Missions - How did Jesus do it? | Dr Jill Ling

You're listening to a message to go from acts Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. The title of God's message for us today is

missions? How did Jesus do it? Do you want to know how Jesus

the man himself did missions? How many of you would like to know?

Yeah? Okay, So let's let's learn today. Okay. So today's message

will be centered around John chapter four. John chapter four, Okay, And

so I've got three points. They're all in geez yeah, three gees today,

and we will unpack them as we go along the way. Now,

let's start with John chapter four, Verse one. The scripture is on the

screen, or you can turn to your bibles as well. Therefore, when

the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples

than John, though Jesus himself did not baptize but his disciples, he left

Judaea and departed again to Galilee. Verse four. But he needed to go

through Samaria. And this is the key part of the scripture that I would

like to highlight for this point. But he needed to go through Samaria.

Right now, let's go to the next slide. So this is a map

showing so this is where Jesus was, this area Judaea, this is where

Jerusalem is, and he needed to get to Galilee, which is this area

up here. So from down south all the way up north. Okay,

Now, there were three ways that the locals back then would travel from Jerusalem

to Galilee. Way number one was true Samaria, and that is the shortest

route. Can we have the next slide? It takes three days by foot

to travel from Jerusalem to Galilee, all right, but that route is normally

avoided because Samaritans and Jews are enemies with each other. Okay, I'll tell

you in a wild wide So normally they would choose to use either going around

on the right side to get to Galilee, or they will go around on

the left side to get to Galilee. And the route on the right side

would can I have the next light? Takes about seven days by foot,

so it's doubled the distance. So the Jews normally will avoid the most direct

and fastest route from Jerusalem to Kalilee, even though it's the shortest route.

They will take the long way because they are not on good terms with the

Samaritans. Okay, now, who are the Samaritans, you may ask,

so can I have the next line? So in the Old Testament, okay,

So the Jews they were divided into two regions. Okay, we have

the Northern Kingdom of Israel, we have the Southern Kingdom of Judah. So

because of their disobedience to God, God allowed them to be invaded by different

enemies. So the Assyrians invaded the Northern Kingdom of Israel at one point of

time. One hundred over years later, the Babylonians invaded the Southern Kingdom of

Judah. And when the when the Assyrians and the Babylonians invaded these kingdoms,

they actually took away all the good people in the land. When we say

good people meaning good looking, you know, have good brains, yeah,

maybe you know, good good language, good skills, maybe even good heart.

They basically took out the good people from the land and they brought them

back to their own land okay, as captives. And they left so called

the not so good people in the land. Yeah, people who maybe didn't

look so good, didn't think so good, they didn't talk so good,

didn't do so good, like the leftovers. They left the leftovers of the

Jews in these lands after they conquered them, and so that's how the Samaritans

came about. So the Samaritans are actually the leftover Jews in this land,

and they started to intermarry with non Jewish people, maybe the people who came

and conquered the land, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and people from surrounding

regions. So the leftover Jews intermarried. You know that God told the Jews

do not intermarry with other people who are not Jewish, but they did so,

and that's how Samaritans came about. So Samaritans were the leftover Jews who

intermarried with none Jewish people, and so that's why the Jews really looked down

on the Samaritans. In fact, we know that the Jews also kind of

looked down on the Gentiles, but they looked even more down on the Samaritans.

They considered the Samaritans even lower than gentiles. Yeah, I mean there

were some bad words that you know, they were caught and I will not

say it here in public, but really the Jews really despised the Samaritans more

than the Gentiles. So that was how bad the blood was. Okay,

Next, like, so any Jew that would travel through the Samaritan route because

of this bad blood between the Jews and Samaritans. Normally there's a risk of

being attacked by the Samaritans. Yeah, the Samaritans would would normally attack any

Jew that travels through that route because the blood is so bad, the history,

the relationship is so bad. Yeah. But Jesus went through Samaria Samaria

despite the risk of losing his life. And that's the us point of how

he did missions. The first point is g go. Jesus would go to

the place that he really needed to be at despite it being in the phase

of danger. You know, many times we even for missions, we might

want to go to a so called quite a safe place la you know,

better still, if it's like a tourist destination, or even better still,

I can travel and do missions at the same time, kill too versa one

stone, save my money. So many times we may want to go for

missions based on the norm, what is safe, what is appealing in the

natural. But Jesus teaches us the higher way of doing missions. Don't go

by the norm, go by the need. So if Jesus went by the

norm, he should not have gone through Samaria because it's dangerous and their enemies

of the Jews. It's not even a popular tourist destination. But Jesus didn't

go by the norm. He went by the need. He knew that there

was someone who was going to be at the well that needed him. Then

he knew that this community needed him. So one way to approach missions is

to go and don't just go by the norm, but go by the need.

Okay, next light, you know, there is really power in going

for missions. I know in ex charge we say for missions there are three

things you can do. You can pray, you can also give money towards

missions, and ultimately go. But I want to encourage all of us here

in this room at least try going for missions one time, one time in

your life. Put it on your bucket list. I don't know what's on

your bucket list. You may have different different things on your bucket list.

You know it's a bucket list, right, things you want to do before

you know, you go home to be with Jesus. Okay, that's on

the world saist. Yes, Okay, Now I want to encourage us to

put that on our bucket list, to at least go for one mission's trip

before we go home to see Jesus, all right, Can I challenge us

to do that? Because yes, we can pray in the comforts of our

own home, it's powerful. We can give out of our abundance or little

that's powerful as well. But you know there is something special and powerful in

being there in person. Yeah, that really. No matter how much you

pray, no matter how much you give, the experience is different when you

are there in person. It's different. I cannot explain, but you will

know it, Okay, all your whole being is engaged in that mission's experience.

God wants to work in us and also true us. So I want

to encourage us to go. There is power in going, all right,

Like Jesus. Should you know he could have just prayed from a distance.

Okay, he's now in Jerusalem, or he's now in Galilee. He's God.

He can just say the word and angels will carry that word to the

woman in Samaria. He could pray from a distance. Why didn't he do

that? Why did he go in person? Because there is power when we

go in person, there is power. All of us are God's vessels and

God's presence, His Holy Spirit lives in us. And when we go in

person to minister to a group of people. God's presence flows through us in

a very powerful way. It's different from praying from a distance. There's also

power in that. But when you're dead personally and God who lives and you

flows out of you into the people, it's a different thing altogether. Why

do you think being present in church is different from tuning in an online service?

Tell me is there a difference? There is a difference, so missions

as well. There is a difference when you show up in that place physically

versus you support from a distance. So an encourageous church, let's aim to

go for at least one mission's trip in our lives before we go home and

see Jesus cannot amen? Okay, all right, okay, you know,

just a quick one, like Jesus had to go through a dangerous place because

he knew there was a need there. This reminded me of my mission's trip

to Sabah. So I went to La Datu with doctor Sheila and a team

from Acts and also from another church in May and the you know before okay,

can we show the slightwear of our team picture? Yeah, so this

is our team from X. We had doctor James Anti Christina doctor Sheila,

and then we had fifteen other people from another church called sib Live. So

about twenty of us went to Laha Dato. It's the east part of Saba.

Okay, can we show the map? I think there's a map.

Yes, So we are all here now right Cyberjaya call a Lumpur. And

the trip was all the way to the east part of Saba called Laha Dat.

Anyone here from Laha Dato, Isaiah, okay, he's the next kids,

all rights. Keith's hometown Taou is further down from Laha Dat yes,

okay. The no me somewhere in the middle right right in jail. But

okay, Now, how many of you have visited lahadat Too before? Okay

Keith? Yes, yes, okay, Misatano so okay. How many of

you have heard about the twenty thirteen incident in Lahadato? Okay some of you

who are all enough. Yeah, So in twenty thirteen, there was actually

a war that broke out in Laha Dato. So what happened was about hundred

armed men from Southern Philippines. They invaded Laha Dato and they wanted to claim

A Saba as their territory. And so there was actually a shooting wall happening

in Lahadato in twenty thirteen. Can we show the army picture, so there's

a real writer's picture. On twenty thirteen, there was a war going on

in Laha Dato twenty thirteen for two months, about hundred Southern Filipino armed men.

And they're not even part of the film. I mean, technically,

they were not considered part of the Philippines. They had their own people group.

This was from the Southern Philippines, Okay, all right, And they

invaded Lahadato to take back Saba as their land, and about a hundred armed

men came and there was a shootout between them and our local military for two

months and sixty over of the armed men actually died, and about close to

ten of our army personnel also died in the war. Yeah, and so

when I told my dad I was going to Laha Dato, he was super

worried, and he was also a bit against it because you know, he

remembered that incident. And so yeah, Lahadato was a potentially dangerous place as

well, because we don't know when that might happen again. Prayerfully not,

but if it happened once, you know, there is still that mark in

history. But then He has really convicted me to go to Lahadatu with a

team despite that history of danger and that potential of danger. And so in

the end, I didn't just go by the norm. Oh, it may

not be such a safe place, so maybe I won't go, or it's

not a popular touriste place, so I won't go. But I went because

God put the need in my heart. He showed me there's a need among

the local stateless community, and so I obeyed him and I went with the

team. We can show the team picture again. And by God's grace,

he brought us there. He brought us true, and he brought us back

safely. You see me and Dr Sheila here today. We are a testament

that God has brought us back from the mission's field safely. And really he's

our shepherd. You know. He will bring us through our valleys and bring

us back safely. So don't be afraid when you go from missions where God

calls you too, even though it might seem dangerous. If He has caught

you there, he will be with you. Like Anne said, he will

never leave us nor forsake us, we will come back safe. Amen.

Amen. Okay. So that's my first point. So how did Jesus do

missions? First thing is common sense, he went go okay, all right.

Now the second point, how did he do missions? Let's go to

verse five of John chapter four. So he came to a city of Samaria,

which is called Sickr or Psycar, near the plot of ground that Jacob

gave to his son Joseph. Verse six. Now Jacob's well was there.

Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, said by the well,

it was about the sixth hour verse seven. A woman of Samaria came to

draw water. Jesus said to her, give me a drink verse eight,

for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. And here

the key verse that I'd like us to zoom in is verse seven, the

second part where Jesus says, give me a drink. All right, okay,

let's hold that there. Now if we look at this verse, so

we read that the woman of Samaria came to draw water at the sixth hour

of the day. Now, for the Jews, when you say it's the

sixth hour of the day, it's not our six am. It's actually their

known time twelve our twelve pm, and tell me twelve pm is it hot

or not hot? Usually hot? Right? Hot? Super hot? How

many of you will go, you know, out of your house to do

gardening or hang your clothes at twelve pm? Some of you don't even want

to drive out of the house at twelve pm because it's so hot. Right,

You're always playing your trip in the morning or in the evening where it's

cooler. So in those days, same thing. The women also want to

have nice skin. So normally is the women in the community who will actually

draw water from the well. And guess when they would draw water from the

well. They would do it normally in the morning or in the evening that

is cooler and also preserves their nice skin. But this Samaritan woman, she

came out at twelve pm totally not normal. Okay, yeah, but she

was willing to go to the heat and you know, maybe burn her skin

to protect maybe her other kind of skin. Because when we read on,

we realize that she's not just a typical ordinary woman. She was a woman

that had a past and you know, yeah, she probably wasn't read proud

of viler so she probably came out at lunch time to avoid everyone else so

that nobody would ask her funny questions or say funny things. She wanted to

protect herself in that sense, so she rather go through physical heat and protect

herself of emotional heat. Yeah and okay, so that was the woman.

So next we show a picture. Yeah, so this is an illustration of

how it could have been seen. It's so hot, so hot, the

grass is so brown color already. Yeah, so this could have been the

woman drawing out the water and Jesus was just waiting there, okay, and

Jesus asked her give me a drink. And that was a rare, powerful

learning point for us, because can you imagine the woman is already not one

thing to face anybody because of her past, her difficult life, and suddenly

she bumps into a person at the well when she's not wanting to meet anybody.

That probably caused her to be super defensive already, like, man,

I don't want to see anyone, that's why I'm out now. And suddenly

I bum into someone here and it's a man and he's a Jew and a

stranger. It's like everything would just raise her defenses up high, and she

probably doesn't want to talk to him at all, just wants to get her

water and go back home first first. But Jesus was the one who started

the conversation and he said give me a drink. And I was thinking,

out of all the things that Jesus could have said, why did he say

give me a drink? Yeah, And from here, one of the things

that I learned is that Jesus will normally start off a conversation with people using

a practical topic. Jesus didn't straight away say I am the son of God.

I can give you living water. I think if he did that,

she will probably just shut herself our freak out first, then after that shut

herself up and run far, far out away from Jesus. If he straight

away went into the spiritual talk, I think she would have already shut herself

up completely to him and run far away. But because he started with a

practical topic, she was like, Okay, let's see what this guy has

to say. Further, so he's asking her for water, and it seems

relevant because she is fetching water. It's a hot day. Makes sense right

for a stranger to ask you to for a drink since you are already drawing

water. And it's a hot day. So it's Jesus top inner, practical

and irrelevant way. And that's something that we can learn from Jesus for missions,

that we don't just go into people's lives and straight away talk about God,

but we approach people using a very practical and relevant topic or way.

Okay, So the second point that how Jesus did missions is the word give

to remind us of give me a drink or what is it was a practical

request or for us it could be how can we give in a practical way

to the community that we're trying to reach out to. You know, if

you remember the early missionaries in Malaysia, they didn't come and straight away preached

the gospel. They came true very practical ways and they met practical needs.

They came and they set up schools. How many of you were part of

missionary schools. Yeah, they came and set up schools. They came and

set up hospitals. They came and you know, help the locals to have

a livelihood farming, agriculture, run businesses. So the early missionaries that came

to Malaysia, they didn't just come in straight away and talk spiritual but they

came in by meeting very practical needs. They gave in a very practical way.

And that's the next point of missions. How Jesus did it give give

in a practical way to the community that you're trying to reach. Like when

we went to Lahadato to reach the stateless community. We didn't go in and

straight away, you know, talk about God, but we went in and

met their practical needs. So one need that they have was medical. Some

of the stateless community in the area that we went to had never seen a

doctor in their life. Yeah, and so we brought healthcare to them.

And they had a lot of health conditions, so we had to help them.

But there was one way of giving to the community in a practical way.

They had lies scutu on their hair. The children they were itching all

the time, cannot sit still. We help them to wash their hair with

special lies shampoo, and you see the lies, hundreds of them, thousands

of them dropping off on the floor. We help them in a practical way.

Yeah. And so this is an example when we go on the mission's

field, we don't just straight away, you know, talk about God or

you know, talk spiritually, but we are to give the community, something

practical that they need. What is it, what is a practical need?

Give it to them? And when we do so, can we show the

picture of the door. Giving to people's physical or practical needs opens the door

for us to meet their inner or spiritual needs. You know, Jesus he

fed people, he healed people, he delivered people, He met their practical

needs, their physical needs, and then people became open to him. So

we want to learn from jesus model. Yeah, okay, Now let's go

to the next point, the final point. Okay, let's look at verse

nine. Then the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that

you, being a Jew, asked a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?

For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Verse ten. Jesus answered and

said to her, if you knew the gift of God, and it is

who says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him

and he would have given you living water. Now, so just now Jesus

asked the woman, can you please give me water? It's a very practical

conversation, right, But now do you see that the trend of the conversation

is shifting. Now, Jesus is saying, I can give you living water.

Do you see that He's now not just talking practical anymore, He's starting

to talk spiritual and that's important. You know, when we do missions,

we must not be caught up in humanitarian efforts. Can we show the picture

of the humanitarian effort, the one with Yeah, okay, it's just a

picture. I'm not saying any particular organization, Okay, I just wanted a

humanitarian looking picture. So in this picture we have, you know, the

organization trying to provide basic necessities to a community in need. So it's very

important when we are doing missions and we can start off true humanitarian efforts,

we must not stop there because what would differentiate us from all the other humanitarian

agencies in the world. They also do good works. But what makes us

have something more to offer besides good works if we just keep to good works?

So on the mission's field, Yes, start with doing good works.

Humanitarian efforts meet people's very practical physical needs, but do not forget the true

mission. Do not stop with just good works. We need to remember to

bring the truth, the good news to people. And that's what Jesus did.

All right, let's go back to so just now. Verse ten.

He started too already talk to the woman about the good news. The good

news is that you can have water that will continue to live in you,

and you will not thirst. Okay, let's okay, let's look at verse

eleven. The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw

with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get that living

water? Verse twelve. Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave

us the well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and

his live stock. Verse thirteen. Again Jesus talks about good news. Jesus

answered and said to her, whoever drinks this water will turse again verse fourteen.

But whoever drinks the water that I shall give him will never thirst.

But the water that I give him will become in him a fountain of water

springing up into everlasting life. Verse fifteen. The woman said to him,

Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here

to draw. Verse sixteen. Jesus said to her, go call your husband

and come here. Verse seventeen. The woman answered and said, I have

no husband. Jesus said to her, you have well said I have no

husband. Verse eighteen for you had five husbands and the one whom you have

now have is not your husband. In that you spoke truly. So if

we look at this field versus all right, can we show the slide on

verse nine and ten again? Okay, So Jesus, after talking about what

is practical, give me a drink, he now went to talk about spiritual

truth, the good news. This is one example, he said, I

give you living water the next light. Another example is he elaborated on what

that living water meant. Yeah, that whoever drinks of it will not first

anymore and it will actually spring out into everlasting life. So he went into

saying that woman, you may be looking to survive based on meeting practical physical

needs, but I want to give you a life that is more everlasting than

just what the physical can provide you. Do you want it or not?

I mean, so when we go into the mission's field, when we give

practical help, we must also remember to share the good news. There is

the turgy good news. People are always looking for a better way to live.

People are always looking for a way out of their troubles. This is

human nature, right, but always looking how to get out of our problems

and we're looking for a better way to live, and we are worried about

what happens to us after we die. These are common human questions, and

so do we have the answers to these questions. We do because we know

Jesus. We know that in Him there is a way out of our problems.

We know in Him there is a better way to life. We know

in Him that when we die on earth, we will be with Him in

heaven. We know the answers to humans common questions. We may not know

all the answers to every question, but we have some answers for some key

questions, and God will teach us more and more the answers to many other

questions. But to some of our human fundamental questions, we know the answer.

We are not the answer, but we know the answer, which is

Christ, and so we must be ready to share the answer, like how

Christ shared the answer for the woman. The woman is looking how to survive,

how to have a better life, and He's sharing I have the answer

for you. Is beyond this physical water. It's a spiritual water. Is

beyond this physical life is a spiritual life. Right next, So one angle

of good news of truth that Christ shared was about himself, and the other

angle of truth that Christ shared was about the woman. So Christ didn't just

talk about the truth about himself, but he also talked about the truth about

the woman. He knew her past, you know. And on the missions

feel you know. I believe as you ask God for discernment even into people's

situations, he will give it to you. And that is how people will

know that the Living God is in you. When you're able to discern and

know and tell what they have gone through, they know it's God in you

because no one else would have known what they have gone true, So ask

God for discernment even on the missions. Feel Lord revealed to me what this

person is going through, and what is your truth that will match you know

what they're going through? Right? Okay? Okay, now yeah, So

remember these are three simple gees on how Jesus did it for missions. Number

one is go. There's power in going right. Number two is give Practically

unless people's practical and physical needs are met, it's very hard for them to

be open to, you know, anything spiritual right. And number three is

good news. Never ever ever forget, never ever live out sharing the good

news of Christ with the people. That were reaching out to. If not,

we will just become another humanitarian agency in the world. We are that

and more. Okay, because it got christ And I just want to end

with this testimony and extreme you can come up already, Okay, So it's

a today. It's a simple reminder. For some maybe it's a revelation.

But yeah, this is what really got downloaded to me. Go okay,

and good news. All right, amen. Three g's that's right, even

stronger than five G the world's five God's three gs is stronger than the world's

five G. Yeah, okay, just kidding, right. I just want

to share a quick testimony on how God actually helped me to apply these tree

g's in my life recently. This is a testimony that came from my work

about one week ago, and that's how this message was inspired. So I

volunteer in a refugee clinic every week once and so two weeks ago, I

was seeing my patients. It was a busy day, okay, a lot

of patients and suddenly my colleague from the next room, another doctor, comes

and calls me and she says, Jill, do you have a moment to

spare? And I said, okay, why and she said, I really

have a difficult case that I don't know what to do with her. And

my colleague is actually a very good doctor. You know, she used to

be in an anesthetic department in hospital. So medical professionals, you know,

nas are like their their okay, all right, in their knowledge, in

their skill, in their heart for the patient. So if my friend,

who is anesthetically trained, wasn't even confident to manage the case, I'm like,

wow, you call me, okay, I feel you're better than me.

But then you can ask on my help. Okay, Now let's see

what comes out of this. So I at that moment, I had to

choose whether to continue seeing my patients or to help my colleague. Now,

those of you who have been in clinic and you know you've got a long

line of patients waiting outside your room, it's not a very good feeling to

leave them waiting for us. We always want to finish seeing our patients.

It's for the good of both sides. Patients get seen fast and then you

know, our conscience it is not you know, affected as well by Oh

why I make patients wait so long? So I had to deal with that,

Like God, do I say yes to helping my colleague or do I

continue to see my patients. And so it was it was like that crossroad.

Would I go through Samaria, you know, or would I continue on

the normal root. And I felt at the time, God say you go

and help her. So I had to pause my line or patients, ask

them to wait a while, and I went over. So I went go

to my next store, colleagues room, and I so I So that was

the first g And when I went there, my colleague started to share about

this patient. And so this patient is actually a refugee patient, a lady,

and she's from another country and of another faith, so totally different culture.

And what had happened to her was she came with feeling unwell in her

in her chest, in her stomach. And she had actually been to two

hospitals before coming to the clinic. One was a government hospital, another one

was a private, famous private hospital. I would mention where. And the

doctors did their due diligence. They checked her up thoroughly, they ran all

kinds of tests and they could not find what was the problem with her.

And so our clinic was her third stop. And my colleague also did her

due diligence. She checked her, questioned her, did a battery of tests

and everything was normal. And so that's why my colleague was at her WIT's

end. She's like, this patient is obviously not well, but I cannot

find any problem with her. What's going on? So remember this is the

patient's third stop hospital, nothing wrong, hospital, nothing wrong. Leaning now

also cannot find anything wrong. So technically I'm the fourth opinion already, and

I'm like, God, they've all done it and there's there's nothing wrong.

So I also began to, you know, see check the patient myself,

and I also couldn't find anything wrong, and I'm like, OK, God,

how do we go about this? How do we help this patient?

It was it did a difficult case. And then at that moment, so

that was how I gave So that's the second g give. I gave my

professional, you know, service to the patient by checking her as a doctor.

Right, and then suddenly the Holy Spirit opened up my eyes. He

opened up my eyes to notice the way the woman was positioned, so she

was actually sitting down on a chair and she was leaning her head against the

table. Somehow, the Holy Spirit told me, Jill, that is not

really a sick patience posture, that is a depressed patience posture. And suddenly

it dawned upon me, oh okay, maybe what maybe there's more to it

that meets the eye. So then the Holy Spirit led me to ask one

question to the lady, and the question was are you sleeping well? Out

of all the millions of medical questions I could have asked, he led me

to ask that question, are you sleeping well? But that was such a

powerful door opener because that was a question that no other doctor before had asked

in the hospital, in the clinic. Are you sleeping well? Such a

fundamental question, but only God could have given me the discernment to do that.

And then she said, actually, no, I have not been sleeping

well. And she began to tell me, you know, she only sleeps

like at one two hours at night. And then I began to ask how

long have you not been sleeping well? And she says for this period of

time. And then the Holy Spirit led me further to ask, is there

anything that you're thinking about but that's troubling you, that's making it difficult for

you to sleep? And then she actually opened up to share that her mom

back in her country had just suffered a stroke and could not recognize all the

children anymore. And she was very, very affected by her mom's sickness.

And she shared further to say her own father had a stroke as well,

and he went through something similar and he passed on. This was years ago,

and so because of the experience, she was very worried that the same

thing will happen to her mom, and she is really lost her dad.

She didn't want to lose her mom and saw this worry of her mom and

will her dad's situation replay in a mom's situation. All the worries weighed her

down and as she was sharing, she was in tears as she was opening

up, and and so I just listen. I just listen, and different

months in the room, her family, the other doctor will all just listened.

She took time to really pour out, and as she poured out,

the Holy Spirit led me to the turkey, which is good news. The

Holy Spirit, says. Offered to pray for her. And I was a

bit hesitant at first because she's of a different faith, right, And yeah,

and her husband looked quite hostile in the room. Yeah, And if

I have not prayed for a patient in front of my other colleague, she's

a Christian as well. Yeah, but it's just like wow, you know,

like human thoughts that right, Like oh really God? But Holy Spirit

said, just offered to pray for her. So I did. I asked

her directly, thank you for sharing you know, your your worries and your

pain. Can I pray for you? And she said yes, like immediately.

And because she said yes, her family cannot say no. Because she

said yes, La, no one can you know, go against her word,

because she's the person that's in need, right. And so I asked

my colleague to join along and we pray. We prayed for her, and

in that prayer we shared the good news. So this is one way of

sharing the good news. You may not be able to share it directly,

but many times for me, God has led me to share the good news

true offering to pray for people. Yeah, And so as we prayed,

we re sit that. You know, God, you are real, God,

you are powerful and able to help her. God, you love her

and her family, Be with them. Heal the mom to a miracle,

Give peace to this lady, give her sleep, heal her of her different

ailments. And so the Holy Spirit gave me the good news to incorporate into

the prayer, prophetic prayer, evangelistic prayer. And after that prayer her the

burden was just lifted off her so much so that when she kept walking out

of the room, the older clinic nursers, we are asking me, a

doctor, what will happen in the room or welcome the lady that out looks

so different from the lady that walk in. You know, the lady that

walk in was her whole being was just hanging low. But the lady that

walked out of the room had life in her against God's living waters. He

came into her again, and I believe that he's still working in her life.

But that was a turn, a turn in her. When she walked

in down defeated, she walked up, she walked out up lifted And it

can only be God. And that's a real application of goal give and good

news. I'm wire to share that this is how Jesus did it and it's

doable in our lives. We can all go where God calls us to go.

We can give something practical, helpful, relevant to people around us,

and we have the good news to share, whether it's by sharing it directly

or true, a prayer or an encouragement. But all of us can go,

all of us can give, all of us can share the good news.

Amen. Emen. So this is God's word of encouragement for us today.

Jesus did it and he showed me it can be done, and I

believe it can be done in our lives. We hope you've been blessed by

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