Hope In God | 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 won't speak about hoping the Lord because it's

very important for us really as believers to continue to have this hope in God

no matter what happens. Uh. You know, life could really show you

a curveball. When I say curveball, really there's something you never plan for.

One. You know, if you could plan for something, you could

you know, resolve things to yours with all your connection. Then sometimes you

don't really need the lot. I know there are some people like that.

You know one phone call can setter everything. Well, there are some certain

situation where about one phone called conceptor I truly believe all of us here do

have situations where by a phone call can never setter a situation. A phone

call can never set the problems. Uh. And when that happens, we

continue to have hope in the lot. I hope in God because you know,

our God is the one that never fails. So Jeremi Training nine was

eleven. You know the scripture if you have been in Christian long enough,

this is one of our favorite scripture. We hold onto Jeremia Trading nine verse

eleven. For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.

Amen, God has a plan for you. God has a plan for

you. We're important for us to know that. Friends, you know this

is not a datto or millionaire or billionaire who knows us. This is God

himself. The Bible says he has a plan for you. And in our

own journey as well, with our own walk with the Lord, with our

old ups and down challenges and stuff like that. It doesn't the word is

that discount the fact that he still has a plan for us. So the

Bible now says I only have a plan for you if it's called seven a's

And that's what the world says, that you only have a plan for future

if you do well for your exams. Right, No, the Bible,

they say that. The Bible says, I know I have the plans I

have for you. So, in other words, friends, when God has

a plan, he has a purpose. None of us see a plan for

savings a purpose. How do you the money in the future. Now,

we's a plan for a future like for example, you get certain skill set,

you study a certain education with the word is with a purpose, every

a direction. So when God has a plan for us nowers here has a

purpose for each and everyone of us here. The very fact that we're still

alive means to say God still have a purpose for us. If it wants

you home to be part of the worship him up in heaven, he'll call

you already. But there's still no we can see I've in heaven yet for

us. So that's why we're still here. And therefore, friends, we

have a purpose while on earth. Friend, the purpose is not just to

get a degree to have a good life. It has to go beyond that,

because after we reach that, really there is there's a part called significance

which, by only fulfillment of doing things for the law, can be able

to fulfill the war. Right some of us see when we're young, we

want to reach a certain financial status, want to rereach there ready right it

The word is that it has the same fulfillment as the one head. And

we are looking for different things, and the things that can only fulfill what

we have in our heart is only from the Lord. So the Bible here

says that the plans for us is for good. Someone say good, God's

plans for each and everyone of us here is for good. Many times we

struggle with this fact because we always say, if if God's plans is for

us, it's for us is good, then therefore, why am I experiencing

these things here on earth? Why am I going through these things? You

know? Why Why am I losing hair? Fifteen years old? And no

my wish twenty wed and no more hair ready? You got you? I

remember when I started losing hair. I got to look at all my hair

products and go, why right you buy? You buy hair products or the

discount right? Then you know, you stall them up. They're only to

discoun that you can't use them in the future. Yeah, So you know,

sometimes we look at the word good, but why am I having this?

Why I'm having this health issue? Why biness? Financial issue? You

know, and stuff like that, And I do I come to this understanding

whereby the word good right always have a different definition. You know, what's

good for me sometimes could be the words very skilled because of my liking,

because of my liking. You know, when some of us see we're very

good for praying for car parks. In other words, every time you go

shopping more right, you say, God, provide me with a car parks,

and you know, and the only good is that when you get a

carpat right near the near the entrance and stuff like that, be trees out

of the question and stuff like that, especially for something you know. So

therefore always got different definition of what good is right, same like how different

definition what health is right. A lot of of us claim to be healthy

until unless we go to what's really the standard or the test of what's what's

healthy in others to go for medical check out. So the Bible say that

there are plans for good, good from God's perspect tief. Good also could

mence that wait for a while. Many times we don't like to wait.

None of us I like to wait for trains, and none of us they

like to wait for buses or for promotion for things. We want it immediately,

the faster the better. For they pass from Lazada. We will check

constantly where are you right now? So we don't like to wait. So

therefore for us we have a different definition. But God's definition is good sometimes

could be delayed, sometimes could be a bit comes with trials and challenges first.

But whatever it is, the plans for us is really not for disaster.

God has never plan made a plan for anyone to fill you own.

We need to understand this point. But we carry this the word this top

process whereby if we've ever been to Asian exam before a school exam, it's

tough and we always say that our teachers out there are always wanting to fail

us one. But no lecturers set out examination to fill the students. They

just really want to draw out so that we could understand. Right, cool,

this is how we were like nol You know, no proberb examiner.

I always is my examine. Okay, I'm speaking to myself here, right,

So no lecturers come up with exam to to make it so difficult for

you all that you can never pass. But exams are there to draw out

to reveal. But at the end of it all, God's plan is to

give us a future. Friends, when God plans something, he wants us

to have a future. He wants us to have a future. Our future

is not dependent on the economy or situation, what's happening around the world,

or who's our prime minister. Our future rest in God's plans, his love

for us, his talks for us. So therefore, first we can have

hope because God's taught to us us very important for you and I to understand

this morning that God is thinking about you. God is thinking about you.

Many times if you go to challenges, we always see that why am I

so alone? You're not alone? Friends? Is it true? The moment

you hit the situation or a problem, we always think that we are alone,

all about ourself. Nobody cares for me, and sometimes even our boyfriend

or girlfriend. We try to reach, it happens, okay, friends cannot

be contacted, our spouse cannot be contacted, and you're just for a brief

moment of time, you felt so alone and we thought that no one cares,

there's no more hope. But the Bible here says in Psalm chapter one,

tree nine, verse sixteen, you saw me before I was born.

The Bible says, you saw me before I was born. In none of

those friends, none of us here were a mistake. Yes, we are

a byproduct of our parents' passion, but none of us are our mistake.

If you're if you were ever the word is that typical Chinese family. Sometimes

when you're growing up, when you're very young, parents will just say that

how you got adopted to this family? Because I pick you up from the

rubbish beIN that's statement that say before so you you understand you right, you

go to it all right, you were pick up from a rabbi if that's

what you look different from your siblings? And when when? When when we

go to the God? Like, okay, so what's my purpose? Was

my life? And stuff that we go to bit confused, messed up?

But the Bible here says that you saw me before I was born, for

it's in none of us but during the even before that though that that life

came to us. God has a plan for God knew you beforehand. So

when you go to a situation, do not let the enemy or someone tells

you us that you're so alone and stuff like that. That's a lie.

See, every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every day

of my life was recorded in your book. It doesn't mean because you have

a health situation that God doesn't remember us, or was it our life wasn't

recorded. When God says your life was recorded in his book, he already

planned everything for you. The problem is that He has a plan, but

we do not know or rather do not want to follow his plans. Every

day, every moment was laid out before a single days and had passed.

We're seventeen. How precious are your thoughts about me? How precious are your

thoughts about me? See if we can have hoped, because you know,

God himself is thinking about us. So the next time we think that why

my life is so tough, I'm trying everything. Okay, the world is.

I need to get masters, or rather come here, get masters,

and you do your masters? Not enough, we can do it another piece

of paper. And after a while. The pursuit of things in life creates

a lot of emptiness in our hearts, and we need to remember that it's

not wrong to pursue those things. It's wrong to actually neglect His thoughts towards

us. His thoughts toward us are so precious, more valuable than any book

that we could find out there. See, the Bible is already there,

but some days after reading the Bible for some time right with it, or

maybe there's another girl out there where. Every pursue different knowledge and we think

that that knowledge can substitute for what God has for us. But everybody out

there is just a small component. Really about his thoughts towards us. It's

so important for us to remember that they cannot be outnumbered. In other words,

friends, we cannot even count those thoughts that God has for us worst

eight it. I can't even count them. They outnumber the grains of the

sand. When I wake up, you are still with me. And our

challenge is this is that before we do anything else, we need to remember

when you wake up in the morning, God is thinking about you. When

you wake up in the morning, friends, God is thinking about you.

Which you would just allow that to sink into the heart this morning, because

I truly believe I was asking the Lord to speak, you know, because

you get a lot of great pictures and stuff like that, really like you

know, and this Lord just spoke to me one day and just said,

we have to speak about hope because we live in the world whereby hope is

a very rare commodity these days, and we go to different lives, different

jales. You read books, read the newspapers every day, right like that,

like that, like that everything is almost like a negative thing. All

right, then you've got to how to live like that. So we must

have hope in the Lord of friends. So this scripture reminds us of how

precious are it totles us and he has a plan for us. Our part

is to know him and know his plans. Our part is to know him

and know his plans. If God has a plan for us, we need

to know their plan. Isn't it too many times you buy IQ products,

we take the instruction book and we check it the site because we think that

we can manage without the instructions. When noma true or not, anything that

we buy it won't. Everything that we bay comes to the manual one.

But very seldom we look at the man so we were fantastic. Okay,

praise the Lord. You look from pitch one all the way to the last

and you still keep the manual in your drawer. Good for you. But

most, isn't it to most that we take the manual and we just try

out the window because you can't. The way is I can figure it out

along the way after How hard could he be? Right? Try? How

hard could he be? Elder Terrence is very good including l C l ed

TV. Also you can fix He fixes l ed TV also so very easy

to fix it. You take out the back panel, you order the part

from Lazada. It comes in fraction of the cost. Only I looked at

him if my TV is for elder terrants are going to send my TV to

your house. But many times we just take the Manu, we throw it

out the way. If we take the Bible say it's not for me.

So if you look back at gerome train in thatverse eleven, let me try

to break it down for you. Isn't it a great assurance for us that

He has a plan for us? Isn't it a great assurance that He has

a plan for you? Friends? Let me just read for you from another

translation. All right, NK we say plans for peace and not for ever,

friends, plans for peace and not for ever. This brochure, or

rather this proposal that God has for us, friends, is better than any

metris you could buy out there, any metriss, some metricy promise you comfort,

nice sleep, softness until you can bring you to close to heaven.

Right, But first, even if it's a nice sleep doesn't guarantee peace.

A nice house doesn't guarantee you peace. You and I need to know that

the plans for earth is for peace and not for evil. Friends, And

we struggle with something with this knowledge. You only because that if not for

evil, then why is my life or rather my family's life. You know,

my relative recently just got scam right into five figures. I'm like,

what on earth is happening? But whatever it is doesn't change the fact that

God still has a plan for peace for you and your family. Just because

something that happened, Oh there, Oh God, you mustn't be up there,

and I will put this this way. Plans to prosper you, not

to harm you. Plans to prosper you not to harm you. First with

this plan, that's why we have a future. Many times we want the

future without knowing the plan. But once God give us a plan, we

say, God can have a plan being not first, It's not one of

those direct plan you to choose aby yourself or I want to choose his diect.

God's plans for us is fixed in a word. Just let me read

to you just a few more things. Right, we have to be fully

convinced that God is able to have hope in God, we have to be,

first of all, fully convinced. It's very difficult for you and I

to have hope if you're not fully convinced. Think about it, it's very

difficult if you're not fully convinced it No matter what the Lord says to you,

I love you, but not sure or not not convinced me right,

you have to be fully convinced, of friends, If you're not fully convinced,

it's very hard. Romans, Chapter four wards twenty one. Abraham was

fully convinced that God is able to do whyever he promises. Romans for twenty

one. He was fully convinced that God is able to do whyever he promises.

Our challenge has always been, like God, if you are able to

do what they don't do it now. I don't think none of us here

The word is that we say that God, you cannot do. We all

know that God can do right now. We all know that God can do.

Home is that he takes his time to do any try not forty years

in the wildness to think about it. Forty years in the wilderness for the

children of Isel to live Egypt, to go to Canan Land. But the

forty years is not for the lort, you know, friends, the forty

years is for you and me to understand what's really in our hearts. But

God cannot be Ma. This is forty years, forty years of my life

looking at the same scenery every day, forty years eating the same food forty

years, Lord, listening to the same complaints of my neighbor. But the

forty years is not for the Lord. Forty years is for us to reveal

what's in our hearts. Because if God bringers to a place called canaan land,

and the heart is not fully convinced, and how to be come fully

convinced, we need to be fully sens and assured. One translation amplified put

it as to be fully convinced. We need to be fully satisfied with the

Lord's God your sufficiency. That's why my husband and wife get married. At

the front here the husband say I do do you think so and so to

be your wife, to love and to cherish in sickness and in health,

for sacking all others, for sacking all others, to be my wife.

When you say I do, basically your this the word is this that you're

fully satisfied that she or he is going to be the one for you.

But the problem sometime that was like killer maybe ninety percent percent, two hundred

percent, right, maybe ninety maybe eighty five percent, and stuff like that.

And that's why sometimes we go two challenges in the marriage because you're not

there was fully convinced, and we think there's somebody else else better out there.

I'm sure there are something else better, But you have to make.

You have to make the person you promise to number one constantly and no matter

what temptations you think that things out there. So are you fully satisfied with

the Lord this morning? Are you fully satisfied with the Lord? You can

have come to this place whereby like, okay, I trust you know.

It's easy to have faith in the DS of the environment of believers. But

the moment you live church or rather exit out from this place, maybe different

things or maybe there's something else out there that enables you to enjoy what you

have. There will be a lot of temptations out there. But you look

at other people having the things that we don't have, enjoy the things that

we always wanted, and you go like, God, are you are you

a joy killer? Promise Robert like the kind of thing you cannot be?

The word is say, look at other people cannot be Well, I serve

you, Lord, and the other person doesn't serve you, and therefore I

am not having what they had. The person is having very strong temptation,

very strong just like when when Satan brought Jesus up and the mounted. All

these things I give to you, friends, it's not giving you ten ring

gate or fifteen ring gate. You know that one easy to reaject one someone

give you these? You got no, no, thank you. Let's let's

put the stick how your hunger, self, your sick and resist at a

few more zeros, at just another few more zeros, at showing a couple

of goal bars, at a few more zeros. When when things become a

bit more valuable, even more valuable, right that decision making a I'm not

sure it's going to be a quick no, or Lord, let's me pray

about it, because it's very it's it's ra easy. There was one when

you get I can't home by water, I only drink you know only sorry,

it's you know what I meant contend when they when when say the broad

Jesus up to see the whole world, friends, that decision, if only

you bow down and worship me Jesus. Answer was a quick no. But

sometimes we struggle because sometimes you know, our hearts is wre not fully convinced

or satisfied. That's why we have to be fully convinced us death. That's

why we can have hope in God because his promises are yes and am never

changed. Right if his promises are yes, amen, never changed. The

thing lies with Uth being fully convinced that He's able, even though right now

you you could be in the situation whereby it's late taking a bit longer.

It cannot be therefore God doesn't love me, or I'm neglected, or I'm

left out, or i missed the boat, or I you know, maybe

things happened and stuff like that. It can't be that, friends, Just

let me just bring a female scripture romanship the forwards. The thing romans of

the forwards. To this is clearly God promised to give the whole earth to

Abraham. God promised to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants.

Right was based on off obedient to God's law, but on the right relationship

with God that comes by faith. In other words, your hope in the

Lord, friends, is not just because I keep serving a lot more.

Therefore my hope is higher. I give more, therefore I trust God more.

To convince yourself, it starts with having a right relationship with the Lord.

That's why the Bible says love the Lord God with all your heart first,

not strength. Track is the heart comes first. A right relationship with

the Lord is very key. Friends, It starts with the heart. We

have to deal with our hearts. I've met couples whereby they say that you

know where if I find a wife, find a wife, she must cook,

she must clean, she must fore clothes, she must cook. After

I come on, must I will hot me on the table. Then only

qualified there will consider to be my wife. This is a deal breaker.

Now look at this, brother, I say, say mysel Mary McDonald's like

that McDonald's your orders all there were uh uh somewhere at the budget you wanted

you for all right, you can customize your meal as well. Right if

summer and why you order the person that comes to you order this dre a

tire of giving you a readio never fight by. You know, I say,

mysel Mary MgO that I was as an XBJ. You know I had

the cheerry pasta Dave. He was just telling us, you know, his

mom when his mom got married back then, that he the mom that in

laws asked. There's only one condition to marry this family. You must learn

how to cook, not just cooker slaughter chicken, nozo back then. This

this is this the seventies al right, this sixties seventies life back then,

no supermarket. So you need to know those slaughter chicken if you grew up

in the right when you understand it's the environment, all right, you know,

the slaughtered chicken and stuff like very rare. I know my my cliques,

not the slaughter chicken. She's only trainy tree. She comes from the

town in Sarahwah. She said, oh can My grandma asked me slaughter chicken

all the time. So I said, wow, rare commodity these days.

So she said, day, I was just trying this new breaker. You

must do this to be accepted. But the Bible here says that you know

it's based on the right relationship, the lot by faith, So it's not

by works. You know, friends, many times you think the one that

have hoping God will have to work for it. No, this plan that

God has for you is by faith, friends, it is not by works.

So love God with all your heart. Friends, Stop convincing yourself is

all by your strength. Stop convincing yourself that you know if I serve God

more and stuff like that. Serving Gods important. Friends, But that shouldn't

replace things by faith. That's why when Abraham received the promise, I was

doing Abrahm raised his promise. The Bible says, I think in Romans chapter

four Worse nineteen by faith, safe not weakened. Even though he was hungry

years of age. He figured his body was good as they saw was abraham

womb? So sorry, Abraham, I'm sorry. This is why happened when

you go to the gem and your bras is still allowed the highway. Al

right, yes, Listenna is listening. I thought she was sleeping anyway,

So you have to you have to imagine this. Right, there's one thing

to receive the promise. There's one thing and always say I have received the

promise. And another part is to do things by faith. Abraham receive God's

promise. Right, you mustn't see you try imagine it. But every day

when you look at himself, we say, no way, Just like this,

we read God's word. We receive a promising of the devotion the moment

you leave our room. Right, we are faced with impossible situation. Cannot

be, cannot be friends. Abraham and Sarah produce Isaac. They still have

to get the act done. You understand, and try to read between the

lines. They still have to get that done to produce. It wasn't one

of those miraculous things like Jesus. They still have to get the thing done.

You have to do it for to produce. And I thought to myself

that I was I wasn't thinking about that. I thought. I thought I

was thinking about Abraham's mind. You know, to believe when you're hungry years

old, every day you know the word is that, you know that it's

totally impossible. First Abram wasn't got out. But Abram believe God. To

be fully convinced, You and I friends need to what's the way to be

fully convinced? You need to keep up hoping when there's no more hope anymore

to be fully convinced. The Bible says that a hope against hope, he's

just trusted the Lord, and our journey with the loss the same as well

many times with our journey, friends, it's not now relater whereby God will

bring us through a process of knowing what's really in our hearts. Abraham hope

against whole, friends, when you look at himself impossible. Abraham therefore have

to look at his wife. His wife also believe. See many times we

have faith, and you know what happens with our faith. We believe it

in our journey because you know why we write the promise down in our Bible

in our journey and gold and goes there never translated to action. And there's

many promises that God's given all your life right now that's still stuck in the

journey because it takes faith to believe and to put into action. Because sometimes

fear robs faith and we are all like, what if I fail, white,

if I do this, if God says it, we have to believe

for it. So when Abraham look at his body, friends, look at

his life, look at situations, someone's are looking at our future, look

at our bank account, looking at what's in front of us, looking at

our phones for you know, different things. What is the words? What

emotion is going through our hearts? Is it fear or is it faith?

Because if it's faith, friends, it must be translated to action because without

action, friends, without the action of faith, that is just a belief

or need that we just kill. I have a belief system that God is

real somewhere out there. If we say that God is able, then it

must be translated to action. So Abraham hope against hope, keep on hoping

when there's no reason to hope, when externally it's impossible. He kept God

to work as his focused and not the environment. He kept God's word as

his focus and not the environmen. Because hope causes us to believe. Hope

causes us to believe even there there's no reason for hope, Abraham kept on

hoping. Romans Forwards Trenty. Abraham neverbled in believing Gods promised. In fact,

his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God.

We have a choice today, friends, rather do we grow out faith or

not they will allow situation to grow out faith. In First Semel chapter thirty,

then you know you know that King Sorry, King David strengthened himself in

the Lord in the midst of strong men wanted to kill him when when his

wife and children's all taken away, he strengthened himself in the Lord. You

can either grow your faith in tough times or were allowed the tough times to

weaken out faith. We have a choice to de friends, whether do we

grow out faith? Meaning to say that faith comes hearing and hearing the word

of God. Were allowed grow faith or we allow situation to dictate how we

should leave that it's taminally expected. Why it's so important, First bitter one,

verse seven, My final scripture for the day. First bitter one,

verse seven. These trials will show that your faith is genuine. There's a

fake faith, there's a genuine faith. There's faithor but we think it's genuine,

but actually it's not. And the words that we can become become,

we can we can become so accustomed to a certain way of living. We

think it's faith, but actually it's not. Sometimes you think coming to church

we be a faith, but it's in fact the Bible here says that these

trials will show you whether your faith is genuine or not. Not by coming

to church, no, by filling up the form. God will always use

trials to reveal what's in our hearts. About many times we don't like that

because we always say that it's you that causes me to lose my temper.

Husband, wife argue, right, We always asked, husband, say you

are you net me so much? And that's why I'm like that you keep

completing this time like that. I make sure a very nice person but you

brought the anger out of me. And we cannot bring something out if it's

not if something's not insight in the first place. That's why trials revealed.

So the Bible here says it's been tested as fire tests and purifies goal and

through your faith is far more precious than mere goal. God, we use

fire, and none of us say like fire. We like to play water,

but now we like to play fire. And maybe it's always like to

play for you, but it's really true. We like to play with more

water spots than fire. I've never seen go by water before. Just take

the goal, put underwater there, trying to get all them purities out.

The fire hot fire at the certain degree to get them purities out. But

we don't like ma right now. We never like the testing, We never

like the challenge. We never like tough times because tough times is not comfortable

times. We hate it. And this is because we hate it. We

reject the opportunity for our faith to be genuine, reject the portunity of our

faith to be pure. But that we know what's really what we really have

in our life. My fear sometimes is that Christian may come to a place

whereby that we at certain things, we cannot function anymore. We say,

you know, we've business. At the push of a button, you have

all the translations, all the translition you ever wish as a kid the first

time you receive Christ, we always want to buy all the study bibs,

all the translation out there because you are hungry man. Now we have everything

on our fingertips. Yet it's at least used app in our phone knocking anybody

down for us, Please to look down that I'm knocking. You'll no.

I just just want to reveal, really adea of my iminate assignment is to

really preci about hope. God's word is hope for us. It says that

so when your faith remains strong too many trials, it will bring you much

praise and glory and honor to the day. And Jesus Christ is revealed to

the whole world. So trials is impotter forest. To be fully convinced,

you have to go to the trials. The trials reveal what's really in our

hearts. God can only be on strong foundation. If your faith is not

genuine, it's very hard for us to have a breakthrough. I pray that

all of us when we go to our trial. We just say, God,

I know you're bringing me through this to review what's in my heart.

So help me to understand really what's in my heart, so I can get

rid of the impurities and have the genuine get rid of the dirt, to

have the pure. Find a scripture for today, I don't have it on

the slightest John chapter sixteen, Versted the Tree Chapter six six sixteen was the

detree, Why can we have hope in God? Is this that I've told

you all this so that you may have peace? Go back to the geometric

the niner, For I know the plans and the thoughts I have for you,

says the Lord. I share that. After that, the ending scripture

is John sixteen to de Tree, I share all the sorry. I spoke

all this to you so that you can have peace. God did not say

in the words I told you all this so that you can have financial break

truth. The peace of God is far more valuable commodity than anything else out

there. Out there, the world is trying to sell your mattrisces to guarantee

you a good sleep, but never peace, a home whereby shall oh your

head nice, but not peace. A good bank account can never guarantee peace.

Yes, can guarantee a bit of security, but not full peace.

A good medical report can never guarantee you fool piece because you never know what

the future holds. A good degree can never guarantee fool piece because you don't

know whether this degree is gonna be useful in the future or not. Only

God's word can guarantee one hungred percent peace, one hundred percent peace. I

I've told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Perfect

piece comes from the Lord, not from the mattress or the pillow that you

use, not from the environment. If the environment is okay, I can

have peace. And sometimes refer into the illusion whereby if this environment is okay,

if you have three fluted this way, your house is like that,

then you can have peace. No, the Bible says that you have peace

in me. Here on this earth. You will have many trials and sorrow

here on this earth. The Bible already said it, you have trials and

sorrow, you have challenges and testings. We can have peace in God because

He has overcome. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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good week. I hit for you, God bless