Heaven Rules – For Us and Others | Dr Jill Ling

You're listening to a message to go from at church. We hope this message

will light up your day. The title of today's message is Heaven Rules for

Me and Others. Okay, this is a title of God's word for us

today and it's in line with our church vision, our church theme for this

year, which is Heaven Rules. Towards the finishing line, okay, So

I'm going to start today's message with two stories and then we'll go into scripture.

Okay, right, so the first story, let's go on to the

next line. So two wednesdays ago, or maybe about three wednesdays ago.

By now, what happened was you saw the video just now right on the

Hope Again Community Mental Wellness Fair. Right. So I'm actually co organizing it

together with Taylor's University. So I work as the field coordinator of LYNETTE also

known as Live Inspired Network Society, and we are one of the very few

suicide prevention organizations in Malaysia. And last year God dropped a dream, a

little seed inside of me. He was saying, hey, you know,

if Malaysia can have Matha Fair, which is our famous travel fair, if

we can have home expel fares, if we can have baby fares and we

can have all kinds of fares in Malaysia. You know, Malaysians somehow we

love fairs. That's why we like our passa, my lums as well,

our night markets, our morning markets. If afternoon was not so hot,

we'll probably have afternoon market as well. So we just love coming together and

everything in one place. That's us Malaysians, right, Yeah, And so

God challenged me and said, why don't you even have a mental health helfare

who says it's impossible to do? And so when I googled, right,

I googled, Actually, there was hardly anyone who has done anything like this

in Malaysia and even maybe globally a bit more about in Malaysia, mental health

itself is considered like a taboo subject for some. But you know, there's

nothing there's nowhere that is too dark for God to go, Nowhere that's too

far for him to reach. God cares even for our mental health. You

know treat John two. You know it's written, beloved, I pray that

you will prosper in your soul, just as you prosper in your health.

So God wants us to prosper in our physical being. He also wants us

to prosper in our mental health, he wants us to prosper in our spirit,

he wants us to prosper in our whole being because God made all of

us and he wants the whole of us to be good. Amen. Amen.

And so this is God, you know, He's he's always the one

leading his people to do first things first. If it hasn't been done,

who says it can't be done? Right? We've got all things are possible.

So there was one year ago and rarely I'll tell the story another day,

but God has just given us so much favor to organize this event,

having Tailors as a co organizer and venue sponsor. That's really more than we

could have ever asked for. And so two about two or three wednesdays ago,

our team was supposed to shoot the promo video that you saw just now.

Yeah, And what happened was that morning we woke up and it was

raining. Yeah. So I woke up at six am that day that was

supposed to do the video promo shoot and it was raining. But then I

thought, okay, there's still four hours to go because the video shoot was

supposed to be at ten am. So in my natural, you know confidence.

I thought the rain should be done by ten am. It's only six

am. Nowe shouldn't last too long, okay. And then as we were

driving to school, so I was. I was driving my kids to school

that morning and myself to work as well. Guess what, it was still

raining. Yes. And I remember telling my kids in the car, so

Judah was there, Ezra and Anna, and I say, oh, oh,

mommy has a video shoot at ten o'clock and it's still raining. It's

eight o'clock. Yeah. And I remember asking my children to pray for me.

Yes. And I remember I think it was Anna. Was it you

who prayed? So Anna, my youngest girl. She said a very simple

but very powerful prayer. It was just a few lines. I remember her,

just praying, like, God, please stop the rain so that mommy

can have her video shoot. In Jesus name, we pray, Amen Gosh.

That was just one line, two lines, right, and and all

of a sudden resounding amen. So you know, children, you can pray

for your daddy and mummy's problems and God hears and God answers. Yeah.

And parents, you know, some days we can, you know, humble

ourselves and ask our children to pray for us as well. We don't always

have to be the strong ones in the family. God moves even through the

little ones as well. Amen. And so guess what. So I dropped

the kids off at school, I picked up my colleagues and we were on

our way to Tailors. And I was driving at about nine point thirty and

guess what, it was still raining. I know. I think most of

you expected the rain to stop right by then, because you know, and

I prayed a powerful prayer. Yeah, but it was still raining. Okay,

it was still raining at nine point thirty on the way to Tailor's University.

Yes. And so my colleagues are also Christians. Yeah, they're all

of x as well, but different church plants. And we to pray in

the car. Lord, you know, please hold up the weather. You've

done it for my wedding. You've done it when we went to KK for

a trip and it was supposed to be raining every day, but you held

up the weather. You can do it again, God. Yeah, that

was my cry to him. And then ten o'clock we reached Taylor's University.

Guess what, it was still raining. I know. I wish, I

wish I could bring an ending to this story and say it stopped raining,

but it didn't ten o'clock. It was still raining. Yes, So we

were like hmm, God, and there was no other time to do the

video shoot. Everyone's schedule is packed, so we couldn't afford to move our

shoot to another day. It's either we had it or not. It's do

or die. Literally, Yeah, Joshua, you understand, right, sometimes

should write you just have to do it. Yeah, you can't really move

every Josh's or film student, Glenna, you can join us today. It's

been traveling about filming different things and different ones. Yeah, so it was

still raining, Okay, hi yo, So what to do? So thank

God, God, you know, led us to rearrange our schedule. So

we were supposed to do the video shoot first and then do a meeting with

the organizing team, both tailors and Lynette's side, but God led us to

meet first. And at that time I was really feeling a bit doubtful.

Already earlier in the day, my faith was still like high and strong,

like okay, God, I know you can do it. And when the

time came and it didn't happen, my faith actually was a bit challenged.

Yes, doubt did try to creep in and yeah, but thank god he

strengthened us. We still met. We had a good meeting, and guess

what at twelve pm noon, finally the sky's cliar it. Finally it was

bright and sunny at twelve pm, and that was when we went out and

we shot the video that you saw. So was it like quite a pleasant

and sunny weather in the video that you saw, right, clear skies,

nice greens, no muddy ground. You can show the next light. So

this was a behind the scenes of our video shoot. Okay, but basically

you can see is there any rain? Is it sunny, nice and green

not muddy? Yes, So God gave us the perfect weather for our shoot.

You know, the sun came out, yet there were still slight clouds

in the sky. There was a nice breeze, so it was very nice

to shoot the video. There was enough natural lighting and yet there was nice

wind and it was cooling and the plants looked extra green because they just drunk

a lot of rain water. So it was the perfect timing for our shoot.

Everything was perfect, the sun, the trees, the cooliness, and

we had a great shoot. And so today we could have this promo video

to get the word, you know, out far and wide. And so

I want to just encourage us here that really God's timing is perfect for us.

You know, for me, I wanted the rain, and well,

I didn't want any rain that day. I wished at six o'clock when I

woke up there was no rain. I wish that at eight o'clock as we

were going to work there was no rain or it stopped. I wish at

nine thirty when we were on the way to tail us there was no rain.

I wish at ten o'clock there was no rain. I had many wishes,

many prayers. But God's timing is perfect. Amen. And I just

want to encourage you. I don't know how many of you here you are

really waiting on God for a miracle, a breakthrough. You are wishing and

praying just like me many times over, and you wish and pray that you

know, God will do that miracle, that breakthrough for you in your timing.

Today, I want to say to us to trust in God's timing.

What is the six o'clock, eight o'clock, nine to thirty, ten o'clock

of your lives? What is God's twelve o'clock for you? If you have

been trusting God for a breakthrough and a miracle and it hasn't come yet,

trust in God's perfect timing because he knows best. If he were to have

stopped the rain earlier, perhaps the weather wouldn't have been so beautiful and perfect

for us to do the shoot. But he stopped it at the right time,

and we had a perfect weather for the shoot. So it's the same

for your lives. You may wish for your breakthrough, your miracle to come

now or to come faster, but it may not be as fully good as

God's timing when it does come. So I want to encourage you friends,

if there's anyone that has been waiting for your miracle, your breakthrough and it

hasn't come yet, to keep trusting in God, for when He brings it,

it will be his perfect timing for you. It will be his twelve

o'clock for you. Amen. You know true noon time is very significant.

Noon time is the time where the sun falls directly above your head and there

are no shadows that are cast on the ground. So when God's timing comes,

it comes with no shadows, it comes with no sorrows. Amen.

Wait for God's perfect timing. For you. Wait for God's noon time twelve

o'clock for you, because when the sun shines on you at noon, it

costs no shadows. Amen. When God blesses and his timing it comes with

no sorrow or shadows. Don't go with our timing, because our timing there

will be shadows and sorrows casted. Amen. I really believe this is God's

word. This is fresh from heaven. It's not in my notes, but

I just felt the Holy Spirit one thing to say this. Trust God for

his noontime because when his light comes, there is no casting of any shadow.

When God's blessing comes and his timing, there is no accompanying sorrow.

And everybody says amen. Amen. Okay. So after the shoot, we

were having lunch and I had the most expensive Muton Currier rise that I've ever

had in my life. Yeah. I just took a small, small portion

of rice and a small portion of mutton curry and I was charged twenty ring

gate and it was supposed to be in at a Mamak shop in Taylor's University.

Yeah, so wow, I got a shot. I asked, are

you sure it's twenty ring gate? And they said yes, because Marton curry

itself is expensive. Yeah, I think it's sight veggie as well. So

the rice and veggie was fueuring Gate, but the Muton curry was ten over

ring Gate for just one small scope. But it's okay. It was worth

it because of the conversation that was going to follow. So I was sitting

with my teammates and one of my teammates was actually saying, you know,

doctor Jail, yesterday I did a weather check. So this teammate, sorry,

there's a funny insect flying here. This teamate of mine, she's a

very you know, uh in a way perfectionist kind of you know person,

And I really thank God for people like my team, who keeps an eye

on details, who looks and who plans ahead. Yeah, and so she

she didn't tell me this earlier, but she only told me after everything had

happened. She said, doctor Jill, actually right, yesterday I checked the

weather forecast for today, and the weather forecast said it was going to rain

the whole day, the whole day, no chance of the sun coming out.

It's raining the whole day. And I was like, wow, is

that true? He said yeah, And I say wow, all the more

doesn't this point to God. He overrides the weather forecast. Amen. And

that's another word of God that I really believe is from us. I don't

know what the world has forecasted over your health. I don't know what the

world has forecasted over even your finances. I don't know what the world has

forecasted even over your future. But I want to say that God overrides the

forecast of the world. He can overwrite every health report, He can override

every financial report in your life. He can overwrite, you know, whatever

seems to be the way for your future to go. He can overwrite every

natural forecast in your life. God is above every forecast. Amen. Amen.

And so later towards the end, I want to have a time of

prayer. I really believe that today, you know, God wants to you

know, release his power to to overwrite every natural forecast in your life.

If you have a health situation, you have a financial need you know,

or you you have your own needs. We want to just pray for and

open heaven for God to just release his power and to overwrite every natural forecast.

Amen. God is above the natural, he is super natural. Amen.

So God did it for me. He over you know, over wrote

override it the weather forecasts, but in his timing. So you gotta trust

his timing. You gotta trust his timing. God can override our natural forecast,

but we have to trust in his perfect timing. Amen. Okay,

So the next story. So after lunch, I rushed over to a nearby

hospital called the Sunway Medical Center. And so in our church we actually have

a chaplaincy support. So what that means is basically, maybe sometimes there will

be needs of different sick ones in the hospital. They may be Christians,

they may not be Christians yet, but they call for some pastoral and spiritual

care and support as they are sick in hospital. So our church we have

a chaplaincy team made up of a few leaders, and so whenever someone calls

from the hospital, we will try and be there to support the person spiritually,

you know, encourage the person, pray for the person, even do

communion with the person for them to you know, be reminded and receive God's

healing through Jesus Christ. And so Sunway Medical Center has actually made an agreement

with our church because we are the near one of the nearest churches to them.

They have said, hey, anytime we have, you know, a

patient that needs Christian chaplaincy support. Can can you send a team over?

So we have that really favorable agreement over there. Uh, and so we

went. We went. So Pasassandra and I went to the hospital right after

our shoot and lunch and we were called to visit a lady. Okay next

night. Okay. So this patient, we had never met her before.

She was a French lady, and she married an American husband, and she

is seventy five years old I think this year, and she has multiple terminal

illnesses, of which one of them was cancer, a type of cancer.

She also has been having several other long standing diseases, yeah, autoimmune and

you know infections. I mean, she's been battling them for quite a while

now. But now to top it off, she's got cancer as well.

And basically her conditions are all at a terminal stage, means that medically there's

no cure and her condition's going to keep worsening. So this lady, she

was searching for God. She did not know him yet, and so that's

how we ended up there because she said, how can I I know more

about God? This Christian God. She used to be a Catholic. I

mean, I think she was born in a Catholic background, but she never

knew God personally. So now even as she is towards the end of her

life, she wanted to search for God. And so that's how we were

called upon to meet her. And so when we went to meet her in

her room, her husband was there as well, seated by her bedside,

and we started, I mean, as we were like chatting with her and

starting to build a friendship, we asked her to share her life story,

like how did she, being a frenchwoman meet her husband who was an American,

and how did they end up in Malaysia. It's quite you know,

quite an interesting jigsaw puzzle there. So she shared her story of how they

met and they did traveled the world, like she they've lived in different parts

of the world before finally ending up in Malaysia. In fact, they stay

in Putrajaya. Yeah, they stay in Butajai and they've been living in Malaysia

for more than ten years. They heard from a friend that is a good

land and they decided to check it out. And once they checked it out,

they have been staying on and they made Malaysia their second home. Really,

and so friends, Malaysia is really a blessed land of the Lord.

Yes, yeah, thank you for those of you who are here sewing in

this land and made this land bless you and many others as well. Okay,

So that and after she shared her story, actually, okay, before

I go on, So, this lady, she actually has an underlying autoimmune

disease that makes all her mouth, her eyes, her nose very dry.

So you know, do you remember the times where you've talked a lot and

you don't have water with you and your mouth feels very dry? Do you

feel like talking anymore after that? No? I see? Do you know

as a teacher shaking her head, probably that's what happens towards the end of

the day at school, right Maria as well, So you've talked a lot,

your mouth is very dry, and you've got no water to you know,

moisten your mouth again, you just don't feel like talking because it's painful

when you talk with a dry mouth. So this patient, she's got a

condition that makes her mouth very dry, that makes her eyes very dry,

that makes even her the nose very dry as well. Okay, and so

for her to even speak is suffering because it's just so dry and painful.

And on top of that, she's having a lung condition where there's a lot

of phlegm inside and she cannot breathe properly. So mouth is dry, it's

painful to talk, lungs, she's breathless. Can you imagine it's actually a

real struggle for her to talk. Imagine yourself. Your mouth is dry,

your lungs you're like suffocating. Do you feel like even talking? No?

Right, I don't feel like talking if I were her, But she was

very kind to talk because she really wanted to find Jesus that day, and

so her every breath, her every word that came out was it really took

a lot of her. Like for me right now, I'm speaking continuously,

quite not say quite effortlessly, but compared to her, So this was how

she was speaking on that day, Jill, how did you and Passussandra fine

Jesus? So for her to finish one sentence, it could take up to

one minute, and she took time to share her life story. And after

sharing her life story, she asked further, now can you tell me how

you found Jesus. She looked at Passasandra myself and both of us took time

to share our own stories how Jesus found us. Actually, it's not so

much of even us finding Jesus, but how Jesus found us. And after

that the lady she asked further, how can I find Jesus like how you

did? And then we shared with her that it's as simple as praying the

Salvation prayer and believing in Jesus with all our hearts. And she was shocked

because this is a lady who is very much a doer. She is very

much a doer all of her life. She's prided herself in her achievements,

her self achievements. She has two children who are grown up now. I

think they have grandkids as well. So when my friend who was the palliative

care especialist looking out for her, normally they would do sort of like a

and of life review with the patients who are terminally ill. So palliative care

especialists would normally sit with the patients and ask them to think back of their

lives and what were moments that were meaningful or happy for the patient And most

people you know, in their last days, they would normally talk about their

family, either their spouse or their children. But most people would normally talk

about their family as their proudest moments in life. But this lady, she

talked about her achievements. She didn't mention her children even in her story that

she sheared to her. She hardly talked about her family, but she talked

more on her achievements, where she's traveled, what she's done. In fact,

to her, the proudest moment was after her kids had grown up and

she was able to be a teacher and teach French. That was her proudest

moment that she could actually, you know, do something that contributed to the

society. And so this was a woman who was very much a doer.

She based her identity, her value on her achievements. And so for her

to know that to come to Jesus is really as simple as to pray,

to believe and receive his grace was something that she could not understand because she

kept thinking that it would take a lot of hard work and effort to get

to Jesus. And so she was blown away by how simple and merciful it

was to come to Jesus. And so in the end we led her to

the salvation prayer. I had the privilege to lead her in the Salvation Prayer.

And I really thank God for the every Sunday that I'm charing and I'm

going through the Salvation Prayer here in service. It's because of that I could

remember the Salvation Prayer by heart. So friends, you know, you could

be charing on stage or you could be part of the church service, but

do not belittle your time here in church and whatever you do and you receive

because just like me, I didn't think that I could memorize the Salvation Prayer

by heart on my own, but because of being in church every Sunday,

either leading us in it or hearing it being prayed, it was deposited in

my spirit and at the right time, God brought it out and used it.

So every Sunday that you come to church or even when you meet together

as homes, God is depositing something in you, and you may not use

it immediately. It's like a seat when you're here. God is putting his

seats into your life. He's depositing something in you and you may not feel

like God is using that which is depositing in you immediately, but trust me,

time will come where God will actually use what He's put in you to

help someone else. So on that spot, I thank God. The Holy

Spirit just caused me to remember the Salvation prayer and I could lead her line

by line in it. And after we prayed, Passussandra continue to pray over

the lady and we spend the next like maybe ten minutes praying over her.

We were praying, I felt God leading me to stretch out my right hand

and put it over the lady's head. And throughout the whole time of praying,

my hand was on her head and I felt my right hand being very

hot. I felt like as if there was an iron inside my hand.

I felt heat in my hand, and I knew there was a Holy Spirit

of moving and flowing. I've laid hands on people many times, but most

of the times I don't feel heat, but this was very special. I

really felt the heat of God. In fact, I felt like I wanted

to take away my hand because it was so hot, but God said,

no, just keep your hand there for eye and flowing. And the Holy

Spirit was just flowing. And after we finished praying, her eyes were still

closed, and both me and Passsandra wandernk is she still alive? Because her

eyes were still closed and she was lying as still as a doll. But

good thing, she was still breathing. So I use my doctor sands to

just track, you know, Okay, she's still breathing. She's still breathing,

but for a moment, because after we finished praying, there was no

amen from her, no response from her. She was just lying as still

as a doll. And thank God, she was still breathing, so we

knew that she was alive. But I really believe God was ministering to her.

You know how people come up for prayer at the altar and sometimes they

are slain under the power of the Holy Spirit and they are just in an

encounter with God. I believe, you know, that was what she was

going through on the bit And for the next ten to fifteen minutes, we

were just silent in the room, Passsandra, myself, a husband, and

and we're just allowing God to minister to her. Her eyes were just closed.

But you know, she had a very peaceful look on her face before

she said the Salvation prayer. Before we prayed for her, her face was

full of anguish. It was full of burdens and trouble and problems. I

mean, yes, she is old. She's seventy five years old. She's

about to have wrinkles, for sure. But her face showed more than just

her wrinkles. It was a very anguish, downcast, suffering countenance. She

had a very heavy and dark countenance. And as she was lying on the

bed, she had a very peaceful countenance. And after about ten or fifteen

minutes, she opened her eyes finally, and we were like, phew,

okay, she's still alive. No, because it has happened where sometimes people

are they accept Christ and they are prayed over, and the next moment there

the Lord has taken them back. God's timing, So for her, not

yet. Okay, yeah, And so she opened her eyes and she started

to talk to us again, and my word, I kid you, not

her face. Her wrinkles were a lot gone, and her countenance was light.

It was light as in light. It was brighter and lighter. I

don't know if you can catch what I'm saying. She looked like a different

person altogether. She looked like a totally different person. When we first saw

her, she was very troubled. Her face had a lot of wrinkles and

just very dark and heavy countenance. But after she accepted Jesus and God ministered

to her. Really, a lot of the wrinkles were gone, and she

looked very peaceful, and she had a very light countenance. It was like

she was glowing, and she looked very light, like there were no more

cares on her shoulder. She really looked like a different person. And her

husband teared because he knew that this could only be God. Here was a

woman that tried to carry the world on her shoulders to think that, you

know, she needed to do everything. God just lifted the burdens off her

and said, I've already done it all, my child. You don't have

to carry the world on your shoulders. I already did, and so that's

our God. You know, that was powerful. And so after that way

we continued to you know, support her with different materials, and I'm due

to visit her again. And you know what, as she ended, she

says, where do you go to for church? And so we say so,

I said, I'm in Cybergaya, and she actually wants to come.

She wants to come. I honestly, okay as a human and medically,

I don't know how she's going to come because she's really you know, at

a terminal stage. But we'll see, God can do anything at all things.

Okay, so even when she does come, I will be sure to

introduce her to all of you. Okay, yeah, I really that's going

to take a miracle, but that's so encouraging. You know, someone who

is lying in the hospital wants to join in the fellowship of the Saints man

that is revival. Nothing can stop someone who is you know, revived by

God from coming to his house. And you know, when I see you

know, even like RJ, you know, coming even though his knee has

been injured. When I see Ethan come with his family, even though his

arm is in a sling, And I know, different ones of you,

maybe your leg or your arm, your physical leg or arm is you know,

not in a sling or a cast, but maybe inside of you you

feel partly paralyzed because of different things that have happened in your life, you

know. But when you come, really is such an encouragement to all of

us that, hey, if you, who has a valid reason to stay

at home and joining church online, would choose to be here in person,

what more the rest of us are well? Amen? Amen, And this

lady, this lady who's in the hospital wants to come with all her drips

and her tubes and her needles to join in our fellowship because she knows that

so much more of God here. While that just blew my mind away,

it reminded me, Jill, no excuses, no excuses. You are able

bodied. Yes, your life is not perfect, you're going through stuff,

but you are in a much better place than this lady. And if she

can want to be in my house with my people, in my presence,

you know what more, you whom I've preserved you to be weller. And

so I hope this and encouragement to us friends, don't let our physical or

even emotional circumstances stop us from pursuing God, because when we see God,

we know that we stand to be blessed. Amen. And so later we

want to just pray for different ones. Okay, now let's go into the

word of God. Okay, the next light. So we're going to read

from Daniel chapter four, verse nineteen to verse twenty six, twenty seven.

So if you have your Bibles, can you take out your bibles, either

your physical Bibles or your e Bibles. And let's turn to Daniel chapter four.

Let's read from verse nineteen to verse twenty seven. Okay, you know

what I want to get our teenagers in the house to read. I've got

a couple of slides and I'm going to just you know past. Yeah,

the mic to you or do we have us? Okay, yeah, pass

the mic to you to read. Okay, So first, Light Razor,

could you read this for us? Then Daniel, Then Daniel whose name is

Beltishazzar was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The King's

answered and said, belt let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.

Bel Shazar answered and said, my Lord, may the dream be for those

who hate you, and it interpretation for your animals. Next, okay,

the whole and the tree, and the tree you saw, which grew and

became strong, so that its top reached to the heavens, and it was

visible to the end of the whole earth, whose leaves were beautiful, and

its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts

of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens

lived. It is you, o King, who have grown and becomes strong.

Your greatness has grown and reaches to the heaven and your dominion to the

ends of the earth. Thanks And because the King saw a watcher, a

holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, chop down the tree and

destroy it. We'll leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bounded

a band of iron and bronze in the tender grass of the field. And

let him be wet with dew of the heaven, and let his portion be

with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him.

Thank you. All right, Ethan, could you read for us the

next light. Yes, this is the interpretation o King. It is a

decree of the Most High which has come upon my lord, the King,

that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with

the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an

ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven

periods of time shall pass over you till you know that the Most High rules

over a kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will thank you.

Thank you, Eton. And now the final verse, Audrey, come,

yes, bring us home. I don't know ry, And as the commander

to leave this stum of the roots of the tree. Your kingdom shall be

confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules. Therefore,

okay, let my counsel be acceptable to your break of your sins. I

cannot see by practicing righteously myself, by practicing righteousness and your iniquities, by

showing mercy to the oppress, that there may be perhaps a lengthening of your

prosperity. Thank you very much. Let's give a hand to our teens and

preteens. Well done, Thank you. You know God loves to hear your

voice speak his words. Preteens and teens, keep going. Okay, all

right, So this scripture reminds us, talks to us about Daniel and King

Nebul Kanaza and our theme for exchange this year. Heaven rolls towards The finishing

line is derived from this portion of scripture Daniel, chapter four. Okay,

And so you can see children in the picture here. That's King Nebul Kanaza.

And what is he doing. He is sleeping, and he is dreaming

of a big tree. And that big tree is so big that it covers

the whole earth. It reaches to the heavens. It's branches and leaves,

but in the end the tree is chopped down and left with a stump.

Yes, and so this was King nebul Kanaza's horrifying dream. He was probably

a nightmare for him, more than a dream, right, And so no

one could interpret the dream, not even the king's wise men, but God's

wise men. Daniel managed to interpret the dream, and he said, King

Nebucaneza, that tree is you. You have become very great as a king

and as an empire, but God is going to humble you. You are

going to be made even lower than a human being. You become like an

animal. Your hair will grow, your nails will grow, you will be

on all fours, you will eat grass like an animal. God wanted to

humble King Nebucanesa. And so this was Daniel's warning to the king. And

he said, you know, perhaps if you actually, yeah, you know,

repent of your sins, your pride, and do things right before God,

maybe God will spare you from this horrible thing to come. But we

read later that it didn't happen. One year later, the king was walking

in his palace and he was actually admiring his empire, and before the words

could find could finish coming out of his mouth, how great you know my

empire is. God struck him down, and it came to pass. He

did lose his mind for a period of time. His head did grow,

his nails did grow. He went on all fours and he ate grass like

an animal. And it went on until King Nebukaneza acknowledge God is greater than

him. And then God restored the king, restored his mind, cut his

hair, cut his nails, dress up again, and restored his kingdom.

And his kingdom was even more than what was before. But the important thing

is to be humble before God and to know that, hey, we are

not God, Heaven rules. No matter what, we are not God,

but Heaven rules. So that's the gist of this passage. And I want

to just teach us three very quick things from this, and then we're going

to end our service already. Okay, first point, Okay, next light,

Okay, this stay on this slide for a while. I want us

to zoom in on verse twenty six. The key scripture for today is verse

twenty six, where it says that you know that Heaven rules. Let's zoom

in on the word no. And I want to talk to us a little

bit about this. Okay, Next light, I want us to relearn what

we know about the word no. Okay, next, how many of you

know the meaning of no? How many of you know the meaning of no?

Just raise your hands, raise your hands. It's not a trick question.

How many of you know the meaning of no? Okay? All right?

Cool? Next, So the meaning of know that we all know,

it's a lot of knows is to know something right, to have your mind

open to something that you didn't know before, true or not right. It's

like an Aha moment and enlightenment moment. But when I studied the Scripture,

this word no, that was written in the Hebrew language in the Bible,

has a deeper meaning than just to know about something. Next light, The

word no in this context also means to let someone else know about something.

The word no is not just about ourselves knowing about something. Is also to

tell our neighbor about something. And that's powerful because okay, we're going to

study that later. Next light. The second point that I want to talk

about is Heaven rules beyond our minds, because when we talk about the word

no, many times we're thinking of an intellectual no knowing about something in our

minds right, and that's what the Greeks prided themselves on. Next light.

To know in the world is to have genosis. This is a Greek word.

Now is a Greek word, and the Greeks were prided as humanity's greatest

thinkers and philosophers. True or not. And so the world where we say

to know something, we are commonly referring to it as intellectual knowledge, to

know something in our minds. But the kind of knowledge that God wants us

to have is far greater than just knowing something in our minds. Let's look

at the scripture next light. In Ephesians, chapter one, verse seventeen,

it says that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of

Glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge

of Him. So the kind of knowledge that God wants us to have is

not just a mental or intellectual knowledge, and it can only be given to

us true the Holy spirit that opens our minds to the things of God.

The kind of knowledge that God wants us to have is called epigenosis. If

genosis is just pure intellectual knowledge, epigenosis is an experiential knowledge. It's a

knowledge that goes far beyond just the mind. It's a knowledge where you know

something because you experience something. Watching and add on a nice food, you

just know about the food in your mind, but actually going to the shop

eating that dish, you're having epigenosis. You're experiencing the knowledge through your whole

being. So come on, friends, let's not just wash Jesus from Afar

like we wash an advertisement and we say, yeah, yeah, it looks

so good. La. Then you tell your friend, hey, this is

so good that your friend asked you have you tried it? Oh? Sorry,

no, it just looks good on the ad. Let's not wash Jesus

from Afar like an advertisement. Let's go clothes taste and see that the Lord

is good. Let's experience Jesus for ourselves. Amen. Let's not just have

genosis mind hit intellectual knowledge of God. Let's have epigenosis, a full experience

knowledge of God in our lives. Amen. And so I believe God wants

us to experience heaven rules not just in our minds, friends, he wants

us to experience it fully in our lives. So get ready, get ready

for those of you you've already begun to experience Heaven rules in your life.

Praise the Lord for those of you who are still waiting, wait some more.

Remember God's timing. He's non time, not our own time. God

wants to let you experience Heaven rules in a very real and powerful way.

He doesn't want you to just know about help Heaven rules. He wants you

to experience it fully. So get ready and receive it. And everybody say

amen, Amen, Okay, final point in extreme you can come up.

I'm going to close already. The third and final point that I want to

share with us from today is point number three. Okay, point number three.

We'll move on. Okay, we'll move on next night. Heaven rules

beyond ourselves. Remember the definition of no. God doesn't just want us to

know Heaven rules for ourselves. He wants us to let someone else know that

Heaven rules. And I tie this back to my story that happened that Wednesday.

In the morning, I experience Heaven rules in my life. I experienced

it fully because God held up the rain for us. It was an experiential

knowledge of God's power. But it didn't stop there. That afternoon, when

I went to hospital, God used me to let someone else know that Heaven

rules so I experienced Heaven rules myself in the morning, but the story didn't

stop there. God wanted to use me to let someone else know that Heaven

rules. In the afternoon. When I ministered to the lady, the sick

lady, I became God's vessel to let her know that Heaven rules not just

for me, not just for Passssandra, also for her and her husband.

And that's why I told you two stories. And I believe whatever happened on

that day, God wanted me to learn and He also wants us to learn

from it that God wants you to experience Heaven rules in your life, but

he wants to use you to tell someone about Heaven rules as well. And

God doesn't want you to just experience Heaven rules in your head, but he

wants you to experience it in your whole being. So get ready friends for

more of God. Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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