Speaker 1: We want to read the scripture today, isaiah 55.1-6.
Speaker 1: You can say Isiah, isiah, isiah.
Speaker 1: The same book, isaiah 55.1-6.
Speaker 1: Very interesting scriptures.
Speaker 1: The Bible says come, tell your neighbor, come, come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters.
Speaker 1: And you who have no money, come, look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor that is a good one, amen.
Speaker 1: And you who have no money, come, buy and eat.
Speaker 1: Come, buy wine and milk, without money, without cost.
Speaker 1: Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Speaker 1: Listen, listen to me and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fair.
Speaker 1: Give ear and come to me, listen that you may live.
Speaker 1: I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
Speaker 1: See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.
Speaker 1: Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you Because of the Lord, your God, the holy one of Israel, for he has endured you with splendor.
Speaker 1: Seek the Lord while he may be found, call on him while he is near.
Speaker 1: This is God's word and God's people say Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: We may be seated in God's presence as we prepare to hear God speak to us.
Speaker 1: Let us pray, father, as we settle ourselves in your presence.
Speaker 1: We have had a wonderful time just worshiping you and celebrating you, and we thank you that you are in our midst.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that you inhabit the praises of your people, and so we thank you for those who are right here in person, those in the pavilion, those in the overflow, those watching us online, wherever they may be.
Speaker 1: Bring us and bring our spirit together, bring our minds at your feet and, father, speak to us.
Speaker 1: Pastor Ambrose will be speaking, but, lord, above his voice, may your voice be heard, may your word come through and, father, may you be glorified in this service as you minister to people coming from different directions, different issues, different challenges, but God, your word, locating them and setting them up for a testimony.
Speaker 1: So thank you, father, for hearing our prayer and my prayer, because I have prayed in Jesus name and God's people say amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Now, those who are still coming to Parklands recently and you're still trying to figure out what we are talking about this month we are unveiling the theme vision for 2024.
Speaker 1: We have already said that this is the year the Lord's uplifted open door and it is a door.
Speaker 1: We already talked about this door.
Speaker 1: This door is a person.
Speaker 1: His name is who, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Because he said I am the door.
Speaker 1: So Jesus says it.
Speaker 1: So if you don't believe me, let me just read what he said in John, chapter 10, in verse seven.
Speaker 1: This is what Jesus said talking to the Pharisees who are trying to argue about who he is.
Speaker 1: Therefore, jesus said again, very truly I tell you I am what I am, the gate.
Speaker 1: Niv says gate.
Speaker 1: Now let me say it, read it in the New King James Version.
Speaker 1: In the New King James Version it says then Jesus said to them again, most assuredly I said to you, I am what I am the door of the ship.
Speaker 1: He goes on to say in the next verse all who ever came before me are thieves and robbers.
Speaker 1: But the ship did not hear them.
Speaker 1: Then, verse nine, he says again I am the door.
Speaker 1: If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
Speaker 1: So Jesus is the door.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, when John was seeing the vision in Revelation so let me go to Revelation, chapter four, verse one he has already had a voice speaking, but then now he sees a door, revelation's four one.
Speaker 1: After these things, I looked and behold a door standing open in heaven.
Speaker 1: Now, this door, you don't need to knock.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this door, you don't need to knock.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you don't need to knock.
Speaker 1: The door is what it's open.
Speaker 1: So there's a door standing open in heaven and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet, speaking with me, saying come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in the next verse immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne set in heaven and one sat on the throne.
Speaker 1: Then he saw this lamb, he saw the lion of Judah, he saw Jesus.
Speaker 1: So we are saying that Jesus is the door.
Speaker 1: Now the Bible says immediately he found himself in the spirit and that's why we are saying that this year, acceleration will happen.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you're accelerating in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: This afternoon we are going to talk about the response to the open door.
Speaker 1: How do you respond to Jesus?
Speaker 1: Who is the open door?
Speaker 1: Because Jesus has given the invitation.
Speaker 1: He has said come, and he has said come up here.
Speaker 1: And the amazing thing is he's saying come up here because many of us are flying too low.
Speaker 1: Hello, we are flying too low and God is saying come up here.
Speaker 1: Down there, you're going to hit trees, you're going to hit mountains, you're going to crash.
Speaker 1: Come up here.
Speaker 1: It's a new level, it's a new place, it's a new season, and earlier we said a new season with new possibilities.
Speaker 1: One thing I wrote down that I wanted to say to you is this this year, we are not walking into this year blindly.
Speaker 1: Let me say that again we are not walking into this year blindly.
Speaker 1: Number two we are not walking into this year with human insight.
Speaker 1: We're not trying to figure things out with our own brains.
Speaker 1: Number three we are not walking into this year with unbelief.
Speaker 1: Unbelief can be very dangerous because it paralyzes the power of God in your life.
Speaker 1: When I say unbelief, I'm talking about the attitude the people in Nazareth had to Jesus.
Speaker 1: The Bible says when Jesus went to Nazareth, he could not do many miracles because of the people's unbelief.
Speaker 1: Why Nazareth?
Speaker 1: Nazareth was a place he had grown up in.
Speaker 1: He played football there, he went to school there.
Speaker 1: This place, in our language we say Alikua Mta, hello, alikua Kwa Keja.
Speaker 1: He was Kwa Mta.
Speaker 1: People knew and understood him.
Speaker 1: Then he says I can perform miracles.
Speaker 1: They say I'm not a Nazareth, so unbelief broke, they are not receiving.
Speaker 1: They could not go through that door.
Speaker 1: But the next door was a city called Kapa Naum.
Speaker 1: Now, kapa Naum is a very interesting word because it is made of two Hebrew words Kapa and Naum.
Speaker 1: Kapa Naum, kapa, kapa.
Speaker 1: If you ever see Jews walking around, they have a small kakofi, apa.
Speaker 1: It is called a kapa, kapa is a kava.
Speaker 1: The word kapa in Hebrew just means to cover, and so when you hear the celebration of the Jews, yom kipur, yom kipur that word yom in Hebrew means day Kipur, or kapa means a kava.
Speaker 1: Yom kipur means the day of atonement.
Speaker 1: That was the day when the Jews would come together in one year and they would bring their sins and everything they have done and on that day animals would be killed and the blood would cover their sins so that when God looked at them their sins were covered.
Speaker 1: It was the day called yom kipur From the word kapa, kapa.
Speaker 1: Hello, because that word, that small kapa, sometimes looks like somebody who does not have hair.
Speaker 1: So in Kisweli we say kipara, kapa, munasemah I'm not a Twitcher Kapa, kipa, kapa or kipur, it's just the same thing to cover.
Speaker 1: So kapa naum, which is kapa to cover naum means comfort.
Speaker 1: So in that city was they were covered with comfort and in their being covered with comfort they were able to receive Jesus and enter the door.
Speaker 1: So in kapa, naum, many miracles happened In 2024, many miracles happened Because we are not walking and looking at Jesus with unbelief.
Speaker 1: So this year we are walking.
Speaker 1: We are not walking through this year without blindly.
Speaker 1: We are not walking into this year with human insight.
Speaker 1: We are not walking into this year with unbelief.
Speaker 1: Instead, we must walk into this year with revelation.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor revelation.
Speaker 1: Revelation is when you've been listening to something and it is just you're trying to figure it out and you're trying to understand what are they saying, and then there's something we call ping.
Speaker 1: The light comes on Because suddenly you have seen it from an angle you did not expect, and that is a revelation.
Speaker 1: May God give you that revelation in 2024.
Speaker 1: But we are talking about how do we respond to this open door when it comes to us.
Speaker 1: Three areas how do we respond to a divine call?
Speaker 1: Number two, how do we respond to a divine invitation and how do we receive or respond to a divine assignment?
Speaker 1: Those are the three things John experienced on that island of Patmos.
Speaker 1: There was a divine call, there was a divine invitation and there was a divine assignment.
Speaker 1: And let me say this as we hear God's word this year, that call will always be there and God is saying, like we read in Isaiah 55, come, you who have no money, come, come by, come eat, come drink, come.
Speaker 1: God is giving us a call, he's inviting us.
Speaker 1: But I want to say this as humans, we respond in different ways when something like that comes to us.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you some examples of people who responded to this call.
Speaker 1: I want to start with Gideon.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Judges, chapter 6, verse 11.
Speaker 1: He had a call, an opportunity that God was giving to him.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in verse 11, the angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Offra that belonged to Joash the Beeserite, where his son, gideon, was threshing wheat in a wine press to keep it from the Midianites Thelonaba.
Speaker 1: Midianites Now Midianites were crazy people.
Speaker 1: These guys were warriors, they ravaged everything and they kept giving the Israel a very difficult time.
Speaker 1: There's one time, you know, god even commanded Moses kill all the Midianites, kill all the male, kill them, get them off this land, because they were fighting against the people of God.
Speaker 1: It is interesting for you to note that Midian came from a very interesting place.
Speaker 1: If I could ask you a question, where do you think the Midianites came from?
Speaker 1: Egypt.
Speaker 1: So let me answer that for you, because you're going to give me a difficult time.
Speaker 1: Abraham had various ladies he engaged with.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: The first lady Abraham engaged with was Sarah, later to be called Sarah, later to be called Sarah, and because he spent quite some time waiting for a child and God said you're going to have many children, you're going to bless this world.
Speaker 1: This child knows, was not coming for about 25 years, because Abraham was called by God when he was 75.
Speaker 1: By the time he's 90, there was nobody coming, and so Sarah had waited for a long time and Sarah gave him a suggestion.
Speaker 1: You know the Bible says that women are suitable helpers and so God, you know, sarah says, hey, I need, I need, I need, I need to give you a suggestion.
Speaker 1: So in Genesis, chapter 16, and God had already told Abraham I'm going to bless you.
Speaker 1: It is you I'm going to bless.
Speaker 1: But the Bible says in Genesis, chapter 16, for those who just need to be reminded about this story, genesis 16, if I can get there, amen, look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor it's coming.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 1: Now, sarai, abraham's wife, had born him no children, but she had an Egyptian slave girl named Haggah.
Speaker 1: So she said to Abraham now, this was not during breakfast, this was not during dinner, this is that time that women like to talk to men, at midnight, across the pillow, hello, and hit him with an elbow Cut time, cut time.
Speaker 1: Those are dangerous times for men because men do not know what is going to come next.
Speaker 1: And so, across that pillow, she said you know the Lord.
Speaker 1: She, she said to Abraham the Lord has kept me from having children.
Speaker 1: Go sleep with my slave girl.
Speaker 1: Perhaps I can build a family through her.
Speaker 1: And Abraham, without blinking, agreed to what Sarai had said.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Abraham was a man of faith.
Speaker 1: You know, faith comes by hearing, but this time, hearing a woman speaking brought him into a big problem.
Speaker 1: Hello, so Abraham had been living in Canaan ten years.
Speaker 1: Sarai, his wife, took her Egyptian slave, haggah, and gave her to her husband to be his wife.
Speaker 1: He slept with her, haggah, and she conceived.
Speaker 1: When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.
Speaker 1: These are dramas that happen.
Speaker 1: They happen to Abraham, they happen here also.
Speaker 1: Hello, now don't look at me strangely, because those dramas happen all the time.
Speaker 1: So this is the first source.
Speaker 1: So Haggah gives a batrachal call who Ishmael?
Speaker 1: In chapter 17, God reminds Abraham I'll still give you a child through Sarah.
Speaker 1: In chapter 18, god comes and says this time next year, sarah will have a child.
Speaker 1: Sarah begins to laugh because by that time she was very old.
Speaker 1: By that time Abraham is very old.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this it is never too late until God says it is.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody here and I'm saying God is coming through for you in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: He's coming through for you.
Speaker 1: And so Sarah, thank God.
Speaker 1: She gives batrachal call Isaac.
Speaker 1: Now, depending on where you come from, people go different ways, whether it was this, was this or that.
Speaker 1: So there's Ishmael, there is who Isaac, from Ishmael, you get down and down and you have the, the Arabs and all those people, isaac.
Speaker 1: You then have the Israelites.
Speaker 1: Many years later, sarah dies and Abraham takes another lady.
Speaker 1: In her name is Ketura.
Speaker 1: Hello, one of the children of Ketura is Midian.
Speaker 1: Hello, midian.
Speaker 1: That's where the Midian I came from, and you know that that tribe just developed through the years, because after Abraham, those Isaac, after Isaac, there was Isso.
Speaker 1: And who else?
Speaker 1: Jacob had 12 sons.
Speaker 1: One of those children was Joseph.
Speaker 1: Joseph grows up, goes to Egypt, he invites his family to Egypt and they stay in Egypt for 430 years.
Speaker 1: During that time, the tribe of Midian is growing and growing and they begin to become an enemy to Israel.
Speaker 1: Now these guys ravaged Israel, and during this time of the judges, because by that time Joshua had come, they had taken over the land.
Speaker 1: And after Joshua died, the time of the judges came in.
Speaker 1: During the time of the judges, the Midianites are fighting.
Speaker 1: You know the Israelites, and Midian was feared by the Israelites.
Speaker 1: And in chapter 6 of Judges, gideon shows up and God wants to show them a new season, because they were now in places they should not be.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this sometimes life can hit you so much that now you are in a place you should not be, but God is about to relocate you.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God is about to relocate you, god is about to shift you, and Gideon finds himself in that place, and so God wants to use Gideon, and Gideon doesn't know that the new here has just started.
Speaker 1: He's still struggling with the things of the last year and I want to say to somebody here forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.
Speaker 1: Yes, there were difficult times last year, there were challenging times last year, but this is a new year, this is a new season.
Speaker 1: God is saying I am doing a new thing.
Speaker 1: Do you not perceive it?
Speaker 1: I am making a way where there seems to be no way.
Speaker 1: And so God comes to Gideon through the angel, and he says this when the angel judges now do you understand where the media nights came from?
Speaker 1: When those quizzes come, you better be ready to answer.
Speaker 1: When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said the Lord is with you.
Speaker 1: Now, remember, this is an angel, this is a powerful warrior, and he's saying the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.
Speaker 1: And now this is the response of Gideon.
Speaker 1: This is how he responded to an open door.
Speaker 1: An open door to bring down the media nights, an open door to be the solution that the world is looking for now.
Speaker 1: This is how he responded.
Speaker 1: He said pardon me, my Lord.
Speaker 1: Gideon replied but if the Lord is with us, if the Lord is with us, he's saying that the Lord is with you, mighty warrior, he says.
Speaker 1: But if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?
Speaker 1: Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?
Speaker 1: But now the Lord has abandoned us.
Speaker 1: You know you're now blaming God.
Speaker 1: The Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of who, of median.
Speaker 1: Then the Lord just ignored his statement and the Lord turned to him and said go in the strength you have and save Israel out of median's hand.
Speaker 1: Am I not sending you again?
Speaker 1: He says pardon me, my Lord?
Speaker 1: Gideon replied but how can I save Israel?
Speaker 1: My clan is the weakest in Manasseh and I am the least in my family.
Speaker 1: The Lord answered I will be with you and he will strike down all the medianites living, none alive.
Speaker 1: God is just giving him a positive message, but he has all these excuses and he says what about this?
Speaker 1: What about that?
Speaker 1: Now listen verse 17.
Speaker 1: Gideon replied okay, god, don't push me so much, but if now I have found favor in your eyes, give me what?
Speaker 1: Give me a sign that it is really you talking to me now.
Speaker 1: How many signs do you want?
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you come to the service and you're saying, oh God, give me a sign.
Speaker 1: Pastambroz is saying abcd, but give me a sign.
Speaker 1: And yet pastambroz is releasing the voice of God through his mouth and he's telling you you hear testimony, is this, this and that?
Speaker 1: Oh God, give me a sign.
Speaker 1: I need a sign.
Speaker 1: And God was so kind, tell your neighbor, god is kind.
Speaker 1: And for some of you who look for signs, I'm telling you God will, god is kind, he, he, because God wants to bless you, god really wants to bless you.
Speaker 1: You know, I need a sign.
Speaker 1: Oh God, today, when I go to church, lord, I want to meet my husband and Jehovah, god, may he have a green shirt and a red tie, father God, and yellow shoes.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: Then, amazingly, that person shows up green shirt, red tie, yellow shoes, and you know that guy's from Kittu and he said God, are you sure?
Speaker 1: Are you sure this is the person?
Speaker 1: And you really want a sign.
Speaker 1: So you're fighting God and God is saying what did you want in the first place?
Speaker 1: You want a husband or you want a shirt and shoes?
Speaker 1: God is kind, tell your neighbor, god is kind.
Speaker 1: So, for all of you who look for signs, god will indulge you.
Speaker 1: And then he says please verse 18 please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.
Speaker 1: And the Lord said I will wait until you return.
Speaker 1: Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat.
Speaker 1: Now that takes time because you have to slaughter the goat first, and from an effort of flour he made bread without cheese.
Speaker 1: Putting the meat in a basket and it's brought in a pot took nearly an hour.
Speaker 1: He brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.
Speaker 1: The angel of God said to him take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on the rock and pour out the broth.
Speaker 1: And Gideon did so.
Speaker 1: Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand.
Speaker 1: Fire fled from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread, and the angel of the Lord disappeared.
Speaker 1: Now when the Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord any all this time you didn't know.
Speaker 1: When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed alas, sovereign Lord, I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face in Asia.
Speaker 1: But the Lord said to him peace.
Speaker 1: Do not be afraid, you're not going to die.
Speaker 1: So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it the Lord of peace.
Speaker 1: That's why we get the word Jehovah Shalom the Lord is peace.
Speaker 1: To this day it stands in opera of the Abbasite.
Speaker 1: Now, ladies and gentlemen, why should it take you so long trying to understand what God is saying?
Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying we respond differently when God speaks.
Speaker 1: And today we are saying when God calls you, respond.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because God is calling you so that you can see things from a different angle, see things from a different way.
Speaker 1: You saw them last year.
Speaker 1: Gideon is saying I am the least, I am nothing.
Speaker 1: And God is saying you are a mighty warrior, you're a mighty man of valor.
Speaker 1: God is saying that is breaking out and breaking through for you.
Speaker 1: All he wants you to do is this believe it and go through that door.
Speaker 1: Believe it and go to the next level.
Speaker 1: There another, another team that really also gave God a difficult time where the 10 spies, the 10 spies, have been sent to spy the land.
Speaker 1: They they were 12, 12 spies.
Speaker 1: They go out, leaders from every tribe and they go out and they are sent when they come back with a report.
Speaker 1: This is what it says in Numbers, chapter 13.
Speaker 1: I'm reading from verse 27 the Bible says this they come back with a response.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says they gave Moses this account.
Speaker 1: We went into the land to which you sent us and it does flow with milk and honey.
Speaker 1: Here is its fruit.
Speaker 1: And then it says but now that's their response.
Speaker 1: It says but the people who live there are powerful and the cities are fortified and very large.
Speaker 1: We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Speaker 1: The Amalekites live in the Negev, the Hittites, the Jebusites, the Amorites live in the hill country and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.
Speaker 1: Then Calab silence the people before Moses and said we should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this year you will certainly do it, you are coming through in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Now listen to verse 31.
Speaker 1: But the man who had gone up with him said we do, we, we what?
Speaker 1: We can't?
Speaker 1: We can't, we can't attack those people.
Speaker 1: Then he said they are stronger than we are.
Speaker 1: And they spread among the Israelites about report, about the land they had explored.
Speaker 1: They said the land we explored devours those living.
Speaker 1: Now this particular message was sent on Facebook.
Speaker 1: So the Bible says hello, explore, devours, those living in it.
Speaker 1: All the people we saw there are of great size.
Speaker 1: So we saw the Nephilim there.
Speaker 1: The descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim.
Speaker 1: We seemed now this is a statement we seemed go back.
Speaker 1: Where is it?
Speaker 1: We seemed where In our own eyes and we looked the same to them.
Speaker 1: They were saying we seemed like what they were, like grasshoppers.
Speaker 1: Now there are three questions that God asked.
Speaker 1: The first three questions God asked humanity is simply this number one where are you?
Speaker 1: That's the first question God asked humanity.
Speaker 1: Where are you?
Speaker 1: The second question God asked is who told you?
Speaker 1: These guys are saying we seemed like grasshoppers.
Speaker 1: Who told you?
Speaker 1: That is why this year we must read the word of God and find out what did God actually say?
Speaker 1: Because sometimes we do things that others told us.
Speaker 1: So God is asking Adam who told you that you're naked?
Speaker 1: Who told you?
Speaker 1: Who told you that you're poor?
Speaker 1: Who told you that you cannot do it?
Speaker 1: Who told you that you cannot live in such and such a place?
Speaker 1: Who told you cannot drive such and such a car?
Speaker 1: Who told you you cannot go into a certain hotel who told you we seemed like grasshoppers in their eyes and also in our own eyes, and it paralyzed them.
Speaker 1: And I want to tell you this a very sad thing happened because they were so close to cross the border, so close to cross the border, but because of their unbelief and because of how they saw themselves, god returned them back on this side and enabled them to walk around for 40 years until that whole group died, so that the people who were 20 years and below were now the ones who are allowed to see the promised land because they did not have the ideology of the past history.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at somebody and saying forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.
Speaker 1: God is saying see yourself in a new way, gideon, you are a mighty man of valor.
Speaker 1: See yourself like God sees you, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: See yourself in a different way.
Speaker 1: You are going through, you're going higher.
Speaker 1: A divine call.
Speaker 1: But I like another guy who saw himself very differently.
Speaker 1: He had a different response.
Speaker 1: He did not argue, he did not give excuses.
Speaker 1: You know, he saw things in a different way.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor we have to see things in a different way.
Speaker 1: Why are you seeing things in a different way.
Speaker 1: This guy is Bartimaeus Bartimaeus, mark 10, 46.
Speaker 1: Let me say this very quickly because I believe God wants to say something to us.
Speaker 1: Bartimaeus, this was his attitude, the Bible says.
Speaker 1: Then they came to Jericho as Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city.
Speaker 1: A blind man, bartimaeus, which means son of Timayus.
Speaker 1: By the way, the word Timayus means honorable, okay so, bar bar, timayus, bar team bar bar.
Speaker 1: Bar bar does not mean a bar.
Speaker 1: Bar is an Aramaic word, means son, son of, like the Hebrew say Ben Ben Jamin, son of Bartimaeus.
Speaker 1: He was a son of an honorable person was sitting by the roadside, begging in a very dishonorable position.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this you may be in a very dishonorable position.
Speaker 1: God wants to take you back to your honorable position in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Now he's begging, he's sitting there.
Speaker 1: When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout huh, I'm telling you, he got ready.
Speaker 1: He said this thing is not passing me by.
Speaker 1: He began to shout Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 1: Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet.
Speaker 1: Hey, and I'm telling you people, you'll hear voices, they will tell you.
Speaker 1: You cannot do this, you cannot go there, you cannot do this.
Speaker 1: Be quiet.
Speaker 1: But he shouted all the more Son of David, have mercy on me.
Speaker 1: And I like the next statement Jesus stopped.
Speaker 1: May Jesus stop for you.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may Jesus stop for you.
Speaker 1: Your response will determine whether he stops or he continues going, because sometimes Jesus will pass you, not because he's ignoring you, he just wants to know how will you respond to his passing.
Speaker 1: And for some of us he passes us and we don't care.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, sometimes we hear the thin vision and we don't care.
Speaker 1: It is just passing us.
Speaker 1: We are just passing time in church.
Speaker 1: You know it is a thing we do on Sundays.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this God has an amazing vision for you.
Speaker 1: God is opening doors.
Speaker 1: Opportunities are coming your way.
Speaker 1: It is an open door.
Speaker 1: But, thank God, jesus stopped and said call him.
Speaker 1: What an invitation, call him.
Speaker 1: So these guys who are saying keep quiet, now listen to what they say.
Speaker 1: So they call the blind man and they said cheer up on your feet.
Speaker 1: The same guys who are refusing you to open your mouth are saying cheer up.
Speaker 1: He's calling you Throwing.
Speaker 1: Look at that response Throwing his cloak aside, remember, he's blind.
Speaker 1: Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus and Jesus said what do you want me to do for you?
Speaker 1: Jesus asked.
Speaker 1: By the way, did Jesus know he's blind?
Speaker 1: Did he know he's blind?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God may never do anything for you until you use yourself, verbalize it.
Speaker 1: He already knows, but he wants you to say it.
Speaker 1: So he said what do you want me to do for you?
Speaker 1: Jesus asked him.
Speaker 1: The blind man said rubber, I want to see the next statement.
Speaker 1: Go, said Jesus, your faith has healed you.
Speaker 1: Immediately, immediately, immediately.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: Immediately.
Speaker 1: May you immediately show up.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may you immediately show up in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Immediately.
Speaker 1: He received his sight and followed Jesus along the road Out of a one big crowd, one guy.
Speaker 1: God is miracle.
Speaker 1: I pray out of this big crowd.
Speaker 1: You will be the person who gets out of here with a miracle.
Speaker 1: Receive it in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: But I want you to know it depends on your response.
Speaker 1: How do you respond?
Speaker 1: We're going to talk more about how other people responded, but this one was particularly to the core.
Speaker 1: God is calling you to see yourself in a different light, in a new way, like Gideon.
Speaker 1: If you read the story of Gideon later, gideon brought a great victory to Israel.
Speaker 1: May that be your portion in 2024.
Speaker 1: God will still use you with all your oh.
Speaker 1: What about this, what about that?
Speaker 1: Oh, can you give me a sign?
Speaker 1: God will still use you, but the next thing is a divine not just only a divine call, but a divine invitation.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor invitation, invitation.
Speaker 1: This particular invitation is very interesting.
Speaker 1: Let me read again Isaiah 55, verse one to two.
Speaker 1: God is inviting you in something special and he says this come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters, and you who have no money, come buy and eat.
Speaker 1: In other words, god is saying I have paid the bill.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God is saying I've paid the bill.
Speaker 1: You want to be well.
Speaker 1: I've paid the bill for you to be well.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go pay all these hospital bills.
Speaker 1: I've paid the bill.
Speaker 1: Come, I'll heal you, I will restore you.
Speaker 1: Come, the table is ready, the banquet is for you.
Speaker 1: You are a child of the king.
Speaker 1: Come.
Speaker 1: Come the invitation.
Speaker 1: It's a royal invitation.
Speaker 1: Look at this.
Speaker 1: Verses in the book of Matthew 22.
Speaker 1: There was an invitation for a wedding.
Speaker 1: Bona Sifuah, how many of you like weddings.
Speaker 1: I like weddings.
Speaker 1: Some of you are going to get married and get wedded this year.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor amen, I tell your neighbor amen.
Speaker 1: I hope you're not telling your fiance, but just tell your neighbor amen.
Speaker 1: Bona Sifuah, our weddings are amazing.
Speaker 1: So the Bible says this in Matthew 22.
Speaker 1: Jesus spoke to them again in parable, saying the kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a table it's a royal wedding Prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
Speaker 1: He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet.
Speaker 1: So the king chose particular people to come because he's royal, so he's inviting people he knows, by invitation.
Speaker 1: Only.
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to get crushed.
Speaker 1: This thing, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come.
Speaker 1: But they did what Refused, refused.
Speaker 1: How do you refuse a royal invitation?
Speaker 1: Verse four.
Speaker 1: Then he sent some more servants and said tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered and everything is ready.
Speaker 1: Come to the wedding banquet.
Speaker 1: But they paid no attention and went off One to his field, another to his business, the rest seized the seven, mistreated them and killed them.
Speaker 1: The king was enraged.
Speaker 1: He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
Speaker 1: Then he said to his servants the wedding banquet is ready, but those are invited and not deserved to come.
Speaker 1: So go to the street corners and invite the banquet to the banquet anyone you find.
Speaker 1: So the servants went out into the streets, gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God wants his banquet room filled.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God wants his banquet filled.
Speaker 1: What Field?
Speaker 1: Let me give you another version of this story in Luke, chapter 14, verse 15.
Speaker 1: I like this other version.
Speaker 1: It's a very interesting version because people give all kinds of responses.
Speaker 1: Verse 15 says this when one of those at the table with him had this, he said to Jesus blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: And Jesus replied a certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests At the time of the banquet.
Speaker 1: He sent his servant to tell those who had been invited come, for everything is now ready.
Speaker 1: But they all alike began to do up to make excuses.
Speaker 1: The first say I have just bought a field.
Speaker 1: I'm not a plotter Hello, I'm a farmer, I have found a field and I must go and see it.
Speaker 1: Do what, please excuse me.
Speaker 1: Next verse Another said I have just bought five York of Oxen and I'm on my way to try them out.
Speaker 1: By the way, oxen, these are drivers, these are big trailers, and they had just landed at the port of Mombasa and they were saying we are going to check them out and I'm on my way to try them out.
Speaker 1: Please do what, excuse me.
Speaker 1: Then there was a third one, still another said I just got, so I can't.
Speaker 1: Then the master told the servant go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in so that my house will be full.
Speaker 1: I tell you, not one of those who are invited will get a taste of my banquet.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the house is still, has a lot of room, there's a lot of room.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, the banquet hall must be filled.
Speaker 1: But you know that's how we respond.
Speaker 1: The door is open, but excuse me, god wants to bless you, excuse me, god wants to give you a new job.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, god wants to take you to a higher place.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, excuse us, excuse us, excuse us.
Speaker 1: God is saying respond in a different way.
Speaker 1: Respond come, the banquet is free.
Speaker 1: Come, it is paid for.
Speaker 1: Come, the banquet is ready.
Speaker 1: There's no fundraiser here.
Speaker 1: Come, hello.
Speaker 1: Come, come and eat, come.
Speaker 1: So this year, god is preparing a table for you in the presence of your enemies.
Speaker 1: God is going to bless you.
Speaker 1: Pastor Simon, I read this verse.
Speaker 1: It blessed my heart because I believe it is for somebody this year.
Speaker 1: Isaiah 60.
Speaker 1: , verse 10 and 11.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing verse.
Speaker 1: Let me read it for you.
Speaker 1: It says this this is the table.
Speaker 1: These are some of the things on that table.
Speaker 1: It says foreigners will rebuild your worlds.
Speaker 1: Can I read it again?
Speaker 1: When it talks about foreigners, it doesn't mean people from America or this, and that it says people who are not related to you will bless you.
Speaker 1: They will not know why they are blessing you, but they will bless you.
Speaker 1: Foreigners will rebuild your worlds and their kings will do what Will serve you.
Speaker 1: Though in anger, I struck you in favor, I will show you compassion.
Speaker 1: Now listen to this.
Speaker 1: Your gates will always stand open.
Speaker 1: They will never be shut, day or night, so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations their kings led in triumphal procession.
Speaker 1: Somebody better receive them.
Speaker 1: Your gates will remain open day and night.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: So that God can bring you the resources you need to accomplish His will and purpose.
Speaker 1: If you're sitting here and you're saying, but I really need that, you know I'm praying that even this year God may triple your salary, did I hear and amend this side, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: God is an amazing God.
Speaker 1: But they have received the miracle.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God will triple your salary, god will triple your business output.
Speaker 1: Your income is going to another grade.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: There's an upgrade happening to you now, in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Your gates will not be shut.
Speaker 1: I like those verses.
Speaker 1: Your gates will not be shut, they'll be open.
Speaker 1: Why should they be open?
Speaker 1: So that God can have access to bless you.
Speaker 1: Bless you in the city, bless you in the countryside.
Speaker 1: Bless you when you come in.
Speaker 1: Bless you when you go out.
Speaker 1: Bless the work of your hands.
Speaker 1: Work of your hands.
Speaker 1: So tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: You better work.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, no free lunch here.
Speaker 1: You better do what you better work.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, god will bless the work of your hands.
Speaker 1: Your gates open.
Speaker 1: I want to read that verse one more time.
Speaker 1: Let me read it in the amplified version and then we'll touch the last point.
Speaker 1: I want to read verse 11.
Speaker 1: Verse 11, in the amplified it says your gates will be open.
Speaker 1: How Continually.
Speaker 1: They shall not be shut day or night, so that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, whether it is in dollars or in euros or in Stalin pounds.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody now in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, even some of these currencies sometimes also go haywire, but there's a currency that stays where it is gold and silver.
Speaker 1: Do you know why that stays?
Speaker 1: Because that is the only thing that was manufactured by who, by God, anything that was manufactured by man in a dwindle Dindle.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this the Bible says that God will be your gold and silver.
Speaker 1: May God open your doors, that no man shuts them.
Speaker 1: May God come through for you now, in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: You know I'm saying that because January can be a very finaring month.
Speaker 1: By the time you're being squeezed into February, your voice has changed Because the month has done what has squeezed you.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this May your territory be enlarged.
Speaker 1: May you have breathing space.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you're being enlarged.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Your territory is being enlarged.
Speaker 1: Only God can do that.
Speaker 1: The door is open Continually, Day and night, that God may be able to access you.
Speaker 1: If you believe that, you better say I receive it.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody now in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Response how do you respond?
Speaker 1: Like Gideon, oh, I'm the least.
Speaker 1: Oh, if only God could.
Speaker 1: Oh, like these guys.
Speaker 1: Excuse me after this.
Speaker 1: Excuse me of that.
Speaker 1: But finally, why is God calling us A divine assignment?
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, there's a divine assignment.
Speaker 1: That assignment is very simple.
Speaker 1: Let me read Revelation, chapter 5, verse 9.
Speaker 1: John saw this vision in heaven and this is what he saw.
Speaker 1: This is God's agenda for us.
Speaker 1: And then he's saying this he had these people singing and they sang a new song of glorious redemption, saying this is what.
Speaker 1: Listen to what they said.
Speaker 1: They said worthy and deserving are you to take the scroll and to break its seals, for you are slain, sacrificed and with your blood, with your blood, you purchased people for God.
Speaker 1: Now, this is the assignment from every tribe.
Speaker 1: And what Language and what People and what Nations God is interested with?
Speaker 1: Every tribe.
Speaker 1: God is interested in every language.
Speaker 1: Like Pastor Simon was trying so hard to speak in Israeli, god loves every language.
Speaker 1: He also loves every people.
Speaker 1: What does he say?
Speaker 1: There are people there, people's what are different?
Speaker 1: And then what Nations?
Speaker 1: In Matthew, chapter 9, jesus is ministering to the villages.
Speaker 1: Let me read from verse 35.
Speaker 1: Listen to what he says in verse 35.
Speaker 1: He says this Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaimed the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.
Speaker 1: When he saw what the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless, like ship without a shepherd.
Speaker 1: Then he said to his disciples the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Speaker 1: Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Speaker 1: God is interested in the harvest.
Speaker 1: Our assignment is not just to go in and enjoy supper, to go in and have a good time with Jesus.
Speaker 1: God is now sending us out to get this harvest.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, all tribes, all languages, all peoples, all nations.
Speaker 1: No wonder the Bible says in Acts 1.8 you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall meet my witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this God has placed us in this world because we have an assignment to reach the harvest and bring that harvest to him.
Speaker 1: I wrote something in this book, this book, on page 71, there's something I said and this is what I said.
Speaker 1: God is saying to us.
Speaker 1: He's saying this.
Speaker 1: Page 72.
Speaker 1: He says and so I call you today to receive my word.
Speaker 1: You have been prepared as empowered, world changes.
Speaker 1: Now I call you with this mandate to come up here.
Speaker 1: The Spirit is transporting you into a new dimension of service to see and discern that which will impact and transform the world.
Speaker 1: You are my servants to carry this end-time message to the world.
Speaker 1: I have compassion for my people, for they are helpless and harassed, like sheep without a shepherd.
Speaker 1: But I have come.
Speaker 1: I will be a shepherd to them.
Speaker 1: You are my hands and my feet.
Speaker 1: You are my mouthpieces.
Speaker 1: You bring good news to the people.
Speaker 1: There is so much fake news, false doctrines, lies that bring hopelessness to my people, but I have chosen you in this season to carry my light to the nations.
Speaker 1: It is the light of my love and mercy to the nation.
Speaker 1: The harvest is indeed plentiful.
Speaker 1: You are my agents of change.
Speaker 1: God is saying who will go for us, who will speak for us, who will have compassion on our behalf when we come to church.
Speaker 1: We come to the service to be serviced.
Speaker 1: That is why it is a service, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: We put fuel, we change oil, spark plugs, all that.
Speaker 1: Can we make all these things happen?
Speaker 1: You came in very discouraged.
Speaker 1: You go out very encouraged.
Speaker 1: You come in sick.
Speaker 1: You go out healed.
Speaker 1: Why go out healed?
Speaker 1: Because you're going out to serve.
Speaker 1: And so this year, purpose to serve God, purpose to serve God Many times, like a church like this, we can become so comfortable.
Speaker 1: God has given us everything.
Speaker 1: Things are just working right.
Speaker 1: People are giving the offerings and their tithes.
Speaker 1: We have everything that we need, that sometimes we stop to realize he has given us all these things for our purpose.
Speaker 1: There is a purpose, there is a ministry to be done.
Speaker 1: If he gives us a million shillings, that million shilling is not for us to consume.
Speaker 1: There is a purpose that it needs to fulfill Out there, to reach out in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: So God is giving us an invitation.
Speaker 1: He's given us a call to see ourselves.
Speaker 1: He's given us an invitation to tell us what we have.
Speaker 1: He's given us an assignment to tell us where we need to go in Jesus' name, Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: This is your year.
Speaker 1: I don't know how 2023 worked for you, but 2024 is another year.
Speaker 1: 2 plus 0 plus 2 plus 4 is what 2024.
Speaker 1: 2 plus 0 plus 2 plus 4 is what.
Speaker 1: 8 is a number of.
Speaker 1: What New beginnings.
Speaker 1: Your new beginning has begun.
Speaker 1: I'm saying your new beginning has begun.
Speaker 1: Receive it right now.
Speaker 1: Your new beginning has begun In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: You receive that Now.
Speaker 1: Stand on your feet.
Speaker 1: God is saying what he asked Adam when are you?
Speaker 1: And Adam said oh, we are hiding.
Speaker 1: God is saying come up here, I want to bless you.
Speaker 1: Come up here.
Speaker 1: I want to do what To bless you.
Speaker 1: Come up here, I want to send you.
Speaker 1: Come up here, I want you to see things from a different angle.
Speaker 1: Come up here, I want to just enjoy having you with me.
Speaker 1: Come up here.
Speaker 1: And then God said who told you Because let me tell you this, that devil is a liar who told you?
Speaker 1: Who told you you're sick?
Speaker 1: Who told you that you're going to die young?
Speaker 1: Who told you?
Speaker 1: Who told you that your family is cursed?
Speaker 1: Who told you?
Speaker 1: Who gave you that information?
Speaker 1: What I told you in my word is this I came that you may have life and have it abundantly.
Speaker 1: I came to set the captives free.
Speaker 1: I came to open the eyes of the blind.
Speaker 1: I came to make you sit with me in the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: I came to supply all your needs according to my riches and glory.
Speaker 1: I came to do that.
Speaker 1: So who told you these things?
Speaker 1: Who told you that you're the least?
Speaker 1: Who told you you're nothing?
Speaker 1: Who told you that you're not bright?
Speaker 1: Who told you?
Speaker 1: Of course, we have been told by many things, by many people, people of authority, people who have done this.
Speaker 1: Who told you?
Speaker 1: Sometimes it is so personal who told you and God is telling Kenya as a nation who told you?
Speaker 1: And God is saying listen to me, my sheep hear my voice, they know me.
Speaker 1: I have another truth.
Speaker 1: You do not know.
Speaker 1: The devil is a liar.
Speaker 1: Today, I'm saying to somebody this is your year of victory, this is your year of breakthrough, this is your year, this is your year.
Speaker 1: Receive it, receive it, oh, but I don't have money.
Speaker 1: God is saying I'm opening the gate so that I can bring money to you, money.
Speaker 1: God is not worried about money, but if you receive Him, you receive His fullness.
Speaker 1: For you, watching online, thank God for connecting those of you in the pavilion.
Speaker 1: God bless you in the overflow.
Speaker 1: God bless you those of us in-house, in-person.
Speaker 1: God bless us.
Speaker 1: Look up, your redemption has come.
Speaker 1: There are some of you.
Speaker 1: The whole of last year you purpose to give your life to Jesus.
Speaker 1: The last year just went.
Speaker 1: God is still saying come and eat, come and receive this eternal life.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this you can receive Christ.
Speaker 1: All of us can actually receive Christ.
Speaker 1: If you have never received Christ, just like this.
Speaker 1: But God will give you opportunity to say what do you want me to do for you?
Speaker 1: One of the things we don't do here.
Speaker 1: We don't scare you to hell.
Speaker 1: Oh, I want you to know you must be saved, because how do you know that after the service you'll be hit by a car at the gate?
Speaker 1: We don't force people to get saved, we don't push, but we cause you to be thirsty.
Speaker 1: We cause you to seek God, to want God, because we serve a good God.
Speaker 1: He's not a bad God, he's a good God.
Speaker 1: He's not a God who wants you to go to hell, he's a God who wants you to go to heaven.
Speaker 1: He has prepared a place for you and all we're asking you to do is this come to the Master.
Speaker 1: Come to the Master At whatever time.
Speaker 1: It can be right now, it can be just after the service, but I'm telling you, he's been waiting for you for a long time.
Speaker 1: You're the one who is late.
Speaker 1: Hello, you're the one who is late.
Speaker 1: Don't stay sick.
Speaker 1: You need to be healed, you need to be restored.
Speaker 1: One time and I'm about to pray, just thought of this there's a lady who sent me a testimony.
Speaker 1: She said there's a year I was talking about passport and, by the way, we keep talking about passports and we'll still talk about passport and one day she had that Patsambrou was saying that next Sunday, kujena passports will pray for them and God will open doors for you.
Speaker 1: That particular Sunday she was watching online and that particular Sunday, when Patsambrou says get your passport in her house, she ran upstairs, got the passports of herself.
Speaker 1: The husband just came back with three passports.
Speaker 1: The husband was wondering what's happening but in her eagerness to crush up and to come down, she positioned herself as Patsambrou was praying for these passports.
Speaker 1: She believed God.
Speaker 1: And guess what?
Speaker 1: They went for their visas.
Speaker 1: They all got their visas.
Speaker 1: That was last year.
Speaker 1: They went to the US, visited nearly four states.
Speaker 1: They have come back and now she sent me a message and said now pasta state is good.
Speaker 1: We have applied for green cards.
Speaker 1: I said glory, they want to shift, they want to relocate.
Speaker 1: My friend, some of you are saying Kuna maali n'ayanda.
Speaker 1: Some of you have applied for green cards and you didn't get anything.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God has a plan for you, whether in Kenya, the US or in Russia.
Speaker 1: Don't laugh, that's where Dickon Kunch went and he knows very good Russian.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, he's in our midst.
Speaker 1: God is opening doors.
Speaker 1: But your attitude, your response to that invitation, god will look at it and say this one really wants what they are asking for and God will come through for you.
Speaker 1: God will come through for you.
Speaker 1: I'm saying God will come through for you, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So check your attitude, check your response, how you respond to God.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this this year will not go very far before your miracle comes.
Speaker 1: Before your miracle comes, jesus now hope.
Speaker 1: I pray for me.
Speaker 1: I need a United Nations job Now.
Speaker 1: Don't say it casually, say it with excitement, because God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly.
Speaker 1: Above all we ask for Imagine Is it a new house you want?
Speaker 1: Is it a new business?
Speaker 1: God is not limited to anything.
Speaker 1: God is only limited to the level of our asking, and not only to the level of our asking but also to the level of our receiving.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, are you a good receiver or a bad receiver?
Speaker 1: I pray that you are a good receiver, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So receive, I'm saying receive.
Speaker 1: Receive your miracle.
Speaker 1: Are you glad you came?
Speaker 1: Did you learn anything?
Speaker 1: Yes, if I came and asked you what you learned today, what would you say?
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear those responses Because different people have different things.
Speaker 1: But I like that because God always sends His Word custom made just for you.
Speaker 1: Your neighbor got to hear it's not what you had, because God locates His Word just for you.
Speaker 1: I pray this will be the one year that you'll be awarded favor and honor.
Speaker 1: Receive it now.
Speaker 1: Jesus name, jesus name, amen.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter the limitations that are happening around you right now.
Speaker 1: Just believe my word, believe God's Word.
Speaker 1: You'll come back with a testimony In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Let's pray.
Speaker 1: Father, what a blessing to hear your word.
Speaker 1: Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.
Speaker 1: Your people have been in this service.
Speaker 1: They have had your word, listened to you, worshiped, celebrated.
Speaker 1: And now, lord, as we pray, we want to seal what you have said to us.
Speaker 1: The devil will not take it from us that the word has been spoken to a soil that is good, prepared.
Speaker 1: We receive your word, a divine call.
Speaker 1: We receive that word, a divine invitation.
Speaker 1: We receive that word, a divine assignment.
Speaker 1: We receive that word.
Speaker 1: And now, father, even as I prepare to release your people, I know they may be going back to very challenging circumstances or where places where things have not even changed an inch.
Speaker 1: But, dear Lord, I know, even when we see things have not changed, god is working behind the scenes to do a new thing.
Speaker 1: And so, god, may you do that new thing.
Speaker 1: A new season, new possibilities May that be our portion.
Speaker 1: Help us to know how to respond to you, respond positively, respond with eagerness, respond with readiness.
Speaker 1: Help us to be good responders so that we can receive all that is already ours.
Speaker 1: Thank you for hearing our prayer this afternoon, because we have prayed in the name that is above every name, the name of our Lord, jesus Christ, and God's people say Amen.
Speaker 1: Now give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 1: I want to appreciate many of you who are already in possession of this book.
Speaker 1: I pray that you will read this book For those who have the planters that God will enable you to write your vision down so that you can read it and run with it.
Speaker 1: The Lord will enable you to go to great heights in 2024.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Now I want to bless us as we prepare to leave, because I believe your miracle is waiting for you out there.
Speaker 1: Opportunities are waiting for you out there.
Speaker 1: Amen, and don't go out there saying hey today.
Speaker 1: Today, the message was powerful when they tell you exactly what I said.
Speaker 1: You don't remember Hello.
Speaker 1: So for some of you, come greeting me after the service.
Speaker 1: I will ask you that question.
Speaker 1: Namusee Hepe, you're such a great people I celebrate to give you a neighbor high five.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Now lift your hand up high as we release the blessing.
Speaker 1: Father, in the name that is above every name, I release your blessing this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Father, like I said earlier, we are not walking into this year blindly.
Speaker 1: We are not walking into this year with human insight.
Speaker 1: We are not walking into this year with unbelief in state.
Speaker 1: We must walk into this year with revelation.
Speaker 1: Father, in the name that is above every name, I release your beloved people into the great opportunities that are waiting for them.
Speaker 1: After this service, I want to decree and declare may the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord make his face to shine upon you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord be gracious to you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord do you good in the land of the living.
Speaker 1: I declare that your Monday is blessed, your Tuesday is blessed, your Wednesday is blessed, your Thursday is blessed, your Friday is blessed, your Saturday is blessed.
Speaker 1: Sunday, you're coming back with a testimony in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, I want to decree and declare that your family is blessed.
Speaker 1: You're blessed when you come in.
Speaker 1: You're blessed when you go out.
Speaker 1: Your children are blessed.
Speaker 1: The work of your hands is blessed.
Speaker 1: Your mission this week is blessed.
Speaker 1: Your workplace is blessed because of you.
Speaker 1: God is releasing wealth and riches to you, the resources that you need to finish that task.
Speaker 1: God is releasing new ideas to you.
Speaker 1: Favour is coming your way.
Speaker 1: You shall stand and nobody will bring you down Every tongue that speaks against you.
Speaker 1: We judge it now.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, may you be vindicated.
Speaker 1: May you arise and shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Speaker 1: If you believe that, you better say I receive it, I take it, it is my portion and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: Now give God a mighty, mighty big hand.
Speaker 1: Bless this holy name.
Speaker 1: Bless this holy name, amen.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody Celebrate.
Speaker 1: Come on, give Him a shout.
Speaker 1: Yes, god is a good God, amen.
Speaker 1: Those are shouts of victory.
Speaker 1: It is done, my brothers, it is done my sisters.
Speaker 1: Now look at your neighbour.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbour, surely goodness and mercy shall follow you All the days of your life and you shall dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: And now, may the grace of our Lord, jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: Amen, shalom.