Speaker 1: I will be ever only all for thee, ever only all for thee.
Speaker 1: Hey man, look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you sang well, join the choir, give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: By the way talking about the choir.
Speaker 1: We are still, pastor Riggs That 100 people choir, keep thinking about it.
Speaker 1: Hey man, one has a few.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of choir material in here, but also we have those who are in the group of those who make a joyful noise.
Speaker 1: And to the Lord, look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor you're looking good, better than yesterday, and tomorrow You will shine in Jesus' name, Matter matter, sparkle, sparkle, shiny, shiny, wear shades.
Speaker 1: Give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: It is always a pleasure to be in God's house, praising, celebrating, giving, praying together and hearing God's word.
Speaker 1: So, those who are online as you join us, thank you for connecting with us.
Speaker 1: We celebrate you big time.
Speaker 1: Those in person, those at the pavilion, we celebrate each one of you.
Speaker 1: Today We are reading from the book of Joshua, chapter six, verse one to 11, as we continue to unpack this theme empowered obedience, And today I'll be speaking about empowered obedience strategy And so I read this amazing story of Joshua.
Speaker 1: Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites.
Speaker 1: No one went out and no one came in.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Joshua see, i have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with King and its fighting men.
Speaker 1: March around the city once, with all the armed men.
Speaker 1: Do this for six days, half seven priests carried trumpets of ram's horns in front of the ark.
Speaker 1: On the seventh day, march around the city seven times with the priests blowing the trumpets.
Speaker 1: When you hear them sound a long blast of the trumpets half the whole army give a loud shout.
Speaker 1: Then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up everyone straight in.
Speaker 1: So Joshua, son of Nun, called the priests and said to them take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carried trumpets in front of it.
Speaker 1: And he ordered the army advance march around the city with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord.
Speaker 1: When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward blowing their trumpets and the ark of the Lord's covenant followed them.
Speaker 1: The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets and the rear guard followed the ark.
Speaker 1: All this time the trumpets were sounding, but Joshua had commanded the army do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout.
Speaker 1: Then shout.
Speaker 1: So he heard the ark of the Lord carried around the city, suckling it once.
Speaker 1: Then the army returned to the camp and spent the night there.
Speaker 1: This is God's word and God's people say it Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: We may be seated in God's presence.
Speaker 1: Shall we pray, father, we are very expectant because we know the Holy Spirit has a word for us Every Sunday as we begin the week.
Speaker 1: We know, the Lord, you have a word that will guide us through the couple of days that are ahead of us.
Speaker 1: And so, lord, i just want to appreciate what you're doing This far in the year.
Speaker 1: And so, lord, i believe, even today, those who are connected to this word, something will connect in the spirit realm in a mighty way for them, and all glory goes back to you.
Speaker 1: We thank you for hearing our prayer.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, unlock this word for us, feed our spirit, encourage our minds, strengthen our bodies, and may we arise and shine, for our light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon us, and we have prayed all this in Jesus' name, and God's people say it Amen, amen, makofi Kwaesu one more time.
Speaker 1: Today we are continuing to unpack this message on Joshua, and one of the things you cannot go through Joshua without visiting is the battle of Jericho.
Speaker 1: And that was an amazing battle because Jericho was a city that was a gateway into the promised land.
Speaker 1: You remember that 40 years before that they had tried to come in, but then they got a bad report.
Speaker 1: Giants in the land fortified cities and people got scared and God said you're going to go back into the wilderness 40 years.
Speaker 1: And now, 40 years later, they again on the brink of entering the promised land, but Jericho stands in front of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know what is standing in front of you as you face God's breakthrough in this month of June.
Speaker 1: It could be a city called Jericho, and different cities have different entities When we look at them.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: For example, when you hear Los Angeles, it has an entity in itself.
Speaker 1: You talk about Hollywood, talk about entertainment.
Speaker 1: When you hear cities like Las Vegas, you talk about casinos and all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Look at cities like New York you're talking about business, talking about Wall Street and all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Think about cities like Jerusalem and you think about the coming reign of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Conflict, all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Cities have entities.
Speaker 1: Nairobi has an entity.
Speaker 1: What do you think Nairobi stands for?
Speaker 1: A city under the sun?
Speaker 1: Okay, the city with an expressway.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: So cities have an entity of their own.
Speaker 1: Talk about Cape Town, talk about Cairo, talk about London, talk about these cities of the world, and I want you to know that cities of the entity and Jericho had an entity of its own.
Speaker 1: And so in Joshua, chapter one, verse one, god is talking about this city because he's the one who has brought these people this far.
Speaker 1: Remember, god had told Joshua every place your food trades upon, i have given it to you.
Speaker 1: So they're facing Joshua, chapter six, verse one.
Speaker 1: God is giving them some instructions and this month we're talking about obedience, obedience, obedience, obedience, obedience.
Speaker 1: And he's telling them about this city.
Speaker 1: And God is speaking to your city today in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: He says this now, the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites.
Speaker 1: No one went out and no one came in, the Bava Suze says.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Joshua see, i have delivered Jericho into your hands.
Speaker 1: It's kings and it's mighty fighting men.
Speaker 1: In the New King James he says men of valor.
Speaker 1: And so they are cities.
Speaker 1: But some of those cities are gateways.
Speaker 1: For example, jericho was a gateway and yet it was also fortified and nobody was going to go through.
Speaker 1: Some cities are fortified cities which are cities of opposition.
Speaker 1: Okay, they're going to oppose you.
Speaker 1: You cannot go through Cities of oppression, cities of resistance, cities of bondage, cities of limitation.
Speaker 1: But God is saying I have given you the city.
Speaker 1: I don't even talk into somebody today.
Speaker 1: God is saying I've given you the city and it is all relying on your obedience.
Speaker 1: I received a testimony just this morning about a lady giving a testimony concerning the theme of this theme that God is giving us.
Speaker 1: I'm powered obedience.
Speaker 1: Listen to what she says.
Speaker 1: She says I want to take this opportunity to thank you for being my pastor.
Speaker 1: Thank you, god bless you, my sister.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 1: Last Sunday you took us through the theme of power of obedience.
Speaker 1: The character of Joshua was from the book of Joshua, chapter one.
Speaker 1: You declared that we are entering a new season and told us that God can sort us out in one year for what could have happened in 40 years, and even prayed for those who had turned 40.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: And then she says I turned 40 years in January And I'm so happy to be in that category that you prayed for.
Speaker 1: I started applying for jobs last year because the environment at my place of work had become very toxic And my boss wanted to get rid of employees who had worked in the organization for so long that now he could now be able to employ cheaper labor.
Speaker 1: I was called for an interview last month by one of the best international NGOs in Kenya for a job that I had applied for, and I did a series of interviews and trusted God for the post.
Speaker 1: On Friday, the 9th of June, i was informed by the HR of that organization that they had considered me for the role and they sent me an offer letter with one month notice to report by 10th July.
Speaker 1: God has given me a managerial position.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor God is coming through for you.
Speaker 1: By the way, pastor Simon, we get excited when God answers prayer.
Speaker 1: God opens a door for you.
Speaker 1: And I want to say God is opening a door for you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what cities are facing you.
Speaker 1: God is saying I have given you the city, the king and his mighty men, and you're coming through.
Speaker 1: And what God was saying is this I want you to obey.
Speaker 1: Now, just before Jericho, joshua had an encounter, and one of the things we need to have is really an encounter with God, our own personal encounters with God, because sometimes we rely on other people's encounters and yet God wants you to have a personal encounter with God.
Speaker 1: Just before Joshua chapter 6, there was Joshua, chapter 5.
Speaker 1: In verse 13,.
Speaker 1: This is what the Bible says Joshua had an encounter with this person from another world, and I want you to know that we have the spirit world and we have this physical world.
Speaker 1: Now, in that verse he says this Now, when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man.
Speaker 1: Now, he had said it to a man, but he looked like a man, but he's an angel.
Speaker 1: Now, when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drone sword in his hand, and Joshua went up to him and asked are you for us or for our enemies?
Speaker 1: Neither he replied, but as commander of the army of the Lord, i have now come.
Speaker 1: Then Joshua fell face down to the ground in reverence and asked him what message does my Lord have for his servant?
Speaker 1: The commander of the Lord's army replied take off your sandals, for the place where you're standing is holy.
Speaker 1: And Joshua did so.
Speaker 1: And that's when you go into chapter six, verse one, and you know when God wants to give you an instruction, god gives you.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 1: You have an encounter Now this, there's a similar story that it also happened to Moses.
Speaker 1: Moses, chapter three.
Speaker 1: He's tending the flock and then he sees a burning bush.
Speaker 1: He goes to that place, he sees a fire burning The bush is not being consumed and then a voice comes out saying this is holy ground, remove your shoes.
Speaker 1: And then the angel of the Lord speaks, gives Moses an instruction, and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: Joshua is facing the same thing.
Speaker 1: He's about to enter a city.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was anxious, maybe he was worried.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was saying God, is it your will for us to take this city And while he was walking around, he has an encounter with an angel.
Speaker 1: And the angel said I'm the commander of the armies of heaven.
Speaker 1: And guess what?
Speaker 1: We are invisible, but you have soldiers who are visible.
Speaker 1: Just know this.
Speaker 1: You have a backup.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you have a backup, hallelujah, You have a backup.
Speaker 1: So as you make these, these steps of obedience, you have a backup.
Speaker 1: God is backing you up.
Speaker 1: You're not fighting alone.
Speaker 1: Somebody is watching your back.
Speaker 1: You're coming through in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: And so, later than Joshua gives his army instructions and he tells them by the way, we are going to go around this city, this is what you're supposed to do, and God had already given him those instructions.
Speaker 1: One of the things I want to say today is this God has given us his word as his instruction.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again, god has given us his, his word.
Speaker 1: This book That's what he told Joshua This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: Meditate on it day and night, think through it.
Speaker 1: Let it soak you Like those who cook in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Let let this book marinate you, just be marinated by the word.
Speaker 1: Just let it soak inside you, because, as it gets inside you.
Speaker 1: When somebody now squeezes you, that's what will come out Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So, as I share about obedience and the strategy God was giving this gentleman, i want to talk about three things.
Speaker 1: Number one, in terms of the strategy there was a time to meditate.
Speaker 1: That's the strategy, a time to meditate.
Speaker 1: Number two, a time to march.
Speaker 1: And number three, a time to make sound.
Speaker 1: So there were three things that needed to be done First of all, meditate, a time to be quiet, a time to be silent.
Speaker 1: Secondly, a time to march.
Speaker 1: And thirdly, a time to make sound.
Speaker 1: That's God's strategy.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, it's God's strategy.
Speaker 1: And you know, when you have an encounter with God, sometimes, pastor Simon, sometimes, when we have an encounter with God and God reveals to us something amazing, and we just, it's just, god just touches us We want to immediately tell everybody.
Speaker 1: And God is saying, uh-uh, don't tell everybody, just let it marinate inside you, just let it soak inside you.
Speaker 1: And so Joshua knows that his soldiers would want to go into Jericho immediately.
Speaker 1: So he gives them instructions.
Speaker 1: He says you're going to go around the city?
Speaker 1: how many times?
Speaker 1: Let me?
Speaker 1: let me ask again So tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Be still, joshua told the his soldiers each day you're going to go around the city how many times?
Speaker 1: Okay, so now let me just read the Bible again.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, vastirita, is this March around the city once, with all the armed men.
Speaker 1: Do this for six days.
Speaker 1: So let me ask again Joshua was telling his soldiers you're going to go around the city how many times in a day?
Speaker 1: Once, just once.
Speaker 1: Some people estimate that Jericho was about an average of 20 acres.
Speaker 1: Don't know, that's such a big, this is like Westlands, all right.
Speaker 1: So it's not just that, that is not like Nairobi, it was like Westlands.
Speaker 1: So go around the city once.
Speaker 1: That was the first instruction.
Speaker 1: Then he said as you go once, don't make any noise.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is in verse 10.
Speaker 1: So let me read verse 10.
Speaker 1: In verse 10 he says this Joshua had commanded the army Do not give our cry.
Speaker 1: Let me read it in the New King James version here.
Speaker 1: It says this New King James Okay, now Joshua had commanded the people saying you shall not shout or make any noise with your voice.
Speaker 1: No, shall a word proceed out of your mouth until the day I say to you shout, then you shall shout.
Speaker 1: So that was the second thing he said.
Speaker 1: Number one don't make noise.
Speaker 1: Number two walk, march around the city.
Speaker 1: And then he says, on the last day, do what?
Speaker 1: Shout.
Speaker 1: So those are the three things.
Speaker 1: Number one meditate.
Speaker 1: In other words, be quiet.
Speaker 1: And you can imagine these soldiers Soldiers were used to making noise.
Speaker 1: They make noise.
Speaker 1: They are macho guys, they are powerful guys, they are ready to fight And especially know when you're going to war.
Speaker 1: You psych yourself.
Speaker 1: You're coming out of the gym or coming out of the locker and you're just you psych yourself.
Speaker 1: Then you're ready to fight.
Speaker 1: Then you're told today you go marching quietly.
Speaker 1: And that needed discipline.
Speaker 1: And you can imagine they went around walking, walking, walking, walking.
Speaker 1: They're quiet, they're not talking to each other.
Speaker 1: By the way, the people on the on the walls The walls were huge and they are out there shouting at them.
Speaker 1: These people are quiet, but the guys on the fortified walls are shouting at them Hey, look at you.
Speaker 1: Oh, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Come on, talk to us.
Speaker 1: And they were even maybe throwing eggs at them, hello, but they were quite a distance so they could not have thrown arrows and hit them, but these guys just walked quietly.
Speaker 1: And then can you imagine, when they went home past the, simon and their wives asked them what happened today And they remember.
Speaker 1: Joshua told them to do what?
Speaker 1: To keep quiet, because if they went home and their wives started talking to them and they started saying, ah, can you imagine what Joshua told us?
Speaker 1: And Joshua told us that we walked just around and those wives would have created problems.
Speaker 1: If you're sitting next to your wife, celebrate her, because God is a good God, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So just don't talk, because I want you to meditate, i want you to marinate and just believe.
Speaker 1: Begin to align your mind to the mind of God.
Speaker 1: That's what silence was for.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Isaiah 55, verse 8, about really getting to understand the thought of God.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says this ah, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, no, i'm my ways, your ways, says the Lord.
Speaker 1: And many says in verse 9, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Speaker 1: And God knows that many times our minds are not thinking about his things.
Speaker 1: And so he told them keep quiet, meditate on God, begin to see that God is bigger than this fortified city.
Speaker 1: Begin to think that God is able to give you this city.
Speaker 1: He has already said I'll give you the city Now.
Speaker 1: Don't doubt it.
Speaker 1: Don't talk to your neighbor.
Speaker 1: By the way, as they were walking and you know some of them are friends as they were walking they also told don't talk to one another, just be quiet, meditate, believe in God, let God touch your heart, let God be the one to psych you up.
Speaker 1: Don't let circumstances psych you up.
Speaker 1: You know, just trust God, just believe God.
Speaker 1: Remember the Bible says you know, you shall meditate on his Lord day and night, meditate on the word of God, and many times that's one thing we don't do.
Speaker 1: We don't sit and meditate on the word of God.
Speaker 1: For example, meditate on Isaiah 46, verse 1.
Speaker 1: Now let me read that and you just meditate on it and think through it.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says this.
Speaker 1: It says not Isaiah Psalms, sorry, psalms 46, verse 1.
Speaker 1: That Psalm is amazing.
Speaker 1: It calms you down when you're facing such a challenge And it says this God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.
Speaker 1: You're just meditating on that.
Speaker 1: Therefore, we will not fear.
Speaker 1: Though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters row and form and the mountains quake with their surging, there is a river whose streams make glad, the city of God, the holy place where the most high dwells.
Speaker 1: God is within us And you can say God is within me.
Speaker 1: You know God is within me.
Speaker 1: I will not fall.
Speaker 1: God will help me At break of day.
Speaker 1: Verse 6, and you're still meditating.
Speaker 1: Nations are in a pro kingdoms fall.
Speaker 1: He lifts his voice and the earth melts.
Speaker 1: And then verse 7, the Lord almighty is with us.
Speaker 1: The God of Jacob is our fortress.
Speaker 1: Verse 8, he says come and see what the Lord has done, the dissolations he has brought on the earth.
Speaker 1: Verse 9, he makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: Verse the next statement he breaks the bow, shatters the spear.
Speaker 1: He burns the shield with fire.
Speaker 1: He says what?
Speaker 1: Be still.
Speaker 1: Hey, stop stop agitating, stop, stop running in your head.
Speaker 1: Be still and know that I am God.
Speaker 1: I will be exalted among the nations, i will be exalted in the earth.
Speaker 1: The Lord almighty is with us.
Speaker 1: Can you see how many times I repeated that He says as they were walking God is with me, god is with me.
Speaker 1: These guys let them shout.
Speaker 1: They are ready, ours, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: We have already taken the battle.
Speaker 1: I've already gotten this job.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: I've already gotten this job.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: I've already gotten this job.
Speaker 1: I've already gotten that resource, that money.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for a long.
Speaker 1: I've already gotten it.
Speaker 1: You know you're meditating in your head.
Speaker 1: You know this sickness is already healed in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: You know you're meditating that.
Speaker 1: You know the doctor has given you a bad report, but you're walking around meditating.
Speaker 1: You're not telling everybody about the bad report.
Speaker 1: You're not running from an uncle to an auntie, to Pastor Simon, to Pastor Ambrose and you're giving them a bad report.
Speaker 1: No, you're just meditating and saying the Lord is my shield, the Lord is my battle, the Lord is my healer, the Lord is my restoration.
Speaker 1: By the time you come to Pastor Simon and Pastor Ambrose, you are so charged with who God is so that when they pray in agreement with you, it is a done deal.
Speaker 1: I'm saying it is a done deal in Jesus' name, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: There's a lady the other day when we were celebrating grandmothers and she came to me later.
Speaker 1: She says Pastor Ambrose, me, me, i'm not a grandmother, i want to be a grandmother.
Speaker 1: Please pray now in Jesus' name that my son will get a wife and will get children in Jesus' name, and in fact I need about four of them.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, I told her you'll be a show show.
Speaker 1: You will be a show show.
Speaker 1: So don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.
Speaker 1: Help God in that process.
Speaker 1: Go telling your son, say, kizzah, you cannot be walking, walking around like this.
Speaker 1: You don't tell your daughters.
Speaker 1: And some, many of many of our girls also told us listen, get a husband.
Speaker 1: And if you don't get a husband, just get somebody to give you a baby.
Speaker 1: True, i'm talking to you.
Speaker 1: Just look at the ladies, the mamas, the mamas.
Speaker 1: Just look at one of them because they may be culprits.
Speaker 1: Just look at them.
Speaker 1: They look very innocent.
Speaker 1: You know you want to help God in this process.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God wants you to meditate and just believe that God is able.
Speaker 1: You said, go, go.
Speaker 1: And of course, in this era and this season where ladies are getting children and they don't care about husbands, they don't, they don't want husband to support them.
Speaker 1: They are career women, they are doing well, everything is fine.
Speaker 1: All they need is a baby.
Speaker 1: They don't need a husband.
Speaker 1: Or sometimes they go get a spam donation.
Speaker 1: They get children and life goes on.
Speaker 1: Am I talking to a foreign church?
Speaker 1: And it's not bad to help yourself get a baby.
Speaker 1: But I want you to know that there's a God who is able to come through for you, there's a God who is able to open doors for you.
Speaker 1: That God, there's a God.
Speaker 1: Yes, you can use your own parts and get your own children, do it your own way, but just remember there is a God who wants to glorify himself And of course, we know that there are.
Speaker 1: There are people also who have challenges just just getting pregnant, and so there are ways of being able to help them get pregnant and things like that.
Speaker 1: But with all that in place and you're facing a city that is fortified, a door that is closed, god is saying match around the city, quietly, meditate on my word, believe my word.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it can be tiring, because can you imagine they did that for how many days?
Speaker 1: Six days Go once, be quiet, go another time, be quiet, go another time.
Speaker 1: But whole week they're not talking, nothing is happening, joshua saying nobody speaks.
Speaker 1: Then the last day they went.
Speaker 1: How many times?
Speaker 1: I'm still talking to you.
Speaker 1: The last day they went how many times?
Speaker 1: Seven times, and at the seventh time Joshua said gave the signal.
Speaker 1: But that first part of what I'm telling you is this meditate, marinate, let God's word sink inside you, because this is the word that will uphold you in the days to come.
Speaker 1: Some trust in chariots, some trust in horses.
Speaker 1: Another good verse to meditate on is Psalms 27.
Speaker 1: Psalms 27 is a good verse to meditate on.
Speaker 1: Let me just read the first few verses.
Speaker 1: The first few verses are saying this The Lord is my.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me read it again.
Speaker 1: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Speaker 1: Whom shall I fear?
Speaker 1: The next verse says the Lord is the stronghold of my life.
Speaker 1: Of whom shall I be afraid?
Speaker 1: And then he says verse two when the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.
Speaker 1: The next verse though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear, though we'll break out against me.
Speaker 1: Even then I will be confident.
Speaker 1: Then verse four one thing I ask from the Lord.
Speaker 1: This only do I seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
Speaker 1: For in the day of trouble, he will keep me safe in His dwelling, he will hide me in the shelter of His sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.
Speaker 1: Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me.
Speaker 1: At His sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy.
Speaker 1: I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Speaker 1: Hear my voice when I call Lord, be merciful to me and answer me.
Speaker 1: My heart says of you seek His face.
Speaker 1: Your first Lord I will seek.
Speaker 1: Do not hide your face from me.
Speaker 1: Do not turn your servant away in anger.
Speaker 1: You have been my helper.
Speaker 1: Do not reject me or forsake me.
Speaker 1: God, my Savior.
Speaker 1: That's an amazing chapter.
Speaker 1: Just meditate on it, marinate in it.
Speaker 1: God will cause, fight your battles, because the battle is whose Is the Lord's.
Speaker 1: So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor a time to meditate.
Speaker 1: A time to meditate, amen.
Speaker 1: Don't spend your time meditating on the headlines of newspapers.
Speaker 1: That's what you rush to read.
Speaker 1: The moment you wake up in the morning, open the newspaper, look at the headlines.
Speaker 1: You start having anxiety, panic attacks.
Speaker 1: You turn the next page, go to read about that page, about the world.
Speaker 1: This is what is happening in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: This is what's happening.
Speaker 1: There's more heart attacks.
Speaker 1: Then you go immediately to the obituaries to find out who died.
Speaker 1: One day you'll find your own face in that obituary.
Speaker 1: You'll get shocked.
Speaker 1: I say, hey, people are dying, banna, people are dying.
Speaker 1: The beautiful ones are dying, the handsome ones are dying And you start having these panic attacks.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this When you wake up in the morning, just wake up and say this is the day The Lord has made.
Speaker 1: I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Speaker 1: Don't go to the mirror and look at yourself and start looking at the wrinkles in your face.
Speaker 1: Ho, jehovah, jehovah, more than you are.
Speaker 1: Go to this word, meditate on it.
Speaker 1: This word will lift you up.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're ignoring the circumstances of the earth, but this word will give you perspective.
Speaker 1: This word will give you perspective.
Speaker 1: Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass away.
Speaker 1: But secondly, not only were they told to be quiet, they were also told to do something, to march, so you don't just sit there meditating the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: There's a time to arise and shine, for your light has come.
Speaker 1: So they were told to walk.
Speaker 1: So they started walking.
Speaker 1: They did something.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, after you have meditated, do something.
Speaker 1: Tell them, when you have been married, entered in the word of God, take action.
Speaker 1: Let them talk.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you time to talk to them, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Tell them, talk to them, take action.
Speaker 1: And you take action, not according to what people are saying.
Speaker 1: Take action to what God has revealed to you.
Speaker 1: He's a revealer of secrets.
Speaker 1: He knows what you need to do, when you need to do it.
Speaker 1: I remember one time, and in Kitambo, my early days, those days when I had just become a pastor, just gotten married, and I didn't have a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I didn't have cash, but there was something pressing that I needed money, sap.
Speaker 1: I needed money quickly.
Speaker 1: So I thought of my friends, i thought who could give it to me?
Speaker 1: I thought, i thought and I thought, and I thought, and I didn't want to borrow, i wanted to be given.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, that is a good strategy.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to borrow.
Speaker 1: So I'm praying, i'm saying God, who can give me money?
Speaker 1: God who can give me money?
Speaker 1: And it was stressing me and the need is just approaching me.
Speaker 1: The days are just coming, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, and I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: And then God said Ambrose, just calm down, don't let this be the biggest thing in your life.
Speaker 1: Every time you think about it, money, money, money, money.
Speaker 1: Meditate on me, meditate on me, because I can give you money any time.
Speaker 1: But stop looking at the money, look at me Be still, be, still, be, still, be still.
Speaker 1: And then I said but God, what do I do?
Speaker 1: What do I do?
Speaker 1: So that moment, when I got still, and then I asked God, how do I get that money?
Speaker 1: Just asked him, just like that.
Speaker 1: He said Ask your best man.
Speaker 1: I said you know, we are not even, we are not talked with my best man for a long, quite some time.
Speaker 1: He says ask your best man.
Speaker 1: I said OK, i never thought that direction.
Speaker 1: So I called him.
Speaker 1: I said you know, and you know, you start.
Speaker 1: You don't just ask immediately And you don't go spiritually.
Speaker 1: Ah, my brother, the Lord has revealed unto me that you are the person to give me this money.
Speaker 1: No, you don't talk like that.
Speaker 1: Some of us are like that.
Speaker 1: We become spiritual, say, anyway, we talked.
Speaker 1: I said ah, mazihaya, ken, how are you?
Speaker 1: How are things?
Speaker 1: Ah, things are going fine.
Speaker 1: By the way, ken, i need 20K And it's not borrowing.
Speaker 1: I need 20K.
Speaker 1: You have to be clear.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: And I didn't tell him.
Speaker 1: God told me to ask you.
Speaker 1: No, i just said I need 20K.
Speaker 1: And he said when do you need it?
Speaker 1: He says I need it today.
Speaker 1: He said, sour, we'll meet in church, i'll bring it to you, just like that Big mountain Boom, go on.
Speaker 1: But God told me what to do.
Speaker 1: Come on, give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: And that was Kitambo, kitambo, not the other day, which means that 20K could be actually 100K at this time.
Speaker 1: And he said Ambrose, don't worry about it, you use it.
Speaker 1: No, i'm not.
Speaker 1: After this service, don't go looking for your best man and your best mate and say by the way, the Lord has just been gracious, we have received a word from church.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you're still enough, god will tell you what to do, how to do it, who to connect to, and you will find that He already went ahead of you.
Speaker 1: And then remember this Just obey.
Speaker 1: Just obey, because some of us make obedience to be such a difficult task.
Speaker 1: The Bible is very simple when it gives us instructions, Just simple instructions.
Speaker 1: But most of the time we just don't do those instructions.
Speaker 1: And then, when a big day comes, when we actually need God to direct us, god is telling us I've been telling you some other small, small instructions.
Speaker 1: You're not doing them.
Speaker 1: For example, god says tithe, then it takes you two years to do it, then it takes you two years to even start.
Speaker 1: Now, don't be quiet.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that's a small instruction.
Speaker 1: Tithing is a small instruction And, by the way, you don't have to give 10%.
Speaker 1: If you don't have it, at least start with 1%.
Speaker 1: Then give 2%, have what we call baby steps.
Speaker 1: The 10% is the minimal, but God is saying take baby steps.
Speaker 1: If you can give 2%, give 2%.
Speaker 1: That's a baby step.
Speaker 1: You can give 3% Before you know it, you can give 5%.
Speaker 1: Before you know it you are 10%, which is just the minimal.
Speaker 1: But because the momentum is already ongoing, thank you Jesus You start giving excuses Oh, but the 10% is not in the New Testament, ah, it was in the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: You start arguing with God with such things.
Speaker 1: Then you start all saying oh, is it gross?
Speaker 1: Is it net?
Speaker 1: Why are you talking to God like that?
Speaker 1: Just obey.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, just obey, yes, obey.
Speaker 1: If you want to start with net, fine, just start with net and keep going.
Speaker 1: God will reach you somewhere.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't have resources, you don't have anything.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't even have money And sometimes let me tell you this You can give God in material ways.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just bring a bag of flour, put it, bring it here.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, just bring a shot, you know just a new shot and say this is a tite to the Lord, just bring it here.
Speaker 1: Pastor Simon will wear the shirt, but I'm telling you, just Pastor Simon, but I want another mob.
Speaker 1: I'll just find out his neck size and things like that.
Speaker 1: But listen to me, we can give in many ways.
Speaker 1: Don't quamar on just cash and things like that.
Speaker 1: But you see, as you give and it is an obedience God gives back to you a good measure.
Speaker 1: Press down And those begin to open.
Speaker 1: Just simple instruction, simple instruction.
Speaker 1: And then when you obey, don't obey reluctantly, obey willingly.
Speaker 1: Just be willing, just be willing.
Speaker 1: Don't let anybody push you.
Speaker 1: If you go to church as well, somebody's telling you now the Lord is going to give you a miracle.
Speaker 1: The Lord is going to give you a miracle And this miracle only requires you to give 10,000 Kenya shilling, not less, 10,000.
Speaker 1: When you hear a statement like that, please, if you can leave that church immediately.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, come on, just leave.
Speaker 1: Miracles are not for sale.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: If you need a prayer from pastor, this particular need here for pastor to release that anointing.
Speaker 1: It is 20,000.
Speaker 1: Look at that, pastor, don't rebuke him, just leave.
Speaker 1: You are in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: But as far as we're willing, let me read this verse for you very quickly as we prepare to wind up this message.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Isaiah, chapter 1, verse 19,.
Speaker 1: It's a good verse.
Speaker 1: You know verse 18, but this is what verse 19 says.
Speaker 1: Verse 19 says it says if you are what Willing, willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is to be what Willing, just a willing heart.
Speaker 1: Let me read this verse Second Chronicles 29, verse 31.
Speaker 1: Talked about a willing heart And the children of Israel were being encouraged to have a willing heart.
Speaker 1: This is what it says.
Speaker 1: Second Chronicles 29, verse 31.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this Second Chronicles 29, verse 31.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, let me read it.
Speaker 1: Okay, then Hezekiah said you have now dedicated yourselves to the Lord, can and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the Lord.
Speaker 1: So the assembly brought I think I'm missing, okay, okay, there it is Okay and thank offerings to the temple of the Lord.
Speaker 1: So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were what Willing.
Speaker 1: Willing brought burnt offering.
Speaker 1: They just are willing.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor willing.
Speaker 1: Another verse is Exodus 35, verse 22.
Speaker 1: They were willing.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this, exodus 35, verse 22.
Speaker 1: They were encouraged to give And this is what they were told All who are Willing, men and women alike.
Speaker 1: They came and brought gold, jewelry of all kinds, and then it gives the specifics.
Speaker 1: But there was a gentleman who was really not willing, but he needed a miracle.
Speaker 1: Let me read the story for you.
Speaker 1: This is Naaman the leper.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in 2 Kings, chapter 5, verse 1.
Speaker 1: Naaman the leper Just obey, be willing, don't fight with God, it says.
Speaker 1: Now, naaman was a commander of the army of the king of Aram.
Speaker 1: He was a great man in the sight of his master And highly regarded because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram.
Speaker 1: He was a valiant soldier, but he had what Leprosy.
Speaker 1: The amazing thing is, there was a little girl who gave him a solution.
Speaker 1: You know, solutions can come from anybody.
Speaker 1: Look at this Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel And she served Naaman's wife.
Speaker 1: And she said to her mistress if only my master would see the prophet Who is in Samaria, he would cure him of his what?
Speaker 1: Of his?
Speaker 1: leprosy.
Speaker 1: Okay, now fast forward that to verse 8.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in verse 8.
Speaker 1: Very quickly, when Elisha, the man of God, had the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message Why have you torn your robes?
Speaker 1: How the man?
Speaker 1: come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.
Speaker 1: So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha's house.
Speaker 1: Elisha sent a messenger to say to him just simple instruction, tell your neighbor simple instruction.
Speaker 1: This was the instruction Go wash yourself seven times in the Jordan and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.
Speaker 1: But Naaman went away angry and said I thought Now he already had a thought pattern in his head.
Speaker 1: He said, i thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord, his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.
Speaker 1: Then he said look at the next verse.
Speaker 1: Are not Abana and Pharpa, the rivers of Damascus, better than the waters of Israel?
Speaker 1: Couldn't I wash in them and be cleansed?
Speaker 1: So he turned and went off in a rage.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, kiburi nimbaya.
Speaker 1: So Neyman Savans went to him and said my father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it?
Speaker 1: How much more than when he tells you wash and be cleansed.
Speaker 1: That's simple.
Speaker 1: So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan.
Speaker 1: How many times?
Speaker 1: Seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean Like that of a young boy.
Speaker 1: Simple obedience, tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Obedience is simple, hallelujah, simple.
Speaker 1: This guy who had been blind for a long time came to Jesus.
Speaker 1: John, chapter 9, verse 6 and 7.
Speaker 1: Jesus gives him an instruction Very quickly.
Speaker 1: Jesus gives him an instruction.
Speaker 1: He says after saying this he spit on the ground, made some mud with a saliva.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine somebody putting saliva on your eyes And you get upset?
Speaker 1: What is this?
Speaker 1: Made some mud with saliva and put it on the man's eyes.
Speaker 1: And then the command go.
Speaker 1: He told him wash in the pool of Siloam.
Speaker 1: This one means sent.
Speaker 1: So the man went and washed and came home.
Speaker 1: Seeing, obedience is better than sacrifice.
Speaker 1: I know, sometimes the Lord may tell you something and it may seem so simple and you wonder why These children of Israel went around seven times, going and going.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this That was their path to breakthrough.
Speaker 1: I'm saying obedience is your path to breakthrough, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: But let me give you the last point here, because let me tell you this This month you will have something to shout about.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: This month you're going to have something to shout about because you have meditated, you have marched, but this time you want to give a sound.
Speaker 1: You want to shout because God has something for you to shout about.
Speaker 1: Some time ago there was a lady who came to me and talked about writing a book and she said Pastor, pray for me, i'm writing this book.
Speaker 1: This lady is in the marketplace, she's an HR expert, she's a development specialist, a coach, a facilitator, a trainer, many things, but she was just our immediate chair of the women's ministry.
Speaker 1: Her name is Josephine Kimai.
Speaker 1: And this lady came and said Pastor, i want to write a book.
Speaker 1: I said go ahead, write it.
Speaker 1: It's about things about the marketplace.
Speaker 1: And then, when she finished, she said I want you to put a forward in it.
Speaker 1: And so I did.
Speaker 1: She just obeyed what God had told her.
Speaker 1: Maybe she marinated in the, she left the word of God soaked into her and God began to give instructions and say hey, you're an expert in this area.
Speaker 1: Why don't you write?
Speaker 1: put your thoughts into a book?
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this the discipline of putting your thoughts into a book is not easy, can be very difficult, and some of us have tried writing.
Speaker 1: It's not an easy thing.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this if God has directed you, just start.
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about writing Many other areas in your life, some of you maybe God, told you you can learn how to play a musical instrument.
Speaker 1: Just start.
Speaker 1: Of course, some of you know, i know, you play a musical instrument and that is just turning your TV on, turning your radio on.
Speaker 1: Those are musical instruments.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor amen.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about playing the piano, talking about being like Alex.
Speaker 1: Alex likes picking his voice.
Speaker 1: His voice is an asset And some of you have those voices and you practice in front of your mirror and things like that, and our wonderful girls who do that in the intro and outro.
Speaker 1: You know you never know.
Speaker 1: Your voice can earn you a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Somebody missed that.
Speaker 1: I'm saying your voice can earn you a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Your talent can open doors for you that no man can shut, But when you just sit with it and just sit with it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, josephine went ahead and wrote a book And this book is here.
Speaker 1: It is called Evolve Evolve.
Speaker 1: Some of you may say Josephine, please stand, that's Josephine Kimai.
Speaker 1: She's written a wonderful book and one of the things he says there and I just said I will read it for us He says this the insights in this book will help those who are working and those who have lost their jobs to deal with the inertia of stagnation, the shock and the destabilizing effects of jobs and job losses.
Speaker 1: Through it, you will learn effective and proven strategies to rebuild and become great.
Speaker 1: It is time to evolve and unlock that latent potential in you, and she put that in a book, and this book is available.
Speaker 1: Let's appreciate her, let's congratulate her in Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1: This book is available in our bookshop.
Speaker 1: after this service, please get yourself a copy.
Speaker 1: If you didn't have money today, it will be there during this week at the men's conference and even next Sunday during Father's Day And just get a book And when you get it, read it, because sometimes people get books and they don't read them.
Speaker 1: Read the book, read the book.
Speaker 1: Read the book Hallelujah Evolve, amen.
Speaker 1: In the first service I gave copies to people who are having celebrating their wedding anniversary.
Speaker 1: Did I say this month, okay, or today?
Speaker 1: Anybody celebrating anniversaries today, wedding anniversary, you have a gift from PASAM bros Can't say you're having a potential anniversary.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying And if you're having a maybe any anniversary, or this month, this month, month of June, okay, there, you are All right.
Speaker 1: Anybody else, okay, okay, omegi, toka Eza.
Speaker 1: God bless you, all right.
Speaker 1: And if you're in the pavilion, i'm also talking to you.
Speaker 1: If you're online, you're quite a distance and I just want to bless you in Jesus' name After the service.
Speaker 1: Please, you guys, get a copy of this book.
Speaker 1: I'll buy it for you in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: But I conclude by saying this Let me read Joshua 6, verse 16.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, josephine, you're going to have something to shout about.
Speaker 1: You're going to have something to shout about in Jesus' name, those of you who put your meditation into action.
Speaker 1: God is going to give you something to shout about.
Speaker 1: Joshua 6, 16 and 20,.
Speaker 1: We close with these statements.
Speaker 1: The seventh time around, when the priest sounded the trumpet blast, joshua commanded the army and he said remember, they have not talked, they have not said anything.
Speaker 1: They have, their energies are ready.
Speaker 1: And now they said he told them shout, for the Lord has given you the city, amen.
Speaker 1: Then go to verse 20.
Speaker 1: Verse 20, the Bible says this When the trumpet sounded, the army shouted under the sound of the trumpet.
Speaker 1: When the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed.
Speaker 1: So everyone charged straight in and they took the city.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, you're going to take the city.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you're going to take the city.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you're taking the city Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: I don't know what city you're facing, but God has given you that city.
Speaker 1: You're going to have something to shout about, hallelujah, oh.
Speaker 1: But you say you know I don't have the background.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you have a great God.
Speaker 1: You have a great God, parki.
Speaker 1: You have a great God In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: And some of you, we celebrate you because you support this ministry in many ways through your giving, through your presence.
Speaker 1: Even through very difficult economic times, you still give and you still serve the Lord.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this Together, pastor Simon, speaking to you now, i'm saying you will have something to shout about.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Look, see if they have the ability to shout Just Some of them.
Speaker 1: In Sbrano, alto, baze, ah, the guys are saying I know I have something to shout about.
Speaker 1: You're going to have something to shout about This job you've been looking for, you're going to have it.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: This country you're planning to go, you're going to go.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, amen.
Speaker 1: You walk around with a passport that has not been stamped.
Speaker 1: How many of you have passports that have never been stamped?
Speaker 1: They have never been stamped.
Speaker 1: You have never gone out of that country.
Speaker 1: Now let me give you an advice.
Speaker 1: Namanca is not very far The opportunity of just going across and coming back.
Speaker 1: Let me see your hands again, because I want to tell you something.
Speaker 1: My system, a little girl, you have a passport that is not stamped.
Speaker 1: Which country do you want to go?
Speaker 1: You want to go to Canada.
Speaker 1: Do you know which city Where?
Speaker 1: Toronto, okay, you will go to Toronto.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: How, we don't know.
Speaker 1: Did I see a hand here?
Speaker 1: Okay, back there.
Speaker 1: Where did you?
Speaker 1: Where do you want to go?
Speaker 1: America, america is big, somewhere there.
Speaker 1: Texas, that big, big, big state?
Speaker 1: Okay, where do you want to go Canada?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 1: how many of these people, how many want to go to Canada?
Speaker 1: We need to go to talk to the Canadian Embassy Very quickly.
Speaker 1: Just show your hands, because they are seeing you online.
Speaker 1: We are going to take this video to them because they have to give you open doors.
Speaker 1: Now let me talk to you, ambassador of Canada, who, in Kenya?
Speaker 1: in Jesus name, the members of Parklands Baptist Church would like to come to Toronto.
Speaker 1: They would like to come to Canada.
Speaker 1: Honourable Your Excellency, ambassador, please take note.
Speaker 1: This pastor is asking on their behalf that you open that door in a big way, in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, amen, yes, that door may be open for you Now.
Speaker 1: Which other place?
Speaker 1: Kino, oh, australia, okay, okay, okay, okay, good.
Speaker 1: So this is what you are going to do, because this is an instruction Next Sunday, please come with your passport, because we are going to pray for that breakthrough.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: I have already given that appeal.
Speaker 1: We are going to, we are going to.
Speaker 1: We just need God is going to just amaze you In Jesus name And therefore, you are going to have something to shout about.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, and don't go create problems in Canada, because I have opened that door for you.
Speaker 1: Then they call me Pastambros.
Speaker 1: You are your member, sarah Atieno.
Speaker 1: She is giving us many problems in Canada.
Speaker 1: Amen, you are good guys.
Speaker 1: Now please stand on your feet, because the walls of Jericho are about to come down.
Speaker 1: I am saying the walls of Jericho are about to come down.
Speaker 1: The walls of Jericho are coming down for you In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Now, if you are in a position, lift up your hands and give God a big hand and tell Him thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Now let's give God a shout.
Speaker 1: Glory.
Speaker 1: May you have something to shout about.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: A time to meditate, a time to march, a time to make sound.
Speaker 1: When that time comes, may God be glorified.
Speaker 1: May God be one more big hand.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: As I pray for us, remember that Father's Day is coming next Friday, next Sunday.
Speaker 1: We have a mens week this week and one of the booklets we have given out before is this booklet Father's Destiny Blessings.
Speaker 1: I am just making an appeal now to you.
Speaker 1: Maybe you have this copy, but there are people who don't have this copy and I would like you to be that door where they can get these copies and you distribute them.
Speaker 1: This one of this is just a hundred shillings and we'd like some of these things to go out far and wide.
Speaker 1: You can purchase 50 copies, 100 copies.
Speaker 1: Just give them out.
Speaker 1: You never know, somebody's life may be changed.
Speaker 1: Please, we want you to get time and interact with this book.
Speaker 1: If you want to talk to Josephine, she's around and she can tell you more.
Speaker 1: And we give God the glory and all the praise.
Speaker 1: Somebody's coming back with a testimony next Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm saying somebody's coming back with a testimony next Sunday.
Speaker 1: Amen, father, we are thankful you.
Speaker 1: Why don't you take a minute just to say it?
Speaker 1: Lord, thank you, thank God, thank God for his word, thank God for his instructions, thank God for his goodness, his faithfulness.
Speaker 1: Just thank God.
Speaker 1: May you have a heart of gratitude, father.
Speaker 1: We bless you, we honor you.
Speaker 1: There's no God like you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your words.
Speaker 1: And like Joshua, he gave instructions and when those instructions obeyed, the world of Jericho came down.
Speaker 1: May we learn to meditate on your word, may we learn to take action.
Speaker 1: And, lord, may we have that opportunity to shout, to give the angel signal that it is the time for you to move And for somebody.
Speaker 1: This afternoon we have already given a shout and your walls are coming down, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Those are opening where they could not open before.
Speaker 1: Opportunities are coming where they were none.
Speaker 1: Somebody's having a miracle where there seem to be no miracle.
Speaker 1: Somebody's is receiving a healing.
Speaker 1: Somebody's experiencing a restoration.
Speaker 1: Yes, even that cancer will be reversed.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, somebody is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above what we ask or imagine.
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, remember Kenya, remember this nation.
Speaker 1: Jehovah, god, even through the challenges that we may be facing currently, lord, you have stood in this nation before.
Speaker 1: Stand with us now.
Speaker 1: Stand with us in the days to come.
Speaker 1: This is your nation, these are your people.
Speaker 1: This city of Nairobi is yours, and all the cities in this country, dear God, just like you are with the children of Israel, and, as you said, i have given you this city.
Speaker 1: Lord, give us this nation, give us this city And, dear Lord, may it align with your mind, may it march under your instructions And may we have something to shout about, something to glorify your name about.
Speaker 1: And so, lord, we give you praise and we give you thanks.
Speaker 1: If you believe what I've said, you better say I receive it, i take it, it is my portion, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: Now give God another big hand and celebrate him in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: As I prepare to release us, i want you to remember many people who are traveling out of the country.
Speaker 1: One of those people is Martha.
Speaker 1: Martha is traveling to the UK.
Speaker 1: She's going to London tomorrow, basically to go visit Master Washiara's wife, joy, because they're very good friends And Joy is recovering in the hospital.
Speaker 1: Martha is going to see her, so pray for her as she goes.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah And many others will be traveling.
Speaker 1: I'll be traveling later this month to the US.
Speaker 1: I'll be giving you some details later.
Speaker 1: I pray with God for the opportunities that God has given us, amen.
Speaker 1: So lift up your hand as I release us with a blessing.
Speaker 1: Amen, father, we thank you, and now I decree and declare this blessing to all of us, online, in the pavilion, right here in the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: I decree and declare that your city has already been taken.
Speaker 1: God has given you the city.
Speaker 1: There may be opposition, there may be oppression, there may be just a challenge of limitation, but today, god has taken over your battle.
Speaker 1: God has taken over your battle, and so I release us with this blessing And I decree and declare to you may the Lord bless you, may the Lord make his face to shine upon you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord be gracious to you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord do you good this coming week.
Speaker 1: I declare that your Monday is blessed, your Tuesday is blessed, your Wednesday is blessed, your Thursday is blessed, your Friday is blessed, your Saturday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Sunday, you're coming back with a testimony in the name of Jesus Christ, and so I bless you in the name of the Father, i bless you in the name of the Son, i bless you in the name of the Holy Spirit, and God's people say amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor, surely goodness And mercy shall follow you all the days of your life.
Speaker 1: And you yanny you, i'm talking to you.
Speaker 1: You shall dwell in God's house, in God's favor, in God's goodness, in God's abundance, in God's breakthrough, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: You are blessed to be a blessing.
Speaker 1: You're favored to be favorable.
Speaker 1: You're lifted to lift others.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: And now, with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and for a moment.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Have a great week in Jesus' name Shalom.