God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble | Elder Kian Yiak

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The title of my message has got a refuge, strength

a very present help in trouble. Amen?

Can we agree with it?

Our refuge at our strength, a very present help in trouble.

You and I know it. Sometimes you and I pray

about it, proclaim the scripture on it. Right? The question

is is that do we know how He works? Ah,

in our trouble times? Do we know how He works?

There's one thing about knowing that God is a refuge

this statement and strength a very present help in trouble.

But the other thing is that do we know how

He works?

Now?

Do we understand the way he moves?

Because when we talk about refuge and strength, whenever we

need help, we we expect immediately. Right, So therefore delay

he's not really helping. Therefore, if you need strength, for example, right,

if you need strength, Benny knows whereabout if this strang

you have to you have to exercise to get strength? Yeah,

I to you, Benny, I know, and I know, I know,

I know. You got little mouse up your bicep. It

used to be a cat, but now it's a mouse

really anyway, So you need to work.

Out to get strength.

You need to work out to get strength, right, but

very seldom, very seldom, very seldom that you know, you

people get strength from hitting something else, if you know

what I mean. People always you see people who work out,

what is it?

Protein? Is that correct, Benny? Protein?

Right? You'll see people taking protein to build master, right?

Not very seldom people take cops to build master. I'm

trying to say, is that? So therefore, where you think

about God's out strength, there is a mental imagion. Really

we could think of how you that he should operate

to get for us to get an answer.

And I want to show you from scripture afterwards, the.

Way God moves and the way God delivered and the

way God come true for us could be very different,

very different for what you and I.

Expect him to move.

All right, So if you have your Bible, which you

turn to First King chapter nineteen, verse one to five

or eather one to nine by one to five, First

First King chapter nineteen verse one to five on this screen,

story about Elijah, Ahab and Jezebel wait. When Ahab got home,

he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way

he killed all the prophets about So Jezebel, send this

message to Elijah. Send the messager, May God strike me

and even kill me. Wow, if by this time tomorrow

I have not killed you just as you have killed them, Franks,

this was a treat from Jezebel, A treat from Jezebel.

Right, I want, I want to hear this word again.

May God strike me and even kill me by this

time tomorrow, have I I have not killed you just

as you've killed them. So basically, Jezebel said, I'm going.

I'm coming for your life. I'm coming to get revenge.

I'm coming after you. Worse three, Elijah was afraid and

fled for his life. He went from Bersheba, a town

in Judah, and left his servant there. Verse four. He

went alone into the wilderness, traveling all day looking for protection,

looking to run away from Jessebel. He sat down under

a solitary boomb tree pray that he might die. It

was how sometimes in life, friends, even before anything could

happen to you, I before anything could touch you, I

sometimes words go even further and deeper into.

Your heart than anything else. You know what I mean?

Sometimes words can go further and deeper than anything else,

even before.

You are physically harmed.

That's why sometimes when I talk to people, I say, hey,

when was your last medical check? And the statement that

always come back to me is that I don't feel

like going. I see why, don't like skeler scared scared

of the result, through the scared of the result.

I see, you haven't even went for the test.

This was it to be a frail of I scared

about the result maybe later. So by going later, he

thought that the result would change. Sometimes that's something. Because

you go it to go later, we think the result

can change. But friends, you and I know that result

doesn't change me because we delay the test without changing,

because we change the way we eat.

Without don't change.

Because there's a delay doesn't mean that we don't tackle

the problem under our bit. You know what's the greatest

problem under ourbit? Does have you ever wonder? Way that

does come from?

Huh?

From what? From our skin? But ever wonder how come

our skin produce so much? Become a football?

I don't.

I don't think you shed so much. I don't think

you shed so much. You're not peeling off your skin here,

But huh, unless you've got the cat, unless your house

is super dusty by the highway.

But you understand what I'm trying to say.

Friends, just because we don't deal with it doesn't mean

it's not there. Just because we stept it one time,

I thought it would be clean forever. Do Jesus come back,

but only to discover one week after that there is

a power that comes up developed under obey now verse five.

Then I laid down this Elijah laying down and slept

under the moon tree, and he was sleeping. He really

wanted to die because no more strength. The angel touched

him and told him get up and eat verse six.

He looked around there besides his head there was some

break big on hot store and a jar of water.

He ate and drank and lay down again. Verse seven.

The Angel of the Lord came again touch him and say,

get up, eat some more, for all the journey here

will be too much for you.

So he got up it and drank.

The food gave him enough strength to travel forty days

and forty nine come on. The food that the angel

asked him to eat gave him sufficient strength for forty

days and forty nights, all to mount Sign and the

amount of God there. He came to a cave, we

spent the night there. So Elijah's name means Yahweh is God.

So he's reminded every time people call his name, He's

been reminded that Yahweh is God. And the majority of

us here know and understand that Yahweh is God. The

Lord is our God. We know that, but how many

of us truly understand are fully comprehend that it is

not just so much the name that we know, friends,

but understanding that in our deepest moment is he still none?

In our deepest challenges? Is he still Lord? In our hearts? Cry? Friends?

Is he still Lord?

Something is beyond our control.

For example, this situation with Jezebel is beyond Elijah's control.

Yet when people call him Elijah, Elijah, Yahweh then means

Yahweh is God. So if Yahweh is God, then why

should Elijah be afraid? So God is trying to help

elight you to understand, to bring him deeper into relationship

with him that even though Jezebel is creen, he does

not need to be afraid. Sometimes in our life, friends,

the anticipation of the result frightens is even more. The

consequences of the decision frightened us more, and you and

I today need to be set free from then. Amen,

So I let me explain what Elijah's experience in First

King chapter seventeen, France. Do you have to listen to

it at this somewhay. So Elijah drank from the brooks.

God led him to the brooks, and the raven fed

him supernatural provision. In other word's Elijah experience in First

King chapter seventeen, he was he was given a supernatural

experience whereby the Wider honored him with the last of

oil and flower, and she experienced supernatural provision of the oil.

Flood did not run out.

So with his own eyes Elijah saw God came through

got provided. Friends, if true of us experienced what Elijah experience,

that was off, confirm our faith in God? Sometimes, isn't it?

Because you saw with your own eyes you only got

SoLIT term But the moment he baked it cannot run,

cannot run oil flower?

What amazing thing it is? Friends?

Not only that, friends, the widow Sun died, the widow

Sun that Elijah resurrected the sun, So supernatural provision, supernatural life. Friends,

If you, if you were the witness, if you were

the one who saw this miraculous thing happened, wouldn't use

to say God, you know jessebel and say whatever she wants,

nothing I shake my favor, nothing, I robbed my favor nothing.

And that can frighten me. Whyever she says, my foundation

is still firm. Friends, Elijah did not just just experience that.

In first case, chapter eighteen, there was a weak tree

and Mom Camel, his conviction was very evident. The Elighten's

conviction was very evident. And you know this statement, choose

you this day who you serve? You can't see this

statement unless you're truly convinced. It's not like you're asking

your child, choose you this day who you're like, mom

or dad. You're so convinced that God is God that

you tell people that choose you this day who you serve.

And Elijah was convinced that at that moment in time,

Elia was convinced that God is God. Amen. Then he

experienced God's confirmation to the fire that fell from the

author that he built.

It was a fire that fell from heaven.

First, there was a supernatural provision. There was a resurrection

come on fire falling from heaven, fire falling for heaven.

I think none of us ever saw there in our eyes.

But if we did see, really, you know, physical eyes, friends,

I think you'll be like, man, this is this God

is real. Courage to execute profits of bao, courage to

execute profits of boo. You know, I had a message once,

I say that how far will we follow God? How

far will we follow? The Lord saw King Saul was

having a better way than Amalekites. And this is what

Jesus said, do not spare, but kill everyone from the Amalekites.

Don't spare. And you know Saul tries his very best

to follow, but he sped. King, the king of Amalekites,

the best ship Oxen and lemb And sometimes in our

journey of life, friends, everything is okay until you see

something even more valuable in our own eyes. So it's

not easy for us to take someone's life in the Bible. Friends,

But the courage that Elijah had some of us here, friends,

don't say about killing someone flying crockachias. Flying cockatias. Come on,

we would run from flying cockachis. Right now, we were

running from this like three cm insect that is smaller

than our tomb. Sometimes right, we will be afraid. But

sometimes friends, you know the thing, it's not good in

our house, but yet we spare them. How much more, Elijah,

and faced with profer about Undergod's commandment, you're supposed to

because there was a deal that would you know? I

got a friend who's a bodybuilder, really big size, afraid

of cockachies. Seriously, his big size. The friends, he's really big,

bulky and big. But every time we see her crockoach threads.

Excuse the phrase, but he screamed like a girl. I'm sorry,

his big size scream like you read high shrew voice,

and he stands on the chair. Someone killed a cock

cooash please in others, threads, you could we could be

courageous threads on everything else, on everything else God wants

us to do, except for the very thing that he

wants us to do. We could be courageous friends on

everything else except for the thing he really wants us

to do. Now, Elijah, friends, exception, you know this, His

life was very consistent. No exception. Prefers a bow, He'll

take it. So my wife don't like lizards. My wife

doesn't like lizards. Friends, so she has a newspaper weapon

that she prepared for the lizard one so Evan, ever,

there's lizard, friends, she would wet the lizard. The thing

is not the problems never will be the killing of

the lizard, friends, The problem is is clearing and cleaning up.

After that, She would bury the lizard at least with

about six sheets of tissue paper because she doesn't want

to feel the body. One time she screamed and mesid,

there's a lizard because her weapon wasn't beside her.

I turned around, friends, I really turned around. I told

where was it?

Until I realized I stepped on the lizard with my

bare feet.

That She said, how could you say?

God, Lisa? I just turned around? How do I know

that Lisa want to be there to be stepped on? Right?

Clean it up? She saw everything bleat out from the body,

and she said, clean it up. I came for you

that you cleaned up. Blah, cannot very squamish, sorry to

grocer in the morning. But courage, friends, So want you

know supernatural courage doesn't I'm not talking about Lisa a

cocacious Fred, but supernatural curation follow God doesn't just come

from the human thing, right, So the Elijah had that

right caused faith to happen with the season of drawd.

So right now, in the rainy season, right now, so

it's constantly raining, right Could you imagine that you you

the very fact you prayed, God helped raiin. Could you

imagine the next one whole month insurance there's no rain,

one home mon, no rain. Friends?

What the amazing feit that God performed?

And you think that Elijah will not be afraid of Jezebel,

But how may of you know that just because Jezebel

wanted his life he ran for it, he was so afraid.

So what can we learn from the life of Elijah?

Number one is this is that when we are going

to challenging times, it's not over and to God says,

so come on, when we are going to challenging times,

it's not over until God says. So many times our life, friends,

we think it's over because our resources run out, our

patients runs out, whatever runs out, okay, So it's not

over until God says.

So the past success.

In ministry or life or even the title doesn't examples

of future challenges. Number one, the point the past success

in ministry, So Elijah had amazing success in ministry, right

profess about four hundred versus one. You know, when you

stay in front of a crowd four hundred, you'd be afraid.

There's there's a signe of a crowd does cost you

to be nervous? One? Friends, And I think it was

in nineteen nineteen eighty eight or eighty nine when Annoy

Brian was put into prison. My workplace was right in

the middle of the whole riot and had to go

to work and the stuff like that. I remember that,

you know, they had the fire brigade was there with

the water canons and the stuff that that was that.

There was a there was a team of there was a.

Girl of people coming down from the street in the

protesting and just stuff. So I was in the midst

my office was swap smack in the whole thing. And

you know whether it's right or not. Friends, lunchime you

have to eat, you have to go to the top one.

So I went to the top I was. I went

to pack my food and the stuff that I was like,

I was like, please please a whipe me because if

someone knocks me and know my foot speels on the road,

I will be fighting. I will be fighting, I'll be shouting.

I'm not shouting for freedom. I'm shouting someone pay me

back for my food. Right. But you know, sometimes friends,

it's standing in front of the crowd causes to be nervous.

You're crazy. Your your paste walked a bit quicker then, right?

When does influence you? And sometimes we pup at a

certain car park. B one is safe, B two is

bit risky. B tree.

Is dangerous.

Sometimes if you have not been to Summy and you're

it's the first time that Summy shall be complex, he

finds such a dodgy. More, sometimes you probably beat you.

You go like, oh, is this safe or not? But

those of us who have been there for the past

twenty five years, you've beat one to entry. It's all

the same, no fear at all. But the past success

doesn't doesn't mean that you go to different car parks

that you go like you got no fear. And sometimes

in our lives, just because we are past successive ministry

and life doesn't mean that our future challenges were exempted

from So lightened thought by ending his life is the

only solution that he could think of. Come on, elightened thought,

by just saying that I want to lay that under

the broom tree, I cannot take it anymore. By doing that,

he thought he could resolve set to the pressure of

what it's going. True, sometimes let's not talk about ending

our life. Sometimes let's talk about sleep. Whenever we hit

a probably sleep away. Somehow got this, got this part

of verse. I think that just because we sleep over something,

that the next time we wake up will be different.

For example, not well, go and sleep. Of course they agreed,

all right, not well going, see you wake up, you

feel better.

Tooth ache, go and sleep.

You wake up. It's the tooth. Sometimes it's there, right,

And this is what happens in our life. Friends. By

sleeping doesn't mean that problems you change on, you know.

So in light the thought, by just lying now under

the boon tree, the results could be different. By lying now,

by just avoiding it, not tackling with it, we thought

the result could be different. And there's just an illusion

sometimes we live under. I remember that when I yeah,

I think it was exter us. I always remember extra

us because I had my heart attacking extra us. So

I remember extra us. Yeah, that's that's that's why I

were afraid to come here. That's pass as Sandra I

think I spoke here. Last time was four months ago anyway,

just so I remember, I went to all that friends,

after seeing the doctors and everything like that, I went back.

To sleep with you friends, I went by to sleep.

I went back to sleep. I went by to sleep.

I thought I I felt better.

I did.

I thought I felt better.

I don't.

And the very night I went for I went for

the extra.

Poplut as well, just because imagine that, yes, your body

was under stressed during preaching, right, you went to see

the doctor doing the the and the ear right doctor

just say maybe you're just tied because I couldn't pick

they couldn't pick out anything from that that whole examination, right,

So I took a couple of tablets and just say

medication and just went back to sleep, just went to sleep.

I was physically so drade. I fell asleep immediately after

two hours, woke up really hungry, and I told Paster

that my body is feeling all right, and this is

what happened. I and then if I realz this by sleeping,

we thought the result could be different. And I want

to encourage your friends, please don't slip away your problems,

because problems are going to be there. But ignoring your

situation doesn't mean that you will change. And too many

people just ignore and just word the power different things

to cower it up. It's okay, I don't like to

use this example, but I think some of us can

relate to it. It's sometimes when we use the toilet

cannot flash with power extra should people on top thinking

the extra should be bo so somehow rather will cover

the message at the bottom. If you understand what I'm

trying to say, and the life is like that, just

because we have an issue doesn't mean just sleep like

cowering it up, that the problems would disappear after a while.

But Eli your friends wants to remind story. He reminds

us there is a but God in our story of friends.

But don't mean by that generous chapter fifty, verse twenty.

All right, But as for you, you men even against me,

but got many for good in order to bring it

about us this day, to save many people's life. So friends,

Joseph Wentho a very tough time. Betrayed by the brothers

right so off to slavery work in a prison yard,

got accused by his employer, put back into prison again.

Yet besides everything. First, Joseph, you don't grow bitten. If

you were in Joseph Shoe's friend. Chancesities that we can

become very bitter, very angry, very real to the situation,

very judgmentor as well. But the Bible here says that

Joseph of a different world view, there is about God

in the story that you and I friends need to know.

Whatever challenge we go through and the pressure that we face,

God did not say is the end yet. Come on.

God did not say your story is ending right now.

It's just a continuation. Fris. You and I need to

come to this place to realize that no matter what

challenges we go through, there's always about God. It's not emotional, friends,

it's not one of those things that you that you

you wake up with this emotion sometimes at the last

breath that we have. But God, I'm still here. So

Joseph went to betrayal, went to heartache, went through everything,

yet he could just with a smile on his face,

he could to say, but God many for good, come

on all of us, no matter what we went through.

Right this year, I say twenty twenty five could be

of such a challenging year. But God is not done

with your life yet. Come on, God is not done

with your life yet. And many times in your journey, friends,

you and I need to remember what the enemy went

meant for evil someone's friends. It's not the enemy. Sometimes

it's a consequences of our decision, the consequences of disease.

About decision ministry to a couple who is badly in debt,

asking him like, you know, asking them like, what are

you going to do about it? Different different solutions came

out and stuff like that. Then I suggested that why

don't you seriously pray, pray and ask God about your

decision about your property, whether she resell to pay off

the debts and live debt free because you don't be

paying high interest on one side, on the other side

that you're paying alone, and saying you come under the pressure.

I say that for it may look like a defeat

in the short term, but in the long term it

will be victory for you all. It might look like

a defeat, and that's what Joseph went to. But you men,

even against me, may look like a defeat. You might

be living in a place whereby the pressure is so real.

First all of us, I mean I was just talking

to someone that their pressures are very different right now

from what they face and what we used to face,

and you know what everybody else is facing. You know,

back then our greatest challenge was just you know, what

do we do with our free time?

Now?

Is like they can't. The pressure is so different right now.

But the challenges that would be what kind of pressure?

How are we dealing with the pressure?

And Joseph just.

Wants to remind us again, see it from God's perspective,

but God meant it for good.

It could be evil for what they did, but God

can turn her off for good.

Let me just turn you the next scripture, first Sevenage

of the Treney.

Tree was fought in David stayed in the strong.

Holes in the wilderness, remain in the mountains, in the

wilderness of Zip. Saw sought for him every day, but

God did not deliver him into his hands. Story of

King Saw and David. You know the story. David killed Goliath. Victory, Hallelujah,

Praise the Lord. We always focus on Goliath, Okay, one

big Goliath. Hallelujah. Once the Golia is done, friends, we

forgot there's a King Saw and the Bible here says

in this chapel, it is particular words that David stayed

the strunghold in the wilderness. Sometimes frands, the wilderness is

not your most perfect place. But yet in the wilderness

there was safety. Yeah, in the wilderness there was protection.

Yet in the wilderness there was provision. David did not

die of hunger in the wilderness. Sometimes we expect God

delivered us, and we want him to put us in

the five star hotel at least.

That we need.

As to the cow. Can you excuse the word luxury,

not luxury. I say that the uplands like somewhere, but luxury.

We expect God to move in this way. But the

Bible here is is that David stay in the strongholds

in the wilderness.

Every man in the mountains, but here some of us.

But God, you see, you are my you are my protector,

you are my provider, You're my stronghold. But can you just,

you know, change the wilderness in the green pastures. Can

you just change the wilderness into a luxurious, you know,

lamping situation that we want God to move in that way,

because then then the confidence come we're standing from people.

You know, God, I went through this you know, God

provided you know then after all of the sudden that

I got this. But the Bible here is that David

stayed in the wilderness frands, some of us here in

the wilderness right now. But I want to let you

know Saw did not find you. Subs have us Saw

in our lives. That's coming after you, that's chasing after you.

But the Bible here says that even though so for

him every day, but God did not deliver him into

his hands. It's very amazing, friends, I believe that Saw

also new the mountains. You know why, because he went

looking after the donkeys in the in the wilderness, in

the mountains, saulnew the terrain. Friends, But no matter how

much the enemy knows, no matter how much the enemy knows,

if God doesn't want you to be found, you won't

be found, no matter how much the enemy have knows. Friends,

if God doesn't want you, what is the first time

you give me the T minis reminder? Sorry, I just

got the joke. With all the pieces. I go to Wright,

they flash me the number of number of meantes I have.

This is thirty minutes. Don you're reminded me, well done?

No many, they remind me I got five tien minutes,

five minutes and zero minutes, all right. One time X

Men Ring, X Men Dream the Resist. But PC called Kaitlyn,

and she's really cute because she was she was born

on the on the right head with four fingers on

me four fingers, and one time she she she used

the right head to tell me to sign to me.

Actually got five minutes, but she just put our hand.

So I looked at her. Kitlyn, do I have four

minutes or five minutes? She said, oh, how can we

so bad? Because I said, no, Me and Kaitlyn, we

are we are like real like someone said, yeah, she's

like your adopted doctor. I no, no, I say we

have really good wookie relationships. My clique and I was

yoking with a killing. If you see one time we

got five minutes, please put it another time. I'm sorry

this this is me and Kitley.

Then know we had a good laugh after that, all right,

said oh it'll be so bad at you. I got

four fingers.

Okay, you know what I'm trying to say, right firts, Okay,

I got thank you, thank you so much. It's like

track right, here's the thing I want to want to

remind us Okay, it's not over until God says, so.

Very important for us to understand that no matter what

you go to, you could be hounded by your medical report,

you could be hounded by different things. So it's not

over until God says. So, friends, please understand that, because

if really that, if it is the end of your

chapter of your life, God will bring you home. So

it's not over until God says. So. Sometimes now, in

the pressure that we are in right now, you know

what pressure does make you feel so alone, make you

feel that there's no one else that's going through it.

But the Bible here says that reminded Elijah, Elijah, you're

not the only person. I spent seven thousand other prophets

like you, several other prophets and not bow that needs

to bow. So first, don't think that we are the

only one in the world that's going through this. God

reminds us this morning that there's so much more that

He's willing to do. The point number two is sorry

this chapter nineteen was twenty six met Tew Chapter nineteen

was twenty six. But Jesus look at them and say,

with man, this is impossible. Come on, with man, this

is impossible. We've got all things are possible. Come on,

but we've met coming after we've men. Hey, come on,

the victory Academy students can say better than you all know, right, Cort,

huh huh, Come on, everyone say with men, this is impossible,

but we've got all things are possible. Amen.

So many times, our.

Life friends, we tried so hard. So I just recently

went for my medical checkup, or rather I I got

this so recally by carliologists twice or three times a year.

So we always do blood test work, and every time

the blood test I always well. I was supposed to

go in the month of September, but again, like the

rest of the other people, right, trying to delay taking that.

By delay my my my results could be better. But

delays later, I thought to myself, Okay, I just he's

been I had to fix the appointment. It's been a

couple of months, readly, So I decided to go to

see the doctor. And you and I kind of new friends,

kind of knew because I've been visiting my cardio doctor

for about five years. Really right, I kind of knew

the routine that the drill. One part I really don't

like is the taking your blood. It's not because I'm

afraid of neaders or not because I'm afraid of the blood.

I'm okay with it, friends, I'm okay with bleeding. I'm

okay with blurred and everything like that. Friends. So I'm okay.

I'm okay with paid I am. I am okay with

paid typical boys school. I'm okay with paid. What I'm

not okay with is the nurse taking my blood. In

my entire track record of taking blood, I fitted twice,

not because of anything else. It's because the nurse couldn't

find my way in. There was one time those of

you who cannot hand or stand neiders going the one time,

I think the nurse put the syringe, couldn't find, so

she put even deeper, couldn't find.

Pulled out a bit more and put to the left.

Couldn't fight this. It went on friends, about close to

about twenty seconds ago, but it felt like it turned

the t I was on the chair there right. I say,

you better find you quickly, because I got few I'm

slowly losing either, like like you know, your mind slowly

slipped into like you've got to pass out the kind

of thing, uh that couldn't find on the level that

pulled out and put to the right hand side.

By the sixth time, I think that the nurse got

it correct. I was there, I said.

Anyway, so I knew the duo friends. So every time

my experience, I look at this ness, Oh, I say, Lord,

this guy is new because it was my veins is

so deep inside because of the layer of fats and

stuff stuff like that. So so every time he has

to locate and I could tell her a bit more experience,

tap twice can find really some alasta for fifteen seconds,

that's one. So anyway, I I took the blood and

the stuff that I was praying. I was really praying, Okay,

I conversed. I learned something for x Charag. I was

I was really praying. So as a person I was

drawing blood, I said, God, this is your blood. Okay,

the blood of Jesus is right now the reach of

my blood by your blood. I learned this for x

Charag because a guy white cancer cancer say there, say God,

this is the blood that his joy right now?

Is your blood?

All right, there's no more cancer right now in the

name of You, and true enough stage four cancer from

first blood result to zero cancer marcher second, right, So

I said, I said, God, this is.

Yours stuff like that, I was gonna begin like so

what he did? So I did the same thing.

So by the time the results came out, friends, the

result came up that my doctor was so surprised it

so I ask you a question, what do you do? What?

What what do you do? Because so by L d.

L, right, myld we understand LDL quite the bad class

show by LDL has been two to two point four

because you know we're all high achievers, right, so we

have to go up a bit kidding, So two point

four they say, you know your heart patient, you supposed

to be one. So my the target herself for me

was one point eight after three or four years of medication, friends,

and all the hot work. How I meaning you say

that you know how how much I abuse my body

with celery and bit root in the morning for breakfast

raw salary and raw bit root, blanded just drinking with water.

That's the breakfast for champions, right. I couldn't bring it down.

So I remember the last one was it's all not better?

At one point eight you mentioned achieve it, I thought, great, love,

But you know, my doctor being Asian like eight. Don't

typical parents Asian parents. One point is a good enough.

I want you to get one point six. It's like

getting it's a good enough. Must get a plus. You

know what I mean?

Once you get a plus, but get eight plus plus.

So I say the last the last.

Result was one point eight, So I want you to

get one point six. So my anyway, my my results

came out it was one point six. It was one

point six. He got.

He was in a state of shock. I tried so

he himself had patient. I tried so.

Hard to get it with auto medication and supplement. I

couldn't get it down to one point six?

How do you do it?

How do you do to one point six? Your l

d L.

By the diver.

I felt like, oh that's the Lord, hallelujah, praised the Lord.

You pay me, And now.

Look how those stick took videos.

You pay me. So I looked at him and said, no,

I just I just decided to do take my life

fasting a bit more seriously. I did eighteen hours of fasting,

then sometimes twenty four hours. Say I'm attempting to do

for the eight and for these two days and three

days of fasting but you know I did tell you.

I just I just say this.

You know, I prayed. I remember in my quiet time

and say, Lord, you have to help me to bring

it down. You have to help me to bring it down.

You have to help me to bring it down. I

didn't chache much routine friends. In fact, I think the

last the last six months, I wasn't really strict with

my diet. And one time I met the tope of

the top dietition in Malaysia and I told my story

in my case, how sometimes after a while, your remedy

becomes like your your badge of honor like that, if

you understand what I'm trying.

To say, just because you punish your body.

With salary and big brute like you felt, Oh, you're

better than the rest of other people. You're in chocolate

there for big first and the stuff like that. You've

seen the look at me, I'm more holy. Sorry, excuse

that we're more holy in my diet than you. Right,

Sometimes you feel that way. You know, of course you

went you punish your body that way. But I remember

that the amount of salary I eat in the morning,

it's one it's ten sticks, not one. Ten sticks of

stocks do stick stocks of salary in the morning. I

remember going all to that way into go for blood tests.

I get so disappointed. The same I punished my body

with ten stock or salary every morning. It's still the same.

That relative scripture is very real. I remember for the

past six months when my prioritize the Lord you have

to bring my LDL down. I can't do everything I

can with my own possible strength, but the SuperNature you

have to help me to bring it down. I want

to encourage you with men, this is impossible. Sometimes everything

we have access to, the supplements and everything I have friends,

we can access to. Everything still doesn't work. Situation doesn't change,

still the same, but we've got all things are possible.

So in your quiet time, friends, have we been praying

about it? Not in you? Because if we say if

God can work supernaturally, then we need to engage. We

need to pray, We need to just and it's not

a lot of those prayer like like like wow, those

long prayers like like a teological prayer or stuff that.

But we need to be consistent our prayer. God, please

give me reason what I need to do. Please help

me in this situation. The Bible say, ask that you

shall receive, seek you shall find. Come on, not it

will be open. If you don't ask, you don't receive.

If you don't seek, you won't find. If you don't know,

it won't be open. But some about rather, we have

this Christian false Christian mindset. They think just because you're

a Christian, the door it's automatic that by time you

reach the door, the door openers by yourself. It's like, well,

does shopping out doors like you better? You wish the

door open by yourself. But now that you saw a

new system, they see you have the press, the thing

that you can think open. And sometimes we forgot the

press our own Christian life as well. We don't pray,

am I asking us to suspend hours, but at least

start from somewhere like that. We see the scripture that

with men it's impossible. We've got all these impossible. Therefore,

engage God in your sacred place, amen. Cool point number two,

rede your strength. You must renew your strength. Come on,

you must renew your strength when you go to every problem.

Come on, you must reded your strength because problems.

Weighs you down.

Come on, tires you out mentally, physically, everything else, you

don't feel like doing anything else but to vegetate on

your bait. Right. So, however, friends, renewing your strength is

not your typical way. I'm gonna say this again now,

the Angel of the Lord come on, provided cakes, bike

over coat and the jar of water, cakes over coat

and the jar of water. I'm not sure friends, in

our way we eat stuff in our life whether or

not we eat just eat cakes and water, because it

is not one of those cuisine that you look up for.

Just kicks the water, and God reminded me it's as

simple as just that. Sometimes we talk about renewing strength,

we always look for a formula sly for eight hours,

and all this physically is true. Slip for eight hours,

you need your strength, and just stuff like that work

out you really your strength or you get more strength.

But the Bible has this other thing you your friends.

So problems raise you down, stress raise you out. Correct not.

But so the Lord's way is very different from our way.

So when the Age of the Love provided cakes over hot,

cold and the jarl water really reminds me that some

things we could have overlooked that actually does give you strength.

Just let me just give you one of the examples. Okay,

it may be simple food, but give us strength from

the Lord. Let me give you one example Exodus twenty,

verse twelve. Honor your father and your mother. Your days

will be long upon the language the Lord has given you.

Now we pray for a longer life. But the Bible

here says he's asking us to honor our parents. So,

in other words, friends, to renew your strength doesn't come

from just taking in supplements for yourself, taking in the

rest for yourself only. It really comes from doing what

God says. For example, if you want long life only

your parents totally very different. In your friends, the Bible

says that if you've got something against your brother, your

prayers won't be hurt. So therefore, exercise forgiveness first, because

the bitterness come on, Isn't it true?

If you're bitter in.

Your heart, friends, there is no rest, and every time

you see the individual the person, you get upset. It

could be your office colleagues, and every day your office

clique is certain phrase our friends, we get all round

up insights and sometimes friends is to release the forgiveness.

Once you release the forgiveness, do what God.

Wants you to do.

Strength comes up there, because your strength is not divided

into managing your bitterness and managing your peace. I'm trying

to say so, therefore, first you're renewing. Your strength doesn't

come from just keep protein powder or drinking hunger plus

or shouldar water.

It comes really from like God.

If I if I'm angry about someone, the Bible says,

do not let the sun go down on your anger.

So God wants us to renew our strength to his way.

And that's the reason why sometimes friends, you could say

that we've got all things are possible. We can declae scriptures,

but no breakthrough because we don't live out and change

our lifestyle. The Bible says that you know, if you

don't praise me, the rocks will cry out, the trees

will cry out, and many times your life, we want

the breakthrough. Come on, we want the break to we

want to see something happen. But yet at the same

that we won't do what God wants us to do,

and that's why the strength doesn't come. The Bible says,

wait upon the Lord, and you shall renew your strength.

So a lot of people just go around waiting, come on, waiting,

but not upon the Lord. Because when you wait upon

the Lord, friends, you'll be transformed and renewed in your mind.

You and I friends, need to renew our strength in

the way He wants us to renew our strength. So

I've used this scripture because only your parents, the Bible says,

comes along with the blessing of love, longer life, longer life,

which made to say that no, no illness or disease

can cut shot your life. Because of that's a promise

from the Bible. Sometimes I met campus students, even young

working adults have that's so bitter.

Against their parents, and yet they expect God to move

in every other way.

If you want to really want to see a brick

to renew your strength, look at what look at the

way we make decisions about life.

The Bible says that no, no, let me turn your

next scripture right.

Next scripture is if it's just a chapter four, verse

thirty one, Let all busterness, rough anger, climate, even speaking,

be put away from you.

Come on, Let all betterness, rough.

Anger, climber, even speaking, be put away from you, And

be kind to one another. Ten forgiving one another, even

as God in Christ forgave you. But either you don't understand, no,

this bitterness sometimes is my badge of honor. We wear it,

we tell people about it and about it. But friends,

I'm going to show you from my last point afterwards,

if we don't let it go, friends, it's very hard

for us to move forward the Lord. If you don't.

You know, sometimes you know what happens when you've been

so angry and you're so bitter. Friends, we do crazy

stuff on We were ministreaming to one couple one day.

One couple one day, the wife was so angry with

the husband. The wife was so angry with the husband,

so angry you know that she that she went took

her marriage set out and tore it halfway. I could like,

why do you do that? I see your your husband

didn't betray you. Your husband didn't your husband sleep me

and the woman. Your husband didn't do anything. They didn't

take your money to investge the big coin, nothing at all.

Your husband just told you something and you got you

round up and you have to tell the shut halfway.

I don't know what over me laughter. We put a

tip after that. No, we we share about this. Sometimes

Now we look back, we can love about it, but

at the very point in time it can cause your friends,

how if you know it takes a lot of energy

to be angry, man, It takes a lot of energy

for you to be angry. It takes a lot of

energy to be bitter. It takes a lot of energy

to express the bitterness and anger. And that's why the Bible,

he said, let our business rather anger, to put a

side right so that it comes. Most of the time,

me and my wife we only argue a few things.

One thing we argue about is where to eat, just

like the church after the service, asking where to eat.

It's the longest decision ever longer you know your fellowship

here fellowship that would say fellowship in the car decaiding

where to eat? Me and my wife the same one,

where to eat, and for we can drive for forty

five minutes. Friends, only let up in the same place

we eat like yesterday. And sometimes that's what happens, Freds

is because it's because we don't we don't let go

off the assumptions. So I told my wife that I said,

where do you want to eat? Her replies, anyway you

want to eat? No, I want to hear where you

want to eat anywhere? Also, can then you suggest something

like Nazi cover you night, Naikanda here praise the Lord, hallelujah. Right,

my wife and Nazi Cana not good friends. She she

was in na. Everything had to be separated individual, the individual,

compartment nothing she we touch you one another? Right? The

carry cannot make you under carry because they're not friends, right,

they're not. They're not friends in marriage here, so they

cannot mix around. Right, So every day to be separated

and start stuff like that. So I look at it,

but you ask me mouth, so I suggest. If I suggest,

you say no. So for forty five minutes can go

a direction of destination, and someone with a cushion life

is the same. A direction. We think we're hitting somewhere

with our cushian life, only to let up in the

same place that we were in the same pit as

we were last year. Because we don't renew our strength

and my last point, we don't renew our mind. We

just assume only you and I know that she doesn't

like and I purposely need the same because I liked it.

Come on, I said, I'm the member of the house.

I make decision. Ma, I give you no friends, So

that's why I decided I want to us just kidding, right,

So many people do the right cover. Many people do

many things right but not necessary the right thing. Many

people do many things right but not necessarily the right thing.

Could you could be doing everything right like drive, thinking

the car out, getting the car, hating to a direction

by not doing the right thing, but by making decisions.

Okay, let's go somewhere.

Just because, friends, we get so busy with our lives.

Business doesn't equate means that we're doing the right thing.

The business is not a barometer for productivity. And some

of you know it, and we leave our bache as

a Christian, you're so busy. Wow, praise God. You're so

on fire? No necessary? Friends, Can you be on fire?

If you know you're the only person in our church? Friends,

just want to let you know the direction? But hating

if we want to quip everyone, equip everybody, every believer

here to be ready one day weapon. If you're the

only person that believes in God, can you still stand

hold onto that my God is real? Yes, I may

not have the band with me, I may not have

like pass the glove with me to encourage me, But yeah,

can I still stand or not? Can I still hold

on to His truth? It could be like these friends

with you. You're the only one in the hospital ward

just before surgery, lying on this cold metal.

Bait.

You're the only person. But can you can you hold

on to God's truth and say He's with me or not?

So that's what it's very important for ends. So business

is not that aim. The aim is to know that

my God says that it's not until you say it's over,

and learn from me that God says, if there's any

busness in my life, I need to release it. If

there's any anger in my life pass hurts, I need

to deal with it because that's where I renew my strength.

That's why I've been set free. That's why I can

run without change, holding on my legs. Right, finally, it's

going to be these stress We knew the mind. So

even though with so many experiences of we've God, Elijah

was still afraid of Jezebel, Elijah was still afraid of Jezebel.

So how we see experienced things can trigger our minds

to think too much. Relate the confusion and exhaustionit. How

we see and experienced things can trigger our mind to

think too much. You know, doing church for past thirty

five years, and we meet a lot of new visitors

with our church. And some visitors no problemly just come

looking for church to be part of. But one or

two situations we get visitors. First thing that comes from

the leaps is the elder just wanted to check you.

My past heard from the other church, my past hurt

from the other church. I say, sister brother, look, I'm

sure it wasn't a pleasant experience. However, before you start

telling me about what the other pastor or leader did

not do for you, I want to encourage you.

Today, always let it go and walk to the Lord.

The moment you see a leader, you get triggered. Leaders

are like that, you'll crusifer them in a box. For example,

a statement would come to you in this form, serf,

do you want to serve an art? The moment you here,

do you want to serve dout? It triggers you to

automatic response, Let me pray about it. That's what happens.

Asked do you want to serve? Dout? Let me pray

about serving the God you asked me to serve. It's

very natural because it triggers friends. If our mind is

renew friends, you always just say yes, how can I

help But if a mind is not renew what happens

is that because of your past experience and hurt them

whatever you went through every time, pasty you want to

If not.

Yes, as a host, no, as a home leader. So

why do I look at every home leader?

They got this supernatural tank they have to feel themselves

with and curae you because during they teach and hope

somebody responds one and everything like that. Because friends, if

our mind is not renewed, that's how we see things. Friends,

it gives the same response every time.

And God is asking us.

To renew your mind? What was the delighted response? Let

me lay down at this boom tree. Then let me

die because of Jezebel ed Jessebinic teams come out. I

want to die, to come out? Do you under some

a lot? Let me pray about it? No difference, same expression.

But God's reminding us fress you know from the experience

of Elijah, friends, elighten not say the face anymore. No,

we should really say something must have happened in this life.

But his words begins to change this aubmitter, do this scripture,

you know the scripture? Okay, do not be confirmed to

this world, but be transformed with renewer of your mind.

You know this, right ro. Much of the travelers too,

do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed

by the renew of your mind. So I'll speak about

confirmed confirmation, confirmation versus transformation. What do you mean by dad?

This is my last point. I got to go to

streak a Bangan, which I think they're still in worship. Yeah,

a lot of Christian now you know why don't get

invited love places like extrast as though a lot of Christians,

this is what I discover, right, say they read the Bible.

A lot of Christians say they read the Bible, they pray.

My barilmeter, my assisize this that if you see you

read the Bible, you pray, then your mind must be renewed,

because the Bibles did not be confirmed digital, but be

transferred by the renewing of your mind.

Right quite not so.

If your mind is renewed, friends, why I put your

words to be different? Come on, if your mind is renewed,

then your words must be different. But a love Christian

even though serving sometimes friends repeat back the same the

same story that happened last year, two years ago, as

father as ten years ago. No change in the words.

But yet can tell me that I read the Bible,

I know the scripture. But our mind is not renewed.

Because if our mind is not, really, you're not going

to see a solution from the way out. That's why

it's so important, friends, that we say that we renew

our mind.

Our words come on our words. The way we express, the.

Way we say it must change because how long are

we going to say that I was five years ago. Yes,

I agree that that pain threads takes a while to

overcome in but you know what, carry this for the

next ten years. So something must change. Because if a

mind is renewed, friends, come out. If your mind is renewed.

When somebody asked you, would you serve, we will say,

let me pray about it. The first quest is say,

if ever you want me to at least explore the

possibility first before we say no. But before even before

we explore the possibility, the first thing is no, I'm

very busy.

No to heart.

You can shake it. No I cannot. We have for

so many reasons why people don't want to serve as hosts.

I shake some partners hand, friends, elder, My hands are

so mostterarized by the hands I have before I shake

it some, but this hands just put the mostarizer that. Wow,

this is freeposturizer. Whyever, bread, this is hallelujah? Why don't

I share? An other person says her diamond room was

so big?

I should I? Oh, thank you Jesus, hallelujah. Right, you

know what we went through before. But friends, it's like

going to close friends.

We say that we spend time with the Lord, with

our Bible. But if our life doesn't change, if there

is no break through, no change the way we live,

big decisions, no change in the way we speak. I'm

not asking this to be like one at change, you know,

I must say that there's a sudden degree of changes.

There must be the change in some phrases that you use.

I was talking to one brother that day.

It's a close actually can come out of the said,

I know you guys are waiting for me.

I was talking one brother that day. You know who's

the leader, and know and and this we always.

Say this phrase. Recently, and I begin to this, Oh God,

not enough money, not enough money, not enough money. In

one city of two hours with him, this phrase was

used four times, four times. Now I understand. You can

see the face. One time I said not enough money,

I an't said all right, But to use the same

phase four times in the span of two hours or

less than two hours shows me something even deeper. Because

by the confession of your lips, you live by one.

You know, if we keep saying that I'm going to

get cancer, friends, chances is very high, very high. That's

why you don't confess death. We speak life in the situation.

That's how you notice our prayer phrase. Now we'll say,

cass you take over. We all say cancer be nullified

in Jesus team, because out in the name of Jesus,

we spect life in the situation, because we truly believe that.

You know, when Jesus spoke into the cave and Lesius

was dead, let's just come forth.

Let's just came forth.

So God was trying to tell us that there is

power in our confession. So as this where they beginning

to confess, I had to check in my spirit. I

had to check my spirit. If your mind is totally renewed,

then the statement is even though I may have lack,

even though I may not have enough, but my God

shall supply all my needs. Come on but my God

shall supply all my needs even though I'm not well.

But by God says that by his stripes, I've been

made whole.

Many times in our life you just stop at the problem,

not providing a solution to our problem. See the way

God reminds us he is our power of refuge, our

strength is to let us know. You have to renew

our mind. We knew our minds so that the way

we declare is different. As I close and just being

reminded again, it's not really just about all that ministry. See,

ministry is good friends. My final point in which I

don't have time is just this one. Like you understand this,

It is about your relationship with the Lord. Elijah friends

experienced so many break through SuperNature seventeen, Chapter seventeen, Chapter eighteenth.

It reminds me of of friends. You can do so

much in the Lord, but can actually forget about the

relationship with the Lord, because once it's relationship friends. Even

though the most challenging moments friends, you know that you're

because of the relationship that God would abandon you. The

contrast between Elijah and Joe's Seph. Joseph did not lay

in prison and just say God had enough ready. First

of all, my brother sold me to slavery. Send me

the slavery. There After I was bought by potifar. Wife

took advantage of me. I was in the realm to

the prison prison. You got me out serving the king's court.

Tobet the prisons again that came out. I mean, you

imagine this going torough life. You're you're there so nil

by yes so far since a close friends. It's all

about your relationship with the Lord.

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