Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Good afternoon.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Praise God.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: God is good and all the time, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Wow, I'm delighted and I'm excited as well to start in front of you this very day, the 9th of July, and I know I'm speaking to majority of my age mates.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Earlier in the service, I was telling them it's our time, it's our time.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So the young professionals and I know most of them used to sit there back in the day, because I'm a son of this ministry and so, as Jesus said in John, chapter five, verse 19, the son can do nothing unless what he sees the father does, isn't it?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And because of that, turn to your neighbor, tell your neighbor you look good, better than yesterday, and tomorrow you will shine, sparkle, sparkle.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are sheep, hallelujah, let's appreciate God for that.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, so even my salmon.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You'll be able to see some of Pastor Simon, some of Pastor Abros, because I'm a student of them, but above all that I'm grateful to God for the opportunity.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Thank you, reverend Abros, and the leadership, and Pastor Simon as well, for this opportunity to share the word of God.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm harbored and I'm grateful for the opportunity.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Above that I'm joined by my sad school teacher who introduced me, pastor Simon, to the word of God, and she's in the house and she's so close to me because, other than being a sad school teacher and a pastor, she's also my mom.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So, mom, you can start.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, and she's sitting, you can sit down.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: She's sitting next to my wife, grace.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's, grace, grace, you can sit down.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You can sit down.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, our children are in sad school, as Pastor Simon said.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, we have two boys and two girls and we got we were dead here in this sanctuary, so you can sit down.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You can sit down.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You've come from far, yeah, and so it's an encouragement also to the young people that, yes, if we remain faithful to the call, god will continue to strengthen our destiny a day at a time, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So for the young people who are in the house, maybe you are looking forward there you say what will happen Many other times.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Pastor Simon, I'll listen to your sermon, to Pastor Abrus' sermon, and I'll write it down, saying if my mom invites me to preach and share, could I today know she gave out her pulpit so that she comes here?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll go and share this with you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So the stories Pastor Abrus will give out to quite differently, and so I'll go there and share, knowing that where I have borrowed it from.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So glory to God, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Other than that also, I'm joined by my sisters.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I know they're in the house I happened.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I grew up as the only boy in the town of Domson Falls.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: For those who don't know where Domson Falls is, that town is in Nya Hururu.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So my sisters I know they are all over and you know sisters are very special.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So I was the only boy in the family of six girls, so in the middle of them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So you can imagine the kind of games that we played then.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And one game very memorable to me, pastor Simon, they were planning for a big wedding and you know girls with weddings, and now they realize they didn't have a, they didn't have a bride or car, and I turned out to be the one to be there, the bride or car, and I was decorated with all types of decoration and as they were decorating, they put flowers inside my ears and that's how the wedding turned out to be an emergency to an ENT.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So my sisters, wherever you are, I still love you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's good to have a sister.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Tell your neighbor, it's good to have a sister.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So you can imagine what happens when, during the Dawali negotiations, and my dad tells me how to sit there.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What is going on in my mind For that young man?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I remember those days, yeah, but anyway, I give thanks to God for them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The other team I would like to introduce because I'm a house group pastor, so I meet several people and I have a team, a big team, that really support the ministry in house group and I don't know whether all of us are in house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's your neighbor, you're in house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What is their response?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Are they Tell them, if you are not by the end of today of this sermon, you must be in one, because you hear many stories about house groups.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yeah, so I know they have leadership, I have the hosts and I would like to introduce one of the youngest leaders, pastor Simon, who have been very faithful not only in hosting but also leading For many, many years and they have been a support to the larger leadership community.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Because I saw him in the house he was not aware that I would do this I would ask him to start.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Mr Minor this is my minor, so that if you're not in house group, you're not attending house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's a couple.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They host house group for many, many years.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Mr Minor is approaching now, I think 80 years, but growing very strong.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Thank you, thank you, dad and mom have a seat.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, so at least now you have known what I do.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm a person in charge of small groups.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are growing strong.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We have quite a number of house group within the house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are growing strong.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We have quite a number of house group within the within Nairobi.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Some are virtual, like those who are following us.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I know we have some that they have never met physically.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They are always online.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So we give God all the glory.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But today, the theme for this month empowered faith and deterred conviction.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Empowered faith and deterred conviction.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are all gathered here in this sanctuary because of one thing we have faith in Christ Jesus, isn't it?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: No one of us is here that when Jesus was on this earth, he walked with him.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: None of us is by faith that we are all here, and so it's a very good and very strong theme among the others that we have heard from January, when the year started with the vision, the empowered vision, the empowered seed, the empowered thoughts, the empowered creativity.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In the month of, was it April?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In the month of May, we had the empowered voice.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Last month, we heard the empowered obedience, but this month we have empowered faith and deterred conviction.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And as an empowered faith, if your faith is empowered, you shall overcome the world.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I don't know which world you are coming from.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I don't know which world you are coming from or you are representing, maybe, like Alfredia Abbasida, representing a nation.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's your world.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And as a Christian, what is my role in this world?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Maybe in the media, like Alex and the rest of the team?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What is my role in that industry, in that world?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: For me in house group, I ask myself what is my role?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What is my assignment In the family level?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's your world.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In the political arena that's your world.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What is my role?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: How do you overcome your world?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In 1st John, chapter five, verse four and media, maybe you can give us.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He says everyone who is a child of God has the power to win against the world.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It is our faith that wins the victory against the world.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Romans, chapter 12, verse one and two, he said do not conform to the status of this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Many a times and I say pass assignment that we are told we are the sort of the world, so we are the one to change the world, not the other way around.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When you put salt to the food, which changes the other Is it the food that changes the salt?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So it's the salt that changes there, the food.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It gives him taste and flavor.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So we are the one to give taste and flavor to the world that God has positioned us.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And therefore, from a house group point of view, from the small group, as we said, it's our time to shine.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's our time to add flavor and sweetness to the world that God has given unto us.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And therefore our text for this afternoon comes from the book of Matthew, chapter 17, verse 14 to 20.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It says when they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Lord, have mercy on my son.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He said.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He had scissors and he's suffering greatly.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He often falls into the fire or into the water.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You and building and perverse generation.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Jesus replied how long shall I stay with you?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: How long shall I put up with you?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Bring the boy here to me.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of the boy and he was healed at that moment.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked why couldn't you drive it out?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He replied because you have so little faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Truly, I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain move from here to there, and it will move nothing.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It will move.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Nothing will be impossible for you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen, nothing will be impossible for you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Many times and I said this in the first service when I analyze our work as Christians, sometimes I feel we operate on a faith that is very microscopic.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You need a microscope to see it.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When Jesus was challenged, if only you had faith as small as a mustard seed.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: A mustard seed is so small, yes, though it is visible with the naked eyes.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, jesus said if only you had as a small as a mustard seed, you can tell this mountain move here and be cassette to the sea.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This afternoon and this very day, 9th of July, I'm here to remind you and to pray that may God elevate our faith to the level of a mustard seed, amen, so that the charges in our world that God has placed us we'll be able to tell them move and it will be moved.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We'll be able to lead her through the sick and they will be healed.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We shall believe in to prayer so much like they are a church.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In Acts, chapter 12, when they would pray when they hear one of them is in need and they will pray and God will intervene.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Acts, chapter 12,.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They prayed for Peter when he was arrested Fast five, they say and the church was honestly praying.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They prayed the whole night and Peter, who was guarded by 16 soldiers, pastor Simon, god, sent a nature, just one nature, and he was able to rescue Peter From prison.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May our faith, may this not just be another theme for this month.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May you be connecting and may you connect that your faith shall be elevated and they shall be able to conger Buddhas that you have never congered them before.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Because you have faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You have picked some of us and now you already have passports, just because Pastor Abros said go to annex.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Which country do you want to go?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Who is the president?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What are the charges?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Continue, continue praying for them, have a flag and you connect to that country.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Because of that faith, you see a door opening for you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So may your faith be charged in a positive way.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You know a story is told of this community, this country.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They experienced drought for a period of years and the elders came together and they said now what do we do?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Our people are laggushing, we don't have food.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And they said one thing because it was a Christian nation or community, the elders said let's have a meeting whereby we gather everyone to come for prayers.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so it was announced, the memo was sent all over and they were told this particular day, or the community or everyone to come, or everyone from the youngest to the oldest to come and pray.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And they were charged that they were coming to pray for the reins.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And when all they all came, the entire community, it's only one girl who carried an abrara.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They were going to pray for the reins, but none of them prepared that the prayers will be answered.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's only that one girl who carried an abrara.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May our faith be that one girl.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You know faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Faith is like a telescopic.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You know a telescope.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You're able to zoom something at a distance and you see it here very clear.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Like Abraham, who lived here, people and go to the nation whose builder and architect is who it's Lord.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He moved by faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He could see it, though he never even stepped into that country.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: By faith he saw that city.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Well done, beautiful faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May our faith be elevated to that level in Jesus' name.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And therefore, there are three attributes that a believer should call in, and I call them the ABC of faith, the attributes of faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: One is an affaith that is very active, a faith that is bold, and faith that is obedient, or a faith that is compliance to obeisance the ABC of faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I pray that you shall work with this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We shall be able to understand how to apply the ABC in our faith, in our Christian work, and it will be resonating in our mind day in, day out.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Empowered faith, the faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Empowered faith that is active.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You're always on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In James, chapter two, verse 23, 24, and this is about Abraham.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I mentioned him earlier.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This shows the full meaning of the scripture that says Abraham believed God and God accepted Abraham's faith and that faith made him right with God and Abraham was called God's friend.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So you see that a person is made right with God by the things he does.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He cannot be made right by faith only.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So, other than believing, there's an assignment for you to do, you need to be active, you need to be on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Abraham left his country and he wasn't given a map and I don't even know how he was going.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He wasn't given a map, he was just going by faith, whether to turn right or left, I don't know.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He was just walking by faith, but he was on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And one attribute of a Christian faith he need to be active.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, you apply for that passport.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Even just get to know where is the embassy of this particular country I want to visit.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Who is the ambassador?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Who is the president?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What are the needs?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Who is this?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: At some point I want to get married, but I don't know now who will get married.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: There's one story of this lady.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: She stayed for a long without seeing anyone else.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: She started praying and God led her to go and buy the size of the suit of the husband she was desiring to get married into and every morning in her closet she would remember she would pray for God to fill in the suit.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm not saying you apply that, but God elevated her faith to that level and eventually she got her as a spouse.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So what is that that you need to engage?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: At which level?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This is a story about the naman in 2 Kings, chapter 5, verse 1 to 14.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The naman healing by faith I hang out, told him.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: There is a prophet where I come from.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: If only you can go and listen and whatever he tells you, you do, you'll be healed.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The faith that is active, the faith on their goal, the faith that is active.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The faith that is active, the faith that is active Just this last week and this is from last year, when we were preparing for the elections, and as a pastor now in charge of the ministry, I said now what is our role from a house group, from a small group, what should we do?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I said we'll be praying for the counties.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Now, pray, get into your cars, drive into those counties, scoop the soil, pray for the right leadership.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When the righteous are in the authority, the nation plows past.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The Bible says Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so we started praying that, even as we prepare to go for the elections, that God will give us the right leadership so that even when they come in place, when we shall be going to those counties, we shall have favor with the Lord.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I charge different house group and they know, I know they are seated all over and others are following online and others are at the overflows.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I remember some point Pastor Simon driving early in the evening at allowed six with my wife, I would drive.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We wanted to target three counties.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We wanted to target Nakuru, nyadaroa and Baringo and US in Gishu and we left here on a Friday very late and I think we got a point at Kenongi.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We found a very bad accident there and we rescued one lady who was actually expectant and we rushed her to Naivasha Dissett hospital.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Her heart was crushed and eventually she was amputated because she was pregnant.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Either she was supposed to lose her pregnancy or her heart.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: She chose the sacrifice mothers did do.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: She chose her heart to be amputated and eventually, when I was praying for her that's why that accident it was the boy that she was carrying, the destiny and I pray that to God to keep me along, to see what that boy would end up becoming.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When they reflect about Moses, how many boys, innocent boy died because Moses was born?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: How many innocent boy died because Jesus was born?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I saw it into that.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: God gave me that liberation.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I have been working with that family.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We have visited with that family in Kijambe and God is doing good with them and though she doesn't have a heart, we see the faithfulness of God.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we visited.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, we can give God all the grueling.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so we visited different counties, for example, simon with Coupes oil.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Praise big forth to it.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And here we are.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Election came and I believe those who are in authority, god, that's what he intended for the nation, amen, and for the counties.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so one team said Parsi, you have been charging us on this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And the same came even during the World Cup.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The World Cup, and said how do I connect?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we were in the year of last year, we were in the year of, and, yes, anyone, royal inheritance, yes, and as we engaging as a nation to the nations and I was getting a little bit of a Abbasida I thought how do I engage with those countries that are already occupying in participating in Qatar?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we provide them that two of them that year, of them, have presence in our country?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I said now, how do I go about?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I was starting all and the letters he wrote to the 30 ambassadors telling them like us, I like to partner with them, we'll be having the biggest screen in the region with the best-out system.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You know, in Swahili we say kujicochcha and I can tell you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The ambassadors responded.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I didn't know what they were.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: After I suppose, what next?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Even the US ambassador and the Australia ambassador.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I said, okay, someone invited me to the embassy to go engage with them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And when that opportunity came, I tagged along some of the members I was working with and we sat down with the ambassador just discussing aspect pertaining matters of the kingdom.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are not even asking for visa.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are telling them what is there in your country, that they are young people and, as you know, we visited Cameroon just the other day with Pastor Saim and Pastor Victor.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Part of it came during that period.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We connected with the ambassador.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: She connected us with the abaptist pastor in Cameroon and we continue now having that relationship where we are praying for the other.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Even the senior pastor took abaptist.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He couldn't believe I felt a church in Africa leaching out to us for partnership, how, and he was amazed and he remember the conversation that we had and, through that, when I shared with my team how that breakthrough for nations came, and I shared them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We need to do the same for the counties.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: One housekeeper said Parsi, we're gonna take this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This is our portion and the challenge in Parsi, let's do this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so they have been praying for one county called Elegaw Malakwet.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm saying this because the faith of a believer should be active, should be on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Other than hearing, may we also be a doer, so be on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so they said, parsi, we need to engage on this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I said, okay, go do this and this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let's use this strategy.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We have been going.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I said, parsi, we have been going to our community.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We see those who are in need and we start there At a small point, trying to come up.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We call it bottom up, trying to bring them up, but it takes forever.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But I say, this time let's start from the top bottom.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And he said this strategy will work.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Why these leaders who are already elected and they are in the position?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Because we prayed, remember that, isn't it?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So when we approach them, we tell them by the way, you are on this seat because we prayed for you, so you are here to do God's mandate.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so we wrote to the Elegaw Malakwet leadership and the team I think they are seated here, the team that I was with, so that you see startup Startup, the team I was with at Elegaw Malakwet.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, they are not the normal people.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You see them here.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They came and they took the charge and we wrote the letter and we got the invitation Thank you, sit down.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I told them yes, we're gonna do this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So we wrote the letter, we got the invitation by the governor and the governor said you are not only meeting me alone.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This is heavy because you know he kind of understood what is all about this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are not even asking for a tether, you know.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Our letter was very clear, it's kingdom mandate.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So he said you're not only meeting me alone, you meet the entire leadership.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And that day, the Elegaw Malakwet business, about the kingdom business, and we were discussing you could have seen the loud table and Pastor Simon joined at that particular day and I felt, yes, this is the way to go, not only for Elegaw Malakwet but for the last 46 counties.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are 47 counties, I'm 48.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are 48, there's another called diaspora and we have the diaspora members for Simon.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So even the diaspora, so they're 48, we're gonna engage them and reach out to them and maybe you're seated there and say oh, pastor, you need to be engaged in this level.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll ask you are you in a house group?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's where we start, because you're a house group, where you are.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Maybe you're saying I've been looking to meet an ambassador, just join a house group they have been looking to look for to join to meet us as CES or a president.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: By the way, this team, pastor Simon, by the work we did, because we met, we were able to meet the county commissioner with all his security team and we are engaging on matters of security and also matters of kingdom and you can see yes, you see, that's the county commissioner who is sitting next to me there and the intelligence team.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They were giving us brief of how the county looks like and how we should not go down there to the valley because it's not safe.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But they offer security if we intend to go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we told them as we are going.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we engaged the following day.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We met the different stakeholders, we met, we were in I don't know where, maradona's, our elite, maradona's practice, and we met quite a number of them and the discipline they have.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Oh, those guys, every day, minimum, that kilometer Every day.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I said, oh, my goodness, 30 kilometers per day, yes, one.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We say today I've done 40.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And you know, you had a sad wife, paul, and they were telling me when they go to participate, they are actually them is not just to participate, it's to get on the table either number one, two or three, and they, whatever they win, they go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They get to the flight.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Next flight land to JKI.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They don't come to the city, they connect flights to Eldorosh.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Back to practice.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Hey, another discipline.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we had an engagement and we prayed to them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We became a blessing to them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You should do it in a house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You are missing a lot.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: How did they connect after this Amen and empowered faith?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so this team, we connected with the different teams and, because of the success, we managed even to go down the valley where we were being told is not safe.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We went to the valley, we saw the people, we had engagement with the community there and later on we connected with the, even the police there, listening to them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What, how has it been in this valley?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And one of us, yes, thought, maybe some of you know, even thought where it is.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He told us for the 35, I think that five years he has been in service.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: There's no one, there's no team, and you can imagine the role of a church, what it can do has ever ministered to him, just going there and asking how can we pray with you, how can you be of service to you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's what we did as we drove in 12 of people.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: How can we be of help to you?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we thought it would be one hour.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It went for three hours and they opened up to us the charges, the struggle.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Some of them they see their family just for three times in a year.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: These are family men and they also know what do we do.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Pray to Kediki that he'll be able to add more police officers so that we can have time with our family as well.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You are there as a father.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You are there as a woman, as a wife.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You can imagine you seeing your husband three times and he's in this country, doesn't need a visa, doesn't need to see any ambassador to be given a visa.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But because they call and we had a good time, we prayed with them, we shared a meal of what we could have afforded and by then, when we were going down there, we were with our just a van, a two wheel van, two wheel drive, and it's so steep at some point we had to stop and try to pour our water to us through the, to the who's, because the bricks were almost wearing off.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It should be in the house group and powered faith that is active.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Be on the go, be on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I desire that very soon and very soon, we'll be having teams going to different mission stations and ever rising, as God will remember us to do Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: There will be the church on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May we be on the church on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The Kiririshua house group, led by Mr Mina.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Every year they go to high school and this year, just last month, they visited, we went to a mission in Makuen Karulu High School and we many said to the community, to the school, and 70 kids, 70 students, gave their life to Christ and one teacher actually also, who stood together with yeah, let's give God all the glory.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So for the same one I desire, if all our house group becomes active, as we are starting to do, it will be a movement that even other churches will be learning.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Which model are you using?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And you tell them, go to your closet and pray, and God will give you a divine idea on how to do A strategy that has never been, just like Joseph when he told fellow, yes, it's possible, and he was able to rule the nation of Egypt for 14 years through, closet in your prayer room, a church, a faith that is active and it's on the go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So there was a story of Naaman.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We will not be able to read that because of time, but as we continue, may we know about that.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The other ABC faith is about bold and power of faith that is bold.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Engage courageously.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In Exodus, chapter five, verse one, we see Moses and Aaron, his brother how they engaged with the fellow.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Pharaoh was a tyrant leader and they faced him.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let my people go and we can.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: After Moses and Aaron, yes, bring it back.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: After Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says Let my people go so that he, they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Pharaoh said who is the Lord that I should obey him?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And let Israel go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I do not know the Lord.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We're not Israel, okay, we're not going to the father, to that.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But Exodus 5, verse 1, moses and Aaron approached Pharaoh with boldness.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: With boldness, and, as I said, pharaoh is like a telescope that brings an object, a distance object, visible, to focus, and that's what Hebrews 11, verse 1, talks about.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It is the assurance of things hoped for, not seen, isn't it?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So if you have fear roaming larger than your face, take time to drone near to God in prayer and studying his word.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What is that thing that you are fearing you can't face?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You can't face your mom, your dad.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You know there are people who fear their moms or their dad, or you are both.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Maybe you are the only Christian in your organization.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Buy a Bible and place it in your, in your booth desk and right here I'm praying for you and drop it there and come and tell me what you, what will happen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yeah, let's be bold enough.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let's be bold enough.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I was telling the area church that the area service that, for me, I attended when is the service religious?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In my youth time and I said what I have, I, what is this?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: All I've been, why is it for what next, then?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I said I'll not be attending.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When is the service?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It will be my day for reaching.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I never told one.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's within me.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And I said I'll be going to the city street evangelism.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And, for those who remember, we used to have CBD house group, it's still there, but when I was there, we do Friday, we do street preaching.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We'll be meeting everyone on the high on the street.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Do you know Jesus?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He loves you and it will be an opportunity.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You know these are strangers, but boldly we did so.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Boldly we did so.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm challenging each and everyone of us, me included.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: There's more we can do in our work of as believers, and so may our faith be elevated to that level.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In Acts, chapter nine, verse 28,.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Soul stayed with the followers.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He went everywhere in Jerusalem preaching boldly in the name of Jesus.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In the name of Jesus In Acts, chapter four, verse one, and that you will see.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Peter and John, they were with Jesus.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The juicy.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They were with Jesus because they preached boldly.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And in that one we can lead Acts, chapter four, verse one to that in says the priest and the captain of the temple, god and the sadists came up to Peter and John, for they were speaking to the people.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They were greatly distraught because their apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They say Peter and John.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But many who had the message believed, so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand, hallelujah.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The next day, the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the room met in Jerusalem, and as the high priest was there, and so were Caifers, john Alexander and others of the high priest's family.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them by what power or what name did you do this?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Then Peter, feud with the Holy Spirit, said to them, rulers and neanderthals of the people, if you are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who has, who was lame and being asked how he was healed, they know this, you and all the people of Israel.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man starts before you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Healed Jesus is the stone you build us, rejected, which has become the cornerstone.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Salvation is found in no one else, for there's no other name at the heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When they saw the courage this way I wanted us to come to when they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were and schooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that this man had been with Jesus.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen, this man had been with Jesus.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They preached with courage and confidence, with boardiness.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This team, as you look at them, none of them has any training in.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Is it myseology?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's the same?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yeah, none of them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But because they have been in Christ, they worked with boardiness, they faced the governor, they faced the security team and we came with a report.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Our, our, our diary went empty, but we came full of them and as we are doing this, we are preparing to have the entire government of Eregon Malachote come here in this city on 21st of July.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So continue praying, because I remember we were commissioned in this pulpit, and this is the reason we are doing this, because we are kind of giving a report of what happened.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Your prayers were answered, so give God all the glory.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let's appreciate God, and we'll be having that cocktail whereby we'll be engaging different stakeholders on how we can bring change in that county.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We're no longer saying Serigali, say dear, we are part of the government, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: There's no church and the government.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: All we are gathered here tomorrow in the umadei.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll meet some of you in those offices.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So who is the government?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Who is the church?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's one thing, isn't it?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So we have the solution at hand and so we say it, and none of them are actually here.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We never went there with selfish, with a selfish nature.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: None of them comes from Eregon Malachote, none the closest, as it was from Balingo.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We had one from name them and that's how we were introducing ourselves.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: My name is so and so and I'm from Nyeri county or from whichever county.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So we never went into that county with a selfish nature.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So don't say we are going because we didn't have any interest.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: None of us has a plot in Maguta there, and even we never even asked how much the plots are costing here.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We never.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are very focused and we are saying Merego Malachote, come forth for Jesus, amen and his people.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And if maybe you come from Merego, come Malachote, and you need to connect, yeah, after the service, connect with this team, get to know how you can engage and you can also be a blessing.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And maybe you're thinking we should also come to this county where I work.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I know one or two people and we can engage.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, we'll be glad to do that.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are claiming Kenya for Jesus amen and we have what it takes as a church.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are saying, yes, we will be counted, we shall.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are engaging our faith with boardiness, amen, and therefore we are going with boardiness, just like Peter and John they had been with Jesus, so believing in faith in our prayers that we pray.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So may we remember that sometimes we are the only Bible that the others are looking forward to.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Maybe you are the only Christian in that organization where you work and when they are planning even for the head of your party, they are going for those bashes and you are telling me do I go?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Should I not go?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Should I tell them I'm a Christian?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's the time, actually that's the best time, to tell them yes, I'm a Christian and I'm not coming because my beliefs and my faith, but I'll be praying for you as you go to that.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll be praying for you, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And you start praying for them by name, by name, so that even as they go for, but even if they are going home high like kite, they will not get those accidents because you have been praying, isn't it?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's where it starts.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm praying that this, as a church, will take this border and charge positively.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I told you about how we engage in the world cup and how I told the ambassadors about how we had the biggest screen, and I have this vision and this vision that one day, for those who grew up in this city and the older generation um Zermain.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I remember we used to have Bellevue and driving cinemas.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm looking forward that we'll be able to have the biggest outdoor screen there, that even as I preach light now, those who are outside their compa, like the matatuz, will be listening to this voice, so that their faith will be, and faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen, that we shall have an out-of-door screen there, not only screen for the movies Christian movies every Friday, but even the word will be shared across board.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen, through the media.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's what I was saying.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The media Also.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We have the charge.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm putting this charge to you and maybe also you are seated there.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You're telling me that's so easy, we can do this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They come, let's connect, let's do it, let's make it happen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I was telling the area charge that we are the mariners.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Now, if you are born in late 70s and not to early 90s, it's our time.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's our time.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let's take our position.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen, let's take our position.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Each area you are into, you find actually our fathers now are actually heading over telling you now, you need to be taking care of this, you need to be taking care of this, it's our time.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: See, this is not a time to ask daddy what you need to do.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You do.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let him see the results.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Okay, the millenias.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm speaking first to you because I know the task on our shoulders and when we engage with God, he will help us, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So may we act with boldness.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May we act with boldness.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The fact.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The final sea is about compliance to the obedience.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Compliance to the obedience, slicing above the woudry system, and that's why I talked about Romans, chapter 12, verse one to two, not conforming to the standards of this world.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let's rise above the woudry system.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In Romans, chapter 16, verse 25 to 26,.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Peter Paul, we told the Romans.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Now to him, who is able to establish you, according to my ghost pair and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, kept secret since the world began, but now made manifest by the prophetic scriptures, made known to all nations, dual nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith, Compliance to obedience through faith, whatever we hear, like now I'm speaking for, may you not only listen, may you obey this voice, may you feel challenged in a positive way and say yes, in my small world, at my market place, at my office, my team that I'm leading in my organization.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I will be doing devotion.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll be leading devotion with my family.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll open the house.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll open my house for fellowship.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'll call a pastor to come and commission.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let it be a prison of prayer where miracles will happen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Just like Peter, when he was released from prison, did he go to his house?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Did he go to his house?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I believe we are student of prayer.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's why you need to join the house group, because now Naim and Naim and Naim come in a letter.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Did he go to his house?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: No, he didn't go to his house.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He went to the house where, actually, after 12, verse 12, maybe media can help the team when were they?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He went after he was released from prison.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He walked and he went to the house where Mary, where they were gathered together praying, john Max Moms home.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He didn't go to his house.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He went to the house house group where they were praying and he testified what the Lord had done.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: If you go to verse 13 and 14, he testified what the Lord did, how he was rescued from prison.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May our house become a house of testimony.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May our house become a house of prayer, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You know, pastor Simon, there's a house group, a Kioro house group, and they do cashews.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They were all renting and they do cashews every month to pray that God give them a place of their own.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We had to close that house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: God opened all, everyone.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We were in the jungle gongs, jee meh buri, we were in the green card because they prayed.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May it be the same.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: What is that you are praying for?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Scholarship?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Hold hands, pray and you see God doing miracles.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This team here.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They went and they engaged the entire county government and because of that, the word spread across board and they were invited in a presidential gathering that very same week, on Saturday.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You can tell them they were very close to the president of Kohapa.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They were here because they were in house group and they engaged.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He would have been looking for, he would have been looking for a missus to take you to the president.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Just join house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And if they can tell they have so many stories.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: If it was to give each and everyone of them, oh my goodness.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But you have time to engage with them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You have time to engage with them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Empowered faith with our beaches, empowered faith with our beaches.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And we finalize with that, with the story of Peter, the recruitment of Peter, in Luke, chapter five, verse one and 11.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: This was the first interview that God Jesus gave to Peter and he passed with flying colors.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May we also pass this test.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Luke, chapter five, verse one.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So it was Luke, chapter five, verse one to 11.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So it was as the multitude pressed about him to hear the word of God that he stood by the lake of Genesaret and saw two boats starting by the lake, but the fishermen had gone from them and were washing the Yannets.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Then he got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a litro from the lad and he sat down and taught the mortitudes from the boat.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon launch into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But Simon answered and said to him Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing, never the rest.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: At your word, I will let down the net.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their net was breaking.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them and they came and filled the boats so that they began to sink.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That's it.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knee saying depart from me, for I am a sinful man, o Lord.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And Jesus said to Simon do not be afraid, from now on you will catch men.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So when they had brought their boats to lad, they forsook all and forrode him Amen, obedience to the litro.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Peter obeyed to give out his boat.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I don't know which boat you're giving to God.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He's telling you, just push a little.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Some of it is just to give your life to Christ and say today is the day.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I don't know how the future looked like.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Peter didn't know that eventually he's the one who will be given the keys.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But you can see the obeisance, what it brought.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He obeyed to give out his resources.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That is the boat, and he pushed a little.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He accepted Jesus to use it and through that, god magnified, multiplied big time.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Eventually he was told to put the net to the waters and he cast so much he could have said you know, I'm an expert in this lick, isn't it?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I'm an expert in this field, so what are you going to tell me?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I know what it is, but he obeyed, obeisance, compliance to obeisance.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He obeyed and when he obeyed, when he obeyed, he catch a lot that even the neighbors benefited out of it.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: When we obey, not only do we benefit, but even our neighbors not only our neighbors, our generation start tapping from obeisance of great grandfather, and the vice versa is the same.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: If you disobey, you find families in turmoil because one disobeys the voice of God.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May we know.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The time is now when you are called to obey what God has called us for.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Every one of us here has a gift and as a talent, and just like a young boy who had a good appetite and carried two fish and five loaves of bread, but when he submitted it to God, to Jesus, the lunch was multiplied to feed the multitude.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Don't ignore the liturgy, the small that God has given unto you In Jesus' hearts.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It will serve generations, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It will serve generations.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, let's give God a clap.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It will serve generations.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Don't ignore that little.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Give it to Jesus.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You are alive.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Give it to Him.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Say this is the day Per se.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I want to give my life to Christ.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let me start there.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I want to engage this faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I want to understand more about this ABC faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I want to be active.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I would like to plug into this mission, but I'm not a believer.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I know why I was last night.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Today is the day.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Don't harden your heart.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You have done what God had intended for me to tell you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He has used me as a voice to you and he's calling you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Today is the day.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Maybe you are saying I want to engage in this vision, in this movement of house group.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, I want to open my home.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, I want to become a house group leader.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Yes, I want to be a support in one way or the other.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: In the first service there was one who came and said Pastor Simon said yes, we're going to engage the county of Lycipia.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We are encouraged by what is happening at Erego Marraquet.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: How can we?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I know we can be able to do it in Lycipia.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So that's another door that is opening.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We need more hearts towards this and win the counties of Kenya to Jesus, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So I'm looking up on to you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So if you are there, young person, I'll tell you I used to sit there, this side particularly, and actually today, I'd reflected a lot.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: I wanted to come and sit there and come from there, but the protocol team couldn't allow me.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It's well, that seems to be my zone, and maybe I speak to someone there, looking there and say, hey, how did you get there it's not far, by God's grace With my luggage, jeans now fitting in a suit.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Only God can do this, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Only God can strengthen our destinies.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Some of you are international speakers, but let me, even if I was to tell you so, you wouldn't believe.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But in God's heart it's possible.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: He will empower you, he will accelerate you for his glory, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And so in Romans, chapter eight, romans, chapter 10, verse eight, media.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Maybe you can give us this what the scripture says.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: But what does it say?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The word is near you and is already come in your mouth and in your heart.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: That is the word of faith which we preach that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has praised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: For with the heart one believes and to and to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: For the scripture says whoever believes on him will not be put to shame, for there is no distinction between any Greek, for the same Lord over all is reached to all who call upon him.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Verse 13, for whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Verse 14, how, then, shall we they call on him who they have not believed?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And how shall they hear without a preacher?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And how shall they preach and nest the ascent as it is written?
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who brings gratidings of good things.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let's get up to verse 15.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Verse 15, we have released what God had deposited into my heart and into my spirit.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The ball is in you, the ball is at your court.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Obey to the literal, be obeisance to the literal.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You just need to push a literal and you see what God will be able to do.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We have engaged the ego of Malakwet, and just as Peter and John Peter, let's put it to the literal.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And he was told to cut, to put, to put, to drop the net to the water, and he obeyed.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Even the neighbors benefited when you went to.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: The ego of Malakwet is not only if we have peace in the ego of Malakwet, the neighboring counties, that is, the ego that is West Pocot, baringo, they also experience peace.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Just like Peter, the neighbors also benefited.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: As you obey not only you, your family, your neighbors will also benefit out of this.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: So, as you respond to the call that is coming forth now, and as I invite Pastor Rev Simon to come and give us the benediction, come forth.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Say today's my day.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May my name be recorded in the book of remembrance as the reverence say, today is the day of salvation.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: And as we talk about the ABC, being active, being on the go, being bold, speaking forth in the matter to your both, to your colleagues, to your family, be the only one saved in your family.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Be bold enough.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Say every week I'll be going, taking this goes to my parents.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Speak there, tell them God loves them, pray with them.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: You don't know what will happen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Slowly by slowly, your family will be turned around.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen, amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May you respond to the call.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Don't ignore the retro, don't ignore the retro and the generation after you.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: They will be tapping those blessings because you obey to the retro, just like Peter who responded to the retro, just like the young boy who gave their his lunch, and many benefited out of that, but like this team who accepted to be used and now serving in the market, others going to the schools, other going to the police.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Wherever God has positioned you, respond to the retro for his glory.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen, you may pray, heavenly Father, we are grateful that indeed you are evading our faith from that microscopic to a mastered level.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Dear Lord, I have shared your word in your house on this altar Amen and number.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Father, may it now be deposited in your people's hearts and spirit, o King of King, that it will grow.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: It will germinate, grow and be a more fruitful to our Father.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: May they feel challenged in a positive way.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: O dear Lord, that Father, you shall respond to where you have told them to do and what you have told them to go.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: O King of King, may it be so for your glory.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Almighty Father, how we worship you, how we thank you, thank you for the, for the week and even for the mothers, we continue hearing more about your voice in the aspect of faith.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: O dear Lord, may you give help, as our spirit, to be receptive to your word.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Almighty Father, therefore, we worship you, we praise you In Jesus' name.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: We pray and believe Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Amen.
Housegroup Pastor Andrew Machina: Let's appreciate God and keep going with Broley, as we welcome Reverend Simon.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Thank you Again.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Let's appreciate Pastor Masheena, andrew, thank you very much, and also appreciate his mother and his wife right here.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Thank you.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: I will ask us to stand.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Let's all stand for the benediction the servant of God has shared about empowered faith conquering the world.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: The ABC of that faith active, bold and compliant through obedience.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: And I believe that all of us have received this word and it shall quicken us through the week.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: And the baseline is we need to be on the go, we need to put the little and God will do the rest.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Let me declare that we are blessed.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Let me declare that we are victorious, let me declare that this coming week is a week of breakthrough, that God is coming through for every one of us.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Maybe let me declare open doors and open gates.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: It's going to be easy.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: The one who holds the key of David, revelation 3, verse 8.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May he open those doors and those gates.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: And let me declare we shall walk easily through these doors and these gates.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: In the name of Jesus Christ.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Now I want to release a blessing that opens the way for us.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May we raise our hands to God, father, in the name of Jesus, thank you for the investment of time by this congregation, gathered in person in the pavilion and also online in your kingdom.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: And because we have invested our time in your kingdom, my God, you will accelerate that which concerns us.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: And as we are lifting our hands up to you, my God, I see you stretching your hand of favor in our direction and I declare, because of the hand that you have stretched in our direction, the blessing that causes your goodness to pursue us shall become ours.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: That God, the prayers we have prayed through this prayer of blessing are going to be answered, that it has the desires of our hearts.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: That is 7, psalm 37, verse 4.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Lord shall be granted unto us.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Therefore, may God go before you.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May God come behind you.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May God lay his hand of blessing upon you.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May God bless you with every blessing in the spiritual realms Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 3.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May you be blessed through and through.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May God bless others through you.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: You are blessed beyond the curse.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May God cover you with his blessings, like he did Jacob, and indeed, may God's blessings reach you where you couldn't reach in your own strength and in your own power.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: I release a pastor's blessing.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: I release a father's blessing.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: I release now the blessing that covers Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and this coming Sunday.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: May I declare by this blessing, each one of us shall be healthy, each one of us shall be strong, each one of us shall be successful this week and each one of us shall be covered by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: God, come through for your people, because we have prayed this blessing in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: And we all say turn to the pastor next to you Hallelujah, tell them the grace, the words of the grace, and now, with the grace of our Lord, jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you now and forevermore.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever and ever.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Amen.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: A big handclap to Jesus.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Glory to his name, glory to his name.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Thank you very much.
Associate Pastor Simon Mwangi: Have a good week.