OBEY - That All May Know | Elder Dr Jill Ling

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It was a safe trip throughout. No dramas, No major

dramas happened. Okay, for those of you who knew last

year when I went to Lahadatu form missions trip, there

was a major drama that happened with my plane. I

had an emergency landing. So pray it's got no major

dramas this round. It was a safe trip. It was

also a very full and full trip. It was very cold,

actually it was very cold. So there I stayed with

You can show the first picture. So I stayed with

pastor Joe, Delia and Sophie. Yeah, this is the morning

after the night before, Okay, the next morning after I

travel So I look super tired because it wasn't eight

our flight Okay, friends ate our flight and yeah the

moment I hit there, it was less than ten degrees

very cold.

So this was over breakfast Okay. Yeah.

I was staying with Pasta Joel, who is the lead

pastor of Ex Melbourne. He's actually very good friends with

Passa Jack. Yeah, they write songs together. Passa Joel and

I go back a long way. We were from the

same home church in JB. His mom was my school teacher,

so yeah, childhood friend literally and then you know, good

friends with my husband as well. So Passa Joel, the

lead pastor of Melbourne X Melbourne and his wife Dylan

and daughter Sophie. They hosted me for the time that

I was there. This is a part of their home,

so it's really good. Like I said, it was super cold, okay.

There was one day where the highest was just ten

degrees and the coldest was like four or five degrees.

So cold, okay, and it's supposed to be spring. Yeah,

my words.

So cold, so cold that when I wanted to go

to the toilet to do a number two, the moment

I sat down on the toilet seat, it's not a

heated seat, it's a cold seat, the number two didn't

want to come out, so I had to hold it

in until I went to the hotel which had a

heat seat.

Ah.

Then when I sat down, then only the number two

can come. It's real, okay, it's like so cold that

we're supposed to come out, doesn't even want to come out.

So cold, so cold, okay, so cold. I came back

my lips were cracked at the site here. I was painful,

so I couldn't really talk and smiled properly. It was

that cold, but praise God, you know, the warmth of

ex Melbourne warmed me up.

And you know, even in the midst.

Of the cold spring I show you in the next picture,

take a moment to say this. So I was I

had a privilege one day to just have half a

day to have some time to myself. So I took

a hike from passer Joel's house because he stays East Melbourne.

So Melbourne, there actually mountains over the east side. It's

called the Dande Noong Mountains. Yeah, and so because Pastor

Joel's house is very close to the mountains. So I

one morning, I actually say, hey, I just want to

walk around your neighborhood. And lo and behold, I found

myself hiking halfway towards the mountains on my own. Yeah,

but they gave me some directions and I along the hike, right,

I just kept taking pictures of the different Australian flowers

along the roadside that I could see. So these are

this is not a postcard, Okay, this is my own pictures.

As I was hiking. I take picture, take picture, take picture. Yeah,

And I just want to show you what even in

the midst of a cold, cold spring ride, God has beauty.

Amen.

So you may be feeling like you're going through a

very cold season in your life right now, but even

in the midst of that coldness, God has beauty for you.

Amen. Amen.

And so these are Australian flowers. Actually you don't really

see this of flowers in Malaysia. They are native to Australia,

Australian wildflowers. I had more double triple the amount, but

I selected the best and I put it into a

college like Okay, so Praisecot for his works wonderful, you know,

and his beauty amidst the core. Now.

Then next then the next day we.

Actually had Bloom, which is our ex women's conference in

ex Melbourne, and that was the main reason why I

was sent there. So at first they invited Passsandra, but

she couldn't go. So then she turned to me, Jill,

can you go on my behalf? So that's how the

trip ended up. Yeah, And so I say, okay, Pasta,

whatever you say, I will do.

Yeah.

And so I went in fear and trembling because very

big fel shoes to feel you know. Yeah, they were

expecting Passsandra and then Sally Jill. Yeah, but oh God,

got showed up.

Got showed up. This is Ilona.

She actually used to be part of XKL then she

migrated to Melbourne. She's also one of our harder one

leaders and we've known each other for a long time,

good friends, and she was coordinating Bloom in Melbourne. So

this is Elo, this is the welcome table, my privilege

to be with them this round. So right now EX Melbourne,

the size of X Melbourne is about thirty plus partners, okay,

so perhaps maybe yeah, one third of our cyber group

right now, that's where EX Melbourne is at thirty plus partners, okay.

And so the women that showed up for Bloom were yeah,

they had about eighteen women in total, and not of

eighteen women, five were not from ex Melbourne. And now

of the five that were actually some pre believers, some

Christians who were unchurched. Yeah, and so then it self

encourage my heart for me. Honestly, I told God, God,

I do want to go cheer us to minister to

our own people. I mean, that's great, but I really

want a minister to new people. So God is so

good five out of eighteen that that's great, right yeah?

And so I got to share with them, and I

told them, you know, I did not come all the

way as eight hours flight, six thousand kilometers, leaving.

My family for five days. Yeah.

So I remember when I was telling my homes to pray, right,

and Rudin was saying, oh Lord, we pray that passer

Jack will survive no slash drive for the next five days. Amen,

father to father right image. I think he understands. I grace,

I live back out her backs and go for five days.

Right ah.

So yeah, so this is our home site right real?

And okay, yeah, I feel with faith and laughter. So yeah,

I did not leave my family just to come and

entertain you. I told ex Melbourne that I didn't come

to speak eloquently to you like a tech talk speaker.

I say, you want all that, you go and hire

someone like that. I came to bring you faith, I said.

That's what I came to bring you, not entertainment, not eloquents.

I came to bring an encounter with God.

So that was what God told me, you are going

to bring faith and for those of you who hurt

past the Kennev in nineteen ninety five, God gave him

a vision. He was caught up with it for two

to three hours on his knees, and the vision was

the map of Malaysia. Starting from where he was, which

is the Klang Valley, a flame appeared, and slowly around

the map of Malaysia, where's at East Malaysia, different flames appeared,

and slowly the whole of Malaysia was caught up in

the flame. And then slowly God brought his view out

to the world and God showed him that from Malaysia

will come revival for the nations, and that flame started

to travel across the world like fireballs. Gamers, you can

imagine that right, And then soon the whole world was

also littered up in flames. And you know that we

can was a glimpse, just a glimpse of what it

could be. Because not only was I sent to ex

Melbourne to bring faith to them, but that same weekend,

Elder Pingho and Elder Rose was sent to ex Karawachi

to minister at their family camp. That same weekend, Elder

Kenya and Elder Shirley were in Singapore to minister to

exk Singapore. So it started with the Eldership being sent

out different parts of the world for that we can

to bring, not entertainment, not eloquence or wisdom or man,

but the fire, the faith of God. And would you

ex church, you know, want to be a part of

this fire for our nation and the nations. So that's

our call, that's our destiny, all right and one day

may God use you to bring his fire back to

your nation because we are a global church here.

Amen. Amen.

And then yeah, so so shared with them on faith.

You know in Melbourne, right, they don't do the front

stage ministry time in between worship. You know, just now

we had our leaders and press support team in front

praying for different ones we need.

In Melbourne, they don't do that. It's not the culture.

Yeah, even at the end of a message for a

speaker to lay hands on the congregation also, it's not

a common practice. But that day when I was speaking

for Bloom, God say I want you to pray for

every woman here, and God said, I want you to

go to them, and that's what I did. So the

whole schedule went out of the window. But it's okay,

it's God's conference, right not ours, and so had the

privilege to represent God to lay hands most of the

women there, and they caught a word from the Lord.

They were in tears. They had an encounter with the Lord.

And some of the leaders were saying, hmm, we haven't

done this in a long time. I think it's time

to bring this back.

Yeah. So ex Cybergaya, you are so privileged.

Okay, every Sunday, our leaders and prayer support team right

here ready to pray for you. Do you know that

there are some people who don't have that privilege, okay, So,

so just just receive it. Yeah amen, okay, So, and

then Sunday Sunday worship. This is Sunday. So this is

how the hall looks like. It's in a hotel called

Pegasus Hotel in Melbourne, CBD. And uh yeah, so that

were those are the teams serving. And so I spoke

to them on Sunday as well. And as I was

speaking to them, right towards the end of my message,

I started to see flashes of light in my eyes

and I couldn't read my Bible clearly. And for me,

once in a while, I get migraine. And I knew

that it was a sign that a migraine was coming on.

And when a migraine hits me right, it hits me

bad for that day or the next few days. I say, God,

I cannot afford the migraine right now. I need to

finish your word. I didn't come all the way to

have unfinished business. Say Lord, please help me. And I

told the church Church, right now, I'm actually having flashes

of light. Would you just pray and believe along with

me that it will leave me right now and I'll

finish what God has to say to you. And and

and within minutes the flashes of light left, and I

know migrain came and I was able to finish God's word.

And uh yeah, that itself was a testimony. So praise God.

Praise God. When God's senses on a mission, we continue

to trust him and it will help us to finish

the task.

It meant all glory to God.

Uh And so yeah, so today, so I would just

wanted to update you on ex Melbourne. Uh and thank

you so much for praying for our family there all

right now I'm going to go on into the word

and uh yeah, let's let's see how the lot brings

this Okay. So today I'm going to talk continue to

talk about the theme for this year, which is that

all that all that all may know. Okay, and for

this season. Uh, we as speakers, we are led to

actually speak around the topic of obedience for last month

this month okay, that all may know and particularly through

our obedience. So today, the message that I have for

us is obey that all may know. I've preached this

in the first half of this year, and I'm going

to continue preaching this the second half of this year.

Same title. I had a message to the same title

a couple of months back. By it's okay, because that

means we haven't fully gotten it yet and God wants

to continue to speak to us.

Okay, all right, let's go.

So today I'm going to be speaking from one of

the Bible heroes. He's also well, there's a hero also

among us named after him, and he's none other than Noah.

So yeah, he's a Bible hero. And Noah or Tinda

is also our physical hero here. Yeah, the man who

serves behind the scenes but makes everything happen.

Yeah.

Okay, So I'm gonna be preaching from the life of Noah,

and it's going to be from the Book of Genesis,

the first five chapter, first five to ten chapters. Okay,

so everyone, can you get your bibles out because I'm

not putting the scripture on the slices today. So I

want you to take your bibles out. We want to

maximize the word of God. If you don't have a Bible,

use your e bible, share with your neighbor. But I

encourage all of us here to own a physical Bible.

I'm gonna say this is clear and bold. If we

can invest in so many physical things, why can't we

invest in a physical Bible?

Amen? Amen? Okay, let's go all right.

So I'm going to be sharing four thoughts on obedience

from the life of Noah. I put the thoughts on

the screen, Okay. Other than that, just listen to me,

take notes if you need to.

Okay.

So we are going to read from Genesis chapter five,

verse twenty eight and twenty nine. Yeah, so let's turn

to our bibles. And if you really really need, only

look at the screen. Okay, I am going to turn

to my Bible too. Genesis chapter five, verse twenty eight

to twenty nine.

Okay, here we go.

When Lamac had lived one hundred and eighty two years,

he fathered a son verse twenty nine, and called his

name Noah, saying out of the ground that the Lord

has cursed this one shall bring us relief from the

work of our hands and from the painful toil of

our hands.

So this verse itself tells us.

The meaning of the name of Noah. Well, half the meaning, Okay,

half the meaning. You see why I say half the meaning.

Is Lamac, who is Noah's father, named Noah with the

hope that God will deliver mankind from the hard work

that they had to do and the pain that they

had to suffer. But if we do a study of

the root word of Noah in Hebrew, God had a

different meaning for Noah, and it's a greater purpose. So

Noah in Hebrew means to rest, to rest, to rest,

and it's very different from his earthly father's intention. So

his earthly father is wishing that, Oh, with the birth

of Noah, we will stop having suffering. But Noah's heavenly

father named him because the destiny that his heavenly father

had for no Over was not to be excluded from suffering.

There will still be suffering, but there will be rest

in the midst of the suffering. How many of you

you want rest in the midst of your suffering? Say

an amen. See, man is always looking to escape suffering.

Me too, Okay, I don't like suffering. I don't like discomfort.

I don't like things going.

Out of control. It makes me anxious, it makes me angry, angst.

And see yeah, as she was saying that is so cute,

she like and Johann were just talking by the hospital

based like yeah, collinge ather NCNC.

Anyway, it's okay. I also I.

Also joined the party and see also I also can

be can be.

Yeah.

But God planned for us is not to escape suffering. Okay, friends,

God's plan for us is to rest in the midst

of the I say, rest in the midst after suffering.

So let's let's gain this perspective. Doesn't mean that we

become Christians means our life straight away is zero suffering.

That's not the right mindset to have. In fact, we

will continue to have suffering and maybe more because our

Lord Jesus himself suffered. But we can go through it

because God says I will give you rest in the

midst of your suffering. Okay, And perhaps I mean today

I might focus on the word rest a bit more

as the Lord leads. I'm not sure why my iPad

battery is running out very fast, but not mine. Let

me just swap with my phone right now. Okay, just

give me a moment. Breathe in and out, breathing.

The Holy Spirit. Now, okay, all right.

Yes rest. You know, Noah itself was the ninth generation

after Adam. So from Adam, the first human beings, you

count nine generations down, it's Noah. And the number nine

is significant because the number nine speaks of the Holy Spirit.

And so I believe one of the things that God

is telling us today is that if we want to

find rest in the midst of our sufferings, we cannot

rely on our own strength. We've got to rely on

the Holy Spirit. Noah rest, nine generation, Holy Spirit. Do

you see that correlation? You want rest in the midst

of whatever storms that you're going through, don't lean on

your own strength, lean on the Holy Spirit.

Okay. Now, I just want to share a story about

a month ago.

My family and I had the privilege and blessing of

making a short family trip to Krabi in Thailand for

the school holidays. It was really God's blessing. Yeah, not

our own doing, really really God's blessing. And honestly, I

had been so busy leading up to our family trip

to Krabi that I had no time to plan for

any itinerary. I don't know how many of you here.

When you travel, the further you go, you've got to

plan a greater and greater itinerary because you want to

maximize your time, you want to maximize your money. Right,

cannot go there empty handed, so I normally will plan

the itinerary, but this round, that was how busy I was.

I had no time, no capacity, no energy to plan

any itinerary. I know Riza and also Riza and Nina

shared some of their tips with me because they also

went previously with their families, but I really could not

plan anything for the trip. Okay, So next picture, So

this was us Monday morning at kl I A two.

Our flight was seven am, so we had to be

there by five am morning. Face you see, like, yeah,

still doing the feace sign, okay, Ken Christ yes, Lord

Shallom okay yeah. So honestly, at this point, we had

zero plans about what's going to happen in the next

five days.

So by faith, we just flew to Krabbi.

And honestly, in the flight, I just saw, like breathe

a prayer of sighing. Say, oh, Lord, it's just been

so busy. Lord, I haven't had time to plan for

this trip. Lord, can you just take over the trip?

Three lines prayer of sighing so ununpleasant, right to the Lord.

But God is God.

He takes in all our prayers, even our sighing prayers.

I was just honestly really tired. So uh yeah.

And but you know, when we choose to surrender our

plans to God's hands, that is when it becomes the

best trip of your life.

Okay.

I don't know who I'm speaking to. Someone some here

needs to learn to let go of being the master

planner of your life and let God be the master

planner of your life. By nature, I like to plan.

I like to be in control. I don't like to

be angsy. But God taught me a lesson this round.

You can't okay, God, you be my master planner. Okay. Now,

so we flew to We landed in Krabbi safely, thank God. Ah,

And so we took a taxi from the airport to

the hotel.

And the amazing thing was from the airport to the hotel.

Halfway, the drivers stopped us at his friends newly open

tour agency. So yeah, a friend she just started her

own business, so to support her business, he just stopped

us by her tour agency. And then she started explaining, Oh,

you know, while you're in Krabbi, you can do all

these different things. Show us the brochure, tell us, Oh,

you can even negotiate, tell us your tell us your

best price. Ah my pin right, So what do you call? Yeah,

tis are amazing men. I love the level of warmth

and hospitality.

Yeah. Yeah, anyway, so we took it.

We say, okay, whatever you share with us, because we've

got zero plans, we're gonna take it. But we negotiated

the price, negotiated to a good agreement, then we took it.

So that was God showing up for us. So I say,

when we failed to plan, God will plan for us.

And that's the better and best planned.

Okay.

Then so there was Monday Tuesday. Tuesday, we went island hopping.

So Krabbi is a seaside town and their beautiful islands nearby.

They are known for their limestone islands. So for those

of you who are from Malaysia, you're familiar with EPO

got a lot of limestone hills. And for me, I

love looking at limestone hills. They're just very unique and

majestic on its own. But in Malaysia the limestone hills

are in the mainland. But in Krabbi, the special thing

is the limestone hills are by the seaside or their

stand alone islands. So we went island hopping and that

morning when we woke up, this was the weather. What

is the weather forecast? Lady and ladies and gentlemen.

Rain? Okay?

So I was like, hi, yea God, I thought you

were bless us with good weather this morning. We are

going to go island hopping. How come the weather is unexpected?

It's like our lives, right, how come Lord, this situation

is so unexpected. I thought I'm your child. I thought

you would bless me. Why why this kind of weather?

Why this kount's situation? I really commited my life to you.

Why why why? But anyway, okay, thank God. We prayed,

We prayed, we press on in prayer. This is taken

at the jetty. So we had already been praying like

one hour before, and we're at the jetty and instilled

this kind of weather. So I'm like, God, how do

we do this? How do we go island hopping in

this kind of weather? But then we still went out

by faith. So as we were boarding the boat, it

was this kind of rainy weather, but you know, God

is so good. As we were launching out to see,

the skies started to clear up. The rain stopped and

we managed to reach the first island or the first bay.

Okay, next picture, so the rain had stopped.

The clouds they are still there, cloudy, gray, but clearing up.

So this was the first stop. Okay, no rain, Praise God.

Peace all right, peace okay.

Yeah.

And then so we went to the first island, We

went to the second island, we went to the third island,

and the fourth stop was the fourth island. By the

time we came to the fourth island, next picture, Ah.

Nice or not?

The sky's so blue, the clouds so wide, the water's

so admerald, the sea, the sand so white and yellow.

The view was gorgeous. Didn't even need pick people in

the inside the picture. So I just took a picture.

And then so we sat in one of those small

boats that you can see off the sea, and they

gave us, they gave us packed lunch. So the food

was so good also, so I just wanted to take

a picture of the food.

So happened.

I took a picture of the background, and I told myself,

you know what, jail, after you finish lunch, we will

take a family picture.

So you know me, I like to take pictures. Yeah.

My homies say, well, you got a lot of storage

in your phone now. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, so I.

Was so hungry that I first eat the food, no

time to take family picture. And I regretted it because

as just as we finish our food under the tree, right,

the weather just changed one hundred eighty degrees.

This was the weather. This was our tour guides. Yeah.

Man, within just fifteen minutes, it's just the weather's turned

one hundred eighty degrees and it became a storm. Actually

so so bad that all of us ran into our boats.

There were about ten boats that were docked by that

final island, hundreds of people on the island. We all

ran back to our boat and we just waited in

our boat for thirty minutes to forty five minutes. We

just sat there waiting, waiting, waiting for the storm to pass.

But then I'm glad that somehow one of the boat captains.

Now the boat captains, right, they're all actually fishermen, they're

very experienced and navigating at sea. So one of the

boat captains say, hey, how long are we going to

wait here in this island? It was already like going

to be three o'clock and in Thailand by six o'clock

it is dark already, And then the island doesn't have

proper water, electricity supply shelter, so there's no way that

hundreds of us could stay the night at the island. No,

we'll be lost, so cannot So I'm glad one of

the boat captains said, you know what, how long can

we keep waiting at this island. Why don't we just

launch back to the coast by you know, just launch

bagla and we do it together. So I'm glad that

one of the boat captains had faith. Where his faith

was in it's a different story, but at least he

had faith. Okay, at least he had faith, and he

says to all the other boat captains, let's let's launch

out together. Yeah, And you know, sometimes we need to

do that in our friends. We need to live by faith.

How long are we going to wait at the island

where it's actually not possible for us to survive?

For long? Are you in an island today? Friends?

Are you thinking you can survive at the island? Stop

waiting there? Launchild in faith? Okay. I want to just

turn us to Hebrews Chapter ten, verse thirty eight to

thirty nine.

And I honestly think.

This will be the message for today. As the Lord

is just panning this out. I'll do a part till

next time. It's okay, but this is what the Lord

wants to say. I just have to be obedient, Okay.

He brows Chapter ten, verse thirty eight to thirty nine.

And this is one scripture that God spoke to me

as I joined the national forty day Fast and Prayer

for our nation.

God is so good, you know.

I join in the NECF forty day Fast and prayer

because I really just wanted to pray for Malaysia because

I know our nation needs it. I wasn't expecting anything

for myself. But true, during that time, God spoke powerfully

to me, and this is one of the scripture that

he spoke to me. So do not despise living your

life to praying for others, because God will return.

It to you. Amen.

And so in Hebrews Chapter ten, verse thirty eight, he says,

but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if

he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him

verse thirty nine. But we are not of those who

shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have

faith and preserve their souls. So the world teaches us, right, Oh,

if it's very dangerous, shrink back, then you stay safe.

But God teaches us, even though it's dangerous, you gotta

launch out in faith, and then only you will truly

be safe and you will live. God says, if you

choose to shrink back at a dangerous time, you be destroyed.

Can you see how different the ways of the world

and the Lord is. The world says, dangerous, shrink back,

and then you will live. But God says, no, no, no, dangerous.

You still launch out in faith because I am with you,

and you will live. God says, if it's dangerous and

you shrink back, you will die. So choose you this

day you want to live or you want to die.

You want to live, you have to launch out in faith.

You cannot keep staying at the island wish you will

not survive. Okay, So let's take a lesson from that

fisherman that say, hey, how long can we be waiting here?

It's just like the story of the four leapers in

the Book of Kings, right, how long can we wait here?

Also we die, We go through the enemy's camp to

plunder their food. Maybe we will live, maybe we will die,

but at least there's a chance of living. So I'm

glad for the fishermen that they got blessed that fishermen

for railing the rest of the fishermen say, come, we

cannot be waiting here forever, even though there's a storm

at sea. Let's launch out, and let's do it together.

And that's the power of church. We launch out together. Friends,

you are not alone. As you launch out in faith,

you are not alone.

Amen. Okay.

So coming back to that, so we launched out to sea.

We show the next video it was a storm at sea? Okay,

can we play one more time? Does this remind you

of a familiar story in the Bible? What story is

that Jesus sleeping where in the boat when in the storm?

So I managed to Thank God, right, I wasn't sleeping

and I caught this video. Then I can share this

lesson with you, or somebody has to be the sacrificial lamb,

usually the wife. Anyway, So we were in the middle

of sea and it was a storm. Okay, there was

water coming from the rain. There was water coming from

the sea into the boat. I know because I sat

right in front, so water was just pouring into my face.

I was drinking salt water and rainwater because I was

sitting at the edge. Because the rest of the people

were all sitting inside. Yeah and yeah, water was coming

into a boat. And the boat was really rocking from

left to right. Honestly, if all of us went to

one side, the boat would collapse, would kept size. So

the captain told us you got to balance your weight.

But the boat was rocking from side to side. It

could have kept size all right. It was very scary.

This journey was about forty five minutes. Forty five minutes

get back to shore in the midst of the storm.

I don't know how passer jet slept in the middle

of the storm. Judo, so my tooth, Ezra and Anna also,

I was the only one awake I was being eggsy

at the time. Honestly, the whole time, I could not

could not sleep, Okay, I was just praying and praying,

and I was worshiping God.

And I kid you not. The songs that I sang

was with Christ in.

The vessel week and small, let the storm, smile, let

the storm.

And then I also sang.

Alrais a heart I'm gonna sing in the middle of

the storm. I literally sang all the songs that had

the word storm in it. I sang it over and

over again. Praise my praise in the midst of the

storm's right, pray in the midst of the storms. But I,

deep down I had a confidence that God was with us.

Deep down I knew that this was going to be

a testimony and a lesson. That's why I quickly took

out my phone and said, ha, I'm sure God, you're

going to teach us something to this. So I begin

to shoot the video and today I'm able to share it, Yeah,

with us evidence. And after forty five minutes next video,

we reached back to the shore.

How was the weather like.

The rain had stopped, the skies had cleared, the waters

were still. We got off the boat and we went

back to the hotel. But God brought us through safely

through the storm.

Amen.

And that was important because the next day, can we

go to the picture with the blue pool behind us

right at the end.

So I'm gonna just jump a bit. Okay.

That was important for God to preserve us through Tuesday

because Wednesday we went to the jungle instead, from the

sea to the jungle, and we visited different natural watering

holes in the jungle. So there was hot spring and

then there was like an emerald pool and this is

called the blue good behind us.

Okay, can you.

Do you know why it's called blue because it literally

looks like there's blue chalk at the base of the

pool and this is like on a highland deep in

the jungles.

We had to hike in.

We finally reached it and apparently when we clap right

then there will be ripples over that pool. So that's

how amazing God's creation is. How can one say there's

no God in this world when you look at his works?

Right in Romans he says that. So anyway, on this

day we set the twelve V and to go to

this jungle and next picture. So I honestly, if you

heard me say early on, I really felt very tired

before the trip, just very busy season, and I say, God,

I really don't feel like talking to anyone on this van.

I just want to have my mee time. And then

lo and behold. The next moment, a lady came to

sit next to me. Yeah, and her name is called

Nicole and she's seen in the picture. She's actually a

German lady residing in Spain with her family. And I

was like, okay, God, I'm just gonna not talk to anyone,

just pretend to be asleep until we reached the destination.

And God say, no, you speak to her. I was

wrestling with God like Jacob. After wrestling got worn obviously,

and I say, okay, God, I will speak to her.

I would just introduce.

Myself, say hi, and has some small thought and that's it.

I'll come back to my knee zone.

Lo and behore.

We ended up chatting all the way to the jungle,

which was like one hour plus drive, and then we

went to the After coming back from the jungle to

the hotel, we continue talking for another one and a

half hours, so in total we talked for three hours.

Everything under the sun, about family, about work, about we

didn't well talked about my faith, but not her faith,

so I didn't know what faith she had or if

she had any. Then just minutes before arriving at the hotel,

God says, Jill, I want you to pray for her,

and I say, okay, Lord, how do I do this anyway?

So I did it.

I said, Nicole, you know, I really don't believe that

our meeting is a coincidence. I'm from Malaysia from the east.

You are from Spain, Germany, from the west. How is

it that we meet in Thailand like this? And I said,

you know, I believe that our meetup is really God ordained.

And before we part our ways, God is asking me

to pray for you. That I told her, I I walk,

We've got daily his voice. So God is telling me

right now that he wants me to pray for you.

And I was ready for a rejection, but she said,

please go ahead. And then I felt like to ask her,

do you have any personal faith? And she said, actually,

I grew up in a Protestant church back in Germany,

but then when I went to study, when I started working,

I had a family, you know, life just happened, and

I stopped going to church, I stopped walking with God.

And I said, you know, Nicole, I really think God

is calling you back to his side. There's no way

we could have met like that and be talking about God.

It's really God all day and it's supernatural. And I

was waiting for her to say something to me, and

she said, I also think so, Jill, I do think

that God is calling me back. So anyway, we prayed,

and as I prayed, you know, God led me to

pray for different needs in the life from our conversation,

and as the Holy Spirit added on, I felt like

to bless and ludge the territory.

Of blessings over her.

So I didn't just pray for what she needed, but

I prayed what God wanted for her, which is a

larger territory. And then at the end of the prayer,

she opened her eyes and she was actually in tears,

and she said, Jill, I can feel God very very

strongly with us right now, and she showed me her

the hair on her hand. It was standing said I

I'm having goosebumps right now because I'm just feeling God

so strong with us, and I haven't really felt him

like that in a long while.

I say, Nicole, that's God for you. That's God.

God is here with us right now and he's calling

you back to his side. And then after that she

began to inquire more about Ex Germany and that week

that was the week the Ex germaney was going to

be launched. See God's perfect timing, and I connected her

with Doris and yeah, and I'm still trying to also

follow up with her now. But you know, God will

preserve us through our storms. He will give us rest

when we think it's impossible, and he will preserve us

because someone is waiting to know Christ through our lives.

We will not be crushed, we will not be destroyed

by the storms of our lives because God knows there

is someone waiting to know Him.

Through our lives.

So let's not give up when we go through stormy times.

I mean, the last two weeks have been very stormy

for me personally. After I came it from Melbourne that

we Can was a full weekend of speaking for me,

different engagements, and that Sunday I was sent to speak

in x Quotakamuning and I spend the night before one

and a half hours preparing my slides on canver. Next morning,

when I went to x kotakimoning to share my slides

with them. When I opened my Canva account, zero slides

just disappeared.

I don't know.

Don't ask me how and why it just disappeared. I'm

an avid Canva user. It's never happened to me in

all my time of preaching and speaking. It's never happened

to me first time in my life. My slides just disappeared,

and Canva had evidence that I used. That template is

recorded for those of you are Canva users, it will

tell you, oh, you use this template recently. So when

I opened my Canva account, it showed me evidence that

I used that particular slide. It was a template on

Noah's Ark. I was preaching the similar message anyway. I

just went on my faith to preach the word of

God in XKK and the XTV team helped me to

put together a little something on the spot. So that

was the start of the stormy period it Then the

next day I got involved in a car accident. I've

not shared it with any of you actually except my family.

So I got involved in a car, a minor car accident.

I was driving to actually bank in the mission's first

priority pledge. So yeah, and then a car hit me

from the side and he was in the wrong in essence,

and he was this big, burly guy came down.

He's very angry, blaming me. He hit me, and he

blamed me.

You can mine, and he tried to like bully me la,

But I say, God, mind, we take this on together,

you and me in my heart.

So I was not afraid of him.

I stared at him and he's like six foot tall,

and I just stared at him in his eye, telling

him I'm not afraid of you because God is with

me in my heart.

Luck. Yeah, and I kid you not.

Another guy came along, also big and burly, and he

stood up for me. He came and he said, I

saw what happened from the start, and he told the guy,

you are in the wrong.

You shouldn't have gone a hit when you saw her

car was there. So that stranger stood up for me,

and I knew it was God's angel. Then after that,

that bully just backed off and went away. Yeah, and

that was day two. The next day, paster Jack fell sick.

We couldn't make it for press service. That was the night.

Next day, Wednesday, I can't remember what happened. The following day,

Passa Jack got confirmed to have influence at a and

then that same day Ezra came down with high fever.

So morning I was busy writing about taking care of

Passa Jack. And then afternoon I got a call from

the school, sorry to inform you, but your son is

also down with high fever. So I went to pick

up all the kids. And then yeah, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

I was just taking care of Pussa Jack at Ezra

at home, cooking for them and at the same time

taking care of the household the kids. At the same time,

I was trying to work from home, trying to do

ministry from home. So it was a very full we

can I remember Grades reaching out to me saying, hey, Jill,

how are you. I said, oh, Grace, it's really been stretching,

but you know, God is good to give me every

portion that I need for every hour. Yeah, and then

I heard that weekend also, you know, Litty and the

girls became ill, so that was also not great news

as well, right, and then we had to miss worship

at homes. Yeah, so cey four was down by ten

people because two families were in quarantine for influence at

a So there was the weekend last weekend, and then

this week Monday Tuesday was very busy for me because

we had our final u so LINEZ is applying for

a government grant of half a million ring gate to

bring our programs to the school in terms of suicide prevention,

and by God's mercy and grace and favor, we are

at the final stage of pitching.

So Tuesday was the pitching meeting and.

That forty eight hours I was on overdrive mode preparing

for the pitching meeting, and God came through so powerfully.

There's a story for another day.

But then because I was on overdrive mode, right, I

suffered gas strict problems. So Tuesday night or I came

down with like gas strict problems which I don't normally

have as well. Then Wednesday, I think pass eject told me, oh,

our kitchen sink suddenly.

Got blocked.

After he washed the last stup aware for the night

going to rest. Suddenly, yeah, the water couldn't flow down,

and he used the pump to actually try and pumper

and a lot of black stuff came out of the sink.

So then the next day we had to call the

plumber to come and fix it. Then the following day

that's when doctor Sheila caught me say, oh, Johann just

had a bad fall. So the past two weeks, every

day is either it's not been good news for me,

for my family, for my homies. It's been stormy. But

I really really sends God's goodness in the midst.

Of the storm.

Every time that I needed strength for the hour, God

gave me the strength. I didn't know how I could

pull true, but He just put me through. Every time

I needed just that encouragement, that prayer, he would send

someone to encourage to pray. When I didn't even expect.

An angel in disguise, he would send angels in disguise.

And that's God.

And throughout all this, yes, it was difficult to make

time to seek the Lord, but I'm glad that He

enabled me to to still continue to seek Him even

in my quiet time. Last Sunday, although we missed that

worship at homes, we still worship God at Homes. We

just praised Him like crazy. In the midst of the storm.

We praised Him and He turned things around one by one. Amen,

And I stand here. I don't know how the weather

will be for the coming week or weeks, but what

I can say is that in the midst of the storm,

God is with us. In the midst of the storm,

we can still give thanks and praise Him and pray

and trust him. In the midst of the storm, he

will give us rest. In the midst of the storm,

he will give us strength encouragement. In the midst of

the storm, he is with us, and he will bring

us true safely to the other side. I really thank

God for our trip to Krabi. I knew that it

was not just an ordinary holiday trip. God was prophetically

speaking to me through the storm at see Jill. The

next few weeks may get stormy, but I'm with you, remember,

and I'll bring you to the other side safely. And

so I want to leave this work with us extremely

and come up. So this is actually the first part

of my message. I actually have a second part, but

it's okay. This is what God wants me to share

with you today, and I will do it because he knows.

Maybe some of us here are going through a stormy

time sometimes, and some of us feel like it's been

storm after storm after storm like no break, no rest,

But I just want to extend. I just want to

prophesy God's rest upon you. Let's stand, Let's worship God,

God will God. God's presence is with us. There's the

first pee in the midst of the storm. The second piece,

God's power is with us. The third piece because he

has a purpose for us, and the fourth piece because

another person needs to know him through our lives. So

I leave with you four peace. God is just downloading

it to me right now on the spot, in the

midst of the storm. God's presence. Everybody say, presence is

with us. And when God's presence is with us the

second peece God's power is with us.

Say power.

And when God's power is with us is because he

has a purpose for us.

Everyone say purpose. And you know what is that purpose?

Is that another person will come to know of Jesus

through our lives, say person. Amen, And so I want

to leave this with you, friends, speaking from one person

who has been through a stormy period to another.

God is with us in this boat. Amen.

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