WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.720 I bring us a message in the next few minutes. 00:00:02.959 --> 00:00:08.880 Your confession, your testimony, based on John chapter 5, verse 1 to verse 15. 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:14.320 I will ask us to stand in honor of God's word as we read the Bible together. 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:16.960 NIV version. 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:23.199 Sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:34.320 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. 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:42.479 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie: the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:47.359 One who was there had been invalid for 38 years. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:57.520 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? 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:06.000 Sir, the invalid replied, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is turned. 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:12.319 While I'm trying to get in, someone else, someone else, someone else, does it sound familiar? 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.560 Yeah, someone else does what? 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:16.400 Goes down ahead of me. 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:21.359 Then Jesus said to him, Get up, pick up your mat and walk. 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.280 Let's read verse 9 together. 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.959 At once the man was cured. 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:30.239 He picked up his mat and walked. 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:35.920 The day on which this took place is a day such things were not supposed to be happening. 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.439 But Jesus is the one who orders the rules of worship. 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:42.319 And therefore he trespasses. 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:45.920 He comes across to do this miracle. 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.239 Go back, go back to the verse 9. 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:49.920 I just want to go back to verse 9. 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.640 The day on which this took place was a Sabbath. 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.760 And so the Jewish leader said to the man who had been healed, It is a Sabbath. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.480 The law forbids, the law, the law forbids you to carry your mat. 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:04.239 Then verse 11. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:13.360 But he replied, The man who made me well said to me, Pick up your mat and walk. 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:20.000 So they asked him, Who is this fella who told you to pick up the mat and walk? 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:28.240 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:34.639 Later, Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, See, you are well again. 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.400 Stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you. 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.199 The Bible goes on to say the last verse there. 00:02:47.439 --> 00:02:56.400 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. 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:58.240 Let this word come across. 00:02:58.479 --> 00:02:59.919 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.520 And we all say, We may have our seats. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:09.280 The title of the message is Your Confession, Your Testimony. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:11.919 John chapter 5, verse 1 to 15. 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:16.240 Are three areas that will guide us as we interact with the word. 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:22.479 A limiting confession, a liberating confession, a life-changing testimony. 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.360 First of all, a limiting confession. 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:38.960 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. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:45.520 While I'm trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me. 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:50.240 He says, I have no one to help me. 00:03:50.800 --> 00:04:00.319 Let me speak to somebody and say that the confession you make limits, could limit your destiny. 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:08.800 The word limit means confining, restricting, reducing, holding back. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:14.719 Let me repeat again: confining, restricting, reducing, holding back. 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:24.879 A lot of people walk with a with a restricted belief, or what you call a limiting belief. 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:27.040 And so they don't believe. 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:06.959 Saying others get there before me, and he confesses disappointment. 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:10.319 I always miss my opportunity. 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:18.319 And many people today are imprisoned not by circumstances but by the language they speak. 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:33.279 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. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.839 He was focusing on a man. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:40.639 And his confession was saying, I have no man. 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:44.480 God wants us to begin to confess. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:50.879 Confessions that don't focus on man, but focus on what God can do. 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:56.240 Man has a limit, as you can see in this text, to what he can do. 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:58.800 And so he's waiting on a man. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.040 He's waiting on a human being to help him get into the water. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:14.480 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. 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:23.279 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. 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:28.720 Instead of man who is limited, a confession based on the unlimited God. 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:34.879 Jeremiah 17, verse 5 and 7 says, Cast is he who trusts whose trust is in man. 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:46.959 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. 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:57.519 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. 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:03.759 Proverbs 3, verse 5 and 6 says the following You know, trust in the Lord with all your heart. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.160 Lean not on your own understanding. 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:10.959 In all your ways, acknowledge God, and he shall direct your paths. 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:13.680 Psalm 121, verse 1 and 2. 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:15.360 I look up to the hills. 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.279 Where does my help come from? 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:20.959 My help comes from the God who made those mountains. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.759 And he doesn't sleep, neither does he slumber. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.680 A limiting confession is a confession that goes man size. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:35.279 But God wants us to look beyond what man can do for you. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.160 Because man is also limited. 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:41.759 And this is not to say that don't trust human beings. 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:50.399 No, God uses people and God can use people to reach you, God can make people to make a difference in your life. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.920 But our confession must be God's size. 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:58.240 It must be focused on the God who is more than able. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:05.519 Ephesians 3 20 says, God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or even imagine. 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:10.639 Matthew 19, verse 26 says, with man this is impossible. 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:15.360 Matthew 19, verse 26, with man this is impossible. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.959 But with God all things are possible. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:20.959 Let's let's read that verse together. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:30.560 Jesus looked at them and said, With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.519 And uh so he's encountering Jesus. 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:45.440 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. 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:50.799 And let me say, you cannot continually declare defeat and expect victory. 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.440 And today we can make a declaration. 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:58.799 I refuse to be defined by my limitation, I will be defined by God's word. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:00.000 Hallelujah. 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.360 I will be defined by God's word. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:09.919 Now you know Africa has looked up to the north, south, east, and west for its help. 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:16.720 But a time has come for the African nations to say that we look up to God. 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:17.919 Hallelujah. 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:34.320 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. 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:44.240 And so for 38 years, this gentleman is waiting, looking for a man or a woman who would actually help him. 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.440 But for 38 years, on a daily basis, he faces frustrations. 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:59.919 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. 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:09.519 I am here to say and connect you with heaven in Jesus' name that that regret cycle and journey is broken in Jesus' name. 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:19.519 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. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:28.320 And so, a limiting confession, bringing about delay, even of blessing, and bringing delay of a breakthrough. 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.840 In Numbers 13, verse 30 to verse 33. 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:51.039 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. 00:10:51.279 --> 00:11:00.480 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. 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:02.799 That is Caleb, positive confession. 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:04.559 But now going to the rest. 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:05.919 Majority. 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:11.600 But the men who had gone up with him said, We can't attack those people. 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.360 They are stronger than we are. 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:19.519 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land which they had explored. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:23.679 They said, The land we explored, divorce those living in it. 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:27.279 All the people we saw there are of great size. 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:32.240 We saw the Nephilim there, the descendants of Anna come from the Nephilim. 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:37.600 We seemed like grasshoppers in their own eyes, and we looked the same to them. 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:38.480 It's even funny. 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:42.559 When you are reading it, it even actually sounds funny. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:51.200 They made a negative or a limiting confession, and because of that, they could not enter the promised land. 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:55.840 And for a long time they entered a wilderness. 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:12.320 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. 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:19.840 And we decree and declare that uh limiting confessions shall not determine our destiny. 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:26.320 You know, Philippians 4 13 says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.600 And you hear somebody saying, I don't think I can succeed. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.120 I thought I don't think I can make it in the Nairobi market. 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:36.000 Doing a startup, it's a new business. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:38.799 There are bigger companies all over here. 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:40.320 They started early. 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:42.320 I just cannot start this thing. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:44.799 It's a startup, I'm not going to make it. 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.240 It is impossible. 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:52.080 That confession you make will soon become the testimony of your life. 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.360 In other words, you will see exactly what you are confessing. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.120 If you say I'm not able, then you don't see the breakthrough. 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:09.600 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. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:20.240 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. 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.960 In John chapter 6, from verse uh that is verse 5 to 8. 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:30.799 John chapter 6, verse 5 to 8, Jesus wants to feed 5,000 people. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.679 And so he tells his followers, let's give bread to these people. 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:36.879 Verse 5. 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:46.000 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? 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:53.679 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. 00:13:53.840 --> 00:14:03.120 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. 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:10.159 Then in verse 8, another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up. 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:15.360 Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish. 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.960 But how far will they go among so many? 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:23.840 What they forgot is that the limitless God was in their midst. 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:29.759 And he was the one who was talking to them and saying, Let's give bread to these people. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:35.919 But then they looked at the impossibility and they started confessing impossibility. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:43.679 May somebody who has been making limiting confessions here be freed from that right now, in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:50.559 A time has come for us today to say, We are able, we shall do it, we shall march forward. 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:55.919 It is possible, and we speak that language to our children and generations from us. 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:02.480 But number two, a liberating confession, a liberating confession. 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:10.960 Jesus said, Get up, exclamation mark, pick up your mat and walk. 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:18.320 In verse 8 of John chapter 5, then Jesus said to him, Get up, pick up your mat and walk. 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:23.679 Verse 9, at once the man was cured, he picked up his mat and walked. 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.279 The day on which uh this took place was a Sabbath. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.240 Jesus does not discuss the history of this man. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:38.159 He speaks a liberating word over his destiny. 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:54.639 And when Jesus speaks, and this declaration is made, liberating confession, weakness lost its authority, delay lost its authority, history lost its authority. 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:56.720 What was Jesus declaring? 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:58.720 He said, get up. 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.960 And I said to somebody here, get up in Jesus' name. 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:06.720 He was simply saying, Come out of defeat. 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:12.000 There is somebody who has been locked in their room for three days. 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:25.279 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. 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:32.159 Or somebody online, even now as I speak, you're in that dark room and in that dark space. 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:37.840 I want you to hear that God's word is able to fetch you from there. 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:44.559 It has the power, like Pastor Ambrose preached the other Sunday, to lift you from the lowest place. 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.679 When God says get up, he means get up. 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:57.600 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. 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:00.960 Is somebody here financially down? 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:06.480 Listen to this word from me, uh, from the Bible, from Jesus, get up. 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.720 Yeah, is somebody down financially? 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.599 I am saying, get up in Jesus' name. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:18.880 That word comes over with power, picks you from where you have nothing, and begins to lift you up. 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:34.079 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. 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.759 And I'm speaking to a family here that has been very, very down. 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:40.799 God is saying, your season of getting up is here. 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:42.880 It is the Jubilee hour. 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:44.319 This is your hour. 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.079 Receive the word, get up now in Jesus' name. 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:55.759 Come out of that room, come out of that trap, come out of that crippling situation and that uh place where you have been. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:59.680 You've been down for so long, and God is saying, get up. 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:03.119 Then Jesus said, Take up your mat. 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:10.559 In other words, take authority over what once carried you and begin to carry it. 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.759 And table stand, I say, your story is changing. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:22.480 The thing that really put you down is coming to your feet, and uh you shall stamp it like this in Jesus' name. 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.480 That which carried you, you are now actually carrying it. 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:31.599 And Jesus is flipping the story for Africa. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:35.680 Jesus is flipping the story for every one of us. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:37.920 Let me say this and prophesy. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:43.519 In 10 years' time, Africa will be ahead of the other nations. 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:46.799 Did somebody hear that? 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:52.480 And somebody saying, Parsi, you are just a pastor, you don't understand dynamics. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:59.839 How global trade, global policy, the conspiracies that are there, out there. 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:09.519 I want to say God's word is greater than any policy, than any conspiracy, and every determination from any quarter. 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:15.599 I release the power of get up to Africa in the name of Jesus Christ. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:25.519 Sometime back I prophesied from here and I said, We are coming to a time when five jobs shall pursue one person. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.160 That word is still alive, that word is still active. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:38.160 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. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:47.359 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. 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:51.920 When I did it, that prophecy applies the job to the job market. 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:56.160 And there will be more jobs than we can feel them. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:58.720 Are you hearing what this preacher is saying? 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.440 Jesus is saying, get up, get up, get up. 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:10.480 In fact, I had somebody come to me and tell me, Parsi, what you prophesied, I have experienced it. 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.680 I have three invitations to jobs. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.440 Now I'm coming for wisdom to select which one. 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:18.720 I like those moments. 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.160 I get very excited. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.960 Parsi, which one now, which direction? 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:36.559 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. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:37.839 I am I'm waiting. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:39.200 My office is waiting. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:43.839 People will be coming and say, Percy, five of them, Brother Sam, five of them. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:45.759 Now, which one do we select? 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:52.000 This story we are having of scarcity and lack is changing in the name of Jesus. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:53.920 And it is happening in our time. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:58.880 I just say 10 years, there will be an acceleration, it will be by the power of God. 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:03.039 The other nations will look at it and say, Who has done this? 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.920 And Africa will say, The Lord has done it, the Lord has done it. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:09.039 Let's give him a hand. 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:10.559 Glory to his name. 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:12.640 Get up, get up. 00:21:14.079 --> 00:21:19.920 The situation looks dire, but this word is bigger than the situation. 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:31.359 The guy was crippled for 38 years, but God's word doesn't care about the tenure of how long this story has been. 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:41.119 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. 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:43.279 And so you've been locked in that place. 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:45.920 I'm speaking right now in Jesus' name. 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:53.839 Get out of that depression, get out of that anxiety, get out of that disease and be healed in the name of Jesus. 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:59.519 But finally, in this liberating confession, Jesus says, Walk, which means move in. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.079 To your God-given future. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:05.599 I say there is a future for everybody. 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:14.319 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. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:18.799 And when God's word goes forth, it never returns void. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.319 You shall decree a thing and it shall be established for you. 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:30.319 Job chapter 22 and verse 28, King James Version, New King James Version, Job chapter 22 and verse 28. 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:32.319 Let us read it together. 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:37.519 You will also declare a thing and it will be established for you. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:38.319 Just that part. 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.200 Let's read it again. 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:39.839 Just that part. 00:22:39.920 --> 00:22:40.559 Go back. 00:22:40.880 --> 00:22:44.960 You will also declare a thing and it will be established for you. 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:46.480 Let's make it first person. 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:53.680 Let's say I will also declare a thing and it will be established for me. 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:57.200 And therefore, Jesus is our Lord. 00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:58.720 He's our example. 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:00.240 He's our mentor. 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:06.960 And he finds a situation, a creeper for 38 years, and he stands up there with authority. 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:09.839 And he speaks to this man. 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:16.000 And he says, Get up, pick up your mat, and he says, Walk. 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:21.920 There is a lady where that Jesus stood talked to and told her, Woman, thou art loosed. 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:24.000 Luke 13, verse 10 to 13. 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:26.880 Luke chapter 13, verse 10 to 13. 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:28.960 I could have it on the screen. 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:32.640 On a Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues. 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:35.759 And a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:38.079 It's possible to be crippled by a spirit. 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:38.960 Yeah. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:44.640 For 18 years she was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:50.720 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, Woman, you are set free. 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:54.880 In the King James Version, it says, Woman, thou art loosed. 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:58.319 You are set free from your infirmity. 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:04.000 Then he put his hands on her and immediately she straightened up and praised God. 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:05.519 I want to repeat that. 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:06.960 Immediately she did what? 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:08.240 Straighten up. 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:09.519 And she did what? 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:12.079 Straighten up and praise God. 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:13.119 Hallelujah. 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:20.640 Whatever was bent, whatever was crippled, right now by the word of our Lord Jesus Christ is trained up. 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:23.680 Strength is coming back to the crippling situation. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:31.839 And therefore, a liberating confession reverses that which circumstances has actually crippled. 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:37.599 And so you speak life, you speak a new beginning, you speak possibilities. 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:42.480 And now I want us to declare I rise above every limitation. 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:43.680 Let's say it together. 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:03.039 Like a tree planted by the waters, I shall flourish. 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:05.839 My family shall flourish. 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:11.519 The work of my hands shall flourish in every season. 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:13.839 That's a liberating confession. 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:16.400 Let's give a hand to the Lord. 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:22.319 And finally, a life-changing testimony. 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:25.759 Testimonies ignite revival. 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:36.160 And this gentleman in verse 15, he says, he told the Jewish leaders that it is Jesus who made me well. 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:38.160 It is his testimony. 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:40.160 Every Sunday we release you. 00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:43.039 We say next Sunday you are coming back with a testimony. 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:55.119 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. 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:01.279 And here in Kenya, they were told they they need a liver transplant. 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:11.519 And we prayed together in my office and trusted God and said, Lord, you are the God of miracles. 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:20.319 Yes, it has been said this child has a short life unless a liver transplant actually takes place. 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:28.480 But God, you are more than able, you are the manufacturer of livers, and we decree the life of this child, a little baby. 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:33.359 And through checks here and there, finally a door opened in India. 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.440 They went to India, they just came back. 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:38.079 They were in my office today in the morning. 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:50.559 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. 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.240 Our God is good. 00:26:53.759 --> 00:27:02.240 When they went there, what the lady knew is that she was all negative in terms of blood, and the child was all positive. 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:09.680 But when tests were done out there, she was told, You are actually O-positive, not O-negative. 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:13.279 And therefore, your blood and the blood of your daughter, they are the same. 00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:17.839 And then something was removed from her liver, the mother's liver. 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:18.559 Now, Dr. 00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:20.720 Kakunch, you understand better, I'm not a medic. 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:25.680 And put in the child, into the liver of the child. 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:29.920 And somehow they connect and they agree. 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.440 And I mean, the rest is a journey now. 00:27:33.519 --> 00:27:41.759 I mean, though I'm in my office, the child is bubbly, the liver has connected, and everything now is fresh, even the skin. 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:46.319 That time the skin of the child was looking very pale or faded. 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:51.599 But now you should see very chubby and very smiley and very happy. 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:55.599 And the lady came to my office with a child and I told her to write. 00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.240 We shall read it here in full one of the days. 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:04.960 And she said, I have come, Pastor, because you normally tell us next Sunday you are coming with a testimony. 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:07.200 I have come with my testimony. 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:09.440 Here is the testimony, is my baby. 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:10.880 My baby is healed. 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.319 And uh I put my hand early in the morning on the child. 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:21.039 We raised an altar of testimony, we praise the Lord, and we said, Receive all the glory and all the praise. 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:24.720 Because you are God who is more than able. 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:31.839 We believe in a Jesus who is miracle working. 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:35.599 These leaders you see here, we have a common faith. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.920 And we believe that there is nothing impossible with God. 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:45.519 This year of Jubilee, God is restoring you. 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.200 This year of Jubilee, God is giving you rest. 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:52.559 This year of Jubilee, you are being released from debt. 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.160 This year of Jubilee, you are reigning again. 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.000 This year of Jubilee, you shall experience reconciliation. 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.599 This year of Jubilee, you shall experience redemption. 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:05.920 We are trusting God for big things. 00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:10.640 And therefore, we shall hear many testimonies of people saying, God has restored me. 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:12.480 God has given me rest. 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:14.880 God has given me release from debt. 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:20.960 While we are still on debt, I cancel those debts in Jesus' name, and I do so miraculously. 00:29:21.200 --> 00:29:25.680 May God open the gates of heaven, release resources in your direction. 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.039 I am praying that you shall walk in the overflow. 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.480 You know, Psalm 65 and verse 8, I believe. 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:34.880 Psalm 65, verse 8. 00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:38.559 Talking about how God is able, verse 8 and 9. 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:44.160 The whole earth is filled with all at your wonders, where morning dawns, where evening fades. 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.400 I keep going, you call forth songs of joy. 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:52.160 You care for the land and water it, you enrich it abundantly. 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:59.039 The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:05.680 Keep going, you drench its furrows and level its ridges, you soften it with showers and bless its crops. 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:07.759 Now let's read verse 8 together. 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:14.640 You crown the year with your bounty, and your cuts overflow with abundance. 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:21.039 These are prophetic words to you, to you, to you, to me, and those people who are following online around the world. 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:27.599 I am prophesying that this year will be crowned with bounty for you, and that your cuts will do what? 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:30.240 Will overflow with abundance. 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:35.519 In the psalmist wrote, and he said, He anoints my head with oil, my cup overflows. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:46.559 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. 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:54.000 And so that person who has labored with debt, earlier on I was wrestling with should I make an altar call? 00:30:54.240 --> 00:31:05.440 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. 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:07.279 I mean, life is so difficult. 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.000 I want to say that's not God's plan for your life. 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:11.759 God wants that debt sorted out. 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:13.839 And I was wrestling, should I make an altar call? 00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:20.640 But even where you are hearing me right now, just where you are, you know your situation, uh, you know what you actually need. 00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:24.880 I am declaring God is breaking that yoke in Jesus' name. 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:27.519 And therefore, debt is not your destiny. 00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:29.920 Debt can cripple a person. 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:38.079 But here is a pastor decreeing the end of that debt and decreeing that God shall miraculously come through. 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.960 I don't know how, but he did it for the cripple. 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:43.680 He has everything in his resources. 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:47.440 We are not turning to man, we are turning to God. 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.039 May he open the heavens. 00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:51.200 Deuteronomy 28 and verse 12. 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:52.720 May he open the heavens. 00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.519 Deuteronomy 28 and verse 12. 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:57.759 May he open the heavens for somebody. 00:31:57.839 --> 00:31:58.880 That's a powerful verse. 00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:00.880 Deuteronomy 28 and verse 12. 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:08.319 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. 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:10.319 Let's read the last part together. 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:16.079 You will lend to many nations, but will borrow from none. 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:18.240 Make it first pass on the last part. 00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:23.359 I will lend to many nations, but will borrow from none. 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.799 Some people will start banks. 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:28.160 I have said here before, you are going to start banks. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.279 Somebody will start a bank here in Jesus' name. 00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:32.400 I've said that before. 00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:36.240 I know it's doable because God is the one who makes it possible. 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:41.440 And so I am decreeing that people will come with testimonies, chair of PDB. 00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:44.799 This year of Jubilee, we shall have our people. 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:52.079 And that's the joy of a pastor who will walk into this sanctuary and say, I had this kind of debt. 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:53.599 It was so big. 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:55.920 God has sorted it out. 00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:58.240 I look forward to those testimonies. 00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:07.359 Are you the one who is going to come with a testimony of restoration, financial restoration, financial healing, financial breakthrough? 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.319 My God is saying He's able. 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:18.319 They are not able to move. 00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:22.880 They're even carried on stretches because of the debt burden. 00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:26.559 Anapastor is saying for Africa and for us. 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:29.039 God is taking over that matter. 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:34.799 And God is sorting out the debt question once and for all. 00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:38.000 And this scripture shall be shall come to life. 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:42.160 You shall lend to many nations and borrow from none. 00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:45.759 If you have been borrowing, can that the tables be flipped right now? 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.119