WEBVTT 00:00:03.484 --> 00:00:03.766 God is good. 00:00:03.766 --> 00:00:06.450 God is good and all the time. 00:00:06.450 --> 00:00:12.343 Come on, praise God. 00:00:12.343 --> 00:00:31.690 You can wave to me, we can see you by the eyes of it, as Pastor Simon would say, and we thank God that you are there, following us online, and I want to thank God for this opportunity to share the word of God. 00:00:31.690 --> 00:00:45.831 You know as, growing up, it was very, very important that you have to say you are stand, otherwise last night you may have backslided and you do not know you are for today. 00:00:45.831 --> 00:00:52.612 So I thank God for the opportunity he has given me and born again, and I love the Lord as my personal savior. 00:00:53.155 --> 00:01:12.313 And before I go to the word of God, I want to honor I always like honoring this pulpit because being granted to you know to stand here by our senior pastor and our associate pastor and our PDB, it is something that I do not take for granted. 00:01:12.313 --> 00:01:20.728 I always honor this man of God because they have gone ahead of us and they keep preparing the way and they are always our car. 00:01:20.728 --> 00:01:26.284 I always want to remind ourselves we should always learn to honor our man of God. 00:01:26.284 --> 00:01:30.956 Pastor Ambrose, we honor you in South Africa and we bless the Lord for you. 00:01:30.956 --> 00:01:32.983 Can you clap for him in his absence. 00:01:32.983 --> 00:01:40.165 I know he is there with the pastor, and also you want to honor Pastor Simon, wherever probably you are following us online. 00:01:40.165 --> 00:01:42.900 We honor you, man of God, and we thank God. 00:01:43.483 --> 00:01:46.349 And so are you revived. 00:01:46.349 --> 00:01:49.543 Yes, are you still in revival mode? 00:01:49.543 --> 00:01:54.724 You know, I was thinking as I was thinking in the season that we are in. 00:01:54.724 --> 00:02:15.724 You know, remember, we were told a revival week is not an activity, it is a what, it is a season, and so if it is a season, we must be in that mode until the next season that comes and ashes us to something else. 00:02:15.724 --> 00:02:21.347 So I want to trust that, where you are, you are still getting um. 00:02:21.347 --> 00:02:33.062 You, you are still, you are hurt, you are bubbling, you know, in that feeling of, because when the Lord revives us, he doesn't want us to remain where we are we were. 00:02:33.062 --> 00:02:37.441 Rather, he wants us to take a step, and that is why I want um. 00:02:37.441 --> 00:02:45.127 The Lord was reminding me about this empowered calling, taking stock of your life. 00:02:45.127 --> 00:02:55.646 My message today is about empowered calling, taking stock of your life, and I was saying sometimes we think of taking stock. 00:02:55.646 --> 00:03:14.241 It is about other things that are around us, but we forget about taking our stock on where we are with the Lord, and so this is what I want us to reflect on, even as we go to to read the word of God. 00:03:14.262 --> 00:03:16.551 Let's just pray briefly. 00:03:16.551 --> 00:03:18.581 Father, we thank you for your word. 00:03:18.581 --> 00:03:19.908 That is the truth. 00:03:19.908 --> 00:03:28.090 My father and I pray, even as you speak to each one of us this evening, dear Lord, because it is not my word, it is your word. 00:03:28.090 --> 00:03:32.233 Lord, you want to speak to me and you want to speak to your children. 00:03:32.233 --> 00:03:49.358 Our father, we gather, not in vain, and we follow online my father, not in vain or from whatever platforms, but it's because, lord, we want to be talked to my father and to be reminded and to be encouraged and to keep moving in the right direction. 00:03:49.358 --> 00:03:53.536 This we pray with thanksgiving and Jesus in him, amen. 00:03:53.536 --> 00:04:06.274 So let us read the story in the in Luke, chapter eight, and before we get that story Um, I'm also of those eras of giving stories. 00:04:06.614 --> 00:04:33.632 I don't know whether they are true stories or, but we were given stories as we were growing up, and one of the stories that um, we used to be given is the story of this um, um, uh, those guys will go poaching, and so this guy. 00:04:33.632 --> 00:04:47.062 It is, it's a poach anyway, anyway, those guys who go poaching, or they go, uh, anyway, poaching. 00:04:47.062 --> 00:04:53.497 So this guy, he went to a forest and he went to poaching for a bird. 00:04:53.497 --> 00:05:10.098 And when he went to the forest to um to poach for this bird, he saw a very beautiful bird on a tree and and he thought if I catch this bird, it will be very good for me, it will make a very good male and for sure. 00:05:10.098 --> 00:05:14.870 He stretched out his hand and he was shocked that this bird is not flying away. 00:05:14.870 --> 00:05:26.276 So, and you got hold of this bird and when you got the bird, the bird said it's very interesting that you have gotten hold of me. 00:05:26.355 --> 00:05:28.629 The bird was talking, can you hear? 00:05:28.629 --> 00:05:29.815 The bird was talking. 00:05:29.815 --> 00:05:34.014 So that is why I'm saying, since you are my story, so did you come out? 00:05:34.014 --> 00:05:37.084 Birds used to talk, I'm, they were talking that time. 00:05:37.084 --> 00:05:59.012 So the bird said um lem, I want to tell you three, what I mean, three, why I mean three, three statements that before you just, uh, eat me up on, before you go to cook me or to to roast me, I just want to talk, to tell you three things. 00:05:59.012 --> 00:06:00.454 And these are three things. 00:06:00.454 --> 00:06:16.293 He said one, um, he said one of these things is whatever you hold, whatever you get hold and it is precious to you, always make sure that you guard it seriously and you keep it and you do not release it. 00:06:16.293 --> 00:06:21.689 Did you hear that the bird is asking the poacher, or wherever? 00:06:21.689 --> 00:06:24.153 He said yes, I hear that. 00:06:24.915 --> 00:06:35.478 And the second statement, or the the second one um, the other thing that you should do is that the second one is always remember you. 00:06:35.478 --> 00:06:38.310 Human beings are very forgetful. 00:06:38.310 --> 00:06:44.711 Yeah, so the first statement was guys, we are learning this together. 00:06:44.711 --> 00:06:46.216 What is the first statement? 00:06:46.216 --> 00:06:55.759 Yes, whatever you hold into our hand and you cherish it, guard it, do not release it sour. 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:02.475 The second one is human beings are usually very forgetful. 00:07:02.475 --> 00:07:09.673 And then he said the third one just release me, I stay here so that I tell you the third one. 00:07:09.673 --> 00:07:13.766 And for sure, the man, he released the bird. 00:07:13.766 --> 00:07:15.348 So what do you think? 00:07:15.348 --> 00:07:18.274 The bird flew away. 00:07:18.274 --> 00:07:22.968 So, and of course, he reached there and he said what did I tell you? 00:07:22.968 --> 00:07:28.783 Whatever you hold into your hands, hold it and cherish it, don't release it. 00:07:28.783 --> 00:07:33.276 And then did I tell you that human beings are very forgetful? 00:07:33.276 --> 00:07:36.427 And for sure, it felt so bad that he lost the bird. 00:07:36.427 --> 00:07:38.894 And so what do I want to tell myself. 00:07:38.894 --> 00:07:54.694 That is sometimes what we do as human beings, and so the word that we are going to receive today, you should do it, do what hold it so dearly, sour, and do not allow it to get out of you. 00:07:54.694 --> 00:07:59.346 So I thought that is the moral of the story, and so let us read a look. 00:07:59.406 --> 00:08:04.053 Chapter 8, from verse 4 to 15. 00:08:04.053 --> 00:08:06.497 This is the parable of the soul. 00:08:06.497 --> 00:08:16.221 Jesus used to give a story with a lot of parables, and this is one of the parables that he gave about the soul. 00:08:16.221 --> 00:08:34.197 And when a great multitude had gathered and they had come to him from every city, uh-huh, a farmer went out to sow seeds. 00:08:34.197 --> 00:08:36.419 Is that verse 5? 00:08:36.419 --> 00:08:42.308 Oh, yes, a sower, we are in verse 5 now. 00:08:42.408 --> 00:08:53.695 A sower went out to sow seed and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside and it was trampled down and the bus of the air devoid it. 00:08:54.456 --> 00:09:02.373 Some fell on rock and as soon as it sprung up, it withered away because it lacked moisture. 00:09:02.373 --> 00:09:11.028 And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns sprung up, are with it and chocked it. 00:09:11.028 --> 00:09:20.166 But others fell on good ground, sprung up and yielded a crop a hundred fold. 00:09:20.166 --> 00:09:24.114 When he had said these things, he cried. 00:09:24.114 --> 00:09:31.147 He who has an ear, who he was here, so here, let him hear the ear. 00:09:31.147 --> 00:09:37.015 Then his disciples asked him saying what does this parable mean? 00:09:37.015 --> 00:10:00.988 And he said to you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of god, but to the rest it is given in parables that seeing and hearing uh-huh, given in parables are seeing they may not see and hearing they may not understand. 00:10:01.548 --> 00:10:05.658 Now the parable is this the seed is the word of god. 00:10:05.658 --> 00:10:09.265 Those by the wayside are the ones who hear. 00:10:09.265 --> 00:10:16.217 Then the devil comes and takes away the word out of other of their hearts. 00:10:16.217 --> 00:10:18.966 Less they should believe and be saved. 00:10:18.966 --> 00:10:36.038 But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away. 00:10:36.038 --> 00:10:52.000 Now, the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are chocked with chaos, riches and pleasures of life and bring no fruit to maturity. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:11:06.870 But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with the patience. 00:11:06.870 --> 00:11:08.394 Praise god. 00:11:08.394 --> 00:11:10.837 Did you hear the word of god? 00:11:10.837 --> 00:11:12.902 Did you hear it. 00:11:12.902 --> 00:11:37.437 Yes, so you have heard the word of god, and the word of god I was thinking about is that we have three portions of that we can talk about, about the seed, about this word of god, and one of them I was thinking it is those who hear the word of god but they do nothing, they do not action on it. 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:44.261 And they are those also who hear the word but they do not perceive the word of god. 00:11:44.261 --> 00:11:50.313 And the third category of people is those who hear the word and they implement. 00:11:50.313 --> 00:11:58.533 So ask your friend, which category do you belong? 00:11:58.533 --> 00:12:02.477 Those who hear and they do not action. 00:12:02.477 --> 00:12:10.254 They are those others who hear and, and you know that, those who hear and do not do not action. 00:12:10.254 --> 00:12:15.609 We are going to to say more about it, but I'm saying hearing but not actioning. 00:12:15.609 --> 00:12:19.775 And the other person is hearing but not perceiving. 00:12:19.775 --> 00:12:23.467 The other one is hearing and not implementing. 00:12:23.467 --> 00:12:44.480 Probably this is not the right time to ask until we explain who these people are and make sure you really get to know where you stand, because at the end of it, I want you to tell your neighbor where you fall, but not as if you were so in hearing but not actioning. 00:12:45.664 --> 00:12:47.610 Can we read media. 00:12:47.610 --> 00:12:51.679 Can you give us Luke, chapter eight, verse five and twelve? 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:58.518 We want to tie that together so that we can tie it to the actioning what it it means. 00:12:58.518 --> 00:13:08.375 Yes, a sower went out to to so his seat and as he soared, some fell by the wayside and it was trampled down. 00:13:08.375 --> 00:13:12.774 And verse 12 what does Oliver say? 00:13:12.774 --> 00:13:19.076 Those, those that's filmed by the wayside, are the ones who hear. 00:13:19.076 --> 00:13:28.417 Then the devil comes and takes away a word out of their hearts less they should believe and be saved. 00:13:29.985 --> 00:13:38.427 That is the category of the people that we are talking about those who hear the word and they do not action on it. 00:13:38.427 --> 00:13:42.914 And mostly these are the people that are blinded. 00:13:42.914 --> 00:13:47.187 You know they do not take the word of God seriously. 00:13:47.187 --> 00:13:50.215 You could be coming to church every. 00:13:50.215 --> 00:13:52.486 You could have been coming to revival week. 00:13:52.486 --> 00:13:55.592 You could be going to many meetings in the church. 00:13:55.592 --> 00:13:57.998 You know all the Bible studies. 00:13:57.998 --> 00:14:11.644 You could be going to serve in all the ministries, but then you, someone is blinded that they take, they do not take the word of God seriously to them, watch a tree and they like to say more. 00:14:11.644 --> 00:14:18.381 You know it doesn't bother them, it doesn't touch someone somewhere, I do not know where. 00:14:18.381 --> 00:14:20.868 If you, you could be in that category. 00:14:22.211 --> 00:14:33.320 Are you the one who keeps saying that the word of God is good today but you do not consider, you know, perceiving it in your heart, or you do not? 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:44.549 You know, consider receiving this Jesus, because when the word of God comes to us, it must be able to transform us, because we are talking of when the revival comes. 00:14:44.549 --> 00:14:52.511 It should be able to transform our lives so that we are no longer the people that came at the beginning. 00:14:52.511 --> 00:15:14.037 We are supposed to be transformed so that when we go out there, we make a difference, but, as if you, when we go out there, we need to be a people that are, you know, talking totally a different language in all your sphere of influence, because you have allowed the word of God, you know, to come into our heart. 00:15:14.037 --> 00:15:27.708 So these people are the people who keep saying um, um, yes, in the Mesquia here, gina, but I mean that word, but I am not ready, but I'm not what ready. 00:15:28.029 --> 00:15:42.311 So I pray that no one who keeps listening, you know, every time I think of the word of God and coming to my heart and the people of God receiving, I keep remembering the words of Pastor Ambrus, where he keeps saying. 00:15:42.311 --> 00:16:01.475 I pray that no one who comes to Perclan's Baptist Church through social media or through Fesco or through whatever you know platform, that you listen to the word, that you will ever go to hell simply because you do not take the word of God seriously. 00:16:01.475 --> 00:16:14.798 I pray that we shall not make a routine. 00:16:14.798 --> 00:16:25.177 I pray that we, as we walk this journey, when you hear that word, that we are not only coming in the evening and you know to cook, I buried. 00:16:25.177 --> 00:16:30.995 Imagine a 202, me talk, a feeling in the kitchen because keyword and I go like that. 00:16:30.995 --> 00:16:34.264 I pray we shall not be found in that category. 00:16:34.885 --> 00:16:44.250 And the second category while we are in that first category, the Bible says in Galatians, chapter six, can you give us media? 00:16:44.250 --> 00:16:47.677 Galatians, chapter six, verse seven and ten. 00:16:47.677 --> 00:16:51.767 Galatians, chapter six, verse seven and ten. 00:16:51.767 --> 00:17:02.307 The Bible says do not be deceived, god is not mocked, for whatever man souls that he will also reap. 00:17:02.307 --> 00:17:12.567 Let's continue up to verse ten, kindly, for he who saws to his flesh, will of flesh, reap corruption. 00:17:12.567 --> 00:17:24.467 But the those, but he who saws to the spirit, will of the spirit, a spirit, reap everlasting life. 00:17:24.467 --> 00:17:35.326 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 00:17:35.326 --> 00:17:43.468 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of God. 00:17:43.468 --> 00:17:44.750 Thank you, I'm. 00:17:44.750 --> 00:18:07.169 Basically I wanted to dwell in us chapter six, verse seven, verse seven and eight, that we should not be deceived, because whatever we saw where, if we saw that ignorant of not wanting to take the Lord as savior of our lives, do you know you're to do to taboo now. 00:18:07.169 --> 00:18:09.135 I'm gonna keep ringing it to taboo now. 00:18:09.135 --> 00:18:16.594 So I pray that as we always put ourselves into the word of God, it will take root in our hearts. 00:18:17.115 --> 00:18:25.538 And let us also read Proverbs, chapter 29 and verse one media Proverbs, chapter 29, verse one. 00:18:25.538 --> 00:18:27.182 It is so tying to the same. 00:18:27.182 --> 00:18:49.318 He who is often rebuked and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed and with that, without remand, and you are not taking any action. 00:18:49.318 --> 00:18:57.554 You know it is the Lord rebuking you and rebuking us all the time. 00:18:57.554 --> 00:19:05.496 But if we become stiff naked, you know, you know the children of Israel the way they really went in the wilderness for 40 years. 00:19:05.496 --> 00:19:08.726 Now you're well done, as they would have if they were just working. 00:19:08.726 --> 00:19:21.317 They say it takes only 12 days, imagine, but they said for 20, for 40 years in the wilderness because of being stiff naked, maran, do you how they have forgotten what God has done for them? 00:19:21.317 --> 00:19:36.589 So, brethren, believe us, my wonderful, beloved sisters and brothers, let us know that when the Lord speaks, you want us to action. 00:19:37.412 --> 00:19:40.336 Let us hear the second category of people. 00:19:40.336 --> 00:19:49.138 It is those who are but they are not perceiving, and that is let us read Luke, chapter 8, verse 6 and 7, kindly. 00:19:49.138 --> 00:19:49.559 Media. 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:54.892 Luke, chapter 8, verse 6 and 7. 00:19:54.892 --> 00:20:07.271 So some fell on rock and as soon as it is sprung up, it is with that away because it is a large moisture. 00:20:07.271 --> 00:20:13.566 And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprung up with it and chocked it. 00:20:13.566 --> 00:20:40.115 Yes, and verse 13 and 14, kindly, 13 and 14, we are tying it together, aha, but the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy and these have no root, who believe for a while and, in time of temptation, fall away. 00:20:40.115 --> 00:20:44.023 Those are those who are in that category. 00:20:44.023 --> 00:20:44.905 And verse 14. 00:20:44.905 --> 00:21:07.829 Now, the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are chocked with the chaos, reaches and pleasures of life and bring to fruit and bring no fruit to maturity so beloved again. 00:21:07.829 --> 00:21:12.239 This is another category of people that is really, really. 00:21:12.901 --> 00:21:13.962 God is not a. 00:21:13.962 --> 00:21:17.491 You know he's not proud if we are in that category. 00:21:17.491 --> 00:21:23.750 He's not proud of us because we are not conscious, we are not perceiving this word. 00:21:23.750 --> 00:21:35.157 You know, we are not taking it into regard, we are not trying to interpret that word of God, yeah, we are not allowing the spirit to minister to us. 00:21:35.157 --> 00:21:49.016 So I do not know whether you come here you can imagine, like when you know we are really celebrating the Lord in the services, we are celebrating the Lord in the revival week. 00:21:49.016 --> 00:22:19.059 You know there is a lot of jubilation as the word of God, excuse me, as the, as the servants of God bring the word of God in Sunday, in Sunday out when I stay and know that we are brought to the word again and again and we are so joyous when we receive this word but then when we get out there, we really have not taken it into our hearts. 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:20.544 We go out there. 00:22:20.544 --> 00:22:25.317 We are the ones, by the time, to figure out how to make a pile of wood. 00:22:25.317 --> 00:22:26.059 To make a pile of wood. 00:22:26.059 --> 00:22:31.518 Probably we see that if we make a pile of wood we will block the way to make a pile of wood. 00:22:31.518 --> 00:22:56.403 You know, we see that we are going to make a pile of wood and we are seeing the red lights and we are busy, you know, and I'm imagining if someone was taking a sulk on that and they are really following you and they are just imagining what you are doing, because that is what God does. 00:22:56.403 --> 00:23:00.584 I'm sure God doesn't, you know, like, follow us with a cane, you know. 00:23:01.085 --> 00:23:17.702 But you know, I usually tell myself if Jesus is my friend, if I love him, you know, someone that you love, I really would want so so much to do the very best that I do not consider this friend of mine. 00:23:17.702 --> 00:23:19.231 That is our Jesus. 00:23:19.231 --> 00:23:38.257 So I'm saying let us not be those that when we see things are getting hard, when there are pleasures of life out there, when there is, we see there are cares out there, we are quick even to deny Jesus. 00:23:38.257 --> 00:23:41.826 I can imagine we forget quickly our calling. 00:23:41.826 --> 00:23:46.698 So I'm saying like this because we said today we are doing what. 00:23:46.698 --> 00:23:59.210 We are doing, what Sulk taking, we are doing what, yes, we are sulk taking so that we see where are we, where are we in our work with the Lord. 00:23:59.210 --> 00:24:06.608 And so I want to remind ourselves that these are the things that we really ought to. 00:24:06.608 --> 00:24:08.855 So there could be so many things. 00:24:09.336 --> 00:24:14.852 Even though we come to church, our children when we go to home, do they really? 00:24:14.852 --> 00:24:17.757 Are they so much afraid of us? 00:24:17.757 --> 00:24:23.414 You know, there are some parents that are really tough or they are very difficult to their children. 00:24:23.414 --> 00:24:29.698 When the children hear the dad coming or the mom, probably they even sneak out of the house. 00:24:29.698 --> 00:24:32.184 Are we kind of that, you know? 00:24:32.184 --> 00:24:33.690 Are we in that category? 00:24:33.690 --> 00:24:37.160 It's because the word of God has not sank in us. 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:41.411 Are we the men or the husbands that are harassing our wives? 00:24:41.411 --> 00:24:43.054 Are we the, you know? 00:24:43.054 --> 00:24:50.433 Are we the people that sometimes are cohabiting, that are living the, you know, in the wrong places? 00:24:50.433 --> 00:24:53.359 You know, take stock of your life. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:25:10.817 You know, when the Bible in the Galatians that we read that God cannot be mocked, you know, because the Lord can see everything that happens to us, because you know, sometimes I can be there and continue taking the grace of God for granted. 00:25:10.817 --> 00:25:13.503 You know, because God gives us that grace. 00:25:13.503 --> 00:25:23.661 But remember, when we continue getting sif naked or sif naked, however you pronounce it, you know it won't take long. 00:25:23.661 --> 00:25:28.316 So I wouldn't want to be in that. 00:25:28.316 --> 00:25:39.609 God, help me not to be in that category and I pray that you also make it your prayer that we do not become or belong to that category where we are not minding. 00:25:44.942 --> 00:25:54.663 And then let's go to the next category of hearing and implementing. 00:25:54.663 --> 00:25:57.109 So the third category, to mess up. 00:25:57.109 --> 00:26:06.401 The first category is what Hearing and but not actioning. 00:26:06.401 --> 00:26:12.112 And the second one hearing but not perceiving. 00:26:12.112 --> 00:26:16.241 And the third one now, this is where God would be thriving. 00:26:16.241 --> 00:26:22.321 You know he would be looking at us and say, oh, I'm happy, that's my daughter, that's my son. 00:26:22.630 --> 00:26:33.770 Where we are hearing and implementing, let's read Luke, chapter eight, chapter eight and verse eight and 15. 00:26:33.770 --> 00:26:37.876 See, others fell, see others. 00:26:37.876 --> 00:26:40.138 Seed fell on good soil. 00:26:40.138 --> 00:26:47.114 It came up and yielded a crop 100 times more than was soon. 00:26:47.114 --> 00:26:54.308 When he said this, he called out whoever has to hear, let them hear. 00:26:54.308 --> 00:27:15.723 And then verse 15, but the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart who hear the word, return it and, by by by, by a production, produce a crop. 00:27:16.164 --> 00:27:18.468 So what category are you in? 00:27:18.949 --> 00:27:19.509 I again. 00:27:19.509 --> 00:27:22.938 This is the category I would want to belong. 00:27:22.938 --> 00:27:32.779 I know it is not easy, but it is also never difficult, because it is the Lord who helps us and as we are working. 00:27:32.779 --> 00:27:38.435 That is why the Bible says and by persevere you produce a crop. 00:27:38.435 --> 00:27:42.644 It is by persevere, it is by patience. 00:27:42.644 --> 00:27:48.819 You know, we are not saying that when we get this word of God and we are doing. 00:27:48.819 --> 00:27:54.675 What the Bible says is that when we get this word, we have allowed the Lord in our hearts. 00:27:54.675 --> 00:28:20.663 We have not only received this word and actioned and perceived it and then allowed it to soak in our hearts so that when we begin working this life, that is where I begin now thanking God about my sister or my brother who is doing well, because I also know the Lord will visit me. 00:28:20.663 --> 00:28:24.330 I'm not there feeling bad when someone else is driving. 00:28:24.330 --> 00:28:28.814 I will be there feeling good for them because they are driving. 00:28:29.213 --> 00:28:39.429 This is where, where, when we are out there even sometimes, you know, sometimes we do not even know our neighbors. 00:28:39.429 --> 00:28:47.217 Sometimes we do not even even know the soldiers who open for you the gate or you just you know nila, 29 year. 00:28:47.217 --> 00:28:49.261 You don't, you don't even say hi to them. 00:28:49.261 --> 00:28:51.807 This is where the lord wants us. 00:28:51.807 --> 00:29:05.212 You know if we are in that category that we can be able to talk to these people, we can be able to smile to these people, even whoever you think is not what they loving or looking out to them. 00:29:05.212 --> 00:29:08.661 These are the people that you desire to minister to. 00:29:08.661 --> 00:29:20.296 When we come, we are coming through our gates, you know, as we see our security team there, you are smiling to them, you are appreciating them, you are loving them. 00:29:20.296 --> 00:29:37.814 You know, sometimes, even sometimes when you feel they have done something, when you feel even they are telling you to see you to go and park where, and you don't want to park there, you don't become annoyed, because sometimes we feel that way when we are people that can be corrected. 00:29:37.973 --> 00:29:46.277 And I'm not saying to mefika to kiss them at mefika, to mend jindanga nilia, or we are lying to ourselves at wjafika. 00:29:46.277 --> 00:29:49.721 But people said I am striving. 00:29:49.721 --> 00:29:51.224 You know, praise the lord. 00:29:51.224 --> 00:29:57.742 We are trying to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. 00:29:57.742 --> 00:30:16.586 That is the people that the lord desires and I pray, if you are not at that level, the lord may help us so that if, wherever we go, let us always be conscious, and I'm not saying that we are conscious to the effect that you know you can't talk to people because you don't. 00:30:16.586 --> 00:30:34.509 We are just living a normal life, we are just a human being but, you know, just wanting to love our god, knowing that god, I love you and I want to bear fruit for you, if it is witnessing because we are already empowered around the changers. 00:30:34.830 --> 00:30:41.768 What are we doing when we have received the message of, of empowered takeover? 00:30:41.768 --> 00:30:48.441 Are we still taking over our territories where we are in our sphere of influence? 00:30:48.441 --> 00:31:01.364 I am strong now and I remember it's all about me. 00:31:01.364 --> 00:31:08.541 I go out there at a start what one young elation because I'm spirit field, I'm feeling good. 00:31:08.541 --> 00:31:15.477 No, we must be able to go out there and be world changers, but not as if you were. 00:31:15.477 --> 00:31:22.916 Where we need strength, let's ask the holy spirit to keep and feeling us day by day. 00:31:22.916 --> 00:31:27.930 Already we have the spirit of god in us, but we need power. 00:31:27.930 --> 00:31:30.757 We need to ask it for power again and again. 00:31:31.097 --> 00:31:35.827 Sometimes, when you come and stroll and you are doing nothing, go to the prayer room. 00:31:35.827 --> 00:31:38.199 You know, tell god to. 00:31:38.199 --> 00:32:03.443 You know pray, pray, even if it is to pray for people, and that god can use you in one way when we are outside there, wherever you are, wherever the lord has placed you, you know we were being prayed for in the last, in the, in the last day of the revival, that as we go out there, that we can be able to make a difference in our spheres of influence. 00:32:03.443 --> 00:32:19.878 And so this is the category of people that is required there so that we now begin producing, since you can get, if it is older women. 00:32:19.919 --> 00:32:33.761 There is someone who was telling me today the way she ministers to, she loves ministering to widowers, and that thing really touched me, you know, because I keep telling myself that is forgotten people. 00:32:33.761 --> 00:32:41.344 We sometimes don't think about the widowers because nobody who thinks much about them, and they are quiet. 00:32:41.344 --> 00:32:42.667 You know who are widowers? 00:32:42.667 --> 00:32:49.367 We are doors, are men who have lost their wives, and so when this person told me I felt, what a ministry. 00:32:49.367 --> 00:33:11.570 I told her my sister go, and you are blessed, minister, because those people do not get many people to minister, and so I pray, whatever they're gifting the lord has given to you even in this month of our calling, you know, let us thrive in it, let us do it with our passion, because that is what we are talking about. 00:33:11.570 --> 00:33:15.500 So I want to believe that we have taken a suck of ourselves. 00:33:15.500 --> 00:33:20.449 And where we belong, let us read one corindians, 10, 12 to 13. 00:33:20.449 --> 00:33:22.637 As I wind up my message. 00:33:22.637 --> 00:33:31.230 Let us read first corindians, then 12 to 13 media team. 00:33:31.230 --> 00:33:34.275 First corindians yes, thank you. 00:33:34.855 --> 00:33:40.705 So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you do not. 00:33:40.705 --> 00:33:41.788 You don't fall. 00:33:41.788 --> 00:33:49.332 Not temptation has overtaken you, except that which is common to mankind, and god is faithful. 00:33:49.332 --> 00:34:01.021 He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but when you are tempted, he will always provide a way out so that you can do it. 00:34:01.021 --> 00:34:04.512 Burn as if you were those who are doing growing in christ. 00:34:04.512 --> 00:34:06.017 Does that sound familiar? 00:34:06.017 --> 00:34:08.983 Who has done growing in christ? 00:34:08.983 --> 00:34:11.949 See, that is scripture. 00:34:11.949 --> 00:34:12.911 Sounds familiar? 00:34:12.911 --> 00:34:14.795 That is one of the memory. 00:34:14.795 --> 00:34:18.543 Scriptures are in the in whatever in growing in christ. 00:34:18.844 --> 00:34:27.288 So what we are saying is that as we grow in this life remember it is not we, it is not because of the effort we are putting. 00:34:27.288 --> 00:34:32.684 Otherwise, if it is our own effort, then the Holy Spirit has no place in us. 00:34:32.684 --> 00:34:49.628 So we are just saying we want to bear fruit and because the lord sees that I've accepted him as lord and savior, it helps me to grow and to be able to make a difference for him out there and so be rather of the lord. 00:34:49.628 --> 00:34:55.208 I want to pray for each one of us tonight, I do not know where, which category. 00:34:55.208 --> 00:35:50.025 Okay, that if you have not given your life to Jesus, this would be an opportune time for you to give your life to god, at least to get out of that category and begin perceiving and then, after perceiving, you can be able now to go out there and implement. 00:35:50.427 --> 00:35:58.684 Is there anyone in our medias who would be wanting to give their, their lives to christ? 00:35:58.684 --> 00:36:01.608 You know, sir, thinking, and I say, man, that's a theory. 00:36:01.608 --> 00:36:07.143 So I think it's what are you hiding? 00:36:07.143 --> 00:36:36.990 When I saw, if you, it is good, so that when Petru knows I am saved, I have someone that that can you know, that that can I can account, be accountable to send you or, like you know, I want someone to say you know to be, I want to be accountable. 00:36:36.990 --> 00:36:44.193 You know I want, when I'm taking stock, I can ask you a petru, how do you think I'm working with the lord? 00:36:44.193 --> 00:36:48.003 And Petru will not be feel it difficult to correct me. 00:36:48.003 --> 00:36:51.963 You know I can hear my sister there. 00:36:51.963 --> 00:37:00.342 You are not working for mongers, I upon touch it, okay. 00:37:00.342 --> 00:37:05.951 So that is the all reason, the whole point of why we get saved at the run. 00:37:05.951 --> 00:37:20.481 Naniya, not a cook or a cook, or a cook, or cook, or cook at the run in the day oh no, it's night, but it is daylight because everybody can see us in the video. 00:37:22.574 --> 00:37:40.606 If you do not give your life to Christ, I wouldn't mind leading you to the Lord. 00:37:40.606 --> 00:37:54.177 If there is a number D okay, that other category let us close our eyes For those other categories. 00:37:54.177 --> 00:38:00.360 I want you to just think through your life as we close our eyes and as you think through. 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:10.217 Am I that person who has yes, I've partaken this Jesus, but I have no regard at all when Jesus will. 00:38:10.217 --> 00:38:16.657 I'm doing nothing about it and I don't want to grow. 00:38:16.657 --> 00:38:25.902 That is not the category and the other category. 00:38:26.045 --> 00:38:43.822 I also want to pray for ourselves that, even when we hear, we may be able to implement, and we ask God to give us that grace, because sometimes we can be worn out, we can feel like it is taking too long, we can feel like we have been serving too long. 00:38:43.822 --> 00:39:03.864 I want to pray, and so I'm giving you one minute to tell God, in whatever category that the Lord will help you to be able to be, to go to the category that God desires most, which is the category of hearing and implementing. 00:39:03.864 --> 00:39:07.117 Father, we thank you and we bless you. 00:39:07.117 --> 00:39:10.956 You are not some God, you are loving Father. 00:39:10.956 --> 00:39:14.998 We want to bless you tonight because your word has come forth. 00:39:14.998 --> 00:39:24.199 We want to bring you together with ourselves, our Father, because I'm also learning from you. 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:33.400 Dear Redeemer, you always bring the word and each one of us must be able to hear and to be able to be a doer of your word. 00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:39.476 And therefore, lord Almighty, I want to pray for this beloved of the Lord together with myself. 00:39:39.476 --> 00:39:46.824 We have heard your word, my Father, and whichever category, my Father, we are, we will be able to hear. 00:39:46.864 --> 00:40:03.713 Tonight, I pray as the spirit of God continues to speak to their hearts, my Father, they will not be found when they have not given their lives to you, jehovah, when they continue coming to Park Lanz Baptist Church, when they continue hearing from this pulpit, our God, your word. 00:40:03.713 --> 00:40:19.304 Let your people not harden your hearts, their hearts, oh God, from wherever they are listening, even those that are following online, even those that are in the community, those that are following others, will follow. 00:40:19.304 --> 00:40:38.884 After this, I pray, if there is someone that would need to give their lives to the Lord, our Father, that they will be open enough to say Jesus, I want to receive you so that you can move to another step, our God, and that you can begin now perceiving your word, and not just perceiving alone, but also having to implement. 00:40:38.884 --> 00:40:43.798 Jehovah, god, because that is what you are telling each one of us, our Father. 00:40:43.798 --> 00:40:51.237 I pray that you can continue to speak to your word and just allowing it to go like that in Jehovah. 00:40:51.237 --> 00:41:09.849 Let the spirit of the living God continue to speak to our hearts, our God, let the spirit of the Lord continue to minister to each one, our Father, when we come, dear Redeemer, we can be able even to go to the prayer room more and more, jehovah, because that is the altar that you have created in my Father. 00:41:09.849 --> 00:41:15.398 That we can connect even deeper with you, that we can be ready for God. 00:41:15.759 --> 00:41:19.387 I pray Jehovah God, even for our worship team. 00:41:19.387 --> 00:41:21.268 I pray for the band. 00:41:21.268 --> 00:41:23.264 I pray for the media. 00:41:23.264 --> 00:41:25.166 I pray for the security. 00:41:25.166 --> 00:41:26.248 I pray, my Father, for whoever serves. 00:41:26.248 --> 00:41:36.300 That we may not serve my Father and be left behind by God because I can speak the word and I might be left behind. 00:41:36.300 --> 00:41:40.867 The others can worship here and be left behind because we are serving. 00:41:40.867 --> 00:42:07.393 I pray for the ashes that, even as we do this we minister, our God, that when your word is spoken, my Father, I will all be able to pick it up, my Father, not like we are just serving, but allowing your word, my Father, oh, glorious Lord, speak to our hearts, my Father and our God, and take us to another level, king of glory, because that is where we want to be. 00:42:07.393 --> 00:42:13.184 We want to be world leaders, we want to be a part of our revival. 00:42:13.431 --> 00:42:17.155 Week came, jehovah God, and you empowered us more and more, our God. 00:42:17.155 --> 00:42:23.740 We pray that, my Father, the empowerment we received, that, my Father, we shall not waste it, oh God. 00:42:23.740 --> 00:42:31.949 We shall continue to move on, dear Riddima, doing the works of the kingdom, because that is what you have called us into our God. 00:42:31.949 --> 00:42:43.382 We want to bless you, my Father, we want to give you all the praise, we want to give you all the honor, my name, amen and amen. 00:42:43.382 --> 00:42:50.088 We want to thank God, I want to believe you have communed with God and we give a mother glory. 00:42:50.088 --> 00:42:53.597 And now I want to release us and also to pray. 00:42:53.637 --> 00:42:57.929 I can see the cup of tea is there and thank God, today it is. 00:42:57.929 --> 00:43:02.684 It is amazing. 00:43:02.684 --> 00:43:04.088 I love my Indie, thank you. 00:43:04.088 --> 00:43:14.943 So we should also continue eating here or there that is always, always what I keep talking about and exercising, and our fitness is doing very well. 00:43:14.943 --> 00:43:18.856 We have so many people now, so you don't have a reason. 00:43:18.856 --> 00:43:24.606 Park is loaded with everything, so everything under park. 00:43:24.606 --> 00:43:33.402 So we want to tell God to help us that we can love him with ourselves, with our bodies, with our minds, with our soul, with our everything. 00:43:33.402 --> 00:43:34.827 And so God bless you. 00:43:34.949 --> 00:43:37.056 I want now to finish. 00:43:37.056 --> 00:43:39.563 Or, petru, do you have anything else? 00:43:39.563 --> 00:43:49.333 Okay, so God bless you and keep you and make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you as we go out. 00:43:49.333 --> 00:43:58.864 And now, with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and forevermore. 00:43:58.864 --> 00:44:08.867 Amen, surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever. 00:44:08.867 --> 00:44:09.769 Amen. 00:44:09.769 --> 00:44:15.061 And the cup of tea and mes before us, lord, we receive it with thanksgiving in Jesus name. 00:44:15.061 --> 00:44:18.324 Amen, enjoy, asante.