Heaven Rules | Elder Rosalind Ang

You're listening to a message to go from X Church. We hope this message

will light up your team. We've been given the mandate or also the privilege

to share God's word, and every time we share, I come before God

with fear and trembling because it's really not easy to just you know, download

from God and just you know. And I think bass Julian has been also

ut put put on schedule to preach. And I think the seeking the Lord

is the hardest part. You know, you can just flip to any part

of the Bible and say I can teach something. But I think just wanting

to hear from God and say and ask him what do you want to speak

to your church? I think that's the most important part. So um,

And of course you know, if you've been with us for a while in

AXX, you know out the team for our year this year, the team

for X Church, what is it? Yes, okay? And so I'm

gonna give my perspective on this. And of course you know it's taken from

the Book of Daniel, right, who is the main character in the Book

of Daniel? Sorry, who is the main character in the Book of Daniel.

I was looking for the answer. See. Sometimes right, we can

be very familiar. Right we think, okay, this is all about Daniel,

But actually the whole Bible is about the most High God. Amen.

And sometimes we shift our focus just on the humanly part of things and forgot

that actually God is in the big picture. Now. I just want to

declare this first as we go along, and this is from Daniel chapter twenty.

I think it gives us a perspective of who we want to study.

Okay, And this is from Daniel chapter two, Verse twenty says this Daniel

answered and said, blessed be the name of God forever and ever. For

wisdom and might are his. And he changes the times and the seasons.

He removes kings and raises up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and

knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things. He

knows what is in the darkness and light dwells with him. Amen. Amen.

I pray that you will have a perspective of how big and how great

God is, and how everything is from Him, and everything is true Him,

and everything is for Him. Amen. Amen. All right, So,

as I was preparing for this message, and the our thing comes from

Daniel, Chapter four, verse twenty six, Right, and I'm so I

just need to read that to you. And but um so, as before

I go into that, I was also looking up, you know, looking

for inspiration, like what anger, God do you want me to touch on

with this perspective. And of course a lot of things like control can thro

mine, like who is in control of our lives? Honestly we can.

If I can ask you that question, who is in control? All of

you would just say God? Right, we can just say it. But

do we live our lives as do God is really in control? That's my

question right now? How real is this heaven rules in your daily life?

You know it can be just plastered okay, So I mainly attend the subantentity

worship, so there is a whole heaven rule there. You can actually see

it and it can remain plastered on the wall and not change your life.

So so my question is, like, God, how do we and we

live in this world right now? It's full of chaos, it's full of

confusion, it's full of bad news, and we find it very hard to

reconcile this God like Okay, so the world of God says you rule heaven

rules. But then the world doesn't look like it's being ruled by you.

It's full of kids. How do we reconcile the big differences you know in

that we can see? And so, um, I came across this book.

There's actually a book written by this lady called Nancy de Moss and it's

called Heaven Rules. I'm hey wow. Uh And it was I think published

sometime in September twenty twenty two, which was just last year, which is

like just six months ago. Um and very interestingly, um the story and

what caught my eye about this book um so um, they gave you like

free reading for first two chapters. Right. So I was just reading through

it, the one by the book. Yeah right, yos chip skate anyway,

I'm gonna get the book. But but so I was just reading the

first two chapters. Um. And and what was amazing was she started with

this story. She started with this story of this couple that she knows in

ministry. So this lady, I think this year, she's about sixty five

years old, right, um. And and so she's a she's a Bible

teacher, and she she ministers and she's a speaker. Uh. And in

that book. She started with this story of this couple called Katie and Nathan,

and in sometime in twenty twenty one, she was due expecting her baby,

and it was I think four days before due date, right, I

know x clang is very fro Fullum, many many children here. I think

you guys have the largest X kids contingent powerful. So you are fulfilling God's

command for you be from full and multiply and conquered x clang, right,

conquered clang for the Lord. So um, yeah, I guess. So

they this, this couple was expecting this child and suddenly, you know,

she felt like, okay, it's time. Four days before due data,

four day before edd she rushed it. Um. And and so they were

um rejoicing right like baby's gonna come ready, yes, uh. And and

in one of the texts that was sent by the grandma who was also at

the hospital, UM, it says that, um, Heaven rules, Samuel

is here, right. So they actually wrote it on the board. If

you go into a labor room, there's all these white boards there and this

was plastered there. But what happened was, um, there was no movement,

nothing could be felt. And actually that's why she went to the hospital,

This lady Um and and so so, this lady Nancy, the author

of the book. Um. She she got the text Um and and her

heart sank right hearing the news that there is no movement at all in the

womb. And true enough, Um delivered a stillboard for day before fullness of

life. And here she is, Um. She she runs this ministry called

Revive Our Hearts, Uh and and so and and they've been using this team

Heaven Rules for a few years now. In this kind of situation, in

Jason's situation between life and death, how do you declare that Heaven rules real

or not very real, very real? And as she was in pain for

this couple, it wasn't even her, Um, She's just wondering, like,

God, how, how how is this? I cannot reconcile. Our

minds can't reconcile. Um. You know when situations like that happened. And

she said that as they mourned together with this couple, Um, and I'm

going to read to you Um, as they were conducting the funeral for this

child, and this child was called Samuel, this is what the statement of

faith that was given by the parents, and that these words were said,

our precious Samuel Ethan, that's the child. Your first name means God has

hurt, and your middle name means strong safe. We had no idea when

God led us to that name how perfect it would be for you. You

are now completely strong and safe in the arms of God who hurt our prayers?

How do parents in that situation began to even remember that Heaven rules?

In that situation of the deepest pain and anguish and grief, Heaven rules because

whether we like it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not, in

our lives, God is in control. He's sovereign. Amen, he is

sovereign and so so that really hit a court in me. I'm like,

God, do I live my life like that? I know for many of

us, many of us, right, there is no such big drama happening

on a daily basis, Thank God, right. I know some of us

have a bit more drama than usual. Jason just went through a huge drama.

But what do we do every day as a Christian that will prepare us

to live life as though Heaven really rules? And there will be big situations

like that where our faith will be tested, where I'll believe will be tested

to the brink, you know. And and so right now we want to

walk in faith every day and saying God, I just need to practice this

right now. When things are good, I can say Heaven rules. But

when things are in crisis, more can I still say Heaven rules? Right?

And this is what Nancy says, you know, So this is a

quote that I took from her. If actually we can help me with us,

like she says, it's Heaven rules right. This is the title of

a book, she says this. It means that he is sovereign over everything

that touches us, that nothing comes to us unbidden by his desire to use

it for our good and for his glory and for the greater things he created

us to be part of. He is ruler over every diagnosis and prognosis,

over all incomes and outcomes, over the most daunting challenges, as well as

the most seemingly trivial details of our lives. Man, doesn't the lady look

beautiful? Reminds you of someone here? Yeah? I think Margaret, woman

of faith, a woman of stature. But what truth? Right? What

truth? And And as we go in our daily lives, this has to

become a truth to us. It cannot just become a like um, uh,

you know something on the wall. I said that. But it has

to be the reality that we look through lenses things from. It has to

be a conviction that you and I carry, um, And it has to

be a perspective that we take. So today we're gonna put on this perspective.

Right, how do I know? Um? And in Daniel Chapter four,

verse twenty six, this is where I'm coming from, um and um.

So this is what it says. And inasmuch as they gave the command

to leave the stumb and roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be assured

to you after you come to know that Heaven rules. So the context was

King Nabuchenza, right. So I think you have heard many times of this

story. I will not go into it of how King Nabuchnezza was humble after

he you know, he went on a whole glory pride of himself. But

the prophecy given to him was your kingdom shall be assured to you after you

come to know. And this would after you come to know really stood out

at me, because we can see Heaven rules, but before Heaven can rule,

even in our own lives, we have to come to know first.

Many of us have knowledge we know here, but do we truly know that

Heaven rules? Right? Um? And it's it's the process of knowing.

So this would know right. I'm sure you've heard or been thought before this,

this would know right. It's an intimate knowledge between a person, husband

and wife when you when husband knew the wife, then a child is conceived.

That's how intimate the world know is. But do we know the God

that we serve? Do we know him or do we think we know something

about him? Right? And this process of knowing him to me right now

is a daily action of putting on the right perspective, right, putting on

the right perspective of how we see things. Now, Okay, I'm gonna

try to put on a perspective sorry, all mixed up, right, and

and in life nice right, nice one retro retro right. So this is

like a fancy outlook that we put on in life. And this is what

we are used to if you live life, or maybe the last thirty forty

fifty sixty years of your life. And this is probably the most natural perspective

that we've taken. And this is the world's perspective. Right, It's like,

Okay, what's the purpose of your life? I don't know. Find

a good partner, get a good job, you know, buy a big

house and then move on to a bigger house, have two dogs, preferably

huskies, you know, and and go on nice holidays. Once you've achieved

all that, then do it again, right more, try to achieve financial

freedom by the time you're forty years old. Okay. We put on this

perspective, and social media has given us great perspectives, right, very fancy,

like wow, holiday here, holiday everyone's gone to Japan recently? I

think, did I hear any court here Japan? Coreer or whatever? Lah?

Do all this I'm not saying it's bad. Okay, Please don't hear

what I'm saying. What I'm not saying. Please don't hear what I'm not

saying. My doctor already when I say something, she's like, oh,

so you mean and like that is I'm like, please, don't fit into

it. R We like to jump into conclusion and think that's what we're saying.

Right. So, so all these perspectives we put on in life,

right without knowing that actually it has no impact on what we see in reality.

So many of these things that we put on. The perspective is wordly

perspective, and we wonder why our lives don't see change. We wonder why

our lives don't see transformation, and what we wonder why our lives don't see

the power of God working. Right? We are still stuck, there's still

a ceiling, there is no breakthrough. We are still in our habits,

our addictions, and there is no growth. We wonder why. Because this

lenses, this perspective that you take on, it's not going to change how

you view things, and the things that you see will be very, very

blurred. So um, I am actually short sighted. Short sight that means

I can see near right, but when it's a bit further, I can't

see anything already. Right. So when I many times in life right,

we look at our situations, we look at our challenges from a very near

perspective, and we see like, okay, yeah, it's it's it's there.

It's it's hard. You know, I don't like this. I want

to change my boss. I want to change whatever, you know, change

my family, change my spouse. Oh, because spouse very close, right,

And when when very close, you see all the flaws, you know,

all the pimples, all the open pores. So we see things very

very closely, and we find that, yeah, I just want out right,

But do you realize that to actually look from God's perspective, you actually

need something with power. And actually these are my actual glasses with power in

it, which I don't use. I wonder why, oh, I suddenly

see you're very clearly suddenly a suddenly, this is the lenses of heaven rules.

When we can begin to actually put on God's perspective, which has power

in it, I'm beginning to see a bigger picture from a further distance.

But I need to see a bigger picture in life. We often are so

drowned in our immediate circumstances that we forget that, actually, God, you

are in control. You know that there's wars and rumors of wars, prizes

are going up everywhere in that country, and we think, God, are

you still there? Hello? God is there. Whether you think he's working

or not, God is working. So we really need to begin to put

on this lenses of heaven rules. And we will go through a bit of

the life of Daniel. But I want us to also be very practical with

how we can continue to put on this lens? Like I said, knowing

God is to every day choose which lens you want to put on? Correct,

No, every day when we wake up in the morning, I can

choose to put on God lenses, or I can choose to put on fancy

or I can choose to not take any perspective and still see things in a

blood every day. It's your choice, it's my choice. And now I

would say that all of us are very shortsighted human beings. We're all shortsighted.

We need glasses with power, We need help with our perspective. So

how do we continue to put on this lenses? Right? So, learning

from Daniel's life, we will go through a little bit of how how can

this young people? Young men? And we might think of it it's just

a story in the Old Testament, But no, these are real lives,

real stories of people who made that stance, who every day chose to put

on god leanss. And that's why their stories are written in the world of

God to help us to say, God, we also can put on this

lancs and then we can see you at work. Do you know that God

is working? It's just whether we choose to see it or not. God

is working, whether you accept it or not. Even for the nonbelievers,

right, whether they can accept that God is working or our God is working,

God is still sovereign. God is in control. We just we know

how the story ends. But sometimes we forget, right, So how do

we remember? All? Right? So let's go to the first part.

Putting on heaven rules soum so in the book? Right? Then then say

the moss Also she coins is what HR? Right? And some of you

work in HR. And when you think about HR, you think about human

resources? Correct? Correct? Many times in life we put on HR answers.

So it's called human resource. It's called who can I tend to for

help? It's called like what can I do on my own my own strength?

It's it's really human resource? Right, But God is saying hey,

hello, hello, hello. Do you know that I have given you heavenly

resources? We only think about human resource? Why do you only think about

human resource? Course we forget. We need to take a step back and

say, God, there is a heavenly resource that you've given me. There's

a new HR. It's heaven rules. So putting on this heaven rules perspective

really helps. And let's go to Daniel. Okay, chapter one. So

chapter one in itself, you can see that the first thing that we need

to do every day, every day, guys, every day. Number one,

acknowledge You. Don't just acknowledge God on a Sunday. Don't just you

know, leave God here in this room and then you go about your daily

life and thinking like, oh yeah, yeah, human resource, human resource,

think about God, Acknowledge him, bring him into your workplace before you

go for that meeting with that tough client. Can you acknowledge God? You

say, already Heaven rules, you are going to rule over this meeting.

How about that? Isn't that practical? Don't just leave it as a concept

here, Bring God into your everyday. So consensus, it's we need to

look up first before we can see God at work. Right, And sometimes

we're all looking down, or we're all looking on our phones. Maybe take

some time out from your phona and look up and say, God, I

acknowledge you. And you can see this in Daniel's own life, right from

sixteen years old, he already acknowledged God, and he says, I am

living in a pagan world. We all are don't forget that we don't belong

to this world. We belong to a heavenly kingdom. Please remember that.

Yeah, we forget and we think that everything that we work for is for

this life. Sorry, it's temporary. You need It's like a visit.

You go to your mind, have a go holiday and you come back Earth

is like that, it's temporary. But we think that everything in this is

finite final, there's a finiteness to it, and we think that's the end.

That that's not the gospel. Right, we need to understand that this

is just a stop over. Stop over on me. Guys, don't get

too comfortable. Please know that you have a final destination, right. Acknowledge

him and he purposed in his heart radio. When you go on a holiday,

right, you're like, Okay, I can enjoy and see things there,

but you don't unpack there. You don't say that, Okay, law,

I'm just going to assimilate into the culture. I'm gonna just eat their

food, worship your gods. That's what it's gonna lead to. Once you

get very comfortable in this world, you will begin to think like the world.

You begin to enjoy the things of the world. But Daniel set his

heart. He purposed in his heart not to defile himself. What are the

things in our lives that is defiling us right now? Right? I think

there are some things that we need to set right. And firstly it's to

say, just God, I just need to acknowledge you. I need to

bring you into this situation. Relationships, our marriages, our parenting, we

depend on human resource. Right, Let's come back to the heavenly resource,

God's wisdom, God's leading, God's will. Everything is seen through the lenses

of the Word of God. Can can we begin to do that? And

I cannot over emphasize your time with God in the world because we cannot tap

into the power without time in the world. Everything is through the lenses of

the world. Begin to view your lives through not what your friends say,

through not what your social media says about you, through not what your parents

say about you, true what God says, the Word of God. I

cannot over emphasize the Word of God. You want to know the will of

God, the Word of God for our lives, the Word of the Word,

the Word the Word. If there's anything that you want to go away

with today is like I need to acknowledge God's word in my life every day.

Acknowledge God's word. You know. We just had our homes last weekend,

you know, and we went into quiet time word of God. It's

not enough to Yes, we need to praise and worship and all that good,

but you need to feed yourself with the word of God. If you

want to be strong and you want to go the long way, exclaim word

of God, Word of God, Word of God. Just a forty minute

session. You're not enough every day. You need to go into God's Word

on your own. Feed herself, feed your spirit, acknowledge God. Right.

So that's that's um, how we acknowledge God. And you can see

in the Lives chapter one, chapter two, chapter three Daniel in the Book

of Daniel chapter two, after the you know, the king received that dream,

right, and he says, okay, y'all must tell me the dream

and interpreted for me. Sayla, have you ever been in a situation?

Right? A lot of situations? Um. By the way, Nancy when

she was writing that book, I know her. Let a Nancy, Sorry,

there's Nancy here, um um. But but she she um. She

got married when she was in the late fifties or sixties. Yeah, yeah

to this author Robert something anyways. But um, when she got married,

the husband was diagnosed with two types of cancer. Alama, right, like

so drama her life, huh, But that's when they also sit through the

cancers, through all the hospital business, through all the chemo treatments. Heaven

rules. That's why she wrote there, through every diagnosis and prognosis. Did

you see now how real that is to her. She's not just saying,

you know what heaven rules are. Yeah, it's just a nice sticker to

put on your car. But she lived through everything with the lenses of heaven

rules. She's like, God, my life, oh my death is unto

you Heaven rules. You are in control God. I want to tell you

guys. God is in control. He is sovereign. Don't think that he

doesn't know what you're going through. That is the lie of the enemy.

Don't think that your troubles are so small, so trivial, so insignificant,

that he doesn't care. God knows, He thinks a thousand thoughts to you

every day. Do you think like that to your husband or your wife?

No, right to my kids know a lot, maybe three thoughts. I

love you, okay, But God is thinking about constantly. He's working things

out for you and me to walk this life of faith so that we will

reach the finishing line. Do you know God wants all of us to reach

the finishing line? Amen? If you doubt that, then that's a lie

of the enemy. God doesn't want us just to finish, reach the finishing

lie. God wants many more, Amen, not just us. Please don't

forget uh that as we live this life we think about it's just about me.

No, sorry, it's actually really not about you. Remember, it's

about the most high God in our lives. So acknowledging God right and and

you read every so now I challenge you are every time you read the word

of God. If you see something of God working, you put their hr

then you will remember this is where I see God move. And if you

journal your life, you can also see where God is reigning and sovereign the

omn big one. But only the big ones? What about the small?

The fact that we are here today, safe and sound, healthy. Heaven

rules. When you leave this place and you go back into your world.

I don't I don't know what your world is, but Heaven rules, whether

we acknowledge it or not. I would say, let's begin to acknowledge God.

Amen, they're acknowledging. That's something for us, not for him.

This is to help us. We need to acknowledge God, come to Him.

And when they were threatn then um they went the six mercies from God

and right, everything they do is like God. First, every instance there's

a trouble God. First, let me give you an example. So,

um, you know this very real, something very trivial. But we've been

trying to renew passports because we also want to go holiday for our kids.

You know, the adults you can do it online right, registration online,

but for the kids you have to go over the counter and all that,

and so being busy and all that and and school holiday. So um,

we went to like UTC like learning from all the mmies. Check their out.

By the way, if your mom and you're you're not in a check

group yet, please come. Okay, you learn a lot from there.

And so I look at all the advice given. Uh, okay, this

is what you do. Some go in the evenings and you can throw advice.

Go to UTC about for something. They open until like seven eight o'clock.

Sure can get numbered and do it within and how I'm like, okay,

that's what we want to do. Right when all the way to sun

to UTC, Sorry, no number, no number, the mummy's change number.

I know at this time. Then they're like, oh wrong USUCA.

We went to two UTCs. Okay, drove the other side, and then

at the second UTC, the kind officers said school holiday. Lad, that's

a number of finish already. I'm okkk. So then the following weeks school

holidays. School holidays over already, right, it's actually this week. So

we then we set up again like much I'm going to wall and I know,

trying to just do your passport. I'm like, God help us.

In Malaysia anyways, went to one and Javada Immigration. So many people okay,

were more people going on holiday. Then they are in church suddenly that

just came to me they need Jesus amen. So so anyway, went in

full of people. I'm like a lama can power. Went to the counter

and then they're like, sorry, number finished at nine o'clock in the morning.

That time was four pm. I'm like, thank Jesus, Okay,

we wait where he missed out the normal glaring um and then then final shot

la final shot. Otherwise you also don't know when because the things that the

kids need to be present and got school and all that in the morning,

how to go and then Saturdays you can forget it. Long queue, right,

perpetually long queue. So we're like, okay, fine, um.

And then as we drove to cha lam by the way, that's um.

We went there and and I I started like, why am I being so

silly about this? Right? I said, God, you you rule,

you rule, even over something as simple as renewing our passports. So I

prayed, um. And then we're all quiet in the carla. I don't

know when we'll ever get you know, you come to the point of frustration

already. And then reached that, of course, no more number la,

right, it's ready for something. Of course that even the counter was too

already right, no more guilera. I'm like, okay, fine. Then

I went to the officer at the counter. I'm like, so, actually,

what time we should come on to get the number right? He's like,

oh yo, but normally about then o'clock line in the morning. I'm

like, how low the kids? No holiday? Okay, you're just at

home? Um. And and and then I was like oh we already went

to like three four etcs and you know cannot And he's like, oh,

um, documentara, I did documentary. You're waiting Um okay, um about

you're not going for to state this and that and and in the instant,

a straight copyright will bring the kids out right now because right now and and

so we got it done. We didn't want and half hours uh praise God.

But then as we were driving home, then um, we were laughing

over the incident. Now okay, looking back, Um, then he's like,

then that I told me, you know, I really prey this perona.

I also brain in a car um. And before that, right,

it didn't occur to us in our daily lives to to bring something as trivial

as that before the Lord, it's just like, okay, you're trying to

do things, you try and do things human resource way right what I think?

I know? How what what advice was being given to me? Uh?

And suddenly to put on these lenses or say God you rule, um,

you reign, right, and what's your life fear? As something as

trivial as that, I started putting on those lenses and in every situation,

so over over this week, every day whenever that there was something that really

hit me, Um, you know, things that didn't go my way,

Um, things with the children, things that work. I was like,

I put on intentionally acknowledging God rule and your reign, and it became a

framework that I began to look at things in life. God, you are

you rule over my homes? You know? Sometimes we go through our homes

and you're like hallama leaders also not there. People also come late. I

don't know whatever things that you may be going through. Heaven rules God,

this is your homes. Are you rule, you reign? I just be

obedient and do what I need to do. It changes me, It changes

me what I see right now. In marriage, I don't know what you

may be going through. And sometimes you might be in marriage for a long

time and find that, oh man, my perspective, it's just that I

hopeless, like this husband, hopeless like this, Why I cannot change?

And then we began to invite God's presence in it, say God, you

rule, you rule over this marriage. Parenting. Recently, we've we've gone

through some challenges with my team, older team, and it's it's a it's

a journey of so so now I can begin to understand the challenge of parenting

a team before that like, oh still very QUI still very good. Then

yeah, there's certain challenges right now that we are like, oh God,

you need to come because I really don't know what else to do. Really.

I try to be kind, I try to be the friend. I

try to want to walk to them, you know, give them what they

like. But some things are deeper than that, and so so we we

had to begin praying and say, God, you rule, you rule over

that life because she's yours, right, I can do everything I can,

and then the rest I have to surrender to Galla, just acknowledging him.

And we know that as we begin that process of acknowledging him more and more

Dayla right, because it's not I don't like to wear these facts because it's

ma fun, you know, it's marfun or not. It's very inconvenient,

right, It's just easy to go around and ex see things blurry and still

think like everything's okay, La, I can still drive my I arrive in

clink right, And maybe we are not used to it learning to put on

these lenses. Most of you hear who wear glasses for a long time.

It's second nature to you. Right. I pray that as we move on

exclaimed this journey in life, that putting on this Heaven rules lenses will be

so natural to you. Amen. Amen, I declare that over you that

every day now, from this day forward, putting on this Heaven rules lenses

will be so natural to you that you begin to see everything from God's perspective.

And that's how we learned to working confidence. Many of us are not

confident in our faith. Yesterday we were at Salt, which is our leader's

training, and one of the leadership this very honestly, and I was really

encouraged by her on a sheaf because she said this. You know, as

a young working adult after a while, you know, when you're a campus

student, ra rara, my faith and all that, right, do all

things rebel da da da. And then when you come into your working world,

you're hit with challenges. You're hit with real financial challenges, struggles,

you're hit with managing people whom you don't like on a day to day basis.

And what she realized was her own faith begin to shrink. Right,

she's not as bold as before. Oh, my God works. Can I

pray for you that bonus has shrunk back in the face of what we think

is reality. Right, people don't believe you, like, yeah, you

know what you say, you're a Christian, but your life is still a

mess. Right where we entertain those kind of perspective and say, yeah,

God, my life also not like you know, I am the richest person

inclining. Therefore I have a voice to say something. We have those kind

of lenses that says, I need riches, I need success, I need

power to be able to speak God's word. My own marriage is a mess.

How do I speak life into your marriage? Correct? And that's why

we don't speak. We begin a shrink band and we look at our problems,

and our problems become bigger and bigger. And she said this, I

need to speak more faith in my situation. I need to be bold again.

And the only reason we can be bold again east when begin to put

on the right lenses. The right lenses has power and we begin to see

things through God's way and the bonus comes from it. The bonus, you

know, like when you are not sure of something to walk. You know,

if let's say there's a drain, right, a monsoon drain, and

if you're as blind as Jason without his glasses, would you leap or not?

Would you there leap or not? No, when you begin to put

on the right lenses and you can see and you can gauge, and then

you begin to leap right. But God says, also look before you know.

The world calls us, look before you leap right. But with Jesus

way, it's like you leap first, and you trust it. I will

catch you. Trust it, I will catch you. Amen. So that's

the first one to acknowledge God, and God, in his goodness and his

faithfulness will answer Amen. So there is the heavenly response. You know that

we want to heal from God. There is a human part that we play,

but there is also a God part. Do you see this. It's

a dynamic relationship with God. Amen. God is not there. Yeah.

So there's things that Daniel is doing, purposing in his heart, setting himself

right, seeking God, and then God is looking from heaven and he answers.

And it says that in chapter one, verse nine, God brought Daniel

into the favor and good will of the chief of the eunuchs. And you

know that's how he actually was given the favor to not eat right in the

testing and all that. So God, in his mercies is always working things

out for a semen. There's always an answer from God. And you know

that when Daniel they prayed to God and say, God, you know,

give us the interpretation of the dream and the dream itself. God revealed the

answer in a dream, in a vision at night. So God always answers

um in us. Now, the second part of how we actually put on

this heaven rused lenses right. First one is acknowledging, May man, let's

begin to learn and acknowledge God in every part of our lives. The second

one is is getting acquainted with tests. This one like not so nice?

Um And and I recently I've been talking to different ones and I think there's

a myth and there's a mindset among Christians that says, if I am a

Christian, I should have no problems in my life. How many of you

believe that if I'm a Christian, if I'm a Bible believing up here it

feel Christian, I should have zero problems in my life. How many of

you believe that? None of you? Because you know reality is, life

is full of challenges, Life will be full of tests. Get used to

it because it is. You know, we always say this, right,

It is true the test that the testimonies come for. So why is it

that every time when we get into a challenge, right, we are like,

we get annoyed. We're like, God, why you? Why?

Why you allow me to go through this straight away? Who gets the blamer?

God? Right? Because no one else will blame her. We can't

blame anything else except him. Um, But know that God uses this test.

He doesn't sometimes he doesn't, Okay, So I have to carveet there.

Sometimes he brings that challenges and test to us. But many times a

lot of this test is allowed so that we can begin to build that character.

You know, fire reveals you put under fire. Fire reveals you your

character, your patience or your impatience, your love or your unkindness, your

control, self control or lack of self control. It's just what it is.

It reveals, right. And then sometimes you say, God, give

me more self control, and then He's like, okay, gives a little

test straight away we lose. But getting acquainted with tests and you see see

in the life of Daniel and his three friends right, full of challenges.

Correct. It was not a smooth sailing journey. In their lives. In

fact, Daniel lived through seventy years of his work life in four kingdoms.

Right, and they were all evil kings. You have an evil boss.

Now you want to work an It's it's not to say it's gonna be easy,

guys, So don't be despaired, don't be discouraged when you are facing

challenges. It's gonna be okay, Amen, it's gonna be all right.

Put on the heaven rules lenses, say God, even in this dire situation,

even in this medical condition, you rule your reign over my body,

oh, my family's body, oh my parent's body. You rule in this

issue of parenting, your rule in this financial issue. You rule. That

is our act of surrendering unto God daily daily, daily. And when we

become acquainted with this challenges, do you know God is so good as we

can see in how he pointed and anointed. Do you know that when Daniel

said, okay, put us to test for ten days, right? But

God la before that, he already gave them this in Verse seventy says God

gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding

in all visions and dreams, God prepared him before before the test. Do

you know that before we go through the test, God has given us what

we need for the tests. Amen, Before you go for any test,

you would have been prepared, or you should be preparing for that test.

Nobody goes into a test not knowing today is mathematic or sciens? Is it

standard one syllabis or for one syllabers. I don't know exactly, Lovinger,

because she just finished an exam. You know what you will be tested on.

God will have prepared you already up to this stage of your life for

the tests to come. And in verse twenty it says that in all matters

of wisdom and understanding about which the King examined them, he found them ten

times better than all the magicians and astrologists. God gives you already what you

need ten times better, so that you can withstand ten days of testing ten

years. Maybe some of us I don't know, but you have it in

you to withstand that test, to endure and to overcome that test. Amen.

God is not there to fail you, guys. Please, God is

not there to fail you. He wants to see you pass with flying colors.

We just have to learn to see God, you are really in control

of every situation. And finally that the third part of heaven rules and putting

on this lenses is this. We need to begin to speak just this awareness

of God's presence and power. Sometimes, right, we use our mouth to

say everything else except God's power, God's presence, God's purpose, God's will.

You know, we really have to because the power of life and death

is in our tongues. Yes, so what are we speaking? Would you

begin to speak more and more and declare, even if it's declaring the scriptures,

say it out loud. In fact, I encourage you when you are

reading God's what, would you see it out loud? Read to yourself,

Read to that spirit men within you that needs that encouragement because faith comes by

hearing. So when you are reading to you, your spirit gets encourage.

Read out loud, God's word. Speak it into the atmosphere. Let the

devil shudder as we declare God's what. We are not declaring God's word enough

over our lives. When when you read it in our minds right, our

minds um very distracted. Man, Now you really read help of it?

Then? Um, what's on this book? What's on in the Graham what's

on TikTok? Then then you're then what do I read it again? Just

now? How many of you like that after you finished your devotion time within

that hour? I do. I can't remember what I read that this morning,

but I read something that's not going to change your life. Read it

out loud, Read it repeatedly until it gets into your spirit. Speak it

speak God's word speaking into your the awareness of yourself, you know, like

now now, now, the term is mindfulness, right if you're in the

world long nice like oh my, being mindful of different things, centering your

mind on you know things. But um, the Christian meditation is putting our

focus on God. It's not emptying your minor, not mindfulness, but just

being mindful of God's presence. It's bringing He bring that awareness. And we

can see this clearly in chapter three, as you know what Daniel's three friends

were saying. Um, it says that they say this to the king o

Nebuchans, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that

is the case, our God whom we serve, is able to deliver deliver

us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us from your hand

but if not, let it be known that we do not serve your gods,

nor will we worship the goal image in which you have set up.

Now, this is the crux of the matter. At the end of the

day, whatever that we do, what the devil wants from us, is

our worship. It's as simple as that. Every distraction, every trouble,

every problem, every challenge is to take you away from the true worship of

God. That's it. Because when we are not worshiping God, the King

of kings and the Lord of loss, we are worshiping something else. It's

just that. So are we worshiping our problems? Are we worshiping the challenges?

Are we worshiping our weakness? That's a hard one because sometimes we can

just dwell on our weakness right like, oh God, I cannot this is

me, wol is me? And we begin to worship that God is saying,

hello, are you looking to be because where your eyes is supposed to

be at is worshiped? Unto me? Test yourself every day. Am I

worshiping God? Or am I worshiping me? Am I worshiping God? Or

am I worshiping my problems? Am I worshiping God? Or am I worshiping

my needs. Am I worshiping God? Or am I worshiping my convenience?

Is my comforts, my preferences, my opedionce, what am I worshiping?

Who am I worshiping? This is the crux of the matter. Worship belongs

to God, and God, in his mercies, will answer the heavenly response

when we begin to say, God, I acknowledge you. I will speak

the awareness of your presence and power, and I will worship you and you

alone. This is God's response to us. He gives us this assurance in

Jenna chapter three, twenty five. He says, look, this is the

King. He says, I see four men lose walking in the midst of

the fire, and they are not hurt. And the form of the fourth

is like the son of God. God's assurance to us is that he will

be with us even as we worship him a man. God is with us,

whether you knowledge him or not, it's a different thing. So we

need to begin to put on the right lenses again to see a God.

You're here, right now, right here in X line. You're here.

Because now I can begin to see that you are in every part of my

life. I begin to see through the word of God. This is how

I should deal with this situation. This is the wisdom that I need when

we put on the right lenses. Amen. And I wanted to end with

an advice. And this is also a warning to us. Remember how King

Nebucanneza was the bad guy, the villain, right, the one who made

them do all the bad things. And in chapter four, if you didn't

realize that, this is what Nebuchas actually said, you know, he actually

started off chapter four with saying, oh wait ah. Chapter four is saying,

but this is how you know. After all that they have gone through,

after the then of fire and all that this, Nebuchneza begin to have

a sense of awareness of who God is. He began to acknowledge who God

even is, right, And he actually said this in Daniel chapter four okay,

then a chapter four okay. Verse one he says, Nebukenza the king,

Okay, this is Hima to all the people's nations and languages that dwell

in the earth. Peace we multiplied to you. Okay, So this is

him. In verse two he says, I thought it good to declare the

science and wonders that the Most High God has worked for me. Sounds like

a believer, sounds like he's actually believing in God right now. Verse three

he says, is how great are his science? And how mighty? He

wonders His kingdom is an ever lasting kingdom and his dominion is from generation to

generation. Praise God. This is King Nebukanisa praising God, saying that God,

this is the one true living God. He's a believer. We praise

God. Right? Did you know that in twelve months time after that he

was like a cow eating grass and his hair was long, his nails were

like claws tough. Months later from this declaration, I wonder how many our

verse right we can declare we can say the right words, the right things

to other people can't hear. But then down the road, just one year

later, have so much pride within us that we have forgotten that Heaven rules.

And that's why the whole verse comes to say, all this kingdom shall

be assured to you after you come to know that Heaven rules. This is

the context of that message. Do you get it. We can't think we

know the right words to say. We can think we know the right response

to have, but until we truly know and humble ourselves to know that God

is the one who rules. We will still be like Nebucha seven years eating

grass. But when we come to that realization, God is so kind and

it is merciful. He restored to do you know that that was the end

of the story. He restored the kingdom back to Nebuca. After that when

King Nebuch acknowledge that God was the one who rules. Amen. So this

lenses of Heaven rules, right, It's it's lenses of correction. Yes,

there are many things in our lives that we need new perspective, so we

need to be corrected in our perspective. But it's also a sense of much

comfort for me, comfort in knowing that God I don't need to know all

the answers. God, I don't have all the answers. Human resources not

enough, but Heaven resources more than enough. Amen. That comfort and finally,

courage, courage to step forward, courage exclaim, do you have courage?

You can have that courage when you begin to know. Because Daniel chapter

eleven, I'm going to end with this. Then eleven, verse thirty two

is says, but the people who know their God shall be strong and carry

out great exploits. Amen. Are you ready to carry out great exploits for

God in your life, in ministry, in your family to reach more for

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