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page through the links below. As I was praying last night, not
last night, the night before, the Lord showed me a picture of
something very solid made of steel, a cylinder kind of a
thing. But then when when the cap is
removed inside I found found a hollow wooden thing inside.
That means appearance is solid steel, but inside there is no
stuff. So I said, Lord, what does this
mean? Many may this is this.
This picture goes into the message.
It goes into everything we have. We project ourselves as
something to the world, but we are not so inside in our heart.
So God wants us to be solid outside and solid inside.
Can we say it? The Lord wants us solid outside,
solid inside. Amen.
So I was also reflecting about
this being Mother's Day. I thought if I don't say
anything about it doesn't look nice.
I had to say something. But I was thinking what should I
say for mothers? It is something very, very
important day for me. I appreciate mothers a lot
because they are the pillars. As I said that picture, the Lord
showed me the pillar inside. They are also strong mothers.
They are strong inside. They are not only look outside
strong, but they are also strong inside because they go through
the loneliness. When the husbands are away
working, trying to make money, they are stuck with the
children. They are disciplined them.
They have to shout at them, they have to bring them up.
They are sick. They are stay with them too
much. There is no job description that
you can write down and say this is what a mother should do
because they do everything. They are super mothers, I would
say. So one super mother I want to
talk about is Susanna Wesley Heard the name John Wesley's
mother, Charles Wesley's mother, and she had 16 children.
And how did she manage those children?
No one knows and she would find time for every son, every
daughter, daughter. She would find time to read the
Bible, pray with them once a week, one hour.
Every child should give and pray with every child and she has to
educate them, teach them. You know, I am not I am not
trying to promote homeschooling here.
I am telling you, but those days that was an option that the only
option most of the time and husband being a preacher, income
was less. So she had to juggle so many
things. And then one of the things that
many of us think that OK, Susanna, Wesley So people still
remember her. Was she a great preacher?
Was she, did she write a book? Did she establish churches?
No, nothing, nothing of that sort.
She was a silent mother, but she shook the nation by her
commitment to the family and the children.
She shook the nation because she gave two sons who shook England
and America. One is John Wesley, who started
the Methodist Church, and Charles Wesley.
He wrote thousands of songs and we still sing from the hymn
books when we sing some of the Charles Wesley songs.
So this is this is what she has done is that the house was a
seminary. Children learn to read the Bible
at home before there are 5 or 6 when they learn to start
reading. They have finished from Genesis
to Revelation, from the King James Version and they have read
it. That is how they learn to read.
And there is another man called. Welcome back to it.
Sometimes you know his names, JGLM and Curry Blake.
Curry Blake he was before he was five, he had read through the
Bible and he would read the Bible until the mother goes to
sleep. Sometimes she falls asleep
listening to the word, but he learned to read that way.
I tell you, the number one place where children are educated is
in the home and a mother is the first preacher they are exposed
to. She is the first disciplinarian,
first teacher, everything. It is just mother.
She was very faithful and she impacted her generation not
because she went out and preached.
Some of us, we think, oh, the preaching is the only way we can
impact the people. No, prayer is very, very
important too. And mothers are often the first
pastors, teachers, disciple for the children.
And amidst amidst all this busyness, one thing that stands
out about Susanna Wesley is she would sit in the chair, pull her
cloak over her, whatever she has to cover her head and sit in the
chair and pray. How does she find time managing
16 children to find time for prayer?
Some of us may say no, no, no. That is something extraordinary
in where whatever you want to do, you will find time.
That is the rule. You do not have time for prayer
because you do not want to do the prayer part.
If you want to do prayer, you will find time.
And she would have this busy schedule.
Early morning she will get up and late in the night she will
sleep. Managing the children, feeding
them, crying, teaching them, teaching them everything she
would do. And she will sit in a chair,
cover her head. It is like Moses entering the
tent of meeting outside the camp.
That is her tent of meeting. Cover her head and sit there and
pray. That is how she impacted the
children. That is how she impacted the
nation. Can we have more praying mothers
and fathers? If you want to pray, you will
pray. If you don't want to pray, you
will have many other things listed up to do in the slot.
So my heart is for prayer and I personally pray quite a lot.
I am not trying to boast before the congregation, but I do pray
and I believe that is how you serve God, not by preaching.
Preaching is only a side business.
The main business is everybody say what is it prayer?
That is the main business. So we have to develop that kind
of a lifestyle. Cool.
So let us again give clap for our great mothers in our
congregation. Well done church.
That is awesome. So now we go into the scripture.
That is the Exodus chapter 17. Yeah, that is the one Exodus
chapter 17. The story is very simple.
They are travelling from place to place as God commanded them.
How was He guiding them? There was a pillar of fire by
night and a pillar of cloud by day.
When the cloud lifts, the whole camp lifts and moves and the
cloud settles. They all settle down and put up
the tents. So now in this chapter 17 we see
the whole Israel community set out from the desert of sin.
This SI and sin is not talking about the sin.
We generally use the adjective whatever it is, the sin is a sin
sin is a name of the place. It is not talking about the
literal sin that we talk about. S desert of sin travelling from
place to place as a Lord commanded.
Now they had a reputation. The Israel had a great
reputation. What kind of reputation they had
when they came out. You know, everywhere they go,
people were trembling in and sometimes they won't even stop
these people. They will come to fight.
You'll see it more in Book of Joshua.
You'll see that when they send the spice and they come to this
lady and then she says we know that your God is a living God
and we know that your God is fighting for you and men of this
place, they have lost their heart.
It is became like water. I know that you guys are going
to come and you are going to conquer this place.
But Remember, Me and my family spare us because I had given
you. I have protected you from this
being founded by the King's soldiers.
So the reputation is there. The Israelites had a great
reputation. The day God is a fearful God and
a God who fights for them, a God who establishes them, God who
leads them, a God who is a living one.
God who meets their need, protects them, guides them,
provides for them. They have got a great
reputation. How this Red Sea, he split them
for for them. How he was guiding by pillar of
cloud by day, pillar of fire by night, and then so many
miracles. The last we saw is last week He
rained down bread from heaven, manna.
But the people, they do not have any appreciation for what God is
doing for them. When the trouble comes, they
immediately go into another mode, mode of complaining,
mumbling, grumbling, complaining, fighting,
quarreling. This is what all the Christians
down to the centuries have been doing.
We have a very short memory and we forget the miracles God does
for us and we fight with Him. We want to demand more miracles.
Miracles do not produce faith, but faith produces miracles.
I'll repeat again, miracles do not produce faith, but faith
produces miracles. So many times in our life we get
stuck because we have the appearance that we are super
Christians, but inside is good, not solid steel.
That's the reason why these people had to learn this lesson
and God was taking them through this problem.
He brought them to a place where there is no water.
Does God know there's no water there?
Why does He bring them there? To expose their heart.
Their heart will be exposed only when they are brought to this
place. So He brings them to this place.
And now when you see in Exodus chapter 17, it says travelling
from place to place as the Lord commanded, they camped to refede
him, but there was number water for the people to drink.
So they moved from desert of sin to refede him.
So you think is A is desert of sin, B is refidem?
No, no, no. To look what this really means,
you have to look up at numbers 33.
I'm sure it is numbers 33. When you go into numbers, it
shows numbers 33 versus 12 to 14.
If you can put it up, it will be great.
Numbers 3312 to 14. They left the desert of sin and
camed at Dopka. They left Dopka and Camed at
Alush. They left Alush and camped at
Refidim where there was number water for the people to drink.
So there is a three stages. They leave one place, come to
another place, from there to another place, there to another
place. This is what I understand is
that when I try to look up the geography of the place, it looks
like every of these places are about 10 to 12 kilometers apart.
So it will be a day's journey, mostly one day's journey.
So they travel, come to from sin, the wilderness of sin, they
travel and come to Dopka and then at from Dopka, next day
they travel up to Alush. And then third day they travel
from Alush to Refidem. So this is how God is bringing
them. And then they arrive at Refidem
to find no water, no water, 2 million people and the cattle,
sheep and camels and whatever they had all the cattle.
And if you have two million cattles as well, that makes it
double S the problem. And you need water for all the
people. It's not a small job.
You cannot have a well dig there a well and say oh, here is the
well, drink the water. Because to put pull the water
from the well and feed 4 million mouse is not a small job.
Those days very hard. Life is very hard, so God had to
do a miracle, which God himself knows.
When the Holy Spirit guides us, we think life is going to be
very smooth, don't we? Let's say God says to a man,
here is the lady I want you to marry.
OK. And what do you expect?
Everything will go smooth? No.
And this is a woman who says, I am praying.
I want to find the perfect husband and God says I will show
you a perfect husband and she will think life is going to be
very smooth from now on because I found a perfect husband.
No, you might be asking me how dare you make a statement like
that in front of so many people? This is a human experience.
Jesus Christ himself was led by the Holy Spirit into wilderness,
not into a palace, not into a Vyas is where you have got palm
trees and water everywhere. No, he was LED into a
wilderness. The Holy Spirit leading Son of
Man into wilderness. If he did for Jesus, you think
you can be exempted from us? So that is how every problem
will expose our heart and every problem will help us to grow.
Every problem will expose our heart and every problem will
help us to grow. That is how God designed life.
So don't complain when you have problems.
Thank God because as you thank Him for the problems, you will
grow. You will grow.
That is the way we have to overcome life.
That is the way we have to solve the problem, not by complaining,
not by murmuring. So these people, they were, what
did they do in verse 2? They quarrel with Moses and said
give us water to drink. Quarrel.
Basically the old English version says chided Moses.
No, I used to think chiding is, you know, some getting angry,
but actually quarreling. Argumentation.
Moses, where are you? You are sitting inside the tent.
Come out. We want water right now.
We are all thirsty. You know, when you have no food,
sometimes you can survive for a while, but without water you
cannot survive long. Water is very, very important.
And when you do not have water, you will not have any strength.
Your face will fall, your limbs will go dull, and you would not
be able to walk. And for the journey that they
have to do, surviving in the wilderness, water is essential.
So what they are asking for is not unreasonable, but the way
how you ask God is very, very important.
So many times we complain to God, murmur, I say, oh God, what
is happening in my life? Are you there?
So many times you ask this question, are you there?
That's what they asked the question.
You look at verse 7. They said and he called the
place Masa and Meribah because Israelites quarrel and because
they tested the Lord saying is the Lord among us or not?
Is God there in the midst? That's the question.
And every Christian asks this question in his life several
times. Several times it is.
If you are not asked this question, is God there in my
life? You are not a Christian.
Why? If you believe in this Jesus,
there will be times when you will go through waterless
places, you will see you will go through desert, experience
scorching sun and thirsty body thirst tormenting you and you
say, my God, did you bring me here to die?
That that's the kind of questions you we are going to
ask. And when we trust him, you know,
so many times we think God answers prayer because you're
crying. No, you can cry whole night.
You may not get any response. You can be complaining,
absolutely no response, your cry will not even go above your
head. But when you have faith and
trust Him and say I know you are a living God, I know you will
come through, I know you will refresh me, I know you will
provide for me, I know you will guide me.
And when you say it, I know you can do it.
He says you understood my heart. Now, one of the things you see
in the book of Psalms when they talk about the children of
Israel is they did not understand His ways.
How many Christians know God's ways?
We have to know His way. We have to know how He thinks.
We have to know how He feels. We have to know how He guides.
We have to know how He will provide.
We have to know how He heals, how He provides, because when we
know His way, then you are living a Christian life.
Otherwise we are going to be ending up complaining and
quarrelling, complaining and quarreling.
Sometimes it is Moses we are complaining, sometimes it is a
pastor, you know Moses is their pastor basically.
Sometimes congregation may have a problem and they will say this
is my pastors problem. He has not prayed for me.
That is why I have this problem. Some people can think like that,
but what can Moses do? It is not in Moses hand to fix
every problem, but he did go to God.
Every time there is a problem people complain where did he go
to God. There was one other time when
Aaron and Moses they are being criticized by people.
He walked to the tent which is to be set up outside the camp.
And when Aaron and Moses went near the tent, the cloud
appeared, the glory of God came, and when they saw the glory of
God come on the tent, people prostitute fell down, and then
God says. You guys just move outside.
I want to kill the whole people because they what they are doing
is not right. If what God did to the children
of Israel, if he does today in the church, you will not have
anybody in the church all over the world.
We had understand He is holy and we have not understood the
holiness of God. That is the problem.
We do not understand who is God. If we understand who is God, we
are going to live differently, we are going to worship Him
differently, we are going to obey him differently, we are
going to follow him differently. We need to know who is our God.
That he is holy and he expects us to be holy is very, very
important. So Moses says why do you quarrel
with me? Why do you put the law to the
test? Basically he is saying you are
not complaining against me, you are complaining against God, you
are murmuring against God, you
are showing your dissatisfaction against God.
Southern, we need to be very careful what we say, how we say,
to whom we say. But the people were thirsty for
water there and they grumbled against Moses.
They said, why did you bring us out of Egypt?
To make us and our children and our livestock die of thirst.
So problem is Moses, not their problem.
You brought us from Egypt to kill us, our children and our
livestock. Is it reasonable pro?
Is it a reasonable complaint? Don't they want to be free?
Did not Moses become a mediator so that he can help them to come
out of Egypt, confront Pharaoh and armies and fight those
people and see them down in the Red Sea?
He did everything. Now they are saying you brought
us to kill us here so many times.
What we do is not just grumble against the mediator, not just
grumble against the leader. We try to stone them because he
said Moses says to God, when he goes to God, he says, look at
this, look at these people, Moses, cry out to the Lord, what
am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone
me. They are discussing among
themselves. Let us get rid of Moses because
this problem, he is responsible for the problem.
No, Moses is not responsible. They are responsible.
You know when there was famine during the time of Elijah,
Elijah three years, there is no rain.
And when King Ahab meets Elijah, what does he say to Elijah?
You are trouble of you trouble. You are trouble of Israel and
Elijah said not me. You are the troubler of Israel.
So many times when we complain, you know somebody said when you
point your hand like this, show one finger to somebody, you got
three other fingers showing towards yourself.
So that is how it is. We cannot complain, we cannot
grumble. So they walk on.
He says they are ready to stone me.
The Lord answered, walk on ahead of the people, take with you
some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with
which you struck the Nile. You know the staff that he had
the big stick, many, many miracles were done through that,
but judgment came through that staff.
What came judgment on Egypt? He stretched the staff and some
plague will come. He stretched the staff,
something will happen. He stretched the staff on the
Nile and dip it in the water Nile and it turns into blood
judgment. But God says, take that staff of
judgment and go on with the elders, and I will be standing
before you and show you the rock that He should strike.
Now you have got here this story, you have got all three
persons of the Godhead. You will see here is the Holy
Spirit there with them, how the pillar of cloud by day, pillar
of fire by night is the Holy Spirit is Yahweh with them.
Sorry, is Yahweh with them. Yes, Yahweh was going before
them standing by the rock to tell Moses strike this rock and
God the Father, no one has seen. He is invisibly present there
too. In your problem, God is there,
in my problem God is there. We have, we need eyes to see
that he is there. So many times when you go
through the problem, you don't see that God is with you at all.
But after the problem is over, you look back and say, oh, I see
God was with me. So the English word that we have
is retrospectively you understand God.
Retrospectively you look back, you understand God.
Many times we don't look back, don't evaluate.
That's why we don't see God's hand.
Look back 40 years ago, 50 years ago, 60 years ago in our life
and you will see the hand of God guiding you, providing for you,
protecting you, saving you. That is how Christian life
works. You know these truths that I am
talking the very, very important truth.
Why that will that will change the way you think of life.
You understand life when you look at it retrospectively.
You look back, then you understand.
Look forward, looks blank. Look back.
You'll understand. That's how it works.
Does it make sense? Can I hear Amen from you guys?
Amen. Cool.
And then what happens? He says, which take with you
some of the elders of yourself, take in your hand the staff with
which you struck the Nile, and go, I will stand there before
you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will
come out of it for the people to drink.
What should Moses do? Strike the rock.
And who is this rock? Who is the rock?
It is Jesus himself because Paul writes to Corinthians and he
says the rock was Christ. Where is it the scripture for
it? The quarrel?
OK, one Corinthians chapter word Corinthians chapter 10 verses 3
onward. They all ate the same spiritual
food and drank the same spiritual drink.
For they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied
them. And that rock was Christ.
But the rock had to be struck, which is a symbol of the
crucifixion of Jesus. The rocks to be struck is a
symbolic of crucifixion of Jesus and from that rock water flows
today. That is why Jesus could stand up
on the last day and shout and say if anyone is thirsty, come
to me and drink and whoever drinks of Maine out of his
bellicel flow. Rivers are living water.
So this is not a rock that you drink one day and then you go
forward 10 more kilometers. There is no more water because
that water is physical. Locate is fixed, defined by a
location, and you go forward. The same water will not come
there. You have to again.
God has to feed you again fresh. But when, when you come to
Jesus, you become a source of living water.
Living water flow out of your belly.
What a great truth, what a refreshing truth.
Do we have this living water flowing out of our bellies?
If you are a believer, if you have believed Jesus, you will
have this happen, you will have this experience because living
water shall flow out of your belly.
Is it for yourself? No, that living water from your
belly is to refresh other people.
So now we see again testing. God is demanding proof, though
He already has given evidence. One of the things that I see
here is how do you describe a people, 2 million people who see
miracles and keep demanding miracles and have no faith.
Imagine Jesus Christ feeding 5000 people and people are
coming looking for a very Jesus, very Jesus refined.
Oh, you are here. You are following me.
Not because you are following me, because you are.
You ate, ate enough of your belly, stomach full.
Do not look for the bread that perishes, OK?
And he goes on to teach them many things.
And then he says, I am the bread of life.
I am the bread of life. They ask, give us his bread.
I am the bread of life. And then they did not want to
believe the bread of life. Basically they did not want to
believe. And then they asked the
question, what miracle? You are going to give us a sign
from heaven so we may believe that you are the bread of life.
They just ate the food yesterday, bread and fish, and
today they are forgetting again and saying give us a sign from
heaven. This is the heart of man.
This is the heart of every man and woman.
We demand miracles every day and when we are demanding miracles
every day, that means there is no faith in our heart.
There is no faith in our heart. When we have faith, it will be
surrender to God. Though Job said, though you slay
me, yet will I trust you. You kill me with a sword, yet I
will trust you with those three children of Hebrew children who
are thrown into the fire. We know that our God is able to
save us, but even if it does not save us, we are not going to bow
to any other idol that you install.
That is faith. Faith is being so strong in your
belief that Jesus is God and you have to believe so strongly that
nothing will shake you from your faith.
No circumstance, no situation, no challenge is going to shake
you. So here is a situation which is
basically like exposing their heart.
When they are grumbling and testing, they are exposing their
heart, they are thinking, they are demanding science, they are
demanding a proof. But it is not.
And with next question that we ask is this happened in the Old
Testament? We are in the New Testament.
You can ask, you can question
God, you can complain against Him, you can murmur against Him,
get away because we are in the New Testament.
Is it true? No, Paul talks about Exodus 17
in Second Corinthians chapter 10 and he says their bodies were
lying in the desert. Why?
Judgment of God. They grumbled and quarrel.
Did he say you people die here? He didn't say that.
He split the rock and gave them the water, but none of them
entered into the promised land. They all died in the wilderness.
40 years roaming around and you have got Psalm 95.
You got Psalm 106 where it talks about wilderness experience.
Every sentence, every verse talks about negative things,
about what these people have done.
I read through the Psalm. I said this is not looking good.
But if we apply that to the Christians, what is going to
happen? We are going to be exposed as
people without faith because we quarrel, because we complain.
It is not a good thing at all. And next thing that we see here
is another instance that we have to see is there is one more time
God provided water for them in the wilderness.
But that time when they again cried out to God, complained to
God, God said to Moses, go, I will stand before you and show
you the rock and speak to the rock.
Water will come out. What did he say?
Speak to the rock, water will come out.
And Moses went with the elders, took the staff with him this
time, bang, he hit it, water came out, they all drank, but
God was unhappy with Moses. Why?
Christ will be struck only once on the cross.
Jesus died on the cross for once to provide water for you.
You don't demand a miracle again, because when they
demanded miracle, he said no miracle will be given to His
generation except the sign of Jonah.
What is the sign of Jonah? People will crucify Christ.
He will be buried, but he will be right.
He will rise again from the dead on the third day.
That also has happened already. What more miracle do we need?
What more miracle do we need to believe this God?
He died for us and He rose again from the dead.
What more miracle we need? That one miracle is enough to
sustain 8 billion people for next 8 billion years or forever.
Because that is such a powerful, powerful miracle.
His death, burial, resurrection is the most powerful miracle
that man can can ever see. Do we see?
Do we appreciate His death on the cross?
So Moses was stored by God because you dishonored me before
these people. You will see the Promised land
from a distance, but you will not enter there.
Punishment comes, whether you like it or not, when we deserve
a God. But when you come to Christ, He
forgives and He restores. Even a man like Saul who was
persecuting the church, pulling people from their houses,
throwing them into the jail and whipping them.
And God had mercy on him and appeared to him so that he
becomes the bearer of the message, not the persecutor of
Christ anymore. That is the mercy of God.
But when we resist the mercy of God all the time, there comes a
point where there is no turning point.
We cannot turn back anymore. You go far enough where you
cannot turn back anymore. That's the reason why we need to
guard this heart. Guard the heart and your faith
and anything that comes in between you and God.
You fight it in the name of Jesus and that will set you
free. That will set you free.
Many of our hearts have been hijacked by Satan.
Your emotion, your will, your soul is hijacked by.
When you go through trauma, when you have a difficult situation,
when you are going through very, very difficult situation, it can
be ill health, it can be relationships, it can be loss of
job, it can be business collapse.
Whatever has to have happened, there's a trauma for the soul.
When you dwell on it for too long and don't come to God,
Satan comes and puts his hand on your shoulder.
Don't worry, I am with you and he'll take you down downhill,
not uphill. He won't pull you out, He'll
push you down more. He'll put chains on you and put
you in unbelief forever and ever and ever until you cry out to
God and Jesus says let him go free.
Let her go free and the chains fall from your hand.
Until then you will be in the hands of shade.
So I'm not trying to terrify anybody.
This is just the normal spiritual reality.
Normal spiritual reality. We have to open our eyes to see
that God gives us the freedom to say yes to God or no to God.
But when you say yes, you have got so many good things, but
when you say no, then so many negative things waiting for us.
But God is a God of mercy. Let's all say it.
God is a God of mercy. He wants to bless you, He wants
to save you, He wants to provide for you, He wants to protect
you, He wants to guide you, He loves you.
The whole question is, are we willing to believe and trust him
or we want to say no, no, no, I don't want to believe anymore.
I don't want to trust you anymore because there are times
when I have gone through difficult times.
You did not come through me and help me.
So one of the scenes from the movie called Ben Hur, it always
touches me where he was being put in chains and he was walking
along and he was very thirsty and many people are getting
water. But this guy who is taking this
captives, he tells no water for him, no water for Ben Hur.
And he was being dragged, and he falls down, and you see Jesus
coming and give him the water. And as he was drinking, somebody
comes, kicks it off. But that water sustained him,
sustained his faith, sustained the spirit of rebellion in him.
And he always remembered that. Why did that man give me water
and save me? Because that water, if he did
not drink, he would die. So he comes through like the
parable of Benhar. He comes through to feed you,
refresh you, give you a drink when you are in the trouble.
But sometimes we don't see or you just drink that water and
forget the man who gave you the water.
That's when the trouble comes. Oh, there's so much more to say.
I'll conclude with the story because I know you love stories.
I'll conclude with the story. This is there was a copper mine
in the desert of Atacama in Chile.
That mine collapsed and 33 people were trapped inside the
mine. How many people 33 this happened
on They were set free on October 13th 2010.
And people inside they have no light, no food, no fresh air, no
water to drink. They are trapped inside and I do
not know how they survived for because it took 69 days for them
to be set free. But until the 17th day there was
number hope. They were complaining.
They were in the in the darkness.
They were shouting to each other.
Somebody would shout loud, hey, is there a God here?
If he is there, why doesn't he save us?
Day one is gone. Day 2 is gone.
Day three is gone. Day four Day 17 A shaft comes
crashing through a drill bit. With a camera attached to it and
they wrote a small note on it and stuck it.
All 33 of us are alive. And when the shaft was taken
back, they said, oh, the people are alive, but it took 69 days
before everyone of them came out of the thing.
So after that, probably they must have provided them air to
breathe, water to drink, food to eat.
They must be feeding through the little pipe.
They had to make a separate shaft until they pulled out
every one of them. See 33 people, they saved every
one of them. Everyone came out.
And one of the miners, he said when we were inside, trapped
inside, we were not 33 people. We are 34 people because God was
with us, because God was with us, I tell you.
Problem does not have any color. Problem does not have a name,
does not have preference. Oh, this man is tall, so I will
be favorable to him. This man is short.
I am going to be cruel. Nothing.
Problem itself has got no favorites.
It is the same for everybody, but what we do, how we react to
the problem decides the outcome. You can be trapped in the 33
people and you can question God and say where are you?
Are you there, Why are we dying in this place?
Or you can say you are with us and we will wait for your
salvation. We will wait for your salvation.
This is not a cooked up story, this is real story.
In 2010 it happened and I remember reading in the
newspapers this every day there is a lot of TV activity going on
trying to give you update. Every morning you will see how
anything happened. Every morning you will wake up
and look up the news and say hey, what's happening today,
69th day, everyone of them came out.
It is a long time, long time to survive and to keep your faith.
And I tell you we are in the same situation, but we have to
look to God for our salvation. He is the rock that is following
us. He is the bread who is going to
satisfy us. He is the light.
He is everything to us. And I am telling you after so
many years, one shift that I had to make in my mind to say
audibly, very clearly every day several times is Jesus your God.
That photo that you have seen Jesus with a shepherds rod in
his hand, with a lamb in his hand and chucked up when he is
the holding in his hand, it has robbed Christ of His divinity.
It has robbed Christ that He is God.
You have a picture that He is a Savior.
You have a picture that He is Redeemer.
You have picture that He died for you.
You have picture that He is a shepherd, but you don't have the
picture that He is God. What changed for disciples is
precisely this. This Jesus was walking with
them. This Jesus was doing miracles,
was healing the blind, was healing the paralytic who was
healing the leprosy people who was raising the dead, making the
crippled walk. They had to see that he is God
because they heard Yahweh is God and now he is Jesus is God is a
big shift and Christians are still like the Jewish people.
God is 1, Jesus is Savior. No, God is 1, Father, Son, the
Holy Spirit and Jesus is God. If you have Jesus, you have the
Father and the Holy Spirit. You cannot have one without the
other. And I had to sell tell myself
after so many years, I am telling you now I am a Christian
for nearly 4748 years and now I am saying to Jesus every day, I
am saying you are God, you are God, you are God, you are God.
And that shifts something like what shifted for the apostles.
Why did they do miracles? Why did they cast out demons?
How did they heal the blind? How did they do the miracles?
Because they made that mental shift that Yahweh is Jesus,
Yahweh is Jesus. He's the one who followed them.
They drank from the rock, the Christ.
Shall we bow our heads in prayer?
Father God, I thank you. We humble over the 30 feet.
We have our own story. We have our own struggles.
We have our own questions. We have our own, My Father, the
innate desire to rebel against you, question you, quarrel with
you, argue with you. Oh, my God, we are so foolish.
Forgive us, I have done it a lot so many times in my life.
I pray now for your divine touch.
Holy Spirit, I invite you now to alight upon your children,
expose their heart, show them who they are or they they have a
reputation to be solid Christians, like a pillar, but
inside is hollow. And I pray that you feel this
hollow Ness with your presence, with your glory, with your
power. And I thank you Father, Holy
Spirit, for dwelling in us. Thank you for filling us with
your presence. Thank you for filling us with
your power. Oh Lord, I praise you only once
again, Jesus, but we are dwelling in us.
We are one spirit with you and I worship with Jesus.
You are God, you are God, you are God, Yahweh, you are, you
are God. We worship you this time.
We praise you Jesus. I command the rock to open for
your children every situation they are going through which is
sounding like a rock they tap on, it sounds like a rock, but I
command water to come out for them in the name of Jesus.
I command water to come out of rock for your children in the
name of Jesus. Drink deep, be refreshed,
castaway your unbelief and put your faith in Him because he is
waiting to show himself. God in our lives.
SAR haste barano moravande sambhakare bosaro renima raste
saktaro hosanna mahastakuroni. The Lord says only you have the
power to stop the rain. I want to pour the rain on you,
but you have the power to stop it.
Change it this morning and say, God, let it rain, let it rain,
let it rain, Let there be light in my life and the darkness will
go. Call out to Him and he wants to
touch you and change the story. Oh me praise you, we praise you,
we praise you this morning. We thank you for your word.
May your presence continue to go with us and help us to mediate
upon the scripture before we hit the bed again and bow in your
presence and thank you, for you are the rock that is following
us. We worship Jesus in Jesus name.
We have asked and everybody says Amen.
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