What Does God Hear? | Pr Sandra Chin

You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message

will light up your tea this morning. I want to ask you a question.

Okay, what does God here if he can hear? What does he

hear? Do you believe God can hear? I hope? So what does

he here if he can hear? What does he hear? Amen? And

I was just really I was asking the Lord what what can we share?

And as you know, our theme is that all may know? Amen,

that all may know. If all may know, then we must know who

our God is? And what does he hear? So that you and I

can share two those who have yet to know Jesus, the God that hears

us? Amen. Amen. Can I get a good Amen? Hallelujah?

What does he hear? And you've got to find out? Okay, the

word of God tells us. And if that's this is these are the thoughts

that are points really says, this is what God hears, so that we

can encourage one another to know how to seek the Lord, how to cry

out to the Lord. Amen. And I really believe this is the word

for us today. And let's see what does God hear? Amen? All

right? Number one, we have some thirty four, verse fifteen and seventeen

p. Thirty four. It says that he hears the cry from the righteous,

any righteous in the house, Any righteous in the house, I hope

so Amen, all of us who are in Christ, we are cloth with

a robe of righteousness. Amen. And he hears the cry of the righteous.

So some are thirty four and verse fifteen seventeen. This is what it

says. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous. Every time I

say righteous, you say, amen, the eyes of the Lord on the

righteous, and his ears are open to their cry. Amen, his ears,

God has ears. Maybe it looks like alephineus. I don't know it.

Coulna be big Suitinggan here right, and his ears are open to the

cry. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears and delivers them out

of all their troubles. Amen, hallelujah. Look at that. The eyes

of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their

cry. And it says in verse seventeen, the righteous cry out, and

the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The cry of

the righteous. How many here are the righteous of the Lord? Amen?

Your cry is heard by the Amen. We need to live knowing that we

are clove and made righteous in Christ Jesus. When you cry out, the

Lord hears, Amen, and the Lord delivers us out of all our troubles.

Friends, if we are going to let them all that they all may

know that our God saves, then what do you know that you can share

with them? Because if you are experiencing the goodness and the amazing grace of

God, I believe you will have something to share for the glory of the

Lord. And that as light comes into the lives of those of yet to

know Christ, Amen, it will stir a faith in them. Amen.

So the eyes, I want to say to us, if we are the

righteous of the Lord, know that God's eyes are upon you. Know that

his ears Allelujah, is open to your cry and he actually hears. Operative

word this morning is the Lord. Amen? Once again, the operative word

of the Lord is the word of the Lord this morning, is that the

Lord. Amen? All right? Doing this via our children? Okay,

okay, all right. I'm encouraged to be reminded that when you're stuck,

when you're in trouble, when things are going you are the righteous of the

Lord. Come on, cry out to the Lord cry out, you say,

I'm the righteous of the Lord. Lord. You know me, Lord,

you remember me? Lord? Here my cry And it's not a cry

like no, it is a cry. There's this Lord. It's a cry

from within and he cries out to the Lord. How much do you want

to cry out to the Lord? The prayer that is so Lord, just

desperate. Amen, hallelujah. So the Lord, here's the cry of the

righteous. You've got to keep standing on that promise that the Lord hears you

and will deliver us in his beautiful time. Next one does the Lord here?

Cry? Whose cry? Those who fear the Lord? Those who fear

the Lord? Amen? Wow, we gotta be understanding, not scared.

But fear of the Lord means those who honor God. The fear of the

Lord means how do we honor God? One? Some one for five and

verse nineteen, Some one four five and verse nineteen. We're gonna read God's

word this morning. I'm gonna ask Vincent, would you help us read this

verse some one for five, verse nineteen, and am I on the right?

Yes? Go ahead? Just readler and say whoa have I got right?

What did I write here? Those who feel the Lord Amen, thank

you Jesus. Oh sorry, yes, we're nineteen. Yeh. He will

fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He will fulfill the desire of

those who hear fear him, and he also will their cry and save them.

Amen. Again, the Lord hears the cry of the one who fears

the Lord. Amen. Wow. To fear the Lord is to honor the

Lord, to walk in the fear of God, to walk in constant honor

before the Lord. Church. Maybe continue to walk in the honor and the

fear of the Lord, and he will hear your cry. Amen, He

will hear your cry and save us. Now, you never know when you

are sucking a problem, when you are in a challenge, then you remember

I am the child of God, the Righteous One, and I also honor

and fear the Lord. Lord, as I cry out, Lord, save

me from that circumstance. What you're gonna be saying from the lion from the

whale, I don't know what is your circumstance, what's your giant in your

life? That the Lord will save us? Amen? And what it is

about is to know that it is a Lord who is working in our mins.

It is a lot who hears and sometimes we forget that the Lord hears.

Sometimes we just forget that God actually hears. Amen, and he does

he does, so I hope you're taking notes. The first one is the

cry from the righteous. The Lord hears you, Amen, He delivers you

out of every trouble. And those who fear the Lord, the Lord hears

you, and he will save you. Amen. Another point here will be

in someone for five eighteen, some one for five it verse eighteen. I

want to make sure it got it? Okay, Maybe I can ask someone

to help us read. I remember everybody's near, Okay, Daniel, I'm

here. The Lord is close to all who call him, Yes, to

all who call him in truth? Amen, thank you. The Lord is

close to all a man who call upon him or the Lord is near,

and being near means the Lord here's your cry, and he will Lord he

said, he says, you're He's near to them who call upon him in

truth. Friends, we need to have such truth in our in our in

our spirit, truth in our spirit that when we call to the Lord,

he's near to us. Let's not have complicated thoughts. And you know,

we don't want to hide. We don't want to have dishonesty, but just

truth. This is how I feel about this situation, about this person.

Just call on him in truth, even if it sounds yuck. Yes,

Lord, I'm jealous, jealous of this person. That's how I feel.

You tell the Lord the truth that therefore he will be near to you,

so that he will hear you. Un As you confess and declare truth,

then the enemy will not sit on your shoulder and keep laying ugly eggs on

you. Come on. And too many of us allow the enemy to keep

laying demon eggs on us here by us hiding in untruth or the lies,

or just not being honest. But God says truth because He is the way,

the I am the way, the truth and the life Jesus is truth.

If we're gonna come to the Lord, we need to have truthfulness,

honesty. Tell the Lord how you feel. This is your circumstance. God

is not afraid of our mess. God is not afraid of our dirt.

God is not a shame of us. And we are at our lowest or

at our worstest. If there's such a word, He draws near when we

just call to him in truth. Amen. And many times I've just come

before the Lord and try to sugarcoat my sin. You know know, Lord,

and I know I know I'm sitting there going. I know you're not

gonna hear me. I'll just say, Lord, and just be honest and

truthful. This is where I'm at. Forgive me, Lord, and he's

near to us. He will hear us. Amen. I just I just

want to encourage us again this morning that God hears us. Do not forget

that he hears us, because he's our father God. He is not deaf.

He can hear us. Even if you whisper in your heart, He

can hear you the whispers of your heart. Basic kandalam HATI, your whispers,

your desires, your cry. The Lord hears you, and you actually

have experienced before. Whoa God hurt me? Of course he hurt you.

He has big ears. He can hear you. Amen. Another one coming

into New Testament. Mark chapter seven and verse twenty six to thirty. Mark

chapter seven, And this will be a passage or a story of this wonderful,

wonderful person. Hallelujah all right. Mark chapter seven, verse twenty six

to thirty. A fate filled desperate cry. What kind of cry does the

Lord hear? A desperation that there's no other uh that can help me.

I'm desperate, and so I think sometimes we're not desperate enough, so we

don't really cry out with two. We don't really you know, believe that

God hears us. But when you are desperate, when you're you're not down

to the bottom of the sea. You are desperate, when you're down to

nothing, then you sadly we have to get to there before we cried to

the Lord. But you know what God hears, and he loves a desperate

cry. Amen. And here we have this syril Phoenician, a lady,

a Greek. She is not Jewish. She came to Jesus because her daughter

had an unclean spirit. Her daughter was not well, and she came at

his feet. She found Jesus, she came at his feet, she knelt

down, and she said, you know, you know, to us,

the Lord, please heal my daughter. A desperate cry. Sometimes we are

not desperate enough, so we still wallow in our problem. But this woman

had enough is enough? Have you ever felt that enough is enough? Sometimes

I feel that enough is enough, even it is my signers, I don't

know. Women got a lot of paints and eggs or sometimes you know work.

Sometimes sometimes it's our spouse. All right, I'm a very good husband

whatever. Some days you know, ah, he's a good man, he's

your pastor. But anyway, but you know, enough is enough. I

don't know. Sometimes you keep meeting one accident to another. And I meet

some people putting on today, you know, bum the car next day tomorrow

you know, somebody you know does something to them, And I'm like,

brother, enough is enough. And this lady had enough, and she asks

the Lord to cast out the demon from her daughter. And you know the

answer that Jesus gave. Now, at this point you might think, what

these Jesus, I don't say, I pasta Jesus, pastor Jesus. If

I say this answer to you, you will stone me. You will leave

exclaimed. Here you go. Jesus said to her, let the children be

filled first, for it is not good to take the children's bread and throw

it to the little dogs. Oh my word, how rude. Right,

you know, because in the Jewish culture everyone else is a dog lower than

them. There came a pride in that time. Jesus wasn't talking out of

pride. He really put out a test out there, and he said no,

I must first come to the house of Israel. You are not of

the house of Israel. She was outside, you know, a gentile and

he says this, and you're thinking, Lord, you can't be so I'm

caring love with compassion loud to a woman, you know, and you know,

she answered, she was not beaten. She was not offended. Huh,

let's learn not to be offended. Human right, don't walk on the

human side, walk on the spirit side. She was not offended because she

had enough is enough, and I'm I really don't have another way. There's

no other way. And she said, yes, Lord, Yet even the

little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs. Basically, some of

us would say, just give me the crumbs. Man, I mean,

if the big food can make you happy, I just need the crumbs.

And she said, just give me the crumbs. She had a desperate need,

a desperate cry. And man, Jesus said, he's just like whoa

for this, saying go your way. The demon has gone out of your

daughter. And when she came she had come home. When she had come

to her house, she found that the demon had gone and her daughter was

lying on the bed. Well, come on, church, I don't know

whether I have. Have I ever been in a desperate Maybe I have.

I'm trying to recall my stories when there's a desperate cry. I believe the

Lord just moves. Something about the faith and the desperate cry, the faith

feel desperate cry when you just say I got no other but the Lord,

and many people have been there and you have experienced how God just moves for

you. I just want to say, the Lord hears that desperation from your

spirit. Nobody else sees your cry, nobody else understands your cry, but

the Lord does. And how he will move will it's not, you know,

dictated by this time, this whatever. He just sees the faith feel

desperate cry, and we have to be desperate until the Lord. They say,

Lord, enough is enough, Jesus, I'm I need your help.

Lord. If you don't, then that's it. There's no way that I

might as well just die. Sometimes it's that and we just trust the Lord

for that. I want to encourage us that if there are days that you

feel like, yeah, I'm praying about something, I'm praying about something,

I want to ask us, are we desperate enough? Do we want it

bad enough? Do we you know just say, Lord, I need that

breakthrough. Lord, I need that favor to get through this project, for

this b business, for my studies, for my family. You know what

is that need for our church? What is it? A desperate faith feeled

cry. The Lord hears the desperation. He not only hears, he sees

your heart. Amen. Amen, we just desperately cry out. And so

many times we hear this when we are praying for healing, when we're praying

for financial breakthrough, when we are praying for you know, just circumstances that

tearing us apart, and we just say, Lord, enough is enough.

I need you, Lord, I need you lot. Amen. Another another

point here on about how God hears us and how he works on our behalf

is found in Matthew chapter eight, verse five to ten, verse thirteen.

It's faith, having the faith in the authority of Christ. Faith in the

authority of Christ. Amen. Now, this is the the Roman Centurion.

I'm sure many of you have read the story of the Roman Centurion. This

is the officer that was having leadership over one hundred soldiers and he had a

situation. Everybody says situation, Come on, say it with like you mean

it. He had to have some attitude in it. This Roman officer had

a situation event and he had no other way, and it must be so

so important to him. So in Matthew, chapter eight and verse five to

ten thirteen, he says, now, when Jesus entered Caponium and there was

a centurion, he came to him pleading with him. Sometime I ask myself,

do I even plead with God? I just do this flipp and brass

y'are like, you know me, okay, thank you Jesus, you know,

like to just yella. Maybe there's fame, maybe there's no fake.

Maybe it's just too lazy. And this person came pleading, and he said,

Lord, my servant is lying at home, paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.

Wow, Lord, my servant is lying at home, paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.

He comes with a pleading desperation sort of like that. Oh, Jesus,

I don't know a lot. His servant must be so precious to him.

I don't know what kind of quality this soldier must have been, that

that the centurion could not leave him out of his army. He needed him

to go with the team. And you know, Jesus said, okay,

this is an another answer, Jesus said. The other answer, Jesus said,

sorry, I gotta feed my kids first, and not from maybe the

dogs later, right, But you know, he was really trying to see

where this woman go to. That was Syrophenician woman, and she just stopped

it off and say, hey, I can take the crumbs. This guy

okay, Jesus says, I will come and heal him. Whoa opposite this

one? This guy goes like, Lord, I am not worthy that you

should come versus under my roof, but only speak a word and my servant

will be healed. Speak the word. Wow. I mean, we gotta

put this into context for our own lives. Can we speak the word because

we know that the authority of Christ is where we're standing in when we pray,

when we deal with circumstances in our lives, when we are wow,

you know, having such battles. It's not like Jesus come and do the

world. But he says to him, Hey, Jesus, I'm not even

worthy. You just speak the word and believe it will happen. This is

a Roman centurion. He's leading a hundred soldiers. He is telling Jesus,

look, I I'm mosla when I say, go, go lay, come,

come, lay. But Jesus, you are the Lord. You just

speak the word, and those demons have got to bow. WHOA. Sometimes

away we prayer. I catch myself like please Lord, They're like, stop

it, girl, don't please. Lord, Just declare speak the word in

the authority that Christ is given to us as his children, as his righteous

one. And Jesus looked at this man and said, WHOA not seeing such

great faith in all of Israel. God is stirred up by the faith that

is in us. And he says, WHOA, that's faith there, that's

faith there. Faith Again a reminder to acts here. Faith is the currency

of heaven. Our church, our movement is inundated with faith. Our founding

senior pastor lives by faith, planted these churches by Come on, guys,

do not drop faith. Do not start thinking and wisdom of man, but

faith, faith, that despiration Christ, faith under authority of Christ. We

begin to just speak into our circumstances because we know we have a father who

hears, our Father who hears. Amen, Hallelujah, hallelujah. I leave

I close this part by saying, in first John, chapter five, verse

fourteen, to fifteen. First John, Chapter five, verse fourteen to fifteen.

He says, Now, this is the confidence that we have in him

that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. Here

hears us. And if we know that he hears us whatever we ask,

we know that we have the petitions that we have ask of him. Do

you have that confidence, brancisters, Do you have that confidence that is in

Christ that what you ask according to his is it God's will? Ah Jang

jiang Jang? Is it God's will? Is it God's will for you to

be healed? Yes? Is it God's will for you to look healthy and

strong? Yes? It is well with my soul. Amen? Oh,

is it what you need to know? What is God's will? God's will

according to his word? Amen, have this confidence that he will hear us.

And whatever we ask according to his will, we have the petitions that

we have asked of him, that we know that he will move. God's

in his amazing, miraculous, mighty time, he moves for in our midst.

Amen. He is a God who hears. So I want to tell

you what happened this past week that all may know. You know, and

then we all have this account of group. Right, all of us in

our leaders thinking like who we're going to share Jesus with? So my you

know, who's my accountability? Accountability group two youth one fifteen and one twenty

one. I'm the auntie or the grandma. I'm looking at them, they

look at me. So we all say, Okay, we're gonna set our

goals. But not because people are goals, but to put myself to be

aware, to be looking, to be you know, intentional, and so

an opportunity came just about just this past week. I have a cleaner who

comes and uh and she comes to clean our home. I need the help,

I really need help. And the desperate cry for help right finally came.

You see, Jesus brings cleaner. Why the husband went to find my

good husband went to find cleaner for me, and so have this. I've

been so relieved to have help. And I will work with them. Actually

I don't just you know I'll be working with them. They're like, hell,

I know, I said I work with you because we worked Fastella,

So we cleaned and then she came that day. Her face, her whole

countenance very different. She's a happy, go lucky person. She's ride the

bike with her other friend and they will come, you know, clean my

neighbor house and clean my house and then they're talking laughing. But that day

she was very set and she came and she opened up. She said,

you know, I'm not well. What happened? I don't know. I'm

having anxiety attack. All this is in basire and uh and my bus for

some reason get thrown out of the window the daila. So while she's trying

to telp me, I'm having anxiety attack, she says, you know,

the anxiety chen my son. I don't know and this and that, and

I don't know what to do. And so I went to see a doctor.

She had depression before, so she after she lost the child. So

the doctor, the psychiatrist, helped her. But it's I don't say why

I'm feeling this way out of just having a flu or a heart pain or

something like that, something that was not well, and then you went into

depression. You know. She was slowly moving into a depression and having anxiety

attack. The doctor say, stopped drinking coffee, So she stopped drinking coffee.

Husband said you better stop drinking coffee, and uh, and and that

was the first time she was telling me. I'm like, okay, the

first time she mentioned to me that I can't sleep, I'm having her whole

countenance down. And you know, for the when the first time she told

me, I, oh, we did me wanted to say, can I

pray for you? By all got swallowed back. I just felt majority faith.

I don't know how I can tell her not a bit that cod so

its a bit not comfortable yet. So I'm like, oh how and I

am like, I don't know how to say to her. Listen to her.

You know, before she left, she said, missed the Khan Dosiah.

Okay, the Khan pray for me. I'm like, okay, she

knows that Christian, didn't she probably gathered that we are Christian. Guy.

I think we talked and mentioned and so I'm like, I don't kick myself.

So to be accomfortable, I texted my girls and said, okay,

I lost it. I did not do what I wanted to do, but

I pray for another opportunity. She came the following next week, and this

time I'm building out my faith and okay, I'm going to tell them,

I said, but God, you have to do this. Okay, God,

do you hear me, I'm gonna have to say that God can do

this, and I have to have the faith because I know also not easy

to come out of these things. We minister so many people and sometimes they

don't come out of depression that easily. They believe us as well. Now,

how I want to tell someone who's a different faith. And as she

came even more down and saying to me, I don't know whether I can

work anymore. And but you know she's steering and I have a child,

blah blahlah, And then I just say, can I pray for you now?

Then let your bullet? But she didn't think I was going to pray

for her now, no, no, now I don't are okay? So

I did I tell you I'm doing I'm doing church in in Indonesia and we're

pitching in but I just couldn't pray. My words were missing. But never

mind, whatever I could pray, I prayed. And before that, the

week before I said, you pray in the name of Isa Almasi, because

that's in your Kuran. I'm not asking you to pray to anybody else's name,

but in Isa. Yeah. Yeahnah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

you praying that name that's in your belief. Yeah. So when I saw

her, dad desic, can, I pray for you, okay, And

I prayed to my best ability to name it and shame it. And then

I just said, la nama isa almah. I say amen, I say

to my best right God, this is where you have to say half doubt,

half is my full of faith and not faith like God. You you

guys got to do it. And I believe that you have to do something

because I really don't know how this works. This is people go to this

depression, right and uh. And then I I we continue to talk and

and I keep telling her you need to just stop, you know, allowing

this this this you know rock young Roy Young? Yeah, I bliss.

So I keep telling her this, this is not right, because said,

maybe someone charmed me, like maybe this maybe that. I said, well,

I don't really believe in I believe there is the dark side, but

you know there's demons. But but I don't know about the charming bit.

But yes, possible. But let me. You must pray. You must

want so, I said, Okay, we pray and then we'll see what

happens. I'll keep praying for you. And she keeps thanking me, and

every night I'll pray for a lot. Please reveal yourself to her. You

are a al and she comes this week. I think it's the way God

works. She came in this week, this on Saturday, and her face

was brighter, she' was smiling. She said, I feel a bit better.

And because she wasn't sure what to do, what she did was after

I prayed, she decided, I'm going to go back and see this like

I traced, which she did, and he talked to her. She cried,

and I don't know if he's believed it or not, but he gave

her some medication and I just felt like, yes, it worked this way.

But to her, she said, thank you for your prayers. I

feel better. I took the step to see the doctor again and she came

and she was because she was saying, I don't know if I can come

and clean. It's just a small move, it's not big. It's not

like she totally delivered, but she's behaving like she's so much better than the

two weeks that had met her before. And to say to us, sometimes

your faith and my faith just I just had to say, Lord, I

can't do anything, but you can and whatever way that will help her see

you in action, you do it. Lord. And now she came back

and told me, because of your prayers, I am better today. I

did take the right steps because she wasn't sure WHOA God is always at work

for us, a man, he's doing something he wants to make known.

It's for us to make him known. And I could only tell her what

she already knows from her faith, which is Issa. And it's the right

thing to do to tell her about Isa is Isa Almace Amen. And I

continue to we continue to say that that we will pray for you, and

she's very thankful. She say, yes, please pray for me. For

someone of a different faith to actually say to actually ask me to pray for

her, it is quite something else. Not everyone asked for you to do

that, but she did. And I think that's an encouragement to us when

someone asks you. I got afraid in terms of I don't know what to

say and I don't know how much to share. And God gave me another

chance, and I just took all the bass I could, all the right

words I could to just say and declare it to her and to pray it

in the name of Jesus in the name of is not Jesus but Isa Beho

she could identify with and the rest is really the Lord. And I just

keep praying. Lord, reveal yourself to her. She is in such desperate

need, a desperation. God, reveal yourself. Amen, Church, where

where you know sometimes we live just so isolated with our own personal or you

know, lives are busyness. Maybe you have your own emergencies. But are

we experiencing God so real in our lives so that we can also share our

story to others? Amen? God is ever faithful, ever faithful. He

is the Lord who hears the cry of the righteous. He's the Lord who

hears them who are who have the honor and fear of God. He hears

you when you come in truth. Hallelujah. He comes and deliver us.

He comes to help us. He's near to us. He's the Lord of

He who loves the faith feel desperate cry. He is the Lord who also

responds to faith, that knows what submission is to the authority of Christ.

Guys, when the next time you pray, pray in the authority of Christ.

Don't pray as a beggar. You are not a beggar. You are

the son and daughter of the Living God. Pray in the authority, in

Jesus' name. Speak into that circumstances, declare, use God's word, don't

use your own words. Use the scripture. That's why you and I need

to read the scriptures. Don't just watch YouTube. You read the scriptures.

Don't just watch another man's sermon. Read the scripture. Read God's word.

You have got to. It will bring life, he will bring truth.

It will make a way where there seems to be no way. And that's

when you can come and sing of the goodness of God. Even you and

I will sing with all our hours because we're experiencing the Word coming to life.

Amen, he hears a desperate cry. You know, a year ago

my dad passed on and he is in his eighties already, but he was.

If you look at my dad, anyone, anyone will say, well,

uncle, you look so young. You know, last night one of

the girls I had a youth overnight and my house were seven young people,

almost beings that say, I say, please, don't give me past a

ten ten or ten no no, no no ten ten The toilet will die,

so no ten. Just seven young people will go five girls. They

said, five girls and four boys. That's nine, like you know,

end on nine aha. But then they ended up giving me I think three

girls and four boys. So and the rest we divided the rest homes.

And one of the boys came and my parents. He used to live with

me, and now my mom lists is under my brother's care. So I've

turned the room into a guest room. And and they all wanted to see

the guest room. So they came to see the guest room. But one

of the boys, he knows my dad really well. They were in the

same church with my dad before and then now they've come to act. But

they were so close to my dad, called him grandpa, and when they

went to the room, he just broke down, you know, and just

let I just let him, you know, just grieve because he knows my

dad so well. He was looking for my dad's sling to shoot the sling,

you know, to shoot cats, and okay, cat levers don't hate

us. He's like uncle always puts it here. He puts it here.

It tells me where the sling is. I say, I don't remember seeing

it there. I'm not throwing anything away yet, so or given away,

so it should be there. We look, we couldn't find it, and

asked my my husband, have you seen it? And he said, oh,

I think your brother took it. Yeah, okay, so and he

just you know, he just teared up for about five minutes. The boys

were all thinking was wrong with you? And I said, now he knows

my dad. He's very close to me. And a lot of young people

in my dad's homes were very close to him. I think they cried more

than I cried. La, yeah and away, God, they were crying

buckets. You know. Young people grew up with him. So from baby

to grow to eighteen years old, you know, that's how long they've lived

with me. And you know, one year ago where my dad was and

well, the bills were just a lot la. It's just God provided.

But there was one bill and I just thought that this is something beyond me,

you know, they need My dad came to a place where it was

fostage. Finally it was declared there was firstage cancer on the spine and he

really he couldn't walk. After that, he couldn't walk. It was tough.

And then they say, oh, he needs therapy, and they just

shot out their mouth twenty k, twenty thousand, I don't have that moneyway,

Oh, can you say it again? Twenty k didn't change the figure,

and I said, I can't cough it out now in my mind day

waning. Now, I can't do it now. It's tough. It's tough,

right, and we none of us have the funds. So I just

say, give me, give me a week and I'll come back. We

have my father's wait one week before he gets therapy, but we weren't sure

whether this day he didn't want chimo. I say, no, he's not

cumun. This is radio therapy will it will help ease the pain. So

it's palliative care al ready. There's nothing can do. So and I know

that my dad in his heart, you know eighty plus. I mean,

maybe you've never heard this. My dad was The last day he served the

Lord in church was on the thirtieth of January, on a Sunday. He

served the Lord since he got saved, and I didn't know how active my

dad was in church. He served the Lord the last Sunday when he couldn't

walk. After that, shaking the hands, he is usher. He takes

the offering with the team and everyone later told me, we miss uncle so

much because he always greeted us. And I'm telling I'm feeling em bettered,

like my father is not the elder of the church, but he wants to

stand there because he's the only octogenarian at his age wanting to go back to

church after the pandemic. Every weekend he says, when the judge open,

he said, don't know that's your church. My church opened ready, And

he's like, when can I go back to church? And he's in prison

ministry for thirty forty years. He loves going to the prison the minister,

and he said if I if I cannot serve, then no point of me

living, he said, And when he couldn't walk anymore, he said,

I just want to go home because I can't serve the lot. I can't

even stand in greet people. I can't go to church anyway. So I

said that he couldn't serve friends eighty and mny I know Auntie Auntie there,

but eighty plus still serving the Lord. Come on, I want to inspire

you. Doesn't matter how old you can be in the house of the Lord

serving played the guitar at eighty plus to minister to the inmates in the prison.

Loved it. Shares the word whenever he's given opportunity. But he just

loved leading worship. And when the thing came to say that, you know,

that's it. You need relative care. I don't even know when I

had a desperate cry just say Lord to d K you handle it. I

cannot deal with this. And you know I did not tell any one person.

I did not say, but as I just said, that's the bill.

Lord. The funds came within a week for me to be able to

take my dad through radiotherapy. In the end, it didn't cost all of

that. But how the Lord just touched different people and the funds came in

more than I needed. The help that, you know, just came with

a time of need. But there's always a desperation. Our God hears us.

Come on, our God hears us. I wanted to lay it down

for us. He hears us, Church, he hears us. Don't ever

think that he doesn't hear us. Would I of course I would love my

dad to be you know, continue with us. And again the Lord hears

us. On the last day, the last time I saw him, I

on the Saturday morning, we took him to hospital er, but they couldn't

do anything. They still didn't say that, oh, this is, you

know, end of life. Whatever. He didn't they didn't. They didn't

say it. But when we went home, I had my friend nurse come

talk to him, and that night I saw him and my heart just broke.

Because my dad is such a tall man, good looking, doesn't look

a day older than eighty. He was eighty three. He looks young.

Everyone will say, well, uncle, you are look like sixty, while

he's so happy oooh and just full of love for Jesus. But I looked

at him that then my heart broke because he just lost so much weight,

lost almost we couldn't walk, and I just knelt there and I just I

just felt some twenty three coming. I just couldn't pray it because he felt

I was sending him home. But the cry from my heart is just Lord,

you're a good shepherd. You know the time, And it just said

the half. I couldn't even say the other half because I didn't want him

to go. I'm so less. I look back over a year and I

just think that perhaps I had that chance to usher him into the arms of

Jesus. He couldn't recognize me. He didn't know I was praying for him,

but he asked my mom, who prayed for me, and an hour

later he went home. Sometimes, just when God lays it on your heart,

know that he hears us. He hears us. Not that I want

to send that home. In fact, I want him to be with me.

But you know, the health was not good, and I believe in

his heart he knew. In fact, the Lord showed him that he would

come home and take him home, but he didn't dare tell me. So

he told my husband. My husband say, are you ready? He said,

I'm ready. I'm ready to go. I can't serve here on earth.

I want to go home to Jesus. I hope we all have that

heartened attitude that our God hears us, the Lord sees us, and it's

good any day to serve the Lord until you say bye to earth and into

glory. Amen. God hears our cry. God hears our prayer. And

I pray that you know Church, you remember that God hears you and he

sees you, and he works on your behalf is our good Father. Amen,

hallelujah. And I'll go on to the next one. I want to

say, what else does the Lord here? What else does the Lord here?

As I did the study, Well, this is what he hears.

He hears your complaints and murmurings. Come on, he hears your complaints and

murmuring. Now you can complain to the Lord, and that will be your

desperate cry. You know it's so hard. No, no, no,

God hears. Even when the children of Israel, these are the scriptures.

Even when the children of Israel in Exodus and numbers complained to the Lord,

murmured, groan and mourned because they were ungrateful. The Lord heard it.

They were saying in Exodus sixteen two that they were saying to the Lord.

They were actually not scolding Jesus God, but they were complaining against who Moses

and Aaron, Moses and Aaron, and what did they say? So let's

look at Exodus. Time is flying out the window. Exodus and sixteen verse

two eight. Okay, So I just want to take that verse for US,

verse sixteen, Exodus, chapter sixteen, and we're looking at verse two.

Okay, hallelujah. Maybe I guess someone else read, who can ask

read? Who can ask read Jacqueline for me? Can for all of us

verse two? And then The next verse will be verse eight. Then the

whole congregation of the children of Israel complaint against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Verse eight. The Lord gives you me to eat in the evening and

in the morning break to the full for the Lord. Here's your complaints which

you make against him? And what are we? Your complaints are not against

us, but but but verse eight, but against the Lord, but against

the Lord. Amen? All right. In both Exodus and Numbers, you

will ce complaints. Firstly, they were not They were saying, why did

you take us out of Egypt? And you know the story of the children

Israel because when they left Egypt had to go into the wildernes. And then

God took them the longer way, not the shot the way. And because

they complained on the first he could not take them the shortcut. He had

to take them to the longer way. They were complaining about why got nothing

to eat? At least in Egypt we got melons, we got fish,

we got garlic, we got onions. Are you here we eat sanna?

You brought us here to dire to bury us? Whoa eat sand? Gravel?

Right? They were complaining, and then the Lord heard it and bless

them. We have manna from you know, angel food, bread from heaven

manna, and then gave them quail for meat. They wanted to eat meat

because there were a group of people, the mixed majority, the mixed group

which were not Jews, were saying, oh, come on, nothing else

to eat it every day, eat this manna, very good. Die you

never grow fetnah. Remember their clothes never grew out you like your you know

whatever, yourjia money never grew out. You just remained from child to forty

years old. They never changed shirt not good for shopping. Like their shoes.

Sorry, they were the same Aridas from three years old to forty years

old. Their shoes never worn out. You think about it, it's a

miracle. No fashion parade there because we're wearing the same thing for the last

forty years. I don't know if people liked it or not. Cannot change.

But they were the same badge they left, same clothes they left Egypt.

They were the same clothes because it says in Deuteronomy chapter eight. Their

clothes never worn out, their shoes never worn out. They had enough to

eat. Nobody was overweight, ha ha ha. Now you all have exercise,

don't eat rice, Please, no sugar. They just ate manna.

Try looking for manna who was made of coriander or something like that. Okay,

their complaints rose up to the Lord. But church, the danger of

it is that they were not just complaining against Moses and Aaron. They were

complaining against the Lord. What else is the Lord here? I want to

say to us. He hears our murmurings and complaints, which is not very

good because why do people complain? And they complain, they might say,

oh, this guy like that, that guy like that, this situation like

that. Your God, you're not answering my prayer, la la lah.

But we're actually complaining against God. Very dangerous. If you want to get

your prayers answered, if you want to live overcoming, stop complaining enough,

because you will go around the wilderness forever. God wants us to have thanksgiving

hallelujah. There was constant complaining murmuring. That's why God knew that there was

stiff neck. They were stubborn, But yet he loved them, He wanted

them. He called them to be a people that were treasured to him.

All right, there were cons complaining and murmuring even in Jesus' time. The

Pharisees were complaining, why did Jesus say eat this bread? Why? Why?

So they would complain, they would murmur, and Jesus says, stop

murmuring. Stop murmuring. So to church, shall I say to you stop

murmuring. Murmuring in the negative and ungratefulness will not bring about the answers to

your prayer. Murmuring will kill all that that good that God wants to do.

Stop it. Don't murmur. Stop complaining. It is not helpful that

we murmur. Huh no, right, not good? Right? Anybody still

in the house or are you chatting in your seats? All right? Anybody

in the house. Yeah, come on, stop murmuring now that I'm taking

too much time. Stop murmuring. I will finish in a zippy, in

a zippy in a jiff, all right. Don't complaining about anything about your

life, about your parents, about your boss, about God. Don't stop

because that does not please God at all. What pleases God is gratitude and

thanksgiving. Even in our worst worst circumstance. Give thanks. Well, very

hard to do it because you don't like the situation. But Jesus is teaching

us to say, in everything, give thanks God. Loves thanksgiving. Enter

his gates with thanksgiving. Every time you come to worship. If you have

a complaint, leave it outside. Come with singing first, and then come

with thanksgiving. You want to see your prayers answered, you want that breakthrough,

Come with thanksgiving. Yeah, the situation hasn't changed. But thank you

Lord for this difficult situation. Thank you Lord that I'm still, you know,

sucking this. But Lord, you make a way for me. How

our words are framed and declared powerful? Amen? So second Tessalonians, Verse

five, chapter five, verse eighteen. Second Theessalonians, chapter five and verse

eighteen speaks about giving thanks in all things. Amen, Church week. I

have to preach this so that you can practice it. Come on, Otherwise

we are not preaching the word. We are giving you nice smooth peanut butter

to eat. I ain't here to give you peanut butter teeth. I aim

to give you what is bitter so that it can become sweet. So stop

complaining, murmuring, and that will kill your destiny. Stop complaining about your

leadership, Stop complaining about your boss, Stop complaining about your wife, Stop

complain about husband, stop stop it. Give thanks, give thanks. Yeah,

sometimes I did know my husband come on very dying. Yeah, no

more words. He spoke all these five thousand words already. So I come

back like, so what happened today? Tell me what happened? How is

you day? Good? And and all wives go through this. Your husband's

not the only one. My husband also, yes, So I'm a good

wife. I'll leave you alone into your empty box, and I do the

household tory. I understand husbands. Yeah, sometimes you say you just give

thank thank you, thank you Jesus for my husband. Amen, Praise the

Lord. Gratitude and thanksgiving opens the door for your breakthrough, opens the door

to see things change. Amen. Can I get an amen for that?

Amen? Did you have the second Thessalonians? Up? Would you want?

Are you able to can? So? Sorry for tessalon wi that First Theessalonians

five eighteen, I wrote first you know, and then in my notes and

I wrote second day? All right, So in all things give thanks,

In all things give thanks. If we cannot give thanks, we are stuck.

Then how can we be, you know? Learning to give thanks?

Amen? We learn to give thanks because we know that the Lord tells us,

you know, Paul writes in First Thessalonians five eighteen. In everything,

give thanks for this is the will of God. Wow in Christ Jesus.

So if you're asking what is God's will jang jan jang, give thanks.

You want to know what is God's will for your life? Today? Give

thanks? Everybody was I want to know what God's will is for my life?

Give thanks. Stop asking whether you'll be see or tomorrow. Is this

man, your husband, is that woman? Your wife? Just say thank

you Lord, hallelujah. He's a coming the husband, I mean the wife,

the financial breakthrough. Give thanks. This is the will of God.

Are you reading care? Even so exciting? Like you found out what was

the will of God? Go out there and say I know the will of

God? What? Give thanks? Stop complaining because that is poison that will

rob you of your joy, that will rob you everything. If you gotta

complain, my mommy, don't let me blame innno whatever. PS five or

PS four ps And know what song? Give thanks, Give thanks. You

have a situation, Give thanks, amen gratitude. I think today we are

lacking of gratitude. We are we forgot the good things that people have done

for us, and we just forget. Think a little bit, sit down

and see God, what can I give thanks for What did mom do for

me? What did dad do for me? I know today is not the

I mean sometimes we think they're not perfect, but moms and dads do their

best for us. We give thanks. What's my company? What is my

situation? Not this my children, or my church, or my company or

my nation. Give thanks. This is the will of God. Amen,

this is the will of God. Give thanks. Don't know what to do

in the situation. Thank you Jesus. I bless you Lord. Bless the

Lord, O my soul and all that's within me. I give thanks.

Amen, I praise the Lord. I praise the Lord. Friends, we

sing songs here, not to sing and look good here. We sing songs

here so that Monday, this Saturday we sing those songs in our challenges.

I tell you it's not singing nice songs just to look nice here, and

so that the songs speak into your week. So don't be quiet. My

God is alive. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. This week you've

got something to praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Next thing about what

God hears and how we can turn it around. Because He hears, he

hears our thanksgiving and gratitude conversations that build, Conversations that build, because if

you're murmuring, what's the opposite? Conse Nations that build efficients. Chapter five,

verse nineteen to twenty one talks about speaking to one another in psalms,

hymns, spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

giving again, thanks always for the things to God the Father, in

the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting one to another. There's conversations

that build. What conversations, Jesus asks the two men walking to Amaeus,

What kind of conversations? Ask ourselves? What kind of conversations are we having?

Chuch, We're gonna pass these down to our children. What kind of

conversations are you having about other people? About things that you are not happy

about? The Bible tells us begin to give thanks, begin to speak in

psalms, declaring God's word, sing in hymns, declare him not sing declare

then giving thanks again, and learning to submit one to another. Amen,

all right, attitude, thanksgiving conversations that bill. Thirdly, Hebrews eleven six,

what pleases God more than anything? Faith? Faith pleases God more that

I forgot to put the word faith, Faith pleases God more than anything.

If we're gonna come to the Lord, come by faith. I left my

faith word out. Faith pleases God more than anything. Eleven Hebrews eleven six

Hebrews eleven, verse six. If you want to please God, amen,

you want to have faith. It says here that without faith it is impossible

to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is

and that he's a reward of those who diligently seek him. Church. Let's

again again, again again, remember faith, faith in Christ, exercise faith.

Don't ask, show me first, then I go. No, go,

the Lord will show you. Step out in faith, plant do something,

give first, Lord will provide. He never shot changes. You speak

the things by faith, not by sight, because faith pleases God more than

anything. Amen. These are things that God hears and sees. And I

want to close with this. What else does the Lord hear? And the

verse Malachi chapter three, verse sixteen. You know those who fear the Lord,

They spoke to one another, and you and I speak to one another.

But the Lord listen. Come on, everybody, say listen. The

Lord listen and hurt them. A book of remembrance was written before him for

those who fear the Lord and who meditate on his name. The conversations we

have. God listens, But what are we talking about? Because God listens

so so cool that there's a book of remembrance that is written when you speak

about the Lord, when you speak about words that bring life, he writes

them down. It says, those who feared the Lord spoke to one another,

The Lord listened, and he heard them again. The whole topic.

What does God hear? What is he hearing in your conversations. We need

to take steps of faith because that faith builds faith upon faith, as we

declare. It takes faith to be, you know, here this morning,

believing that whatever else needs to be done can be done later. But we

chose to come and worship the Lord first. Amen. It takes faith to

say, Lord, I'm going to serve you, even in the midst of

my very difficult job project. Oh I'm taking an exam tomorrow. We take

faith to come and worship the Lord. The Lord he God hears your conversations.

God hears, and he opens doors for you. Halleluiah. Amen.

What are you seeking the Lord about? What are you praying about? The

Lord hears? And then when you get together and you chat and you talk.

But those who fear the Lord spoke to one another, and God listens.

And when God listens, he writes them down. And he you know

because he says here a book of remembrance was written before him for those who

fear the Lord and who meditate on his name. Are we declaring his name

that all may know, that all may know, that all may know,

your testimonies, your stories of faith. Hallelujah. Amen. Faith is everything

in a Christian's life because it takes faith to be obedient, to do the

work of God, obedient, to follow God's word. Amen. It takes

faith. Our Christian faith, our walking christ is about steps of faith to

walk in obedience to the Lord. God does not ask us to do anything

else but to be obedient, to walk obedient to Him. And in order

to walk obedience, you have to be taking that step of faith. Amen,

Church, hallelujah. And that is my last word of encouragement to us.

I want you to go home. I want to encourage you as sense.

That's the word. What does God hear? Know that God hears the

righteous. God hears the ones who fear him. God hears the one who

speaks truth. God hears your faithful, desperate cry. God hears you when

you understand there is submission to the authority of Christ, and you speak by

faith, speak into your circumstances. Many of us need to at least cry

out to the Lord. May the Lord lead You made the Lord show,

you made the Lord guide you. I tell you we can be follow Christ.

And sometimes we forget to cry out to the Lord. Be just forgot.

Toll remind us again. It's okay, we forget sometimes, but I'm

reminding you. Cry out to the Lord from the depth of your heart.

Cry out to the Lord. He works and he does on our behalf what

he knows is best for us. Amen. Amen, So remember the one

thing you don't want to be doing more is murmuring. All right, stop

complaining. Stop complaining then you're not tall enough. Stop complaining your nose not

sharp enough, Stop complaining your hair is not good enough. Just say thank

you. I look the way I do. Praise the Lord. I will

just thank you. You knew what you wanted me to look like, and

Lord, you work the miracle in me. Amen. Hallelujah, there's a

desperate cry. Let's stand as we close this morning we're gonna pray, I

mean the Holy Spirit. Take his word and plant it in your heart.

Such don't just be a listener, be a doer of God's word. And

I believe that some here today that need to cry out with such desperation so

that God will work in your mates. Know that He hears your prayer.

Know that when you cry out to the Lord with all of your heart,

with all that is within you, an understanding or even the authority in Christ,

that you speak over your circumstances, that it may move and change.

God wants us to grow from glory to glory, glory to glory, strength

to strength, grace upon grace. Don't remain the same as you do,

just as you expect your baby, your baby to grow from baby to a

toddler, to a child, to a teenager to a camper student age to

a young adult. I'm a young adult to an adult from adult's grand adults

that you call progress. Can I ask you and you to progress in your

faith with Jesus. Don't always drink milk. It's time to eat some meat,

some steak in Jesus. Chu take the hard word. It's good for

your spirit, It's good for your soul. Time to grow up, Time

to say, Lord, you hear me, but let me be doing the

right thing so that God hears me. Even if you complain, I won't

tell you God hears your complain, but He doesn't enjoy complaints. He enjoys

faith. He enjoys your heart cry of desperation. Amen. We hope you've

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