God is Faithful | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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

will light up your day. I just wanted to bring a really source of

a reminder, just a simple message for all of us here this morning.

You know, we know this word God is faithful. Right, we know

this word, this statement, God is faithful. And really sometimes we forget

that how fitful our God has been in our lives, in our journey.

Our life is not not just a sprint. Really, it's not just you

know, like you know, rushing a couple of minds. But no,

it's it's it's it's it's a distance, right. I pray to overuse here

lived to seventy or to eighty, or if if Jesus came back earlier,

praise the Lord, hallelujah. But you know, because we have to live

life that long, there will be a lot of challenges in front of us,

It's true, and every challenge would sort of test this believe that we

have that God's faithful. You know. Uh, if you have your Bible,

which you turn to second Tessalonians, chapter three, from worst one to

words three. If you do not have the scripture of the Bible, review,

can there's one on the screen. Do forgive me? I have to

say in the once that you know, if you see anything that's mistyped or

grammar, please forgive me. All right, Uh, except for the scripture,

I just copy and past on it, all right. Worse one.

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the word of the Lord may speed

ahead and be honored as happened among you. Paul was writing to the church

encouraging prayer. Paul was on a mission, on assignment to preach the gospel,

and maybe some of us when we read this partial of scripture verse one,

the question is that how do we identify really, because you know,

not many of us are missionaries or full time. I believe that all of

us here are caught by God to carry He's work in our hearts, in

the way we live, and every opportunity to spread the Gospel, to share

with people about love and forgiveness of Jesus. So Paul was writing to the

church in Tessalonians that for prayers, as you all know that you know the

gospel, the word of the Lord still has to be preached. The gospel.

The work of Lord Sill has to be done. Mission cannot stop because

of exchange rate, the church cannot stop growing. We will continue to plant

as long as the Lord wants us to plan. We will continue to go

as long as the Lord wants us to go. The Bible says, work

while still there, we have amazing opportunity right now in Malaysia to still be

able to plant churches around the day will come where by planting of churches will

be banned, not just in Malaysia but everywhere else. And the day when

we wonder what we can so, the Bible says, when his day work.

So I pray all verse here, no matter where you are with your

faith journey, that you take this up and just say, I want to

advance God's kingdom here on earth. I have a responsibility because of faith that's

given to me, the relations be given to me, the word that's deposited

in my heart. I cannot just keep it to myself. I have to

be able to put it to practice. Words two and they and that we

may be delivered from the wicked and evil men, for not all have faith.

As you follow the Lord, as you do things for the Lord,

as you begin to the word is put God's word into practice. Be rest

assured there will be challenges. Be rest assured, there will be opposition.

The ways of the world and the ways of God are totally opposite. The

Bible says even that our thoughts are not He thought that his thoughts are not

ours. So God's way is higher. Our ways is just different. Right

now, God is asking us when we want to follow him where we want

to pursue him. There will be challenges in front of us. You will

be faced with evil and wicked people. The Bible didn't ask us to kill

them. The Bible that asks us to pray for them, pray for the

obstacles. Sometimes in our life when we face the challenge we're always the word

is that we think it is a person, We think, you know,

it's a particular race or anything. But no, here God is asking us

to pray for them because they also need to experience the love of God,

the forgiveness of God, right and the And He also says it words too

that not all have faith. Because not all have faith, they see things

a bit more differently. We who have faith, we will have faith in

our hearts, can truly believe that with God all things are possible. You

can remove our bank account. God well still provide. If God can provide

for the chuldren of Israel in the desert, God will provide for us.

We have to believe it. The day is a coming whereby there will be

challenges in front of the verse, where but we cannot understand or even comprehend.

No matter how much we have with our bank account, we won't come

to the place where but it is not enough that when the day comes,

Friends, I pray to our faith, will be ready to trust God and

believe God for his word, he is still faithful no matter what we face.

It goes on friends, but word tree, but the Lord is faithful.

Come on church exa found. The Lord is faithful no matter what you

face right now in the environment, no matter how much you face with the

challenges, he is still faithful. So, in other words, his faithfulness

is not dependent on the currency. His faithfulness is not dependent on who sits

at the head of the parliament or in the nation. His faithfulness is over

and a birth death. God is faithful no matter what happens here on earth.

He is faithful, and therefore he will establish. Because of his faith

we can have a good foundation. Because of his faithfulness, we can have

security He's not only he will establish us, but the Bible says that he

will also guard you. How many of you know, once God established something,

no one can rock the foundation. There is something about a foundation that's

built by the Lord. If we allow ourselves to go through what the Lord

wants us to go to, we will understand. We will come to a

place whereby we truly know that no matter what happens around us, we'll not

be shaken. Many times in our lives we want to exit meanings that we

don't like to go to the fire. We don't like to go to the

testing. The faster we go out from the fire, the better it is.

But sometimes it's not just about exiting. But sometimes I truly believe it's

about being in the oven for the right amount of time. The case needs

thirty minutes. Anything earlier you get a lumpy center. Anything too long burned

on the outside. But the right timing gets a perfect cake that comes out.

So sometimes our journey we like to exit. I don't like it.

I don't like the feeling. I don't like the testing. I don't like

the I don't like being squeezed on all side. I felt like being taken

advantage, and you try everything on your own. But I truly believe it

is not just about the exit moment. It's about Lord. If you want

me to be here, therefore you need to give me the grace. That's

what the Bible says. By grace is sufficient for you and my weakness.

He's perfect. But first, if there's no vacuum of exhibiting or weakness,

there is no need for the lot to show up. Then right, it

says here it was for we have confidence in the law. Therefore about you,

that you do the will and do the things that we have commanded.

All right, So therefore, friends, we do not respond really to the

circumstances by just by own human emotion. The Bible says, the Romans,

the travels trainy one, do not let evil conquer you. Come on,

do not let evil concur do not let evil take over you. Do not

let the temptation the way human response, control you. But conquer evil by

doing good. You and I this morning experience God, God is good.

Therefore we conquer evil by being more like Christ, not by our own self.

And sometimes it's true that you know it's it's can I just say that

sometimes we delight in taking matters in our own hands. We delight in seeing

people suffer because they harm us. We delight in inflicting pain because it brings

us. You know, like you know, like sort of like justice.

You know, things are done. But God said, do not let evil

conquer you, because in due time you see his faithfulness with such clarity.

Because the moment we go down the path we just thought the way we see

the Lord, he say, do not let evil conque you. By conquer

evil by doing good. It goes on to say that the word of Lord

is settered. In other words, if God say that he's going to be

faithful, it is really set that he will be faithful. Luke Chapter one,

words of this hell and the word of God will never fail. Come

on, the word of God will never fail. Some of us hear really

that in our spirit this morning, because it's true that I'm going to show

you from scripture afterwards. Although sometimes we don't this God's word. But because

of the length of time without because of the length of time we worry,

and because of the length of time, we have to find our own salvation,

our own deliverance. But we have to come to a place whereby we

can say is the word of the Lord. The word of God will never

fail us never. Friends have seen it in the past twenty three years of

church. The church is an entity that God has given to earth, not

run by like a corporation. We don't sell. You know, it's not

selling, it's not profit making. The church has to depend on God on

the monthly basis for provision. I heard of churches had whereby they say they

told me before if nobody gave for two years because use a wife. My

question therefore to him was, then where's a fifth element? Because with every

provision must have a purpose. With every provision you must have a purpose.

If you are given good jobs, there has to be a reason and have

must be a purpose. If the purpose, if it's a purpose it's just

to get a big house, there's really small because the big house you can

do homes. If the purpose is just to get a sports card, then

how many people can you fetch your chich on Sunday. I'm just sharing this

with your because we need to have an eternal, eternity perspective of the way

we see this. The world of God is a really centered We can't just

like the good part of the Lord we should say he's faithful, he provide,

he's our shield. You can't just os adore the cook part, don't

like the one that the Bible says that if you are his child, he

will discipline you. We can't. We can't just accept the good part,

the nicest part of a cake, which is the sight, the crispy part,

right, and don't like the center because sometimes center is dry. We

can't do that. Friends, if we want, we need to have the

whole cake. And other words, if you will declare that God is faithful

in your life, we also must accept that God is going to bring us

to to understand this revelation even more so? Therefore, how can Paul overcome

this? How can Paul draw strength to the Word is on this mission of

spreading the gospel? Friends, It is not just one city there has He

has challenges every city he goes to have every challenge. How does an individual

the Word is overcome consistently? How can this individual like Paul go through the

challenge? Not just friends, it's it's one thing that you know that these

days you know you you you do you do something. People leave a command

on what your social media and this stuff like that. This is back in

those days where if people don't like you, they might stone you. Right,

these days they don't like you, they send your email, they live

a text, and leave a message on your on your social media side.

Right. The worst time is that you read into you try into it,

and you discourage you. That's better now, but back in those days,

literally you have to run for your life if you do something wrong. Now,

how on earth Paul can continue on this mission spreading the Gospel with every

city he goes to, challenges, fearing for his life, not no purpose

sleep sometimes you know, has spreading the Gospel and also time making. How

can Paul leave out this mission on earth contribute until the day he was executed,

he never thoughted. He now complained. He just held on to God.

I realized that Paul. You notice from his writings that Paul used the

word the Lord is faithful, and it's true God is fitful. Friends,

let me just turn review this this statement. Faithfulness is essential attribute of God.

Really his essential attribute of God without his faithfulness and the foundation of faith

in him because he's faithful. If God is not faithful for it, it's

very hard for us to put our faith in him. Think about it a

woman. If God is not faithful, it's very hard for us to put

our faith in this God because sometimes you never know. Or maybe today God

is faithful because the sun is so nice that tomorrow maybe I don't know,

maybe it's so globy, because maybe because God could be angry. But if

you know that God is faithful, isn't easier sometimes for us to trust him

in the midst of our lowest point of our life because we need to hold

something that's constant, never changed. The Bible says Jesus is the same yesterday,

today, and tomorrow. So therefore, if God is constant, it

brings us a lot of hope and assurance that we can trust in him.

Many times you want to trust in new things that comes along our way,

but only to let up in disappointment, promises not kept right. We're hoping

for a change and know if change doesn't come and we were disappointed. But

God is not like that, friends, So faithfulness is the essential drement of

God, the foundation of our faith. You cannot have faith it's someone who

is sometimes unfitful. You cannot have faith in someone who sometimes is unfaithful.

So if the Bible asks us to have faith in him, then he himself

is faithful. So therefore, friends, you can go out from this no

matter what challenges come your way, He's still faithful. God doesn't see a

challenge and shrink back, or does just look at the individual. It's you

again. You never learn. God would never say that. God said,

I'm here. Even though we be are faithless, he still remains faithful.

It says the numbers twenty three was nineteen. I said, share the scripture.

God is not a man that he should lie first. Whatever this means

that when God says it, he will bring it to pass. So God

doesn't lie, not a sudden man that he should repent. God doesn't make

mistakes. Has he said, will we not do? Good? Will we

not do? In other words, friends, when God declares something, he

will bring it to pass. When God causes to start the church twenty three

years ago, our vision was just very simple Revivor in Malaysia, and our

prayer was just this that God which is used whatever we have, not the

instruments. Nothing we did really we did anything back the vidus of simple hand

me down equipments and stuff like that. It was good. It was good

for the time, but I'm with just that with a big vision. I'm

with a big vision. The next question is the provision, because you can

have a big vision, but without provision, the vision will not come to

pass. You get a big vision, without the provision, it's very hard

to come to pass. And we all we did was we just label in

prayers to God, if you want us to do this, If you want

us to do this, you have to provide. And many times in our

journey of faith with our church, God has provided for us. God has

provided for our church even though we don't like the feeling, and none of

us say, if you're Asian, if you are a broader anywhere about savings,

you don't like the feeling of scripting the bottom of the barrel, leaving

your bank account sometimes to be that you're doing it and twenty cents and something.

Because we don't like the feeling that we we put that to the Lord,

say Lord, we don't like this feeling. You see you're faithful,

so therefore, could you deliver us from this feeling? Could you even from

this you doing it twenty cents feeling? Because it's not nice at the end

month end when you tell you up your income and your expenses. You only

left with You're doing it not nice, the feeling you You understand what I

mean, that you could a next one go depend on you again next month,

had to pray againer, next one, the crowd to you again?

Lord, where how long do I have to go to this month after month?

But God will whispered to your into your years. But I'm still fitful.

I am still fitful. You still can pay your bills. I am

still fitful. You still. So that was a change of perspective that we

have actually when we started change because again because we did have any backing at

all, we were an international brand. We just said this desire really to

see we know we we sing songs before God. If you can use anything,

can you use us? No, we are not we are not train.

We just had this desire just to see revival come to Malaysia. We

have many friends that once were youth leaders, prominently youth leaders back then in

a big church, great great men and servant of Lord. Or one by

one when they entered the working world, they give out on faith, they

give up on things of God. They just didn't want to be as active

as before. They just wanted to have a believed system, and one of

them recently came back to know the Lord hit a war in his life and

nowhere to turn to anymore. He calls up and just say, hey,

could I come back to Could I come to your church or not? I

just need to reconnect back to God. It's not just to the church.

I just need to reconnect back to God because right now I just felt that

went so far away. Really, he went so far away. He really

did really well until certain things happened. And now God has just asked him,

if you turn to me, I would just lead you and get you.

Almost every week now he is found in church, not because of anything,

because he knew that this has to be correct first before he could proceed

on. Let me just share a few more scripture. If you're met Tew

Chapter twenty four wards thirty five. Heaven and earth will pass away by my

words, you know mean pass away. Heaven and earth will pass away by

my words we know mean pass away. Frands. In our journey, in

our life, we need to hold onto the word of the Lord. We

need to haunt to God's word. No matter what challenges you face, you

need to haunt to God's word. When we had an incident where by one

of our the missionaries in our church or whether we supported an American, it

was in our church. His son was put into jail. We pray as

a church father was serving faithfully, faithfully for a Bible translation organization, and

as a church our heart goes off with it because mom dad serving the lot

so faithfully. The sun got into the wrong crowd and stuff like that.

Because he's American, our authorities the main him an example and stuff like that.

But we prayed, really, we just prayed. We were a miss

about forty days prayer and fast. I remember one of the keydi is that

kid I didn't remember the dead will come up to us, or rather come

up during our prayer service, and he opened God's way bringing to declare and

proclaim. And I think after one or two weeks in the prison he was

released based on a technicality. Immediately the parents were the attic. They off

flew off. Then two days later the police was reopened the case again.

The window God gave and spent his life see you and I need to haunt

the discribut heaven and earth will pass away, but by the word we don't

mean pass away. Have you in your life declared scriptures. O all your

life, have you in your life hell on the God's words? Say no

matter what, Lord, I know, if you, if you, if

you have opened this door for me, allow me to go through this door.

That's why behind every door there's challenges in front of you. You and

I need to handle the word of the Lord, because only God's word were

able to sustain you. No matter who stands in front of you. It

could be the king of a nation, but if he doesn't do the Lord,

he is not richer than God. And sometimes in our lives you fear

because oh this is a great man, but no one is greater than God.

We need to have such boness because they'll I really believe some of you

will stand in front of different people that's of higher stature and because of the

wealth and the tighter that's sometimes sold, that brings fear into your heart.

Kind just declared this to you right now. You do need to fear.

But boness who come to your heart, you know how to speak and you

know what to say. There is no need to fear. Friends, we

need to understand God's faithfulness because it was sustaineds so many times in our life.

We know the term God is faithful, but without understanding already, without

knowing fully, it will not sustain us. We will just the word is

that maybe sustain you for a while, but not for long. Lamentations Chapter

three, Worse traenty two Lemon sheper lamentations and when was the last time the

picture lamentations? I know the only thing that you'll remember is Lemington cakes.

I understand ah lamentations. Chapter tree Sorry Worse traenty too true the Lot's mercive,

We're not consumed because of his compassion fail. Not true? The Lot's

mercive. You're not consumed because the compassion fails. Not God's faithful. Could

you imagine if God's not faithful? Friends, you do not know whether it's

compassion or his mercy is they're not? You know? How how how much

is the stability it will cause us to wake up one day you're thinking whether

God's faith fool not you? His mercy I used yesterday today. So God's

word to us this morning is that God's mercy. Because of God's mercy,

You're not consumed. You are not consumed. No matter where you are with

the journey of life, you will never be consumed. You may get wet

because of the storms around your life. First, you can't say that God's

saving from drowning if you're not even in the water. You can't say that

God's saving from the johnning if you're not in the water. So you have

to get wet. Maybe it's solo one of two gobs of seawater. But

you're not consumed. You're still alive. And many times we want things to

be perfect. God, if you say that to your mercies, you're not

consumed. I expect myself to be dressed in fine robes, not touch at

all, look good all the time. Friends, your hack, if you

have hair, could be out of place. My heck can now be?

How please? Never right? You could be out of place. You know,

things may not go according to plan, but it's still okay because you're

not consumed. Come on, Church, you're not consumed, and you and

I this one you need to rest that his compassion feels out worse ready to

treat. They are new every morning. Come on, they are new every

morning. Why is it so important for us to understand this? Because,

friends, the Bible says, sufficient is the worry for today. The Bible

says, don't worry about tomorrow. You gott to be present for today to

experience His mercy and his compassion. Many times we plan for the future,

which is good, but we fail to experience his mercy and his compassion on

a daily basis. We want the future deliverance, but we forget to experiences

his faithfulness today. Yeah, I knew every morning. Great is your faithfulness?

How many of you know that this morning when you wake up, He's

still faithful when you woke up this morning, friends, His mercies are neil,

his compassion is new. This is God that we serve and we love,

who love us so much. The Bible says straightforward, The Lord is

my portion, says my soul. Therefore I have hope in him. The

Lord is my portion. I was looking at this particular scripture and I just

I was just thinking about that. This statement is God your sufficiency. It's

God enough for you or not? Or do you covered something else that doesn't

belong to you? Or tighter that you always wanted or position that we always

wanted. I'm not just thinking materiality or live style. We always wanted,

nothing wrong with nothing wrong with that. But if it's not what the Lord

wants, it's not what the Lot wants. I have to tell people this,

and I've been telling even the leadership some of the people this is that

we will stay wherever, we will stay until the Lot causes out, no

matter how tempting already, no matter how good a future place could be.

If this is not the place the Lot wants us to go, we will

not go because how many of you know that the place to be is with

the Lord, no matter how good the place may be. And sometimes we

are The word is that we are led tempted by good proposers. But good

proposers are not God proposes. I remember a person's telling someone take up the

job because they provide free accommodation for you. But the other us say,

no, I don't not want because you know I'm not do feel it eas

the God that will ask me to take it, I don't take so granted,

I just read it. We ran outside and sure enough he didn't take

it up. We say, I'm so glad to not take it up,

because the free accommodation comes a big either inside the house. I'm the only

one staying there accommodation by the by the company. He was a peer.

I say, good, you have to listen to the Lord. The Lord

is my portion. How many we can say that where the Lord is your

passion, the Lord is your portion. Because we are living in the days

whereby we powerful things we never had, all things that we don't have in

our means look at other people like if only I can, if only,

if only And because of the drive, right, friends, we go at

length. We will go and pursue things you are not meant to pursue.

No rest, no peace, no sleep, and we take things for granted.

Therefore, friends, because he's our partial, therefore we have hope in

him. Because if he's your all sufficiency, then that's that's why we can

have hope. How many will know this morning, I hope is very important,

very important. Church. We need to have hope. Our job can

never give us this hope, and how can never give us this hope.

To have hope in the Lord is so key, friends, because the day

will come whereby let's say, for example, if you're good in one arall

praise God. But God will always bring us to another area whereby our skill

set or expertise will causes depend on him. You may be good in the

area, but other areas it maybe not be good, and God will always

bring us to another place where. But we need to depend on him.

Because we all depend on him, friends, we don't have opportuny of exercise

faith. Worse twenty five, The Lord is good to those who wait for

him. Come on, the Lord is good to those who wait for him.

We don't like to wait. We don't like that. We want things

now. We want things immediate. We want things like order today, delivered

within the next half an hour. We want we want definitely with everything we

want, we want answers. One we call people were explaining to pick up

the food immediately. Right, But here's the Lord has in his way.

You understand this, right, The Lord is good to those who wait on

him. In other words, friends, if we are patient enough, we

are going to experience his goodness like we never experienced before. God has never

been about the destination. Just get to heaven. But here on earth,

that's where the transformation happened. Here on earth, that's where the transformation happened.

So the Bible is encouraging us, friends, to wait upon the Lord,

to the soul who seeks him. I'm not sure how many of us

here this morning get encouraged more by this scripture to seek the Lord, to

seek the Lord, that I don't need to I'm okay, I'm all right.

You know I'm about to care of you know, everything's provided those true

praise God for there all that you have. But if that's only the thirty

percent of what God is intended for us to have, that we're missing out

on the bigger picture. We could be missing out. Yes, you know,

fantastic all that you have, all that you're experiencing, but we could

be missing out on a bigger picture because God has a greater purpose. Because

if you seek the Lord, he will lead and guide you. If you

seek the Lord, he will lead and guide you, not by your own

strength, not by your own strength. Friends, you know I can't.

I can't share it. That's the money right now. Let me just bring

the compass. I'm just in the midst of working at the testimony out.

Let's see how the lot leads. But you know, I really wanted to

share something with you all, but I don't think it's time yet, So

sorry by Todds. Just got distracted. But but you know it's it's very

impornderful us to seek the love because you don't again, like I was the

day I was just just me and passable, just looking at how God's be

leading us. And you know when we first moved into summit, Uh,

it was a miraculous or rather be could I just say this that it was

it was import impossible to go in the natural way. Yes, if you

have provisions, Yes you have means. You just pay the natural natural whatever

rate they're asking for. Right, let's see if I ask the asking for

the bad triting it proscriptive, you just paid forever because you have the means

to pay for it. Not not wrong, but good for you to able

to pay whyever they asked. But our journey was this is that you know,

we saw the space and so coming on this scripture, do a wait

upon the lot. Right, that's sick, that's sick, King. Our

journey was that, you know, we like the space, but we've got

no money, like most creature organizations like the space got no money. Right

back then, Congress was very very young, some of you were readers,

were very yeah, and I mean our journey was this that when Passer was

at the dinner in one one particular dinner and it was close friend, close

friend they grew up and him grew up together at you fellowship said, oh,

you're interested in spacer my mom my mom knows the owner's son or our

owner's mom who has big influence on the sun. And whenever the mom says

the sun low. And because the mom paid big price raising on the kids,

let me just put this together and lo and behold. When we went

into it, they asked us how much could you afford? I mean,

of course love we we you asked the Quati organization, the lord the better

right, it's a kid. But why I'm sharing this to you because to

to to be asked how much could we be before? And we give us

some We give a sum that's really really, really really below the market rate

was something which we never expect a yes from from them. But later only

we found out that the young mom haslually took us or whatever he asked for,

would just give to him. The campain goddess, you know how many

we understand when you seek the lawyer God on our he'll do things at the

back, behalf so that you get the glory. It's not human connection gets

the glory. It's not because of this connection we get the glory. But

the connection is it's not a connection. Where about you try You were at

the door there. You know how people behind for autograph for footballers. You

were at the door there at the stadium there just a hand for the footballer

come out to get signature it. It's one of those acquaintance of acquaintance that

established long time ago. And we're just our conversation. We do not knock

on doorsport or flyer. Hey do you know the owner? Or not?

Nothing at all. We have to come to this place with you've you seek

God, and God whispered to you the rest in him because he is faithful.

Friends, many times we seek God. Let's say, for example,

we see God. We understand that his faithfulness, we understan we understand that

though he is, he is uh his compassion, his mercy on you every

morning. But we do not want exercise patience to wait because somebody you know,

see King does involve time, not just in ave time. Also it

does involve but God. This way. When God introduced a way, it

could be a way whereby we don't like it, not comfortable with it.

But you and I need to put our trust in him. Let me show

you. Exodus chapter three, verse seven, The churn of Visuel right,

the churn of visual three, verse seven says that, and the Lord says,

surely, I've seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt and

heard their crime because of their task masters, for I know their sorrows.

At Chapter three of the Book of Exodus talks about the of Israel being delivered

from Egypt. But in worse three, you get to hear the heart of

God for his people. In chapter three, you get to hear God's heart

for his people that I've heard that cry, I've heard their prayers. Now

you must be wondering, you know, why can't this be Exodus chapter one?

Of course, if it's Extus chapter one, that's almost quite immediate.

But this is the third chapter. How many you can guess when the actual

delivers happened? Which chapter was that? Next light Exodus chapter twelve, nine

chapters later comes the deliverance. Actually chapter three, I've heard that cry,

I've seen the evil task master. Right. You imagine if a sea immediate

action, because people are hurting, people are crying out, people are giving

up hope, you expect delivers happened on the Exodus chapter four, five,

maybe six Casie Chan six, But Twuel friends, the delivery wasn't just like

you know, open the flogge and just walk out with no friends. Templicks

have to happen first, And I thought to myself, like, why can

why not just one to cook really like the then the people can be spared

from so much harm or maybe infliction of pain on the body. But God

has a plan, friends, So exodensip the trouble Study one. Then Pharaoh

cut Moses eron by night, rise and go out form my people, both

you and the children of Israel, hallelujah. Verse Study two. Go and

serve the Lord as you have asked, and also your flocks and your words.

Friends, it is not yea if it's just about the deliverance. I

really believe that Exodus chapter fo what happened. But Exodus chapter twelve, the

difference came with provision. Think about it. If it's just God's delivering them

out, now go to the desert. But it says it worse you do

this, take also your flock, your hurts be gone, and bless me.

Also the point where whereby is this? I'm going to share this with

you. When you understand God's faithfulness and how he sustains you are. It's

not never about this earth because God was interested in also Pharaoh's life, hoping

that he would turn, hoping that he'll come to know him, acknowledge as

a king of kings and the Lord of lords. But the treat urge the

people and then send them without the land out of the lead in hay or

else will be date. So the people took everything. Friends, could you

imagine if it's just one time cause, assuming natural thing happened, yes,

they could be delivered, but not in the fullness God wants them to experience.

Exers up the tree. The children cry out, exerscept the twelve.

The great delivers happened. When you understand God is fitful, you will understand

it will take time. But time is not denying, friends, Time is

not denial. Sometimes we are in this place forever, the friends, forever,

not just minds about years years, and it's crying out the same prayer

and same cry something. You've got no more strength to cry anymore. But

we can. We can take the word? Is this that take courage from

this portion of scripture? If God can hear this a simple cry from the

children of Israel, one not us? Why not use I know a friend

of mine who prayed for his families of parents' salvation for almost twenty years.

Twenty years, same prayer for his parents' salvation and the parents came to know

the Lord twenty years, same prayer, Friends, God, my parents need

to know Jesus twenty years. And sometimes our journey of life is like,

oh, I can't wait after that one week, we really want to give

up. Maybe we're not getting it right. I truly believe that, friends,

if we do not shortcut the processor, it will do us good.

Because sometimes in our journey we want things now. We want things immediate,

or maybe I say immediate, I'm talking about just months, but something it

could take years, years, years. You know that some of the things

that I was, I was just I was just looking to my old journey.

I used to I reused, I used to write a lot old journey.

So back then, just flipping it through and know we have a lot

of dreams, you know, back then you know you're going to Monday,

but dreaming is freeler. So you just right, like just right, while

we God puts on your heart just right, just right, just right.

Well of the things that me and passed back then, we just talked about

this back in the before you started during ay time was nineteen ninety seven,

ninety eight. We always dream about, you know, having own radio station,

TV station, and you know we did inquire like this, how much

equipment is going to cost and stuff like that. You know, God gives

you a dream, you just have to fire how much the priceleer and just

surrendered that the lot. But as we reflected upon these friends, and we

came back to this place being twenty three years later, how God is so

fitful remembering the dreams have given us twenty two years later, friends, twenty

three years later, not twenty three months later, but twenty three years later.

The majority of us are much older, fatter, right back then,

could you imagine back then we're also skinny, all looking very good go on

TV. Definitely look very good on friends, But twenty three years later almost

outsize our shape. Everything right, no more, no nothing, just need

to bigger side to contain God's glory, that's all. But God is still

fitful. Friends. Finally, the final point is this that God loves for

us to demonstrate faith. God loves for us to demonstrate faith. We say,

God is faithful. Friends, We need a space and an environment to

demonstrate our faith that He is faithful. It's easy to be in the church

and sing songs and declare it with you know, different things in our in

our room or in this whole faith like that, But in our personal life,

God will always give us an environment to exercise faith without exercising that faith

friends our faith, the Bible says, is dead. Faith can be seen

because faith in action. Your faith can be seen on Your faith cannot be

silent. You know, I have faith in God, but it cannot be

just kept inside right to the layers of our shirt and our flesh. No,

our faith can be seen to our action, the way we say,

the way how we live our life, the way we do things. My

final portion of Scripture is actually chapter fourteen. Was the thing this after Pharaoh.

Pharaoh realized that, you know, the the visual took everything. He

went after them and they started the mosesty to the people, do not be

afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which you accomplished for

you today. For the imbition whom you see today you shall see again no

more. You'll think that the great deliverance is the end of a chapter,

and they can just continue walking without any obstacle. But God has brought them

to a place whereby in front of them, the back of them his pheroh

army. Go in front is death, go behind his so death. And

I truly believe friends, most Christians will experienced the pharaoh army and see you

one you will experience it because God wants us to mature in Him, to

demonstrate our faith in God. We could be like Turin of visual look at

the Moses and just say that why do you bring me here? Or you

could have come up to me in two weeks say oh that what you peach

God is faithful. I trust God. I didn't come to pass. But

whatever your journey. A response is that it's not the preacher's the way of

education, but it's allowing God to just to help your heart to understand that

I'm still faithful. Look up to me, I'm still faithful. This is

what Moses said, and we need to take heart. Do not be afraid

to declare that God is faithful. For me to not be afraid, come

on to declare that God is faithful is to say that we to ourselves,

we shouldn't be afraid. Stand still and see God's a way should. Many

times in our lives, we don't understand still because come on, it's true

rare the stand to you. But you know, life is jail if you

know that. If you're having dinner with friends and someone spilled water and the

water is is you know, pouring already flowing towards you, or you will

stand up and walk away right already, just so you won't get wet.

I have a friend I know that when when someone spilled that McDonald's coca cola

right almost like water is coming towards you. Stand up, but the water

is flow, spill over the table, hit her tie. Then she's like,

oh oh, I got wet now from the coca cola. We're like,

the Lord bless your boyfriend in the future. But here the why was

he stand still and see the salvation of the Lord? Because no, it's

it's rare. Had to stand see when even you're in the midst of a

problem, it's very hard to stand it because we want action. We want

to want our life is a state. Our life is a stake. Everyone

action because we got to save our life. But here's the word of the

Lord. Stands to you and see God's salvation. First I truly believe standing

steal is not doing nothing. You know, stending steal is looking towards the

Lord and just asking God, what what should I do next? Because if

you're standing still, do nothing, Friends, then always used to be standing

still but sending to look towards the Lord. Lord, what is it that

you want me to do? If it's not the Lord, if it's not

the Lord asking you to my grit, then don't. Because migration without the

Lord, friend, it is very tough. Yes, the rather the education,

everything could be better there, but it's the plan. God's plan for

your life is very key and very important. Because we are understanding their friends,

we kept best of everything, but not the best of everything. It

says also friends, it was for the Lord will fight for you, and

you shall hold your peace. The Lord will fight for you, shall hold

your peace. God will always give us an environment for us to exercise faith.

God, we never leaders the place whereby we don't need him. God,

we never leaders the place where by we don't have the exercise faith about.

You need to exercise faith in the days to come because your children needs

role models of faith. I was looking to recently those generals of faith.

That's been caught home to be with the Lord. If you grew up in

the eighties and nineties, you know love God's genual like Lauren Cunningham, the

Great Mission Mobilizer went home to be with the Lord. George now George Wilver,

another great mission organization, great man of God from us mightily for missions

get caught home to be with the Lord. As I was talking about Andra,

because we used to read their books while they are still alive. Listen

to the cassette right, and we are counting the remaining generous or great men

of God back in the eighties. How many of them still remaining? And

we came to this conclusion. Those who are forty and above says, is

our turn right now to hold on to this fire and to pass on to

the next generation. If this generation do not the word is exhibit faith,

exhibit the fire, then the next generation got nothing. The horn too.

So the example, I pray that you allow God to give it an environment

whereby your faith can be exercised. So I started with God is faithful,

friends, he is true, He's faithful. The understanding iss faithful faithfulness with

sustain it. No matter what you go through in life, he will sustain

you because His mercy is compassion are new every morning only because He is faithful.

If God is not faithful, his compassion is mercy. Sometimes you are

you're adopting or your whether it's new or not. Maybe you're using yesterday's mercy.

Yes, it is compassional. The Bible says that His mercy and his

compassions are new every morning because great is your faitfulness. And God will always

give us an environment whereby with exercise faith, so that to prove that He's

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