Speaker 1: Bishop, reverend Gibson Anduvate serves as the senior pastor at the International Christian Center in Nairobi.
Speaker 1: He is also the presiding bishop over the Kenya Assemblies of God, nairobi South District.
Speaker 1: He serves as the chairman of the board of Zinduka Africa, a registered NGO.
Speaker 1: He is an ICF-certified executive leadership coach and a founder of Leading Young, a leadership initiative that provides a coaching and leadership development platform for government leaders, senators, members of the National Assembly and various corporate leaders.
Speaker 1: As part of the Leading Young initiative, he initiated the Leading Young Fellowship, a one-year program that trains and empowers selected members of the county assemblies for more significant impact in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
Speaker 1: Reverend Gibson also serves as Africa Region Co-Chair for Empower 21 Next Gen Council, a global movement of spirit-empowered believers.
Speaker 1: He is an author, speaker and transformational teacher.
Speaker 1: He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Nairobi and a Master of Leadership degree from the Global University.
Speaker 1: Reverend Gibson speaks at various national and international leadership platforms around the world.
Speaker 1: Reverend Gibson is married to Liz Anduvate.
Speaker 1: They are blessed with three wonderful children Misaki, gideon and Mikaela.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Reverend Gibson Anduvate.
Speaker 2: Let's all stand up as he comes.
Speaker 2: Let's all stand up, welcome.
Speaker 2: Let's keep clapping until he gets here.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: It's really a joy and a great privilege to be here.
Speaker 3: If you could kindly just go ahead and have your seats.
Speaker 3: It's a joy to be here this evening.
Speaker 3: I was listening to that introduction and thinking I should meet that person.
Speaker 3: I think I need to send my team here to come and learn one or two things from that introduction.
Speaker 3: But really I must say I'm here with my wife, liz.
Speaker 3: Would you please wave, babe.
Speaker 3: It's really a joy to be here together with her.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, and I want to begin by honoring this congregation, honoring this house.
Speaker 3: I want to honor we don't call him pastor, we call him the bishop of the city, the bishop of the city, ambrose Yangau, together with the mom and the entire pastoral team and leadership.
Speaker 3: Here we celebrate each one of you for what God is doing in you and through you, and we honor this congregation.
Speaker 3: You know, when we got the invitation to be here, we almost were not here this evening, because a week ago today we lost one of our deacons.
Speaker 3: One of our deacons got suddenly unwell and then he passed away, and so last week, on Thursday, was a very hard week for us, and so, coming into this week, I started thinking maybe we should have someone else come this evening and I didn't want to talk to the bishop of the city.
Speaker 3: So I called one of his pastors and I said to them we've gone through such a time of loss and we need to go to Kisi on Thursday and so we might not make it to come to be with you at the revival on Thursday evening.
Speaker 3: And she said to me you know, we have been fasting and praying.
Speaker 3: We have been fasting and praying specifically for you and believing God that you would be with us on Thursday.
Speaker 3: And she said to me have you talked to the pastor?
Speaker 3: And I said no, I've not talked to the bishop of the city.
Speaker 3: And she said please don't talk to him, just plan to be with us on Thursday evening.
Speaker 3: So it's against that godly council that we sent our team earlier this morning to go to Kisi, and they are already there.
Speaker 3: And tomorrow morning we will travel to Kisumu and then go to Kisi to go and lay our brother to rest.
Speaker 3: But really here to celebrate the goodness of God, to celebrate the faithfulness of God, to celebrate what the Lord has done in this church, but to celebrate even more what God is doing and what he will do in the days that are ahead, because the best days are yet ahead.
Speaker 3: The best days for Parkland Baptist are yet ahead.
Speaker 3: The best days in your family are yet ahead.
Speaker 3: The best days for you are a personal level are yet ahead.
Speaker 3: The best days are yet ahead.
Speaker 3: God has great plans for you.
Speaker 3: I was sitting there thinking to myself God knew we needed to be here this evening Because we too needed to be ministered to, and as we came in during the worship, the worship minister to us.
Speaker 3: I think our mom has ministered to us through the song she's led on this platform and I believe that God brought us here Just to share His word with you, but really also to encourage us in such a time.
Speaker 3: That is very difficult for those who are part of our team.
Speaker 3: And I feel, coming here on Thursday, I feel like I'm the forerunner.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm John the Baptist Because I know my bishop, bishop Philip Kittoto, is coming here on Sunday, our generous superintendent of the Kenya Assemblies of God, and he is looking forward to being here on Sunday.
Speaker 3: So I have come to prepare the way for my bishop so that he can be with you on Sunday.
Speaker 3: You have been this week, going through Gospel of John, chapter four, and when you think about it for many of us, when you think about the Samaritan woman, when you think about this woman by the well, there are so many things we've had this week about this woman when you think about this woman and the kind of life that she had lived up until this moment, when she meets with Jesus, you see a woman who, if you ask me, was an outcast.
Speaker 3: This woman was an outcast.
Speaker 3: This woman had been married to five different men.
Speaker 3: By the time that she meets with Jesus in John, chapter four, she's now with the sixth man.
Speaker 3: In fact, she doesn't even consider this man a husband and he'll just follow her and say walking and Jesus Together.
Speaker 3: It's not a come, we stay.
Speaker 3: It's just a come, we risk and see what happens.
Speaker 3: And so they are together.
Speaker 3: But when you think about it, this woman has already been in five relationships.
Speaker 3: She gets into the sixth relationship.
Speaker 3: You have to ask yourself what is the common factor in all these relationships?
Speaker 3: Your guess is as good as mine.
Speaker 3: This woman was the common factor and, if you ask me, I think about this woman and she must have been looking for something.
Speaker 3: She was looking for something.
Speaker 3: She was looking for love, she was looking for acceptance, she was searching for something, and because she doesn't find it in the first husband, she moves to the second, and then the third, and then the fourth, and then the fifth.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work.
Speaker 3: So eventually she finds this man and they move in together.
Speaker 3: She's looking for something that none of these men seem able to give to her or to provide for her.
Speaker 3: And each one of us, if we are honest, we are always looking for something.
Speaker 3: There always seems to be something that's elusive, something that if we can find, if we can just lay our hands on it, then we will be more fulfilled.
Speaker 3: I don't know about many of you, but when we went to college we used to pray and say God, if I can just find a job that can pay my rent.
Speaker 3: And then you graduate from college and you find this job that barely pays your rent and you have to eat like a chicken.
Speaker 3: And then, as you do this job, you begin to pray and say God, if only you can lift me to be able to afford some more basic things.
Speaker 3: And as God lifts us, we get to a place where we say if only I can get married, if only I can find a man or a woman to get married to.
Speaker 3: And then you get married and the pressure now becomes if only we can have children, if only we can have children.
Speaker 3: And then the children are born and you begin to say if only these children can grow up and move on and allow us to have our own peace.
Speaker 3: There's always seems to be this elusive thing that we are looking for, and so this woman becomes an outcast.
Speaker 3: She's an outcast in her community, she's an outcast, and that's how she ends up going to the well.
Speaker 3: At noon time she goes to the well.
Speaker 3: Those who understand culture would say normally people would go to the well early in the morning and in the evening when the sun was not as hot.
Speaker 3: Going to the well was not really about the water.
Speaker 3: When you grew up in the village, going to the well was about the fellowship and the connecting and the talking.
Speaker 3: It was more social than it was functional.
Speaker 3: When I was a little boy I remember in the village my cousins who were older would go to the place where they would fetch water and they would be gone, sometimes for an hour or two At distance of just about 15 minutes to go and come back.
Speaker 3: They would be gone a whole hour, sometimes two hours.
Speaker 3: Sometimes one of my uncles would go after them with a cane and they would come back running, running because they knew they had spent too much time outfetching water.
Speaker 3: You see, it was also a cultural activity.
Speaker 3: But because this woman is an outcast, she comes at a time when she believes no one else will show up.
Speaker 3: She is an outcast because of the life she has lived, because of the person that she is.
Speaker 3: But I came to discover that in life you can also be an outcast because of doing the right thing.
Speaker 3: But sometimes you can be an outcast not because you have done anything wrong, but because you have chosen to live your life in a particular path.
Speaker 3: You have chosen to live your life in a different way.
Speaker 3: I grew up in a family where all of us attended the Salvation Army Church.
Speaker 3: When I went to college, I moved to ICC and decided to attend ICC.
Speaker 3: There was a reason why I moved to ICC.
Speaker 3: The reason was because I met this beautiful girl who used to lead worship.
Speaker 3: I know I'm not alone, there are some here.
Speaker 3: You know the reason why you came, and so I met this beautiful girl who would lead worship and so when she was reading worship on Sunday, I would sneak and go to ICC and I would sit where I know she will see me, because I want to make sure that she knows.
Speaker 3: I came to support her and then somehow I just kept going and we never had to have the conversation of is this going to be our church or not.
Speaker 3: We just somehow settled at ICC.
Speaker 3: Some of you might be thinking I went to ICC for not very spiritual reasons, but that was a very spiritual reason.
Speaker 3: When I graduated from college, god called me into full-time ministry.
Speaker 3: I finished my computer science degree and I knew God was calling me into full-time ministry and so, rather than beginning to look for a job, I had been part of our college ministry that we had started at the University of Nairobi and God opened a door for me to step into leadership over this university ministry.
Speaker 3: I remember going to see my dad and he said to me you've come out of college, you're graduating, now you need to start looking for a job.
Speaker 3: I said to my dad with all the courage I could master.
Speaker 3: I said to him Dad, god has called me, god has called me into ministry.
Speaker 3: You see, for my dad, pastors were people that were given handouts.
Speaker 3: Pastors were people that came to him to give handouts.
Speaker 3: Pastors were people who didn't qualify to do anything else.
Speaker 3: Those were the people who ended up going into ministry, and so my dad struggled to understand the decision that I made.
Speaker 3: He took more than seven years to ever say to anyone that my dad is a pastor.
Speaker 3: He would say to his friends my son has read so many books.
Speaker 3: They messed up his mind.
Speaker 3: So now he works with all these missionaries.
Speaker 3: So I was put in the same category with all my cousins who are drunkards, who are all sorts of things.
Speaker 3: We were all put in the same WhatsApp group.
Speaker 3: I was an outcast, not because of doing anything wrong, and then I went on.
Speaker 3: It's like I was on this mission to make my parents and my whole clan really mad Because I decided to go and marry a girl who comes from near the mountain.
Speaker 3: I was told people from where we come from don't marry from near the mountain.
Speaker 3: If you marry a girl from the mountain, one day you'll come back home and you will find your house welcoming you empty.
Speaker 3: So I was told we don't marry.
Speaker 3: We don't marry from the mountain.
Speaker 3: But I said you know, I've been praying and God has spoken to me and I really believe that this woman is the one.
Speaker 3: I said to me you are on your own.
Speaker 3: Just know that on this mission, no one else will come along with you.
Speaker 3: And so the day I went to ask for my wife's hand in marriage, there was nobody from my family who came along to take me on this mission.
Speaker 3: And I went to see her parents and I said to them none of my parents will come, none of my relatives will come, but I have come to ask for your daughter's hand in marriage.
Speaker 3: Bishop Kedodo said to me I'm going to give you another pastor to take you and he's going to be your dad for the day.
Speaker 3: And so we showed up at this house and there was a godly woman in that house.
Speaker 3: There was this godly woman, and this godly woman said this young man loves God, his church has brought him, let's give him our girl and let's bless them to get married.
Speaker 3: Thank God for godly women who are not afraid to speak up.
Speaker 3: So if you came to my wedding, on my side of the family, you know, we said the groom's side sits on one side and the bride's sits on the other side, on my side of the family there was nobody.
Speaker 3: But my mom came that morning.
Speaker 3: She woke up and said to my dad my son will only get married once.
Speaker 3: I'm going to show up.
Speaker 3: Whatever happens, I'll show up.
Speaker 3: And then my brother has also showed up.
Speaker 3: But there was those two rows and then some of my friends and then it was empty.
Speaker 3: And then the side of my wife was.
Speaker 3: It was like two different congregations.
Speaker 3: It was this happy family, happy people so excited for their daughter.
Speaker 3: But I love Bishop Kedodo.
Speaker 3: When he comes on Sunday, tell him your son was here.
Speaker 3: He said he loves you.
Speaker 3: Bishop Kedodo covered my shame.
Speaker 3: He said let's all spread across this congregation, let's all spread across this church, let's sit everywhere.
Speaker 3: Now we are one family.
Speaker 3: And with those wise words he covered my shame.
Speaker 3: You can be an outcast for doing the right thing.
Speaker 3: You can be an outcast because you're honoring God.
Speaker 3: You can be an outcast because you set your heart to honor God and to walk in His ways.
Speaker 3: We find this woman.
Speaker 3: She's an outcast.
Speaker 3: She's gone through all this pain of rejection and she comes and she meets with Jesus.
Speaker 3: You know, when you think about it, what I find in the Scriptures is that God has a habit of using outcasts.
Speaker 3: When you look through the Scriptures, there are all these men and women.
Speaker 3: There are outcasts.
Speaker 3: When you go to Genesis, chapter 12, you find a man there.
Speaker 3: He's an outcast because he's an elderly man.
Speaker 3: He's an elderly man, his wife is elderly too, but guess what?
Speaker 3: They have no children.
Speaker 3: He's living in this place where he and his wife are outcasts.
Speaker 3: And when you read in Genesis, chapter 12, and from verse 1, it says the Lord had said to Abraham go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you, I will make you into a great nation and I'll bless you.
Speaker 3: He says in verse 3, I will make your name great and you will be a blessing.
Speaker 3: He says to Abraham I'll bless you.
Speaker 3: Not only will I bless you, I will make your name great and you will be a blessing.
Speaker 3: He says to him I will bless those who bless you and whoever castes you, I will cast, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.
Speaker 3: You see, when we read those words, many of us underline the Father says I will bless you.
Speaker 3: And we claim that blessing, as we've been going through a time of prayer and fasting, one of the things we've been trusting.
Speaker 3: God is for open doors of his blessing, of his favor, and I pray that, as you have worked faithfully in honoring God in this time, seeking the face of God, that may the Lord make a way for you.
Speaker 3: May the Lord open doors for you.
Speaker 3: May you experience and encounter the blessing and favor of God upon your lives.
Speaker 3: Many of us, when we take time to pray and to fast, we go before God and we say God bless me, god open doors for me.
Speaker 3: And sometimes a lot of our prayer can be centered around the me.
Speaker 3: We pray and then we focus on the me, but I love what God says to this man, this 75 year old man.
Speaker 3: He says to him not only will I bless you, but I will make you a blessing.
Speaker 3: And I think that it's so important that you and I understand two things and if you forget everything else I'm going to say this evening, I want you to remember just two things that God has brought you here so that you can be blessed.
Speaker 3: God has brought you here so that you can receive his blessing For those that are watching us online.
Speaker 3: God has connected you so that you can be blessed, and God wants to bless you.
Speaker 3: I always think about ICC.
Speaker 3: I started going to ICC as a young man, fresh out of college, but when I think about the years we got married in that church, our children have been born in that church, our children have been dedicated in that church, they have been raised in that church Through the ministry of ICC.
Speaker 3: I come from a family of eight boys.
Speaker 3: Don't hide the shock on your faces.
Speaker 3: It's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight boys.
Speaker 3: But do you know something?
Speaker 3: Through the ministry of ICC, all those boys came to know the Lord, and so it's so important that we realize that, yes, we've come to be blessed, but God has also brought us here so that we can be a blessing, so that we can be a blessing, and that is what this week is about.
Speaker 3: It's about God pouring his favor and his grace upon you, but, even beyond that, becoming an instrument in the hands of God for you to become a blessing to the people that are around you.
Speaker 3: I believe that this week is about God raising up men and women who choose to become an instrument in his hands.
Speaker 3: God raising up men and women who choose to allow themselves to be used of him for the glory and honor of his name.
Speaker 3: It's about becoming a blessing, where God has planted you, where God has positioned you.
Speaker 3: And that is the story of this woman that God meets with her, jesus has an encounter with her and in that moment of encounter her life is transformed, her shame is taken away and you know what?
Speaker 3: She becomes a powerful force of sharing the message of the Gospel.
Speaker 3: You see, what many of us don't know about this woman is that when you look through the theologians, the records that they have, this woman, by the time that she was dying, was considered as one who was equal to the apostles.
Speaker 3: Through her life, many people came to know the Messiah.
Speaker 3: In fact, in the defense of her faith, she was taken before Emperor Nero and she ended up dying a martyr.
Speaker 3: She was killed for her faith.
Speaker 3: This woman, who was an outcast, becomes such a powerful force of the Gospel that, through her life, so many came to know the Lord.
Speaker 3: You see, she had a reputation, but in that moment of encounter, something changes in her.
Speaker 3: Something changes in her and she has this conversation with Jesus and in that conversation her eyes are opened.
Speaker 3: When you read through that conversation, six times Jesus appeals to this woman and six times she tries to deflect that discussion.
Speaker 3: There's nothing like trying to talk to somebody about something that they believe they know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the hardest people to teach are those who know, those who believe that they really know.
Speaker 3: And so this woman.
Speaker 3: Every time Jesus would speak to her, she would respond and try to find her way out.
Speaker 3: In John chapter 4 and verse 7, jesus appeals to her kindness.
Speaker 3: The woman responds defensively.
Speaker 3: In John chapter 4 and verse 10, jesus appeals to her curiosity.
Speaker 3: This woman responds sarcastically.
Speaker 3: In John chapter 4, verse 13 and 14, jesus appeals to her spiritual needs.
Speaker 3: The woman stands the focus to her physical needs.
Speaker 3: In John chapter 4, verse 16, jesus appeals to her personal interests.
Speaker 3: The woman responds with this half-truth.
Speaker 3: In John chapter 4, verse 17 and 18, jesus tries to appeal to her conscience.
Speaker 3: But you know how she responds she responds with her controversy.
Speaker 3: She tries to make this conversation a controversial conversation.
Speaker 3: In John chapter 4, verse 21 and 24, jesus appeals to her will and the woman tries to delay this decision.
Speaker 3: So, whatever Jesus said to her, she tries to find her own smart way out of it.
Speaker 3: She's trying to show Jesus.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 3: I already know what you're trying to say to me.
Speaker 3: I found that most people most people, avoid spiritual conversations.
Speaker 3: In fact, most people would rather have conversations about physical needs.
Speaker 3: When somebody come and says I have a need of finances, if you begin to ask them, how are you doing spiritually, they might respond and say you know, my problem is not a spiritual problem, my problem is a financial problem.
Speaker 3: Yet everything is spiritual.
Speaker 3: At the root of every problem, at the root of every challenge, is a spiritual aspect.
Speaker 3: But I find that many of us we are not comfortable having spiritual conversations.
Speaker 3: We want to talk about the need, the current need.
Speaker 3: I am hungry now, feed me now and then let's talk about everything else later.
Speaker 3: You see, this woman was trying to avoid having a spiritual conversation.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we avoid having these spiritual conversations because they are very painful.
Speaker 3: Not only are they painful, they're also very personal.
Speaker 3: There is a space that we are in and we don't really want to get into that space.
Speaker 3: If we begin to have a spiritual conversation about the kind of life that I'm living, then you're gonna ask me questions that will take me into a personal space that I'm not really ready to get into.
Speaker 3: You see, sometimes people learn to cope with their hopelessness.
Speaker 3: They don't want anyone upsetting the delicate balance that they have worked so hard to achieve.
Speaker 3: That was a quote by Chuck Swindow that we have this delicate balance.
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't even want to go into that place where we have these deep spiritual conversations.
Speaker 3: But I've also found that as believers, we are also afraid of initiating these conversations, and sometimes we're afraid of initiating these conversations because we are afraid of what the end result might be.
Speaker 3: We're afraid if I begin this conversation and things don't play out the way that I expect, if I begin this conversation and it becomes an uncomfortable conversation, then how am I going to navigate through this process?
Speaker 3: If I begin this conversation and it goes into an area that I'm not so confident about, then how will I navigate through this conversation?
Speaker 3: But I want to say to you that God is the one.
Speaker 3: God is the one who prompts us.
Speaker 3: He's the one who prompts us to have a burden for his people.
Speaker 3: Jesus did not have to go through Samaria.
Speaker 3: He made an intentional choice to go through Samaria.
Speaker 3: You see, the Pharisees would have gone around Samaria.
Speaker 3: They would have even crossed the River Jordan to make sure they did not even come cross to Samaria.
Speaker 3: You see, the Pharisees would pray and they would say, god, I thank you that I'm not a woman.
Speaker 3: And then, secondly, they would pray and say, god, I thank you that I'm not a Samaritan.
Speaker 3: You see, for the Jewish people, the Samaritans were this impure bridge that they really did not want to connect with.
Speaker 3: But Jesus has this appointment with this woman at the well, and she goes to meet with this woman at the well.
Speaker 3: And I believe that there has to be an intentionality in our witness.
Speaker 3: If we are going to win our neighbors, if we are going to win those that are around us, there has to be an intentionality that begins out of a place of prayer, a place of intercession, that we have people that we are intentionally praying about.
Speaker 3: I have people in my life, in different areas of my life, that I'm constantly praying for.
Speaker 3: The number one thing that I'm praying for them is that they would come to a knowledge of Jesus Christ as Lord over their lives.
Speaker 3: And so it must begin from a place of prayer, a burden of prayer that we have a burden for lost people.
Speaker 3: We have a burden for those that are around us.
Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit empowers us to witness.
Speaker 3: The gift of the Holy Spirit empowers us to witness to those that are around us, and so you and I must have the faith and the boldness to initiate the conversations.
Speaker 3: You and I must have the boldness to start the conversations and not to be afraid to have spiritual conversations.
Speaker 3: My wife normally says to me that I have this gift of speaking to strangers, the gift of speaking to strangers.
Speaker 3: But for me, if you place me with a stranger anywhere, whether it's on a bus, whether it's on a flight, somehow we look for something to initiate a conversation and I pray and I say God, my part is to initiate this conversation, and then you will take your place and you will guide this conversation.
Speaker 3: You know the plan that you have for this man, you know the plan that you have for this woman, and I come as an instrument in your hands, and all that I want to be is to be a vessel that you can use to touch and impact the life of this person.
Speaker 3: And so I initiate the conversations and then I believe God to be able to continue the conversation and to touch the hearts of this man and women.
Speaker 3: Jesus doesn't follow the path that the Pharisees would take, but he finds his way to Samaria.
Speaker 3: He comes into this moment at the well and he begins having this conversation with this woman.
Speaker 3: It's a difficult conversation but at the end of it all, this woman, her eyes are opened, her eyes are opened and she comes to the realization that this man standing before her is the Messiah.
Speaker 3: This man standing before her is Jesus the Messiah.
Speaker 3: You know, we say he is my personal.
Speaker 3: What do we say?
Speaker 3: He is my personal savior.
Speaker 3: But that does not mean that we should not share him with those that are around us.
Speaker 3: But I believe that the more that we understand him as a personal savior, the more that we should share him with those that are around us.
Speaker 3: Because what I love about this woman is she doesn't just keep this good news to herself, but verse 28 says of chapter four then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and say to the people come see a man who told me everything I ever did.
Speaker 3: Could this be the Messiah?
Speaker 3: They came out of the town and made their way towards him.
Speaker 3: If you skip the verses to verse 39, the word of God says many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him.
Speaker 3: Because of whose testimony?
Speaker 3: The woman's testimony.
Speaker 3: Because of the woman's testimony, the woman who was an outcast, the woman who was so ashamed in this society that she couldn't even risk being seen going to the well.
Speaker 3: It says that many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony.
Speaker 3: He told me everything I ever did.
Speaker 3: He says so.
Speaker 3: When the Samaritans came to him they urged him to stay with them and he stayed two days and because of his words, many more became believers.
Speaker 3: Because of his words, many more became believers.
Speaker 3: You see, what I love about this woman is that she is quick to share the good news.
Speaker 3: She is quick to go back and to declare the good news of the Messiah.
Speaker 3: She is quick to go back and declare the goodness of God.
Speaker 3: She is quick to go back and declare to those that once she was ashamed to come into contact with.
Speaker 3: She is quick to go back and declare.
Speaker 3: And I believe that each one of us, we need to remember that there is power in going back.
Speaker 3: There is power in going back to where God has brought us from.
Speaker 3: There is power in going back to those relationships around us.
Speaker 3: There is power in going back to those who are in our workplaces, who are around us in our homes.
Speaker 3: We live in a world that is so interconnected, so interconnected.
Speaker 3: We have people right next to us, in our workplaces, in our neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: We have people even in our own homes, some of them, that work for us.
Speaker 3: We have people that every single day we pass on our way.
Speaker 3: But my challenge to you is are your eyes open to see, are your ears open to hear?
Speaker 3: Are your eyes open to see the people that God positions along the way?
Speaker 3: Are your eyes open to see them, the people that God brings along your way, that watchman who always opens the gate for you, that lady that has been in your house for months, that colleague who sits across you do you see them?
Speaker 3: Do you see the people that God has placed along your way?
Speaker 3: And do you hear what God is saying to you?
Speaker 3: Because, for me, when I read God's word, at the heart of who God is, at his heart is a love for his people, because the word of God tells us that scripture that we memorize right from Sunday school, that for God so loved the world, for God so loved the world.
Speaker 3: And you see, god still loves the world even today.
Speaker 3: You see, for many of us I don't know about you, but we go through life and there are people either because they have been a pain to us or because of the challenges we have gone through, we take them and because we try to be so patient, we take them and we lift them and we put them somewhere on a shelf and we say God, that person, you deal with them in your own time.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you have people like that, people that we've prayed and we believe God and we've waited year after year.
Speaker 3: Nothing seems to happen.
Speaker 3: We take those people and we go and we put them there on the shelf and we say God, when you are ready to deal with this person, me, have washed my hands, I leave this person to you.
Speaker 3: And sometimes that person is your spouse.
Speaker 3: Sometimes that person is your sibling.
Speaker 3: Sometimes that person can be a child, your son, your daughter.
Speaker 3: Sometimes that person can be a colleague.
Speaker 3: Sometimes that person can be somebody who has taken you through so much pain that you take them and you put them right there on the shelf.
Speaker 3: I have people like that in my life.
Speaker 3: I have prayed for them, I have waited on God Seems like it's taken so long.
Speaker 3: It's like this woman moving from one man to the other.
Speaker 3: I have a brother, a stepbrother, who is older than me and for many years we prayed for my brother.
Speaker 3: He dropped out of school when he was very, very young.
Speaker 3: He would go to school, he would run off, and then he started drinking, and then he got into substance abuse and somehow along the way he met this beautiful young lady.
Speaker 3: And when he was sober in between what he was going through in his moment of soboness he convinced this beautiful girl to get married to him.
Speaker 3: And not only did they get married, but they had three amazing, beautiful children.
Speaker 3: And then now he continued with his lifestyle and the seasons of soboness became shorter and shorter, and you would call him on the phone and you couldn't even just have a conversation with him.
Speaker 3: Our mom passed away.
Speaker 3: Our mom was the only person who was so close to him who at least sometimes would try and talk some sense into him.
Speaker 3: When she passed away, he had a crisis and things got worse.
Speaker 3: Then we lost our younger brother and he got even worse.
Speaker 3: He developed this coping mechanism where he couldn't stay sober.
Speaker 3: Being drunk was his way of coping with the pain of loss.
Speaker 3: Then our dad passed away and now it was rock bottom.
Speaker 3: You know, in Hig Rock Bottom there's no other place to go.
Speaker 3: It's just there, rock bottom.
Speaker 3: And so we had a church, a church that had just been a metallic structure with a roof, near our home.
Speaker 3: And when our dad passed away, you know he would say to me here you are, you passed this big church in the city and then look at the church that's nearest to your home, just a Mabati structure.
Speaker 3: So, because I was rebuked, we decided we were going to build this church and we went ahead.
Speaker 3: We spent money on this sanctuary and we built this church and we decided we were going to go and open this church.
Speaker 3: We took a team there to go and do evangelism and outreach and then we'd have a service of launching this facility.
Speaker 3: So we are there and we are making the preparations and we have this mission team evangelizing in the area and they come back into the sanctuary and they say you know, we have one young man at the entrance.
Speaker 3: He's so drunk he's really giving everyone a hard time.
Speaker 3: So the bishop and the pastor are asked to go and at least try and calm down this young man.
Speaker 3: And so, together with the pastor of the church, we go to go and try and find this young man who is causing so much chaos, we can't even open this sanctuary.
Speaker 3: And we go and we find it's our brother, it's our elder brother.
Speaker 3: We put him there, the shelf.
Speaker 3: He said God, when it's time you do what only you can do.
Speaker 3: But thank God for a God who never gives up, a God who never gives up on anyone.
Speaker 3: You and I, we can give up on people.
Speaker 3: You and I have given up on people, but God never gives up on these people.
Speaker 3: He's a God who remains faithful.
Speaker 3: We gave up on that young man, but God never gave up on that young man.
Speaker 3: One day he calls me.
Speaker 3: He says do you know a place I can go?
Speaker 3: Do you know a place where I can go and get help?
Speaker 3: I said to him I know a place, but it's going to take you a whole year, a whole year away from your family.
Speaker 3: He said to me I'm willing, I'm willing to go somewhere when I can go and find help.
Speaker 3: Long story short is my brother went through this process, at his challenge, a whole year to help him break this hold of alcohol and substance abuse.
Speaker 3: And God helped him to break this hold.
Speaker 3: God set him free from that place of bondage.
Speaker 3: But something, something else happened.
Speaker 3: Something else happened God used the people that were around him and he drew him to himself and that young man confessed Jesus Christ as Lord over his life.
Speaker 3: God used him.
Speaker 3: God used the people that were around him.
Speaker 3: He came to know the Lord and now he serves there helping others who have a similar challenge to be set free.
Speaker 3: His last day there, we went there.
Speaker 3: This is a grown up man.
Speaker 3: In my life I had never seen this man redeven a single book.
Speaker 3: He opened up the scriptures and he read the scriptures and he preached to those of us who were there.
Speaker 3: You see, human beings can give up, but God never gives up.
Speaker 3: I can tell story after story of people around me that I know.
Speaker 3: There's a young man who came to us from the Mucuru slums.
Speaker 3: He came from a disadvantaged background.
Speaker 3: Nobody in his family had finished school.
Speaker 3: Nobody in his family had finished high school.
Speaker 3: Nobody in his family had ever had a wedding.
Speaker 3: Nobody in his family had ever gone to college Nobody in his family.
Speaker 3: And I said to him God has a plan and a purpose for your life.
Speaker 3: And through that journey he came to know the Lord.
Speaker 3: He was the first one to finish school in his family.
Speaker 3: He was the first one to graduate from college in his family.
Speaker 3: He was the first one to have a church wedding in that family.
Speaker 3: He is the first one in his family and he serves.
Speaker 3: He's a pastor Passing a church in his family.
Speaker 3: When I was in college, I used to lead a small group of two people I'm not very proud to say a small group of two people Because I was the campus ministry leader.
Speaker 3: Some of my students had groups of 15 students, of eight students.
Speaker 3: I would be teaching them on how to lead a small group and they would be looking at each other and saying don't we have the wrong teacher for this session?
Speaker 3: One of those two young men.
Speaker 3: He was the first one to have a church wedding in his family.
Speaker 3: One of those two young men.
Speaker 3: I'd come to know the Lord through just relational evangelism.
Speaker 3: The other one came to us.
Speaker 3: He knew the Lord but he wasn't so strong in his faith and we began to work together with those two young men.
Speaker 3: On some days I would invite the girls to come and when the girls showed up, a few more boys would show up and then my group would dwindle back to my two faithful students.
Speaker 3: I struggled Because sometimes I thought I wasn't being a good example.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I thought I wasn't being fruitful, because when we think about fruitfulness we think about the numbers, we think about the multitudes.
Speaker 3: But what challenges me about this chapter?
Speaker 3: Jesus had time for one woman.
Speaker 3: I worked with those two young people.
Speaker 3: They graduated from college.
Speaker 3: One of them went into the marketplace.
Speaker 3: The other one came onto our internship program with that college ministry.
Speaker 3: Eventually he joined me as part of our full-time staff.
Speaker 3: Eventually he took over my place overseeing that college ministry.
Speaker 3: Eventually he came and joined our pastoral staff for ICC.
Speaker 3: And today that young man passes a church on Thiccarwood.
Speaker 3: That young man, when you meet with people around you, I pray that God helps you not just to see the one but to see the many that are in that one person.
Speaker 3: Not just to see that one person but to know that through that one person God will touch multitudes.
Speaker 3: That sometimes it's not so much about having a platform.
Speaker 3: You know so many times we come and we say to the pastor you should lead others to Christ.
Speaker 3: But you know something each one of us has a pulpit.
Speaker 3: Each one of us has a pulpit in our homes.
Speaker 3: Each one of us has a pulpit.
Speaker 3: That place you like going for lunch.
Speaker 3: You have a pulpit there.
Speaker 3: You have a pulpit in your workplace.
Speaker 3: You have a pulpit in your family.
Speaker 3: There's some of you.
Speaker 3: You don't go for family meetings anymore Because these people you know they pushed you to the wall.
Speaker 3: Where is the grace that God desires you to extend to them?
Speaker 3: That there is a pulpit in that family, that God wants you to take your place and to be a vessel that he can use, that there is a pulpit for those of you who are students in your classroom.
Speaker 3: There is a pulpit for those of you who are teachers.
Speaker 3: I always say we underestimate the power that teachers have.
Speaker 3: We underestimate the power to shape and mold the lives of young people.
Speaker 3: Whatever place God has given you, whatever it is that God has positioned you, be planted in that place.
Speaker 3: Be planted in that place.
Speaker 3: If it's in your family, be planted in that family.
Speaker 3: That is not.
Speaker 3: We live in a society where it's one leg in, one leg out.
Speaker 3: If it doesn't work, I'll find my way out.
Speaker 3: Be planted in that home.
Speaker 3: Be planted in that family.
Speaker 3: Raise up a godly generation.
Speaker 3: Be planted that, before we can minister to anyone else, or ministers first of all in our homes, to our children.
Speaker 3: The best part of my Sunday is not that I get to speak or share God's word.
Speaker 3: The best part of my Sunday is that, when I leave the house in the morning, my eldest daughter comes along with me to serve God.
Speaker 3: To serve God that's the best part of my Sunday.
Speaker 3: And I believe that each one of us has people around us that God is saying to you would you love, intentionally, would you allow yourself to be an instrument in your hands for the glory and honor of your name?
Speaker 3: God wants to use you even more than you want to be used of Him.
Speaker 3: God is looking across this city.
Speaker 3: God is looking for young men and women he can use.
Speaker 3: Why is God gathering Parkland's Baptists this week?
Speaker 3: Because God is looking for men and women at Parkland's Baptists, Men and women that will become vessels, vessels of His Spirit, that can be used of Him.
Speaker 3: And this is how I find this.
Speaker 3: What I find is that God only looks for one.
Speaker 3: If God can only find one here, will you be that man?
Speaker 3: Will you be that woman?
Speaker 3: Will you be that man?
Speaker 3: Will you be that woman?
Speaker 3: Do you know that God is calling you?
Speaker 3: You know that God is wanting to use you.
Speaker 3: They say, lord, I need you, I want to be used of you.
Speaker 3: That the cry of your heart is Lord, use me.
Speaker 3: That's the best prayer we can ever make for ourselves.
Speaker 3: God, use me.
Speaker 3: That's the cry of your heart.
Speaker 3: I say, god, I want to be used of you.
Speaker 3: Would you go ahead and stand up on your feet.
Speaker 3: I say, god, use me.
Speaker 3: God, would you use me?
Speaker 3: Use me while you've planted me, use me while you've positioned me.
Speaker 3: Would you use me?
Speaker 3: I'm going to invite the Bishop of the city.
Speaker 3: Would you please come, please come and pray for us.
Speaker 3: God, use me.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor wow, now lift up your hands, let's give God a big, big, big hand.
Speaker 2: Amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 2: Come on somebody, amen, amen.
Speaker 2: God is speaking and, bishop Gibson, we just want to appreciate your ministry.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're noticing how God is speaking through the week and the message that went out yesterday on the church and God is now saying there's a heaven in the church and God is now saying there's a harvest and there's a neighbor, there's somebody out there that you're able to reach.
Speaker 2: On Tuesday we had a meeting that was being hosted by ICC Narobi West and I went there.
Speaker 2: I was one of the speakers and I met Bishop Gibson and we had a moment where he took me to his office and in that office he said but some of us have been waiting for this opportunity for you to come to my office.
Speaker 2: And he said I want you to pray.
Speaker 2: But before he did that, he went and showed me a picture of his wife and his children and Liz, we are blessed that you're here with us.
Speaker 2: And then he said I want you to pray for me and I closed my eyes and I began to pray and speak of blessing upon his life.
Speaker 2: When I opened my eyes, I could not find him.
Speaker 2: When I checked and checked, he was actually on his knees and that really humbled me, that this bishop, this man that God has released to ICC to serve, he could get an opportunity to receive a blessing from another colleague of his, and I want you to know that the message that he has spoken so clearly and God has used him, god is calling you out.
Speaker 2: One of the things he said is that there are people who are outcasts not because of the wrong they did, but because of the right things they did.
Speaker 2: And then there's something he said that and especially that story about reaching out and his journey to getting married and he said something that is somebody who covered his shame Many times.
Speaker 2: As Christians, we try our best to uncover people's shame, and there are many of us here who are professionals in uncovering people's shame.
Speaker 2: Tonight is a night of repentance.
Speaker 2: Tonight is a night of you shifting those gears, because there's somebody called Jesus if you ever read Isaiah 3, that he covered our shame, that he did not look at our sin, he did not look at how far gone we had gone, but before God, his Father, he covered our shame.
Speaker 2: He covered this woman's shame, the Samaritan woman, and I want you to know that it doesn't matter where you've come from, it doesn't matter what you've done.
Speaker 2: The Lord Jesus is standing here to cover your shame, to cover you from the challenges you've gone through, to cover you from what you did right, but you are outcast, what you did wrong.
Speaker 2: You are outcast, and I'll be praying for those people in a moment.
Speaker 2: And you're watching us online and I thank you for connecting in Jesus' name and I believe that we shall just take a short moment and we have our leaders here who would like to take a moment to pray for you there, those upstairs also, our pastors and leaders are there and if in your heart, in your spirit, you're looking for one person who will cover your shame, there's none other than Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: And as I pray briefly and as I worship him, who will be leading us, I want you to begin to step forward and just let these leaders pray and say Lord be their cover and Jesus will become your savior, but if you are saved, already there are many believers who walk around with their shame and they're broken down.
Speaker 2: That's why this week is a week of revival and I want to pray for those people first.
Speaker 2: Then I'll pray for the next level, not because it is a higher level, it is just a level.
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor, your man, worship him as a Lord leads you, and they prepare to do that.
Speaker 2: Let us pray.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name of Jesus, what a word that has come before us tonight.
Speaker 2: And indeed you covered the woman's shame from Samaria.
Speaker 2: She tried to deflect you left and right, she tried to hide herself under certain philosophies, but, lord, you came to her and in the end you said I am the Messiah, I'm the one who can give you living water and you will thirst no more.
Speaker 2: And, dear Lord, there are men and women here who need to just have that prayer, not just because these men are here, but because you are here in our medist.
Speaker 2: And so, in the name of Jesus, take that step now.
Speaker 2: If you're online, you may not have somebody with you there, but if you can just come close to that monitor, get that phone that is in front of you, kneel down, even in your house, and God will reach out to you, because God is a God who can reach into any space.
Speaker 2: So, in the name of Jesus, as the worships team sings we'll just get a moment.
Speaker 2: You start making that journey right now, upstairs, downstairs.
Speaker 2: You remember that, come, come, we are waiting for you.
Speaker 2: Give us a moment.
Speaker 2: This is your time.
Speaker 2: Come, jesus, you love me too.
Speaker 2: You are my accession, jesus, you love me too.
Speaker 2: Too much, too much.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, come, come, come, come.
Speaker 2: The Spirit is backing to you.
Speaker 2: Come, come, take that step, come.
Speaker 2: Let Jesus cover your shame.
Speaker 2: Let Jesus stand for you.
Speaker 2: Maybe nobody has supported you, nobody has stood for you.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ died at Calvary To cover you.
Speaker 2: Your love is crying, come, come, come.
Speaker 2: Your love is patient, that's right.
Speaker 2: His love is calling you.
Speaker 2: You fill my heart, that's right.
Speaker 1: It's so much peace and joy.
Speaker 3: Amen Amen.
Speaker 1: Yes, lord, you're amazing, You're amazing.
Speaker 2: Yes, Jesus is amazing.
Speaker 2: Come come.
Speaker 2: The life is breathing, Come, come, come.
Speaker 3: And all your promises.
Speaker 2: Come, come and Jesus Lord, Somebody's waiting for you, jesus is waiting for you.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, oh, jesus, you love me too.
Speaker 2: Open your mouth, just sing.
Speaker 2: Jesus loves you, jesus loves you.
Speaker 2: You're much more access-lovable, hallelujah.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, oh, jesus, you love me too much, jesus, you love me too much.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, jesus, you love me too much, too much, too much.
Speaker 2: Excess-lovable Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you for the love you have for us.
Speaker 2: As the pastor was speaking, he talked about Abraham and God said I will bless you.
Speaker 2: But then he said I will make you a blessing.
Speaker 2: Are you that blessing?
Speaker 2: There are people out there bishop has mentioned them out there waiting to be blessed.
Speaker 2: People have been put in the shelf, like he said, but the instrument to reach to them it's you.
Speaker 2: That's the charge we were given yesterday.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to become that blessing?
Speaker 2: Because God will make you not only great, he will make you a blessing.
Speaker 2: I want to pray for those people now that God will make you a blessing, that God will make your blessing to somebody.
Speaker 2: The charge was given yesterday, but now you are positioning yourself and say Ambrose, I want God to make me a blessing, the harvest is plentiful.
Speaker 2: I want to be that laborer that is going into that harvest.
Speaker 2: He's mentioned different areas family, school, workplaces.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to become the blessing that God is going to make you?
Speaker 2: Not only are you going to be blessed, god wants to make you a blessing.
Speaker 2: Those are the people I want to start moving forward Right now.
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2: Choose to be the instrument that God will use to make your blessing.
Speaker 2: You may have come yesterday and you're wondering, but I came yesterday.
Speaker 2: God is working now in a new way, just for you, Because God has a door for you.
Speaker 2: God has things that is going to do in your life.
Speaker 2: Who is willing to be the instrument of blessing to the nations?
Speaker 2: The Bible says, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.
Speaker 2: Who is that person?
Speaker 2: Take that step forward now, jesus' name.
Speaker 2: I want to ask our deacons and those other leaders who are still out there please come forward, joe Muriochi, move in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: There are people who need to be prayed for.
Speaker 2: Just place your hand on them and just say may the Lord make you a blessing.
Speaker 2: Upstairs, we have pastors up there.
Speaker 2: You don't have to come down here.
Speaker 2: Somebody will touch you, somebody will reach out to you and you will become the blessing.
Speaker 2: God is working now.
Speaker 2: You come, you come.
Speaker 2: You don't know what God is doing now.
Speaker 2: There's something God is releasing in your life.
Speaker 2: He's going to make you a blessing.
Speaker 2: He's going to meet the needs of others through you.
Speaker 2: Raise that key.
Speaker 2: Raise that key, change that key.
Speaker 2: Just lift it up, go, get up, move with these pastors, come Pray for some of our people here.
Speaker 2: Come, come, come One more time, sing it out, sing it out, sing it out, sing it out.
Speaker 2: I want to pray for you, all of you who came forward right now.
Speaker 2: I want you to open your mouth, wherever you are.
Speaker 2: If you're online, do that.
Speaker 2: If you're in the house now, open your mouth and say Father, here I am, I have received the blessing.
Speaker 2: But beyond that, oh God, make me a blessing to my neighbors, a blessing to my workmates, a blessing to my siblings, a blessing on the social setting, a blessing in my family, a blessing in my business.
Speaker 2: Dear God, here I am, send me, Make me the blessing that people are waiting for and through me, may your light shine forth into the darkness that I will face.
Speaker 2: And I know the harvest is plentiful Right now.
Speaker 2: Lives will be changed, lives will be transformed Because, god, you have an instrument to use and that instrument is made.
Speaker 2: If you believe that, you better say I receive it Now.
Speaker 2: Give God a big hand.
Speaker 2: Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 2: Before you go back to your seat, listen to me.
Speaker 2: The Samaritan woman took off.
Speaker 2: She ran.
Speaker 2: She forgot her jar by there.
Speaker 2: She didn't forget.
Speaker 2: She got so filled with water inside her.
Speaker 2: She said somebody else needs this water.
Speaker 2: She took off.
Speaker 2: I don't know who you're going to take off to, but I know you will take off and do something.
Speaker 2: I see Kim here.
Speaker 2: Kim come up here, this gentleman, kim a Bona Sifiri, because we want to bless, bless, bless everybody.
Speaker 2: This gentleman has come forward to become a blessing.
Speaker 2: Kim is Waxiat, kipro, and Kim is the one who cuts my hair, amen.
Speaker 2: So those days when you see me looking good, better than yesterday, this came.
Speaker 2: And one time, you know, I went there and he cut my hair and finished and then he said, pastor Ambrose, don't pay.
Speaker 2: I want you to pray and bless my business.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: And I know many of you have gone through his hands.
Speaker 2: He cuts men's hairs, he does women's hairs.
Speaker 2: He's amazing.
Speaker 2: And, kim, let me tell you the fact that you have stepped forward, that you may become a blessing.
Speaker 2: I want you to know God amekumulika, amen, and you are representing all of us, that we may become a blessing to the nation.
Speaker 2: I don't know where God will take you, but God will take you far.
Speaker 2: I just needed to pull you out into this place so that people will know that there are times that pastors need to be ministered to.
Speaker 2: I cannot cut my own hair.
Speaker 2: Bona Sifiri, he's just under his authority, very quietly.
Speaker 2: Senior pastor, bishop of this city.
Speaker 2: Amen, just being ministered and I've prayed for him many times.
Speaker 2: And, kim, thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your gift, bless you, amen.
Speaker 2: Just before you go up, we want to remind you.
Speaker 2: We have a connect tent and we may not reach all of you in terms of filling in the forms, but we have that connect tent there Online.
Speaker 2: We have also the connect tent that we usually send out online.
Speaker 2: We want you to connect with it.
Speaker 2: How many of you are sensing there's a move of God in our medist?
Speaker 2: I sense that.
Speaker 2: Martha, I don't know why you're in front, I don't know if you're asking God to make your blessing to me.
Speaker 2: May the nations.
Speaker 2: God is doing something, god is doing something.
Speaker 2: And, bishop Gibson, thank you for allowing God to use you, amen, while you're standing here.
Speaker 2: I want us to do one more thing Just to pray for those people that God.
Speaker 2: We put them on the shelf and we have many of them in our lives, but in fact, martha and I were talking about one of those we have put on the shelf.
Speaker 2: Really, and, bishop, as you're talking about your brother, your stepbrother, you are just connecting, because many of us have those kinds of people in our medist and sometimes we say, who are you, mongo?
Speaker 2: And that's why we are here, so that we move from uncle deep to knee deep, to waist deep and then just say, lord, let your rivers take over.
Speaker 2: There are those people.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is your father, maybe it is your mom, maybe it is your neighbor, people you have tried to bail out and nothing happens.
Speaker 2: And yet they are so connected to you you cannot leave them out.
Speaker 2: We want to pray out of this meeting that God will reach out to them.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're the one who is here, maybe you're the one who feels you've been put in the shelf.
Speaker 2: And I'm talking to some of you who are online Because there is a visitation coming your way.
Speaker 2: There is a visitation coming your way.
Speaker 2: I'm saying there's a visitation coming your way.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You may be here and just people just ignore you.
Speaker 2: They don't even talk to you.
Speaker 2: You are like a stone in front of them, and sometimes some of the people who have let you go is the church, the church itself, those people who you call Christians.
Speaker 2: They pushed you aside.
Speaker 2: Some miracle is about to happen to you right now, to that person, in the name of Jesus, the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2: So let us now lift up our hands because we are going to bring those people.
Speaker 2: Some of them may be here, some of them may be online, and right now we are saying may God reach out to them and may God bring people around them who will draw them to the Master.
Speaker 2: Oh my God, some of them are just maybe in jail.
Speaker 2: Some of them are locked up in the cell right now.
Speaker 2: Some of them have been sentenced for life, but I know that God is a giver of new life.
Speaker 2: Now, open your mouth, begin to pray for that person who came into your mind.
Speaker 2: Begin to pray for that person in your family.
Speaker 2: Begin to pray for your dad.
Speaker 2: Begin to pray for your uncle.
Speaker 2: Something is going to happen right now in Jesus' name.
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, come upon your people now as they send forth that prayer.
Speaker 2: May the angels in our midst carry that prayer to the throne of God.
Speaker 2: Oh God, oh my God, as we remember them, as we pray for them, as you give us wisdom on how to reach out to them, dear Lord, may they be remembered in their darkness, in their isolation.
Speaker 2: Some of them are even thinking about committing suicide Because they have come to the end of their road.
Speaker 2: Some of them are drug addicts.
Speaker 2: Some of them just don't know how to break loose.
Speaker 2: But tonight we are praying for deliverance.
Speaker 2: We are praying for deliverance.
Speaker 2: God, lift them out of their pit, lift them out of their darkness, lift them up now, in the name of Jesus, let light shine in their darkness.
Speaker 2: Let love embrace them the way you embrace this woman of Samaria.
Speaker 2: Let your love reach through those barriers, through those barricades.
Speaker 2: We were told yesterday, and you are gone.
Speaker 2: Not only reach to them, but may they be changed, transformed.
Speaker 2: Amen, instruments of your blessing to the nations.
Speaker 2: Start tonight.
Speaker 2: Answer the prayer of your people, answer the cry of your people.
Speaker 2: Start tonight.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: The spirit of God is moving.
Speaker 2: Oh, oh, my God, oh my God, oh, shakila Satakasah, father, father, father, thank you for the miracle that is being released, Thank you for the miracle that is being lost our children in schools, in the streets, in Homes tonight.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the miracle.
Speaker 2: We receive that miracle.
Speaker 2: Receive that miracle.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: We bless you.
Speaker 2: I Want you to know that your prayer is now being answered.
Speaker 2: God has answered your prayer.
Speaker 2: God is has granted your request, request.
Speaker 2: God has answered your request.
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, somebody if you believe that you better give God a big hand Somebody.
Speaker 2: God has answered, granted your request, granted your request, granted your request, granted your request.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm reminded of Jabez who said oh God, I was born in pain.
Speaker 2: And then he said, lord, that you may bless me in large my territory, may your hand be upon me and deliver me from pain.
Speaker 2: I know what the Bible says.
Speaker 2: And God Granted his request.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that your request has been granted.
Speaker 2: Your request has been granted.
Speaker 2: Take it.
Speaker 2: Your request has been granted in Jesus name, in Jesus name.
Speaker 2: And now let me tell you this the river of gladness is flowing in you now.
Speaker 2: The river of gladness is flowing in you now.
Speaker 2: Receive it somebody.
Speaker 2: There's some joy entering somebody right now.
Speaker 2: There's a spirit of joy coming into you right now.
Speaker 2: Amen, amen.
Speaker 2: One has fear.
Speaker 2: I'm about to release this people.
Speaker 2: Please make your way here, mom.
Speaker 2: We thank God for you.
Speaker 2: Why don't we appreciate.
Speaker 2: While you're still standing there, because I want to release God's blessing to you, bishop Gibson came with two books leading in the valley.
Speaker 2: That is one, and the other one is called leading young, leading young and leading in the valley.
Speaker 2: This one is a thousand shillings, the other one is 1500 shillings.
Speaker 2: Now, yesterday, you, you really blew my mind because when Dr Mbogo's here and I told you to buy his books, you know, before people even reached outside, all the books had been sold.
Speaker 2: I Mean they had just been sold.
Speaker 2: Amen, since we are going to have a cup of tea after this, while we are having a cup of tea outside, get one of these books leading in the valley and leading young, and Thank you for writing.
Speaker 2: Thank you for writing.
Speaker 2: Bless you so much.
Speaker 2: Just ask your neighbor Are you an author?
Speaker 2: Hello, okay, you're looking at potential authors.
Speaker 2: Buanas, if you, buanas, if you, the mama, just stand with me here as I release God's people.
Speaker 2: You know, she, when she was singing, and she was coming to the end of that singing and she said some of these songs are out of her experience, and, and, and, and, and, and, listen, and she was saying she was encouraging us and she's saying, hey, this God that she has seen through her life is real.
Speaker 2: This God is real and I want you to know that, even as you enter, enter the sixth Flow one, as if you were that you will still be a blessing.
Speaker 2: You still be a blessing, still be a blessing.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow we start at all time.
Speaker 2: 530.
Speaker 2: Please come in time.
Speaker 2: Amen, come in time.
Speaker 2: We want to give God the glory because another amazing administration will happen tomorrow and be praying for Sunday.
Speaker 2: Like my brother said, bishop Philip Kittoto will be in the house on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 2: And, by the way, he's our current Chair of the evangelical Alliance of Kenya.
Speaker 2: And such a blessing.
Speaker 2: We are going to fill up that that Dome, 15,000.
Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor I am one of those 15,000 and my friend, if you come around in 1030, we have space for you, but at Kipro, hello.
Speaker 2: So come because, and tell your friends, be like that Samaritan woman, let us.
Speaker 2: That place will be so filled, we shall have an overflow, and so may the Lord indeed bless you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you for coming tonight.
Speaker 2: I want to release the blessing and, as I do, that Jamima will pick it up, even as we continue to just worship, as we get out, have some tea and Visitors have some tea.
Speaker 2: And I want you to know, he who began a good work in you Will bring it to completion, amen, amen.
Speaker 2: So lift up your hands as I bless us, and then Jamima will pick it from me.
Speaker 2: God is a good God.
Speaker 2: Please come to the connect tent.
Speaker 2: You may need a prayer or just leave your contacts with us and Our pastors will connect with you.
Speaker 2: Father, in the name that is above every name, that devil's camp is being destroyed.
Speaker 2: The devil's camp is being destroyed.
Speaker 2: The strongholds are coming down, the chains are being broken, people are being released.
Speaker 2: Jehovah, god and father, we say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, lord, for allowing your servant, bishop Gibson, to just Release your word in such an amazing way, and he came at a time when he needs to be in ministry For one of those you have called home.
Speaker 2: And we want to pray because God, he'll be traveling like he had told us, and we pray that even that ministration in Kisi, lord, there will be a move of God in such a mighty way, even in that moment of laying our brother to rest.
Speaker 2: Father, we want to say thank you because even in the valley, you can use us and you can speak to us in amazing ways.
Speaker 2: And so we bless our bishop, we bless his wife, we bless his children and we thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you for Jamai, my mom, and we just command a blessing in her life and even those things that she has done through the years, the words and ministry that she has released through her music.
Speaker 2: We want to say thank you.
Speaker 2: We thank you, lord, for everyone who just made this day to be and this evening to be what it is.
Speaker 2: And as we are released tonight, we are released to reach out to our neighbor, we are released to go and get that harvest Because it is already ripe.
Speaker 2: And now, in the name that is above every name, I command its blessing to you, those online and those in person here, and I decree and declare to you that may the Lord bless you, may the Lord make his face to shine upon you, may the Lord do you good, may the Lord release the power that he released through that Samaritan woman, and she went and got an entire city that came to the feet of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: And so may the Lord indeed make you a blessing, not only bless you, but also make you a blessing, make you an instrument of his favor, make you an instrument that will make others come to the kingdom.
Speaker 2: And while you are doing that, may your labor never be in vain.
Speaker 2: So may the Lord bless you, bless your coming in, bless your coming in, bless your going out, bless you sitting down, blessing your rising up.
Speaker 2: Bless your children, your children's children.
Speaker 2: Bless you in your home, bless you at your workplace, bless you at your social setting.
Speaker 2: May God do you good.
Speaker 2: If you believe that, you better say I receive it, I Take it, it is my portion, there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 2: Now, keep, got another big, big, big hand and a big shout.
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, look at your neighbor.
Speaker 2: Until your neighbor, surely, goodness and must say Shall follow you all the days of your life.
Speaker 2: And you, yanny, you I'm talking to you you shall dwell In God's favor, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 2: Shalom, amen.