16th August 2026 Sunday 2nd Service - Producing Results Through Influence - By PBC Youth Pastor, Max Njuguna

Please let's go quickly to Galatians chapter 4, verse 1 to 7.

Galatians 4:1–7

This forms our assignment for today.

Galatians chapter 4.

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We're going to read the first seven verses in our hearing today.

May the Lord bless the reading of his word.

He says, What I'm saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is not different from a slave.

Although he owns the whole estate, the heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father.

Also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.

But when the set time had fully come, God sent his son, blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law that we might receive adoption to sonship.

And because you are his sons, God sent the spirit of his son into our hearts.

And the spirit who calls out Abba Father.

Now look at verse 7.

He says, You're no longer a slave.

That's a good place to say amen.

But God's child.

And since you are his child, God has made you also to be an heir.

Hallelujah.

This message today, because it's Youth Sunday, is designed specifically to my generation.

I want to connect with my generation today and bring a message to you.

I thank God that our parents, our grandparents are here because they will be praying for us as we receive this message.

Today we want to bring a quick charge that we have titled Producing Results Through Influence.

Producing Results Through Influence.

May the Lord bless His word in Jesus' name.

Please be seated and God bless you.

Changing me and changing you.

Come on, sing it one more time.

Haitian words, ever true, changing me and changing you.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the burden of Paul when he's writing to the Church of Galatia that they will capture themselves to the understanding of who they are in Christ.

And he begins to juxtapose very two important words that are also critical for our discussion today.

He says that we are no longer slaves.

We have entered into the full adoption of sonship.

The first time we see the introduction of slavery in scripture is when a group of people, the nation of Israel, was attempting to step out of Egypt.

And God was particularly concerned about the plight of his people, and therefore he summoned Moses from the wilderness so that he could be a conduit and an agent by which this group of people will be entrenched out of slavery to the fullness of abundance.

But, ladies and gentlemen, the transition from slavery to sonship is also a process that we must be kin to.

Because while they were in Egypt, you see, Egypt is an expression of slavery.

Canaan, the land where they are stepping into, is an expression of their sonship.

When they are in Egypt, they have to work day and night.

They have to ensure that they harness themselves with their physical strength so that they can be able to hit the targets for the day as it was announced upon them by Pharaoh.

The Bible says that they had to contend for their own straw.

They had to ensure that they survive the vicissitudes of the pains that comes with slavery.

Thank God that a man was raised by God and he was able to release them out of Egypt into Canaan.

So the conversation of sonship, therefore, begins in Canaan.

And it is in Canaan where God began to give a detail of how they are going to perform themselves.

He says that when we get to Canaan, you will enter into a land of milk and honey.

Please say milk and honey.

Please tell your neighbor it is milk.

And it is honey.

That is the equivalent of being a son, that the land has the abundance of milk and honey.

But you notice that for you to get the honey, you must know how to survive the sting of the bee.

For you, for you to get the milk, you must arise early and milk the cows so that the milk can come.

In Egypt, in slavery, it was an extension of the benevolence of Pharaoh.

But in Canaan, there is a responsibility of sonship so that you can be able to receive the milk and honey.

If you're still with me, say amen.

So if sonship is knowing how to take over the territory that God has given us, how to milk the cows, and how to survive the sting of the bee to get the honey then we must know the pathway and the infrastructure that equips us to get into that level.

And this becomes our basis for today as we talk about the power of influence, because influence has been given to sons.

Slavery comes with limitations.

Slavery comes with all deficits, spiritually speaking, physically speaking.

But now because we have been adopted into sonship and we are ready to take on the territory, then God releases the garment of influence upon us so that we can be able to take over the land.

Today we are speaking to a generation that God is raising as kingdom influencers.

Because there is a territory that we must take.

There is a boardroom that we must take for Jesus.

The land of sports and the arena of fashion must be taken so that we can demolish the immoral altars that battle our generation.

And today, there is a generation of influencers who will capture the burdens of the spirit.

They will distill them in their hearts so that they can walk into this level.

There are things that we must do not just in time but also on time.

There are things that we must capture.

Our fathers have declared that it is the season of the sons of Africa, the young people of Africa, to arise.

Now, because the declaration has come, manifestation must come.

And for that reason, we must learn how to enter into that qualification through the power of influence.

Today we are going to take the tripartite formation to show you three pathways.

And I pray that a young person who came to this service will be inspired to begin to see their position in destiny.

Are you ready?

Now, the first way by which we enter into influence is through wisdom.

Wisdom.

Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, wisdom is a womb that birds a fruit called influence.

Wisdom is a womb that gives birth to a fruit or to a child called influence.

Now look at Ecclesiastes chapter 7, verse 12.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

Ecclesiastes verse 7 and chapter 7 and verse 12.

Now look at this scripture.

It says, wisdom is a shelter, as money is a shelter.

But the advantage of knowledge is this wisdom preserves those who have it.

Please let's look at it this verse in New King James Version because there's something that we must see.

Same verse, New King James Version.

Is what the Bible says.

It says, wisdom is a defense, money is also a defense.

So the defense system that the teacher is talking about is twofold: wisdom and money.

But then he goes to extend the realities of wisdom when he says that the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life.

So there is a particular life that comes when wisdom is in view.

The character, one of the characters in scriptures that gives us or unfolds to us how to walk in perpetual wisdom that qualifies your influence so that you can work out your salvation as a son, is shredded in the book of Esther.

And when we get to Esther chapter 5, please go to Esther chapter 5.

Esther 5 · chapter mention Esther 5 · chapter mention

By the way, is it okay if we do a mini Bible study?

Do you love the word?

Alright, Esther chapter 5.

Esther 5 · chapter mention

Look at Esther chapter 5.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus.

Please, one more time tell your neighbor, I'm so glad you're sitting next to me.

Hallelujah.

Now we are going to see wisdom in application.

There are four levels of wisdom in Esther chapter 5.

Esther 5 · chapter mention

When you look at verse 1, the Bible says, Now it happened on the third day.

Now, why is this happening on the third day?

Because in chapter 4, there is a full sequence of prayer that Esther and Mordecai and the Jews have performed themselves because Esther is about to stand before the king.

And when the third day came, the Bible says that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace.

It is on the third day, having come from the place of prayer, on the third day she puts on her royal robes and stands in the inner court of the king's palace.

The first level of wisdom that enters us into a perpetual season of influence is what we call sight wisdom, the ability to know how to appear in multiple contexts or before multiple people.

Now, this is the key.

But don your robe when you stand before the king.

Wear the sackcloth in the secret place.

That is chapter four.

Sarclothes are mentioned in chapter four.

But when you stand before the king, you must don yourself with a robe.

You know, this came with a very tight burden because one of our young people entered into an interview panel.

The reason why he did not get a job is because he went to that interview with crocs.

I assure you, he's one of our most prayerful warriors in our ministry.

But he did not know that when you stand before the king, there is a regard for your appearance.

Wear the sackcloth.

Please can you preach to your neighbor?

Tell uh mothers, fathers, if you're seated next to your son or daughter, tell them, wear the sackcloth in the secret place.

But wear the robe when you stand before the king.

It is called sight wisdom.

When you look at Genesis 41, verse 14, Joseph also entered into that wisdom, knowing how to present yourself before somebody who can open an opportunity for you.

Genesis 41:14

And the Bible says, then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph.

They brought him out quickly out of the dungeon.

What did Joseph do?

He shaved, he changed his clothing, and then came to Pharaoh.

Because Pharaoh is allergic to long hair, knowing how to appear in multiple contexts.

And not just the physical gown.

You know, I say this in the first service that I took time to study the fashion style of Jesus.

And I noticed that even the soldiers were bargaining for his clothes.

They wanted to gamble his garments.

And the Bible says, not just the outer garment, but even the undergarment was seamless.

It was woven well, meaning it was not torn.

So you cannot be a son and have uh my brothers and sisters, my generation, I speak to you by the Spirit of God.

You cannot be a son, and your undergarment is torn.

You're not a follower of Christ.

So, Dante Mom, please ask your son, is your undergarment?

This is kingship.

This is sonship.

There is a young person who came to this service and your socks are torn.

You can't take the nations that way.

What happens when you go to rooms where they ask you to remove your shoes?

You begin to pray in tongues, not because there is an anointing, it's because you don't know how to navigate that space.

Dress nicely like a king.

When you stand before people, you must showcase your king.

You know, God took detail onto how Aaron needed to dress.

He told him, Because you are a priest, there is a formation by how you present yourself.

And as young people, we must come to the end of this discussion.

When I stand before people, should it be above the knee or below the knee?

Dress like a son.

There is a formation on how you present yourself before people.

And when you don't your physical garment, you must also know how to dress your mind as well, because even the mind must have a garment.

One of the ways you know that you have upgraded your mind is that the questions you are asking in 2026 have graduated better than the questions you asked in 2020.

You can't be asking the same question is 2020 in a relationship.

How far is too far?

You're already far.

You're already far.

You're already far.

Graduate from those levels.

Get into another level of conversation with that person.

Tell me the details of your purpose.

If the two of us come together, what will be achieved in the kingdom?

You can't sit down uh with somebody who is attempting to be uh, and I speak this especially to my fellow brothers, uh, that you can't be seated on a dinner table with a girl, and the only thing you discussed was the weather.

You discussed how many movies she was watching on Netflix, you are just Netflixing and flixing your popcorns on the couch.

You can't take the nations that way.

There is a time you come to where even your conversations graduate.

And by the way, if you can give a full detail of a football team, you can give the 11 players of a football team and you don't know the 12 disciples, you're not wise.

I speak to my generation today.

You can't watch Netflix the whole night and you've never been to a prayer casher, you're not wise.

Ah, I know our parents are praying for me.

Don't worry.

Hallelujah.

Wisdom is the principal thing.

One of the ways you deal with um time wasters in your life is to grow.

The environment of growth has a way of taking people out of your life.

Some people don't live by you texting them to leave, they leave you by growth.

They will now notice that your conversations have heightened.

The things you seek for are no longer mundane and meaningless things.

You have fortified your mind for the kingdom agenda.

Somebody shout wisdom.

While we are still on wisdom, we also see the next level of wisdom in Esther's life.

It is called taste wisdom.

Taste wisdom.

Look at this verse.

Look at this verse.

Esther chapter five.

We are still on Esther chapter five.

Are you being blessed?

Now look at Esther chapter five.

Let's go to verse five very quickly.

Taste wisdom, the ability to know how to govern the appetites when you are in the palace.

He then says, Bring her man quickly that he may do as Esther has said.

Now go back one verse.

Go back one verse, verse four.

Look at verse 4.

He says, If it pleases the king, let the king and her man come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.

Now, in the palace, it was the preview of the kings to take wine.

Because the only way they make their hearts go merry is through the saturation of wine.

But Esther knew that even though I am in the palace, I will not be confused by the delicacies of the king.

That it is possible to be surrounded by the delicacies of the king and the ambience of the palace, but your soul was never deflated.

That you can be saturated in all kinds of conversations that attempt to lead you out of God, but you stand strong and you say that my spirit, my soul, and my body shall remain blameless until the coming of my Lord Jesus Christ.

Test wisdom here is the ability to regulate your appetites.

It is not the atmosphere that determines what you should take, it is your consecration in God where you can look at the banquet and say, Even though I am the queen, I have come to the realization that the love of God is more powerful than even the wine that comes from the king's table.

So in songs of Psalms chapter 1 and verse 2, the Shunamout woman makes a very important plea.

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She says that I have learned that the love of God is more delightful than wine.

The atmosphere of love has made me to overcome the appetites of the palace.

Because I have come with the similitude of God's love.

My heart has been pampered with God's love.

Therefore, I am not prone to the things that tend to vacillate my heart.

I will not take the wine because the love I have is more delightful than the wine.

Regulation of appetites.

We cannot take the nations if we don't know how to regulate our appetites.

It's part of wisdom.

It's part of wisdom.

Part of us, my young generation, my fellow Gen Z and millennials, part of your regulation today is that you shall no longer text that person past 9 p.m.

Do you notice that when you text them at 10 p.m., even the conversation shifts?

Why not talk to them at 4 p.m.?

And why should they even come to their to your house?

I'm speaking to a young person, you are in a hostel right now, in a hostel, and you are inviting intruders in your house.

And you notice by the time it gets to 7 p.m., then the girl begins to ask very difficult questions.

You will go in Jesus' name.

This body is for Jesus.

Come on, mothers in the house.

Our sons are for signs and wonders.

Glory be to Jesus.

Shout wisdom.

Let's go to number two.

The first one is influence through wisdom.

I would have given two more there, but let's go forward.

Influence through wisdom.

Let's look at the second pillar of influence.

Because we must enter into this sonship.

The second pillar of influence for sons to manifest is now what we call influence through people.

The ability to know how to navigate the different relationships that God has brought you away.

There is a kind of influence that you must enter into because you know how to navigate networks and multiple relationships that God has placed before you.

Now, with the permission of our father, let me demonstrate something.

Um where are my where are my young people?

Uh let me have two volunteers.

Jackson just come, uh all three of you.

Just a few gentlemen if you can come.

Please run quickly.

Let's appreciate them.

Let's appreciate them.

Come.

Oh, you were the deacon.

All right, okay.

So now please stand here.

Please come.

Now, when God wants to release influence to a young person who is ready to take over, as you heighten your wisdom, the second thing He does is to introduce to you specific agents who will help you mature into your calling, but also those who will hold your hand so that you can receive every pertinent resource you need for your kingdom come assignment.

And God will display before you every person that you need.

So, therefore, our surgical moment today is not really to ask who has been sent to us because we already know who has been paraded before us.

You already have a mentor, you already have a guardian in form of a CEO, you already have foster parents who have been holding your hand through the days.

It is not that you don't know who they are, the concern is the point that we must discuss today.

How do I receive from the people that I know who are truly sent for me?

It is the mechanics of how.

It is not just the knowledge to know that I have three men to my corner, it is to know how, in specific ways, do I receive from them.

And the one who can qualify that reality of influence that we are going to look at very quickly is the man Nehemiah.

Please look at Nehemiah chapter 1, verse 11.

Nehemiah 1:11

Nehemiah chapter 1, and verse 11.

Nehemiah 1 · chapter mention

This is what the Bible says.

Nehemiah chapter 1, and verse 11.

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You will notice that when we begin in Nehemiah chapter 1, verse 1, it is actually a report where Hananiah comes to Nehemiah with a report that Jerusalem has been broken down, the gates, the walls have been burned with fire.

Nehemiah 1:1

And Nehemiah, having received that report in verse 1 and verse 2, he begins to prostrate himself before the Lord in a very deep moment of prayer.

Actually, over 70% of Nehemiah chapter 1 is saturated with the prayer that Nehemiah presents before God.

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It is at the end of that prayer where we capture this verse.

Having concluded his petition before the Lord, he closes with these words in verse 11.

Now look at what verse 11 says.

The Bible says in verse 11, Oh Lord, I pray, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who desire to fear your name.

Now look at that part, look at that part now.

He says, Let your servant, I that you have called to influence on your behalf, I that you have called with this assignment to build the walls of Jerusalem.

I pray that you let your servant prosper this day.

How is this prosperity going to come?

Grant me mercy in the sight of this man.

The sight of this man is actually the king.

Let me declare in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may you receive tangible favor from this message.

And every door that was locked, we open it right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let your proposals be received with favor, let your products and services be received in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Find good success from the people that God has presented before you.

So he prays.

And then he says, Let me go and meet the king.

Meeting the king now happens in chapter 2.

And the quintessential question is the king also has needs.

How is he going to move his attention from his own needs to attend to my own needs?

Therefore, there is a way to open the heart of the one who has something that you need.

Now look at this.

The person you are sitting next to has something that you need.

Even though you are sitting next to them, it is still a far distance to their heart.

It is the intelligence of the spirit that enables you to know how to receive from them.

Now, can we practice this for one minute?

Please tell your neighbor you have what I need.

Actually tell them, I'm ready to receive.

Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus.

The first thing we see from Nehemiah in terms of unlocking the heart, whether it is King Attaxas, whether it is Esaph and all the kings that are listed in chapter 2 who needed to provide beams and cedars for him in the rebuilding work, the first thing that we see is that he engaged the power of service.

The Bible says that I was a cup-bearer to the king.

The first thing that will close the distance between myself and the person sent to bless me is through service.

The more I serve him, the more I serve them, the more I continue to bear the cup before the king, the more the heart of the king begins to tune to me.

Young people of Africa, there are some levels we will enter into not just by tapping and tapping and tapping.

We will enter into them through service.

You know, one time I met a young person, there was a very nice parked car at the parking lot, and the young person, I think maybe he was not discipled well, he was laying hands on that car and saying, I receive this car.

I receive now the owner came and was almost calling for the security to escort the gentleman out of the car.

What if that gentleman came to that car and said, Let me clean this car, let me wash this car.

When the owner comes, I can now introduce myself.

Let service go before me.

I was a cupbearer before the king.

The point of connection to kings is service.

Service is powerful.

And do you notice one time, Reverend Simon, we were in prayer and the Lord told us that especially those who serve in church, service in church is an insurance policy for workers.

That's why you notice that there is a man who can serve in church.

Perhaps he's an usher or he's attending to the parking lot, and the man is still in his 60s, 70s, still standing, and we wonder why that is the case.

It's because that service has unlocked the love of God that came as an insurance to them, even if they get unwell, they must be healed.

It's called the power of service.

Young people must go to back to the formation of service.

It is okay sometimes to get into that company.

You may not have gotten to the portfolio and the levels that you want to enter into.

You are seeking to get the corner office, but the journey there is through service.

Are you willing to bear the cup of the king, to bear the weight of the cup, and ensure the king has something to take because you have become a servant indeed.

Service is powerful.

The second way we can unlock the hearts of the king, straight again from Nehemiah, is through the power of food.

I was so amazed that food can open people's hearts.

Do you notice that when food is placed on a table, conversations can flow?

What do you remember after our wedding ceremony?

Come on, say it.

And God was keen to ensure that food is mentioned in scripture.

When Isaac tells Esau, Go and cut some venosin for me, game meat, so that I can bless you indeed.

And you know why he's asking for venocin?

It's because venocin has three qualities.

Number one, it cooks quickly, number two, it is lean, meaning it has not much fat.

And then number three, it dries out easily, so you can keep it for days.

That is the kind of food that the father is in need of so that the blessing can flow.

So the gift of hospitality, especially in a family setting, can be powerful.

Maybe we should give an instruction that we gave in the past service to some young people here.

Listen carefully.

Prepare a meal for your family this week.

Present it before your father and mother and tell them this meal I have prepared it for you in honor, not just of what you do, but also who you are in my life.

Thank you for beating traffic every single Monday morning so that I can have everything that I need for my life.

That thing will be a blessing to your parent.

Now, you may speak that way to your dad, and your dad will ask you, is it that you don't have homework to do?

When he goes back to his room, he will say, This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.

Please, if you're below the age of 20, please stand.

Please stand.

Okay, let me extend it.

The age of 25 and below, please stand.

Let me give you an instruction that will bless you.

Can you appreciate this generation?

Now I do this with the permission of our father.

Between now and Sunday, prepare a meal for your family.

Get some money.

Be creative on how you're going to get it.

Go to the supermarket, buy some ingredients, research what delights your mother and your father, or your guardians, or your grandparents if you're living with them.

Prepare that meal and present to them this week.

And before they eat, ask them to bless you and let them enjoy the meal.

May God use the dining table opportunity this week to bring together the heart of a son to a father and the heart of a daughter to a mother.

Let those conversations ensue to the place of grace and power.

And even if you burn the food, which I know you will not, they will receive it with thanksgiving.

Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus.

As you are standing, may you come back with testimonies.

And afterwards, after that meal, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, clean the dishes.

Please sit down.

How else can you open the heart of the person who can bless you?

Gifts.

Gifts.

The psalmist says that when you stand before a man who can bless you, come bearing gifts.

Gifts are powerful.

Gifts are powerful.

How else can you open the heart of the person who can bless you?

It is through the power of covenant.

Covenant is powerful, especially in the context of marriage.

You know, before I met my wife, there are places I would go to and people would struggle to receive me.

It was not their fault.

It is just that I didn't carry an atmosphere of favor.

And I noticed one day we went to a meeting, a place where I have been before in my days when I had not met her.

And I noticed that they received me gladly.

And I asked them, why is it that this time round I feel more hospitable here?

They said, it's because you came with your wife.

From that day, ladies and gentlemen, every place I go to, she must come with me.

She does not even need to utter a word, just her presence.

I now realize that even my ministry continued to grow because of that extension.

Covenant has provided a platform for you to be blessed.

And that is why covenants must be guarded with all clarity and vigor, because that is a platform for blessings.

So this week, my generation, as you step into the marketplace and you meet diverse people, there is one that God will tell you, serve that man.

A blessing will be released.

There is another one where you go to, and the instruction will come, and the Lord will say, Don't forget their birthday.

Package a nice gift and present them with the diligence of honor.

And for some of us this week, it will be from our own households where there is going to be such an impartation on the meal that you're going to make.

And finally you shall enter into the blessings because you have come through it through service.

Jesus knew this.

He knew how to operate himself in a discipleship group that had all different kinds of personalities.

For three and a half years, you are with Peter, who is a sanguine who vacillates with all kinds of emotions.

One time Peter said, I will be with you.

The other time he's slashing people's ears.

What kind of a disciple is that?

He stayed with him.

Thomas, the one who only believes when he can see.

And yet the ministry of Jesus was all about faith.

And Jesus never condemned him out of a discipleship group.

Oh, I wish we had time to look at Nathaniel because you will notice that the first mention of the question that he asked when he heard about Jesus is, can anything good come out of Nazareth?

Because Nathaniel was one of the men who devoured scriptures in their depths.

They had taken time to study the books of the law.

They knew what had happened in Nazareth.

They knew what happened to Samson the Nazarene.

The story did not end well.

And now you're saying Jesus will come out of Nazareth?

Nothing good can come out of it.

Jesus called him to be part of his discipleship group.

How was he able to navigate and to influence them amidst their different realities or personalities?

He knew how to walk with every one of them.

So when he comes to Peter, he knows that Peter, because of his sanguine tendencies, he will go and come back.

So the thing that I need to for him is to affirm him consistently.

So that when he feels like he's on a mountaintop today and he's on a valley today, my affirmation will still echo within his heart.

When it comes to Nathaniel, Jesus tells him, Ah, come and see.

I know you are truthful about what happened in Nazareth.

But walk with me for three and a half years.

Come.

The invitation is come and see.

Look at how Jesus is able to navigate complex relationships.

When it comes to Judas, the treasurer, he had an accounting acumen, but he still was willing to steal.

And Jesus still called him to be a treasurer.

No one time in scripture did Jesus arise and say, Behold a thief.

He said, There is also redemption for Judas.

And do you notice that the people we interact with in the marketplace, once in a while you will meet Peter?

Do you notice even in your board meeting, there is a Thomas?

Do you notice there is anathaniel there?

And yet, Peter becomes the backdrop of the church.

On this rock I will build my ecclesia.

And the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

I have learned how to navigate complexities, Jesus will say, using the model of his discipleship.

Blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus.

I prophesy to every young person in this sanctuary today: receive the intelligence of networking.

Receive the intelligence is a true prayer that I'm praying for you.

Receive the intelligence of networking.

That you will avoid every political situation in your office with clarity, with power, and with eloquence of wisdom.

That you are no longer caught up in things that deflect your value and your virtue.

When it comes to navigating the corridors of your destiny, you will know how to speak, what to say, and how to receive from each and every one of them.

And I must say this that when you meet these agents within your work, Nehemiah, you will also interact with their weaknesses.

But don't forget what Paul says when he's trying to disciple the early churches, he says, We have this treasure in earthen vessels.

You will interact with the weakness of the earthen vessel, but make no mistake, there is a treasure in there.

So Samson can scoop honey from a dead carcass.

So you can persevere the smell of a cacas because you know there is honey out of it.

I speak to you in parables.

One time I was going to buy sugarcane just on the highway, and I stopped.

I told the guy, please slash for me some sugarcane.

Um, we are just on a road trip.

As I was taking that sugarcane, the Lord told me, that's a mystery of working with people.

I asked the Holy Spirit, what do you mean?

He says, learn to drink the juice and to throw away the shaft.

Everyone you meet, drink the juice.

Now, can you condemn a sugarcane because there is shaft in it?

Take the juice.

Is a wisdom to influence and navigate the complexities of people that you find themselves in.

We now close with a third one.

Number one was influence through what?

Wisdom.

Number two, influence through people.

The third one that you must catch, my fellow generation, is influence through the bloodline.

This is where we close today.

Influence through the bloodline.

Look at Psalms chapter 145, verse 3 and 4.

Psalms 145:3

Psalms 145, verse 3 and 4.

Psalms 145:3

This is what the Bible says.

Psalms chapter 3, Psalms 145, verse 3.

Psalms 3 · chapter mention Psalms 145:3

It says, Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.

And his greatness is unsuchable.

Now can we read verse 4 together in unison?

3, 2, 1, go.

One generation shall praise your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts.

One more time.

One generation shall praise your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts.

The Lord is just about to show you something.

Somebody's eyes will open now.

There is a level of influence that comes by understanding the bloodline where God ensured that you come out of.

Please follow carefully as we learned this message today.

When you go to Genesis chapter 27, you will notice that there is an indication of how God works in multiple generations.

Genesis 27 · chapter mention

This is Genesis 26, I should say.

Genesis 26.

And you notice that there is a mention of a famine, Genesis 26, 1 to 5.

That there is a mention of a famine that started in the days of Abraham.

Isaac now finds himself in a famine.

Now look at these verses.

It says, There was a famine in the land.

But besides, the first famine started when?

In the days of Abraham.

And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines in Gera.

Then the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt.

Live in the land of which I shall tell you.

Dwell in this land and I will be with you and bless you.

For to you and your descendants I will give these lands and I will perform the oath which I saw to your Abraham, your father.

Why am I going to bless you?

As verse 4 says, is because you are coming from a descendancy of Abraham.

Therefore, I will bless your descendants, and your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.

Look at verse 5.

I feel the Holy Ghost.

Because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my church, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Those are three things that Abraham kept.

He says he kept the Commandments.

He kept the statutes and he kept the laws, entering into the full equation of obedience.

Therefore, based on how Abraham lived, Isaac, I can now bless you.

Look at this.

Please, Nikon Kaleb, please go up there.

Um please stand on the second staircase.

Because this scripture is what this means for us.

This is the generation of Abraham, the generation of Isaac, the generation of Jacob.

Every generation has been given a mandate that they must fulfill.

For the generation of Abraham, the assignment was to receive the promise.

The assignment for the generation of Isaac was to incubate the promise.

But the generation of Jacob is to release the blessing.

That's why he needed to have 12 sons to multiply that possibility.

There is a generation, our grandparents received the promises of God.

And you notice that for Abraham to receive the promises of God, there was also a change of environment.

Because there are some instructions that come based on the environment where you are in.

Some instructions are environment dependent.

There are instructions that we cannot be able to receive when we are still in our father's house.

So he says, Come out of your father's house because there are things that are my said to you.

And when he leaves, he receives.

There is a download of a blessing that comes.

So once in a while you will notice that God can tell you to leave your workplace now through the intelligence of the spirit.

Not because sometimes he wants to increase your resources, the resources will come.

He will sometimes tell you to leave your current workplace, for instance, because when you go to the next place, you can receive the instructions clearly.

Sometimes we don't move positions because we want to increase more uh in terms of our monetary value.

We change positions so that we can receive a fresh download from God so that I'm no longer killing people with a jawbone that I should have dropped many years ago.

But for Isaac, incubate it.

Even when the famine comes, make sure you don't lose it.

Jacob, I will give you a definite impartation to have multiple children.

The multiplying effect is upon your life because what you're doing is an extension of what started with Abraham, what came to Isaac, and what came to Jacob.

I learned this, ladies and gentlemen, because this August, this September, by the grace of God, uh I'll be serving our youth ministry as a pastor five years.

By the grace of God.

In 2021, I remember that month so vividly.

When the opportunity came to step into this pastoral opportunity of service, I looked at myself and I said, you know, there is a way God calls you, and you want to give God a full list of a brother and a sister who can do it.

Because I was just a hype man and a dancer.

I wanted to be a dancer until I'm 80 years old.

I actually wanted to have a dance school where I can disciple people through dance because I had seen the power of dance, because dance became a ministry for us, it was a form of worship.

Many were healed in those days.

And the Lord now comes and says, Enter into the pastoral ministry.

So I searched, and the Lord says, The comfort that you must receive is to go back and look at how I have worked in your family.

So the so I began I began to study my family tree, and I noticed that my great-grandmother was a true woman of God who stayed put within her faith.

She did not vacillate on either side, so much so that she had a very passionate heart for the local church.

Now comes my grandfather.

My grandfather was a missionary, he hosted missionaries from all over the world.

Anyone who was concerned about having a place to settle in, he would host them.

They ensure that they created a platform together with my grandmother to ensure that missionaries have a landing place when they come to Kenya.

He was not just a missionary who is hosting other missionaries, but he was also an evangelist that preached in multiple counties in this nation.

After that, here comes my mom.

My mom is a dangerous intercessor.

Sometimes we thought we are going to point A, and then she prays without telling us, divert us to point B.

It's later on when she tells us, I prayed against that.

And now here comes Maxi.

You see, one generation shall commend its works to another.

My great-grandmother is no longer alive.

My grandfather is with Jesus as well.

But when I look at the fullness of their ministry, it equips me to go forward even in the hard days.

One of those hard days, ladies and gentlemen, is in the beginning of that 2021, I think it was October that same year.

A lady came quickly into the uh youth sanctuary and he said, How can you be a pastor?

You can never be a pastor because you were raised up by a single mom.

And that thing pierced my heart.

There are days where you go back to God for two weeks or you don't even want to pick the microphone to preach again because those words in itself can pierce you to the place of defeat.

And the Lord told me, Do you realize that you're not the first to do this?

Do you not notice that I started with your grandfather?

If your grandfather did not fail, why should you fail?

If your mother is still praying and still concerned about the matters of intercessory, how can you fail?

And therefore, we step into the stage.

Today we speak to a mother who has been praying.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, your son and your daughter shall not fail.

Let me let me declare this as I see it by the Spirit.

You will not see Jesus until you see the consolation of your son.

Your son and daughter must manifest as a consolation to your prayer.

Ah, your son and daughter must manifest as a consolation to your prayer.

Come on, clap your hands and give Jesus praise.

So when we are moving about in the places of our influence, you can see one person.

Now move with me.

You can see one person, but what is invisible are the people connected to that individual.

Now, there is a young person here that God will send to government.

You will be in the National Assembly adjudicating on behalf of God.

He will give you the spirit of discernment so that you can even be able to gauge error while others are presenting.

Now, don't fear because they will look at you as a single person.

But when you show up in those chambers of that parliament, you're coming from a deep heritage of men who have gone before you because you have taken time.

Yes, you have taken time to study your family tree, and you've noticed that the unction of governance was dropped in your family tree.

Your great-grandfather was a leader in your community, your grandfather had a measure of influence in the community.

Your parents are in governance in the marketplace.

So when he summons you to go into that parliament building, no matter the principalities and chaos that can buffet you, you can still stand for many years because they see one body, but you're part of an army.

So if you search for your purpose and you don't find it, you can find clues in your family tree.

You can find it there.

Purpose is not far-fetched.

You can know what God has called you to do by checking what he has done before.

Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And you know, ladies and gentlemen, we don't just have a physical bloodline, we also have a spiritual bloodline.

So if you don't see it in your physical bloodline, you switch quickly to your spiritual bloodline.

For instance, Parklands Baptist Church is a spiritual bloodline that releases possibilities upon us.

So it was the intelligence of the fathers to ensure, for instance, that there is a map of Africa on this altar.

In a way that this map has stayed here for many years, so that when you come to this sanctuary, you can know that you're part of a spiritual heritage that takes nations.

So your business can start on one floor in CBD, but in the next 12 years, your consultancy business is now in South Africa.

Why?

Because those resources must come to the kingdom.

Reverend Simon, we are looking forward to a time where when you come up to say that we want to plant 300 churches, immediately a young man will come and join you on the altar and say, Pastor, let this be the last time we ever announce about resources.

Here is a million dollars given by one young person from the level of grace.

Our resources are for kingdom come.

The reason why we are taking over the marketplace is not because of just our physical needs and bread and butter.

God has already sorted those things through the welfare dimension of the kingdom.

We must now yearn for more.

Spiritual heritage.

Do you notice that in our church there is a spiritual heritage of ownership that God needed to give us 10 acres of land so that when we appear as a generation, we will not be buffeted from side to side.

That we have an open space to preach the gospel.

Therefore, every young person in this season, as our church entered into ownership of this land formation, we too let me be bold and prophesy to a young person today.

By the time you are age 35, you must own land.

It's part of the redemption strategy.

Because some things can only be redeemed by ownership.

Just think about some of these buildings where there is all kinds of immoral behavior happening.

If one young person rises up and owns the building, we will pray a prayer of thanksgiving as we escort the immoral ones out of that building.

It came by ownership.

It came by ownership.

Somebody shout and say, I am in full ownership.

And therefore, may the Lord satisfy our daily needs so that we can have more keenness to the kingdom needs.

Spiritual heritage, physical heritage, influence that comes through the bloodline.

So, my fellow young people, you're not stuck, and that's why you need to honor your parents because they are carrying something that you need.

I have deep regard for my grandfather, I have deep regard for my mom.

Because I know it is from the womb of her prayers that we continue to become.

And I notice that those prayers are never lost.

Do you know that this physical land keeps count of every record of those who have gone before us?

You know, um, Reverend Simon, I've noticed that especially those parents who took time to be evangelists, they move from town to town, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God.

It seems like their children don't struggle to go to nations.

And I took time to study it, and the Lord told me it's because they are going into places where their parents already walked into.

So when the land sees the sons coming, they remember the records of their fathers.

So that land must open up.

That's why also, for us as young people, we must preach the gospel in every town, in every nation, so that we can also keep a heritage and a record for our children who are coming.

So every place I go to preach, I know I'm also storing a good record for my one-year-old daughter.

That the day she rises up to manifest her calling, she will also find the influence that she needs from the bloodline where she's coming from.

I want to declare it one more time.

You will not miss it.

You will find it in your family, and you will also find it in the spiritual house.

And therefore, ladies and gentlemen, on this auspicious youth Sunday, we have come to sound an alarm that the time for sons to manifest has come.

That you are no longer slaves, you have now become a son.

And through the pathway of influence that is molded in wisdom, that is akin to the networks of people that God sends you, with the criticality of your bloodline, then you can influence systems and structures for Jesus.

Some testimonies must come to us while we are still at 30-year-old.

Some testimonies must come before we hit our 40-year-old.

Because Jacob is still waiting for Joseph to manifest.

And the Bible says that when Jacob heard that Joseph was still alive, his spirit revived.

It is therefore a call for us to take on this word and wage war with it until we become all that God made us to be.

The question today is are you the one?

Or should we wait for another?

I pray that you become the one in Jesus' name.

Have you been blessed today?

Clap your hands and give Jesus praise.

Come on, clap your hands and give Jesus praise.

Please rise up on your feet.

Let's clap now one more time and celebrate the Lord Jesus.

Come on, if you have been blessed by the word of the Lord today.

Come on, can you clap your hands one more time, where is my generation?

Come on, clap your hands and give Jesus praise in the house today.

Hallelujah.

Please lift up your hands to Jesus.

Just close your eyes for a minute.

We're gonna pray.

This word is going to settle in your heart.

Our fathers, our mothers, our grandparents are here.

They are praying for us as we take over the buttons of ministry, the buttons of the marketplace, the buttons in the sports arena, the buttons that are in the family space, but in the space of government, in the space of business, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

With your eyes closed, right now the Holy Spirit is beginning to move just for one minute.

Somebody is just beginning to receive some dose of strength to go forward.

Please just open your heart right now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ because there is grace today.

The Holy Spirit is here, the presence of the Lord is upon us.

With your eyes closed, with your hands lifted to Jesus, the Holy Spirit is beginning to release that which you need for the season.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Oh, hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah.

Just play some strings.

Just close your eyes wherever you are.

There is grace coming.

Receive, receive it right now.

Father, let there be an awakening and a release.

Let the prophets arise.

Let the evangelists arise.

Let the apostles arise.

Kingdom agents that are not afraid to take territory.

Let the children dine with the lions.

Let the children hold the head of the cobra.

Let the children scatter the head of the serpent.

From the place of wisdom we arise.

From the place of influence through networks, we arise.

Let there be clarity of why you mounted us in that family.

I am a person who has been saying, I don't know why I was born in this family.

Bring light, let them know that there is a reason why they came through that bloodline.

In the name of the Lord Jesus, they started from the defeats of poverty, but create the altars of abundance where we break, we break the silos of defeat, we break the aisles of destruction in the name of the Lord Jesus, in the name of the Holy Ghost is in this place.

In the name of the Lord Jesus, let this message be an awakening for somebody who has been downtrodden.

You have been in a place of defeat and discouragement.

You have been in the place of being dismayed.

And you're saying, What good can come out of my life?

Will anything good come out of my life?

You are saying, Pastor, my heart has been broken many times.

We speak to that heart, my sister, arise, arise, re unroll that garment, receive a new garment of praise, receive a new garment of praise in the name of the Lord Jesus.

I'm speaking to somebody who has been auctioned.

The auctioneers came and they took over your business.

And you came to this service and you're saying, Pastor, I don't know where to go.

In this season, by the power of this message, let the God who responds, the God who heals, as it was in the days of Isaac, when he survived the days of famine from the covenant and the blessing of Abraham.

Arise, oh dear sister, arise, oh dear brother, no more depression, no more depression.

I declare to your mind no more depression.

Oh, you carry the mind of Christ, you carry the mind of Christ, my brother.

Arise, arise, my brother, arise, my brother.

You carry the mind of Christ.

We break those cards of the fear in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Somebody who has been walking with fear, you've been saying, I don't know what to do.

When you're just about to enter, fear comes, we break the backdrop of fear, there are mountains to take for Jesus, there are territories to take for Jesus, there are businesses to build for Jesus.

Oh, there is grace to take over for Jesus.

Let the root of bless be arise tonight, let the root of justice arise this afternoon.

On this day, this youth Sunday, it is no longer a normal youth Sunday.

We declare in the spiritual realms that the signs have come, the signs have come to the full manifestation of that which God desires for them.

In the name of the Lord Jesus, I declare it one more time that the sons and daughters, we are the consolation of the prayers that our parents have prayed in the name of the Lord Jesus, and therefore, any son or daughter who is in the place of addiction, we call you out from that addiction.

Arise, oh sister, arise, oh brother.

We break that iron bar.

Ah, be released now, be released now, enter into the fullness of your calling.

Woo! Glory be to Jesus! And after this message, as we live today, I declare that this message multiplies thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundredfold to the glory and honor of God's name.

In the name of Jesus Christ we pray.

Come on.

Give your clap offering to Jesus one more time.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

There is a kind of shout.

There is a kind of shout that you make when you know that your season of manifestation has come.

As we make this shout, our father is coming to release us with a blessing.

Are you ready to shout?

Come on, tell your neighbor, give me some space.

Come on, come on, shake yourself, shake yourself.

Shake yourself now.

I give you permission to shout.

If you want to lift your chair, lift it high.

If you want to take your neighbor's hairstyle and throw it in the air, there is freedom in the house.

Are you ready?

Come on, church.

I can't hear you.

Are you ready?

As you make this shout, let every wall of Jericho come down.

Let every wall of Jericho come down.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna hallelujah now.

Look at this, look at this.

I'm gonna count.

I'm gonna count from one to five.

When we get to number five, shout like your life depends on it.

Band, are you ready?

We must do this.

Are you ready?

One, two, three, four, five.

Those who are following this service around the world, and also those who are here from this platform, you've observed a very historical moment.

We've been praying for our young generation for many years, and this is the consummate hour, the answer to that prayer.

Why don't you give a hand to the Lord?

Thank you.

And so, I want us to just take time to appreciate the young generation of the continent, to be specific, the young people and the youth ministry of Parklands Baptist Church, also the young people in our homes, all the families represented here.

If you are following online, the families, the young people represented there, for those in the pavilion, the young people also uh you know that are represented.

This altar today acknowledges that the gift in the young people of our continent, our church, and our homes has come of age.

And this altar therefore commissions this young generation because we say during this hour of jubilee, hashtag the future starts now.

This is a consummate moment, and so this altar, represented by all of us, will take a time to just appreciate and by the hand clap also bless this young generation and also ask the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon them that as they move from here to the north, south, east, and west, and also center, they are walking with the mark of God and they shall be influencers.

We shall be influencers through wisdom, through people, through the bloodline.

Why don't you give that handclap to the Lord as we appreciate and also bless the young generation?

God bless you.

And so, on behalf of Pastor Ambrose, myself, the Father Figures, Pastors and Deacons Board of this church, the church council, the trustees, Parklands Baptist Church, we rededicate ourselves to mentor, to disciple, to bless the young generation of the city, of the church, and also of the continent.

And the next 50 years, part of our resolute commitment is to hold the hand of the young generation and invest every resource, whether in prayer, whether in money, whether in presence, to making sure that the young generation are raised to be stars, that they are.

And let me say this because I'm making a statement here on behalf of the church.

It's a visionary statement, it is also a commitment for this church that I declare in that visionary statement that our young men and women are sons in the kingdom and that they are stars.

I declare that their star shall never be stolen.

I declare their star shall never be replaced.

I declare their star shall never be suffocated.

I am clearing a pathway for them, and I'm decreeing that they shall walk on straight paths, they shall walk on clear paths, that the doors and gates for the young people are now open.

Today is a commissioning of a young generation that is going to change the world for Jesus.

I declare that in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

If you believe with me, give an answer to the Lord.

Our God is good.

He is good.

And so, I am a happy pastor.

God has given us wonderful young people, and I see them strong, I see them mighty in the land.

Psalm 112 and verse 2.

But I also see verse 3, Psalm 112 and also verse 3 in our young generation, that wealth and riches shall dwell in their houses.

You have heard me say severally that 15 million shillings shall be a pocket change for our young people.

I say it again at this altar today, because it's something very special happening here.

And uh, therefore, the young generation who are here, receive your sons in the kingdom, your sons.

Generic for both boys, men and women, your sons in the kingdom.

You are coherents with Christ.

The wealth of God belongs to you.

It is not tomorrow, it is now.

And for the young generation, the future starts now.

And so, Maxi, you are a general.

You understand the vision of this church, you understand the calling of this church, you understand the mantle of this church.

You understand that as fathers, we did not put this map here in vain.

It represents a vision, it represents a calling.

We did not put this verse here, arise and shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is written upon you.

And verse 3 also saying, Nations will come to your light and keep to the rising of your down.

We never did it in vain.

The Lord showed us very clearly.

And so I feel the moment has come in the same way uh Samuel the prophet went to David's home.

It was the house of Jesse.

And he waited for this young man who was 17 years old to come from the flock uh area and come home.

And then he took the horn of oil, and then he poured oil on David.

That oil poured on David was royal oil, you know.

And today, on behalf of Pastor Ambrose and myself, I pour a royal oil on our young generation right here in our homes and also across the continent in the name of Jesus Christ.

And when that oil came upon the general and upon all the young people, Deacon seconded also, Caleb Bet, and among the others in the youth ministry, kingship entered, sonship and kingship, and royalty, the Spirit of God descend upon David.

Young people who are listening to me online and also here around the world today receive royal anointing in Jesus' name.

From here you're going as influencers, and you shall influence, you shall influence villages, you shall influence families, whether through service by cooking a meal or through the sight wisdom, you know, or speech wisdom.

You shared that in the first service.

I decree and declare you are influencers, and you're going out to make a difference for Jesus Christ.

Today, something new has started, something is arising in the house.

The young people, the mantle is upon you.

Don't be afraid.

Go forth and make that difference.

Fathers and mothers and grandfathers and mothers and guardians and mentors who agree with me.

Now clap to the Lord as we bless this young generation in Jesus' name.

Glory to God.

Glory to God.

Glory to God.

It's the hour for the young people.

And I see I see all of you here.

Glory to God.

This is really wonderful, really great.

And glory to God for those who are following online, everywhere around the world, in Europe, in Asia, uh in Australia, where else?

In New Zealand, in South America, North America, Canada, and uh USA, Central America, across Africa.

You're following this service.

This uh mantle, this blessing has also been uh uh released to you.

The future hashtag the future starts now.

Carry the mantle, work with it, make that difference for the glory of God.

Congregation, you are blessed on Monday, you are blessed on Tuesday, you are blessed on Wednesday, you are blessed on Thursday, you are blessed on Friday, you are blessed on Saturday.

This coming Sunday, you are coming with a testimony.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, and I declare no weapon fashioned against you this week shall prosper.

The enemy may come in one direction, but shall be scattered in seven directions.

This is your week of breakthrough.

God is coming through.

That which has delayed, the Lord is accelerating in your direction.

And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore.

Amen.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever and ever.

Amen.

Shalom.