Speaker 1: Welcome Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon podcast, your daily dose
Speaker 1: of inspiring from heartfelt taglog sermons from different pastors and
Speaker 1: speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast
Speaker 1: finds you in good shape. And now here's your message.
Speaker 1: We are concluding our series entitled Perspective. Perspective is our
Speaker 1: point of view with regards to things, with regards to
Speaker 1: our life, and one of the important things as people
Speaker 1: of God that we need to have is his perspective
Speaker 1: or how he sees us and life, so that we'll
Speaker 1: be able to go back to His will and to
Speaker 1: go back and live our lives with that right perspective.
Speaker 1: I like this quote by Ravi Shakarias who said this,
Speaker 1: if we don't have a transcendent perspective or a godly
Speaker 1: perspective in life, at the end of it, you'lly that
Speaker 1: it was all meaningless. That just like how I saw
Speaker 1: Ravi live for the first and last time he attended.
Speaker 1: He was one of the speakers in the National Bible
Speaker 1: Day here in the Philippines, and I'll never forget what
Speaker 1: he said that people today are concerned about what is
Speaker 1: on the right or on the left. The opinion of
Speaker 1: this group versus this group. Where do I stand? Do
Speaker 1: I stand on the light, on the right side of
Speaker 1: life or on the left side of life? But the
Speaker 1: reality is what is important is not where we are
Speaker 1: on the left or on the right, but the relationship
Speaker 1: that we have up and down. What does that mean
Speaker 1: that in life we need to have We need to
Speaker 1: be concerned about our relationship with our heavily Father first,
Speaker 1: because that is the most important relationship that we can
Speaker 1: cultivate here on earth. It is a preparation of a
Speaker 1: life in eternity. And so I believe that God wants
Speaker 1: to give us the right perspective, that a godly perspective
Speaker 1: of how we should live our lives. And we are
Speaker 1: continuing and concluding Psalms twenty three a song of David
Speaker 1: which is entitled the Lord is My Shepherd, and we
Speaker 1: will go through the last two verses, verse five and six.
Speaker 1: It starts verse one, the Lord is my shepherd. I
Speaker 1: shall not want. In other versions it says I will
Speaker 1: lack nothing. It is God who completes us. It is
Speaker 1: a God who provides for us, who gives us peace.
Speaker 1: And this is what we talked about a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago and today we will focus on verse five and six.
Speaker 1: It says, verse five, you prepare a feast for me
Speaker 1: in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by
Speaker 1: anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings.
Speaker 1: And in verse six it says, surely your goodness and
Speaker 1: unfailing love will pursue me all the day of my life,
Speaker 1: and I will live in the house of the Lord forever. Lord,
Speaker 1: thank you that as you speak to us today with
Speaker 1: these two powerful verses on how David concludes this song
Speaker 1: that he has written, Lord, allow it to minister to us,
Speaker 1: Allow it to sing deep Lord this two verses, allow
Speaker 1: it to take root in our hearts, that we'll be
Speaker 1: able to live it out in our lives today, or
Speaker 1: thank you. As David has written this song, it will
Speaker 1: minister to us wherever we are today annoying the preaching
Speaker 1: of your word in Jesus name, Amen and Amen. As
Speaker 1: we go through these two verses, it starts with this,
Speaker 1: you prepare a feast for me. The Lord prepares something
Speaker 1: for us, a feast. In the message version, it actually says,
Speaker 1: you serve me a six course dinner. What does that
Speaker 1: mean when we look at the whole story of Psalms
Speaker 1: twenty three. You have to understand David was writing this
Speaker 1: song as he would probably was going through one of
Speaker 1: the biggest trials of his life. That he was going
Speaker 1: through a crisis, and that's why the previous verses would say,
Speaker 1: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
Speaker 1: I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Speaker 1: It's a picture of a life in crisis. It's a
Speaker 1: picture of a life in a trial, in anxiety, or
Speaker 1: probably in hopelessness. But David the writer goes back and says,
Speaker 1: the Lord is my shepherd, and God prepares a feast
Speaker 1: for me in the presence of my enemies. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? You know? I realized this as I was
Speaker 1: reflecting on these two verses, that crisis destroys order in
Speaker 1: our lives. That whenever we go through trials and crisis,
Speaker 1: it seems that we can't function properly. It seems that
Speaker 1: we can't do what we used to do. One of
Speaker 1: the songs that I became to recall because of this
Speaker 1: preaching is one of the Opim songs, which says di matulo,
Speaker 1: let me bring song on. I think Doody knows that
Speaker 1: Matulo di mahayan, the Kiaowa's alone, the Gama dami. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the reality. When we are in crisis. We can't sleep,
Speaker 1: we can't eat, we can function. It disrupts our lives
Speaker 1: and we can't get back white because we are consumed
Speaker 1: by problems, anxiety, hopelessness. We are worried. And I experienced
Speaker 1: this when I went through a health crisis when I
Speaker 1: was in Sibu. It was way back, and I believe
Speaker 1: God was with me during that time. He held my
Speaker 1: hand all throughout. But I was so consumed by the
Speaker 1: troubles I forgot about how big my God is. I
Speaker 1: actually lost weight so much, I actually couldn't function whenever
Speaker 1: Pamu talked to me, paragum zombie, you know she can't
Speaker 1: talk to me. I just have that black stare. I'm
Speaker 1: consumed about the problem or my personal crisis. But the
Speaker 1: word of God reminds us of this truth. Today. He says,
Speaker 1: I prepare a feast. God prepares a feast even in trial.
Speaker 1: God is preparing something for us in times of trial.
Speaker 1: It's a picture of God blessing us continually, even in crisis.
Speaker 1: Try to reflect for the past seventy days haven't you
Speaker 1: experienced the blessing of God? Haven't you felt that you
Speaker 1: are still blessed despite all this. I believe God is
Speaker 1: reminding us that He is preparing something for us. Even
Speaker 1: in trials, the Lord blesses us. And that's why I
Speaker 1: like the following statement. It says, he prepares a feast
Speaker 1: in the presence of my enemies. It's a picture of
Speaker 1: God in control. He's not afraid of them. That's one. Secondly,
Speaker 1: he won't back down on them. Saman Balaya. I will
Speaker 1: prepare a feast for my children because I love them
Speaker 1: so much. Yes, I am allowing them to go through
Speaker 1: this trial, but at the same time I will bless them.
Speaker 1: There's a picture of God who is controlled, an all
Speaker 1: powerful God that the enemy can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: When God wants to bless us, it's regardless of what
Speaker 1: we are going through. God can bless you today. He
Speaker 1: is preparing something for you today. It follows it by
Speaker 1: you honor me by anointing my head with oil. You know,
Speaker 1: when you visit a Hebrew house during that time, when
Speaker 1: you're invited for dinner, as soon as you get there,
Speaker 1: they would take care of you. They would serve you,
Speaker 1: and they would put oil. Why because chimpreno, it's a
Speaker 1: dusty road among concrete roads during that time, and so
Speaker 1: when you would go there, you're all dusty, amarao and oil.
Speaker 1: So they would put oil to refresh you, not only
Speaker 1: to make the room smell good, but it would actually
Speaker 1: make you feel better. It's a picture of the guest
Speaker 1: or the house blessing the guests, preparing the guests, and
Speaker 1: even us when we are going through crisis, when we
Speaker 1: go back to the Lord, it reminds us of who
Speaker 1: we are. When we go do our devotions, we cry
Speaker 1: out to the Lord. What happens, God reminds us of
Speaker 1: who we are, and then we are blessed. God is
Speaker 1: reminding you today that and in times of crisis. You know,
Speaker 1: this pandemic might be a very personal crisis for you today.
Speaker 1: I believe the Lord is telling you that I am
Speaker 1: preparing a blessing for you, that I will annoint you,
Speaker 1: that I will lift your head up. Because this is
Speaker 1: who our God is, a God who desires to bless
Speaker 1: us even in times of crisis. And that's why David
Speaker 1: could say this, my cup overflows with blessings. You know,
Speaker 1: during this time of pandemic will realize that for the
Speaker 1: past seventy days, YO EXTA thank you for listening. We
Speaker 1: hope that you enjoy today's episode. Don't forget to share
Speaker 1: and subscribe to this podcast for more. God bless you all.