1 Chronicles Overview Part 4 - Put Up The 4G Picture, Pray For Fresh Message, and Receive Fulfillment In That
Do not be busy.
Our present conditions can be enjoyed.
We do not need to struggle.
See the Lord. Then true courage comes.
1. Believe (Word)
Receive word -> format system -> test and approve (because all has already been provided)
2. Jesus Christ (Already accomplished)
Only way among "many" Words
Beloved -> worked -> victory (Emmanuel)
3. Holy Spirit's conviction
* Promise -> Vision/Dream/Prophecy = Purpose = Picture
Train promise by manifesting and teaching wisdom
Really pray from the vision (promise)
4. Preserve our hearts (Love God, Love Men) = Do from life => Joy, Peace, Hope and Rest
It is easy to love the Lord
Do everything with life
Just respond accordingly
1) Discover Love (from situations)
2) Hope
3) Victory
4) Master (Perfect will)
5) Wisdom
5. God's perfect will in all things <Ro 12:1-22>: Concrete, meticulous - There is a basis
6. Submission (Evidence) = Faith / Works => Accomplishment: all your best
Weakness? What God wants = put in our best to test and approve
7. Testify (Practical) Logos -> Rhema
1Ch Overview
1. Belonging <1-9> Genealogy
Adam, Noah, Abraham
2. David
1) Glorify God, Bless people
2) Gather central around David - Crux is on acquiring through the basis of Jehovah
3) Warriors - People With Promise
3. Reason: Converse with God (Ark of Covenant -> Central)
* Love to pray (Ab, Js, Dv, Dn)
Anticipate the need
4. Victory in all things <18-20>
Problems? Go into prayers
Not continuing with conflicts, knowing disbelief is rooted
Inside (Disbelief) ->
Problems -> *Answer
Fear -> Joy
Accusations -> Thanksgiving
Inferiority -> Boast
Poverty -> Abundance
Hurt (hatred) ->
Discouragement -> Vision
Outside
Prayer Topics
1) Picture: Individual's life (Jesus Christ), Family (Relationships), Church (Role), World Gospelization (Speaker)
2) Prayer Topic - New Fresh Message (not message typically responded by the crowd)
3) Fulfillment (happen in one day)
Do not be busy
Many times we are unable to be blessed because we are busy with a lot of things. Therefore, we must get things right first and organize a bit on seeing the Lord. He is looking at us with fiery eyes, ever willing to bless us. Our failures are because we hear a lot of God's word, but we never format. In the morning, we wake up and we go to work anxiously. When we come to meeting, we come unprepared. This is the reason why we cannot receive anything during the meeting.
Our present conditions can be enjoyed
In the past when I set up my family, I look at the family with no seriousness. When my daughter was born, I just took care of her by putting her at my mother-in-law's place, etc. However, one day, I formatted up my family life. The movement in the family can be enjoyed. Taking care of my children, and conversational topics with my wife and family members can be enjoyed. Do we just anyhow live our marriage life and family life so that they will just be well fed and there will be peace? If so, what for do we set up a family? I brought my family to Bedok Stadium and Bedok Reservoir and they really loved it. Do we just get busy and receive nothing at all in the end? We must not let bad habits become habitual. We must especially not lead our small groups with a habitual heart. When we come for small group, we do not just come, but let us bring things to share in our small group. When I meet my parents, I do not just talk to please them. However, when I see God's plan, I find them interesting. If we do not see things as such, how different is our belief from them? For Muslims, their prayers often bring anger. Do we just get angry and nothing else?
We do not need to struggle
This week, I prayed earnestly to prepare for the Penang messages. However, I do not know the situations there and I struggled. I specially prepared Tuesday for this prayer. However, God allowed me to have diarrhea. My heart is so anxious, yet God doesn't seem to want to give anything. Wednesday and Thursday, I continued to pray, but no answers came. I realized one thing when I quiet myself down, "If the Lord is not anxious, why do we need to be anxious?" We do not live to be successful. Then what do we live for? My answer is, "We live for loving the Lord." If God tells us to die now, we just die. How can Christians' intentions be greater than that of God? We do not need to struggle.
What is the meaning of the Ark of Covenant coming to the centre of our heart? The above is the very meaning.
See the Lord. Then true courage comes.
Those who see the Lord will in all situations, be it in prosperity and even failures, have courage. Christians' courage is different from the world's courage. When Paul knew that there were disciples in the city, he needed courage to go in. When we go to the office, there is God's plan in there, but there will be Satan's attack anytime, which means we need courage. Frequently, I see people continually going to church and but continue to be busy. However, they do not see the love of the Lord. If we have known the Lord, we will not need to be anxious when events happened to us, because we will know how the Lord has always been guiding us. When oxygen is gone, we will then realize that oxygen is always with us. When the light has turned off, we will realize that the light has always been with us. Some people have been habitually into the cycle of being shocked and surprised. They have been just following along whatever have happened, and not known what they have gone through and received. We need to see, so that we will not be surprised.
1. Believe (Word)
Receive word -> format system -> test and approve (because all already provided)
The Word must be received before we can hear and see. Have you formatted the word of God? Have the word become an organization and system in you first? After this happens, we can then know what is next. When we truly believe, the movement inside us will react differently. Others will only react according to their nature.
God tells us to test and approve. Does the Lord like to hide things, and then tell us to test and approve, to seek out His perfect will? Of course not. God has already revealed everything to us, about how we should live our family lives and how we should work in the office. If we really truly believe and our hearts are upright, we will immediately and absolutely be in joy because we will know that God knows even though others do not know. Without belief, we will not be able to see.
Put this in your hearts in the morning by the word, believe on it, and expect on it for the whole day.
2. Jesus Christ (Already accomplished)
Only way among "many" Words
The word of the Lord is revealed, but we are unable to receive any answer. It may be because the word of the Lord tells a lot of things. Jesus Christ had told us what is the most important word.
Beloved -> worked -> victory (Emmanuel)
Through Christ, we know that we are already beloved and have victory. This is called Emmanuel. If we only seek to do, we will be no different from Buddhists. All things have hidden the blessings of God. Is it tomorrow that God will be with us? No, it is the present time that God is with us. We must establish and build our faith like this. The Kingdom is with us right now. I am now trying to establish the word in you now. Really meticulously listen.
3. Holy Spirit's conviction
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the word of God, and the Spirit of Jesus Christ. For the Holy Spirit to convict one very clearly, one has to know the (1.) word and (2.) Jesus Christ well.
* Promise -> Vision/Dream/Prophecy = Purpose = Picture
Many people say that the promise is that God is ever with us, and He is our very help. Yes, but what I am talking about here is how we can receive the promise. The promise is a vision and a dream. This promise tells us how our future will be like. Joseph received the dream from young, about the stars, sun and moon submitting to him. Joseph remembered the dream, and cried, hiding from his brothers many times before revealing himself.
The promise is the purpose. If we do not have a purpose, how do we walk? If a saint does not have promise, how does he work? If he wants a relationship, what will that be for? If the Lord wants to sanctify me, what is it for? This is our picture. Without a picture, our life will be an indulgence and we will go our own ways. When I turned 30 years old 2 months ago, I told you all about the dream I have. I did not think of celebrating, therefore I prayed and the Lord gave me this, according to His word, how God will bless us at 40 years old, at 50 years old, etc.
Train promise by manifesting and teaching wisdom
My daughter knows how to answer everything, about how Satan affects people, about how God will give peace. However, when I tell her that she can share the gospel to her teacher and classmates, she quietly shook her head. I wondered why. Then I realized that they have an inferiority complex and they will fear that they would be rejected. But I realized also that they have to learn from young and receive wisdom. From young, if they do not know how to talk to people, they will lose courage in the world, lose all kinds of wisdom, and compromise with the world. I experienced this. Therefore, I continue to train you all in this promise.
Really pray from the vision (promise)
Therefore, today when you listen to the word, you must pray. Do not be like a frog in the well, such that you only quarrel with others. If you have the purpose, you will be different. When you go to work, proclaim in your heart, "Bosses, I do not want promotion or anything." Go and only go for people in the company and how to bless them. Then see how the Lord will bless you in all sorts of ways forcefully.
Christians are not good people, but they are people with vision. Sometimes we may be naughty, and God disciplines us. Yes, when He disciplines, we just change and be better. However, Christians are those with promise.
4. Preserve our hearts (Love God, Love Men) = Do from life => Joy, Peace, Hope and Rest
It is easy to love the Lord
What is "loving God"? If your life has the content in 1, 2, and 3, this is "loving God". We love God by what He said. Really believe points 1, 2 and 3 to love the Lord. If the Lord tells us today that we must become a professor or become a rich person to serve the Lord, this is really difficult. However, if God tells us to love Him, it is easy. On Tuesday, if the Lord tells me to prepare the Penang message no matter whether I have illness or not, this is difficult. We must be accurate. It is not that saints are not zealous, it is that they are not accurate. If the Lord tells us to love the people around me, I just love them.
Do everything with life
Do everything with life. When your boss tells you to do something, you hear God telling you to do as follows, this is called submitting God. Do you know what I am talking about? You must be blessed in order to understand my words. Those who love life will understand this.
If you do everything, yet do not have the above, you will feel that you have fought an empty battle. I heard some full-time ministers say that they turned full-time because they wanted to do something for God and for men. They say that they have been busy for their whole lives, and they wanted to do something useful. However, I see that now, they are busy with a lot of administrative things and people in the church. They thought that changing their roles would make them useful.
Just respond accordingly
Do we have sorrows and darkness? Go into prayers to receive joy, peace, hope and rest. When I wake up in the morning, I can feel that the darkness in the day slowly and increasingly creeps into me. I find that I need to pray. If you are experiencing this, you are truly experiencing God.
When you go into prayers, what are the 5 things you must receive?
1) Discover Love
When you think about your wife, the church, or brothers and sisters, you discover God's love.
2) Hope
Therefore we can hope in the time ahead.
3) Victory
Do not do prayers "in the name of Jesus" feeling monotonous habitually.
4) Master (Perfect will)
Therefore, just receive the heart of a master to test and approve.
5) Wisdom
Then, you will receive wisdom.
If you do not receive the above 5 (remember the above from "Love"), you will lose the love to pray. Then you will be tired, frustrated, and be angry with those around you. When the worship service ends, I will know if you have seen the Lord by whether you have received the above 5.
5. God's perfect will in all things <Ro 12:1-22>: Concrete, meticulous
There is a basis
If you just react forcefully to try to straighten things out when things go against you, you cannot say that this is His perfect will. There is a basis. There is definitely a reason for the church's break-in. More than restoring the name of the child of God, ask the Lord for the glory of His Name and things to learn from the mistake. From the event of the church's break-in, we saw that God's perfect will is to let us, coworkers be more united, see His providence when the money was restored by world gospelization offering, and to see that God will cause us to move to a bigger church when we need to.
6. Submission (Evidence) = Faith / Works => Accomplishment: all your best
Blessed are those who submit. Those who submit will see accomplishment.
Weakness? What God wants = put in our best to test and approve
Many times, we cannot be perfect like Jesus Christ, who submitted 100%. If someone slapped His face, He will let him slap the other side. But we may not be able to do this. God understands our nature. God only sees whether we have put in our best (all our hearts, minds, soul, might).
Many times, I see wrongly, too. However, what God wanted is whether we have put in our best to test and approve, and change when He guides us to. Many times, I pray to God to ask Him to settle some brothers and sisters for not being hungering before the Lord. However, when I know things exactly, I find that preachers can be just flesh sometimes to see things wrongly. What I mean here is that we always come before the Lord to test and approve things. We do not abide to the desires of our flesh.
7. Testify (Practical)
Logos -> Rhema
A disciple is most handsome when he is able to see clearly the perfect will of the Lord to give practical answers. Therefore, a disciple can teach people.
1 Chronicles Overview
Passage Reading: 1Ch 10:13-11:9
1Ch. 10:13 Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD, and even consulted a medium for guidance,
1Ch. 10:14 and did not enquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
Saul lost the conviction of the Lord from then on.
1Ch. 11:1 All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, ÒWe are your own flesh and blood.
1Ch. 11:2 In the past, even while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD your God said to you, `You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.ÕÒ
1Ch. 11:3 When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, he made a compact with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel, as the LORD had promised through Samuel.
1Ch. 11:4 David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus). The Jebusites who lived there
1Ch. 11:5 said to David, ÒYou will not get in here.Ó Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion, the City of David.
David had to capture Jerusalem to put the Ark of the Covenant there so that he could always inquire the Lord. He is one who is after the heart of the Lord.
1Ch. 11:6 David had said, ÒWhoever leads the attack on the Jebusites will become commander-in-chief.Ó Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and so he received the command.
1Ch. 11:7 David then took up residence in the fortress, and so it was called the City of David.
1Ch. 11:8 He built up the city around it, from the supporting terraces [Or the Millo] to the surrounding wall, while Joab restored the rest of the city.
1Ch. 11:9 And David became more and more powerful, because the LORD Almighty was with him.
1. Belonging <1-9> Genealogy
Adam, Noah, Abraham
2. David
1) Glorify God, Bless people
2) Gather central around David
Because of David, Ruth's name was exalted. Really see this vision, everyone, when all will gather around you.
Crux is on acquiring through basis of Jehovah
Do not just acquire inheritance. The crux is on how you receive. David received everything through Jehovah. Do you receive from the basis of your faith in God? God sees how Joseph received in the 13 years.
3) Warriors
Promise
Important people are not those with fame or money. If they hear and do not understand the promise of God, and want to simply follow the Lord, they do not count inside the list of important people.
3. Reason: Converse with God (Ark of Covenant -> Central)
Chapters 13-17 of 1Chronicles are the most important parts of the book.
* Love to pray (Ab, Js, Dv, Dn)
Abraham loved to pray, therefore, wherever he went, he set up altars. Daniel prayed for 21 days. Sometimes, we see people doing fasting prayers over a stretch of days. They are indeed good, but do they pray like Daniel, seeing an absolute reason to pray? If we meet with obstacles or things that we can no longer move, it is time for us to do concentration prayers.
Anticipate the need
Sometimes, I see some brothers and sisters listen to the message so earnestly. I hope so much to tell them to concentrate pray when they go home. This is because when they go home, they will turn on the TV and the programs will sweep over them like the sea. Our spiritual battles work this way: we pray, then we receive, then we await, then some answers come again, and we pray again. Daniel prayed like this.
4. Victory in all things <18-20>
Problems? Go into prayers
When there are quarrels between couples, if you wait for each other to change, it will take forever. When there are quarrels, go into that area to pray for that area. I know this is difficult, but really go into prayers to seek out the reason of the Lord for this. If it is difficult to do, but you did it successfully by the Ark of Covenant, this is better.
Not continuing with conflicts, knowing disbelief is rooted
Sisters should be like Sarah. Singaporean women like to ask questions, "Why do you do this or that?" Sometimes I reply, "Why don't you just follow me, and I will just show you?" A simple example is when the husband drives but the wife talks. For couples, if we just continue to speak something, it will not be better. This happens because of disbelief.
Inside (Disbelief) ->
I discover that if disbelief is inside our life, everything will go wrong.
Problems -> *Answer
Fear -> Joy
Accusations -> Thanksgiving
Inferiority -> Boast
Poverty -> Abundance
Hurt (hatred) ->
Discouragement -> Vision
With problems, do not just leave it there. Respond counteractively and receive the answer.
Outside
For enemies outside, when we have received the answer inside, we will be able to overcome outside.
Prayer Topics
We must know
1) Picture: Individual's life (Jesus Christ)
If Jesus Christ is Augustine, how will Augustine be like? If Jesus Christ is Winnie, how will Winnie be like?
Family (Relationships)
Draw picture for family, even for singles. Then you will know who and what kind of relationships to look out for.
Church (Role)
What kind of church do you want? Is it one that has a long queue before meeting starts? No, but I am talking about your role.
World Gospelization (Speaker)
Our testimonies of how our child went through successful operations, of how a single parent can raise up 3 children, will go around the world.
2) Prayer Topic
New Fresh Message (not message typically responded by the crowd)
If you see news of people making a lot of money through en-bloc sales, and you hope to be like them, this means that you have received the wrong picture. However, if you see these news and respond, "The people have such a blind heart!" With the correct picture, you will have fresh new message.
3) Fulfillment (happen in one day)
If you naturally have such a response of seeing the blindness of people going after en-bloc sales, you will see that you have already received finance healing.
For people like Joseph, who had always been solving dreams (perfect will), it will seem very mysterious for people who see him solving dreams. However, for those who have always been testing and approving the perfect will of God, they will just need to ask a few questions and they will have the answer for them.
Taken from Discipleship Training on 14 September 2007, 1 Chronicles Overview Part 4.