Can Bad Changes Be Good | Elder Terence Atkinson

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will light up your day today. I have a word, very excited.

Share this word because it's encouragement. Okay, it's encouragement, and I hope

you'll be blessed, even as I am blessed to have prepared it. So

I'm going to ask this question, can bad change be good? Can bad

change be good? How many of us? So? How you can put

your hands up for this? How many of you while doing something right and

doing something good, and life is good and wonderful, and suddenly something happens

and it takes a turn for the worst. How many of us have experiences

let's see, it's your hands. Ah, that's the majority. It's true.

We are so prone to just continuing our good life and suddenly something gets

in the way of that, and we always wonder, why, mean Lord?

Have you ever asked a question? Why mean Lord? What's what's this

all about? You know? How come things are going so well and then

all of a sudden they don't well? The Lord put in my heart to

share this word with you, that change that seemingly goes for bad can actually

be quite good? All right? So I hope that by the end of

this word, perhaps you get some of the answers why things don't always happen

is they should? Now? The only thing that does not change, you

know, there is one thing that does not change in life. There's only

one thing that does not change in life life, and that is change for

us. For us, you know, we are not the same we were

one second ago. No matter how much cream you put on your hair,

when you turn your head, your hair was not the same as it was

one second ago. Do you know that every cell in your body has aged

one second later that it was a second ago. It's not the same.

So you could say that the only thing that does not change is change,

and that might be true for us. But I want you to know one

thing about God, thank God, that God is change less. It's very

important to have a God who is changeless in our heart. Now. Scripture

says in his bruised that in a Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today

and forever. You know. Oh, okay, my pocket, thank you,

it's so good to have it so bigger because I forgot to bring my

glasses up. It's in my bag. But it's all right. We'll muddle

through with this, okay. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today

and forever. And in numbers twenty three nineteen it says God is not a

man that he should lie. God does not lie to us, neither the

son nor man that he should repent. God is never sorry about what he

does because he's not too minded or double minded. He is the same.

And has he said, and will he not do? Or has he spoken?

And will he not make it good? You and I sometimes take it

for granted how important it is for God to be changeless. Do you realize

that if God was like us who affected his life by how or which side

of the bed we got out from? Can you imagine if one day God

says north shall be south now and south shall be north. Immediately we would

lose the ability to have GPS. Immediately, we would lose the ability to

get to where we want to go. As one prominent vice president said,

the problem with transportation is when you need to go, you need to go,

not a very intelligent vice president. But the thing is this with God.

Because God has said it such that north shall be north, and this

is my law and it will not change. Thank God, for that,

because now we have GPS that works, and we can actually in the car

see where we want to go if we've never ever been there before. Otherwise

we would have to rely on those horrible books we had in the eighties.

Turn to page one hundred and twenty nine, C three and then there's a

little bit of road, and then the next thing. Turn to page fifty

eight, B three, and this is how we used to navigate in the

eighties. Praise the Lord God does not change. You know why GPS existed

exists because man suddenly realized, whether they realized or not, God does not

change. So might as well take advantage of this. Right, So Praise

the Lord God is changeless. I'm getting somewhere, So now I want to

give you my first example. My first example is Paul and silas. All

right, Paul in silence, well, will do the portion of Scripture Acts

sixteen sixteen to thirty two. But I'm not going to read all of this.

I'm going to pick out certain points only now it happened that as we

went to prayer, isn't going to pray something good? You better believe it.

We could be doing anything, but we're going to prayer. I remember

once we were going to church. Church, my two daughters, my wife

and myself caught in the car, Mabel's new car. We got in the

car. It was ivy red, flashy gone the car and we were driving

to church. And as we came to a traffic light, good chain became

bad because a cement mixer came and ran into the back. Now, at

that very second, for some reason, both my daughters, when we stopped

at the red light, both my daughters came to the front and held the

headdress because they wanted to talk to us. At that very moment, that's

when the cement mixer slammed into the back. And you know, the backboard

of the car, it moved forward, and if they were lying back,

it would have got them on their neck. But praise the Lord, we

all got out of it. Okay. So as we went to prayer,

that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who

brought her master's much profit fortune. Telling now in verse seventeen, this girl

followed Paul and us and cried out saying, these men are the sermons of

the Most High God, who proclaimed us the way of salvation. And this

she did for many days. She did this for many days until such a

point of time where Paul got irritated. And when Paul got irritated, he

took action. He took action. I give you a testimony. I was

sharing in PJ and that day I had this horrible, horrible, horrible cough

that just would not go away. You know, the one where the phlegm

is clear and it's like glue, you know, and then you want to

put your hand inside your throat, take your throat out, scrub it under

the sink, under the tap, and put it back in that kind of

cough. I couldn't say two words without going into a coughing binge. Now,

how many of you come to listen to somebody cough? You came to

listen to God's word or somebody cough five seconds into the message? You would

get thoroughly irritated, as I did so under the anointing, the power,

the Holy Spirit, and in front of everybody, I said, I command

you cough in the name of Jesus. You will get out, and you'll

go back to Hell from whence you came. You will not bother me,

you will not trouble me, You will not spoil this message. In Jesus'

name, I command you right now, I continue to the message. And

after the message was over, everyone a lot of people from the congregation came

out and say, hey, you stop coughing. Really, And I suddenly

realized that I had stopped coughing. You can take authority over situations under the

name of Jesus the same way that Paul did. Now, why did it

take me so long? I can ask why did it take Paul so long?

Sometimes you just need to get into the groove and the mood, and

when it irritates you take action. Okay, Now what happened was I slipped

and I fell in the shower. My head missed the wall and my body

missed going through the glass because the other side is a glass wall. So

I fell without any way of blocking that fall or minimizing the impact of that

fall. And so when I fell, I really fell, and I hurt

my lower back. And so I told the maybe I had a fall.

She say, I never heard you. So I said, that's the advantage

of having a lot of padding. Okay, you got it, Praise the

Lord. So when I when I was down there, I felt I said,

Okay, Am I hurt, am I injured, and I felt I

had not broken any bone. I got up and then I told her because

I didn't want her. You see, the house is a little bit old,

so the toils have kind of worn away, and they were so we

addressed it straight away. But issue is this. I allowed that pain that

I had my back to go on for one week. Man, it hurt

to sit down and it hurt to get up. Everything in between is okay.

But how many times you sit and get up when you go to office?

Quite a lot in it. So it was getting to me. And

then the Lord reminded me, suys Terrence, what's the matter with you?

You know, when the Lord talks to me, it's like that, what's

the matter with you? Don't you remember the cough? Hey? Yeah,

Lord, I forgot I command your pain in the name of Jesus, stop

and be gone. Immediately left. I was getting up and going sitting down

and it's fine. You know, when you grow older, you get a

lot of eggs and pains. Ma Suddenly it happens for some reason, I

had this pain in my left leg. You know. Pastor Sarah took a

video of me and the children and there's evidence to see me limping. I

was actually limping because it's quite painful to walk. And again it took me.

Sometimes some people are slow. I'm quite slow. I'm slow to get

it. And then the Lord says again terrors, like almost in exasperation,

what's wrong with you? You remember not the cough? You remember your back?

Oh yeah, Lord, sorry, I command your pain in the name

of Jesus be gone. It left immediately. Last week I walked over three

days fifteen kilometers. This week I didn't have time to walk every day,

so yesterday I did sixteen in one go. My leg's fine. So this

is what the Lord does. You can do the same. Take authority be

because Jesus has given you the authority. The same way, Paul got fed

up of this demon possessed girl and said, come out from her in the

name of Jesus. And immediately the demon came out. And you know what,

do you think the people were happy? No, they were angry.

How dare you take that demon out of this girl? She belonged to me.

She was making me money, honey, Paul said, that's your problem.

Come out in the name of Jesus. The demon came out and you

know what they did to Paul and Silas. They beat them in verse twenty

three, and when they had led many stripes on them, they threw them

into prison. Wow, you do a good deal, right, good change.

Somebody got here, threw them into prison after beating them, commanding the

jailer to keep them securely, and having received such a charge, he put

them in the inner prison, fastened their feets with stocks. Paul and Silas

were on their way to prayer. How many of us feel that we are

on our way to doing something for the Lord, and something certainly happens and

it goes so wrong, and then we wonder why am I a CPC?

Why am I an elder? Why am I an age group leader? Why

am I this? Why am I dead? Am I not serving you?

And everything seems to be going awry? Everything seems you want to do something

good and it just doesn't seem right. Well, I want you to know

something. At midnight, when you are at your darkest time, when you

are having your biggest problem. At midnight, Power and Silas were doing what

they were praying? Did they change what they wanted to do? What did

the Bible say they were going to prayer? They got beaten, they got

thrown into prison. Do you think the prison that they were in was nicer?

Hey? No, toilet? Okay, what you think? Got toilet?

Breaker? You got toilet? You just do it where you are big

or small? Cockroaches, rats, dark, smelly, wet, damn nicer?

Did it stop them? At midnight? What were they doing? They

prayed, They were praying and what singing hymns to God? And I want

you to know the prisoners were listening to them. This is a very important

statement. And the prisoners were listening to them. You and I think that

the work of God that we do is to be in a certain position where

we think things are going to get done. Let me tell you, God

knows exactly where the work needs to be done. And it wasn't wasn't in

any other place other than in the dark dungeon of a prison. Because when

their purpose did not change, and they continued steadfastly in prayer and worship,

the prisoners were listening to them. Hey, when you and I realize that

even in our so called bad moment, if we do not change our purpose,

God will change it for good, putting you in a position where those

who have no chance of hearing a message of hope, will hear it?

Because how many people bothered to go into those dark dungeons, those smelly places

and share with the prisoners. The prisoners were listening to them. I want

you to know. That is Paul, and Silence prayed and worshiped and saying,

the prison shook. The foundations of evil cannot stand against the worship of

God. They will shake, and the chains that bind and whole people will

fall off, and the gates that keep you trapped will spring open. What

did Paul say? He said in verse twenty seven, And the keeper of

the prison, awakening from his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing

the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself,

But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, do yourself no harm,

for we are all here. Hey, guys, if you were in

a prison without an internet, no TV, no radio, no telephone,

no telegram, and the prison doors were open, and there was no chains

on your feet, and you ran away to a different town, nobody would

ever know. Now if you weren't that kind of prisoner, you want to

stay there? Ask yourself. But scripture says Paul and all the prisoners remain.

Remember I said at the beginning that the prisoners were listening. What happened,

The very thing that Paul and Silas lived for sharing the gospel to those

who are tied up and bound happened in the prison. You know what it

means for them to remain even though the chains had fallen off their hands and

feet, and even though the doors were opened and the gates were open,

their hearts had been set free. They didn't need to run anymore, They

didn't need to run away from the physicality of the prison because their spirits had

been set free. And he whom the sun sets free is free. Indeed,

they were saved. And how do you know that it was salvation that

had happened in the prison Because the gatekeeper, the warden, what was his

question, sir, what must I do to be saved? Now? How

did he know that salvation or being saved was the topic of the day,

Because in the prayers, in the singing, in the worship was also preaching,

salvation was being shared. Hey, guys, when things go bad for

you, if you do not change your purpose, how many people gonna get

saved? Man? Because you'll be actually addressing the people who need to be

addressed. And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and all who

were in his house. Was said, so let me summarize. So what

happened with Paul and Silence. They purposed to pray. Things took a bad

turn, they were Things took a bad change. They were beaten and sent

to prison. And what did they do? They remained focused. Hey,

that's the key man first point the keys. Remain focused. Do not change

your focus. Whatever happens when things change from good to bad, do not

change your focus. What did they do? They remain focused. They prayed

and they worship. Let me let me add that, remain focused in the

Lord. Okay, okay, please please know your word and remain focused.

Don't change that. And Miracles happen in dark places. Miracles happen in dark

Miracles happen when you least expected. Not candid camera miracles, miracles. Candy

camera is a little bit too old for most of you. Now you have

just for laughs in some other shows, I don't know the prisoners listen.

People will listen when we stay focused. People will listen when we stay focused.

Why is it you're not getting through to those non Christians. Are you

focused? Do you change? Very important question. If you remain focused,

you do not change. People will hear? I mean, I shared those

testimonies. I remain focused. People saw me, and forty years later I

find out they've become Christians. It doesn't matter whether they become a Christian in

front of you. You remain focused because you have an impact. Salvations occurred.

We are all here. Even those that harm you get saved. Wow.

Wow, those that do not know you got saved. Those that harm

you also get saved. Plans change purpose did not? Okay, so did

you like that. Let's go to the second example. The second example is

Gideon. Okay, let's talk about Gideon. Let's learn something from there.

And we're reading from Judges chapter seven, verses four to seven. This is

the time where Gideon was about to go into war and he called for an

army and guess what thirty thousand showed up. Thirty thousand. Isn't it wonderful?

You call for a rally and thirty thousand people show up. Wonderful?

Isn't it lovely? Praise the Lord? Is that what God wants? I

asked the question again? Is that what God wants. Okay, I'm not

sure right, we are gonna go. Okay, I see, But the

Lord said to Gideon, the people are still too many. Bring them down

to the water, and I will test them for you there that there will

be that of whom I say you to you, this one shall go with

you, the same shall go with you. And who whomever I say this

one shall not go with you, the same shall not go with you.

There are still to many. Hey, God is not interested in our numbers.

Because people think numbers is a show of strength. God thinks it's a

show of weakness. God doesn't need our numbers to act. So you can

be encouraged. If your number is small, still go, still go.

You don't have to be afraid. Hey, the churches, the plants that

are started all over the place. How many people, two people, three

people, four people, five? This is started with big congregation. No,

do what you have to even if you're in small numbers, because you

have got on your side. You have the big number just behind you.

All the little numbers look at the big number and go out the door.

So now God is telling them, telling idiot what to do. So he

said, you know, everyone who laps the water with his tongue. Let's

see. The first thing he did was he said, all those of you

that are fearful, go back twenty thousand left, twenty thousand left. Do

you know God cannot use anyone that fears man more than him. If you

fear man more than God, you're not even in the game. That should

give encouragement somebody whom who you just need to realize that if you fear man

more than you fear God, you are not even in the game. Twenty

thousand left, leaving Gideon with ten. Now Gideon is told what else to

do? Okay, So he brought the people down to the water, and

the Lord said to Gideon, everyone who laps from the water with his tongue

as a dog laps, you should set apart by himself. Likewise, everyone

who gets down on his knees to drink okay, let me explain this to

you. Let get down on your knees to drink water. The one who

got down on their knees are the ones who get done on their knees and

all fours and they lap. They drink the water like that. Nine thousand,

seven hundred. God send them away, leaving three hundred people. These

three hundred people got on their knees, but they brought the water up to

their face. Bought the water up to the face three hundred. God said,

I will use this three hundred by these three hundred men who laughed,

I will save you and deliver the million knights into your hands. Let all

other people go, every man to his place. And the Lord said to

Gideon, the people who are with you are too many for me to give

the Median Nites into the hands les Israel claim glory for itself against me.

My own hand has saved me. God is never interested for anyone other than

himself to get the glory. You know, when we give God gloria,

God shares the glory with us. But if we take the glory for ourselves,

we run into trouble. Always God's not interested in that. God never

won Israel to think that it had what it took to defend itself. But

God always wanted them to know it is through the mighty hand and deliverance from

God that they will survive. How many of us have plan a's and b's,

and c's and d's. I tell you a tight testimony. The maoble

and myself, I retired November last year, one year ago. And trust

me, we had everything all planned. It was all planned. There's a

problem with it being so well planned. The problem was God was not.

And you know when God is not in the plan, two things can happen.

The plan can be so good that you don't need God, or the

plan can be so bad that you'll just die. So anyway, a plan

was really good, really really good, except for one thing. God did

not agree. God did not. I'm going to tell you something that you

may not understand now, but hopefully as you grow older in the Lord,

you will understand. Do you realize that scripture says in Luke twelve eight more

is given, More is really quiet? There are many of us, or

there are some of us, who have a deeper relationship with the Lord and

older and a longer relationship with the Lord, and we are expected to know

what to do. So when we make the mistake of leaving God out of

the equation, like both of us did, let me tell you overnight,

God changed a plan in a hard way. A lot of people will not

be able to take it, but our plans, both of us were changed

in a hard way. Overnight. I had promised God. God, you

know, I'll give two days to the ministry. God said, you think,

what do I need your two days? I don't want your two days,

I want your old days. God. I'm retired, so I wanted

to kick back and relax. Man I did. God has other ideas,

you know, much to the detriment of, for example, the complex people.

They are very very sad that I've come back to work, you know.

But God changed our plans. And the way he changed our plans most

people cannot take. But I ask God this why? He says, Well,

when we are in a deeper relationship with the Lord God, Gods us

jealously, and if he sees we are doing something that's not quite right,

he acts in a very strong manner. You may say, but that's not

fair. What about those that don't that that? Maybe? You know,

do you know there are many Christians that God doesn't interfere in their lives?

Do you know there are many believers on this earth whom God does not interfere

in their lives? You may think, or what a thing to say?

The Bible says many, not everyone that calls him Lord Lord going to enter

the Kingdom of Heaven. There's some who will say, I did I not

heal in your name? Did I not do this in your name? Did

I not do that in your know? What did he say? Depart from

me? I never knew you. Hey, very sobering thought, which side

of the equation are we on? I can tell you was not the guy

who killed Saul king Saul put the Saul through him? Was he not in

Israelite who believed in God? Why didn't God stop him? Because when he

came and told David, David, I kill Saul. Although he kill Saulah

so sort of died in somebody else's hand, but he took credit for it.

What did's all say, Todius kill this guy? When God stopped that

guy? Maybe he didn't have a relationship with the Lord. So after the

Lord, explain this to me and say, wow, God, thank you

Lord. We have a relationship with you that is strong enough that you will

interfere in my life because it is far better for us to get to heaven

as paupers rather than to go to hell as billionaires. Hey, you and

I got to understand it. There are things that are important and God loved

us enough to interfere in our life. In a mighty way to change our

direction. That was what God was doing here. So what happened to Gideon?

Well, sometimes we are too prepared, even if we are doing the

Lord's work. It is a danger to plan God out of the equation.

We change our needs, but God remains the same. He just needs us

to trust him and not in our backup plans, not in our plans.

The journey to the Answer teaches us to observe and see how God sees.

Do we see like how God sees? Do not fear if God is with

you? Because if God is with you and you still fear, return go

home. You're not in the battle. You're not in the army. You

have to know your calling. When God speaks of you, he must speak

of you as someone who knows he's calling. Okay, the last example for

today, Wow to many of you, that's a blessed statement. The last

example Jesus, Oh, we we must learn something you mean to say.

There were some changes in Jesus' plan. Let's see reading from Luke eight forty

to fifty six. We won't read everything, but we pick out certain verses

and behold, there came a man named Jerius, and he was a ruler

of the synagogue, and he fell down at Jesus feet and begged him to

come to his house, for he had an only daughter, about twelve years

of age, and she was dying. Jesus, my daughter, she's sick.

Please come to my house. No problem, I'm on my way.

Yes, I'm coming. It's all taken care of. Don't worry about it.

I'm on my way. I'm coming with you. Isn't that wonderful?

The moment you pray and the Lord says, yeah, it's taken care of.

Do you know that every time you pray it's yes, it's taken care

of his immediate Then what happens in between? Now, a woman having a

flow of blood for what twelve years, who had spent all her livelihood on

physicians and could not be healed by any came from behind and touched the border

of his garment, and immediately her floor of blood stopped. Do you know

that there seems to be some relation here? How old was the girl twelve?

How old was the woman? How long had the woman suffered? About

twelve years? Same story? You know it? This is part of the

same story. You got to understand something about God. Nothing goes to waste.

Everything is connected like a woman's brain. Yeah. Yeah, the guy

keeps it in separate boxes, but a woman's brain. Everybody, everything is

connected. But where the Lord is, nothing is wasted. Everything is connected.

If it was not important, it would not be shared in the scripture.

Neither the girl's age, nor the length of time the woman had the

flow of blood, either or both. If there was no connection, it

would not be in scripture. But the fact is that it's there, tells

me nothing goes to waste. Everything is connected. But Jesus said, somebody

touched me. Oh, somebody touched me, and I perceive power going out

from me Verse forty eight. And he said, daughter, be of good

cheer. Your faith has made you well. So now Jesus is on his

way to heal Jeriu's daughter and this woman, not knowing what he had to

do, when in touched his garment, and because of that she got healed.

Now he stops and he turns around, and he says, who touched

me? And the woman said, it's his eye. And she told the

story and she says. He says, go, your faith has made you

well. Do you know your God and mind? Jesus is wired to be

attracted to and respond to faith. It is so imp because when you can

realize that God, that Jesus is wired to respond to faith, you and

I will not be so disappointed that our answer takes a little bit of time.

Remember I said, the moment you pray, his answer and he says,

yes, I'm on my way. But sometimes it takes time before the

answer comes to fruition. Why because something is happening along the way. And

while he was still speaking, someone came from the rule of the synagogue's house

saying to him, your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher.

Hey, she's dead. Leave the man alone, don't trouble him. Jesus

heard him. What he said, have no fear. I am here sounds

like a good soul. Jesus did not want Jerrus to be afraid, like

he doesn't want you and I to be afraid when an answer doesn't come quickly,

when our situation seems to grow worse after we have prayed. You know

what Jesus says, don't worry is going to be okay. Elder Mabele and

myself and I've been a Christian for forty three years or more. We have

been through some tough, tough stuff, bad stuff, good stuff, all

kinds of stuff, things that would destroy. But you know what, we

now stand here and we look back, and he said, we made it.

How did this happen? How did we come so far? God always

said, don't worry. I'm here. I've already said I'm going to take

care of it. I'm going to take care of it. And you know,

it's never at our time. It was always at his, Never at

our time, always at his. You see. He said, don't worry,

She's going to be well. And when he reached the house, he

said, take all these mourners and growners and get them out. Jesus is

not interested to have a connection with mourners and growners. Are we moaners and

grown ers? Because if we are mourners and growners, he's going to say,

please leave the room when we come for a prier meeting. Are we

mourners and growners? Because if we are moaners and growners? You know what

is his response, Please leave the room. And then he says, little

girl, wake up. She got up. And then he I think must

have a little bit of Chinese blood, go and give us something to eat

first thing. She get up, go and get something to eat. Yeah,

there you go. No, no, no, no, he was

Asian, right, he was Asian. I think so Asian. Everything's about

food. So the issue is this mourners and grown as God doesn't want us

to be interested in that. I want you to know that even with Jesus,

the plan changed. Do you realize that. I mean it was you

and I. Oh, somebody is dying. We will just go straight there.

No, no, no seeming later. No, I don't have time.

I'm on my way. Yeah. Yeah, I'll take care of it

later, until we get that, until we get away. True, that's

us. But Jesus, you gotta understand that when you are exercising faith.

When you are exercising your faith, what are you doing. You are lifting

up the name of Jesus. And what does scriptures say? When you lift

up the name of Jesus, he will draw all men unto himself. Your

faith that you are believing God for any situation in your life is a beacon

of light. And you don't know it or you know it. It doesn't

matter to all those who are on the way or around you that even as

Jesus is making his way to take care of your issue. Others are being

touched because they are also exercising faith, and maybe they didn't have enough of

faith to see it through. But because your prayer and your faith, it

creates an atmosphere of the presence of the Lord and the anointing that others,

in their little faiths are beginning to see things happen in their life, and

you and I cannot wait for an answer to be done. If we realize

just exactly what part we are playing in somebody else getting blessed, you will

not be so upset that your answer takes a little bit of time. Because

somebody else is getting healed, somebody else is getting touched, somebody else is

seeing God happen in their life work in their life. Sometimes, Jesus and

all the answer seems delayed. It may be because Jesus is presently responding to

somebody else's faith along the way to you. Did you ever think that because

Jesus is on his way to us, others will see him, respond to

him and get their blessing because you have drawn Him towards you. Delay is

never a reason to fear, never a reason to fear. Jesus always has

the last word, because truth triumphs over effect all the time. Truth triumphs

over fact all the time. You and I, You and I. If

we realize this, yeah, Jesus, you're taking your time. I don't

see the manifestation of my answer. It's okay. My faith in you remains

unchanged. My situation may have changed for the worst, may have changed for

the bad, but I know this. My miracle is on the way,

and it's going to be good change because not only am I going to be

blessed, others are being blessed because of the anointing that you are putting upon

my life. Others are going to see you because as you make your way

towards me other people, you're going to respond to somebody else's faith, and

things are going to happen. You may say this is a weird thing to

say. You may think this is a weird thing to say. Let me

tell you. There was this guy. His name was Keith Green. Have

you heard of Keith Green? How many have you heard of Keith Green?

Okay, there's a few of you, all right, the ones in their

forties maybe, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was. He was a

marvelous musician. He was inducted into as as CAP, which is the association

of writers and music writers, at the age of eight years old. Okay,

his piano playing was amazing. But he loved the Lord in the way

that you and I can learn from. He loved the Lord so completely that

nothing mattered to him except doing what the Lord wanted. Okay, And you

know he used to write many songs, and he'll give them away free.

I was a student that time. I didn't have money. I wrote to

him. He sent me three records all the way from the States. He

sent me three records. Now, his music, his music carried an anointing.

You know what kind of anointing. Somebody will be playing music, his

music in the house, and people on the road pass by the house and

hear the music. They get down on their knees in the road outside and

are giving their life to Jesus. And this didn't happen once, It happened

so many times. Why is this possible? Because the atmosphere of faith as

it grew, others walked into that anointing and something happened. Never ever be

afraid if your situation seems to go bad and your answer seems to take some

time, coming to you. Be encouraged to know that your continued faith is

creating an environment of anointing that will cause others to know the Lord. So,

guys, can bad change be good? Bad change is never the end

of the story. It is always only the beginning or sometimes the middle.

By the end of the day, It's never the end because truth triumphs over

effect and God rules. Heaven rules. Even as we go towards the finish

line, so many things, bad changes are taking in the place today,

in the world. Today, bad changes, it's there. Don't be worried

because as you continue to have faith in the Lord, more Christians will come.

More people were coming to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ now

than they will ever at any other time. Continue, do not stop,

Do not change your focus. Your focus must remain the same irrespective of how

your situation changes. And you're going to be okay. Praise the Lord.

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