U-turn | Pr Kenneth Chin

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It's a very simple word.

I want to explain to you what EX Church is

embarking on or we have already started. It's called you Turn,

so X TV you can help me with this. You

Turn is X. Thank you so much. Michelle's ex Churches

twenty one days of prayer and fasting. So we've done

this for twenty five years now. EX Church is twenty

six y is old. The first year when we started

EX Church, you know, I didn't feel led to do this.

But the second year, already the Lord said, I want

EX Church to embark on this yearly annual exercise of faith,

and I want to do many wonderful things in your midst.

God said to me, he wanted to break bondages, he

wanted to heal the sick, he wanted to remove curses

from the lives of Christians, and he wanted to do

all those powerful, wonderful things to set his people free.

So on the first year we did U Turn, there

was forty days. And then he went on for another three,

four or five years, and it was forty days of

yearly fasting. We come back from Easter, actually from Good Friday,

and we come back and then we know when to start.

We will start on the day where after forty days,

we end on Good Friday. Then what happened was the

church began to grow and grow and grow, and we

had older people joining us and also very young people

joining us who may find it not so easy to fast.

And so I prayed about it.

I said, God, you know, I want everyone to be

able to do this, and so it went to twenty

one days of prayer and fasting.

Hope to say that twenty one days is easy. It's not.

But with God's grace we can.

All right, let me move to the next slide and

tell you how the name U Turn came about. Oh,

by the way, we started and we launched you Turn yesterday,

all right.

So it's twenty one days leading to.

Good Friday, all right, And we launched it at pray

pr four y. Pr four y stands for prayer rarely

four times a year. And many of us were there,

over four hundred people were there yesterday and we prayed

and we launched U Turn. So today is the second

day of the twenty one day fast, all right. Now

let me go into the scripture found in Joel chapter

two versus Child fourteen, and we will read how U

turn came about. Now, therefore, the Bible says, says, the

Lord turned to me.

Somebody say, turn.

With all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.

So rent your heart and not your garments.

In the Old Testament, when they were sad, when they

were in mourning, when they needed to show you know,

how sorrowful, how maybe even regretful they are, they will

tear their garments, you know. But God is not into

external show. He is into our hearts. The Bible says

that God looks at the heart, so he's more interested

that we rend our heart. And then the Bible continues

to say return. Somebody, say return to the Lord your God.

For he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and

of great kindness, and he relents from doing harm.

Who knows if he will turn once again?

Say turned, So God will turn and relent and leave

a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink

offering for the Lord your God.

So that's where we got.

If you would start to turn small, you God will

turn bit you.

So we called it.

You turn, because it will take two to tango, it

will take two to clap our turning and returning to

the Lord, and he turning to us as he answers

our prayer. The next line says, twenty one days? Why

why twenty one days Daniel? Chapter ten, verse three. Our

inspiration was from the prophet Daniel. He said, I ate

no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth,

nor did I annoying myself at all till three whole

weeks were fulfilled, three whole weeks, meaning twenty one days.

And after the three whole weeks were fulfilled, Daniel began

to see God, see Jesus. He began to receive visions

and dreams and direction and instruction from the Lord. And

I think some of you in this room maybe you

need that today. Maybe you need some direction in your life.

Maybe you need some instruction, Maybe you need some wisdom

what to do. Maybe you need some vision and some

dreams from the Lord. Maybe you need something that only

God could give you. And I just want to believe

that as we spent only one days in His presence,

fasting and brain, you know God will come through for

us if you believe it's a man.

All right. Now, let's go into the fast. Many of

you know what fast is.

You're faster before, and you know, even if you have

not faster, you probably know what it is. Our Muslim

brothers and sisters are still going through their pasa, and

I think they have another five six more days and

then it'll be ryah, all right, then we eat again.

But for us, we are starting our fast, and I

want to tell you a little bit about what it is.

Now.

Fast in the Old Testament is usually not mentioned with

the word prayer, because fasts already a kind of prayer.

It's a kind of prayer. It's a deeper kind of prayer.

It's a higher kind of prayer. It's a more serious

kind of prayer.

All right.

It's a kind of prayer that is definitely deeper. It's

the k in the ask. I call it the k

in the as k. All right, a ask and you

shall receive. The Bible says, seek and you shall find,

knock and it shall be open. Now, when I was

preparing this message, I heard the Lord say to me,

the best way to explain this is if you know

of especially Chinese weddings here in Malaysia.

I'm not sure better to do it in Singapore. I'm

not sure. I'm not sure whether to do it in

Taiwan or China.

But here in Malaysia they have something called the cheap

sun long.

Is that? Is that right? Yeah? Is that cheap choice?

And okay? Is there there's a different story altogether.

Cheap sun long okay, cheap stud long is in Mandarin

or in Cantonese. But what it actually means is that

the bridegroom to be is to go and meet and

greet his wife, to be at her house. All right,

you can even use the word collect his wife. He

not not a very nice way to say, or go

and uh, you know, receive his wife. Okay, okay. So

the cheap sun long is a Chinese practice. I didn't

do it for my wedding. I was married thirty one

years ago, and I decided not to because it's very inconvenient.

The girls on the girl's side, they just love the

day where the bridegroom will come and you know, try

to torture him before he can get his bride okay.

And so I said to my wife, I said, please

don't put me through this. She said no, I won't,

you know, maybe after marriage, but I'm kidding. I'm kidding,

but but you know we decided, no, we won't do that.

We'll just meet at the church. Okay, this is a

spiritual thing. Uh, you know we love Jesus.

No, no, so the Lord said to me, explain to

the people at X got the communing today how it

looks like. Okay, so this is how it looks like.

So the you've probably seen it, heard about.

It, been through it. Okay. Now, how many of you,

be honest, have gone through this.

Okay you were the bridegroom or you were the bride

and this was what happened.

Come put up your hands. Oh oh yeah, wow.

It was fun, right ce g tell me what was

your most valuable experience going through that?

You what fight your way through? A literally fine rogers.

Remember not I asked you the question earlier, but you

couldn't answer. Yes, he did answer if I answered, he

said he danced to hockey music.

Jina, I don't know what you dance to. H Hey, andyone,

do you do this? Ah? Come on?

Why? Why what differ do you or Regina's chimu chimuchimui

means sisters, Uh, sisters in crime. Yeah, what did he

do to you? They shave your head or whatever, never

to grow back again. What what did you do?

God? You to take off your shirt?

Oh?

You wear a lot.

So actually nothing much was revealed. Yeah, that's why the

girls are asked.

You alive?

Sometimes I say, if I think of my share, that

girls would die. But but yeah, that's for me as well.

So okay, so you know so that the guy is

in the car. Huh, all right, we need I'm looking

at you gotta she's nothing, Yama, my lad. Okay, that's

candy for not me.

Okay, but you didn't, come on, you didn't tell me

what what? What? What happened with the Chee Moyes and

with the sisters in crime? Very kind to.

You too many years ago. You were scared for life,

and come on, you say, I'm sure you remember just

one thing they did? He I remember? Okay, Actually I

don't want to remember. No one to remember. The Lord

has already healed right on the herds on the pace

and he healed. Okay, So the bridegroom to be will

end up at the woman's house, okay, the bride's house,

and he will do the first a ask, all right, ask,

and they will put him through a lot of things,

but he will finally be.

Able to enter. But he has to do the second thing.

Seek, right, he will have to go downstairs, upstairs, whatever basement,

no matter how big this house is or small, he

would have to seek for her. Now, listen, the girl,

or the answer to your prayer has always been in

the house. You asked, She was already there. You seek,

She was ready there. But the last thing the bright

groom has to do is to no, no, because his

price is behind the door, and she was always there waiting.

How maever, you want to believe that that your answer

is there behind the door waiting for you.

Ask, didn't come, see seek, didn't come? No, No, didn't

come Ask God? Say God, why you say not? He

will be opened. Now.

Sometimes the devil could be behind the door, and so

when you open it, you see.

Devil, Release what is mine.

I'm not saying that the bride was the devil, but

you know I'm talking about the real devil.

Okay that he uh? Oh no, no, only you only

you heard that. Only you heard that? Okay, he shall

not be repeated.

All right, But but Rachelle said something naughty all right,

just because Daniel is not here. Oh Rogers, you said

it all too much. Okay, leave the mother in laws alone. Okay,

so h as kay leave them alone, Leave them alone.

The are nice people, okay, all right, okay, okay, all right.

So that's how he's done. Okay, the answer is there ready?

Someone say amen, Okay, I don't know where are you.

Maybe you're the asking stage, maybe you're the seeking stage.

Do you know what say?

When I see seeking meaning? You say, Mom, I'm hungry, right,

Mama said I told you there's food a really, so

you're asking, but she's said go and seek for it.

It's in the fridge. He's in the oven, right, So

you just have to don't just I'm hungry, Mom, feed me,

you just see, Go open up the cupboards, go open

up that fridge. You will find and if you still

can't find his knock, mom, where is it? It was

just behind the door, all right, So this is important,

This is important, Kay, Then knock the fast all right.

It's not not just to ask.

It's not just a sek is that you know, the desire,

that the desperation that.

I'm really hungry.

I'm really hungry, you know, that's a scripture in the

Bible that says, even if the king was a wicked king,

he will still get up because the woman isn't stopping

knocking on the door. She is persistent. Amen, And Jesus

taught us how to pray persistently. Right, he will get up.

But we're not talking about a wicked king here. We're

talking about a good king. Jesus is the king, all right.

So fast is that deeper place. Fast is that desperate place.

And I want all of you to join with me

if you can, for twenty one days. Today's day, second day.

So if you join me today, you only have twenty

days left to go, all right, discount for you one day?

All right.

This fast is the kind of prayer that skips the

norm just to focus on the knee. Let me explain

that to you. So the norm is eating you. See,

you don't even have to think about it. Breakfast, lunch, dinner,

some tea, morning tea, some afternoon tea.

That's five minutes.

Really, some supper that's six But nobody has to force you.

Um.

Some fast social media, right, some is fast social media,

and it's a very normal you don't even nobody he

needs to tell you, so straight away to your phone,

stay with your video games, stay away to you know,

it's so normal, actually don't.

You don't even know you're adicted. You're actually already addicted.

All right, Uh, and it's a norm. But how do

you skip a norm? You skip a norm because the

thing that you're focusing on is even more important and

it becomes a norm. So allow me now to just

share with you just a little detail about how Passandra

got better.

So it was Monday night.

She had a fever, her sortrow head left her and

I was asleep because I was so tired over the weekend,

and I woke up to ask her, do you want dinner?

We had a heavy lunch, she said, nola.

But what I did know is that she was going

to take patadle and she was going to take by

din't c and all that on a anty stommer.

And the next morning she woke up in a bad way.

All right.

That's when we went to the cleanic because no matter

how much I prayed, no matter how much I did,

she was really in pain everything five to ten seconds. Ah,

because the pain was so throbbing front and back. It

was causing her not to breathe, and every time she

breathed in ah, she would be in pain. All right,

there's this gas stric pain. We didn't know it was castrick,

you know. And then of course we went to the doctor.

Doctor thought it was pneumonia, gave her antibiotics. Then you know,

she didn't.

Get better, vomited, got better, and then it came back again.

And then in the Lord we felt it was more

someha flu gastric and she was in pain. She went

to bed, not on the bed, but she could only

manage to sit upright.

Uh. And the doctor already said.

If you are unwell tomorrow morning, worse than you are today,

you need to be admitted, okay, And that means I

admitted on Wednesday, cannot fly back on Thursday, all right.

So there was a lot of stay, and I knew,

I knew there was a lot of steak.

So just what we did. By the time Tuesday night came,

we prayed some more. We stopped taking the medication, but

we took other things.

The Lord gave me some wisdom to the chemist.

The chemist was just next door to my hotel, and

so I went to the chemists, bought her some Garry's.

Corn, and stuff like that. Okay, So.

Brought her more panadole, brought her some vitamin C, but

also probiotics. Pro biotics, you know, And so she took.

She got a little bit better, but still in pain.

This this gastric pain on the back won't go away.

So by about twelve thirty she was able to close

her eyes, but yet still moaning in pain. So I

went to bed facing her because I was not sure

how bad this would be.

And I knew that tonight, the Tuesday.

Night matted a lot because Wednesday morning I needed her,

She needed herself to be well enough to not be admitted. Okay,

so there was a window. Okay, there was a window.

So I slept on my bed, look at her, and

found myself praying non stop. This way I tell you why, supernatroller.

When the Bible says pray without seizing, I prayed in tongues.

And in English.

I think nineteen percent of the time I was saying, God,

have mercy on my wife. God had mercy on my wife.

Oh God, she's hurting, she's in pain. If at one

time I even say that, Lord, if she can be

relief of that pain and just put it on me,

because I think I might be able to handle it better.

But you know what Jesus said, so kindly, he is it.

You don't have to take it. I took it a ready.

You don't have to take it, Kenneth, I took it

a ready. Wow, I felt so many said two say yes, Lord, Jesus,

you already to all our pain, all our sickness, all

our regrets, all our guilt, all our worries.

Amen. So I said, yes, Lord, yes, Lord, you have

You've done it all for us? Or what it was

I thinking?

You know, And if I love my wife enough to

say I will take of pain, Jesus loves us more

and to all of our pain, I don't know.

Yeah. So, but I was on.

My bed and as I was praying for her, just

watching over her, and I said, tonight is the night

we need to win this war.

And so one that D came to the threat the

day and I'm awake.

Don't stop praying for three hours, three plus hours, And

I'm just because I know that if she gets hungry

because she didn't eat so well, you know, she was

in such a bad way when I gave up greater

one size of bush.

You can only take two bites.

Sure. Thank you, yeah, thank God that we didn't give

up like the microphone gave out on me. Holilyh Praise God, Amen,

thank you ex sound for helping us with all these problems.

Now. So I knew by day now that it was supernatural.

God will give you supernatural strength to achieve supernatural results

if you believe. You say, amen, it's not me, it's

by his grace. I didn't even close my eyes for

one second. It's amazing though I would have been sleepy

identity someone. I'm lying on my bed, but I'm just

looking at my wife and then my treat that she

opens her eyes. And I saw her opened eyes as anything,

and she said, I'm hungry. So I got up, you know,

make her sod unhealthy instant noodles. God have mercy. But

you know when you sanctify it, pray over it, you

know she'd be all right, Lord, add your nutrients into this.

And so she she ate about maybe five chopsticks full.

And I cannot but at least she drank a littleit

of souit, you know, and I needed to see her

sleep and she closed the eyes. He closed your eyes, okay,

And I gave her a little bit more, gavis corn and.

Close the eyes.

But but what I didn't realize, which I should have realized,

is that the morning stop means the pain must have subsided.

And now the morning turned into snoring. And you know,

my wife doesn't snare. She doesn't.

But you know, even we who don't store when we

are really tired, we store.

I mean, that's a fact. But I tell you what.

When she sudden snow, I thought it was the most

beautiful music I've ever heard.

Really, I'm telling you why. Because she's asleep. I said, Lord,

letty be.

You know, I mean sometimes my wife I complained about

me snorting, but I said, there last night, you snored,

and I thought it was so beautiful. I said, Lord,

please let her snare some more. And she stored, and

she slammed. It was a deep sleep. So for th

t I closed my eyes because the Lord said, you

have just passed the worst. You have just crossed over

from death to life. You have just crossed over from

sickness that leads to greatest sickness to a point of

the healing has begun.

All right.

You know I only slept for about two hours, woke

out at sixty, didn't Lord wo me up to.

Do my quiet time.

So I did my quiet time, then made this picture

that my wife is all right. He was still sleeping,

and the worst past, and I realized that even my

sleep was skipped. So I'm saying to you right now,

the kind of prayer that fasting is is the kind

that skips the norm just to focus on the need. See,

it's not just fasting. Oh I don't want to eat? No,

is you know how fasting really begun. It's not just

I fast purposely. It's not just this. It can be this,

but it's not just I fast purposely, don't eat and

then I start to focus on something to pray. No,

it was probably because they had somebody to focus on that.

They forgot to eat and it became a fast.

However, you have studied before, because your exam is near

and you focus so much on the studies, focus so

much on preparing your for your exams, you forgot to eat,

or you're working or something. You know you're working on something,

and maybe there's a leak or there's a leak in

your roof, and it's raining heavily, and you're so concentrated

that you don't even stop for anything. Because of the

fact that there is a focus. That's what fasting really

is is a focus that enables you to skip the normal.

It could be food, it could be sleep, it could

be anything.

And God will begin to make the abnormal normal. The

natural will become supernatural. Sometimes this is known as intercession.

And for those of you who have been in church

a long time, you know what this is. Intercession or

to interced for something or somebody is actually to stand

in the gap. So you imagine with me, I mean

when we're in London, you know where we're about to

take the Marti there' say, oh, mind the gap. There

is always a gap between the platform and the train,

or between your old life and your new life, or

clean your sickness and your health, or between your curse

and your blessing.

There is a gap. So what happens when people in

the seed is they.

Stand in the gap. Think think about it for a moment.

If there was a big hole on the floor or

in the floor, and you need to get across, but

you can't get across until somebody or some people, depending

on how big the gap is, will go into the

hole and create a platform for.

You so that you can walk on.

But what is the reason of walking that walking on

your shoulder or walking on.

Your head or whatever it is? For me?

I stood in the gap for my wife that whole

night because she needed to cross over.

That's it. The purpose of standing a gap for.

Anything or anyone, for any church or any family is

so that they can cross over from death to life,

cross over.

From darkness to light, from sickness to health.

So we intercede, we make intercession. And a lot of

intercesses will tell you that they fast too. A lot

of intercesses who tell you that they skip a meal

because actually they weren't even thinking about it. They were

so into the prayer, so into the making sure that

this person you know, is relieved and set free from

this particular problem that they weren't even thinking about the norm.

So they skip the norm because they focus on the knee.

All right, so let's move on. It's the kind of

prayer fast thing is that is reserved for the big things.

Nobody here were fast just because of some small thing.

Nobody here is. I declare fast. You know, if there's

something that you can do, or that something that your

friend can do or your pastor can do, you and

I will only engage in a fast when there is

something too big for you, when there is something only

God can do. Are you all still with me? It's

called the goliaths in our lives. So I coin a

term that the Lord gave me a couple of years ago,

and this is the quote, I fast because I'm hungry.

Now, this is opposite from what.

We understand, because we fast because we are full.

We eat because we are hungry.

But I'm not talking about a physical hunger that you

know causes you to eat.

When you're hungry.

I'm talking about a hunger so deep it becomes a

desperation because something in your life needs God's intervention. Somebody

in your life needs God to move. Maybe you have

a son here who has not been going to church.

Maybe your heart aches and breaks because your daughter is

not serving the Lord. Maybe you know you're in a

state of despair because your parents don't want to accept Jesus,

although they have seen your life and they've seen a

change in your life. Maybe they even told you, don't

talk to us about Jesus. Okay, how God is sufficient? No,

who are you to tell us what to do? Okay,

don't push your religion on us, don't shove it into

our throat, don't preach to us. You know what I'm saying,

Until the day I die, I will never accept Christ,

you know. And they have declared that. And your face

with that kind of problem, or maybe it's a sickness

in your body that doesn't want to go away.

Maybe it's a.

Disease, or maybe it's the fact that poverty has come

onto your family from your grandfather to your father and

now you, and no matter how hard you work, you

always poor.

And so you know that many things will go through,

some of it in a bit.

But I believe people fast because they are really hungry

for something that only God can do and only God

can give, and they want to see transformation of that situation.

So let's look at some of the potential of possibilities.

Of why we fast. Okay, the first one is change

of heart change change.

We need to see change in our condition, in our situation,

in our circumstances. And you know that nobody else can

help you but God. Maybe he has to do with

the government, maybe he has to do with your visa,

maybe he has to do with I don't know, a

situation that it seems like the whole world is against you,

and you need someone's heart to change. You need the

directors how to change. You need your parents how to change.

You need your sons how to change. You need your

daughters had to change. You need your grandparents how to change.

You need your neighbors had to change. You know, your

neighbor is being a nightmare to you, right and no

matter what you do, he continues to be a nightmare. Right,

And you need God. I'm gonna fast for one day.

We'll fast for two days because I'm hungry to see

a change. Because if there's no change, I may have

to move house, i may have to move country.

Why are my mother in law still like that?

You know?

Why is my daughter in laws to you like that? Why?

Why is there no change?

I'm telling you right now, there's some desperate situations and

you need to see change.

And fasting.

Is one of those spiritual disciplines that God has given

his church, one of one of it, one of the

most powerful.

Is hard to do, but it is powerful.

And that's why by Friday, Good Friday, when you come

from Good Friday, you will hear a lot of testimonies

poverty turning into prosperity contracts that that never happened suddenly happened.

You know, a sick is healed, disease is gone.

You will find out suddenly a man who's been praying

for his wife to come to know the Lord, suddenly

within the twenty one days turns to the husband and say,

you know, I actually want to go to church with

you this Sunday. You know this is a change of heart.

But before I move on to the next point, often

when you fast, the change of heart happens in you,

not in others, and that's very powerful as well. Somebody say,

a man, what else could you be fasting for? Maybe

to cut spiritual and soul ties. This is really important

because many people don't understand this, and some even scorning

it and laugh at it. But there are spiritual and

soul ties that are very powerful, and though it doesn't

show you what it is, is at work in your lives,

and some people don't understand it. You know, we have

seen people get delivered in our church meeting. One time

we went to ex Ampang and there was this girl

that is, I tell you, the most gentle young lady

you will ever meet in extra right. But she was

in trouble for a few months. She became different. She

just became different.

She she wasn't interested in talking. She was thinking about

suicide and all kinds of stuff.

But she was a beautiful girl and beautiful, I believe.

Even in spirit. But the devil had a hole on

her and she didn't know what it was.

And so she went to ex Ampang that day because

she was a bit ashamed to go back to her

own chess plan. And so one of our pastors were

there and I was another chess plan. But we were

on the phone because pastor Pasta Sarah, I can tell

you the name. Pa Sarah said, past there is this

girl who when she came for service, you know, her

eyes were bulging and she was shivering, and she was

like muttering something to herself. And so I brought her

out and as I brought her out, she became a

little bit like violent, you know, with her words. And

she said, Pasta, I've never seen her like that, you know.

I said, you're talking about the same girl, not, I said,

She said, yeah, you know this this this gentle, beautiful

young girl. And I said, pray for her. And as

a prayer went on, he went on into deliverance, and

she said, pasta, you won't believe it, but this girl

is standing on one foot and and and she's curling

up like a cobra. And she's now manifesting like that,

just standing on one foot like that, right, and she's hissing.

And I said, I've never done anything before, you know,

excuse me, I've never done anything like this before.

Past the help, I said, Jesus is bigger, Jesus greater.

Okay, you just stand your ground, uh and cast that

thing out. And that girl was delivered half an hour later,

half an hour long work, a lot of work. But

then later on when we sat down to counsel her,

asking questions, Wow, her family dedicated her to the gods

when she was younger, and then the snake God.

And then you know this is spiritual too, ties, guys,

it's real.

We ministered to another girl who you know, she is

not with us in ex church, but I think she

was not even from ex church. We ministered to her

and after a while manifesting you know, all kinds of

a sad and crazy way of manifestation, we finally got

her delivered. But in our counseling, we found out that

she had already slept with twenty four guys before she

turned twenty one. And you don't understand that such thing

as soul ties. You are tied in with the person

you sleep with, for good or bad.

And that's why the.

Bible says, don't you know that when you make yourself

one with a haled, you.

Become one with her?

And how can you who have that be one with

the Lord?

Is very clear the Bible. It says that, so.

When you don't renounce and repent and ask God to

clean you out and cut those ties, you will enter

a marriage with twenty four other souls. So when you

sleep with that girl as your wife, you're actually sleeping

with soul ties. And so you know things will happen

in the future about divorce and unfaithful.

Events.

And people don't understand what's happening in their lives. But

I'm telling you right now, fasting can also help with that.

We've seen it over and over.

Again, God cutting spiritual and soul ties because people mean business.

And if you have another word for fast it's just this,

all right, I will say it's just a word.

It is a phrase.

I mean business with you God, That's what fast means

I mean business.

Otherwise I'll just live my normal life, eat.

What I want, play my video games, do whatever I know,

sleep whenever I want to know. But when you really

find that the enemy is creating haavoc in your life,

I encourage you to fast. That's why ex Church is

led by the Holy Spirit to fast every year. Because

we don't know what we've taken in. We don't know

what we've watched. I tell you another thing, and I

think sometimes you might want to fight with me on this.

I pray you don't because I might know a few

more things than you, especially when it comes to spiritual things.

But when you go and.

Visit places like Cambodian and all that, I encourage you

not to visit the temples. And so people don't know

what they do, when they do it, how they do it,

and so they need a cleaning out. In fact, some

people have got photos of them standing in the temple

and whatever it is, and they and they and they.

Pride about that. All right. That can become an idol

in your life.

And the enemy likes to find ways of entering when

you give him a foot hole.

Listen, this is how the enemy works. Foothold.

That's how the snake goes up. The snake doesn't come

from up down, he comes from below. That's why he's

slithering on the ground. As he sliders on the ground,

he does a foothold first because you give it the foothole,

and then he goes up to a stronghold. Because your

strength is in your hips. That's why when Jacob was wrestling,

he was winning. After he was winning over the angel

and the angel touches him.

That's where the wrestling power comes from.

So the enemy comes up your late foothold to stronghold,

and now you can't move, and then finally he kills you.

My stranglehold, stranglehold, foothold, stronghold, stranglehold. Don't let him go

up so high. So when we fast is the time

you say, God, I don't know what I've done. Maybe

I've visited something I should have visited. Maybe I've said

something I should have said. Maybe I've allowed something to

enter the eye gay. You know these eyes are it's

called a gate that goes into your soul. So be

very careful what you watch, be very careful what you hear,

be very careful what you say. You also with me

these are all gates. And the Bible says life and

death are in the power of the tongue. So you

can be life, but you can also be death. Everybody, okay,

so be fast every year, were fast. I want extras

to be free from all these things. So you fast.

If you want to cut spiritual soul ties, what else

do you do? You cancel curses and deaths. I know

a lot of people don't think very much about curse,

but curse is very real.

Death is very real.

In the morning service at eight fifteen this morning, I

talked about a variety of curses that I know of.

Suicide can be a curse, and you know it's a

curse when it follows your family. So somewhere in my

family don't know in you know either great grandfather, great grandmother,

there was suicide. Then it comes down somebody miss a

generation and then it comes down went to my sister Lynette,

who took her life before she turned twenty one. And

then it came on Nicole, who tried to cut herself

in Melbourne when she was in school there. My stepmom

sent her to PLC Presbyterian Ladies College and she was

so alone, she was so down she cut herself and

I flew there to show her that I loved her

and show her that, you know, there's still hole. I

gave her a big heart. I said, Nicole, you don't

have to do this, but it's there. My father was

very ill and no one wanted to take care of

him except me, and.

I really I already did like my father.

I did like my father because he was never around

and he was always beating me and forcing me to

help him light up his drugs and all that kind

you know. I just really had a hatred for my father.

I know it's a strong word, but I didn't want

to be with him. Finally, you were seeing who has

to take care of me? I thought to himself, God,

why he is so unfair, you know? And none of

my family members wanted to touch him. I tell you,

when you're really down like that, you know what you

want to do. You want to jump out. Now a

lot of people in Malaysia knows my dad because he's famous, Okay,

Mike Bernicin, manager of Sudaman, the one who brought Michael

Jackson into Malayia.

Famous.

But people are all looking at the external, the Mike

Bernie external. Everybody knows him and his number one show

promoting Malaysia. But I know him as a man who's broken,

drunk EDDI, who is violent, right, and now I have

to take care of him. And you know what, I felt,

God was so unfair. One day I was standing next

to the window and I wanted to jump out, and

the voice came, just jump this suicide thing. It's not

just counseling that helps, it's really a spirit. In fact,

after the eight fifteen service, one of the sisters came

up to me and said, Pastor, you're right. It has

happened in my family as well, mental problems.

It's not just a counseling issue.

Even mental issues can be something that follows. I we

just heard one of our friends from church years ago.

She's now a little bit off in her mind.

But she was okay.

You know, for years her sister was the first one.

And now the sister is in a mental institution, right,

And I thought, maybe it just happened to the sister,

But this friend of ours was okay. Now it also

touched her. I thought to myself, this must be a spirit,

This must be a curse. The curse can be poverty.

Your grandfather was poor. Your father was poor. You are

poor no matter how hard you work. And sometimetimes money

comes in, but it's gone. Money comes in, by's gone.

The enemy has been able to cut a hole in

your pocket. That's why the Bible in malachises, try me now,

if I will not open the windows of heaven and

poor a blessing right. And he also says, I will

rebuild the devour, meaning the person or the devil that

has cut a hole in your finances, so you'll never

be rich. You understand it's also a curse, and it

will cause you to continually be in debt. I know

I've started to get serious now, and I hope you

don't mind, because it's not a joking matter. But I

love you enough to tell you there are things that

you cannot see, and that's why it's spiritual. And some

people laugh about it. Just like when I send my

wife to the doctor in Melbourne. He's a good doctor, really,

it was so thorough, but he couldn't diagnose guests. He

couldn't diagnose wind because in the western medson western medicine culture,

there is there is no win in the sense, there

is no gas. When my wife came back here. I

took her to the doctor near our house. Uh, it

was an Indian lady doctor right. My wife haven't finished

explaining fifteen seconds and the doctorsit is gas hiss win.

Another thing that the Western culture might not know is

heitty heaty?

So we eat Duran.

You're very heaty. You'd explain this to a Western doctor

heat Are.

You on heat? You know that's the only thing he knows.

Are you on heat?

No?

I'm hit ty, hey, Duran?

Right, But we Asians understand this, so we give, we

give things for you to be less heaty, yes or no?

God, I don't know what last special dream of? What else? Rhino?

What okay? Rhino? What you know, cord I don't know.

I know, just okay, Fan mangos Tin, queen of fruit,

eat Mangostein settled the king.

So there are people who don't understand this. What gurse?

What win? What guess? You know? Hey, guys, I'm telling

you seriously. It can go on and on and on.

Yeah, even divorce. I come from a family that's so

full of divorces. I lost count. I lost count, you know.

Just to be honest with you, I've been married now

for almost thirty one years. I've thought about divorce twelve

times because it's there, and it's there. You just had

to break it. You see why you are a spiritual man.

You're a man of God. Why I tell you if

you have two of you, a husband and wife in

ministry working in the same office. See, he said every day,

if you have a wife like I know, who's strong,

loving and loving.

But strong.

Because she's married to me and she can submit to me.

But but there's not many guys she submit to. Okay,

God the Father maybe once upon a time, and then

her husband. But then she has to make a decision,

do something some people very natural, right, Okay, I chose you,

so you're my husband. So I submit because God said so.

Some days I don't know. I don't want to submit,

but you know, God said so, yeah's strong, and I'm okay.

With a strong wife, you know it's wrong. And she

also knows the word of God. So sometimes I find it.

You know, how to argue, how to fight. So I

keep it inside and then I think about, let's just

end it now. And every time I think about let's

just end it, I think about the church. I think

about the people that all hurt, you know, and and

and and so we press on, and I think about

my vowels for better for words. But you know, when

I was seeking to explain it, the Lord showed me, Kenneth,

divorce runs in your family, and you will not be

spared unless you break it. Break it for you, and

break it for your children so they will never need

to face it. The Lord says, our blessed thousands of generations,

but our curse at least three or four. For the

person that has gone away from me, the curse will

be there. The trouble is, although the curse only last

three or four generations, the people within those generations continue

to sing against the Lord. So keep going, but praise God.

When we become believers in Christ, we know better. And

now we say, yeah, it must have it must it

must have come down the curses, even divorce.

Sickness sometimes can be a.

Curse as well disease, especially when you're not the only

one who has it.

You're you're with me. Please don't like name everything Oza.

Don't go home and do that, don't go this This

message off for that. But when you start seeing a trend,

fasting is powerful. It can really deal with matters like this.

Let's look at the word of God. Isaiah fifty eight

or six. Is this not the fast that I have chosen,

says the Lord.

To lose hallelujah.

I get excited. I almost going to get off my

seat there to lose the bones of wickedness. Yeah, to undo,

somebody did so, he wants to undo. To undo it

is only because somebody did.

So.

God wants to come in because there's an enemy who

came to still kill and destroy, and he did something

to your family. But now you are believers in Jesus,

your sons and daughters of the Living God. Somebody say, amen,

you have the Holy Spirit living in you, and He

was in you is greater than he.

Was in the world.

So you can undo the heavy buttons to let the

oppress go free. I like the last line. Read it

with me, and that you break every yoke. Do you

see the word you is not with a big letter

y because it's not God. God is saying that you

sitd in his room. Can't break it you yourself. So that

doesn't need to be poverty, that doesn't need to be disease,

that doesn't need to be divorced, that doesn't need to

be poverty. I think I said it twice.

Maybe it's important to say twice. We've seen other kinds

of disease go down the line. You know, grand mother cancer,

it's almost same cancers. Wone mother.

Daughter Anti also has uncles with coincidence. But the Lord

has an answer to lose the bonds, to undo the

heavy burdons, to let your press go feed, and that

we break every your father, the name of Jesus, break

every yoke that the enemy has ever plays on our lives.

Now, in the mighty name of Jesus, we thank you

for it. Amen.

Healing sickness and disease. I don't want to go deeper

into this because I see I've said enough. Yeah, some

sickness is not because of jess Ah. There's polland in

the air. No, it's not just that. All this flu

season is not just that. Sometimes it can be dead.

Sometimes it's because it can be because you fail to

eat when you should have eaten, and then you you know,

you should have taken medicine without food. And yeah, sometimes

we yeah, sometimes it's just temper read. Sometimes it can

be pointed back at a mistake we made. But there's

some things beyond. It is beyond that.

You know it. You know it, you know it. It

keeps coming back again and again. You know it.

No matter what you take, it keeps coming back. That

you see it on others. You see it on others.

You look at your line, you ask your auntie, auntie,

say a great grandmother also, and you got to.

Oh, my word, who else has this?

Now? If it's a one off thing, it might not

be a sickness link to a curse. If it's a disease, no,

my grandmother had diabetes, my father had diabetes. I first

have to call diabetes what it is. It's not just

a disease, it's a spirit. So I had to I

had to learn how to call it out. Because not

everybody with high sugar have diabetes, although you shouldn't continue

to do take it for granted, understand, but some who tried

to control their shugo also have. And well, how do

you explain the children diabetes? It's not just science. But

the beautiful thing is Jesus has come to set us free.

And we are not people without.

Hope, we are not people without an answer. I've seen

people overcome sickness and disease of a herod digit. Yeah,

let's talk about heredigitree for a while. Even doctors who

are not Christiana know how to ask you your family background.

Don't have to be a christianer to tell you what

it's hereded.

Did you ask you your father Heaven, not your befo

anyone in line God is right. They know, they know

how to trace it back. Why we can believe for

the physical, cannot believe for the spiritual. But here is

what Isaiah fifty eight says. Come on now, Isaiah eight.

The whole chapter of Isaiah fifty eight is fasting. The

whole chapter fifty eight Isaiah is fasting. So then look

at the word. Then your light shall break forth like

the morning. Your healing shall spring forth speedily. I ask

this for those of you in this room who are

not well, and you keep struggling with this. I ask

it for you now in the mighty name of Jesus,

that your healing will spring forth speedily.

Can I hear? Good? Amen?

And your righteousness shall go before you. The glory of

the Lord shall be your rare God. You know why

I like this scripture. It says your life shall break forth.

Break forth means there will be a breakthrough. How many

of you this morning he had to wake up and say, life,

please come forth, just came and when he came to

darkness left Such will be your breakthrough. I'm believing that

if you are participating in these twenty one days or

look forget about the twenty one days for now. If

you're you say, oh, is this just a lesson for

twenty one days?

No, is a lesson for your life. So you don't

do this twenty one days, do it some other time?

Does that it be.

Twenty one can given me two days, one day, one meal,

But just mean business with God, Say God, I had

enough of this. I want to take my family's future

back into my hands. I want to take my health

back into my hands. I want to take my finances back.

Lord.

I want to take it back in your name and

for your glory.

And God wants that for you.

So he says, your life will break forth, your healing

shall spring forth.

And then now listen to this very carefully.

The glory of the Lord shall be your rare God.

You know why this is important because the armor of

God doesn't have anything to protect your back.

Ephesians chapter six.

Right now, put on, come on the bell of truth,

the breastplate of righteousness.

Come on the shoes of the Gospel.

Yes, the shield of faith yes, the sword of the Spirit, yes,

the helmet of salvation.

Yes.

What protects the bag? This Bible tells me the Lord

is your rare God. It's not always that the enemy

is always going to fight you from the front. That's

why there is an English saying he stabbed me in

the back. The enemy doesn't always come from the front.

He likes coming sneaking up from the back.

But who will be your rare God? Come on the

Lord himself. Amen.

And when he's standing behind you, you know what we say,

he's got my back. Come on, He's got my back.

And so that I can focus on fighting whatever it

is before me. Come on, hallelujah. God is with us,

God is behind us. God will never leave us, nor

forsake us. His glory shall be your rag God. Can

I hear good?

Good? Amen?

Drawing towards the last lap, it also reversus decrease. Has

a decree been spoken over your life?

Has a decree from an authority?

Maybe sometimes that your father didn't know what he was

doing when he said something with authority. Your father had

and he said something over your life, and he stuck.

A decree from your mom.

Actually, we didn't plan for you. Actually, out of all

my children, you know, you are probably the most useless.

There's a decree that went forth. Your brothers will make it,

but for you, you know, we just.

Send you full time.

Yeah, we give our worse to full time. Because God

deserves what's left instead of what's right, left, right, We

always give him what's left instead of giving what's right.

What has been declared on you.

You know, when we look at Esther's life, Esther, Esther,

when we read it, we find there is a decree

that came from the king, and a decree from the

king cannot be reversed. You know that it's sealed with

his signet ring. You know what he did. He said,

let the Jews die annihilation. Oh oh yeah, okay, no,

don't be sorry, it's okay, it's all right. We love

children's voices here, we do, because the Bible say is

out of the mouth of babes you have ordained praise amen.

So I never reject a child's voice. But listen to

me very carefully. The degree already said cannot be reversed.

Then Mordecai comes and say Esther, you've got to do something.

Who knows that God brought you here for such a

time as this. Yeah, So what did Esther say? She

told them to reply, Mordecai, go gather all the Jews

who are present in shushan and fast for me. Or

pause there for a moment, pause there for a moment.

Did she say, fast and pray for me? She didn't

say pray, because I told you at the beginning fast

is already a kind of prayer. That's why in the

Old Testament they rarely said fast and pray. Today we

say just in case people only fast and no pray,

because fast without praying is diet. I want to encourage

all of you are when you're really fasting, when you

mean business with Godda. Please don't go and weigh yourself

on the way scale every day.

I please.

I encourage you, all right, because it can very easily

turn in your diet. Wah wah, half a kilogram, I

lost you better fast and more fast of all? All right,

first and all today, even the things I want to eat,

I don't know, because tomorrow if we do kilogram, don't

do that. Don't do that. Every time I fast. There

was one time I fasted for how many months?

Ah? Half a year? Okay, six months?

No sweets, oka, no chocolate, no ice cream, no sweet drinks.

That thinger.

I think I lost about fifteen kilograps. Okay, But I

tell you what I don't know. I say I think

because I did not weigh myself for six months. I

just don't want to turn something beautiful into something about me.

So I encourage you.

If you're really fast in door way yourself, it's okay.

Maybe you even with yourself one days. Hey, come heavier,

because Daniel right when the king examined him, after ten days,

he was fettered.

The Bible says.

Then the rest jess on vegetables and water, all right,

means healthier.

He was healthier. The Malay's like, you say, oh my yes,

say haada.

You know what they're saying, right, you're good, Mola, so

oh Hannah, anytime my Malay friends see me, okay, I

say yeah, I say yeah, say what it means, you know?

All howkay? All right, so fast for me.

She didn't say pray, but she meant when you fast,

you are praying in a deeper level.

You mean business.

She said, neither eat nor drink for three days, so

it doesn't have to be twenty one night or day.

My maids and I will fast likewise. Don't ask somebody

to do what you are not willing to do. My

maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will

go to the king, which is against the law.

And if I.

Perish, I perish. But you know she didn't perish. This

one lady turned the whole situation around. She had favor

in the King's eyes. You know when she went to

the king. She only went to the king to appeal

or to make a plea after the three days are fast,

because she knew there was power in it. And God

gave her favor with the king, and God gave her.

Hayman's head the enemy.

And not only that all the Jews in the region

were say, not only that the Jews turn around and

kill their enemies. That's how you reverse a decree. Sometimes,

my wife and I like to bring this God, whatever

Satan has thrown it as a this vega, please cause

it to go back on him ten times war. You

know you like to say that we like send it,

send it back return to sender h address no, no, okay,

some spiritual song. Those of you will old enough, you

know that song. Okay, but never mind, return to sender.

Send it back, Lord, send it back. Whatever FI read

that that has come my way, send it back, Send it.

Back to the person.

You know, sometimes the men and women use when the

devil can also be used to curse you. You know,

in in Malaysia, we understand this. Okay, they can curse this.

This worl of darkness is full of nonsense, I'm telling you,

but it's real.

It's very real.

So I say, Lord, whoever sending to me a sending

back to him?

I can imagine my mind, Rosa.

You know, the missiles all coming towards you are, and

then you pray, oh God, send it back. Then all

you turn, you turn, that's right, yeah, yeah you all

you turner, and then the fullest pray, the fullest laughing

ha ha. You know Kenneth is going to have skin

disease a ha ha. Then it comes to back. How

can I send you send back? Because God can do that?

He can you turn? How many of you are willing

and one thing to see the enemy get into trouble?

Not you? Okay?

Why should he bully you? And your family. Right, we

asked God to bully him back. Okay, say Lord, I'm.

Not the target. Send it back, send it back. Now.

As we close, let's do one more thing, last one.

Fasting is not just about don't. Don't do this, don't

eat that, don't drink this.

No, it's not.

And if our Christianity is all about don't, that's why

a lot of people don't like it, Oh Christian, Christian

or your ten commandments everything don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

Yeah, No, we also do do do do, do do.

And so let's turn now, as you are fasting together

with me for the next twenty days, let's watch and

see and read and look what we should be doing

with our lives and especially with our fast Let's now

turn to Isaiah fifty eight, the fasting chapter, and let's

finish off today with the reading of God's precious word

verse six. I don't have it on the screen, guys,

because it was a bit too long. I only prepared

this message yesterday when the Lord gave it to me.

I had another message altogether prepared for you. But the

Lord said to me, they are going too fast, So

tell them how powerful it is okay.

So here we go verse six of chapter fifty eight.

Is this not the fast that I have chosen to

lose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burtons,

to let the oppress go free, and that you break

every yoke?

Is it not?

Come on now the the doo to share your bread

with the hungry. Yeah, come on, these are the times

where we've got to remember those who are less fortunate,

and that you bring to your house the poor 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 we

read earlier. Your healings shall spring forth speedily. All these

are promises of God, and your righteousness shall go before you.

The glory of the Lord shall be your red God.

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 mist Now this

is something you must do. Take away the yoke from

your mits. The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness.

So stop pointing the finger. A lot of us we

want our breakthrough, but we keep blaming others and pointing

the finger at others. You gotta stop doing that. The

Lord doesn't like it. You gotta stop pointing the finger

and speaking wickedness. If you extend your soul to the

hungry and satisfy the affricted soul, then your light shall

dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as

the noonday. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy

your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones. You shall

be like a water guarded hallelujah, and like a spring

of water whose waters do not fail. Those from whom

you shall those from among you sorry shall build the

always places you shall rise. You shall raise up the

foundations of many generations. Then you shall be called the

repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets. To dwell

in last two verses, if you turn away your foot

from the Sabbath, listen. This is very important because a

lot of us have forgotten how to treat the Sabbath,

and in Malaysia the Sabbath is Sunday. In the Jewish

culture is Saturday Friday night going into Saturday. But for

us we practice Sunday. You must learn to respect the Sunday.

Don't do your own pleasure this morning. You know, when

I say that, maybe pickleball also has to be put

aside on Sunday, so many people are laughing. And when

I say pickerball, I looked up to the ceiling because

I didn't want anybody to feel judged. But don't play

around with the Sunday. If you call the Sabbath a delight,

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

not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure,

nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself

in the Lord.

What will happen. 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. Father.

As you speak, your words will not return to your void,

But your words that you have spoken today will go

forth and accomplish the purpose for which you send it.

Is there anyone in this room as we close who

will say in your heart that this message was for you,

maybe even for your loved ones. And you can't wait

to get up, go back home and tell somebody you

love that we can beat this, we can overcome this.

We can see our son coming back to the Lord.

We can see our daughter coming back to Jesus. We

can see our parents no longer talking about divorce, but

wanting to reconcile. We can see sicknesses broken, diseases heal.

We can see finances and financial situations change.

We can see curses broken, the yoke broken.

We have hope in Christ because He's done it all

for us. He took our pain, he took our shame,

he took our curse. In fact, the Bible says in Galatians,

he became a curse for us. Person is he who

hangs on the tree. The Bible says, so, Jesus took

our curse. The curse is easily broken if you would

turn to Jesus focus.

One sister told me after the eight fifteenth service. She said,

there is a loved.

One in her life who had many problems and had

demonic spirits tormenting him. And then the day came when

this lady shared with this person the truth that God

is bigger than Satan. And then all fear went away,

and then young man does not live under fear anymore,

and fear was broken, and he's no longer under bondage

to Satan. Satan uses fear to grip you and to

buy you, and to put you in prison. Are you

living in fear, some kind of fear. I pray that

you will see your fear disappear. Wow, that rhymes. Maybe

someone should write a song, My fear shall disappear in

Jesus' Name.

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