SPEAKER_00: So shall we stand and read the scripture?
SPEAKER_00: Again, we want to thank God for all our visitors who are visiting with us.
SPEAKER_00: God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: Those watching us and worshiping with us online, God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: And we thank God that you could come.
SPEAKER_00: Those in the pavilion, God bless you.
SPEAKER_00: We are reading a short passage, 2 Kings chapter 4, verse 1 to 7.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says this.
SPEAKER_00: And you know that he revered the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.
SPEAKER_00: Elisha replied to her, How can I help you?
SPEAKER_00: Tell me, what do you have in your house?
SPEAKER_00: Your servant has nothing there at all, she said, except a small jar of olive oil.
SPEAKER_00: Elisha said to her, Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars.
SPEAKER_00: Don't just ask for few.
SPEAKER_00: Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons.
SPEAKER_00: Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.
SPEAKER_00: She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons.
SPEAKER_00: They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring.
SPEAKER_00: When all the jars were full, she said to her son, Bring me another one.
SPEAKER_00: But he replied, There's not a jar left.
SPEAKER_00: Then the oil stopped flowing.
SPEAKER_00: She went and told the man of God, and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debts.
SPEAKER_00: You and your sons can live on what is left.
SPEAKER_00: This is the word of the Lord and gossip said.
SPEAKER_00: Shall you be seated, and then I'll pray as we prepare to hear God's word.
SPEAKER_00: This is a month of June, the sixth month.
SPEAKER_00: A month where, Lord, you're continuing to do amazing things in this church.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, as pastors, we don't take it for granted that every Sunday God's people come to worship in person, online, and wherever they are.
SPEAKER_00: And we thank you because the Bible says that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
SPEAKER_00: So this afternoon, somebody needs your word.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody needs the bread of life.
SPEAKER_00: Holy Spirit, may you communicate that word, may you release that word.
SPEAKER_00: Anoint the mouth of your servant, anoint the ears that hear.
SPEAKER_00: And dear Lord, open doors for us that we may be of service to the kingdom because of the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Master, we bless you, we honor you, and we thank you for hearing our prayer, for we have prayed it in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: The liberating power of anointing.
SPEAKER_00: I want to talk about the anointing, but also I want to break some ideas about the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: But sometimes you believe in the anointing, and that's not the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to talk about the oil, especially the oil, about the story of the woman.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to use that as a picture, a backdrop for us to understand the anointing and why we need it today.
SPEAKER_00: Many times through ministry, in the years that we have been in, we have grown to believe that the anointing is for special people, the anointing is for pastors, the anointing is for prophets, and the anointing is just for those who have been called to the ministry full time.
SPEAKER_00: But I want to say this that though in the Old Testament the anointing was used very specifically, the anointing was used to consecrate the priests, the anointing was used for prophets, and the anointing was used for kings.
SPEAKER_00: That's the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_00: But when Jesus came, something shifted, a dispensation changed, and so a prophecy that had been made many years ago became fulfilled through Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And so Jesus goes into the temple, not the temple, the synagogue, and this is what he says, Luke chapter 4, verse 18.
SPEAKER_00: Something shifting completely.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says this.
SPEAKER_00: Now Jesus speaking, and he says, The Spirit of the Lord is on me.
SPEAKER_00: Because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
SPEAKER_00: Now Jesus was saying, What was done in the Old Testament is now being fulfilled in me.
SPEAKER_00: He was saying, The anointing was for the priests.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus was now saying, I am the high priest.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing was for kings.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is saying, I'm the King of Kings.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing was for prophets.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is saying, I'm the ultimate prophet.
SPEAKER_00: And so in Christ, the anointing was fulfilled, and it was fulfilled for a purpose.
SPEAKER_00: So Jesus goes through his life doing wonders and miracles, got his disciples together, and they are walking together in this journey.
SPEAKER_00: And then much later, Jesus then tells them in Acts chapter 1, verse 5, He's about to leave the planet.
SPEAKER_00: This is what it says to them.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says this.
SPEAKER_00: Then they gathered around him and asked him, Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?
SPEAKER_00: He said to them, It is not for you to know the times or dates that the Father has said by his own authority.
SPEAKER_00: And then he says, But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.
SPEAKER_00: And you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and the Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: What Jesus was telling them is this that this anointing that was there in the past, that this anointing that had come upon him, now this same anointing, tell your neighbor, same anointing.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Now the same anointing was going to come upon them because the anointing that was on Aaron's head and beard now flowed down to his body.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the head, and the anointing falls into his body, and the body is you and me.
SPEAKER_00: Look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor, I'm anointed.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor, I don't feel it.
SPEAKER_00: But I'm anointed.
SPEAKER_00: That you need to start shaking.
SPEAKER_00: Now, sometimes the anointing makes you shake, but the shaking is not the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Now, those who come from the friends church one us if you were.
SPEAKER_00: Now, those many years back when the Quakers would sit down, the Friends, and meditate, they did not have a pastor.
SPEAKER_00: All of them were sitting there and waited for somebody to start quaking.
SPEAKER_00: And the one who quaked became the pastor of the day.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Now the Quakers who are sitting here, just ask your neighbor, Are you from Friends Church?
SPEAKER_00: Now they don't talk about Friend's church a lot about the quaking, but then they would sit down, somebody would start quaking, and they say, The spirit is of the Lord is upon him.
SPEAKER_00: So he's supposed to do that.
SPEAKER_00: Now, the anointing is beyond the quaking because after you have quaked, the spirit needs to still be upon you.
SPEAKER_00: Buana Sifiwa.
SPEAKER_00: And the spirit is so key.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say something about the spirit.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is God's power that activates kingdom realities to meet earthly needs.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is God's power that activates kingdom realities to meet earthly needs.
SPEAKER_00: You shall receive power.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said that the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
SPEAKER_00: He has anointed me to do A, B, C, D.
SPEAKER_00: Secondly, the anointing is the power that displays God's goodness upon humanity.
SPEAKER_00: You know, when that oil is on your face, you shine, you feel nice.
SPEAKER_00: God wants to display his goodness and his glory upon your life.
SPEAKER_00: Thirdly, the anointing is the power of God that dismantles and destroys the works of the enemy in every sphere of our lives.
SPEAKER_00: So let me say that again.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is the power of God that dismantles and destroys the works of the enemy in every sphere of our lives.
SPEAKER_00: And so you need the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: We need the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: And so there are three areas that I want to emphasize about this anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Using the story of the woman I talked about earlier.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, understand these realities.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, the anointing within.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, the anointing without.
SPEAKER_00: Number three, the anointing beyond.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing within, the anointing without, and the anointing beyond.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing within.
SPEAKER_00: If you go to the story of the woman in 2 Kings chapter 4, verse 2, the Bible says this.
SPEAKER_00: This woman had been bereaved.
SPEAKER_00: This woman had creditors coming her way.
SPEAKER_00: There was a very challenging situation in her life.
SPEAKER_00: And she comes to Elisha, and the Bible says, Elisha replied to her, How can I help you?
SPEAKER_00: Tell me, what do you have in your house?
SPEAKER_00: Your servant has nothing there at all.
SPEAKER_00: She said, Except a small jar of olive oil.
SPEAKER_00: Except a small jar of olive oil.
SPEAKER_00: Now I want to say that.
SPEAKER_00: You come to a man of God and you expect the man of God to sort out your issues.
SPEAKER_00: And of course, he's supposed to sort out of your issues.
SPEAKER_00: But Elisha in discernment says, Woman, there is something you have.
SPEAKER_00: What do you have in your house?
SPEAKER_00: There is a solution you're walking around with, and that solution is in your house.
SPEAKER_00: Now Elisha was anointed.
SPEAKER_00: He knew he was anointed.
SPEAKER_00: He could do anything, he could change circumstances, situations, but at this particular point, he says, There's something you have in your house.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Pastor Simon, it reminds me of Moses.
SPEAKER_00: When Moses was wondering, how am I going to deliver the children of Israel from Egypt?
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord says, What do you have?
SPEAKER_00: What is that in your hand?
SPEAKER_00: And you know, Moses had been walking without stuff for 40 years until it became so normal.
SPEAKER_00: It became so kawaida.
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you this.
SPEAKER_00: You may be living a life and you look so ordinary.
SPEAKER_00: You look so kawaida, but you are anointed.
SPEAKER_00: But you are anointed.
SPEAKER_00: Elisha says to the woman, What is that in what do you have in your house?
SPEAKER_00: And she said, Very interesting, I don't have anything at all.
SPEAKER_00: And then she remembered, but I have a small jar of oil.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to know this that the anointing is within you.
SPEAKER_00: Now listen what Jesus said to the disciples, John chapter 14, verse 16.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says this.
SPEAKER_00: But you know him, for he lives where with you and will be where?
SPEAKER_00: In you.
SPEAKER_00: Then he says in verse 18, I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you.
SPEAKER_00: What Jesus was telling them was this I'm going to put oil inside you.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to put oil inside you.
SPEAKER_00: At this particular time, Jesus could not have done that because Jesus needed to go to the cross and redeem them and set them free.
SPEAKER_00: And then Jesus breathed into them and he said, Receive the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And so they're walking around with oil inside them.
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you this: there is oil in your house.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying there is oil in your house.
SPEAKER_00: The solution is inside you.
SPEAKER_00: This liberating power of the anointing is inside you.
SPEAKER_00: And it is the same anointing, the same anointing that was on Jesus, the same anointing inside you.
SPEAKER_00: Buana sifiwe.
SPEAKER_00: You know, the Bible says this in Ephesians chapter 3, verse 16.
SPEAKER_00: If I can just read it briefly, Paul is praying.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say actually read it from verse 15.
SPEAKER_00: Paul is praying for the believers, and he says this, I pray.
SPEAKER_00: Just go to verse 16.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Um, I pray that out of his glorious riches, that the Lord may strengthen you with power through his spirit, where in your inner being you carry an anointing.
SPEAKER_00: There's an anointing within you.
SPEAKER_00: There's another way Jesus uh Paul says it Christ in you, the hope of glory, Christ in you, and so this woman has a solution, but it is in her house, and she's going to look for that solution somewhere else.
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you this the Bible says that God has given us all things that we need for life in godliness.
SPEAKER_00: All that you need, you have, but sometimes you think you need something more, you need something else.
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you this Christ is sufficient.
SPEAKER_00: Christ in you is sufficient.
SPEAKER_00: But let me tell you this: this lady was not using what she was given.
SPEAKER_00: She had what we call resident power, but she was not using resident power.
SPEAKER_00: She wanted power from elsewhere.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says you shall receive power.
SPEAKER_00: When Christ comes into you, when you're born again, the anointing enters you.
SPEAKER_00: Christ enters you.
SPEAKER_00: You are carrying oil, then you are carrying power.
SPEAKER_00: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, be careful how you touch me.
SPEAKER_00: This power will knock you out.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: But you see, if you don't know you have the power, if you don't know you have anything inside you, then sometimes you can do funny things.
SPEAKER_00: You know, for example, a lady realizes that she has no money completely, and she wants to go to town.
SPEAKER_00: And she decides, because she woke up in the morning, she checked her handbag, her pass, there was no money.
SPEAKER_00: But then she decides, I still need to go to town, and she walks to town.
SPEAKER_00: She walks to town because in her mind she has no money.
SPEAKER_00: But when she reaches town, she's looking for a card, an address card for a friend in her pass, in her handbag.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, women's handbags are like a vault in the bank.
SPEAKER_00: Hello?
SPEAKER_00: So she's checking this and she's looking for the card, but while she's looking for the card card, suddenly she finds just beside the card is a thousand shillings.
SPEAKER_00: A thousand shillings.
SPEAKER_00: If she knew she had a thousand shillings, would she have walked to town?
SPEAKER_00: No, she didn't know.
SPEAKER_00: Many of us we walk to town, we do all kinds of things because we don't know that inside us is a jar of oil.
SPEAKER_00: What we need is inside us.
SPEAKER_00: Seek and you shall find.
SPEAKER_00: It is inside you.
SPEAKER_00: So I'm giving you knowledge, I'm giving you understanding to let you know the Holy Spirit is inside you.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, I'll pray the Father, He'll give you the Holy Spirit, and He will abide with you for how long?
SPEAKER_00: Forever.
SPEAKER_00: If you're not born again, the Holy Spirit is not inside you.
SPEAKER_00: But if you're born again, the Holy Spirit is inside you.
SPEAKER_00: He's waiting to lead you, to guide you, to show you the truth, but he's inside you.
SPEAKER_00: So the woman comes and says, I don't have anything at all.
SPEAKER_00: But then Elisha gives her a way forward.
SPEAKER_00: Second Kings chapter 3, chapter 4, verse 3.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says this you don't just need resident power, you need power that is flowing.
SPEAKER_00: So the Bible says, Elisha said, Go around, do something.
SPEAKER_00: Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars.
SPEAKER_00: Don't ask for just a few.
SPEAKER_00: Then go inside and shut the door behind you, and your sons then start doing what?
SPEAKER_00: Pouring.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor there's something you need to do.
SPEAKER_00: You see, you have resident power, but that power needs to be connected.
SPEAKER_00: It needs to be released, it needs to go out.
SPEAKER_00: Go inside and shut the door behind you, and your sons pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.
SPEAKER_00: She left him and shut the door behind her, and her sons, they brought the jars to her and she kept pouring, kept pouring, kept pouring.
SPEAKER_00: When the jars were all full, she said to her son, Bring me another one.
SPEAKER_00: But he replied, There is not a jar left.
SPEAKER_00: Then the oil did what?
SPEAKER_00: Stopped flowing.
SPEAKER_00: You know, ladies and gentlemen, God is very kind.
SPEAKER_00: He does not waste the oil, he doesn't waste the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: But he wants you to pour the anointing, he wants you to release it, he wants you to release it.
SPEAKER_00: You know, before you pray for somebody who has demons, pray for yourself.
SPEAKER_00: Use the anointing on you.
SPEAKER_00: You have a headache, before you grab Panado, try whether the anointing inside you works.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Put your hand on your head and say, In Jesus' name, I release the anointing that is inside me, and I command this headache to live now in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: If the headache persists, try again in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: I command this headache to live now, in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: I release the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: I release.
SPEAKER_00: And don't try, don't change your voice.
SPEAKER_00: Don't start say, I release the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: No, that doesn't work.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing does not depend on your voice, change.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Just say, I release the anointing in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: If the headache persists, take two tablets of panadou.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: And continue to exercise the anointing that is where?
SPEAKER_00: Inside you.
SPEAKER_00: It will come up, it will come up, it will come up, it will come up.
SPEAKER_00: But look for vessels to pour in, to pour in, to pour in.
SPEAKER_00: I have a PowerPoint I want to share with you.
SPEAKER_00: How to activate seven jars, seven vessels where you activate that anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Because it is inside you.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_00: Just give it to me in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Seven activations of the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, and there are about seven of them.
SPEAKER_00: The first activation is activating divine goodness.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing, Acts 10.38, says that Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and power, and he went around doing what?
SPEAKER_00: Doing good.
SPEAKER_00: You see, the anointing is not just to cast out demons.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing is there to do good.
SPEAKER_00: So that after you have cast all the demons and none exists, you can continue doing what?
SPEAKER_00: Doing good.
SPEAKER_00: So your anointing is given to you that you may do good.
SPEAKER_00: Buana Sifi.
SPEAKER_00: Do good.
SPEAKER_00: Pastor Simon, I have a testament.
SPEAKER_00: You know, last last last uh last month we were talking about testimonies, and I have a testimony.
SPEAKER_00: You know, in August, we are going to the U.S.
SPEAKER_00: with Martha for Lisa's graduation.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying that Lisa is graduating.
SPEAKER_00: You know the story of Lisa?
SPEAKER_00: Two years ago, she went to John Hopkins um university.
SPEAKER_00: She's studying her master's as a nurse, and so she's she's finishing.
SPEAKER_00: Uh she's finishing.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying she's finishing.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: So August, we finish revival week on the 9th.
SPEAKER_00: On 15th, we are at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport going to the US.
SPEAKER_00: Now, one of the things that was challenging us is we were preparing to get the tickets to go.
SPEAKER_00: And as we were planning for the tickets, we found out that getting tickets from Kenya is very expensive.
SPEAKER_00: So we asked for advice here and there and here and there, and and uh then somebody said, you know, why don't you try getting the tickets from the UK or the US?
SPEAKER_00: So we managed to get the tickets from Lisa herself because she was able to get the tickets on that side, but we didn't have the money because of Jubilee season.
SPEAKER_00: Now that's on a light note.
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, we were going to get the tickets.
SPEAKER_00: Then the other day, Martha was having a conversation with one of her friends, and they were just talking and talking, and then um here at Mazal uh restaurant, that's why I'm telling you, Mazal restaurant is a very great place to connect.
SPEAKER_00: So they were at Mazal restaurant, and then one of our deacons, Deacon Mukusa, came and saw Martha there and says, Hey Martha, and so they started talking, and then Martha said, But but hey, Deacon, we are going to the US and this is what is happening, we're going to get tickets, things like that.
SPEAKER_00: And then that story ended.
SPEAKER_00: This lady overheard this conversation.
SPEAKER_00: That evening, that lady calls Martha and says, I sense in my spirit that I should buy you that those tickets.
SPEAKER_00: Now, Martha is very emotional.
SPEAKER_00: Ambrose is not emotional.
SPEAKER_00: Ah, Martha was excited.
SPEAKER_00: Martha was excited, and she told me, and when she told me, I said, Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: But inside me, I suddenly realized that somebody had used her anointing to do good.
SPEAKER_00: And she paid for those tickets:$8,800.
SPEAKER_00: She did good.
SPEAKER_00: So our the tickets are no longer our headache.
SPEAKER_00: They're already bought.
SPEAKER_00: We have reserved the ticket, we are going.
SPEAKER_00: So ask your neighbor, do you have a passport?
SPEAKER_00: You see, if you had a passport, we would have carried you in our bags.
SPEAKER_00: Hello.
SPEAKER_00: But the testimony also, Pastor Simon, is this that God has been faithful to us.
SPEAKER_00: To be able to see Lisa coming to that stage where she's about to graduate with a master's in nursing at John Hopkins, that is an amazing blessing.
SPEAKER_00: And we thank God.
SPEAKER_00: Please celebrate with us and thank God with us for what God has done, what God is doing.
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm just sharing.
SPEAKER_00: And if that lady is listening, I'm saying to you, I salute you.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for doing good.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing was upon Jesus, and he went about doing good.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, the activation of spiritual strength.
SPEAKER_00: I've just read that verse to you that Paul is praying, and he says that you may have strength in your inner man.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, They that wait upon the Lord shall do what?
SPEAKER_00: They shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings.
SPEAKER_00: That is the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing lifts you from the shadows into the light, out of the valley, to the mountaintop.
SPEAKER_00: That's the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Pour that anointing to those situations of your life.
SPEAKER_00: Number three, activating insightful truth.
SPEAKER_00: 1 John 2.20.
SPEAKER_00: Let me read that verse.
SPEAKER_00: 1 John 2.20.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says this.
SPEAKER_00: It says, But you tell your neighbor, you.
SPEAKER_00: But you have what an anointing from where?
SPEAKER_00: From the Holy One.
SPEAKER_00: And all of you know what?
SPEAKER_00: The truth.
SPEAKER_00: There's an anointing inside you.
SPEAKER_00: And so the anointing of God releases truth in our lives.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you're studying the Bible and you're not understanding it, and then you say, Lord, I have the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: And the moment you begin to release that anointing, you read the same passage and truths jump onto you.
SPEAKER_00: You begin to understand the scriptures.
SPEAKER_00: You know, the Bible says to the Brother disciples that Jesus opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and their minds got opened.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying, even as I'm speaking, may your mind be open.
SPEAKER_00: May your mind be open.
SPEAKER_00: May you understand truth, not theological truth, but truth for your situation and for your circumstance.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, the Bible says, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
SPEAKER_00: And there are many situations where you actually need the truth of God.
SPEAKER_00: And may that truth come your way.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: May that truth come your way.
SPEAKER_00: The fourth one, activating impactful breakthrough.
SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 10 27 says, the anointing breaks the yoke.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm declaring now in the name of Jesus that any limitations, any yokes in your life, any things that barriers in your life, and I'm saying I release the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: May the anointing break the yoke.
SPEAKER_00: May the anointing give you breakthroughs in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And let me tell you this from God's end, it is an easy thing.
SPEAKER_00: It's not difficult.
SPEAKER_00: God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above what you ask or imagine.
SPEAKER_00: Then number five, activating strategic restoration.
SPEAKER_00: I like those verses because Simon likes those verses.
SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 61, verse 4.
SPEAKER_00: Let me read them quickly.
SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 61, verse 4.
SPEAKER_00: It's about the anointing where the Bible says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
SPEAKER_00: But in verse 4 says, These people who are anointed, they will rebuild the ancient ruins.
SPEAKER_00: They will restore the places long devastated.
SPEAKER_00: They will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.
SPEAKER_00: Let me go back again.
SPEAKER_00: Just those are the Rs, the three R's.
SPEAKER_00: Rebuild, restore, renew.
SPEAKER_00: Bonas if you were.
SPEAKER_00: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, I will rebuild.
SPEAKER_00: I will restore.
SPEAKER_00: I will renew.
SPEAKER_00: You know there are some things in your life and even in your families, in your journey of life that are still in ruins.
SPEAKER_00: And you're wondering who will change this?
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you this: it is you with the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: As you begin to pour that anointing, it will begin to change these things.
SPEAKER_00: You will rebuild.
SPEAKER_00: And then you will restore.
SPEAKER_00: And you will be renewed.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I like another another another psalm.
SPEAKER_00: It's a nice one because it still talks about the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: But let me read it for us at this particular moment.
SPEAKER_00: It says this in Psalms 103.
SPEAKER_00: It's a praise uh psalm.
SPEAKER_00: And it says this in verse 1.
SPEAKER_00: Because when the anointing comes upon you, you become a praiser.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor, you become a praiser.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord my soul.
SPEAKER_00: All my inmost being, praise his holy name.
SPEAKER_00: Praise the Lord my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
SPEAKER_00: Who forgives a few of my sins.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I like that.
SPEAKER_00: All our sins.
SPEAKER_00: He heals all your diseases.
SPEAKER_00: Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies, who satisfies, who satisfies your desires with good things, so that your youth is what?
SPEAKER_00: Renewed like the eagles.
SPEAKER_00: Buana Sifia.
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking to somebody here, I'm saying be renewed.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying you shall be rebuilt.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what ruins are there, it doesn't matter who broke this, it doesn't matter who stole that.
SPEAKER_00: And if anybody stole anything from you, the Bible says if the thief steals anything, it shall be returned to you seven times.
SPEAKER_00: So I'm saying to you, it shall be returned to you seven times.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying it shall be returned to you seven times in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: How?
SPEAKER_00: The anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Poor the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Don't cry over spilt milk.
SPEAKER_00: Just release the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: You know, release the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: And don't scream and shout.
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, just release the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: You know, in the 60s and 70s, there was a car called the Beetle.
SPEAKER_00: It's a Volkswagen.
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes we would see some of these Volkswagens were very nice.
SPEAKER_00: But there's this particular Volkswagen that would pass by, and you could hear it for a mile, and it is coming.
SPEAKER_00: And when it reaches where you are, it goes.
SPEAKER_00: And it is going at 140.
SPEAKER_00: No noise.
SPEAKER_00: No screams.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean you don't need to shout, but make your shouting with an anointing.
SPEAKER_00: But let me tell you this: you just need to release the anointing in your quietness.
SPEAKER_00: It is still the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: When you drink tea, whether it is hot or cold, it is still what?
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Buana sifiwe.
SPEAKER_00: God is good.
SPEAKER_00: Which number had I reached?
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm about to tie this up.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, give me that PowerPoint number.
SPEAKER_00: Number six, the anointing is poured and it releases double portions.
SPEAKER_00: And I like this verse because Pastor Simon also likes it.
SPEAKER_00: Isaiah 61, verse 7.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to what the Bible says.
SPEAKER_00: The same anointing, the same sound, the same portion of scripture.
SPEAKER_00: It says, and I like this instead of your shame.
SPEAKER_00: Ah, instead of your shame.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, somebody shamed you yesterday, but instead of your shame, you will receive a double portion.
SPEAKER_00: Instead of disgrace, you will rejoice in your inheritance.
SPEAKER_00: And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.
SPEAKER_00: Somebody better give God a big hand and tell him, thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
SPEAKER_00: That is the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing brings joy.
SPEAKER_00: Joy unspeakable and full of glory.
SPEAKER_00: May that be your portion.
SPEAKER_00: I am saying this week, may that double portion come your way.
SPEAKER_00: May that double portion come your way.
SPEAKER_00: Even with some of your children back from school when they were not supposed to come back from school and you have a new budget.
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you this: may you have joy, unspeakable and full of glory.
SPEAKER_00: But number seven, pour your oil, activate it into empowering wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: This was spoken to about Jesus the Messiah, Isaiah 11, verse 2.
SPEAKER_00: The anointing releases wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says this as I read that particular verse, Isaiah 11:2.
SPEAKER_00: He says, The spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the Messiah.
SPEAKER_00: The spirit of what?
SPEAKER_00: Wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: This is my prayer for you that the anointing of wisdom will come upon you.
SPEAKER_00: I am saying that the anointing of wisdom will come upon you.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible says, Pastor Simon, Jesus grew in stature and in wisdom and in favor with God in man.
SPEAKER_00: May that be your portion.
SPEAKER_00: May you grow.
SPEAKER_00: Long time ago in the Old Testament, the Bible says guys would stir themselves up.
SPEAKER_00: They would stir themselves up and the spirit would move them.
SPEAKER_00: But these days, you know the spirit is in us.
SPEAKER_00: So do something.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor, do something.
SPEAKER_00: When you're sad, just start singing, even if it doesn't make sense.
SPEAKER_00: Just sing, just celebrate.
SPEAKER_00: Don't sing those sad songs.
SPEAKER_00: Sing a joyful song.
SPEAKER_00: And before you know it, the sadness goes out of the window.
SPEAKER_00: Because the spirit of anointing will rise in you and will give you joy and speakable.
SPEAKER_00: So tell your neighbor, I have wisdom from the anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, you look wise suddenly.
SPEAKER_00: Some of you who had challenges last week and you're trying to get a solution, maybe in your technical world, maybe in your in your in your in your financial world, maybe in your marital world, world, and you need wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: I'm saying receive that wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Some of you are going to be amazing innovators in this season because God is giving you wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, wisdom in fashion, wisdom in music, wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: Pour that oil.
SPEAKER_00: And Pastor Simon, I found some empty vessels, and I've been pouring.
SPEAKER_00: You want me to tell you some of those vessels?
SPEAKER_00: YouTube.
SPEAKER_00: I've been pouring into YouTube.
SPEAKER_00: I have a YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: I have a TikTok channel.
SPEAKER_00: And those who have been watching me on TikTok, thank you and keep watching in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: I'm pouring, I'm pouring oil into TikTok in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: I am on Facebook.
SPEAKER_00: I'm pouring that oil on Facebook.
SPEAKER_00: I'm on Instagram.
SPEAKER_00: I'm pouring that oil.
SPEAKER_00: And just the other day, I'm now on Spotify.
SPEAKER_00: I'm pouring the oil in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not apologizing.
SPEAKER_00: I am pouring this oil because these vessels will be filled in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: And this week on all the platforms totally, Pastor Simon, we have now hit the 60 million views.
SPEAKER_00: I am pouring.
SPEAKER_00: And we are looking for 100 million.
SPEAKER_00: And we are getting there because I'm pouring.
SPEAKER_00: Now look at your neighbor and ask your neighbor, where are you pouring your oil?
SPEAKER_00: Hello.
SPEAKER_00: Now stand on your feet as I as I as I tie up this message for us.
SPEAKER_00: Are you learning something?
SPEAKER_00: Is God ministering to you?
SPEAKER_00: God is good all the time?
SPEAKER_00: I want to say the third thing: the anointing beyond.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor, anointing beyond.
SPEAKER_00: This is where the anointing now impacts people that you'll never meet, touching lives that you'll never even know you touch them.
SPEAKER_00: So the last verse, verse 7.
SPEAKER_00: She went and told the man of God, and he said, Go sell the oil and pay your debts.
SPEAKER_00: You and your sons can live on what is left.
SPEAKER_00: What God is saying is this this anointing, Pastor Simon, should not just stay inside you.
SPEAKER_00: And you walk around with it.
SPEAKER_00: Pour it in vessels.
SPEAKER_00: And Simon, I know you because you are pouring your life in so many places.
SPEAKER_00: You are just pouring, pouring, pouring.
SPEAKER_00: Pastor Edith, pouring, pouring, pouring.
SPEAKER_00: With a lot of joy.
SPEAKER_00: Pouring, pouring, pouring.
SPEAKER_00: While she's running on the road, she's pouring, pouring, pouring.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know why she did not go for the marathon this morning.
SPEAKER_00: But she's pouring, pouring, pouring.
SPEAKER_00: She needed to be here so that she could lead our service.
SPEAKER_00: God is good.
SPEAKER_00: So look at your neighbor one more time.
SPEAKER_00: Where are you pouring this oil?
SPEAKER_00: Ask them another one.
SPEAKER_00: Are you actually pouring anything?
SPEAKER_00: But as you pour the oil under the power of the Holy Spirit, God is going to do amazing things.
SPEAKER_00: I had a story the other day.
SPEAKER_00: My mom is here, Mrs.
SPEAKER_00: Tigger.
SPEAKER_00: And yesterday they went to visit one of our old, oil mothers, Margaret Mutiso.
SPEAKER_00: And I was told that when they went to visit mom Tigger and other mothers of the age of Margaret Mutiso, when Margaret Mutiso saw them, she just broke down and cried.
SPEAKER_00: She cried.
SPEAKER_00: She had not seen these friends for a long time.
SPEAKER_00: And their visit poured into her fresh oil.
SPEAKER_00: And I know she will go even farther because of that visitation.
SPEAKER_00: And so some of the visitations you make are part of your pouring oil into people's lives.
SPEAKER_00: When you're doing good, pouring oil.
SPEAKER_00: When you're paying bills for Simon, like I'm paying for you, the shawama.
SPEAKER_00: I'm doing good.
SPEAKER_00: May that be your portion.
SPEAKER_00: You have no idea the impact that will come.
SPEAKER_00: Because it will come.
SPEAKER_00: Acts 1.8, as I finish, says this: You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.
SPEAKER_00: And then you shall be my witnesses where in Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_00: And in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Impact.
SPEAKER_00: When we were leaving Mombasa, we were going to the airport.
SPEAKER_00: We passed security and then we passed where you get the ticket.
SPEAKER_00: And so I was sitting in front.
SPEAKER_00: Pastor Regan was in the back seat, so he was going to pay.
SPEAKER_00: So he pushed down the window and was about to pay.
SPEAKER_00: And this lady who was about to receive the payment saw me in the front seat.
SPEAKER_00: And she says, Pastor Ambrose, I see you on TikTok.
SPEAKER_00: Please release a blessing.
SPEAKER_00: So I just turned and said, I bless you in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: And she says, She said, You're not paying this.
SPEAKER_00: This is on me.
SPEAKER_00: I am paying.
SPEAKER_00: Tell your neighbor: impact.
SPEAKER_00: So if you're on TikTok and you see me, you're not obligated to pay me anything.
SPEAKER_00: But that was spontaneous.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that your impact will be seen far and wide.
SPEAKER_00: And many of you are actually having an impact.
SPEAKER_00: Some of you just don't have the chance to tell us on Sunday like this.
SPEAKER_00: You are having awesome impact.
SPEAKER_00: May you continue releasing that impact in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: If you receive this, you better give God a big hand, tell him thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, somebody, better give God a hand and tell him thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.