Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You call him a pastor Ambrose Out there, we call him Bishop Ambrose.
Speaker 1: So thank you, bishop Ambrose, for the invite and the leadership.
Speaker 1: Pastor Simon, pastor Victor, we're somewhere.
Speaker 1: We work with him quite a bit on missions, so it's such a joy being here with you today and thank you, my colleague today, for that wonderful time of worship.
Speaker 1: That was amazing.
Speaker 1: I think I ask us to give a clap as we thank God and as we really thank God for you.
Speaker 1: A Santisana, a Santia.
Speaker 1: So I also did come along with, besides, the team, by the way, led by Pastor Josh, if you could stand and wave.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Pastor Josh Grossman.
Speaker 1: He has tattoos for Jesus, don't fear him With the team.
Speaker 1: He's a pastor at the church of the open doors in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: In case you go those sides, you can make that your church, as I believe they are also making this their church when they come to Kenya, this being the only church besides by Grace where they have visited.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and but I also came along with Ken Ken Captain Ken is from is gone through church Amir.
Speaker 1: We are speaking about the church today, and so pastor Ken has gone through the church Amir, and you know church Amir, it's a ministry of the Anglican church where they seek to raise evangelists, and they also use that terminology a captain for the gospel.
Speaker 1: So that's what he is.
Speaker 1: But he's also mobilizing prayer for what is known as the Nairobi Love Festival.
Speaker 1: Love, nairobi Festival.
Speaker 1: How many have heard of that festival?
Speaker 1: Very good, okay, a few.
Speaker 1: I see we still have lots of work to do getting the rest of you to know or to love Nairobi.
Speaker 1: I believe you do.
Speaker 1: So he's mobilizing prayer for that, and so thank you so much, ken.
Speaker 1: There's also pastor Samuel, all the way from Ruma.
Speaker 1: I'll be mentioning something about him later.
Speaker 1: Thank you, pastor, for coming.
Speaker 1: And some other young people are the back somewhere.
Speaker 1: They are not from the US.
Speaker 1: Where are they?
Speaker 1: I am with my daughter and our friends.
Speaker 1: Very good, thank you.
Speaker 1: So thank you indeed for having us.
Speaker 1: I'm here, but I believe I'm also here on behalf of African Enterprise, because that's the mission agency that we've partnered with a lot, with Parklands Baptist Church.
Speaker 1: I've done lots of campaigns with you, so much that there are some people that think that the bus, your bus, the bus.
Speaker 1: They think that bus belongs to AE, because in every evangelistic campaign, whether in Isiola or Mombasa, wherever we've traveled around this country.
Speaker 1: You've always send your bus, you've always send your resources, including people coming to minister with us, and, of course, I mean we are really, really, really grateful.
Speaker 1: So I really want to say thank you so much to Parkie.
Speaker 1: I've been here many times, but for different meetings.
Speaker 1: I've never been here for a service this service like this, you know, either on a Sunday or a revival.
Speaker 1: But we've done lots of meetings here with different churches hosted by your church, and so it's such a joy for me to be here and to say thank you to your church for being a partner with us in doing missions not only in Kenya but even all over Africa.
Speaker 1: Amen, very good, I believe the media team is ready for us.
Speaker 1: I was to say a few words as we hit the road which I believe we are now ready to move forward.
Speaker 1: So, friends, since I've been, having been online and followed the various beginning with the pastor Ambrose on the encounter and then yesterday again being online following a Bible study that I was required to be in my neighborhood study because even as preachers, we also do have small fellowships that now reach us and so, following that study, we, again with my wife, followed day number two, the response, and I must say, in all this I can tell and I could feel the spirit of God at work in our medist and in this revival meeting.
Speaker 1: I didn't know upstairs there are so many people from here.
Speaker 1: You see them and you look amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: So we pick it up again from the main text that we are going through during this revival week.
Speaker 1: So in John, chapter 4, and the theme for today is the charge, the charge, the charge.
Speaker 1: Of course it's an English word which I shouldn't go into defining, but it simply means the push or moving forward into something.
Speaker 1: So the church, or which is also known as the commission, the commission, the sending forth.
Speaker 1: Of course we'll be looking at this Samaritan woman as she responds to this call, or rather she responds to our experience of Jesus.
Speaker 1: How does she respond?
Speaker 1: So be narrowing, or rather all that we speak will be going around that woman and because she is the main text, or the text focuses around her.
Speaker 1: It says in John chapter 4 now, jesus had learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples.
Speaker 1: So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
Speaker 1: So he leaves Judea, which is in the south, is heading to Galilee, which is in the north.
Speaker 1: Now, he had to go through Samaria and, by the way it explains, he had to go because he had alternative routes to follow.
Speaker 1: He had the choice either to go through Samaria or he had the choice like every other pure for lack of a better way to explain every other Israelite or Jew would go to the east, across the Jordan and go round and get into Galilee on the other side, avoiding Samaria.
Speaker 1: But so it says he had to go through.
Speaker 1: It's kind of decisive.
Speaker 1: He makes the decision to go through Samaria and so he comes to a town in Samaria called Saika, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given a son, joseph.
Speaker 1: Now, jacob's well was there and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey.
Speaker 1: You may be here, you may be listening to us and, like Jesus on this day, you are tired.
Speaker 1: He sat down by the well and it tells us it was about noon.
Speaker 1: Some vassions would tell us it was in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Now, by the way, having checked on Google Maps, because you know, the things we talk about Christ are historical, because today the same cycle still exists.
Speaker 1: There's a town in Israel today by that name or referenced by that name.
Speaker 1: Its current name I'll give you in a minute it's Nablus.
Speaker 1: Now, having checked on Google and this is just some background, and I know our bishop did really take us immensely into these as he took us through the encounter it says it takes about 30 minutes, that is, if you are driving from Jerusalem, where Jesus is coming from, going to Samaria.
Speaker 1: And it says, if you are walking, it will take you about nine hours, and so the distance that is given is about 48 kilometers.
Speaker 1: There are people here who do lots of walking.
Speaker 1: They are not here today, okay, they may be online, okay, now.
Speaker 1: So that's the distance from Jerusalem, where Jesus is coming from, and going all the way to this town cycle or to the point where Jesus and his company of disciples stop.
Speaker 1: Now, if you check, like I said earlier, the things about the Bible, they are historical and that's why I'm referencing this, because we know there are some people who are very they like reasons for believe, reasons for faith, and God is not scared.
Speaker 1: When you seek reasons, when you want to ask questions, like this woman will be asking, god is not scared because he is God and he's able to answer you.
Speaker 1: So, intellectuals who feel like when we talk about revival and you begin thinking it's all about things in the sky, things invisible and could be, you are floating because for you, the way you are created, you are cognitive, you want substance, things that you can engage on and reason on in your quest in following God.
Speaker 1: So this is in what today we call the Western, the West Bank.
Speaker 1: Now we follow politics and so we know the West Bank.
Speaker 1: It's on the Western side of the Jordan River.
Speaker 1: The river is to you there, the same river where they were baptizing in.
Speaker 1: It's to you the same river and the West Bank.
Speaker 1: That's where Judea is and that's where Samaria is.
Speaker 1: So Samaria is much further, because of course Judea is longer than Samaria, which is an enclave or a small area on that West Bank, and so there's a village there that is called Askar today and which is referenced as being the Sika and, by the way, it said the well, the well, the well, where Jesus comes and rests.
Speaker 1: It's said to be about one kilometer from, or rather that town is one kilometer from this.
Speaker 1: Well, that town, askar, the village, it's like one kilometer.
Speaker 1: There's a distance.
Speaker 1: Remember, the woman will run and that's where we are headed to the woman running.
Speaker 1: Did you know the woman who run?
Speaker 1: Help me out this evening.
Speaker 1: Did you know the woman who run?
Speaker 1: Yes, we are here for the charge.
Speaker 1: The woman will run.
Speaker 1: So that's the place, neblas.
Speaker 1: And, by the way, not to digress, when Luke writes as a piece, so he write to the offailers in Luke, chapter 1, and my projection team that is preaching with me, you can help me.
Speaker 1: Just the very beginning that chapter.
Speaker 1: What does he say?
Speaker 1: Aha, many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who, from the first, where I witnesses and servants of.
Speaker 1: Alright, okay, are we still there?
Speaker 1: I think you've run a bit faster because it will speak about.
Speaker 1: He's done an investigative task.
Speaker 1: You've seen investigative journalists.
Speaker 1: Look, does an investigative with these in mind?
Speaker 1: Since I myself, remember, is a medical doctor, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided, I too decided to write an orderly account for you most excellent, the offailers.
Speaker 1: So you are here.
Speaker 1: You're an intellectual, like I've said as you read your Bible.
Speaker 1: There's enough evidence that supports historical, that Jesus that we speak about, he was alive, that he was here historically on earth, and the aligned max, including the well someone here is doubting, can you say the well, the well, the very well, where Jesus drank from a steel.
Speaker 1: There, and it's a to this day it still has water flowing.
Speaker 1: Hello, alright, if my friend is still here we are questioning, just take a flight and go, like Thomas, and they want to see these.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to drink the same water to establish.
Speaker 1: This is the very, this is the very place that what, what is recorded, is indeed there to be proved as well, historically, a careful, investigative task.
Speaker 1: That's the way.
Speaker 1: Look approached it when a Samaritan woman remember Jesus is seated came to draw water.
Speaker 1: Jesus say to her will you give me a drink?
Speaker 1: Now it goes on to tell us his disciples have gone into town to buy food and, remember, we say earlier, is been on the road for possibly five to nine hours.
Speaker 1: Those of us who grew up in the village you know when you travel you begin early most.
Speaker 1: So when you are walking, we would begin if it's a long distance, like 5 am, so that before the hot sun rises you've covered a long way and it seems that's what Jesus and done.
Speaker 1: But he is tired and wary and seated by this.
Speaker 1: Well, the Samaritan woman say to him you are a Jew, I am a Samaritan.
Speaker 1: You can pause it there.
Speaker 1: But then we know the next word.
Speaker 1: But I just want that to sink.
Speaker 1: She says I am a Samaritan, you are a Jew, and why I want you to pause it there.
Speaker 1: He doesn't say you are a man.
Speaker 1: In other words, the context she's setting up.
Speaker 1: She says you are a Jew, I am, I am a Samaritan, you are a Jew.
Speaker 1: That's the context this woman is placing very early in this conversation.
Speaker 1: You are a Jew, I am a Samaritan, fast.
Speaker 1: And secondly, I am a woman.
Speaker 1: Now, I emphasize this because, as we talk about the church, we see Jesus crossing different frontiers, whether it's social frontiers, whether it's religious barriers or barricades.
Speaker 1: He moves across these barricades in seeking to reach out with the love of God and with the truth of God to this woman, and so she pauses.
Speaker 1: How can you ask me for a drink now?
Speaker 1: If you look at the NIV could be the latest version I didn't check which, which specific year, but you see a footnote that says or do not use dishes that Samaritans have used.
Speaker 1: How can you ask me for a drink?
Speaker 1: And it says for Jews, do not associate with Samaritans.
Speaker 1: But it goes on to say or do not use dishes that have been used by Samaritans.
Speaker 1: Are we together this evening?
Speaker 1: Are you seeing the barricades?
Speaker 1: In other words, she's saying, possibly saying, even if I wanted to, I do not have a Jewish container.
Speaker 1: To put it for you, this will be a Samaritan container that you drink from.
Speaker 1: So how can you, a Jew, I'm a woman, a Samaritan, and I do not have in quotes, so to say, the kind of container that you'd be seeking or to use, because, as far as you're concerned, I am and clean.
Speaker 1: But in this account we see a charge and was I read through and as I reflect on our theme, I see a charge.
Speaker 1: But let me read for us first.
Speaker 1: Second Timothy 4 1.
Speaker 1: It says in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead.
Speaker 1: In other words, it's saying the ultimate and in view of his appearance and of his kingdom, I give you this charge Preach the word, that is, preach the gospel, preach God's truth, preach the word it says be prepared in season and out of season.
Speaker 1: We say it earlier.
Speaker 1: We see a tired master, a thirsty master engaging in this conversation correct rebuke, encourage, with great patience and careful instruction.
Speaker 1: It goes on to say about the times that are coming, people desiring to only listen to what makes their ears happy.
Speaker 1: Then it says in verse 4, but you but but.
Speaker 1: But you, this is a charge, it says to Timothy, but you keep your head in no situations.
Speaker 1: In other words, kind of saying be sober, be alert, endure hardship and do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
Speaker 1: So as we speak about the church and as we look at Jesus, I see Jesus making war.
Speaker 1: In military terms you'd call an incursion.
Speaker 1: An incursion because, again, the term church is also used in the military forces or in the police when they are charging against something.
Speaker 1: And I see the term here, incursion as a good way in framing our thinking as we think about the church.
Speaker 1: Jesus making a church, a penetration into a territory which otherwise would be considered outside the territory within which he is operating or within which, like we've mentioned ethnically the limits that would be there, an invasion, an attack, especially a sudden or brief one, a brief one.
Speaker 1: The Marian Webster dictionary says a raid, raid, and when I read that word.
Speaker 1: A raid is a better word, because raid means you are raiding to take something.
Speaker 1: It's not just an incursion for something, getting into someone else's space, but it's getting in with a mission to get something.
Speaker 1: A raid, and I see Jesus making a raid into Samaria.
Speaker 1: Our hashtag is what Occupy, occupy.
Speaker 1: And I see in Luke 1913 it says he called his 12 servants, he gives them 10 talents, jesus relating himself as the king and the coming king who leaves us as these people carrying on his work.
Speaker 1: And he says he calls the 10, gives them talents and says occupy until I come, occupy until I come.
Speaker 1: In other words, he's saying a full authority and influence, ensure that the gospel permeates and penetrates and takes over.
Speaker 1: Occupy until I come.
Speaker 1: And to occupy friends, we must move out.
Speaker 1: We must move across racial, we must move across religious, we must move across social and we must also move across economic barriers.
Speaker 1: We must get out.
Speaker 1: You don't occupy where you already are.
Speaker 1: Hello, hello.
Speaker 1: You know this is revival week and today we are talking about the church, in other words, stepping out.
Speaker 1: You don't occupy what is already occupied.
Speaker 1: You don't fish the fish that is already in someone else's net and you're saying occupy and you're just fishing from your neighbor's boat because the fish is already here.
Speaker 1: It's easy.
Speaker 1: Occupy means step out.
Speaker 1: There's a black circle here.
Speaker 1: Step out into another territory and make the gospel the good news to be significant in this new territory or to this person to whom it's still strange and still new or news.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the amen.
Speaker 1: I can tell revival is still here, like it was yesterday.
Speaker 1: In verse 16, jesus makes an incasion they debate about with this woman, they talk about water and then they talk about what you worship in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: We worship on this Mount Gerizim.
Speaker 1: By the way, this mountain is to you there.
Speaker 1: It's the mountain where Moses was to bless the Israelites, and on the other side is Mount Abel.
Speaker 1: In fact they say they are the.
Speaker 1: These mountains are in the most central place of the whole of Israel.
Speaker 1: So it's still there for my intellectual friend who is here.
Speaker 1: You know, somehow, bishop Ambrose, have a feeling today there's an intellectual who is here and who just needs an intellectual engagement.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to fire all my engines quickly, but if you being held back to reason and engage and not just to go revive a blast, which is what I would have loved with the momentum that we've been in.
Speaker 1: But I just sense in my heart that there's an intellectual here whom the Lord really wants to reason with.
Speaker 1: Jesus makes an incasion socially.
Speaker 1: He asks they talk, and then he says go bring your husband.
Speaker 1: Where did that come from?
Speaker 1: I mean the conversation was on water.
Speaker 1: Then they come to religion.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus shoots straight as God bring your husband.
Speaker 1: Hi, if it's today, they will say what Private territory you are intruding.
Speaker 1: That's none of your business.
Speaker 1: How does my husband have to do with religion or have to do with a cup of water?
Speaker 1: I mean, chances were there, she would have simply gone wild and said, hey, you are getting into my space.
Speaker 1: But Jesus shoots straight go bring your husband.
Speaker 1: I mean it's out of the blues kind of, because God knows us, he knows each one of us, where we are, he knows the tender spot where, when you're touched, you wake up or you feel it.
Speaker 1: You've now come right into the space where I can no longer just be quiet and speak.
Speaker 1: Go bring your husband.
Speaker 1: It's become personal.
Speaker 1: It's personalizing the engagement and the conversation.
Speaker 1: Jesus makes an intrusion and I said to us tonight as we speak about the church that often at times we are crippled by fear, including today when we talk about the LGBTQ.
Speaker 1: I see that as a God given chance to talk about the gospel, because there are people with whom you would not have engaged because issues about sexuality, they are said to be bedroom, they are personal.
Speaker 1: But God and in our times it's a public conversation and so it gives room for us to engage on intimate topics, but we do it in love.
Speaker 1: You can talk about abortion, and talk about abortion to someone who has aborted ten times, but there is a way you can talk about it and it gets into their heart and turns them into the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: It has to be in love and with skill, god given touch, as we see Jesus taking this woman progressively.
Speaker 1: So Jesus, as the role do I say model, the champion, fisherman, the fisher of men, the master, the teacher, is sets an example in the life of this woman, the way fishes her and gets her and gets her into the kingdom, but not an intrusion in what would otherwise be very personal space.
Speaker 1: And I say to us in today's conversation, the one that I've already mentioned, there's a great door for sharing about the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: I read an account about the Second World War.
Speaker 1: It said about these two soldiers, not to a group of soldiers.
Speaker 1: As they went through Europe they came to a Catholic domain where Catholicism was the main religion.
Speaker 1: Their friend had died and it said in this written account, they wanted him to have a good burial.
Speaker 1: And so they came to a priest in a fenced out cemetery and they say to him please, can you bury, can you allow us to bury our friend in this Catholic burial ground?
Speaker 1: The priest says no, you are Protestants.
Speaker 1: I cannot, I'm not allowed, I'm not permitted.
Speaker 1: I can only bury Catholics here.
Speaker 1: But he said, I'll give you some liberty, bury him by the fence so that when I'm taking care of the Catholic saints or believers here, I'll be watching over your friend outside the fence.
Speaker 1: Now to cut their lungs, to reshot, they bury the man outside the fence, they do their military salute and they continue on their charge through the various countries.
Speaker 1: The world war comes to an end.
Speaker 1: They are going back to their home country and they must salute goodbye to their fallen fellow soldiers.
Speaker 1: They come and the grave is in there, it's been moved and they look for the priest and their tempers are running high because soldiers with the frustrations of war tempers can rise quickly.
Speaker 1: They get hold of the priest, they want to rough him up.
Speaker 1: They say you promised where is he?
Speaker 1: Or what did you do with our friends grave?
Speaker 1: And the old priest says, friends, hold on.
Speaker 1: He says you know, I could not bury him, I wasn't allowed to bury him inside, but I did something.
Speaker 1: I broke the fence, I extended the graveyard.
Speaker 1: So your friend is inside.
Speaker 1: Stop looking for him on the outside.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: There are barricades, including religious barricades.
Speaker 1: Some of us are Baptist dumb, some of us are Presbyterian dumb, some of us Pentecostals dumb and those.
Speaker 1: You may think there's more divisions, but, friends, I'll tell you, even among ministers and pastors, they can cause lots of conflicts.
Speaker 1: Jesus is out to break barricades and one of it is the ethical amen.
Speaker 1: Is the ethical amen?
Speaker 1: Is that ethnic?
Speaker 1: Sorry, not ethical ethnic.
Speaker 1: The Samaritan Jewish is right, there, is seated.
Speaker 1: Is that he is?
Speaker 1: He is relaxed, even talking to this woman.
Speaker 1: He is at ease, relaxed and seated in Samaritan territory, occupied, in essence, is occupied, is there and engaging this woman, though he is a man, in what would be a very, or rather say to be a very, lifely conversation.
Speaker 1: You are a woman, according to one of the commentaries it says on the history of the Jewish people, let not a man talk with a woman in the streets, even with his wife, and there is no need to say to speak a word to another man's wife in the streets.
Speaker 1: Particularly, it was thought very unbecoming for a religious man, a doctor, a scholar or a disciple of a wise man.
Speaker 1: So to do this is one of the six things which are a reproach to a scholar or to a preacher of the day to talk with a woman in the street.
Speaker 1: And it is even said let him not talk with a woman in the street though she is his wife or his sister or his daughter.
Speaker 1: Hello, jesus, seated talking to a woman.
Speaker 1: What did the disciples do when they found him?
Speaker 1: What does it say when you run down?
Speaker 1: What does it say?
Speaker 1: They were shocked.
Speaker 1: The teacher is talking.
Speaker 1: What is happening?
Speaker 1: He's talking to a woman.
Speaker 1: I mean Jesus.
Speaker 1: When I look at the first attribute that I see, or rather that I would want to urge us on as we talk about this woman, and our charge is love, love when you love somebody, when you love someone.
Speaker 1: And it says in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 14, the love of Christ constrains us.
Speaker 1: It says the love of Christ compels us.
Speaker 1: And it says in John 3, 16, that we've known from Sunday school.
Speaker 1: What does it say?
Speaker 1: For God so much loved the world that he gave a son.
Speaker 1: Love compels, love covers a multitude of sins, love, god is love.
Speaker 1: Verse John 4, 16,.
Speaker 1: That's the essence of God.
Speaker 1: God is love.
Speaker 1: And that's why it said he was not there condemning the woman in John 3, chapter 17,.
Speaker 1: For God sent a son in the world not to condemn the Samaritan woman, but that through her hearing the message, she may be saved.
Speaker 1: And so in my re-edition of John, chapter 3, verse 16, for this woman, the way I re-edition it, is like this For God so much loved Virginia, I'll call her Virginia.
Speaker 1: Virginia, the Samaritan woman that he gave the rescinded son on this hot day, walking five or even nine miles so that Virginia, in having a solitude, a very private time with Jesus, she may hear the gospel and be saved.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do amen, I'm just trying to do a re-edition of this woman here in Westlands, west T, and I'm calling on us, as we do all the charge and all the occupying.
Speaker 1: But as I look at West T, I see a woman that sells her body.
Speaker 1: In this Westlands there are so many bodies for the 20 years.
Speaker 1: She lives not too far away, or rather she does her chore not too far away from this church.
Speaker 1: At night, when you're going to bed, she's on duty and she has done it for over 20 years Now.
Speaker 1: Do you think a woman selling her body?
Speaker 1: Or you think sleeping with men is just an adventure?
Speaker 1: One time we were doing a mission in Malindi and if you go into Malindi and you know the coast and in this township, as we were closing the mission one of the evenings and when we were walking home to a guest house around 6 PM, the sun is setting around 7ish.
Speaker 1: We've just finished our meetings throughout the day and as we went along the road we would see these girls popping into the street.
Speaker 1: They are running or walking into the street and you know the way they are.
Speaker 1: So they are there with their miniskirts.
Speaker 1: They are there all poly.
Speaker 1: I mean, we are dusty, like these guys have been dusty.
Speaker 1: They have been building.
Speaker 1: I wondered how they'll show up here today.
Speaker 1: They have been carrying soil, helping them out.
Speaker 1: They have been carrying soil helping a soccer pitch to be made and there we were tired.
Speaker 1: But as we saw them, something began saying.
Speaker 1: Something doesn't add up.
Speaker 1: The whole day we've been looking to win people to Jesus.
Speaker 1: These ladies are coming out now as a tired person, you ignore and you keep moving.
Speaker 1: But then something began pricking us One of the days.
Speaker 1: We said let's stop and have a conversation with these ladies, and you know I'll be brief on this.
Speaker 1: From that day we came up with something that we called it first twilight girls ministry.
Speaker 1: I mean, they come out in the twilight, in the evening, but we later on called it the night.
Speaker 1: We called it night hunting, hunting at night.
Speaker 1: Now, if you know fishermen and pasta ambros I believe you know these more than many of us you know that fishing, it's not all fish that you catch during the day.
Speaker 1: In fact, I understand Omena is mainly caught at night.
Speaker 1: It's not every fish that is caught during the day.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's not every fish for which you use a hook.
Speaker 1: Every fish has a hook.
Speaker 1: No, not every triumphant with a hook.
Speaker 1: You go home hungry.
Speaker 1: Every fish.
Speaker 1: Jesus says, matthew 419, I will make you fishers of man.
Speaker 1: Fishers of man.
Speaker 1: By the way, the preacher yesterday reminded us take time with Jesus because he is the master teacher.
Speaker 1: He will teach you.
Speaker 1: As pastors, we will preach, but at the end of the day, it's only the Lord that can turn things around and you begin engaging.
Speaker 1: And also where you have, where you do have your occupation and that's something I feel strongly about this evening Hashtag occupy your occupation.
Speaker 1: Occupy your occupation.
Speaker 1: Occupy it, dominate it as a believer, be a man, a human of influence.
Speaker 1: Let your work speak, let there be excellence.
Speaker 1: Let them look and, like Daniel, they say, ah, this guy, we cannot accuse him of anything except for his relationship with God.
Speaker 1: Occupy your occupation.
Speaker 1: Because if you cannot begin occupying your occupation, even if we preach and we say come hands at the core to follow Jesus and you follow him to be a preacher, you can be a preacher and lazy, you can be a preacher and you are just confused and mixed up.
Speaker 1: You can even be full time, but could be a lot better if you were not full time.
Speaker 1: But when you begin with your occupation, I listen to Andrew preaching here another day on things that are like this, the tallest preacher, I believe, here in the house Amen.
Speaker 1: As we spoke about engaging with government officials, you know occupy, occupy, occupy your occupation where you are every day, occupy.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about this woman or the prostitutes, or some of them.
Speaker 1: I can tell you about a lawyer who was led to the Lord in a pub by one of my daughters and now she was excited and she told this lawyer about somebody that loves her and the lawyer, in his drinking he was feeling I must win the heart of this girl Because she's seated in a pub taking a Coca-Cola as he takes his beer.
Speaker 1: Now you may not know, but in Kenya believers don't go to pubs.
Speaker 1: I'm a Pakewan, I'm a Pakewan, I tell you night hunting.
Speaker 1: I say my papa, who your mama and I go to, and we are saying the Lord.
Speaker 1: I hear an occupation of Westlands, a West tea operation desk, where we say there are days where we penetrate, we do an incursion, we go out of our way, we go out of our common range, because how will this prostitute hear the gospel unless you go at the hour when she goes out, because when you are cleaned up and in church she's asleep.
Speaker 1: West tea operation desk, wod.
Speaker 1: Those of us who are old, like me, following Bishop here, you know when you speak of DOD in Halingham, your blood must be careful.
Speaker 1: Even when you drive along there you must be careful.
Speaker 1: Dod, department of Defense.
Speaker 1: But I hear a call for Pakee West tea operation desk.
Speaker 1: But I heard you cannot do West tea operation desk every day.
Speaker 1: Jesus wasn't in Samaria every day.
Speaker 1: He was penetrating a new territory.
Speaker 1: He occupied it for two days and he left a seed and in history in the Eastern Orthodox Church it says this woman became a preacher that even died for Christ.
Speaker 1: That's in the Eastern Orthodox faith of their own records it was an inculsion, penetration of a new domain.
Speaker 1: You know I'm not used to this, but came into that territory and left a seed.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: But I say, the bigger occupation is in your profession, where you are every day.
Speaker 1: That's where, day by day, you make a difference, a mark that lasts.
Speaker 1: We were in Mathare doing a mission and in Mathare those of you know Mathare is different.
Speaker 1: There are great changes in Mathare.
Speaker 1: By the way, for some of us, when we drive, mathare is one place we would avoid.
Speaker 1: Even like Jesus is there.
Speaker 1: You go around.
Speaker 1: If someone tells you you will drive through Mathare, you begin thinking twice, even me, I mean I've been along that road, including my wife, I think lost a laptop, got in a gongwa.
Speaker 1: Someone has opened the door.
Speaker 1: The laptop is gone.
Speaker 1: I mean this can happen, by the way anywhere.
Speaker 1: Okay, for those listening to us or those who may hear us from there, those days it was worse.
Speaker 1: Remember, in the 80s, 90s, in 94, we did a mission there.
Speaker 1: These are some lessons I learned very early.
Speaker 1: And the first question I asked my boss then I wasn't the leader I said can anything good come out of Mathare?
Speaker 1: And my boss said that would be the theme of the mission.
Speaker 1: And so all the posters were saying can anything good come out of?
Speaker 1: You know where that comes from the book of John, chapter one, the disciples Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
Speaker 1: Can anything good come out of Mathare?
Speaker 1: Now, in this particular area where we were, among other things, they were gangsters.
Speaker 1: By the way, not too long ago I invited some of these guys and I'm running ahead of myself to my house because they are married with wives and it was horrible listening to the things they were talking.
Speaker 1: At least be a bit.
Speaker 1: I hope my daughter is fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, but something happened.
Speaker 1: So, as we preached in all these different meetings, someone says gangsters can come to Jesus.
Speaker 1: We say no, gangsters, you see them, you avoid them.
Speaker 1: He said no, we can reach them.
Speaker 1: He said send a thief to catch.
Speaker 1: Better still send a transformed thief to catch a thief.
Speaker 1: So he told us easy, I mean, he was a kajaka before.
Speaker 1: He said just prepare a hot cup of tea by the way, there's a video online on this testimony and he said put it in the open, because if you make it indoor they'll think you're calling in the police.
Speaker 1: Let it be in the public, in the open place.
Speaker 1: And he said prepare the tea in hot mags.
Speaker 1: Do you know the big mags those of us who grew up in the village?
Speaker 1: The big, mad, metallic and hot.
Speaker 1: And he said, as they sip choma, you know, choma, heat it up, add more, top it up so they're not drinking quickly.
Speaker 1: And he said you'll have 15 minutes with these guys.
Speaker 1: Do your job.
Speaker 1: And so, within 15 minutes, my wife here was among those who are pouring tea choma.
Speaker 1: She was there that day.
Speaker 1: She was pouring in the tea choma and of course, she was shaking.
Speaker 1: She knew.
Speaker 1: We knew all about these guys already.
Speaker 1: We had been warned and the gospel was preached within 15 minutes to these gangsters.
Speaker 1: Pastor Samuel Odiambo, this man, look at him.
Speaker 1: This is Pastor Samuel Odiambo.
Speaker 1: Pastor Samuel, if you have time another day, the mission's team, pastor Victor, this guy was one of those guys.
Speaker 1: This guy was one of those guys and I'm not.
Speaker 1: I can talk about him because I've been a mentor to him.
Speaker 1: I've trained him since then in many different things and this guy was one of those who.
Speaker 1: It was horror If you listen to him.
Speaker 1: The things that they did was horror, but Jesus, the love of God, the love of God, the love of God, we did not condemn them.
Speaker 1: They sensed the love of God.
Speaker 1: You know, you can be in a meeting like this, like I said, my intellectual friend, and you feel something is moving in your heart.
Speaker 1: It's the love of God, the love of God penetrated.
Speaker 1: And Samuel, now they are, how many?
Speaker 1: Seven of you are pastors.
Speaker 1: Seven of them are pastors.
Speaker 1: Seven.
Speaker 1: Seven of them are pastors.
Speaker 1: Macquatter, I'm talking of people that I know.
Speaker 1: They are pastors and one of them is even an engineer.
Speaker 1: He moved on from that life to become an engineer out of that life.
Speaker 1: Glory be to God.
Speaker 1: It was a time.
Speaker 1: Doesn't allow me, but in Matthew, chapter eight, jesus meets a leper and Jesus, encountering the leper, he came to the space where the leper could be found.
Speaker 1: Lepers would shout unclean, unclean.
Speaker 1: So that you know, the opposite happens.
Speaker 1: You become defiled for the whole day if you encounter them.
Speaker 1: The leper says to Jesus if you wish, you can make me clean.
Speaker 1: And what does Jesus do?
Speaker 1: He doesn't just speak clean, son, be clean.
Speaker 1: He gets hold of the leper, he can touch him or allows this man to feel tender love.
Speaker 1: The leproskin that has never felt attached because the leper, no hug, possibly leper from both no hug, no tenderness.
Speaker 1: Jesus touches him.
Speaker 1: He feels the warmth, the love and the warmth of the territory where this leper could access him.
Speaker 1: May we avail.
Speaker 1: This is a party, this is a spiritual party.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a party, it's a revival, but it's a party.
Speaker 1: We are rejoicing, we are happy, we are in the kingdom.
Speaker 1: But there's someone there, like this woman or the woman that I've spoken about, who is waiting for West T operation desk, who has been in the kingdom of the people.
Speaker 1: He knows territory.
Speaker 1: The church must step out of its norm and its range so that we can get into their space and into their range with love.
Speaker 1: But in the next verse he gets into the place as a centurion, a man in authority.
Speaker 1: It's just finished with a man who has the least of this the dust, the scum, and could be a house girl.
Speaker 1: Maybe they are feeling like that House girls ministry.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know you can move from there into something of significance.
Speaker 1: You can move from there into something of house girls whose lives have been changed, but just by showing them love and even offering them help to study.
Speaker 1: One of them, as I speak today, is in the UK, a lecturer in the university, and she began as a house help in our own house and God changed her life.
Speaker 1: It may be that may be a territory that, as a man, is a threat.
Speaker 1: It break through into that territory.
Speaker 1: The centurion he has how many soldiers?
Speaker 1: Centurion means a hundred.
Speaker 1: Now if he has a hundred, he doesn't just move alone, he has a number of them.
Speaker 1: He meets Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's a man in authority.
Speaker 1: You live and tell me you're a man.
Speaker 1: They jump.
Speaker 1: I said go, they go.
Speaker 1: I said come, they come.
Speaker 1: He's talking to Jesus, a man in authority.
Speaker 1: And what does he tell Jesus?
Speaker 1: My servant, and he's a Roman, remember, he's a Roman.
Speaker 1: Now that's another territory.
Speaker 1: He says my servant is sick.
Speaker 1: He tells him.
Speaker 1: And Jesus' question is can I come to your home and heal him?
Speaker 1: And what does the man say?
Speaker 1: He now gives his lecture about authority and tells Jesus, I know you are and the authority has where I can take the command and my son or my slave will be healed.
Speaker 1: We did a mission in Juba and I'm concluding and remember your occupation, occupy, occupy your occupation, occupy your occupation, and which can even be and that's what I'm saying here Churches.
Speaker 1: We should do missions that penetrate what are like barricades around us and, as we did this mission, we had a parliamentary breakfast.
Speaker 1: Members of parliament, bring them together with the president and the president, and, as you know, they are politicians and people who serve as PSAs and top leadership in Kenya, including an old friend of mine with whom we've done these things I know he's in the east gate now and, as we did this event, one member of parliament, cabinet minister, he listened as we spoke about governance, he spoke about look, saying he has investigated the things he's talking about.
Speaker 1: And in some of these incashions penetration you must have substance, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: In fact, amends are not there in that meeting.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here because of the state of corruption we are advancing backwards into the future.
Speaker 1: The cost of corruption is like a weapon of mass destruction in its effects, and these are the statistics, including in this nation and in this city, gentlemen, you can make a difference, but you know, in your own power you cannot change the way you act or behave and we keep going.
Speaker 1: You know, one pastor from the back said hey, tell them, preach it.
Speaker 1: Hey, tell them.
Speaker 1: We told him shut Zima.
Speaker 1: You don't shoot the birds before they patch, you don't cut the nose and they smell the rose flower.
Speaker 1: So we are to Zima.
Speaker 1: That was a Hallelujah man.
Speaker 1: So, friends, this cabinet minister, at the end of the meeting he came to us.
Speaker 1: He said friends, the things you spoke about, I knew Jesus in the when I was a boy.
Speaker 1: I went into the bush for the struggle and I lost Jesus.
Speaker 1: And he said here I am today.
Speaker 1: And he said I want to be a man of God.
Speaker 1: And you know that cabinet minister prayed the prayer of salvation Amen, that cabinet minister.
Speaker 1: And that's the worship now beginning as we shut down.
Speaker 1: So begin warming your heart for the charge that I'll be giving and bishop will be coming to conclude for us.
Speaker 1: That cabinet minister was a man.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a young boy and he was an Anglican and Anglican's.
Speaker 1: You are baptized often when you're young.
Speaker 1: But he said I want to be baptized.
Speaker 1: So in the cathedral in Juba.
Speaker 1: There was an official ceremony and again the president came and one of the members of parliament, who was the emcee, he stood up and he said you remember Matthew?
Speaker 1: When Matthew came in, matthew Z, nine tax collectors came with him.
Speaker 1: Kind brings kind.
Speaker 1: Tax collectors came with him.
Speaker 1: This man, politicians and top officials came and he was baptized and this emcee said I don't go to church but because of our father here I came today and I had a few more sessions.
Speaker 1: That man became also a believer.
Speaker 1: If I would mention his name, you'd know him as one of the officials of SSPLM.
Speaker 1: He became a follower of Jesus as well.
Speaker 1: Occupy your occupation.
Speaker 1: What had the strongholds?
Speaker 1: Jesus spoke about the church.
Speaker 1: Categories of people could be the lord as set within the reach of Paki.
Speaker 1: If God saying those are your territories, go in and occupy.
Speaker 1: What categories do you see as you listen to the Samaritan woman and the church?
Speaker 1: Jesus lived out the church.
Speaker 1: He made those breakthroughs and he was with love and, like the Samaritan woman, they came to him.
Speaker 1: What categories do you see?
Speaker 1: Is it watchmen that may be rounding up, standing on our doors, but no one has a ministry to them?
Speaker 1: Is it the watchmen?
Speaker 1: What do you see?
Speaker 1: And I pray that the lord is opening your doors because the disciples, when they bring him food, do you remember?
Speaker 1: They bring him food and he says, they say Jesus eat.
Speaker 1: He says no, no, I have food to eat.
Speaker 1: Tell you to not know what I am eating.
Speaker 1: And I'm fed, I'm nourished, something has filled me.
Speaker 1: He doesn't eat.
Speaker 1: Remember the woman?
Speaker 1: I guess she never gave him water, did you?
Speaker 1: When you read that she gave him water?
Speaker 1: Oh, the guys you've asked five or eight, nine hours food now and they are still hanging in.
Speaker 1: And he says you say the harvest is yet three months.
Speaker 1: But he says the harvest is ripe and is looking and is seeing because the woman ran.
Speaker 1: Remember the story?
Speaker 1: What did the woman do?
Speaker 1: She ran, honestness.
Speaker 1: She ran back to the village.
Speaker 1: Some say walked, went, some vassians say she ran.
Speaker 1: God is the one who is bringing everybody and she's bringing the village.
Speaker 1: And Jesus is so excited he cannot eat.
Speaker 1: Does the kingdom of God so excite you?
Speaker 1: You've just finished, or we finished, 21 days of fasting.
Speaker 1: What was happening?
Speaker 1: Growning and praying, like a woman preparing the or the for the harvest, in cations and penitrations into strongholds where the enemy is holding people.
Speaker 1: Jesus says I'm excited, I see a great harvest.
Speaker 1: A great harvest is coming.
Speaker 1: And indeed, in the concluding verse it says all the all the people in the village Woman, we know you, but we can't.
Speaker 1: But now we believe, not because of you, say, we know your lifestyle, but you said you found a man, another man, we know you are five and now, but now we believe for our own, now we believe we have become believers now.
Speaker 1: And they say we are not of the, not of, not of just Jews, they said, of the whole world.
Speaker 1: He is the savior of the whole world, the whole world, he is the savior of the whole world.
Speaker 1: Friends, the human was commissioned, so to say, by Christ.
Speaker 1: The love of God compared the love of God that we have, and that's the love that works in us and I pray that that love will give us zeal and passion.
Speaker 1: Zeal and passion, could you put for us a second Corinthians five.
Speaker 1: And as we read it, I'm reminded of the another friend who was fishing.
Speaker 1: You know he was fishing just like Peter, and in the morning, as he was there, frustrated, another man came and began fishing and began catching fish.
Speaker 1: But the man was throwing fish back into the river like a scientist Lift the fish, measure, throw it back several.
Speaker 1: And the man shouted what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: I've labeled the whole night.
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 1: I said you know, my wife's frying pan is this size.
Speaker 1: So that's, that's what's your wife's frying pan, what is the pan in your mind, what's the shape in your mind?
Speaker 1: Because often Jesus looks and he says the harvest.
Speaker 1: What do you see when you look at Westie?
Speaker 1: What do you see when that you can honestly and I pray out of this revival we charge and say I'm charging into this territory.
Speaker 1: Imagine, pastor, if everybody here in your office you charged, if everybody here in your office you just began a prayer meeting, if everybody in your office you just began talking to your neighbors, who knows a fellowship may begin a marketplace group that reaches and penetrates and you be saying Pasi, come, already there is a church in my office.
Speaker 1: I pray out of this revival week that you be so touched, as we come to Sunday, that you move out and do something and beginning occupy your occupation, because that's your training ground for ministry.
Speaker 1: Sunday you are charged and sent forth to your, to your place of ministry.
Speaker 1: Occupy your occupation.
Speaker 1: We conclude with these words as bishop comes to pray for us.
Speaker 1: It's from verse 14.
Speaker 1: I would even ask you to stand.
Speaker 1: Please stand, verse 14, for Christ's love compels us.
Speaker 1: Please, if you can hold on, I would appreciate.
Speaker 1: I see movements.
Speaker 1: I'll just plead with you.
Speaker 1: I'll be very fast in just reading this.
Speaker 1: For Christ love compels us because we are convinced that one died for all, therefore all died.
Speaker 1: And he died for all that.
Speaker 1: Those who leave, can you read together with me?
Speaker 1: If you can see those words, let's read together.
Speaker 1: And he died for all that.
Speaker 1: Those who leave should no longer leave for themselves, but for him, who died for them and was raised again.
Speaker 1: So from now on, we regard no one from a worldly point of view.
Speaker 1: Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Speaker 1: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come.
Speaker 1: The old has gone, the new is here.
Speaker 1: All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
Speaker 1: That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them, and he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Speaker 1: We are there for Christ's ambassadors, as though God we are making his appeal through us.
Speaker 1: We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God, for God made him, who had no sin, to be seen for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Speaker 1: As God's co-workers, we urge you not to receive God's in vain.
Speaker 1: Sorry we were to finish in that last verse.
Speaker 1: Let's give a clap as Bishop comes to conclude for us hallelujah, the charge.
Speaker 2: There's a charge.
Speaker 2: Dr Mbogo bless you.
Speaker 2: I believe you could see the passion in his heart.
Speaker 2: Dr Mbogo is an evangelist very passionate and he has given a charge at different levels.
Speaker 2: One of those charge is this if you don't know Jesus Christ as your personal savior, like he mentioned about this wonderful pastor, there's a step he took.
Speaker 2: He never knew he would be where he is, but he took a step.
Speaker 2: See what the Lord has done.
Speaker 2: Our brother, when he was singing, he was talking about Jesus lifting us up.
Speaker 2: He's able to take you from the ash heap and make you sit among princesses.
Speaker 2: He's able to lift you.
Speaker 2: And there's somebody here, and they're not just one person or two people.
Speaker 2: And I'll go to the next charge.
Speaker 2: He talked about that asses.
Speaker 2: Believe us, we are satisfied in our comfort zone and yet there are people out there waiting to receive this message, one of our young people, john Tay.
Speaker 2: I don't know if John Tay is here and I know, pastor Maxi, you're here, but some actually just come up.
Speaker 2: He's one of our young people, john Tay.
Speaker 2: I don't know if John Tay is here, but they say you know, this revival week is not just for us.
Speaker 2: They went out to fish and they brought some young people all the way from.
Speaker 2: Yes, tell them so.
Speaker 2: Today we have a pleasure of being joined by young people that we've connected with living in the streets around Roy Sambu area think I wrote, and they are here with us today reaching out.
Speaker 2: But I want to make that first call and we have our decons in frontier, because I'll go to the next call and it will take a short time and then we'll be released.
Speaker 2: If you have never taken that step, here's John Tay.
Speaker 2: This is this man.
Speaker 2: This is John Tay and John Tay Nigaewamta.
Speaker 2: And this guy is down there.
Speaker 2: His story is another story.
Speaker 2: He's not like pastambra's I stay behind the pulpit, but he goes into territories and brings them out.
Speaker 2: John Tay, thank you for bringing your friends.
Speaker 2: Bless you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to count from five to one.
Speaker 2: You'll be the first one to be here to receive Jesus Christ as your personal savior.
Speaker 2: And I'm counting five and I'm counting four and I'm counting three.
Speaker 2: Start working.
Speaker 2: I'm counting two, I'm counting, and I'm counting one from upstairs.
Speaker 2: I want you to calm down.
Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna pray for you.
Speaker 2: Take that step.
Speaker 2: Make a move.
Speaker 2: Somebody better move now in Jesus, make we have more up there.
Speaker 2: They are people ready upstairs.
Speaker 2: Om Ma, om Ma.
Speaker 1: Oya Kuhu Om, ma, om Ma.
Speaker 2: Kuhu Nasik, while they are singing.
Speaker 2: I want you to pray.
Speaker 2: Somebody has to come for you.
Speaker 2: Oya Kuhu Om Ma Om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma, om Ma Om Ma, om Ma Om Ma Om Ma Om Ma.
Speaker 2: Let me pray, just keep playing that.
Speaker 2: I believe somebody is fighting with that decision.
Speaker 2: The call is so clear.
Speaker 2: Jesus is in our midst and he's the only one who can give you living water.
Speaker 2: You may be a young man, you may be a mother, you may be a gentleman.
Speaker 2: He was talking about that intellectual person who wants to reason.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're right here tonight, maybe you're online, but God has already spoken about you.
Speaker 2: I want you to take courage.
Speaker 2: Step out, start with one step, move out of that bench, come forward.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus, the Holy Spirit is moving among us.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 2: Salvation is free.
Speaker 2: The Bible says that the love of God is in our midst, compelling us, compelling us to come to Him.
Speaker 2: And, in the name of Jesus, we are calling you forth.
Speaker 2: We are calling you forth to the waters of life, to the fountain of life.
Speaker 2: Brethren, why don't you start praying?
Speaker 2: Just open your mouth.
Speaker 2: Let's break this barrier.
Speaker 2: Somebody is coming to the Lord tonight.
Speaker 2: Many are coming to Jesus tonight.
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, worship Him, leaders.
Speaker 2: One more time Amen, amen.
Speaker 2: I know that you can feel it.
Speaker 2: I saw, I saw, I saw.
Speaker 2: Amen, amen, amen, amen, oh, oh, one more prayer.
Speaker 2: I want to make Dr Bogomed another charge occupy your occupation.
Speaker 2: Many of you have an occupation you've never occupied, and in the name of Jesus, your career.
Speaker 2: God did not put you in that career for nothing.
Speaker 2: Tonight, a charge has been given to you, a commission is given to you to reach out, to occupy your occupation in the marketplace.
Speaker 2: Tonight, god wants to put a new fire in your life, a fire to reach out to that platform.
Speaker 2: Like Dr Terry was saying, there are many of you who are here who have never taken that step.
Speaker 2: Those are the ones I want to ask now to come forward.
Speaker 2: You're already born again, but you have never occupied your occupation.
Speaker 2: Tonight, your office is about to change, your career is about to change, your office mates about to change, your business is about to change, but God wants you to be the one to take that step.
Speaker 2: If you are the person God is talking about, step out of that seat.
Speaker 2: Come right here.
Speaker 2: We want to pray for you and commission you to go back into your occupation to make a difference.
Speaker 2: Start now, walk, step out, come, come, come, come, come, come, come.
Speaker 2: Move out.
Speaker 2: We have people upstairs.
Speaker 2: Come, come, come.
Speaker 2: Some of you come around here.
Speaker 2: Come around here, come around me, come right here, come right here.
Speaker 2: Yes, say yes, yes, come, come, come.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 2: God bless you, come on.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: We want to pray for you and give you a release.
Speaker 2: I don't know where Dr Bogo is.
Speaker 2: Please come up with me, because we're going to pray for this team while the Deacons and the others.
Speaker 2: Please just start praying for those who are just in front of you.
Speaker 2: We have quite a number of young people among us Mazzakari, bounisana, god, our blessed big time.
Speaker 2: God is moving in our midst.
Speaker 2: If you're not a Deacon, but you're a Christian, you're a church member.
Speaker 2: My friend, come and help us to pray for these people who are here.
Speaker 2: There's a charge that God is giving to you and I want my brother to help me as we pray together.
Speaker 2: So lift up your hands.
Speaker 2: Those who came forward Lift up, and the others still out there Lift up your hands.
Speaker 2: God's spirit is about to move you and move into your situation in an amazing way.
Speaker 2: And even as Dr Bogo is preparing to pray, why don't you yourself open your mouth and begin to pray, begin to say Lord, I will be that person.
Speaker 2: I'm going to occupy my occupation.
Speaker 2: Come on, open your mouth.
Speaker 2: Upstairs, downstairs, you pray for yourself.
Speaker 2: We're going to pray for you, but you pray for yourself.
Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit is about to hit you.
Speaker 2: You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
Speaker 2: There are those watching online, by the way, and if you're watching online in the name of Jesus Christ, you may be in front of the monitor or your television, you are sitting down, but I want you to now stand up and come next to your television as a sign that you're giving yourself to be used of God.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're in government, maybe you're in a meeting.
Speaker 2: Wherever you are, you already think about some of the young people.
Speaker 2: You're thinking about those in your office.
Speaker 2: We just want to release God's commission, god's charge, into your life.
Speaker 2: That's how you.
Speaker 1: You are the master.
Speaker 1: You are the master, amen.
Speaker 1: You are the best fisher, you are the one that has the power.
Speaker 2: Amen, you are the one that has the power.
Speaker 1: You are the one that has the power.
Speaker 1: You will make us to be fishers of man.
Speaker 1: Amen and Lord, we pray for each one of us here today.
Speaker 1: Jesus, Lord, we pray for this.
Speaker 1: Our brothers and sisters, yes, Lord, we pray for this.
Speaker 1: Your sons and daughters, we pray, Lord, for the great doors that you've given them.
Speaker 1: We pray over the wonderful, amazing opportunities you've given them.
Speaker 1: We pray for schools and colleges, where there is school that will be influenced through their words.
Speaker 1: We pray, father, for teachers.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord, God, even for housewives who are in their neighborhoods, who bring the influence of God.
Speaker 1: We pray father, for doctors.
Speaker 1: We pray for mechanics.
Speaker 1: We pray for carpenters.
Speaker 1: We pray for politicians.
Speaker 1: We pray, Lord, for MCAs.
Speaker 1: We pray, dear Lord, God, for nurses.
Speaker 1: We pray for tax Lord, God, tax drivers and Uber drivers.
Speaker 1: We pray, we, thanksgiving for the great harvest that is behind these people, the great doors you've opened for them, the doors you're opening, the opportunities that you've given and that you are giving to them.
Speaker 1: Lord, we confess with the word that a great door of ministry is opened.
Speaker 1: We pray for these great doors that are opening up.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord for creativity.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord for persistence.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord for diligence.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord for hard work.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord for incentive.
Speaker 1: We pray Lord for Lord persistence.
Speaker 1: We pray even for the little door that will turn into a mighty door.
Speaker 1: We thank you, we thank you Lord, we thank you Lord, we thank you Lord, we thank you Lord, we thank you Lord, we thank you Lord, we thank you Lord, and we pray, with your words as spoken by a possible, that in every opening of their lips, words may be given them, Boredness may be given them, Confidence may be given them.
Speaker 1: That those who see will say this man and women must have been with Jesus.
Speaker 1: May there be a difference.
Speaker 1: May the joy of the Lord be their strength.
Speaker 1: May the love of God penetrate and permeate.
Speaker 1: Let the river flow, Let the spirit of God flow and ooze through them.
Speaker 1: That they may bring, like the Samaritan woman there are villages and neighborhoods and offices to you.
Speaker 1: That the amen.
Speaker 1: Man and women may stand in eternity because they answered this call.
Speaker 1: We thank you Lord, we give you praise, we give you honor In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Let's give a clap as we say thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord.
Speaker 2: While you are still here listen to me, god is giving you a charge and a task that, humanly speaking, is impossible.
Speaker 2: But Jesus knew that the only task that would be possible would be through the power of the Holy Spirit, and I want to ask the Holy Spirit now to come upon you in a very new way, to touch your life.
Speaker 2: You're going to experience Him right where you are.
Speaker 2: For those who have come forward, we have a connect tent and I know these deacons and leaders here may not be able to get each one of you, but we have a connect tent.
Speaker 2: Pastor Kennedy tells me we have online responses.
Speaker 2: People who have stepped forward just online, just the way like you have done.
Speaker 2: Why don't we appreciate them?
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, amen, amen, remember what I was saying on Monday.
Speaker 2: So, moving from ankle deep to knee deep, from knee deep to waist deep, from waist deep to swimming, and so right now, and even those who are still out there standing there, let me tell you this we're just going to take two minutes for the Holy Spirit to just come upon you and give you the strength, the ability to penetrate those barriers.
Speaker 2: Some of them are very scary, some of them you're wondering how can I actually make it happen?
Speaker 2: But it's not about you, it is about God.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, lift up your hands right now, as I tell the Holy Spirit to come upon you, and I just want you to be still, because you're going to experience that presence.
Speaker 2: You're going to experience that power, and the Bible says that it is a gift.
Speaker 2: It's not something you have to struggle with.
Speaker 2: It's not something you have to to to struggle and worry about it, because Jesus said and you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
Speaker 2: So Jesus is the giver, the baptizer in the Holy Spirit, giving you power that you don't have strength, that you don't have to break those barriers to go in and bring salvation to many people.
Speaker 2: God is going to use you.
Speaker 2: I want you to look at me and say God is going to use me now.
Speaker 2: Lift up those hands, because I'm the Holy Spirit, is about to come upon you afresh.
Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, you're the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit and power, and so these ones who have come forward and they have accepted the charge, and even those online, lord, now I want you to ask you just a very simple request.
Speaker 2: This is your servant, pastor Ambrose, asking this request on behalf of these beloved ones and I'm asking you, oh God, that in the next 30 seconds you're going to release the tangible presence and power of the Holy Spirit to rest upon these beloved ones.
Speaker 2: Now you can count combo symbols, just combo symbols.
Speaker 2: Now, holy Spirit, come upon these ones now, baptize them with a new baptism of fire, of ability, of wisdom, of grace to go out.
Speaker 2: Like Jesus made a choice to go through Samaria, may they begin to make choices to go through their Samaria's, because they're going to find women, they're going to find men, they're going to find young people waiting to be spoken about the love of Jesus.
Speaker 2: Baptize these men and women with a new baptism of love, a love that compels us, a love that moves us.
Speaker 2: And now it's about to happen.
Speaker 2: I'm going to come from 10 to 1.
Speaker 2: I want you to be still.
Speaker 2: You're going to sense the Holy Spirit moving in your middest like a breeze, like a wind.
Speaker 2: Just allow him to touch you, because a charge has been given to you.
Speaker 2: But power is now going to be released to you.
Speaker 2: And I'm counting.
Speaker 2: It's not a magic count, it is just a count.
Speaker 2: 10, now be still.
Speaker 2: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2.
Speaker 2: Now, here he comes.
Speaker 2: One come, holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: There he comes to infuse you with power.
Speaker 2: Allow him to fill you with his love.
Speaker 2: Allow him to open your eyes to see people as people.
Speaker 2: Let this fire touch your heart afresh.
Speaker 2: Oh, holy Spirit, holy Spirit, now open your mouth, and I want you to say this with me father, I stand before you to be an instrument of your love.
Speaker 2: Give me your power to go through the barricades of life and bring this gospel into the marketplace, into my occupation.
Speaker 2: Give me ability and power to occupy my occupation.
Speaker 2: I know it is not by might and it is not by power, but by your Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2: Your Holy Spirit will give me wisdom.
Speaker 2: Your Holy Spirit will give me understanding.
Speaker 2: Your Holy Spirit will give me the ability to go where I have never gone before, to talk to somebody I've never talked to before.
Speaker 2: But as I do that, may I not be arrogant.
Speaker 2: May I be just a vessel in your hands to reach those you send to me and tonight, fill me afresh with your presence, with a Holy Spirit starting now.
Speaker 2: Now, all of you, open your mouth, begin to talk to God, just begin to thank God.
Speaker 2: Begin to thank God.
Speaker 2: Come on, somebody, begin to thank God, because God has set you apart.
Speaker 2: God is releasing you tonight.
Speaker 2: Come Holy Spirit, there he is, you are sensing him, you are experiencing that touch.
Speaker 2: Lift up your hands and just begin to thank him.
Speaker 2: Thank him because he's going to open doors for you, he's going to open opportunities for you.
Speaker 2: God is moving in a way he'll never move before.
Speaker 2: He's moving to you, through you, because you've given him permission.
Speaker 2: You're taking the charge tonight and you're taking it with confidence.
Speaker 2: If you believe that God has had your prayer, I want you to begin to give him a big, big hand.
Speaker 2: I don't begin to thank him, I don't begin to celebrate it.
Speaker 2: Come on, come on.
Speaker 2: I want you to thank him.
Speaker 2: Oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker 2: We bless you.
Speaker 2: One more thing before you go.
Speaker 2: Yesterday God gave a word and he said no more delay.
Speaker 2: Today I went looking for that scripture because I spoke that word and I wanted to have a confirmation.
Speaker 2: And God gave me this scripture in Ezekiel, ezekiel chapter what chapter was it that is just gone out on my head.
Speaker 2: He said there's no more delay.
Speaker 2: Ezekiel, chapter 48, verse 12.
Speaker 2: Let me read that verse 48, verse 25 and 26.
Speaker 2: Sorry, ezekiel 48, 25.
Speaker 2: Do we have 25?
Speaker 2: Can you go to 25, ezekiel?
Speaker 2: There's a scripture think it has gone out of my mind.
Speaker 2: I'll get it to you right now.
Speaker 2: It talks about there'll be no more delay.
Speaker 2: There'll be no more delay.
Speaker 2: Pastor here has spoken and he said no more delay to occupy your occupation.
Speaker 2: That verse has gone out of my mind but I know it will come.
Speaker 2: 12, 28 Ezekiel.
Speaker 2: Ezekiel.
Speaker 2: 12, 21, 28 Ezekiel.
Speaker 2: Okay, give it to me.
Speaker 2: Ezekiel.
Speaker 2: 12, 28 therefore.
Speaker 2: Therefore, say to them this is what the sovereign Lord says none of my words will be delayed any longer.
Speaker 2: Whatever I say will be fulfilled, declare the sovereign Lord.
Speaker 2: Thank you for let me read it one more time.
Speaker 2: Therefore, say to them this is what the sovereign Lord says none of my words will be delayed any longer.
Speaker 2: Whatever I say will be fulfilled, declares the Lord.
Speaker 2: That woman put her pot down and she said no more delay.
Speaker 2: She ran into her Samaria.
Speaker 2: She ran.
Speaker 2: You said it's about a kilometer.
Speaker 2: She ran and say come and see a man.
Speaker 2: I I hope you will not stay one week and three months before you go into your territory.
Speaker 2: Before you go into your territory.
Speaker 2: Before you go into your territory, it starts tonight.
Speaker 2: Don't wait until Sunday, when we have revival Sunday.
Speaker 2: God has put something in your life, their lives, that I may not ever reach, their lives that Terry may never reach.
Speaker 2: It is only you who can reach, and you're the person God has designated to do that.
Speaker 2: And that power that is coming upon you tonight, and that has already come upon you tonight, is not just for you to sing, it is for you to be a witness for Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: If you believe that, you better say I receive it in Jesus name.
Speaker 2: And then Dr E again.
Speaker 2: When I was praying and just preparing for tonight, god said there are people who are weak, if physically, and then there's a healing that needs to be released.
Speaker 2: There's a healing touch, and the scripture he gave me again it is Ezekiel 47, verse 12.
Speaker 2: This is what it says Ezekiel, chapter 47, verse 12, talking about the waters, and please bear with me briefly, because God is doing a new thing.
Speaker 2: He says this in verse 12, thank you, just put it back to me.
Speaker 2: For me, it says this Ezekiel 47, verse 12 fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river.
Speaker 2: Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail.
Speaker 2: Every month they will bear fruit.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you this.
Speaker 2: Every month you will bear fruit in Jesus name because the water from the sanctuary flows to them.
Speaker 2: Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.
Speaker 2: Amen, and that, terry.
Speaker 2: This same verse is found in Revelation, chapter 22.
Speaker 2: Verse 2 is not just healing for us.
Speaker 2: It says this in Revelation down the middle of the Great Street of the city, on each side of the river, stood the tree of life bearing 12 crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, for the nations who knew that that house girl will be released and prepared to go to the United Kingdom for the sake of the kingdom.
Speaker 2: Who knows that God is setting you up, these young people from the streets?
Speaker 2: Who knows that God is setting you up to be professors in the university?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 2: Who knows what God is setting you up for?
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 2: And so the healing is coming to set you apart?
Speaker 2: So lift up your hands one more time.
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to be healed tonight.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus, those watching us online and those who are here.
Speaker 2: Oh God, nations are waiting to be healed.
Speaker 2: The Bible says ask me for the nations and I'll give them to you as an inheritance there.
Speaker 2: Some of you who need to be healed in your spirit, healed from hacks and condemnation that has crippled you.
Speaker 2: You're not able to move, but tonight the healing waters are flowing you away.
Speaker 2: Some of us just need to be healed.
Speaker 2: Somebody is sick in their body and they just feeling grounded.
Speaker 2: They cannot move.
Speaker 2: But tonight the healing power of God is going to visit you in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what sickness it is could be diabetes that has grounded you, could be cancer that has made you bed ridden.
Speaker 2: You've been crippled in one way or another.
Speaker 2: But tonight, because God has given us this word, healing waters are flowing now to you, healing you from your past.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he's a new creation.
Speaker 2: Let this revival season be a marker that, on a night like this, your life was shifted into a new direction.
Speaker 2: Now Jesus is in the house.
Speaker 2: He's the healer.
Speaker 2: Ambrose is not the healer.
Speaker 2: Jesus is the one healing, so allow him to heal you.
Speaker 2: What is it that is hindering you?
Speaker 2: What is it that has limited you?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 2: What is it in your mind?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 2: What was said about you that has stopped you from moving forward.
Speaker 2: Tonight that barrier is broken.
Speaker 2: I pray that, for those who may be able, I want you to get to buy this book.
Speaker 2: Look at this book.
Speaker 2: This is a book that the book that Stephen Bogg wrote send me to the nations.
Speaker 2: It's a story of his life, the book that his wife has written against all odds, rising up from a humble beginning, a testimony of how God can change.
Speaker 2: I pray that all the books you brought Bishop are going to be sold out.
Speaker 2: Somebody's going to pick one and say I want to find out what this man, what gives him so much passion?
Speaker 2: I want to know it and I I believe something is going to happen.
Speaker 2: Amen, I want to give this book to one of these young people.
Speaker 2: Once I change, koi, since you are so close, against all odds, in your blessing, may here, niaako usome, father, release, a healing release, a restoration.
Speaker 2: There's a turning around in somebody's life.
Speaker 2: There's a turning around.
Speaker 2: Take over is happening.
Speaker 2: Your family members have never heard you share your testimony.
Speaker 2: Tonight, you start that Tonight.
Speaker 2: Just two words don't preach, just talk.
Speaker 2: Somebody's life will change.
Speaker 2: Call some of those people to come to church tomorrow, tell them to come to church on Friday, sunday, tell them to show up.
Speaker 2: Something amazing is going to happen, just like it is happening to you tonight.
Speaker 2: Now, father, as we prepare to release one another, we want to say thank you for how you have moved in this service.
Speaker 2: You have moved online.
Speaker 2: People are being touched by your word Our brother who sang, reverend Justin.
Speaker 2: We say thank you for his ministry.
Speaker 2: Our brother who has introduced to us who used to be a gangster, now he is a kingdom minister.
Speaker 2: We want to say thank you.
Speaker 2: We want to say thank you, and many more lives will be transformed, just like their lives have been transformed.
Speaker 2: Start tonight, start tonight, start tonight.
Speaker 2: If you believe that, you better say I receive it, I take it, it is my portion in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: I'll be releasing you while you're still standing there.
Speaker 2: Again, I've said the connect tent is out there.
Speaker 2: We're going to have fellowship.
Speaker 2: If we're going to have a cup of tea, just tell your neighbor.
Speaker 2: There's a cup of tea.
Speaker 2: Vanasifiwe, something is going to happen, something special, tomorrow.
Speaker 2: What time do we come Tomorrow?
Speaker 2: What time?
Speaker 2: And I want you to know that something amazing will happen.
Speaker 2: I want us to give a big, big hand to Dr Stephen Bogo.
Speaker 2: Amen, let's say a big high and a big high five to Reverend Justin.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: Vanasifiwe, why don't you walk your way here?
Speaker 2: Because, while we are leaving, because we are celebrating, don't leave right now, because I'm about to give the blessing.
Speaker 2: Just come, come, come and you stay here.
Speaker 2: Just don't move, because we're going to move out together.
Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, please don't miss tea.
Speaker 2: The Bible says in Isaiah 40, verse one come for tea.
Speaker 2: Come for tea, my people.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: So get ready, my brother, because, as I gave the benediction, ilewembol konaimba mkono amungu.
Speaker 2: Amen Mkono amungu, as we walk out, n'yotum kono Amen.
Speaker 2: Vanasifiwe, are you glad you came tonight?
Speaker 2: Come on, let's give it a big hand.
Speaker 2: Amen, get to know somebody, our visitors from the US.
Speaker 2: This usually doesn't happen, but God is on the move and thanks for coming and being part of us and all our visitors and all our pastors.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus, I release God's people.
Speaker 2: I speak.
Speaker 2: Your blessing upon them.
Speaker 2: Lord, this charge, may it charge us, may it move us, may it lift us, may it send us.
Speaker 2: We are going to be unstoppable because of the charge that has been given to us.
Speaker 2: Master, take over, take over and then bring us safely to our destinations, wherever we shall be going.
Speaker 2: Mkono wako, n'yim kono wako, n'yim kono wako, n'yim kono wako, n'yim kono wako, n'yim kono wako, n'yim kono wako.
Speaker 2: In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Spirit and God's people say Amen.