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3rd August 2026 JUBILEE REVIVAL DAY 1 - The Legacy Switch by PBC Senior Pastor, Rev. Ambrose Nyangao, EBS

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  1. Go ahead.

  2. Reverend Ambrose Alan Yungao has been the senior pastor of Parklands Baptist Church since 1992, prior to which he was the associate pastor since 1983.

  3. Under his shepherding, the church has grown in leaps and bounds to a current congregation membership of more than 10,000 members.

  4. He has served in various capacities and in many institutions, including as a board member at the International Leadership University, as chair of the board at Kenya Baptist Theological College, a board member of the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, a board member of TransWorld Radio, among others.

  5. Reverend Ambrose holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Biblical Languages from Washita Baptist University in Akadelphia, Arkansas, USA, and a Masters in Leadership Studies from International Leadership University.

  6. He is a writer, a motivational speaker, a mentor to many across Kenya and other parts of the world.

  7. His exhortation to us has been leaders read and readers lead, which he exemplifies in his life.

  8. In 2024, he was honored as a distinguished leader and awarded the Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear.

  9. The defining factor of this man of God is his humility, simplicity, great sense of humor, wisdom, and amazingly deep understanding of the word of God.

  10. Reverend Ambrose and his wife, Mata Khassandi, are blessed with three children, Kaleb, Lisa, and Sifa.

  11. He is also a grandfather.

  12. Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the Bishop of the City, Reverend Ambrose Nyangao.

  13. Look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor looking good.

  14. Better than yesterday.

  15. And tomorrow, this week, you'll shine in Jesus' name.

  16. Meta Meta.

  17. Sparkle sparkle.

  18. Shiny, shiny.

  19. Well a hand to the Lord.

  20. Please be seated.

  21. I don't know if the artist was an AI.

  22. But that is amazing.

  23. Let's appreciate that person.

  24. Amen.

  25. My brother Ruben Kigame, it's such a blessing to have you in the house.

  26. And uh you make me um think back many years back.

  27. Um, what a blessing.

  28. The Lord has allowed us to journey together to serve the kingdom, and we're still serving the kingdom.

  29. Why don't we appreciate Reuben and Cifa Voices?

  30. Amen.

  31. And uh thank you for pulling a first one on me.

  32. Uh that song He Lives is uh is um is in my heart, and we thank God that He could bring it to us.

  33. And thank you for the friends that you have brought to us.

  34. Your friends are our friends, amen.

  35. So we welcome you, we celebrate you big time.

  36. Let me take time to also well uh not welcome but um salute my wife Martha.

  37. Martha is in the house, amen, amen.

  38. Um my daughter-in-law is here with me.

  39. Good to see you, amen.

  40. Uh Caleb is somewhere online, and uh Alan Jr.

  41. Something special is already happening in the house from the time Reuben came and the team was singing.

  42. I sensed the presence of God was already in the house, and I believe that this week something special is going to happen to you, and that something special is going to happen like a switch, something is going to turn on.

  43. Recently, we had a countrywide blackout.

  44. We don't know what happened to Kenya Power and Lighting Corporation.

  45. But we want to thank God that there is a kingdom, power and lighting unlimited that comes from heaven, and that power is on tonight.

  46. So tell your neighbor the power is on tonight.

  47. When we turn on the switch, we'll not be disappointed because something will turn on.

  48. Something amazing.

  49. Fifty years we think about it, and sometimes people ask me, How does it feel to be in Paki for 50 years?

  50. Um, I don't think I have a feeling, I have just um an owe that God has been good to us, God has been faithful to us.

  51. 50 years is a long time, but 50 years is a key moment when God shifts situations and circumstances, and that is why in Leviticus 25, verse 10, the verse we've been releasing to us says, consecrate the 50th year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.

    Leviticus 25:10

  52. It shall be a jubilee for you, it shall be a jubilee for you, it shall be a jubilee for you.

  53. It shall be a jubilee for you.

  54. When we talk about the legacy switch, because that's the message I have tonight.

  55. God is the one who gives us legacies, God is the one who causes things to shift and trajectories to change and lives to be impacted.

  56. And this week is one of those weeks because God is releasing the legacy switch.

  57. I'll talk about five switches.

  58. Tell your neighbor there are five.

  59. Pastor Simon, I was planning to share 50 switches, but I realized in a meeting like this, 50 will take us up to midnight.

  60. And so I'm going, I removed the zero, and so we have five.

  61. But these are things that God does, these are encounters that God does, and in this season, God is going to connect with you.

  62. God is going to meet with us in amazing ways.

  63. One of the switches that happened to me that shifted my trajectory was when I was at Kenya Science Teachers College.

  64. I was there studying to be a teacher of physics and chemistry.

  65. The physics and chemistry that I failed seriously in form six.

  66. Tell your neighbor it is not over until God says it is over.

  67. Just as Maragai, what you need to know is that in form six, I got an F in chemistry.

  68. Not an F, I got an E.

  69. E.

  70. E.

  71. You know what that means.

  72. I got another E in physics.

  73. And then I got an F in mathematics.

  74. Yani, they were telling me that I have no idea what math is all about.

  75. And yet a few years later, I was actually being trained to be a teacher of physics and chemistry.

  76. Tell your neighbor that is legacy.

  77. And it was it was important that I go to Kenya Santa's college because when God works his things in your life, sometimes you don't understand that.

  78. God needed me to go to there so that he could shift my life.

  79. So one day I'm in the prayer room praying, and then the Lord tells me, Ambrose, I want you to leave Kenya Science Teachers College.

  80. Don't finish your education.

  81. I want you to leave.

  82. And when I said, Why?

  83. Why do you want me to leave?

  84. Because I've not finished my education.

  85. He said, I want you to leave.

  86. Because I want you to preach the gospel to the young people of Nairobi.

  87. Long story short, I left.

  88. But when I left, I stepped into the purposes of God.

  89. I did not know what the future held at that time.

  90. But the God who called me was starting to write a story in my life.

  91. And I want you to know that God is writing a story in your life.

  92. God is writing a story in your life.

  93. You had Reuben talk about us going back then.

  94. We were in Word of Life camp.

  95. And Reuben and quite a team of his friends would come to sing.

  96. There were wonderful days at Word of Life Camp.

  97. When God zooms on you, there's no way you can escape.

  98. For your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

  99. And in this season of Jubilee, the light of God is shining on us.

  100. God an akumulika.

  101. God ame quona.

  102. Where's the escape?

  103. Ah, tell your neighbor Nikubaya.

  104. Hello.

  105. But God is about to locate you.

  106. God is about to locate you.

  107. I want to talk about the first switch.

  108. It's the switch of divine timing.

  109. Tell your neighbor the switch of divine timing.

  110. Pastor Simon, you know this story because you shared a little bit about it yesterday.

  111. About Samaria, when Samaria was under siege.

  112. And when a city is under siege, nobody goes out, nobody comes in.

  113. And it was so bad.

  114. And things were so tough that mothers began to eat their babies.

  115. And to eat donkey, donkeys' heads.

  116. And the prices of stuff went so high.

  117. And people thought, We are done.

  118. We are done.

  119. But let me tell you this there was something called a switch of divine timing.

  120. And so in 2 Kings chapter 7, verse 1, Elisha comes with a word.

    2 Kings 7:1

  121. This is what he says.

  122. Elisha replied, Hear the word of the Lord.

  123. This is what the Lord says about this time tomorrow.

  124. About this time tomorrow.

  125. About this time tomorrow.

  126. There's a divine timing.

  127. When God connects, the time may not be right, but God's timing is the best.

  128. And through Elisha he says, This time tomorrow, a seer of the finest flower will sell for a shekel, and two seers, uh, and two sears will sell for a shekel and two sears of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.

  129. And then there's a guy called an officer.

  130. Tell your neighbor, Alikuam Juwaji.

  131. Hallelujah.

  132. This officer says, on whose arm the king was leaning, said to the man of God, Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?

  133. And Elisha said, You will see it with your own eyes, answered Elisha.

  134. But you will not eat any of it.

  135. The rest, God now tells us how.

  136. But the timing was amazing, Pastor Simon.

  137. The timing was amazing.

  138. This time tomorrow.

  139. And then God uses a very strange method to make this story happen.

  140. Now, some of you, when you talk about seas of Bali, seas atom do you and that time bread was costing 5,000 shillings.

  141. Let me talk to the lawyers on this side.

  142. That time bread was costing five thousand.

  143. Now imagine Elisha comes and says, This time tomorrow, the bread will cost 50 bob.

  144. And these guys say, uh-uh, that commander says it will not happen.

  145. It cannot happen in 24 hours.

  146. But I want you to know that God holds the day in his hands, he can hold the 24 hours of the day and shift your situation and turn your situation around.

  147. Somebody this time tomorrow, your life will have taken a totally different trajectory in Jesus' name.

  148. God does amazing things.

  149. So God uses four lepers.

  150. Look at the next sentence.

  151. The Bible says, Now, in verse 3, if I can get that up, now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate.

  152. And they had a conversation.

  153. They said to each other, Why stay here until we die?

  154. If we say we will go into the city, the famine is there.

  155. And if and we will die, and if we stay there, we will die.

  156. So let's go over the camp of the Aramaeans and surrender.

  157. If they spare us, we live.

  158. Can you imagine such a logic?

  159. If they spare us, we live.

  160. If they kill us, we die.

  161. God was using such simple-minded people.

  162. The Bible says at dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Aramaeans.

  163. When they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there.

  164. For the Lord.

  165. I'm talking to somebody now.

  166. For the Lord had caused their Ramayans to hear the sound of chariots.

  167. Tonight, as if our voices were singing, God was releasing a sound.

  168. I'm talking to somebody, God was releasing a sound, and God is releasing a sound.

  169. And it is not only being heard in our ears, it is being heard in the heavenlies, in the spirit realm.

  170. And they could hear the sound of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, Look, the king of Israel has hired the Hittite and the Egyptian kings to attack us.

  171. So they got up and fled in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys.

  172. They left the camp as it was and they ran for their lives.

  173. By the time these guys arrived, verse 8, the men who had leprosy reached the edge of the camp, entered one of the tents, and ate and drank.

  174. Then they took silver, gold, and clothes.

  175. Amen.

  176. They went off and hid them.

  177. They returned and entered another tent and took some of the things from them and hid them also.

  178. Then they said to each other, hey, you guys, what we are doing is not right.

  179. This is a day of good news.

  180. This is a jubilee season.

  181. And we are keeping it to ourselves.

  182. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us.

  183. Let's go at once and report this to the royal palace.

  184. So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them we went to the Aramen camp and no one was there.

  185. And said all these things.

  186. By the time the people realized there was food outside the camp, they took off.

  187. Who was standing at the gate at that time?

  188. The officer.

  189. What is other name?

  190. Mjuaji.

  191. They trampled on him, and by the time they were bringing that food, he could see it, but he could not eat of it.

  192. The devil is about to be trampled on the ground.

  193. In Jesus' name.

  194. Tell your neighbor timing.

  195. In the next chapter, chapter 8, it's now the story of another lady, and it was timing.

  196. The Bible says in chapter 8, verse 1, there was this lady that Elisha had raised her son.

  197. And the Bible says, now Elisha had said to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can.

  198. Because the Lord has decreed a famine in the land that will last how many years?

  199. Seven years.

  200. The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said.

  201. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

  202. At the end of the seven years, she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and the land.

  203. Now just stay there.

  204. She's away seven years, she's gone seven years, and then somebody, akanyemelea groundyake.

  205. Hello?

  206. Naka camp.

  207. Somebody place your mind.

  208. See talki.

  209. Seven years later, this lady shows up, goes to her land, she's told her ah, this is not your place.

  210. Let me tell you this: something is about to shift in your life.

  211. Somebody is sitting on your property, on your land, and God is about to shift the situation in Jesus' name.

  212. It's called a switch.

  213. Now let me show you the timing.

  214. That just the timing.

  215. Look at the next verse.

  216. The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done.

  217. The next verse says, Just as, just as just just as just as just as tell your neighbor, timing.

  218. Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, the woman, whose son Elisha had brought back to life, came to appeal to the king for her house and land exactly at that time.

  219. Gehazi turns and says, Hey king, this is the woman, my Lord the king, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

  220. The king asked the woman about it, and she told him.

  221. Then he assigned an official Ambaya Anajovitu.

  222. Hello, to her case, and said to him, Give back a few things.

  223. Give back everything that belonged to her, including now I like this part, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.

  224. I'm sorry for the guy who had sat on that land.

  225. Kumbe the guy was taking care of the land for this lady, and all the income that had come through that land was given to this lady.

  226. What a timing.

  227. I believe there's somebody who is about to engage that same miracle tonight.

  228. Because when God times it, it doesn't matter who did what, it doesn't matter how long it took.

  229. When God comes in, there is what we call a legacy switch.

  230. The switch of divine timing.

  231. Very quickly, the next switch.

  232. I don't know if somebody has claimed that first switch.

  233. You see, that switch was an uncommon rescue that God brought to us.

  234. But then there's a switch of divine singing.

  235. Tell your neighbor divine singing.

  236. And we have been singing tonight.

  237. In 2 Chronicles chapter 20, again, Israel was facing a big challenge.

    2 Chronicles 20 chapter mention

  238. They are being attacked by three armies.

  239. And in chapter 20, verse 17, God says something.

  240. So give me verse 17.

  241. A prophet said something in verse 17, I believe.

  242. Then I'll come to 20.

  243. God released a word and said, You will not have to fight this battle.

  244. Take up your positions, stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will give to you.

  245. Now go to verse 20.

  246. Now that's where the strategy came in.

  247. In verse 20, the Bible says this.

  248. Early in the morning they left for the desert of Tekoah as they set out.

  249. Jehoshaphat stood and said, Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem.

  250. Have faith in the Lord your God, and you'll be upheld.

  251. Have faith in his prophets, and you will be successful.

  252. After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to do what?

  253. To sing, not to pray, to do what?

  254. Not to buy things, but to do what?

  255. Appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness.

  256. As they went out at the head of the army, saying, Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever.

  257. Now the timing and the singing came in now.

  258. Verse 22.

  259. As they began to sing.

  260. As they began to sing and to praise.

  261. The Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seah who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

  262. And this is how they were defeated.

  263. The Ammonites and the Moabites rose up against the men from the Mount Seah to destroy and he led them after they had finished.

  264. After they had finished, slaughtering the men from Seah, they helped.

  265. I like that statement.

  266. They helped.

  267. I don't know what happened.

  268. Pastor Simon, how do people help to kill themselves?

  269. They help to destroy one another.

  270. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the Varsami, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground.

  271. No one had escaped.

  272. In other words, God had released an unseen weapon that brought confusion into camp, and the enemy killed themselves.

  273. And Judah got the victory.

  274. I don't know if you ever heard this song that we used to sang to sing kitambo.

  275. Okay.

  276. All the Gen Z cannot remember that song.

  277. But what they missed in that song is they did not just pray.

  278. Well, they did what?

  279. They sang.

  280. And as they sang at that moment, the foundations were broken, everything was broken, the chains were broken.

  281. You have no idea what happens when the sound of joy and the sound of celebration is released in the midst of very challenging situations and challenging circumstances.

  282. Tonight there's that switch.

  283. The switch of divine singing.

  284. It is going to unlock so many things.

  285. And I want you to know that through the years and the seasons of life, when somebody has come to a place of singing, they stop complaining.

  286. And they come to a place of saying, In all things, give thanks.

  287. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus.

  288. That's an amazing weapon.

  289. And it is on a legacy switch that we need tonight.

  290. Number three, the switch of a divine releasing.

  291. In the book of Acts, chapter 2, verse 1, there was a day of Pentecost.

    Acts 2:1

  292. And on this day of Pentecost, something happened.

  293. And I'm going to read those verses again.

  294. When the day of Pentecost came, that's number 50.

  295. Pastor Simon said that yesterday.

  296. They were all together in one place.

  297. The Bible says, suddenly, a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the house where they were sitting.

  298. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that spread and came to rest on each of them.

  299. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

  300. And what was happening is what Jesus told them.

  301. In Acts 1.8, you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

  302. And Pastor Simon, this is a jubilee season.

  303. This is 50 years.

  304. We are talking about Pentecost.

  305. And ladies and gentlemen, this is the season you can reach out and allow the Holy Spirit to fill you, to indwell you, to overflow in your life.

  306. Because that switch gives you power, gives you ability, gives you discernment, gives you understanding, gives you a sense of rest, the power of restoration that comes only from the Holy Spirit and nobody else.

  307. That switch was turned on on the day of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit has never left us.

  308. He's still able to enter into a situation, enter into your circumstances, and turn situations around.

  309. It was at that same time near the time of Pentecost when Paul, who not Paul, but Peter, who had been very scared in the past about going around and talking about Jesus.

  310. But the book of Acts tells us, chapter 3, verse 1, he found an opportunity.

  311. Tell your neighbor, this is the season to find an opportunity.

  312. So in Acts chapter 3, the Bible says, verse 1, one day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer.

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  313. At 3 in the afternoon.

  314. Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate, called beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple court.

  315. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.

  316. Tell your neighbor, we need money.

  317. Now, if somebody didn't reply, they're lying, just tell them, We need money.

  318. Tell your neighbor, I need money.

  319. Now listen to the like this.

  320. Peter looked straight at him as did John.

  321. Then Peter said, Look at us.

  322. Now that's boldness.

  323. And he's so the man gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them.

  324. Then Peter said, This thing about money, let me be clear about that before we go very far.

  325. Silver or gold.

  326. Now that thank God he did not say, We do not have.

  327. Because John was carrying an ATM card, but he was not carrying anything.

  328. He said, Silver or gold, I do not have.

  329. He says, I have something better for you.

  330. I have the Holy Spirit power in me now.

  331. He said this, uh, but what I do have, I give you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

  332. Walk, taking him by the right hand.

  333. He helped him up, and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong.

  334. He jumped to his feet and began to walk.

  335. Then he went with them into the temple, walk outs, walking and jumping and praising God.

  336. Somebody better give God a big hand and tell him thank you for that.

  337. This week you're going to jump up.

  338. This week you're going to be unlocked in the name of Jesus Christ.

  339. Something special is going to happen in your life.

  340. In Jesus' name.

  341. The other day I was speaking to pastors.

  342. I had a meeting with pastors.

  343. And while I was talking to them, I was telling them a story.

  344. I was telling them I had a friend of mine whose church was being demolished.

  345. Because the chief said they cannot stay there anymore.

  346. They're demolishing that church because they had not paid things like that.

  347. So I'm just talking about it and just telling them that even when things like that happen, God still will make a way.

  348. When there seems to be no way.

  349. What I did know is that one of the pastors had also his church was demolished.

  350. Kumbe was talking to that pastor.

  351. That pastor, and I didn't know him, but I'm just talking and they had no place and they wanted to continue them the ministry.

  352. And then I turned to this pastor who was sitting there and I said, What would you like God to do in your life?

  353. I said, He said, Well, my my church, I'd like to have more chairs in the church.

  354. He says, How many chairs do you have right now?

  355. He said, 70 chairs.

  356. He says, How many more do you want?

  357. He said, I said 100.

  358. I said, No, there's no hundred here.

  359. I said, What about 20?

  360. If God gave you 20 more chairs, what do you do?

  361. He said, I would get so excited.

  362. So I asked him, How much is one chair?

  363. One plastic chair?

  364. He said, 600 Bob.

  365. I said, multiply 600 Bob times 20 chairs.

  366. How much is that?

  367. It's about 12,000.

  368. So I told him, When do you think God can give you that money?

  369. He said, I don't know.

  370. I said, Do you have a phone?

  371. I said, Yes.

  372. Now give me your phone number because I'm going to send you a pest of 12,000 right now.

  373. Now, the pastor did not scream.

  374. There was a lady in the meeting who screamed.

  375. Gumbe the lady was his wife.

  376. May the man in this house know how to scream.

  377. The lady is screaming and nothing has happened.

  378. So I told him, give me your number.

  379. So he gives me a number, take my phone.

  380. I started saying, Okay, your number is a bent on pressas, your number is ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding.

  381. Then I hit that the the send.

  382. The name that came was Margaret.

  383. In my heart, I said, Pesa Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda.

  384. So I asked him, he's standing, I asked him, is that your number?

  385. He said, No, it's my wife's number, the one who was screaming.

  386. The guy had 20 chairs added to him, but he when he came, he never knew that his life would change like that.

  387. Something is about to land in your life now.

  388. Something is about to land.

  389. Something amazing.

  390. You know, when you get empesa, while I'm still on this empesa, sometimes people send you let's say 500 Bob.

  391. Let's kick it.

  392. 500 Bob.

  393. Another time they send you 500.

  394. One time somebody sent me money and the phone fell down.

  395. I picked it and the phone was very heavy.

  396. Because what had been sent was 150k.

  397. God is about to release a mzito miracle in your life.

  398. You're about to land on the floor.

  399. Somebody saying, I I wish, but I have Mulikamwizi right now.

  400. Something is about to happen.

  401. Something that is going to make you scream.

  402. Something that is going to make you shout.

  403. Something that is going to make you celebrate.

  404. Because God is not a man that he should lie.

  405. He's not a son of man that he should change his mind.

  406. Has he said, will he not do it?

  407. Has he spoken?

  408. Will he not fulfill it?

  409. He's the God who is about to restore you, reset you, reclaim you, and place you on a path of victory and glory.

  410. That's what happened to this man.

  411. Could not walk from day one and now could walk walking and jumping and praising God because something special had landed into his mind.

  412. A divine switch had been turned on.

  413. Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor the divine switch is turning on.

  414. The story of that pastor, I got to hear it afterwards because I was told afterwards and said that pastor kept shaking his head and saying, How did pastor know it was me?

  415. How did pastor know it was me?

  416. I didn't know.

  417. But it is God who knew.

  418. And God knows why you're here tonight.

  419. God knows why this message is coming to you tonight.

  420. And I'm telling you, open your heart.

  421. Let God drop that miracle in your hands.

  422. In Jesus' name.

  423. As I tie up this message, I want to talk about the fourth switch very quickly.

  424. It's the switch of divine sending.

  425. That during this season, this legacy switch, God is the God of the one who the one who sends.

  426. He's not just the God of the one of those who are sitting, but he's sending them.

  427. The Bible says in Acts 13, verse 1 and 3, God wanted this message to reach the world.

    Acts 13:1

  428. That's why we are trumpeting the message of Jubilee to the world.

  429. God wants the world to know this.

  430. So the Bible says in now in the church at Antioch, there were prophets and teachers.

  431. Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manion, who had been brought up with the Herod and the Tetrach and Saul.

  432. While they were worshipping the Lord, and that's why I want to thank God we were worshiping tonight.

  433. While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

  434. So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.

  435. The two of them sent on their way by the Holy Spirit went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

  436. And that's where mission journeys began.

  437. Because Paul and Barnabas were not only worshiping God, but they were in a position to say, Lord, here I am, send me.

  438. Reminds me of Isaiah.

  439. But Isaiah again was worshiping, he saw the Lord.

  440. And the Bible says, Whom shall I send?

  441. Who will go for us?

  442. And Isaiah said, Here I am.

  443. Send me.

  444. When God pulled me out of Kenya's hands, he was sending me to the young people of this city of Nairobi.

  445. And I thank God that through all those years we've been declaring this message.

  446. We've been declaring this message.

  447. God has raised other young people now who are preaching this message.

  448. And I'm still preaching this message wherever it can be.

  449. I thank God, Pastor Simon, that I'm on YouTube in the name of Jesus.

  450. I'm on Instagram.

  451. I'm on TikTok.

  452. Hallelujah.

  453. Tell your neighbor, do you have TikTok?

  454. Why am I on these platforms?

  455. Because God says preach this gospel in Jesus' name.

  456. I'm on Facebook.

  457. Currently, Pastor Simon, we have hit 77 million views on all those platforms now.

  458. And all we are doing is preaching this word in season, out of season, on TikTok, on YouTube, when things are okay and when things are not okay.

  459. Why?

  460. Because we know the word of God transforms people, the word of God changes lives.

  461. God speaks and the word shifts men's purposes in Jesus' name.

  462. Amen.

  463. Tell your neighbor God is setting you up.

  464. Tell your neighbor God has set you apart.

  465. And then He's setting you up.

  466. Because God is going to make your world changer.

  467. God is going to make your world changer.

  468. You're going to be unstoppable in Jesus' name.

  469. So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor you're unstoppable.

  470. Nobody can stop you.

  471. The Holy Spirit is propelling you to greater spaces.

  472. In Jesus' name.

  473. Has somebody received that?

  474. I receive it in Jesus' name.

  475. Let's give God a big hand.

  476. But I want to tie this with the last one: the switch of divine prevailing.

  477. Tell your neighbor divine prevailing.

  478. You know, sometimes, uh, and I know Reuben mentioned this, that sometimes things can be tough and things can be bad.

  479. And even within a country, within a nation, within a continent, things can just go haywire.

  480. And even for Christians, things can go haywire.

  481. And there comes a time when you say, Doesn't God see?

  482. Doesn't God care?

  483. Where is He?

  484. You become like Gideon, who told God, where are the miracles that we were told by our forefathers?

  485. Why are things becoming worse and worse?

  486. But I want to tell you this.

  487. Even in those dark moments, God comes through.

  488. There is a switch.

  489. The Bible says in Acts chapter 12, things were getting rough for the church.

    Acts 12 chapter mention

  490. Let me read verse 1.

  491. There was a guy called Herod.

  492. Tell your neighbor, there's a guy called Herod.

  493. Verse 1.

  494. Chapter 12, verse 1.

  495. Let me start there.

  496. The Bible says this.

  497. It was about this time that the King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.

  498. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with a sword.

  499. Something something crazy happens.

  500. King Herod says, I'm going to kill this guy.

  501. And they said, Let's see, let's see.

  502. And then Herodac really kings the guy.

  503. When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also.

  504. And Peter is one of their pillars.

  505. This happened during the festival of the unleavened bread.

  506. Now Peter, this was now serious.

  507. After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing over to be guarded by four scores of four soldiers each.

  508. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

  509. So Peter, Pastor Simon, take note of this.

  510. So Peter was kept in prison.

  511. Where were they when James was killed?

  512. This time it is Peter Mazda.

  513. The church was honestly praying to God for him.

  514. And as they were praying and prevailing in prayer, something happened.

  515. The night before Herod was to bring him to trial.

  516. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains and sentries to the guard at the entrance.

  517. This is the part I want you to get to.

  518. Tell your neighbor suddenly.

  519. Hallelujah.

  520. Ah, our God is a God of suddenness.

  521. Something is about to happen to you tonight.

  522. Suddenly, the switch, when the switch turns on, boom, things happen.

  523. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the cell.

  524. He struck Peter.

  525. You know, Peter was gone.

  526. He had struck Peter.

  527. Struck Peter on the side and woke him up.

  528. Quick, get up.

  529. He said, and the chains fell off Peter's wrists.

  530. Then the angel said to him, Put on your clothes and sandals.

  531. And Peter did so.

  532. Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.

  533. The angel told him.

  534. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea what the angel was doing.

  535. That what the angel was doing was really happening.

  536. He thought he was seeing a vision.

  537. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city.

  538. It opened.

  539. I'm talking to somebody here.

  540. The doors are opening for you.

  541. Automatic doors.

  542. You know, Pastor Simon, before these automatic doors one day came, you know, there was automatic doors who there's one time before these automatic things happened.

  543. You know, one time I was going to this supermarket, and as I was walking, suddenly the gates just opened.

  544. I said, Ala.

  545. Can you imagine that was just zinc?

  546. I didn't know there are things called sensors.

  547. The Holy Spirit is a sensor right now.

  548. The Holy Spirit is a sensor right now.

  549. And as you approach a situation that is so difficult to open because of the sensors of the Holy Spirit that are behind you, these doors are going to open in Jesus' name.

  550. These doors are going to open for you in Jesus' name.

  551. Somebody better believe that right now.

  552. Oh, I like that.

  553. They passed the first and the second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city.

  554. These guys were also all of them asleep.

  555. It opened for them by itself.

  556. They went through it when they had walked the length of one street.

  557. Suddenly, just like the angel had come suddenly, suddenly he left.

  558. Prayer turns situations around.

  559. And that's why I was saying that, you know, uh, I think it is Reuben who said that we are not hopeless.

  560. That there's a lot of hope because God is in this city, God is in this land, that God hears prayer.

  561. When you think it is over, God is still saying, like Pastor Simon said, that Kenya is a destined prophetic country about to do great and mighty things.

  562. And we must believe in this God.

  563. Let me finish that statement.

  564. Because while these guys were praying, they were praying.

  565. Ilya Syrias, they were praying.

  566. But a few of them were believing their prayer.

  567. Just look at this.

  568. This let me finish that story.

  569. So that we you find out where where you live, where where are you as you pray?

  570. Then Peter came to himself and said, Oh, now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod's clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.

  571. When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people, many people, many people, many people from Parkland's Baptist Church were gathered and were praying.

  572. Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.

  573. When she recognized Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed she ran back without opening it.

  574. And exclaimed, Peter is at the door.

  575. Now listen to the prayer warriors.

  576. They told her when she kept insisting, and by the way, all of them are doing what?

  577. Peter Toke, Peter Toke, Peter Toke.

  578. Then Peter knocks at the door.

  579. Rhoda is the only one who believes.

  580. She didn't open the door.

  581. Rhoda recognizes the voice because when Rhoda was praying, he was not, she was not saying Baba Baba.

  582. She was saying, Father, I know you hear prayer.

  583. And I thank you right now that the angels of the Lord are moving.

  584. And Peter is coming.

  585. In fact, Peter is at the door.

  586. Peter is at the door.

  587. Peter is at the door.

  588. When he goes and opens, Peter is talking.

  589. She comes back and say, Peter is there.

  590. This other guy says, Baba.

  591. Baba Baba.

  592. Kuna watu engine hapa hawana discernment.

  593. Cease in your intercessors or inyumba.

  594. Baba baba.

  595. She says, Hey, you guys, stop praying, stop praying, stop praying.

  596. I'm talking to somebody, I'm saying, stop praying, stop praying.

  597. God has come through for you in Jesus' name.

  598. Open that door.

  599. And said you are out of your mind.

  600. You know, God is going to answer your prayer, and you are going to say, something is not right here.

  601. Because a switch has turned the situation around.

  602. Hallelujah.

  603. Look at that verse 15.

  604. I hope you are.

  605. Which group are you?

  606. The praying saints or order.

  607. And it was just a slave girl, a house help.

  608. You are out of your mind, they told her.

  609. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said it must be his angel.

  610. In other words, they said, Amekufa, Amekufa.

  611. Amekufa Amanda.

  612. He's gone, he's gone.

  613. But Peter kept on knocking.

  614. Can you imagine Peter at the door?

  615. Kept on knocking.

  616. And when they opened the door and saw him, they were astonished.

  617. Let me tell you this: something special is coming your way.

  618. But is God going to find any believers in the house?

  619. Is there a rhodor in the house?

  620. Because the Jubilee legacy is here.

  621. The switch is here.

  622. In the name of Jesus.

  623. I want you to stand on your feet because I want you to know that the switch of divine timing is here.

  624. The switch of divine singing is here.

  625. The switch of divine releasing is here.

  626. The switch of divine sending is here.

  627. The switch of divine prevailing is here.

  628. And common rescue is here.

  629. Unprecedented victory is yours.

  630. Uplifted encounter is yours.

  631. Unstoppable mission is before us.

  632. An apologetic intervention is in the house tonight.

  633. In Jesus' name.

  634. Come on, somebody better give God a big hand and tell Him thank you.

  635. Hallelujah.

  636. Hallelujah.

  637. I want to be the road in the house.

  638. I want to be the one to say, I prayed and God came through.

  639. I want to be like the woman who was away for eight or seven years.

  640. She comes back not knowing how things are going to happen, but at the moment she steps in, her case is sorted.

  641. I pray that your case is sorted in Jesus' name.

  642. In Jesus' name tonight.

  643. May have been seven years, may have been 20 years, but let me tell you this God is a God of timing.

  644. Oh, you may be sieged by armies, and God is saying, the battle is not yours, the battle is the Lord's.

  645. And then God gives you and gives you just a strategy.

  646. Start to sing, start to praise God.

  647. Start to celebrate.

  648. And as they began to celebrate, and as they began to sing, God sent ambushes into the enemy camp.

  649. I want you to know the Holy Spirit is falling on us afresh.

  650. And God is going to open your tongue and lock you.

  651. And you're going to begin to sing and to worship and to sing in other languages.

  652. And to sing new strategies, new innovations, new purposes are going to flow out of your mouth.

  653. Amen.

  654. There's a divine sending.

  655. And God is saying, in this season, you have sat for so long.

  656. I want to send you.

  657. I want to send you.

  658. God wants to send us.

  659. The flags that are around us are flags of countries.

  660. And God is saying, I'm sending you to the nations.

  661. And God wants to send us to the nations.

  662. He said, Set apart for me Barnabas.

  663. Set apart for me before.

  664. For the work that I have before them, before them.

  665. God wants to change your situation.

  666. He has located you.

  667. I know God is locating somebody right now.

  668. God is changing your situation right now.

  669. I want you to connect with me now.

  670. Those of you watching online, I want you to connect because as we begin this week, God is already opening the doors.

  671. And for some of us, we don't need to knock anymore.

  672. We just need to step into those doors.

  673. We know we need to walk into those doors and see God do a miracle.

  674. Let me tell you this the people God used those days were very ordinary people.

  675. Remember the four lepers?

  676. Ordinary people.

  677. Pastor Simon shuffle.

  678. They were just shuffle.

  679. Shuffling, shuffling.

  680. What they did know is that God was going to magnify their footsteps, and amazing things was going to take place.

  681. You know, your shuffle will turn your situation.

  682. And for some of you, all you need is to take a step, like the step of those guys with leprosy.

  683. I don't know which part of the miracle here you want, I don't know which switch you want to turn on.

  684. There are five of them, but I want you to take one, just one of them or two of them.

  685. And I want to agree with you that as you take that shuffle, as you take that step forward from where you're sitting, if you just take that step forward, if you just take that step, God will multiply those steps, and there is a sound that is going to be released.

  686. An awesome sound that is going to just begin to destroy the works of the enemy, whether wherever they are.

  687. I don't know what switch you want God to turn on, the timing switch.

  688. God is setting you apart.

  689. A very ordinary action.

  690. You may turn into a very extraordinary output.

  691. So you have the five switches.

  692. I'm going to pray for you.

  693. Those online, you may not take a step and into this church, but you wherever you're sitting, you can just take a step forward and come.

  694. For those here who just need that step, come here.

  695. I want to pray for you.

  696. Take that step.

  697. Let that switch.

  698. Let's agree with you that that switch will happen.

  699. Amen.

  700. Tonight, your trajectory is going to shift.

  701. And I know that our worship team will lead us in a song.

  702. Uh Reuben, as as you come, because I'm going to pray for you.

  703. Please take a step.

  704. Just one step, two steps, three steps.

  705. Come.

  706. We're not asking you to come and get saved.

  707. You'll be saved before you know it.

  708. But there's a switch of timing, the switch of singing, the switch of release, the switch of sending, the switch of prevailing.

  709. Something is about to happen to you.

  710. Come.

  711. While you're coming, just bow in prayer and begin to pray because something is happening.

  712. Amen.

  713. Many of you are already here in front.

  714. Those watching us online, I know you are making an altar call right, an altar where right where you are.

  715. This pastor, this man of God, wants to pray for you.

  716. I know the response team are with you there.

  717. They're also agreeing with you in prayer.

  718. But I want to just pray now for all of us in the mighty name of Jesus.

  719. Those who are still out there, I want you to pray for these ones who have come forward because something is shifting.

  720. Something is changing.

  721. Trajectories are changing.

  722. God's timing is here.

  723. God's uh divine singing is here.

  724. Some sound is being made.

  725. Sound of freedom.

  726. You're getting back your land, you're getting back your property.

  727. Doors are opening for you in the name of Jesus.

  728. Yes.

  729. Yes.

  730. Jesus is fighting your battles.

  731. The angel of the Lord is coming through.

  732. Doesn't matter how difficult it is, the angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and he delivers them tonight.

  733. So I'm praying right now.

  734. Just take a moment right now as I pray for you.

  735. Father, in the name of Jesus, I stand and agree with my brothers and sisters who have stepped forward.

  736. Father, they have taken the steps of the lepers.

  737. When they just said, if we stay here, we'll die.

  738. If we go, we will also die.

  739. And at least if we go, we'll have eaten something.

  740. Tonight, my brothers and sisters have stepped forward for different needs and different situations.

  741. Some of them are bigger than we can imagine.

  742. Some of them are financial, some of them are medical, some of them are fire in the whole in the family situation, some of them are just debts that they cannot pay.

  743. Some of them are in are locked up.

  744. They don't know what to do.

  745. Some of them have children who have run away.

  746. But tonight, we are turning to a God who can turn the switch.

  747. We are turning to the divine switch, the legacy switch.

  748. And tonight I want you to just agree with me in faith.

  749. And I want you to believe with me in faith as I believe with you that this God is coming through for you tonight.

  750. This God is coming to you tonight.

  751. I'm talking to somebody, I'm saying, this time tomorrow, this time tomorrow, this time tomorrow, your situation will have totally changed.

  752. In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Father, we thank you.

  753. Yes, this time tomorrow.

  754. Tonight, your miracle is at the door.

  755. Like Rhoda, you're running to the door, and your miracle is talking to you, and you say, My miracle has come.

  756. You're not out of your mind.

  757. God has come through for you.

  758. Father, in the name of Jesus, and I want to release the presence of the Holy Spirit upon each person that has come.

  759. That tonight, as they have believed you in faith, as they have believed you for their miracle, if they have believed you for their turnaround, even those watching us online, wherever they are, your presence is right where they are.

  760. And I know that God, they're coming back with testimonies, they are coming back with jubilation, they're coming back with singing, with celebration, because the Lord has said He'll never leave us, He'll never forsake us.

  761. Father, I release them now into your holy hands because their tomorrow is better than they are there yesterday, and their future starts now.

  762. Ayah, if you believe that, you better say, I receive it.

  763. I take it.

  764. It is my portion, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.

  765. Now you better give God such a big shout, big celebration to the glory of God.

  766. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah.

  767. Come on, somebody, hallelujah, amen, amen.

  768. I'd like you to go back to your seats, and I know that uh Reuben and the team will release us with such a celebration.

  769. Pastor Simon, God is a good God, God is working tonight.

  770. How many of you are coming back tomorrow?

  771. Okay, we'll be here tomorrow.

  772. The whole day.

  773. It's open for you the whole day.

  774. Buana Sifiwe.

  775. And let's celebrate Reuben and the Sifa voices.

  776. Amen.

  777. Amen.

  778. Which song would you like them to sing as we tie up the day?

  779. Huh?

  780. Psalms.

  781. Psalms 23.

  782. Psalms 23.

  783. Reuben.

  784. Psalms 23.

  785. Now, before you go ahead, let me remind you that there's a cup of tea.

  786. Tell your neighbor, come for tea, come for tea, my people.

  787. And those who don't take tea, don't worry.

  788. The Bible says Hebrews.

  789. Hello.

  790. Bonasifi.

  791. Are you glad you came tonight?

  792. Why don't we celebrate Jesus and celebrate your friends right now?

  793. God bless you so much.