Sunday, December 31, 2023
Happy New Year 2024
The year has come to a conclusion yet again: many friends are on holidays and soaking in the joy of festivities; while some are at home recovering from the battle scars from the year that it was. Indeed some of the wounds were necessary to strengthen us for the tasks ahead. God wants to instil and build some tenacity in us to prepare us for tougher assignments.
Many are struggling in their business, relationships or work; while some with gratitude to count their blessings and even have a little extra to do a little charity or to lend a helping hand.
I have known both the ecstasy of success and the despair of failure. We are glad for those who are at the pinnacle of their careers. But I can empathise with those going through setbacks after setbacks and difficult times for I have been there myself. But no matter how bitter your disappointments are you must never run away from God or the church, as He always has a Plan B. Just be thankful as without Jesus our boat of destiny would have sunk long ago.
The disciples were fruitless. Simon answered “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything..” Luke 5:5. There is abundance of fishes in the sea. It’s there whether Simon Peter managed to catch any or not. Likewise there is abundance of wealth in this world whether we are financially challenged or otherwise. The key is to have Jesus as your partner. The wealth is there in the market.
By faith in Christ, as a gentile I too partake in the Abrahamic covenant. On reflection, the year 2023 I saw many things that I lost being restored, and new openings that I never imagined. First there was my first commercial book launch in over a dozen years. Then my Total Health Management courses began to take shape towards the end of 2023 in a local varsity – University Technology Malaysia.
As 2024 is just around the corner, there is an anticipation and excitement of what they year will bring. Perhaps even with a tinge of ambivalence. Many are yet to see their God given promises fulfilled. The coming year will certainly inch us closer to our destiny, even at unprecedented rate with God speeding up His move in these end times.
God wants us to launch into the deep (Luke 5:4) where there are lots of hidden treasure and wealth. Expansion and favour is our portion so don’t miss the opportunities. It’s His desire to continue to enlarge us in 2024. Yet the “deep” is not without pitfalls, obstacles and challenges. Hence the more we need to keep our eyes on Jesus, and let Him lead us step by step. Focus on Him, and not the news, rumours and conventional wisdom. You are not limited by what you have in your bank account or your age. When grace is activated there are no limitations. When grace is activated, age is no limitation.
So David and his men went up to Baal Perazim, and there he defeated them. He said, “As waters break out, God has broken out against my enemies by my hand.” So that place was called Baal Perazim (1 Chronicles 14;11).
There will be Rushing Waves of Breakthroughs (1 Chronicles 14:11) in 2024. We have arrived at our Baal Perazim!!! Breakthroughs! Yes breakthroughs. Perazim means breakthrough in Hebrew., the very name of my company Perazim Holdings Sdn Bhd. The time has come, Welcome to Baal Perazim.
Blessings,
Happy New Year 2024.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Ingredients of a Miracle - Ps Joshua Yee
Looking back there are miracles – big and small- that God has done for all of us, and I eagerly await for Him to perform more. And yes, “be bold to ask for big things from God” as Ps Joshua puts it. While listening to the sermon, indeed there are things in my heart that I am asking God for; for unprecedented and big miracles
But then what are the ingredients and mind-set that I need to position myself for such unprecedented, mind-blowing miracles?
1. God loves to use whatever you have
The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”
2 Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”
“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”
3 Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. 4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”
5 She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”
But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”
2 Kings 4:1-7
In the book of Kings, the widow’s two (2) sons were about to be sold as slaves to pay off the family debts. The widow only had a jar of olive oil but God was able to multiply what little she had.
Like the widow we may be down to nothing. There was a time not too distant that I was also down to nothing, feeling lost, broke, frustrated and depressed. Little did I know when I am down to nothing, God was up to something big in my life.
Man is indeed limited, but God isn’t. We have limited resources, funding & abilities, but God is able to multiply what little we have. Like the widow we will be challenged by God to give the little that we have. God is asking what do you have? When I was down to zero, the only thing I had left to give was my writing skills. Little did I know my books had millions in circulation. While we are wondering how God will deliver His miracle to us, we may be frustrated and sense that we have lost direction. God doesn't perform miracles in our presence. He is behind the scenes preparing the breakthroughs for us (Exodus 14:13-14). This is to show His greatness. That is why it a MIRACLE. He is a miraculous God.
Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ ”
So the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”
He said, “A rod.”
Exodus 4:1-3
In Exodus 4, God asked Moses what did he have? Moses only had a rod and with it Moses brought Pharoah to his knees, drew water from a rock and parted the Red Sea.
2. Keep Looking For Empty Jars
Elisha told the widow to keep looking for empty jars. When you feel yourself empty, you become a candidate for God’s miracle. If you are full of yourself and hence full of self-pride then God cannot use you.
Emptiness is eligibility. The lack of natural goodness proves your need of God’s grace, and that need is your capacity to receive. Empty buckets are the best for the well of grace – Charles Spurgeon.
When we are full of ourselves, we think we don’t need God. We think we have all the answers and resources. We may not even not be open to feedback and criticism due to pride. But those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know” (1 Corinthians 8:2). The truth is no one knows everything. We need feedback to innovate and improve as we all have blind spots. I recently launched a new book on Transcription Factors and its role in renewal and regeneration. I was asked do they cause cancer something which I overlooked and hence spurred me to research and read further. Hence I always welcome feedback and constructive criticism.
The widow in 2 Kings 4, only stopped pouring oil into the jars when her sons stopped finding empty jars. God didn’t stop the flow of oil. God is not limited. It is our capacity to receive from Him that is limited. So keep feeling empty and don't stop looking for empty jars.
3. Be Bold To Ask Big Things
Set a vision that is big enough that you need God to inspire your faith and dreams to impact the world in these last days. Don’t set something within your comfort zone. Think and believe big as God is still in the business of miracles and will provide you new resources and provision to meet every new opportunity and challenges.
Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back;
lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah 54:2
Are you ready for a big breakthrough? Are you ready to break through new barriers and go to new (blue ocean) territories that no one has gone before?
I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty
Haggai 2:7-8
The time has come for all the nations to seek what you can offer. The silver and gold all belongs to the Lord, so what can’t He do for you?. My books sales have reached all corners of the world and still going. The students for my course will soon likewise come from all over the world as well. My products will reach to all corners of the world. Revival is happening and God has made us a part of it. We are witnessing the end time transfer of wealth to his house (the church) for the end-time ministry. And God doesn’t do things small scale in the end-times.
4. Shut Your Door To Negativities
There is a miracle with your name on it waiting for you. Don’t let others talk you out of your dreams and your God-given vision. You may be going through a process of grief and the pain can be very real. But don’t let the pain eat into your life that you give up.
If you have had a bad past it does not mean you will have a bad future. Yes there are things that I could have avoided or done differently. Life is full of endless possibilities and probabilities. It could have been this or that, should have not done this and that, but destiny has made its turn.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up- Galatians 6:9.
I am not going to let people to tell me that I can’t make it. I am not going to let my past failures discourage me from pursuing my vision and dreams. I am not going to let people tell me I am too old to start. I am not going to let fear and tough situations cause a shutdown mentality.
You may not have much but God loves to use what little you have. He is looking for empty vessels. The greatest hindrance to your miracle is to be full of yourself. Dream big and ask big from Him. Your current assignment and ministry is your place of blessings. Even if you are at the pinnacle of your game or industry, keep looking for empty vessels, and most importantly keep being emptied so that you can keep enlarging your capacity to receive from Him.
Amen!
Monday, October 16, 2023
Eagle vs Chicken
An eagle and a chicken are both birds, and therefore look more or less the same: they have beaks, they have wings, both have claws, they have feathers and they both come from eggs.
But the difference between them is enormous. First, note that there is a huge amount of chickens. You’ve probably seen a chicken up close, maybe even picked one up.Now, have you ever seen a live eagle? Probably not. Chickens are everywhere, but eagles are rare.
You can cage an eagle but he will still know how to fly. I have not plied my trade in healthcare consulting, book writing and lecturing for over a decade, but when the Lord let me do it again .… I can still fly. No amount of coaxing can get a chicken to fly and then soar. Eagles fly high to hunt at the top of the mountains, while chickens eat scraps of food in the yard. I certainly do not want to eat scraps from the ground but to hunt for good opportunities from the top by being on top of my game. I don’t want to be scratching for a living, but to live in the fullness of Christ and excel in my industry.
There is a canny resemblance to people and even Christians into two (2) types of people- an eagle or a chicken. Being able to fly and soar like an eagle comes from “within”. It’s in the mindset. You are what you think you are. There are those that are born as eagles but do not believe they can soar, overcome their current challenges, discouraged and weighed down by the burdens of life and hence living like chickens for their entire life. And please don’t let your relatives and friends tell you that you cannot soar up there like the eagles we see high in the sky. You are a product of what you think, not what others think. Don’t let your past failures discourage you. I was so fixated with the path that didn’t work for years. But eventually God opened up different paths that are even better. So reposition yourself in the midst of failures so you don’t miss a better route in front of you.
1.Visionary
An eagle has eyesight that can spot a rabbit at over three kilometres and has excellent depth perception as well as 270 degrees peripheral vision. It can see its target from very far!
Eagles have strong vision which comes from taking the time to reflect and listen. So take time to pray and inquire and listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit so that you can see and carve out business opportunities that others can’t. Through my darkest days I kept believing God has a glorious destiny for me (and you). He is already preparing works for us, and our job is to see them and focus on being obedient. Like the eagle, those who know God will have superior vision and see more in the spirit.
2. Innovation
An eagle only eats live prey. They do not eat dead meats like the vultures and other scavengers. Don’t waste your precious time and energy doing the same old things and keep habits that are not productive. Many spend too much time on Facebook, social media and their hobbies instead of learning new skillsets. We must make a conscious effort to feed our minds on live, wholesome knowledge, godly food, not the left-over junk they serve on the news, social media and chatgroups.
We have to be continually learning new things to innovate. Many people are limited and frustrated in their business and career because they lack new ideas that will break personal boundaries. It takes information with innovation and “inspired revelation” for an impartation for transformation that can lead to enviable manifestation in any enterprise. Even if you are an employee, think like an entrepreneur.
The advancement of any career needs new ideas and innovation, which without you cannot break limitations.
3. Fearless
Watch an eagle when a storm comes. When other birds fly away from the storm with fear, an eagle spreads its mighty wings and uses the current to soar to greater heights. The eagle takes advantage of the very storms that lesser birds fear and head for cover. Challenges in life are many. These are the storm we must face to rise to greater heights. Like an eagle, we can only rise to greater heights if he takes up the challenges head on without running away from them. In my earlier years I ran away from challenges, but I never grew up till I face my challenges head on then only God lifted me. The storm of life has made me better in my trade and taught me many invaluable lesson about my flaws and shortcomings.
Success needs perseverance so when life get tough simply spread your wings and allow His Spirit to empower you. Soar even higher than an eagle as Bette Midler sings in her famous hit “Wind Beneath My Wings”.
4. Renewal and re-innovate
When an Eagle grows old, its feathers become weak and cannot take it as fast as they should. When it feels weak and about to die, it retires to a place far away in the rocks. While there, it plucks out every feather on its body until it is completely bare. It stays in this hiding place until it has grown new feathers, a process which takes about 150 days. After this, the eagle can take its famous flight of rebirth and live for 30 more years.
Proverbs 24:3-4 (TLB) says, “Any enterprise (life, family, business, etc.) is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.”
Old companies become too rigid. I hate dealing with bureaucracy in large companies. Decisions are made too slowly. Chinaman family companies are worse as all decision are made by one person. Example of companies being slow to innovate are aplenty. Sony in their heydays made waves with their Walkman, Kodak with their cameras; and Blackberry who failed to realised there is a serious competitor in i-Phone and android now has zero% market share.
Hence not only an enterprise must keep abreast of the facts but situationally aware of the latest technologies in their field and market trends.
In these last days
With the Hamas-Israel war erupting, the timeline is near. The soaring eagle is a symbol of the resurrected Christ whose return is near. There are many non-believers who do not know Christ even as end-time bible prophecies is being fulfilled right before our very eyes.
End time prophecy cannot be fulfilled without restoration of Jews to their homeland. The Roman empire decimated Israel in 70 A.D. For almost 2,000 years there was no Jewish nation in the Middle East. The restoration of the Jewish state in 1948 showed God will fulfil what He promised.
The seven seals in Revelation 6 is God’s judgment on earth. The first seal a white horse could possibly be the covid-19 pandemic that made me realised on my misplaced hope on material things. The second seal a fiery red horse and its certainly related to the escalations of war we see in Ukraine, Hamas-Israel war which threatens to expand to the entire Middle -East (as red is the colour of blood and killing). Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword. Basically there will be no peace for a few more years but only wars. I don’t think the time for the brokered peace is here yet. The brokered peace that the Anti-Christ will break with Israel when he sits in the rebuilt temple. The temple has not been rebuilt yet.
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!” Rev 6: 6. Many are already struggling, living from paycheque-to-paycheque amidst rising inflation. The fourth seal warns of an ensuing famine…
These are interesting and critical times. So stay close to God. We are living in an increasingly lawless and dangerous society.
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Grace for a Bigger Capacity for Greater Supply - Ps Joshua Yee
There is a certain individual that has short changed me and left me in a total financial loss. People that I have trusted. It is not easy to forgive but we must in order to move on to a greater arena of blessings "than what was lost". When we have a revelation of how big our God is, we can forgive unconditionally the way He forgave us, and move on in our lives for the better.
Sure we may still have scars from "what was", but as we sang the “Way Maker” the Lord in our midst reminded that He is a “Promise keeper” who allowed things to be taken away to enlarge my capacity for greater and bigger things ahead. Over a dozen years of isolation had prepared me for what God has predestined me to be, and certainly to enlarge my capacity for His greater supply, and surprisingly even my capacity to forgive.
Nothing forces a person to confront their true self like suffering. Suffering causes our focus to turn inward, to face those parts of ourselves we might otherwise ignore especially our flaws. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us – Oliver Wendell Homes. And when God bring what lies within us out into the world, miracles happen. The world will be shaken and impacted.
Philippians 4:19 “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
In the darkest of days is when I developed steel and resolve "within"; from a panicky, dependent person to one that knows very well that He had and continues to supply my every need ‘liberally’ and ‘fully’. Knowing God’s generous nature, assures us that He desires very much to supply us all our needs from His glorious riches that abound in Christ Jesus.
Today, God had expanded my resources and His supply in view of the new challenges and openings in front of me.
1. See God as Big enough for all your needs
When men said my career and my dreams are over, that is when God took over. When men says it OVER that is when God takes OVER. Without battles there can be no victory! You may not see it, or feel it; but He is working for you without rest behind the scenes. If God had showed me His plan for me years back, I would have certainly chickened out. But He knows the end, from the beginning, I don’t. When God restores you, even your enemies will be amazed and tremble (Jeremiah 33:9). He will give you a wholesome prosperity that will be the envy of many. It is not being avaricious, but it is definitely not romantic to be poor as Pastor Joshua puts it.
Genesis 26:12 “Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him.”
In these end-times God is hastening His blessings and supply. Like Isaac we will reap multiple folds what we sowed in a short period.There are decades when nothing happens; then there are months when decades happen. Indeed for so many years I thought to myself and wondered if all the promises of God for my life are true. Maybe I heard wrongly. Maybe the prophesies from the pastors are false. I felt like Joseph who believed God had destined me for greatness only then to be quickly sold into slavery and thrown into prison for a dozen years.
Life dealt me with a cruel turn. I felt hopeless and abandoned by many. When life becomes difficult it is always reassuring that we can turn to God. The same God who came down 2000 years ago in the flesh, the same God who said to Moses “I am that I am”. He is the only one who can understand all our hurts and pain. No one else can heal your afflictions as they are all personal. Each heart knows it own bitterness, and no one can share its joy (Proverbs 14:10).
But God can, as it is only His word that can penetrate the soul and spirit, joints and marrow He created in us. Therefore turn to Him, and He will incline to you and hear your cry. His loving hands will be there to embrace you.
When the storms of life come, just lean on Him and be still. Listen to His still soft voice, the same voice that calmed the raging storms, and He will lift you out of your despair. His is truly the Lily in my darkest valley.
We walk by faith not by what situation we see ourselves in- be it in isolation, a metaphoric prison, or the good times. Faith comes by ‘continually’ hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17).
2. When the manna ceased
Exodus 16:35 The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
The Israelites ate manna for 40 years. When the manna ceased its usually harvest season. The Israelites are now to eat from the land flowing with milk and honey. God will not allow some things to cease unless He has prepared a greater calling, a greater purpose for you. So do not cling on to old things that hold you back, and do not hesitate to move on when the previous season had served its purpose.
Job 5:11-12 The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. He thwarts the plans of the crafty so that their hands achieve no success.
Let God deal with those who had hurt you. I see those crafty ones that hurt me are now totally broke. Manna is good for a season to shape us internally, but God is about to give you solid food, solid blessings.
3. God Himself desires Personally to fulfil all your needs
Matthew 28:20 “..lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
You may be in a sticky situation and wonder how is God going to meet your need. Trust Him as He is with you till the end of age. He will find ways to deliver what you need. He used a raven to deliver bread and meat to Elijah (1 Kings 17:6). Trust Him even if you are down to your last ounce of resource like the widow (1 Kings 17: 12). It was during MCO 1.0 that I had a major breakthrough that led to other breakthroughs and ongoing restoration. Yes when we could not even leave our homes due to covid-19. He will find a way to restore us and fulfil all our needs.
Fear and worries come because we are expecting and looking to things or human beings to fulfil needs that only God can fully meet – Pastor Joshua. No one can out-supply the Lord, so inquire Him in prayer and He will guide you.
Be still O my soul
And rest in God;
Be still in His presence,
For only He can heal.
So be still my soul,
Embrace His healing hands.
Many are my afflictions,
Abundant are my thorns.
I focus my eyes on You, Lord,
So whisper to me now.
Your voice is all I need to hear
Your assurance is all I seek;
Your voice is all I want;
The voice that calms the raging storms.
Heal me with Your love, Lord.
O this imperfect life
Is but a moment in eternity.
I place my head upon Your breast,
Let me see life through Your eyes.
In an instant I will be comforted;
No more will I ask why,
Knowing the afflictions are small,
Compared to the crown that awaits.
Strengthen this child who cries to You.
Keep me in Your might
Lift me on eagle’s wings to soar again
Giving all glory to You.
Strengthen me, O Lord.
(Source: Victor Chen, Refresh-Psalms for 21st Century Living 2003)
Sunday, July 23, 2023
The Gospel you write
There are 4 gospels in the Bible. But the one most people ever get to read is the gospel you write, the one you live, the one you manifest.
In these critical end-times, there is no space for compromised lives. Jesus said “you are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” Matthew 5:13 ESV
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed (Romans 8:19). You are the sound of revival in this end-time generation as the above video lyrics from Singer-Evangelist Minister GUC penetrates our spirits...
I am the sound of revival
The world is waiting for me to be heard
I am the Bible they read
They will read me and they will be changed
