Speaker 1: the next episode? We might be missing out. You know
Speaker 1: what we need to do as people of God? This
Speaker 1: what's that vacation? Actually it's a picture of silence. It's
Speaker 1: a picture of peace. You know what we need to
Speaker 1: do as people of God to encounter Him in a
Speaker 1: very personal and powerful way this year. This is what
Speaker 1: we need. We need time of solitude. What solitude It's
Speaker 1: more than being silent. It's pulling away And I hope
Speaker 1: you write this down. Solitude means it's pulling away from
Speaker 1: the demands of our lives and drawing close to God,
Speaker 1: setting aside the world and saying, Lord, I will put
Speaker 1: you first. You know in this book that all of
Speaker 1: us are pastors. Pastor Alan and I are reading and
Speaker 1: reading and again and again. Is the book one of
Speaker 1: the books about solitude, And this is what we learn.
Speaker 1: Our souls are very noisy, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: our souls are very thirsty. So Takayam be quiet and
Speaker 1: still sober ing. And we can't have that time with
Speaker 1: the Lord solitude. You know what will change your life
Speaker 1: and encounter God in a personal way this year. Five
Speaker 1: minutes of solitude. Not to teach that to you today.
Speaker 1: You know, when you have devotion, and I hope you do,
Speaker 1: we usually prepare ourselves right, we worship God, we play music,
Speaker 1: we play worship songs, and then we read right. But
Speaker 1: you know, I want you to add this five minutes
Speaker 1: of your life with solitude before doing anything else. Find
Speaker 1: a place where you know it's quiet. I know it's
Speaker 1: a challenge for all of us. Come in twelve bedroom
Speaker 1: pop may evadnah jocola eleven lack. You know, finding a
Speaker 1: place of solitude is a place where you know there's
Speaker 1: no destruction. And so the next thing that you do
Speaker 1: is go to the troop and for five straight minutes
Speaker 1: just sit down still and as you just don't bring
Speaker 1: your phone, sit down still and allow God to speak
Speaker 1: to you for five straight minutes without reading your word
Speaker 1: with the word, yet without praying yet you know, ti
Speaker 1: imegiling time of prayer. We can talk to God, but
Speaker 1: an encounter with God is saying, Lord, I want you
Speaker 1: to speak to me this time time of solitude. I
Speaker 1: want you to experience that today? Can I ask everyone
Speaker 1: to close their eyes? Please put your phones aside, close
Speaker 1: your eyes, and this is what I want you to do.
Speaker 1: Just want to say, Lord, what do you want to
Speaker 1: tell me? I'm going to give you two minutes. Just
Speaker 1: be silent. I'll stop talking, pray and then ask God, Lord,
Speaker 1: what do you want to tell me today? Okay, open
Speaker 1: your eyes? How many of you felt refreshed? How many
Speaker 1: of you felt distracted param meromaga in the egypt Na bumbaga?
Speaker 1: How many of you felt that two minutes was enough?
Speaker 1: How are you in two minutes? How many felt now
Speaker 1: it was too long? How many of you in twenty twelenty?
Speaker 1: Will never raise your hand? You know I stopped the
Speaker 1: clock at one minute. It's not two minutes. And I
Speaker 1: know it's not easy. I tried it the first time
Speaker 1: for five minutes on the thirtyeth second, I knew that
Speaker 1: I was thinking about something else. I'm way shut up
Speaker 1: to lunch someway, lunch pastors and why you preach because
Speaker 1: a sanity? I'm goingly could go mamaligu now, but you
Speaker 1: know God wants to talk to you in a personal way.
Speaker 1: But we need to silence ourselves. An encounter with God
Speaker 1: needs one hundred percent of our attention, not only in
Speaker 1: a worship service, not only in time of devotion. You
Speaker 1: want to know the secret for us to be able
Speaker 1: to have that close relationship with God in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: we need to create space for God. The busier you are,
Speaker 1: the more five minutes you carve out during the day,
Speaker 1: the more that you allow God to speak to you
Speaker 1: and meditate on His work, going to be nice on
Speaker 1: you get that five minutes away, just be alone. If
Speaker 1: you have to go to a cubicle in the cr
Speaker 1: and just be alone to be quiet. Do that. Why
Speaker 1: Because the more busy we are, the more we need God.
Speaker 1: You know, we can put God in the end. We
Speaker 1: have to put him first in our lives. The Bible says,
Speaker 1: meditate on the word of God on the book of
Speaker 1: the Law day and ninth, so that it will make
Speaker 1: you prosperous and successful. So continue, we need to remind
Speaker 1: ourselves that the encounters with God, we need to give
Speaker 1: you one hundred percent of our attention. Verse five, Then
Speaker 1: he said, do not come near. Take your sandals off
Speaker 1: your feet, for the place on which you are standing
Speaker 1: is holy ground. The place that you're standing. The entering
Speaker 1: into the presence of the Lord is holy ground. The
Speaker 1: Lord says to Moses, I know the story of a
Speaker 1: man who lives in front of the park his young partner.
Speaker 1: It's surrounded by the houses. So this man would actually
Speaker 1: dress up at seventy years old, would dress up neatly
Speaker 1: at eight am every morning, would go out, set at
Speaker 1: the bench, would read a book. After thirty minutes, would
Speaker 1: go home. Every single day, would do that and they
Speaker 1: would see him well dressed means an akorbata means a
Speaker 1: formala forma. He would do that every day. And so
Speaker 1: this guy, who was actually the owner of the house,
Speaker 1: who would lawn is, who would lown the garden, would
Speaker 1: pick up the newspaper every day, would notice this, and
Speaker 1: he knew, oh that this guy was not working anymore,
Speaker 1: he was retired. He knew he was only at home.
Speaker 1: And so he approaches it one day and says, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, why do you have to dress up
Speaker 1: every day? You're just there. This is a safe community.
Speaker 1: You can actually go out in your pjs. You don't
Speaker 1: need to dress up. Concerns wife Mose washing the clothes,
Speaker 1: and this guy, the man said in Ta Gala dabna ihoavina.
Speaker 1: You know what, I dress up every single day and
Speaker 1: go to this sport because I meet the most important
Speaker 1: person in my life. Sorry, but I don't see anyone coming.
Speaker 1: Are you always waiting for him? He's there, He's always there.
Speaker 1: Every morning I meet my God. There's preparation that happens
Speaker 1: for him. He needs to dress up. Why he wants
Speaker 1: to be presentable, that's him. Why am I saying this?
Speaker 1: You know, when we encounter God, there are things that
Speaker 1: we need to prepare. The Bible says Sabinimoses, take off
Speaker 1: your sandals because this is a holy ground for us.
Speaker 1: There are things that we need to take off to
Speaker 1: encounter God this twenty twenty. But only you can answer that.
Speaker 1: What's that? Is it the phone that we feel like
Speaker 1: we'll get lost if it's not beside us. And that's why, honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm stopping using my digital gadget for my devotion. I
Speaker 1: can't and pe prayer, Oh b a basaw in word
Speaker 1: big long twelve twelve delivery on the way, So on prayer,
Speaker 1: Come in Lord. I pray for the preaching this week
Speaker 1: and also that delivery will receive. I will receive it
Speaker 1: in good condition. I get distracted easily. What are the
Speaker 1: things that you need to do to prepare yourselves to
Speaker 1: encounter God this year? One of our worship leader worship volunteers, Matt,
Speaker 1: the one who was here a while ago. I was
Speaker 1: talking to him, so, oh, Ramsta are you? I called
Speaker 1: him the other day, Sabina, I haven't been uh resting
Speaker 1: seven days now and a goo work. He's a nurse's
Speaker 1: sci and they I ask for this because I want
Speaker 1: to not be absent during the prayer and fasting next week.
Speaker 1: Big Lord Christian Christian, what are we willing to sacrifice
Speaker 1: or let go for us to enter the presence and
Speaker 1: the holiness of the Lord. We're almost only halfway, but
Speaker 1: I'll speed it up as we continue, it says, don't forget.
Speaker 1: We're fasting tomorrow, so we hope to see you. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the things that we want to do as
Speaker 1: a church is to have more space for God in
Speaker 1: our lives. Right and not only do we want you
Speaker 1: to know this that you need more space for you
Speaker 1: and your life in your personal life, we want to
Speaker 1: also create space for you to experience God. And so
Speaker 1: we have our amazing grace. It's a five week prayer
Speaker 1: and fasting. But not only that, we're actually officially launching
Speaker 1: a prayer meeting here at our main hall every Thursday.
Speaker 1: It's a time for us to pray, to worship and
Speaker 1: to experience God and to encounter God in a personal way.
Speaker 1: We're going to speed it up. Verse six, it says,
Speaker 1: and he said, I'm the Father. I'm the God of
Speaker 1: your father, the God of Abram, the God of Isaac,
Speaker 1: the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face for
Speaker 1: he was afraid to look at him. You know, during
Speaker 1: this three a few verses, in a very short chapter
Speaker 1: of chapter three, God actually said I am the God
Speaker 1: of your father's Abram, Isaac, and Jacob three times. Three times.
Speaker 1: Every time he would say something great, he would say
Speaker 1: this first. You know why, because he wants to remind
Speaker 1: us that we need to look back at his faithfulness
Speaker 1: that he has done. That every encounter with God is
Speaker 1: a proof of his faithfulness. That the things that he
Speaker 1: had said yes too with our forefathers, he will say
Speaker 1: yes also to us. You know, sometimes you just need
Speaker 1: to encounter God to remember that someone is still faithful
Speaker 1: in our lives. You know, after this part in verse
Speaker 1: seven until ten. God would tell Moses, this is what
Speaker 1: you will do. You will save the people from slavery.
Speaker 1: You will do this, you will get out, you will
Speaker 1: bring them out. I want you to notice this. This
Speaker 1: is the reply of Moses. But Moses said to God,
Speaker 1: who am I? That I should go to the Pharaoh
Speaker 1: and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of us, even me, sometimes we feel
Speaker 1: like we're overwhelmed with the task at hand. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: know that the challenges we don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: In your personal lives. Last year, I'm sure there were
Speaker 1: times that you didn't know what to do right, And
Speaker 1: I am pretty sure in twenty twenty and beyond there
Speaker 1: are times that will be challenged. And so, just like Moses,
Speaker 1: we would say this, Lord, Sinubaho, how will I do this?
Speaker 1: I can't do that. But every encounter with God is
Speaker 1: a reminder of the next verse verse twelve. What did
Speaker 1: God say, but I will be with you? Person to
Speaker 1: your right, Tell that person God will be with you
Speaker 1: this twenty twenty tap the person to your left, Tell
Speaker 1: that person I am not God. An encounter with God
Speaker 1: reminds us that he is always with us. You know,
Speaker 1: the world that we live in is crying for companionship.
Speaker 1: The world that we live in and feels they're so lonely.
Speaker 1: But for us believers, if we feel that, it means
Speaker 1: we are not having that personal encounter with the Lord.
Speaker 1: God wants time with you, just like a father to
Speaker 1: his children. He wants to remind you every time we
Speaker 1: encounter him that I am with you. I'm with you
Speaker 1: in your problems. I'm with you in your celebrations. I'm
Speaker 1: with you with your vacation, I'm with you in your
Speaker 1: faith goals. I'm with you in your breakthroughs. I'm with
Speaker 1: you in times of crying, and I'm also with you
Speaker 1: in times of winning. Let twenty twenty be alive. That
Speaker 1: is with God. Amen. This is my last verse, and
Speaker 1: this is my prayer for everyone that as we all
Speaker 1: encounter God, this is our verse for the year. Thus
Speaker 1: the Lord used to speak to Moses. How the Bible says,
Speaker 1: face to face, as a man speaks to a friend.
Speaker 1: Can I ask everyone to stand and we close in
Speaker 1: prayer Exodus thirty three eleven. Look at that our word
Speaker 1: for today is Exodus tree. And after thirty chapters, see
Speaker 1: that the Lord puts it into account that his relationship
Speaker 1: with Moses is face to face and like a friend.
Speaker 1: But it started with one God moment with Moses. We
Speaker 1: may we may have been believers for quite some time,
Speaker 1: but you know, some of us might just need an
Speaker 1: encounter with the Lord with all heads about down and
Speaker 1: eyes closed. If you want to encounter God in a
Speaker 1: very personal way this twenty twenty, straise your hand so
Speaker 1: we can pray. Lord. You see people today us wanting
Speaker 1: that personal encounter with you. Lord. We want that kind
Speaker 1: of burning bush that we know that it's you, Lord.
Speaker 1: We want to experience that kind of miracle that we
Speaker 1: know that it is you Lord. Some of us just
Speaker 1: need assurance that you're there, Lord, and so that you,
Speaker 1: because you are a faithful father, Lord, we will experience
Speaker 1: that this year. Thank you, Lord God, that we will
Speaker 1: encounter you not only in a personal way, but in
Speaker 1: a way that will propel us to live our lives
Speaker 1: full of you. Thank you, Lord, you're a faithful father.
Speaker 1: You may put down your hands. I want to pray
Speaker 1: for next group of people, and I'm also praying in
Speaker 1: behalf of myself. If you're that person just like me,
Speaker 1: you're easily distracted that you want to stop that relationship
Speaker 1: with the Lord. But for some reason, one thing pops
Speaker 1: up and you're the focus. That's you, with all heads
Speaker 1: about down in nice club, just like me. Just raise
Speaker 1: your hands as an act of surrender. Yes, Lord, you
Speaker 1: see our hands. Thank you, Lord God, that even focus,
Speaker 1: even that ability to concentrate, even that ability to enter
Speaker 1: your rest and solitude, will come from your spirit. And
Speaker 1: so Lord, today as people raise their hands, Lord, allow
Speaker 1: us to receive your spirit that will crave for you.
Speaker 1: Allow us to receive your spirit that will be consumed
Speaker 1: by you and you alone. Lord, nothing compares to you
Speaker 1: that whenever we enter your rest, whenever we enter your presence, Lord,
Speaker 1: we will be satisfied that no amount of distraction from
Speaker 1: the world will come close to you. Lord, Allow us
Speaker 1: to embrace your spirit. Allow us to embrace this life
Speaker 1: of focus and you and you alone. Lord. You said
Speaker 1: in your word that seek you first, and your kingdom
Speaker 1: and your righteousness, and everything will follow. Lord, Lord, the
Speaker 1: things that will follow. Lord, allow us not to focus
Speaker 1: on that, but to focus on you and you alone.
Speaker 1: This we pray in Jesus' name, and everybody of God's
Speaker 1: people say Amen, and Amen, give glory to God today.
Speaker 1: God bless you all, Happy New Year. Thank you for listening.
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