Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you're still looking good, better than yesterday and tomorrow and this coming week.
Speaker 1: You will shine In Jesus' name, matter matter, sparkle, sparkle, shiny, shiny when she has.
Speaker 1: Give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: It is always a joy to be in church.
Speaker 1: We thank God for those joining us online From very far, those who have come from distant places.
Speaker 1: We just want to appreciate those journeys From the diaspora From close by.
Speaker 1: Give yourself a big hand for being in church today.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: We want to read the word of God from the book of John.
Speaker 1: We're reading from verse 8.
Speaker 1: This is a conversation that Jesus was having with the disciples and we want to pick it from verse 8.
Speaker 1: As we talk about the strategies that God has given us this month, philip said that's verse 8.
Speaker 1: Philip said Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.
Speaker 1: Jesus answered Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time?
Speaker 1: Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
Speaker 1: How can you say show us the Father, don't you believe?
Speaker 1: Don't you believe?
Speaker 1: Don't you believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me?
Speaker 1: The words I speak to you.
Speaker 1: I do not speak on my own authority.
Speaker 1: Rather, it is the Father living in me who is doing his work.
Speaker 1: Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
Speaker 1: Very truly, I tell you Whoever believes in me this is a key verse for us today Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes in me Will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even more, greater things than these, because I am going to the Father and I will do whatever you ask in my name so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Speaker 1: You may ask me for anything in my name and I will.
Speaker 1: I will do it.
Speaker 1: This is God's word.
Speaker 1: We may be seated in God's presence.
Speaker 1: Shall we pray, father, we thank you so much for opportunities when we expose ourselves to the word of God, and it is my prayer, holy Spirit, that this word is going to fertile ground, to good soil, hearts that are prepared, and that, lord, this word will bring forth fruit 30 fold, 60 fold, 100 fold.
Speaker 1: Lord, minister, to all of us, in our different ways, in our different situations, in our different capacities, those online and those in person, other pavilion, and in here we want to say thank you and we glorify your name and we believe that will come out of your word.
Speaker 1: That will take us to the next level, because we have prayed In Jesus' name and God's people say amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Today we want to talk about the believers' mind.
Speaker 1: This is the strategy that God has given us In getting and receiving what God has given to us.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor, your favorite, amen, your favorite, the believers' mind.
Speaker 1: In fast Corinthians, chapter 2.
Speaker 1: Paul is having a conversation and Paul says in verse 16.
Speaker 1: Chapter 2.
Speaker 1: Verse 16.
Speaker 1: He says this For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him.
Speaker 1: And then he makes a statement.
Speaker 1: This is a statement of faith.
Speaker 1: He says but we have the mind Of Christ.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor you have the mind of Christ.
Speaker 1: Now, by looking at them, you may not actually believe it, but you have the mind of Christ.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: But according to the word of God, you have the mind Of Christ.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah you have.
Speaker 1: Many years ago I just shifted cars.
Speaker 1: I used to have A very simple car called Nissan Sunny, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So the car that I go to, so the car that I got immediately after that Was Subaru Legacy.
Speaker 1: Now, when I had Nissan Sunny, it had three gears no One, two, three.
Speaker 1: We used to shift those days.
Speaker 1: Maybe now people have automatic and things like that They've forgotten that when I got the Subaru Legacy Very powerful car it had five gears.
Speaker 1: So you go to gear one, gear two, gear three, gear four, then gear five, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Now, the day I got that car, how many gears did it have?
Speaker 1: Five.
Speaker 1: But because I had just come from using Nissan Sunny with three gears, you can believe, for nearly Six months, going Into a year, in the Subaru Legacy, how many gears do you think I used?
Speaker 1: I used three, three.
Speaker 1: Now, while I was using the three, did I have five gears?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I did, but I never used them.
Speaker 1: Number one is because I had been used to three gears.
Speaker 1: That's the capacity I knew I had, and the capacity was not in the capacity for three gears Was not in the vehicle.
Speaker 1: Where do you think?
Speaker 1: It was?
Speaker 1: In my mind.
Speaker 1: And that is why, when we talk about you, have the mind of Christ, the believer's mind.
Speaker 1: God wants to give you his mind so that you think the way he thinks, you're able to engage the way he engages, the way he lives.
Speaker 1: He's engaged in certain limitations Of our lives because we got Used to believing in that way.
Speaker 1: A couple of Sundays we have been challenging each one of us To re engage your gears.
Speaker 1: Of course, now that it is Automatic transmission, we just press that accelerator and things just change, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Now Let me tell you how that mind really Limited me.
Speaker 1: One time I went All the way To a buoy On three gears.
Speaker 1: So I put the first one, ha, ha, that's where I stayed.
Speaker 1: Ha, for 400 kilometers On three gears.
Speaker 1: One time Mata challenged me.
Speaker 1: He asked me why haven't you engaged this fifth gear?
Speaker 1: You know you're driving and she's talking, you're driving.
Speaker 1: Why haven't you engaged it?
Speaker 1: And a man, being a man, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: Ha, I said this car Women do not Understand this is for men.
Speaker 1: Ha.
Speaker 1: But later that question started rubbing in my head.
Speaker 1: By the way, I asked myself by the way, why haven't you even engaged gear five?
Speaker 1: So one time, when she was not there and I was alone in that car, ha, ha, at that particular time, it is Kitambo Around 2001.
Speaker 1: I was just being Revamped.
Speaker 1: There was no expressway, just Mombasa Road, going through the airport and just going.
Speaker 1: So one day I decided alone I will engage this gear five, because I used to think in my mind that if you put gear four and then going to gear five, the car would fly.
Speaker 1: Those are irrational imaginations but they are very real for some people.
Speaker 1: Some people think if you put gear five the wheels will come off.
Speaker 1: Imaginations and some of the things you fear and you have never stepped into them.
Speaker 1: Just irrational fear.
Speaker 1: But something is about to change in your life, something is about to shift in your life.
Speaker 1: Somebody is about to go to gear 4 and go to gear 5.
Speaker 1: And for sure, that day, on my own, I just engaged, just started driving past Nyaya Stadium and just made sure that now I was on a straight road and got into gear 5, then got into gear 4, then got into gear 5 and the vehicle Subaru Legacy Ikanyamaza, hareroya, effortlessly.
Speaker 1: I was going, heading past the airport, heading down towards the river, and the car felt good and from that day I became a believer.
Speaker 1: It is by prayer that, in Jesus' name, as we enter into the month of November, we shall be having believers entering that month.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, of course, for the Subaru lovers who are in this church with the Lord bless you big time.
Speaker 1: And of course we have other vehicles.
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you my experience Fear, tell your neighbor, fear.
Speaker 1: Many times our believing is limited by fear and we've talked about that in the past.
Speaker 1: But I want today to say what Jesus said in John 14, 12.
Speaker 1: So let me read that verse one more time John 14, 12, very truly.
Speaker 1: I tell you, whoever does what, whoever does what, whoever does what believes in me, will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.
Speaker 1: Jesus was empowering his disciples to move to the believing that he had to have the mind that he had, because the mind of Jesus was a mind of believing, a mind of believing.
Speaker 1: One time Jesus told the man and we talked about this a Sunday ago in the book of Mark, chapter nine, verse 23,.
Speaker 1: Jesus is challenging this Father who has just seen things going the wrong way for a long time, and then he says, if you can say Jesus, and then he said everything is possible for the one who does what, who believes.
Speaker 1: Many times we have confined believing to the day we got saved.
Speaker 1: We believed and we got saved.
Speaker 1: Some of us believe because we know the apostles creed.
Speaker 1: Some of us believe because we know the Lord's prayer, but many times believing becomes such a familiar word that it loses its power.
Speaker 1: The Lord's prayer is a powerful prayer, but for many of us the Lord's prayer is a recitation that has lost its power.
Speaker 1: And so when you tell people and just say we want to say the Lord's prayer, and then you say our Father, the moment you say our Father, everybody connects.
Speaker 1: But they are doing it with an automatic our Father, who is in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Speaker 1: The kingdom come.
Speaker 1: That will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Speaker 1: The part they really like is this one that says give us this day our daily bread.
Speaker 1: That one just registers that.
Speaker 1: The other one that doesn't register, which is immediate forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
Speaker 1: That one we are not even thinking by the time we are hitting.
Speaker 1: The next gear for them is the kingdom and the power and the glory.
Speaker 1: It is just words.
Speaker 1: We don't believe that prayer, we don't believe that God is able to do those things.
Speaker 1: When we say the kingdom come, it's just words.
Speaker 1: What God is telling us in this season in terms of strategy.
Speaker 1: He's saying believe his word and it will take you to the next level.
Speaker 1: And so today, when I talk about the mind of Christ, which is the mind of believing, I want to talk of three things.
Speaker 1: Number one expectation, because the believing mind has an expectation.
Speaker 1: The believing mind has an activation and the believing mind results in transformation, expectation, activation, transformation.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this while I'm talking about believe, I want to just define some words for us, because sometimes you find in church we use words but they're not defined and so sometimes it don't make sense and sometimes we don't differentiate those words.
Speaker 1: The word faith is also a word that people don't understand a lot, but faith has been defined for us.
Speaker 1: So let me read it in Hebrews, chapter 11, verse one, hebrews 11, verse one.
Speaker 1: He says now faith.
Speaker 1: So faith is not tomorrow, faith is when.
Speaker 1: Faith is now.
Speaker 1: Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see Now.
Speaker 1: Let me read it in the New King James Version.
Speaker 1: The New King James says it this way Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Speaker 1: Now let me read it in the Amplified to help some people still understand it better.
Speaker 1: Amplified, says this Now faith is the assurance, that title deed, the confirmation of things hoped for, divinely guaranteed, and the evidence of things not seen, the conviction of their reality.
Speaker 1: Faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.
Speaker 1: Do you get that?
Speaker 1: So faith, pastor?
Speaker 1: Maschine?
Speaker 1: Faith is substance.
Speaker 1: It is a substance.
Speaker 1: Hope is different.
Speaker 1: Many people think about they have faith, but what they have is what Hope.
Speaker 1: But faith is the substance of things hoped for.
Speaker 1: There are things I'm hoping, but the substance of those things is what Is faith.
Speaker 1: Hope is an expected goal.
Speaker 1: There is a goal you want to reach.
Speaker 1: There's a goal I hope, to build a house.
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 1: Substance, which is faith, is the title deed of the land where you will build that house.
Speaker 1: Now if a woman goes and she thinks she's pregnant, thinks why is she thinking?
Speaker 1: Because she has seen certain signs.
Speaker 1: Hariruya the katumbu has not come, that one has not happened.
Speaker 1: But there are signs.
Speaker 1: So she thinks she goes, she does her own tests and she finds out she's not actually pregnant.
Speaker 1: She was hoping, but now she knows she's not.
Speaker 1: She cannot walk around believing that she's pregnant.
Speaker 1: But if she goes and tests and finds out by the way, I'm actually pregnant.
Speaker 1: She actually now becomes expectant.
Speaker 1: If you meet her on the streets and say I had your pregnant, then she would say I hope so.
Speaker 1: You see, now, that's what many Christians do.
Speaker 1: They are always hoping.
Speaker 1: Do you believe you're going to get that job?
Speaker 1: I hope so.
Speaker 1: Do you believe that this deal is coming through?
Speaker 1: I hope so.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this you will hope until Jesus comes.
Speaker 1: Nothing is going to happen, because hope is not the substance.
Speaker 1: The substance is where it's faith.
Speaker 1: Now, faith is here.
Speaker 1: Hope is here.
Speaker 1: The bridge that connects faith to hope is what we are talking about Believe, because believing comes out of faith and that faith connects.
Speaker 1: That faith then, through your believing, connects to what you're hoping and that hope will surely come to pass.
Speaker 1: There is an expectation.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this Chair PDB.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about believing in the positive terms, but there's also believing in the negative terms, because believing does not decide whether it is positive or negative.
Speaker 1: What you give your believing will happen, whether it is positive or negative.
Speaker 1: The choice is on you.
Speaker 1: Let me read this verse for us very quickly Tell your neighbor expectation.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Numbers, chapter 13.
Speaker 1: This is a verse.
Speaker 1: You know very well about the 12 spies and the Bible says this in verse 27 there, verse 27.
Speaker 1: 26, 27.
Speaker 1: They were just coming back.
Speaker 1: The Bible says they came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh, in the desert of Paran, where they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
Speaker 1: They gave Moses this account.
Speaker 1: We went into the land to which you sent us and it does flow with milk and honey.
Speaker 1: Now that is a positive report.
Speaker 1: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 1: Take me to the but the people who live there.
Speaker 1: Anytime you start saying something positive and then you say but things change.
Speaker 1: It says but the people who live there are powerful and the cities are fortified and very large.
Speaker 1: We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Speaker 1: The Amalekites live in that, in the Negev, the Hittites, the Jebusites and the Amorites live in the hill country and the Canaanites live in the near sea, along the Jordan.
Speaker 1: Then calab silenced the people before Moses and said we should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 1: Two guys against 10 guys.
Speaker 1: 10 are unbelievers, two are believers.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this the sad thing is this those 10 guys went and told the community we cannot take that land.
Speaker 1: It is good but we cannot take it.
Speaker 1: And they sent a bad report.
Speaker 1: And I want to tell you this that hope, because of their unbelief, that hope of entering the promised land was postponed for how long?
Speaker 1: For 40 years.
Speaker 1: Please don't allow your hope to be postponed by negative reports, because believing can be challenged by a negative report and you have negative results.
Speaker 1: But one thing I think about Calab and Joshua is this no matter what happened, they believed and even though it took 40 years for them to enter the promised land, god made sure they would still be alive.
Speaker 1: They would still have health and strength 40 years later to have their inheritance.
Speaker 1: Let me say this Keep believing.
Speaker 1: It may have taken so long, keep believing, but believing is an expectation.
Speaker 1: There's something you must expect.
Speaker 1: There's an expectation Tell your neighbor expectation.
Speaker 1: Tell the other neighbor expectation.
Speaker 1: Tell the one who ignored you expectation.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: How many of you believe that God listens to prayer warriors?
Speaker 1: You see I'm one of them.
Speaker 1: So do you believe I am a prayer warrior?
Speaker 1: In the book of Acts, chapter 12, we have an example of these prayer warriors.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in verse one.
Speaker 1: Let me just say verse one and then I'll pick it up.
Speaker 1: There's a story of James being caught by Harold, killed.
Speaker 1: Peter is also taken, put in prison.
Speaker 1: He's under serious custody.
Speaker 1: He cannot come out.
Speaker 1: But the Bible says in verse four just go to verse four, chapter 12, verse four.
Speaker 1: Take me there, chapter 12, verse four.
Speaker 1: After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by the scores of four soldiers.
Speaker 1: Each Harold intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
Speaker 1: As Peter was kept in prison.
Speaker 1: This is a statement I want you to get about prayer warriors.
Speaker 1: So Peter was kept in prison, but that church was honestly praying to God for him.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this when you're in trouble, you better get some friends who can be praying for you, amen.
Speaker 1: One thing I like about Peter is he was a believer.
Speaker 1: This guy is a believer.
Speaker 1: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 1: The next verse says that night before Harold was to bring him to trial, peter was doing what?
Speaker 1: Yes, tell your neighbor, it is good for believers to sleep, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: The other guy is sleeping.
Speaker 1: Why is he sleeping?
Speaker 1: Because there's something he knows that those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion that can never be shaken.
Speaker 1: He knows that is the mountains around Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: So the Lord surrounds his people, both now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: He knows the vast.
Speaker 1: That says I look up to the hills.
Speaker 1: Where does my help come from?
Speaker 1: My help comes from the Lord, the make of heaven and earth.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this If you're a believer and you are in trouble and you are still pacing in your bedroom and you keep saying I hope God is coming through, he is not coming through.
Speaker 1: Relax, find a seat and sleep in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: There is a time to act.
Speaker 1: There's a time to sleep.
Speaker 1: Rest because God is working on your behalf.
Speaker 1: Some people are praying for you and God is working on your behalf.
Speaker 1: Long story short, god sent an angel.
Speaker 1: An angel put this guy out.
Speaker 1: And Peter is out on his way to John, mark's house, mary's house, verse 12.
Speaker 1: That's why I picked it up.
Speaker 1: When this had done on him, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered.
Speaker 1: Doing what Now, if they were honestly praying and there were many people do you know the sound level of those prayers?
Speaker 1: You know the sound levels?
Speaker 1: They were very high In English.
Speaker 1: We grabbed the Devil, we put him on the railroad that he may be crashed by that train.
Speaker 1: Now you know, sometimes Christians can be jokers.
Speaker 1: So tell your neighbor foolishness out.
Speaker 1: Wisdom in.
Speaker 1: You know very well that devil cannot be grabbed.
Speaker 1: The devil does not have a body.
Speaker 1: The devil is a spirit.
Speaker 1: You cannot grab the devil and put him on a railroad.
Speaker 1: So look at your neighbor one more time.
Speaker 1: Let's find out if he's one of those intercessors who prays those kinds of prayers and we used to do that.
Speaker 1: We sang songs like that Devil is a spirit.
Speaker 1: Hello, the other ways to deal with him.
Speaker 1: You cannot grab and put him on a railroad.
Speaker 1: But these guys are serious because they are prayer warriors.
Speaker 1: Wame umba, wame umba, wame umba.
Speaker 1: Then look at what happens next.
Speaker 1: Peter knocked at the outer entrance and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.
Speaker 1: When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it and exclaimed Peter is at the door.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 1: There are many prayer warriors.
Speaker 1: They are praying, praying and their expectation this is what I'm trying to get you.
Speaker 1: The expectation was this there is no way Peter is coming out of that prison, but we thank God that when he dies, his angel will go to heaven.
Speaker 1: Only one girl believed.
Speaker 1: A servant girl believed.
Speaker 1: She had an expectation.
Speaker 1: As she was praying, she said Lord, I'm expecting Peter to be at that door.
Speaker 1: Everybody else was expecting Peter to be where In prison, dead and killed.
Speaker 1: They were just waiting for news.
Speaker 1: That's what they are waiting for.
Speaker 1: That's where they are believing he had reached.
Speaker 1: Peter is knocking.
Speaker 1: Now listen to what they told this lady.
Speaker 1: These are prayer warriors.
Speaker 1: What did they say?
Speaker 1: You are out of your mind, and that statement is very true, because she was out of her mind and in the mind of Christ.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, relocate your mind into the mind of Christ, live like Jesus, talk like Jesus, expect like Jesus.
Speaker 1: But listen to this prayer warriors.
Speaker 1: You are out of your mind, they told her when she kept insisting that it was.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 1: They say look at the next statement.
Speaker 1: It must be his, his, what His?
Speaker 1: Angel.
Speaker 1: In other words, I'm a quisher.
Speaker 1: I'm a quisher, but Peter kept knocking.
Speaker 1: One lady expected him to be at the door, the rest expected him to be in prison.
Speaker 1: Where is your expectation?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm asking us.
Speaker 1: Where has your believing brought you?
Speaker 1: Where is your expectation, as you believe God for these things?
Speaker 1: Where has your expectation brought you?
Speaker 1: Are you in the negative mode?
Speaker 1: Are you in the given up mode?
Speaker 1: Or are you saying my prayer has been answered, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody here because your prayer has been answered.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to some people here.
Speaker 1: There's a financial breakthrough that has just come your way.
Speaker 1: Just take it Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: But expectation is then followed with activation.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor expectation, then activation.
Speaker 1: You remember the story I told you last week about this boy in Visaucio.
Speaker 1: Remember, some of you are here, some of you are not here, but I went to Visaucio, just for those who are not here, praying for class 8 and class 6, grade 6.
Speaker 1: When I was finishing, I lifted up a 1000 shilling note and I said there is a student here who believes that this 1000 shilling belongs to him.
Speaker 1: They all looked at me and just looked at me.
Speaker 1: Then I said there is a student here who believes that this 1000 shilling note is his.
Speaker 1: One boy, four rows away, lifted his hands up and waved vigorously.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, was he a believer?
Speaker 1: Let me talk to these very intelligent people, according to my definition that I've just been talking to you about, was he a believer?
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll come there in a moment, this group.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Was he a believer?
Speaker 1: He's waving.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh, he was hoping, instead of taking the substance.
Speaker 1: So what did he need between?
Speaker 1: He needed a bridge, an expectation that leads to activation.
Speaker 1: John chapter 5 gives you an illustration of that gentleman.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in John chapter 5, verse 5, of this man who had been waiting to be healed.
Speaker 1: So let me read it from the New King James Version very quickly While you're turning there, just look at your neighbor one more time, just just check, disown and find out.
Speaker 1: Are they on the hope side, or they are still on the faith side, or they are believers?
Speaker 1: While you are grading them, grade yourself.
Speaker 1: The Bible says now a certain man was there who had an infirmity.
Speaker 1: For how long?
Speaker 1: For 38 years.
Speaker 1: When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, he said to him do you want to be made?
Speaker 1: Well, the sick man answered Sir, I have no man to put me where, into the pool when the water is tied up.
Speaker 1: But while I'm coming another steps down before me, this man was actually communicating his frustration that challenges he had faced.
Speaker 1: Now I know there are many people here from the marketplace, many businessmen and many businesswomen.
Speaker 1: We are going through a very challenging economic season and time and currently your business, you're hustling, doing the best you can, but your business is not happening.
Speaker 1: Hello, am I talking to somebody?
Speaker 1: Commodity costs are going high, but your salary is remaining the same, constant.
Speaker 1: People who used to go to Chumi those days, kitambo and field those cuts with the same amount of money.
Speaker 1: Hello, if you're going to Karefo or wherever, the same amount of money.
Speaker 1: You'll buy a couple of items and not push them, carry them.
Speaker 1: It's a challenging season and sometimes, if you tell people the economy will change in 24 hours, what do you think they will say?
Speaker 1: You are out of your mind.
Speaker 1: So, if you are out of your mind, where would you, where should you be In the mind of Christ?
Speaker 1: Because, let me tell you this, things can shift in one day.
Speaker 1: The dollar is going ching, ching, ching, ching and the shilling is struggling.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this God does not provide for us according to the dollar.
Speaker 1: He does not provide for us according to the shilling.
Speaker 1: He provides for us according to his riches in glory.
Speaker 1: Somebody better give God a big hand, amen.
Speaker 1: In this same season, you can find people building houses and you're wondering what is happening.
Speaker 1: You see, you don't see things the way they are.
Speaker 1: You see things the way you are.
Speaker 1: The issue is not there.
Speaker 1: The issue is in here.
Speaker 1: Hello, one of the things you need to do.
Speaker 1: This is just, by the way, wisdom.
Speaker 1: Do not say bad things about rich people.
Speaker 1: You see a rich person passing by and says, ah, drug dealer.
Speaker 1: You see another man seriously building his house and every day things are changing, things are improving.
Speaker 1: Forget the ones who start and are bigger to slabby acquaintance the following year.
Speaker 1: The slab is still.
Speaker 1: Be careful what you say about rich people, because for you to be rich, you'll be telling yourself those same bad things you are saying.
Speaker 1: Get excited about rich people because you are one of them.
Speaker 1: Somebody better give God a big hand, amen.
Speaker 1: If your friend prospers, just go into the house and say father, thank you for my friend, thank you for my neighbor.
Speaker 1: They are prospering in Jesus name, bless his children, favor them, but for us we don't pray like that heavenly father.
Speaker 1: I capture that prosperity Because the guys who are prospering don't go to church.
Speaker 1: The guys who are prospering don't get the invitation to come for a Bible study, they're doing their own things.
Speaker 1: You go for Bible study, you do everything, but you're not moving anywhere.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this if you bless them, somebody will bless you.
Speaker 1: Oh, but you know, ambrose, it has taken so long for me to reach there.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, god can accelerate you, god can shift you, god can change you.
Speaker 1: This man had reached a stage.
Speaker 1: He said God, I am finished, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus gave a command.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to him rise up, take up your bed and walk.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says in the next verse and immediately the man was made well, took up his bed and walked.
Speaker 1: And that day was when it's a Sabbath day, in other words, this guy did not now listen and start thinking the wrong things.
Speaker 1: He had an expectation, but then he put that expectation to work.
Speaker 1: He stood up, picked up his bed and did what he walked.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you don't have to do something huge, you don't have to do something strange.
Speaker 1: Sometimes God just asked you to take a next step.
Speaker 1: Just one step, hallelujah, one step.
Speaker 1: Remember the story of the four lepers?
Speaker 1: Some of you have forgotten Syria.
Speaker 1: The masquerade was besieged, there was famine, so much famine that people started eating one another's babies.
Speaker 1: And then the prophet said Don't worry this time, tomorrow, things will change.
Speaker 1: And because our minds can play games with us, god is saying rather than focus your mind on facts, focus your mind on the truth of God.
Speaker 1: If God said it, he will do it.
Speaker 1: That boy will change, that girl will change, that grandfather will change, that situation will change Because God is in the changing business.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: God is in what, the changing business?
Speaker 1: And that man stood up, picked up his bed and walked.
Speaker 1: Let me read this verse and then we'll begin to tie this message up.
Speaker 1: James, chapter 2, verse 14,.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this what does it profit?
Speaker 1: Okay, what good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has what?
Speaker 1: No deed, can such faith save them?
Speaker 1: Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food, if one of you says to them go in peace, keep warm and well fed, but there's not nothing about their physical need, what good is it?
Speaker 1: In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by Action, is what Is dead.
Speaker 1: You say you want to go to America.
Speaker 1: You don't have a passport.
Speaker 1: That faith will not take you out of this country.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, some of you already have passports.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, you have gone a long way.
Speaker 1: Hello, now that passport has never been stamped One as if you were.
Speaker 1: And I keep telling you that passport can be stamped.
Speaker 1: All you need to do is go to Namanga, abu Sia, and just cross the border.
Speaker 1: If you can do that, then God can trust you to go to Arusha.
Speaker 1: God can trust you to go to South Africa and beyond.
Speaker 1: One as if you were.
Speaker 1: The Bible says the steps of a righteous man, including woman, are ordered by the Lord.
Speaker 1: May the Lord order your actions.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: Let's give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: What was the first one?
Speaker 1: Expectation?
Speaker 1: Now, please, let it be a positive expectation.
Speaker 1: Secondly, put your faith where Into what Action?
Speaker 1: Action is what you have.
Speaker 1: But thirdly, what's the third one?
Speaker 1: Transformation.
Speaker 1: Now, the first two, you must do.
Speaker 1: The third one, god will do.
Speaker 1: Let me read this verse and then I'll give you that story about transformation Acts, not acts.
Speaker 1: Psalms 62, verse 5.
Speaker 1: I'm reading it from the New King James, varsha, very quickly, verse 5.
Speaker 1: The Psalmist is praying and he says my soul, he's talking to himself, my soul waits silently for God alone.
Speaker 1: For my expectation is from where Is from him.
Speaker 1: He only is what, my rock and my salvation.
Speaker 1: He is my defense.
Speaker 1: I shall not be what.
Speaker 1: I shall not be moved For parents who are waiting to see their children in class six and also class eight and from four.
Speaker 1: I want you to simply do this.
Speaker 1: Let your expectation of their success be in God, be from God.
Speaker 1: Don't look for success anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Your children are already a success.
Speaker 1: I'm saying your children are already a success.
Speaker 1: Now I'm saying you, parents, are a success For you to have come this far.
Speaker 1: You are a success.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, and communicate that success to your children.
Speaker 1: Some of our parents did not know that mindset.
Speaker 1: They didn't have that mind.
Speaker 1: And so many times they would look at their children who is not performing very well, and they would look at that boy and say where went Nimbusi Buzi?
Speaker 1: Nimbusi, nimbusi English, you are a goat, goat, goatee.
Speaker 1: And then they would go and say hold your head and say this head of yours is full of water.
Speaker 1: Kitchu ya kwe meja maaj, kitchu, kitchu, kitchu.
Speaker 1: Those are our parents.
Speaker 1: They did their best at their time, but you are the parents of today.
Speaker 1: Tell your son, your daughter, this head of yours is full of excellences.
Speaker 1: Come on, you have an excellent spirit.
Speaker 1: You are going places.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we tell our children, you know, a girl is not coming home quickly and the mother is very upset and says you, if you don't become a prostitute, I'll be very surprised and for sure that girl becomes.
Speaker 1: Did she want it?
Speaker 1: Who released it?
Speaker 1: My friend God, what comes out of your mouth, these children might take it very seriously and make it happen.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this our children are mighty in the land.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: Our children are mighty in the land.
Speaker 1: Our children are mighty in the land and so have an expectation and then act.
Speaker 1: But let the transformation be in God's hands.
Speaker 1: Mary was a believer, the mother of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Very quickly, so that I can pray for us.
Speaker 1: John, chapter 2,.
Speaker 1: I'm reading from around verse 7.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this John, chapter 2, verse 7.
Speaker 1: Okay, go back, because I want to see what Mary the mother said.
Speaker 1: Go around verse 4, verse 4.
Speaker 1: John 2, 4.
Speaker 1: Okay, go to verse 3 because I want to see where the Mary comes in.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this about Mary.
Speaker 1: And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to him they have no wine.
Speaker 1: So he comes to Jesus and says they have no wine.
Speaker 1: And then Jesus said to her woman what does your concern have to do with me?
Speaker 1: My hour has not yet come and Mary, being a believer, goes to the servants and tells them whatever he says to you, do it.
Speaker 1: That's a believer.
Speaker 1: She didn't argue with Jesus, but she believed this son of mine will do something.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this this God of ours will do something.
Speaker 1: Just do what he tells you to do.
Speaker 1: Now there are six water pots of stone, according to the man of the Jews, containing 20 or 30 gallons apiece.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to them fill the water pots with water.
Speaker 1: And they fill them with water.
Speaker 1: In other words, they did something.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, do something.
Speaker 1: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 1: And he said to them draw some out now and take it to the master of the feast.
Speaker 1: And they took it when the master of the feast had tested the water that was made wine and did not know where it came from.
Speaker 1: But the servants who had drawn the water knew the master of the feast called the Brigham and he said to him every man at the beginning sets out the good wine and when the guests are well drunk, then the inferior is brought.
Speaker 1: You have kept the good wine until now.
Speaker 1: Now let me just use the imagination and let me ask you this question when the servants got the water out of the pot, had it become wine?
Speaker 1: Yes, somebody is saying I wish it had become whisky.
Speaker 1: What I'm asking is this had it become wine?
Speaker 1: My imagination?
Speaker 1: So when you're reading the Bible, just figure that out, because if it had become wine, they would be very excited to take it to the master of ceremonies.
Speaker 1: But between the chorturing of that water to getting it to the master of ceremonies took steps of believing that between here and there, something will transform.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this between here and there, where your hope is, where your faith is, as you do what God tells you to do, something will transform.
Speaker 1: I'm saying something will transform.
Speaker 1: And so I believe, by the time they were reaching and they were very worried, because you cannot just go to the master of ceremonies and then you give him water and he's wondering what joke, are you playing with me?
Speaker 1: But as they went and took these steps of faith, by the time the master of ceremonies gets that glass or container, the water has turned into wine.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this sometimes the miracles don't happen at the beginning.
Speaker 1: The miracles happen when you have gone to the end of your rope and you don't know what.
Speaker 1: There's no turning back and at that point God brings the transformation.
Speaker 1: May that be your portion this week.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may that be your portion this week.
Speaker 1: May that be your portion this week.
Speaker 1: But many times, as we are walking around, we have alternatives.
Speaker 1: As we are walking with this thing, we have alternatives.
Speaker 1: We are saying I think I have this option.
Speaker 1: I have that option.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this sometimes God wants to be the only option.
Speaker 1: God will not let you down.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody here.
Speaker 1: God will not let you down.
Speaker 1: The miracle may not have happened, but the miracle is not in you.
Speaker 1: The miracle is in God.
Speaker 1: You carry the container.
Speaker 1: Take it where it needs to be.
Speaker 1: The miracle will come.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: The believer's mind is the mind of Christ, and Christ says greater things than this.
Speaker 1: Shall you do?
Speaker 1: Because I go to the Father.
Speaker 1: Let your faith not just be a theology.
Speaker 1: Let your faith take action, because faith without action is what Is death.
Speaker 1: I'm about to pray and I'm saying this May God bring a transformation in your life.
Speaker 1: May the blindness become sight, may luck become provision, may the bondage become freedom.
Speaker 1: May your sin turn to righteousness.
Speaker 1: May your limitation become unlimited.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, if you believe that you better take it, you better take it, amen.
Speaker 1: You know, something tells me.
Speaker 1: You see, the next, this coming month of November, is the month of empowered breakthrough.
Speaker 1: We have been preparing you for these breakthroughs and I have this inkling in me that some of you are just about to be surprised, just about to be surprised, just about to be surprised by God himself.
Speaker 1: May God come through for you.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may God come through for you.
Speaker 1: Your name may be called Jerry.
Speaker 1: May you be surprised in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Wake up, sir.
Speaker 1: May you be surprised Now.
Speaker 1: May you be surprised Jimmy.
Speaker 1: May you be surprised Waabui, may you be surprised Now.
Speaker 1: You say, please mention my name.
Speaker 1: Why don't you mention it to yourself?
Speaker 1: Let's say Ambrose, you will be surprised this week In a good way.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor in a good way.
Speaker 1: Yes, you never know, maybe it is your birthday this week.
Speaker 1: You're sitting next to somebody who can find that birthday.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you you don't take people for granted.
Speaker 1: Is there somebody having a birthday this week?
Speaker 1: Oh, betty, you're also having a birthday.
Speaker 1: How many people are having birthdays.
Speaker 1: How many Now, this week, starting this week?
Speaker 1: Now, let me give you an expectation Please register your name with Pastor Reagan or JJ, because Pastor Ambrose is going to buy you a cake.
Speaker 1: I have the substance of what you hope for, but in between, you better do what Believe.
Speaker 1: Believe, because some of you are actually not going to register.
Speaker 1: Don't sit there and say my birthday date was changed to this week.
Speaker 1: So if there are 10 cakes, or there are 20 cakes, I'm going to buy them for you in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, please stand on your feet.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor there is an expectation and I am expectant.
Speaker 1: Tell them one more time I'm expectant.
Speaker 1: Tell them, in other words, I'm pregnant.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, I don't hope so, I am.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: If you are better, give God a big hand, bless his name For you to remember the message, and I know you remember it.
Speaker 1: E for what?
Speaker 1: T for what?
Speaker 1: Transformation what is EAT, eat.
Speaker 1: So may your believing enable you to eat that which God has given you.
Speaker 1: The, I believe, park is still very available.
Speaker 1: Please get a copy of it for yourself, for your friends, for your children.
Speaker 1: I want to speak the blessing upon you today.
Speaker 1: This month has been an amazing month and we are entering into a more amazing month.
Speaker 1: Why don't we receive it now?
Speaker 1: Let's receive next month.
Speaker 1: Say next month, we are coming your way.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, there is an expectation.
Speaker 1: You better have the activation and let God release the transformation.
Speaker 1: The water will turn into wine and, by the way, in terms of physics you know, and chemistry, water.
Speaker 1: How does water turn into wine?
Speaker 1: Because water, in its elements, is H2O.
Speaker 1: H2o simply means two hydrogen molecules connecting with one oxygen molecule.
Speaker 1: If you put H2O2, what is that?
Speaker 1: H2o2 is what it's hydrogen peroxide, very acidic, and yet it has only added how many oxygens One, hello God can rearrange the hydrogens and the oxygens and the carbons to turn water into wine.
Speaker 1: All God needs is to just rearrange the molecules, because in that molecule there is an atom.
Speaker 1: Inside that atom there are protons and neutrons.
Speaker 1: Around that atom there are things called electrons, and all God needs to do is just to rearrange them.
Speaker 1: May God rearrange those things in your life.
Speaker 1: You should congratulate my physics teacher.
Speaker 1: Amen, shall we pray, father, we thank you Wherever you are.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're expecting God to do.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've been expecting.
Speaker 1: Now take action.
Speaker 1: Let God do the transformation.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you, we bless you, lord.
Speaker 1: Your people came to receive a word.
Speaker 1: They have received that word and now, lord, starting this afternoon, they are going to attract miracles.
Speaker 1: They are going to attract amazing open doors that no man can shut.
Speaker 1: And now I want to pray that what Jesus has begun in you, he will complete.
Speaker 1: You may have stayed around the pool of Bethesda for 38 years.
Speaker 1: Nothing seems to be working, but Jesus has come your way today and he's asking you do you want to be well?
Speaker 1: I pray that you'll say yes and when he gives the command, stand up, pick up your bed and walk, that you will take action.
Speaker 1: Let Him do the transformation for you.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you for hearing our prayer.
Speaker 1: If you believe what I've said, you better say I receive it, I take it, it is my portion and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, are you glad you came?
Speaker 1: Did you learn something?
Speaker 1: May God bless you too.
Speaker 1: Give your neighbor high five.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, I want to release the benediction At this time.
Speaker 1: Lift up your hands as I pray.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you for this service.
Speaker 1: As we prepare to go into this week, we want to decree this blessing upon your people those watching us online, those here and those in the pavilion, and we decree and declare May the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord make His face to shine upon you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord be gracious to you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord do you good.
Speaker 1: May the Lord show you favor in a big way.
Speaker 1: Your Monday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Your Tuesday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Your Wednesday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Your Thursday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Your Friday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Your Saturday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Sunday, you're coming back with a testimony In the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor until your neighbor, surely, goodness and mercy Shall follow you All the days of your life and you shall dwell in the house of the Lord Forever and ever, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, amen.
Speaker 1: One more big hand to the Lord, amen.