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Sunday Message · Fountain of Grace International · Pretoria North

You're Exhausted From Making Life Harder Than It Has to Be

Most people make life impossibly hard by refusing to follow someone who has already succeeded. What if the solution is simpler than you think?

Pastor Ricardo Zaal · Fountain of Grace International, Pretoria North

You feel trapped in a cycle where nothing works no matter how hard you try

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This message is for you if:

  • You've tried everything and life still feels impossible
  • You keep making mistakes because you trust only yourself
  • You wonder if you're living the life you were meant to live
  • You need someone who actually understands what you're going through

The Real Problem: You're Walking a Road Alone

Life feels hard because you're trying to figure it out by yourself. You make decisions based on what you think is right, but the results leave you exhausted and full of regret. You're not lazy or stupid-you're just walking a path without a guide, a map, or someone who has already made it through.

The moment you realize this, everything changes. When you stop leaning on your own strength and follow someone who has already walked the difficult road, life becomes easier. Not because the problems disappear, but because you're no longer carrying the full weight alone.

Jesus said it plainly: 'I am the way, the truth and the life.' He didn't say he has these things. He is them. That means if you want everything life can offer-purpose, love, direction, peace-you need him, not just his advice.

Why Following Someone Who Walked Before You Changes Everything

Imagine walking through dense bushes with no path. The first person has to push through, creating a way. The grass gets trampled. The branches bend. By the time the tenth person walks through, there's a clear path. The road is easier because someone paid the price first.

Jesus walked this earth. He went through temptation, pain, loss, confusion, and pressure-everything you face. He already knows the terrain. He already knows where the pitfalls are. He already knows what it takes to survive and actually thrive. When you follow his way instead of your own understanding, you step onto a road that has already been cleared for you.

This is why Jesus said, 'Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.' The burden gets lighter when you're not carrying it alone.

The Knowledge That Changes Your Life

In 2 Peter 1:3, the Bible says: 'His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him.' Not just knowledge about him. Knowledge of him. There's a difference between knowing facts about someone and actually knowing them-their character, their heart, how they think, what they do.

When you really know Jesus, you stop trying to earn your way. You stop relying on your own strength. You start accessing the divine power that he offers. This power isn't about becoming superhuman. It's about making decisions that actually work, about being guided away from the mistakes you used to make, about finally feeling like someone understands your situation because they've been through it themselves.

Most people stay stuck because they treat faith like a transaction. 'I gave my life to Jesus years ago, so why hasn't my life changed?' The answer is often simple: they know about Jesus, but they don't know him. They haven't built a real, daily, moment-by-moment relationship where they actually ask him for direction and then follow it.

Stop Solving the Wrong Problem

You've been unemployed for five years, so you think the problem is getting a job. But maybe the real problem is you need an income, and a job is just one solution. Or you've been praying for your relationship to change, but the real problem is you don't know your own worth in God's eyes. We treat symptoms instead of finding the root cause.

Before Jesus can help you, you have to get honest about what you actually need. Not what you think you should need. Not what other people are getting. What do you really need? Then ask him. Not once. Every single time. Because life changes when you stop guessing and start asking the one who actually knows.

This is surrender, but not weakness. It's the opposite. It's the strength to admit you don't have to figure everything out. It's the wisdom to follow someone who has already succeeded instead of copying people who are as lost as you are.

The Life You Were Made for Starts Now

God made you unique. Your purpose is not somebody else's purpose. Your gifts are not somebody else's gifts. But you can't step into your own life if you're trying to live somebody else's. That's like trying to put a bottle cap on a different bottle-it won't fit, and everything leaks.

When you finally stop rejecting who God made you to be and start following Jesus in the specific way he designed for you, that's when you have everything pertaining to life. That's when you feel the love you've been searching for. That's when your work matters. That's when your relationships heal. That's when you stop waking up exhausted.

You don't need another self-help hack. You don't need more motivation. You need to know the one who walked through everything you're walking through and came out victorious. You need to follow his path instead of your own. That's when life gets easier. That's when you finally have everything.

"If you want everything in life, you have to get the one that is life, because if you get him, you have life."

- Pastor Ricardo Zaal

Key Takeaways

  1. Your Strength Is the Problem, Not the Solution Leaning on your own understanding feels like independence, but it's actually isolation. Every major mistake you've made came from trusting yourself when you should have asked for direction. The burden gets lighter when you stop carrying it alone. Jesus doesn't ask you to be strong. He asks you to be honest about how weak you are without him, and then he carries the weight. That's not weakness-that's wisdom.
  2. Knowledge of Him Changes Everything You can believe in Jesus without actually knowing him. Knowing him means talking to him daily, asking him questions, following his direction even when it feels risky, and watching him come through. It means reading his word not like a rulebook but like a letter from someone who loves you and knows what you're about to face. This relationship is what activates the divine power he offers. Without it, you're still walking the road alone.
  3. Find the Root, Not Just the Symptom Before you ask God to solve your problem, get honest about what the real problem is. You're not looking for a job-you're looking for an income. You're not trying to fix your marriage-you're trying to be loved for who you actually are. Your life has been hard not because you haven't tried hard enough, but because you haven't asked the right person for direction on the right question. When you identify the root cause and ask Jesus to guide you, solutions show up.

If you are in or around Pretoria or Johannesburg, come and join us on a Sunday - these messages are preached live every week at Fountain of Grace International, 323 B Danie Theron Street, Pretoria North.

Frequently Asked Questions

I've been a Christian for years but my life hasn't changed. What's wrong?

Knowing about Jesus is different from knowing Jesus. Real change comes from a daily, moment-by-moment relationship where you actually ask him for guidance and then follow it. If you've been going through the motions without building that personal connection, that's where the breakthrough starts. Begin today by asking him one real question about something you're facing, then listen and obey what he shows you.

How do I know if I'm making my own mistakes or following God's direction?

Your own understanding gets you exhausted and full of regret. God's direction, even when it's hard, brings a sense of peace underneath it and produces fruit over time. Test it: the person who walked before you (Jesus) left a path. His word confirms it (check scripture). His Spirit confirms it (you feel peace). His results confirm it (your life actually gets easier, not just busier). If all three align, you're following him.

What if I don't know what to ask God for?

Start with the root cause, not the symptom. Instead of 'Give me a job,' ask 'What do you want me to do about income?' Instead of 'Fix my relationship,' ask 'Help me see my own worth the way you see it.' Be honest about what you actually need, not what you think sounds right. Jesus knows you better than you know yourself, and he's waiting for a real question, not a polished prayer.

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I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the Lord and saviour, you are God and you are not a man that you should lie. Father God, your word is here, your word is Amen, and therefore I come in the mighty name of Jesus this morning, Father God, knowing that you are the omnipotent God, you are the High Priest, you are the King of Kings, the Lady of the Valley, Brighten Morning Star, I just honour you, I exalt your name, I lift your name up high, my God, for you are God, and you are highly lifted up this morning. Psalm 34 verse 1, I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My life makes it boast in the Lord, let the humble and afflicted hear and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought in quiet of the Lord, and required him of a necessity and an authority of his word, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to him and were radiant, their faces shall never blush for shame or be confused. This poor man cried and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, who refer and worship him with awe, and each of them he delivers. O taste and see that the Lord, our God is good, blessed, happy or fortunate to be envied, is the man who trusts and takes refuge in him. O fear the Lord, you his sins, refer and worship him, for there is no one to those who truly refer and worship him with godly fear. The young lions lack food and suffer hunger, but they who seek and inquire or require the Lord by right of their need and of authority of his word, none of them shall lack any beneficial thing, come you children. Listen to me, I will teach you to refer and worship fully fear the Lord. What man is he who desires life and longs for many days that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good. Seek and inquire for and grieve peace and pursue a goal after it. The eyes of the Lord are towards the uncompromisingly righteous and his ear are often to their cries. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil and cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. When the righteous cry for help the Lord hears and deliver them out of their distress and trouble, the Lord is close to those who are of broken heart and safe such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent. Many evils confront the consistent righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of all of them. He keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken. Evil shall cause death of the wicked and they who hate the just and righteous shall be held guilty and shall be condemned. The Lord redeems the lives of his servants and none of those who take refuge and trust in him shall be condemned or held guilty. Oh, my good Lord, just bless you this morning. For we have come to a time where we will actually just share with you a few things that God has been laying upon my heart. But I first want to ask you the question. Now, the question I want to ask you this morning is that when you come at the end of your life and this is now the day that you feel like this is I'm going to go now, I'm dying now, I'm finished. There's nothing left for me on this earth. God is about to take me or whatever that is happening to you at that moment. That is your last time. Now, that day, when that happens, my question to you is that when that time come, will you be able to say, Lord Jesus, I have given my life to you and therefore I am happy to go as you please? Would you rather say, Lord Jesus, but I was supposed to do one, two or three things. Will you be able to leave this earth without even asking or having a question for something that you haven't done? Will you be able to say, Lord, it's time, just take me and happily accept that the time is finished and this time is the time that God has actually been given to you that you should be going. So this morning, my prayer to you is that whenever that time comes, my prayer to you is that you have lived your life to the fullest and also as you have lived your life to the fullest, you will also be able to say, Lord Jesus, it's time to take me now. It's time to take me now. Can I go? These are the things that you should be asking yourself if the time is right. So this morning, my prayer for you is that when you come to that time, you should actually be the one that says, thank you Lord, I am done and here is my life. Take it as you have given it to me because most of the time, whenever we get to a time where you see the end is near, suddenly there are certain things that you still need to do. Suddenly there are certain things that you still need to do. So I want you to come to that time. When that time arrives, you should actually say, Lord Jesus, I have done everything concerning what you've said to me. I have done everything that you wanted me to do and I have gotten everything that you wanted me to have. So this morning, my question to you is, do you want everything from life? Because life is not just about having enough to just go through life. Life is not just about having anything about having just a little bit of love because God said it in his word. He said it so nicely. He said that we should not be owing anyone anything except for love. So have you loved a lot of people? Do you actually know that you actually owe it to your enemies to love them as well? So if you want everything from life, you have to get everything that is life. Because how to get everything that you want in life is actually to get the one that is actually the life. Because he said it in his word. Now Jesus said it this way in his word. In John 14 verse 6, he said this. Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. If you want everything in life, you actually have to get the one that is life. Because if you get the one that is life, you have life. And the nicest part about it is that when you get him to actually be the one that is actually giving you life or have given you the life, then you should be going back and say, my God, you are alive. Now I want to share something to you that has been on my heart for quite some time. And it has been something that has been bothering me quite a number of times as well. Now what I want to say to you is that you find in life many people that actually said, I took up the Lord as my personal savior. I said to the Lord, here is my life and I have given everything to him. But what happened if you give your life to Jesus, things should be falling into place according to God's word. Because remember, God said it in his word that he honored his word more than he honored himself. So if his word is yay and amen, nothing can be added. Nothing can be subtracted from that word because he said it in his word. Now men have a tendency of saying that God didn't mean that. Except for when you go into what he said and go back few verses, go back few verses and you will always confirm his word by tree. So if Isaiah said it, Mark said it and Luke said it, it is settled. I'm just making an example by this because it is the Old Testament coming into the New Testament, building into the other one. So when things he's been confirmed by tree, it is settled. When God gives you a prophetic word over your life and this prophetic word over your life is actually saying to you, one, you are going to be Ricardo David Zal by one prophet. Another prophet comes and he said, you are Ricardo David Zal going to be. And just some random guy that you don't know if he's a prophet or not. Come and say to you that you are Ricardo David Zal. You should know it is a word from God. It is settled. So this morning I want to pray for you that God make this word a word that will be a word in season for you. Not for somebody else. Everything I'm giving to you should also be something that you are saying. God, I am asking you this word that is going out. Let this word be a word for me. Now, remember there's a two type of word. A word spoken without power is just a mere word. But a word spoken out of the Spirit of God is the word that will come to pass. Because if the word is given to you through the Spirit of God, it will come to pass. It will come to pass. It will come to pass because the word of God says that the Spirit will come and give you, come and teach, lead you, teach you in the direct path that you need to go. So if ever you listen to God's word and you want to make it your own and you want to live according to it or you want to move in according to it, you need to every time whenever you go to a church or whenever you listen to the word of God, say, Lord Jesus, I have listened to your word for many a times and I have not heard anything that made me to take a step towards you. Let this day be the day whenever I hear your word. Let the word come life, be life unto me so that that word that is set forth can do what you accomplish it to do. Because the word that you are saying every time, it is life. But sometimes my iniquities comes between the word and that iniquities has brought up a problem for a problem for me not to hear you thoroughly because what happened is that every time when you go into or when you listen to the word of God, every time when you listen to the word of God, the word of God is a life. The word of God is a life. But because of you came into the word or you came in to listen to the word, just to be religious. So this morning, I want you to pray that every time whenever you go into the church or wherever the word of God is shared, even if you are on a Facebook or a YouTube or a TikTok or a Twitter or a LinkedIn or anywhere online or anywhere in a church or anywhere where you drive, where you listen to it on the radio, anywhere where you go, where you just pass through a church and there's some PA system or sound system that is actually listening. Every time when you hear that they are speaking about the word of God, ask God to make his word to come alive into your life. Because what happened is that most of the time the enemy comes as God has planted the seed. He comes then to take that word and make that word that God has given to you a mockery. He actually makes it to die before the word can come to be accomplished. Because remember that any time when a word is spoken, it is sometimes a word that is spoken into the air to somebody. But because of that person not being there, the person will get the word. If you go to church, it does not mean that sometimes the word is directly to you. But if the Spirit of God makes you awake, that's the time when you can feel the word is for me. Because sometimes when the word of God went out and the word of God is saying that you are a fornicator, you are a thief and you are a liar, within the tree you listen, but you know for a fact that in your heart and your heart of hearts, you know that I am not a fornicator. Then you reject the word because the word is not for you. So this morning I want you to understand that there is something that you need to know is how to have everything in life. How to have everything in life is that you should be having everything pertaining life that is life. And that is Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the life. Because if you don't have Jesus, life will not be easier. Life will not be easy because he said in his word, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Wait, let me go to the scripture. Let me go to the scripture. Let me give you the scripture according to Matthew. Let me give you the scripture according to Matthew. Let me start from 28. Now the Bible says it so nicely. Now I'm reading out of the Amplified Bible. You will mostly hear me reading out of the Amplified Bible. Now, pardon me, pardon me. Now I'm reading out of the Amplified Bible, Matthew 11. Now Matthew 11, 28 says like this, Come to me. Now, if you go into the scripture, you'll say come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and overburdened and I will cause you to rest. I will ease and relief and refresh your soul. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For I am gentle, meek and humble or lowly in heart and you will find rest, relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and a least quiet for your souls. For my own yoke is wholesome, useful, good, not harsh, hard, sharp or pressing but comfortably gracious and pleasant and my burden is light and easy to borne. Now, picture this. When you don't know Jesus, life is very hard. When you go through things in your life, you will actually realize that it is harder to go through things without Him. It is easier for you to go through life when you have Jesus. When Jesus is the one that is actually helping you because His burden is light. So whatever you're going through, even though the burden is there, it will not be a heavy burden. It will be a burden that is actually lighter. So when you have a lighter burden, it just makes life easier and you'll be able to have everything that you need in life. Now, when somebody asks you, you want to go to a certain place, let me make an example. If you want to go to Jobak from Pretoria or wherever you are, the first thing that you need to know to get to a place that is more than 50,000 kilometers from where you are. Let's say 20 kilometers from where you are. You will need certain things that will make your route to be easier. Now, the route will be made easier because of people that walked the route already. Now, if you want to go from one place to another place, you will be literally having an easier road for somebody that already traveled that road. The reason being because the person that already walked the road, remember, past tense, past tense, walked the road, not walking the road, walked the road because if you have walked the road, you have a knowing of the road. Now, how do you get everything in life? It's by having somebody who walked the road already. You have somebody who went through what you have gotten through because if you go back and you want to move to that road, the poor people that walked the road before you, what they did is they walked the road firstly making a path to go through. If it wasn't for that path that going through, you see, let me explain it to you this way, Neb. When I was staying in the Northern Cape and we are maybe a few guys that walk in the field. Now, if you walk in the field and there was no road there, there's some bushes that is in your way and then as you walk through these bushes, the first one, the bushes is probably standing like this. I'm just making an example. Now, as the bushes is standing like this, the first one to walk through the bushes makes a path going through. He will let the grass move to where he was moving and the more people that actually move through that grass, making the grass to open up, the more people going, open up the grass, open up the grass, by the time you realize that where he was walking on the grass, the grass starts becoming flat as well and as it becomes flatter, it leaves a part way. So that is the same thing that happened for somebody who walked the road before you already. Now, Jesus walked the earth, went through the same things that you are going through and therefore you can find everything pertaining life from him that knows the ways that you went through because of him being the way, the truth, and the life. Because if he is the way, why not walk through that same way so that life can become easier for you. If you want life to be easier, you just need to understand that Jesus is the one that will take you over through to where you need to be. If you don't want to walk a journey that is taking you longer, it is easier to get somebody that walked the road already to guide you through the road. Now, this morning I want you to understand that if you go through somebody who has walked the road already, it is easier for you to just take the same road that the person has walked through and ask for directions. Now, if you go, the first time you go from Pretoria, maybe you're staying in Pretoria, Northern Cape, wherever you stay, and you need to go to Joburg for argument's sake, somebody already walked the road that you are taking and what did the person did? He already made a tar road for you to go through and therefore it is very important that whatever you need pertaining life you have to have somebody who knows the way. So this morning I want to ask you this way because it is not easy for you to go to where you want to be regardless in whatever you want to go to if you don't use somebody or make use of somebody who already knows the road. So who knows the road best is the person that walked before you, the person that walked the road before you. Now, in 2 Peter 1, verse 1, Now Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and Saviour Jesus Christ, grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. I want to go back, I want to read it to you again so that you can understand where I am heading. Where I am heading, 2 Peter 1, verse 1, Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Now, I am just going back, that have obtained like precious faith with us. Now, according to the concordance Bible, the concordance Bible, yes, yes, yes, the faith there, it means it's a persuasion that credents moral conviction. So, which means a conviction that you are convicted. Now, this conviction, it can be of a religious truth or a truthfulness of God or religious teacher. So somebody that has taught you something and you gain faith, remember faith only comes by hearing and faith comes by hearing the Word of God, not just hear anything, but the Word of God. Faith comes through hearing the Word of God. Now, this one, it says it's a persuasion that credents moral conviction, especially reliance upon Christ for salvation, especially reliance upon Christ. Now, when you have like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as His divine power had given unto us, not will be given or had given. Now, hear me on this. If you want to go back and read 2 Peter 1 verse 3, according as His divine power had given unto us, all things that pertains unto life. Come with me, come with me, come with me. I want you to take this step with me. According to His divine power. Now, imagine somebody having a divine power because remember that the Bible says it so nicely as well. It is not by might, not by power, but by the Spirit of God. So this divine power that is saying comes right from the Spirit that He has been given to us. His divine power given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that had called us to glory and virtue. Now, how would you be getting something pertaining to life? I want you to take the time and reflect on your life. Come on, reflect on your life. Look into your life. Observe your life. Observe what you've been going through. Jesus, I worship you. I praise you. I adore you, my God. For you are holy. There is none like you. No one can even be compared to you, my God. Jesus, you have given me the word about life. We've been making life so hard, so hard, so hard. When we look at our lives, looking back to where it all went wrong, it is but merely a sign, a sign that says, I should have actually taken this step with somebody that knows this step. I should have actually taken up this step with somebody who already walked this step, who already moved the same step. So this morning, Lord, I have made so many mistakes because I relied on my own strength. When you reflect on your life and you actually realize that you have made so many mistakes because you wanted to be standing on your own. You wanted to actually make this as it is a me thing. It's me, me, me, me, me, me, me. And most of the time, whenever you go through life and feel like life is hard, it is a tough life to go through. And as you say, but this is a tough life. I can't take this anymore. It's actually when you should have said, Lord Jesus, you have walked life on this earth. You know better than me. Take this upon yourself. Make this something that is actually about you and not about me. Because if you look back into your life, you will actually realize that most of the things that you went through was because of you lean on your own understanding. Lean not on your own understanding, but trust in the Lord your God, who has walked this earth. Yet he walked this earth with so many things and as he was walking, was tempted with so many things. But because of he went back to the world, he could not be tempted. Like the devil said, as he was coming from the mountain hungry, and the devil tried him to make a stone bread. But he said, it is written. So why don't we go back? Why don't we go back and say, Satan, it is written that every time whenever something happens into your life and it becomes hard, if things become hard, all you have to do is to go back, stand upon his word, stand upon his word, because he honoured his word above himself. Then you say, Lord Jesus, your word says that you honour your word above yourself. So this morning I come to you and I ask you, according to your word in 2 Peter 1 verse 3, according as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life. Now, God, this morning I stand on your word because you have given us that divine power pertaining to life and godliness. This morning, whatever is there pertaining to life, where I've been walking in a wrong direction, bring me back according to your word, because I don't want to walk a road where you have not led me to walk that road, because when you have walked it, you are alive. And therefore I want a life that is not just an ordinary life, but a life that is in abundance, where there is love. I want to feel the love, the agape love that you have given to me through each and every one that I come in contact with so that that love that you have given to me, I can share that love this morning. This morning, God, according to your word, you have given us everything pertaining life but my boyfriend has been hitting me this hard. How come I have not been having this power and the knowledge about what you said? You said it in your word that you will be there for us always. So this morning I want to come to you, Lord, and I want to ask you, why can't this boyfriend just accept me for who I am and not try to change me for who he wants me to be? Because you, God, have chosen me to stand as a peculiar person, to stand as an apple of your eye this morning. So whenever you come and this word of God is coming through to you, you can take the devices that have already been known of Satan and take it down because you have the shield of faith to cast down his fiery darts that have been sent through to you. So this morning, if you don't know the word of God, it is best to not read it, to know it as per word, per word, but it is very important to know it in his understanding what the Holy Spirit has been birthed into you, what it means to your life. Because the same word that means to you, what it means to you, doesn't mean the same to somebody else. But this morning, if you want to have everything in life, you got to have the everything of life because Jesus is the everything of life. Jesus is the everything of life. Now you want to ask me the question, but I have given my life to Jesus some 20 years ago and my life has not been looking good. I want to come back to you and ask you the question, have you grown into the Jesus that gives the life? Because you should be knowing in the power of his resurrection. You should be knowing him not just in the power of his resurrection, but you should be knowing him in the way that he is the bread of life, he is the truth, the life, the way, the truth and the life. You should be knowing him in the ways that he is who he is. Because if you don't know that you have been with Jesus, you are in the church most of the time, you are every day whenever there is a church service, you are there. But have you taken up the challenge to be like him, to be more like him in the image of God that you have been made of? Have you taken up that and say, Lord Jesus, you said it in your word that we should trample on snakes, we should drink poison. Have you taken up that and say boldly that I can stand upon a snake? I will not get hurt. Have you taken up his word that says that we should build our own way of salvation? Because your salvation is not the same as somebody else's salvation. The salvation that you have received is different than what somebody else has received because God has made you unique. Therefore, you cannot be somebody else. How did God come to you and ask you to be who you are? Now, the reason that you've been in a church or in some place for far too long and have not shown growth is because you deny yourself from who you are and take up somebody else's role and make that role somebody that that is why whenever you take up a car for argument's sake and the CV that you use is not the same CV as the car is, it will always make the wheel not to turn correctly. If I can make it an example, if I take two bottles and I want to make use this bottle kept on this bottle, it won't fit on this bottle because it has not been made for this bottle. This cap has not been made for this bottle. That is why it will be loose like this. Have you taken up your life and love it according to what God has purposed you to love for? If you have to have done that, that is when you realize you are having everything that you need pertaining life, everything that you need pertaining life. Because remember that what you need your friend might not be needing. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, come on. If I am hungry, does not mean my wife is also hungry. When I am thirsty, it does not mean that my son is thirsty. What I need does not mean somebody else needs the same thing. But what we all need, regardless whoever you are, is Jesus. It is Jesus this morning that you need, Jesus that you need. You need Jesus. And you said, but I have not been getting everything according to life. And you said, but I have tried everything. Come on, be a human being, say it. I have tried everything, but it just doesn't work. I have tried everything, but it just doesn't work. Really? Can you really say that you have tried everything? Can you? Can you really say that you have tried everything? If there is a problem, there is a solution. If it is not a problem, it won't be having a solution. And therefore, if you need anything or everything pertaining to life, you will be getting it. If you say, Mara, I have been having a, for five years I have not been working. Really? If for five years you have not been working, have you sent out your CV to every company that is surrounding you? Or have you only sent it through to some places that you think fit your way of how you should be working? Have you spoken to somebody while you were having a party? Have you spoken to somebody and say, agents, you know, we are sitting here and all of you are working wherever you are working. I understand you are working. When I go home, tomorrow I will be sitting at home. Don't you have somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody that maybe have a cleaning job? Have you done that? Have you actually asked the person that stays with you, give me money. I want to go onto the Internet and search for jobs. Have you? Or even better, have you actually go to God and say, Lord Jesus, I don't understand. For five years, I've been sitting at home. Please make a way for me so that I can also have an income. How you want me to have the income, I don't know. But please help me to have a job because if a job is what you want, you will get it. But if an income is actually what you want, you will also get it. So you have been looking for a job to pay your bills. But have you actually asked God the problem, not what you think is the problem. Because you not getting a job. Have you realized that you actually don't want the job, you actually want an income. So this morning, I want you to understand that most of the time we pray a mess. Because we are like the doctors taking up the symptoms and not the root cause of the problem. So if you want everything in life, you need to have a clear thing that you would like to have in life. So something that is more clear is I have cancer. But they're treating me for pains of some sort, giving me a painful but not taking out the cancer. So this morning, when you look at have you done everything, ask the question, what is the root of the problem? So that by the time I get through to the root of the problem, I gain the solution as well. I gain the solution as well. Because it won't help you looking for solutions that has to do with the symptoms and not the root cause of what you actually are in need of. Jesus, I pray this morning that according to your word in Hebrews 6 verse 1, which says that therefore let us move beyond the elementary teaching about Christ and be taken forward to maturity. Not laying against the foundation of repentance from acts that leads to death and fate in God. Lord Jesus, I pray this morning that as everybody that is listening to this or will be listening to this whether online, YouTube, Facebook, that they will find the root cause of their problem. And the root cause of their problem is that they don't know the author and the finisher of our faith, which is Jesus. They don't know that the actual cornerstone that was rejected or that they have rejected, is actually the main cornerstone that is building their lives. So this morning, as they go through, Father God, through all their problems in life, show them that you are alive this morning. Show them that even when they come to you and tell you that you are alive, show them that even when they come to you and say that you are their Lord and personal Savior, show them in depth what is the next step that you want them to take, Father God. Because through that, my Lord, they can actually know that you are the beginning of everything. You are the Alpha and you will still be the Omega, the end of everything. So whenever we come to life, whatever we go through life with is because we have not asked the creator of this life this morning. So I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior that this morning, as we have come, that you as God will give us everything pertaining life, starting with you and then giving us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit that comes out, we don't know what to say whenever we pray to you, but the Holy Spirit comes out with an utterance to you. The same Holy Spirit is the one that you said it is good that you live because of the Holy Spirit that will then be our guide and teach. So this morning, I want to pray, O Lord Jesus, that as the Holy Spirit would come upon them, let it not just stop there, Father God, but let them move into what our main purpose is in life is to make disciples of men, fishes of men so that whenever we have come to life, my God, let us trample on serpents. Let us cast out demons that you have given us the authority for, Father God. Let our faith not just stop by the elementary teachings that has been given to us that you should be taking up the Lord as your Lord and Savior, not taking up the things that is higher, to prophesy over people's life because you said it. That is one of the things that you also said that we should be actually looking at a lot of spiritual things, especially prophesying, especially prophesying. So many people think that prophesying is of the devil because it sounds like whenever you say a word to somebody that they think that you are using the possible spirit. But this morning, I want to pray, Father God, that as everybody that is listening to this and has not become in depth with you or knowing you, Father God, let them know you in the resurrection power of the cross, Father God. They that don't know that you actually died on the cross of Calvary for us, Father God. So this morning, I come to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I pray also, Father God, let the blood of Jesus covers us all, Father God, because by the blood of the Lamb and of the word of our testimonies, we will overcome what Satan brings our way. So therefore, this morning, Father God, anybody that hears this, Father God, I cover them with the blood of Jesus. And as they are ministering to somebody, let the ministering angels be surrounding them to help them in ministering that you are God, in helping them to minister that you are the one that has sent them, Father God. And whoever rejects the word that you've given to them to go on and give, let them take the dust off from their feet and turn around, my God. In the mighty name of Jesus this morning, I pray, my God, that as each and every one that is listening to this, also know to take up according to your word that they should be eating your flesh and the blood so that they can become one with you as you are with God the Father. So Jesus, this morning, as we are just mere branches, Father God, and you are the root of this branch and you are the tree yourself, Father God, let us not be cut off because of not bearing fruit this morning. Let us not be cut off because of not growing in what you have given us pertaining life. You have given us all things, but we tend to just use a few. We tend to just move in a few of those things this morning, Father God. So this morning I want to pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior that wherever you are, God should touch you and not just touch you, but change, rearrange you, not just change and rearrange you, but also to lift you to the standard where God has set you to be and also giving you what God has given to you and not to others, to live out what God has given to you as a person this morning. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Most forever. Isaiah 55, verse 3. So if you want to have a covenant with God, ask God to open your ears, to open your ears, to open your ears. I invite you to a prophetic service, a prophetic service that I will do online. I invite you to a prophetic service that I will do online. I will not be having somebody around me to have a camera set up. I will not have somebody that will be able to press and record and whatever. I'm going to go live on Facebook and I will ask you to send out the invitation because this prophetic service will be a service to anoint you for where God wants you to be, for where God wants you to be. So this prophetic service will be on Thursday. Invite all your friends, invite your loved ones. It will be a pure prophetic service by the grace of God. A pure prophetic service by the grace of God. It will be the 18th of August, starting from 7 o'clock. And I'm asking you not to put me into a time frame there because I would like God to take over the prophetic service. And if you feel like you are comfortable being on a camera with me, you can send me an invite and ask me, I would like to be with you on a camera. And I will open up the camera and prophesy over your life by the grace of God. It will be a prophetic service that will give you a direction as to what you should be doing next. Your life has been hard up to thus far. It's because there's not been a direction in your life. You have not received a direction. You know what to do, but you have not received a clear direction to where you need to go or what you need to do. A clear direction that why God has put you into a certain place. So make it on the 18th of August. I invite you to invite a friend as well. Invite a friend and make sure that the friend is also with you or having their own sign. I will send out the invite. It will be a life on my Facebook life on YouTube. So comment and shade so that I can see you and prophesy to you by the grace of God. I have the anointing to prophesy into somebody's life before. I do prophesy daily in a capacity of where no one else sees it. But by the grace of God, I will go out life for people to hear what God has given to them. And I want you also at the same time, when I speak a word to you, confirm if it is true or not, because I don't know a lot of people. I don't know what you do, but God knows you and God knows your plans. And for far too long, Satan stopped your plans from going further. Fountain of Grace is the ministry I'm standing on. And Fountain of Grace, where God has given us the grace to live a graceful life, full of grace and only grace that he has given to us. A fountain of grace, a grace infinite from God. If you would like to have a prayer where you want me to pray for you, go and you will see online, there's a number, send me a WhatsApp. You want a prayer request? Send a prayer request. If you want counseling, send counseling. You can do that. You want to send a donation, regardless of whatever the donation. Send a donation, but only send a donation when you feel like God has been given you, that you should be doing it. Don't feel obligated to do it. Just send it out of the good of your heart or cheerfully. If you feel that you are not cheerfully given, rather don't. And God bless you. Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Ghost, rest and abide with us all until Jesus comes. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever in Jesus' name. Amen.
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