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Redirect & Reflect | Jason Martin

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from axt church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. Do you all remember what verse she was sharing just now? Okay?

  4. So she was sharing from Philippians four, verse six to seven. Right,

  5. be anxious for nothing, right, but in everything, through prayer

  6. and supplication, make your requests be known to God. Right.

  7. So when she shared that for pre service devotion, I

  8. was like, wow, okay, because today my sermon is Philippians four,

  9. verse eight six and Philippins four verse eight. So she

  10. shared six to seven. My sermon today is verse eight

  11. all right, So I believe that there are no coincidences.

  12. It is God's divine appointment, and that's why I believe

  13. that God wants to set us free and to reveal

  14. his truth from his work in our lives. Right. So yeah,

  15. So like what Jess was saying, how I came about

  16. this message was I'm not sure how many of y'all

  17. were there during Family Sunday. So if you're there during

  18. Family Sunday, I was sharing about Mission impossible right where

  19. Daniel he was faced with an impossible mission. Everyone was frantic,

  20. everyone was anxious, and they had the reason to be

  21. anxious because if they cannot solve the king's question, they

  22. will die. Right but God revealed how Daniel tackled it.

  23. He's sick for clarity, and then he seek God and

  24. God intervened. God used him for his glory. Right So

  25. after that, right then I was thinking that why do

  26. I mean? I was still not satisfied although God revealed

  27. that to me and say that, hey, this is how

  28. I'm going to tackle my anxiousness or my I was

  29. feeling down at that time, right, so I was saying that, hey,

  30. why do I feel down? You know, why do I

  31. feel down? And last week Elder Terrence also preached the word.

  32. Then he was saying that burnout is from the devil.

  33. So I was like, whoa, that's very strong because I

  34. felt a bit burnout. You know, I felt a bit burnout.

  35. He said, burnout from the devil. So I was like, uh,

  36. when you when you when the speaker say something like that,

  37. right you. I decided to just think about it, think

  38. about it, meditate about it, and uh not not to

  39. just cast it out. But hey, there there is a

  40. reason why I'm in service. There's a reason why this

  41. was said from the pulpit. So I said that, Hey,

  42. if it is true, yes, God did not want to

  43. live want us to live a life where we are

  44. under the circumstances. We are called to be overcomers. Right,

  45. we are called to be overcomers. And so I said, yes,

  46. that is the life that I want. I want to

  47. be an overcomer. So how do I do that? You know?

  48. And how do I live a life as an overcomer? Okay?

  49. So the first light? Can you put up the first light?

  50. So this is the Philippians for verse six to seven,

  51. right says, don't worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything,

  52. Tell God what you need, thank him for all he

  53. has done. Then you will experience God's peace with exceeds anything.

  54. We can understand His peace with God your hearts and

  55. mind as you live in Christ Jesus. Okay, So this

  56. is the new Living translation. So I know this verse.

  57. I have preached from this verse before. I have heard

  58. many messages about this verse. But how come I'm still anxious?

  59. You know? The Bible is it's quite funny something sometimes

  60. or ironic. When you're feeling fearful, the Bible just say

  61. don't fear You'll be like, what do I do with that?

  62. You know I'm feeling fearful, but you tell me don't

  63. fear So now you say, hey, I'm feeling anxious. The

  64. Bible says, don't be anxious. I'm like, it's like I

  65. need more than that. You know, he need more than that.

  66. And then this verse they tells you to pray and

  67. be uh to have a spirit up gratitude. But how

  68. many of us when you are anxious? Right, it is

  69. easy to give gratitude to God any of your heart.

  70. It's tough, right, It's tough. And I know because I mean,

  71. if you have lived more than five years, I think

  72. you would have reached. Even kids right right now feel anxious, anxiety.

  73. Even kids feel anxiety. And then when you tell the kids, hey,

  74. you know how you overcome anxiety give gratitude, I'll be like,

  75. what you know? Kind of thing. But as adults we

  76. know it. But even though we know it, it sometimes

  77. hit knowledge because to practice it takes takes a bit more.

  78. It takes a lot more faith. It takes faith to

  79. speak life into our situation. You know. So it's like, Okay,

  80. how do I get to a place where I speak gratitude?

  81. How do I get to a place where I pray

  82. so that I will not be anxious. Right, And so

  83. what is anxiety? What is anxiety? We have all experienced

  84. anxiety before, But what is anxiety? So I saw this

  85. definition next life. It is an emotion caused by the

  86. brain's reaction to situations, not the situations themselves. So, for example,

  87. when we are put into a situation, how our brain

  88. reacts and responds causes the anxiety. Two different people can

  89. be put into the same situation. One person can be anxious,

  90. one person can be happy. How come it's because our

  91. brain's reaction to the situation, you know, And that's what

  92. caused anxiety. So next light. So most of us are

  93. like this, Okay, you'll be like brain, look okay, the

  94. heart of saying, hey, look at all the good. You know,

  95. be anxious for nothing, but in all things, give gratitude,

  96. prayer and stuff that the heart knows. Okay, the heart

  97. knows you have to look for the good. You have

  98. to look for the good. But then your brain takes

  99. a magnifying glass and magnifies the bad. How many of

  100. y'all go through this? I know I go through this.

  101. You know when somebody tells me, hey, look at the

  102. good I'm like, I'll be like looking with the magnifying

  103. glass and the bad. You know, it causes me more anxiety.

  104. It causes us more anxiousness. And and and you know

  105. right from this picture sometimes, right, the bad can only

  106. be one piece, It can only be one experience bad.

  107. There will be so much of good, but because of

  108. that one bad experience, we forget all the good things,

  109. because our focus right is on the bad, and we

  110. forget all that God has done, on all that He

  111. has brought us through. And because of that, it causes

  112. us anxiety. Right, And why do we focus on the bad?

  113. Why do we focus on the bad? Okay? The word

  114. focus right next light because I didn't want to go

  115. too deep, but I wanted to just introduce a few

  116. concepts because it was a whole study that I went

  117. through myself, because to understand why am I feeling this way?

  118. Because I need to understand it, then only I can

  119. overcome it. Okay, So when we focus on something right,

  120. whether it's good or bad, we ruminate. So the word

  121. ruminate means, let me just read it out here from

  122. my notes, right, Okay, when your mind choose on something

  123. over and over again, when your mind choose on something

  124. over and over again. Like for example, you you think about, oh,

  125. next year, petrol price going up, so you keep on

  126. thinking about it. You know, hey, petrol price going up.

  127. I'm going to spend more after that, I will recession coming.

  128. I'm not sure how much incremental will get or sales

  129. is not good bonus and you keep on thinking. Is ruminating?

  130. You think it over and away, you chew it and

  131. chew it and chew it. The other word ruminate is

  132. fro When a cow ruminates. So you know what the

  133. cow does, right, how many stomachs there's a cow? Have four?

  134. A cow has four stomachs? Yes, So that's an interesting

  135. in fact. So when a cow eats grass, all right,

  136. that's another fun fact. So when a cow eats grass,

  137. it chooses and then it swallows it. It swallows, it

  138. goes in the stomach one now it brings it back

  139. out again and choose again and goes in the stomach

  140. to you know, it ruminates. It gets the most juice

  141. out of the grass as possible. So if you look,

  142. if you pass, if you drive past any cow, right,

  143. it feels like they're chewing chewing gum. I'm like, what

  144. why the chewing, chewing. They keep on chewing, but you

  145. don't see them eating the grass, you know, they keep

  146. on chewing, chewing and chewing, and chewing and chewing. And

  147. that is what happens with our thoughts when we focus

  148. on the negative. What happens is we settle it and

  149. then we bring it back when we are free, especially

  150. you're free. When you're free, you've got nothing to do.

  151. Think about a bad thing again. Let's chew on it again,

  152. to too, and then busy again. Then when you're free again, hey,

  153. let's bring it back again. Go to the testomach, bring

  154. it away, and then you chew it again. And what

  155. kind of nutrition do you think you will be getting

  156. from chewing on the bad? On the negative? You are

  157. what you eat. You are what you eat right and

  158. then right by the time it reaches the thought stomach

  159. right in your mind of chewing, you will come to

  160. this place called catastrophizing. Catastrophizing that means right, Okay, I'll

  161. give you an example. How many of y'all you know

  162. you felt an ache in your body? Okay, you didn't

  163. know what it was first time. First time you're feeling

  164. that ache in the body, What is the first thing,

  165. you'll do exercise before that, you google. The first time

  166. you feel a weird thing in your body, you take

  167. out your phone. You take out your phone and start Googling.

  168. You're like, oh my god, I'm gonna die tomorrow. You

  169. feel like, how come you know from Sally feeling it?

  170. Suddenly you're dying tomorrow based on Google. So this is catastrophizing,

  171. you know, is you go straight away to your worst

  172. case scenario. So so for example, you know, like last

  173. week Calvin, Kevin and Karine were here. So Kevin, uh,

  174. I tell you, yeah, thank god. You know, he posted

  175. in the x clang group right, so last week towards

  176. the end of service, he felt a bit numb on

  177. the left hand and then he was like going to

  178. pass out after after the service summer we all may

  179. have noticed. But then when we took him out and

  180. then gave him some food and then the Korean rushed

  181. him to the hospital. Uh, then, praise god, he was okay,

  182. he was good. But then right when I was talking

  183. to him, he said, you know, sunning, my left hand

  184. fell numb. Then I took out my phone in Google.

  185. I'm going to get a stroke. I'm gonna get now

  186. I'm like, bro, chill, no, chill, it may be nothing.

  187. You know you, I'll buy you a mile o. You

  188. go and see the doctor and then see how it

  189. is and praise God. It was it was nothing. Praise God.

  190. But you know, our minds we are so used to

  191. going to the worst case scenario. We are going to

  192. the worst case scenario. And because right we chew on it.

  193. We focus on something and we magnify the minor. We

  194. major on the minor. We major on the minor, we

  195. focus on that. And you see that what happens to

  196. our mind is like it's like, it's a mess. It's

  197. a mess. So this was, this is this is how

  198. my mind works as well. This is how my mind works.

  199. It all just to share with you all. And a lot

  200. of times, right when we think about anxiety, we think that, hey,

  201. it's okay. On it's because last time, I'm the kind

  202. of person or so who will overthink. Then I will

  203. say that it is a good one. It's critical thinking,

  204. critical thinking. I will think of all the solutions all

  205. the but it is it is not. If you do

  206. it in the essence to improve things, then it is good.

  207. But if you do it in the spiral where you

  208. go downwards. Then it is not good, you know. And

  209. I did not realize that, you know, so I thought

  210. of it it was a strength. But actually if it

  211. is used in the wrong way, it is a weakness.

  212. It is a weakness that will cause my downfall. Okay,

  213. So in line with that, right, the title of today's

  214. sermon is this next line, we need to redirect and reflect.

  215. We have to redirect and reflect because what happens when

  216. you're anxious, you are focusing on the negative. When you

  217. are focusing on the negative and you try and have

  218. a heart of gratitude, can you do that? It seems

  219. like oxymoron. You know, you look at the bed and like, God,

  220. you were good. But you're looking at the bed and

  221. then you're looking at the google. I'm dying tomorrow. This

  222. this is what happened. And stuff like I still remember

  223. a friend of mine right uh at the time in church,

  224. so suddenly she signed out like a prayer request or

  225. stuff like that, say that, Hey, I think I got

  226. a problem with my liver, you know, please pray tomorrow.

  227. I'm going to see a doctor now, I Hey, why

  228. what what happened? Oh? Went to the toilet right then

  229. there was actually oil. There was oil in in in

  230. the when when pass motion. So when you google that,

  231. when there is oil when you pass motion, it means

  232. ther kidneys are failing. You know. It means your kidney

  233. are failing. So they are made a pointment. She and

  234. her husband go and see a doctor, say prayer, lean

  235. and all this. So when they see the doctor the

  236. next day, we just text him how is it? Say, Oh,

  237. it's because I ate a fisher. That fish caught some oil,

  238. access oil or something. So it's literally nothing, you know,

  239. But that is how we can tastrophize. You know, you

  240. always go to the worse scenario. Okay, but the verse

  241. today right, which I wanted to touch on the next

  242. line is this now, dear brothers and sisters. So this

  243. is after verse six and seven. Verse second seven is

  244. be anxious for nothing? Right, This is verse eight. This

  245. is verse eight. Fix your thoughts on what is true

  246. and honorable, right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think

  247. about things that excellent and worthy of praise. Kick putting

  248. into practice all you have learned and received from me,

  249. everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then

  250. the peace of God will be with you. The God

  251. of peace will be with you. So from peace of

  252. God right to now, God will be with you. But

  253. the key word here right is to fix your thoughts.

  254. Fix your thoughts. What are we thinking about? What are

  255. we thinking about? You know? So I'm not sure how

  256. many of y'all were were I mean, most of us

  257. were around when y'all remember the white two k bug.

  258. You'll remember the white two k bug, right, So if

  259. you're if you were in church at that time, or

  260. I was back in my hometown church and stuff. So

  261. the white two k buck for those of y'all who

  262. are pre white two k post white two k buck, right,

  263. let me explain to you. So everyone expected the world

  264. to come to an end and the year two thousand.

  265. You know, I because the computers were only programmed to

  266. nineteen ninety nine. It's not a joke, it's true. It

  267. was true. So it was like a major crisis. It

  268. was a major crisis. No, it's like they were saying

  269. that the moment is struck. First January twenty the year

  270. two thousand, all the bank system, all the navigation systems,

  271. your flights, everything will go haywire. In fact, nobody could

  272. predict what will happen and all time zones across the world.

  273. So when that happened, right, and then in churches, right,

  274. I still remember there was this thing called the Joseph Project.

  275. How many are all remember that? Yes? So they were

  276. selling this boxes right because you were like, apocalypse is coming.

  277. You have to eat like dried food and stuff like,

  278. because they were they expected. So my parents I bought

  279. a couple of boxes and had me and my brother

  280. already always be like can we try it? Can we try?

  281. Say no, no, I have to wait for year two

  282. thousand and then you can, you know, And everyone was

  283. fixated on that. You fixated on that, and then you

  284. didn't know what is going to happen. But you know

  285. what happened on the first of January to the year

  286. two thousand. Nothing. It was so anti climatic, It was

  287. so anti climatic, It was so boring. Nothing happened, you know,

  288. nothing happened. But then the thing is the whole world

  289. at that time was fixing their thoughts on that, what

  290. could happen? They catastrophiced, you know. But when you do that, right,

  291. how can the God of peace be with us? Because

  292. our focus is on the negative that is going to happen.

  293. And that is why I was thinking, why am I

  294. feeling down? Why am I feeling and anxious? Why am

  295. I feeling agitated? Because my thoughts are focused on things

  296. other than God, and most of the times it's things

  297. that we cannot control. Okay, So the first point is

  298. this next line focus what are we focusing on? What

  299. are we focusing on? So a quick definition of folks

  300. next line to give attention, effort, et cetera to one

  301. particular subject, situation, or person rather than another. So an

  302. example would be if you go on the road right now, Okay,

  303. say you're driving and I say look out for casts,

  304. you will only see rad casts. You will not see

  305. casts of any other color. Or I say, he think

  306. of an don't think of an elephant? What do you think?

  307. You know? You know that is focused. You know our

  308. mind right can immediately zoom in and be fixated on

  309. that and especially negative stuff because it is like a

  310. defense mechanism. You know, we are is a survival instinct.

  311. We are looking at the negative so to try and

  312. mitigate so that we will be safe. But that is

  313. not the way God wants us to live, because our

  314. hope and trust is in God is not in ourselves.

  315. When we are anxious, we are saying that a God

  316. cannot help me. Only I can help myself. And that's

  317. why you room in it. You try and think what

  318. am I supposed to do to get out of this situation? Right?

  319. And the devil knows this. The easiest way the devil

  320. can get you to not focus on God is to

  321. give you something else to focus on. That's the easiest way.

  322. He doesn't have to convince you God is not real

  323. or whatever it is. He just gives you something else

  324. to focus on. Next line one Peter five, be alert

  325. and of sober mind your enemy. The devil prowls around

  326. like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. So

  327. we have to be of sober mind. You have to

  328. know what you're thinking about. You have to be alert

  329. because if you are not alert, thoughts can enter your mind,

  330. and the enemy can put in thoughts. And sometimes the

  331. enemy do doesn't even have to you. We do self

  332. defeating thoughts right next verse, So this is two Corinthians ten.

  333. We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud

  334. thing that sets itself against the true knowledge of God.

  335. And we are taking every thought and purpose capt give

  336. to the obedience of Christ. So every thought that goes

  337. through our mind, we must take captive. If we do

  338. not take captive, it will take us captive. When it

  339. takes us captive, that's when we become anxious. We become anxious.

  340. It will be like, oh no, what's going to happen,

  341. you know, And then that's when we spiral. We spiral

  342. and we lose our focus on God. So the first

  343. point is focus all right, which leads me to the

  344. second point, focus on what. So there were a few

  345. things that the verse said, So next line, we need

  346. to focus on the truth. What is fact and what

  347. is fake? Right now? Right, we are living in a

  348. world where hey, my truth is my truth and your

  349. truth is your truth. There is no absolute truth and

  350. that is very dangerous because your truth is how you

  351. dictate life to be and that makes you God. But

  352. then you know that you can't save yourself. So that's

  353. why we need to focus on the truth. I am

  354. the Way, the truth and the life. No one comes

  355. to the Father accept true me. So we have to

  356. focus on the truth. And Jesus says, I am the truth.

  357. So when our minds are like that, right, and we

  358. don't focus on the truth. What happens. We are focusing

  359. on lives. We're focusing on lies and most of the time, right,

  360. the things that we are going through, it is real,

  361. it is real challenges. But we have to focus on

  362. God and focus on Jesus and his truth. Right next line,

  363. so he says here in John, Jesus said to the

  364. people who believed in him, you are truly my disciples.

  365. If you remain faithful to my teachings, and you will

  366. know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

  367. You want to be free of anxiety. You need to

  368. know the truth. And the only way to know the

  369. truth is to read the word. The whole Bible is

  370. full of truth. The promises of God in the Bible

  371. is truth, you know, And that's what we need to

  372. focus on. We have to focus on the truth. So

  373. that's the first point. Okay, focus on the truth. And

  374. then what next line? What else do we have to

  375. focus on? Focus on what is honorable, right and pure?

  376. Focus on what is honorable, right and pure. So what

  377. does this mean? Last time when I read this versa

  378. focus on what is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely and

  379. marable' all same ler. You know, it feels like it

  380. feels like you read the verse everything same, but they're

  381. just using a testsaurus and give you a different definition

  382. just to make the worse longer. You know, sometimes we

  383. read the Bible like that, but actually every word is

  384. put there intentionally. So the truth is I mean, the

  385. first thing is the truth is the promises of God.

  386. We have the focus on the promises of God. And

  387. when we focus on the promises of God, the next

  388. step we need to focus our thoughts to honor God, honorable, right,

  389. and pere. This is all speaking of the righteousness of God.

  390. We have to focus our thoughts on this is my thought.

  391. Honorable to God is my thought? Right is my thought pure?

  392. Because right you can cling onto the promises and say, God,

  393. your promise says this, But if your heart is not pure,

  394. the God of Peace will not be with us. You know,

  395. sometimes we use the promises in the Bible as like, hey, God,

  396. you say this, not one but actually right, each promise it.

  397. We need to participate in the promise. We have to

  398. do our part. We have to put our faith and

  399. trust in Him. We have to love God and love men.

  400. But if we are impure or we do things out

  401. of selfish desire, you know. Like, for example, God, your

  402. promises say that, hey, I can do all things to

  403. Christ who strengthen me. So cause my cause my competitor

  404. to die, you know. Can you use the scripture like that? No, right,

  405. it's cause it to rein on me on my farm

  406. and to be dropt on my neighbor's farm. So the

  407. price of my produce goes out. No. God, he rains

  408. down on the good and the evil all the same.

  409. So that's why we have to ensure that our we focus.

  410. Once we know the truth, we have to make ensure

  411. that it is honorable, right and pure. Okay. So when

  412. it says here, it's one minute yep. So it refers

  413. to things that honor God, avoiding the sinful lifestyle that

  414. is hidden from you. Okay. So a lot of anxiety

  415. come from actually exposing ourselves to ungodly influence. Why do

  416. we get anxious because we expose ourselves to ungodly influence.

  417. If we are exposed to God, we will have peace.

  418. But the fact that we expose ourselves to ungodly influence

  419. all we are because we are living in the imperfect

  420. world and we allow the imperfect world to influence us.

  421. That's when we become anxious. But we have to allow

  422. God to influence us, and that's when we need to

  423. folks on what is honorable, right and pure. So moving

  424. to the next slide. So, I think some of y'all

  425. may notice him from long ago. Search me, O, God

  426. and know my heart, Test me and know my anxious thoughts.

  427. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead

  428. me along the path of everlasting life. Do you know

  429. that our anxious thoughts of fan God? Do you know that?

  430. Because last time I'm like, hey, I'm just like that one.

  431. I worry you one. You know a critical thinker. I'm

  432. a critical thinker. You think it's like good, But actually,

  433. these anxious thoughts of fand God. Why because he's saying, God,

  434. you are not enough. You are not enough. I have

  435. to take matters into my own hand. But when you

  436. honor God and say that God, you are enough, you

  437. are my all. I put my faith and my trust

  438. in you. Those are thoughts that are honorable, right and pure.

  439. So we have to take into account when we are anxious, right,

  440. we have to take this into account. Right. And the

  441. final point focus on what is lovely and admirable. So

  442. what is this? First we focus on the truth, which

  443. the promises of God. Now we focus about honoring God,

  444. which is honorable, right and pure, and focus on what

  445. is lovely and admirable. This is about our relationship with men.

  446. Are we just honoring God but ignoring men? Because God

  447. has called us to love God and love men, make

  448. disciples of all nations. And sometimes say that, hey, my

  449. relationship me and God enough. I don't care about anybody else.

  450. You know, no man is an eye learner, right, And

  451. that's why we have to be like the body. What

  452. is the church? Remember I appreciate about what is the church?

  453. The church is not a building. It is a congregation

  454. of believers. Believers are people who are anointed. They are

  455. set apart, they are called by God. So the verse

  456. is efficients for next. Lie, don't use foul or abusive language.

  457. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that

  458. your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

  459. Before you speak, you have to think, and if your

  460. thoughts are admirable, are lovely and admirable, you will speak

  461. words of encouragement. We are called to build each other,

  462. not tear each other down. And that can only happen

  463. if we our thoughts. We align our thoughts. You know,

  464. when you are anxious, do you treat people lovely and admirably? No, right,

  465. you get very agitated. Everyone is on the edge. When

  466. we are anxious, it's all about us. We don't think

  467. about others. We don't think about God. We're thinking about

  468. fight or flight. But when we have the God of

  469. Peace with us, we are secure in him. That's when

  470. we can be We can be lovely and admirable to

  471. people around. And that's when people can see the difference.

  472. Because when everyone is anxious and you are not, imagine,

  473. that's when we are thesault in the light. You stick

  474. out like a saw thumb. How come everyone is anxious,

  475. everyone is worried, but you are not. It's because the

  476. God of peace is with us right so coming to

  477. us the end? How do we get more peace or

  478. God of peace? By fixing our thoughts on him, by

  479. knowing his promises, by checking to see where there is honor?

  480. Are our thoughts honorable to God first and then to men?

  481. And the last verse here next line, May God give

  482. you more and more grace and peace as you grow

  483. in your knowledge of God and Jesus a Lord. How

  484. do we get more peace by growing in the knowledge

  485. of God. We need to know the truth and the

  486. truth will set us free. I'm also usually I check

  487. myself do I google more than this? But even if

  488. you google right, google what does the Word of God

  489. say about this? Instead of what is? When you're googling

  490. for it? What do I do? Then every Tom, Dick

  491. or Harry will give you the answer. But if you

  492. google what does the Word of God say about this?

  493. What versus? Can I hold on too? That is how

  494. you can can do it as well. Right, and then

  495. we focus our thoughts on what is true, honorable, right, pure,

  496. lovely and admirable, and then the God of Peace will

  497. be with us. So I order to share this. I

  498. was thinking whether I should share it or not, but

  499. I feel I will just share it as well. Uh

  500. and yeah, hopefully I'll look back one day and see

  501. that this is might be a turning point or breakthrough.

  502. So yesterday we went shopping. We went to Sunway Pyriuid.

  503. So if we all have not checked out Sunway Pyraod

  504. recently they opened out the new wing, the Oasis, so

  505. it's like super happening. But Kapak is a crazy all right.

  506. So we went there shopping. We were shopping. It was

  507. quite long. We were there like I think sick hours.

  508. We were like, it was crazy. I don't know how

  509. come we ended up so long. Stuff like, yeah, so

  510. because we're going for uh jazz sister's wedding, so we

  511. had to go and buy stuff and all this this

  512. coming next weekend, so we're going to buy stuff and

  513. all this. So uh then yeah, so we're shopping and

  514. stuff like that, and uh, when the checkout shoes for

  515. the kids, right, So when the checkout shoes for the kids, right?

  516. And then so after found a pair of shoes. Then

  517. suddenly right I said, okay, I'll take this this pair

  518. of shoes. Yeah. Pay. There's a leader salesperson from behind me.

  519. He's like, oh oh no, I put the judge I

  520. put the was like, what what happened? Like what happened?

  521. You know? Then, because we're trying a few pail of shoes,

  522. one pair of shoe, right, was full of water, be

  523. anxious for nothing, but in everything through prayer and supplication,

  524. you know. I was like, and I knew I was

  525. preparing this sermon. I knew I was preparing this sermon.

  526. I knew I was going to preach on this word.

  527. So I was like, Okay, calm down, I need to

  528. take my thoughts captive right now. What are the thoughts

  529. that I'm thinking? What are the thoughts? So ah? So,

  530. So what happened is kind of long story short. I

  531. had to we had to buy that pair of shoes

  532. because it was damaged. Okay, we had to buy that

  533. pair of shoes. So I went out, and then my

  534. state of mind was really off, La, It was really off.

  535. But so I told you, I just need to take

  536. a walk. Okay, I don't want to do anything I

  537. regret or whatever. I just need to take a walk

  538. and then after that I'll give you a call. You know.

  539. So where I went and took a walk. Right then

  540. I was think thinking about this worse Philippines for it.

  541. Fix your thoughts on what is true? What is honorable, right, pure, lovely, admirable? Damn,

  542. How can I do that in this situation? How? You know?

  543. It's so frustrating. But now I like, hey, I have

  544. to take captive. I have to take captive. Anxiety causes

  545. you frustration, It causes you to really like you just

  546. feel that it's my right to be anxious. It's my

  547. right to be angry. It is my right to do this,

  548. you know. So I was like, so, so I said, okay,

  549. first point is declare the truth. Fix your thoughts on

  550. what is true. So I'm like, what is true? What

  551. is true in this situation? I thought, Okay, what is

  552. true in this situation is my child is a son

  553. of God. He God has a great plan for him.

  554. He can do all things through Christ who strengthens him.

  555. That is the truth. That is the truth. And then

  556. all the things that I was thinking, like, oh man,

  557. what am I going to do or towards him? Or

  558. are dishonoring a God? Are these thoughts honoring? Am I

  559. honoring you? With the actions? Am I honoring you with?

  560. With am I being right? Am I being pure? Or

  561. am I taking out my anger? You know? So I

  562. really checked my head. It was it easy, It was tough.

  563. It is crazy tough. That's how you you read these verses, right,

  564. It is simple but difficult. It is simple but difficult.

  565. But then I just decided, so anytime those thoughts coming in,

  566. I like, God has a great plan for him. He's

  567. a child of God. God can do all things to cry,

  568. he would be able to do all things to Christ

  569. to strengthen him. And I kept on declaring that, and

  570. then slowly things calm down because my focus was no

  571. longer on that pair of shoes. It was no longer

  572. the money, that unnecessary money which I had to spend,

  573. you know, because I was like, hey, I'm trying to

  574. save money. And then suddenly this happened, you know, So

  575. I'm like, it's okay, it's a pair of shoes. It's

  576. a pair of shoes. Yeah, Like, thank god, it was

  577. not like thousands plus shoes something. So what happened is

  578. we went back home with a pair of shoes stuff

  579. like that, and then just put it on to hey

  580. quite nice. So I say, okay, that's your Christmas gift. No,

  581. so this is real life. This is real life, whether

  582. we are going through different challenges, even as I get

  583. the band up, right, even as I get the band up,

  584. I would just want to leave us with with this ah,

  585. with this phrase which I have shared before as well.

  586. Can we put the last time? We have to know

  587. God and then we will know peace. If we have

  588. no God, we have no peace. And the only way

  589. we know God is to fix our thoughts on what

  590. is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely and mirrable, and when

  591. we do that, the God of Peace will be with us. Man.

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