Live Aware of God's Presence and Rest in His Goodness

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We are concluding our series entitled Perspective. Perspective is our

point of view with regards to things, with regards to

our life, and one of the important things as people

of God that we need to have is his perspective

or how he sees us and life, so that we'll

be able to go back to His will and to

go back and live our lives with that right perspective.

I like this quote by Ravi Shakarias who said this,

if we don't have a transcendent perspective or a godly

perspective in life, at the end of it, you'lly that

it was all meaningless. That just like how I saw

Ravi live for the first and last time he attended.

He was one of the speakers in the National Bible

Day here in the Philippines, and I'll never forget what

he said that people today are concerned about what is

on the right or on the left. The opinion of

this group versus this group. Where do I stand? Do

I stand on the light, on the right side of

life or on the left side of life? But the

reality is what is important is not where we are

on the left or on the right, but the relationship

that we have up and down. What does that mean

that in life we need to have We need to

be concerned about our relationship with our heavily Father first,

because that is the most important relationship that we can

cultivate here on earth. It is a preparation of a

life in eternity. And so I believe that God wants

to give us the right perspective, that a godly perspective

of how we should live our lives. And we are

continuing and concluding Psalms twenty three a song of David

which is entitled the Lord is My Shepherd, and we

will go through the last two verses, verse five and six.

It starts verse one, the Lord is my shepherd. I

shall not want. In other versions it says I will

lack nothing. It is God who completes us. It is

a God who provides for us, who gives us peace.

And this is what we talked about a few weeks

ago and today we will focus on verse five and six.

It says, verse five, you prepare a feast for me

in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by

anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings.

And in verse six it says, surely your goodness and

unfailing love will pursue me all the day of my life,

and I will live in the house of the Lord forever. Lord,

thank you that as you speak to us today with

these two powerful verses on how David concludes this song

that he has written, Lord, allow it to minister to us,

Allow it to sing deep Lord this two verses, allow

it to take root in our hearts, that we'll be

able to live it out in our lives today, or

thank you. As David has written this song, it will

minister to us wherever we are today annoying the preaching

of your word in Jesus name, Amen and Amen. As

we go through these two verses, it starts with this,

you prepare a feast for me. The Lord prepares something

for us, a feast. In the message version, it actually says,

you serve me a six course dinner. What does that

mean when we look at the whole story of Psalms

twenty three. You have to understand David was writing this

song as he would probably was going through one of

the biggest trials of his life. That he was going

through a crisis, and that's why the previous verses would say,

though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil, for you are with me.

It's a picture of a life in crisis. It's a

picture of a life in a trial, in anxiety, or

probably in hopelessness. But David the writer goes back and says,

the Lord is my shepherd, and God prepares a feast

for me in the presence of my enemies. What does

that mean? You know? I realized this as I was

reflecting on these two verses, that crisis destroys order in

our lives. That whenever we go through trials and crisis,

it seems that we can't function properly. It seems that

we can't do what we used to do. One of

the songs that I became to recall because of this

preaching is one of the Opim songs, which says di matulo,

let me bring song on. I think Doody knows that

Matulo di mahayan, the Kiaowa's alone, the Gama dami. Anyway,

that's the reality. When we are in crisis. We can't sleep,

we can't eat, we can function. It disrupts our lives

and we can't get back white because we are consumed

by problems, anxiety, hopelessness. We are worried. And I experienced

this when I went through a health crisis when I

was in Sibu. It was way back, and I believe

God was with me during that time. He held my

hand all throughout. But I was so consumed by the

troubles I forgot about how big my God is. I

actually lost weight so much, I actually couldn't function whenever

Pamu talked to me, paragum zombie, you know she can't

talk to me. I just have that black stare. I'm

consumed about the problem or my personal crisis. But the

word of God reminds us of this truth. Today. He says,

I prepare a feast. God prepares a feast even in trial.

God is preparing something for us in times of trial.

It's a picture of God blessing us continually, even in crisis.

Try to reflect for the past seventy days haven't you

experienced the blessing of God? Haven't you felt that you

are still blessed despite all this. I believe God is

reminding us that He is preparing something for us. Even

in trials, the Lord blesses us. And that's why I

like the following statement. It says, he prepares a feast

in the presence of my enemies. It's a picture of

God in control. He's not afraid of them. That's one. Secondly,

he won't back down on them. Saman Balaya. I will

prepare a feast for my children because I love them

so much. Yes, I am allowing them to go through

this trial, but at the same time I will bless them.

There's a picture of God who is controlled, an all

powerful God that the enemy can't do anything about it.

When God wants to bless us, it's regardless of what

we are going through. God can bless you today. He

is preparing something for you today. It follows it by

you honor me by anointing my head with oil. You know,

when you visit a Hebrew house during that time, when

you're invited for dinner, as soon as you get there,

they would take care of you. They would serve you,

and they would put oil. Why because chimpreno, it's a

dusty road among concrete roads during that time, and so

when you would go there, you're all dusty, amarao and oil.

So they would put oil to refresh you, not only

to make the room smell good, but it would actually

make you feel better. It's a picture of the guest

or the house blessing the guests, preparing the guests, and

even us when we are going through crisis, when we

go back to the Lord, it reminds us of who

we are. When we go do our devotions, we cry

out to the Lord. What happens, God reminds us of

who we are, and then we are blessed. God is

reminding you today that and in times of crisis. You know,

this pandemic might be a very personal crisis for you today.

I believe the Lord is telling you that I am

preparing a blessing for you, that I will annoint you,

that I will lift your head up. Because this is

who our God is, a God who desires to bless

us even in times of crisis. And that's why David

could say this, my cup overflows with blessings. You know,

during this time of pandemic will realize that for the

past seventy days, YO EXTA thank you for listening. We

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