Seek First the Kingdom of God | Pr Sandra Chin

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You're gonna take the scripture from Matthew chapter six, and

it's it's familiar. You know the scriptures Matthew chapter six,

verse twenty five to thirty four. If you have your bibles,

turn to Matthew chapter six, and we're gonna read from

verse twenty five to thirty.

Four very quickly.

And then I'll just come in with it and try

to match Joseph. You really preach the message. I'm just

popping it up, all right, just just to come up,

you know, just do my job.

Otherwise, you know, I might get sick. All right? It

did so well, right, so you really appreach the word wow.

Should just sit there? So Matthew chapter six, verse twenty

five thirty four. Are you ready? Guys? Folks, are you

in with me? Come on, give me a year? Come on,

all right, here we go.

Therefore, I say to you, do not worry about your life, okay,

what you will eat or what you will drink, nor

about your body. What you were put on is not

life more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Thinking look at the birds of the air, for they

neither sow, nor rep nor gather into barns.

Right, they don't.

Yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not more

valuable than these? Yeah, You're more valuable than.

The sparrows of the air, the birds of the air.

Which of you, which of us, by worrying, can add

one more cubit?

One more inch, one more you know? Feet? Okay? To

his stature? Can we grow taller if we worry? I

wish it.

I worry most I can get taller, always want to

be tall. But shot, all right? So one more, one more,

just one more, so I can be taller. Does it

add to our height and stature? So why do you

worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how

they grow, and they neither toil nor spin.

And yet I say to you.

That even Solomon, in all his glory, was not dressed

like one of these. Now, if God so clothes the

grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow is

thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you? Oh, wow,

oh you of little faith Verse thirty one. Therefore, do

not worry, saying.

What shall we eat, what shall we drink? What shall

we wear? For after all these, after all these things,

the gentiles, they seek after these things, for your heavenly

Father knows that you need all these things. But verse

thirty three sick first the.

Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things.

What you will eat, what you will drink, what you aware,

what car you will drive, shall be added to you.

Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow tomorrow, for tomorrow will

worry about its own things. It is enough for the day.

It has its own troubles. All right. Amen to the

reading of God's word. Amen. Wow, this is a great

reminder to us that the whole verse Jesus was speaking

from the from from the sermon is a sermon on

the mound. He started with the beatitudes, and.

Then he went on, So nobody can live like this

if we were not in Jesus. And so Jesus just

sharing with us how we could live.

Amen. And so he says, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry,

because we are people who worry. Are you? I also worry?

You know how I worry about dose? Worry about that.

But Jesus this is reminding us don't worry, all right.

But I tell you he probably wrote the song don't worry,

be happy, Happy in Jesus, Amen, and he says, don't

worry because your heavenly Father knows.

B Sisters, are we assured that you know that you

know that our heavenly Father knows what we need? Are

you assured this morning? We want to be assured, amen,

because the worries of this world will happen and will come.

We will be loaded with many types of worries. And

that's why we want to remind and cheer each other on.

But sick first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

Then all these things shall be added unto you? Can

I remind you? And I think I came the last

time here the Kingdom of God already is in you.

I don't know if you remember what I said, But

the Kingdom of God is already in you. John chapter

fourteen and verse twenty three says, when you you love

God's commandment, you love Jesus, the Father will love you,

and he that he, Jesus and the Holy Spew, will

come and make his home in you. And so I say,

the Kingdom of God is living in you. God lives

in us. And so why should we worry? If the

Kingdom is in us. That's why Jesus say, is sick first,

the Kingdom. Sick first, God and his righteousness. The Kingdom

of God is God. Amen, hallelujah. We have the Kingdom.

So the whole time that I started preaching on the

Kingdom of God, the last time I was here, and

I'm bunk, it was.

Revival because we're talking about revival.

So when we're revival in when we walk in revival,

we're reminded that the Kingdom of God is living in us.

And I said, turn to each other and say, hey,

the Kingdom is in you. Right, remind each other again,

telling to your neighbor and say.

Your Kingdom is in you. Yeah, the Kingdom of God

is in us. Jesus is living in us. Amen. If

you forgot check it again. All right, okay, all right,

all right.

And so Jesus reminding us sick first, the Kingdom, seek first,

the Lord God and his righteousness. Because we are not

righteous of our own. He clothes us with the robe

of righteousness.

We sang and we prayed. Just now. We took him

in and his blood washes us, and so we are

made home.

And therefore, having that knowledge, then we say, why, why

then must we seek first the.

Kingdom of God?

Why why because worries are going to come, Many worries

will come.

Who has not worried before? You worry? Your little toy

is hurting you? Worry? You know, if you know, your

your job will be secure. Especially in this time.

I've heard so many ones telling me how they are

impacted by the by the their roles in their job.

They you know, may not have a job tomorrow, the

kind of thing. So why why because worries are going

to come.

But as a child of God, as a princess, as

the prince of the Living God, the king of kings,

I believe we need to have the keys of the kingdom.

And Jesus has given us the keys. And one of

the keys is to remember that the Kingdom of God

is in us. And therefore we seek God.

We have to. If not you you seek who Bomoga say, punkle,

don't you dare say? Don't you go seek?

All the witch doctors said, Oh no, you don't seek anyone.

You seek the Lord as a child of God.

If you are not yet a believer in Christ, Wow,

I hope that those who are believers will be good

encouragement and help us to see how God is good. Amen.

So why do I seek? Because I want to tell

you worry worry. The word worry is in the King James,

not the worry, the word.

That you were reading, maybe in NIV, in the New

King James, but from the King James.

Matthew uses the word.

Take no thought, take no thought about what you will

eat or what you will drink, and what you will wear.

So the word worry is the same word as thought.

If you search out the Greek word, the word is thought,

and the word thought from the Greek is I can't

even say this word marry now, A don't know what

It can sound very Greek, but it simply means to

be anxious, to be troubled with cares.

Okay. So they're using that word take no thought. That

means so.

And when we say take no thought, then we change

it to the what what we say today, don't worry?

Okay.

Worry is to take thought. Don't take thought is to

don't worry.

Amen.

Why because worry just simply means anxious anxiety. Many people

have anxiety, all kinds of anxiety.

A lot of people are trouble with the cares of

this world. If you're honest, you.

Know that there are many cares hanging around our heads

every day.

How can we live above this? And we need to

not be.

We need to know who we are in order to

find that key to unlock so that those gates, those

chains don't bind us into living and worry cannot be

Jesus talk about this because it's not true.

It's affect this.

We will be thrown with many cares of this world. Amen,

So don't worry, he says. Next night, do not take

thoughts or take take no thought, Take no thought about

your drink, about your food, about your clothes. And it

just means the things that we need in life today.

It's your job, it's you know, transport, education, saving up

for your children's education, your you know, things that you

need even for your own education.

Take no thought?

Why because I want to say to us the fact

this worry does happen, and worry will affect us.

It affects our health, it will affect your wellness. Hey,

your health.

And have you seen people who are worried? I tell

you it really eats up stress. Stress will happen, all right,

We cannot worry, yeh I say, cannot worry, but it

will come. So when it comes, must quickly catch it

and say don't worry, Come on less, surrender.

That's need at the feet of Jesus. So we must

remind ourselves that.

Worry comes stress, and stress will affect our health.

All right.

It can be anything. It may not even be your job.

You're dealing with somebody and the somebody just get upset

with you or turns the tables around you. Stress, worry

your body. Your health will be affected. Your skin will

start flaring up with ezema, or you might have migrains,

or you might start having heavy breathing. Our health is

and if you continue to worry continuously, you'll.

Get gas strict, gaess strict, gas strict, and.

Then you burn a little hole in your intestine. And

now how alah man go to go to hospital? People

have gone that route just recently, so before I come

to the story.

So, worry can affect your health. Worry can affect your soul. Amen,

your heart. Your soul is made out of your heart,

means your emotions, your mind, your mental and your will

the decision making, your will to decide is affected because

we are worried Jesus is telling this because it's true.

So better listen to what Jesus asking us.

He's giving us the keys to get out of this.

Remind us, and we cannot do it by ourselves. He's saying,

seek first the Lord, seek first the Kingdom of God.

So it affects your relationships, your friend you know, your friends,

your marriage, your job with your boss. It can affect

your studies. It can affect your word, your workplace and

may where you're working, or many things, many other things,

but your health at the top.

If you are not well, you will not live well.

Right, So story time, So what because I'm only human,

I think, right, But I choose to walk in Jesus

and overcome and be a living sacrifice, not a lived one,

because then you can rip me come to my funeral.

But I'm not lived, but I'm living. But just in March,

if you may have heard, I was done. I was

really ill. It was in Melbourne, were finishing up all

the training sessions. We did Sunday service wonderful, very good, yay,

and then Monday night, so the weekend and then Monday

came and we were going to come back a ready soon.

Just had a few more days, but at that week

it was crunch time week for me. I'm doing my

master's in education and I'm not a teacher, so good

for me.

I used to teach.

I don't teach anymore, but I took it up because

we have a school and we when to help our

school that week. Very very nice of our school. You need,

I have to hand in my proposal. I have to

present my research proposal. So it's part of the thesis.

They told me they won't be, but then it is now.

So I have to propose, give my presentation for the

research proposal, the title, the research objective, the research don't

know what now? What is it? Okay? R ps and

rs Okay, don't know what now again? Propose? Yeah whatever?

You can't remember? Not very good students. So anyway, I

think I panicked. What is it? Boy? Objectives and something? Proposals? Yeah, yes, yeah, yes,

okay whatever? See I can't remember. Yeah, problem statements? Okay,

So can I tell you.

I know I went to University number one because I

went for professional course. So I came out as a

professional in professional course.

And then done. You know, you just take exams and

then you work and then you gain your experience? What

is this research proposal? Are rp rip? Who knows right? Methodology? Framework? Apidan?

What are these words? No clue? While my husband is

doing his dB, he is doctor, He's trying to explain

to me, but he got impatient because I'm like, what

is that? Can you see it again? I think I

went it's your own child, your own wife. You cannot

teach like you cannot because he said, I'm trying to

explain to you, Will you please listen? All right? Okay?

Never am I? So I thought already I'm in pressurre

r So how the whole time? And how I don't know?

What is this? I don't know?

So of course I get help, must ask for help, right,

that's humble, ask for help. Guess who I asked doctor undress?

He just graduated. You should know more than me, So

I asked him, bro, this is my ideas.

This is my thoughts. What do you think he comes

up with a whole idea for me? Yay? Right? We

can't just present other people's work. Love, you just get

an idea, but I don't know for one for whatever reason,

on Monday night, I'm trying to work on my proposal.

Eleven thirty at night, didn't have dinner my husband because

so not hungry. Not hungry.

Husband says, hey, you better take your vitamin. See you

know it's a long more long more wee. You got

all this stuff.

Take vitamin. See what kind of vitamin? See? Please don't

take it in I'll never do it again. Broke up

the phizzy, drink the pheazy one and then it's empty stummer,

not thinking God, so focused. And then take Panada because

I was also having some fevers the body ache I

yo didn't know, didn't think so busy. Took them and

went to sleep brother than sisters. Next morning, I woke up.

I'm thinking what just hit me? I was so ill.

I don't know what happened. My whole was in pain.

I slept funny, and I woke up and I said

I couldn't breathe.

So I couldn't breathe, and then I just sat there

and thinking what's going on? So I said, got a

few more days before I come home. I cannot go

a day. I got this proposal then by a certain

and I had to go to the bank as well.

We had to do some things for the church. So

I'm walking like this and trying and I'm giving hey

day and couldn't get things working. I'm heavy head day again, like,

cannot do this. Then you just pushed through. And then

I said, no husband, I need I think I need

a doctor. L Bro cannot find doctor in Melbourn LA.

Oh my goodness. You complain Malaysians. You complain our medical

system is bad. You should try Melbourne. I think we

got good medical system and Chipper, I don't know you

are one of my grateful water stop it. Your Malaysians

live here. I'll tell you. I called my husband so much,

my handphone being god God. Can I come to see doctor? No? No, no, no,

you come six thirty sixty y I'll be dead man PM,

No sixty PM. Now is then something say? I think

my wife would be dead by then. So I go

in search, search, search.

And then found something in my pain, I can't breathe.

And we found something. They said two o'clock. Then something

wait till two o'clock. Okay, wad luck? So wait wait

wait right you worried? I didn't even think I was worried.

I didn't even think I was worried or stressed. Went

to see the doctor. He listened to my story. It's

a wonderful doctor.

But he prescribed me antibiotics and said that I have pneumonia.

I have pneumonia, but I'm not coughing. Real it happens sometimes.

I tried say, if you don't get well, you got

to check into the hospital because you look really bad.

So I don't want to check in. I want to

go home. So God hear me. Yes, my husband's praying

all the time. He's praying for me. We are doing this.

The I vomited everything out, took the medication, threw up everything,

then felt better, but then still cannot breathe. So we

did some stuff like so ended up doing some you know,

some gastric stuff. They still they don't know what something

some day gave vis conla everything.

But I managed to pull to and get home. I

get home, I go to the just some polyclinic, look

at the doctor, tell them my situation and don't even

touch me. You got guest straight mm hmm. He said,

you're so full of guests that because guest Strick is here, right,

I had no opinion. Everything was here, so when I breathed,

it will pull. So from the airport where I was walking,

walking very fast way fast and then I was They

said I cannot. I can to stop and breathe like

the stop and breathe and walk slowly.

Something was sitting later discovered was the ang in militia.

We say anging, what do you call it? Collegue? Wind? No,

he's gonna understand wind? What wind?

Okay, So I don't blame the doctor David. He was

just trying his best. So straight away from me, get

straight settled. Then I called some pharmacy, our friend. No

the word just to usk first thing they asked me

every two pharmacy. I spoke to her for what's the

use stresser?

Oh what's stress? No stress, I'm a child of God.

I got no stress. But maybe it was so deep

I couldn't.

Feel it, but it came out its geest again. I

was taking some funny men Venezuela. I mean just the

already just triggered. But I was very stressed because I

have to present just Friday and night I went to

see doctor Saturday's presentation. How I cannot think, cannot nothing,

body pain, everything just throwing you know whatever, gastrict medication,

that worry, that's trying to look at my our pharmacies

from our church, and she said, I say you.

Stress, I stop saying it. Don't declare this over me.

They're like my istressa. I think stressler, worry you worried

you cannot do well right for studies.

I'm a student. I do not under worry. Sometimes we

got bills to pay. You worry you cannot pay the bill?

It stress one? No, she serious, bro.

When my dad was in hospital, the doctor the last stages.

Then they said, you know he's fastage spine cancer eating

up the bone. You can do some kind of radiotherapy

and a straight away. Woman out and tell me twenty thousand.

Oh sorry, say again.

I don't have twenty kay, I don't have danny Ky

to warm me out. Now. Worry you stress one? No,

because you're thinking, why am I going to get twenty

Who's going to give you twenty thousand? Now?

So I told her I can't do this. And my

dad wouldn't understand. He's really really unwell already. So I

just have to ask the Lord right in your stress

and worry, you just have to seek the Lord, and

the Lord provided he provided me the twenty thousand. Just

God is good.

Somebody was so kind to send us the funds for stress,

you know, because you want your father to be well, right,

you want him to get the right treatment. I don't

have this kind of money. God has. God uses others

bless us. Right. They hear heard about this, saying no,

let's help you stress. You know who going to help me? Right? Wow?

The worry? So I don't know what worry that you

and I will go through. It might be so subtle.

It may turn out in gastory, it might turn out

in might turn turn out in bronchitis or something.

Our health is typed very much to our emotions.

So Jesus knew that what happened, we need to death

for sick first the kingdom friends, I mean, yes, I

am the pastor here, but I'm also another child of

God who's going through my own journey.

I've journeyed this before. But every opportunity is the opportunity

to see God. Wow. Right, So with all the didn't think.

It was transfer, just go ahead and just prepeler, just prepeller.

On the day I had to present, I'm sweating away

from my head and I'm online I have to present.

I didn't know a clue of what I was saying, Eddie,

This was just horrible. I just prepared and I've said everything,

and you know, lecture, right, prophecess very comprehensive, too comprehensive.

I mean everybody right, you're on, like everybody can hear you?

My God right, Oh, I'm like mm hmm.

To me, like simple English, it just means this rubbish.

I mean that's what I felt loud, just that one thing,

like that one part, like yo, I just I forgot

to check in, so it was my arrow and myra

piece was just off.

So I'm like, okay, you're telling me how I can

get it better. And then he goes, But but because

all these marks and not got pointers right. But but

you're a very good presenter. You're very good presenter. Like, yes,

I preach every Sunday.

I didn't tell him that. So you know what I

get four months for preaching, preaching, presenting. You know, God

knows us. So I really I just I just said, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,

please help me every every step I like really like

being a woman, you know, women have emotions. I'm like,

please Jesus help me, Jesus, the Holy Spirit just guide me.

And you got that done? Fine, Okay, whatever, I have

to correct it nowever, my.

Next day Sunday, have one more hand up the are

you some some written thing written assignment for a thousand words?

And it has to do with being a teacher. John

stop here.

I don't know what I'm gonna say, but I already researched.

I talked to the teachers in our school. I talked

to one teacher I target. I got all the info,

but had done nothing because I was sick. So Sunday

nine thirty service XPJ, I'm watching the.

Time to have noon.

Once I'm done, I'm running right. Just what time am

I submit? Five pm? Five pm? Friend, four thousand words?

How to write in whatever hours left? Five pm, five pm?

Worrier. Worrier still cannot breathe probably cannot bread. Probably you know,

but I have to take the panadat Jesus help me, okay.

And it's something you just gotta do what you have

to do. I just I don't know what you're thinking,

what you're receiving. I want you to receive the right thing. Ah,

but I pand eying it works, take it? But but

with prayer stas what is it?

The prayer? Or where are you God?

Everybody's telling me and I'm like our teamler past the

what do you write to the election and ask for

extra time. It's a different lecture, ask for extra time

since you're not well. I said, there's no way she's

going to give me extra that no way.

So now mine, I'm thinking and planning once but go home,

don't eat Likene, just keep writing. Four thou was the

words and hand it up. Five pm. So just before

I go out to preach, to get my phone and

just it got message from the prop you know, so open.

He's holding everybody. And then because somebody did something, I

don't know what they did. Then yeah, give your health right,

don't worry like you commit miss my coming to Jesus

and commit reader Jesus or gel a five pm. Okay,

since you're like that, I extend you to eleven pm.

He Loulijah, don't worry. Ah, you know I extend your

low can make sure you're hand up my level beer.

Thank you Jesus. Wow, there is a God, there is

a kingdom. He cares for me, and I seek him

first right for God sometimes to seek him. But the Lord,

even I didn't say it was in my heart. You

can God. Good luck.

But cannot never mind four hours our right, seriously, at

five pm, I only finished but one, which was one

thousand words.

Are you I'm not dejaol, that's not It's so difficult

for me to write John because I'm not up. I cannot.

I don't know what's going on with the students, my brain,

dig down a person's brain, everything that I already interviewed.

But to write it, it was so tough. I need time.

God knows, right, Friends, your health, my health, Your health

can be affected.

You agree, So let's not get there. Your health, your relationships,

your job. Sometimes you know your whole heart, your mind.

People talk about and anxiety. It's it's then you have

mental health? Why because also your difficulty. But Jesus knew

we were going to go to them, so he reminds us.

But guys, he's saying, hey, dude, seek first the kingdom,

because the kingdom is living in us. And I look

at it as he living in us. Who am I seeking?

Not a building but a Jesus, a Lord who lives

in me, and a holy spirit, so one who will

help me.

Amen?

And then he says, God will add all these things

to you. What did I get added?

Ours? Five?

Pm to eleven pm is a long time, I kid you,

not five pm to eleven pm. Three girls, three of

us elder Rose Pasta, Sarah.

And myself not yet hand up pasta jet very Goula.

Boys always sad that I always hand up for really,

but the three girls are not your what thank you Jesus,

hallelujah all that everybody started handing out except me, still struggling.

But Jesus is good. Amen, he will help me.

But so good that you know you just got to

know you have a Kingdom of God in you. Who

is it the Lord?

Amen? So friends, will.

Live in revival, and where and when we live in revival,

this is where Jesus gives us abundant life. He gives

us abundant life, gives us us not end, gives us

abundant life. And when we walk in the abundant life,

which is the promise from John chapter ten and verse ten.

I experienced the robber robbing me of my health because

I worried, I was stressed.

But Jesus comes to give us.

Life and life more Abundontly. I'm so grateful that I'm

walking in Jesus and I have life and life more abundantly.

Every day is a good day in Him. Sure, when

the stress come, we learn.

To break those chains like get get, you know, learn

to submit it to the Lord and walk in that freedom. Amen.

So we're in the We're in the we believe, we

not only so our theme maybe is revival.

But how does revival happen? It's the work of the Spirit.

So are you and I talking to the Holy Spirit?

Are we? Are we? You know?

You know, getting to know and allowing the Holy Spirit

to even touch our.

Lives or fill us.

And so this morning is a good reminder for us

that when we seek first the Kingdom of God and

his righteousness, all the things that you need, God knows

whatever that need. Now, if you believe that your life

is in the hands of God, then you must believe.

That what you need he knows. Do I hear? Amen?

Do you come on?

If you cannot say amen, that means you don't know.

So if you don't know today, I want to tell

you you need to know that if you say that

Jesus is your Master and your Lord, then your life,

whatever you are going through right now, that He knows. Now,

whether you need a new job.

Whether you need a spouse, whether you need a transport,

you need to get a car, a bike, you need

like me, hours to finish, you need help, you need

someone to guide you. That he knows and that he

will provide.

So I'm coming from that point of view where I've

seen him do that for me.

There was the need. Of course, I struggled, and then hey,

no it's Jesus, So thank you Lord. I surrendered. And

then you move forward. So he will add all these

things unto you because he's saying, these things are not

worth your time to worry. Don't worry because.

There are other things in your life that you need

to give attention to. You have other things in life,

because this is the basic I will settle for you. You

need food, you need clothing, You need drink, okay, if

you today you need it, I so drink.

He will send it to you if you okay.

He will not give you alcohol, all right, unless it's

to heal your something like I don't know, all right,

Just don't ask something that you're.

Not supposed to drink, all right. So this is our God.

He says, these things are there.

It's part of it. Your heavenly father knows what you need.

That you need all these things. Please don't worry because

every day got new worries. So we don't need to

add the worries the stress. We don't want to have

stress because us all the I said, those things that

could happen will push you down. But we are not

going to live push down, pressed down. We're going to

live upward. We're going to live with freedom in the

Holy Spirit. These are the keys that the Lord is

showing to us Church. If you are a child of God,

if you believe in Jesus and you follow him, take

that key. Unlock those chains that have bound us for

many years. Yeah, our health especially, and don't keep worry

and stress because it will cause us to be in

bad health, whether it's migrain's, gastrics, if it's worried. Worry

can bring other kinds of sicknesses exema, skin problems. Health

is related. One you don't believe I'm telling you it is.

Unforgiveness is the other thing. But I'm not talking about

unforgiveness today. I'm talking about worry today. We want to

get worry out of our vocabulary and our lives.

Amen. But God's going to add back to you. What

is the Kingdom of God about Romans fourteen, Romans forte

and verse seventeen.

Romans fourteen and verse seventeen. All right, the Kingdom of God,

it says here, for the Kingdom of God is not

about eating and drinking, but it's about righteousness and somebody

and in.

Hallelujah. Now Alama can not eat it. But Jesus was

always eating. Amen. But that's like, that's a given. Don't worry.

It's a given. You will eat and you will drink.

But that's not what the Kingdom of God is about.

The Kingdom of God is about this, about righteousness and

peace and joy, all of which we need. We need peace.

If you can wake up in peace, you are so thankful,

you know peace. Because the worries are coming left, right

and center. I mean, some people are worried your petrol

price going up, you know, worry. No our cleaner in

our schools asking us to raise money.

Buggy pet world, draiseun you.

Clary, you're not petrol? Yeah, who's gonna give me? You

want me to raise your petrol? Give you money for petrol?

Giving me money for petrol? I mean we are worried

it keeps going high and high. Many things are a

bit difficult at this time. So so, but then we

are reminded to God's word. If even if, even as

you read through this, the verse seventeen says that the

kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking.

But righteousness. Then you ask righteousness? Whose righteousness? Jesus righteousness.

Jesus righteousness is ours. We clothes with righteousness.

You are walking. When you are walking in righteousness, you're

walking in alignment with God. If you're walking in alignment

with God, then then there's peace, Then there's joy, Yes,

praise the Lord. So I give you three points you

know and you know this for our and remind you

how do we walk in that? How do we continue

to walk in that freedom of seeking God's kingdom?

Number one?

You know this already. What do you think it is?

What's the key thing for Christian world?

Number one? M You need time to do devotion with Jesus. Amen,

every day with Jesus.

There used to be a little devotional book called every

Day with Jesus by Selwyn Hughes years ago.

Right, you weren't born yet, right, Joe.

Right, take time for devotion with Jesus yesterday and speaking

to leaders to the women with leaders, and they said, fast,

how do you keep yourself going when you have many

trials and you know as the job I do, I said,

I can only think of two things, and one is this.

I need to do my quiet time. I have to

because if I don't, then I don't know how to

think about that situation. I'll be so worried. I'll be

I'll be upset, or I'll be troubled. But I need

to do this quiet time. So to every person who

knows Christ today, your devotion with Jesus is just setting

time to talk to the Lord and to read the

word of God, or buy a devotion or use your

eye your apps. Okay, and I've used apps before. I've

used that before, and then sometimes I don't use that.

I just do my own Bible reading so that five

chapters a day. Five chapters is a lot to some people.

But just have to push so that God's word comes

into my spirit. Amen, take time for devotion. Devotion means

a quiet time. You struggle, and we all do because

it's about priority. But we must give some times. Start

with ten, fifteen, twenty thirty minutes and you grow. But

for if you're struggling, you're to stop struggling, because it's

like any relationship. You bill, you've been in love before,

you've dated before, you always want to see your favorite man,

your favorite woman, and so you will make time.

Amen.

Even in our marriage, we have to make time for

our husband, for our wife. If not, our marriage will

go this way. In my life, my line of work,

my husband.

Is always busy. He's talking more to other people than

he talks with me. Are jealous and I told him,

I say, you talk more to your bed and you

talk to me. They don't say. I said, well, it's true.

So they said, don't be silly, la, or you talk

to the elders, or you talk to everybody else. But

when you come home you're tired. How can this relationship

be real? We are real, We don't HI. That's what

real husbands and wife go through. If you go to work,

you come back, husband's hoota words goner ready, only fifty

words in a day, women millions of words. So husband

come back and not talk to us? I say, can

you just let me wrest? Of course, I'm what's Our

friends say, Hey, you o day? You never see me now,

don't you?

So we all need to do our quiet time, like

with Jesus, is in a natural building a relationship with

my loved one, my good friends.

Same with Jesus. If not, your relationship with Jesus will

go further and further away.

Right, So even with good marriages that want to be built,

we need to have time.

How about in the spiritual natural?

Or so we need to build spiritual life because you

cannot see God.

You know you cannot see God. That's why we can.

We can bon thing.

What's the word? We can cut off our word quiet time?

First thing out of the window. And you're late to

work today? You wake up okay, sorry, Jesus, cannot do

quiet time? Run to work first. I'll talk to you

on the bus. But if you're driving, you're gonna keep

your eyes on the road. How to read right, You

got to hear the Bible? Then, So friends, take time

for devotion with Jesus. Number two, Canna. I know you'll

hear me say this and many messages. You hear it

again and again like a broken record. But I'm telling

you devotion, how your time is a muss is how

you will survive because one day you will be alone, nobody,

your husband, holyday, You're friend won't be there, your teacher

won't be there, your past won't be there, your best

friend ain't gonna get You'll be alone at some far

away place.

How do you walk your faith in Jesus?

Students, when you're overseas, when you're away from family, and

then you don't far away from church.

You need your Bible and you need.

The place to sit and talk to Jesus. Simply simply

sit and talk with Jesus. Build your quiet time, build

that relationship. Grow your journey of trust in Jesus. We

don't all trust Jesus immediately because you're learning.

Can you grow that journey?

Journey means step by step growing. Today you talk about

the headache, Lord, I trust that you will heal me.

Those of cities late was Spain while you don't want

go play a game? Right Okay, so yeah, but then

you had to trust that the Lord would bring healing,

and he healed you.

But you're growing your faith and you're growing your trust.

The next time you do something else, you will Okay,

I'm gonna trust God a little bit more.

Better to grow than to stop and say no.

Rather, you grow your faith in trusting Jesus and as

you grow.

That journey is your journey. The final thing that happens

is you begin to root down your faith in Jesus.

You get rooted in your faith. Amen, you get rooted

in your faith. So God is so good to each

of us.

You know this. Many of you know this. Many of

you experience this.

God His love for us is everlasting. So the fact

is whether you really and whether you accept fully that

God loves you. Therefore, how do we walk with him

to build that relationship?

Number one? Devotion with him? Number two? Grow? Everything can

grow on one level to the next level, to the

next level. Amen. Just just why I say.

If you understand friendship and how our friendship grows, that's

the same thing the relationship with Jesus. We can grow

our trust in Him and we get closer and closer,

and you just know he'll never let you down.

He will provide for you. He will provide for you.

If you don't have something and you need it, you've

got to ask the Lord. Amen, Come on, Church, stop

complaining that God will make away, but it may not

be the way you want because his way will cause

you no stress.

No stress with Jesus. Just trusts there's no stress. But

trust Amen, as you trust him, you can't because the

problem with trusting is that you cannot see what you

have planned to happen.

But you have to trust that the Lord's way is higher,

and the Lord's way is a much better way. His

ways are higher, his thoughts for you are higher.

Amen.

So therefore, if you are having a need and it's

causing stress in your life, and want to encourage you

to invite you on this road of trusting Jesus, if

you're already in that situation, then would you ask the

Lord you're living in me?

I would trust you, Amen, I would trust you. So, Church,

there's no other way. I don't know how. Maybe in

other faiths you can do other things, but in our

faith with Jesus, there's only one way.

It's Jesus. It's Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Quiet time with Jesus,

not anybody else. We have to put our phones away

for the next ten minutes and just just sit worship him,

or sit and read and then talk to him.

There's no other way, Friends, I cannot I cannot exchange

for you any other way. That's only Jesus.

Everywhere you turn, it has to be Jesus, so that

this worry that Jesus says, don't worry, but seek the Lord.

And if we don't know where that tomorrow that provision

God will provide. Amen serious, serious. All of us have

gone through different challenges, whether we're believing for God for whatever,

the need of physical need, a financial need. You know,

it could be your your relationship, it could be your business,

whatever that need. I've been there and on so many occasions,

financial education, even our masters today. Really God who provided

the funds for Really, I would have never been able

to afford it.

But the lot is provided.

Even going to university, or as I said, I didn't

go to university.

I had to put myself to school. So I did college.

I did a professional course. I didn't even have that money,

so I worked. But as I worked, then the scholarship

came so that I could stop working to finish it

in two years. But the lot provided.

As I asked and said, Lord, if you are I provider,

then Lord, I just trusted you will you will send

the funds how I don't know. By God, I'm going

to trust because you know I worry. My worry will

be I'll be some pasha Rakat, I will be the

sum of the earth because finish, you know, finished from

six and then cannot go to university for whatever reason.

If that's my worry, right, you don't want to.

Jesus doesn't want us to live in stress, wants us

to live in his freedom, in his abundant life.

Amen, Thank you Jesus. Amen. Church. It's a simple message.

It's a good reminder.

There's no other way out in whatever you're going through,

whatever you're struggling.

Only Jesus do your pointent time journey to trust with him,

trust in him, Trust in Jesus. And then as you

grow in that journey, you will be rooted in your

faith that no storm is going to move your faith.

You are rooted.

You will never worry, you will never doubt, You're just

you know, even you know what it feels like, it's late,

but He's never late. He will be on time for

that provision that you need, whatever it is. Even when

you know things might not go the way we want it,

the Lord is still in control. I think some you

need to know in your heart of hearts that if

you say Jesus is your Lord, do you really believe

that He's got you carrying you in his hands, and

that he will have to make away.

That's how I live. Lord, you just have to make

away from me because I don't have anybody else. I

don't have anything that will secure the next step. Only Jesus. Amen.

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