WEBVTT 00:00:00.959 --> 00:00:05.040 To God be all glory, praise, and honor. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.679 Your word brings forth salvation. 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:12.880 Your word is life. 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:15.279 Your word is truth. 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:20.719 You sent forth your word and it healed the infirmities. 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:25.440 And you have lifted up your word over your name. 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.359 As we sit to hear from you, minister to us. 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:36.000 In the name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:37.600 We pray and believe. 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.200 Amen. 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:40.799 Praise the Lord. 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:42.560 Hallelujah. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:45.840 Please let's appreciate our worship team. 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:47.200 We love you. 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:48.479 We appreciate you. 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:50.320 We are grateful for you. 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:52.399 May the Lord bless you. 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.600 It's an honor to stand before you. 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:03.679 And I want to appreciate our senior pastor. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:06.719 Please let's appreciate our senior pastor. 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:10.640 Thank you very much. 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:14.959 And our associate Dakhtari, please let's appreciate him. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.840 Let's go straight to the word. 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:23.120 Psalms sorry. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.519 Luke chapter 4, verse 16 to 21. 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:33.519 Luke chapter 4, verse 16 to 21. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:40.480 And he went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:46.400 And on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue as it was his custom. 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:48.400 Please note as it was. 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:51.760 He stood up to read. 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.799 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.200 And rolling it, he found the place where it is written. 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:09.439 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:23.439 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. 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:34.560 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. 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:36.639 Praise the Lord. 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:39.039 Praise the Lord. 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:40.719 Hallelujah. 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.360 This is the month of the liberating power of anointing. 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:49.520 Tell your neighbor, the liberating power of anointing. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:03:04.240 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. 00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:05.599 Praise the Lord. 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.240 Now, this is an amazing story. 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:13.120 It starts by saying that he went back home. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:19.199 Isn't it amazing that at home people remember several things? 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:25.919 If you read from, if you note from verse 16, it says, and they knew Mary. 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:27.680 Praise the Lord. 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:28.960 They knew who? 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:30.560 Mary. 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:36.000 And continues to say, and that he was the son of a carpenter. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:37.759 Praise the Lord. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:39.199 He was a son of. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.800 So they associate you from your background. 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:51.919 They don't expect as much because they know you how you came up. 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:55.199 They know your background. 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:56.800 They know your history. 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:01.360 But there is something different about this time. 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:10.800 Because Jesus had just come back from the wilderness, where the spirit had led him to the wilderness, and he had just come back. 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:19.519 And the Bible says the spirit of the Lord was upon him. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:20.959 Praise the Lord. 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:28.240 And we're going to learn three things concerning the liberating power of the anointing. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:34.879 Number one, the anointing is God's empowering presence. 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:37.360 Praise the Lord. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.920 It is God's empowering presence. 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:47.920 Number two, the anointing is for an assignment. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:52.720 The anointing is for an assignment. 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:58.000 And number three, the anointing is Christ centered. 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.839 The anointing is Christ center. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:07.839 Number one, the anointing is God's empowerment. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:10.319 Empowering presence. 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:27.920 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. 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:31.519 And it was meant for specific tasks. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:40.959 Number one, the anointing oil was used to consecrate equipment in the temple. 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:46.720 Exodus chapter 40, verse 9 to 11. 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:58.959 It was used to consecrate or to set apart equipments for the use at the temple or tabernacle. 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:09.600 Number two, the anointing oil was used to anoint or appoint the priests. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.000 Leviticus chapter 8 and verse 12. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:21.519 It was used to set apart Aaron and his sons. 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:28.399 Number three, it was used in the anointing of kings. 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:40.720 We see that in with Saul in First Samuel chapter 10 and verse 1, with David in 1 Samuel chapter 16 and verse 13. 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:47.439 In Solomon in 1 Kings chapter 1 and verse 39. 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.279 It is God's empowerment. 00:07:51.519 --> 00:08:07.680 The Bible says, For we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, one set aside for God. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:09.040 Praise the Lord. 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.120 We have been set aside. 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:12.720 We have been empowered. 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:14.160 We have been equipped. 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:18.639 We have been consecrated to be the royal priesthood. 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:23.439 We have been set aside to serve him and to serve in his temple. 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.000 We are not just any ordinary. 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:29.759 Jesus came in ordinary. 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:33.039 They knew him and understood him ordinary. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:39.919 But because of the anointing, he came back a different person. 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:41.440 Praise the Lord. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:43.519 Praise the Lord. 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.240 Now there are people who just see you Kawida. 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:48.720 They see you as they are used to. 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:53.919 But because of the anointing of God, there will be a distinction. 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:55.200 Praise the Lord. 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:57.120 There will be a setting aside. 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:01.279 You will not be and not operate like everybody else. 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.480 They may have a history concerning you. 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:07.679 They may know your background. 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:10.320 And they may talk about it. 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:22.960 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. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:25.039 Praise the Lord. 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:36.159 In Romans chapter 8, verse 14, 15, and 16. 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.960 Romans chapter 8, verse 14, 15, and 16. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:52.559 The Bible says, For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 00:09:53.279 --> 00:10:02.000 You are adapted into sonship, and by his by him we cry Abba Father. 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:04.559 Praise the Lord. 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:06.639 Verse 16. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:16.399 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are called, we are God's children. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.799 We are God's children, verse 17. 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:28.480 Now, if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ. 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:37.679 If indeed we share in the suffering in order, that we may also share in his glory. 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:39.519 Praise the Lord. 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:48.559 Because we have been empowered, the Bible says in the book of John, chapter 1, he came to his own, but they rejected him. 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:55.519 But unto all those who accepted him, he gave them the right and the power to be called the children of God. 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:57.360 Praise the Lord. 00:10:57.679 --> 00:11:08.799 Now, here the Bible says that for whoever is led of the Spirit is a child, or he are the children of God. 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:16.000 Now I'm trying to imagine if today you were told you are adopted into the royalty. 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:21.919 King Charles, all of a sudden you have been adopted. 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:33.840 One thing I learned as per the Kenyan law, the rights of an adopted child are the same as that of a biological child. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:35.840 Praise the Lord. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:41.120 Now we have been told we have been adapted to be co-heirs. 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:42.639 Praise the Lord. 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:50.639 We have been adapted, we have become like him, and we have been empowered to operate like he did. 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:52.159 Praise the Lord. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:59.519 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? 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:00.320 The helper. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:07.759 And that's why in Acts chapter 1, verse 8, it says, When the Holy Spirit shall come upon you, you shall be what? 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:09.759 My witnesses. 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:14.559 You shall have received power and you shall be my witnesses. 00:12:14.720 --> 00:12:19.279 You have been empowered and equipped for service, praise the Lord. 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:23.440 You have been equipped to become whom God has called you to be. 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:29.919 You have been empowered and anointed to serve. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:43.120 The word that we have read in 1 John chapter 2 and verse 27 that says, abind, it means to remain, to dwell. 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:55.120 And like in the olden days, when the anointing came upon a servant like David, when he died, it departed. 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:02.080 But when the Holy Spirit has come upon our lives, he dwells in our lives. 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:09.519 Therefore, in our movement, in all that we do, as we are in the office, the Holy Spirit is with us. 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:18.320 The Holy Spirit has equipped us to serve for his purpose. 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.399 To serve and fulfill that which he has bestowed upon our lives. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:30.720 Therefore, let us stop walking as people who are reigned on or people that have no hope. 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:41.120 We have this hope in Christ Jesus that we have the Holy Spirit who has equipped us for his service. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:47.440 Number two, he has anointed us for an assignment. 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:57.440 The Bible says, and Jesus said, and the Spirit is upon me because he has anointed me, number one, to preach the good news. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.960 There is an assignment allocated to the anointing. 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:04.720 Praise the Lord. 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:30.320 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. 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:35.600 This year I want to declare that there is favor in your ear. 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:37.519 Praise the Lord. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:47.279 That as you are operating in whatsoever lifestyle or where you are, that you have been given an assignment by God. 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:53.600 That the anointing is just not for you to stay and enjoy seated there. 00:14:53.840 --> 00:15:00.240 There is an assignment allocated to the anointing. 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.159 We see that in the life of Samuel. 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.080 We see that in the life of Saul. 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.759 We see that in the life of David. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.200 In 1 Samuel chapter 10 and verse 1. 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.159 The Bible talks of Samuel, anointing Saul. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:28.399 And the Bible says, And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him. 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:30.320 And what happened? 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:35.759 He reigned as a king and delivered the Israelites from the Philistines. 00:15:36.480 --> 00:15:38.000 Praise the Lord. 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:48.879 In 1 Samuel chapter 16 and verse 13, we see David, he's anointed to be king. 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:54.799 There is an assignment allocated to the anointing. 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:04.080 In this month, please note that there is an assignment given to you in the Great Commission. 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:05.440 Go ye out. 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:12.639 And I want to challenge the Christians that we will not be bench warmers. 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:16.240 We'll not only be excited to come for service. 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:17.360 That is good. 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:24.000 But the question is: do you understand the assignment allocated to you? 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:28.799 Do you understand that which you are meant to do? 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:32.639 Or we only want to pray that the Lord may anoint us. 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.840 To anoint you to do what? 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:44.799 We have got a dying generation. 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.360 We need people going to hospitals. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:17:00.799 You know, in the book of Ephesians, the work of the fivefold ministry is to equip the church for ministry. 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:03.200 Praise the Lord. 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:09.920 But for us, we want our pastors to go and do. 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:22.400 Ministries. 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:28.559 We are meant to, as we are in the marketplace, that we are doing ministry. 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.720 We are leading people to Christ. 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:42.480 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. 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:52.960 We read concerning that the concerning a family that was blessed with the anointing. 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:55.759 The Bible says, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:02.079 They were filled with the Spirit to work with every craft. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:08.319 That even as you're a carpenter, you're doing it led by the Spirit. 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.039 That there is excellence in what you do. 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:18.319 That you are led by the Spirit and you're doing your assignment as God has bestowed upon you. 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:26.480 We see Gideon, a farmer, hiding. 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:40.400 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. 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:44.319 Judges chapter 6 and verse 12. 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:58.880 There is a transformation in his life from being a coward, from just sitting down, from hiding to becoming a great warrior. 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:02.880 I have come to speak to somebody here that is afraid. 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:10.799 Do not be afraid because for God does not give a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, love, and sound mind. 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:21.440 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. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:35.920 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. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:38.400 Hallelujah. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:41.920 80% Christians. 00:19:47.519 --> 00:20:00.799 Although I'm doubting that these days, we have been assigned as parents to train up our children. 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:11.440 We need to be filled so that the Bible says in Malachi that we may raise a godly generation led by his spirit. 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:26.559 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. 00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:32.160 Those are the homes that we are raising them. 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:34.880 Yet we are 80%. 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:56.880 We need people who are called to serve and are equipped by the Holy Spirit to go out with boldness. 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:00.240 I normally challenge young people. 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:06.319 How many young people, when the pastor will call you, naukko matatu, wambia buana sifiwe? 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:16.720 We are living in a generation whereby testimonies are no longer said. 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:41.759 When people look at our workplace or our work plan or how we do things in our offices, can they see God? 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:50.480 The Bible says, and they looked for anything they would accuse Daniel with, and found none. 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.319 They actually went to his accounts and found none. 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:09.599 If people From this other world, what to go through your accounts after you have audited them. 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:13.200 What will they find? 00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:17.920 Praise the Lord. 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:21.920 There is an assignment for us all. 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:32.720 An assignment as husbands, an assignment as fathers, an assignment as mothers. 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:39.759 I challenge men as we are approaching Father's Day. 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:43.039 It is our duties to pray. 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:49.680 I'm saying one of the challenges we are seeing with a boy child, I'm also bringing it home. 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:53.359 Because they don't see fathers praying. 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:55.359 We say, Mama, umba. 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:08.720 So when the boy gets to a particular age, Anambia Sistakya Fanyanini, fathers who are in the house, I challenge us to pray. 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:11.359 Let us lead in prayer. 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:12.559 That's an assignment. 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:14.960 And you have been anointed to do that. 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:33.519 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. 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:42.400 Are we training up our children in the ways they should walk? 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:48.160 Hallelujah. 00:23:50.400 --> 00:24:02.960 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. 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:15.279 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. 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:23.839 There is an anointing for us to utilize even the gifts. 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:30.720 The Bible says that the harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few. 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:40.880 Those who are watching, and also those who are in-house, how many gifts are you sitting on? 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:45.839 Yet the Lord has anointed you to serve. 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:16.960 As we are preparing for the Jubilee festivals or festives, where are you plugged in? 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:21.039 You're a good mobilizer. 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:23.039 Where are you plugged in? 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:29.359 You know, there are people who are just anointed to do some specific things. 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:35.839 You just find that when they do things, there is a way they have that favor as they do it. 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:38.160 Others cannot. 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:40.559 Hello? 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:47.279 There are people that are, I look at them and I just see how good of an usher they are. 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:55.039 You know, there are people that you even look forward to coming to church because of the way they usher you in. 00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:59.680 They have been anointed in that gifting. 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.200 And there are people if today we meet them ushers. 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:04.880 What a poteakanisa. 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:09.680 Hello. 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:16.319 It might be even as little as an encourager. 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:19.920 Barnabas was known as what? 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:21.440 The encourager. 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:34.960 Her work was to make clothes. 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.400 She only did that. 00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:47.759 But the Bible says when she died, they demanded, the church demanded that she be raised from there. 00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:53.279 I won't ask the question if today you died. 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:55.680 Will we demand? 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:11.359 I've always asked people in the neighborhood if today uki hammer will your neighbors feel pain? 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.279 Because you're the one who has been standing on the gap. 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:18.480 Oh, they'll be excited. 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:19.440 Thank God. 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:21.200 Hallelujah. 00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:28.240 If today the church left here, will people complain? 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.559 And the question is, is because they are doing the assignment. 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:47.200 The Bible says in Acts that when David had served God's purpose in his generation, he slept with his forefathers. 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:56.960 He understood there was a purpose and there was a time frame in which he was to do that job. 00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:01.119 He understood his assignment. 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:05.519 He understood what he's called to do. 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.920 And the anointing is peculiar to the assignment. 00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:22.000 That's why Paul would say, I have fought the good fight, I have run the race, and I have kept the faith. 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:30.960 That's why Jesus, because he understood his assignment, when he had finished it, he said, It is finished. 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:41.839 Brothers and sisters, in faith, what is our assignment? 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:47.680 Because God has anointed you for an assignment. 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:53.759 Jesus said his assignment, he understood his assignment. 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:59.920 And number three, the anointing is Christ centered. 00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:08.400 Second Corinthians chapter one and verse twenty-one to twenty two. 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:19.039 It says this. 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:26.880 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:28.960 He anointed us. 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:40.960 Set his seal of ownership on us and put his spirit in our hearts as a deposit guaranteeing what is to come. 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:54.079 It is God who has called us and established us in Christ. 00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:08.960 The main focus of the anointing is to testify concerning Jesus. 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:27.119 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. 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:29.759 Praise the Lord. 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.519 The anointing is to focus us to Christ. 00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.799 Paul said, Follow me as I follow. 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:50.480 The anointing is not to focus on ourselves, not so that we can be seen, but so that Christ might be seen. 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:54.880 John said that I may decrease and that he may increase. 00:30:55.599 --> 00:31:04.160 Let it be that when the Holy Spirit has filled you and guided you in all truth, that you will testify of God. 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:15.440 That people will not see you, but you will direct people unto Christ, who is the author and the finisher of our faith. 00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:27.519 Anytime we do things for us to be seen, it is not the guiding of the Holy Spirit. 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:34.960 Because we have been anointed to lead people and to Christ. 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.440 But we can only do that if we ourselves abind in Christ. 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:50.000 John chapter 15 says, abide in me and my word in you. 00:31:53.920 --> 00:32:03.440 I always give a story of there is a time as Christians, we tried something called the Bible marathon. 00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:06.799 It was at All Saints many years ago. 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:15.519 We were as Christians to come together and were to read the whole Bible in 30 days. 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:30.319 So the idea was somebody stands Palembele, starts Genesis chapter 1, reads Palyatachoka anaka chini mungina lafanya nini until evena mnenda nyumbani. 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:32.799 Christians started with psych. 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:36.640 All saints was full. 00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:45.279 But by the fourth day, all saints was empty. 00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:49.519 Are we abiding in Christ? 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:53.519 Are we abiding in his word? 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.920 Are we students of scripture? 00:32:56.160 --> 00:33:03.359 The Bible says, Paul told Timothy, study to show yourself approved before men. 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:21.519 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. 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:28.960 Are we focused on Christ? 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:38.400 And we can only do that by knowing him and the power of his resurrection, and it's by studying his word. 00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:51.039 That way we can align ourselves, we can align all that we do to the author and the finisher of our faith. 00:33:51.279 --> 00:34:09.119 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. 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:26.159 That the anointing is for an assignment, and that the anointing is Christ-centered to the glory and praise of the Lord. 00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:27.840 Let us pray. 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.960 Father, we want to thank you because of the anointing. 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:39.039 The anointing breaks every yoke. 00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:48.960 The anointing comes from you by the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:56.639 And today, Jehovah King of Glory, we want to surrender ourselves to you. 00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:03.280 That in all that we do, the focus shall be you. 00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:05.920 It shall be Christ-centered. 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:11.519 In all that we do, we shall give praise and honor to you. 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:18.639 In all that we do, we shall serve you, knowing that you have an assignment for us. 00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:30.079 I pray that Lord, you alone shall be enthroned in our lives. 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:39.760 And I wish not to finish the service without asking, is there anyone who would like to give their lives to Jesus? 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:46.000 Because after all is said and done, it is about your relationship with Jesus. 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.760 Is there anyone who is not born again and would like to give their life to Jesus? 00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:57.679 Father, we thank you for your word. 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:07.360 We thank you because you who called us is faithful and just to take us to the core end. 00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:14.559 Be exalted and be praised in the name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.079 We pray and believe. 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.239 I request as we stand. 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:26.400 And now may the Lord bless you and keep you. 00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:31.360 May the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:35.920 The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace. 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:47.599 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. 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.639 Amen. 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:51.679 God bless you and God do you good.