SPEAKER_00: To God be all glory, praise, and honor.
SPEAKER_00: Your word brings forth salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Your word is life.
SPEAKER_00: Your word is truth.
SPEAKER_00: You sent forth your word and it healed the infirmities.
SPEAKER_00: And you have lifted up your word over your name.
SPEAKER_00: As we sit to hear from you, minister to us.
SPEAKER_00: In the name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: We pray and believe.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Please let's appreciate our worship team.
SPEAKER_00: We love you.
SPEAKER_00: We appreciate you.
SPEAKER_00: We are grateful for you.
SPEAKER_00: May the Lord bless you.
SPEAKER_00: It's an honor to stand before you.
SPEAKER_00: And I want to appreciate our senior pastor.
SPEAKER_00: Please let's appreciate our senior pastor.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_00: And our associate Dakhtari, please let's appreciate him.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go straight to the word.
SPEAKER_00: Psalms sorry.
SPEAKER_00: Luke chapter 4, verse 16 to 21.
SPEAKER_00: And he went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.
SPEAKER_00: And on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue as it was his custom.
SPEAKER_00: Please note as it was.
SPEAKER_00: He stood up to read.
SPEAKER_00: The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him.
SPEAKER_00: And rolling it, he found the place where it is written.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor.
SPEAKER_00: He has sent me to proclaim freedom to the prisoners, and recover of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the ear of the Lord's favor.
SPEAKER_00: Then he rolled the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down, and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue fasted on him.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: This is the month of the liberating power of anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor, the liberating power of anointing.
SPEAKER_00: In this year of the Lord's liberating divine connection, it is my belief that we can be able to connect with the power bestowed upon our lives through the anointing of the law.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is an amazing story.
SPEAKER_00: It starts by saying that he went back home.
SPEAKER_00: Isn't it amazing that at home people remember several things?
SPEAKER_00: If you read from, if you note from verse 16, it says, and they knew Mary.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: They knew who?
SPEAKER_00: Mary.
SPEAKER_00: And continues to say, and that he was the son of a carpenter.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: He was a son of.
SPEAKER_00: So they associate you from your background.
SPEAKER_00: They don't expect as much because they know you how you came up.
SPEAKER_00: They know your background.
SPEAKER_00: They know your history.
SPEAKER_00: But there is something different about this time.
SPEAKER_00: Because Jesus had just come back from the wilderness, where the spirit had led him to the wilderness, and he had just come back.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says the spirit of the Lord was upon him.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And we're going to learn three things concerning the liberating power of the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, the anointing is God's empowering presence.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: It is God's empowering presence.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, the anointing is for an assignment.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is for an assignment.
SPEAKER_00: And number three, the anointing is Christ centered.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is Christ center.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, the anointing is God's empowerment.
SPEAKER_00: Empowering presence.
SPEAKER_00: Now, at the beginning, the Old Testament, the anointing oil, according to Exodus chapter 30 and verse 22 to 32, we see it had a recipe in which it had to be made from ma, cinnamon, cane, cassia, and olive oil.
SPEAKER_00: And it was meant for specific tasks.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, the anointing oil was used to consecrate equipment in the temple.
SPEAKER_00: Exodus chapter 40, verse 9 to 11.
SPEAKER_00: It was used to consecrate or to set apart equipments for the use at the temple or tabernacle.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, the anointing oil was used to anoint or appoint the priests.
SPEAKER_00: Leviticus chapter 8 and verse 12.
SPEAKER_00: It was used to set apart Aaron and his sons.
SPEAKER_00: Number three, it was used in the anointing of kings.
SPEAKER_00: We see that in with Saul in First Samuel chapter 10 and verse 1, with David in 1 Samuel chapter 16 and verse 13.
SPEAKER_00: In Solomon in 1 Kings chapter 1 and verse 39.
SPEAKER_00: It is God's empowerment.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, For we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, one set aside for God.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We have been set aside.
SPEAKER_00: We have been empowered.
SPEAKER_00: We have been equipped.
SPEAKER_00: We have been consecrated to be the royal priesthood.
SPEAKER_00: We have been set aside to serve him and to serve in his temple.
SPEAKER_00: We are not just any ordinary.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus came in ordinary.
SPEAKER_00: They knew him and understood him ordinary.
SPEAKER_00: But because of the anointing, he came back a different person.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Now there are people who just see you Kawida.
SPEAKER_00: They see you as they are used to.
SPEAKER_00: But because of the anointing of God, there will be a distinction.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: There will be a setting aside.
SPEAKER_00: You will not be and not operate like everybody else.
SPEAKER_00: They may have a history concerning you.
SPEAKER_00: They may know your background.
SPEAKER_00: And they may talk about it.
SPEAKER_00: But I have come to declare in this month of the anointing, liberating anointing, that God is setting you apart for a specific task to do a great thing for himself.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: In Romans chapter 8, verse 14, 15, and 16.
SPEAKER_00: Romans chapter 8, verse 14, 15, and 16.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
SPEAKER_00: You are adapted into sonship, and by his by him we cry Abba Father.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 16.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are called, we are God's children.
SPEAKER_00: We are God's children, verse 17.
SPEAKER_00: Now, if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ.
SPEAKER_00: If indeed we share in the suffering in order, that we may also share in his glory.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Because we have been empowered, the Bible says in the book of John, chapter 1, he came to his own, but they rejected him.
SPEAKER_00: But unto all those who accepted him, he gave them the right and the power to be called the children of God.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here the Bible says that for whoever is led of the Spirit is a child, or he are the children of God.
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm trying to imagine if today you were told you are adopted into the royalty.
SPEAKER_00: King Charles, all of a sudden you have been adopted.
SPEAKER_00: One thing I learned as per the Kenyan law, the rights of an adopted child are the same as that of a biological child.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Now we have been told we have been adapted to be co-heirs.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We have been adapted, we have become like him, and we have been empowered to operate like he did.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: That's why when Jesus was saying, was leaving, he said, I will not leave you like sheep without a shepherd, but I will give you what?
SPEAKER_00: The helper.
SPEAKER_00: And that's why in Acts chapter 1, verse 8, it says, When the Holy Spirit shall come upon you, you shall be what?
SPEAKER_00: My witnesses.
SPEAKER_00: You shall have received power and you shall be my witnesses.
SPEAKER_00: You have been empowered and equipped for service, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: You have been equipped to become whom God has called you to be.
SPEAKER_01: You have been empowered and anointed to serve.
SPEAKER_00: The word that we have read in 1 John chapter 2 and verse 27 that says, abind, it means to remain, to dwell.
SPEAKER_00: And like in the olden days, when the anointing came upon a servant like David, when he died, it departed.
SPEAKER_00: But when the Holy Spirit has come upon our lives, he dwells in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, in our movement, in all that we do, as we are in the office, the Holy Spirit is with us.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit has equipped us to serve for his purpose.
SPEAKER_00: To serve and fulfill that which he has bestowed upon our lives.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, let us stop walking as people who are reigned on or people that have no hope.
SPEAKER_00: We have this hope in Christ Jesus that we have the Holy Spirit who has equipped us for his service.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, he has anointed us for an assignment.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, and Jesus said, and the Spirit is upon me because he has anointed me, number one, to preach the good news.
SPEAKER_00: There is an assignment allocated to the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We find several things that Jesus said as he was quoting Isaiah to preach the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to the captives, to give sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
SPEAKER_00: This year I want to declare that there is favor in your ear.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: That as you are operating in whatsoever lifestyle or where you are, that you have been given an assignment by God.
SPEAKER_00: That the anointing is just not for you to stay and enjoy seated there.
SPEAKER_00: There is an assignment allocated to the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: We see that in the life of Samuel.
SPEAKER_00: We see that in the life of Saul.
SPEAKER_00: We see that in the life of David.
SPEAKER_00: In 1 Samuel chapter 10 and verse 1.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible talks of Samuel, anointing Saul.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says, And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him.
SPEAKER_00: And what happened?
SPEAKER_00: He reigned as a king and delivered the Israelites from the Philistines.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: In 1 Samuel chapter 16 and verse 13, we see David, he's anointed to be king.
SPEAKER_00: There is an assignment allocated to the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: In this month, please note that there is an assignment given to you in the Great Commission.
SPEAKER_00: Go ye out.
SPEAKER_00: And I want to challenge the Christians that we will not be bench warmers.
SPEAKER_00: We'll not only be excited to come for service.
SPEAKER_00: That is good.
SPEAKER_00: But the question is: do you understand the assignment allocated to you?
SPEAKER_00: Do you understand that which you are meant to do?
SPEAKER_00: Or we only want to pray that the Lord may anoint us.
SPEAKER_01: To anoint you to do what?
SPEAKER_01: We have got a dying generation.
SPEAKER_01: We need people going to hospitals.
SPEAKER_00: You know, in the book of Ephesians, the work of the fivefold ministry is to equip the church for ministry.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: But for us, we want our pastors to go and do.
SPEAKER_00: Ministries.
SPEAKER_00: We are meant to, as we are in the marketplace, that we are doing ministry.
SPEAKER_00: We are leading people to Christ.
SPEAKER_00: You have been equipped with God's anointing by the Holy Spirit so that you can be able to do that which God has called you to do.
SPEAKER_00: We read concerning that the concerning a family that was blessed with the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: They were filled with the Spirit to work with every craft.
SPEAKER_00: That even as you're a carpenter, you're doing it led by the Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: That there is excellence in what you do.
SPEAKER_00: That you are led by the Spirit and you're doing your assignment as God has bestowed upon you.
SPEAKER_01: We see Gideon, a farmer, hiding.
SPEAKER_00: But when the Holy Spirit comes upon him, when the Spirit of the Lord comes upon him, and the anointing of the Lord comes upon him, he becomes a great warrior, mighty man of valor.
SPEAKER_00: Judges chapter 6 and verse 12.
SPEAKER_00: There is a transformation in his life from being a coward, from just sitting down, from hiding to becoming a great warrior.
SPEAKER_00: I have come to speak to somebody here that is afraid.
SPEAKER_00: Do not be afraid because for God does not give a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, love, and sound mind.
SPEAKER_00: We are filled by God's power and God's spirit so that we can be able to be bold to declare the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
SPEAKER_00: In this nation, we have been filled by God's spirit to that we can go and become the great leaders that we are called to be, so that we can stand in the offices and say no more corruption in the offices.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: 80% Christians.
SPEAKER_00: Although I'm doubting that these days, we have been assigned as parents to train up our children.
SPEAKER_00: We need to be filled so that the Bible says in Malachi that we may raise a godly generation led by his spirit.
SPEAKER_00: When we are going to schools, I do a lot of high school ministry, and we are going to schools, and and some of the things that we are hearing our children talk about that even they have no idea of who God is.
SPEAKER_01: Those are the homes that we are raising them.
SPEAKER_01: Yet we are 80%.
SPEAKER_00: We need people who are called to serve and are equipped by the Holy Spirit to go out with boldness.
SPEAKER_00: I normally challenge young people.
SPEAKER_00: How many young people, when the pastor will call you, naukko matatu, wambia buana sifiwe?
SPEAKER_00: We are living in a generation whereby testimonies are no longer said.
SPEAKER_00: When people look at our workplace or our work plan or how we do things in our offices, can they see God?
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, and they looked for anything they would accuse Daniel with, and found none.
SPEAKER_00: They actually went to his accounts and found none.
SPEAKER_01: If people From this other world, what to go through your accounts after you have audited them.
SPEAKER_01: What will they find?
SPEAKER_01: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: There is an assignment for us all.
SPEAKER_00: An assignment as husbands, an assignment as fathers, an assignment as mothers.
SPEAKER_00: I challenge men as we are approaching Father's Day.
SPEAKER_00: It is our duties to pray.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying one of the challenges we are seeing with a boy child, I'm also bringing it home.
SPEAKER_00: Because they don't see fathers praying.
SPEAKER_00: We say, Mama, umba.
SPEAKER_00: So when the boy gets to a particular age, Anambia Sistakya Fanyanini, fathers who are in the house, I challenge us to pray.
SPEAKER_00: Let us lead in prayer.
SPEAKER_00: That's an assignment.
SPEAKER_01: And you have been anointed to do that.
SPEAKER_00: I am passionate about children because if we don't raise the next generation, we might find ourselves in judges where the Bible says, and there arose a generation that did not know God.
SPEAKER_01: Are we training up our children in the ways they should walk?
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: In this perverse generation, can our children be able to say that I have seen and I can testify of the goodness of the Lord upon the life of our parents.
SPEAKER_00: That way we can declare, like David, I was young and now I am old, and I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread.
SPEAKER_00: There is an anointing for us to utilize even the gifts.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says that the harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few.
SPEAKER_00: Those who are watching, and also those who are in-house, how many gifts are you sitting on?
SPEAKER_00: Yet the Lord has anointed you to serve.
SPEAKER_00: As we are preparing for the Jubilee festivals or festives, where are you plugged in?
SPEAKER_01: You're a good mobilizer.
SPEAKER_01: Where are you plugged in?
SPEAKER_00: You know, there are people who are just anointed to do some specific things.
SPEAKER_00: You just find that when they do things, there is a way they have that favor as they do it.
SPEAKER_01: Others cannot.
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_00: There are people that are, I look at them and I just see how good of an usher they are.
SPEAKER_00: You know, there are people that you even look forward to coming to church because of the way they usher you in.
SPEAKER_00: They have been anointed in that gifting.
SPEAKER_00: And there are people if today we meet them ushers.
SPEAKER_01: What a poteakanisa.
SPEAKER_01: Hello.
SPEAKER_00: It might be even as little as an encourager.
SPEAKER_00: Barnabas was known as what?
SPEAKER_01: The encourager.
SPEAKER_01: Her work was to make clothes.
SPEAKER_00: She only did that.
SPEAKER_00: But the Bible says when she died, they demanded, the church demanded that she be raised from there.
SPEAKER_01: I won't ask the question if today you died.
SPEAKER_01: Will we demand?
SPEAKER_01: I've always asked people in the neighborhood if today uki hammer will your neighbors feel pain?
SPEAKER_01: Because you're the one who has been standing on the gap.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, they'll be excited.
SPEAKER_01: Thank God.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: If today the church left here, will people complain?
SPEAKER_00: And the question is, is because they are doing the assignment.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says in Acts that when David had served God's purpose in his generation, he slept with his forefathers.
SPEAKER_00: He understood there was a purpose and there was a time frame in which he was to do that job.
SPEAKER_00: He understood his assignment.
SPEAKER_00: He understood what he's called to do.
SPEAKER_00: And the anointing is peculiar to the assignment.
SPEAKER_00: That's why Paul would say, I have fought the good fight, I have run the race, and I have kept the faith.
SPEAKER_00: That's why Jesus, because he understood his assignment, when he had finished it, he said, It is finished.
SPEAKER_01: Brothers and sisters, in faith, what is our assignment?
SPEAKER_00: Because God has anointed you for an assignment.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said his assignment, he understood his assignment.
SPEAKER_00: And number three, the anointing is Christ centered.
SPEAKER_00: Second Corinthians chapter one and verse twenty-one to twenty two.
SPEAKER_00: It says this.
SPEAKER_00: Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: He anointed us.
SPEAKER_00: Set his seal of ownership on us and put his spirit in our hearts as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come.
SPEAKER_01: It is God who has called us and established us in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: The main focus of the anointing is to testify concerning Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: In John chapter 16 and verse 13 to 14, it says, When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you in all truth, for he will not speak of his own authority, he will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is to focus us to Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Paul said, Follow me as I follow.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is not to focus on ourselves, not so that we can be seen, but so that Christ might be seen.
SPEAKER_00: John said that I may decrease and that he may increase.
SPEAKER_00: Let it be that when the Holy Spirit has filled you and guided you in all truth, that you will testify of God.
SPEAKER_00: That people will not see you, but you will direct people unto Christ, who is the author and the finisher of our faith.
SPEAKER_01: Anytime we do things for us to be seen, it is not the guiding of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Because we have been anointed to lead people and to Christ.
SPEAKER_00: But we can only do that if we ourselves abind in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: John chapter 15 says, abide in me and my word in you.
SPEAKER_00: I always give a story of there is a time as Christians, we tried something called the Bible marathon.
SPEAKER_00: It was at All Saints many years ago.
SPEAKER_00: We were as Christians to come together and were to read the whole Bible in 30 days.
SPEAKER_00: So the idea was somebody stands Palembele, starts Genesis chapter 1, reads Palyatachoka anaka chini mungina lafanya nini until evena mnenda nyumbani.
SPEAKER_00: Christians started with psych.
SPEAKER_01: All saints was full.
SPEAKER_01: But by the fourth day, all saints was empty.
SPEAKER_01: Are we abiding in Christ?
SPEAKER_00: Are we abiding in his word?
SPEAKER_00: Are we students of scripture?
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, Paul told Timothy, study to show yourself approved before men.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua chapter 1 says, Meditate on this word day and Ezra 7, 10 was told, and Ezra dedicated himself into the study of the scripture, the meditation of it, the observance of it, and the teaching of it.
SPEAKER_01: Are we focused on Christ?
SPEAKER_00: And we can only do that by knowing him and the power of his resurrection, and it's by studying his word.
SPEAKER_00: That way we can align ourselves, we can align all that we do to the author and the finisher of our faith.
SPEAKER_01: And therefore, as I conclude, I want to challenge us to understand that the anointing of God through the Holy Spirit is God's embrace and power in presence.
SPEAKER_00: That the anointing is for an assignment, and that the anointing is Christ-centered to the glory and praise of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Let us pray.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we want to thank you because of the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing breaks every yoke.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing comes from you by the power of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And today, Jehovah King of Glory, we want to surrender ourselves to you.
SPEAKER_00: That in all that we do, the focus shall be you.
SPEAKER_00: It shall be Christ-centered.
SPEAKER_00: In all that we do, we shall give praise and honor to you.
SPEAKER_00: In all that we do, we shall serve you, knowing that you have an assignment for us.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that Lord, you alone shall be enthroned in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: And I wish not to finish the service without asking, is there anyone who would like to give their lives to Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: Because after all is said and done, it is about your relationship with Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Is there anyone who is not born again and would like to give their life to Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you for your word.
SPEAKER_00: We thank you because you who called us is faithful and just to take us to the core end.
SPEAKER_00: Be exalted and be praised in the name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: We pray and believe.
SPEAKER_00: I request as we stand.
SPEAKER_00: And now may the Lord bless you and keep you.
SPEAKER_00: May the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.
SPEAKER_00: And may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you now and forevermore.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: God bless you and God do you good.