Facing Troubles

00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, mercies are new every morning. No matter what happened yesterday, troubles, whatever issues couldn’t be settled yesterday. People issues, relationship issues, work issues, home issues, children issues, husband or wife issues, health issues, all kinds of issues.

00:27 Jesus said, there will be trouble in this world. But this morning, we start this morning with the hope, a hope in Christ. Because there is new mercies every morning for those who love Christ, new mercies for those who love God.

00:45 Therefore, we know today we are looking at issues. We can start with that hope. We start with that hope.

00:50 Today we are dealing with troubles, facing troubles. There are so many troubles in the world. Many people have been troubled.

00:59 We ourselves will have trouble. But God’s word is clear. In fact, when I and my family were suffering away in some issues, some serious issues, one word of God is in 2 Corinthians 4, 8, 9.

01:15 We are troubled on every side. Yet not distressed. Yet not distressed.

01:22 We are perplexed, but not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Cast down, but not destroyed.

01:32 This is a very powerful scripture. We have got to command our heart and mind to remember this scripture. We have to meditate on the scripture.

01:40 For instance, it says, you are troubled on every side. We are not distressed. And this happened to us.

01:45 We were troubled on every side, but we were not distressed. There was a peace, inner peace that came. Only Jesus Christ couldn’t have created this peace by playing some games or watching some videos or whatever, couldn’t have this peace.

02:01 The peace that settled down there. There’s still peace. And that peace, you begin to recognize it’s not from you.

02:08 We begin to recognize, not from mercy. It’s only from Jesus Christ and the Son of the living God. Perplexed.

02:14 Perplexed means confused. All kinds of amazing things are happening. Confusing things are happening.

02:21 Oh, we don’t know what will happen next. But we are not in despair. We are not desperate.

02:28 That despair didn’t come. Sometimes you see people in funerals. They are in despair.

02:33 Your heart must have compassion for them because they don’t know Christ. And these words, they do not know the power of Christ is not in them. So they are in despair.

02:41 They are desperate. They. They are screaming, screaming in anguish and sorrow.

02:46 They’re screaming because they despair. But when those who have Jesus Christ, the despair won’t be there. You’ll have hope.

02:54 Knowing fully well Jesus will see you through. See you through. See you through.

02:59 Because Jesus talks about eternity. He’s making a new home for us. He’s making a new home for us.

03:05 There’s eternity. So we won’t be in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken. Jesus will never forsake us.

03:13 But remember, it is we who forsake him. We go away. Don’t do that, brothers and sisters.

03:19 If we go away, obviously we can’t get the support and help from Jesus Christ. We are denying him. We are forsaking Him.

03:26 Don’t do that. But he will now forsake us. He will now forsake us.

03:31 But what will happen when we forsake and do our own thing? What we sow, we will reap. There will be things that you will read, cast down, thrown down, but not destroyed. Can you imagine? To make sure that we know in our hearts that we know that we know, that we know that we will not be destroyed.

03:48 You, a follower of Christ, must know the scripture. You will be cast down sometimes, thrown down sometimes, but you will not be destroyed. You cannot be destroyed.

03:58 Because the Bible says, even though you die, you will yet live. Jesus says, even when you die, you will yet live. Because we have eternity.

04:07 So you will not be destroyed. So no matter what happens on earth, you won’t be destroyed. You have a future, a future as a holy priest.

04:16 You are a holy priest. In Christ is a righteous priest. He makes us.

04:20 He is a royal priest. He makes us. And we begin to minister.

04:23 But the same thing is this. In 1 Peter 2:9. Yesterday we dealt with this.

04:29 We are talking about. He chose us to tell why he chose us. You are chosen people, king’s priest, holy nation.

04:31 He chose us to tell about the wonderful things he has done. This is First Peter 2. 9.

04:42 I’m reading from easy version. He chose us to tell about the wonderful things he has done and that that we need to do. That’s all we need to do.

04:50 Tell about the wonderful things he’s done. But of course, we don’t go around telling everybody. Nobody wants to listen.

04:55 Don’t tell the people don’t want to listen. Don’t force them. It’s not time yet.

05:00 Tell for those others, especially people you see in distress. First of all, when you see people in distress and despair, first of all, because you are a child of God. You are a disciple of Christ.

05:13 You want to follow Christ. You are a believer in Christ. As soon as you are a believer in Christ, you have authority over satanic demonic beings, evil spirits.

05:22 So you will bind the spirit of suicide. First of all, in the name of Jesus Christ. I bind the spirit of suicide over so and so.

05:30 Get out of so and so. Not to return. I plead the blood of Jesus on this person from head to toe and surround him with the fire of the Holy Ghost.

05:39 Lord, Holy Spirit, in Jesus name, I ask you. Surround him. Surround her.

05:44 You know how many suicides are taking place all over the world? Young children, teenagers, just after college, just after school, wanting could not enter universities. Many countries so competitive they can’t enter and they are in despair sometimes just by one or two points in their marks and they commit suicide. They commit suicide
because of shame.

06:09 Now that is why Jesus said he didn’t even just take all our sins. He took our shame. He took all our shame.

06:15 Therefore, whatever sins we have committed, I have declared my sins. I have put it even on the website. Simply because I don’t feel ashamed because he took the shame.

06:23 Yes, I was shamed. I did sinful things. I did wrong things.

06:28 I harmed people, harmed my family, all that I did. But after that I said, Lord, I don’t want to do this anymore. I want to follow you.

06:37 Follow you the way you want me to follow you, Lord Jesus. Not the way my mind says, not the way some people are saying. But I want to follow you exactly the way you want me to follow you.

06:46 Make me, Lord Jesus. And as he began to. I began to do this and follow every day.

06:52 Wanting to please Jesus Christ. Don’t want to do anymore. I cast out evil spirits.

06:57 Oh, command my heart and mind. I begin to do all these things and then soon my family is put together. They are restored.

07:06 We were restored. We were restored. Then I’m not doing this anymore.

07:11 All this rubbish, all this sinful thing. And then God said, put all your sins in the website first. I was struggling, struggling to put.

07:20 Because I don’t know how to put what my friends think. What do people. I put aside all that I do not, Lord, you told me to put.

07:27 I just put all my sins, Lord, in the website. I just put it there, Lord. I confess it, Lord.

07:33 I accept, Lord. I did all this. I accept, Lord.

07:36 The fact confession is a part of release. We feel released after that. Yes, let everybody, let them ridicule us.

07:43 Doesn’t matter. We put our sin because it is true we did this. If I did this, I do whatever I wrote in the website www.

08:09 graceoflife.com Grace G R A C E O F L L I f e graceoflife.com I put it there way back in 99, I think. Or 20 or 20. 20, 22,000, 2001.

08:14 Somewhere I forgotten God told me to put. And I just put it. I just put it first.

08:26 I was struggling of course, because everybody will read your sins. But when Jesus tells me to do it, he has caught us out of all the messages, changed my life, gave me hope, gave me peace. Peace.

08:40 The peace I couldn’t get, he gave me and gave my family the peace. He put us around after that, when we challenge, when problems are coming, serious problems come after that. And yet we could stand because his word says, you will not be destroyed.

08:49 You will not be destroyed, you will not be forsaken. This is true, brothers and sisters. So when you see somebody in distress, we must pray heartfelt.

08:54 Think of them. Think of them. I can relate to that because I was suffering.

09:01 I was on the verge of suicide myself. I was on the verge of suicide myself. She was suffering.

09:05 So. Lord, I bind the spirit of suicide in the name of Jesus Christ. Get out.

09:15 We begin to do this. And then by doing this, thinking of others, you’re fulfilling the, the command, the call. The Lord, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, has called you.

09:29 And you’re fulfilling it by looking at these things and binding these things and casting out, because of Mark 16. In Mark 16 it says, before he left earth, he said, preach the good news. Those who believe these signs will follow.

09:32 They’ll cast out evil spirit. You follow. You cast out evil spirit.

09:41 And this way you cast. And when you begin to cast out the evil spirit, everything runs from you too. Everything runs away from you too, because you are casting out every evil spirit over people.

09:51 Everything runs out too, and you have peace. Brothers and sisters, today let’s look at others ours. We know we will not be destroyed.

09:55 We will not be destroyed. We will have the peace. Seek the peace of God.

10:05 Start focusing on what he told us to do. And automatically, miraculously, a peace will come upon you because you are caring for others. In Jesus name I pray.

Amen.