Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor the pastor was a choir master.
Speaker 1: And tell your neighbor you sang well, you should join the choir.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: We thank God for this is the day that the Lord has made.
Speaker 1: We shall rejoice and be glad in it.
Speaker 1: Amen, and that's why we have come into the house of the Lord.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that in the house of the Lord there is joy.
Speaker 1: Amen, and we thank God for the joy.
Speaker 1: May that joy touch and minister to you in the mighty name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: May that joy be your breakthrough.
Speaker 1: In the mighty name of Jesus, and I am here to say God is not yet done with you.
Speaker 1: For the Lord, the year is not ended.
Speaker 1: The calendar may be suggesting otherwise, but the Lord is still in charge, and so we thank God for this particular moment.
Speaker 1: Let's we shall read the word of God in a moment before I welcome us to take our seats.
Speaker 1: And today the word of God is coming to us from the book of Genesis, chapter 41, verse number 38 down to 57.
Speaker 1: And then I'm going to read this passage Genesis, chapter 41, verse 38 down to 57.
Speaker 1: The Bible says then Pharaoh said to his servants Can we find a man like this, in whom a divine spirit, in whom is a divine spirit.
Speaker 1: So Pharaoh said to Joseph since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are.
Speaker 1: You shall be over my house and, according to your command, all my people shall do homage.
Speaker 1: Only in the throne.
Speaker 1: I will be greater than you.
Speaker 1: Pharaoh said to Joseph see, I have set you over the land of Egypt.
Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put the gold necklace around his neck.
Speaker 1: He had him ride in his second chariot and they proclaimed before him bow the name.
Speaker 1: And he sent him over all the land of Egypt.
Speaker 1: Moreover, pharaoh said to Joseph though I am Pharaoh, yet without your permission, no one shall raise his hand or foot in the land of Egypt.
Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh named Joseph Zafanath Panea and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potipharah, priest of On, as his wife and Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.
Speaker 1: Now, joseph was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.
Speaker 1: So he gathered all food of these seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities.
Speaker 1: He placed the food in the cities.
Speaker 1: He placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.
Speaker 1: Thus, joseph stood up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
Speaker 1: Now, before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipharah, priest of On, bought to him.
Speaker 1: Joseph named the first born, manasseh, for he said God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household.
Speaker 1: He named the second son, ephraim, for he said God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.
Speaker 1: When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt came to an end and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said, then there was famine in all the lands, but in the land of Egypt there was bread.
Speaker 1: So when all the land of Egypt was finished, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians Go to Joseph, whatever he says to you, you shall do.
Speaker 1: When the famine was spread over all the face of the earth.
Speaker 1: Then Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, and the famine was so severe in the land of Egypt.
Speaker 1: The people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph because the famine was severe in all the earth.
Speaker 1: Our Father in heaven, we thank you for this great moment.
Speaker 1: We have come before you with singing and dancing and giving, and now we sit at your table to feed from your table.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the word that you have blessed before us.
Speaker 1: May your Holy Spirit open this word to us as you use me as a mouthpiece.
Speaker 1: May you open our hearts and our ears so that we can receive this word.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name we pray and God's people say amen.
Speaker 1: Let me welcome us to have our seats.
Speaker 1: We want to thank God for this day.
Speaker 1: Let me begin by bringing greetings from our senior pastor, reverend Ambrose Nyangau.
Speaker 1: This morning or afternoon he is not with us in the service.
Speaker 1: He is attending a service courtesy of an invitation by the governor of Nairobi.
Speaker 1: The county government is having a thanksgiving service at the KICC and he has been invited there together with other clergy in the city.
Speaker 1: I also want to appreciate our guests from Nigeria.
Speaker 1: You are most welcome to be part of our service today and I hope one or two songs from Nigeria connected with you.
Speaker 1: I hope the pronunciations were okay Because they were being sung by Kikuyu, scambas, lures and carlinjans.
Speaker 1: They were not augers, but we thank God, we pray that you are blessed during that ministry of worship.
Speaker 1: We are also honored this morning, or rather this afternoon, it's already afternoon in this service.
Speaker 1: We are also honored to have our senator of Nairobi County and I know Pastor Idi that already welcomed him.
Speaker 1: But let me take this opportunity, honorable Senator, to welcome you on behalf of our senior pastor, on behalf of the leadership of Parklands Baptist Church, on behalf of all many residents of Nairobi that worship with us here, and you are our senator, so we are glad to welcome you.
Speaker 1: Let's appreciate.
Speaker 1: Honorable Edwin Sifuna and I had an opportunity to fellowship with our senator this morning and he told me and others that he is a man on a mission here and his mission here.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know his mission?
Speaker 1: Are you curious?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you next Sunday.
Speaker 1: Or you know, I need to preserve that moment that I had with the Honorable Senator.
Speaker 1: It should be our moment, but I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: He told me his mission here.
Speaker 1: The last time he was here he was a candidate and today he has come here to give thanks, so he is a man on a thanksgiving mission.
Speaker 1: So our senior pastor is with the county government and we are here with the senator of Nairobi.
Speaker 1: We are honored to have you, and we have laid a table this morning for thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: He has been a partaker in thanksgiving through music, through the worship and even through giving, and so we want to thank the Lord for you, and may the Lord bless you and may the Lord continue using you, together with your team and the rest of our leaders.
Speaker 1: Parklands Baptist Church is a visionary church when it comes to raising impactful leaders, and so we believe in kingdom leadership, and so we pray that the Lord may continue blessing you as you offer leadership to us.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: I also bring greetings.
Speaker 1: If I forget this one, I may not preach well, so I bring greetings from my wife as well.
Speaker 1: Amen, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: She was here with us in the first service, together with our children, and I know they are somewhere watching Papa as I bring the word of God when it's time for your breakthrough, when it's time for your breakthrough.
Speaker 1: And I also want to appreciate those who are online, those who are at the pavilion.
Speaker 1: We bless the Lord for you.
Speaker 1: This morning, I want to share with us on the subject when it's time for your breakthrough, and I want to tell us this afternoon, when it's time for your breakthrough Nothing can stop the Lord from moving in your life.
Speaker 1: I am here to encourage someone, somebody who has come into the service today thinking that their time of breakthrough is behind them.
Speaker 1: I am here to tell you something Our God is not a God of one breakthrough.
Speaker 1: He is a God of multiple breakthroughs and therefore there is yet breakthroughs for your life and your time of breakthrough is come in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: This year, for those who are visiting with us, we have been focusing on the theme the year of the Lord's empowered world changes, and particularly this month, we have broken that down into monthly themes and this month we have been focusing on empowered breakthroughs and precedented solutions.
Speaker 1: Church who is the character of the month of November?
Speaker 1: I didn't hear you clearly.
Speaker 1: Who is the character of the month?
Speaker 1: Joseph is our character of the month, and so we have been looking at this man and learning Our senior pastor starting us off the first two Sundays, and last Sunday we had Reverend Ken again just unpacking this man, and today the Lord has given me the grace and opportunity to do likewise.
Speaker 1: Let me begin quickly by just highlighting who is this man, joseph.
Speaker 1: Who is this man, joseph?
Speaker 1: Some of the things that you already know, and when you look at Genesis, chapter 29,.
Speaker 1: All the way to Genesis, chapter 40 and beyond, we are talking about Joseph.
Speaker 1: Who is this man who occupies so many pages or so many chapters in the book of Genesis?
Speaker 1: This man was the 11th born son of Jacob and the first born son of Rachel, the wife whom Jacob originally loved.
Speaker 1: All things held constant.
Speaker 1: Joseph would have been a first born If Jacob's plans and desires had gone his way.
Speaker 1: Joseph would have been a first born in a family or in a marriage that lived happily ever after, if all things were constant.
Speaker 1: But things were not constant when this young man was born.
Speaker 1: His father, first of all.
Speaker 1: His background, his father I want you to listen to this.
Speaker 1: His father was shortchanged by his grandfather into marrying his stepmother in the place of his mother.
Speaker 1: This is the profile of the man we are talking about.
Speaker 1: But also, joseph was born into a chaotic family.
Speaker 1: He did not apply to be born in this family he was born and he found himself in a chaotic family that was characterized by competition.
Speaker 1: It was characterized by jealousy, it was characterized by bitterness.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, a family characterized with deception and many other things.
Speaker 1: That is the family that Joseph lands into as the 11th born son.
Speaker 1: But there is some things I want you to note from the beginning about Joseph.
Speaker 1: Even with this chaotic family, joseph was a breakthrough child.
Speaker 1: Amen, joseph was a breakthrough child.
Speaker 1: His mother had not born Jacob, any children, and the Bible tells us in Genesis, chapter 30, verse 22, that then God remembered Rachel.
Speaker 1: Our God is a God who remembers, and somebody who may be thinking you are forgotten.
Speaker 1: I am here to tell you.
Speaker 1: You may have been forgotten by people, but God is a God of remembrance.
Speaker 1: And so he remembered Rachel, and the Bible says he listened to her and opened her womb.
Speaker 1: She gave birth, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said God has taken away my disgrace.
Speaker 1: She named him Joseph and said May the Lord add to me another son.
Speaker 1: Not only was he a son of breakthrough, but he was a son of hope, he was a son of restoration, he was a son of joy to a mother who had known nothing but grief, a mother who had known nothing but agony.
Speaker 1: Here comes a Joseph, a son of breakthrough.
Speaker 1: However, this did not stay for long.
Speaker 1: Joseph became orphaned in Genesis, chapter 35, verse 16 to 20, when his mother, rachel, was giving birth to his brother Benjamin.
Speaker 1: Joseph was only, you know, less than 17 years old when the mother died.
Speaker 1: He's a breakthrough child, but sooner than you would imagine, in the scenario and in the context he finds himself, his mother dies, and so Joseph is left with who?
Speaker 1: Joseph is left with the following people he is left with a loving old father, a bitter main stepmother and two other assistant stepmothers, but he's also left with 10 cruel and dangerous elder brothers.
Speaker 1: How do you survive in such an environment?
Speaker 1: But he's also left with a responsibility, because there is a baby brother who may need his care and his love.
Speaker 1: I want you to see how dangerous his brothers were.
Speaker 1: In chapter 34, there are two fellows called Simeon and Levi.
Speaker 1: Their sister is defiled by the people of the land and their father is trying to make peace with them.
Speaker 1: And this young man deceived the men of this city and said we are going to give you our daughters for marriage.
Speaker 1: We are going to become one only if you allow your men to be circumcised.
Speaker 1: And this man shek, him and his son.
Speaker 1: They go, they are happy and they encourage all the men.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine?
Speaker 1: They brought all the men, introduced a new culture that was not theirs, because one man needed to marry a girl that he had defiled.
Speaker 1: And so the men somehow agreed and they all got circumcised.
Speaker 1: And on the third day these guys attacked the city, killed all the men, plundered their city, carried their women and carried their children without blinking.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether that is the person you will say oh, my elder brother, that's a dangerous guy.
Speaker 1: But there is also another guy called Ruben, when you look at Genesis, chapter 35, verse 22,.
Speaker 1: He has no shame.
Speaker 1: He got the guts to enter into his stepmother.
Speaker 1: Take his father's wife.
Speaker 1: What can't he do?
Speaker 1: And then there is a man called Judah.
Speaker 1: A man of deception Deceives his daughter in law, but then the daughter in law plays the cards against him.
Speaker 1: And with him there are two children that are born in Genesis, chapter 38.
Speaker 1: What kind of people are this that poor Joseph has been left with?
Speaker 1: These brothers of his put him in the pit, they sold him to the Midianites.
Speaker 1: The Midianites sold him to Egypt, this young man, in Genesis 37,.
Speaker 1: He encounters betrayal, he encounters hate, you know, being sold by your brothers, human trafficking.
Speaker 1: How worse can it get?
Speaker 1: That your own brothers sell you out for 20 shekels and say we don't need this fellow?
Speaker 1: This is the kind of man when we talk about Joseph.
Speaker 1: This is what he went through.
Speaker 1: When he arrives in Egypt, he is immediately bought again as a slave into the house of Potiphar.
Speaker 1: And as though that was not enough, while a slave, while helpless, while he had no rights, he is still endured sexual harassment.
Speaker 1: Was it not sexual harassment?
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 1: This man had gone through all the things that you can think about.
Speaker 1: Not only did that happen, but instead of getting a therapist, instead of somebody feeling for him, instead of people working for him, instead of getting counseling, he was falsely accused and thrown into a dungeon, in prison.
Speaker 1: Now, while in the dungeon, there was some hope.
Speaker 1: There was some hope while in the dungeon because the king one day wakes up in the morning, in chapter 40, and is unhappy with his two servants, the cup bearer and the chief baker, and he says throw this one into the dungeon and while they are there, at least he has an opportunity to interact with the people who have a connection with the king.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where you meet people with a connection to the king, whether it is in a dungeon or in the street.
Speaker 1: There is some opportunity here.
Speaker 1: And even that opportunity becomes even more certain because the two of them have a dream each and this man comes, they are disturbed.
Speaker 1: One has had a dream that he was restored to the king and he was serving him his drink, his wine, and the other one dreamt that he had a basket full of bread and it was eaten by the birds.
Speaker 1: And they were all disturbed in their hearts.
Speaker 1: And Joseph interprets the dream.
Speaker 1: And for the first one he says you know what?
Speaker 1: In three days time you shall be restored.
Speaker 1: And then he added a caveat Should you be restored, remember me, amen.
Speaker 1: This other fellow.
Speaker 1: Of course he was doomed, he was meant for hanging, but it was still the truth.
Speaker 1: When this fellow, the cup bearer, was restored, he did not send an SMS, he did not send WhatsApp, he never sent an email, he did not even flash Joseph to even suggest that things went the way you say.
Speaker 1: Have you ever met such people?
Speaker 1: You sought them and they never even say they arrived, you are the one who gave them fare.
Speaker 1: But even saying they arrived, where they were going, they don't say what.
Speaker 1: And it was not for one day, it was not for two days, it was for two solid years.
Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, when somebody has not said thank you for you, in the next two years, will you still be waiting for the thank you you just know?
Speaker 1: Kitumbua, kilifanya nene.
Speaker 1: What is Kitumbua?
Speaker 1: By the way?
Speaker 1: It is that thing for eating.
Speaker 1: What is it, mandazi?
Speaker 1: So for our guests, kitumbua is something for eating, and when it has sand in it, it is very difficult to eat it.
Speaker 1: That is the life of Joseph, and maybe somebody in the sanctuary today identifies with Joseph.
Speaker 1: Your life, the profile of your life, has been from bad to us.
Speaker 1: Every time there seems to be a ray of hope, it is cut off and things look like they are getting from bad to worse.
Speaker 1: I am here to tell you you are the right candidate for a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You didn't hear me that.
Speaker 1: You are the right candidate for a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You are the person God is looking for today, and so we see this man, even in this situation.
Speaker 1: There are three things that cause him to attract God's breakthroughs, and the first one is that he had a dream.
Speaker 1: Genesis, chapter 37, verse 5, says Joseph had a dream and when he told it to his brothers they hated him all the more.
Speaker 1: This man was carrying something that would connect to God's breakthrough for world changing.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether you have something in your heart that can attract God's breakthrough into your life, that God says if I can just give a breakthrough to this brother, I am achieving this, and that in my purposes.
Speaker 1: Joseph had a life transforming dream, a divine dream.
Speaker 1: And secondly, not only did he carry a dream in him that God would use for his purposes, this young man was totally sold out to God.
Speaker 1: He was totally sold out to God.
Speaker 1: You remember when he was in Potiphar's wife's house.
Speaker 1: Potiphar's wife soon discovered that there is a gem in the house and she said come to bed with me.
Speaker 1: And this was the response of Joseph.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in chapter 39, verse 8,.
Speaker 1: But he refused.
Speaker 1: He refused, and he made this argument with me in charge.
Speaker 1: He told her my master does not concern himself with anything in the house.
Speaker 1: Everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.
Speaker 1: No one is greater in this house than I am.
Speaker 1: My master has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife.
Speaker 1: And then now he qualifies the reason why he is refusing.
Speaker 1: He was building a case for why he is refusing.
Speaker 1: He qualifies it by saying how then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?
Speaker 1: This man was totally sold out to God and there is nothing that could twist him.
Speaker 1: Let me say something at this point.
Speaker 1: You know, in the home, when you are in good terms with the woman of the home, by the way, you are favored, whoever you are, whether it is a neighbor, whether it is a cousin, whether it is a house manager, whether it is a brother-in-law, as long as you are in favor with the woman of the house, things are good.
Speaker 1: The day you fall out of favor with the woman of the house, it doesn't matter how much power the man of the house has and it doesn't matter how much favor you have with him.
Speaker 1: You will go.
Speaker 1: The lady seemed to agree with me.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1: As long as her girl was in favor with the Sarah, do you remember that Sarah was even more than willing to offer her to the husband?
Speaker 1: She's the one who came with the idea.
Speaker 1: Say it.
Speaker 1: You know there were many other slaves, but this one was in favor with the woman of, but when she fell out of favor with the Sarah, even God agreed with the Sarah that Abraham should chase her away and told Abraham listen to your wife.
Speaker 1: So, husbands, listen to your wives.
Speaker 1: But finally, the third thing is that not only was he totally sold out to God, not only was did he have a dream, but, number three, god was with him.
Speaker 1: The Bible says repeatedly, in chapter 39, verse 2 to 4, and 39, verse 20 to 23, the Lord was with Joseph.
Speaker 1: The Lord was with Joseph.
Speaker 1: The Lord was with Joseph in the in the system, in the pit.
Speaker 1: The Lord was with Joseph in Potiphar's house.
Speaker 1: The Lord was with Joseph in prison.
Speaker 1: The Lord was with Joseph all through.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says whatever he did, he prospered.
Speaker 1: I am here to declare to someone it doesn't matter where you are, what matters is where the Lord is in your life.
Speaker 1: It's the Lord with you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who is against you, it doesn't matter how many people conspire against you, as long as the Lord is on your side.
Speaker 1: Paul reminds us we are more than conquerors, and so it is not about you being in the palace, it is about God being with you, and even in the palace, god remained a very key factor.
Speaker 1: Some of us want God when we are in the pit, some of us want God when we are in the prison, some of us want God when our lives are threatened.
Speaker 1: But we don't want God when we are glorified.
Speaker 1: We don't want God when we are in the palace.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you the God who sustains in the pit, the God who sustains in prison, the God who sustains against your enemies, is the God who gives you victory in the palace.
Speaker 1: You need God.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody who needs God in the pit.
Speaker 1: I am talking to somebody who needs to invite God in the prison situation.
Speaker 1: I am talking to somebody who needs to invite God in the valley situation.
Speaker 1: I am talking to somebody who also needs to invite the Lord to be on his side on the mountain side.
Speaker 1: And so, for these three reasons, then, joseph attracts God's breakthroughs.
Speaker 1: And what happens when God releases his breakthroughs?
Speaker 1: Three things that happen as I come to a conclusion.
Speaker 1: One is that you are located.
Speaker 1: Number two, you are positioned.
Speaker 1: Number three, you are established.
Speaker 1: Breakthroughs locate you.
Speaker 1: And why do breakthroughs locate someone?
Speaker 1: They locate you so that honor is restored Genesis 41, verse 9 to 14,.
Speaker 1: This is what the Bible says.
Speaker 1: Of course, this is in the context of the king having had dreams and there was nobody who could interpret.
Speaker 1: The magicians, the sorcerers, everybody, his wise men could not interpret the dream.
Speaker 1: And so the king is there, perplexed, and is looking for someone.
Speaker 1: And so the cup bearer overhears what is happening in the palace as he serves the king with some wine.
Speaker 1: I am saying there is somebody who will overhear something that is needed for you so that you can be located.
Speaker 1: They will be somewhere and the Lord will bless them in a very strategic place so that they can hear for you.
Speaker 1: You don't have to be there because God's breakthrough.
Speaker 1: And so this man, you know he says that.
Speaker 1: Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh saying I will make mention today of my own offenses and let me say this it is an offense for you to forget when God has blessed you somewhere for his children's breakthrough.
Speaker 1: It is an offense, and whether you repent or not, he will cause you to speak.
Speaker 1: So he says I want to repent of my offense.
Speaker 1: And he says Pharaoh was furious with his servants and he put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard.
Speaker 1: And then he continues and he says we had these dreams and he interpreted for us.
Speaker 1: And he says there was this young man Now a Hebrew youth, was there with us.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine?
Speaker 1: He cannot even remember his name.
Speaker 1: Your name doesn't need to be remembered, but you will be remembered.
Speaker 1: And then he says there was this Hebrew young man and he interpreted for us our dreams.
Speaker 1: Then the Bible says and the king said hurry up, bring that man.
Speaker 1: And then the Bible says that he was brought from the dungeon and he shaved himself, he had a shower.
Speaker 1: Probably after a long time, they changed his clothing so that he can be prepared and pampered to appear before the king.
Speaker 1: I looked at the definition of the word locate and it means to locate is to find the exact position of somebody or something.
Speaker 1: And when the Lord locates you, he remembers your kindness.
Speaker 1: When the Lord locates you, he remembers your achievements and they are recognized.
Speaker 1: When the Lord locates you, the chains that have held you back are broken.
Speaker 1: When the Lord locates you, when his breakthroughs locate you, your dignity is restored.
Speaker 1: This young man with no dignity, nobody had remembered his kindness, nobody had rewarded him for his kindness.
Speaker 1: In fact, if anything he received, he received harm and bad treatment for his kindness.
Speaker 1: He was in chains.
Speaker 1: And I am here to say, when the breakthroughs of the Lord locate you, it doesn't matter what chains of life are you are chained with, they will break because it's a breakthrough in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: But secondly, the Lord's breakthroughs position you.
Speaker 1: They not only locate you but they position you.
Speaker 1: And why does this happen?
Speaker 1: It happens so that dreams are fulfilled.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in verse 41,.
Speaker 1: Pharaoh said to Joseph see, I have set you over the land of Egypt.
Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and he put it on Joseph's hand and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put gold necklace around his neck.
Speaker 1: He had him ride in his second chariot and they proclaimed for him bow the knee.
Speaker 1: Does that ring a bell?
Speaker 1: Does it ring the bell, a bell in your heart, in your mind, in your thoughts?
Speaker 1: He said proclaim before him, bow the knee.
Speaker 1: Let me help you if it doesn't ring a bell.
Speaker 1: Do you remember Joseph's dreams that he shared with his brothers, that they had gone out to collect sheaves and his bundles and the other brothers bundles.
Speaker 1: What happened to them?
Speaker 1: They bowed before him his bundle.
Speaker 1: I am here to proclaim to you when God positions you, they will kneel before you.
Speaker 1: There will be a proclamation bow.
Speaker 1: The knee, honor will be restored, dignity will be restored.
Speaker 1: Those who never called you sir, they will call you sir.
Speaker 1: Those who never called you madam, they will call you madam.
Speaker 1: Those who never recognized you, they will recognize you because you are positioned for the fulfillment of a dream.
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should remind you another man called Mordecai.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that man?
Speaker 1: What happened to him?
Speaker 1: The king, at night, is sleepless because there is a man who needs to be positioned.
Speaker 1: There is a man who needs to be positioned, and so the king is sleepless and he asks for his books and he's reading his history, he's refreshing his mind about how he has ruled, and then he comes across a man who acted in kindness and saved his life.
Speaker 1: And then he asked the people around him midnight.
Speaker 1: You know when the king calls you at midnight, he means a lot to you.
Speaker 1: You are sleepy.
Speaker 1: Say what should be done for the man of this stature, because nothing had been done from Mordecai.
Speaker 1: And so the guys are quickly.
Speaker 1: You know that they are probably trying to console what should be done.
Speaker 1: What should be done.
Speaker 1: The Lord had already placed a man with a solution.
Speaker 1: Your enemies are placed for your solution.
Speaker 1: So a man shows up quickly and the king asks what should be done to the man whom the king wishes to do, what To honor.
Speaker 1: And Harman thinks quickly and he said who else?
Speaker 1: Who else would the king want to honor if it is not Harman?
Speaker 1: And so he gives a very clear strategy of what should be done.
Speaker 1: And one of the things he said remember what has happened to Joseph?
Speaker 1: He's riding on the king's chariot.
Speaker 1: You remember that he said let a chariot and a horse that the king has rode on and no one else has rode on it to be brought you have understood right To be brought, that is past participle To be brought so that he can sit on it.
Speaker 1: And let, let, let this man be taken around the city and let it be proclaimed.
Speaker 1: Let a man, a senior official in the king's army, go around saying this is what is done to the man whom the king so desires to honor.
Speaker 1: And the moment he put a full stop to that statement, the king said before you forget any of those details, go do it for Mordecai.
Speaker 1: I'm saying there are people who will provide solutions for your uplifting.
Speaker 1: There are people, without knowing they, will open their mouths and the Lord will say yes, go do it for you.
Speaker 1: So what happened this man?
Speaker 1: How was he positioned?
Speaker 1: Number one he was appointed, so he was set over Egypt.
Speaker 1: Number two he was given authority, all the instruments of power, and I have just mentioned that.
Speaker 1: He was fitted.
Speaker 1: But there is something very important I want to mention.
Speaker 1: Positioning is about getting into work.
Speaker 1: It is not just about updating your what's up status of where you are seated and the seat you are sitting on and where you have gone and how things have been said about you.
Speaker 1: It's not just about updating Facebook status.
Speaker 1: It is not just about moving around telling people that you have a position.
Speaker 1: It is about folding your sleeves.
Speaker 1: Pastor Reagan and the Conkale, please come.
Speaker 1: It is about positioning yourself for work in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: It is not about the suits, it is not about the glamour.
Speaker 1: The fitting has ended.
Speaker 1: And now the Bible says in verse 46 Joseph was 30 years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout Egypt during the seven years of Abadans.
Speaker 1: The land produced plentifully.
Speaker 1: Joseph collected all the food until there was no room.
Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, the world changes.
Speaker 1: Position is the position of action.
Speaker 1: Dreams are good, yes, but it is the position of action that will bring about transformation.
Speaker 1: Pastor Eegz, if you could hold this mic for me, I need to demonstrate something.
Speaker 1: It is the position of action.
Speaker 1: It is the position of action of working that will bring about the difference.
Speaker 1: It is not the position of a good tie and looking so good and working everywhere with the stylish shoes in town and clothes and designer and water view.
Speaker 1: It is folding your sleeves and putting your hands into action.
Speaker 1: This is the position of a world changer.
Speaker 1: This is the position of the man who is going to fulfill dreams.
Speaker 1: It is when the Lord has put you in that position, when the Lord has blessed you in that place, that you fold your sleeves and get into work.
Speaker 1: There is nowhere else we hear Joseph again going around doing anything else.
Speaker 1: Wherever he went, he was working.
Speaker 1: We don't see him anywhere else.
Speaker 1: We see him working Buona, eswa, sefio, and I pray that each one of us will be found in the position of work.
Speaker 1: We will be found wherever it is.
Speaker 1: Wherever you are working.
Speaker 1: You are a chef Give us the best food.
Speaker 1: You are a God Make sure that we are well protected.
Speaker 1: You are a farmer Make sure that you do that which needs to be done, and we are glad we have some of our leaders representing us.
Speaker 1: Fold your sleeves, get to work, pastors.
Speaker 1: Get to work so that we can transform our nation.
Speaker 1: That is what it means to be a world changer.
Speaker 1: Buona eswa, sefio, I don't know what you want to do with those staff.
Speaker 1: Maybe Because now I'm working, I am working, I am working.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I am working.
Speaker 1: Go with them.
Speaker 1: You will cloth me again when I am done working.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: This is the position of a world changer and many of us God has raised up, has raised us up to powerful positions.
Speaker 1: Things had to be changed for this man to be the second in command.
Speaker 1: There was no position for him, but many of us.
Speaker 1: When the Lord then gets us there, all we do is oh brethren, you know they thought I will never get here.
Speaker 1: You know I'm telling you what God can do, no man can do.
Speaker 1: I am telling you even my haters, that is, joseph, had no time for that.
Speaker 1: The time he had was for seven years collecting food in Egypt, storing it and recording it until he could not record anymore because of the abundance, and it is this man who sustained the whole world of that time through a period of famine.
Speaker 1: I pray that you are the man and the woman that the Lord is going to use to sustain our country and Africa I don't know whether you are receiving it in different areas that you are the man and the woman that God is going to use to sustain your family.
Speaker 1: That you are the man and the woman that God is going to use even for the sustenance of this church.
Speaker 1: That it is you and me that God is going to use for transformation.
Speaker 1: But this will only happen when you get to this position, the position of work, a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of hands, and what will happen?
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why some of these things are accompanying us as a nation.
Speaker 1: We have to break loose and not just work doing the right work.
Speaker 1: You know, our senior pastor in the theme vision has put a very powerful statement in page 1880 says people around us do not need a hand out, they need a hand up.
Speaker 1: I pray you are the agent of lifting somebody wherever they are.
Speaker 1: I pray that you are the agent of lifting that family that the Lord has blessed you.
Speaker 1: I pray that you are the agent of lifting that company where the Lord has blessed you.
Speaker 1: You know, some of us go there and we say you know?
Speaker 1: Even they do they even know how much we work.
Speaker 1: Do they know how much?
Speaker 1: God is not going to use you with that attitude.
Speaker 1: He wants men and women who will say I am here for our purpose, I am positioned for a dream and, with my hands and with the Lord on my side, I am going to change and transform the situation for his glory.
Speaker 1: But finally, not only will God's breakthroughs locate you, not only will God's breakthroughs position you, but God's breakthroughs will establish you.
Speaker 1: And why does God do this?
Speaker 1: He does this so that legacy is created.
Speaker 1: God is lifting you up for legacy.
Speaker 1: God is not just lifting you up for this generation.
Speaker 1: God is lifting you up for generations.
Speaker 1: What will you be remembered for?
Speaker 1: Will you be remembered for transformation?
Speaker 1: Will you be remembered as that person that the Lord used?
Speaker 1: Today, many, many, many years later, we still talk of a man who sustained Africa through a great farming, and his name was Joseph, but not only that the Bible says in verse 50.
Speaker 1: Now, before the year of farming came, two sons were born to Joseph.
Speaker 1: Whom?
Speaker 1: By whom?
Speaker 1: To Joseph?
Speaker 1: Whom Asenath, the daughter of Potipharah, priest of on board him.
Speaker 1: Joseph named the first born, manasseh, for he said, god has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's household.
Speaker 1: He named the second one, ephraim, and he said for God has made me fruitful in the land of affliction.
Speaker 1: Let me say this as I conclude when the Lord establishes you first of all, he will comfort you.
Speaker 1: The things that you have gone through, the trials that you have gone through, the challenges that you have gone through, the pains that you have gone through, joseph says oh, my tears have been wiped.
Speaker 1: He did not say it is now my time.
Speaker 1: He says the Lord has comforted me.
Speaker 1: And I looked at the definition of establish, piece of fuel.
Speaker 1: Establish means to establish.
Speaker 1: Established is to set up on a firm, permanent basis.
Speaker 1: God's comfort of your life will be permanent.
Speaker 1: His healing over your life will be permanent when it lifts you up.
Speaker 1: It will be permanent when he causes you to be victorious.
Speaker 1: It will be permanent when he delivers you.
Speaker 1: It will be permanent when he rescues you.
Speaker 1: It will be permanent when he rises as the standard against your enemies.
Speaker 1: It will be, and you will have a new song.
Speaker 1: You will say it shall be permanent.
Speaker 1: It shall be permanent.
Speaker 1: What the Lord has done for me, it shall be permanent.
Speaker 1: It will not be temporary.
Speaker 1: It will be permanent.
Speaker 1: When God gives you that wife, it will be permanent.
Speaker 1: When God gives you that husband, it will be permanent.
Speaker 1: When God gives you that child, it will be permanent.
Speaker 1: It will be permanent because God will establish you.
Speaker 1: But secondly, not only will God make it permanent, not only will God comfort you, but he will also cause you to be fruitful.
Speaker 1: Fruitfulness is the mark of legacy.
Speaker 1: Legacy is about fruitfulness.
Speaker 1: Unprecedented solutions is about fruitfulness.
Speaker 1: These are the marks.
Speaker 1: Joseph was not only remembered because of the dream and because of interpreting dreams.
Speaker 1: Joseph was not only remembered because he was fitted.
Speaker 1: Joseph was also remembered in a double portion, as Manasseh and Ephraim.
Speaker 1: And today, many, many years later, we talk about the tribe of Manasseh and the tribe of Ephraim.
Speaker 1: He is the only son of Jacob who has two tribes, a double portion.
Speaker 1: God will give it to you a double portion.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that he gives us, pressed down, shaken together, running over, what is the fruitfulness that the Lord wants to cause you to have.
Speaker 1: As I conclude, there is a modified quote here that I came across.
Speaker 1: I have modified it.
Speaker 1: You probably know it in its original form, but I have modified it to say if you want to be remembered for one year, grow grain, but if you want to be remembered for 10 years, grow trees.
Speaker 1: My wife and I recently we planted about 57 trees or there about, so we have a chance to be remembered at least for 10 years.
Speaker 1: We are in that category.
Speaker 1: So if you didn't plant, do something.
Speaker 1: But then, if you want to be remembered for 100 years, grow people.
Speaker 1: Invest in people.
Speaker 1: Make the lives of people different.
Speaker 1: Transform the lives of people.
Speaker 1: Touch somebody with kindness.
Speaker 1: Lift somebody up.
Speaker 1: Touch somebody with love.
Speaker 1: Touch somebody with grace.
Speaker 1: Touch somebody by being a conduit of opportunity for him.
Speaker 1: Touch somebody by sharing the good news to him so that they can come to Christ.
Speaker 1: But besides the modified quote, there is one original quote that the Lord downloaded in my heart and it says this one you have never heard it.
Speaker 1: It has never been heard in the world since the creation of the world, because we are talking about unprecedented solutions.
Speaker 1: So this one is new People are established by growing people.
Speaker 1: That's why you are supposed to clap, because it's a new one.
Speaker 1: People are established.
Speaker 1: It is not the curse, it is not the material wealth that you will leave behind.
Speaker 1: People are established by growing people, and that one is by you us truly.
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Speaker 1: God is locating somebody in the sanctuary for a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: I want you to take this moment to connect with the Lord.
Speaker 1: God is positioning somebody in the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: God is positioning somebody online.
Speaker 1: It is you I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: God is establishing somebody.
Speaker 1: I want you to connect with that word.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter your background, it doesn't matter your profile.
Speaker 1: This afternoon, the Lord is saying I am the God of breakthroughs and this afternoon I want to pray with a category of people, somebody who has gone through a period of dryness in terms of breakthroughs.
Speaker 1: You have even forgotten whether God is able to cause a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You are saying you know, I haven't experienced that breakthrough of the Lord in a while.
Speaker 1: Some of you have even shelved the dreams that you have had.
Speaker 1: You are saying God, I am trusting you one more time.
Speaker 1: I am also speaking to somebody who is already contended with one breakthrough.
Speaker 1: I am here to tell you our God is a God of multiple breakthroughs.
Speaker 1: That is the person I want to pray with, someone to ask you you can stand up wherever you are.
Speaker 1: You can come to the front wherever you are.
Speaker 1: You can stand up wherever you are In the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: We have our deacons there, our pastors.
Speaker 1: Kindly let us have some leaders at the front, somebody who wants to pray.
Speaker 1: I am here to tell you that the year may seem like it is coming to an end, but before the Lord, time is not a constraint to God.
Speaker 1: He is a God who goes beyond time.
Speaker 1: So we want to saturate prayers here, prayers of breakthroughs.
Speaker 1: Somebody who is saying I have experienced a dryness in my life and I want a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Somebody who has stopped trusting God for a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Somebody who has gone through pain and a time of challenges.
Speaker 1: You are just saying God, where are you?
Speaker 1: Somebody who is in the beat of this life.
Speaker 1: Somebody who is in the dungeon of this life.
Speaker 1: Somebody who is going through prisons of this life.
Speaker 1: Somebody who has been forgotten Even your kindness has been forgotten.
Speaker 1: Somebody who has been stagnant.
Speaker 1: You are saying, god, I am trusting you for a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You are the person I want to pray with In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Let's pray together, father, we release breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You can come to the front if you want that kind of a prayer, even as we come to the end of this service.
Speaker 1: Just come to the front.
Speaker 1: We are releasing that prayer now.
Speaker 1: It is for men, it is for women, it is for children.
Speaker 1: It is for everyone.
Speaker 1: It is a prayer for you In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I release this prayer upon you In Jesus, mighty name.
Speaker 1: Breakthrough, breakthrough In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Breakthrough In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Let there be a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Somebody needs their chains to be broken.
Speaker 1: Our God is here to break those chains, the chains that have held you back.
Speaker 1: God is a God of breaking chains.
Speaker 1: Some are chains of addiction, some are chains of things that have bound you.
Speaker 1: The Lord is saying today there is a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Start calling on God.
Speaker 1: Just start talking to God.
Speaker 1: It is a new greatRecthrough Spirit for romances.
Speaker 1: God is saying God.
Speaker 1: It is a halt in the mouth alone.
Speaker 1: Jesus is talking to the Lord.
Speaker 1: God is saying Jesus, but for paradigm ado.
Speaker 1: We don't have this kind of breakthroughs anymore.
Speaker 1: It is happening.
Speaker 1: Jesus, is thisNow before?
Speaker 1: Jim?
Speaker 1: Do you see this happening?
Speaker 1: Those who are online something new is happening in your life.
Speaker 1: You can kneel down wherever you are and trust the Lord.
Speaker 1: This moment for a breakthrough, in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Those who are at the pavilion they are leaders there, and leaders.
Speaker 1: Kindly, let's take a moment to pray, release this prayer.
Speaker 1: It's a prayer of breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Somebody's breaking through.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, in Jesus name, god is bringing a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: God is causing a breakthrough in Jesus, that something new is happening, something.
Speaker 1: I believe it.
Speaker 1: I believe this word is not in vain.
Speaker 1: This word is not in vain.
Speaker 1: This is a timely word for a season such as this.
Speaker 1: It's a word in season.
Speaker 1: It's a word at the right time.
Speaker 1: We give you glory in the name of Jesus, father.
Speaker 1: We release your breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: We give you glory, we give you glory.
Speaker 1: Lord, release your breakthrough In Jesus mighty name.
Speaker 1: Lord, you release your breakthrough in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: It's a moment of breakthrough.
Speaker 1: We release your breakthrough, lord, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: We release breakthrough In this place.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: We release Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Something new is happening.
Speaker 1: Yes, there is a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: There is a breakthrough coming your way In the name of Jesus, a breakthrough coming your way In Jesus mighty name.
Speaker 1: There is a breakthrough that is coming your way In Jesus mighty name, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Father, we bless you.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Never doubt Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: There is someone who has a burden that they have carried in their hearts.
Speaker 1: There is somebody who is here with us and is carrying a burden of unforgiveness and it is weighing so heavily in your heart it has become the chain of your life.
Speaker 1: You are unable to see God's breakthrough.
Speaker 1: You are unable to see the future Because of bitterness and for unforgiveness.
Speaker 1: You could be online, you could be at the pavilion, you could be here and the Lord is saying today he wants to break that chain.
Speaker 1: God wants to break that chain of unforgiveness.
Speaker 1: God wants to break that chain of bitterness.
Speaker 1: If Joseph had carried the bitterness of his brothers and family and the things that happened in his life, he will not have experienced a breakthrough.
Speaker 1: There is somebody who is carrying bitterness and unforgiveness For people who have become the chains in your life.
Speaker 1: You cannot see God.
Speaker 1: I am here to say God is saying release that, release that to him, release that to him.
Speaker 1: And if you are that person, I want you to come up here.
Speaker 1: God is saying release.
Speaker 1: If you are that person online, kindly get in touch with us.
Speaker 1: If you are that person at the pavilion, I want you to go to a leader right now and just say I am the one and I want to release this burden now, because the Lord wants to break that burden.
Speaker 1: He wants to break that chain so that he can set you free To start experiencing his breakthrough in Jesus Name.
Speaker 1: If you are the one, just come to the front.
Speaker 1: I want to pray with you Because the Lord wants to lift you to another level.
Speaker 1: If you are online, let us know If you are at the pavilion.
Speaker 1: You are there, somebody is going to pray with you and you are the last person I am praying with.
Speaker 1: And as I now release a blessing In the name of Jesus, I pray oh Lord, thank you for that breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Maybe you did not have the strength to come out, but God is saying don't leave without releasing that burden.
Speaker 1: Come to someone and say I am the one and I want to release that burden of unforgiveness that has held me back, that I cannot experience God's breakthroughs.
Speaker 1: So, lord, we thank you, we honor you, we bless your name, we exalt you, we magnify you.
Speaker 1: Thank you because chains are being broken, your people are being let loose.
Speaker 1: Something new is happening in this life In Jesus mighty name, because they have stepped forward.
Speaker 1: Lord, something new is happening in their lives.
Speaker 1: In the mighty name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: And now, lord, I want to thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the word, thank you for the word, thank you for your word.
Speaker 1: This word is a timely word and now, lord, I pray.
Speaker 1: May this word bear fruit.
Speaker 1: May this word yield a testimony.
Speaker 1: May this word yield testimonies.
Speaker 1: May this word yield testimonies Even before the end of this year.
Speaker 1: May there be testimonies.
Speaker 1: May your people experience multiple breakthroughs Before the close of this year.
Speaker 1: May your people come with testimonies.
Speaker 1: Somebody who did not have something to thank you for this afternoon, father.
Speaker 1: May you give them a reason to thank you, give them a breakthrough to thank you, because this word has been released and it is now active and activating breakthroughs upon your people, because we have prayed in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son and in the name of the Holy Spirit, and God's people say amen.
Speaker 1: If you believe that the Lord has answered that prayer, give him a shout of praise.
Speaker 1: Give him a shout of praise.
Speaker 1: Somebody, come on.
Speaker 1: Give him praise.
Speaker 1: Give him a shout of praise.
Speaker 1: Give him a breakthrough praise.
Speaker 1: Give him a breakthrough praise In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Our leaders are still here to pray with you.
Speaker 1: Please take a moment, come.
Speaker 1: We want to agree with you and pray with you, because your breakthrough Is here.
Speaker 1: Time for your breakthrough Is come.
Speaker 1: I love all of you so much.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: I really love you, and part of the reason why I'm saying this is because I proceed on leave this coming week and I will miss you.
Speaker 1: Please try to miss me so that I can also feel like you, amen.
Speaker 1: So may the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord cause his face to shine upon you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord be gracious to you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord open doors for you this coming week.
Speaker 1: May the Lord give you victory upon victory.
Speaker 1: May you experience his breakthroughs.
Speaker 1: May there be healing in your life that is permanent.
Speaker 1: In the mighty name of Jesus, may the Lord take you to the next level.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, you are blessed on Monday.
Speaker 1: You are blessed on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: You are blessed on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: You are blessed on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You are blessed on Friday.
Speaker 1: Saturday is a day of joy and blessing and Sunday is a day of thanksgiving and praise to the name of the Lord Because of his blessing upon your life.
Speaker 1: And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit Be with us now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: Amen, surely goodness and masses Follow us all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord Forever and ever.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: God bless you.