Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International
Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the
church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.
We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever
you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get
your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe
some tea, and get ready to receive.
Let's get into it. Amen.
God, it's so good.
It's so good and how amazing to be able to be in a place with
others who love Jesus and to celebrate him, celebrate his
goodness, celebrate his kindness, celebrate his work in
our lives, celebrate the love that he's poured out in our
hearts to celebrate him and to do it together with those who
love Jesus. I love it.
Thank you, Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia, for the
opportunity it is to be able to share today at this noon
experience. And thank you so much for your
commitment to being obedient to the call that God has given you.
And we are recipients of your faithfulness.
We appreciate you, we love you. Will you give them a round of a
hand? Our pastor, Pastor Terence,
Pastor Julia for those that may be visiting.
Pastor Terence and Pastor Julia Richmond are the senior pastors
and founding pastors of Love Quest International Church and
they're a blessing to us. They're away this week and so I
have the privilege to be able to share the word of God with you
today. Last week we were remembering.
Pastor Terence spoke on Count Em Up and was remembering the
goodness of God, remembering the great work of God and taking
that time to remember. And if you remember in Luke 17
there was a story of some lepers.
How many lepers were there? There were 10 lepers and they
were all given the word from Jesus to show themselves at the
temple. And as they went, all ten were
healed. All 10 received healing from the
leprosy and how many came back? One.
One came back, one came back. It says in Luke 17 verse 15.
One of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back.
He turned back from where he was going.
Glorifying and praising and honouring God with a loud voice.
Say loud voice with a loud voice that's right.
There was loudness to his praise.
There was a loudness to his praise.
There was there was you could be heard.
There was a loud voice of praise and he lay face downward at
Jesus feet thanking him over and over and he was a Samaritan.
There's there's a key here for your breakthrough.
Just a minute. If you, if you could listen with
me, I'm going to praise the Lord for a minute, OK?
Do you agree? What?
You didn't hear me?
Oh, what you're saying is my praise can only benefit me in my
head, but it benefits you when you hear it, right?
There's something about you declaring the goodness of God
with your mouth where you say, man, God's been good to me, man,
I got to tell you how he's worked in my life.
I want to encourage you. So there's something about that
loud voice declaring the goodness of God, Pastor Terrance
said in last Sunday's message. When you remember who God has
been, you regain confidence in who God will be and all that to
say, take the time to remember. Take time to remember what God
has done. Take the time to consider how
he's worked in your life, in your family's life, in the life
maybe of your friends. But take that time to remember,
because when you remember who God has been, now you've got
confidence in who he will be. You take that confidence and you
bring it into your presence. So count them up.
That's what Pastor Terence spoke about last Sunday.
Count them up. There's a a good old hymn and he
goes, I won't sing it, I'll just tell you the lyrics.
There you go. Now come on, now come on.
But it says count your blessings, name them one by one,
count your blessings, see what God has done, count your
blessings, name them one by one and it will surprise you what
the Lord has done right. This is taking the time to count
the blessings, to recognize what God has done and completed
already, to take the time to look back and to see the
faithfulness of God, to see the goodness of God, to see how He's
moved and blessed, to see how He's protected you.
Some of the greatest miracles in your life are the disasters God
prevented to sometimes, you know, looking back, Pastor Tara
talked about last Sunday. You know, looking back, also
recollect the things He's kept you from.
Perhaps that near miss, but the Lord moved.
Perhaps it is that business opportunity that got away, but
God was protecting your soul because He cared for you.
There's near miss opportunities, but God was looking at you and
desiring your blessing and your keeping for this moment so we
can have a praise for the things that God has prevented in our
lives. Pastor Tara said.
We look forward with hope, with faith, believing, but we look
backward with gratitude. In our looking back, we're
recognizing how God has moved, but they take that and look
ahead now with hope because of what he has done.
We are not turning back. We are building a memorial.
At times in the Old Testament they would set aside markers
that would be a marker to recognise what God had done, how
God had moved. When they went through the
Jordan, they took stones for the riverbed and set them up as a
memorial to say, hey, when you see this, tell your children
that God took you out of Egypt and brought you into this land.
It was a memorial. It was a positioning that was to
be a reminder for generations of the goodness of God.
So we're not turning back. We're building a memorial to
recognize who God is. Psalm 103 verse 2 says bless the
Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
It's like I'm going to bless God, but I'm also going to tell
my soul, Don't you forget, Don't you forget God's goodness.
Don't you forget what He's done? Don't you forget how he's moved
upon your life, how His peace has guarded you, how He has
moved into into your heart and transformed you.
Don't forget, soul, all that God has done.
It's a charge to remember the goodness of God.
It's a charge to my soul that says, yes, I will remember what
you've done and how you've moved.
I will remember those times when I felt alone.
But then you would come, Lord, and bring presents when I felt
like I had gone too far and strayed too far away.
But you said no when I felt I had turned away from you.
But you drew me back. That's the kindness and the
goodness of God. Remind your soul.
Remind your soul of his goodness.
And the pastor, Taran, said recognition triggered
remembrance in this man who'd come back in that story from
Luke 17, the leper who had been healed and came back,
recognition of who God was triggered His remembrance and
praise always begins with recognition.
When we take the time to recognise who God is, when we
take the time to remember who He has been in our lives, how He
has worked in our lives, when we see Him even in our troubles and
our trials, but realise He's actually the one who made the
way of escape. When we take the time to
recognise who God is, it will release praise in our hearts.
So we're in remembrance. But our remembrance has a
purpose and that purpose is to fuel them up.
So we had to count them up. Now we're going to fuel them up.
Fuel them up. The remembrance is a reminder
not just to remember the past, to prepare us and propel us into
what God has for us. And so we remember.
I want to share a story about a church from the New Testament
and it's the Church of Ephesus. Ephesus is in around where
Turkey is today. In that area and around 60 AD,
Paul writes a letter to the Ephesians and he had actually
been been with them. He actually spent about three
years there sometime earlier and helped build the church up was
an encouragement to them. In Acts 20.
We we actually read the story about his last farewell to them
because he knew that he was going to go to Rome.
And in this letter to the Ephesians, he makes some
powerful points. And I'm going to let you kind of
figure out what you think the the theme is.
OK, in Ephesians 115 it says for this reason, because I've heard
of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's
people. So Paul's writing says, man, you
guys have got such a great reputation of how you love.
Your reputation goes before you, this love you have for all God's
people. Chapter 2, verse 4 but God being
so very rich in mercy because of his great and wonderful love
with which he loved us. Wow, that love of God poured at
us. Visions 317 to 19.
This part is a prayer that Paul's praying.
He says then Christ will make his home in your hearts.
As you trust in Him, your roots will grow down into God's love
and keep you strong. And may you have the power to
understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how
high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of
Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.
Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life
and power that comes from God. Ephesians 5 verse one and two
says imitate God therefore in everything you do, because you
are His dear children, live a life filled with love, following
the example of Christ. He loved us and offered Himself
as a sacrifice for us. A pleasing aroma to God.
Wow, I love that part Imitate God.
Imitate God, how you live your life.
Imitate God, imitate God, be like your father, imitate God.
That's a big one. We'll talk about that one day,
I'm sure. Imitate God, imitate God.
All right. And then in Ephesians 6, verse
23 to 24, these are the last two verses of the letter, and it
says, peace be with you, dear brothers and sisters, and May
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you love with
faithfulness, and may God's grace be eternally upon all who
love our Lord Jesus Christ. OK, so here's the test.
What was the main theme from these verses?
Anybody. OK, good, I made it clear.
All right, I just want to make sure it was all the
highlighting. It's all the, all the
highlighting. I did right.
Love here. He's writing in 60 AD and
saying, man, you love God, God loves you love, love, love,
love. You're rooted in love.
You're grounded in love. His love is great.
There's love around 35 years later here we have in the Book
of Revelation now that was written 35 years after that
letter was written to the Ephesians.
And in chapter 2 and 3, Jesus is speaking and speaking to the
seven churches and the first one is Ephesus.
In Revelation 2, verse one, it says, write this letter to the
Angel of the church in Ephesus. This is the message from the one
who holds the seven stars in his right hand, the one who walks
among the seven gold lampstands. Just you know, from chapter 1,
the gold lampstands were representatives of the churches,
the seven different churches that he was writing to.
In verse 2 it says, I know all the things you do.
So Jesus was aware of the activities of the church.
He knew the doings of the church, what they were involved
with. I have seen your hard work and
your patient endurance. I know you don't tolerate evil
people. You have examined the claims of
those who say they are apostles but are not, and you have
discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for
me without quitting. That's pretty good.
You work hard. You got discernment to be able
to, to figure out who's lying, who's not lying.
You're enduring, right? You've got endurance.
These are great things to do, right?
You would think these are really positive, right?
And they are. They've patiently suffered
without quitting here in verse 4.
But I have this complaint against you.
You don't love me or each other as you did at first.
Hold on, didn't know we just read a whole letter, this whole
letter to the Ephesians and he's talking about your love is
great, you love others. Here's the love of God poured
out love, love, love, love, love. 35 years later, you lost
your love. You lost your love.
You love for God and you love for others.
You lost that you forgot. You didn't remember.
You didn't remember that love, that first love that pulled on
you, that drew you into the arms of Almighty God, the love of God
that had been poured out. Love.
They'd forgotten. They'd stop remembering.
They had missed the memorial. 3540 years is about a
generation. So a generation later, they've
forgotten. They've forgotten that first
love. You don't.
You don't love me or each other as you did at first.
Look how far you have fallen. Turn back to me.
So here we see. Turn back again.
Just like the leper who had been healed.
Turn back to give a praise. Jesus is saying, turn back
again. Turn back to me.
Turn back and do the works you did at first.
If you don't repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from
its place among the churches. You warn a child forcefully to
not run on the streets, not because you're being mean, but
because you love them. You want their protection.
And in the same way Jesus is saying you've got to stop this,
come back, don't run on that street, turn around, come back.
Come back to that first love. Turn around and remember again.
Remember again what he has done for you.
Remember how he is love is poured out for you.
Remember that first love, that first love, that moment.
Do you remember that time when you first said to Jesus?
Jesus, I love you, I receive you come into my life that first
love, that first love, that first love that drew you into
the arms of God. So he's calling us to return to
remember First Corinthians Chapter 11, verse 23, Paul's
writing about communion. Communion is a memorial of the
goodness of God. It's a memorial that we have
even to this day in the church because it reminds us of the
fulfillment of the new covenant and the love of God that's been
poured out for us by the blood of Jesus, by his body broken,
and that we can walk in the fullness of his resurrection in
life. And in First Corinthians 11,
Paul's writing and he says, for I pass on to you what I received
from the Lord himself on the night when he was betrayed.
The Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.
Then he broke it in pieces and said, this is my body which is
given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
Verse 25 In the same way he took the cup of wine after supper,
saying, This cup is the new covenant between God and his
people, an agreement confirmed with My blood.
Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it.
For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you
are announcing the Lord's death until he comes.
So here we have within the church a memorial instituted by
Jesus. We call it communion and we do
it to remember so that we don't forget all we have received.
We don't forget what he has completed.
But rather in that memorial, in that time, we're remembering
Jesus sacrifice for me. His body was broken, his blood
was shed, poured out so that I can live.
My sin is dealt with, my relationship with Almighty God
is reset through Jesus. And so we remember.
We remember in this memorial. We remember so that we can have
our faith fuelled again. Every time I take communion, it
fuels my faith. Every time I take those
elements, it fuels my faith because it's a reminder not just
of his sacrifice, but of his covenant that he made, that I
get to walk in because he is kind, He is loving.
He gave his life that I might live.
So I remember how you remember. Stalls you or launches you.
OK, Any of you guys had people who their best time of their
life and they'll still talk to it 10/15/20 years later?
Oh remember high school right? Anybody remember the back of the
day? Hey hey, it's good to remember.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind remembering, but they got stuck
there. In fact, for some of them, the
music they listen to is still stuck back there.
All right. It doesn't mean you can't listen
to the old songs. I'm not saying that, but don't
get stuck there. But don't get stuck there.
They got stalled. Some people receive, have an
encounter or a trauma in their life and it becomes this, this
stall in their life that they've stalled, like a car has stalled.
It's run out of fuel. Sometimes I test the limits of
my fuel gauge, right. And yes, it has happened once
where we're driving on a highway and it's stalled and, but they,
but people become stalled like that.
They run out of fuel, they run out of gas and it stopped them.
But how you remember? See, when you remember things in
your past, do you remember just the negative or do you see how
God made a way out? Do you see?
Do you remember His goodness? Do you remember His goodness
that helped you through? Do you remember that He brought
along somebody to come alongside you and encourage you?
Do you take the time to remember in a way that launches you, that
actually brings you not out of this stalled position you've
refuelled and now it's launching you into the next possibility,
out of a stalled position, into the launch position.
Remembrance is not a call to nostalgia.
It's fuel to ignite belief. See, when we get stuck, that's
when we have not allowed our remembering to actually be fuel
to proceed and it you don't even have to get stuck by a bad
thing. Sometimes you get stuck because
the past was so good. I've met people who will tell
you about all the cool things that happened.
You know, hey, back, you know, when we were young, God was
doing this and we saw these people saved and we, we saw
miracles and we were there when this happened and that happened.
Powerful. But do you allow that
remembrance to go? Oh, I wish I was back there.
Or do you allow that remembrance to propel you in faith that God
can do it now? God can do it today.
God is more than able now to do it.
It's great to remember those things, but God is able now see
because we remember and then we believe.
We remember. And in our remembering, it is
fuel for belief. It's fuel to believe God.
It's fuel to be able to step out in faith.
It's fuel to be able to move ahead for the now for this time,
John 20 and verse 30 and 31. This is the end of near the end
of the the gospel that John wrote.
And he says there are also many other signs and miracles which
Jesus performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not
written in this book. So there's lots of other things
that he did that didn't make it into the book.
But these are written, say these are written in order that you
may believe that Jesus is the Christ.
You see, these were written so you would believe they aren't
written. So you have information.
They're not written. So I go, Oh yeah, I know that
bit. I know that verse.
I've memorized that verse or yeah, I can, I can figure out
the timeline of Jesus. I've kind of gone through all
that. It's not for that purpose.
It's so you believe this is the author saying I wrote this.
So you would believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus is
more than they will, and that through believing and cleaving
to and trusting and relying upon him, you may have life through
and in his name. You see, the purpose of remember
is to believe. The purpose of of the gospel is
that you might believe that you believe that Jesus is the Son of
God, that you believe and receive the life that he has for
you, that you would believe. We remember the things that God
has done that you might believe, believe now, not believe just in
the past because your parents did it, not believe because your
grandparents had a great experience, but you to believe
now you see, God didn't give your family bloodline
experiences and encounters with him to be left on the shelf.
They're memorials. They're memorials, they're
memorials I shared shared in the 9:00 AM experience about some of
the things God had done through my grandparents and, and, and in
their lives. And, and, and there are things I
know that God has done through my parents and Stacey's parents
and their lives and encounters with God.
And then I was reminded when I first came to when we were
courting. She's now my wife.
It's OK, But we were caught. We were, we were.
Well, I did not caught it. We were dating and getting to
know each other. I lived in Australia, she lived
here long distance. It worked.
Yeah, definitely good for me. And I came over for three weeks
because we'd met in Australia and her, because she had some,
some family members there that she was visiting with her mum.
And six months later I came over to visit her family.
Because you have to make sure they're not too crazy.
Now they're going to be a little bit crazy, but they're too
crazy, right? Every family's a little bit
crazy. And, and so during that time, I
went to church and, and one of the Knights that were having a
youth gathering at a house and I was there and one of the pastors
gave a word to me and I went, well, that's, that's a lot.
OK, All right. Now, seven years later, we're
married. Thank you.
And it's 2005. And we actually would have been
eight years later, because I think it was 97 when we we had
that first encounter. And 2005 we're married and we've
just found out that Elder Stacey is pregnant with our first born.
And yeah, but you know, we were a couple of months in the
pregnancy. We didn't know for a while to
few other things. And we hadn't really even, I
don't think we'd even told my mum and dad yet.
No, we hadn't. We'd kind of kept to ourselves
for the first little bit and we'd gone to Sydney, Australia
and we're just finished actually, I think.
Were we going in or we're just finished, We're on our way in.
We're on our way into this service in Sydney.
And this elderly gentleman says, oh, excuse me, yeah.
Hi. Do you have children?
And we said no, but knowing, yeah, that she was pregnant, but
OK. Well, the Lord's given me this
word, and then the word was a confirmation of everything that
God had said in 1997 through this other man, from someone in
a different person, in a different continent at a
different time of our life. Don't ask me for the details of
it right now. God's still working it out.
But what it did was tell me God cares about the details of your
life. You see, in my remembering of
that, I was remembering. Wow, God, look at you.
You did. You knew I needed that.
You knew we needed to hear that from someone else as a
confirmation that you are operating, you are doing things.
See, God cares about the details of your life.
We we remember so we can believe.
And that in that believing God is moving, but belief must be
fresh for every generation. I said earlier, it's not good
enough that you believe just because your grandparents
believed or what your parents believed or what do you believe
in God? What are you calling on God for?
What do you believe? How are you pressing in to what
God has for you? What do you believe he's capable
of? What do you believe that He can
provide? How is your belief fuelled?
You see, remembrance fuels our belief.
It gives us a fuel to be able to get going again.
As long as we don't stay stuck in the past, as long as we
remember well, we don't remember to stay lost in our past.
We remember the goodness of God to propel us forward because God
is a present God. The scripture says He's not the
God of the dead because he's the the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. He was a God of generations.
He's a God. He's alive and at work now.
He's the same God right now, same God back then, same God
right now, same God back then, same God right now.
Amen. So we believe that God is able.
We we remember, we believe. And now we speak.
In Acts chapter 4, verse 19 and 20, Peter and John had actually
healed a cripple and then had declared the goodness of Jesus.
And then the the Pharisees and Sadducees brought them in and
questioned them about Jesus and told them you're not to speak
about Jesus. And then they beat them.
So imagine that you just get beaten for just talking about
Jesus. They beat them and then said,
don't you talk about Jesus anymore?
Don't you talk about Jesus? And here's their reply.
But Peter and John replied, do you think God wants us to obey
you rather than him? We cannot stop telling.
Cannot stop. We cannot stop telling about
everything we have seen and heard.
Can't stop, Won't stop, can't stop.
I don't know where that one goes anyway.
But can't stop, I can't stop. Can't stop declaring the
goodness of God. I can't stop sharing the love of
God. I can't stop telling people
about how good he is. I can't stop.
We believe, therefore we also speak.
So in our remembering, we remember the goodness of God.
The remembrance of the goodness of God fuels our belief.
Our belief rises up within us and now because we have
believed, so we speak. We speak the goodness of God.
In 2nd Corinthians 4 verse 13, it says, yet we have the same
spirit of faith as he had who wrote in Scripture.
I believe, therefore I spoke. We also believe, therefore we
also speak knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will also
raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his
presence. So we believe, therefore we
speak because we know that knowing comes out of our
remembrance, right? It's fuelling us, it's fuelling
us, it's fuelling us, it's fuelling our belief, it's
fuelling how we see God. I said in the in the first
experience, I said don't be afraid of stealing other
people's encounters with Jesus. We're one big family anyway,
right? So if you're not sure, you're
saying, man, I, I got a little bit, but I don't steal it from
others. I'll give you a few of ours and
steal those remembrances because then you can bring that into
your life. You know there's great men and
women of faith who have pressed in, who obtained the riches of
God. Learn from them, learn from them
that God is more than able lay a hold of that, Pastor Tara said
on Wednesday. There's 3 powers of the voice of
faith. Firstly, the voice of faith
breaks silence. Faith, I broke your silence.
The voice of faith breaks the silence.
It's breaking through the silence here in Acts 4 verse 29.
This is a continuation After they had left and been beaten
and and told them we've got to, we can't but speak of the
goodness of God. They came together and they
prayed and this is the last part of the prayer that they had
there with the other believers of Jesus.
And they said, And now, Lord, observe their threats and grant
to your bondservants full freedom to declare your message
fearlessly, while you stretch out your hand to cure and to
perform signs and wonders through the authority and by the
power of the name of your holy child and servant Jesus.
And when they had prayed, the place in which they were
assembled was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit, and they continued to speak the Word of God with
freedom and boldness and courage.
You see, the threats were put there to silence them.
Don't you speak in the name of Jesus.
Be quiet. That's a threat to us.
Jesus is a threat. And the voice of faith said
we're breaking that silence. Now these were real threats.
They could. They just put Jesus to death of
the cross. These weren't idle threats by
somebody who had no power. Remember that when they were
threatened, they were threatened by people who had already showed
that they would follow through on the threat.
But that attempt to silence them was broken because of the voice
of faith in the voices. Faith said, Lord, we want to
preach your word with boldness, with courage, with strength.
The voice of faith speaks. To the voice of faith releases
faith in others. Do you know how much your story
builds the confidence in others? First Thessalonians 5 verse 11
says so encourage each other and build each other up just as you
are already doing. How much more powerful is it
when you hear other people sharing the goodness of God?
Man, at the end of the week, it's like, guess what?
This is what Jesus did this week.
We'll go wait till next week. Maybe this week is like man, I
was dealing with the pressure of finance, but man, the peace of
God, just man overwhelm me and I may not have that final answer,
but man, I've got the peace. Wait for instalment too, right?
Because I'm believing God, because I already know that God
provides. I already know that he is the
provider. So now I'm building.
We're building each other in faith.
And the voice of faith builds and builds and builds.
It grows and grows and grows. Because your faith encourages my
faith. My faith encourages your faith.
And we keep remembering the goodness of God through
testimony. We keep remembering the goodness
of God. We keep building 1 upon the
other. You'll imagine how fired up we'd
be, imagine how stirred up you'd be in your spirit mean how that
would stir you when you start encouraging each other and
building 1 on top of each other. Third, the voice of faith, open
cities, Acts 8, verse 5. It says Philip, for example,
went to the city of Samaria and told the people there about the
Messiah. What do you do?
He told them. The voice of faith speaks.
Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager
to hear his message and see the miraculous signs he did.
Many evil spirits were cast out screaming as they left their
victims, and many who had been paralysed or lame were healed.
And so there was what great joy in that city.
The voice of faith opens cities speaking.
The voice of faith open cities. It opens, it opens, it opens.
First of all, it opens our hearts.
And as we build up one another, it opens our hearts to be able
to share it out and speak it out.
And as our words go out and we encourage one another, first of
all each other. And then as we go outside and we
start saying, man, I tell you, God's been good to me this week.
I tell you, God's working in my life.
That voice of faith builds and builds and builds, and so we
remember. We believe, we speak, we've
exposed. The enemy wants to trap us in
our memory, but the memory and remembrance is actually to
propel us in belief. We're equipped because we're
laying a hold of that belief and we're running with it.
I tell you, this is exciting. This is powerful.
I don't know if you had a chance this week to remember this week.
Remember, I don't know if you had a chance this week to build
your belief this week. Remember in such a way that you
see how God moved and recognizes the same God today as He's
always been. Man believe God, believe God and
in your beliefs speak out to one another, encourage one another,
build your faith build up your holy faith by encouraging each
other with a Word of Faith. Maybe it's just just in your
family. Start talking about man.
I'll tell you I forgot about this, but you remember God did
this man I man I I just remembered I God answered that
prayer and I haven't thought about that for so long, but God
answers my prayers. Build your faith step into it.
I encourage you engage. We are stepping into a dimension
of God that if we do not take the time to remember, we might
miss it. There are many who have prayed
for revival who did not see it because they thought it would
come in a package that they would understand.
But God is doing a new thing. He's doing a new thing and right
now our hearts are being prepared for what He's about to
do. Now.
I encourage you, we're in a time to build our belief.
We're in a time of opening our mouths.
We're a time where God is moving in power through our
remembrances to equip us and fuel us for the now.
We're not remembering to remember.
We're remembering to fuel. It's like an athlete.
There are athletes who eat and there's athletes who eat to
fuel. There's a difference.
An athlete who just eats will eat whatever.
An athlete who eats to fuel will think about how their balances
between their protein and the carbohydrates and their starches
and all the stuff that other people know, I don't know much
about, but they're, but they're, they're, they're, they're
fuelling for purpose. We are, we are fuelling for
purpose. We are fuelling with purpose.
We're fuelling to be able to run.
We're fuelling to be able to run with the vision, run with the
purposes of God, run with what he's called us to.
We're fuelling to run. I encourage you fuel to run this
week. Take the time to remember so
you're fuelled up to run, not to stay at the same level no more.
There's too much to do. There's too much for us to do.
To stay sitting back, stalled in our faith.
There's too much to do. There's too much.
God has given us this great purpose.
There's there's too much for us to sit still any longer, to sit
back any longer. We're in lunchtime.
I thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that your word
is alive and powerful. Lord, I thank you that you were
doing a great work in this house, Lord.
I thank you, Lord, for what you have begun here at Lovequest is
to impact this city. Lord, I thank you and rejoice in
you, Lord, because you have given us the tools.
You've given us remembrance, Lord.
You've given us the word to believe.
I believe, though, You've given us the tools to be able to run
with it, to run with the coal, to run into what you're calling
us to. Lord, I pray that each one here
will be stirred up out of this comfort level, out of comfort,
into coal, out of comfort into the place of God's greatness,
out of comfort into the coal of the love of God, because the
love of God is sometimes uncomfortable.
Lord, I thank you. This house is a house that
honours your presence. This house is a house that
honours what you're doing now. Thank you, Lord, for our pastors
who speak the Word in truth Have prepared this way.
Lord, I thank you, Lord, that we are running together the vision.
Lord, we stir up the gift of God.
We stir up the call. We stir up again our
remembrance. We stir up again the remembrance
of that first love. We stir it up again.
Stir it up, stir it up, stir it up.
Lord, we're stirring the gift of God.
Lord, we're stirring into remembrance those encounters
with you, those encounters that we've sat on for too long.
I thank you, Lord, You're stirring today.
You're calling us up. You're calling us higher.
You're calling us up into new dimensions, Lord, that our
belief in you is it stirred up. Oh, so we're encountering Jesus
kind of faith when we step into our workplace, we're
encountering a Jesus kind of belief.
When we're coming home to family, we've got a Jesus kind
of faith that's stirring us up. Lord, Lord, we have a voice that
declares the goodness of God, a voice that breaks the silence, a
voice that stirs the city. Lord, a voice of faith that
loves, that declares, that walks in the goodness of God.
Lord, we encounter the risen Saviour.
Lord, I thank you, you're stirring.
Thank you, you're stirring. I encourage you, stir yourself
up in prayer. Now, Lord, if you, you could
pray in the spirit, pray in the spirit, whatever mechanism you
have to pray, just stir yourself up.
Start to recite the word in your prayer.
See, I am the head and not the tail.
I am the redeemed of the Lord. I am filled with the Spirit of
God. The same Spirit that raised
Christ from the dead dwells in me.
That's just the Spirit of God that dwells in me.
It's the same Spirit that dwelled in Jesus.
I thank you Lord. Thank you, Lord for your
goodness. Thank you Lord, for your great
love. Lord, I stirred myself up that
love that I've received as a love that others need.
I stir the belief and a memory of the love of God, Lord.
I stir myself up, Lord. I thank you that we're stirring.
Thank you, Lord. We're stirring the goodness of
God. We're through our remembrance.
We're stirring up into that place.
We're stirring up, Lord, stirring our hearts, stirring
our memory, stirring ourselves into the goodness of God.
The things you have for us, Lord.
Lord, we're fuelling up for the future.
We're fuelling up for the now faith now kind of faith, Lord.
We're fueling up from the word. We're fueling up from the
declaration of those who believed in you and trusted in
you. We're stirring ourselves up,
Lord. We pick ourselves up off the
floor and we get going again. We pick ourselves up from that
stall position and we're ready to run.
Lord, we thank you. Lord, we stir up.
We stir it up. We stir it up.
We thank you, Lord. Thank you Lord, You're fueling
us. Fuel us with your fire.
Fuel us Lord, with our remembrance.
We're fueled, Lord, we're fueled for what you called us to.
You fueled us up, Lord, you fueled us up to run in Jesus
name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning
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