Speaker 1: We have a wonderful preacher Every other Sunday.
Speaker 1: The Lord has blessed us.
Speaker 1: It's very refreshing See different pastors come here and different styles, different approaches, and for me it's very exciting.
Speaker 1: And the preacher is our lead missionary.
Speaker 1: Would you be coming?
Speaker 1: Our lead missionary?
Speaker 1: You know him already, you can see him and his wife is also here.
Speaker 1: He'll be telling us about his wife and also his family, and he breathes missions, his heart beats missions, his tongue speaks missions and he has what you call a missionary anointing, the one who is coming to speak to us, in fact, the real apostle that word apostle is missionary, and so I dare say I bring to us apostle Victor Kermany to share with us God's word.
Speaker 1: Let me pray, father, in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: I want to celebrate apostle Victor Kermany, who comes to share with us your word and Lord, together with his congregation, we commit him into your hands and I pray that you use him greatly.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, we pray Amen.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, praise the Lord, and God is good and all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, patasamon is talking about an apostle within a Baptist setting, apostle Victor Kermany.
Speaker 2: Very interesting.
Speaker 2: I mentioned about my marriage and let me introduce my wife, sally Kimani, seated somewhere in the congregation.
Speaker 2: She's my friend of 27 plus years.
Speaker 2: You know, putting up, putting up with an apostle is not easy, but I thank God for her.
Speaker 2: She prays for me even when I'm asleep.
Speaker 2: You know, one time I caught her hand and I wondered what was happening and she was whispering some prayers and I thank God for her.
Speaker 2: It is a blessing that we can have.
Speaker 2: You know, our wives pray for us and we want to appreciate all the pastors' wives this morning because of their contribution to the ministry.
Speaker 2: Can you give a hand clap just to thank God for the pastors' wives and the ministries that they undertake in supporting the pastors this morning?
Speaker 2: I just want to thank God for this opportunity.
Speaker 2: It has been a great week.
Speaker 2: I know most of us are thinking about the political tensions we experienced, but this has been a great week.
Speaker 2: Amen, why?
Speaker 2: Because God is good and all the time and the prophetic destiny of this nation will remain when the enemy comes like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise a standard against him.
Speaker 2: We have celebrated yes, you can give a hand clap to the Lord.
Speaker 2: We have celebrated those who've graduated Amen.
Speaker 2: The same week, one of our athletes, our athletes, florence broke a world record.
Speaker 2: And this week, our team faith, thank you for that correction Faith broke the world record and she's actually from El Gayo, maracuit.
Speaker 2: Let's give another hand clap to the Lord for that.
Speaker 2: And still the same week, and this coming week, we are going to celebrate the victory of our team.
Speaker 2: We are calling them Jipu, jipu, jipu, jipu.
Speaker 2: Wow, interesting.
Speaker 2: Jipu Jipu, Thank you.
Speaker 2: This morning, I bring us a message Faith that overcomes our doubts and fears.
Speaker 2: Faith that overcomes our doubts and fears, and we just like to welcome all of us, those who are online and those who are following this service from all our social media platforms.
Speaker 2: We want to thank God for you and you're looking good from here, looking good, better than yesterday, and tomorrow you will shine, metameter, sparkle, sparkle and wear a shade.
Speaker 2: I know Pastor Ambrose is watching and wondering what his pastor Victor is saying.
Speaker 2: I'm just repeating what he keeps telling us every Sunday.
Speaker 2: Let's open our Bibles in the book of Luke, chapter 5, from verse 11.
Speaker 2: From verse 1 to 11.
Speaker 2: The Bible says one day, as Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God.
Speaker 2: He saw that he saw at the water's edge two boats left there by the fishermen who are washing their nets.
Speaker 2: He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon and not Simon Mwangi, but Simon Peter and asked him to put out a little from the shore.
Speaker 2: Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
Speaker 2: When he had finished picking, he said to Simon put out into deep water and let down the nets for a catch.
Speaker 2: Simon answered Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything, but because you say so.
Speaker 2: But because you say so, I will let down the nets.
Speaker 2: When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.
Speaker 2: So they signaled their partners in the other boats to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
Speaker 2: When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said go away from me, lord, I am a sinful man.
Speaker 2: For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken.
Speaker 2: And so, while James and John, the sons of David, simon's partners, then Jesus said to Simon don't be afraid, from now on you will fish for people.
Speaker 2: So they pulled their boats up on the shore, left everything and followed Jesus.
Speaker 2: That is the word of the Lord.
Speaker 2: Let us pray, our Father and our God, we bless you this morning, that the entrance of your word brings light and understanding to the simple, that, holy Spirit, you will anoint your word as it is released this morning, that it will find a heart that is receptive, and that, father, at the end of this service, lord, our faith will be strengthened and as we approach the week, we'll approach the week from the point of understanding that victory is our portion, is our portion, and fear and doubts are under our feet because Jesus has won us the victory.
Speaker 2: Father, we thank you and we bless you because you pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 2: We are in the season of the empowered faith and the third conviction and are bringing us the message once again faith that overcomes our doubts and our fears.
Speaker 2: Do you know that every day, every day, we are exercising an extent or a measure of faith?
Speaker 2: For example, this morning there are people who came and used the public means.
Speaker 2: You entered a matatu and you sat in that matatu when the tout was calling out the route.
Speaker 2: You entered that matatu you didn't know whether the driver of that matatu has a driver's license.
Speaker 2: You didn't even know whether that matatu has a valid insurance.
Speaker 2: There was no way that you would be able to understand or you could not even comprehend the extent at which that matatu has been serviced.
Speaker 2: But you sat down by faith and believed that you will be here.
Speaker 2: Every day we are exercising different levels and different measures of faith.
Speaker 2: Those doing business, you operate, you provide credit for sometimes 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, with the hope that at the end of the month, you know your creditors will be able to pay you.
Speaker 2: So it is an exercise of faith.
Speaker 2: You go to work.
Speaker 2: You work for 30 days and you are trusting God for a salary, a paycheck.
Speaker 2: There is really no guarantee.
Speaker 2: You are only fulfilling a contract and employment contract.
Speaker 2: And because business is about making profits, you know you are not certain or sure that that salary will actually come.
Speaker 2: But we work, and work by faith and not by sight.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes we face difficult challenges in life.
Speaker 2: We fear, we worry and we are also anxious.
Speaker 2: You know it is part of this journey.
Speaker 2: It is part of the work in this journey.
Speaker 2: Let me also say that faith is not built in the comfort zone, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: Faith is not built in the comfort zone.
Speaker 2: Faith is built in the challenge zone.
Speaker 2: Faith will not be built in a hot day when you are having that cold cook.
Speaker 2: Faith will not be built when you are in a holiday somewhere in Hawaii enjoying yourself.
Speaker 2: Faith is not made built when you are going through difficult and challenging situations, because those challenging situations provide an opportunity for you to know God that way and to grow in that space, in understanding who God is and how he ministers to your situation.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: When you are sick, it is not an easy situation.
Speaker 2: It is a difficult situation, but we have a God who promises that he is your healer, jehovah Rofeka.
Speaker 2: When you are going through a difficult situation as far as your resources are concerned, god has given us a promise that he supplies all our needs according to his riches in glory, through Christ Jesus.
Speaker 2: When you receive Jesus as your personal savior, there was a shifting in your life.
Speaker 2: Jesus came into your life and he came into your life to minister to you, and sometimes he'll bring you along difficult situations that through these situations, you may be able to grow in your faith.
Speaker 2: Abraham was called a father of many nations.
Speaker 2: He was called a father of many nations and yet at 70 years he had no son and his wife, sarah, was as good as Barren, yet he was the father of many nations.
Speaker 2: Faith that overcomes our doubts and our fears.
Speaker 2: Faith will challenge your status quo.
Speaker 2: In overcoming our doubts and fears, we must believe in God's promises.
Speaker 2: God is a promise keeper.
Speaker 2: He keeps his part of the deal without fail.
Speaker 2: We must trust in his faithfulness.
Speaker 2: God is faithful when we are not faithful, when we are faithless, god remains faithful because he cannot deny himself.
Speaker 2: We can rely on the character of God because God is almighty, all powerful, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God.
Speaker 2: He can occupy every place, every space at the same time.
Speaker 2: God is reliable, god is dependable, god is faithful.
Speaker 2: We can put our hope and our trust in this God because when everything else is shaken, he will always remain.
Speaker 2: Hebrews 13.8 talks about him.
Speaker 2: He's the same yesterday, today and forevermore.
Speaker 2: He's the only constant in our world that is ever changing.
Speaker 2: Therefore, we can put our trust in this God.
Speaker 2: Allow me to move to our first point, facing the fact, every day we face difficult challenges and in Luke, chapter five, our media to give us.
Speaker 2: Luke, chapter five, verse two, while at the edge of the lake, he saw at the water's edge two boats left there by the fishermen who were washing their nets.
Speaker 2: Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
Speaker 2: Peter was washing his nets after he had waited and gone fishing the whole night, having caught nothing, having caught nothing, worked the whole night, moved to one part of the lake, moved to the other part of the lake but caught nothing.
Speaker 2: This was a difficult experience for this professional fisherman.
Speaker 2: That was one of those days that the fish was not biting.
Speaker 2: It was one of those days that probably the fish decided to go on another part of the lake, or probably the fish went for a holiday that day they decided to visit another part of the lake that Peter and his friends did not attempt to go.
Speaker 2: This was a frustrating situation, a desperate situation, a hopeless situation, a situation that would cause despair.
Speaker 2: Maybe in your life you could be going through such a situation.
Speaker 2: You're being told about an inflation that our economy is not doing well.
Speaker 2: Probably you could be going through a situation in the family and you're wondering how this would be.
Speaker 2: Probably your son is addicted, or probably you're going through a medical condition.
Speaker 2: There seems to be no answer.
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 2: I remember in 1998, we just got married in 1997.
Speaker 2: In 1998, I'm talking about facing the facts of life we conceived twin girls.
Speaker 2: Of course, you notice this when you're going to the clinic for checkups.
Speaker 2: We really rejoiced and thank God that God has finally visited us.
Speaker 2: We had just gotten married.
Speaker 2: A few months down the line, my wife experienced complications.
Speaker 2: These children went to be with the Lord.
Speaker 2: That is one of those moments that you have to face the facts of life and ask yourself where is God in all these things?
Speaker 2: You start asking yourself why did God allow us to reach this point?
Speaker 2: Two years down the line, in the year 2000, my wife conceived again.
Speaker 2: This morning, when we woke up, there was what seemed to be like a miscarriage.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about facing the facts.
Speaker 2: My wife woke up in the morning and she was crying and telling me Victor, we have lost this baby again.
Speaker 2: I told her listen, listen, listen, sally, we have not lost this.
Speaker 2: We have not lost this baby.
Speaker 2: I told her this morning.
Speaker 2: I woke up and while doing my devotions, the Lord spoke to me from Numbers 23, verse 20, media, if you can give us Numbers 23, verse 20.
Speaker 2: I have received a command to bless.
Speaker 2: He has blessed and I cannot change it.
Speaker 2: I told my wife do not believe in what you see.
Speaker 2: Believe in what the Lord has said concerning your situation.
Speaker 2: And I told my wife I want you to repeat after me you know the way you do the altar call.
Speaker 2: I told her repeat after me, you know, and she's repeating after me in tears.
Speaker 2: I want you to hold your tummy and say I am expectant.
Speaker 2: She said it.
Speaker 2: I am expectant, I have a baby.
Speaker 2: I have a baby in my womb, in my womb.
Speaker 2: And I repeated again I have received a command to bless.
Speaker 2: He has blessed and I cannot change it.
Speaker 2: I told my wife the baby is inked up in spite of the situation that you are going through right now as we speak.
Speaker 2: Four months later, my wife went to see the doctor and they told her what is happening to you?
Speaker 2: Don't you know that you are expectant so many months and you have not come for checkups?
Speaker 2: To cut long story short, what looked like a miscarriage is a girl of 23 years now in campus, 30 years student, 30 years student in one of the campuses in Nairobi.
Speaker 2: What am I saying?
Speaker 2: Each and every day of your life you will face difficult situations, but remember there is a promise concerning that situation and we sang this morning and say God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly.
Speaker 2: Above all, you can ask or think according to his power that is at work within us.
Speaker 2: Jesus in dwells in us.
Speaker 2: We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and therefore we are cut from a different cloth.
Speaker 2: We are the light of the world.
Speaker 2: We are more than conquerors.
Speaker 2: In Christ Jesus, we are not victims, we are victors.
Speaker 2: We walk in the victory of God.
Speaker 2: In spite of the situations you face, put your hope in God, facing the fact.
Speaker 2: Media give us Romans 4, verse 16 to 24.
Speaker 2: These are the facts that Abraham was facing.
Speaker 2: Therefore, the promise comes.
Speaker 2: The promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace, and maybe I can't hear you and maybe say it in confidence that may be guaranteed to all.
Speaker 2: God is giving us a guarantee, abrams, of can you go back?
Speaker 2: Can you go back?
Speaker 2: We did not finish that one.
Speaker 2: Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace, god's unmerited favor to you and maybe guaranteed to all Not to some of Abraham's offering, not only to those who are of the law that is used, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham.
Speaker 2: He is the father of all.
Speaker 2: I have made you a father of many nations.
Speaker 2: He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believes, the God who gives what Say it in confidence.
Speaker 2: The God who gives what Life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: So we have to do our part.
Speaker 2: We are created in the image of God.
Speaker 2: Do not remove that text.
Speaker 2: Calling things which are not as if they are why God has created you in his image and his likeness and therefore motto we can say calling things which are not as if they are.
Speaker 2: We are not handing over victory, neither are we learning a lesson.
Speaker 2: We are moving to overcome, to overtake, to overthrow.
Speaker 2: We are top and not bottom, because that is our portion, even in the name of Jesus, calling things which are not as if they were.
Speaker 2: I remember one afternoon I was visiting one of our members in hospital and they were saying that it is so hard they are giving up.
Speaker 2: We told them you cannot afford to give up at this point.
Speaker 2: God has taken you this long and you cannot afford to give up Because God has a plan for your life and I believe God has not ended his plan concerning your life.
Speaker 2: Today, as we speak, that member is in this congregation and we thank God because God is faithful and his promises are true.
Speaker 2: You know, we must know, that when we believe in Jesus, things changed, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: Your challenge becomes an opportunity.
Speaker 2: That is why, when Daniel was in the den of Lyons, he understood his place.
Speaker 2: When Shadrach and Meshak and Abed Noggo were thrown into the fiery furnace, they understood their place Because they are God.
Speaker 2: Our God is the consuming fire.
Speaker 2: So even when they were going through the fire, they spoke about God's word that the fire will not and shall not consume them.
Speaker 2: And so, for whatever challenge you are facing, the facts you're facing today, understand one thing they are not meant to destroy you.
Speaker 2: They are only meant to strengthen your faith.
Speaker 2: So Abraham believes that God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that are not against what?
Speaker 2: Against all hope?
Speaker 2: Against all hope, abraham in hope believed.
Speaker 2: Against all hope, abraham in hope believed, and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said, socialia of Spring B Without.
Speaker 2: Can we read this together?
Speaker 2: Without weakening in his faith?
Speaker 2: He faced the fact that his body was since he was about 100 years old and the Sarah's womb was also dead.
Speaker 2: Remember, at that point there is no sun, there is no conceptual.
Speaker 2: He was facing the fact but did not waver concerning God's promises in his life, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: He did not allow his situation to overrun his faith.
Speaker 2: You know, when we sing these songs, we must believe in them.
Speaker 2: You know God is a miracle worker.
Speaker 2: Do you believe that God can do what man cannot do?
Speaker 2: According to the measure of your faith, it will be done for you.
Speaker 2: I say again according to the measure of your faith, it will be done for you.
Speaker 2: You just need to believe in God and take his word, believe in his promises, trust in his faithfulness, rely on his character.
Speaker 2: There is nothing impossible with our God.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: Abraham did not waver.
Speaker 2: He did not waver in our belief.
Speaker 2: He did not waver in unbelief 100 years.
Speaker 2: Sarah's womb is also dead, but he believed he was the father of many nations.
Speaker 2: Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promises of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God.
Speaker 2: He is still giving glory to God.
Speaker 2: The son is not born yet.
Speaker 2: He's 100 years old.
Speaker 2: Sarah's womb is as good as dead, but he doesn't complain or grumble.
Speaker 2: He gives glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
Speaker 2: It was no longer about his situation, it is about God and his power to do things for him.
Speaker 2: Continue to say this is why it was credited to him as righteousness.
Speaker 2: The words it was credited to him were written, not Were written not, I can't hear you.
Speaker 2: Were written not for him alone, but also for who?
Speaker 2: And also for who?
Speaker 2: For us, to whom God will credit righteousness.
Speaker 2: For us who believe in him, who raised who, jesus, from the dead.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: God is able to do everything.
Speaker 2: He's able to minister to your situation, to your condition.
Speaker 2: Do not focus on the facts.
Speaker 2: Our second point shifting our focus.
Speaker 2: Shifting our focus.
Speaker 2: God's promises are true.
Speaker 2: Shift your focus on God and not on your problem.
Speaker 2: Shift your focus on God.
Speaker 2: If Daniel was not focusing on God while he was inside the lion's den, this hungry lion would have consumed him.
Speaker 2: Shadrach, meshach and Abeneegh did not focus on the fire, but Peter when he was walking on water, focusing on Christ, he was able to make every little step walking on water.
Speaker 2: Media gave me Luke 5, verse 2.
Speaker 2: No, no, look five.
Speaker 2: Verse three, verse three, verse three.
Speaker 2: He got into one verse three.
Speaker 2: He got into one of the boats, one belonging to Simon, and asked him put out a little from the shore.
Speaker 2: Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
Speaker 2: When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon put out into the deep water and let down your nets for the catch.
Speaker 2: You know, the status quo dictated that the only time to go fishing was in the night.
Speaker 2: But Jesus is challenging the status quo and telling Peter he doesn't always have to be that way.
Speaker 2: Put or put your nets into the deep water and let down the nets for a catch.
Speaker 2: A faith that overcomes doubts and fears, faces the fact with courage, because there is a truth in the word of God that causes us to shift our focus from the problem and focus on God In overcoming these challenges we face every day.
Speaker 2: Shift your focus, shift your focus, shift your focus.
Speaker 2: Faith will challenge your status quo.
Speaker 2: Do not allow the world and its standards to mold you into its form, into its rules, into its standards, so that you conform to it but believe in God.
Speaker 2: Trust in God because he is faithful.
Speaker 2: In Mark 5, 24 to 35, media, please give us Mark, chapter 5, verse 24 to 34.
Speaker 2: The story of the woman who had issues.
Speaker 2: She had issues, so Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.
Speaker 2: And a woman was there who had been subjected to bleeding for 12 years.
Speaker 2: She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and has spent all she had.
Speaker 2: Yet, instead of getting better, she grew us and she heard about Jesus.
Speaker 2: She came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak because she thought, because she thought, because she thought if I just touch his clothes, if I just touch the hem of his garment, I will be healed.
Speaker 2: Seeing the focus from the problem focusing on the master, she heard about Jesus.
Speaker 2: She heard he was healing people.
Speaker 2: She heard he was the deliverer of the children of Israel from the abundance of sin.
Speaker 2: She heard that he was the one who opens the eyes of the blind.
Speaker 2: She heard that he was the one who made the lame walk again and she said to herself if I will only touch the hem of his garment, she refused to focus on the laws about being unclean.
Speaker 2: As much as she was bleeding and considering herself to be unclean, she did not focus on her problem.
Speaker 2: She was a woman and the Jews say they don't even consider women as important in society, but she chose to break the setters, go find her way around.
Speaker 2: Jesus, and I can imagine the 12th, then I can imagine the three, all those who are men, and I can imagine this woman trying to break through and touching the hem of the garment, believing Jesus would heal her body, shifting our focus, shifting our focus.
Speaker 2: Do not allow the world to put you in a box and believe that everything that is said about your life must follow that trajectory.
Speaker 2: God has a promise for you.
Speaker 2: He created you, he has a plan for you and that plan will remain.
Speaker 2: Let's give a hand clap of praise to the Lord.
Speaker 2: Focus on the cross, not on your problem.
Speaker 2: Focus on the cross.
Speaker 2: When Jesus said it is finished, it was not a statement of defeat, it was a statement of victory for you and for me.
Speaker 2: To remind you, to remind me, that he has overtaken, he has overthrown every kingdom and skimming of the enemy and given you and given me victory over every condition and situation in your life.
Speaker 2: When he said it was finished, it is finished it was to tell you and to tell me that you now have access to every blessing that is your blessing in his name.
Speaker 2: Therefore, shift your focus from your problem.
Speaker 2: Look unto Jesus, the author and the perfecter of your faith.
Speaker 2: Allow me to finish now, as I get to our last point.
Speaker 2: We must overcome our fears.
Speaker 2: We must overcome our fears because greater is he who is in us than the one who is in the world.
Speaker 2: This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
Speaker 2: In Luke, chapter five, verse five, simon answered Master, we have worked hard all night long and haven't caught anything, but but because you say so, but because you say so, I will let down the next.
Speaker 2: Because Christ has said so, because Christ has promised so, because Christ has died on the cross, because Christ was buried, because Christ was raised to life again.
Speaker 2: Today you can overcome your fears and doubts by faith in this Jesus, who is seated at the right hand of God, the place of authority.
Speaker 2: He has given you authority over snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy.
Speaker 2: He has given that authority to you Work in the victory and in the authority of God over your situation.
Speaker 2: Let's give a hand clap of praise to the Lord, and the devil has no authority over your life.
Speaker 2: That condition is not meant to destroy you.
Speaker 2: That condition is meant to make you understand who God is in your life, that you may grow in your faith, faith that overcomes fear.
Speaker 2: Peter will have asked Jesus why are you telling me to throw the net into the deep?
Speaker 2: We fish during the night.
Speaker 2: But he said because you say so.
Speaker 2: Because you say so, I will let down the nets.
Speaker 2: You know, in the covenant of the Old Testament it was about the sacrifice of booths and cows.
Speaker 2: And if the sacrifice of the Passover of a goat and a sheep I want you to listen If the sacrifice of a goat and a sheep in the Old Testament would set the children of Israel free from 400 plus years of Egyptian bondage in the Old Testament context, how much more?
Speaker 2: With the blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of the living God, set you free from every situation and condition of your life.
Speaker 2: Get into your victory, overcoming your fears and doubts, because Jesus died on the cross for you.
Speaker 2: Let's celebrate Jesus once more.
Speaker 2: Simon answered Master, we have worked all night and haven't caught anything.
Speaker 2: But because you say so, we will let down the nets According to the principles of financial management, according to market forces.
Speaker 2: It was not according to those rules.
Speaker 2: It is not according to the principles of financial management, and I'm not against them.
Speaker 2: It's not according to the market forces of demand and supply how we are doing in the marketplace.
Speaker 2: It is not about how good or how bad our economy is.
Speaker 2: God knows all these things.
Speaker 2: It is not according to the money market indexes.
Speaker 2: It is about God.
Speaker 2: I say it is about him.
Speaker 2: The silver and gold are his, the earth and the fullness is his.
Speaker 2: These are principles of life, but there is the word of life.
Speaker 2: Are you hearing me?
Speaker 2: We are the principles of life, but we also have the word of life.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, there is the word of life for you.
Speaker 2: To overcome your fears and your doubts.
Speaker 2: Put your hope and your trust in God.
Speaker 2: In overcoming our doubts and fears, we must believe in God's promises.
Speaker 2: God is a promise keeper.
Speaker 2: He keeps his part of the deal without fail.
Speaker 2: Numbers 2319.
Speaker 2: Trust in his faithfulness.
Speaker 2: God is faithful even when we are faithless.
Speaker 2: He remains faithful because he cannot deny himself.
Speaker 2: Rely on his character.
Speaker 2: God is dependable.
Speaker 2: God is merciful.
Speaker 2: God is kind.
Speaker 2: Rely on his character.
Speaker 2: His character is true.
Speaker 2: Depend on him.
Speaker 2: He is faithful, he will see you through.
Speaker 2: God is almighty, hallelujah, almighty, all powerful.
Speaker 2: Do not limit God because of your you know, your understanding of things.
Speaker 2: Do not limit God.
Speaker 2: Know that God is able to do greater things than you think or imagine.
Speaker 2: He is almighty, all powerful, all knowing.
Speaker 2: We can put our trust in Him and we will be able to overcome our fears.
Speaker 2: Put your trust in God, not in your resources, you know, not in your bank account, not in your title.
Speaker 2: Put your trust in God.
Speaker 2: Every good and perfect gift comes from God.
Speaker 2: You know In womb there is no variableness or shadow due to change.
Speaker 2: Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Speaker 2: Lean not on your own understanding.
Speaker 2: In all your ways, just acknowledge Him and he will direct your path.
Speaker 2: The writer of the hymn Stand Up, standing on the promises of God.
Speaker 2: This is Stanza.
Speaker 2: That says Standing on the promises of Christ, my King, through eternal ages.
Speaker 2: Let His praises ring, glory in the highest.
Speaker 2: I will sing, I will shout that I'm standing on the promises of God.
Speaker 2: Standing on the promises.
Speaker 2: I cannot fail, I cannot fall.
Speaker 2: Listening every moment, listening every moment to the Spirit's call.
Speaker 2: Every moment, resting on my Savior as my all in all, I am standing on the promises of God.
Speaker 2: Those promises will stand in spite of the tabulance of life.
Speaker 2: These promises will stand.
Speaker 2: Let me call Pastor Simon now to give us an altar call.
Speaker 2: And as we close our eyes and as Pastor Simon comes, you are here in this service this morning and you would like to give your life to Jesus.
Speaker 2: This is your moment.
Speaker 2: You're here this morning and you've been doubting, you've been fearing.
Speaker 2: Put your hope and your trust in God.
Speaker 2: May God bless you.
Speaker 1: There are also trusting causes and others trusting in the child, but we trust in the name of the Lord.
Speaker 1: That is Psalm chapter 20, verse 6.
Speaker 1: The invitation this altar is called is making today is for you and me to trust in God a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: You also share the scripture.
Speaker 1: Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Speaker 1: Leave not on your own understanding in all your ways.
Speaker 1: Of knowledge God, what are you standing on?
Speaker 1: Are you trusting him as we pray?
Speaker 1: Today we have an invitation opportunity to put our full weight in God.
Speaker 1: I have shared here before that the one faith and trust simply means the way you're sitting on that chair and you're putting your whole weight there, and if you put your weight in your legs, then your back chair will carry all your weight.
Speaker 1: God's hand is stretched like this.
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Are you ready today to put your whole weight?
Speaker 1: You have everything on that hand.
Speaker 1: You know you saw me that the 327, I believe, says underneath are the elastic arms.
Speaker 1: I'm making an invitation.
Speaker 1: This is the time for you to put your whole weight in God, your thought processes, your emotional life, your spiritual life, your everyday life, you know, your career, your tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Put your whole weight in God and if you're here, never receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Speaker 1: You can do so Simply say Lord Jesus, I come to you, I'm a sinner, forgive my sins and from today going forward, come into my heart and I'm a new creation.
Speaker 1: That's a way of putting your faith in God.
Speaker 1: We have a chance.
Speaker 1: There was that hymn you said I thought you'd sing only one verse Pastor Reagan standing on the promises of God.
Speaker 1: Then I pray a Frida and the team you know standing on the promises of God team upstairs.
Speaker 1: If you find it, we can do one verse and then I'll be leading us in a prayer.
Speaker 1: Remember our story where that boy who came during offering and he didn't have any money in his pockets they had big baskets in front.
Speaker 1: He decided to enter the basket himself and he went inside, looking up to the pastor, simply say Pastor, I give my all to God and that's what God is waiting for right now somebody in their heart to say I release everything to the Lord.
Speaker 1: If you're here and you give your life to Jesus as Lord and Savior, after the service I'm going to be here.
Speaker 1: Deacon Waragui is here, pastor Reagan and Pastor Victor we have all the Deacons here as well.
Speaker 1: You can come over and share with us Today.
Speaker 1: I have given my life over to Jesus.
Speaker 1: Is it possible for us to sing one verse of standing on the promises of God?
Speaker 1: Team upstairs if you find it?
Speaker 1: Yes, right, right, let's all stand, let's all stand, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's sing it just one more back low and then no more.
Speaker 1: So just lower it, kiddo, lower the key.
Speaker 1: Stand.
Speaker 1: I hand clap to Jesus.
Speaker 1: We're standing on the promises of God.
Speaker 1: Thank you for beautiful singing.
Speaker 1: Let's pray, father, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I thank you that we could make an affirmation through the song from the old hymn that we have just sung, that we are standing on the promises of God, our God, as we leave this service today.
Speaker 1: That is our confession, that is our affirmation, that is our conviction and deterred conviction, and that is our statement of faith.
Speaker 1: Somebody myself, each one of us making that statement.
Speaker 1: I am standing on the promises of God and Father.
Speaker 1: We thank you because we are hooked and plugged into your promise and, although the facts may say something else during the week, my God, we have focused and we have shifted our focus onto your promise and we shall not be afraid because, god, you are leading us.
Speaker 1: Surely, like you led Abraham and Sarah, even when the facts were different and they never waived out concerning your promise, but they grew strong, fully persuaded that, god, you are able to do that which you promised.
Speaker 1: And therefore, regarding our children, regarding our homes, regarding our careers, regarding our studies, regarding our jobs, regarding our businesses, regarding our health, lord, regarding our neighborhoods, lord, regarding our travel across Kenya, outside Kenya, traveling back into the country, for those who are watching online, and you are outside the country today, we say we are standing on the promise of God and Lord.
Speaker 1: We know, as we trust you because you are faithful, you are coming through on Monday.
Speaker 1: You are coming through on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: You are coming through on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: You are coming through on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You are coming through on Friday.
Speaker 1: You are coming through on Saturday and next Sunday.
Speaker 1: We are coming full of testimonies because we are standing on the promises of God.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah and Lord, even as we pray and affirm this statement that we carry into the week, my God, we know in 2 Corinthians 1.20 that all the promises you have made are yes and amen in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: And so, god, we are seeing you come through this week.
Speaker 1: And so, father, thank you so much for your word today, thank you for your promise, and we respond to this altar call by saying we shall trust you a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Now, god, take over regarding every situation of our lives.
Speaker 1: Heal us, like Deacon Ernest prayed earlier concerning the healing of the nation and the healing of our land.
Speaker 1: My God, heal each one of us, lord, restore us.
Speaker 1: Let this be the week we shall see your healing hand and therefore, lord, I thank you for this wonderful week that is coming and I know it's covered by you.
Speaker 1: Now we can lift our hands up to God.
Speaker 1: Father, in the name of Jesus, I want to thank you for the faith demonstrated by our people, who lift up their hands not to a man, not to an idol, not to any power except you.
Speaker 1: And here, lord, we have raised our hands up to you, saying we are looking up to you and we are trusting you.
Speaker 1: The Psalm is said in Psalm 121, my help does not come from the mountains.
Speaker 1: My help comes from the God who made the mountains.
Speaker 1: Our God knows the help you need.
Speaker 1: As you lift up your hands to him, this servant of God is saying may help come quickly in your direction and may God come through for you.
Speaker 1: Our God is able.
Speaker 1: Pastor Victor shared, god is able to do exceedingly, abundantly.
Speaker 1: Above all, we can ask and even imagine, and I decree and declare to you that help you have needed for the past week, for the past five months, six months, seven months, is being accelerated and God is coming your way this week in a miraculous way.
Speaker 1: And God is telling me to say that I am the God of surprises.
Speaker 1: I have determined today, because of the message that has been preached, to surprise somebody, and God is saying I am going to surprise somebody with a big package, something surprising, something called a miracle, something you had thought you could never get, coming your way.
Speaker 1: God is coming through, visas are being stamped in the name of Jesus Christ and God is making a way where there was no way.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, father, thank you that we can trust you and because you are our God, we are living this service, confident that you are attended to every matter that concerns you.
Speaker 1: Allow me to say, therefore you are blessed on Monday, blessed on Tuesday, blessed on Wednesday, blessed on Thursday, blessed on Friday, blessed on Sunday and blessed on Saturday.
Speaker 1: You are blessed in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and we all say, we all say glory to God, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Now turn to the person next to you and just tell them trust God a hundred percent, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And the other person on the other side, just tell them trust God a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I have this sense.
Speaker 1: God is going to do something mighty through this week.
Speaker 1: Enarm me the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more Amen.
Speaker 1: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Have a great week, thank you.