Speaker 1: Hi Parklands Baptist Church.
Speaker 1: My name is Pastor Felista Kamau.
Speaker 1: The theme for this month Open Door Responsibility Uplifted Kingdom Stewardship is indeed a rammer word for this hour.
Speaker 1: It comes at a time when the nation is going through so much.
Speaker 1: The nation is going through great difficulties.
Speaker 1: In fact, these are days and seasons of self-examination.
Speaker 1: No one loves going through testing, because times of testing require that we individually, require that we individually, as Kenyans, as members, as believers, as families and as individuals, go through self-evaluation, interrogating ourselves to see where we have failed, to see what we have been doing for the last couple of years, to see how is our walk with the Lord.
Speaker 1: There are many conversations that we should be having in the home front, in the church front, even as we continue to engage in different conversations in the nation front.
Speaker 1: As we examine ourselves during this season, it's key for us to remember that God is interested in healing the nation, god is interested in healing the church, god is interested in healing the family and God is interested in healing your life.
Speaker 1: One important thing I would like to say concerning open door responsibility is that we should not forget our assignments, we should not forget our calling, we should not forget our responsibilities, because God expects us to take responsibility over our lives.
Speaker 1: God expects us to take responsibility over our families.
Speaker 1: God expects us to take responsibility over the church and over the nation.
Speaker 1: What is the assignment that God has given you in this hour?
Speaker 1: What is your calling, what is your gift, what is your passion?
Speaker 1: It is very important for us that we keep engaging.
Speaker 1: We keep doing that which we are being tasked to do.
Speaker 1: If you have a job, keep reporting to your work.
Speaker 1: If you have a family, take responsibility over your family.
Speaker 1: Watch over your family.
Speaker 1: If you're a businesswoman, or even if you're a student, it is really important that, in this season, you take leadership.
Speaker 1: Take leadership over yourself, even as you take leadership over the responsibilities that you have been called to do.
Speaker 1: Remember times when you called to God and asked God God, give me something to do, give me an open door.
Speaker 1: This is a season of uplifted open doors.
Speaker 1: So when God has finally given you an uplifted open door, show up, make sure that you are delivering.
Speaker 1: Allow me to talk about uplifted kingdom stewardship.
Speaker 1: This has to do with stewarding your own life, stewarding your resources, stewarding your gifts, stewarding your calling.
Speaker 1: Do you have a gift?
Speaker 1: Do you have a skill?
Speaker 1: Use it, because what you don't use you lose.
Speaker 1: Do you have a job Guard?
Speaker 1: It Work hard.
Speaker 1: Steward your time.
Speaker 1: These are days of people.
Speaker 1: We are being called into accountability, we are being called into stewardship.
Speaker 1: The call to accountability is allowing people, allowing someone maybe it could be your mentor, your leader allowing someone in your life to ask you difficult questions.
Speaker 1: Are you bringing returns?
Speaker 1: Are you stewarding your time?
Speaker 1: Are you stewarding resources?
Speaker 1: Are you stewarding your family?
Speaker 1: What are the key things in your family in this season that you are saying that these are the core values that I want to see in my family season, that you are saying that these are the core values that I want to see in my family?
Speaker 1: Are you stewarding your family?
Speaker 1: Encouraging the children, encouraging your spouse to walk in these key non-negotiables that you have come up with in your family?
Speaker 1: Is it attending church?
Speaker 1: Is it reading scripture?
Speaker 1: Is it obeying the word of God?
Speaker 1: Are you stewarding your marriage?
Speaker 1: Are you stewarding the resources that God has given you?
Speaker 1: Are you saving for the future?
Speaker 1: The Bible says that a good man leaves an inheritance for his children.
Speaker 1: If you are not following kingdom principles, uplifted kingdom stewardship, it is possible that at a point, you can find that you have nothing to give to the next generation.
Speaker 1: As I finish concerning this theme for this month uh, open door, responsibilities, uplifted kingdoms, stewardships I would like to read colossians 3, 23, 24.
Speaker 1: It says that whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.
Speaker 1: It is the Lord Christ you're serving.
Speaker 1: So, whatever we do, whether you are a student, whether you you are in business, whether you are in the marketplace, you are employed, whether you are a stay-at-home mom, whatever, whether you are a volunteer in a place the Bible encourages us to do everything as unto the Lord, for it is the Lord Christ we are serving, and that is the only way we will get our rewards.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and God bless you, shalom.