Test of Faith | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

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So today I want to want to share with you

about Abraham. About Abraham. We're still in amount of missions

about Abraham. We need to talk about Abraham. But really,

I'm sure you heard about this before, that the Lord

allows us to go through testing. Someone say testing, And

you know, we don't like the word testing, none of

us here like kid. But the Lord somehow yous testing

to develop us. Someone say developed. The Lord allows us

to go through a journey in life, really to reveal.

What's in our hearts.

What's in our hearts very important on friends, whether you

are young, whether you're old. The Bible in genesistunity to

Abraham was really old, but yet God still brought him

to a test. And sometimes in life we think there

is exemption because that we've been in the faith for

the past twenty years, that we know the Lord better.

Sometimes we think there is exemption in our journey of Christ.

I want to just speak to you this morning about

have we with help from God? Have we with help

from the Lord, have we with hold something that's due

to the love, But we decided to hold something back

in Genesis chapter twenty two, verse one to two. If

you care your Bible, would you turn to there. Genesis

chapter twenty one was twenty two verse one. Now it

comes to pass after this thing that God tested Abraham

and said to Abraham, and say here am verse one,

say God tested Abraham. I want you to know something

from here from this scripture is that although Abraham went

to a few tests, went to a few tests, went

to a feel upset down in his journey of life,

God spoke to Abraham together from the country Genist chapter twelve.

He took the step of faith to follow the Lord,

by faith, to follow God.

And some of us here took the step of faith

as well.

You follow the Lord, and someone following the Lord, you

won't have a full picture. You will not have a

full picture. You will not have the end destination. You

only heard God's voice. God spoke to your heart. That's

a nudging, and you follow right. Abraham did that. Then

Abraham also heard God's voice that God promised that to

him a son shall be given or despite all in age,

but Abraham to believe you would think that the first

two is quite there were Redio. You need to say

that the test is quite there. Really there will be

no more tests. But Jenesis to training two is a

test of Isaac. And you think that this Isaac was

given by God and he has to take Isaac right now,

remove Isaac from his life and to test Abraham. I'm

not sure how many of us here is willing to

go to a test like that, a test. God will

always give us an opportunity for our hearts to go

to a test. Come on, God will always give us

an opportunity for hearts to go to a test.

You may or may not like it.

Friends, You may say think that not Mela, I've been

true enough with ealer, test someone else. But in actual

fact that sometimes in life, God will bring us to

our hearts needs to friends, the next life, our hearts

doesn't need it. Our heart needs to go to a test.

Without the test, your heart meta won't be revealed. Come on,

Without going to a test, your hearts will never be revealed.

Many times in our live, friends, we think that we

are all right just because we are in church. Just

because we're in church, we think that we're all right.

But why I say, God will always give us opportunity

for us to go to a test. Because in live friends,

it's never a straight road, if you know what I mean. Life,

no matter how well you plan it, it's never a

straight road. There are many challenges in front of us

right like tomorrow, there are pressures at work ready you

you you can anticipate, and no matter how much you anticipate,

you can nelfully anticipate.

Right.

So, you could be in school right although you've.

Been done all your homework.

Maybe your teacher had a bad day and decide to

express the bad day in the way they teach.

You, so you'll go to the pressure of being bullied

in school. Right.

It's rare, and no matter how much we we try

to anticipate different things, friends, we can know fully anticipate,

and God uses every challenges in our life to reveal Friends,

the question has never been about the tests. Come on,

it's not about the test. I want to say, No,

it's not about the test. In the Book of James,

chapter one, what God is really interested is our attitude

when we go to the test. Come on, God is

interested in our attitude when we go to the test,

because our attitude reviews where we are. The Bible is

saying the from the spears, love, joy, peace and everything

else you can all right, the word joy is there.

Friends.

Now, if you have a girlfriend, bail joy, the Lord

bless you. We only have one in our church and

she's married to join Lee. That's right, Joy, Lee is singer. No,

she's not all right. Cool anyway, it's a conversation here.

But what I'm trying to say here is this the friends,

the Bible says counting all joy when you foil the

various trouts and tribulation.

Think about it.

Why did James the book in such a way whereby

he asks you to count it all joy when you

fail the various trouts and tribulation? In X Chapter five,

Verse twenty one, say that I count it worthy to

suffer for Christ. Come on here this I kind it

worthy to suffer for Christ. And you think about it.

In the modern day context of a church, we are

trying to make sure that no church member gets hurt.

Everyone has extra barborett like the last package. You have, right,

extra barborette paydro ring it right, And this is how

we run mini street, is that we try to make

sure that no one gets hurt, no one gets burnt out.

But in X chapter five, I just ready just now

that I counted worthy to suffer for Christ. Come on this,

I counted worthy to suffer for Christ. And it brings

me to this whole thing about like our journey and

I walk with the Lord. I'm not sure the modern

day Christians can write the statement account it worthy to

suffer for Christ. We will suffer for our education. Four

years to get a degree. Praise the Lords. Save are

more worthier. Seven years so architecture, medicine, whatsoever. Savah even

push the limit PhD double PhD. Praise the Lord Hallujah.

The capacity to study the majority of us here four

years is enough. Really, I'm not sure how many of

us here our feeling I won't say reeling, but in

the midst of our journey of life, the faith expect

how God leads us guiders that we actually say, God,

would you use me. I was speaking to a brother yesterday.

He said, Elder, I'm at the crossure right now. I've

been asked to go always used to work. Me and

my wife we are ready. We don't mind. But yeah,

the same time, if to stay back locally house, you

don't mind. And my thing here is is that when

you go always used to work. I know the vocation

could be fantastic. You know, the environment could be good,

the air could be fresher, the Instagram pictures could be beautiful. Sorry,

sorry for English. You understand right, right? The blue is

really blue, not our blue is like fade and blue

and stuff like that.

Right.

I was doing a particular thing in a training foreign company.

That copper color was blue, and they have a particular coat.

I say, the major frustration right now is to know

the blue color code. Isn't it whether or not it's

the exact blue exactly that you wanted. But anyway, so

this brother was just talking to me. You know, I'm

okay and this stuff like that. So I just share this.

I say, look, when you go over this, I know

the package should be good. Everything fantastic physically, right, But

what are you going to do with your life over there?

Very important events? Whichever station for your life? I say,

what would you do when you get there? What would

you do when you get there? Are you just going

to exist? Or are you going to take all that

you've cut from here? There is a reason why you

are here, friends, Come on, there's a reason why you're

part of our church for a season of your life.

I say, would you therefore take all that you have learned,

get there and start something for the Lord?

I say, don't just attend your friends.

A lot of people say, I'm attending a church, a

part of cell group. I am all right and plucked

into the community of faith. Nothing wrong with that, friends,

nothing wrong with just plugging in. The question has always

been in our hearts is that don't just get plugged

in friends, because a lot of people get plugged in

and consumed. Come on, a lot of people get plugged in.

Then what consume? I said, when you get plucked into God,

do something and produce. I say, when you get their, friends,

and when you get to another country, when you get

there all that you have learned from here, would you

start a small group? Would you start a smuggle? But hold,

it's like pioneering work, pioneering work. God will always give

us an opportunity for our hearts to be Come on,

pioneering work, I say, would you therefore consider this, get there,

pioneer work. You don't this these friends? This is hard

real the kingdom. Now, when we pioneer any work for

a season, God calls to start. God can calls back

home to our country. Why will we start doesn't mean

to have to go on forever. Even if you impact

one soul, your assignment is done.

The value of one life.

So God will always give us a portune for it

has to be tested when you go to the test.

What the Bible says, county all joy. So when you

start at homes, do you know study of homes? Can?

I say?

All the home leaders say, would you raise out your

hands without come up? Raise our hands? Raise our hands? Okay,

I'm gonna speak on your behalf right now? All right,

okay you can put our hands. Do you know what

the homeleeder go to? Not? Let me just share with

someone that number one who would turn out for homes?

Right? Who would turned out for homes? Stress number one?

Stress number two is this that when they look at

other people's Facebook of what food they serve? When they

turned on the Facebook, they look at another church plan

what food they serve.

I was saying exco to comedy last week.

So I just poke this all right faster can is

in power of kik one homes and their food is

you know pass homes. The food is really the one

food backuit table one right then after that got dessert

some more our desert is I see you at the

Mama shop?

All right?

Okay, so the pressure number one who comes home? Pressure

number two is what the food that serve?

Right?

People played the food and some say while fish bore

from clang is their friends hours is like trying to

scrip up the meating you can find from the rice comet.

No go mean I have a piece of meat there.

You understand, Okay, I'm just exaggerating. Point uble trees. Is

that hope if you are the home leader and you're

trying to teach the night friends, if you are the

facility till the teacher the night, let me tell you

know what's christ stress. They look at the faces and

the homes come on, okay, I know the home leaders.

They look at the faces at the home there. You

know how hard and what the pressure is there? You

are you prepare for the whole week, ready, and you

are just hopefully that whatever you teach and you pass

on that the homies will be excited. They will smile

by the end of the hotel will thank you for

thank you so much for preparing.

Well.

I really read the Lord, you know I caught a

lot from there most time. Is there anything you are

to add friends, even the cemetery of more noise. If

you understand what I'm trying to know, I'm exaggerating a bit,

but it's true. Come on, home, leaders, you understan right,

you are the teaching, you're exciting. You are trying to

like excite the whole homes. Come on, then the whole

homies and look at you know they're not looking at

the Bible on the hand phone when the when the

time is always cooling down, Come on, unless.

You're looking for scripture.

Worse, you understand right after their friends, after everything is

finished right there, said hey, there's still some more food,

and majority of saying, oh.

I'm still fool with only the fil the homies go

to Mama. After that, I'm sharing all this.

Year, counting all joy when you follow the raised trials,

when God will always give us opportunity for our house

to go to a test. After everybody has left the homes,

you discover someone we're going to flush your toilet. It happened, really, friends,

I'm not this is not this is not exaggerating. It

happened at my previous homes. Someone did a big one

and then flush a bit one and did not flash.

Come on, if you're the if you're the homeowner. If

you are the homeowner, come on, a homeowner. And you

guys who cannot improperly, Oh yo, yeah, come you come on,

just say you come right. I say it for you

are if you're using the church shop police improperly because

you're not eating, to be cleaning the todlet every night? Okay?

I rather read outside then stress pressure twice a month?

Time is that by twelve months? Is it?

No?

Wonder? That's why somebody people.

Say, I read it not be your home leader, because is.

It worth it?

Not?

When you go to your test.

The Bible says in Genesis chapter three towards what I

was saying, Now God tested Abraham. Come on, now, God

tested Abraham. Even though next like, even though Isaac was

a promise from God to Abraham, Abraham would still need

to go to that test. Come on, even though Isaac

was a promise from God to Abraham.

Some of you think that just because.

It's a promise, God will never touch it. Come on,

just because God opened the door for you to work

in the company, and come on, you'll be praying for

a job, God give you the job. That doesn't mean

that you're exempted from being tested at the job. I've

seen many you working doubts in our church, pray for

a job and God blessed with fantastic job. But the

moment they get showed into the vocation that plays the

commitment to the Lord, not to the church, the commitment

to the love begin begin begin to go down the hill.

Can't make it for prayer service. It happens, friends, it

happens once. Now we cannot make it normal, but constantly

not normal. When you can make it, but you don't

go not normal then homes previously at homes you God,

please please less me mock contract God gave God, I've

seen him for you, God blessed young beginning to travel

homes goes out the window. Friends, when you're not around,

you're not around, but when you're around. I happened at

ten month homes. I was in a one particular home

and I saw the brother coming back to the place

he went to the place there, but he's almost to go

to the other home. Hit the tear and then like

should I ask him a question? Are you going for homes?

You know? When the elder asked, you know something that's

a bit more serious readder right. So I look at

I look at the other home. Leader, I say the

other HOMEI hey, going out? You're going for homes?

Is it?

No?

Not going going out for a while a leader in

our church.

Even though Isaac was a promise from God to Abraham,

Abraham still need to go to the test. I'm not

sure where you are with your journey, friends, Come on,

where you are with your journey? Just because we are

doing well doesn't mean that God will not bring us

to the test. Come on, friends, you and I need

to understand. What's the purpose of a test?

Come on? What is the purpose of a test?

Would say that, I know sure to fail us one,

to make a life miserable, to keep us busy. No,

it's to review to the person who's being tested. Come on,

it's to review to the person who's being tested. Friends,

your exem results, who do I want to say? Add

and much to the teacher's lifeline, it's not there being tested.

It's to reveal what's what we know in the insight?

The test. The test is to real. Come on, the

test is to reveal because God already knows our hearts.

In Look chapter sixteen, verse fifteen, Probabs seventy tree, saying

the refining part is for silver and the furnace for goal.

But the Lord tests the hearts come on. The refining

part is for silver, furnace for goal still where and gold. Friends,

for it to be purified, have to go through fire,

have to go through a series of tests and many

times in our hearts.

Just because we sing the.

Song use me, Lord, I give you my heart doesn't

mean our heart when we give to the Lord it

is one hundred percent pure.

Think about it.

Just because I offer up my heart the Lord doesn't

mean that our heart we were exempted from being tested.

One reason why I truly believe why God will always

bring treated earth, treat that genes, because it's about capacity

at the end of the day. Because God really knows

our capacity, but we do not know because our heart.

Sometimes our capacity of our heart one hundred percent, but

forty percent is filled with stuff that doesn't add to

the value of friends. God has to prove it so

you can add more the other forty percent. But see God,

I don't like to be tested. But the Bible, he says,

the Lord tested the hearts. The Lord tests will test

your hearts. And if we say we love the Lord.

The Lord will test you. Come on, so we don't

look convinced. Friends, before the purification, there's there's a really

a value in the sealer and go. Come on, before

the purification, that's really a value to see where and go.

But the value increases after the proification process. Come on,

the value increases after the provocation process. Some of us

here thinking, oh, I'm valuable, Yes, God said I'm of value.

But the value that increases after we go to a

proification process. The testing of our hearts help us to

refine and clarify and reaffirm our commitment to the Lord.

It is the testing of our hearts helps us to refine.

Come on to refine, Come on to refine, to clarify.

Very important is to clarify, to clarify and reaffirm our

commitment to the Lord. It's almost like marriage. And many

times in your journey with the Lord, what goes out

of the window when you get challenges, Come on.

What goes out the.

Window when we encounter challenges is our faith because sometimes

it's very real.

The journey of life, the journey of life.

Every younger kid that wu't say a face pressure, nobody

is exempted right. The question here is that if we

say we've got nothing's impossible? Therefore, how do we apply

this faith into a workplace? We declare that thing it's

impossible with the Lord. So how do we apply this

scripture at the workplace? Is it only for the church?

How can we find a solution to some challenges we

are facing right now? If we read the book of Daniel,

Daniel wasn't trained to be a prime minister, but God

raised him up to be a prime minister to be advisor.

To the king?

Right, what would be require of Daniel to go through

the process.

The lions?

Then?

Come on? What can prepare you for the lions? Then?

Lion Taming School one? Lion Taming School two? Write this

word like if you understand what I'm trying to say, right?

What what prepares you?

Friends? Nothing? Friends? And until unless you go to it?

You know friends, when you go to life, friends, you

understand that to every season got real firms, to every

challenge has got real firms. And you know that God

is real and God is faithful. That God is real

and God's faithful. Friends, So we may not know that

we came out with our latest album not announce here anyway,

Just let you know, go to Spotify, okay, one worship

and then change the songware. Besides, today is listed there. Right,

you may hear jack voice if hear clearly clearly right

Jack's voice. But why did we decided to come up

with albums? Not because we wanted to for fame. We

never do anything for fame, friends, because fame is very fleeting.

We only came up with it only because God, if

we can use us, come on, if we can use

our skill and our talents. Just because we look different

from a Caucasian doesn't mean our music. Come on, it's lesser.

Just because the lyrics is from this part of the world.

Come on, just because the lyrics is from this part

of the world doesn't mean it cannot be used to impact.

The other part of the world.

But many times in our life, friends, we put ourselves lesser.

That's why our hearts sometimes the word is that we

don't our hearts don't get clarified, does get real firm.

Past.

The Cavs always encourages us.

If you can use anything, just use it. That's why

I'm so proud of Examberdaya. Because you do not allow

a sport mixer to stop.

You all.

Used to use the channel mixer. First. I want to

let you know.

Friends, in my twenty our years of doing church, I

get very funny requests Elder, I need the digital mixer

and maybe other I did digital mixer so.

That the worship x RISS can go up.

The question here is this that before the device ever

came to existence, what's the worship ever? Down in the eighties,

there are some churches in some country affairs don't even

mixer southeaster, so don't have.

Yet. At the same time, the worship it is next level.

And many times our journey we put our faith in

technologies and stuff like that. That's why the testing of

our hearts helps us to refine. Come on, I'm glad

that you weren't distracted because it's only for China, and

I'm glad you you weren't distracted. There's only one or

two music instruments on stage because the day will conference

where we don't have this facility anymore. We're meeting in

a big group is illegal globally, not just in Malaysia,

but globally where Bible will be removed from every phone.

The test thinking about house helps us to refine and

clarify that of commitment to the Lord.

As I did for it was ten.

Behold, I have refined you, not as silver, I've tested

you in the furnace off. Come on or whatever he

is the word in the furnies off. How many of

us save? We'll set up for a fulliest of fliction semina.

Sign me up, furties of a fliction, Sign me up.

Friends.

This is not going to a gym. You get that,

you get your personal instructors. Come on, pass the jack.

One more rep, Come on, one more rep.

You can't do it.

Come on, your wife is so stronger than you. One

another transition. Put it the furnace of suffering. Think very

Sevin scripture comes up. How many of you all say

that God, please test me to the furnies of suffering.

Please?

I needed Lord, but many times in our journey God

will always bring it to because you know why. The

value that God sees in our hearts, in your life.

See the test, friends, at the end of the day,

is not just because he wants to increase your market value.

It's not about increasing your market value as much as

he knows your potential to do more. So you heard

just now about Moses transits passing away. He's forty one

years old. Forty one years old passed away, and recently

about a couple of one month ago, there's another guy

thirty eight years old went on.

To be with the Lord.

Some of us who attended those wake services. Question always

comes to our minds so young, so young, And the

question here is that we don't know how well how

our journey and when the Lord will call us home?

Isn't it if you if we knew when you're the

last day on how would you therefore change your life?

If you knew the last thing you have.

The vibe definitely you your life will be very different,

very purposeful, very meaningful. You will not fight after what's

it served at homes anymore. The fact you could come

together praise to Hallelujah. You're know I get about the

least of songs anymore, because you know why, you know

that every time you could sing it is really a blessing.

I've tested you the furnace of affliction. God wants to

bring us to a test like Abraham. If the furnace

is used to remove them purity that's in civil how

much more our hearts needs to go to the furnace

of affliction and suffering.

Come on, if the.

Furnace was used to remove them purity and see where

and go right, how much more our hearts needs to

go to it so that it has to be even

more clear, more clear by saving in my basket? Yeah, oldier,

But isn't this missions money?

Yes?

This is how I'm gonna die. One of the one

of the things I truly believe. What's the furnace of

affliction and suffering is when you start serving, When you

start serving your follies of affliction and suffering.

Friends.

It's not at your workplace, no, because I've heard when

the workers get tough, you just change job.

Normal.

Okay, I'm not knocking that down all right, But serving

is next level. Serving is optional.

Work. It's almost like composite. Without what you won't get paid, right.

Serving is different when you are serving friends, Come on,

your dream thing.

Leader asked you to come at nine a m. Is

that correct? Somewhere around there right.

Here about that right, and you are there by eight

fifty five because.

You want to be early.

You're driping middle walks here at nine or five, nine ten,

And sometimes they why stuff?

You are late?

It works on people in friends when you're alrighty, no

problem your best friends when they step on you one day,

when not at the right day, you walk up the

wrong side of the big friends, that that statement becomes

like even right now, friends, even right now, Oh I'm

saying right now, I've been sharing right now yourself. You're

going like, it's elder talking about me. It's passage.

They talking about me.

It's doctor, doctor juill talk about anybody want right, very loving?

All right?

Is this picture talking about me and our friends? Survey

is optional and sometimes if you know it's the furness

of suffering friends, which you want to go to it?

Huh if you see a big sight furnace of suffering,

I'm not sure how many of us say realingally, oh,

let's go and see what's all about?

Right the other entrance.

The other entrance could be TRX, and you go like, yeah,

this is more exciting, and you go into it. I've

seen people cure for Apple's shop in TRGX for two

hours just to get it to take picture, just to

take picture normal friends to fear up their content right

and said, all right, furnace of suffering. Nobody want because

if you know it's suffering, friends, why you want to

make your life so miserable?

True or not? If you know it's hard affliction, you

wouldn't want it on the side of it.

But the package doesn't coming true that way, because if

you know it's suffering, you are white like way. See,

if you know it's traffic, jeb, what you do, we rout?

We awoid. I'm not saying it, but a traffic jab

Let's go treat it, okay, because counting all joy, the

Bible says, right, I love traffic jab or this is

going very good really because if we beat the Bangkok,

if we beat the Philippines, next level that one.

Right, So therefore counting all.

Joy, no, we we rout, we find another way, We

look for another road.

Why because you want to avoid just like life.

If you know theice, the fullness of affliction and suffering

in front of you, you awoid. While we're married, the

love bless you. It's kidding, just kidding, all right. I

just want to share something with yours. So me and

my wife right now, we haven't been staying together for

almost a month, Okay, I have to share this with

you first, okay before you hear for anyone else, all right,

before you hate for anyone else, Okay.

I got the different. I just wanted to explain, to explain.

So my house had to go to a major repair

because I moved in fourteen years ago without much funds.

Just meant to get some cupboards up and stuff like that.

But after fourteen years I told my wife, let's try

to fix it up. Right.

Whyever we try to fix it up? It started with that.

We started the fixing in February this early this year,

right early this year. Rain and this stuff that stopped

the project for a while and stuff like that. Then

we wanted to change something in the house because it

was leaking. Only the from the pipes wasn't right. So

we decided to let's let's let's let's just see the

things are down. Really, let's try to fix the thing.

Like me. You see the towels are downweigh myself just

getting corrected once to me?

All right. Anyway, one thing led to another.

I got a visit by the local council because somewhere

along my neighborhood someone didn't like my hacking noise.

Decided and say, hey, can you check out the house?

Stop the local house story from my I would they say, hey,

do you have permit? I expected, but insight you don't

really really really don't need to permit one. He said, casual,

please try to get a permit. I understand and try

and say, because someone has fought in the complaint onst

people find a complaint, you just have to comply. That right,

not not a problem. So me and my wife just

went to the local counclt with our application. It should

be out by the next couple of days. Really in

the meantime, in the meantime, we have to move out

because power my ceiling was dropping. Power my ceiling was

wasn't wasn't straight, was dropping and decided we decided let's

get it fixed, because you know, let's let's get it

fixed and this stuff that. So we have to move out.

We have to move out, and calls Chip Skaler. We

they want to read the NBA be somewhere else. The say, hey,

I tell you what, let's use this time. You spend

some time with your parents. I spend some time with

my dad. I move off from my dad's house twenty

years ago. She moved off from her parents house twenty

years ago. Now moving back in twenty years later, it's

a very different story friends, very different story. Well, hers

is like, you know, the father was like, you're coming

back to a house who air con fixed for her.

It's like welcoming her daughter back. You know, air come

fixed for her. The fridge got fruits, ice cream, you

name it. Every day it is there, like like Daddy's girl.

Like everything it is there. Everything. Okay, I'm telling you everything.

Every morning she wakes up, the father got out for her.

Come on, you know, I mean that that's you under say, okay,

you missed doing that for your daughter, all right, Like

my dad never did that for me, Okay, I ever

told her openly. I went back there and went like that,

we need to clear the house something seriously over singer

person singing a double story house. But there's not enough place.

So we put things through and was his mom passed away?

My dad did have the strength to clear the house. Whatsoever. Right,

I'm glad I'm moving my dad because my dad. Recently

I found out there was a sort of a pet,

a pet that that in the form of a rat

that was in the kitchen for the longest time. I say, Dad,

you know there's a red at the back of your

I was the happily like you know, using your tens

is not really washing because after you wash, you don't

really wash it. It is your house like reds all

did this go that? The red actually went to the

rack where I took the swos out from. Okay, see dad, Dad,

what are you gonna do about this pet of yours?

If you're not you're not. If you're not taking care

of it is your pet. I will say that, right,

I cannot find the old school red cage.

You know what I mean? The meta one cannot find.

They don't make it anymore.

I say that there's a limous excuse I ever hearer

now doubt already my moving.

Back in, I say, can I find? Can I fight?

I say, where do you go? Went down the road?

Cannot find? I say, Dad, tell you what I just

ordered from shoppy? Okay, say goodbye?

Ready, came in there the next day, put out the

next day, put the trap out next day, caught it.

I say, Dad, you got two choices. Number one, bring

it very far away and release it. If you got

no okay, animal the us. Okay, if you've got no heart,

but you know what to do with if you If

you've got the hatler, so moving in my dad.

Friends, it was a test for me. Have you tried

having a conversation with.

A senior person who repeats the same thing every other day,

the same into nation, the same story everything.

Now, I love my dad to be to that, I

pretend here for the very first like, oh, he's it.

Why why didn't you tell me?

So? A couple of days ago, my dad came bare

at one fifteen because he went back to his brothers

and stuff like that.

I was worried for my dad. Where are you? I

say that I tried calling you went with your phone.

My phone got virus war go virus. I say, what

do you do?

I keep pressing things there the NT virus stating there

are days, really, there are days I won't let you know, honestly,

as a change out there wan't let you know. There

are days whereby I just reached my house to be ready,

I want to move out immediately. I can confess to

you because there are days whereby I wanted to get

I only I wish about four and a half hours

of sleep now. But yet at the same time, Yet,

at the same time, I'll let you all know I

love my dad to be. You know, I have lots

of conversation with him. But yet at the same time,

at the same time, the testing of your hearts, your hearts,

God will never use an external forces you if he knew,

if if it was packaged. So whereas the tea shirt

of suffering and affliction you will avoid, come closest to you,

you can't avoid, come closest to you cannot avoid. And

was when I was going to it as I and

this chapter friends, my heart, my love and my dad

comes even stronger. I told my dad said that I'm

going to run away. My toil will be big. Okay,

I'm not saying you're going to have a view chair,

but in case you need a few chair, dog, I

prepare for you, really prepare. I'm just making my daughter

that's a bit bigger.

Okay.

I'm not sure where you are with your journey. I'm

not sure where you are in your faith as well.

But I truly know that this is very important, that

the law was our hearts to expand you know, as

IIAs say that single baron, you know the scripture single

baron at Isaiah fifty four to fifty five, single.

Baron you have you have without chewing. Right, I see

the sing.

Do you know how difficult is it to sing when

you don't have? For not friends, when you look at

your neighbors when they have come on, When you look

at your neighbors when they have something, if you should reach,

you desire forward, you don't have. So there are days

I go back to my house is still in the

midst of the renovation and stuff, so that these go back.

But amos almost in tears, because one more month you'll

move back. One more month, you'll get our sanity back.

One more mone we can put things back into the cabinet.

One more month. We don't have to live out now.

My clothes is in ikear bags right now. One more month.

All right, I'm a few I need a few clothes

that only our couples will be reopened again one moment.

I'm not sure you where we are friends. So there

are days. There are days, there are days whereby we

wish So right now I want to let you know.

So I did my wife almost every other night. Wow,

I'm just looking at you.

She got Oh.

I want to let you know something. Okay, Now I

truly understand why they think are for younger people to

confess I told this to my wife. I understand, okay,

and now I understand why they think it's really for

younger people. So with me and my wife work in

the same organization. After what we have dinner together. This

is only the time could spend my wife. Then after

that send her back to charras I drive back to

put cho younger that I'm not a problem.

Easy. When you're close to fifty, you go like you're

yawning on the way back. Friends.

Yeah, now I understand why you need a lot of

energy to date. When you're this h treat, you go

like you go you said it to the person, back

to another place. You go like, it's so tiring, it's

so tiring. How am I going to end this? I

just got one more. There's a few more slices with

your friends. Missions is one of the avenue got used

to test our hearts. Come on, God, used my dad?

Really? I you know, I told my dad.

You know I'm never getting this apportunity anymore. Twenty years later,

we're able to move back with him, stay with him,

talk to him almost every other night, listening to some

the same some same story as some new stories. Right,

I won't get this the project. My wife was, so

she knows. I say for me and my dad's okay.

I say, your dad's going to go to even bigger

withdrawers right now, because once you move out, you go it.

Do put the white food anymore? The bigger withdrawal, I say,

your dad's going to feel even more the the The

thing here is that it's a test, and when we

move out, it's just like missions when we go for

mission strengths. When you go for missions, it's the people

that will challenge your hearts when you serve with a

different food. Come on, different food. I spoke to her.

I know of somebody who's not used to eating any

other cuisine that Chinese, because she grabbed an environment whereby

majority of eating Chinese food every day for thirty years

of a life. Given the choice, you say, I have

any other cuisine. I'm not sure where you are, what

tests you're going through, But if things were served to you,

would you still eat it? Not? Come on, we think

who's serve to you? Well, you still eat it just

because it looks a bit different, tastes a bit different.

I told a lot of this, and I told a

lot of this. All right, lot, I really do. Gave

for almost every anything that you want me to consume

except for ballowed. Except for ballowed. Huh, I I can't

except for ballow. I don't have the concept. I I

tried looking at it. I saw the thing, and I

I couldn't And so I was I was sharing this

this message. I'm going to close share this message one

girl in one.

But I love it. I love it.

I love it, I said, sister, come follow me on

the mission to Philippines. All right, when they serve me

are passy to you, and I show them when they

serve a possity to you and you can consume it,

I can't. Right, So therefore missions well, and when you

got used to test our hearts? Come on, come on,

if you were ser what would you do? If you

word server?

Would you do? I?

Honestly, I would take a bit, like okay, I cannot

conte everything. I'll just take a bit. Right. Some you

don't know about the is uh that embryo, that mbo

where you get the big the feathers, the bones, and

just that when you're bite it you get all these

crunchy beats inside.

Right Okay?

So anyway, now, good reasons I got good reason. I

got hot is shoe, I got hardy shoe. I got

hardy shoe. Okay, But anyway, how I'm gonna close. Got

used the evenue, which is why I really got us heart.

Okay.

When you go to the field, serve a different food.

Worship is different songs. Songs back in the seventies, can

you still worship? Not?

Come on? Come on? If the song back in the seventies,

can you still worship?

Not?

Song back in the seventies? Can you still worship?

Not? But can you still worship the song beat seventies?

Not those seventies. Let's let's downy back songs from the eighties?

Can you still worship?

Not?

Those a gram in the eighties? You know there's a

famous saw celebrate you to celebrate?

Right?

We know because we love that the way the keyboard

is being played at one particular part, that was the

coolest part of the soul something something younger people, what's

all is that?

But right?

But when the soul was something back then, we love

the soul. But this I heard it again, I'm go like,

I go, like, what song is that? Can we still worship?

If today the worship leader sings out of key.

Think about it. No, I must say you did. But

if it did?

First, if it did, if it did, can you still

worship or not? Because I've heard statements before whereby this

is not worship.

This experience is not a full experience. You need a

bigger band.

I've heard it before, friends sitting before, because that's how

we imagine worship, is that this is how it's supposed

to look like. So the question here is is that

if mission is any used by God. Friends, when you

go to the mission field, all that you have some

timee is a guitar with two strings, two strings, two strings, friends, and.

They play with all.

Their hearts because that's they couldn't find a replacement string anymore.

But they worship the Lord? Can we still worship? They

serve you food? Can you still give thanks? They offer

you a drink the best? Can you steal when you

ask to do things that's out of your normal comfort zone?

Can you steal serf?

And at the field, friends, I'm going to close at

the field, at the field, at the field, at the field,

you can't say this. I'm not trained for cheos ministry.

There is no such thing. I'm not trained for churis ministry.

On the missions field. If you ever say that God

will always be another chewdre in the form of a

doubt into your life that you cannot run away.

Even if you're younger. You can't see that.

I cannot talk to an adult at the field because

many times you mix so many excuses. I can't do

this worshiping. I can't preach, share test me. I cannot friends,

how good God is? Friends, because all that you shared,

all the use worshiping in a very small community, and

in those community I can guarantee you none of them

will take up the head of how bad the worship

leader is. I have not seen any mission field, anyone

from the mission field. Anybody goes to the mission field,

the committee, you'll reach out to take a handful and snap.

Look at this sharing. This team from excers cannot even

pitch properly. I have not seen anyone filming Jewish ministry.

Look at this thing for excers doing Churwish ministry can't

even talk to children. Do And yet sometimes in our

own hearts we say we cannot at the few friends.

God always challenges our hearts. Pray for the sake, Come on,

pray for the sake. So you're like, pray for the

sake passaject? Where are you a pussy?

Ject? Cancer?

I cannot cancer? Cannot past cancer? You're okay?

They can't studies easy? What's stopping us? Friends?

We will recall to worship alongside with them, just differently,

sing differently songs. Different songs always make a different language.

Can be still worship? As I close right in our friends?

Why does God bring us to a test because he

wants us to reaffirm outcome inment to him? Can you

worship if it's a different language?

Can you worship.

If it's a different song that you normally sing many times?

Our challenge? We we love coming to church on Sunday.

Everyone a versay. You got a favorite city church? You

have your favorite site. You always see that particular city

chest if the scene is occupied by someone else, do

you got I'm not sure where sevill could be burned

because you serve before.

In church, have a pleasant experience.

If you're a power of ex hosts, you know what

hosting is one of the most challenging things.

Also in our church, you welcome people. People just walk

past you.

You put out your head to shake people sad people

just say don't touch me after, shake your head, and

then sanitize your hand. I under said, but you feel

it as a whost you go that I just sanitize

you in my own hands. Can you shaak people's hands?

I showed them to the seat during the midst of

the worship. You tap the ex partner, say sorry, sorry,

there's empty ceyasm themetera. There only to find out in

the midst of worship the ex partner this character. You

don't you know I'm worshipping the lock and you talk

to me later. I'm lifting on my Hand'm communicating with

the lot right now, all right, please talk to me later.

Happened before friends in our church. That's in our church.

Empty cis in between you the whole say can you

just big way?

Some of you.

Got told off by our partners because you were deep

in worship. You shake someone's hand because the diamond ry

was so big it hurts your finger your palm. Happened

to me one time I shook something. A lady said,

good morning.

I'm like, sister, your rock was very big. Let me

know it at once.

Then you shake someone's else else's hands. The person just

apply hand lotion, I said, bringing to a close. I'm

not sure where you are with your journey. Friends, I'm

just sharing it very lightly, because all these experiences cause

you whether you want to serve the lot or not,

cause you whether you you want to go further with

the lot. I say missions one of the avenue that

got users serving as Susiah another one.

But even heart some we applied into serving. Friends.

If a heart don't apply into serving, then when our

heart get tested, as I close, I did go almost statement, friends,

a test that we choose my own self, a test

that we choose my own self is not a test.

Come on, a test that you choose my ownself. God,

can't you say I'm being tested?

And really?

Friends, how fast that you choose by your own self

is not really a fast because you choose based on

what you think you should fast. A fast that God

demands is a fast of obedience. So a test is

really a testment. It's out from obedience, friends, not because

I think, I think, I just go for one. So

a true test, it's not a test that we choose.

A true test is the test that God will bring us.

It's about obedience. It's about faith. It's about faith. As

I close, right in our first. I want to just

challenge your a verse here before August ends. Don't you

tear yourself if there's any reason, any reason in your life,

why you do want to go for missions or serve

the Lord? Would you therefore surrenders to God. I want

to surrender every reason, every hurt.

And every pain.

I want you to wear every excuses because not necessarily

the hurt and the pin that's stopping you from serving,

it's because of excuses and one like you. One enough

people really excited, but not people serving a radio every Sunday.

I can't go host video on going not worship lead radio?

Can I.

Homes really extra sim in the homes? Why make a

life so difficult? So before August ends, church, start serving

the Lord. Before August end, go for missions, sil for

missions before August and say God, this year I want

to go closer to you. The fullies of affliction come on,

fullies of suffering.

God.

I know August you'll go treat I'd rather go treat

with you, Lord than without you. I rather go to

test it with the Lord than without the Lord. As

I close friends, I.

Just want to encourage you.

God's fitful. God is indeed fitful in everyone's life. I

want to encourage you because I know there's so many

challenges you. Life is just too simple. This will confine

me just a couple of words. But God is faithful.

Don't stop serving him, don't stop giving to him, no

matter how tough it is. He's been faithful for you

for so many years of your life, so many years

of your life.

He's faithful. He will definitely see you too.

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