Speaker 1: you, you, you, you, you.
Speaker 1: We thank the Lord God.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, we thank the Lord God.
Speaker 1: Oh, christ, nobody now but yours.
Speaker 1: No fear on earth.
Speaker 1: But yours, your's are the eyes with which he see.
Speaker 1: Your's are the feet with which he walk.
Speaker 1: Your's are the hands with which he blesses all the world.
Speaker 1: Your's are the hands.
Speaker 1: Christ has nobody now but yours.
Speaker 1: No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Speaker 1: Your's are the eyes with which he sees.
Speaker 1: Your's are the feet with which he walks.
Speaker 1: Your's are the hands with which he blesses all the world.
Speaker 1: Your's are the hands.
Speaker 1: Christ has nobody now but yours.
Speaker 1: No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Speaker 1: Your's are the eyes with which he sees.
Speaker 1: Your's are the feet with which he walks.
Speaker 1: Your's are the hands with which he blesses all the world.
Speaker 1: Your's are the hands, you, christ.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 3: Father, we are so grateful and thankful for this day that has been.
Speaker 3: We thank you for your love.
Speaker 3: We thank you that you gave your body for us so that we would be healed.
Speaker 3: Your words are the bio stripes.
Speaker 3: We were healed.
Speaker 3: You shed your blood so that we, we would be forgiven.
Speaker 3: Our sins past, present and future are forgiven, and we thank you for the grace that you keep extending to us.
Speaker 3: Lord, thank you for the gift of life.
Speaker 3: We don't take that for granted, god.
Speaker 3: We bless you and to this evening, god, we're here to bless you, to worship you, lord, to continue living a life that honors you, to worship you, even in some worship, to worship you with what we have.
Speaker 3: Lord, we thank you and we bless you.
Speaker 3: We thank you that your presence is here with us, lord, as we pray, as we hear your word, we know that you are going to be speaking to us, lord, and we pray all this in Jesus name, amen.
Speaker 4: Hallelujah, praise God and we pray to us to stand up in the presence of the Lord.
Speaker 4: Amen.
Speaker 4: The Bible says Christ is the wine and we are the branches.
Speaker 4: Hallelujah, through his love.
Speaker 4: We meant as a hand to one body.
Speaker 4: Hallelujah, and we just want to celebrate this love, amen.
Speaker 4: Let me see you clap for the family, jesus.
Speaker 4: Let me see you clap for them, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Praise to the Lord.
Speaker 1: I've got a king.
Speaker 1: Love and juice forever.
Speaker 1: Oh, for he is good, he's a fine one.
Speaker 1: Faith, love and juice forever.
Speaker 1: Praise to the Lord.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the man in an ostrich fur Love and juice forever.
Speaker 1: Oh, for the life that has been reborn.
Speaker 1: Love and juice forever.
Speaker 1: Sing, sing fragrant.
Speaker 1: Oh, forever tribal, oh, forever험.
Speaker 1: Love and grace.
Speaker 1: Forever I've been praying.
Speaker 1: So, god, we will carry on.
Speaker 1: Love and grace you, and sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise.
Speaker 1: Forever God is sweet.
Speaker 1: Forever God is strong.
Speaker 1: Forever God is sweet.
Speaker 1: Forever, never, forever.
Speaker 1: Forever God is sweet.
Speaker 1: Forever God is strong.
Speaker 1: Forever God is sweet.
Speaker 1: Forever.
Speaker 1: Gone is tomorrow, forever gone is winter, forever, forever, forever, forever.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make it like he's in love and he works forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I can't promise, but I want us to speak it as loud as we can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, woo, let me sing loud and say, let me sing loud and say, woo, let me sing, sing it.
Speaker 1: He's love, love and he works forever.
Speaker 1: He's love and he works forever.
Speaker 1: He can't love unless he's love and his work, he's love and his work.
Speaker 1: Oh, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise, sing praise.
Speaker 1: One more time, one more time, one more time.
Speaker 1: Hey, sing praise, hey, sing praise.
Speaker 1: Oh, sing praise, hey, sing praise.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, forever, forever, forever, forever, forever.
Speaker 1: God in peace, forever.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll never say forever, forever, god in peace, forever.
Speaker 1: I'll never say forever, I'll never say forever, I'll never say forever, oh, amen.
Speaker 1: Once, just once, seen her declaring his love, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks to the Lord for his good, his love, and your forever Thanks to the Lord, who's above all other times, his love, and your forever Thanks to the Lord, who's the longest mighty demon, his love, and your forever Thanks to the Lord, whose love never, never fades the air.
Speaker 1: Thanks to the Lord for his good, his love, and your forever Thanks to the Lord for his good, his love, and your forever Thanks to the Lord, who's above all other times His love, and your forever Thanks to the Lord, who's the longest mighty demon, his love and your forever Thanks to the Lord, whose love never, never fades the air.
Speaker 1: Sing aloud, sing aloud, sing aloud, sing aloud, sing aloud.
Speaker 1: Have your soul, have some glory, have some glory.
Speaker 1: Have your soul have some glory, have some glory.
Speaker 1: Mighty wonder.
Speaker 1: The Lord is good, the Lord is good.
Speaker 1: The Lord is very good, very good.
Speaker 1: The Lord is very good, very good, very good.
Speaker 1: It's good to me.
Speaker 1: Thanks to the Lord for his good, his love and your forever.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord, who's a Bible.
Speaker 1: I say God's name.
Speaker 1: He's love is yours forever.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord who alone has mighty being.
Speaker 1: He's love is yours forever.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord who never, never prays.
Speaker 1: He's love is yours forever.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
Speaker 1: He's love is yours forever.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord, who's a Bible.
Speaker 1: I say God's name.
Speaker 1: He's love is yours forever.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord who alone has mighty being.
Speaker 1: He's love is yours forever.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord who never, never prays.
Speaker 1: He's thanks to the Lord, for he is good.
Speaker 1: Sing loudly and地 carry wonderful deeds.
Speaker 1: 唱 it loud if wonderful praises have you, sam aye.
Speaker 1: Sing loudly and地 carry wonderful deeds.
Speaker 1: Have you, sam aye.
Speaker 1: Sing loudly and地 carry wonderful deeds.
Speaker 1: 唱 it loud if wonderful praises have you, sam aye.
Speaker 1: Sing loudly and地 carry wonderful deeds.
Speaker 1: Oh, the ordinary, oh somebody.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's the ordinary.
Speaker 1: Lord is good, the Lord is good.
Speaker 1: Good day, look at you hey, very good, it's very good, very good, the Lord is good.
Speaker 1: It's very good, it's very good.
Speaker 4: It's the ordinary.
Speaker 4: The Lord is good.
Speaker 4: It's very good.
Speaker 4: Hey, it's very good, very good, the Lord is good, it's very good, it's very good.
Speaker 4: Let me see you with my song.
Speaker 4: Let me go for the solo.
Speaker 4: Let me do it.
Speaker 4: Let me do it, let me do it.
Speaker 4: I'm good man.
Speaker 4: I wanna slip up my hands in a good cheese.
Speaker 4: Let me do it.
Speaker 4: 20 MacGuffin, macguffin.
Speaker 4: One more time, one more time.
Speaker 4: 20, hallelujah.
Speaker 4: Hey man, let me think if you're left as much as cheese, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, hey the Lord.
Speaker 4: 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, hallelujah it is better watching me than celebrating 20, 20 20, 20, 20, 20 20 Hallelujah, hallelujah
Speaker 1: 20, 20, 20 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20 20.
Speaker 3: Let the weak say, let the weak say I am strong.
Speaker 1: Let the poor say I am free.
Speaker 1: Let the blind say I am free.
Speaker 1: And by your sight we are free.
Speaker 1: For the Lord, I am turning free.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: See the love now aflame.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Jesus died and broken now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now To the land I was saved.
Speaker 2: Hold that now hold that now Jesus died and broken Into the river, into the river.
Speaker 2: I will wait there.
Speaker 1: My sins are washed away From the heavens.
Speaker 1: Must it stream All the Savior's love for me.
Speaker 1: I will rise.
Speaker 1: I will rise from water's feet Into the saving songs of God.
Speaker 1: I will sing salvation songs.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ has set me free.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: See the love now aflame.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Jesus died and broken.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now to the land I was saved.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Jesus died and broken.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now To the land I was saved.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Jesus died and broken.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now To the land I was saved.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Jesus died and broken again.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's just lift up your voice and watch the Jesus.
Speaker 1: He deserves all our worship.
Speaker 1: By His Christ, we have been healed.
Speaker 1: We are forgiven.
Speaker 1: We are a new creation.
Speaker 1: Father, we bless you, we work to be Lord.
Speaker 1: Oh, then, when you died and rose again so that we would be free.
Speaker 1: We have been stepped before and we thank you.
Speaker 1: We bless you.
Speaker 1: We thank you that we are a new creation.
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now To the land I was saved.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Jesus died and broken.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Hold that now To the land I was saved.
Speaker 1: Hold that now.
Speaker 1: Jesus died and rose again.
Speaker 5: Child of God.
Speaker 5: In that mode of prayer, love to read us John 10, 27.
Speaker 5: John 10, 27.
Speaker 5: And it says my sheep listen to my voice, I know them and they follow me.
Speaker 5: Child of God, this evening I pose a question to us is it enough that we know God?
Speaker 5: Is it enough that we claim we know God?
Speaker 5: Child of God, it is one thing to know God and it's another thing to be identified with Him.
Speaker 5: It's one thing to know God and it's another thing for Him to know us.
Speaker 5: It's one thing to be identified with Him when he says he knows us.
Speaker 5: It's not a matter of intellect, it's a matter of relationship, it's a matter of intimacy, it's a matter of friendship, it's a matter of levels and dimensions.
Speaker 5: So this evening, child of God, I would want you to cry to God and tell God Father, lord may be identified with you, may be identified with you.
Speaker 5: May my actions be identified with you, may my family be identified with you.
Speaker 5: It goes deeper than knowing God.
Speaker 5: It goes deeper than feeling the poor.
Speaker 5: It goes deeper than proclaiming it.
Speaker 5: It goes deeper.
Speaker 5: Child of God.
Speaker 5: This evening, I want you to ask yourself a question are you known by the Father?
Speaker 5: Can you identify with you.
Speaker 5: He says my sheep hear my voice, I know them.
Speaker 5: Does the Father know you?
Speaker 5: Child of God, does the Father know you?
Speaker 5: This evening, I would want you to open your mouth and tell God, father Lord, I present myself as a living sacrifice.
Speaker 5: Yes, you have acted.
Speaker 5: Yes, you have proclaimed.
Speaker 5: Yes, you fed the poor.
Speaker 5: Yes, you have gone ahead, you've gone forth.
Speaker 5: But, father Lord, I want to be identified with the kingdom.
Speaker 5: It goes deeper than those actions.
Speaker 5: It goes deeper than those lifts.
Speaker 5: It goes deeper than what you think you have been doing.
Speaker 5: Child of God, ask yourself when you talk, does the heavens respond?
Speaker 5: When you command, as the angels respond?
Speaker 5: Child of God, open your mouth and tell God, father Lord, this evening, I want to be identified with a kingdom.
Speaker 5: Father Lord, may I be a man after your own heart, just like David.
Speaker 5: When only Satan done is your heart running after God, when your only Satan is your heart longing for God.
Speaker 5: Child of God, go deep and say, father Lord, I present myself as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to you, that Father may be identified in the kingdom.
Speaker 5: The Father I desire to be known by you.
Speaker 5: That, father Lord, may I not say it and my actions say otherwise, may I not say it, and my heart goes farther.
Speaker 5: Child of God, you cannot afford to be silent before the King of kings.
Speaker 5: You cannot afford to be silent in his presence.
Speaker 5: You cannot afford to be silent, not to mention what it is that you desire.
Speaker 5: That Lord, may I be a man after your own heart.
Speaker 5: That Father, lord, may I be found where we give you glory.
Speaker 5: That Father, lord.
Speaker 5: If it does not excite you, lord, that Father, if it is not of you, I will not be found within that Father.
Speaker 5: If it does not give you the glory, I will not be part of it.
Speaker 5: Child of God, I do not know if you desire to be known by him, not only to know him, but to be known by him.
Speaker 5: The levels of intimacy you cannot experience until the flesh is dead.
Speaker 5: The levels of intimacy you cannot get to experience until you release yourself and you accept to decrease and for God to increase in your lives.
Speaker 5: The levels of intimacy that you cannot reach until your heart is open.
Speaker 5: Child of God, open your mouth and tell Jovo Father, we thank you, thank you for your love and thank you for your care.
Speaker 5: Father, we bless you for the moments you have loved us.
Speaker 5: Thank you, jovo, for the moments you have been there for us.
Speaker 5: O God that Jovo, this evening we declare O God, and we desire to be known by you, o God, not only to proclaim that we know you, but, jovo, to be known by you, that, father, lord, we may be receptive, that our hearts will be open.
Speaker 5: O God that Jovo, we shall learn and we shall accept.
Speaker 5: O God that Jovo, we shall yield to your supremacy and your authority over our lives.
Speaker 5: O God, anything that does not give glory, we do not want to be part of it.
Speaker 5: Anything that does not see Jovo to have your name lifted, we do not want to be part of it.
Speaker 5: Jovo, we are tired of the gimmicks.
Speaker 5: We are tired of acting.
Speaker 5: We are tired, jovo, of performances.
Speaker 5: It does not only settle to the skills, but, jovo, it goes deeper, to the anointing.
Speaker 5: Jovo, we want the anointing that breaks every yoke.
Speaker 5: We desire the anointing that breaks every yoke.
Speaker 5: We desire the presence that commands atmospheres.
Speaker 5: We desire, jovo, o God, to meet you to deeper levels of intimacy.
Speaker 5: My God that, jovo, over my father, we shall be found that our hearts hunger for you, o God, as the dear ponder for the water, so our souls longs for you, jovo, my God, above father Jovo, we are seeking this evening, my God, the king of glory.
Speaker 5: We shall be identified with you, we shall be identified with your kingdom, o God, we shall be identified.
Speaker 5: Jovo, of men that stood for the faith and for the, for the glory of God, jovo, my father, we seek O God, jovo, my father, we shall be found in those deeper blesses.
Speaker 5: My God, our hearts are willing.
Speaker 5: O God, speak to our hearts.
Speaker 5: O God that Jovo, my father, we shall desire, o King of glory, to be found in your house, to be found where you are, to be found in your presence, o God, in the name of Jesus Christ, o God, for the Lord, we are coming, humbling ourselves to you, o God, and desiring Jovo that will take us to deeper blesses of intimacy.
Speaker 5: My God, that Jovo, my father, it will go beyond our actions, it will go beyond our words, it will go beyond, jovo, what we have desired, O God, it will go beyond our wishes, my God, it will go beyond our human understanding, my God, for we understand, jovo, their levels.
Speaker 5: Unless we reach, o God, my father, we are not able to break some yoke's, o King of glory, and therefore, this evening, we are seeking, o God, to be identified with your kingdom, o King of glory, nothing else in this world matters without you, o God, nothing else in this world, my father, makes sense.
Speaker 5: Without you.
Speaker 5: We need, my God, not even our jobs, my God, not even what we think we know.
Speaker 5: Everlasting King of glory, and Jovo, my father, to acknowledge all we have is all you have given us and the anointing we walk under.
Speaker 5: Jovo, it is you that has allowed it, my God.
Speaker 5: Therefore, jovo, my father, we come to you, o King of glory, jovo, my father, we present as we are, o God to thee, o King of glory, shedding every title, my God, shedding every skill, my father, shedding all our being.
Speaker 5: Jovo, my God, until our hearts, my God, turn to you, everlasting King of glory, until the kingdoms of these other, the kingdoms of our Lord, jesus Christ, my God, that, jovo, it will.
Speaker 5: It will besaid, my father, that they leave the son of God, they leave the daughter of God that was there and was faithful to the calling.
Speaker 5: Jovo, my God, I pray that, jovo, we shall go beyond talking.
Speaker 5: We shall go beyond promises, my God, we shall go beyond it all, jovo, my father, and we shall transcend into deeper levels, my father, of knowing you, o God.
Speaker 5: That, jovo, our hearts, my God, will focus on you, everlasting King of glory.
Speaker 5: That, jovo, my father, you shall for sure say that we are men after your own heart, my God, that if it does not please the father, we do not want to be found among it.
Speaker 5: If it does not please the father, we will not work in it.
Speaker 5: If it does not please our father, we shall not be partisans of it.
Speaker 5: Everlasting King of glory, we open our hearts to you, o God.
Speaker 5: We open our hearts to you, jovo, to your correction, to your love, to your rebuke, everlasting King of glory.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it is uncomfortable, but, yes, we choose to yield.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it is painful, but, yes, we choose to yield.
Speaker 5: Sometimes, jovo, my father, it seems like long days in the wilderness, but yes, we choose to yield.
Speaker 5: If that is all it takes to be known by you, if that all it takes to be known by the father, if that's all that it takes to remain in you and you in us, jovo, then we choose to yield.
Speaker 5: Everlasting King of glory, we choose to yield our father.
Speaker 5: We choose to yield King of glory, jovo, my father.
Speaker 5: We desire and we hunger for you, o God.
Speaker 5: There is a desire in every man's heart that only you can feel.
Speaker 5: There is a desire and a desperation in every man's heart that only you can feel, o God and Jovo, we are seeking, o God, that you feel it for us.
Speaker 5: O God, we desire that you feel that hunger, jovo, we have for us.
Speaker 5: My God, that King of glory, jovo, my father, we shall not be ignorant of your presence, o God, we shall not be ignorant of your being in our lives.
Speaker 5: O God, we shall not be ignorant of the places, jovo, you've rescued us from.
Speaker 5: O God, we shall not be ignorant, my father, of the holds, my God, that you rescued us, jovo, my God.
Speaker 5: Therefore, Jovo, we are seeking to be identified with you, o God, that Father, lord, we shall follow you, o King of glory, that we shall look to Zion, my God, to desire your word, o God, to desire your presence.
Speaker 5: My God, to desire that intimate relationship with you, my God, to desire your presence made manifest in our lives.
Speaker 5: My God, to desire Jovo, my father, not only to say it, my God, but to do it, o God, for you.
Speaker 5: Tell us in Titles 116, my father, that, yes, they said it, but their hearts are far from you, father, lord, we do not want our hearts to be far from you, neither our actions, my God, we choose to abide in you, lord.
Speaker 5: We choose to be known by you, o God, known by their father, that Jovo, my father, you shall identify with us.
Speaker 5: And as identified with you, o God, that Jovo, king of glory, we shall not tire to seek you.
Speaker 5: We shall not tire to seek your kingdom.
Speaker 5: We shall not tire to go after that which places the heart of our father.
Speaker 5: We shall not tire Jovo to proclaim you, o God.
Speaker 5: We shall not tire Jovo to run after things that keep glory to you, my God, if there is any point, jovo, we took the glory to ourselves.
Speaker 5: Father, lord, we repent for Lord, you are the one that enables us.
Speaker 5: You are the one that enables us, o God, be a grateful, o King of glory.
Speaker 5: We seek that, jovo, for them, that what is connected with you.
Speaker 5: May you reconnect us back again, o Lord, for there is no other, better place to remain than in you, o God.
Speaker 5: There is no other love to desire and to long for than you.
Speaker 5: As O God, there is no other place to be than in your presence, o God, for your presence continually remains to be heaven in us, my God at Father, we shall be identified with you, the Lord.
Speaker 5: You shall identify with us.
Speaker 5: That you shall not only remain in you, o God.
Speaker 5: You will remain in us, my Father.
Speaker 5: Our words, our actions, lord, we'll point to the greater love that you have for us.
Speaker 5: We'll point to you, everlasting King of glory.
Speaker 5: Help us understand the deeper levels of intimacy with you, o God, for there are yokes that cannot be broken unless, father, we yield.
Speaker 5: There are yokes that cannot be broken, lord, unless we have attained that level of intimacy.
Speaker 5: It is written in your word that seek the kingdom of God first, and everything follows, lord.
Speaker 5: We seek to seek your kingdom first.
Speaker 5: We want to seek your kingdom first and all your righteousness, o God.
Speaker 5: We seek to seek your kingdom first, everlasting King of glory.
Speaker 5: Everything else shall be added unto it.
Speaker 5: Let us be found where you are.
Speaker 5: Let us be found where you are, lord.
Speaker 5: Let us learn to design your presence and to be found where their heart is pleased to be.
Speaker 5: Identify with us, o God.
Speaker 5: There's anywhere we fall short, if there's anywhere we disappointed you, lord, forgive us.
Speaker 5: Forgive us, god, for we are aware we're not a God of second chances, but a God of many chances.
Speaker 5: Therefore, god, we choose to come as we are, as dirty as we may be, as guilty as we may be feeling, lord, we choose to come back as we are, o Lord, for we know we are running back to the arms of the Father.
Speaker 5: We know that we are running back to the arms that forever will be open for us.
Speaker 5: We know that we are running back to our Father that genuinely loves us and will forever love us.
Speaker 1: How he saved me, how he saved me, how he filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me to the animals.
Speaker 1: When I think about the Lord, how he picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my feet on solid ground, when I think about the Lord how he saved me, how he raised me, how he filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me to the animals, when I think about the Lord, how he picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my feet on solid ground, when I think about the Lord, when I think about the Lord, how he saved me, how he raised me, how he filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me to the animals, when I think about the Lord, how he picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my feet on solid ground, it makes me, it makes me want to shout Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, lord, you worthy of all the glory and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 1: It makes me want to shout Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, lord, you worthy of all the glory and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 1: It makes me want to shout Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, lord, you worthy of all the glory and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 1: It makes me want to shout Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 1: Lord, you worthy of all the glory and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 1: Think about the Lord how he saved me, how he raised me, how he filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me to the animals, when I think about the Lord, how he picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my feet on solid ground.
Speaker 1: When I think about the Lord, when I think about the Lord how he saved me, how he raised me, how he filled me with the Holy Ghost, how he healed me to the animals, when I think about the Lord, how he picked me up and turned me around, how he placed my feet on solid ground, how he raised me, how he saved me, how he raised me, how he saved me, how he placed me, how he and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 1: You are the sound.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, lord, your Word Of all the glory and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 1: Lamentations 322.
Speaker 5: Lamentations 322 Shalom God.
Speaker 5: This evening, god says he loves you.
Speaker 5: God says he loves each one of us.
Speaker 5: Lamentations 322 says Because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed.
Speaker 5: Child of God, this evening God is saying he loves each one of you, as heavy as you might be With the many questions you might have.
Speaker 5: God says he loves you.
Speaker 5: The greatest measure of love is sacrifice, and Christ is a living example of that love.
Speaker 5: Love has a name and it is Christ.
Speaker 5: His love will never let us down, it is sure, and it is steadfast.
Speaker 5: It is endless, it is boundless and fading, without conditions.
Speaker 5: Child of God, this evening I would want us to respond to that love.
Speaker 5: He says he loves you.
Speaker 5: So, child of God, this evening I want you to respond to that love that he says, that love he has spoken over your life.
Speaker 5: Child of God, I want you to respond and tell Jehovah that I love you back With my actions.
Speaker 5: Lord, I choose to love you With all that I have and all that I am.
Speaker 5: I choose to love you, child of God, open your mouth and love on God.
Speaker 5: Open your mouth and embrace God.
Speaker 5: Love on Him and tell Him.
Speaker 5: Lord, my actions may have acted contrary to that love.
Speaker 5: But this time I'm coming back home, child of God.
Speaker 5: It is only Christ that opens His arms freely, without judging, to us.
Speaker 5: It is only God that opens His arms to us, knowing that yesterday you did sin, few minutes ago you did sin, but he still says come as you are, child of God, love on God.
Speaker 5: Open your arms and tell God Father, I choose to love you truly and genuinely.
Speaker 5: Father, lord, I choose to go forth To love you truly and genuinely, with all that I have and all that I am.
Speaker 5: Father, I choose to love you.
Speaker 5: I choose to love you, oh God, with my actions, with all that I am, with all my being, I choose to love you.
Speaker 5: Child of God, respond to that love.
Speaker 5: There's no greater love than the love of the Father.
Speaker 5: There's no greater love than that love that he has given us.
Speaker 5: There's no greater love for Him to even give us the grace that we are living in.
Speaker 5: There's no greater and deeper love for someone to tell you that when you ask, when you repent of our iniquities, he forgives us and it does not remember our sins anymore.
Speaker 5: Beyond, what manner of love is that that he gives His child, he gives His only son to die for us.
Speaker 5: Beyond what manner of love is that that he continues to uphold us with His righteous right hand?
Speaker 5: Beyond what manner of love is that that, when other people are casting you down, he's lifting you up?
Speaker 5: Beyond what manner of love is that that, when people are talking against you, lord is taking it all around to work for your sake?
Speaker 5: Beyond what manner of love is that that he goes for them, speaks good things about you?
Speaker 5: Beyond what manner of love that he embraces you as you are?
Speaker 5: As dirty as you are, as filthy as we may be, he still chooses to love us.
Speaker 5: Child of God, respond to that love and tell God Father, I choose to love you With all that I am and with all that I have.
Speaker 5: Father, I choose to love you.
Speaker 5: It is not to a specific point.
Speaker 5: Father, I accept you fully To my finances.
Speaker 5: I accept you fully To my children.
Speaker 5: I accept you fully In my heart.
Speaker 5: I accept you fully To my spouse.
Speaker 5: I accept you fully To my workplaces.
Speaker 5: I accept you fully.
Speaker 5: Child of God, respond to that love.
Speaker 5: There is no greater love than the love of God, he who was sent to die for your sins.
Speaker 5: He will lead you Even when you cannot see ahead.
Speaker 5: He who tells you to trust in him, he who tells you to hold on to him.
Speaker 5: He works everything for your own good.
Speaker 5: Beyond what manner of love is this Child of God to respond to?
Speaker 5: That love that is boundless?
Speaker 5: Respond to that love that is great.
Speaker 5: Respond to that love that keeps you going.
Speaker 5: Respond to that love that has made grace available for each one of you.
Speaker 5: Respond to that love that identifies with you.
Speaker 5: Respond to that love that calls you his own.
Speaker 5: Respond to that love that, father, thank you for loving me.
Speaker 5: Thank you for loving me, some of us unlovable, but, father, you chose to love us.
Speaker 5: Some of us, jehovah, have gone contrary to your word and to that which you have said, but, father, you chose to love us.
Speaker 5: Some of us, jehovah, have intentionally and deliberately chosen to swear away from your path, but your grace and your love is so strong that you bring us back together again.
Speaker 5: That, jehovah, you continue to mold us.
Speaker 5: Oh, god and Father, lord, this evening, my Father, we are seeking that, jehovah, we shall be aligned to your will, my God, and just like clay in a potter's hand, my Father, we choose not to decide the shape of the model, but we allow you to take the shape and the lead.
Speaker 5: We choose, jehovah, to have you take the lead we choose to allow you, my Father, continue speaking to us, my God, that, father, we will love you genuinely.
Speaker 5: Oh God, oh, father, we love you and we honor you.
Speaker 5: Thank you for your grace that has continually been sufficient.
Speaker 5: Thank you, jehovah, for the moments you have rescued as my father.
Speaker 5: Thank you, jehovah, for the moments you've preserved our lives, my God.
Speaker 5: Thank you, jehovah, for the times, my God, you've done things, jehovah, my Father, that the enemy Lord had sent to work against us for our good.
Speaker 5: Thank you, jehovah, for the times you have embraced us.
Speaker 5: For the times, jehovah, that you have held our hand, my God, even in that wilderness, you continue to be God.
Speaker 5: Even in that confusion, you continue to be God.
Speaker 5: Even, jehovah, my Father, in our places, my God of work, you continue to be God.
Speaker 5: That Jehovah, my Father, nothing will make you cease from becoming God in our lives, my God, take your rightful position in our lives, my Father.
Speaker 5: We love you, my God, and we want to love you more, jehovah, father, we want to love you more with all that we have.
Speaker 5: All that we urge you, jehovah, we present them down to your feet, my God, and we choose to run after your own heart.
Speaker 5: We choose to go after your own heart.
Speaker 5: We choose to go after your own word.
Speaker 5: All everlasting King of Glory, thank you for loving us, oh God, thank you for preserving our lives.
Speaker 5: Oh God, thank you for reserving ours and ours.
Speaker 5: Oh Lord, thank you for reserving us and ours.
Speaker 5: Oh God, thank you for preserving ours and us.
Speaker 5: Oh God, thank you for loving our NASJAH over God.
Speaker 5: Even times we chose to draw away from you still drew us closer.
Speaker 5: This evening, lord, we choose to leave everything behind, oh God, and to love on you, my Father, because it is very human of us to complain.
Speaker 5: It is very human of us to forget the times you've pre-served us.
Speaker 5: It is very human of us, my God, to complain and ask questions, but, jehovah, we forget that Lord, you have pre-served us.
Speaker 5: That Father, you have guided us.
Speaker 5: That Father, you've held us.
Speaker 5: That Lord, you have walked with us.
Speaker 5: That, jehovah, even when we never knew the end, from the beginning, you still stood for us, my God.
Speaker 5: Therefore, we present our hearts to you, oh God, for only you can work things for us, and with you, our hearts are safe.
Speaker 5: With you.
Speaker 5: Our being is safe with you, our surrounding is safe with you, our homes are safe with you.
Speaker 5: Jehovah, my Father, we are certain of our destiny.
Speaker 5: We are certain of our families.
Speaker 5: We are certain of our church.
Speaker 5: We are certain of our government, lord, we are certain of our jobs.
Speaker 5: We are certain of all things, my Father, that we view, oh Lord, it's not guesswork.
Speaker 5: We view, jehovah.
Speaker 5: Everything aligns itself this evening, father, we confess that we love you, we love you and we love you, oh God, that our love will continue growing deeper and deeper for you, oh Lord.
Speaker 5: That, father, there's nowhere else we'd rather be than in the atmosphere of your love and of your embrace, my God, there's nowhere else we'd rather be than where you are.
Speaker 5: Oh God, we'd rather be where you are.
Speaker 5: We'd rather be where you are.
Speaker 5: My God, thank you for gathering your people.
Speaker 5: You do not gather your people in vain.
Speaker 5: Therefore, jehovah, we pray that whatever it is in your storehouse for each one of them, may you release it for their good.
Speaker 5: That whatever it is, my God, you had set in your storehouse for them, may you release it for each one of them.
Speaker 5: Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you that you've gathered your people and because they came, my God, it will not be in vain in your presence.
Speaker 5: Thank you, my Father, for your servant.
Speaker 5: We receive the servant and we receive your word, my God, which is written in your word that whoever receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man receives a righteous man's reward.
Speaker 5: Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet receives a prophet's reward.
Speaker 5: Therefore, my Father, we accept your servant and we accept your word.
Speaker 5: Our hearts are open and receptive to hear that which the Father willed for us today.
Speaker 5: For whatever we haven't prayed for, may your Holy Spirit intercede in the name of their Father, their Son and the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 5: We have prayed, amen.
Speaker 1: It makes me want to shout hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus Lord.
Speaker 1: You're worthy of all the glory and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 1: It makes me want to shout hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus Lord.
Speaker 1: You're worthy of all the glory and all the honor and all the praise.
Speaker 6: Indeed, when we think about, when we think about praise the Lord, amen.
Speaker 6: Do we have God's people in God's house this evening?
Speaker 6: Yes, okay.
Speaker 6: So what?
Speaker 6: I don't know what comes to mind when you think about the Lord, but the worship team.
Speaker 6: Let's celebrate the worship team, appreciating them for their amazing work, and we celebrate the new ones who've joined us today.
Speaker 6: We can give them a better clap.
Speaker 6: Also, let's put our hands together for those who are joining us online from all over the world.
Speaker 6: You know, pastor Felicia, every time I talk about the guys online, I normally say give them a better clap, because next time it will be you watching us from Qatar, canada, australia.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 6: That's why you say Pastor Riggs, I take that.
Speaker 6: That's my portion in Jesus' name, isn't it?
Speaker 6: And the Lord bless you.
Speaker 6: Please turn to somebody if you haven't said hi, but even if you have.
Speaker 6: Where I come from, they say you know, and give them a Wednesday evening smile because of all of the Lord has done for you and he has done in your life.
Speaker 6: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 6: So glad to be here this wonderful evening.
Speaker 6: Even as we take time, number one, just to receive a couple of announcements, I'll be asking media team to please get ready the business expo clip which will be coming shortly.
Speaker 6: We'll also be doing birthdays, so please just get ready, frida and team, because you know we normally say September bonds to Kowengi Hallelujah, isn't it?
Speaker 6: And just to mention that, as we talk about birthdays, all September babies, let me see by a show of hand September babies, you're in the sanctuary, you're a September bond, alfred.
Speaker 6: Okay, happy birthday, let's celebrate Alfred.
Speaker 6: I can see another hand.
Speaker 6: Are you waving?
Speaker 6: Okay, shoot it up, shoot it up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, come on, let's celebrate that hand out there.
Speaker 6: God bless you, my sister.
Speaker 6: I can see another one.
Speaker 6: God bless you.
Speaker 6: Come on, let's give her another hand.
Speaker 6: By the way, I was actually raising up my hand as a September bond as well, so please do take note of that, okay?
Speaker 6: So we celebrate Pastor Maxi.
Speaker 6: Happy birthday, parsi.
Speaker 6: We celebrate one of our colleagues, emmanuel Opemebe.
Speaker 6: Happy birthday, manu.
Speaker 6: We celebrate one of our media guys, kirk.
Speaker 6: Happy birthday.
Speaker 6: We also celebrate the magnification coordinator, petu.
Speaker 6: Happy birthday again.
Speaker 6: Another hand to the birthday babies.
Speaker 6: Is the song ready?
Speaker 6: Frida, happy birthday, we sing together.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, dear love.
Speaker 1: Oh, happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Do you happy birthday, dear love.
Speaker 1: Oh, happy birthday, do you happy birthday.
Speaker 6: Do you happy birthday, dear love and so all but the babies, those in the sanctuary, those joining us online, next week, on Wednesday, we'll be having a cake just for you, September bonds, and because we know your many, please come with us as well, so that we can have enough to share with everyone.
Speaker 6: Are we together?
Speaker 6: So again, happy birthday, as scripture says in Psalm 91, verse 16, with long life.
Speaker 6: May the good Lord satisfy you and may he always show you his salvation in Jesus' name.
Speaker 6: Amen.
Speaker 6: Let's see by a show of hand.
Speaker 6: It's your first time, your first time one to Parklands Baptist Church.
Speaker 6: Let me see your first time to Parklands Baptist.
Speaker 6: Oh, we do have a visitor.
Speaker 6: Come on, let's celebrate her.
Speaker 6: God bless you.
Speaker 6: My sister and Petu has reminded me that we have this book by our senior pastor, prayers that prevail, available at our bookshop, going for 700 Bop.
Speaker 6: And you know that which God has put in Pastor Ambrose's heart is that please get a copy for someone.
Speaker 6: Let's journey together as we make these prayers and as we make these declarations.
Speaker 6: Okay, and so for our sister, we won't ask you to sing a song, but we will gift you with a book authored by none other but our senior pastor, reverend Ambrose Nyong'au.
Speaker 6: So if you could come, let's appreciate her as she comes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we will keep clapping, not clapping, we'll keep clapping till you get here.
Speaker 6: God bless you.
Speaker 6: Come on, let's celebrate her.
Speaker 6: God bless you so, so much, and may your prayer life be enriched even as you walk with the Lord and commune with him at the place of prayer.
Speaker 6: Amen, we can give another hand, church.
Speaker 6: So again, please get yourself a copy, get your friend, get your parents, get your siblings a copy.
Speaker 6: Let's gather together at the place of prayer as God's family.
Speaker 6: In this month of empowered relationships, enabled ministry and I can guarantee you we have been interacting and engaging with what pastor has written and I promise you that your prayer life will be enriched.
Speaker 6: So please do enrich somebody else's prayer life, even as we continue just to call upon the name of the living God.
Speaker 6: With that, if we have the clip ready, our petu and team up there, the business expo clip please do take note of the announcement if it's ready.
Speaker 6: Media team.
Speaker 4: Hello people, this is where we realize you should not be left out from the business expo happening from this Saturday, 23rd September, to the 24th of September 2023 at the PBC grounds.
Speaker 4: Come as we connect and collaborate.
Speaker 4: God bless.
Speaker 6: All right, thank you.
Speaker 6: So so much.
Speaker 6: That was quite brief.
Speaker 6: Let's appreciate our media team.
Speaker 6: Please do a big.
Speaker 6: Give a coffee here, okay?
Speaker 6: So what's happening?
Speaker 6: On the 23rd to the 24th?
Speaker 6: The business expo, isn't it okay?
Speaker 6: So if you are an entrepreneur, you are an individual exhibitor.
Speaker 6: The charges are 4000 Bup.
Speaker 6: I think the last time I checked today probably would be the deadline.
Speaker 6: I don't know if the MILD team led by Flora, would give us an extension.
Speaker 6: This is part of our revival season nine output engagement.
Speaker 6: So you're very much welcome.
Speaker 6: To plug in again 24,000 for individual exhibitors, then 10,000 for corporates, and you can turn to your neighbor and, you know, just tell them you look like a corporate entity.
Speaker 6: So, yeah, you know you pay the 10,000, isn't it because we are truly, truly blessed?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 6: This coming Friday, the 22nd of September, we do have prayer vigil.
Speaker 6: We'll be joining with our brothers and sisters at PBC Northgate, so please do diarise that.
Speaker 6: We'll send out the communication on our various social media platforms, but please do take note of that from 9 pm all the way to about 5-6 in the morning, just praying together as we celebrate God's goodness and faithfulness.
Speaker 6: Then thereafter, I know we'll be communicating about the Kesha that will be hosted here at the Westlands campus.
Speaker 6: I think with that we come to a time of giving.
Speaker 6: Thank you, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yes, giving time is a blessed time, isn't it?
Speaker 6: I believe we could have the details on the screen, so feel free.
Speaker 6: We have a number of channels for us to give to God and to his work.
Speaker 6: So the EMPESA pay bill number is 890-900, the account name is Tithe and Offerings again pay bill 890-900, account name Tithe and Offering.
Speaker 6: For those giving online, the EMPESA link is available on our website and our various social media platforms.
Speaker 6: Direct bank transfer to the Paki account.
Speaker 6: The bank is Tandbik Bank, branch Waiyakiway.
Speaker 6: The account number is 0100,000, please take note of that.
Speaker 6: 0100,000, then 498-232, I'll say that again.
Speaker 6: Account number 0100,000, 498-232, the bank God is S for Simon, b for Boy, I for India, c for Cat, k for Kenya, e for Egg, n for Nairobi and X for X.
Speaker 6: So the Lord bless you as you keep.
Speaker 6: Okay, again, that's our online giving through PayPal.
Speaker 6: God bless you.
Speaker 6: It's parklandsbaptistorg forward slash give.
Speaker 6: Dash.
Speaker 6: Online checks can be dropped in our offering boxes near the reception or deposited to the account details that we've just mentioned above.
Speaker 6: Pdq machines are available for swiping at our church reception desk, those of us who've carried hard cash.
Speaker 6: Even as we give, please, and as the worship team just sings for a minute or so, you're welcome to bring that to each you dedicated to bring to the Lord this wonderful evening.
Speaker 6: Again, our offering boxes are at our entrances, so feel free to give and the good Lord will continue to bless you.
Speaker 6: So probably we sing then I'll take time to pray.
Speaker 6: As we celebrate again the giving of God's people worship team, we think of all that you have done for us, heavenly Father, when we remember who you are to us.
Speaker 6: O God, we can but only give.
Speaker 6: Praise and thanks to you makes us want a shout, makes us want to give our all because we know that, god, there is no sacrifice that can compare to the great sacrifice that you gave on our behalf, that, jesus Christ, you gave your life, paying a debt that you never owed.
Speaker 6: Because, god, we owed a debt that we could never pay.
Speaker 6: And therefore, god, we give not to try to untwist you, but we give in response to your great love and your goodness and your faithfulness towards us.
Speaker 6: Heavenly Father, we respond in gratitude for your grace and your mercy towards us and our families.
Speaker 6: Heavenly Father, we give in gratitude for how you have sustained our nation, how you have sustained our businesses.
Speaker 6: Father, receive the giving of your people and our God.
Speaker 6: Our prayer is that may the giving of your people arise into even greater and more songs of thanksgiving, because, god, you are good and Heavenly Father, you bless your people, cause your people to flourish and to prosper, bless them in the city and in the field, bless the work of their hands and, father, be gracious and kind to them and their families.
Speaker 6: And, god, we know that you remember your people all the time and so, god, may we always, again, as we have sung, when we think about the Lord, you are what says in Psalm 8, who is man, that you're mindful of him, that, heavenly Father, you're constantly thinking about us, according to Jeremiah 29, 11,.
Speaker 6: And God, you think good thoughts concerning us.
Speaker 6: Lord, our prayer is that may our hearts be filled with thoughts of you.
Speaker 6: Indeed, may the words of our mouths, may the meditations of our heart, be acceptable in your sight.
Speaker 6: Lord, we thank you for your servant that you have prepared this evening to bring to us your word again.
Speaker 6: We lift your servant, o God, pastor Felicia, in two noble hands and, lord, we ask release, fresh grace, fresh, anointing.
Speaker 6: Bless her, o God.
Speaker 6: May the utterances of her mouth proceed from your spirit, o gracious God, and may our hearts be the good soil that receives your word, and with much patience and perseverance, heavenly Father, meditating upon your word, may your word bear fruit in our lives.
Speaker 6: We know that you never send out your word in vain.
Speaker 6: It must accomplish the purposes for which you sent it forth.
Speaker 6: And therefore, god, we open our hearts, we open our homes, we open our nation.
Speaker 6: And, lord, we say have your way and speak to us, commune with us.
Speaker 6: We honor you, giving you all the glory and giving you all the praise and all the adoration, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 6: And the church said amen and amen.
Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, it's my joy.
Speaker 6: This wonderful evening, please, I will ask us to be up on our feet as we receive our family pastor, none other than the one and only she's my good friend.
Speaker 6: Come on, let's put our hands together for Pastor Felicia.
Speaker 7: God bless you amen, you may be seated in his presence.
Speaker 7: Thank you, ladies, for the wonderful worship, and also thank you for the lady, young lady, who prayed.
Speaker 7: I don't know where she went.
Speaker 7: Thank you, that was powerful and that was amazing.
Speaker 7: Amen, amen.
Speaker 7: So I'm really excited to be here.
Speaker 7: I thank God for the rain.
Speaker 7: Isn't it wonderful that the Lord has given us rain in this season?
Speaker 7: Amen, we just celebrate him.
Speaker 7: I also want to thank God for those who are watching us online, because I believe that there are many families that are connecting to us from their homes.
Speaker 7: Amen.
Speaker 7: I also want to thank you for braving the rain and coming.
Speaker 7: So, as I share the word of God today, I'll be talking to families.
Speaker 7: I'll be speaking to families, those who are home and those who are here.
Speaker 7: I will also be speaking to our ladies here, the young ladies here, who are trusting God for marriage.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you the most wonderful thing that can happen in your life is to prepare for your marriage.
Speaker 7: When there is no one in sight, that is the most beautiful thing you can do to yourself.
Speaker 7: It's a greatest favor you can do to yourself.
Speaker 7: Prepare yourself for your family, amen.
Speaker 7: I remember when I started praying for my own family.
Speaker 7: For my own marriage, I would literally take time to go to church in the evening and pray for them.
Speaker 7: Before I didn't even know where my husband was, pastor Eks.
Speaker 7: I had no idea.
Speaker 7: Actually, I was wondering why he's taking time to come, taking too long to come.
Speaker 7: I was wondering when will he come.
Speaker 7: But that did not prevent me from praying.
Speaker 7: I also prayed for my children.
Speaker 7: I called them into existence before they came.
Speaker 7: So if there is a prayer you can pray for yourself in this season, it's prayer for your family and prayer for your marriage.
Speaker 7: This month, when I was looking at the theme Empowered Relationships Enabled Ministry myself, I was excited Because this theme is a theme for family ministry.
Speaker 7: This is a theme we can run with any day In all the ministries men's ministry, women's arch ministry and even the marriage enrichment ministry.
Speaker 7: I believe this theme Marriage Enrichment Ministry In fact, I'm happy because they should have been here to support their pastor, hallelujah, and I want to start with a scripture that is an amazing scripture and I want to believe that this will be your song, this will be your.
Speaker 7: God is going to shift something in your life, shift something in your family, because Pastor Eks has already prayed an amazing prayer for me.
Speaker 7: I don't need to pray, I receive his prayer and blessing.
Speaker 7: Matthew 26, verse 7.
Speaker 7: Today I'll be looking at keys, keys for effective, empowered relationships in your family, in your home.
Speaker 7: So I want to read a scripture in Matthew 26, verse 7.
Speaker 7: The story is the story about the woman with the alabaster jar.
Speaker 7: I had to go online and look at how that alabaster jar looks like.
Speaker 7: An alabaster jar was a box containing precious oil, precious perfume.
Speaker 7: It was the best thing this woman had.
Speaker 7: It was the most precious ointment that she had in her own life.
Speaker 7: It was the greatest gift she had.
Speaker 7: And what was amazing me, pastor Eks, is that she did not choose to bring it to church, because some of us, if we have a precious gift that we want to give to the Lord, we bring it to church, we bring it to the altar, where everyone is looking.
Speaker 7: But for this particular gift, the gift was done in the home, in the family.
Speaker 7: The Lord Jesus had been invited by a man.
Speaker 7: This was in Bethany and Jesus had been invited into the house of a man called Simon.
Speaker 7: Can you believe Jesus is in your house taking a meal with you?
Speaker 7: I don't know how we would prepare for that meal?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 7: We would wash the walls, wash the tables, everything would be clean and the best would be in the kitchen.
Speaker 7: But it's amazing that Jesus Christ, who had visited this home, who was the chief guest, when there was a confusion and a concern and a complains about what this woman was doing.
Speaker 7: Because the Bible says that this woman, having an alabaster box of very precious oil, having an alabaster cruise of exceeding precious oil, having an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume, she came where Jesus was reclining and poured it on his head, poured it on his head and suddenly everybody was complaining it's too precious, it's too expensive.
Speaker 7: But the Lord Jesus had been in this home.
Speaker 7: Actually, he told Simon Simon, since I came, you didn't receive me properly.
Speaker 7: Since I came, no one washed my feet, no one even gave me a towel to wipe my head off the dust.
Speaker 7: And what this lady has done?
Speaker 7: Actually the Bible says that from the words of the Lord Jesus.
Speaker 7: He said what she has done today will be spoken everywhere.
Speaker 7: The gospel is preached.
Speaker 7: What she has done today, it has made her stand out and become distinguished.
Speaker 7: When the alabaster jar was open, by the way, it was broken.
Speaker 7: It was not open, broken.
Speaker 7: She must have.
Speaker 7: I don't know how she broke it, but she must have hit it on something or dropped it.
Speaker 7: She broke it.
Speaker 7: But when the scent of the perfume came out from the alabaster jar and as it was being applied on the Lord's head, it shifted the environment of the house, shifted the smell of the house.
Speaker 7: I want to believe if what Jesus said, which I believe is the reality, that he himself, they had not wiped his feet.
Speaker 7: I believe there were other feet there that had not been wiped and I believe the other feet of the other people were smelly.
Speaker 7: I believe that they were sweaty.
Speaker 7: This is the Middle East sun, hot sun, a lot of sweats.
Speaker 7: I believe that there were other things, other smells, mixed with the smell of food and mixed with toxic attitudes that were in that house, prejudiced, because the moment the lady did this, they said does she not know what woman she was?
Speaker 7: But what they don't understand is that this woman who is powering this was not the same woman they knew.
Speaker 7: She had already received an encounter with Jesus and she had changed.
Speaker 7: So when she's offering this, she's not what they say she was.
Speaker 7: Why am I bringing this story into this theme of this month.
Speaker 7: I'm bringing it because when the alabaster jar was open, everyone in that house became a beneficiary.
Speaker 7: Suddenly they were all smelling good.
Speaker 7: Suddenly there was fragrance, there was aroma.
Speaker 7: Everyone was smelling good and this is a picture of most families today.
Speaker 7: Some of the homes if you enter many homes, not every smell is good.
Speaker 7: Sometimes some of the homes have had toxicity.
Speaker 7: That's a hard word.
Speaker 7: Let me use the word negativity, it's easier.
Speaker 7: Some of the homes have had drama.
Speaker 7: Some of the homes have had challenges.
Speaker 7: Those things have not been handled and they have stayed there for long.
Speaker 7: Some of the homes they need a paint job.
Speaker 7: They need to at least repaint you If you've stayed in the same home for many years.
Speaker 7: Some of us, the homes we grew up with, we would volunteer to paint.
Speaker 7: Some of those things need the breaking of an alabaster jar.
Speaker 7: Some of those need you to come out and give your best.
Speaker 7: I'm sure this lady, when she was looking at everybody and everything they are doing, she came to a point and felt that I cannot continue any longer this way.
Speaker 7: I cannot continue ignoring Jesus' presence in this house.
Speaker 7: I cannot continue ignoring him in this house.
Speaker 7: Do you know that Jesus is our present presence in your own home.
Speaker 7: If you are a believer, the Lord Jesus is present in your home.
Speaker 7: I know some of us live him in church.
Speaker 7: Some of us we come, we meet him here and we leave him here Back on Sunday.
Speaker 7: I'm aware of the service when we come, but your own home is your family altar, the Lord Jesus, he says, where two or three are gathered in my name.
Speaker 7: I am there, so Jesus Christ is there.
Speaker 7: This woman took a lot of courage.
Speaker 7: It took courage for her to stand in the middle of all these people, because what she was going to do was to change the momentum of things.
Speaker 7: There were things that were going.
Speaker 7: They would have continued going there.
Speaker 7: She interrupted them.
Speaker 7: My prayer is that today somebody will interrupt things in their home.
Speaker 7: They will interrupt how things have been being handled in that home.
Speaker 7: In that marriage, you will come to the Word of God and say Jesus, I want to interrupt my home.
Speaker 7: So how did she interrupt?
Speaker 7: She interrupted by giving her all, giving her everything.
Speaker 7: I believe that if each one of us would give our all to our families, our families would stand.
Speaker 7: If each of us gave our all to our marriages, our marriages would stand.
Speaker 7: Today I am speaking to that marriage that has been existing, that has been there for some time and they have given up.
Speaker 7: They have said it's too much work.
Speaker 7: In marriage ministry, parklands Baptist Church, marriage Enrichment Ministry, we believe that marriage is work.
Speaker 7: We believe that you must work, it is work, marriage is work, but we also believe that marriage works.
Speaker 7: We also believe that marriage works.
Speaker 7: We believe that if you put the time, if you put the work, if you put whatever you put in, that relationship is what will come out.
Speaker 7: Are we saying it is easy?
Speaker 7: No, but we are saying that, like the woman with the alabaster jar, we are willing to give our all, all, we are willing to break it.
Speaker 7: We are willing to say by the way, do you think it was easy to break that alabaster jar when Simon was watching the moment she stood?
Speaker 7: Because, you see, the men were reclining.
Speaker 7: You need to know that in this culture, men and women don't mix.
Speaker 7: So the men were reclining and Jesus was reclining there.
Speaker 7: The women must have been in the kitchen, in the backyard or somewhere else, but this lady was feeling that, lord, I need a change.
Speaker 7: I need to see things move here.
Speaker 7: I need to see her shifts.
Speaker 7: Maybe she wanted to get married.
Speaker 7: Today people are sowing seeds to be married.
Speaker 7: Maybe she wanted to get married.
Speaker 7: So she thought, what can I do?
Speaker 7: And the burden in her heart she said I can't continue this way.
Speaker 7: And she went, entered the room.
Speaker 7: I know the scrutinizer.
Speaker 7: They even asked her what does she think she's doing?
Speaker 7: You know, when your wife begins to break her alabaster jar, pastariks another seahuar married.
Speaker 7: When your wife removes the most precious things she has, you know, women, we are funny creatures.
Speaker 7: We have precious things which our husbands do not even know.
Speaker 7: My God, we have some plates, cartillary cups which we have kept.
Speaker 7: We have kept somewhere and where we have kept them, they are there.
Speaker 7: They are actually for important guests.
Speaker 7: It's as if those who put a guest, where are they?
Speaker 7: They haven't come.
Speaker 7: We put them for.
Speaker 7: I have friends who kept those, those China precious things.
Speaker 7: They kept them so well and one day they were going to to look for them, to just do a sport check and realize they had been stolen by a house girl.
Speaker 7: Hey, you can imagine the pain Some of us saw the day.
Speaker 7: The day your wife removes her precious alabaster jar and decides that today is when I am breaking it to my king in my house to my lord.
Speaker 7: In the house, you know, even Sarah called her husband Lord to her lord.
Speaker 7: Some of the men might say what do you want, are you getting?
Speaker 7: Because they weren't used to this.
Speaker 7: But today I'm trusting God that there will be a bold woman who will say I'm going to give my best, I'm going to give what I had reserved.
Speaker 7: Friends, we have only one life to live and the one life that we have to live, we are going to live it well and we are going to live it for the Lord.
Speaker 7: Today, I'm trusting God that there is a family.
Speaker 7: There is a family that will say these things we've been hearing this week about empowered relationship.
Speaker 7: I'm going to do them.
Speaker 7: I'm going to do them, these things I've been hearing being preached here.
Speaker 7: I'm going to start.
Speaker 7: I'm going to take my alabaster jar, which I had reserved for when people here begin to like me and change, and I'm just going to break it.
Speaker 7: The Bible says that when she broke this, but after Jesus was born, everybody accepted the oil.
Speaker 7: So I want to talk about courage.
Speaker 7: Courage to do, courage to make a shift in your family.
Speaker 7: Courage to shift things in your home, in your life.
Speaker 7: Courage to abandon yourself and say that I'm going to invest in this family, I'm going to give this marriage a chance, I'm going to give this man a chance, I'm going to give love a chance.
Speaker 7: And maybe you're listening to me and you're saying, pastor, you don't know, this is not the person I married.
Speaker 7: Pastor, you don't know, this is not the family I wanted, this is not the family I had expected to have.
Speaker 7: My prayer today.
Speaker 7: I want to help us understand the issue of grace, the issue of anointing and the issue of seasons.
Speaker 7: Why not want this released and declared the month of empowered relationships?
Speaker 7: It means there is a grace for relationships.
Speaker 7: It means there is a grace for restoration.
Speaker 7: Actually, pastor Simon said it is the week of reconciliation on Sunday.
Speaker 7: He said Monday reconciliation Monday.
Speaker 7: Today is reconciliation Wednesday.
Speaker 7: So you can tap into this reconciliation and have reconciliation.
Speaker 7: Open an alabaster jar of reconciliation in your own home.
Speaker 7: Now, when this lady opened that jar, she didn't look at the people.
Speaker 7: When you do your part, we allow God to do his part.
Speaker 7: When you do your part, you allow God to do his part.
Speaker 7: Now, very quickly, because of time, because of time, I want to say that what are some of the keys?
Speaker 7: I want to put keys in your hands, keys that work Now when you go home.
Speaker 7: If you use these keys, they work and these keys have been declared here.
Speaker 7: The first key which has been repeated here this month is the key of love, the key of love, the key of love.
Speaker 7: That is the first key that we have seen mentioned here every day in this month the key of love.
Speaker 7: Many times when we hear this, this message of the key of love, sometimes we don't want to listen to that.
Speaker 7: I can tell you myself countless times when I've had some months of love, I feel like I want to walk away.
Speaker 7: I want to live.
Speaker 7: I don't want to listen to them sometimes, but I want to thank God for this book by Dr Dobson.
Speaker 7: He has a book which is called Tough Love.
Speaker 7: He has a book called Tough Love.
Speaker 7: The book is Love is Tough.
Speaker 7: Love is Tough because love is tough.
Speaker 7: Love is not an emotion, love is an action.
Speaker 7: Love is tough.
Speaker 7: I told you the belief we have that family marriage is work, but it is.
Speaker 7: It works.
Speaker 7: Love is tough.
Speaker 7: Love is not wishy stuff.
Speaker 7: Love is not emotions.
Speaker 7: Sometimes people think that these emotions, what do I do if the emotions have ended?
Speaker 7: What do I do when the emotions have ended?
Speaker 7: You know, love is giving.
Speaker 7: Love is giving.
Speaker 7: You cannot say you love somebody if you cannot give.
Speaker 7: Love is giving.
Speaker 7: I will read this quickly because of time Love is giving.
Speaker 7: Love builds slowly.
Speaker 7: Love builds relationships slowly.
Speaker 7: Be very concerned about a person who tells you they love you after just attending one Wednesday service.
Speaker 7: You are having tea.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the tea is there.
Speaker 7: You are having tea, you are cups gusana and he assumes that's a sign from the Lord and he declares his love.
Speaker 7: Be very careful with that kind of love, because that kind of love will go the same way it came.
Speaker 7: Love builds slowly.
Speaker 7: Love lasts a long time.
Speaker 7: It has staying power.
Speaker 7: Love has a staying power.
Speaker 7: Love is commitment.
Speaker 7: The other day we were having a conversation with a team that runs marriage ministry and we were looking at the challenge we are having today in families and we realized that the greatest challenge is that many of us have been influenced by other cultures, not the biblical culture, the biblical culture and some cultures in this world.
Speaker 7: They love the one they married, that is the one they.
Speaker 7: Why do you?
Speaker 7: What do you think happens when somebody is brought a wife to their home?
Speaker 7: They just love her, they love the one they married.
Speaker 7: But some of us have been exposed to loving, to marrying the one we love.
Speaker 7: The challenge is when that love ends we don't know what to do.
Speaker 7: We want to come out of that relationship.
Speaker 7: So love is commitment.
Speaker 7: Commitment is not emotional.
Speaker 7: Commitment is just commitment.
Speaker 7: It's saying that I will be here for you.
Speaker 7: Come rain, come shine, I will be here, I will be constant.
Speaker 7: Love is caring.
Speaker 7: Love is deep.
Speaker 7: Love is secure.
Speaker 7: Love is trusting.
Speaker 7: I'm just giving you definitions of love.
Speaker 7: These are definitions of love that has been tried and tested and that you can use them.
Speaker 7: So the key of love, the key of love must be used in the family to open the hearts of people.
Speaker 7: The key of love must be open to heart, open the hearts of the children, to open the heart of the spouse.
Speaker 7: I like the definition of God's love Agape love, marriage.
Speaker 7: It is Agape love that can carry you through.
Speaker 7: Agape love is love that seeks the highest good of the family.
Speaker 7: That means I will pay rent, I will pay bills, I will pay school fees, I will cook the meals, I will serve the meals, even when I feel I will do my parts.
Speaker 7: That is Agape.
Speaker 7: Agape does what is good for the other person.
Speaker 7: Agape says this is what is good.
Speaker 7: So sometimes what is good, what is good could be correcting, what is good could be asking someone to sit down.
Speaker 7: We have this conversation.
Speaker 7: So it does what is good.
Speaker 7: It's amazing that if you look at the scriptures, there are different instructions that have been given to the believers.
Speaker 7: I want you, in your free time, you can look at one another passages in the Bible we have about.
Speaker 7: I think there are 59 one another passages which instruct us on how to live with one another.
Speaker 7: I believe these passages would be useful if they are done in the home.
Speaker 7: These passages we are to love one another, we are to be devoted to one another, protect one another in the home.
Speaker 7: But I want to move from the general commands of loving, the general commands of loving, to specific commands, general commands and instructions for the family, because the instruction to love is a general command.
Speaker 7: We are to love one another and you can read those scriptures in your own.
Speaker 7: But I want to look at specific instructions that have been given.
Speaker 7: There is specific instruction and general instruction.
Speaker 7: So the specific instruction to love is for everybody.
Speaker 7: We are to love one another.
Speaker 7: But then the Lord goes and extra mine and gives instruction to the man to love his family, specifically to love his wife.
Speaker 7: So I will touch that.
Speaker 7: I know we don't have a lot of time, but I believe that we have enough time to look at these scriptures.
Speaker 7: Allow me.
Speaker 7: I always like to speak to the women first, because I'm a woman and if I speak to the women first, the men feel safe, like Sijakuja, kua, sumbua, sinovile, pasteriks, anacheka.
Speaker 7: I like that, yeah.
Speaker 7: So allow me to speak.
Speaker 7: So the Bible has specific instruction to wives, specific instructions to husbands.
Speaker 7: So the first key is love.
Speaker 7: Let me use because that's the key I started with Husbands are to love.
Speaker 7: Let me say love the family, love the family, love the wife, love the family.
Speaker 7: What does that mean?
Speaker 7: What that means is that the husband is to set the tone of the home.
Speaker 7: Set the tone of the home.
Speaker 7: The husband is to set the tone of the home.
Speaker 7: How you enter your home and I'm just going to give you practical things how you enter your house can change the whole environment If you enter your home, and I thank God for the things men do outside.
Speaker 7: I thank God for the efforts they do in looking for money for food, for rent.
Speaker 7: I thank God for the burdens they bear, the responsibility they bear.
Speaker 7: But when you enter your home, when you enter your home, you don't have to announce it.
Speaker 7: You don't have to announce, you don't have to announce it.
Speaker 7: By how you look, you don't need to enter.
Speaker 7: And when you're entering, you don't have to announce it.
Speaker 7: You don't have to announce it.
Speaker 7: After 30 minutes, one of my mentors told me was telling us, before you come home, if you're a man, grab a banana on the way, eat something, bite something, keep your sugar level so that you have energy.
Speaker 7: When the children are meeting you at the door, pick them, lift them.
Speaker 7: How many of the fathers here have removed children on the way?
Speaker 7: What do you think?
Speaker 7: The thing is, you set the tone of the house when you enter with that tone, it is the tone the family will have in the evening.
Speaker 7: And no wonder, by the time your dinner is coming, no wonder by the time you're finishing dinner, you are trying to excite people about your presence.
Speaker 7: You are trying to tell them.
Speaker 7: I came Amen.
Speaker 7: So the man is to love, love his family, to love your wife is to love your family.
Speaker 7: When a man loves his family, when a man loves his wife, the family knows they are loved.
Speaker 7: By the way, I have permission to speak this as a family pastor.
Speaker 7: I have permission to speak this.
Speaker 7: Children do not understand that you do not love your wife, who is their mother.
Speaker 7: Children do not understand how you cannot love their mother.
Speaker 7: They don't understand.
Speaker 7: They don't see things the way you see them.
Speaker 7: Children do not see her bad attitudes and ladies, sometimes we have bad attitudes Children do not see that.
Speaker 7: Children do not see what you say we have done.
Speaker 7: They don't.
Speaker 7: Children just know you are their mother.
Speaker 7: And, by the way, if we call children here, we put all children here, all the children of the world here, and we put all the mothers here and all the fathers there and we say kill them to a kemei At a danger to a kepale, kill them to a kemei.
Speaker 7: They don't run here, by the way, they can run there if the thing needs money.
Speaker 7: It's a whole world.
Speaker 7: It's another story when the children want to go shopping.
Speaker 7: They know who to go shopping with the bargaining and they're looking at the tags in a kuteta.
Speaker 7: They know not to go with their mother.
Speaker 7: So love your family.
Speaker 7: The Bible says this is the word of God to the fathers.
Speaker 7: He says husbands, fathers, husbands, love your wife, love your wives, love her as Christ.
Speaker 7: Actually, the Greek word there has no feelings.
Speaker 7: It says husbands, love agapau, love your wife, love your wife.
Speaker 7: You remember what I said about love?
Speaker 7: Highest good, six years, highest good.
Speaker 7: This kind of love has no feeling.
Speaker 7: I ain't not feeling Because there are other loves which are feeling.
Speaker 7: There's a love that really A who can know your wife?
Speaker 7: Akipe Teivi, una Samoawe, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 7: There is other love.
Speaker 7: Una Samoawe, she's my friend, this lady she's my friend.
Speaker 7: But that one husbands, love your wives.
Speaker 7: How are you going to love her?
Speaker 7: As Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her that he might cleanse her, wash her, that he might wash her, wash the church and present her, present her for himself.
Speaker 7: That is the kind of love, my friends.
Speaker 7: It might look hard.
Speaker 7: If you want emotion, if you want emotion, you cannot do this kind of love Because maybe she has failed you.
Speaker 7: She has failed you a hundred times.
Speaker 7: I like this example because, as Christ loved the church, how did Christ love the church?
Speaker 7: If I can tell you the things we do sometimes to Christ, hey, it's by the grace of God.
Speaker 7: He still loves us.
Speaker 7: Sometimes we fail him, sometimes we are not praying, sometimes we are not giving, sometimes we are not obeying.
Speaker 7: He loves us.
Speaker 7: That is how the husband is to love his wife and, by extension, his family.
Speaker 7: How did Christ love the church?
Speaker 7: Wash her, cleanse her, wash her.
Speaker 7: When is the last time you washed your wife?
Speaker 7: Now some people might start getting excited, but what I mean is what is the first time you made her look good?
Speaker 7: I don't know if you want to check her up.
Speaker 7: They are like pasta, leo.
Speaker 7: No, I don't.
Speaker 7: When is the last time you did something for her?
Speaker 7: Christ washed the church that he might present her.
Speaker 7: I love those couples who like to wear vetengas Xenophonana.
Speaker 7: I don't even have that grace, but I admire it.
Speaker 7: I really admire it.
Speaker 7: I say why?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 7: Because when you're wearing the same ketenge, un am tokele, that's it.
Speaker 7: That's exactly it.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 7: As Christ loved the church.
Speaker 7: That is, in fact.
Speaker 7: It says love as their own bodies, love, love as your own.
Speaker 7: You know how we love our own bodies.
Speaker 7: We love our own bodies the way they love their own body, the way you love your own body, because your wife is one body with you.
Speaker 7: Everyone of us will love our bodies.
Speaker 7: We don't like people discussing our bodies the same way.
Speaker 7: That is the covering we give her.
Speaker 7: Of course, there could be complaints here and there, people doing this and that family members saying but you love her as you love your own body, where you say you have a problem with her, you have a problem with me.
Speaker 7: Let me talk about submission, in the interest of time.
Speaker 7: Submission what is submission?
Speaker 7: The word for submission here is a word that challenges us as women, especially as women who are raised around some of these places like Kenya.
Speaker 7: Submission, because sometimes we confuse and think that when we are being asked to submit to our husband, we are being asked to bow down, to become nothing, we are being asked to do what we cannot do.
Speaker 7: But when Paul is discussing this scripture, by the way, this particular text, there are different scriptures that you can look at.
Speaker 7: You can look at Colossians, ephesians.
Speaker 7: I will be giving you the scripture references, but for now allow me to say their wife is called to submission.
Speaker 7: What is submission?
Speaker 7: There are two words that are used here submission and OP.
Speaker 7: If you look at the book of Ephesians, chapter 5, chapter 6, if you continue chapter 4, 5, 6, you will notice that there are different words that are being used here.
Speaker 7: Ephesians 5, 21,.
Speaker 7: There are different words that are being used here.
Speaker 7: When Paul uses the word OP, he does not use the word OP for wives.
Speaker 7: He uses the word OP for children.
Speaker 7: He uses the word OP for servants, for slaves.
Speaker 7: He says children obey your parents, slaves obey your masters.
Speaker 7: But for the women, he says submit to your husband.
Speaker 7: What is submitting to your husband?
Speaker 7: And this can help us.
Speaker 7: This is a key that can shift something.
Speaker 7: This is a key that, if you can catch this key and implement it, it can shift something in your favor.
Speaker 7: Submitting means submit to his leadership.
Speaker 7: Submitting just means that you bend in preference to him.
Speaker 7: Bend in preference to him.
Speaker 7: Submitting just means that you acknowledge his leadership.
Speaker 7: You acknowledge that this husband of mine is the head of this family.
Speaker 7: Submitting just means that you accept that you are there once.
Speaker 7: It's a attitude.
Speaker 7: Submitting is just an attitude.
Speaker 7: It's an attitude.
Speaker 7: It's an attitude of willingly putting him first and putting him ahead.
Speaker 7: Submitting is respect.
Speaker 7: Submitting is respect, respect, just respect him.
Speaker 7: What I found out is that sometimes respecting my husband means keeping quiet, thinking through what I want to say before I say it.
Speaker 7: Submitting.
Speaker 7: Respecting sometimes meaning holding back.
Speaker 7: Sometimes it means not going ahead without permission, without blessing.
Speaker 7: I want to buy this.
Speaker 7: I have money.
Speaker 7: Today, many of us ladies are buying things.
Speaker 7: We don't have blessing to buy them and we are bringing them to his house.
Speaker 7: Today, many of us are doing projects which have no blessing and that's why you find women are always in trouble.
Speaker 7: They are in trouble with charmers, they are in trouble with money, they are in trouble with this and they cannot report themselves because he didn't know when you were doing that.
Speaker 7: So the key of respect when you respect your husband, actually the Bible says that submit as unto the Lord, submit as unto the Lord.
Speaker 7: What it means submitting as unto the Lord?
Speaker 7: It means it is your worship.
Speaker 7: It is your worship, it is your obedience to the Lord.
Speaker 7: That means I could be doing this thing here, I could be doing the other thing there, but the Lord thinks I am disobedient.
Speaker 7: So when the Lord says submit as unto the Lord, he means it is the area he is checking your life.
Speaker 7: That's the area he is checking your life.
Speaker 7: Many women ask how can I submit to my husband this man?
Speaker 7: When we got married, I am the one who does everything here.
Speaker 7: When you are getting married to him, you should have counted the cost.
Speaker 7: And maybe people told you how are you planning to do this?
Speaker 7: And you said God will help us.
Speaker 7: So may God help you now.
Speaker 7: You should have counted the cost.
Speaker 7: Maybe you said you know he doesn't like to study, but the thing is you should have counted the cost.
Speaker 7: And the reason is because when God is looking at husbands, he does not see them the way we see them.
Speaker 7: God does not look at what they have, what they don't have.
Speaker 7: What God looks at is that you have a husband and that he has blessed you with one.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 7: He looks at that he has given you a head, he's given you a head.
Speaker 7: So my submission to my husband is seen as my obedience to the Lord.
Speaker 7: I don't know, because of time, I will stop here, but I don't know how you are doing in your life.
Speaker 7: I don't know how you are doing in your life as far as love is concerned.
Speaker 7: When there is love in the home, the children will sense it and love opens the hearts of the children.
Speaker 7: When the father sets the tone, the children are covered.
Speaker 7: There are many children today who are not covered because the fathers have not opened, have not used this key to open their hearts.
Speaker 7: As mothers, we have a responsibility.
Speaker 7: Part of respecting our husbands is pushing the children to them.
Speaker 7: It is pushing the children to them, loving our children unconditionally, but pushing them to their fathers.
Speaker 7: It takes a father to call out the man in your son.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter what woman you are.
Speaker 7: It is the one thing you are not grace to do.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter what the father is.
Speaker 7: We push the children to their father.
Speaker 7: We love them unconditionally, but we push them to their father.
Speaker 7: So today I would like us to stand because of time and want us to just pray for our families.
Speaker 7: Like I said, this woman with the alabaster jar she risked, she risked.
Speaker 7: She said people might judge me, but then when you start to really love your family, they will not even.
Speaker 7: They will be shocked and they may not believe what you are doing.
Speaker 7: But as you keep doing it, as you keep being consistent, things will change in your favor, as you begin to respect the man in your life respecting.
Speaker 7: Sometimes you are even right, sometimes even you know everything, but you say, okay, you have said I don't do that.
Speaker 7: You just say you don't, I will not do that.
Speaker 7: As you do those things, he will begin to trust you, he will begin to trust you.
Speaker 7: And as he begins to trust you, god will shift his heart.
Speaker 7: God will shift the heart of the family.
Speaker 7: Father, in the name of Jesus, just take time and pray for yourself, pray for your relationship, pray for your marriage.
Speaker 7: Ask the Lord to forgive you for when you didn't do things right.
Speaker 7: Ask the Lord to forgive you for when you took things for granted, you made mistakes.
Speaker 7: You made mistakes that have costed you.
Speaker 7: Ask the Lord to forgive you for when you thought you are equal and you did not understand that in these things there is no equality, there isn't.
Speaker 7: When you did not understand that.
Speaker 7: The moment God has given you a head is given you a head he has given you as in it can't be uncalled.
Speaker 7: He has already said you how.
Speaker 7: And maybe you're here, you're a young lady and you are saying how can I do this thing?
Speaker 7: How can I do this thing right Today?
Speaker 7: We've given you kids.
Speaker 7: We've given you kids that you can use in your life.
Speaker 7: And I want to ask you, if you're a young lady, to do your homework.
Speaker 7: Don't enter a complicated relationship.
Speaker 7: Don't enter, don't go through the things others have gone through.
Speaker 7: The reason other people are going through these things, have gone through these things, is for you and learning that you can see them and run away and maybe you're here and you're given up on your marriage.
Speaker 7: This is an amazing month for the healing and restoration of marriages.
Speaker 7: This month, if you turn to the Lord and you come sincerely and you tell Him I don't know how to do with this marriage, I have done many mistakes.
Speaker 7: I have even left my home.
Speaker 7: I have ran away.
Speaker 7: I have done the other thing.
Speaker 7: Father, help me and guide me.
Speaker 7: We welcome you.
Speaker 7: You can come, you can talk to the pastors, they can pray with you.
Speaker 7: But I want you to do the right thing, because this month there is grace.
Speaker 7: There is abundant grace.
Speaker 7: There is overflowing grace for the healing of relationships.
Speaker 7: Some of us might need to go and say I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: It's okay to say I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: It's okay to go and tell Him I'm sorry, I've been taking you for granted.
Speaker 7: If you just say it by your mouth.
Speaker 7: You don't need to justify it, you just need to say I'm sorry, and then you begin to do the right thing.
Speaker 7: Father, we thank you for the grace that you've poured upon families.
Speaker 7: I pray the Lord, that none of the families in this church this month will run dry, will be without your spirit.
Speaker 7: None of our families, none of the marriages of this church In this month of empowered relationships will struggle.
Speaker 7: Thank you for the grace that you've poured upon us.
Speaker 7: Give us a willingness to work on our relationships, to work on our marriages.
Speaker 7: Give us the willingness to give our relationships all that we have, lord, to give our families all that we have, so that, lord, father, you may showcase our homes, you may showcase our families in the mighty name of Jesus, amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 7: Thank you, pastor Riggs, amen.
Speaker 6: We thank God for his word.
Speaker 6: Wasn't that powerful.
Speaker 6: Let's appreciate Pastor Felissa, just once again.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, pastor.
Speaker 6: Let's pray together even as we are released this wonderful evening, father, thank you, thank you that you have commanded us One to love you, god, to love you with all that we are, to love you with all that.
Speaker 6: We have, to love you with our entire being.
Speaker 6: This army says I will praise you, god, for as long as you give me breath, father, that's the invitation that we have received tonight.
Speaker 6: That, god, you will not be an option amongst many in our lives, just like that woman who gave waters, pressures, waters of great worth, what was expensive, what she had preserved for herself, she gave it to the master.
Speaker 6: And, god, I pray tonight, having received your word that, lord, you'd visit the chambers of our hearts, visit our families, visit our relationships, visit our finances, visit our workplaces.
Speaker 6: What is it that we have withheld from you?
Speaker 6: And now, god, tonight, we ask may we be willing to give our all, because, beyond what we bring to you, god, you desire us and God, I pray that we will withhold nothing from you.
Speaker 6: But also, god, you instruct us and you say and you shall love your neighbor as yourself and Heavenly Father, in light of the grace that we are enjoying and celebrating this month, empowered relationships, all, god and Lord, even as your servant, pastor Simon just decreed and declared Monday reconciliation.
Speaker 6: Tuesday reconciliation Wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday.
Speaker 6: God, put it in our hearts to make right the relationships in our lives that we need to make right, and it could be with you, it could be with our parents, it could be with our spouses, with our children, with our siblings, with our bosses, with our colleagues.
Speaker 6: God, we pray tonight that Holy Spirit, would you visit us and Lord, where we are struggling with unforgiveness, where we are struggling with resentment, where we are struggling with hardness of heart.
Speaker 6: But again, as Pastor Simon reminded us, we bow and we say Holy Spirit, would you help me?
Speaker 6: Help me where I'm struggling, because God you say forgive, as God in Christ Jesus has forgiven you.
Speaker 6: So, lord, may our homes be restored, may our families be healed.
Speaker 6: And, god, may you use each one of us, those online, those in the sanctuary tonight and those who will hear this message, to be ministers of reconciliation.
Speaker 6: Heavenly Father, be seeking man to be reconciled to God, but also be seeking man to be reconciled one with another.
Speaker 6: Help us, O God to turn and to engage the key of love, the key of respect, the key of submitting one to another, all gracious Master, in the context of the fear of the Lord.
Speaker 6: And so, master, we bless you and we thank you and we say, indeed, may your word accomplish your purposes in our lives.
Speaker 6: And so, lord, we say thank you and we honor you.
Speaker 6: And now we ask you, please just raise up your hands, even as we command God's blessings upon you.
Speaker 6: And so the Lord bless you.
Speaker 6: The Lord do you good.
Speaker 6: The Lord be gracious to you.
Speaker 6: May the good Lord favor you.
Speaker 6: May the good Lord cause his countenance to shine upon you.
Speaker 6: May the good Lord give you peace.
Speaker 6: May the good Lord cause your enemies, who come to you in one direction, be scattered in seven different directions.
Speaker 6: May the good Lord bless you in the city.
Speaker 6: May he bless you in the field.
Speaker 6: May he bless you in your lying down.
Speaker 6: May the Lord bless you in your waking up.
Speaker 6: May the Lord bless you in your coming in.
Speaker 6: And may the good Lord bless you in your going out.
Speaker 6: You go out as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6: You go out as the light of the world.
Speaker 6: You go out as the salt of the earth.
Speaker 6: May our homes, may our relationships never be the same.
Speaker 6: May they be turned around for good.
Speaker 6: Because we are saying here we are, lord, use us to the glory of your name and so receive this blessing.
Speaker 6: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and God's people say amen and amen, and amen and amen, amen.
Speaker 6: We do have a cup of tea, please do not be in a hurry.
Speaker 6: Something to warm your heart as well.
Speaker 6: Even as we fellowship together and now, may 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.
Speaker 6: Amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 6: If you have a pastor, a felicitator has given us an assignment check out the one and other scriptures in the Bible.
Speaker 6: God bless you and have a great reminder of the week in Jesus' name, amen.