Speaker 1: We want to celebrate one of us and thank you for celebrating our anniversary 29 years, amen.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: 13th of August 1994 was a very eventful day.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, and the Lord has walked with us.
Speaker 1: All this we celebrate and I thank God for Martha.
Speaker 1: I thank God for Martha and Martha, if you're watching, thank you for bearing with me all these years and it has been a great journey and we give God a glory.
Speaker 1: We also want to celebrate with Pastor Simon, who is away in Mombasa, coming back, I think, later in the day, and yesterday Pastor Simon was honored.
Speaker 1: He was given an honorary doctorate, amen, an honorary doctorate degree of divinity from Peace Foundation, christian University of the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: So we celebrate him.
Speaker 1: Isn't he looking good?
Speaker 1: Now, next Sunday, when he shows up, tell him to come with that gown, simon Mesquia Paluco, and so begin to refer to him as Reverend Dr Simon Mwangin Degwa.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, amen.
Speaker 1: And Pastor Simon has been quite involved in peace work, even as he has been preaching from different places, and this university noticed it and began to talk to him and they were able to give him that honorary degree.
Speaker 1: And we celebrate Pastor Simon.
Speaker 1: Why don't we give him another big, big hand in Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1: So ask your neighbor welcome to degree can you.
Speaker 1: Somebody saying I have a PhD, phd.
Speaker 1: Phd can mean anything, it can mean Penguine Hannah degree but we thank God even for those in our midst who have PhDs.
Speaker 1: They have masters, they have PhDs and we celebrate honorary degrees, academic degrees and all the degrees that God gives to you.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, god is taking us higher.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1: We have been involved in engaging one of our counties and we want to thank God.
Speaker 1: El Gayo Marraquet County is a county that was adopted by one of our house groups, from Wemuto, and we have been really engaging with them.
Speaker 1: We had a serious meeting at Sankara with many of the stakeholders from that county and the governor attended that meeting and he sent us a letter.
Speaker 1: We received greetings and a precision letter from his excellency Governor Wesley Rotich and we just want to thank God for the engagement that we have.
Speaker 1: We're engaging under the umbrella of what we are calling hashtag love embraced.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, hashtag, love embraced.
Speaker 1: So we're embracing that county to reach out at all levels.
Speaker 1: Just the other day I was with a CS Mulkomen and we had some extensive discussion about the progress of what is happening in El Gayo Marraquet and we believe that God has just opened that door for us to make a difference.
Speaker 1: The team hashtag love embraced just asked me to say this.
Speaker 1: As we agreed, doing good is good business.
Speaker 1: Doing good is good for your business.
Speaker 1: Love embraced is therefore an opportunity for everyone who would want to do good that can contribute towards healing, causing relief and support the people and communities in El Gayo, marraquet, build more towards alternative live loads and sustainable peace.
Speaker 1: It could be an idea, an innovation, an investment in a sector, seeds donation, tourism opportunities, a food package, a package for girls in school, a donation of fruit trees, tree seedlings, counseling services, agricultural technology, a house for the security officers at thought and a manufacturing plant, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: This is our engagement in that community.
Speaker 1: I'd also like to say that an opportunity is coming up for us.
Speaker 1: It's called an opportunity validation week.
Speaker 1: It's scheduled for the second week of October, 8th to 14th October, and we want to engage with this community and they'll be going to that community that we have a team from here.
Speaker 1: The love embraced team will be going there.
Speaker 1: We want to ask those who are from that community please connect with us here at the office, find out more information and we also want to ask our members in whatever way possible.
Speaker 1: Whichever way you'd like to connect and pray and contribute, please let us know at the office.
Speaker 1: You'll be given some more details out there.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Hashtag love embraced El Gayo, marraquet Amen.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have any members from that section in our congregation.
Speaker 1: If you can just stand, if you're here, we just want to acknowledge and celebrate those from that county and I'm telling you we are going from one county to another.
Speaker 1: We have any in our midst.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 1: God bless you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, amen.
Speaker 1: So we really appreciate you and we want to engage with your community in a big way, really enable County Aconigani, ask them.
Speaker 1: Ask them and don't say shimahoko.
Speaker 1: We just need to find out the right county.
Speaker 1: By the way, as we are getting into revival season, we also are very involved in county number one, which is which one?
Speaker 1: Mombasa.
Speaker 1: We got very involved.
Speaker 1: We have some of our members also going to Kilifi and so we're moving from place to place and we want to just make a difference in this country, because this is our country.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, this is our country and as a church, we're not just preaching.
Speaker 1: We want to engage the stakeholders that are coming on board.
Speaker 1: They're amazing.
Speaker 1: We have people from banks, we have people from the private sector.
Speaker 1: We are people from very many places wanting to connect because of what we are just doing as love embraced.
Speaker 1: So we thank God for that.
Speaker 1: I want to ask the media team to give us a clip very quickly, and then we shall read the scriptures for today.
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Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Shall we stand.
Speaker 1: By the way, this book is available immediately after this service and this book is about the Lord's Prayer, our Father, who art in heaven, and thank you, alex Barton, for giving voice to that clip Amen.
Speaker 1: Not only does he give voice, they also create all the words and everything that needs to be said.
Speaker 1: The team in the media team put the pictures and all that.
Speaker 1: So let's celebrate the media team and what they do in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: We are reading from Acts, chapter 9, verse 1 to 9.
Speaker 1: Today we are talking about empowered calling, unveiled.
Speaker 1: This is the month as we talk about empowered calling.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor you look cold.
Speaker 1: Amen, regardless of what that calling is, tell them I am an empowered person who has been called.
Speaker 1: Tell them Amen.
Speaker 1: And the character for the month is Paul, and we want to read his conversion.
Speaker 1: The Bible says then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogue of Damascus so that if he found any who are off the way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: As he journeyed, he came near Damascus and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.
Speaker 1: Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him Saul, saul, why are you persecuting me?
Speaker 1: And he said who are you, lord?
Speaker 1: Then the Lord said I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Speaker 1: It is hard for you to kick against the gods.
Speaker 1: So he, trembling and astonished, said Lord, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to him arise and go into the city and you'll be told what you must do.
Speaker 1: And the man who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one.
Speaker 1: Then Saul arose from the ground and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one.
Speaker 1: But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus and he was three days without sight and neither ate nor drank.
Speaker 1: This is God's word and God's people say amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Please be seated Again.
Speaker 1: We invite all those who are watching us online.
Speaker 1: Thank God for our congregation at the pavilion and wherever you may be watching this message, may God speak to your heart in a mighty way.
Speaker 1: Shall we pray, father, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: We celebrate your word.
Speaker 1: We thank you that in a service like this, we can worship you in song.
Speaker 1: We can worship you in time of prayer.
Speaker 1: We can worship you in time of giving, but we can also worship you in time of hearing your word.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.
Speaker 1: So, father, this month of empowered calling, enable us to understand our calling, enable us to walk in that calling, enable us to fulfill that calling.
Speaker 1: We thank you for your word and, as Pastor Ambrose speaks, speak through him, holy Spirit, and speak to your people, because we have prayed all these things in Jesus' name and God's people say it Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Empowered calling.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Paul.
Speaker 1: We want to just see what that calling is all about.
Speaker 1: But I want to say this even in the beginning that a call is not an event.
Speaker 1: So tell your neighbor, a call is not an event.
Speaker 1: A call is a mindset, is a way of thinking.
Speaker 1: Many times people wonder how do people get called?
Speaker 1: But I want you to know that God calls you to salvation, that there's a call to salvation.
Speaker 1: He says come to me, you who live under heavy laden.
Speaker 1: There's a call to salvation, but there is also a call to success.
Speaker 1: A call to success, God wants us to succeed.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, god wants us to succeed.
Speaker 1: God did not call us to failure.
Speaker 1: God has called us to be excellent.
Speaker 1: So we were called to salvation.
Speaker 1: We were called to success.
Speaker 1: We have also been called to significance.
Speaker 1: Your life is a life of significance.
Speaker 1: It's a life where you fulfill God's calling in your life, and so sometimes you need to understand that your calling is not just an event, it's a mindset, and God wants you to know that he can call you from any place.
Speaker 1: You don't have to qualify.
Speaker 1: When God calls you is when he qualifies you.
Speaker 1: You don't have to qualify to be called.
Speaker 1: God calls you and then does what Qualifies you.
Speaker 1: Now listen to this verse in 1 Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 26.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this about where some of us were called from.
Speaker 1: It says this brothers and sisters, think of what you are when you are called.
Speaker 1: Not many of you are wise by human standards.
Speaker 1: Not many were influential.
Speaker 1: Not many were of noble birth.
Speaker 1: But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise.
Speaker 1: God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Speaker 1: God chose the lowly things of this world and despised things, the things that are not to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
Speaker 1: God called you when God called you to salvation, it's not because you are so smart.
Speaker 1: God called us because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
Speaker 1: God chose you just to know that, out of eight billion people in this world, god chose you to do something, to be something.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, god chose you.
Speaker 1: You are important, you are special.
Speaker 1: God doesn't come looking for people who have been beaten down and out and there's nothing they can offer.
Speaker 1: God knows that when you came to this earth, you had something to offer.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor you were created to offer something.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you look like you are carrying big things for you.
Speaker 1: You are carrying big things for this world.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, don't live your life just carrying around your intestines.
Speaker 1: God wants you to do amazing things.
Speaker 1: Hello, you know, some of us just live like that.
Speaker 1: You must live with significance.
Speaker 1: There's something.
Speaker 1: God created you.
Speaker 1: That's why you're on this planet in this season, in this time.
Speaker 1: You are to be born in 1840.
Speaker 1: You are to be born around now because you had something to offer, something for the world.
Speaker 1: So when God called you, he called you for a reason and for a purpose.
Speaker 1: He called you because there's a harvest to be harvested.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Matthew, chapter nine, verse 35.
Speaker 1: Jesus is going through the villages and the towns, and this is what he says.
Speaker 1: Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.
Speaker 1: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Speaker 1: Then he said to his disciples the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Speaker 1: Then he said ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Speaker 1: There's a harvest.
Speaker 1: That's why you're on this planet.
Speaker 1: There's something that God wants you to do.
Speaker 1: There's an idea that God wants to bring through you to the world.
Speaker 1: That is why you exist.
Speaker 1: That's why you're here.
Speaker 1: That's why you need to be born again.
Speaker 1: That's why you need to be successful.
Speaker 1: That's why you need to be a person of significance, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And so, when God was looking around and he saw that the disciples needed help, god started looking for a man called Saul, because Saul was completely fighting God.
Speaker 1: That's why you don't have to be so saved to be called.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't even need to be saved to be called, because a calling is something that God places upon your life to make a difference in the world.
Speaker 1: If you read the stories in the Bible working on Moses, working on Abraham, working on Ruth, working on Hannah they were called for particular assignments and God wants you to fulfill an assignment.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you may think God just wants you to be a preacher.
Speaker 1: No, not many of us are called to preach.
Speaker 1: If some of you are brought here to just even say your name, hello, you just faint.
Speaker 1: Do you like me to call you?
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to just call you?
Speaker 1: Of course, those watching us online when I say my heart, where's the fika apple?
Speaker 1: Because they're online.
Speaker 1: But some of us, god prepared us.
Speaker 1: I remember the first testimony I gave was not a very good testimony because I was young, I was around 16 years old, I had just given my life to Christ, and then our Sunday school teacher was so excited because among all the boys there, I was the first one to get saved, and he was just excited.
Speaker 1: So one day, when parents had come and we were sitting there out of nowhere, he said oh, we are so excited that God is moving in our midst and God has touched one of our young people and he's saved Ambrose.
Speaker 1: Can you stand up and tell us what God has done in your life?
Speaker 1: That was the day.
Speaker 1: You know, at that particular time you're also trying to impress some girls and now you're being called as you're saved.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I froze proper, because if somebody just calls your name out of the blue and says that come and say something, I froze.
Speaker 1: I got finished.
Speaker 1: It's like somebody had pinned me on the seat and I could not move.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, after he had said it, everybody is quiet and they're waiting for me to stand up.
Speaker 1: So when I realized I have to stand up anyway, I was so tense.
Speaker 1: So when I stood up, I stood up like a spring.
Speaker 1: I just went and I stood up and I looked up and I said my name is Ambrose, thank you.
Speaker 1: And I sat down.
Speaker 1: Boom, and that teacher was so nice.
Speaker 1: He said that is a wonderful testimony and we just want to thank God for that word.
Speaker 1: You know, I just say you cannot do this to me, but you see, at that time, god, who saw the future and saw this boy struggling to give even his fastest money.
Speaker 1: He saw a pastor who would stand among many people.
Speaker 1: He called me Come on, let's give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: He called me.
Speaker 1: So sometimes God calls you without knowing, because by that time I didn't know that I wanted to become a pastor.
Speaker 1: But I was called into salvation.
Speaker 1: I was called to succeed, I was called to be significant.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this Saul of Tassas was called.
Speaker 1: He was going the wrong direction and God intercepted him because God had a work for him to do.
Speaker 1: And later, when Paul tells us about his life, god just used him amazingly.
Speaker 1: And God will use you.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, god will use me.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, yes, he will use you, he will use you.
Speaker 1: And so there are three things that I want us to understand about this calling which I want to bring to your attention.
Speaker 1: Number one passion.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor passion.
Speaker 1: Number two is propulsion Tell your neighbor propulsion.
Speaker 1: Now you need to say it nicely, because sometimes you can say your own things.
Speaker 1: And the third one is production.
Speaker 1: So there's passion, propulsion and production.
Speaker 1: Can you say that quickly?
Speaker 1: I heard somebody saying prototype.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you to say prototype Passion, propulsion, production, because when a calling is on you, there's a passion and we're going to see that in Paul's life, because he had a passion.
Speaker 1: But even before he was called here, he had a passion, but it was in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in chapter nine, verse three to four Jesus has intercepted him.
Speaker 1: Jesus is talking to him.
Speaker 1: He says as he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
Speaker 1: He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him soul, soul, why do you persecute me?
Speaker 1: Who are you, lord?
Speaker 1: So last, I'm Jesus, whom you're persecuting.
Speaker 1: In that persecution there was so much passion.
Speaker 1: You can find that he had gone and gotten letters and those letters were given to him.
Speaker 1: He had decided he was going to kill anybody who followed the way of Jesus Christ and he had a passion.
Speaker 1: And people have passions for many things.
Speaker 1: There are people, right now, the premier league is about to start and people are preparing to arise and cause their passions to rise up.
Speaker 1: There are people who are deciding they will never walk alone, hello.
Speaker 1: And there are people who are preparing their arsenal to destroy other guys as if it were passion, passion.
Speaker 1: And we have them here.
Speaker 1: Manchester United, Hello, now.
Speaker 1: Now you're passion, passion.
Speaker 1: And this, this league, this season.
Speaker 1: People are deciding who is going to take this, who is going to do this, but sometimes it is too early to predict what is going to happen.
Speaker 1: But passion there are people who have passion to eat.
Speaker 1: They just eat with a lot of passion.
Speaker 1: You can see them eating fish with passion.
Speaker 1: They are sweating, but they are.
Speaker 1: They are heating this thing.
Speaker 1: There is a big Ugarli and they are moving the mountain and it's a lot of passion.
Speaker 1: The people of a passion in writing they write for me.
Speaker 1: I write a lot.
Speaker 1: There's a passion I do.
Speaker 1: Writing comes easy for me.
Speaker 1: So passion Our worship team.
Speaker 1: They sang with passion.
Speaker 1: People have passions in different ways.
Speaker 1: The people have a passion to to, to, to handle children.
Speaker 1: Others have a passion to handle adults.
Speaker 1: Others have passion in matters of accounting, administration, doing all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: We have passions, but sometimes you don't realize that that particular passion was given to you by God himself.
Speaker 1: Let me read Romans, chapter 12.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this from verse three.
Speaker 1: Again, paul is talking about people's passions and people's callings.
Speaker 1: This is what he says.
Speaker 1: For by the grace given me, I say to you everyone, to everyone of you, do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment and in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
Speaker 1: The next verse says this For just as each of us has one body with many members and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ, though, we are many form one body and each member belongs to all the others.
Speaker 1: It says we have different gifts.
Speaker 1: We can turn that and say we have different passions, according to the grace given to each of us.
Speaker 1: If your gift is prophesying, then do a prophesy in accordance with your faith.
Speaker 1: If it is serving, some of us are just serving.
Speaker 1: We love to serve, even if somebody is not there to serve.
Speaker 1: If it is serving, then serve.
Speaker 1: If it is teaching, then teach.
Speaker 1: If it is to encourage, then give encouragement.
Speaker 1: If it is giving, there are some people, just like apostates they are just passionate about giving.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 1: So if it is giving, then give generously.
Speaker 1: The other day, when we were talking about passport, somebody generously gave our finances for 40 people.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah For him.
Speaker 1: His passion is giving and he gave.
Speaker 1: And right now, while I'm talking about passports and those who are receiving passports and maybe already have a passport, we are now talking even to those of you who are in the diaspora Get time, write invitation letters, bring right to us and say, hey, we're inviting so and so to come, so that you guys can go.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, where do you think you're going?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, let me ask you do you guys want to be invited to go places?
Speaker 1: Some of you just want to go to Kino.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you this God wants you to go places.
Speaker 1: When I was in Phoenix, arizona, the other time, when I just went you know, I'm in Phoenix, we're visiting Parkland Baptist members and we are out there this guy comes to me and he says they are Kenyans.
Speaker 1: So he comes to me and says, by the way, pastambra, I watch you online.
Speaker 1: You're always talking about guys from Kino.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I talk about this guy.
Speaker 1: He says, by the way, I've been in the US for quite some time and guess what?
Speaker 1: Where I came from?
Speaker 1: He said I came from Kino.
Speaker 1: So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor do you come near Kino somewhere?
Speaker 1: Because they are blessed from Kino.
Speaker 1: So, wherever it is, god wants you to go places.
Speaker 1: And so we are talking to some of you guys in the diaspora.
Speaker 1: You know, create those opportunities, because we want people from Parkland Baptist Church to be world changers.
Speaker 1: We want them to go everywhere in this world to make a difference.
Speaker 1: So if it is giving, then give generously.
Speaker 1: If it is to lead, because some people's passion is doing what Leading, do it diligently.
Speaker 1: So if you're your leader, then don't lead casually.
Speaker 1: And, by the way, I always say this, all of us are leaders in a particular sector.
Speaker 1: There are some places I cannot lead.
Speaker 1: I cannot lead behind, behind the camera, even though I did some work on media while I was in the university in the US Hallelujah, yes, I did those things.
Speaker 1: I could face the camera, I can speak into the camera.
Speaker 1: You know, I can do a clip on the camera without blinking.
Speaker 1: We were taught those things, but that is not my usual calling, that's not my passion.
Speaker 1: So if it is so, if you're leading, lead how?
Speaker 1: Deligently.
Speaker 1: If it is to show mercy, because some people are just merciful, you know something happened.
Speaker 1: They're just merciful.
Speaker 1: You know anything they start crying and you're wondering why they're what they're crying about, but they are merciful.
Speaker 1: If it is to show mercy, do it, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Look at the next one.
Speaker 1: Love must be sincere, hate what is evil, cling to what is good.
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is this the people, everybody, has a passion, but as few as some of us have a wrong.
Speaker 1: I've put our passions in the wrong things and we are pursuing evil and causing others to pursue the same evil.
Speaker 1: And that's what Paul was doing persecuting believers, murdering, doing all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: But God loved him and God caught up with him and says this passion, I will use it for the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: And guess what?
Speaker 1: Paul was turned around and he said I am what I am by the grace of God.
Speaker 1: Listen to what he said one day in Romans, chapter one, verse 16.
Speaker 1: This is what he said.
Speaker 1: This is passion.
Speaker 1: He said this for I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Gentile, for in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith, from fast to last.
Speaker 1: This guy had a passion for this gospel.
Speaker 1: What do you have a passion for?
Speaker 1: Let me show you this verse, because many of us have this passion.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Colossians, chapter three, verse 23 to 24.
Speaker 1: It's for all of us.
Speaker 1: It says this whatever you do, whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.
Speaker 1: As working for who?
Speaker 1: For the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.
Speaker 1: It is the Lord Christ.
Speaker 1: You are doing what you are serving, so serve with passion.
Speaker 1: This is what Paul told Timothy.
Speaker 1: Second Timothy, chapter one, verse six.
Speaker 1: Paul at that time was scared, scared.
Speaker 1: But then Paul tells him for this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Speaker 1: And then he says this for the Spirit God gave us does not make us what Timid, but gives us power, love and self discipline.
Speaker 1: Then he told him the next statement so do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me, his prisoner, in another scripture, ecclesiastes, chapter nine, verse 10.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever read the book of Ecclesiastes.
Speaker 1: It was written by King Solomon.
Speaker 1: He says this whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead where you are going, there is neither working, no planning, no knowledge, no wisdom.
Speaker 1: In other words, this is your time Serve when you're still alive.
Speaker 1: But I want to go to propulsion.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor propulsion.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this about Paul, acts chapter nine, verse six to nine God is speaking to this man and the Bible says this and I want to read it in the New King James Version because Jesus is speaking to him.
Speaker 1: And, by the way, this scripture really blesses my heart because number one, it tells me, by the way, when Jesus was talking to Paul, had he died.
Speaker 1: The time when Jesus was talking to Paul, had Jesus died.
Speaker 1: Let me talk to the people on this side.
Speaker 1: By the time the book of Acts is being written, I'm asking had Jesus died?
Speaker 1: So Jesus died, he was buried and then he rose again.
Speaker 1: Now Jesus appears to Paul.
Speaker 1: That scripture blesses me because this Jesus that sometimes you doubt about is actually alive, he's living.
Speaker 1: He's not just historical, he's divine, he's alive and he's talking to this man.
Speaker 1: And, of course, for Saul it needed to be very dramatic.
Speaker 1: For some people this is not dramatic Jesus doesn't talk to us like that but because God knew that Paul had a serious assignment, he needed to engage this guy's attention properly.
Speaker 1: So the Bible says this when Paul had fallen down.
Speaker 1: So he, trembling and astonished, said Lord, what do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to him arise and go into the city.
Speaker 1: Now that statement is very pregnant.
Speaker 1: He didn't just say arise and go to the city.
Speaker 1: Jesus spoke with so much strength and said arise and go.
Speaker 1: It was like he was getting hold of a soul and thrusting him into the harvest.
Speaker 1: He says this thing is serious, this is compelling.
Speaker 1: I'm pushing you.
Speaker 1: When you talk about propulsion, you talk about rockets being launched.
Speaker 1: When a rocket is launched, there's a force and the power that takes it there.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, for some of you who never had rockets, you had something called fair.
Speaker 1: Do you know something called fair?
Speaker 1: Fair was you could get a stick.
Speaker 1: That is like this.
Speaker 1: Then you'd put a bladder whatever it is called in English Then you'd put a stone, pull it like this and let it go.
Speaker 1: In other words, you gave it energy and you gave it movement and direction and it took off with speed.
Speaker 1: That's called propulsion.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, helicopters when they go up, they start very nicely.
Speaker 1: Then the helicopter begins to rise.
Speaker 1: That's easy.
Speaker 1: But when a rocket is being launched, there's so much force that is pushed down and it is released up because it has to overcome gravitational pull.
Speaker 1: It's called propulsion of rockets.
Speaker 1: This is what God is saying to this guy.
Speaker 1: He says arise and go.
Speaker 1: For some of you that's what you need.
Speaker 1: That God, really you know.
Speaker 1: Because you're stuck, you don't want to go.
Speaker 1: You don't want to open your mouth to tell people that God loves them.
Speaker 1: Some of your family members have no idea that you are saved.
Speaker 1: They know you go to church, but they have no idea that you gave your life to Christ, because you know, if you tell them, they will say Ati wewe, ati, ati, ati, ati.
Speaker 1: What did you say?
Speaker 1: You are saved.
Speaker 1: The way you mess us around in this house, so you don't want to say anything.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this Ashame the devil and open your mouth and say I'm not perfect, jesus loves me and I've given my life to him.
Speaker 1: That's propulsion because, let me tell you this, the devil will stop you.
Speaker 1: He does not want you to move out.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to go.
Speaker 1: There was a very interesting story in the book of Luke and I'm going to tie this up in a minute.
Speaker 1: Luke, chapter 14.
Speaker 1: There was a banquet that was set.
Speaker 1: Verse 16 says this how many of you like weddings and ceremonies and parties, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Now listen to this story.
Speaker 1: This is a nice one, it says.
Speaker 1: Then he said to him a certain man gave a great what supper and invited.
Speaker 1: I want to read it in the NIV.
Speaker 1: Just put it back into the NIV.
Speaker 1: There was a certain man gave a great supper and invited.
Speaker 1: How many Many?
Speaker 1: Of course, these days, with our young people, it is limited in Vitecho, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Some of them even say don't come with children.
Speaker 1: Don't come with children.
Speaker 1: I hope those guys who are planning to get married might say Musifungi Watu.
Speaker 1: Maybe your budget in the Kidogo, don't worry, god will supply.
Speaker 1: So this is the king of kings.
Speaker 1: He created a banquet.
Speaker 1: He says this he invited many guests.
Speaker 1: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 1: At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited come, for everything is now ready.
Speaker 1: But they all alike began to make excuses.
Speaker 1: The first said I have just bought a field and I must go and see it, please excuse me.
Speaker 1: The next one says another said I've just bought five York of Oxen.
Speaker 1: Now today, five York of Oxen is just buying five, eight wheeler trucks, hallelujah, and I'm on my way to try them out, please excuse me.
Speaker 1: Then another guy Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Still another.
Speaker 1: Said I just got married so I can't come.
Speaker 1: The servant came back and reported this to his master.
Speaker 1: Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant go out quickly.
Speaker 1: Now this is serious, this is propulsion.
Speaker 1: Go out quickly into the streets and allies of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame, said, sir?
Speaker 1: The servant said what you ordered has been done, but there's still room.
Speaker 1: Then the master told his servant go out to the roads and country lanes and compare them to come in so that my house will be full.
Speaker 1: I tell you.
Speaker 1: He goes on to say this, the next verse not one of those who are invited will get.
Speaker 1: What A taste of my banquet.
Speaker 1: You see, god has this banquet prepared and he wants you to be the guys to go out and invite people into this place.
Speaker 1: There's a propulsion God is sending you out.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, god is sending you out.
Speaker 1: Listen to Jeremiah.
Speaker 1: Jeremiah said this.
Speaker 1: Jeremiah 20, verse 9.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this very quickly as we prepare to pray.
Speaker 1: It says this but if I say I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name.
Speaker 1: His word is in me like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones.
Speaker 1: I want to say it, I want to speak it out Hallelujah, I pray that will be a potion.
Speaker 1: I pray that will be a potion.
Speaker 1: Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 14,.
Speaker 1: Paul says God's love, it is God's love that is pushing him.
Speaker 1: Let me read that, for Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all and therefore all died, and he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him, who died for them and was raised again.
Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes in this propulsion, you know, sometimes there are obstacles.
Speaker 1: Moses found an obstacle and God was telling him you're going to find obstacles, but I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Look at this verse, exodus 319, because sometimes you sit down and say but there are so many obstacles, I can't just take off like this.
Speaker 1: This is what God told Moses, but I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him.
Speaker 1: So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them.
Speaker 1: And so God was telling him no matter what obstacle you face, I'm going to go with you.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody right now.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God is going to go with you.
Speaker 1: I will go with you, god is going to go with you propulsion.
Speaker 1: But I want to conclude by talking about production.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor production.
Speaker 1: God wants you to be productive.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this.
Speaker 1: Acts chapter 9, verse 15.
Speaker 1: Our God is speaking to an Annihilus and telling him what is going to do with Paul.
Speaker 1: This is what he says very quickly.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this.
Speaker 1: But the Lord said to an Annihilus go, this man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.
Speaker 1: I will show him how much he must suffer for me.
Speaker 1: Then Annihilus went to the house and entered it placing his hands on soul.
Speaker 1: He said brother soul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you are coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Immediately, something like scales fell from soul's eyes.
Speaker 1: He could see again.
Speaker 1: He got up and was baptized and after that, after taking some food, he regained his strength.
Speaker 1: He spent several days with the disciples in Damascus and then the Bible says at once, he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.
Speaker 1: Now, that is that transformation.
Speaker 1: I am praying for me, I am praying for you, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor at once.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor be productive.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in John, chapter 15, verse 8.
Speaker 1: God wants you to be productive.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this God wants you to bear much fruit.
Speaker 1: He says this is to my Father's glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Speaker 1: Paul was so challenged, but that later in his life, this is what he wrote, romans 15, verse 18 to 24.
Speaker 1: This is what he did.
Speaker 1: This is where God took him and this is what he says.
Speaker 1: I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done, by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Holy Spirit of God.
Speaker 1: So, from Jerusalem all the way around to Ilychrom, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.
Speaker 1: It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation.
Speaker 1: Rather, as it is written, those who are not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.
Speaker 1: This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
Speaker 1: But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, I plan to do so when I go where.
Speaker 1: When I go where Now, between Jerusalem and Spain, that's a long distance.
Speaker 1: So he's not just going to Rome, which is in Italy.
Speaker 1: He wants to go as far as Spain.
Speaker 1: This is poor.
Speaker 1: He became productive.
Speaker 1: May you be productive.
Speaker 1: May God use you to go places.
Speaker 1: And because I talked about Jerusalem, all the way to Spain, I'm praying some of you will go to Spain Not to watch football.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you're going to go to Spain to make a difference.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, I pray that many of you will go to Australia in Jesus' name, hallelujah, come on somebody.
Speaker 1: Yes, may you go.
Speaker 1: Ah, may you go to the US.
Speaker 1: Even if they deny you a visa many times, keep trying, because you will go, in Jesus' name, to the UK.
Speaker 1: You'll go, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Uk, uk, not United, kisum, uk, the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1: You'll go places.
Speaker 1: Believe it.
Speaker 1: Many of you, from time to time, try your best, sometimes to go to the Jomukenata International Airport.
Speaker 1: Just go, take the expressway and go, and sometimes just buy a bag the ones they pull and pull pillowcases inside and some clothes and just act as if you are departing.
Speaker 1: And after you've gone around, act like you are arriving and do that with confidence.
Speaker 1: Take an Uber, go there, you know, like you're traveling, tell your people, buy I'm going and just turn.
Speaker 1: Rather than going all the way to Mololongo, just turn to Jomukenata.
Speaker 1: One has fewer.
Speaker 1: And if Jomukenata is too far, just go to Wilson Airport.
Speaker 1: Exercise your faith.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, before you know it, it will luckily be a reality.
Speaker 1: You are departing.
Speaker 1: One has fewer Because some of us are afraid to do some of these things.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it just takes a step of faith, step of faith.
Speaker 1: So let me ask some of you how many of you are going to try to do what I've just told you?
Speaker 1: How many of you are going to try?
Speaker 1: Hands up.
Speaker 1: Now some of you are not putting your hands up.
Speaker 1: I'd like to ask why are you not putting your hand up?
Speaker 1: Somebody's saying what.
Speaker 1: I've been there.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being there.
Speaker 1: I'm talking for those who have not been there.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name Now.
Speaker 1: Stand on your feet.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Now, for some of you who already have passports and they have not been stamped, let me ask you they can be stamped.
Speaker 1: All you need to go is to Namanga.
Speaker 1: Namanga, just cross the border, come back.
Speaker 1: Go to Busea, come back, just get those things stamped.
Speaker 1: They will help you do many more other things.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you're an empowered world changer.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Are you glad you came?
Speaker 1: Are you called?
Speaker 1: Do you have a calling?
Speaker 1: That is a mindset.
Speaker 1: Yes, remember, it is not an event, it is a mindset.
Speaker 1: And when you serve, serve with everything that you have in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: I want to pray again that please get an opportunity to get this book Prayers that prevail and learn how to pray the Lord's prayer in a better way.
Speaker 1: You know, many times when we pray the Lord's prayer, all we do is just recite things Our Father, what in heaven.
Speaker 1: Hallowed be thy name.
Speaker 1: The kingdom come.
Speaker 1: They will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: Give us this day, our daily bread, and all you're just saying.
Speaker 1: You're not praying, you're reciting Instead, pray, learn to just say our Father, hallowed is be thy name.
Speaker 1: One time somebody went to Sunday school and they were so excited.
Speaker 1: Little boys told the teacher I know God's name, I know God's name.
Speaker 1: And the teacher said is it Yahweh?
Speaker 1: No, he says what's God's name?
Speaker 1: God's name is Harod.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: He had heard the teacher saying hallowed be thy name.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: So learn to pray, learn to pray.
Speaker 1: Learn to pray.
Speaker 1: One atmosphere, ah, thanks, jj.
Speaker 1: Jj is just telling me that Martha is in the pavilion.
Speaker 1: Martha, I appreciate you for being in that pavilion.
Speaker 1: God bless you big time.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: What do you do in an anniversary?
Speaker 1: By the way, when I got out of the house, I didn't even remember to tell my wife I didn't.
Speaker 1: Then she also didn't.
Speaker 1: So she called me in the office Ah, sweetie, at the anniversary.
Speaker 1: So what do you tell a girl like that?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, god is good.
Speaker 1: Say, but pray for us.
Speaker 1: We thank God for this many years that God has blessed us and so we're going to have more time together.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow I go on leave, so I'm on leave through August into September.
Speaker 1: But pray for us.
Speaker 1: That also is.
Speaker 1: We are praying for the next year's theme vision.
Speaker 1: That God will give it to us, amen.
Speaker 1: How many of you believe that God will give it to us?
Speaker 1: I believe it.
Speaker 1: God has never failed this theme, world changes, which was given to me in August last year.
Speaker 1: God has done.
Speaker 1: I used it amazingly.
Speaker 1: So pray, because God has another word on top of this one.
Speaker 1: It is just increasing from one degree of glory to another.
Speaker 1: So to God be the glory, great things he has done, amen.
Speaker 1: By the way, media team, you're part of the Moneza edit Nisa worship team, karibusana.
Speaker 1: Let's just take a moment to pray but also to ask ourselves do you have passion?
Speaker 1: Are you being propelled?
Speaker 1: Are you going to be productive?
Speaker 1: That's our message and, as Pastor Simon and the other pastors pick up for this month, may you hear God's word.
Speaker 1: I know that many of you sitting here who have amazing testimonies.
Speaker 1: God has done so much.
Speaker 1: Again, thanks for those who gave for the dome and for us to have 15,000 people under that dome.
Speaker 1: We really want to thank God for you In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, amen, and also for the widow's kitty.
Speaker 1: We really want to appreciate more than 400,000 shillings who are received and we want to thank God for that.
Speaker 1: God richly, richly bless you.
Speaker 1: Let us pray, amen.
Speaker 1: Thank you, father.
Speaker 1: Lord, you have called us and Lord, you have not just called us, you have empowered us.
Speaker 1: And not only have you empowered us, you have enlisted us, you have commissioned us, you have assigned us and received all the glory.
Speaker 1: Father, these beloved servants of God who have come to this service today, with some watching us online, some in the pavilion.
Speaker 1: Lord, each one of us has a calling Some of us in a marketplace, some of us in the private sector, some of us in the public service, some of us in government, some of us in schools, academic institutions, some of us in families, some of us in homes.
Speaker 1: But you have called us, you have given us a passion.
Speaker 1: May we fulfill our passion.
Speaker 1: May we be propelled that propulsion.
Speaker 1: May we go because the harvest is plentiful, the laborers, a few counters in organ and then, lord, may we be productive, may we bear fruit.
Speaker 1: May we cause you to be happy, may we cause you to be joyful, because we came back with sheaves.
Speaker 1: We went out sowing seeds, weeping, but we came back with a harvest.
Speaker 1: And, dear Lord, I believe that this month of empowered calling, that we shall fulfill our calling.
Speaker 1: So, jehovah, god, I thank you and now I pray for each one of you.
Speaker 1: Whatever God has been saying to you, please don't waste time.
Speaker 1: Do what God has called you to do.
Speaker 1: Fulfill your calling, fulfill your ministry, what you want me, what you see, what you see now, put your hand on your chest as you declare these words.
Speaker 1: Heavenly Father, I thank you that you have called me to salvation.
Speaker 1: You have called me to success.
Speaker 1: You have called me to significance.
Speaker 1: Today, I take the mindset of being called.
Speaker 1: I am chosen.
Speaker 1: I'm a chosen people are holy people belonging to God.
Speaker 1: In my calling, I want to work with passion, with propulsion and with production.
Speaker 1: Today I declare a decree and declare that you're the one who calls and empowers and lists commissions and assigned.
Speaker 1: Thank you for empowering me to serve you in the places you've given me.
Speaker 1: Today I dedicate myself to you to fulfill my calling.
Speaker 1: I am blessed to having been called by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
Speaker 1: Dear master, I say thank you and may you receive glory and praise as I fulfill this calling, because I have prayed in Jesus name and God's people say amen.
Speaker 1: Now lift up your hands as I release us.
Speaker 1: With this blessing, father, we give you the glory and I decree and declare to your people this afternoon may the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord make his face to shine upon you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord be gracious to you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord look upon you with favor.
Speaker 1: I declare that your Monday is blessed, your Tuesday is blessed, your Wednesday is blessed, your Thursday is blessed, your Friday is blessed and Saturday your blessed.
Speaker 1: Sunday, you're coming back with a testimony in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, jesus name, tell your neighbor, go forth with passion, with propulsion, and be productive.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life and you shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever, and there's nothing that devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: You are blessed to be a blessing.
Speaker 1: You are favored to be favorable.
Speaker 1: You're lifted to lift others up, and there's nothing that devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Are you glad you came?
Speaker 1: Let your light shine and now, with a grace by Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and forever more.
Speaker 1: Amen, shalom.