Dependency - What & With Whom | Elder Terence Atkinson

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This morning, I have a message for you. And then

the title of this message is dependency, Dependency, What and

with whom? Okay, you know, the world is a fascinating

place today. And if you throw a stone on any

part of this world, you'll find that there is unrest.

There are as scripture says, wars and rumors of wars. Hey, guys,

I keep telling people that we are so close to

the return of Jesus Christ, and we here tend to

go about our business. Let me just continue with life

as it is. And that's okay, that's okay. Some of

us trust in our money, some of us trust in

our intelligence. You know, the intelligence in this place is

really astounding. I find it difficult to come into X

into this building in Na because when I want to

enter this rumor, the brain power is so strong I

have to fight my way in. Because all you guys

are really intelligent. If you throw a stone here, you

hit someone who is a real top student GPA four

gp a three point five double degree holder Masters. You

guys are fascinating and fantastic, you know. But I'm here

to tell you there's something better than that, There's something

more needed than that. You know, the scripture says in Revelation.

I'm gonna I'm gonna just, you know, share a little

bit first before I get into the scripture, because I

want you to to understand how this came about. You know,

scripture says in Revelations that Gog and Magog will come

against Israel. You know that. How many of you have

read the Book of Revelations. Go and read this book.

It's a fascinating book. It's not it's not one of

my favorite books. The reason is because it's so difficult

to understand, is it. Well, you know, it's very flowery,

it's very and we're not flowery. It's it's very abstract.

You really got to understand a whole lot of things.

But I do know this. The scripture says that Gog

and Magog will come against Israel. All right, And and

why do we pray for the peace of Jerusalem every Sunday?

Do you realize that when that area is peaceful, we

will be at peace. And when that era is not peaceful,

we are all in trouble. Okay? Who is Gog? Gog

is Russia. Did you know that when Iran bombed Israel

and Israel was preparing to retaliate, who stood up for Iran? Russia?

What did Russia tell you? Israel, watch yourself, don't.

Go overboard.

Because if you go overboard, you're come against us. And

scripture also says magog will come against Israel. You know

who is Magoggano Pussure? Yes, who's pussure Iran? Thousands of

years ago, Scripture prophesied that these days would happen, and

they are unfolding right before our eyes. And of course

Israel did retaliate, and they took out the air defense

system of Iran and bombed the missile making facilities. And

Israel is bracing for a retaliation from Iran any day now.

It's expected to happen within the next couple of days.

I believe that they will use this as an excuse

to counter retaliate and take out the nuclear facilities, which

is only a matter of time before that happens. But

Scripture also says that kings of the East will march

against Israel. Who are the kings of the East? China,

what did China say? China said that at a moment's notice,

I can raise an army off. We can raise an

army off two hundred million. At the time this scripture

was written by John there weren't two hundred million people

on the face of this earth, so it was a

number that he could not fathom. But he said, I

heard the number two hundred million, President Xi Jinpeng. I

think that's how you pronounced his name, or close enough,

said a couple of months ago, or probably a year ago.

At a moment's notice, China can raise an army of

two hundred million. Now. Kings of the East is also

reflective of Red communism. Guess who is also read communist

North Korea? And guess what. North Korea just sent three

thousand troops to go hand in hand with Russia against Ukraine.

And now NATO has told Ukraine, under these circumstances, you

are allowed to send the missiles that we give you

into the heart of Russia. Hey, you guys, I don't

want to scare you, but I want you to be prepared.

Jesus is coming against and these are the things that

A'm folding right before our eyes. In two days time

will be the American elections scriptures is the whole world

will turn against is right. That is a prophecy. There

is not only one country in the world that stands

for it. Countries that US. US is now in deadlock

heed for an election between one whom they say is

very brash and one whom is the joyful warrior. The

joyful warrior hates. Make no mistake who is the joyful warrior.

There is one Indian preacher. He is supposed to be

a prophet. He says, she is the woman that sits

on the beast. I don't know about all that. All

I can say is everything now connects with everything else. Okay,

so that's wars and rumors or wars. What about the disasters,

the the the natural disasters that take place. Are you

aware or do you know about the recent Hurricane Helene

that swept through North Carolina and those parts of the

US and it caused massive flooding and winds of terrible speeds. Man,

I saw some of the videos. It is so frightening

to see a whole house. I'm not talking about hot

you know, I'm talking about house, four room, five room

house floating down the river. You go, you check is

there floating down the river? And then it goes to

this bridge, you know the bridge, because the water now

is so high in the water is moving so and

when that house goes against the bridge, it ends up

like magsticks. I want to share with you something that

I read, and this one really brought tears to my eyes.

This is a story about a seven year old boy.

A seven year old boy called out to Jesus to

save him from Hurricane Helene flood waters that carried him

away earlier this week. This was at the beginning of October.

Seventh of October. Micah Dryer's lifeless body was later found

about a quarter a mile away from his home in Ashville,

North Carolina, but his mother thinks that he was saved. Nonetheless,

you know, I'm so proud of my son because in

his last moments, he wasn't screaming for me. He was

screaming Jesus, Jesus, save me. Jesus. I'm calling upon you,

said Megan dry the boy's mother, in an interview. See

the water was moving so fast the mother couldn't get

to the boy. How heart wrenching is that? Right? Micah

said he always wanted to be a superhero, and instead

he's my hero because he reached out for something past flesh,

past human past anything that even grown adults I think

would reach for. My son called out to the One

God Almighty, Riya said, and I think at that moment

he was rescued. Hurricane Helen was made itself land for Uh. Okay,

this is what he was said, this is what he said. Okay.

So when he was screaming, Jesus, Jesus saved me a

little later, the mother heard him shout this, Jesus, I

hear you, or even as I tell you that, it's

just looking, you know, all the hairs on my hands,

all standing, Jesus, I hear you. Who or what are

we dependent on? Who are we looking to in our lives?

I've told you this before. My sister she passed away

from cancer about three or four years ago. She spent

close to two hundred and seventy thousand dollars on treatment.

It's a quarter of a million dollars she spent on treatment.

And in the last week, literally her last week, she

sat by my side. She held my hand and she said, Terence,

I do not know what else to do. I told her,

there's nothing else for you to do. You've done everything

you need to do, because throughout your trials, throughout your sicknesses,

only one thing remains on your lips, the name of Jesus,

and you have not stopped speaking the name of Jesus.

You don't need to do anything else, you see, I

want you to know if you think that, oh, a

person trusts in Jesus for healing and doesn't get healing

and succumbs to their illness, that they have failed. Really

is that what you think, because I'll tell you Ah,

Scripture tells me, and I believe in healing. Scripture tells

me that all those who came to Jesus and said Jesus,

when you hear me, he healed them all. That's what

scripture says. So am I supposed to believe in scripture

all the time, even if I don't seem to see

it happening. I will continue to believe it all the

time because that's what scripture says. But I also want

to know there's some other kind of scripture that tells

us about a certain group of people who stand up

for the name of their God. Look at Job, when

sicken came against Job and took his economy away, took

his children away, took everything that he had to away,

cause sickness to come on his body. Job held the

name of God on his lips and would not curse God.

And you know what, God was so proud and told

the devil. You see, this is what it means to

have someone believe in me, and God gave him back everything.

You see. You and I don't know what's going on

in spiritual realms, but I do know this that God

is boasting about those who continually stand up for the

name of Jesus. And if some of us haven't gone

into you know, the whole world to preach the gospel

like like you know how we should, but at least

we stand up for the name of Jesus in something

like this. Jesus is prad So I want to ask

you again, who are we dependent on? Are we dependent

on our health? Because I'll tell you this health is fleeting.

It's good to have, but how many of you know

it's no fun to grow old. Man. I've got aches

and pains and muscles I never knew I had. I

just wake up in the morning and I'm hurting from

head to toe. Seriously, you know, my back is killing me.

Praise the lot at my back is not hurting now,

but I tell you, when I get up in the morning,

I wonder whether I actually rested or not, because you know,

it's just in pain all the time. Why am I

telling you this? Because it doesn't matter. The pain you

experience doesn't matter. What matters is I still wake up

in the morning, praise the Lord. Thank you Lord. I

got up at three in the morning or three thirty

in the morning to pray for the message, and I'm

thinking to myself, Lord, I don't think today I'm gonna

go walking in the morning because my back is not

too good. So if it's okay with you, I'll just

pray here. So what I did was I got down

on my knees and I prayed for the service this morning.

And that's okay. Well, God accepted absolutely, because in my discomfort,

I'm still acknowledging who Jesus who am I dependent on? Hey, guys,

I made a joke about intelligence, and many of us

here are very intelligent. But I got to ask you

this question, even as I ask myself that I'm not

saying I'm intelligent, but I need to ask do we

rely on our intelligence? Is that what we depend on? Guys?

The world is moving faster than we care to admit.

You know, those guys me here, anyone here in it,

anyone here in it, no one here in I You

know what I tell the IT people. You are the

bravest people I know. Do why I say? You have

picked that career which becomes obsolete every six months, So

you have to completely every six months retrain yourself otherwise

you get left behind. Do you know? Even doctors don't

have that problem. You know, because once a doctor learns,

if you've got a few give pani dolar forever fifty years.

He's a doctor. When somebody got a fever, give panadolar

for love be healed. He only has to learn it once.

But the poor it guy every six months, he's got

to retrain himself. Intelligence are we relying on? You know?

I get a lot of things done because I rely

on the Lord. I get a lot of things done

because I trust in the law. The newer skill that

God taught me was so I have this glass door right,

it slides open. It's a big door. It's it's about

nine feet high, and it's it's quite a solid glass

door with a with a frame. So I go early

walking early in the morning. Is so irritating to carry keys,

you know, a bunch of keys. You can't leave it around,

you know, And I'm not going to take out one

or two keys, So my whole it's very uncomfortable. I said,

what did I do? So Lord, what do I do?

Put a smart log? Okay, praise the lot, so I

canna put smartknock on the door. Elder Maeoble said, don't

you touch my door. I don't want to see any

ugly lock where it is now it looks nice, don't

touch it. So I say God, what do I do?

And God gave me an idea. Have you heard of

a drop log boat? You know when when you press

the button, the boat goes up. When the button is

not pressed, it comes down and it locks the door.

And I've never used this before, and I never really

heard of it before. But when the Lord put my

put this idea in my head and I researched, say hey,

it's there, then what to do? Try it out? Say God,

what do I do? And you know, the Lord actually

built in my head the idea of what to do.

And when I had the whole picture, I sat down

on I didn't sit down. I actually worked on it.

This deeper valevers two days ago, right or three days ago?

And I fixed this lock and it works. Man. So

now when I have to go out, I got to

go it touch the sensor and then I can open

the door and put it in a lock. I can

go on my walks and when I come back, I

just punched the code in or put my fingerprint and

it opens.

Wow.

Praise the Lord. Trust the Lord. In anything he will

give you ideas, is that my intelligence? I will never

say that, you know why, because the day I say

it's my intelligence, the ideas will stop coming. I want

God to be there helping me each in every step

of the way. So what has this got to do

with anything? Hey? Your money? You think your money can

get you out of trouble. You know what Steve Job said,

better to be a puppet and a billionaire as a cemetery.

Guess where he ended up. He was a billionaire and

he ended up in his cemetery. Did his billions? Were

his billions able to help you? No? I want to

draw your attention to Isaiah forty thirty one. Yes, yes, yes,

everything I said has got scripture. Don't worry, I'm not

going to share any heresy with you. But those that

wait on the Lord shall what renew their strength. They

shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run

and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.

I like the amplified version because the amplified version amplifies. Okay,

this is what it says. But those who wait for

the Lord, who expect and look for and hope in Him,

will gain new strength and renew via power. They will

lift up their wings and rise up close to God,

like eagles rising towards the sun. They will run and

not become weary. They shall walk and not grow tired.

I need to tell us that this world tends to

deplete our strength. Is that true? I mean, you go

to work even as the boss, you got everything all planned.

Just when you think you're about to run with it,

your clients come up with some new crazy idea that

pushes you back to the drawing board. Am I right?

Is that happen? It doesn't it? It's quite tiring, right,

all those hours you put wasted, isn't it? This world

has a way of trying to defeat you, trying to

tie you to the point that you cannot continue. And

how many of you have heard this, I'm burnt out.

How many of you have heard this statement before I'm

burnt out? How many of you are burning out? How

many of you are burnt out? Okay, those of you

that put up your hands, I'm gonna be straight, Okay,

I'm gonna be saying it like it is. Please forgive

me if it sounds a little bit harsh. When you

say you have burnt out, you have gloriously put the

blame on somebody else. I am burnt out because this

people crowned me to the ground, They drove me to

the ground, They worked me until I sweated blood. Okay,

you have put the blame on somebody else. And I

want us to know this, and I'm speaking to myself

as well, that when we say we have burnt out,

let's be honest. We have coughed out. We have given up.

We have removed ourself from the action. Who removed ourselves

from the action? Did God remove remove us from the action? No,

we have disqualified ourselves. I am burnt out. Look, first

things first, get this in our hearts and our heads.

There is no such thing as burnt out. There is

no such thing knock off that straight away, and you'll

find that your life will always be moving forward. Your

life will never be the same because you do not

give room to the lie of the devil. Burnout is

a lie of the devil, and I will prove it

to you. Do you know? In Isaiah forty twenty eight

it says this, have you not known to understand the context?

Okay of verse that he have you known? Have you

not heard the everlasting God? He's everlasting? Okay? That means

he did not start yesterday and will end tomorrow. He

is everlasting. He is there before you, and he will

be there long after you. He's everlasting. The Everlasting God,

the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth,

neither fains nor is weary. It's not like us, man,

His understanding is unsearchable. God is not like us. We

cannot drive God to the ground. Do you know that

we can't. The only time that Jesus sweated blood was

when Jesus was in a relationship with the Father, saying saying, Lord,

this separation is more than I can bear. And that's

when he really struggled separation from God. But you know

that what Jesus did was done out of love for us,

because we couldn't do it. He had to do it.

Any of us here who do not know Jesus as

the Lord and save it. Give your life to him

today because he's the only one who was there for

you all throughout. So he doesn't fade, He's not tired.

He doesn't stress out like we do. Can you mentione

if God stressed out? God stressing out? I mean, how

do you onor God like that? Who stresses out? You know,

it's very funny when you when you when you when

you think about the US Army. Now, okay, you compare.

Somebody was comparing the the the advertisements to bring in

new recruits into the Russian Army. Big tough guys, you know,

jumping over, crawling up, strong, muscular, you know, brewing push

ups and all that. And then the latest American to

bring in sor can you imagine fighting against people that

the world, the world, the world's gone crazy. See, God's

not like that. We know that He is a strength

that we can rely on, you know. In verse twenty nine,

and he says this, he gives power to the weak.

He gives power to the weak. How can we say

we burned out? Am I to trust what we say

or am I to trust what God's word says. If

He is giving power to the weak and we have

burnt out, it means that our relationship with the Lord

is very shaky. That's the problem. The problem is not

us being weak. The problem is our relationship with God.

And to those who have no might, He increases strength.

So he recognizes that you may get weak. But you see,

at that time, what does he do. He gives you strength,

just like He gave my sister strength to go through

that terrible time and still have his name on her lips.

You see, that is strength. Strength is not when everything

is going on you can no, that's not strength. What

is strength. Strength is when you cannot handle it, You

handle it. When you cannot do it, you do it.

That is strength. That's the strength that God gives us.

And Isaiah forty thirty, I want you to listen to this.

Even the youth, the youths faint and be weary, and

the young man shall utterly fall. Do you know what

this means. This means that if you think your strength

is going to carry you forward, that's what this scripture means.

If you think that your ability is going to help

you to succeed. If you think your money is going

to get it done, if you think anybody else but

Jesus can help you, even you shall faint and be weary.

This is burnout. And the young man shall utterly fall.

This is burnout. What is burnout? The burnout is when

you do not wait on the Lord. Because forty thirty

one comes to the rescue and says this, But those

who wait on the Lord shall renew yes strength. They

shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run

and not be weary. They shall walk and not fait. Guys,

if you're running on empty now, the solution is so easy.

I can stand tall a mine neees, I can see

forever on mine niees, I can say it all. Oh,

I can stand tall on my knees. What mountain is there?

You can't climb? Guys, It's nothing you cannot accomplish without

Jesus on your side. I remember we went for this

X men this X men sports, not supports. It was

an outing. We went to this hill, this, this, this

area and the wilderness somewhere in Umpung or what and

we had to go up this waterfall, you know, climb

to the top of this waterfall. And this whole hike

was about two kilometers. I did any of we all

come for that one? No? Man, I was like about

thirty pounds heavier. And we started this journey and I

already felt I was going to be carried out in

the stretcher because it's two kilometers just going up and

it's not a road, okay, crossing over roots and you know,

getting into the stream and going over fallen trees. And

I tell you, by the time I reached the top,

I was gone, man. And I did what no one

should ever do. I drank from the stream. I promised

you were. The water was the sweetest tasting water I've

ever tasted, and it was so nice and cool. And

it was so wrong to do, because how many of

you know you can get leptospyroses by drinking from the streams.

Praise the Lord. I can stand tall on my knees

because I trusted in the Lord and he preserved my health.

I made it down after that because he gave me strength.

I said, God, unless you help me, it's not going

to happen. Praise the Lord. He did, you know. And

I managed it, not because I could do it, but

because God carried me through. I always have in my

head and always in the back of my head that

God is helping me because I'm asking him, say God,

I can't do it without you. I always have that

realization in my heart and it saves me a lot

of times because Bible says, but those, but those anybody

is he?

You?

Are you one of those scriptures saying anyone, any one

of us? You, me, the person on my left, the

person I right, anybody, the rich, the poor, the intelligent

they're not so intelligent, the management, the blue collar worker,

anyone that waits. You know what this word wait mean.

In fact, waiter I think comes from it. Waiter is

you know, the person is always looking out, looking out,

waiting for somebody to put up the hand, waiting for

somebody to to call for service, waiting, waiting upon waiter.

But in Malaysia's very different. Okay, the waiter practices the

art of not seeing, looking but not seeing. How many

of you have seen waiters like that? You put up

your hand, then you have to walk up to them.

Their head is still going left and right. Me I'm

calling you, okay, wait day that wait it means that

it comes from the word cover, which means something eagerly

you do, you eagerly wait, you expect. You got to

expect God to work in your life. Man, you got

to expect. It's hope, you hope, you hopefully wait for

your hoping, your you look eagerly wait, waited for you,

eagerly waited patience. You know what. I trust you God,

It's going to be okay. I trust you God, It's

going to be okay. They So there's the eagerly, there's

excited as That's all me also, you know, because as

I'm beginning to see these things happen in my head,

I say, Wow, God, it's so good. Wow, it's amazing.

It's me. I can cannot wait for the day when

I had to put it into practice. But you know,

I don't have anything written down when it comes to

the day where I have to do the worker. I'm

just working from what the Lord is already put in

my head. Just step by step, I go, do, do

and do and do and do. I it's done. Wait

anyone who waits on the Lord. It's the proper name

for the God of Israel. Do you know that this

word lord is used in the Bible close to seven

thousand times. But they that wait on this Lord, which

the Bible has mentioned seven thousand times. You see, you're

not waiting on your boss. You're not waiting on as

what I mean. You're not waiting on your intelligence. You're

not waiting on your skill. You're not waiting on anything.

What are you waiting on? The Bible's Lord, which is

mentioned seven thousand times. They that wait on the Lord

shall what they shall renew. This word renewer means to

pass on or to pass away. Pass Away means God

is giving it out. He's passing it out, passing it away,

to pass it on. I'm giving you. Also, it also

means that I'm giving you my strength to pass through.

When strength comes through you, you're able to do great things,

change or be changed. Gain you move past or over.

You gotta move past or over your problem. That's what

it means. You shall renew, you shall sprouten you, you

shall sweep through. That's what. If you wait on the Lord,

which the Bible mentions seven thousand times, you shall be

passed on with, you shall pass over with You shall

gain all this Because God shall renew what shall he renew?

He shall renew your strength. This strength is the word coatch.

Coatch almost like coach. I do not know whether the

word coach comes from this, but basically, it's a small reptile,

you know, kind of like a lizard, a list of

creepy things. You may be a lizard, you may be

a lizard. In order to understand this word, you've got

to understand you identify with a small lizard. Not much strength.

But this is God's strength, God's strength. Let me explain it.

And this is actually from what the scripture means physical

strength of Samson. You shall have that kind of strength

that the Lord is talking about. The Lord is also

talking about your ability and your efficiency. Wow, isn't it

so wonderful? He will make you efficient in your work.

When we are in our working life, don't we want

to be efficient? Don't we want people to keep looking

at us good. It's so wonderful to trust God every

day to give you ideas, because in your work you

will always look efficient. Ability the power of a people

or a king. What is the power people or a king?

Strength of power of the people. The power the people

removed Marcus. Many of you were too young or were

not born, but Marcus was removed by the power of

the people or the power of a king. You know,

you could very well be like David. David, it was

irrational how people didn't like him or didn't trust him

because he was young, he was just a boy, and

God still used him. Do you have irrational dislikes for people?

Check yourself, because it's that dislike coming from God? Is

it coming from your personal competition? You have to check.

You don't want to get on the wrong side of this.

It is a power conferred by who by God? Can

you imagine a power conferred by God? That's the kind

of strength that you are hoping to get. Man. It

also means this the strength of angels. Oh, you shall

renew you shall be renewed. What the strength of angels?

The power of God? God? I like this one. The

power of animals. Hey, would you come up against an

elephant or not? Because in elephant it's very powerful. How

about an occa? No, it's an oca killer whale. That

tail is so powerful. If it will to slap you,

you will be minced meat powerful. It also means this

the power of animals. Not make you an animal. But

know that even in God's creation which exists today, there

are very many powerful creatures. It's talking about extraordinary power.

How about the strength of soil. What's good about soil

is you know what, when you got good soil, you

get good produce. It's talking about that kind her strength

as well. So when we looked at this word strength,

we didn't realize that it means all these things. It's

much more than just muscles. Hey, do you know that

the eagle? Let me tell you something about the eagle.

Do you know that half of the eagle's body half

its muscles that drive its wings. Okay, in the human being,

where's the strongest muscle. I think it's a gluteus maximus

or the leg muscles. Okay, But the eagle can fly

so high wide. Half of its body weight is muscles

that drive its wings. And it's no wonder why God

you know, identified with that. And the Bible says that

they shall mount up, mount up, you shall go up,

you shall ascend, you shall climb. It literally means that

one who has gone down and descendant or fallen without it.

So it's the opposite. You went down, now you go

up with wings like eagles. As I told you, half.

Can you imagine if I had half of my body

with in muscles on my arms instead of my midrift.

I really look grotesque, be huge. Yeah, just imagine that's

what it is. Wings like eagles. So basically God is

telling you you will be imbued or imbued with a

strength that is so great. That's why he talks about eagles,

because eagles fly. I want you to know that the

first thing that happens when you wait on the Lord

is what you shall fly. Man. God doesn't work like

how we work. You know. You know how we work.

We say walk first, love before you run, run first,

before you fly. But God works in the other way.

You know, this is fly first. And if you cannot

manage flying, because you still got to learn some things,

you run. You know. The second action where God is

concerned is what running. And I tell you this is

not just any ordinary run. It's talking about a run

with endurance. Do you know that those days are Even

in the olden days, when people wanted to pass messages,

they would pass it to a coreer, and the courier

will run cross country run maybe twenty thirty forty miles

very fast, pass it to the next guy, and the

next guy will run thirty forty miles and so on.

And so forth. How many of you know that if

those guys were to compete in the marathon today, they

will win hands down. They would because they were powerful,

they were fast, and they were you know, they had

great stamina. Scripture is telling that's how we will run.

We will run with that kind of endurance. It also

talks about horses. When Scripture is talking about running, it's

not just talking about a pace faster than walking, you know,

it's talking about horses. No horses, yes, horses. Do you

know that the pony express the horses maybe wrote again?

They rode very fast thirty miles and they rest and

they do the same thing like a chourious horses. That's

the kind of run that Scripture is talking about. And

then Scripture says, and we will not, we will not be,

We cannot be. You can depend on this. You will

not be, you will never be. You will unable to be.

You will be incapable of being weary because the strength

is supernatural. This last word importent. Guys don't want to

be like that. Okay, a guide does not want to

be impotent. For those of you that don't know what

this means, look it up the dictionary. We'll not discuss

it here, but this is what scripture actually is talking about.

You will be able to produce, You will be able

to handle it. You will be able to If you

can't fly, you'll be able to run. You won't be tired,

you won't get tired. You won't toil and be worn out.

Now you understand why I said that burnout is a

lie of the devil. Burnout is the way of the

devil keeping you immobilized. You are never meant to be immobilized,

because at a moment's notice you can rise up again.

How do you rise? Weight on the law, weigh on

his word, trust in him, acknowledge him, focus on him.

You will never be tired. You will never be worn out. Guys,

I have been in church and working in different ministries

or capacities ever since. Since I came to the Lord

forty five years, I've seen all sorts of things. I've

experienced so many kind of disappointments. I've also experienced so

many great things and seen so many miracles take place.

I can tell you that when I became a Christian,

it was times were different or right. It's not like

where everybody is so touchy feely now those days when

they were touchy Philly, you're in trouble. I was punched

in the face because of my faith. Praise the Lord.

I still have my front teeth. They did not break.

But that's to that extent. I was thrown out of

the house because of my faith. I was ostracized because

of my faith. It followed me even when I went

to study in Singapore and because of my faith, because

of what I believed in families fought in Singapore because

of me. I did not cause it, but wherever I went,

stories followed because we stood up for the Lord. We

fought for the name of Jesus against every one who

would say otherwise. There was a certain church that was

having a program why we and the fate of the

majority are one and the same. Me and another guy said, no,

it's not the same. We stood up and we challenged

those people. We stood up with scripture. Finally they had

to ask us to leave because they got no answer.

Those are the kind of things that I went through,

And it was like that in Klang. Did you know

that there was a movement of a revival in Klang?

I think it was in the seventies. Gospel hall there

was a movement. There was a revival taking place among

the kids. Guys. We stood up. We didn't get weary,

we didn't get tired. I've been running for forty five years.

My body now gets tired, but my heart still was.

And elder mable myself have this one thing. If we

don't know who's going to do. If we stand up

and we say, ah, you know, let's take a seatback.

I mean, there's so many people, younger people who are

running at tremendous speed in church. Are we not to

help them or just leave them to do the job,

Because if we leave them to do the job, we're

not being fair to them. No, we have to whatever

we can do we do to help be a pace

is not as fast now. But what you know what

Scripture says, if we're not flying, at least we are running.

And the best thing is this. If we cannot run,

you know what we do we walk. Oh, there is

a movement for everybody. There is an opportunities and there

is an opportunity for everyone because the Bible says we

become greater, we become brighter. That's what walking here means.

This word continually glow, we get away, we grow continually,

we march, we strut. You know what is strut or not?

How many we watch Saturday Night Fever? Okay, it's too

old for your love. Have you watched a show before?

Some of us who are seven and the sixties we watched, right,

and when when John Volda walks down the street, he's

got Yeah, it's a strut. That's what scriptures say. If

we're not running, people are looking at us strutting. Wa Wow,

you're so old you can still move? Yes, we continually move.

You know, we don't stop. There is one time when

we stop. You know, when we stop, when we go

and see the Lord, that's the time to stop. So, guys,

if you're in your thirties, serve God until your eighties.

If you are serving God in your sixties, serve God

through your nineties. Don't stop because scripture never ever tells

us to stop. What does it say? At the very

least we walk? And the Bible says that even those

who walk, they will not fait. So that's an encouragement

to me because maybe I'm not running now, I'm walking,

But the Bible says I will not become exhausted, I

will not become weary. I will still be able to grow.

I will still be able to grow. I want to

end you. I want to end with a few scripture

here to drive home this point. Why did I go

on this? Well? God wants us to depend on him.

He wants us to look on him even as things

become tighter in this world. We need to look beyond

our own personal capabilities, but keep Him in view all

the time. In Proverbs sixteen three, he says, commit your

works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established. Wow,

isn't this wonderful? He gives your thoughts you commit in

unto the Lord, and those thoughts of yours can become fruit.

Now you know why I get so proud, proud and

excited about those little things that I can do, like

the do loock. Why because my thought and I committed

into the Lord, and he established it with success. In

one bit of five seven, he says, casting all your

cads on him, for he cares for you. He doesn't

say give it to him, you know. He says, take

that rotten burden and throw it at Jesus. Trusts me

he can catch you. Think baseball catches. Jesus has never

missed a catch before throw it at him. He will

catch it. Why because he cares for you. In Psalms

thirty seventy five, he says, commit your way to the

Lord God. I'm going this way trust also in Him,

and I believe Lord that you will keep me safe

and he shall bring it to pass. You won't be disappointed.

In Philippians four six Sevenes says, be anxious for nothing,

but in everything by prayer, supplication, with thanksgiving. Let your

requests be made known to God. Lord. I thank you

you are able to do this because You're a glorious God.

Help me with this? Can you help me with this?

Let your requests be made to God, and may not

to God and the peace of God, which surpass us

all understanding. Will God your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

I have seen this happen so many times when I've

gone through some real tough issues. God has come through.

He has never failed me it and Matthew six thirty

three says, but seeky first the Kingdom of God. At

the end of the day, SEEKI first the Kingdom of

God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added.

Unto you, guys, if you forget everything. You can't remember

anything that I've said this morning, just remember this. You

will never be disappointed if you continuously trust and depend

on the Lord, because he is the only one who

will be able to help you in every thing. Praise

the Lord.

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