WEBVTT 00:00:00.341 --> 00:00:08.372 The scripture we have today is Isaiah 43, verse 10 to 20. 00:00:08.372 --> 00:00:18.393 You can either say Isaiah, isaiah, isaiah, all those. 00:00:18.393 --> 00:00:34.115 Verse 10 says you are my witnesses, declares the Lord and my servant, whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. 00:00:34.115 --> 00:00:40.767 Before me no God was formed, nor will there be one after me. 00:00:40.767 --> 00:00:47.174 Even I am the Lord, and apart from me there is no Savior. 00:00:47.174 --> 00:00:51.265 I have revealed and saved unproclaimed. 00:00:51.265 --> 00:00:55.152 I am not some foreign God among you. 00:00:55.152 --> 00:01:00.045 You are my witnesses, declares the Lord, that I am God. 00:01:00.045 --> 00:01:04.191 Yes, and from ancient days I am he. 00:01:04.191 --> 00:01:08.661 No one can deliver out of my hand when I act. 00:01:08.661 --> 00:01:10.061 Who can reverse it? 00:01:10.061 --> 00:01:12.263 This is what the Lord says. 00:01:12.263 --> 00:01:24.637 Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, for your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians in the ships in which they took pride. 00:01:24.637 --> 00:01:30.263 I am the Lord, your Holy One, israel's Creator, your King. 00:01:30.263 --> 00:01:49.216 This is what the Lord says, he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and their enforcement together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out, like a week. 00:01:49.216 --> 00:01:56.847 Therefore, forget the former things do not dwell on the past. 00:01:56.847 --> 00:02:00.090 See, I am doing a new thing. 00:02:00.090 --> 00:02:04.296 Now it springs up, do you not perceive it? 00:02:04.296 --> 00:02:29.677 I am making a way, in the wilderness and streams in the west lands, the wild animals on a main, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the west lands to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself, that they may proclaim my praise. 00:02:29.677 --> 00:02:32.223 This is God's word and God's promise. 00:02:32.223 --> 00:02:41.981 Amen and amen, please, we may be seated in God's house Today, even as we start. 00:02:41.981 --> 00:02:44.905 This is, by the way, this is our New Year service. 00:02:44.905 --> 00:02:54.735 We didn't have one on the first, and so this Sunday, this is our New Year service and I have a New Year message for us. 00:02:54.735 --> 00:02:56.402 So look at your neighbor. 00:02:56.402 --> 00:03:01.572 Tell your neighbor new season, new possibilities. 00:03:01.572 --> 00:03:09.211 I tell that neighbor again, because they didn't hear you new season, new possibilities. 00:03:09.211 --> 00:03:20.413 Now tell that neighbor who ignored you new season, new possibilities, amen. 00:03:20.413 --> 00:03:28.771 Let me tell you this I don't know what you may have gone through last year, but God has opened a new page. 00:03:28.771 --> 00:03:32.063 God has opened a new page. 00:03:32.063 --> 00:03:36.633 This is a new season with new possibilities. 00:03:40.462 --> 00:03:50.131 Pastor Simon from time to time speaks from a chapter in the book which we always enjoy, and this is the passage in the book of Luke, chapter five. 00:03:50.131 --> 00:04:01.542 It's the story of Peter, and the reason why Pastor Simon loves to preach about that message is because Peter is also called Simon, hallelujah. 00:04:01.542 --> 00:04:16.156 And Simon had a rough night a rough night and maybe you had a rough last year and it was a dark night and you tried to fish and fish and you caught nothing. 00:04:16.156 --> 00:04:19.980 It is true, we had some challenging moments last year. 00:04:19.980 --> 00:04:24.067 Businesses were not in the place they needed to be. 00:04:24.067 --> 00:04:27.752 Maybe the prophets you needed to make you did not make them. 00:04:27.752 --> 00:04:28.694 You went at a loss. 00:04:28.694 --> 00:04:32.088 Maybe relationships did not work out for you. 00:04:32.088 --> 00:04:35.197 Some of you had planned to get married last year. 00:04:35.197 --> 00:04:37.721 It didn't work, hello. 00:04:37.721 --> 00:04:41.047 Some of you just didn't even want to get married. 00:04:41.047 --> 00:04:45.392 You just wanted to be noticed Hello. 00:04:45.392 --> 00:04:50.000 But nobody noticed you and it was not a very nice time. 00:04:50.862 --> 00:04:53.831 And, like Peter, fishing the whole night is an expert. 00:04:53.831 --> 00:04:55.961 You caught nothing. 00:04:55.961 --> 00:04:57.444 It is dark. 00:04:57.444 --> 00:05:00.005 They don't know what they're going to get the next day. 00:05:00.005 --> 00:05:09.937 So the next day comes up and they have no idea that that morning, a new season, new possibilities were coming his way. 00:05:09.937 --> 00:05:11.502 He didn't know that. 00:05:11.502 --> 00:05:21.834 So he's sitting at the show with his friends washing their nets, washing their skills, just sitting there. 00:05:21.834 --> 00:05:24.278 They have nothing to go back home to report. 00:05:24.458 --> 00:05:26.000 No wonder Peter did not go home. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.406 He knew his mother-in-law was waiting, hello. 00:05:30.406 --> 00:05:33.370 No wonder one time he said how many times should we forgive? 00:05:33.370 --> 00:05:37.454 Hello, there's a mother-in-law in the picture. 00:05:37.454 --> 00:05:42.665 And so, like Peter, it is a dark time, a dark moment. 00:05:42.665 --> 00:05:48.812 But you know, jesus had seen him through that night and Jesus was watching. 00:05:48.851 --> 00:05:52.295 And I want to tell you this last year Jesus watched you in January. 00:05:52.295 --> 00:05:55.944 He watched you in February and March and in April. 00:05:55.944 --> 00:05:58.408 He saw your struggles, he saw your tears. 00:05:58.408 --> 00:06:00.791 Sometimes it was just too much. 00:06:00.791 --> 00:06:02.735 Sometimes you didn't know where to turn. 00:06:02.735 --> 00:06:05.944 Sometimes just putting food at the table was an issue. 00:06:06.704 --> 00:06:07.526 Some of the men here. 00:06:07.526 --> 00:06:12.432 You had a challenge because your wives kept asking you why are you sitting here like a couch potato? 00:06:12.432 --> 00:06:13.192 Go get some work. 00:06:13.192 --> 00:06:20.004 You know, and you really hustled, you really did your best. 00:06:20.004 --> 00:06:27.314 Nothing happened and you walked into 2024 wondering is the same thing going to happen? 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:33.286 I have good news to tell you New season, new possibilities. 00:06:33.286 --> 00:06:34.869 I'm talking to somebody. 00:06:34.869 --> 00:06:37.653 I'm saying new season, new possibilities. 00:06:37.653 --> 00:06:39.956 In the name of Jesus Christ. 00:06:39.956 --> 00:06:43.384 Yes, last year, apostle Simon, you may have. 00:06:43.384 --> 00:06:50.956 People may have had debts, you know, and they may have read that scripture that says you shall not borrow, you shall be a lender. 00:06:50.956 --> 00:06:52.682 And that story never happened. 00:06:52.682 --> 00:07:01.721 Some of them said I shall be the head and not the tail, but for sure your tail has been wagging all over and you just don't know what to do. 00:07:01.721 --> 00:07:04.144 And you're wondering is this year different? 00:07:04.144 --> 00:07:12.716 Let me tell you this when Jesus shows up, a new season, new possibilities. 00:07:13.862 --> 00:07:16.086 The children of Israel had been going through a difficult time. 00:07:16.086 --> 00:07:20.915 Apostle Simon and in Isaiah 43, indeed, they were going through water. 00:07:20.915 --> 00:07:23.000 So let me read those verses verse one, two and three. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:24.762 The Bible says this. 00:07:24.762 --> 00:07:26.987 An amazing chapter. 00:07:26.987 --> 00:07:28.750 When you get time, read through it. 00:07:29.170 --> 00:07:34.000 It says but now, this is what the Lord says, he who created you, jacob. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:36.959 I want you to look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor God created me. 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:40.988 He says, he who formed you, israel. 00:07:40.988 --> 00:07:45.980 Do not fear, because some of the things that you went through have created so much fear in your life. 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:48.584 Walked into this year with a lot of fear. 00:07:48.584 --> 00:07:55.237 He says do not fear, for I have redeemed you, I have summoned you by name. 00:07:55.237 --> 00:08:07.471 You are mine when you pass through the waters and for sure some of us pass through the waters, I will be with you, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. 00:08:07.471 --> 00:08:19.000 When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, the flames will not set your blaze, for I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.687 I give Egypt for your ransom, cushion Siba in your stead. 00:08:22.687 --> 00:08:33.211 Then he says that verse 7, I was talking about since you are precious and honored in my sight and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you. 00:08:33.211 --> 00:08:41.009 You have gone through. 00:08:41.350 --> 00:08:49.528 God is saying when now he fast forwards to verse 18, this is what he says and this is what he's telling us today, and he's saying this in verse 18. 00:08:49.528 --> 00:08:57.907 If I can get that on the screen, forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. 00:08:57.907 --> 00:09:02.288 See, I'm doing a new thing. 00:09:02.288 --> 00:09:04.845 Now it springs up. 00:09:04.845 --> 00:09:06.504 Do you not perceive it? 00:09:06.504 --> 00:09:10.729 I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the westlands. 00:09:10.729 --> 00:09:18.325 The wild animals honor me the jackals and alls because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the westlands. 00:09:18.325 --> 00:09:23.490 What God is saying to us today is this when he shows up, things shift. 00:09:23.490 --> 00:09:25.985 When he shows up, things change. 00:09:27.259 --> 00:09:36.586 John the Apostle was on an island called Patmos and on that island he was going through a very dark moment and a dark season of his life. 00:09:36.586 --> 00:09:40.027 This John was a disciple of Jesus. 00:09:40.027 --> 00:09:45.370 This John is the John the Bible says, the disciple Jesus loved. 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:48.202 This John is the one. 00:09:48.202 --> 00:09:51.250 Peter said God, what will happen to John? 00:09:51.250 --> 00:09:58.907 And Jesus said don't worry about John If I want him to stay alive until I come back. 00:09:58.907 --> 00:10:00.051 What is that to you? 00:10:00.051 --> 00:10:01.845 Ask for you, follow me. 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.850 It is this John who lived much longer than all the other disciples. 00:10:07.850 --> 00:10:12.850 Most of the disciples died along the way, but John stayed his course. 00:10:12.850 --> 00:10:15.386 He finds himself on the island of Patmos. 00:10:15.386 --> 00:10:24.465 It is dark, it is difficult, and he remembers his savior, jesus Christ, who not only died but who rose from the dead. 00:10:24.465 --> 00:10:36.846 They remember themselves on a hill when they saw this Jesus ascending to heaven, and as he was going, he said you know, as he was going, the angel says this man who has gone up this way will come in the same way. 00:10:36.846 --> 00:10:38.570 And then Jesus disappeared. 00:10:38.570 --> 00:10:47.423 It is this John who lived to a time when the Romans came and destroyed Jerusalem and raised it to the ground. 00:10:47.423 --> 00:10:51.388 It is this John who said does God really exist? 00:10:51.388 --> 00:10:53.244 Is God still alive. 00:10:53.244 --> 00:11:02.150 He was in the dark moment of his life and then, in that darkness, god decides to step into that darkness. 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:09.113 The Bible says in Revelation, chapter 1, about this vision that John saw. 00:11:09.113 --> 00:11:34.371 So let me read it from verse 10, what John the revelator saw and the Bible says on the Lord's day, I was in the spirit and I had behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, which said write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, smyrna, pagaman, thartara, Sardis, philadelphia and Laudicea. 00:11:34.371 --> 00:11:44.250 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me and when I turned, I saw seven golden lamestands and among the lamestands was someone like a son of man. 00:11:44.250 --> 00:11:46.543 Now, remember this was Jesus. 00:11:46.543 --> 00:11:54.980 That he was looking at Was a son of man, dressed in a robe, reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 00:11:54.980 --> 00:12:01.133 The hair on his head was white like a psalm, like a psalmbrose, hallelujah. 00:12:01.133 --> 00:12:07.572 The hair on his head was white like a hole, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire. 00:12:07.572 --> 00:12:19.164 That doesn't mean that actually the hair of Jesus was white, doesn't mean that, but it's just saying the light that was shining behind him reflected on his hair and it was just like white as well. 00:12:19.164 --> 00:12:22.403 This was splendor, this was glory. 00:12:22.403 --> 00:12:25.929 His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace. 00:12:25.929 --> 00:12:28.446 It is like things were just like if you're in a furnace. 00:12:28.446 --> 00:12:32.105 This was just magnificent. 00:12:32.105 --> 00:12:40.369 He had never seen a Jesus like this, and the Bible says his feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace and his voice like the sounds of a rushing waters. 00:12:40.369 --> 00:12:43.304 In his right hand he held seven stars. 00:12:43.304 --> 00:12:47.011 Coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. 00:12:47.011 --> 00:12:51.410 His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance. 00:12:51.410 --> 00:12:53.726 He had never seen Jesus in that light. 00:12:53.726 --> 00:12:55.442 I am telling you. 00:12:56.063 --> 00:12:59.631 Much later he was given the script to write to the different churches. 00:12:59.631 --> 00:13:05.365 Then, in chapter 4, the Bible says this if I can go there, to Voswan Now, remember he's seeing a vision. 00:13:05.365 --> 00:13:06.363 This is a new day. 00:13:06.363 --> 00:13:10.009 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though I was dead. 00:13:10.009 --> 00:13:11.605 Now take me to chapter 4, voswan. 00:13:12.460 --> 00:13:15.028 After this, I looked and there before me was a door. 00:13:15.028 --> 00:13:15.761 Tell your neighbor. 00:13:15.761 --> 00:13:19.304 There was a door Standing open in heaven. 00:13:19.304 --> 00:13:22.970 Now, this is not a door in front of him, this is a door in heaven. 00:13:22.970 --> 00:13:33.899 And the voice I heard first I heard first, I had heard first was speaking to me like a trumpet coming up, and he said come up here. 00:13:33.899 --> 00:13:36.128 It was like a trumpet sound. 00:13:36.128 --> 00:13:44.904 In other words, god wanted to get John's attention from his yesterday, he wanted to bring him into today, he wanted to bring him into the now. 00:13:44.904 --> 00:13:52.292 And the trumpet was blowing and God was saying come up here. 00:13:53.460 --> 00:14:23.506 And the Bible says and I will show you what must take place after this the Bible says that once I was in the spirit and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it, and the one who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Ruby, a rainbow that shone like an emerald and circled the throne, take note and circled the throne, take note and circled the throne, take note and circled the throne. 00:14:23.506 --> 00:14:28.831 Usually a rainbow is just like this one side, one side. 00:14:28.831 --> 00:14:40.289 But you see the floor, the surrounding the floor was made of shining glass and so that rainbow was reflected in the glass and it was a complete circle. 00:14:40.289 --> 00:14:51.985 Right in the middle of it was the King of Glory and God was giving this man a new perspective of himself, and God was saying this is who I am. 00:14:51.985 --> 00:14:56.187 Surrounding the throne were 24 other thrones. 00:14:56.187 --> 00:14:57.369 Tell your neighbor 24. 00:14:57.369 --> 00:15:00.605 Tell your neighbor, this is 2024. 00:15:00.605 --> 00:15:05.908 Hallelujah, and seated on them were 24 elders. 00:15:05.908 --> 00:15:09.849 They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. 00:15:09.849 --> 00:15:15.110 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. 00:15:15.110 --> 00:15:17.807 In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. 00:15:17.807 --> 00:15:19.666 These are the seven spirits of God. 00:15:20.100 --> 00:15:21.063 First four to verse 11. 00:15:21.063 --> 00:15:27.868 The angels were crying, they were praising God, and this is what they were saying in verse 11. 00:15:27.868 --> 00:15:29.264 If you can just take me to verse 11. 00:15:29.264 --> 00:15:44.770 You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created some things, all things, and by your will they were created and have their being. 00:15:44.770 --> 00:15:52.188 In other words, john was saying something that blew his mind Out of the darkness, light was shining. 00:15:52.188 --> 00:16:00.707 I'm saying out of your darkness, light is going to shine in the name of Jesus Christ, and where God steps, things begin to happen. 00:16:00.707 --> 00:16:05.206 Where God steps, things change and so possibilities begin to happen. 00:16:05.206 --> 00:16:07.104 Look at your neighbor. 00:16:07.144 --> 00:16:13.605 This year is my year of possibilities, three possibilities we want to talk about. 00:16:13.605 --> 00:16:21.466 Number one the possibility of revelation, possibility of new revelation. 00:16:21.466 --> 00:16:24.245 Number two possibility of new opportunities. 00:16:24.245 --> 00:16:31.506 Number three possibility of new favor, revelation, opportunities, favor. 00:16:31.506 --> 00:16:32.761 And there's much more. 00:16:32.761 --> 00:16:34.287 But today I want to talk about three of them. 00:16:34.287 --> 00:16:40.489 So the first one is the revelation, the revelation of somebody called Jesus Christ. 00:16:40.489 --> 00:16:46.547 You know, sometimes you think you know Jesus, and then an akush tua, suddenly you realize you actually did not know him. 00:16:46.547 --> 00:16:48.586 May heesh tua you this year. 00:16:48.586 --> 00:16:51.405 I am saying may heesh tua you this year. 00:16:51.405 --> 00:16:53.583 May he surprise you this year. 00:16:53.583 --> 00:17:00.524 Maybe last year you thought that Jesus just does things this way, he does things that way, he does things this way, but suddenly something happened. 00:17:00.524 --> 00:17:02.405 A new revelation shows up. 00:17:02.405 --> 00:17:11.523 I'm praying that God will reveal himself in a new way in your life in 2024, in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:17:12.980 --> 00:17:17.530 For Peter, jesus suddenly shows himself as the provider. 00:17:17.530 --> 00:17:24.192 The Bible says when Peter was sitting there, jesus comes and he says Peter, excuse me, can I use your boat? 00:17:24.192 --> 00:17:26.084 And Peter, that time he has just given up. 00:17:26.084 --> 00:17:27.106 He's just feeling life. 00:17:27.106 --> 00:17:28.411 Life is not good to him. 00:17:28.411 --> 00:17:31.336 So he tells Jesus you can use it, I'm not using it, just use it. 00:17:31.336 --> 00:17:32.300 It's okay, just use it. 00:17:32.300 --> 00:17:34.823 So Jesus steps in the boat. 00:17:34.823 --> 00:17:36.327 May Jesus step in your boat. 00:17:36.327 --> 00:17:38.545 May Jesus step in your boat. 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:47.002 Jesus steps into that boat, gives a short sermon and, by the way, pastor Simon, jesus sometimes did not give short summons, he gave long summons. 00:17:47.002 --> 00:17:48.406 One time he preached for three days. 00:17:48.406 --> 00:17:53.950 Hello, nobody went for lunch, nobody went for supper. 00:17:53.950 --> 00:17:56.428 After three days they were seriously hungry. 00:17:56.428 --> 00:17:58.644 Tell your neighbor, I will come and eat your food. 00:17:58.644 --> 00:18:10.944 So, but Jesus revealed himself for them that day and told them I am the bread of life For Peter. 00:18:11.184 --> 00:18:13.890 He shows up and then tells Peter, launch into the deep. 00:18:13.890 --> 00:18:15.653 Launch into the deep. 00:18:15.653 --> 00:18:18.708 Peter says but I've been fishing the whole night, I've done my best. 00:18:18.708 --> 00:18:23.287 And let me tell somebody here Jesus has showed up. 00:18:23.287 --> 00:18:25.832 Cast that net. 00:18:25.832 --> 00:18:38.494 Tell your neighbor Hallelujah, cast this net in Jesus name, amen. 00:18:38.494 --> 00:18:39.481 He says. 00:18:39.481 --> 00:18:42.609 But I've been doing it, I've been doing it, I've been doing it at the best level. 00:18:42.609 --> 00:18:52.728 But then Peter said but because you have said it, but because you have said there is an open door, I will walk through it. 00:18:52.728 --> 00:18:55.685 Because you have said it, I'll do something. 00:18:55.685 --> 00:19:05.563 He casts the net very casually, but when he brings it up, it is full of fish, so much fish. 00:19:05.563 --> 00:19:12.027 Some of them are just jumping up and down and Peter is looking at that and says what just happened? 00:19:12.027 --> 00:19:15.228 This is going to be some of your experiences this month. 00:19:15.228 --> 00:19:19.570 You are going to see them and say what just happened. 00:19:19.570 --> 00:19:22.710 Let me tell you this, instead of a way factor. 00:19:22.710 --> 00:19:24.698 Way, way, way, way, way, way. 00:19:24.698 --> 00:19:27.708 You are about to have a wow factor. 00:19:27.708 --> 00:19:32.829 Something is about to change in your life, in Jesus name. 00:19:33.619 --> 00:19:37.911 It was at that time Peter realized that when they put a fish in his boat, it was sinking. 00:19:37.911 --> 00:19:41.970 And he told the other guys hey, sons of Zebedee, come and help us. 00:19:41.970 --> 00:19:43.884 That's when partnerships began. 00:19:43.884 --> 00:19:47.865 Pastor Simon, I'm telling you, god is going to bless you so much. 00:19:47.865 --> 00:19:49.730 You are going to create a partnership. 00:19:49.730 --> 00:19:56.231 You are going to ask for other people to come and assist you and help you, because Jesus showed up. 00:19:56.231 --> 00:19:58.404 Jesus showed up. 00:19:58.404 --> 00:20:04.251 May Jesus show up at your shoreline in Jesus. 00:20:04.251 --> 00:20:05.746 May he step into your boat. 00:20:05.746 --> 00:20:07.865 Oh, that boat was empty. 00:20:07.865 --> 00:20:09.741 Those nets had nothing. 00:20:09.741 --> 00:20:22.192 But in a moment of time, in a season, season of possibilities I just walked in for these guys and Peter felt so unworthy. 00:20:22.192 --> 00:20:27.044 He said Jesus, leave me alone, go away, I don't deserve this. 00:20:27.044 --> 00:20:29.928 And Jesus said you think I've done something big. 00:20:29.928 --> 00:20:34.347 Let me tell you this From today, I will help you catch man. 00:20:34.347 --> 00:20:37.709 You've been catching fish, but I'm taking you to the next level. 00:20:37.709 --> 00:20:43.183 Tell your neighbor you're going to the next level, in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:20:43.183 --> 00:20:48.510 New season, new possibilities in Jesus. 00:20:48.510 --> 00:20:52.625 It doesn't matter what just happened the other day, I'm telling you something is about to shift. 00:20:53.980 --> 00:21:04.094 Pastor Simon, for 40 miserable days, the children of Israel suffered under the threats of Goliath. 00:21:04.094 --> 00:21:06.365 Every day they woke up. 00:21:06.365 --> 00:21:09.808 Goliath is coming and says you guys, I'm going to kill you. 00:21:09.808 --> 00:21:12.644 Nothing is going to happen to you, I'm going to finish. 00:21:12.644 --> 00:21:12.743 You. 00:21:12.743 --> 00:21:14.164 Give me somebody I can fight with. 00:21:14.164 --> 00:21:15.962 The brothers of David. 00:21:15.962 --> 00:21:20.153 They were soldiers, they were mighty men, they were skilled kings. 00:21:20.153 --> 00:21:21.223 Saw could do nothing. 00:21:21.223 --> 00:21:22.701 Everything was done. 00:21:22.701 --> 00:21:31.791 Let me tell you this God can change a season and one day, out of nowhere, david is sent to take food to his brothers. 00:21:31.791 --> 00:21:35.346 He was not being sent to go fight, he was just going to take food to the brothers. 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:41.612 What they didn't know is that God was going to use a 17-year-old boy to shift the situation. 00:21:41.612 --> 00:21:52.868 I'm talking to some of the young people here that God is going to use you to shift the situation of this country of Kenya, and it can start today, in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:21:52.868 --> 00:21:56.604 If you can just catch the vision today, somebody better give God a big hand. 00:21:56.604 --> 00:21:58.924 In the name of Jesus Christ. 00:21:58.924 --> 00:22:15.950 Maybe some of the challenges the government is going through, that solution is being held by a 17-year-old boy, a 17-year-old girl, is walking around with a solution not only for this nation, not only for this region, not only for this continent, but for the global scene. 00:22:15.950 --> 00:22:18.967 Somebody is walking with a solution that the world is looking for. 00:22:18.967 --> 00:22:24.644 Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor I am that person In the name of Jesus Christ. 00:22:24.644 --> 00:22:27.045 So David is just walking. 00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:30.990 Then suddenly he sees his brothers, and the brothers start tongue-warring him. 00:22:30.990 --> 00:22:32.967 I mean, what is the word tongue-warring in English? 00:22:32.967 --> 00:22:36.048 They start saying, oh, but what have you come to do? 00:22:36.048 --> 00:22:42.428 Let me tell you this Some of you are carrying a vision and some people are going to stop you and say what are you thinking about? 00:22:42.428 --> 00:22:49.703 We've tried those things, we have been there, we have done this, we have done that. 00:22:49.703 --> 00:22:55.028 Let me tell you this Some people will try to snuff out your vision. 00:22:55.028 --> 00:22:57.385 And they told him what are you coming to do? 00:22:57.385 --> 00:23:04.903 Go back to your few sheep, few sheep, few sheep. 00:23:04.903 --> 00:23:10.406 The boy would have run back, but the boy is sitting there saying what is happening. 00:23:10.406 --> 00:23:12.144 They say but can you see Goliath? 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:35.637 At that moment Goliath shows up and Goliath is screaming, goliath is shouting, and then David looks at him and looks at the guy and says who is this guy who is defined the God of the armies of heaven, not who is defined David, not who is defined King Saul, who is defined the king that we saw. 00:23:35.637 --> 00:23:40.619 In other words, this guy was looking at Jesus Christ, the revealed one. 00:23:40.619 --> 00:23:42.086 You see the possibility of revelation. 00:23:42.086 --> 00:23:45.442 He knew who Jesus was when he was brought to King Saul. 00:23:45.442 --> 00:23:47.874 He told King Saul by the way, I can kill this guy. 00:23:47.874 --> 00:23:51.308 And King Saul says this man has been a warrior from his youth. 00:23:51.308 --> 00:23:53.316 You cannot handle him. 00:23:53.316 --> 00:24:01.547 And David says by the way, when I was taking care of the sheep, one of the lions came and I grabbed the lion, tore it apart. 00:24:01.547 --> 00:24:03.113 Another time a bear showed up. 00:24:03.113 --> 00:24:14.817 I tore it apart and then he said the God who helped me kill the lion, the God who helped me kill the bear, is the same God who is going to cause this giant to come down. 00:24:15.441 --> 00:24:25.259 Let me tell you this I don't know what you fought last year, I don't know what grabbed you last year, but the God who was with you last year is the same God who was with you this year. 00:24:25.259 --> 00:24:27.690 And your goliath is coming down. 00:24:27.690 --> 00:24:30.018 I'm saying your goliath is coming down. 00:24:30.018 --> 00:24:33.208 Your goliath is coming down in Jesus' name. 00:24:33.208 --> 00:24:46.394 And you know that same day, David said to goliath you come to me with spear and with sword, you come to me with javelin and spear, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts. 00:24:46.394 --> 00:24:51.009 And today, let me give you the agenda I'm going to cut off your head. 00:24:51.009 --> 00:24:56.674 After I've cut off your head, I'm going to give your body to the kakas, to the vultures. 00:24:56.674 --> 00:25:03.073 Read his agenda finished what goliath was going to be before he went through one stone. 00:25:04.234 --> 00:25:14.736 Let me tell you this, before you go too far into this month God will have sorted your goliath in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. 00:25:14.736 --> 00:25:15.479 Why? 00:25:15.479 --> 00:25:17.906 Because you have seen God in a new way. 00:25:17.906 --> 00:25:25.351 This God that John the revelator saw is the same God who is present today in your life. 00:25:25.351 --> 00:25:26.835 Who is this Jesus? 00:25:26.835 --> 00:25:33.290 And Jesus is saying behold, forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. 00:25:33.290 --> 00:25:39.732 Behold, I am doing a new thing new season, new possibilities. 00:25:39.732 --> 00:25:41.922 See God from a different angle. 00:25:41.922 --> 00:25:43.385 Look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor. 00:25:43.385 --> 00:25:45.169 Look at God from a different angle. 00:25:45.169 --> 00:25:52.128 Tell them again Hallelujah. 00:25:53.191 --> 00:25:55.056 Mary and Martha are believed. 00:25:55.056 --> 00:25:59.386 Lazarus was a good friend of Jesus, but Jesus didn't come. 00:25:59.386 --> 00:26:05.439 Jesus never even sent a WhatsApp message, hello During Matanga. 00:26:05.439 --> 00:26:11.405 He didn't come During the funeral service, he didn't show up During the burial. 00:26:11.405 --> 00:26:12.369 He didn't come. 00:26:12.369 --> 00:26:22.057 He comes four days later when everybody has gone back to their places, mary and Martha sitting there wondering Jesus really let us down. 00:26:22.057 --> 00:26:34.776 But you see, jesus wanted Mary and Martha to see him in a new angle and that is why, when Jesus came, jesus said I am the resurrection and the life. 00:26:34.776 --> 00:26:47.356 He needed them to see that part of him, that he's not just a Joseph son, he's not just a carpenter, he's not just a miracle worker, he is the resurrection and the life. 00:26:47.356 --> 00:26:50.737 Then he told Mary and Martha where have you laid him? 00:26:50.737 --> 00:26:52.204 And they said come and see. 00:26:52.726 --> 00:26:55.050 Jesus comes to the tomb and he's told. 00:26:55.050 --> 00:26:57.035 Then he tells them remove the stone. 00:26:57.035 --> 00:27:03.766 Let me tell you this the stone was not being removed so that Jesus could go in. 00:27:03.766 --> 00:27:06.913 The stone needed to be removed so that Lazarus could come out. 00:27:06.913 --> 00:27:08.306 Today I'm talking to you. 00:27:08.306 --> 00:27:10.352 I'm saying remove the stone of unbelief. 00:27:10.352 --> 00:27:15.417 Something amazing is about to come out of your life, in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:27:15.417 --> 00:27:18.307 Something new is about to come out of your life. 00:27:18.307 --> 00:27:19.952 It's about to raise. 00:27:19.952 --> 00:27:20.815 Raise from the dead. 00:27:21.236 --> 00:27:24.573 And so Jesus, the Mary and Martha say oh, you cannot do that. 00:27:24.573 --> 00:27:25.736 The body's thinking. 00:27:25.736 --> 00:27:29.634 You see, their vision was it is over, it is over. 00:27:29.634 --> 00:27:32.330 Louede, louede. 00:27:32.330 --> 00:27:33.473 It is over. 00:27:33.473 --> 00:27:35.689 Louede, louede, louede. 00:27:35.689 --> 00:27:39.056 Let me tell you it is not over until God says it is over. 00:27:39.056 --> 00:27:40.607 Come on, somebody. 00:27:40.607 --> 00:27:43.339 It is not over until God says it is over. 00:27:43.339 --> 00:27:44.965 Come on, let's give God a big hand. 00:27:44.965 --> 00:27:48.391 Jesus' name, jesus' name. 00:27:50.433 --> 00:28:01.217 So Jesus, the stone is rolled and Jesus speaks and shouts in a very loud voice, says Lazarus, come forth. 00:28:01.217 --> 00:28:14.846 I'm so glad he said Lazarus, because if he had just said come forth, everybody in that graveyard Would have come out. 00:28:14.846 --> 00:28:21.347 But let me tell you this God has a specific, custom made solution just for you. 00:28:21.347 --> 00:28:23.152 He knows your name. 00:28:23.152 --> 00:28:25.036 Tell your neighbor, god knows my name. 00:28:25.036 --> 00:28:27.407 Hallelujah. 00:28:27.407 --> 00:28:29.656 And he said Lazarus, come out. 00:28:29.656 --> 00:28:40.178 No matter where Lazarus was, whether he was in heaven, somewhere, he suddenly had a voice saying Lazarus, come forth. 00:28:40.178 --> 00:28:47.847 And that voice brought him back and he came to life. 00:28:49.130 --> 00:28:56.332 Now they knew that Jesus is not just a carpenter, he's the resurrection, he's the life. 00:28:56.332 --> 00:28:58.876 May that be your revelation today. 00:28:58.876 --> 00:29:13.294 May that be your revelation today, and no matter what you're going through right now some of us may be going through the valley of the shadow of death God is saying you shall fear no evil, for I am with you, thy road and thy staff. 00:29:13.294 --> 00:29:14.847 They comfort me. 00:29:14.847 --> 00:29:17.694 Hallelujah, god is there. 00:29:17.694 --> 00:29:19.288 God will see you through. 00:29:19.288 --> 00:29:25.355 You're not just going into a valley, you're going through the valley, you're coming out on the other side. 00:29:25.355 --> 00:29:28.509 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 00:29:28.509 --> 00:29:33.906 New season, new possibilities. 00:29:34.690 --> 00:29:37.707 But I want to say very quickly about opportunities. 00:29:37.707 --> 00:29:38.871 Tell your neighbor opportunities. 00:29:38.871 --> 00:29:42.752 Let me tell you this the amazing opportunities coming your way. 00:29:42.752 --> 00:29:47.715 Let me read this verse Revelation 3, verse 7 to 8. 00:29:47.715 --> 00:29:52.516 The Bible says this very quickly Revelation 3, verse 7 to 8. 00:29:53.125 --> 00:29:58.993 This is the message to the church in Philadelphia, to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. 00:29:58.993 --> 00:30:05.348 Right, these are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. 00:30:05.348 --> 00:30:09.377 What he opens, no one can shut. 00:30:09.377 --> 00:30:12.511 What he shuts, no one can open. 00:30:12.511 --> 00:30:13.775 Now listen to what he says in verse 8. 00:30:13.775 --> 00:30:23.589 I know your deeds, see, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. 00:30:23.589 --> 00:30:29.875 I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 00:30:29.875 --> 00:30:34.367 Let me say that verse 8 one more time, because new opportunities are coming your way. 00:30:34.367 --> 00:30:36.905 I'm saying new opportunities are coming my way. 00:30:36.905 --> 00:30:38.871 He says verse 8. 00:30:38.871 --> 00:30:39.834 Just go to verse 8. 00:30:39.834 --> 00:30:44.855 At the beginning, verse 8, verse 7, or pick it in from verse 7. 00:30:44.855 --> 00:30:47.089 Let me start with verse 7. 00:30:47.089 --> 00:30:55.411 To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, Right these words of him, who is holy, true, who holds the key of David what he opens, no one can shut. 00:30:55.411 --> 00:30:56.894 What he shuts, no one can open. 00:30:56.894 --> 00:30:58.669 Then he says I know your deeds. 00:30:58.669 --> 00:31:00.555 See, I have placed. 00:31:00.555 --> 00:31:02.368 See, I have placed. 00:31:02.368 --> 00:31:03.451 I have placed. 00:31:03.451 --> 00:31:04.494 I have placed. 00:31:04.494 --> 00:31:05.788 He has placed. 00:31:05.788 --> 00:31:06.892 You're not going to place. 00:31:06.892 --> 00:31:07.914 He has placed. 00:31:07.914 --> 00:31:09.410 He's giving you that opportunity. 00:31:09.410 --> 00:31:10.934 He's giving you that opportunity. 00:31:10.934 --> 00:31:11.969 He has placed. 00:31:11.969 --> 00:31:12.992 He has placed. 00:31:12.992 --> 00:31:14.076 He has placed. 00:31:14.076 --> 00:31:16.366 He has placed an opportunity before you. 00:31:21.545 --> 00:31:28.367 Rebecca had wanted to be married for a long time but nobody came. 00:31:28.367 --> 00:31:29.230 How? 00:31:29.230 --> 00:31:39.393 The person Rebecca was supposed to get married to was not in her vicinity, was not in her locality. 00:31:39.393 --> 00:31:58.194 Hello, what she didn't know is that in her prayers, god located a man called Abraham and Abraham said to his servant, eliezer, go back to my people, get a wife for my son Isaac. 00:31:58.194 --> 00:32:06.633 That particular morning, when Rebecca woke up, she didn't know that God was going to place an opportunity in front of her. 00:32:06.633 --> 00:32:16.007 She came with a picture or whatever vessel she was carrying and she was walking. 00:32:16.007 --> 00:32:19.515 Normal duties, a normal day. 00:32:19.515 --> 00:32:22.647 Go to the river, get water, come back. 00:32:22.647 --> 00:32:27.269 She didn't know that Eliezer had made a prayer and Eliezer had prayed. 00:32:27.269 --> 00:32:31.261 Oh God, guide me when I reach this place. 00:32:31.261 --> 00:32:46.353 I don't know these women, I don't know which girl, but God, if there's a lady who will stop and ask me for a drink of water, that will be the lady you want for Isaac. 00:32:47.253 --> 00:32:54.509 Rebecca didn't know God was about to place an opportunity in front of her that she had never experienced. 00:32:54.509 --> 00:33:00.914 And so, on that particular day, eliezer is sitting there and she comes, just her normal duties. 00:33:00.914 --> 00:33:06.556 I want to talk to somebody in your normal duties, keep doing them. 00:33:06.556 --> 00:33:18.048 But God is about to place an opportunity in that situation, maybe in your law firm, maybe in your business, maybe in your teaching career. 00:33:18.048 --> 00:33:21.747 Just go along, do what you do, don't try to do things differently. 00:33:21.747 --> 00:33:29.167 But God is about to show up, he's about to put an opportunity in your hand that is going to take you to the next level. 00:33:29.167 --> 00:33:33.506 And so, when she bends, she says Rebecca stops. 00:33:33.506 --> 00:33:35.230