Speaker 1: I'm afraid of a coffee and main artist hey man, do you believe him?
Speaker 1: Thank you, we want to.
Speaker 1: As we are launching this song, we want to release it into the hands of God to be used to ignite faith that we can actually go out and change our world.
Speaker 1: So, again, thank God for Amenipa, thank God for Eastgate, where the video in terms of the congregation was done I come in somewhere in that mix as if you were.
Speaker 1: So let's pray right now, father, in the name of Jesus, we celebrate the fact that, lord, you made us creative beings and through this song we see the creativity of God's children, and we bless you, lord.
Speaker 1: Indeed, we want to subduer that message that we are world changes, empowered world changes and, dear God, you can use us as individuals, as a church, as families, to make a difference in the world today.
Speaker 1: And so we now dedicate this song, even as it goes, to the social platform.
Speaker 1: Wherever it will be that God, it will touch somebody in a special way.
Speaker 1: Thanking you again for Amenipa, for the worship team in Eastgate and for the congregation at Eastgate.
Speaker 1: And, lord, we say thank you, as we are part of it.
Speaker 1: We are enjoying the blessings that the creativity of God's people bring.
Speaker 1: So we say thank you as we dedicate this album, again in the name of the Father and in the name of the Son and in the name of the Holy Spirit, and God's people say Amen.
Speaker 1: Let's appreciate God big time.
Speaker 1: Amen, shall.
Speaker 1: We stand as we read the scriptures.
Speaker 1: We are reading from Matthew, chapter 8, verse 13,.
Speaker 1: Verse 5 to 13.
Speaker 1: This month we are talking about empowered strategies and today I want to talk about the unlocking strategy of believing.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor believing.
Speaker 1: This is the story of the Centurion and I want to read it.
Speaker 1: The Bible says when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a Centurion came to him asking for help.
Speaker 1: Lord, he said, my servant lies at home, paralyzed, suffering terribly.
Speaker 1: And Jesus said to him shall I come and heal him?
Speaker 1: The Centurion replied Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word and my servant will be healed.
Speaker 1: For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.
Speaker 1: I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come and he comes.
Speaker 1: I say to my servant do this, and he does it.
Speaker 1: When Jesus had this, he was amazed and said to those following him truly, I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
Speaker 1: I say to you that many will come from the east and the west and will take their places of the feast with Abraham, isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness where they'll be whipping and gnashing of teeth.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus said to the Centurion and I want you to know, to this particular scripture and Jesus said to the Centurion go, let it be done just as you believed it would.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again Go, let it be done just as you believed it would.
Speaker 1: And his servant was healed at that moment.
Speaker 1: This is God's word and God's people say please, we may be seated in God's presence as we pray together.
Speaker 1: Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you again for the opportunity to hear your word.
Speaker 1: The Bible says faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God and Lord, as I stand in this pulpit one more time it's been a while since I was here and thank you for my time away and now, lord, that you have made it possible for me to be back Again I surrender my mind, my spirit, my thoughts, my words.
Speaker 1: That, lord, as your word goes forth.
Speaker 1: It will go as you intend it to go, lord.
Speaker 1: There's somebody here who has come simply asking for a miracle.
Speaker 1: Somebody has come seeking for healing.
Speaker 1: Somebody else has come seeking for a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Somebody has come simply requiring a word of encouragement.
Speaker 1: Wherever they are, here and online, I decree and declare that their prayer is answered.
Speaker 1: And, father, we thank you because you are a mighty God.
Speaker 1: May faith be ignited in us and may we receive that which is already ours because of what Christ has done for us, Because we have prayed in Jesus' name, and God's people say amen, amen.
Speaker 1: I want to just give a very simple message this afternoon, because I believe that God has set you up for miracles.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that God has set you up for miracles.
Speaker 1: We are living in a world where there's so many pressures and so many challenges that have also, through the years, eroded something that is very special, and the devil knows that there's one thing that we have that, if he can make sure that it is mazzled, it is our ability to believe.
Speaker 1: The ability to believe and I want to say this that this ability to believe is apportioned to all of us, all of us.
Speaker 1: God made sure that he gave us faith, because without this faith, we would not even be in this church.
Speaker 1: Without this faith, songs would not be written.
Speaker 1: Without this faith we would not be dancing even when the world is burning.
Speaker 1: Without this faith, we would not have hope to raise up our children, even sometimes when they go astray.
Speaker 1: Without this ability to believe, we would not be able to wait at the end of the month to get a salary.
Speaker 1: Without this ability to believe, we would not even have strength to enter a car and drive it from point A to B.
Speaker 1: This ability to believe was placed within us by God himself.
Speaker 1: I read this verse in Romans, chapter 12, verse 2, verse 3, where God is saying he has given us this ability, he has empowered us with an ability.
Speaker 1: Let me read it Romans, chapter 12, verse 3.
Speaker 1: It says for, by the grace given me, I say to every one of you do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, according in accordance with the faith God has done.
Speaker 1: What Distributed to how many of us?
Speaker 1: To each one of us.
Speaker 1: Each one of us has faith.
Speaker 1: I'm saying each one of us has faith.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 1.
Speaker 1: This is a verse you know very well and it says this Hebrews 11, 1, talking about the whole of faith and men and women who are used of God.
Speaker 1: It says now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Speaker 1: Verse 2 says this is what the ancients were commended for by faith.
Speaker 1: It tells us that Abel was able to bring God a better offering than came.
Speaker 1: By faith, he was commended as righteous when God spoke well of his offerings.
Speaker 1: And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.
Speaker 1: The Bible says by faith, enoch was taken from this life so that he did not experience death.
Speaker 1: He could not be found because God had taken him away, for before he was taken he was commended as one who pleased God.
Speaker 1: And then verse 6 we know, and without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who honestly seek him.
Speaker 1: Now, since the devil knows that that believing is very important, he'll do his best to erode or remove its power inside us.
Speaker 1: I want to make a difference between the word faith and the word believing.
Speaker 1: All of us have faith, but very few of us exercise the ability to believe.
Speaker 1: So let me say that one more time All of us have faith, but very few exercise the ability to believe.
Speaker 1: Faith is a noun, believing is a verb, is an action word.
Speaker 1: Faith is like like Victoria.
Speaker 1: Believing is like Rivanaya.
Speaker 1: Rivanaya is what gets Victoria to Cairo.
Speaker 1: Lake Victoria has never been to Cairo, hallelujah, and it will never be.
Speaker 1: It's a lake.
Speaker 1: It is stuck in one place.
Speaker 1: The geographical dimensions are in one place.
Speaker 1: Lake Victoria is there, will be there, but it will not move.
Speaker 1: But Lake Victoria blesses Cairo and the Mediterranean Sea.
Speaker 1: Through what?
Speaker 1: Through the River Nile, and that's this, river Nile.
Speaker 1: This is believing, is what we want to say.
Speaker 1: God wants you to exercise, but the devil knows that if he can just stop the lake from getting to Cairo, he will just block the source and there will be no river and nothing will flow.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this there's a river inside you that needs to flow.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in John, chapter 7, verse 37.
Speaker 1: Again, jesus talking about this thing called a river the ability to believe, which the devil has eroded in us.
Speaker 1: It says this on the last and greatest day of the festival, jesus stood and said in a loud voice, let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
Speaker 1: And then he says whoever does what, whoever does what yes, whoever believes In me, as scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.
Speaker 1: By this he meant the spirit whom those who believed in him were later to receive.
Speaker 1: Up to that time, the spirit had not been given the centurion, jesus wanting to make an example to the centurion using the centurion.
Speaker 1: By the way, many of us think that if Jesus were to make an example about believing, the best place would go is in church.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this the best place to exercise your believing is not in church.
Speaker 1: Let me talk to the intelligent people on this other side the best place not to engage your believing is not in church.
Speaker 1: Church is where you enjoy the lake opportunity.
Speaker 1: It is out there.
Speaker 1: When you go out through that door is where the river is needed.
Speaker 1: It needs to flow out there and it is out there.
Speaker 1: You need to believe, and so believing is not a religious activity.
Speaker 1: Believing is a kingdom engagement.
Speaker 1: It is what makes the world go in circles.
Speaker 1: It makes the world go around.
Speaker 1: So, jesus, to make this faith and believing understandable, he meets a centurion, or let's say the other way A centurion meets him in that place where there's suffering and there's challenges.
Speaker 1: In church, the environment is such that you're made to be at the best comfortable position that you can ever be.
Speaker 1: Your neighbor smiles at you, hallelujah, and even if you don't like them and the pastor says turn to your neighbor, you still turn to your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing environment.
Speaker 1: But out there in the world nobody smiles at you.
Speaker 1: You cannot go out there and say turn to your neighbor until your neighbor you're looking good.
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm looking at you and saying turn to your neighbor until your neighbor you're looking good, better than yesterday and tomorrow you will shine in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Matter matter, sparkle, sparkle, shiny, shiny when shades?
Speaker 1: Yeah, in church we do that.
Speaker 1: Now try doing that in number three and especially if you don't have bas-faire, turn to your neighbor and tell your neighbor you're looking good.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this Out there is completely something else.
Speaker 1: Out there, what is needed is believing Men and women who are believing.
Speaker 1: So it comes to the centurion comes because he's been squeezed by life Out there.
Speaker 1: We are squeezed by life Out there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure that happens If it's not rent, if it is not school fees, all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Some of you don't even know that sometimes I'm called at home and I'm told Sifa is going to be sent home because she has not finished her school fees.
Speaker 1: Now, do you believe I can be called like that?
Speaker 1: I'm asking you, do you believe I can be called?
Speaker 1: Now let me tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: I have been called Because out there they don't treat me as pastor, they treat me as Sifa's father, and if he hasn't paid school fees, there's nothing like hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And so when Martha is the one called, guess Martha sends the pressure where?
Speaker 1: To me.
Speaker 1: Now, where do I send the pressure?
Speaker 1: And you see, now, that's where I have to exercise my believing.
Speaker 1: Are we together?
Speaker 1: That's where we have to exercise our believing and that's where people are squeezed.
Speaker 1: That's where challenges are come.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this it is good to get squeezed.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, it is good to be squeezed.
Speaker 1: Life is best when it's been squeezed.
Speaker 1: Children it is good for children to fall down and cry and run around.
Speaker 1: I remember when Alex Button was a baby.
Speaker 1: I can can imagine the amount of energy he had and the places he had to run.
Speaker 1: He fell and the mother said pole, pole, sana, and made him stand up again and he took off Out.
Speaker 1: There there's a lot of pain, there's a lot of squeezing.
Speaker 1: Everything is happening and it is for your good.
Speaker 1: All things work together for good To those who love the Lord, who are called according to his purpose, and sometimes for us Africans, especially the boy child.
Speaker 1: What is the first thing you tell them Don't cry.
Speaker 1: And I remember those days we'd be bitten by our parents.
Speaker 1: Do not cry.
Speaker 1: And when he beats you and you don't cry, my friend, it is worse.
Speaker 1: You get bitten because you did not cry.
Speaker 1: You are acting like you know.
Speaker 1: Pressure, tell your neighbor pressure.
Speaker 1: And orange is a very blessed fruit, but that orange was not created to be put on a shelf and to be admired.
Speaker 1: That orange has the ability and the power to produce orange juice and that orange juice is inside the orange.
Speaker 1: And for that juice to come out, what must happen?
Speaker 1: It needs to be squeezed, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And so when you squeeze the orange, then the orange has the ability to express itself through orange juice.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor the world was made to cause you to be expressible, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And so, young people, when you go and and and propose to a girl and she, she turns you down.
Speaker 1: It is okay.
Speaker 1: There's something else inside you that is waiting to come out at the right time.
Speaker 1: Come on, look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor he's talking to you, believe, believe, so the centurion comes.
Speaker 1: He says, hey, can you do this?
Speaker 1: And then Jesus says okay, can I come and heal this, this, this person?
Speaker 1: And the soldier says no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: There's a revelation I have.
Speaker 1: I am a man of authority, I'm a soldier with a hundred soldiers under me.
Speaker 1: I tell them to come and they come.
Speaker 1: I tell them to go and they go.
Speaker 1: But, jesus, I've seen the same revelation in you.
Speaker 1: You are a man of authority.
Speaker 1: Now you speak the word and my servant will be healed.
Speaker 1: And then Jesus said something very interesting.
Speaker 1: He said this for I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.
Speaker 1: I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come and he comes.
Speaker 1: I said to my servant do this, and he does it.
Speaker 1: When Jesus had this, listen to Jesus.
Speaker 1: He's he's appraisal of this gentleman.
Speaker 1: When Jesus had this, he was amazed and said to those following him truly, I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such what Great faith.
Speaker 1: He's not a religious person, he's just a person in the marketplace, but he has expressed something that makes Jesus excited.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this the moment Jesus later said to him let it be done to you, just as you have done what, just as you have believed.
Speaker 1: And Jesus is demanding us to believe, he's demanding us to release that belief out of us.
Speaker 1: Let me show you this story of these two blind men.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Matthew chapter 9, verse 27 Jesus is confronted by two blind men.
Speaker 1: And this is what happens.
Speaker 1: It says this then Jesus, okay, when Matthew chapter 9.
Speaker 1: As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out have mercy on us, son of David.
Speaker 1: They had good theology, it was perfect, good revelation.
Speaker 1: Then he touched go back.
Speaker 1: Go back, verse 28 have mercy on us, son of David.
Speaker 1: Then he touched their eyes and said according to your faith, let it be done to you.
Speaker 1: When he had gone in those, the blind men came to him and he asked them do you believe?
Speaker 1: Okay, let me read that again.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is putting a demand on them.
Speaker 1: When he had gone indoors, the blind man came to him and he asked them Do you believe that I am able to do this.
Speaker 1: Yes, lord, they replied.
Speaker 1: Then he touched their eyes and said According to your faith or according to your believing, let it be done to you.
Speaker 1: The next verse says this and their sight was restored.
Speaker 1: And then Jesus warned them sternly See that no one knows about this.
Speaker 1: Did they keep quiet?
Speaker 1: The Bible says this, but they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this Jesus wanted this man to exercise their ability to believe, and God wants you to believe, because, without believing, that which already is yours in the lake of favor will not reach you.
Speaker 1: The potential of your healing is already there.
Speaker 1: For it to become a reality, it has to become a river of believing so that it can get to you.
Speaker 1: There is a book that I read from time to time.
Speaker 1: It's called Know your Limits Then Ignore them.
Speaker 1: Hello, know your Limits Then Ignore them.
Speaker 1: It's a book written by a guy called John Mason, and there's something he says that is interesting about the ability to believe Page 99,.
Speaker 1: Let me just read something there, kidogo, so that you understand the word we are talking about.
Speaker 1: He says this be bold and courageous.
Speaker 1: When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
Speaker 1: When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail.
Speaker 1: Let me say that one more time when facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail.
Speaker 1: If you're going to climb Mount Everest, bring along of course this is an American and he says bring along the American flag.
Speaker 1: Go out on a limb, that's where the fruit is.
Speaker 1: But then he says something interesting about the challenge many years ago, of a record that had not been broken for a long time.
Speaker 1: Recently, kipchoge's record was broken by a young man of 23 years.
Speaker 1: I don't know the kind of intimidation he had, because Kipchoge is a legend, he's just an upcoming young man, he's a 23.
Speaker 1: He goes for a marathon and maybe in that marathon he says I don't think I can ever break this record.
Speaker 1: I have to grow enough and I have to run 10, 20 marathons for me to ever break a record.
Speaker 1: But when he went to that field he went with a different mindset, because the thousands and thousands of athletes who run the marathon of course some of them just go there for entertainment, the others would just go.
Speaker 1: Just while you were in the Chicago marathon they appeared.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this life is not a drama.
Speaker 1: Life is played once and when you get into it, play it with everything that you have.
Speaker 1: Fail or no fail, go for it.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, go for it.
Speaker 1: Let the adversities of life beat you this way and that way, but just go for it.
Speaker 1: There's one time there was a chef.
Speaker 1: This chef prepared chips and was able to serve it to a customer.
Speaker 1: And the customer went and came back with a plate of chips, very upset.
Speaker 1: He says I'm not eating these chips.
Speaker 1: These chips are too thick.
Speaker 1: So what do you expect?
Speaker 1: The chef was kind of offended but when he went back to the kitchen he decided this guy is saying that this chips is thick, I'll show him.
Speaker 1: He went and prepared another plate of chips but he cut them so thinly, thinly and thinly and then he baked them and then he served them.
Speaker 1: The customer came back and what he had was no chips.
Speaker 1: Is what now we call crisps.
Speaker 1: Did you know?
Speaker 1: There had never been crisps before?
Speaker 1: That customer went back, ate those crisps and went back and said I want more and got people wanting to buy crisps.
Speaker 1: And that's where crisps started.
Speaker 1: It was a worldwide hit because, out of a challenge, somebody had to think differently.
Speaker 1: A researcher said to your neighbor think differently, believe differently.
Speaker 1: And so when we talk about breaking marathons and records and all kinds of things, this guy may have gone not to participate, he went to win.
Speaker 1: Now listen to this.
Speaker 1: There was a mile that had not been broken for a long time.
Speaker 1: Nobody had run the mile below four minutes.
Speaker 1: Now this is what John Mason says.
Speaker 1: He says this Okay, okay, okay, let me get that page properly.
Speaker 1: He says this don't bother with small plans, because they motivate no one, especially you, amen.
Speaker 1: Then he says the person who expects nothing will never be disappointed.
Speaker 1: Tafakari haio.
Speaker 1: And then he says after Roger Bannister, on one mighty day, broke the four minute mile, he says this within one year, 37 others broke it.
Speaker 1: Within a year, for years, nobody had broken it.
Speaker 1: Roger Bannister counts and breaks it and within one year, 37 others broke that record.
Speaker 1: Then he says within two years, 300 had broken it.
Speaker 1: What do you think changed?
Speaker 1: What changed?
Speaker 1: Somebody believed that the record can be broken.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, when you believe, like the Bible says, nothing shall be impossible for those who do what, who believe.
Speaker 1: There are three stories in the Bible about believing.
Speaker 1: So let me start with the first one, and I want to talk about believing that overcomes fear.
Speaker 1: Fear is one of the biggest obstacles to people being able to believe.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Mark, chapter five, verse 21.
Speaker 1: This is the story of Jairus and the daughter.
Speaker 1: It says this when Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake.
Speaker 1: Then one of the synagogue leaders named Jairus came and when he saw Jesus he fell at his feet.
Speaker 1: He pleaded honestly with him my little daughter is dying.
Speaker 1: Please come and put your hands on her so that she'll be healed and leave.
Speaker 1: So Jesus went with him.
Speaker 1: A large crowd followed and pressed around him, but in the process of going, another woman had a need and it totally interrupted the situation.
Speaker 1: Of course, for Jairus, fear is really beating him down.
Speaker 1: The daughter is sick, temperatures are hard.
Speaker 1: The doctor said if nothing is done for her she's dying.
Speaker 1: So she is rushing to.
Speaker 1: He rushes to Jesus in fear.
Speaker 1: Jesus tells him don't worry, let's go.
Speaker 1: But as they are going, they interrupted.
Speaker 1: Time is not for them.
Speaker 1: Time is just limited and you can imagine Jairus is scared to death and very upset with this woman who has interrupted the journey.
Speaker 1: Now fast forward that to verse 35.
Speaker 1: After Jesus dealt with the woman, now news comes from Jairus's house in verse 35.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says while Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader, your daughter.
Speaker 1: Now that's worse news, breaking news, which is always bad news your daughter is dead.
Speaker 1: They say why bother the teacher anymore?
Speaker 1: The next verse overhearing what they said I thank God that Jesus is overhearing your situation.
Speaker 1: I'm saying Jesus is overhearing some people.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's overhearing that guy in your office who says you'll never be promoted.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that Jesus is overhearing your friends who are saying you're never going to get healed in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: I'm overhearing some of your friends.
Speaker 1: Jesus is overhearing them.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says overhearing what they said, jesus told him don't be afraid, just believe that thing that brought you to me and you told me Jesus, come to my place, lay your hands on my daughter.
Speaker 1: She will be well, she will be healed.
Speaker 1: Remain there, do not engage another narrative.
Speaker 1: Stay there, just believe, don't be afraid.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody here and I'm saying don't be afraid.
Speaker 1: I'm saying don't be afraid, hallelujah, don't be afraid, I'm still coming.
Speaker 1: I'm still coming through.
Speaker 1: Amen, fear is very bad.
Speaker 1: The other day we were traveling and going to El Gio Marraquet.
Speaker 1: We were going to El Dorret and El Gio Marraquet.
Speaker 1: So we took a plane, we went to Jomokanat International Airport with some of the trustees here, and we flew.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor we flew.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: We flew Now as we were flying and now beginning to land, because we are now descending to El Dorret as we were descending.
Speaker 1: Of course, as I fly, I usually close my eyes, I pray, sometimes I just read a book, and the flight is a bit shorter when you are doing other things.
Speaker 1: But as we were going, as we were beginning to land, as I was closing my eyes, I could hear the engines begin to rev.
Speaker 1: And I knew either, because the pilot had not said put on your seat belts, the stability, he didn't say that and I could just feel that plane beginning to rev.
Speaker 1: And as it was raving and my eyes were just closed and I'm sitting there, suddenly the plane dropped About nearly 10 feet.
Speaker 1: And 10 feet in a plane, dropping suddenly, is one of the scariest, scariest things you can ever experience.
Speaker 1: But I'm sitting in front and this thing goes and I'm just sitting there and it goes zoop and people behind me screamed that's when the name of Jesus is so precious.
Speaker 1: And they just said Jesus, you know.
Speaker 1: And screamed back there.
Speaker 1: And it is late.
Speaker 1: Of course the pilot stabilized the plane.
Speaker 1: Of course he knew what he was doing, because he's the pilot.
Speaker 1: Amen, he's a pilot.
Speaker 1: And we were able to land that plane and by the time people were leaving, very glad they were on ground.
Speaker 1: And so one of the trustees who was sitting there said one of the ladies she was sitting next to when the plane went shoop and people shouted Jesus.
Speaker 1: She told the trustee you see that gentleman sitting up in front, that's Pastor Ambrose.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 1: Now, of course she doesn't know that this person is a trustee from Parkland Baptist Church and said that's Pastor Ambrose.
Speaker 1: And what she was basically saying?
Speaker 1: As long as he is in this plane, hey, come on somebody.
Speaker 1: As long as he is in this plane, if there's a boom, it is well with my soul, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Imagine getting somebody in that plane who did not have any connection, just knowing that I am there and that I didn't panic.
Speaker 1: And I didn't.
Speaker 1: Now can you imagine if I had panicked?
Speaker 1: Why, why, why.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the testimony?
Speaker 1: Everybody would just say bah, it's a mistake, you are a bingoon.
Speaker 1: But I want to say this when your planes hit those stabilizers of life, Jesus is in that plane.
Speaker 1: Jesus is in that plane and Jesus is saying don't be afraid, come on, let's give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: Let's give God a big hand, yes, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: And so we landed.
Speaker 1: We had a wonderful time in El Gael.
Speaker 1: When we were coming back the next day, this same trustee said Ambrose, our plane is coming after you, as now you will not be the same plane as us.
Speaker 1: I told her listen, even if I'm not there, I want to decree and declare that you're going to have a good ride and you're going to land very well, and they did, but those who are a member also in that plane.
Speaker 1: Something also interesting happened, because as we were flying back, flying back, I didn't experience.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that Because, again, my eyes were closed and I was just meditating when it came to a time of landing.
Speaker 1: As we were landing, we were told now we are descending, now we are landing, and my eyes were closed.
Speaker 1: So I was waiting to land and I waited, and I waited, and I waited, and I waited and I said we are.
Speaker 1: When are we going to land?
Speaker 1: What I did know is that, as we are landing, the control tower said that there was a Mohesh Mewa who was landing first, and so the plane, instead of landing as he's supposed to land, he can't go around the ukuju.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the people who are in that plane?
Speaker 1: And one of the men, one of the people who are there, is in the worship team here and I can hear me a Pestumbrus, pestumbrus.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what was happening.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this even when they are delays to your landing, jesus is in that plane.
Speaker 1: Jesus is in that plane.
Speaker 1: All he wants you to do is to do what believe.
Speaker 1: And for Jairus for sure, jesus sorted his situation, reached home, people were crying, people were screaming.
Speaker 1: Jesus goes simply to this dead girl, takes her hand and says Talitha, come arise.
Speaker 1: This girl woke up like there was no drama.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this Jesus is going to sort out your situation without drama, in Jesus name, come on, you better receive that right now.
Speaker 1: No drama.
Speaker 1: God is going to make it happen for you.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, but very quickly, as I wind up this message believing that overcomes, but is believing that conquers.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Mark, chapter 11, verse 22.
Speaker 1: Jesus had spoken to a tree and it wither.
Speaker 1: And the disciples got so amazed and wondered what is this?
Speaker 1: So Jesus gives them a lesson.
Speaker 1: Verse 22 says this half faith in In God.
Speaker 1: Jesus answered.
Speaker 1: Then he said truly, I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, go, throw yourself into the sea, and there's no doubt in his heart, but does what, believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
Speaker 1: Look at verse 24.
Speaker 1: Verse 24 then says therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, do what, believe that you have received it and it will be what it will be yours.
Speaker 1: This is the believing that Conquers doubt.
Speaker 1: Why doubt?
Speaker 1: Doubt comes because maybe the situation is too big, that task is too Humongous.
Speaker 1: You don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Will it actually happen?
Speaker 1: Just because I said it?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God is going to back your words.
Speaker 1: God is going to back you up in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: But sadly, not only they are believing that Overcomes fear.
Speaker 1: Not only they are believing that conquers doubt.
Speaker 1: There's believing that side steps any delay.
Speaker 1: This is the story of a troubled father.
Speaker 1: Let me read it in mark, chapter 9, beginning with verse 17.
Speaker 1: Again it says this a man in the crowd answer teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech.
Speaker 1: This man had seen so much.
Speaker 1: His, his, his believing had been paralyzed.
Speaker 1: When it sees as him, it throws him into the ground.
Speaker 1: He forms at the mouth, nashes his teeth and becomes rigid.
Speaker 1: I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not.
Speaker 1: And then he said you and believing generation.
Speaker 1: Jesus replied how long shall I stay with you?
Speaker 1: How long shall I put up with you?
Speaker 1: Bring the boy to me.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this it is good to bring your situation to the right person.
Speaker 1: So they brought him.
Speaker 1: When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw him, the boy, into a conversion.
Speaker 1: He fell to the ground and rolled around, forming at the mouth.
Speaker 1: Jesus asked the boys father, how long has he been like this?
Speaker 1: And he said from childhood.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: There are some things that have been delayed in your life for so long that you're believing how you have stopped believing.
Speaker 1: You have stopped believing.
Speaker 1: You have seen it for too long.
Speaker 1: This thing will not change.
Speaker 1: But guess what?
Speaker 1: Today is a different day.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in the next verse.
Speaker 1: It has often thrown him into the fire and into the water to kill him.
Speaker 1: But if you can do anything now?
Speaker 1: He was now demanding Jesus ability.
Speaker 1: He says if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus replied ah ah, it is not my ability, it is not my capacity.
Speaker 1: He said if you can.
Speaker 1: Jesus said Everything is possible for one who believes.
Speaker 1: It is says it is not.
Speaker 1: If I can is if you can believe you, believe you.
Speaker 1: Let the waters of the lake begin to move through this river of believing.
Speaker 1: Things will shift and I want to say this for you today there are things that are about to shift in your life.
Speaker 1: As I prepare to pray, I want to read Romans, chapter 15, verse 13.
Speaker 1: This is what the Bible says again about what believing does for us.
Speaker 1: Romans 15, 13.
Speaker 1: It says may the God of what?
Speaker 1: May the God Now let's read it together want to go.
Speaker 1: May the God of hope Fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Now let me read this in the new king James version, because here it talks about trust.
Speaker 1: So let me read it in the other, in the other version.
Speaker 1: Now want to go.
Speaker 1: Now may the God of hope Fill you with all joy and peace.
Speaker 1: In what?
Speaker 1: In believing, in believing, in believing that you may abound in Hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, you have no idea the strategy of believing which the devil may have locked and doesn't want you to Manifest it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want you to show it.
Speaker 1: But today I'm telling you believe again.
Speaker 1: I'm saying believe again.
Speaker 1: God is going to create a shift, something is going to change in your life.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, to help you in training your believing, I have put here together a park.
Speaker 1: It's called I believe.
Speaker 1: It's available.
Speaker 1: It is also a success card for those who are about to do exams, for your friends, for your colleagues.
Speaker 1: But one thing it has here is 12 statements about believing.
Speaker 1: The first one is talks about I believe in God, because if you don't start there, you're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: There's another statement in that card that says I believe in me.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this believing in God is important, but if you don't believe in you, Nothing will happen.
Speaker 1: So look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Until your neighbor, I believe in me.
Speaker 1: I tell them one more time.
Speaker 1: Tell them with confidence and tell them and if you don't believe it, I Don't care.
Speaker 1: I believe in me, in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: If you believe that you better give God a big, big, big, big hand.
Speaker 1: You may have failures, you may have challenges.
Speaker 1: After just about a year or two ago, during the athletics I think it was a while the Olympics, or which one there's a lady called Sherika, sherika Richard.
Speaker 1: So 100 meters, united States of America.
Speaker 1: She's on the platform to make a name.
Speaker 1: She's with other very amazing people, some of them from Jamaica, from of some of them from places, and you're on that line and you're about to run and she goes on on your max and Then get set.
Speaker 1: America's Americans are known to always win those 100 meters, short races and this girl takes off.
Speaker 1: But in that race was one of the most disappointing races of her life On the large scale, on a big platform.
Speaker 1: She nearly came last.
Speaker 1: She's in the university.
Speaker 1: She's a young girl.
Speaker 1: She cannot crush at such an important stage of her life.
Speaker 1: But later they are interviewing her and said what went wrong?
Speaker 1: We're expecting you to be the best.
Speaker 1: What went wrong?
Speaker 1: Of course, somebody later leaked the issue that she had tested for taking Marijuana.
Speaker 1: What you do with that kind of information?
Speaker 1: You're a young lady, your life is finished, it is over, and maybe she left that stadium knowing that her career that was just beginning is finished.
Speaker 1: She's done.
Speaker 1: I Don't know what happened when she went home.
Speaker 1: I don't know who talked to her.
Speaker 1: I don't know who came back to her Maybe her coach and say this this has happened and it is in your past.
Speaker 1: Your past is history.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is a mystery.
Speaker 1: Today is a day to make a difference.
Speaker 1: Maybe somebody came to her and says listen, this, richard, think differently.
Speaker 1: Believe again, believe again, believe again.
Speaker 1: And this lady began to believe again Just the other day in Budapest.
Speaker 1: She's on your marks.
Speaker 1: Get set with the same people who had won those races and this lady takes off and she wins a hundred meters, she goes for 200 and she wins.
Speaker 1: What changed this girl?
Speaker 1: Those things had gone wrong yesterday and she didn't know what tomorrow would hold on her.
Speaker 1: Today she said I believe in me, I believe in me, I believe in me.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking to somebody and I'm saying believe in you, believe in you, go on that track of your life, believe in God, believe in you, look at where the final is and, when that gun goes off, go and succeed, because you were created to succeed.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, come on, somebody better say I receive it.
Speaker 1: I receive it in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Oh, you better show up next week, because we are talking about this thing that is going to lift you out from paralysis and cause you to fly to heights that you have never flown to ever before, because your today has come.
Speaker 1: I'm saying your today has come In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Remember, forget yesterday.
Speaker 1: It is history.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It is a mystery, but take hold of your today and make a difference today.
Speaker 1: If you believe that, you better stand up and say Lord, I'm coming your way.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: Tell God I'm coming your way In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Tell the devil, get out of my way.
Speaker 1: You have lost in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Are you glad you came?
Speaker 1: Believe in God, believe in yourself, believe in your today.
Speaker 1: These cards are available.
Speaker 1: They are in this pack for you, for your friends.
Speaker 1: Please get one.
Speaker 1: It is at the bookshop, at the tables.
Speaker 1: But we want to tell the devil we are going to win this race, amen.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I didn't have with the menipa is the place where you need to put the cross.
Speaker 1: You know we don't have that.
Speaker 1: You know, for me, when the cross comes, it is just a cross.
Speaker 1: But many people had this cross where you go and you know you have to sing, like people from Congo, we used to do that long time ago when we tried to think that we knew Congolese.
Speaker 1: Those are the things we only knew.
Speaker 1: But these days, many people have taken over.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this Tomorrow, many things are going to happen Because you are coming out of this church believing, believing, believing.
Speaker 1: There is a miracle for you today.
Speaker 1: There is a Monday miracle, there is a Tuesday miracle, there is a Wednesday miracle, there is a Thursday miracle, there is a Friday miracle, there is a Saturday miracle.
Speaker 1: You are coming back with amazing testimonies In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Something is in there, something is in there, something special.
Speaker 1: Let us pray, father, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: We stand before you positioning ourselves for great exploits.
Speaker 1: The Bible says for the people who know their God, they shall be strong, they shall do exploits.
Speaker 1: And, father, I'm praying for somebody who came this afternoon Zero faith, zero believing.
Speaker 1: But, lord, today, as you told Jairus, we want to speak life to that believing and we want to say do not be afraid, just believe.
Speaker 1: Just believe.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody online, I'm talking to somebody in the service, in the pavilion and I'm saying hey, rise up again, just believe, for with your heart you believe and with your mouth you confess, confirming your deliverance.
Speaker 1: And so, in the name of Jesus, may you use this strategy of believing, unlock this strategy.
Speaker 1: Something amazing is going to happen to you in the marketplace, in your families, that resource that seems to have been stuck and you have waited for so long.
Speaker 1: This week you'll have a testimony because it is unlocked right now.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, son of the Living God.
Speaker 1: Dear Master, people are lifting up their believing and because they're lifting up their believing, take note of their believing.
Speaker 1: Like you took note of the faith of that woman with the issue of blood, and you said your faith has made you well.
Speaker 1: May you command that to somebody here this afternoon, may you command it to somebody online and may you decree to them your faith has made you well.
Speaker 1: Like you said to the centurion, it shall be done for you, just as you believed.
Speaker 1: I'm saying take a pause right now.
Speaker 1: I want you to take authority now in Jesus' name, and I want to say you to say in your heart I believe, I believe, I believe, and fear will not stop me, heart will not stop me, delay will not stop me.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 1: And that is final.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, now give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord, amen.
Speaker 1: I want to speak a blessing upon us at this time, as we prepare to leave, and let me tell you this just testify to your neighbor next Sunday.
Speaker 1: You will not cognize me.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back with testimonies, amen, yeah.
Speaker 1: So let me bless us Really appreciate the worship team.
Speaker 1: Don't they look nice?
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: They look like believers, believing believers.
Speaker 1: So, god, don't be our believer in name, only Be a believer in reality, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: So lift up your hands as we pray.
Speaker 1: Father, in the name that is above every name, I decree and declare that this congregation is blessed.
Speaker 1: They are blessed as they have come in.
Speaker 1: They are blessed as they are going out, lord.
Speaker 1: They are blessed when they sit down and when they rise up.
Speaker 1: Their families are blessed and, dear Lord, I pray that, even as they engage the strategy of believing that, miracles will start rushing to them, because Jesus said, everything is possible to those who believe, and so I decree and declare to you that impossibilities are becoming possibilities for you this week, in the mighty name of Jesus, and you will testify of the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Speaker 1: Darkness is living.
Speaker 1: Light is coming.
Speaker 1: Darkness is going out.
Speaker 1: Wisdom is coming in.
Speaker 1: Yes, limitation has been around you, but now the dose of unlimited are coming to you now, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Scarsity has been your companion, but I want to tell you this provision is going to be resident in you.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, god is going to supply all your needs according to his riches in glory.
Speaker 1: Thank you, father.
Speaker 1: And so I bless us now in the name that is above every name.
Speaker 1: I bless you in the name of Jesus, I bless you in the name of the Father, I bless you in the name of the Holy Spirit, and if you believe that, you better say I receive it, I take it, it is my portion, and there is nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name Now, look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life, and you, you shall dwell in God's favor, in God's goodness, in God's generosity, and there is nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: You are blessed to be a blessing.
Speaker 1: You are lifted to lift others.
Speaker 1: You are honored to be honorable in Jesus' mighty name and now, in the name of Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: Amen.