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The message I have in stuff for us today is

called overcoming your fears. Overcoming your fears. And you know,

we know that the theme for our church, you know,

as we launch into a new theme is disciples.

First, right, Disciple disciple first, disciples first, right.

Uh. And sometimes we look at a title like that

we can immediately get, you know, And I hope nobody

here is jaded to start thinking, oh man, more meetings,

more meetings, more discipleship classes to go to, mom huddle meetups,

more leaders coming to tell me, hey, maybe it's time

for you to join a huddle, and this and that

and that and then. But you know, when we think

of discipleship or making disciples, it's really not an internal meeting.

The Jesus model is always external. When Jesus gave the command,

it says that go into the world and make disciples

of all nations. He's not saying that let's have more meetings,

let's have more you know, church meetings. He's saying that

I want you to go out there, and I want

you to influence the world. And I want you to

remake the world in my image, in God's image, in

Jesus' image. And it got me thinking, you know that, yes,

we know that that there are times so we need

to spend time, you know, with our discipleship circles in church,

you know, in Ohodos and whatnot. But the Law also

wants us to go out there and disciple the world.

And so whether you are currently in a leadership capacity

or not, it does not matter. We are all called

to make disciples. And wherever God has placed you, that's

your your your your target audience, that's where God wants

you to make disciples off. And I started to think of, like,

you know, in the world that we're living in right now,

you know, many times Christianity doesn't have a very good impression.

You know, people don't really have good impressions about Christianity

because either there's not enough practical living out of our

faith a man. A lot of times, you know, I

meet whether people in this country or the country that

I'm currently serving, a lot in A lot of people

grew up religious, They attended religious classes, they attended chapel,

they attended missionary schools, and so they know a lot

of information about Christianity, but they don't see a lot

of application. And it got me thinking of, like, you know,

one way that we can make disciples is to really

role model out what it means to love, because our

faith is about God loving us, you know, sacrificially and selflessly.

You know.

Another way is for us to role model out or

what it means to show grace to other people, because

our entire faith is built on the fact that God

constantly shows us grace and and and another thing of course,

uh and and I think this is particular apt to

the seasons that we're living here right now, is that

we need to role model and lead the way to

the world around us and what it means to live

courageously because we are living in the in the season

where you know, everything is so fearful, right, everything is

so fearful. You know, whether a certain president of a

certain country wake up and decide to hit the world

with more tariffs, some people are thinking, you know, wild

Malaysia be involved in some of these tariffs.

Uh.

You know, people are saying that, well's this caused a

global recession. Fear fear, fear, fear, fear, and that's on

top that's that's just economic fear. There are the fears

that we go through every day. You know, I'm not

sure whether it's like a health fat thing, but but

but but since coming back to Malaysia, you know, blood tests,

blood test seems to be a very cool buzz word.

Everyone's saying that have you don'e a black test yet?

Have you done a black test? Have you done a

blood test? I'll be like, what like when I left

Malaysia to serve the Lord. You know, now now, thanks

Selena to almost ten years now, you know, the blood

test was not the buzzword.

You know, but now blood tests you know, oh, blood tests.

You know, you go for this blood test, you signed

for this package, and you will tell you know, how

well your kidneys are working, how were your liver is working.

You know, they can do all these kind of things.

So we're living in a climate of fear, whether it's

economic fear, health fear, or just the unknown fear of

the future. And so as Christians, it's very important for

us to to to go like, you know what, God,

you did not create me to live under fear. In fact,

you know, the Bible says that perfect love cast out

all fear. And and we know for the fact that

that God did not give us a spirit of fear,

but he gave us, you.

Know, a power, love, and a sound mind.

And so as Christians, you know, because we are people

who have faith in the.

God who holds tomorrow.

I think that one of the hallmarks of Christians should

be courage. I believe that if if you're a Christian

in your in your workplace, in your campuses, uh, the

people around you should know you for for many good things.

They should know you for being a loving person, know

you for being a kind person. They should know you

for being a gracious person. But they should also know

you to be a courageous person. And that I believe

is what the Lord wants to get into our spirits today.

And so I want to share with us here a testimony.

Is that, okay, a testimony that that started out as

a story uh and uh.

And it was.

A personal journey wrastling with fear that helped me to.

You know, overcome fear.

And I hope that today my story, my testimony will

inspire you, encourage you to be people who are courageous,

because you know, we will all face something scary in

our lives sooner or later, and when we do, I

pray that we will not panic, but we will hold

on to the convictions of God and then we will

live out our faith for the world to see.

Amen.

You know, it's okay if I just shad a testimony,

you know, so you know. September tenth, twenty twenty four,

the Lord Bless myself a cat with a beautiful baby boy.

His name is James.

I would have shown you a picture except that I

lost my phony in my own car, but you're just

gotta take my word for it.

He's very cute.

He is currently holding the record for baby the bond

of the most hair in Ex London. But it's very

easy competition because there's only one baby Ex London, so

I can I can for now say that he is

the cutes maybe in Ex London, you know, but the

journey there started, you know, much earlier, and today is March.

What's the day to the March sixteenth?

March twelfth, twenty twenty four. I still remember.

March twelve, twenty twenty four was when Ken and I

went for our very first scan, very first scan, uh,

and so we went there for very first scan. We

were very excited. You know, we went in the room,

you know, stand the procedure. They were like, okay, you know,

we're gonna put some no jelly on your belly, you know,

on jet on cats. Uh, and we're gonna you know,

get the ultrasound scan.

And all that and uh, you know, and.

We were very excited and we you know, I was

getting my phone ready to take a picture of the

ultrasound or to take a video. But as they were

doing that, they were scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning. After

a while, you know, it got so serious that they

go like, so maybe you don't put your your phone away. Uh.

And then they go like they even turned off the

the ultrasound that we could see so that they could

focus on what was happening. And they were scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning, scanned,

and we're like, okay, you know, you sometimes in life

is like that. You know, you're you're just going through life.

You're just going through another routine day, another routine check up,

another walk in the park, and then suddenly sometimes just

like that, you know, life that is very calm can

still become very scary. And so certainly the two UH

scan technicians that are going like okay, or there's something

in your baby scan that that popped up. We're just

gonna go talk to a consultant down the hall, uh

in the in in in the meantime, maybe you guys

can will make you guys wait in another hall. And

so we were like okay, So we started going and

waiting another hall.

Uh.

And long story short, this consultant finally saw us and

go like, yep, they were right to refer you to us,

because as you were scanning for your baby, we noticed

that there's a certain fluid. So there's a fluid at

the back of the baby's neck called knuckle fluid. And

so they said that, you know, we don't know why,

but research and and and enough cases to have shown

us that babyes with a high knuckle fluid have a

high chance of having a lot of genetic disorders. And

so the acceptable level of a knuckle flow is three

point two millimeter three point two Uh, your son is

four point six millimeter. And so plus the fact that

you guys are older, you know, they're you know, the

UK doctors are very realistic, you know, like you know,

they look at my wife, you know, at the time

she was only nine.

Man, you're old. You know, uh what doesn't have grace.

That's why Christians need to show grace. Amen. Uh.

And and say that because you guys are older. Uh.

And and we're gonna do a black test.

Uh.

And we're gonna crunch some numbers. Uh, We're gonna factor

this thing in. So after all that, the doctors said that, okay,

you have basically one. You know, they were explaining, initially

explained to me, how many percent of getting this thing,

how many percent of your child contracting down syndrome, how

many percent of your child can ready at ward syndrome,

how many percent of your child can toe syndrome. And

and it's all very small numbers, just hitting you very

fast and furious. And then I go like, oh, okay,

but it doesn't look really a lot. But then the

doctor said that, yeah, it doesn't look very a lot.

But if you add them all together, you add them

all together, there is a one in four chance that.

Your child will not be born normal.

I know where was this doctor's big site patient manners?

I don't know, but he you know, maybe this doctor

thought that by being straightforward he can cut straight.

To the but he was basically saying that, so can

you imagine the shock to our system? And so we

were We thought.

We were just going in there, you know, seeing the

first scan of our baby, and suddenly we're being bombarded

with faced news and right then then we were in shock.

And on top of that, the doctor said that are

you guys open to the idea of termination in abortion?

In other words? And I go like, no, no, no,

we don't want to terminate our child. And then they're

gonna say are you sure? Are you sure? There's no

shame in changing our mind. You see, the world is

expert at throwing fear our way. The world is expert

at trying to be practical, trying to be pragmatic. But

as Christians, we are called to live in a higher way,

in a more faith way. Now, don't get me wrong.

It wasn't like Cat and I were like no problem, doctor.

You know, we were quite literally having a world turned

upside down and we were just holding insight. It was

just my my, my my Asian pride that they didn't

allow me to cry in front of doctor. And you know,

we just say that, you know what the doctor is

saying that if you want, we can do more tests.

You can do more tests, and you can do this

test now, which will will insert a needle straight into

your wife's belly to draw up some you know, genetic

material from your baby's son. But this will have how

many percentage of miscarriage? You know that they're telling all

the facts. And you know this doctor of course was

I don't know the Lord help him, you know, I

just remember his name is Matthias, so please don't name

is the mas lah. Yeah, yeah, it's okay. At least

now I know one good Matthias, you know im. I

was about to say that, oh, I'll never name my

child Mattias. I just remember his Matthias.

I was like, is this.

And he was just trigger happy, you know, And we

just say that can give us some time to think

about it, we need to pray about it. And then

they say that, okay, if if you can get back

to us tomorrow morning, if you want to go for

more procedure or tell us what you want to do next.

And in life it's like that, right You're going through

your day, you're just trying your best to just survive, uh,

and then things that you never asked for just get

thrown your way. And I believe also that when these

kind of things happen, it's not because God is not good,

but because God knows as Christians we are we should

be people who can handle the tough things. And God

is looking, you know, he's looking for his children to

rise up so that we can roll model for the

world what it's like to face the tough things in life,

the scary things in life. And in scripture there's a

similar story. Let's tend to mark Chip five, verse thirty

five to forty two. Mark five thirty five to forty two.

You have the story of a synagogue ruler. His name

is Gyrus, and he was inviting Jesus to come heal

his daughter. And if your dad can hear, good Amen,

and uh, we'll have it flash up.

Fantastic. Oh wow.

And so we'll go read from just verse thirty five.

We're gonna read from Mark five thirty five to forty two. Right,

so we're gonna read it says there. While he was

still speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house,

who said, your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher

any further. When this story started, Gyrus was approaching Jesus

to say that can you come and.

Heal my daughter? She's not well. She's not well.

You know, he had enough faith to believe God for

a healing of somebody who is not well. But while

waiting for the healing to come, the situation became worse.

And now it's no longer a healing that he needs,

is a resurrection that he needs so much so that

it says that don't bother the teacher anymore. Your daughter

is already did right, let's keep reading. As soon as

Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he said to

the ruler of the synagogue, do not be afraid, only

believe you see Jesus, this is how he wants us

to overcome fear.

Don't be afraid. Just believe. Believe in what.

Believe that all things will somehow turn out for the better. No,

believe in him, Believe in God. Believe that we serve

a God who cares. We serve a God who sees.

Amen. And then let's con you reading.

And he permitted no one to follow him except Peter James, John,

the brother of James. Then he came to the house

of the ruler of the cigaret and saw a tunnelt

and those.

Who wept and wailed loudly.

When he came in, he said to them, why make

this commotion and weep?

The child is not dead but.

Sleeping, Jesus declared, And they really killed him. But when

he had put them all outside, he took the father

and the mother of the child and also with him,

and entered where the child was lying. And he took

the child by a hand and said to her, taylita kumi,

which is translated, little girl, I say.

To you, arise.

And immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was

twelve years of age. And they will overcome with great amazement, heman,

praise God.

So you have also here a.

Similar incident of a father wrestling with a bad medical report.

And as I was wrestling, and both both myself and

Cat were wrestling, having twenty four hours to decide what

to do next, we turned to God.

We turned to scripture, and one of the scriptures that

spoke to us was this.

And you know, we started talking and and and and

through this journey, the Lord began to speak to me.

Uh and what he spoke to me will become a

three points this morning. So point number one, how do

we overcome your fear. You got to close it, got

to close it.

What do I mean?

We live in the world today, not of a lack

of information, but too much information.

Can you agree? Too much information?

Everybody now has an opinion about something, everybody has an idea.

You know.

Uh, there's there's too much information too readily at our fingertips,

you know, recently our I was just talking to our

social media team in the UK and I go like, oh,

one of your posts, you know, the audio didn't quite

work out. Can you guys fix it? And it replied

to me. I was like, oh, plasus it. We don't

have to fix it, but we're gonna ask chat GBT.

I'll be like, I never heard people say that before.

You know, during my time, you'll be we'll google it,

you know, or ask something. Now it's like we'll ask

the AI overlords what to do, and it will live

in the world right now where there's too much information,

way too much information. And so guys, you know, when

he pointed me to the scripture, he says that Dave

close it, close it, And Jesus reminded us that you know,

sometimes in life, when you want to believe God for

a miracle, when you want to believe God for a breakthrough,

you must be mindful to surround yourself with the right people.

You notice that when Jesus told Gyrus, don't be afraid,

just believe. But when he went to the house, he

had to close the door. He had to chase the

people out. And even though Jesus had twelve disciples, he

brought only three. Now, no shade against the rest. But

even Jesus know that, you know in this scenario, you

know he doesn't need Thomas.

To be there. Oh, Jesus, word, don't Jesus.

Just you know he doesn't need I don't know Philip

or Andrew to be there calculating, you know, like know

how much bread do we need? Jesus also had to

close it. He had to close the door. He had

to chase the people who are crying and making a

commotion out, keep the parents in, keep his care disciples in.

And then the miracle happened. And so, friends, if you're

going through something scary, I don't know what you know,

whether it's a medical report, whether it's a financial situation,

whether it's a job situation. The first thing you've gotta

do if you want to overcome, if you want to

begin to live courageously. Is that you're gotta close it

and then you're gonna make God the only voice. You're

gonna make Jesus the only way again. So if Jesus

roll modeled it out by going like you know what,

we're gonna we're gonna close this this, you know, loop

and and reduce the noise, then we're gonna do it too,

and so.

Can and I.

We prayed, but we didn't tell anyone about it because,

like I said, this will be the first baby in

our church in the UK, and a lot of young

people we don't know how they will handle. We don't

want it to be something scary for the younger married couples.

Last year we married, We married three couples, you know,

last year, and their church is growing. People are getting married,

you know. Just yesterday, I you know, a young man

texted me and say, past that think you're proposing so

so so you know, life is happening in church, and

so we were very mindful to go like, you know what,

I don't think the rest of church can handle this.

I don't think we can and put out an SMS

prayer link to go like he prayed for us. And

then so we just got to go like you know what,

like you're not We're gotta face this ourselves. But closing

it also means that, you know, we need some people

who are close in our lives.

You know, Jesus had Peter, you.

Know, he had James, he had John, the brother of James.

Who do you have? Who you have?

And so I know, you know, this year we'll talk

about this about ship first, but but we need, you know,

we need to open up our lives to some people

that really really care. And so one of the peoples

that we we didn't know what to do, you know,

but one of the peoples that we reached out to

was Passisendra.

And so we say, Passisendra, you know, and and she's amazing.

Because we we were we couldn't sleep, we were praying,

and we just didn't know.

We just needed a sounding board. Uh. And you know,

I remember at three a m.

We texted her three am or time, which would be

like I think in the morning over here, and uh

and we just say that passo.

Uh are you free to talk?

And she never asks what is it to just go

and say, yeah, sure, give me a few minutes. And

so in life we need leaders like that. We need

people like that, you know, we need you know, you know.

So if you're not, this is my my duty. If

you're not plugged into homes, please plug into homes.

If you're not in a.

Serving, you're gonna be serving because you need people in

your lives who really care now that can help you

go through some of the scariest moments in your life.

And so, you know, so the first part is you're

gonna close it.

Amen, You're gonna close yourself out to external voices. And

then you're gonna listen to the voice of Jesus because

only the voice of Jesus can lead to a miracle.

It was only Jesus commanding the little girl to rise

that the girl actually rolls. And so if you're going

through something right now, can I can I encourage you?

Just close it?

You know, it doesn't matter whether it's your parents or

your auntie, your uncle. Now everyone has an opinion, you know,

you have you had that friend who comes up to

you and go like, oh, I'm so scared for you.

Have you had people say that for you, I'm so

scared for you. But what happened? I'm so scared for you.

Why I don't need you to be scared for me.

I need to have a solution, but instead we.

Have people in our lives. I'm so scared for you.

You know. We need to close it, friends, and we

need to come back and make Jesus the main sound

the board of our lives.

Amen.

After that, what we need to do is we're going

to carry in, carry in, carry one. Carry your fears,

because if you don't carry your fears, your fears will

carry you and carry you to some really nasty places.

But you need to carry your fear, carry them where,

carry them to Christ. You know, the Bible says in

Matthew eleven. You know, come to me, all of you

who are weary, all of you who carry heavy burdens,

and I will give you rests as Jesus take my

yoke upon you and let me teach you, because I

am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find

rest for your souls. It is only when we carry

our burdens to Jesus that we are.

Able to find true rest.

And so, like I said, it was around March twelfth

that we had our first scan, and for last year

that was I think at the start of the U

turn season, and so we decide that, you know what,

we're gonna close it. We're gonna close it. We all

make God the only voice. We don't want to make

any more tests. The So what we did was, you know,

the next day, after praying, after talking about Sandra, and

say that we're just going through this, and Pass of

course was very sympathetic and say, let's pray together, let's

believe God for a breakthrough. The next day, we just

call back the doctor's office and go, let we don't

want to go for any more tests. We don't go

for any more tests because first of all, we don't want.

This to affect the way we love our baby.

But secondly, tests can give us a definitive conclusion. You know,

the test that all the doctor recommends is that this

will tell you the percentage. This will tell you the percentage.

This will tell you the percentage. And because as much

as the doctors like to be straight talkers, they also

like to protect themselves because they.

Say that if this one hundred percent rules it off,

it might come back to bite them.

So they just say that, you know so, So in

other words, if I don't close it, and if I

open my life to more exams and more tests and more,

you know, procedures, you'll never finish. One test will lead

to another test. I need to close it. I need

to go to Jesus. But secondly, I got to carry

it to Jesus. How do we carry to Jesus? We

carry it in worship, We carry it in communion, you know.

So I just remember they were in U turn. Every

day before breaking fast at seven pm, both Cat and

myself will spend an hour before that just having family

worship time, just having family worship time. And so we

will just worship the Lord and they will take communion together,

and then we will pray and then we will break fast.

Why why do we do that? Because we need to

carry it, not just to anywhere, but we need to

carry it to God. And then we need to carry

it and put it under the authority of God again.

And so another thing that God phatically challenge me to

do is to take the medical report. And I actually

still have the medical report here. And this was the

first medical report that was given, and if you're interested

in come and read it. But I took it and

it's still in my Bible. Because after that, the law

says I want you to take that medical report. I

want you to put it where it matters. I want

you to put it under the authority of the Bible.

And do you know that your Bible you can use it.

You know your Bible, you can highlight it. But you

know that your Bible, you know it represents God's word,

God's heart. Do you know that if you're going through something,

do you know you can write letters to the law

and place them inside. And so this is why I did.

I placed that medical report, that bad medical report, and

then place it under the authority of scripture and say

that God, I'm I can't carry this, but you can.

I am not strong enough, but you are.

And just as our Savior hung for us on the cross,

I'm now putting one additional thing and hanging on the

cross and believing God for healing. And so, friends, if

you're going through something, all right, close it God who

you listen to, make primarily God the person you're listening to.

But then also carry that burden. Don't need to overshare it,

don't need to share it on social media, don't need

to share it with with with with people you know

I know some of us. Here we find a Lord

draw and offloading. You know, we love to somehow I

saw somebody sit, you know, I overheard somebody say I

don't need a solution, I just need to vent. And

sometimes we love venting. We love venting what we're going through.

But friends, venting can't solve what we're going through. And

sometimes we've got to be very selective of what we do.

So you're gonna close it, you're gonna carry it, and then,

last but not least, you're going to cast it.

You're going to cast it. You're going to cast it out.

You know, like I said, you know, God has not.

Given us a spirit of fear about power and love

and a sound mind and the Bible, ASO says in

First John chapter four of US eighteen, that perfect love

cast out all fear. In fact, in Philippians chapter four

of US six seven, sisters, be anxious for nothing, but

in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving. Let your

request be made known to God and the peace of God,

which surpass us all understanding. Will God your hearts and

minds true Christ, Jesus. Do you know that you know

a lot of us here we might be on Facebook,

on social media.

Have you ever had that.

I don't know, feeling like your phone is spying on

you have been there before. You know, you're talking about

traveling somewhere and instantly all the instagram comes up is

you know, airplane tickets or you're talking about shopping. And

then Steny it comes up and said that, right, do

you know that if the algorithm can be so I

don't know, devious, do you know that there's something worse

out there in the algorithm. It's called the enemy and

so close you know where you get your opinions from.

Carry your fears to God.

But this is something that we're gonna actively constantly do,

which is that I'm here to tell you we can

close our loop, we can carry it to the cross.

But doesn't change the fact that panic attacks will come.

Doesn't change the fact that we will have moments or

weakness where some very scary thoughts will come in, you know,

speaking of the algorithm. While going through all this, for

some reason, I don't know why, but the enemies need

to use a social media algorithm. I started seeing a

lot of social media accounts of children with special needs

popping up, popping up, popping up, popping up, popping up.

Whether it's a charity or whether it's those mummy bloggers,

whatever it is, I'm like, whoa, what is this man?

And that's where the Lord says that you're gonna cast

it out. Every time you feel so overwhelmed, you just say,

in Jesus name, get out, in Jesus name.

Whatever this fear, whatever this emotion, just get out, get out.

And so, friends, how my story enders this? Right? I

wish my son is here so you can see how,

you know, cute and healthy it is.

You just gotta take my word for it.

And so what we started to do, oh okay, some okay, yeah, yeah,

there's one of the pictures. Okay, yeah that's cute. There's

there's cute ones, but okay, cool. I'm very biased. So

what we started to do was we started to turn

to each other. We turn to God. We started to

worship every day, We take communion every day, and we

started to train.

Our minds to cast things out.

And I should remember the last week of U Turn,

final week of U Turn, as we're just worshiping.

And I can be real with you.

You know, there are days where it's hard to worship,

but we had to do it faithfully. Anyway, there are

days where it's hard to take community and believe that

God will you really, you know, because you do know

sometimes the enemy can come at you with very Christian voices,

you know. So for all my personal struggles, this is

but Dave your pastor were God is sovereign, you know.

God is sovereign. God can do anything right. So what

if God wants you to have a child with special needs?

And I really had to go like, Okay, God, is

this you or is this a very good impression of

you by the devil?

And this is where we really need to go back

to God.

We need to read scripture and not saying that God

is not sovereign and God can't do what he does.

But I'm also here to tell you that God's not

dead and God speaks, and so what We're faithfully going

through this and faithfully being bombarded with thoughts that sometings

I'm not even sure whether it's from me or from

the devil, and casting out becomes more.

And more murkier.

I want you to know that we serve a God

who does not leave us alone in our pain and

in our suffering. And so in the last week of Utah,

I just remember suddenly as I was worshiping. I just

had this sense of peace that came outside of me.

It didn't come within me. It came outside of me

and it entered me. And I had just sense until

today kids to hear it.

It was a voice that says it's done. It's done.

And I remember.

Telling Kat Kt, I just had this sense of feeling

that that it is done. And Kat goes like, really,

I didn't feel you know, I'm glad you felt it,

but I didn't feel it. And so it felt like,

you know, and I'm not trying to you know, rob

the glory of all the importance of pregnancy, you know,

and the price that women pay. But it felt right

there at that moment that while Kat was physically pregnant

with our son, God made me pregnant with a miracle.

And just as how we you know, pregnancy you need

nine months to deliver. I had within me assurance, you know,

within me, assurance that God says that it.

Can be done.

And now I just seem to carry out faithfully for

the nine months to see that breakthrough. And true enough,

our first scan was horrible, but the second scan, God

just started to move. I actually remember we went for

a second scan very nervous, very nervous. And we went

there and and you know, the person said that, oh,

you know, I was I was praying at home. But

we see the same doctor again. We'll see no doctor,

doctor Mattias again. And and by the grace of God,

we didn't see him. It was another doctor. And a

person said, oh, hello, we will hear a situation. And

you said that you didn't go for any further test.

That's fine. There's other ways we can find out whether

your child is healthy or not. And they began to

explain to me, you know, one of the key indicators

of genetic disorder is a heart condition. So we want

to look at your child's heart. We're gonna put under

a special scan that can now look even into the heart,

and we want to look into it.

And then so they were scanning, scanning, scanning, skinny, skinny,

skinn skin skin.

Scanning, and then the person said that, oh interesting, I'll

be like, oh, oh no, is everything okay? So yeah, yeah, yeah,

it looked like there was a hot issue, but it

looked like the hole. It looked like there was a whole,

but it looked like the whole closed itself. And we

were like, oh, really yeah, it looked like it closed itself,

and the heart sounds really healthy. And uh, you know,

we just checked the fluid at the back of your neck.

It's gone completely gone.

And so we were like, oh wow, praise God, you know.

So it went back out there. But the journey continues.

We gotta still keep closing it. We gonna still have

to carry it, and we still got to cast it out.

But God knows when to give us encouragement to make

the journey bearable. And then next scan, I'm like, God,

please give us the kind doctor, you know, like we

met the previous scan, so scan number three or this

this scan, man.

Praise God.

Not only did we not get the first doctor, we

got a Chinese doctor, you know. So I'm so sorry,

you know, just you know, uh, the Lord knows how

to speak to, you know, and no young lady who

is Chinese and say, oh, yeah, how about your situation,

but let me just do some scans, okay. And then

this time, this this young doctor. She's young, she just

looks young, but she's probably very qualified, you know.

Uh.

And and so she was saying that, oh, my previous

colleague with her heart, I'm gonna look at other things,

because you know how the limbs and how the fingers,

and how the bone and how the bone that stick.

All these things can also tell us without having invasive tests,

how your child's gonna come out, because if there is

a genetic disorder, it will start forming by now. And

so the person was scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning, you know,

and then after doing very thorough scan and go like, oh,

I'm so sorry if I certainly will go quiet. I

just need to concentrate to scan. But you know, okay,

scancingcan it looks like everything is good? But is it

okay if I do another scan? Because I'm actually left handed,

but a lot of the machinery is right handed, so

I had to train myself to use the machine on

the right hand side. But if you don't mind, I

would like to take another left handed machine, just to

be thorough. You see, when God gives you encouragement, he

gives you real encouragement. He gives you doctors to really care.

He gives the doctors who are both left handed and

right handed, who teach themselves how to be right handed,

you know, like the excellence. You know what I'm saying about,

you know, And top of that, Chinese and and I'm

just okay, just okay. And so came in and scanned

and go like and and then this this doctor go like,

you know, I still remember her name, you know. So

if you uh, Denise, Denise Chance, so, any anyone here,

you know, you want to name your child Denise.

So the and then the person said that.

By the looks of it, of course we can't rule

out everything. And I know it can be very scary

coming in for scans like this, but I want you

to know that it's safe to treat this like a

normal pregnancy. Uh and and and and then we were

left there thinking, oh wow, praise God, No, God, you

really come true. He scanned is getting progressively better, but

we're still gotta close it. We're still gonna carry it,

We're still gonna cast it. And God also knows this.

God knows when to give us encouragement. But God also

knows when to lead us back to him again, because

how we know that sometimes the encouragement can become like

an idol.

And then and and and.

Instead of trusting God and what he has said and

that he is the one that will finish the world,

we end up, you know, taking the signs and circumstances,

the blessings in our lives, and we use it as

a crutch. And so God has a real sense of

humor because by the fourth scan, guess who we saw again,

doctor Matthaeas. And uh but you know, and you know

what's the worst thing, he does not even remember us,

Like he's the person who turned our life upside down.

I remember him, but he doesn't remember us. And he's

just treated okay whatever, and uh, fifth scan, Doctor Matthaeus again.

Sixth scan, Dr Matteus again. Now we're able to look

bad and laugh. Actually it's a real black I can

say number six scan because do you know that in

the UK because public health service, you know, is free.

So if your baby is healthy and all that, do

you know that you only get two scans. You get

one scan, the first scan, and then you get one

more scan like two months before your baby arrives.

And that's it.

I know some of you are thinking or manation, not

so bad exactly. But you see, because we did not

go for additional you know, screening and all that, they

had to put us into a specialty unit. And by

the grace of God, true the specialty unit we had

to come in for more scans. So in a way,

you know, God causes all things to work out for

the good. And one last testimony and now close again,

you know, we gotta close it, we gotta carry it,

BA cast it.

And we were at.

The almost finishing line. I just remember the day where

James was gonna come. In fact, he came early. He

was supposed to come. He came I think ten days earlier.

Uh and but but it was all good, and so

we were waiting to get into the delivery room and

eventually we did. Uh And long story short, you know,

we were there. Kat had just got an epidural in,

you know, which is like pain relief for her. And

we were told by the by the nurse to say, okay,

everybod is in. Maybe in the next thirty minutes to

forty minutes a wee can start pushing.

Right. So I was like, okay, great.

I just sat down, just taking up my phone just

about the update family. As I was about to send

out a report an update. Suddenly the nurse noticed something

and then the nurses go, I just pressed the button,

but don't be alarm. If anyone who's free will probably

just come in right now. But she's sitting in such

a calm way where I was so tired of whatever.

What I didn't realize was that suddenly the whole room

from just one as I sat down to set out

a text before I send the text out, our whole

delivery room was cuddenly filled with doctors and nurses and everything.

Because what had happened was this, this the very good

midwife had noticed that the baby's heart rate certainly dropped

to very dangerous levels, critical levels, and press a button

and instantly the whole room came in. And so this

is what I mean by overcoming fear is not a

one time thing. It's an ongoing thing. And you think

closing it once it's enough, No, you're gonna close it

again and again. You're gonna carry it to the cross

again and again, and it's gonna cast it.

Out again and again.

And so right there, and then they suddenly come in

and then they studded like, you know, going like, oh,

baby's heart were going down.

What do we need to do? We need Russia in.

For emergency Saian right now. We're gotta rush in emergency Sysaian, right,

And so they immediately make a decision. You know when

I was there. I was going, like, what's happening? I

was really pushed aside. You know right now you don't matter,

and and and so they they did all that, and

then they go, okay, we're gonna go right now, and

they just chuck me some scraps to go, Okay, you

gotta change and because we're gonna go into the opportunity

to operating theater.

And they allowed me to come along. And I was

in the.

Toilet Suddenly I thought, God, each scam was getting better.

I thought you said it was done. What's happening right now?

What's happening right now?

You know?

Uh? And and right there, and then I had to

say I heard God says.

That day what they teach you? Why I teach you?

And go like you taught me to other voices. Yeah,

I know that room had a lot of doctors suddenly rushed.

But you're gonna drop out all their voices. You're gonna

listen to me. I say, I will take care of you.

I say I will hear your son. Trust me. Now

you're gonna carry it all the way. And then you gotta,

you know, begin to still cast out all these thoughts

and so as I stumbled my way and out of

the toilet. I was so nervous I couldn't tie my

shoelace to stumble in. And they were rushing Cat in.

Uh.

By then, you know, Cat was looking really pale. Uh

and you know they had to emergency operate on her.

Uh.

And later they found out that uh, there was a

chord umbilical chord around the baby's neck and and and

that probably.

Caused his hard way to drop.

Because every time there's contraction, you know it Titans and

all that and long story show heard, you know, uh,

the the you know, I just remember when you rush in.

I was like going like, God help me, God help me.

You know, God, I believe that. I believe.

I believe that you're still with me.

And as I stumble my way into the operating dator

as they're about to slice her open, suddenly realized, oh

babies went up again. And then they went like, oh, okay,

but I guess since we're all here, you might as

well cut her open.

And I kid you not okay.

Suddenly, you know, sometimes you think that faith doesn't matter,

but faith matters. I sincerely believe that having that that moment,

that last, that one last surrender to God really changed

the embassy because I entered the operating dator suddenly going, oh,

how rebect to normal. We're about to slice her open? Ready,

but okay, but I guess we'll cut her open anyway.

But before that, and I kid you not before that,

let's do a round of introduction. And so they started

they started going I think they started going around, like

going like, uh, so and so, surgeont okay, so and so,

uh you know, technician so so. And then they even

have time to come to me, and I go like,

daddy like that was I'm like, I'm the daddy, I'm there,

I'm there, like and then they got okay, now that

we know everyone here, okay, okay, then they have time

to breathe because now it's no longer emergency procedure.

Now it's like a standard procedure. But they have time. Okay.

Uh in all female and nine, we're gonna cut of open. Okay,

all right, ready, okay, let's go. And then before I

knew it, I heard the loudest baby cry ever and

and an outcome and and baby was crying. I was crying.

This time, I had no more pride. I was crying

and snot was running down my nose and could see

the baby and again it was you know, I think

it just all emotions came out because it's not just

it's it's God saying that. Look I said I'll do it.

I've done it, and I want us to know that

whatever that you're going through right now, it will pass.

Whatever fear you're going through right now. I really believe

that this message is for someone here, and I don't

know why, but as us driving here, the Lord begins

to say, drop this word, and maybe it's for someone here.

It says that your diagnosis is not your destiny. Your

diagnosis is not your destiny. And maybe some of us

here you've been given a bad diagnosis and it's scary,

but the Lord wants you to still live out courageously.

See, as Christians were.

Not people who never had bad things happen to us,

But as Christians, we are people who when bad things

do happen to us, we continue to put our faith

in God. We continue to show love, we can show grace,

we can to live courageously, and we continue to to

let God dictate our emotions and not let our situations

dictate all emotions. And so as we close, I just

want to take this opportunity to to just pray.

Is that okay?

And I will pray for two groups of people. I

don't pray for someone some people here that you've been

going through a lot of fear. It could be a

health thing, it could be a job thing, whatever it is,

but fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, And then I just

says that God wants to set you free. So if

that's you, and I know sometimes what we're going through

can be very private, very sensitive. I'm not even going

to ask you to stand up, but I want you.

I want to ask you to tune in. I want

to ask you to open up your heart, and I

want to pray for you if you're going through something

scary or if you just somehow allowed fear to conquer

your life. Some of us here, we don't need to

go through stuff to just feel scared all the time.

Some of us it could be scared of flying. Some

of us could be scared of dying. Some of us

could be scared of losing loved ones. You know, there's

always something in the back of our minds, fear, fear, fear, fear. Friends,

that's not how God wants you to live. Don't live

under the bondage of fear. God wants you to overcome.

But the Lord you snow in our midst right now,

that could be brother and sister. Hear that, Lord, that

they are so for the longest one. Lord, they have

become a slave to fear. Would you set them free

this morning? Would you set them free this morning? God,

I just pray, Lord, in the name of Jesus, you

set them free. Lord, if it's just too much information

that they are consuming right now, in the name of Jesus,

I pray that.

You will give them the discipline to stop it.

You give them the discipline to say no to the

unhelpful voices in their heads in the their lives.

And Lord, you will help them to turn to you,

just like.

How Lord Jesus, you chase out the people who are

weeping and wailing and causing a commotion.

Lord, I pray that you would also.

Chase out some negative influences in their lives and fill

them Lord with the right people, the right close community.

Fill them, Lord with a close circle of friends that

will speak life into their situation. Who who what they're

going through? With confidence, Lord, I pray also, Lord, that

you will give them the grace to carry it to

the cross and to realize that we serve for God,

who welcomes our problems, who welcomes our fears. And your

word says Lord, that we are to come to you

with all that weighs us down. Have you been weighed

down by fear? Friends, bring it to Jesus, Bring it

to Jesus, And Lord, I pray help us to cast

it out. Lord, you have given us all authority on

heaven and on earth. And Lord, sometimes the demons that

we need to cast out are not the ones possessing people,

but are the ones possessing our hearts.

The spirit of fear, the spirit of timidity, the spirit.

Of paranoia and anxiety, the spirit of the worst case scenario,

the spirit of the worst imagination. Lord, right now, in

the name of Jesus, I pray that you will help

us to cast them out, one by one, cast them

out again and again. I don't know who this is for,

but there's someone here.

You know.

You have a fear of flying, and it's made. It's

not just fear of flying, but it's every time you

have to travel, whether for work or for leisure, it

makes you lose sleep. It eats into other areas in

your lives. That's what fear does. It spreads and it

eats into other areas of our lives. I just want

God to set you free right now, name of Jesus.

You just set that person free right now, in the

name of Jesus Love. Would you set everyone here who

has been under the bondage of faith of far too long,

which is set them free right now in the name

of Jesus. Secondly, I don't want you to know what

we serve for God who hears, and we serve for

God who heals, And so maybe for some of us here,

like me, not too long ago, you receive a bad diagnosis.

It could be.

A personal health thing, or it could be a health

situation of a loved one, and the experts, the medical experts,

are saying you need to do this, you need to

do that, you need to do that, and sometimes we

don't even know what we need to do. I want

you to know that that bad diagnosis is not your destiny,

and in between an only God who your destiny, and

so friends, I want you to surrender that bad diagnosis

to God. Whether you need to do something like why

I did, which is to just, you know, squeeze that

medical report into your bible or need to write a

letter to God and put it in your bible. But friends,

I want you to know again, let this be a

word of encouragion for you. That bad medical report, that

bad diagnosis.

It's not the future. Only God holds the future. Would

you surrender to him?

If that's you and you are in need of God's

intervention in your life or in the life of your loved.

One, I want to pray for you. God.

You see every soul represented here, and Lord, you know Lord,

what they're going through, what they have been going through. Lord,

you know what the doctors have spoken. And Lord, sometimes

those words can be so sharp and make us feel

so hopeless. But Lord, I want you to know, Lord

that our faith is found in you. Forgive us, Lord

if we have allowed other voices to take your place

in our lives. But right now, Lord, we will come

back to that place again and say, Lord, take over, Lord,

take control over my life and my future. We surrender, Lord,

whatever medical report, we surrender whatever I don't know, whatever

it is, Lord, we surrender it in the name of Jesus.

Some of us here. You could even be struggling with

mental health. Some of us here, you could even be

struggling in your business, could be struggling.

Even your marriage could be struggling. You know, your relationship,

your children could be strained.

I want you to know that God is still in

control and he is the one who is the expert

at turning things around. And in the name of Jesus, Lord,

would you turn every situation around? Lord, would you cause

it to be miracles upon miracles?

In this room, Lord Lord.

We prophesy healing over every bad medical report. We prophesy healing, Lord, healing,

supernatural healing that only you can do, Lord, healing that

will leave the doctor's astounded.

Lord, healing in the name of Jesus, healing and provision.

In the name of Jesus Lord.

Again, I declare, our diagnosis is not our destiny.

Our destiny is found in the Lord, Jesus Christ, Jesus.

They me pray, Amen, Amen, Amen. Why don't we all

stand and let's just watch it.

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