Song Title: Everywhere That I Go
Singer: Israel Houghton
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I belong to you
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[Audee Villaraza] Good morning friends of God!
I want you to tap the person next to you
and say, "Get ready to experience the
whole measure of God's love today."
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You know, I've got this one year old
nephew that never ceases to remind me,
and show me how God's great love works
in my life. Whenever I see him, he just
smiles at me. That genuine smile that
tells me that he's happy to see me. And I
don't have to try so hard to please him. That's
one of the reasons why you just gotta
love children. I mean they don't judge
you for what you look like,
they don't criticize you if you gain some
weight,
they don't scrutinize you if you do
something wrong, they're just there,
generally happy to see you all the time.
I mean the truth of the matter is
friends, all of us here, everybody that's in here.
At some point all of us are
very hard to love. I mean look at the
person next to you, look at the person beside you.
Is that the looks of a person that
you can easily love?
Don't bother answering, or else you might
lose a seatmate. But seriously, I mean
we even know ourselves all too well, to
know that we are capable of so many bad
things. We've done many deeds that were
not proud of. We've done many, we've had
many mistakes, that we're not really
bragging so much about it. At some point
you arrived in this position in your
life where you gotta ask, how is it in
the world that somebody, can actually
love someone like me? And yet day after
day, week after week, Sunday after Sunday,
we are here at The Feast, and we declare
that God's presence is all around us.
That we feel God's love, and His hand is
upon us. We feel that God is just being
good to us. I mean, why is that, right? You
see friends, this just goes to show the
kind of God that we worship. God knows
all the mistakes you've made, and all
those things that you will ever make,
even before you make it. And yet He still
chooses to bless you.
He still chooses to save you. He still
decides that He's gonna be good to you.
He says that no matter what you've done,
no matter where you've got, I will call
you my friend.
That's the kind of God that we worship. All the friends
of God, lift up and shout a praise.
Here we go.
We worship our God today.
Song Title: Friend of God
Singer: Israel Houghton
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Thank you for calling us Your friend, Lord.
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[Audee Villaraza] Hallelujah Lord God.
We praise You today, we glorify You.
We bless Your mighty name.
Thank You Jesus, for calling us
Your friends.
It's amazing how the creator of the
universe can call us His friend.
And today Lord we are here right before
You, when we could have
been somewhere else. We could
have been at home watching TV, washing
our cars, and doing something not really
a significant as being here. You've given
us free will today, Oh God.
The ability to choose the right thing
for our life, and here we are today Lord
choosing what is best for us. We come
here today to give You our worship. To
bless Your name, to give You honor that
is through You. Lord, we want our lives to
glorify You, to be a reflection of your
goodness, of Your mercy, of Your love.
We want to live a life that is pleasing
in Your eyes. We live to worship You
today, Oh God.
Song Title: To Worship You I Live
Singer: Israel and New Breed
I live to worship you. I live, I live to
worship you.
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I live to worship you. I live.I live to
worship you.
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Give God your worship today Brothers and
Sisters.
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We sing to You today.
We sing to You because we love You.
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I come today to give You my praise.
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[Audee Villaraza] Oh God we worship you today. To give You
honor. We give You back the glory, for You
are deserving Lord.
You alone, you alone. Lord we come today
for a specific purpose. To hear Your
words, so that we can become a better
person, a better parent, a better brother
a better co-worker, a better student, a
better friend, to all those around us.
Change us today, Oh God.
It transformed us in the way that You
want us to live our life.
Do your thing today Lord, and surprise us
with Your miracle, with your presence. We
invite you into this place, because you
know Lord, that You are King, You are Lord
of our hearts and our lives. All these we
pray, in the most holy and mighty name of
Jesus Christ, and all God's children say
loudly, "Amen and amen."
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Hallelujah
Let's give the Lord another big hand.
Come on give Him some praise.
Praise Him. Hallelujah!
How many of you are excited for today's
talk? Alright! Without further ado, let me
call on our builder, and our leader.
Friends, please give it up for Brother
Bo Sanchez!
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[Bo Sanchez] Are you ready to enjoy life today? I want
you to greet someone beside you, tell
that person, "Enjoy life." And how many of
you have come for the first time? Raise
your hand. I want to see you. Thank you so
much for being here.
Thank you so much. God bless you. Welcome
to the family of God. After The Feast, we
want to give you that welcome gift.
Please go to the lobby. Thank you so much
for being here. One more time, I want you
to greet someone beside you with a big
hug or a handshake, and tell that person,
"You have come to the right place."
You have come to the right place. This is
the place of miracles. This is the place
where God comes, and inhabits the praises
of His people. We're going to continue
our series on enjoying life, savoring
life. And we're going to talk about how
to love yourself. Everybody say that, "Love
yourself." The title of our message is to
practice self-care. Everybody say,
"Self-care." You know some of peeps, some of
the people can think of love, love
yourself. I mean do we need to talk about
loving yourself? You know, everybody does
that. It's so easy to love yourself. You
know what? It's not. It's not. No, it's not,
believe me. I've been in the ministry, 32
years, talk to thousands of people,
it is a hurdle, it is an obstacle, it is
difficult. Many people think that loving
yourself is easy. Ask me why? Because they
confuse selfish, with self-love.
You got that? Being selfish is easy.
Self-love? Difficult. There's a big
difference. I compare it to a nuclear
bomb and a nuclear plant. A nuclear bomb
kills thousands, a nuclear plant helps
thousands, lightens up the world. Are you
getting what I'm saying? Selfish is being
concerned about your needs, and your
needs alone. Self-love is being concerned
about your needs, so you can be concerned
about other people's needs. Our big
message for you is this, everybody say,
"what?"
Love yourself by honoring your needs. Say
that with me please, "Love yourself by
honoring your needs." I want you to tell
someone beside you, "Love yourself by
honoring your needs." And I've got an
announcement to make.
God is a provider. This is who He is.
This is His nature. When God sees the
need, He fills it up. He addresses it,
He meets it, He provides. Everybody say
that with me, "God is my provider." Raise
your hand if you have a need. Do you have a
need?
And do you believe that God will provide
for that need? Are you gonna have a great
time at The Feast? Then let's pray
together. In the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Today, I receive all of God's love for me.
Today, I open myself to the unbounded,
limitless, overflowing abundance of God's
universe. Today, I open myself to God's
blessings, healing and miracles. Today, I
open myself to God's Word so I become
more like Jesus every day. Today, I
proclaim that I'm God's beloved, I'm
God's servant, I'm God's powerful
champion. And because I am blessed, I am
blessing the world in Jesus' name.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a
light unto my path.
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Luke 5. This is what happened to
Jesus. Are you ready? "Yet the news about
Him, spread all the more, so that crowds
of people came to hear Jesus, and to be
healed of their sicknesses." And then this
is what Jesus did. Everybody read, "But
Jesus often withdrew to lonely places
and prayed." I read you this verse because
I am telling you that Jesus acknowledged
his needs to be alone, and to rest. He did
not only acknowledge those needs, He
actually met them. There were thousands
of people who wanted to see Him.
Thousands of people who wanted to pray,
to be prayed for. Thousands of people who
wanted to be blessed by Jesus, and Jesus
said, "Just a minute, let me rest for a
while, let me be alone." He loved Himself
by honoring His needs. Did you get that?
Here's another passage for you. It's in,
from the book of Philippians. Are you
with me?
And it says, "each of you should look not
only on your own interests, but also to
the interests of others." Now, that's true.
But the keywords are only and also.
Because the Bible does not say each of
you, should never look at your own
interests, and should only look at the
interests of others. Does the Bible say
that? No. The Bible says, "Hey, don't look at
your own interests only." Meaning, 
the Bible assumes, that you should look
at your own interests. And then don't
stop there, you should never stop there.
You should look at the interests of
others. Why? Because the Bible believes us.
And the Word of God says, that we're
supposed to love one another. Love your
neighbor, as you love yourself. You
cannot love your neighbor, if you don't
love yourself. I always talk about the
love tank. Everybody say, "Love tank." You
need to fill up your love tank. Yes?
Can you elbow someone beside you
and say, "Fill up your love tank." You know
why? Because if that person's love tank
is not full, that person cannot give
anything to you.
You cannot give what you do not have. You
have a love tank, and there's a faucet,
that's attached to that love tank. Watch
this, watch this.
There's this tank, now if you put
love into that tank, and you open the
faucet, guess what? Love will pour out. But
imagine if you have no love, what if you
don't have love? You have nothing to give.
Am I making sense here? You've gotta,
and that's what we're gonna do
today. We're gonna fill up our lives with
God's love. Put your hand over your chest.
Everybody say this after me, "Father, I
thank You.
You brought me here,
before You. In this miraculous place. To
perform a miracle in my life. You know my
need, You will provide for that need. You
will speak to me, You will bless me, You
will guide me, You will lead me, You will
change me." In Jesus' name. Amen.
Thy word
is a lamp unto my feet and
a light unto my path.
Give the Lord a big hand, everybody.
Thank You Father. Thank You Jesus.
Let's be seated. Touch someone beside you,
tell that person, "God will speak to you
today."
Everybody say, "Self-care." Let me backtrack
a bit, and tell you where we're coming
from. We talked about the bottomless pit
of worthlessness. We talked about toxic
self shame. Do you remember? And let me
share this to you, that if you have a
bottomless pit of worthlessness, if you
have toxic shame, it'll be very, very, very
difficult to love yourself. Where does
this toxic shame come from? Where does
this bottomless pit of worthlessness
come from? I'd say it comes from three
things. Number one, it comes from absentee
parenting. Say that with me. When your
parents were not there, when your parents
prioritize something else, when 
your parents were workaholics, or
when your parents were fighting each
other, and they had no time for you, or
when they got separated, or they were
there with you, but they were punitive,
they were fault-finding, they could not
see you, but they could only see your
mistakes, that's what you call absentee
parenting in my book. And when
you have absentee parenting in your life,
no one is there to tell you that you are
worthy of love. You see brothers and
sisters? For you to feel worthy, for you
to feel that you deserve to be loved,
someone has actually to be there to love
you, someone has to be there to say,
"You're worthy of my time, that's why I'm
here. You're worthy of my focus, you're
worthy of my attention, that's why I'm
here. Focusing on you, and attending to
you." Are you getting what I'm
saying? Somebody has to be there. And so,
if you grew up in a family where the
parents we're not there,
telling you, through their actions that
you are worthy of love, then you will
have toxic shame. You will have
have this bottomless pit of
worthlessness. And then if you combine
that with number two, which is what I
call mismanaged emotions, what do I mean
by that? We are very clumsy when it comes
to emotions.
I see this so often. A little
child running with a big smile,
did not see that there was this step
that she had to take, and she stumbles,
and she falls, and she cries. And you know
there are some misguided adults, some
misguided daddies, and some misguided
mommies. I do not know why. But they
grabbed the child, and they say, "stop
crying."
You know I'm not talking about the tantrum,
I'm not talking about a temper,
no. I'm talking about a real pain in the
knee. She fell, and she cries because of
that pain. She was a child.
And then the adult says, "Stop it." You know?
"Stop it" (Child continues crying.) "Stop it now!" It's
almost like kids have a push button on
their chest. Stop! You know? You want to
remind yourself that, that child is not
an electric fan. That child is not a
computer. That child is not a radio. Are you
listening to me? It has no push buttons.
Your child, you know. And the thing.
What is the message? The message is this.
Your feelings are not important. Your
needs are not important.
The deeper messages, you are not
important. So you mix up, you combine.
Absentee parenting, with mismanage
emotions. And then you combine that still,
with distorted religion. And you're gonna
have, believe me, a cock tailed, it's a
bomb of someone, who does not honor his
own needs. Someone who cannot love
himself.
What is distorted religion? Ask me what?
When you are thought be, what I call that,
"I hate myself spirituality." Are you
familiar with that? No you're not. I hate
myself, many people think that if you
hate yourself, God will be pleased.
Really! I love sharing this, you know.
I've shared it before. The favorite
prayer of many people is this, "Lord, I do
not deserve Your love. I am a worm. I do
not, Lord I am so. No, I'm not a worm Lord,
I am the bacteria in the worm. Lord, I do
not deserve Your love. Lord, I am not the
bacteria in the worm, I am the virus in
the toenail of the bacteria in the worm.
Lord, I do not deserve Your love." You
know what? That prayer, I do not
deserve your love, it's a good prayer. But
for crying out loud, if that's the only
prayer you're gonna pray, there's
something wrong. Because the Bible says,
you know the Bible does not say you're a
worm. The Bible says you're a child of
God. You're loved by the Father. You're a
beloved of the Lord. You are the apple of
His eye. Do I hear an amen? But
some people, you know when I was 14, 13, 14
years old, I fell in love with St.
Francis of Assisi. And I wanted to
imitate him. And I wore the crummiest
clothes. And I wore the ugliest jogging
pants, and the oldest brown sandals I
could find.
I stopped putting on deodorant. You can
just imagine, I walked around with this
odor of sanctity. The only time I finally
wore deodorant, but put on deodorant was
my girlfriend. My girlfriend told me,
"Bo, you have to put on deodorant." You
know, and I say, "Why?" And she told me,
"Because the Bible says so." I said, "where?"
And she said that, "10 commandments." "Where?"
She said, "Thou shall not kill. You are
murdering me." And so finally I had to put
it on. But do you know why I was wearing
the crummiest clothes? Do you know why I
was wearing the oldest sandals? Do you
know why I was wearing
the ugliest jogging pants? And I would
never dare wear anything presentable?
Well, one reason it's true, I wanted to be
detached from materialism,
that's true, that's true. But the other
reason was hidden, the other reason was
in my subconscious. I didn't like myself.
I didn't like my self. And that's the I
hate myself spirituality. You know,
that if you hate yourself probably, you
know, then that's holy, to neglect
your needs.
Oh, that's holy. You know what? There's
something wrong there. Parents, would you
like your children not to like
themselves? No. And God wants you to love
yourself. He wants you to honor your
needs. Are you listening to me?
There are five needs that we neglect. And
what I want to share with you now, is to
bring them into focus, put them on stage,
and to convince you, and encourage you,
don't do that. You've got to honor your
needs.
Hold the hand of someone beside you,
squeeze it hard, make it bleed. Tell that
person, "Honor your needs." Because you're
valuable, because you're important,
because you're precious, because you're a
child of God. Here are the five things.
How many? Five needs that you neglect.
Number one, you need rest.
Say, "rest." Raise your hand and say, "I need
rest." You know, there's an epidemic going
around society, and the epidemic is
called, chronic tiredness. Say that with
me. Do you want to know if you have
chronic tiredness? I'll tell you, just one
obvious sign. One obvious sign. You wake
up in the morning, already tired. That's
chronic tiredness. And believe me, it's
common. You know when you wake
up, you should feel refreshed. You actually should,
you know, you wake up like this.
"Oh, that was good." You know, you should
wake up, no! Some people, they wake up like
this. You know, they're tired already. And
guess what? There's something wrong. That
means your sleep did not refresh you. You
know why? You know what causes chronic
tiredness? Prolonged stress. And if you
want to get well, you've gotta. Friends,
you've got a listen to your body. The
reason why you've got chronic tiredness,
you've not been listening to your body.
Your body speaks to you. Do you
understand that? Your body speaks to you.
But the problem is that your body is,
it's very gentle. Your body whispers. Your
body speaks by whispering.
And if you don't hear your listen to
your body, what happens is that the body
starts speaking louder, and louder, and
louder, and starts screaming. When your
body gets sick, it's too late. Because
when your body is sick, that is how your
body screams.
Are you listening? What's the solution to
chronic tiredness? You get rest.
Tell someone beside you, "get some rest."
You need this. Listen
to me. Everybody say, "I'm
listening."
You need mini vacations
during the day, and during the week, and
during the month. You need mini vacations
of 10 minutes, 30 minutes, of putting your
two hands under a cup of hot
herbal tea, and of inhaling, and of
breathing in love and peace.
Enjoy, and exhaling tension, and stress,
and fear, and worry. You need times where
you can just pray, and converse with God.
Times where you can just relax, and read.
And times where you can just write a
journal. And times where you can just
talk with a friend, not about politics or
sports or, but about why you do, what you
do, and not the deeper things in life. You
need mini vacations. Do you understand
what I'm saying? Rest, you need rest.
Here's number two. You need dreams. You
need to dream. This is a real need, it is.
I was giving a talk in a conference.
There were many speakers. And I gave a
talk. And I was the one to chose the
title, I was gonna chose the topic. How to
make your dreams come true? And you know,
at the end of the talk,
there were droves of people who came up
to me, and he said, "my gosh Bo, you
steered up dreams in my heart. Thank you
so much." You know they were so grateful.
And then there was another speaker. And
the other speaker was a priest. And
he basically lambasted my message. He
said, "We have no business fulfilling our
dreams. We have no business thinking
about our dreams. You should only do
God's will." And the whole audience you
know that? And then they all
tried to look at me. Because there I was.
I was there at the back.
And you know guys, I wanted to raise my
hand. I wanted to tell the priest, "Father,
I agree with you. We should do God's will.
We should only do God's will.
But how will I know God's will? How will
I know God's will?" And here's my belief,
God's will is written in our deepest,
deepest desires.
God's will is written in the dreams
that He plans in our hearts. That if you
take the scalpel of discernment, and peel
away or shallow dreams, you will touch
base with your deepest, deepest, deepest
dreams. And you will say, "this is the will
of God for me. This is the reason why I
was born." Friends, there was no conflict
with the priest was saying, what I
was saying, there was none. You know, you
need to dream. God create, put your hands
over your chest, say this after me, "I'm a
dreamer. God made me a dreamer." He gave
you the capacity to dream. Isn't that
wonderful? If you stop dreaming, you start
dying. I have a big dream, wakes me up in
the morning. I dream 1,000 Feasts all
over the world. That's my dream. It's a
big dream. It will take decades, it'll
take a long time. I don't care how long.
Ask me why? I'm gonna enjoy every step of
the way.
That's why it's okay, if it's gonna be
long. You've got a long-term dream? Good
for you. You've got a long-term good
dream? Good for you. Enjoy every step of
the way. It's not so much the destination,
it's the step every way. That's it. You've
got a big dream? You've got a small dream?
I don't care how small. Maybe some great
big importance. I was talking to an 81
year old man, and he said, "Brother Bo, can
I show you something?" And I said, "what?" He
pulled out his wallet, and then he showed
me a picture of a little girl. Five years
old,
black hair, dimples in her smile.
Wonderful, wonderful girl, chubby cheeks
and
he said, the old
man said, "Brother Bo, this is my
granddaughter, she's in the states. And I
want to see her again, I want to see her
for one last time." He wakes up with a
dream, oh. And he said, "I'm a sickly man." He
told me all his sicknesses, and then he
said, "this is why I'm eating well.
That's why I take a walk every day.
Because I want to see her one last time."
That's a dream. What is the dream that
wakes you up in the morning? You need it.
You need that in your life, honor that
mean. Number three. You need to be you.
Everybody say that with me, "you need to
be you." Let's make it more personal.
Put your hands over your chest again and
everybody say, "I need to be me." That is
a need. Do not pretend to be someone else.
That is painful. Say, "painful." It's painful
to try to fit yourself into a cookie
cutter. How many of you know what I'm
talking about?
No, because you don't bake. I don't bake
also. But I know what a cookie cutter is.
You've got this doll, And you fit it
into a cookie cutter. Guess what? You have
to cut away parts of you. Parts of you,
the extra parts. That's painful! And
that's what you do, when you try to fit
in into the expectations of others.
That's what happens, and that's painful.
No! Be who you are. Be faithful to your
potential, be faithful to your gifts, be
paid be faithful to your passion, be
faithful to your personality, be faithful
to that. That's the only way to live, is
to live authentically. Am I making sense?
You know what? I told this to my sons. I
am a preacher. But I am not forcing
them to be preachers. I said, you be
faithful to what God gave you. You be
faithful to your passion. Say, "passion."
Say, "potential." Say, "personality." And I told
that to my boys. I said, "you'd be faithful
to your passion." Yes, yes If God gave you
the gift to speak, then speak, and inspire
the world. But if you have the
gift of building bridges, then please
build bridges that will last a hundred
years. So that your great-grandchildren,
can point to your bridge and say, "the
father of the father of my father built
this bridge." But if your gift is to dance,
then please dance until your feet are on
fire. And the ground beneath your
feet shakes to the beat of the music. But
if your gift is to paint, then please
paint beautiful paintings, that will
become mirrors. So that people can see
themselves, and windows, so that they can
see the colors of the world. But if your
gift is to repair cars, then repair cars,
so that babies will be safe, and kids can
go to school, and parents can go to work,
and families can go on picnics. But if
your gift is to design clothes, then
please design clothes. So that the mother
would cellulite on her legs. And flat on
her belly, can feel like a pretty
princess again. But if your gift, oh yes!
But if your gift is to earn money, then
earn as much as you can. So that everyone
around you will become rich. But if your
gift is to write songs, then write the
songs that make the whole world sing.
Write the songs of love and special
things. I write the songs that made
the young girl cry. I
write the songs, I write the song. Be
faithful to who you are. Be faithful to
your, be faithful to your personality. Say,
"personality." How many of you here, be
honest with me.
You're more talkative than the average
person? Raise your hand. You have to admit
that. And you know what? Yes! Some
people, they're saying, "why aren't you
raising your hand?" You know what?
Be faithful that
you're personality is more
talkative. Don't pretend to be more quiet.
Ask me why? God gave you, and God made you
to be talkative for a purpose. Oh yeah, oh
yeah! You know what? I want you to talk,
and I want you to keep on talking, so
that the world will sit down at your
feet, and learn from your stories. So that
they will make better decisions in the
future. That's your role, that's your job.
And you pray for that, and you develop
that personality. How many of you can say
this, that you're more quiet than the
average person? Don't pretend to be more
talkative. Don't force yourself. You know
what? You be quiet,
but you speak. And you keep on speaking.
Don't use words. But speak through your
eyes, speak through your smile, speak
through your touch, speak through your
hands, speak through your embrace, so that
you can tell them that they are special
and one-of-a-kind. What's your
personality?
What's your, who you are. Do you laugh
easily? If you do, do me a favor, laugh
loud, and laugh long, and laugh hard, and
laugh deep, please. As a preacher, I love
it. When there one, or two, or three people,
who don't care what the world thinks.
They'll just laugh, rip it up, they'll
slap their knee, and they'll slap the
other person's knee, and that they'll
slap another person's. They'll just laugh,
and laugh, and laugh. You know what?
Because when they laugh
loud, even if they're one or two or
three people, if they laugh loud, guess
what? They're giving permission for the
whole audience to laugh with them.
And everybody is happy. And you know what?
When everybody's happy, they learn a
thousand times more. Do you understand
when a student is happy? He learns much,
much more than if the student was sad, or
fearful, or worrying. You know what? That's
the gift. So if you laugh easy, keep
laughing. So that the world will laugh
with you. Keep laughing, so that the child
who is sick will find hope. Keep laughing,
so that the mother, who's trying to make
both ends meet, will be able to make it
for another day. Keep laughing, so that.
You get what I'm saying? You just have to
be who you are. How many of you cry
easily? You cry at the drop of a hat.
You cry when there's a sunrise, and where
there's a sunset. You cry, when the
rain falls. You cry when the sun is shining.
You cry, when the mother holds the child
in her hand, and they walking so quietly.
You cry at the most
wonderful thing. You cry also, those
things that make you sad. You cry easily.
Hey, cry! Don't try to keep it. Don't try
to bottle it. Don't be ashamed when
you cry. Don't try to keep it and prim
and proper, and you know, but deep within
you're already crying. But now you
try to bring back the tears. And no!
Cry! It's okay. That's who you are. That's
how God made you. Cry! So that this
grieving world will know, that they're
not alone. Crying it's okay.
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Friends, this is the gift that God has
given to you. What am I saying? Be
faithful to your weirdness. Be faithful
to your uniqueness, be faithful to your
peculiarities, be faithful to your
idiosyncrasies, be faithful to your
birthmarks, be faithful to who you are.
Because when, and I've gotta warn you.
Everybody say, "what?" I've got to warn you.
Some people will not like your weirdness.
Some people will hate it.
Some people will criticize you, some
people will lam bast you, some people
will say, "uuhh." But you know what? Here's my
advice, are you ready?
Don't mind them, don't mind them. You be
who you are. And guess what? Your
weirdness will create a weird community
around you. A community of raving fans,
who will love your weirdness, who have
the same passion for your weirdness, who
will say you're a cool person, you're so
cool, your
so even, your amazing and I love you.
And you know what? I'll be there. And
I'll tell this to you. I am an
entrepreneur, and I teach other
entrepreneurs, and I tell them, the path
to wealth of an entrepreneur is to
express their weirdness. You've got to be
weird. If you want to be successful in
life, you can't just please everyone. No.
You've got to have some enemies. When you
bring out your weirdness, some people
won't like you. But that means some
people will love you. You've got to stand
out. Or else if you don't stand out,
what's gonna happen? Friends, think about
it. And talking about wealth, talking
about money, here's number four,
You need money. How many of you need
money? You've got to honor that need.
There are religious people who don't
want to talk about their need for money.
They want to live in heaven, right now.
You know. Do you need money?
"No, I only pray.
I only need the Word of God." You know,
are you sure? You know, no. We need money
We need to be, everybody. Everybody
say, "everybody." Everybody needs
money. The nun, who's running the
orphanage needs money. The priest, who's
riding his motorcycle, to celebrate Mass
in some faraway Mountains or place, needs
money. The boyfriend who wants to buy a
rose, to ask forgiveness from his
girlfriend, needs money. The grandmother
is rocking in her chair, thinking of what
birthday cake to bake for her
granddaughter, needs money. Everybody
needs money. And I have a word for you.
Everybody say, "what?" Don't earn money just
for today. Earn money for today, and earn
money for tomorrow, and earn money for
the next day. Ask me why? If you look
around you, you realize you're no longer
an Israelite living in the desert,
and Moses is no longer beside you, and
you're not eating anymore man at
breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you're living
here in this world, God wants you to earn
money for today, and tell someone beside
you, "earn money for tomorrow." Not only
that. I've got another word for you, ask
me what? You should earn
money not only, not only for yourself.
That is selfish, selfish. No! You earn
money for yourself, and, everybody say, "and,"
you earn money for the orphan who needs
you, and the maid who helps you, and the
waiter who serves you, and the barber who
styles you, and the church who blesses
you, you earn or everyone. So that
everyone around you becomes rich.
And number five, number one, you need rest.
Number two, you need dreams. Number three,
you need to be you. Number four, you need
money. Number five, you need love. How many
of you need love? You need love. You
need to invest in your children, you need
to invest in your parents, you need to
invest in your siblings, you need to
invest in your friends. Everybody say,
"what will I invest?" You
need to invest time, you need to invest
energy, you need to invest attention, you
need to invest yourself in these
relationships, because at the end of the
day, you know. I speak to the, Mr.
Macho. I speak to Mr. Stoic. I speak to
Miss Rigid, I speak to Miss Uptight,
You need love, you do. And you need
to acknowledge that, that you need friends.
And my prayer, my fondest prayer for you
is this. The happy person, is the one who
can grow old, surrounded by the people
they love. That's the happy person. And
that's what I pray for you. You'll be
surrounded as you grow older. Can you all
stand? I pray that when you grow older,
you will grow more loving. I pray that
when you grow older, your children,
physical, or spiritual children, will be
surrounded.
My prayer is that as you grow older, your
friends
will grow older. That you will have two
sets of friends always, the friends of
your childhood, the friends of
of 20 years ago, are still there. And then
the new friends, that God will give to
you,
always two cents. I don't want it.
There will be a problem if you'll
always have new friends, and new friends,
but the older friends keep going away, no!
You want to grow old with your old
friends. That's happiness. I'm gonna read
you a letter, from elderly parents to
their child. Given to me by Adrian Panganiban.
He was the one who pointed this
out to me, and I thought of reading it to
you. May I?
"Dear child, as I get older, please be
patient with me.
When I drop things or make a mess of my
food, I hope you don't shout at me or
scold me. Please be patient with me.
When my eyesight dims, and I stumble
along my way, or when my hearing gets
really bad, and I can't hear what you say,
please be patient with me. When these
embarrassing and difficult times come, if
you could just hold my hand, and tell me
that you understand. I'm sorry child, I'm
getting older.
Please, be patient with me. When my feet
get crooked, and my knees get weaker. When
I fumble in my steps, and I walk slower.
I hope you remember the time
when I taught you how to walk.
Please be patient with me. When I keep
repeating my stories to you, sometimes
four or five times a day, just smile and
pretend, I said it for the first time.
Because to my failing memory, it's really
the first time I'm saying it to you.
Just remember how you repeated yourself
as a child, remember how many times you
asked, "are we there yet?"
Every time we took a trip. Or how many
times you ask, "mommy, can you buy me this
toy?" whenever we were in a mall, please be
patient with me. When I don't smell nice,
when I smell like an old person, I'm
sorry.
When you smell something not too good
for me,
I hope you remember, that when you were
small, you used to sweat and smell too,
but I loved it. Because it was part of
your growing up.
Well, my smell is now part of my growing
old. Please, be patient with me.When I get
cranky, or get sensitive, or when I get
sentimental, and moody, or when I get
pushy, and demanding, all these
are all a part of getting old. You'll
understand when you get older, please be
patient with me. When you have time, I
hope you visit me. Talk with me for a few
minutes. I'm always all by myself and
have no one to talk to. I know you're
busy with work, but your work will always
be with you, even after I'm gone.
I won't be here forever, please be
patient with me. Even if you're not
interested in my stories, please pretend
you are. Do you remember when I used to
listen to your stories, about your toys
and your imaginary friends, and the
cartoons you watched? Those things
weren't very interesting to me, but
because they were important to you, they
were important to me too. Please, be
patient with me.
And when the time comes, when I get sick,
and bedridden, I hope you visit me. I'm
sorry if I accidentally wet the bed, or
make a mess, I hope you stay with me
during the last few moments of my life.
I'm not going to last much longer anyway,
please be patient with me. I pray for you
every day. When I finally meet God, I will
continue to mention your name to Him. I
love you, we love you.
Please be patient with us. Eternally, mom
and dad."
You need love. When you were born, you
need love. When you were a child, you need
love. All through your life, you need love.
When you grow old, you need love. Yes? This
is your need. I want you to invest in
your relationships. Because it will give
you your best returns. Your profits will
be out of this world. Because heaven will
reward you. If you could lift up your
hands, both hands up in the air, if that's
a comfortable posture for you then
please, do so. And say this after me,
"Father,
I believe,
you will fill up my love tank, with Your
love. Because of You, because of how You
love me, I love myself. I value myself.
Thank You, for loving me so much. I ask
You now.
Fill up my needs, so that I can fill the
needs of others.
Touch me now, perform a miracle in my
soul. Heal my shame, meet my deepest needs.
Put Your arms around me.
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In Jesus' name."
Brothers and Sisters, let God love you
now. Let God love you now.
And love yourself the way He loves you.
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[Audee Villaraza] Lord you've given me such a beautiful
life, and yet because of my busyness
sometimes I don't see it. Sometimes I
neglect it.
Thank you for opening my eyes today Lord,
for what I already have. That I may
appreciate it more before it's too late,
before it just vanishes. Thank You Lord,
that I take, I anchor my faith in You
knowing that, because you've given me
such a beautiful life, a great family,
great parents. That you will continue to
give me, and supply all my needs. Because
that's who You are Lord. You are my
Father, and I am your son, I'm your
child.
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[Audee Villaraza] You alone O Lord, satisfies me. You alone
o God, makes me feel loved. You are
everything/ Thank You Jesus. Thank You for
Your presence. Hallelujah.
[Bo Sanchez] Let us fill our need to dream. If you
could lift up your Novena to God's Love,
your list of dreams. Let's bring it out,
and let us believe,
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that something wonderful is gonna happen
today. Hallelujah.
Thank You Father.
All those of you who don't have your
Novena, it's okay.
Lift up the dreams that God has planted
in your heart. And say this after me,
"Father, I believe, that the dreams You
have planted in my heart, shall come true.
In Jesus' name.
Brothers and Sisters, I do not know when
those dreams will come true, but here's
what I want you to do. I want you to
enjoy the journey towards the
fulfillment of your dream. Enjoy every
step of the way.
Celebrate every step of the way. But your
dreams will come true. Amen.
Amen. Hallelujah.
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[Bo Sanchez] Thank You so much.
You know, if you've got friends
or family members around you, do put your
arms around that person, and tell that
person, "Love yourself."
Love yourself.
You're beautiful. You're wonderful, you're
valuable, you're precious. Love yourself. And
you deserve to be loved. You deserve to
be loved. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Let's be seated everybody. And now if you
were blessed today, you shout it out, "I'm
blessed." Amen. Inserted in the Feast
bulletins our ,survey forms that are for
the Kerygma Conference. I want you to
help us plan it out, like how big the
rooms for the streams or tracks will be.
If you could just tick off, or check the
possible topic that you will be
attending, for the Kerygma Conference,
that will help out a lot. And just hand
it over to one of the ushers, if you
please. Thank you.
My second announcement is that, if you
still don't have a caring group, you
don't know what you're missing. And I
will encourage you to join a caring
group. The Feast,
this is a place of blessing. But you need
a small group. You know sometimes, you can
get lost in such a big crowd, but if you
have a small group of friends, you're
gonna laugh together, you're gonna cry
together, you're gonna pray together,
you're gonna share your lives together
in a deeper way, it's gonna be beautiful.
I'm gonna encourage you to go to the
lobby, there's a table that says
"Caring group table," sign up. To give you
an idea of the days, the time, the
schedule, the places, the venues of these
caring groups, look at that sheet of
paper, and then sign up at the table.
My other announcement is that, there will
be a single men gathering this
afternoon,
at two o'clock in the afternoon. What I
want you to do is just approach Audee
here, or Mix's over there, you know. These
are worship leaders. And you can just ask
them. Mix can you also stand up? So that's
Mix over there, Audee is here. So just
approach them. Two o'clock in the
afternoon, we have a gathering for single
men. If you want to grow in your personal
life, if you want to grow in different
areas of your life, and if you want to
serve the Lord,
please come. We'd love to have
you with us in our family. And
finally our orphanage, The Tahanan ng Pagmamahal,
they're building 
their house, and if God calls you to
give extra to that project, feel free to
go to that table that says Home
Orphanage, just follow the Lord and the
Lord is calling you to help out in
building that house for the orphans.
Thank you. Brother Audee. Thank you
Brother Bo. How many single men in the
house? Come on single men. Show the single
woman who you are. God has been so good
to our church. Amen.
Every week we read the thanksgiving
prayers. And for this Sunday, I actually
noticed earlier during the first session
that, that is the first time I'm ever
gonna read a figure this big. Since last
Sunday, we've had a total of 2,304
answered prayers.
Thank you for being so faithful. From
anonymous, "Thank you Lord for many
blessings, engagements, masters graduation
and promotion." From brother Marc, "Thank
you Lord for allowing my momma to
experience you at The Feast during
Mother's Day. I was with great joy to see
her sing, dance, pray and jump like a
rock star. I love you Papa God." From Mr.
Radical, "Thank you very much Lord that
you have really fulfilled my dream to
become a millionaire's club awardee of
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our company, in just 10 months, and
continue growing." Wow! And lastly from
anonymous, "Finally a job that I have been
dreaming off was offered to me. But my
God, made it even sweeter. When the sub
came, it came with a 7
digit annual salary." Praise God. Let's give
Lord a clap offering. He's truly good.
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To bless you today with a sharing on how
much God has been blessing His life, we
have a very special participant today,
who has been attending the community for
three years now. I want you all to give a
very warm and happy applause to your
share today. Brother Audee Villaraza.
Good morning everyone. There was supposed
to be a sharer, but the sharer was sick. And
I know that this is what happens, when
all of you get used to having a sharing
here. I'll share here. So let me just
bless you with how much God has been, how
much He's been good to me. I know I don't
have a lot of time to say how much He's
been good to me
but, before I was like, some of you I
would always think that whenever I would
give, it would decrease the money in my
wallet.
You're like close to getting empty. But then things
started to change. I started just started
giving faithfully. I just started
trusting him more. And all of a sudden I
realized that, I was doing it naturally
already. And let me share with you a
concept that I think would really help
you see the way tithing really is. Giving
is just like going to the gym. How many
of you here go to the gym? Let me
rephrase that. How many of you would like
to go to the gym? Let me rephrase that
again. How many of you just want to lose
weight? And that involves you going to
the gym? There you go. Now, you want to go
to the gym but sometimes, you feel lazy.
Sometimes, you know. You just don't have
time. But really losing weight is not an
instant thing. You gotta put yourself out
there. It's a commitment that you do. Say
that with me, "commitment." And it's the
same thing with tithing. Sometimes you
don't really feel the effects right away,
but as you faithfully keep on giving, and
giving, and giving, sometimes you just see
that your life is being fixed. People are
being brought to you. Resources are just
coming to you, by God's grace. That's what
giving is all about. Just making that
commitment. That you trust the Lord. And that
you have confidence that He will supply
you with all that you need. Amen? And with
that, I want to invite you all to stand
up. Every time I lift up the love
offering envelope, I always encourage you
to be proud of what you have to offer.
And really that's the basis of why we
lift it up.
No matter the amount that you give,
there's no amount that is too small for
God. If you give it with your whole heart.
And with that, we pray.
Repeat after me, "Father God, thank You for
allowing me to give today.
You have been so generous. You've given
me all that I need. And I believe that
You will give me all that I still need.
Use this mighty Lord, multiply it,
bless it, anoint it, so that You can build
Your kingdom here on earth. I give this
with much love, and with much trust. All
these I pray, and more. In Jesus' mighty
name. Amen." With smiles in your faces
come forward, and just give your
best to God.
