Tale of the thorns | Pr Daniel

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We hope this message will light up your day.

I'm gonna share with you a little bit of what

I'm going through. I can't really share everything because of time,

but I have a key passage for you today that

I will eleborate a little bit more. But if you

have your Bible is can you turn to Second Corinthians twelve,

verse seven to ten. It's on the screen for your benefit.

But it's good to flip the pages I'm going to read. Okay,

I'm going to lead this in reading this scripture. Unless

I should be exalted above measured, is Paul by the

abundance of the revelation, A torn in the flesh was

given to me a messenger of Satan, to buffet me

lest I've exalted above measure. Concerning these things, I pleaded

with the Lord three times that it might depart from me,

and he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you,

for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore mostly

I most gladly I would rather boast in my infirmities

that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore

I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches in needs, in persecution,

in distress, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak,

then I am strong. Amen. How many of us can

say this, How many of us can take pleasure in

our infirmities, How many of us can be filled with

joy in moments of persecution. Because when we realize, when

our mind set shifts into the perspective of God's mind,

then we will know that it is in our weakness

his strength is made perfect. For when I am weak,

then I am strong in Christen. So not of encourage

you by sharing this scripture to you. My story, my

testimony in progress will revolve around this scripture. And we're

going to cover different parts of this scripture when we

get to it later. But Paul had every reason the boss. Yeah,

he was a messenger of God. He was an apostle,

he was a missionary. He was the greatest evangelist that

we have ever known. He wrote majority of the epistles,

majority of the New Testament. He is someone that God

has chosen for such a time as this. But in

that choosing, some of us in our lives we may

tend to forget that at the end of the day,

it's the message that God has given to us and

not our own message. But yet yet sometimes we go

around with that spiritual pride, and perhaps I am in

a better place than you. I pray that none of

us will ever be in that situation. But there must

be a reason why God gave gave the torn to Paul.

Because for Paul, such a person that he is, he

is also successible to such a thought of pride that

he is in his heart. So God allowed this to

happen to Paul. God allowed the torn to be stuck,

to be in his flesh. Not only that, he allowed Satan,

a messenger of Satan, to have free flow, free flow,

whatever Satan desired, whatever, in terms of his trial and

testing him, whatever it is, it almost reminds me of

what Joe went through, right, It almost reminds me of

what Job went through. He had visions, Paul visions, revelations.

Success in ministry, perhaps some words have success in our workplaces.

We earn a lot of money, we are successful. Whenever

someone asks you what can I pray for that you

say nothing, All good, everything great. Where some words are

like that, I would be a little bit worse read

and concern if that's the case, because there is always

something to pray for. And I'm not going to put

anyone down here, but there is always something to give

thanks to the Lord for there's always something to pray for.

There is always something. Sometimes it may not even be

about you. Sometimes it may be about the people that's

around you. If you have nothing to pray for in

that season of your life, I pray that that's something

that you need prayer for, is the salvation of someone

that's close to you, the breakthrough of someone that's close

to you. Because it's not just about you, it's about

people that's around you as well. And hence, when God

commanded us to love him, he also said to love

those around us before we love ourselves. Amen. So there's

always something to give thanks the Lord for there's always

something to pray for. But yet God allowed this torn

to keep Paul grounded, humble and also dependent. Dependent. You

realize that Paul pleaded that the pain the torn may

depart from him. He didn't he didn't insist that he

depart from him. He prayed that it may that please,

if it's indeed accordance to your will, please that it

might depart from me. So if it doesn't depart Paul

will still pressed on. Amen. It's not about whether it

happens or it may not happen. That's the word might

over there. Sixth April was a date that me and

my wife we're gonna start off a bit lighthearted. Then

we will going to the maybe a little bit more heavy.

But sixth April was the date that me and my

wife decided we're going to try some new restaurant in

god a commanding. Now, do not put this restaurant down.

I'm not going to name the restaurant, but it's a

middle it's a restaurant. Okay, it's quite it's nice that

the food is not bad. I think my wife enjoyed

it a little bit, but okay, like it was average

about six out of ten. My wife is like, no,

but I'm a bit kinder, right, I'm a kind guys,

about six out of ten. Uh, you're gonna try you

can try it right. Six April we went to this restaurant,

try it out right, and honestly, not too bad, not

too bad. I ordered the staple, she ordered the spicy version.

I ordered the non spicy version. And as we were eating,

my dear wife and I were having a lovely conversation.

You know, we have really decided to really embrace the

other more husbands and wife. You know, we'll be married

four years. I know were babies are in in terms

of comparison to some of you. But it's really a

good thing to spend time with your spouse. Yeah, reminded

to do that yesterday. Yesterday, if we decided to download

a game on BS four and it's called it takes two.

It takes two. So some of you, if you, if

you have not tried a game, and if you're you

haven't been talking enough in your life, I encourage you

to go and try to play the game together. It

takes too Oh my goodness, it really takes to to click.

It takes to the communicate. And there was time all

like this shit like get it done. But but you know,

it's it's lovely to spend time. So we're having a conversation,

very pleasant one. I think she was sharing me about

her life, her journey, and we're talking about different things,

showing each other cat pictures. Uh and suddenly, out of nowhere,

as she was talking, I suddenly stopped talking. Okay, I

suddenly stopped talking. I suddenly didn't say a word right.

Didn't work, not even a single word, and I think

I was invisible. This stressler a little bit. I think

she didn't know this initially. Yeah, I told her, I

think I don't feel well. Listen, why why? Why you're

not not feeling well? Is it? But we are exaggeration?

So I went to the the the I felt something

my throat right, but I was thinking to myself, I

ate chicken. How can chicken won't get stuck in the

throat right, just rice and chicken. So I went to

the toilet to sink and I was trying to cough, cough, cough, cough, cough,

don't stop coughing, trying to get it out. But it did.

It did not go away. The feeling was so bad,

it was so sharp, it was so pain. I came

back to my seat and I told my wife, Dear,

I think I'm gonna die then, and there I'm gouldn't die.

Let's she said, why something is stuck in my throat?

I think it's fish bonne, but I don't the last

time I checked fish, It's not chicken. Chicken is fish?

Different things? So I like, okay, I cannot I cannot eat.

And after we paid we go off you. I was

driving in the car. I think I even asked her

to drive. If I'm not mistaken, or is it maybe

the other way around? Near mind? She she She then

checked her phone for remedies, right, remedies on how to

actually get something that's stuck, that's loatching your throat out

of your mouth. Right, and she came on a brilliant idea.

She said, Okay, Daniel, stop me at nine nice speed.

Mat I said, okay, nine nice people, whatever it thinks,

help me, babe, I cannot take this anymore, so painful,

so hoping. I can't keep you know, it's so painful.

Right she stopped me that nice we must I say, okay,

I'm here. Then she went down. She came out with

a bread. What's that brain for for you? Okay, oh braid,

I get it, I get it. I get a lodge. Okay.

She went up. She took one whole breid. She wet

it into a big ball lump of I don't know

anyone have ever enjoyed braid dipped in water. Let me

just break it to you like it doesn't taste good. Okay,

it doesn't taste good. So she took the whole bread water.

She said, nah, I said, what do I do it

is swallow it. Okay, whatever it takes, I'm gonna do

it right. Because sometimes when you're desperate, you desperate measures

will have to come into place. So I took the

whole bread sock with water. I wish it was egg,

but it was so with water. And I put in

my throat and I grew. The whole thing went down.

I think it was three times three bites of big

chunks of white braid with water. And I think it

was even not even the white braid. It was some

sort of flavored braid with water. Uh no, nice. But

but at that time I didn't care. I didn't care.

I give you what her papers, I'll eat. So I

eat it. And she asked me, how are you feeling?

I was like still stop, Like okay, this is just

let me rests. Doesn't me a rest? She went and

do her own thing. I was scaled on the bid

for a while. The whole time, I can I stop

coughing the whole night, and then it was eleventh at

TPM and night it was a Saturday night, and I

was always the worship bleed the next day right, only

my second time worship leading twenty twenty five Praise scot

for worship leaders and Rice stopped in the House of

the Lord. But however, I was, I was scareded. I

was excited right long time now. Actually I was excited

to give my best for the Lord. But then this happened.

So I decided, okay, no, I'm going to try and

get it fixed. It was eleven at TPM and night

I went down to clinic Aurora, Aurora, because I thought

the Aurora will help me. So I went down to

the clinic and I met with this fine young doctor,

Malay doctor, very very nice, very very kind, very gentle.

And then she asked me, ah, dick, I call me.

You're younger than me. Uh day, I said, cool, start,

I'm gonna suck it, mata. And she said, okay, help you.

I can help you, no problem. Sit down, okay, see

now open your mouth uh see ah uh louder, h louder.

Put your tongue out. I don't know if you're feeling

felt this all right, doctor, It's very difficult to actually

say I put your tongue out, okay, because every time

are you trying to see let me go and touch

my wife's tongue. Okay, if I take a stick, which

they use a stick to try and open the moment

you touch your close no, are you sure not? Yeah?

But it was very sensitive, right, so I couldn't put

my mouth big enough for her to actually see what

was starting inside. Finally she took a caliper she put

in my mouth. She gaves it open, so I couldn't

move it all. But I was still fighting the thing.

She saw it right. She took the tweezer. Then she said,

they jang janger. I tell you, I like to exacerbate things,

but this time now I'm not acaserating. Okay. She was

really very very jung. I can felt her conjungnessang. Then

can see her head okay. The other suddenly said okay,

I got it. I saw a number. She clip it.

I said in my mouth, said do you feel it?

Do you want me to take it out? Of course?

The it out loud, you open my mouth up, I

can talk there, she clipping, she was about to take

it out. I was so happy. Right then I heard

the word I heard the word oops. I was like, oops,

what hey, don't oops? So we're taking down oops? Then

she said oops. I was like, what do you mean oops,

oops to the bus day so that let the puss

tried to acting the thing like go on the thing.

Now I was ready king, you know, I was saying,

what do you mean to the pus a party? What

you mean to the puss? Then she assured me so

that already fall into the tronies okay, following the I

was like, okay, following the troney. Then she asked me,

you know, she asked me so much, mamass, that's okay,

that's okay. How do you feel? How do you feel?

And I say okay, okay, any pain no no, I think,

no pay any more. Then she said okay. She says

that look at her that nah, any but any medicine

not She said, any man, but not my son. What

do you want okay? No, no, no okay. Then then

after I said, after I woke out of the counter

about to pay her, there's I felt it again, I said,

doctor Rasala, still feeling it inside my throat. Then she

said to me, no it did plassy bo. I said,

what prassibo Plassy? I said, no, I really feel it.

I said, now mine, now mind, you just go and

you find limao ah limou. Ah, you find him out

inside the light. The lemon got s inside. Are you drinking? Ah? Hello?

Now look at doctor, doctor now eleven pm. What way

I'm gonna find the mau. So I had a brilliant idea.

I went to Ali's the Mama down the road. I

order limao ice extra Li Mau, I said, bug, and

you bugg it's extra, that's ab support bach. I was

so thanks. You look at me sprubg sup supporing. I

get upon it, supporting it. So I past I bet

ten ring it for limo ice extra limao. Okay, So

I went. I squeezed all the limao inside nicely inside,

and then I drink. It was the most sour drink

I ever, they said, but I didn't care. I just

wanted the tout dissolve down my throat, get rid of

the thorn that is in my flesh, that thorn that

was there to buffet me. It was there to just

take away all my my my joy. And I realized

that it didn't help, So I down the Holy Mau.

I went back home. I think by the time Russia

was already because the next day we got very early,

and my prains this this Lord help I need to

worship le next week. The next day later in five

hours time, I also tended to text Albert, Albert, Uh,

something happened to me? Can you take you know you

guys be singing takes on? Right? You take for me?

Why didn't I didn't? I prayed, and God just dropped

a scripture in my heart, the story of the Bible.

And I was reminded when Paul and Silas were in

prisoned in the Book of X when he were in prison,

and at midnight, right at midnight and midnight, I was

facing this. At midnight, okay, and midnight they were praying

and singing hymns to God. And suddenly there was an earthquake.

The foundation of the prison. Doors were shaken, and immediately

the doors flung open. That was my prayer. Trot flung open.

In the name of Jesus, Let this thorne be removed,

like the chains were removed and were set loose. And

he shall go down the stomach or coughed out, and

whatever it is, it shall be gone, in the name

of Jesus. Amen. I prayed that, and I went asleep

next morning, the cock crow still there, still there, so painful.

I came to church, and I'm like, okay, I'll tell

you what. Paul and Silas praise. I gotta continue praising.

Got a corninual praising. So I let you worship. I

can tell you what. I can tell you what I felt.

I literally felt something moving up from the bottom of

my throat, which the doctor to the puss. Yeah, got

stuck even deeper, and he came out slowly, slowly, and

he got stuck up here. Okay. At that time, I

looked at my wife and I said, I cannot take

this anymore. I'm going to the doctor now. So I

went to the doctor down the street over here. I

don't know what you'll know. There's a doctor down the

street over here, so you ever get sick, and then

to go if I hear a doctor. I met this

guy guy doctor right, and the guy doctor say the

same thing. Okay, open your mouth again. Okay, I know

all the proceedure. Okay, open you'll engage my mouth whatever

do do? Okay. Then I say, you look at me nicely,

you doshlight nicely. I saw it, Okay, good get it out.

He got it out. He took it out, and I

never felt better in my entire life. There was the

best feeling that I ever felt in thirty four years

of my life. I felt like, oh, I'm free. In

the name of Jesus. If you don't know what it

means to be free, this is what it means to

be free. He got launched out from my my sol.

That's the feeling, you know, when the thorn comes out

of your flesh. Oh, hallelujah, praise a lot. I was expecting.

I was expecting this big thorn, this strong thorn, like

what common used to say. You know, she has a

colgoule bladder, right, and then she always compared with her husband.

And then she said her one kuchie money, a small

one makes so much trouble for her. Johns and big

like eggs so pain, but hers was so pain. And

I was thinking to myself, this, this thorn must be

the worst thorne ever imagined the world next life. It

was like a tissue paper. It was so it was moist,

you're so flimsy. Was less than one cm. This thorn

almost killed me. Come on, if you ever feel down

or small about your girl bladder, remember my story. A

tissue paper almost killed me. Yeah, of course I didn't

found out. I didn't find out what kind of bone

is this? That must be all this, This must be

some kind of haska from the rice. Rice, a singular

grain of rice almost killed me. So that's why I'm

firsting rice. Now I don't eat rice anymore. I hate rice.

This is what happened. This, This was so bad. And

the thorn, You're so painful, You're so painful. But God

delivered me amen first thorn. First storn was delivered next month.

Fifth of me. Now that this is where it gets

a little bit serious. Actually it's seriously. You got at

that time was very serious. Next night, so I got

a message from my from my right, I don't Me

and my sister were closed, but not really that close.

But she decided to text me that morning and so

many messages, pictures, and the first picture she showed me

was the door that was open. Found out that my

dad was acting up again. Now, for some of you,

you may not know my dad, and my dad is

actually a cancer survivor. He survived from his uh colonne

cancer I always confused with prostrate but colonne cancer and

also born cancer. He also has a hip replacement. Then

that Jesus has set him free. Last year, last year

he was set free from cancer, but he has trouble

walking up. Okay, trouble. He's seventy six years old. This here,

uh you look at him, you will see that he's

not that strong anymore, but he's still heavy born density,

very hi born density. So we got his picture and

looked at it and look at it's like. The next

message I saw was Dad's missing. D told my sister

Joys that she won. He wants to go to Moar

moa station. In my mind and my sister's mind were

both panicking, like, how are you gonna get to Moar

if you don't know? More is in Joha? Okay, how

do we get a war from here? I was thinking,

you take train on all. My dad did actually disappear

from our house before and went all the way to

kl losing, so I would never put anything of this

past him, like, okay, he's an adventurous man. He likes

to do things by his own accord. But he disappeared,

and at that time he was wearing he was doing

a storm cut, and we were worried, loved because more

right then, of course, a little found out. It was

a coffee shop near down or called war Station okay,

I didn't know that. I didn't know that. But he

was missing for one hour. He was missing me and

my sister was trying franklically to find him in our cars.

And then finally, after an hour of about fifteen minutes

of searching, I saw him on the inside a drain.

Not fell down. He was just sitting on the floor

and his LIGs were dangling inside the drain and his

stom cut was inside the drain. So I don't know

what happened. Last. When I got got to him and

asked him, that are you okay? What happened? He started

talking to me about the birds the sky. He's got

talking to me about helicopter. I'm thinking at the time,

I didn't know yet, Okay, I didn't. I didn't even

look that far. It was a Monday, after I think

six May is a monday, right, fifth May was a Monday.

And then I was like, okay, okay, let me get

you home, right. He didn't struggle. He followed me into

my car right, and then we took him home. We

set him down, and then that's where it started. Okay,

that's how he started. Something is off because he started

to say things like I am. I am the reincarnate God,

I am the I am, I am a messenger. He

started to say that, oh, the devil is here, the

enemy is here. Please remove all the clothes from the wardrobe.

Helicopter is waiting outside to fetch us. Please the loaders outside.

We had to shift house, moving house, and we started

to realize that something. We called his friend brother David Long,

he came over from his church, spoke to him and

immediately he said, David Long, your ex your services are expired.

I'm like, okay, this is totally something Awfulady that I

consulted Busters spoke to me and said, okay, you better

and along with doctor Jail because which is a medical doctor,

told me better send him to the emergency. So Tuesday, Tuesday,

sixth May, we decided to send him the emergency and

it was a very long killer. I don't know how

many if you know government hospitals right because at the

day financial is also a thing. So long quill. We

were in the emergency from I think Tuesday all the

way until Sunday, Sunday, uh And it was that week

also that our scheduled to go to Burgassi, Okay for

mission trip. I almost caught Passandra, which is our missions pastor,

and told her boss, by the way, she is my boss, Edward,

I don't think I can make the mystery. And I

tell you what. Maybe to some of us we will say, yeah,

it's understandable. Your dad is in hospital, right, your dad

is a yeah, please go and take care of your dad.

But at that time, the conviction was that I still

got to live my life. I still got to do

the work of the Lord, right. But the feeling was there,

The feeling of distress, the feeling of just being in

a place where I have never been been in before,

was still there because all this war, when I dealt

with my dad it was cancer. But I can still

talk to him. I can still say, Dad, eat your fuda.

He'll be stubborn, law, but he's still eat. But this

time around, something is different because he's no longer dead.

Because who you are is actually in your spirit, right,

your soul. You can have the physical appearance, but if

you do not act, or you don't have that rememory

of who you are and who people are around you,

pretty much it's not him, right. You can't blame him

for saying things or being mean. We can't blame him

for not eating because he can't remember, so you just

couldn cared for him. And so I was disturbed. I

was really disturbed. I was so tempted, right, I was

so tempted the coppassentra and I almost did I actually

texted her. But you know, the Lord just whispered, like

how he whispered in my heart that you gotta praise.

You got the praise in every situation. Don't just sing

the song that your praise is a weapon. It is

more than a sound. Don't just sing it, but acted

out do it. But this time around, a still small

voice was whispering, it's gonna be okay. And I still remember,

very vividly, says, let this burden go, Let this burden go.

You're so happy cutting weight physical wait, but you're not

happy letting your own personal burden and baggage just go.

In life, we have to learn to let our burdens

and our baggages go, not just on the floor, but

put it on the one that can sustain you. Put

it on the one that can stand for his young

is easy, yeah, his burdens like and I just want

to encourage all of us be sensitive to the voice

of the Holy Spirit because he does speak. And when

he spoke, I felt the confidence in my heart and

the confirmation that came from my wife saying the media

and Sally, she doesn't call media. It's got me, bab

uh babe. Uh. I'll be here for you. I'll be

here for your parents. Uh. And I'm going to take

care of that right And with that assurance, and I

want to thank and affirm my wife for this and

I and I appreciate you for doing it. I felt

the peace to go a piece that surpassed all understanding

to go to Burgassi. So I went to Burgassi. But

a key you not this whole trip. I must not lie.

I was a little bit distracted. I was a bit distrected.

If you have the next light, because you know why

I'm distructed. Next light, nextv because the night before when

we admitted him to the hospital. This is why we

actually to my dad to the hospital, because we found

him awake at night at two am, opening all the lights,

opening all the doors, and he sat there outside from

two am all the way and just seventy am in

the morning, without moving. So we would this stop. You

can get what I mean. And in the hospital. I

think it was after I returned from Bukassi. But so

I went to Bakassi having all this in mind, and

my mom just constantly non stop. At one point I

even got annoyed my mom, My mom, I'm working, But

at the same time, I didn't want to say it out.

But I'm just being real with you guys. You know

I'm not here to paint a picture that I'm perfect.

I'm not. I do struggle, and this is the struggle

that I was facing. At the one point, I was

actually annoyed with my mom. But then the before I

say something that I will regret, I remember, actually, I'm

not there, you are. She's there, and she's bearing the

full brand of what my dad is doing and I

and I help back and thank God that I helped back.

Thank God that got helped my tongue back. But so

the whole trip was just fully that I couldn't focus.

I was in the I can be in the car, right,

I can be in the car. And the whole time

I was just like, like, no one stopped checking in

my dad, checking out my mom. It's my mum, Okay,

I'm trying to arrange my my my my wife, like

can you go my wife, I tell you are super

kuang hole so kung hold. She's so like willing to

help out, help us out in our our area in

this in this season, she she really went all the way.

She went all the way. So really really really, uh,

you find yourself a good wife. It's gonna be good,

a man, it's gonna be good. So she went. She

really held the thought. There was once that my dad

treatened to hit her with your tongue guard right, trying

to scolding her because my wife was like sit down

or eat do something like he wanted to grab oh yeah,

he he wanted to grab the file or something. He

went and take different things, the posters down, you know,

the the hospital posters, and then she she stopped. She

stopped her stop him. So he was like telling my wife,

I'm gonna beat you. Are I'm gonna beat you. Are

you better stop, I'm gonna beat you associated to end

all of that. The final night in Bakassi, I was ministering.

I got some pictures as well. Next light there was

I think next light is me and my dad. When

they got just admitted that's my that's my mom, my

dad and me. Really to spend time together. Next light, Yeah,

there's me trying for your uncle or just on the

way to the airport, just side pluck if you ever

want to cutos so know how it tastes like it's

about selling out, then not too bad, uh, and you

won't really want to try. Go to the Ka airport.

It's nobody care up there and can get it for

free and same price. Okay. Next light. This is the

pastors in Bakassi that I managed to have the time

to really minister them, and I'm really blessed in return

how much they were also blessing to us. They really

took care. So on the final night part of France

par Frand's birthday, she decided to blanchard us for dinner. Right,

take us out for dinner, but France is our pasta

in Indonesia. Right, he passes out in Indonesia in Bakassi. Uh,

and he took us out with his family. Joys Uh

your bell is her Indonesian name, Joys my choice okay.

And then the rest of them was there, so your

best us was there so and then little Sandra was

there so together equal deb and part friends. So the

whole family was there and they decided to bland us

this very nice Indonesian cuzina, right, very nice, And I

tell you what it was. I was so distracted right

as I was eating a sit check in my phone.

Then I was eating half You know how when you

eat and you look at your phone the same time, right,

you don't really focus and pay attention. Then I ate

something a dish. I felt very nicer this dish. Then

I realized, oh, it's fish. Sorry, so this niceitchup fish.

I was eating it, and about the end, close to

the end of the dinner, we were talking, we're just

teach that thing. And then we were talking about life ministry,

and I was still being very distant in my head.

My mom constantly updating me. I'm trying to arrange stuff

with my wife. And then suddenly I saw this last

portion of fish, and the Asian in me is like,

I cannot waste food. I must eat this fish. So

I saw it. In my mind, I'm thinking I just

had an experience of something that was stuck in my throat.

Cannot be happens the second time in a row. Some

of this thing is so delicious, it's so small, How

can it harm such a big person like me. So

I decided to myself it was in my mother. By

the way, I was already thinking all these thoughts in

my head. Right should I swallow it? Because it's such

a hassle to take it out and take out the smaller,

the bus on the whole thing, and I fallow. It

was in my mouth. I had the chance to take

it out, okay, but no, I decided to swallow it.

And I guess what happened? Round two? This time it's

gonna start again, my hope. I tell you what. In

that moment, all fear, all exciting, all thoughts about my parents,

my dad, my wife, everything under her son because he minisly,

all disappeared from the window. The only focus was that

bond that was starting in my throat. So when the

toilet round two, I know Ludio experience, right when the

toilet drink water, gurgle, gurgle, course, bee come back, Joyce,

look at me, pasta Aghan, that's what what? What? What

is your suggestion? Then she said, accomplican ROTI I'm like, okay, rothy,

she bought these bitch chesepreto I the hole dinner, Selena.

I'm cutting rice, cutting carbs, and I'm like eat the

old bread. Tell you I felt so guilty eating the braid,

but I know choice. Then Joyce said, oh, I couldn't

put website color you buncho the bath along. Now I

was like, I know, I know, I know. I took

the braid. No. Whole night I was eating the braid again.

I was like thinking to myself, why did I even

swallow this bond? I couldn't think get it out at

any given time. I decided I texted my wife. I

think my wife must be laughing like mad at home,

like why in the world this man never learned from mistake.

So I was eating the braid the whole time. Right

the next morning, you know, Sunday service, but ever was preaching.

I was like, aha, I know, I praise. It's a weapon.

It's more than a sound. Last I know, I know.

God spoke to me right cause your burdens alone. All right,

all right, well I do both. God, please take this

torn out, Please please praise, praise, praise. Indonesian people praise.

So what I tell you where they go, they go

wild for the law. You know, he really turned around,

and you sit turned around. He really turned times and yeah,

and I tell you what their service, their service after

the worship got a word, right after they got prayer.

The prayer lasts for two hours, okay. They pray for

every single person in the congregation. So total the service

about three and a half hours of four hours okay,

stuck by eight and by twelth. So this is what

you can expect, you know. That's why their prayers get unswered,

because they really mean business. Someone or was prey time

minutes with hire ready, with tied ready, So I sing

one song? Was so tired ready, I sing one song?

So tiredy someone wanted tught to come out. No, So

I decided I must, I must do my best. So

in my limited dance most and my two left legs,

I decided to dance for the Lord undignified. But the

bonde did not come out. The bond did not come out.

But friends look at me away, look at me all

the way to the airport. My prayer, my prayers is

go please do not allow me to bring Indonesian bones

back to Malaysia. We look at me, and he said,

I proclaimed that in Jesus name, he was real praying.

I was like, WHOA accepted? Lord? So before you let

in Malaysia. The bone be gone. So I was like, God,

help me. I'm really weak. I got the thing stuck

in my throat. I got my dad, which is like

an emotional torn in my life. I had a physical

tone experience. God, please help me, and that's when God spoke.

That's the key verse I had for you today. That's

when God spoke. The less I be exalted above measure,

but abundance of revelation. Daniel. You may be a pastor, Daniel,

you may be a minister, you may minister into many

young lives, you may do a lot of good work

for me, but less you'll be exalted above measure. Lest

you take the glory from me. This torne is a

reminder to you, you of what and who I am,

and I deserve I and I alone deserve the glory.

You know, for one instance, not be humble, for one instance,

be proud of your accomplishments, of who you are. The

torn in the flesh was given to me concerning these things.

I pleaded with the Lord three times, and I just realized.

I just realized the Lord spoke to me. It was

three times, three different torn experience, and I pleaded with

the God, please please take this away from me. Therefore

I take pleasure in my informities. Gladly bolsting my informities,

the power crist may arrest upon me, for when I'm

weak and I'm strong. It was then that I realized

that it was three times. The first time, praise got

me true. The power of praise as I praised, the

torn went up. The second time, casting my burdens on

the Lord got me true. Right, the Lord whispered in

my ear, casts your burdens on me. Take my yoke,

Take my yoke and go. Don't be afraid of what

happens back home, because there's Rochelle, there's your mom, there's

church people around you. Just go and be a blessing.

You're not going to go for a month. You're just

going to go for two days. Three days got me true.

And the third time, when nothing else works, praise they

didn't work, you know, prayer didn't work. Casting the burdens

of the Lord didn't work. I realized that God's grace

was the one that got me true. God's grace, and

then it is it was all part of God's plan

that the tourn was given to me. It was in

that moment I truly rested on the lot. That was

the moment in the airport, actually rested. See God, okay,

take over, take over the torn the torns in my life.

And I stopped trying. I stopped trying to literally cough

it out. I stopped trying to drink or third how

much water I drank. I stopped trying to vibrate because

it was expensive at the airport. I stopped trying all

methods la okay. At the same time, I also stopped worrying.

But my dad, I realized that I stopped. I actually

down to a few Netflix shows to watch on the plane,

but I even stopped that decided I'm just gonna arrest.

So I entered the airplane. Right in the airplane I rented,

I just put my head down. At the moment it

got faster in your seatbelts, I was gone into the

realm of the heaven. Lease. It was just it was

just such a quiet moment with the Lord, and the

whole journey back was a very smooth one. If in fact,

I don't know how the flight went faster than it

should be. Some people we do. I will fight end

up reaching in one and a half hours. I don't

know what happened. Maybe the airplane was very fast, but

it was in that moment when I landed Suddenly I

realized the when I woke up and I would take

my luggage, say how come, how I'm born, no more

no feeling? And God answered my prayer. Amen answered my prayer.

Three tons, three pleaded, and he was taken away from me. However, friends,

things did not get easier my dad. Sometimes in life,

when we pray and there's breakthroughs that happen on life, right,

it's easy to give God praise, say hallelujahs, say a

praise a lot, but you come back home and you're

greeted with dead, being in the worst situation than when

you got him out. Got a call from the hospital

on the Tuesday when I just got back on Sunday, Tuesday,

we got a call fron hospital and the call was

that my dad was missing again. Hospital look at missing

on the urergency. We found out that he saw a

glimpse of someone he knew and then he followed him

out and he was lost. Luck in emergency there were

too many nurses, too many cases around, not enough nurses,

so they couldn't find him. I went there I found

him again in the alley right, he was just in

his cell look at me and said, oh, my son,

my son. He looked at me and then he put

him down on the onto the bit cat for him.

And then much later I think we got finally got

him a bit, finally got a bit. We went, we

got him a bit, and then all happy. We had

the best woman alive, right, me and my my wife,

and find my mom because my mom came later, got

him right, totally got to be. I think it was

the same day that he got lost. Right, we got

the bit so called bitla. We we wheeled him all

the way to the nine space, so nice, so comfortable,

an private space, private room, everything right. And then suddenly

we found out the doctor say, the nurse say, Salah

Salah Chong, Salah choga wrong the same roughly the same age,

roughly the same surname Chong about wrong person. So he

had the wheeling bag all the way to the e

when he stuck in the mergency for another seventies. So

the whole ordeal was about to about close two weeks

before we actually got him a bit a bit. My

mom sometimes me, we have to stay in the hospital

sitting sitting on a chair, not even a proper chair,

a plastic chair. Okay that plastic chairs have to go

back for it, and by right, only for patient. That's

how much patients actually come to the hospital, so they

need all the chairs that they can get in the

emergency room. So I'm not complaining, but I'm just feeling

for my mom. Right the bit it's not gonna come up.

It's just a very it's not humane, it's not human.

So I really feel for all the people that are

really caring for their dads, their parents. I know, I

know how it feels. Finally got him the bit right,

and then we realized that the doctor's report came to

We did multiple city scans. He there was even once

he had a fall. We got a call from the

hospital at ten eleven am at a pm at night.

He got a fall. He hit his head, his head.

The whole part was was was bunker and it was

the red full rain in color. And then we were

just realizing that, oh no, we were just fearing for

the worst that could happen. Got there, realized that yeah,

he had a fell fall and it was a very

bad fall, very bad for this Sorry, ever since then

you go to his word. Now you will see that

his high raise patient. He's the only rate for over there.

Ever since we were there, five people passed away. There's

the mood there is in the hospital. Death all around,

uh people in front of us. I just got news

that his neighbor that just came in was actually a

brother that used to pray for me when I was younger.

He fell down from a three onto a saw, had

to amputate his legs. It's a very bad, horrific incident.

He doesn't even know who he is anymore, lost his memory.

So I all this to say, well, you know all

this to say that we got the treasure our lives.

We're still here on earth. We've got to live our

lives to the fullest because we wouldn't know what happened

to us tomorrow. Only God knows what happened for us.

We're going to continue to live our lives to its

fullest potential every day, loving Jesus, in man, loving Jesus.

And my dad was just in a place where the

report came out and we found out that his brain

was damaged by thirty percent. Okay, brain damage and it's irreversible.

That means his memory would never come back according to

the doctor, sir. But I believe in a greater God. Amen.

But you know, according to the doctors, he won't remember

me ever. Again. We had we had uh, my wife

personally had experienced this. I think, I don't. I don't

think I am understating it to say that it's very heartbreaking, la. Uh.

It is really weird, heartbreaking for me to go through

this because kind of recognized me right one. The moment

that we got him to the other world. He was

so happy, he did so many smiley faces, funny faces,

you ask. My wife was so cute, you know. So.

I wish I recorded something of it, but I didn't.

This is my memory, la. Whatever we got him back,

after we got him back into the ear again, that

he started to forget me. And it was that moment

that I wrote down. I broke down quite badly.

Uh.

And I just told my wife, I I full of regret,

full of regret. The Lord minister to me and the

Lord spoke to me two different ones, and I still

remember told me that it's a privilege you care for

your parents, right, counting all joy, counting all joy when

you're going through various trials, counting all joy, because the

joy of the Lord is your strength. From that day,

I clang onto his word, the word that was given

to me, and I continue to care for my dad

right without complaining. There was even times where we had

to pick up his remains just lack of a better word,

right with our bare hands, with thesue. People only had

to wash the After that, I'm going to share you

three points that I learn from this whole encounter, and

we do close the service very quickly. But the first

thing I want to share you is that thorns number

one point number one tons reminds us that praise is

indeed a weapon. What is the use of a weapon

if we do not use it to attack? Thorns reminds

us that pray a weapon against who, against who, against

the dark, the darkness of this world, against the enemy,

against everything that he stands for. Praise is what that

he will run away from. The Name of Jesus has power,

and as long as it comes out from the heart

that is pure, the enemy will run from it. Amen,

Praise is a weapon. Is more than a sound. Praise

is not based on how you feel. It focuses on

who God is, who is the object of your praise?

Who is the object of your worship? This was the

first point I was reminded, when I was going through

the physical tone that it was in my troath, right,

it was just there in my flesh, and I was

so damnted to give it. But Lord the Lord reminded

me praise, praise, and as I praise, it was slowly

lifted up from my troath the man when Paul and silence,

we're praying and singing hymns to God. In want to

introduce you to a Hebrew word called shima okay, shimah right,

am I pronouncing correctly samah Right. It's a Hebrew word

for the word here, and word here in Hebrew actually

means two things. One is hearing and one is doing.

You can't just as as the Israelites receive this, right,

oh God of Israel, sima like you, you people of Israel.

You're hearing this from the Lord right at the same

time you hear it, it means that you have to

do it as well. It's not just here and not

do it. Miss. What it means is that, Daniel, if

you heard from the Lord that praise is indeed a

weapon that praise is indeed your breakthrough. Then don't just

hear it, but also do it in the name of Jesus,

and you shall be set free. And in my case,

God set me free from this physical tone, this physical ailment.

As funny as it may sound, the experience that when

you're hearing it, when I exisserate or make it for

your your pleasure, of your ears. But it was actually

real story hashtag Okay, it was really something went to

I thought I was going to die, but praise got

me true. Praise set me free. Amen, some stady four one.

I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise

shall continually be in my mouth XTV. You can follow me.

It'll be great. But there's verses that you have missed.

Thank you. I think one more slight next No, no, no,

I don't Yeah, yeah, I think next light will be

the worst. Yeah. I will bless the Lord at all times.

His praise shall continually be my mouth. Second point I

have for you today is that thorns invites us to

cast our burdens on the Lord. All right, Thorns invites

us to cast our burdens on the Lord. I think

the slight is a bit messed up. So do follow

me a bit. I think I mess up the order.

I think I did right, Sonny. Sorry, sorry, just follow me.

Uh okay. So the point number two is Towns invites

us to cast our burdness on the Lord. This was

something that the Lord reminded me before I go into

Because he casts your burdens on the lot, don't worry

about what's happening. You know. The enemy may use a

physical tone, something to really pup you and injure you.

But at the same times, when that doesn't work, he

will use something that's emotional. He touches the emotions, your

feelings for your parents, your love for your parents. He

used it, and Twns invites us to cast our burdness

a lot. Surrender isn't bigness. It's transferring the weight to

the one who is strong enough to carry it. Amen,

you may not be strong enough to carry a burden,

but we all know who can because he did. He

carried the cross. He endured the cross to the point

of death. He was obedient, and he's yoke is light. Amen,

his load is easy. His burden is like. So I

really encourage you that Towns will invite us on the

invite all of you today. If there's a burden upon

your life, upon your shoulders, cast it unto the Lord.

Sometimes are emotional anxiety, or family, the weight of responsibility,

the fear of losing someone your love. But Jesus invites

you to cast, not carry your burdens. When Jesus spoke

to the disciples, he invited them. He instructed them to

cast the net into the sea, and they read many fish.

Sometimes all we have to do is to cast that

net and not carry that net, because some if you

carry that net, there is a huge chance that we

may be entangled by that net. The very thing that

was meant to capture our breakthrough is now used to

entangle your feet, and you may fall because of that.

In this season of waiting, in this season surrendering, I

learned a few things. Who's the keybod is and so

it's also up there. I just want to illustrate something.

She knows what to do. Give me a caught hitch. Hmm, yeah,

whatever called that decks your fancy? Okay, all right, just

hold it, Okay, just hold it. So in this season

of waiting, in this season of understanding, surrendering, I've learned

a few things if you're not careful during our waiting period.

Do you have a next light for that next TV?

I think it's the next light, next light, just hollow me. Okay, yeah,

if you're not careful during our waiting period, in our

waiting period, if you're not careful the waiting maiden. Wait,

that may hold us down. Wait that may keep us

stagnant from moving. Wait that may distract us from our calling,

our purpose. Because when we wait upon the Lord, it

does not mean to wait and do nothing. It means

wait and rest in the Lord. It means wait and

have conversations in the Lord. When the Lord instructed the

people of Israel to keep the Sabbath, when they were

given the instruction to build the temple, it was very

clear that they had to order the sabbath, and in

fact it was so important that those that did not

order to honor the sabbath will put to death. Going

to read the Bible, it's real. The importance of rest

over here is that if you do not rest in

the Lord, you may be put to death, maybe not

the physical death, but the spiritual death. There's some of

us when we rest upon the Lord and we come

to church and we do not honor the Sabbath. We

do not rest on the Lord. All we do in

church is something else. It is no wonder that our

wig is not fulfilled because we did not spend the

time that we're supposed to spend the Lord doing what

we ought to be doing. And we face a spiritual

death that only the Lord can revive. And I pray

that if anyone is in that position today, I pray

that the Lord will restore you, will restore you of

that death that is in your life, because Jesus can

bring me the death back to life. Amen. Once date

doesn't have to stay. What's date doesn't have to stay.

But this isn't a waiting. The key thing here is

that are we casting our weights upon the Lord? Psalms

fifty five five y five two to two. It's a

very very good verse, very beautiful one. He says, cast

your burdens on the Lord, and he shall sustain you.

He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. You know,

God may not take your burden away immediately. In fact,

God may not even take your burden away at all.

It may still be there. It may be a very

real burden. It may be a very real situation. But

what he promises us is that he was sustainless and

then he will sustain you. He will carry you through it.

The keyword here is surrendered. When you let go, he

takes over. But what you need to know and what

you need to do is that if you have even

know a thing or do about sustain battles and how

sustained battle works in the band, in the piano, not

not just in a digital panel, but in a physical

panel as well, as long as you keep your foot

down on the piano like what she has been doing

all this Well, have you heard the voice go away? No?

Can you lift up the battle? It's almost immediate a

plague in. That's what the sustain battle does. And that's

what he means. Actually, when God says that he will

sustain you, it means that the problem might still be there,

that cord might still be there, that pain on your

foot that is pressing down on the sustained battle might

still be there. But what He promise says to do

to all of us is to sustain you through that storm,

sustain you troue that trial in whatever situation that you

are in, Daniel, whatever the situation that you're in, God

was reminding me that He's going to sustain you. I'm

not gonna take you out of the storm. I'm gonna

let you go through it, but I'm gonna be there

with you, and I'm going to sustain you. And as

long as you keep your foot down on that pedal,

the court will never go away digitally that that's what

it represents, right, even if you play a physical pedal.

I actually did experience before because I was so cuteous.

How long would sustain? Better? Work actually went on for hours.

Can you imagine the note hitting the key the string

and as long as the sustain pedal is on, it

will it will dissipate everywhere. So and the only reason

why it dissipates is because of physics, like I'm talking about.

But God is not bounded by physics. Yeah, the digital

one is more a representation of what truly means. God

was sustain us, and I want you to be encouraged

by that. The only way that you can lose that

sustaining factor from God is when you remove your foot

off the gas, when you stop moving forwards, when you

stop waiting, when you stop thinking, when you take off

that weight that you're supposed to put on the sustainer.

You take it off and you put it on your shoulders,

and then the cart just goes away. It just go silent.

There's no longer a voice from the Lord. But when

you keep that burden on his shoulders, when you cust

it down to the sustainer, he sustains us. Amen. And finally,

when everything doesn't work, physical tons, emotional tons, Satan is

trying to destroy us. The point I have for you

the year is these tons exposes our true strength, and

our true strength is in the grace of God. Amen,

is in the grace of God. Your greatest ministry may

not come from your strength, but from your struggle. You know,

in extras we always tend to say this. Passus always

remind us this that our greatest messages come from a

place of struggles. Our greatest messages come from masses in

our life. But the mess in your life will be

transformed into a message that will reach the masses. Imen.

I pray that you will continue to remember this. Whenever

there's an infirmity upon your life, you can go back

to your see thank you very much, but you can

just stand there because I'm always done. I say the

same things now. But when there's a place in your

life where there's a lot of infirmities, I pray that

you'll be like Paul, that you would rather boast in

your infirmities rather than boasting on your own strength. You're boasting,

Oh Lord, Every trial aids an opportunity to bring glory

to your name. Every trial, every testing is an opportunity

to put my foot on the guests, to put my

burden on your shoulders and allow you to show and

show off. Because if I come out of this, and

if I got out of this mess there is no testimony,

then how can I bring glory to your name? Buttons

expose our true strength, because really it is in our weaknesses.

It is when we are strong, but we're not strong

in our own self. Where we're strong because of the

God who lives and nurse through his son Christ, Jesus sayment,

the next light I have for you is this next

light XTV. Second Corinthians twelve nine to tennis. Where I

got this from. My grace is sufficient for you. My

strength is made perfect and weaknesses. When you tried everything,

you prayed, you praise, you're rested, and yet the tone

is still there. God brings you the ultimate revelation. His

grace is enough. We often associate grace with salvation. Her

grace is more than a ticket to heaven. It's a

divine enablement here on earth. That grace that is given

to all of you. You're all being enabled through the

power of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses of the

love of Jesus Christ, of the love of the Savior,

of the love of God to the rest of this earth. Amen.

Grace is God's presence sustaining you, sustaining you in moments

of weakness. That is what grace is. Grace is not

taking you out of weaknesses. Grace is sustaining you. You know,

I often like to think to myself, like we always

say that this is the hardest, This is the hardest,

that is the hardest. This season is very bad. You

don't know, you know how it feels like, you know

what it means, You don't know what it means to struggle.

But yet you're still alive today. Why do you still

have breath in your life today? Why do you still

have breath in your lungs today? Is because of the

sustaining power of the grace of God that you are

still alive today. My mom has been in the hospital

for almost for if not the dem days in a row.

You're not going back. And yet she doesn't complain. She

wants to be there for my dad, caring for him,

because God's grace is the one that sustains him, that

kept him, kept her going, and the same grace will

be in all of us today. Amen, he puts four sixteen.

Can I even actually come up? We're very close. The

torn may remain, but grace grows. Amen. Grace helps you

walk through the fire without being burnt. He Brus four

sixteen also says this, let us therefore come boldly to

the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and

find grace to help in time of need. That's what

helps us in our time of need. If we need help,

that's where we need to go. We need to approach

the throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace

in time of need. Roman's eight twenty six says this. Likewise,

the spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. Your greatest

ministry may not come out of strength, but from your struggle.

I just got message from my mom. Wow, knew I'm

already home. I don't know how she got home. Wow, amazing.

I just shared with the early service. And as I

was sharing, I was also me and my mom. We

was talking about it and I was trying to encourage her.

I don't worry. Any bills will cover your cover because

he has been in the hospital for closer Manla. I

don't know how much it will cost, they were telling

me free by the end of the day. We don't know.

We don't know until we get the bill. You know

what kind of he didn't cause here and there to me?

Even five hundred engage a lota. Okay, okay, it's a

lot of money. We fifty didn't get as a lot

of money. But as I was sharing a k not.

As I was sharing, my mom sent me a message.

She said, toto, bill, let me get it out. Tot

the bill to the costs at nine forty eight, she

said to me, that was when we were closing this

Now to the costs ten thousand, three hundred and serey two.

I saw that almost fell alarne. I saw the next

line government subsidy ten one hundred and thirty fifty cents.

Pray Scott, yeah, pray Scott. Need to pay two hundred

and fifty one in it. Harle Lojah, Praise the Lord,

because God's grace world sustain you. He mercies, his mercies

and yours forever. Amen, Rejoice in the Lord, friends, rejoice

in your infirmities. As I woke up today, the Lord

dropped a verse of my heart, and I want to

encourage you this verse, and we're gonna sing reward if

we can do that. I didn't plan this with Jason,

but I woke up this morning and the first thing

that came to my mind was to not be afraid.

There was a line that was repeating in my heart

the whole time, do not be afraid. I didn't know

where the averse came from, so I had to google

and the girl and find out. And I found out

that the first came from Genesis fifteen to one, and

he says this, do not be afraid. I'm your shield.

You're exceedingly great reward. That's what God is to all

of us. He is how exceedingly great real are. Salvation

cannot be earned. It's a gift. But friends, honor to

remind you, very firmly but gently, that salvation can be rejected.

You cannot earn salvation. But you can reject salvation, and

that's how you can actually lose your salvation when you

reject Christ. So do not reject him, especially in time

of need. In your entire life. Do not reject God.

When God comes to you with that hand, do not

reject him. I want to encourage you to come to

the Father in time of need. I don't know what

will happen to my dad. I don't know how long

he has left on this earth. I really don't, because

it doesn't seem like his memory is getting any better. Well, friends, family,

dinners will never be the same again. For me. I

don't know how much you resonated that. Whether I will

be able to hear him call his son again, I

don't know. I can't even take him for a trip.

He's told my mom that while Daniel was so busy,

he wished that he could have went overseas, that it

was his dream, but because of his condition now he

wouldn't have that opportunity ever again. Or at least that's

what men thinks. All that is still real. It's not

just because he's home safely in the comfort of his home,

that doesn't mean that this goes away. Me and my

wife were still to tackle this. Of what happens next, well,

one thing is for certain, and one thing is real,

is that God is saying to me, and in proxy

to all of you, do not be afraid. Be afraid,

for I am your shield. There's no weapon from against

you shall prosper. The enemy can attack you with all

that he has. You know what, I had a revelation

the other day, just recently that when God permitted Satan

to test Joke, to go after Joke, it did not

say that God will not protect him. He did not

say that. And if God is our shield, I felt

that perhaps that's why Joe was able to sustain, because

despite it all he persevered. God reminded Abraham that he

is indeed our shield. Without that shield that comes from

the Lord, we won't be able to take what the

enemy has in store for us. But because of what

God has instat for all of us, that shield that

is right in front of us. I pray that you

will recognize this, that he is indeed or exceedingly great event.

I think it's in the Book of Mark, if I'm

not mistaken, that he says that what does it profit

mean if I gain the world? But lose my soul.

So friends, my encouragement to all of you today is this,

lean not on your own understanding in all your ways.

Acknowledge Him in all your ways. Cling on to the

autern and perfector of your faith in all your ways,

cling on to that road, that path, keep your foot

on the pedal, continue to move forward in the sustaining

grace of the Lord, and remove your food from evil.

That is my encouragement to all of you today. Friends.

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