TOFU | Pr Sandra Chin

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You know, how many of you like this nice little

food that I have on all this this thingy here

hit it x TVO the humble tofo? How many of

you like do fo? Yeah? I think a lot of

us like DOFO. Right, we like it. This is a

silken tofu, a very soft though fo nice to eat.

I love to steam it. And so I sauce and

fried onions? Are you hungry moms? All right? Or you

can do other things with it? Mash it up, scramble it.

He makes cramble eggs in place of eggs. You can

have scrambled tofu. And then look that's what it turns into. Yeah,

all right, maybe somebody's gonna have lunch there sesame oil,

so I sauce simple easy koto fool right, So but

you know, so food. But this is a soft of food,

silk and to foo it's very soft. Right, it breaks easily, agreed,

it can break easily. And but they say don't change

anything at but they say that if you freeze your tofu,

If you freeze your tofu, the structure changes. And and

then you take it out and you defrost it, you

will you use you see a lot of water, A

lot water will come out. You press it, all right,

and then when you cut it into half, you get

a picture like this frozen all right. There's a lot

of Now there are a lot of holes in it. Ah,

and you know what it can take. It absorbs a

lot more flavor, and you can ease or your oysto

sauce whatever, or when you stop, when you fry it,

it doesn't break so easily, or you throw it in

your soup, it doesn't. It really absorbs. It's quite nice.

And I tried it. I tried it, so you know

some some structure changes because your silken tofu. Now we

have firm tofu and we have soft tofu. Well, the

firm tofu is made in such a way where it's

already pressed out less water in it, so it's quite tough.

You can the firm tofo, you can fry la. You

can do so. But I'm just using the silken thofu

as our illustration today. The soft agg too fu it's

very soft. You know sometimes when when some you know,

like some guys, so some guys are like we love it,

like I'm gonna break ready. But you know, when you

freeze it, what happens is the inside of the tofu,

it's made of protein, so it's all these a lot

of water bubbles balloon type. And then when the ice

crystals form the ice crystals, who bursts the bubbles and

so later on, So it changes the structure, the protein structure.

There's a whole network of protein there. It changes the structure.

And then and then when you defrost it, those ice

crystals create those big holes there. Then you squeeze all

the water, and then when you cook it, those holes

become very you know, it absorbs and so all your

flavor can can be absorbed. And then when you're when

the the structure, it doesn't it doesn't change anything, but

physically it becomes a bit more firmer. And then you

can fry it. You can toss it. It won't it

won't break down. Okay, you you can. I wrote down,

I wrote down, I wrote somewhere. Then you can fry it.

You can stove fry it, you can grill it. You

know it can do hont or I can throw in

your soul. It won't break down because the soft of

food will start breaking out, but it remains quite sturdy

for that purpose. So it's it's it becomes a little

bit more tough, all right. It can take a little

bit more rough handling. That's after you you freeze your

tofu try anybody tried it before. So and if you

wanna keep your to fool longer because you don't know

when you're gonna cook it, throw it in the freezer

and then another day you can use it. So this

is why I do now. I buy all the to

foo sof and I throw it in the freezer or

hard to food, and then when I want it, I

always have to food. But I get this title a

whole hold hold, hold, hold, hold okay. So, and it

just changes a little bit of the structure, but it becomes,

you know, it results in not so delicate, a little

bit more resilient to handling, a bit harder handling. Physically,

it has changed because it has a lot more, a

little bit more structure and less water. All right, So

to fu so my message today to fu so, I

hope at least you go back and say what it

passes about tofu? That that might help you remember to fu.

All right, so I just want to share first. Moving on,

you can move on building a firm spirit of resilience. Amen.

We're living in a day where we're in. One of

the twenty first century skills if you're a teacher, if

you're a lecturer, or twenty first century skills is to

help students' children build resilience, agility and being able to adjust.

We find out the new generation are not very resilient,

they're not able to adjust and not very flexible. So

it's called twenty first century skill. But but who knows.

It could be the family upbringing, or maybe it's just

a whole generation. But anyways, doesn't matter. But you as

a believer, and I as your believe as a child

of God, we want to have a firm spirit of

resilience because life will throw at you some storms, right

some days. I don't know. Some people like lemon hear

what so you say, so what I get lemon? I

make lemon pie. I don't really like lemon pie. But

or how about lemonade? You know, put some sugar in it,

you get nice lemonade. I don't mind lemonade, and so

life chows us. You know, tough times, opportunities that are unfair,

and you know it's really difficult, but how do you

bounce back up? And it really is we need to

grow into this. We need to be have been through

something in order to be resilient, to stand and to

keep our faith especially and not only our faith. It

is our faith that helps us continue sometimes in the

tough times of our lives all kinds. I mean, imagine

the pandemic. So many people went through many, many challenges

and it was very difficult. But those who you know,

you know, just held on and believed and continue to

push forward. The resilience helps them to stay just stay strong,

stay focused, and not you know, go left and right. Okay,

they're doing some change here right now. Good morning everybody. Okay. So,

so I just wanted to use the DOFU as an

example of not being so in you know, so soft

and breakable, but a bit more tough. We need to

have some tough, tough spirit in us to go through

some of the tough times in our lives. Imm and

and how do we do that. There's so much in

scripture that helps us to grasp this and one of it,

which we will see also again in my points. But

do you remember Matthew Chapter twenty Matthew chapter seven, verse

so I took the I wrote wrong least twenty four

to twenty five. Matthew Chapter seven, verse twenty four to

twenty five is about the man that built his house

on the or on the sand. All right, don't build

your house on the sandy, shure right, just build it

on the rock. Don't build it on the sand. But

what do you mean by all this? I've read it again,

and you know the point that Jesus was saying here

was this, all right, Matthew seven twenty four to twenty five?

Is this he said? Jesus says, Therefore, whoever hears the

sayings of mine and you do them or does them,

I will liken him to be a wise man who

built his house on the rock, all right, not on tofu,

but on the rock, all right, something that is stable.

And that's where the building the house on the rock.

So I feel, and I believe very much that as

we want to, you know, have that resilience, have the

spirit of resilience, no matter what the circumstances, we need

to have a firm foundation, and part of that is

in AUTOFU. All right, Okay, so we hear God's word.

We read God's word. But if you just leave it

at that, it doesn't get into your system, then it

won't do anything. It doesn't help you. But if you

read God's word, you hear God's word, and then you

do it, you do it, you practice it. Okay, you

practic gun. There, you get on with it. You practice it,

then your spiritual muscles will be built. Then your spirit

man will be built, so that times will times of

challenge will come. I don't think anyone here has not

had a challenging time at all. It can come in

different forms. The loss of a loved one is not easy.

The loss of a job in when when things are

not sure, when you know our economy, or I hear

quite a few people whose jobs are affected or they

are impacted because restructuring, many multinationals, change of you know,

where you're working here, moving you to another city, another state.

Family circumstances and illness is you know, it can happen,

and we can't say, oh, it'll never happen to me.

It things happen in life. But how do we stand

firm and how do we overcome? More importantly, the all

beloved of the Lord here is to overcome uh. And

that's why we come to churches in it every weekend.

We share, we encourage one another through our testimonies, We hear,

we teach, we learn, we practice, And I'm always encouraged

by how different people here, different brand sisters, you have

gone through really really difficult times, and how you've pulled

through even though it was so so difficult, so challenging,

but you've pulled through and man, and by that grace

that you have experienced, so you're experiencing build those muscles.

It's not by sitting there and doing nothing that build

those muscles. People in business, Wow, I think you're very brave,

encourageous when you own your own business. When you get

in you know, I don't know how to do business. Love,

I cannot my husband try to do business like open

cafe and I'm a cafe owner before terrible. How are you?

We're giving things free every time, all our all our food.

We were way ahead of our time. This was in

the early nineties. We were way ahead at times. Today

you are paying top money for some food in this

place called that guy bends Bends bends Ben's he has

a he has a well, his mom opened a shop

called Miss Reed selling clothes, and then they used to

have a they used to have a cafe. And then

I went there. Not this back in the nineties. We're

not even living in the nineties anymore. So I went

to look at their food and they were selling shepherd

spi and it's selling cupcakes. And then I look at

the pregnant Oh my word, I should be charging that,

you know, I'm like gus. Our shop was just opposite

Taylor's College s S fifteen, all students, but we were

way ahead at time. Nobody knew how to eat shepherd Spy.

Some people knew, and we had carrot cupcake top seller

shepherd Spy, butge cake, you know, and it did really

well when we sold it in Mount Cara. Mount Cara,

we had had a bazaar and we would an elder

Kenya and Pasta would drive and sell all my goodies there.

It would get sold of caiche all of that would

be sold and did very well, but not where the

students were. We opened a youth center, but I had

a cafe and and you know when when this guy

Ben opened and did his business. Of course they yeah,

we did know that those days, got all those one

you got. Investors are investors who want to investing. No

body law, nobody want to investor. No, no, Look also

uh those investors, right, So I said, you know, charging

so much, I should charge the same because I'm also

selling you know that sort of thing. And but like

I said, when you do business, you take challenges. But

we weren't doing for the business. We went in for

the ministry to have something for the young people. So

I always say, heads off to all business owners. You're

really taking a big step. But there are challenges and

I'm part of that. I've experienced that as well. And

so you need to have some sort some you know, routing,

some foundation of being resilient to go through a lot

oft heard heart stuff to be the prime minister of

a nation. If if anybody wants to be premister, So

don't sit us, don't let us sit here and say

how bad our primari say you want to be a

prime minister. I tell you nobody. No. Half people like you,

half people don't like you. Want a challenge. I don't

want to be prime minister. Sudadly you're here, you're passing

by someone saying you know you are. Restorry is so

strong in your spirit not to take any of these words,

because you know that you're in this position to do

the best that you are. You know, so wherever positions

you are, you need to be strong your foundations. You

need to have some form of foundation. We want to

give that foundation to all our young people, to all

our adults, because life ain't going to be roses. You

know better, roses got thorns. Yeah, I don't know. Life

won't be ice cream. Or maybe life won't be to fool.

You need a tall. You need to freeze your to food.

Freeze and then tall. All those stop having so many

bubbles in your life. Loud, balk them, break them so

that you change your structure. Don't be so very fairy Albert.

You know, just you gotta build those muscles, building building, okay,

and build those future muscles so that you you no

matter how many times you get hit down, you come

back up again and you just say, hit me one

more time, I'm still gonna stand. I'm still standing only

by the grace of God. And so the only way

we can is is the investment of building on the rock.

Jesus is our rock. And this rock, you know, we

we have this word. Sometimes out of everything we forget,

we're busy, but suddenly, because you've been putting the word

of God in, he will remind you, Hey, remember, I'll

never leave you no for sake, Hey remember, And that's

what keeps us going. Amen. In times of illness, whether

you are the one facing the illness or whether a

family member, you have to, you know, press in because

it's not easy being a caregiver. Anyone here who has

ever taken care of someone who's not well, it's not easy.

I've gone through, my husband's gone through, if taken care

of our own parents. We've done everything that we need

to do. Never easy. In fact, the parents are feeling like,

you're so sorry to trouble You're so sorry to trouble you.

But we take care. And it's a tough time to

walk through a journey like that. But then it is

the resilience that is within us to say no, we

will carry on. We will keep believing, we will keep

trusting God for strength to go through this time. But

how do we find that? We find that by building in,

building in our spirit. Man, Amen, and you know I

didn't put this up, but the other story that comes

to me is in First Samuel Check thirty. You've heard

this before. I just want to bring a reminder to

you because I hear people say, you know, I've been

going through this situation and I feel alone. Even when

you take your exams? Are you alone? Your mom is

not holding your hand right now, I is your home leader,

not holding your hand, but I'll be praying for you.

But you are there. You are the one person going

through it. And when you go through things, you are

quite alone. When you're not well, you are sitting in

the bed alone. Yeah, I. And so if we are

trying to blame anyone or to just make an excuse

of why it was tough and I didn't know, and

did you even voise it out to tell someone that

you needed help, that you wanted some support, or you

want to be manja, you need to tell me laugh

because then I a'l manja you okay? Ah? I When

I when I had the miscarriage many many years ago,

our church was so young, was so small. We were

only a few people, and I couldn't tell many people.

And my husband was the pastor of the church. He

had to leave me on Saturday. I had a miscarriage.

On Sunday, he went out to church. On Monday we

left for Philippines to plant a church. Was I alone?

Nobody felt my pain but I did only I would

feel the pain. But that's what I did. Lost the

baby on Saturday. Sunday was alone at home, husband had

to preach. Monday, we flew to Philippines to plant a church.

So you can complain all you want, friends and say

how alone you are, but you are going to be

facing it yourself. The only difference is where is that

resilient spirit Jesus is with you? Serious? Our church was

so small and there were no mom in the church.

I was the only mom. So if my other friend

Joyce Wong, which I told Joyce, and Joyce called me.

Albert heard about it. First guy to text me, spassa,

how are you? Nobody else text me my girls weren't

even alive. I don't know where they were. But yeah,

Sometimes sometimes we don't know how to show compassion. Sometimes

we don't know how to feel for people. But we

can learn when we go through it ourselves. A church

gets better at caring for each other. Sometimes we don't

know what to say when someone's going through a divorce,

someone lost their baby, someone lost their child, lost their

love one. And then we can't respond because we just

don't know. But we can learn when we ourselves go

through it. I'm much better and much more compassionate when

someone loses their parent because I had to go through it.

But before that I couldn't fully grasp it. But now

I'm better. I'm better, and we learn, We learn, and

there are people here that are just super kind, super caring.

You you just know how to respond that some of

us just don't know. Blur all right, just oh yoh,

all right, oh someone's having an exam, you know, sending

a prayer for them. And it's not that we we

don't care. We care, but we just weren't aware. But

when you go through things in your life, it builds

you up, but it also gives you a little more

second portion so that you can give someone else. Amen.

And you know when in First Samuel, chapter thirty, King David,

remember King David, he was not yet king yet, he

was running away from Saul. And then they made Ziglag

their their their campsite, left Okay, the city they took

over Ziglag and then you know, and then the Amalekites

while they were away came. Okay, the Amalekites, the enemies

came and burned down Ziglag and took their wives, took

their children, took all their sheep, took everything, just destroyed

the whole township, the whole city. And when they came back,

David and his six hundred, six hundred men came back

to nothing. Have you come back to nothing? I just

heard on my classmate last night. She Chinese New Year

this year, she was away. She came home to a

burned down house because they were playing fireworks and the

fireworks burnt, which is her father in laws house. They

burned the house down, so the whole house was burned down.

You came back to nothing? Have you come back to that?

I've never so I cannot understand, but I can feel

the pain. So zickleg was what happened for David lost everything,

not just lose the land, never mind, you know, lose wife, children,

six hundred men came back after you know, fighting and

came back to nothing. WHOA. They were about to stone

David because this was their leader, and you said, you're

gonna lead us in the victory, and now look at that,

we've got nothing. They were about to kill him. Take

him down to Chinatown they didn't have Chinatown. Then take

him down to Jerusalem Town. Okay, but David, what did

he do? He could have I think some of us

could have just given up and say, okay, I just

killed me. What do I do now? Because the melanchies

were maybe larger than them, They're only had six hundred

men with him. And he said in the verse here

in our First Samuel, chapter thirty and verse six, he says,

here David was greatly distressed for the people spoke of

stoning him, because the soul of the people was grieved,

and every man for his sons and his daughters, they

were so grieved they lost their family. But David, this

is not an easy thing to do when you're on

your own, when you're alone, going to your thing. He

strengthened himself in the Lord's God. Sometimes we are placing

a place where alone, but when where does our help

come from? David strengthen himself in the Lord. This is

like that thought going into frozen put in the freezer,

being wool. You know your structure is being changed because

you're going through this tough time. What I know, I'm

so soft like a tofu now. But as you get

into that storm, into that freezer, you start to build

some structure. Right, So all our air holes, air bubbles,

bar balloons began to be burst as the ice crystals

began to break out, the structures and the fat. Yeah,

I became holy, all right, all right, hole many holes.

I showed you the picture, right, many many holes. Moms

and dads in the house here, young adults, families, Your

children learn from you, but trying to save them from

every paint are your pudding cup? Come on, some times

our children need to learn a fall. The reality is

life is tough and life is not always fair. Your parents,

you as parents, cannot always protect your children because if not,

they will become twenty five year olds or twenty years

old who have no structure, no understanding of tough times,

because you keep protecting them. Even in our spiritual walk,

God doesn't come. He's there with you. He told you,

how do I I've been just studying the Book of

Joshua and judges. He said, go go and conquer I

am with you. But they said, no, Lord cannot. The

people are more than Earthy got iron chariots. We got

nothing but the lords. I will be with you, and

he already shown into other tribes. But the majority of

the tribes did not want to cast out or chase

away all the Canaan knights that were left. That's why

until today they got problems because they didn't want to

take them down to Chinatown. So we say we can't,

But the Lord is saying, I'm with you. I'm with you.

But you got to take your step forward. You got

to just face your fears again, telling the story of

my lizard stories. I'm scared of sor the lizard could glee,

you know, lippers or slippers, roches, roches, I can't handle.

I can't handle then rogers. But listener, it's gully, you know.

But then if that is my house, right you know that?

And some people say, first just leave it, you'll eat

up all the insects in your house. I don't care.

I don't. I can have the insects, but I will

not have the lizards. Cannot. But I'm scared. So but

then I had to face my fears. I had to

be resilient. I had to be a tough tofu and

I had to take them down. I can tell you.

You can come to my house. You will not see

a listen it happily playing behind my photo or the

album on your picture frame. I saw that and a

few houses. I want to catch it for you. I

was in Nepal and the whole just listens behind the

picture frame. Not my house, kid, But I to face

my fears. I'm still scared anything, but I have to

face it because the losses. I'm with you. You you

you overcome the listen. I'm with you, and I'll give

it to your hands. And true enough, I'll kill them all.

And I tell them I told you, I told you.

Right you step into my house, you die, You will

surely die. I put traveler, I put all kinds of

things because it just dirty. Is the house is full

of patches, right, and it goes and crawl over your things.

I cannot. So I to face my fears. And now

I still get so if I seals there. I told

my my homies, I need a water gun now because

I didn't do one fellow hanging around my house. I

took the water shot. Even he did not know what

hit him. WHOA right it was in my potch because

my porch poo. Everybody cannot take it, so he didn't

see me. I to my water boom boom. He wan

like I here. The enemy cannot take over your life

in the spirit and in the natural. I want you

to kill your enemy. I didn't kill the fellawl. He

just got slept with a water gun. No poop pom

the big one. No wow, the face like you didn't

know what hit him at all. I also didn't know

what he like. Whoa power woo? Yeah enough gun yeah.

But the water gun was just amazing. And after that

peace No listens in my pouch under the day homes.

I saw it another one and then I tried the

water gun not working. I need a water gun, babes,

get me one. So resilience, all right, you gotta face

your challenges, your tough times. It's tough. You are alone

in it, don't I want to say to us, when

you've got strong foundation, you don't you stop complaining, You

just say thank you Lord, you're with me. I want

you to be able to say it's tough, but Lord

you're with me. I'm not alone, but I will go

through it. With the grace of God. There will be

brothers and sisters who will come around you. Don't you worry.

There will be that one thinking kind of partner who

think about you, and they'll come. And I had different

people coming. But you will walk on this road, the

valley of the show shadow of death. It's a shadow.

You just keep walking, keep your eyes on Jesus Amen.

So Uncle David had to strengthen himself even though six

hundred men said we're gonna kill you, boy, we're gonna

get you. But he prayed and he had to find

strength in the Lord. And sometimes you're going into your

quiet time, going into just away. Remember I spoke two

weeks ago. You need to have that time when you

come away and you abide in the Lord and you

just keep at his feet and abide because that's when

the peace of God and the assurance. And David was

assured the Lord is with him. To pursue his enemies. Yeah,

he had to pursue his enemies. Guys, you have to

pursue your enemies to take back what belongs to you.

You let the devil sit on your head and tell

you this report. That report. You say, hahuh, you defeated.

I want to take back my health, take back my beloved,

take back things that you know you keep giving me accidents,

and you got to stop for a moment. Pray, Lord,

this is mine, this is my family, this is and

you pray and then you say, Lord, you help me

that resilience to say I won't just give up. Sometimes

we do give up, and at times I don't know

what to do. Nikot sends you the Holy Spirit. Sometimes

he sends your brand sisters in Christ to help you

and encourage you. You're so thankful for that, Amen, just

as how you are encouraging us, my husband, myself at

this time of need. Thank you again for your gifts,

for your love, for your text, for your messages, for

your food. It's a lot of food, praise, Thank you, hallelujah.

And but how do we get there? You got to

build on the rock, hear God's word. Do it here

so you don't need to run to a million conventions

and conferences in seminars to learn how to worship, to

learn how to read the word, read it. I'm gonna

just start reading it. Getting busy with conferences and con

conventions doesn't get you anywhere because you're just receiving, but

you ain't doing it. You got to do it. Amen,

So to fool for you today. Number T TEA. Tough

times don't last, tough people do. Amen. Are there some

tough people in the house? Come on, all right, you've

got a tough time. I got some tough times. But

tough times will not last. This too will pass. Tough

people will last. Tough people always last. A serious times

are tough. I tell you my story, not my personal story,

but the refugees that come into the lend from a

particular country. I won't tell you where we are helping them,

but I'm like, why do you even leave your country?

You don't even have a job here. Why do you

even leave? I just want to leave because he's tough

and thinking, Okay, I can't help you forever. I can't

hand out money to you all the time. I mean,

I buy grocer We do groceries for them, feed your job.

I can't do more than it. These people have tough lives, right,

but those times will pass. They're still there. I don't

know they're still there. They gonna go to uncr they

gotta get their papers because he's still there. The times

are tough. So if you're if you have a tough time,

right Now, if you, if you and I have a

perspective of life, then you go, I'm not that bad.

When I was in Nepal, the people, the children that

were ministering, they were children, but then they were children

at risk. At seven and eight they were sold as

sex slaves. Today they are sixteen. Today they're eighteen. They're smiling.

Jesus came into their life. The organization saved them from

the borders. You don't even know who's living with HIV.

The attention they want, the love, the hugs, sometimes just

being there just to hug them because there's no mom

and dad. Sometimes the little children in the streets. I'm

just seeing them at ten pm and I they this

hair method and everything. They're still running in the streets.

It means your child if you think of Ava, that's

the age they're running alone with no home. If we

have a perspective, then maybe we won't compare so much

and think about hey, in life is tough, but some

people have even worse. So what is got one thing

to do for me? Now? Where is my help? So

I encourage you tough times will come. Really job career

studies and you're thinking this is like, oh crap, men

so hard relationship are you cannot find us tough or

bro At least you have a single life and a job,

can still go diving. And you know, I know, you

just don't have a man, that's it. But you have

the man of men. Jesus, the rock, solid as a rock,

the best rock. Yeah it's not that guy, right, the

rock forget his name, but Wain Johnson, he ain't as

rock as Jesus is a rock. I know, I know.

Sometimes we can't see God. That's why we easily give

up someone and say we are to each other Jesus

with skin on to encourage one another tough times. What happened?

So I look to the Lord. Someone to one, someone

to one, and verse one to two, someone to one,

verse one to two says to us, I will lift

up my eyes to the heels, for when comes my help?

My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.

Amen In in averse three says he will allow your

foot to be moved. He keeps you. He who keeps

you won't slumber, and he keeps Israel. He never slumbers,

no sleep. But where does my help come from? I

look up to the hills. I'm thinking where does my

health the mountains look majestic. Where does my help come from?

It says, my help comes from the Lord who made

heaven and earth. The Lord helps us in our time

of need. Amen. First cor Indians fifteen you can write

it down. First cor Indians fifteen fifty seven says the

Lord will come and he is our help. He will

come and save us. But you need to be patient

in that timing that he will move those tough pro networks,

the structures that just won't let you move, But then

slowly the doors will open. Tough times don't last because

your eyes are on the lot. Amen. Tough people are

made tough because of their circumstances. So if the eight

year old was sold as a sex slave, she's eighteen nineteen.

Now she's a tough chick. The men have abused her.

Sometimes they're just not out for the sex right, they're

just burning them with a cigarette. So I told the

men in the house, I said, a need user, that's

such a bad way, by saying, if you just keep

your baby to yourself and stop poking around every girl,

then maybe there's some hope for your country. Stop having

pre marital sex just because you can't help yourself. This

nation needs you. We need resilient people. We need people

to you know, know how to go through tough times,

save your country by being responsible men. I told them

it is tough times. Economy is tough for the pout,

A lot of things are tough. But I think that

people are even tougher. They're even tougher because I'm talking

to an eighteen year old who are half a life

has already been abused. But praise me to God for

always somebody rises to the call. And a German Man

came and saw this, and he started at home and

has been running for twenty over years that. One by one, slowly, slowly,

every we've been taking these children out from the streets.

They have a perspective and raise our children, raise ourselves.

Have you a perspective. It's not as bad as it looks.

It is bad, it is tough. We are going through

a lot of hardship. But I want to ask you,

look to the hills, or where is it from the hills. No,

look to the Lord. Where does your help come from?

The Lord is your strength. He builds you spiritual muscles,

He builds you tough. We got to have a perspective

of the very purpose of our lives, the very you

know why we are alive, and the the damage we

can do to the kingdom of hell. Because God is

on your side. And it's like children like these that

people do such work. Why do we go out and

plunge it just not just because I want to be

in the City's because many lives are lost. They need Christ.

Tough tough. It's tough to do some work, but tough

times will pass. Tough people remain because the Lord is

the help. The Lord never sleeps nor slumber. His help

will come to you. Amen. Oh, time is running out.

Oh not for Oprah. All stands for we are more

than overcomers. We are more than conquresus the songs that

we sing, the verse that you know Romans eight thirty seven. Goddess,

he says we are more than conquerors or other word

for that, more than overcomers Romans eight thirty seven. We

have been made more than congress through Christ Jesus. Amen. Amen,

how many conquerors in the house? Amen? Yes, In all

the persecution, in all your tough times, in your business,

in your family, your marriage, you're raising children, all that's

tough in your country wherever. But he says, in all

these things, we are more than conquerors through Him who

loved us. Through Him, we are conquerors. We are overcomers. Amen. Oh.

In the tofu is not soft and breaking down. It's

all and overcomers. Much. We're gonna be tough times, but

you can overcome through Him who loves you. Amen. You

cannot think about what other people are saying. You got

to think about God is saying about you. Amen, and

look to Him for your every need. Amen. The f

is the foundation, Amen, the foundation in Christ alone. Ask

us ask ourselves where is my foundation? Is my foundation

in a family name? Maybe you come from a heritage

of a family that's very strong, very well off, or

you know, I don't know. Some people come my great

great great great grandfather is the who whoo who oh?

Then is that your foundation? Is that how you're strong? No,

your foundation is in Christ because in First Corinthians three

eleven it's beautifully rode. The only foundation is Christ Jesus. Amen.

Has no other foundation. Can anyone lay than that which

is already late in Jesus Christ. Amen, that's your foundation.

Whatever you're going through, friends, the foundation is in Christ.

So when you say I feel alone, I'm a lonely

to fool. No, your foundation is in Christ, amen, It's strengthen,

it's strong in ladies life down. He conquered death, he

conquered sin, he rose again. He gave us the victory.

So it's actually saying you are the victorious one. So

in our circumstances, sometimes I've got a sometime just sit

back and say, I know it's tough. It's tough to

face this person. It's tough to face this situation. Oh

my country is so difficult. But I'm here and God

is with me. Amen, it doesn't you see it's not

see we have got on our side. That is your

extra strength. That's your double portion. What is a double portion?

One portion for you and one portion to help somebody else?

Say it with a double portion anointing on Elisha right,

one portion for you, but you need the extra for

the other to help someone else. You never give up.

Your foundation is in Christ alone, Amen, We got to

push forward. Harleelujah. I don't know I mean this. I

was just reading. I've just heard about testimony of a

particular African lady. She's probably in the sixty seventies now,

but she's the one who discovered another form of help

therapy for cancer. I think it's called nano using nanotechnology,

photo photo something. What was it called photo dynamic theraty

therapy PDT. It doesn't work. It's not fully research fully

baby help, but it targets the cells and so I

cannot go into technical terms. But this lady was the

was was. She was from South Africa. At the time

of the appetite, there was no education for girls. But

she did everything the boys did. She took care of sheep,

she had a farm, she had to do all of that.

She did everything, climb trees, did everything. And then why

can't I study science? Because girls weren't allowed to have

an education. So her family moved to Lesotho and there

she had an education. Then she went on to Canada

and now she's one of those many many accolades, one

of those doing research and raising new scientists. She could

have stayed on in Canada, but she said no, I

want to go back to South Africa to help my

nation and to raise new scientists. You don't ever give up.

She's not doing a Christian thing or whatever, but it's helping,

not only because of the sickness, but to have you know,

to know that there is a foundering. Why do I

even come back because I want to help my nation

and to build people. When you go through tough times,

where's your foundation? Why do you why do you keep standing?

Because the foundations in Christ and your faith is going

to encourage another person's faith and another person's faith. What's

your foundation? What's your what's your purpose? And why you

want to do what you do? You need to know

what are you rooted down to? Which is Christ? Amen?

The f is foundation for your toufu And it's only

Christ alone that you will stand strong. Amen. It's not

just for today, friends, there will be great tribulations in

days to come. My homies talked about it on our

free homes Day past the Howard the next time, next time,

mister Sharon with us say, we just have to make

sure we stay on the Word, read the Bible, remain

in the Lord founding. You know that they said a

lot of things we need to do in our practice

of our faith. But the reason why we build now

is to build strong foundations so that when tough times come,

tough people will last in your faith to know how

to stand against what is anti of Christ. And even

though it's very, very tough, you will say, no, I

still believe in God, even if your life may have

to be laid down. I don't know. I'm not saying

because I'm so brave, but I think together we can

be brave sometimes together. Right. But the foundation is Christ,

the Tofu foundations and so have been the structure change

of Middler because all those testings came up. Widen up

and give book all the balloon. All the balloons do

so not so eryla have some structure. So, guys, your

structure is in Christ, the structure of the cross. You

went to the cross for us, we carry our cross.

This is our foundation. Amen, we become. That's how it

makes us resilient. Lastly, the you in the Tofu to

have an unwavering faith in Christ. Do not waver. Do

not waver. If God be God, then worship him if

you think bal That's what Elijah said in First King's eighteen.

If God be God, then worship the Lord. But if

you think the world is your God, then you worship.

Don't have your feet in two boats for the men,

you cannot celebrate Father's Day. You have to have your

legs in one boat, not in two boats. Amen. Right, No, amens,

everybody required today, come on, we have to have an

unwavering faith in Christ. Unwavering despite the storms, despite what

is tough. I'm scared. Everything's scared, very Hardllah. We cannot

be scared, get scared. You just face your fears in Christ.

You take down the enemy and the voices that tell

you you can't or that it's tough, or it won't happen,

or this, or that you face it. By the grace

of God. You're unwavering faith in Hebrews chapter twelve, verse two,

looking and as you read the whole of Hebrews twelve one, two,

three four, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of

your faith, run your race, Amen, looking unto Jesus. If

you look at your friend, you might get discouraged because

you get comparison. If you look at the world, you

don't know. Alma am I following. Is it true? Is

it true? Are you? Maybe it's not a You look everywhere,

but where's your eyes? Your eye's got to be on Christ.

Just have to see the cross before you, the world

behind you, the cross. Are you going to tough times?

Is it unfair. Is it just too difficult? I want

to say, have an unwavering faith anchored in Christ, so

that your tofu won faulf amen. Yeah, So you remember

when you're going through your field, am I a dopo

or am I a firm dofu? You are a firm

to fu. Okay, you are affirm dorfu. There has been

pressed down, shaken together and you are now running over

the grace of God because you have to press all

this ie to come out and all the water. You know,

the press, press, press until all you have is this

protein that's going to be healthy for you. So our

unwavering faith in Christ. When when we start to waiver

sometimes again, I know there are days you're going to

be alone. How you make those decisions as a young person,

as a grandparent, as a parent, as a young adult,

as a young family, how do you unwaveringly make decisions

to lead your family is by looking unto Jesus and

not to what your neighbor or this friend or that

successful person is doing. Success it's not rated by on

how many houses you have, how much money you have

in the bank, because all of that you cannot take

to the grave. Your eternity is in Christ. You can

have no more chungy looking girlfriend and the most chungy

looking hulk of a man, haunk of a man, or

help a bully hunk. But you're still putting your eyes

on a flesh that will forsake you. So the first point,

first part of call is Jesus. When you have him

on that first point of call, your pot of call,

you anchor into him. Then slowly we begin to develop

our resilience from getting a small cut and crying boohoo,

to okay, it's just the cut right now. I cut

my hand all the time. Marsin says, you're terrible. I know.

I was cutting the potato and then a knife was

really sharp. So go lot of cuts. We're careful sometimes,

but at first he's like and they're now like, what's there?

Like like rainbow rainbow cut down only right long? You

cut your finger? Me done? You just carry on cooking. Ooh,

blood and all the sellad tomato sauce to moto sauce. No, no,

no bandage, you know. So I think we build slowly,

a little bit by a little bit. Then another day

will be dealing with a difficult boss. I had difficult bosses.

I know it's in my face. You don't like my face?

What was it like?

But you deal with did like instead of leaving the company.

You just get through it, get through it until when

you do leave, they go like best stuff you're not

like met from me and the best stuff come ot work. No,

thank you got better things ahead, right you? You take

that next we see the next resilience All of us

will have that. I'm sure sure one have. You just

have to overcome. You tell yourself just just five more minutes.

You just push to, Oh, I only got thirty minutes.

Never push to I got a dinner to go, Yeah,

thirty minutes. Why can I wepp in thirty minutes? I

can't do anything. No, you just push through. Something will

turn out. But your your spirit line. You need to

build strong spiritual muscles, spiritual muscles that will just push

you through by the grace of God Holy spit, just

building you. And then you say I can I can't.

I'll keep going. I'll keep going. Don't give out and

sis sit there and say there's nothing I can do.

You can do something. You've got five minutes to study

your your your lesson before you take exam. Take the

five minutes, swallow all the things that you can read

in five minutes. I tell you what that could be,

the very question that's going to come up. I'm telling you.

I'm telling you no joke, no joke, ah to fool, right, yeah,

I don't want to be a silken toolefood it looks

very pretty, or you your heart and firm tofu not

very pretty. You've seen it, right, those kind of firm

to food the e pretty and not still given sil

can to are you pally young the mainly? Then the

firm to fula right, you're like, but then that's where

you can fry it. You can really you can make

chips with it. You can do it and not just

a smoothie. I don't just want a smoothie. I want

some tooful okay, in place of other proteins animal protein.

So you you you saying God, I want to grow

strong and build muscles. This is this is your bearing

fruit moment. Two weeks ago my message, this is your

bearing fruit moment. You're building those fruits, You're building those muscles. Amen,

come on tofo tough times will come tough people. Why

you are hiding and hidden in Christ you are more

than an overcomer. You must believe that things will happen.

You go through a storm, but you you just hold on,

You grit your teeth and you say, I'll get through this.

By the grace of God, a door will open. If

it takes a year, it takes two years, I will

get through it. All of us have been I'm not

in your place. I don't know what hard times you

went through before. It wouldn't be fair to say, oh,

it's easy. I don't think it was easy when you

went through your heart challenge. Business owners raising family, raising

one child or eight children, they are still the same.

It's a lot of work. Yeah, I just meant I

just heard somebody who raise eight children. I'm like, well,

my own friend has nine children. Oh my word, how

did you do it? But yeah, tough people just have

to get tough enough and just do what you have

to do by the grace of God. By the grace

of God. Amen. And you don't be tough for yourself

because you were passed down the good lessons to your

next generation, to your children. Please don't shield every child

of yours and not let them go to the pail exam.

It's not the worst failure. It's just your step to

greater victory. Because how you don't taste failure, you don't understand, No,

what victory is The pope the cardinal, not the pope. Sorry,

pop got new pope now pop Leo. The cardinal in Philippines,

the cardinal I don't know his name, the Filipino Gardenal

spoke at Alpha in the UK and they said, why

do you cry so much? Why do you smile so much?

You're always smiling. Gardinal said, I smiled because I've cried

a lot. I've cried so much. Wow, the whole room.

Just when you have cried a lot, when you have

some tough times, when you've overcome, you have a lot

to smile because you've gone through the hot miles. I

told you that we all gotta go through the heart miles.

Nobody gets through without the hard times. And then you

smile a lot, and then you can look up and

say you're walking on sunshine. I'm walking on sunshine when

you cannot walk on son sunshine. If you never come

to the sun, not the sun sun, but the son sun,

then his light shines to you. Amen. Amen, So tough

times will not last. It will pass, but tough people

will come through. I mean telling you this because why,

because of my own engagement with these children, I think

I will just die. Give somebody come and use my body.

I'm just gonna die. They're not dead, they're doing live.

They're going on to university, but their half their early

years have been in abuse. I'm thinking I would have died. No,

you don't. You will last when opportunity comes, God saves you.

They're in Christ now, so tough people will last. Come on,

grow up, Come on, we all grow up. Oh people

gotta grow up. Young people gotta grow up. Yeah, you

went to a very difficult and fair situation. That doesn't

mean the next time you say I don't want I'll

never serve again, I'll never disciple again. I'll name cook

a good espresso because the person saim, I donut look

like a ball, didn't look like a verde, looked like

something else. No, we go in to the tough times.

Face it not. You don't let my verdey too, pet

I give someone else. Tough people they last. Because I

was just looking at the child, I'm going I would

have died. Every man used my body every time for

six ten years I should have died. She should have died,

but she didn't. So she's tough. God's grace on her.

God's grace on you. God grace on you. God's grace

on you. You will come through. It's tough. You wonder why, God,

where are you? So that's not the question. We're just saying,

I'm just grateful that God you took me through. We

are more than overcomers, more than conquerors because you are

in Christ. He made you more than a conqueror, more

than an overcomer because He loves you.

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