Praise and Worship songs performed:
(I missed a song or two before this)

1. Goodness of God - Ben Fielding 
2. I Stand in Worship - New Creation Worship
3. Shout to the Lord - Darlene Zschech
4. Here I Bow - Bethel Music

Holy Communion exhortation:
The Lord Jesus is your Deliverer, Savior, Redeemer and Rescuer. You can have full assurance in that because God delights in you. Jesus’ finished work at the cross did it for you! 

Tithes and Offerings exhortation:
Today we give not out of obligation but as a response of thankfulness that we have first received from God. 
We tithe to worship our Lord Jesus and declare that He is great. When you give to God, He will surely multiply a harvest back to you. 

Special Performance:
Spanish Song - Tiempo de Honra (Time of Honor) written by Danny Berrios

The House of God refers to the house built for the many membered body of Christ. 
We are living stones being put together to build a house. 
A neglected stone left on the ground is a stagnant/dead stone, but when it is used to build a house, it becomes a living stone. 

Water in a cup is stagnant water. Water that is isolated is stagnant water. But water that is flowing is living water.
Our life is to be a constant flow. 
One of the ideas of medicine is movement. When you move around, sometimes you find the pain in you leaves. God designed you to move, not to be stagnant.

God’s word tells us not to neglect the gift of God — stir up and fan into flame the gift of the Holy Spirit in you.
The only gift you can stir up at will is the gift of praying in tongues. 
The next verse after that says that you have not received a spirit of fear but a spirit of love, power and a sound mind.
Praying in tongues gives you love, power and a sound mind, among many other things.
Do not neglect the gift of praying in tongues - let it flow. 
Out of the belly of a believer will flow rivers of living water.

There is a thirst in human beings that has been quenched forever once you believe in Jesus - the thirst for eternal life.

​Praise and Worship songs performed:
(I missed the songs before this)

1. Wonderful (Grace Made Real) - New Creation Worship

When the devil levels a spiritual attack against you, it could be a response to something good that God is about to do in your life. The devil is afraid! 

Don’t use words like lucky. Say that you’re blessed and that it’s the favor of the Lord. 
Don’t express yourself with “Omg”. Don’t use God’s name in vain.
Don’t allow the world to make you conform. 
Long after social media, God will still be standing. 

The Bible will sit in judgment of you. We have no right to sit in judgment of the Bible, as if we know better than God. 
Heaven and earth will pass away, but Jesus’ words will never pass away. 
Many have come in criticism to judge the Bible but they have since turned to bones, dust and ash. 
Voltaire said that after his death, the Bible will be long gone. After he died, his house was made into a Bible-printing house. 

Sin brings forth death. Adam sinned and death came into the world.
But praise God that we have eternal life. Eternal life is not something for the future. It’s already inside us. We are experiencing it now.
It’s not about length of life, if not those in Hades are also living long. 
Eternal life is about quality of life. In Greek it is “ionos zoe”. 

A shepherd boy in Israel lost his sheep in a cave in the Dead Sea area. 
He threw a rock inside the cave and heard a metallic clink sound. 
He went inside and afterwards discovered the Dead Sea scrolls.
Those scrolls have been carbon-dated to be proven that they are 2000 over years old.
Those scrolls are of the Book of Isaiah. 
They are the same, word-for-word, as our version today. 

There are 66 books in the Bible. There are 66 chapters in the Book of Isaiah. 
There are 39 Old Testament Books. There are 27 New Testament Books. 
It’s as if there are two authors for the Book of Isaiah. The first 39 chapters are full of judgment but in the last 27 chapters, the tone changes. It’s like a mini Bible. 
The first word of Isaiah 40 is “Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people.”
It’s not different authors. Jesus quotes the Book of Isaiah and said that “Isaiah says”, so it is written by just one author: Isaiah. 

The Bible is not politically correct. It just paints reality. Let’s get real! 

Praise and Worship songs performed:
(I missed some songs before this)

1. Living Hope - Brian Johnson
2. I Want To Song - Malcolm Du Plessis
3. All Glory and All Praise - New Creation Worship

You’re never too old to serve the Lord. Moses begun when he was 80 years old. 

God gives the latter rain for Israel to harvest their crops. 
Likewise, we will receive the harvest of blessings that we have been praying for, in this “Year of the Latter Rain”.

Zechariah 10:1 - God wants us to ask Him. He is close to us. We can be open and real with Him.
Our relationship with God isn’t supposed to be robotic and distant.
Our asking pleases God. He loves it when we ask - We can never ask too much. 
Believe and declare that this year is your year of breakthrough.

“Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.” (Zechariah 10:1 WEB)

Matthew 7:7-11 - To receive from Jesus, you must ask. There are no conditions attached.
Start asking, keep asking and don’t stop asking.
Don’t be afraid to ask for both big and small things.
It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
We have not because we ask not.

““Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7-11 WEB)

What do you do if you ask God and you don’t see the breakthrough/blessing coming your way? How to handle the feeling of disappointment? 

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​I wrote the post below  to help you be established in the Gospel of Grace and not to be turned aside to false doctrines of demons. Keep on feeding on the truth until you receive your breakthrough! 

“You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.” (John 8:44 WEB)

Do you think that the devil tells truths some of the time and lies at other times? No Jesus said that there is no truth in him. Everything the devil says is for deception and trickery. 

The Bible doesn’t record many dialogues spoken by the devil, but in those few that exist, we can see that he always lies. 

Firstly, the devil spoke through the serpent in the Garden of Eden. 
He lied that Eve wouldn’t die from eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 

“The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”” (Genesis 3:4-5 WEB)

His words directly contradicted God’s words. 

“Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”” (Genesis 2:16-17 WEB)

The devil just wanted to inject an unhealthy dose of unbelief into Eve’s heart. 

The only recorded conversation between God and the devil is in the Book of Job. The devil lied that Job would renounce God if Job lost his material possessions. 

“But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”” (Job 1:11 WEB)

It turns out that Job did not renounce God.

“In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.” (Job 1:22 WEB)

Then the devil lied that Job would surely renounce God if Job lost his health.

“But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”” (Job 2:5 WEB)

Yet Job did not renounce God. 

“But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.” (Job 2:10 WEB)

The devil just wanted to gain access to kill, steal and destroy in Job’s life. 
He hates nothing more than seeing a blessed, righteous person who follows God’s ways. 
If you seek to live a godly life, you will definitely be persecuted by the devil. 

Why did God allow Satan to attack Job so terribly? 
I believe it’s because He looked into the future and saw that Job had the strength of character to persist through the trials - a virtue that stems from having “the fear of the Lord”. Job saw God as awesome and to be praised. 

God planned a great restoration for Job at the end of the trials, and Job will undoubtedly receive great eternal rewards before the Judgment Seat of Christ in the future.
What an honor he also received to have a book about his life written in God’s word! Job is a blessed man. 

Finally, the last recorded time of the devil’s dialogue is when he tried to tempt Jesus in the wilderness. 
For forty days and forty nights, the devil tried every trick up his sleeve and yet he failed every single time. 

Jesus refuted every manipulation and lie of the devil with God’s word. 
Whenever a thought arises in you and you’re unsure whether it’s God’s will or not, check with the Bible. 
The Bible contains the revealed will of God. 
If anything contradicts the Bible, then it’s definitely not God’s will. 
This is why it’s important to know God’s word. You can’t apply truths that you don’t know about. 

“The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’”...The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want. If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.” Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’” He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here, for it is written, ‘He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.’” Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”” (Luke 4:3-4, 6-12 WEB)

The devil tried to taint the sinless Son of God - If Jesus did as the devil requested, Jesus would have become the devil’s slave. 
Satan was so proud that he believed that he had the power to cause anyone to sin. He didn’t believe that Jesus was incorruptible.  

Dear brother or sister in Christ, the devil is a master at the art of lying. Never believe in anything he says or anything that belongs to him.
He is so good at lying that everything he says seems to be true. 
Whenever you cut a deal with him, you’re always on the losing end.
If he allows you to have something good (that comes from God anyway - every good and perfect gift descends from our Heavenly Father), he will definitely take away something more valuable from you. 

Instead, trust in the Holy Spirit. God’s word calls Him the Spirit of Truth. He tells only the truth. 
Whenever the devil comes with a lie wrapped in eloquence, listen out for the prompting of the Holy Spirit in your heart. 
He will help you combat the lies by burying them with the truth. 
When light shines into the darkness, darkness scatters. 

Praise and Worship songs performed:

1. Trading My Sorrows - Darrell Evans
2. I Stand in Worship - New Creation Church 
3. Living Hope - Brian Johnson
4. Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) - Chris Tomlin 

We are going to look at hidden truths about Jesus in the Mandarin characters. 

The languages of the people were confused at the Tower of Babel. 
The Jewish and Chinese histories are the two longest preserved ones that have been recorded. 

春 (spring) = 三 (three) + 人 (people) + 日 (day)
Spring represents a day of Grace whereby God became a Man, died for our sins at the cross and rose again on the third day. 

迎春接福 : Welcome Jesus to receive blessings.

Hebrews 10:10 - When you receive Jesus, you are made righteous. 

“by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” (Hebrews 10:10 WEB)

Hebrews 10:14 - As a believer, you have been made forever righteous. 
The Day of Grace is not about what you can do for God, but what God can do for you. 

“For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.” (Hebrews 10:14 WEB)

We are so focused on taking care of our outward appearance. God wants us to take care of our inside. 
That’s why He sent Jesus to cleanse us from within. 

God’s address on earth today is you and me. 
God doesn’t want to dwell in a temple made by human hands. 
That’s why Jesus’ name is Emmanuel: God with us. 
We are so clean today that God can dwell inside us. We are the temple of God. ​