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Renew | Elder Shirley

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from ex Church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. As I was praying this morning, as I prepare for

  4. to speak here, God just drop this word into my mind,

  5. which is the word renew. So, obviously, many of you,

  6. I'm meeting you for the first time. I do not

  7. know what you're going through. I don't know how you

  8. spend your days and nights for the past one week,

  9. or one month, or even this morning. But I want

  10. to tell you that God knows. God really knows. Yeah,

  11. so God says the word renew. So I prayed our

  12. hearts will be open, our months will be open. And

  13. can I give you a disclaimer first, I can get

  14. quite loud sometimes, And can I give you another disclaimer

  15. that I can be very honest and very direct sometimes.

  16. So if I offend you in any way, I'm so sorry. Yeah,

  17. but but but but here hear me out. But more importantly,

  18. here the voice of God. Here, the voice of God.

  19. I truly believe that God has a word for each

  20. and every one of you here this morning.

  21. Yeah, so God, God dropped the word renew to my mind.

  22. And and you know, maybe show the next photo as well, this.

  23. Some of you.

  24. If you've heard my husband's book recently, then you might

  25. have heard him mentioning that we our house actually went

  26. to a one year renovation last year, one whole year.

  27. I can tell you the details later, but basically it

  28. wasn't expected, but it took one whole year and we

  29. renovated almost every part of our house, not planned. I

  30. will tell you in details later, but I want to

  31. show you that this is a photo of my This

  32. is actually my new entrance and it is uh, this

  33. cupboard is actually a shoe, a shoe cabinet. Yeah. So

  34. it doesn't look at tall here, but basically is from

  35. here to higher than this link. Yeah yeah, because both

  36. of us are quite tall. So and you can see

  37. the steps there so we can even build it higher.

  38. So this is my new shoe cabinet. Yeah, I don't

  39. own well, I own quite a number of backs, but

  40. I don't really use them very often because I'm quite

  41. lazy to change backs. But shoes I could change every day,

  42. right yeah so I yeah, So both me and my

  43. husband's own quite some shoes because I like to change shoes,

  44. and I'm very grateful of this new shoe cabinet. Yeah,

  45. so I didn't come how many shoes I can fit inside.

  46. But basically, when I was trying to fit in this

  47. new shoe cabinet, I went through my all my shoes,

  48. and I realized that, see this new place I moved

  49. in actually almost one year now, and some shoes have

  50. been sitting in this new shoe cabinet. I mean at

  51. least for one whole year now, because I moved in

  52. one year and as I was going through the shoes

  53. that was in this cabinet, to my surprise, quite a

  54. number of them actually spot yeah yeah, yeah, because they're

  55. old and and some shoes were sitting inside there for

  56. one whole year without me touching them due to some reasons,

  57. for example, not comfortable.

  58. Yeah.

  59. I can't stand uncomfortable shoes. Seriously, That's why you see

  60. me wearing flats most of the time, because I thought

  61. life is too short to wear uncomfortable shoes. Yeah, and yeah,

  62. I just I just can't. And I can't balance myself

  63. very well with high heels, yeah, I just can't. So so,

  64. but some shoes, well I can't even remember why I

  65. bought them in the first place, but they were just

  66. not comfortable. Okay, But they was occupying this space for

  67. one whole year, and there's some shoes that were already

  68. spot But I thought I wasn't ready to say goodbye yet.

  69. I wasn't ready to say goodbye because somehow, maybe I

  70. like the color, I like the shape of it, I something,

  71. you know, girls, you understand, right, So I like it

  72. sit there for one whole year. Some I forgot that

  73. they were there, hands up, right, ya yah, don't confess

  74. your sins. No, oh no, no, don't confess me now, okay,

  75. but you know, yeah, I forgot that it was there

  76. until I climb up the stairs, not come up this letter.

  77. This climb up, and I saw some shoes up there. Okay, yeah,

  78. so I clean up, basically, I did spring cleaning. I

  79. saw all the shoes. I put them aside, and then

  80. the Lord spoke to me, the last book, to me,

  81. surely these unwanted for forty sports shoes were occupying your

  82. new cabinet space for one whole year. And then I remember,

  83. you know, in some cities, I mean in most cities,

  84. space is very costly and very press is very precious.

  85. Right.

  86. I'm not sure whether you know. Recently I watched a

  87. documentary of Hong Kong, and that many poor people in

  88. Hong Kong. And because space is so precious so and

  89. hence very very costly. So a lot of people they

  90. in Hong Kong, if they are very poor, they actually

  91. have to stay in this small little I wouldn't call

  92. them apartments, small little well apartments high rise buildings. Yeah,

  93. and in one unit, but we subdivided into like fifteen

  94. sixteen baits and one bit equals one person space full stop.

  95. So space is very costly.

  96. And I remember we had from some some some partners

  97. from from China, right and uh, I remember there's a

  98. few few students I met from from Beijing. And then

  99. they came and then we went to another partner's house

  100. for a party. And then the partner's house is quite big,

  101. and then she they said, whoa, this this house in

  102. Malaysia costs? How much would it cost? And then uh

  103. they would say, oh yeah, this amount. They're like, huh

  104. this amount then is it? This amount in Beijing probably

  105. equals to your living room only we were like, yeah,

  106. so space is costly, you know.

  107. And and and and in.

  108. May, me and my husband we went to ex Osaka

  109. and yeah, Japan, space is costly. The hotel rooms are

  110. quite small, washing not quite small, it's just enough size.

  111. Because space is costly, So Gossa Sally, you allow this

  112. whole bunch of unused shoes in your new, new, brand

  113. new shoe cabinet for one whole year.

  114. I tell you, I stood there. I repented one whole year.

  115. And then the Lord says space is so costlyally, and

  116. then space is meant for a purpose. For example, my

  117. shoe cabinet is meant to store shoes. They're not meant

  118. to store useless shoes. They're not meant to store damage shoes.

  119. They are meant for a purpose. Yet we allow our

  120. pressure space to store useless things. Right there, God spoke

  121. to me. How about your mind? Oh my gosh, seriously,

  122. God speaks to me in my serious ways. So I

  123. was clearing out, you know. Yeah, and I'm sure a

  124. lot of us would have heard of of of of

  125. of a particular a Japanese lady who who says, well,

  126. does these thing spark joy?

  127. If it doesn't spark joy?

  128. Yeah, yeah, Maricondo, right, so yeah, so space is meant

  129. for something, you know, but many of us are holding

  130. onto things that do not spark joy.

  131. Anymore.

  132. No, many of us are holding onto things that are useless.

  133. That should not be there.

  134. For example, my shoes belong to the spoil ones belongs

  135. to the garbage bin, or belongs to the recycling or

  136. belong to someone who can make better use of it.

  137. Yeah, and how how about our minds? You know, outpe,

  138. our mind.

  139. Of space is a very precious place. And God asked

  140. me how many useless things are we allowing to occupy

  141. precious space in our minds and our hearts? And hence

  142. Romans Chapter twelve, verse one to two. My friends, and

  143. as I as I, as I, as I reflected on

  144. this scripture more just looking at time, how much time

  145. do I have? Ten o'clock service means you end by twelve?

  146. Okay? Cool?

  147. So, as I reflected on this scripture, I remembered many

  148. years when I did a study on the word renew

  149. renew right, because verse two it says, but do not

  150. and do not be conformed to this world, but be

  151. transformed by the renewing of your mind. The world renew

  152. in Hebrew, it actually means to renovate, renovate.

  153. That's why you see how good is speaking.

  154. I renovated my house, my friends, I renovated my house

  155. to make it bigger, to make it nicer. I renovated

  156. and I added in the new shoe cabinet to make

  157. it more useful.

  158. So the word renew is renovate.

  159. So if you look at the scripture again, it actually says,

  160. do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed

  161. by the renovating of your mind. And you know, when

  162. we renovate a space, normally we renovate to make it bigger.

  163. Right.

  164. Who renovates a place make it smaller? No one, no one.

  165. All of us want to make.

  166. It bigger, nicer, right, so that it can contain more.

  167. Maybe this morning, we need to renovate our minds so

  168. that our minds can contain more, exceedingly abundanly above beyond

  169. what we can imagine or think of. We need to

  170. renovate our minds to contain more. We renover a space

  171. to make it more beautiful, not uglier.

  172. Make it beauty.

  173. I don't know, have you met anyone say okay, hi,

  174. I want to make my interior designer, and I give

  175. you a mission.

  176. To make this place ugly? No one, no one.

  177. We ran over a place, make it more beautiful, nicer, newer. Right,

  178. we ran over a space to make it more useful,

  179. to better fit it's original usage. So a renovor space,

  180. our space has a purpose, has a goal. God says

  181. that we are to renovate our minds because our minds

  182. are meant for a purpose. Our minds are meant for

  183. something beautiful, something normal, something good.

  184. Remember rescripture. That is, yeah, renovate our minds.

  185. So that we are transformed and changed, so that we

  186. can prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect

  187. will of God. Amen, this is God's good plan for us,

  188. my friends, and we all need to renovate our minds.

  189. We need to renew our minds.

  190. Because I tell you what, as we go along in

  191. the journey of life, as we go through different challenges.

  192. You know, all of us, as I mentioned just now,

  193. that we are from different countries, different backgrounds, different yeah,

  194. just background, even if we are from same Malaysia. You know,

  195. like me and my husband we were married twenty one

  196. years ago.

  197. We both are Malaysians.

  198. Even though my husband will deny that, he will say

  199. that I'm half Singaporean.

  200. Well technically ah my I.

  201. See says I one hundred percent of Malaysian but my

  202. mother is from Singapore. Yeah so yeah, so my husband

  203. always Joe, you are half singaporeanially, especially when you play sports,

  204. your gaesto side kind of.

  205. Comes out catto is competitiveness.

  206. Yeah, yeah, so anyway, so sometimes, yeah, we can be

  207. from the same country like me and Musban, we're from

  208. same country, same ethnicity, and yet we are from different

  209. backgrounds and all of us, each of us are shaped

  210. by our background. Right, it's natural. It's natural. It's natural.

  211. Doesn't mean that is supposed to be how it should stay.

  212. Maybe not because God says we are to renovate, because

  213. some of us we come from broken backgrounds. Like you know,

  214. we know the importance of father figure in the family.

  215. How a father figure is so important in the life.

  216. Of a daughter.

  217. Yeah, but what if what if she doesn't have? What

  218. if she doesn't have? Does that mean is it?

  219. And no?

  220. That's why in Christ there's always a way out. In God,

  221. there is always hope always. Yesterday, I was serving at

  222. our community, our reach together with three homes at Carry Island,

  223. and that is where we serve the Orange as Lei,

  224. the local the original tribe of people in malays And.

  225. We went in there.

  226. It was a very small little village, not much of facilities,

  227. but our team goes in every Saturday to teach English.

  228. And yesterday I went with them to do a Christmas program.

  229. My first time there because I've been to other communities

  230. but not this one. So I went there yesterday and

  231. I met these children, many children, maybe about fifteen of them,

  232. and two or three are teenagers, fourteen fifteen year old girls.

  233. And I found out that these girls fourteen fifteen, they

  234. don't go to school because the family is such that, yeah,

  235. they the sons, they would encourage them to go to school,

  236. but the daughters not so. And the parents are busy

  237. making life ends meet. You know, they're working, so they

  238. normally daytime, these children they are left with other people

  239. are the caretakers. But it's two at least I met

  240. two girls fourteen fifteen. They don't go to school. That

  241. means they are illiterate. Can you imagine in Malaysia in Malaysia,

  242. illiterate fourteen fifteen And then we also know fourteen fifteen

  243. or even sixteen is the normal age that girls from

  244. these group people get married. That means that's why they're

  245. not going to school, because they probably getting ready to

  246. be married off at this age in Malaysia.

  247. Can you imagine that?

  248. But so I thought of myself, does that mean it's

  249. dead end for them? Well, in our human eyes it

  250. can seem like so. But in God, all things are possible.

  251. That's why our team is going in to interact with

  252. them to Yeah, I'm not sure how much English they

  253. can can get, you know, because they don't even come

  254. up consistently every week this particular community.

  255. So I'm not sure how much education they can get.

  256. But I pray that beyond the education, beyond the English,

  257. beyond the language, that they could experience God in their

  258. own way, that they will allow God to renovate their minds.

  259. And that's the only way out, my friends, that's the

  260. only hope for them. Yeah, I pray, so, I pray so.

  261. So that's not It does not mean that, oh, we

  262. come from a bad background and hands real like this,

  263. or we come from this particular country and therefore it's.

  264. Like that, you know, or maybe you know.

  265. I recently spoke to some people from Hong Kong and uh,

  266. they will have having like children not so they told me.

  267. In Hong Kong's very common that that before the child

  268. turns don't know how many years old.

  269. They already know where they're.

  270. Gonna stay, because they have to decide when which kindy

  271. the child is gonna go to get into the right kindy.

  272. After that, get into the right primary school, after that,

  273. get into the right secondary school. After that, get into

  274. the right university.

  275. I tell you they start very young.

  276. Yeah, the child is probably only two years old, but

  277. they already think they already thing. They already know where

  278. they they are, where which kindy, make the preparations and

  279. get the right address. I understand, parents, I understand that

  280. there's such things called wisdom. I know, make preparation. I

  281. know for the sake and the future of your children.

  282. I know, I know. But is that the only way?

  283. Meaning if you fail to do that, you are a failure,

  284. or if you fail to do that, your child will

  285. be a failure. That is what I would like to

  286. challenge our mind with. God says that we are to renew,

  287. we are to renovate our minds, that we do not

  288. need to confirm to this world. I truly believe that, yes,

  289. we need to be responsible, we need to be wise

  290. in whatever that we do to the best of our abilities,

  291. But ultimately we still need to live room, leave the

  292. space to God for God to move and speak, then

  293. we can live the abundant life.

  294. Amen. And that is God God's happy for us because.

  295. He wants us to prove what is that good, perfect

  296. and acceptable will of God. And that is God's happy

  297. for you, my friends, for us, that he wants us

  298. to experience all that He has for us.

  299. Amen. But we need to renovate our minds. Amen.

  300. Now I would like to change slides to the other

  301. second slides that I gave yes.

  302. You know, yes, the other the bluish.

  303. Slides, Yes, thank you, you go to slight seven. Yeah,

  304. So in this slide you can see this. Another scripture

  305. that I would like to share with you is from Exodus.

  306. Exodus chapter fourteen Excidus chapter fourteen is an account of

  307. the people of Israelites. They they left Egypt right, Moses

  308. led them out from Egypt. And then they were standing

  309. before the Red Sea. So in front of them were

  310. the Red Sea. Okay, if they're going they'll be drowned.

  311. Behind of them were the Pharaoh's army after them, okay,

  312. so this people of God. They were standing before the

  313. rad Sea, okay, between the Rad Sea and Pharaoh's army.

  314. They were stuck.

  315. I can't go in front, I can't go backwards because

  316. there were people chasing after us to kill us, to

  317. capture us, to enslavers in front of.

  318. Me with a rad sea. I can't go in now

  319. because I'll be drowned. Okay. So people of God was

  320. stuck at that point. They were stuck. They were stuck.

  321. And then they even started to complain to Moses and say,

  322. why did you bring us out here to die?

  323. Or friends? They are they're not?

  324. They?

  325. Yeah?

  326. Yeah, they saw the.

  327. They saw the sea, they saw the people, they they

  328. saw the Pharaoh's army. And then they complained to Moses, Moses,

  329. it's all your thoughts.

  330. Why did you? Why did you do you bring us

  331. out here to die? Okay? And then they were stuck.

  332. They were stuck. And then right there Moses.

  333. Also heard God telling him something, and then he told

  334. the people this accident. Chapter fourteen, verse thirteen, and Moses

  335. said to the people, do not be afraid. Stand still

  336. and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will

  337. accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians, whom you see

  338. today you shall see again no more forever. The Lord

  339. will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

  340. Amen.

  341. Here he says, do not be afraid. Stand still. I

  342. want you to fix your eyes on the words stand still.

  343. Stand still. You know, sometimes, as I was doing more

  344. research on this whole, this particular message that I was

  345. preparing that time, God brought my attention to a realization

  346. that when we are but as human beings. Yeah, I

  347. think it's the next life as human beings, when we

  348. are faced with danger or when we're afraid, right, there

  349. are usually four main responses for normally, for which is to.

  350. Fight who fights? Or to fight? Flight me? You yeah,

  351. run away okay? Or you freeze you just can't move.

  352. I don't know.

  353. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You think about yourself, which one?

  354. Which is your your your reaction?

  355. Okay?

  356. All phone okay, phone is like okay, you try to negotiate.

  357. Let's say, if in danger, then you try to negotiate

  358. with a person. Yeah, yeah, try to get on the

  359. good side of the person, and then and then and

  360. then you try to find a way out.

  361. Okay.

  362. So normally human beings, when we are afraid or we

  363. are faced with danger, we have these four main responses

  364. or reaction. Yeah, I know which one is me. I

  365. will run for me. It's number two flights. Yeah, when

  366. I see dog chasing me, I will run. Yeah, that's

  367. my first reaction. Yeah yeah, yeah, fight, flight, freeze a phone.

  368. Normally okay, normally, but you know in Exodus, just now,

  369. what does you say?

  370. The Bible teaches us to stand still, stand still and see.

  371. It is not logic to me be guesse.

  372. My reaction is flight, I'll run, well it mass stand still.

  373. Do you know how much effort it would take me

  374. to stand still? You know, because like I said, just now,

  375. h I have been chased since my childhood, right, I've

  376. been chased by dogs before. I've been chased by a

  377. goose before. And I've been chased by a chicken before. Yeah,

  378. a rooster by the way. So yesterday at a community,

  379. we saw you huge turkey, A huge turkey, like like

  380. this tall, a huge turkey.

  381. My mind was like runually, run run.

  382. I saw the turkey next to my car, and I

  383. really felt like running. Okay, but I thought aboutself, No,

  384. I can't run. I'm supposed to be here with the team.

  385. So I walked slowly, trying to stay away from the turk,

  386. and then surrounding the era, there are at least four

  387. or five dogs.

  388. Oh my gosh. I was okay.

  389. Thankfully the dogs were not bucking, so I was still

  390. under control.

  391. So I went.

  392. I went inside, and then and then I was trying

  393. to stand in the middle of the space around me,

  394. their brothers and sisters around me.

  395. Yeah, and then the dogs were trying to come in.

  396. And I tell you, it took me so much effort

  397. not to focus on them and not to run. I

  398. felt right running, you know, every inch of my skin.

  399. I feel like I'm gonna run away. But no, stand still,

  400. they say, stand still. It takes a lot. In my neighborhood,

  401. I like to take a walk with my husband, but

  402. the problem is there are many straight dogs.

  403. I don't know why.

  404. So people started walking out with sticks in their hands,

  405. just in case, you know. But yeah, so so and

  406. then people tell me that I remember a hole he

  407. told me before. It's acually because there was once I

  408. wanted to run, but I fell down.

  409. I slipped. It was very slippery, and then I scratched

  410. my hand.

  411. It was quite bad. Yeah, it was because of a

  412. dog that was bucking at me. And then out of

  413. ping hole. He asked me, ho, he said, Sally, I

  414. want to ask you, why did you see dog and

  415. you feel like running? I say, isn't it normal? I said,

  416. isn't it normal? You see a bucking dog you run?

  417. Then he told me, no, he says, not normal, normal reaction,

  418. and you stand and you stay down. The dogs show

  419. the dog who is alpha?

  420. He told me.

  421. I'm like, you mean them, I asked my husband. My

  422. husband said, yeah, that's why you always ask me why

  423. do you run?

  424. Yeah, because.

  425. When you see a dog and you run, it's not

  426. a normal reaction. I thought it was normal because, yeah,

  427. I was afraid. I flied and then and then so

  428. I thought, okay, okay, then I should uh try something else.

  429. Maybe I need to get used to the sound of

  430. the bucking so that I don't run.

  431. Yeah, which I tried. I tried.

  432. So. We were walking in our neighborhood one day and

  433. then and then some dogs in the neighbors houses. They

  434. were bucking on stuff, and I tried. I stood in

  435. front of the gate. I tried to stand and take

  436. in all the bucking.

  437. Wow, wow, like, okay.

  438. Take it debrectually, tried to get used, but I seriously

  439. felt like running.

  440. I felt her running.

  441. Yeah.

  442. So but you see, we all have our reaction. So

  443. I'm not sure what you're experiencing now. Maybe it's maybe

  444. maybe something is bothering you that they make you very fearful,

  445. maybe of your future, maybe of your children's future, maybe

  446. of your health. I'm not sure what it is, but

  447. I know that we all human beings. We have the

  448. four basic common reactions.

  449. To fight, to flight, to fam or to freeze, whichever one.

  450. But the Word of God says we are to stand still,

  451. and that would take renewing of our minds. My friends,

  452. you know, stand still stands still. And so so when

  453. I was reading doing the study of this research showed

  454. that human beings we had these four basic reactions. And

  455. then in that same research paper he actually says, but

  456. we can retrain our minds.

  457. I thought, retrain. It's the world of God that says

  458. renew our minds.

  459. The good news is, friends, we can retrain, we can retrain.

  460. And the world of God says stands still.

  461. You think it's easy, No, not easy. It takes a

  462. lot of effort to stand still. For me, I know

  463. because when I see a dog, even though it's not barking,

  464. I feel like running away, like wiggling I feel like running.

  465. Away and don't come here. Don't come here.

  466. You know that's me will I feel like running, But

  467. God says that we can retrain.

  468. I'm not there yet with the dogs. My friends pray

  469. for me, but one day I shall overcome.

  470. Yeah, but we can retrain. And the word stands still. Friends,

  471. I want to share with this with you. When I

  472. was standying as I did the Hebrew world of stand still.

  473. The word stands still and the Hebrew means yes up,

  474. yes up, and the a couple.

  475. Of meanings that. Oh, there are a couple of meanings there. Okay,

  476. one of it as you can see, as you can see.

  477. Oh, okay, okay, okay, you try try Oh it's back.

  478. Praise the Lord, don't be stress. Yeah, that's what Moses

  479. is here today. He's trying to troubleshoot what's wrong with.

  480. The sound system? Yeah, thanks Moses. Yeah yeah. So you

  481. see the word stands still in your south.

  482. He has a few meanings here, But I want us

  483. to focus on three words, three meanings.

  484. Okay, the word stands still, remember, stand still.

  485. And we are to retrain and renew our minds when

  486. we are faced with danger, difficult situations, challenging situations when

  487. we're afraid. Okay, so stand still. There are three meanings

  488. there that I wanted us to focus on.

  489. Number one is the word reflexively.

  490. Reflexively meaning the act of standing still is a reflex.

  491. It's an automatic reaction, meaning you are to make it

  492. into as automatic. So that for something to become an

  493. automatic thing, it means that it has to be practiced

  494. and rehearsed over and over and over and over and

  495. over again. That's what testings out, my friends, counting all

  496. joy when you fall into various trials and tribulations.

  497. That's why the.

  498. World God says, because with it it produces patients and

  499. you're complete.

  500. Amen. Amen, So stands you.

  501. You're to practice this one. I tell you. I know

  502. you practice so many times.

  503. You see.

  504. I grew up in kl and my primary school and

  505. my secondary school are in k l C.

  506. I'm not talking about sub JKL. Yeah, I'm talking about

  507. klk Okla. I'm Pataling Street KL.

  508. I'm talking about Lot ten KLCC twin Towers kl Okay

  509. that kot so many many years ago without all these buildings.

  510. I I yeah.

  511. So that's where my schools are and Pataling Street and

  512. sometimes the streets might not feel very safe. When I

  513. was in school, I remember, because our schools are all there,

  514. It's like the street is that wide. But when you

  515. walk there, right, some guy, we just have to knock

  516. on your shoulders, you know, even though the streets are

  517. so wide.

  518. Yeah, weird people on the mini bus.

  519. Yeah, we used to take public transports, mini bars and

  520. the bus.

  521. Weird uncles are there, Weird guys. Yeah.

  522. So so I train myself when I'm walking on the

  523. street normally. Okay, we have school bags and another I normally

  524. I would I imagine. I imagine if someone is standing

  525. in front of me and try to attack me, what

  526. will I do?

  527. Yeah, I play in my mind many times.

  528. So I remember when my teachers taught me, if you're

  529. gonna hit somebody, you gotta hit on the chin or

  530. the notes because it's easier to hit and to hit

  531. right the whole the face. It shouldn't be like this.

  532. He taught me that I should have a knuckle out,

  533. so that just harder, so that.

  534. I can, you know. Yeah, So I tell you, I

  535. really practice my mind. I do. I do. And because

  536. I swim breaststroke, so.

  537. My legs are generally I'm stronger lower pout of my body. Yeah,

  538. now I live with a bit so upper bodies strang

  539. a bit better.

  540. But my stronger parts.

  541. Are still my legs because I jump, I run.

  542. Yeah, I swim, so my legs are strong.

  543. So I practice so many times like anyone if they're

  544. coming from me, world, will I do first or back?

  545. Or you can't hear it for my Yeah, especially my

  546. right legs are. I'm quite I could, yeah, I could.

  547. I can even kick.

  548. Yeah.

  549. So in my mind, I practiced so many times. Okay,

  550. I rehearse it. I practiced so many times. Yeah, since young. Okay,

  551. by the way, since young, and I will try to

  552. hold something in my hand, like an umbrella, water bottle,

  553. you name it, just in case you know I grew

  554. up here. I mean, yeah, I like to be prepared. Yeah,

  555. that's why so so and run.

  556. See. That's why some people ask me, oh know, why

  557. you like this pair of shoes?

  558. Oh?

  559. Because when I run it won't fall off. Then the

  560. person asked me, why would you be running?

  561. Oh?

  562. Yeah, why would I be running? Yeah?

  563. Because I'm always ready anyway, So so I tell.

  564. You what happened. Okay, stand still? Word is who make

  565. it a reflex.

  566. So my husband sometimes he tried to be funny with me.

  567. They were at least twice. Okay, he was grabbing my

  568. hand and then not letting go. I said, let me go.

  569. I tell you I didn't mean it, but my reflex

  570. came out. I kicked him right like that, I stretched

  571. and I kicked. I kicked him right at his shin.

  572. Within seconds, he fell on the floor.

  573. And then you kill me? How could you kill me?

  574. I said, I didn't mean it. I really didn't mean it.

  575. I really didn't mean to kick you. I didn't mean it.

  576. I told you, don't messy it said, I didn't mean it.

  577. I tell you, yeah it.

  578. It just came out because I practiced so many times,

  579. and then it didn't happen once again, it happens twice.

  580. He said, you kicked me. I told you I didn't

  581. mean it. I didn't I really didn't mean it. Yeah yeah, yeah, so.

  582. So but the thing that just means we can retrain

  583. our minds, my friends, Yeah we can. So this meaning

  584. of sense. It really stuck with me because that was

  585. exactly what I was doing. And sometimes you might be wondering, God,

  586. why am I facing this challenge again? If you got want,

  587. says to practice again. And you need to know that

  588. God wants us to pass. God wants us to pass.

  589. God wants you to overcome. And God will not allow

  590. you to go through things that is more than what

  591. you can bear.

  592. Because it loves you so much. You can. You might

  593. not think you can bury it with him. You can.

  594. Even if you have to take a day by day,

  595. one step at a time, one day at a time,

  596. you can.

  597. I want to tell you.

  598. You can retrain. The second meaning of the word stands still.

  599. There are all like us to is this part resort?

  600. Stand still?

  601. It means that is the final resort that you If

  602. you're standing still, means you are decided. Yes, I'm staying on.

  603. There's no small of the back door somewhere. No, I

  604. am staying on this God. I'm gonna trust all the way,

  605. all the way. I'm not gonna let go. I'm gonna

  606. test and see where you work. If you don't, then

  607. I'll find no Finally, resort decided decided.

  608. That God, you say you will come true for me.

  609. God you say that you will heal me. God, no

  610. matter what, even if I'm not here, I still would

  611. trust you. Finally, resort, resort. The last one is the

  612. word fast.

  613. This fast is not the faster, it's the fast and

  614. fast fast, strongly fastened like a nail fastened into the wall.

  615. Fasten.

  616. That means you are strong, you are immovable, You're not shakeable.

  617. That is fastened for you for God to hang a

  618. beautiful picture on it, to show His perfect and acceptable

  619. will for you for your life.

  620. Amen.

  621. So what God says stands still, renew our minds by

  622. standing still and see the salvation of the Lord.

  623. Amen. Let's us stand.

  624. I'd like to pray for all of us today. I

  625. don't want to go without praying for you. I'm wanna

  626. pray because that really sends God's heartbeat for you. And

  627. only God knows what you are going through and what

  628. you have gone through. But today we want to pray.

  629. Let's worship God first, uh with that song guide Light

  630. because ultimately Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

  631. He is our guiding light, He is our everything.

  632. Today I pray that you will allow God to renew

  633. and renovate your minds, that you can you can stand still,

  634. that you can that you can renew, that you can

  635. see God.

  636. I resort. You are my everything, that God. You are

  637. my God, that God you are.

  638. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Come, let's worship God and I'll pray. Hallelujah.

  639. Let's start from the verse one. Thank you Jesus. She

  640. go brother, breathe.

  641. You are to me my every herdbad.

  642. I bring my life and life lay me at your feet.

  643. You are, you are, Jesus, you are the rather.

  644. I breathe.

  645. You are to me my every harbyat.

  646. I bring my life and I lay me at your feet.

  647. You are.

  648. My everything, my everything, my everything, my everything.

  649. Hae Lou, Yeah, I pulled my trust in you.

  650. Hae Lou.

  651. Yeah, you're fake food and your true.

  652. Hae Lou, Yeah, pulled my trust in you. Hae Lou.

  653. Yeah, you're fair.

  654. Fool and your true.

  655. Ah h nothing with thout you in you, I will

  656. bad am lost.

  657. We dout you.

  658. You are my guiding land.

  659. Ah am nothing With thout you in you, I will

  660. bad am lost.

  661. We dout you.

  662. You are my guiding lade, my guiding land, guiding land.

  663. Guiding land. You are my God, guiding light, guiding light,

  664. guiding light, guiding light.

  665. You are my guiding lad.

  666. Hallelujah.

  667. Oh Jesus, you are my guiding light.

  668. She could under Rana sand Sander. Hallelujah, let's close her eyes.

  669. She could under an on a Sunday if of a

  670. give of tongues, let's have been speaking tongues right now.

  671. Oh shararanaa sandor Rana Sander. She get under Rana Sander.

  672. She get under or Rana Sander. She get under Randa

  673. Rana sandor raa Sanna. She get on na na ra

  674. ra ra ra ras Sunday. Hallelujah. Shighrara ra ra ra Sandra.

  675. Thank you Jesus, Sugar, how we worship you Lord, hallelujah,

  676. Thank you Jesus. I just really sense that God once

  677. who feels and touches This morning, I'm gonna open the

  678. attar this morning and I'll let to encourage you if

  679. you want to respond to God. I'll come up quickly

  680. because our time is short. But I want to be

  681. obedient to God and to open this altar. I'm gonna

  682. pray for whoever that's gonna be here. I want to

  683. pray and ask God for his fire to come upon you.

  684. I want to ask God for his presence to minister

  685. to you. I'm wanna pray to God will give you

  686. a spirit of love or power and a sound mind

  687. that you will cast out every spirit of fear in

  688. the name of Jesus. If that's you, I'll come up quickly.

  689. I'll pray with you. You can come out as a family.

  690. A sense that some of you here today you might wander.

  691. You might need to come out as a family, as

  692. husband and wife, surrendering your family, your marriage to God afresh. Hallelujah.

  693. God loves us. God loves us. God loves us. Hallelujah,

  694. Thank you Jesus. So signing shik holy worship you.

  695. Oh whoa.

  696. Maybe some of us here, maybe you've just gotten a

  697. medical report that caused you to be worried or be concerned.

  698. I want to pray for you this morning because God

  699. sees you and God loves you. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.

  700. Or maybe some of us here you might be concerned

  701. and worried about your parents.

  702. I'm not sure where they are, but that's you. Let's pray.

  703. Let's pray. Oh, she got students. I want to speak

  704. to you. I'm not sure.

  705. Maybe today you're thinking God, I'm not sure why. I

  706. I just censor a sudden lostness. I'm not sure where

  707. I should go, what I should do? You need a direction? Come,

  708. I want to pray for you.

  709. Oh she.

  710. Thank you Jesus.

  711. Oh we worship, We worship you, Lord, Jesus. Oh we

  712. worship you, Jesus. Hallelujah, sandrasando.

  713. Ah Yeah, nothing with that you.

  714. She gotta.

  715. Sunday.

  716. Oh we worship you, Jesus. Lost without you, you, my

  717. goding Lord.

  718. Oh sigaranda da sand Sunday. Maybe some of you here,

  719. you're worried about your visa. I'm not sure who you are,

  720. but if that's you, I want to tell you that

  721. God knows, and he has his perfect timing. He has

  722. his perfect timing. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Trust in the Lord.

  723. Trust in the Lord. Oh sheigt Sunday, Thank you Jesus,

  724. trust in the Lord. Oh shada dada Sunday, Thank you Lord,

  725. Thank you Lord Sunday. Some of us here, some of

  726. us here, Maybe you know you you realize that God,

  727. I can't see a way out. I tell you what, God,

  728. can you know? Many of the things that we do

  729. we cannot. We cannot by our own strength renew our minds,

  730. my friends, we cannot buy our own strength, renovate our minds,

  731. but we've got all things are possible, So ask God

  732. for help. I'm gonna pray for the Holy Spirit to

  733. come upon you. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. The auto is

  734. still open. I want to be obedient, and if that's

  735. still come, we pray with you, We pray for you. Hallelujah,

  736. Thank you Jesus. Oh Shadra da, Shigiran da ra da

  737. ra ra Sand Sunday. Shigiran da ra ra ra ra

  738. Sand Sunday, Hallelujah, sharra da. Those of you are on auto,

  739. just continue look to God for a while. Okay, let's worship.

  740. Go look to God, oh Shi. Don't worry. This is

  741. God's house. You do not need to wear any mask.

  742. You do not need to be worried. You can worship

  743. God freely. You want to kneel, you can you kneel,

  744. You sit, you can sit. Oh, let's be obedient, let's

  745. be let's let's linger in God's presence for a while more.

  746. Hallelujah.

  747. Those of you are on auto, don't worry, just look

  748. to God just for a while more. Let's worship him.

  749. Oh Sha you still want to come up, auto is

  750. still open.

  751. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

  752. information on our church, please visit as church dot RG.

  753. We are also active on Facebook and Instagram. We're believing

  754. that this week is going to be a good week.

  755. I hit for you.

  756. God bless