WEBVTT 00:00:00.922 --> 00:00:13.271 Rev Ambrose Allan Yungao has been the senior pastor of Parklands Baptist Church since 1992, prior to which he was the associate pastor since 1983. 00:00:13.271 --> 00:00:20.724 He sensed God's calling in his life while training to be a teacher at Kenyans Science Teacher's College. 00:00:20.724 --> 00:00:26.971 Little did he know that God was preparing him to be a teacher of his word. 00:00:26.971 --> 00:00:33.591 He has been instrumental in the spiritual growth of many all over the world. 00:00:33.591 --> 00:00:42.335 He is known for his servant leadership, great sense of humor, wisdom and witty delivery of the gospel. 00:00:42.335 --> 00:01:01.411 He serves as a board member at the International Leadership University, the chair of trustees at the Bible Society of Kenya, the chair of the Love Incoperation Board, a board member of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya and a board member of Transworld Radio. 00:01:01.411 --> 00:01:10.545 Over the years he has seen God's faithfulness in stewarding PBC to its current membership and leadership team. 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:21.509 Rev Ambrose holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Biblical Languages from Washington Baptist University in Akadelfia, arkansas. 00:01:21.509 --> 00:01:27.650 He also holds a Master's in Leadership Studies from International Leadership University. 00:01:27.650 --> 00:01:37.343 He constantly exhorts us with the phrase Leaders Read and Readers Lead, which he exemplifies in his life. 00:01:37.343 --> 00:01:50.289 He is an author, having written many books, including Taking the City Zero to Hero and Marriage with a Puppet, among many other publications. 00:01:50.289 --> 00:01:58.561 He is also a motivational speaker and mentor to many across Kenya and other parts of the world. 00:01:58.561 --> 00:02:04.391 He is a seasoned singer, songwriter and former basketball player. 00:02:04.391 --> 00:02:15.627 Rev Ambrose is married to Matahasande, and together they are blessed with three children Kaleb, lisa and Sifa. 00:02:15.627 --> 00:02:21.068 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Rev Ambrose Nyungau. 00:02:48.562 --> 00:02:49.145 Okay, let's pray. 00:02:49.145 --> 00:03:04.552 Father in Heaven, we thank you for the man you have chosen to open the gates at this great altar of Rev Season 9 and power takeover hashtag occupy. 00:03:04.552 --> 00:03:25.129 Thank you, lord, for preparing him for this moment and therefore now we free ourselves and present ourselves before you that you may use him greatly and powerfully as he sets in motion the ripples of revival that will move south, north, east and west, touching the whole world. 00:03:25.129 --> 00:03:33.987 And so, lord, we commit him into your hands, use him greatly in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and we all say let's give another hand. 00:03:33.987 --> 00:03:34.770 Clap to Jesus. 00:03:34.770 --> 00:03:36.252 Glory to God. 00:03:41.747 --> 00:03:42.326 Buanasi. 00:03:42.326 --> 00:03:44.569 Fihwe, please be seated. 00:03:44.569 --> 00:03:53.306 I really want to tell the media team to Tawashika. 00:03:53.306 --> 00:04:12.264 I cannot imagine some of those pictures, but I want you to know that Martha is here and God has been good to us. 00:04:12.264 --> 00:04:15.745 You saw those pictures with Pastor Simon. 00:04:15.745 --> 00:04:21.470 Do you want to talk in Bali? 00:04:21.470 --> 00:04:37.733 God has been faithful and the pit son and the team, karibuni son, amen, amen, and this week you better come. 00:04:37.733 --> 00:04:39.966 Today we are just opening the door. 00:04:39.966 --> 00:04:49.341 Today we are opening the door, we're just opening the main gate so that you can experience something you have never experienced before. 00:04:50.579 --> 00:04:56.689 This is season nine and, like Pastor Simon said, number nine is a number of birth. 00:04:56.689 --> 00:05:01.608 May God birth something new in your life. 00:05:01.608 --> 00:05:04.365 May you have that expectant heart. 00:05:04.365 --> 00:05:29.336 We really want to celebrate those online who are connecting with us, because I believe something special is going to be released to each one of us as individuals, as a church, as a community, as a county, as a country, and we believe even the continent will be touched by this revival. 00:05:29.336 --> 00:05:46.331 Hallelujah, god is a God of revival, and today I'm going to be just talking about the encounter, because if you don't experience that encounter, then everything else doesn't make sense, even in the days to come. 00:05:46.331 --> 00:05:49.507 May God give you a personal encounter. 00:05:49.507 --> 00:05:52.646 I'm saying may God give you a personal encounter. 00:05:52.646 --> 00:06:05.889 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I will have an encounter with God, because revival really is about you, just you, and when it touches you, you go touch somebody else. 00:06:06.779 --> 00:06:20.069 And I believe, pastor Simon, god is setting us up for an encounter because and I'll be praying in a moment because many of us really don't want an encounter with God. 00:06:20.069 --> 00:06:27.771 Many of us really don't want to meet God because we've never seen Him. 00:06:27.771 --> 00:06:30.565 We don't know what he will do when he shows up. 00:06:30.565 --> 00:06:36.886 He might just kill us, and so we don't want an encounter with God. 00:06:36.886 --> 00:06:51.487 So usually, if you read the Bible, it is God who sets up those encounters, because we don't run to God Because, number one, we don't know which direction he's at. 00:06:51.487 --> 00:06:56.321 So he's the only one who can set you up, and many of us. 00:06:56.321 --> 00:07:08.410 God has set you up to be in this service today because he wants to have an encounter with you, a personal encounter, a touch of God in your life. 00:07:10.641 --> 00:07:40.930 And, pastor Simon, I just wrote down a definition for me what revival is, and I said a God-given revival is the supernatural gushing forth and overflowing of the river of living water poured out upon the thirsty ground of human hearts that results in transformed lives, families, churches, communities and countries. 00:07:40.930 --> 00:08:02.035 God-given revival is the supernatural gushing forth and overflowing of the river of living waters poured out upon the thirsty ground of human hearts that results in transformed lives. 00:08:02.035 --> 00:08:12.190 And I believe that life is your life, I believe it is my life and I believe that when God encounters us, we'll never be the same again. 00:08:12.190 --> 00:08:18.404 Tell your neighbor you will not recognize me tomorrow, amen. 00:08:18.404 --> 00:08:26.392 Because you'll be different, not on your face, but in your spirit, in your mind. 00:08:26.392 --> 00:08:34.370 You'll start thinking differently, talking differently, acting differently, because when God touches you you're never the same. 00:08:34.370 --> 00:08:48.400 And so, as I share a couple of thoughts tonight and just preparing the ground for the other ministers will come this week, I pray that you'll pray for every session this week During the daytime. 00:08:48.581 --> 00:08:57.707 Pray, pray, ask God to release that encounter so that revival season nine will not be a Kawaiida revival. 00:08:57.707 --> 00:09:02.048 It will be a revival where God will do what no man can do. 00:09:02.048 --> 00:09:14.927 It will be a revival that God interrupts the program Hallelujah when God interrupts the program Because sometimes you don't want God to interrupt the program. 00:09:14.927 --> 00:09:17.625 But when you're talking of revival it's something else. 00:09:17.625 --> 00:09:23.431 Something different changes and God can interrupt this program, even in the middle of my message. 00:09:23.431 --> 00:09:33.313 He can just interrupt this program and then he does only what he can do, because he knows what he wants to fulfill in your life, buanasifira. 00:09:33.313 --> 00:09:38.591 And so let me pray and ask the Lord to just minister to us tonight. 00:09:38.591 --> 00:09:52.191 Father, in the name of Jesus, we are positioned to receive your word and we want to thank you because faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God. 00:09:52.191 --> 00:10:20.967 And tonight, as your servant opens his mouth, as he decrees and declares your word, you bring the revelation, you bring the understanding, you bring the knowledge that we need, particularly tonight, and we want to say thank you and we want to give you the glory because we have prayed in Jesus' name and God's people say amen. 00:10:21.940 --> 00:10:29.548 I want to just give a picture of introduction about encounters and I want to start with Moses, exodus, chapter 3. 00:10:29.548 --> 00:10:33.467 The Bible says this in Exodus 3, verse 1. 00:10:33.467 --> 00:10:40.184 If I may get it on this screen for us Exodus, chapter 3. 00:10:40.184 --> 00:10:50.730 The Bible says now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness. 00:10:50.730 --> 00:10:52.285 He was doing a kawa'ida thing. 00:10:52.285 --> 00:10:54.745 Tell your neighbor he was just doing a kawa'ida thing. 00:10:54.745 --> 00:11:02.086 Tell your neighbor he was not in a prayer meeting and he was not in a church service. 00:11:02.086 --> 00:11:12.510 Let me tell you this Some of you this week will experience an encounter with God in your car when you're driving. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:24.326 I pray that for some of you it doesn't happen when the lights are red on the road, hallelujah. 00:11:24.326 --> 00:11:29.947 For some of you to happen in the kitchen, for some of you to happen when you're just doing kawa'ida things. 00:11:29.947 --> 00:11:42.148 Moses did not have any idea that that particular day he was going to encounter a God who shows up and never leaves you the same. 00:11:42.148 --> 00:11:47.951 So the Bible says he was on the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 00:11:47.951 --> 00:11:53.152 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames. 00:11:53.152 --> 00:11:54.102 That's an encounter. 00:11:54.102 --> 00:11:56.745 What would you do when something like that happens? 00:11:56.745 --> 00:12:00.969 The Bible says appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. 00:12:00.969 --> 00:12:07.351 Then the Bible says then Moses saw that the bush was on fire. 00:12:07.351 --> 00:12:09.364 He did not burn up. 00:12:09.364 --> 00:12:13.067 So Moses thought I will go over. 00:12:13.067 --> 00:12:16.085 Tell your neighbor you need to be thinking during this service. 00:12:16.085 --> 00:12:28.466 Hallelujah, I will go over and see this strange sight, why the bush does not burn when the Lord saw that he had gone over to look. 00:12:28.466 --> 00:12:30.191 And you see, God is seeing him. 00:12:30.191 --> 00:12:33.802 Let me tell you this God is seeing you Now. 00:12:33.802 --> 00:12:36.448 You may be seeing him, but you may not turn. 00:12:36.448 --> 00:12:39.285 You may see God moving, but you may not turn. 00:12:39.285 --> 00:12:44.085 But thank God, moses turned when the Lord saw that he had gone over to look. 00:12:44.085 --> 00:12:50.240 God called to him from within the bush, moses, moses. 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:53.028 And Moses said here I am. 00:12:53.028 --> 00:12:55.164 Do not come any closer. 00:12:55.164 --> 00:13:00.110 God said take off your sandals, for the place where you're standing is holy ground. 00:13:00.110 --> 00:13:03.547 Then he said I am the God of your father. 00:13:03.547 --> 00:13:10.306 So God introduces himself the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 00:13:10.306 --> 00:13:17.533 At this, moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. 00:13:17.533 --> 00:13:19.885 Tell your neighbor, that is an encounter. 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.105 Another gentleman who had an encounter was Samson. 00:13:24.105 --> 00:13:27.725 Before Samson, his parents. 00:13:27.725 --> 00:13:31.886 The Bible says this in Judges 13. 00:13:31.886 --> 00:13:34.172 Judges 13. 00:13:34.172 --> 00:13:38.062 The Bible says this, judges 13. 00:13:38.062 --> 00:13:42.794 Again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord. 00:13:42.794 --> 00:13:45.671 So the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines. 00:13:46.072 --> 00:13:59.168 For her long, for forty years, a certain man of Zora named Manoa, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth. 00:13:59.168 --> 00:14:11.154 The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said you are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. 00:14:11.154 --> 00:14:15.774 I want to say this some of you are experiencing some very barren situations. 00:14:15.774 --> 00:14:17.749 You are about to have an encounter. 00:14:17.749 --> 00:14:24.164 I'm saying there are barren situations right here, but you're going to have an encounter Now. 00:14:24.164 --> 00:14:25.448 God is saying now, sit to it. 00:14:25.448 --> 00:14:27.173 And now God is talking to her. 00:14:27.173 --> 00:14:28.046 Sit to it. 00:14:28.046 --> 00:14:34.746 That you drink no wine, or rather fermented drink, and that you do not eat anything and clean. 00:14:34.746 --> 00:14:47.995 He will become a pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor, because the boy is to be a Nazarite dedicated to God from the womb. 00:14:47.995 --> 00:14:52.735 He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines. 00:14:54.205 --> 00:14:55.409 Then the woman went to her husband. 00:14:55.409 --> 00:14:59.331 Now, thank you, jesus. 00:14:59.331 --> 00:15:03.030 Now see how this plays around. 00:15:03.030 --> 00:15:08.155 Then the woman went to her husband and told him a man of God came to me. 00:15:08.155 --> 00:15:13.777 He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. 00:15:13.777 --> 00:15:16.831 I didn't ask him where he came from. 00:15:16.831 --> 00:15:18.106 How could you? 00:15:18.106 --> 00:15:22.131 Hello, and he didn't tell me his name. 00:15:22.131 --> 00:15:36.553 But he said to me you will become pregnant and have a son Now, then drink no wine, or rather fermented drink, and do not eat anything or clean, because the boy will be a Nazarite of God from the woman to the day of his death. 00:15:38.184 --> 00:15:39.932 Then Manoa prayed to the Lord. 00:15:39.932 --> 00:15:43.153 By the way, you cannot interfere with my wife. 00:15:43.153 --> 00:15:44.668 I need to have a talk with you. 00:15:44.668 --> 00:15:45.893 Hallelujah. 00:15:45.893 --> 00:15:48.907 Manoa prayed to the Lord, pardon, your servant. 00:15:48.907 --> 00:15:57.212 Lord, I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us Come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born. 00:15:58.625 --> 00:16:07.231 God had Manoa, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field, but her husband, manoa, was not with her. 00:16:07.231 --> 00:16:13.732 I'll tell you, neighbor, be in position. 00:16:13.732 --> 00:16:16.618 You better be found. 00:16:16.618 --> 00:16:20.595 So, thank God, some of you are here because you're going to have an encounter. 00:16:20.595 --> 00:16:23.291 Maybe, for some reason, the husband was a busy man. 00:16:23.291 --> 00:16:25.267 Men can be busy. 00:16:25.267 --> 00:16:28.029 The woman hurried to her husband. 00:16:28.029 --> 00:16:32.032 He's here, the man who appeared to me the other day. 00:16:33.504 --> 00:16:34.769 Manoa got up and followed his wife. 00:16:34.769 --> 00:16:38.652 When he came to the man, he said are you the man who talked to my wife? 00:16:38.652 --> 00:16:42.447 I am. 00:16:42.447 --> 00:16:44.004 He said so. 00:16:44.004 --> 00:16:50.509 Manoa asked him when your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy's life and work. 00:16:50.509 --> 00:16:54.793 The angel of the Lord answered your wife must do all that I have told her. 00:16:54.793 --> 00:17:01.476 She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine or drink any wine or other fermented drink. 00:17:01.476 --> 00:17:03.289 No, eat anything unclean. 00:17:03.289 --> 00:17:05.211 She must do everything I have commanded her. 00:17:06.224 --> 00:17:11.057 Manoa said to the angel of the Lord we would like you to stay until we prepare a young God for you. 00:17:11.057 --> 00:17:19.593 The angel of the Lord replied even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food, but if you prepare a banter for him, offer it to the Lord. 00:17:19.593 --> 00:17:23.653 Manoa did not realize that it was an angel of the Lord. 00:17:23.653 --> 00:17:29.435 Then Manoa inquired of the angel of the Lord what is your name? 00:17:29.435 --> 00:17:32.791 Tell your neighbor man can be man. 00:17:32.791 --> 00:17:37.073 Then Manoa inquired of the angel of the Lord what is your name? 00:17:37.073 --> 00:17:39.892 So that we may honor you when your word comes true? 00:17:39.892 --> 00:17:43.492 He replied why do you ask my name? 00:17:43.492 --> 00:17:44.909 It is beyond understanding. 00:17:45.805 --> 00:17:48.112 When the angel of the Lord did not show himself again to Manoa. 00:17:48.112 --> 00:17:56.845 When the angel of the Lord did not show himself again to Manoa and his wife, manoa realized that it was an angel of the Lord, hallelujah. 00:17:56.845 --> 00:17:59.913 The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. 00:17:59.913 --> 00:18:02.511 He grew and the Lord blessed him. 00:18:02.511 --> 00:18:09.594 Let me tell you this you're going to have an encounter, and it is not going to be a second hand encounter. 00:18:09.594 --> 00:18:13.971 It's going to be a personal encounter. 00:18:13.971 --> 00:18:14.733 You and. 00:18:14.794 --> 00:18:30.816 God and you may hear this encounter from somebody else, but then you take time, like Manoa, and tell God God, by the way, I want to have that encounter For me, one as if you were an encounter, something that totally takes you by surprise. 00:18:30.816 --> 00:18:43.992 Let me give you the next encounter, and this is the one that we are talking about in the theme that we have as a church this year, and this is the Samaritan woman. 00:18:43.992 --> 00:18:45.932 So let me go to John, chapter four. 00:18:45.932 --> 00:18:48.893 I want to read from verse seven. 00:18:48.893 --> 00:18:52.053 If we can go to John, chapter four, verse seven. 00:18:53.384 --> 00:19:01.690 The Bible says this when a Samaritan woman came to draw water, jesus said to her will you give me a drink? 00:19:01.690 --> 00:19:03.869 Let me pick it back. 00:19:03.869 --> 00:19:06.653 Just go back to around verse five there. 00:19:06.653 --> 00:19:11.614 Let me see what it says there Around verse five, so that we don't cut it in the middle. 00:19:11.614 --> 00:19:14.271 Okay, go to around verse five. 00:19:14.944 --> 00:19:21.208 So he came to a town in Samaria called Syka, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 00:19:21.208 --> 00:19:27.757 Jacob's well was there and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. 00:19:27.757 --> 00:19:33.108 It was about noon when a Samaritan woman came to draw water. 00:19:33.108 --> 00:19:35.895 Jesus said to her will you give me a drink. 00:19:35.895 --> 00:19:38.991 His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. 00:19:38.991 --> 00:19:44.557 The Samaritan woman said to him you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. 00:19:44.557 --> 00:19:46.450 How can you ask me for a drink? 00:19:46.450 --> 00:19:50.133 For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. 00:19:50.133 --> 00:20:07.017 Jesus answered her if you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. 00:20:07.017 --> 00:20:12.236 So the woman said you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. 00:20:12.236 --> 00:20:16.394 Where can you get this living water? 00:20:16.394 --> 00:20:19.986 So let me give you the background story Now. 00:20:20.006 --> 00:20:23.355 Imagine that morning, pastor Simon, this lady wakes up in the morning. 00:20:23.355 --> 00:20:24.829 She does a couple of things. 00:20:24.829 --> 00:20:26.157 She cannot go to the river. 00:20:26.157 --> 00:20:33.512 She cannot go to the water because other women are already there and she doesn't have a very good reputation around her. 00:20:33.512 --> 00:20:35.589 Things have not been working out for her. 00:20:35.589 --> 00:20:38.569 Relationships have been a challenge in her life. 00:20:38.569 --> 00:20:44.374 Maybe she has been praying and she's saying God, open a door for me. 00:20:44.374 --> 00:20:48.429 These problems are too much like. 00:20:48.869 --> 00:20:56.073 The world today is full of all kinds of issues, all kinds of problems, and I want to say this the world needs an encounter with God. 00:20:56.073 --> 00:20:59.048 There are challenges all around. 00:20:59.048 --> 00:21:04.513 The Bible says the world is filled with darkness, not just in Kenya. 00:21:04.513 --> 00:21:05.715 All across the world. 00:21:05.715 --> 00:21:08.191 All kinds of challenges are around the world. 00:21:08.191 --> 00:21:10.651 In fact, these are the last days. 00:21:10.651 --> 00:21:14.513 The Bible says during the last days, this is what is going to happen. 00:21:14.513 --> 00:21:16.789 So let me read that verse and then I'll come back here. 00:21:19.224 --> 00:21:21.068 Second Timothy, chapter 3, verse 1,. 00:21:21.068 --> 00:21:23.454 The Bible says this concerning the last days. 00:21:23.454 --> 00:22:13.138 It says this, but mark this there will be terrible times when, in the last days and then it says, people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy without love, unforgiving, slanderous without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, denying a form of godliness but denying its power, have nothing to do with such people. 00:22:13.138 --> 00:22:27.351 They are the kind who roam their way into homes and gain control of a gullible woman, who are loaded down with sins and assuade by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 00:22:27.351 --> 00:22:32.530 Just as Janus and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. 00:22:32.530 --> 00:22:38.655 They are men of depraved minds who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 00:22:38.655 --> 00:22:45.607 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone. 00:22:45.607 --> 00:23:00.492 However, you, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, in fact, everyone who follows me. 00:23:00.492 --> 00:23:01.634 Just go back. 00:23:03.746 --> 00:23:04.496 Verse 10, all right. 00:23:04.496 --> 00:23:05.906 Verse 10, verse 10. 00:23:05.906 --> 00:23:18.749 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, iconium and Listra. 00:23:18.749 --> 00:23:24.276 Then he mentions all these things, but he's saying in the last days it will be such a challenge. 00:23:24.276 --> 00:23:30.517 In Isaiah 60, this is what it says verse one, again talking about the times we live. 00:23:30.517 --> 00:23:37.710 In Isaiah 60, verse one says arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. 00:23:37.710 --> 00:23:52.458 And then he says see, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. 00:23:52.458 --> 00:23:58.675 This will come to your light and kings, to your brightness, to the brightness of your dawn. 00:23:58.675 --> 00:24:01.551 Lift up your eyes and look about you. 00:24:01.551 --> 00:24:04.511 All are assembling and coming to you. 00:24:04.511 --> 00:24:13.074 And, pastor Simon, I'm saying, regardless of the darkness, regardless of the challenges, regardless of the issues of the last days, we are going to have an encounter. 00:24:13.074 --> 00:24:15.288 We are going to have an encounter. 00:24:16.065 --> 00:24:30.035 And that lady Samaritan woman, having all these kinds of challenges, if she's going to that well, not knowing she's going to meet another well, I'm saying she's going to the well, not knowing she's going to meet another. 00:24:30.035 --> 00:24:36.436 Well, I'm saying she's going to Chotah Magi, when Magi is just about to Chotah her. 00:24:36.436 --> 00:24:41.609 Now I'm telling you something good is about to happen, buanas, if you will. 00:24:41.609 --> 00:24:46.613 Sometimes we think we are looking for God, when God is the one looking for us. 00:24:46.613 --> 00:24:53.015 She had six husbands. 00:24:53.015 --> 00:24:59.529 She looked for one and then looked for another one, and then looked for another one and they were not treating her very nice. 00:24:59.529 --> 00:25:02.351 Look for another one, look for number five. 00:25:02.351 --> 00:25:10.493 And she thought number five is the number of grace and she said this one is going to be gracious to me, hello. 00:25:10.493 --> 00:25:17.595 But she was disappointed and she said there are people going to wells that don't satisfy. 00:25:17.595 --> 00:25:23.424 Well, number one didn't satisfy Well, number two didn't satisfy Well. 00:25:23.424 --> 00:25:25.692 Number three, maybe it is a well of promotion. 00:25:25.692 --> 00:25:30.390 Well, number four, maybe it is a well of opportunities, these wells don't satisfy. 00:25:30.390 --> 00:25:34.827 She is with number six and suddenly there is a number seven. 00:25:34.827 --> 00:25:38.595 Well, that shows up. 00:25:38.595 --> 00:25:41.205 You know. 00:25:41.226 --> 00:25:45.375 The Bible says in Jeremiah, chapter two, verse 13, very clear. 00:25:45.375 --> 00:25:46.970 So I want you to see that revelation. 00:25:46.970 --> 00:26:04.913 It says this my people have committed two sins they have forsaken me the spring of living water, and then they have dug their own systems, broken systems that cannot hold water. 00:26:04.913 --> 00:26:14.170 Let me read that in the New Kingdom's version, the Bible says this Jesus we are talking about is the well of life, he's the fountain of life. 00:26:14.170 --> 00:26:31.454 He says for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and they have hewn themselves systems, broken systems, that can hold no water. 00:26:31.454 --> 00:26:38.511 And I want you to know, this woman was going to the well when she didn't know that another well had positioned itself for her. 00:26:39.625 --> 00:26:46.792 And I believe that in this day of revival, as we open this week, you may have come for revival, but revival is coming for you. 00:26:46.792 --> 00:26:55.094 There's something special that is about to happen in your life, something that is going to blow your mind, something that is going to set you apart. 00:26:55.094 --> 00:27:02.617 This woman did not know, but God knew that there was a woman who needed to be touched. 00:27:02.617 --> 00:27:08.257 You may have come and you don't know what may happen to you tonight, but there's somebody who already knows. 00:27:08.257 --> 00:27:09.849 He says I know the plans, I hope for you. 00:27:09.849 --> 00:27:15.991 He says there are plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 00:27:15.991 --> 00:27:21.443 That's why Jesus told her John 4.10,. 00:27:21.865 --> 00:27:26.925 Let me go back to that John, chapter 4, verse 10, because this woman is beginning to ask many questions. 00:27:26.925 --> 00:27:43.428 Jesus said if you knew the gift of God and who it is, who is saying to you give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. 00:27:43.428 --> 00:27:46.055 Now the woman still is not thinking so. 00:27:46.055 --> 00:27:46.778 Look at the next verse. 00:27:46.778 --> 00:27:52.645 The woman said to him Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. 00:27:52.645 --> 00:27:56.023 Where then, do you get that living water? 00:27:56.023 --> 00:27:58.362 I love the question. 00:27:58.362 --> 00:27:59.064 What is the Bible? 00:27:59.064 --> 00:28:01.821 Hello, I want to write you a Bible. 00:28:01.821 --> 00:28:08.828 Tell your neighbor, I see him, I see him. 00:28:08.828 --> 00:28:10.117 Tell them. 00:28:14.174 --> 00:28:27.281 Now, for those watching online, that's just Hebrew, to tell you that God wants you to know something, because post-Simon, there was something that God was doing because this woman was dealing with Jesus at different levels. 00:28:27.281 --> 00:28:33.840 Amen, let me get a decon team. 00:28:33.840 --> 00:28:41.001 Come here, because we're going to have encounters at different levels. 00:28:41.001 --> 00:28:48.207 The Bible says this lady was encountering Jesus at a different level. 00:28:48.207 --> 00:28:50.420 The first level he was encountering Jesus. 00:28:50.420 --> 00:28:52.846 Just come, come, come just right here. 00:28:52.846 --> 00:28:57.306 The first level he was encountering Jesus is in John, chapter 4, verse 9. 00:28:57.306 --> 00:28:59.800 The Bible says this John 4,9. 00:28:59.800 --> 00:29:15.019 He says this the Samaritan woman said to him you are a Jew and I'm a Samaritan, how can you ask me for a drink? 00:29:15.019 --> 00:29:26.006 Let me tell you this if you're going to this encounter of revival, this encounter where there's going to be a takeover, many times we meet Jesus as a Jew. 00:29:26.006 --> 00:29:32.905 That is the level of the natural, the level of the ordinary. 00:29:32.905 --> 00:29:34.678 You meet Jesus. 00:29:34.678 --> 00:29:36.157 He was a good man. 00:29:36.157 --> 00:29:37.939 He was born in Nazareth. 00:29:37.939 --> 00:29:41.161 He had a father, joseph. 00:29:41.161 --> 00:29:42.625 He had a mother Mary. 00:29:43.394 --> 00:29:47.944 Many of us, many religions, just deal with Jesus as a Jew. 00:29:47.944 --> 00:29:49.998 You go to Israel. 00:29:49.998 --> 00:29:51.682 You tell them do you know Jesus? 00:29:51.682 --> 00:29:54.722 They said yeah, yeah, he passed around here. 00:29:54.722 --> 00:29:56.538 They have no encounter. 00:29:56.538 --> 00:30:00.020 They just met Jesus at a natural level. 00:30:00.020 --> 00:30:01.846 Just a Jew, a Jew. 00:30:01.846 --> 00:30:17.056 Let me tell you this if you meet Jesus and encounter him as a Jew, you will just have a Jew experience, and a Jew experience is just where you sit back and just drink juice all the day of your life. 00:30:17.056 --> 00:30:20.540 Hello. 00:30:20.540 --> 00:30:23.221 But I'm telling you there's something you're looking for. 00:30:23.221 --> 00:30:27.325 You're looking for rivers of living water. 00:30:27.325 --> 00:30:30.941 Come on, let's give God a big hand. 00:30:35.654 --> 00:30:36.479 Many people come to church. 00:30:36.479 --> 00:30:38.420 It is a Jew, it's just religion. 00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:41.902 You say the Lord's prayer, just like a Jew. 00:30:41.902 --> 00:30:43.838 Our Father, what in heaven? 00:30:43.838 --> 00:30:47.644 Hello be thy name, thy kingdom come, and it is just a song. 00:30:47.644 --> 00:30:48.586 It is just a song. 00:30:48.586 --> 00:30:50.080 It is on a natural plane. 00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:51.480 It is just, there's nothing. 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:52.738 So you finish the prayer. 00:30:52.738 --> 00:30:53.580 There's nothing. 00:30:53.580 --> 00:30:54.282 There's nothing. 00:30:54.282 --> 00:30:54.944 There's nothing. 00:30:54.944 --> 00:30:55.817 It was just a prayer. 00:30:55.817 --> 00:31:01.605 It was at a natural level, jew. 00:31:01.605 --> 00:31:03.557 And no wonder. 00:31:03.577 --> 00:31:06.125 She said I see, just go back to verse nine. 00:31:06.125 --> 00:31:12.655 It says this the Samaritan woman said to him you're a Jew and I'm a Samaritan, go back. 00:31:12.655 --> 00:31:14.281 Let me read it in the New King James Version. 00:31:14.281 --> 00:31:19.906 In verse nine it says this New King James, and I'll tie this up in a minute. 00:31:19.906 --> 00:31:33.605 It says then the woman said the woman of Samaria said to him verse nine okay, go to verse eight, verse eight, for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 00:31:33.605 --> 00:31:34.288 Then the woman. 00:31:34.288 --> 00:31:35.016 So keep going. 00:31:35.016 --> 00:31:39.125 Then the woman of Samaria said to him how is it that you being a Jew? 00:31:39.125 --> 00:31:42.057 I think it's verse go back. 00:31:42.057 --> 00:31:46.847 I think it's verse seven, because there's a part I want to catch there, amen. 00:31:46.847 --> 00:31:50.295 Okay, go back to verse seven, because there's a point here I want to bring to your attention. 00:31:50.917 --> 00:31:52.403 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. 00:31:52.403 --> 00:31:57.282 Jesus said to her give me a drink, for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 00:31:57.282 --> 00:32:06.984 Then the woman of Samaria said to him how is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman, for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans. 00:32:06.984 --> 00:32:17.366 Jesus answered and said to her if you knew the gift of God I know it is who says to you give me drink you would have asked him and you would have given you living water. 00:32:17.366 --> 00:32:20.621 But let me continue, because there's something I wanted to say. 00:32:20.621 --> 00:32:23.406 She just saw a natural person. 00:32:23.406 --> 00:32:33.916 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I'm looking at a natural person and tell them my encounter is not with you, hallelujah. 00:32:35.974 --> 00:32:41.455 How many religious people are going to go to hell because all they knew was Jesus the Jew? 00:32:41.455 --> 00:32:51.240 How many of us are struggling with all our problems because the person we are dealing with and bringing those problems is just a man? 00:32:51.240 --> 00:33:00.786 Why do you bring your situations to natural situations and nothing changes? 00:33:00.786 --> 00:33:01.728 Nothing changes. 00:33:01.728 --> 00:33:02.597 Nothing changes. 00:33:02.597 --> 00:33:11.623 But you see, at least it's a good place to start, because you need to start from the natural before you go to the next level. 00:33:11.623 --> 00:33:17.565 So I'm going to give you the next level and team. 00:33:17.565 --> 00:33:18.226 Just stay there. 00:33:18.226 --> 00:33:20.048 You are natural. 00:33:20.048 --> 00:33:22.760 I mean you're just standing there. 00:33:22.760 --> 00:33:25.796 Naturally You're having an encounter. 00:33:33.115 --> 00:33:38.361 Let me read this verse Jeremiah 17, verse 13,. 00:33:38.361 --> 00:33:39.865 I'll just get back to you in a minute. 00:33:39.865 --> 00:33:42.200 He says this Jeremiah 17, verse 13,. 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:43.142 Again, remember the well. 00:33:43.142 --> 00:33:44.184 There's another well. 00:33:44.184 --> 00:33:48.224 This woman has not seen that well, because this encounter is coming. 00:33:48.224 --> 00:33:53.665 He says oh Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be ashamed. 00:33:53.665 --> 00:34:03.444 Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters. 00:34:03.444 --> 00:34:09.945 Then verse, the next verse says heal me, oh Lord, and I shall be healed. 00:34:09.945 --> 00:34:16.039 Save me and I shall be saved, for you am I praise. 00:34:17.414 --> 00:34:23.262 In that conversation, as they were talking and she has gone into the first encounter, which is just a natural encounter. 00:34:23.262 --> 00:34:26.182 Jesus says this in the next statements. 00:34:26.182 --> 00:34:31.065 If you can pick it from verse 11, chapter 4, there, just keep going. 00:34:31.065 --> 00:34:32.097 Verse 11,. 00:34:32.097 --> 00:34:37.224 They start a conversation and in this conversation, john, I'm back to John, chapter 4. 00:34:37.855 --> 00:34:39.963 In that conversation, remember there's living fountain. 00:34:39.963 --> 00:34:42.001 It is right there, but she's not seeing it. 00:34:42.001 --> 00:34:43.398 She's not seeing it. 00:34:43.398 --> 00:34:45.862 I pray that somebody will begin to see something. 00:34:45.862 --> 00:34:47.277 You begin to see. 00:34:47.277 --> 00:34:49.083 Go beyond the natural, see something. 00:34:49.083 --> 00:34:52.983 The woman said to him sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. 00:34:52.983 --> 00:34:55.239 Where, then, do you get that living water? 00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:57.179 Keep going, go up to verse 14. 00:34:57.755 --> 00:35:11.239 In verse 14, he says this whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life. 00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:14.684 The woman said to him sir, give me this water that I may not thirst. 00:35:14.684 --> 00:35:16.039 Now come here to draw. 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:20.864 Jesus said to her go call your husband and come here. 00:35:20.864 --> 00:35:24.862 The woman answered and said I have no husband. 00:35:24.862 --> 00:35:34.186 Jesus said to her you have well said I have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the one whom you now have is not your husband. 00:35:34.186 --> 00:35:35.920 In that you spoke truly. 00:35:37.034 --> 00:35:38.260 Now, this is the next encounter. 00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:43.864 The woman said to him sir, I perceive you are a prophet. 00:35:43.864 --> 00:35:50.344 Hallelujah Pasa Marongo, come here. 00:35:50.344 --> 00:35:53.159 So you have a natural situation. 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:54.023 There's natural. 00:35:54.023 --> 00:35:55.498 You are a Jew. 00:35:55.498 --> 00:36:00.364 The next encounter is come here. 00:36:00.364 --> 00:36:03.577 The next encounter is this you are a Jew. 00:36:03.577 --> 00:36:10.356 Then the next encounter is this I perceive you are a prophet. 00:36:10.356 --> 00:36:30.369 She has gone a little higher you are a Jew, and if I stay here, I will continue drinking juice when Jesus begins to talk about her life, something information she never knew anybody had told her. 00:36:30.369 --> 00:36:34.085 And suddenly she says I perceive You're not just a Jew. 00:36:34.085 --> 00:36:37.056 Now you perceive your work, you're a prophet. 00:36:37.056 --> 00:36:49.181 And sometimes many of us, as we encounter God, for some of us we go beyond the physical, we go beyond the natural, and then we go to the next stage, which is the supernatural. 00:36:49.181 --> 00:36:53.280 We encounter something we never encountered before. 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:57.364 And so she perceives here she saw a Jew. 00:36:57.364 --> 00:37:01.143 Now she perceives there's a prophet. 00:37:01.143 --> 00:37:05.824 And now she's dealing with this man at a different angle, at a prophetic angle. 00:37:05.824 --> 00:37:08.199 I perceive you're a prophet. 00:37:09.934 --> 00:37:11.219 Let me read verse 19 one more time. 00:37:11.219 --> 00:37:17.123 It says this the woman said to him sir, I perceive you're a prophet. 00:37:17.123 --> 00:37:26.443 And then she starts to say our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. 00:37:26.443 --> 00:37:34.521 Keep going, jesus said to her woman believe me, the hour is coming when you're neither on this mountain nor on Jerusalem. 00:37:34.521 --> 00:37:36.023 Worship the Father. 00:37:36.023 --> 00:37:38.619 You worship what you do not know. 00:37:38.619 --> 00:37:41.963 We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. 00:37:42.295 --> 00:37:46.206 Now Jesus is no longer talking to her as a Jew, as a natural person. 00:37:46.206 --> 00:37:53.429 He's not talking to her at a prophetic angle and opening her eyes to see what nothing else can see. 00:37:53.429 --> 00:37:55.661 I pray that God will give you a revelation this week. 00:37:55.661 --> 00:38:01.224 I pray that you'll not be stuck at the first level, that you'll be able to go to the next level. 00:38:01.224 --> 00:38:02.938 The Bible says this. 00:38:02.938 --> 00:38:04.862 Keep going, verse 23. 00:38:04.862 --> 00:38:09.376 He says the Father is seeking such All right. 00:38:09.376 --> 00:38:17.681 The hour is coming, and now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 00:38:17.681 --> 00:38:21.865 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. 00:38:22.094 --> 00:38:23.139 Now look at the next encounter. 00:38:24.054 --> 00:38:31.447 The woman said I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. 00:38:31.447 --> 00:38:37.677 When he comes, he will tell us all things Jesus said to her. 00:38:37.677 --> 00:38:40.567 I who speak to you, I am he. 00:38:40.567 --> 00:38:42.914