WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.080 Welcome Just Hindway Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose of 2 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:13.439 inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different characters and speakers 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.480 all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:24.280 you in good shape. And now here's your message. 5 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.120 You were listening to a message from Victory. We hope 6 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.800 it inspires you to honor God and make disciples in 7 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:34.399 your community. 8 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:43.000 The very first Christmas carol is what we call the Magnificat. 9 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:48.200 This is a song song by Mary. And this series 10 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.439 on the Promiseful Field, we're gonna talk about the four 11 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:55.359 songs of Christmas, the four Christmas carols that we see 12 00:00:55.399 --> 00:01:00.439 in the Gospels, namely Mary's Song, kay Zachariah Song, sing Song, 13 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.399 and the Angel's Song. So we will take a look 14 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:06.120 at this four songs for the next four weeks, but 15 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:11.359 for tonight we will discuss the Magnificat sung by Mary 16 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.040 or Mary's song. Open your Bibles to the Gospel of 17 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.920 Luke chapter one, verses forty six to fifty five. Verse 18 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:24.200 forty six's and Mary said, my soul magnifies the Lord. 19 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:28.439 That word magnify means magnificat in the Latin, and my 20 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:33.799 spirit rejoices in God, my savior, for he has looked 21 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:38.040 on the humble state of his servant. For behold, and 22 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:42.760 from now on all generations will call me blessed, for 23 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.319 he who is mighty, has done great things for me, 24 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:51.319 And holy is his name. His mercy is for those 25 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.879 who fear him, from generation to generation. He has shown 26 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.959 strength in his arms, and he has catered the proud 27 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.159 and the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down 28 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.480 the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble state. 29 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.840 He has filled the hungry with good things, and the 30 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.800 rich he has sent away empty. He has helped his 31 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:19.280 servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke 32 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:24.680 to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever. 33 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:28.240 Just very briefly so that you will understand why Mary 34 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.560 sung this song. It's a very beautiful song. The Bangandana 35 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:36.360 Christmas Carol, Okay, this is a song of Mary, and 36 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.199 I'll give you the background why this is so important. 37 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.240 Heard singing the song. Remember when the Gospel of Luke opens, 38 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:47.840 there was four hundred silent years intertestamental. We came from 39 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:51.520 that series last month right or weeks by on four 40 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:56.879 weeks Malachi four weeks. Right in between Malachi and the 41 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.439 Gospels four hundred years where God was silent. God did 42 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.560 not speak anything, but God was doing something in the 43 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:07.680 background and the moment. The Gospels when it was written, 44 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:13.080 it recounted the things that God declared are things that 45 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:18.479 were happening. Now, two of those stories, as Jesus was 46 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:23.840 about to be born, were about two women. Okay, Now, 47 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:29.120 during this time, women were second class citizens, so they 48 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:32.159 were not allowed to speak. You know, men is a 49 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:37.599 very male dominated society, and so we see in the 50 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:41.960 Gospels two women, Elizabeth and Mary, in their stories and 51 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.759 what happened to them. Now, Mary, at this point in time, 52 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:49.759 an angel visited Mary. But the angel Gabriel you know 53 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:53.199 the story, and tells her you're gonna be with child 54 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.639 and it's not any child, It's going to be the 55 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:02.159 savior of the world. Can you imagine that? Of course, 56 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:05.879 every mother who are mothers here? Can you raise your hand? 57 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:13.159 Mother's Maha sama nana la natin are special, right, they're 58 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:17.759 the most beautiful, the most handsome, the most gifted. But 59 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.680 I mean the angel was declaring, your child is going 60 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:24.720 to be a special child because it's going to be 61 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.959 the savior of the world. Of course, Mary said, what 62 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:35.759 I'm imagine this. Mary is around fifteen or sixteen years old, 63 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:39.959 a teenager, of course, is bethrowed to be married to Joseph. 64 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:44.800 Bethrow means, you know, engage officially, engaged to be married 65 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:53.199 legally pero. They have not no physical contact yet. And 66 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:58.360 so Mary was questioning, panomagayarion, how can this be? How 67 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:02.800 will that happen? And so she was so distressed because 68 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:08.959 of course women are more forward looking, futuristic, especially in 69 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:16.639 terms of relationships and things connected to that. Mahame Joseph 70 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:18.839 the divorced. I mean, you know the story. I'm just 71 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:24.759 trying to I know what's gonna happen. It's gonna divorce me. 72 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:29.480 I'm gonna face this craze. I'm gonna be ostracized. Go 73 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:33.959 he did this? Did this owner? So re imagine the 74 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:42.079 stress right in Mary emotionally. Of course, Joseph finds out 75 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:53.920 about this when Mary's a good Joseph p Stai Holy Spirit, 76 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:59.720 can you imagine? So, you know, Joseph be divorced, and 77 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:06.560 so what happened? The Angel visits Joseph. Right, I'm just 78 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:10.160 accounting for part of phrase. You can read it chapter one. 79 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.680 You can read it on your own. But that's what happens. 80 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.879 And Joseph and Mary visited by angel by the same 81 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.759 angel Gabriel had two different responses and buying response Nila 82 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.120 no axl tying angel because there are differences between men 83 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:30.399 and women, right, but young men may problem. But when 84 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:35.079 men have problems. When the angel told him this, you know, 85 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.240 men like to go to their man caves. They like 86 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.800 to be alone and think about the problem and sort 87 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:47.199 it out. Some have self pity Ibanumann whatever. Okay, but 88 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:50.240 so that's why when on a time of Bassai, Joseph 89 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:54.160 after and after the angel visited in and a man came. 90 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.160 Mary on the other hand, had a different response when 91 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:02.480 the angel told her this, guess what happens the bo women? 92 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.800 But e stress ko what do you do aside from 93 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:08.600 shopping and eating? Okay, but in detO, but normally the 94 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:12.480 first thing you do is you go to your girl friends. 95 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:17.720 You go to your bff, right, you go to the 96 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.240 people that you want to talk, You want to let 97 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:23.759 it out. So that's what Mary does. She goes to Elizabeth, 98 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:30.000 her cousin. She was probably thinking Nako and Elizabeth too 99 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.079 what I'm going through. I mean, what will I tell 100 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.759 her that I'm pregnant. But it's not by Joseph, and 101 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:40.120 it's going to be by you know, a ghost. It's 102 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:42.720 going to be the Father, and it's going to be 103 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.800 the savior of the world. I mean, I don't know 104 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:49.680 how to tell her, but women just open their hearts. 105 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:52.879 So as she goes there and tells her what happened, 106 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:58.959 Elizabeth is not surprised because something a miracle also happened 107 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:03.040 to Elizabeth. You remember Elizabeth was also barren and beyond 108 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:07.160 bearing age, there was also a miracle baby. So these 109 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:15.240 are two miracle mothers. You get Elizabeth mus conti human right, 110 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:20.000 kay Mary in Banglass. That's why when she recounted this story, 111 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:26.439 the Bible says that the boy John, the Baptist, who 112 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:29.800 was in the womb to Elizabeth suddenly, who was filled 113 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:32.279 in the Holy Spirit. You can read that in the womb, 114 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:36.080 he was filled with the spirit of God in the 115 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:41.919 name Holy Spirit. Study it says it leaked to MALUNNAO, okay, 116 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:46.519 it leaked in the womb of Elizabeth Spana Elizabeth, he 117 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.720 declared Mona. That's why Elizabeth suddenly you know, blessed are 118 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:53.279 you among women? For now on you will be called 119 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:59.600 blessed Elizabeth. And I believe because of that, because of 120 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:03.000 that that glaration, because in the midst of the distress, 121 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:09.960 Mary's faith was elevated because she understood, Okay, you know, 122 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:15.519 maybe God is really doing something. The cousin also has 123 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:22.279 the same thing, something distressful hibapala if you just focus 124 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:27.360 on the problem, on the things, on the situation, mad 125 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:32.759 distressca But you know what's the difference. They focus on God. 126 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.200 And that's why out of that declaration that you are 127 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:43.519 blessed among women, that's when she gave and sang this 128 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:49.320 song magnificat to magnify in the context of a very 129 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:58.120 distressful first Christmas. It changed something change when she began 130 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:01.480 to magnify God. You know, for us, Christmas can be 131 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:07.080 very distressful, right sometimes you know yu manga of course, 132 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.720 if you are if you are the owner of business 133 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.679 human a thirteenth month makabonus and a the like or whatever. 134 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.960 But atapos nagy year, maybe if you are a salesman 135 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:21.360 quota or maybe because I guess aside from the traffic, 136 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:28.039 maybe kulangyu whatever Christmas can be a very stressful season. 137 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:32.679 In fact, do you know that the two months that 138 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:37.399 there are most suicides are Christmas or December and February. 139 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.679 For those who are very lonely and things are not 140 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:48.440 going well in a festive environment, it could be the 141 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:54.000 most stressful times. And that's why this becomes more important. 142 00:10:54.519 --> 00:11:00.639 How Mary responded to a stressful situation is to magn God. 143 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:06.080 Magnify God. Mary was able to have a Mary Christmas 144 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:10.840 because of how she responded. She summarized this in verses 145 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:15.559 forty six to first forty seven. My soul magnifies the Lord, 146 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:20.480 my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior. Let me tell you, 147 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:26.840 whatever you're going through, whatever stress, doubt, unbelief, problems you're 148 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:31.000 going through, we should take a look at how Mary responded. 149 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:37.399 Magnify God. Now, a lot of times the enemy wants 150 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:42.200 us to magnify the wrong things. The enemy wants us 151 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.200 to magnify the wrong things because there are to two 152 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:50.440 ways to magnify things. One is called a microscope. A 153 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:57.559 microscope a microscope makes small things big, and that's what 154 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:02.200 the enemy wants. He wants for us to make these 155 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:09.159 small irritations, these small problems become big because you're muhamo 156 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:13.840 and that's all you can see. And when something small 157 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:19.720 becomes big, it removes God, and God becomes distant or 158 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:23.320 invisible to you. All you see are your problems. All 159 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:27.639 you see are your stressful situations. But when you say 160 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:32.440 magnify the Lord, there's another way to magnify another instrument 161 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:40.600 called the telescope. The telescope makes something distant become closer 162 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:45.679 and we can see it for what it actually is, 163 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.000 right like the stars or the moon or the sun 164 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:56.080 from Afar palanatima itlam. But through a telescope we can 165 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.879 actually see it. Wow a lao. When Mary says, Mary, 166 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.600 to magnify the Lord, he does. What she's saying is 167 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:11.159 not to magnify God, now to make a small God big. 168 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:17.279 What she is saying is to tell us copically, magnify God. 169 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:20.799 If you feel that God is far away and distant 170 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:26.320 and small. When we magnify God, we begin to experience 171 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.279 Him for who he really is. We begin to see 172 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:34.159 the awesomeness of God. And when we see the awesomeness 173 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:38.120 of God, those big things that's big problems that are 174 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.519 facing us, we actually see it for what it really 175 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:47.480 is tiny compared to a big and God, a gracious God. Amen. 176 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:52.960 And that's why Mary was able to have a merry Christmas, 177 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:57.840 because she chose to magnify God for who he is. 178 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.080 Look at how he started. She started this. She started 179 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:06.559 by declaring the names of God, the God that she serves, 180 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.120 the God that she worshiped. Let's take a look at 181 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.759 it again. For my soul exalts the Lord. My spirit 182 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:17.039 has rejoiced in God, my Savior, the Mighty One, the 183 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:21.799 Holy One. This four words. She began to declare, God 184 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:26.000 is Lord over any situation. God is in control. Let 185 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.600 me tell you, whatever is happening, you may feel that 186 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:33.120 you're not in control. That's true, but God is in control. 187 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.879 God is in charge. She began to declare, God, my 188 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:42.679 God and my savior. Savior does not only mean salvation 189 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:47.720 from sin, but salvation from things that have befallen you. 190 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:54.279 God wants to save you even for those distressful and 191 00:14:54.440 --> 00:15:01.399 problematic situations. God is also mighty, the Mighty One, as 192 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.759 it says in NSV. The Mighty One. God is mighty. 193 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:12.240 There's nothing he cannot do. There is nothing impossible with God. 194 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.879 And God is Holy, the Holy One of Israel, magnifying God. 195 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:22.559 When she began to declare that, you know, those big problems, 196 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.720 you know, in light of that God who's far seemingly 197 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:32.039 far away, My God is Lord, my God is Savior. 198 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:35.960 The problem becomes smaller. God becomes bigger. My God is mighty, 199 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:39.960 my God is holy. Then you see things in the 200 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:46.000 right perspective. You see the problems become microscopic, and you 201 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:49.759 begin to see a big God for who he really is. 202 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:55.799 And that's why when she recognize and declares this, when 203 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:00.720 you magnify God, you several ways to magnify. You think thanksgiving. 204 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:04.759 Some six sixty five says magnify the Lord with thanksgiving. 205 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:09.480 But here in luke On she says, I read, rejoice 206 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:16.759 okay over make God okay. Rejoicing magnifies God. So whatever 207 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:21.279 your situation is, begin to thank God that in spite 208 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.399 of that, that God is Lord, God is Savior. That's 209 00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:27.720 how you begin. And I believe as she went through this, 210 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:32.480 she because she reflected on who her God is, she 211 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:36.639 declared three things about God that made her so hopeful, 212 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.720 that made her rejoice even more. And what are these 213 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:46.840 three things? She began to declare that God is mindful 214 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:52.039 say that with me mindful, it is a being. Our 215 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.360 mind is full. Look at verse four to eight, for 216 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:59.759 he has looked in the humble state of his servant. 217 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.919 For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed, 218 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.039 for He who is mighty has done great things for me. 219 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:12.599 You know. Can you imagine? The King of Kings and 220 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:18.799 the Lord of lords has chosen because she lived in 221 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:25.559 an obscure place. God's work of salvation began at an 222 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:32.920 obscure place, in an unknown teenager, in the middle of nowhere. Right, 223 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.400 such a humble beginning. The King of Kings, the creator 224 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:44.799 of heavens and Earth, chose this teenager, chose even to 225 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:48.279 dwell for nine months in the womb of that teenager. 226 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:52.799 Let me tell you God thinks about you a lot, 227 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:58.000 even as she is mindful of Mary his servant. He 228 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:03.079 is mindful of you, his mindful, his thoughts are about you. 229 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.880 His mind is full of concerns and thoughts and love 230 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:13.079 about you. That's what Ps. Chapter eight says. What is 231 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:15.319 man that you are mindful of him? And the son 232 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:17.480 of Man that you care for him? This is actually 233 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.359 what Mary was saying. I'm just a humble observant. How 234 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:26.839 how Lord, why someone hundred and thirty nine says, four 235 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:33.759 precious are your thoughts about me? Concerning me? Concerning you? 236 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:37.839 Do you know that? Maybe you don't realize it, maybe 237 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:41.119 because of what you have experienced, maybe of the negative 238 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:45.599 things that you've encountered. D to Van saying, are you 239 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.039 in the last this year? You think that God thinks highly? 240 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:52.680 Maybe can alimta the Lord. Maybe God does not hear me. 241 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:57.400 Maybe God does not really care about me. But let 242 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:01.119 me tell you the Bible says otherwise, how precious to 243 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.400 me are your words? If I were to count them, 244 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:06.839 they would be as numerous or more numerous than the 245 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:11.200 sand in the seashore, mas Madam, But easy the Lord, 246 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:20.039 dono ka bou hangin, then a'sa beach. Can you imagine 247 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:25.720 that God is thinking about you? You're the back. God 248 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:29.400 is thinking about you, and his thoughts about you are not. 249 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:37.680 He's not saying Hinda Bible in late Nanamah. No, his 250 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:46.599 thoughts about you are precious. His thoughts about you is encouraging. Wow. 251 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.799 This is my son and my daughter. They're precious to me, 252 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:56.200 and this is their destiny as they continue to follow me. 253 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:02.400 God's thoughts for you are precious God is always thinking 254 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:07.160 about you and remembering you. Who wants to know God's 255 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.079 thoughts about you? Anyone? Do you want to know what 256 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.240 God thinks about you? Can you raise your hand if 257 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:22.720 you want to know? Okay, sir, what's your name? Jerome? Okay? 258 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:30.039 Can you stand up? Jerome? Jerome? God just wants you 259 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:36.799 to know that you know this season, you feel like 260 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:40.480 as you serve Him, as you you tried everything, you 261 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.680 feel like they're you've been being pressed, you have. You 262 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:47.359 feel pressure in several sides, but the words even saying 263 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.680 you know, even in that pressure, I'm I'm releasing a 264 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:56.240 treasure inside of you because because there's something about your 265 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.559 faith and perseverance and you feel sometimes you feel like, Lord, 266 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:04.759 I'm gonna serve you no matter what, and God approves, 267 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:07.519 and God is going to reward. Do not give up, 268 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.079 my son, because I am a great rewarder for those 269 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:14.680 who diligently seek me. I know your sacrifices. I know 270 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:18.680 the times that you feel like you know okay, but 271 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:24.200 you always want okay, the extra mile for me, and 272 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:27.839 whatever you've done, it will return back to you because 273 00:21:27.880 --> 00:21:30.480 in the next three months it will be a season 274 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:34.400 of returning back. It's gonna be coming back to you. 275 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:38.160 The sacrifices that you have, those are the thoughts of 276 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:42.480 God for you. Thank you. Listen. I don't have time 277 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:49.039 to go around. Okay, see Francis n Lam Okay after 278 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:52.720 the service doubtah okay, as I being thoughts to the 279 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:58.079 God for you. Let me tell you you go. You 280 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:03.920 can listen God, God's voice. You want to hear God's voice. 281 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:08.559 It's through the Bible, because that's His word. You read 282 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:12.079 it every day and you ask God, God, speak to me. 283 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.119 Man does not live on bread alone, but on every 284 00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:22.759 word that proceeds from the mouth of God. You take time, 285 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:25.680 that's just to read. When you pray. Don't just tell God, 286 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:31.640 Lord Uncle, you slow down, you stop and you listen. 287 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:36.519 Let me tell you God will speak to you in 288 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:42.000 greater ways, more ways than you've ever imagined. That's why 289 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:45.799 in the season, in the season, in the midst of 290 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:50.359 the bustle, in the hustle of Christmas, you stop and 291 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:54.440 you listen. And that's how you will come encourage and 292 00:22:54.559 --> 00:23:00.359 you will understand the mind of God for you not 293 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:04.880 to harm You give you hope and the future. Right, 294 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:12.839 That's what Mary understood this God, who is awesome, who's big. 295 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:17.519 He's thinking about this humble servant. He's thinking about you 296 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:22.599 and me. But not only that. God is not only mindful, 297 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:26.519 but God is mighty. Say that we need God is 298 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:34.079 mighty verse fifty one. For he has shown strength with 299 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:37.839 his arm. He has scattered the proud in the thoughts 300 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:43.440 of their hearts. Of course, it's very anthropomorphic. Or God, 301 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:48.759 who is spirit, is given human qualities if you may 302 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:53.200 the strength of his arm. In fact, the Bible normally 303 00:23:53.240 --> 00:23:57.480 says God's arm is not too short to save. That 304 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:00.160 word strength that we're read in verse fifty one is 305 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:04.519 a very important word, peculiar word in the original language kractos, 306 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:10.480 which literally means the working of mighty deeds. That word 307 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:15.960 strength literally means God is working mighty deeds for you. 308 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:26.119 Imagine that, Hindi Lama ordinary Lord EuMA. You know, extraordinary 309 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:36.240 even impossible things, mighty deeds. God is a mighty God. 310 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:43.440 Let me tell you there is nothing impossible with him. 311 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:47.079 You know. In the ministry that I am in today, 312 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.519 in the spirit empowerment ministry, let me tell you I've 313 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:55.480 seen more of these things than ever before. But it's 314 00:24:55.599 --> 00:24:59.880 not just for pastors, or for me, every single one, 315 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:06.440 every believer, everyone who believes and puts his faith in me. 316 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:12.200 This power is accallable. His strength is for you. His 317 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:19.319 strength he wants to work mighty deeds in your behalf Mary. 318 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.640 Remember Mary, how can this be? Angel? How can I 319 00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:32.039 become pregnant? I'm a virgin? And of course the famous 320 00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:36.200 reply in verse thirty seven and of Luke one, for 321 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:43.240 nothing is impossible with God. You know the word nothing, 322 00:25:43.319 --> 00:25:46.240 but do you know what literally means? It means nothing 323 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:53.720 while I'm impossibly by Lord, nothing is impossible with God. 324 00:25:55.880 --> 00:26:00.839 Let me tell you this very I like other translation 325 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:04.480 in the New NIV of the verse thirty seven, the 326 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:08.160 translation of nothing is impossible with God is for no 327 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:15.119 word from God will ever fail. They know why nothing 328 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:21.039 is impossible because whatever promised God has for you, he 329 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:24.920 will fulfill it. That is what the series is all about. 330 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:32.160 Promise fulfilled God is a promise keeping God. Every promise 331 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:36.200 that he has said he will keep it. He never fails. 332 00:26:37.119 --> 00:26:42.039 No word of God will ever fail you. God's power 333 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:48.359 is made manifest through his promises. If you want to 334 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:53.799 see the power of God in your life, you hold 335 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:59.440 on and have faith in that promise. Persevere, do not waiver, 336 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:08.680 stand on his promise. Stand on that promise and watch God. 337 00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:13.640 Sometimes you feel like we're holding onto the promise. Do 338 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:18.960 you know what? It's God's promise holding onto you, supporting you, 339 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:25.119 making sure that you make it. It's not about you, 340 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:32.599 It's about God. Do not waiver, Rejoice and declare and 341 00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:38.079 magnify God through his promises through the Bible. You know, 342 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:42.759 let me share the story. I have a small group, 343 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:47.720 a victory group when I was in victory Ta Tepunan 344 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.759 and in You know, this is a very prayerful, a 345 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:57.279 woman of faith when the prayer and one of her 346 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:02.880 faith goals is that her blinks would get saved. Okay. Now, 347 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:06.960 her siblings who reside in the US are top medical doctors, 348 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.319 brilliant minds, talent and top medical doctors in the US, 349 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:17.359 practicing doctors. But they both of them are atheists. And 350 00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:20.319 every time she would share with them, she would visit, 351 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:23.559 they would always argue, you know, why are you trying 352 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.200 to change us? Can't you just accept us? You know? 353 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:28.920 Is that the kind of Christianity that you cannot accept 354 00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:32.640 who we are and what we are? So they and 355 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.200 a stalemate and she would always get frustrated. But one 356 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:39.799 day one I think one prayer and fasting, which will happen. 357 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:43.319 This is January, when you come back by January eighth. Okay, 358 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:48.720 this is a pray liude already, Okay, prayer and fasting. 359 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.079 She believed God. She stood in the promise of God 360 00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:56.039 and Acts chapter sixteeded. But if you believe, you and 361 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.359 your household will be saved. And for her it seems impossible. 362 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:04.240 Because Taladan elumbress for years trying nothing happened. And so 363 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:10.200 that year, you know, something happened to her. She actually 364 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:14.119 went through what we call a thyroid storm if you're 365 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:16.920 in a medical profession. There was something wrong with her 366 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:22.319 thyroid and so she got hospitalized. And long story short, 367 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:26.640 the carona water in lungs and she you know, had 368 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.680 as fixation ogay. In other words, she flatlined for ten 369 00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.640 minutes because puna water in loss and she could not breathe, 370 00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.519 and so they had to they had to remove the 371 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:40.599 water punch into her lungs before they can revive her. 372 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:47.400 So ten minutes flat line, well up dead okay. And 373 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:50.880 when they were able to revive her after ten minutes comatose, 374 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.799 and so all the family came including the two brothers 375 00:29:54.039 --> 00:29:58.759 when they came doctors in the US. No more, there's 376 00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:02.640 no more hope. But the husband began to declare and 377 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:06.279 stand on God's word. No Bible says in someone oh three. 378 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:10.359 I mean, if you read someone O three, it's very 379 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:17.720 very parallel to how Mary Okay magnifies. But anyway, it says, 380 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:21.759 there reba, praise the Lord, oh my soul, and forget 381 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:26.960 not his benefits, who heals us, who saves us. And 382 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:29.839 so every night he would declare, he would have a 383 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.400 prayer meeting in the hospital. They were given favor, and 384 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:35.680 so she would we would be there, and so every 385 00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:37.799 night you would pray, and you know what, the two 386 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:40.799 brothers were there just observing in the prairie meeting because 387 00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:47.119 and you know what, after ten days, when the doctor says, well, Pagassa, 388 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:52.720 she woke up from her comatos. And after that the 389 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.559 doctor they took a look at her as well. She 390 00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:02.720 woke up. But she still, like you know, going to 391 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:07.359 be like a vegetable or tanagual adam. She will not 392 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.640 be able to go and live a normal life. But 393 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:13.559 every day he began to pray, and you know what, 394 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:18.720 there was a miracle within forty five days of declaring 395 00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:22.240 and standing on the word of God, she got home 396 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:27.799 from the hospital fully healed. I mean, I not have 397 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:31.680 time to tell our story. But because of that incident, 398 00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:35.519 the two brothers went to church and began to testify. 399 00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:40.839 You know, there's no way, there's no physical way this 400 00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:46.960 could have happened apart from a true and living and 401 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:51.440