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

  2. will light up your team. I'm gonna be sharing. I don't know how

  3. many here, how many in this room, guys or girls? You like

  4. baking? Anybody here likes baking? Yeah? Okay, okay? Someone does

  5. someone do bread? In the pandemic? Everybody makes our dough bread? Can

  6. okay? Like making? Yeah? Okay? Um, So I'm gonna share

  7. with you today. I'm just drawing out lessons from a baker. Okay,

  8. what can we learn from a baker? Oh? Wow, thank you,

  9. thank you xtv um. You know engaged. You didn't know. For a

  10. season of my life, I had to run run a cafe, and running

  11. the cafe, we we I had to do it a lot of the baking.

  12. Uh and so we did a lot of baking. And then now that

  13. I stopped, I've forgotten how to bag la. You know how to make

  14. it nice? So learning from some thoughts here. If you like baking,

  15. maybe after today you can go home and bake your banana bread. Oh yo,

  16. banana low for whatever cake? Okay, So, lessons from a baker.

  17. I was listening to a baker, and as this person was sharing What

  18. three points would that person, would this baker tell the audience? And as

  19. I heard these three points, I thought, Hey, I think I can

  20. draw out some lessons for us. Okay, Albert bakes bread, so yeah,

  21. we're two different things. Yeah, lessons from the from a baker.

  22. Okay, so there are three points I'd like to share with us today.

  23. But before that, what has this lesson all these thoughts have to do with

  24. us in our Christian faith? I like to draw us to Hebrews chapter eleven

  25. and verse six. Hebrews, Chapter eleven and verse six. I didn't have

  26. it on the slide, but if you can turn to your Bible, this

  27. is a familiar verse to all of us. Amen, and may the Lord

  28. help us, help us as we continue in our walk with Jesus. So

  29. what does what does eleven? Hebrews Chapter eleven, verse six say? It

  30. says here but without faith it is amen to please him, And for he

  31. who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder

  32. of those who diligently seek him. This is a familiar of us, but

  33. to live it is something we must all strive to not as he strives to

  34. heart. But no one to experience this life of faith. Who wants to

  35. please God? All of us amen. We all want to please God.

  36. But it is the ingredient to please God. Faith faith. Amen. So

  37. I even I've been a Christian for so long in the before I married Master

  38. Kenneth, but I never knew about walking in faith, to take a step

  39. of faith, to walk by faith. At least I knew my faith in

  40. Jesus, but to believe God beyond what I every day experience was something new

  41. to me. But when I married my husband, I thought, this man

  42. is mad suddenly, because really where we were we got married, really am

  43. nothing nothing? Okay, yeah, he said, I and I bestow upon

  44. you when we took about was all my worldly riches. I actually looked behind

  45. and I there was no I knew what I was getting into. Don't let

  46. tell my mother. No. As I was full time, full full time

  47. in the church. He only earned five hundred ring gait the judge by him

  48. as a full time missions or girl. And I had left my corporate job

  49. and I became a I went out from missionary as a missionary and I came

  50. back and my pastor said, you go out and you work and see whether

  51. you can survived to be a teacher. So I had taken an English cause

  52. I went out to work as English teacher. So I had really finished normal

  53. corporate job. No, no normal or whatever you work for you live for.

  54. He left his corporate job and became full time worker and five hundred salary.

  55. He's gonna take care of wife. Were married on a five hundred ring

  56. it salary. But we still got married. Still can't get how are you

  57. can fine? Like? Hold on yo yo? We did get married.

  58. I had a guest of eight hundred people at my wedding. My husband says

  59. only one was his friend. The rest of mine nah terriblah yo. Yeah,

  60. but God is good, but this fail like wh how? And I

  61. did not pay the bill. My husband did, okay, tore all the

  62. bills. Praise the Lord, Amen, hallelujah. He's really a man of

  63. faith. So the first year he said to me, we shall, we

  64. shall because my my or my family, my grandma, my auntie's, my

  65. uncles, everybody lived in Australia. Nobody here in Malasia except for my mom.

  66. And he said, I'm gonna take you to Australia so you can see

  67. your grandma. Noah, I see, how are you going to go?

  68. Flies? He said, Let's pray. Let tell me you first married like

  69. everything, like I said, we shall pray and we will get the etiquette.

  70. I'm like, huh, already get up paid the rainfall, you said,

  71. and then I have to work, you know money, How are you

  72. gonna fly to austo? I said, We pray? Okay, I believe

  73. you okay. Um. That was my first experience of faith, tapping out

  74. in faith to ask God, ask God for etiquete, like godlet I mean

  75. I had already I have as a student, I had no money for education.

  76. My dad lost everything. And I did pray and yes, God provided

  77. for me to finish off my higher you know, for tertiary education. But

  78. now fly war like like howl, don't etiquette? You know. But as

  79. we prayed, there's my first time. My mom I probably thought I were

  80. met, like what how are you gonn flying? But true to God's work,

  81. when you take aust of fame and ask a lot, we would like

  82. to go, would you provide for us? But delude the money came.

  83. Just nice to buy the etiquette for two oha all right. In a long

  84. time, haven't been to see my grandma for the longest time. That was

  85. in ninety ninety six, nine ninety six to the day to the time my

  86. grandma passed away. My husband took me to Australia every year, almost every

  87. year to visit my grandma. I have no regrets because I've seen her and

  88. get to see her. And of course you know later we planted the church

  89. there. But the funds came for the etiquette and then the funds came also

  90. for paying for other bills. So I worked as a teacher and I will

  91. work part time. So I think all the relations ringe change to you Australian

  92. dollar, not much, but the Lord provides a provide a place for us

  93. to stay. And you know, that was my first step of actually living

  94. by faith. That's what you mean by living by faith, and it can

  95. be for everyone, not just for full time worker, for all of us.

  96. We have to take those steps of faith and that pleases God. You

  97. want to please God, we have to walk by faith. Everyone here wants

  98. to please God. No, please God only by Okay, I think I

  99. want to give God this, But God wants us to grow by faith and

  100. walk by faith and not by sight, right he Brews. No second Corinthians

  101. chapter five, verse seven and Second Corinthians, Chapter five or seven. We

  102. always hear this I walk. We walk by faith and not by sight.

  103. This is where the verse comes from. It's not just a song. I

  104. walk by faith each day a day, all right. We walk by faith,

  105. not by sight. This one did not become reality for me until I

  106. got married and has since twenty seven years. Walk by faith and not by

  107. sight. But a lot of times I lean on my husband's faith. I

  108. need to build my own faith, and that has also developed over the years.

  109. Amen. So I want to encourage us living by faith. It's not

  110. just for people a full time. It's for every child of God to see

  111. God's hand move for us in different circumstances to say, God, I'll go

  112. even before you show me the money, like show me the money, then

  113. I go, you know, like show me this man, I go,

  114. or I'll do this, but by faith. Sometimes it's something that you maybe

  115. like, wow, how to do this God? That you just want me

  116. to leave my job work. I don't know what it is. I don't

  117. know. Doesn't have been so drama like like some of us make those steps.

  118. But but we want a police God. So I just draw out some

  119. of the baking baking techniques and you can try it. Because I preach this

  120. message in another place, and I stayed away, went home and tried the

  121. technique because I've forgotten how to bake. And I think my Branana Chocto chip

  122. love turned out super fow. Follow your own medicine, right, follow your

  123. own one. Yeah, I try and say, okay, I need to

  124. bake a game. I haven't had time since, but yeah, so this

  125. will be just some thoughts for us, all right. Number one first point,

  126. Okay, undermix is a positive way of saying it. The negative way

  127. is saying, don't overmix. Okay, so we shall undermix our batter.

  128. So when we make when we make a cake, more so for cakes,

  129. um, you use you wet ingredients and you have dry drying ingredients will be

  130. your flour or your and your sugar okay, baking powder, maybe some of

  131. your fruit dry fruit, and your wet ingredients will be the milk, butter

  132. or oil, okay, your eggs, cream whatever. So you're going to

  133. have to mix these two together to get a batter. So they tell they

  134. say this particular famous baker who baked the wedding cake for Prince Harry and Megan.

  135. I hope they managed still together. I play okay, the wedding cake

  136. for royalty. Well, she says, please undermix everything, don't overmix,

  137. so that when you because generally a lot of people when we mix, WHI

  138. that's not your cake, very hard, la. Then you draw the all

  139. right. People like to make sure everything is mixed, like everything in the

  140. chocolate and the and the vanilla. Everything you know, well, nice,

  141. nice, la. We like to do because it looks nice. Man.

  142. But now remember we walk by faith and not by side. So when you're

  143. looking and you're better, like he got lumps of no lumps are like you

  144. got a bit of a bit chocolate here and then here a white color this,

  145. you're not nice. I must mix, mix very well. So he

  146. says. Mixing is good. We need to mix. But you don't want

  147. They say, don't make it so smooth. Under mix it a bit,

  148. but you're thinking, but look ugly. War. But I have to tell

  149. you the secret to great muffins, make muffins all time is under mixing.

  150. When you undermix, you're better. Your muffins will be fluffy and you know,

  151. very tasty and not hard. I've made hard ones or so, so

  152. do not have hard muffins. Is to only um mix it very few times,

  153. all right, and you still see some flower. It's okay one the

  154. will survive, all right, So undermike it alright. So just nice for

  155. the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients to come together so that you get a

  156. lighter cake, not a heartcake, all right, and then your cake won't

  157. deflate. Now you see your cake sink over mixing, over mixing, there

  158. have a few things. Don't undermix so that you will rise nicely, all

  159. right, especially if you're making flowless cakes. Now, some people cannot like

  160. a gluten free year or so you cannot. You have to lightly mix everything.

  161. Brownie is the same as well, so undermix. So what does that

  162. mean? Okay, give us recipes or now what? Okay? So I

  163. thought about this about mixing and how we live. My point, would you

  164. give space for God's work in your life if you don't undermix, if you

  165. undermix your life a bit? What do I mean? Planning is great,

  166. always good to plan, but would you give some room for Jesus to work?

  167. Amen? Because we like everything well mixed. I think all of us

  168. like everything to be in order. I know what I'm gonna do after from

  169. five. I know what I'm going to do after I get married. I'm

  170. going to have children one shot, not ten. You know like that.

  171. So you kind of like plan. So you like everything looking together like a

  172. nice jig saw everything nicely. Well, I want it that way. But

  173. if you peck it all up and you mix it all because you what you

  174. see is that all nicely, all nicely makes the cake will deflate, it

  175. will be hard, it won't be like. But when we leave some room

  176. under makes it a little bit step aside, Give some space for the at

  177. work. Give some space for Jesus to work in the plans that you have,

  178. because his plans are going to be even better than our plans. And

  179. I seen that happen in our own lives in church, in the lives of

  180. so many bros and sisters. When we give some space, I can't blame

  181. us for one thing to have everything in order, because we're used to that.

  182. If you and I have been non Christian, we don't know Jesus for

  183. say sixteen years, for twenty years, for what years? Suddenly we become

  184. a child of God. What we're excited with all that God has. But

  185. suddenly, when God touches the area of your life and say, would you

  186. give me space? Perhaps it could be in your work, your relationship.

  187. You know, are we ready to give God's space to shift things around,

  188. to move our hearts so that we can receive his love, receive the plans

  189. that he has for us. And we have read in God's work. God's

  190. plans for us are for hope and a future and a hope. Amen.

  191. But if you come back your life so tighter, you can't turn. No,

  192. so cannot not, God cannot. Don't touch. And I know we

  193. have say I don't, please, don't touch A lot already plan everything,

  194. plan everything already right in so many things. I am not an easy person.

  195. I figured out that my husband is a dreamer, and he dreams a

  196. lot. And actually I found that I really like things to go like normal.

  197. By over thirty seven years, as you can see, I've done beyond.

  198. So he will share idea with me and go like no, then he

  199. won't talk to me anymore. You share me out of people and then they're

  200. all so nice. Yes, it's a great idea, Like why didn't I

  201. say that? The early days I would say, yes, great idea I'm

  202. doing. You give me a break. But then the others who will share

  203. the vision the idea, because we've done it so well, we're so compact,

  204. you know. But would you give God space in a church setting like

  205. us? We would have just loved to be one service, all of us

  206. together, more people maybe that maybe get lost or so. Then we said

  207. one hundred and twenty we hit we're gonna plan new Wow, I tell you,

  208. everybody's sure uncomfortable. How law you cannot la mix basa, No,

  209. law cannot. But see if we don't allow for that space, how can

  210. God step in to do something more for us, to do the miracle,

  211. to do the extra, to give us, to give us an experience that

  212. our flesh sometimes says no. Usually it's our flesh the carnal person will saying

  213. no, God, we are already so comfortable. God is not here for

  214. our comfort. God is here for our eternity and for our growth. And

  215. so whatever fire you and I go through, whatever uncomfortable nous, you know,

  216. no matter how painful, be a little bit undermixed, so that your

  217. plans can can can allow for God to move and shape it. Can you

  218. imagine if the innkeeper on that night, had you know when when what's his

  219. name, Joseph? No knock? Who's there? That young Mary who was

  220. probably probably fifteen years old when we around there saying my wife needs a room,

  221. we need a room. And if that innkeeper had said yes, I

  222. would you know, make a space, had had made some room, he

  223. would be a famous inn who knows today he might be the in that Jesus

  224. was born. So if you go to Israel, you were in Bethlehem,

  225. you will see the ind that Jesus was born because everything that Jesus feed on

  226. the amount of olive. Also they put one print that Jesus stood here internet

  227. Jesus born. I don't know everything into an old term in history, but

  228. I'm just saying if we had made room, who knows what the innkeeper would

  229. have experienced. If we had made room in our marriage for Jesus, in

  230. our relationship, for Jesus to move. Who knows what kind of you know,

  231. miracles or even deeper depth of our workings that God would have done in

  232. our lives. If we even church, we can we can close the room

  233. for Jesus and say no, a Lord, We're very happy with the way

  234. we run things because we want to please everybody else, but no enacts.

  235. Be ready for change, always undermix, so that there will always be room

  236. for the supernatural. Amen. You and I want the supernatural. But if

  237. I want to see God do more, then I need to The uncomfortable thing

  238. is to give my time more to the Lord outside of just the ministry work.

  239. Amen. So a little bit of unmixing so that you give space for

  240. God to work. Why Collections to twenty a reminder to all of us we

  241. can we sing this song sometimes in the oldies views to have a chorus?

  242. Is I scared to sing this song sometimes because I feel I'm so naughty and

  243. I don't always uh, you know, get it right? So but never

  244. mind. It's to Jesus, word to us. Paul teaches us this,

  245. but twenty Galactians to twenty. I have been crucified with Christ. It is

  246. no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life

  247. that I now live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved

  248. me and gave his life for me. Capture the essence of this. I

  249. am crucified with Christ. Every one of us who received Jesus, we have

  250. been crucified with Christ. We died with Christ, and in water baptism we

  251. rise with Christ. But then who is the master of our lives? Then?

  252. Anybody who is the master of our lives? If it's no longer I

  253. that live, Jesus a man, Jesus is a lot of our lives no

  254. longer. Basically, I'm dead, La? Right? Have you ever been

  255. to a funeral? You and mine? Right? My father not mine?

  256. Lam? You can come to mind, do la, my father's being come

  257. to my funeral? Because I suppose I've had a funeral because I died in

  258. Christ. Have you ever seen a dead person get up? Seldom miracles supernatural

  259. the dead come life. But if we really died in Christ, then I'm

  260. dead. My flesh is dead, but my spirit is alive. Right.

  261. So even if someone comes out and say, hey, Sandra, you are

  262. you were skinny and I'm not very skinny in a loud last time you very

  263. well? Yo, how you will preach it out? Okay? If our

  264. dead I cannot I cannot get out its call you a hello? Who?

  265. If I'm did I'm dead, that's it right? Because the person is alive

  266. is living in Christ? Are we dead to the world? And a life

  267. to Christ. Do we make room like here, give space for God to

  268. just teach us and grow us. But if we keep one thing to make

  269. everything perfect, that means I must have a say in everything. But here

  270. it says, Jesus is our master in the life I now live. I

  271. live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his

  272. life for me. Amen. These are very powerful words I memorize sometimes in

  273. the morning, my quiet time, I will just declare this to remind myself

  274. I'm being crucified with Christ. So don't be boss, don't be so action,

  275. don't be so action. Jesus rain and rule. Amen. And and

  276. that verse reminds me of this, to give space because He truly is my

  277. master. Ah, it's tough some days. I want my own way.

  278. I want to rest the wreck and tell people off. I'll tell you all

  279. right. Being a woman, we always like to write and tell you what

  280. I think. Okay, Seriously, we cannot be like that. If you

  281. died in Christ, die, just be dead in Christ and alive to Him.

  282. Even we died in Christ, but we rose again. Don't give people

  283. pieces of your mind after normal mind reading God dimension Okay, all right,

  284. I'll give you a piece of my mind. I give you a piece you

  285. give all your mind? Normal, uh so, better undermike a little bit

  286. and say, Okay, Lord, I don't have to be in control of

  287. this. God will take over for us even hallelujah. Okay, time he's

  288. running. Next wine, I'll preach more on the other side. Okay.

  289. Number two, under whip, I'm not not whipper. Okay, the egg

  290. whites. Okay, teach you about egg whites. For the longest time that

  291. I've learned, egg whites actually makes your your cheesecake lighter. Are your macaroons?

  292. Are macaroons? I've done macaroons with with some person who learn macarons are

  293. also egg whites. And then you add your almond meal. But the whipping,

  294. okay, but the whipping of egg whites. We usually they say whip

  295. recipe, whip until stiff peaks, so then when you turn it around,

  296. it doesn't fall right. And it's like, okay, so the eggs white

  297. when you beat. So this person says, under whip, and like why

  298. every recipe says whip until stiff peaks, or you know, say no,

  299. underwhip your egg whites. Everybody like likes to just keep whipping it until it's

  300. really like that. You know, and uh, but but but the advice

  301. is whip it, but not until stiff, slightly soft, canny soft.

  302. Don't have to like make sure it turn upside down. You will, you

  303. will hot, you won't fall like. Whip it till a bit, just

  304. just about coming to stiff but soft a bit because the baker says, may

  305. let your egg whites have the same consistency as your batter. And I saw

  306. them doing it, and this was a flawless date chocolate cake. You're hungry,

  307. and then they whip it and they put it in and it and also

  308. undermix again and it was a very moist light kike. Why my thoughts for

  309. this? Because if you whip and become so stiff again related to the point

  310. number one, we become less flexible, so stiff that I cannot really make

  311. Can we be a bit flexible m so that we won't be so resistant to

  312. change. I think we're all very creatures of habit. Anytime there's a change,

  313. we will say no, especially when the change happens in church. I

  314. don't know about your workplace, because you're paid, you don't grumble so much

  315. you top behind your boss back Okay, when Kazana top guy said he wanted

  316. to change something, I don't know what happened back then, not now Kazana,

  317. but Bazana. Then Wow, the top boss said we're gonna make a

  318. change, then goes out of our team work there like are you? Oh?

  319. But nobody dare tell whatever turns to his name? Um? But in

  320. Christ for our personal life us if we whip until it becomes stiff. Same

  321. again, My point not too far away from that is, can we make

  322. room for change? Make room for change? Okay? Having space or understand

  323. that room is so that you can when you when you have a lighter egg

  324. white, it makes us easier. It can change its form and gets into

  325. the better better and you don't have to make so much. It can just

  326. get in. I feel there's a flexibility in our lives. Can we be

  327. a little bit more flexible, especially as the Lord wants to challenge us,

  328. speak to us through his word to the Maybe we're going through something. Is

  329. there a flexibility uh? To change? Um? Our lives is about a

  330. life of obedience to Christ. But when we are in obedience to Christ,

  331. it also means we need to be there has to be some flexibility la to

  332. move a bit. Okay, Well, if you are a student, okay,

  333. I remember being a student from five and I was really wanting to do

  334. well. But my flexibility was I would study, really put on my schedule

  335. to make my weekend free so that I could serve in church. I could

  336. go for youth whatever programs, and Sunday I could serve on worship team.

  337. And I flexible. That means I don't do any studies on the weekend.

  338. I worked really hard from Monday to Friday, but the weekend was for church

  339. or for whatever activity is flexible, so that God could also move in my

  340. life, and I give him the room to speak to my heart. Amen,

  341. to be aware? Can we be more aware, more conscious of how

  342. to respond to change or what God's doing in your life? Too many times

  343. we miss it because we are too busy, too tight schedule, no time

  344. to move, no time to say here, that's room for you, Lord,

  345. come in. Amen. So there's a flexibility. Who I look at

  346. Isaiah fifty five and verse eight to nine. If there is some flexibility and

  347. also allowing yourself to be aware, then we look at the verse in Isaiah

  348. chapter fifty five, verse eight to nine, that says you know, the

  349. Lord says, my ways are higher, my thoughts are higher. Amen.

  350. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my way?

  351. Says the Lord. All right verse nine four. As the heavens are higher

  352. than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my

  353. thoughts than your thoughts. Amen. Sometimes we need verses like this to remind

  354. us. That's why I like the Baker's lesson. God's thoughts are not our

  355. thoughts. Our thoughts are limited, but God's limitless. God's ways and God's

  356. thoughts. What are your plans for your future? Why are you planning?

  357. What are you desiring? Have you allowed God the space or the room more

  358. like the room to bring a change. Can He change a bit of your

  359. plans so that you get more not less? You get eternal plans, not

  360. earthly plans. Amen. Reminder, we walk by faith and not by sight,

  361. and that's a choice you and I have to make. Do you want

  362. to experience the supernatural, then you need to walk by faith and not by

  363. sight. Give that kind of room for change. If not, then you

  364. will never experience change. That means you will never experience the father heart of

  365. God for you, Father heart of God, for you? Why? God,

  366. why you want to change? Why? Why you do this? Why?

  367. Because his ways are higher and his thoughts are higher. And because he

  368. loves you more than you love yourself. He loves you enough to give his

  369. son. How will he not bring you to a higher place, to a

  370. better place where you will have life and life eternal? Amen, hallelujah underwhip.

  371. And then and the third point under bag? Has anyone under bag?

  372. You know? Right under baby's cake? Not ready laugh, but there is

  373. a point yeah, under big Why so if you're doing a brownie or a

  374. flowless cake, Yo, I will scared runner, I will look and I

  375. will look and I will look, and then I will test the cake and

  376. test the cake and say, yo, the thing is still stuck to my

  377. tester. But apparently and it is true. And try this. You have

  378. a certain time hundred eighty degrees about three hundred and fifty ferren heights about that

  379. heat to bake any cake and then harrd eighty soul should be about forty minutes,

  380. depending how big lah so for brownie? Right, some people like chewy

  381. brownies, some people very If you were like heart brownies lat I think I

  382. like heart brownies lave, but am I they like the chewy brownie and fagira.

  383. To get that consistency, you have to under bake. You gotta take

  384. it out at the time that they say thirty minutes bake. Take it out.

  385. Then you look at and going soft love not ready law. So I

  386. made a mistake for all of my banana loaf or my whatever, lemon,

  387. poppy seat loaf, whatever is to make sure everything is heart heart nice nice.

  388. Actually take it out by a certain time. As you take it out

  389. by a certain time, there's residual heat that will continue to cook and cook

  390. your cake. So I'll bake your cake. You take it out from the

  391. album. But if you live in an album, even say I switch off

  392. the album already and yo, the heat will over cook, over bake.

  393. So you take it out. I know you want to eat it, now

  394. hold on, let your cake cool down first. The residual heat will continue

  395. to bake your brownie or your flawless cake. All right. So this this

  396. this point was for me. It was to experience transformation. Why you know

  397. that anything that touches fire will change. Right if you put your finger through

  398. the fire. Gone all right, it will burn. Anything that touches fire

  399. changes. The Holy Spirit is fire. There is change when Holy Spirit comes

  400. into our lives. Not only the Holy Spirit coming into our lives. How

  401. about testings and trials. Life without testing and trials ain't gonna be life.

  402. Everyone goes to it. That's fire too. But let me bring that thought

  403. to us Job twenty three, verse ten. Job twenty three and verse ten

  404. says to us, what does job? I seldom like to read the book

  405. of Job. It's so sad. But some of us will come and say,

  406. past in my life, like job blaod is mine. Okay, even

  407. when you have chicken box, you feel like a job, blood right all

  408. over chicken box, chicken bowler. Terrible right that you feel like a job

  409. already so first senses. But he knows the way that I take. When

  410. He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Wow. God

  411. wants us gold, not silver, not bronze, but goal. And when

  412. you know, goal goes to fire wall, very high heat to take away

  413. all the impurities, and our lives go full of impurities. We've been walking

  414. on earth for so long. God wants to make us grow, us to

  415. live his kingdom principles. But he knows the way that I take. When

  416. he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Hey everyone,

  417. he wants to be like Gola. Anyone taking part in any you know,

  418. competition would love to have a Gola at least with Traila. Okay, but

  419. what happens for me every time you come into a time of testing and trial

  420. or when there's fire, you feel like, oh really love fire, you

  421. love? Are you in my life? Lah? Whailah? This thing happening?

  422. You know how is the roof liaking? Not only roof liaking, toilet

  423. also leaking toilet not linking. And then know the depth is leaking that they

  424. happened everything leaking in my house? Like what is there a demon in my

  425. house? My husband just gonna start the rebuking every spirit in the house Jesus

  426. name. And then you ask me, no, dla, can you stop

  427. spotting all the things? I said? Husband or light not working husband?

  428. There linking husband, the one husband where everything you see, uh, I

  429. got to see there is so fat where everything was so spoiled. Suddenly you

  430. know on the whole week are you and they have to you know, find

  431. the right plumber and some of you, know, I text all of you

  432. got plumber, plumber, plumber, no plumber, no, you know,

  433. I'm like, he already fat out with me, right, So I had

  434. to find my own plumber and uh, I tell you, I was like

  435. fire. And then it was terrible, a week of just everything breaking down.

  436. Past the rebuke that spirit and demon out of my house is Jesus name.

  437. I run away like it's strange, but sometimes maybe it is, you

  438. know, disturbing experience. You know, things come in, can be la,

  439. can be Sometimes they cannot get you. They're go and touch your things,

  440. touch your car to you know car, so something wllo, so you

  441. rebuke it. So whenever there is attesting a child, under bag for me

  442. to experience transformation. Without a fire, we cannot experience transformation. But to

  443. underbag is to allow for residual heat to cook and bake it for me.

  444. I'm thinking, when you're in the midst of your fire, you know,

  445. in that troubled time, there's this residual heat, and I call it the

  446. waiting period. You know how sometimes you just have to wait and not rush

  447. and just let the whole trouble move, the dark cloud move over, you

  448. know, just and I be live that. Many times when we wait on

  449. the Lord, he takes over there. Sometimes we have to step and do

  450. something. But after you've done everything, you just step back and you say,

  451. Lord, I'm gonna wait on you. The trouble is there, my

  452. face, my name is going down, ready to the drain, but I

  453. will wait. This residual heat, the workings of the fire of God in

  454. our lives will do something to us. What does it do? I think

  455. one of the first things that any trial testing does. It humbles us,

  456. isn't it. It's a step where we become more humble, or at least

  457. take a step of humility and say I don't know everything. It helps to

  458. mold us. Fire changes us. It teaches us. It teaches us from

  459. what we've make those decisions. We become wiser, hopefully not to decide like

  460. that or like that, but to wait on the Lord. This residual heat

  461. as we underback and take the cake out, same like our lives, as

  462. we come through all the testing, we step back a little bit and say,

  463. I don't have the answer, Lord, I'm going to wait on you.

  464. Wait on the Lord. Don't rush for a decision, don't rush,

  465. try to unlock all the answers. You wait, God will bring you through

  466. and then open that door the favor even no door win, dolla, no

  467. win, no hole or so canla and you can breathe again. Okay,

  468. But he will do something. Every time we surrender, he does his part.

  469. He will work in us, and you will experience the transformation from the

  470. inside. We won't grow dinner, we won't lose. I don't want to

  471. lose hair out. Okay, No, But something happens on the inside of

  472. us. It happens to all of us. Maybe it makes Maybe it just

  473. humbles us to a place where don't be so I don't be more thick,

  474. skinny, I don't know what. Just face our situations as is a man,

  475. because he brings the transformation. And then as time is given, the

  476. cake becomes nice and ready. How about our lives? When we give God

  477. time and we wait on him, he really works the miracle for us.

  478. Amen, and I have to continue. What does it speak there? For

  479. it speaks of this faith of ours. Two One to please God, we

  480. need to act in faith, faith to trust him, faith to wait on

  481. him, and also faith to take that step out when he tells you what

  482. to do, but do not walk by sight, because when you walk by

  483. sight, just as I say, I would keep looking at the keep looking

  484. at the cake. There's the kike hundred times and I don't like the way

  485. I want it like that, let it, but I'm looking how bad if

  486. I would trust the system and say, okay, you tell me like I

  487. just take it out enough time, let it wait, let it, don't

  488. overbeat, don't overbake, and then wait, and then God has his way

  489. to work in us. So dead it is truly a step of pleasing God

  490. and getting rewarded by the Lord, because you and I chose to take by

  491. faith, by faith, Amen. The Hebrews again, back to Hebrews eleven

  492. and verse six. It says, yeah, right, but without faith it

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

  494. he is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

  495. And I'm just drawing that out to remind us of us diligently seeking him by

  496. taking some of this, well, I'm taking out of a baker la.

  497. But imagine in your own life. I ask you today, have you got

  498. enough room for God to work for a firstly, space for God to work,

  499. room for him to change you. And in that whole process, are

  500. you allowing for transformation because you are waiting on the lot, Amen, it

  501. will help us all to find rests in the Lord. Number one, give

  502. God space, or give him the space to work in our lives. Don't

  503. have to plan and pack everything up. Give a little room that space there.

  504. Secondly, make room for change by you know, don't whip everything up

  505. in your life, la, Just relax, relax a little bit. Don't

  506. have to be so uptight. Make room for change in our hearts, in

  507. our minds, in our attitude, perhaps so that we are flexible to go

  508. with the flow. And many of us are what we call very good planners.

  509. We are very top, top and main planners. Every time there's a

  510. change, you get upset. Whila, my plans all spoilt. At that

  511. time you just stop and say, Okay, Lord, what are you trying

  512. to say to me? I plan all these already, But now there's a

  513. little t God, what are you trying to say to me? Let me

  514. wait on the lot, and as you as if you pull back and get

  515. out of the oven for a little bit. Whatever that fire is going on

  516. it will cause the change or the transformation to take place in our lives.

  517. Amen. And that is truly our step, black our step and our walking

  518. in Jesus day to day to love him more. To you know, walk

  519. by faith, not by sight. Experience your supernatural. Otherwise, friends,

  520. why we become Christian if we're not experiencing the supernatural? Now and then be

  521. reminded. I'm only giving us a reminder of experiencing your supernatural. I see

  522. my husband walk like this every day. Some days it just irritates me.

  523. I'm like, whilla, no, no. But then I step back and

  524. I see that's why he's experiencing the supernatural. That's why he also has to

  525. go to the fire and experience the pain. But then I see change and

  526. see transformation. So in all things we say, Lord, you have the

  527. best cake to make in us, so we will. Lord, let me

  528. just submit, because your ways are higher, your thoughts are higher, and

  529. out of that the beauty of God's work will shine through your life and my

  530. life. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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  533. a good week ahead for you. God bless