Patience In The Breaking

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One of the greatest testings, I'll say it again, is

going to be your patience. It's not even just the

testing of faith. We know that it's for sure, but

what God is after his patience. Let patience run its

course that take rise to the top. Everything has a

time table. Breaking often happens before the breakthrough. Let me

give it to you a more time. Breaking often happens

before the breakthrough. So if you're going through a breaking,

now say thank you Jesus, I believe my breakthrough is coming.

Breaking will cause you to forgive because at a time

of breaking, maybe all that you can ask God for

is God, please forgive me. You know, if there's anything

I've done to deserve this, God, Oh God, forgive me.

And you go to a whole meditation of needing God's forgiveness. Right,

You don't net anything to block your healing, and with

that comes the forgiveness of others. Breaking will remove envy,

no time to envy. It will remove jealousy. Yeah, breaking

will help you overcome anger issues. If you're really going

to a breaking his way a way surrendered a way

that's just looking to Jesus, say God, I might not

understand everything, but I surrender to you. You will find it.

It's not easy to be angry anymore, and you'll be

able to subdue your temper much easier. That's what breaking does.

Breaking will relinquish your rights, bring down your pride, deny

your arrogance. You know, it's not easy to be proud

and arrogant when you're on two crutches. Before this, I

remember I could get ready for church, shower, dress up,

put on my tie, and my jacket all within ten minutes.

Now just to get ready to go into the bathroom

takes me ten minutes. How do you even manage arrogance

at that time? Breaking will also make you very patient.

You know, one of the toughest things, or shall I

say one of the toughest testings, is in the area

of your patients. You can take this maybe for a

couple of weeks, two months, six months, one year, Maybe

you're taking care of a loved one a few days, okay,

two weeks, maybe two months. It's tough. But then when

you go to a breaking you understand people's breaking. You

understand what they go through, don't you. So it's not

just patience, it's also understanding and compassion and mercy. As

I said earlier, kindness becomes a product of brokenness. Now

you know why breaking often happens before breakthrough because breakthrough

needs all these ingredients. It needs humility, it needs mercy,

it needs all these things that I just say and more.

Maybe the Lord is dealing with you in another area,

deeper area that I've not even mentioned. And when you

go through this process, the fact isn't there a scripture

that says, yay, though I go through the value of

the share of death, I will fear no evil. Yeah,

you know, we go through it. It's a dark place,

this valley, but God is with us, and so breakthrough

is at the end of that dark valley of breaking.

Is surrender, you say, pastor, give me a glimpse of

the light at the end of the tunnel, Give me

a glimpse of when can I expect this breaking to end? Well,

I have learned this surrender is the light at the

end of the tunnel. Surrender meaning God, I can't unless

you come, you see, because I find that as long

as you know you're going to do this breaking and

you're going to go I hope, I hope he's going

to end quicker. I hope it's going to end quicker.

And then in your mind you're thinking, I can still

do this, I can still depend on myself. I know

what to do. I find that God wants to remove

that from you and bring you and I to a

place whereby we actually end up saying God, I think

I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to

bring me to the end of myself. You're trying to

bring me to the end of the rope. You're trying

to bring me to that place where I actually lift

up my hands and surrender and say God, I actually

can't without you and the Lord wants to I'll tell

you what that place that God wants to bring us to.

It's really not a place of defeat. It's a place

of surrender, but not defeat. It's actually a very very

powerful place because that's when God's strength actually takes over.

That's when God actually intervenes, that's when he actually puts

his hand to the plow. That's when He actually shows up.

And all that other time when you say I can

do it, God, I can do it, I don't want

to do. He's not far away. He's just stand by

the side until you say, God, I really need you.

Breaking says more of you, less of me. Breaking will

make you want to shy away from the limelight and

give up your titles. Yeah, it's true, you know when

I was being broken and still am going through a breaking.

But I believe and the tail end already. I even said, God,

it's okay. This pastor title that I have does the better.

So more I have a reverend title as well does

a metal alone. I said, Lord, you use it whenever

you want to You want to use pastor whenever you

want to open doors. You use reverend whenever you want

to open doors that you want to open. Lord. If

you ever want to use the doctor title, whenever you

want to open it. Lord. Otherwise, I am just this Lord,

I am just this Kenneth Chin, servant of the Most

High God. Amen. I can't even stand up without his grace.

I can't even walk without his strength. So titles doesn't

mean anything to me. Like how Paul said, right, Paul said,

I count it as dumb. I count it as rubbish,

all right, because I want to gain Christ. Breaking says

once again, for when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Some

will learn through the healing, while others will heal through

the learning. You know, some people can say to you, way,

you know this happened to me, a miraculous healing, hallelujah.

You know I had an accident, and you know I

had something broken, and then within just twenty four hours,

the Lord heal me. Oh, you know, it's so good

to trust in the Lord, you know. And some will

learn through healing. I healed that they learned right to

trust the Lord. But others will heal through learning. It

is as you learn to surrender, healing comes. So the

learn is first with the Lord, and then even though

you don't even realize it, the healing. Every day you're

actually growing stronger. Every day you're actually getting better. Break

before breakthrough, break before breakthrough. Breaking if you don't treat

it well, can end up either with a breakup or

a breakdown, and both may not be what God wants

for you. But it's called break through. And this is

the scripture again verse four. Yay, though I walk through

break through, not break up, not break down. Break come

on through, though, I walk through the value of the

shadow of death. I will fear. Come on, no evil,

the thing about going to breaking, fear will try to

creep in, and that's again the devil's lies. Come on,

God is with us. You're Rod in your staff. They

comfort me. Pople, Listen to my heart and listen to

this reminder from the word of God. I will never

leave you, nor forsake you. I will never leave you

nor forsake you. You know what the word for sake

is when I studied it just in the last few weeks,

the word for sake has got to do with claims.

So as Elvin is behind the camera right now filming this,

Elvin has got two sons, Timmy Elijah. These are his

sons and he claims them as his own. Now, when

somebody forsake something, it is in the area of forsaking

the very claim that is his or hers or theirs.

So it's not just for saking, like ah bye bye God.

You know I'm going to turn my back against you know,

he's saying that you are his claim. You are his.

You don't belong to anybody else but me, saith the Lord,

and in that I will never forsake my claim. Are

you with me? That is the power? No no, no

forsake means you are my claim. And no matter who

you are and how dirty you might be. You know,

like a one hundred dollar bill, you can put it

through munder and even through the toilet bowl and out again,

it still remains one hundred dollar bill. Means it still

remains God's. And God said, I will never forsake you

because you are my claim. You will never be able

to do anything that will cause me to deny my claim.

Maybe you'll never see this verse the same way again. Okay,

God says you are mine. A man, remember that you

are his broken body or not broken body, you are his.

Come on, all right, he's gonna mend you. He's gonna

he's gonna heal you, he's gonna bless you. Amen. Now

what's important is three things very quickly now A bite, faith, hope, love,

these three and the greatest of these is love. Now faith.

In James Chapter one, verse two and four, the Bible says,

my brethren counted all joy when you fall into various trials,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces what patience.

One of the greatest testings, I'll say it again, is

going to be your patience. It's not even just the

testing of faith. We know that is for sure. But

what God is after is patience, Because I tell you

what a lot of you were closed to, short changing

yourself and short changing your loved ones and short changing

God because not because of faith or the lack of it,

or the more of it or the less. No, if

you have faith, but what you may not have had,

and what you may not even have realized that was

under testing is patience. So when you learn to surrender,

you learn patience. You say God, I used to ask you,

please get this done as quickly as you can. Now

I just say, God, you know exactly what time you

need to do this. In me, you know exactly how

much time a cake needs to be in the oven

to bake. I can look at the cake rising and

I say, can this please be finished in five minutes?

And the baker well, no, no, it's not gonna take

five minutes. And if you take the pen too quickly

out of the oven it falls flat and becomes nothing.

You will spoil the whole process. So many of us

will have learned to look through the glass of that

oven and just enjoy the rising and say God, I'm

not going to ask you to quicken. I'm going to

ask you have your way along. You know when this

will end. And when and when this ends and it's completed,

it will come out much better version. Then when he

went in, somebody say, amen, you and I will come

out much better version. Patience. Patience. Patience is gonna be

one of the most important thing you hear in this message.

Have patience surrendered to the Lord. Trust in him. Number two, Hope,

don't lose hope. It's okay to hope, my friends, It's okay.

In fact, the Bible says that hope is found in faith.

Why because in Hebrews eleven, verse one, Now, faith is

the substance of things hope. For faith is the substance

of things hopeful. So if you don't have hope, you

don't have faith because faith needs the substance of hope

or the substance that's hopeful. So you remove hope, you

remove faith. So start with faith. Have faith that God

is a good God. Have faith that God has got

good plans for you. Have faith that God would never

leave it and leave you or forsake you. And through

the testing of this faith, you will have patience that

will have its perfect work. Let patience run its course.

Let that cake rise to the top. Everything has a timetable.

Give patients a chance. No Russian faith will produce patience,

and patience must be able to say, my shift ends,

and when it ends is done. Let patience finish its assignment,

that you may be perfect and complete, says James one

verse two to four. Lacking nothing, Let's go back now

to hope. I pray in the name of Jesus that

all of you going through a breaking now will not

lose hope. Why because we have love at the end

of the day. Friends, it is love. So one day

I found myself on this same floor where I'm doing

this recording. Not only is my left leg injured and

I can't put any weight and pressure on it, my

right leg, the knee was completely inflamed. Why because I

had put all weight of my body trying to walk

on one leg, and so that one leg was totally overused, overcompensated,

and no one was around. Passeender was downstairs. I didn't

want to call out for her because I didn't want

to burnon her. But friends, a full grown man who

has been independent for so many years, doing almost everything

on his own if he can found himself on that

one day, not being able to stand to his feet,

not being able to get up. I felt like I

was punched in the face, in the stomach by the devil.

God allowed it, and I was down for the count

and no. I tried so much to push myself up.

I couldn't a grown man. That felt worse than a child.

I had legs, but I couldn't use them. My hands

were so tired trying to push my body up, and

I felt tears running down my face. I was a

broken man and I was on the floor for twenty minutes.

There was a breaking process. In fact, can I say this,

probably in the last two months, one of the lowest moments,

God brought me to that place. Some people will say

God brought me to my knees. Well, I was lower

than my knees. I was on my back. But then

as the devil tried to lie to me, where's your God?

Where's your God? Towards the end of that ordeal, God

spoke to me. He says, Kenneth, do you believe I

still love you? Hallelujah? I tell you what it took

faith to believe. And as I said, yes, Lord, I

believe that you love me. You gave your only begoden

son to die on the cross for me. What more?

The scriptures all began to come into my mind, into

my heart and my spirit. If God gave his only son,

what more will he not do for you? And as

I was being ministered to by the Holy Spirit, the

love of God just began to flood my soul, fill

my mind. My questions were not answered, but then they

didn't have to be anymore, just to know that God

loved me, And so I calmed down. Instead of fighting,

I surrendered instill of being angry, I was thankful, Thank

you Lord, and you love me. And with that I

felt a lightness coming too my body. And slowly but

surely I got myself up, set myself down, and from

there I got myself, you know, using the crutches. Slowly

but surely, I got myself to the bed, and I

got myself ready to go to sleep. But before I slept,

I just realized how powerful the love of God is,

and why the Bible says the greatest of these is love,

because in those times when you just can't answer the

bombardment of questions that come your way, You just need

to know that whatever it is, you have a God who.

Loves you, who will never stop loving you, and because

he loves you, he will always end well.

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