Speaker 1: Tonight particularly, I'll be talking about our uplifted design.
Speaker 1: Our uplifted design again, it is to introduce this theme for this month and I want you to know how important this particular topic is open design Because this one also gives our theme in January and February a landing.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor there is a landing, because in January our theme was about seeing.
Speaker 1: We were seeing uplifted, open vision we were seeing.
Speaker 1: In February we were talking about open door declarations, talking about authority.
Speaker 1: So we were talking about what we see and what we have been authorized to do.
Speaker 1: But much this one.
Speaker 1: When we talk about design, it gives us the reason to see and the reason to do.
Speaker 1: It's how you are designed that affects how you see and what you do.
Speaker 1: So your design is important.
Speaker 1: For example, an eagle is designed to do what?
Speaker 1: To fly.
Speaker 1: That is why it has been given wings.
Speaker 1: It was designed that way.
Speaker 1: An eagle also has one of the best visions.
Speaker 1: One time I talked to you and said that an eagle, the way the eyes are placed on the eagle's head.
Speaker 1: Thank God that your eyes are in front.
Speaker 1: Hello, because you are designed to look in front, to look forward, not to look behind.
Speaker 1: Forget former things.
Speaker 1: Don't dwell on the things you're supposed to look forward.
Speaker 1: An eagle has a very interesting vision because it can see, not 180 degrees.
Speaker 1: If you see this way and that way, without turning, hello, you are seeing 180 degrees.
Speaker 1: You can see this way and that way.
Speaker 1: You can see this person without really turning.
Speaker 1: If you could see back straight, you'd actually be seeing how many degrees?
Speaker 1: 360.
Speaker 1: And for us to see 360, you have to turn around.
Speaker 1: And the eagle, the eyes, are placed in such a way that it can see at least 350 degrees.
Speaker 1: So it is designed that way.
Speaker 1: It is designed to fly, so it is designed to see.
Speaker 1: But also it is designed and given authority to do what To fly.
Speaker 1: And so don't try going on top of a building and jumping off thinking you can do what Fly, because uta, jua, au jui.
Speaker 1: You are not designed like that.
Speaker 1: So people are designed in different ways, but God designed us in a very special way.
Speaker 1: When you understand your design, then you understand what you need to see and what you need to do.
Speaker 1: This is very important.
Speaker 1: Now, today, our scripture is from Colossians, and I want to read Colossians, chapter 3, verse 1.
Speaker 1: I begin to explain and introduce this thing called open door design and especially today, talk about the uplifted design that we have been given.
Speaker 1: And I want to read this in chapter 3, colossians 3.
Speaker 1: I read from verse 1 to 4.
Speaker 1: It says this since then.
Speaker 1: Now, when it says since then, it means a lot has been said in Colossians, chapter 2.
Speaker 1: All right, so it was building a case, building a case.
Speaker 1: But now in chapter 3, it says since then you have been what Raised with Christ.
Speaker 1: Set your hearts on things above where Christ is Seated at the right hand of God.
Speaker 1: It says set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Speaker 1: Let me say this while I'm reading this verses we were not designed to set our minds on earthly things.
Speaker 1: You get that.
Speaker 1: That's not how we were designed in Christ.
Speaker 1: Let me read verse 3.
Speaker 1: For you did what you died, and your life is now not in the future, is now hidden with Christ in God.
Speaker 1: That's why you should be very excited.
Speaker 1: The devil cannot see you.
Speaker 1: You are hidden.
Speaker 1: So don't walk around saying, wow, this last week the devil has been after me.
Speaker 1: Why was he after you?
Speaker 1: He could not see you.
Speaker 1: You are hidden.
Speaker 1: He's hidden.
Speaker 1: He says go back to verse 3.
Speaker 1: I like that verse.
Speaker 1: For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Speaker 1: That's amazing for me.
Speaker 1: It's amazing for me, blows my mind and I've tried to illustrate that several times.
Speaker 1: For example, you see this card that is you, amen.
Speaker 1: You see this paper that's Christ.
Speaker 1: So you were hidden in Christ, hidden when Christ was hidden in God.
Speaker 1: How can the devil get to you?
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, I'm safe In Christ, in God.
Speaker 1: You see, that is why you should not allow the devil to lie to you.
Speaker 1: You're hidden.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you're hidden.
Speaker 1: So let me finish this verse, because this is a good verse.
Speaker 1: It says this when Christ, who is your life, now appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Speaker 1: Are we together?
Speaker 1: And then it says I'm not going to read the rest, but let me just read it at the beginning.
Speaker 1: So, with this understanding, put to death there for whatever belongs to your earthly nature.
Speaker 1: Now what are these?
Speaker 1: Sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Speaker 1: Because of this, the wrath of God is coming.
Speaker 1: You used to walk in these ways.
Speaker 1: That's your history.
Speaker 1: It is no longer your story.
Speaker 1: In Christ, you have a different story.
Speaker 1: You used to walk in these ways in the life you once lived.
Speaker 1: It's talking about you like past tense.
Speaker 1: You used to look at the next one.
Speaker 1: But now tell your neighbor now you must also read yourself of all such things as this anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language from your lips.
Speaker 1: It goes on to say this do not lie to each other.
Speaker 1: That is your past life, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have now put on.
Speaker 1: You are putting off to put on.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 1: Have you ever tried putting on in the morning your pajamas?
Speaker 1: Then, instead of putting your pajamas off, you put on the clothes you're going to wear on top of your pajamas.
Speaker 1: Hello, you put off your pajamas to put on the clothes you're going to wear that day, he says.
Speaker 1: But now you have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its creator.
Speaker 1: Here there is no gentile or Jew, circumcised or unsuccumbed, barbarian, schittian, slave or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
Speaker 1: Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy, this is now your new life.
Speaker 1: So tell your neighbor I am chosen, I am holy, I am dearly loved.
Speaker 1: Even though you don't think so, I'm still reading.
Speaker 1: I'm clothing myself with compassion, with kindness, with humility, with gentleness, with patience.
Speaker 1: I am bearing with everyone else and I'm forgiving others, even as I have been forgive one another.
Speaker 1: If any of you has any grievance now, I'm not going to have any grievance with anyone.
Speaker 1: So if I took your money, sorry, I'm going to return it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, but that's not what I was going to talk about.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you that you have a different design.
Speaker 1: You have heard me share this story.
Speaker 1: About one time a boy walked to a mountain and he found an eagle's eggs and he took one of the eagle's eggs and took it home.
Speaker 1: And this boy had a hen that was sitting on eggs.
Speaker 1: So he took this eagle's egg, put it with the other eggs and the hen did not see the difference.
Speaker 1: The hen just laid on the other eggs and incubated the eggs and then one day the eggs hatched, but of course most of the eggs were chicken eggs.
Speaker 1: So what came out?
Speaker 1: They are called what Chicks, but in this particular egg, what came out?
Speaker 1: Eagle's eggs, misha's eggs.
Speaker 1: So Mama hen started taking care of the chicks and the eagle's eggs and for quite some time this eagle's eggs, because it was seeing what the other chicks are doing, started doing exactly what the other chicks are doing, because they would eat things from the ground Okay, whether they were worms or grains and the eagle's eggs started eating those things.
Speaker 1: And wherever mother hen went, the eagle's eggs went.
Speaker 1: When the hawks came, remember what would happen?
Speaker 1: Mama hen would make sound and all the chicks would run under her, including the eagle's eggs.
Speaker 1: But after some time this eagle's eggs started growing bigger than the chicks and sometimes it was difficult when Mama hen would cluck, cluck, cluck and all these chicks would run.
Speaker 1: The eagle's eggs could not fit, hello, under Mama hen.
Speaker 1: But then the siblings, these other chicks, really started talking against this other eagle.
Speaker 1: They're saying our brother is weird.
Speaker 1: Our brother, the beak, is growing faster and it is growing sharper.
Speaker 1: Our brother has claws.
Speaker 1: He's looking weird, he's abnormal, he's not like us.
Speaker 1: But the eagle is thinking it is a chicken Working with chicks under Mama hen, eating things from the ground for quite some time and it grew bigger and then one day it started doing some weird things.
Speaker 1: So the chicks, the other chicks that were growing, they would see their brother one time running around with claws, because now it cannot, because the claws are much longer, and they're wondering what is wrong with our brother.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this, in Christ.
Speaker 1: Those who don't know Christ will think you're weird, hello.
Speaker 1: They will listen to you and wonder what you're doing, because they don't understand you, though you're among them.
Speaker 1: You're different, but sometimes we want to know us who are different.
Speaker 1: We want to function like the other ones that we think are us.
Speaker 1: Then one day, this eglet growing quite a bit the feathers are growing quite a bit.
Speaker 1: One day it had a sound in the sky, a whistle, and one day the eglet looked up for the first time and you see, an eagle can look into the sun straight because the eyes are made in such a way that it can deflect the light.
Speaker 1: This chick said Nekubaya, our brother, is looking into the sun, the sky.
Speaker 1: His eyes are going.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this For us, we were created to look at the Son of God, to look straight into his eyes and let the Son of God lift us up.
Speaker 1: But something started entering into this, something that had this eglet had never felt.
Speaker 1: It began.
Speaker 1: It began to because it had this sound and looked up.
Speaker 1: And then it saw, because of the vision, saw an eagle in the sky and something entered into the eglet's eye saying I can be there, I can fly.
Speaker 1: That thought had never entered into the chick's lives, never, because they had no design like that.
Speaker 1: And so one time they saw this eagle now running around, you know it would go.
Speaker 1: And then it would spread the wings, tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: And one day it was going.
Speaker 1: Suddenly it just went up and the brothers and the sisters look at that eagle flying from her first time they said the best fanaticism, he may be.
Speaker 1: A brother we shall.
Speaker 1: You know, some people will look at you and find suddenly you're doing things they've never done.
Speaker 1: You're flying and going up above things they've never gone above.
Speaker 1: And they say come, we shall, we are.
Speaker 1: And this is what they say whatever goes up comes down.
Speaker 1: But every day this eagle started flying, started trying.
Speaker 1: One day it went be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on.
Speaker 1: And then one time it went be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on, be on.
Speaker 1: And it went quite a distance.
Speaker 1: And this other eagle is calling it up.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God is calling us up.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 1: We are saying God is saying come up here.
Speaker 1: That's why the Bible says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
Speaker 1: They shall mount up with wings like eagles.
Speaker 1: They shall run and not be wary.
Speaker 1: They shall walk and not faint.
Speaker 1: My sister, my brother, you are designed for the sky.
Speaker 1: You are designed for the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: You are designed to sit with Christ in the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this one day, this eagle went me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
Speaker 1: Then it went whaa, whaa, whaa, whaa whaa.
Speaker 1: It never came back.
Speaker 1: It found its place in the heavens.
Speaker 1: I pray that you'll find yourself in the heavens.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, and I've read it to you.
Speaker 1: So let me go back to that verse Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I've just realized you look like an eagle.
Speaker 1: So tell your neighbor I'm not a chicken.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, I'm an eagle, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I have relocated.
Speaker 1: I have a new location in the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: So when I read this verse now, it will make sense, because many of us were born and just left to be nurtured by the things of this world.
Speaker 1: So we look like the world, talk like the world, walk like the world.
Speaker 1: We do not know we are not of this world.
Speaker 1: So look at this verse one more time.
Speaker 1: Colossians, chapter 3, verse 1.
Speaker 1: It will make sense for you now.
Speaker 1: It says this, if you can bring that verse to me Since then you have been raised with Christ.
Speaker 1: Set your hearts on things above, where Christ, the chief eagle, is seated at the right hand of God.
Speaker 1: Then set your minds on things above, not on earthly things, why you died and your life is now hidden with Christ and God.
Speaker 1: Now let me read this in the amplified version.
Speaker 1: Let me increase the sound.
Speaker 1: Amen, let's amplify it.
Speaker 1: So let me read it in the amplified version.
Speaker 1: It says this amplified Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ to what?
Speaker 1: To a new life, sharing in his resurrection from the dead, keep seeking the things that are where above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
Speaker 1: Set your mind and keep focusing habitually In other words, make it a habit On the things above, the heavenly things, not on things that are on earth, which have only temporal value, for you died to this world and your new real life is hidden with Christ in God.
Speaker 1: Where Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Speaker 1: Receive that I'm saying, receive that.
Speaker 1: So we are talking about the uplifted design, our uplifted design.
Speaker 1: We have been designed differently.
Speaker 1: So three things that will summarize my thoughts tonight.
Speaker 1: Number one in this status, you are designed to think.
Speaker 1: Number two, you are designed to walk.
Speaker 1: And number three you are designed to worship.
Speaker 1: Design to think, designed to walk, designed to worship.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I am designed to think, I am designed to walk, I am designed to worship.
Speaker 1: We're going to look at the life of David as we put him in these scriptures today.
Speaker 1: So let me start with number one.
Speaker 1: Designed to think, and we are designed to think God's uplifted thoughts, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the phones that we used to have that did not have a camera inside?
Speaker 1: There was one time our phones did not have cameras, in other words, the phone was not designed to take pictures.
Speaker 1: Now imagine using that phone and you find a friend of yours who has a smartphone.
Speaker 1: You have another phone, so you can see it, nya kitambo, not so to look what it was, it's a MIA, ah, motorola.
Speaker 1: So can you imagine?
Speaker 1: This person has this phone.
Speaker 1: It is a smartphone, it has a camera, it has all kinds of apps inside it.
Speaker 1: Yours doesn't have.
Speaker 1: And then you begin to say I'm going to take pictures with my phone, even though it doesn't have a camera.
Speaker 1: Will that happen?
Speaker 1: Because that particular phone is not designed to do that?
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this when you got saved, when you came into Christ, god designed you, and then he put many apps inside you.
Speaker 1: Hello, he put so many apps inside you.
Speaker 1: That's why you're a smart believer, amen.
Speaker 1: You're a smart believer, but let me tell you this Think about your smartphone, think about the kind of apps that are in there.
Speaker 1: Many times we don't use all of them.
Speaker 1: True, there are some things that God put inside you that, from the time you got saved, though, they are there.
Speaker 1: You have never used them, but they are there.
Speaker 1: So God is not trying to put new apps inside you.
Speaker 1: When the Holy Spirit came, he came fully loaded, loaded with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge, with power, with anointing.
Speaker 1: All those apps were put inside you, loaded inside you, but you know you have not used them.
Speaker 1: But some of you have all those apps, but you don't know you have them.
Speaker 1: That is why the Bible says increase your knowledge of the design that you have.
Speaker 1: You have an amazing design.
Speaker 1: That's why the Bible is important.
Speaker 1: That's why we need to think like who, like God.
Speaker 1: It says you are designed to think God's uplifted thoughts.
Speaker 1: Because you can.
Speaker 1: You can.
Speaker 1: Let me read these verses in Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Isaiah, chapter 55.
Speaker 1: These are verses you know.
Speaker 1: Are you learning something?
Speaker 1: These are verses you know.
Speaker 1: This month is a month of finding out your design.
Speaker 1: It says, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, my ways, declare the Lord.
Speaker 1: And then he says as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Speaker 1: And then God, he says as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to the earth without watering it and making it bird and flourish so that it yields seed for the soul and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth.
Speaker 1: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Speaker 1: How does God's thoughts become your thoughts?
Speaker 1: By you thinking on those thoughts.
Speaker 1: So let me read these verses in Philippians 4-8.
Speaker 1: So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: I must think like God this month, because I can Now look at these verses.
Speaker 1: Finally, brethren, now let's read this one, this one we have to read together, one to go.
Speaker 1: Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things, because you can.
Speaker 1: David went to battle, but as he was going there, he was not going to fight anyone.
Speaker 1: Why did David go to the battlefield?
Speaker 1: He was sent by who?
Speaker 1: By his father?
Speaker 1: To do what?
Speaker 1: To take food to the brothers.
Speaker 1: So he was not going to fight anybody, he was not prepared to fight anyone.
Speaker 1: He was just a delivery boy.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: He was a global boy, hallelujah, he was just delivering.
Speaker 1: Now let me read these verses, because it is interesting what happened.
Speaker 1: Because David had learned to think very differently when he was with the ship.
Speaker 1: He thought so differently.
Speaker 1: No wonder God said he's a person after God's own heart.
Speaker 1: So let me read this story in 1 Samuel, chapter 17.
Speaker 1: We are reading around verse 26.
Speaker 1: So he has arrived when these guys are being threatened by Goliath.
Speaker 1: So he says this.
Speaker 1: So they're being threatened.
Speaker 1: Then he's asking what is happening?
Speaker 1: Now listen to this conversation.
Speaker 1: David asked the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills the Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel.
Speaker 1: Do you see how he's thinking?
Speaker 1: The brothers and the army are scared to death.
Speaker 1: They are not thinking straight.
Speaker 1: But David is saying, by the way, who is this guy?
Speaker 1: Me, I'll kill him.
Speaker 1: But what is it in for me?
Speaker 1: I know what am I going to get.
Speaker 1: But he's saying go back.
Speaker 1: Go back to that verse.
Speaker 1: David asked the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills this Philistine.
Speaker 1: Because he had already decided, this guy can be killed.
Speaker 1: The brother said no, this guy will kill us.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this the devil has lost his game.
Speaker 1: The devil is not going to destroy you, he is the one who is destroying.
Speaker 1: That's how he was thinking.
Speaker 1: David asked the man standing near him what will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel.
Speaker 1: Who is this unsurcumstitied Philistine?
Speaker 1: Do you know why he said that?
Speaker 1: He said that because those who are circumcised have a covenant with God.
Speaker 1: Those who are not circumcised do not have a covenant with God, so they are disadvantaged.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this your enemies are disadvantaged.
Speaker 1: You're the one who has an advantage.
Speaker 1: Think like that.
Speaker 1: The Bible says if God is for us, who can be against us?
Speaker 1: That's how he was thinking.
Speaker 1: Now look at the next statement.
Speaker 1: Who is this Unsurcumstitied Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Speaker 1: So he knew Golath is not fighting against the army, he's fighting against who?
Speaker 1: Against the living God?
Speaker 1: He says he cannot win with God.
Speaker 1: He cannot win, my friend.
Speaker 1: He's finished.
Speaker 1: Look at the next verse.
Speaker 1: So they repeated to him what they had been saying and told him this is what will be done for the man who kills him.
Speaker 1: Now, look at this.
Speaker 1: This is now David's.
Speaker 1: Now, this is not David's spiritual part, this is David's other part.
Speaker 1: When Eliab and I'm coming to that when Eliab, david's oldest brother, had him speaking with the man, he burned with anger to him and asked why have you come down here and with whom did you leave those few sheep?
Speaker 1: I'm Chokoza, hello, few sheep in the wilderness.
Speaker 1: I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is.
Speaker 1: You came down only to watch the battle.
Speaker 1: What he was actually saying is this you came to watch us lose.
Speaker 1: It's like watching us and all playing Liverpool.
Speaker 1: It's sometimes dangerous.
Speaker 1: So David says now, what have I done?
Speaker 1: Said David, can't I even speak.
Speaker 1: He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the man answered him as before.
Speaker 1: He then turned.
Speaker 1: What David said was over hard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
Speaker 1: David said to Saul now listen to how he's thinking and speaking.
Speaker 1: Let no one lose heart on account of this.
Speaker 1: Philistine, your servant will go and fight him.
Speaker 1: Saul replied you are not able.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this.
Speaker 1: The kind of thoughts you're going to fight against are many.
Speaker 1: You say one thing.
Speaker 1: They say another thing.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this you are not a chicken, you are an eagle.
Speaker 1: You are an eagle.
Speaker 1: You think differently, you speak differently.
Speaker 1: And God is saying hey, think differently, because the world completely thinks the opposite of you.
Speaker 1: Saul replied now, this is the king speaking.
Speaker 1: You're not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him.
Speaker 1: You are only a young man and Golanth has been a warrior from his youth.
Speaker 1: No wonder Saul was scared of him.
Speaker 1: But David said to Saul your servant has been keeping his father's ship.
Speaker 1: When a lion or a bear came and carried off a ship from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the ship from its mouth.
Speaker 1: When it turned on me, I seared it by hair, struck it and killed it.
Speaker 1: Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear.
Speaker 1: This unsurcamsorced Philistine will be like one of them because he has defied the armies of the living God.
Speaker 1: This guy was thinking on a different plate.
Speaker 1: I am talking to somebody right now.
Speaker 1: I'm saying change your thoughts, think on things above and not on things below.
Speaker 1: Think the thoughts off God.
Speaker 1: If God says you can do all things in Christ, you can.
Speaker 1: You can If God says you're seated above and not below, you are Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: If God says you're the head, another tail.
Speaker 1: You are the head and not the tail.
Speaker 1: When God says you're above, only then you're not below.
Speaker 1: So agree with God, rather than agreeing with people, and sometimes choose to disagree with yourself, disagree with some of those thoughts that rush into your brain and agree with God and say God, I don't understand this situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know how things will work out, but if you have said it this way, I believe you and I'm telling you, something will begin to shift.
Speaker 1: You'll stop eating the things that chicks eat.
Speaker 1: You'll stop looking down, you'll start looking up.
Speaker 1: You'll stop saying cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck.
Speaker 1: You start whistling the songs of heaven, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So look at your neighbor one more time.
Speaker 1: Just find out are they chickens or are they eagles?
Speaker 1: What did you find out?
Speaker 1: Oh, there, we are full of eagles in this house.
Speaker 1: No wonder.
Speaker 1: We shall wait upon the Lord and as we wait upon the Lord, we shall mount up with wings Like who Eagles.
Speaker 1: We shall run and not be weary.
Speaker 1: We shall walk and not faint.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor you're a winner, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor it doesn't matter what you lost today, you're still a winner.
Speaker 1: And, in fact, if the devil stole anything from you, he's going to repay it seven times.
Speaker 1: You are a winner in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: So this uplifted design means that you think.
Speaker 1: Like who?
Speaker 1: Like God, you are designed to think.
Speaker 1: Now, that's a very important statement.
Speaker 1: You are designed to think, so think, be thinking, tell your neighbor, think intentionally Because, by the way, did you know that 2% of people in this world think and then 3% think they are thinking, and the rest of the 95% would rather die than think?
Speaker 1: Which percentage are you in?
Speaker 1: Which one?
Speaker 1: 2%, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: We are designed to do what Think.
Speaker 1: Think on what God's thoughts.
Speaker 1: That is why it is important for you Every day when you take up a newspaper.
Speaker 1: There are people who, immediately they open the newspaper, they go to find out who died.
Speaker 1: They don't read the headlines, they forget that.
Speaker 1: They don't go back to watch the sports, they go to find out how many people died.
Speaker 1: That's a bad place to start your day.
Speaker 1: There are other people.
Speaker 1: They go immediately to look for their stars.
Speaker 1: If you are born in December, you look for Sagittarius and the star tells you what is going to happen in that particular day.
Speaker 1: Leo, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Speaker 1: My friend, don't look for those stars.
Speaker 1: They are called horoscopes, but in heaven they are called horoscopes.
Speaker 1: Don't live your life by the stars.
Speaker 1: Live your life by the word of God.
Speaker 1: Let God's word tell you what to do, when to do it, how to do it, in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: So one more time, tell your neighbor I am designed to think God's thoughts.
Speaker 1: I am designed to think God's thoughts.
Speaker 1: So I stayed there quite a bit, but let me go to the second part.
Speaker 1: You are designed to walk.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I am designed to walk.
Speaker 1: Let me read this verse in Micah.
Speaker 1: I hope they can get Micah.
Speaker 1: It's not Malachi, it's Micah.
Speaker 1: Some people say Micah.
Speaker 1: I hope there's a book like that.
Speaker 1: Can you find it?
Speaker 1: Oh, there it is.
Speaker 1: Micah, chapter 4, verse 1.
Speaker 1: We are reading verse 1 and 2.
Speaker 1: Listen to this Now.
Speaker 1: We are talking about walking, we are walking, we are walking.
Speaker 1: It says in the last days, the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as the highest of the mountains.
Speaker 1: Remember this we are walking in high places, we are seated in the high place, so we walk in the high place as the highest of the mountains.
Speaker 1: It will be exalted above the hills, it says, and peoples will stream to it, many nations will come and say come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob.
Speaker 1: He will teach us His ways so that we may walk.
Speaker 1: What, in His parts, the Lord will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord, from Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: In other words, he's saying this if you have been designed to live in the high places, then walk in the parts of the Lord.
Speaker 1: Amen, walk in those parts.
Speaker 1: Now David, the person we are talking about, david this is what David said.
Speaker 1: I like David.
Speaker 1: Now listen to him.
Speaker 1: Psalms 23, verse 3.
Speaker 1: He's talking about the shepherd.
Speaker 1: Now listen to what he says about walking.
Speaker 1: He says this he refreshes my soul, he guides me along the right parts for His name, sick.
Speaker 1: So let me read that again.
Speaker 1: Let me read it to the New King James.
Speaker 1: Varsion Talks about walking the parts of God.
Speaker 1: He says this he restores my soul, he leads me in the parts of righteousness, so that the parts that we need to walk, we are designed to walk parts of righteousness.
Speaker 1: The Bible says Sikhi, fast, the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
Speaker 1: There are certain parts we need to walk and not the parts of the wicked.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Look at what David said in Psalms, chapter 1, verse 1.
Speaker 1: He said this about parts and places people walk.
Speaker 1: He said this that is a man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, no stands in the part of sinners, no seat in the seat of the scornful.
Speaker 1: He says there are certain parts that are not for you.
Speaker 1: We were created for the parts of righteousness.
Speaker 1: We were walking in the high places.
Speaker 1: Take your turn, neighbor.
Speaker 1: I'm walking on the high mountains.
Speaker 1: Let me read Hosea, chapter 4, verse 9.
Speaker 1: Hosea, hosea 49.
Speaker 1: New King James version, please.
Speaker 1: It says this Hosea 49.
Speaker 1: He says who is wise, let him understand these things.
Speaker 1: Who is prudent, let him know them, for the ways of the Lord are what All right, the righteous do what Walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
Speaker 1: So there's a path we have to walk.
Speaker 1: It's the path of righteousness.
Speaker 1: Let me read Proverbs 3, verse 5 to 6.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this Proverbs 3, 5 and 6.
Speaker 1: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Speaker 1: It says in all your ways, acknowledge him, he shall direct what your parts.
Speaker 1: Trust him, he will put you on the right path.
Speaker 1: David walked on the right path.
Speaker 1: There were times that his trade, but he always came back.
Speaker 1: Psalms 25, verse 4.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this.
Speaker 1: Psalms 25, verse 4.
Speaker 1: Show me what your ways, o Lord, teach me your, your parts.
Speaker 1: And so we are designed to think God's uplifted thoughts.
Speaker 1: We are designed to walk God's uplifted parts.
Speaker 1: So find yourself on that highway.
Speaker 1: One has fewer.
Speaker 1: There's a particular path in Nairobi that is uplifted.
Speaker 1: Which path is that?
Speaker 1: The expressway.
Speaker 1: I know sometimes, you know, god created the expressway for Pesambros.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, Because I stay up Oayakue and so if I need to go to the airport or if I need to go to Langata thank you Jesus, from Oayakue, I just enter the expressway and I'm up.
Speaker 1: I'm up and sometimes I really feel it.
Speaker 1: As I'm up there watching the traffic, I really feel for them.
Speaker 1: Why so, if I'm going to the airport, it is chap chap Kitambo.
Speaker 1: It was crazy, because if you're going to the airport, you thought of going to the airport about two hours just to reach the airport.
Speaker 1: Now you just think 30 minutes, 20 minutes.
Speaker 1: You are there Up the highway, your exit is into the way, the airport.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this God has given us an expressway, the path of the righteous, please.
Speaker 1: But you see, some people choose, even though the expressway has been paid for.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus, by the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Some guys decide I will go through traffic.
Speaker 1: So you go into Westlands through the museum by the time you were hitting the university there and then you're hitting Nyaya House and then you're hitting Hezalassie, my friend, some of us went.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I am not going back into traffic.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking physical.
Speaker 1: Some of us can still go through traffic.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this new highway.
Speaker 1: It's the Lord's highway, it's the Lord's expressway, where there is no scene and temptation and things like that, because our thoughts are up there.
Speaker 1: We're not stumbling into this and stumbling into that.
Speaker 1: We are on this highway and we are reaching where we want to reach faster than we could reach if we are going through the normal parts of life.
Speaker 1: So tell your neighbor your highway is above, not below.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, when you're praying have you ever sometimes been praying and praying?
Speaker 1: And then you really struggle in prayer.
Speaker 1: You're just struggling, you're just struggling, you're trying to pray.
Speaker 1: You come up and pray Because you're going to go through the ceilings and the root of the chin, praying is not going to go.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you're struggling, you're over God.
Speaker 1: You're over God, you're over God.
Speaker 1: The prayers are not just going.
Speaker 1: This is what you need to tell God.
Speaker 1: God, I'm not praying in traffic.
Speaker 1: Take me on the expressway, let me pray from up there.
Speaker 1: God will say come up here, and you'll find yourself at a place where your prayers just flow, because you are now seated with Christ where In the heavenly places.
Speaker 1: Pray from there, not from down here, amen.
Speaker 1: So I conclude by number three.
Speaker 1: You remember what number three is?
Speaker 1: What was number one Designed?
Speaker 1: Designed, designed to think.
Speaker 1: Number two Designed to walk.
Speaker 1: Number three Designed to worship.
Speaker 1: And I just want to read this verse, and then we shall conclude this.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in John, chapter four.
Speaker 1: I believe we are reading from verse 21 to 24.
Speaker 1: So I'm reading.
Speaker 1: Jesus said to her woman believe me, our is coming when you will, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Speaker 1: You worship what you do not know.
Speaker 1: We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews, but the hour is coming, and now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
Speaker 1: God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
Speaker 1: You see, when God designs you before you were even born in your mother's womb, one of the things God designed you for is to do what?
Speaker 1: To worship?
Speaker 1: Animals don't worship, birds don't worship.
Speaker 1: They were not created in the image of God, and so God designed us even before we got to know Him.
Speaker 1: Did you know that the entire humanity worships?
Speaker 1: You worship, whether they are saved or not, they are worshipping.
Speaker 1: If they are worshiping idols, they are worshiping.
Speaker 1: If they are worshiping themselves, they are worshiping.
Speaker 1: People were designed to worship.
Speaker 1: And Jesus is telling the Samaritan woman you Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping, because worship came through the Jews.
Speaker 1: But now the day is coming when you Samaritans and us Jews must worship God in spirit and in truth.
Speaker 1: And he began to teach and share how we need to worship.
Speaker 1: And the door into that worship is one door, and that door is who?
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Now David, though he was not in the New Testament, learned how to worship.
Speaker 1: Now listen to what he said in Psalms 27, verse 4.
Speaker 1: He said something interesting in Psalms 27, verse 4.
Speaker 1: That desire to worship.
Speaker 1: This is what he said.
Speaker 1: He said one thing I have desired of the Lord, that I will do what, that I will seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life To behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
Speaker 1: When you read this particular Psalm, david is going through quite a bit of challenges.
Speaker 1: He's talking about some crazy things that he's going through.
Speaker 1: In fact, when you read it, you begin to realize this guy needed a hiding place.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this the best hiding place for you is the place of worship.
Speaker 1: Let me give you just a glimpse of what he was going through.
Speaker 1: Let me read verse 1 of 27.
Speaker 1: And when you go home, get to read those verses.
Speaker 1: There are 14 of them, but get to read them.
Speaker 1: He says this let me read them in the NIV Psalms, 27, verse 1.
Speaker 1: Just to give you a glimpse of why we need to worship.
Speaker 1: It says this the Lord is my light.
Speaker 1: That's how he begins.
Speaker 1: The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Speaker 1: Whom shall I fear?
Speaker 1: The Lord is the stronghold of my life.
Speaker 1: Whom shall I be afraid?
Speaker 1: Then he says when the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will do what, who will stumble and fall.
Speaker 1: Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear Though war break out against me.
Speaker 1: Even then I will be confident, for in the day of trouble he will keep me what Safe in his dwelling.
Speaker 1: He will hide me in the shelter of his secret tent and set me high upon a rock.
Speaker 1: Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me At his secret tent.
Speaker 1: I will sacrifice the shouts of joy.
Speaker 1: I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Speaker 1: Then he says hear my voice when I call Lord, be merciful to me and answer me.
Speaker 1: So he's going through some problems.
Speaker 1: My heart says to you seek his face, your first Lord I will seek.
Speaker 1: Then he says do not hide your face from me.
Speaker 1: Do not turn your servant away in anger.
Speaker 1: He says you have been my helper.
Speaker 1: Do not reject me or forsake me, god, my Savior.
Speaker 1: He's going through some depressive thoughts.
Speaker 1: Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.
Speaker 1: Then he says teach me your way, lord.
Speaker 1: Lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.
Speaker 1: They are oppressing me every day.
Speaker 1: Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, spouting malicious accusations.
Speaker 1: And then he says hey, I remain confident of this.
Speaker 1: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to somebody now.
Speaker 1: You will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Speaker 1: Then he finishes by saying this wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
Speaker 1: Now, where did you get that statement?
Speaker 1: Wait earlier.
Speaker 1: We're in this service that wait, the ego, they that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength.
Speaker 1: They shall mount up with wings.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor one more time.
Speaker 1: Until your neighbor.
Speaker 1: I'm not a chicken, I'm an ego.
Speaker 1: I'm not for KFC, I'm for the sky.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Now, somebody better give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: The devil is not going to eat you for lunch.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, you are created to fly.
Speaker 1: Now stand up on your feet because you're about to take off.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, have you learnt anything?
Speaker 1: Yes, what's?
Speaker 1: Number one?
Speaker 1: Design to think.
Speaker 1: Design to think like who Think God's thought.
Speaker 1: Number two design to walk.
Speaker 1: What kind of paths?
Speaker 1: Righteous paths.
Speaker 1: Thirdly, design to worship.
Speaker 1: Now, let me tell you this while I'm still here on this worship thing you know worship is very expensive.
Speaker 1: So let me say this as I'm passing, because next week we'll pick on this and keep going.
Speaker 1: Worship is very expensive and for David it was expensive.
Speaker 1: But not just expensive For David, worship was very valuable, it had a lot of value.
Speaker 1: So let me just read this while we are standing, so that you can see the value David put on worship Fast Chronicles, chapter 29.
Speaker 1: It's the last chapter, fast Chronicles, and then we shall be released.
Speaker 1: We'll pick it up next week and then we'll go back to this.
Speaker 1: Then King David said to the whole assembly he's building the temple.
Speaker 1: Now, this is the worship.
Speaker 1: He's building the temple.
Speaker 1: He wants to build the temple.
Speaker 1: That's his desire.
Speaker 1: The person who actually built it is Solomon.
Speaker 1: So he says my son, solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young.
Speaker 1: I imagine a father saying that to a son.
Speaker 1: He's young.
Speaker 1: And what Inexperience.
Speaker 1: The task is great because the palatial structure is not for man but for the Lord God.
Speaker 1: Your worship is not for man, it's for God.
Speaker 1: Then he says with all my resources, I have provided for the temple of my God, gold for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise stones of various colors and all kinds of fine stone and marble, all of these in large quantities.
Speaker 1: Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God, I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God.
Speaker 1: Over and above everything, I have provided for this holy temple 3,000 talents of gold gold of warfare and 7,000 talents of refined silver for the overlaying of the walls of the buildings, for the gold work and the silver work and for all the work to be done by the craftsmen.
Speaker 1: Now, who is willing to consecrate themselves to the Lord today?
Speaker 1: He had really given.
Speaker 1: So the leaders who are with him said Allah, if David can do this, we will also do this.
Speaker 1: Then the leaders of families, the officers of the tribes of Israel, the commanders a thousand commanders of hundreds and the officials in charge of the king's work gave how Willing I hope they did, because the king is the one who gave the example.
Speaker 1: But I want to go to verse 10 and see how he talked about this code.
Speaker 1: In verse 10, he says David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, and this is what he said Praise be to you, lord, the God of our Father, israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Speaker 1: You as all Lord is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Speaker 1: You, as Lord, is the kingdom.
Speaker 1: You are exalted as head over all wealth and honor come from you.
Speaker 1: You're the ruler of all things, in your hands as strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.
Speaker 1: Now, our God, we give you thanks and praise your glorious name.
Speaker 1: Can you see how he's talking to God?
Speaker 1: Can you see how he's worshiping God?
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, worship is expensive, but it is full of value, and so remember this you are designed to think God's thoughts, to walk God's paths and to do what To worship God's being, because God is able to now do for you exceedingly, abundantly, above all that you ask or imagine.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, come on, let's give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: So tell your neighbor I am not designed as a chicken, I'm designed as an eagle.
Speaker 1: I'm not created to clock, I'm created to fly, and for sure.
Speaker 1: Now, in Jesus' name, if you see me up there, it's my portion, it's my destiny.
Speaker 1: I'm above, not below, the head, not the tail.
Speaker 1: So don't be envious, because I was created for this.
Speaker 1: It is my design.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, now better.
Speaker 1: Give God a big hand, amen.
Speaker 1: Let me just warn you that by the time you reach the gate, that devil may be whispering opposite things.
Speaker 1: When he does that, tell him read Colossians, chapter 3, verse 1 to 4.
Speaker 1: Now tell him to read, because you are created for things above and not below.
Speaker 1: But he will whisper Sometimes.
Speaker 1: He can be persistent, but you also be persistent and find your image in the Word of God.
Speaker 1: Don't let the world define you.
Speaker 1: Don't let circumstances define you.
Speaker 1: Let God himself define you.
Speaker 1: You are designed for greatness.
Speaker 1: You are designed to fly in the habitation of the Most High God.
Speaker 1: That is why he's called the Most High.
Speaker 1: He is not the Most Low.
Speaker 1: You are not created for the Low places.
Speaker 1: He's the Most High.
Speaker 1: You're a child of the Most High, so you are Ambrose.
Speaker 1: Like I can say I'm Ambrose, ben High.
Speaker 1: I'm Ambrose, child of High.
Speaker 1: Come on, give God a big hand, the Most High.
Speaker 1: Do not confuse it with the Mira High.
Speaker 1: Mira High goes up to around here, but the Most High is High, high.
Speaker 1: That's where you are created to be, though on earth.
Speaker 1: You are not of this earth.
Speaker 1: You are from above.
Speaker 1: Receive it in Jesus' name and give God another big hand, tell Him thank you.
Speaker 1: And for you watching us online, we are talking to you too.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where you are, it doesn't matter what you're facing.
Speaker 1: You are designed to be up there, designed to fly.
Speaker 1: You're not a chicken, you're an eagle.
Speaker 1: So find out who you are, your vision, your actions.
Speaker 1: Fly.
Speaker 1: This is your season, this is your moment, this is your time.
Speaker 1: Fly like an eagle in Jesus' name, amen, amen, I worship him.
Speaker 1: God bless you for leading us.
Speaker 1: Let's appreciate them, amen.
Speaker 1: This is your season, this is your moment.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you, we worship you, we acknowledge you.
Speaker 1: There's no God like you.
Speaker 1: And, dear Lord, this month we are coming to places where we are resetting our image.
Speaker 1: We are finding out what, how we are designed, created in the image of God and His likeness.
Speaker 1: And, dear Father, thank you for your word that, indeed, our thoughts are to be above and not below.
Speaker 1: Thank you that we were designed to think like God, to walk in His righteous path and to worship the Most High God.
Speaker 1: Father, even as we are released from this service tonight, may we meditate on these thoughts, because they are high thoughts, they are above thoughts and, dear Lord, many times when the low thoughts begin to drag on us like gravity, enable us to stretch forth our wings and to begin to mount up with wings like eagles.
Speaker 1: My God, that's how we were designed.
Speaker 1: We were designed to win and not to lose.
Speaker 1: We were designed for wealth and not for poverty.
Speaker 1: We were designed for life abundant and not for life that kills.
Speaker 1: My God, thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your word tonight.
Speaker 1: May we meditate on it Tonight, tomorrow and in the days to come.
Speaker 1: We are marching into our miracles.
Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, if you believe that, you better say I receive it, I take it, it is my portion and there's nothing that the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, now, give God a big hand as I prepare to release us.
Speaker 1: Remember the theme vision book is still here.
Speaker 1: One of the books you will need to read sometime is this book Mindset, shift Strategy, shifting and Changing your Mind because you're no longer a chicken.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor there's no quack, quack, quack here.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, you are not a chicken, you are an eagle.
Speaker 1: You may have lived among chickens for some time and some of those chickens are in your family, but guess what?
Speaker 1: You are born again.
Speaker 1: You are an eagle.
Speaker 1: So God bless you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming.
Speaker 1: I want to just release us now and remember there's a cup of tea.
Speaker 1: One of the things we love doing in Pakistan is we're doing what?
Speaker 1: Taking tea?
Speaker 1: Why do we take tea?
Speaker 1: Because the Bible says come for tea, come for tea.
Speaker 1: You remember the people who came to church last week.
Speaker 1: They deal with Bible, they are people of Bible society and they were shocked that there's a verse in the Bible that says come for tea, my people.
Speaker 1: But that was on a light note, but I want to release us with God's blessings this month.
Speaker 1: May miracles on top of miracles come your way.
Speaker 1: Jesus name, jesus name, you are designed for those miracles and there's a miracle with your name on it.
Speaker 1: I'm saying there's a miracle with your name on it.
Speaker 1: Somebody missed that.
Speaker 1: I'm saying there's a miracle with your name on it.
Speaker 1: So put your name on that miracle that you're expecting in Jesus name, and next week you'll come back with a testimony because it will happen for you in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: So lift up your hand as I bless us and release us.
Speaker 1: Father, in the name that is above every name, we bless you, we honor you, we thank you.
Speaker 1: And now I bless God's people here, those watching us online, and I declare to you tonight May the Lord bless you, may the Lord make his face to shine upon you, may the Lord be gracious to you, may the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and may the Lord who says come up here, take you to the next level.
Speaker 1: I declare that you're blessed when you come in, you're blessed when you go out, you're blessed when you sit down and when you rise up.
Speaker 1: Indeed, a door has been opened for you this month.
Speaker 1: You are marching into your miracle.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: So go forth in his name and possess that which God has already possessed for you.
Speaker 1: So receive this blessing in the name of the Father and in the name of the Son and in the name of the Holy Spirit, and God's people say amen and amen and amen, amen.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor I'm glad you came.
Speaker 1: Amen, bishop Sifuna, thank you for coming.
Speaker 1: Always good to see you in God's house.
Speaker 1: So one more time, look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life.
Speaker 1: And you, yanny you, you shall dwell in God's house, in God's favor, in God's goodness, in God's wealth, in God's prosperity, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: You are blessed to be a blessing.
Speaker 1: You're favored to be favorable.
Speaker 1: You're lifted to lift others in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: And now, mother Grace, lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the tea and have a good night.
Speaker 1: God bless you.