Why You're Exhausted Trying to Make Everything Happen Yourself

okay that's actually powerful because if i if i look at how we we've been neglecting the work of god we should go back to this kind of songs i mean if i if i if i say i'm of lord i'm available to you It doesn't mean that I must also just say, Lord, I'm available to you. My will I give to you. I'll do what you say you do. And then what we do is we say we are available, but we keep on thinking of the things that we still have to do for ourselves. So if God says go to Tarsus, but we don't want to go there, go to Nenefi. We don't want to go to that side. So it's like as if you want to choose where your availability is. But that's not my message today. I have a message today which is entitled Fix the Route. fix the router because God has been speaking to me for quite some time about the fact that He's there but we keep on thinking that He's not there it's like the way I'm looking at it it's like the one I was talking about specifically is that when you have a router in your house and you have not paid your subscription it means that even though the router is there you won't get the signal so when I look at it I was quite worried because I kept on saying but Lord, you are there, as an omnipresent God, you will always be there, but what is it, that made me to keep thinking that you are not there. And this is where the router issue comes in. Now when you have a router, it still doesn't mean that you can get the signal from the if whatever company you're using, even if you've paid but the router is faulty so there's so many things that can hinder the signal that is why I called the message fix the router and our router is literally faith it's faith that connects us to heaven's supply It's faith that makes us To be Where we need to be Without faith It's impossible To please God Isn't that what the Bible says And yet We look for pleasing In different ways now it's not my works that gets me what I want it will never be my works because if we talk about my works do you know I I sometimes oversleep I need to go somewhere but then I sleep but yet he makes the person that i needed to go to to be a little bit later because i have overslept so if it was my works I would have failed big time Big big big time If it would have been my works, I would have worked like a slave. What I mean by that, is that if it was my work, let me go go back to society? Do you think that the CEO works more than what you work at your workplace? I doubt it. The CEO doesn't work more than what you work. But do you earn the same salary? Hell no. Hell no. If you are on the ground, you literally work an 8 to 5 job. Straight. But the CEO can go and have a 20 minute talk with somebody on the golf course and get a million dollar deal. If it's your work, you got it wrong. If you think it's the effort that you put in that will make you to see the outcome, you are wrong. I sometimes feel like I can I can say Lord make me lazy you know why I am saying make me lazy because the lesser you do the more the lesser you do the more things you do that is more quality our job should not be the job of God you can't get people to give their lives to Jesus no it not your job you can talk Jesus but leave it at that so many times people think that it's the me that makes them to come to the Lord how many times you will you will push people away by talking when are you taking God as your Lord and Savior you push them more away because every time they see you want to talk this thing again why not live the life that proves that God is good so that they can use that as a measuring tape to see how good God is if it is your works you will fail big time because if it is your works what is the scripture talking about that when you are weak he comes even stronger why that scripture because that scripture to me says that become lesser so that he can become more in you I don't want to sound too religious but let me ask you have you ever thought of it this way why is it that anytime you go in fasting and prayer Suddenly The things that you are fasting and praying about Comes to pass It is never about the fasting and the prayer It's about emptying yourself So that God can fill you The Wi-Fi router The Wi-Fi router needs to be fixed I mean, if I go back, man, to where I was a child or any child, let's not take myself because I might be a bad example, but let's take any child. will ask you for food knowing that you will provide they don't they don't you know like they won't say you remember yesterday you said there's no food in the cupboard today i'm still asking you there's no food in the cupboard no they don't talk about yesterday they talk about now he said the bible says it in matthew 7 which which of you if your son asks for bread will give him a stone that's the fate of a son let me go to proverbs 3 verse 5. let me let me um also put some bible in because the way i'm talking and not giving you scriptures You might think that I'm I'm just Talking If I don't give you scriptures That goes with it It might sound like I'm just Talking out of my own here Proverbs 3 verse 5 Says the following Trust in the Lord with all Thine heart and lead not Unto thine own understanding Now the trust we're talking about there In Proverbs It's Bata The Hebrew word for it It's meaning to lean entirely Upon without fear of collapse Without fear of collapse I should actually say this Your trust should be so much that you trust God entirely without looking at your wallet because your wallet will fail you some of the things that we we gone through when was it it was about three months back son when you're when you're normal actually four or five months back when your phone broke I told you that i don have the money and that was like i think it was a day or two before and the next day i took the phone to go and fix it isn it i think but i told you i didn't have money but his faith was so much that he just said i must fix his phone and the the trust that he put in me made me to think that i don't want to disappoint him the one i want to go to pnn and car fierce whatever that name like they had a they had this thing at school and this week is is in this week 11 this week like it you know mampara week my you know not mampara mampara week is that one before pd is is bad like anything that you wanna do there's nothing and she just said she wanted she wanted to go there for weird reason I had money She didn't ask me for my wallet She asked me to go there And she went This is the thing that I say Sometimes our router Is the problem You're trying to reset it Sometimes But it's still not working Have you seen anytime there's a problem with this box thing what is this box thing that we're using the box thing I kept on saying to you unplug it and plug it back in there ma sometimes we need to step away from the problem and reset actually that's I should have I started from the back to the front now I'm I'm supposed to ok ne ne ne let me let me go to my notes now what I mean by this is that sometimes we need to update our firmware you know the router sometimes it doesn't work because of the the mind has too much takatakas happening inside these two ears like inside is so many rubbish that has been added into your head that you need your firmware to be updated and this is where the romans 12 verse 2 says renew your mind so that is how you can fix your router by renewing your mind how do you renew your mind especially when all circumstances tells you otherwise do you know you know i was i was specifically reminded about a few months back i can't remember but it was a few months back where i was struggling and the conversation I had with God was that, please God, I don't have the means to get to because it was like a gathering that they had I don't have the means to go to that gathering because I don't have the money to go there and money was my excuse. So whenever they were speaking to me, I would say, I don't have money. I went there and came back and I still had money to buy food. When I came back and I'm talking about I didn't have to go, but when I come back, I still had so much more that I could actually buy some food because at home there was nothing. Sometimes we just need to take this thing. Do you know a kid, when they are young, their minds can literally do anything In their minds they can do anything I was looking at a video on a social platform somewhere Now, this child was having a chicken. And he had a bike. He put up the bike and he put the chicken on that bike saddle. And the chicken didn't fly away anyway. It's because in his mind, he didn't know that the chicken can actually run away. And the chicken won't be sitting on the saddle like this. He picked up the bicycle, and it happened. Exactly what he wanted. to happen but with us sometimes we overthink things because of our past experience do you know that your past experience has nothing to do with your Imagine Your past experience Will keep on Failing you because you Rely on the past And not on God The same What can I do What can I make an example of There was a time I couldn't play a keyboard And I used to struggle To get the chords And anytime whenever somebody asks me to play a song I would say, ah, I only know this one song Because of past experience I know I can only play that one song this morning I actually I was actually surprised that I can make a song flow from one to another to another without thinking Because to be, I have to... Let me make an example. You're awesome in this place, mighty God You're awesome in this place, I'm a father You were your face To you all our spirit For you are awesome in this place Mighty God And whilst I'm singing there You are awesome in this place Mighty God You're awesome in this place I'm a father You are ready of a place To you and life spirit You're awesome in this place Mighty God And then And if we stand together we can make a change And it can only work through us if we are one How can the world see Christ if that But what I'm trying to say is that when I play one song I must literally stop to think how the other song will flow into this one and yet I've surprised myself by not going back to where I used to be because if I keep on thinking that I don't know a song it will not let me flow into the next one and that is the reason why I am saying to you that don let the past dictate what you can do today In danger yes Do you know the past can tell you not to put your hand on the stove Even though the stove is cold, you will know not to put your hand on the stove if ever you've come across a situation where you've put your hand on the stove and you've burned. that's the only time for reference of hurting yourself, you can go back but renew your firm way renew your mind go clear the cachet the cache, I don't know how do you say that word clear that because if you let go of past disappointments. I don't want to go to that past disappointments because this is what happened. Honesty is the best policy. Let me be honest. I trusted so much on my father some years ago that he will be able to give me 8,000 rand. I literally literally trusted at that time I was trusting on him he was my last resort because the electricity in our house was switched off for about 3 months and I couldn't let the kids be struggling like that going to this guy pouring 8000 ring he told me no I don't have and the way he said it I'm not going to add that one but how he said it is that I don't have but I have for something else anytime whenever I need to ask him something I'm reminded of that that disappointment that when I asked him I couldn even today when I look at whatever I need to I need I not going to him to ask for it I make another plan because of that But what if today his financial difficulties is different than what it used to be And I can go to him now and ask for it Mark 11 verse 25 He says, And when ye stand praying, forgive, and ye have ought against any, that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive your trespasses. I should just let it go and forgive him. and do you know how your faith can be boosted is to reconnect it daily back to God in prayer the Bible says faith cometh by hearing and hearing not just any hearing but the word of God So if you want your Feet to be boosted You need to reconnect it daily With the source of feet What is the source of feet? See him Op my kas Is oogtrippels Ek weet Ek gaan nie weet hoe Om ek even te gebruik As you Maak kom, let's say, gooi up So, how to Reconnect your faith Daily Is by prayer And by reading the word of God Sometimes It's very nice to go to a church and then the church give testimonies. Ma, do you know that testimonies is the thing that makes us sometimes to be more of a how can I explain? The testimonies makes us more like I don know how to explain it like it gives us that wow if he can do it i can also encourage yeah it encourages and some people makes the devil not want them to go to church because when they go to church the devil knows that they will be encouraged therefore they're not going to go too many life things happen around you and your focus is so much on oh i'm sorry i need to eat by 12 o'clock so let me cook the food first before i go to church and you end up not going because the devil knows that if he can if you can step foot in church you will be so much encouraged that your faith will be boosted don't worry me i'll just go online and watch what if online is the things that is not make sense like sometimes when you listen to something there and you listen to it afterwards, it doesn't have the same spirit that it came with. It doesn't make the same impact than what you came with. So, connect to that. I sometimes wonder, if I go back to my faith, the more I'm not in church, the more I'm drifting further away from God. Ma, it's like Wi-Fi. If you are in this house, you can get the Zal Palace Wi-Fi like nobody's business. But just move to that gate and pass it. The connection, gone. I'm not saying come to church, but I'm saying connection. your wi-fi router is not the problem connect sometimes we we even swipe our our um credit cards and uh cards you can't see the money you like you only see the card But you have faith in the money It's the same thing that we sometimes need to Be aware of is that Regardless of whatever happens in my life I will trust God entirely I will put so much faith into God Because of His systems Not our own Because when I talk about His systems It's like You're swiping the card Knowing Where the bank account is And that's the bank account of God Because God Says it this way He says What's that There's a scripture I'm looking for now Specifically Let me just see if I can get that scripture quickly Or should I bother Okay, let me Let me Let me rather say this way In Genesis somewhere Let me not say what is the scripture But in Genesis somewhere He says the earth belongs to God not not the universe I don't see him saying anything about the universe but he says the earth I want to see if I can get the scripture so that I can I can be able to Okay no let me just leave it now Let go to Haggai It like the scripture is something like the earth belongs to God and all that within it Something like. Is it some? Is it? you see my but but whatever that one that scripture i'm talking about now but but i'm let me leave that one and go to a high guy Haggai 2 from verse 8 Haggai 2 from verse 8 The silver is mine and the gold is mine said the Lord of hosts No, he doesn't say whatever, he says it's mine Then it goes on, the glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former says the lord of hosts and in this place will i give peace save the lord of hosts so what he says is this house is mine can i tell you this house i'm bragging about bringing rights r z r d and r zal is put on the title deed it's not mine god says this house is mine when you say let me let me make an example you say ah this house is mine then the spirit of god says are you sure are you sure my dwelling place is for my glory when you say the money is mine he says uh-huh oh you say that let's go to high guy again then he says silver gold is mine sometimes we need to understand that once you you tell yourself you are as broke as hell you don't have anything everything that you own or have belongs to god it makes life easier because you're not entitled to it because once we are entitled it's it's not realigning what God's will for us I I'm of the opinion you know sometimes our opinions doesn't make sense but i'm of the opinion that when i when i came to the lord i had so many flaws and failures that to me it felt like I will never be able to stuck in this Christianity or having a relationship with God I was so bad that I felt like maybe somewhere down the line I will fall off yet we're talking about 25 years back and I'm still standing The devil has given me Warm clapper He gave me But yet I am stuck Not by my own Power because remember Ricardo on his own Can't do anything Yet God can Second Corinthians 1 verse 20 you know this scripture is such a nice scripture i don't know if anybody tells me otherwise i sorry but this scripture is a second corinthians 1 verse 20 2nd Corinthians 1 verse 20 It's amper like The best of the best For all the promises of God in Him Are ye And in Him Amen unto the glory of God by us. All the promises are yea and amen. Meaning to say that you can say whatever you want to if God promised something, it's done. It is done. That's the kind of Wi-Fi from heaven. Wi-Fi that is stable. Wi-Fi that is unlimited. Wi-Fi that is reachable anyway. The air is filled with Wi-Fi signals. Whether you see it or not, it's real. Complacent. Maybe there on the farm, you will struggle. God's Wi-Fi doesn't even struggle there. I'm the omnipresent God. God's promises are like that. Always present. Always, always, always broadcasting. Although you don't see it. Whether you see it or not, God is there. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Regardless of how hard it is It will still come through for you You might not feel it at that moment When you're going through it But when you look back and say Ah, ah, ah Mamrut, can I ask you something? I want to Die Kuntlong Dabe West Street I'm just asking when you look back have you ever thought that this would be possible the way i mean you you were there you were already having mind to understand just picture those thoughts of you when you go to other people's houses how were you like you were saying i wish one day daddy and mommy can mark plan So if God can take you from there What makes him not to take you From where you are to greater There is nothing that says that We are not allowed to have it Because the Bible is saying For all the promises of God In him are yes and in him are amen you know the rotor sometimes is your heart where you need to get your heart in line because sometimes our heart is so broken sometimes you cannot pick up the signal because of the heart being in pieces you see according to your faith be it unto you this was a scripture in Matthew 9 verse 29 let me go to Matthew 9 verse 29 Matthew 9 verse 29 9 verse 29 he says let me start Let me start by 25 now But when the people were put forth He went in and took her by the hand And the maid arose And the flame thereof went abroad Into all that land And when Jesus departed thence Two blind men followed him Crying and saying Thou son of David Have mercy on us And when he was He was come into the house The blind man came to him And Jesus said unto him Believe ye that I am able to do this they said unto him yay lord then touches he their eyes saying according to your faith be it unto you like like like god was asking are you sure you understand are you sure that you're asking me and you you know i can do it is so many times we have to ask the question God I know you can do it I am not able can you do it can you do it these are the things that we go through constantly but because of doubt there's a firewall blocking us to get to our signal. There's a password that we need to enter to get that signal from the router. There's a way of... Sometimes you just have to understand, and I'm saying it again, faith is the router that aligns you with the source. what is the source God somebody who has a problem with a BMW car when he goes back to the manufacturer they will exactly know where the fault is and that's how we need to go back to the source who has created us knowing what we need without being a person that put this one higher than the other one what does that scripture say is that he doesn't have favoritism he doesn't have favoritism he doesn't favor you more than he favors me no hell no me ugly me do you think he favors me more than you no he doesn i too ugly that he can favor me more than you You just need to find that that router that aligns you, which is your fate to be lifted. Sometimes, you know, there's circumstances versus covenants. Because when you're looking at Abram there, Abram, old, weak. It was impossible for him to be having a child. But he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Romans 4 verse 20 Giving glory to God. Romans 4 verse 20 Your circumstances screams impossible it's impossible I cannot connect to the route, my router can't connect to the source but the government your covenant whisper ah it's already done it's done it's like wifi we don't see it here but you know it's there That's how faith also works You don't see the faith But it's there If you put on You switch on the That thing, the switch there by electricity The lights come on You don't call ESCOM first and say Hey Brad, can I switch it on? Is there electricity yet? You don't keep on saying that You just switch on knowing or believing That there will be electricity You don't ask him Do you still have power on your grid? No You just believe that the system Whenever you switch It's on Faith is your switch Faith is your switch I mean sometimes we look at this what this thing called um these phones uh i trying to think what is that thing called man um there's this thing on the phone there's this thing on the phone that um gps man ish ish yeah i sometimes look at the look at the gps that gps will make you to route but yet the end destination will still be the end destination because when you trust you will take up that destination even when you've never been there before you will trust in that GPS system has God made the GPS you don't know because God gives the idea to somebody and somebody executed it because nowhere in the Bible it says and God created GPS so how can you rely on GPS that is not created by God GPS that is created by man and yet you trust that one more than what you trust God because Bible doesn't say and on this eighth day God created GPS and electricity he didn't he didn't say that that is when Abraham was said Go to a land I will show you In Genesis 12 Abraham He didn't even care He just Let's go Let's go If your kids doesn't worry about Tomorrow's bread Why would you If your wifi is already there The promise already has been released The only question is, is your router aligned? Bible says, fear not. flock for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom it's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom there's a there's a there's a there's another one uh uh what's this uh the scripture for uh luke 12 luke 12 32. luke 12 32 says fear not little flock, for it's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Cory Tempun said it this way. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. if ever there was a time when you were in a situation where you could not trust God remember it's God only it's God only Lord fix my faith connection and I will trust you like a child again if there's anybody that that is here today and feel like their faith has been failing them ask god who is generous in giving ask god who is generous in giving let us pray james 1 verse 6 if we pray this this is this is something that i need us to live with first j i mean james 1 sorry why can't i see james here james 1 james 1 verse 6 and this is my prayer for you and i end with this but let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavers is like a wave of sea driven with the wind tossed. Driven with the wind But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavered is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed so let's go back and keep on praying james 1 verse 6 over our lives it's almost like when you're looking at it it's ask in faith with no doubting what is it that you need to ask God in faith without any doubt today without any doubt today what is it because if you ask in faith that this water will not be having poison. Imagine any time whenever you want to drink water, your prayer is always, God, please let us not be having poison. And you drink. Anytime when you drink water And you drink it with doubt You will be killed by poison one day Anytime when you switch The electricity switch And you say I hope you are not failing me today Eskom will keep on failing you anytime whenever you go come into the house and you already know you have been connected with the wifi password already and I've not kicked you off you just open your phone and you check ah there the messages comes it doesn't matter whatever you can't come every time when the Wi-Fi password has been given to you and you've been connected. You can keep on asking for a password again if you know you are connected for god has connected us already he has not been changing his password faith is substance the password is faith faith has never been changed ever ever ever Since the days of Abraham, faith has still stayed faith. If it never changed, it's been reconnecting you every time whenever you go back and then you run away from the Wi-Fi, the router. The further you run away, the lesser faith you'll be having. So sometimes I'm asking myself, why is it that we keep on knocking our heads on the same wall? Because it's the same wall that told us before to have faith. Jesus Bishop there's a there's a house that you had before you moved out in faith you did not think of it at that time do you know what happened God's pressure has been put on you it's time to up God's pressure sometimes his pressure is the reason why we feel like our faith is not enough because our standards against God's standards haha there no check check GORP standard you you are you are going to be in trouble we talking about we talking about about wi-fi here oops wi-fi is off the wi-fi you are using may require you to visit 192.1 and the phone I have now God has a sense of humor God has a sense of humor serious serious Bishop I can show you here connect to Wi-Fi I'm talking about Wi-Fi God You are You are Powerful, thank you my Lord It's just one more Showing or proving He's God See him I'm switching off now Plug him out Bishop read this thing It says Internet disconnected No SIM card is inserted Into the device Please insert SIM And restart device And then try again today of all days let us get reconnected with God let us get reconnected with God our feet has been struggling us to move forward let us get back to our fate i'm going to leave it here today because the thing i can tell you now this everything here is like it's moving along with the message. Have I ever told you that there's a problem with the Wi-Fi before? No. I've never told you anything about the Wi-Fi. Anytime I'm busy, I just go. When the electricity is off, I always have the backup plan. action needed for Wi-Fi says this is action needed for Wi Yeah, that's it. No, the Wi-Fi is totally gone now. This is a sign that if ever we go to our actual start of our message, fix the router. Fix the router. and I said to you faith that connects you to heaven's supply is our router it our router you have faith 11 you you have faith that i will pay your school fees now because you don't care me i go to school whether you have the money or not and this school is worse if you skip here you will hear it they're not like I almost said something but other schools other schools they are lenient government schools they are lenient they say to you no don't worry we trust that we will make it up private schools different story ask this man here it's three months now Fate gives us all this Faith is our router Which of you if your son asks for bread will give him a stone? Done. Dusted. We trust. So meaning to lean entirely upon without fear of collapse That's the faith and the trust that Proverbs 3 verse 5 says. Proverbs 3 verse 5, that trust, the Hebrew trust, which is but her, to lean entirely upon without fear of collapse. Heavenly Father, without fear, without anything, our faith this morning has been lifted because we know through our faith you are God you are awesome in this place mighty God