Virtual Worship Experience|MississaugaSDA|Praying When the Crisis is Before Us| September 11th, 2021

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] welcome to the seventh-day adventist church [Music] it is a pleasure to be in the house of the lord today and to welcome you if you are visiting with us from facebook or youtube we welcome you we are located at 2250 credit valley world mississauga and we are also available online at www.mississaugasda.com [Music] it is a pleasure for us to have you tuning in today [Music] to watch the service with us to all our visitors when you feel the need to visit a church remember mississauga mississauga will be waiting for you to all our regular members [Music] we welcome you there wouldn't be church without you welcome to church our hope is that at the end of this service you will be blessed remember our mission and vision we proclaim christ's love so that all will be saved we grow we serve and we inspire we connect to others and share with them the love of christ so that at the end they will be saved in doing that we expand on the work that christ has started more than 2000 years ago to all of you i welcome you and may god bless you today on this great sabbath day good morning everyone happy sabbath i greet you in the precious name of jesus our soon coming king be strong be courageous and keep faithful i just like to do the first reading for these outgoing transfers we have freddy figuria going to north london sda church we have clive anderson going to um molestier sda church singapore we have emmanuel cortes going to hope adventist church we'll do the second reading next sabbath i also like to announce to the church that our beloved charles bradford former president of north american division of seventh-day adventists passed away he was the first black president of the north american division he was 95 years old so on behalf of the pastoral team the elders and officers and members of the mississauga seventh day adventist church we just want to express our condolence and send our love to his living sister after bradford and family at this time and the lord will continue to comfort you and to be with you to watch over you and to take you through this time of grief and to give you the promise and the hope of the resurrection that we will see that giant of a man again in the new kingdom where we shall praise and worship god together also today marks the 20th anniversary of 9 11. we just want to let the families and friends know at this time who have experienced loss during that event and all of those have experienced trauma from that event that at the church we are praying for you we offer our support and help and assistant and compassion to all those who are just going through a rough time we have this hope that burns within our hearts hope in the coming of the lord where there'll be no more terrorists there'll be no more death there'll be no more sickness there'll be no more pain there will be no more crying and we we look forward to that time when we shall embrace each other and we shall stand with each other and on the sea of glass will sing the song of moses and the lamb and we will forever forever praise god and give him thanks that will be free at last from all of these negative variables in the world that seek to destroy others will come together and we will work together and we will live together and we'll be happy together let us hold on to this hope and never ever let go and let us share this hope with others that this world is just not our final home but our final home is coming god bless you everyone and god keep you as you continue to worship god amen good morning mississauga family come on stand to your feet it's time to worship we love to call your name it's something we cannot explain that happens when we proclaim your great name your greatness when we proclaim your greatness nobody's stronger [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there is power in the name of jesus power in your name come on y'all singing out real loud come on [Music] power in your name oh come on i can't hear you open your mouth and sing there is power in the name you gotta do better than that come on if you believe god [Music] [Music] here we go come [Music] when i [Music] [Music] [Music] when i call your [Music] when i [Music] oh come on get up get in front of a window come on in here [Music] god is fighting foreign is god is is [Music] bless the lord it's all right to celebrate in his name hallelujah hallelujah how many are y'all we're dancing i'm sweating this is exercise in jesus name we bless you god we bless you god but what a name that is hallelujah the name of jesus is a chain breaker it's a waymaker my god we thank you for the promise and the power that is in your name god let's just honor him in this moment [Music] what a beautiful name it is what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus christ my king what a beautiful name it is nothing compares to this what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus help me sing what a beautiful name what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus [Music] oh come on we're gonna lift that up with some strength [Music] what a beautiful name it is [Music] what a beautiful name [Music] [Music] what a beautiful name is [Music] it is what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus christ what a beautiful name it is what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus christ my king [Music] what a beautiful day it is [Music] the name of jesus christ my king what a beautiful name it is nothing compares to it what a beautiful name it is the name of my jesus oh lord our lord how excellent is your name in all the earth what is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you are mindful of him heavenly father we come into your presence today to praise and honor your most holy name there is none like you and only you god are worthy to be praised lord as we come into your presence we are full of thanksgiving thanksgiving for the brand new mercies which we have received this day we're thankful for life we're thankful for the sabbath day for which you have blessed us we're thankful god that you have afforded us the opportunity to have our sins forgiven by sending your son jesus christ to die on the cross for us there's nothing good in us so we simply come before you today and we thank you god for your promise where you said if we confess our sins that you are faithful and just to forgive us and that you would cleanse us from unrighteousness we're thankful today god for your the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us life health strength and lord even though we're living in troubled times in this world of pain and sickness and isolation and depression god we are still thankful today for your goodness and your mercy which endureth forever lord there's so much disasters and unrest around the world we have the situation in afghanistan where the country has been taken over by rebels lord we have earthquakes in various places around the world and countries and people are struggling but god we know that you see all of this we know that you have your eye on all of this and all of these people who are suffering are all your children so god we ask that you will have mercy have mercy god like no other being can lord we just want to pray for those who have gone back to school this week in the various settings whether it be elementary secondary or post-secondary education lord we know there's a lot of anxiety now with people being back in classrooms in group settings with this pandemic going on but god we ask that you bless your children and that you will keep your children safe and help them to keep their mind stayed on you and we believe god by faith that you will grant them your perfect peace lord we just want to remember our tithes and offerings that will be collected today lord we pray that it will go for the furtherance of your work we pray father that you will bless those of us who have to give and may we return to you joyfully and with a grateful heart lord we just want to remember the speaker of the hour pastor mark you and god you have used them in the past and we pray god that you will use them again today to plant in our hearts a word that will move us towards you we pray god that we will be moved to serve you and to seek you with all our hearts god we pray for our church in a special way as we're transitioning back into having live services and we're making our way through this unknown territory god we ask that you will guide the ship and that we will follow you wherever you lead us thank you god for all that you have done and will continue to do for this your church and we pray that when you come we'll be saved in eternity with you along with our friends and our loved ones we thank you god for hearing and for answering this prayer in the precious name of jesus we pray with thanksgiving amen [Music] was accused lonely and bewildered no one that they would stand by his eyes [Music] in the habits and he saw a face of my jesus and he rolled him [Music] see i have never had a prayer [Music] he couldn't answer oh no no no no no no i have never set a [Music] and when this way of life are so high you can't mount them my lord will roll you yes he will roll you over the tide oh yes he will [Music] and when this world is [Music] becomes a burden you know i wanna run but there is no place [Music] i just look up like old stephen to the right hand oh my my my father and he rose [Music] he couldn't answer [Music] he could not just [Music] think it's so high that [Music] he will roll you over [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i'll be doing part two of last week's sermon praying through this pandemic last week we looked at the lord's prayer and now we can use that model today to encourage us to empower us to help us to be focused during this pandemic on the lord and on the lord only today we'll be looking at praying when a crisis is before us praying when a crisis is before us let us pray [Music] heavenly father we come to the name of jesus recognizing almighty god that if it were not for you we will not be here today and so we want to glorify your name we want to give you thanks we want to praise you we want to worship you we want to just to shout out and say god you are so good to us we bless your name we now open your words your words which are life your words which will sustain us your word which will encourage us your words which will empower us your word which will give us stability your word which will be a source of strength to us in the time of trouble i pray now almighty god that the words of my mouth and the meditation of our hearts will be accepted in your sight oh lord our strength and redeemer amen amen reading from matthew chapter 26 and we read from verse 36 matthew chapter 26 reading from verse 36 onward praying before a crisis then commit jesus with them unto a place called gethsemane and say it unto the disciples sit here while i go and pray yonder sit he hair while i go and pray yonder jesus jesus was about to face the cross jesus knew that for him to to face this crisis of the cross he had to go to the father for strength before we go and meet any mountain or go down any valley or before we go to any crisis situation we have to remember to draw our strength from god through prayer higher in the church so jesus verse 37 he took with him peter and the two sons of zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy and he took with him peter and the two sons of zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy there are times when you need your inner circle oh somebody close friends who who understands your struggle hello somebody close friends who can relate to you close friends who understands your struggle close friends that you can lean on in times of difficulty and here was peter james and john the closest disciples to jesus and he took them with him in this special prayer circle so that he could draw from them human strength yes we need strength from god yes we need to talk to god yes we need to lean on god but there are times when we need that human element in our lives to encourage us to let us know mark keep going on do not do not slip up do not turn back but keep going forward and remember peter peter was a spokesperson amongst the disciples and when jesus told peter that he was going to the cross peter said to jesus lord this shall not happen to you and then jesus said to peter get thee behind me satan because the way that you're speaking is of man but i am giving you something that is of god you see we need to understand that man's way is is not god's way we need to understand that man's way is short-sightedness we need to understand that men only look at the here and now but god wants to take us further into eternity hello somebody so so peter did not understand you see the disciples they were looking for an earthly kingdom but jesus came to take them higher to a heavenly kingdom we must be careful in the church that we are not looking for earthly kingdom we are here in church because we want to go to heaven hello somebody we're here in the house of god today to praise his name because our end goal is to go to the kingdom of god and so jesus jesus was there to take them higher jesus took with him the sons of zebedee james and john remember james and john the mother came to jesus and she she said to to jesus i want you to in the kingdom to put my son on the right and on the left jesus said to her it is good for mothers to be ambitious for their sons they know somebody it is good that mothers want to elevate their son but the kingdom of god is not like that it's not for me to give hello everybody was thinking about power and and prestige and position but jesus was pointing everyone to service hello somebody jesus was pointing people to the cross and here are these they they they surrounded jesus and and their motive was yes they didn't love jesus but they had another motive their other motive was they want to be up in the kingdom of god they want to be positioned in a in a particular way in the kingdom of god because they thought the kingdom of god was an earthly kingdom and we know about judas right jew doesn't want to be the treasurer i know somebody you want to hold the money that earth the kingdom peter james and john they want to be in in that upper room with jesus all the time they want to be on the executive committee hello somebody but here was jesus seeking for human support human encouragement human upliftment jesus who is the word who came down in the garb of humanity because in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god and this word jesus became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth but jesus jesus with all his divinity jesus with all the resources from heaven jesus could have called tens of thousands of angels to his rescue but jesus decided to depend on peter james and john through in these trying times just before the crisis jesus was very sorrowful and heavy then he said unto them my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death tarry he here and watch with me tarry he hear and watch with me sometimes you need people to walk with you through your struggles a little somebody sometimes you need people to walk with you through difficult times to to rough times and tough times sometimes you need people to to watch with you sometimes you you go to a home and the mother is crying because our son is dead the wife is crying because her husband is gone and sometimes we go and we talk too much people don't need talk they need our presence and they need our support and that's what jesus needed and then he said unto them my soul expressed himself my soul is exceedingly sorrowful and he went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed saying o my father if it be possible let this cup pass from me nevertheless not as i will but as thou wilt what is this what is happening here the son of god who came to die for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life if jesus did not go to the cross there will be no hope for us today but here jesus was praying o my father if it be possible let this cup pass from me wow you know what they say when i was growing up in jamaica mouth is easy to talk but action is the hardest thing it's easy to say yes i will serve god it's easy to say yes i'll do the will of god it's easy to say yes god i will give you my all jesus said that to peter in verse 24 verily i say unto you that this night before the crow thou shalt deny me three times and peter said no i will never deny you it's easy to talk right it's easy to say things right or more can say anything but when the tire meets the road when the tire meets the road and reality set him will you hold on to jesus so here we are here we are in this gethsemane here we are there's a crisis right before us here we are church here we are we see prophecies fulfilling before our eyes here we are we see things happening deliberately we see things happen deliberately but the church is still moving forward amen church the church is moving forward so when you face in a crisis you got to understand firstly you got to be real with god amen god wants us to be real with him as i told you last week god doesn't want any people that pretend all right if you're struggling with a sin god knows that and he wants to have a conversation with you and i about that sin problem amen he said oh my father if it be possible if it be possible let this cup pass for me then he'd comment on the disciples and find them asleep and say it on to peter yes yes you have to call his spokesperson right he said a torpedo what could you not watch with me one hour watch and pray that you enter not into temptation verse 41 the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak i've never heard somebody say no person i'm so strong man i can't manage this manage what you can't manage anything yours our flesh is weak and we need the spirit of god to strengthen us to guide us to keep us out of certain situation amen church so jesus says the only way that we can stand during a crisis stand during a pandemic the only way that we can go through these things is to watch and to pray i hope the church is watching i really hope the church is watching and revelation is talking about the not the watching that we see with our naked eyes but the spiritual watching hello somebody the eyes are watching we can see the devil working even in the current situation with the virus on the pandemic we can see the devil working and we can see that the church is getting this courage but god is here today to encourage the church to keep moving forward i tell the church i tell the church look when the church is open we should all be running back to church amen church because one day the church is going to be closed forever so if you get a little little little one hour in the service to run to church run to church and serve god and praise god and draw strength from each other let me tell you something the kingdom of god is not about selfish people the kingdom of god is not about selfishness because you may be okay spiritually you may be on your eye but there may be somebody who comes to the house of god who needs your encouragement there was somebody who needs a song who needs a preaching who needs a welcome and so we have to recognize that fact and watch and pray so couldn't you watch with me for one hour could you stay with me serve one for one hour amen church and he went away a second time and prayed oh my father if this cup may not pass away from me except i drink it thy will be done so there are four lessons that we need to learn from this gethsemane experience praying before a crisis the first thing is that god and jesus taught us that god wants us to express our desire to him jesus said o my father if it be possible let this cup pass for me if you're about to face a crisis and the mountain is so high and the valley is so low you you need to you need to be real and say to god god i don't think i can make this i don't think i can make this i was just at canada wonderland last sunday with my with my family and so i don't like those rides i never like them because i have vertigo so when i when i go i i messed up in my system so i just sat there with my wife and she's not going on those big rides so my kids were well they are big people now they were going on those rides and roller coaster and then i went on the i call it merry-go-round they call the carousel i went on that i even went on that and i was dizzy my daughter came to me now i said daddy oh no oh no said daddy before i leave here you're going to go under a big roller coaster not wanting to disappoint her and always pretending that as if i'm the strong daddy that can conquer any mountain i say okay let's go so when i entered the line man my heart was just beating we were in the line for a long time because you know those rides are the lines all along and when i reached um the roller coaster i said lord help me jesus i went in i buckled down i held on i said lord i don't think i can manage this mountain i think i would i think i'm going to stop the operators and tell them to get me off here i don't think i can money i don't think my heart can take this and that spirit said just relax and calm down it'll be okay so we're going up up up the mountain up and say lord what next what next what next and we reach a pinnacle the highest point and then they let go everything i said lord heavy jesus but you know church when the ride was done it was a sweet ride and my daughter said you want to go back again i said next time right so there are times when when when we believe that we can't conquer certain mountains but but the god who is with us is telling us that i am with you and i promise never to leave you or to forsake you so you express your desire to god it's a god this is my reason i don't want it and then you say to god number two what is your desire what is your will so express your will lord this job is looking too hard this mountain is hard to climb huh i can't do this but what is your will and god says to you i know you can't do it hello somebody i know you can do but guess what we can do it together we can do it together hands in hands we'll walk this mountain together we'll go through this crisis together we can do it together and that's how we can get to this pandemic with our hands in the hands of god amen and then after we express our desire we ask god for his desire then it's time for us to say lord i'm gonna obey you thy will be done wherever you want me to go whatever you want to do for example i didn't want to be a pastor right i said what i don't want to be any pastor but god said that's my will for you and i'm happy i chose the will of god because i'm right here mississauga with these wonderful people amen church right and it came home to me ella sherry and elders that when my when my when my father-in-law died last december it came home to me that look look at where god has brought you and look at the people that he has surrounded you with elder foreskin huh brother and sister rose huh look at the people that he surrounded you with huh georgia everybody huh to encourage you to help you to sustain you it's like peter james and john amen church but i ask you when i'm in my gethsemane i ask you to keep awake and keep alert amen and finally finally we express our desire we find god's will god's desire we seek to obey and then then comes deliverance amen church jesus knew that the cross would be hard it would be rough the nails in his hands the nails in his feet the sword in his side he knew but he went there for us not only that but he knew that there was going to be a good outcome he knew that the cross was not finality he knew that there was going to be a resurrection so when you when you are going through your situation just know it is not the end but there is a light at the end of the tunnel you will go to the tunnel you will go to difficult situations but it will not end there it will end in rejoicing it will end in resurrection it will end in eternal life it will end when we shall rejoice together on that sea of glass that is where it will end so as christians [Music] god is going to allow us to go through some stuff i tell you i know we don't like it but it's all it's for our benefit and it's for his glory and his praise it's also to save others when we go to our situations and our crisis and then we can have a testimony and we can come on the zoom on wednesday night or we can call somebody and say look i have been there it has been rough it has been tough but god has been with me and he has brought me this far by faith and here i am today and god is with you and he's going to bring you this far by faith so let us keep praying let us keep communicating let us keep surrendering and let god be our guide amen church [Music] i was really blessed by this message and i hope that you were also blessed whenever you feel the need to listen to god's messages visit our youtube channel or you can go to our website and you will find a link there thank you pastor mark yuan for bringing us the word of god today for those of you who tune in today to god be praised my hope is that you will share this message with others so they also can be blessed thank you for watching watching uh this service today enjoy the rest of the sabbath [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] you [Music] you

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Length: 61min 12sec (3672 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 11 2021