How To Secure Your Destiny Part 4

[0:01] Welcome. Thank you for choosing to listen to another destiny-changing word by David Entry from one of our Revival Seeking Youth Services. If you want to control your world, catch the word. Be blessed.

[0:14] Eight pillars of destiny. Love for God, faith in God, mentorship, who you honor, principles of life or philosophy of life. And number, oh this is so good. Number six, how you treat the wounded.

[0:28] How you treat people who are wounded. How you treat people who are not in the position to help themselves.

[0:41] Some of us are not compassionate. It's a philosophy. You must be, even if it was their fault to be where they are, the person is wounded. Help them.

[0:53] It doesn't have to be physical wounds. Sometimes it's emotional wounds. Sometimes it's family wounds. One of the sisters came to, ladies came to speak to me recently.

[1:05] It really, really, really was not nice for me. And I was teaching how to honor your father. He said, my dad doesn't like us.

[1:16] He abandoned me and my other siblings and left us. And I've been reaching out to him. Sometimes I call him, he doesn't want to have anything with me. But because of your preaching, I used to have a lot of bitterness against him.

[1:27] But because of your preaching, I chose that I won't have anything against him. And I invited, even recently, just last week, I invited him to my graduation. He said, he won't come.

[1:37] What does God want? What do I want? He won't come from any of my graduates. Did he ask me to go and do it? And he, he, and I felt her pain. Your father actively, not accidentally, not that he has a mental health problem, actively rejects you.

[1:54] I don't want to have anything with you. Sometimes their problem is with your mother. Your mother too. Your mother too. Don't get involved with your parents' fights.

[2:08] So your mother will tell you that. He won't see what he did. Why haven't you, why haven't you said anything against him? You should hear, ah, me, mom, I should go and say something against my dad. Don't say that to your mom.

[2:19] Say, mom, hey, it's not good. He shouldn't have done. But he should have said something. Mom, don't worry, the day will come. Because remember, she's hurting. She's hurting because of the way that man has treated her.

[2:32] But unfortunately, that's your dad. You have only one natural dad. And he might not be a good person. He might be in prison. But it's none of your business.

[2:45] It's none of your business. Just do what you have to do to show him respect as much as you can. Am I talking to somebody at all? Oh, my God. Okay. We roll. Some of these things are the incidents of life, the unfortunate circumstances in life.

[3:00] You didn't ask for it, but that's life. That's art to make your story colorful. Listen, you got a story to tell. People might not know what you have been through, but the world is waiting to hear your kind of success story.

[3:16] You are not failing. You only fail when you choose to give up. But failure is not an option for you.

[3:28] You can do well. I know you can do well. And you know, a time is coming, we are all going to be so proud we know you. We're going to be so proud. We're going to be saying, oh yeah, that's my friend. Even people who don't know have not said hello to you.

[3:40] Oh, we are in the same church, you know. That's my friend. That's my friend. Yeah. Very soon, people will be celebrating you. I'm not just saying this to encourage you.

[3:54] I'm just telling you what is waiting for you ahead. Yeah. So it's important. It's important that unfortunate situations will happen in life.

[4:07] But be careful you don't hurt the wounded. Because you'll pay for it. Police may not come after you because you have not done anything wrong.

[4:18] But life will pay you back. You take advantage of people, life will punish you. God doesn't have to get involved. There are systems in the world, in place. It's the order of the world.

[4:31] Whatever you do, you pay for it. You pay for it. So you have to have this heart of compassion. That when someone is down, don't ever celebrate the demise of people.

[4:44] Even if you think they deserve it. Don't celebrate. Proverbs says that, don't rejoice when your enemy falls down. Can you imagine? He said, don't rejoice.

[4:56] When your enemy falls down, don't rejoice. Is it Proverbs 24, 17? Let's all read it out from the screen, if you can. Do not rejoice when your enemy falls.

[5:06] And do not let your heart be glad when he struggles. Oh, look at what I just saw. Pastor Frank, do you know the word that came to my attention right now? From this text. The word when. It's not if.

[5:20] When. Your enemy will fall. He will fall. He will fall. He's on his way falling, but he hasn't realized he will fall.

[5:30] But I said, when he falls, say, oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Why? Because if you do that, don't let your heart be glad when he stumbles.

[5:44] Why? Look at the next verse, verse 18. Lest the Lord will see it and he will not be happy with you. Ah! God will not be happy with you because you are rejoicing someone has fallen. Don't rejoice over the fall of another person.

[5:57] Not even your ex. I know some of you, you think it's bad news. Bad news.

[6:10] Compassion. Let me add one more. Merciful. Be merciful. Wow. Wow. This one is the only one I want to clap for. Be merciful. Matthew chapter 5.

[6:22] It says that blessed are the merciful. Why? Oh. Oh. Oh. Let's not read the other one from the screen. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

[6:32] Let's go. Let's go. Read it like you mean it. Louder. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Even louder. Even louder. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

[6:43] Can we hear the ladies reading? Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Ladies, can we read it again? Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

[6:54] Now, men, let's go. Let's go. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Guys, let's go again. One more time. Guys, let's go. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

[7:06] There's something wrong with the boys, you know? Yes. Good. All right. I think the ladies should help them. Yes. Men will read it and the ladies will join them. OK. Ladies, help them.

[7:16] Men. Ladies will join. OK. Let's go. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. You see, it sounds like limousine. Limousine. Watch this. Why are you blessed? For.

[7:27] Did you see that? For is giving the reason why they are blessed. They shall obtain mercy. What does it mean to obtain mercy? What does it mean to be merciful? Say, come. I gave him my phone.

[7:42] I gave him my phone. I said, please, make sure you don't drop it. And he went playing and then dropped the phone and broke the phone. And according to the principles of our relationship, if you break the phone, you have to buy it.

[7:57] And I don't have to pay you the money. Now he's in a guilty position. Now, so, if I don't pay him the money, I'm not wrong. Because based on the law of our relationship, I'm not supposed to pay him the money.

[8:10] I'm supposed to punish him. I'm supposed to punish him. Now, mercy is when you have done it and I'm supposed to punish you and I choose I won't punish you. So, mercy is when you have been let off the hook as though you haven't done the wrong.

[8:25] Do you understand that? And God deals with everyone. That's why the Bible says in Ephesians chapter 2 verse 4 that God is rich in mercy. Wow!

[8:36] Does that make sense? God is rich. When we say God is good, people think that it means that God just interferes with other people's life for your sake. He doesn't interfere with people's lives. That is why when you are messing up, he didn't interfere with your life.

[8:49] Why do you want him to interfere with somebody's life? But God being merciful, God being, the Bible says, he is good and his mercy endures forever. Him being merciful is where you have gone wrong and it's based on his standard and his law.

[9:03] Where you've been wrong and he's supposed to punish you, sometimes he withholds punishment. So, he's supposed to punish you but his mercy stops him from punishing you.

[9:17] Wow! That's why we talk about merciful. How many of you know there are things that if it comes out about your life, you'll be in trouble? Yeah. How many of you know that?

[9:28] Yeah. There are things that if your mom finds out, If your uni finds out because of plagiarism. There's something about you that shouldn't come into the light.

[9:45] Something about you. Something that is not quite good about you. That is not quite okay about you. That is not quite perfect about you. There's something you are looking for a job, but you know, some time ago police stopped you.

[10:00] Hmm. Especially when you are looking for, when you want insurance. Those of you who drive. Sometimes it can be so frustrating. Yeah. And then there's one guy, look through, okay, no problem.

[10:13] Some of you, listen, let me tell you this before I go back to this. This is social advice. Some of you, you don't know the way you are living your life. You will never get a mortgage. Wow. And, and because of your kind of lack of steadying and diligence, you will also not get more money.

[10:29] Hmm. So are you going to rent for the rest of your life? Wow. Why won't I get a mortgage? Because of the mobile phone bills you have not been paid. It's all good.

[10:42] You are spoiling, you are butchering and vandalizing your credit score or credit rating. They have been forgotten. It's fair. No, yeah, it hasn't been, the system hasn't forgotten. But you don't know. One day you want to start a business, you have wonderful ideas.

[10:55] You have a big business and this thing, all you need is just loan from the bank. 50,000 pounds is so small. 50,000 or 100,000. And then they say, oh no problem.

[11:06] Yeah, someone came, normally the bank likes this problem. Oh yeah, can you get a bit more information? Oh yeah, oh, sorry, that thing didn't go to decline.

[11:18] And then they tell you, I can't tell you why. I don't know why. Suddenly you realize that there are other issues about life you never give respect to.

[11:29] Then you realize your aspirations are shattered because of your history. So be careful what kind of history you are building. Be careful.

[11:40] Because your future is going to depend or is going to ask the permission of your history. Fix your name before it hurts you.

[11:52] All those who are not clapping, they are suspects.

[12:04] All right, all right. So mercy means that something you don't, something, what you deserve, you are not, you are not giving what you deserve. But do you, there are times where you are going through some process or maybe an interview and you made a mistake.

[12:20] How many of you have heard someone say, I made a mistake at the interview, but they still gave it to me. Yeah. That's what mercy can do. Wow. So you have to be merciful so that you can also obtain mercy.

[12:31] Blessed are the merciful. Watch this. As a pastor, I vowed that I will always treat people well. Wow.

[12:42] Wow. Wow. It's not for their sake, it's for my own sake. That's right. And for the sake of my children. Yes. And for the sake of people like you who are important to me. The way I treat people will determine some of you who are connected to me how you end up being treated.

[12:57] Wow. Be merciful. Be merciful. It doesn't matter how much you are offended, be merciful. When you have the power to execute judgment against someone that can hurt somebody or revenge, be merciful.

[13:11] Be merciful. Be merciful. You can never look like God and be merciless. You can't look like God. In what way do you look like God when you are so merciless?

[13:22] The Bible says God, Ephesians 2, verse 4, God who is rich in mercy. Wow. He's rich in mercy. He's a God of mercy. He's a God. God is the only one.

[13:33] You can always ask for mercy any day, any time you get it. Wow. It's merciful. Someone shout mercy. Mercy. Shout mercy. Mercy.

[13:44] All of us at some point might break a law or make a mistake. You know, but we deserve. We have to believe God for mercy.

[13:56] Yes, sir. Sometimes you become a big man, chief executive, prominent person, prime minister, and something about you goes wrong and they may not, some people will choose, no, they won't talk about it.

[14:10] No one will get to know because they are in the good books of somebody. I've been sure prayed a prayer some time ago. I've never heard that prayer and it touched me. God show me favor even with the wicked man.

[14:23] Yeah. Hey, I've never thought about that prayer. So when someone is wicked and is trying to hurt people, a wicked man show you favor. Ah-ah.

[14:34] In the day of your weakness, may somebody show you mercy. May somebody show you mercy. May somebody show you mercy. May somebody show you mercy.

[14:45] Sometimes it can be in the power of a nurse, a doctor, to just help extra. Because what they are doing, they are not paid for it. But because they have mercy, they will go extra just to help you.

[14:58] Electra can go extra just to help you. Yes, yes, I'm telling you. An employer can go extra just to help you. Extra. Extra. Listen.

[15:09] You can't do well in life without the help from others. Oh, yes, oh, yes, wow. You need the help of others. Somebody is making their will, your uncle for some reason he decided to add you and give you that property in Kecstit.

[15:22] Why? Mercy. Somebody can just show, extend the catechesis of kindness towards you and he can change your story. It's also part of destiny.

[15:35] Don't never, never, never. What did I say? What did I say? Never ever say, I don't need anybody.

[15:47] That's the biggest irresponsible statement you could make. You don't need anybody? You certainly do. You need so many people. You need so sometimes arrogance.

[15:59] I don't need anybody. Who are you? I don't care. Please tone down, tone down, tone down. Everybody needs somebody. It's a very interrelated world.

[16:10] Your family, I know your cousins, they are funny. Your aunties are funny. But please be careful the way you treat them. Be careful. You need somebody.

[16:21] In this church, you come to church, may I just come and listen and I go. You are not growing, that's why. You are not growing, that's why you are going.

[16:33] I feel like rapping with it. You are not growing, that's why you are going. I feel like dancing with it. You are not growing, that's why you are going. You are not growing, that's why you are going, going, going, going, going. You are not growing, that's why you're going.

[16:46] You're not growing, that's why I'm going. Hallelujah!

[16:59] Put your hands together for the Lord! God bless you for listening to this powerful message. May the power of God be evident in your life.

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[17:27] Be blessed.