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Obedience Opens the Wells and Makes Room for God's Provision

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  1. Welcome Just hind Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose

  2. of inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and

  3. speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast

  4. finds you in good shape. And now here's your message.

  5. I'm changing and it's our second week. We're talking about

  6. the life of Isaac. And when we look at the

  7. life of Isaac, if you open your Bibles, when you

  8. study it, you'll see that it's there's very little stories

  9. about Isaac, very few, but his life is described as

  10. a blessed life, just like Abram his father. His father

  11. was he had so many extraordinary stories with God. But

  12. at the same time you see this ordinary son, but

  13. exceedingly blessed just the same. If there's something about Isaac

  14. his son, it's his obedience to his father. It's the

  15. mark of an obedient son. We talked about this last

  16. week that when he was about to be sacrificed, he

  17. was quiet me push up on my lad. He was

  18. quiet to the point of death. He was already an adult,

  19. but he was that kind of obedience son, obedient. And

  20. when I was going through this preparing for the speech,

  21. and this is what I realized when I was growing up,

  22. I was not an obedient kids dino. I remember, as

  23. some of you know, I was not born in the Philippines,

  24. so indiepo of Filipino cities, and I was born in Bagya, Setino,

  25. So life is different there. There's no taga log It's

  26. English and our native language Ilokano. So I had this

  27. yah yah when I was growing up. Her name's Yaya

  28. Via and my parents married when they were young, and

  29. so they had to leave me with my Lola Nola

  30. in Bagyo with my Yaya Violetta. And I remember this vividly.

  31. I was very disobedient to her. But you would understand

  32. why every time a gliko, every time I would go

  33. up the tree Paraunghi, I would do crazy things and

  34. she would always remind me of this statement. Until now now,

  35. Junta was a dream schoo at on statement Nan Yayao,

  36. if you do not behave I will not eat you later.

  37. Imagine I'm bilin an Yayao. But Diato, I don't know

  38. how to follow her instructions. I was disobedient to her,

  39. although she means well to me. Sharin Young, She's the

  40. first person who actually taught me how to sing praises

  41. young impact nan Yayao Sabina read your bye well pretty

  42. pre pritty anyway. You know, I was a disobedient kid,

  43. but I realized this that as soon as I learned more,

  44. I grew up. I went to school. As soon as

  45. we grow older, we learn more things, we become more disobedient.

  46. Why there are a lot of reasons why we it's

  47. hard for us to obey. I'm going to show you

  48. this statement. I'm going to ask you to try to

  49. answer this statement. It's hard to obey someone when bland?

  50. Why is it hard to obey people when they ask

  51. us to do something? For some, it would probably be

  52. it's hard to obey because we know better than them.

  53. Mahram Vazad in ghanan, why would you ask me to

  54. do that? In dnaman ganyan yan. Yeah, For some, we

  55. would say it's hard to obey because we do not understand.

  56. That's acceptable. When we do not understand and somebody tells

  57. us do this, why would they do that? You have

  58. asked more questions to obey? Its hard for some? Their

  59. answer to this statement is when they already made their

  60. Decisionangan saying yea devasta decision. Now, yeah, Moha young pride, Pride.

  61. It's very easy to see from above young humble, Ubas

  62. Street Perry, Yuma Pride, Mochang passas, mohabam passas yeas all right.

  63. It's hard to obey someone when we do not get

  64. their instructions. That's why we read the fine print. We

  65. want to know the entire story. But when it comes

  66. to our faith in God, this is my question. When

  67. we talk about obedience to God, why is it hard

  68. to obey bat young herab go in New Mancellitanampaninan, Why

  69. is it hard to obey the very word of God?

  70. We may actually have the same answer actually with what

  71. we said a while ago, it might be the same.

  72. But today, as I preach, I will not concentrate on

  73. trying to answer the concerns or the how we think

  74. on why we do not obey God and others. Today

  75. I want to give you a picture of what it is.

  76. What is a picture of a life that obeys God?

  77. An you its you run on life that when you

  78. obey God? What happens to us? Because when we show

  79. you a picture of what it is to be obedient

  80. to God, maybe the reasons that we gave will not

  81. matter anymore. So if you're ready, please open your bibles

  82. in Genesis chapter twenty six. Today we're going to go

  83. through almost thirty three verses. It's a bit long, so

  84. we're going to skip a few and as we go

  85. through it, I just want you to have this heart

  86. and this mind to say, Lord, speak to me today, Lord,

  87. let your word minister to me. Oh behan Okay, as

  88. you opened your bibles, can I ask everyone to bow

  89. down their heads as we pray for the word. Lord,

  90. Thank you that you are a God who speaks to

  91. us Lord through your word. Lord. You said it even

  92. in your word, that your word is alive and active,

  93. that it can minister to us Lord wherever we are.

  94. And so Lord, today, as you release your word to

  95. your people, Lord, let it speak to them Kungnasa and Pusilla. Lord,

  96. may my brothers and sisters, some of them might be

  97. tired with the daily grind, even tired today because of

  98. tomorrow Alam Danila and Gago with Nila next week. And

  99. so Lord today give them rest. Lord, even for some

  100. who are having a lot of doubts and questions about

  101. who you are, if they can trust you, Lord, today,

  102. that you will clarify that in their hearts. Lord, do

  103. your work in us where we are in our lives today.

  104. This we pray in Jesus name Amen. First one, chapter

  105. twenty six. It says, now there was a famine in

  106. the land, besides the former famine that was in the

  107. days of Abraham and Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech,

  108. king of the Philistines. We'll see here that there was

  109. a famine. A famine was a time where you have

  110. to live where you are. Why, because the land is

  111. so dry. You can't plant. If you can't plant, there's

  112. no crops. What happens. You can't feed your cattle, You

  113. can't feed your the sheep all that. What happens, they

  114. get skinny and they die. No matter how rich you are,

  115. how much cattle you have, which was the basis of

  116. wealth during that time, if there is a famine, it

  117. can actually you can actually lose your wealth. You have

  118. to understand that Isaac, as the son of Abraham, was

  119. already rich. So brom Yam and a puni Isac. Why

  120. because he is the chosen child of Abraham. All the

  121. kids of Abraham binigen London and gifts before he died,

  122. sa I gave them gifts, but only Isaap had the

  123. estate nakuhi isa he was that rich. But we'll also

  124. realize that his wealth it can actually begune in a

  125. span of months because of this famine. And so what

  126. does he do. He now goes to a place called

  127. Girar Young Girar is still part of the Promised Land.

  128. It's still affected by the famine. It doesn't say why

  129. he went to Girar all. It says that he was

  130. now going to the king of the Philipstines Abimelet. We

  131. don't know if he will ask permission to leave the country.

  132. But the assumption is everyone during that time, in times

  133. of famine would go to Egypt. Egypt was a place

  134. where people would say it was what greener pastures not

  135. an ignit wordne and why because there they can feed

  136. all the the cattle pudi ohl it yumahananangayyat, nana, maga, cowsnila.

  137. So the best place to go to now is Egypt.

  138. It was a place that was not affected by the famine.

  139. Think about it today, what is your Egypt? Meron Baayung

  140. Egypt Napakmerian Kayum trial etoyung picture Nkita Greener pastures for

  141. some note, when I was growing up, I think in

  142. the eighties and nineties, the US was the greener pasture

  143. for the Filipinos. I want to go to the United

  144. States were and live there and say, hey, Joe, Union

  145. dream not the ultimate dream. Now there are a lot

  146. of places that people consider greener pastures, the Middle East, Europe,

  147. somewhere in Asia, anywhere that could increase the things that

  148. we have a better future, and that is greener pastures.

  149. And so now he goes to Garar. But it's he here.

  150. It says the Lord appeared to him and said, do

  151. not go down to Egypt. Dwell in the land of

  152. which I shall tell you. Verse three. It says, stay

  153. in the land for a while, and I will be

  154. with you and I will bless you. God gives him

  155. a specific command. What was the command stay in Garar?

  156. For Isaac? I would probably ask, Lord, why would I stay? Well,

  157. I'm famine and tito famine is lack cool kolang na coolong? Now,

  158. oh Lord, why will I stay? Doesn't make sense? But

  159. as God commands Isaac, there is a promise that goes

  160. with it. It says for to you and your descendants,

  161. I will give all these lands and will confirm the

  162. oath I swore to your father Abraham verse four. I

  163. will multiply your offsprings as the stars of dem And, and

  164. I will give to your offsprings all these lands, and

  165. in your offsprings all the nations of the earth will

  166. be blessed. Is that a familiar promise from God? It

  167. is because God gave that to Abraham before. When God

  168. gave the same promise to Abram, he now passes it

  169. on to his son isa That's where we see that

  170. the God that we have is multi generational, that he

  171. never changes hole you by on. When God promises us something,

  172. he will not change his mind with that promise. Pasuna

  173. is a promise. Now explantionion by my promise, and kende magoula.

  174. Indeedpad breaks our heart. But at the same time we

  175. have to realize that the God that we worship, when

  176. he gives a word, it will come to pass, and

  177. it's for different generations to come. So what does Isaac

  178. do verse six? He says he settles in ker Are, Okay,

  179. he settles in Gerar. What happens? You know, when you

  180. obey God, it doesn't promise you a storm proof as

  181. storm free life Meron par In Dayama Trials Namaniere. Unfortunately,

  182. for Isaac, as soon as obeyed the word of God,

  183. what happens mehrong naging problem. So when he entered the

  184. place and Sinabin as a wife Yaba, when the men

  185. of the place ask him about his wife, he said,

  186. she is my sister. For he feared to say my wife,

  187. thinking lest the men of the place should kill me

  188. because of the wife Rebecca, because she was attractive in appearance.

  189. What do we understand here? If Rebeccah is beautiful, Isaac

  190. is ugly reconnect Sabina and CHARLESA. He feared his life?

  191. Why during that time pag Meroom Culturally it was different

  192. from where he was. And now he enters a different territory,

  193. there's a king. So he feared Nomamataisha a wifebek wife.

  194. So he decided to lie. Is it a familiar story? Yes?

  195. Why because his father also did it three times? Next

  196. Sabina Hindiko and Nisis Kapatid Cologne. If you were a

  197. wife and your husband would ind how would you feel

  198. Aba Aganon Kapatia Yah. So what happens a panic pussy

  199. isa He didn't know what to do, so he lies.

  200. He deceived the people of their are. You know, sometimes

  201. when we obey God, there are times that we will

  202. encounter things that we are that is beyond our control,

  203. that makes us panic. And now what happens He does

  204. it his own way. And you know, without a relationship

  205. with Ameneum, they fought young in Mahaparaya Maha you abilly

  206. Da kicks in. You know, we see here a man

  207. who is not perfect if you think about it, still

  208. lies fallen nature of man. When we panic, we do

  209. crazy things. Now he lies to the people there. What

  210. happens nela mang king when the king was actually watching them,

  211. Isaac and Rebecca, which during that time indieganan relationship young

  212. men with women, even their sister. And so now he

  213. says he is not the sister. He is actual she

  214. is actually the wife. So a bimiles, what is this

  215. that you have done to us? One of the people

  216. might easily have lain with your wife and you would

  217. have brought guilt upon us. The guilt, young king, if

  218. you were the king of that territory. There's a family

  219. that you don't know that it's not your people who

  220. goes to your territory. What would you do if you

  221. ask me, I would punish them in town nilov Elian king,

  222. the punishment should have been death with a gillette. But

  223. you see here the response of the king was different.

  224. Verse eleven. So a bimleck warned all the people, saying,

  225. whoever touches this man or his wife, sir, shall surely

  226. be put to death. Why would that be? Imagine a

  227. king would come up with the law. What's the law?

  228. It was his final word when he says it, it

  229. should be in place. Why would he give that statement

  230. that whoever touches this man and woman will be put

  231. to death? You know you would see here Pasi, God,

  232. you orchestrate even that kind of favor we get, you

  233. know God see isa obedient means a land. So what

  234. would God do? God actually brought him back to his will.

  235. God would actually bring us back. His favor is still

  236. with us. He brings us back to where he wants

  237. us to be. That is the grace of God. Imagine, no,

  238. if because of this disobeying and mal isac panab lord,

  239. I would hold the promise there gonna be bil That's

  240. how gracious are God is He still brings us back

  241. to where we should be. As we continue the story,

  242. this is what will really is that when we grow

  243. in our faith, that obedience should be full, That obedience

  244. should be following God how, by his command, the what,

  245. by the way, how and when, even without knowing the why.

  246. Sometimes we don't understand. But it's okay. What God is

  247. after is our obedience. Sometimes we don't need to panic

  248. for as long as we obey God, we don't need

  249. to do it our way. Just like isa he lied.

  250. You know, when we obey God, he will be with us,

  251. and that's why he wants full obedience. Do you know

  252. this that when we obey God and saying this Lord,

  253. I will do that, but I will do it my

  254. own way, that's still disobedience. Delayed obedience is also what disobedience.

  255. As we grow in the faith, we will know that

  256. when God asks us to do something, we need to

  257. do it. As you continue the story, says verse twelve,

  258. what does Isaac do in the land in Girar, Isaac

  259. sod in the land and reap in the same year

  260. a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, and the man became

  261. rich and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. Imagine,

  262. in a place where nobody was planting famine, he continues

  263. to plant. God said, stay there, do what you need

  264. to do, do what you've been doing before. Stay there

  265. in that land he plants and put resulta one hundred

  266. fold that no famine can block the ways of God.

  267. All he had to do was stay in Girar. He sowed,

  268. he planted, everyone stopped planting. Imagine, not today will come

  269. up invest jhan sur yan malulukigajan. At the same time,

  270. you're the only one who plants, and now there is

  271. a yield one hundred food. One of the things that

  272. I want to emphasize in today's preaching is this, What

  273. did Isac do? He stayed, he planted. You know, that

  274. was an easier route if you think about it, because

  275. Egypt was a far place. He would travel everything with

  276. his family Rena. That would be harder, that would be

  277. so much effort. God wanted him to stay. What did

  278. he do? He stayed, He planted. It was an ordinary

  279. act of obedience. But look at the result that all

  280. the ordinary acts of obedience, for as long as we

  281. do it, what God tells us. What happens there is

  282. an extraordinary result. Imagine, No, the things that we do

  283. that you know obana thin see good hum resulta indeed

  284. of satin. There are things that we might be doing today.

  285. Doesn't make sense? Lord, Why do you want me not

  286. to resign now promote d Lahati in boom office but

  287. in johannit or not promote day? Why do you want

  288. me to stay? But God wants you to just be

  289. diligent in what you're doing. Why because the result is

  290. up to him. When we look at it, it's not

  291. our part to do the heavy lifting. It's God's part

  292. to do it for us. Sometimes, not to obey God

  293. is harder for us. Why because we have so many questions.

  294. But if we only knew God's plan for us, it

  295. might be a different story. Imagine where you are today,

  296. God tells you to do it? Do you see that

  297. there is a possibility of an extraordinary blessing that follows it?

  298. Verse fourteen, It says he had possessions of flocks and

  299. herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him

  300. in Gitpu Mantaudna in Ghitzilla, with so much of his wealth,

  301. having a bageo Diamina. Nobody planted only him. Now he

  302. has so much Latsila and Ghirap. He was blessed and

  303. so nam git Pusilla verse fifteen. We'd see here that

  304. the king or verse sixteen. The king goes to him

  305. and says, go away from us, for you are such

  306. a miightier than we. So Isaac departed from there and

  307. encamped in the valley of Girar and settled there. He

  308. was thrown away. He was he was asked to leave

  309. them Domina. What did he do? He followed them, but

  310. at the same time he still stayed in Ghirar insan. No,

  311. he will go through life like that means and Ti

  312. named Tinata boy just like Isaac. He was driven away

  313. because of envy, because of pride of the king. Imagine

  314. you're in BGC and the mayor says dialang, so blessed,

  315. can I lily pat kita dun sabila sami peteros Imagine

  316. no paran malelet this is what happened to him. So

  317. Isaac departed and left the camp. Verse eighteen. Isaac dug

  318. the wells. He needs water, So in that place he

  319. had to dug the wells that his father dug before

  320. Anengiaripo during the time when his father died. Well aana

  321. water you well, they put loupaiung wells. So he dug

  322. it again. What happens uh? And he gave them the

  323. name of this father that his father had given them.

  324. Verse nineteen, when Isaac servants dug in the valley and

  325. found there well off spring of water. Why is it

  326. that every time Isaac would do something he was blessed.

  327. Why because he obeyed the word of God. He stayed

  328. in the land. So non do your favorite the lord.

  329. So when he dug it ananyare the herdsman in Gerald

  330. quarreled with him, and he said, this water is ours.

  331. So he called the name of the will Essex Sabinalla nasaknila.

  332. You'm well, big glad. So he let that go. What

  333. happens so Indiana can test Verse twenty one. They dug

  334. another well, and they quarreled over that. So he also

  335. called its name Sidna chip In monopac In sami a

  336. nakaba sabini isa. But again he lets it go. The

  337. third well, it says, and he moved from there and

  338. dug another well. Scholars say that it was a long

  339. walk until the border of Jerrar. Now he goes to

  340. that end of that part, and they did not quarrel

  341. over it. So he called the ReHO both saying, for now,

  342. the Lord that's made room for us, and we shall

  343. be fruitful in the land. You know, a life of

  344. obedience to God is marked by the favor of God.

  345. Imagine no kit they were using laws in their territory,

  346. and I meanto, what would God do? He would always

  347. make a room for asa. Think about it today. A

  348. picture of a life in obedience to God is having

  349. the favor of God. See Lord Ningo Magawana way for you.

  350. He's the one orchestrating things. You need water, I will

  351. provide a well that has water. He will be I

  352. want to move the parts for you. He will be

  353. the one to open opportunities for you. Some of us

  354. might be in a dead end situation. Buy on career,

  355. contented on a landlord milan and ladders a Welanan promotion

  356. for you. The thing that makes sense is to leave

  357. the work look for a different job. But you know,

  358. if God favors upon you, he can actually make a

  359. position for you. He can make room for you, encouraging

  360. beyond thank you so long. No, yess not really. If

  361. you think about it, our obedience comes with the favor

  362. of God. What does that mean in our life when

  363. we will be God? In simple asks? What happens he's

  364. with us? I bang favor the Lord satin probably in

  365. our context and favors and connections some amendeba guys, Yeah, mikilala, comparico, mikilala,

  366. comparigo sinushah in comparico na pinsanianito nah, happit bahindi major?

  367. Why we want favor? Why we want connections? Eto imagine this.

  368. When we obey God, his favor comes with us. We

  369. don't need human connections. It's the favor of God that

  370. comes with our obedience. What is the picture of the

  371. favor of God? In Verse twenty three says, for there

  372. he went up to Birsheba, and the Lord appeared to

  373. him the same night and said, I am the God

  374. of Abram, your father. Fear not, for I am with you,

  375. and I will bless you and multiply your offsprings for

  376. my servant Abraham's sake. A picture of a life with

  377. the favor of the Lord is the presence of the Lord.

  378. He showed up first time before he left for Girar.

  379. When he got to Garar again he shows up during

  380. the situation in the world. I'm going to tell you

  381. something that you might not know, and I want you

  382. to get this. I'm gonna say this very slowly. Ready

  383. in a brille Ready in a brille game. Nayow game

  384. nah alry ready one, two three. This is the word

  385. of God today for you. The Lord is always with you.

  386. You know sometimes we forget that. Really, do you know

  387. that the Lord is with you anywhere? Everywhere in the

  388. heights and loss of life, he is with you. The

  389. problem is, there are times you forget. You know how

  390. I know that we forget that God is with us

  391. when we do it our way? Experience can are you

  392. think you know? The fact that you know that the

  393. presence of the Lord is with you will change your life.

  394. The one who can give you the best way to

  395. solve your problem is with you. Amen. I'm gonna say

  396. it again. The Lord is with you in any time

  397. in high Saint Loss, the Lord is with us in

  398. the times that we worship him, is with us even

  399. the times that we do bad things. He's with us.

  400. He knows, he knows us through and truth. I'm gona

  401. be getting okay, The Lord appeared to him. As you continue,

  402. it says here when Abra with a bimilik went to

  403. him from Gerrar with his advisor and commander of his army.

  404. After no, well, no, lie, you Lyinganshan and king? Who

  405. else his advisor and commander? Imagine the president with his

  406. executive assistant and general Kasamana to go to you. He

  407. went to Isah and he says, Isaac said, why have

  408. you come to me seeing that you have hated me

  409. and you have sent me away from you? Isa who

  410. got the masakatan no mono in president? You hate me Sabi?

  411. But what does the king say verse twenty eight? They said,

  412. we see play plainly, not only him, even his commander,

  413. even his adviser. We see plainly that the Lord has

  414. been with you. Do the people around us know that

  415. God is with us? When we go to the office,

  416. when we spend time with people, how do they feel?

  417. What would they say? Because I'm ne galahat latina sabino negatron,

  418. You'd suck out the life of people. But we see

  419. here I sack a different kind of life. It is

  420. we see plainly that the Lord has been with you.

  421. Imagine a life when people see from Afar, even though

  422. they don't know you personally parently, but to see Charles

  423. Faya blessed? Who wants that kind of life? Twenty one.

  424. All of us want want to have a blessed life,

  425. it says, so we said, let there be a sworn

  426. pack between us, between you and us, and let us

  427. make a covenant with you Verse twenty nine, that you

  428. will do us no harm. Grab young kingaartain, you are

  429. mightier than us, just as we have not touched you

  430. and have done to you nothing but goods. Paramahuka imune

  431. welle nothing but good and send you away in peace.

  432. What does the king say? You are now the blessed

  433. of the Lord. Imagine a small act of obedience can

  434. actually mean so much for others that when we obe

  435. the word of God, what happens it affects others? Let

  436. me by your obedience. No, it's not only for you,

  437. even Tabab blessed that they would want to know, how

  438. did you? How are you? Why are you blessed? I

  439. want to be like you? What's it about you that

  440. you're like that? You know? I hope you know that

  441. when we obey the word of God. What happens. The

  442. effect is not only for us. It's actually an opportunity

  443. for God to get to for him to reveal himself

  444. to others. It affects others. You know, only God can

  445. reverse things even though they are not believers. Abimelek was

  446. not a believer. Only God can actually reverse people in

  447. our lives. Schipin Mo someone who considered him an enimy

  448. Pina Alita, you story gusta in Lord Bola from you honestly, Neaden,

  449. I know prayer you Lord Kundina. How do you pray? Lord?

  450. I pray that you change his heart? You know, God

  451. wants to answer that prayer sometimes through you, the people

  452. that we think I am posive Lordo. You know, God

  453. wants to use your life as an example. God wants

  454. to use your life an example to the people that

  455. you're believing to get to know him. Rebe a simple

  456. act of obedience can mean so much for others. It

  457. affects others as you continue. Stephen Fertek said this, great

  458. moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

  459. That's encouraging for us. Why because we can do a

  460. very simple act, we don't need to tire ourselves from

  461. doing great moves so that we can have great results.

  462. We can actually do the little things God wants us

  463. to do, and He will be the one to give

  464. us that great moves. All of us are still believing

  465. for greater things. Amen. It starts with our obedience to God.

  466. Five point thirty. As I preach, one of the leaders

  467. approached me, Alvin Sabina. You know if there's a word

  468. that he got from that in impress God. A lot

  469. of us would rather do works for God, thinking that

  470. we can get his favor. That's true. A lot of

  471. us would rather do the works. I'm serv I'm a

  472. God from morning till night. Service Kai Naganga took name

  473. to go, but I'm a blessed on the Lord, I'm

  474. a God and the service now victory after nine pm.

  475. We think that the works that we do for God,

  476. the sacrifices that we do, will earn our blessing, But

  477. even the Bible says He is more concerned about our

  478. obedience than our sacrifice. Great moves of God are usually

  479. preceded by simple acts of obedience. The question is why

  480. is it so hard to obey God? You know, sometimes

  481. we just need to do at Sabinian fla verdeba, just

  482. do it. When God asks us to do something, we

  483. just need to do it, regardless of if we understand,

  484. regardless if indeena, then alam what the result will be?

  485. You know why? If there's one thing for sure? See

  486. God young Hartna is for you. He is the what

  487. alpha enda. He is the beginning end, and so here

  488. is the end. He knows what will happen. And so

  489. who knows the best for us? Is it us or God?

  490. It's God. So today I'm gonna ask you again, just

  491. like what I said a while ago, the reasons why

  492. it's hard for us to obey, specifically to obey the

  493. word of God, because I said a while ago, we

  494. think we are better than them. We think we are

  495. better than God. We may not say it, but sometimes

  496. we actually act it. When God asked you to do it,

  497. what is it to move? We justify our acts, We

  498. justify our emotions with God, we tell him the Lord

  499. actually Lemniad. Another reason I said a while ago is

  500. because we do not understand. That's why we don't follow God. Again,

  501. we do not need to understand. I said also a

  502. while ago that because we do not trust the person

  503. who is asking us to do it. We do not

  504. trust God enough. Lord Lord, it resulta You know, you

  505. want to know how to trust God. Obey He will

  506. reveal himself faithful to you. Want to trust God more?

  507. Read his word so that you can experience who he is.

  508. That when he says something, it will surely come to us.

  509. That when he gives a command, there is a promise

  510. that comes with it. If there's one word that all

  511. of us know, we recite it all the time from Jeremiah.

  512. What is that? He asked, what plan to prosper us?

  513. Not to harm us, but to give us a future

  514. and a hope. Yes's the Lord. He will not put

  515. you in a place where it will be bad for you.

  516. We just need to do his word. The question is

  517. are you willing to allow God to lead your life

  518. with the moment we do not obey God. What we're

  519. saying is, Lord, Kayakronamane, I can do it on my own.

  520. I will just go to you, and I'm desperate about things.

  521. I will just go to you. You know, God wants

  522. you to want He wants you to spare you from

  523. that trouble. And that's why he wants you to do

  524. it today. I may not be giving specifics, but I

  525. know for a fact that God is talking to you today.

  526. He's been asking you to do something, but you're just

  527. fighting it off. I believe today is the day that

  528. God wants you to follow him. That maybe getting out

  529. of a relationship that's not right. That may be forgiving

  530. someone who has said something to you, who has destroyed

  531. who you are, and God is saying forgive them. You know, God,

  532. we can't box God. Just like what I said last week, Indisha,

  533. he does not think how we think biological. If I

  534. do this, this is what will happen. You know. Sometimes

  535. we just need to follow God. That's why it's an

  536. act of faith. It's a life of faith. The Bible

  537. says we do not walk by side, we live by

  538. faith that everything we do with God for God, we

  539. may not know what it brings, but one thing is firsture.

  540. When we have faith in Him, he will be the

  541. one to lead us through Lord, my animal Lord. Amen.

  542. You know Jesus, I'm gonna end with this story. See

  543. Jesus when he was teaching the disciples in the crowd,

  544. there was this tita, bless blessed. Now, Mommy, certain conversation.

  545. But this is how Jesus defined what really is being blessed.

  546. True blessedness, he said, is looke Chapter eleven, verse twenty eight.

  547. But blessed rather are those who hear the word of God.

  548. And what else and obey it? You want to be

  549. blessed in life? Yes? No, there's two things that we

  550. need to do. We need to hear the word. Read

  551. the word of God, meditate on God, do our devotion

  552. so that we know what He wants us to do.

  553. And at the same time, what's the next part? Obey

  554. the word. We can live a life that is blessed,

  555. but God allows us to do our part. Simple acts

  556. of obedience can lead to a truly blessed life. Amen.

  557. Can ask everyone to stand as we close in prayer

  558. before we pray application. This is very hard, Mahabatoh. First

  559. we need to read the word. You want to know

  560. what God wants you to do tomorrow in this season

  561. of your life, in your career, in your marriage, in

  562. your relationship. You want to know what God wants in

  563. your business. You want to know what God wants in

  564. your personal growth. Read the word. Second part, you have

  565. to obey. It might be simple but I know it's hard.

  566. But when we go through a life of faith, when

  567. we continue to obey the word of God, you know

  568. what happens. Grace, the grace of God will be sufficient

  569. as we go and face that as we obey the word.

  570. The grace of God will be with us. As we

  571. obey the word, it's going to challenge us, it's going

  572. to stretch us, it's going to take us out of

  573. our comfort zone. The grace of God is with us. Amen,

  574. It's about down our heads and pray, Lord, thank you

  575. that you have spoken to us Lord, where we are. Clearly, Lord,

  576. we can't doubt that the word that you have spoken

  577. to us, Lord can be very personal to all of

  578. us today. So Lord, as you do your word as

  579. it is alive and active, just like what you said,

  580. or we declare that you will also move us to action.

  581. I believe the room is is either filled with one

  582. kind of person and I'm going to pay for the

  583. other one. The first one is this that it seems

  584. it's really a struggle to know the Word of God.

  585. For you, You've been one thing. You've been saying, Lord Malala.

  586. But whenever I open the word partern, whenever I hold

  587. that Bible, but I can't seem to find you. I

  588. can't seem to experience you in your word. With all

  589. heads about down in nice clothes, that is you I

  590. want to pray for you. Raise your hand, yes, Lord, yes, yes,

  591. thank you Lord, Thank you God. You see those hands.

  592. Thank you Lord God. That as we raise our hands,

  593. it's also an act of surrendering, saying, Lord, you want

  594. more of you, And so Lord, today I declare that

  595. you are pouring your grace to read your word. Lord.

  596. You are the one who can change our hearts today.

  597. You're the only one who can change a heart of

  598. stone to our heart of flesh. Lord God, Today in

  599. Jesus name, Lord, as they raise their hands, Lord God, Lord,

  600. just give them that tender heart and that sponge mind.

  601. Lord God, to hunger for your word. Lord, that whenever

  602. they open your word, they will want to experience you personally.

  603. Lord God. Thank you Lord, that you're pouring your spirit

  604. within them, that they will have that new life of

  605. hunger for your word. That whenever they read your word,

  606. Lord God, they will know who you are more and more. Jesus,

  607. Thank you, Lord, Holy Spirit. Do your word in their lives.

  608. You can put your hands now. I want to also

  609. pray for the last group of people. You know, God

  610. has been speaking to you. You know, God has been

  611. telling you something specifically to do for the past months,

  612. for the past even years, and it's not an accident

  613. that you're hearing this word today. I believe God wants

  614. to set you free from that burden of saying Lord

  615. Degahai and go in and pinapaga Lord Digahai, and go

  616. in if I do it. You know, God is speaking

  617. to you today and saying an app I want you

  618. to experience my goodness, but I need you to let

  619. that go. I believe God is telling you just follow

  620. me because this is my will for you. God has

  621. been asking you to give up something. But it seems

  622. like Lord Lecoia, I believe today God wants to assure

  623. you just allow him to do his work. But we

  624. also need to do our part to surrender it to God.

  625. With all heads about down, nice cloth, not here to

  626. shame you. I want to pray for you. If that

  627. is you raise your hand as a sign of surrender

  628. and saying, Lord, I want to give this up, but

  629. I need your strength. Yes, Lord, thank you for this sense.

  630. Thank you Lord God. Thank you God. Lord, you see

  631. this sense as they say, Lord, I need the assurance

  632. that it will be okay. Lord, you see their hands. Lord,

  633. today I declare Jesus embrace them right now, Holy Spirit.

  634. Let them feel your love today. Only Spirit, minister to

  635. them where they are today. Lord, you're assuring them that

  636. all they need to do is let it go and

  637. surrender it to you. Lord. You will share to them

  638. how much you love them. Lord. Thank you that you're

  639. doing your word, Holy Spirit. I pray that you fill

  640. them right now with strength, Lord, with courage as you

  641. feel them. Lord, God, free them from the bondage of

  642. the things that they think that they cannot let go. Lord,

  643. release them right now in Jesus Name, release them. Lord,

  644. Thank you Lord, that the enemy cannot lie to them anymore. Freedom. Lord, God,

  645. do your work in their lives today in Jesus Name.

  646. Amen and Amen, let's praise God today. I just want

  647. to speak a blessing to everyone as we shtch out

  648. our hands. Lord, you see your people today. Thank you

  649. Lord God that you have spoken to them. Lord. Let

  650. your words sink deep in their hearts. Lord, let not

  651. the enemy snatch your word today. Thank you Lord that

  652. you will provide for them this week. Thank you, Father,

  653. that you will open doors for them, that you will

  654. make them into a blessing to others. Lord, give them

  655. the heart of obedience, Lord, just like any of your sons.

  656. Thank you, Lord that you love us so much. In

  657. Jesus' name, and everybody of God's people say amen and amen.

  658. God bless you all. Thank you for listening. We hope

  659. that you enjoyed today's episode. Don't forget to share and

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