Speaker 1: It's good to be in God's house.
Speaker 1: We are reading from Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 1 to 7, again just ashering in that Christmas season Remembering Christ.
Speaker 1: Isaiah 9, verse 1 to 7.
Speaker 1: The Bible says nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who are in distress.
Speaker 1: Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who are in distress.
Speaker 1: In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naftali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations by the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, the people walking in darkness have seen a great light.
Speaker 1: On those living in the land of the deep darkness, a light has dawned.
Speaker 1: You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy.
Speaker 1: They rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder.
Speaker 1: For, as in the day of medians defeat, you have shattered the yoke, the burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the road of their oppressor, every warrior's boot in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
Speaker 1: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given and the government will be on his shoulders and he will be called wonderful counselor.
Speaker 1: Mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace, of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.
Speaker 1: He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness.
Speaker 1: From that time on and forever, the zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
Speaker 1: This is God's word, and God's people say amen.
Speaker 1: You may be seated in God's presence, amen.
Speaker 1: Let's pray.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you for a season of celebration, celebrating your son Jesus Christ and dear Lord, with many festivities, many travelings here and there.
Speaker 1: We want to thank you for the year and preserving us to this day.
Speaker 1: That we may finish the year strong.
Speaker 1: Eternal God, as we hear your word this afternoon, may your spirit speak to our hearts.
Speaker 1: Somebody may be coming needing an encouragement.
Speaker 1: Somebody coming needing healing.
Speaker 1: Somebody coming needing comfort.
Speaker 1: Somebody coming needing peace.
Speaker 1: We have just found out.
Speaker 1: You have said you're the prince of peace.
Speaker 1: Somebody needing counsel.
Speaker 1: You're the wonderful counselor.
Speaker 1: Somebody needing a father figure.
Speaker 1: You're the everlasting father.
Speaker 1: Somebody needing a breakthrough?
Speaker 1: You're a mighty God.
Speaker 1: Father, come through for us as we wait upon you with open hearts receiving your word.
Speaker 1: Thank you for hearing our prayer In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: We have prayed Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 1: It is a blessing for me to be able to tell Pastor Simon welcome back.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's appreciate Pastor Simon In Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1: Did Pastor Simon greet you today?
Speaker 1: What would you like him to greet you?
Speaker 1: You want to hear his voice?
Speaker 1: You want to see his face?
Speaker 1: You want to see his suit?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, come on, let's appreciate Pastor Simon.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's been away and he comes to greet us.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, reverend Ambrose.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 3: I'm glad to be back so that we can close the year together and experience the warmer fellowship as we close the year 2023 and start the year 2024.
Speaker 3: I've been away, visited in the United States a couple of states, five of them Illinois, washington State, texas, north Carolina and, finally, new York.
Speaker 3: While I came back, I also had a chance to visit around the country, especially my family.
Speaker 3: And so the first thing, reverend Ambrose, is just to bring greetings, a whole bag of greetings from all over the world.
Speaker 3: Do you receive them?
Speaker 3: Hallelujah?
Speaker 3: And specifically Whitten Bible Church, where Pastor Victor and I were part of what is called the Global Mission Fest and we spent very good time with our partners there, and the leadership congregation at Whitten Bible Church in Chicago, whitten area, said high.
Speaker 3: My children also bring us greetings, including my two grandsons who have grown older now, the first one is three years and some months, I think about four, and the second one is now going seven months.
Speaker 3: Do you receive greetings from my children?
Speaker 3: Glory to God, hallelujah, I'm so happy to see you all.
Speaker 3: We are finishing strong, reverend Ambrose, and something within me, the spirit of God, says that we shall enter year 2024 with a shout and with a bang, and God hallelujah, that in the year 2024, he is going to cause us to rise to levels we have never known.
Speaker 3: This scripture we always proclaim here a rise and shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon us.
Speaker 3: He's going to find this consummation this coming year and so, as Pastor Ambrose releases the theme, we shall be turbocharged and supercharged and, given Holy Spirit wings and year 2024, I know we are going to rise to heights we have never experienced before.
Speaker 3: That's something in me.
Speaker 3: So, thank you very much, have a great Christmas and we enter 2024 with a bang and a shout in Jesus' name, thank you.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Let's appreciate Pastor again, amen.
Speaker 1: We have been engaging the county of Marraquet through what we call love embraced and we have had amazing engagements in that place.
Speaker 1: We thank God for family media who have been broadcasting some of our engagements down in Kerrio Valley and we really want to thank God and one of the requests that had been asked.
Speaker 1: When our team visited down into the valley we were able to speak to some of the warriors and some of the harders.
Speaker 1: One of the things they said is that they would like to visit away from that valley.
Speaker 1: Some of them have been born, lived and died in that valley and they were asking if they can get an opportunity to be able to visit.
Speaker 1: And some of us stakeholders were able to catch that vision and tomorrow they will be traveling, tomorrow, actually arriving in Nairobi tomorrow, heading to Macquaini County, and we want to thank God I don't know how many there will be.
Speaker 1: There will be how many Sixty six, zero.
Speaker 1: Be praying for them.
Speaker 1: This is a great opportunity, even as we seek for healing, for restoration, for a new mindset change for them.
Speaker 1: And so we are collaborating with the Marraquet County and the Macquaini County through the governors and through our love embraced and Parkland Baptist Church is that bridge that is bringing these things together?
Speaker 1: Isn't God good?
Speaker 1: Yes, god is good, and so be praying for that mission.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor Christmas is here, amen.
Speaker 1: And I'll be announcing some of the dates later.
Speaker 1: So, just like Dekon team has done, and so that we are just aligned together, we want to decree God's word and I want to tell you God's word is coming your way.
Speaker 1: Now, if you may notice, we are quite a number of us in the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: Some of us are sitting with our children Hallelujah and some of us are sitting with our youth, because the children's department and the youth department have closed for the year and so they are within our services, amen.
Speaker 1: And so when you find that the space you used to enjoy is not there, tell your neighbor Nisawa, amen, because we want to just run together, so we want to hear God's word together.
Speaker 1: I'll tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: We are talking about destiny.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor destiny.
Speaker 1: And for this month, that destiny is wrapped up in Jesus Christ, and we are today, we are declaring the divine centerpiece of destiny is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: There is a centerpiece, there is something that brings us together.
Speaker 1: This year we have been talking about being world changers.
Speaker 1: We have seen different characters through the year, but those characters have formed the peripheries of destiny because, at the centerpiece, what brings all those characters and what they stand for together is the centerpiece, and that centerpiece is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Amen, that's the centerpiece, that's the thing that brings us together and I want to pray that if, as you hear this message, that you realize that your life was planned for many, many years ago, before the worlds were created, before even the angels were created, god thought about you.
Speaker 1: You are in God's destiny and God's destiny is good.
Speaker 1: And we keep reminding you the way people have defined destiny.
Speaker 1: They have defined it with a negative connotation.
Speaker 1: Destiny for some people is what they call fate, that if you are born in a certain family and it is a poor family, that is your destiny, that is your fate.
Speaker 1: Just accept it.
Speaker 1: Live that life, die in that life and that's your destiny.
Speaker 1: And so many times when we come now talking about God's destiny, we are thinking in the same terms.
Speaker 1: We are thinking that we're in this world and there are some things we cannot change.
Speaker 1: There are some things that God has designed for us and maybe he was upset with our grandparents and he has just destined us for poverty, for hunger, for problems, for causes.
Speaker 1: But that's not what destiny is about.
Speaker 1: Destiny is about God's goodness expressed in your life, in this season and in this time hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And God's destiny is a good destiny and that is why it is important for us to to run and to rush to receive that destiny and say God, plunge me in into your destiny, let me stay there.
Speaker 1: Because the centerpiece of that destiny is our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, and that is why we are celebrating Christmas.
Speaker 1: That is why we are saying this one who came.
Speaker 1: The Bible says it has dawned on a land where there was darkness.
Speaker 1: Light has come where there was distress, freedom has come.
Speaker 1: For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and guess what his destiny is like?
Speaker 1: A government.
Speaker 1: The government shall be upon his shoulders.
Speaker 1: He's in charge.
Speaker 1: The devil is not in charge, he's in charge.
Speaker 1: God is in charge.
Speaker 1: When you connect to Christ Jesus, you connect to destiny.
Speaker 1: Israel was part of God's destiny and even though they went through difficult times, god still watched over them.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this God has watched over you since the month of January and just watching and guiding you.
Speaker 1: And many times the Israelites would stop to reflect on that destiny.
Speaker 1: They would sit back and write songs.
Speaker 1: One of those songs is in Psalms 105.
Speaker 1: I want to read part of it and just see how they thought of what God had done in their life.
Speaker 1: That God is still the same God.
Speaker 1: He is our God.
Speaker 1: Listen to this verses Bible says.
Speaker 1: In Psalms 105, verse 1, it says give praise.
Speaker 1: Now let me start that again.
Speaker 1: Psalms 105, verse 1.
Speaker 1: It says give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name, make known among the nation what he has done, sing to him, sing praise to him, tell of all his wonderful acts.
Speaker 1: Glory in his name.
Speaker 1: Leather hearts of those who seek the Lord, rejoice.
Speaker 1: Look to the Lord and his strength, seek his face always.
Speaker 1: Remember the wonders he has done this year.
Speaker 1: Remember the wonders he has done, oh yes.
Speaker 1: Remember when you are broke in January, thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: And in February you got a job, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Remember the wonders that he has done.
Speaker 1: I keep reading.
Speaker 1: Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles and the judgments he pronouns you, his servants, the descendants of Abraham, his chosen ones, the children of Jacob.
Speaker 1: He is the Lord, our God.
Speaker 1: His judgments are in all the art.
Speaker 1: He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he saw to Isaac.
Speaker 1: He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree to Israel, as an everlasting covenant.
Speaker 1: To you, I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit.
Speaker 1: When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
Speaker 1: He allowed no one to oppress them for their sake.
Speaker 1: He rebuked kings hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And he continues talking and then first forward to verse 37.
Speaker 1: In verse 37, because now they were in Egypt, they were oppressed, they were being given a hard time, difficult moments.
Speaker 1: Verse 37 says he brought out Israel laden with silver, and God has carried you through.
Speaker 1: He brought out Israel laden with silver and gold, and from among their tribes, no one faltered.
Speaker 1: May you not falter in Jesus name in Egypt was glad when they left, because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
Speaker 1: He spread out a cloud as a covering and a fire to give light at night.
Speaker 1: They asked, and he brought them quail.
Speaker 1: You remember the quail season?
Speaker 1: Hello, he brought them what he brought them quail.
Speaker 1: I like that now.
Speaker 1: He fed them well with a bread of heaven.
Speaker 1: He opened the rock and water, gashat.
Speaker 1: He floated like a river in the desert, for he remembered his holy promises given to his servant, abraham.
Speaker 1: He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones, with shouts of joy.
Speaker 1: He gave them the lands of the nations and they fell heir to what others had told for that they might keep his precepts and observe his laws.
Speaker 1: And then it says praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: That word, praise the Lord, is the word hallelujah.
Speaker 1: When you say hallelujah is the word praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: So hallelujah means praise, yeah, or jar means tell me.
Speaker 1: It means the Lord jihuva.
Speaker 1: So there's so much to praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: So look at your neighbor, regardless of what you went through, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Tell them, regardless of what you went through, hallelujah, amen.
Speaker 1: Even if you got broke, hallelujah, he provided for you.
Speaker 1: God has been good to you.
Speaker 1: What we are trying to say is that God has been good to you and his destiny is amazing.
Speaker 1: His destiny is perfect, and so in that destiny, christ is right at the center of it.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in John, chapter 1, verse 14, that this Jesus in the fullness of time.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that the Word became flesh and made his way, dwelling among us.
Speaker 1: We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the centerpiece of God's destiny, and so three things I want to bring to your attention today when we talk about this centerpiece.
Speaker 1: Number one because of Jesus, eternity has connected to the now, amen.
Speaker 1: Because of Jesus, abundance has engaged our luck.
Speaker 1: Because of Jesus, our restoration has aligned us to dominion.
Speaker 1: So remember those three things.
Speaker 1: Let me start with eternity connected to the now.
Speaker 1: I read these verses in Galatians, chapter 4, verse 1 to 5, that talks about the fullness of time.
Speaker 1: You see, in God's perspective there's what we call eternity past, and then we have eternity future.
Speaker 1: Now for God, who is from everlasting to everlasting, to come into the now, he had to release Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And so the Bible says in these verses, as I read them, what I'm saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he's not different from a slave.
Speaker 1: Although he owns the whole estate, the heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.
Speaker 1: So also when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.
Speaker 1: But when the set time had fully come, amen.
Speaker 1: When eternity past and eternity future locked in one place, that's when the Lord Jesus came.
Speaker 1: But when the set time had fully come, god sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law.
Speaker 1: To do what?
Speaker 1: To redeem those under the law that we might receive adoption to sonship.
Speaker 1: Verse 6 goes on to say amen.
Speaker 1: Give me verse 6.
Speaker 1: Because you are his sons, god has sent the spirit of his son into our hearts, the spirit who calls out our father.
Speaker 1: So you are no longer a slave.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor you're no longer a slave.
Speaker 1: What are you now?
Speaker 1: Your God's child.
Speaker 1: And since you are his child, god has made you also an heir.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, you've been made an heir.
Speaker 1: So eternity past and eternity future connected and we got an inheritance.
Speaker 1: Let me read Ecclesiastes, chapter 3.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in verse 1, that there are seasons that come and there are seasons that go.
Speaker 1: In verse 1 of Ecclesiastes, a book that you don't read you often, hello.
Speaker 1: It says there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to a fruit, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build.
Speaker 1: Then, first of all, that verse to verse 11.
Speaker 1: Because in verse 11 it says that it comes to a place where it is not just about time for this time, for this.
Speaker 1: Jesus is the centipede and he says he has made everything beautiful in its time.
Speaker 1: He has also set eternity in the human heart.
Speaker 1: Yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Speaker 1: I want you to know that Jesus Christ is the one who brings meaning to life.
Speaker 1: He's the only one.
Speaker 1: And I want you to know that Jesus is not.
Speaker 1: He did not come as a religious being.
Speaker 1: He did not come to represent Judaism.
Speaker 1: He did not come to represent Christianity.
Speaker 1: He did not come to represent any religious faction.
Speaker 1: He came to release the love of God.
Speaker 1: He came to show you how God looks like and when the fullness of time is, god connects with you, no matter where you are, no matter where you're hiding.
Speaker 1: The Bible says the shepherds who are just spending their time not knowing that something amazing had just happened While they were just sitting taking care of the flock, pigaring stories, talking about the politics of the day and talking about the rising taxes.
Speaker 1: They were just enjoying themselves, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says suddenly angels came into, into the into place and they said hey, something has happened, a child has been born in Bethlehem.
Speaker 1: Go see, your Savior has come and God is able to break through into a situation, into your darkness, into your things that are just not working.
Speaker 1: God can come in suddenly.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because God destined you before the world was made.
Speaker 1: He had a plan for you.
Speaker 1: The Bible says I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord.
Speaker 1: And God can get you anywhere.
Speaker 1: He can get you in Kenya, he can get you in Tanzania, he can get you in Europe, he can get you in India, he can get you in Pakistan, in Japan, wherever.
Speaker 1: God knows how to catch up with you.
Speaker 1: One time there was a man by the name of Sadhu Sundar Singh.
Speaker 1: This was a person in India.
Speaker 1: He's not connected to Christianity, he's just living his life.
Speaker 1: And he came into a part of his life when he felt that life did not, was not worth living anymore, and he decided that he was going to kill himself.
Speaker 1: How was he going to kill himself?
Speaker 1: He was in the village, but next to his house was a railway line and trains used to pass there.
Speaker 1: So every day he would act.
Speaker 1: Tell himself one of these days I'm going to jump on this railway line and let the train take me to wherever, because I don't care about life.
Speaker 1: I don't see if there's any meaning in life, I'm just going to die.
Speaker 1: Now you can imagine that guy, sadhu Sundar Singh, has had no connection with Christianity, has never attended a church, never gone to Sunday school, no preacher has talked to him.
Speaker 1: He's a sing.
Speaker 1: He's in India, he's in a place where Christianity may not be there.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this amazing things are happening in India.
Speaker 1: Many churches are big, big, bigger churches than Parklands Baptist Church are in India.
Speaker 1: Amazing things are happening, you see, because God does not care about your location.
Speaker 1: God cares about your destiny.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: God does not care about your location, god cares about your destiny.
Speaker 1: Some of you may be living in Lovington West and you think that's your destiny.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this continue staying in Lovington West.
Speaker 1: God doesn't care about your location, he cares about your destiny.
Speaker 1: Somebody's ordering Lovington West.
Speaker 1: Where is that?
Speaker 1: A place called Kawangware, but we like saying it is you know, and so you think that your destiny is in Lovington West and you cannot, you cannot cross those lines and come this way.
Speaker 1: So this guy wondering what will I do Now if you are God, for just five minutes?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, of course I know what some of you are thinking.
Speaker 1: If you are God for five minutes, arsenal would win the league.
Speaker 1: Just God for five minutes.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this in Christ you never walk alone.
Speaker 1: Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1: So, pasariks, coming to this guy, if you are God and this guy is planning to kill himself, what would you do?
Speaker 1: Would you send him to church?
Speaker 1: Would you send him to a pastor?
Speaker 1: What would you do?
Speaker 1: Does that guy has destiny?
Speaker 1: Is he connected to God?
Speaker 1: How can God get to him?
Speaker 1: But anyway, this is what happened the particular night that he was just now deciding.
Speaker 1: This is the day.
Speaker 1: It was dark in the house and he's sitting there and he's waiting to hear the train coming.
Speaker 1: By the way, I was in a family of a father who was worked with the Kenya Railways, so we could hear those things.
Speaker 1: So the train is coming.
Speaker 1: When he had the trumpet and the train was coming, when he was just about to leave the house, that dark house suddenly became light.
Speaker 1: There was light in the whole house.
Speaker 1: He looks around.
Speaker 1: This was no electricity.
Speaker 1: He was using those two mikebez of, where you would put clothes, and, and Mahfuta and light.
Speaker 1: That's the light he had.
Speaker 1: But suddenly there was a bright light in that heart and then he had somebody speaking and that person said I am Jesus and I love you.
Speaker 1: You don't have to kill yourself.
Speaker 1: I will tell you what to do in a few days.
Speaker 1: So when that voice finished, suddenly it became dark.
Speaker 1: But in those few minutes the train had passed.
Speaker 1: So this guy started wondering what was that voice?
Speaker 1: What is this light?
Speaker 1: What just happened to me?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what had happened to him.
Speaker 1: Destiny had showed up.
Speaker 1: I'm saying destiny had showed up in Jesus' name the next day because he was confused and he had had this name Jesus he knew.
Speaker 1: The only time this name Jesus he has had is in a certain small church, somewhere.
Speaker 1: So he went to that church, looked for the pastor and told him this is what happened to me the other day and the pastor, not knowing exactly what to tell him, got a new testament and gave it to him.
Speaker 1: He says read this book, it will tell you what you need to do.
Speaker 1: This man went and opened that Bible.
Speaker 1: He read the four gospels Matthew, mark, luke and John.
Speaker 1: And as he was reading those four gospels, suddenly this Jesus became alive to him and he realized why Jesus came and he gave his life to Jesus Christ and the life of that thing changed completely.
Speaker 1: Destiny had met him.
Speaker 1: That gentleman became an amazing missionary in India, walked many places, went to Tibet, went to many places just sharing the love of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: One time he even managed to go to London because he was just sharing this gospel.
Speaker 1: Destiny had met him.
Speaker 1: God knew where he was staying.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God knows where you're staying.
Speaker 1: God knows your location.
Speaker 1: You cannot hide from God because God has a destiny for you.
Speaker 1: One time, because of the persecution, this gentleman one time was thrown into a pit of snakes.
Speaker 1: There were snakes all over him.
Speaker 1: He was thrown into this pit inside there and there were snakes slithering all around.
Speaker 1: When he fell in he's not the only one who fell in, god also went into the pit and all the snakes suddenly became pillowcases for him and he just sat around snakes and he stayed there for many days just sitting there, praying.
Speaker 1: I'm calling on the name of God.
Speaker 1: And one day, out of nowhere, a rope.
Speaker 1: Somebody sent a rope to him and he just came down.
Speaker 1: That rope came down and he saw the rope.
Speaker 1: And then he held onto the rope and somebody pulled him out.
Speaker 1: When he came out, there was nobody there.
Speaker 1: God pulled him out.
Speaker 1: I want to tell somebody, before the year is over, god is pulling you out.
Speaker 1: God is pulling you out of a dark hole.
Speaker 1: You see, because God had destiny, this gentleman may not even have changed his name.
Speaker 1: He was called Sadhu Sundar Singh.
Speaker 1: Until he died.
Speaker 1: He did not change his name to John Isaac Singh.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, because destiny caught up with him In the fullness of time.
Speaker 1: Jesus was born.
Speaker 1: Jesus will be born into your situation.
Speaker 1: Jesus will be born into your circumstance.
Speaker 1: May Jesus connect with you.
Speaker 1: May you not kill yourself, may you not die before your time, because God has destiny for you and that destiny takes eternity past and eternity future and focuses it in the now.
Speaker 1: May God find you in the now, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: There was a young lady around the age of 14.
Speaker 1: She's just sweeping, sweeping, sweeping, and just doing her chores, thinking of one day she'll get married.
Speaker 1: And just while she was walking around, boom, the place was lit up and an angel came.
Speaker 1: An angel said Mary, you are highly favored, you shall conceive and you shall have a child.
Speaker 1: Out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: This lady was not even in church, she was just at home.
Speaker 1: An angel showed up and destiny was unveiled for her.
Speaker 1: And the angel said you shall have a child.
Speaker 1: You shall call his name Jesus.
Speaker 1: And Mary's trying to engage this destiny.
Speaker 1: And she said by the way, I'm a virgin.
Speaker 1: Didn't you know that?
Speaker 1: Whoever sent you, did they know that?
Speaker 1: Tell you, I'm a virgin.
Speaker 1: This cannot happen.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this it doesn't matter what impossibility you're facing right now.
Speaker 1: When destiny catches up with you, the impossible becomes possible.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, the impossible comes possible.
Speaker 1: And for sure, mary later said let it be unto me.
Speaker 1: According to your word, jesus is the centerpiece of destiny.
Speaker 1: But very quickly, I want to talk about abundance, because this Jesus causes abundance to engage our lack.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor we are no longer going to lack.
Speaker 1: I'm going to explain that lack in a moment, but let me read this verse in John, chapter 1, verse 14 to 16.
Speaker 1: Let me read it in the amplified version and see that God wants to give you abundance.
Speaker 1: In Christ, you have everything that you need.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor one more time.
Speaker 1: Until your neighbor In Christ, I have enough, and more than enough, I have abundance.
Speaker 1: And if you don't believe me, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, yeah, because you believe.
Speaker 1: Now listen to this.
Speaker 1: I really love this statement.
Speaker 1: It says this and the word Christ became what Flesh and lived among us, and we actually saw his glory, the glory as belongs to the one and only begotten son of the Father, the son who is truly unique, the only one of his kind, who is full of grace and truth, absolutely free of deception.
Speaker 1: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 1: John testified repeatedly about him and has cried out, testifying officially, for the record, with validity and relevance.
Speaker 1: This was he of whom I say he who comes after me has a higher rank than I and has priority over me, for he existed before me.
Speaker 1: Now look at verse 16.
Speaker 1: This is where I'm going now.
Speaker 1: For out of his fullness, whose fullness?
Speaker 1: God's fullness?
Speaker 1: For out of his fullness, the super abundance of his grace and truth, we have received grace upon grace, spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor and gift heaped upon gift.
Speaker 1: Now tell your neighbor that is fullness, amen.
Speaker 1: Many times you think that destiny is for us to just survive.
Speaker 1: You know, destiny is just I'll just survive.
Speaker 1: I'll just survive.
Speaker 1: If I can just make it to the evening, I'll be fine.
Speaker 1: If I during the night, if I can just make it into the morning, I'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God has something better.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God has something better.
Speaker 1: I'm saying to somebody now, a celebration is coming your way.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm saying a celebration is coming your way.
Speaker 1: You thought you may not ever be celebrated.
Speaker 1: Now you're going to be celebrated in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: God can surprise you and God will surprise you in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: God loves those kinds of things and it doesn't matter what time of the year it is.
Speaker 1: God can suddenly show up.
Speaker 1: When he shows up, he shows up with abundance.
Speaker 1: May that abundance be your portion.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may that abundance be your portion.
Speaker 1: Look at this verse in Isaiah God talking to Cyrus, isaiah 45, verse one to six, again talking about his abundance.
Speaker 1: He says this is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus.
Speaker 1: Now let me read this in the NIV.
Speaker 1: Please Just turn it into the NIV so that he can just flow for us.
Speaker 1: This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of, I'm going to subdue nations before him, strip kings of their armor to open the doors before him so that gates will not be shut.
Speaker 1: I will go before you, I will level the mountains.
Speaker 1: May God level your mountains.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may God level your mountains.
Speaker 1: I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.
Speaker 1: He says I will give you hidden treasures, riches, totes in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, god of Israel, who summons you by name.
Speaker 1: For the sake of Jacob, my servant of Israel, my chosen, I summon you by name and bestow on you a title of honor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I have a title.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor it is a title of honor.
Speaker 1: So in front of your name, just put your name honorable.
Speaker 1: Okay, now finish the sentence.
Speaker 1: Honorable, who, honorable, who?
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor that name?
Speaker 1: Honorable, who?
Speaker 1: Honorable?
Speaker 1: Who Tell them?
Speaker 1: Tell them, tell them to have respect for you.
Speaker 1: Now tell them God is giving you a title of honor.
Speaker 1: So don't walk around with your head down.
Speaker 1: Lift your head up, because Christ is the one making it possible.
Speaker 1: He's the centerpiece of destiny.
Speaker 1: Giving you a title of honor.
Speaker 1: Let me finish that, though you do not acknowledge me.
Speaker 1: And then verse five I am the Lord and there is no other Apart from me.
Speaker 1: There is no God.
Speaker 1: I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting, people may know there is none beside me.
Speaker 1: I am the Lord and there is no other.
Speaker 1: May that be your portion.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, may that be your portion.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: May that be your portion.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, abundance.
Speaker 1: But you know let me say this in passing, in the name of God, the most Gracious, the most Merciful to abundance.
Speaker 1: They have been so used to lack that the day abundance comes, they don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: And sometimes this happens when people go for interviews.
Speaker 1: You have not had a job for a long time.
Speaker 1: Then one day you have an interview opportunity and in that interview it is a lucrative job, it's very nice, and they come, and after the interview there's usually a question they ask you towards the end.
Speaker 1: They ask you how much?
Speaker 1: Tell me how much, how much would you like to be Pay it?
Speaker 1: That's a very tricky question, especially if you've been working in luck for a long time.
Speaker 1: Hello, because your head is not calibrated to abundance, it is calibrated to luck.
Speaker 1: Hello, when they ask you that question, some people will say this, anything will do.
Speaker 1: And then they ask you be specific, what you do like.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, some people when they go for an interview, they calculate.
Speaker 1: They say, okay, I'm going to calculate, this is what I need for groceries, this is what I need for transport, this is what I need where I'm staying, the rent.
Speaker 1: And so they calculate, calculate, calculate, calculate, and for some people it reaches 30k.
Speaker 1: And so when they ask what you do have to be paid, you just say 30, but I'm okay with 25.
Speaker 1: When those guys interviewing him and really know his CV is good, really want to give him 300,000 Kenyan shillings, but his brain has never thought that far.
Speaker 1: And even if they offer him and say because they will check your brain, they say if you want 30, we were going to give him 300, but let's finish it, just let's give him 50.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor calibrate your brain.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor luck out, abundance in.
Speaker 1: Tell the other neighbor foolishness out, wisdom in.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I was created for abundance In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: So next time don't think that you're being humble by saying, oh, anything, anything.
Speaker 1: I was in Kaka Mega the other day and Bishop JB was preaching and he was.
Speaker 1: He was he was just really trying to challenge the Westerners and tell them change your way of thinking, because Westerners, beyond Vihiga, going that direction, hello.
Speaker 1: They know from the time they grew up their job is either to be a watchman, to be a cook and to be a fence cutter, and so when they come to Nairobi, that's, those are the jobs they look for.
Speaker 1: Why Not?
Speaker 1: Because they cannot do anything.
Speaker 1: It is a mindset.
Speaker 1: So just take a minute, find out.
Speaker 1: If you're sitting next to a Westerner, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And tell them your season has changed.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it is a mindset.
Speaker 1: Ah, mindset.
Speaker 1: You come to Nairobi.
Speaker 1: At what job do you want?
Speaker 1: I just want to cut grass.
Speaker 1: God has great things in store for you.
Speaker 1: Change your mind Now.
Speaker 1: Imagine you're not just in Nairobi, you're now in the kingdom of God and Jesus has come with blessings, jesus has come with abundance and God is saying what do you like me to do for you?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this do for me everything that is in Christ.
Speaker 1: Let it flood my way.
Speaker 1: Do you need peace?
Speaker 1: Give me peace that passes all understanding.
Speaker 1: Do you need?
Speaker 1: Do you need joy?
Speaker 1: Give me joy that is greater than an ocean, amen, amen.
Speaker 2: We used to sing a song that says you know, I have peace like a river.
Speaker 2: I have peace like a river.
Speaker 2: I have peace like a river in my soul.
Speaker 2: I have peace like a river.
Speaker 2: I have peace like a river in my soul.
Speaker 1: When we talk about love.
Speaker 1: I have love like an ocean.
Speaker 1: I have love like an ocean, not like a pool Abundance.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor Jesus came to release his fullness.
Speaker 1: So prepare yourself, because that fullness is coming your way.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that fullness is coming your way.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that fullness is coming your way in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Many, many years ago there was a student, even as I prepared to pray, there was a student who was struggling to go for further studies and the mother did not have a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But the mother was able to get money.
Speaker 1: They were able to get some money to pay for his first year.
Speaker 1: But also they wanted transport.
Speaker 1: So she managed to get transport just enough and they got the ticket.
Speaker 1: And then the mother said for you to go, I'm going to cook for you chapatis.
Speaker 1: So the mother cooked chapatis.
Speaker 1: The journey was going to take a long time because it was by ship, not by plane.
Speaker 1: By ship going to take quite some time, and so the mother made chapatis, made about 40 chapatis and needed a boy to be eating, one per day, hello.
Speaker 1: So this boy got everything he had.
Speaker 1: He's going to that place, he has chapatis and he's on the journey and he's on that ship and he's going to enjoy himself every day Mama said eat one chapati.
Speaker 1: So the boy would wake up in the morning, get his chapati and he would tear it into four pieces so that he chapati in the morning, chapati around 11, another chapati in the afternoon and another chapati in the evening.
Speaker 1: Those quarters, and for nearly a week that was what was happening for Simon.
Speaker 1: But every time there was breakfast people would rise up.
Speaker 1: You would just see people walking going to certain places and then he would see he would see them in the bunk waiting hall and he would see them eating nice food.
Speaker 1: And he's just saying, oh, I'll just eat my chapatis.
Speaker 1: And every day he would see them coming back.
Speaker 1: Some of them had had carried what, what you call them after you've eaten and they pack for you Takeaways.
Speaker 1: And the boy just sat there for a whole week just saying, oh, I wish I had money, be'asha, I could be eating like these people are eating.
Speaker 1: By the second week the chapatis were hard, they had become crackers and the boy could not take it anymore.
Speaker 1: He went to the captain of the ship and said what can I do?
Speaker 1: Give me work to do so that I can have just some money to go to the dining hall.
Speaker 1: And the captain said what do you mean?
Speaker 1: You've not been coming to the dining hall.
Speaker 1: He says no, my mother just gave me chapatis and I'm eating them and some of them are now so dry.
Speaker 1: Just give me work, I will work.
Speaker 1: And the man said can I see your ticket?
Speaker 1: And the boy pulled out the ticket.
Speaker 1: And when the man looked at the ticket he said this ticket has paid for your all journey, including the meals, for the entire journey.
Speaker 1: The boy said say that again.
Speaker 1: Your meals have been paid for.
Speaker 1: You can imagine what happened to that boy.
Speaker 1: He said Allah, I've been suffering the whole time and in that ticket it was paid for.
Speaker 1: He could not wait for the next meal.
Speaker 1: He threw the chapatis into the ocean, ran into the dining hall, tried to catch up for one week.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have met people in a wedding who have never seen a lot of food.
Speaker 1: So they get, come for the soup, put it aside.
Speaker 1: Then they go get everything on the buffet, everything chapatis, mukimo, nyama, plus, towards the end, ice cream on top.
Speaker 1: When you meet that person, you know he's suffering from one thing.
Speaker 1: It's called luck mindset.
Speaker 1: You are not that person, please.
Speaker 1: That ticket was paid for in full.
Speaker 1: Jesus paid it all.
Speaker 1: All to him I owe.
Speaker 1: And because Jesus paid it all, the buffet and everything you need for the journey is yours for the taking.
Speaker 1: I'm saying it is yours for the taking.
Speaker 1: Come on, it is yours for the taking.
Speaker 1: It is yours for the taking, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So don't starve.
Speaker 1: Don't starve, arise and come to the bunk waiting table.
Speaker 1: The Bible says I prepared a table before you in the presence of my enemies.
Speaker 1: Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever.
Speaker 1: But I want to finish by this statement Jesus is the centerpiece, taking eternity and bringing it in the now, taking abundance and engaging our luck with it.
Speaker 1: And then, thirdly, restoration that realigns us to dominion.
Speaker 1: Jesus came to bring restoration.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor Jesus came to restore.
Speaker 1: I tell the other neighbor Jesus came to restore.
Speaker 1: Now let me read this verse, because this is this is an excellent verse for us to finish with.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Joel, chapter 2, verse 25.
Speaker 1: It says I will repair you.
Speaker 1: For the years the locusts have eaten the great locust and the young locusts, the other locusts and the locusts swam my great army that I sent among you.
Speaker 1: It says you will have plenty to eat until your what your full and you will praise the name of the Lord, your God, amen.
Speaker 1: Let me read this in the New King James version, verse 25, and I like that statement.
Speaker 1: This is what it says.
Speaker 1: So I will do what.
Speaker 1: I will restore to you what that the swamming locust has eaten.
Speaker 1: There was swamming locust, crawling locust, consuming locust and chewing locusts Plus locusts.
Speaker 1: That, those locusts Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: But I'm all pastor.
Speaker 1: One thing that blesses me is this the Lord will not restore to you the things the locusts ate, because they ate them and they digested them.
Speaker 1: The Lord will restore not the what the locusts ate, but the years that were destroyed.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, the years.
Speaker 1: So I'm talking to somebody in 2021 you are doing so well.
Speaker 1: Come 2022, things went down.
Speaker 1: The swamming locusts came, the chewing locusts came and they just ate, ate, ate your entire 2022.
Speaker 1: Then, 2023, they came and ate and ate, and ate, and ate and ate and finished.
Speaker 1: We are finished in the year, having eaten, and God is saying listen to me, I am a restorer and so I'm going to squeeze the years that were stolen.
Speaker 1: So God is going to take 2021 and 2023 and God is going to squeeze them back together.
Speaker 1: So from 2021 to 24.
Speaker 1: It's like you missed nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: That's what it means to do to restore.
Speaker 1: It's like the devil had never showed up in your life, so that in the year 2024, like Pastor Simon was saying, everything that seemed to have been lost in two years will be restored in one month, and then you will pick up from there and you will rise to great heights.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor my years will be restored, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'll be restored.
Speaker 1: Somebody wanted to get married when they were 24.
Speaker 1: Now, who is that?
Speaker 1: We say to the man Is that true?
Speaker 1: You wanted to get married when you're 24?
Speaker 1: Oh, you're 24 now.
Speaker 1: You're 24 now?
Speaker 1: No, but you wanted to get married when you're 24?
Speaker 1: And those years have gone, many years.
Speaker 1: You still want to get married.
Speaker 1: Come here, you know, the promises of God are yes, huh.
Speaker 1: So we want to say they are men with her Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: What's your name, sheena?
Speaker 1: Then you're 24, you wanted to get married.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask you how old you are right now, but God is able to do what Boom To restore.
Speaker 1: He's able to restore.
Speaker 1: You know God loves you and you love Jesus.
Speaker 1: A man, you know that a man was not in vain, because right now, somebody is looking at you.
Speaker 1: What they don't know is this You're full of favor, because he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, and if you're that man, please come and see me.
Speaker 1: But I want to thank God for you, because this God can restore the years.
Speaker 1: What I was going to say before you said that are men.
Speaker 1: I was going to say this that somebody may have wanted to get married at 24, but they're around 45 and things are just not working out.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: But then at 45, god gives them an amazing person.
Speaker 1: And what should have happened between 24 and 45?
Speaker 1: In the next five years, god restores.
Speaker 1: God just restores.
Speaker 1: Amen, he restores.
Speaker 1: That person had wanted three children in five years.
Speaker 1: Triplet Boom, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Our great family, great opportunities.
Speaker 1: Our God is that kind of a God.
Speaker 1: If God did it for Ruth, god can do it for anyone in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, so that you can go back to sit down.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold your hand and just want to release that If you're watching online and you're in America.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: Something good is standing right here and we want to give God the glory and all the praise.
Speaker 1: And who knows?
Speaker 1: In his time he makes all things beautiful.
Speaker 1: And when that guy shows up, please bring him to me.
Speaker 1: Amen, let me talk to him, but trust everything to the Lord, because those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion that can never be shaken.
Speaker 1: And there's the mountains around Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: The Lord is surrounding you and God will restore the years.
Speaker 1: He will restore, he will restore In Jesus name, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: So may the Lord come through for you in his time.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, celebrate his goodness.
Speaker 1: Amen, hallelujah, you know, there's somebody who's saying I should have been there myself.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, you cannot fit here if you came here, but if you are a lady and it doesn't matter where you are, what has happened?
Speaker 1: Maybe this is your point of contact I want you to stand up.
Speaker 1: Just do what you did.
Speaker 1: Just stand up.
Speaker 1: Somebody will see you.
Speaker 1: Amen, yes, come on, tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Don't be envious.
Speaker 1: God is able to do exceedingly Abundantly.
Speaker 1: Dr Gishane, can you see what has happened?
Speaker 1: I want to talk to the gentleman in the house.
Speaker 1: If you're married, don't think about it, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: But I want to believe with these ladies and my sisters who are standing up With God.
Speaker 1: It's never too late.
Speaker 1: And just because you're standing, may the Lord locate you.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may the Lord locate you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord locate you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord locate you In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: If you are the pavilion and you are standing, may the Lord locate you In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: How he does it?
Speaker 1: He's the only one who knows it.
Speaker 1: Now let me read that verse one more time, while you're still standing.
Speaker 1: The next verse it says this as when God restores you, you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and you shall praise the name of the Lord, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you and my people shall never be put to shame.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody.
Speaker 1: Jesus' name, jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 1: So receive it.
Speaker 1: Amen, please be seated, pastor Simon, there are many weddings coming.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah Wedding weddings coming.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 1: There are some men who are sitting here and they are saying I also need to be seen.
Speaker 1: Stand up, if you love Jesus, I'm waiting for this man to stand up.
Speaker 1: There's a man standing up there.
Speaker 1: God bless you, sir.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's another man there.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's another man at the back.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's another man here.
Speaker 1: Come on, you men, my friend, don't miss this chance.
Speaker 1: God bless you, sir.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: What is the celebration there?
Speaker 1: Who stood?
Speaker 1: Come here, come here.
Speaker 1: Why are you so excited about him?
Speaker 1: Grishmi, you're being celebrated, seriously.
Speaker 1: What is your name, ian?
Speaker 1: Now, ladies and gentlemen, this is Ian, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: He has a name.
Speaker 1: He is standing.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this you will remember this day and these men that were standing up.
Speaker 1: You remember this day.
Speaker 1: May God locate you.
Speaker 1: May God restore the years by the locus of it and she's our name.
Speaker 1: So, ian, go talk to Barik and don't walk around with your eyes closed.
Speaker 1: Open your eyes, and may God locate the right person, Because he who finds a wife finds Don't be looking for girlfriends he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Speaker 1: Now, for some of you men who are standing before he goes, maybe you have been in relationships and some of them have broken, and sometimes you tried this one and then you tried that one and somebody's just come here, talk to my hand, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And you said I'm not trying anymore, listen to me.
Speaker 1: It is not about that person, it is about God.
Speaker 1: May God come through for you and Ian.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 1: May the celebration that we had and may God be on this platform when you're coming to that song that says Okay, go, you can go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is, and Ta-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, amen.
Speaker 1: Something has shifted For somebody, something has changed, and it was triggered by an amen, hello, and God bless each one of you.
Speaker 1: Now look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor in all these things, God is the centerpiece of my destiny, in Jesus' name, and God's people say Come on, shall we stand up now?
Speaker 1: Amen, I want to tell you you'll remember this day.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you'll remember this day.
Speaker 1: Now there are some men who did not stand, who needed to stand.
Speaker 1: But wherever you are, in his time, he makes all things beautiful.
Speaker 1: And some people are saying, oh, but you know, marriages these days don't last, do you know?
Speaker 1: People are not faithful, you know.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this it is true, there are many accidents that happen on our roads, but people do not stop driving.
Speaker 1: People do not stop driving.
Speaker 1: May God make you a good driver and may God lead you in parts of righteousness for his name's sake.
Speaker 1: As I pray for you this afternoon, I am saying that you shall finish this year strong and it doesn't matter what happened yesterday, happened in January.
Speaker 1: God is a God who answers prayer and God sees you the moment you say God, here I am, locate me.
Speaker 1: This God has already located you, not only in marriage.
Speaker 1: But for some of you who are in business, may God locate you.
Speaker 1: For some of you, it has been a rough business, wise, and sometimes things seem as if they will not change.
Speaker 1: But may God locate you.
Speaker 1: May God locate you in your children.
Speaker 1: May God locate you in your education.
Speaker 1: May God locate you in your projects.
Speaker 1: There may have been a project you started and somehow something just stuck in the middle of the year.
Speaker 1: Everything stalled.
Speaker 1: You're looking at something that may come become like a dead elephant, but let me tell you this God is a God of restoration, god is a God of resurrection and things can shift from this pulpit right now.
Speaker 1: Eternity, past, eternity, future can meet in the now, just for you, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Are you glad you came?
Speaker 1: Come on, let's give God a big hand, amen.
Speaker 1: Amen Amen.
Speaker 1: Let's pray.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We sense your presence in our midst this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Among the ladies who stood up, among the men who stood up, there are some who are still so scared they don't want to stand up.
Speaker 1: You understand, they have that desire.
Speaker 1: And, god, you see our hearts More than just our actions.
Speaker 1: You see our hearts and, lord, you see the desires of your people and the desire to have families, desires to have good relationships, desire to have a good business, desire to have good children.
Speaker 1: And, dear Lord, your destiny is a destiny of good things.
Speaker 1: The Bible says surely, goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life.
Speaker 1: And, father, even as I pray, I'm prepared to release your people.
Speaker 1: I'm releasing them into your destiny.
Speaker 1: I'm releasing them into Christ because, christ, you are the centerpiece of our destiny.
Speaker 1: The devil doesn't have our destiny, circumstances don't have our destinies, our past failures don't determine our destiny.
Speaker 1: Our destiny is in Christ and in Christ alone.
Speaker 1: So, father, as I bring your people at the throne of grace, may you remember them, may you locate them, may you fulfill the desires of the heart, for the Bible says delight in the Lord and he will fulfill the desires of your heart.
Speaker 1: Right now, with the circumstances everywhere, things seem totally impossible.
Speaker 1: But, god, your destiny causes the impossible to become possible, whether in finances, whether in health, whether in a morning situation, because there are some people who are mourning they have lost a loved one and they are feeling that nothing is ever going to be right.
Speaker 1: But, lord, you are not just destiny, you are the resurrection and you are the life.
Speaker 1: Somebody in depression can rise up again and become a CEO of an organization.
Speaker 1: Nothing is too hard for you.
Speaker 1: Somebody who is suicidal, lord, their lives can change and they can become ambassadors of your kingdom in this world.
Speaker 1: Master, I release that destiny.
Speaker 1: I release that destiny.
Speaker 1: Just lift up your hand and just repeat this after me Heavenly Father, this afternoon, I receive your destiny, I receive my God given destiny.
Speaker 1: I receive that which you planned for me before the foundation of the world, that which you wrote in a book concerning me in this season.
Speaker 1: O God, manifest it, let it come alive.
Speaker 1: And I know, lord Jesus, you don't fail.
Speaker 1: Because, god, you're not a man that you should lie.
Speaker 1: You're not a son of man that you should change your mind.
Speaker 1: When you say something, it is done.
Speaker 1: When you declare, it is established.
Speaker 1: This is the portion I'm receiving now, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: Nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name Amen.