Introduction
Today, the message from Rick Joyner has been a tremendous encouragement to me, because he spoke of a prophecy that seems to be pointing directly at us. For God's will is constantly revealed through such prophecies. God has used Rick Joyner to write many books, including The Final Quest. This book is actually the greatest revelation God has given to the church of this generation through Rick Joyner. Our church, over the past years, has been walking step by step according to the process described by Rick Joyner in The Final Quest. As to whether it is a coincidence, some things we did after reading, and some things we did without knowing, only to find similarities after reading.
Today, we are all ascending the mountain of the Lord, entering the house of the God of Jacob. In these last days, God is establishing a generation of victorious church that welcomes the Lord Jesus Christ to return to the world. This generation is our Chinese generation, and it is also the generation that receives the baton of the Gospel, continues to pass it on, and takes on its Mingding Destiny. I am very, very honored to be involved in this plan. As for how we got here, and why God chose me, I do not know. But I know one thing, that there is a victorious faith within me. There were many days filled with tears, coming through difficult times, yet there remains an unquenchable victorious faith within. Because there was a great hope within me, that the church should be like Jesus. The key is that the church should be like Jesus.
You can preach many theological doctrines, speaking eloquently, but what is the use if you are not like Jesus? Some years ago, I asked myself why the church is not like Jesus. The things Jesus did, the church does not do; the things Jesus did not do, the church does a lot. I was very surprised. I said, God, I want to build a church where You can manifest miracles through my hands and in my life, to build a church like You. I long for my service to be like Yours! But looking back, I see that I am not like Jesus at all. What Jesus did, I cannot do; what I can do seems to be what Jesus did not do. It does not seem right at all. But I know in my heart that as long as I have faith, God will accomplish it. Even if I have a faint faith, God will still accomplish it. I thank God that step by step, God's revelation has come to us time and again, allowing us to walk in God's will. So in this generation, as we draw closer to the victorious church, our hearts are once again stirred.
A few days ago, I went back to the place we used to use, because we needed to dismantle all the renovations we had done and restore it to its original state when we rented it. When I entered that place, there were too many memories. These memories were not of victory, but of how we were ravaged by the devil. We had experienced many, many failures, fighting battle after battle, but we have all come through. These defeats cannot extinguish the victorious faith within us. Often, we feel nothing inside, often there is no emotion in our hearts, but I have faith in my heart that we will definitely come through. When sharing with my colleagues, they told me that they did not see that state in me at the time. I said that I had faith in my heart, so the state I showed was a state of victory, even though I often faced defeat. Today, I want to share with you a topic called: Victorious Faith.
Victorious faith is the key to building a victorious church. If you do not have faith in your heart, God cannot use you to manifest His power. No matter what you do, you need faith. A scientist once conducted an experiment, dividing people into two groups to memorize a string of unfamiliar numbers. When asked three minutes later, they could all recite them fluently. But when asked again a week later, they found that those who believed they could remember still remembered the numbers, while those who did not believe they could remember had forgotten them. Faith has a profound effect on people's memory, not only in remembering numbers but in all things.
Recently, I trained our colleagues to start scraping plaster. What I saw was very surprising to me. I quickly mastered the techniques of scraping plaster and applying gypsum powder. The way my arm swung was like the way it looked in the video of scraping plaster. Swinging the arm far away makes it comfortable to scrape. Later, I fell in love with scraping plaster. Because every time I scraped the wall flat, I would stand there and enjoy the effect of my scraping. But when I watched my colleagues scrape, they would patch the uneven spots. Their movements did not look comfortable at all. I demonstrated to them, Scrape like this, do it like this, but when I saw them doing it, they were still applying it little by little. So I really wanted to know why this was happening.
Later, I realized that it was not a matter of attitude, because he was a brother with a very good attitude, with no problems at all. But later he found the key to the problem, because we had been discussing the key to the problem. It was that he did not believe that he could smooth the wall when he was doing it. I finally found the key to the matter. It turns out that faith is so important in the process of doing everything. When he began to regain confidence, believing that he could smooth the wall, he smoothed the wall, and he began to enjoy the feeling of scraping plaster like I did. If you are interested, I would really like to build a team of colleagues who can scrape plaster all over Singapore.
Smoothing the wall is an external manifestation of faith. This incident began to give me more confidence to promote something in the church, to let all our brothers and sisters do some things that can exercise faith. Of course, scraping plaster is a very direct way to exercise faith, because after you scrape, the wall is either flat or not flat. You can shout Hallelujah in the church for a long time and very loudly, but that does not require faith.
Later, I really found the basis in the Bible. The Bible showed me that the Apostle Paul was a person who made tents. He could do many things, and it did not delay him from building the church. Don't you think it is strange? Those who never do anything, only do things that involve talking in the temple, many of them became Pharisees in the years of Jesus. Today, we must know for sure that your faith must be exercised through your mouth and through your hands, and you must do things.
I have had a personality since I was a child. I am bragging about myself again, please bear with me. I have always wanted to know why I learn so well, because I believe that I can do everything well. When I am doing something, I believe that I can do it well. I finally found how I became such a person. It turns out that I have been willing to be a person of faith since I was a child. So when I build a church, in my faith, no matter how harsh or difficult the environment, building a glorious church has never changed, and my faith has never been extinguished.
When I read the Bible, I believe that I will understand the word of God, and then I really will understand it. When I work as an engineer, I believe that I will be a very excellent engineer. When I study, I believe that I will understand the book. Once, I read a book called The True God of the Trinity. After reading it, I could not understand it at all. Later, I concluded that it was because the author did not write it clearly at all. I did not believe that I could not understand it, because I have such faith in my heart. So I learned very well.
When I do education, I hope to be a well-known educationist; when I do management, I want to be the best manager; when I do church, I want to build the best church; when I do healing and deliverance, I want to do the best healing and deliverance, very much like Jesus; when I do business, I want to do a very prosperous business; when I do renovation, I do a very good renovation; when I do design, I become a design expert in the use of small spaces. I really understand how small spaces can improve their utilization rate. The Japanese are very good at it. I often watch those videos on the use of space, which is very impressive. I abstracted a letter called L, the L of hammer and the L of plane. Of course, today I am not talking about renovation, nor about space utilization.
When I started speaking English, I could not speak English at all when I came to Singapore, but today I do not think my English is inferior to many people, including Singaporeans. Recently, I have been preparing to start preaching in English and studying the Bible in English. This is a bit challenging, but I believe I can do it well, I believe I will do better and better. Some sisters said, Doing this and doing that, it seems a bit chaotic. But it does not matter, in my faith, those chaos will be removed.
Let me boast again today, now we have written 38 books. I have done so much. It is really very, very effective, and there is a lot of originality in these books. Many of the views are not copied from the Internet, but are revealed to us by God. To know God, we must constantly surpass ourselves, and believe that we will surpass ourselves. You will definitely take another step, two steps, three steps forward on your current foundation. This is our faith.
Having faith will be reflected in our patience and persistence in doing things. With patience and persistence, we will be constantly renewed in God. Our faith will be reflected in patience, persistence, and paying the price. The price I pay is very heavy. Among many pastors, I can say that I am a person who pays a heavy price. I work very, very hard. Many people do not deny this. Even if they are pastors, they do not deny that I work really hard, because I have faith in my heart, a victorious faith.
What God wants is a constantly renewed vessel. God does not want old wineskins. God wants to fill your new wineskin with new wine. The new wineskin is that you have a victorious faith inside, constantly being elevated and constantly being renewed, preparing yourself to be a new wineskin no matter what. Actually, looking back on these past years, I feel a little self-pity, but I am very happy, I am very happy, because after doing something, I get promoted, and after being promoted, I get promoted again. Every time after being promoted, I face new challenges, new problems, and new expansions. It is very hard.
So there is a reason why I rarely sleep before 2 a.m. in the past years, because you do something and then you get promoted again, and you are just getting familiar with the work and then you start getting promoted again, just getting familiar with the work, and every time it is a situation of expansion. That is to say, we must constantly expand and begin to become a new wineskin, new wine and new wineskin.
Today, do not think that our church will become a very traditional church. Because tradition will remain for a very, very long time, and then become very old, very old Pharisees. You say, Oh! It is too tiring to walk this way. You can find a comfortable place, but that is definitely not here. If you want to be a Christian among us, do not think about getting comfort, do not think about living a small life. You cannot do that here. You can only be constantly renewed among us. As long as you are willing, we will see the effect of your victory and see your exercise of faith. Let us look at today's scripture.
Scripture
He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.” He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” (Revelation 3:12-13)
Prayer
Lord Jesus, may You build us on Your rock, let us be built on the foundation of Your faith, to become a victorious church. Lord Jesus, we know that Your will is to build a victorious church, so we come to You with faith. Lord Jesus, please use us to accomplish Your will according to what we believe in our hearts. We believe that we can work with You to build a victorious church and become pillars in Your temple. You will also write Your name, that is, Your new name, on us. Our names will be connected with Your name. Lord Jesus, You will raise us up in this end-time era, build Your victorious church, and welcome Your return. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
God's Will is to Build a Victorious Church
The victorious church is the concept we constantly convey. God's will in the New Testament is the church. If we summarize a theme from the New Testament, it is the church. What kind of church is it? It is a glorious and victorious church. If you read Revelation carefully, from Revelation chapter 2, verse 1, to the last verse of chapter 3, it is constantly repeating one sentence: How the victorious church will be, how the victorious church will be. And then: He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Do not think that God sees you building a non-victorious church, and you say that this is God's plan for us. No, this is not God's plan for you! God's plan for you is to build a victorious church, but to build a victorious church, you must have a victorious hope and a victorious faith in your heart. If you do not have a victorious faith in your heart, and you think, I am just like this, then the church I build will be like this, and this is God's will. Is this really God's plan? If that were really the case, the Bible would not say this: He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Jesus said, “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.” (Luke 18:29-30)
Many people read the same Bible as us, the same scriptures. But do they have the willingness and faith to build a victorious church in their hearts? Some people say as soon as they hear my words, Only you can do it! Actually, I really cannot do it. But I believe that my God will use me. When I am not victorious, I believe that is not God's will. When I am terribly bullied by the devil, I know that God's will is to lead me to victory. I will continue to hold on tightly, even with a faint faith, to grasp God.
I know the words the Bible tells us, I have heard them, and he who has ears should listen. But after I have heard them, I choose the victorious faith. Brothers and sisters, do you know that when we do healing and deliverance, I have a stubborn faith in my heart, not a stubborn unbelief. If a person is not healed, my brothers and sisters will inherit a character: that is, to keep serving until victory.
The key is to build the church according to God's revelation. Recently, we have been doing healing and deliverance training. Our healing and deliverance training team came up with an interesting topic: What is the key to building a victorious church? Many answers came out. Some answered: Overcoming oneself. That is not what I have said. The key to building a victorious church is to build according to God's revelation. If you do not build the church according to God's revelation, it is impossible to become a victorious church. If you build according to God's revelation, you will definitely become a victorious and glorious church. In the process of building a victorious church, there are many people who make many excuses for their unbelief. Until today, I am really surprised in my heart that so many things that do not conform to the Bible are circulating in the church.
A few days ago, I met a very lovely brother. I asked him, Which church are you in now? The brother said, I am in a certain church. I said, Then how are you now? The brother said, Our church is very good. Our church pursues balance. Family, work, and church must be balanced. I thought, How did I not read this concept of balance in the Bible? I flipped through the Bible from front to back and I did not find it.
But I found one thing: You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Where does it say that you should love the church, family, and work with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength in balance? Can it be balanced? Where has God said to balance? God has never said: You must love me, and also love your wife as much as you love me. Is there such a word? There is only: You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. To ask you to give up everything for God, forsake parents, children, wife, brothers, houses, and fields. What does it mean? No one thing can be elevated to be the same as God. Only God deserves to sit on the throne and be Lord in our lives.
You cannot say: Lord Jesus, You are my Lord, and my wife is also my lord. You cannot do this. You have only one Lord, who is our God. We must have a very clear understanding that our Mingding Destiny is to build God's glorious church. If the church is balanced with your work and your family, then what can you use to build God's glorious church?
When the church needs to call you to fight a spiritual battle, you say, Oh! I still have this and that! Jesus said: Follow me! You said: Let me go back and bury my father. Jesus said: Let the dead bury their own dead, but you must come and follow me. Which one does not forsake everything? Does the Bible teach us to balance? If you want to balance, then give your heart, soul, and strength to build His glorious church in God. If you seek the kingdom of God, other things will be added to you.
Some people said to me: Can you pray for my business? I said, Why should I pray for your business? Because my business needs prayer very much. I thought, if you seek the kingdom of God, all these things will be added to you. In our lives, if you understand a little bit of philosophy and management, you must grasp the most important thing! People often try to balance in their lives, and you cannot grasp anything important. Grasp the most important thing, and then grasp the second most important thing, and then grasp the third most important thing, and you will get everything. If you put the important thing and the unimportant thing together and grasp them together, you will accomplish nothing in your life!
There is a book called The One Thing. The most important thing is only one thing. If you grasp the most important thing, will other things be obtained? Yes. If you grasp the kingdom of God and forsake many things in the world, there is no one who will not receive a hundred times more in this life and eternal life in the age to come. Everyone must know that God's will is the victorious church. If you do not completely give yourself in the victorious church, and you pursue a balance, you will not be able to balance. What can you balance with the kingdom of God? If your business is balanced with the kingdom of God, your business will be cursed. If your family is balanced with the kingdom of God, your family will be cursed. If your own wealth is balanced with the kingdom of God, your wealth will be cursed. Today, we must know that our God is everything to us. God's will is not just a church, but a victorious church. Our Mingding Destiny is to build a victorious church.
The Key to Building a Victorious Church is Our Faith
‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the Lord of hosts.” (Haggai 2:9)
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)
Just now I shared with you that going back to see our original place, walking the original road, there was heartache, tears, and frustration, but I had a victorious faith in my heart. I knew that one day God's glorious church would be built among us. What you see today is only a little bit. The future victory and glory will be greater than the present. The latter glory will be greater than the former. Actually, at that time I told you that I had no feeling in my heart.
I have met some Christians many times, one of whom is my good friend. When he prays for people, if the hair on his body stands up, the person will be healed. If the hair on his body does not stand up, he will not pray for others. He said, I will wait until the hair on my body stands up before I pray for others. But the hair on my body never stands up. I have no feeling, as if God has not chosen me.
Some people ask me: Has God really chosen you? I said: God has chosen me. They said: How do you know? I said: I believe it! I am weak, and I really do not look like it! Not at all! But I still believe that God has chosen me. I still believe that God will use me to build His victorious church. I am a vessel used by God. Later I found the key basis in the Bible: Jacob waited for God for more than seventy years, with no feeling at all. He only had faith. He obtained the birthright from a secondary son, obtaining the covenant that his grandfather Abraham and father Isaac made with God. What evidence did he have? None. The evidence is faith itself!
The evidence is faith itself. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So you may look at yourself as I looked at myself at the time, you do not look like it at all. But it does not matter, you must have faith in your heart. I can definitely build a victorious group. I can definitely build a victorious pastoral district. I can definitely do a good job in shepherding. Because I believe! Faith is the assurance of victory. We have a victorious faith in our hearts, and you can be used by God.
If you count the past days, how many days were attacked by the devil, how many days were victorious, how many days did you feel like you could not persevere? But it was my faith that brought me out and made me walk out. People ask me: Why do you believe? I said: I just believe. I like to believe. I cannot live without believing! Whenever I do not believe, I feel so uncomfortable! That discomfort is really unbearable, but when I believe, my heart will be comforted. Faith is so wonderful, so I mention faith in all my sermons. If you hear that my sermon is the same old thing, faith is forever and ever, and you must always talk about faith!
Our God is searching in heaven and on earth for those who have faith. When He finds them, He treasures them, selling all He has to buy them, so that they may be pillars in God's temple, with their names linked to God's name. Some say, Oh, how many Abrahams are there? How many Isaacs? How many Jacobs? How many Josephs? Just one each. I say, No, there is another one, and that is me. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, and then my God. My name will be linked with God's name.
Standing on the road we have traveled and looking forward, we are filled with challenges. I do not know if I can do it, but I believe I can. We must expand our English-speaking ministry, our Korean-speaking ministry, and our Cantonese-speaking ministry. Some will ask, Can you really do it? I cannot, but my God can, and I believe I can do it. It does not matter if I cannot; my God will surely make me victorious, my God will surely enable me to do it!
Mentioning the words Religious Reformation, these words sound too grand, don't they? A few days ago, I told a Singaporean friend that I was going to do a religious reformation, and he said, Ah? Isn't that a bit much? I asked, Is it too much? He said, Religious Reformation is what Martin Luther did! It does not matter, haven't we been doing it all along? In fact, God's truth has been constantly restored since Martin Luther's reformation. Every era has elements of religious reformation, and every era has elements of God's truth being constantly restored. What is so surprising about this?
I do not look like someone who is carrying out religious reformation, but it does not matter, I have faith within me. The difficulties before us are always greater than us, and what we face always seems like a giant. But it does not matter, we have God within us, and God will cause the giant's heart to melt before us, because we are going to possess the land. Those giants see us as grasshoppers, and when we look at those giants, we see ourselves as grasshoppers too. But it does not matter, we grasshoppers will gnaw those giants down; even ants can gnaw down an elephant bit by bit, and that is faith! We are going to do things that seem and sound too big; we like to do that, we like to find a giant and take him down.
Why do we do this? Not for any other reason, but because we have a glorious hope within us, and this glorious hope is precisely God's will. God is looking for those who will build a victorious church, God is looking for those who have victorious faith, to become vessels that can be used by Him. I said to God, God, this is too difficult, but what is impossible for me is possible for you! God, here I am, please use me. God, I am willing to give everything for you. God, this is my glorious Mingding Destiny, I will obtain it even if I die, I was born for this, and I came into the world for this. You are the God who makes me victorious. My faith is all in God, God you will surely regard me as precious, you will surely link your name with my name, and you will surely engrave your name on us, we must be raised up in this era to become a victorious group of people who clear away the erroneous concepts in the church!
It is not feeling, it is believing, just believing, just liking to believe. Believing when you have feelings, and believing even when you do not have feelings, serving when your hair stands on end, and still serving even when your hair does not stand on end—this is us! We are a group of brothers and sisters who build God's victorious church, we are a group of elite soldiers who build a victorious church, so that in this era, God's glory can be manifested through us. Doing such things requires courage! If you want to become a vessel used by God, you must have courage!
Faith is Courage
Faith is courage. Some years ago, I had a dream before God, a daydream with my eyes open. Some people ask me, Others like Joseph have dreams, Joseph can dream. What if I haven't had such a dream? I say, Can't you have a dream with your eyes open? Thinking of something in your mind with your eyes open is a dream. Can't I make up a dream? Some years ago, I made up a dream with my eyes open, a dream of a glorious church, and that was quite a courageous choice.
Timidity is not faith. All who are timid, as written in Revelation, will be thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur. Timidity is definitely not faith; you must have courage. When Caleb and Joshua saw the giants in the land of Canaan, what did they see? They also saw themselves as grasshoppers, and the giants also saw Joshua and Caleb as grasshoppers. It was not because of how they were themselves, looking at the guns in their hands, and then looking at the guns in the giants' hands, the weapons were much thinner and shorter than theirs, but our God does not care about guns, or swords, or the muscles on your body, or the horse under your crotch. We read ancient novels: a red rabbit horse under the crotch, and a bright silver spear in hand, very powerful. But our God does not rely on these at all. Our God only gives you a small stone, and you can take down a giant. No need for armor, no need for spears, all you need is a small stone! We do not have a red rabbit horse under our crotch, we have nothing, we only have the courage that God gives us to face the giants, and the giants will surely fall completely before us.
Courage is a choice; if a person has the courage not to fear death, he will surely be victorious. Why are we afraid? Because we care about too many things. Last night I was teaching a sister, and I told her not to care about so many things. Why care about so many things? What good does it do to care and care? In the past, when her husband was alive, he cheated on her, and she got so angry that she went deaf in one ear. To this day, she still wears a hearing aid, and her mind is often filled with negative things. Yesterday, I encouraged her, encouraged her to have faith, to choose the path of faith. Because according to the conditions, according to reality, according to the actual situation, we have no way to be victorious. Because according to the conditions, we are all humble people, we really do not look like the high class of society, we are all at the bottom of society. Not many are noble according to the flesh, and not many are capable, but we are all people of faith.
Yesterday there was a sister, I talked to her for a few words, because she suffered heavy losses in her investments. She borrowed 50,000 yuan, and after investing, she was left with 30,000 yuan. Others borrow 50,000 yuan, and after investing, 50,000 plus 50,000 becomes 100,000, 5,000 plus 5,000 becomes 10,000, but hers became 30,000, losing a lot in stocks and futures. I directly told her, Your inner qualities are not good, you have no faith inside, you have no courage inside. She made decisions based on timidity, and she asked me if she should continue to do it? I said, You can choose to continue to do it, and you can choose not to listen to me, but you must practice your inner qualities and become a person of faith. Of course, I do not encourage everyone to speculate, but we should all have the concept of investment inside, have courage, and have faith.
Do you know why people do not have faith? Because people care about too many things. If you care about money, you cannot invest. People who love money will basically not become wealthy, but people who love God will. If you love money, money will become your bondage, how can you invest well? You see some investment managers, they are very good at investing other people's money, but not so good at investing their own money. When investing their own money, their hands tremble when they click the keyboard, but when investing other people's money, they are very smooth, because it is not their money that is being lost, but when investing their own money, they lose everything, because their psychological qualities are not good. People often have a bottom line inside, and today we must remove that bottom line. If you have a bottom line, the devil will often destroy your bottom line, and you will go crazy and collapse when that bottom line is touched.
Inside me, there is only one thing, and that is faith, with no bottom line. The devil has nothing to touch. Inside me is God, is Mingding Destiny. Nothing can move my Mingding Destiny, and nothing can touch our God. I will love the Lord our God with all my heart, soul, and strength. Why does God not allow us to love our parents more than we love God? Because if you love your parents more than you love God, the devil will touch your parents, and that is harming them. If you love your children more than you love God, the devil will surely touch your children. Whatever makes you collapse, the devil will very clearly come to touch.
Today we must remove the bottom lines inside us. Your bottom line represents your spiritual height. If your spiritual height is not enough, there will be endless problems to solve. If your spiritual height is enough, your bottom line will become God. Your height is the key to solving your problems. If your height is not enough, your problems will never be solved well. Today we must all ascend the mountain of the Lord, constantly increase our spiritual height, and enter the temple of the God of Jacob, until we come to the temple of God.
If you want to be victorious, you must remove your bottom lines, remove what makes us timid, and increase our height to see through the essence of things. The practice of courage is practiced by doing things. The Lord Jesus told a parable: someone took one thousand taels, someone took two thousand taels, and someone took five thousand taels. Those who had courage invested the two thousand taels, and those who had five thousand taels invested them, while the timid buried the one thousand taels in the ground. Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. What you value is where your heart is.
Doing things, doing business, and investing are all practices of faith. Doing business requires a lot of faith. Working for someone else does not require much faith. What does working for someone else require? Going to work and getting off work every day. You do not need to worry about your employees' salaries every day. You only care about whether your boss will deposit your salary into your account when the time comes. You do not need much faith. If you are often there day after day, year after year, without practicing faith, will God not deal with you? God will surely deal with you. You need to come out of your comfortable environment and enter into the practice of faith. Only the practice of faith can please God. Our church is a church that practices faith in the midst of doing things.
Practicing Faith in the Midst of Doing Things
Investing is a very good practice of faith. Some time ago, I took the brothers and sisters to invest. We found a godforsaken place to invest, and I was praying to God every day, what if the price does not go up? Because I made the decision. If I made the wrong decision, they would blame me, and I am really afraid of being blamed by them. Later, the price went up, and that was because of the support of faith.
Why did God use the parable of one thousand, two thousand, and five thousand taels of silver? If you have two thousand yuan in your hand, do you want to invest? If you have five thousand yuan in your hand, do you want to invest? In the Bible, these people all took the money to do business. Some earned five thousand taels, and some earned two thousand taels. It turns out that there are many places in the Bible where God uses money as a parable, accounting for 30%. Because where your treasure is, what you value is, there your heart will be also.
Where your heart is, that is where you practice faith. Today I encourage the brothers and sisters among us to all take out their faith and constantly practice it. Those who have two thousand yuan, take out two thousand yuan to do business, and those who have five thousand yuan, do five thousand yuan of business, and those who have fifty thousand yuan, do fifty thousand yuan of business. You say I only have one copper coin, then do a one-copper-coin business. I heard that someone used a yo-yo to exchange for a seashell, then exchanged it for a bigger seashell, and then exchanged it for a sheep, then exchanged it for a cow... and exchanged it for a house. But some people exchanged a house for a cow, then exchanged it for a sheep... and in the end, only exchanged it for a glass ball.
In this world, people who trust in God start to build a victorious church, go out to do things, and God will surely bless you. Why can the five thousand and two thousand taels of silver be earned? Because God caused him to earn it. Today I feel how good God's presence is. Everything my hand touches prospers, because I am a person who builds God's victorious church. I am thinking about whether I should take my colleagues to do some business. But I do not want to spend a lot of time. Don't think that I am the kind of person who spends eight hours and then spends more than ten hours, and then does not sleep and gets cancer. I only spend three or four hours a day doing these things. I want my employees to be people who practice faith, and then the brothers and sisters they serve in the workplace will be like them, able to bring blessings to others.
When you face difficulties, you must face them and solve them. That is victorious faith. When you encounter difficulties, do you choose to retreat, or do you choose to face the chaotic and ambiguous state and look for answers? Gather information, digest it, understand it, master it, find the answers to solve the problem, and turn something chaotic into something orderly, that is the image of God.
In the past, I often heard people say that salvation is going to heaven when people die. I searched the entire Bible and found that salvation is restoring God's glorious image while we are alive. Of course, this is part of the Religious Reformation. A few days ago, a colleague showed me a video of Lei Jun speaking English, and I laughed so hard that I fell forward and backward. It was very funny. Lei Jun went to India to promote his Xiaomi phone. He meant to say, Do you like this Xiaomi 4 phone? In English, he said, Do you like me, four? I laughed out loud. But Lei Jun had victorious faith inside. He really dared to speak, really dared to say it.
Lei Jun's English was about the same as when I first came to Singapore. He said, Hello, everyone, are you OK? Actually, Are you OK? in English is used to describe someone who is sick, asking if they are feeling well. It is a bit inapt, but he is a person of faith, very remarkable, and I admire him wholeheartedly. He was able to build Xiaomi into its current scale, and that is because he is a person of faith! People with faith dare to speak even if they do not speak English well. The result was very good. What he said in English was turned into a song and put on the internet, and now it has become a very popular song called Are you OK, really great! You know, some of our brothers and sisters created Mingding Destiny music when they did not understand anything at first, and they created it. That is faith! The result of faith is miracles. What are miracles? It is when something that was originally impossible becomes possible. Do you like to turn impossible things into possible things, or turn possible things into impossible things? I will tell you the answer: turning inherently impossible things into possible things is a very enjoyable thing.
So, a person with faith enjoys being a pastor, a person with faith enjoys being a teacher, and a person with faith enjoys being a lawyer or whatever they are. But a person without faith is in trouble. Lei Jun's success is not because he is Lei Jun, but because he is a person of faith. If you look at those successful people in the business world today, no matter what their religious beliefs are, you will definitely find elements of faith in them. You cannot go on in business or investment without faith. If you are a person of faith, in God's eyes in this generation, you are a very important treasure. When you encounter difficulties that seem impossible, you can rush past them!
Being Pillars in the Temple of God
Practice your faith. Maybe at first your faith can only be like a matchstick, not to mention a pillar. But if your faith is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, you can move mountains! Because faith will grow. In the process of constant practice, you can practice a matchstick into a wooden stick, from a wooden stick into a wooden棒! A wooden棒 turns into a pillar, and a pillar turns into precious material in God's hand used in the temple to make foundation stones.
In the future, I have an expectation that God's name will be engraved on us: the God of brother WF, the God of sister YN, the God of sister ML, the God of sister LL, the God of sister Little Sun, our God! Your God is our God, and where you are, I will be! Did you hear that, how forceful these words are! God's name should always be known, and when people know our God because of you, your name will be linked to the name of our God, and the name of our God will be engraved on us.
If brother WF serves some brothers and sisters, these brothers and sisters will say, The God of teacher WF is really great! How is that? It is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and later it becomes your God and my God. We look at ourselves and seem not so great, but it does not matter, we will persevere until God's glorious church is built. We will be leaders and pillars in the church, and God's name will be closely linked with your name.
The term Religious Reformation is a bit big, and we do not look like it, but it does not matter, we dare to say it. We will accomplish it by saying it, so we must always say it. Today we are not boasting, but we are boasting about a victorious church, well-trained Christians. Today brothers and sisters should not be afraid of being dealt with. If you want to be a pillar in the temple of God, you must be able to withstand all pressure. Pressure cannot overcome you.
What is pressure? We were born to be pillars that support pressure! If the church is big, it does not matter, I am here to support it with this pillar. You may say is this 牛皮 blown too big? Is that too big? The faith inside me is much bigger than that! We will start to be trained, constantly trained in faith! Constantly trained in healing and deliverance, constantly trained in spiritual warfare in God's kingdom. No matter how fierce, how evil, how powerful the opponent is, they can never stand before God. Our God will surely make us victorious!
Summary
Today we have written 38 books, putting all the revelations we have received from God into the books. Until today, I have asked some of my Christian friends in other churches about the situation of their churches studying Genesis, and they all said that they skipped it all, they dared not talk about Mingding Destiny, and they did not know that it was talking about Mingding Destiny, but we have clearly written all of these in the books. Tamar pretended to be a prostitute for the sake of Mingding Destiny, risking her life to obtain Mingding Destiny. It did not seem like it at all, but she became a very famous person in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Judah begot Zerah and Perez by Tamar, and wherever the gospel is preached, the name of Tamar is praised. Whoever reads the Gospel of Matthew will read the passage that Judah begot Zerah and Perez by Tamar.
We do not care at all, we break through the rules and regulations, and we also break through this term Religious Reformation! We are willing to do this, and even if others put many strange hats on us, we do not mind wearing them, because we know that is God's will, and God's truth must be constantly restored. God began to restore the truth of being filled with the Holy Spirit in 1900, and later, in the 1940s and 1950s, He established a businessman's fellowship through an American businessman. His name is also constantly being praised. The Singaporean businessman's Christian fellowship once played a very important role in the Religious Reformation, promoting the filling of the Holy Spirit and promoting things that many churches had never touched. I know many friends in the businessman's fellowship, who are Christian brothers and sisters who love the Lord very much, but today God wants to raise us up to pass on constantly updated information. The truth of the Bible is constantly being restored! Knowing God is endless. Do not think that we have already known God enough in the past. It is never enough!
Religious Reformation is always needed. Martin Luther did not complete the Religious Reformation. The Religious Reformation has been continuing since Martin Luther. John Wesley made some reforms, John Calvin also made some reforms, and later Evan Roberts also made reforms. Later, many, many people were greatly used by God in the Reformation. Today we must constantly re-excavate the truths of the Bible. The truth of the Bible is an infinite treasure, and we have only excavated a little bit, but today we must continue to excavate, and this is called reformation.
China's reform and opening up has led to today's prosperous and strong China. Today's reform is to make the church regain its vitality, restore its life, and transform the inconspicuous people in society, who may be the scum of society and the burden of society, into talents of society. Then equip them with truth, arm them with faith, and let the faith inside them be rekindled! Let the power of God be manifested again through his life. His life must re-manifest the glorious image that God created him with. Everything that the devil has stolen must be repaid in double!
From now on, the name of our God will be forever linked with our names. We are the vessels used by God to be a blessing to this generation. Amen!