A Surrendered Heart | Pr Alvin Keng

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The title of message today is a surrendered Heart, okay.

And of course we just came out of Uton, right,

so we can turn to Isaiah fifty eight. We just

came out of Uturn, and I kind of did a

study on Isaiah fifty eight. And although we finish Uton,

and we will finish the first thing in a way,

I mean, you can stay fast if you want to.

I thought what God gave me in terms of message

was quite relevant that I think you know, can even

share it now. You know, you'll know what our team

this year is revival, right, Okay? Revival, And I'm sure

you're learning about it. We learn in homes about not

hearing from God. You know, how many will you hear

from God? How many of you here have heard from

God before? Just say, if your ends God, you think

you've heard from God, even if you think it's finer.

I think I think I'm not sure God right, God right,

at least I see some I'm not sure.

Some God La right? Got la? Definitely?

One thing you know, Lord, I heard that you say,

I you marry this girl? Okay, maybe some of you

guys hear from God, you know anyway.

We can joke right in churish.

Yeah, so it's good to hear from God, and it's

good to understand his word. Let me just read Isaiah

fifty eight. Okay, it says here, cry aloud, spare not

lift up your voice like a trumpet. Tell my people

their transgressions. You know what it means. Transgressions means all

the bad stuff you did. Okay, tell them their transgressions,

and the House of Jacob their sins.

Right.

Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways.

As a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake

the ordinance of their God. They ask of me the

ordinances of justice.

They take the light. In approaching God sounds correct, not right.

First you say, hey, tell all the people what they're

doing wrong. And then after that it says, hey, and

they are doing the right thing.

Ma.

You know, they come to church, they dress up, they

say amen, you know, they look the part right. But

then God continues inverse tree saying why have we faster?

They say, and you have not seen Oh okay, that's interesting.

Why have we afflicted our souls? And you have you

take not notice. In fact, in the day of your

fast you find pleasure and exploit all labors. Who who's

going deeper? Now, he's going a little bit deeper. Now

let's read on. Now, indeed you fast for strife and debate,

and to strike with the fast of weakness. You will

not fast as you do this day to make your

voice hurt on high. Mmkay, let's pause you a moment

so interesting context. Let's you're okay, do be a Bible study?

Can I hope you you'll be blessed as we do

the Bible study. So it started, we say, hey, tell

the people they are doing wrong, okay, and then uh,

then after that do wrong lima.

Then in condenies we say, how for you love right? Ah?

Better, you know, be remuseful and repent for your since

and then they're doing the right thing, they say. Then

they seek him daily, do quiet time. Then they like

know in his ways as a nation that did righteousness

and did not forsake the audience of God. They asked

me the ordinesses of God. Right, But then it goes

to say why have you fastered?

So they did the right.

Things, but somehow the result didn't come out. Somehow although

they did all the correct things, not I guess, not

correct because it didn't it didn't garner what they.

Expected, right.

How many of you have been there before you You

did all the right things, but somehow, just somehow, it's

not coming out the way you hope for. In fact,

you feel like you've been I don't know, wronged even more,

or you feel like God.

Didn't hear you, never listen to you.

You feel you feel like you're in a place where like, hey,

I pray so hard, I fast so much steel nothing God.

You real or not.

Then you're shaken a little bit ready, like not sure,

a little bit ready okay, And in fact God talks

about what he talks about the condition of their heart

because he said, in fact, in the day of your fast,

you find pleasure and exploit all your laborers. Indeed you

fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the

face of weakness. You will not fast as you do

this day to make your voice hurt on high. This

tells me that you can actually do the right thing

with the wrong intentions. You can actually do the right thing,

but your heart is not there one right and God

is more interested in what in the action or in

the heart. In the heart, he wants the heart change.

He is looking out for you. He doesn't really care

about the en reason can can I be honest?

You?

God cares more about the condition of your heart more

than the condition of your blank. He cares about the

condition or your heart more than the condition of your bank.

He cares about the condition heard more than the condition

because you see, all these other things are he can

settle like that or no.

But what is the one thing that very hard to settle?

Our hearts?

Corno metters of the heart? Right, we get discouraged to

get metals?

How ready we go? Right? We all know that, you know,

we all know that.

Okay, So the people fasted as an act. They were

just acting like right, they were just acting. I pray

none of us here are just acting, you know. I

know that's a famous saying, ficked that we make it.

I don't think it applies to your faith. Right, your

faith is not faked to make it. Your faith is

have faith and believe and help my unbelief, you know,

and God will help you.

You know. See they suffered, and they say they actually suffered. No,

they sacrifice.

If you study the Bible about fasting, you will know

that first thing is a very serious thing that they do, right, like,

of course we fast, not as quad young as.

Them, not as drama as them.

Drama whet may they fast because they fast for a

few reasons. They fast to repent, They fast to mourn,

very specific and you know what they do. They will

wear sack cloth change by joke, right, so you will

know that they're fasting one They will wear seck cloth,

and they will throw acious okay, throw ashes right dirty

throw ashes. Wearsid cloth and they will not eat difficult

formulations to do. We just fast one meal? Do Daniel fast?

So anybody Dan you hey.

You.

Imagine, I just imagine one day I'm gonna do there fast.

I'm gonna know to see you for thirty one days.

I don't know people like that, right, cop out. So

it's a very dramatic thing. It's a very serious thing

that they fast, and they normally fast to turn God's heart,

that's what they they do. So they actually suffered, but

there was no surrender heart outside all changed everything, all change.

I suffer. How mean you feel the way I suffer? Right?

I surf? I wake up earlier. I suffer?

But why God you know what, friends, God is not transactional.

You're like the cow of relationship, right, all in that

relationship you need to be transactional. Right, No, God is

not trying section. Your business relationship is transactional. Your work

is transactional. I give you pay than you even that.

Sometimes so people see not happy, right, pay a lot

of money, then work hard. They're not happy, especially certain

generation right always tell about this. I say, hey, you

know what, it's great that you're getting a good job

that's paying you a lot. But they do you know

that their money means it's your time and effort. It's

a translation of that. No, there's no such thing as

free lunch or no friends.

Right.

So see, they did it for the sake of doing it.

Yet their hearts, well what God saw it was true.

And for God saw their hearts, he didn't look at

the outside. He looked at the insight and say, hey,

you're complaining right. Let me tell you why what have

you been doing?

Right? And complaining right? Right? And and and and and

what was he looking for? Okay, let let's let's read

on now. Is it is it.

A fast that I have chosen for a day for

a man to afflict his soul. Is it to bow

down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out

sack cloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast

as an acceptable day of the Lord?

Well?

When God say and accept, do you think I accept

this faster? Do you think I accept this.

Right? Do you think I accept this very strong? No?

Imagina you You work so hard, you sacrifice your time,

and then God rejected what I will feel it man like, Hey,

I give so much offering it, e ich it, but

you can reject it or painful?

Painful? Right? No, God says, is this not the fast?

I've chosen to lose the bonds of wakenness, to undo

the heavy burdens, to let the oppress go free, and

that you break every yelk? Is it not to share

your break with the hungry? And that you bring to

your house the work who are cast out? When you

see the naked, that you cover him and not hide

yourself from your own flesh. Then your light shall break

forth like the morning you're healing, shall spring forth speedily,

and your righteousness shall go before you. The glory of

the Lord shall be your regard. What is God looking for?

He is looking for heart, surrender to him that is

what God is looking for. Right, That's why you'll know

how to receive crisis, your personal law and savior.

How anyway you want to try? What the steps? Every week?

You hear this in chesh huh ABC, Right, admit that

you need Jesus, believe that he died for in seas

and call me your life to isn't it surrender? Isn't

it surrender? We are reminded of that every week. Surrender

to the Lord. Strender to the Lord. Right, Okay, let's

think about what is a strender heart. Let's think a

little bit. What does it mean a surrender heart?

Okay?

What does it mean to surrender to someone? Okay, let's

try and understand you a little bit. Let me think,

let me think.

Okay, maybe maybe just something that.

Okay, if you are I guess, if you are still single,

no love interest, or still young, then you might not

fully understand this part. Let's just use the example of

like a married couple. Don't you think that the husband

surrendered to the wife?

You're not sure?

Don't you think that the wife also surrendered to the husband.

I give you some examples. Are of course, we say

the vowels right, right, then you still remember your vows. Okay,

there's some key things. Remember are right in sickness and

in health, for richer or poorer, some say for richer

or richer, for richer or poorer. Right till death do

us part? Right A commreself to it. This is my

solemn vowel. You're surrendering your life to to your sponsor. Okay,

what does that mean? Well, that means that you are

tied together lout.

Okay.

The joke that I don't really like is that they

say that the ring is the smallest cuffling, cuffling, the smallest.

What's the word handcuff in the world? Right.

They also say that the ring symbolizes suffering. Right that

I don't like these jokes because I'm having such a

great time in my wedding, so I cannot relate at all,

you know, all every time someone do sharing and those

old school pasta okay working o school past as old

school you know, joke about like marriage, it's like, you know,

I'm like, dude, can you please not share the cow

word in wedding?

You know? So? You know, Okay, I give you an example.

We joke about it, la when you married, when you're

singler and then your friends. Let's say you go Macca

and Mama and then your friends, Hey, let's go hang out?

Right easy for you to say, can let's go? You know,

even if your girlfriend you're like, yeah, let's go. You

can decide your your own man, min can decidem. But

after you're married, you have to ask for permission. Right, Okay, okay.

Very loud. I heard that.

Let me rephrase that. Let me pray that it's not

it's not a skin for permission. It's because you are

surrendered to the other person. Really, do you remember your vow? Well,

you're getting a lot of response. Yeah, yeah, No, I

know it's a joke, you know, because you're like, hey,

I am committed to this person. You mean, if you're committed,

then you just do whatever you want to know, you

have to check, you have to there could be logistical

issues you you know, you it's not a permission issue, no, right,

it is.

Uh, you are ready surrendered to the person. Isn't that

what you should be doing?

I mean I'll be very worried if a husband said, yeah, whatever,

you know, I don't care, you know, then they're like, oh,

you're very worried for your marriage.

Is it really a marriageer? Right?

Do you know that likewise is the same for the

girl as well for the wife as well? It's surrendered together, ma.

Right.

Okay, so that's one example of surrender. Okay, let me

give another one another example, because a lot of you

hear young adults. Okay, when you sign the appointment letter,

don't you think you have surrendered your life to the company?

Show me anopus selling? Yeah, you sign war? No?

No, I didn't surrender. Yeah, but nine to five you

have to clock in war if you let then how

don't you think you willingly sign the letter equal exchange

my transactional?

Ma? But you surrender, Ma? You surrender your nine to

five to the company. But ry not? Okay?

For some of you, you might have also surrendered your

life to your family. Family first family, first, bloody sticker

and water? Right, So you were surrendering. Am I saying

all these things are wrong? And no, I'm not saying

all these things wrong. I want us to have an

understanding of what strender means. Right, So you could strender

your life to your family?

Okay?

For different ones here, and we've also seen it. I

have kids, so I can also say it. Some people

actually surrender their life.

To their kids.

Suddenly, yeah, suddenly, suddenly suddenly can I do a lot

of things?

Now?

Cannot eat? Is cost my kid only? It is cannot

go this time cause my kids have to sleep with us. See,

am I saying all this thing around? I'm not saying.

But have we surrendered our life to it? That is

a question because there's a difference or not. There's the

difference with doing certain things. And surrender means no choice,

a ready right, no other choice.

Ready, you are surrendered.

Some people surrender themselves to the situation, right, surrendered to

the situation.

What does that mean?

Actually, as I counseled people, and as I realized that

a lot of persons and I said myself, also, we

have this problem that when we experience something, or when

we do something in our lives and something changes and

we feel powerless, we feel like we cannot do anything,

but in actual fact, you can actually do something about it.

Let's say, for example, your job suddenly your job not

so good for different reasons, okay, change your management or whatever,

and then you're like, oh, I'm stamp strended, okay.

Or people who are stressed out with their job.

Maybe maybe suddenly they have a horrible boss, or maybe

suddenly the boss very nice and then became not so nice,

you know, and then and then people live under that circumstance. Okay, right,

I've I've talked too many people. They're in that boat,

and I will tell thembs. I said, you know, all

the stress that you're having, all the stress that you're having,

are do you know that after you tender your resignation,

it's not your problem anymore?

So you feel like doing it today? After you tend

it on your problem? You mama, you mean you see

your problem? No, huh know your company?

What I mean, if it's your company, then too bad, Lie,

it's your problem now you I tend the resignation myself,

and I accept the resignation again.

I mean, right, you actually have a choice. Think about it.

In life, you actually have a choice. Right. But we

surrendered to the situation. We surrendered to the circumstance.

Oh, it's like that, is that there is a creation

of this narrative that I don't know. Sometimes, no, sometimes

the narrative can be true. It could even be true.

But let me tell you another thing that's true. Isn't

God in control, but everything.

That's true. That's true as well.

Oh, you know, the patrol and the diesel and whatever.

Blank feeling the blanks. Friends, we've heard the news since COVID,

since before COVID, since why two K.

You don't remember why two K? And why two K?

Twenty six years ago?

I remember very clearly we were all waiting at home,

waiting for the world to end because of White two K.

I got a computer, I was looking at the screen

and then it just hit midnight and then it was

like nothing exploded, right.

Nothing explored.

That was That's a letdown, you know, right, We all thought,

you know, the commune is gonna crash it.

No, but then now now it's different, not a I.

It's gonna take all the world yeast as why do

get back?

Now?

Say what else? A friends?

Will always be something like, But have we surrendered ourselves

to the situation? Got to think about it, Gotta think

a little bit about it, so we actually understand what

strender is? We actually do do Do you also know

that surrender is a willing thing. Nobody can take your strender? No,

you can give your strender.

No.

Right, people don want strender, they do want strengder. No, right,

people there are people who don't st until they that happens.

But strender is a willing thing. We give it, We

give our will when we strender. So, friends, since we

understand what strender is, and I just gave some example

of strender, right, why not strender to God? Why not

that strender to God? First, I'm not saying don't strender

to other things. Guys, if you're married, don't come and

use this says srender to God. So don't you said okay?

Don't you said, okay, you're married under God. Yes, your

wife is not your God, but God requires you to

still take care of your wife and husband.

But surrender, surrender to God.

We also share in marriage counseling and acts that God

is the third.

Court in your marriage.

Right, it is still strendered to God when you when

you get married, people do the wedding.

You know, Yes, a lot of people talk about rom

and all.

But as Christians, we should recognize the vowels taken unto God.

That's the important part. No, it's not just a ceremony

of friends.

The meaning of the vowel is very important now, and

I say a lot of our you know, recently, I

had a collecque. I want to say, who also shared

It's like, wow, very nice right on Vova. But he's

like man one or two things I cannot fulfill. Why

did I even vow that? Because it's vow un to God? Know,

and the Bible says, don't see me take vowels. We

treated so flippantly bad, that's meaning. Right, So strender to God? Friends,

Why not surrender to God and trust him?

Why not consider that? Right? Why strender to other things? No,

strender to God.

You're concerned about your kids, surrender your child to the

Lord God with the care of your kids. I am very,

very thankful that God has taken care of my kids.

Right. I got no control, right, but God has.

And when God takes care of it, it is above

and beyond what you can ever imagine.

Serious a lot of things.

I know for me, it's maybe no choice, no full

time worker, No, I got a choice.

Just don't be full time with color. Yeah, that's the choice.

That right. They were like God asked it and like

how you know? But yeah, that's thing.

Think about it. Think about it. What is the all

the the thief? That's another thing that always challenge people.

Now you either we shant you rather strender to strender

to your family or strender to God? Thinking about it,

strender to the circumstances of strender. Look, God your your decider.

We shouldn't you think will benefit your more? Strender to

the market or strender to God. Got to decide because

when you strengder to God, then you have to follow

what he say, you know, and a lot of times

what he says also not easy, right, because when you're

in need, God say give huh, but I'm in need

or I should keep more?

Right?

No gif gif Luke chapter six vers today gif right,

what did you say?

Let me?

Let me turn to that one of my favorite verses.

Okay just came, just came on it Luke chapter six,

verse he says, give and they were given to you

good measure pressed down, chicken together and running over be

put into your bosom, for with the same measure that

you use, it will be measure back to you.

I learned this lesson a long time ago when I

was a young adult. Right, oh, you know, growing.

So whole hold we hold, we hold, we foll with

all tides before because I know enough of God, I

know enough. But I tell you the moment I started

practicing tidying suddenly enough don't make sense on how I got.

There was one man I remember clearly, Oh I coplate

so much, you know, and I'm like, definitely not enough

this one definitely have to either no choice, have to

really and far more fun.

You're not that it is right? Right?

I even planner iven't planner. There was once ather week

I went, planner, Okay, I have this amount of money

I can buy how many MEGIMMI because maybe a cheap month,

thank god?

Maybe? And then in morning that time was people out.

Now it's not cheap now, it's during that time was

like wondering gate okay, every day, firing gate every day,

one in another one ring gate, cocklate nor complate.

Right, but give ties to it.

Friends, I didn't eat one that day and I didn't

have a lot of begimes and I survived and I

was very fat, well fed that week.

Ask me how.

I also don't know the Lord provided? So who you

want to trust more? It is a supernatural thing. Friends,

you explain to me, you conculate. I also don't know

to explain to you. All I can say is when

you give tides, you will provide. But when you don't.

There was one man another man I learned testing not testing.

One man give, one man don't give right the one

man don't give. Got more money, but actually don't know.

I suddenly got less money because a lot of thing

happened a month, and I'm like, what's so interesting? This

whole tiding thing is so interesting. So I will always

encourage you able to tithe. You don't have enough tithe,

Then you'll see it happen. Then you have the testimony.

God has never shot changed anybody, right, So strender to God,

okay and trust him.

Let's read on. Okay.

It says, yeah, okay, is it not to share your

break with the hungry and to bring your house the

poor who are cast out? When you see the naked,

that you cover him and not tight yourself from your flesh.

Then you're light shall break forth like the morning you're healing,

shall spring forths redly fans sound, You're not way better.

Claim this, and your righteousness shall go before you. The

glory of the Lord shall be your regard. Then you

shall call and the Lord will answer. You shall cry

and he will say, here I am. If you take

away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the

finger and the speaking of wakeness. If you extend your

soul to the hungry and satisfy the flicktor's soul, then

your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness

shall be like noonday.

Okay, So when you read is fifty.

It tells us that the fast that God has chosen,

it's not the fast that we should like. Sorry, it's

not the fast that you know, not the fast about ourselves.

Because you look at the first it's all it's all

best selfishon right. But it is a fast that we

align to God's heart and character. When you read that,

don't you think that God is always about other people.

He's always thinking about others. He's always thinking about us,

not self for others. What are the two greatest commandments?

Very important?

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul,

mind and strength. Right.

What's the second one? Love yourself self care? No second

one is love your neighbor as yourself. Love your neighbor

first as yourself. Don't because God knows that we know

how to love ourselves, so he don't you teach us that.

But you want a life of fulfillment, do these two

things and you'll be fulfilled. Then you will have love

for yourself. He gave you a secret. But are we

doing it? Are we doing it? That's the question, right,

not self, but others. God always wants to meet the

needs of his children. Right, and when the heart is

surrendered to the Lord, what happens? There is a transformation

that happens, friends, And the transformation is that our heart

will start displaying God's character and desires.

That is a transformation. Surrendering.

Surrendering our heart to the Lord now will not make

a small selfish know in fact, he will do the opposite.

It will make us less selfish because we share the

heart of the Father. That is strender, That is strender right.

And there are many promises. If you read on the

scriptures we read until verse eleven.

I'll finish it later.

There are many scriptures that of God's promises that what

will happen after we strender an aligned to him? Because

it is a strendered heart that he's looking for today.

He's looking for strender hearts. Have we surrendered our heart

to other things? Or are we continuously surrendering our heart

to the Lord. Last week when we had homes, my homies,

we asked that you know the question of which of

these ground are you in this season? A lot of

them said, I'm in tony ground, and that was very true.

You know, I used to understand good guy. It's like, oh,

you can be Google all the time. But actually, if

you think about it, sometimes we are all in twenty

ground because the cares of the world chocks the word.

Right.

You might be listening to this and go amen, amen,

but then you might go to your car and then

you get a texta and then you will chalk the word.

Even though the word it's true, it will chock it

out because suddenly got more important thing to more important

thing to think about. And we can be in tony ground,

but we have to choose to be in good ground.

And sometimes you gotta fight to be in good ground.

Say hey, I get this, but I remember again Matthew

sixty three sicky for secure out God and all share

added on to you. It is a choice that we

have to take. So the strendering process is a continuous process,

right your cash that it is a continuous process.

It's not a one and done thing.

You know, we are continuously perfected in our faith day

and day. Every day have to make decisions every day.

Have to make decisions every day, have the right, make

the right decision right? How many are you here in

a health journey health journey just wave health journey meaning running,

lah bouldering La Charles, I see health journey. Okay, let

me ask those in health journey whanna. Every week have

to decide, right, whether you want to go to the

gym or not?

Right? Does it get easier? No?

Right, no, right, it's easy, it's easy. Say it's easier, liars,

don't no, no, no, no, no, you're right, it does

get easier, but you still have to make the decision. Okay,

be honest. Are are there days where you are lazy

and you skip and are got right? And then sunny

you feel not so healthy and then you're more on fire?

To do it correct? Every day? Have to decide I

want to do quite that every day? Have to decide.

Of course, if you develop a habit, it becomes easier

with the habit, but you have to decide right, unless

you don't give yourself choicer like how some of the

leaders here, I'm sure all those at are extreme. You

have no choice because you have surrendered, Corona, you have surrendered.

But if you have not surrendered, you always have a

choice if you if not fully surrendered, you will always

have a choice, right, And you just need to be

very careful that it doesn't become like the ground in

the pathway where the devil will come and steal the word.

Away from your life.

Not to say no where God, no, but then the

devil come and steal it away because no full surrender yet.

So it is a daily decision. Friends.

Let's talk a little bit about the promises, okay, encourage

you a little bit. So if fifty eight it says,

then your light shall break forth like morning, your healing

shall spring forth, your righteousness shall go before you, and

the glory of the Lord shall be your regger. I

kind of like this the thing about uh the you know,

it's red pot take those we like literary or rep

pot you take. But let me give you this perspective. Right,

it just means that you will be fulfilled and all

your needs to be met.

Just that hah. You mean if I surrendered to God,

all my knees we met? Yep? Is it the simple yep?

But the stander part not easier co strender but not easy, right,

And and the other thing that I like about. This

is the last line he says, The glory of the

Lord shall be your real God.

You know what I mean.

You're not a real God means a real God means

you have a bodyguard behind your back of all times.

Now, okay, how many of you here?

Oh, actually you can answer this question because your mom's

moms have eyes at the back of your their head. Okay,

if you're a mom, you don't answer this question. How

many of you here can see behind your head? Moms

don't answer? I know you can. You can send so on.

I got very funny story last time. You know, growing up,

I was quite naughty, right, My mom said, don't go out,

stay at home, right, But I will go to my

friend's house and then come back home. And then you'll

prepare everything, and you'll arrange the sleeper, you adjust everything,

you do everything, and then mom come back or faster,

God says, and do homework.

Right.

She opened the door a few seconds past elvin you

and I'm how you know?

So I feel actually just asking you when I arrest

I caught you red. God means that.

In the problems and the perils that you are not

aware about, God will take care of you. Do you

have stuff? Somebody plotting against you? You will know behind man

how to see. You can only only see it. What's

in front?

Right?

Is someone plotting against you? In your work, in your business?

The Lord be your record? You worry so much for what?

If you don't strender to God, then God cannot be

your record, right because you'll be making decisions without his consultation.

But if you consult God, don't you think he will

warn you? No? Good idea, listen, better not get in business.

It is for the no.

But he's such a good Sorry I use this word,

such a good Christian?

Can I be honest you?

Every time someone say he's a Christian, I kind of

get goose bounce a little bit, not to say I don't.

I'm like, Okay, I don't think that's a good qualifier

for me. I want to know that the person is

a man of character. Sorry, I'm gonna be honest and

say this. Unfortunately, some people who are not believers have

more character.

Right.

Unfortunately I use that word, but actually Christians you are

more character, So I don't use it as qualifier. And

I was like, let's see how first you know red God?

That's so amazing. Okay, what's the second one? Right, Isaiah?

If theyd verse time, I like this, so he says,

then you shall call and the Lord will answer.

You shall cry and he will say, here I am.

If you take away the yoke from your midst the

pointing of the finger and speaking of weakness, weakness, what

does that tell you? Ish, well, it's just sorry, I

say nine. It means that you're able to speak to

God and he will answer you. Come here with you

like that?

Right? He will answer you. What does he speak of?

It speaks of a relationship. Friends.

If you don't know how God's sounds a bit hard, right,

imagine imagina, okay, imagine something you okay, you're imagine you're married.

You are okay, but you've got no relationship with your wife.

Don't know how she sounds, but you're married.

She called you. You're like, who's this wrong number? Right? Actually?

Your wife no?

But you forgot the because they never thought never. We

laugh about it. But the sad thing is some of

our relationships we've got, saidad h oo, ouch man. Do

you recognize God's words in your life? Do you recognize

God working in your life? We profess oh, by married

I'm married, but never never spend time, never have Monday,

pass Monday making that famous now, never have date, never

don't know what she likes, don't know you know, I

go a funny story. I got a funny story. I organize.

It's not a bit better, but I just.

Know I I will.

I will share it as a warning for those who

you are getting married. Okay, are going to have a

stag night. So so we had a stag night for

one of my guys. I won't say who, not reason

quite a while back. And uh, because if I say reason,

you will know some of them, right, No, not reason

and uh. And you know, for fun ma, we're like, okay,

we prepare some games, you know. Then we asked the

girl ten questions. Simple questions are like you know where

you want to go in travel for your honeymoon, you

know what color you lie and stuff like that, right

and uh and and then we of course we were like, oh,

some of the things, he will, he will, he'll give.

Us guess, right, you should guess, my you should know what. Right.

We didn't make it difficult. And then we say, okay,

if you don't guess, then you will. You know, we'll

do some punishment. Now put put shaving cream ler, you know,

wear something fanila, just for fun, just have fun over dinner,

nothing too crazy, right, And then we ask questions because

and of course I got the answers from the girlas

so then we played the game as the game progressed.

So it was like, first question, got it wrong? Okay,

ill maybe no? No, no, second question.

Got it wrong?

Friends, the question like what's your favorite color? What kind

of flowers you like? Those that are having good?

Friend? You better asker if you want to live in

one one country in the world, where will you go?

This kind of question? No, what's your dream job? You know?

Where do you you know? It's first question?

Fail no, failure, okay, wrong, secon question wrong, the question

I tell you I reached the fourth question always like cringing,

and you're like, oh, I did, You're better start the

cute he.

Doesn't know at all and you're gonna get married.

And then we're like nothing to say that. I'm like,

this is my guy, I like, I had to tell

all my head I said, you're better, not like that

you'd Then it's so funny because one of the guys

after that, one of the guys, uh, yeah, he was there,

so then he also got in a relationship ye for fun?

See you know, yeah, I know, I know, I know,

I know color I know.

Just in case, just in case, Like okay, I thought

this is like basic stuff. The wor has changed, Daniel,

the wor has changed. They say chivalry is that Maybe

they're right. Relationship friends, relationship with Got is very important.

People don't.

Yeah, this might be a bit outshine, But we don't

really know God's voices because maybe we don't really have

a close enough relationship yet.

I used to work yet, because you can have a

close relationship with him. Right.

My encouragement for all of us here, why don't you

desire a closer relationship with God? Then you were here

his voice, then you would recognized voice?

Right?

Can I give you another kicker relationship we've got? Will

also understand submission to leadership because I also hear people

say things like, oh, God spoke to me?

Can I say anything?

Do you know that if you go to Basadaniel and

and uh, you know.

Just say God has spoken to me? We cannot say anything.

Okay, God speak to you are whether correct or not,

I cannot verify you.

Can't you say God speak to you any what, but.

The danger of friends? Can I give you a fair warning?

The danger is right if you just say stuff like

that as a kapapa, you are putting yourself in danger.

Because I've got really and speak to you then, because

you've come.

Out of the coverage.

So I believe that that if you have relationships got

you will recognized authority in your life. You recognize that

God plays authority and God believes in authority. That's why

he even asked the people you read. You read the

scripture aboututhority. Right, you know, honor your bosses, right, doesn't

matter about that. Honor your your your mother and father.

It's very clear in the Bible. Friends, so we gotta

understand that they give you all some fair warning. So

the point is f fifty eight ten pm. Okay, that's right.

If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy

afflict the soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness,

and your darkness shall be like no, they're quite cool.

Right.

That means how dark your situation now is as bright

as afternoon? Right, let's read the Lord will guide you

continually and satisfy your soul in drought and strengthen your bones.

You shall be like water garden, and like a spring

of water whose waters not fail. So when we surrendered

to God, it doesn't mean that we will not have

any problems. If we don't have any problems, the scripture

sums to any tree will not need to be there.

Do I walk through the value of the shadow, that

I will fear no evil? For your lot and your

stuff they comfort me. It tells you and indicates to

you that life is hard.

You will go through challenging times.

But if you work, we've got you'll be fine.

Right, If you work we've got, you'll be fine. You'll

catch there not.

Yes you'll be difficult, Yes you will cry, Yes you'll

feel pain. But if God is with you, you're gonna

be okay, because He's wrought in his stuff will comfort you.

You're not rotten.

And staff means I think it was preached before. I

think second past the Cannols the one to appreach it.

The shepherd hold a staff and every time and their

staff is like their diary, their journal, because every time

something good happens, they will market and when they look

at their staff, they know God is me because a

lot marks That's how you know, right, and God can

change your situation from that to light, especially.

When you do the things that God wants to care for.

God with the care of you.

It's worth surrendering to God because he will take care

of you. Okay, let me speed it up a little bit.

Isaiah twelve. Let's read on those from among you shall

build always places. You shall rise up from the foundations

of many generations. And you shall call be called the

repair of the breach, the restore, or straight to dwell.

And it sounds like some dungeons and draggers title for

those that laugh. You know, you know, you know. Okay,

what does that mean?

Let me let me phrase it this way.

God will establish us in our purpose for him, because

it says here those.

Shall among you shall build the old waste places.

You know, a waste place is right like rubbish area

means that you're gonna turn a rubbish area to a

not rubbish area. Right, You're gonna rise the foundations of

many generations. That's quite cool, No, because rising the foundations

of many generations means it goes beyond you. God will

use you to bless other generations, not just you. Focus

Some of you can translate to say all my kids

like yes, true, but also others also different generations right

through the faithfulness of pasta Kenna and the leadership through

you know, some of us who walked in those days.

Don't you think a lot of things that we're enjoying

now is because of the sacrifices of the past that

the future generations are benefiting. It is, No, we don't

think about that one, right, The investment of the past

best route today one.

No, actually, you think about it right. A lot of

us here we are.

Benefiting from our situation because of our parents, and life

will get better.

Yeah. In e wil leaders to destiny as well.

That's what the Lord says, you know, he says repair

of the breach right, restore of streets to dwell in.

When you think about streets, right, you think about the homeless,

streets to drill in, homeless poor, no house.

Imagine that if.

You will be used by God right to be able

to make an unlive up a place livable.

Again. I'm still speaking in in a little bit poetryla.

Okay, think about your situation, Well, this company are uh

table jallan ready.

Or these places are very horrible already?

Do you know that you have the power within you

as the sort and the light of this earth, to

affect the situation.

No no, no, no, no, just change the nhama. You know.

Do you know that if Christians really understood the call

that God has all their life, they can make the

difference in the place where everything is no hope, no hope,

no hope, no hope. Christians, you can I'll share it.

That's when you're at the end. Okay, So let's finish it. Isaiah,

if d the thing four things says, if you turn

your foot away from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure

on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight,

the holy day of the Lord honorable, and shall honor him,

not doing your own ways, not finding your own pleasure,

not speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself

in the Lord. And I will cause you to write

on the high heels of the earth and feed you

with the heritage of Jacob your father.

The mouth of the Lord has spoken.

See God reminds us again to not strength our hearts

to ourselves, but to Him and to honor Him.

Talks about the Sabbath.

Right turn, if you on your way, your fruit and

turn your way, your food from doing your own pleasure,

and you're honored a lot. The promises will come after

God's promises will come. Oh, Parcel, you mean that I

have to, you know, repent first journey, I'll be blessed.

Yeah kind of. Oh but isn't God good? Wouldn't he

just let me give you this perspective? After I read this,

I can't understand because sometimes, right we might be sharing

about the goodness of God so much that we think

that we can take you for granted this morning, elder,

can you share in PJ he gave a very good

perspective about how you know, a lot of times I'm

not saying you guys are a lot of times sometimes

Christians we get use words like you know, God will

understand right because he's so good. Right, he will understand right.

He understand right why I have to miss church. He

understand right why I have to do this. He understands

right because he's got the father right. But do you

understand God? We expect God to understand our situation, But

do you understand what?

Do you understand what God wants to do in your life?

Do you understand we don't flip the script. Care, I

give you.

Another perspective from that, this one whether or not your

father or not a father? I think you understand this.

Her father rewards his children after his child follows his instruction.

Correct. How many of you are will do the opposite.

The child don't follow the instruction, But yet you reward

the child correct or not good?

Or not good? To what? Good? Father? What's going to

happen to the child? What will happen to the child?

Friends, when you do that, you'll know the way, right,

Rosa such a strong one to use.

The child is spoiled where we broke him because don't understand?

But then why when it comes to God and us,

we can uh, we can use that card.

Funny you think about that? Do you awnly respond? Right?

God is not interested in just blessing. You know.

God is interested in transforming us. And if we are

going to be called God's children, then we should look

like him. Coronel, What is God's heart? Do we understand

God's heart? Do we know God's heart? Does God want

you to have? But but they're like, yes, he wants to,

he does. He wants you to do well. No father

will want his kid to to fail and nobody how

bad your child, So you still want him to survive,

to not survive, but triph, you know that's the desire

of every parent coronal. Yes, so the desire is there, right,

But then when you want to teach your kids lessons,

you will have to not to say, be cruel, but

you have to teach your kids lessons are So how

can you, in good favor reward a child when they misbehave? However,

when the child does the right thing, make the right decision,

don't you think the parent will over celebrate. I think

a parent will celebrate, you know, to reinforce the point.

So who is God to us? We've got to think

about that, right, Why is it important that we strengthered

to him? And I think he made it very easy, falsity,

He made it very easy. Falsity, he made it very easy. Falsity.

Let me share with you a little bit about what

I shared just now, the slight testimony. So I mentioned

about sort and light. Right, Like, when you're a believer,

a few things happen. One is we commit ourselves to God,

we strender to him, right, and then after that there

is transformation that happens in a life. Because again a

lot of us here have challenges, and I mean I'm

messed up, man, if I think about it myself.

You know a lot of things. Have to undo a

lot of stuff.

When I experienced when I was young, I had to

undo right and again I wish it'd be better.

But Keiller this life right.

But that doesn't mean that I have to continue the

make and Nola, you know we make better decisions. God

is good, he said, he'll be the father of the

fatherless right, and God is good. But when God transformed

your lives, like I said, the heart of the Father

is always for others, the heart of the Father because

he created you. Last week, Pastor Met shared this in PJ.

Good Friday's Away. He said this, God never created you

with the intention for you to die. You know why,

I think doctrinally he's correct when he shut up, like, oh,

think about it. Yeah, because when God created man, he

had the tree of life and the tree of going evil.

Of course, he said, don't touch that, Butler, but I

didn't listen. But He never created his creation to die

or no, and why the creation had to die because

of sin?

Because sin came picture.

And the punishment scene is death right, But God never

intended for all this to happen.

We say, oh, God is, how can God allow evil?

Well, unfortunately, unfortunately evil came, and who's evil?

All of us long? We have that problem now? Right.

However, when Christ come in your life, there is a

transformation right from the dark side, you become the light

side now already. But the cool thing about God and

how he uses earth is that you can't if the

light is so brighter, you cannot hide it on, it

will come on, you know. That's why the example of

sort and light is very important to believe. Means that

however dark the situation is, because you are there, you

will come to life. That's the power that is within

your friends. That's the power of Christ within you, the

power of the Holy Spirit within you.

Right.

And one of the dark places that I find myself

in and La last time was in this whole thing

about passionates. It's red dark. There was no church involved

in any work. Well, godlad MC, I think it.

Was doing a bit.

I know Kingdom City has because Joseph bad you know,

she's in EAP and they do be all work right

Pastor Isaac's wife, right, I know she does. But Hall

here and then of course Malaysian Kare also is Christian,

but you don't really hear much stuff one right, but

it's a red dark place, red dark place, a very

hopeless place during that time, not much things required. Also

because we are Asians, so we don't really like to

talk about stuff like this.

And then there's a lot of misconception.

Like you know, sometimes I feel sometimes the old spiritual

thing when something that happens. Your line means you're saying,

sometimes people have that come mindset. I don't think that's

a good mindset to a hefla. Okay, and it was

a red dark place. But you know, God, through his

grace and mercy, firstly change me first that the transformations

do happen here first.

And then it happens here.

From here it flows out right because the it was

as simple, the thought was as simple as this, our friends,

Why was there nothing done for spassionists in churches? It

doesn't see it well with me, because if Jesus is

here to say, if the laws you mean, spassionists cannot

because just open drug rehabilitation center, just just open halfway

home thinking about it, just do a lot of things.

You know, My xpression is no new sona so that

got me on the journey to where we are today, right,

And I tell you it has been a very interesting

journey because the one thing that I realized that people

need is not necessarily more money. I mean, money is good.

It's not necessarily more therapy our friends. Not necessarily Okay,

it's not necessarily more information. Let me tell you what

is the one thing that I realize a lot of

people need.

Hope?

Because I've met people who got a lot of money,

a lot of in a lot of therapy, no hope.

Then they give up.

And then you hear a story of the tall adults

who cannot take care of themselves at home because they

gave up hope. Quite and I've spoken to so many people.

I see, I'm not a trained person. I am just

a father. I you know, so happened to Gilla society,

like very big down there. Actually, Like you know, I

feel like, you know, not trained. I'm not a clinical psychologist.

I'm not none of that. But I've spoken to parents

as a believer. I've spoken to parents on all backgrounds, Chinese, Indian, Malay,

all backgrounds, and all it takes is to say you're

doing good, keep it up, whatever you're trying. Sounds that

it's working, go for it, and then they start balling

it from me.

Really can it really? Can my kid? Really?

Don't you think that it's being sort in line. I'm

not trying to boast of what I'm doing. I'm trying

to tell you that God will use you to encourage people. Right, God,

will you use you in your challenges? He was out

of a challenge, trends. It was out of a challenge.

And most of the time for those of us word challenges,

we have the well I would say authority maybe because

you went through it to be able to speak life

in that situation.

Con that's the power that God has for you.

But it starts with a strender heart. Amen, let's pray Hall. Yeah,

maybe Extreme team can come up. Be ready to minister.

Hall.

Thank you, Lord, Praise you Jesus Holy Spirit. I pray

that you will continue this work in our livestock. Farther,

I pray that today, Lord Father, your children or we

will to experience breakthrough in their livestock.

Father.

If we've been stuck in something for many, many years,

I pray all God there today it will be different

because we will surrendered to you, Lord, help us slot fathers,

to stop being ignorant, to stop being a stubborn lot father,

but to just surrender to you and say, Lord, you

take over.

Take over this area of my life.

Take over this anxiety that have take over, this worry

that have take over, this.

Pride that I have. I think that I know everything.

Lord take over this thd Lord, take over this unwillingness.

Lod Father, take over this hurts some of you. Hear

you've had hurts in the past. Maybe someone wrong you,

maybe someone said the wrong thing, someone you know unintentionally

something maybe a churchleader did it. Who knows? You need

to forgive. You need to forgive. And I tell you

the moment you forgive, you'll be set free. The moment

you forgive, you'll be set free. Matthew five fourteen says,

for if you forgive men their trespassers, your heavenly Father

will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men,

they're trust past us. Neither will your father forgive your

trespass You want to be said free, friends, forgive, forgive,

surrender to him. Stranded a hurt, stranded at bitterness. God

wants to use you. God wants to maybe this person

that wrong you. You're going to see them tomorrow and

you know that they're not gonna change, They're gonna repeat

the same thing again. Wait, it doesn't matter. It doesn't

matter because it's not about them. It's about you. It's

about you surrendering that unforgiveness and bitterness in your life

and saying, Lord take over. Maybe that is the one

thing that's causing you to be stuck. Friends, God wants

us to really adopt his heart because we're his children.

He wants us to be set free. He wants us

to experience him in another way, in another level. Are

you believing for something today? Are you believing for God

to come true for you? Maybe you're in a crossroad.

You're not sure what to do, what to pray for,

but you're feeling very anxious. All I can say is

surrender that to the Lord and he will direct your path.

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