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00:00:01 thank you John uh so wonderful to have John as a friend and uh first of all I'd like to thank the elders here and the leaders as well as your pastors to invite me for this and I'm happy to be here I know before covid I was here before as well uh by the cury of honor your one of your ers I can't remember it was 2019 or 2020 before covid but your church have changed and grown since after covid so I'm glad to be here today first of all I like to just acknowledge my wife uh we just celebrated our 45 years of
00:00:50 marriage and uh my best friend my partner in life as well as in ministry as well as in work so I'm very happy to have her with me encourag me she says he K we don't get too excited today sometimes when I get too excited I speak you know I swallow my words so I'm really really fortunate uh to be here standing before you when John introduced me uh 60 years AG I said wow you know uh so this is the part which I want I want to just uh bring to you hopefully impress upon you the importance of how how we as Believers when we are reaching
00:01:34 a certain age in life we got to realize certain things and when I realized that I wanted to serve God but I really at many stages of my life I really don't know how to and was looking for role models and examples because they say that if you really want to serve God you must really be a pastor a missionary a full-time worker or you know really go to Africa somewhere and get your life really miserable so to say and really then you really serve God and I was thinking in my life in my mind you know
00:02:12 I said does that make sense is there other ways I can serve God and I was struggling with this issue for a long time in my life I want to share with you firstly uh this this particular person I don't know what most of you may have known sir Roger banister right the guy who broke the uh 4minute Mile in uh 4th of May 1954 he ran the one mile uh in four below 4 minutes 3 minutes 59.4 seconds and you know at that time it was thought that it was physically humanly impossible to break the 4minute mile and
00:02:56 yet this man broke that and after that his record was broken in 46 days somebody else broke his record and he I think he ran in Australia he ran at 3 minutes 58 something seconds and subsequent to that a year later three other person broke the record of the 4 minute mile rather broke the barrier and then today we have thousands of people that have gone beyond 4 minute mile now in life many people will tell you this cannot be done that cannot be done that cannot be done and we somehow believe it and when you're 60 years old they
00:03:39 tell you hey it cannot be done you you go time for you to retire sit by the beach and do something with your life you know last week uh yesterday my grandson 9 years old came came back from Singapore with my son and they went back yesterday and she was teaching my wife how to use chat G PT come on 9 year old he was teaching my wife how to use it and I was so curious about it I heard about it I played with a little bit but I never took it seriously so I and he was he was teaching then I said well maybe I should
00:04:16 do something I type in since I'm doing a sermon but I didn't use that sermon of course I said create for me a sermon about the life of josua the B Bible character wow my handphone went B and came out a 4.5 Point sermon beautiful sermon you know even gave me a title Caleb a man of unwavering faith and then the sermon went wow can you imagine many things are possible these days but when it comes to God telling us certain things somehow our mind cannot comprehend is it possible can we do this can can we do that now I just want to
00:05:02 ask a question in the audience today how many of you are still working yeah a lot of you are not working how many of you are working at home yeah hakers are working right it's just that you don't get paid how many you don't realize that you're working how many of you really hardly work work you know when it comes to work work people have the idea that work is really bad and uh the Bible never never suggests that work is really bad when it first started man was Creator to work now if it's so bad why does God have
00:05:49 this idea why God is so crazy that will tell us that you know put a man in the garden to work and it was the purpose and the Fulfillment of man to find work to be joyful and interesting now the next slide I want to share with you my journey as a as a Believer and uh I want to please allow me to share a little bit because I feel that this one cat gbd cannot come out with this no way you can go and go do do it and you can find this and chat but other things can be done but you see when I first started my journey in work
00:06:25 I work for an organization of hak at that time that organization was such a great organ every every year was rated the top three company in the world the best company to work for and guess what I was with them for 13 years I was so highly motivated every morning I get up in the morning I look forward to go to work now you ask the young people today do you enjoy going to work today very few of them will say yes how many of you enjoy going to work just oh great oh oh I wish there would be more hands that put up but today work
00:07:05 has become so difficult and I don't blame people to say that work is difficult the environment of work becomes so toxic so we don't look forward to do it we don't mind working but an environment so that's one of the things I I found this that we need to start thinking about how we can restructure workplace so that's why I chose to work with Business Leaders not because it's great and fun it's glamorous no because they can influence and make changes and impact the rest of us so more Story one one story about H
00:07:41 package they gave me a credit card I was a young engineer studing they gave me a company credit card because I have to travel the region to qualify companies you know to supply to a company and I have spend money so so I asked what is the policy for this credit card how do I spend there was no guideline there was no Pig there was no how much what kind of Hotel you stay what kind of food you eat none you know what was the guideline it says that spend like it's your own money that was the guideline you know a
00:08:18 company that trust you a company that empowers you you can't help but say I really wanted to retire and work for this company and retire and actually we bought a retirement home home in panang at that time was working we bought two apartments one for ourselves maybe one for our children I think when you're motivated you realize that so much but today is a different company now very quickly I I promise then I was hit Hunter to run a multinational I became the MD of that and soon I realized that hey work is no
00:08:52 more fun when you're right at the top and there was a pressure for bottom line there was pressure for numbers it became difficult and I realized that hey I was actually in a paradise not every company is a humaner packet and the reality struck me that hey then I realized this is not what I want in life and I chose to do something else I say if I really cannot do it I like to coach someone to do it so I became a coach I joined an organiz a friend started this organization he said K would you like to
00:09:28 join me at that time there was too small I said well if I join you what do I get so you take the northern region I take the southern region of course he's smart he got all the rich people in the Southern and the and the you know clang Valley I got a northern region pank Al Pera and a few kind of places of course we started it and it grew today is a thousand members CEO and they pay big bucks to get you to coach them so I was them for almost 20 years I enjoyed working with that it's a great organization okay I started came back I
00:10:06 started to join a Brethren Church I don't know whether some of you heard about Breen church more brethren in this yeah a lot of Baptists are Brethren Island glaz Gospel Center and I was a young people leader they say I'm the ginat you know so I I really enjoyed serving in Island Grace and then you know the charismatic movement came and there were a few people that laugh left and groups that left the Brethren Church and the bre lost a lot of people I never experienced it until one day there was a
00:10:40 speaker that came and said that hey you know and then after that I felt a talking in my heart then a group of us young people we left the church and we joined some of those who have left and we started what we call our own church the Church of God so we co-founded that so became one of the elders there being a CEO of a company an elder of a church wow that's when I was tosing between Sunday and Monday to Friday you know I was one person on a Sunday and another person on a weekday and I I realized that this was dragging my life
00:11:23 apart until God says we got to do something and that's where God impress on my heart to come to K and uh because my father was sick at that time my business was growing I was running this CEO grouping I have a Consulting on my own and have a partner in KL and he say k you come to K why are you doing pinang because when I do Consulting I have to fly out from KL I have to come from Pang to KL to go to Singapore where we have Consulting work there and or east Malaysia where we have a lot of work there so I was
00:12:00 working like 5 six days a week you know it's a lot of money and you charge a lot of money right then I came to pinang uh KL I joined the UMC Pastor Daniel was a good friend of mine in UK so we join his church that was 1997 do you know what happened in 1997 some of you who are older Asian financial crisis we came 2 months before the Asian financial crisis we clearly hear the word of the Lord that says come to K so we came to KL two months later the bottom fell out interest rate was 177% US dollar was
00:12:47 4.8 and all that everything collapsed you know the first thing that people CAU was Consulting training so I went from six days working in a week to one day a week and I have seven mortgages to service so the Lord was speaking to me about certain things in my life and there are two persons that really helped me during that period and let me just share with you the first person that came along was a guy which I'll share afterwards he helped me to think about serving God in the workplace that's the
00:13:28 fcci and then Pastor Daniel he asked me to say would you like to consider serving in the workplace minist so we started a faith at work I'll share a little bit more about that but then later on we felt called to start the incubator which is what uh I'll be sharing a little bit in it afterwards but this is quickly my life journey and the person that really uh helped me a lot was this man because when I was running a company and Elder of church I was finding it so hard to balance and understand about how
00:14:05 to serve God in the workplace as a CEO of a company at the same time running a church you know at that time it was a small church and being an elder of a church you know I know you guys have Elders here and it's not easy we have only two Elders I was one of the other two Elders we have pastors as well but uh the setup was such that the elders make most of a decision a maybe probably a little bit by like a Baptist here so anyway uh this man came along because I was looking for Role Models I was looking for ways I can integrate my
00:14:47 faith and I couldn't find it I went up to one of the leaders that I used to know as a pastor and I asked him what should I do with my life how can can integrate what I'm doing he said kawi you just do what you can today in your workplace when you are retired 55 60 then you serve God full time in the church I said yeah I know but I'm still very young you know at that time I was 30 plus 40 years old how many of you are around 40 years old none of you are come on I saw some worship people that young you know full of energy you
00:15:29 want to conquer the world right when you're 40 right you really want to do something different right you don't just want to follow the footsteps of other people so I was saying that no I I don't think I can do that wait until I'm 60 I want to serve God right now how can I do it so there was prophecy of my life you should be a pastor and all these things I don't know it didn't grab me so nevertheless when this man came along he taught me me things that I never knew so every year I travel to us we attend a
00:16:05 conference there and he will spend time with me you invest time in me and for about 10 years I went until he passed away in 2013 I lost two very important person in my life in 2013 first this man in a January 30th I received a message that he passed away I knew he was very sick one me meeting with him the last meeting I had with him I was there his lungs was only operating 25% and that morning he insist to see me for breakfast he insist that I must come and see him so I went and see him and the wife called me he said do you know
00:16:47 he's not feeling well and he could hardly walk but he insist in seeing you so I went and we had a time of prayer we have a wonderful time together you know it was such a memory of Ken humph and then since then he passed away and this man taught me a lot of how to serve God in the workplace at that time I didn't have never met workplace people that knew how to give their life to the Lord completely and this was one man and subsequent to that I have also met many others in the workplace the other person
00:17:25 that I lost was my mother almost about 2 months plus April Fool's Day April the 1st 2019 my mom came to know the Lord at a very late age 10 years before she passed away but she never missed a single meeting on a Sunday every Sunday she's right in the front and worshiping the Lord attending so she's illiterate but she enjoy worshipping and the pastor told me that the only time she missed coming when she was sick but every time every week she'll be there faithfully and my mom will always pray for me and wish me well
00:18:10 when I travel to the US when I make trips like that it says may God go with you your blessings be with you you know and she speak in hawen so that was the two persons that I really missed I know I've taken a lot of time to talk about the two persons but they are important to me in my life okay and Ken introduced me to a guy who has passed away but his books are still around Larry beet where this man is very exceptional Larry B wrote a book called business by the book He's he discovered there are
00:18:47 2,350 Bible verses that talks about money relating to Bone and by comparison the number of verses that talks about prayer guess how many 500 so 2350 500 you know Christians don't like to talk about money why H the Bible talks so much about money we like to talk about prayer faith and all these things but hey the Bible talks about it why Christians don't like to talk about it hey nothing bad with money he says you don't have you want to give me money that's great it's the love of money money is nothing wrong but we shy away
00:19:30 to even talk about money and in business and the workplace money is important so now I was then at that time started because they make me the country H for fellow fcci Fellowship companies for and I was going to men's group in churches and there was in one men's group that I shared says you know I I like you to learn this and then do uh small groups where you can study um we were setting up both there some of this old material which I'm giving away for free if you can get it go grab it okay and I was
00:20:11 sharing this there was a prominent lawyer at the back he stood up and he point a finger at me kwi you know I know he was BR because he was middle age and he was you know and he looked very distinguished he point a finger at me and later I found out he run a big law FM he said what you're teaching us is Not Practical what you're telling us to do cannot be done in Malaysia we are Muslim country we cannot apply bial principles Muslim country and business cannot be done the way the Bible teaches wow now you go to a church and talk like
00:20:51 that and somebody rebuke you right in front of everybody what would you do you hide yourself right under the P pit right I was taking a back first time somebody challenged me and um I paused I didn't know what to say I just want to hear what the holy spirit is saying what God is saying then right in front here there was a Elder he stood up he knew I was stuck he stood up he's got a Bible in his hand Elders that's the role you play okay he stood up and he flipped the Bible and says you know I read in my
00:21:27 Bible J I read my Bible Daniel there were guys that live in a place which were Pagan the Kings and Pharaoh they were not so Godly the environment was not conducive but they stood their ground and their faith Shine for God so if Joseph Daniel and all these guys serve the god that we serve and they can make it I believe we can make it also today you know what that affirms me you know there are a lot of people who thinks that in the workplace a lot of things cannot be done but I believe it can be done kp& came out with a survey 2013
00:22:14 many years ago I cannot find a later survey it says that 90% says is survey with 300 over top CEOs of public listed companies 90% says fraud is a major problem in the organization inevitable cost of doing business 71% believe that bribery corruption is an inevitable cost of doing business and 64% believe that business can be done in Malaysia without paying bribes still true today right it's difficult it's still true today and even more so and this was before the 1mdb right then I met a man nemii I knew I started to know him about
00:23:05 15 years ago and when I first met him I said this man you know has got something which I need to get him to tell his story I brought him all over Malaysia different cities I get him to speak under fcci you know I get him to share his story he started his business 30 years ago called Nehemiah wall and his tagline is we build Integrity I say why you right there you build Integrity yeah yeah apart from the wall having Integrity I want to build Integrity in business and his W last 100 years you don't know those retaining
00:23:44 walls and the back of his name card he put that we pledge to conduct business with integrity and we shall not get involved in any Corrupt Practices and some people say it's crazy and he a construction industry you deal with a lot of government officials you deal with a lot of Industries and it's a normal practice in the industry corruption and bribe is given how are you going to survive he survived 30 years today his company is a leader in his industry in his sector he owns 60 70% of the market
00:24:22 share is number one how do you do it it can be done it can be done and I've come across many others Naya put no corruption only on his name card very small but this guy Tam Tam he he put it on his Lorry zero corruption how Malaysian business can trve without paying undercounter he says no corruption no lies no cheats no bribes now he's a typical China man like the way he phrased the word say no lies h you know you know that's how you will speak and a direct translation and there are others who are
00:25:09 doing it today the barrier has been grown the myth have been taken away we were doing this business by the book and there was one man one day invite say a kahwi can I have lunch with you and he's an elder of a church he runs a silver consulting company he's been doing it for many years so he told me this story K when he doing this business by the W I felt convicted by certain things I thought something very minor but then he says I've been giving been giving bribes in his industry says everybody
00:25:47 does it so I've been doing it he said I've been doing it so I've been giving this guy every year some money then later on he says that after doing this I felt so convicted hey I'm the Elder of a church and I'm doing this and the word of God says this so he felt that he must do something he wanted to change so I said he say I want to draw a line in his hand and he knows that if he stop giving bribe and this is with the government officer he stop giving he lose 30% of his business how many of you will sacrifice 30% of your
00:26:25 business he did it he told a guy sorry I don't think I want to do this anymore you know I feel convicted that I shouldn't be doing this but then a few months later he says this guy call him up and said hey submit a tender for this project is it stranger still call me the submit tender you know maybe yeah maybe you want compare price you know just ask me to submit and know so okay submit he got a job he got the job so he says K I don't know what you know I wanted to honor God and God told me and he gave it back to me I was so
00:27:12 relieved so don't be afraid now I'm not saying that if you do that uh you're going to get it back you know I'm not saying for it applies for everybody I'm saying that hey he chose to honor God and God honored him back okay now I understand I've worked with so many Business Leaders Christians non-christians Christians especially yes we look at business people that a lot of them are doing all kinds of things yes but God is convicting them as they go along and they will start to clean up their business and we beginning to see that uh
00:27:50 today now I come to the theme of the message is that you know about the story of Caleb you saw the Bible reading Caleb eventually says therefore give me this mountain which the Lord spoke uh in that day so this this came about uh when uh we started the incubator I was 2017 and with a group of co-founders and we were very unsure I was very unsure is this what God wants me to do and then I was was reading uh my Bible in uh Hebrews 11 you know Hebrews 11 is a hall of Faith or by faith Abraham do this by faith Sarah do
00:28:39 this by faith Joseph you know 40 verses by faith then I was challenged by somebody that says if you were to write your story and Legacy somebody would say by faith limah or so and so honor Lim did this what will he say about you what would you like it to say about you so I was at that time reading Joshua chapter 14 hey this man Caleb he was already 85 years old and he still asked for that mountain and he still asked for the mountain uh you know sorry uh this is the mountain and maybe I go back so and he still ask for
00:29:32 that mountain and says why does he want to ask for that mountain where he can ask for a piece of land where he can lie down and have you know have play with his grandchildren why don't he ask for something like that but he asked for a mountain that was fortified with Giants and he still have to go out and fight for it and he was already 85 years old so I was reading that so I asked the Lord maybe God this is what I would ask you you know so I wrote there by faith kah we asked God for the mountain of the
00:30:09 marketplace to be an inheritance I wrote there saying and God was pleased to use him as the Catalyst to bring about workplace transformation and Marketplace Revival full stop I just put a sentence like that so God would you make that my legacy if the book of Hebrews is written every one of you will have something written one day so I asked God for that so after that I totally forgot about it then one day was invited to a meeting by Oso you we heard of Oso he wrote a book called anointed for business no he's a
00:30:55 one of the pioneer of the workplace Ministry so I invited NY brand and the end of the service at suo says we're going to pray for everyone who is a leader in the marketplace in Malaysia so then he says oh by the way I have a group of intercessors and Prayer Warriors from Hong Kong and they all March out so I was a looking for powerful intercessors and prayer warriors they much out 20 year old 30y old very young guys young ladies and and young men they all very hype you know 20y olds you know how 20y old dress
00:31:33 right they come and L the stage so he asked all the marketplace leaders to be Prayed by all these guys I wasn't very keen now so I sat there some of us behave like that sorry maybe none of you behave like that but that was me I sat there the organizer saw me sitting there he says went up to me and pull me he kahi you need to be up there okay you asked me to go I go up obedience so I went up to be prayed for there was a 20 maybe 25 year old lady come up before me know nothing about me from Hong Kong and she
00:32:11 didn't ask for my name didn't ask anything start of praying and the first thing that came out of the her mouth said You shall be the calb of your generation you shall Mentor the Next Generation I knew it was God I knew that was a God moment it was God speaking to me just to assure me that what I said wasn't an Impulse of my heart it was God that spoke to me and that's why this verse is very precious uh to me so at that time we know about the seven mountains of influence by bu bright and Lauren Cunningham and then he says that in
00:32:56 Joshua before two verses before it say and now behold the Lord has kept me alive he says the for 45 years after since the Lord spoke his word to Moses while Israel Wonder in the wildness and now here I am this day 85 years old so he is of certain age now God has kept him alive 85 years old how many of you still alive today there's a reason why you alive right I think we are not just living here just there's a reason God has kept us when my mom passed away and when Ken Humphrey is my mentor he passed
00:33:41 away that came across my mind it says how many of you believe that you're sitting on the second third row not like the elders in the front row I just felt that I was promoted to the front row you know but some of us as we grow older we think we should sit at the back not in the front we should Retreat to the back row not the front I can understand that because we like the younger people to take charge to lead but do you know older people have wisdom don't think that you cannot contribute there are things that you can
00:34:17 still contribute you know I hear a lot of my contemporaries they all retired many of them Christian leaders before they retired so I tell them hey do you know that I only know there's only one verse in the Bible that talks about retirement only one verse you can google and find out there's only one verse you know it's in Numbers chapter 8 or something 24 something 26 or 24 and it says that the priest who work at the 10 of the Tabernacle they started work at 25 years old to the age of 50 and after 50 he retires
00:34:58 so the reason why they retired because 50 the work at the 10 of them was very heavy you could carry Boo and cows and cattle and you got to carry the tents as they move you know it was a heavy workload and you need someone physically strong not someone but then he says you retire but you don't have to stop work you can assist the younger ones in their work you can help them you can mentor them you can teach them you can advise them you can show them which is what you have you have been there done that so
00:35:34 that they don't make the same mistakes and the reason I share my life is not because I want to boast about nothing much to boast we need to share the older ones need to share their lives so that they younger ones have a mentor you know I was struggling many years trying to look for examples I couldn't find I have to go all the way to us to find somebody but today there are great examples in our midst for you have heard in that day that the anakims were there and the cities were great and fortified and it may be the God will be
00:36:14 with me and I shall be able to drive them out okay anakins are the Giants and in the workplace today there are giants out there there are giants okay and we need to recognize that there are many things but we can do it with the Lord without the Lord we can't do it how many you believe that you know if you try to do it in your own strength we will wear out we'll burn out we'll lose our family in the process you know you try to run a business at the same time or you try to do your work and then you work so hard
00:36:50 and slow there now Psalm 127 tells you exactly that we need the Lord okay so we started the incubator in 2017 uh just a quick sharing very briefly and we started with the first thing we had was the EM mayor business school because we know that there's a lot of Christians who avoid going to business business is corrupt so we want to encourage new startup of Christians who can go into business and when they to go in they need they need to be taught so we teach them B bookal principles Theology of
00:37:27 work Theology of Entrepreneurship you know what God says about work what God says about entrepreneurship and I was very fortunate uh at the age of 60 I enrolled in a Bible College to learn about workplace Ministry to do my doctorate degree why did I do that at the age of 60 it blows people mind I've been asked to do a a doctorate degree many many times because I was a consultant and say Hey you looks good with a doctor you know if you consultant but I have no motivation for that but when this came
00:38:05 out because I heard a message by someone on the workplace and the Theology of it I begin to be intrigued I need to find out more so I wanted to study the Theology and this man told me he says theology is too good to be left to only the clergy every single believer must study theology that's when I begin to my mindset about studying the work of God understanding theology begin to change it's a big word but don't let it scare you every Christian must study the word of God and understand the word theology every colleges the top colleges
00:38:54 in the world started Yale University Harvard University started by teaching the Bible before it gone astray so we want to teach people about what the Bible says about work so we have a seven months course and then after they start a business we take them into a round table and we have a partner in C12 uh if you want to hear more about by the way those of you who are business owners uh there's a both out there go and collect a free copy of a book written by the founder of C12 Buck Jacobs why he wrote that book it's
00:39:31 called the light that shines in Babylon how we as a business can be a light that shines there okay so go and get your free copy but leave us some information now because we want to know your business okay okay collaboration program we started a program where we want to teach uh people in a short time rather than 7 months 3-day cross and we collaborated with a business uh uh missions organization where we went to developing countries to teach missionaries and pastors how to do business because a lot of missionaries
00:40:08 today go to places on a business Visa they do not go on a missionary visa and they have a business a valid business but they really do not know how to run that business and they meet a lot of people in their Church they cannot even pay salary to them so they have to run a business so every one of them uh we teach them and we partner with a organization called b4t so we been to six different countries and you train hundreds of people and some of them we give them the program it says you use this program our
00:40:43 material you go and teach and we run this uh complimentary okay out of our profits from the first two program and we started entrepreneur Community we want to build a community of entrepreneurs who are Christians so that Christians can get together so we have started that since 2014 where we hold coffee chats we bring speakers today many people are doing that and the last thing we did what 2020 we just launched an impact fund uh we call the master CH Capital we started that so that we can provide funding for
00:41:21 small businesses and these are all from Christians so it's a impact fund where we can help Christian company to grow okay bigger so have a bigger impact so that's the ecosystem we started now what does it look like the round circles outside the center circle what does it look like you does it remind you of somebody's Stones do you do you still remember the stones that somebody had yeah uh David had five Stones yeah stones are very important you know they but David had five Stones so let me try and do this as an
00:42:10 animation okay so David was a Giant Slayer and we believe that we want to slay the Giant in the marketplace we need uh people that are recognizing that they may be a d it but there are giants out there we can slay and we need God you know I mean this uh Goliath came to him with all kinds of things shield and all this Javelin but he came with a stone but what else that he said I come to you in the name of the god of Israel so in the name of God we can only do it with the name of God we can't do it with our
00:42:56 own strength yeah David granted he was very sharp with his sling but he needed God so I want to share with you a very quick statistics and then uh move on uh this Statistics came out from G and uh I was very interested in these statistics I was following it for 10 years when I did my dissertation this was one of the things that I was looking at at that time the number of people who are really engaging in work was only 133% today has grown that means what do you mean by people who are thriving at work and
00:43:42 engagement that means people who are psychologically very committed to what they do at work and they are likely to make a very positive contribution okay do you see that kind of people in your workplace but the r are one in five or one in four okay before that was even less but today is about that okay the rest quiet quitting they're not engaged they 59% are not engaged and some are allow quitting that means they actively M call it the B AP you know they don't like it they make it very loud you know no good the company lovea
00:44:25 never give this these are called the loud quitting they already checked out they want other people to check out as well but you see this is what's happening in the workplace and the the degradation and opportunity is so much for Christians to shine to make a impact so when I first saw this it was 133% the figures so when I wrote my dissertation on that I say that the workplace is an opportunity really for Christians if they really shine we can make that difference and this Statistics is not just a few hundred people a few th000
00:45:06 people 160,000 employees was done for this survey 150 countries one of the biggest survey you can get it online is you got to ke something and all that you get all the data I've been following this for 10 years and it is still a place where Christian can make a difference if we do a great job you know I was uh when I first started Marketplace Ministry I showed this diagram dots I say the church is represented by two categories it's called The Church gathered I know I my time is up already the red light is up so
00:45:52 sorry uh the r scattered and then some times after a while when the church gathered and Scattered and then the church disappeared does it happen to you that the church disappeared on Monday to Friday so then we have a warrior that says the angel of the Lord came and sat down and W and this guy by the name of Gideon was trashing with when the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon says the Lord is with you mighty Warrior mighty warrior the Lord is with you he was hiding a lot of Believers are hiding in the workplace but we need to
00:46:38 learn how to shine because God sees us as Mighty Warriors right so Billy Graham says this Henry blacke says this God is doing a work in the marketplace um I want to quickly run through now because of time and he says my servant Caleb because he was of a different Spirit he followed me fully I'll bring him into the land where he went and his descendants will inherit it Joseph can we find such a one a man whom is a spirit of God Daniel when Daniel dis himself above the governance because an excellent Spirit was with him and God
00:47:23 gave thought to setting him over the whole realm so all these people people have a different spirit it's not how they look what they do it's what's in there you know so God want to touch every one of us in the inside so that he can transform us and make us Mighty Warriors he make us giant Slayers so the eyes of the Lord range throughout the Earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him so today God's eyes is looking at all of us every sing single one of us and he wants to raise Believers whose hearts are
00:48:03 committed to him okay I won't share this I'm going to skip this couple of slides and I'm going to end with this Mich Angelo's painting on the Sy Palace uh Chapel one day Michelangelo was painted and then there was one dark corner he was painting a friend walked by and called up Michael what are you doing at that corner Michael says I'm painting this intricate Corner the detail then said Michael no one's going to see it it's 30 ft high it's right at the corner nobody's going to see it Michael shouted back God sees
00:48:57 now you may be doing things that are quiet nobody is seeing it you may be just a humble person working somewhere you may be just somebody stripping the floor a homemaker is said nobody sees what you're doing but God sees what you're doing so I want to just end by challenging you whatever you do do it heartily and the final challenge is that which mountain are you asking God for John KN says give me Scotland or I die which mountain what challenge what goal you think God what burden has God placed in
00:49:40 your heart ask God for it which mountain what giant stands in the way of the mountain you know I'm supposed to share a story but I'm going to skip that story maybe the second service I'll tell the story what Giants stands in the way of the mountain there are giants but let not this giant defer you from pursuing how are you shining for God where he has placed you now where God has placed you are you shining for him are you showing forth the light who has God placed before you right now how are you investing in
00:50:24 people's life Ken humph invol invest 10 years of his life in me another person Pastor Daniel invested time with me he spent six months with me every Saturday he spent an hour with me praying I was in a cell group and uh he would tell me kahwi when's the last time you share the gospel with your CEO I was mentoring many CEOs is it a opportunity is out there you know in the very beginning I was struggling I didn't know how to share I said Pastor Daniel it's so awkward in the business world all of a sudden you as me mention about
00:51:10 God how to do it you know I said K you are a Believer how do you do it so it was 1997 1998 the early days when I first came then suddenly God gave me an idea because Pastor Daniel's way of preaching is that he said uh sharing is he goes to anybody and says uh out of 7 billion people in the world you know you you have a privilege to meet me as a pastor my name is Daniel you know easil you're Pastor easy I'm a Marketplace person how to do it then I realized one thing when people are in trouble in their business they always
00:51:48 look for help right they always look for connection so I will help them and try my best at the end it says hey do you know I know somebody who can help you in this problem you know your business sure you want to know do you want me to introduce him to you see yeah of course his name is Jesus Christ if you want me to introduce ask him for help I can ask him right now even right now you know that opens the door for me many of times they say yes some of them accept the Lord so maybe in the second service I tell you a
00:52:26 story of fall someone came to know the Lord a few of them in the process okay so I want to just ask all of us to stand and I'll pray for us and then I invite the ministry team to come and the worship team to come up I just want to pray and before I do that I just want each one of us to just reflect upon what God is saying to you not what I'm saying but the word of God what is God saying to you what is the burden that's in your heart that God wants you to give your life to give your time to what is that
00:53:12 mountain ask God for that mountain there may be Giants in your life yes what are those but God can help you to slay those giants what are the things that I need to do in my workplace to shine for him if I not been shining help me to shine for him so God I pray for my brothers and sisters here I thank you for them I thank you that Lord they come Sunday after Sunday to worship you to acknowledge you to recognize you because you're the King of Kings and the Lord of lords and today we ask of you the Lord
00:53:50 you speak to each one of them that Lord you help them Empower them God so that they are willing to accept you as your co- laborers so that with your help you can they can overcome those giants those obstacles in their life they can make a decision for you they can draw near to you and Shine for you and draw a line the sand they make a stand for you to say that Lord I want to be recognized as one of those who Shine for you and I want the Legacy to be written in Hebrews 11 something positive about my faith in
00:54:37 you so if that's something that you want God to do just ask God and maybe if you need more prayers after the you come forth and uh you can join us in the front some of the leaders will pray for you so [Music] [Music] and shall we acknowledge and appreciation for Dr Lim's message for us let's remain standing as we close in our song that we remain faithful in God's faithfulness to us [Music] Rising Sun to Kingdom Come your faithful loveing unfailing through Shadows turn and Tempest still you oh God
00:56:16 unchanging through every heart I will recall All My Hope is Jesus come on everyone great is your faithfulness great is your faithfulness I lift my eyes I won't forget how great your faithfulness [Applause] [Music] I will not fear your promises are unshaken my faith is sure of nothing more then Christ Alone my portion through every heart I will recall All My Hope Is Jesus great is your fful great is your [Music] faithfulness I lift my eyes I won't forget how great your [Music] faithfulness what a faithful God we
00:58:22 have it [Music] there be a season for joy and weeping in everything our God is fiful his arms are open I will come now and our God is faithful there'll be a season for joy and we in everything our God is faithful his arms are open I will come running now and always God is faithful there'll be a season for joy and we in everything our God is faithful his SS are open I will come Runing now and always God is faithful great is your faithfulness great is your [Music] faithfulness I lift my eyes I won't
01:00:16 forget how great your faithfulness great is your fa faithfulness great is your faithfulness I lift my eyes I won't forget how great your faithfulness I won't forget your faithfulness I want for your [Music] faithfulness praise God let's let's just uh come before the Lord and uh recognize that God is faithful and as I bring the benediction before Heavenly Father we recognize that you are a faithful God and your faithfulness is new Every Morning Lord we may have uh fed up we may not have done things that are
01:01:36 honoring you or even pleasing to you but Lord you said that each morning as we get up we can embrace your faithfulness because it's new and you're God that will forgive us when we come before you and ask for that forgiveness so even right now Lord we ask for your forgiveness and restoration for each one of my brothers and sisters and now May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and The Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all both now and forever more amen the Lord bless you
