Sermon

Be at Peace Today | Pr Janaronson Nagarajah

Acts Nilai

Open publisher episode ↗

Publisher transcript

Transcript

View source ↗
  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts Church.

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

  3. Be at peace today, right, be at peace today. I'm

  4. going to take the reading from Judges chapter six, and

  5. I'm going to give you a context. Right, Judges, is

  6. a time in Israel where there weren't any king. Yet,

  7. there was no king, right, And it was also a

  8. time where the israel Lights moved into their promised land.

  9. God delivered them from Egypt. For forty years, due to

  10. their rebearless nature, they wandered around the wilderness and finally

  11. a new generation entered into the promised Land. Now this

  12. new generation did not have a personal encounter with God.

  13. What the previous generation was supposed to do was there

  14. was a pass down the commandments of God, passed down

  15. the great testimonies of how God has delivered them from

  16. Egypt into the Promised Land. It was also a time

  17. where God raises people like their bro up, people like

  18. Gideon up to deliver the children of Israel from their enemies.

  19. So this is contact. They were a nation they do

  20. not have king. God was your king, and God basically

  21. raise people up to be a leader open them. So Judge,

  22. just chapter six. Start off with verse one. Then the

  23. children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord.

  24. So the Lord delivered them into the hand of the

  25. Median for seven years. In verse two, and the hand

  26. of Median prevailed against Israel because the Midian nights, the

  27. children of Israel made for themselves dance the caves and

  28. the stronghold switch are in the mountains. So what's one

  29. started by saying that, then the children of Israel did

  30. evil in the side of the Lord. What they did

  31. was basically an abomination their forsaken God. Their hearts has

  32. grown cold. They turned away from God, and they begin

  33. to venture into practices that was sinful. They begin to

  34. idolize other things. So what God did was God basically

  35. brought about a judgment. You see, the thing about Sein

  36. is always there will always be consequences when we sin

  37. against God. So the consequences for this group of people

  38. is that the Lord delivered them into the hand of

  39. Medians for seven years. On top of that, they did

  40. not have proper housing, they don't have peace. They stayed

  41. in dance cave around the mountain, and they were greatly

  42. in poverish right In was three, it says so it

  43. was whenever Israel had sown Midiaan knights would come up,

  44. and also Amai Kites and the people of the eaves

  45. would come up against them. Then they wouldn't camp against

  46. them and destroy the produce of the earth as far

  47. as Gaaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither ship,

  48. nor ocs nor donkey. For they would come up with

  49. their live stocks and their tents, coming in as numerous

  50. as locusts. Both they and their camels were without number,

  51. and they would enter the land to destroy it. So

  52. Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midia knights, and

  53. the children of Israel cry out to the Lord. So

  54. it was a very undesirable situation. It was not only said,

  55. but depressed. They worked hard, They did a lot of farming,

  56. but the enemy came, took all their harves, took all

  57. their flocks. They were constantly in hunger. The future of

  58. this nation looks very very blik. It looks very very

  59. blik as though there's no salvation coming. But you know what,

  60. despite seeing and its consequences, I want to tell you

  61. today that the Lord is good. The Bible says that

  62. God is love. The people back then invited these things

  63. upon themselves. The Lord allowed it to happen. Why is

  64. because they straight away from God. They did not abide

  65. in God. They did not practice the commandments of God.

  66. And when they cry up to God, God decided then

  67. to answer. God decided to send an angel of the

  68. Lord to speak to Gideon. Put yourself back then, right,

  69. everything that you up to yield nothing. In fact, it

  70. was taken away by your enemies. It was a very

  71. very dark time, very very dark time. There's no security around, right,

  72. So they cry out to God because of the oppression.

  73. And God answered. So next light, we'll say the encounter.

  74. So the Angel of the Lord came and Gideon was

  75. found in a place where he was at the threshing

  76. floor hidden. But you know what, no matter how you hide,

  77. either away from your enemy or you hide from God,

  78. God can always seek you out. God will always give

  79. you that encounter. So at the point when the Angel

  80. of the Lord told Gideon that you will deliver this

  81. nation as one man out for a while whether he

  82. could do it. And I always tell people that for

  83. God to use his church, he doesn't need a lot

  84. of people. Day. Of course, the more the better it is.

  85. But all it takes is one man. God can always

  86. use that one man. God can always use that one

  87. woman to accomplish his purpose. And I want to ask

  88. me like to say that, Lord, let me be that

  89. one man. Let me be that one woman, so that

  90. you can use me for your glory. And then you

  91. use me for your glory. The entire nation will be

  92. blessed when you use me. The entire Knee life will

  93. be blessed when you use me. The entire tailors, the

  94. best university in Malaysia will be blessed uh when you

  95. use me. Uh. The entire Ministry of Education will be

  96. blessed when you use me. In t will be blessed

  97. when you use me. The best packaging company in Malaysia, Packture,

  98. will be blessed when you use me. You know, the

  99. entire IPG will be blessed. Right, we need to step

  100. up whenever God speaks to us. So God send the

  101. Angel of the Lord told about Gideon's calling and plan

  102. for deliverance. And Gideon was so minister to Gideon gave

  103. an offering, and the Angel of the Lord sent fire

  104. to consume that offering. So after that encounter, you read

  105. from verse twenty two onwards. Now gidn't perceived that he

  106. was the Angel of the Lord. So Gideon said, alas,

  107. oh Lord God, for I have seen the Angel of

  108. the Lord face to face. Let's pause there for a while.

  109. Some scholars believe the Angel of the Lord here in

  110. Capital is Jesus before he was reincarnate as man, and

  111. he he came. But prior to that, many scholars believe

  112. that this is the Lord Jesus himself as well as Capital,

  113. a angel of the Lord verse twenty three. Then the

  114. Lord say to him, peace be with you. Do not fear,

  115. you shall not die. Hey, pause here. When I was

  116. preparing this message this week, the Lord revealed to me

  117. that his people need peace. Many of you are living

  118. in a time where internally there's no peace in you.

  119. There are things bordering you. The world will live in

  120. Some people have termd me it as the wukaw wor

  121. right we U see a What does it mean? Basically,

  122. we stands for the world is highly volatile. At any time,

  123. any second, anything can happen. Right twenty twenty, nobody taught

  124. COVID existed, but it came. It was a highly volatile time.

  125. Last year, nobody taught Russia would in Ukraine, but it

  126. came this year alone. China is testing power by making

  127. claims in South China Sea, so countries like Philippines Malaysia

  128. definitely is affected. Vietnam is also affected with China testing

  129. also about one thing to quote unquote reclaim back Taiwan.

  130. All this you might think that it may not affect you,

  131. but last year when Russia actually invaded Ukraine, quite a

  132. number of industry was affected. Prices of different goods increase,

  133. so it's highly volatile. And second, anything can happen economy

  134. as well, any second anything can happen. In November, America potentially,

  135. actually not potentially, America will have a new president because

  136. Joe Biden is not running. So whether it be Kamala

  137. Harris or whether it be Donald Trump, you will still

  138. have a new president. And whoever will be in power

  139. will have an effect on their trade policy, how they

  140. deal with China, how they deal with different European country.

  141. All this will have implication. Nobody knows what will happen,

  142. but we know things can be Watertown. We live in

  143. a world where it is also very uncertain because of

  144. the times that we live in. It's very uncertain in

  145. the past five years from Laisia. I also lost how

  146. many prime minister we have probably be four I think

  147. right in the past five years itself, so partly speaking.

  148. And it's also very uncertain, all right. With the rise

  149. of AI generative AI, things also uncertain people. For the

  150. folks who are working, I mean for students who are studying,

  151. You guys will enjoy like crazy thinking that AI will

  152. help you in your studies. Ah, don't, okay, don't allow

  153. AI to take over. You will be very lazy. But

  154. for those who are working, questions like would AI really

  155. replace us? Would AI take away our job? Or would

  156. AI create more jobs? Things are very uncertain. Things can

  157. be very complex as well. The world we live in

  158. it's no longer black and white, it's quite gray. Sometimes

  159. in the seventies, I don't know, Anti Roof, probably things

  160. are simpler. But now in twenty twenty four, sometimes simple

  161. things are also made complex. You don't have to go far.

  162. Look at your conversation with your family, look at a

  163. conversation with your friends, look at the conversation with your cliques. Essentially,

  164. something is simple, but it's made complex. Things are a

  165. bit ambiguous as well. Ambiguous means it's not very clear

  166. which is the gray area. So as I began to

  167. reflect on my own life and begin to reflect on

  168. the life of the people under my care, who reflect

  169. on the world at large, what is happening to our

  170. country as well? I gotta help but feel that these

  171. are things that at times will rop us from our peace.

  172. Isn't it true? And today the Lord is telling his

  173. people in West twenty three, peace be with you. Do

  174. not fear. You will not die. You shall not die.

  175. Maybe some of you are in a situation where you

  176. haven't been sleepping so well right. Maybe things are bothering you.

  177. There's no answer to the scholarship you are applying for.

  178. There's no call for a job interview yet, despite you

  179. graduating for X number of months, despite you transitioning from

  180. a job or a new job. Maybe there was a

  181. strain in certain relationship, in a family and relative relationship.

  182. Maybe the right door hasn't been opened for you yet.

  183. You feel that there is a date, ende that there's

  184. no progress. You feel that there's always that block, and

  185. it disrupts you of your peace. The Lord is telling

  186. you again, peace be with you. Do not fear, you

  187. shall not die. So gid in build an altar there

  188. to the Lord in verse twenty four, and call it

  189. the Lord is peace. I love this. Gideon didn't proclaim

  190. as the Lord who sees. He didn't proclaim the Lord

  191. he is God. Of course he is, and of course

  192. he's a god who sees. He didn't say, oh, the

  193. Lord is my banner. He said the Lord is peace.

  194. The Lord is peace. And during that time the nation

  195. needed peace. The nation needed to come to a place

  196. where there is order. So hard check for you and

  197. me this morning, sorry, a hard check when there is

  198. no peace in our heart and mind, when there's no

  199. growth or success, We need to check where are we

  200. with the Lord? Where are we with the lot? Are

  201. we living alive honoring him? Or have we turned our

  202. hearts away from him? Instead of looking outside, how come

  203. the job hasn't come yet? Instead of looking outside, why

  204. the door is closed? Instead of looking outside, why am

  205. my colleague is always like that? When I enter the

  206. off it is no peace? Instead of looking out side,

  207. why family is like that? Start looking first at the

  208. insight our relationship with God. Because this group of people

  209. they left God, They left God. So it tells me

  210. in a time of chaos, darkness, and doubting his own calling,

  211. Gideon proclaimed the Lord is Peace. So the word peace

  212. here basically means wholeness, safety, and restoration, two points that

  213. you may want to take note of today. The Lord

  214. is peace. It also means Jehovah shalom. That is the context,

  215. that is where the root Jehovah shalom comes from. The

  216. context was the nation was in a dark time. The

  217. nation left the Lord. But the Lord came in raise

  218. Gideon and he proclaimed the Lord is Peace. So it

  219. tells me that point number one. If you can't remember

  220. all the point, just remember this point. God is peace.

  221. You know, the world will tell you. If you need peace,

  222. go and practice a few rituals right, disconnect from the

  223. day to day life. Go to a jungle, go to

  224. a resort, go to a hot spring, go to spa.

  225. Do things that will give you peace. Do meditation, do mindfulness,

  226. go whatever it is that will give you peace. That

  227. is the world right, that is the practice. But the

  228. Bible is very clear. Peace is not a state. Peace

  229. is not a feeling. Peace is a person. Peace is God.

  230. The Lord is Peace. So if you're looking for peace today,

  231. you're looking for peace for a family, for your work environment.

  232. Turn to God. He is peace. See God sick peace.

  233. So the most important peace is peace with God. You

  234. say you can't have peace with everyone. Everyone loves you,

  235. Everyone is so peaceful to you. You're so peaceful to everyone.

  236. But if you don't have peace with God, true peace,

  237. you can never experience true peace in your heart. But

  238. if you have peace with God, you walk rightly with Him.

  239. Even if at this state you don't have peace with anyone.

  240. That is the most important thing, Peace with God. In

  241. the second Coourringans Chapter five, verse eighteen to nine, Now

  242. all things are of God, who has reconciled us to

  243. himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry

  244. of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ reconciling

  245. the world to himself, not imputing their trespassers to them,

  246. and has committed to us the word of reconciliation Romans

  247. five one to two. Therefore, having been justified by faith,

  248. we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  249. through whom also we have access by faith into disgrace,

  250. in which we stand and rejoice in the hope of

  251. the glory of God. We have peace with God through

  252. our Lord Jesus Christ. You know what is the absence of peace, chaos? Chaos.

  253. Absence of God also means chaos. Absence of God also

  254. means peace. If everyone is a Christian today, Bible believing.

  255. Let's say the world population is seven billion, right, seven

  256. billion people love the Lord, practice what the Bible preaches.

  257. Every nation proclaimed that Christ is king. There will be order,

  258. you know. But the world is full of sin. We

  259. ourself as seiness. That's why there's a lot of chaos.

  260. That's why there's a lot of disorder. But the day

  261. will come where God, as a scripture says, this earth

  262. will fade away, a new Earth will be created. Christ

  263. will come. Joey cannot answer this. How many years will

  264. Christ reign in the new Earth? Okay, there's two thousand,

  265. anyone else? Okay, it's actually one thousand. That's right, it's

  266. one thousand. Sorry, I don't have a buscat for you.

  267. But you're the new Earth. Christ will reign one thousand. Yes,

  268. that's when you have complete order, complete restoration. So without God,

  269. there's always chaos, there's no peace. So as the Angel

  270. of the Lord drew near to Gidea, next line, Jesus

  271. Christ has also drawn near to us. Are we ready

  272. to respond to say he is our peace? I already

  273. say that Jesus, you are my peace. Are we ready

  274. to say that? You know he is my peace? Right?

  275. Because peace can only be found in Jesus Isaiah ninety six.

  276. This is often quoted in Christmas. And guess what Christmas

  277. is coming October? Yeah, two and a half months time.

  278. So we're getting older. I have to use finger encounter

  279. ready if I'm ten years younger? Just you see her. Ah,

  280. it's so fast. Christmas this year twenty four And we

  281. always quote this right. For to us a child is born,

  282. and to us a sun is given, and the government

  283. will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be

  284. called wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

  285. If any electricity where you go to, you go to

  286. the switch, you turn on the sauce. You need water,

  287. where you go to, you go to the tap, you

  288. turn on the sauce. If you need peace, who do

  289. you go to? The Prince of peace himself? John chapter

  290. fourteen was twenty seven. Peace I leave with you, peace

  291. I give to you, not as the world gives do

  292. I give you, Let not your heart be troubled, neither

  293. let it be afraid. This is Jesus saying to his disciples,

  294. and it's applicable for us. My peace I give to you,

  295. not as the world gives you. You know, the world

  296. find peace in a very different way. Sometimes, as Christians,

  297. we may fall into that tread. We may fall into

  298. the temptation as well. I pray that we will not

  299. say that if I have X amount of fixed deposit,

  300. therefore I will sleep better tonight. I pray that we

  301. will not say that we will have X amount in

  302. our bank account, therefore we will sleep better tonight. I

  303. mean these are Money is important. Yah, Money is important.

  304. We need money to go through life. But sometimes we

  305. have to understand that money is not our master. Money

  306. is a good servant, but very poor master, very very poor.

  307. Webber says that the love of money is the root

  308. to all evil. So we've got to love God, not

  309. love money. So we cannot find peace even in money.

  310. How many view you have friends who are millionaire, billionaire,

  311. and you ask them, ask them like can they sleep

  312. peacefully at night? People can be rich, but that doesn't

  313. mean they have peace or true peace. Why I'm touching

  314. on money is because money often causes people to feel

  315. not at rest because you need money to do things right.

  316. When you graduate, you need to work so that you

  317. can relieve your parents from supporting you. And now, by

  318. God's grace, you can support your parents right. And you

  319. need money to pay bills. You need money to put

  320. food on the table. You need money to elevate your

  321. quality of life. God also wants you to enjoy life right.

  322. God wants you to desire things that probably you have

  323. in your heart. Okay, God gives us the power to

  324. make wealth, but money cannot be our master. As a church,

  325. we cannot idolize money. We cannot make money our security.

  326. God has to be a security. So don't lose sleep

  327. over money matters. The world will say cash is king.

  328. One politician used to say cash is king, but the

  329. Church will say Jesus is king. So let me say

  330. it again. Don't lose slip over money matters because to God,

  331. he can always provide for you. So instead of asking God,

  332. when will you provide for me? Asked God? Have I

  333. been walking right with you? Have I been honoring you?

  334. Are any things in my heart that I have hide

  335. from you, but you know is the exact thing I

  336. need to deal with. Perhaps when we fix that, then

  337. the peace will come, then the provision will come. Maybe

  338. some will say, you know, if I get the good grades,

  339. then I can sleep better. So of you, Maybe you're

  340. not sleeping well because honestly your great needs improvement, which

  341. even more so you should study, even more so you

  342. should be diligent. Do your work. Be a responsible student,

  343. but don't lose sleep over poor grades, because your grades

  344. doesn't determine your future. God determines your future. Don't idolize

  345. your greades. Grades are important. Go get all the good

  346. grades you want, but don't idolize the greats. Don't even

  347. say that for even adults or young adults here. Don't

  348. say that I'm here in life today because of my grades,

  349. because of how hard I've worked, because of my achievement. Yes,

  350. it's true, you work hard for it, but always give

  351. glory to God that it is He who have blessed

  352. you with it. So, the students, I'll tell you that

  353. if you lose sleep over great matters, you won't enjoy life. Reguards.

  354. As you grow up, there will be other metters that

  355. you may lose sleep over. For example, the big bills.

  356. You're gonna pay that down payment for the house, that

  357. down payment for the car. All of you thinking getting

  358. into a relationship is fun. Right, Wait, wait until the

  359. wed day bills come out. Don't lose sleep over this

  360. focus on God em for parents. You know, I may

  361. not have kids, but I do have spiritual signs. Sometimes

  362. parents themselves don't have peace because worry over children. We worry,

  363. but we must understand as the Lord has a plan

  364. over our own life, the Lord will have a plan

  365. over our children's life. And the Lord is faithful that

  366. we should come. You pray for kids, and kids should

  367. cont pray for parents and trust God that essentially in him,

  368. the future is going to be good. Another one that

  369. a lot plays in my heart because he spoke to me. Servers,

  370. we need to learn to let go of control. It's

  371. not to say that you're possessive, it's not to say

  372. you're manipulating, But some of us we want to be

  373. in control because control equals to peace. When you run

  374. your company, you want to know everything to cause why

  375. you want to be in control of your company. Sometimes

  376. in family as well, probably the leader of the family

  377. wants to be in control or make sure, make sure

  378. decisions in the family follow this, decisions and company follow this, etcetera. Right,

  379. a lot is has a lot challenged me to let

  380. go of control. Lloy, He's probably asking you to let

  381. go of control as well, because when you let go

  382. of control, probably peace will come. You can't determine the outcome.

  383. Some people want to be in control situation because they

  384. want to determine the best outcome, and that is wisdom. Seriously,

  385. you should use wisdom. God also give us a brain

  386. to use. You know, we must be intelligent. We must

  387. be wise in decisions where we can determine the outcome.

  388. We should by in decisions where we can determine the

  389. outcome and we want to be in control of it.

  390. It's best to let go and trust God. You cannot

  391. determine the economy outlook of this country. You can't determine

  392. the political outlook of this country. Are showing someoney? You know.

  393. We have so many prime ministers. And it was during

  394. that transition where I find myself scrolling at news. Every

  395. few minutes, I will scroll so who is our prime minister?

  396. After the election? Scroll? Then one by one and p

  397. got called to the palace. The king have to worrify,

  398. not just one time, you know, two times the following

  399. election as well. Right that, find myself, how come I'm

  400. so worried about this country because I care for this country.

  401. I love this country. Right by start giving me peace.

  402. That's when the Lord told me trust in him. I

  403. can't determine the outcome. He determines the outcome. And if

  404. the outcome doesn't favor me, does that mean that I

  405. would just let go of my faith? No? God is

  406. still God. He knows what he is doing. So should

  407. I go on control? So steps forwards to consider? Very quickly,

  408. give you some article steps Philippines, chapter four, verse six

  409. to seven. It is a context where the apostle Paul

  410. wrote from the prison. He was in prison for preaching

  411. the Gospel because the Romans felt that he was a

  412. thread to the country. And bear in mind when he

  413. wrote this, he was a prison earlier. Okay, he said,

  414. be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication,

  415. with thanksgiving, Let your requests be made known to God.

  416. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will

  417. guard your hearts and minds. True Christ Jesus, those of

  418. you are involved in prison ministry. You go to prison

  419. and you visit people in prison, you will comfort them, right,

  420. you will tell them, Maggie, don't be anxious despite you

  421. being in prison. The Lord loves you, right, The Lord

  422. still have a plan for you. Right, then go to

  423. yearn year. Don't worry when you come, mom, the Lord

  424. will open doors for you. We will always tell this

  425. to prison us. But here we have a paw in

  426. prison encouraging people outside of prison. And he said, be

  427. anxious for nothing. The prison is not a good place

  428. to be in. Right, how many have you been in

  429. prison before? I don't raise up your hand, Okay for visit, right, okay,

  430. let me clear, Okay your visit before. Great, it's not

  431. a good place to be in because it signified a

  432. death to a death to future. But the fact that

  433. Paul pen is down tells us what he said has

  434. to be true. Be anxious for nothing. Anxiety often is

  435. about the future. Word is often about the future. Worry

  436. has never been about the past. That's why Jesus told

  437. the disciples do not worry about tomorrow. Anxiety is always

  438. about the future. So something is from the future is

  439. bordering you. You gotta anchor it in God. Don't anchor

  440. it in the future, So be a It's just for

  441. nothing to me. It speaks about God holds my future,

  442. he holds your future, He holds the future. They're a

  443. famous saying, I may not know what tomorrow may hold,

  444. but I know who holds tomorrow. Do you know who

  445. holds tomorrow? Where we coming? Do you know who holds tomorrow?

  446. God holds your tomorrow. Proverbs twelve twenty five. Anxiety in

  447. the heart of man causes depression, but a good word

  448. makes it glad. So the antidote for anxiety is a

  449. good word. Have you seen a depressed man? Have you

  450. lived with a depressed man or depressed woman? I have.

  451. My dad suffered from depression. Alcohol was his way out,

  452. his way of escape. When a person is depressed, the

  453. person can't cast a vision for the future. So don't

  454. even talk about taking care of himself or herself. But

  455. what God says that a good word makes it clad,

  456. makes the heart clan. That's why we have to preach

  457. the good news to people who do not know Jesus,

  458. because Jesus is the answer to depression. Jesus is the

  459. answer to anxiety, even for us we are Christians. We

  460. may be too familiar with God, we may be too

  461. familiar with Jesus, we may be too familiar with the Word.

  462. But I tell you, when you put the word of

  463. God first in your life, the revelational word that you

  464. read will make you feel clead. The word renew our mind.

  465. When we meditate on God's word, it renew our minds.

  466. It helps us to shift our focus from anxiety to

  467. the word that will encourage us. Next prayer and supplication.

  468. Only God can answer my prayer. We have to believe

  469. in this. Sometimes we don't have peace because we have

  470. been running to person A, person B, person C for advice,

  471. for help. Praise Scott. He sends friends to help those

  472. who really helped you, expecting nothing in written. These are

  473. very good people that you should get. But we can't

  474. deny the fact that sometimes when we go and ask

  475. people for help, they also have an ulterior motive. There

  476. will always be an obligation. Worse, the very person that

  477. you hope will help decided not to help you. They

  478. can't answer your prayer, you can't manufacture your testimony. Only

  479. God can. Only He can. So maybe today's a call

  480. for you and me to turn to God with all

  481. our hearts and not turn to men. Men can only

  482. help to dis extend. God can always supersed that amen

  483. with thanksgiving. If you feel that life it's not happy

  484. for you, start being grateful the many things we can

  485. be thankful for because gratitude opens the door to peace.

  486. With thanks giving, it shifts our focus from worry to worship.

  487. You may have ten things that causes you to feel

  488. that I don't have peace, but shift that focus to

  489. the ten things that you can be grateful for. Then

  490. you compare your list again, then you realize that actually

  491. are It's not as bad after always in it because

  492. these are the ten things that I'm grateful for because

  493. in all the ten things, I saw the fingerprin of God,

  494. Peace of God, which surpasses all understanding. Dec I don't

  495. know how to explain except to say you should be

  496. feeling worried, anxious and concerned, but you are not surpasses

  497. all understanding. You know. True story. Two men, one that

  498. I know, he's one of the two, entered into the

  499. boss's room. The boss say I have to release both

  500. of you from work due to resizing restructuring a truck.

  501. So yeah, and his clique walked up and a click,

  502. look at him, very worried. The clique was very worried,

  503. and look at him. How come you're not worried at all?

  504. What's wrong with you? Your countenance didn't show that you're worried?

  505. And he said, I have the peace of God. I

  506. have the peace of God. The world will tell you

  507. that you should be worried. Ma, how come you're not worried?

  508. Something wrong with you? Huh? But the peace of God,

  509. which surpasses all understanding, is that you should be worried.

  510. People around tell you you should be worried, but you

  511. you're not. You're not worried at all. There's a piece

  512. of God. We surpassed us all understanding. Last God, your

  513. hearts and minds, True Christ, Jesus, the High and Heart.

  514. Where's your heart? Left side? Okay, trust of physial trust

  515. official left side? The heart is here, right, the heart.

  516. It's a seed of emotions. Whatever you feel. When you

  517. feel joy, you feel happy, it releases something here right

  518. that you feel very losing up. You feel joyful, when

  519. you feel very sad, you felt like there's a step

  520. of knife. Where does it go here? Right? The pain

  521. is usually here? Right? The heart is a seed of emotions.

  522. The mind is a seed of thoughts. The mind is

  523. always here. Okay, depending which is your favorite. Hollywood often

  524. happen here. Bollywood often happen here. Often happened here. So

  525. you know, my company is going to restructuring, and I've

  526. been hearing news as well. Honestly, I am quite affected

  527. this past few weeks because it is almost like I'm

  528. not sure whether there's a job security. I'm not sure

  529. when people make restructuring today because I'm not consulted yet.

  530. I'm not sure whether they will consult me. But I

  531. hear there are plans. And I felt worried, faber anxious.

  532. I felt there's a drama playing here. I'll go to

  533. the boardroom. They gave me a letter. I will flip

  534. the letter. I'll tell them, if you do this, you

  535. will a lot of scenario playing. Yeah, have you all

  536. been to situation before? When you play a lot of

  537. movie here, you are the director and you always play

  538. the worst case scenario. It's never the best case scenario. Congratulations, ronson,

  539. this is the letter we decided to promote you. You will

  540. now get a salary increase. Right, We always play the

  541. worst case scenario where you know, but if you reflect

  542. back right, a situation where you played the worst case

  543. scenario and actually you went through. Did the worst case

  544. scenario happen? Did it happen as worse as you thought

  545. it could have been worse? During that time? Do you

  546. had a good sleep?

  547. No?

  548. Right, Some mind is very powerful because anything that goes

  549. through our mind affects our emotions. Anything that affects our

  550. emotions affect our behavior. Anything that affects our behavior affects

  551. our perception to its life. So Jesus should be seated

  552. in not just our heart but mind. We always say, yes, Jesus,

  553. you're the Lord in my heart? Raise the Lord? Is

  554. he also lord in your mind? Does Paul have to

  555. specify God that the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,

  556. will God your heart and mind true through Jesus. So

  557. I pray, I pray that you're blessed by today's word

  558. that extreme come up. We're gonna cause a service to

  559. close you can stand. I'll read what Paul have encouraged

  560. us again. Why don't we read this together? Huh? Philippines

  561. Form six to seven. We'll read this together, and the

  562. next slight before this please Philippines for six to seven.

  563. What do we declared this together? On my count one

  564. to three. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by

  565. prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made

  566. known to God and the peace of God, which surpasses

  567. all understanding. Will God your hearts and minds true Christ Jesus, Amen.

  568. Remember Jesus is the Prince of peace. Okay, so today

  569. I pray as extreme leaders in a chorus of a song,

  570. reflect on your work with God. There's anything that you

  571. need to get right with God. Now it's the right

  572. time to get right with him, because when you get

  573. right with Him, his peace will come and enveloped.

  574. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

  575. information on our church, please visit as Church Org. We

  576. are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing that

  577. this week is going to be a good week. I

  578. hit for you. God bless