Speaker 1: I want us to go straight to the reading of Scripture Acts, chapter 2, verse 1 to verse 12.
Speaker 1: Acts, chapter 2, verse 1 to verse 12, niv version of the Bible.
Speaker 1: When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
Speaker 1: Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Speaker 1: And I say today, somebody suddenly is coming.
Speaker 1: They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
Speaker 1: All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Speaker 1: God is not looking for people who are able.
Speaker 1: He's looking for people he will make able.
Speaker 1: Now they are staying in Jerusalem, god-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
Speaker 1: When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one had their own language being spoken.
Speaker 1: Utterly amazed, they asked aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?
Speaker 1: Then how you know?
Speaker 1: It was uncommon.
Speaker 1: What was going on here was uncommon.
Speaker 1: Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?
Speaker 1: And then he goes on to enumerate the places where these people came from Parthians, medes, elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, judea, cappadocia, pontus and Asia, phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the ports of Libya near Cyrene.
Speaker 1: Visit us from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, cretans and Arabs.
Speaker 1: We hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues.
Speaker 1: Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another what does this mean?
Speaker 1: Let's pray.
Speaker 1: What does this mean?
Speaker 1: Let's pray, father in heaven.
Speaker 1: We thank you for the spectacular that, lord, our everyday life can turn spectacular suddenly.
Speaker 1: Thank you, lord, for the miracles that you do, and you do them on a daily basis, not just on Sundays.
Speaker 1: And thank you, lord, for even what you did many years ago in a very humble, ordinary place, something very powerful.
Speaker 1: And today, lord, as we reflect on what you did at Pentecost, father, we pray that you would touch our lives.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
Speaker 1: May we have our seats.
Speaker 1: Thank you, worship team.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 1: Just before I share the word, let me remind us about the I Believe Park, which is prepared by our senior pastor, reverend Ambrose Nyangao, and this is part of our strategy in terms of reaching everyone with the gospel.
Speaker 1: And so we have a message which is here in the I Believe Park and it needs to get to people.
Speaker 1: We are the ones to take these parks, to these people, workplaces in our homes, wherever we go.
Speaker 1: It's only 100 shillings and inside there is also the weekly blessing and, as well, the Mephibosheth factor.
Speaker 1: So this is something I highly recommend.
Speaker 1: Get several copies, pass them on to other people During the week.
Speaker 1: This season we trust God to reach over 3,000 people and I believe that if and when each one of us gets this and takes it to somebody, there's an anointing on it.
Speaker 1: That person, the Lord, will do something very special in their lives.
Speaker 1: So if you have a brother, a sister, a friend who is out there, get a pack, put it in their hands.
Speaker 1: We have prayed, it is anointed and I believe, pastor Ambrose, something is going to happen in somebody's life as they receive this package.
Speaker 1: The message I share is titled Revive or Fire and, as I do so, I'm very happy because our giving towards the Dome.
Speaker 1: We had a target of 3.6 million towards the Dome, which is the mega structure we shall put on next Sunday.
Speaker 1: It shall be up here, the big tent, the mega Dome, to host 15,000 people, and we have faith.
Speaker 1: People are coming and part of that faith is our giving, as we expect them, and so far we have received 2.924 million, and so you can get the difference between 3.6 and 2.94 million.
Speaker 1: However, our overall budget is 15 million.
Speaker 1: In the first service I prayed that God blesses you in such a way that 15 million will be pocket change.
Speaker 1: Did somebody get it 15 million?
Speaker 1: And you better say to yourself it's going to be pocket change for me, 15 million.
Speaker 1: And I thank God for the young generation.
Speaker 1: God is blessing them a big time and I wish I'll have young people rising and coming and saying Pastor, I am handling the 15 million.
Speaker 1: It's me, the Lord has spoken to me.
Speaker 1: May that come across to you.
Speaker 1: God bless you.
Speaker 1: As we give, we'll continue giving throughout the week and there's a pay bill number which I believe is on the screen right now and you could designate it to DOOM.
Speaker 1: You say DOOM If you write a check, also put at the back the words DOOM, designated giving.
Speaker 1: So we are going to have a great week of revival.
Speaker 1: Monday to Friday, we gather here 5.30 pm, then on Sunday, one service 10 am.
Speaker 1: We have parking at St Mary's School, we shall have shuttles and buses to bring us here as early as 7 am, and so every detail is taken care of.
Speaker 1: Bring your friends.
Speaker 1: We want over 15,000.
Speaker 1: For some reason I'm praying even over 15,000 people to come, because I know that this church has been marked by God to catalyze the last day revival.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you have the same faith I have, but this church has been marked by God to catalyze the last day revival.
Speaker 1: Marked by God to catalyze the last day revival, and because we have people all around us, these hotels you see, Canaan, ibis they spark in there.
Speaker 1: There are several high-rise buildings here and they are populated with guests from all over the world.
Speaker 1: We want them to see something coming, coming up a big tent here, and our prayer is that they will get out of these hotels and come for the revival.
Speaker 1: It's been our prayer for many, many years and it's a joy for us to see the prophetic consummation of what we have seen prophesied in the past.
Speaker 1: God is truly coming through for us.
Speaker 1: Join Pastor Ambrose's faith, my faith, our faith, as we trust God for this city and this continent, and that revival tent is part of it.
Speaker 1: So support it.
Speaker 1: Revival fire Three things I want to share Number one, ignited by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Number two, resting on every disciple.
Speaker 1: And number three, spreading to the nations.
Speaker 1: Let me just repeat again Revival fire exclamation mark.
Speaker 1: So kind of say it with some oomph.
Speaker 1: You know revival fire, ignited by the Holy Spirit resting on every disciple, spreading to the nations.
Speaker 1: The text is as I read earlier Acts, chapter 2, verse 1 up to verse 12.
Speaker 1: I want to attempt defining revival.
Speaker 1: I know it's bigger than my definition here, but let me put revival like this Revival is a Holy Spirit-empowered awakening of God's people that brings transformation, bold witness and supernatural signs and wonders, as promised in Acts, chapter 2, verse 17.
Speaker 1: I will read that definition once again Revival is a holy spirit empowered awakening of God's people that brings transformation, bold witness and supernatural signs and wonders, as promised in Acts, chapter 2, verse 17.
Speaker 1: I will ask us to have the scripture.
Speaker 1: It's there on the screen Acts 2, verse 17,.
Speaker 1: It says this in the last days, god says I will pour out my spirit on all people.
Speaker 1: I will pour out my spirit on all people.
Speaker 1: Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
Speaker 1: And, pastor Ambrose, I know it's our prayer this week that revival fire falls and I want to believe that we have a common faith that revival fire falls and falls the same way it did in Pentecost, which is a long time ago, over 2,000 years ago.
Speaker 1: But God is able to do it again, and so my prayer is this Lord, do it again.
Speaker 1: He is able to do it once again, first of all ignited by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Revival is not a work of man, revival is a work of God.
Speaker 1: It is a divine work, and I know that there are people who try to induce revival and therefore they get very dramatic and sometimes even appealing to emotions.
Speaker 1: But I want to say here once again that revival is a work of God, is not a work of man.
Speaker 1: Man cannot achieve this kind of revival we find in the book of Acts, chapter 2.
Speaker 1: A revival so profound that it can reach the soul of man, the mind of man, the spirit of man, the whole social fabric of life, that can touch economics and touch politics, you know, a revival that just changes everything.
Speaker 1: Man cannot generate such a fire that will change things.
Speaker 1: Of course we tend to see strange fires, but the revival that the Holy Spirit brings is not a strange fire, it is a fire from God.
Speaker 1: In the book of Leviticus, chapter 10, verse 1 and 2, we see some two men there, nadab and Abihu, who are sons of Aaron who tried to put up a fire, but it was strange because this fire lacked authority and it was a fire that God had not commanded.
Speaker 1: God had not commanded.
Speaker 1: We know that the fire that comes through the Holy Spirit was promised in the days of Joel, long time ago, concerning the last days and how God will pour out his spirit upon all flesh.
Speaker 1: And when his spirit and the fire of the spirit comes upon all flesh, then manifestations like 1 Corinthians 12, verse 7, will say and to everyone, a manifestation of the Spirit has been given.
Speaker 1: Then manifestation, manifestation of the Spirit would come, and the manifestation of the fire of the Holy Spirit is very, very clear.
Speaker 1: People love each other.
Speaker 1: You know clear.
Speaker 1: People love each other.
Speaker 1: You know there is love, joy, peace, patience.
Speaker 1: Galatians 5, verse 22,.
Speaker 1: The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, long-suffering and self-control.
Speaker 1: And he says again, as such, there is no law.
Speaker 1: A strange fire is not able to produce this kind of manifestation, but the fire of the Holy Spirit produces a very powerful manifestation and therefore it is a sovereign work of God and it can only be ignited by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: In this revival season that we are launching today.
Speaker 1: We have titled it Unbound Dominion.
Speaker 1: That is the theme Unbound Dominion.
Speaker 1: And during the week, from Monday all the way to Friday and then Sunday, we are having great speakers who are coming, starting with Reverend Ambrose Nyong'o tomorrow evening from 5.30.
Speaker 1: And those who are following in online, if you are abroad, please link up tomorrow from 5.30 pm.
Speaker 1: We have a very special the altar is now being erected right now, even as I share, we are launching the revival week and those who are around the country, please come over, all of us here who are here, come with friends from tomorrow 5.30.
Speaker 1: So, beginning Monday, there will be an expose of this theme, unbound Dominion.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this the torch of Unbound Dominion is ignited by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: This revival fire, there is a torch and the fire on that torch, you know, is ignited by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Torch, you know, is ignited by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: Any other ignition is strange and any other ignition may even be cultic and could even take you in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: Now there was a scripture I didn't read it Leviticus, chapter 10, verse 1 and 2, if I can have it on the screen again regarding the strange fires.
Speaker 1: Aaron's sons, nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord.
Speaker 1: In other words, that worship was not acceptable, contrary to his command, and that kind of fire invites judgment.
Speaker 1: So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them and they died before the Lord.
Speaker 1: The fire we are calling today and the fire that is being ignited this week here, is a fire from the Holy Spirit, and I want to say this that the fire of the Holy Spirit will reignite your fire of prayer, will ignite your fire and desire of reading the Scriptures, will ignite your fire for the nations and will also ignite your fire of worship.
Speaker 1: It's a very powerful fire and it is recorded there in Acts 2, verse 1 and 2.
Speaker 1: When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
Speaker 1: Suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
Speaker 1: It is from the Lord and it came from heaven.
Speaker 1: This fire, and because of this fire, the Holy Spirit, something began to happen in the lives of the disciples.
Speaker 1: That has continued to happen until to this day where we are.
Speaker 1: It is a fire that is enduring fire, not like paper fire.
Speaker 1: You find some people who are very excited one day.
Speaker 1: The next day they are not excited, but this is a fire that is enduring the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: In Luke, chapter 24, verse 49 to verse 53,.
Speaker 1: What does the Bible say?
Speaker 1: Luke, chapter 24, verse 49 to verse 53.
Speaker 1: Jesus said I'm going to send you what my Father has promised, but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.
Speaker 1: Goes on to say when he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.
Speaker 1: That was the last activity of Jesus, and while he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.
Speaker 1: Pastor Ambrose, I said in the first service, the reason we bless people at the end of the service is because Jesus, when he was taken off, he was actually blessing, and so we continue in the same flow of blessings.
Speaker 1: While he was blessing them, he left.
Speaker 1: Then they worshiped him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy and they stayed continually at the temple praising God.
Speaker 1: They were not supposed to do any work of God without the fire of the Holy Spirit, otherwise they would be doing it in their own strength and those who light up strange fires.
Speaker 1: You see on television and some preachers come there and they light up strange fires of revival and you look at the activities and what is happening there and it's just despicable and you can sense in your spirit that is not from God.
Speaker 1: All kinds of gimmicks happening right now on television and people ask you to do all kinds of funny strange things.
Speaker 1: You've seen it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to all the details.
Speaker 1: Some of these things we see and some of them are embarrassing for us who are preachers and we say Lord, why should this happen?
Speaker 1: And I know many people have stopped going to churches because of the embarrassment that some of these services bring to the people.
Speaker 1: And they are pushed and shoved Pastor Kiniti mentioned last week.
Speaker 1: Some of them are even made to fall down.
Speaker 1: And I want to say this strange fires are not enduring.
Speaker 1: Strange fires will make you feel good for a very short time, but in the long term, when you go back to your house and you have to love somebody, in the long term, when you have to carry joy in situations that are very difficult, in the long term only the fire of the Holy Spirit can take you through.
Speaker 1: And if you are here or listening to me online, and you are in a place of strange fires.
Speaker 1: I'm calling you out of that strange fire in the name of Jesus Christ and I'm calling you back to the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: You know, Moses, in Exodus, chapter 3, verse 2 and 3, I thank God that the fire that he went to was not a strange fire, and when the fire of the Holy Spirit comes, there is a way he directs you and there is a way this fire guides you.
Speaker 1: It says this there, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.
Speaker 1: Moses saw that, though the bush was on fire, it did not burn up.
Speaker 1: So Moses thought I will go over and see this strange sight, why the bush does not burn up.
Speaker 1: When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, god called to him from within the bush, moses, moses.
Speaker 1: And Moses said here I am, here at Parklands Baptist Church, the epicenter of global revival.
Speaker 1: We are raising an altar of revival, and this altar of revival, the fire there, is ignited by the Holy Spirit and I see God calling somebody by this fire.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this fire is going to be so powerful.
Speaker 1: We have called it bigger, better and greater People driving around here will find themselves, pastor Ambrose, driving into this compound in Jesus' name, the people in these hotels here.
Speaker 1: The hotels will be emptied and they are going to be trooping here I am prophesying Hallelujah, trooping into this sanctuary Because it's not by power nor by might, but by God's Spirit we make it and therefore the fire of the Holy Spirit is unique, is different, and the same way it happened at Pentecost.
Speaker 1: People saw it, people felt it.
Speaker 1: There were tongues you know flames, tongues of fire.
Speaker 1: You know that were resting on everybody and you cannot mistake it for any other fire.
Speaker 1: And if somebody's on fire for the Lord, you cannot mistake that fire for any other fire.
Speaker 1: I like putting it this way when you're fired by the Holy Spirit and you go here, westlands, to begin to stop people and evangelize, I'm telling you they'll see the fire, the fire of the Holy Spirit in you and they will stop.
Speaker 1: I tried it the other day.
Speaker 1: I went to Westlands, I was telling the first service and between the petrol station or Libya and Shell, that's where I was plying, or rather walking this way and walking the other way, and I was just stopping people and I introduced myself and I say God loves you, I love you, and I talk about John 3.16 once again, god loves you in such a way he gave his son to die for you.
Speaker 1: And do you know?
Speaker 1: There is not a single person that I stopped, even in the petrol stations, those two petrol stations who took off.
Speaker 1: I mean, they listened.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, the fire of the Holy Spirit is not strange.
Speaker 1: There is a glory about it.
Speaker 1: When Moses came from the mountain, he was shining with that glory.
Speaker 1: Isaiah 60, verse 1, says this Arise and shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you and because of that, the nations will come to your light in verse 3, and kings to the rising of your doom.
Speaker 1: There's just something about this fire of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: It is ignited by the Holy Spirit and it is different from the strange fires.
Speaker 1: Now, when I finished sharing there, I Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: And it is different from the strange fires Now, when I finished sharing there, I came back and some of those people I shared with talked with someone here and they said, because I would introduce myself, the pastor from your church came over and he was just sharing with us the gospel.
Speaker 1: So he came back to me in the office and told me by the way, those people you are talking with out there, they told me that you are there and I gave out Bibles.
Speaker 1: So this time around, carry this pack, carry a Bible, carry something very special, because you have the fire of the Holy Spirit and it's not a strange fire.
Speaker 1: And so Moses, the burning bush sees a fire and he knows this one is not a strange fire.
Speaker 1: He gets closer and I'm inviting us, this week of revival, to come, come with your friends.
Speaker 1: God is going to give you new directions.
Speaker 1: God is going to revive your life in a special way, those dreams that have been lost, that business that has been failing, that prayer life that has also been faltering.
Speaker 1: God is saying by my fire I shall resuscitate it and I shall also bring it to life.
Speaker 1: This fire is falling on the disciples who formerly were very afraid, but suddenly something is happening, their trajectory is changing.
Speaker 1: And so in this revival season, we are saying start up.
Speaker 1: We are saying start up.
Speaker 1: And that's what Paul told Timothy, because he was timid, he was afraid and he was saying put to flame.
Speaker 1: You know, 2 Timothy, chapter 1, verse 6 and 7, put to flame the gift that is in you, that came by the laying of one of my hands and that gift also had come from the grandmother and mother.
Speaker 1: And now Paul lays a hand on him.
Speaker 1: There was a gift inside Timothy but needed to be put to flame, the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I thank God for the young generation.
Speaker 1: God's spirit is upon them and let me tell you, god is going to use young people in this season of revival.
Speaker 1: In the next 10 years it will be the young generation driven revival and they shall go with boldness.
Speaker 1: I am working with a group of young people who are going to Nyali, mombasa, and they will be holding some big meetings there.
Speaker 1: They were in Eldoret, young people that were in Eldoret the other day and it was a big move of God.
Speaker 1: Yesterday they went to Kituwe.
Speaker 1: They were in the Kituwe area and it's a group of young people and I'm telling you, when the fire of the Holy Spirit of God is ignited, by the Holy Spirit on your gift, the gift you have as it is, you become different.
Speaker 1: In that boardroom, in that workplace.
Speaker 1: You are no longer afraid and you start making a difference.
Speaker 1: Revival fire, number one, ignited by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: And so the prayer to pray is to pray Holy Spirit, fire me up again.
Speaker 1: That's the prayer there.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, fire me up again, rekindle the flame of my gift, rekindle the flame of my prayer life and rekindle the flame of my desire to win souls for the kingdom.
Speaker 1: I wonder when is the last time you led someone to Christ?
Speaker 1: From January up to now?
Speaker 1: But we can pray, rekindle that flame.
Speaker 1: The flame of reading the Bible is the fire of the Holy Spirit, and only the Holy Spirit, only him who can do that.
Speaker 1: But number two resting on every disciple.
Speaker 1: So, first of all, the torch of revival ignited by the Holy Spirit, but secondly, the tongue, that flame, tongue of revival resting on every disciple.
Speaker 1: And this is a work on people.
Speaker 1: So in revival there is a divine dimension, but there is also a people dimension.
Speaker 1: When we read in Acts, chapter 2, verse 3 and 4, what does it say?
Speaker 1: All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Speaker 1: Now they were staying in Jerusalem, god, fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
Speaker 1: You know, when the Spirit of God comes, he comes without discrimination and it doesn't matter the age, the gender, the status, the background, the status, the background.
Speaker 1: He comes upon everyone, everyone, and we see it in the book of Acts, chapter 2.
Speaker 1: And so this revival is for everybody.
Speaker 1: It is for everybody and I'm praying that this revival gets into homes and this revival reaches out to every person without discrimination.
Speaker 1: And somebody feeling maybe this is not for me, but I want to tell you, some of the revivals that have affected nations were started by young people who are otherwise inconsequential, young people who felt like Gideon in the book of Judges, chapter six, who would say I come from a small family, a small tribe, we are not big.
Speaker 1: But let me say this God works in humble places to do global stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, don't despise small beginnings.
Speaker 1: Zechariah, chapter four, in verse 10.
Speaker 1: Never despise a small beginning or feel like you are too small to be a catalyst of the move of God.
Speaker 1: This fire rests on every person.
Speaker 1: I am reminded, pastor Ambrose, of a young man called Evan Roberts.
Speaker 1: And Evan Roberts, god used him to catalyze the Welsh revival, which was a revival that took place in 1904, at the beginning of the 20th century in Wales.
Speaker 1: He was a student coming from the coal mine areas and these young men joined other young people.
Speaker 1: They became 17 of them and they started praying and the prayer was very simple Lord bend me.
Speaker 1: It's like Lord bend me.
Speaker 1: And then they started praying, lord bend Wales.
Speaker 1: And as they were praying, like that revival fire descended on them, a small group of young people, and each of them received an impartation of the revival fire.
Speaker 1: You are not too young to receive this fire.
Speaker 1: You are not too old to receive this fire.
Speaker 1: Your status is neither here nor there to receive the fire, this fire of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: You could be a boss, ceo of an organization, but you could also be the person serving in the grounds.
Speaker 1: This is a fire that spreads without discrimination, reaching everyone, and you know, even Roberts and the team.
Speaker 1: God used them to catalyze a revival that actually affected the whole, let me put it, the whole century, the last century that we know, from year 1900 all the way to year 2000,.
Speaker 1: Even Robertson team, 1904 in Wales.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was the Welsh revival that motivated the revivals that went into the 1906 in the United States.
Speaker 1: That went into the 1906 in the United States, the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, california, that came in April 9, 1906.
Speaker 1: That revival, and the catalyst there was a preacher, a black preacher, who was called William Simmons.
Speaker 1: That revival was a result of the revival that happened in Wales, and so the revival went across, reaching nations.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, the change was so big in Wales that even the prisons became depopulated.
Speaker 1: The courtrooms had no cases to deal with, the police did not have work to do because of this revival, and even the horses became confused, because, you see, the coal miners would use horses and they were using cusses as they were riding their horses.
Speaker 1: And you know, the cusses stopped and blessings started and the horses became confused because the instructions, you know, sounded different.
Speaker 1: I am telling you, this revival falls on everyone and God can use somebody who feels insignificant greatly for his glory.
Speaker 1: All you need to say is that, lord, let this revival come upon me and you know, when God comes upon you, he begins to do that which man cannot do.
Speaker 1: You know, in Luke, chapter 4, from verse 18 to verse 21,.
Speaker 1: This is what the Bible says Luke, chapter 4, verse 18 to verse 21.
Speaker 1: And this is my prayer, that each one of us would pray, this prayer.
Speaker 1: The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
Speaker 1: He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, Of course, it goes on to say.
Speaker 1: Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.
Speaker 1: The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Speaker 1: He began by saying to them today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.
Speaker 1: May I say this week, this scripture is fulfilled in our hearing and I see the Spirit of the Lord upon every one of us.
Speaker 1: Like Jesus said, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me and because of God's Spirit upon every one of us, the fire of the Holy Spirit then descends upon us.
Speaker 1: Then there is revival in our homes, revival in our cities, revival in our countries and also revival around the world.
Speaker 1: Just like even Robert, a young man, allowed the fire of the Holy Spirit upon his life, gathered a group of young men and that fire started spreading from there.
Speaker 1: That fire is resting on you and me in this 21st century, and my prayer is this that the fire of the Holy Spirit descend upon every one of us now and also throughout this week.
Speaker 1: Some of these things we are trying to change, even governments are trying to change.
Speaker 1: Rehabilitation houses or rehab homes are trying to change Some of these things hospitals are trying to deal with.
Speaker 1: I am telling you, when the Holy Spirit begins to move, then signs and wonders begin to manifest.
Speaker 1: And the sign and wonder of the tongue, flame of fire on everybody was very, very manifest.
Speaker 1: And, pastor Ambrose, as we have prayed Acts 4, verse 30, god, stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant, jesus.
Speaker 1: I believe this week we shall see things that was in those days come alive again.
Speaker 1: The disease burden is too heavy.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit can sort it out.
Speaker 1: The debt burden is too heavy.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit can do what Can sort it out?
Speaker 1: Some of these challenges in our families, marriages and relationships.
Speaker 1: We cannot handle them in our own strength, but this power needs to come upon every one of you and me.
Speaker 1: I wonder what fire is identifying you and you know this fire falling on every person, every person.
Speaker 1: What fire is upon your life?
Speaker 1: And today I pray that we are able to pray and say fire of God come upon me, not just on everybody, but upon me and finally spreading to the nations.
Speaker 1: Revival fire spreading to the nation, a work unstoppable.
Speaker 1: In Acts, chapter 2, from verse 5 to verse 12, now they were staying in Jerusalem, god fearing Jews from every nation under heaven, when they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment because each one of them had in their own language, their own language being spoken.
Speaker 1: Utterly amazed, they asked aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?
Speaker 1: Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?
Speaker 1: And then he mentions quite a number of places and languages there.
Speaker 1: And then let me jump to verse 12.
Speaker 1: Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another what does this mean?
Speaker 1: And of course, some of them thought these people were drunk.
Speaker 1: This fire that the Lord sends individually to each one of us is supposed to spread, and each one of us has a calling to actually spread it to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: The work of God is unstoppable and that work will spread through you and me.
Speaker 1: Acts 1.8, we all know it.
Speaker 1: It says you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit does what it's come upon you and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria and also to the uttermost parts of the world.
Speaker 1: Matthew 28, verse 19 and 20 says Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
Speaker 1: And then he says if you do this, then I will be with you to the end of the age.
Speaker 1: This revival fire is not meant to be stored up in a locker.
Speaker 1: This revival fire is supposed to spread out, is supposed to reach others.
Speaker 1: In the first service I gave the illustration of a candle.
Speaker 1: If you all receive a candle with no fire and I get one candle and I light it, we are probably 3,000 people plus the ones in the pavilion, probably 3,000, 4,000.
Speaker 1: My single candle will be capable to come all the way around, lighting your candles, your candles.
Speaker 1: And secondly, my candle.
Speaker 1: Even after lighting all the candles, its light will not be diminished.
Speaker 1: Amazing A single candle, a single individual reaching out, lighting up lives.
Speaker 1: You know, firing up our lives, and yet your candle is not burning out.
Speaker 1: We are supposed to serve the Lord to the last breath and God gave us voice to use it.
Speaker 1: He gave us feet to use them.
Speaker 1: He gives us resources that we may use these resources and so that we become vehicles of this fire and, using our platforms wherever God has actually put us, then we light the fire there.
Speaker 1: And when you light your fire and I light my fire everywhere I go like yesterday I was in Makueni County, in Em like yesterday I was in Makueni County, in Emali and I was there lighting up, you know, my candle in that place where the Lord has placed you and you light up that world.
Speaker 1: I am telling you then, revival has arrived and this revival therefore needs all of us, but also needs us going.
Speaker 1: That's why the Bible says go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.
Speaker 1: In the first service, at the end of the service, there's a lady called Jane who came forward.
Speaker 1: She was sitting somewhere there and Jane came up, and Jane is an English teacher.
Speaker 1: Jane has been praying for a long time for the 1040 window around the world, which is a belt.
Speaker 1: It's a belt area around the world 10 degrees latitude north, 40 degrees latitude north.
Speaker 1: In between there around the world, it forms a belt called the 1040 window.
Speaker 1: Within that window are some of the religions that are still unreached Hinduism, buddhism, islam, zoroastrianism, confucianism five of them, and so many people are locked by this religious prison of sorts, and there is need for the gospel of Christ to break its light forth in that darkness so that those prison doors can be open and so that those people can also enjoy what we are enjoying.
Speaker 1: You know what the cross is able to offer us.
Speaker 1: They can also enjoy salvation.
Speaker 1: And so Jane has been praying for quite some time for that window around the world.
Speaker 1: She is an English teacher and the Lord has actually opened a door through her English platform to actually go this week to Asia, taiwan.
Speaker 1: And she told me, pastor, I'm going as a missionary.
Speaker 1: Yes, we can give a hand to the Lord, I'm going as a missionary to Taiwan and I'm going to use my English platform to propagate this gospel.
Speaker 1: And she was up here together with Pastor Mashina and the lady called Caro who mentored her.
Speaker 1: We prayed for her in the first service.
Speaker 1: You can watch that clip later from the first service Something very, very powerful.
Speaker 1: And as we were doing it, pastor Ambrose, it reminded me of my time in China, and I was a very young person.
Speaker 1: And, as I say, can I make a difference in China, and I went to Hong Kong first of all and was trained like an army guy, military covert action.
Speaker 1: And the reason for going to China that time we didn't have these phones and Bibles and all that I mean a Bible in the phones was to smuggle Bibles.
Speaker 1: And so I was a Bible smuggler and you can imagine you pack your bag with Bibles but you must not be seen, because if you are arrested, I'm telling you, the courts there function very quickly, your story will end very fast.
Speaker 1: But I would come clandestinely from Hong Kong into China, shenzhen, guangzhou and I would go those places with my Bibles and distributing Bibles among the underground church.
Speaker 1: I want to say there is a fire in you and there is a fire in me and it must not be contained in a small, even a small space called a church.
Speaker 1: This fire must get out of the church and this fire must get out of the homes.
Speaker 1: It must get out from those places where we have been stuck and we must now walk out with this fire of the Holy Spirit and begin to share it with the nations, one of the things I love doing every time I come to my office, every day, every time I come to my office is hold the globe.
Speaker 1: I have the round globe in my office, the rotating one, and it's on my desk.
Speaker 1: And what I do when I come, as soon as I get to my office, I hold it like this.
Speaker 1: I bring it close to my heart and I hold it like this, and this is the prayer I always pray.
Speaker 1: I've prayed it since I was a youth Psalms, chapter 2, verse 8.
Speaker 1: Ask of me the nations and I'll do what.
Speaker 1: I'll give them to you as an inheritance, and it's a powerful thing.
Speaker 1: And I say, lord, give me these nations.
Speaker 1: Or like someone, one of the revivalists, who prayed and is saying give me my nation or I die I think it was Scotland Somebody praying and say give me Scotland or I die.
Speaker 1: And so I pray.
Speaker 1: You know, then, on Mondays, every Monday, pastor Ambrose, you know, for the last 20, some years, 24 now every Monday I leave my house, I drive around this city.
Speaker 1: It's my day of prayer.
Speaker 1: I go to supermarkets, I go to hospitals, I go to all these population centers, to schools and school neighborhoods, and every Monday, because the Bible says beautiful are the feet of those who you know, take the gospel.
Speaker 1: And then Joshua 1, 3 says everywhere you step, I have done what I've given to you by faith.
Speaker 1: I go around and I pray for this city and I thank God for that kind of opportunity.
Speaker 1: This fire must be spread out and I know that God has given you what he has given you so that you are able to take this fire to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: It is possible.
Speaker 1: The young people of Africa.
Speaker 1: Once again, the Bible is saying to you in the last days, I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh.
Speaker 1: I'm saying to young people Young people arise, young people shine.
Speaker 1: He'll pour his spirit upon all flesh.
Speaker 1: But young people are mentioned there very specifically.
Speaker 1: Brother Felix, I see you're here and your friend from Malawi, yeah, yes, africa for Jesus, hallelujah, yes, that Colabo.
Speaker 1: Africa for Jesus, hallelujah, yes, that Colabo.
Speaker 1: These young people, just come, felix, felix, just come, and you see how firebrands look like the beard and you'll see the profile of the.
Speaker 1: Come here, come here, this young generation, and you can see the signature.
Speaker 1: I see your brother also there, the signature right there, you know, and my brother, hallelujah, this signature, the young people of Africa.
Speaker 1: God is saying I have released my spirit upon you, you know, and because of that spirit I have released upon you.
Speaker 1: The Lord is saying then visions and dreams shall become your portion.
Speaker 1: The fire of the Holy Spirit is falling upon you.
Speaker 1: I'm using it as a point of contact for all the young people, and because of that the nations shall come to Christ.
Speaker 1: Young people of the Lord, may I now say may the doors open for you, the gates of the nations open.
Speaker 1: Let the young people come, and you know Parklands Baptist Church and also Africa as the epicenter of this revival.
Speaker 1: We shall send the young people to the ends of the earth and together with Malawi, we agree In the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Yes, we agree with Malawi and all the other nations of Africa.
Speaker 1: Is there any other African country represented here?
Speaker 1: You can raise your hand wherever you are.
Speaker 1: Yes, right there or right here.
Speaker 1: Any other African nation?
Speaker 1: Yes, all these hands.
Speaker 1: Yes, hallelujah, glory to God.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying the last day.
Speaker 1: Revival is coming from Africa.
Speaker 1: The whole world is changing.
Speaker 1: I remember that part that says and I saw, you know that's right through Africa, and I saw a white horse, then I saw a brown horse and then I saw a black horse.
Speaker 1: The time has come for Africa.
Speaker 1: Let us mount our horse in Jesus' name and let us, with haste, take this gospel to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: And so, felix and my brothers there, god bless you you can take that message back to your country because of our season and also our time.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: And so this fire hallelujah For some reason I get excited when I get to this.
Speaker 1: This fire must not be hoarded.
Speaker 1: This fire, we shall carry it to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: I said in the first service how I was talking to a lady on the phone and then I realized she is not born again and I said straight away you need Jesus.
Speaker 1: And then she accepted to be led to the Lord and I led her to the Lord.
Speaker 1: There was somebody from children ministry in my office as I was leading this lady on the phone, a lady called Catherine on the phone in the sinner's prayer to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Speaker 1: Time is short.
Speaker 1: We have no luxury in terms of time.
Speaker 1: We must arise and take this gospel to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: Pastor Ambrose, I'm seeing the way we have started this movement of going north, south, east and west.
Speaker 1: With Northgate, with Eastgate, southgate, we are here in the west.
Speaker 1: I am seeing another ring of churches planted beyond those ones, and these rings are flowing to the south and to the north, east and west, and by this revival season an acceleration is going to happen, I'm seeing, of us taking the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: And so you will see the banner, pastor Regan, I know the banner is somewhere.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll put it up and in that banner you have people now released, you know, to go have dominion among the nations, because John 8, 36 says whoever the Son of God says free is free indeed.
Speaker 1: And then spirit field, and then you will see in the banner a whole population of people now going to the nations, and there is one of them who is actually holding the globe like this.
Speaker 1: In the banner we shall raise here, it's in picture form, you'll see it when it's put up, and there's somebody holding the nations like this and the fire of the Holy Spirit is actually flowing through it.
Speaker 1: I like that picture.
Speaker 1: The fire of the Holy Spirit is flowing through the hands of that person and the fire is getting into the nations and the nations are being changed.
Speaker 1: Today we are lighting the torch of revival ignited by the Holy Spirit resting on every disciple and spreading to the nations.
Speaker 1: As we run out here after this service, you are carrying a torch and it's called the torch of revival.
Speaker 1: When you come here tomorrow 5.30, all the way to Friday, all the expositors are giving an exposition around this theme, you know, and we are running unbound.
Speaker 1: We are running to have dominion.
Speaker 1: And the dominion of Genesis 128 is being recovered once again and God is saying we are blessed and we shall go out there and actually become a blessing among the nations.
Speaker 1: And God has blessed us to go subdue, to go have dominion.
Speaker 1: And, like Pastor Ambrose says, of course not people, it's for the living creatures, but our dominion is to chase away the devil out of people's lives in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says resist the devil, he'll do it, he shall flee from you.
Speaker 1: And so we really want to thank God.
Speaker 1: Even as I come to this place of prayer.
Speaker 1: He'll do what he shall flee from you.
Speaker 1: And so we really want to thank God.
Speaker 1: Even as I come to this place of prayer, I'll ask the worship team to come.
Speaker 1: There's that song Nifinyange.
Speaker 1: As they are coming, I'll be reading Ezekiel 37, from verse 7 to 10.
Speaker 1: This one leads us to prayer.
Speaker 1: May we all stand up now as I read Ezekiel 37, from verse 7 to 10.
Speaker 1: This is what it says.
Speaker 1: So I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I was prophesying there was a noise, a rattling sound, and bones came together, bone to bone.
Speaker 1: The Bible goes on to say I looked and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
Speaker 1: Then he said to me prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to it this is what the sovereign Lord says come breath from the four winds and breath into this lane that they may live.
Speaker 1: The word I have spoken here is prophetic and the word I have spoken here is life.
Speaker 1: The word I've spoken here is breath.
Speaker 1: And just like William Seymour, long time ago at Azusa Street 312 in Los Angeles, california, was preaching from the same passage, by the way, when they were having 10 days of prayer and on the third day he was actually on verse 4.
Speaker 1: And then somebody said that which you are reading and that which you are speaking, the prophecy fulfilled, and you are now telling it forth and prophesying.
Speaker 1: May it happen to me.
Speaker 1: Prophesying, may it happen to me.
Speaker 1: And you know that gentleman.
Speaker 1: He was the first harvest and first fruit of that revival, 1906.
Speaker 1: And a lot of stuff changed from that time because of this man who actually responded to the call of God.
Speaker 1: This word I have released is able to bring a bone to a bone, is able to bring a bone to a bone, is able to bring life back into your life, because the Holy Spirit is the author of life.
Speaker 1: If you believe with me regarding this fire I have just talked about here, the fire shall become your potion and you shall never be the same again, from a nominal, mundane life that doesn't count to a life that changes nations, and somebody is receiving this one, and your life will never, never be the same again.
Speaker 1: Only the Holy Spirit is able to change somebody.
Speaker 1: To that extent, we'll sing one line of Nifinyange, prayerfully, and then I'll lead us in a short prayer as we launch Revival Season 11.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Father, in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I know that you use humble beginnings to do uncommon things.
Speaker 1: I thank you for what you did in that upper room Over 2,000 years ago, a very ordinary place, you turned it into an extraordinary place just because you are God, and you ignited revival that has continued for over 2,000 years.
Speaker 1: From that humble epicenter, from that humble beginning, it has endured 2,000 years plus and the revival continues.
Speaker 1: My Lord, I know you are the same yesterday, you're the same today and you're the same tomorrow, and that nothing has ever changed concerning you.
Speaker 1: And you've said in the last days I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh and and here we are, the people and God, you've promised to pour your spirit upon every one of us we have gathered here at the launch of revival season 11.
Speaker 1: And, god, we are here waiting on you.
Speaker 1: You have told us in Isaiah 40 and verse 31,.
Speaker 1: They that wait upon the Lord.
Speaker 1: You shall renew their strength, they shall fly with wings like eagles.
Speaker 1: They shall run and not be weary.
Speaker 1: They shall walk and not faint.
Speaker 1: Oh, holy Spirit, fire, holy Spirit, strength, I know that you are ready to descend upon your people and God, you're about to do it, like you did it at Pentecost many years ago, to make us strong again, to make us effective again, to enable us again to bring passion back, to bring joy back back, to bring joy back, to bring love back, to bring hope back, to heal once again.
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, you are ready to descend and be able to bring the fire that works out those things that you, holy Spirit, only you can do.
Speaker 1: I know, according to Matthew 19, verse 26, these things are impossible, but with you, all things are possible.
Speaker 1: You are the author of revival and you are able to ignite revival.
Speaker 1: The material and the sacrifice for revival is here on the altar.
Speaker 1: Like the psalmist said in Psalm 51, verse 17, a broken and a contrite spirit is the sacrifice you are looking for, together, as a congregation and together as Parklands Baptist Church, and as I unite with Pastor Ambrose in agreement regarding revival and Parklands Baptist becoming the epicenter of global revival.
Speaker 1: My God, together, in this humble space, in this place here in Westlands, we open ourselves up, we present ourselves as sacrifice at the altar and together, as a congregation, we ask the fire of revival ignited by the Holy Spirit to now descend, and I invite us to lift our hands to God.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you for this fire of the Holy Spirit that is now descending and is also descending upon every one of us without discrimination, and descending to send us out.
Speaker 1: We thank you, lord, for this fire, and each one of us, by lifting of hands, we receive this revival so that the prophetic destiny of Kenya may be realized.
Speaker 1: Through Parklands Baptist Church and revival flowing from here like a river to the rest of the nation and then to the nations, and Kenya rises to his prophetic destiny and his prophetic calling.
Speaker 1: My God, here we, parklands Baptist Church, as a church, lifting our hands up to you and praying revival fire fall on me, each one of us.
Speaker 1: You can pray that prayer.
Speaker 1: Revival fire fall on me.
Speaker 1: My God, I thank you for this fire, revival fire falling on each one of us.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit, he's the one, the author of that fire, and I know somebody can sense the fire of God upon your life and I want to say don't resist the move of the Holy Spirit, don't resist the fire of God.
Speaker 1: The young generation of Africa don't resist the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: The same way God's Spirit came upon David in 1 Samuel, 16, verse 13.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing very many In a vision, prophetic vision.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing many young people and I'm seeing the fire of the Holy Spirit Descending upon a whole army Of young people, and God is doing it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, my Lord, for this fire that is descending upon so many young people.
Speaker 1: And, as Parklands Baptist Church, we open ourselves to this fire and we pray.
Speaker 1: The same way the fire functioned at Pentecost and then, after that, we walked with the disciples through the whole book of Acts.
Speaker 1: The Lord, a repeat of the book of Acts shall actually be replicated through this church, parklands Baptist Church, and therefore we surrender ourselves completely to you and we pray and we say Lord, have your way, lord, do your will.
Speaker 1: I am here, we are here, you are able.
Speaker 1: We are not able.
Speaker 1: Make us able Now, anoint us with power once again and lead us out of this church as witnesses of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Speaker 1: And as this fire is coming down, if you are not born again, let this fire lead you to the cross.
Speaker 1: Let this fire cause you to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Speaker 1: If you're here and sick in the body, may this fire heal you, even following on the screen, and you're following this service.
Speaker 1: May the fire of the Holy Spirit consume that disease in Jesus' name, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: If you're here and you're in debt, may this fire also take away that debt.
Speaker 1: Whatever your situation, the fire is able to deal with that.
Speaker 1: And, god, I thank you for ways in which you are moving in this place once again, like you did at Pentecost, and we bless you now as we launch Revival Season 11.
Speaker 1: In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Holy Spirit, and we all say let's give a hand clap to Jesus.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, glory to God, glory to God, glory to God, lord it to God, lord, it to God.
Speaker 1: I would like you to turn to somebody next to you and tell them I'm on fire for God.
Speaker 1: I feel fire.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am on fire, I'm on fire.
Speaker 1: I know, Cassina, you mentioned that at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are saying it like once again.
Speaker 1: Why don't we repeat it again I'm on fire for God.
Speaker 1: Clap for yourself now.
Speaker 1: And so, pastor Ambrose, this blessing of benediction is commissioning firebrands and people have a fire.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they are seeing you.
Speaker 1: Yes, with spiritual eyes, I can see.
Speaker 1: I see the fire.
Speaker 1: So, as you go around, there is a fire on you.
Speaker 1: Share that fire with the nations.
Speaker 1: You are.
Speaker 1: Blessed on Monday, blessed on Tuesday, blessed on Wednesday, blessed on Thursday, blessed on Friday, blessed this coming Saturday, sunday.
Speaker 1: You're coming.
Speaker 1: The testimony in Jesus' name, hallelujah and now.
Speaker 1: May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us, now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: Amen, surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 1: Amen Shalom.