Glorious Way Church

The Power of Liquid Love

• Ilka Peh

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Have you noticed how quickly we can wound those closest to us, even when they've done nothing wrong? Through an unforgettable personal story about a small scissor cut that left trails of blood in the most unexpected places, Ilka Peh unveils a life-changing truth: "If you never heal from what hurt you, you bleed on people who didn't cut you."

Speaker 1:

Praise the Lord. I thank God. This evening I'm going to share the platform with my beautiful wife, my girlfriend. We've been married 19 years. We've been over 123 countries, I've flown over 3 million miles and she's still smiling, and so will you put your hands together and welcome. Amen, good evening.

Speaker 2:

It's such a joy to be back at Glorious Way. We love you all so much. Thank you, pastor John. Isn't he the sweetest? Every time I see him so gracious, so sweet, so amazing. I wish every pastor was just like you. You know we travel around the world and you meet all kinds of pastors out there. But when I see you, when I meet you, I'm like, oh, so amazing. And you know my girl, she's asking me all the time mom, when are we going back to the church that is in a tent? We'll be so much days. When are we going to see Pastor Jay and this Selena Allison? Oh, I want to go back there to the church in a tent. So we love you all so much. Can we just give a hug? You know I'm a hugger and this morning I didn't get to hug some of you, so just give a hug. We love you all so much. Thank you for the invitation. We love you so much.

Speaker 2:

And tonight I was going to share on miracles, but during worship I changed my message and I just want to share a story about what happened. I think it was last year. Last year we were in Ohio and it was freezing cold outside and we had meetings in different cities in Ohio and there is a guy. He put us up in a hotel and he said I want to put you up in a hotel. It has to have a pool so that Destiny can swim. You know we're always somewhere on the road. So he was thinking about our destiny and I know you guys also think about our destiny. Thank you for loving our destiny Because you know we are rarely home almost never. So he said so we had meetings and I told Destiny on Saturday we're going to the pool Because the man he had put us in the hotel with the pool, so there was no way she wasn't going to go to the pool. So we are getting ready and somebody had gifted her a little pink suitcase, like a little pink suitcase, and she was so excited because our life is not like closets and not like rooms and not. Our life is in suitcases. And when you see us leave this Tuesday for Europe and Africa, we will have like nine gigantic suitcases. We might like pack 700 pounds worth of stuff, travel across the pond because we have our books or products. So if you see us, our life is like suitcases.

Speaker 2:

So someone gave Destiny this little cute pink suitcase and it was closed with a Ziploc and it had all kind of little details in it, girly stuff, you know. So she was so excited and I was like trying to open it and hard, and I didn't want to open. So I asked Gigi, do you have a scissor? And he said I don't have a scissor. But after a little while he came back and he said you know, I have this little pouch here. It's like a nail set, I think. It has a little scissor in it. Maybe you can use that to cut open that Ziploc.

Speaker 2:

So I took that little scissor, I held it close to the Ziploc and I cut it and the little scissor went straight into my finger and you know it was a small scissor and I thought it was nothing, it was just a little cut, and I saw my finger was bleeding, bleeding, bleeding. So I just left destiny and I went to the bathroom and you know hotels they have very white towels, like super white towels, so I put a towel around it and the blood it was after a while it was like blood all over and after a while I got it too close. So I didn't want destiny to see all that blood, you know. So we. I came back and I said, gee, I don't think I can go swim because I cut my finger and that thing is bleeding. Okay, it stopped bleeding and then, just before we were gonna get out of the door to go to the pool, it started to bleed again.

Speaker 2:

So I took a little towel like that from the hotel and I wrapped it around and I prepared her to go swim. And daddy was going to swim with her. So she was excited, daddy's going to swim and we're going to have a good time. And I sat beside the pool and I watched them and they had fun and he oh, you know how a dad has fun with his girl and I saw the towels. So I just walked around the pool to get the towels. But when I touched those towels my fingers started to bleed again. And imagine if that's the pool. And from there all the way I left stains of blood all around the pool. I'm like, oh no, this is gross, how can this be? So I quickly tried to clean it off and do all kinds of things, but it wasn't a nice picture. It was not so good.

Speaker 2:

So that night we were going to eat with the pastors and the whole family was going to be there and I just took it stopped bleeding and I took a little towel and I put it and I was holding my hand like this or just like hiding it. You know, I didn't want to make a drama. This was just a small cut, a little scissor to cut open a stupid toy. So at dinner we went to like a Japanese kind of restaurant, you know where they have fire and where they do all the stuff. So it was nice. So I just sat there and they said Ilko, are you okay? I said yes, I'm okay. I just got a small cut, but there's no worries, there's no problem. So they bring out. We had leftovers because Guy was on a kind of diet he only eats half of the meal. So we had leftovers that night, leftovers that night, and I carried the bag with the leftovers and that touched my finger and that bag, you know like a plastic bag, it was all like lines of blood and on the floor that thing started to bleed again and it was gross, it was nasty and I was like no way. And this thought came to me Someone once said if you never heal from what hurt you, you bleed on people who didn't cut you.

Speaker 2:

I'm going to say it again If you never heal from what hurt you, you bleed on people who didn't cut you. Heal from what hurt you. You bleed on people who didn't cut you. I had a cut and at first Giha told me do you want me to go downstairs to the hotel and ask them if they have a bandage or something? And I said, oh no, this is nothing. But because I didn't take care of the wound, when I got cut I was bleeding. The bathroom was all yucky, the pool area was all yucky, the restaurant became all yucky and I was bleeding in places and with people that I should have never bled with because I did not take care of the wound.

Speaker 2:

And if you don't heal from what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who didn't cut you, and there are many people today. They bleed all over. They come to this church. They bleed all over. They go bleed in the children's church. Some parents attack the children's church. They go bleed in the youth. They attack the youth ministry. They go bleed over the pastor. The pastor didn't say you know, you got the nicest pastor, you know that. But if he didn't come and greet you one Sunday, you just there, you go, miss Allison, miss Selena, pastor Jay Ethan James, and you bleed all over in places where you should not be bleeding and people are like what's wrong with you Bleeding all over and many people they have been cut.

Speaker 2:

It could be small cuts, it could be big cuts, it could be big wounds, it could be small wounds and because we didn't heal, we're bleeding all over. You're bleeding all over your husband nagging every day, complaining every day, driving him crazy. You yell at her, you are angry at her, you beat her up, you beat up your kids. You write letters to this church, mean stuff. You know, I don't know why I was sitting there, but I had this thought about. My husband doesn't even know that, but I'm from Belgium and there's this lady at my church, my mother. She's a pastor in Belgium. There's a lady at my church in Belgium. She wrote it was a while back and I don't know why this came back to my mind, but I know it must be. She wrote like a message on Facebook.

Speaker 2:

I don't really know the lady. She said and your little it was way back, and your little girl this and you this and this and that and that. And I was like she said and your little girl has the best clothes and that is not fair. And you look like a doll, and that is not fair. And you are. And I'm like why? But I never told my husband. He doesn't know about that story. And one day I met the lady. We were back in Belgium and I told my mother, you know, I never told what was in the letter, because it doesn't. And I was. And I said that lady wrote me such a mean email. I've never talked to her. I don't know her. She just saw us on Facebook and she's so mean and nasty and she wrote me this message. I'm like wow, you dare.

Speaker 2:

So she was there and I didn't know what to say. So I said hello. And she said did you get my message? I blocked her on Facebook, actually, I said. I said, yes, I got it, but I don't understand what it's all about. I don't know why you attacked my girl, that she's so blessed. I said do you know that I have almost never bought any outfit for my girl, that people from all around the world have blessed our girl and if you see her hair, somebody blessed her doing her hair, because I have never taken her to the hairdresser. Somebody shows up to do her hair.

Speaker 2:

Every you know Miss Cheryl is there and the Drake family, this lady every time we go on a trip for two, three months, she sends a package for Destiny with toys, gifts, clothes. Before Destiny was born, she sent 200 gifts to our house. You're part of it. You're part of why Destiny is so well taken care of. And then I started to talk to her and she said said, do you know that when I was a child, I was abandoned. Nobody cared for me, nobody loved me, nobody. And I see your child and every day that works on me. I cannot handle that, that your child is so loved that you are such a nice mother and I don't have a mother like you and that your husband plays with your child, and when I see that and I'm like wow.

Speaker 2:

On Facebook she was spilling the blood, throwing it around and I blocked her because I thought that she's nuts, she's crazy. Can I ask you a question? Where have you been throwing the blood around on who? Most of the time, they were not the one cutting you, but they are the victim of the blood, of this whole ordeal. Where you got that little cut, that pool was messy. Somebody had to clean that. After I came there, where were you cut? Who was it that cut you? Which pastor, which church? Which person? Your uncle, your father, your grandfather, your mother? Whoever abandoned you? Whoever left you? Whoever told you mean stuff? Who cut you? And you've been bleeding all around. Today is the last day of the bleeding. Today is the stop. I came here to open your eyes, for you to see it. Stop bleeding on your wife, stop bleeding on your husband, stop bleeding on your kids. Stop bleeding on the pastors of this church. Keep your letters yourself. I don't know why I talk about that letter, but when I sat there, this story came to my mind.

Speaker 2:

So I'm there in that Japanese restaurant and the pastor's wife is looking at me and she said Ilko, are you okay? I said oh, yes, I'm okay. This is nothing. She said are you sure, don't you want me to take you to the ER? And I'm like the ER, like I've never been to the ER. It's like, come on, what's wrong with you? So she said okay. She said let's go to the pharmacy down the road here. So we followed her and we went to the pharmacy and she took me to, I think, cvs. And she said now, ilka, you sit down.

Speaker 2:

And the pastor's wife they own a facility for elderly people, so she's a caregiver, she's the director, but she's so gentle, so caring. So she said Il, ilka, you sit here. And she went to buy stuff and she came back and then she said Ilka, have you seen this? This is liquid bandage. And I said no, I've never heard about it. Oh, she said it's like super glue, it's liquid bandage. And when I put that on, your wound will be closed. She put that liquid bandage on there and, yes, indeed, it was closed. And when she was talking to me about liquid bandage, when she explained everything, I was like man liquid bandage. When she explained everything, I was like man liquid bandage.

Speaker 2:

There is another kind of liquid bandage that we as Christians have. It's not like a super glue in a little bottle, but it is a super glue that mends our every wound. It is a super glue that heals us from every sickness. It is a super glue that breaks every bondage. And that liquid bandage it's called liquid love and it represents the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus. It works like liquid bandage. It works like liquid bandage. It is liquid love.

Speaker 2:

When Jesus died on the cross, he said it was finished. His blood was shed. It was not like my blood thrown everywhere. It was more powerful blood. It was the most powerful blood that there has ever been. There will never, ever, ever be any more blood like that. And because of the blood of Jesus, that blood works like a liquid bandage. And that's why you can't stop throwing that blood around, because when you come to Jesus, when he heals that wound, he will close it like super glue and you will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever bleed again, ever bleed again. The blood of Jesus shared for me way down on Calvary.

Speaker 1:

Can we sing together the blood that I give from day to day it will fall, loose its power we just sung it.

Speaker 2:

The blood of jesus will never lose its power and that blood came. That blood was shed just for you so that it can stop your bleeds. There should not be Christians throwing around nasty, stinking. You know that bathroom when I came back that night how nasty it was brown, stinky, ugly stuff. That's what that blood looks like and that is what some of us what we throw around stinky, nasty blood.

Speaker 2:

The blood of Jesus is a liquid bandage and the Bible says Ephesians 1, 7, in him we have redemption through his blood. Say, through his blood, the forgiveness of sin in accordance with the riches of God's grace. It is through his blood. Say, through his blood, the forgiveness of sin in accordance with the riches of God's grace. It is through his blood, it is through his blood. It is through his blood, hebrews 9, 14. How much more than will the blood of Christ, say, the blood of Christ who, through the eternal spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciousness from acts that lead to death. I'm telling you, our consciousness, our thought, the way we think, the way we feel, has to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus, so that from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God. Do you want to serve the Living God? Do you want to serve the Living God? Oh, it takes a blood of Jesus that cleanses our consciousness, that cleanses all those thoughts, all those stories that you keep in our mind, all those stories that you tell yourself, all those. It's like we're movie writers, script writers in our own mind, and we love to get drunk on them. Know that you're a story writer, you're a script writer and you control all the people that are in your movie. They have no free will. You tell them what to do up here. You tell them how to act and if in real life they don't act like you think that they should act in your thoughts, you're angry at them. You're not happy with them. You're frustrated with them because of those stories that come from that small cut. What was that cut that triggered all that anger? The blood of Jesus, liquid love. It will close. It bandages up. She put a bandage. The next day it did not bleed again.

Speaker 2:

And you know when she was treating me. You know I'm the lady. She was so tender, so sweet. I told Lord it's a picture of the Holy Spirit, the helper, the helper, the lady. She came to help me when I was at the end I didn't know what to do. She was there so tenderly, putting a bandage, putting that liquid love. I'm telling you maybe you say I can't do it by myself I've tried. The Holy Ghost is your helper. The Holy Ghost is your helper. The Holy Ghost is your helper. You are not in it by yourself. The Holy Ghost is your helper and he's going to help you heal. But this week we're thinking about the crucifixion of Jesus. If you see a movie, if you think about it, I want you to say, yes, that blood stops my bleed. Say his blood stops my bleed, I stop bleeding now. No-transcript.