God is our refuge and strength A very present help in trouble | Eld Kien Yiak

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Why your highlights this year? Think about it for a moment,

What has been your highlight this year?

The good path? First?

Okay, I've got been a good path first, you know,

think about it for a moment.

You know, we enjoyed that, the moment is in it.

I'm sure this year at least got one good highlight, right,

at least one got one highlight. And you know, I

pray so that this year the metal challenges you went through, right,

I'm sure there were some very low moments, very low,

and that you're able to find God's strength to the

low moments, you know. So this year, my my, my

lowest moment was in the having having to go for

and and your Graham. Yeah, because again five years like

stuff like right, and then after that they look at

the image and the picture they go like, okay, possible,

possible second procedure rather stand I have to do because

blockash and everything like that. No, it's not fun to

go on you know this second time you're a bit more,

you're better, but nothing really prepares you for operation really,

especially when they say that because we have to insert

something in your body.

You have to shave.

Now, got your attach with And the worst part is

that they.

Give you the shame that everybody else uses.

Right, and you can see see remnants of what the papers, right,

and I go like, okay, So I told my wife

that's it. I'm buying my own one next time, all right,

to prepare myself if I have to go in again, right,

I would shave myself, okay, and to stuff like no,

that was just but but it's a bit swell. It's

spell in a sense. It's it's you're more aware of

the situation no matter what it is, all right, rather

be why would challenge so I was on opportunity data

and this stuff like that. Uh, nothing can really prepare

you for the anxiety that's to come. If you're understand

try say, no matter how prepared are you, you quite

went to a situation before, for example, right event to

a situation before, even though going to the next situations

that that may seem similar, doesn't really prepare you for

the anxiety that the anticipation and stuff like that. There's

still a lot of things that run through your mind,

like like like two thousand klosters an hour that times

really just run through a lot and really no matter

and no matter how real, showing people around you.

All right, so keep me so long, it's.

Gonna be all right, normal Perceidually you'll be in and

out the stuff that right. But to have something in

certain into you and no people just proving into you, right,

it's not fun. So anyway, so uh after after the

right and UH said, the worst part is that I

always remember this statement that the doctor would just say, well,

if you have, if you're pain in your chest coming

for me, I want to reply, if I pay my chest,

I would die have somewhere outside ready because by the

time it's you understand, right, it's not it's not it's

not LinkedIn or master play. This is your heart, you know, friends,

So anyway, so it is it. I'll see you six

months time. And I had this thing with my my

doctor this you know, they said that I need you

to work on your l d L the back cholestero

LDL backcholeaster right right, because you're a hot patient. I

can't you have to work extra heart, extra heart to

bring it to below two point zero everage persons three

or four, right, mine, It's like to really considered America

already right now a while.

We're beginning below two.

So during that that the whole process about six months ago,

I got it to one point eight. I was like, yeah, Hallelujah,

praise the Lord, right, thank you Jesus, okay and stuff

like that. Ah and this is this is, this is

six months of abusing my body with you know, salary

and bit rude and stuff like that. Join me if

you want to. But I met that edition this last week.

She said that you went through or there just to BELDI.

I said, yeah, I did. I can tell you that's

an easier way. How I don't know because he wasn't

send me out right. She had to say another table.

I say that table. But you know she's one of

the top ten dieteachers in Malaysia. I said, there's a

better way to for you to I'm like, I was like,

I went to all that it they raw, rude and

cook salary. Did men tell me there's a better way? Okay,

see KFC. I went like, okay, now, I uh so

I do it. How many of you know that that

we don't like to go to to get our to

see a doctor. So I met a lot of people say, say,

I said you're feeling you know, some people are in

massive pain. You say, I heard the testimony and want

of so manyear homes. This girl was in pain for

six months, start up for six months, refuse to seem refusal.

But she managed the pain for six months, you know,

until one day she came for prayer service. She couldn't

done anymore. I was like why, I said, why did

you see a doctor?

Immediately? I saw too ready, but it really helped her,

didn't border. So I try to manage.

Some people don't see doctor because they I do want

the results said, doesn't.

Mean you don't see the doctor, the results will change.

There is this thing I don't see the doctor, but

the results is going to change, right So anyway, that

was me. I postponed my my, my, my own appointment

as well for a couple of valid reasons. But also

I don't feel like seeing. Just go to and I

know the how it will turn out, by by how

good or how bad the nurse takes my blood ahead

of my wains are so deeply in sight of my

unfatty tissues, couldn't find one. I remember one time I

think I recount I fainted twice.

Fainted. Yeah, I know, I'm not a fit of blood.

I fainted twice. Don't know why.

I was still catching my face right now enough foxygen

and stuff like that. But the nurse couldn't find my

you know, I remember the worst of was one one

particular incidenta at the pook couldn't get it right that

lived up a bit and put the the left they

could have find, lived up a bit and pooked the right,

that went deeper a bit more.

They found it.

I read like, what school do you how? Maybe your

life was in someone's hands, right and you got it?

So anyway, so yeah, so that's that's I went through

that and your stuff like that. So anyway, so this

time it also took a bit longer and oh no,

but uh pais got really you know after and stuff

like that. Then my results came out. My results came out.

The doctor, my doctor was so shocked. How did you

get to one point six? How on earth do you

get to one point six? And I remember that, you know,

I was, I was, you know, abusing my body with

you know, with a lot of chicken chop and just

you know, and fries. It's just stuff like that I said,

I don't know, I say it, but I did. I

did tell my doctor that, you know, yeah, you know

nothing nothing, nothing goes up by prayer and fasting, but

more more more towards fasting. So I say, I've been

fasting to I trained for hours and this stuff like that.

I said, my aim is to do three days and

you know, see how it goes and stuff like that.

But I'm sharing this to you because sometimes in our

life and we go to stuff, right, we think that

you know, by delaying or by delaying it, the outcome

will change. I don't want to see you don't to

deal with it. No, I don't know. I don't know.

Vacuum below my bait. No, that that's will go away miraculously.

My job with my wife is just just leave everything

in the kitchen, saying tomorrow it will be gone. She said, yeah,

I'm the cleaner. I say, just leave everything in the laundry.

And I said, I do it all the time. I

live in the laundry. Back next said, I wake up,

it's clear empty, right, So I don't do that to

my wife. She goes like, yeah, I'm the one who's

taking the laundry put it.

Yeah, anyway.

So doesn't mean that we don't deal with it. The

things you change number one, right, but to it out

all a first like, yes, thanks, First I said, Gods

a refuge and strength and very present in trouble.

Right is it it true? God is our refuge as

we go to live friends.

I think that we need to take the words and

make it the words life for us experience, for us

to know that He's so real in our life that

no matter why these friends you, we can't the words

escape from the feeling of fear. You can't really like.

Doesn't mean that, for example, that you need to go

to an operation because you're a Christian, You're not fear.

It's dumb a human being, we we do. We have

emotional people, so we do feel about emotion. We got

who knows and and things go to a mind lot.

The question is that do we know how he works

in our trouble time? We know that his refuge, he

knows strength, We know that he's a present time of trouble.

But the question is that do we know how he operates?

How he operates? We all know that when we meet

a car accident, we have a toe number that you

can call from an insurance right, and people told your

car right.

But do you know how it works?

Because many times we know the concept we are just

call this number right, everything that by that you call right,

We need ten minutes that the toad truck will come.

But lo and behore, it takes one and a half hours.

Worse still, if you're in God forbid that you get

start on Federal Highway right there will take about two hours.

And this stuff like that experience all these before, all

these before, friend, But so do we know how it

operates in our trouble time?

Next night? Right? So the first king nineteen vers.

One to three introduced ahead, went home and told Jezebel

everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed

the prophets about so aheb is a white character, told Jazebel.

Jezabel right, and worse, two come, Jezebel, send this message

to Elijah. May the gods strike me and even kill

me by this time tomorrow. Wow, such vengeance, such determination.

So that's why I never ever make a woman get angry.

This it's real, a friend, My marriage is okay, can

just want you know just something that I was just

talking about it? No, but by this time Tomory, if

I have not killed you just as you kill them,

she was.

She went full on war with Elijah.

Right, you touch my prophets, you touch my the God

that Iself. Right, I will come after you. Now, How

may you know that Elijah didn't ask for this? Just

like most problems that we have we faced sometime we

never asked for. It happens to friends, because you chose something.

Something else happened.

Now, if I want to, I want you to imagine right now,

if Elijah knew that Jessebel will come after me. Do

you think that Elijah would obeyfully? Mm hmm, yeah, maybe.

Not because its first streak up, Elisa was afraid.

Friends, I want your pause for momana with God calling

after the mistory of from fire from above, burn up

the altar and everything like that.

Not that the.

Fear is not as real as tangible as Jezebel. It's

not that she's one ugly lady that she's so afraid of,

or she is known known in the entire land as

the most wicked person. Think about that most wicked person

that that even by the should look at her, make

your your your niece weak, you run away. That's why

he was afraid, fled for his life. Here is a

man of God. Friends perform great miracles like Jesseabel was

my life.

I'm running next light. So he went alone into the wilderness. Worse.

I've laid down, slept under the broom tree. Was all

saying that I take my life, or I'm no better

than my ancestors have already died. Now Elijah got enough, right,

he iMedia he ran away from the president of Jezebel

into the wilderness. No longer in presence of Jezebel. Meanis

face to faser, hiding somewhere in the wilderness. Yet at

the same time, with one breath, he can just say,

I have headed enough, really, take my life. It's interesting you,

your friends, when you are in a situation, if you

constantly think about it right, you can come to a

place whereby like Elijah can say, take my life, or

I'm no better than my sisters who died. Basically, I

had enough, really and verse five, laid down slept on

the boom tree.

Thought that's the end. That's the end of the chapter.

Most time, when we go to situations as treasurizing as Jezebel,

we think that this is the only solution.

Sleep the next day you'll be okay, isn't it two figure?

Just go and sleeper, you wake up okay? I mean

it works loud fever, go and sleep, you wake up okay.

Definitely right. But some things are you Sleeper doesn't mean

you're not okay or things will change.

I remember that when I had my heart tight, I

went to sleep. I woke up okay. I thought I

was all right.

I was just tired, seriously, And that's why then that

I went for how can we do extra lot?

Actually I didn't know. I thought I could breathe by

just sleeping up. But in the maybe he slept.

Let's say I want in my life really, but the

injury of the lot touch it is it? Get up,

get up right and looked around besides him the head

right now, break big on hot stood and the jar

of water. What perfect combination. No coffee, no tea, just

jear water. Imagine expression after a s few delicious cakes

with water. Such can write easy right, no need coffee right?

Such perfect come. That's why you know when you eat

desert outside, when you had this slice of dessert and

you drink cold water, I don't know it's me, right,

it creates something yourself expects your stomach after you go like,

I don't know, maybe.

Just me, but here drink eating sweetcakes with cold water.

Anyway, next night, like you said, trying to get that

it's the I'm say it's not a combination, all right.

Next I say, the Angel of came to him second time. Okay,

get up, it's some more. The journey ahead of you

will be too much. He got up, it dragon and

he came to a cave that.

He spent night. Okay.

Next, so enlightened him is Yahweh is God? Come out

on you think about enlightened name, Yahweh is God. It's

it's so interesting because here is a man who went

to so much right yet afraid of Jezebel.

Yeah, his name is Yahweh is God.

So if Yahweh is God, there's his name, then why

should he be afraid of Jezebel?

Why should Elighten be so afraid of Jezebel?

And maybe sometimes God does allow allow I spoke with

this before, does allow us to go to situations.

He does.

He does allow you and me to go to situation

to really to reveal our foundation, to real, to reveal

where you are with your faith to help you to

understand that besides this coming to church, because there is

really no barometer creciative, there's no exems, meaning there's no

physical exam.

Right, there's no.

Great your level one Christian, level two Christian, So there

is no this a physical exam.

But the real test comes from our daily lives.

God reveals to you because that He wants you to

go deeper to understand him more.

How many of you know that on earth is the

only time you read a Bible.

Think about it on here before you exider, this the

only time you can read the Bible. So fifty your friends,

I have a bit more aware and understand that time

is running a bit shorter for me as competitor. Today,

be celebrated on someone's birthday and asked her, how are

you twenty two?

I were? Do you remember when you were twenty two?

Then?

Do you remember you your hair was still black? I mean,

do you remember when you were twenty two? Right? And

so much run? Right?

I envy now I understand I envy you so much runway,

so much time, write so much, so many books to read,

recipes to follows. You can do so much. Fifty God,

I would do everything, but God enough time? Right, So

Yahweh is God? Friends, So here is Elijah. Besides just

proclaiming Yahweh is God, God wants you to experience another level.

What happened?

If you meet someone then you cannot handle You handle

the propos about four hunger propos about friends. He's the

only one next night. So these are man ex mens

the SuperNature of God. First King seventy that dragging from

the brooks. Raven feed him, We don't honor him. The

last oil and Flash experienced supernatural provision, resurrected the widow sun.

How will God is to him?

None of us here got any We don't even have

Raven feeding feeding us at first? Really a foot bender

and stuff like that feeding us? Okay, right, what you order?

This is delivery from from the most high resurrected widows.

And what do you imagine right now? You pray for

someone who is Dad got resurrected again. That must have

done something to your faith, isn't it? Wouldn't they do something?

Your faith? God? God is real?

Imagure you go for a week service, you lay your

hands on the coffin. Someone just knocked there and just

you understand, but it does something to you, your life

will never will be the same again because you witness

it and you are part of the miracle. Next one

comes worst eighteen victory, amunt comel Victoria, amount camel four,

hunger prop ers about I said earlier on okay, intimidation,

pressure from everyone. He was so confident God will show up.

Some of us here need to be reminded that God

will show up for us in our situation. Then his

conviction was very evident. Choose you this day who you serve? Wow,

how many of us can be so convinced choose you

this day who you serve? You must be convinced you

to be able to say that.

And e lighter.

I think at the point in time, his faith was

riding high. Just like doing camp and cam. We promised

Lord everything one, I'll go for mission strip, right, I'll

be full time and stuff like that. Right only after

kem go that God, can can you postpone it a bit?

And stuff like we we understand right, the experienced God's

confirmation to the fire that for the author the enlightened build.

Friends.

Wow, that's fire, hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. The fire for

the author friends. When the author was dreads with water,

dreads with water, courage to execute the profits about friends.

This is I want you to understand it's not easy

taking a life, okay, but taking.

Life of friends.

My wife is afraid of lizards, doesn't like lizards in

the house, so lisus are not welcome in the house. Okay,

if you have animal level, I'm so sorry, but I

just have to confessed my scenes right now. So my

wife has a newspaper or prepared by the seafood pass

sendra the right if we ever Lisa, she sees any lizer,

she would hand them down small, too big, she'll hand

them out. She'll work it and something. But the problem

here is these friends working and killing is one thing.

She don't like to dispose of the dead lizard because

it's quishy anyway, saying she said, dear, can you have

me to show help me to show I said something.

I really I you know, I just want to. I

wanted to her experience a breakthrough. I really want her

to overcome this fear. I said, no, Dear, you have

to youkill you clean up the mess. So she bury

under the power of the shoe paper and she takes it.

One day, newspaper wasn't with her. Dear, there's a lizard

next thing, I know, I turned actually step on it

with my barefoot.

She screamed.

I'm only sharing this to your friends. It is because

some of us are afraid of lizards. Some of us,

he are afraid of flying Cockachia's flying cock coachus. Your

bigger size, You are a bigger side cockroach. Ah. I

know one of my friends growing up, bodybuilder, big, really

big cock coach stand on the chair. I mean his

masters are huge. When it comes to a crock coach,

he's so afraid. He stands on the chair and scream

like a female voice. A big sized guy, really big.

But first, it's never easy to execute. But you must understand.

This is his conviction. Findally coustured to happen after a

season of drawn Next, So what can we learn from

his life? He has two chapters of victory, two chapters

of testimony, two decades of amazing works of God.

What can we learn?

Number one? Where we're going through challenging times. It's not

over And to God say so, you have to know this, okay,

So it's never over. And to God say so, so

enlightened oneted to end his life, what it. I surrender,

I give up, I burn out.

That's it. Therefore I do not want to pursue. I

do want to go forward. I had enough.

Two chapters of how God came to for him fire

press his presence. Yet one lady, eventual spirit spoke these words,

I will come and kill you.

He ran for his life. See, God reveals to us

because he wants us to have a good foundation. He does.

He wants us to understand that even though sometimes we

get threatening, it made first none of us. Here we

have a Jezebel that says in the office, I come

and kill you. Maybe he got emails and WhatsApp playing

bury Youla.

With the mount of work. I don't think. So we

have the kind of Jezebel like like this by bird,

I mean that that's it.

Okay, I under said, okay that maybe you get a pressure,

but I want to kill your effets right. Anyway we

have we may have experienced God in one way or

another growing up, but God on, so have a better

foundation in your life so that Jezebel expirit comes. We

don't have to retreat and run away. But ultimately we

can just say God, if you'll say it's not over. Therefore,

it's not over, even though I'm in a wilderness. Come on,

even though you could be the wilderness. But it's not

over until God says so next life, see your past

success in ministry or life doesn't example from the future challenges,

it doesn't worse. Chapter seventeen and chapter eighty fantastic miracles,

fantastic testimonies.

But there's a chapter nighteenth after that. What is God

trying to do?

God is trying to tell Elijah that I want to

be so will to you that no matter who stands it,

if I will, you do not need to be afraid.

I pray for someone earlier on, and she just was

just telling me, would you pray for me? I'm so afraid,

I say, why, I got.

The new job.

I'm an interpreter. I got a new job. So she

goes to courts to do the interpretation. But this time

they were in they asked me whether I helped to

interpret I'm so afraid because this time is the next

level of interpretation. I say, see why, some top judges

from China is going to come down somehow. Judge is

going to be here, and I'm supposed to be the

middle to help them to understand each other. I'm afraid

that I'll do say the wrong things. I'm afraid that

I don't understand them. I'm afraid. I'm so afraid. I'm

so nervous. Maybe I always saw myself. Maybe I promised

too much I cannot deliver. Maybe I should cancer this.

I say no.

I say, it's never a mistake. God lead you to

a place. I say, God allows us to learn through

our mistakes, and.

This is your next level.

Because you've been comfortable with here, God gives you another challenge,

raises you up.

I say, did you pray for a break through? Yeah?

I did, and then I'll ask God to help you

to walk through it. See your past successive ministry doesn't

exempt us. There is no exemption in Christianity.

Do never next el.

I just thought the ending of his life is the

only solution that he could think of, only solutions. I'd

want to take up the job. It's the only solution. First,

if it's not this job, then another job will come

that demands the same faith. Come on, if not this

individual you have to deal with, God would bring another

individual that's very similar that you have to deal with. So,

no matter where you go in life threads. God has

your best interest in his heart because he wants you

to do break true. He wants you to do to

experience him of a different level. So ending his life

was not the answer. Changing sometimes not always the answer.

It's not always the answer. The answer has always been

to go through it with the grace of God, with

your eyes open. God, what is it that you want

me to learn?

See? God doesn't make a mistake here. We make choices.

Sometimes it's good, sometimes bad, but God's grace is sufficient.

Next but God, next choice? Yeah, words Genesis fifty or twenty.

But as for you, you men either against me? Come

on you men either against me? Situation in your life

some even medical report is not It is not either,

but it reveals where you.

Are, erupts you of your peace, It erupts you of

of of rest. But God meant it for good.

I count blame everything you know with my medical thing, ministry,

everything you know, night meet things and everything like that.

But God can turn you out for good. He can. Friends,

I shared before I share it again.

Friends, Many times in our life we think that bad

medical report will end us. Yes, it's never pleasant, it's

never good. It's never easy or even fun. But His

grace is sufficient and you can say that. But God

can turn you around for good. Come on, so in

order to bring it about as this day to save

many lives. See the enemy meant so evil friends. But

God can turn you around to become a testimony. God

can turn it around to become a testimony. But we

don't like the word testimony.

You know why.

You have to go to the test to get the testimony.

Come on, you have to go to the test to

get to the testimony. You cannot be exempted from the

test together. Emoney, Sorry, I don't know.

You understand right? Next, I feel sorry my fond size

is all? Are okay? So we could take it? I

know your OCD like elder, can you standardize your fund size?

Please forgive me? Write my wife or the corrected the

bilingo what she said. I did correct this for you.

So David, stay in the struggle in the wilderness and

remain in the mouths of the wilderness. Come on, where

where was see in the wilderness?

Come on? Won't you book a place for holiday called

the wilderness?

I mean someone was right. We want we want that

Daniel come and say he would it's just stuff like that.

He would be that he's growing his.

You playing to keep it.

Oh yeah, so it's all empty. It's just bottom here

on near Okay, I can't say it all right.

In the wilderness. Friends saw soft for him every day.

Come on.

Not the most perfect place, not the most ideal place,

but saw sort for David every day. Say loves chase

him every day. Sometimes the friends you know, sometimes, uh,

I can see this?

How do I see this?

Without something something sounding bad? Sometimes you get hounded, hounded, right, hounded,

hounded that because you went for lunch you didn't pay,

You get hounded to pay. One man gave fifty cents. Yeah,

and sometimes you flip the opposite. The person who houns

it one fifty cents never honor his payment. You understand

what trying to say something?

You get hounded. You his friends. When you get pursued

every day, friends, you got no peace. On you got

no peace. You get pursued every day, you got no peace.

If you're in a particular contract dealing and you get

caught every half an hour, you got no peace. If

your contractor checking in you every have asked to confirm things,

you got no rest.

And that's what happened to David. But God did not

deliver him into his hands.

Imagine the kind of life that David is living in

the wilderness, that the most luxurious hotel, right that sauce

after him every day, go toilets, have to be extra careful, right.

But yet first we have to come to this whereby

but God did not deliver him to soul such confidence.

You and I need to have friends. So when you

go to the opportion to eat their friends, you can

say that, but God did not bring me all the

way here to die. It is true, but God did

not bring you all the way here to die. I

share your Excharagi, a guy who got cancer had a

very young boy about one to two years old, told

this to God, God, I do not want to die

yet because I don't want my son to be raised

to be raised up as often or without a debt,

because I experienced it here, had to live Indonesia because

of political situation, family got killed, relative exported him or

rather send him to the US.

After a certain time.

He mentioned coming to Inonesia when things got better, when

he got married or the son. He told God, God,

I do not want my child to be without or Dad,

please add more years to me so I want to

see my child grow up. And God did did add

more years to him. Next and Jesus look at them, say,

be man, this is possible. But we've got all things

are possible. Come on, we've God all things are possible.

I'm not sure some of you where you are right

now with your situation. But Elijah, friends, experience so much

is seventeen Chapter seventeen, chapter eighty. You would think that

he would say that, oh, Jesse might come after me,

but we've got all things are possible. Not true, though

not true, because although we know the statement, we don't

really know the statement. Although we know that He's by

his grace is sufficient for you, we don't really fully

know the statement until unless we go to a situation

where my whereby the fire, we just burn the exterior.

It becomes so real to us.

Because many Christians right now understand they know the word

better than sometimes the preacher.

They know.

But knowledge, friends, it's one until unless you allow God

to bring you through to understand what the knowledge is

for and how to apply it. So do you know

how God operates in the times of trouble? It's not

over until he says so. It is not so the

next time. Friends, when you are in a situation, it's

not over until you say so. Next we knew your strength.

Very important now friends, after understanding that the Bible says

that next next layer the age of the love provided

kicks and bake over coat and the jar of water. Friends,

perfect combination. Please try it and tell me next time.

I see you again when you enjoy it. In the

nut today, I beg you Tira, missue, and this is

a glass of water. Right, Not the most perfect combination,

but sounds very simple. Sounds very simple, right, kicks and water.

As I was meditating to this scripture, I thought, what

is it that you want us to learn from here?

You know, when we talk about reading strength, we talk

about renewing stranger.

I think a lot of.

Times you spend a lot of time on the exterior.

For example, the modern way of renewing strength spa. Come on,

you go to Benji Benji and Michelle ben you as

let's go on sand together. I told Benji before Benji,

it's okay, you can go on send for yourself. I'm

not interested, but it is to you. We spend a

lot of time on the next year, or the hotel

rooms and stuff like that. But how may we understand

when it comes to God's real renew It's a bit different.

Bible says fourty or I don't have the scripture. They

upon the lort renew their strength with upon the lot,

renew your strength. But waiting, it's not ideally waiting and

not the word is without any anticipation or excitement. We think,

here's it, God, you come true. Now I say a

little on, God will come true for us. However, strength

comes when there is obedience on our part. Come on, next, next,

the next cicture. All right, just give you one example.

It may be simple for but it gives strength. It

comes from the Lord. Next one extra chapter treating was tough.

Honor your father your mother. This one example. Honor your

father and mother. Your days may be long upon the land,

hang on by uses. Honor your mom and dad, that

your days may be long. We pray for good health.

Come on, don't we we pray for good health? Right,

But the Bible here says, honor your father and your mom.

Your mom and dad, then your days will be long.

Many times we take supplements. We got all sorts of

program to extend our life. Nothing wrong God's way, something

goes even deeper. He knows that with the right attitude,

come on, our life could be loved. So the Bible says,

as simple as honoring your dad. Although you don't understand

what my dad did to me. You don't unerstand what

my mom did to me. You don't understand I was abandoned,

I was abused and everything. Yes, it could be true,

and I don't deny that. Friends, some of us go

to that. But yet at the same time, friends, this

is the word of the Lord. Honor our parents. God

goes deeper, beyond the surface, goes straight to really occupies

our heart. Because if he knows that you're angry, Let's say,

for example, I know wanted, got no issue with your parents?

Are right? Let's say for I say, for.

Example, right, if there's an individual that don't like the

parents are everything?

The parents call? You get what? Angry? Frustrated? Do want

to pick up?

The word is your heart is not at peace? You

just it's rest stressful and you understand, right? Or mom

gets lectured. I know someone the mom lecture always comparing

her with our disablings and stuff that no rest rest

stressful and because of that, first what happens.

Sickness comes in. No one get enjoyable fear and you're

under stress. Or maybe there's a stressful eating.

But really you understand trying to say no one can

enjoy a nice find I need you know what. You're

so stressed right now, you're you're you're slicing slicely a

nice portion of beef. There's eating raies. Didn'ty a very

small I should nice? I'm so stressed right now. Nice, No,

you can't. Right, here's I think that lot wants to

remind us. It may be simple, but look, it may

be simple, but look, you wanted to break through in

your health.

You want strength. It may be kicks, and.

It may look like a kick and just water, but

it's deeper than that. Come on, it is deeper. They

just kick and the jar of water. It goes straight

into the attitude. God say you eat, you get strength,

But Lord, don't you understand.

Kicks?

Don't you understand I'm certain diet? How many times you

we try to reason out this way? And that's why

sometimes the challenge is that when God wants to go deeper, Friends, God,

you can't renew my strength this way, the Bible say wait.

Upon the lot, and here I was right. The Bible

will say sleep because sleep does.

Renew your strength. Come on, isn't it true when you sleep?

How may you get renewed your strength? With your waiting.

Your order pastor there?

You're constantly checking E level level say your black Fridays

say like, oh, man, I pray that my passily longer

time because every time I wait longer.

My strength is renewed.

No. In fact, we can't got to waste my passer

right now, got starting custom. No, But the Bible here

say wait good huh total opens. The Bible says sleeper,

sleep is really doing nothing in your friends, but waiting

you read in anticipation. So I'm asking you right now,

what is it that God is speaking to you to

ask you to do? We want to break show in

our finances. The Bible is honor God with your first fruits.

It's as simple as that. But many times we want

another solution, and God says, I pre pair for you

cakes and water. It's a very simple solution.

Friends.

Some of us have got anger, bitterness, and that's the

reason why sometimes we've got no brick to no strength

because our energy is given to manage that bitterness. How

many if you know, the bitterness require strength. Stress so

require strength. But because we've given ourselves to that friend,

that's why no break too. That's why sometimes we struggle

at point number three, Can I just go straight to

point U three? I know you gonna end soon, really,

because you've got Christmas practice a treaty okay, and.

Now the way last one we knew the mind. Next

we need the mind, okay.

It would be so many experiences, Elijah are still afraid

of Jezebel. I want to spend more, a bit more,

just a bit longer. Even with so many experiences we've got,

Elijah was still afraid of Jezebel. There's too many Christians. Really,

we have a lot of experience with up. You came

up for prayer, you fough under the power, you got

up again, you thought the power again, you got up

again for the power again.

Even that you and I sometimes we get the word

is afraid? I shared?

I mean I shared the story this uh with the

Mandarin service. I thought, just shad here right this story.

I'm going to close. So I just about one month ago,

one month ago, I was I was rushing you know

when you're rushing friends, when you're rushing from one point

to another point, you feel great because sometimes your productivity level.

Goes high because you're checking off the list.

You get your dope. Put me from checking off the list.

You know what I'm trying to say, You got this

check list? You want the more you check out, ye

hallelujah productive not like other Christiani. It does something to

you want friends. You understand there's this that you're pointing

to point B. You know, I spent them. Okay, anyway,

so I was talking after that, reversing, reversing my car

that was looking to my wife, went do my grocery shopping.

Yay, check him out off the least.

I bought enough groceries for a few days, hallelujah, praised

a lot, only to come back. They came after me

and say, so you beg someone else's car. I didn't know,

because if you beg friends, you stand. When you beg

the car, you beg the car, you understand, you know what,

you know, the feeling right, the bumper collided and stuff

like that. I thought, no, what I don't ever, not me,

not my car. He begging to me, and I didn't

meaning to him, not denial but dress anyway. He showed

me the picture. He showed me then the other person

for number. I got my hat segment. I saw the

other car. I thought it was a Proton saga or

my v because you know roughly the repairs. But friends,

this is the bends. My heart said, go like, okay,

he showed me the number. He showed me the number

and just say, sir, this is number. Would you want

to call him? Standing in front of me. I want

to do the most Christian thing, right, take the number.

I callator like say, I'll pay for you, but that

will pay what you understand right anyway, So I want

to do that.

I went like, oh, manka to.

Call in front of him? I said, so sorry, no

I so from the images it looks like I bang

your car.

Yeah you did. I'm so faster. It's accusing me. Really,

that s it.

I'm going to take you to the official workshop. I

went like, oh you think you're nice Luxurius cart the

official work shop?

Go aead, okay, lord is it?

I pay my tithe for I know that every time

I don't pay my type for some a bill will

coming back. Look, I paid my tie. I remember I

paid my type. The first tiding is protection one. Okay,

just want you to know that me something meeting that

the way. But anyway, so I went like, I got

take you to the official workshop. Can you go take

it to somewhere else? Anyway you say, take it in.

I wanted to really that very moment, I really want

to try the most Christian thing ever. Really, I want

to say that, are you a Christian? I'm also a Christian,

but I'm a full time worker. So God food, that

work a grace to that God food, that work a

great I was. So that's what the get from the situation.

Come on, also, that's what gether from the situation.

Because you know that if it's collider, if it's a

front collision, you understand. You know, we have to do

what you have to do.

But when just too bumper just decided to just become

a bit more closer, it's borderline. I would take it

to the official works up to check on the river's

censor where it got cracked it out.

Okay, do whatever you need to do. I couldn't sleep.

Because I was just thinking how much the bill will costs,

thinking that if the bill costs this.

X amount, of money. What could I do with the money?

Think about it. That's what we do it. Sometimes we

get into the situation we do what you know, this money?

Can we do something? We will?

Righteous money can go for missions, became given somebody, It

can be given to. Law can do for missions. Righteous

thoughts all coming man. But I realized that very moment

God was trying to tell me something. Friends, my mind

was hijacked with anxiety and worry. Anxiety and worry. Now

to some of you say just right, yes, your paycheck

can my my paychecks can be different. So anyway, Sunday came.

He I was like, okay, maybe he forgot the Maybe

God spoke to him, appeared to him in dreams that

he now called me, and that said, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

Right Sunday body text me. I saw his alumna. I

got to preciate exaboun when he comes in here. I

got my heart sagond that opened, but praise opened up.

So I checked it. Nothing wrong, It's okay except for

a few scratches.

I got, okay, So you want to spray your whole

bumper just because a few scratches. So asked if how

the scratch. It's okay, like things happened. Things happened, It's

all right. You have a good Sunday. That very moment,

I really feel like you just reach out to him,

you know, God bless you. You'll give all the Christian

work to him.

And stuff like that. But what this shad is you?

My mind was hijacked. Come on the next How we

see experiences that can trigger our minds? You think too much?

Lit to confusion, exhaustion for Friday.

The accident happened to Sunday friends. I saw his messages twice.

Twice.

I did not want to open immediately because the very

fact that his message came to the phone costed me anxiety.

What will he say? How much would it cost? Would

he be a nasty person?

On? It rubts you though, even when you bullow book

at a message you ready, your mind is thinking about it.

The readly you haven't opened the message, and your mind.

Is thinking about it. And that's what happens because of

your past experience. Your past experience caused you to have

triggered like the actually do serve you go?

That blast of myself I got burned. My head became why.

No saving this lack of calcial mooney, I think there's

a Christ to me, this is like okay anyway you

you you think about it, you got, you're okay, and

you're okay. Like someone just mentioned that the phrase the

thing do you got? Then you take a few steps back,

have would it would go to the details that this

is what happened when the mind is not renewed. Friends, Next,

my was this romans the troubles too. Don't not be

conformed to this, but be transformed in the renewer of mind.

You know the scripture confirmation versus transformation. Next, Friends, some

places we don't realize it we confirmed. This is how natural.

This is how everyone responds. Know how I know whether

mind is renew or not? Where your narrative changed? If

all these wild friends, we keep repeating the same tuator,

the same story.

Friends, Your mind is not renewed. If all these years

are you read through some things that you thought was better,

and you keep bringing it up and up.

And up, friends, sounded song, You keep bringing it up,

keep bringing it up, keep bringing up. Friends, Your mind

is not renew and that's why it supplass. It's hard

to get a brig when the mind is not renewed it.

It's hard.

One time we were doing church in the earlier days.

I met a lady new to church. First thing, they

wanted to tell me, you want to let you know

what their literation did to me? New visitors to church.

First statement, I want to let you know what the

literation need to be. I go, like I said, I said,

hang on, first, you're new here. I said, would you

just surrender the Lord because you cannot? And I'm not

here to judge what the literation did because you do

won't judge you already hear the other side, I say,

I'm not here. By if your issues bringing back to

your previous pastor sit that with the eldest, I'm sure

they will work something else. But your mind is not reading.

You call constantly be conformed, conform just because someone hurts you.

You won't get even. Come on, Transformation tells us there's

a better way. Transformation tells us there's a better way,

and it's God's way. Next one we knew our mind

is a spiritual alignment act that we cannot afford not

to do, cannot afford not to do. I got one

guy came up one time, she's ship. You know, I

got amazing testimony. God came to, came to, came to

pray God. But the lips, the words after the testibility

have been shed. Never change. Never change. One time the

city with the brother, I just don't even say. Look,

I said, I appreciate all your feedback, fantastic feedback, very

good feedback.

However, can we move forward? Move forward? You went for

a mission treating did work well for you? Move forward?

I said, you never understand why God different people. You

know this brother hurt me. You know, I said, guys,

you may think it's just hurt. How many of you

know someone got placed in the region to get the

dirt out of our lives. You some of your serving

the ministry get rubbed the wrong way. Don't be so

quick and just say a bad.

Person like yourself enjoling in the express.

So how base are your She's a good? Go there

she don't You don't get angry and she I now

her Julie getting angry before? No, No, very good anyway

because of their friends. Come on, your love us, do

you'll know something?

And come on? Yeah, be like man, No, she's good.

Come on, let's firm her. She's good.

She's good anyway, the spiritual alignment. Come on, If our

mind is not transformed, right, friends, not transformed, the alignment

won't happen. You want the break shoe, friends, you want

a breakthrough, but you want your break to your own way.

How forever we're a white one. What happened with God

asked you to go back to the fire. It's like close.

Many times our mind gets hijacked by the circumstances because

we have not renewed it. It's true, my mentors, our

mind is not renew because we don't spend time with

the word. We don't if we spend time with everything

else but not the word. And because our mind is

not renew of friends, a solution is always the same one.

And it's like God always has a better way for us.

But we've met all things are impossible. We've got all

things are possible. But we've got all things are possible.

Come on, So when my mind is like close right now? Friends,

I'm not sure what you go to in your daily

lives strengths, But here's the thing. Most things is people issue.

Most things simbil of people issue betrayal, bitterness and forgiveness

people issue. So the renewer of my help is understand God,

I understand. I don't wrestle against flesh and blood. Come on,

I don't wrest against flesh. But so therefore the person

thing besides you's not your enemy. Not your enemy. Allow something,

things will happen to reveal, so for you to crowd

to him, for you to know that His strength is

sufficient for you.

As I close right now, friends, I'm not sure where

your real journey, but I want to.

I want to encourage you. I really want to encourage you.

God is a refuge, our refuge. As you end the year, friends,

don't end the year without knowing how it comes true

for us in terms of trouble. Don't end the year

friends without knowing how it comes true for you in

times of pressure. Don't end the year without surrendering. I

pray that you do not carry the same narrative to

next year, because something has to break, something has to change,

you know, friends, the first two it's not all one

to God says so. And second one, God give you

supernatural strength. You know. What you can't do is to

transform your mind. That's your choice here to make is

not a mind transplant with the same mind, friends, that

was filled with so many things. The world of God

is able to change. Come on, change change and you

see a different solution, you see a different outcome.

Different.

But if you don't, the outcome is always very similar one.

The outcome come, it's always very similar. And God wants

to encourage you before you end this year. Some of

us wish, like Elijah, just lie that at the boom

treat that. I don't get that anymore. I don't face

I don't I don't want, do not want to face

what I need to face tomorrow. It's very real, friends,

I don't deny the pressure. Sometimes pressure gets to us

that days I feel I don't want to wake up

to face the messages, the emails.

Thinks that's out of our comfort zone. I do not

want to handle that.

But God doesn't lead you to a place like the wilderness,

like Elijah, come on to abandon you, to leave you

alone that you cry on your own.

He knows. This is why he says this angel to

minister to you, to cakes and water.

To encourage you. That Jezebel or the spray of JESSEB. Bell,

it's not greater than God. The spirit of Jezebel, it's

not greater than his word.

I stand here.

I just want to encourage you as you close this year, friends,

this one moment close this year. Well, I want stuff

we went through this year, the good and ugly, the

good and the ugly. Let's surrender to the Lord. Really

surrender it to the Lord. Because God knows, friends, he knows.

He doesn't give you something you can't overcome.

He knows.

So as I close, friends, I want to pray for

all of us. Is it possible you stand after that?

In a few moments, I won't pray. I asked Ned

to lead us into a worship song, which allow got

to be listening to your heart right now.

Jesus, we hope.

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