The Purpose and Power of Brokenness-Part 1

Hello, ex Church. It's a real privilege, pleasure and honor

to be able to do this recording. I'm so thankful

for the opportunity. As most of you know that I

injured myself a couple of months ago, and right now

I am recording this message from my own home. Right now,

as I'm recording this, I'm still on crutches. Thank God,

this one crutch. Now I've learned to go from two

crutches to one, and so there's improvements every day. I

am being strengthened by the Lord every day, and want

to thank you all for your prayers, for your love.

Quite a few of you, you know, always thinking about

me and Pasasandra, and you buy us food and you

treat us to LUNs. You bring the food over to

our house and then sometimes even dinner. We have a

sister here at excert. The Communi who you know, are

always buying us fruits and one time, even Durian, you

brought me so much joy, and I'm very very thankful.

In fact, one brother Jazz recently even brought us breakfast

as he was having his own breakfast in his favorite restaurant,

which happens to be also my favorite breakfast place, he

thought about us, and he you know, text us and

said could I bring you breakfast? And so thank you,

thank you, thank you every one of you for thinking

about us, for praying for us. I want to be

able to just first of all, say thank you to

Jesus for his grace, his mercy. Every day I can

sense his presence, his love, his healing is moving in

and through me. And though I would love that, you know,

the healing would have been faster. I would have loved

it just to be within just you know, a week

or two or a month, or maybe just six weeks,

you know. But now at the time of this recording

is already coming into the eighth week. But I've learned

some things from the Lord, some things I want to

share with you today. And God has encouraged me to

be patient, to wait for his timing because he knows

what's best. He knows the things that he wants to

show me and teach me and tell me, even in

this condition I'm in right now. But anyway, the good

news is that I am growing stronger each and every day,

and I want to thank you all for your love

and prays. Let's continue on the topic this year of

course five. Our theme is disciple first or disciples first.

The message I want to bring across to you is

that God chooses broken people. God chooses broken people. It

is painful to be under the breaking process of the Lord.

All of us will have to go through kind of breaking.

All the other p could be drastic in a way,

others may not be. So. God knows. God knows who

needs what, God knows who can take what? God knows

it all, And He's allowed me to go through a

short season of being broken, even under the supervision of

His love. I must say. The Bible says in Psalm

fifty one, verse seventeen, the sacrifices of God are a

broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. These, Oh God,

you will not despise. God chooses broken people because he

wants to use broken people for his glory. Broken people

make the best leaders, Broken people make the best musicians,

Broken people make the best preachers. Those of you who

have preached your best messages before you remember them, well,

you would agree with me. That is not eloquent messages

and messages that are full of wisdom and PhD material

that made your best message. No, you came from a

place of brokenness, from a storm, from a hardship, from

a pain, from a testing, from a suffering, and through

that you saw the reality of God in your life,

more real than you've ever seen him. And then a

message brewed in your heart, and through that pain, that

message was perfected. So even the best preachers are broken people.

The best counselors. Sometimes you could hear from a counselor

who's well trained, maybe even a doctor so and so,

but you could hear from another person who has no

titles in front of their name, but they went through

what you went through. And a counselor that's well trained

may need three sessions to get through to you, whereas

a person who's gone through what you have gone through,

or maybe even worse, just needed three minutes with you,

just thirteen minutes with you and your heart's connect. Because

the best counselors are those who are broken. The best

missionaries are broken people. The best servants, maybe even the

best employees, and the best bosses are broken people. They understand,

they understand what people are going through. God needs to

break us before he can use us. The brokenness, the

greater the use, the best we could ever offer to God,

and even to the world will come from our brokenness

more than our beauty. The best think about it. You

know the people around you, the people you know, the

best advice they gave you, the best service they gave

you really did not just come from you know that

nothing was wrong in their lives, but because they had

gone through that, and that's why they were able to

understand you. Service you love you, show you compassion, show

you mercy, show you patience, show you love. They were

able to give you the money you needed, even when

they didn't have the money themselves. Broken people are like that,

and God loves to use them. I want to encourage

all of us. Don't look for shortcuts. Learn to surrender.

I'll say it again, don't look for short that's in

your time of breaking, in your time of pain, in

your time of suffering. Many of us would like it faster, quicker.

Come on, Lord, why take three months where you can

take three days? Better's still three hours? You know we

want it quick, touching goal, smart tech. You know RFID quickness,

Let's go, let's go. You know no one wants to

wait in line. I wanted this to be quicker already

at this time, I've had to cancel about four or

five meetings. Surely my pa, Elder Shirley, had to call

Malaysian Airlines already now three four times, you know, to

postpone my etiquettes. It's not convenient and it's not easy

to tell the people who have been waiting for you

to come to speak to them, no, so sorry, I can't,

and I'm recovering from an injury, you know, and of

course by faith. At the end of June, I'm planning

to take up this invitation where the people in Bintulu

are waiting for me to come to share the word

of God with them. And I told them, you know,

please look for another speaker, and they said no, We

prayed about it, and we really still believe it's you.

But you know from this recording to them, it's about

a month, and I know miracles can happen in the month,

but you know, the doctors will tell you need at

least one moment. Of course, we thank God for doctors,

but we also have doctor Jesus and we want to

hear from him. And the Lord said to me, go ahead,

and both those etiquettes, trust me and go do this.

Let the faith of the people in Bintulu and your

faith combined and I will answer. So let's see what

the lot will do. By the time you get to

watch this message, we will know, because it'll be a

week later after this that I will have to be

in Bintulu by the grace of God. People are looking

for shortcuts, but what God is really wanting us to

learn is to learn to just surrender. Say Lord, you know,

you know how long you need, and as soon as

God is done, will be done. As soon as God

has accomplished what he wants to do, our suffering at

least for now will finish, Our pain will be healed,

our brokenness will be complete. Learn to surrender. God knows

his timing. God knows whether he needs one more week

to teach you something, two more weeks to show you something,

three more weeks to review something to you. He knows,

and when he's done, he's done. He's a good God.

You know. The people around us must also learn to

support when we are down, but never short change or

short circuit the work of God's breaking in our lives.

You know, as loved ones, we're there to support each other,

but sometimes we can also suggest things to the people

who am going through suffering. You know, I know sometimes

when a person is going through a suffering in a

church and he has thoughts in his mind or her mind,

I want to leave this church. I want to leave

this church, or I want to leave this company, I

want to leave this situation. But God is not done

with you yet. And then you have good meaning friends,

good intention family members who say just leave, just leave,

just stop, just go, like the wife of Joe who say,

just curse God and die. And Joe thankfully had the

wisdom to answer his wife this is not the way.

Sometimes we just have to wait it out because God knows.

And so, as a family member or a friend, do

not short change your friends learning and growth and development.

Do not short change gone because He wants to speak

to that friend or family member of yours. So don't

be so quick to throw in the tower or to

give up, because God knows, learn to surrender. In fact,

the breaking process of our loved ones very often is

also in one way or another hour breaking. You know,

I know, my wife has been taking care of me

the last six eight weeks, and you know already she's

quite busy, but you know it's added on now that

she has to take care of me. And there were

times where I saw a breaking woman even in her

life self. You can already imagine that a person could

herself even break down here and there and be really,

really tired. And sometimes you know, I don't I don't

want to stay home, you know, staying home with me

always right, like, I can almost imagine she just wants

to go out now, she wants to go breathe a

fresh air outside. I understand that. But even as love wants,

we two go through a breaking. But the Lord is

there for all of us now. The apostle Paul kept

getting broken, and God kept using him for greater things

until he realized this is what he learned. He said,

when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Before God even used Paul,

God said in Acts nine fifteen to sixteen, But the

Lord said to him, this was God talking to his servant, go,

for he is the chosen vessel of mind. So God

was speaking to his servant to go and speak to Saul,

who later on became Paul. And of course the servant

of the Lord was saying, no, this guy, Saul, he's

here to create havoc in the church. And God says no, no, Listen, listen,

go for he's a chosen vessel of mine to bear

my name before gentiles, kings and the children of Israel.

For I will show him how many things he must

suffer for my name's sake. Listen to that. God already

had it in his plan that Paul, who was one Saul,

had to suffer. Suffering is part of God's plan, part

of God's preparation. You know, this cave moment, this season

that I'm in right now, recovering and having my own

sufferings and pain and all that. It's not just a

time of pain. It's a time of preparation, like all

caves in the Bible were David was in the cave

and Elijah was in the cave. Cave can speak about isolation,

he can speak about just you know, a hiding place, refuge.

He can also speak about preparation. God wants to prepare us.

God was preparing Saul to become Paul through suffering. Someone

said before, if you really want to be used by God,

there is a price to pay. I want you to

get that into your spirit, if you really want to

be used by God. In fact, the other way around

is if God really wants to use you is the

same thing. If God really wants to use Paul, he said,

I will show him how many things he must suffer.

But if you, yourself, in your heart, really wanted to

do greater things for the Lord, I want you to

understand this. There is a price to pay across to carry.

Let's look at another scripture talking about Paul again. Are

they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I

am more it labors more abundant in stripes above measure,

in prisons, more frequently, in depths, often from the Jews.

Five times I receive forty stripes minus one. Three times

I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three

times I was shipwrecked a night and a day. I

have been in the deep, in journeys, often in Paris,

of waters, in Paris of robbers, in perils of my

own countrymen, in perils of the gentiles, in perils in

the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in

the sea, in perils among false brethren, in weariness and toil,

in sleeplessness, often in hunger and thirsts, in fastings, often

in cold and nakedness. Besides the other things, what comes

upon me daily my deep concern for all the churches.

This is found in Second Corinthians, Chapter eleven, verse twenty

three to twenty eight. Let's read another portion of scripture,

also in Paul's life. Though I also might have confidence

in the flesh, if anyone else thinks he may have

confidence in the flesh, I'm more so circumcised the eighth

day of the Stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,

a Hebrew of the Hebrews concerning the Law of Pharisee,

concerning zeal persecuting the Church, concerning the righteousness which is

in the Law blameless. But what things were gain to me?

These I have counted lass for Christ. Yet indeed I

also count all things loss for the excellence of the

knowledge of Christ, Jesus my Lord, for whom I have

suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish,

that I may gain Christ and be found in Him,

not having my own righteousness which is from the Law,

but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness

which is from God by faith, that I may know Him,

and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of

His sufferings. Yes, friends, it is part of God's plan

part of God's purpose being conformed to his death. If

by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from

the dead. You know, in this world, people go for skill,

they go for talent, strength, experience. Oh, people go for

brains and beauty, ability, and of affluence. That's how the

world works, right, isn't that true? That's how we choose.

God chooses broken people, but we choose perfect people. We

choose people with all the skills and all the talent.

When God wanted wanted to choose musicians, he chooses broken

musicians because broken musicians bring about the best, most beautiful

music and lyrics. You know, Compare one who has never

suffered and he writes a song, And compare and compare

to one who has suffered so much pain and brokenness

and he writes a song or she writes a song.

See which of the songs touches you more, goes further

ministers and gives God more glory. When broken people step

up to do what God has called them to do,

they create more than just excellence and eloquence. They release

an anointing, don't they, As David did when he ministered

to King Saul with music. David didn't have perfection. David,

you know, was probably rejected many times. The father almost

forgot that he had the eighth son. You know. When

the prophet asked for all the sons to pass by,

and God was choosing the next king had the prophet

had to ask, do you have one anymore sons? And

if other you, oh, yeah, one more. He's not around

his he's out there taking care of a few sheep.

And the prophet provert Samuel, said, we won't sit down

until he comes. Youngest RADDI looking, you know, inexperience, probably

the one most bullied. In fact, when he went to

see the brothers in the in the field where war

was taking place with Goliath, you know, the brothers immediately

scolded him and said, you know you're proud, you're insolent,

and David has said to say, no, no, no, no,

you know, isn't there a cause? Right? David had to

explain to his brothers, I'm not here to be proud,

and I'm just I'm just so upset with this giant

who is defying the armies of God. You know, So

you can imagine what David had when he was growing up.

Maybe all kinds of bullying from his brothers. I don't know,

but David played the harp, and he didn't just play

as one who was known to be a top musician.

But when he was playing, annoying team came forth. The

annoying team came forth. And even right now speaking to you,

I really believe that anointing will come through all the

church plants listening to me now. The anointing the Bible says,

will break the yoke. And right now I pause for

a moment just to say, in Jesus' name, I call

forth the anointing of God coming from a broken life. Yes,

I am a broken man brokenness the last couple of months.

You know, there's a lot of things that God has

dealt with me, and I'm so thankful to him. I

don't regret having this time with him because the Lord

has gone deeper. The Lord has done things through this

brokenness that I believe has brought about an anointing, and

that one you just speak that anointing over you right

now to break right from the top of your head,

your mind. Every thought that's not from God, I break

it right now, every depression, every suicidal thought, every thought

of worry that is bringing you down every fear in

the mighty name of Jesus, I break it all the

way down to your heart. Fear in the heart, and

all kinds of bitterness in the heart, and all kinds

of unforgiveness in the heart, and all kinds of anger

in the heart, all the way down to your feet. Hallelujah.

Where your feet do not dare to walk where God

wants you to walk, You shall walk from this day onwards.

And the Bible says, wherever your feet will trod upon,

I will give you that land. Amen. So do not fear,

and do not step back, and do not stay paralyzed

in one position, but walk by faith, not by sight.

May the annointing of the Holy Spirit come upon your

families as well. May the family. May the families are

represented here, you know, begin to experience an anointing from

the Lord. David played and anointing came and remove the distressing,

depressing spirit from King Saul. Amen. May that happen to

us as well. Disciple First. Disciple first is truly counterculture

to go against the ways of the world that always

just looks at perfection and beauty, talent and skill. God

looks at the heart and we already read it that

a broken heart, a contrast spirit, these sacrifices, God will

not despise, He will not turn away from it. He

will not turn his face away. He will receive you,

he will choose you, He will use you. You know, friends,

something of God is produced in us only through brokenness.

That's why it has to happen. It only happens, you know.

Like for example, when you think about the pearl, the

pearl can only be formed no other way except that

some irritant, some dirt goes into the oyster. And what

happens is that there is a chemical that is released,

and a protection mechanism comes about, and it begins to

form a beautiful, precious pearl. That pearl doesn't happen without

the irritation. That which God wants to bring about in

our lives, that is more precious than God, doesn't happen

until brokenness happens. It cannot be obtained in any other way.

And that which is produced in us is exactly what

God needs to fulfill his plans and purposes in and

through our lives. What is God after? It could be humility,

It could be compassion, It could be patience. It could

be respect, It could be disciplined, it could be submission,

it could be forgiveness, the ability to show mercy and

not be so judgmental. When we don't go through brokenness,

we still hold on, you know, to things that we feel.

We are we have the right to feel, and we

feel like you know, that guy doesn't deserve this. He

doesn't deserve my forgiveness, He doesn't deserve my mercy. You know,

we still have an amount of arrogance, but we don't

call it arrogance. We call it and cover it with

another name and give it an excuse, and see, I

have every right to feel this way. Blah blah blah.

But it's only when we are broken that something is produced.

We begin to see things in a very different light.

In the end, it's really the breaking of our will.

Our will is very strong, so breaking happens so that

our will can be broken, so that God's will can

be done in our lives. Remember what Jesus said, nevertheless,

not my wheel, but yours be done. How many of

you have ever seen a beautiful painting of wild horses. Oh,

they are the most beautiful things. Just you know, running

by the sea, or you know by the hills in

a group of horses. Wild horses running all different colors, white, brown, black,

you know, running together with their mane and their tail,

you know, blowing in the wind. Wild horses are only

good for paintings. You will never be able to ride

a wild horse into war. A general will never ride

a horse that has never been tested. And what is

that horse that has been? A horse that has been tested,

has been broken means that the horse's will is not

a wild will, but a will totally submitted to the

master who rides it for his purpose. Don't just be

a beautiful painting where people just go and look at

you and go like wow ooh my miye is so nice.

But no, godly use. God wants to use you. God

wants to use me. Let's not be wild horses, but

horses whose will has been broken so that we can

serve the Lord. He turns us left, We go left.

He turns us right, We go right. He says, go straight,

We go straight. He stops, he pulls, you know, on us,

and we stop. We don't keep riding on otherwise we

will cause much damage to the master and even to

the ministry. You know, when breaking is complete, when you

don't go back to who you were before. This breaking

has been going on for weeks, months, Some even might

tell me pastor has gone on for three years. When

God will bring the breaking to an end? And I

still pray the faster the better. Okay, nobody wants it

to be prolonged, not even God. But there is something

that God is after, that pearl of great price. When

is this breaking complete? When you don't go back to

the way you were before. If you find that after

the breaking of a few weeks, maybe you know, let's say,

for example, you were rude to your wife, or maybe

you were so impatient, very impatient with your children, and

then you find you know, you are humbled for a

few weeks, and then by the fourth week, you know

you think that Okay, now I think I'm better. I

think I'm better. I think I'm better. Okay, God, I

think I've learned it. Let's already got Now, can you

please end the breaking? And then you know the law

is very silent. And then three hours later your children

do something and then you find yourself bucking at them,

scolding them in a way that it's hot tempered, or

you suddenly do something to your wife dead. It was

like that before. But through the breaking of the last

so many weeks or so many months, you found you

found yourself a change man. And you thought this, just

because you experienced some change, you're you're you're, You're good

to go. And then the Lord is smiling up in

heaven saying not quite yet. Hold on a minute, Hold

on a minute, I still have got I still have

got one or two more tests. And then you catch

yourself going like, oh my, I haven't lost my temper.

I haven't barked at my wife. I haven't said a

bad word. Uh, I haven't you know, done this or

that that I wasn't proud of before. I haven't done

it for weeks. But why suddenly you know? Because maybe

it's still in you. It's still in you, and God

is still working. So really, at the end of day,

don't tell God when he should finish. He knows when

he's finished. And this is what you need to be

looking for. You look for this. I don't want to

go back to who I was before, And through all

the testing you find, Yeah, I think I really have

got it now. I think I really have got a

better hold of my temper now. I think I got

a better hold of my mouth. Now I think I've

got a better hold of my thoughts. Now I think

I've got a better control of the way I react.

Now I am really changed. No, no, but not because

I say I'm changed, but because God allowed the time. Again,

Please don't short change God. Don't be impatient. Learn to surrender.

God knows exactly. Okay, there will be a vision two,

if not a virgin tree of you and me. It

will be a much better version. Somebody say, amen, so

much better version, and we will be more ready to

do God's will. Amen. Now remember the woman Mary of

Bethany who broke the allah bastar flass. What happened? You know,

it was so costly. The disciples even thought, what a waste.

That's how the world sees it. The world might even

look at me now going through a few months of recovery. Oh,

what a waste, you know, what a waste was the

Kenna is just at the house, you know, wasting his

life away. What a waste of three months, you know,

the kind of thing, What a waste. People might look

at your life you go to what a waste? You know,

maybe you had to spend money on this and that,

or or on medical bills. And I don't know what

you had to spend your money and time and energy on,

you know. And sometimes you might even say, what a waste?

What are ways of my life? You know? But Jesus

doesn't see that way. The woman broke it takes the

breaking alabaster flask filled with costly spikenard perfume, you know,

when she broke that and anointed Jesus head with that

precious oil. Can you imagine the fragrance. It's not just

Jesus that could smell it. It's not just a woman

who could smell it. It's not just the people who

are seated nearby. If you want to fill a room

with the fragrance of the Lord, then take the opportunity

that God has given you and I the opportunity of breaking.

And let that breaking not bring bitterness, not bring anger

and a shout what a waste. But let that breaking

is happening in your heart and my heart, be one

that will bring about a costly fragrance, a beautiful fragrance,

not just for your family, Oh my friends, is going

to fill the room right now in the name of

Jesus where you're seated is going to fill the whole hall.

It's going to fill your classroom, it's going to fill

your office place. Your boss is going to be seated,

you know, thirty meters away in his office, and go like,

what's that smell? Is a fragrance from a broken life

and being in Bethany, says Mark, chapter fourteen, verse three,

six eight to nine. Being in Bethany at the house

of Simon the Lepper, as he sat at the table,

a woman came, having an alabastera flask of very costly

oil of spikee noot. Then she broke the flowers, hallelujah,

and poured it on his head. There was no other way,

ladies and gentlemen. Today, of course, in our perfume bottles

we can all just open the cap. But those days

it was there was no other way. There was no

other way for this fragrance to be experienced by everybody,

except that the thing that helped the fragrance be broken.

She broke the flowers and poured it on his head.

But Jesus said, let her alone. Why do you trouble her?

She has done a good work for me. You know, friends,

when I think about brokenness, I think about this very

thing that God allows is not just for us, but

it's for him. Think about it for a moment, because

too many of us always think about ourselves. Right, Why me?

Why now? Why are the inconvenience? Why so hard? Why

the burden on my loved ones? Why? And it's a

lot of us me. And it's not totally wrong, because

it's natural. But the supernatural way of seeing it is

that God allows breaking and brokenness because at the end

of the day, it's for him. It's for his will,

it's for his plans, his purposes, and he has got

great plans for your life and mine. Can I hear

a good amen? He has wonderful purposes. He has a

powerful will. But it is his will, not yours. So

the breaking is again one more time, the breaking of

our will, so that we can do his. So this

is what Jesus said, one more time. She has done

a good work for come on, she has done a

good work for me, for the law himself. She has

done what she could. She has come beforehand to annoying.

There you go again, what annoyed? That's what breaking is

for my body for burial, As surely I say to you,

wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world. What

this woman has done will also be told as a

memorial for her. As a memorial for her. Remember that

Jesus was let into the wilderness to be tempted. But

remember this also, I said him before. I'll say it again.

What God allows, Satan will take advantage. So when God

allowed me to go through this injury and to go

through this time of recovery and through this time of waiting,

and I have been in pain, and I have been broken,

and I have been, you know, crying out to God.

I have all those times up and down and yes

I'm okay today, not okay, Tomorrow okay, the next day

not so okay. The day after. You know, I thought,

you know, I was done. God's not done with me yet.

And you know why, God, why so long? Okay, As

God allows this, the flies will come. You know, like

when you cooked a really good meal, you put the

plate of good food, good smelling food, on the table,

and then the flies start coming. The flies didn't come

when the dish is not done. So when God is

allowing this to be cooked up, putting all the ingredients

in there right whatever it is, good smelling dish, it's

going to be tasting so good. You know, by the

time you let this dish be tasted by the world,

everyone is going to be blessed. But the flies will come. Then,

Before that way are the flies. They're not here. They

know when to come. Satan like a fly by Elzeba.

The Bible calls him Lord of the flies. He is

a fly, He's a lord of the flies. All right.

We don't like flies in our kitchen. We don't like

flies in our hobe and our lives. Right when you

see all those countries where there's poverty and there's illness

and all that kind of stuff, you see flies is

coming on to people's faces, faces of children. Right, that's

a very demonic picture, really, And we don't want flies,

We don't want The Lord of flies bells them, but

we don't want him. But he will come. The Lord

would allow, and Satan will take advantage. Remember the forbidden

tree in the garden of Eden. God allowed the tree

to be there, you know, and that very one tree

broke Adam and Eve. God allowed it. But who was

taking advantage of it? Satan, don't listen to his lives.

God would allow you. Some people are stip be asking

U today, why did God allow the tree to be

there if he knew that he shouldn't be eaten. Well,

that's how people get broken, meaning to say that Adam

and Eve didn't need to sin. But just by saying no,

I can't take this fruit, No I can't, that's a

level of brokenness because if you can say yes to everything,

then we don't have to feel pain suffering, We don't

have to feel inhibited, we don't have to feel anything

except yay. I can do anything I want to do.

I'm lord of my life. You know. I can eat anything.

You know I can spend my money on anything. I

can go out with any girl, go out with any guy.

I don't care. You know this is my life. You

know I'm lord on and God of my life. Right. No,

God put a tree there to say no, you are

not God of everything. I am God of everything. And

so just by saying no and bending your will to

God's will, that's a form of brokenness. But listen, the

devil came and tried to short change that brokenness and

told them benieve that they can do anything, they can

be like God. So instead of being broken God's way,

they were broken by Satan out by a lie. Don't

listen to Satan's lives. Now, let's look at Luke four one,

thirteen and fourteen. Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit,

returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit

into the wilderness. Or even Jesus himself, the son of God,

was brought led by the Holy Spirit into a place

of breaking. That's what wilderness and desert is is not

a party, is not a buffet. It's a place of isolation, nothingness, dryness, uncomfortable.

But Jesus was led by the spirit. Now, when the

devil had ended every temptation, says verse thirteen, he departed

from Jesus until an opportune time. Now I underline opportune

time because I have recognized opportune time to mean that

Satan came when Jesus was being broken in the wilderness.

That is the first opportune time. And so the next

opportune time will be when Jesus will go through breaking again.

And so the devil is an opportunist. He will take

opportunity in an opportune time. But maybe you didn't understand

what opportunity time time meant is because we don't go

through breaking every day. We don't go to breaking even

every year, or maybe some level of it, but not

always painful, not always desperate. So the devil knows that

he can only get to you, can he can really

really get to you at the opportune time, meaning the

opportunity and time that God allowed something to happen. That

is his opportune time. God allowed it. Otherwise you will

always be protected by God. Right, You will always to

be covered by God. Right, God would now nothing bad

to happen to you. But when God allows something that

seems to be bad in the eyes of the world,

you see because at all other times you're always covered,

you're always provided for. And then sometimes God just allows something,

you know again that looks bad in the eyes of

the world. But in God's eyes, he has a plan.

It's called suffering, it's called pain. Yes, it's called cave,

it's called wilderness. Yes, nobody likes it. That opportune time

Satan is waiting for because that's when he believes he

can get you. Are you going to go into a

breaking time now, a brokenness, a painful, suffering time? Now,

be careful because this is this is an opportune time.

For Satan as well, but don't allow him to have

any opportunity. Amen. But you and I can take the

opportunity in Christ to do what. Let me read the

last verse there, verse fourteen. Then Jesus return in the

power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of him

went out through all the surrounding region. We will come

back with power, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters. Are

you listening to me? Do you hear my heart? I

also believe in Christ that I will come out of

this suffering, out of this brokenness, out of this cave,

out of you know, my time of recovery, with the

power of the Holy Spirit. Now, if I read this

to you again, you will see three things. It says

in verse one, Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit,

returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit.

So verse one already says filed and lead. Why is

the Bible so specific? Because sometimes we can be filled

by the spirit, and many of you are, but not lead.

It's not complete. We all want to be filled with

the Holy Spirit, but we also want to be led.

So don't just be filled, everybody, Come on, in the

name of Jesus. Let me pause for a moment.

Again, all of you who are filled with the Holy Spirit,

now lift up your hands or rabaka shanda albaka CD,

and I pray that God will feel you more and more.

Even those of you who are not filled, lift up

your hands. Say yes, Lord, I decide to be filled.

I decide to be filed. I want to be filled

with more and more of you Holy Spirit. But number two,

we want to be led by you, Holy Spirit. Lead

every decision, every direction that we can't take or should take.

Oh God, we want you not only to fill us,

but to lead us. But number three, listen it. There's

a difference being filled, There's a difference being led, And finally,

there's a difference being or having the power of the Spirit.

Feel lead and empowered. Lord, in the name of Jesus,

I pray for everyone lifting up their hands again. Let's

do it again. Oh my God. This year is the

year of power. This the year is a year old God,

where we will preach with power. We will sing with power,

Oh God. We will serve with power. Lord. We will

go to our workplace with power. We will go to

school with power, Oh God. We will do all things,

not just as a normal human being, but with supernatural power.

In the mighty name of Jesus we have prayed, and

everybody say Amen. Amen, the Lord bless you. I hope

to see you soon. Take care, have a great weak ahead.

God bless