We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast.
We are a church based out of Chennai, India.
We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will
be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear.
Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of
purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus.
During this year of a divine takeover, we are discovering
that there are a few essentials that we cannot overlook.
One of these is the fear of God. To live in awe and reverent fear
of God is imperative in order for God to take over our lives
and lead us in His ways according to His will.
We pray that as you listen in, you would invite the Holy Spirit
to give you a fresh revelation of God and that you will live in
the fear and wonder of God. Hi church, this has a joy and a
privilege to be able to bring God's word to you today.
And even as we take some time to dive right in, even as we saw
the bumper, we've been looking through this the entire start of
2026. Can you believe it?
We are literally close towards the last week of February and as
we look back, I think our attention has to go back to the
fact that this year is not just only a divine takeover, but our
very own Christian lives that we are called to live following
Jesus Christ is one of divine takeover.
I want to draw our attention back to the passage that we've
seen over the last couple of weeks ever since we started this
year. From Zechariah chapter 8, verse
12, it says the seed will grow. Well, the wine will yield its
fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will
drop their dew. I will give all these things as
an inheritance to the remnant of the people.
There's something about this verse that keeps calling me back
time and again. I don't know about you, but when
I look into this, it's a reminder for me to always cross
check every intention, every idea, every time and effort that
I'm putting towards what I'm seeing I'm doing for God.
Is my heart posture right? Last week we saw what it is to
retrieve those seeds which probably have fallen by the
wayside, which have probably fallen in areas where we've let
it go intentionally. The week before this, we heard
from Pastor Vasu that you know, our hearts are ones which we
need to constantly look at. The seed should be able to move
us towards obedience, move us to an understanding that this is
the God that we worship. Move us to a place of realizing
who our Savior really is. We are not just our Savior.
We cannot do anything out of our own strength, but when we allow
God to be the divine takeover in our lives, every aspect, you
know, many times we just give some of some aspect that
desperately is in need, but God is saying every aspect, even the
things that I know God saying I want to do a divine takeover in
that. And so even as I was meditating
and waiting on God, especially like God, what is it that you
want us to know? What is it you want us to
actually take forward? We are coming to a close of what
the entire seed is all about, You know, and we saw last week
about the retrieving. We saw that first we have to
recognize that we've in fact LED.
We've lost some of those seeds. We need to repent that we've
intentionally let it gone. And then we have to come to a
place of renouncing to say, Lord, let not my will, but you
all will be done. And then we rejoice, knowing
that that God is the God of harvest.
And so as we look today, the seed that God wants us to really
look into our own lives is are we letting go of the seed?
Are we letting go of the seed? I don't know about you, but a
lot of us, especially in our Christian walk, for those of us
who call ourselves seasoned Christians, we've been walking,
we've been doing this journey. We've seen a little bit of life
and we've come to a place where we know we can only trust God.
Sometimes we have come to a place where we are jaded.
We come to a place where we've where fatigue is set in.
We've come to a place and we're like God, I can't do this
because if I do this, this will cost me.
And this is what was interesting.
I was in a position like that. I was in a position of where I
felt like God this this journey is nice, it's good, but Lord for
every time for a testimony to come.
Should we walk through something and I realized some of the
rhythms that I have been asking God of Suddenly my own desire
kicks in my own understanding kinks in my own understanding of
seeing things kicking. And this is where God was saying
you need to allow me to be God because if the seed has to grow
well, if the wine has to bear its fruit, if the ground has to
produce its crops, if the dew has to come down from heaven, it
can only happen when God decides.
Only when God decides there's, there's only so much of my part.
The rest is all God's part. And so that my part issue is
where I'm like, God, why am I struggling to give this back to
you? Why am I trusting God?
I thought I did everything right.
As for what you're saying, but God, why still do I have to do
this? God saying, would you trust me?
And that verse kept reminding me of the fact that there's a
remnant, which means time and again, when God's calling us to
claim inheritance, we can either choose to participate or we can
choose to go back. And so today I pray and ask that
we'll be ones who will be able to participate.
And so even as we start looking this, what are we seeing?
If only God can do certain things, We need to be fully
present. We need to be fully present the
the out working of this entire scenario that you look is that
God is doing a lot of the work. He's asking us to plant those
seeds and he does the work he's asking you still do work in the
ground. I'll bring yield.
The vineyard will bear its thing, but you need to keep
showing up, which means we have to be present.
We have to be present. We can't check out you and I
today, can't check out you and I can't say God, I've done my bit
of salvation. I've done my bit of hoping now.
No, Lord, I'll be present. I'll keep showing up.
I'll keep showing up because the truth is the miracle that we are
going to receive is not the be all end all.
The breakthrough that we're going to receive is not the end
of our Christian life. No, it's that passage that we
walk through that breakthrough and then we start doing things
what God's calling us to do, and then we desire to see much.
It's more of God. And in that process what
happens? We see breakthrough after
breakthrough, miracles after miracles.
And so today a lot of us are checking out prematurely because
it is hard being present. It is hard waking up.
Sometimes you might just wake up feeling tired, but yes, you have
to show up. You wake up feeling like God
again another day, but you're going back and saying God, I'm
grateful that I get to breathe, I get to witness, I get to see
the sunrise. I get to participate in what
today has to hold because many others are there who couldn't
participate, who probably was there last night, last night.
And so today are we fully present because the reference
process that I'm taking today is what God's commissioning us to
do. It's from John chapter 12, verse
24. And even as you read it, it
says, I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a
grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone
just one grain, nevermore. But if it dies, it produces much
grain and yields a harvest. It yields a harvest.
So when we look into this context, what do we see?
We see that entire passage, a couple of Greeks who have
probably heard about Jesus, who you know.
And if you see in ancient times, in that time, there were a lot
of people who followed the true God, the God of Israel, and yet
they were not from Israel. They were not people of Israel.
They were people who were far off.
And so when they came, they wanted, they probably heard
Jesus and they wanted to witness him.
And so the word goes around, it comes to Philip, and then Philip
brings it to Andrew, and then Andrew comes to Jesus.
And this is what Jesus says. And even before this, Jesus says
something more interesting and he says to them in verse 23, The
hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified and exalted.
And then Jesus reads this verse, I assure you, and most solemnly
say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and
dies, it remains alone, just one grain, never more.
But if it dies, it produces much grain and yields a harvest.
The one who loves his life eventually loses it through
death, but the one who hates his life in this world and is
concerned with pleasing God will keep it for eternal life.
If anyone serves me, he must continue to faithfully follow me
without hesitation, holding steadfastly to me, conforming to
my example in living and if need be, suffering or perhaps dying
because of faith in me. And whenever I am, in heaven's
glory, there will my servant be also.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
As we read this passage, what are we seeing?
We're seeing Jesus is telling Andrew and Philip my time has
not come. It's my assignment is not to me,
to the Greeks. He's saying my time has come for
me to be glorified, which means I was sent down here on this
earth specifically for all of mankind.
But my assignment here was specifically for my own, for my
own here. The when we look at the why, why
didn't Jesus want to meet them? Yes, Jesus did meet a few
people. He met the centurion, He met the
Samaritan woman. He met many people in between
who actually interjected when he was doing his ministry.
But when the people who were outside of the land of Israel
were actually coming, the Greeks that the Gentiles were coming to
ask, he knew that was not his time to actually share.
And what Jesus is saying is my time has come to be glorified.
Where he's saying is my assignment is coming to an end.
I will die. I will be buried here on this
earth. I will be buried here on this
earth. But on the third day I will rise
again and that witness will be what which will go out to the
Gentiles for them to believe. And I believe a lot of us today
are in that same place. We are in the same place where
we are wanting to see God show up in so many places.
God do so many things, yet are we responding to what God's
calling us to do? Why was this important?
Because when you read in John 316 we know this verse.
For God so loved the world that he gave his own and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have
eternal life. Jesus came for Jesus came for
sinners. That's for both Jews and
Gentiles, for both the Jewish people and for all of us.
Yes, he came down. That's what the Father sent him,
so that our relationship with him will be reconciled, that
there'll be a bridge now, so that we'll be able to
communicate directly to the Father through his Son.
He came to set the sinners, to set the captives free.
But then we also see in John 111 to 13, John goes to say this, He
came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his
name, he gave the right to become children of God, children
born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or of a
husband's will, but born of God. And So what we see here is Jesus
ministry was confined to his own people.
He was the returning king. The prophecy said there will be
a Messiah out of the tribe of David and the Messiah came and
it was for his people, but his own did not receive him.
And so that's why Jesus ministry of three and half years was one
where he took people from within, that he journeyed with
them, he empowered them. And in his death they all
probably had given up. But in his resurrection they all
came back, they waited, they received the Holy Spirit.
And today you and me are witnesses of that testimony that
they have carried across the globe.
It's interesting why it's interesting.
Jesus stuck to just his audience.
He was present, yes, He was present here on this earth, but
he knew where he was called to do ministry.
He knew whom amongst whom he was called to do.
And a lot of us today, we are called to be the light, yes, but
can we be the light in the places God's already placed us
in? What is the light that He's
placed you in? What is the light that you he's
placed me in? For some of us, our family
conditions are so that we have to be the light there.
They are the only Bible that they may probably be able to
read. For some of us, He's given us
the sphere of influence of people and community and we are
called to be the light there. For some of us, we work amongst
so many other people within our workspaces and He's put us there
to be a light there today. Where, however, whatever
opportunity you have, can you be present there just as Jesus was
in Matthew chapter 10 verses 5 to 8.
This is where Jesus commissions his 12 to go out and he says
this interesting thing. He says that these 12 Jesus sent
out with the following instructions.
Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the
Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of
Israel. As you go, proclaim this
message. The Kingdom of heaven has come
near. Heal the sick, raise the dead,
cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons.
Freely you have received, freely you give.
The interesting thing was Jesus, who was God here on earth as
man. The seed that Jesus talks about
will not make sense if you're not standing in the place where
Jesus stood here on this earth. The seed that you and I are
called to carry The seed and I, which you and I think are our
inheritance, we will not be able to fulfill if you're not present
like how Jesus was amongst his people.
So today, before you think of anything else, yes, we have the
ministry of online. We have everything, but God's
asking us, can you shine the light where you are at today?
So even as you're watching, even as you're listening, you and I
are called to be the light wherever you are.
You know, it's easy to be a light right here in this room.
For those of you who are watching can see it's the empty
hall. But this is where we gather.
It's, it's easy to be a light here because when we gather, we
have people who know Christ. We have people who are on the
journey towards knowing Christ or people who walked in not
knowing Christ. And it's in this that thing we
kind of have build relationship and we, you know, we experience
Christ's love. But when we go out, we might be
in rooms like this where we might be the sole 1 who'll know
who Jesus is. And that's where God's saying,
would you be able to proclaim this message?
The Kingdom of heaven has come here.
Would you be able to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse
those who have leprosy, drive out demons?
Freely you have received, freely you will give.
And so today can you and I be present where God's placed us to
be. God's placed us to be.
Jesus wants us to be present today.
Be present right at the space that you're in, right at the
space that you're in. Yes, we, we might have a vision
board, we might have a strategy, we might have everything in
place. But if Jesus is not present,
nothing will work. And so I ask you today if you
and I are living in a time where we have the help of the
counselor, the comforter, the person who's promised to us, who
will be with us everywhere we go.
If we have him, everything is done.
We don't need anyone else. He's more than enough.
So there are three things I want us to be careful about and ask
us these questions. Are we present just as Jesus
was? Because if we are present just
as Jesus was, we'll realize the seed that we have in our hand.
The first one I want to ask you is, are we aware who has sent us
on this mission? Who has sent us on this mission?
You know, Jesus knew who had sent him on his mission.
He knew the Father had sent him. So today if you and I have
placed in a particular place, can you and I say, are we aware
that Jesus has placed here for a time such as this?
Jesus has placed here for a time.
Can we be assured with confidence, say in full
awareness that Jesus has placed me today here?
A lot of us today are, are fidgety in the places that we
are. A lot of us today are restless
in the place that we are. God saying be present.
Which means, as we heard two weeks back, my spirit, soul and
body is present. Which means I realize the
responsibility that is with me for my present.
Because when I'm aware of what Jesus did, I'll realize that
where I am is where Jesus wants me to be.
Where I am is where God wants me to be.
Because Jesus knew. Jesus knew what the Father had
sent him for. He didn't digress.
So even as these people came to meet him and the word came
through his disciples, he didn't move them aside.
He no, he said, hey, till I'm glorified, I don't have to meet
those people. My job right now is to fulfill
the Father's mission, which is to lay down my life right here
so that God can be glorified through me.
If you're not aware of who has sent us on the mission to always
say I am on a mission because of someone else, we have to realize
the Great Commission that was given in Matthew and in Acts is
of God, is to God, and is for God.
So today, you and I, are we aware of that?
Because too many of the people that I'm meeting today are
saying I'm doing this for someone else, I'm doing this for
someone else. And always it's tied with
another human. Because when you're aware who
has sent you, you'll be clear of where you're called to be, you
where you've called to be. Paul knew whom his mission was
for. Paul didn't you know when, when
Ananias has actually was supposed to go and pray over
him, he was sent with a clear mission.
Let's read in Acts 9 verse 15 to 19.
But the Lord said to Ananias, go, This man is my chosen
instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings
and to the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must
suffer for my name. Then Ananias went to the house
and entered, placing his hands on Saul.
He said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on
the road as you were coming here, has sent me, so that you
may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Immediately something like scales fell off Saul's eyes, and
he could see again. He got up and was baptized, and
after taking some food he regained his strength.
The mission is clear. He's my chosen instrument to
proclaim my name to the Gentiles.
So today, what are you and I? It's only when we are present,
when Jesus, when we are present and we know Jesus is with us,
will we be aware of what the mission that He's called us to
do. And so suddenly you'll realize
the seed that God's placing me has given me in my hand, where I
really need to plant it, what I really do do with it.
Every four of these things will make sense.
Where I need to put the seed, where I need to bear the fruit
of the vineyard, what ground I need to take, what do I need to
experience. All that will be made clear only
when I'm aware of what the mission of God is for my life,
just as Jesus and others had. In Romans Chapter 11 verses 13
to 14 we see again he talks to them, saying, I am talking to
you Gentiles. In as much as I am an apostle to
the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry in the hope that I may
somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
That's the beautiful thing that we have here.
He knew even though he was a Jew, he was set apart to go take
the word to the Gentiles and his.
Prayer was that as I preach to you, I hope my brethren will
also be able to receive the same message.
So I pray today, let God be God, let God be God.
Don't alleviate a human to what you're calling.
A lot of us today are running behind people because of the
emptiness in our hearts with regard to our fathers and
mothers. We are running behind people and
saying spiritual father, spiritual mother, Papa, daddy,
Papa, mummy and all that. Move to God.
Is Jesus present because the mission of God for your life is
from God, is for God, it's to God.
It doesn't come from people. It doesn't come from people.
To stop elevating people, move to the Word of God.
You do not have to hold an office to be on a mission.
You just have to have the call of God and obedience will be a
weapon. If you have the call of God and
the confirmation from His Word, and as obedience as your weapon,
God will take you to the place where He wants you to be.
You'll be aware of the mission field that you are in.
No office. You're not going to have a fancy
office. You're not going to have the
fancy system. You're not going to have a fancy
title. You're not going to get a fancy
paycheck. But what you're going to get is
the unending peace that runs from the throne room of God, the
supernatural provision that will come through Him, and the hand
of miracle that will cause you to keep repeatedly taking that
step because you'll see Jesus more clearly than ever before.
A lot of us today are dysfunctional in this area
because we have been LED, we've put our trust, we've put our our
entire thing on people. God has to be your focus.
God has to be your everything. The the very person must be
present in your mission. Call has to be God.
A lot of us today are holding back the seed when God is taken
to the place because we are dysfunctional in the sense we've
been hurt by the people who we thought followed God.
But God saying I'm ready to heal you.
There's nothing that our God cannot heal.
He can heal anything and everything that abuse, that
sexual trauma, that very thing that we are struggling with.
He's saying I'm bigger than everything, so can I be present
so that the mission will be much clearer as to what I'm calling
you to do? The second thing, the first
thing we saw was, are we aware of who's calling us?
The second thing is, are we intentional?
When once we've made aware, we need to slowly start reorienting
everything and then we become intentional.
When you look at Paul's life, you'll see something clearly
happened. There was a time that he spent
and then he was intentional in the call and so then God gave
him the direction as to what to be taken.
He was commissioned to and sent out by the church to go and do
what he was set out to do as taken the word to the Gentiles.
And so I pray and ask today, are we intentional to be on the
mission that God's assigned for us?
It's one thing we know, the awareness, but intentional is
where we start making those steps.
We start moving in the direction that God has marked out for us.
Jesus was on a mission. He did what the Father had
commanded him to do. He did not sway to the left and
to the right. Today, the mission that we often
say yes to is often layered with what the world wants.
It's when we're intentional that we're able to plant a seed on
the ground that God is calling us.
It's when we're intentional is when the world will look at us
and will look and tell us that we are foolish.
It's when the world will look at us and will tell us that what
you're doing is crazy. But the truth is to the world we
will look foolish. But everyone, according to the
Bible, look foolish. But they were intentional to be
on mission for Jesus. You look at the Old Testament,
everyone looked foolish to the people who are thinking through
logic. If Abraham had to let go and
move into a place and roam around, they would have thought
he was foolish. No one knew that there was a
nation that was actually being birthed through him.
When the when the Egyptians let go of the Israelites and when
God freed them out of their slavery, people would have
thought the the people who are the Canaanites, all of them
would have thought that these people are foolish.
But little did they know that they will be occupying their
lands. So today the mission for us is
intentionality. Intentionality is US showing up.
Intentionality is not just being aware and having that idea, but
it's showing up. It's being that it's if this is,
if this matters to what God's called me to do, I will be
there. I will make time, I will add it
and I will do it because intentionality is where God's
taking me forward. And So what happens to a
Christian who's holding onto the seed, who's suddenly everything
makes is intentional. My marriage becomes intentional
is this it's not I I'm realizing that is this person going to be
a person who actually journeys with me in the life that God's
calling me to have you suddenly you'll realize even in the
dating phase, your conversations will start moving more toward
what is God's asking as to what is God laid on your heart.
You'll suddenly realize when he's giving you the gift of
children, you will suddenly realize these kids I just need
not have to to make educate them and grow them up so they'll be
big people know, but I'll make them a sharpened arrows for the
world. I will journey with them.
I will tell them Jesus is real. I will and suddenly we don't
look at our jobs as just avenues to you know, to for us to bring
money in and to uplift ourselves.
But you also realize that's the place where God is asking me to
be the light to the watching world, to help them see the
truth, to help them live out the real truth.
Who's Jesus? To help them realize that they
can overcome everything that the enemy has put.
Intentionality helps me to keep the course.
We do not get deviated by the attractions of the world.
We're not suddenly doing things 'cause they have to be done.
We're realizing, God, if this is not needed and is not part of
your plan, I'm willing to scrap it off.
I'm willing to scrap it off. I'm willing.
We'll seek God, We will listen to Him.
We'll pivot and continue to do what He's called us to do.
You know, in Philippians chapter 3 verses 12 to 16, it says that
not that I've already obtained all this or I've already arrived
at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which
Christ took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not
consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining
towards what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the
prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
All of us then who are mature should take such a view of
things. And if on some point you think
differently, that to God will make clear to you.
Only let us live up to what He has all already attained.
So today it is a struggle. That's why I'm saying, are we
aware? Are we intentional?
Because when we are intentional, it takes time for us to pivot.
It takes time for us to realize what is mine and what is God
asking me to let go. It'll be that definite struggle.
And as we allow the Word to sink in, as we allow faith to get
built up as a foundation changes from, you know, sinking sand to
a foundation of a rock that cannot be shaken, we will
realize intentionality. This is what God's calling me to
do, God's calling me to do. You know, you might not have a
host your name, you might not have the car you would like, you
might not have the things that you would want, but you would
have the joy that is far beyond comparison to anything.
You would have the means to see greater things.
You would have the dream. You would have the way to dream
more than what you can actually ever dream of.
Because God is with you. Because you are on mission for
God, you suddenly will see generations with all that's
happening around today, we just had the AI summit in our
country. With all that's happening,
there's fear, there's gloom, there's uncertainty.
There's a sense of I may not be wanted from a Monday to a Friday
perspective, but when you're intentional with God, you will
realize there's much more God will need of me to be here.
So I'll be intentional. I'll be intentional.
The third thing that we see is are we willing to be
misunderstood? When we are on a mission for
what God is assigned for us, are we willing to be misunderstood?
Jesus knew who he was called for.
He was called for the hurting, for the Sinner, for those who
were cancelled by society and by the the religious folks.
He was there for the he was called to come down for the
broken. Today when we are in a mission,
are we willing to be misunderstood like how Jesus is?
Because when Jesus was present and when he was making that
statement that it's my time to be glorified, he was aware he
was intentional and he was also willing to be misunderstood when
he was standing in front of pilot.
Just imagine he could have called heaven's armies and made
a a beautiful parade of who he was.
Yet he chose to submit. And so today we will be
misunderstood. We will be misunderstood.
You know, the one of the things is when you're doing what God's
called you to do, you will be misunderstood. 100 percent, 100%
every year when me and my wife sit back and look, there have
been seasons when we've been misunderstood, but we're like
God, we just did this because you had called us to do, you
know, it was interesting when you journey with people and when
you tell them, you know, if you have, if you want, we would love
to journey with you. And they say, yes, we would love
for you to disciple us and walk with us.
And then when we start saying certain things that they don't
like, we are misunderstood. And I'm praying and asking that
the mission should be so crystal clear for us that when you're
misunderstood, we don't sway, we don't swear.
Jesus knew when he was seated in the Pharisee's house, when he
was seated in the tax collector's house, when he was
seated in places where there was sinners around.
That was his mission. He wasn't ashamed.
He wasn't. He wasn't like Peter.
Peter at one stage Paul had to confront him to tell him you
can't be like this till Peter had that vision and then God had
to actually send him to Cornelius house.
And even before they were baptized they were filled with
the Holy Spirit. God will show off right in front
of us to tell us, are you willing to be misunderstood?
Because when we understand the grand story of God, we will
realize he came for everyone. He will realize that he didn't
come for a particular language group, he didn't come from for a
particular socio economic group. He didn't come for a particular
caste group. He came for all and with that
you will realize God has called us for a time and for a place
that we're living in a 23 to be misunderstood also.
And are you willing to be misunderstood.
He fulfilled the promise of the coming Messiah, but the word
going to the entire world, He left it to those who are willing
to be clothed with the Holy Spirit.
So today, you and I, he chose people who were the least
educated, who were the least liked, and to them He gave them
the power. So today, if you and I are
called to carry the seed, and if you and I have been given the
seed, I'm praying and asking you, are you aware?
Are you intentional? Are you willing to be
misunderstood? Because in all of this, we will
have to be clothed by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus did not go out to minister to the Gentiles, but to those
who came. They never left the same.
So what it means is the fact
that if people come to you, they will never leave the same as
long as Jesus is the one who's the operating person.
So you and I today are in that same position.
We will be on mission and there'll be so many other things
that come across the way. Everyone will also partake of
the blessing because it's an overflow.
It's an overflow. Today you and I have been given
the seed. One thing that you see with the
farmer, which is so beautiful when you see him plant, is the
fact that he's not counting. Oh, I need to pick five and only
throw 5. Nothing.
He's throwing it, he's throwing it.
He realizes to reap a harvest, I need to empty my storehouse of
seeds. To reap a harvest, I need to
empty the bag that I'm carrying today to make sure everything is
planted, I need to take everything and plant it, put it
everywhere today. You and I can't be stingy.
A lot of us have taken on the culture of the world.
We are measuring when it comes to God.
But God saying, if your storehouses are meant to be
full, it also has to learn the equation of how you're going to
empty it. We are so good about emptying it
for ourselves. How about us getting the right
jacket, the right watch, the right phone, the right car?
We know how to empty it for ourselves.
But God's sake, would you be ready to empty it for me?
And you're like, Yashum, what are you asking?
Not just money. Money is the first step because
if you're able to do it, money, you'll be able to do it the time
you'll be able to do it, the relationships, you'll be able to
do it with yourself at the end of it.
And so I ask you today, would you be willing to lay that thing
down? And as I come to a conclusion
today, the seed that Jesus talks about and he wants for each and
every one of us is that one seed that we're willing to lay down.
I'm not coming after your entire store house because if you can
do it, that one, you will do with the rest.
If you can do with the one you will see doing it for the rest
becomes easier. If you can do it for the one,
you will see that Jesus glorified in the 1.
You would want everything else to glorify Jesus.
So what is that skill that you have?
What is the time that you have? What is the position that you
have? What is the influence that you
have? What is the area that's formed
this scar tissue that you've been blaming time and again?
But God saying that is the seed that I want you to start talking
about and telling how you were healed, how you were healed.
What is the one thing that is holding back that you're like
God? I can't, but God's like that is
the one thing that I want you to give.
One Timothy chapter 1, verses 15 to 16.
Here's a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance.
Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners of whom I am the
worst. But for that very reason, I've
shown mercy so that in me the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus
might display an immense patience as an example for those
who believe in him and receive eternal life.
Now to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only
God be honored and glory forever and ever, Amen.
The reason why we are unwilling to part with this seed and say,
God, I wanted, I want you to be glorified is the fact that it's
hurt us so much. But God's like, would you do it?
Would you do it so that I can be glorified?
And so the seed has to be launched.
It has to be, it has to move out of our hands into the ground.
And so for that is where I came up with that acronym, Aim.
AIM. Today you and I are not just
like the Palmer throwing it. We are saying, God, I'm giving
the seed to you. Is our aim on Jesus or is it on
something else? Is our aim on Jesus?
Because the reason why I'm asking you today is in 2026, we
have the information that is needed for everything, but we
don't have the faith to believe when it comes to giving it to
Jesus. We have the information for
everything, but we don't have the faith when it comes to
Jesus. You're hearing me right.
Yes, with finances, with our careers, with everything, we
have the information. You might not even use ChatGPT
now. You're probably using Claude,
but whatever you're using that gives you a logical reasoning as
to why you have to take that step forward.
But when it comes to Jesus, would you be able to take that
seed and say, Lord, my aim is to give it to you?
Aim because I'm aware, intentional, and I'm also
willing to be misunderstood because when you're ready to
give it to Jesus, when you're ready to give the seed to God in
his field, he's saying I'm ready to do everything for you.
You suddenly will start seeing things turn around.
Suddenly the remnant of us who are able to see it will be like
God. We are ready to plant more.
And I'm reminded of the story of we were a couple of months back
in in one of the Northeast states.
And as we were there, a friend of mine who works for Chosen was
playing this clip of the Samaritan movement.
And as she's having this conversation, as she's starting
to have this conversation with Jesus, there's this beautiful
part where he actually starts telling her things that only a
Messiah would know, things that only God would know, because God
can read into our hearts and into our minds.
God can only know what is conceived in our hearts.
And so there's a turn around in her.
And with that turn around in an entire village comes to know.
And so today you and I can we be present just as Jesus was right
there so that we can deposit that seed.
Because the aim is to be on mission for God.
The aim is the seed Lord is for your glory is so that you will
be glorified. And so today I want to ask you,
there are three peace that I want to ask you.
And I believe if you can overcome these three peace, the
seeds will glorify Jesus and in turn will bring a rich harvest.
So I pray on us. So what was happened?
She she who was there when she when I'm when I'm looking
through that story, there were three things that confronted
her. The first thing was, is our past
holding us back? Are we unable to give the seed
for it to be glorified by Jesus because our past is holding it
back. Our past has to die in Christ.
The problem is our past is not fully dead in Christ.
It's part alive with Christ and so suddenly it's like you're
you're joining in your life. You're married, but your ex is
also there. You can't do life.
We cannot be operational today
as a dual creation because we know when we read, if anyone is
in Christ, he is a new creation. So our past nature, our roots to
our sinful nature are allegiance to sin itself has to die in
Christ. And so today there cannot be a
mix of old and new. There cannot be a mix of old and
new. We'll realize the power of
salvation and we'll know that our past is redeemed.
The seed God wants to put in the ground is 1 which our past is
redeemed. It's our past is redeemed.
And I pray, if your past is holding you back, would you step
back and say, God, I want to be enveloped in you?
I wanted to be enveloped in you. In one Corinthians chapter 5,
verses 17 to 18, this is what it says.
Now if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an
entirely new person. All that is related to the old
order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and
new, and God has made all things new and reconciled us to Himself
and given us the ministry of reconciling others to God.
So today, the reason why a lot of us are unable to operate in
that aim and tell Jesus you be glorified with my seed is
because our past is holding us back.
So I pray to be to come to a place where we enveloped by
Christ, where it'll be all Christ and no one else, all
Christ and nothing else. When we are enveloped in Christ,
our past is not the story. Jesus is the story.
The second thing that we see that will be holding us back is
when you're in this mode of preservation is preserving.
Are we preserving the seed for a better time so that we'll know,
OK, there will be coming a time when I might be able to use it?
Every seed a farmer has to sow back onto the ground has a shelf
life. One to two years for spinach,
lettuce, onions, chives, leeks, parsley.
Three to four years for beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrot,
celery, corn, peas, Peppers, radish.
Five years for cucumber, melon, squash and tomato.
It's interesting to preserve this.
You know, they need to keep it in conditions where it has to be
a cool, dark and dry consistent. The condition is that's been
stored in a cold, dark and dry. But the problem is many at times
because the seed is where Jesus is wanting us to give up so that
it'll be glorified for Christ. What is happening is we come
once a week to church. This light shines.
And so we are struggling between this light and darkness.
But I pray that you'll allow the light to shine in the open where
we can plant it, planting it in Jesus.
Second thing, the moisture control.
It has to be dry. That has to make sure that it's
there's no moisture coming in. But the truth is the seed that
God is wanting us to give is one of control where we're seeing
the living waters and of Jesus who's the living waters and of
the Samaritan woman came to take water for her physical body for
the thirst of a physical body. She came in the height of the
known so that no one will be the known will be that ridicule
here, but it's there when Jesus met her and said I'll give you
living. What is it today?
Are we playing games with moisture control with God
packaging. It has to be sealed, packed, but
I believe a lot of us have taken the breath away from the seed
that God's given by our own, the debt that we are in, the family
circumstances, everything. But God is saying, if I have to
be glorified, are you willing to be misunderstood?
Are you willing to be misunderstood?
Yes, this reality is there, but when you accept me in wholeness,
I'll be able to start doing things.
Realizing a lot of us are struggling in debt.
Why? Because we don't have the spirit
of contentment, but God saying, if you allow me, I'll give you
the spirit of contentment and eventually the debt will close.
It's a spiritual issue. Debt is a spiritual issue issue.
It's not a physical thing. I pray and ask that we'll be
able to breathe when God is not sealing us without air.
He's saying I'll give you life to breathe in every
circumstances, through every circumstances and testing what
happens a lot of times before plants, these seeds, which
before planting, before the seeds are just lying there for a
long period. They tested in smallest patches,
but God is saying only I can grow it today I can grow it.
So if your past is holding you back, probably like your past
hasn't helped, but you're preserving it.
You're like God too much I'm reading about your people are
not right. This is not being dealt with.
I'm hearing people, men of God falling, but God sing, but they
are all my creation. I am God.
Who are you trusting? Are you trusting them or are you
trusting me? The church, I still trust the
church. It's interesting that Jesus word
says he's coming back for a spotless bride, which means you
and I don't get to point fingers and say this is the spot.
You and I are far too fighting a fight which is earthly.
You and I have to be rejoicing for what God is doing and move
and be on that mission. Time is of the essence.
God can do the miraculous. You and I, the word of God says
whatever the locust is eaten, God can restore it.
So today if you are looking at preserving God is like look at
the bounty that will come if I am glorified through that seed,
if I am glorified to the seed. The third thing are we
struggling is are we struggling to be to plant?
Because what is that? That is our part when we plant
it. It's interesting when Jesus gave
that example of being planted is when that seed goes into the
ground, when it's covered completely.
It's in the dark place where the breaking happens.
It brings forth a bunch more which only will bring a richer
harvest. That in fold will bring much
more seeds to be planted which will be able to bear much fruit.
Romans chapter 12 verses 4 to 5. This is what it says.
In the human body there are many parts and organs, each one with
a unique function. And so it is in the body of
Christ. For though we are many, we've
all been mingled into one body in Christ.
This means that we are all widely joined to one another,
with each contributing to others.
Which means a lot of us will have this question.
God, there are many others. You know, we always have this
thing every year when the engineering seats are getting
filled, they'll come out with this other thing like these many
engineering seats haven't been filled.
So probably these courses are not doing that well.
But the truth is, how many ever come?
God saying the more who are getting added into the Kingdom,
the merrier. God's equation of being saved is
entirely different from what we think.
So I pray and ask today that we'll be able to do our part.
If God is telling Geshom in my 20s, I want you to put the seed
here. Will I put it?
I'll put it in obedience. I'll put it in our marriage.
God, can you put it here? We'll put it tomorrow.
God, here, we'll put it. We'll put it.
God is asking, will you be able to do it?
Yes. I want you to be aware.
I want you to be intentional as you're misunderstood.
You will realize it is for my glory and no one else.
It is for Christ's glory because at the end of the day, the
testimony that will come out of this will be for His glory.
It won't be our glory. It won't be, oh, I didn't know.
It will be because I overcame the past.
It's because I didn't choose to preserve, I laid it down.
It's because I chose to plant it and the harvest of it is where
I'm continuously moving into the cycle of Lord.
I receive it. I plant it again for your glory.
Plant it again for your glory. So today if you're there seated,
listening and watching and you're discounting yourself, I
want to encourage, you know you can't discount yourself if you
want Jesus to come into your life.
As we look in this, the seed, I believe this entire year when we
look through at the end of the year, there's going to be
miraculous stories of only what God has done.
Because we did our small part, God did the rest.
We did a small part, God did the rest.
What is our small part? God?
I was aware I was intentional. I was willing to be
misunderstood. And so I planted it.
Lord, now use it for your glory. Use it for your glory because
I'm enveloped in you. I'm enveloped in Jesus.
Time is of the essence.
And I know that when I do this, I'm functioning as part of a
body. I'm functioning as part of a
body. You know, David Livingstone, who
is a missionary, says this. Christ alone can save the world,
but Christ cannot save the world alone.
Christ cannot save the world alone.
And the reason why I wanted to conclude with that is there's so
much more to be done in God's Kingdom.
There's so much more to be done in God's Kingdom.
You know, God's Kingdom doesn't have a job portal.
It just has a willingness portal.
Are you willing to come? It doesn't have a skill set
portal. Because honestly speaking, the,
the, the, the beauty about the word of God is he takes the wise
and he makes them foolish. He takes the foolish and he
makes them wise. It's funny that you'll come in
knowing something, but the way God starts using you, be like
God. I had to unlearn to actually do
what you're calling me to do. So I pray that for those of you
been struggling, especially with that area of wanting the sea to
be given into God, that aim has been always going off.
I pray that you'll find that aim to be in Jesus and no one else.
He's the one it has to be in where you'll be aware of who has
called you, you'll be intentional of where He's
placing you, and everything that he's calling you will be willing
to be misunderstood. And for those of you who are
holding back, I pray for those of you who are still stuck in
the past, remember you're a new creation in Christ.
Let go of your past. As hurtful it is, as hurtful it
is. When God heals, He restores.
A lot of Christians today are speaking from place of unhealed
trauma. They are made aware of the
trauma, They are made aware of the problem, but they are not
moving to a place of healing. Healing will come in his
presence. Healing will come in his Word.
Healing will come and you worship him because the altar of
your what you've gone through will be laid over there.
And God will say, I'll heal you now entirely.
And that's where you'll see restoration happen.
I pray for those of you who've been preserving it, saying, God,
my parents did it. So I don't want no God.
I want to be aware, Lord, my parents did 10.
I want to be able to do 100. I pray you'll make that faith
prayer today. And the third is for those of
you who've been struggling to plant because it'll make you
anonymous. It'll make you, you know,
there'll be a breaking that will incur trust.
The breaking will produce the harvest.
The breaking will produce something that is far bigger for
God's glory. So can I pray with you today?
I'm loving heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you, Lord, for
this time. Thank you for being with us.
I believe, Lord Jesus, you are God and you are God alone.
Lord Jesus, we thank you Lord, for your word which has come,
Lord Jesus, and we receive it. Lord, I believe, Lord Jesus,
each and everyone who are watching and listening today are
going to take the seed. They're going to be ready.
Lord Jesus. They'll be aware of who you've
who's called the Lord, and I pray they'll be able to hear
your voice clearly. Lord Jesus.
I pray they'll be intentional because all of us are places,
Lord Jesus, where you've placed us to be the light but in a
dark. And I pray we'll be intentional,
Lord Jesus. I pray also, Lord, we're willing
to be misunderstood, Lord. We're not ready to flow with the
stream, Lord Jesus of culture, but we're ready to flow against
it, Lord, And we're willing to be misunderstood because at the
end we know that you will be glorified through everything.
Lord, I pray there'll be resilience that's built in,
strength, vigor, hope that comes into our bodies.
Lord Jesus, today, strengthen us, be with us.
I pray, Lord, that this coming week could be one of blessing.
Go before us and take charge. Be glorified Lord, you mostly
name, we pray, Amen, Amen, Amen. It's a joy for us to bring God's
word to you, but it's a joy for also to get to know you.
So if you happen to be in the city, do come and meet with us.
We'd love to pray with you. We'd love to journey with you.
It's Lent season and even as you're praying and believing, we
are praying and believing. We are come to a place right now
where we're doing this 40 days of prayer, and I'm believing for
the supernatural. I'm believing for the
supernatural because I believe that as we believe in faith and
pray and intercede, the resurrection power will do the
mighty thing that it has to do in and through our lives.
So even as you step into this week, I pray that the seed will
bring much clarity to you. You won't just hold it, tuck it
away, hide it. No, you will come to a place of
being aware, being intentional, being misunderstood.
You won't hold allow your past to hold you back.
You won't allow it to be in preservation mode will come to a
place of planting it because Jesus will get the glory.
So I pray have a blessed week. God bless you and remember this
that whoever finds Jesus finds life.
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