Fasting that Pleases God | Elder Kien Yiak

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Pasting and pleasing that place is God. Right, So we

are day what now they were of the first?

Okay? Cool? All right?

If we are joint new to us, we are in

the midst of our twenty one day of fasting these

day sixteen? Right, do you know which book we're supposed

to read? That's right, Joe Chapter two. So therefore, friends,

this is our fast thing. So why do we fast?

You know? Why do we fast? Really? You can go

to the motion.

If you're a part of our church for some time,

already every year became for twenty one day of prayer

and fasting. You know, the first day is always a

very exciting day, right, gung ho? Go forward? Twenty one days?

Not a problem? Right, day sixteen? What's the faster? Day sixteen?

You go like, what am I doing? Who am I

doing this for?

Again?

Day sixteen you go like, hmmm, I think I'm done. Really,

I heard the lot loyet ready. I think I'm done.

So it's okay, Lord, you know you answer my answer

my prayer already, so therefore I don't need to fast

for the balance until Friday.

So why do we fast? Friends? Is it for good

to hear a prayer?

So sometimes I've met Christian whereby they think fasting is

fast track your prayer up to the Lord, that if

you go the normal way, you go the number away

of prayer. Right, it's slowly track. We need to say

that God will take some time to cheat your prayer

because you're not that serious fast things. I've had a

bit more seriousness into your prayer. I heard that before

by Christians. Just faster, fastest seek the Lord.

But what let you?

The first thing, it's not fast tracking your prayer.

It is not.

A housing and express email to go up to heaven. God,

here's your cry, dada, your prayers answered. It is not friends.

First thing is really telling our appetite that God come on.

Fast.

Thing is telling our appetite that they are not God.

Something about appetite. Friends, You and I know this. When

we are hungry, we will look for food, chew or not.

Some of your working people have to confess right now

that you have a snack drawer. There's a drawer filled

with snacks, right, because you know when you are hungry,

what do you do? You open the drawer and take

out the biscuits and begin to chew and chill.

My wife has a snack corner.

Snack corners, right corners, that's right, all healthy one nuts,

cashew nuts, almond nuts, every fir come for not cases

of god nuts, healthy stacks, seaweed. And the poor husband

had to prepare her meals.

As well for the past uh one week. Five to

thy wake up to cook for wife.

Yeah, make soup from scratch at five to three the morning,

so carries hot soup to work. Then in between so

I prepared morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea and she

got pay service and dinner and in between. It's all

healthy in terms of like tomatos, cherry tomatos, Greek yogurt

with with.

The house yeah, right, with souper potato.

That's you know, if your boystup potato, you freeze it

because of the sugar in the super potato, it becomes

like a like a very nice chewet texture. And you know, right,

because there's so much sugar in the super potato, right,

it cannot hungred percent free freeze on right, but it's

a very nice chewat texture. Put ins out the yogurt

that put chast seats. Yeah, one time I made I

made mushroom mushroom with burn butter burn butter mushroom for

a lunch and I lost wait ready after that, only

because I woke up so early to cook.

But anyway, friends, something of.

A hunger that the moment you pray for something, you

reach out for it. You want to satisfy in your stomach,

want to SALISFI into you and fast is a reminder,

a yearly reminder our church telling us that the appetite

is not God. Right, turn with me, right now to

Genesis chapter three. Genesis chapter Genesis chapter three, worse one. Now,

the serpent was more cunning than any beasts of the

field which the Lord God has made. He said to

the woman has God indeed say you shall not eat

of every tree.

Of the garden.

Friends, the serpent went straight for the stummer. Because if

you knew that, if the super were do to rephrase

this and say that, why do you kill alden Adam

Because he's drying you up.

The wall.

Asks you to name, ask you for help to dem

some animals you were public. Not do it because it's

that's bad, that's evil, right, eating.

It's a normal reaction when you're hungry.

Come on, just like sleeping is a normal reaction when

your body is tired. And sometimes that you make commitment

to the Lord, and all it takes the next day,

The very next day, your pillow becomes extra soft, your

metress contours your body, and your airco finally works at

the temperature you won. You told the Lord you were

to wake up at six am in the morning. But Lord,

you understand the pillow is calling me, not the surple. No, friend,

the duet is so fluffy. We spring to you, dian,

God say you to wake up at six am in

the morning.

Did God say to you that you can? You can

a wake up later?

Man? After all, he is God, He is forgiving. And

the woman said to the serpent.

We may eat. Come on, we may eat.

The fruit of the tree of the garden. But the

fruit of the tree, which in the midst of the

garden God said you shall not eat, No, you shall

touch it less you die, goes very specific, very specific. Friends,

He knew, not just forever. He knew the lady who

have a problem not just looking but touching the fruit frids.

If the fruit was bad, you will not touch it

all correct, or not. Some of us here what duran

connoisseurs right, who have squewered eating the duran before you

not you will say that quite decent fruit. But some

of us who are not exposed to some of these

steaks bad food. The screw really musk, got bacteria. My

grandfather had a small, small small of land. We got

at least about ten to fifteen trees, not a lot.

Ten to fifteen trees on me. And one time, one time,

you know, there were squeers at the tree there and

we will take elastick. I don't know the sick to

shoot the screwer down right. I'm sorry for those animals ever,

but this is this back then in the eighties, you

could know to handful this or the fun we could have.

But anyway, most out from for a hungred times, out

for a hungred times, hunger times or mess first, it's

not that easy, okay, those who, okay, should have screw

it down, praise the Lord, hallelujah for them, Okay, But

I couldn't, Okay, I just anyway in came the house

of d ran. Some of them clearly see the screw.

It taken two fruits, but the others to get me eaten.

My grandfather can still eat. It's still good after it

or getting the screw didn't die to some people, gems,

the screw did not brushes steeve, they're not gathered. First

of all, let you know the fruit was good, friends,

The fruit was not a bad looking fruit. That's why

the lord so specific. Don't just look, don't catch it

all very specific, ladies. Come on, you know the moment

you enter up place, with the moment you touch the fabric.

My wife, my wife has this thing. I want to

go to Muji to pick up a household item. Twenty minutes.

Come on, just go there and pick up you know

what you want to Ready, go there, pick it up,

Come on, buy, go to the counter, pay, exit, maximum dop.

It's how you're ten minutes to go. Ready, correct our guys. Right,

So she went in twenty minutes, didn't come out. I

thought to myself, she got lost. Girl cannot find mooji

or whatever it is. See, dear, where are you? I'm

sure a moujie? What is taking so long? I'm stuck

right now at the clothing section because the new line

just came out Indigo and in denim sammore cutting. I

see why are you doing right now? I'm feeling the fabric,

I said, that's it. That's it, from feeling the fabric.

Friends.

Yeah, I'm just gonna very very quickly. You know, guys

can't tell you you're married that you know what when womens

say very quickly means you have to tick lender. Okay,

very quickly, very clear, try out only try only one

buy what try only.

Went in year? Nice?

Not nice or not? I say, you look at the

I g ready you who went to the shop. You're

supposed to buy a household item. You pick up the

new collection. You feel the fabric, say I always wanted

this cut. I always wanted to come on.

This color so nice.

The cutting suits me. Friends, I wear any moodie stuff

as the butter open up. I don't know why it's beable.

It's a new areasm okay, but there she said this.

That dear, dear, should I buy? It's like the.

Serpent as it's okay.

She knows I've been paying for some of the mistakes.

Said the simple say that did God say you shall

not eat? And sometimes trains your epithet because you wanted it.

Ma she was six, says that when she when the

woman saw the tree was good for food. No longer

God's commandment anymore. Come on, no longer God's commandment anymore.

The tree was good for come on food. Nothing wrong

with the tree. It's true.

If it was bad, God will not put it in

the middle. Think about it.

For a woman.

It was a bad fruit, God won't put it. But

there is such a good fruit, good for food. She

looked at it. She was trying to imagine how it

tastes like. And too many of us see I tempt

them because if I don't do this now, I will

never experience it. If I don't do this now, I

will never If I don't book the girl now, I'll

miss out and I'll be alone for the rest of

my life if I don't do certain things right now. Friends,

too many of us, I just say that it's a

good decision, Ma, co habitation is good decision because we

save money. I'm sorry, Okay, that's the reason why I

don't come a lot to it. At the ten ten

am service, I spoke this to eight am just now.

I spoke that last time was last year, and after

I spoke the Congression job by fifty percent. I'll let

you know this congression my job by fifty percent as well.

But I have to say these friends, there's too many

of us. Yeah, are living by just good decision. No friends,

good decision, cool happy they share this all right, we

don't sleep on the same bed. Don't enter the girl's room. Oh,

I answer, nothing happened. I entered the girls room. Nothing happened.

Don't close the door together with a girl in the

room alone. I close the door. Nothing happened. Save ag conma.

Those of you who are constantly if you understand, don't

do this. But it's such a good decision back then,

in my days, when past was appreciate, you should say this.

Don't share your popcorns.

And drinks in the cinema. Take another straw.

For your Aundrey, buy your Audrey. Don't share a straw.

It's like kissing another person straw like that. She used

to see that to us, reminding us that come on,

when you cowing and reading share all the short you

want coming?

You want to share?

I'm serious, when you coming reading you want to share?

Yeah? You want?

Your order is so nice?

Can I have something?

No? Cannot those silver men you understand whatever you order.

Your wife looks at it. Well, how come you order

so well?

One?

Can I taste someone nice?

Sir? Can we exchange all the time? Where territory? No?

Way you order, you eat?

I order? I want to eat right, Just like we

tell people you're not married, don't go for holidays together. Don't.

But it's good.

What create memories after coming? Create all the memories you

are after coming? I tell you what happened to busy?

No time?

Church is taking all my time? No time to go

for holidays? Please read go for your holidays, go, go and.

Pack all you want.

Hold hands, but after carrying, no holding hands anymore. Friends,

it sounds like a good decision and pleasant to the eyes.

Come on, and the tree desirable to make one wise?

That was a turning point. He must be contemplary, thinking

that he who doesn't want to be wise, who wants

to be stupid, who doesn't.

Want to be wise?

After all this good God mind, surely he wants me

to be wise and supply because of that, Friends, good decision,

wise decision doesn't equate to God decision. Come on, good

decision wise, very wise? Go or brought to work very

very wise? I feel unless God calls you first, don't

go I'm not scoding her, friends, I'm just passion. I'm

not scoding. Don't gold. Can I send her back? Because

putting you know, putting no, she.

Have to think.

They chase to bus, they take another bus for more transportation,

just to get back home. No, I send her bag

La send her back putting no readings about no that

we say it is okay. The other girls hitting the direction.

Other girls can offer her the ride. Elder, you don't understand.

We have people like that before in our church. But

in the earlier days, I say it is okay. She's

not well, she's resting. No, Elder, I can rush upstairs,

so ask her. Can I help? You know? Maybe she

is panado? I say, she doesn't need pedal, Maybe she

needs something else she does it. Maybe she just water.

She does the water out there.

Why are you.

Stopping me from helping her?

Because she got period? What can you do? I said,

she got messervation. What can you do? Yeah?

Oh, there can't do anything. Yes, what I'm telling you,

I don't have the pin for full picture for you,

But many times it sever happens. Good decisie, Why is

not to help? And everything bad?

Friends?

She took the fruit and gave it to the husband.

You see, it was the appetite that was manulated by

the serpent that costs the.

Downfall of men.

And if we are not careful friends, too many of

our appetites are being manipulated.

It's not that we want two friends.

If you knew friends, come on, if you knew then

you were doing something bad for God, you won't do it.

Come on, if you knew we're doing something, kill someone?

Oh killing someone?

No no, no, no, no can all cannot cannot step

somewhere with a knife. Cannot slender somebody maybe can because

I was in the room, Maybe the chief elder. They

say hello to you, bad chief elder. I'm just gonna

say this because many times in our life we want

breaks through. We want different things about friends, our hearts.

Come on, the epitre in the hearts, the moment you

get sucked in, suck into a conversation, right, it goes

something like this. Hey, they're not as caring as what

they say. Yalla, I tell you that day I came,

I jo So now say hi to me. You know,

never even wish me happy birthday. I've been in just

for ten years? Really no, no, no, case I've been

in just for ten years. REALLYA don't know my names

are more. It happened first of all, Let you know, friends,

two things. Number one, we see a lot of people.

At number two, we cannot remember names. The material we're

getting older. Something you really don't remember. If you ask

me something, I really don't remember. Holy my memory is

until nineteen. No, it's twenty ten before before pandemic, after pandemic.

I don't want to have your names. And that's why

I walk to some people. They said, Hi, are you

new here? Yes, I've been told before, elder ping old.

Thank you so much for a message I sugar that

take You're welcome, passicat have take it so.

Much for a.

Message you're welcome. I've been sit friends, I'm not sure. Friend,

if we want to get better after, you know what happens.

You get sucked in, sucking into conversation. Your appetite come on,

because if you've got no empittite for some of this,

you won't even want to participate. Think about it. If

your ampittite is pure, you won't even want to get

drawn in into those conversations. That's why one time we

were having earlier days, there was we were at the

wedding dinner and our wow. Another pastive friend of mine

was on the same table just talking the word is

this that talk? Joking about other leaders? Then I looked

at him. I just say, brother, if you're doing this,

I can guarantee you tomorrow call no salvation.

Tomorrow.

There is at salvation, no healing, no miracles, nothing. What

happened because our appetite for some of this we always

try to make jokes. I put someone down. So the

epithite was when you played by the serpent that caused

our downfall and too many of us. If we knew

it was bad, we won't get tempted at all. It's

very subtle.

Friends, If you.

Knew it was bad for your marriage, you wouldn't do it.

But why do we do it?

Because bodyline fifty to fifteen, Come on fifty to fifteen.

If I wasn't thinking about God's commandment anymore after a while,

God wasn't in a conversation. She just saw the fruit

was good. Saw the fruit was good. There's no more

fear of the Lord, no more reverence for the Lord,

no more holiness. For the fruit was good for food,

and isn't That's why sometimes you don't get a brick too,

because friends, we hit a wall. Because after a while,

worship is just a bunch of songs. You it's just

a program home, it's just an activity, and all the

call is just a physical emotion. And God wants us

to have a brick to friends. It's not just a

physical hunger of friends, but the internal hunger that was

mantipulated by the serpent because she looked at the fruit

and say that this will make me wise. And many

times in our life rest we make too many decisions

that seems to be wise, but may not be God.

May not be God. Friends may not be God. Our

first mission trip to Philippin's Palawan. Just about a week

before we ran, Bassandra had a miscarriage. Miscarriage. Every right

tells her she can stay home recuperate. She prayed, not

for everyone, but she prayed.

God said go.

I was part of the mission treaty. I was prosecuting

myself and Passandra was gonna say, are you sure? YEA

God told me to just go. I think there was

about seven day after the seven day or ten days

after it happened. She was in pain, but she said

I wanted I need to go to the field.

To see.

Persecuted by our parents. You crazy at you, but she

had the peace. Many times you make wise decision, mean not.

That's what sometimes says, no brick true, save decision, no

brick true, good decision, no brick true, no brick true. Friends,

And how long do you want to go to our

Christian life without a brick shoe?

Next?

Ten years, fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty. God answers, go deeper, friends,

not shallow. Draw near to God, the Bible says, and

he will draw you to you. We love the scripture.

Come on, we in fact, you can memorize part a.

Draw near to God, and he will join it. We

love the scripture by friends. In the same scripture, I say,

clanse your hands, ooh, which means to see it the

closer we draw near to God.

Friends.

As he draw nearest to us, he begins to reveal

Come on, he began.

To reveal.

Our hands. Some of our hands has slender backstep. Some

of our hands friends have killed with words. Some of

our hands friends have been lazy. I'm going to the way.

I went to the scripture. I was just calling her.

I went to the scripture. After the way right, lazy

our hands friends, the Bible say, cleanse our hands because

our hands is dirty and we don't even know it.

Because if we knew your hands was dirty, firsts you

wash it. That's why sometimes some people used tolert that

wash your hands. That's why there's a signage the kindly

wash your hands before you leave to cheat that man.

But it's because friends, it becomes acceptable after a while

not washing hands. It became acceptable of wild friends. If

it was dirty, you were clean it. If it was dirty,

you definitely are. I got dirt on my hands. I

want to clean it. But the Bible reminds us. As

he draw closer to us, he reveals, He reveals your

hands come on the bacteria.

On your hands.

He reveals what your have have touched, what your hands

has been doing. It reveals even more, and you have

a choice. He didn't see that he will cleaning for

your friends. Is you have a choice today whether or

not you want to wash your hands too, Mery Christians,

just as God would you wash me and wash me,

planning your hands friends is putting your house in order

for me. We say God, I want to spend more

time with you, but we need to reduce something else.

Go I want to spend more time with you. That

keep my life to you. But we can't do ten

minutes extra. And that's why the Bible have to remind us.

Plans your hands, your schedule have to be clansed. Come on,

we have to be rearraged. That's why the fastest for

to rearrage, rearrangements, rearrange our scheduler. We are so used

to watching maybe one full season and one goal, right,

three episodes at a goal, and God this morning is

reminding us, Hey, it is a fast planse your schedule,

clear it out, come on, clear it out. The Bible,

the Bible that you have right now, take it out

from the shelf, take it out from the shell. Last

time we used to be Wow, the Bible is so

thick where I had to carry. Now, if the Bible

is in your faone, we don't even turn to it.

We just rely on the daily scripture that comes on

you mobile. Oh sorry, you mobile, blah you version right.

This is that God loves you.

He gives his only son, Hallelujah, prays the Lord. One

scripture to day and God wants to go deeper. Eddie says,

prove if I come on our hearts. There's this house

there myth whereby we think as a Christian the moment

we accept Christ, our heart is pure. There's this myth

just because there's a regulator attendis our heart is correct.

I'm not a bad person. After all, I'm not a

scamra right, I'm not a bad person. I don't do drugs,

I don't do this. I don't nothing illegal, nothing at all.

So therefore, technically I'm a good person. So we reach

good and bad according to the mindset. So when the

Bible this purify your hearts, got my heart's okima. I

mean I'm not that bad, lad? Have we said that before?

The I'm not that bad because after all, I didn't

do anything.

I still serve the Lord.

I come consistently, I worship, I lift up my hands

and give offering. I go to homes consistently. I rather

you ask me do I do? But first, it's not

just about doing Haman.

Hammon.

It's not just about doing alone.

It's about being.

And God reminds us it purify your hearts.

And say you double minded.

And many times the challenge has always been this God,

I want to do your view. I want to do

your word. I want to do whyever you ask me,

I'm how to do. But the moment, the moment when

challenges comes, our commitments begin to to shape, the moment

when something better comes up, the moment when you get misunderstood,

I don't like you anymore.

Everything is good until you get challenged.

Everything is beautiful until you've been misunderstood. And after a while, friends,

from what you used to like becomes hit. It's very hard.

You come to church, Lord, I love you, I worship

your eggs on you go out there. Oh yea this

picture again? Now this church elder're always talking about.

This thing soon.

Becomes after a while, you see yourself slowly but surely

coming later and later and later and later.

I've seen it before. Friends.

Now I'm fifty one, therefore I can I'm very right

to say that's the way that was.

I'm gonna talk this guy message. I got all the

people coming up to me.

I say that you're young, like you, we don't even

know what we go toula. So that fifty one, friends,

I can sailor, right, huh can sailor? I see people

used to come worship the whly come for the word.

I don't like this.

Worship is so youngler, no subset. We judge worship based

on the age on the stage. Not serious, Come on

with stuff from somewhere. Our heart is really deceitful. That's

why Jeremariy seventeen last night, the heart come on is

to come on?

What above all things?

Maybe we should paraphrase a scripture and say, my heart

is truly deceitful.

Now the hell can you say that? I mean church.

I'm not a nightclub.

I mean church. I'm not the toddler smoking. I mean church.

I'm not that bad. But the by worse is whether

you're Christians or not. Of friends, our heart is truly

deceiful above all things. We are not exempted. Babies are

not exempted, Christians are not accepted. Our heart, friends, is

truly deceiveful. That's why we always want our own way,

always want to manipulate things, come on to our own advantage.

Bible reminds us the heart is truly deciful above all things.

Desperately we who can know it Verse ten, either los

such as the heart. Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah. That's

why the nearer, the nearer you come.

To the Lord. He really searches your heart.

We can say everything we want, friends, sounds like wise,

reason a good suggestion, everything.

One God a reason and suggestion. But the Law.

Really knows our hearts. He knows he knows your heart. Friends,

you understand what we go to He knows. He said,

I test the mind and even give every man according

to his face, according to the fruit of his doing. Therefore, friends,

if a heart is this food, that therefore fasting is

to remind our hearts that wherever impulse you come up

from is not God. Come on, but're so tempted, friends,

tempted in the sense of like to get sucked in

into different things that lead us away from God. Wise

good for food or it's Lord, hallelujah God, I fast lunch,

but this tea time, so I'm after, I'm after lunch treaty.

It's three pm. We justify CHPM is not lunch.

Ma I can break my fast. Really, we justify so

many things. Friends, God, you know my schedule and busy

and busy and correct you're busy. But when you can

come on, when you're able to, when your schedule allows

for it, would you serve the Lord the same reason

that applies even though when we are free and busy, Lord,

I understand, friends, So therefore I say, when you can.

So that's why last week prayer service was it fell

on during the rio break right, a lot of people

came praise God because when they can all this time

the kudim because of the.

Traffic, different things.

But because the traffic was easier during that last Tuesday,

a lot of people came X me and you had

a break victory attended. Some people came for the very

first time for prayer service because the state all the

way sit there Allah coming all the way to Subman

for peer service.

I understand the big hard.

The traffic with the children, but they took the children

and say today we can great. But when you can

we should. But most when we can't be done, come on,

many ken't be You don't understand. I may not understand

it true, but when you see in the light of

the things of God, really is the Lord that suches

every reason? Where are we truly with our spiritual walk?

Where are we truly with our commitment to the Lord?

Where are we right now? Friends? What's the part of

the type you say?

God, you are my love, my saving and my Redeemer

to a place here by God, your God, I worsh

him on Sunday. Therefore, fasting therefore is about change. It's

about change. It's not about anything else. It's about change,

as there fifty eight.

Verse two.

Says, Yet they seek me daily. Friends, These are believers.

They're seeking God as they They like to know my

race as a nation. They need righteousness, and they enough

forsake the ordinance of their God. They asked me of

the ordinance of justice. The delight in approaching God first

worse to such a high calling? Do you agree we're

such a high calling. Some of us don't even see

God daily. Sometimes I miss my quiet time, Moselle. But

here's the girl people. They see God on a daily basis.

They delight to know God's way. Sometimes we hit certain

books of the Bible we don't understand. We once keep ready,

we light the easiest psums. All right, But here's the

girl people. They say, God, I love your loss, God,

I love your house. Worse three, even you've done everything.

Fird worst treet always hits us. We are faster, they say,

you have not seen frustration.

We are faster.

They say, you have not seen We have afflicted our

so like firsting afflicted our So you take no notice. God,

I serve you since the day of my youth. My

other first to serve you are enjoying the time of

your life. Of all church, you choose aciously, exciously well.

We try to get everybody involved. Other chudges are lot

like that. There's a calling, there's there's it talks, there's

the direction. But you truly believe there's no unemployment. Now church,

everybody is encouraged to serve the Lord and serfing know

it's a good thing, no matter what issue I add. Right,

But other churches don't have to work. They enjoy the

time of life. I run frustrated, Lord, I go for homes,

no break through home, talk about fasting Sunday, talk about fasting?

Can I talk about something else?

Is it? I frustrated?

Lord? Can't you see you think no notice? And the

Lord has to come in. Come in to minister, come on,

come in to give a revelation, come in to let

you know.

Sneak pick in the day of your fast. Come on.

You find pleasure, You find pleasure and explot your laborers.

In other words, friends, they were having this lifestyle all

this time.

All this time. This was their trait. I'm a Christian

by that I can do this.

Ma. That's why no brick true, friends, No brick true.

That's why David say, I shall not touch a loss.

So he had a brick Shopersaul couldn't let go of

David went after him, after him, after him, and some

of us. God said, let it go. Friends, if the

past is let it go, just move on with the Lord.

Although you don't understand, I have to keep my revenge.

So my boyfriend, I wanted to get back at them, ask.

Me to break up.

I'm still singing the Age of thirty five. I'll tell people,

don't trust the leadership.

Stuff like that.

Friends, that's the reason why there is no brick Trudo

frustration happened now. I can honestly let you that I've

seen it before many times. That all lies that if

we don't let certain things go, friends who get stuck,

and the people in Isaiah fifty will stuck. We've done

every day. Could you imagine for the rest of our life?

Can come on? Imagine right now as the rest of

our life we sort a lot daily.

Daily. The friends not just there daily daily.

Do you know how boring daily is not it's like

cooking on the daily basis. After all, you don't even

know what to cook anymore. First two days we try

all the recipe you want. By the time you reach

the fourth there, hey, why left for warsla Just put

your fish and just cook like right rob maghiemis okay, okay.

Afterward you get so The word is that you get

so see it, you get so tired, you gets so

like again, pray to you again a god again, no breakthrough.

God wants a minister to you. He wants to minister

to each and every one of you. First of all,

let me tell you where you're at, because you may

not know it. Because if you know, friends, come on,

if you know that you were expecting the laborers, you

would change. Come on, because you know the law doesn't

like it. But it becomes so ingrained in the way

we see things, our lifestyle. We don't even see it.

We don't even see it, friends. That's why a lot

of times we think it is okay because other people

are like that.

Ohsuma, so we're not that bad. Ma.

Why give to the lord? Why tie to the lord?

The lord doesn't need the money, he's the Oh no,

the ket so that's what the champ wasn't just sit

this now, ma, if you also in the ketto, doesn't

even my type.

Don't to get this so other people can give up?

Who am I?

My giming doesn't does anything. I've seen people, friends, I've

seen people I've tried to paraphrase in icy ive seen people.

Without much giving their best.

Really not talking about the sum the zeros, not about

the zeros.

Ok it's not about the geos behind it. Okay, it

is not. It's your heart x men.

As a lady called Aida, she went through chemo, she

went to cancer, she survived, She sprained her lig one

day she was on crutching on one side head of

host or x men read. She was there setting up

the bunting together with the senior ladies with her. They

were one of the earliest to church. No excuses say

she stay it out. Don't have to because you're you're

You're like, it's okay, I'm here to serve the Lord.

I'm here to serve the Lord. But in your time

of fast that you've explained after the wild friends, it

becomes our lifetime. We can't even see it. That's why friends,

it's not even good at evil anymore. It's we think good,

and what's nearly good, we think good. It was nearly good. Friends,

It's that's the definition now. Friends worship. Worship after a

while became that it's just about songs or hearts, our lips. Friends,

someone praise God. My heart is so far away. The

people did everything right, they had a daily routine seeking God.

But yeah, they were frustrated.

And I'm fruitful frustrated, and I'm fruitful. When you are fruitful,

you're buried, and you know that you know what will

set your set you to a place of even more frustration.

Someone here just say, hey, I want to let you

know why I got a breakthrough. I got a breakthrough

right last and it was she giving the Lord give

me the mounth.

I didn't much.

I just sold the amount and you know what, three

weeks later my parents sold the house. And you know

what I meant, you get double back. And there's another individual. Listen,

I've been giving to the duty give for the longest time.

No break shoe, Oh frustration. God must have been one

of those that you know, take sightswe.

No break through.

Then you hear a whisper, don't give you don't get hurt. Law,

don't give you don't get hurt. Law don't surf, you

don't nobody can step.

On your toes.

Now just come and leave, and then after if you

adopt that approach, becomes your lifestyle. That's why God have

to speak in the times of fasting. You seek your

own pleasure, You seek your own routine even during the fast, friends,

you can seek your own pleasure and no change out

daily contact a lifestyle.

It's true or not.

Be segramentized. Compartmentalize our fast thing. My first thing is

between seven to seven I saw seven to seven?

More do we normally do? Go to work? No change,

no need to change my way to work.

After the pheish of us, open up our can cavier

eat Nothing wrong with carry you first. If you're eating, praise,

enjoy it all right After that, turn on now Netflix

the first nothing. If you like that Flix, go for it. Okay,

no change, Go to the twenty one days threads? Where

is God in the twenty one days? Where is God

in the twenty one days? What other things in the

twenty one days has got inside there? Besides giving up food?

That's why fasting friends, the first thing you see is

that people will come slimmer praise the Lord. So have

you got this section in your closet, feel of the

feel of the shirt, the dresses? One day, you say,

one day and feed back into you. Now it's a

good time to try. The first thing is beyond the

physical experience. It's not if it's just a physical experience

at first. That's the way I'm fruitful because we miss

out on the bigger picture. So therefore, sometimes sometimes it

takes a spiritual discipline to reveal weal need to reveal

how shallow we are in our worship. That's why I

say that after this message, I'll only see you next

year out of the pain where all the rules come

and say I am you all, love your honey and

stuff like. That's why I get sent out to the builderness.

I joined the Baptist after a while. Sometimes it takes

a spiritual discipline, come on, to reveal.

Where we are at with our spiritual walk.

Nothing reviews of spiritual war until unless we apply the

spiritual discipline. Really, until you apply a spiritual discipline, you

do not know.

Where you are at your spiritual wal.

Sometimes you see other people exercise, you start exercising only

after thirty seconds, lick cramp.

Lick cramp, Yeah, lick crab.

Are you.

But at least I died.

Twenty seconds price lor hallelujah. Then on your on your

on your on your phone, get registered. Congratulations, you did

a thirty seconds work out. Keep up the good job.

But you and I know first the thirty seconds is nothing.

Would you to do it again tomorrow? That's why when

we start the first SAT, everybody's very right. I think

we are about close to travel plus people taking the

commitment cut the found plus people taking new to the

commitment cut.

They one praise the Lord, Let's go for it.

Encourage youre another day three, still going strong. Day six okay, Lord,

I changed my fast from seven to seven. Maybe do Daniel.

Then later you found out Daniels a bit expensive because

there's always so much jack fund.

You can eat in the day.

Right then you you want to go koobies and kale.

I don't know that, friends, it means SMA, I mean

I go out skirts. So anyway to speak, huh so

expensive one UK for three meals.

Then you change one meal fast.

Duber. After that, Day fourteen and day sixteen you change, Lord,

I'm fasting coffee, no nothing. Now, I'm not knocking anybody down.

But you know the real reason why we change. Come on,

you know the real reason why we change our commitment

to the Lord. And that's why sometimes we cannot think

commitment a lot rare likely we are no friends. When

you make a commitment the Lord, you must see true

because you mean it, and the lot because the Lord

is the Lord is committed towards you.

Could Lord was flipping.

Sure, I'm good to you today, but tomorrow maybe note

I'm tired.

Look you understand, right?

So many people, six billion people, so many, so many requests.

Where's the phone? Yea, where's the Where's where's weeks? I

got wrap my head for what?

No friends?

God, friends, God, God is step fast. He remembers his commitment.

Second Cortinists Chronicles stept the seven verse fourteen. Second Coronicus

stapt the seventh verse fourteen. If my people, who are

caught by my name will humber themselves and pray and

seek my face and turn from the wicked ways, then

I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins

and heal their land. The Bible here says God was

speaking to his people. God wasn't speaking to anyone else

but to his people. God speaking to your hearts right now.

He's speaking straight to your heart right now. If my

people will humber themselves. Now when you see the word humber,

what is the first thing that comes to your mind?

What's the first thing you come to your mind? Maybe

addressed less, less attention, don't have a name, because that's

our image of humility. Were defin humility in a in

a human mind. Maybe don't be so rich and just

that medium when you're sing word she does sing so loud.

Don't do attention to yourself, you know if you are

good key bodies, but just play average, always reflect? Are

you such a good home seader?

No, no, no, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not not.

That's humility. But first, because of humility is not there

in the friends? It's not denying the gifting of God's giving.

You could you imagine.

David, David, you're not either the beginning, Oh no I'm

not worthy, I'm not worthy to someone else. That's not

thee because of humility?

Is this a friends?

There is a sense of like, how was it putting

our sex of it? You remove your out the cloth

putting your cloth and the words beating your chest like

the word is being righteous for the Lord, Lord, forgive us.

Because of your commandments. We are not.

It's sometimes we have brooken your commandments. And today we

want to humble ourself, to seek your face, to put

things right. Humility in God says is dead, not war.

Keep bowing down the Bible.

Here is this. Humber yourself. Humber yourself.

And pray.

First, everybody prays. Christian faith, praise the Muslim faith. Pay

everybody praise. I want down into prayer. But here's what

I want. Focus us on.

And seek my face. Come on, seek my face. We

speak to.

Say, consecration, Come on, consecration.

Setting apart.

These lips that you have sending a part to worship God,

these hands that you have sending a part to worship

the Lord.

But you see, we can humble ourselves and pray. May

not seek His face.

Seeking my face means to stay, rearranging your schedule so

that you have more room for God and turn from

your record.

Wace.

You know the word we good friends, You think about

the word we could first thing you have come to

mind again?

Bad people? True, not right. I'm gonna just go, but

I'm not. I'm not wea good.

I'm gonna just go I'm not Batma, So therefore I'm not.

I don't belong into the category of wicked. Let miss,

when God say this scripture must be those people must

be so wicked, I call it wicked. But can I

just turn to you to scripture? What God says about

wicked who he refers to as wicked? Tell me me

right now to Matthew Chapter sixteen Matthew chapter sixteen, worse

one to worse four sixteen worse one to four. Then

the Pharisees and the said you sees came testing him,

ask that he should show them a sign from heaven. God,

give us a sign so that we can believe it's you.

Give us a sign, he answered, and said to him,

to them when it when it is evening, you say

it will be fair weather, for the sky is rade,

and in the morning it will be far weather.

Today, for the sky is rare and threatening.

Hypocretes, you know how to discern the face of the sky,

but cannot discern the signs of times verse four.

A wicked and adulterous generation.

Who is he speaking to the Pharisees and the saides

who knows the word, Come on, who knows the word. First,

you thought that you'll be addressing the people in jail.

You thought that he'll be addressing people who are caught

in adultery. But this is Jesus speaking to pharisees and saducees.

They say, you are a weaked and perverse generation.

It's when we begin to make a deal with the Lord.

Lord, you show us a sign that we believe if

you do this for me, If you answer by prayer, God,

I know you're real.

If you heal me of by Jesus, I will serve

you Lord.

Sometimes friends God and later sometimes friends God have a

better plan. If we may not get the answer that

we won, well, we still serve the Lord. But many

times what happens. Friends, if we make a deal God,

if you pass by exam, I will serve you.

God.

If you're blessed bab with these finances, I will give

to you. We have earlier days our and you see

giving back. There was called faith pledges. We have people

tiding a toy, giving a pledging in a mound with

a breaker, say pray for my contract.

Once I got this contract, I will give We say

we'll pray. But what do you have right now? Would

you still give or not?

Because the Pharisees that they said, this is God, give

us a sign, give us a sign. And too many

people are asking for signing. My God, just ask us

to believe. Come on two, maybe asking for a sign. God,

show me a sign to stay in Malaysia. Show me

a sign of that militias worthy for me to stay.

But I've got this picture a sign. We still believe

that you're caught here for a season, and we begin

to change nations after nation, change homes. God, you want

me to these homes, not oh yeah, go to the

your Lord, why these homes supposed to add my tent

and attended finished attendanty so long?

So long? So my home leaders talk so long?

Then you look at other other homes competive food.

Lord, why and you begin to pray.

God, show me a sign that you leave my homes,

and too many people ask you for a sign. God,

give me a sign that she is the right one.

He is the right one.

Show me if she if she, if she dressed, it

must be comforted because your blad is red, your.

Word is red.

Thank you Jesus, Hallelujah sign break up never seeing the Lord.

You know when people break up, never seeking the Lord,

it's always before they entered the courtship, or they think

they always thought the Lord, so the Lord, so the Lord.

So that we pray for God's peace. We pray, God

give us, decide, we pray break up, never one it

happens us. I'm not looking anybody down. Friends, I'm just

telling you like this. You feel torassed, you feel you

feel like I'm burning you. Friends, This from the Lord.

The friends. Too many times you ask for sign.

God say you wicked because you keep asking for a

sid But the Bible says blested that those haven't seen

yet by yet belief.

Come on, haven't seen yet by yet? Believe?

And you and I need to believe today that God

didn't make a mistake by giving a gift to you,

a talent to you. Let me tell you another scripture,

and this may or may not shock you. Matthew Chapter

twenty five, twenty five, twenty five twenty five, verse fifteen,

verse fifteen. The Parable of the Talents twenty five, verse fifteen,

and to one He gave five talents. God give our friends,

not not your parents. God give to one, someone give

five talents to another, two to another, one to each

according to his own ability. In other words, first the

talent that you have. God really knows your ability. There

is no servant, no believers with zero talent.

For talent.

First, if you believe you, Alista will have one o

the dough for talent.

If you believe God.

You will have one talent because the Bible say five,

two and one. Because the Lord knows your ability, So

you understand the purpose of the talent. Let me just

focus on the servant that received one verse twenty four.

For he who received one talent came and said, Lord,

I knew that you were hot man, reaping where you

have not sown, gathering where you have not scattered.

I was afraid that went out and hit your talent

in the ground. Look what I have, what you have.

There? You have what's yours, what you're given to me God,

I give you back what you're given to me. I

give you back what God says, I give you the talent.

I give you the talent. Go there for, go there, for,

go there for and multiply worse worse twenty six. But

his Lord answered, well, this server must have thought at

least I returned.

I didn't GiMA, I give back to humor.

This is what I said.

You come on, what would he use?

Come on?

What what did he use?

He used the word wicked. He used the word wicked.

Come on, it was the world wicked, wasn't to it?

Just a group of criminals? There was bad scammers. That's

after your money. God used the word wicked on the

servant that was supposed to execute out his spend but

did not supposed to serve him.

But said no.

And some of us here you know your reason? Why

we keep saying no? God, you don't understand. Yeah, I

may not fully understand. God, I knew that you were

hot man.

You have no soul. So many reasons, good reasons. Friends.

The Lord did not say the reason was bad. God,

Now say that reason? Your understanding is that he just

say this, I give you a task? Can you rise

above your reason? I gave you a task?

Who you rise above the reason? You see?

Many times we think that God, you understand, and we

keep using this word God, you understand? You understand? Course

here I understand what think about it?

God?

You understand your course? What do you think I understand?

He says, you wicked and lazy. He was speaking to

a servant that received a talent. He wasn't speaking to

someone that don't receive anything. He was speaking to someone

that received a talent. And God speaking to you right now.

Someone will say, who has talent? But keep burying it

to the ground. And that's the reason why no break true,

no breakthroughe and you look someone that received five, someone

that received two. Wha no break through? And we keep

making reasons why why we cannot and the other people

who have broken true. I was reading a book about

the world Chinese New Relish work in Malaysia. The book

was compiled by the Matadist Church. They have done extensive work.

Why I let you know, some of our parents who

are in the Chinese New Relish got saved to this work.

Extensive work. They knew every relage, every relage.

They know how many workers they have by these work.

The first batch of missionies that came to Malaysia with

a heart, with a heart to reach out to the locusts,

different food, different climate, lots of mosquitoes. Despite everything, every

reason to tell them go back to your home country,

they persevere on. They begin to mark every new village,

how many workers they have by the time they establish a.

Work they left.

They left expected the locals to take it up. But

when they came back, when they came back and checked

the work, the work dropped. The people they thought they'll

carry out the world begin to be complacent, begin to

say that it's all right, we just main kating. They

say this, we cannot allow the work of the Lord

to stop. And sometimes friends, really in our own house

of hearts, I pray that you and I will rise up,

because if not, we come the servant with the one talent.

You see, it's either you're working for the lawd you're not. Seriously,

everyone here else go one talent.

Would you serve the Lord? Would you serve the Lord?

The Bible says that if my people who came by

my name will hammer themselves and pray and seek my

face and turn from your wickaways, God says he would forgive.

That's it, and.

Come on and exactly.

We want our land to be healed, to be fruitful.

We want our marriages to be strong. There's so many

reasons why we keep saying that it cannot be done.

Cannot change them like that. It's about time that we

change our lingo. Come on, Christian speak. God is speaking

to his church. God uses come on wicked people or repentant,

not perfect her. Look at the scripture, it was be

speaking to people whose heart, whose heart may not be

in the right place here. But if you today, if

you'll make a choice today, if you make a choice today,

if you make a choice, I can turn the situation around.

We know.

He uses imperfect people to reach the world.

He don't have to be perfect because you serve a

perfect God. Therefore, the Bible says, the second court is

you are a new creation in him.

He will give you a new heart.

And if you're oh God to have his way, friends,

you are able to move from the nature to the supernatural.

And this is how I'm going to close.

Hebrews eleven, verse six says that for without faith, it's

impossible to please him. But he who comes God must believe.

Come on, we must believe. We must believe. We know

this song God's able. We sung this song before God's able,

and stuff like that. The question is this that God

is able and to wish boundary lines, that He's not able.

To God's able to wish boundary lines. The moment you

cross that light. He's not able to He's able in church,

he's able. The moment you get medical reports, he's not able.

The moment you hit the wall, your well is not able.

The moment is beyond your control, he is not able.

Hebrews levers say that he who comes to God must

believe that he is. He is the great I am.

Come on, he is the great I am. I'm sorry,

I'm taking a bit more time. Please forgive me. You

know I'll come back next year again.

He is a great I am. So therefore, friends, wait

me say God is able.

Fasting moves us from the natural to the supernatural. Because

you come to God. You cannot just say God your God.

But we come to God, we must believe that he is. Therefore,

our bad habits, it's not impossible to be changed. Come

on our lifestyle. God, you don't understand, my God, this habit.

Every time I eat my dinner, my TV is on.

I cannot bring this cycle otherwise by dinner is incomplete.

Must have something along, otherwise I cannot eat dinner alone.

But God says he will comes to God must belief.

That he is.

I can't bring this bad habit. God, you don't understand

I've been wrong, I've been misunderstood. I have right to

be angry. Yes, maybe correctly, you have a right to

be angry what you have felt. But in the light

of Christ, in the light of Christ, really, in the

light of the cross, you look at the cross. What

the two robbers are level one? If you are God,

saved yourself, save us, no change of hearts, my right, Ma,

you can save yourself, save me. Tell us what we

say that the robber say, don't you know who you're talking?

God?

Forgive us, remember me in paradise. He will comes to God.

Must believe that he is a reward for those who

deligially seek him. What they say in James Chapter four, John,

here to God, He'll join it to you, plans your hands.

You can't just deligitally seek him with the same come

on with the same come on with the same lifestyle.

You can't just simply just can't just seek him up

without a change of our attitude, of our hearts. He

can't simply just seek him if he keeps spring out

things of unbelief to our lips. He is a rewarder,

and that's why so many of us miss out on

our reward. Come on, we miss out on a reward

because no change, No change. Come on, no change. And

God say, I'm ready. God say I'm ready. I'm really.

I want to heal your leand I want to heal.

Your leand I'm really. You just need to surrender.

Change. Trust me.

I know you've been thinking of what they Trust me.

I'll do it again. I'll bless you back. Trust me,

The Lord says, do not just and the next six

days of fasting without engaging the supernatural. Do not end

the next six days, friends, without seeking the Lord. I'm

going to close right now, might Matthew Chapter six, vers eight. Therefore,

don't be like them. Come on, therefore, don't be like them.

Don't be like people who just pray with a lot

of words. For your father knows the things you need

before you ask of him. It's how I'm going to close.

The Bible says, God already knows what you need.

He does.

He knows your heart, he knows your condition, he knows

your soul. He knows He also knows. Friends, why we

find to let go?

It was easy? Friends, will let it go.

Between right around, between first class and economy.

It does an easy decision.

But to come to a place whereby your father and

never knows even of your name, even before you.

Ask of him. It's to a place where by God,

I trust you. God.

You may not understand what I go through sometimes I think, but.

I choose to trust you. And by workplace is crazy,

it's chaotic. I choose to trust you, Lord.

I'm not joining to conversation whereby does it edifies you,

doesn't bring you glory, doesn't.

Reflect your life and my work. I will not. I

will not.

I will not participate anything else that doesn't glorify you, Lord,

because I want experience a reward. I want to experien

what does it mean to be healed? Really, to be

healed insight of my heart, to be healed, not to

have baggages, not to have different things, you know, And

that's why we go to a cycle. Break to today,

bondish tomorrow, break you today, bondish tomorrow, the whole cycle

of friends goss's I will heal their land, not show

where you are with your journey.

Friends. I know my time is up.

When I was preparing this message but went off for

some of you all here who's been carrying not just

baggage as friends because it was just baggage.

Just you let it go. But it became such part of.

Your lifestyle, part of you, so you already you cannot

see a difference.

So you are really that it's not wrong anymore. So

part of your.

Lingo that becomes acceptable. And God to the ones to

really to say that, look would your turn and seek

my face and seek my face. Growing up as a Christian,

my early days of teens, never understood tiding. Never never

really understood you. When I started working, never understood I thing.

I came from a very big church. Say pictures, you

got millionaires and billionaires, Lord, they can give this tempercent

means a lot to me. Lord, you understand, keep going,

you understand, you understand. For many years there was tegnancy

and my work place tagnancy, my spiritual walks, this tegnancy, tegnancy.

Until one day the loss just spoke to me clearly,

what are you doing with my type? Just why you

do it's not not becau with the church, no no cheperson.

Just by quiet time, what are you doing with my commandments?

Because if you can honor me, if I'm not around

no physical they can honor me anywhere.

Just just just that just just spoke to me like

what are you doing with with that with your time?

But you understand doing my masters.

I'm doing my work masters at the same time.

No time to serve you.

Yeah, you have time cut out cafe hoping you have

time cut out this. You have been more time, but

I need my chill time. Lord, you're working at out stress?

Who I work?

Go masters one side stress who stress? But you're missing out.

Go ahead to speak so deeply to me beginning now

to surrender. First, it's not just a one off a

courage nor it's my right to be angry because the

brother was hurt. I didn't know anything wrong. He just

I was just speaking the message on Sunday. Then after

that report the other he said such a hard word

happened to me, complain to pass, And.

I didn't know. I didn't think the word was holler.

Complain past to say as a bigger brother, just let

they go, just to ask for for for forgiveness.

He was now saying you.

So first, there's seal a bit of flesh there. Just

say I'm sorry if my words have hurt you. If

my words have it wasn't targeted as you. It wasn't

meant towards you. It wasn't for you one. I was

just speaking God's word. But if you felt I've stup

on your toes, I'm sorry.

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