No Eye Has Seen, No Ear Has Heard | Rachel Ann

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Isaiah chapter sixty four, verse four.

It says, for since the beginning of the world, men

have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has

I seen any God besides you and use Yahweh, who

acts for the one who waits for him. In the

Nalty version, it says, since the world began, no ear

has heard, and no I have seen a God like

you who works for those who wait for him. And

many of you have read this verse before. We know

it sounds nice and all that, but I want to

really dive deep into this and share from what I've

experienced myself and hope that you catch something. We read

it again in First Corinthians chapter two, verse nine. This

is Paul preaching to the Corinthian Church, and verse nine

says that is what the scriptures mean when they say

no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no

mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who

love him.

Amen. Amen.

Yeah, I hope you all awake here. So let's talk

a bit about this before I even dive into that.

Why don't be backtrack and read the whole chapter. Okay,

so let's go to First Corinthians, chapter two. We're going

to read from verse one to five first and will

slowly go through the whole chapter. So starting from verse

one and reading from nalty version. When I first came

to you, dear brothers and sisters, I didn't use lofty

words and impressive wisdom to tell you God's secret plan.

So I decided that.

While I was with you, I wouldn't forget everything except

Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.

And if you got to excite the verse is there.

I came to you in weakness, timid and trembling, and

my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than

using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the

power of the Holy Spirit. And I did this so

you would trust not in human wisdom, but in the

power of God. And today I stand here, like I said,

I don't have, you know, a very fancy message, but

I just want to testify, testify of God's power at

work and his plans unfolding. Okay, and the worse days right,

forget everything except Jesus Christ. What does that mean?

You know?

Every every day, all the time, every hour, every minute,

We'll always we were continually fed with knowledge, with information,

with problems of the world. And we find ourselves very

much living in this natural realm, right, we live in

the natural We we live in a realm of logic

and a realm of reason. But what does it mean

to only remember Christ? You know, I think about it,

and I think it's remembering that this universe is all

about him. Number one is to remember that life is

all about him and we were created by him and

also for him, and it's only through him that we

have life and life Abandoning a Man Romans, Chapter eleven,

verse thirty six, it says everything comes from him and

exists by his power. As you and me we exist

by his power, and it's intended for his glory, all

glory to him, forever a man. And just the moment

we start living as if life is about us, if

life revolves about us around us, you know, and we

are so focused on everything that we're going through, that

is when we will start living in anxiety, in worry,

in fear, right, because it's you know, we're looking at

the things that's happening in the world. I mean, it's

our world has it's in such a terrible state. We're

living in such dark times. And in first Serviceden, you know,

brought out and we prayed about it, prayed over the

youth as well.

But you know what happened? What is it two weeks

back now? Uh?

You know with the fourteen fourteen year old boy in

a school and a sixteen year old girl. And our

nation is living in such dark times and we are

we are in the world, and so when we look around,

it's just so many things bombarding us.

But how do we live like this?

Verses year it's not seen, not hear, has heard or

entered the mind of men the things that God has

prepared for us. Right, But living in Christ means that

we live free from sin and shame.

That's number one.

We live victoriously and we're free to live purpose fully

as well. So we read on in verse six to

verse nine, still reading from NLT. Yet when I am

among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom,

but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world,

all to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten. No,

the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God,

his plan that was previously hidden, even though He made

it for our ultimate glory before the world began. But

the rulers of this world have not understood it. If

they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord.

And that is what the scriptures mean when they say

no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no

mind has imagined what God has prepared for those.

Who love him. Amen.

Now he says, no one can imagine what God has

prepared for those who love him.

How many have you loved him? Here? Yeah, all of

us love Jesus, But how many of us truly believe

this word what He has prepared for you? Amen? I

see one hand raving there.

Amen. Sometimes it's hard right to really walk in this light,

in this knowledge, not just knowledge, but a revelation.

You know, to us.

The rest of the world may not see, hear it,

know it, but we have that revelation that what God

has prepared for us is beyond our wildness, dreams and imagination.

But firstly, who could have even imagined that our creator,

God of the universe himself will come to this world

give his life for us, and not just give his life.

He suffered, He suffered for our sake, and this mystery itself, right,

is something we cannot fat them. We cannot fully comprehends

honest when we really meditate and think about it, Like, God,

how can you do that? You own everything, the world

is yours, you know, and yet you can give up

your glory and come to this earth that is so

broken just to give his life for us. And there's

no other faith, you know, a faith, right, there's a

God that would sacrifice itself for mankind.

Our God is the only one who did that.

And think about it, France, if our God could do that,

has done that. You think there's anything else that he

would hold back from you? Come on, he really gave

It's already, he gave his best. There's like ultimate already,

there's nothing else bigger than that. Then giving his life?

Is there anything else that he will hold back from us?

So let me share with you a little bit of

a story of my life in this season. Of course

it's been a build up, but it's yeah, said Taylor

swith know what song is that?

You know the story of my life?

But yeah, going through certain stuff, but through that, even

as the red this scripture, you know, God has been

ministering to me, and I pray that he will also

minister to you because I know everyone, you know, we

go through different things at different times. So this is

my story. Let me give you some background just for context.

I put some timelines there because I think some of

it is significant. So some of you those have been

with me for a while, known me for a while,

you know that I have a heart, really have a

heart for the loss and a hurt for missions. But

I can't say there, It's always been there. It's always

been like that. But I do have to say that

my parents, did you know, expose me to a lot

of outreach, outreach efforts when I was younger, since I

was born actually because my dad was in prison ministry

when I was born, he was in Malaysian care and

so for I was a baby, my parents brought in

ex convicts into the home to live with us.

You know, when they came out, they're nowhere to go.

They live with us, And so, yeah, I was a

baby and head ex convicts living in our house. So

even when some of these things happened in the neighborhood,

the police would like come to our house was to

check because the convicts are living there.

My mom told me there was one. There was one night. No,

they came middle of the night, the.

Police came in and the ex convicts told him like,

say the baby is sleeping like they were, you know,

they were more conscious and worried about me as a

baby then.

But so that was my life growing up in church.

I was exposed to a lot of outreach from young

So I used to follow my mom to children's ministry

in like Kampung Chabaka Kampung Area, a bit Cantonese, more

Chinese speaking congregation. But we did what we call exkids

here at that time, we called it the School of Joyce.

It was a Saturday school that we taught the kids,

all pre believers. We just went around with a van

fetched them.

I think we're.

Inspired by Bill Wilson pastor Bill Wilson's ministry. Drive a

vent around pick up all these kids, you know, the

parents who just like yeah, go go go, and then

they come and they learn the Word of God. And

all these are families that are not from Christian background.

So we used to do that going though I don't

know Raua, I can't remember pamb all kinds aff but

I just wantow my parents everywhere. So parents those of

you were young kids. Just bring them everywhere from ministry.

I mean, now they may complain. I know my kids

are so complain sometimes, but when they grow up, you

know there's a seed that's planted their dy and they

will have a heart for people. Yeah, I see that

in my own life. And then so in nineteen ninety four,

that's the first year I put there. I was twelve

years old. Now you're going to count how I am now,

I was twelve and a famous prophet and preachers something.

You may know him if you're around my age, pastor

Frankie who he's gone back home to the lot now,

but he came to our church to speak and he

was praying over different ones of vers we're at the altar,

and he prophessed that over my life. I still remember

at the time when I heard this prophecy, I'm like, okay, whatever,

But my mom was there like yes, amen, amen. Because

he prophesied that I will go into missions. I will

going to Southeast Asia, starting with Thailand and then to

the rest of Southeast Asia. So that was his prophecy.

I still remember very clearly. I know they recorded it.

Let me listen back to it. After that but you

know that there was I was twelve, so I didn't

think much about it went through life. But in UNI,

when I was in university and MMU Multimliar University Zabajaya,

when I felt my heart for mission started to grow.

I mean we were exposed to mission trips. We went

to around Aslei villagers together with our CF and and

every year end there will be a year end mission

trip that usually the final year students will go for

overseas trip. And I remember so twenty two thousand and five,

they announced that they're going to have a trip to Thailand.

So I heard Thailand.

I think something clicked because I remember the prophecy right

taland okay, let's go, let's go.

So I signed up.

It wasn't my final year, as my second one year

before my final year, but I decided to go with

the seniors and we signed out. We started preparing, but

some things happened and somehow the trip changed to Cambodia.

So actually we went to Cambodia. That was my first,

my first overseas mission trip. I think went to Cambodia,

but I tell you there was the first time I

found myself like on my knees weeping for people and

a nation that I barely knew, hardly knew in thingbout

Cambodia until we're about to go there. There we started,

you know, watching about the Kamara roots and reading up

about the history, and it's very oppressive, actually very oppressive history.

And yeah, I just found myself crying for them, you know,

praying for them, and a lot of things have been there.

I mean that one we were really.

Exposed to spiritual warfare. How over reading twenty two, Yeah,

about the about the Asia when we were twenty Nola,

I think I was like twenty three, twenty three because

I graduated when I was twenty four. And but fast

forward to working life. You know, I started going into

Thailand once or twice a year because we had mission

trips going to run On, which is throughout c Gypsies

called Amoken people, and also to x Chang Mai. So

when x Cha I just started Albert, I actually followed

past us there on like the second trip. So I

started going in once or twice a year. And again

if you look at a timeline, so nineteen ninety four,

the Prophecy two thousand and four, my first like.

Really big mission trip. That's ten years later.

Another ten years later, twenty fourteen, it was in Ranong, Thailand,

ministring around the c Gypsies that I remember God very

clearly breaking my heart for the loss. It was a

different kind of like I felt so broken, I don't

know what, and he goes messing up my mind and

my view and my just everything, like my whole world

seemed like it was being broken, and.

Really had a heart for the unreached.

Unreached people groups there meant people that have never heard

the gospel before, including those who have who are hindered

or restricted from here in the gospel, and you know

who those are in our own nation, and sort of

stirring to get into missions. Full time started to grow

at that time, and many times I ask God, No, God,

is it time to come out from the corporate. So

for those whon't know I started, you know, I yeah,

I studied engine I got into a technical role when

I graduated, and I just completed my nineteen years at

my company this month, yeah, October this month, And so

I asked many times, you know, like God, is it

time to leave the corporate to come out to full time?

But every time I asked it was always not yet,

Like God has not asked me to leave the marketplace

and the corporate world yet. And I see God continue

to use me in the marketplace. That's also a mission field.

For those who are on the marketplace, that is your

mission field. You know, there's so many who are lost

there and they need they need to hear the gospel.

They need to hear about hope.

Imen And in fact, I think the first time that

I felt, okay, is it time to leave un go

full time? Really what happened? I was in twenty fifteen.

Then God promoted me to a manager position. Something's happened,

toxic manager. He left, and then my boss says it,

you know, do you want to interview for the position?

Okay?

So I felt. I felt for the people. I didn't

want another person. I was like coming and you know,

bring in politics. So I took up the challenge and

go into that position. Was twenty fifteen twenty twenty two,

history sort of.

Repeats itself again. We had toxic leadership.

And I've told this story before, but you know, long

story shot in America. It was a miraculous way and

got removed them again. I was asked to can you

step up to lead country no, so became country hit

and you know, pull things together, break down all the

walls between the teams. You know, people used to say,

it's like South Korea and North Korea brought the teams together,

bring up the morale in the office. Everything seemed good,

you know, happy, every things smooth sailing. And then in

August twenty twenty three admissions conference, again I felt the

burden to go full time and I got really now,

like things look really good at my workplace, at my marketplace,

are you really you know, tugging at my heart now?

And I can't still remember my see okay to visit.

He came to c US end of the year and

we're having a conversations. He's, you know, talking about a

vision now for Malaysia and saying, oh yeah, talking about

populating the office, how fast you need to grow it,

et cetera. And in my mind I'm looking at him, right,

but in my head, I was just like, but I

need to populate Heaven, Like populating the office is like nothing,

you know, it wasn't my first agenda of my mind.

Un popular heaven. So there was a bit of a

I felt a bit misplaced at that time displaced, misplaced,

a bit out of place.

And as seeing God, what's next, What's next? But in

twenty twenty four, I mean after I spoke to pastors Pascuna,

Passenger as well. You know, they do acknowledge the calling

of my life, but you know, ask me to pray

through it. Let's see how God leads. In twenty twenty

four July, I had my trip to London. So I

go there once a year for our leadership meeting, and

I pulled my boss aside. We just had a couple

of minutes a mee before other people were around, so

put her aside, told her my intentions very briefly, and

thankfully she's a believer, so she she understood where I

was coming from, and I said, as she was. I

was surprised at her reaction, actually because she she wasn't surprised,

and she said she knew that I have I do

have a full time calling. So she said, yes, you know,

I'm said to you go, but if you know, there's

there's a lot bigger things more important than building these businesses.

She said, there's a lot more important things. But she said, yeah,

I start looking for a successor. If we want to

do this because I said, I want to give as

much time as I can to the company as well,

you know, find a successor, you know, build that person up,

et cetera. So I started my hunter hunt for successor.

From July to your end, I was going around, I

mean I was speaking to my talent acquisition or hiring

you know, hiring person, can you look for this kind

of portfolio? And then I was speaking to different ones

and and I felt at one point, as it starts

with aligned, so someone a friend of mine, we suddenly reconnected.

And then this person said, Hey, this other person just

got made redundant, and you know, maybe you could speak

to him see whether.

It's it's uh, you know, can can match or not?

So make connection.

Spoke to this person, I don't know this person friends,

and then yeah, it looked like perfect fit, same industry,

same kind of experience.

I want to.

Step out, you know, to step in because you're looking

for something. And and so I arrange for interviews and

all that. My boss and yeah, she really like him,

but she said, I'm not sure whether we'll fit you know,

this this role currently. So I was quite disappointed. I'm like, God,

where else am I going to find someone that can

replace me, not not the skills and experience, and because

I don't think I'm very not rescue nor very experience,

but more of like having a heart for the company

and really willing to go long you know, go to

long haul because my company is like up and now

up and down, and discover business eyes, you know, go

to all of acquisitions, mergers, things keep changing, policies changing,

boss changing. It's really a roller coaster, right, and not

many people can can Okay they can't. They can't stay

on for long. So it's it's tough. And so nothing moved.

I mean, it basically wasn't going the way I imagined

to be. I thought like, wow, yeah I found right

person aready No, and and so I'm just like waiting

on god lab. But you know, it didn't. It didn't

work as I pictured. Nothing had progressed until November. November

twenty twenty four. So that same year, my boss made

a trip down and you know, as the CEO to

come as well, because she said, you know, it'd be

a shame if Rachel leaves before you see her again

in personal. So they came down and then we had breakfast.

The first morning they arrived and the first thing he

says to me is, so, Rachel, you're leaving us, and

I'm like, uh at some point but not yet. I said,

you know, I will take my time, but this is

you know, this is what's on my heart. And so

we spoke about it. He asked what I wanted to do,

et cetera. But I tell you what, that conversation was

a mind blowing one for me because at the end

of it, right, what it turned out to be was

I don't know how it turned around to why don't

you can still be part of our business because we

would love to We would love to have you see

succeed because we're still in that. You don't trying to

pick back up turn the business around. We still have

you to be a part of that. But why don't

you can still do whatever you wanna do with your church,

et cetera. Tell us how many days you want, how

manyays you want to be in office, how many days

you want to be out?

We can work work that out. And I'm like, I was.

I did it it words because like I never thought

that it would be an option, because which company would

like let the stuff? Okay, you take some time off

you're gonna do whatever you want to do and you

can still be with us. It's either you know out

usually and so I was like wow. So they said, yeah,

so what do you what do you say? Do you

think the offer? And I'm like, it sounds really good.

Let me speak to my big boss up there first.

God has speak to God first. And I spoke to

pastors pass and Dry and they also said like, wow,

such favor this is, this is this unprecedented favor. I mean,

you don't find this anywhere anytime. And it was a

confirmation that yeah, just like how poor you know, doing

the days of X. And throughout his life, he he

never depended on just people's giving, right, he was a

tent maker, so he earned, he earned his own living,

and he also traveled the world. And you know, he's

he's the greatest apostle missionary. And because even when I

was thinking about coming off full time, of course, the

first challenge or thing on our minus finances, how Albert

already in full time. If I also come out full time,

who's gonna pay for the kids? It's gonna pay for

the kids' education. And so that worry was always at

the back of my mind. Although I know, yes, God provide,

God provide, I mean, we know it, but the reality

is is reality. But when this happened, I'm like, oh, God,

you're showing me that you don't have, you know, I

felt God asking me why you limit me? Why do

you limit me to I must be in the company

only or in the church only, showing me that actually

if I can, I want to open doors for you

to do both.

I can do that. So it's just God, you.

Know again when I there's the first thing that verse,

first verse that came to my mind is that no

no I see no, yes, no, no, minus imagine what

God has prepared for us, because it's always bigger than

what we dream and our dreams are so small, like

what we think we can do is so small.

Yeah, so that was like what I get to do both?

You know, I was so excited.

I don't need to worry about finances, still getting a member.

Boss said that, yeah, why don't you do this.

You can still start, you know, whatever you dream of

doing with your church and still get paid, like still

get and I don't even need to burden the church.

So yeah, and and why I felt that always because

I felt in my marketplace.

I mean I can.

I am reaching out to the people there, but the

time is limited, right, majority of time will still need

to be focusing on your company objectives and key res

outs and KPIs and all that stuff still has to happen,

and you can't digrect the and like, oh, I'm just

doing ministry completely. In the workplace, there still needs to

be both and you still need to be excellent right

in our jobs. You can't slack. So there's that, and

that's why I felt a tugging to to do more.

But wow, God is saying, yeah, you can, you can

do more. Still be there and in because my heart

was still heavy to live. Also because my heart for

the people, like you know, the majority uh not believers

and majority are from the majority race, you know, and

I love them and so many of them I've been

doing life for so many years. I just feel like

if I completely lose touch with them, it'll be such

it be said laugh for me. We said, you know,

haven't seen the fruit yet, and I haven't seen anyone

you know, really come to Christ. But yeah, God keeps

doing the unimagurable, That's all I want to say. He

keeps blowing our minds and if you haven't experienced that,

I want, I hope you're encouraged that it can happen,

because this scripture is not just for means.

It's for all of us.

And it stated in the Old Testament and again in

the New Testament.

It is true for our lives right now.

In so just last month September, as you said, I mean,

I'm saying this, this is all very fresh.

I'm still going through it.

So September twenty twenty five, I reduced my working days

at work. I resigned my contract to reduce to four

days at work and then one day start off with

one day volunteer with with a ya. And there are

things that if you want to know what it is

I'm working on, you can can't speak to me personally,

but yeah, there are things that God has.

Laid on my heart.

I don't see the full picture, and I'm still figuring

things out as well as the Holy Spirit leads. But

has it been smooth sating, like yeah, this is the

end of the story, happy ending. No, A lot of

things have still been happening. And I shed two press

services ago that I lost a key client, which I've

been you know, servicing for nineteen years now, big team.

My whole career has been with this client. And because

of that, it's going to impact the team. Not just

the team that you're servicing, the entire office, the entire

office basios at risker and come this month October, just

before we left for keep Town, actually my boss was

having a conversation to me to be very transparent upfront,

to say, hey, Rachel, we're meeting the board and we're

going to have to make a very major decision because

we cannot continue status coo seeing the financials of the company,

et cetera, can remain status call.

We either completely shut down to Malaysia office. It's me

and the.

Sixty well sixty eight of us, or we grow the office.

It's either or we have to put at least I

don't know, I think about one hundred hits here in

order for it to be able to see the financial

benefit because there's about seven hundred global leader, so neb.

One hundred here.

So completely close down or grow And I'm like, God,

I thought you brought me through this, Like.

Isn't the picture laid out already?

Now you'll we have chances of getting shut down completely

and then maybe I'll be frustrated into really foodstry. I

don't know, I don't know, but it is, you know,

it was still worrying, and I have that burden for

the people whom.

I'm always like. I'm always very positive and trying to

things up.

Course it's been years really like that. People are always asking,

you know, our secure even when new CEO comings, like

oh I don't go to shut us down and open

in India.

It is very real, you know, all.

These businesses they will because of course they will try

to find way it's the most cost efficient.

So I've always been positive.

I mean saying, yeah, as long as God's with us

and I pray for the company.

We will be okay. And then this news and just

before Cape Town.

But i tell you what, even though it's very real,

we're up the mountain in the valley, just not we're

singing right mountain valleys. Let's read a bit of scripture

and then I explain a bit more so ten versus

if you move down verse ten to verse twelve, let

me read from NLT again. So really in KGV sometimes

it can be a bit deep. Okay, that's ten. But

it was to us that God revealed these things by

his spirit for expirits search us out everything and shows

us God's deep secrets. No one can know a person's starts,

accept that person's own spirit. Hey, no one knows your

thoughts except your own spirit. And no one can know

god thoughts except God's own spirit.

But guess what.

And we have received God's spirit, not the world's spirit,

so we can know the wonderful things God has freely

given us. Amen, we have received God's spirit, you know,

and his spirit knows.

He knows what God's thoughts are.

The Holy Spirit knows, and we have him in our hearts,

in our lives. So through this journey, I realized that

God is actually.

Searching and revealing my heart as well. Says that right.

Spirits, such as everything and everything that we go through,

I realize He is searching our heart. There's not so

much the situation, not so much what we're going through,

not so much the outcome. What is happening in the

process and in that journey. So, like I said, right

at the beginning, I was like admissions conference.

You know, like, yeah, I really give up everything and

you know, just go go full time with the Lord.

And then but reality, He's right when my hit our

first talk about his remuneration. I remember my heart sinking,

Oh we have to talk about this? Didn't think about it. Yes,

you're to talk about remuneration. Yes, I had to take

a big cat. I had to probate that it's not

fair right to earn the same but reduce my working days.

But God had to check my heart. Am I still

a shirt? Am I still confident? Do I still trust

him completely?

Or now?

Am I like I need to? In fact, I did

try to know, like to talk about it a little bit.

Can you just round up the number? Round it up?

But right after I.

Did that, Holy speaker victimy like, do you really trust me?

Or you're trying to work out things on your own?

I had to take back.

I thought, my boss is okay, don't need to touch,

don't need to touch the numbers. I'm okay, But yeah,

do we fully trust God to provide?

When?

Really, when the rubber hits the road and in reality his

am I really to give up everything? God is searching.

God is searching our hearts. Some sources not search my heart.

And I start, you know, realizing that I'm asking myself.

Am I really aligning?

Am I truly aligning myself with God's will and his

plans or is it because I have this picture in

my mind what it should be like.

Then I'm like, God, please let this happen.

You know, are we are we aligning ourselves to his

plan or are we hoping that He will follow our plan?

Right?

Like? I mean the things that God has given me.

So I was saying even this this year, apart from

all those things that I mentioned, you know, losing a customer,

stepping into a y a, I also had plans to

help grow the business here. Actually, this this came about

even before I started feeling like we're going to lose

the customer. And again I feel like the Holy Spirit

they give me that foresight and sort of was preparing

me bows in denial. Anyway, before that, I really started

feeling like, yeah, if I can grow or bring business

in Malaysia locally to this entity, why not. If I

can create opportunity for people, why not. If I can

make it sustainable, why not? And this is never in

my nineteen years crossed my mind before, like I would

never think about going into business. But this year got

started giving me the courage to step into that. And

again when this thing came about schools and office and like, God,

do you really tell me that?

Right? Again?

It's like all these questions. It was that real, am,

I really supposed to do this. But my challenge was

this morning. Because this is how I was challenged. Instead of,

you know, asking all these questions, my pray became, Lord,

you positioned me where you see best, because you know

your plans, you know your purpose for my life. I

don't know it. I mean I sort of know it,

but I don't know where exactly. It's the best place now,

best position, And so that was my prayer. You know

where my best position to advance your kingdom is? In

a marketplace? Is it full time? Is it in bold?

Whatever it is?

God, you know.

And the moment I surrendered myself to his will that way,

I tell you, just his peace that surpasses understanding. It's

not all that's going on. All I'm thinking about the people,

the company, my family. But his peace just overwhelmed me

and I could go to keep down and enjoy it.

Then I had to think about a thing because I know,

you know, God, you've you've got it, like you've got

it covered. I just walk faithfully. I just think step

by step because part of me also I'm thinking, should

I drop all my efforts now I'm trying to look

for a new business. Should I just drop it because

it might in my amount do nothing suddenly just grows

on the office and wasted my time.

But I was convicted to, Yeah, just just keep walking.

I just just keep doing and let God reveal no

the plans. So yes, we'reen we keep down enjoyed. It

is beautiful. By the way, if you like mountains and oceans,

there's one place that has it both. It's really beautiful.

And you know, even Albert who I think he said

it as well he's posting or his testimony, you know,

he wouldn't never have dreamt being on the same stage

as some of these people. These are world champion powerlifters,

you know, legends in the industry. In the spot, I

never would have dreamt it. But you know, God opened again.

God blows our minds, just a birth and beyond what

we can ask or imagine, if only we really believe

it and walk in it. And sort of the yeah

I talk about He's searching our heart. So whatever you're

going through, trust me, he's searching your heart. He's not

about It's not just about what you're going through and

what's going to be the outcome. What is happening during that?

Let him, let him search, let him reveal, let him

refine us.

Amen.

And then it says, so we can know the wonderful

things God has freely given us. Now, what has God

freely given us? Think about it. He's given us life

and life more abundantly. And we always say that word,

but sometimes we wonder, release, my life abundant doesn't feel

like it. Now He's freely given us peace that surpasses understanding.

No matter what storms you're going through, we can still

be come like Jesus sleeping in the storm. He's given

us a hope in the future. Right, and nothing and

no one can can rob you off that. But but

we find ourselves always in a situation where the world,

the enemy is trying to rob us from all these things.

The enemy consistently lies towards that. Yeah, you don't even

have what has God given you? But his words say

He's given us freely given us all these things. I mean,

I tell you I've been hearing so many lives, you know,

since going through all this just lies of you can't

do this, Who are you to do this?

Suddenly?

Like all my experience throughout the window, all the years

of what I've gone through throughout the window, because it's

just suddenly like you can't do this. The company's gonna fail,

the office is gonna close down ministry. So you have

all these dreams, but who are you to? You're not qualified?

Who are you to to even carry the plants out

like where you're gonna start? All these things in a

suddenly start clouding my mind a lot of self self doubt.

But if we read on in verse thirteen to sixteen,

when we tell you these things, we do not use

words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words

given to us by the Spirit, using the spirit's words

to explain spiritual truths. But people who are spiritual can't

receive these truths from God's spirit. It all sounds foolish

to them and they can't understand it. For only those

who are spiritual can understand what the spirit means. And

I hope all of you your spirits catching something today.

Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they

themselves cannot be evaluated by others. It's true, know others

won't understand when you want a life of faith. That

they're not going to understand. Write those who don't have Christ,

they wildn't understand why A you're making these decisions?

Why are you doing this?

And verse sixteen for who can know the Lord's thoughts?

Who knows enough to teach him? But there's a big butter.

But we understand these things, for we have the mind

of Christ. Come on, can I hear any amen? We

have the mind of Christ. I mean in this well,

we see the natural. We see all these things happening.

For me.

It's company instability, it's customers leaving, it's uncertainty, it's job security, provision.

Even in ministry.

Like I said, right, God's giving me this dream, but

recently their days I'm like, can I really achieve it?

It like looks nice in my head, But when you

start walking in it, like okay, suddenly I'm sure. But

God's work says we had the minor Christ. You know,

how do I how do I keep walking in the supernatural?

How do I see what he's seeing and what he

is envisioning? What is God doing? And it's a battle

of the mind.

Right, I had to.

Change, I said, I had to change my prayer to

God positioned me were your best see fit I prayer.

Always have that prayer. Whatever you're going through, Lord, this

is what I hope will happen. If it's according to

your will. Please let it be bad. But you position me,

You give me what I need, you take away what

I don't need. Because he knows that he sees all

things right. We need to have that that assurance and

really believe this word and receive this truth.

No.

I recently was talking to a friend, a pre believing

friend as well, who also just recently lost a job.

People losing jobs everywhere. It's very scary. But she was

asking me like, yeah, how, what's your plan. You know

it sounds quite darkler quite dim in the future. What's

your plan? And I said, I can, I can plan,

I can envision.

But is God that.

Will direct my path? Call a direct our path? And

only if only all of us could live this way.

Really convinced that God has prepared something for you, not

just something like something small or something big. Again, we're

talking about no. No I have seen, no ill has hurt,

no mind has imagined that kind of big.

He has prepared that for you.

You know, above and beyond what you can dream or imagine,

and to always see with our spiritual eyes, to tap

into his heavenly wisdom, to tap into his insight, his foresight.

Like I said, he was giving me foresight even though

I was in denial.

He was preparing me, give me a picture of what

I need to do or what it looks like if

we lose this client. And I was like, no, God,

I don't want to picture it because sometimes you're like that, right. No, No,

I stand in faith we will not lose it. I

was very confident in telling my teens will be okay.

But he was giving the foresight.

Luck he was, but thankfully he did, and for me

myself at least, I was a bit prepared so when

it happened, I didn't crash and burn. And again, should

we read verse nine again together? He did that next line,

can read verse nine together. I want us to really

get this into a spirit that's read. No eye has seen,

no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what

God has prepared for those who love him. Friends, receive

that into your spirit this morning. You know, as a

as as a true disciple of Christ, we need to

believe this word this whole year. The theme is disciples

of us, right, and it's not gonna end. We are

disciples until the day we meet Christ. And so you

know that that theme will continue even though we move

on and you know, have themes of the year, but

disciples will still be there. And as disciples, we need

to believe every word that God says here it's for

us and we can't just live a mediocre life, no church, friends,

this is my really my dream. I prayer for each

and everyone's that we will not live mediocre lives. We

gotta see that our lives and what God has prepared

for us, right, it's bigger than ourselves. It's bigger than

our families, it's bigger than our church, bigger than our nation,

even bigger than our dreams. And if we can all

just bring ourselves because now we know there's a tendency

for us to live under our circumstances of situations.

It's very rare. We're human.

But God has really given us the secret and He's

already promised us his words says we are above this.

Everyone else cannot imagine, you know, they can't brain it.

We our self struggle to bring it, but God has

given us this too.

This secret that we.

Can live above our circumstances. We can thrive, not just survive.

Amen.

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