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Mambo ni Matatu - The importance of obedience
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Ever wondered why obedience to the Lord is so crucial and what happens when we don't follow His instructions? Uncover the answers as we journey through the scriptures, exploring the lives of Saul and David, and their contrasting relationship with God. We promise you an enlightening conversation, drawing lessons from the stories of these two prominent figures, and revealing how obedience, or the lack thereof, impacted their roles and destinies.
Strap-in as we delve deep into Saul's disobedience and subsequent rejection as king. We highlight the dire consequences of arrogance and rebellion, providing a fresh perspective on Saul's story. In stark contrast, we discuss David's repentance following his self-dependency, highlighting God's merciful nature, reminding us all that no matter the depth of our transgressions, a contrite heart and repentance are paramount to gaining God's forgiveness.
Finally, we turn our attention to the spiritual implications of empty religion and hypocrisy. Drawing lessons from the prophet Amos, we shed light on God's disdain for pretentious religious ceremonies and assemblies. During our prayer time, we seek a spirit of obedience, humility, and surrender, not just in our personal lives, but in our countries, and among our leaders. This episode serves as a means to not only understand God's word, but also to apply it in our everyday lives, to enrich our walk with Him, and to experience His divine presence and blessings. Tune in for an episode filled with spiritual insight, inspiration, and strength for your faith journey.
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Prayer Meeting and Scriptural Reflection
Speaker 1music , roho , roho katika ku uju a mama , na jae suni ku sil Koharu , na jae suni ku sil Koharu . Yes , yes , we will defam , 에ame you and get pleasure in matters of this , and this God , your name .
Speaker 2We glorify your name for who you are , and this morning we say amen . This morning , we lift our voice to just say amen . This morning , lord , we join together as a family on this Friday that you have given unto us . Oh Lord , october the 16th . Father , we thank you for this beautiful day that you have given unto us and we join together to say amen for what you have spoken to us . We say amen for what you will speak to us this morning . So , father , we thank you for every man , every woman , everyone that has connected , and even them that will come .
Speaker 2Lord , as we fellowship together , as we call upon your name , one thing that we know that your presence is here , that you desire to do good , that you're going to lift us up , you're going to encourage us , you're going to challenge us , you're going to call us to a new level this morning Even , lord , as we continue seeking you . So , father , we pray that you sanctify our hearts this morning . Sanctify our minds this morning , lord . Cleanse our hearts , lord , almighty Father , even as we settle our minds to be ready to receive from you this morning , we refuse the spirit of familiarity , jehovah , that creeps in all the time , lord , and we pray that this shall be a new day . It shall be a new day , a new anointing , a new speech to us , oh Lord , to the glory and honor of your name . So , father , we release ourselves to you . Speak to us this morning , uplift each one of us and meet us at our points of need . You are the Lord that is able to uplift you . You are the God that lifts people and brings them down . You are the God that is able to comfort . You are the Lord that is able to encourage . This morning , we are leaning on you and indeed , you're going to speak to us . You're going to uplift each one of us . My Father , this day is going to be very special in our hearts and in our lives . For my Father , even as we desire to congregate one more time in the evening , jehovah , father , for a Friday fellowship , jehovah , we know that you're going to do something special this day , jehovah , that you have chosen for us . So , father , we release everything unto you , every hour , every minute . Lord , we lay it into your hands , father . Use it to speak to us , inspire us with the glory and honor of your mighty name . So we surrender ourselves to you . Holy Spirit , take control and , at the end of this fellowship , lord , we are able to say you have done it for us . In Jesus' name , I do pray and believe , amen . This morning I just want to welcome all of us into this prayer meeting , this special Friday that the Lord has given unto us . It's always a privilege for when we get a chance to come and be before Him . This morning , and I have no doubt that he's going to speak to us , and I want us just to read a portion of scripture and I'm going to share briefly and then we'll go on to pray .
Speaker 2I want to start with from the book of Amos , prophet Amos , chapter five , verses 21 to 27 . Amos , chapter five , verses 21 to 27 . The Bible says I hate , I despise your religious festivals . Your assemblies are as tinge to me . Even though you bring me banned offerings and grain offerings , I will not accept them . Though you bring choice fellowship offerings , I will have no regard for them . Away with the noise of your songs , I will not listen to the music of your haps . But let justice roll on like a river , righteousness like a never failing stream . Did you bring me sacrifices and banned offerings ? 40 years in the wilderness , people of Israel , you have lifted up the shrine of your King , the pedestal of your idols , the star of your God , which you made for yourselves . Therefore , I will send you into exile beyond Damascus , says the Lord , whose name is God Almighty .
Speaker 2And I want to go and read again from the book of first , somewhere , chapter 15 , and I'll sort of read some and jump , because it's a long scripture , but I want us to make sure we just get the context
Don't Forget, Let's Go Back
Speaker 2. This is the time when the Lord rejected Saul as king . The Bible says in chapter one , samuel 15, . One Samuel say to Saul I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you , king over his people , Israel . So listen now to the message from the Lord . This is what the Lord Almighty says I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they will aid them as they came up from Egypt . Now go , attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them . Do not spare them . Put to death men and women , cute and infants , cattle and sheep , camels and donkeys . And then the Bible says Samuel , of course , someone , 200,000 soldiers . And they went to fight .
Speaker 2And if you go in first nine , bible says but Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle , the fat calves and lambs , everything that was good , this they were unwilling I want you to note that they were unwilling to destroy completely , but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed . Then , first , 10 , the Lord came to Samuel again . I regret that I've made Saul king because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions . Samuel was angry and he cried out to the Lord all the night , all that night . I want you to note that . And then , early in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul . But he was told Saul has gone to Camel . There he has set up a monument in his own honor and has turned and gone on down to Gilgall . When Samuel reached him , saul said the Lord bless you . I've carried out the Lord's instructions .
Speaker 2Then , fast 14 , but Samuel said what then ? Is this bleeding of sheep in my ears ? What is this lowing of cattle that I hear ? Saul answered the soldiers brought them from the Amalekites . They spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the Lord , your God . But we totally destroyed the rest Enough . Samuel said to Saul let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night . Tell me . Saul replied . In fast 17 he says though you are once more in your own eyes . Did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel ? The Lord anointed you king of Israel and he sent you on a mission saying go and completely destroy those wicked people , the Amalekites . And fast 19 , why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord ? Fast 20 , saul is saying but I did obey . The Lord's soul said I went on a mission as the Lord assigned me . I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back their king . The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder , the best of what was devoted to God , in order to sacrifice them to the Lord . But fast 22, .
Speaker 2We see the same scripture here again , but Samuel replied does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord ? To obey is better than sacrifice and to heed is better than the fad of rams , for rebellion is like the sin of divination and arrogance like the evil of idolatry . Because you have rejected the word of the Lord , he has rejected you as king . Then Samuel said I have sinned . I have let the Lord's commands and the instructions . I was afraid of the people and the men , and so I gave in to them . Now I beg you , forgive me a sin and come back to me so that I may worship the Lord .
Speaker 2And the story continues . And then we pick it up again in the story of David as well , a very familiar scripture again , where David goes in to count the fighting men , where he sends Job to go and enroll the people . And the Bible says but Job replied to the king . So again the anger of the Lord banned against Israel and incited David against them , saying go and take a census of Israel and Judah . So the king said to Joab and the army commanders with him go throughout the tribes of Israel , from Dan to Bereshaba , and enroll the fighting men so that I may know how many there are . First three . But Job replied to the king may the Lord , your God , multiply the troops a hundred times over and may the eyes of my Lord the king see it . But why does my Lord the king want to do such a thing ? The king's word , however , overruled Job and the army commanders so that they left the presence of the king to enroll the fighting men of Israel . After crossing the Jordan , they came and come to near our right , south of the town in George and then went through God and on to Jezre . They went to Gilead and the region of Tarthim Odish and on to Danjan and around the toward of Sidon , first eight . After they had gone through the entire land , they came back to Jerusalem At the end of nine months and 20 days . Job reported the number of fighting men to the king In Israel there were 800,000 able-bodied men who could handle a sword and in Judah 500,000 .
Speaker 2Last time David was conscious , stricken after he had counted the fighting men , and he said to the Lord I have sinned greatly in what I have done . Now , lord , I beg you , take away the guilt of your servant . I have done a very foolish thing . Before David got up the next morning , one of the Lord came to guard the prophet David Seer . Go and tell David . This is what the Lord says . I'm giving you three options . I need to know that , giving you three options , choose one of them for me to carry out against you .
Speaker 2So God went to David and said to him shall there be three years of famine in your land , or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you , or three days of plague in your land ? Now then , think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me . I need to say to God I'm in deep distress . Let us not fall in the hands of the Lord . Let us fall into the hands of the Lord , for his mercy is great , but do not let me fall into human hands .
Speaker 2So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated and 70,000 of the people , from Dan to Gershepa , died . When the angels stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem , the Lord relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people enough , withdraw your hand . The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing flower of Aruba , the Jebusite . When David saw the striking angel , the angel striking people down , he said to the Lord I have seen , I , the shepherd , have done wrong . These are but sheep . What have they done ? Let your hand fall on me and my family .
Speaker 2And then , from there on , on that day , god went to David and said to him go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing flower of Aruna . So David went up on the Lord , as the Lord commanded through God . When Aruna looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him . He went out and bowed before the king with the face of the ground . Aruna said why , as my Lord the king , come to his servant to buy your threshing flower ? He answered so I can build an altar to the Lord that the plague on the people may be stopped . Aruna said to David let the Lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up . Here are the oxen for the band offering and the threshing slages and oxyotes for the wood . Then , of course . But the king replied no , I insist on paying you for it . I will not sacrifice to the Lord , my God , band offerings that cost me nothing , amen . I know that's a long scripture , but this morning I wanted to use that to just share with you something that I feel in my heart . That's very critical as we continue in this journey and is going to pray this morning , and so I pray that your heart will be open and you sort of get what I want to communicate this morning .
Speaker 2In the first scripture , where we read in almost chapter five , god speaks about things that he despises and something that he hates , and in almost chapter five he says he hates and despises religious festivals . He hates and despises , and this morning . You know my message is entitled let us not forget and go back . Let us not forget and go back . God has been faithful to us . God has rescued us . He continues to rescue us . He continues to do great things in our midst . And as we go back to normal , as the churches open , as the schools open , as our lives start getting back to normal , there is the danger that we will forget and go back . Go back to what we used to know , Go back to the ways that we lived , go back to the way we did church before , go back to our ordinary lives . There will be pressure for you and I to go back to the ordinary Christian life , to where we used to be before . There will be pressure to default back to what we knew , because all habits die hard . There will be pressure , but this morning I am encouraging all of us with this word let us not forget and go back . Let us not forget and go back .
Speaker 2The Bible says in Amos , chapter five , that the God hates and despises religious festivals . In fact , it says such assemblies are as taint to him . You know , religion is something that is done without thinking . Religious assembly is a grouping of people that are gathered just to fulfill a duty . Their hearts are far from where they started . They just meet , they gather to perform rituals , to do the catcher of things , and there will be pressure for us to go back to just our religious activities . There will be pressure for you to go back to what you know . But God is challenging us .
God's Hatred of Empty Religion
Speaker 2Yes , he speaks through his prophet Amos . He says he hates religious festivals , he hates assemblies like that . In fact he says they are taint to him . And then he says when such assemblies are held , it does not matter how much grain offering or burnt offering we bring , the Lord says he rejects them . He says he will not accept them because anything that is done out of religious duty , god says he will reject such . And he reminds the children of Israel when you are in the wilderness for those four tears , did you give me anything ? Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings ? The four tears that you are in the wilderness ? I'm not God .
Speaker 2And so you see God here confronting or using the Prophet somewhere to highlight how much he hates . And not only does he hate such things , the Bible says he also takes action Every time he senses religion , every time he senses are people that are gathered for the sake of doing it , he begins to take action , in this case in Amos . He says therefore , I will send you into exile beyond Damascus . Not only is he upset , not only does he hate it , but he's forcing him to take action . And so this morning , I pray as we get back to normal , as we go back to what we used to do , life gets back to normal . Let us not forget what God has been speaking to us . Let us not forget and go back , because God hates assemblies that are just religion . God hates things that are done for the sake of being done . God hates people serving as if it's a duty . God is interested in our heart , and so that is the first thing that we see in the book of Amos .
Speaker 2If you come back again to the book of first Samuel , where we read we see again here King Samuel , the prophet , being confronted by God , and God comes to him and says I've got a mission that I want you to understand . He says I'm the one that chose Saul , so go and tell him . I've got a mission that I want him to do for me . I want him to go and destroy the Americas . The Americas had done very bad things to the children of Israel , and God had not forgotten . And he sees Saul as the man that can go and do that . And so he tells Samuel go and tell Saul , I want him to go on this mission , I want him to completely destroy the Amalekites , completely destroy them , because of what they did to the children of Israel , and God had failed to destroy them . And so he tells Samuel , god tells Saul to go and get the job done . The Bible says Saul does not refuse . He gets 200,000 soldiers and 10,000 men from Judah and they go into the city of Amalek . They set an ambush and they managed to get everything , everything that they wanted .
Speaker 2But the Bible says Saul , instead of obeying God , instead of obeying the instruction that he had been sold , he decides to keep King Agag . And he also decides to take the best of the ship and the goats and the best , the cattle , the ship , the camels and the donkeys . He keeps the very best . And then he has got this argument that you know what ? I'm going to take this very best and I'm going to offer them to God as a sacrifice . I'm going to offer some of them to the Lord as a sacrifice and I'm going to keep , of course , the soldiers . I'm going to keep the rest .
Speaker 2And this was again as what God had told . I want to talk about the things that God hates , the things that forces God to take action . And so when Saul does not do this , the Bible says that then the word of the Lord comes again to somewhere , and this time alone , god tells Samuel I regret that I've made Saul the king , because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions . And the Bible says Samuel was angry the whole night . He could not sleep . He cried out to the Lord the whole night . I don't know what he was crying to God about . I don't know whether he was telling God to forgive Saul , because Samuel had been involved in the anointing of King Saul , when everybody had cried and said they wanted a king , they wanted someone who would go to battle with them . It was the Prophet Samuel who went to anoint Saul , and so I could remember the way he poured oil on someone Saul and the way Saul began to prophesy and he could see what had happened .
Speaker 2Over time , saul had forgotten what God had done for him . Saul had forgotten where God had gotten him from . And now here he is , he's completely disobedient and then Samuel cries to God the whole night . The Bible says the next morning . Anyway , he set up very early and he went into confront Saul and he's asking Saul why did you do this , saul ? But I'm not so much interested this morning on the conversation between Saul and Samuel , which was very distressing because , you see , saul tried to argue out and tried to justify why he did what he did , and he had very good reasons , and many times when we are disobedient to God , we have good reasons . We feel like God has overstayed . I've been waiting on the Lord to bless me , but he has not blessed me , or I've been expecting God to do this and he has a bit late , and so I started doing it my own way .
Speaker 2But what is most important , what do I like this morning in this subject of let us not forget and go back , is that God had very clear instructions to Saul and Saul decided to disobey Every time . Every time when we know what we are supposed to do , remember all these things are to the people of God . This is not a message to non believers . This is not a message to people that don't know God . This is something to us that know God . We know what needs to be done . The instructions have been very clear . They have been given to us . We have been instructed of the Lord . We know what we need to do . When we don't do it , when we refuse to do it , god gets . He hates it and it forces him to take action . And so what I'm saying this morning is we start getting back to the normal . There's going to be a tendency , there's going to be a push , there's going to be pressure for us to go back into ordinary church life and just start doing religion . But I am encouraging us this morning
God's Hatred for Disobedience and Hypocrisy
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Speaker 2God hates disobedience , and not only does he hate it , it forces God to take action . This time around . He tells Samuel go and tell Saul I'm regretting why I made him king . I'm regretting why I made him king . And not only am I unhappy about him , but I'm also tearing the kingdom from him . I'm taking away the kingdom from him .
Speaker 2And in verse 22 , it captures what Samuel said . The Bible says . But Samuel replied does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord ? And he says to obey is better than sacrifice . And so this morning , as we go into prayer , one of the things that I feel that we should pray about is for spirit of obedience , and I'll sort of touch on that , because prayer and obedience , they go hand in hand . So he says , to obey is better than sacrifice , and he allies two other things that God hates . He says , for rebellion is like the scene of divination and arrogance is like the eve of adultery . And so these three things are so critical Obedience , ensuring that we are not rebellious and ensuring that we are not arrogant . And if you are not careful , these are all three things that creep into us as we journey with the Lord as God blesses us , as God increases us , as God establishes us .
Speaker 2When we are so down and we are so weak and we're exposed , we have a tendency of turning to God . You know , like crying out to God when we are believing in for something . You know you are believing God for a wife and you know you go in , you cry to God and you're all of us so allowed to him . As soon as he blesses you with a wife or with a job or with resources or whatever it is that you've been believing God to , and you start journeying with him along there . You then forget , and when you forget you then start being disobedient . You know what needs to be done , but now obedience creeps in and then what follows next is rebellion .
Speaker 2Rebellion is where you now openly disobedience starts small . It starts small in your own life , nobody's knowing . It's just you know the Spirit of God is telling you do that , do that . But slowly by slowly you disobey . You disobey . You . You're not sensitive to what God is saying , you're not sensitive to what God is telling you to do . And then later on disobeys and grows . It becomes open rebellion . Where night is feasible , people can see that you actually did in in rebellion . Now you're just rebelling .
Speaker 2And then , once rebellion builds up , the next thing is arrogance , where you cannot be told , no one can correct you , no one can can , no one can talk to you . It starts with disobedience , small voice of disobedience . When it disobedience starts small , when , in times when we are disobedient , nobody knows . It's only you that knows and the Spirit of God is only you know that knows that you are being disobedient . Many times we never know . The public may not know , your spouse may not know , your parents may not know . But then over time disobedience and builds up and it becomes open rebellion . Open rebellion is when it is just being physical . It is . You start being vocal , you start speaking and people are able to pick it up . You speak out and people are able to know where you stand . They're able to see your position . It is now becomes obvious rebellion .
Speaker 2And right after that , the next thing is arrogance . Where you are , where you cannot be spoken into , where the pastors cannot speak into you , where your parents cannot speak into you , where your elders cannot speak into you , where those that are older cannot speak into you , you are , you have , you have built such a thick skin that nobody can reach you and in all these things , god is speaking through somewhere and he's saying that's the law of delight in burnt offerings . Remember , as disobedience is going on , as rebellion is going on , as arrogance is going on , people are still offering burnt offerings . People are still doing sacrifices . We are still singing in the choir , we are still coming for the fellowship , we are still involved in church , we are still involved in ministry , we are still doing God's work . We are still doing , but inside , disobedience is already crept in , which then grows into rebellion , and then it grows into arrogance , and then it is all covered up .
Speaker 2When those three things are all happening in our lives and we are still showing up . We are still showing up on Sunday . We are still saying we are Christians . We are still saying we are pastors . We are still saying we are Christians . We are still saying we are bishops . We are still saying we are man , the body of Christ , but inside us is disobedience , inside us is rebellion , inside us is arrogance , but we are still doing church , we are still doing ministry . We are still saying that we are saints . We are still being called upon as Christians . We are still saying that we are Christian nation . We are still saying we are Christians . And then , with all that's happening disobedience , rebellion and arrogance we are still showing up on Sunday . It becomes a religious assembly . A religious assembly is one that is full of people that are in disobedience to God . It is an assembly that is full of arrogant people . It's an assembly that is full of rebellion , where we know what needs to be done . We speak about it , we talk about it , but everything that we do is against what we are saying .
Speaker 2Why is there so much corruption in countries ? Why there's so much fighting ? Why is so much corruption ? Why is there so much in fighting ? Why is there so much fighting ? Why is there so much problem in our countries ? When you look at the people on Sunday , they're in church . All the politicians , they're all streaming to church on Sunday to go and give offerings , to go and do fundraising , to go and do many fun . They're all kneeling down , they're all lifting up their hands . But every time they open their mouths and they speak . When you look at what they are doing , when you look at the actions that they are taking , you wonder what is wrong . On Sunday , we are there , we are in church , we want to be identified as Christians , we want to say we are , we say praise the Lord , we say hallelujah , we are saying all the right things . But every time you look at what people are doing it is different .
Speaker 2And in the book of Amos , god got Francis through his prophet and he says this I hate and I despise your religious festivals . You assemblies are changed . To me . He says they stink , we stink . And , brothers and sisters , this morning the message is let us not forget and go back . Let us not forget and go back to those religious assemblies , because God hates them and they stink . And God will take action . He says if you bring me banned offerings or bring me grain , I will not accept them . There will be pressure , brothers and sisters , for us to go back to the ordinary . There will be pressure for us to conform . There will be pressure for us to just go back to what we know . But let us not forget and go back when we know what we need to do and we don't do it . God hates it and it takes action .
Obedience and Trust in God
Speaker 2In the last portion of scripture where we read you see David coming in . David knows very well that God did not approve of the armies being counted , but it tells Joe up , go and count the fighting men . David knew what was right , we know what is right , but we go ahead and do what is wrong anyway . David knew what he was doing was wrong . But he confronts Joe up , he says go and count the people and the man who says this man went around the country . It will took them nine months . It was a long journey , it was painful , but they did it because the king had said that they do it . But the Bible says David was doing this . His conscious was , he was conscious reading . He knew he had done the wrong thing . His heart was , he knew that he had done the wrong thing . And you know when we do what is wrong , the spirit of God will remind us , the spirit of God will speak to us , the spirit of God will prompt us .
Speaker 2And this morning , brothers and sisters , the message is let us not forget and go back .
Speaker 2Let us not forget and go back .
Speaker 2David knew counting the men was wrong and the reason why it was wrong ? Because God was not one David . He never wanted his people to trust on themselves . By counting the number of soldiers , it was showing that they trusted in themselves . And this morning , brothers and sisters , as we go to pray , god does not want us to trust on ourselves . God does not want us to trust on our education , all our experience , all the money that we have , all the jobs that we have , all the relationship that we have . No God wants us to trust him 100% . Our trust needs to be in God . David knew this was wrong and he counted the men . God hates it when we trust on ourselves , and that's why prayer is so important . That's why prayer is so powerful , because prayer is an indication that we are not trusting on ourselves , we are trusting on God .
Speaker 2And so this morning , brothers and sisters , I want us to go before the Lord and pray . There are many things I can share this morning , but let me stop there so that we can go ahead and pray . But let us pray that , first of all , we will not forget what God has done . We have been crying to him since this pandemic started and God has been good . We have seen him lifting his hand . This disease is gone in Jesus' name . But there will be pressure for us to forget what God has done . So I'll for God that he had been anointed by death by somewhere . God has chosen him , despite him being from the weak , the list of tribes , but he has chosen him to be king of his people . And God reminds you this morning , brothers and sisters , let us not forget what God has done . Do not forget the miracles that God has done in your life . Do not forget that our God has come through Unless a fellowship . This morning , we can never forget what God has done for us and therefore I want us to go before God this morning .
Speaker 2Now I have to respond to that one the issue of obedience to God . Rebellion , oh rebellion . Those are the things that I have to identify Rebellion and arrogance . Let us pray that these things will never be mentioned in our lives and that we are not going to go back . We are not going back to religious assemblies where we are just gathering for the sake , where we are just doing church , is a motion that we will do and we will obey God . We will be connected to him , we will be connected to the spirit of God and we will walk in humble obedience . When that happens , god sends his blessings upon us . When the opposite happens , god takes actions . He took him . He sent this day . He said he will send them to exile . He gave David three options . He said I'm giving you three options .
Speaker 2When there's disobedience , when we know what we are supposed to do and we don't do it , oh , god takes action . He gave David three options . He told him option number one I can send a family , I can send a disease upon and into you . I can send you to fall in the hands of your enemies . David said you know what ? I just want to fall in the hands of God because he's merciful . And in all these two occasions we see God sending a prophet . When Saul was in disobedience , he sent the prophet someone . When David was in disobedience , he sent the prophet God to go and speak to David . He sent the prophet someone to go and speak to Saul .
Speaker 2So God is speaking to us through his word this morning and I pray that we are going to go before him . Let us pray for complete spirit of obedience , a spirit of surrender , a spirit of total obedience . Let us pray that our God will not creep into us . Our God is when we feel like we know it all , when we cannot be told anything . When we are proud , pride and our God's come go out in hand . We can start being proud . We can look at ourselves and think we are special . We can look at ourselves and nobody can talk to us . Our spouses can't talk to us , or we cannot listen to our parents . We cannot listen to those that are in authority , the obscenities happening in our country , where people are openly rebelling to authority . This is the spirit of arrogance and I want us to go before the Lord and we pray . It does not matter what happens .
Speaker 2God works through leaders . God speaks through leaders . He spoke through Samuel to Saul . He spoke through prophet God to David . God speaks through leaders and the spirit of disobedience is raining much in our nation and this morning I want us to go before the Lord as we pray for ourselves , let us pray for our countries , let us pray for spirit of obedience to reign upon our people , to reign among the Christians , to reign among our leaders , because God desires us to rise up and get the spirit of and rebellions Right and arrogance and rebellion , for God hates these things and when they manifest themselves , god does take action . So let us go before the Lord and cry upon him . This morning , just open up your mouth , whatever you are , and respond to this word . Let us intercede for ourselves , let us intercede for our friends , let us intercede for our nations in the name of Jesus Christ . So , father , this morning , when we go before you , we lift up our hands and our Lord and thank you for your word .
Speaker 2This morning , o God , you spoke through the prophet and you said about how you hate religion . And this morning , father , in this prayer meeting of King of Glory , we receive your word . We receive your word , king of Glory . We say we are hearing what you are telling us , and this morning of my father , first of all , we are pray the Lord . You forgive us all , lord , where we have been disobedient this morning . Father , forgive us for Jesus Christ . Father , forgive us , o Lord . Father forgive us as individuals , forgive us as families of Jehovah . Forgive us as a ministry . Forgive us , o King of Glory , where we have been so paid you , jehovah , we have not been for Friday To do that you have called us to do .
Speaker 2This morning we stand on the carpet . Oh , the prophet , samuel , cried out the whole night and this morning we are joining together in his prayer to come to you . This morning we are crying out . Samuel cried out the whole night . This morning , o Jehovah , father , we are uniting together as a church . We are uniting together , jehovah , as a fellowship . This morning we are crying out of Jehovah . Our desire and our prayers goes out to you , jehovah . We desire to walk in obedience . We are praying . We are praying as we join together with all the saints . O Lord , one thing that we desire is that , god , there shall be obedience in our nation's King of Glory . We are praying this morning for a spirit of obedience . When we read in the newspaper , when we watch on the televisions and we see leaders in open disobedience , we are praying for the Lord and we know you walk through leaders , o God , you are the one that is the most delicious leadership of King of Glory . So , my father , this morning , O Lord , we are all , my God , bowling in your hands . This morning , o God , we are serving in church leaders . O God , being disobedient of King of Glory .
Speaker 2This morning we are saying forgive us . This morning we are saying forgive us , lord , in the name of Jesus . O Lord , forgive us , forgive us as a nation this morning , forgive us as Christians , o Lord . Forgive us . This morning , o God , we have disobeyed you , your over and gone to churches and leave it on our hands . We have disobeyed you and carried money to give you in church . Oh , my father , you speak to us this morning . You say you hate it , o Lord .
Speaker 2And this morning we are repenting , o Father . We are repenting on behalf of all the Christians . O Father , o Lord . So so say you know God . I said so , just wanted the money . All the soldiers are the ones who put pressure on me . We wanted to go and offer it to you .
Prayer for Forgiveness and Resistance
Speaker 2So try to justify . And we have seen even Christians , we have seen churches try to justify what they are doing , what they are doing , what they are doing . And this morning we are saying forgive us , o Lord . Forgive us as a national Lord . We have turned the blind eye and not working . Your name , o Lord , this morning . Forgive us , o Lord .
Speaker 2This morning , forgive us , o Jehovah . So try to justify . He tried to show the good things , oh , that he expect the best . So he could give it an example . What we are doing is what we are doing and justifying our actions . We are justifying our actions , o Lord . Father , we pray in the name of Jesus Christ .
Speaker 2This morning , my father , we know you hate it , o Lord , and you can take action on us as a nation . Father , forgive us this morning and some will cry to you . We are saying forgive us , o Lord , forgive us , o King of glory , forgive us this morning , my father . Have mercy , Jehovah , have mercy on us , o Lord . Do not , o my father , punish us this morning , o God , as a nation has to believe us , o my father . We are saying forgive us this morning , forgive us this morning , o my father .
Speaker 2As David said , you are a nation . Forgive us this morning , o my father , forgive us this morning , o my father . Hallelujah , my God , lord , right now , my father , we have seen the spirit of arrogance and pride and we know , my father , how much it comes , how much and how quickly it comes when you have lifted us from nothing , my father , and you have put us in high positions . O , my God , that is the one who put you there . I'm the one who raised you up . You spoke to David and you said you are shepherd and the one that lifted up from from being a shepherd , into the palace . And this morning , my father , we are pray for the spirit of arrogance that recently creeps into us as individuals .
Speaker 2This morning , my father , even as a minister , my God , we can become arrogant . We can look at what you have done to us and we can become proud of what we have accomplished . My father , we can look at our families and look at what we have done , what you have done through us , o , my father , and we can become proud . We can become arrogant . We can become insensitive to what you have done through us . We can start thinking it is us , we can start thinking it , our own ability . We can start thinking it's because we are smarter . We can start thinking it's because we are smarter .
Speaker 2Jesus Christ , we are refusing on my father the spirit of arrogance this morning and pride that so much quickly set us in us . We are saying , my father , let pride not rest , let us not stand on our own ability . David became proud and he said go and count for me the men that are able to fight . He commanded job to go and do the count because he was going to trust on his hand . He was saying look at what God has been able to do , look at what I've been able to accomplish .
Speaker 2And this morning , on my father , we are praying that pride is not going to set in our hearts . It's not going to set in our lives . As you uplift , as my father , as you grow , as my father , as you expand , as O God , as you do great things in ourselves , as you bless us with jobs on my father , I pray that the day we are crying to you that you bless us with jobs on my father , and you have come through for us , and quickly , we forget . We start all thinking it is us . We forget where you have collected us from , we forget the suffering that we went through this morning on my father , by the anointing that's flowing here , my father .
Speaker 2We resist the spirit of pride this morning , the spirit of self dependency . We are rejecting this spirit from the devil , in the mighty name of Jesus Christ . Oh , I'm my father . Oh , I'm my father . You say you hate it . Oh , lord , the spirit of arrogance . Oh , lord , where we cannot be told anything , where we cannot listen to wisdom , where no one can speak to our lives , where nobody can speak to us , we feel like we know it all . We feel like we cannot be told . We feel like we are now too bigger . We feel like we are now too prosperous . We feel like we are now so rich . We feel like we are now so bigger that no one can speak to us .
Speaker 2Oh , this morning , my father , we pray that you forgive us so long , boy , so quickly come through . We forget where we came from . We forget the things that you have done through us . We forget it has been you that has lifted us up , my father and the people that are here to speak to us . They can no longer speak and we listen . Men that would respect it can no longer speak and we listen , father . This morning , my father , I pray , I get a spirit of our God , oh lord . We pray this morning , oh lord , that this place should not find room in any of our lives this way , do not find room in anyone that is connected . This morning , this way , do not find room in our homes . For my father , we are praying for sons and daughters that shall be obedient , my God . We are praying , oh lord , for congregations this morning that shall be able to listen and obey . We are praying , oh father , for a nation , oh God , that's united together , where the leaders speak and people listen .
Speaker 2In the name of Jesus Christ , we resist your , say , arrogant spirit . We have seen you manifesting it , even in our leaders this morning , and we are repulking you right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ . We know you , devil . It does not matter which suit you come with . We know you and we see you . And right now we are saying we are speaking to you right now Get out of our nation right now . You , spirit of arrogance , we know you , we know you , we have seen you before , we know your color , we know the suit that you come in and we know how you come in . And we know you out of our parliament . We are speaking you out of our leadership , we are speaking you out of our senator , we are speaking you out of every leader in our nation this morning , in the name of Jesus Christ , it does not matter what color you come in , it does not matter how you must parade yourself , but you , spirit of arrogance and you , spirit of rebellion , we know you . You are from the feet of hell .
Speaker 2In the name of Jesus Christ , we are saying you not rain in our land . We are saying you , not destroy our nation . We are saying you , not destroy our people . We are saying you , not send us again to fighting . In the name of Jesus Christ , we are not going back to fight him . We are not going back to divisions , we are not going back to tribal divisions . We know you , devil , and this morning I'm speaking to you , whatever you are right now , I'm telling you pack up . Right now . Right now , we know you too well . We know you too well . You have no new tricks , you have larry of run out of tricks . And right now we see you coming again and we are saying no .
Speaker 2We are resisting you right now , this morning , by the anointing that's flowing in this service . We are saying no in the name of Jesus Christ . We , in our churches , right now , we are speaking obedience . We are praying for spirit of obedience among the leadership of the churches . Right now , we are praying for all the bishops . We are praying for all the pastors . Right now , in the name of Jesus Christ , you used pastors , you used prophets to speak to the leaders .
Speaker 2This morning , my father , by the anointing that's flowing in the service of my god , I'm going to tell you where we listen to you . We listen to you the spirit of rebellion , the spirit of rebellion , rebellion , rebellion in the family , rebellion in the in the family , my father , this morning , oh god , we are saying no . We are saying families destroyed because of rebellion . We are seeing demonstrations rising after country , country after country . You are the same devil , the devil of rebellion , and this morning we are resisting you . We are saying you'll not find room , you will not find room in our country , you will not find room in our nation , you will not find room in Africa , you will not find room in the world . In the mighty name of Jesus Christ , it does not matter which color you come in , but we are saying , we are saying no In the name of Jesus Christ , and we are going to prevail . We are going to come out strong . We shall be strong as a nation . We shall be united as a nation . We shall be united as a body of believers . We shall be united as we walk in obedience in the name of Jesus Christ .
Speaker 2They are for this morning , my god , we want to worship you . This morning , we want to worship you this morning . We want to thank you . We are not forgetting and going back . In the name of Jesus Christ , we are desiring nothing but your presence this morning . We are desiring nothing but lord . You are lifting . Oh god , lift up your voice this morning . Let's just thank god for what he's going to do . Let us thank god for what he's going to do in our lives . Let's thank god for what he's going to do in our ministry . Let us thank god for what you continue to do in our ministry . Let us thank god for what he is doing today . Let's thank god for what he's doing right now . Let's thank god for our nation . Thank god for the peace , thank god for the unity , Thank god that he's going to prevail . In the mighty name of Jesus Christ , there shall be order , there shall be obedience . Oh , there shall be peace , there shall be harmony . In the mighty name of Jesus Christ . So far that we thank you this morning we worship .
Speaker 2David was so conscious stricken . The prophet God went to him and he told him go up and build an altar to the Lord . Go and build an altar near the threshing floor of our runam . David went up to build an altar and this morning I believe with all my heart this altar that God has established , where we can call him upon him every morning . This is an altar that God has established , that God has established that through this altar we may command , where , through this altar , we may take control . Through this altar we may declare destiny in our nation , destiny in our families . Bible says that David went up . He went up to build the altar and he was offered the auction and all the things that was needed for the offering . But David said you know what ? I'm not going to give an offer , I'm not going to build an altar and give an offering that has not costed me . He refused to accept anything for free and he paid for everything that was needed . He paid for everything that was needed and the Bible says they offered a sacrifice there and the pestilence stopped , the plague that was raining came to an end .
Speaker 2And this morning , brothers and sisters , as we praise , we move in obedience . All one thing that God desires is that we may sacrifice . I don't know what God is calling you to sacrifice . I don't know what God is calling you to sacrifice , but I know , this morning , as we serve God , god requires us to sacrifice . Oh , god requires .
Speaker 2I say David said I'm going to pay for it . I'm going to pay for it myself . I don't want to go there to go and offer . I don't want to go and offer to an offering that has not costed me . This morning I want to challenge each one of us . Let us step forward . Let us step forward in and let us invest in the kingdom of God . Let us invest in the kingdom of God . Let the work of God , let the work of God not be done cheaply . Let us invest in the kingdom of God . Let us step forward . This is our business , this is the business of our Lord . Let us step forward . Let it be a sacrificial . Let us show the pain of sacrifice . Bible says David removed money and he offered to pay for the bulls . He paid for the
Seeking God and Obedience
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Speaker 2This morning , brother and sister , as we continue seeking God and walking in obedience , let us step forward . Let us serve God . Let us be generous in his kingdom . Let this business of God be our number one priority . Let us make our time , let us make our resources available to him . Let us open our hearts to be used of God . Let us , let us move forward . Let this kingdom of God be our number one priority . And as we make God , our number one priority is , we are going to be a priority in him . So let the kingdom of God let this business of God let us , let us , let us cost us . David paid it costily .
Speaker 2And this morning I want to challenge us . Let us be generous to God . Let us be generous with our time , let us be generous with our resources . Let us be generous to God , and as we do that , god is going to do great things . So , father , this morning , we love you . I will worship you . We bow down in your presence . We appreciate what you have done to us . We bless you , god . There is no one like you . Obedience this morning is our desire and I pray that . Lord Almighty , in these last days where people are not willing to be spoken , where people want God to listen to anyone , where people feel like they know it all , I pray that obedience shall be found in our midst . Our young men shall be obedient . Our women shall be obedient . Our men shall be obedient . We shall build an obedient society that will bring glory and honor to your name . We thank you and we worship you this morning . Blessed be your name , brother James , on the way hand over to you .
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