Speaker 1: 2 Timothy 1.6 says this.
Speaker 1: For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
Speaker 1: So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me or his prisoner.
Speaker 1: Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel.
Speaker 1: By the power of God, he has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace.
Speaker 1: This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
Speaker 1: And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher.
Speaker 1: That is why I am suffering as I am, yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, because I know whom I have believed.
Speaker 1: I know whom I have believed.
Speaker 1: I know whom I have believed and I'm convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
Speaker 1: What you heard from me keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you.
Speaker 1: Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
Speaker 1: This is God's word and God's people say Amen.
Speaker 1: We may be seated in God's presence as we make a short prayer.
Speaker 1: Father, anoint your word, anoint our hearts, give insight to our minds that we may know what your will is for us today, that we may serve you with knowledge and understanding.
Speaker 1: Wherever all the people are, holy Spirit rest upon them in a very special way because we have prayed in Jesus' name and God's people say Holy Spirit rest upon them in a very special way because we have prayed in Jesus' name and God's people say Amen.
Speaker 1: Let me take this opportunity to let you know that we have a great theme in 2025.
Speaker 1: We are going to be talking about Timothy and who Timothy was, and the first time we meet Timothy is in the book of Acts, chapter 16.
Speaker 1: Let me read those few verses and then we'll come to this passage.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Acts 16.1,.
Speaker 1: Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named Timothy lived, whose mother was what Jewish and a believer, but whose father was a Greek.
Speaker 1: The believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him, so people spoke well about him.
Speaker 1: Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was Greek.
Speaker 1: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor God uses common people for uncommon things.
Speaker 1: God uses common people for uncommon things.
Speaker 1: This is Timothy.
Speaker 1: So in 2 Timothy, chapter 1, when now Paul is writing to Timothy, this is what he says 2 Timothy, chapter 1 gives out the lineage of this young man.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in 2 Timothy, chapter 1.
Speaker 1: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: Then he says to Timothy my dear son, now remember they had just met in Acts 16.
Speaker 1: Paul was already in ministry by that time.
Speaker 1: God was going to open a door into Europe and bring the gospel through Macedonia.
Speaker 1: But he met this young man and I want you to know that there are certain meetings that open uncommon situations in our lives.
Speaker 1: Then he says to him grace, mercy and peace from God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Speaker 1: And he says I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience.
Speaker 1: As night and day, I constantly remember you in my prayers, recalling your tears.
Speaker 1: I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
Speaker 1: I am reminded of your sincere faith.
Speaker 1: It talks about this faith that, when Paul met him, paul cognized.
Speaker 1: That faith, he says.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in who, your grandmother Lois, and in your, your grandmother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded now lives in you also.
Speaker 1: So there was this ancestry.
Speaker 1: That is why we thank God for family service, pastor Simon, when we have our parents, when we have our children, because we know that something can shift in a service like this for our children and totally change the trajectory of their lives.
Speaker 1: Grandmothers, you know, somebody says a lot of people's faith, nearly 90% of young people's faith, or the faith of people, not even young people, those who have grown up.
Speaker 1: Their faith was either ignited by their mother or their grandmother.
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate the grandmothers in the house, amen.
Speaker 1: By the way, if there are any grandmothers in the house, just stand up because we want to remember these grandmothers.
Speaker 1: Wakina, lois, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 1: By the way, there's a grandmother here.
Speaker 1: Actually, her name is Lois, so Lois, just stand.
Speaker 1: Beatrice.
Speaker 1: Okay, grandmother, these are grandmothers.
Speaker 1: Let's celebrate these grandmothers.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 1: May God give you many years and may you touch many more lives.
Speaker 1: So we see, timothy.
Speaker 1: Timothy faith started with grandmother to mother, to him the same precious faith.
Speaker 1: And that is when, in verse 6 of this, now he starts to talk to him.
Speaker 1: He says for this reason, this reason of what you've been carrying, for this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Speaker 1: So Paul says there's a time I also connected with you.
Speaker 1: There was a grandmother, there was a mother.
Speaker 1: Then you walked in that faith.
Speaker 1: Then, in Acts 16, I met you and somewhere in between there, paul laid his hands on him and something shifted.
Speaker 1: That's what we call an impartation.
Speaker 1: And I want to say that, in Jesus' name, on January the 25th, as you come for the anointing service, let me tell you this Something will shift because there will be an impartation, there will be a release, something will shift Because there will be an impartation, there will be a release, something will shift totally in your life, and many great things are going to happen for you in 2025.
Speaker 1: He says for the spirit God gives us does not make us what Timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, this is not the year to be timid, this is not the year to be fearful.
Speaker 1: This is the year to be bold, but we need the Spirit.
Speaker 1: We need the Spirit.
Speaker 1: That's why we are talking about being Spirit led.
Speaker 1: And, by the way, pastor Simon, the word Holy Spirit is an important word.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit because that word Holy means uncommon, it means separated.
Speaker 1: There are many spirits, there are angelic spirits, there are demonic spirits, there are all kinds of spirits, but there is one Holy Spirit, the uncommon spirit, the Spirit of God himself.
Speaker 1: And so we want to be Spirit-led so that we can experience importation by that Spirit.
Speaker 1: And I want to encourage and really thank God for those who were able to buy the theme vision Our book last Sunday and are beginning to read it and are beginning to find out what is it all about.
Speaker 1: I want to encourage you to read it, write the vision down that those who read it may run with it.
Speaker 1: I was challenging the pastors in the first service that I've given them an assignment that they are supposed to read the theme vision and finish it on the 31st of January, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: So if you meet any pastor on the 31st of January, hallelujah, hallelujah, ask them.
Speaker 1: So if you meet any pastor on the 31st of January, hallelujah, ask them.
Speaker 1: Have you finished the theme vision?
Speaker 1: And if the spirit of lying shows up, that's not the right spirit.
Speaker 1: Now we want the pastors to read it.
Speaker 1: I'm challenging them to read it, but I also want to challenge the deacons to read it.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling them to read it by 31st of January, but I also want to challenge the deacons to read it.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling them to read it by 31st of January, but I want them to read it so that the leaders are able to lead the sheep, not the sheep leading the shepherd.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, read it.
Speaker 1: Understand it, read it, know the vision, because, as leaders, we are the ones who need to know these things.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of time.
Speaker 1: Don't start saying oh, I'm in ministry, my friend, I'm in work, hallelujah, work is here To know the word of God.
Speaker 1: Do you know the qualification of deacons?
Speaker 1: The Bible says this.
Speaker 1: Let me read it to them because they might have forgotten.
Speaker 1: Second, I think 1 Timothy, chapter 8, chapter 3, verse 8.
Speaker 1: Let me read it for them All right.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this Very quickly.
Speaker 1: In the same way, deacons but you see, the same way means he had already talked about the pastors.
Speaker 1: So he says I've talked about the pastors.
Speaker 1: But in the same way, deacons are to be worthy of what Respect?
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that they need to look to be respected, they mean to be worthy of respect Sincere.
Speaker 1: Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 1: That word sincere is a very important word.
Speaker 1: Kitamba, when they used to make clay pots, when they were finished they took it to somebody who brought the clay pot into the light and if the light showed a crack inside, the pot was not sincere, hello.
Speaker 1: So they had to rework it.
Speaker 1: Deacons to be sincere, not indulging in much wine.
Speaker 1: But you see, that can be misleading because it means if it is not much wine, it can also be little.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Paul meant, so I'm not going to interpret that.
Speaker 1: Indulging in much wine.
Speaker 1: So don't be drunkards and not pursuing dishonest gain.
Speaker 1: Then it says this they must keep hold of the deep truths of faith.
Speaker 1: Keep hold of the deep truths of faith.
Speaker 1: Keep hold of the deep truths of faith with a clear conscience.
Speaker 1: They must first be tested.
Speaker 1: Then, if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: I'll not talk about the rest, because in the next verse it says in the same way, just go.
Speaker 1: Says In the same way Just go back.
Speaker 1: In the same way, the women Now these women are the women of the deacons.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: Somebody says In the same way the women Are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers, but temperate and trustworthy in how many things.
Speaker 1: And then it says a deacon must be faithful to his wife, not wives.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: Do I hear an amen from the wives?
Speaker 1: But I don't know why I have gone here.
Speaker 1: A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well.
Speaker 1: Those who have served well gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: Get this theme and read it Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: I would have gone back to the pastors, but I'll not go there.
Speaker 1: I think I'll go there another day.
Speaker 1: So if you are sitting next to a deacon, tell that deacon.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the another day?
Speaker 1: So if you are sitting next to a deacon, tell that deacon.
Speaker 1: Did you hear, thank God, that the chairman of the pastors and deacons board is here, and this is something you have to keep reading every day as deacons, because that's your job description.
Speaker 1: There's nothing in that job description that tells you that deacons should make sure that the gate has not fallen.
Speaker 1: You're not created to cause issues of gates, issues of parking.
Speaker 1: Your life is people.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, and I want to tell you this.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this because these deacons are not up to the game.
Speaker 1: These deacons are up to the game, but I'm not saying this because these deacons are not up to the game.
Speaker 1: These deacons are up to the game, but I'm talking to them themselves so that they can give that leadership and give it well in 2025.
Speaker 1: Pastors, you know your portion because it is in there.
Speaker 1: You also must be a husband of one wife.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, hallelujah, and I'm serious.
Speaker 1: If God is going to take us to any level, we must know what the scriptures are saying and follow them.
Speaker 1: But read the theme vision.
Speaker 1: It is clear, because everything we need to know about life is in the Bible.
Speaker 1: We don't have to read a true magazine to find out how we should know how to live.
Speaker 1: It's in the Bible.
Speaker 1: We don't have to read a true magazine to find out how we should know how to live.
Speaker 1: This is in the Bible, and so the Holy Spirit will guide us.
Speaker 1: And Timothy had this faith from grandmother to mother, to himself, and then Paul ignited it and caused it to come aflame.
Speaker 1: And this is your season.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, this season is my season, and so he was telling you.
Speaker 1: If you have a spirit, the spirit of power, love and a sound mind, so the spirit will lead you.
Speaker 1: And I want to say three things about this spirit.
Speaker 1: Number one we are going to talk about the spirit of discovery.
Speaker 1: Number two, the spirit of understanding.
Speaker 1: And number three, the spirit of discovery.
Speaker 1: Number two, the spirit of understanding.
Speaker 1: And number three, the spirit of possibilities.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Spirit of discovery, spirit of understanding, spirit of possibilities.
Speaker 1: Let me start with the spirit of discovery.
Speaker 1: Jeremiah 29, verse 11 and 13, says this about having that spirit of discovery, for I know the plans I have for you.
Speaker 1: Declares the Lord plans to prosper you.
Speaker 1: Now we need to know that God is going to prosper us in 2025.
Speaker 1: Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.
Speaker 1: Plans to give you hope and a future.
Speaker 1: Then verse 29 says the next verse says then you will call on me and come and pray to me and guess what I will do, what I will listen to you.
Speaker 1: Then the Bible says you will seek me.
Speaker 1: That's the spirit of discovery.
Speaker 1: You will seek me and find me.
Speaker 1: When you seek me with all your heart.
Speaker 1: It says in verse 14, I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back from captivity.
Speaker 1: I will gather you from all the nations.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this, pastor Simon, that many of us, even as Christians, we have dulled the spirit of discovery.
Speaker 1: We are no longer seeking God.
Speaker 1: We are no longer seeking new things from God's word, new discoveries.
Speaker 1: And I want you to know that these discoveries can still be discovered.
Speaker 1: You think, after Pastor Ambrose has written a theme vision, he knows the whole Bible.
Speaker 1: Uh-uh, I'm still studying the Bible, I'm still seeking the Bible, I'm still trying to know what God is saying.
Speaker 1: And so when I seek, I find.
Speaker 1: When I knock, the door is opened.
Speaker 1: When I ask, it is given Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Many years ago, a gentleman by the name of John Hanning Spick left England with a friend of his called Richard Button, and they went to look for the source of the River Nile.
Speaker 1: And they went and went and went and came to East Africa.
Speaker 1: Of course they missed it and went to Lake Tanganyika, which is not Lake Tanzania, you know that lake Tanganyika, I think, went to Lake Tanganyika, which is not Lake Tanzania.
Speaker 1: You know that lake Tanganyika, I think it is still Tanganyika.
Speaker 1: And they could not find the river.
Speaker 1: So they started coming up and up and then they bumped into Lake Victoria, a vast water place, and they said this must be the source of the river Naya.
Speaker 1: Of course Richard Barton said ah, this cannot be the source of the River Nile.
Speaker 1: Of course Richard Barton said ah, ah, this cannot be the source of the River Nile.
Speaker 1: But speak started going up and up and arrived ginger and he saw the water pouring out from Lake Victoria and he went back home and he said I have discovered the source of the River Nile and his name was put in the history books.
Speaker 1: Google, just go there and say who discovered the source of River Nile.
Speaker 1: It is speak.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you and ask you were there people living around ginger before speak came?
Speaker 1: Yes, were they there.
Speaker 1: Why aren't there names in the history books?
Speaker 1: Because, you see, speak looked for the uncommon in common places and his name was written in the history books.
Speaker 1: People in Jinja were so used to that river they didn't realize that there was something.
Speaker 1: Hello, I am saying today in Jesus' name that if you are going to look for uncommon things, look for them in common places, and miracles happen in those places.
Speaker 1: And I want you to know that sometimes you may look at the Bible and think it's such a very common book and everybody reads it.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you this when you search, you will find things here that other people have not found.
Speaker 1: May this year be your year.
Speaker 1: May you find uncommon things in uncommon spaces, in common spaces.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, jesus Christ went to common places and that's where miracles happen.
Speaker 1: He went to Cana of Galilee.
Speaker 1: What do you think was happening in Cana of Galilee?
Speaker 1: What was there?
Speaker 1: There was a wedding and in that wedding something was missing and Jesus was approached by the mother and before the day was out, jesus turned water into wine and something uncommon happened in an uncommon space, in a common space.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this there are many of you who attended a wedding for another friend of yours and that's where you found your spouse, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Suddenly, something uncommon was found in common spaces.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this All the miracles of Jesus were not done in some places that were very uncommon.
Speaker 1: No, no, samaritan woman getting some water.
Speaker 1: Our whole city was shifted because of that common engagement and conversation.
Speaker 1: John, chapter 5, jesus goes and finds a man who has been unwell for 38 years and while that man has been used to being like that, he didn't realize that God had located him.
Speaker 1: I want to say may God locate you.
Speaker 1: I'm saying may God locate you in 2025.
Speaker 1: Things may be just happening.
Speaker 1: You wake up, you eat food, you sleep, you sleep.
Speaker 1: You wake up again and in your kawanes the uncommon happens.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, when Martha came one time and joined the church and then she said she wants to be baptized by a Martian, I am the one who baptized her.
Speaker 1: I am saying I am the one who baptized her.
Speaker 1: But at that time, when I was baptizing her and saying, now that you believe in Jesus Christ, and now, because of your faith, I baptize you in the name of the Father, not knowing that that person I was dipping in a very common church service should one day become an uncommon figure in my life, come on, somebody better give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: I'm saying common things are coming to your way in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: But in common places, expect the uncommon and you need a spirit of discovery, that inquisitive spirit.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying in Jesus' name, engage the wisdom of God, because you have to be inquisitive, intentional and interested.
Speaker 1: If you're going to see uncommon things in common places, be inquisitive, be intentional, be interested.
Speaker 1: Young men take girls for coffee and instead of being inquisitive and ask the right questions, they ask things that don't matter.
Speaker 1: The stars are bright, they talk about everything else, but they don't inquire.
Speaker 1: They are not inquisitive, they don't get to know each other.
Speaker 1: By the time they get to know each other, they are married On the wedding day, they don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: They are looking at each other as strangers.
Speaker 1: My friend, get to know God and we start today and we run with it.
Speaker 1: Be inquisitive, be intentional, be intentional, be interested and God will reveal himself to you.
Speaker 1: God will reveal himself to you in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Joshua was that kind of a person.
Speaker 1: Everywhere Moses went, he went, he inquired.
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Moses goes to the mountain.
Speaker 1: Joshua follows.
Speaker 1: Moses says you, stay you doing.
Speaker 1: Moses goes to the mountain.
Speaker 1: Joshua follows.
Speaker 1: Moses says you stay here, me, I'm going farther.
Speaker 1: And Joshua was always there, inquisitive, and when it came to leadership transfer, guess who was given the leadership transfer?
Speaker 1: It was Joshua.
Speaker 1: And I want to tell you this amazing things are coming your way.
Speaker 1: And because Joshua really wanted to know God, in fact God told him this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: Meditate on it day and night.
Speaker 1: That you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it, for then you shall make your way prosperous and then you shall have success.
Speaker 1: And this guy believed him.
Speaker 1: And one time Joshua did something very uncommon.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Joshua, chapter 10, verse 12, when they were chasing the enemy and the time was running out.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, joshua said to the Lord, in the presence of Israel Son, stand still over Gibeon and you moon over the valley of Aizalon.
Speaker 1: So the sun stood still and the moon stopped till the nation avenged itself on its enemies.
Speaker 1: As it is written in the book of Joshua, the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down.
Speaker 1: For what A full day.
Speaker 1: There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a human being.
Speaker 1: Surely, the Lord was fighting for Israel.
Speaker 1: An uncommon thing, because Joshua had learned to be inquisitive.
Speaker 1: Joshua had learned to seek God about the deep things.
Speaker 1: The Bible says the spirit of God searches the deep things of God and we need to search.
Speaker 1: We need to ask the right questions.
Speaker 1: Don't ask these questions where people ask where did Cain get his wife?
Speaker 1: Those are shallow questions, by the way.
Speaker 1: Where do you think Cain got his wife?
Speaker 1: I'm asking where did Cain get his wife?
Speaker 1: Simple, simple.
Speaker 1: Who was the first son of Adam?
Speaker 1: Who was the first then?
Speaker 1: Who then Cain did what to Abel?
Speaker 1: Killed Abel.
Speaker 1: So the next son the Bible lists is Seth?
Speaker 1: No girls, but these guys did not live for 30 years.
Speaker 1: Adam lived for 900 years.
Speaker 1: Is Seth?
Speaker 1: No girls, but these guys did not live for 30 years.
Speaker 1: Adam lived for 900 years.
Speaker 1: So in between there he got what Daughters Wengi, and one of those sisters became Cain's wife.
Speaker 1: Just tell them Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And that went on and on until even Abraham married Sarah, and Sarah was Abraham's.
Speaker 1: What Sister it was until Moses that, when he brought the law, he said from now, the law says no brother should marry a sister.
Speaker 1: When you seek knowledge, you'll find it Buenas.
Speaker 1: If fiu so, tell your neighbor, I shall have a spirit of discovery.
Speaker 1: But secondly, we have the spirit of understanding.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor understanding.
Speaker 1: I want to read Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 7.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this, proverbs 4, 7.
Speaker 1: It says the beginning of wisdom is this Get wisdom Though it cost all you have.
Speaker 1: Get what?
Speaker 1: Understanding?
Speaker 1: Let me read another verse, proverbs, chapter 2, verse 3 to 6.
Speaker 1: Understanding is key.
Speaker 1: It says this.
Speaker 1: Indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for what Understanding?
Speaker 1: And if you look for it, as for what For silver, and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
Speaker 1: For the Lord gives wisdom.
Speaker 1: From his mouth come understanding and knowledge and understanding, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: No wonder Pastor Simon Paul told Timothy in 2nd Timothy, 3.16, all scripture is inspired by God, profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness.
Speaker 1: That the man of God may be fully equipped, ready for every good work.
Speaker 1: The spirit of understanding is so important.
Speaker 1: This same spirit was seen in the life of Daniel.
Speaker 1: So let me read Daniel, chapter 5, verse 12.
Speaker 1: When the magicians could not interpret something that had happened in the king's palace, and this is what the Bible says.
Speaker 1: He did this because Daniel, whom the king called Belshazzar, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems.
Speaker 1: Call for Daniel and he will tell you what the writing means.
Speaker 1: Go to verse 14.
Speaker 1: In verse 14, the Bible says I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor.
Speaker 1: This year I will have insight, I will be intelligent and I will have outstanding wisdom.
Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, I am very intelligent.
Speaker 1: Tell them.
Speaker 1: And this intelligence does not come because you read books.
Speaker 1: This intelligence comes because the Spirit of God lives in you.
Speaker 1: No wonder, pastor Samuel, the Bible says stir up, stir up Perpetua.
Speaker 1: Stir up this gift that is inside you, which you received by the laying on of my hands.
Speaker 1: Be spirit led, and when you're spirit led, you'll have spirit understanding.
Speaker 1: One has fewer, and this guy understood so many things and he was able to serve God in that kingdom.
Speaker 1: Gideon took time to understand God.
Speaker 1: The Bible says this in Judges, chapter 6.
Speaker 1: , verse 12.
Speaker 1: The Midianites had really harassed this.
Speaker 1: This, the Israelites and God has a solution.
Speaker 1: So he gets to Gideon and he says to Gideon when the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said the Lord is with you, mighty.
Speaker 1: He said the Lord is with you, mighty warrior.
Speaker 1: God has come to you this year and he's saying you're a mighty warrior, but listen at Gideon, because Gideon did not have full understanding.
Speaker 1: This is the first time an angel appears.
Speaker 1: So he says pardon me, my Lord, his brain is trying to catch up.
Speaker 1: Pardon me, my Lord.
Speaker 1: Gideon replied and then he starts to give reasons why he's not a mighty warrior.
Speaker 1: He says but if the Lord is with us, why?
Speaker 1: Because the angel said the Lord is with you.
Speaker 1: And then he says but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?
Speaker 1: Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?
Speaker 1: But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of the Midian.
Speaker 1: The Lord turned to him and said hey, listen, you're still a mighty warrior.
Speaker 1: Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand.
Speaker 1: Am I not sending you?
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Paki today.
Speaker 1: The Lord is with you and the Lord is sending you.
Speaker 1: There are things that you have to do this year, and guess what?
Speaker 1: Not by might, not by power, but by his spirit.
Speaker 1: You will make it, my friend.
Speaker 1: I'm saying you will make it in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Do not fear.
Speaker 1: And Gideon, come on, give God a big hand, do not fear.
Speaker 1: Of course, gideon still had to calibrate his brain and begin to understand what God is saying.
Speaker 1: And if you read the rest of the scriptures chapter 6 and chapter 7, gideon started testing God, god.
Speaker 1: If it is you who is saying this, do this and God did it.
Speaker 1: And then he God, god.
Speaker 1: If it is you who's saying this, do this and God did it.
Speaker 1: And then he says God, if it is you doing this, saying this, do this.
Speaker 1: And God just agreed, because God knows the steps we take.
Speaker 1: Some of us have baby steps.
Speaker 1: God will walk with you with baby steps.
Speaker 1: Some of you have toddler steps.
Speaker 1: God will walk with you slowly.
Speaker 1: God will walk with you step by step.
Speaker 1: The steps of a righteous person are ordered of the Lord.
Speaker 1: So God is with you.
Speaker 1: But seek understanding, you will get it.
Speaker 1: Upgrade your thoughts, tell your neighbor, upgrade your thoughts, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Upgrade your thoughts.
Speaker 1: The Bible says for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither my ways, your thoughts, my ways, your ways.
Speaker 1: Upgrade your thoughts, rise up.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, my ways, your ways.
Speaker 1: Upgrade your thoughts, rise up, understand God, get to know what is he trying to say, and that is why we're encouraging you one more time Get time to read this book, get time to have it, get time to understand it.
Speaker 1: Read the scriptures, the daily devotions.
Speaker 1: Read it, understand.
Speaker 1: God will give you understanding.
Speaker 1: Buona si fie.
Speaker 1: And then, thirdly, god is not only giving us a spirit of discovery, but a spirit of understanding, but also the spirit of possibilities.
Speaker 1: You see, timothy was in a church that was growing and there was a lot of persecution, and so Paul really was trying to encourage him.
Speaker 1: He says God has not given you a spirit of fear.
Speaker 1: He says I've laid my hands on you, so use the gift that is inside you.
Speaker 1: There are possibilities ahead of you, there are opportunities ahead of you.
Speaker 1: You see, the person with a possibility mind is a person who, number one, believes in themselves, Believes in themselves Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: They believe in who they are.
Speaker 1: Albert Einstein, pastor Simon, and many of you know he was an amazing scientist and did amazing things One day when he was in school he was really bored in class.
Speaker 1: You know he would do this.
Speaker 1: The teacher would say this his mind has gone to where he's doing all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: One day the teacher wrote a note and told Albert Einstein, take this to your mom Now.
Speaker 1: Albert Einstein could not read at that time those words.
Speaker 1: So he takes the writing to the mother and says Mom, the teacher has given me this.
Speaker 1: And she says you read it.
Speaker 1: So the mother reads that note.
Speaker 1: This is what the mother read.
Speaker 1: Very interesting.
Speaker 1: The mother read this.
Speaker 1: The teacher says you are so smart and the teachers can no longer teach you and you are going to change the world.
Speaker 1: That's what the mother read.
Speaker 1: So Albert Einstein said I'm so smart and I'm going to change the world.
Speaker 1: Many years later, when the mother died, and while he was searching, searching things in the mother's closet, to change the world.
Speaker 1: Many years later, when the mother died, and while he was searching, searching things in the mother's closet, he got the letter and he read the letter and this is what the letter actually said.
Speaker 1: The letter said you will never amount to anything.
Speaker 1: You are dumb.
Speaker 1: Your presence spoils the respect of the class For me.
Speaker 1: That's what the letter said.
Speaker 1: But the mother, being mother, saw the letter but she gave the interpretation.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, she gave An interpretation.
Speaker 1: Here the teacher was seeing a total impossibility, but the mother planted a seed of possibility.
Speaker 1: And Einstein did not know.
Speaker 1: All he knew is that the teacher said he is very smart and that he's going to change the world.
Speaker 1: And he believed it and Einstein fulfilled the prophecy of the mother.
Speaker 1: And I want to tell you this, in Jesus' name, as we decree and declare the word of God, circumstances may be very different, but believe the word of God, I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Believe the word of God.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, believe the word of God.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody better give God a big hand.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 1: How many of you would like to have a mother like Albert Einstein?
Speaker 1: Now, how many of you are mothers like the mother of Albert Einstein?
Speaker 1: I'm glad you raised your hand.
Speaker 1: Believe it, pass.
Speaker 1: You raised your hand.
Speaker 1: Believe it, pass possibility in your children.
Speaker 1: Tell them they can make it.
Speaker 1: Tell them they can do it.
Speaker 1: They will harass you, they will do all kinds of things, but plant the seed of possibility and things will happen In Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Pastor Simon, you kept talking about M-Pesa.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you understand the story of the M-Pesa.
Speaker 1: There are two names in the history of M-Pesa.
Speaker 1: One of the names is Nick Hughes.
Speaker 1: We don't hear about Nick Hughes.
Speaker 1: Another name is Susie Loney.
Speaker 1: We don't hear about Nick Hughes.
Speaker 1: Another name is Susie Loney.
Speaker 1: We don't hear about them.
Speaker 1: But Nick Hughes got the concept of M-Pesa.
Speaker 1: He was founded to begin to innovate it and to engage it.
Speaker 1: Then he worked for Vodacom.
Speaker 1: Then they wanted a place where they could make it happen.
Speaker 1: So they came to Kenya and connected with Michael Joseph.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, in the engagement and talking and seeing how this M-Pesa platform can work, michael Joseph said this thing can work and it will go into work in Kenya.
Speaker 1: He saw the possibility.
Speaker 1: But as he began to share with people, they said this cannot work, it will never work.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, when God gives you a vision, hold on to it.
Speaker 1: When God gives you a vision, even if nobody's supporting it, you run with it.
Speaker 1: Michael Joseph began to run with it Around 2007,.
Speaker 1: M-pesa was launched but it needed traction.
Speaker 1: So Michael Joseph approached the then finance minister, minister of finance, john Mishuki, and he got to his office and they started talking.
Speaker 1: And Michael Joseph was telling him, by the way, this thing can work.
Speaker 1: And Mishuki did.
Speaker 1: And he got to his office and they started talking and Michael Joseph was telling him, by the way, this thing can work.
Speaker 1: And Meshuki did not believe things quickly.
Speaker 1: So he said how can things work just like that?
Speaker 1: He said listen, let me give you an example.
Speaker 1: He said your foreman in the village, how do you pay him?
Speaker 1: He says we just send money.
Speaker 1: He said let me send him money on this phone.
Speaker 1: And he sent money.
Speaker 1: And then they called the foreman to find if the foreman had received it.
Speaker 1: And the foreman had received it.
Speaker 1: And John Meshuki was so amazed Hello, in a few seconds, this thing works.
Speaker 1: And through John Meshuki and then trying to bring it into government, these things then suddenly caught fire and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: I'm saying the rest is history.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's give God a big hand Now.
Speaker 1: By the way, pastor Simon, I didn't know that story.
Speaker 1: All I knew is Safaricom M-Pesa, michael Joseph.
Speaker 1: I didn't know these other guys, but let me tell you this there are people in the background who have caused you to be who you are today.
Speaker 1: They are not known, but you are known.
Speaker 1: They are not celebrated, but you are celebrated.
Speaker 1: But why don't you be that person in the background, who will cause traction to happen, even though sometimes you don't believe that this thing will work.
Speaker 1: But when you're spirit-led, who knows what can be done?
Speaker 1: Who knows the possibilities that can happen?
Speaker 1: The Wright brothers you know very well, decided that they are going to cause metal to fly in the sky.
Speaker 1: People said it cannot be done.
Speaker 1: These days we are flying jumbo jets that are so heavy in the sky because somebody believed in themselves.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this Believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: Possibilities are going to happen.
Speaker 1: People may not believe in you, but I'm telling you, when you believe in yourself, others will begin to believe in you.
Speaker 1: When you connect, amazing things are going to happen.
Speaker 1: This is what we are talking about impartation.
Speaker 1: Impartation is not just something that comes on you and you say you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Impartation are ideas that get to you, shift you and change your life.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, spiritually, you hear a message you get saved and your life is changed.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: That's what happened to me at Jamuri High School.
Speaker 1: God saved in form too.
Speaker 1: At that time, my trajectory was heading other places.
Speaker 1: Two things happened.
Speaker 1: Number one I got saved.
Speaker 1: The next thing that happened to me is I became a prefect.
Speaker 1: Those two things changed my life, became a prefect, I never used to tie my tie up.
Speaker 1: I never used to tuck in my shirt, Though sometimes now it has become a fashion.
Speaker 1: Hello, and knowing people like Kiniti who also went to Jamuri High School, tell your neighbor amen, god saved.
Speaker 1: But I was made a prefect.
Speaker 1: The day I was made a prefect, we used to have one stripe on the blazer.
Speaker 1: The day they added the next one and I became a prefect, just that stripe changed my mindset Put my tie up, tucked in my shirt, tied my shoelaces, walked around smart like anybody else and then walked with what we call that ka'angwa, academic ka'angwa.
Speaker 1: And I'm in school and I'm the prefect.
Speaker 1: I'm taking people to detention and things like that.
Speaker 1: There are two small common things that turn you into an uncommon person.
Speaker 1: This is your portion.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this is your portion.
Speaker 1: Don't expect God to shout in the heavens O, tno.
Speaker 1: I have seen you and I have seen you and I have given you an opportunity.
Speaker 1: No noise like that will come, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just the voice of your mother.
Speaker 1: I don't know if some of you know that there are certain things you do today, because there's like a voice of your mother talking to you.
Speaker 1: But when she used to talk to you, those days you never listened, you never paid attention.
Speaker 1: But you grew up and every time you do something you remember, like a voice that's saying Mama said, Mama said, dr Gokunja, I don't know why they don't say Daddy said, know why they don't say Daddy said this year, may we hear a voice inside us saying the Spirit of the Lord said Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you there are amazing possibilities that are waiting to happen because of you, because of you, just of you.
Speaker 1: Just look at your neighbor.
Speaker 1: Just take a moment to just look at them.
Speaker 1: They look quite ordinary, don't they?
Speaker 1: They also look quite common, don't they?
Speaker 1: By the way, did you know, in a meeting like this, even in the pavilion, also in the youth sanctuary, do you know?
Speaker 1: You can be sitting in a service?
Speaker 1: And next, do you know?
Speaker 1: You can be sitting in a service and next to you is a CEO who can employ you and take you to places.
Speaker 1: But because you don't have insight and understanding and the spirit of discovery, you go back home and say Jehovah, god, I need work, I need work.
Speaker 1: And you are sitting next to a CEO for a whole service.
Speaker 1: You didn't talk to them.
Speaker 1: You didn't even tell them you're looking good, better than yesterday, and tomorrow you will shine.
Speaker 1: So just to give you an opportunity, because you may be talking to that CEO, turn to your neighbor and tell your neighbor you're looking good, better than yesterday, and tomorrow you will shine in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Now ask them are you a CEO?
Speaker 1: Of course they won't tell you, because when they're in a service like this, they don't come as CEOs, they come as sons and daughters of the living God, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: That's why we don't keep telling people this is a minister or that is a CEO.
Speaker 1: They come as sons and daughters of the living God, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: That's why we don't keep telling people oh, this is a minister or that is a CEO.
Speaker 1: No, when they come to Paki, this is a sanctuary for them, hallelujah, where they just need to hear God's word, like everybody else.
Speaker 1: God is good.
Speaker 1: Now stand on your feet.
Speaker 1: Did you receive something?
Speaker 1: Which one did you receive?
Speaker 1: Chair of deacons what did you get?
Speaker 1: Discovery, hallelujah, being inquisitive.
Speaker 1: Buona si fiume what did you get?
Speaker 1: Discovery?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, being inquisitive.
Speaker 1: God is good.
Speaker 1: My brother upstairs With the saints.
Speaker 1: What did you get?
Speaker 1: The spirit of Understanding, I thought you said the spirit of excitement, excitement, the spirit of Understanding.
Speaker 1: I thought you said the spirit of excitement.
Speaker 1: God bless you, sir.
Speaker 1: So as I release you this afternoon, I want to release you with such anticipation because I know out there there are amazing things waiting for you and because of this, being spirit-led into uncommon situations and uncommon impartitions, give God a chance to make that difference.
Speaker 1: Give God a chance, like Mary, a 14-year-old girl whom the Bible says the angel appeared to her and said Mary, you are highly favored.
Speaker 1: This girl is wondering what do you mean?
Speaker 1: He says heaven has located you.
Speaker 1: Heaven is going to make you uncommon from today.
Speaker 1: He says what is going to happen?
Speaker 1: Yes, you're going to have a child.
Speaker 1: Even before you get married, you're going to have a child.
Speaker 1: The spirit is going to come upon you.
Speaker 1: Of course, she was inquisitive.
Speaker 1: She asked a few questions, but at the end she said let it be unto me according to your word.
Speaker 1: I hope you're walking out of this service, those in the pavilion and in the youth sanctuary, and right here online, you're saying, pastor Ambrose, all that you have said today, let it be unto me according to your word, and then go out and make it happen.
Speaker 1: Be inquisitive, be intentional, be interested and God will open the world for you.
Speaker 1: God will open the world for you.
Speaker 1: Einstein had the same weight of brain that you have, same brain.
Speaker 1: You don't need a bigger brain.
Speaker 1: But if you ask the Holy Spirit, he will then give you insight, unlock the treasury of heaven for you.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this the impossibilities of your life are going to become possible.
Speaker 1: The impossibilities of your life are going to become possible.
Speaker 1: The impossibilities of your life are going to become possible, some of you, financially.
Speaker 1: Right now, you're saying, lord, I don't have capital.
Speaker 1: See, no capital.
Speaker 1: If I could only get capital, it will take me to the next level.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you this If God gave you capital and you don't have understanding, that capital is going to be wasted.
Speaker 1: You don't need anything outside you.
Speaker 1: Everything you need is inside you.
Speaker 1: Find it and then you'll attract favor.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, let's give God another big hand.
Speaker 1: Yosha Watu Wali Sifu.
Speaker 1: One more time Baba Dosa Watu, father, we pray that you're going to stretch your hands, like the Bible says in the book of Acts, chapter 4, that, lord, stretch your hand, that signs and wonders be done in the name of your son, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And so, father, this afternoon we thank you for your word.
Speaker 1: We know that you have spoken to us, each one of us in their own different ways, but I want to pray today, lord, that, father, we shall find the uncommon in the common spaces of life, and many of us are going back into those common spaces.
Speaker 1: Let's trust you to find the uncommon At our workplace, in our families, in the streets, at home, upcountry, downtown, wherever we are.
Speaker 1: Help us to become those uncommon men and women who had the spirit of the Lord, the spirit that Daniel had.
Speaker 1: Jehovah, god, cause us to rise up so that our names can be written in the history book of the eternal God that we sought and we found.
Speaker 1: We knocked and the door opened.
Speaker 1: We asked and it was given.
Speaker 1: We thought big and God made it happen.
Speaker 1: We saw possibilities in impossible situations.
Speaker 1: We did not look at the problem, we sought the solution.
Speaker 1: So, father, this is my prayer for God's people across the globe.
Speaker 1: Here at Parklands Baptist Church Online pavilion, youth sanctuary, in this main sanctuary, father, god, let there be a shift in our system, let there be a shift in our minds, let there be a shift in our children, in our young people, as they next week have their services and the youth have their services, lord, may something ignite in them so that they can become the history makers of tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We give you the glory, we give you the praise.
Speaker 1: If you believe these things, you better say I receive it, I take it, it is my portion, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.
Speaker 1: Now give god a big hand, amen.