SPEAKER_00: I bring us a message in the next few minutes.
SPEAKER_00: Your confession, your testimony, based on John chapter 5, verse 1 to verse 15.
SPEAKER_00: I will ask us to stand in honor of God's word as we read the Bible together.
SPEAKER_00: NIV version.
SPEAKER_00: Sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
SPEAKER_00: Now they're in Jerusalem, near the ship gate, a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda, and which is surrounded by five covered colonies.
SPEAKER_00: Here a great number of disabled people used to lie: the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
SPEAKER_00: One who was there had been invalid for 38 years.
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, Do you want to get well?
SPEAKER_00: Sir, the invalid replied, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is turned.
SPEAKER_00: While I'm trying to get in, someone else, someone else, someone else, does it sound familiar?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, someone else does what?
SPEAKER_00: Goes down ahead of me.
SPEAKER_00: Then Jesus said to him, Get up, pick up your mat and walk.
SPEAKER_00: Let's read verse 9 together.
SPEAKER_00: At once the man was cured.
SPEAKER_00: He picked up his mat and walked.
SPEAKER_00: The day on which this took place is a day such things were not supposed to be happening.
SPEAKER_00: But Jesus is the one who orders the rules of worship.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore he trespasses.
SPEAKER_00: He comes across to do this miracle.
SPEAKER_00: Go back, go back to the verse 9.
SPEAKER_00: I just want to go back to verse 9.
SPEAKER_00: The day on which this took place was a Sabbath.
SPEAKER_00: And so the Jewish leader said to the man who had been healed, It is a Sabbath.
SPEAKER_00: The law forbids, the law, the law forbids you to carry your mat.
SPEAKER_00: Then verse 11.
SPEAKER_00: But he replied, The man who made me well said to me, Pick up your mat and walk.
SPEAKER_00: So they asked him, Who is this fella who told you to pick up the mat and walk?
SPEAKER_00: The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
SPEAKER_00: Later, Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, See, you are well again.
SPEAKER_00: Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible goes on to say the last verse there.
SPEAKER_00: Father in heaven, as we partake of this word together for the next few minutes, Lord, I pray that you would use me for your glory.
SPEAKER_00: Let this word come across.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name we pray.
SPEAKER_00: And we all say, We may have our seats.
SPEAKER_00: The title of the message is Your Confession, Your Testimony.
SPEAKER_00: John chapter 5, verse 1 to 15.
SPEAKER_00: Are three areas that will guide us as we interact with the word.
SPEAKER_00: A limiting confession, a liberating confession, a life-changing testimony.
SPEAKER_00: First of all, a limiting confession.
SPEAKER_00: The man in verse 7 of John 5 said in his own words here, Sir, the invalid replied, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is turned.
SPEAKER_00: While I'm trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.
SPEAKER_00: He says, I have no one to help me.
SPEAKER_00: Let me speak to somebody and say that the confession you make limits, could limit your destiny.
SPEAKER_00: The word limit means confining, restricting, reducing, holding back.
SPEAKER_00: Let me repeat again: confining, restricting, reducing, holding back.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people walk with a with a restricted belief, or what you call a limiting belief.
SPEAKER_00: And so they don't believe.
SPEAKER_00: Saying others get there before me, and he confesses disappointment.
SPEAKER_00: I always miss my opportunity.
SPEAKER_00: And many people today are imprisoned not by circumstances but by the language they speak.
SPEAKER_00: And so the confession that you speak could limit your, you know, limit where you go, could limit the blessing that is coming in your direction, could limit what God wants to do in your life.
SPEAKER_00: He was focusing on a man.
SPEAKER_00: And his confession was saying, I have no man.
SPEAKER_00: God wants us to begin to confess.
SPEAKER_00: Confessions that don't focus on man, but focus on what God can do.
SPEAKER_00: Man has a limit, as you can see in this text, to what he can do.
SPEAKER_00: And so he's waiting on a man.
SPEAKER_00: He's waiting on a human being to help him get into the water.
SPEAKER_00: And he waits one year, two years, three years, four years, five years, ten years, twenty years, goes on all the way to 38 years.
SPEAKER_00: I want to say that we need to need to get to a place where we make a confession that is based on the unlimited God.
SPEAKER_00: Instead of man who is limited, a confession based on the unlimited God.
SPEAKER_00: Jeremiah 17, verse 5 and 7 says, Cast is he who trusts whose trust is in man.
SPEAKER_00: A warning against making human strength, human systems, or even our own abilities the ultimate source of security, while turning our hearts away from God.
SPEAKER_00: Psalms chapter 20 and verse 7 says, Some trust in chariots, others trust in horses, but I trust, I will trust in the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 3, verse 5 and 6 says the following You know, trust in the Lord with all your heart.
SPEAKER_00: Lean not on your own understanding.
SPEAKER_00: In all your ways, acknowledge God, and he shall direct your paths.
SPEAKER_00: Psalm 121, verse 1 and 2.
SPEAKER_00: I look up to the hills.
SPEAKER_00: Where does my help come from?
SPEAKER_00: My help comes from the God who made those mountains.
SPEAKER_00: And he doesn't sleep, neither does he slumber.
SPEAKER_00: A limiting confession is a confession that goes man size.
SPEAKER_00: But God wants us to look beyond what man can do for you.
SPEAKER_00: Because man is also limited.
SPEAKER_00: And this is not to say that don't trust human beings.
SPEAKER_00: No, God uses people and God can use people to reach you, God can make people to make a difference in your life.
SPEAKER_00: But our confession must be God's size.
SPEAKER_00: It must be focused on the God who is more than able.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians 3 20 says, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or even imagine.
SPEAKER_00: Matthew 19, verse 26 says, with man this is impossible.
SPEAKER_00: Matthew 19, verse 26, with man this is impossible.
SPEAKER_00: But with God all things are possible.
SPEAKER_00: Let's let's read that verse together.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus looked at them and said, With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
SPEAKER_00: And uh so he's encountering Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: There is a divine visitation, heaven offers him something, but he starts getting into this uh story here, and he's making all kinds of uh confessions.
SPEAKER_00: And let me say, you cannot continually declare defeat and expect victory.
SPEAKER_00: And today we can make a declaration.
SPEAKER_00: I refuse to be defined by my limitation, I will be defined by God's word.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: I will be defined by God's word.
SPEAKER_00: Now you know Africa has looked up to the north, south, east, and west for its help.
SPEAKER_00: But a time has come for the African nations to say that we look up to God.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Instead of looking for help from man to take us to the pool when the water is stirred, we need to look in another direction and look at God who is able to make all things work out.
SPEAKER_00: And so for 38 years, this gentleman is waiting, looking for a man or a woman who would actually help him.
SPEAKER_00: But for 38 years, on a daily basis, he faces frustrations.
SPEAKER_00: It is like somebody who keeps applying for jobs and uh you keep getting regrets, and the story of your life is regret after regret after regret.
SPEAKER_00: I am here to say and connect you with heaven in Jesus' name that that regret cycle and journey is broken in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: God is opening the gates, and God is coming through for you, and God is going to do something uh you have never ever imagined.
SPEAKER_00: And so, a limiting confession, bringing about delay, even of blessing, and bringing delay of a breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: In Numbers 13, verse 30 to verse 33.
SPEAKER_00: The nation of Israel was supposed to enter the promised land at a certain time, but because of negative confession or limiting confession, they stayed for about 40 years, and they went in circles like this for a long time, simply because of a limiting confession.
SPEAKER_00: It says, Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.
SPEAKER_00: That is Caleb, positive confession.
SPEAKER_00: But now going to the rest.
SPEAKER_00: Majority.
SPEAKER_00: But the men who had gone up with him said, We can't attack those people.
SPEAKER_00: They are stronger than we are.
SPEAKER_00: And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land which they had explored.
SPEAKER_00: They said, The land we explored, divorce those living in it.
SPEAKER_00: All the people we saw there are of great size.
SPEAKER_00: We saw the Nephilim there, the descendants of Anna come from the Nephilim.
SPEAKER_00: We seemed like grasshoppers in their own eyes, and we looked the same to them.
SPEAKER_00: It's even funny.
SPEAKER_00: When you are reading it, it even actually sounds funny.
SPEAKER_00: They made a negative or a limiting confession, and because of that, they could not enter the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: And for a long time they entered a wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: Today we are renouncing every word that is limiting over our lives, our nation, our continent, and our journey today by this altar, in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And we decree and declare that uh limiting confessions shall not determine our destiny.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Philippians 4 13 says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
SPEAKER_00: And you hear somebody saying, I don't think I can succeed.
SPEAKER_00: I thought I don't think I can make it in the Nairobi market.
SPEAKER_00: Doing a startup, it's a new business.
SPEAKER_00: There are bigger companies all over here.
SPEAKER_00: They started early.
SPEAKER_00: I just cannot start this thing.
SPEAKER_00: It's a startup, I'm not going to make it.
SPEAKER_00: It is impossible.
SPEAKER_00: That confession you make will soon become the testimony of your life.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, you will see exactly what you are confessing.
SPEAKER_00: If you say I'm not able, then you don't see the breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: But the moment you pick scripture and you say, Heaven says I can do all things through through Christ who strengthens me, I and my family, we shall do it.
SPEAKER_00: And then you step out of your house with the boldness that that scripture gives you and with that confession, and you go out there and you begin that startup and you begin prospering.
SPEAKER_00: In John chapter 6, from verse uh that is verse 5 to 8.
SPEAKER_00: John chapter 6, verse 5 to 8, Jesus wants to feed 5,000 people.
SPEAKER_00: And so he tells his followers, let's give bread to these people.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 5.
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?
SPEAKER_00: Philip, who is a man, Jesus asked him, and he asked him only to test him, for he already knew uh what he had in mind to do.
SPEAKER_00: Philip answered in verse 7, It would take more than half a year's wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite.
SPEAKER_00: Then in verse 8, another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up.
SPEAKER_00: Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish.
SPEAKER_00: But how far will they go among so many?
SPEAKER_00: What they forgot is that the limitless God was in their midst.
SPEAKER_00: And he was the one who was talking to them and saying, Let's give bread to these people.
SPEAKER_00: But then they looked at the impossibility and they started confessing impossibility.
SPEAKER_00: May somebody who has been making limiting confessions here be freed from that right now, in the name of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: A time has come for us today to say, We are able, we shall do it, we shall march forward.
SPEAKER_00: It is possible, and we speak that language to our children and generations from us.
SPEAKER_00: But number two, a liberating confession, a liberating confession.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, Get up, exclamation mark, pick up your mat and walk.
SPEAKER_00: In verse 8 of John chapter 5, then Jesus said to him, Get up, pick up your mat and walk.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 9, at once the man was cured, he picked up his mat and walked.
SPEAKER_00: The day on which uh this took place was a Sabbath.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus does not discuss the history of this man.
SPEAKER_00: He speaks a liberating word over his destiny.
SPEAKER_00: And when Jesus speaks, and this declaration is made, liberating confession, weakness lost its authority, delay lost its authority, history lost its authority.
SPEAKER_00: What was Jesus declaring?
SPEAKER_00: He said, get up.
SPEAKER_00: And I said to somebody here, get up in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: He was simply saying, Come out of defeat.
SPEAKER_00: There is somebody who has been locked in their room for three days.
SPEAKER_00: This week, maybe you are the one, three days, you never moved out because you are trapped, you know, in a circumstance, and even depression was encroaching in your life.
SPEAKER_00: Or somebody online, even now as I speak, you're in that dark room and in that dark space.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to hear that God's word is able to fetch you from there.
SPEAKER_00: It has the power, like Pastor Ambrose preached the other Sunday, to lift you from the lowest place.
SPEAKER_00: When God says get up, he means get up.
SPEAKER_00: And this word fetches you from the lowest spaces and actually lifts you up to a place where you see light again and you can enjoy success.
SPEAKER_00: Is somebody here financially down?
SPEAKER_00: Listen to this word from me, uh, from the Bible, from Jesus, get up.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, is somebody down financially?
SPEAKER_00: I am saying, get up in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: That word comes over with power, picks you from where you have nothing, and begins to lift you up.
SPEAKER_00: The energy, the authority of the word, as Jesus is saying, get up, enters this particular person, and uh elevation begins to happen, being lifted from the ashes to become something.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm speaking to a family here that has been very, very down.
SPEAKER_00: God is saying, your season of getting up is here.
SPEAKER_00: It is the Jubilee hour.
SPEAKER_00: This is your hour.
SPEAKER_00: Receive the word, get up now in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Come out of that room, come out of that trap, come out of that crippling situation and that uh place where you have been.
SPEAKER_00: You've been down for so long, and God is saying, get up.
SPEAKER_00: Then Jesus said, Take up your mat.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, take authority over what once carried you and begin to carry it.
SPEAKER_00: And table stand, I say, your story is changing.
SPEAKER_00: The thing that really put you down is coming to your feet, and uh you shall stamp it like this in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: That which carried you, you are now actually carrying it.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus is flipping the story for Africa.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is flipping the story for every one of us.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say this and prophesy.
SPEAKER_00: In 10 years' time, Africa will be ahead of the other nations.
SPEAKER_00: Did somebody hear that?
SPEAKER_00: And somebody saying, Parsi, you are just a pastor, you don't understand dynamics.
SPEAKER_00: How global trade, global policy, the conspiracies that are there, out there.
SPEAKER_00: I want to say God's word is greater than any policy, than any conspiracy, and every determination from any quarter.
SPEAKER_00: I release the power of get up to Africa in the name of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Sometime back I prophesied from here and I said, We are coming to a time when five jobs shall pursue one person.
SPEAKER_00: That word is still alive, that word is still active.
SPEAKER_00: I know if I said how many are jobless, I'll see quite a number of hands here, but I'm saying your story is changing in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: When I touched this flag here, and I said Isaiah 60, verse 3, nations will come to your light and kiss the rising of your down.
SPEAKER_00: When I did it, that prophecy applies the job to the job market.
SPEAKER_00: And there will be more jobs than we can feel them.
SPEAKER_00: Are you hearing what this preacher is saying?
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is saying, get up, get up, get up.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, I had somebody come to me and tell me, Parsi, what you prophesied, I have experienced it.
SPEAKER_00: I have three invitations to jobs.
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm coming for wisdom to select which one.
SPEAKER_00: I like those moments.
SPEAKER_00: I get very excited.
SPEAKER_00: Parsi, which one now, which direction?
SPEAKER_00: And we took time discussing the three jobs and the upward opportunities, you know, mobility for each one of them and what it means for the glory of God until we were able to select one job and this person takes that.
SPEAKER_00: I am I'm waiting.
SPEAKER_00: My office is waiting.
SPEAKER_00: People will be coming and say, Percy, five of them, Brother Sam, five of them.
SPEAKER_00: Now, which one do we select?
SPEAKER_00: This story we are having of scarcity and lack is changing in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And it is happening in our time.
SPEAKER_00: I just say 10 years, there will be an acceleration, it will be by the power of God.
SPEAKER_00: The other nations will look at it and say, Who has done this?
SPEAKER_00: And Africa will say, The Lord has done it, the Lord has done it.
SPEAKER_00: Let's give him a hand.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to his name.
SPEAKER_00: Get up, get up.
SPEAKER_00: The situation looks dire, but this word is bigger than the situation.
SPEAKER_00: The guy was crippled for 38 years, but God's word doesn't care about the tenure of how long this story has been.
SPEAKER_00: The guy seems to be focused on the story, but there is a word coming to him, and that word is saying, get up, come out of defeat.
SPEAKER_00: And so you've been locked in that place.
SPEAKER_00: I'm speaking right now in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Get out of that depression, get out of that anxiety, get out of that disease and be healed in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: But finally, in this liberating confession, Jesus says, Walk, which means move in.
SPEAKER_00: To your God-given future.
SPEAKER_00: I say there is a future for everybody.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter how they look right now, but because of God who is living and God who is able, there is a future for everybody.
SPEAKER_00: And when God's word goes forth, it never returns void.
SPEAKER_00: You shall decree a thing and it shall be established for you.
SPEAKER_00: Job chapter 22 and verse 28, King James Version, New King James Version, Job chapter 22 and verse 28.
SPEAKER_00: Let us read it together.
SPEAKER_00: You will also declare a thing and it will be established for you.
SPEAKER_00: Just that part.
SPEAKER_00: Let's read it again.
SPEAKER_00: Just that part.
SPEAKER_00: Go back.
SPEAKER_00: You will also declare a thing and it will be established for you.
SPEAKER_00: Let's make it first person.
SPEAKER_00: Let's say I will also declare a thing and it will be established for me.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, Jesus is our Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He's our example.
SPEAKER_00: He's our mentor.
SPEAKER_00: And he finds a situation, a creeper for 38 years, and he stands up there with authority.
SPEAKER_00: And he speaks to this man.
SPEAKER_00: And he says, Get up, pick up your mat, and he says, Walk.
SPEAKER_00: There is a lady where that Jesus stood talked to and told her, Woman, thou art loosed.
SPEAKER_00: Luke 13, verse 10 to 13.
SPEAKER_00: Luke chapter 13, verse 10 to 13.
SPEAKER_00: I could have it on the screen.
SPEAKER_00: On a Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues.
SPEAKER_00: And a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit.
SPEAKER_00: It's possible to be crippled by a spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: For 18 years she was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, Woman, you are set free.
SPEAKER_00: In the King James Version, it says, Woman, thou art loosed.
SPEAKER_00: You are set free from your infirmity.
SPEAKER_00: Then he put his hands on her and immediately she straightened up and praised God.
SPEAKER_00: I want to repeat that.
SPEAKER_00: Immediately she did what?
SPEAKER_00: Straighten up.
SPEAKER_00: And she did what?
SPEAKER_00: Straighten up and praise God.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Whatever was bent, whatever was crippled, right now by the word of our Lord Jesus Christ is trained up.
SPEAKER_00: Strength is coming back to the crippling situation.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, a liberating confession reverses that which circumstances has actually crippled.
SPEAKER_00: And so you speak life, you speak a new beginning, you speak possibilities.
SPEAKER_00: And now I want us to declare I rise above every limitation.
SPEAKER_00: Let's say it together.
SPEAKER_00: Like a tree planted by the waters, I shall flourish.
SPEAKER_00: My family shall flourish.
SPEAKER_00: The work of my hands shall flourish in every season.
SPEAKER_00: That's a liberating confession.
SPEAKER_00: Let's give a hand to the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And finally, a life-changing testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Testimonies ignite revival.
SPEAKER_00: And this gentleman in verse 15, he says, he told the Jewish leaders that it is Jesus who made me well.
SPEAKER_00: It is his testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Every Sunday we release you.
SPEAKER_00: We say next Sunday you are coming back with a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: After the first service, a lady walked into my office with a little daughter, and I remembered her as the lady I prayed with when this little daughter had a liver problem.
SPEAKER_00: And here in Kenya, they were told they they need a liver transplant.
SPEAKER_00: And we prayed together in my office and trusted God and said, Lord, you are the God of miracles.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it has been said this child has a short life unless a liver transplant actually takes place.
SPEAKER_00: But God, you are more than able, you are the manufacturer of livers, and we decree the life of this child, a little baby.
SPEAKER_00: And through checks here and there, finally a door opened in India.
SPEAKER_00: They went to India, they just came back.
SPEAKER_00: They were in my office today in the morning.
SPEAKER_00: That child who was fading, very frail, withering, I'm telling you in my office this morning, that child is Babley, and that child is alive.
SPEAKER_00: Our God is good.
SPEAKER_00: When they went there, what the lady knew is that she was all negative in terms of blood, and the child was all positive.
SPEAKER_00: But when tests were done out there, she was told, You are actually O-positive, not O-negative.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, your blood and the blood of your daughter, they are the same.
SPEAKER_00: And then something was removed from her liver, the mother's liver.
SPEAKER_00: Now, Dr.
SPEAKER_00: Kakunch, you understand better, I'm not a medic.
SPEAKER_00: And put in the child, into the liver of the child.
SPEAKER_00: And somehow they connect and they agree.
SPEAKER_00: And I mean, the rest is a journey now.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, though I'm in my office, the child is bubbly, the liver has connected, and everything now is fresh, even the skin.
SPEAKER_00: That time the skin of the child was looking very pale or faded.
SPEAKER_00: But now you should see very chubby and very smiley and very happy.
SPEAKER_00: And the lady came to my office with a child and I told her to write.
SPEAKER_00: We shall read it here in full one of the days.
SPEAKER_00: And she said, I have come, Pastor, because you normally tell us next Sunday you are coming with a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: I have come with my testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Here is the testimony, is my baby.
SPEAKER_00: My baby is healed.
SPEAKER_00: And uh I put my hand early in the morning on the child.
SPEAKER_00: We raised an altar of testimony, we praise the Lord, and we said, Receive all the glory and all the praise.
SPEAKER_00: Because you are God who is more than able.
SPEAKER_00: We believe in a Jesus who is miracle working.
SPEAKER_00: These leaders you see here, we have a common faith.
SPEAKER_00: And we believe that there is nothing impossible with God.
SPEAKER_00: This year of Jubilee, God is restoring you.
SPEAKER_00: This year of Jubilee, God is giving you rest.
SPEAKER_00: This year of Jubilee, you are being released from debt.
SPEAKER_00: This year of Jubilee, you are reigning again.
SPEAKER_00: This year of Jubilee, you shall experience reconciliation.
SPEAKER_00: This year of Jubilee, you shall experience redemption.
SPEAKER_00: We are trusting God for big things.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, we shall hear many testimonies of people saying, God has restored me.
SPEAKER_00: God has given me rest.
SPEAKER_00: God has given me release from debt.
SPEAKER_00: While we are still on debt, I cancel those debts in Jesus' name, and I do so miraculously.
SPEAKER_00: May God open the gates of heaven, release resources in your direction.
SPEAKER_00: I am praying that you shall walk in the overflow.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Psalm 65 and verse 8, I believe.
SPEAKER_00: Psalm 65, verse 8.
SPEAKER_00: Talking about how God is able, verse 8 and 9.
SPEAKER_00: The whole earth is filled with all at your wonders, where morning dawns, where evening fades.
SPEAKER_00: I keep going, you call forth songs of joy.
SPEAKER_00: You care for the land and water it, you enrich it abundantly.
SPEAKER_00: The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.
SPEAKER_00: Keep going, you drench its furrows and level its ridges, you soften it with showers and bless its crops.
SPEAKER_00: Now let's read verse 8 together.
SPEAKER_00: You crown the year with your bounty, and your cuts overflow with abundance.
SPEAKER_00: These are prophetic words to you, to you, to you, to me, and those people who are following online around the world.
SPEAKER_00: I am prophesying that this year will be crowned with bounty for you, and that your cuts will do what?
SPEAKER_00: Will overflow with abundance.
SPEAKER_00: In the psalmist wrote, and he said, He anoints my head with oil, my cup overflows.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, the testimony, as we preach from here, we are expecting is a testimony of overflow, because we are making confessions that agree with heaven.
SPEAKER_00: And so that person who has labored with debt, earlier on I was wrestling with should I make an altar call?
SPEAKER_00: If somebody who is who is very heavy laden by debt specifically, a financial burden that is so heavy on your life, you're not sleeping, you can't move forward.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, life is so difficult.
SPEAKER_00: I want to say that's not God's plan for your life.
SPEAKER_00: God wants that debt sorted out.
SPEAKER_00: And I was wrestling, should I make an altar call?
SPEAKER_00: But even where you are hearing me right now, just where you are, you know your situation, uh, you know what you actually need.
SPEAKER_00: I am declaring God is breaking that yoke in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, debt is not your destiny.
SPEAKER_00: Debt can cripple a person.
SPEAKER_00: But here is a pastor decreeing the end of that debt and decreeing that God shall miraculously come through.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how, but he did it for the cripple.
SPEAKER_00: He has everything in his resources.
SPEAKER_00: We are not turning to man, we are turning to God.
SPEAKER_00: May he open the heavens.
SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy 28 and verse 12.
SPEAKER_00: May he open the heavens.
SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy 28 and verse 12.
SPEAKER_00: May he open the heavens for somebody.
SPEAKER_00: That's a powerful verse.
SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy 28 and verse 12.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands.
SPEAKER_00: Let's read the last part together.
SPEAKER_00: You will lend to many nations, but will borrow from none.
SPEAKER_00: Make it first pass on the last part.
SPEAKER_00: I will lend to many nations, but will borrow from none.
SPEAKER_00: Some people will start banks.
SPEAKER_00: I have said here before, you are going to start banks.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody will start a bank here in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: I've said that before.
SPEAKER_00: I know it's doable because God is the one who makes it possible.
SPEAKER_00: And so I am decreeing that people will come with testimonies, chair of PDB.
SPEAKER_00: This year of Jubilee, we shall have our people.
SPEAKER_00: And that's the joy of a pastor who will walk into this sanctuary and say, I had this kind of debt.
SPEAKER_00: It was so big.
SPEAKER_00: God has sorted it out.
SPEAKER_00: I look forward to those testimonies.
SPEAKER_00: Are you the one who is going to come with a testimony of restoration, financial restoration, financial healing, financial breakthrough?
SPEAKER_00: My God is saying He's able.
SPEAKER_00: They are not able to move.
SPEAKER_00: They're even carried on stretches because of the debt burden.
SPEAKER_00: Anapastor is saying for Africa and for us.
SPEAKER_00: God is taking over that matter.
SPEAKER_00: And God is sorting out the debt question once and for all.
SPEAKER_00: And this scripture shall be shall come to life.
SPEAKER_00: You shall lend to many nations and borrow from none.
SPEAKER_00: If you have been borrowing, can that the tables be flipped right now?
SPEAKER_00: And become the person who actually lends people money.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: How many lenders are here, people who can lend?
SPEAKER_00: Yes, by faith.
SPEAKER_00: I like those hands.
SPEAKER_00: You see, I like the way you caught it so quickly.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a declaration.
SPEAKER_00: And I ask the question: how many are lenders here?
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you've raised your hand.
SPEAKER_00: What about here?
SPEAKER_00: How many are lenders by faith?
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Here, glory.
SPEAKER_00: There is a declaration going on, and your confession becomes your testimony tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00: And what about there, lenders?
SPEAKER_00: Yes, not borrowers, but lenders.
SPEAKER_00: What about here?
SPEAKER_00: Lenders in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: And here and there.
SPEAKER_00: And what about here?
SPEAKER_00: And what about there?
SPEAKER_00: I think that's my altar call.
SPEAKER_00: Why don't you give a hand to the Lord?
SPEAKER_00: That's the altar call.
SPEAKER_00: And so a life-changing testimony.
SPEAKER_00: God changes your life in such a way, people looking at you will say something has shifted.
SPEAKER_00: Not a small, I'm talking about life-changing.
SPEAKER_00: People looking at you, they know how it was yesterday, and they can see you today.
SPEAKER_00: And this kind of testimony triggers revival.
SPEAKER_00: That is our prayer that this story has changed.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to join me in making this declaration.
SPEAKER_00: Let's say together.
SPEAKER_00: Every voice of limitation, stagnation, and defeat speaking over my life is silenced today in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: May what has been stagnant for years in my life begin to move.
SPEAKER_00: Every confession of defeat is today replaced with a confession of faith.
SPEAKER_00: May long-standing delays be broken.
SPEAKER_00: May closed doors open and forgotten dreams be revived.
SPEAKER_00: My testimony shall become a catalyst for revival.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, come come.
SPEAKER_00: Sam, you can come.
SPEAKER_00: Uh Pastor Andrew.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just come.
SPEAKER_00: Come over.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I want about 10.
SPEAKER_00: Sam, are you going to come?
SPEAKER_00: Just come over.
SPEAKER_00: I see the West African.
SPEAKER_00: Ah, Mlosh.
SPEAKER_00: Mlosh, Mlosh.
SPEAKER_00: Mlosh.
SPEAKER_00: I know Mlosh.
SPEAKER_00: Caribusana.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, even Pastor Felista here, Caribusana.
SPEAKER_00: From this side.
SPEAKER_00: Any ladies?
SPEAKER_00: Yes, just come up here.
SPEAKER_00: This is the Jubilee call.
SPEAKER_00: This is a special altar.
SPEAKER_00: Just just come.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Have we reached uh yes, Ambassador Moyo?
SPEAKER_00: Come, come up.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, from Zimbabwe.
SPEAKER_00: Tumpigia Makofi, as her excellency is also coming.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this is looking very, very good.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: You said you won't be left.
SPEAKER_00: You've even come with a drum.
SPEAKER_00: That's that's very good.
SPEAKER_00: God is good.
SPEAKER_00: I know that picture is looking good from uh from with the cameras.
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Right, we are going to pray for Africa.
SPEAKER_00: Pastor Mashina was advising me a moment like this is a good moment to pray to sing the national anthem, just one verse.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you know the words in Swahili.
SPEAKER_00: In Swahili.
SPEAKER_00: I'm out at Wongoza.
SPEAKER_00: I am I see.
SPEAKER_00: I think uh we'll sing the national anthem now and then I pray.
SPEAKER_01: Are you able to lead us?
SPEAKER_01: We'll sing in Swahili.
SPEAKER_01: Uh we shall sing the national anthem and we shall sing it in Swahili.
SPEAKER_01: Nam li nao paten.
SPEAKER_00: That's a powerful prayer.
SPEAKER_00: I think you come a little closer as we pray for Africa.
SPEAKER_00: You may be aware that this sanctuary here was designed, the concept was the African heart.
SPEAKER_00: It was the African heart, and the pulpit was put at the dead center where the fireplace would be.
SPEAKER_00: So this is the fireplace.
SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a circle with a top up there, and then in Africa, people sit around the fireplace, and they also listen to one another and talk to one another.
SPEAKER_00: And today is Africa Sunday.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah! Africa Sunday.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, it's an appropriate day in a sanctuary like this, a sanctuary unique in Africa, this one, very unique, for us to bring Africa before the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: The prayer we pray here will remove every crippling situation, condition in our continent.
SPEAKER_00: I know some parts of Africa, as you know, Ambassador, we have war in some parts of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: Other parts of Africa, there is hunger, you know.
SPEAKER_00: Other parts of Africa, like you are serving in which country?
SPEAKER_00: Uh, in Mali.
SPEAKER_02: Afghanistan, Congo, and Somalia.
unknown: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Mulosh has served in many nations.
SPEAKER_00: And so these guys you see here representing so many countries.
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you're looking, are you being seen?
SPEAKER_00: I think the shop was.
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we believe by this prayer today, and the date should be marked somewhere from this church here, that any crippling thing within the continent, its yoke shall be broken, and God shall release this continent to the fullness of its destiny.
SPEAKER_00: I really appreciate Africa.
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate the continent, the drum, you know the sounds of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: And I know the choir, the worship team is coming.
SPEAKER_00: I like the songs that we just sang earlier.
SPEAKER_00: They saw just something about being in this continent and uh having the Lord in our midst.
SPEAKER_00: There's just something so beautiful, Dr.
SPEAKER_00: Gakunju, and so lovely.
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm going to lead us in a prayer.
SPEAKER_00: We can lift our hands to God, lifting Africa to the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: My Lord and my God, the team standing at this altar on Africa Day here at Parklands Baptist Church is a representation of many others, Lord, who are from around Africa.
SPEAKER_00: And this congregation, both here in person, the ones in the pavilion, and also following online.
SPEAKER_00: We are also points of contact.
SPEAKER_00: And today, Lord, we have declared this day a day of jubilee for Africa.
SPEAKER_00: Today is Africa's day, and Lord, we are releasing our voice of prayer from Parklands Baptist Church all the way to your presence.
SPEAKER_00: My God, we are inspired by the story of that cripple at the pool of Bethesda, and your word spoken over his life, broke the yoke of 38 years of suffering over his life, and once again he was able to walk like everybody else.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, my God, because we know that you are our hope as Africa.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, Lord, by this prayer, you are able to break every chain, Lord, to break every yoke to release us from debt and Lord from all the other things that happen within the continent of Africa that have slowed down our breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you now for every nation of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for Zimbabwe, represented here.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, thank you for Kenya.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for Mali, also represented here.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, thank you for DRC Congo.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the East African region.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for Centro African region.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the Comessa region.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the Sadik region.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the OPEC region.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, thank you for all the clusters of the nations of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: And together as a congregation, we bring the continent of Africa into your hands.
SPEAKER_00: And we declare today we are not looking up to man for our breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: We are looking to you, Jesus, for our breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: You tell us what we agree on earth is agreed in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: And what we lose on earth is lost in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: We agree today that the breakthrough season, the jubilee season of Africa is now.
SPEAKER_00: The jubilee season is here.
SPEAKER_00: We agree together that every crippling situation is now straightened out in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: I hear Jesus saying to Africa, Africa, arise.
SPEAKER_00: Africa, pick your mat.
SPEAKER_00: Africa, walk.
SPEAKER_00: The hour has come, Lord, for us to arise and shine, for our light has come.
SPEAKER_00: And the glory of the Lord is risen upon us.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, nations will come to our light and keep the rising of our own.
SPEAKER_00: We call forth our resources and declare that the debt problem is gone in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: The disease problem is gone in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: The fighting and wars are gone in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: The disagreements are gone in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: The joblessness is gone in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, the strange fires, they are gone in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: The negative altars are dismantled in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: From South Africa to North Africa, from West Africa to East Africa, into Central Africa.
SPEAKER_00: We are calling for the power of God to move across the continent.
SPEAKER_00: And God cause those who are not walking to walk.
SPEAKER_00: Let your hand be seen.
SPEAKER_00: Let resources be sent.
SPEAKER_00: Let the nations of Africa arise.
SPEAKER_00: My God, we pray for unity across Africa.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, may the nations do intra-African trade.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, may there be understanding across Africa.
SPEAKER_00: May the currencies be harmonized.
SPEAKER_00: May roads happen connecting the nations of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: May rail networks happen connecting the nations of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: May the peoples of Africa travel from one nation to another nation easily.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we remove the barriers that have been there for a long time.
SPEAKER_00: Like Ephesians chapter 2 and from 13 and 14, where it says he has lifted the blockage and he has made the two one.
SPEAKER_00: We lift those barriers in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, we are now calling forth the healing of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: We are calling forth the restoration of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: We are calling forth the rest of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: We are calling for the reconciliation of Africa.
SPEAKER_00: From here going forward, my God, we shall give a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: Africa shall give a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: The nations shall see, because the Lord is the one doing it.
SPEAKER_00: We shall see a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: And God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or even imagine.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore, today's Africa Summit has decreed that through prayer, in the presence of the Lord, that a new day for Africa has come.
SPEAKER_00: Our tomorrow is better than our yesterday.
SPEAKER_00: We shall see the hand of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, because we've prayed this prayer in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and we all say, Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.