THANKFULNESS

SUNDAY SERVICE JAN 31ST 2016 BY REV. OWEN WAFULA Thanksgiving has two parts: Thanks: We come to thank God Give: We come to give back to God So we come into the presence of God to do both. If you don’t do so the devil can easily redirect you and you get an ungrateful heart. You henceforth start blaming others and complaining. This is not from God. A discontented person becomes the devils target. There are things the devil makes them look attractive and if you have an ungrateful heart, you fall prey. Its always good to remember to give thanks. No one can give thanks if they have a short memory. If you give someone something and they cant remember, they can never say thank you. And if they come next time, since they dint remember to say thank you, you may not give them. There are people with short memories that they cant remember what god has done for them 1 Chronicles 16:1-36 Points to note on Good thankfulness 1. Remember what God has done The Israelites at the red sea forgot what God had done. Moses told them the Lord who had brought them out of Egypt would deliver them. God has seen you through 2015, what is it that is making you afraid in 2016? He shall surely see you through. God made a way through the red sea, they got to the desert, no food, no water and they started murmuring again for they had a short memory. We are alive today because God has kept us. Remember what God has done for other people. Dissatisfaction comes the moment we shift attention from what we have to what we don’t have, when you stop thinking of things you have to things you don’t have. Numbers 11:4-6 When God gives us something, He protects it but when man gives us something, that has an end. Though the Israelites had manna (food of the angels) they still complained and longed for food they ate in Egypt. They forgot that they had to pay for it with hard labour. Learn to be careful. 2. Telling others about what God has done Give a personal testimony of what God has done. For the bible tells us they overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. 1 Chronicles 16:8-9, Psalms 105:1-4, Leviticus 7:2 Chronicles 16:8-9, Psalms 105:1-4, Leviticus 7:28-38 You have to personally bring the sacrifice to the Lord. By that you will be publicly declaring what God has done. Take time to personally communicate your thanks to God and others who have done you good. 3. Show God’s glory to others 1 Chronicles 16:10,24-25,28,29-34 Publish His glorious deeds among the nations. God has done us a lot that we need to tell others, people will get saved Acts 3:4-13 Peter took the opportunity to publicize the glorious God. If you are grateful to what God has done, show His glory to other people. Giving praise and gratitude brings glory to God for we have been created to glorify Him. 4. Offering gifts of self, time and resources Romans 12:1 You yourself become a sacrifice to God Hannah asked for a son and promised to give the child to God. She lived to fulfill her promise Most people make vows but never fulfill them. Lets give ourselves, time as a sacrifice to God. For theres no valuable thing we can give to someone other than time. If God quantifies what he does for us, even if we sell our whole generation we can never pay back. There will be no great overflow until we are thankful to God Proverbs 3:9, 1 Chronicles 29:9, Exodus 25:5 1Chronicles 16:8-9, 29,37 5. Give offerings of resources God has blessed us with material things. Share them and serve the Lord with gratitude.

Sunday service 17th Jan 2016 Pastor Owen Wafula Galatians 2:20, 5:24 - When Jesus hung on the cross, he did away with the old man. The flesh was crucified. - Those who are with Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passion and desire. - The man of sin does not live in us. He was settled once and for all. Jesus Christ becomes our new man, he becomes everything. This is what God expects from us as His children. He becomes our king and the work of a king is to rule or control his domain. Indeed if He is Lord in our lives, what He declares happens - We struggle because we do not know who we are. We fall in to sin because we do not know what dwell in us, we don’t know who is in control of our lives, we are attracted by simple things the devil holds n this leads us into sin. - However along with this dwelling in our lives, the natural man is in us, the self in us. We love ourselves; we want the best for ourselves. The natural person remains even when the old man is done away with, the free will to choose what we want to do. - Self exists in every Christian. David was to be in the battlefield but saw a naked woman , the natural man comes up and orders the lady to be brought. He had pleased God, He worshipped, loved God but look at what he did, self choosing to do what he wants to do. All of us choose to do things because we want to them, it is my choice. The natural person is there. God did away with the sinful man but the natural person is there. This is what God encounters in us. Once we get saved God faces away the natural man and starts dealing with the sinful man. - When we get to the point of asking God what He wants us to do, we are about to be saints. - Case study: Jacob - Jacob knew the intention of God in his life because the mother knew it. The bible says the older shall serve the younger. But these people took it upon themselves to do what God had planned to do. Most of us don’t wait for God to show us how to do things but we take it and do as our strength. Saul was to go to war but went against the will of God. He became inpatient, the self in him pushed him to light the fire, Smuel came in saw what saul had done and asked him what have u done? Haven’t you been instructed? And he said Samuel you had delayed and the philistines were approaching, Self can drive us against God. Saul did the right thing but he was not the one to do it. It is the self, natural man that pushed him. We find proud in natural man. - Jacob and his mother did the will of God but in the wrong way. We need to be careful so that we don’t fall victim of this. Jacob almost lost his life because of doing things the wrong way. - God does not only hate sin but the natural person. The devil tested jesus in three areas. Jesus was not a sinner though. He had mastered the natural person in him, he did not give in. These are same areas that Christians are tested. - Our eyes are attracted to things, that’s the natural man - God’s dealing with us on the natural man area areas God deals with 2corinthians 13:14 - God is confronting the natural person in us to bring us to the position of weakness that Christmas so that we can give our natural person to him for Him to take full control. - By us choosing to forgive people may appear weakness in the eyes of people but before God it is great power. The position we take may appear weak but we are strong in the Lord. This is because we have given full control to the Lord. We allow Him to work on our behalf and men will see that we are strong. There’s not point to proof because our Lord proved it on the cross and that is enough. - Most times we plan and do things without consulting God. The natural man is progressively incapacitated until he seems dead when we read and act on the word of God. This is where we no longer live but Christ lives. - In Antioch, where people were first called Christians, the faithful ones were abused “these small Christ’s” because they lived like Christ and that’s why they were called Christians. Today we feel proud to be called Christians yet it cost people lives in the past. - Jacob went through so much until he was giving up. He was going to meet his brother Esau and dint know what would come out. God touched him and he changed both physically and spiritually. He became a completely different person for God to use. - Why would God touch us this way?? Paul teaches us that we are in Christ and Christ in us. We invite Christ publicly when we got saved; Christ brings a difference in our lives. The reality in the outside affects the inside. - What happens to us like loving people we never expected, it’s not by our work but by the Holy spirit. When you allow Christ to do that, he will do it. The spirit brings discipline in you through outwards circumstances that lead formation of Christ in us. He works in us and allows Christ’s character to form in us - Galatians 4:19 - When Christ is formed inside us we will automatically reflect his character. There will be no struggle, so that we live a life that is in a new sense derived from him. - Once Christ is formed inside me, the life that I live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God. The time we are living is the time of the Holy Spirit. Everything that God does is by His Spirit. He brings the character of Christ to be formed in us. Hebrews 12:5-11 - God disciplines those he loves for our own good and we become partakers of His holiness. For He says be Holy for I am Holy. For without Holiness no man shall see God. We have to attain the discipline of God to attain his character of Holiness so that it can be revealed in us.

CALLED TO BE BLESSED

Welcome to our Sunday service with pastor Owen Wafula . Our message today is called to be blessed which is a continuation from last weekend message Gen 12:1-3 God called Abraham and his life was changed. When God called Moses, he sent him to Egypt and by the time he came back he was a changed person. when God calls us, our lives can never be the same. He has called us because He has great plans for us. He told Abraham get out of your own and go to the country am sending you for I will bless you and make you a blessing to other people. The nations will know I have blessed you. Those who bless you will be blessed and those who curse you will be cursed. God has called you from your current situations to make you a different person, for you to do extra ordinary things. He recognizes you as His son. When God calls you, He calls you while you are alone, He wants to change you. God called Abraham when he was with Lot and that's why He dint reveal His plans to him. Who are you carrying along that God cannot fulfill His plans in your life? You must release them as Abraham did. Gen 13:14 And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted, lift you, eyes and look north, south, east and west...all the land you see I will give to you and your offspring.......God caused difference between Abram and Lot's servants until they separated. Abram gave Lot first opportunity to choose where he wants. A Christian should have such a heart. Though Abram was an elder but he gave Lot an opportunity to choose. Lot chose the most productive land that was Sodom and Gomorrah. There are things in this world that may look so good but leads to destruction. God told Abram after he parted with Lot, lift up your eyes. Jeremiah 29:11 God thinks well of us, good plans and a future we hope for. God told Abram all the land you see will be given to you and your offspring. God is ready to bless us, the business people.It is the season for you to be blessed, to expand in your businesses. What you are doing now, from there lift your eyes and see what is better than what you are doing

What you see is what God will give you. When God has blessed you, people will call you father or mother Abraham lived in a tent, he was not settler, he built tents. God had not given Him the land though He promised his descendants to reign in it. When God blesses you, do not be selfish. Abraham worshipped the Lord. Once blessed, remember to worship the Lord. God bless you and keep you safe

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What is in your hands??

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25th October 2015 service Bro Kevin Sitati Exodus 4:6 Every time we throw something on the ground we are planting something.God asked Moses what he was holding in his hands. Moses did not know that what he was holding in his hand was his miracle. We should not look at what we have in our hands and despise it not knowing it's our miracle. Everything God has given us is important. Everything we see in the physical has happened in the spiritual. The word of God is the bread of life and so did Jesus say he is the bread of life. Food in the natural to us, we eat atleast two or three times in a day. The same way we have to eat is the same way we have to read the word of God because it is the bread of life. We must eat it all times.. The word of God is medicine that we must take and finish the dose. Some people want instant healing and that's not the case. Exercise your patience while sticking on the word of God. Once God says He will bless you start confessing. Where the enemy is fighting us is on mind. Satan testifies to us when things don't work. Yet in the word of God He says He has sent His word to heal all our diseases so learn to read all scriptures to get your breakthrough. God can never do anything on earth unless we give Him a chance. Satan took authority from Adam, the authority that God had given him when he convinced him to eat the forbidden fruit. Eve meditated on what the devil told her. When we hold on to the word of God we believe it, we receive it and then we have it. When we receive in the spiritual it manifests in the physical that's when we have it. Most of us are left believing and that's how we loose our healing. The bigger percentage of the body's roles is done by hands. Many achievements in life is because of hands. God is using spiritual realm to explain the physical. God has inscribed us on His palm. That's why it is wrong to discipline a child using your hands. The bible commands us to use a rod. The hand in the spiritual has many things. Ephesians 6:10, the shield is in the hand to protect so that you are not killed. The sword is to attack and is in the hands, to finish your enemy Picture the word of God as food. You use your hand to put food in the mouth. Joshua 1:8 . The book shall not depart your mouth...the word is chewed and when fully digested moves to heart. When the word of God gets to heart it transforms it. Romans 1:2 . The word moves to the mind where it is renewed. Everything good gotten is through the mind. The word is then pumped into your spirit then back to your hands where you walk with the ready sword to attack the enemy. Faith is not used, it is lived by. The just shall live by faith. We are living by common sense and using faith. Immediately you begin to feel you loose faith. When you put in fear faith escapes. Faith separates facts from truth .we dwell on facts, the facts is what we see. The truth is what we believe. The fact is I am poor but the truth is God will provide... Faith is not faith if it is not talking. You must speak because things are happening in the spiritual realm. Heb 11:6 Nehemiah 8:10 Without faith it is impossible to please God The joy of the lord is my strength How do I receive faith......faith comes by hearing the word of God. Hearing is a continuous tense. Faith has therefore to be heard everyday for us to develop it Where do I develop it...from us, supernatural, other people preaching. If you have never heard from yourself that's where you begin to fail. Hear from yourself 100 percent . When you hear the word of God you begin to speak Faith that comes does not benefit you until it goes. If you don't speak it it will never benefit you. You can have what you say if you stop saying what you have. God bless you and keep you safe

Offering The Sacrifice Hebrews 13:15 by Rev. Violet Wafula

Hebrews 13:15 Offering the sacrifice is what you bring before the Lord. It must be something you value and He must accept it. When we do this, there's something we are getting in return, so that God can meet our needs. Sometimes it's not just to get in turn but it's worth before God. We are to offer ourselves as living sacrifice before God. What is a sacrifice of praise? There's a diffe,fence between offering a sacrifice of praise and praise. We have so much to praise God for that there shud be a spontaneous praise from our mouths. There are things as children of God when we have a right relation with God praise should come automatically through out. Our praise involves thanksgiving, we minister to God in praise for all things. However the sacrifice of praise is different. It is not the praise we offer because everything is right but it's offered to God when we do not even feel to praise. We need to come before God offering sacrifice of praise so that even when things are not working the way we want, we must lift our lips and says haleluhyia because God knows all our needs. Forget about ourselves, concentrate on Him. It's not that we are great or give expressions of our feelings but we are praising God by faith, in obedience for who He is and not what He has done. we praise the Lord despite of what we are going through because it is a requirement. This does not come easily but it's costly though it brings light and God loves to revive the sacrifice of praise, when we do this heaven is moved and we get the breakthrough and we can still receive a miracle . This is a continued sacrifice. David offered sacrifices of praise to God and said I will bless the Lord at all times despite any circumstance. He humbled himself before the lord and He said I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me. We go through many fears and it's only when we offer sacrifice of praise that we get breakthrough. It is not cheap, not easy and is not sentimental praise. It must cost you whether in season or out of season, tell your heart despite what am going through, I'll still praise Him. We praise in those times when the Lord give the and take the Way. Job 1:21 Most Christians perish for lack of knowledge. When things happen in our lives, we should not complain but offer sacrifices of praise so that we can overcome the obstacles. There are times we loose jobs, are in wilderness, God always provides miraculously . The things that happen in our lives, we should not take them for granted but it's God performing miracles in our lives so never tire to offer scarification of praise. Sometimes God seem to be far , but His grace is always sufficient and therefore start offering sacrifices and heavens will open and your blessings will come through. You don't know when your blessings will come so always be prepared. Sometimes you have nothing to praise God for but offer it. Do your part to get something from God. Your natural feelings, friends may discourage you and so is your heart. Start offering sacrifices of praise and the lord will come for you. The devil says what do you have to praise God for? If you listen to him you fall into his trap . God still sits on His throne and He hears what you go through. He does not change in any way. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. This is an audible praise, it is the fruit of our lips. Our lips produce sound to the Lord, to proclaim what you want. The sacrifice of praise is something we speak out so that Saran, the people around you, your heart can hear it and so are your ears able to hear what your lips are saying. When everyone is aware of what you say, God hears us. This is the utmost importance and it touches the heart of God. Paul and Silas offered a sacrifice of praise which Acts 16:25 . They had not committed any crime but we're spreading good news. As human beings, there are things that happen to us. If you are doing the right thing, you find yourself where you are not supposed to be. In those circumstances what do we do? Continue offering sacrifice of praise as Paul and Silas God will always make a way in the wilderness. He knows us by name. People of God around the world ar suffering for their testimonies of Jesus Christ but continue to offer the sacrifice of praise. God has given us freedom of worship in kenya, are we making use of it before it's too late. We need to use it to equip ourselves in time of need. Sacrifice of prizes can be done through Jesus Christ. It is only Christ who can make this kind of praise be done, he is glorified and makes God come to meet our needs. Every time a sacrifice of praise is offered, Jesus is glorified. It is giving of thanks to His name. God wants to bring us into a place we can sincerely give thanks always for all things Ephesians 5:20 to the Father.nwhether in difficult situations, we can only do this if we believe in the sovereignty of God and if we know all things work for good of those who love the Lord. Romans 8:28 . Everything that happens to us, the Lord understands. How to offer the sacrifice 1. Decide that you are going to give a sacrifice of praise: things may not be going the way you wished, price God under all circumstances and by faith believe for provision. Provision depends on the kind of faith you have 2. Begin to do it right now. This is applying faith 3. If you find yourself in difficulties, order yourself to praise the Lord. Despite what is happening, offer sacrifice of praise and the loved will come. 4. Begin to do it by faith. Apply faith in everything. Be persistent 5. Having began, continue praising Him and our miracles will come. Let your praises ascend higher and higher and let the spirit of praise overtake you. God bless you and keep you safe as you continue to bring a sacrifice of praise to the Lord

Living an Exemplary life : continuation with Rev Wafula

Today’s message is a continuation on love on the topic Living an Exemplary life. Paul urged Timothy to be a good example through speech, love, faith, life and purity. Love; when you love there is nothing you cannot do for those you love. Jacob loved Rachel and had to work for seven years to earn her. But he was given Leah instead of Rachel since Leah was the eldest. He had to work for another seven years to get Rachel because he loved her. The love we have between us and God is the covenant love ( an agreement between two people that cannot be broken. There is a seal in this case the blood of Jesus) 1kings 8:23 2chronicles 6:6-14' Nehemiah 1; 32. God keeps His covenant to a thousand generations. There is also covenant love between brethren. Romans 13:8-10 Paul says owes nobody a debt except the debt of love. We owe each other a debt of love. God expects us to love everyone as He loved us. Romans 13. Paul writes and says be an example in life. Live the life that others can see Christ in you because you are a representative of Christ Jesus. Live and speaks that those who don't know God will come to know God because of you. Let your life be a challenge to the rest. We can purpose to live lives to are exemplary so that the world will copy from us and not us copying from the world. As a person what are your values, what can people look at and define your by. Can they say this is a faithful or sincere person? Your values will determine your life. If you say I will be a man of integrity that means what you say and do in private is what you say and do in public. Maintain integrity wherever you are and whatever you do. Philippians 1:20-24,27 . Come what may, we must leave for Christ Paul dies for the values he had in Christ. What values do we have? Are they exalting Jesus Christ? What is your purpose in life, what do you want to fulfill? What is it that can stand out in you to be a testimony in Christ? Many of us live a purposeless life, that's why you find people moving up and down. Many Christians have nothing to achieve. When it is all done and finished, what will you present to God? What do you have that you can present if Jesus came? What shall we lack from you when you are gone? Someone says the greatest tragedy is life without a purpose. You live for 20 years and gone, we try to trace what you did other than your family and you. God has a purpose for each one of us. God told Jeremiah I chose you while in your mother’s womb and have a pointed you be a prophet die.

Acts 26:19 Paul says he received a vision from heaven and given his purpose in life. What are you living for? Your life must be challenging to others...........Romans 9:11' Philippians 2:2. God bless