Obey - That All May Know | Dr Jill Ling

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We hope this message will light up your day today.

I'm going to be continuing my message from the last

time I spoke. So the last time I spoke, for

those of you who are here, I started off by

talking about Noah. Right, Noah from the Bible, and we

have a Noah real life here, a real life Noah. Yeah,

wave your hand, Noah awesome. Awesome. Uh, you know, really

great guy together with his wife Koi. I called him

Noi because Noah plus Koi e goes Noi ha noy Okay,

but but okay, just a sign, not one. You know,

our brother and sister are actually going to return home

to Kenya just about a month from now. Yeah, so

his studies and work has called him back and we

trust that, you know, God is in full control even

of this transition. So let's spend the next month, you know,

just just cheering, encouraging our precious brothers and sister even

as they get ready to transition back home. You know,

one day, whether ex Kenya, I don't know. We'll see

how the Lord leads. But go see, we'll see. They're

still praying, praying, seeking the Lord, Yeah, but we will.

We will love them so much, you know, They've been

such an amazing blessing and we will miss them for sure.

But anyway, we will do the farewell later. But just

just to give your heads up if you didn't know,

Noah and Kroi have been called home to Kenya middle

of next month. So if you can just you know, yeah,

spend some time with them, encourage them, pray for them,

support them in this transition, okay, and we will definitely

stay in touch. I heard it's the deal from a

Asia still on the travel to Kenya is only seven

hundred plus plus ring Gate. Yeah, so Asia a few

months ago came out with this deal to travel to Kenya.

It's only seven hundred plus plus ring it as a base.

Of course, by the time you at your meals, you

at your insurance at pot text, you will come up

to mow. But it's quite amazing. Lot. There's no other

African country that Asia provides this travel and deal too,

So we don't know why God has installed let's see.

Let's see, okay, all right, so I'm going to be

continuing God's message on Noah, all right, And why Noah

because he's actually the first person in the Bible that

was mentioned to be obedient. So, you know, the world

of God is living, it's powerful, it's precious, and there's

so much that we can learn from God's word. And

you know, every time someone or something is mentioned for

the first time is extra special, and uh, you know,

it's it's extra important for us to also learn from.

So as I was reading Genesis, I realized that Noah

was the first person that it was written about that

he was obedient to God, that he followed what God

asked him to do, Not Adam, not Able, not Cain,

not Saith. Okay enough, yeah, it was it was spoken

of him that he walked with God, but it wasn't

written that he obeyed God. I'm sure he did. I'm

sure he did. Okay, when one walks with God, I'm

sure that he will obey God. But of Noah, it

was clearly written that Noah did all that God asked

him to do. That is equivalent to obedience, doing all,

not summer all that God asked to do. So let's

study this first mention. Okay, the life of Noah. Okay,

so I mentioned previously. Okay, let's look at Genesis chapter

five verse twenty eight. Thanks coy. Okay, let's turn to

our bibles, Genesis chapter five, verse twenty eight, and we're

going to be reading from Genesis chapter five to nine today,

different parts of it. Okay, So you can just turn

to Genesis chapter five, verse twenty eight. Verse. I spoke

on this the last time, but I'm just going to

do a recap. Okay. So, Genesis chapter five, verse twenty eight.

It says, when Lamac had lived one hundred and eighty

two years, he fathered a son and called his name Noah,

saying out of the ground that the Lord has cursed

this one shall bring us relief from our work and

from the painful toil of our hands. And so in

this world we can keep this verse here, all right.

So here we learn of two characters. The first character

is la Mack. Right. La Mack is the father of

Noah in the Bible, and Noah. When Noah was born,

his father had big dreams and hopes for him. At

that time, his father La Mack felt that humans were

working very, very hard, and humans were going through a

lord of suffering and trouble. And so Lamack, which is

Noah's father, had hopes for Noah to in a way

be dead, say, to save people from their hard work

and their heartache, to bring them that rest and that relief. Now,

nothing wrong with that expectation, you know, as you know

our parents, they can have different expectations for us. We

can have different expectations for ourkaid. It's nothing wrong, Okay,

it's good to have expectations. Means to be actually are

hopeful and were faith, all right. But God, as Noah's

heavenly father, had a different and a bigger expectation for

the life of Noah, all right. And Noah in Hebrew

actually means to rest. Everyone say to rest now. God's

idea for Noah, or God's plan for Noah now was

not so much to rest after all the work and

trouble had passed. But God's idea for Noah was to

rest even in the midst of the hard work, even

in the midst of the trouble, to still be able

to find rest. And that's God's idea of rest. Sometimes

or many times, we as human beings, we want hardship,

we want trouble to pass first. Then only we say, Ah, finally,

now it's all over, I can rest, true or not

Finally the exam is over. Finally that that work deadline

is over. Finally I got the girl or the guy.

Finally I have this child, Finally I have this car,

Finally I have this house, Finally I have this visa.

Finally I mean my dream land. As humans, we're always

waiting for that finally moment. Finally my kids are grown up, finally, finally, finally,

then only we feel like we can rest. But God

has a higher and a better way of rest. He's saying,

you don't have to wait for your final least only

you can find rest. You can find rest even when

you're finally is still on the way, Even in the

midst of your studies, your exam prep, even in the

midst of that crunch time work project, even in that

myst you know of of pursuing someone or something, some dream,

you can also find rest in God. Because if we

read later the story of Noah, you would read that

he built an arc that his family and some representatives

of the animals could rest in even in the midst

of the flood. An arc in the middle of the

flood signifies God is able to give us rest in

the middle of the floods of our lives. Amen. Can

I hear an amen for that? Amen? So life is

not always easy. It's usually a sea, right, Sometimes it

feels really stormy and floodish. But God can give us

his rest in the middle of that sea, the waves,

the flood. Amen. And for those of you who want

to receive His rest even in this season that you're

going through, can I hear allow amen? Amen? Okay? Now, okay,

let's go to Genesis chapter five, and I'm gonna share

the first point of today's message. Okay, but let's read geneship.

Just Genesis chapter five, verse thirty two. First, Okay, it

says after Noah was five hundred years old, Noah fathered

shem Ham and Jeffirth. Okay, now just remember five hundred

years older. Keep it in your mind. Now, let's jump

to Genesis chapter nine, verse twenty nine. Genesis nine twenty nine,

and it says all the days of Noah were nine

hundred fifty years and he died nine hundred and fifty

years Okay, So imagine with me. Noah was born, okay,

and he died at nine hundred and fifty years old. Wow,

can you imagine living to nine hundred and fifty years old.

I cannot, man, I really can't. I don't know how.

But yeah, one day when we get to heaven, we

asked the early people, how was it like living to

like one thousand years old, five hundred years old? Yeah,

it's just crazy. But Noah lived to nine hundred and

fifty years old. And when Noah was five hundred years old,

he became a father of Shamham and Jeffers. And it

was then that also God called him to build the Ark.

So Noah was at the mid point of his life

when God asked him to build an ark. Birth death,

nine hundred and fifty years, five hundred years he became

a father and God asked him to build an ark.

That's his midlife. And so my first point to us

is to obey God in every season of our lives.

And this I want to say especially to those of

us who are in the middle of our lives or older. Sometimes,

you know, it's it seems easier to obey God when

we first know him, when we are so in love

with him, when we, you know, are so on fire

for him, and we are so curious and so fresh

in the world. It's sometimes easier to say yes, Lord,

I remember as a young person, right I I I

guess I would say yes to God a lortl or

yes to the church a lot, or yes to my

leaders a lot, because you know, I was just so

young and so excited about God, about life. You know. Yeah,

this morning I was just driving to Cyberjaya and I

was playing the song Friend of God by Lakewood Church

or Israel Houghton, and I was God just made me

remember that twenty years ago I was also driving in

my car listening to that same song twenty years ago.

That time, I was a medical school student and I

started studying in I'm You bookl for two and a

half years, and then the next two and a half

years I had to stay Insturramban to do my clinical school.

And for that two years that I was in Sturmban,

every weekend I would travel up to Subunk for church.

At first, I didn't have a car, so what I

would do is Friday evening after class, I would actually

go to the KTM station in Suramban. I would take

the KTM to come up to Subang. That time, we

only had one church in Subang Jaya Summit. And of

course when I moved to Stromban. I prayed, God, do

you want me to you know, be in a local

church instrument or do you want me to come back

to ex church in Subang. So I felt God was

calling me to come back to exchrech in Subang. So

I did that. So for two years, every weekend Friday,

after class finished, by five o'clock, I will make my

way to the KTM station and then I would take

the KTM. It was one and a half hours to

kill Central. Then from kel Central it was another half

an hour to Subang, so it was at least two

hours travel time. Haven't come waiting time yet maybe plus

waiting time is almost three hours. So I would do

that on Fridays and on Sundays after church ended, after lunch,

would make my way to the KTEM station, take the

KTM back to Suramban. So I would do that every weekend. Then,

thank God, in the middle of my clinical school, I

actually God actually blessed me with my parents hand me

down car. Yeah, it was our family car and it

passed on my father to my mother to me. But

I was praying for a car. Say God, please give

me a car so it'd be easier for me to

drive you know, for church and I could bring my

friends as well. So God bless me for a family

car and I would drive up after class, drive up

and then after church or that. There was a time

that I met Olivia. So Olivia was studying in UM

and I remember Sunday morning, so I stayed in Subang

with my sister. Sunday morning, I would drive all the

way to Um, pick up the UM people, bring them

to church, back to Subang. Then after that after church markan,

send them back to Um, send them back to UM.

After that I would travel back to Suramban. So that

was my Sunday as a student. I told God, if

you give me a car, it's not gonna be for myself,

it's gonna be for others. And truly he blessed me

with a car, and he's been so good to keep

upgrading my cars over the years. It's really God. But

you know, when you ask for a blessing not for yourself,

but with others in mind, he will give you the

extra extra bonus. Lah, okay, all right. If it's just

for yourself, he will just give you that little portion.

But if for others, I give you even more. Yeah.

So those are the days right only remember not yeah

and uh yeah? So that was there was what we did.

So my early days, Wow, I felt it was quite

easy to say yes to Jesus. But now, twenty years

down the road, it's not so easy to say yes

to Jesus. You know. Yeah, the older people here in

the room, you know what I mean, because the requests

come bigger as we grow on in life. God will

ask more of us because we are maturing. I mean,

my expectation of you know, Cali will be very different

baby Cali would be very different from my expectation with

Anna because Enna is bigger. And my expectation of my

husband will be even more because he's you know, even older.

Oh yeah, yeah, say you get what I mean, Laha,

As you grow on in life, more will be expected

from you, even with God. Okay, and so will we

still say yes to God when we are older in life?

I told you my story when I was younger, Wow

on fire for God, Like I said, I'll travel you know,

far far for him. I even got pickpocketed and my

phone got lost. Yeah, my car got stolen. You know,

I've heard all these in between stories also, but I

still press on fire, you know, crazy for Jesus, radical

for him. Really, Yeah, there was twenty years ago, twenty

years later where I am Now, I'm in the middle

of my life. Like Noah, I realized it's not so

easy to say yes to God because the questions, the demands,

expectations are bigger. So as I'm preaching this to us,

I'm preaching it to myself as well. Obey God in

every season of our life. So I was very encouraged

because Noah was at his mid life when he said

yes to God in a big way to build an

arc which was never done before. It's crazy later, show

us a video of how the art might look like. Yeah,

but young people, older people, will you say yes to

Jesus at your stage of life? Yeah? I want to

encourage us, especially the my peers, the older ones. I

have no doubt in our younger days we will we

say yes to Jesus easily. I have no doubt. We

have great men and women of faith here. But where

we are at in our lives, will we continue to

say yes to Jesus even when the questions, the expectations,

the demands are bigger and crazier and more impossible. God

is asking you, my child, will you continue to say

yes to me? Okay, I want to leave that with us.

You know, by the way, Daniel when he was in

the Lions, Daniel, And to guess how old he was?

How old do you think Daniel was in the Lions

than Anderson? Give a just give a try, give a try.

Thirty nine good try Anderson, good try. Okay, Now, Daniel

was thirty nine times too plus two when he was

in the lions. That what is thirty nine times two?

No?

Okay, wait, thirty nine times two is seventy eight plus

two eighty. Daniel was at least eighty years old when

he was in the Lions, then, so you can forget

about all the children's storybook that draw Daniel as a

young honky man in the middle of the lions. Daniel

was an old man in the middle of the lions.

But he still say yes to God at eighty years old. Yes, God,

I will seek you and pray to you three times

a day, even if I'm gonna get caught and be

put to death. So are we going to say yes

to God at every season of our life. Let's never

ever fall into the trap of thinking our prime is

over again. I just feel like to speak to the

older ones here, the younger ones. I'm not so worried

because I know that it's relatively easier for you to

be one for Jesus. It is the gift of youth.

You say yes more easily true and not young people

try not. Balaji also joining, sorry write Jeanes today. Ah,

It's okay. I also wore Jeanes yesterday. But my fellow

peers and my esteem brothers and sisters who are more

matured than me, are we also going to continue to

say yes to Jesus in our stage and season of life?

Just like Noah midlife? He said yes. Daniel at eighty

he said yes. Will we continue to say yes to

Jesus as we grow on in life? Amen? That's something

I'm gonna leave with us. Okay, Now, next point is okay,

let's look at Genesis chapter six, verse five to verse nine.

Genesis chapter six, verse five to verse nine, Genesis six

five to nine. Okay, So I'm going to read this

for us. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man

was great in the earth, and that every intention of

the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, and

the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth,

and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said,

I will blot out man whom I have created from

the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things,

and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that

I have made them. But Noah found favor in the

eyes of the Lord Verse nine. These are the generations

of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation,

and Noah walked with God. You want to know the

secret why Noah could say yes to building an arc

an impossible feet in the middle of his life. How

could Noah walk for God in such a crazy way.

It's because Noah walk with God. From the days of

his youth. Noah walked with God, and so when it

was time for God to ask him to do something

big for him, he could say yes. I'm sure he

also had his struggles, but at the end of the day,

he chose to say yes because he had been walking

with God before that, and he had learned to say

yes at every step, growing yeses so much so that

when it came for a big yeares he could handle it.

Seem like King David. It's not like he was suddenly

born you know, a what they call a champion slinger.

Overnight he had to practice while taking care of his

father's sheep, practice slinging practice, killing the lion and the bear,

the wolf. And when it came to face God live,

he was ready because he was already practicing. And so

let's continue to practice our obedience by walking with God.

That one day when God really asked us to do

something quite big, that it won't come as a surprise

or shock, but we can handle it because we've been

walking with God. We've been practicing obedience in little steps

that we can walk for him. We can say yes

God for that big step. Amen. Amen. So that's the

next point, okay, And so when I talk about are

you walking with God, it really comes back to the basics.

It's good that you're in Sundays, you're in church on

Sundays like now, this this is good, but this is

not enough. Friends, It's good that you're joined homes. I

heard cy six at Amazing Homes yesterday. It was supernatural, right.

I heard drama man supposed to go outdoors for homes

and then the weather just turn But you know, you

prayed and then God turned the weather back. Yes, and

I saw yourselfie even was that I saw? I saw

most of you there, most of you there? Well done?

You know. Yeah, going to homes is good, but it's

not enough. Friends, it's not enough. It's not enough. You know.

Joining different events in church is good, but it's not enough.

You need a personal work with Jesus. You cannot just

have a public war with Jesus. You need a personal

walk with Jesus. Really, Friends, in this coming year, let's

desire and let's strive at deepening, strengthening our personal work

with Jesus. Are we making time to spend with God

every day? Are we making time to read His word

every day or listen to His word? Some of you

prefer audio Bible, that's fine as well. Are we making

time to pray to God every day? And ask him? God, Actually,

what do you want me to do with my life?

I've got so many plans on my life, but what

do you really want me to do? So, friends, I

want to encourage you, please continue to grow and build

your personal walk with Jesus daily, because when you walk

with God, you can walk for God. But if you

don't walk with God, it's very hard for you to

walk for God. You can have the form but no substance.

We want you to have the substance and the firm Amen. Okay.

Now the third point. The third point is when we

obey God, we open the doors for others to know him.

Obey open, obey open. When we obey God, we automatically

open the doors for others to know him. I am

going to Okay, you can take this down. Genesis chapter six,

verse eleven to twenty two. Genesis chapter six, verse eleven

to twenty two. Okay, you know. Genesis chapter six, verse eleven. Sorry.

Genesis chapter six, verse fourteen to verse twenty one. Verse

fourteen to verse twenty one gives us God's very detailed

instructions to Noah how to build the up. Okay. Verse fourteen,

it says, make yourself an art of go for wood. Right,

So God told Noah what type of wood to use.

Verse fifteen. You know, God gave the measurements. The length

must be three hundred cubits, The breath must be fifty

quo bits, the height must be thirty cubits. God gave

the measurements, and then verse sixteen, God gave more detail

on how to build the ark. Right says make a

roof for the arc, and finish it to a cubit

above and set the door of the arc in its side.

Make it with a lower, second and third dex y.

It's a tree story boat, you know. Yeah. And then

after that verse nineteen, God says, and of every living

thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every

sort into the ark to keep them alive with you.

They shall be male and female. Right, and just stopping

at this point. But do you know that for the

unclean animals, yes, Noah had to bring two of each kind,

one male, one female. But did you know that for

the clean animals he had to bring more than two

of each kind, seven of each kind? Correct? Because after

the flood settled, Noah built an altar and second grifice

the clean animals to the Lord. So if you need

to bring two, then gone no more clean animals after

the sacrifice. So again our correction two Bible, Children's Bible

story books. Yes, it's not just two of every kind,

it's two of every unclean kind of animal, seven of

the clean animals, because part of the seven was sacrificed

after the flood came down. Okay, so it's important to

get some of these details, right, Like Daniel wasn't a

young man in the den, Noah didn't just bring two

of each kind. I think we kind of grow up

with some of these misconceptions, but it's important to get

the word of God accurate, okay and true. Okay, And

then I want to jump to verse twenty two, Chapter six,

Verse twenty two. It says Noah did this, he did

all that God commanded him. Genesis six to Noah did this,

he did all. Everybody say, oh that God commanded him.

This is the first mention of obedience in the Bible,

Genesis six twenty two, where it was written of a

man that he did all that God commanded him to.

This is the first mention. Okay. Now, it was a

crazy task to build an arc in that day and age.

Apparently in that day and age, I don't know. Some

scholars say that rain has never come on the earth

at that time. Some scholars say or the earth had

already experienced rain. But we're not here to debate whether

or not there was rain at the time of Noah.

But whatever we do know is that no one has

ever built an arc at that time. No one has

any idea or any clue about an arc that we

are sure now you want to know how crazy the

arc is to be built at that time and also

at this time, let's have a look at the video. Yeah,

on the screen, So this is, okay, a preliud to

this video. This guy called mister Canham. He's a Christian

and he's a man from the US, and he built

a life size Noah's Ark in the state of Kentucky

and he turned it into like a museum and I

don't know, a theme park, but basically, he wanted to

show the world what a real life size Noah's looked

like outside and inside, so that people can visualize the

world of God better and believe in it. That more

may know, that all may know. Okay, so let's have

a look at this video.

That about your plans to build the arm. And then

the day came and I finally made it over and

I rounded that corner.

And I actually saw it. I mean, it's.

Overwhelming, and you even you know, when you look at pictures,

you can't you just can't appreciate the size. And not

going to show people pictures.

I have to zoom in and say those are people there,

Let's say they look like ants.

They're even being you know, well, think about believe it's

one to half time, will lead to the football feel

the time, the witness of the football a feeling as

three point three million of both data came out, So

five hundred and ten people wrong, any five people on

fifty one people? So grab level here they say there's

people will get.

Grab level to the tumbler root of seven stories. But

to the tumb of the valad there's ten door the

big what.

Foll tim of brain structure. Well, I want to look

at all that, So let's go inside can and I

want you to. I want you to take in some

of your famite sentis and help people understand why it

is you put this thing up.

Okay, so.

The last factor just keeps increasing, so it tells what's

going on, but stills off. You can hear in the background,

can I that I haven't see a lot now saying

there he is trusting made voyage now to go or

to either protects them. It's it's interesting because I think

people think no one just.

Threw a lunch of animals on the arm. They just

kind of ran around in this open bay.

But I mean this is sophisticated, you know, there's a

there's a feeding system, there's order.

In fact, they get exhibits to it.

How they could have adopt them and faith then be

able to take away the ways? Right, but let's keep going. Okay,

what else is going on down here? I've seen signed

all the rentals of the art and have the order

times and I'm looking here at the seton flot time.

You know, when we did the research, what.

Do you want to answer the question? I heard people

thinking in terms of the species, today's species the Bible says,

and so here on the first day we started to

introduce that idea home people understanding kinder species, lots of

species with the representatives of the kind, probably the family classification,

and then you have aspeciation. Since then, what people that

they realized the end we think, Wow, you could fidel

clients of the land and a represented time.

I remember sometimes okay, all right, wow, so is it

quite mind blowing to see an arc? You know? So

this was how break Noah's up would have been. He

built it according to the measurements given in the world

of God, even tree flaws. And how they store the animals,

how they feed them, how they take away their waste,

how they had, you know, made space for the humans

and all. So men, can you if God asked you

to build this up today, will you say yes or not? Today? Today? Ah, Today,

will you say yes or not? Can you imagine? How

did Noah say yes? Back in those days? Noah was

only the ninth generation of human beings. He was from Adam.

He was the ninth generation, so still very early on

in the history of mankind. They probably didn't have much

resources and ability or even people around. How did he

say yes? Super super crazy? Right? But it just shows

his faith, his obedience to God. Back then, it was

already crazy enough. I mean, right now, it's really crazy

enough to build such an arc. I also probably wouldn't

say yes to God at first, but back then it

was even crazier to build this ark. But Noah did

all that God had commanded him to do. So I

want to encourage your friends. What is the arc that

God is asking you to build? At your stage of life?

Christine at your stage of life, mister Dunn, wh at

your stage of life, and the whole Yes at your

stage of life, even at your stage of life, Raiser

at your stage of life, Meo, at your stage of life,

literit at your stage of life, Sesse, What arc is

God asking you to build at your stage of life life?

And will you say yes like Noah did. That's his

encouragement question and challenge to each one of us. I'm

sorry I cannot call it all your names. I wish

I could, but church will not end by tild for

gold if I did that. But yo, Noah, God knows

you and calls you by name, all right? And yes,

So if Noah didn't obey God, you and I would

not exist today because mankind would have been wiped out

by the nine generation of human beings. But because Noah

obeyed God, and so did many other men and women

along the way obey God. If you look at the

genealogy of Jesus, and their obedience opened the door for

us to know Jesus now in this day and age.

Because Noah was obedient, we are here today and we

can know Jesus. Because all the different and women in

the Bible will obedien. We are here today and we

can know Jesus. So are we also going to be

obedient so that others can also know Jesus. That's my

challenge and encouragement to us today. Okay. Now, the fourth

point is following God's timing is an important part of

obeying him. So this is a This is a caution

that I want to bring to us. The first three

points are to rarah y'are to obey God. Come on, Church,

Let's obey God at every season of our life. Yes,

you know, let's obey him so that others can know him.

How do we obey him when we walk with him?

But I want to caution us to really follow God's timing.

God's timing is very important in his kingdom. We live

in a physical world that is big on chronous timing.

Tick doc thick doc ti doct. This analogue timing or

digital timing that we have is and this natural timing

that passes us now is the chronous timing is the

natural timing, the logical timing. But you know, God's kingdom

doesn't operate in chronos timing. God's kingdom operates in a

higher and greater timing. It's called the Chiros timing. Chiros

timing doesn't go tick doc doc dog like our human timing.

Chiros timing is God's appointed timing and God's anointed timing,

and so it's very important that as we obey God,

we got to do lean into God and say, God,

when do you want me to do this? Do you

want me to do it now? Do you want me

to do it later? When do you want me to

do this for you? It's very important, okay because when

we read the life of Noah, after he built the Ark,

he didn't know when to go into the ark because

he didn't know when the rain and the flood was

going to come. So he had to wait for God's

timing to say okay. In verse in Genesis chapter seven,

verse one. Genesis chapter seven, verse one, then the Lord

said to Noah, go into the Ark, you and all

your household okay. And so Noah had to wait for

God's timing to go into the ark because only God

knew when the rain and flood was going to come.

Didn't And when Noah was in the ark with his

family and the animals, guess how long he was they

were locked down in the ak. How long do you

think they were in the ac? Seven days? Okay? Good?

Try shlock anyone else? Want to try? How long do

you think Noah and his family and the animals were

in the ac? Ninety days? Okay? Also good try is sir,

ten days, good try and persun. Yes I did forty days. Okay,

good try, good try, or I love it how the

young people are just trying very good. See I told

you young people you can say yes to Jesus. Wow. Okay,

Mathias got it the closest. Okay. So Noah was in

the ark for one year, three hundred and sixty five

days and a quarter. Technically, yes, yes, that's right to

the point. Okay, Noah and his family and the animals

were in the art for one full year. They were

locked down, literally for one full year. So talk about mcoh.

They had the first mco not just with humans, you know,

with animals and all the waste at least mc oh. Right,

you live with humans and you can throw away the wist,

and the rubbish men will still come and take your waist.

But for Noah, he lived with animals and all the

waste was contained in the ark. Can you believe that

one year you cannot throw your rubbish out of the house.

You have to find a way to store your rubbish

in the house, right, crazy? But anyway, they had the

first lockdown, Okay, ours is not the first lockdown. So

they were in the art one year, and when did

they know when to come out of the ark? Right?

God had to tell them, this is when you come

out of the ark. So if you look at Genesis,

chapter eight, verse thirteen, it says in the six hundred

and first year, in the first month, the first day

of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth,

and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and look

and behold, the face of the ground was dry. Now

before that, right, Noah actually did a little research. You remember,

he sent the dirf out. Then he sent the raven

out to test and see whether the ground was dry

so that they can come out. Noah also did some research.

And it's okay to do some research as human beings,

and when it's the best time, you know, to do something.

Because Noah also did his research. He sent out the Dirth,

he sent out the raven. But ultimately, what I take

encouragement from Noah is even though he did his research,

he still depended on God's voice when was the right

time to come out of the ark. So we can

do all the research that we want, but let not

our research supersed the voice of God in obeying him.

We can do research, but let God be the ultimate

guide and decision maker. Even if all the research points

to something that we should do. Now, if God says no,

don't do it, wait, we better wait. If all the

research says don't do this, but God says do it,

we better do it. You get what I mean. We

can do our research. God gave us brains, all right,

but God's voice and God's word superseds every research. Can

I hear an? Amen? Amen? Okay? So finally you know, yeah,

let me see you, okay, Verse fourteen, Verse fifteen. Then

God said to Noah, go out from the ark, you

and your wife, and your sons and your son's wives

with you, okay, And then I'll jump to verse eighteen.

So Noah went out, his sons, his wife, and his

son's wives and all the animals as well. So let's

learn from Noah's life to depend on God's timing to

obey him. We can do our research, but let God

have the final say when to go and when to stay,

when to do and when to not do. Amen? Amen? Okay.

Now I just want to share a quick story with

us and then we will end with this. So let's

see ya. Now is November October September August, three months ago.

Three months ago, our family made a short trip to

Krabi in Thailand. What was good to bless us with

that trip? And yeah, so we went, and honestly, I

was just really really busy before the trip that I

didn't have any capacity to plan for the trip. All

we did was just block the dates, buy the tickets,

book the hotel. That's it. The rest what we're going

to do there. I just didn't have the capacity to plan.

But I remember on the way there, I just told God, God,

thank you for this trip. Just take over from now on,

please be our master planner, planer itinerary for us. And

that was a dangerous prayer to pray, but it was good.

It was good, Okay, it was good. So what happened

was when we landed, the taxi that we took from

the airport to the hotel actually detoured by a tour agency.

So apparently his friend just started her own tour agency

and he wanted to support her business, so he brought

us to the tour agency. And we thank God for

that blessing in disguise, because then she could actually recommend

us some things to do for the next few days.

So after negotiating, we felt peace. We actually took some

of the packages right. So we were in Thailand for

five days. So the first day was arrival and then

we went to the we stopped by the tour agency.

The second day we went island hopping, so we actually

took a boat out and visited different islands. Did I

tell y'all the last time what happened? Okay, So I'm

not gonna go into that today. So the second day

you heard the story the last time. We were supposed

to go out to the islands and it was raining,

but God turned the weather around just like c y

six homes and then we managed to go island hopping

and on the way back there was a bad storm,

but God brought us through the storm and that's how

he can give us rest in the middle of the storm,

and it brought us back safely. That was day two,

Day Tree. Now I'm gonna tell you the story of

Day Tree. Day Tree. We went to the jungle. We

went to the jungle and we went to visit different

natural watering holes in the jungle, so like, for example,

we visited the hot spring. Then we visited an emerald lake,

which looked ameral in color because of the moss that

was growing in the lake. And then we visited this

blue lagoon. It's a little a small little pool in

the middle of the jungle that had a blue color base.

Cay can show the picture this one with a blue

color base at the back. I think not that one.

Just keep going, keep going, yeah, past past pus. We've

already talked about this the last this one. So this

is the blue lagoon. You see that blueish looking pool

at the back of us. So that was really quite special.

The base of the pool looked like blue color chalk. Ah,

And when you clap from a distance, the water will

actually ripple. Yeah, but you cannot jump into the pool

because it's quicksand at the bottom you might get sucked

in and disappear or drowned. Okay, so nice to see,

but cannot touch a But okay, So this was day

tree we went to the jungle. Very interesting. I've not

seen this in Malaysia yet. Now, can me show the

picture of the lady? So okay, while we were in

the van going to this area, a lady came to

sit next to me and I honestly was wishing that

no one would come and sit next to me for

that trip, because, like I said, I was just very

busy leading up to the trip, so I just wanted

to have some me time, some you know, quiet time

where I don't really need to talk to anyone too much. Yeah.

But then she came and sit next to me, and

after a while, I felt the Holy Spirit really just

prompting me to make friends with her. So at first

I struggled a bit because I'm like, God, I just

want to rest during these holiday It's just been so

busy for me, right, And then he says, no, you know,

please go and make friends with her. So I made

friends with her and we started talking all the way

to the jungle, so it was one and a half

hour journey. We got to know each other and I

found out that her name is Nicole, and she's actually

from Spain, and not actually from Germany but staying in Spain.

And she's a mom like me. She has a teenage boy,

and she said that actually she came to Thailand with

her boy for their school break for him to learn

muy Thai. Wow. Oh, it's quite crazy. I've never heard

of like people traveling half the world just to learn

moy Thai in Thailand. So apparently it's quite a thing,

like tourists who actually travel from Fine White just to

join in the local muy Thai pros. So her son

really wanted to learn that muay Thai. They had planned

to be in Thailand for a few weeks and just

I think a few days before we met. On that trip,

the boy was having his first class, first muay Thai class,

and unfortunately he sprained his back during the muay Thai class.

The first lesson, he already sprained his back, and then

that's it. He had to throw away the rest of

the lessons that they booked, and then he of course

he's very disappointed, Lah, very very because he came all

the way from Spain to Thailand to learn muay Thai

and first visit already gone. The bag is gone. Not

only that he had to live with the pain, so

he had to visit a few doctors to get the

pain managed in that sense, so he was really disappointed, Lah,

and physically he was in pain also, So this trip

actually wasn't meant to be. They didn't book in a

jungle trip. They were supposed to be in the muay

Thai gym. But because of all that happened, they had

to do something else with the time because they're already here, right,

So they booked in this jungle trip. And I really

believe God allowed things to happen so that we could

meet together on the vent and so we had so yeah,

we got to know each other for that one and

a half hours to the jungle. Then after that coming back,

we spoke for another one and a half hours, and

when we just about ten minutes away from the hotel,

God actually told me to pray for her. And again

I kind of struggled loud because I'm like, God, I

just got to know her. It's like, wouldn't be it'd

be a bit too quick to just pray for her.

But you know, again got on, Yeah, got on in

my wrestling with him, and so I say, okay, I

told her Nicole, I'm actually I mean from our conversation,

you know that I'm a Christian and I walked with

God every day and I hear his voice clearly. So

God is telling me to pray for you before we

go our separate ways from the van. And I was

ready for a big rejection, but she said the opposite.

She says, please pray for me. So I was very surprised,

but I knew it's God like God. So then I

prayed for her. And thank God, we had that three

hour conversation in the van, so I knew, like, what

are some of the areas that she needed prayer with?

And so the Holy Spirit just led me to pray

for her based on our conversation her different needs, and

he also led me to prophesy over her life, so

over and beyond God ministering and meeting her needs, God

you know, wanted to declare, you know, just more than

what she could ever expect or ask for over her life.

So I did that then. So the whole prayer time

was probably about ten minutes, and we were just closing

our eyes and just I was holding her hands in

the van. And after we finished praying in Jesus Name,

I pray Amen, we both opened our eyes and we

looked up and she was actually in tears. She was

in tears, and she also said, you know, Jill, I

don't know, but can you see my hand? I say, okay,

I can see your hand. Can you see the hair

on my hand? And I'm like trying to look at

the hair on the hand, and she says, it's standing.

I'm feeling goose bumbs right now because I feel God

with us right now. And I said, I'm not surprised.

I say that's the God that I serve. He is

close with us right here in this van. And I say,

that's God for you. And before we departed, I actually

told her again, this is led by the Holy Spirit.

You know, Nicole, I don't believe that I came all

the way from Malaysia and you came all the way

from Spain and we met in the vent today. I

don't believe it's a coincidence. I really don't. I really

believe that God orchestrated our meetup today because he's calling

you back to his side now. Before we prayed, I

actually asked Nicole, do you have any personal faith? And

she said, actually, I was born in a Protestant Christian

family in Germany, and we grew up going to church.

But after I became a university student and I got married,

I was working, I got busy with life, I stopped

going to church and I actually went away from God. Yeah,

so that was her background. And after we prayed and

I told her this, I said, Nicole, I really believe

God is calling you back to his side through our

meetup today, and she says, I think so too. And

then after that she began to ask me more about

our church. And that was the weekend that ex Germany

was going to be launched, and so I connected her

with Doris and yeah, so I still have a WhatsApp

number here with me and trying to check in with

her from time to time, keeping her in prayer. But

again this just goes to show you know that we

follow God's timing. We follow God's timing. My family had

to follow God's timing. Her family had to follow God's timing.

And we met at the Cairo's time, the appointed time,

and I had to obey him, to be bold to

make friends with her, to be bold to offer to

pray for her, to be bold to speak into her

life saying what God wants me to say to her.

And because of that, I really believe a seat is

planted in her life to draw her back to His side.

And so this story I leave you this story just

to share that when we obey God, when we follow

his timing, it opens doors for others to come to

know Him or come back to him. You know, even

as we reach out to people to help them to

know him, let's not just keep our eyes on people

who do not know Him entirely, but let's also be

open to people who have once known Him but have

gone away from him, because God wants to bring them

back to his side as well, not just the pre believers,

but those who have one's believe and gone away, just

like Nicole. And so I'm so thankful to have this

experience and testimony as really strengthen my faith to be morbile,

to make friends, to offer prayer, to speak into people's

lives as the Holy Spirit leads me after having you know,

tasted the fruit of obedience, and I believe this is

just the tip of the iceberg. I continue to pray

and look forward to what God is going to do

in Nicole's life even after our encounter. So I pray

that you know extreme you can come up. Even as

we draw to a close. I pray that friends, you

will choose to obey God in your season of life,

and I pray that you know you will be able

to do so because you walk with Him and you

were leaning on his timing. And when you obey God

May He use you to open the doors of many

hearts around you, to know him or to come back

to him. Amen. Amen, let's stand. We're gonna close his

time and pray. So obey, my friends, obey that all

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