1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,760 We welcome you to the VI Zion Sermon Podcast. 2 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,640 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,520 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,680 be refreshed, revived and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,000 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,640 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:37,640 The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,160 our promise. We start a new sermon series 9 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:45,600 called Rekindled where we look closer at our own lives and ask 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,720 the Holy Spirit to revive and restore things that have gone 11 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,920 dormant in the dry seasons of our souls. 12 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,200 We pray that this series will help you dive deeper into 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,920 yourself and see where you need more of God. 14 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,680 What a joy it is to be in the. House of God, Amen. 15 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:07,720 How many of you are? Thrilled to be here, yes? 16 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,760 We all made it against all odds so. 17 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,440 Brace be to Jesus for that. So like we just saw. 18 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,120 Our new series is called Rekindled on the Heels of the 19 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,240 Pentecost Sunday. Where we were filled by the fire 20 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:22,560 of God. We're now going to be. 21 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:23,840 Staying. Rekindled. 22 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,560 Because what happens with the? Flame is it tends to die down 23 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,640 and we noticed like when we started preparing for this, we 24 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,160 saw in our own lives. That our faith. 25 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,400 Hope and love had kind of. Started to slow down. 26 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,240 And we felt like God was reminding us that I want to 27 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,280 rekindle it. And so that's we're kind of 28 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,360 dragging you guys along for the. Ride as well. 29 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:44,760 So today. We're going to be looking. 30 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:47,520 It's actually a two-part thing. We're doing Part 1 today. 31 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,640 Which is called a fertile faith. We look last, last. 32 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,640 Week from the life of Daniel and his friends. 33 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,680 At what it looks like for. Faith to be tried in a fire, 34 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,320 right? But today we're going to be 35 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,800 looking at what it means to be. To have a fertile. 36 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,920 Faith. And isn't it ironic? 37 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,800 Just below us is a fertility clinic. 38 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,400 So all of us have it up to here what what fertility is. 39 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,520 But I want to look at a different analogy today. 40 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,640 OK, we're going to be looking at. 41 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,240 Last week, Geshum talked about us being like trees. 42 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:22,080 Planted and justice Recently I was I'm always up on my terrace 43 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,400 every evening. But so I have this. 44 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,800 Envy, a holy envy. You should say of. 45 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,400 My neighbour's garden OK. So we have a dog. 46 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,400 So we cannot have a proper garden. 47 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,400 We converted it fully to stone and so that, you know, she 48 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,880 doesn't get sick rolling around in the mud. 49 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,520 But my neighbor has the mud and the, you know, the whole. 50 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,680 Setup like the way the builders gave it to us. 51 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,640 And she's got an amazing garden. Her plants lean over into my 52 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:51,360 yard. And I love it, love it. 53 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,480 But there's always this thing of God, what's wrong with me? 54 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,320 Why are my potted plants so lame compared to her three banana 55 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,840 trees and her 10 hibiscus plants and the trumpet flowers and this 56 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,160 and that. So I went to the terrace this 57 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,320 week and I was standing on the terrace and this is the view 58 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,200 that I got. I want you. 59 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,800 Just to play that for us, it's just a short clip I took. 60 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,160 So this is a view from the terrace. 61 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,160 That's Auntie's yard, and this is mine, right? 62 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,240 The noise that you hear. Is the STP. 63 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,360 Running in her yard. So we all have STP. 64 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,360 Connection sewage treatment plants, the water comes the 65 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,480 water has more microbes in it so. 66 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:28,520 Therefore the water adds to the fertility. 67 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:31,480 So for like the past. Seven years I have consoled 68 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,040 myself by saying don't worry Tina, they have STP running, you 69 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:35,920 don't. Because you have a. 70 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,320 Dog, you can't put the STP on, therefore the plants. 71 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,320 Are so good, but. When I watched this from up. 72 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,440 Top What is the? Glaring difference between both 73 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,880 our gardens. What is the glaring? 74 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:49,520 Difference. There's no. 75 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,960 Mud in mind, there's no soil. How on earth am I fighting with 76 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,680 God for me to have good plans? I don't have soil, I have stone. 77 00:03:58,800 --> 00:03:59,640 Right. And so I. 78 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,240 Realised being the amazing botanist I was, obviously it was 79 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,200 not money well spent for my parents. 80 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,600 That the deal breaker was the soil. 81 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,480 It was not the STP. It was not the sunlight because 82 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:12,920 we all received the same sunlight. 83 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,120 I have access to the same STP. But the problem was in mine the 84 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,959 soil was contained to potted plants was very limited. 85 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,040 It was very structured because I like. 86 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,080 Things in order. I don't. 87 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,920 Like haphazard stuff. And therefore God was reminding 88 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,360 me the issue. Is the soil. 89 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,520 It is in the water. Thank you for that and. 90 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,120 Last week, we looked. At how all of us sometimes feel 91 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,560 we're in an exile, correct? We feel like we're in between. 92 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,200 Things we haven't. Reached yet? 93 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:42,880 God, I've been. Praying for these things. 94 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,080 It's not been happening. But God is. 95 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,120 Calling us to this place of revitalizing our. 96 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:52,760 Soil, which is our faith. King Solomon writes this very 97 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,920 interesting thing in Songs of Solomon verse. 98 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,080 Chapter 4, verses 12 to 14. He says a garden. 99 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,680 Enclosed is my sister, my spouse, a spring shut up, a 100 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,400 fountain seal. Your plants are an orchard of 101 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,040 pomegranates with pleasant fruits, fragrant henna with 102 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,200 spike nuts, spike nuts, saffron, calamus, cinnamon. 103 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,200 With all trees of. Frankincense, mores and aloes. 104 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,240 With all the chief spices the bottom. 105 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,120 Line is this he's talking. About Christ and the Bride. 106 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,080 And each of us constitute the bride, correct? 107 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:23,680 And our. Lives are like gardens. 108 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,440 Our lives are like gardens and the different. 109 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,040 Aspects of our life the different. 110 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,560 Roles and responsibilities are like. 111 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,320 Trees in that life. Trees in that garden. 112 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,440 And the thing that supports that life is the soil of our faith. 113 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,280 Jeremiah says this to those in. Exile, he says in Jeremiah 17. 114 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:44,080 He says those who trust in the Lord will be. 115 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:47,440 Like a well watered tree, he says. 116 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:48,920 Those who don't? Trust in the Lord. 117 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,960 Will be like a desert shrub pushed. 118 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,440 Here and there by the wind. What is the difference? 119 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,680 One is rooted in soil, 1 is not so my. 120 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,160 Question to you is have. You done a faith check. 121 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,720 Have you done like a? Temperature check of your faith 122 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,960 today. Because this is something we 123 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,480 just take for granted. Oh, I'm born in a Christian 124 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:08,720 home. I became a Christian. 125 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,760 My faith is OK. I believe in Jesus, what more do 126 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,080 I need? But today I want to. 127 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,680 Challenge you to think deeper on your faith. 128 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,840 Is your faith fertile? Is your faith. 129 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,040 Fertile, you know, and the thing about you might ask me, why 130 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,840 should my faith be? Fertile isn't a basic level. 131 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:31,680 One faith OK only. A fertile faith will birth. 132 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,000 Supernatural things. An ordinary sterile faith won't 133 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,640 do anything. It'll just. 134 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,160 Keep me at believing in Jesus, but God is moving me into 135 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:42,160 places. Where I need to be? 136 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,040 Believing for the impossible. How many of you are believing 137 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:46,760 for restoration in the most awkward? 138 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,320 Places. How many of you are believing 139 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,720 for extension of your? Territory so that you can. 140 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,480 Do more in business. These are impossible things, and 141 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,560 only if we. Have faith only if we have 142 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,440 faith. Will be make it? 143 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,800 Will it be even called? For right? 144 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,080 Now I want to leave. With you this faith soil. 145 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,400 Connection before we start, you might think. 146 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,320 This sounds so new. I don't know whether faith and 147 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:13,640 soil are connected. You know what? 148 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,400 The apostle Paul in Hebrews. 11/1 says faith is the substance 149 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:19,960 of things hoped. For. 150 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,320 Substance is basically a ground reality. 151 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,440 It's what holds everything together, and we know that 152 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,200 without faith it is impossible. To please God. 153 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,280 So faith is everything our lives are built on as. 154 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,680 Believers Ephesians 2, verse 8 says for by grace. 155 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,640 You have been saved. Through faith, which means. 156 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,800 Faith is the baseline. Everything I do or don't. 157 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,960 Do will be based on that faith. And you might think. 158 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,240 Well, it still. Doesn't make the connection 159 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,000 between soil and faith. Let's go to what Jesus? 160 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,520 Taught on this Mark, chapter 4, verses 26 to 29. 161 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,080 He's teaching a parable. He says it's the parable of the 162 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,120 growing seed, verse 26. He also. 163 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,720 Said this is what the. Kingdom of God is like a man 164 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,880 scatters seed on the ground, night and day, whether he. 165 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,680 Sleeps or get up the. Seed sprouts and grows, though 166 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,920 he does not know how, all by. Itself, the soil produces grain 167 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,280 first, the stalk. Then the head, then the full 168 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:20,640 kernel in the head as soon as the grain. 169 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,120 Is ripe. He puts the sickle to it because 170 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:24,400 the harvest has come. I. 171 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,640 Want you to look at this one line verse 28. 172 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,320 All by itself the soil produces. Grain. 173 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,320 The grain didn't do anything. It was just there. 174 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,840 The soil produces the grain. Now the interesting thing is 175 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:42,919 grain doesn't start out as grain grain. 176 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:45,320 Started out as a seed. And what? 177 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,680 Did Jesus teach about seed? It's the word of God. 178 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,360 So when you look at the word. Seed. 179 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,280 It's actually the the the word of God. 180 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,840 That has been planted. But it is only when the soil is 181 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,680 fertile that the seed. Becomes a grain, and when 182 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:03,320 something is a grain, it's got incredible amount of usage. 183 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,120 You look at the wheat. Fields of the northern northern 184 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,960 parts of India, the northern plains those grains at the right 185 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,480 time, when harvested, are then made into. 186 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,040 Powder, which we use as. Atta Maida, etcetera. 187 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,680 Right if the. Soil is not fertile. 188 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:21,360 The seed doesn't change into a grain. 189 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,680 It's all in the soil. It's all in the soil. 190 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,040 If the soil is infertile, it can kill. 191 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,560 A seed, but if the soil is fertile. 192 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,320 It will bring so much out of. That seed and so today. 193 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,000 We want to look at Luke. Chapter 8. 194 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,640 Verse 8. Because Jesus continued his 195 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,360 talk. On fertile soil, he said, still 196 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,280 other seed fell. On fertile soil, this seed. 197 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,360 Grew and produced a crop that was 100 times as much as had 198 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,040 been planted. When he had said this, he called 199 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:52,000 out. Anyone. 200 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,560 With ears to hear should. Listen and understand what is 201 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:56,720 he? Talking about this is the 202 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,280 parable of the sore He. Says when it fell on good 203 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,920 fertile soil, it changed into grain. 204 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,400 There was a yield. Is it possible that as followers 205 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,400 of Jesus. Who've had the Salvation 206 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,560 experience? That we can have sterile soil? 207 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,560 Absolutely. Very possible. 208 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,400 We're going to go back to what Jesus himself taught from verse 209 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:20,800 11, OK? This is the meaning of the. 210 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,560 Parable. The seed is God's Word, The 211 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,320 seeds. That fell on the footpath. 212 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,760 Represent. Those who hear the message. 213 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,840 Only to have the devil. Come and take it away from their 214 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,040 hearts and prevent them from believing and being saved. 215 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,240 The seeds on the rocky soil represent. 216 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,080 Those who hear the message and receive it with joy. 217 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,120 But since they don't have deep roots, they believe for a while. 218 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,160 Then they fall away when they face temptation. 219 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,840 The seeds that. Fell among the thorns represent 220 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,240 those who hear the message. But all too. 221 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,840 Quickly, the message is crowded. Out by the cares. 222 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,400 And riches and pleasures. Of this life. 223 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,440 And so they never grow into maturity, and the seeds that 224 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,320 fell on the good soil represent honest. 225 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,720 Good hearted people who hear God's word cling. 226 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,040 To it and patiently produce. A huge harvest, so there is a 227 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:13,440 possibility. That we can be. 228 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:17,440 Followers of Jesus and have a faith which is sterile. 229 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,800 It's a very. Possible thing because look at 230 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,480 the 1st. Kind of soil, he talks. 231 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,120 About no soil like my. Garden. 232 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,440 Just rock. So many times we can meet 233 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,280 somebody. Who we have shared the gospel 234 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:31,480 with, but there. Is no soil. 235 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:33,880 To receive the word. So nothing really changes. 236 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,840 Don't beat yourself up about it. You did what you needed to, but 237 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:39,000 there's a second. Problem. 238 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,440 Sometimes our hearts are. So Rocky. 239 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,520 You know when you. Studied in geography we studied. 240 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,720 About a kind of. Soil called loamy soil. 241 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,560 You remember that? Loamy is basically soil which is 242 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:52,360 loose and has spaces in it, right? 243 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,600 And so therefore a plant. Put in that the seed put in that 244 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,600 will have space to spread its. Roots and grow and many. 245 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,360 Of us, our hearts are so crowded with the rocks of of. 246 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,200 Temptation of the things that the. 247 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,400 World offers that we don't have space for God's Word to take 248 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,960 root I. Believe in what? 249 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,120 My flesh. Desires. 250 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,680 I don't believe in the. Word of God and therefore. 251 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:15,400 Maybe your heart has become rocky. 252 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,120 And the third kind of. Rock that the soil that Jesus is 253 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:20,800 talking. About is the thorny 1. 254 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,000 The thorny 1 is basically where the seed has. 255 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,400 Gone in. You've heard the word you're. 256 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,520 Absorbing it, but something else is also coexisting with your 257 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,760 word. With the word of God, it's the 258 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:37,880 the treasures of your life, the harsh realities of what we go 259 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,320 through. And I think most of us come into 260 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,640 this category. Where with the word of God 261 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:44,880 there's this weed of stress growing? 262 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,400 There's the weed of anxiety. There's the weed of. 263 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,680 Cares and heaviness. Because we live in such. 264 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:53,440 A time, right? There's also. 265 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,400 Like Jesus said, the pleasures. Of this world, that's another 266 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,720 weed. And The thing is, I want to ask 267 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,480 you which kind. Of soil are you holding? 268 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,240 In your heart. Today, is it rocky? 269 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,680 Is it tawny? Is it just a plain path where 270 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:12,720 there's no room? For the world to go in because 271 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,720 God is. Calling us into this place of 272 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,560 saying here I want your. Faith to be so fertile. 273 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:19,480 That I can do these things you cannot. 274 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,280 Imagine how many of you want supernatural things to happen in 275 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,360 your lifetime. We need a fertile faith. 276 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,240 And today we're going to be. Studying the life of one woman 277 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,760 in the Bible. We often look at her life just. 278 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,800 In the in the context of women who want children. 279 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,800 But I believe her life is so powerful. 280 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,120 Because it is not just for women, it is for. 281 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:45,360 Every believer of Jesus to. Model how to live with? 282 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,920 Faith we're going to look at the story of. 283 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,240 Hannah Hannah, the mother of Samuel. 284 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:53,960 Just to give you a bit of background for those of you who. 285 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,320 Don't know about her. She was married to this man 286 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,680 called El Khanna. He had another wife who had 287 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:01,280 children, but Hannah didn't have kids and it says. 288 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:03,200 Over there the Lord had. Closed her womb. 289 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,320 And so she was OK. El Khanna loved her. 290 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:08,200 Loved. Her so much. 291 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,960 Gave her extra portion of. Food, but the rival wife 292 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,880 provoked her to sadness. Right. 293 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,400 And so this, every time they would come to the temple, you 294 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:19,880 know, they have to come once a year for this. 295 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,280 Festival, they would come there. And she would be so. 296 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:23,480 Broken because of what? This. 297 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,280 Woman was putting her through and this is where we meet her in 298 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,720 One Samuel chapter 1 verses 10 to 18. 299 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,920 As we read it, I want you to remember this one thing. 300 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:36,720 Hannah may have been barren. Physically, but her faith. 301 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,400 Was far from barren. It was a very fertile faith. 302 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,880 That's why we're going to look at her verse 10. 303 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,640 Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she. 304 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,200 Prayed to the. Lord, and she made this. 305 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,840 Vow O. Lord of ancient Heavens armies. 306 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,200 If you will look. Upon my sorrow, and answer my 307 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,880 prayer, and give me her son, then I will give him back to 308 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:58,680 you. He will be yours. 309 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,880 For his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been. 310 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,920 Dedicated to the Lord His. Hair will never be cut. 311 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,680 The first sign of a fertile faith. 312 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,720 First sign. Is that we'll always seek. 313 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,840 God's Kingdom first. It will not be about our will. 314 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,640 It won't be about our expansion. It will be about the. 315 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,960 Kingdom. Look at this, she's asking God 316 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,680 for a child. And she's. 317 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,960 Vowing to give the child. Back for a lifetime. 318 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,880 Those of us who've had kids, it's a very hard prayer to pray. 319 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,600 Lord, I give them off to you. We say that in words. 320 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,800 But heart of hearts, the. Strings are so tight but here 321 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,760 she's saying I'll give him and what is the sign I will not? 322 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,480 Cut his hair basically she was saying he'll. 323 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,200 Be a Nazarene, he'll. Be set apart. 324 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,320 And so she cared more than what she wanted. 325 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,400 Yes. Was there disgrace associated? 326 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,120 With Baroness in those. Days, yes. 327 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,080 But she didn't mind all that she said. 328 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,200 You give him to me, I'll give him back it. 329 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,000 Was like offering the first fruits. 330 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,680 Before the first fruit even arrived. 331 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,280 Isn't that amazing? What are you and I waiting for? 332 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,520 But we're. Waiting because it's our Kingdom 333 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:09,000 that needs to be expanded, our financial growth, our carrier 334 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,920 growth. Have you said lot but let your. 335 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,480 Kingdom come, let. Your will be done. 336 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,400 Fertile faith seeks first God's. Kingdom. 337 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,360 And you know, I'm amazed at Eli's response. 338 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,360 He's the example. Of a sterile faith. 339 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,800 You know why he and his sons, Eli, had not brought up his sons 340 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,680 well. So his sons were doing all kinds 341 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,800 of nonsense in the courts. They were sleeping with women, 342 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,280 they were holding up the offerings that were coming, and 343 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:37,840 they were living so unrighteously. 344 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,000 That God was going to. Wipe them out and he would use 345 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,880 Samuel. To replace his priesthood, but. 346 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,120 Here's the thing. This is what Eli right? 347 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,080 Says to him. He says to her, stop. 348 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,840 Your drinking, give up your drink. 349 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,280 Look at how. Distant he must be from the 350 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:00,920 heart of God to not discern when someone needed help and this. 351 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,960 Is what she replies. As she was praying. 352 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,240 Eli watched her, seeing her lips moving. 353 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:07,640 But. Hearing no sound, he thought she 354 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,160 had been drinking. Must you come here drunk? 355 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,119 He demanded. Throw away your wine, verse 15. 356 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,000 Oh, no, Sir, she replied. I haven't been drinking wine or 357 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,240 anything stronger but I'm very discouraged and I was pouring 358 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:21,680 out my heart to the. Lord. 359 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,839 Don't think I'm a wicked woman, for I have been praying out of 360 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:28,400 great anguish and sorrow. The second thing about a 361 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,360 fertile. Faith is it calls it like it is. 362 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:36,280 And yet calls on God. Faith is not denial. 363 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,680 Faith is not being in denial. You. 364 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,960 Got a bad medical report? You don't have to throw. 365 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,440 It in the dustbin and say, well I'm just believing nothing's 366 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,800 wrong with me. It's not denying your reality, 367 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 but it is immediately taking the reality. 368 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,960 To the foot of the cross. It is immediately taking my. 369 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,160 Reality to God, did you get cheated in that business 370 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,400 dealing? Yes. 371 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,800 You don't have to deny it. But where do you go with? 372 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:05,160 It calls it like it is. And yet calls on God too many of 373 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:06,160 us. I have this problem. 374 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,920 As soon as something goes wrong I have. 375 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:09,960 Two people that I will. Call. 376 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,840 I won't tell you who they. Are, but they're very close to 377 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,440 me. Before I call on God. 378 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:20,200 I will call these two people. They're in my family and I will 379 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,680 first listen to their input before I listen to anyone 380 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,360 else's. They will know everything that's 381 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:27,560 going and every up and down they'll be aware of. 382 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,560 But my mistake has been not to immediately turn and pivot to 383 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:33,640 God. It's been to. 384 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,360 Talk to these two trusted. Confidants and I don't think 385 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:40,120 it's just me. A lot of us are like that and 386 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,080 God is saying. You call it like it is. 387 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,200 She's. Saying I am in anguish. 388 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,200 Anguish is the worst kind of suffering. 389 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,240 I'm in anguish. God. 390 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,200 I'm discouraged. You know many Christians will 391 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:54,800 tell you don't say the word. Depressed. 392 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:55,840 Don't say you're. Depressed. 393 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,560 If you're depressed, what do you call it? 394 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,760 Call it like it is, but. Call on God, don't look to 395 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,040 anyone else. The beauty of this is. 396 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,200 Hannah didn't look to Eli for. Answers. 397 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,440 She looked straight up. She just. 398 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,120 Informed him, hey, I'm talking to him. 399 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,600 I'm talking to the big man upstairs, you don't worry about 400 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,640 me. And the beautiful thing is, Eli 401 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:18,360 blesses. Her. 402 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,960 His. Sterile fate suddenly turned 403 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:21,960 around, he said. I pray. 404 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:23,880 That you will have. Everything you've asked for. 405 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:30,080 And so I want to ask you, have you been taught to deny your 406 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,480 reality in the name of faith? Today might be the day we 407 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,840 unlearned that. Don't deny it. 408 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:38,880 You've been the victim of unfaithfulness. 409 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,720 Call it. Like it is, but call out to God. 410 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,960 Don't take the phone and immediately call that one person 411 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:46,640 who will say the things you want them to say. 412 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,320 Call on God. There are many people. 413 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,200 Who say today we? Fake it till we make it. 414 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,200 That's not the Christian faith. You don't need to fake anything 415 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:00,360 with him, Hannah called it like. It is. 416 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,960 And she looked to him. Verse 17 in that. 417 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,640 Case, Eli said. Go in. 418 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,040 Peace may the. God of Israel, grant the request 419 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:09,920 you have asked. Of him. 420 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,920 Oh, thank you, Sir. She exclaimed. 421 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,960 Then she went back and began to eat. 422 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:16,320 Again. And she was no. 423 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,480 Longer sad how many of your problem when you start to sulk, 424 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:25,320 you don't know when to stop in our family when we were growing 425 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,040 up. I was the facelifter. 426 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,520 That's what my dad used to call. They correct me. 427 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:30,560 I will. Lift my face. 428 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,640 I won't know when to stop because I get hungry after 429 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:33,080 point. Hour. 430 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,520 One hour. How long can you be angry in 431 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,840 your room? But look at the beauty of 432 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,400 Hannah. The the very fact was she laid 433 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,560 the request. Down turns around because she 434 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,040 called on God, not on Eli, not on El Khan. 435 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,560 I look at El Khan. I was just thinking. 436 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,160 He's the. Typical foot and mouth husband. 437 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,160 Am I not worth more to you than sons? 438 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,000 She's probably thinking, no, I want a son. 439 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,160 You're not going to fit. That space. 440 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,280 But the beautiful thing is. She let God be God. 441 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,000 And a sign. Of a fertile faith is. 442 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,440 Knowing that, I've left it with him now. 443 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,400 Let him do what he wants. He can do whatever God. 444 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,240 Your will. Not mine, so a fertile. 445 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:18,240 Faith allows God to be God for those of us who are CEOs. 446 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:23,520 Of our own life, master control freaks, we need to come to this. 447 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,520 Place of saying Lord, I'll let you be God. 448 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,840 This is not happening on my timeline, so I will take my 449 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,480 hands off the pedal. I'll take my. 450 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,440 Feet off the gas, I will let you lead the way. 451 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:41,560 The point is this, we don't pray and let go. 452 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,240 We pray and hold on. Sometimes we let go and then 453 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,000 we're worried. Should I have been holding on? 454 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,960 Title you know, but God is saying you can trust. 455 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,680 Me to be God because the way I see. 456 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,920 It on my limited understanding, this is how I picture when I'm 457 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,040 praying for something. When you're praying for 458 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:00,920 something, God is ordering things supernaturally in the 459 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,040 heavenly realms. That what is. 460 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,160 Working going to work in your. Favour is going to start. 461 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,200 Working for someone else, it will drive someone else's faith. 462 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,760 That door. Will open for someone. 463 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:11,840 It's all. Happening together and he's 464 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,240 positioning us. For these perfect keros. 465 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,200 Moments and so if. I just let God be God without 466 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:20,680 forcing. These miracles without. 467 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,240 Forcing these breakthroughs, can you just see what's going to? 468 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,400 Happen in our lives could be amazing and the beautiful thing 469 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,640 was she went back began to eat she was number longer. 470 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,680 Sad. It's a weird detail to add, but 471 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:34,760 I think. It's important. 472 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:36,400 Because a lot of. Times we. 473 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,560 Present our request to God. And then we. 474 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,880 Still are so doubtful whether he'll actually. 475 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:45,200 Come through and then what happens later on is so. 476 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,720 Beautiful because she has this baby. 477 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,560 It says God. Remembers Hannah and gives. 478 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,880 Her this beautiful. Son, and I'm guessing. 479 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,440 He was about 3 or 4 when she. Weaned him and comes and leaves 480 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,440 him in the temple. And think about the level of 481 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,520 surrender. All the moms in the room. 482 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,280 You'll know this is so. Hard this. 483 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,120 One child has come after so many years. 484 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,640 Now you're going to leave him in the care of a man who didn't 485 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,880 look after his sons? Well, you're trusting him to 486 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,960 Eli. But ultimately, she had looked. 487 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:18,040 To God she kept her word to God. And then there's this beautiful 488 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:23,720 chapter of Hannah's song. Of praise, so the. 4th symptom 489 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,240 that you have fertile. Faith is. 490 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,560 That you can release unbroken praise in broken times. 491 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:33,080 Why was it a broken? Time think. 492 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,000 About it she's waited for. Years. 493 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,680 She's relinquishing this kid she doesn't know she's going to have 494 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,680 five more. Kids OK, it's a. 495 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,880 Moment of just surrender and yet in the midst. 496 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,880 Of that, she's praising fertile faith. 497 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,000 Will release unbroken praise in broken times. 498 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,680 Repeatedly in the Bible we see stories of how people praised. 499 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,040 In the hardest of situations, Paul and Silas prison doors 500 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,040 open, but there are many stories also which we don't hear of in 501 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,720 the real world, where praise is being offered. 502 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,200 There's really no breakthrough insight, and that's when it is 503 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,040 in broken times, if you can still. 504 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,320 Raise. Unbroken praise. 505 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,720 It's a sign that your. Faith will outlive you. 506 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,800 It's a sign that your. Faith is so fertile it will not 507 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,560 just support. Your life, it will support many 508 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,000 others. So I want to ask you a few 509 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,240 things before we go on. How is the faith soil of your 510 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,160 life? Everyone in this room, Most of 511 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,760 you. Are believers in Jesus so you 512 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,640 have a basic. You've been saved by faith, but 513 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,680 my question to you is how is the condition of your soil? 514 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,520 Is it so fertile that? Supernatural things can happen. 515 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,720 Is it nourishing you or is it depleting you? 516 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,720 Because there's really not much growing in it. 517 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,200 Interestingly, you know the hard times of our lives. 518 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,920 Harden the soil correct You get repeatedly cheated by people 519 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,200 that part of. You is like I cannot trust 520 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,360 anyone. You have repeated health issues. 521 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,240 You're like God you. Said you'll heal me, but am I 522 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,400 not worth healing? The hard times harden the faith. 523 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,400 Soil. Sometimes our empty seasons will 524 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,360 empty the nutrients. Out of our faith soil. 525 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,040 I don't have anything filled in me. 526 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:25,800 What am I? How am I going to help anyone 527 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,880 else and I? Progressively get emptier. 528 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,320 And emptier and emptier. But today, before we go. 529 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,520 Further, I'm going to ask if you need the. 530 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,240 Gift of faith. Did you know that the the. 531 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,640 Gift of faith is actually a spiritual gift. 532 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,240 In the book of Corinthians, it says amidst miracles, signs, 533 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,640 wonders, deliverance, all of that. 534 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,040 The gift of faith. And of late I've been asking God 535 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,920 for that because, you know, we ask for these other things. 536 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,920 We want interpretation of tongues. 537 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:54,480 We want distinguishing between spirits. 538 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,760 Why am I not asking him for the? Gift of faith, Why? 539 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:01,360 Am I not saying God help? Me believe against all odds. 540 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:04,200 We have had friends in our lives as families. 541 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:06,960 People. Who have, you know, outlived? 542 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,600 As it probably like they've just passed away. 543 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,960 Some of them they. Lived by faith, this family. 544 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,600 They both did ministry in Bangalore. 545 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,760 They lived in a house for 40 years. 546 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,040 They ministered. To all kinds of people, they. 547 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,640 Would not know many times where they had three sons. 548 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,080 One of their sons worked with my dad. 549 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,960 They just lived on faith. And my dad had never. 550 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,440 Heard of this thought of. Living by faith Daddy had never 551 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,680 heard about. But when he was talking. 552 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,440 To his friend one day, he said. Victor, we live by faith. 553 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,840 And he went on to explain what that looks like many times. 554 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,240 Auntie Auntie was an incredible cook, but you won't have any. 555 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,440 Food to cook with. And someone will come and knock 556 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,400 on the door and say just felt led to come and give you rice in 557 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,040 Dal. It's crazy. 558 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,520 And why are we not having it? In today's consumeristic world, 559 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,360 we are. So sure of what? 560 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:57,600 We need it's in our cart, it's in Amazon. 561 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,600 We know what we need. We can budget, we can be amazing 562 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,320 with. Excel sheets. 563 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,760 We can do all of that, but do I believe? 564 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,520 God for the impossible, the things that are outside of my. 565 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,400 Reach do I believe? That he can make my marriage 566 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,160 amazing. Do I? 567 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,360 Believe that. He can give me those children 568 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:15,600 I'm longing for. Can he? 569 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,320 Do you believe he will? Bring back everything the enemy 570 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,440 stole. If it's worth, said it. 571 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,520 Why am I not believing it? We need the. 572 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,320 Gift of faith if. You are someone if we can just 573 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:27,680 all. Close our eyes quickly this. 574 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,320 Is not the end because if you raise your hand, I don't want 575 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,640 you to feel you know that someone else is watching you. 576 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,400 But if you need the gift of faith, I want you to raise your 577 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,880 hand. I want to pray with you, me 578 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,480 included. I need this gift and the Holy 579 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,440 Spirit. Wants to bless his church. 580 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,320 With this gift. Amen. 581 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,640 Amen. He's seeing each of you right 582 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,480 now, and he's going to. Give you this impartation to 583 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,280 believe for the impossible to believe. 584 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,040 For the things that are larger than life, the things that you 585 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,760 and I know mind has seen or conceived, He's going to do that 586 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:04,000 for us. Thank you, Lord, thank you. 587 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,480 Can you just? Believe that you've received 588 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,040 this. Gift. 589 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,000 Amen. Amen. 590 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,800 So in Romans chapter 10. Verse 17, it says, consequently, 591 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,480 faith comes from hearing the message and the message is. 592 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,000 Heard through the word about Christ, so look at. 593 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,720 This connection, the faith along that we have as a. 594 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,720 Soil with the seed of God's Word. 595 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,800 Transforms our lives. It changes. 596 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,960 Everything right? So God's Word is a seed that is. 597 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,320 Falling so you hear the. Word. 598 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,600 Here, then you go home Monday. To Friday or Saturday, God. 599 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,480 Willing you're reading the word. Privately. 600 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,360 That's falling on the. Soil of your heart and. 601 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,560 Then when the. Holy Spirit so beautifully 602 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,800 works. In our lives, it's like a rake, 603 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,840 you know he. Rakes the soil of our hearts, He 604 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:51,960 allows. Things to happen. 605 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,760 To us, he's working with us. The word begins to take. 606 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,720 Life. I love. 607 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,680 These time lapse videos of seeds. 608 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,640 Underground it looks like seemingly nothing is happening 609 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,480 above ground, but when they put cameras underground you should. 610 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,960 See the way the seed is growing? There's not a microsecond when 611 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,840 it's not growing. So most of our growth is 612 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,080 underground I sometimes. Joke 1st 40 years. 613 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,360 I think is underground, then by 80 I think we have. 614 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,440 Like a sapling. But God is calling us to be 615 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,280 oaks. Of righteousness and the only 616 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:25,760 way the oak is going to grow well. 617 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,160 Is if we are rooted. In the soil of our. 618 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,520 Faith. And if God's Word is constantly 619 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,760 working on us. The beautiful thing about Jesus. 620 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,200 Teaching on that. Soil was the soil produced. 621 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:41,760 The grain. When the grain was threshed, it 622 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,840 formed the flour, which became a bread. 623 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,560 Correct, there's a process. Many of you are probably 624 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,760 thinking, well I read the. Word this week. 625 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,760 I claimed it this week. Nothing has changed. 626 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,680 I'm sorry, but it said those who patiently waited harvested a 627 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,840 rich crop. The Word of God takes time, but 628 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,160 it will work. Too many of us are giving up 629 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,280 prematurely. You go through. 630 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,400 Leviticus you're like. I'm done with Bible reading. 631 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,880 I cannot do this anymore. God is saying push through. 632 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:16,320 Digest the word so that it is. Assimilated into your very being 633 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,600 so that when someone pokes you, all that comes out is. 634 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,760 The word of God so that when you're. 635 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,560 Praying. You're no longer using fancy 636 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,280 jargon, but you're just praying the word of. 637 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,800 God out, it will change your life. 638 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,920 It will change your life because the thing about. 639 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,360 This is when we. Look at a regular plant, you 640 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,880 just look at a garden. The sun and the water are a 641 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,080 given. The Holy Spirit and and Jesus 642 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,760 the Sun of Righteousness. Always with us the soil. 643 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,120 Is in our hands what you and I do. 644 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,800 With us faith. Is in US. 645 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,320 It's not. You cannot blame anyone. 646 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,920 For that, let's stop. Blaming others for depleting our 647 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,840 faith. Let's take responsibility today. 648 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,080 And I want to leave this one thought. 649 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:04,640 With you before we close up, the proof of a fertile faith is 650 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,560 actually. How much it impacts eternity? 651 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,240 What do I mean by that? So Hannah has this child. 652 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,080 That she prays for. And she delivers Samuel, who's 653 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,360 one of the. Greatest prophets of Israel. 654 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,480 Now it wasn't. It didn't just end with him. 655 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:18,640 He. Didn't just give prophetic 656 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,080 words. And not was just. 657 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,760 Not done with it. He anointed the two first kings 658 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,800 of. Israel, Right, Saul? 659 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,440 And then David, and David was in the line of. 660 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,000 Jesus, So what? Samuel achieved far outlived 661 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,120 him. He was the one who anointed 662 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,680 these kings. He was the one who. 663 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,920 Gave the word to Israel saying this is what your future is 664 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,840 going to look like. You have given up on God as 665 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:45,160 king, and you've asked for kings. 666 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,200 Now this is the. Blueprint of your future. 667 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:53,400 Hannah didn't know. That her faith would be so 668 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,360 fertile that Israel's history will be changed. 669 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,800 And I want to just. Before I show you this quick 670 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:04,160 video this week, so I sit. At my dining table when the kids 671 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,960 leave and I. Work the whole day there. 672 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,720 And the whole time when I was sitting there, I heard a buzzing 673 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,000 sound. So I first saw something wrong 674 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,040 with my hearing. But then I noticed there were 675 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,520 these small little honey bees hovering over all my potted 676 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,280 plants. And the first thing I think of 677 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,040 when I think of these insects is I thought they were. 678 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,840 Pests. So my, you know, we're all 679 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,360 saddest. You know one part of us. 680 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,240 Is saddest, so I took. The water hose and I filled. 681 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,040 All the pots with it to cover the holes up. 682 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,120 I finished after about two hours I again hear the buzzing. 683 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,520 These guys are so. Important in these bees. 684 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,360 They'd opened up the beehives. Again in the soil. 685 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,240 So I took a picture I. Put it on Google Lens and 686 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,040 checked. What is this they called? 687 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,360 Ground bees. OK, these guys prefer. 688 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,120 Laying their eggs in fertile soil on the ground than going 689 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,360 and putting up hives anywhere and So what these and you won't 690 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,800 believe it these can you just. Put that video up. 691 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:03,400 Just look at it. It's it's. 692 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,720 Laid its nest inside and it's constantly hovering there. 693 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,640 OK. And that is? 694 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,720 The the bee was adorable to look at. 695 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,560 It had a Stinger but it never stung me. 696 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,720 But they're very protective of their babies inside. 697 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,760 Every one of my. Pots had a. 698 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,840 Bee in it, a couple of bees in it. 699 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,400 And as I was reading up. Turns out these guys are. 700 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,640 Extremely important for our ecosystem. 701 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,080 They're the ones who balance. Out everything because they 702 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,320 eventually the babies they have go. 703 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,800 Out and pollinate all our plants and here I was trying to flood 704 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,160 them and kill them and as I was looking at it, I was just 705 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,080 thinking when her soil. Is fertile. 706 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,120 It doesn't just bless. Me. 707 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,280 It blesses someone else as well. Hannah's faith was fertile. 708 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:54,800 For herself, but it birthed. A man who was generationally 709 00:33:54,800 --> 00:34:00,520 impactful and today your faith cannot end with you when you 710 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,240 tell someone. What you've walked through. 711 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,920 They might just be starting that part of the journey and what you 712 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,840 tell them. Will change their lives what you 713 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,679 have walked through. Will completely transform their 714 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,080 faith journey. It can't end with us. 715 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,600 Cannot end with us, Jeremiah. Chapter 4 verse 3 as I close. 716 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,280 I want you to highlight if you didn't take any notes, it's 717 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,719 fine, but Jeremiah 4 verse three, I want you to. 718 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,800 Just highlight this. This is what the Lord says to 719 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,639 the people. Of Judah and to Jerusalem. 720 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,280 Break up your uncloud ground and do not sow among thorns. 721 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,280 This was the people. That had been hardened by. 722 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,320 Exile. Hardened by the hard stuff. 723 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:43,440 Emptied out because their vats. Were empty, nothing. 724 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:45,760 They were operating out of nothing. 725 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,679 And yet he's saying turn up the fallowed ground, ground that had 726 00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:54,000 not been dug up, that could not sow anything in it. 727 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:57,720 And I believe God is calling us. To this place today. 728 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,800 Because as we were listening, maybe you thought my faith was 729 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,840 OK up until now. Now Tina has made me have an 730 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,920 existential crisis. But that's not the point of 731 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,960 this, OK? The point is to say, let's not 732 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,480 neglect. Our faith because it is the 733 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,200 basis. On which every. 734 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,840 Other part of our life runs. Because you know the storms. 735 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,400 Of life are real. How many of you saw this week 736 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,600 the Doomsday Fish? Came out of the ocean, did you 737 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,720 guys? See that 25 feet? 738 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,160 Long. Looked totally creepy and they. 739 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,360 Said many of these mythical. People who like all these 740 00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,880 stories said. Oh, this is a sign of the end 741 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,080 times. That there's possibly. 742 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,520 A tsunami coming because. These big fish live right at the 743 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,160 base of the oceans, so if it was caught, it came to our coast 744 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,240 here. And as I was watching, I was 745 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:45,400 thinking. Wow, if if our faith. 746 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,840 Is not rooted in Jesus. These kind of things can really. 747 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,440 Scare us because the. Storms will come. 748 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,400 Oaks are. Built by. 749 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,240 Storms. Did you know that when the storm 750 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:01,640 hits them, the roots take greater strength and that's how 751 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,640 they keep growing taller and taller if you want to move from. 752 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,120 Seed to grain stage. You will need to be. 753 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,840 Rooted. In strong. 754 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,000 Fertile faith, James One. Chapter verse 21 says. 755 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,480 Therefore, get rid of. All moral filth and the evil. 756 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,080 That is so. Prevalent and humbly accept the. 757 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,520 Word. Planted in you which can. 758 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,640 Save you we're. Living in times you know, it's 759 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,920 so interesting on Instagram you. Have the search. 760 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,720 Option right? You can search for things and I 761 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:33,080 don't know for what reason, but in my. 762 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,960 Search thing it showed. A bunch of these trans. 763 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:39,000 Couples it showed lesbian couples. 764 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:43,240 I think it was ABI who told us get dressed, get ready with. 765 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:47,640 Me #grwm, these women also do the same thing. 766 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,600 And I was watching it and I was, I got confused for a SEC, what 767 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,360 is going on, what am I looking at? 768 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,800 And then I realised the moral filth and the evil. 769 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,040 That is out there is. So prevalent if my faith is not 770 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,000 in Jesus. If the seed of God's. 771 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,520 Word is not in my. Heart I can get confused. 772 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,120 And the greater burden came about, which was, what are we 773 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:10,480 going to do? Each of us for our. 774 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:15,600 Families, are you modelling putting the word into your? 775 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:20,080 Life are you? Reading it hungrily every day. 776 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:22,120 You can't just read the. Word when you have. 777 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,400 To prepare for a Bible study, you have to. 778 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,480 Be reading it as your sustenance, because then I can 779 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,480 humbly accept the Word planted in me and know to discern. 780 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,640 This is false. This is truth. 781 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,520 This is counterfeit. This is the real deal if we 782 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,480 don't have the. Word of God in US. 783 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,680 Nothing will grow in our lives and we will be of no use to 784 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,520 anyone else in the world. Let's not kid ourselves. 785 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,640 None of us are. Living such lives where? 786 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:53,280 There is no weed growing. What weed is crowding out? 787 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,080 The seed that God is. Putting in US. 788 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,600 Every day, every week. What are the weeds? 789 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,040 Is it worry? Is it anxiety? 790 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:06,520 Is it? Riches. 791 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,880 The pursuit of riches. The accumulation of riches. 792 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,360 Is it pleasures? Is it temptation? 793 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:15,360 What is it? It could be good. 794 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:21,080 Things that have turned into weeds If you've been struggling 795 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,960 with a hardened heart, a heart that has been so broken by 796 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,480 people, by family, by. Hardship. 797 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,320 Maybe today's the. Time you need to ask God, Lord 798 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,640 soften my heart again and the way God. 799 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:40,680 Does it is He uses his people, He uses His word, He uses life 800 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,520 situations to till the soils of our heart. 801 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,120 So if that is your prayer, can you just start praying that out 802 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,960 to Him? We want to look at our own 803 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,800 selves today. We're not going to look at a 804 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:51,880 spouse. We're not going to look at a 805 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,760 friend and say, oh, you need a revamp of faith. 806 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,280 No, but I need my faith to be rekindled. 807 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,600 I want my soil to be pure and. Fertile for you to work in. 808 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,320 So that it transforms my life and others. 809 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,840 Lives Holy Spirit, we just. Welcome you into this place. 810 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,560 We thank you that no two of us are on a similar. 811 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,320 Journey, but Lord all of us. Are running the race is marked 812 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:22,080 out for us and I just. Pray through this week that God 813 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,120 you will show us. Where our faith has become 814 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,520 sterile, where there is barrenness. 815 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,800 And that God, you will make it. Fertile again, Holy Spirit, we 816 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,600 welcome you. We welcome you. 817 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,640 For those of us, Lord, whose soil only supports. 818 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,720 Us that Lord today onwards. You will give us start. 819 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:43,040 Giving us dreams and visions of how we can. 820 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:48,400 Bless others because of our faith, if that is your. 821 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,280 Desire, can you just raise your hands because I. 822 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,680 Believe God wants to meet us. We can call it like. 823 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,880 It is with him. God, we need you. 824 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,920 We can do nothing apart from you, Father I. 825 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,120 Pray for those who the Word of God was put. 826 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,520 In even as a. Child, but Lord, they haven't. 827 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,520 Seen it grow. Spirit of God, I pray that you 828 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:13,760 will. Show them, open their. 829 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,000 Eyes to see the growth. That is happening. 830 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:17,720 Open their. Eyes to show. 831 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:20,520 Them that Lord, the things that have been planted long ago are. 832 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,680 Going to take shape. They're going to come out. 833 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:23,960 They're going to. Be harvested. 834 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,640 They're going to see a rich harvest. 835 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,800 I pray for those. Prayers that have gone 836 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,760 unanswered for so long. Lord, we pray that our faith 837 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,680 won't dwindle. Stir it up. 838 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:41,840 Oh God, stir it up. I pray through this week you 839 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,200 will go ahead of us. Lead us gently. 840 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,360 God fill us with. Strength, fill us with courage, 841 00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,440 Fan into flame, the things that we have been asking you for the 842 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,760 gift. Of faith, I pray you. 843 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,360 Fan it into flame. Remove every weed in. 844 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,400 Jesus name and set us. Free to bear fruit for you. 845 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,840 We love you and. We thank you. 846 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:10,560 In Jesus name we pray. Amen. 847 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:14,960 Thanks for listening to this message. 848 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,800 We hope you were blessed to hear more messages like this. 849 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,120 Make sure to subscribe. And check out our podcast. 850 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,480 Channel for past episodes. If you like what you are 851 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:30,040 hearing, consider rating us, subscribing and even sharing it 852 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,600 with friends. 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