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Understanding What God Wants | Elder Terence Atkinson

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

  2. will light up your day today. I've got a message I believe that the

  3. Lord wants us to know, which is actually very important. All the messages

  4. are important, okay, but understanding what God wants, Understanding what God wants?

  5. Do we take the trouble to understand what God wants? Hey? Look,

  6. sometimes when our spouse tells us something, do we understand what she wants?

  7. Do we understand what he wants? You know nowadays that I only eat

  8. chicken breasts because no skin, Ma, no skin, easy to cook,

  9. you know. But Elder Mabel she likes chicken pie. But the thing is,

  10. when you go and you do the shop, you have to be very

  11. specific what you want, right. So I went and I bought chicken breasts,

  12. you know, looked pretty good. And then I bought her chicken thie

  13. and she says, what kind of chicken te you bought me? It looks

  14. like the chicken and look ami or something like that. So I can't help

  15. it. This is what they have. You see, My understanding of what

  16. a good piece is and her understanding or what a good piece is is totally

  17. different. So when we look at what God wants. He's looking at me

  18. very very blankly. So I say, okay, next time you buy the

  19. chicken tie, you show me what you want, and then I will know

  20. what you want. Understanding what God wants? Do you know that understanding can

  21. either be a stumbling block or a stepping stone. Understanding can either be a

  22. stumbling block or stepping stone. How do we understand something? What do we

  23. mean by understanding something? You know? You can understand something wrongly? You

  24. can? You know, I can tell you don't go there. I don't

  25. ever want to see you go there. I can tell my children that.

  26. And as far as they're concerned, I don't understand, because Indian mind,

  27. they understand. But see, what they don't understand is what I understand.

  28. And what I understand is if you go there, somebody is going to come

  29. around and smack you. See, but I understand, but they don't understand

  30. that. You see. Do you realize how many of you've got? Very

  31. few of you've got teenage children? Right? How many we've got teenage children?

  32. Okay, all right, I asked you this question. Suddenly, when

  33. they become teenagers, do you feel like to them you have become irrelevant.

  34. Not yet young teen coming attraction older teens? Anybody experienced that or not?

  35. Suddenly you don't understand you got it all wrong. I mean you're old.

  36. What do you know? Right? They always tell you that you're so old?

  37. What do you know? Hey? I was once a teenager myself.

  38. Yeah. So the thing is this understanding can either be a stumbling block when

  39. you don't understand right, when you don't see things right, You understanding may

  40. get you into trouble. Your understanding may lead you How many of you have

  41. heard this understanding? One drink is okay? After all? Is just a

  42. glass of wine? The Bible says, for your stomach, drink one glass

  43. of wine. How many have you heard that statement before? And how many

  44. of you know that there are many people who never learned to stop at one

  45. glass? True? Why start the one glass and allow yourself to go on

  46. to two to three and ruin lives? See, that's the wrong understanding of

  47. scripture. Scripture never meant for you to find that it's okay to take one

  48. glass of wine? After all? It what did Paul say? If you

  49. cannot get better than you, you take one glass? It will help you?

  50. So it was a medicinal take, It was a take for a healing

  51. purpose. Was it take for the sheer enjoyment of the buzz you get from

  52. the alcoholic content? Ah? Do you know that understanding is quite a funny

  53. thing. It is funny because it can break us. Understanding the wrong way

  54. can break you. If you understand that God is a God of love,

  55. so He's okay with everything I do, no matter what I do. After

  56. all, God understands. How many of you heard that statement before? It's

  57. true, But that kind of understanding, in that way can break you,

  58. because how many of us know that God himself has said, away from me,

  59. I never knew. You may have called me this, you may have

  60. called me that. You may call me lord, Lord, you may cast

  61. out demons in my name, you may have healed the sick in my name.

  62. But away away from me, I never knew you. Oh, how

  63. did this happen? You see, the wrong kind of understanding can break you.

  64. How many of you have heard this statement? God works in mysterious ways.

  65. Every time I hear that, I say, hey, man, this

  66. is not in the Bible. God doesn't work in mysterious ways. God works

  67. his way just because you don't know. It doesn't make it mysterious, It

  68. just makes it away. You don't know. But after he does it,

  69. guess what you know? Is it mystery anymore? No? The Bible says,

  70. the mystery that has been kept hidden for generations has now been made known

  71. to the Sains. What is that Christ in you? The hope of glory?

  72. Hey, it is no mystery to us anymore because Jesus is in us.

  73. God works in mysterious ways. Every time I hear that, my hand

  74. back of many stands because this is how the devil managed to trap Eve with

  75. a half truth. You see, don't allow half truths to get involved in

  76. your understanding because it is those half truths that will cause you to fall into

  77. a lie. So that's why even statement like that I just don't like.

  78. But you know that understanding can make us because when we understand right, Praise

  79. the Lord, things are going to change. You want change, you want

  80. breakthrough, You want to see something good happen in your life. How does

  81. it happen when you have the right understanding? So do you think it's worthwhile

  82. to get our understanding right? Absolutely? So I want to actually go into

  83. that and perhaps we will understanding a little better. Okay, let's look at

  84. Ephesians four eighteen. It says having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the

  85. life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the

  86. blindness of their heart. I remember the last time I came here. I

  87. told you about this lady who has not seen the son in two years because

  88. the son thinks he is a she. And the Australian government has taken that

  89. son away because the woman said, no, you are not a she,

  90. you are a he, and she has not seen the sun in two years.

  91. Do you understand what I mean? Some of you are looking at blank

  92. faces. Okay, let me explain it. The guy thinks he's a girl,

  93. so he's gone to his mother and says, I want to be a

  94. girl. The mother said, no, you're not a girl, you're a

  95. boy. He goes to the school and he tells the teacher, my mother

  96. won't allow me to be a girl. She reports it to the authorities.

  97. The authorities come and take the child away so that they can continue to turn

  98. this boy into a girl through what through chemicals and through surgery, and the

  99. mother has got no say. Having their understanding darkn Do you and I actually

  100. know what this means. Let me tell you what I just learned this week,

  101. and this is happening in California right now. Parents found out. They're

  102. in kindergartens across the state. They have a club for kids. You know

  103. what is this club? This club is for boys to learn to love boys

  104. and for girls to love girls. And this club is a clandestine club.

  105. The parents were never asked permission. But the parents found out, and now

  106. they are taking the education system to task because in this state, if the

  107. children want to join a gardening club, they have to get parents permission.

  108. So how come when they have this LGBTQI club, permission was not asked.

  109. Do you know that the battle is for your kids? Are we aware that

  110. the battle is for our children? You want to send your kids overseas to

  111. study, You train them from now, You prepare them for the crap that

  112. they are going to receive overseas. In terms of this, I have to

  113. be straight. I'm very sorry because this is a reality that you and I

  114. have to face. The world is confused. This is what scripture says.

  115. Having your understanding dark and being alienated from the life of God because of the

  116. ignorant rance that is in them and the blindness of the heart. This is

  117. happening today. When I read that, I tell you, I got so

  118. angry. I got angry because you have taken the fight to the dirtiest of

  119. levels. You're trying to influence the children. I'm not telling you don't send

  120. your kids a way to study. I am telling you that if you want

  121. to send your kids to study, you teach them from now right is right

  122. and wrong is wrong. Hell is hot and singing right, and God is

  123. holy, and Christ is coming and righteousness will prevail. You got to train

  124. them from now used to I told you I trained my girls. Man,

  125. two girls, We're not going to be around forever. We can go at

  126. any time. You need to have someone on your side who will help you

  127. each and every day. And you know who that person is. He is

  128. Jesus. Get to know him now. The Bible says train your child and

  129. the way it's a lord, and when he grows old, he will not

  130. soon depart from it. The Bible also says spare the spare the rod,

  131. and spoil the child. You try sparing the rod in Australia, I mean

  132. you try not sparing the road in Australia and see what happens. Hey,

  133. guys, this is real, This is real. Bible is very clear.

  134. I mean, Jesus knows what he's talking about. Wisdom, Wisdom is the

  135. principal thing. This is Problebs four seven. Principle is the principal thing.

  136. Wisdom is the most important thing. Therefore, get wisdom, and the Bible

  137. says, and in all you're getting, get understanding. Hey, look,

  138. if there's nothing that you can get, get the understanding of God's word that

  139. for you will be the greatest pearl of great price, which of course is

  140. Jesus understanding who Jesus is. I've been praying for this message. I've been

  141. praying that the Lord anointed this morning as I walked for hours. I prayed

  142. and walked around the neighborhood for hours, praying that God's wor will settle in

  143. our hearts. Because time is short. Jesus is coming again. He's coming

  144. again, really soon, and we better be ready. We had better be

  145. ready. The world is a very tentative place now, So the Bible says,

  146. in all you're getting, in all your desire to improve yourself, in

  147. all your desire to increase your wealth in all your desire, to build your

  148. own minor kingdoms for yourself. The Bible says, get understanding. I heard

  149. a testimony or I heard a prayjuice now, but somebody who's going to go

  150. away or might be going away in the future, How do you prepare yourself?

  151. Get understanding? How do you know whether you're doing right? Get understanding?

  152. In Isaiah forty twenty eight, it says, have you not known and

  153. have you not heard? That the Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator

  154. of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding

  155. is unsearchable. Do you know why I ask you to get God's understanding?

  156. Because it's all the understanding you need to be successful. I shared with you

  157. the last time that we have no rights succeeding without the help of Christ.

  158. You remember that. Now I am telling you that with Christ comes that understanding

  159. you need to be successful, not successful the world's way where they make a

  160. lot of money, spend a lot of money, die and go to a

  161. christless eternity. Is that success? That is failure? How about this?

  162. Earn a lot of money, spend a lot of money, die and go

  163. and be with Christ totally successful, and scripture is saying it comes with understanding.

  164. I just love the way the Lord brings understanding. After your Testimy,

  165. maybe I didn't need to share sit down in just you know, say okay,

  166. she's preached the message. I don't need to go anywhere, don't need

  167. to say anything. Hey, understanding. What is the understanding that God is

  168. trying to get to us? See through your precepts. I get understanding.

  169. It is through God's precepts. Therefore I hate every false way. You know,

  170. I like the way and Ivy puts it. Of course you don't see

  171. that, but in my notes it is. I gain understanding from your preceps.

  172. Therefore I hate every wrong path. Can we hate every wrong path?

  173. You know? What's the thing about a wrong path? A wrong path is

  174. not the right path. I remember. I don't know whether I've told you

  175. this before, but we had to go to X Kneeli. All right,

  176. but I'll tell you again. It's a story worthy to be told X Kneel.

  177. So I put on ways, all right, but ways is not Jesus

  178. Christ. Ways is the wrong path. Jesus Christ is the right path.

  179. So I put on the wrong path and so I went, and I kept

  180. on driving, and suddenly the big highway became a smaller road, and then

  181. suddenly became a path. And I looked in the left hand and looked on

  182. the right hand. The grass was taller than the car. But we say

  183. no, no, no, you go here and then turn right. Okay.

  184. I went, and then suddenly I see a palm oiler stayed in front

  185. of me. Okay, this his turn right. So I turned right.

  186. And when I turned right and drove a little bit, there was a big

  187. cow sitting in the middle of the road. Yeah, didn't detect stumbling block?

  188. Yeah yeah, no I didn't. I did. I was I needed

  189. to get the church again. Oh, I didn't tell you that small road

  190. became a madpath. Okay, So this car was lying there, so he

  191. looked at me. I looked at it. Serious, I'm not kidding you.

  192. We stared at each other. Then I horned. Then the cow looked,

  193. gave me such a father up look, and got up and moved away.

  194. I traveled on. When I traveled a little bit more, the where

  195. sit straight road right, one big ditch in between, no bridge to cross.

  196. I'm serious. So I backed the car out again and I drove and

  197. guess who was there. The cow was right in the middle of the road.

  198. So I pressed the horn. The cow gave me another dirty look.

  199. Hey, I let you go the first time. Can you just leave me

  200. alone? Got up slowly, moved to the side of the road, and

  201. I travel And you know, I don't know how I got to church that

  202. day. I did, I did. We eventually got to church and her

  203. new red car was now brown fulled with mud. I hate every false way,

  204. this is what Scripture says. I hate every false way. It takes

  205. up your time, it spoils your day, it dirties your car. But

  206. if we take the right way or no problem, and we reach where we

  207. want to go, pack the car, go up to church, everything is

  208. fine. So then we ask ourself this question, So what is the right

  209. path? Then? What is the right path? I'm going to tell you

  210. something that you already know. But seriously, guys, this is what God

  211. wants and we had better get with the program. If you don't remember anything

  212. of what I'm going to share with you, remember this, which is something

  213. we all know. It's what God wants. Matthew twenty eight nineteen. Go

  214. therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

  215. Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe

  216. all things that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you

  217. always, even to the end of the age. I want you to know.

  218. You know why the word amen is in yellow, because I wanted to

  219. highlight it. We have always shared this word, right, Oh Lord,

  220. behold, I'm with you until the end of the age. How many of

  221. us when we call the descriptures say amen? You know what amen's means.

  222. Let it be so, let it be done. In other words, what

  223. is Jesus saying? He's saying, I want you to share Jesus, and

  224. that's what I want you to do. So do it? So do it.

  225. Hey, when we meet the Lord one day, he is not going

  226. to ask us how many children we raised. He may ask did you bring

  227. them up in the ways of the Lord? He may ask did you disciple

  228. them? Oh? No, Lord, I was busy making money. I

  229. actually left the school to teach them. I sent them to Christian school,

  230. you know, so they could learn about you. Oh really, you think

  231. you can give God that can answer? Oh? Lord, you know I

  232. was very successful in my job, I became the CEO internationally. My name

  233. was in Who's Who. Then Jesus asks you, is your name written in

  234. the Lamb's Book of Life? Hey, there's only one book we need our

  235. names in, and that's in the Lamb's Book of Life. You know how

  236. we get our names written in the Lamb's Book of Life? We do what

  237. God wants. You know? The Bible says Jesus says for God to love

  238. the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in

  239. him should not perish, but have ever last thing. Why and well,

  240. we are we accepted Jesus, We called him into our hearts to be our

  241. Lord and savior, and we are saved. But is that the end of

  242. it? God wants us to do something with that salvation. He doesn't want

  243. us to just keep it to ourselves, because what is that? That is

  244. selfish nurse. If he wanted to keep it to he would not have given

  245. us this. If he just wanted it for us to keep it to ourselves,

  246. this would not have been his last statement before he went up, Hey,

  247. or one of his last statements before he went up. Can we have

  248. a mind to share? With people. On Thursday. I had this burning

  249. thing in my heart to see my parents. So I think it was Friday,

  250. Thursday or Friday last week, one of these days. No, no,

  251. no, it was even the public holiday, so it would be Tuesday.

  252. I went to see my folks. I want to see both my parents,

  253. and then of course they inclined and I spoke to my dad about that

  254. letter I wrote, because I actually found a letter again. I found a

  255. letter that I wrote to him eight years ago, sharing with him the love

  256. of Christ and putting a prayer in there that he would pray every day to

  257. receive, you know, and to keep his life in the Lord. Now

  258. they come from a traditional faith. It doesn't matter what faith you come from.

  259. You can even come from the Christian faith. But if you're not given

  260. your life over to Jesus with your own mouth, there's a question mark.

  261. So I shared with my father and mother and I said, guys, you

  262. are not getting any younger. I actually told my parents that you and I

  263. will live each and every day, each additional day, by the grace and

  264. the power and the love of God. It's a gift. So I told

  265. them it is my sincere desire that you be sure that when you are ready

  266. to leave this earth, you meet Jesus as a friend. And there's only

  267. one way that happens, and that's to give your life to him, to

  268. confess his name upon your lips, to believe that he died and he rose

  269. again. And I know you believe. I told him, you believe in

  270. God, believe also in Jesus. And I let both of them in the

  271. salvation prayer which they both prayed, and the fervency in which my father prayed.

  272. It. I was very encouraged. And then my mom said, you

  273. know what, I pray to Jesus every day. I thank him every day

  274. for the life that he has given me and for the help that is giving

  275. me. And I told her that's the way. Aha, aha, I

  276. like it. Go for it. You gotta make it that way. You

  277. gotta thank Jesus, you gotta acknowledge him. How many of us have loved

  278. once that we have not shared with It's not easy sometimes, but you know,

  279. with each and every time you share Jesus, it becomes easier. You

  280. know, it becomes easier because you're telling them something good man where they want

  281. to take it, or they don't want to take it. There's their business.

  282. If I know, I just read, I just read the best one

  283. time me is in a little shop in Bido. How many have you read

  284. that on Facebook? So it seems that you know this. You read that.

  285. It seems it's fantastic. So we're going to be traveling, you know,

  286. in about in about two months time. So I've already put this in

  287. the group saying, now mine is just five minutes from the NKV. Let's

  288. go try it. Let's go try it just before EPO. Okay, So

  289. that's what they say, it's the best. So somebody posted the article.

  290. If you like it, you take it. LA, I'm sharing something good.

  291. You want to receive it, you receive it, LA, you do

  292. want to receive it, don't receive it. So that's what it is about

  293. sharing. Jesus, I got something good I want to share with you.

  294. You want to learn about it? Great, you do want to learn about

  295. it? Your business. I'm not pushed and I'm not gonna fall to pieces.

  296. Hey, God, on the days when I fall to pieces, when

  297. somebody doesn't accept the Lord, he's their choice. What is my responsibility?

  298. My responsibility is to do what God wants. And what does God want he

  299. wants me to share. Doesn't it seem like that is the theme of every

  300. message you've been receiving of late, that all may know, that only know

  301. what how fantastic you are, how fantastic I am. No that all may

  302. know Jesus, that all may know Jesus. So it's so difficult to share,

  303. right, it's so difficult to share. You can go to the next

  304. light. Wow, so difficult to witness. Hey, you like these slides

  305. on? Not thank you? I was so boredered the same or PowerPoint slides.

  306. So I asked somebody why you're slide so nicer? So they say slide

  307. go. So I went to slide go and huh yeah, So I tried

  308. listen. Even I'm surprised at the outcome. Okay, sour, praise the

  309. Lord. H It's so difficult to witness, So it's easy to say,

  310. you got to go out it witness. I got to give you a handle.

  311. How do you do this? You know, it's so easy for me

  312. to stand here like on a soapbox and say, oh, we must do

  313. this, we must do without telling you how I'm wasting your time. So

  314. I don't want to waste your time. In Psalms one one nine thirty four

  315. says, give me understanding, and I shall keep your law indeed, indeed,

  316. as as Jean luc Picard would say, indeed, okay, I shall

  317. observe it with my whole heart. Hey, we're not supposed to do it

  318. on our on our own. You know, we were never supposed to do

  319. it on our own. We were never supposed to be able to manage this

  320. on our own. You see, we always thought that we had to do

  321. it right. Wrong. It's not just us. Scripture says, give me

  322. understanding. Who are we talking to me? Talking to God? God?

  323. Give me understanding? How do I share? Talk badminton? Huh? Badminton

  324. is gonna save somebody? Yeah? And I talked badminton and the guy understood,

  325. I shall keep your law. You know, how we keep God's law

  326. is when we understand correctly. So how we understand correctly? We ask God?

  327. God helped me understand. So now we begin to understand correctly and guess

  328. what we're able to keep his law? What is his law? What is

  329. he? What does he want? I want you to share? I want

  330. you to witness? And what does it say? I shall observe it?

  331. With my whole heart. You were not meant to be evangelists, because some

  332. are men to be evangelists, but not all of us are meant to be

  333. evangelists. But you know what, we are all meant to be witnesses.

  334. So nobody is asking us to share to a ten thousand people, Share to

  335. the one, share to the one. When was the last time we invited

  336. our neighbor to homes? Would we even think of inviting our neighbor to homes?

  337. Why this isn't our neighbor need to know? Jesus when we learn that

  338. understanding, Now every time we see a neighbor, we're looking with eyes to

  339. invite that person to homes. We were the most quiet people in our neighborhood.

  340. I think people didn't even realize who we were because we're come in,

  341. we go very quiet, seen and not heard. We were seen and not

  342. heard, but in our case, we were also not seen. But now

  343. things are changing. Even as I do my walks, you know, I

  344. see a lot of people and I say good morning, Hi, hello.

  345. You know, I see some old ladies walking and say how are you today?

  346. Then the Lord has put in my heart one lady which I see,

  347. she's not, so she doesn't look so healthy, and she walks really slow.

  348. And she told me I can barely walk one round. You've gone so

  349. many rounds already. So I'm waiting to talk to her. The next time

  350. I bump me to her, I will tell her start first with going to

  351. the next lamp posts and the next lamp post, and then one day I

  352. will tell her, why didn't you come to our homes and meet us so

  353. that we can pray with you? Yeah, because the worst that can ever

  354. happen is she will say, no, I'll live. I'll live. In

  355. Isaiah chapter eleven, verse two, it says the spirit of the Lord shall

  356. rest upon him, and the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of

  357. counsel and might, and the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the

  358. Lord. You know, when we don't witness, we are telling God we

  359. don't fear you. Is that frightening? He should be, because we're not

  360. doing the one thing that God has asked us to do. So it's no

  361. longer an excuse. I'm afraid, I'm shy. He's already given you the

  362. He's already given you the way. What's the way? The way is asking

  363. God for understanding. And when you ask the Lord for understanding, the Bible

  364. says, the spirit of the Lord will rest upon him who is the him

  365. that's Jesus, But that Jesus is actually whatever the Father has given to Jesus.

  366. Jesus says, he's given to us. So the spirit of wisdom and

  367. understanding, enough counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear

  368. of the Lord. These are the things that help us understand how to do

  369. what God wants us to do. So now we've prayed and we've asked the

  370. Lord God give us understanding. We've prayed and we've asked the Lord, help

  371. us to do it, help us to reach out, help us to share,

  372. help us to know what to say. We've asked the Lord. Right,

  373. then, I want to tell you this to seal it. In Proverbs

  374. three, verses five and six says trust in the Lord with all of your

  375. heart, and lean on on on your understanding in all your ways. Acknowledge

  376. him, and he shall make your path straight. Trust in the Lord with

  377. all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. Hey, the

  378. mystic the problem was always how we understood. Bible is saying trust in the

  379. Lord. And then it says, in all our in all your ways,

  380. acknowledge him, and he shall direct direct your paths. It says, in

  381. all your ways, acknowledge him, and he shall direct your Lord. I'm

  382. going to share to this guy, and he said, he wants to see

  383. you before he accepts the Lord. Lord. He doesn't have much time left,

  384. he doesn't have long to live. How do I get through? I

  385. don't know what to say. I don't know how to say. You know

  386. what I was doing. I was acknowledging God. Say God, you have

  387. the answer and you can help me. And then the Lord gave badminton.

  388. But the Lord didn't stop there. So this man wanted to see Jesus.

  389. So when I was sharing with him, I said, look around. You

  390. see all the people who are there who are caring for you right now.

  391. They are Jesus. They are doing it because they love Jesus. They're doing

  392. it because Jesus is in your heart. So if you want to see Jesus,

  393. he has been with you all along. Just look around the people who

  394. are caring for you. He shall direct your path. Trust in the Lord

  395. with all of your heart. The word heart here means the inner man,

  396. your mind, your will, your heart, Trust in the Lord with your

  397. inner man, not the outer man that fears, not the outer man that

  398. sees things around him, the inner man. You know, as I was

  399. going to that hospital, going up to share, it started to rain so

  400. heavily, and I was gonna get wet in my heart. I just said

  401. this, Lord, nothing is going to stop me if I have to get

  402. wet. It's all right. Umbrella don't work. That can aren my desert

  403. not having umbrella. By the time you open you umbrella, you already.

  404. So I don't like umbrellas you know, you open the car, you trime.

  405. By that time already you're inside the car. So you are so so

  406. the inner man, the mind, your will, and your heart. You

  407. gotta trust in God with all of this. And it says lean not on

  408. your own understanding. You know what is lean on? Don't support yourself with

  409. your understanding. You know when you're tired, and how many you would lean

  410. against the wall like this? How many we ever lean on the wall like

  411. this when you're tired. Sure, hence it helps, right, Scripture is

  412. saying that kind of help you don't need. You don't lean on your own

  413. understanding because you're understanding. We discussed earlier on maybe right, maybe wrong can

  414. be flawed. So when we see ourselves not hitting the mark, not getting

  415. the target right, we have an indication. Why is an understanding correct and

  416. are we leaning on the wrong way? Then the Bible says, with all

  417. of your heart, we have this trouble with the word all because we always

  418. like to reserve a little bit. Creg You always want to have a reserve.

  419. But God's in it. He's all in it. He's in it all

  420. the way. God doesn't give you half measures. He gives you full measure,

  421. full measures. So when you trust in the Lord, it's either all

  422. or not. There's no other word to describe all than the whole all.

  423. You know. You go to Hebrew, you go to Greek, you study

  424. the word all. You know what it means all. No fantastic thing I

  425. got to share about that. It's very clear, and it says you don't

  426. lean on your own understanding, but to lean is to support oneself. So

  427. you want to get it right. You want to see that person come to

  428. the Lord. You want to see your sharing make a difference. You want

  429. to see people get saved. You want to see your loved ones give their

  430. heart to the Lord. What the scripture say you have to support yourself on

  431. what on the Lord. Scripture also says you acknowledge the Lord. What does

  432. it mean by to acknowledge the Lord? It means to know acknowledge the Lord

  433. in all of your ways. Give glory to God. Always mention the Lord.

  434. Let the Lord know every step you take that song is coming to mind.

  435. Every step okay, every step you take is ordered by the Lord.

  436. Acknowledge the Lord in everything. God, I'm going it's raining, Praise the

  437. Lord. You want to stop the rain. I'm happy you don't want to

  438. stop the rain. It's not going to change the way I do things.

  439. I acknowledge you Lord. You're greater than the rain. You're greater than getting

  440. wet. You're greater than the summ of my knowledge. You're greater than because

  441. my knowledge will not get this person safe, but the power of your Holy

  442. Spirit. It's going to reach out. Remember the scription whose power power the

  443. Holy Spirit, and the Bible says, acknowledge the Lord in all of your

  444. ways, and he will make your path straight. You know what this word

  445. means straight. He will make your path smooth. Have you heard the statement

  446. smooth sailing. Ah, Sir, I don't want to get into smooth operator.

  447. Okay, smooth sailing. He will make your part smooth. He will

  448. make your path straight. And I love this one. He will make your

  449. path right. Yeah, that's what this word means. How many of us

  450. want to be on the right path. You want to be on the right

  451. path. Acknowledge the Lord in all of you always, and you will be

  452. on the right puff. Totally unrelated. Well, it seems unrelated, but

  453. it's related. I want to share this with you. In Acts sixteen twenty

  454. eight to thirteen, it says that but Poor called with a loud voice,

  455. saying, do yourself no harm, for we are all here. Then he

  456. called for a light and ran in and fell down trembling before Paul in Silas.

  457. And he brought them out and said, sir, what must I do

  458. to be saved? You know what read the story comes from paul in Silas.

  459. They were worshiping, They were praising the Lord. They were acknowledging the

  460. Lord in the prison, in the darkness, in the deep dungeons. When

  461. the Lord showed up, shook the prison. The chains for off, the

  462. doors fell off, and the prisoner, the prison keeper, the warden,

  463. the what is he um? Well, the man who was looking, you

  464. know, the guardian of the prison was about to kill himself. And Paul

  465. said, don't for we are all here. What did scriptures say? He

  466. brought them out. He called for a light, which means it was dark.

  467. How could the man take Paul at his word that they were all there?

  468. Did we ever ask ourself this question? So Paul said, don't do

  469. it. We're all here. Firstly, how did Paul know because it was

  470. dark, no like, How did the man know because it was all dark?

  471. It was all it was dark, it was at night, needed a

  472. light. How did the men know? And how did the men know?

  473. How to say this, sirs? What must I do to be saved?

  474. Hey, guys, When you and I are busy acknowledging Jesus Christ, even

  475. though we are in the deepest and darkest dungeons of our lives, people are

  476. going to recognize that we are saved and they need to be saved. And

  477. they are going to come and tell you, hey, can you share with

  478. me? How can I receive the Lord? And they will take you at

  479. your word because the Holy Spirit will convict their hearts. This man is telling

  480. the truth. I never saw this, and the Lord said, no,

  481. you got to see this. And the question that the Lord asked me was

  482. how did the man believe what Paul said because there was nothing for him to

  483. see. It was by faith at Paul's word, which can only come by

  484. the power of the Holy Spirit when we acknowledge Jesus Christ. We hope you've

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  487. that this week is going to be a good week. I hit for you. God bless