God Did Not Bring You This Far To Abandon You Here

Let's all bow our heads and pray. Father in the name of Jesus. Lord we thank you for this awesome time in your presence. Spirit of the living God, come and do what only you can do and I will miss all God. Come and take center stage in your church. Lord touch, heal, deliver. Do what only you can do. Lord we pray for every heart that is present in the room. Give us a heart of flesh that we might receive your way to the glory of God. In Jesus' mighty name we pray thanksgiving. Amen and amen and amen. Look at your name and say neighbor. God is on your side. Viva is on your side. Break through is on your side. The Mashaq season is on your side. You may be seated in heavenly places. Have you all heard of the Mashaq season that's coming? All right it will be the first ever baptism in revealed church. You know so we are excited it's going to be a time of deliverance. It's going to be an awesome time. You know the Bible said that in the book of Exodus after they went through the red sea that the Egyptian that they saw today they will see no longer and I believe it'll be our testimony that day. The grace of God is going to be doing wonders. And then we'll come for the finale on the 4th of October. We're social happens to be the man of God's birthday. All right and then so after this grand finale all right we'll have a special dinner with the man of God. We'll have a special dinner with the man of God with a theme there'll be a particular theme for the event. So I believe it's on the website isn't it? So register for it on the website to be awesome. It's a private event. It'll be beautiful. It'll be royal. It'll be magnificent. It'll be awesome. All right okay you may be seated in heavenly places. So we're going to talk about feeling abandoned by God. All right that God didn't bring you this far just to abandon you. How many have ever felt abandoned by God? It's okay it's fine you can. Yes. You felt that God has abandoned you. Pastolongelo please give us the definition of abandoned. Abandoned to abandon someone. Yes. Wow. I feel like you've been left alone. Another one. Wow to feel like God is giving up on you. What a feeling. Some of your parents have given up on you. Some of your boyfriends have given up on you. Some of you work places have given up on you. But God will never give up on you. All right some 34 verse 18. Let's see what the Bible says. Do you like reading the Bible? You should really like reading the Bible. It's all that we have. No one day I met a pastor. He was preaching somewhere. Then he kept quoting a lot of things he saw on Facebook. You know I was on Facebook and I saw this. Then he said hey I've mentioned Facebook a lot today. Let me stop. Pastor Facebook. Yes. All right some 34 and the verse 18 the Bible says the Lord is close to the broken hearted. I prophesied to you today. Wherever your heart has been broken. The Lord is still close to you. Now why would the Bible specifically say this to us is because when your heart is broken you feel like God is far. Yes. Usually the opposite is what will be happening in your life. You feel that God is far. You feel he's abandoned you. You feel like he's given you an instruction and then he's left you to figure it out on your own. You feel like you prayed about this relationship. So why is he teaching on you? A lot of things will be taken place. You know but the Bible tells us that he is close to the broken hearted and that he saves such as be of a contrite spirit. Pastor Jello give us the lexicon of the word contrite. She contrite is a big word. It doesn't mean concrete by the way. It doesn't mean concrete. You'd be surprised you might think it means concrete. Yes give us the lexicon. Yes. Wow. He says he saves the ones who have a crushed spirit. That's sometimes your spirit is crushed. It has crumbled. It has melted away. It's no longer firm and erected. It is crumbling before our very eyes. Now if you look at the word spirit that word spirit is the word ruak. Give us the lexicon of the word ruak or spirit. Yes. Yes. Now Angus speaks of your passion. Sometimes your passion is crushed. That's the feeling or the sensation in you that I don't have what it takes to drive towards this thing. To run towards this thing. To still be motivated to keep doing this thing or to be motivated to be on track or you know to concentrate. You're struggling to concentrate on something. You see Angus speaks of passion. He says that people who have crushed passion. Yes. Another word. Another one. Another one. Your courage is crushed. You don't feel courageous anymore. You don't feel like you have strength for it anymore. You generally just feel like you don't have faith for it anymore. That's the feeling that a lot of businessmen have. Your faith for the business where it gets crushed. Many pastors have this feeling. Faith that the minister of record is crushed. You know but the Bible promises us that God will save. He will save. He will make us whole again. You know and we need to be persuaded about this. Give us the next one of the words. Save it. Save it. I want us to understand the scripture. All right. Yes. All right. All right. So we have to believe that God will rescue you. You might be drowning but God will rescue you. Business might be down but God will rescue you. Attendance may be down but God will rescue you. Things aren't the way you plan them to be but God will rescue you. You have to believe it. You have to be confident in this. Philippians 1-6. What does the Bible say? Philippians 1-6. Philippians 1-6. Being confident of this very thing. You see that things you need to be confident about. Yes. A lot of things you need to be confident about in the faith. That he which has begun a good work in me will perform it until the very end. But since there shall be a performance of the things that were told here of the Lord, there shall be. There will be a performance. You have to be persuaded to believe that there will be a performance. You have to be persuaded to believe that what God has asked you to do, he will bring it to fruition. In the name of Jesus, you have to be convinced. Give me the lesson of the word confidence. Confident. You have to be persuaded. You have to be persuaded to win the argument. You have to win the argument in your head. Especially in your head. You might not be able to win the arguments against your mother. She'll say to shut up, isn't it. She might not win the argument there. But you have to win the argument in your head. That even if you are quiet, you are not running, you are waiting. You are waiting for the perfect opportunity. Yes, you have to be persuaded in your mind. You have to be persuaded in your thoughts. You have to be persuaded in your plans, in your motives. You have to be persuaded that God will do it for me. Give me another word. You have to be convinced. Many Christians are not convinced. Do you know that many times the healing power of God is based on how convinced you are? Not what you feel. Do you know that? You have to be convinced that God is a healer. Not what you don't feel is happening yet. You have to be convinced that God blesses men. Yes, a million won't just drop in your pocket. No. It's a revelation that's as done in your heart. And then you see that the pathway to the money comes to you. Yes. Your heart has to accept it first. Yes. You know your heart has to believe that you are saved. Do you know that? It's the revelation of being saved that brings more of your salvation. Not how much sin you stopped. It's the revelation of your salvation that will make you say, "I'm a Christian girl. He can't do this to me." I'm born again. How can he be touching me like this? How can he be grabbing me? I'm out of holy devil. Holiness is the convincing of God. Yes. You have to be convinced that no, this is not what God wants for you. Absolutely. Be not an equally yoked to the nonbeliever. You have to be convinced that no. What I believe and what he believes that too, he can't touch many more. Yes. Yes. You see, what most people think about sin is that the moment you are born again, the Holy Spirit will enter you so much that sin will stop being nice. You are highly deceived. Do you know that when you are fasting, raisins can taste like steak. When you are fasting, you will say, "Forget me, Gunner, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some stylus, this is the end of your life, if I can get some When they mention marriage, you are not bought that. Because you are already doing marriage things already. You are not affected. You have not fasted, isn't it? Do you know that it's usually people who are already in it, who are so fixated on my type. So I'm waiting for my type, it's because you have a place for that already. When you've been keeping yourself, that thing of your type, that's a point. It mellows down. It's not like you lose the patience. You know Paul said a very interesting thing. He said that, "No, we are men of like patience." After healing the sick, can you imagine? He told the Lord, "Look, you and me, my friend, we are together. We are in the same boat here." You need to be convinced of some things. Now you have to be convinced that God is still by your side. You have to be convinced that God is still interested in your life. You have to be convinced that God is still working it out for my good. Bible says, "For all things went together for good. For all those who love God and are tall and are falling to Him." You have to be convinced. Give me Romans 8 to 35. Romans 8 to 35. Romans 8 to 35, what does the Bible say? Romans 8 verse 35, verse 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Next verse. As it is written for the sick, we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Next verse. Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Next verse. For I am persuaded. Pause it, I am persuaded. You see, how to overcome abandonment issues. It takes persuasion. Now, unfortunately, too many Christians are not persuaded that nothing can separate me from the love of Christ. And pause it, even if they kill us all the day long. He says, kill us all the day long. He means that it constantly feels like you are dying. Constantly feels like you are broke. Constantly feels like your miracle is on one leg like this. Constantly. No, all the day long. You see, if you are dying, you die than you are dead. But how can you be killed all the day long? Are you here? You are going home. How can you be killed all day long? No, not tortured. Killed. It feels like you are dying the whole time. But he said, no, we are more than conquerors in Him. You see, so it means that there is a deception taking place where you think you are down, but you are not down. Where you think you are out, but you are not out. Now, unfortunately, many Christians are troubled by their worries. The thought of what could happen, not necessarily what is happening, perhaps that his grace is efficient for us. So always, the grace of God will always be just enough. Have you ever distanced food before it looks more? Have you ever been getting your head done and the con roll looks like it's skewed? And you realize that it might look like it's skewed, then when you stand up, it's okay. It's straight, isn't it? Yes, you are bending my head. I am understanding. So you said, you are close to it. You are near evil. The worries, you see, and it's sometimes the problem with intelligence. When you are ignorant, you do not think about much. It's about when you are intelligent, you are heavily affected by different possibilities, and often Bukan masa masa mereka, mereka tak akan berlaku. Apa jika ini berlaku, apa jika ini berlaku, apa jika ini berlaku, apa jika ini berlaku, dan maksudnya mereka mempercayakan keseluruhan. Mereka berlaku dalam keseluruhan. Terima kasih kerja-kerja yang terbaik untuk mengemaskan. Terima kasih kerja yang terbaik untuk mengemaskan. Kita mempercayakan keseluruhan mempercayakan keseluruhan. Dan so when that is your posture. You know, you need condensi. You need persuasion in your heart. That God is with me, and God is on my side. And favor is on my side. And grace is on my side. And power is on my side. Do you know why most Christians end up making their own plans? It's because you think that God is not on your side. She's not making your own arrangements. They keep saying that your marriage is coming. But I've lived a little. And I know that what's not on the market will not be bought. If it's not on the shelf, you will pick it. If it's not on this play, you will see it. You say, and then you start doing your own matchmaking. You do your own matchmaking. Christian Gail Tang talking, you are at Rans. You are at Rans doing God knows what, on the market. Trying to be found. And then you want to carry that into the test, the testimony, wow. You see, it's because you are doing it yourself. Because you don't trust that he will do it for me. You don't trust that God will bring someone my way. You don't trust that God hears my prayer. So I have to do something on my own in case. Yes, it's an evil spirit. It's an evil spirit. That's what infuriates believe us. And it's the lack of trust. That's too many trust issues. Too many trust issues. They cheated on you four times. So generally you don't trust men. So when you hear them praying our father who are just like, "Eeesh!" Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. But the Bible said that I am persuaded, taking back to my scripture, Romans 8. I am persuaded. That death can't separate me from God. That is someone that does, it will not separate me from God. That life, if I prosper, it will not separate me from God. That angels can't separate me from God. That demonic principalities cannot separate me from God. That powers, not things present, not things that are going to come my way. They will not separate me from God. You know, it's a stance that is necessary to work with God. Because when you are working with God, many things can go wrong or can look like they are going wrong. But you need to have a certain confidence in God to keep on going and to keep on doing the things that need to be done, amen? Now let's look at the life of Elijah. First King is 19. First King is 19. First King is 19. Are you here or you are going home? So, now we have such in the message. First King is 19. And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done. And with all how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Now Elijah just had a big win. Power was moving in the chapter 18. Fire came upon offerings. Showed that the prophets of Bala useless. He's enjoying a big win, isn't it? Then someone called Ahab went to go and tell Jezebel what was happening. All right, next verse. "Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah. Say, so let the gods do to me and more also. If I make not that their life is as one of them tomorrow by this time." Now the man of God who was moving in such power and glory, the following day he's getting threats to his doorstep. I'm sure he's asking himself, "Hey, how does he know my address? How do they find where I stay?" And she's saying tomorrow by this time. "I'm also dead." He said, "What is happening here?" He said, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." In our modern dead age, he would have said, "Oh, never that." Next verse. And when he saw that, he arose. And he ran for his life. "Oh, Elijah, I thought you were having divine protection." Man of God, moving in power, challenging the fosters of God. Why are you now afraid? That was as he ran for his life. And he came to Bershiva, which belonged to Judah and left his seven days. Next verse. But he himself went a days journey into the bush, into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die and said, "It is enough now, O Lord, take away my life. If I'm no better than my father's." Now, it's so interesting. After moving in such great power, you can still feel abandoned by God. After being a dangerous prayer warrior, you can still feel abandoned by God. After being in Vundisi, Mam Ruti, Trejarah, in church, you can still feel abandoned by God. No, no. And chapter before, he was walking in divine power. Chapter 18 is why we call Elijah the Man of Fire. Do you know that? It has labeled his ministry forever in the cosmos. The fact that he called down for fire to rain, and fire came down. But a chapter later, look at what he's doing. People, and this happens to people who have had even testimonies. Look at what they are now doing. Look at how they are now running away. Look at how they are now affected. Look at how their mind is discombobulated. They are completely confused. And you ask yourself that, you are such a good prayer life. What is happening to you? Why are you giving up so fast? You've even preached messages about this thing. Why are you giving up now? You've even given people scriptures about how to be encouraged through God. Why are you now discouraged in God? What is taking place in your life? Elijah, you just set the example for many of us. Why are you running away like a dog with his tail between his legs? Yes. Ask yourself, what is happening? You know, so it shows that it can easily happen to anyone of us. We look like no one is impervious to this. Impervious means cannot be affected by. No one is impervious, no one is bulletproof to the accusation of abandonment, no one is bulletproof. So we need to take it very seriously. Because you will think that you have not been born again for 80 years. I'm also starting to have visions, by the way. When I play in tongues, my tongues change and have accents. I'm very close to the pastor. bullet knows me by name. When I talk to Mama, she calls me my angel. Every now and then on prophet sees me in the car path, he gives me a fist pump. I'm close to the authorities, my God. I'm untouchable. I'm watching at a divine favor and I'm waiting. It's about even the people who are like this can be affected. This is Elijah. Elijah, no. You should Google names in the Bible that I'll come on. One of them is Elijah. People want to name their kids after this guy. That my son will be a formidable force to be reckoned with. No one can trouble my boy. No one can trouble my girl. Everyone wants to feel and be like this man. Look at it, he's affected. You might be surprised that you might be the cast brick of your family. And this can happen to you. They can unwind to your head, poor oil, lay hands, lay foot, lay stomach. Still happen to you. You need to tell yourself that if it can happen to Elijah, then I'm not exempt. So I have to take my persuasions very seriously. You'll notice in our ministry, when we teach the Bible, we are trying to convince you about God. I said, why are you doing such things? Because I'm telling you, you can have a breakthrough tomorrow. And two days from now, you can give up on God. I'm telling you. Yes. So you have to be fortified. You have to be strengthened. You have to be encouraged to the weather of God regularly, because I'm telling you it can easily happen to you. Yes. Easily. One day. One day, suddenly you see you've changed. Elijah suddenly closed down the church. He told his assistant pastors, "UAT, UAT, I'm going. Can you imagine?" Elijah said, "The man of God is to a side of the Prophet of the generation." It suddenly is to a side of them. Same thing happened to Moses. Moses is saying that, "Lord, I believe it's extra study three also." Moses is saying, "Lord, did I give back?" 'Believe to these people, Lord, take my life!' 'Moses, moses, what are you going to say?' You know that this is why Peter rebuked Jesus in Matthew 16. 'Jesus, you are being suicidal.' 'Why are you saying that you have to go to Jerusalem and they will kill you?' 'Wait, please, take your time.' 'You take your time to say Lord, wait.' 'Say, take your time here.' 'Why are you talking like this?' 'Why are you declaring this over your life?' 'That I am going to persecute you and kill you.' 'What type of declarations are this? You profit of God.' 'Yes, yes, yes, yes, I am there for you.' 'Is that a rebuking that? No, you can't talk like this.' 'Where did you learn how to talk like this?' 'I am telling you, it can easily happen to you.' 'It can easily take place.' You know, so we need to lend the blueprint of how to deal with the feeling of abandonment. Are you with me? All right, so now we start the message. All right, first Kings 19, where were we? All right, so he told God I want to die. He said it's enough. It's too much. I can't handle it anymore. Next verse. And as he lay and he slept, number one, sleep. Just sleep. Robala. Take a nap, yeah? We could. Yes. Aish. Take a chill pill. No, no, no, let's follow the Elijah blueprint. He complained and he slept. You complain and you go and drink. You complain, he's not calling X's. You complain, you open your DMs and see who has been messaging you. Do you know that most car accidents happen when someone who's emotional starts driving? Do you know them? Most car accidents. Someone who's emotional will enter into a car and then you become absent minded. Now some people will say that, oh, you know, based on hand, no brain muscle memory, you can generally drive to particular areas without paying attention. You know, but it only takes you so far. And then you might end up driving and you get distracted. Next thing you hit something or you hit a person or whatever the case is. Or you go drinking and then before you start drinking fast. Thanks. Hey, it's even worse if you buy a quad. Do you not have a quad? A quad is 750 ml. It's almost a litre of poison that you are injecting or ingesting into your body. You know, do you know that there are a lot of people who drink to numb their pain? Do you know that if you don't sleep for over 72 hours, you begin to have hallucinations. Give us the definition of hallucination. You start to imagine things that are not there. It's close to madness. People are chasing you and chasing you. You are so sure that they are going to fight you at work. No one is firing you. You are sure that these three people at your office are snakes and snitches. Nothing is happening to you. You are just sleep deprived. Sleepy person is moody. You are so irritable. I just slept. Rest. It brings a level of clarity. I am telling you. He didn't go out further from jabulation, enjoyment. No, he rested. And behold, then an angel touched him and said on to him, "Arise and eat." Next verse. And he looked at behold. There was cake and a cruise of water. Just cake and water. Not alcohol. Not all sorts of these funny things, not drugs, not all these things. He had some cake and he was feeling better. You know, which is also another lesson. Perhaps your blood sugar level is low. You are about to flow into hypere. It is because you have not studied what I am saying. You are not what I am saying. So he said, "Eat." Let your glucose level rise in you. Because even when you are stressed, you stop eating, isn't it? You get into this mode where you don't want to eat, you don't want this, you don't want this. And he laid him down again. Next verse. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him and said, "Arise and eat." Because the journey is too great for you. Next verse. And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat. 40 days and 49th on to horror. The mount of God. Number two pray. He basically went on a fast. See, whenever you feel abandoned, it is time to seek God. Is it many times the feeling of abandonment is a test? Yes. Is a test for something better to come. And God is just checking even your tenacity. That will your mind remain fixed on me or you will allow yourself to get troubled. And then clearly it means that maybe your hopes or your ambitions or your mind is elsewhere. You have to put your mind in check. He said, "He went 40 days and 49th." 40 days and 49th. "Praying and fasting, I'd like to believe." Seeking the face of God. Seeking the face of God. So he didn't leave church. Most people in their prophecies delaying their leave. You would be surprised. A lot of people go to some gomas at Christians. Do you know them? Yes. Yes. You see, even if God doesn't answer your prayers, we still be in church. Or will you start prophet hopping? No, this one is more powerful. No, this conference. No, this place. No. And then you see that now from person to person. You see, perhaps it's not even that it's the season for that answer to come. And you are pushing and forcing when there's no need. God is looking at you like you're wasting your time. What is looking at you like you are not concentrating. So before you realize it even affects you and you leave God. You see, now some people say, "Oh, but why should we?" "Oh, I don't need to be in church to worship God." You see, most times your leaving church makes you leave God. Most times. Most times. You leave in church of, "Oh, I'll read my Bible later." At least church forces you in some setting to hear the word of God. Yes. You can't tell me you're watching as Sam and at home, but half the time you are cooking, half the time you are looking after the children, half the time you are washing clothes, half the time you are schooling on TikTok. What have you had in the message? That's right, most Christians can only remember songs. There's only worship songs. Wow, you can sing all of them. The scripture is air, hey. Nice. Nice. You know, so he continued his fellowship. He continued his fellowship. He rather continued to the mountain of God, not the mountain of sin. You know, there's a place where things are piled up. See, a mountain is like a piling up of rocks. There's a place where things are piled up both for God and both for evil. Yes. Now, many times when people feel abandoned by God, they say, "I am so God." You know, one day, a certain lady, one of our pastors called her inviting her to church. You know what she said? She said, "I am not coming back to church. It's taking too long for me to be prophesied." Yes. Yes. Yes. I don't know, I don't know the best things here. Ask your neighbour, "Are you the one who the prophet is talking about today?" Yes. Yes. Some neighbours are quite. You wonder if they have a wife. How can you say you are waiting? It's taking too long for God to speak to you. Wow, you are entitled. You see, and that's already a sign that you're not going to last already. di sini, di sini, di sini, di sini, di sini, di sini, di sini, Jepang saya, jepang saya, jepang saya, jepang saya, jepang saya, ayah! (Jepang saya, ayah!) (Jepang saya, ayah!) (Jepang saya, ayah!) (Jepang saya, ayah!) (Jepang saya, ayah!) Although we invoke the power, we also use the wisdom. You can't benefit from the unknowing to oil without fast accepting the teachings, I'm telling you. Because the unknowing thing is backed by the teachings. If you dodge the teachings, the lessons, the steps, and you say, I'm basing in the oil. Ah, my friend. You'll bat and just be slippery, I'm telling you. Yes. Yeah, you'll loosen yourself and you'll shine for all of us. That's all that will happen to your life. You'll be shining for all of us. You see, so, okay, you people focus. You see, so when Elijah was faced with this feeling of giving up, of throwing in the tower, you see, wanting to die is the same as wanting to end the relationship. It's the same as wanting to leave this job. It's the same as wanting to go and give your kids to your grandma. It's the same as wanting to do all these things. Even if he felt it, he didn't let it lead him. He didn't let it lead him. So, I'll sleep it off. I'll just, I'll have some bread and some water. I'm not doing that, jeopardize everything. What's some of you, you jeopardize everything? Why, you throw it into the air? If it's not good, you should refrain from it. Amen. You know, the Bible says of David, go to Psalm 13. Psalm 13 from the verse 1. How long will you forget me, O Lord? You see, so he felt forgotten by God. Isaiah 49 verse 50. And then we'll come back. Isaiah 49 verse 50. Isaiah 49 verse 50. Can a woman forget her suckling child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yay, they may forget. Yet I will not forget you. So the Lord said, I will not forget you. You think I've forgotten, but I've not forgotten. You think I don't remember, but I do remember. I remember everything. But I look on to the hills from whence comeeth my help. This is my help comeeth from you, Lord. That your God will actually help you. I'm telling you, yes. You know, if you live long enough and you've been consistent with God, you know, sometimes the sad thing about Christianity is when you betray God, but He still answers your prayer. Then you realize His answer, even though you long betrayed Him. Wow, it is painful, yes. Yes, it hurts your heart, I'm telling you. Hey, but He said, what? So I look on to the hills from whence, is this sums what? 121. I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comeeth my help. Next verse. My help comes from you, Lord, who has made heaven and earth. Next verse. I will not suffer my foot to be moved. You see, because when you are in abandonment, you feel like changing your position. Yes. That one someone says, I'll call you. Next to you, you feel like calling them. You are taking time to call me. Have you forgotten about me? Yes. I'm just sending you a reminder. Greetings. I hope this finds you well. Just a gentle reminder about. But He said, no, I will not let my foot be moved. He that keeps with me is not sleeping. God is not taking a nap. God is not resting. God is not chilling. God is not often weakened. God doesn't take a day off. Next verse. Behold, He that keeps me. He's not sleeping or taking a rest. Maybe you think you have to wake up God. He's not like you and I. Perhaps He's not a man that He should lie. Or not a son of man that He should repent. He's none of those things. So God is not sleeping on you. God hasn't maised you. God hasn't put you on do not disturb. God doesn't do any of these things. God is even keeping a country. He that keeps us as the other country. Keeping all the citizens of a particular nation. Can you imagine? And He's looking out for all of them diligently. So He will not give up on you and I. All right. Go back to Psalm 13. You can feel like this but don't let it control you. Honestly, notice how David felt. So David started saying, "How long will you forget me, O Lord, forever? How long will you hide your face from me?" Next verse. "How long shall I take counsel in my soul?" You know, what he's saying here is that I'm not even feeling the Holy Spirit encouraging me. I have to encourage myself. You see now, there comes a time when your troubles become louder than the voice of God. So God might not be able to get through to you. So you need your personal web level in your soul to calm you down. That's why we should even listen to messages a lot. And when things are just playing a message, you'll be so surprised. It'll calm your soul. It's like, "How long shall I take counsel in my soul?" Having sorrow in my heart daily. So David was affected on a daily basis. David was worried 24/7. "How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?" So David always felt like his enemies were over him. David always felt like, "Wow, these guys are getting the upper hand over my life." Next verse. "Consider and hear me, O Lord, my God, lighten my eyes. Lest I sleep the sleep of death." You see, all of them, these suicidal thoughts, isn't it? You see, so if David also felt like this, then I know you. Oh, you. The only thing of going to East and Cape. Let me leave Cape Town and go back to East and Cape. Let me leave here and go back to Joe Bank. Let me leave here and go back to Rustin Bank. Let me leave here and go back to Pumalanga. Next verse. "Less my enemies say I have prevailed against him. And those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved." Next verse. "But I have trusted in your mess." He said, "You can feel like all these things are going on." He said, "But there has to be a deep rooted trust for God in your heart." He said, "But I have trusted in your mess." "My heart shall rejoice in your salvation." Wow. His mood was picking up. Meanwhile, he's walking through the fire. But his mood is picking up. He's not affected anymore. He's not dismayed anymore. Next verse. "I will sing unto the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully to me." The guy who was previously saying, "Oh, let my soul counsel me. Well, let my heart come me down." I'll sing for God. I'll raise up melodies for God. I'll rise up and begin to sing songs for God, not for me. You know, when you sing, "Hey, my God is good old." Wait, wait, wait. Everything, not double, double. You see, you're singing for yourself. That's when you're singing for yourself. Bless me, double, you're singing it for yourself. You see, but it's different to sing songs for God. It's different. Yeah, it's a totally different feeling. You see, there are songs where you're asking for something. And there are songs where you're just praising Him. Yes, I'm telling you. Way out of nowhere, you just rise up. Hello Him, madonnaise. (Aplausos) Oelo, y malo, ni. (Aplausos) Singelo, y malo, ni. (Aplausos) Oelo, y malo. (Aplausos) एक अपेपेपे को बुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुुु� बादा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आदा आ� I got a very big, I got a very big. Go away, go away. Go away. Go away, go away. Go away, go away. Go away, go away. Go away, go away. Look, wherever you are. I want us to pray on this wise, that God is by my side. God is my best friend. God is closer to me than ever before, in the name of Jesus. He cannot abandon me. No matter what I feel, no matter what the enemy is trying to put into my mind. The Bible says he has exalted his word about himself. If his word says he will never forsake us, then he will never forsake us. Today we are persuaded in the name of Jesus. So, I want us to pray. And the prayer topic is, Lord, persuade me of your love for me. Lord, convince me that you love me, I am telling you. Yes, convince me, convince me. I am persuaded, nothing can separate me from God. It is the ultimate key to overcome every form of abandonment. Every time you feel betrayed by God or something. But I know, He loves me too much for this thing. To ever take place in my life. Beloved of God, wherever you are, lift up your voice and begin to pray. And say, Lord, persuade me of your love for me. Lift up your voice and begin to pray. I am persuaded, no more. "I am persuaded of the love that you have been, I am persuaded of your hard work, I cannot be abandoned by you over, I cannot be betrayed by you over, I can be hard over, but I am convinced or not, I am persuaded, I am convinced, I am convinced, I am persuaded, I am convinced, I am convinced, I am convinced, I am convinced, I am convinced, I am convinced, I am I am convinced, I am persuaded, let's top your voice and break, from here in the morning.