11th 30-Day Challenge June 2026 - Day 25/30 - Get your umbrella ready

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Simple Instructions, Big Miracles

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Um, now let's just welcome the Holy Spirit to lead us and to guide us.

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Thank God for what He's doing. You know, as we said there at the beginning, uh, the Prophet Elisha told um Naman, he told him, Go dip yourself in the river and damp in that river, Jordan, seven times. You'll be fine, you'll be okay. Now he stands there and he says, You know, what do you mean? I thought you would come out and lay your hands on me, on where the leprosy is and proclaim healing upon me. And Naaman was so upset. He said, What? Are there no rivers in Damascus that I would come all this way for you to take me to the Jordan River, that muddy river? And he was about to go back and miss his miracle. And then his attendant spoke to him and said, If he had told you to do a big thing, wouldn't you have done it? If he had told you to fight or to pay a huge price, would you not have done it? So, how does it take for you to just go into the river and just stamp yourself there seven times? Wow, you've come this far. Why would you miss your miracle? And you know, the things of God are so simple. They are so simple that even the wise miss them. Say, no, if you want to believe and you'll be saved, just say, believe, open your heart and welcome the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart and trust him for your life, and you are born again. The Spirit of God will come upon you. This you are born again. That is it. It's that simple. You don't have to struggle. If people had been told, you know, to buy salvation and to be assured of salvation, you're going to take um, you know, um billion Kenya shillings and bring it to the priest and must be packaged in this and deliver it. I'm telling you, people will be paying. There will be a lot of cues on who to pay that billion to receive salvation. That the Lord Jesus says, hmm, the things of Christ, no, they are so simple. Just believe. And you know, many times, brethren, we can miss God's presence, we can miss God's blessings because if the things are so simple. He says, if you're planted in my house, he promised that you'll flourish. He said, just get planted in God's house. Get planted in God's house, and I promise you, you'll flourish, you grow exponentially. It's that simple. You want to grow, get planted in God's house. Uh, because that's the environment in which God has created for us to flourish. And I've never met anybody that's planted in God's house that never flourishes. Absolutely not. And if we are told, okay, for you to flourish, you need to write some theses and you need to do this exam. People would be curious to write that exam. I said, No, do you want to flourish? No, just get planted in God's house. It's so simple. So, brethren, the things of God they are so simple that we can miss them. The prophet Elijah and Elisha, they have been walking together, and Elijah is about to be came to the be taken away. And Elisha wants to get something from him. He said, I'm not leaving you. And they go from Jericho to the Jordan River, they cross, and finally, Elijah tells Elisha, do you want to get a double portion of your anointing? It's so simple. If you see me go, that's it. If you see me go, it's yours. You don't have to do anything. If you see me go, it is yours. And many times, brethren, we can miss the things of God because they are so simple. Hallelujah.

Morning Pledge, Prayer, And Identity

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Anyway, I thought I should just mention that because we have been doing these breathing exercises every morning and they look so simple. I find them so powerful in our work. Let's do our daily pledge this morning. I am creative, I am a compassionate spiritual being, currently living or existing in physical form. I am wonderfully made, I am valuable, I am perfect, and I am unique. God's divine plan is for me to be connected in a loving relationship with Him and all living things. And I am not late. There's a reason behind everything that has happened in my life up to this moment. I may not fully understand it now, but I choose to trust God. And surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Say amen to that powerful declaration we've been doing every morning. Let's do a daily prayer. God, I thank you for my blessed life, this magnificent universe, and this beautiful new day. We ask that you please bless all living things today with your love, with your grace, and with your abundance. May you flow to me and through me, even though joy, peace, purpose, and prosperity during this brand new day that you've given unto me. Amen to that. What a beautiful prayer. Make it personal. Let it come from the bottom of your heart. Let's do our mantras this morning. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. We declare with Paul, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And I'm living on purpose and I am on schedule. And we have recently added the other one. I am worthy by nature. We declare that again. I am worthy by nature. Let the devil get mad. We know who we are in Christ. We are worthy by nature. It's in our nature to be worthy. The same way that a lion is born with this instinct of hunting. You never find a lion struggling to hunt. The spirit of hunting is in a lion, is by nature born to hunt. And that's exactly what we are. We are worthy by nature. Say amen to that. Our key truth again this morning. Power in the physical world is measured by how much you can lift up. That in the spiritual world, power is measured by how much you can let go. And this study challenges about letting go of habits, of you know, mindsets that have not served us, that have held us back, uh, that have stopped our growth, made us stagnate. Um, our way of speaking, things that have the way we speak, the way we handle, the way we relate, uh, things that we need to let go because they have not served us. And every day we have been being challenged with something new. And today uh we're looking forward to another amazing uh teaching, an amazing truth that will prepare us uh to move forward. Uh, for indeed, our best days are ahead. Say amen to that.

Generosity Mindset And Seeking First

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Uh banner's mentality, Deuteronomy 15:10. This scripture we have repeated it, it's become a memory for us. Give generously to them and do so without aggrudging heart. Then, because of this, the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. Part of this that day challenge, we pray as we come to the graduation is coming up on June the 30th. God is going to produce in us people that are generous, that are sensitive to the people around us. Because if we have that mindset and embrace that mindset, we know that everything that we ever put our hand on, it shall be blessed. Everything, not some things, everything that you put your hand on, it shall be blessed, and he'll bless the work of your hands. You know, you can hmm, you can do work, you can do work, but he says the work of your hands will be blessed. The Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. And that's what we need in everything that we do, the blessings of God, in everything that you ever be able to touch, and that comes when we develop your pandas mentality. Matthew 6 33. Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness. All these things will be given to you as well. This has been a constant scripture in all our ten challenges that we have done, and now the 11th one. Because it opens the door to everything. Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. And I think every day you have to keep resetting yourself. What am I doing here? Am I seeking God's kingdom? Or am I seeking my own kingdom? Am I pursuing my own interests? Because that's how the world works. The world pursues things, and in the spiritual world which we live in, we pursue God, and the things pursue us. We pursue God, we pursue his righteousness, and he promises that these things will now follow us. They will follow us and even overtake us. In 1 Corinthians 2 9, we say, however, as is written, what no eye has seen, what no ears had, and what no human mind has conceived, the things God has prepared for those who love him. To seeing the extraordinary is continuing to continue to love God, to love God every single day. Wanting to get deeper and deeper in him, loving him more and more and more and more because of who he is in our lives, because he's real, he's so real in us. You know, when God is real, when Christ is real in your life, nobody can take away from that. I know him. I talked to him yesterday. I've seen him in my life. You can never persuade me out of that which is real, and that comes out when we love him deeply. And I pray this 30-day challenge, brethren, will usher us into a new relationship with him, a new walk with him. We're going to fall in love with Christ over and over again and again and again. Because when we are in love with him, we want to be in his presence. When we are in love with him, we want to be where his people are. You know, when you're in love with Christ, you're going to be in love with people. You want to be in the fellowship of Christ, God's people. That's what we need today in God's church. Hallelujah. And 1 Samuel 10, 6 to 10, size, the Bible says the Spirit of the Lord will come powerfully upon us, and you'll prophesy with him, and you'll be changed into a different person. The Spirit of God comes into our lives to change us completely. God wants us changed, transformed. He's not coming through some improvement. You know, you can do what you call a house improvement, where you, you know, you change this, you change the window, you change this, but you still leave um, you know, the floor, the way you found it. You do patches, you know, when when when God and the spirit of God comes into our lives, he's not coming through some house improvement, it's coming for a complete overhaul. A complete overhaul. You will turn around everything. It turns around your attitude, it turns around your relationships, he turns around the way you talk, the way you think, the way you spend your money, you take all your relationships. You know, it is just a complete makeover, not some improvement. He wants to turn us around. When the Spirit of God comes, he turns us around, and we become different. But that song. That's what he does when he comes into our lives. And he says, uh, for Saul, it was so traumat, you know, so it was so dramatic. The Bible says, as Saul turned to live somewhere, God changed Saul's heart, and all these signs were fulfilled that day. Um, and when he and his son arrived at Gibeah, a session of prophets met him. The Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he joined in their prophesying. Saul was looking for donkeys. He had started off looking for donkeys until he met the prophet someone. And and we'll be exactly doing that, we'll be pursuing our things, we'll be busy doing our things that God has a plan for us. We pray this 30 days challenge. God will illuminate the plan that he has for us. That the the um the purpose that he has for you will become clear. Then once we identify that purple, the spirit of God comes upon your life, you'll be changed and you're going to live an extraordinary life. You came in looking for a donkey and you go out a king. That's just how Christ works. Like this. Like we are praying. This study day challenge will be here. Pless, we are passions will be ignited, our purpose will be reignited, we get reconnected again to God. And as we graduate here on the 29th, on the 30th of June, of June, we'll be walking into a brand new relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. Say amen

Health Disciplines And Challenge Recap

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to that. And now remind ourselves of our health disciplines. Do take time and connect with nature, make it be deliberate about it. I was reading another story the other day of the impact that nature has on us. And I didn't I didn't connect the two because that was a completely different story. They were talking about the nature, the impact nature has got on us, um, the impact that mountains has got on us, the impact that rivers have got on us, the impact that trees have got on us, the impact that you know the birds of the air have got on us. Um, you know, there's something that that the that that God connects to us when we spend time with nature. And so make it your ambition and be deliberate about it. Let's not get stuck in the concrete jungle that our cities are, but escape occasionally. Escape into the wilderness where you connect with God, we connect with nature, and there's something that's very, very great about it. And take a lot of water, that's good advice. I'm sure we have doctors here. They will tell you a lot of that. Take a lot of water, click order, ten glasses, and let's take care of our bodies. Let's not wait until the doctors confront us. You know, from today, you're gonna have to stop taking that, stop taking this. No, no, let's do it ourselves. Our body is our license to be here on earth. Let us purpose be a blessing to everyone. Amen and amen. And with that, let's dive in into today's lesson. Wow, we have learned how to connect to God. We we we know we we can plug in and connect to God, connect to source where our energy comes from. We said when we get connected to God, our purpose begins to be revealed. Until you connect the kettle to the electric power, it can never boil water for you. And until we are connected to God, we can never be able to live the purpose that God has created us. So we've learned how to connect to God, we've learned how to uh purify our hearts, and we've written those forgiveness letters. We have released people that hurt us badly, we've written forgiveness letters to them, and we continue to write, continue to forgive, continue to live a clean slate. We've learned about the power of meditation, how we can, you know, we meditate, where we disconnect from everything, and we are in this state where we are connecting, we are one with God, and then from there we transition into prayer, and you know, it just opens the miracles. We've changed our language. We don't speak the way we used to speak anymore. We are careful when we use the word I am, we do it positively. I'm powerful, I'm anointed of God, I'm blessed of the Lord, I'm the head, not the tail. I am you know gracious, I'm kind, I'm loving. You know, that's the language that we have embraced, and I pray that it should be permanent. Hey, it shall be permanent, it shall be permanent what the Lord has done for me. It shall be permanent. We pray that that language will be permanent in our lives. We have learned the power of gratefulness, how to be grateful. We have decorated our desires and removed the desires that are not aligned with God's purpose, um, those egoic desires. We have you know done them. We continue to write our desire list and you know, and and and and decode those desires. We have done visioning. Um, we've looked at um, you know, um metabolization. How do you keep a clean slate? Um, here we have learned living on purpose. We've talked about the map. What map are you using? Uh, that those are all the lessons we have learned here. We've learned how to remove bad habits in the subject of habit elevation. We've known how to receive healing, um, you know, how we can revisit the things in our lives that are, you know, that hurt us before in the past, and then we're able to really you know relieve them and actually change them. Um, you know, that's been uh a very, very powerful lesson how to receive healing from the things that have happened in our lives. And I encourage you to go again and listen to that teaching and and and just practice it so that we can heal. Um, we've looked at our dream life manifesto, we've looked at the self-esteem, self-image, and self-projection. We know we are and we are not. It's been an amazing 24 um, you know, for 24 days. And the last three days we've been spending talking about money, wealth, financial freedom, and I believe we are not the same anymore.

Learning And Development As Readiness

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So today we want to dive in and tackle what we call learning and development. Learning and development. The Bible says in Proverbs 18:15 the heart of the design acquires knowledge for the ears of the wise, seek it out. And the question here, or the subject that we are trying to address here, is are you ready? What is your wrong in receiving the miraculous? I think the two stories. Um the first one is this person that had had been stuck and been stuck in a flood, you know, it had rained, and um his house was marooned, and he climbs out of the roof, and the water is flooding all over, as you saw it the other day when there were floods, and he's stuck on the roof, water is all over him, and he's praying to God and saying, God, come and rescue me. Come and rescue me, God rescue me. And then somebody comes with a boat to rescue him. And he tells him, you know, jump into the boat, I rescue you from here. The man says, No, no, no, I'm not jamming to that boat. God is coming, rescue me. So the man with the boat goes, another one comes with a raft to rescue him. I tell him, Come, jump into this raft, I get you out of this situation. He refuses. He said, No, I'm waiting for God to come and rescue me. Then finally, the government sends a helicopter to come and try to pull him out of there. And the helicopter comes, drops a rope under this man, and and you know, they tell him, get all of the rope, we'll lift you up and take you to dry ground. And this man refuses. He says, No, no, I'm waiting for God to rescue me. I'm waiting for God to come and rescue me. And the helicopter goes and the water is getting you know higher and higher, and the man is swept away by the water and he drowns. He drowns and he dies. And then he goes to heaven, and when he arrives into heaven, he tells God, Why did you not rescue me? I thought you said you are my friend. How come you didn't come and rescue me? And then God looks at him and he's not. I send a boat, you refused. I send a raft, you refused. I even sent someone in a helicopter and you refused. And that's why you drowned. I sent all those people. How did you expect me to come and rescue you with all those people I sent? Why didn't you not take advantage? So the point here is that as for us to experience the miraculous from God, there's our part. There's some part, there's something we need to do. And then God does the other one. It's a partnership. He'll send the helicopter, come and rescue you. But you have to get all of the rope so that the helicopter can lift you up to save ground. He'll send the boat over. But there's something that you have to do yourself to jump into the boat to get rescued. So God will send, God is there, the divine is there. He's extending help. He's telling, Hey, my daughter, I'm here for you. I want to do it for you. I want you to succeed, I want you to make it. There's something that you have to do to activate that rescue from God. And I believe what we are learning today is part of that. We have a role to play. What is our role? What's the role of God? Is there's this divine partnership, divine partnership with God that you have to get used to it? Where you move one step, God moves four, you move two steps, God moves five. And it is that divine partnership is powerful. Hallelujah. And learning and development is one of those. Are you ready for your miracle? Are you ready? Uh, we've been, you know, looking at the dream life, the vision statement, the things that we want God to do in our lives. And the question we ask you today is can you Ready? What do you need to do to get ready? The second story that we've shared here also before is the one of this farmer, these farmers in this farming belt, farming region that were experiencing a drought. I know

Faith Looks Like Preparation

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you have been to you know the farming regions. If you go to places like Kitale, um this is these are areas that really grow food in a large scale. Um, whether it's maize and wheat and whatever, they grow in a large scale. And it's one of those farming families, uh, areas, and you were experiencing a severe drought. And so the the the leaders called together, they went to the pastor in the local church and he said, Hey, we want to arrange a prayer meeting to pray for rain. Uh, we're having this drought, we have never seen this drought before, and we want to come together and pray for rain. And the pastor says, Wow, yeah, that's a good idea. Let's come together and let's let's let's pray. And then they set up the date for the prayer meeting, and that day the church is packed. People they come in from all over that area. They come in to pray for rain and they pack the church. The pastor is so excited. I've never seen such a number of people in church, and they are so, so excited to come and pray for God to release the miracle of rain. And as they begin the meeting, something pricks the pastor. He says, Listen, before we start this prayer meeting, you have all come here to pray for rain. You have all come in such large numbers. Some of you have not been in the church here before, and you are you have come to pray for rain. Yeah, of course they say, Yeah, we are here, this drought is big. We expect God to move and do a miracle. But the preacher or this local pastor says, I don't see any one of you. People, you're not carrying umbrellas, you're not carrying umbrellas, and you have come to pray for rain, and you expect it's going to rain, but none of you is I'm not seeing umbrellas put outside because after we pray, you are expecting rain. So I expect you to start preparing to live in rain because we are praying for rain. And he says you're not ready. If your people really believed that after we pray today, it's going to rain, you will have all hampered with jackets, overcoats, raincoats, um, umbrellas, ready to receive rain. And that story is I would say basic as it is, it reflects a lot of a very important principle. We have been preparing for our dream life, our vision. We have worked on all this um, you know, uh um vision, the dream life manifesto, things that we like to be, we'd like to do. And the question today we are saying is for those things to manifest, you need to look at that dream life you have put, and then ask the question if this was to happen, what do I need to have to be ready for it? Basically, you ask you the question, what is my umbrella? If I'm expecting rain, then I need to have an umbrella, I need to have a jacket. Okay, that's the environment that I'm going to live. So you need to look at your dream life, the things that you have you've written down there, and say, Hey, I would like to have this, I would like to have this and create what we call a billion dollar, a billion bucket lists, a billion bucket releases, and say, if I'm expecting to become a father, am I ready to become a father? What do I need? What skill do I need to have to become a father? If you're expecting to be a wife, are you ready? Are you ready to be a wife? You're expecting a husband. Are you ready? Are you prepared to be a to be a wife? Are you prepared to be a father? You're expecting believing God for a miracle of a children. Are you ready to be a parent? Are you ready? So in Proverbs 19:2, the Bible says, Desire without knowledge is not good. And he said, How much more will hasty feet miss the way? So, desire without knowledge. So, we say we need to arm ourselves, we need to develop, we need to learn and develop and be ready to receive the miracle that we are writing down. If that dream life was to come true, what do you need? And that is the that is your role. That is your that's your your role. And you know, before I move on to that one, Jesus in Luke chapter 6, verses 12 to 16, he says, one of those days Jesus went out onto a mountainside to pray and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose 12 of them, whom he also designated apostles. And you can see the names written there. Jesus knew he was here for a short time. And so, because he knew he was here for a short time, he prepares himself, he prepares his ministry, he knew I need disciples, I need people I can take that which is in me and put in them so that once I'm finished, they can continue with this ministry. He prepared himself, and brethren, today we are saying that you need to be ready for your miracle. If you're not ready, God cannot release that thing into your hands because it will destroy you. It's like if you have a child and and we all love our children and you know, as much as we love, but the a child walks out to you and he says, You know, dad, I need you to buy for me a car. The guy is only 12 years old, he doesn't even know the value of a car, but he said, No, dad, I need a car. I need a car. Would you buy for me a car? As much as you can afford to buy that car, you not give a 12-year-old kid a car. Why? That car will kill him, that car will destroy him. That car will take will is likely to short circuit his life. So, as a loving father, you cannot allow, you cannot release that car as much as is in your ability to give the car, but you cannot release the car to a child because it's going to destroy him. And you see, it's the same thing. God wants us to be ready to handle our miracles, the vision, the purpose, the things that God wants to do, He wants you to be ready. And that's the divine part where I you you do your part, and when you do that part, then God does the rest. I think we've said it here in our notes. Are you ready for your miracle? How would your life look like when your dream life comes through? You need to go and look at that dream life and ask yourself, how would my life look like if this came true? What do you need to be ready? You can't have it if you can't handle it. So the moment you prepare yourself and you are ready, God moves in. The evidence of your faith is your preparation. You know, faith is the currency of heaven. So if you have faith, then you're going to prepare. You're going to be ready, you're going to bring your umbrella. You're going to invest in yourself, you're going to be ready so that God can then do the rest. And

Build Skills, Wisdom, And Capacity

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so this morning, as you look at your dream life, vision, and the things that you want God to do for your life, the question is what skills do you need? What skills do you need for that dream life to come true? Do you need to invest more in your skills? Your competences. Maybe you are believing God for that top management job in your office, but are you ready for it? You know how to handle people. Can you handle people? Do you understand how to read financial statements? How you're going to run a business if you don't know how to read and analyze financial statements? You know how to present. How are you going to handle the board? If you cannot present. So you want the top job, you want the senior most job, then you need to build the capital, the capacity, the competences that you need. You prepare yourself. And once you are ready for it, God then releases it to you. You relationships. What relationships do you need to have to be able to handle your dream life? There are relationships that you need them to come into your life for you to be able to do what you do. And if you can build those relationships, then God will unleash that which you need. If you want to travel the world, say, Oh, yeah, me and my hand to travel the world. Do you have a passport? Do you have a passport? Because you cannot travel around the world when you have got no passport. You want believing God for a car? Do you have a driving license? Are you ready? Can you drive? Are you ready? So there are several things that we need to do. You want to become a billionaire. Do you know how to handle money? Do you know how to invest? Do you know the investment options? Do you understand taxation and law? Are you really ready to handle millions? Because God will not release something to you that will destroy you. So you need to build um uh you know a billion bucket list. Asking yourself, what skill, what competence do I need to build in me to be ready? And that is your part. That is the part that you have, um, you know, to be ready uh for the miracle to come. And I believe what we have that divine does God does his bit, I do my bit, um, and we are stepping out in faith. It's like a rhythm here. You develop, you do one step, you do your part, God does his part, you continuously build, and um, you find yourself doing the extraordinary. If you can't handle it, then you can't have it. If you can't handle it, then you can't have it. God is very faithful, he cannot give you what you cannot handle. Is your cup big enough? Is your cup big enough? Or you're coming to God with a small cup. Is it big enough to handle what God has in store for you? What do you need to know? What knowledge out there do you need to have to prepare you for the things that God wants to do in your life? Brethren, day 25, it's all about building capacity. When you do your part and God does his part, um, then you find yourself constantly moving and growing. And before you realize you are living at a completely new new level. It's our part, it's God's part. It's a divine dance, almost like a rhythm. You have to learn, do your part. God does his part. You are taking one step, God moves you four steps, and it's that divine dance with him. And before you realize you are living in extraordinary level, brethren, by wisdom, house is built. It is through understanding it is established, and it's through knowledge that the rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. Three very important things. Wisdom builds the house. Understanding gets it established. Knowledge is what gets its rooms filled with rare and beautiful treasures. We need those three. We need wisdom, we need understanding, and we need knowledge. When we have that, our rooms will be filled with rare and beautiful treasures, and God Himself will receive all the glory in Jesus' name. Amen and amen and amen. You have a lot of exercise today. Make a list of 10 to 15 activities and knowledge you commit to learning to support your dream life. God take your workbook and say, What do I need to do? What 10, 15 things do I need to do that will help me achieve, support the dreams that I have and begin working on it. Make you know, target, say this month, this year, start working on it. It may take a little bit of time.