WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:11.916 Jesus, jesus, how I trust Him, how I've proved Him o'er and o'er. 00:00:11.916 --> 00:00:25.135 Jesus, jesus, precious Jesus, all for grace to trust him. 00:00:25.135 --> 00:00:36.109 Let's give a big hand clap to Jesus, all for grace, to trust him more, like we did revival Sunday, last Sunday. 00:00:36.109 --> 00:00:39.408 I want us to pronounce that name, jesus. 00:00:39.408 --> 00:00:47.671 So give me a J, give me an E, an S, a, u, another S, a, u, another S. 00:00:47.671 --> 00:00:49.585 What name is that? 00:00:49.585 --> 00:00:51.947 What name is that? 00:00:51.947 --> 00:00:54.265 Let's do it louder. 00:00:54.265 --> 00:00:55.384 What name is that? 00:00:55.384 --> 00:01:01.386 Let's give a mighty hand clap to our Lord and King, jesus Christ. 00:01:01.386 --> 00:01:13.906 God is good and all the time, turn to the person next to you and tell them I thank God for you and I bless the Lord that you're here. 00:01:13.906 --> 00:01:26.051 I know it's not by accident, it's by divine appointment, and we appreciate all of us who have come for the service and also those who are following the service from around the world. 00:01:26.051 --> 00:01:36.341 We are one big family and those of us who are here, therefore, let's give a hand clap appreciating the ones who are following this service online all over the world, and we thank God for you. 00:01:36.341 --> 00:01:44.989 We also appreciate all those who are serving this altar the group of young people who have led us in worship and many others on the cameras and the instruments. 00:01:44.989 --> 00:01:57.268 Let's give a hand to the Lord, as we appreciate all those who are serving and even those who came very early here to pray to prepare this altar for God's presence. 00:01:57.268 --> 00:02:03.325 We really appreciate all of us who are here and, once again, those who are visiting for the first time. 00:02:03.325 --> 00:02:14.192 We are happy you are here and, as you are told, after this service in the JSS building we were given the room. 00:02:14.192 --> 00:02:19.669 There's a cup of tea, cup of coffee, and the leaders of this church would like to fellowship with you. 00:02:19.669 --> 00:02:52.663 Just before I read the scripture again to emphasize the VBS Vacation Bible School, very important program from our children's ministry under Pastor Susan Wanjira, this coming week, from tomorrow in the morning, 8.30 am to 12.30, every day up to Friday and 10 am, there will be snacks that will be served, and so plan to bring your children and children of your neighbors and guardians and parents. 00:02:52.663 --> 00:03:05.926 If you can volunteer, be here with us one day or all the days, please show up, because I know the teaching ministry there wants that kind of support, and so we bless the Lord for that opportunity. 00:03:06.099 --> 00:03:08.870 Our scripture reading comes from Matthew, chapter 8. 00:03:08.870 --> 00:03:18.175 Matthew, chapter 8, from verse 5 to verse 13. 00:03:18.175 --> 00:03:22.349 I am reading from the NIV version of the Bible. 00:03:22.349 --> 00:03:33.231 It's a great passage, some action taken by a gentleman on behalf of his servant. 00:03:33.231 --> 00:03:44.453 And remember, our key word this month is intercession, and intercession is intervening on behalf of another Intercession. 00:03:44.453 --> 00:03:51.830 That's the word you're going to be hearing again and again, because the doors have been opened and we can talk to God. 00:03:51.830 --> 00:03:55.109 Matthew, chapter 8, from verse 5 to verse 13. 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:02.713 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help. 00:04:02.713 --> 00:04:09.741 Came to him asking for help, lord. 00:04:09.741 --> 00:04:11.063 He said my servant lies at home, paralyzed, suffering terribly. 00:04:11.063 --> 00:04:14.230 Jesus said to him shall I come and heal him? 00:04:14.230 --> 00:04:21.966 The centurion replied Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. 00:04:21.966 --> 00:04:38.468 And this famous statement we all know it, but just say the word and my servant will be healed, goes on to say in verse 9, for I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. 00:04:38.468 --> 00:04:43.468 I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come and he comes. 00:04:43.468 --> 00:04:46.569 I said to my servant do this and he does it. 00:04:46.569 --> 00:05:00.487 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. 00:05:00.487 --> 00:05:23.470 I said to you that many will come from the east and the west and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the subject or subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness where there will be whipping and gnashing of teeth. 00:05:23.470 --> 00:05:34.524 Then Jesus said to the centurion Go, let it be done just as you believed it would, and his servant was healed. 00:05:34.524 --> 00:05:39.567 At that moment there is healing in the house, hallelujah, and it's going to happen suddenly. 00:05:39.567 --> 00:05:42.129 In the name of Jesus, let us pray. 00:05:42.129 --> 00:05:49.192 Father in heaven, thank you for the anointing that you always release among your people, every time your word is open. 00:05:49.192 --> 00:06:00.663 And, my God, as I flow in this anointing and as I share what you've put in my heart, I pray that, god, you will do signs and wonders Because you are the same. 00:06:00.663 --> 00:06:02.889 Yesterday, today and forever. 00:06:02.889 --> 00:06:07.223 In Jesus' name, we've prayed and we all say we may have our seats. 00:06:08.726 --> 00:06:18.512 The title of the message today is Uplifted Kingdom, intercession, and the text is the one I just read Matthew, chapter 8, verse 5 up to verse 13. 00:06:18.512 --> 00:06:30.346 And for the purpose of us being able to follow, as I share, I have outlined this message in three pockets or pigeonholes. 00:06:30.346 --> 00:06:31.687 Three of them. 00:06:31.687 --> 00:06:40.992 The first one is the plea of intercession, the second one is the faith of intercession and the third one the fruit of intercession. 00:06:40.992 --> 00:06:44.232 Let me just repeat again the plea of intercession, the faith of intercession and the fruit of intercession. 00:06:44.232 --> 00:06:51.805 Let me just repeat again the plea of intercession, the faith of intercession and the fruit of intercession Uplifted kingdom. 00:06:52.242 --> 00:07:05.620 Intercession you know, god has put us in a place where now we can invoke the kingdom of God in earthly situations. 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:15.492 It is possible now, because of where God has put us, to be able to invite the kingdom of God to function in earthly situations. 00:07:15.492 --> 00:07:23.627 And you know, when you invite God or his kingdom into earthly situations, those situations must change. 00:07:23.627 --> 00:07:57.482 They will not remain the same, and so intercession is a very important privilege that God has actually granted to all of us, because the role of a priest has now been removed from an elite group, just a small group of people who are expert prayer experts, or maybe prayer warriors, or a small group of people where others feel this one is more connected to God than me. 00:07:57.482 --> 00:08:04.632 But the priestly role or the call to priesthood is a call for every believer. 00:08:04.692 --> 00:08:19.514 Now, it is for every believer, and for that reason we can intercede, we can actually step in and talk to God the language of prayer on behalf of others. 00:08:19.514 --> 00:08:35.230 We can step in the place of intercession, and as we step into the place of intercession and as we step into the place of intercession, we step there with convictions that God is able and therefore we shall not limit him. 00:08:35.230 --> 00:08:38.008 And that is what is happening in this text. 00:08:38.008 --> 00:08:47.947 There's a man, called a centurion, who steps in the place of intercession on behalf of his servant, and this centurion has a big faith. 00:08:47.947 --> 00:08:50.225 He is not limiting God. 00:08:50.225 --> 00:08:58.192 And as I share this word with us today, I am praying that somebody will be lifted to the next level in the realm of intercession. 00:08:59.201 --> 00:09:35.714 We need many people to come to the place of intercession because where we live, our neighborhoods and even within our families, within our country, kenya, right now, and across Africa and the world, we all know that there is a big need for us to step up in the place of prayer and be able to bring prayer items and speak to God on matters across the boat, without leaving some out and saying only this I can take to God. 00:09:35.714 --> 00:09:47.874 And the amazing thing that makes this possible is the fact that God has opened the door and therefore, everyone can come. 00:09:47.874 --> 00:09:56.841 Everyone can come when you read Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1 and 2 and I'll read it on the screen Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1 and 2. 00:09:56.841 --> 00:10:14.773 You know, john is lifted by the power of God's word and also by the spirit of God, by the power of God's word and also by the spirit of God to be able to come to a place where he sees an open door and in that particular place he sees the throne room and he sees one who sits there. 00:10:14.773 --> 00:10:17.288 Let me just read Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1 and 2. 00:10:18.260 --> 00:10:22.409 After this, I looked and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. 00:10:22.409 --> 00:10:23.552 And that's the way it is. 00:10:23.552 --> 00:10:36.043 Even as I'm talking right now, it is now open, and the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said come up here. 00:10:36.043 --> 00:10:36.985 This is a call. 00:10:36.985 --> 00:10:39.451 This is a kind of call God has made for all of us. 00:10:39.451 --> 00:10:41.943 It applies to all of us equally. 00:10:41.943 --> 00:10:47.394 Come up here and I will show you what must take place after this. 00:10:47.394 --> 00:10:51.701 Amazing, because in that place you get revelation At once. 00:10:52.041 --> 00:11:11.889 I was in the spirit and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it the privilege of intercession, because you see, when you engage intercession and you come to the place of prayer on behalf of others, there are amazing things God begins to show you. 00:11:11.889 --> 00:11:22.128 And the threshold of intercession is seeing God and seeing his attributes and seeing his glory and actually seeing who he is. 00:11:22.128 --> 00:11:30.394 Because you can never succeed in the place of prayer or intercession if you don't first of all say God, show me who you are. 00:11:30.394 --> 00:11:35.071 God, help me understand what you are able to do. 00:11:35.071 --> 00:11:39.783 God, give me a vision and a revelation of who you are. 00:11:39.783 --> 00:11:55.207 And therefore God has allowed every one of us we have equal opportunities to be lifted by the spirit of intercession or the spirit of God to the place where we find an open door, and I don't know how many of us have this experience. 00:11:55.940 --> 00:12:07.246 Every time I come to God in prayer, like I did this morning at 5 am, and I wake up and I say, god, I cannot face this day without you there is a lifting. 00:12:07.246 --> 00:12:18.724 There is a lifting you get, and there is also a warmth you experience and you feel like you are taken on a journey and you begin to see things you have never seen. 00:12:18.724 --> 00:12:30.605 You know, like scripture says, what no eye has seen, nor your heart, nor the heart of man conceived, god has revealed, has revealed to those who love him. 00:12:30.605 --> 00:12:51.947 And that is why you can enter bold intercession, because you have the intercession convictions and the intercession understanding that you're not talking to a deaf God, that the gates are open, that the throne room is there, the king of kings is sitting there and you see him. 00:12:51.947 --> 00:12:54.168 You know, you actually see him. 00:12:54.168 --> 00:12:58.232 You can never succeed in the place of prayer unless you start there. 00:12:58.232 --> 00:13:07.682 And you know, john is lifted and he began to see this place and he's seeing Jesus sitting there and his loving eyes and his kind eyes. 00:13:07.682 --> 00:13:14.802 And the rest of the story is flowing from such a connection and such an understanding. 00:13:14.802 --> 00:13:25.010 And let me say, then, the threshold of intercession is actually that lifting by the spirit of God and being able to see and understand who God is. 00:13:25.591 --> 00:13:32.831 And let me tell you this this centurion that we are talking about here has had this kind of uplifting. 00:13:32.831 --> 00:13:33.753 How do I know? 00:13:33.753 --> 00:13:43.629 When you read verse 9, he says for I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me, I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come and he comes. 00:13:43.629 --> 00:13:44.292 That is in verse 9. 00:13:44.292 --> 00:13:46.120 I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come, and he comes. 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:47.163 That is in verse 9. 00:13:47.163 --> 00:13:50.481 I say to my servant do this, and he does it. 00:13:50.481 --> 00:14:01.767 This man must have been lifted, he has looked up at his own exercise of authority and he knows I'm going to one who has greater authority. 00:14:01.767 --> 00:14:45.365 And the one I'm going to is able to command things, not just at the realm of the human I mean the realm like a human being but at another level, and therefore that understanding and that engagement Is very, very critical when it comes to intercession, uplifted kingdom, intercession, kingdom work coming down, and so God shows you, lifts you, shows you, and he says, for that matter, you are praying over my desire and will is this one, and the pattern in heaven for the destiny of what you are praying on earth, the pattern that is in heaven already, is this one. 00:14:45.779 --> 00:15:05.855 Therefore, my child, talk to me, begin to talk to me, talk to me about that family, begin to talk to me about that person, and then God shows you the plan, he shows you the pattern, and then you start speaking a language which is heavenly, because when you are praying at the place of intercession, you are not speaking earthly things. 00:15:05.855 --> 00:15:26.128 You are beginning to speak what God has already put in your heart and that's what I would encourage us here that, as you come to the place of intercession, begin at the place of saying God, show me who you are, god, show me what plan you have for this situation and God, help me pray. 00:15:26.128 --> 00:15:29.566 And let me tell you, prayer does not come from man. 00:15:29.566 --> 00:15:31.791 Prayer comes from the spirit of God. 00:15:31.791 --> 00:15:41.386 You pray as God prays in you and you can tell somebody who is praying as prayer that God is praying within them and one who is just praying a human prayer. 00:15:41.587 --> 00:15:46.100 There is a very, very big difference Intellectual prayer and a spirit prayer. 00:15:46.100 --> 00:15:54.863 There is a total difference between the two, and so the language of prayer is intercession, is spirit language. 00:15:54.863 --> 00:16:05.235 But God lifts you up and then God shows you how things should be and although somebody is sick here, you are seeing the healing. 00:16:05.235 --> 00:16:18.711 You have already seen it and you begin to fetch it in terms of your prayer and then you start decreeing it, and that's why you find in the revival season 10 decrees and also declarations. 00:16:18.711 --> 00:16:28.105 I wrote 15 of them and for each one of them I had put a scripture, because that is the language of the kingdom, and for each one of them I had put a scripture, because that is the language of the kingdom and that is spirit intercession. 00:16:28.105 --> 00:16:28.745 It is scripture based. 00:16:28.765 --> 00:16:35.350 And then I've given all those declarations and so you have a centurion who is actually a Roman. 00:16:35.350 --> 00:16:52.253 You'd call him, not even a believer, but thank God, he has understood, he has followed Jesus somehow and he has understood that as he comes to the place of prayer and is coming to the place of intercession, he is not dealing with an equal. 00:16:52.253 --> 00:16:58.572 He is not dealing, he's not a familiar place, he's not just dealing with somebody at his level. 00:16:58.572 --> 00:17:16.023 He's dealing with someone who is able and therefore I want us to understand that God is calling us to the place of intercession and God has chosen to work only through prayer and is waiting for someone to come to the place of prayer so that he can move. 00:17:16.023 --> 00:17:26.703 If you find a neighborhood where God is not moving, it is because maybe there are no people there who have gone to the place of prayer and they are tiring there. 00:17:26.703 --> 00:17:32.008 Instead, they are using their own human strength to change things in their neighborhoods. 00:17:32.488 --> 00:17:58.609 But I want to tell you there are spiritual realities about everything that, unless you have the secret and understanding that everything is first of all spiritual and then manifests in the physical and therefore, to be able to touch the nerve center and the foundation and the roots and the bottom of every development, you must connect at the spiritual level. 00:17:58.609 --> 00:18:11.570 And so, in that neighborhood, within your family, those issues that have been deep-seated, very complicated and very difficult, I am telling you there is a God in heaven who is more than able. 00:18:11.570 --> 00:18:14.720 How many believe with me that our God in heaven is more than able? 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:18.365 In fact, when you read Luke, chapter 18, verse 27,. 00:18:18.365 --> 00:18:23.674 Give me on the screen Luke, chapter 18 and verse 27, I believe. 00:18:23.674 --> 00:18:25.625 Why don't we read it together? 00:18:25.625 --> 00:18:32.961 Jesus replied what is impossible with man is possible with God. 00:18:33.403 --> 00:18:34.969 Jeremiah 32, verse 17,. 00:18:34.969 --> 00:18:36.726 Let me have that one also. 00:18:36.726 --> 00:18:39.222 Jeremiah 32 and verse 17,. 00:18:39.222 --> 00:18:40.690 What does it say? 00:18:40.690 --> 00:18:42.920 Our sovereign Lord? 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:43.279 Let's read it. 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:44.521 Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and earth. 00:18:44.521 --> 00:18:45.462 What does it say, our sovereign Lord? 00:18:45.462 --> 00:18:45.762 Let's read it. 00:18:45.762 --> 00:18:52.249 Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and earth by your great power, an outstretched arm. 00:18:52.249 --> 00:18:55.231 Nothing is too hard for you. 00:18:55.231 --> 00:18:56.874 What about verse 27? 00:18:56.874 --> 00:18:59.396 The same chapter, go to verse 27. 00:18:59.396 --> 00:19:02.984 The same chapter, verse 27. 00:19:02.984 --> 00:19:04.248 Let's read it together. 00:19:04.248 --> 00:19:09.165 I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. 00:19:09.165 --> 00:19:12.108 Is anything too hard for me? 00:19:12.740 --> 00:19:24.068 Ephesians 3.20 says God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we can ask with the power that he operates, or even imagine. 00:19:24.068 --> 00:19:32.815 And this is the kind of God and nature, the nature of God, who we come to when we engage intercession. 00:19:32.815 --> 00:19:34.460 That is where we begin. 00:19:34.460 --> 00:19:40.086 This morning, god gave me the prayer to pray and he brought nations to me. 00:19:40.086 --> 00:19:56.531 He brought people to me early in the morning and he brought families and people in my neighborhood, and it was even difficult to stop for me to come here for this service, because when you go into that place, it is warm, it is nice. 00:19:56.531 --> 00:19:58.624 I don't know how to describe it. 00:19:58.624 --> 00:20:05.385 There is a glory, there is a presence, hallelujah, it is a beautiful place. 00:20:05.385 --> 00:20:14.140 You know, david wrote and he said one day in the house of the Lord is better than a thousand elsewhere. 00:20:14.140 --> 00:20:18.108 I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than dwell in the tent. 00:20:18.108 --> 00:20:20.634 Yes, of the wicked. 00:20:20.634 --> 00:20:23.989 I'm telling you, it's a beautiful place. 00:20:23.989 --> 00:20:35.621 I don't know how to describe it, but you know, this centurion is coming to the king of kings and the lord of lords and when he comes there he makes a plea. 00:20:36.582 --> 00:20:38.605 Intercession needs to have a plea. 00:20:38.605 --> 00:20:40.487 The plea is a request. 00:20:40.487 --> 00:20:51.182 A plea, a request, an urgent request, pleading to plead, to make a plea, the plea of intercession. 00:20:51.182 --> 00:21:01.875 And in the plea of intercession you need to speak the impossible, you need to ask the impossible. 00:21:01.875 --> 00:21:11.102 Don't waste your moments of intercession. 00:21:11.102 --> 00:21:14.147 Maximize on them by bringing the whole weight of the matter into God's hands. 00:21:14.147 --> 00:21:15.289 Let him do the heavy lifting. 00:21:15.289 --> 00:21:18.300 Don't bring just one end. 00:21:18.300 --> 00:21:28.643 He holds one end, you're holding the other end and you probably are holding the heavier end of the matter and you've just allowed, are holding the heavier end of the matter, and you just allowed God to touch the tip of the matter. 00:21:28.643 --> 00:21:32.424 And then the next day, during the week, you are walking like that. 00:21:32.424 --> 00:21:37.017 God is holding a little bit and you're holding the bulk and you're walking like that. 00:21:37.017 --> 00:21:40.273 Now ask the impossible. 00:21:40.273 --> 00:21:47.439 If you believe in a big God and if you believe in a God who is able, then ask the impossible. 00:21:47.439 --> 00:21:51.055 How is the plea of the centurion in verse 5 and 6? 00:21:51.787 --> 00:21:56.478 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help. 00:21:56.478 --> 00:21:59.446 Asking for help, lord. 00:21:59.446 --> 00:22:05.429 He said my servant lies at home, paralyzed, and he describes the situation. 00:22:05.429 --> 00:22:07.214 It is not an easy one. 00:22:07.214 --> 00:22:09.450 A human being cannot handle this. 00:22:09.450 --> 00:22:19.275 No hospital is able to handle this, no doctor can handle this and you may be in a situation that you've been struggling with for a long time. 00:22:19.275 --> 00:22:25.615 And God is speaking to your heart right now and he's saying this is a day to pass it on to God. 00:22:25.615 --> 00:22:30.737 My servant lies at home, paralyzed, suffering terribly. 00:22:30.737 --> 00:22:33.507 That is the plea he's saying. 00:22:33.507 --> 00:22:40.355 I am talking about my servant and he is not in a good situation. 00:22:41.625 --> 00:22:46.210 We quoted scripture earlier saying there is nothing impossible with God, and indeed it is true. 00:22:46.210 --> 00:22:50.596 So he comes and he brings the matter into Jesus. 00:22:50.596 --> 00:22:57.653 Heaven's door is open and heaven's door is waiting for earth's language. 00:22:57.653 --> 00:23:00.621 Heaven's door is open and heaven's door is waiting for earth language. 00:23:00.621 --> 00:23:05.892 Heaven's door is open and God is sitting on the throne and is waiting for us to say something. 00:23:05.892 --> 00:23:09.479 He's waiting for us to say something. 00:23:09.479 --> 00:23:13.269 What is it that you need to bring before God? 00:23:13.391 --> 00:23:26.564 The other Sunday, when I preached, you know, in the same area of prayer, and I say God is waiting for you to articulate it is called the articulation of what is in your heart. 00:23:26.564 --> 00:23:39.859 Begin to speak it out, begin to say, and don't even sugarcoat it, just simply be honest in the presence of God and you say my Lord, this is the matter. 00:23:39.859 --> 00:23:50.872 That is, I have noticed in my child, I have noticed at my workplace, I have noticed as far as our family and its journey is concerned. 00:23:50.872 --> 00:23:53.339 And you begin and you say it as it is. 00:23:53.339 --> 00:23:59.136 And so he comes and he says about his servant he's suffering terribly and that he's actually paralyzed. 00:23:59.136 --> 00:24:00.666 This kind of situation. 00:24:00.666 --> 00:24:06.398 No human being is able to deal with situations such as this. 00:24:06.398 --> 00:24:08.833 So bring it as it is. 00:24:08.833 --> 00:24:19.916 A mark of intercession is that the plea is clarified, the plea is articulated and the plea is stated very, very clearly. 00:24:19.916 --> 00:24:25.537 He's a man who is a leader, but he knows this kind of matter he cannot handle. 00:24:26.605 --> 00:24:33.159 We have another case of intercession by Moses in Exodus, chapter 32, verse 11, up to verse 14. 00:24:33.159 --> 00:24:35.731 And let me just read it. 00:24:35.731 --> 00:24:48.176 But Moses sought the favor of the Lord God, and he said why should your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? 00:24:48.176 --> 00:24:54.530 Why should the Egyptians say it was with evil intent that he brought them out? 00:24:54.530 --> 00:25:01.394 To kill them in the mountains and also to kill them in the mountains and also to wipe them off the face of the earth? 00:25:01.394 --> 00:25:04.651 Turn from your fierce anger. 00:25:04.651 --> 00:25:06.477 He's talking to God. 00:25:06.477 --> 00:25:13.253 Turn from your fierce anger, relent and do not bring disaster on your people. 00:25:13.253 --> 00:25:31.436 Remember your servants, abraham, isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self I'll make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever. 00:25:31.436 --> 00:25:34.788 Then verse 14, then the Lord relented. 00:25:34.949 --> 00:25:37.436 Imagine God wanted to do something. 00:25:37.436 --> 00:25:41.355 A human being comes and begins to talk about the matter. 00:25:41.355 --> 00:25:50.876 He's interceding on behalf of many and he says God relented and did not bring on his people the desire he had threatened. 00:25:50.876 --> 00:26:07.798 Intercession is very, very powerful and I find it such a great privilege that God will allow me to pray, even for a country like Kenya you know my own country and bring the kingdom or the plan of God regarding Kenya on planet Earth. 00:26:08.244 --> 00:26:13.853 Bring kingdom into earthly situations and ask God this is not right. 00:26:13.853 --> 00:26:16.113 What I'm seeing here is not okay. 00:26:16.113 --> 00:26:18.311 But, god, I know you have a great plan. 00:26:18.311 --> 00:26:21.934 Can you, lord, bring it down in this situation? 00:26:21.934 --> 00:26:24.273 This person is sick and they are suffering. 00:26:24.273 --> 00:26:27.625 My God, would you reverse this situation? 00:26:28.185 --> 00:26:32.757 And let me tell you, the plea should be an ask. 00:26:32.757 --> 00:26:34.550 You are asking the impossible. 00:26:34.550 --> 00:26:40.051 You are basically asking something that a human being is really not able to do. 00:26:40.051 --> 00:26:44.011 We struggle with issues and we don't bring them to God. 00:26:44.011 --> 00:26:57.205 Yet God is saying have no anxiety, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to me, and the peace, my peace, that passes all understanding will keep your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. 00:26:57.205 --> 00:26:59.709 Philippians, chapter 4, verse 6 and 7. 00:26:59.709 --> 00:27:04.693 And so we wrestle and struggle, and even our life becomes shorter. 00:27:04.693 --> 00:27:06.476 We really don't sleep. 00:27:06.476 --> 00:27:07.738 I mean it becomes very hard. 00:27:07.738 --> 00:27:12.546 Yet God is saying that matter is not hard for me, it is very easy. 00:27:12.546 --> 00:27:16.868 I believe I'm talking to somebody and I'm saying to this person that I'm talking to right now. 00:27:16.868 --> 00:27:21.416 That story is over, hallelujah, because you are handing it over. 00:27:21.416 --> 00:27:22.699 Did you hear what I say? 00:27:22.699 --> 00:27:28.108 That story is over because you are handing it over. 00:27:28.108 --> 00:27:34.692 There is a peace that is going to come upon your life that passes all understanding. 00:27:34.692 --> 00:27:36.155 Am I prophesying? 00:27:36.155 --> 00:27:39.092 May the warmth of God come upon you? 00:27:39.092 --> 00:27:47.031 Yes, may God embrace you, may God reassure you, may you walk with God like a friend. 00:27:47.031 --> 00:27:51.852 He's saying the door is open, the opportunity is equal for all. 00:27:51.852 --> 00:27:53.731 Why are you struggling on the other side? 00:27:53.731 --> 00:27:56.204 Just begin to talk and tell God this matter. 00:27:56.306 --> 00:27:57.980 I remember when my daughter came to me and tell God this matter. 00:27:57.980 --> 00:28:05.486 I remember when my daughter came to me and told me dad, I want to further my education and to do postgraduate studies. 00:28:05.486 --> 00:28:16.949 That's my fourth born and I would like to do it somewhere outside the country because that is where that particular discipline is served best. 00:28:16.949 --> 00:28:19.790 And so I said, where would you like to go? 00:28:19.790 --> 00:28:24.355 And she told me I would like to go to Canada and I would like to study Toronto. 00:28:24.355 --> 00:28:27.737 And, dad, that is what I want. 00:28:27.737 --> 00:28:32.060 Now my daughter brought the matter to the father. 00:28:32.060 --> 00:28:49.152 She walked away with peace Hallelujah, because she left it with her daddy and children have this thing of believing that daddies and mommies can do everything, even grandchildren. 00:28:50.924 --> 00:29:02.886 Yesterday, around four-ish, I decided to ask for my grandchildren, my two grandsons, to bring them to Surrit, and there's a place upstairs where people jump on trampolines. 00:29:02.886 --> 00:29:04.594 It's called, I don't know, jump Something. 00:29:04.594 --> 00:29:22.453 Yes, yeah, that one and I went there and it's very interesting because one is four years, the other one is just one year, and I could see their faith in their grandfather that as long as granddad is around, everything is paid for. 00:29:22.453 --> 00:29:25.751 We shall enter and we shall enter. 00:29:25.751 --> 00:29:37.833 And let me tell you I was carrying one of them and it's like he has put 100% of his weight on me and the other one is following and trusting Hallelujah. 00:29:37.833 --> 00:29:46.738 We sang the song trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey. 00:29:47.285 --> 00:29:57.913 Psalms, chapter 20, verse 7, says some trust in chariots, others trust in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord, our God. 00:29:57.913 --> 00:30:05.454 Those children and we had a good time at Sarit, and then I took them back, you know, to their home. 00:30:05.454 --> 00:30:06.917 Now back to my daughter. 00:30:06.917 --> 00:30:09.650 So she finished, released the matter in my hands. 00:30:09.650 --> 00:30:12.846 I told her do your research, application everything. 00:30:12.846 --> 00:30:14.128 And she did everything. 00:30:14.128 --> 00:30:15.030 She was admitted. 00:30:15.030 --> 00:30:16.934 And then, of course, there is the bill. 00:30:16.934 --> 00:30:19.709 How much it's going to cost in CADs? 00:30:21.614 --> 00:30:42.384 I said, father, in her absence, in her absence, of course, and in my prayer closet, my God, you have promised in your word that you'll supply every need of mine according to your riches in glory, by Christ Jesus. 00:30:42.384 --> 00:31:05.596 You have also told me in Psalms 37, verse 25, through David, I have been never, never, never, never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread. 00:31:05.596 --> 00:31:13.096 Hallelujah, I held on to that and do you know, I received peace at the place of prayer. 00:31:13.096 --> 00:31:14.664 That passage is all understanding. 00:31:14.664 --> 00:31:23.328 And the next time I was talking to my daughter I was saying you are going, everything is working out, the rest was application for the visa. 00:31:23.328 --> 00:31:25.750 And then you know things moving. 00:31:26.271 --> 00:31:36.773 As we are talking now, this coming week, on Wednesday, she's finishing her first semester in her postgraduate studies in Toronto, canada. 00:31:36.773 --> 00:31:38.769 Isn't God good? 00:31:38.769 --> 00:31:43.393 And I think the brother realized daddy can do something. 00:31:43.393 --> 00:31:50.791 So he has come recently and he said, daddy, what I want to do, postgraduate is also not around. 00:31:50.791 --> 00:32:00.915 That is like three weeks ago, and so I've done my research, this is what I want to do. 00:32:00.915 --> 00:32:02.811 It is here somewhere in Europe. 00:32:02.811 --> 00:32:06.193 And he said yes, the bill is this one. 00:32:06.193 --> 00:32:12.632 So I have been back to the closet again and I know my son will go. 00:32:12.632 --> 00:32:15.436 Hallelujah, that's the faith I hold. 00:32:15.436 --> 00:32:17.029 That's the faith I hold. 00:32:18.404 --> 00:32:23.109 And so when the centurion comes to the issue of his servant, he's coming to the right place. 00:32:23.109 --> 00:32:29.932 And I told you the other Sunday don't follow those prayer things on electric poles. 00:32:29.932 --> 00:32:31.951 You have a burden. 00:32:31.951 --> 00:32:32.528 You are walking. 00:32:32.528 --> 00:33:04.059 Suddenly you see something written on an electric pole and he's saying if you have a problem with your relationships, and when you now take that number and call it, you have now started walking on a path that will completely destroy you and take much more from your life. 00:33:04.059 --> 00:33:09.492 Say no to those kind of invitations, because the door is open. 00:33:10.565 --> 00:33:12.271 Jesus is on the throne. 00:33:12.271 --> 00:33:15.785 He is the same yesterday, today and forever. 00:33:15.785 --> 00:33:22.255 He is in control and he has and forever he is in control and he has never relegated or relisted. 00:33:22.255 --> 00:33:24.009 He is fully in charge. 00:33:24.009 --> 00:33:33.212 You know, and simply come to the right place, let the Spirit of God lift you to that place and begin to talk to the right authority. 00:33:33.212 --> 00:33:35.412 And that is what the centurion is saying. 00:33:35.412 --> 00:33:37.530 And he articulates the issue. 00:33:37.530 --> 00:33:42.420 And you know, as soon as he says the issue, he knows it's going to be done. 00:33:42.420 --> 00:33:46.876 That's what faith is able to give you, and he receives peace that passes all understanding. 00:33:46.876 --> 00:33:49.204 And so today there is a matter here. 00:33:49.204 --> 00:33:53.832 There is a matter here and it's been very heavy and very difficult in your life. 00:33:53.832 --> 00:33:58.179 Allow this pastor to announce to you that God is taking over. 00:33:58.179 --> 00:34:00.146 God is taking over. 00:34:00.146 --> 00:34:03.714 God is taking over that particular matter. 00:34:03.714 --> 00:34:06.342 God is taking over. 00:34:06.903 --> 00:34:09.367 But the second thing is the faith of intercession. 00:34:09.367 --> 00:34:35.121 So you have the plea, but the plea needs faith, because faith is what releases it totally into the hands of God, and faith instigates a process where there's a transaction, where the hand of God picks it from your realm to his realm. 00:34:35.121 --> 00:34:38.574 Yes, that is faith. 00:34:38.574 --> 00:34:44.556 Therefore, faith makes you open your palms and allow God to pick it from your hands. 00:34:44.556 --> 00:34:52.994 It is faith, and you know from Hebrews 11, verse 1, it says Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 00:34:52.994 --> 00:34:56.067 And then verse 6 says Without faith. 00:34:56.067 --> 00:35:08.355 It is impossible to please God Without faith, for with faith you know that he exists and when you begin to pray, then he rewards those who seek him. 00:35:08.355 --> 00:35:11.369 Faith has a reward. 00:35:11.985 --> 00:35:15.891 Faith is not an empty search, it is not a blind leap into the dark. 00:35:15.891 --> 00:35:17.356 No, never. 00:35:17.356 --> 00:35:21.630 Faith has the object of faith, and that object is God. 00:35:21.630 --> 00:35:33.539 And then faith is based on what God has said, his word, and because I am a covenant person, I have every right to benefit from covenant blessings. 00:35:33.539 --> 00:35:42.411 And so if I'm an Abraham coming to God, I am coming to my father and my God, and there's something he has said about my destiny. 00:35:42.411 --> 00:35:54.932 And so Abraham will come and begin to speak in line with the covenant and in line with what God has said about his life, and although it is late in his journey, he hasn't had a baby and the wife. 00:35:54.932 --> 00:35:57.759 You know they have not had a baby. 00:35:57.759 --> 00:36:00.152 He still believes in the word of God. 00:36:00.152 --> 00:36:05.592 He is holding on to the word of God and that is what faith is able to do. 00:36:05.592 --> 00:36:15.697 So no distrust made Abraham waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong, fully persuaded that God was able to do what he had promised. 00:36:15.697 --> 00:36:16.619 We must believe. 00:36:17.284 --> 00:36:22.009 James, chapter 1, verse 6, says the following James, chapter 1, verse 6. 00:36:22.009 --> 00:36:31.054 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea blown and tossed by the wind. 00:36:31.054 --> 00:36:35.652 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 00:36:35.652 --> 00:36:41.648 Such a person is double minded here, there and over there, and so on. 00:36:41.648 --> 00:36:51.789 It is not possible to do this and that Such it is believing in God fully, 100%, and you are coming to him without a plan B or a plan C. 00:36:51.789 --> 00:36:59.094 So such a person is double minded and unstable in all they do. 00:36:59.094 --> 00:37:02.693 This is a faith that is needed in intercession. 00:37:03.465 --> 00:37:11.255 As far as the centurion is concerned, from verse 7, the Bible says Jesus said to him shall I come and heal him? 00:37:11.255 --> 00:37:25.621 The centurion replied Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word and my servant will be healed, for I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. 00:37:25.621 --> 00:37:30.471 I tell this one go and he goes, and that one come and he comes. 00:37:30.471 --> 00:37:34.478 And I say to my servant do this, and he does it. 00:37:34.478 --> 00:37:35.688 This is the language of faith. 00:37:35.688 --> 00:37:38.615 The way he's talking is ministering to Jesus. 00:37:38.615 --> 00:37:47.168 Even as this guy is talking, there's something that is coming across to heaven, heaven's side, because heaven's side is looking for faith. 00:37:47.168 --> 00:37:51.673 That's what heaven works with, not dollars, not shillings. 00:37:51.673 --> 00:37:53.288 The currency of heaven is faith. 00:37:53.288 --> 00:37:58.887 So, as this guy is talking, jesus is listening and let's keep reading. 00:37:58.887 --> 00:38:02.552 But when Jesus heard this, he was amazed. 00:38:02.784 --> 00:38:06.211 This is what happens when you come to God with faith and believing. 00:38:06.211 --> 00:38:15.206 He said to those following him truly, I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 00:38:15.206 --> 00:38:23.777 Believe the impossible If you want to see the impossible becoming possible in your life. 00:38:23.777 --> 00:38:26.813 The bridge is faith. 00:38:26.813 --> 00:38:31.655 The impossible becoming possible, the bridge is faith. 00:38:31.655 --> 00:38:35.235 And therefore, reach out by faith. 00:38:35.235 --> 00:38:45.019 I have this firm conviction that God has a next level for everybody, and let me repeat that. 00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:57.197 I have this conviction that God has a next level for everyone, and let me tell you when God moves, and when is God moving us to that next level? 00:38:57.197 --> 00:39:02.391 It is not a small step, it is a jump. 00:39:02.391 --> 00:39:12.257 Somebody is jumping to the next level because God is going to make it possible and you need to believe with me that God is going to make it possible. 00:39:12.257 --> 00:39:16.795 That project you are doing needs to be accelerated to the next level. 00:39:16.795 --> 00:39:19.411 May it happen in Jesus' name. 00:39:19.411 --> 00:40:21.005 Thank you. 00:40:21.005 --> 00:40:25.186 Plan for a holiday at least once a year or twice in a year. 00:40:25.186 --> 00:40:31.568 You know, karan, I'm glad you're back. 00:40:31.568 --> 00:40:34.550 Our God is amazing. 00:40:34.570 --> 00:40:36.393 Somebody sent me on WhatsApp. 00:40:36.393 --> 00:40:40.159 We get as pastors, we get a lot of WhatsApp messages and other testimonies. 00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:55.987 And this person writes me from Zanzibar and they tell me they're in a certain hotel there and they send me a picture of the hotel to just for me to see what the Lord is doing, hallelujah. 00:40:55.987 --> 00:41:11.617 This person three years ago had no idea they could ever get to a place like that, but because there is a God in heaven, now they have extra for holiday and they have gone all the way to Zanzibar. 00:41:11.617 --> 00:41:24.396 Now what does he do? 00:41:24.396 --> 00:41:27.364 Close it, let's drink some coffee. 00:41:27.364 --> 00:41:37.153 He opened the door and no one can enter, so Faith fetches the best. 00:41:37.153 --> 00:41:44.278 You see when you come up to the door and you can see the king is there and he's saying what do you want? 00:41:44.278 --> 00:41:46.360 And then he's showing you all these things. 00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:56.445 Faith begins to speak Because now you are seeing, you can see it, in fact, with the eyes of faith, and you begin to say, lord, is this what my destiny carries? 00:41:56.445 --> 00:41:58.847 I say amazing, I never knew this. 00:41:58.847 --> 00:42:06.567 So suddenly you get encouraged and become strong and although your circumstances look still like they're not okay, you find this person has new energy. 00:42:06.567 --> 00:42:12.132 They are very strong, they are knocking new doors, say God, you've told me I'm going to get a job this coming week. 00:42:12.132 --> 00:42:13.972 I have seen it, I believe it. 00:42:13.972 --> 00:42:17.851 And the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they connect is very different. 00:42:17.851 --> 00:42:21.175 Hallelujah, those children of ours. 00:42:21.175 --> 00:42:22.474 We can pray for them. 00:42:22.474 --> 00:42:36.978 Timothy was prayed for by his grandmother and his mother, and so when the Apostle Paul is coming around and seeing a fine young man who can serve the Lord, it is because of the intercession of the grandmother and the mother. 00:42:36.978 --> 00:42:40.597 That is how this son is operating like this in the now. 00:42:41.351 --> 00:42:46.527 When we begin to pray and intercede, god begins to show us the things he wants to do for the nations, and you begin to pray and intercede, god begins to show us the things he wants to do for the nations. 00:42:46.527 --> 00:42:57.503 And you begin to pray at the altar of praying for a nation and somebody listening to your prayer is saying this person must have touched God, must have connected with God. 00:42:57.503 --> 00:43:01.942 And you want to listen to that kind of prayer because this is not an ordinary prayer. 00:43:01.942 --> 00:43:06.376 The person has been lifted, they have seen an open door, they have seen the king of glory. 00:43:06.376 --> 00:43:09.757 They have seen an open door, they have seen the king of glory, they have seen what God is able to do. 00:43:09.757 --> 00:43:11.280 They are simply fetching. 00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:13.103 They are fetching by faith. 00:43:13.103 --> 00:43:16.199 So the prayer of intercession is able to pick. 00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:20.231 It's like a hand fetching and releasing to God at the same time. 00:43:20.231 --> 00:43:21.074 It's a transaction. 00:43:21.074 --> 00:43:23.460 You know, currency of heaven is faith. 00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:28.697 And this person is talking like he's talking to a friend and say, and God is showing them, I'm going to do this. 00:43:28.697 --> 00:43:31.023 And they say it in prayer, I'll do this. 00:43:31.023 --> 00:43:33.114 And they're praying that in their prayer. 00:43:33.114 --> 00:43:36.121 And somebody else is wondering where did they ever see this? 00:43:36.121 --> 00:43:49.114 And I thank God for mothers and fathers who are lifted in the spirit and they're able to pray prayers of intercession that are able to fetch destiny for their children and they can see it and they begin to bring it in the now. 00:43:49.114 --> 00:43:55.036 And when you're praying for your child, they'll say, hey, daddy and mommy, where did they get that prayer from? 00:43:55.036 --> 00:43:56.278 I want to pray. 00:43:56.278 --> 00:43:59.193 I want to say there's a prayer that is hot in heaven. 00:43:59.193 --> 00:44:01.940 It's waiting to be prayed through a human vessel. 00:44:01.940 --> 00:44:10.012 But if it remains there, then no manifestation happens on planet earth, because God wants to do something. 00:44:10.012 --> 00:44:16.335 He's waiting for someone to pray but there's no one praying and therefore there's a delay for many years. 00:44:16.335 --> 00:44:25.835 And this child is listening to her father and mother praying, saying hey, daddy or mommy, they must have touched heaven, because the things they are saying are amazing. 00:44:25.835 --> 00:44:28.012 Has somebody ever prayed for you? 00:44:28.012 --> 00:44:33.271 And you truly feel that's a prophetic prayer and you feel that prayer is very aligned. 00:44:33.871 --> 00:44:47.202 I'm inviting us friends in church, let us rise to that level of intercession that is spirit led and allow God to open our eyes to see what he has in store Before you pray. 00:44:47.202 --> 00:44:58.454 Open my eyes, my God, so that I don't pray an intellectual prayer, a prayer of fear, a prayer that is ordinary, the prayer that cannot even make a mosquito move. 00:44:58.454 --> 00:45:05.639 My God, I want to pray that kind of prayer that heaven is praying and I want to be the conduit of that kind of prayer. 00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.849 I want to pray that kind of prayer that heaven is praying and I want to be the conduit of that kind of prayer. 00:45:08.849 --> 00:45:25.224 I want to mobilize an army of prayer that is going to now depend on the Holy Spirit for prayer Romans 8, verse 26, to understand the depth of the prayer that heaven prays and how heaven is praying and interceding. 00:45:25.224 --> 00:45:28.518 And we need to flow in this kind of prayer. 00:45:28.518 --> 00:45:32.599 In the same way, the spirit helps us in our weaknesses. 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:43.880 We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the spirit intercedes for us with Through wordless groans, yani the spirit. 00:45:44.389 --> 00:45:47.333 If you allow the holy spirit to begin to pray Inside you, you will stop using normal language. 00:45:47.333 --> 00:45:47.813 Yani the Spirit. 00:45:47.813 --> 00:45:50.155