God Wants Us To Experience His Peace | Elder Wong Kien Yak

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So Joint forty twenty four say, is this right peace?

I live with you my peace. I give to you

right peace. I leave you my peace. I give to

you right not as the world gives, do I give

to you. Let not your heart be troubled. Let neither

let it be afraid. So the Bible here say, I

want to focus on the last part of the scripture.

Let not your heart be troubled. Let me not be afraid.

In our journey of life, journey friends, we have allowed

different things to occupy our hearts. Medical report comes out,

it occupies our heart, our mind for a moment, we

allowed it to dwell from being troubled, comes afraid for

what could be just a possible warning sign could be like,

oh no, this is my future already because we allowed

certain things to The word is to grip our hearts,

to hijack out our life. It'll take it to a

place about we don't want to go to. And the

Bible reminds us this morning, let no heart be troubled.

And it does work on our hearts. If you're if

you're honest with ourself. Whatever it is a friends, so

my stress point and my trigger points could be very

different from yours. I'm twenty fifty and all I just

want to know is that I'm able to go all

the way to eighty five without a wheelchair, right without

without different things, you know, and somebody, it's just looking

on my heart, my heart as well. Right next year,

I'm great for a major sort of a scan my heart.

Five Next year will be my fifth year surviving my

heart attack, and it will be one of those do

a full scan again, and I just pray it will

be a good result, whereby I don't have to do

anything else extra, put anything else. I prayed at my

heart rate. I was talking to a couple of days ago.

I was talking to someone about my heart rate. Say, wow,

you mean your wrestling hearrate is what forty five? You

must be a You must be a marathon runner. I say, yes,

I run maratons around the buffet lines. I'm very good

at the buffet lines and stuff like. No.

I was saying that.

I said, but it's too low. I just saw him,

I said, I go to work. I see now, look

at the computer R forty five for the seven for

the eight fifty one right, My lowess was thirty four

thirty four. My sleeping one lowers was about thirty four

sleeping thirty four. When you're sleeping, heart rate drop below forty,

heart rate drop below forty, wake out on your mind like,

oh no, So first of all, it robs your mind.

For our friends, it robs your mind, troubles your mind,

the thought just one time below forty. So hijack your mind,

trouble your mind. First, the one puts you we allow

things to go to our life be meditated and oh no,

it comes again the next day or the day after

the one week later they look and the trend. What

happens when when you start looking at trend, your heart

will become afraid. So what you meditate on, what you're

allowing to grow? Do you put your mind into it?

It causes emotions. So mine, mine is my notification I received.

Yours could be you know, I don't know, could be

SPM one candidate here, It could be at the job,

you know, the s a message you have the reply

that what's the messages and stuff that? So my stress

words could be very different from yours. But the thing

here is is that all of us here have a

choice whether or not to allow those things to occupy,

to become illegal entity in our heart and our mind.

When we allowed it the right to be now in

our heart and our mind, it will trouble. It will troubles,

O friends. So recently, I just went about a month ago,

I went to do my health checked my regular to

see my cardio. I was hoping, really figure that my

l d L, my back cholestero will drop. You know,

we pray with fast if we claim God's work in Jesus,

we bring down the back cholesterol ld L and stuff

like that. Right we're binding and this stuff like that,

all these friends, medical report came out. My averaging was

two points zero. L d L really came out to

me two point seven. The doctor was shot because in

my four years of really good record was two or

two point one on me?

Shut up the two point seven?

KSU, what happened, mister warm thet I thought, so so

by I went a better way. I said, it's my

wife cooking, you know, I said, I said. I said,

I'd been eating out a lot. You know, I've I

haven't been watching my diet.

You know.

Malaysian food was was on the discount and this stuff

like that. But I allowed, I've allowed myself to give

you the temptations of the food. So yesterday we were

at the grim and Larinus wedding. They had big Raga,

big rager for for dinner, right, and we were scooping

up the bring job with carrier and this stuff that

we ran a four rounds. It was either very hungry

or it was so tasty. We were with extra just

creaky feeling up. They just you know, with one ball

cap port or one place. Mtory did bring back another

boat and stuff like that. We were hungry, and you know,

I was driving back and asked myself a question, where

was my control?

Where was my control?

Where we saying that don't let your heart be troubled,

for example. But we allowed it because it becomes like

it's very natural. We think that we can overcome and

we we can manage it. We can we can manipulate it.

Were allowed because like I seen it before, Yes, I

know it is. I saw the gravy, I saw the

lay of all there. It is stuff like that. But

yet at the same time you know what to do.

The head, the mind, the mind, the mind saying yeah,

watch out, watch out. Okay once only, but your hand

is which is how they put it in your mouth,

like what what entities this? You know seems say grace

and really say segnified class class show a God.

But the hand just goes out.

And sometimes that's how we deal with issues in our

life because we think that we can manage, and later

when the report comes out, we know that our hearts

is troubled. Come on, you only know when your trouble

and the report that feeling the emotion you're driving bed

like if then you feel the oil the power of

the oiliness and stuff like.

Why did I take the extra gravier?

Right?

Why did I do this?

Sir?

And what happens?

You beat yourself, you know, driving back like I shouldn't

have to think that I knew, I knew there was

I know I was supposed to take it out radio

and I'm not talking about right, but you understand that

I knew, I knew, but that my nice warm right,

But after the one happens, you go back, you go

back your car, you go like then your first of all,

your heart is troubled.

Come on, your heart is troubled.

Then after it happens, then you're afraid of the consequences. Later,

you're afraid of the medical results. Later you're afraid of like, oh, no,

my adult is two point seven.

It becomes tree.

I realized in my journey of my life, I was

looking back by oh, my report, my highest ELDA was

about four point seven or five, or no, was about

six point seven or something that was really high. I

didn't pay attention to it because I allowed it to

come to my heart. Now I look back with knowledge.

I became afraid. But the afraid friends, it's very funny.

And the moment you sleep is I reset. Come on

the moment when you sleep, is I reset. Today's a

brand new day, and there is lunch after apologize. I

wish I could go to lunch you by Canna because

I'm fastating. I told my wife I have to go

back and clean my house. Yes, clean my house. Just

want to let you know. I finally understand the Jewish

custom you prepare the house to invite your wife back.

So my wife officially moved back, not because we have

we fought moved back. I had the city is nicely

because other it goes out with the wrong way. I

got my wife back, Okay, move back and start back

into my house very first, after three months away big

bachelor's or three months my wife stayed with me. We

are we are camping in our room. Okay, we're body

water in our room. Not ready yet, this stuff like that.

But I told my wife because we can so precious it,

we will clean up because there are other things to do,

other things to finish up. But I just had to

move in first because I told my wife three months

readio I took up radio or enough punishment ready or right?

I'm sorry, kay?

Right, I say it's but basically just is that it

is very tiring to date when you're close to the

fifty What do I mean by dad? Every time after work,

I sent her back to chore us, then you turn

back to putcho. So when you're younger, training something, you

got a lot of energy, you're so excited. Yay. When

you're merry, really you know, you stay so fasty here,

stay together? Cannot your house is too small and my

room is too small and stuff like that because of renovation. Yeah,

because hey guys, because of renovation. Okay, so we moved back.

Our house is almost completely moved back. Yes, move back

and uh the renovation is still going on on the outside.

But we move back, started cleaning up. We say that

we have to put the house in order. I move

in earlier because she's she's allergic to us.

I said.

The law is so amazing. Put two different people. One

is not allergic to us. What it's allergic to us?

I say, Lord, sometimes it's not. It's unfair.

Yeah.

So I started cleaning the house and this stuff like that,

and so my wife has this thing.

You know, you know, I.

Can't clean as the way you wanted to be clean.

I said, there's only one way to be clean. It's spotless.

Every time you use the shower skin, you must wipe

it down. I introduced a squeegeet for her. All right,

this is how you use the squeegee. This you clean up,

and I see you wipe it down. The stainless still tap.

You must wipe it down. So when you come in there,

it welcomes you like a hotel room.

It's like a real ya. Don't do that one here.

Oh sorry, I'm not wow, Jessica.

Here right, So our hearts, our hearts, our hearts in

trouble and become afraid. All right, but the Bible here

says that God understands. So God understands the heart of

his creation. He knows you. He knows your heart, he

knows what triggered what triggers you. He knows your The

word is that he knows your trigger points that causes

you to be in stress, causes you to worry, because

my trigger point and your trigger boy, could be very different.

As I'm we can share you my experience, but some

of us here could be very different. I've accepted the

fact that my head we never grow back in the

middle part ye up here, I tried sleeping, living it

log I honestly I wanted to confess. I lay hands

on it, I put anointing all here before seriously I

claim it.

I fasted.

I've almost followed almost every remedy I could fight out there,

but it did not work.

So my trigger pointed time. I was like, Lord, why

I know when I grew.

Up the time my mom used to tell me that

your hair is so thickular, so nice or so vv

vv you know, friends, I was so bungle on my

head lastide, I can't a second donated to make a

week or something like that. Then when I started losing

hair at the time I was in trouble because this

this bob pet here doesn't grow as quickly as the rest.

And I told my I told my wife back then

should I keep it long?

How I flip it one side and stuff like that,

You said, Nola, And.

My heart was troubled. So that's that's my trigger point.

There after I come to this place of taking everything

off and stuff like that. And also I want to

go the got My wife said, you know you can't

because you know you go grotty. You cannot kiss me.

Life choices. So I told my wife igue my poetla.

So my trigger point is different from yours. But God

understands creation. Come on, So some of us here, your

trigger point could be your future and this stuff like that.

Mine could be just getting over certain things. So the

Bible says God understands. Quation John chapter sixteen was the

tree says this that in these things I've spoken to

you that in me you have peace. Come on, in me,

you have peace. God understand See, he understands first of

all that peace is always absent in our hearts. But

in this world you have trials and tribulational transitions. You

have hows and tribulation God knows every trials that we

face robbed us from our peace. Come on, he robbed

every trials that we face, rob us for our peace.

Because wherever we put our trust in, whether we're hoping

for our security, our insurance, whatever it is, on the external, friends,

cannot fully shield us from different trials. For example, right now,

that we may have a certain security in a part

in a particular thing that we have, but it's only

for a situation within this parameter. But anything above that

is beyond you, right, and trials is always changing, friends,

it's never the same. For example, right now, some of

us are going to a particular trial, but one point

version two point zero comes out that why our security

you have, it's only for one point zero, right. And

God understands his creation. That's why he says that in

the world, you would have tribulation. In the world, you

will have challenges in this world. But be of good cheer.

The Bible says, He's ministry to the hearts of his

disciples and followers and the crowd in the midst of

the trials. He did not say that be of good cheer.

I have wiped away the crowd, the troughs. I've removed

the challenges. He did not say that I would snap

my finger and everything will go away, or I'll blow

your problems away. He said, be of good cheer. I

have overcome the world. His promise to us is his word.

His world will give us a guarantee that no matter

what we go to on the external of situation, he

enable us to go through it with confidence, even though

there's fire on the outside, even though there is challenges

on the outside, even though there's war on the outside,

that you and I can have this piece. The expression

of peace have a richer connodation and in the English

word come on. So in English word, peace is the

absence of conflict and trials and challenges. All right, But

God's peace that we can face Goliath know what to

do in the midst of Goliath. God's peace is enable

us to go to the Promised Land with giants in there.

God Peace enable us to go to the fire of

the furnace. In the life of Daniel. God Peace enable

Jesus to go to the cross, knowing that service afterward

purpose here on earth. God's peace in the midst of

that situation. It's so important for us to understand it's

not the absence of the trial. It's not the absence

of the tribulation and stuff like that. They are all

of us here. Do have like a like a torn

in the flesh that reminds us that we are weak,

that we that we are we are in lack.

Always say, do have.

Something like something that we are not proud of, something

that we are not particularly good at.

It reminds us.

And this wanting the Lord wants to challenge us the

way we think again, there's not the absence of the trials,

not the absence of the challenges, but knowing the fact

that you're going into the challenge with my word, my peace,

It will give you a guarantee you'll come out victorious,

come out overcoming. But many times when we ask a prayer,

we say, God, remove this away from me. God does

give us green pasture, moment steal water woman.

He does. He does not constantly asking us to go

to war. He does.

But the challenge is this that those moments of green

pastures and steel waters, do we know what to do?

Those moments of green pastures and still waters do we

know what? Do we know how to rest? And refreshing

him to get ready for the journey of the value

of the shadow of death, that's just around the corner.

Always here, go to your valley. So when God maybe

asked for God's peace, friends, we're asking for his peace

to go to that valley, friends, to go to that trial.

That's why Romans chapter ten vers e level says that

whoever believes in it shall never be put to shame.

Whoever believes in Him shall never be put to shame.

This is how we're right. John six seams the tree

that in this world you have tribulation, but be of

good chef overcome. We will overcome, and we believe in him.

Come on, excellent, you will overcome situation in your life

and you believe in Him, not with your own strength.

Many times in our lives we have so much resources

that we tend to trust in our own resources that

we do what we do. At the moment the resources

doesn't meet the ability to overcome the trials. We get

worried our natural resources or contacts and this stuff cannot

overcome the trials and the challenges we face. We get

a bit worried, we get a bit troubled with our hearts,

and this is where we turn to God. Said God

forgiving or putting strength and trust in my own ability.

This one of the scripture reminds us again that whoever

believes initi will never be put to shame. And in

your journey of life, friends, I pray that you allow

God to speak to you and just say God, I

want to put my trust in you. You know, I

was doing the dinner. One of the things that I

was asking past a question. So I've got to ask

Jason Martin here, your oldest home leader by age is

what by h a home leader or forty something?

Right? Is that correct? Okay?

So I came on a am English is now I

think older was about fifty something. I think about late

fifty so far ex got to company holes that record.

I think it's Eliza and Rachelle's parents. They're in the

mid sixties. Home leader at mid sixties. I'm asking myself, like,

when I see you want to be a couple of

home leader at sixty something, you which you want to

be a homeleader at sixty something? Did somebody say about

other people give chances to other people the worse? No,

it's not about it's not about friends. It is not

about holding on to a position, but serving the lot

in your sixties. Imagine right now, of all things, not holds,

not as home leader. There is a pastor we calling

to them to be a cell goop leader, to manage

people at sixty whereby people think that at sixty you

think supposed to take it'll be easier. But have having

to take on the stress of managing homes at sixty

five sixty six, holling people, are you coming from homes

and not.

Preparing for food.

At sixty they should be thinking a bit easier about

this couple in because of the community said that we

want to serve the lot. We want to serve the

lot in this capacity, in this manner. We don't want

to just surf. They did. They do surf so a

reserve as a host on Sunday. The husband John serves

as a sound crew on Sunday. By the weekday. They

say that we every time we want the home leaders

were they're leading kik one over there, and you know

they're doing an amazing job.

But I think many times now in our.

Life we put our security because we have strength, we

can do it right. Because we have strength, we can

do it well. What happens when the strength is no

longer there will we still do things for God? Come on, straight,

is no longer there meaning to say that even though

we get burned, disappointed, her taken for granted everything you

feel the blanks?

Are you unsaid?

Okay, you've been a leader, you understand, you've been a

Christian of what you understand?

Right?

Feeing the blanks, will you still believe in him and

serve him?

Does answer that?

Right? Point of this is that the piece of God

is a gift of God. Peace I leave in you.

Meth just basically means is that it is cannot be

earned by your own ability. Come on, it cannot be

earned by your own ability. When we talk about gift

during this Christmas, I know some of us you have

got really terrible experience because you're a part of a

company and the company actually do stuff, give exchange.

Minimum amount is to tieving it.

You're figuring your here out what to buy from mister

diy to feed them. And whenever there is a minimum

amount you're looking at, you really look at below the

minimum amount training self in ninety sense because the other

one thing and the one doing it at ten for

the rapper, right, and you're always look at the minimum

of mount I.

Share with you before.

Sometimes people give hammer and school driver practical give the

ultima mon was a four eighty grand paper together with

two packets of rubber band, right just to make the

the gift. The time of the trading ring git the minimum.

Everybody was buying the minimum, you know, until one day

past real anymore. She's totally from the whole stuff. I say, guys,

next year doesn't mean I give you the guy that

trading ring minimum and you buy the minimum. This is

the gift that you'll be giving your cliques, your brother's

in arm, your sister in christ who's going to come

alongside and projects with you. You're not gonna give an

a four paper and a rubber band. She has passed

the age of making skipping rope. I was sharing that

eight am. Just now They're all like, huh old, what

do you mean by making skipping rope with rubber bands?

I went like, oh yeah, different generation, very different. I

don't know where the school stills need to mix skiping

rope with rubber bands. Maybe they buy it from shopping

these days or skipping rob But back in the those days,

we do mike skiping rope with rubber bands. I come

from the SRP era as that was called the PMR era.

Now back then there was an SRP, right, so you

can imagine how old I am.

Right, So I was trying this oud, What do you

in my making skipping rope?

I say, yeah, I said, sometimes when we getting gives, friends,

isn't it true, because we know who's a giver? Right,

don't even open it just to preserve the packaging and

to give it away for next year's give exchange. I've

seen it before my own life. I've done it before

in my life because you don't spend money more after

your colleagues.

Right.

And sometimes when God give us a gift of peace, friends,

we have not unwrapped the present yet. We have not

embraced the president in our life. We have not received

his peace in our heart. You can open the gift,

and many times you have many gifts on our shelves,

open up, but you got no we'll find no use

of it. Maybe there's no opportunity, but in general, why

don't we use those gifts? Because I table lamb Your

table lem is better, right, you get one of those

small letter table lam you wag one, then get lighted

that one from mister diy right.

Some people say so cute.

Some of us go like, one of the worst things

I ever received was a soft toy, So why would

I want a soft toy at my age? Seriously, why

any which I give you a soft tie for Christmas?

Amery Christmas? It's a chicken chip sholve soft oil. I said,

give me a real carec I'll be more than happy.

But many times in our life, friends, we think that

it can be earned. But it comes from faith, comes

from faith, from believing, And God was a reminder us

today that it's perfect peace. It's a gift that comes

from Him, made possible by his ultimate sacrifice, come on,

made possible, bounce, ultimate sacrifice at the cross, made possible

about his ultimate obedience to the cross. His perfect peace

is the one that will help you to overcome every trial,

every challenge. But first you can't just embrace him as

your savior.

So we get to heaven.

Because when we get to heaven, if you think about

it for a moment, the gift of peace is not

it's not as well used here on earth. When you

get to heaven will be peaceful, isn't it. But it's

on earth that's where you need God's peace. Come on,

It's because of His ultima's sacrifice that you and I

get to be reconciled back to God. It's ultimate and

perfect gift of peace to be reconciled back to God,

to be forgiven of our sins, to know that, Lord,

I've done anything by my own strength, and I'm a

shame of it.

Lord, and I want to come back to you, put

my trust in you. Lord, help me. Lord.

And God was remind us again about his name Isaiah

Septa Diverse sixties anto as the child is born and

tows the son is given, the government shall be appoint

and showed us. You know that his name shall be

called wonderful counselor Mighty God. And we'll asking for that.

And the Prince of Peace, come on, Prince of Peace.

He is the ultimate and perfect peace. Friends. His name

wasn't called the excellent, most efficient manager. His name wasn't

called the best, the best distributor of gift. His name

was the Prince of Peace. And even this season, friends

of Christmas, reminded of God's peace everywhere the sho you

reminds you of His peace on earth. Glory to God

the Highest and peace on men. On all the earth.

God reminds us again during Christmas, friends, about his amazing peace.

He wants to reminds you about his tighter that's profound significant.

He is the source of inner peace. I say that

is now a forgiveness of sin, some straining. And I

was saying, the Lord will give strength to his people, immen,

will give strength to his people. He will bless his

people with peace. Therefore, peace therefore is a gift of God,

not something you could earn. Say Lord, I want more peace.

But God is the one that freely gives his amazing peace.

Or whatever we face in our natural body or our

natural circumstances. Friends, you and I have access to God's peace.

You and I have a way to ask God give

us his presence, his peace.

Number three, the peace of God cannot be earned, and

the chief to works received by believing in Jesus. Let

me just quote your the scripture John fourteen, verse one,

let out your heart be troubled.

You believe in God, believe also in me. It's very funny.

You believe in God, believe also in me. I think

a lot of us here do believe there is a God.

We do.

But believing also in me.

I just told to myself about why does Jesus have

to say that you also believe in me? Friends, Jesus

business is represent our heavenly Father. Also reminds us of

his works on earth, his forgiveness of saying his his

obedience all the way to the cross.

He's embracing us his love and zeal for the church.

His belief in the doultous woman that was the woman

was called the Doult's lifestyle, but giving her a second chance,

his belief in the Samaritan woman and the well friends

by reminding her of purpose, by speaking hope future into her.

But isn't it true after a while our Christian journey

friends come to a place whereby we believe in God.

That's why we go to church on the Sunday. We

worship Him. But to our center of the beliefs stops

there doesn't cause us to go more and forward with it.

If God wants to speak to us to say you

want the actually my peace, you have to take the

set of faith. So recently at ex osaka benji or

just sharing with a few of us about the challenges

Number one ish whnu no whenue to do homes no

wherey to do church, not about other places.

Very hard, very expressive. You know Japan.

You I mean, you don't have to go there, but

you understand everything is so expensive over there. So they

were praying and hoping and asking God Lord, give us

a solution. How do we have church services or homes.

In Japan?

So they read a particular area, no place to no

place there, no place to rent, And God gave them

a very brilliant idea that goes out of the normal

norm of people's idea. So if you're talking about if

you're talking about believing also in me, believing also in Jesus.

Trusted him that the way he leads us is not

the way we think we lead ourselves, because the Bible

says his rats are not our race, isn't it?

He thoughts. So you know where they had a meeting.

They rented to our oka room to ours.

They read the place because you pay money, Really you

can't sink as long as you want. Your neighbor won't complain.

You have to sing my wordiness on the TV. They

just shut down the TV. They have almost like a

service in the caroke room because they got no revenues

because they just use the place signify the place for

the next two hours that you read you can't meeting

there and straight enough after the service was done. Okay, one,

I went forty five minutes. Look of fifteen minutes? One

just fran say ben sik of fifty more minutes? Can

we can we use the cake room and sing a

few more songs? They saying, well, this this song and

this stuff like that. But you see you also when

you believe in Jesus, that is no the end. Friends,

Can I use Caroke Place?

Yes? I know for the world that's how they use it.

But when you secnify, dedicate the place, how we ran

the hall like this, signify this place and how you

use the space for the glory of God, God will

just expand and explode our mind because the place was

cis turned around. People came and people minised it too,

and in our hearts and our minds saying God, no,

you can only want in this way. That's why God

is reminding us in fourteen verse one, let not your

heart be traveled.

You believe in God also also, friends, believe in me.

In our journey of twenty five years of doing church,

we are so grateful for our partners in our church.

Did you know friends, maybe share because I leave the

eldestship group and we are over seeing a lot of

homes in Malaysia. There's about eighty three homes or eighty

five homes right now in Malaysia, and globally there's a

bit more than that.

Are a hungary.

Plus, we have amazing, amazing home leaders, you know, not

just in Cline, but in different parts of the church plan.

I know one particular person every Friday because it gives tuition.

He said that on Friday, I lessen my teusan because

I want to give my time to grow my homes,

give my time to go homes.

Amazing amazing people.

Right, There's another person I know because he's he works

with the campus student. He knows the campus student, especially

studying in the local university. They have no access to

good food. All they have was nothing going. That's it,

nothing going, me going, me mama and stuff like that.

You understand right, our locals say over here, he takes

the upoint himself one day before I'm married in barbeque

me and bring his barbeque pete or electrical barbeque pete.

Go to a partic of condominium and dig Coreen barbecue

with them. One time he baked all him he could.

I went to drop by his homes. Another time he

actually he actually dig a current dish. One day he

dig chicken, carry cook for everybody, extra people, top all

back home. I only do this is because I'm given

a translate homes and I want to do it my best.

So we have really amazing leaders. When we believe in God,

we also got to believe in Jesus. God is the

one they will go to. Rich people up. We didn't

see that every home, Linners, you're supposed to know a

Corean barbecue meal for your homes. No, just do your

best of your ability, and God give everybody every ability. Friends,

So when we believe in Jesus, friends, I want to

encourage you. I want to encourage you that we have

to renew our mind. Roman chapter eight, verse six says this,

for the color minder is death. For the color minder

is death. When you do you just think by the

flesh or think about a natural way, it leads. It

doesn't lead to break through. It leads to a natural death.

You know, we will just leave. But that's it. No overcoming,

no experiencing the power of God. No, nothing, There is

no wealth factor in it. We will live a natural life.

Will we will live life naturally. But for the spiritual

mind that it's life. Come on, for the spiritual minder's life. Friends,

The life that the Bible here describing is not a life.

And we think life by breeding. It's God's life, It's

Zoe's life, It's his breadth innus purpose. He gives us purpose.

The spiritual mind that you have purpose. You finally one

day that hey, there's more to it, friends, than just

going to work. Working is important, Working is good, put

food on the table. But God purpose into what we do.

So because the day will cover we retire, we see

a purpose. Our purpose doesn't go into retirement because you

reach sixty, Amen, it doesn't.

That doesn't mean that you reached sixty.

The King of God say, you know what God speaks

to you in your dream, son, daughter, you reach sixty,

read time for retirement. Here's your retirement package. You have

build out at least one brick in heaven right now

because of your service to the Lord. Right you have

at least one room right now in the Kingdom of Heaven.

You just retire. I call you home. No, friends, you

serve the law all the way until the Lord calls

you home. I was listening to one particular missionary, and

this missionary was in his forties. He was I think

a school teacher, or sometimes I say, God, you always

challenges go for missions. This is an America's situation, America's case.

He said, he always ask us to go for missions.

And I thought, thought that, okay, I'd been saying no

a lot of times. This is to Central America. He

and his wife said, okay, we'll go for one man

of missions, one month, one man missions. That one man

became fifteen years, fifteen years the established school over there

in this particular country, no funding whatsoever, just obedience.

Is the spiritual minded you have life. I was listening that.

He was just sharing very He was not charismatic picture

nothing at all. It's all the shower and schreme, nothing out.

He's just say, you know, I got ass go.

We just go law. Then after that started a school.

Then after the government the shutters down, some of the

local coust shutters down because of different days. You went

by the land, and so with someone who knows about us,

who happens to be the son of the governor of

the place there decided to open the door for us,

and right now we can we can operate friends, life,

the Bible day, the spiritual minute, you have life and peace,

no friends, not just life. You know, God knows that

we get life. But God says in the life, you

also have peace, the spiritual minder. And that's why the

Bible says, renew our mind. He also asks us to

guard our hearts. Come on probably the forwards God our

hearts with all diligence. The problem is is that it's

not that we're not getting. All of us here are

very guarded.

We are.

But the question is is I think we saw always

are guarding the wrong things. We are guarding the wrong things.

For example, right to some of us, see what's valuable

to us is our primary exercise book memories. We still

keep it. We are guarding it, and you know, anybody

want to show it, you get angry and somebody so

you've got friends like that. To some of us here,

a primary exercise book is just a face that we

go when we're graduated. We ship it allowed and donating

to somebody saying the recycling center. So I was guarding

our hurt and our pain for too long and we

speak to them, right, we still hold onto the hurt,

that pain, the experience happened five years ago, happened ten

years ago. There's nothing that we could say or pray

to undo the experience that you experienced back then.

You can't. You went through it. It's very real, very fresh,

It is very and make you who you are today.

But to undo that situation that took back ten years ago,

even God can't do it, but to surrender the very woman,

to surrender their experience that God, I was hurt back there.

But I don't carry this hurt anymore. I don't know God,

this hurt, this hurt, although it's a significant part of

my life, but I do not want to guard it

anymore because it's not worth keeping this hurt or this pain,

or this disappointment or even this success. That's why sometimes

when we're doing church right, we get they like, we

know when I was younger, I pray. As you go older,

don't you see when I was younger, at your age,

I used to serve here here, here, now's yourth I

pray down the verse. We have this kind of lingo

because it's I was success we have when we're growing up.

It was at the moment at that point in time.

But as God transitioned us to a new face, a

new chapter, a new age, we should be able saying God,

here here I am. I already renew my mind so

I can experience your life and your peace.

That's why the Bible reminds us God your heart. We

all didn't.

Don't allow the enemy to sow doubts mistrust. When there's

there's lack of trust, what happens, our hearts will be

in trouble. Come on, when when the enemy souls mistrust,

don't trust anymore. Dubt the word doubt, the word dub

the word God cannot be trusted. God cannot be trusted.

What happens? We're like eve tempt by the serpent, and

the place where we get tempted, we say, God, I

know that you are real, but I just want to

trust it on my own. It's like looking at the

recipe but not fully trusting it, taking liberty at certain

management of the flower, the number of eggs and the

amount of sugar, because God, I know that the recipe

is like that. But see God, my oven is different

from your ourn. And we twig certain things God, you

have with all deligious alphabet brings the issues of life.

Where and what we're experiencing today right with this very

moment is from our hearts. It does reveal one. Every

trial reveals what we have been sowing, what we have

been guarding. I pray that today you allow God to

minister to you as well as I close right now.

I just pray the all us here today. Then the

sense of the say God, I want to be renewing

my mind because the spiritual minded person get to experienced life.

The spiritual minded person get the experience purpose and have

peace over every giants in the land. That's why kill

theb and Joshua and go through the Promised Land. Although

there is giant that have peace of God. The Bible

says the peace of God. We got our hearts and

our mind Philippa chapter four. We've got your heart and

your mind. No longer you're going to be come to.

No longer you've been a place where by the external

pressures forces you to do something that's crazy or reacting

in a butterlar manner. But God's peaces to God, I

recognize this external pressure. But Lord, could you give me

wisdom how to overcome you and I need God's peace

in the coming days. There's so much pressures that we

faced on a daily basis. They said the Bible, God

knows our heart. He knows he knows us so well.

He said that in this world you have trials, but

be of good cheer. I have overcome. Let know your

heart be troubled. Believe in God, also believe in me.

If God could overcome the fear of death, if God

could overcome the fear of disappointment and hurt, betray you,

he was an ultimate example for you and for me.

God will definitely make a way where it seems to

be no way. As a close friends, I just want

to pray for all of us right extreme up to

the stage.

You know, friends, as we close.

The year, it's not just closing another chapter. You don't

have to wait for first January to restart your life.

The gift is right there, this very moment, in front

of our hearts. The gift is there. I prayed that

you know, whatever we go to in our life, our journey,

that we will be open to God. Help me to

unpack this gift in my heart. Help me to just

to let go of certain things that's not worth guarding. Anymore.

How was the exchange really this?

There will be moments whereby friends, unpleasant situations will happen

because you to to really to give up, can't take

it anymore, to surrender, to be angry in us, in

us can't deny the fact. But God, I will ask

you to deny your feelings. You just say, just don't

let it faster for too long. That's why the words chooser,

don't let your heart be troubled. He knows that we'll

be trouble. He knows that we do feel trouble. He didn't,

he didn't ask stop. He just said, don't let oh,

don't don't prove for too long, because whatever it is,

it's not good. That's why it's When he was ministering

to the prophet Samuel Sauce disobedience, his words was, how

long would you month for Saul seeing I have rejected

him as king the prophe Sel was just hoping and

praying that some would repent and coming to the Lord

and the ideal picture, the ideal scenario. But Saul did

not chose his own ways on path. And some of

us here in the day are still holding on to

this ideal picture because say, how long would you hold

on to that ideal picture?

And because it's not my view.

Man look at our ward appears, our ward outcome, but

God looks at the internal because the break to really

comes internally first before the external happens.

Amen.

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