Your Struggles Aren't Wasting Your Life-They're Building You for Something

I thank the Lord this morning. The Lord that has been so faithful, faithful throughout the weeks and when I say weeks, I don't mean this week only, I mean weeks ahead because we have been going through so many things but today we are standing and standing in His presence and therefore the songwriter says it so nicely, here I am waiting, abiding me, abiding me oh Lord there I may know you more and more. That's what the songwriter says, the songwriter says it so nicely that I may know Him and when you know Him you will know that certain things can only be true when you see through the eyes that He sees you because if you don't see through the eyes that God is seeing you, you will obviously be literally seeing anybody else and everybody else and you will be looking at anything that happened, some challenges happened and here we stand. Certain challenges happen and still we're standing, more challenges happening and still we're standing. So this morning as we are standing thanking Him for time like this, a time where He gathered us together as a family to know that because of Him we cannot be going anywhere except to His side. So this morning my message is entitled Made in China, you might be asking what's happening, Made in China, what are you talking about? But I want to bring some questions to you this morning and these questions when you answer them you will actually realize what is happening. So I want us to read out of Exodus, Exodus 2 verse 3. But when she could hide Him no longer, she got a paper basket for Him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. My God bless His holy word. Now the Bible says it so nicely in the scripture that there was a baby that was born. I'm going to give you the background of this or I'm going to say a few things just so that you can understand where this word comes from. Now the word in Exodus 2 verse 3 says, and when she could no longer hide Him, she took Him an ark of bulrushes and doubted it would slime and would pitch and put the child there in and she laid it in the flakes by the river's bank. Now the Bible says when she no longer could hide Him, many of us has been hidden for far too long and God is saying that this morning it's time to come out of hiding. What does hiding mean? It's time to come out of hiding. It's time to come out of where you've been because when one of the things that you went through is you actually, like we are saying in an African saying, I pulled a small head. Now what does it mean? What does it mean when somebody has been going in hiding? Somebody who has been going in hiding got a lot of words like you are useless. You can't even think. You can't even look after your children. You can't even see how to do pop. You can't even cook pop. And every word that they given to you has been putting yourself into hiding. So this morning I want to say to you and I want to declare and decree that this morning you will come out of hiding from where you've been for far too long. I want to decree and declare that as we go through this message Jesus will pull you out of your put where you've been for far too long and I want to decree and declare that this morning as you hear this word God will actually elevate you from where you've been in hiding. God will actually take you up to where you need to be because of this message this morning. The message that is saying that are you made in China? No, you're not made in China. You are fearfully and wonderfully made in his image. Therefore I want to declare and declare because you are fearfully and wonderfully made in his image. You will not be made in China. Therefore you will stand strong this morning. You will not be something that has been made in China to break down anytime when the adversaries comes to you. So this morning I want to say to you you are not made in China. You are fearfully and wonderfully made by Jesus himself. So this morning I want to declare and declare by this word this morning as you go through this word and you hear what the word of God is saying according to your life you will hear the Spirit of God will say to you that you are no one's plating. You are not a doormat that somebody can walk over you. So this morning you are not a doormat of your financial situations. I declare and declare that you will come out of your financial decisions. I declare and declare that this morning as you are sitting here you are not a doormat in your relationship. You will come out as a strong one in your relationship. As this morning's message goes out I declare and declare that anytime whenever they've been looking at you look as if you are nothing you will become something this morning by this message in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Now the Bible says it so nicely that the woman let me let me go a few verses back and there went a woman of the house of Levi and took to a wife of daughter of Levi and the woman conceived and bore a son and when she saw him that he was a goodly child she hid him three months and when she could no longer hide him she took him for an ark of bulrushes and doubted and slandered. Now the person that is spoke about here is was about to be killed because every child was about to be killed as a boy at that time. So Moses was hidden in the bulrushes. Now where the mother hid him was in a place where it was water it was on a on a on a watery place. Now the nicest part about this is that you have been prepared for a time like this. The nicest thing is that when when Moses at the time at the time that he was he was hidden his mother didn't know that he was she was actually preparing him for a time that is about to come. God is preparing you for a time that is about to come and that is the reason why you go through so many things that you are going through. You've been going through so many difficulties that you can't actually understand why God why me why is thing so tough why is it so hard for me to just move from one place to another why is it so tough for me to just move from from just just being somebody who's has nothing just to move from somebody who have nothing but make something because when I look at it sometimes you find yourself but God I I've got a child at an early age because of getting a child at an early age now I couldn't even go and further my studies. Now God is saying I have prepared you for a time where you will actually realize the sooner you realize for that time that has come that time is actually made for you because this time is an appointed time that will make you to think back why were they hiding you because your mother hid you because she knew that the thing that you have within you is a goodly thing. That is why that is why when when when the mother of Moses says when she saw him that he was a goodly child she hid him three months. Imagine God saying to you that I've been putting you in hiding not for somebody to kill you because certain times whenever you go at your workplace you you can't understand but why they don't see the work I'm doing every time I'm working I'm working so hard they don't understand how come I've been working so hard and nobody is seeing me. God is saying this morning that is actually has been hiding you for a long time for an appointed time where you will come out and I will tell you how you will come out because of when you come out you will actually realize wow wow wow wow when you got that child when you were young young at age you couldn't understand how am I going to make through it with this child how am I going to study how am I going to work how am I going to to look people in the face because every time whenever they look at me they will say oh but you you got your child at a young age you I and I don't want you to think of those words that came to you at the time whenever your child was saying to you but mommy I don't have food this morning I'm hungry I'm hungry please make a plan by that time God was putting you in hiding to make sure that you know what it is not to have food at the time. God has been putting you in a in hiding so that you can you can actually realize that whenever you do have that food it will be such a blessing so this morning God has been putting you in hiding when when when things were tough it was tough when you were actually being in that in that relationship the relationship went from this then to that then from that side then to this then to that and then at the end of the day you couldn't understand but God any time are going to a relationship this relationship just doesn't last it doesn't last at all it takes only a few months then the guy said to me sorry you have to go then you couldn't realize but you can't keep a relationship then somebody comes to your way and you think to yourself wow this is the best one I've ever seen and then you realize but this one also only lasted three months God was preparing you for somebody God was preparing you for somebody God was preparing you for somebody God was preparing you for somebody the person that will take note of anything that you are doing how well of a good person that you are you are a goodly son you are somebody that has been put away or put separately for a reason and God has made that reason so that you cannot be having somebody that will take you for a nobody you will have somebody that will bring out the you in you and not somebody else because most of the time the reason why somebody doesn't have a long lasting relationship is because they want to change the person that you are and because of you you cannot change to somebody else's standards that's the reason God has hide you from people that is not right for you and because of that you will stand out and have a relationship that will flourish this morning God want to tell me that that when when when you went into business and the business partner said to you no no no I don't want to be doing business with you God said I have been putting you in hiding you thought that that business partner was the person that will bring you to a level where wow it will be such a great blessing to be in business with this person but then suddenly the person dropped you God has been putting you in hiding he has been hiding you from the person that when you will realize a few years or months from there you will actually realize the person go into something that you are not ready for or that you your spirit is not in line with so this morning I want to decree and declare that anytime when God put you in hiding and you feel that this is not the right thing it is actually something that will come to you that wow this was a good thing that I've been in hiding because this is what happened to the story of Moses as the story goes on Moses was in hiding his mother was putting him in hiding thinking that whoa I don't want my child to be killed and then suddenly when she did that as the scriptures goes on and then and when she no she no longer could hide him she took him an ark of bulrushes sent out into a slime with pitch and put the child there in and she laid it in a flex by the rivers bank and his and his sister stood afar of to what what would be done to him because the sister was was was was standing there and then and the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and a maiden walked along by the riverside and when she saw the ark among the flag she sent her mate to fetch it now now this is what happened picture this somebody is standing putting something in hiding somebody is looking as you put something in hiding now God has been looking up on you thinking that I need to hide this one for reason and then what then happened is suddenly the sister looked at it and then as her sister was looking and the daughter of Pharaoh comes and when she she opened it she saw the child and behold the baby wept and as the baby is crying imagine somebody who has a mother's heart the moment when somebody a child is crying nobody wants actually that child to cry they also want to comfort the child and immediately when the child was crying was was weeping and she had compassion on him and said this is one of the Hebrew children picture this is your father or your your leader that want to kill somebody and you that has a say in it comes and witness this what will you think I mean if you look at it this is this is a daughter of Pharaoh who want to kill the people or the children let me say that way now the daughter has compassion over this child and then the next thing the child says all right I'm going to cry now and then the daughter has compassion the moment the daughter has compassion and then this is what then happened your your blessing has been hiding and somebody saw you like for argument's sake when you're looking at your workplace every time when you work there's somebody that look at your job saying wow this one is working very nicely any time whenever whenever you go out there and walk in the street thinking that nobody is seeing you somebody is watching you what are you doing because of somebody who's watching you what are you doing they actually are preparing you to make sure that whenever your time arise to be uplifted they will they will mention your name there so therefore this morning you are not made in China you are made fearfully and wonderfully made in in God's image and being in God's image anytime when you stand up they see God beside you they see God within you they see God surrounding you and that is the reason why whenever you go through a lot of things it is actually only you that doesn't see the true you I will repeat that whenever you are standing and you standing in your circumstances and you standing in your fights with the devil as you call it oh the devil has been fighting with the devil has been do this doing that and this and the other as you were standing there the only one that couldn't see your true potential was yourself this the the people surrounding you will tell you but didn't you over you not the one that can actually do one two or three I remember my wife at the first time when I when I started giving somebody a word and I would doubt myself and I would they have so much fear of saying it to a person my wife would always say come on you can speak don't be afraid and then most of the time whenever she said go and said it and I said it I felt better afterwards because I didn't believe in myself at first but now whenever I speak to somebody I said I am NOT speaking to you in a manner that that I don't trust anymore I trust fully in the in the presence of God whenever God give me a word to say to you and I need to go into the prophetic what I will do is I will say God not not my will but let your will be done and the moment I enter into that realms where I say not my will and become smaller on myself and bigger that's when the the the power of God step in and makes it so nicely because of the that is the reason why after 22 years of being with God I can boldly stand and say regardless of whatever I say whenever I decree a thing it will come to pass because God has said it and here I'm standing truly believing in it and I'm not saying I can stand in my own because I know on my own I can't do anything only through God's grace I can do something and therefore that is the reason why we say fountain of grace where the grace will find everyone fountain of grace grace will found you regardless of whatever you are saying you will be found this morning I want to say to you that as we become the person that God wants you to be the person that God already been putting you as who you are this morning I want to say to you wherever you go and you look at your finances like this and you're saying to yourself oh my word what is going to happen if I use this one one rent to buy for my kid just a sweet what is going to happen if I don't use this one rent to buy bread instead instead I buy I buy for the kids sweets this is one of the things that you should know is that the moment you say God less of me and more of you less of me and more of you the more you allow him to take charge over your life the more you rely on him the more you have faith in him the more you move towards him the more you will actually realize that everything else is just mere a formality and when I talk about the formality I'm saying a formality meaning to say that certain things whenever you you you have to go to a interview when you go into that interview God already obtained a time and place for you to go and work but every time you get into a interview every time you get into an interview you every time saying to yourself I was a failure I was a failure in that interview God prepared you for that interview to prepare you for a better interview because at the time when you didn't get the work you were actually preparing to get another job and God has already been orchestrating it so nicely for you to get that job because of obviously the job that you went for the interview was not the one that will make you to be better off so therefore whenever you go into yourself saying and saying I'm standing on my own God want to make sure that he proves to you that you cannot stand on your own you can't whenever you stand on your own it's where you start getting a big head so it's on saying Africans I create group so once you get a big head you are actually telling yourself no no no no no me I can do me I can that me I can this me I can that me I can that and God sees at the back of it saying oh okay so now you are boasting you are boasting about yourself you are boasting about yourself I want to show you this is what I'm going to prove to you that in your boasting you have not boast about me let me prove to you come down to earth come down to earth you've been in the clouds for far too long come down to earth come down to earth you've been in the clouds for far too long and God will bring you down to the level where you're supposed to be now Moses this is what happened Moses now got hidden so they hide Moses in the river now Moses was hidden in the river now remember the first thing that happened to Moses being hidden in the river now if you go alone you will actually as you go and see Moses ways that he does you will actually realize that Moses has been prepared for the Red Sea because every time things happen where there's water now Moses fights he wanted every time when there was water surrounding him I can go to a few of things but just because of of time I won't but I just want to I just want to show you what happened now here Moses got his feet first victory where God actually placed him onto the river the second victory that he got is also when he's soon to become wife Zipporah went to go and fetch water and somebody was disturbing him there come Moses and says hey I don't want you to be disturbing these ladies go and as they went Moses actually helped them to get the water so that was a that was a victory upon water as well and that is how he then met Zipporah now Zipporah's father or must I say Moses step Moses father-in-law now Moses father-in-law said to Zipporah but why did you leave this guy at the waters and he was helping you can't you go and call this guy and let him have some something to eat with us let him have some a feast with us and there when he came the father actually gave him his wife at the time so there was already where he also won something through water now when fire was hot headed God also said to him take your rot and strike upon upon the water the water will turn into blood so water was there as well so I'm just going through a few just to let you know that God has been preparing you for a time like this God has been preparing you for time like this any time whenever you go through the waters God is saying to you I am making you strong to stand in the water now your water might be something else because Moses has some waters that is we've been going through a lot of waters that has been preparing him up to the time where he was supposed to to be having or not supposed to where he was actually taking the victory by gaining all of Pharaoh's men and people through the Red Sea and as he was departing the Red Sea and the enemy were coming behind him that he actually closed the waters and the enemies were swiped away God has preparing him from the day that he actually was supposed to be killed that is when God was preparing him in the water there now I'm coming back to say that your water might not be water or your situation might not be water maybe you are going through a difficulty financial situation God is preparing you to have a financial situation so that your financial situation will bring somebody out of financial disturbance somebody out of financial problems some you are supposed to be the one that take out somebody out of the financial difficulties that they are going through because through your struggling with finances and then at the end of the time they changing it for better any time whenever your finances has been hit by a certain thing you're actually are taking to your level where you will be standing with financial things in your hand where you have been going through relationships anytime whenever the first relationship was a was a must God is preparing you to actually have a better relationship because some people when they get born the father ran away or the mother ran away and then there God is preparing you for having better relationships to help others who doesn't have relationships as well I'm just making an example if you have been left by your father or your mother at the age of a one year three months six months ten years whatever the case may be you will soon realize that as time goes on you have learned how to handle relationships better therefore God has been preparing you for having better relationships as you're going I can go on and on and on and I can explain to you the reason why you are going through what the reason that you've been going through because God has been preparing you for a time like this many a times we say no no no but I've been staying in Mkuku for many years and I've been staying in Mkuku for many years I can't go out even my father died in Mkuku it is not for you to die in Mkuku you are supposed to be taking them out you are the Moses of your family the Moses of your family you are supposed to go stand up and stand up to the king the kings of this world because there are forces in this world that stand and every time whenever you fail they actually say well done you have failed and then when you stand up against them and say Faro I can't let my family take this anymore and you stand up and say this Mkuku life is over I'm taking over charge of it from today that is God has been preparing you to understand how it is to live in Mkuku then when you go through your mansion to your mansion then you actually realize I was supposed to stay in that Mkuku and look after that Mkuku so that by the time I gain my palace where I stay in a better place you will actually realize wow now I'm taking care of every little tile in the house because I started from where I started now I'm starting from where God has been placing me so any situation that you've been going through this morning anytime when you've been going through it ask yourself is this my situation that God has been preparing me for forward because if I can go through this I know God will keep on preparing me and he keep on preparing me and therefore when my children pass on at the tender age which was not even 15 years of age God has been preparing me to say that whenever there is somebody that has died somewhere and the family is in bereavement I can go through them and say to them you see when God took my mother my father my two children at the same time now I can actually speak to them nicely because God has been preparing me to go through that and stand where I am today so therefore when your problem is big see that you are not made in China because when your problem is the bigger your problem is the bigger your victory becomes because of now when you see a big problem no problem is too big or too small a problem is a problem regardless whether it's big whether it's small it's only through your perception that you see there's a big problem because so many solutions has been come there's no problem without the solution otherwise it is not a problem and you should be moving on because anytime whenever there's a problem there is a solution and God has always been saying I am the solution is just for you to move into the solution because many times whenever somebody is actually saying I am having one two and three kind of problems and God steps in and says let us start from the beginning the beginning is me I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning in the end and when once you've given it to God it's already the first problem solve and the first problem is to acknowledge that you cannot stand on your own because that is the biggest problem that men have and men have been having that problem ever since that knowing that I cannot stand on my own is a oh I can't stand on my own is the biggest problem that people have because once you stand on your own you cannot give God glory and the glory only belongs to God so once that problem has been resolved that is when you say wow I'm actually made the fearful and wonderful in his image I am an apple of his eye I am what he says I am I have become the head and not the tail I have become what God has said I am and therefore this morning I want to say to you that you are a peculiar person you are peculiar people you are made in his image and therefore you are not made in China you are made in his image in God's image in God's image in God's image in God's image in God's image in God's image in God's image in God's image in God's image you are made in God's image not in China so therefore this morning I want to come to you and I want to I want to prophesied to you this morning that everywhere you go people will see that you have been made in God's image everywhere you go whenever you step up and stand on your own you and the moment you realize that you stand on your own i prophesy that God will make you to realize that he is the one that you should stand on and i give you a prophetic word the moment you realize that God says that you stand not on your own then only God will move into your life so this morning as i bring my message to an end i prophesy that this morning wherever you go this week whenever you see opportunities of having the problems there you will see solutions every time whenever you see that people are saying to you whoa you you've been hiding for so long that is when you will actually see wow God has been hiding me for for a long time just so i'm being prepared for this week so this morning i want to prophesy to you as you go onto this week wherever there's a relationship issue you will see the relationships will soar like an eagle everywhere you will go you will have a better relationship so this morning i prophesy to you that this morning as you go out this week and then you go through this week wherever you're working you at your workplace you will be seen as the solution person that you are you will be seen as a problem solver problem solver you'll be seeing a problem solver you've been seeing as a problem solver you've been seen as a problem solver so problem solver go out there and take over where the problems is every time whenever you see a problem you will have a solution because God will give you solutions this morning solutions for your marriage i prophesy God will give you solutions for your relationships God will give you a solution for your for your finances. God will give you a problem whenever there's a problem in your financial situation. God will give you a solution for that as well. Anywhere, everywhere you go where there's a problem on your health, God will give you a solution for your health now in the mighty name of Jesus. Wherever you go and there's a problem with the rent, God will give you a solution for your rent. You will see solutions everywhere, everywhere you go. God will give you solutions this week. I prophesied in the mighty name of Jesus Christ this morning. As you go wherever you don't have anything to wear to a function, God will give you a solution to wear the things and you will look even better than those ones that had it before. Your problems will come, but God will give you solutions for every problem that you will come. And everywhere you go and you think that you are made in China, God will show you that you are made in this image. And therefore in the mighty name of Jesus, I prophesied to you this morning that as you open your mouth, words of wisdom will come out of your mouth and you will see the solutions out of your mouth that will come in the mighty name of Jesus. I prophesied this morning that as you go out in the world this week, everywhere you step your foot on, demons will tremble and they will run away because of the solutions that you give, because they give problems and God will give you solutions. It will be the same. I prophesied in the mighty name of Jesus as you come and give God's word. As he was saying to Satan, I cannot live by bread alone, but by the word, the power of the word that comes out of God's mouth. I prophesied this morning as you proclaim God's word. Everything that you proclaim will come to pass. You just have to take it and say, this is mine. This is mine. This is mine. The other thing is mine. This one is mine. That one is mine. That one is mine. That one is mine. As you're saying, this is mine. This is mine. Everything, everything that comes to you will be of a blessing to others because anytime whenever you are a blessing to others, you become more of a blessing because whatever you sow, God will multiply. Whatever you sow, God will multiply. Anything that comes to you and you sow it back, God will multiply. Anytime when somebody says to you that, wow, the word that you gave to me was such a wonderful word. The more words God will give to you to give to others, the more you sow that word, the more you will have more words to give to others. In the mighty name of Jesus. So this morning I prophesied now in the mighty name of Jesus that everywhere you go, you will see solutions. Solutions is yours. Solutions is yours this morning. In the mighty name of Jesus, solutions is yours. Heavenly Father, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior, as we came to this service this morning, glorifying you first for the God. I pray that anyone that has been under the sound of my voice, whether online, whether here for the God, I pray for them under the sound of my voice for the God. Let them see the solutions clear for the God because any solution that they have been seeing and it was vague for the God, open their eyes to see it clear for the God. Any solution that is needed in their lives, whatever they need to hear for the God, open their ears to hear the solutions that you've been given through to them for the God. And everywhere they go, they will see the solutions. Therefore, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior. Therefore, this morning for the God, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior. And I say, Jesus, as everybody who has been under the sound of my voice is in need of whatever they are needing for the God. I don't know, but you know for the God, you know, you know for the God, you know, you know for the God, you know, you know that you know for the God. And I don't know it for the God. And therefore, I'm just a mere man who just want to do your will. And doing your will for the God is to pray, pray for people for the God and give it to you for the God. And everybody that is listening to this prayer for the God, I pray now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, whether they have a financial difficulties for the God, hear them now in the mighty name of Jesus. Anyone who's under the sound of my voice for the God, who has a problem with their health for the God, I pray now in the mighty name of Jesus, heal them now for the God. Anyone who has a problem with anything that has ever been bothering in their lives for the God, I pray now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. I pray. Amen. Hallelujah. Now, as I pray to this, I cannot pray without asking if there's anyone that would like to give their heart to the Lord, whether online, whether here. Who has never said, Jesus, I would like to make you my personal Lord and Saviour. I just want to pray for you this morning. And I want to say it is not me, but it is God's Spirit. If ever you feel like I want to I want to say, Lord Jesus, this is this is my time to take you as my Lord and personal Saviour. This is the time Heavenly Father, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. The Bible says that angels are rejoicing when somebody comes to you, my God. And therefore I am in rejoicing also, knowing, for the God that anybody that will be under the sound of my voice that doesn't know you, for the God will come to you and say, because of you, I stand where I'm standing because of you. I can actually know where I'm going. So this morning I want to pray for the God cover them under the blood of Jesus, cover them under the blood of Jesus and camp the angels surrounding them for the God so that wherever whenever they say, I want to take up my you as Lord and personal Saviour, let them let their names be written in the Book of Life, the Book of Life, the Book of Life. Let their names be written in the Book of Life. They are now sons and daughters of you. They are sons of God's daughters of God this morning. And I want to thank you for them that has given their life to Jesus this morning. I also want to take this opportunity this morning and ask for those of you that actually never have the opportunity to say, OK, I have given my heart to the Lord, but I've grown cold. I felt that I have not been doing what God asked me to do. I've been a pastor for for many years. And then suddenly I just realized, no, I'm no longer growing in the spiritual. I feel like I've been going backwards instead of forward this morning. This prayer is for you, for somebody who said, I give my life to the Lord, but I am not living up to the standard that he's been giving to me. I have I have grown cold, so cold that I sometimes feel that God is too far. So this morning, I want to pray for that person. Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, you know that they already said I want to give my heart to the Lord for the God. But as it goes for the God, some of the some of the seeds that has been sown needs watering for the God. So this morning I want to bring back the water, the water, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit this morning in the mighty name of Jesus. Let your Holy Spirit be evident in their lives for the God. Let your Holy Spirit be evidence in their lives for the God. Let your Holy Spirit be evident in their life for the God so that they can stand up and say, I'm tired. I cannot be doing this the way I've been doing it. And I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior, that this morning, as they say, I'm coming back, I'm coming back, I'm coming back, I'm coming back. Let your spirit be the one that will prove the evidence in their life that they have made the right choice to come back in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior. This morning, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior, I pray. Amen.