WEBVTT 00:00:05.145 --> 00:00:06.687 It's a wonderful Sunday, isn't it? 00:00:06.687 --> 00:00:08.810 Let's give another hand to Jesus. 00:00:08.810 --> 00:00:13.737 Amen. 00:00:13.737 --> 00:00:17.524 Now you're looking good, better than yesterday. 00:00:17.524 --> 00:00:19.167 Today we make it first person. 00:00:19.167 --> 00:00:22.544 I know whatever numbers is looking really good. 00:00:22.544 --> 00:00:27.153 Let's make it first person and say I am looking good. 00:00:27.153 --> 00:00:48.335 And then and then and tomorrow, shine. 00:00:48.335 --> 00:00:51.618 I'm about to read the scriptures. 00:00:52.820 --> 00:00:57.490 We have this open door park written by our senior pastor, reverend Ambrose Nyungau. 00:00:57.490 --> 00:01:01.609 It's available after the service in the bookshop at 200 shillings. 00:01:01.609 --> 00:01:03.374 Get yourself a copy. 00:01:03.374 --> 00:01:05.379 Get a friend Also a copy. 00:01:05.379 --> 00:01:16.248 We do have the theme book here still available and you're welcome to get yourself a copy and also the planner for those who are here for the first time. 00:01:16.248 --> 00:01:17.370 I want you to like to see this. 00:01:17.370 --> 00:01:20.486 You can also get yourself a copy. 00:01:22.171 --> 00:01:24.838 The reading of scripture today comes from the book of Matthew. 00:01:24.838 --> 00:01:26.543 It's a great, great passage. 00:01:26.543 --> 00:01:28.507 Matthew, chapter eight. 00:01:28.507 --> 00:01:35.685 Matthew, chapter eight, and we are reading from verse five up to verse 13. 00:01:35.685 --> 00:01:39.474 Matthew, chapter eight, verse five to verse 13. 00:01:40.436 --> 00:01:49.063 In the NIV version, this is what the Bible says when Jesus had entered Caprona home, a centurion came to him asking for help. 00:01:49.063 --> 00:01:55.373 Lord, he said, my servant lies at home, paralyzed, suffering terribly. 00:01:55.373 --> 00:01:58.686 That is the setting Jesus said to him. 00:01:58.686 --> 00:02:01.490 Shall I come and heal him. 00:02:01.490 --> 00:02:10.247 The centurion replied Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof Now. 00:02:10.247 --> 00:02:12.151 Let us read the next part together. 00:02:12.151 --> 00:02:22.460 But just say the word and my servant will be healed, for I myself am a man and an authority with soldiers under me. 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:26.812 I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come and he comes. 00:02:26.812 --> 00:02:30.520 I say to my servant do this, and he does it. 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:43.770 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him truly, I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 00:02:43.770 --> 00:03:04.944 I say to you that many will come from the east and from the west and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside into darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 00:03:04.944 --> 00:03:09.901 Then Jesus said to the centurion let us read that one also together. 00:03:09.901 --> 00:03:18.634 Go, let it be done just as you believed it would, and his servant was healed at that moment. 00:03:18.920 --> 00:03:26.742 Father in heaven, I thank you for the reading of the word, and now I commit the release and the receiving of the word into your hands. 00:03:26.742 --> 00:03:38.483 In the Holy Spirit, I pray, speak to us, those who are here in the sanctuary, those in the pavilion, those in the parents' room downstairs, those following online around the world. 00:03:38.483 --> 00:03:40.469 My God, I pray as we receive it. 00:03:40.469 --> 00:03:49.900 Bless us together, because we are a family church and I pray this prayer in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and we all say amen. 00:03:49.900 --> 00:03:51.021 We may have our seats. 00:03:51.021 --> 00:04:00.319 As I come to God's word, let me celebrate a testimony of Phoebe's father. 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:07.177 He's called Phoebe and jogger Phoebe, mr and jogger, and we prayed for him. 00:04:07.177 --> 00:04:08.550 I think he's somewhere around here. 00:04:08.550 --> 00:04:17.644 Dad is right there and he had a very sensitive surgery on the head and we bless the Lord that he's now. 00:04:17.644 --> 00:04:19.028 Well, he's standing right there. 00:04:19.028 --> 00:04:21.574 Let's appreciate what God has done. 00:04:21.574 --> 00:04:23.682 Thank you, god bless you. 00:04:23.682 --> 00:04:32.023 He's there together with part of the family and also guests who keep coming joining us from around the world. 00:04:32.564 --> 00:04:44.146 Again, gibson from Malawi, karibusana Karibuassanti and also Oliver or Simi Karibusana. 00:04:44.146 --> 00:04:53.531 They come from our partners in the mission in Tututututukana, world Relief International, and we are very happy that you're here with us. 00:04:53.531 --> 00:05:02.574 We do also have our friends, the Munez from Australia Maybe you can just stand the Munez and your family from Kirinyaga. 00:05:02.574 --> 00:05:06.771 Yes, karibusana, thank you, thank you, thank you. 00:05:06.771 --> 00:05:10.985 It's been a minute, like they say, since we last met, but we'll come back home. 00:05:10.985 --> 00:05:12.048 Thank you very much. 00:05:12.048 --> 00:05:17.670 You may have your seat and we also have a family that's come Thanking God today in a very special way. 00:05:17.670 --> 00:05:19.637 They are called the Mwangangis. 00:05:19.637 --> 00:05:21.362 They are not from Australia. 00:05:21.362 --> 00:05:25.350 These ones are from Mutomo, which is actually in Kitui. 00:05:25.350 --> 00:05:26.853 Would you stand the Mwangangis? 00:05:26.853 --> 00:05:32.915 We are a family church and we really appreciate the Mwangangis and the others. 00:05:32.915 --> 00:05:37.646 We thank God for all of them, the Mwangangis, wherever they are Right now. 00:05:37.646 --> 00:05:39.872 We bless the Lord for the Mwangangis. 00:05:39.872 --> 00:05:40.923 Thank you very much. 00:05:42.668 --> 00:06:06.387 So this month, of course remember the theme of the month is Open Door Declaration of the Up-Lifted Kingdom Authority and the scripture text I just read I'm sure you had some declarations and you also had some the word authority mentioned, and this is a powerful theme we have this month. 00:06:06.387 --> 00:06:14.711 I have chosen to title my message just say the word, inspired by one of the scriptures there, which is verse eight. 00:06:14.711 --> 00:06:21.528 The Centurion replied Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word. 00:06:21.528 --> 00:06:23.834 That's where the title of the message comes from. 00:06:23.834 --> 00:06:27.846 But just say the word and my servant will be healed. 00:06:27.846 --> 00:06:30.966 And so I would like us to voice it, the title of the message. 00:06:30.966 --> 00:06:32.310 Let's say it together. 00:06:32.310 --> 00:06:35.160 Just say the word. 00:06:37.362 --> 00:06:44.454 I have divided this word in three parts for us to be able to eat it together as a meal. 00:06:44.454 --> 00:06:52.439 The first part is the word desired, the word declared and the word demonstrated. 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:59.036 Let me just repeat again the word desired, the word declared and the word demonstrated. 00:06:59.036 --> 00:07:00.500 I start with the word desired. 00:07:00.500 --> 00:07:05.809 The word desired sick it. 00:07:05.809 --> 00:07:09.714 Now, what you do when you desire something, sick it. 00:07:09.714 --> 00:07:22.384 The word desire is really a longing, a yearning, and it impels one to go after that which they are yearning and make it their possession. 00:07:22.384 --> 00:07:30.362 And in this text we have a gentle and we are told this is a centurion. 00:07:30.362 --> 00:07:36.822 That means he's a commander of 100 soldiers, he's a senior official in the Roman government. 00:07:36.822 --> 00:07:45.357 And we have this Roman soldier seeking or desiring a word. 00:07:45.357 --> 00:07:55.062 And I thank God for those who seek the word of God and desire the word of God, because their desire shall actually be fulfilled. 00:07:56.144 --> 00:08:08.422 In the first few verses, from verse one to ten, I read again the Bible says when Jesus, when verse five, brother, when Jesus had entered Capronahom, a centurion came to him asking for help. 00:08:08.422 --> 00:08:19.088 And let me say this help is possible, help is near you, if you remember the scripture in Psalm 121 that says I look up to the hills. 00:08:19.088 --> 00:08:21.812 Where does my help come from? 00:08:21.812 --> 00:08:27.752 My help comes from the maker of heaven and earth and I speak to somebody listening to me today. 00:08:27.752 --> 00:08:39.543 Help is near you, it is near you, it is near you and I thank God for those who go to God, that help in the right places, and this centurion has gone to the right place. 00:08:39.543 --> 00:08:48.500 Between Monday and Saturday people go to all kinds of funny places looking for help and they end up hurt. 00:08:48.500 --> 00:08:51.722 They end up worse than they actually started. 00:08:52.434 --> 00:08:54.943 But let us learn from the centurion. 00:08:54.943 --> 00:09:00.240 He comes asking for help and he asks for help regardless of his status. 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:02.841 Remember, he's a senior government official. 00:09:02.841 --> 00:09:04.597 These were the rulers. 00:09:04.597 --> 00:09:08.158 The Jews were the ruled or the oppressed. 00:09:08.158 --> 00:09:09.860 He's coming to a Jew. 00:09:09.860 --> 00:09:17.024 Just imagine a very senior official coming to people who are despised at that time and he's asking for help. 00:09:18.635 --> 00:09:22.663 Lord, he said my servant lies at home, paralyzed, suffering terribly. 00:09:22.663 --> 00:09:30.962 And when this centurion is coming, he's coming not for himself but for somebody else and he's coming as a ninta sessa. 00:09:30.962 --> 00:09:36.581 He's coming a distance and he's interceding on behalf of his servant. 00:09:36.581 --> 00:09:45.198 I'm amazed at this centurion because most people, if somebody gets sick in the organization, they retire them. 00:09:45.198 --> 00:09:51.640 They actually retire them, send them home on health, on the health account of their health. 00:09:52.235 --> 00:10:04.023 But this centurion seems to have nassed and kept this servant for quite some time with a prayer and a hope that he could actually do something to bring healing to this servant of his. 00:10:04.023 --> 00:10:13.037 But thank God, the day does come and the day will come, and the day has come for somebody when the healing arrives, hallelujah. 00:10:13.037 --> 00:10:17.240 So for this servant, the day comes and he reaches out to Jesus. 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:20.543 Then Jesus said to him shall I come and heal him? 00:10:20.543 --> 00:10:28.378 The centurion replied Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word end. 00:10:28.378 --> 00:10:35.215 My servant will be healed, for I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. 00:10:35.215 --> 00:10:38.634 I tell this one go, and he goes, and that one come and he comes. 00:10:38.634 --> 00:10:41.134 I say to myself and do this, and he does it. 00:10:42.345 --> 00:10:52.254 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and say to those following him truly, I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 00:10:52.254 --> 00:10:59.144 Now this centurion amazes Jesus because of his faith in the word of God. 00:10:59.144 --> 00:11:09.337 And I say if you want to really amaze heaven, if you want to wow heaven, then have faith in the word of God. 00:11:09.337 --> 00:11:14.438 We are so blessed that the word of God is available to us in many formats. 00:11:14.438 --> 00:11:29.601 There is this hard copy, the Bible, and I have said here before that these words are not written for angels, these words are written for human beings and these words are our words, and so when you take this Bible, you say it's mine. 00:11:29.601 --> 00:11:38.067 And if you are really want to wow heaven, then believe every word that is put in this scriptures. 00:11:39.115 --> 00:11:48.243 Our desire for the word and my prayer is this that we shall get a big appetite, a big appetite for God's word. 00:11:48.243 --> 00:12:28.903 I know we have an appetite for many things, but let me suggest to us that the best appetite you probably would need is the appetite for the word of God, and so that word desire is a word of appetite, it's a word of longing, is a word of yearning, and the centurion epitomizes those people who have faith in the word of God, the whole community around the world, the people of faith, and they believe in the word of God, and one of the things that these people do, as we can see with the centurion, is that they constantly come to the word of God. 00:12:28.903 --> 00:12:42.535 They come back to the word of God, and I suggest to somebody here the need to have a regular plan of the Bible, a regular plan in Pasta Caniti this year. 00:12:42.535 --> 00:12:43.500 You haven't given us yet. 00:12:44.715 --> 00:12:50.200 Oh, much better, eh, aye, that's something about me, does he Aye? 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:57.123 A regular plan of getting into God's word, and it is here, pasta Caniti. 00:12:57.123 --> 00:12:59.179 We have this, I think. 00:12:59.179 --> 00:13:02.038 After this outside there, I hope it's available. 00:13:02.841 --> 00:13:07.614 Yes, we have three for women. 00:13:07.614 --> 00:13:09.477 So we have three. 00:13:09.477 --> 00:13:13.368 What do I call them? 00:13:13.368 --> 00:13:22.769 We have prepared three special copies for the youth, for the women and for the men. 00:13:22.769 --> 00:13:25.701 Different colors for the youth it's green. 00:13:25.701 --> 00:13:30.462 For the men we have blue and for the ladies we have pink. 00:13:30.462 --> 00:13:31.578 I think it's pink. 00:13:33.995 --> 00:13:37.804 Ladies turn together softer colors and nicer colors. 00:13:37.804 --> 00:13:49.947 But really, looking at the centurion, one of the lessons of course we learn is that his desire led him, is beyond desire. 00:13:49.947 --> 00:14:00.101 The desire led him to actually seek the word, and he didn't stop until he got to that place where he would get that word. 00:14:00.101 --> 00:14:04.464 And that's why this title is just say the word. 00:14:04.464 --> 00:14:18.221 And Jesus is amazed that somebody who is a Gentile is coming from the outside there and is actually coming all the way to Jesus and asking for this word. 00:14:18.221 --> 00:14:19.278 Thank you, pastor Kinniti. 00:14:19.278 --> 00:14:30.142 Now I have it in all these colors here and after the service in the bookshop, yeah, you can actually get yourself a plan of getting down to God's word. 00:14:30.142 --> 00:14:42.102 And this centurion comes and he knows the value of God's word, while those who really ought to know the value of God's word don't seem to know. 00:14:42.102 --> 00:14:52.599 And that is why Jesus rebukes them and he says in the messianic party, some of you, who are supposed to be at the center of things, are going to miss it. 00:14:52.599 --> 00:15:10.558 Yet a stranger and a Gentile who has come from very, very far has received the revelation and the understanding that the word of God is everything, and so his desire goes just beyond a desire, he seeks it, he seeks it. 00:15:10.558 --> 00:15:20.006 It's one thing to desire, it's another one to actually begin to seek, and there are four Ds that I usually share. 00:15:20.006 --> 00:15:24.966 One is desire, decision, determination and discipline. 00:15:24.966 --> 00:15:30.318 Turning your desire into something tangible, that is desire. 00:15:30.318 --> 00:15:36.821 Then you make a decision, then there is a determination and then there is a discipline. 00:15:36.821 --> 00:15:42.067 And so this centurion goes all the way. 00:15:42.067 --> 00:15:43.660 He doesn't stop somewhere in the middle. 00:15:43.660 --> 00:15:47.985 And so let me encourage us to have an appetite for God's word. 00:15:49.075 --> 00:15:57.822 I told the First Service how yesterday I had a long day and when I did my last meeting, I was speaking at Parkland Sports Club to a group there. 00:15:57.822 --> 00:16:04.822 I was very hungry and going home I thought let me call my children, find out if the food that's ready. 00:16:04.822 --> 00:16:12.059 It wasn't quite ready, but my appetite was larger than my patience and I couldn't wait. 00:16:12.059 --> 00:16:21.182 I got into a restaurant and I asked for a full chicken and big chips and, oh my god, didn't I get into it? 00:16:21.182 --> 00:16:25.738 I'm praying for big appetites, hallelujah. 00:16:25.738 --> 00:16:34.692 I'm praying for big appetites, appetites for the word of God that will make you go searching. 00:16:34.692 --> 00:16:47.207 You get in here and you go looking until you get a word in season, a word addressing your specifics, an a word that you can call forth and begin to declare. 00:16:47.207 --> 00:16:48.672 Be coming to that in the second point. 00:16:48.672 --> 00:16:53.421 But the first point is the word desired, the secret. 00:16:53.421 --> 00:16:58.697 In Jeremiah 15, verse 16, the Bible says your word was found and I ate it. 00:16:58.697 --> 00:17:06.383 Jeremiah, chapter 15, verse 16, concerning Jeremiah when your words came, I ate them. 00:17:06.383 --> 00:17:15.560 You see, they were my joy and my heart's delight, for I bear your name, lord, god Almighty, and that is my prayer. 00:17:16.843 --> 00:17:19.192 I have a tradition of going into God's word. 00:17:19.192 --> 00:17:21.419 I like memorizing God's word. 00:17:21.419 --> 00:17:25.210 I love meditating on it and it gives me strength. 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:25.932 It's just something. 00:17:25.932 --> 00:17:29.851 When you take God's word in and you begin to meditate on it makes all the difference. 00:17:29.851 --> 00:17:52.744 And so early in the morning, sometimes 4am, around there, 5am, I always have my Bible next to me, the bed there and I have a notebook and I will sit up, put on the light and then read my Bible and read my notebook and begin to hear what the Lord has to say for me. 00:17:52.744 --> 00:17:56.153 And so just say the word. 00:17:56.934 --> 00:17:58.898 We begin with where the word is found. 00:17:59.580 --> 00:18:00.482 Jesus is there. 00:18:00.482 --> 00:18:02.769 The centurion finds him. 00:18:02.769 --> 00:18:08.529 He may have heard about Jesus and about the power of God's word and he came and asked for the word. 00:18:08.529 --> 00:18:27.973 But let me go to the second area of consideration, the word declared, not just the word desired and the word sought, because you can have a very big deposit of God's word until almost constipation by God's word. 00:18:27.973 --> 00:18:30.097 You know, just intake, intake, intake. 00:18:30.097 --> 00:18:32.362 There is a need. 00:18:32.362 --> 00:18:39.380 This word is so powerful, this word is really amazing and this word is supposed to be released. 00:18:39.380 --> 00:18:43.516 This word is not an exhibit, it's not something. 00:18:43.516 --> 00:18:44.017 You know. 00:18:44.017 --> 00:18:48.911 You get different Bibles and you put them in your library there. 00:18:48.911 --> 00:18:55.125 No, this word is to be taken in, but also this word is also to be released. 00:18:55.125 --> 00:18:59.859 And let me say, the nations are waiting for the word released. 00:18:59.859 --> 00:19:09.719 In fact, in Romans, chapter 10, romans, chapter 10, if you give me in the, in the NIV version, romans 10, verse 13,. 00:19:09.719 --> 00:19:13.023 From verse 13 up to verse 15. 00:19:13.605 --> 00:19:20.382 I just read these scriptures on the screen Romans, chapter 10, from verse 13 up to verse 15. 00:19:20.382 --> 00:19:23.678 For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 00:19:23.678 --> 00:19:32.044 How, then, shall they call on him in whom they have not believed, and how shall they believe in him, in him? 00:19:32.044 --> 00:19:33.728 Come back, just go back. 00:19:33.728 --> 00:19:47.564 How, then, shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard, and how shall they hear without a preacher, and how shall they preach unless they are sent as it is written? 00:19:47.564 --> 00:19:56.243 How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace and therefore the people who take God's word and release it. 00:19:56.243 --> 00:19:59.078 Their feet are very beautiful. 00:19:59.078 --> 00:20:00.703 And so these are. 00:20:00.743 --> 00:20:02.470 These are hymn that we normally sing. 00:20:02.470 --> 00:20:07.182 Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life. 00:20:07.182 --> 00:20:11.874 Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life. 00:20:11.874 --> 00:20:12.334 It says. 00:20:12.334 --> 00:20:17.723 Sing them over again to me wonderful words of life. 00:20:17.723 --> 00:20:21.519 Now we sing that song and we have these words here. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:30.222 They are not just as relics, beautiful words just put on the shelves, but these words are granted for impartation. 00:20:31.065 --> 00:20:37.259 Let me say, in the Bible there is a word of healing and that is what we are dealing with in the text. 00:20:37.259 --> 00:20:45.061 Jehovah Rafa, the name of God, our healer, and we have scriptures on healing. 00:20:45.061 --> 00:20:52.501 Psalm 103, he heals us of all our diseases and renews our youth, like that of an ego. 00:20:52.501 --> 00:20:56.755 In Isaiah 53, there's a verse that says by his tribes we are healed. 00:20:56.755 --> 00:20:58.881 You go, dig the scriptures. 00:20:58.881 --> 00:21:00.404 We call it the exegesis. 00:21:00.404 --> 00:21:04.934 It's like digging a well, digging a well, you exegiate. 00:21:04.934 --> 00:21:15.559 And in hermeneutics, you know the whole thing of hermeneutics and hermeneutics, we dig and somebody digs and digs. 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:23.988 You go to the Bible and you have this plan here that you've given us for second nature and you figure your way around and you go. 00:21:24.308 --> 00:21:27.355 There is a word of healing You'll find it, you will find it. 00:21:27.355 --> 00:21:30.643 There is a word of salvation you will find it. 00:21:30.643 --> 00:21:33.698 A word of abundance, it is there. 00:21:33.698 --> 00:21:36.546 A word of forgiveness You'll find it. 00:21:36.546 --> 00:21:52.260 A word of victory, a word of hope, a word of breakthrough, a word of release, a word of rest, a word of deliverance, a word of comfort, a word of blessing, and let me say we are all blessed. 00:21:52.260 --> 00:21:52.862 Hallelujah. 00:21:52.862 --> 00:22:08.861 I release a word of blessing right now upon every one of us in Jesus' name, but also a word of love, especially this week when we are having Valentine's Day on Wednesday and our chair of Deacons, brother Sam, you've said it's a last month of the love week. 00:22:08.861 --> 00:22:11.529 Rather, yes, there is a word of love. 00:22:11.529 --> 00:22:15.357 And therefore, if you don't have a Valentine, go to the Bible. 00:22:15.357 --> 00:22:19.231 Hallelujah, and you'll find John 3, 16. 00:22:20.233 --> 00:22:31.681 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. 00:22:31.681 --> 00:22:33.405 And you can make it a reaper. 00:22:33.405 --> 00:22:38.018 Turn it around First person, declare to yourself and you say I am loved. 00:22:38.018 --> 00:22:41.205 Go around saying I am loved. 00:22:41.205 --> 00:22:44.212 I am loved from above, not just from down here. 00:22:44.212 --> 00:22:46.720 I am loved from above. 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:52.433 Romans 5 8 says while we are yet seen, us Christ died for us. 00:22:52.433 --> 00:23:00.017 God shows his love for us in that, while we are yet seen, us Christ died for us and therefore love is in the air. 00:23:00.017 --> 00:23:08.003 But I want you to know there is more love up there than there is love down here and we can speak it, we can declare it. 00:23:08.044 --> 00:23:19.978 There's a word of love and you can pick it from the Bible and you begin to speak to yourself and you declare I am loved and I pray that we take time to show love to somebody this week. 00:23:19.978 --> 00:23:31.387 Say you love somebody and also get them by them something African culture, yes, flowers, maybe a chocolate, by giving you ideas, maybe write a card. 00:23:31.387 --> 00:23:33.071 I don't know what you've planned to do. 00:23:33.071 --> 00:23:36.357 Yeah, but there's something creative. 00:23:36.357 --> 00:23:44.134 If it's me, how you show love get me to a nama place, especially Olepolos. 00:23:44.134 --> 00:23:47.818 You know Olepolos, especially there. 00:23:47.818 --> 00:23:54.470 I like the meat. 00:23:54.470 --> 00:24:02.199 If you want to show me love, get me there and you'll see how I do it. 00:24:02.199 --> 00:24:07.334 People go shopping everywhere for everything else, but they shop here. 00:24:07.334 --> 00:24:10.339 There's a supermarket here. 00:24:10.339 --> 00:24:13.231 This is a beautiful place to get. 00:24:13.892 --> 00:24:21.041 This is the word of God, and go, look for that word and speak it. 00:24:21.041 --> 00:24:27.378 Speak it, get the word for the situation and declare it. 00:24:27.378 --> 00:24:32.490 Just simply release it and you'll be surprised what God is able to do. 00:24:32.490 --> 00:24:44.201 And therefore, god is waiting this week for someone who will go to the Bible, find a word for their situation and circumstance and speak it, if it is peace you need. 00:24:44.201 --> 00:24:50.178 You know, in the book of Mark, chapter four, verse 39, if it is peace you need. 00:24:50.178 --> 00:24:53.791 There was a very big storm there, mark four, verse 39. 00:24:53.791 --> 00:25:00.083 Then he arose, rebuked the wind and he said to the sea peace be still. 00:25:00.083 --> 00:25:02.011 This is a declaration of peace. 00:25:02.011 --> 00:25:08.541 And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. 00:25:08.541 --> 00:25:10.325 Jesus took a position. 00:25:10.325 --> 00:25:11.593 There was a storm. 00:25:11.593 --> 00:25:13.237 Everybody else is panicking. 00:25:13.237 --> 00:25:17.894 They are reading all other books on how to deal with storms and how to work them up. 00:25:17.894 --> 00:25:22.310 But Jesus comes, releases this word which is amazing and he says shalom. 00:25:22.310 --> 00:25:25.497 And the peace actually happened in that place. 00:25:25.497 --> 00:25:31.814 And so, my brother and my sister, there is a declaration you need to make in the valley of Grybons. 00:25:31.874 --> 00:25:36.669 You remember Ezekiel 37 from verse 3, I'll have it on the screen. 00:25:36.669 --> 00:25:42.626 We see what happened there the word granted from above to Ezekiel. 00:25:42.626 --> 00:25:45.615 He is very, very faithful in releasing it. 00:25:45.615 --> 00:25:51.714 Ezekiel, chapter 37 from verse 3, he asked me, son of man, can these bones leave? 00:25:51.714 --> 00:25:53.663 I say it's sovereign Lord, you alone know. 00:25:53.663 --> 00:25:59.383 Then he said to me prophesy to these bones and say to them dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 00:25:59.383 --> 00:26:02.320 This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones. 00:26:02.320 --> 00:26:06.438 I will make breath enter you and you will come to life. 00:26:06.438 --> 00:26:11.650 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin. 00:26:11.650 --> 00:26:13.451 I'll put breath in you. 00:26:13.451 --> 00:26:15.076 You will come to life. 00:26:15.076 --> 00:26:17.179 Then you will know that I am the Lord. 00:26:17.179 --> 00:26:19.586 Then, verse 7, let's read it together. 00:26:19.586 --> 00:26:32.423 So I prophesied, as I was commanding, and as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 00:26:32.423 --> 00:26:36.680 May I declare today that things that was scattered are coming together. 00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:44.749 Something is coming together for somebody right now it's a declaration on the basis of this text is coming together. 00:26:44.749 --> 00:26:46.037 Family is scattered. 00:26:46.037 --> 00:26:49.555 God doing something, bringing people together, just your business. 00:26:49.555 --> 00:26:51.121 Fall it apart, whatever it is. 00:26:51.121 --> 00:26:55.880 God is able to pick even the one you can't see, and actually bring it together. 00:26:55.880 --> 00:27:06.238 And all the bones came together and there were one piece and one part, a declaration I've just made and that is released in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:27:06.238 --> 00:27:14.670 Ezekiel is not that he's an amazing guy, but he turns to the Word of God, he hears it clearly and he releases it. 00:27:15.231 --> 00:27:20.425 Pastor Ambrose and I, we preach from here from January to the end of the year. 00:27:20.425 --> 00:27:29.534 In fact, pastor Ambrose, somebody was asking me how do you guys end up having a word every other Sunday and Wednesdays and every other time, like this week? 00:27:29.534 --> 00:27:39.131 I've preached four times in different venues in Nairobi, in Limuru, in Muranga, different places and they asked how do you manage to do this? 00:27:39.131 --> 00:27:40.816 Let me give you the secret. 00:27:40.816 --> 00:27:46.046 The secret is we stay in the Word of God. 00:27:46.046 --> 00:27:47.327 That is a secret. 00:27:47.327 --> 00:27:49.118 There is no shortcut to it. 00:27:49.118 --> 00:27:52.994 You just got to have the discipline of getting into God's Word. 00:27:52.994 --> 00:28:00.298 And let me say we proclaim what is inside us and therefore, what we speak is the overflow. 00:28:00.298 --> 00:28:04.914 If the Word of God is what is in you, the Word of God will come out. 00:28:05.617 --> 00:28:07.987 Some people talk about the sleep of the tongue. 00:28:07.987 --> 00:28:09.974 They say a sleep of the tongue. 00:28:09.974 --> 00:28:13.334 They tell you something bad and they say sorry, it was a sleep of the tongue. 00:28:13.334 --> 00:28:58.140 I say no, that's not a sleep of the tongue, because the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks and therefore, to be able to speak or babble out, declare God's Word over your children, over your business and over your career and over your life, we need to get to God's Word and so Jesus, therefore, is about, you know, to declare and release a word of healing, release a word of healing, and I know there is so much in terms of God's Word we can share every time we meet and we end up encouraging one another and also building one another up. 00:28:58.180 --> 00:29:03.513 But finally, the Word demonstrated, celebrated. 00:29:03.513 --> 00:29:14.097 The Word demonstrated, celebrated, you know, in the, in the verse, the last verse there, verse 13,. 00:29:14.097 --> 00:29:23.390 Then Jesus said to the centurion go, let it be done as just as you believe it would, and the Bible records and his servant was healed. 00:29:23.390 --> 00:29:26.721 At that moment, the Word demonstrated. 00:29:26.721 --> 00:29:37.652 This year we are looking at the Word accelerate and I want to say God will demonstrate his Word speedily. 00:29:37.652 --> 00:29:41.240 God will celebrate, demonstrate his Word quickly. 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:57.614 May I say this week you're going to see the hand of God quickly, suddenly accelerated, and it is not going to wait because a command has been released by the King of Kings, it's a Word of God. 00:29:57.634 --> 00:30:02.747 In Pastor Ambrose, you shared about the speed of light and the Word going fast. 00:30:02.747 --> 00:30:12.651 You know, like the speed of light, before you know it, that Word will get to that address and it is going to get there suddenly and very, very quickly. 00:30:12.651 --> 00:30:19.865 They told me that if you hear a gunshot, then you have not been shot. 00:30:19.865 --> 00:30:29.097 Yes, thank God, if you hear a gunshot, you have a gunshot Because the bullet goes faster than sound. 00:30:29.097 --> 00:30:33.130 But if you don't, no, no, you won't hear the. 00:30:33.130 --> 00:30:39.351 You will not hear the gunshot if you have been shot Because the bullet goes faster than sound. 00:30:39.853 --> 00:30:44.209 I want to tell you, like Pastor Ambrose said, the Word of God goes just like light. 00:30:44.209 --> 00:30:48.740 It takes off immediately and doesn't matter the distance. 00:30:48.740 --> 00:30:55.843 Jesus just speaks a Word, he just says the Word, and you know what? 00:30:55.843 --> 00:31:15.119 The servant was healed exactly that moment, and I challenge us to take God's Word and declare it and believe it, because I know that God is going to do a miracle immediately and suddenly regarding that matter that you're bringing before the Lord. 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:22.366 God's Word is powerful, and so the Word that Jesus released was a Word of healing, and that Word went faster than a bullet. 00:31:22.366 --> 00:31:29.097 The centurion is still here, even before he moves out, suddenly something is happening on the other side. 00:31:29.097 --> 00:31:32.165 So that Word went like a healing bullet. 00:31:32.165 --> 00:31:43.442 It's a healing capsule and it goes so swift it actually gets into the backbone of this guy who was paralyzed and was having a lot of pain. 00:31:43.442 --> 00:31:56.176 He was suffering very, very terribly and the Word of God is able to figure out because it's a healing menu for that particular condition and fixes what may have been a problem in the backbone. 00:31:56.817 --> 00:32:07.757 I see that Word just coming and also hitting the nervous system, that Word coming and hitting the brain and the neural systems of a human being. 00:32:07.757 --> 00:32:20.123 And that Word figures things because God is our Creator, god knows me, god knows your structure, he understands what is ailing and that is why the Bible has everything we need. 00:32:20.123 --> 00:32:25.146 He knows where it is ailing, he knows where it's paining and the Word of God comes right in. 00:32:25.146 --> 00:32:33.787 You know, that's why, when you come on Sunday, we are preaching God's Word, somebody somewhere saying that Word is mine, that Word is mine, I catch that. 00:32:33.787 --> 00:32:38.443 I catch that I'm catching the other, because that's the nature of God's Word. 00:32:38.443 --> 00:32:49.424 So the demonstration of the Word is that finally this guy is totally healed and today I declare somebody's healing in Jesus' name, hallelujah. 00:32:50.127 --> 00:33:08.339 And while you're listening to me, if you have a son or daughter, a friend, a family member or a colleague who is struggling with the sickness, can you also send right now a bullet, a capsule in the form of the Word of God, because by the stripes of Jesus we are healed, of healing, to that place right now, in the name of Jesus. 00:33:08.339 --> 00:33:16.202 And I tell you, when you do it, god will accomplish what he says in Isaiah 55, verse 11. 00:33:16.202 --> 00:33:19.448 Isaiah 55 and verse 11. 00:33:19.448 --> 00:33:22.240 The Word of God demonstrated. 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.290 So is my Word that goes out from my mouth. 00:33:25.290 --> 00:33:34.442 It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. 00:33:34.442 --> 00:33:36.852 Why don't we give God a handclap for putting? 00:33:36.852 --> 00:33:38.577 We have this in the Bible here. 00:33:38.577 --> 00:33:39.601 It's in the Bible. 00:33:39.601 --> 00:33:43.392 It will fulfill, it will accomplish. 00:33:43.392 --> 00:33:46.420 It is not by power nor by might. 00:33:46.420 --> 00:33:50.298 It is not the press that I have done that are going to solve that problem. 00:33:50.298 --> 00:33:56.298 It is just getting down to God's Word, declaring it and then waiting for the results. 00:33:56.839 --> 00:34:01.786 When you go preaching the gospel, sometimes you go in neighborhoods where you think people are not listening. 00:34:01.786 --> 00:34:05.801 But let me tell you, when you preach, even when you think people are not listening. 00:34:05.801 --> 00:34:07.896 Someone is listening somewhere. 00:34:07.896 --> 00:34:16.936 I saw it, pastor Ambrose and I was a street preacher in Nairobi and over lunchtime I would be in these open spaces and it's lunchtime and people are sitting there. 00:34:16.936 --> 00:34:26.835 It's very hot, and I stand there, you know, and I start preaching simple verses and I think nobody is hearing, nobody is getting what I'm saying. 00:34:26.835 --> 00:34:30.846 You know, a young man in the streets of Nairobi is preaching. 00:34:30.846 --> 00:34:33.300 You know, you're just there and you started preaching. 00:34:33.300 --> 00:34:37.784 But let me tell you I would make an altar call and somebody starts coming. 00:34:37.784 --> 00:34:41.056 Hallelujah, god's Word never returns void. 00:34:41.056 --> 00:34:59.101 When I was in Mombasa, I used to preach in Matatus, and so we start the Matatu journey and right there I start belting out the Scriptures and I'm just preaching and preaching and by the time we are getting to destination, somebody has responded to what I am preaching about. 00:34:59.583 --> 00:35:01.306 I want to say this word we have. 00:35:01.306 --> 00:35:06.431 The Bible is to be used, it is to be declared and we shall see results. 00:35:06.431 --> 00:35:10.963 We shall see the effects of the Word of God and the effect is right there. 00:35:10.963 --> 00:35:16.590 Now there is, as I come to a close, this guy who was touched by Peter's declaration. 00:35:16.590 --> 00:35:20.601 Acts, chapter 3, give me that from verse 6 on the screen. 00:35:20.601 --> 00:35:22.987 Acts, chapter 3, from verse 6. 00:35:23.047 --> 00:35:25.945 And Pastor Ambrose mentioned this ability last Sunday. 00:35:25.945 --> 00:35:27.773 Acts, chapter 3, verse 6. 00:35:27.773 --> 00:35:31.664 Then Peter said silver or gold I do not have. 00:35:31.664 --> 00:35:37.342 But what I have I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth walk. 00:35:37.342 --> 00:35:38.239 It's a declaration. 00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:39.818 He says walk. 00:35:39.818 --> 00:35:52.538 Taking him by the right hand, he helped him out and instantly I like that word instant, immediate acceleration instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong. 00:35:52.538 --> 00:35:55.623 He jumped up to his feet, began to walk. 00:35:55.623 --> 00:35:58.503 Then he went with them into the temple courts. 00:35:58.503 --> 00:36:04.666 Look at the celebration Walking and jumping and praising God. 00:36:04.666 --> 00:36:10.677 When all the people saw him walking and praising God, then what happened? 00:36:10.677 --> 00:36:14.416 They remember this is the guy they recognized. 00:36:14.416 --> 00:36:32.583 He was the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate, called beautiful, and though I feel with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him, because of God's word I decree signs and wonders, and these signs and wonders will happen in our places. 00:36:32.583 --> 00:36:38.898 I decree that somebody who has not been jumping and excited is going to be excited. 00:36:38.898 --> 00:36:42.061 In fact, I declare probably next Sunday. 00:36:42.081 --> 00:36:44.681 This coming Sunday is because this church is growing very fast. 00:36:44.681 --> 00:36:48.119 It's growing very fast and we shall have people come running. 00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:50.277 But through here. 00:36:50.277 --> 00:37:01.320 Somebody will come through here jumping and thanking God and praising God and saying I don't care, god has done something for me. 00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.639 John, chapter 9, verse 25,. 00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:09.806 The man who was blind said all I know is that I was blind, but now I see. 00:37:09.806 --> 00:37:10.960 Let's give a hand to the Lord. 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:18.021 All I know is that I was blind, but now I see I am seeing testimony in Pastor Ambrose. 00:37:18.755 --> 00:37:23.023 This coming Sunday, and this week is your week to harvest these testimonies. 00:37:23.023 --> 00:37:25.760 The Word of God will be demonstrated. 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:30.884 Monday, tuesday, Wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday. 00:37:30.884 --> 00:37:35.123 Sunday is a celebration and we shall gather in this place. 00:37:35.123 --> 00:37:42.362 I declare and I prophesy in the name of Jesus, just to celebrate what the Lord is able to do. 00:37:42.362 --> 00:37:46.324 I'm inviting us now to learn how to harvest from God's word. 00:37:46.324 --> 00:38:01.222 He has given us this as seed for the miracle, and he has given us this so that we can take the word, administrate or release it or plant it in different situations, and then God is able to turn that around. 00:38:01.222 --> 00:38:02.498 And what do we get? 00:38:02.498 --> 00:38:06.184 We get celebration, because the miracle becomes ours. 00:38:06.934 --> 00:38:29.344 I started by saying this one was not written for angels, it was written for human beings, so that we can mine it, we can make it our own, and so that we can declare it and so that the heavens can honor that faith the same way heaven honored the faith of the centurion, and that the word then becomes effective within our lives. 00:38:29.344 --> 00:38:51.539 And suddenly there is miracle, beginning with the miracle of salvation, the miracle of transformation and growth and development from one degree of glory to another into the miracles of the express life and service and into the miracles of the needs that we have, because God knows what you need and God is able to meet you at the point of need. 00:38:51.539 --> 00:38:57.079 And so this guy who was paralyzed and suffering terribly, is now healthy. 00:38:57.079 --> 00:38:58.559 He is now whole. 00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:05.181 I imagine he's jumping together with the centurion when he got home and they are drinking tons. 00:39:05.181 --> 00:39:14.938 So the one who was sick jumps around and dances all over while the other one is looking, and then it's a time of the senior government official so to do the same. 00:39:14.938 --> 00:39:19.360 And I'm seeing dancing in our homes Hallelujah, god will do miracles. 00:39:19.474 --> 00:39:26.666 God is going to do those miracles, hallelujah, and we shall show up at home and around that dining table. 00:39:26.666 --> 00:39:28.119 I'm speaking to a certain family. 00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:38.818 There has been struggle, things have been very difficult, but these days, coming in an accelerated manner, is coming very, very quickly when that narrative will be changed. 00:39:38.818 --> 00:39:48.019 You shall meet around that dining table and you will be running, I mean you will be chasing one another around that dining table. 00:39:48.019 --> 00:39:52.382 You go one side, then you come, you sing some of these songs we normally sing. 00:39:52.382 --> 00:39:53.117 Which are they? 00:39:53.117 --> 00:39:59.018 Joni Manamberi or whatever song that is Omogidi or something? 00:39:59.018 --> 00:40:09.885 No, no, no, we do the gospel and we do praise, because someone faithfully the last verse of the Psalm says let everything that has bread doer praise the Lord. 00:40:10.335 --> 00:40:21.239 I'm seeing that prophetic picture, reverend Ambrose, and you shared with us Isaiah 61, isaiah 60, all these texts of healing, restoration, rebuilding, double portion. 00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:32.202 They are all in the scriptures downloaded in the life of one family, another family, another family here, and you will gather, you will gather, you will gather Together. 00:40:32.202 --> 00:40:35.023 You have wanted your family together, you will gather. 00:40:35.023 --> 00:40:39.521 I declare in the name of Jesus that prayer shall be answered. 00:40:39.521 --> 00:40:41.822 Your family shall come together. 00:40:41.822 --> 00:40:51.400 They shall listen to one another, they shall support one another, you shall enjoy a meal together, you shall plan together, you shall invest together. 00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.664 And I see that dance around a table. 00:40:54.664 --> 00:41:01.262 There's one I'm seeing very clearly, prophetically right now, and people are just running around and they're saying, oh, we don't care. 00:41:01.262 --> 00:41:03.858 We were in problems, we were scattered. 00:41:03.858 --> 00:41:07.340 Now we are together, doesn't matter what anybody says. 00:41:07.875 --> 00:41:15.864