Life Lessons From A Baker | Pr Sandra Chin

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

will light up your tea. The title says life lessons from a baker,

but not me the baker. Okay, if there are any bakers in the

house, don't shoot me, okay, because you might be like, there,

okay, I bake. I love baking, And I say baking is

a science unlike cooking. Cooking is an art. I tell you. People

say, how do I give me recipe, A bit of discipit of dead

you know, give me recipe, don't know a love, a bit of

discipine of how to go? All right? I give I mean run down,

I don't know. I don't give me. Give me measurements, cups,

tea, spoons, tablespoons, you know. And then they're like,

yeah, just cook club from the heart, are you No. I'm so

I'm a better baker than I am a cook and cooking dishes or the nonya

dishes or the I can't I need I need instructions. So baking is a

science, all right, You've got measurements a man, so a live lessons

from a base but not me. I was just watching another baker. Um.

I think overnight became famous because she baked the cake for Prince Harry and

Megan for their wedding. And then wow, you know, because she must

be a good baker as well. And I was just listening to something and

I kind of like caught a message. Don't shoot me. Okay, okay.

If you think these techniques don't work, okayla, but this is what

I think. I also believe. Okay, it works. I tried it

before. But anyway, life lessons from a baker and where am I coming

from. So if you haven't baked before, if your baking is failed,

now you try these techniques later so that you're you know, your your muffin,

don't become like stone, your scone, don't become like stone, you

know, and then you can sell. Don't forget. I have to tell

you. My caracupcakes were sold and wanted by Starbucks, but I couldn't service

them. But it went to other cafes many years ago, and we started

a cafe as a youth center. So all my Cara cup cakes went out

to different cafes around town San Francisco, Coffee Bog Cafe, Coffee Club,

everything of all my fudge cakes, all our food went out aside from us

serving in the youth center. So I can bake a little bit, but

have not been baking for a long time. So when you don't bake for

a long time, you forget all your techniques. So I have to learn

again, lack. Anyways, I am going to be drawing from different portions

of scripture. I wanted to just perhaps draw us draw our attention to something

that's not baking. But I'm not drawing out of this analogy, but only

to say that this is what God does in our lives. So Isaiah chapter

sixty Isaiah chapter sixty four and verse eight. And then you know why,

why and why I'm going into baking, but has nothing to do with baking.

It's something else. And I'm not a message for another day, Okay.

It says here in Isaiah sixty four Isaias sixty four and verse eight.

It says here, But now, oh Lord, you are our father.

We are the clay, and you are our potter, and all we are

the work, and all we are the work of your hands. Amen.

So God is the potter and we are the clay. So any of you

who likes pottery, I love pottery. I'm really bad at it. I'm

still learning. Um, you know that which you know this? This,

this little passage just tells you that you know. Heaven rules. Amen.

The Lord God is the one who moles us and makes us and we are

clay. So does the clay tell the potter I don't want to look like

this? No chance, Okay, the potter will make it the way he

thinks. This vase is gonna look all, this ball is gonna look like

and and so coming from that as our theme even this year, I think

it's so apt. I just love the word Heaven rules. In Cantonese.

I like to say, ten, young man, all right, Heaven has

eyes. You know. The Lord sees everything, and there's a good thing.

And because Heaven sees everything, the Lord sees our lives. Amen.

And he's interested in our lives. He knows he's working. And even when

things happen, not because he put us there, because life circumstances happen,

he still sees and he makes a way for us. So I want to

encourage us in our matureing, in our growing up, in our faith,

in our faith and our walk in Jesus. There are different things that we

can look into and so I'm giving us lessons from a baker, all right,

So for all the bakers in our house. If I happen to not

say it right, forgive me. But I tried some of these techniques.

Okay. Number one. Now I wanted to start in the positive instead of

saying don't, so I went with the positive. But don't take it literally

loud. Okay. Number one. It says undermix the mix, all right,

undermix, which if the other word is don't overmix. Okay, Now,

when you stir, I don't know how many of you, how many

of you have done baking before? Yeah, no, oh yes, oh

my goodness, you don't make I've been making since I was a teen.

Okay, all right, all right making? When's why I'm still learning.

So the word is undermix, or in another word, I'm saying don't over

mix, all right. So if any of you have tried baking before,

like say muffins, if you overmix your muffins, that's why it becomes stone

hard. Yeah, it's like you know, you can drawn pass John if

I don't know, So it's like too hard over mixing, and so what

about the overmixing? So um, undermix? Um? When you uh,

okay. I wanted to give you the what's the connection with undermix? Um,

don't overmix? And I've given us a point, which is make room

for God to work in your life. Make room, all right, make

room so Galatians chapter two and verse twenty. Thank you XTV for helping me

and making my slights better than when I gave it to you. Galatians Chapter

two and verse twenty. You all know this verse. It's one of our

favorite verses, but it's hard to live by it because it's sometimes we just

want to do it a way. Okay. Galatians Chapter two and verse twenty.

It says I have been crucified with Christ. WHOA what does that mean?

I have been crucified with Christ. I'm dead, all right. It

is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and the life

which I now live in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son

of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Amen and hallelujah.

You and I are living today because we live by faith in the Son

of God, and we have been the only reason why we can live in

the faith in Christ is because we've been crucified. Okay, how many of

you know crucified dead people don't wake up? I see dead people, okay,

all right, when someone is dead, they don't come out, they

don't rise again, resurrect again. Let's America rise up again? And you

know, like if for example, if example, if if um okay,

I use Auntie Mabel okay, Elder Maibel like if let's say elder Maibels,

you know, lying there like dead, okay. Then I walked by her

and I say, Neibel, I told you so, your cake's not nice.

And now you're gone. Then she's supposed to be crucifying Christ dead.

Really she wakes up? You say one, I'm gonna get you. No

dead person rise us up to give you, you know comment after the end?

Go down there again? No, right, when you're crucifying Christ,

dead people don't rise up again. They did. We're dead to ourselves and

we are alive in Christ. So why has he got to do it?

And mix? Well? To Mila, you know, and we mix better?

How do it mix better? We have some eggs, we put some

sugar in it, we beat it up, and then later we might put

some chocolate or depending you know. Before now undermixing, if you're making a

flawless cake. A lot of people like to have flowless cake. It's best

not to overmix. Undermix is the best, and then you don't have to

mix until everything you know ruppy. You know, so some people love to

mix. Even if you had flower, it will mix and it mix it

mix it. Think, well, the more mix and more nice it looks,

you know, like everything is so mix and so nice that you'll be

a great cake. Wrong, your cake will be heavy, it will deflate,

it won't rise, it won't be a nice cake. Lah. Okay,

And especially if you're making a like a brownie orby cement a brownie or

a flawless chocolate cake, and you keep mixing it mix it, and we

see when you get a cake, but it won't be nice. It'll be

very very hard. So in our lives, you know that that mixing is

like I want to cover every ground. I want to plan everything, I

want to do everything. Every chocolate must get into the mix, every piece

of fruit must be there, everything must be covered. Don't leave any flower.

There's no room. There's no room for air and the lightness. But

it's all compacted already. I think in our lives, give yourself room to

the Lord to work in our lives. So important you plan everything, you

want to cover every corner of your life, plan your kids, future,

your future. Everything wants good to plan. But make some room, make

some room for Jesus to work and bring the lightness and bring the tastiness.

Oh yum, are we not hungry and have a wonderful flowless chocolate orange cake?

WHOA? Come on? All right? If you over mix because you

just you want everything to be just so nicely covered, it tends to be

a little bit hard. Is that true? Bakers in the house. I

don't know how many bakers in our house? All right, expresso? Okay,

so we want to be able to mix the wet ingredients and the dry

ingredients. But you don't have to mix it because some people say, let's

just keep mixing, and you keep mixing. Actually you need to fold it

in, fold it in, fold it in, and then you've got the

lightness, got enough air. Your kid will will rise. It won't sink.

A lot of people say, my kicks sank, yes, dipped in

the middle. So don't overmix. Just undermix it a little bit and it

will have nice air so that it can rise in our lives. Give some

room. Don't have to cover every corner, plant everything, but say,

Lord, here's room for you to work in my life. I've done everything

I could, but we want to make room. Friends. If we're gonna

grow in our faith, if we're gonna allow God to add his very fingerprint

on our lives, would you make room for Jesus. Come on, don't

be the inn. That's it. I'm sorry, Mary, there's no room

for you to give birth to Jesus. If only that hotel realized who he

was going to a house, he would have said, hey, okay,

I'll throw out the other feln and bring you in the King of Kings,

and the Lord of Lords was going to be born in his hotel. It

will be the best well known hotel. Everybody want to touch that bed,

you know, all right? So you you you just need to allow for

some room. When I say room, meaning when you see God day to

day, you're asking the Lord to come in. Lord this area in my

life. You know my attitude, Hey Lord, my character, Hey Lord,

my relationship, in my marriage, Hey Lord, my relationships, or

my workplace. You're giving room to the Lord. So don't keep trying to

mix in and get yourself all mixed up, and then like, I'm all

covered. These are my plans. But say Lord, I've got that's freedom

for you. You. I know God Heaven rules, and he rules,

but sometimes we just block him out. And then you wonder, how come

it's not happening my way. But it's not my way. It's his way

and man, and we all go through that. I go through that,

you go through that. It we just want to cover all grounds. See,

I've done everything. I'm so good. Ah, those of you are

very good administrators, very good heavy war if I touch you on you like,

oh no, no, cannot No, We've got very good I mean

I'm an administrator myself like things, but I'm not as terror as some people

in the house here. They are so good. Really, we are so

blessed that we can run events. Yeah, but all I'm saying if suddenly

there's who fi Okay, like you move the fridge, okay, you move

my program. No, we need to be able to make room, keep

ourselves light and not heavy and burdened down by our own plans. And that's

why God is constantly speaking to us that he is working in our lives.

If you read through Scripture. You will find that the Lord's hand print is

on every part of the lives of the people in the Bible, and even

people who who are living on planet Earth today. Why some people, you

know, some of us will experience the miracles of you know, because we

take those steps of faith, while others like way things too. Why maybe

we plan too much, Maybe we're afraid to trust God. The one person

you don't have to be afraid to trust is our father God. He loves

us, He has plans that he wants us to He wants to unveil to

us bit by bit No No. Some one three nine, A great some

to read that it says that he starts towards us are like the sand on

the seashore. I want to remind you God starts towards you out so much.

Amen, Come on, guys, your lives are so so you know,

a beautiful canvase, and God gives you the opportunity to to just live

your life with his goodness and his blessing. Just try to make room for

him so that he can do the extra for you. Amen, that little

bit more and then you see your miracle. And He's done that for us

right here in acts. So many of you've experienced that, that little extra

and you made room for him. He's done that for our church, that

little extra that happens. And wow, how come we can do this?

We only can because we make room for God. We never tell God can't

touch this, No, no, no, can't. If you keep doing

that, you won't see that extra something in the Lord. Allow God to

touch your plans, Allow God to touch your lives. Allow him to say

something, just so that you're assured that God is with you and that when

that door opens, it's from the Lord. Hey, the devil can open

doors for you also, But I don't want you to lose your soul and

lose your family and do all that because you thought that was God's way.

Come up, he give him room. But listen and be open to his

word as he leads us one step at a time. Amen. So friends,

don't overmix, just a little bit of an undermixing, and then your

life has a lightness and a nice crisp, crispness around the cake. Yeah,

and it won't diep It's gonna rise and it will be a beautiful,

flawless chocolate orange cake. WHOA Yeah, you know, and you allow the

Holy Spirit, the oil of the Holy Spirit. Friends, if you're doing

the orange chocolate cake, that one when you zest the orange, don't zest

it on your paper on a plate, zested straight on your batter, so

that the oils of the orange will fall together with the zest and you get

that essence and it won't be wasted. Hey, when the Holy Spirit's oil

anointing is allowed to fall on you, all of it will just annoint your

life. Every one of us has that possibility. If you just open up

and say, Lord, I want that essence, I want that anointing.

I don't smell like orange, but I want the Holy Spirit annointing in my

work. In a way it work. How you know, God give you

good success in your workplace, in your family life, in your friendships,

in your relationships. God's favor, God's goodness, God's quickening. Don't go

there, don't do this. This is not the time to say this.

Under mixing gives God's space to work in your Life's amen, it's powerful,

it's amazing. Again, we don't want to carry burdens and heaviness unnecessarily.

If it's there, we've got to go through it. Yes, but don't

have to take it on. We always exchange it with the yoke that Jesus

gives us its light. And I want us to experience just the fullness,

for us to grow to be lighter, lightweight, don't overmix, undermix.

And for me, you know it really is. If I have been crucified

with Christ, then it's no longer either lives. Meaning, Lord, you

have your way, and I just want to learn to submit it. And

we're all in that journey of submitting and trusting God for every step of the

way. Amen. And there's a great verse for you to memorize. You

know. I memorize the scripture, and sometimes when I fail, I just

go back to the verse and crack to the Lord. I'm sorry, Lord,

I wasn't very crucified that day. I allowed myself to wake up and

respond badly to that situation. So Lord, I come back and I submit

to you. Have your way. Lord, I've been crucified with you.

I have died you. You have come a life, the life I now

live, the life each of us is living right now. It's a life

you're living by faith, Amen, by faith in the Son of God who

loved you and me to give himself for us. He shed blood for us,

He hung on the cross for us. Amen. He crucified so that

we are We don't have to, you know, be crucified physically. But

He's taken all of our sin, all of our past, all of our

failures, and given us new life. Amen. Amen. So if you're

gonna make a cake today, remember and the mix. Okay, just a

little bit, just nice, so that you have a nice left on your

cake. In your own spiritual life. Make room for God, people,

make tell your neighbor. Wake the person up and say, make room for

God in your life. Tell the other neighbor you're gonna have a nice cake.

Okay, hallelujah Amen. Under mix. Second point is okay, this

one under whip, well not not whipping before okay, whipping. You're like

when you whip cream and you whip egg whites. The whipping so what my

picture that can't see there? Okay. So for the longest time when I

had to do egg white whipping, they always give you the recipe whip until

stiff peaks form. So it's so stiffe that when you turn your your your

ball upside down, the egg whites won't drop because it's stiff. So now

the technique is to under whip, under whip a little so that it brings

also adds lightness. It has to be the consistency of your better, not

harder than you're better, not more tough, but just about the same because

he's whipped. But it's just at about the same consistency. So those of

you who bake, you know what I'm saying. If you're not into baking,

enjoy the cake we give you. Okay, all right, all right,

So underwhipping, why if you if you usually recipes says oh until stiff

peaks. Uh, they say that, but this baker says, she likes

to underwhip it a little bit so that it flows into the better. And

for me that underwhip here I I put it down as um, Oh what

did I write there? Give me me? Yeah, make room for change,

make room for time has been ability for change. One is for room

for God to work in your life. But then allowing for change. Amen,

all right, give yes, make space for God to work. Then

make room for change because change is the greatest enemy to us. Yes,

all right. Wow, when something changes in our lives, we super react.

We're very super react, very super Oh my word. When when our

church moved into decentralized, the central decentralized Asian, we all moved out and

who like every launch you know, the power fire came on me and my

husband like pasta useless for earp oh, go angry this and we're still here.

Are you here with us? Are you here with us? You're here?

Look, we are reaping what we listen to, what God says,

we can you if you don't be flexible, if you just think us,

I can't like like change. I'm so resistant. I want to know it

now. I want everything now. No, we've got life. You want

to know now. Come on, Mom's nine months pregnant. You shot it,

man, Papa, it takes nine months. You wish the baby could

come out right now, but it's nine months. Wow. Nine months of

carrying is fun for halfway, and then the next halfway is like I can't

sleep, I can't sleep. I need these I need my back ache and

the others know some moms we have other digestional or whatever. I don't know,

different things that happened, but it's change. And if you don't make

room for change, the moment the baby comes, Hey, when the baby

comes, your life changes, Your sleep leaves you. Your child has no

timing. Went to poop last night. One of my Singapore team members said,

yes, the husband went off to France for work. And then she

said I was left with the child was waking up at two am and four

am? Why? She said, I haven't slept. Wow, our life

changes. But even as you become a parent, if you want to be

a parent, you you better get ready. Otherwise hang on the change.

You have to be flexible to change. Whipping and over whipping. Oh I'NTI

so stiff, readier, I cannot move. Don't touch me any I ain't

moving right, You gotta be let some flexibility come in. We are so

resistant to change any kind of change in your office, in your life,

in your church and your community. Change change, Prime Minister. Change?

Why why by George or jungle? All right? So we're like going wrong.

I cannot take change. But life is about change. And every stage

of your life has changed. Every stage of your life from from the day

you were born. Moments change as a parent, you have to change with

your child as a as a young teenager. But poor teenager, I just

hated my teenager. What teenage life like? Why? Do I look like

this? I don't know, Like, what is this right? I'm supposed

to be a good Why do I look like a boy? Oh? My

goodness? And my teenagers like, oh the worst? You know, Like

everybody called me like, hey, are you your father's brother? No,

I'm a girl. You know. It didn't help. I want to cut

my hands so short? I look like what the boys? I always watch

jeans so like, you know, And that's change. Change boys, change,

voice, body changes, everything changes whoa suddenly? And then I and

I watch you grow and then whoa beauty? After that, as you go

into your campus and young adult where you learn to put something else on your

face and it makes better change your spects, take away your spects? Change?

Are you and I flexible with change? Don't be afraid of change?

If you continue to be resistance, it's difficult because the harder you put your

hold on and don't want to change, then you really will overwhip your life

and you cannot move. I want to encourage us. God, let the

people of Israel in the desert, right in the in the desert, out

of Egypt and going to Promised Land. I honestly, have you read it?

Have you read it a lot. You haven't. Please read the Book

of Exodus and Deuteronomy and numbers. That was change all the time. They

would camp in this place for two days and then the Lord would say,

move. Huh, we just so need build toilet. No, God,

now you want us to take up our toilet again? Move by move?

When then they move? When an they stay in one place for five years?

Wow? Getting used to it? And then the Lord says move.

They moved like I think they had forty camps. I mean, I'm not

mistaken, around forty odd camps before they reached the Promised Land. I think

if all of us were there, we mum rounda already we sure, mom

Ronda and say are you God? Who are you? Are you making me

move from one place to another place? And not just not you, you

know, your children and your grandfather and your father, and your cows and

your donkeys and your tens. Everything has to move. Wow, Lord,

very inconvenient. But since when was our life just meant for convenience? Come

on, and we want COVENI I want convenience. I want convenience. Don't

move my chair, okay, convenience friends, you think I want to go

out there? And plant, got the go morning and not be here.

Huh, I miss you. I missed up five years in between twenty twelve

to twenty seventeen. That were about five years, right about five years.

I miss so much of all of you growing up and getting married, han

children, because we had to go and plant in Melbourne and UK traveling five

weeks at a time. Some people thought we were having holiday just because you

saw the food. I ate I had a cooku ki. They all say,

you think busses guarding for the first time. My husband said me too,

because I never Oh my gosh, you know I want convenience. Why

planting a new church is inconvenient. I have to plug myself up from here

and move out. Or you know, starting a new business is inconvenience sometimes,

but it's exciting because you get to build a new business. Right.

So, friends, I want to say to us, you know, when

the Lord works in our lives. So um, in that point that I

gave you there, I make room for change. Resistance is a big part,

but let us be open to that. Uh that that that whipping a

bit around, but not over whipping. The verse that we had given you

here is first second conveniance for sixteen and eighteen. Amen. Second Corindians four

sixteen to eighteen, it says, be therefore, do not lose heart.

Don't get discouraged when there's changed. Even though our outward man is perishing.

Yeah, outwardly, no things are changing. Yet your inner man is being

renewed day by day. Hello, stop here for a moment, ladies and

gentlemen, can you see my outward man changing. I don't think I look

the same as I did twenty three years ago, planning. I think I

do love by anyway, all right, But our in one man is being

renewed every day, even though the outside there's changes. Look, we've changed,

but we are being renewed. There are You've You've grown spiritually, You've

you've grown taller in your spirit. You are the giant, not Goliath anymore.

Amen, This is our word. Don't lose heart. Second verse seventeen.

For our light affliction pauses, the light affliction, the the difficulties is

but for a moment is working for us a far more exceeding an eternal weight

of glory. Church. I want us remember we have an eternity in Christ.

Please don't live as if you're gonna live forever on planet Earth. You

have an amazing kingdom to be living in with Jesus. So what you feel

you cannot get here, You're gonna get it a hundred times more. Be

patient the light affliction. You're not getting your way, You're not seeing that

dream happen yet. Please it says it's only for a moment. Oh,

it's working for you a far more exceeding, exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

God is working exceedingly for you. Take courage, be encouraged. If

you haven't seen that dream come true yet, that desire come true yet,

and you feel like you're in an affliction, like God, why am I

the only one going to Why is all this? Take it easy. Your

outward seems to be very but don't worry. You're inner man is becoming newer

and newer in the Holy Spirit. Next verse eighteen. While we do not

look at the things which are seen, and because we have been living on

planet Earth or so long, we're always looking at what we see, but

look at the things which are not seen. We can't see what's happening inside.

But the things which are not which are seen, are temporary. But

the things which are not seen are eternal Church. I want to remind you

it is it is my duty, as yours your pastor, to remind you

and remind myself this is only passing. Oh, you have an exceeding,

exceeding future in and not only to live, to be lived, then to

live now even but while you're going through this light affliction, I'm not I'm

not making light what you might be going through. But this is the take

courage. You feel like you're being whipped around right or like like in a

whipping a and here like where am I going? But I say, let's

not. Let's not over whip, underwhipped, so that it gives that space

for God to make those changes in our lives. Expect change. Don't be

so resistant that you cannot allow it. Must be like that. My grandfather

was a pustle. I also will be a pastor. My child has to

be a pastor. My great grandchild has to be a pustor. A love

for change. Hey man, I was I was poor my grandma and my

child would be poor. My grandchild will be poor. No, allow for

that change and allow for God to move and workin us. You know what,

because you're so precious to God. People, He will not allow you

to remain the way you are. You are more precious and the plans that

God has it is much more precious now what you think you want to achieve

in life. That's why there will come though light affliction, whipping around,

but never over overwhipped, so that you can experience the changes and that you

don't have to resist. Don't resist, just a Lord, if that's gonna

be changed, then make me like that which looks like you, really the

image of God Lord in me, that I may reflect you, that I

may be used by you. Be flexible a man, Try your best to

just allow for change to work. Be aware, Be conscious on how you're

responding to change. What is God doing in our lives? What is He

saying to us? Friends? It's very hard for me as well. I've

got different challenges. I can throw my hands on the end, give up,

which you can easily do. So we walk away from something. I

tell you why. When you don't have staying power, you never get to

see through the whole picture, and you throw in the towel. The first

round of challenge comes. We need to give some time for whipping, but

not for overwhipick give that pays for change in us? Maybe we need to

change the way we approach, the way we say something, the way we

respawn. Uh. You know in a marriage you're also excited to do you

know the single people want to get married. But are you ready for the

change? Are you ready to swallow the pill? They're very bitter pill when

you say I die to self. I love my husband enough that I die

to self. And and okilla, I give him to you. La,

you swallowed a bitter pill. No, hey, and the young girl those

married on more and the tears. H do not you lay down your life?

You know you have to go to change? Do not the house renovated

house renovation game? Fine? Oh no, no, I had to swallow

my pride. No I'm the one cooking. Let me joice? No,

no, no it is I'm like, okay, I understand my position and

my role. The Lord will teach him. I will submit, all right.

But all things are good. All things are good. I just want

to say to us, will you allow yourself that can give God the space

to change change you? Mold you ready and not ready and not not already?

Don't seem please say yes? These dad come on. If he does

change your plans, will you are you willing to trust him still? Are

you willing to trust him that he will not lead you to where his grace

is not able to lead you? Know, to support you. God's grace

is always ready for you to support you a man, hallelujah. Don't overmix.

It's called an underwhipping, so that when it's again. We don't want

heaviness. We want lightness in our spirit, even in our cakes, we

want it to be light. We want the egg whites to be not so

stiff, but light enough for it to mix nicely into the batter and bring

about lovely lightness us in our great consistency light affliction. Don't run away the

first or you know, just because it is challenging, it doesn't mean it's

not of God. Come on? How many? How many believers in Christ

have gone through persecution and remain in their faith in other nations, in nations

that are closed doors, they remain their faith. Come on? What are

you and I going through that is so bad that we are not willing to

stay in God's You know, in God's hands for him to mold us and

change us and to bring about his glory, bring about His beauty in our

lives. Are you liking your cake? People? Not sure? Anybody in

the house? Are you asleep? You slep late last night? Is it

come on? All right? First point, don't overmix. Second point,

don't overwhip all right? Be flexible, be open? What is God saying

to you? Change is inevitable. How you respond to change will make the

difference. And I tell you, if your life is in God's hands,

that change will be for our good. Amen, hallelujah. Please don't be

a stiff upper lip person, are not changing, cannot change. My chair

will be like this forever. This is the row I see in forever.

No, get me ready to share your chair? Okay? And a row.

Third point, under bake okay, can you believe it? Don't over

bake? If you're making flawless chocolate orange cake and brownies that you want some

gooenness and chewiness. Are you hungry? You cannot over bake? Why because

there is red sidual heat that will continue to bake your brownie and your cake.

So you that's why sometimes you forget nice to forget. I keep the

cake there. Oh yeah, it looks under bag la. I'll give another

five minutes. I'll give another five minutes. He's still not coogla and never

I're diving. It's like a rock, you know. And I'm like,

I don't bake cakes like that. Oh, I haven't been baking for a

long time because we worry that it's under bake. But let the heat after

you remove it from the oven to continue baking, cooking, and give it

an hour two hours to cool down, and then only test your cake.

Then only eat your cake. Okay, don't eat the cake now very hard.

I know you can't wait to eat it because it's so good. So

don't over bake your cake. Why because there will be residual heat. And

my point to this is experienced transformation. When you know the cake goes in

like a batter, it turns out something else. What does my cake look

like? I don't know, Okay, experience transformation and what does the kick

look like? Was there a picture earlier? Or you change my cake picture?

All right? That is an orange cake. So the middle potion there

usually doesn't get baked, and that really irks me. So I keep it

in the oven for a very long time trying to get the middle part cooked.

And then by that too bad. After that the kick becomes like a

rock, So I've got to take it out. You know, after some

time this goes by practice. You allow us to go through this and then

you bring it out so that you underbake it first and bring it out so

they can bake by the heat that's there already. So in our lives,

you know, the batter actually comes into a transformation and from the wet it

becomes into a kick. Well, that is like us as well. God

is working and transforming our lives. Wow. Any any of us that touches

God and the Holy Spirit, he transforms us. Wow. And then hallelujah.

Amen. You know he wants us too mature. You want out?

You want your child to mature? But thought that mummy and that is come

on mom's and the mummy's and that is not saying yes or amen? What

is wrong with you? Wake up? Come on mom's and the Do you

want your child to mature? Yeah? I hear Amen? Do you want

your baby to keep crawling? Do you want your child at twenty eight still

living in your house and eating off your plate? I know Malaysian parents are

okay with it? No, not good? Let them out, Let them

go out to work, right, guide them, guide them. But you

know that our lives must transform, Our lives must transform, and in that

transformation we have maturity. We need to mature in our walk with Jesus characters

being built. Amen. Right, we don't want to do you you know,

you know I have to. We've got so many parents, were so

many Cambus students here, and you know we've I've been so used to just

leading Cambus students and forgot that we have parents. Eum, I cat me

grandma already you know. Yeah, I'm older than a lot of you.

Yeah, yeah, I just don't realize them that old. Yeah. Yeah,

I thought in my in my in our X all these people I think,

I think I think they're older than media. I found out that I

don't know I'm older than them. What he looks older than me? Okay,

all right, okay, that's because they didn't come under the annoying thing.

The longer you sit at my feet, you are re released. Peter.

You can wear your buttic shuts after Peter. Yeah, because you're loose

wed, you're yeah, just anointing of youthfulness. Yes, amen, come

on, you sit under my anointing. Ah you get you fulness energy,

yes, amen, and then you are grandma age but don't look like grandma.

Yeah, I know you're wanta date me, but yeah huh married,

don't over big after the our lives become big and dry? Are you cannot?

So God wants to mature us. Mom's in dead. You want your

child to mature, but your child won'tmant you if you don't mature. Come

on, husband and wives need to mature. So dead your child your young

person will look at you and go like, Wow, their marriage is doing

good. They're talking nicely to each other, and if they do fight,

they quite quietly fight the side. Wow, Mom, and what you are

ring? And your children learn from us. We want to raise me and

young men, young women that have character so that they can lead their lives,

so that if they're married, they can lead their husbands their wives and

wives and wives serve together with their husbands. Mature men and women. Women

and men are full of character, substance. That's what God wants us to

be men and women of substance, and that's why there will be transformation.

Transformation. We transform from one level of faith to the next level of faith,

strength to strength, grace, upon grace, glory to glory. We

cannot overbake, otherwise there is no transform. As it becomes so hard,

cannot eat, cannot be enjoyed. But you underbake it and give it time,

and as time goes it will slowly cook and bake and become a nice

cake that we can all enjoy. Jun not amen, Amen, and the

verse wow good, But you know what changes that that that cake I turn

into a kike? Fire? Fire? Okay, what fire? Your job

twenty eight, verse ten, twenty three versent job Chapter twenty three and verse

ten. You know job said oh man, he but he knows the way

that I take. When He has tested me, I shall come forth as

gold. When God has tested you, you shall come forth as gold.

You want to be gold like gold. Don't just buy gold bars, be

gold yourself. Hallea. You don't lose me. Some of you lost a

lot of money with a bitcoin thing. Ahha recently uh huh, und A

lot of people lost a lot of money because you put that in there.

Come on, put yourself in the hands of God and be transformed, tested

and come out like gold, because gold last after it's been purified. We

want to be allowing ourselves in the hands of God, even to our tests.

He might not bring that testing. It may come due to the circumstances.

But as you allow yourself to be submitted to the Lord, the fire

that you're going through is going to produce an amazing person of character and substance.

It is hard, it is tough. It is not easy. Friends,

we get changed and transform. I think for me, you know,

having gone through with my dad four years of going in and out of hospital,

in and out of hospital, there were days I just I just felt

like I'm so tired because it's so alone, so lonely, this journey of

you know, wheeling him in, wheeling him out, sitting that I wait

for him to the surgeries or whatever, and sometimes you sit there. But

you know, I thought, as I said, then the Lord just reminded

me, saying, do you think this is the worst. This is opportunity

to be with your dad. I didn't know four years ago he was going

to go home. There were people around us, he made friends at all

the other patients. You know, I have been the Men's wat so it's

difficult for me. But they allowed me to go to the Men's Word because

I'm dead. But you know, it was it felt like faiet at that

time to just not know, you know, is he going to be well?

Is he going to be fully cleared from cancer? But I believe that

God took us through and yes, he goes cleared. You know each time

they went through that. Of course the last round it just decided to flare

up. But he was so steadfast that he was ready for Jesus. Sometimes

we go through that. It might not change, it didn't change anything.

But the God, I want to tell you, the God who sees.

Maybe our circumstances doesn't change, but the God who sees you, he makes

a way. Come on, not all of us are going to be gay

pop starsla, not all of us are going to look like the emblah.

I'm sorry, I won't I feel because it's all you know, plastic surgery.

The God who sees You can read that ingenesis when Haga ran away from

Sarah because you know Sarah another say go and give her husband if you know

a baby with with her. Then she after that persecute her. She runs

away and she's there with child, and God sees her. God sees.

The God who sees is the God who works in us. Heaven rules.

And sometimes your storm may not just stop overnight, and you still go through

it. Sometimes your pain and your body doesn't go overnight, but the God

who sustains you gives you that strength. Sometimes it doesn't change, my friends,

it doesn't change our parents who have Alzheimer's. And dimension doesn't change.

That does and mean God isn't with you, because the God who sees will

ask you to return to that place and trust him and let him lead you.

It leads you, not overbaked, underbate, and then the transformation comes.

That change is not about the other person. It's about me. I

change. I'm mature, I become that woman of substance. I let go,

I learn, I swallow my pride, I bow, I walk comely,

I say sorry, Please forgive me. I didn't know better. I

think many of us need to be aware. Come on, church, be

ahare that there is an eternity. Some days we just have to bow to

the Lord, not to that sickness, not to that you know, difficult

person or boss or whatever, Da da da economy. We bow to the

Lord and we say, Lord, you are working in me. I think

sometimes we just need to go down to the basics. We change, We

let God work in us. The God who sees sometimes leads us back to

that place and says, wait, I will turn the tide for you.

Don't run away. Don't run away, because in time I will work it

through for you. Amen. Amen, don't overbake, allow because this fire

is gonna make you as gold. Malachi chapter three in verse three and Malachi

three three. You know, he says that he will sit as a refiner,

as a purifier of silver. He will purify the sons of Levi and

purge them as old and silver that they may offer to the Lord and offering

in righteousness. The fire, the heat refines us. Amen, I tell

you, the fire of God, even difficult circumstances, might be a kind

of fire. It refines us to bend, to allow for change and mold

us. Am I there yet, brother sister, I'm not, But I'm

allowing myself, in my own challenges, to go through it. And I

see me changing, not the other person. I see me bowing down.

I see me learning to be a little bit more humble, a little bit

more merciful. Compassion, I tell you it. Losing my dad, I

just have a lord of compassion for anyone who loses your parents. I never

would know until I went through it myself. You bend a little, you

bow a little, you begin to absorb that Wow, that understands day whoa

and you stand with others me go through it in future, might have gone

through it. You have an understanding. God is one thing to work in

us, to mature us. The fire, the refining fire, the work

of changing that gold that was from raw to pure gold to pure silver is

a work of art. It's a beautiful work. But the impurities will come

out. Don't be afraid of the impurities. It will come out. He

will look at you and you go like, that's not me. You're right.

Let God do the work and just clean you out and clear you out,

and he will make you that pure gold. Amen. Oh, you

know the cake is to be enjoyed. But it went through the heat.

So you and I know that some in life we need to take the heat.

But when you're in it, I know sometimes you want to give up.

You want to throw in the towers. See, I don't want allah

can allah. No, I want to encourage us. When you're in the

heat, don't give up. For so you think of the beautiful cake you're

gonna get so my life would be like that. So I'm going through the

heat. I just need, you know, supportive hands and voices that say

I'm cheering you on and people will carry and I don't want to hear the

voices that are like, good for you. Okay, okay, yes it's

good for me, but can some hams. I'm encouragement, all right,

that it will just cheer us on, prey for one another, and cheer

each other on. Amen, it's it's it's gold. You are gold.

You are going to shine, and just be so clear, Amen for the

Lord. Why because we are meant to look like Jesus a little bit more

every day. Amen, hallelujah. Don't don't love your flesh life so much

that you want to stay as yourself. Love the way God has sees you.

He sees you as gold, as silver, he sees you as men

and women of substance. But to get there you go through these processes.

You have to go through these processes. Make room for God so that he

can have some space in your life. Amen, don't plan on I don't

know space, make room or give him that that space that change can happen.

And a number three, There will be transformation. Anything that heats,

the hits the heat, it will change. I pray for the better,

for the beauty that God has. But do we go through the tears?

Yes we do. Do we struggle with different things? Yes we do.

But if you are a child of God, Heaven rules. God in his

mercy will look upon you. God sees us. Are you willing to bend

and just say Okay, Lord, I surrender, have your way. Amen.

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