God gave me this prophetic message for the Body of Messiah.

This whole event is prophetic, and it is for you as well, not just about me. Hey, guys, today I'm coming to you with a different type of message from a different place. As you can see, I'm in South Africa right now. And as some of you may know, last week I was involved in an accident. And today I want to take a moment to just explain to you what happened when I. What journey I've been on since, what the Lord has been sharing with me, and some amazing prophetic parallels that I believe is going to bless you. As we're also going to be diving into some scripture today, I'm going to just get right into what happened last Sunday. I was going to the beach with my wife Christina, as we are visiting my family here in South Africa. I was probably in the water for two minutes or so, and one of the first waves that hit me caused something extremely unexpected and what people would call a freak accident. And I, you know, came up, looked towards the shore. I started seeing the water, starts going like this in my vision, right? And the whole world around me is now going like that. And. And I'm thinking maybe I'm just, you know, just a little dizzy from being in the water. And. And so I, you know, look to the shore, start walking slowly to the shore. My wife is on the beach, and I start noticing my. My hearing that. That it's like there's a filter in front of my ear and my hearing is going in and out. It is. It is closing up. And then I tell my wife, I need to sit down. I don't feel well. And as I say that to her, I realize, oh, my. I cannot speak because I'm slurring my words. And I keep telling her, look, I'm slurring my words. I'm trying to speak clearly to you right now, but my words are coming out slurred. And it's a really scary feeling when you know, you're. You're trying to just speak clearly, but it's like your brain is incapable of it. You know what I mean? And then, so I'm laying there, I sit down there on the beach to just get my bearings, and. And I look at this lifeguard flag, which there are these flags for the life that the lifeguards have in the sand. A large, long one. And I'm looking at it, but I'm not seeing just one. I'm now seeing two. Like, this far apart from one another, and there's only one, but I'm seeing two. And so now my vision Went double as well. That's never happened to me before. So I'm dizzy, my speech is slurred, my vision is going double, my hearing is affected, and it's all, and it all happened in a moment, in an instant. And so suffice to say, I am freaking out a little bit. I'm like telling my wife, get on the phone, call help, you know, and she doesn't have any signal. And so I immediately realize I'm getting worse by the second right now. Either I'm gonna walk off of this beach right now or I'm gonna stay here and we're gonna wait until, who knows when, when she can go and find some help, right? And so I stand up and I say, no, we need to walk right now. And so I just cry out to the Lord as we're walking. I'm saying, God, Yeshua, help me right now. You're my salvation. You're the only one who can help me right now. Get off this beach. I'm praying, I'm crying out for help. I'm like, lord, please help me. I don't know what's happening to me, God, but you need to help me right now so I can walk. And so I'm walking with my wife. I don't know how I did it, but I got off the beach, got onto the land where one of my relatives homes were not far from there. And I went to lie down there and eventually everyone came to figure out what's going on. I got to a specialist ENT doctor the next morning and the doctor, he diagnosed me with something called a paralymphatic fastula. And, and I'll just read what that is for you. A paralymphatic fascia is an abnormal connection, a tiny tear between the fluid filled inner ear and the air filled middle ear, allowing inner ear fluid to leak. And so I didn't even know that this was something that could happen. But our inner ear is filled with fluid and when there is pressure, like air pressure that is applied in a very abnormal way to our ear, it can cause a tear in the membrane and it can cause that fluid to leak out in our inner ear and that causes all kinds of bad stuff to happen, including extreme dizziness and all the things that I experienced. And the doctor said there's a, you know, there's a risk of going deaf. But you know, I just need to lay down, I need to be still because if I move, it's like it gets, it, it can, it can, the, the fluid can go out again. Right at the middle, it can leak again. And then all of the symptoms kind of. It just gets reset. And that's what happened that next day, because I woke up and I felt pretty good, actually. And I just turned around, and when I turned around in bed, it's like everything that happened at the beach was triggered again. It happened all over again, but this time worse. This time I started losing feeling in some of my limbs. I started having, of course, the dizziness, the. The double vision. My ear went shut again, like basically temporarily death. And I remember just getting so scared in that moment, you know, because again, what's happening to me is kind of the feeling. I felt like I was this far from passing out. And I told my wife, I think I'm going to pass out right now. And just before I do, I vomit. And it's. It's just. It's. Yeah, that's the way it goes. Sorry for the details, but. But this was really bad, guys. I. I was wondering, God, what is happening? God, why is this happening? God? And, you know, all the thoughts come rushing, is this, am I going to get better? You know, because there are cases where people do not get better, and where am I going to land in all of this? You know that. These are the kind of questions that immediately come to our mind. Now, my wife Christina mentioned something that really caught my attention, and that was that pd this is really strange, the timing of this, because, you know, we just put out the teaching that I did with David Wilbur that's on. It's called the Mystery of Christian Suffering, whereby. Which we discussed, you know, why bad things happen to believers and unbelievers alike. And that teaching got released on the 2nd of January, and then on the 4th of January, there was this accident that happened to me two days thereafter. And if you look at the thumbnail of that video that we put out, which of course was made prior to this accident, the background is a wave. The wave is there. And the wave would two days later hit me and be my source of suffering. Coincidence? Well, I don't think so. Before I get into what that means, many of you heard of the accident, and you prayed for me and you sent in messages and you made comments on social media. And I just want to say thank you so very much for your prayers. As you can see right now, I am actually doing very well. I have had an amazing recovery. And it really shocked the doctors. They expected it to take longer. You know, the one said, you know, this could take months to be where you're at right now. And, you know, it's just basically been about now a week and a half. So I want to say glory to the Father for carrying me through it, helping me, strengthening me in it. You know, when I felt all of these scary feelings in my body, I at the same time felt such peace. It's kind of weird. It's strange. It's. It's supernatural. It's like in the physical, our bodies can feel stressed, right? And we can feel kind of like worry and these emotions. But at the same time, I had this underlying peace that was spiritual, that the Father was with me, and that no matter what, no matter what happens, no matter how this all turns out, that it is going to be good, because he is good. And I had to, in the depths of despair, because there were some moments of despair when in this recovery, I had to say, the Lord gives, the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I had to make peace and talk with the Lord and say, lord, whatever you want to do, I'm good with that. Lord, you want to take away something from me, I'm good with that. If it's going to be for the glory of your kingdom, I'm good with that. You know, I believe it's so important to fully throw ourselves into the Lord's lap and trust his will with whatever we are going through. And if you look at the thumbnail that was created, of course, weeks ago, this whole event is prophetic. And it is for you as well, not just about me. I want to submit to you, brothers and sisters, that we're living in a time right now where waves are hitting God's people from many directions. We see that there are divisive doctrines all around us, that there is political turmoil in this world right now that is consuming many of us. Some of us are in suffering, some of us are angry, we have pain or trauma. There are many things that are trying to consume us right now. And I want to ask what is overwhelming you this day like a flood? Because just like my body was affected by the wave that hit me in very real, tangible, and even instantaneous ways, so the body of Messiah is being affected. I want to submit to you in very real ways, and we need to guard ourselves against it. See, when I was hit by that wave, my walk was affected because I became dizzy. My sight was affected because I saw double. My hearing was affected because my ear closed up. And my speech was affected because it was slurred. And so I want to submit to you that we as people, spiritually speaking, can become so overwhelmed by our wave that we find it difficult to see clearly, spiritually speaking, to hear clearly, spiritually speaking. Our spiritual walk may even become unstable and even our words become slurred. That is, we lose discernment, maybe because of hurt or circumstance or turmoil inside of us, because of the wave that's hit us. We become unfruitful, maybe divisive, maybe attacking, maybe bearing bad fruit. It is a temptation that when something happens to us, for us to react in a certain way. And the question is, will we cry out to God, who is our salvation when we feel overwhelmed by our wave? Or will we just react the way that the world reacts? See, it can be easy to get swallowed up by fear and worry and despair that that demon came to me a lot last week to try and steal my hope and my faith. But it is in those moments we are most tested, and you are tested also in different ways to see how you will respond when it happens. We see in Ephesians 4, 13, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful schemes. If we continue to be tossed to and fro by the waves of this world and humanity and what people do against us and our emotions that are responding to all of that in a perhaps a negative way, we will live in chaos, just like I felt chaos in my body. But God can bring peace to us, peace to me, peace to you, if we put all of our hope in him and him empowering us to respond correctly. And so the greatest problem I want to submit to you, brothers and sisters, when something happens to us isn't usually the thing itself. Like, for example, this medical issue that happened to me, that was not the biggest problem and the biggest challenge that I faced, even though that was one of the worst things that ever happened to me, my worst experience ever. But the greatest problem actually were the questions that it sparked. The what ifs? And the worries of the future that tried to invade my soul. The questions of, oh, how long will this go on? What will happen to me? Will I be able to go back to work? Will I be able to go back to ministry? Will I be able to look up after my family? Will I go deaf? Will I die? Will I be disabled in some way? Will I suffer like this every day? For the rest of my life. We have these as a natural consequence of things that happen to us. But when we allow these two questions to start stirring in us and taking authority within us, then they will indeed start having authority in our life. And then our biggest fears actually become true. Because we now no longer worship the God of heaven and earth to whom every disaster needs to bow, but instead we now start worshiping the disasters itself. And we take God and we minimize him as smaller than our disasters. The reality is you must choose whom you will serve this day. And so therefore, spiritual infirmity can be a much greater bondage than any physical infirmity that can come upon us. And that's what happens to many people, is that they get into a suffering loop. It's kind of like I have this physical issue perhaps, or situation, and because I am now afraid of this, now I start getting depressed, I start getting anxious, I start getting fearful. And now there are actually physical symptoms that starts manifesting because of anxiety, stress, fear, depression. And then I look at these physical symptoms that are increasing and I get more fearful, afraid, depressed, anxious, and then my physical symptoms increase even more. And it's a suffering loop. It's a fear cycle. It is something that actually started off somewhere and now it's 10 times worse because it has pulled me and it has consumed me and it is having me for breakfast versus me having my challenge for breakfast. Because God is the one who, who empowers me and who gives me power over all the works of the devil and every plan of Satan. See, whom will you serve? Is the question. And so we have to break free from any of these anxieties, these fears, these worries, and these. At its core, what I really am talking about are these lies. Because, see, Satan comes and he simply throws out a question to Adam and Eve. Did God really mean what he said? See, it's the wrong questions that actually open doors to Satan. And it is the truth. See, the truth is not a question. The truth is the truth. The truth is, yes, something happened to me in that ocean. A wave hit me. But the truth is that my God is the one who created that wave. That my God is the one who loves me. That my God is the one who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And therefore, the truth is, why should I fear? Another thing that happens when we allow anxiety, fear, depression, and these wrong questions in is that we start wondering about our own callings and we become passive, too scared of our calling. I want to tell you that physical infirmity is not Supposed to be a limit for us. In other words, yes, I was sick, yes, I was immobilized. Yes, all that was very true. And in the moment of it happening to me. But I could see those things happen to me as a limit, or I could see it as an opportunity, a limit on God's power, a limit on my calling, a limit on what I ought to do now in God's kingdom, or an opportunity for God's power, an opportunity for God's strength to be manifested, an opportunity for his kingdom to grow through this infirmity that I'm going through. See, in Exodus 4, we see, Moses has a physical disability of sorts, right? And God calls him to a calling, to go to Israel and to tell them, and to tell Egypt, to tell Pharaoh, let my people go. And Moses, because of this, the slowness of speech that he has, he tells God, God, I am slow of speech and of tongue. Why are you sending me? Send someone else. And the Lord said to him in verse 11, who has made man's mouth? Who has made him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak. But he said, o my Lord, please send someone else. And the Lord's anger was kindled against Moses. See, God actually became angry at Moses for not trusting. See, Moses was actually arrogant in his own infirmity. It's this idea that how well I can speak to the people is how well they will be convinced of God. How strong I am in myself and my human nature and power is how well others will be convinced of God's power. But that's foolishness, and that's arrogant. The truth is that I am weak. I cannot convince you. I cannot by my own strength and by my own power, convince you of God's power. For God is God and I am not. Moses thought, well, he's not strong enough. But that's arrogant because that means that he thought that it's dependent on his strength, that his strength is what's going to make this happen, make or break this. Well, the truth was that it was God who was going to do it 100% through Moses, who supernaturally not Moses, ability to speak well. And so, in the same way for us all, we have to be careful that when something happens to us, we don't throw our fist up in the air at God, blaming him, saying, you know, if I could have just spoken better, if I was, you know, more mobile, if I was less sick, if I was this, if I was that then I would be able to do God what yout called me to do. That's arrogant. The truth is that we need to live in faith and say, God, I am not able. I was never able. Whether I'm sick, whether I'm healthy or I can speak well or not, whether I can see or whether I am blind, whether I am deaf or whether I can hear, whether I have balance or whether I feel too dizzy to stand, whether I can see, single vision or double vision, God, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, you are the one who must do it from the beginning to the end. And it is not dependent on me. This is something, brothers, that I want you to understand in your life. That trial. Trial is scary when it happens, but it does not touch the calling of God in your life. Trial is scary for us because it questions our ability to control things. I felt absolutely helpless and out of control. I could not control my own speech. I could not control my own body. I could not even stand up straight. I could not control my hearing. I could not control my sight. There was just about nothing. I remember even feeling my face like this. I started losing feeling in my face. All of my senses I felt like I lost control of. That's not fun. But it forced me when I was on that beach and later to throw myself into the arms of God as my only hope. And that's exactly where the genuineness of our faith is tested. Is God good? I mean, you know, it's easy to say, God, I trust you, and God, you're good and God, thank you, God. God. You know, it's easy to say that when a baby is born and we're so excited. But is God good when a child dies way too young? You know, it's easy to say God is good when a young person graduates from university. But is God good when that person ends up homeless? God is good when, you know, he brings two people together in marriage. But is God good when a marriage is full of unhappiness? God is good when we are healthy. But is God good when we are sick? There are many waves of this world that's heading our way right now or will head our way in the future. But how will you survive? See, I want to submit to you that no man has tamed the waves of water and trial. But 1 Matthew 8:25 it says, and they went and woke him, saying, save us, Lord, we are perishing. And he said to them, why are you afraid, O you of little faith? Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, what sort of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey him? In Matthew 14:26, it's written. But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified and said, it is a ghost. And they cried out in fear. The waves of the ocean and the waters are symbolic of something that humanity has not been able to tame, something we cannot control. And here the Messiah Yeshua is standing on water. Here he waves his hand at a storm and suddenly it becomes calm, shocking his disciples. He demonstrates his power over that which no one has power over. He shows us that in our trial and in our distress, when we think we are perishing, he could just wave his hand and it would all be over. That is who he is. But when we are faced with a storm, we feel the need to control the storm. We feel the need to control that which only God has dominion over. He is the God of our lives, and we must recognize that we are not. Our need to control everything that happens to us and everything we go through is a lack of faith. And we must surrender that control to God so that. Because, I mean, dude, you want him to be in control. I don't want to be in control because I can't save myself like the disciples said, Yeshua, save us. I conclude with this. How do we heal after a wave has hit us? For I was hit by a wave just last week. Many of us have been hit by waves of trauma. Something terrible that's been done against you by another person situation, maybe the death of someone close to you, a sick child, the list of trials in this world, and heartache as endless it seems. When I was at the doctor, he told me what I should be doing. He said, pd just lay still, be still. And so I want to submit to you. Psalm 46:10. It says, Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted the earth. This is what the doctor prescribed me. He didn't even realize it, but he was quoting a psalm. Be still, heal. And this is what the great Physician is prescribing to you in this season, to be still and know that he is God. Whereby he says, observe and see how I do a mighty thing. How he says, you need to be brought low as you are, so that I can show you that I, Yahweh, I am your only hope and your deliverer. So then you'd be able to truly Say, Blessed be the name of the Lord. See, the only way you could say Blessed be the name of the Lord from your soul and not just as lip service, is when you have seen the Lord deliver you from the undeliverable situations. When you see him come through in ways that no man could say would be possible, then you can say, blessed be the name of the Lord. I end with this. There was a day where Yeshua entered Jerusalem riding a donkey. The people came out and sang, hosanna, Hosanna, Blessed be the one who comes in the name of the Lord. But just a little later, that Lord was crucified and they shook their fist at him, saying that he is cursed among murderers on the cross. But when he resurrected from the dead, the people learned something that not everything is as it seems. And blessing can appear as a curse at first through the death of Christ, whereby which the curses of the world were placed upon him, the greatest blessing came upon the world salvation. So perhaps your curse, whatever that may be, is actually a blessing as well. Do not judge by appearance, but judge with righteous judgment and recognize that God is up to something. Father, I pray for anyone listening who is suffering that you would give them hope and strength in their trial, that you would draw near to them, that they would experience your presence like never before and encounter you just like I have encountered you in the midst of my trial. Thank you for delivering us. Thank you for salvation. Thank you for healing, Lord. I thank you Lord, for anyone who is far off from the Lord, that you would bring them close. Any family member we are worried about that you would bring them close that you encounter them. We worship you, Lord. The Lord gives, the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you Yeshua, for dying for us and above all giving us hope of salvation. Amen. Thank you for joining me. I hope this short teaching was a blessing to you and thank you for praying for me. Please continue praying for me. Shalom. Sa.