If right now, you're experiencing
stress in all these areas— stress is a good indicator.
Amen.
Stress, fear, if you’re experiencing fear
in some of these areas: whether it's your bodily health
or whether it's a child you're concerned about
or whether it is your finances.
Amen.
Especially during this time.
You know, I just want you to know one thing:
That fear seized you because of your thinking.
Amen.
The thinking has been wrong.
In other words, you're still thinking the same old way
as if you don't have a Savior and as if you don't have a
Father in heaven.
The Bible says to those who have believed on Christ that:
“We are not under law."
"We are under grace.”
Now, how is law defined?
Law is defined as man working
and man laboring.
How is grace defined?
Grace is defined as God working
and God supplying.
Amen.
So either you are supplying for yourself,
providing for yourself, working for yourself,
and laboring to produce results, or God is working.
You choose.
Amen.
Now, maybe you will say: “Is there nothing for me to do?”
Yes, believe.
Believe.
Now, when God is working for you,
God will also work— if you live under grace,
God will also work in you and through you,
and then you just follow after him.
Like right now, you can say I'm laboring, isn't it?
I'm laboring to preach the word of God to you.
But yet, I'm conscious that it's God who is working in me
both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
I believe that God is working for me.
God is working in me and God is working through me
to produce the results that He wants
to produce in your life.
Amen.
So even that becomes a life of rest.
Amen.
Amen. That's the believer's life!
In all his labor— outwardly, he is busy.
Amen.
But inwardly, he's at rest.
It’s like the tabernacle of Moses,
which is the first— or what they call:
“the habitat of God” that God told men to create.
Like the first temple.
But it was a mobile temple in the desert.
When the children of Israel wandered for 40 years,
the Bible tells us: God told them to
build Him a tabernacle, a “mishkan” in Hebrew,
where He would dwell in the Holy of Holies.
So there are three compartments
to the tabernacle of Moses.
And the first part is the outer court.
Okay?
And there, you have sunlight, natural light.
Amen.
And that speaks of the people of the world.
You know, they have natural light.
What they see is what they believe science can tell them.
Alright?
But that is very limited because you are confined
based on what you see.
And what you see is very limited because
there's an unseen realm.
Amen.
The Bible says: “The things that"
"we see are temporal.”
Even the tumor that you can see on the X-Ray,
is temporal!
But God's promise of healing is eternal.
Amen.
But people say: “You know, I cannot believe"
"what I can’t see.”
My friend, you got it wrong because of Adam's fall.
Know that you are in an unnatural state.
Reverse your belief.
Believe.
Amen.
Walk by faith because God meant for men
to walk by faith and not by sight.
which limits you drastically.
Amen.
So here we go.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
We got to live a life of rest.
And when you move into the Holy place,
there is the light from the lampstand,
the “menorah”, and that’s the picture
of the church of Jesus Christ.
Finally, we go onto the Holy of Holies
where God's presence dwells, right in the Holy of Holies.
In there, you don't find the lampstand.
In there, don't find the sunlight.
In there, you find “shekinah glory”,
the brightest light ever.
Amen.
The presence of God lights up the place.
Friend, if we can settle in our hearts to be at rest—
God said to me, many years ago:
“When you rest, God works.”
“When you work, God rests.”
And yet, does that mean we do nothing?
No.
Like I said, all those people
that are in the temple, those who are outside
working under the sunlight?
They were killing the animals, putting them
on the altar of sacrifice.
Amen.
They were worshiping God, they were washing.
They were busy.
Amen.
Alright?
So that's a picture of our bodies
because the Bible says: “Know ye not that your bodies"
"are the temple of God?”
So when we look at the temple of God—
outside is busy.
Amen.
Even in the temple of Solomon, outside is busy.
That's where the animals are being sacrificed.
That's where a lot of work is going on.
But inside the temple, inside the Holy of Holies,
there's perfect peace.
There is stillness.
There is perfect “shalom”.
Amen.
And that's our spirit man.
For friend, you are a tripartite being.
Like how God is a triune God.
One God but three divine persons—
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
So God made you in His image.
You are a tripartite being.
You have a spirit.
You are a spirit, actually.
I should say that you are a spirit.
The real you is that you are a spirit.
You have a soul.
That's your mind and your emotions.
And you live in a container called the body.
So there's three parts to you.
Just like the egg.
You have the yolk, you have the white
and you have the shell.
You are a tripartite thing.
So the Bible says: “Know ye not that your bodies"
"are the temple of God?”
What does that mean?
Outside, you can be busy.
Just like they were in the outer court.
But on the inside, you got to be at rest.
You got to be at rest.
And in whatever you do, God will prosper.
Amen.
Whatever you do will have the touch
of favor on it.
If I live my life, always working,
always working, always laboring,
always trying to produce for myself—
“I got to fend for myself."
"I got to tend to my family.”
“I got to—I myself must come up with"
"my ideas, my answers."
No, friend.
You're living under the law and you are living a deadly life.
But if you live a life where you look to Jesus,
the author and finisher of your faith.
Trust Him.
Amen.
What you don't have, you trust Him that
He's supplying it.
Amen.
Even when things look contrary to God's promises,
you still believe and you trust that
He's supplying.
If He doesn't give, you cannot have.
Amen.
You're always trusting Him!
Another way of saying it is like this:
The law demands.
The law demands— “You shall not, you shall not,"
"you shall not, you shall not.”
But grace supplies.
God says: “I will, I will, I will, I will.”
So every day, let's say I have an assignment
in my future and the more I think about it,
I feel the demand on me.
I've not prepared for it yet.
Maybe it's a conference I need to speak at,
for me as a speaker.
Amen.
It is a conference and I'm not prepared for it.
Or you need to do a presentation before your boss.
Amen.
Or nowadays on zoom.
And you find that you're not prepared.
Or there’s something else you need to do.
You need to get your children ready for school.
Or maybe it’s their studies or the PSLE
or whatever it is.
And you are concerned that you're not equipped,
that you're not ready.
Friend, be careful about this.
You are now a prime candidate of stress.
Amen.
So don't fall into that.
Stop for awhile and say: “Wait a minute,"
"wait a minute.”
“God foresaw all these needs long before it happened.”
“Long before I had a need, God has the supply.”
“Even for my children.”
“Whatever they need, God will supply me the wisdom.”
“I may not have the answer now but I believe that”
“God is supplying me and God will supply me”
“in the future.”
Amen.
“My part is not to worry about when.”
“If God doesn’t supply the answer now,”
“then it is for me to trust Him and take my time and rest.”
Amen.
And just trust that God is working in you,
through you and for you.
Amen.
Even in parenting, you need to see
God's supply is there.
“Oh, I'm so concerned about my son.”
“He seems to have this problem.”
Stop for awhile and say: “What can I do?”
“What can I produce from myself that”
“will cause this problem to be rectified.”
You'll find many a times you don't have the answer.
Amen.
So stop demanding from yourself
and start looking to the Lord.
Amen.
The Bible says that our life is a life
of looking to Jesus.
Amen.
Say: “Lord, I thank You for Your supply of wisdom”
“in handling my child or the presentation.”
“I thank You, Lord"
"The supply is coming my way.”
“I will know what to say."
"Yes."
"The supply is coming my way.”
“I'll have the words from You."
"Unless the words come from You, it will just be"
"words of the flesh.”
“It will fall flat."
"But if the words are from You, they are spirit"
"and they are life!”
Amen.
So I'm supply-minded.
And I can't tell you that I'm always supply-minded.
There are times I fall into demand
but I thank God for the Holy Spirit.
He always tells you: “You know, you can't"
"blame that person.”
“You started demanding this from yourself.”
Amen.
“And after that, you fell into stress”
“and then you got angry with that person.”
“So it's not that person's fault.”
So I also need to be reminded all the time.
But friend, that's how you can practically live under grace.
I see God as a God who is more willing to give
than you want to receive.
I see a God whose provision is greater
than your need.
He always—after He satisfies your hunger,
there's twelve baskets full left over.
His supply always super exceeds your needs.
Or even your expectations.
He always answers!
No, He over answers our prayers.
The Bible say that “God answers us”,
in Ephesians, “exceedingly above all that"
"we ask or think.”
If God answers above all that we ask or think,
then ask God for big things!
And let Him exceed that.
Amen.
Friend, praise the Lord.
So this wonderful Father in heaven.
Amen.
The Holy Spirit is in us to teach us about Him
and about the Lord Jesus.
Hallelujah.
And one of the things we need to know is
to rightly divide the Word.
Where it is under law and where it is under grace.
So we understand the life we are to live by today.
And every time you are under law,
it seems like provision is in a freeze.
No supply comes.
Health is frozen.
But the moment you are under grace,
health springs forth speedily.
The supply comes in unabated.
Amen.
And it seems like peace reigns in your heart.
The moment you start to think right.
Amen.
When the devil tells you: “You know, the pain"
"you feel in your body, right?”
“It could be this, it could be that.”
Answer back: “God is supplying
"health in me.”
Amen.
“What if that pain is nothing but your lie?”
Amen.
Doubt your doubts.
Amen.
And start believing God's word and His promises.