I Need A Miracle | Pr David Yeow

You're listening to a message to go from ex Church. We hope this message

will light up your tea. Well, let's look at John two, chapter

one to eleven. If your dad can't hear, good Amen. I like

to read the Word of God. I only have to read the main text

and then we're gonna break it down and learn something from it. So let's

read together. On the third day, there was a wedding in Cana of

Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now, both Jesus and

his disciples were invited to the wedding, And when they ran out of wine,

the mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine. Jesus

said to her woman, what does your concern have to do with me?

My hour has not come. His mother said to the servants, whatever he

says to you, do it now. There were six water parts of stone

according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing about twenty or thirty

gallons apiece. And Jesus said to the servants fill the water pots with water

and filled them to the brim. And he said to them draw some out

now and take it to the master of the feast. And they took it.

And when the master of the feast or the mc had tasted the water

that was made wine and did not know where it came from. But the

servants who had drawn the water knew. The master of the feast called the

bridegroom, and he said to him, every man at the beginning sets out

the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then they served

the inferior. You have kept the best the good wine until now. So

Jesus was the one who came up the phrase saving the best to last.

Amen. And this beginning of signs Jesus did in cana of Galley and manifested

his glory, and disciples believed in him. Amen. He got taken our

notes at the title of my message today is called I need a miracle.

I need a miracle. I'm not sure how many of you see it here,

need a miracle. I'm not even sure how many of us here are

comfortable with the word miracle. You know where I've been based for I think

the chapters says the last seven years. It's more than eight years, because

we actually we went in twenty fifteen and you know and a half years or

something like that. My math is not good. That's why I did law.

And you know, you know, we in the in the UK,

when you you talk to certain segments of people you say that, hey,

I believe in miracles, they'll look at you and they think that you're stupid,

you know, because for them it's like, you know, we believe

in science and when you say miracle it sounds like fairy tale but bye bye.

And sometimes we get uncomfortable, you know, we go like, I

do need a miracle, but but I don't know do miracles still happen anymore?

But on the other hand, sometimes we tell people that we need a

miracle and uh. And some people they are Christians, but maybe they come

from a bit more traditional background. They can even scuff and go like what

miracle, you know, and then they begin to prejudge you and think that,

oh, you're some self, you know, you're which is a flaky

you know, all kind of like chasing after miracle church. Uh and and

and so maybe some of us here, even hearing this I need a miracle,

you know, you go like, I'm not sure if this is for

me, and I want you to know that we need miracles. You know,

the Bible says, actually I think it's the first Courritani, chapter one,

twenty three. You know, it talks about how, you know,

when we appreciate the Gospel, we appreciate Christ crucified. And to certain segments,

like like the Jewish people, that's like a stumbling block. That's like,

I come on, what the's silly, that's ridiculous. And to the

Greeks is foolishness. And in the same way, you know, when we

say that, hey, I need a miracle, certain segments will think that

we're childish. They think that we go to the wrong type of church.

They think that we're immature Christians for still chasing after these things. You know,

we don't need miracles anymore. We just need the word of God.

On the other hand, some people think that, you know, oh you

are just Christians are out of touch. They are loopy people. You know,

they believe in aritys and and I want to summarize what miracles really mean.

Miracles at the end of the day mean this. It's trusting, believing,

and asking God to do what only he can do. That's that's it.

That's what a miracle is. It's something that only God can do.

And I'm not sure about you, but but but I need a miracle.

There are things in my life that only God can do, and I want

him to do it. You know, there's this this couple needed a miracle.

They were they were, you know, at their old wedding and the

resources are running out, and then they needed God to do something that only

he can do. How about yourself? Is there something in your workplace that

that only God can do? Maybe you serve under a boss who you think

is a tyrant. You know, initially you were standing here going like,

well, please God, I got a job, and then first second week

you go like, God, why did you put me in hell? You

know, I thought I only go to hell, you know if I don't

repent or you know, after I die, Why am I in living hell?

Why is my boss demonic? And God? Only you can do what

you can do. You either need to change him or you need to change

me. And for some of us, you know, it's it's our I

don't know. We're going through something. Maybe emotionally we're at a bad place.

Maybe financially we're at a bad place. Maybe physically health wise we are

at a bad place. The doctor says, there's normal, hope he's gone

for doctor after doctor, treatment after treatment, and they say that, hey,

you're gonna manage your expectations. And so the doctors have given up hope

on you. And maybe you are at a place where where only God can

do. Only God can can make that dream come true. Only God can

can can help you overcome that addiction. Now you come out here to be

prayed for. Nothing happens, passit, candid pressure, nothing happens. Only

God can do what God can do. And so I want us today to

start getting comfortable. I want us today to start getting a little bit more

bold and confident. It's saying that, you know what, I'm not a

sham of being a people that acknowledges that there are things in my life that

only God can do and I want him to do them. Amen. You

know, after all, Christianity, it's not built on the teaching. The

Bible is built around the miracle. The reason why we believe in the Bible

is because Jesus rules the grave. It's a miracle. And so let us

not become too clever for God, and let us continue to have child like

faith and say that God, I can't you trust you. Only you can

touch my family, only you can save my marriage. Only you can heal

my disease. Only you can help me overcome. If there's somebody here who

needs a miracle, can hear good? Amen? Amen. And so I

want us to become people that are, like I said, confident and bold

to ask for miracles. But to give us some right context, it's also

important for us to understand the purpose of miracles. Should we be bold to

us, Yes, but we should also ask being mindful of the purpose.

So what are the purposes of miracles? It's actually shown here in the scripture

that just fat in John chapter two, verse eleven, it says that the

science were manifested so that God can be glorified. And so you know,

if you see it here and you're wondering, you know, I really need

God to move in. But is this something that that I need to get

better at, I need to get more disciplined at, or or is this

something that I need to trust God with the way to look at it is

does this glorify God? That's this glorified God, that's my healing. Glorify

God, that's my increement. Glorify God. Do I do I really need

to have a boyfriend to glorify God? And say it's no. But that

doesn't mean you don't You can't ask us, but understand that there is a

purpose, that's a purpose to your miracle. And so if you truly believe

that, you know that's that's that can be a powerful god glorifying testimony behind

a miracle. Then friend, boldly ask us and a shamely ask, and

keep asking, and the Bible says that you shall receive. The other thing

that we're gonna come to grips with is also the motivation behind the asking.

You know, uh, is it okay to ask for miracles? Yeah,

if if the purpose is right. But but here's something I want us to

catch us. Well, don't just ask for yourself. Don't just be motivated

by your own breakthrough. You know, this story started not because the bride

or groom who had the problem asked Jesus for the solution. No, no,

no, The story started when a concerned by standard. Maybe Mary was

a neighbor, maybe Mary was a distant relative, but Mary was the one

that asked on behalf. And this is so important for us to catch us

the church, because when we gather together on a Sunday, you know,

we come here to worship God. But Church, I want you know,

is God's idea. This is not a man made institution. This is a

Jesus idea. He says he will build his church. And what you need

to understand is that church is a place where become together and and and we

we become each other's intentional found family. You know, we live in a

world today where they are broken families, broken marriages, and and and church

is God's answer to them. God is saying that to the broken world.

Yeah, things break apart, but why don't you come to a place where

I'm here to put things together again. I put strangers together and I call

them family. And this is a place where we're meant to cover each other.

And whenever you come here to pray for each other, whether you're in

front or actual seats, don't just pray for them on a Sunday. But

but why don't you become each other's armor bearers. Why don't you become each

other's brothers keepers. And let's not just believe for supernatural Sunday, which is

good, but let us also ask on behalf of each other for miracles on

a Monday. And and let us be people who will boldly ask and say

that God. Praise God. I'm so graced by you, and I'm in

a season of abundance. But Lord, you've blessed me to be a blessing.

So so while I am in no need of a miracle right now,

it doesn't mean that the people around me don't need. So, Lord,

help me not to sleep on my brother, my sister. Let me ask

on their behalf. And the thing is this, When you ask on other

people's behalf, miracles happen. Miracles happen. The Bible is full of this.

You know, Gyrus that the Jerusalem you know learned teacher ask on behalf

of his very ill daughter. The Roman SENSI ask on behalf of his very

ill servant. You know, the miracles happen when people ask on behalf,

when they do on behalf, when they volunteer on behalf. The five flows

and two fish will not happen if Andrew didn't present on beh half. You

know of the small boy, the fire flows, and the two fish.

So, friends, I want us to get comfortable with miracles. I want

us to get bold in asking. But let us not just ask for ourselves,

or maybe just one more thing before I give you treat my three points

for today. Maybe for some of us here, when you talk about miracles

and and and and trusting God to do something that only he can do,

we get a little bit uncomfortable because we immediately become reminded or stuck at a

place of like, God, why did you even put me in this place?

Why am I even at a place where I'm even in need of a

miracle? You know what I'm saying, You know, because sometimes we get

triggered, and we get triggered by bye, by the why, and we

can't get over the why and and and and I want you to know,

friends, you know, the Bible doesn't always gives us the why. In

fact, in John chapter nine, if not mistaken, you know, there

was a mind that there was a man who was born blind, and people

were asking Jesus, hey, this person who's blind, what was what was

the deal? Did he sin? Or do his parents sin? And Jesus

never bothered them to give them a why. But Jesus told them the what

what was it for? And the what was it for? Is so that

God can be glorified through him. And so for some of us here again,

you know, miracles, you know, and get me. Mini get

triggered and said, yeah, you know, yeah, you know, I

know maybe and if you're really honest, you might even resent God and you

think that it was God who even put you in a place where you're in

need, you know. And so for you it's not just all miracles.

Is is God doing what only he can do. But but for some of

us here were in so much pain that we think that miracles is God fixing

what he started. But when you know, that's not how God works.

Why we don't know why? It could be a ripple effect of history.

It could be a ripple effect of society. It could be a ripple of

effect of a fallen world that we end up why and know? Why?

Did my love on ask away? Why? And my still dropped us?

Why? And I still single? Why? Why? Why? Why?

Why? God doesn't always give us the why because we can't handle the why,

but he assures us of the what. If you would trust him,

if you will go to him, he can turn your your morning into dancing.

Amen. He can turn your death into a resurrection. You know why,

because we serve a miracle God. Amen. And so with that right

framework, let us now look at three. I believe three ingredients that Scripture

just showed us on how we should approach God. If you believe your cause

is just, and you believe that this this, this thing I'm asking for

is unselfish and he will glorify God. Or maybe you're asking on behalf of

someone, or maybe you're asking you know, just by faith that I want

us to follow up by these three things, the three further ingredients for miracles

in your life. Point number one humility. Humility. You know, Mary

asked, And if we are to be honest, if you look at the

way Jesus unset it didn't sound very nice. You know, it wasn't rude,

but it wasn't very nice. And and you know, but despite that,

Mary didn't get angry, she didn't get bitter, she didn't give up.

She she understood her place. And so while we are to boldly ask,

we should also remember our place, you know, because Jesus's reply to

her was this that, Hey, what's got to do with me? By

time? It's not yet. And for some of us here this is God's

work. For you. You're believing God for a miracle, and God is

not saying no, He's just saying and not yet, and sometimes we get

so offended by the not yet, not understanding that and not yet it's not

a never, And God was wanting us to know, Hey, I love

you, but I'm most of God, I know better than you, and

so you know I love you. I want to be there. But but

there are times where it's a not yet, not a never. Let me

give you an example local Malaysia example that many of us will understand. Do

you remember when you first got your driving license, you know, and for

some of us here, you know, we first got driving license, was

so excited and we had all the dreams of re enacting fast and furious.

And you think that your parents would give you the car to the no the

car, give you the key to the family car, or give you a

key to a brand new car. And instead, for many of us,

or maybe some of us here, what we get was a third hand beat

up proton can chill, you know or I don't know. That's my generation,

maybe for you my v or whatever it is. Okay, it's okay,

I drive a my view, so I can, I can, I

can talk slowly about it anyway, you know, And and we think that

what what is this? What is this how am I gonna impress? Goes

with this? No, what is this? What is this? And you

see your your parents are not trying to withhold a blessing from you, but

they're trying to help you keep a blessing because if they give you something that

you're not ready for. No, now that you've driven, now that you

are fiscally and you know, responsible, much more mature than a lot of

you are driving better, bigger cars. But if you were to give a

young person who just got their driving license, you know, a messages a

family car, it's gonna wreck it, it's gonna lose it. And God

is not just about wanting you to bless you with a miracle. God wants

you to keep the miracle. And so that's something for us. We gotta

understand. Amen. You know, God is saying that I love you,

and yes you can bulldly asked, but but but we must also humbly approach

him, just like how Marry humbly approached Jesus. And how many are glad

that Jesus said not yet. Jesus never said no, Jesus never said you're

not good enough. And maybe for some of us here you're you're believing God

for a breakthrough and and and what you're hearing is just silence. But how

many know that silence is not aknown Silence is not yet, silence is not

denial. And that's so important. How you are glad that Jesus never held

marries prayer life, you know, to account and go like, oh,

now you're asking me by this you pray this morning, and we think that

don't we a lot of was thing that we're not good enough to ask God

because our prayer life doesn't match up. But you see, if it was

your matched up prayer life that got you to breakthrough, that it wasn't a

miracle, then it wasn't something that only God can do it. It was

something that you did following the the you know the law. You know what

I'm saying. And so we need to come back to the place of humbly

saying that God I surrendered to you and please move on my behalf and whatever

he says, trust amen, But I want you to do one step better.

Don't just trust do it because point number two is obedience. Obedience Mary

said in John two five to the other servians. You know, like I

know Jesus, I you know spend some time in here, and it might

not sound nice. But whatever he tells you, I know his hearts.

Whatever he tells you, do it. Don't just bear with it, do

it. How many are glad that when we talk to God, because we

serve and we worship a living God, he answers back. The problem is

we don't listen or the other problem is we don't do what he says.

Because this is the other thing that we need to understand about miracles. God

will oftentimes ask us to step out in obedience, but the obedience doesn't look

like the miracle. Just just just pause for what What were they're asking for?

They were asking for wine, right, and what did Jesus ask him

to do? Bring water? I mean, you know some of us are

like, at least ask us to bring grapes. I can only imagine the

servers going like, you know, I am no wine maker, but I

know that wine come from grapes, you know, whether it's like you know

your wines, grapes, you know, fruit like, Come on, what

at least bring ask us to bring out some wine skins? But no basin

fish tank. I did the math. It says here, right, it's

a six water water basins about twenty to thirty gallons each, which is you

know, and I did a math with this, I'm googling, and the

equivalent to one of those water pots is like the big fish tank you see

in Chinese restaurants where you pick out your dinner. You know, the wine.

We're all the fish, not miserable, like please please, don't please

please, life has no meaning, but please don't you know that tanks?

And they fill up six of them? What the sixth? What the tank's

got to do with wine? Where's the grape? Where's the wine skin?

Where the bottles? And yet they obeyed. You see, some of us

here we desire a breakthrough and God has spoken. And yet because what he

said it's so out of this world, or it's so one hundred and eighty

degrees from what you're believing God for we we we wrestle with it, we

rejected, we we we rebuke it, even in the name of Jesus,

you know. And maybe you're sitting here going like God, I need a

miracle in my financial situation, and then God says give and he go like,

excuse me, what now, God, excuse me? I need I'm

running out. I can't pay my rent. Why you ask me to do?

And yet if you read it would of God in famine, Elizah was

there and and and and you know, if you're not a believer, it

looks like this mean old profit took advantage of a single mom and a daughter

and go like, heys, famine, no more food? What do you

have left? Bake it and give it to me first. It looks crazy,

and yet the widow obeyed. It looks like it doesn't make sense,

Yet the servants obeyed God. I need a miracle, and I don't know.

I feel so lonely. I feel so deflated. You know. I

put on a brave face in front of other people, but I feel like

I don't know. I feel like I'm at a bad place emotionally, I

feel like giving up. I can't get myself to even go to work.

And then God says go to church, and you go like, excuse me,

God, are you? Are you? Are you hearing? I just

told you I can't even get myself up in the morning. And then all

you have to do is say go to church, because maybe what you need

is not an emotional healing. What you need is a spiritual healing. Well

you need you think you need a therapist. No, no, no,

you just need the presence of God. And then sometimes it's the opposite,

God, I need a man. God, I don't care pass it says,

it's not glorified. I need a man. And maybe God in his

infinite grace and must say, says hey, I love you, Go sure

sign up for missions, and he'd be like, excuse me, I need

a companion. You ask me to go solo to another side of the world.

Learning you like like, like, what, why are you saying?

God? And yet they obeyed? What is God challenging you today? Why

has God been challenging you this week? This sounds crazy, This sounds counterintuitive.

There sounds one hundred and eighty degrees from the very thing that you're yearning

for. Friends, can I ask you that perhaps that is the very thing

that God wants you to obey. See, faith comes from hearing or hearing

the word of God, and God speaks and sometimes what we need to do,

yeah, humbly ask, but we need to be quick to obey.

Amen. Turn to your neighbors, says you need to obey. You need

to obey. Tend to your other neighbors. I know it sounds crazy,

but just obey point number three. It's faith. Faith. So the humbly

asked and the obediently responded. And yet no miracle will ever be complete without

stepping up by faith. I want us to catch something here, right,

Let's flash up verse nine again, if that's possible. Right. Verse nine

of John chapter two. It says, here's something that I want us to

catch, because we we miss it. Sometimes when the Master of the feasts,

when them see right, had tasted the what the water that was made

wine, and did not know where it came from. But the servants who

had drawn the what water knew What did they feel water? What did they

draw out? Still water? No, it's still water. The servants who

had drawn the water new and when they when he tasted the water, sometimes

you missed this. I only catch this. When did the miracle happen in

the mouth? When did the miracle happen on the way? That means that

they obeyed. And sometimes God says it and then now step out. But

when you step out, it still looks that nothing has happened, because they

were drawing it stewater. And then God says, now walk to the Master

of the ceremony man. He imagine the servants was thinking, Jesus, you

want me to lose my job? You know, you know I'm walking.

They knew the Bible says, they knew what they were holding, and they

were walking and going like, uh, Jesus, I you know, I

didn't go to school much, but I know the difference between water and wine.

First of all, there's a difference in color. You know. I'm

pretty sure you know. Whatever I put in when I drow it looked the

same. But you asked me to take some out and go. You see,

a lot of times we want the miracle to happen, then we celebrate.

God wants you to celebrate that the miracle happens. You see, without

faith, it's impossible to please God. You know, if you if you

look at all the scriptures of miracles. Jesus always said that. On the

way, the black man was asked to say, you know, Jesus,

you know I think John nine since that, hey, black man, here,

go split up the floor, make some modsqucious eyes, and say,

now walk to the silver women, and then wash the Roman centures, and

now go home, and then the miracle will be as it is when you

reach home. You know that the miracle, friends, happens on the way.

The miracle is not complete without a step of faith. And this is

not blind faith. This is faith that is an obedient response to a good

God. And this is something that we need to catch friends, because faith

often feels like walking, trembling, shaking, not feeling like you have it.

But God is saying, yeah, that's why only I can do what

I can do. And so, friends, I don't know what you're believing

God for. Maybe some of you here you're, like I said, you

hate your job, and yet God says, go because the trans formation is

in the going. The transformation happens on the way. Come on, how

many of us here have been stuck in the infamous Malaysian traffic jam? And

certainly the presence of God hits you right there in the middle of Federal Highway,

right there, right You're not at some conference. Passe Canda's is not

there, your favorite preacher's not there, your favorite band's not there. The

CD's playing, maybe it's even I don't know what it is, and yet

you felt it's not music. The Holy Spirit was with you, and and

tears start coming and it looks like it's raining, but it's only raining in

your eyes. You turn on the wipers, your tears to you, don't

stop. How many we've been there before? Come on? If if that's

you can't hear, good? Amen? Why because the miracle happens on the

way, On the way back from a hospital after a back diagnosis, on

the way to a meeting you didn't feel like attending, on the way to

a difficult conversation, or on the way back from a difficult conversation, the

miracle happens on the way. Turn to your neighbors, says, your miracle

is on the way. Oh, that's so good. Turn to other neighbors,

says, your miracle is on the way. Amen, the miracle happens

on the way. Sometimes we don't feel like coming to church. Sometimes,

even as leaders, you don't feel like coming to church. But the miracle

is on the way. God doesn't zap you and then use you. Sometimes

God zaps you as he uses you. Amen. And so this is something

that we need to catch friends, because do we serve from a miracle producing

God? Of course, But let's begin to humbly ask, obediently respond,

and faithfully step out. Amen. You know I want us to catch this

because and again, I don't know what you're going through, but I want

you to know that God loves you. He really does, and fath Sometimes

it is shaking and trembling, but God will show up. He always shows

up. And so, friends, I don't know what you're going through.

Maybe some of you here you need a miracle at work. You need a

miracle in your marriage. The fire's gone out. Marriage counseling doesn't work.

You need something. You need God to do something only he can do.

Some of you here you love the Lord, you love him, and yet

your family, your children hate him, and you go like God, I'm

living the life I'm trying to role model. No, I'm doing family alter,

family, Bible study time, every family Christian activity, family, Netflix,

whatever we're doing at all. But yet my children are not interested at

all. God, only you can do what you can do, and sometimes

requires us to obey in a radical way that is against our personality and who

we are at the core. And yet God will always make sure that the

miracle happens on the way. Amen, the miracle happens on the way.

Maybe for some of us, here's an encouragement to persevere. Maybe you have

been humbly asking. Maybe you have been obedient and yet you've not seen the

breakthrough. Hey, I'm here to tell your journey's not complete. God has

a timing. Amen, all, I am sharing of you. It's not

made up. It's biblical. When you look at how the walls of the

Jago came down. Did they praise after the wall came down or did it

come down as they were praising. Amen, I want God to speak to

you. And so I don't know what you need, what kind of miracle

you need. By know that that people here who you need a miracle.

Your marriage needs a miracle, your studies need a miracle, your health needs

a miracle, your your finances near a miracle. Maybe your ministry leader and

your ministry needs a miracle. Maybe even feel that this church needs a miracle.

This church needs I don't miraculous growth, miraculous unity, miraculous forgiveness.

Only God can do it. And so, if you're in need of a

miracle, if you're in need of new wine for your marriage, if you're

in need of fresh fire from heaven, you know years ago I obey God's

call to go full time. I love my Dad, I want him to

come to know the Law. I love my family. I want him to

come to know the Lord. But when I told them, hey, I'm

going full time, they were not pleased at all. My dad was angry

because when I first became a Christian, there were two things he told me

that I couldn't not do. Number One, you cannot be baptized. I

was eleven years old. I had just become such a new Christian. Nobody

has even talked to me about baptism yet, but I was already told you

can't do it. You know, sometimes there's something spiritual about baptism of a

non believing friends seem to know more about it than we do. Maybe it's

a breakthrough that you need. Maybe it's a step of obedience you need.

And then the second thing he says I can't do is I can't work full

time for church. I was eleven years old. I wasn't even thinking of

going full time in church. I was just trying to just get by.

He says, you can't do that. And so when I feel God called

me to live my job, to go work full time as a campus pastor

at the time, as student pasted at the time, I told them and

my dad was just angry, and my mom, was a Christian, got

even angrier. And my mom says that I'm trying to reach your dad and

you're not making it easy. I'm trying to reach your dad. And then

here you are going being such an extreme Christian. Sometimes the thing that God

is challenging to obey can seem extreme to other Christians even But who is the

one who spoke? And who is the one that you're responding to, and

who is the one that you're expecting a miracle from God? And so my

mom stopped talking to me. I tended my resignation. This started came back

to me because I was just back at my old place on this trip.

I was cleaning out my drawer and I saw my resignation letter. Anyway,

and my mom was so frustrated. I'm gonna go to prey meeting. I'm

going to my church. I'm gonna go to Canton, this medicist church and

Pinang, I'm gonna go down and go go to prem meeting. I'm gonna

pray to God to intervene. She thought she needed a miracle. Only God

can do what God can do, and she dad praying the Lord did do

something. That only he can do. Because my mom, who is you

know, a bit more helped a bit more reserve with the moves of the

Holy Spirit, caught me back after season not talking to me and said that

when I went to pray meeting today, I heard from the Holy Spirit.

So some of us in ex church we take that for granted, Pentecostal circles.

Everybody here's from the Holy Spirit. But what you don't understand is,

you know sometimes of a Baptist parents are or Medidists parents. You know,

it's it's it's a miracle. And then the miracle God was this is it?

I felt the Holy Spirit said to me, release your son to build

my house. And as he builds my house, I will build his house,

and and and and and so we did full time. Eventually my dad

got around the idea. They didn't quite like it was a bit nervous,

but I was like, yeah, no, sons, going on, we

can do what he wants to do. Then when it came time for us

to respond to God's call to go overseas, they were a little bit like

when you go overseas, you know, like why why why does the UK

didn't didn't Christianity my dad thinks Christianity came from the UK, But it didn't.

Didn't Christianity, It wasn't there. It wasn't you invented that way,

You're going back and reinventing the wheel again. No, I'm not reinventing.

No, not that. And then so I went in obedience. I wanted

my dad to know Jesus. And yet God was calling me into obedience and

bringing me further and further away from Him. But praise God. December twenty

fifth, twenty eighteen, when I was in UK serving the law, my

father got baptized. You see, you know, And if I'm really honest,

sometimes in the business of building God's house, I forget to pray.

In the business of building God's house, sometimes I can become like a bad

son. Well, having known that I can be a bad son, but

by myself a good God. And and and and and this is why it's

a miracle, because if I say I pray, then you know what I'm

saying, that the flesh can be ego to secure to say that it is

my prayer. No, no, no, but I know that I I

you know, God was the one who did it. And and and those

of you who are ever tried to reach or have reached a very traditional Asian

dad. You know Asian dad's default factories. I think they don't smell.

No, my dad doesn't know how to hug me. No joke. It

sounds like a joke, but it's not a joke. On my wedding day,

they're ready for talk. And that's is. I don't know how,

but you know we we love today. But but but it's like that.

I grew up like that. No smile, no, I love you.

You know I come from a Hockeyen family. My dad doesn't speak English,

Mandarin and Hockeyen. And the running joke is this, there's no word for

I love you and Hockeyen. Those of you who speak hockey and you know

it, you'd be like I. You know, you start speaking tongues before

you start saying I love you hockey and there's there's no word. Are sorry

in hockey En as well. That's why we had to borrow and say ah

sorry because with the you know what I'm saying, hire people, tough people,

self made man. It's only a God miracle that can reach them.

Some of us here, we need salvation in our family. That's the miracle

you need. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more information

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