Distraction | Elder Kien Yiak

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Soone speak about distraction.

Really, I want to speak about distraction this morning. And

if you have your Bible which you turned to Nihimi

chapter one, distruction is very real right this morning. Uh,

we could be we could be distracted by our sleep.

Sleep it's very rare. We okay, somebur's got no issue.

We all sleep on friends. You wake up, you know

at four am in the morning for football. We go

four morning to do a quiet time. All right, so no,

but some of us we do have challenges with that.

So destructions it's very different to different people. Right, but

near my chapter one, right, if you do not know

the story of Nihi Maya Maya, the Bible say he's

a cup bearer, cup bearer for the king.

Basically he serves the king.

So he basically his whole life, entire life, he's at

the palace.

Right.

There is something about serving the king that saw the

way you see things. Because you're open, you're exposed to

a lot of stuff which the common people may not

be used to write, or rather you would be accustomed to. Right,

like most of us here you know, we'll go to

Mama or.

The Nazi going, isn't it right?

I've seen those of people of different different different stature

will go and ask for Nazi go away. Why you

beef for the children who's really young? Not nothing wrong

with that, but because of their wealth, they're exposed to that.

So I wanted you to understand the knee, Maya, what's

in that particular place whereby in the palace serving the king? Right,

he doesn't really need to go out to the gardens

to plot fresh fruits for the king. No, he just

have to serve the king on it right, So come

worst to Hananima, my bradrooms came to came the man

from Judah.

So I asked them concerning the.

Jews who who had escaped, had survived, have the captivity,

and concerning Jerusalem.

Here is mee Maya.

In regardless of all that he experienced, his heart was

for his bedroom. His heart was for the people from

Judah Jerusalem. Then they said to me, the survivors who

were left from the captivity in the province, that was

a great distress and reproach. The walls of Jerusalem is

also broken down. The gates are burned, with fire. So

it was when I heard these words, I set down

my web on for many days.

Quite interesting.

The friends, I'm not sure how many of us here

when we hear of a situation like that, Yes, we

will feel how safe.

Set for a day or two day, we get on

my life? Right, No life just happens, all right, The wil.

Just turns, and you know, it becomes one of the

things that you know when it comes your way, right, friends,

you'll think about it. But the Bible here says that

he was set for many days, and that that of

that emotion, what he went through, he begins to fast

and begin to pray before the God of Heaven. You

must understand, you know this thing that I've seen whereby

sometimes that you know that the stables like this happens.

Not well, I'll pray for you, right, but that that

one prayer is maybe the twenty seconds, maybe a minute

maybe if you go, if you have the driving me

half an hour, right, But that's it.

Then we move on.

But here him, I want you to to understand that

his heart is for the people and the welfare of Jerusalem.

That comes worse four near my chapter two. Then the

king said to me, what you request, So I pray

to God Heaven again.

Wow.

And I said to the King, if he pleases the King,

if it's your servant has found favor in your side,

I asked it you sent me to Judah, to the

city of my father's too, that may rebuild it, that

I may rebuild Jerusalem. You know, distruction comes in various forms,

and one of the forms I do believe comes in

is in.

Terms of lifestyle. Lifestyle distraction.

Now Nemai was in the palace, there is I say again,

there's something when you say in the palace threads. It

does influence the way we think one the choices we

make in life. When our address, house address, or our

combination address is not in a particular location, it's a

different feel altogether. There's something, you know, when you say

you say Pandan, for example, compared to Jella and Pam, there.

Is a difference.

And sometimes our life friends, the distraction comes from our

lifestyle that I'm so accustomed to this manner, this way

of doing things, and this way of stuff that I

cannot see beyond that. One of the our partners who

went for mission trip, very first mission trip, never been

to a local mission trip before or askley mission trip

decided to you know, he wanted to go abroad below

and behold that he of all the place he chose.

He thought abroad.

Means flying overseas, right that he actually picked ching right, Kuching.

It was his overseas mission trip. First question he asked

was this, are there toilets in coaching?

Seriously?

Are there are the toilets in coaching?

Are the toilets? Are their proper toilets?

Are proper means to say that it's a sitter, not

a squatter. It's not one of those whole on the

in the on the floor, you know what I mean?

And he got because all this time. First his idea

of mission trip was urban urban missions, which means to

say there's air con. There is no proper toilets. Things

get flash one. You do have to put said to bury.

Whatever you put, you understand right. But sometimes our lifestyle

causes us to stop what God wants us to break through.

It does, and many times we make choices in life

because of that.

I can't see.

I can't if we have to down grade, then I can't.

So I'm not sure friends, whether or not that we

suffer through that. But ni Maya did not allow friends.

Ni Maya did not allow did not allow the palace

to get to his spirit. Ni Maya did not allow

friends a certain lifestyle, cuisine, food, even his relationship with

the king. After all, friends, these are bedrooms. You know,

you must understand. These are people from another city, another city.

Walls are burning, the people in distress. What this is

called concern and us we can, we can, we can

make choices in life like that that it doesn't concern me.

Why what happens to Manuel in Africa doesn't really concern me.

A few days ago we were on the call with

pass Lazis and he was just sharing those So he

doesn't stay in Botswana, so he and his wife resides

in Jobert, Johannesburg, but they drive to Botswana every weekend.

Every weekend they drive over and they do church and

then they drive back six hours to get to Botswana.

The drive was the drive for six hours, drive for

six hours to get there, do church ministry together with

his wife and two kids, that drive back to Jobert

after that six hours.

That's that's crazy, but they are.

And we were asking him that the buzz last and

you're all right, yeah, okay, you know, just just uh

thirty minutes just to shut out.

Then can carry on that damn sway by.

He got the accident before the times we send money

to help him to services come. You know, six hours drive,

you know how many kilometers that that will translate. So

it's never easy for ends. He could have opted it

or I say that you're on your own right.

Now, Butswana is yours because I'm not the native of

the land. This is this is yours. You handle it.

I'm in joburl right now, so I'll take care of

joburg And you know he could admit that choice, you

know what I mean. But friends, we shouldn't allow lifestyle

to distract us because many times in our life lifestyle

can distract us. So near my own came with prayer

and fasting. We need to understand there is power in prayer.

God.

There's certain times whereby uh, you are so used to

accustomed to a certain lifestyle and we need to pray.

It's not just like wow, of those like.

Human human that I resist you, I resist you, I

resist you, then I surrender to it. It's not about

the you in your real power to overcome the lifestyle. Friends,

there is something very magnetic, the spiritual with lifestyle and friends,

very seductive in terms of like we are so accustomed

to it. There's one time we are talking to our

church in Singapore. So our churches Singapore back then was

very new, never been to missions before, some of them.

So we told them, why don't you go to Indonesian Bercassi.

First question was this that do we have to eat

the street food? Do we have to eat the street

food in Indonesia cut up in Burkassi itself? Because to them,

to them, food court is straight food, but you won't

get that in Berkassi. You won't get it. Sausages is

of our different color over there, not the one that

we are used to.

You know, if you know what I mean, it's a bit.

I think it's slightly on the readish, like the full calory.

But because we do, we allow that to stop us

from experiencing God.

What the lot wants to do.

So n my Ol came in with prayer, fast Ultimately

he's surrendered to the view of God. See after prayer

and fasting. Friends, you and I we have a disasion

whether we want to surrender or not. Say Lord, I

like this place. I love this place. But Lord, wherever

you want me to go, I'll go. Wherever you place me,

I'll go. That's why I look at some straining tree,

steel waters, green pastures.

Right.

We love this picture rally of the shadow of death

table in my presence of my enemy.

There's always two sight to it. We love.

We love the the green pastures, steel waters. We love

that the picture. Friends, anybody whose selfs property always have

green pastures, right, steel waters, none of them. We're going

to put rally of the buy a property the value

of shadow of death.

No, by a property in the presence of your enemy.

No.

Friends. So therefore, friends, ultimately.

You and I need to surrender to the will of God,

because that's that's one of the way to oak up life.

Some distraction after that. First you and I thought that

would be over.

But near my chapter four words one says this by

so Haber Sambala, that we were rebuilding the walls. And

he was furious, indignant and mark the Jews. Friends, you

and I will always have a Sambala in our life.

We will always have a voice a reminder like that.

All right.

Then he spoke before his gradren the army of Samaria,

what are the fever Jews doing. Will they fortify himself

with his offer sacrifices? Will they complete the day were

they survived? We'll revived the stores they were from the

hip of rubbish that was burned. So some there's a

samblat that will come into your life and start doing.

Remind us.

Remind us friends, we have on our film, we have

remind us to remind us to do certain things. Now

the enemy also knows that because we got reminded, he

reminds you. He reminds you of certain things. First of all,

reminds what this feeble doing.

What you're doing with your life? What are you doing

with your life? What are you doing with your life?

Have you ever gotten that one of those moments whereby,

in the midst of our business, friends, in the midst

of our business.

In life, what are you doing with your life?

In the busy schedule, you go like, oh, I'm paying

the price, I'm I'm I'm waking up early. You know,

I'm hitting my targets. But there's certain emptiness and the

enemy was reminded. You See, I told you you are

going to a path your You're going on this path

whereby there is a satisfaction will they fortify themselves. We

they offer sacrifices with a revive and something will remind

him whatever they built, even the fox goes up, he

will break down the stone wall.

Some a lot knows friends that nih Maya was not

an engineer. He knows that. And Sabala also knows that. Friends.

The people that was with Nie Maya were people that

was in distress, this courage because of what was happening.

And if you were to pick a winning team friends,

to be honest, I don't think we'll pick people from

the people that's this courage because it's so hard to

motivate them. But God has a different plan al together.

The enemy seeks to distract you by ridiculing you, reminding

you that why are you doing your life? Can you

do anything? And whatever you do, even a fox goes up,

the stomach.

Will come down.

The enmeny will remind us friends that we don't have

the resources, we don't have the skill set, we don't

even have the charisma or whatever it is that.

We need to succeed.

Have you been in those positions whereby you're given the

task and you know the first thing you go that

I'm not competent enough. We don't need remind us of

friends that at the surrounding will remind us, our past

will remind us.

So they remind They reminded him that his people.

Are in great distress, reproach, disgrace, and the mighty city

of Juicem have fallen.

That's why pot cut in our school does, isn't it?

That's why pot cut in our school does?

Is it? Everything? You open up your report cut's all

right in color?

Sometimes it's a remind maybe the teacher read now England.

Maybe the teacher right now it doesn't have the use rate.

I'm just kidding.

Maybe you know you're.

Called the full time ministry because of the words of us.

Are you read skidding?

But I'm trying to say here, is that the report

cut reminds you sometimes that, like how how say.

Not good?

We are in our studies. There's some more one. Sometimes

our banking cut remind us that, you know that we

all need to be in the positions of the place right,

but we are not there.

Sometimes what we have reminds us that.

And God, retail shopping and stuff like the certain shops

you wish you could enter but you couldn't reminds you

I'm not talking just about money, friends, I'm not. I

also talking about sometimes our weight that you you wanted

to lose weight. And you know that particular shop back

then behind this shop called top Men. Right, it's only

for skidy people. The X x L size is M size, right, Okay,

I know that I'm really good looking people.

Right, But I tried friends. I tried double XL friends.

I'll say I swear, but I should have swear.

But I could have.

I could have read the labor double x L I

put it. I only could fit until here. The I'm like,

this is skinny. Maybe it's the Cheerleren's department. I don't know,

maybe the children department. But it reminds you. It reminds

you that, see, you're overweight. You're never going to lose

the weight. You're never go I don't know what is

that we go to, but we can't remind us all

the time. The enemy six remind you that you can't

do it. You can't do you can't overcome, you can't

you can't be of better health, even though no matter

what you try. I share you before, I tried almost

everything from from consuming salary for three months for breakfast

raw salary just.

Just the word is. Put it in the blender with

water blended. Just drink it because it say it's good

for health.

Right to lower cholesterol only the fir my cholestero just

maintain right.

Then you up the empty because after.

You hurt, big root is good. Raw big root is good.

So you blend big root and salary together just to

reduce cholesteroal first. I'd let you know after the thought

tree myself or another three more months my cholesterol levels

you're the same, I'm not sure after the world. First,

you try all the supplibus you could fight, or rather,

why would you could, Why why you could master you?

You read all the literature that is right, just to.

Remind you that you'll never never going to beat that

Colestero mount that you wanted.

I don't know what we go to first.

We go to different things, right, but we have an

enemy that reminds you that we are not good enough

for a cudent tasks. They remind you about what you

don't have, your past feelings, and what you can't The

weapon is reception. Ultimately, it costs you the oult of

my aims, cost you to have doubts, to cost you

to have doubts to cost you?

Am I? Am I doing correct? Am I? Maybe I'm

missing something?

Maybe that that that that salary needs to end the kale.

It costs you to, I don't know, it really costs

you to like what am I doing right now?

Right? You're propping more.

Supplements that Okay, this I'm not sharing because it's my health. Okay,

I'm propping more suppliments that I could count my entire life.

So my mom passed away three years ago, and and

I'm always having a conversation with my dad. Just the

other day, I talked about one hour and tis conversation

one hour and the conversation with my dad, and I was,

I'll tell you, my wife, man, this one hour to

thirteen minutes is more than my entire growing up years.

I've never talked more to my dad more than five

minutes when I was growing up. You understand, right, working there,

you know, don't really talk much. Go to work, comeback,

provide for the family. Right, do not disturb me. I

want to read my newspaper as well, small and small.

It's my cigarettes. It was this mom passed away, he

got nobody to talk to, so I called him. He

keeps repeating the same story in every conversation, same tone,

and I'm like, oh Dad, can you can you? Can

you put in new memories? Can you put in new memories?

Can you put it? Like?

Yo?

But it's the same thing. I'm I'm there, I'm so tired.

I'm like, oh, yes, well really it calls you to

have double like is this even working? You know?

Do you know that I'm calling you? Do you do that?

He gets all these really weird, really weird suggestions, maybe

I should retire here somewhere, all the way up to

many like that what you want to do?

To do money for?

It really cousts you to have doubts because like what

did I do wrong? Like don't stay with your son?

I remel ready.

If you've been there before you by it causes you

to have doubts in what you do.

I just have to trust a lot of friends.

When you are being when you begin to question your identity,

Come on, when you begin to question your identity, right

you are? You step away from the truth of who

God says you are. Sometimes that's what doubt causes you.

When you're alone in the situation, Am I really the

child of God? That's what tobiasics to do. Knee Maya,

you're alone. Knee Maya, you got no help, Near Maya,

you're of all the people you chose. You didn't choose

the best of the artists, and you chose the people

from Jerusalem who were distressed discourage. You chose a girl

people that man. I don't even know whether I want

to pick into my team or not. Ye're working with

this bunch of people and you have Do you even

have a plan? Do you know how to rebuild the walls?

Do you know how? This is not lego? If you

know what I mean, Lego is easy to rebuild the walls.

It's quite simple, I think. But do you even know

how to rebuild the worlds or not? That's why friends

in life, you need to remember. Near My was confident

in rebuilding the walls because he remembered he had the

letters come on from the king for a safe passage

to Judah and provision to rebuild in chapter one. In

chapter two, the king gave me my letters for a

safe passage. First, we may not have letters from the

king right now, but we have the letters from the

King of kings. If w she is our bible. So

in our Bible. Friends, there is there is encourage. Come on,

there's encouragement whereby in our lives, no matter what challenges

we go to, we will have a safe passage.

Yes, the same pressures doesn't mean that you.

Will not get treads. The same press doesn't mean that

you won't go too bad. Whether the same pressures doesn't

mean you won't feel the fire. But the Bible says

that even though you feel the fire, you will not

be burned. Even though you go to the tread, you

will not be discouraged because you have a letter from

the king. The Bible says also that the king also

gave him provision. It's very important for you and me, friends,

to realize that this provision is so important. I'm not

sure where you are with your journey, where you are

with your life, friends, But our God here's every cry

he does. The enemy seeks to take away some of

our provision. The Bible call is the devoural of our life.

And but we have the power to rebuild the devour

we have. But man at you don't exercit. We forget

we have the letters from the king to show a

safe passage. Man as we forget that, how good our

God is that we have this letter that we can

go to life.

With this letter of friends.

So in my chapter four fur the six says that

he overcame the enemy were ready killed by prayer and

having very portant, having a mind to work, having a

mind to work, having a mind to work. There's one

thing I just about prayer. The other thing is putting

what we believe into action. Come on, there's one. There's

one thing about just prayer. Always do pray. But after prayer,

there has to be a translation of believing, because without

that believe, friends, it's impossible to overcome. We say that

we have faith in God, and unless we go to

that the process and God allows us to go to

the that the circumstances, our faith is just.

Hit.

God will always bring bring you to a particular challenge

to remind you who God is and a situation to

really to show to you that you know that He's

in control. But you and I need to cry to him.

You and I need really, really really need to crowd

to him because I think that in life, friends, you

have lots some bless and tobias to remind you of

the accidents you have made the past. You have some

less to Tobias to remind you that you know that

that you messed up. And sometimes we.

Don't really do.

People really don't know our past. And you know it

reminds us sometimes the mistakes are not so good things.

You have done.

But God wants to remind us this morning that even

though someone Tobias could remind us. But having a mind

to work is say, God, recognize this treat and I'm

not going to drown it too much because I can't

listen to what they say all the time. I can't

listen to what they say all the time. I got

to move forward first in life. God wants encourage us

to move forward. Come on, he wants to encourage you

to move forward in him. Move forward to him. That's

not having a mind to work, is to move forward

in him. And here comes a reminder from the enemy.

They completed the day they revived stones that from the

heaps of rubbish stones that were burning. Do they revive

the stones? How on earth can you use rubbish to

rebuild the wall. As I bring this to my last point,

bring this my last point.

The teamish you really the last point?

It's something you say I was told about particular chest blood.

A couple came up to the chess par coordinator and

just said this, I don't like your preaching. I don't

like your preaching. This couple in the church, I don't

like your preaching, said why, what?

What's wrong with my preaching? Not not me a the

ch par cordinator. What's wrong with my preaching? You preach

too long? Right? You preach too long? She was shot.

Didn't have to reply. I was told to me.

I said that you have to stay on my next

I reply, I'm so sorry, but you don't have to

stay the whole. They really don't like it, because something

else to do. You can the dogs say you can

just quietly this exiter, but you have to preach another

church by coordinator another just cordinator. You preach too long

another one. And this brother just replied, really, I wish

I could preached a bit longer because he knows the person.

If this person is direct with him, you direct with

this person anyway. You know, I don't agree with your

message that another brother said to him, he's right to me.

You don't have to agree with me, but you just

have to agree with God.

Right.

So friends, sometimes it is you know that if we

go to life. Look at the rubbish in our life.

Can God uses rubbish to build the wall? I want

you to just focus on the moment. This is what

the enemy reminds him. I will then revive the stones

come on from the heaps of rubbish. That means the

rubbish was formerly a stone.

In the what part of the war.

But because sometimes we go to transformation of because the circumstances,

that stone became became like a rubbish. It's not the

best of the great If you understand and try to say,

if you and I will not choose it, we will

just not give it a second note because it is rubbish.

But God sees beyond the rubbish, he sees a wall.

Can the burnstones be used to rebuild the walls of

the city. It's so deceptive because in the process of rebuilding,

they want you to focus of doing everything on your

own strength, because them say this, will they revive? Will

they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish? Many

times of our lives, this is what the enemy seeks

to do, as I come to my last point, seeks

to get our eyes off God and focus in on

your strength.

And that's why with our own strength it's very.

Hard to overcome. Can you overcome or not? Can you

do this or not? In a few months time, you're

going to hear draw God to preach Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

See he's so with emotions right now.

Can't wait. I'm not a good pitcher. I know, Joe.

I'll give you. But if you ask Joe, is it

I he keeps saying no. He keeps saying no. Uh,

he keeps saying he keeps saying no. And act fact, yes,

we can't do our own strength. I wanted you it's true.

That's the correct answer.

We can't. Of course no. If you ask anyone, of

course no.

Because the enemy wants us to just use our own strength,

dive through tons of concordance. Give you a TCS. I

remember one time, a new person at the preaching. He

preached one and a half a half hours, one hour

to ten minutes. And after that that I asked, how

was it? Oh? I just went to a TC's presentation

as presentation one, I went to the minutes preaching. I'm

sure Selena can do better. She now she's a master

graduate now, ah right, and and if go that's what

we seek to do.

Isn't it.

I'm not saying this guy did that. This is wrong,

but just something. We live on our own strength. We

want to make sure that everyone gets understand the message.

And what we do is that we download every word

in Hebrew and Greek so you have the better understanding.

Right and my own strength, friends, but God has never

asked us to go by our own strength, because by

our own strength we will fail.

Yes, we can achieve.

One or two stones to use as a war, but

after all, friends, I think will be so overwhelming we

feel like giving up. If you have been in the place, friends,

someone encourage you. That's not the end. Yet, if you

are in that place, someone encourage you. It's not the

enya because God has a better plan. The enemy wants

you to focus it on your strength. Focusing doing everything

on your own. Don't need you rely on anyone. But

God wants to remind you the rubbish was not there

for you to turn up to revive. The rubbish was

not there for you to revive with your own strength.

Even rejected store can still be used by God. Even

rejected stone can still be used by God.

In your life, there are.

Hm not so good spots, and if only people knew

that sometimes that you know that.

We'll not get selected.

You do you understand what I'm trying to say, right,

if people really know who we are and will not

be selected, will not be chosen, will not be in

stuff like friends we make, we make life is like

it's not it's not because that we want to do something.

We make poor choices and because the poor choices we

asked consequences. There are the consequences. And if people know

our life choices, then we will be embarrassed by One

of the leaders shared with my wife and she was

just and then and and she and and she was

you know, she had to share. I can share this

with you because she over coming by you know, there

are there are is He hunts individual before we came,

before before she came to know the Lord, she was

a partygoer, really like you know, like hard core stuff

like wrong crowd, everything wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong choices and

this stuff that got pregnant in the process, got pregnant

the process. But because of that that they hit her. Ha,

I'm pregnant, not married, but I'm pregnant. I didn't want

anything to do with her and she was all alone.

Do you know Christ so the next best solution, next

best thing she could ever thought of, or she could

think of it, the very molmost abortion, abortion, abortion. Decided

to go through with it. So she went not a Christian,

not a Christian. She went through that years after she

gave me the Lord, and that thought and that that

that choice in life haunted her for many many years,

even after became a Christian, and she always thought that

I'm not good enough, I am not good enough. It's

not that she purposely godsel I want to experience the

grace of God to I go to know something, to

go to life, and the enemy rands her that you're

not good enough, not good grobb me the fact that

constantly you know that cannot progress forward because something is

holding that back. Decaid after a while that you know,

enough is enough. Now I can't live my life like that.

Decide to open up and begin to share and begin

to pray and to overcome by the grace of God.

Right now, she's already list in the church being able

to minister to young girls who's going through choices in

life that is very similar. I share this story with

you because I want to encourage your friends as I

close with last scripture. Is this the second current in

chapter Travels nine. Each time he said Paul, say, my

grace is it's all that you need. My power works

best in wakness. God's power work best in wakness.

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