The Lord Watches Over Us | Pr Ronson

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Usually I have my power point. Today I don't have

my PowerPoint.

Usually I have my iPad. I don't have my iPad.

But I was just sharing with the church something directly

from my heart. I have a sister who migrated to

Australia in twenty sixteen, and every year she will make

an effort to come back. Recently, she came back in

a month of February, during the period of.

Chinese New Year.

Her stuff is still in her room lot right, and

she was just clearing her room. And one day she

passed to me somewhat like a diary or a letter.

Right, and trust me, ronson.

Remember your first encounter with God. I was like, no,

and I thought it's quite good that I read. I

haven't read to you guys before this. No, right, okay,

I thought it would be quite good if I read

to you something that I would like to give God

glory to la. Right.

This was dated.

Whennesday second April two or three, twenty three years ago.

And I know some of us, like us, like me,

we haven't reached that each yet, but you know it

is that long. You know, sometimes men may not remember.

God remembers.

Yeah.

So this what she wrote last testimony. My bro is

not a believer. He knows there is one God and

about Jesus, but he has doubts about God and Jesus,

some sort like he doesn't believe India existence. I'm the bro,

I'm the bro game. My sister is the right think

about me. On Monday, he asked me about how to

do an accounting question. At that time, I was reading

a devotional book. I majored in business and commerce. I

need to study accounting as a subject. I couldn't balance

the book well, having a difficult time.

Ignoring my bros question.

Like all good sister do, I felt that God told

me not to answer my bro squiries and tell him

to ask Him for an answer. Ask God for an answer.

My bro thought I was being absurd and unrealistic and

was quite sarcastic about it. That was my past life friends.

I mocked my sister. I told him, really, you should

ask God. Believe me, God answers just asked him. It's

that simple exclamation. My bro says that God helped them,

who helped themselves?

Oh Lord forgive me. I was once lost.

Well, I wouldn't agree with that, because if if we

can handle it by ourselves, we wouldn't need God anyway. Later,

I just left him alone like all good sister does

and said a simple prayer for him, asking God to

prove to my bro he does exist. Today, during dinner,

Bro reminded me about the incident. My Bro revealed to

me that he did ask God about answering his accounting question,

and moments later he was able to answer it. When

I heard it, I was overjoyed. Hallelujah, exclamation, Praise the Lord. Exclamation,

God has done some work on him. Exclamassion. Wow exclamation,

Praise the Lord, excamassion. But of course my Bro wouldn't

want to believe that it is God because he thinks

it's just a coincidence. Well, God has his ways, and

I believe he would be able to soften my Bro's

heart and open his eyes.

To the Lord. Amen.

She wrote that agreed, Okay Amen. This was second April

two three, Tram. I'm quite emotional because.

Tand me.

Two h four, it's like a year and a month

later was where I encountered God and I gave my

heart to Jesus and today being tent me two to six,

it's exactly twenty two years later. You know, I know

that the message of the Gospel is important for everyone

and sitated among us. We are still believing for the

salvation of our family members, our loved ones, our parents,

our friends, our grandparents. I'll let you know that God

remembers your prayer. Everyone will have their moment where God

will mark for them to encounter God. And I want

to take today's sharing from the book of Psalm one

hundred and twenty one. Is it twenty two years of

walking with Jesus. I've come to realize that it's either

you can know God in your hate or you can

know God in your heart.

I pray that we will do both.

We know God as we read His word, we deposit

it into our heart, and then we also deposit in.

The hate his scriptures.

When I follow Christ, he didn't promise me a good

life because we know or what we Christ require us

to persevere. What we Christ requires us to work by

faith and not by sight. And we need to endure

because he who endures until the end a crown of

life will be given. But one thing I know that

God does promise to his people, is this in ours?

He will be with us. In the down he will

be with us. You can make in the deepest pit

in life. But if God is with you in the pit,

that is the only thing that matters. You can be

in the peak in your life, having a mountaintop feeling,

but if the presence of God is not with you

at the point where you are successful, it can mean empty.

So whether you are in the peak of your life

or in you're in the most down pit in your life,

God is with you. So the Book of one hundred

and one is written by a Samis where they have

to go for pilgrimage in Jerusalem. Probably do do you

trow me? Sixteen sixteen. First Deutronomy sixteen sixteen says, three

times a year, all your males shall appear before the

Lord your God in the place which he choses, at

the feast of unliving Breid, at the feast of Weeks,

and at the feast of Tabernacles, and they shall not

appear before the Lord empty handed. Now, the feast of

the Unliving Braid is to commemorate that God delivered the

israel Lights out of Egypt into the Promised Land. The

feast of the Weeks is to remember and commemorate that

God has given them the Covenant, the.

Law through Moses.

And the feast of the Tabernacles is to remember the

days in the wilderness where despite being in the wilderness,

God was faithful in feeding them. They did not go hungry.

God provided every single needs of theirs. So when you

read someone one it is written by a samis that

is going to Jerusalem as a pilgrimage, it's either one

of these festival. In verse one, it says, I will

lift up my eyes to the heels, for where comes

my help? You know high places back then it is

a place of worship, even in pagan worship they also

have high places. But obviously for this summis, they are

going to a pilgrimage and it says that I will

lift up my eyes to the heels, for where comes

my help? And their journey to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is not

very flat in a sense, it's not. The altitude is

quite high as well, right, so they have to probably

go up through different terrains. It's about ascending up as well.

So picture yourself being in a pilgrimage going to Jerusalem.

You have to climb up. You have to look at

different mountains, different hills, and some begins to.

Pen this right.

I will lift up my eyes to the heels from

where it comes my help. My help comes from the.

Lord who made.

Heaven and earth. The first point I have for you

today is the Lord is your help. You and I

may be in a time where we're looking to God

for help. Sometimes we may take matters into our own hands.

Sometimes we may find that God's help is delayed. But

I'll let you know that the maker of heaven and

the maker of earth is always on time. It's always

on time. Back then, they do not have police at Scort.

They probably would have go through different routes that put

themselves in dangers. There were different bandits that may be around.

But they have to fulfill their pilgrimage. They will have

to fulfill their destiny to go to the destination, which

is Jerusalem. So I say my mind prophetically, others, we

are in a journey where we're looking to the heels

for help. We're looking to the heels and we begin

to ask ourselves where will help come, When will help arrive?

But I'm here to let you know that God will

help you Here is our health ultimate helper. He created

the heaven, he created the earth, and he says here

he will not allow your food to be moved. He

who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps

Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. I like this versus

because imagine you have a God who is committed to

watch over you. Sometimes we lose sight, we look at

the heels, we look at the mountains of our challenge,

we lose sight of God. We begin to amplify the

mountains in our life rather than we amplify the goodness

and the greatness of God. So today I felt that

the spirit is drawing us back to a place where

focus on God, on his greatness, on his goodness, because

He will not allow your food to be moved. First,

when they pand this, when they were going through the terrains,

there were different rocks, probably slippery rocks, things that could

have compromised their safety. But yet the Psammis has this

confidence in God, knowing that as they hit towards Jerusalem,

as they hit towards their intended destination, God watches over them.

In life, each of you have a destination of God

for you, and he watches over you. And as I

read these scriptures, I'm reminded of the battle in Mount Carmel,

where you're very familiar. How Elijah confronted the false prophet

of Bail.

And you guys know the challenge. Right.

Elijah will prepare his sacrifice, the prophet of Beil will

prepare their sacrifice.

The God who answers by fire here is God. So

the prophets of Bail.

Began to do something right when there was no fire,

what did they do? They raised their voice, and what

did Elijah did? Elijah them say that perhaps your God

is asleep, perhaps he didn't hear. And the false prophets

of Bail began to cut themselves to gain the tank

of quote unquote dear God, which we know a false scot.

And when I read this scripture as a Christian, I

felt very comforted because when God watches over his people,

we don't have to do a lot to gain his attention.

All we need to do is to have faith in Him,

knowing that he watches.

Or worse, let me share with you experience I.

Had in a car accident. This was three or probly

four years ago, I think. When I exited my housing area.

It was raining and I told myself I must be

careful on the road. I must not drive fast because

the road is slipp free. So I was hating to Putrajaya.

Axi and I we had we were having this picnic right,

we were having this pic and after the IOI mall

as I hate towards Cybergayre area. Those of you are older,

you know there's a place called Tractors Malaysia. There's a

fly over there, okay. As I was driving, the flyover

basically requires used to ban.

Yeah, the ban.

So as I was suspending, I noticed that my cars

and limb moved to the right. I heard the talk

and immediately I was say that. And when the car turned,

I was already seeing cars slowly stopping. Now the fly

was already going down. I couldn't process it in my mind,

like what happened? And suddenly there was this great proton

saga who came. A young driver came knock on my window,

say are you okay? Are you okay?

I was.

I was still processing what happened. Wear your sick belt, guys.

If I didn't wear my seat belt, I will we

hear preaching for you? Say are you okay, I say,

I'm okay, I'm processing right, say okay, can the mind?

Can you start your car? I started my car and

ask him it's my car back. It's my car back.

He say, don't worry, don't worry, just start your car

and go to the side of the road. Now spare

you the details, but I will let you know that

God watches over.

Me that day.

Because if any car were to hit me. Upon impact,

my car would have just humpty dumpty. Didn't just roll down.

I think my car would have been like a humpty dumpty.

But He watches over his people even if bad things happen.

And we may be in a position to say, God,

why didn't you watch over me?

Why did this happen?

Let me tell you that our God can make all

things good for his glory. Our God is able to

turn things around. I don't I encourage all my leaders here, Aman,

our leaders here. We travel a lot. Those of you

who travel drive safe. Human responsibility is to drive safe.

God's protection will watch over us. That's when I was

traveling in Eli trying to Kneeli Highway, Elite Highway. Can

let me put a disclaimer? Okay, those of you are

sat in my car before you know. I'm very careful.

I'm not a careless driver. I'm not like one hundred

and sixty let's go most of the times only like

one hundred, five hundred and ten m Sorry, I was

traveling kneelin a ball bearing It is quite actually not

a ball bearing. A metal piece flew from the other

road beginning to I can't break. If I know I break,

things will happen right.

In a way.

Hit my car at my back seat, just directly below

the window. So later after service, you can look at

my car.

The dan is still there. Huh oh, just many years ago.

I didn't want to fix that because every scars, guys,

every scars is a reminder of God's testimony.

So I think, are you right?

The metal piece? Could I just pierce through the window

so I could blame God? Like God, why didn't you

protect my car? And say? By protected your life? So

God watches over his people.

And I want to.

Affirm to you that God watches over you. God watches

over your family, even if you may feel that a

lot of things is happening, like Jo Job lost everything.

Joe just lost his family, Joe lost his Kirk, his

business job, almost lost his health.

But yet what did Joe did?

He still praise God, He still had faith in God,

because Joe knew God watches.

Over his people.

So God doesn't sleep if he doesn't need sleep. The

God that you serve is not like the bail the

false God.

He watches over you. Twenty four to seven.

What's five say is that the Lord is your keeper.

The Lord is your shade at your right hand. The

sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon

by night. So again they have a destination to go.

They had to travel. I'm not sure where. Back then

there's umbrellas, but probably there probably have.

A certain covering. Back then.

Suddenly there's no IV. They don't travel by ev they

don't travel by cars. They travel by different means that

are available. Back then, they would have been exposed to

harsh condition, harsh wareness. But yet the summy says that

the Lord is your keeper. So the first point earlier

is the Lord is your helper. The second point is

the Lord watches over you. The third point is the

Lord is your keeper. And why early I say that

I felt very emotional today is because in verse five,

the Lord is your shade at your right hand speaks

a lot to me, or you spoke a lot to me.

You know, the right hand to me represents strength, okay,

because I would think that majority of us are right hander. Okay,

if you are left handed today, the Lord loves you.

You are special, you are unique. You also have strength.

But when we read the right hand, it usually speaks

about strength, so you look at the right hand also

speaks about protection. So when people get married after us,

now that's a ready plus steven. Where does the groom

stand right hand side right? So we go from married counseling,

they'll tell you the groom will stand at the right hand,

the right room will stand at the left. Why because

it's a symbol of protection, is a symbol of provision. Yeah,

taking all that those of you are getting married in.

Twelve twelve, all right?

So right, okay, so said the Lord is your shade

at your right hand. So, prophetically, I feel that many

of us are losing strength. We could be confronted with

a situation where it is so downting that we're beginning

to lose strengths. Like, Lord, how long more can I tahan? Okay?

The Malaysian word we always use is tahan. Basically means

how long can I persevere?

Right?

How long can I stand? A lot is standing with you,

a lot is at your right hand. So intent me

was a day after my dad's passing. My dad passed

away actually on nine two four. Most of us were

pre believing, so we made the requests to the church.

My sister tends acts the requests to the church whether

the church would consider a whake service or funeral for

our dad as the kind of king together together with

the church, and the whig service was done right in

a house compound. And wan did you know that because

of pastor's obedience to the Lord, I am where I

am today. Because it's easy for a pastor to say that,

you know, this ore pre believing family, it may not

be appropriate to do a Christian funeral, It may not

be appropriate to do a Christian work service. How would

they relate? How would they understand? But you know what,

if you know past Cannev not just he's a man

of faith, but he's a man of prayer. So I

found out later on he prayed to God and he

hurt clearly from the spirit canneth. If I'm there physically

right now, I'll be there with the family. And we

know this in the Gospel. Where was Jesus found most

of the time in the temple or outside of the temple.

And when he was outside the temple, who was he

with the most, the broken, the hungry, those who need him?

So pastor king and being the youngest child in the family,

my siblings say, Ronsen, you do the eulogy. I say, okay,

I'll do the eulogy. So they just wrote a script.

They printed out a scream. My very first exposure to

the funeral song was amazing grace because he leaved I

can have tomorrow. I remember that imprinted into my mind

as though it was yesterday. So he sang that song

and eulogy when I stepped in front. You see, I

never really had a good closure with my dad because

his passing was very sudden. Never really had the time

to ask for forgiveness or perhaps for things that I

knew I could have done better. I didn't, So in

his passing it was very sudden. Yeah, my heart was

filled with regret. So I stood in front of the crowd.

I didn't have the strength to share whatever I needed

to share. I was holding the eulogy here. I just

couldn't look at the crop, couldn't. So when people tell

me that they are so overwhelmed until they have no

words to express, they are so sad until they have

no strength, I feel you because I was at that stitch.

But literally, yeah, just don't know what to do. And

ever beginning to.

Look right, A sense an overwhelming presence next to me.

I see no one, but I knew there was a

presence in me, in surrounding me, and I began to

fell as though someone was gripping my right hand. It

was a very warm, radiant greet.

My right hand.

From my hand, I felt out strength coming out from

my spirit and I written what I would have has

written to honor my dad, my late dad. I felt

it to be very unique the experience. Never experienced that.

So after the weeks, it was that night I shared

with my sister, praise God for sisters. Yeah, brothers, you

got to love your sisters, okay, And.

In my room I shared with her this experience.

I say that this happened, and my sister began to

ask me, was it because your body was feeling stress

or tense? I say, no, I play tennis, right, I

know the difference between the spring heart of the body

and something which is not I say, no, you know

what my sister shed to me about Jesus, and I

keep my to Jesus that night, that night in my

room twenty two years ago.

Amen.

But I'm here to tell you that it's not just

about the experience. It's not about the experience. It's not

just the experience is the door opener. God allowed experience

to come into your life as an open door so

that you can come to know Him fully.

So I don't believe in.

Jesus just because of the experience. I believe in Jesus

because I've come to a place where I recognize I'm

a sinner. I need a savior. That salvation is by

grace through faith in Jesus and Jesus alone. So he

began to grow in faith. God began to show me

through his word. Person next to me was the Lord himself.

Why because true pastor's experience, Kenneth. If I'm there, I'll

be there now. If I'm physically there, I'll be there

with a family. Of course, those of you who are

super theologians here, when two or three gather in his name,

He's already there in their midst.

I mean not no Christ, but I know.

That back then the Christian community called at Church came

around my family. They gathered in the name of Christ,

and Christ was there for me, for my family. The

falling Sunday we went to ex Church for the very

first time. This was in Ess fifteen, subun opposite Taylor's College.

Mom came, my brother came, My sister obviously was there.

Prise God after Passsandra's my Sageer's very consistent. What you

see now is exactly twenty two years ago how she

preached in terms of being animated, passion, fervent. I remember

she shared from John fifteen crisis the wine, we are

the branches, and she shared a cutter, you know, because

that scriptures who speaks about pruning. After message, I reaffirmed

my decision to follow Christ. Mom accepted Christ on that Sunday.

My brother rededicated his life that day. So twenty two

years of following Jesus scripture that came to my mind.

God can make beauty out of ashes.

He can.

He can turn what was sorrowful to something that is joyful.

He can turn every death into a testimony for his glory.

And I'm really at peace.

In the first few years when I was working with God,

I struggled in having closure with my dad. But today

I had an absolute peace from God that I know

that he is in control. I know that he is sovereign.

My dad had lived his life, Praise God for him.

Now I could live my life and I leave it

for the glory of God. I'm here to share with

us that our God is a relational God. We can

know God in our haird but it doesn't mean we

experience him. Some times, God the lows experience in our

life so that we can know him even more. What's

seven say is that the Lord shall preserve you from

all evil. He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall

preserve your going out, and you're coming in from this

time forth and even forever more.

The last point I have for you is.

The Lord will preserve us from all evil. If you

ask me this twenty two years, did I right? Did

I beck slided?

What do you think? Did I drift away from God?

What do you think.

I did I did the God? Have I done things

that I'm not proud of? Have I done things that

I felt I've broken God's commandment? I've broken God's heart.

I did. I did. Let me tell you that God

is faithful.

Let me tell you that God will come to you

keep us from evil. God will come to your preserve us.

In the day after that means day one as a Christian,

I had this condemning voice coming into my heart, coming

into my spirit. It is so evil that the voice

began to condemn me in a way where I'm useless.

It is better not to leave, and.

I was afraid.

Because I've never experienced such evil voices. I came out

from the bedroom. I spoke to my sister again. Praise

God for sister. Remember she penned this diary one year

ago before I was safe, and she prayed for me.

I felt immediately calmness. Why I want to share this

is because when you are young in the faith, the

enemy will come in very quickly to want to rob

you from your new found faith. Now that it doesn't

mean that if you're older in faith, he won't do that.

He will have his other ways to get you off track.

So my early years of growing in the faith, I

had a lot of spiritual resistance. I had Nightmass literally

Nightmas night Mass that represents darkness, night mess where even afternoon. Right,

all unsis douldn't love to sleep in the afternoon. I too,

even nice slept in the afternoons. I had nightmare in

the afternoon. So guys, nightmare doesn't come at night. Okay,

you also come in the afternoons, afternoon sleep. Now you

can sleep afternoon. Okay, don't be discouraged.

But is it?

Remember the Lord is your helper. So even in the afternoon,

when I sleep the nightmas coming in the one day,

I say enough is enough? Commit to God in prayer

up to today. All this dark stuff that I saw

never appeared.

He preserves our walk.

Often it's not just about spiritual oppression. You know what,

God will always preserve you if you walk align with him.

It's temptation.

There are temptations in our life that will be more

than we can handle. Sometimes different peoples are tempted, differently

attempted with money, some are tempted with power, some are

tempted with women, some are tempted with just different vices.

Addiction.

A lot wants you to know He is your keeper.

He will preserve you from all evil. In a sense

in my spirit that maybe there are some always here

who are struggling. Also with certain things that we are

not proud of. A Lot sees your heart. A Lot

wants you to know that there's no condemnation in him

because confession of sin is very powerful. When we confess

it to God. Restoration will happen when we confess it

to people who can help us. The Bible says healing

will come. But if you were to hide our sin,

the Word of God says that we will not prosper.

So to deal with sin is to bring sin to

the light, because sin cannot stand in the light. The

light exposes. So my twenty two years of just walking

with Christ, I realize the importance of confession. I have

good leaders around me that walk me through in just

different seasons of my life.

And I want to let you know that.

Every struggles you are going through, every temptation, every challenge,

every just different things that you know is weighing you down,

It just means one thing. You know. We're only human

and always need God, and He's faithful. He'll give us

a power to overcome. He'll give us the wisdom to overcome.

He'll give us the power to stay away and to

run away. Be like Joseph, who run away from what

his first wife. Right, run, guys, run as fast as

you can. When you read the Book of Proverebs, you

realize that mighty men fell because of adultery.

So, no matter how.

Intellectual you are, how successful you are, we all are

subjected to different temptations. When temptation confronts us, run right,

run to pass as Stephen, run to God. Because it's

easy to say, you know, run to God. What does

it mean? It also means that God establishes authority above

our lives that we can trust, so that when we

confess to the authority, that God has a stabl above

our lives, we receive covering, covering of prayer, covering of

godly counsel in the multitail Godly council.

There is safety.

So and like I say, there's no PowerPoint. I think

just speak it from my heart. And I hope that

you will be able to appreciate the weight of today's

message that the Lord is your helper, Amen, the Lord

is your keeper, the Lord watches over you. And the

last point is the Lord will preserve you from all evil.

Amen.

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