2024-03-03_Sunday 2nd Service: Open Door Design. By PBC Senior Pastor, Rev. Ambrose Nyangao

We are reading from the book of Mark, chapter 2.

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We are reading from verse 1 to 12.

Amen, and again, he entered Kepanaum after some days and it was hard that he was in the house Immediately.

Many gathered together so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door, and he preached the word to them.

Then they came to him bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men, and when they could not come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was.

So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic Son, your sins are forgiven you.

And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts why does this man speak blasphemous like this?

Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

But immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that there were their reason thus within themselves, he said to them why do you reason about these things in your hearts?

Which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven you, or to say arise, take up your bed and walk, but that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins.

He said to the paralytic I say to you, arise, take up your bed and go to your house.

Immediately he arose, took up the bed and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying we never saw anything like this.

This is God's word and God's people say amen.

This month, the theme for the month is open door design.

Open door design.

The sub theme is uplifted kingdom blueprint.

So we are talking about design.

We are also talking about blueprint.

In other words, we want to mention to you that for you to be able to see vision that was what we did in January for you to be able to have declaration and authority, it needs to come out of a certain design, a certain blueprint that God has created for us.

And I want you to know, as this message comes to you, that you are very special in the eyes of God.

And this month, as we talk about this design, I want you to know that God is going to reposition you, god is going to reset you, god is going to place you in a place you did not imagine, because you are designed by God.

I am saying you are designed by God.

I'm saying you're designed by God, hallelujah.

This goes back to Genesis, chapter one.

Let me read those verses so that you can just get the background of this design.

The Bible says in Genesis, chapter one, verse 26 this is a verse you know very well, and the Bible says this that God had already created quite a number of things.

And as he was now finishing, on the sixth day, the Bible says then God said let us make man in whose image, in our image, according to our likeness.

And then he said let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air and over the cattle.

In verse 27 he now then says so God created man in his own image, in the image of God.

He created him male and female.

He created them.

In other words, man, who is male, is created in whose image, in God's image.

The word man is actually the word Adam.

So he's saying the male is created in the image of God.

Let me ask is the female created in the image of God?

Are you sure, are you confident?

You see that's what the Bible says.

Male and female.

He created them.

And then when God creates something, when God designs something, then God blesses it.

So in the next verse.

The Bible says then God bless them and God said to them be fruitful, in other words, be productive, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it and have dominion First forward.

This in chapter two of Genesis.

Chapter two says this again, giving a different perspective of creation.

And this is what it says from verse one, if I may read thus the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished.

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.

And it's important for you to see the the order, that God blessed Adam before he blessed the seventh day.

So let me say to the people on this side God blessed Adam before he blessed the seventh day.

That is why sometimes you can get stuck on a day and forget the man.

So you can imagine when this man, who was healed by Jesus on the seventh day, people started having a very difficult time and Jesus said isn't, isn't it okay to to heal somebody on the seventh day, because God blessed the man first, before he blessed the day.

And so the Bible says then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

In the day that the Lord God made earth and the heavens.

But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground, the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put who the man?

Hallelujah.

And verse five.

If you can go back for me to verse five, the Bible says this in verse five uh, two, five.

It says this um, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any hub of the field had grown, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth.

And there was what?

No, no man.

There was no man.

So, in other words, all God had created before man was to prepare for who?

For the man?

Don't value cars more than you value people.

So the?

Was the car created for the man or was the man created for the car?

Now, english is difficult, so let me ask again between the car and the man, who is more important?

Who makes the car valuable?

Thank you, jesus.

Now it doesn't matter what kind of house you live in, you make that house valuable, hallelujah.

You are important, you are designed by God, and God said all these things he designed for this man and that is why God took time to create man in his own image, in his own likeness.

And the devil has taken a lot of time to crash this man, to crash God's design and tell you that you're nothing, you're not amount to anything, but God is saying you're special.

The Bible says this in Psalms, chapter eight, verse four, about man again and how he created man.

And the Bible says this.

He says what is man that you are, what mind?

Full of him?

And because of someone, like you heard me say earlier, god's mind is full of who.

It's not full of the stars, it is not full of the moon, it is full of who Of man.

You are important to God, you are created in His design.

What is man that you are?

Mindful of?

Him and the Son of man, that you visit Him.

Look at verse 5, for you have made Him a little lower than what Than angels.

Now, like I said in the earlier service, that word angels is a very interesting word because in normal language, in the Bible, angels in Hebrew are called malachi, malachi.

Now, the book called Malachi, the last book in the Old Testament, is called Malachi because the word Malachi means messenger and so Malachi in Hebrew means a messenger, and angels are what Messengers?

Now we have borrowed from Hebrew.

In Kiswahili, angels are called what?

Malaiqa?

From the word Malachi, messenger, malachi, malaiqa, malaiqa Nakupenda Malaiqa Messengers, tell your neighbor, don't be distracted.

But this word here, angels, is not the word Malachi, it's the word Elohim, and Elohim means who Means gone, and so man is created a little lower than Than who Say the word God.

Let me read this in the amplified version so that you can see how important you are in God's design.

In the amplified, it said yet you have made him a little lower than Than God and you have crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands.

You have put all things under his feet.

In other words, god is not comparing you to angels, god is comparing you to himself, because it is through God he says let us make man in our image and in our likeness and let them have dominion the way we have dominion.

You are special, you are designed by somebody that is very key and that is none other than God himself.

So don't lower yourself.

Tell your neighbor I am designer made.

Hallelujah, I'm designer made.

And you know if you have designer shoes or designer clothes, they tend to be very expensive.

True, because of the name.

You have to know.

You are very expensive because of the name you carry, and that's the name of Jesus Christ, the king of kings and the Lord of lords.

Come on, let's give God a big hand.

And that is why this month, as we talk about open door design, begin to think of it from that angle.

God has a blueprint.

God planned for you, the Bible says, before you were born, god saw you.

God formed you in your mother's womb.

God already had a blueprint, god already had a purpose for you.

God already knew why you are coming to this planet at this time.

God knew you should not be born in 1820.

God knew you need to be born in this century because there is a reason and there is a purpose.

Aren't you glad that God thought about you?

God thought about you, and so the Bible says that when Jesus Christ had come on this planet, that he was turning people around to himself, that he is the door.

Jesus is the door.

So in Mark, chapter 1, verse 33, the Bible says this Jesus is on earth.

Mark 1:33

And the Bible says this about him.

He says the whole town gathered where At the door Not a physical door, but the door and the door is Jesus.

The Bible says this in the next verse.

And Jesus healed many who had various diseases.

He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.

You see, the devil came to destroy God's design.

The devil came to distort God's design.

When you see somebody who is running around, that's not what God created.

When you see somebody addicted with alcohol and he's down, down, down, down, that's not what God created.

God created that person for something special, but the enemy distorts that image.

And so Jesus Christ came to restore and to bring us back to his ultimate design, his creative design.

You are created by God, you are loved by God, you are blessed by God.

So in chapter two, when people are coming to him, the Bible says there were these four friends.

So let me go to chapter two.

They had the paralyzed friend of theirs and they knew that this paralyzed man should not be the way he is, and so they brought him to Jesus.

When they came, they found every place crowded.

There's no door open.

So they go up the roof and open the roof and bring this man where Jesus was at.

And so, to summarize my thoughts today, I want you to remember four things.

All right, there were four friends, but I want you to remember four things.

Number one that design defined, that design located.

That design deflected.

That design activated.

That design defined, that design located.

That design deflected, that design activated.

I want to start with the first one the design defined.

And that is why, in Mark two, verse two, it's very key there, because when they brought these people around Jesus, the Bible says, they gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and Jesus preached the word to them.

No philosophy, he preached the word to them.

And let me tell you this it is the word of God that defines your design.

Let me say that one more time it is the word of God that defines the word, it defines who you are, it defines why you are here, it defines where you are going, and so don't look for your design anywhere else.

It is found where, in the word of God, in the word of God, in the word of God.

Hallelujah, you may be the first born and you may be the last born, you may be the only child, and sometimes you define yourself according to where, how you are born.

Now, some of us we were born in a polygamist family.

You have a father, you have about six mothers, and maybe your mother was the sixth one and in that family you're the last born, hello.

And sometimes you define yourself and tell yourself by the way, I will not get anywhere because the children of the first mother were educated before you showed up and you are not educated.

And you define yourself and say I wish I was not born like this.

Now let me tell you this God knows your design.

I'm saying God knows your design.

And sometimes in family planning, sometimes people plan very well, they really plan.

Tell your neighbor, they plan, and sometimes they plan and say we're going to have four children.

So they have child number one, then child number two, then child number three, then child number four and they are fine.

They say God has answered our prayers, we are talking God.

And then suddenly the wife finds that she is pregnant, unexpected pregnancy, and some husbands get very agitated, very upset that a child has been conceived who was not supposed to be conceived, and it brings chaos in the house and from day one, that child who has been conceived, even though the child is in the womb, can hear the fights of the father and the mother and said you should not have given birth to this one.

You should not have.

We finished, thank you.

This is a child who was not thought of.

When that child is born, he's always reminded, she's always reminded you are not supposed to be in this family.

Can you imagine how that child grows up and says I was born out of place?

Let me tell you this the family of Jesse experienced the same thing.

You remember the story of David and the seven brothers and why he was forgotten?

Because, I believe, because of Simon, jesse had decided to have seven sons and he had all of them early up and all this.

And they were counted and they reached seven and Jesse said Kwisha, normalizer.

And then suddenly another child was conceived David.

I believe Jesse never thought of David.

No wonder David?

The word David means beloved.

Now, who do you think named David?

The father or the mother?

You see the mothers are talking.

David had to be told you are your beloved, these are the brothers.

Don't think about you.

Your dad never thinks about you and all that.

So it was an afterthought.

Tell your neighbor in Jesus' name, you are not an afterthought, hallelujah.

So God sent Samuel to go to Jesse to find a king.

Very interesting, let me show you.

First Samuel, chapter six, verse one.

This is what the Bible said.

He thought, he defined, he thought of this particular person.

The Bible says in first Samuel, first Samuel, chapter six, not sorry, not six, 16, 16,.

I'm in the wrong chapter, chapter 16.

The Bible says this 16, verse one, 16,.

The Lord said to Samuel how long will you mourn for Saul Since I have rejected him as king over Israel?

Fill your home with oil and be on your way.

I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem.

I have chosen one of his sons.

Who chose him?

God, I've chosen one of his sons.

Just go back.

Go back.

I've chosen one of his sons to be what?

To be king?

Seven brothers.

There is an afterthought.

But God passed all the seven to this afterthought and said this is king, verse six of that chapter.

The Bible says this when they arrived, samuel saw Eliab and thought surely the Lord's anointed stands here before the Lord.

But the Lord said to Samuel do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him.

The Lord does not look at the things people look at.

People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him passed in front of Samuel.

But Samuel said the Lord has not chosen this one either.

Jesse then had Shama passed by, but Samuel said no, has the Lord chosen this one?

Jesse had seven of his sons passed before Samuel, but Samuel said to him the Lord has not chosen this.

So he asked Jesse, are these all the sons you have?

Does it take a father to be asked that question?

Hello, and the Bible says there is still the youngest.

Jesse answered he is tending the ship.

Samuel said sent for him, we will not sit down until he arrives.

So he sent for him and had him brought in.

He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features.

Then the Lord said rise and anoint him.

This is the one.

I pray that in this service, god will be able to point at you and say this is the one.

Hallelujah, this is the one I have designed.

Let me tell you this that devil has no part in your life.

The Bible says that thief comes to steal, kill and destroy.

There's nothing the devil created.

There's nothing that the devil formed.

Whatever he has, he stole it, hello, but God designed you.

I know what God designs, he possesses what he possesses, he empowers.

What he empowers, he releases.

Let me tell you this you're special to God.

I'm saying you're special to God In Jesus' name.

Gideon also felt that he was not chosen, but God defined him.

You see, when we preach the word of God, that word defines you.

In Judges, chapter six, verse two, the angel meets Gideon.

And this is what it tells Gideon in Judges six, verse 12.

The Bible says this very quickly Judges, judges six, 12.

Hello, okay, it's coming, judges six, 12.

But anyway, while it's still coming, god spoke to this man and he said Gideon, you are a mighty man of valor.

I'm talking to somebody right now.

I'm saying to you, lady, you are a mighty woman.

I didn't know.

This is the month of women, hello.

So look at your neighbor who is a lady.

Tell them you're a woman of valor.

Tell them you're a mighty woman of valor.

There's a husband who has just talked to the wife and said yes, it is very true, you're a mighty woman of valor.

Now look at the man who is next to you and tell that man you're a mighty man of valor, you're special, yes, but you know, gideon said ah, ah.

So let me read the next verse, verse 13.

The Bible says pardon me, my Lord.

Gideon replied but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us?

Where are all his wonders that our ancestors sold us about when they said did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?

He has a lot of excuses, but let me tell you this regardless of the excuses you have, you're God's design.

You're God's special design.

It doesn't matter if you didn't finish high school, it doesn't matter if you failed your exams, it doesn't matter if you don't have a job.

You are God's design For a time such as as this.

So let the word define you.

Don't let culture define you.

Don't let the experiences of life define you.

Don't let your education define you.

Let God himself define you.

But very quickly, the Bible says that the next thing design, law, and the law.

The next thing, design located.

One of the things that locates design is what I want to read now.

Mark, chapter two, verse five.

The Bible says this very quickly Ah, mark, chapter two.

When Jesus saw the faith of the four guys, he said to the paralyzed man son, your sins are forgiven.

When Jesus saw their faith.

I want to tell you this it is faith that locates you to your design.

The Bible says in Hebrews, chapter 11, verse six, talking about faith.

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This is what it says about faith.

Let me tell you this faith is very important.

Faith is key.

It says that without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who honestly seek him.

Faith, faith, faith, faith.

You know, some of us get paralyzed because of the facts of life.

Let me tell you this Don't let facts hold you down.

Let faith set you free.

The Bible says you shall know the truth and the truth shall do what.

So don't get stuck with facts.

Find that truth and you'll find out that truth overrides facts.

I'm saying truth overrides facts and truth is what releases faith.

Let me read you this story in Mark, chapter five, about this lady and you know about the story of this lady is the woman who had an issue of blood.

From verse 25,.

The Bible says this about this woman Mark, there we are, and the woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years.

In other words, she walked with a fact of disease for 12 years.

I hope you're getting what I'm saying.

This was a fact and it was very difficult to change it.

And the Bible says yet she had suffered a great deal under the care of who Many doctors and had spent all she had.

Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.

The Bible says when she heard about Jesus oh, I like that.

When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak because she had been thinking in her mind if I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.

The Bible says in verse 29,.

Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.

At once, jesus realized that power had gone out from him.

He turned around in the crowd and asked who touched my clothes?

You see the people crowding against you.

His disciples answered.

And yet you ask who touched me?

But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.

Let me tell you this Jesus loves it when you give a testimony of what he has done for you.

This woman had a fact for 12 years stuck in that fact.

But she met Jesus the door.

She met Jesus, the truth.

Jesus himself said I am the way, the truth and the life.

And when she connected with the truth, the fact of life shifted.

The fact changed and the reality of her design showed up in her life and she knew something had happened.

Jesus also knew power had come out and Jesus was waiting for her to testify.

The Bible says for they defeated the devil by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.

The moment to testify, something shifts, something happens.

The Bible says within, the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth and he said to her daughter your faith has healed you, go in peace and be freed from your suffering.

Daughter, your faith has healed you.

I'm saying the same thing, daughter, son, your faith has given you a promotion.

Your faith has opened a door for you.

Your faith has taken you to the next level.

Your faith remember it is not Pastor Ambrose's faith, it is your faith.

Ambrose may have the power, but you need the faith.

Hallelujah your faith.

Believe God, believe you the design he has for you.

Jeremiah had a very difficult time receiving that.

Listen to what God said about him In Jeremiah, chapter 1,.

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I'm reading from verse 5.

The Bible says this very quickly, jeremiah.

This is he's saying, and you know he kept saying hey, I'm nothing, I'm only this, I cannot do this, I cannot do that.

And then God said before I formed you in the womb, I knew you Before you were born, I set you apart, I appointed you as a prophet to the nation.

Then Jeremiah replies he says, allah's sovereign Lord.

I say I do not know how to speak, I am too young.

But the Lord said to him do not say I am too young, you must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.

Tell your neighbor, faith will set you free.

Tell your neighbor, faith is the key.

And I'll tell your neighbor, faith will locate you to your divine design.

Hallelujah, yes, in that conversation.

Now let me continue reading the next verse, verse Mark, chapter 2, verse 5.

Mark 2:5

The Bible says this remember when Jesus saw their faith.

He said to the paralyzed man son, your sins are forgiven.

Now, immediately.

There's some people who are always in religious meetings and where Jesus is concerned and they create problems.

Now some teachers of the law were sitting there thinking to themselves.

Now let me read this in the New King James Version because, let me tell you this there are certain thoughts, certain thinking.

Let me call them thinking.

Is there a word like that?

How do you say certain thinking?

Oh, thoughts.

In this verse he says reasonings.

So let me read it.

So go back to verse 6.

New King James and some of the scribes were sitting there and doing what Reasoning in their hearts?

And they were saying why does this man speak?

Blasphemies like this?

Who can forgive sins but God alone?

And then verse 8.

But immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit, they reasoned thus within themselves.

He said to them why do you reason about these things in your hearts?

Which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven you.

Or to say a rise, take up your bed and walk.

Reasonings why am I saying this?

I'm saying this because this Number one, the word, will define your design.

Faith will locate you to your design, but let me tell you this Reasonings will deflect your design.

There are certain thoughts that come in your head.

You don't need people around you.

Sometimes it is people around you.

You tell them you're about to do something and all kinds of reasonings enter and they deflect.

And let me tell you this there are some people living today, right now, not because of the truth of God, but because of their reasonings, because of their thoughts.

No wonder God said in Isaiah my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither my ways, your ways.

And God is saying change your mind.

The Bible says in Romans, chapter 12, verse 2.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, don't think the way the world thinks.

You are not poor.

I'm saying you're not poor.

I'm saying you're not poor and you're not broke.

You just have a deficiency of fans.

Hallelujah, don't.

Don't say, don't walk around saying those kinds of things oh, I'm broke, I am poor, you're not poor.

You are God's design.

You are designed by God.

Hallelujah, you're designed by God.

Let me tell you this there may be a Mercedes Benz here, a Mercedes I don't know the classes, but there's a nice Mercedes Benz.

Everything is just together, very nice, you know, and it is expensive, but it is at the parking lot, not going anywhere.

Let me tell you this the owner of the Mercedes then enters the Mercedes and gives the Mercedes value by driving it.

Let me tell you this God created you in his image.

God put you together and you are so expensive, but you are going nowhere.

And then God decided to enter you.

God entered.

You Tell your neighbor, god entered you.

So every day you walk around, remember there's somebody inside you driving you.

Who is that God Believe?

Who lives inside you.

Sometimes you'll find ladies who come and they want to pray for their husbands.

Opus Sambru prays for my husband.

He needs to get saved, so I pray for them.

Hello.

So we pray, we pray for this husband to get saved.

And before the wife even spoke, they said you know, pray for my husband.

He has a demon.

I am my husband.

There's a demon at home, you know, and sometimes you wonder which demon?

How could, how did you marry a demon, you know?

And so we pray and say Lord Jesus, touch this man, save him, deliver him.

And then the wife goes back home and, rather than believing that God has had her prayer, still refers to his husband.

You demon I'm not talking to wives Never refer to your husband as a demon.

There is no demon in him, there is God in him.

I'm saying there is a God in him.

He may be behaving badly, but God is in him, god who created him, god who made him.

No wonder you fell in love with him, because you saw the God in him.

Hello, god has this Mercedes and God enters it, and you are that Mercedes and God wants to drive you to where he wants you to go.

He designed you, he made you, but let me tell you this our reasonings deflect God's design, and so I pray in Jesus' name you shall not deflect God's design From today.

Begin to address yourself as somebody very important In 2022,.

I wrote this book.

It's called you Are Royalty.

I don't know if you remember this book you are royalty, and it came from the vast that says for you are a chosen generation, you are a royal priesthood, you are a holy nation, you are a people belonging to God.

Carry yourself like that in Jesus' name.

Hallelujah.

Did you see how His Excellency the ambassador carried himself when he came up here?

He knows who he is.

Hallelujah, he speaks like an ambassador.

He knows the country he represents and I didn't know that he just he's here in Kenya, but he has all these other countries.

What an amazing portfolio.

Do you know who you are?

Do not deflect who you are, the design you have, because of the untruth of the world, because the world will pull you down, situations will pull you down, circumstances will pull you down.

But let me tell you this today, this week, this month.

God wants to lift you up.

God wants to lift you up.

God wants to lift you up.

And how blessed the team that is going to Angola's to be accompanied by His Excellency the ambassador himself.

Can you imagine in this world being accompanied by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords?

How do you feel?

How do you feel?

But you see, that is the truth.

God is with you.

Yes, you go home and they're about to auction your things and sometimes you feel so bad, oh Jehovah, god, may the cushionier stop.

Oh God, stop them.

Oh God, let them not take my things, let them not sell my things.

What you do not know is this that God would like them to auction your things because they are too old.

He wants to bring new ones.

Hallelujah, he wants to bring new ones.

It's only that you don't think like that, because you think loss, you think this thing is going, but God wants to do something new.

Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.

Behold, I'm doing a new thing.

Do you not perceive it?

God is saying perceive it.

Perceive it.

Oh, yes, perceive it.

Don't look at yourself in the mirror and say, oh God, why, why did you make me?

Why, jehovah, why?

And God is saying, quine, what is the problem?

I have such a big nose, oh God, it's so big I cannot see in front.

And God is saying don't worry, I gave you a big nose because you have small lungs, hello, and I want more air to go in.

I gave you a big nose because when you put your specs on, they need to stay there.

You know some people, when you pick on this, they just slide out and God's saying I made you for a particular purpose.

There is a reason why God made you tall, god made you short.

God made you the size you are because God designed you for a purpose.

Don't try to change yourself.

God made you for a purpose.

So all these things that deflect God's design, they deflect God's design because the people of the world do that.

You know.

They tell you for you to be beautiful, for you to be just a model, you have to be a Coca-Cola model, hello.

Who said you have to be a Coca-Cola model?

Sometimes you just need to be a Jerican.

You know, god is an amazing God.

Sometimes you carry more in a Jerican than you carry in a Coca-Cola bottle.

Hallelujah, god is good.

Why should the world define us.

Why should the world define that people who are lighter are better and people who are darker are not?

Why should the world define that?

Let God define you in Jesus name.

Just look at each other.

What you're looking at is God's design.

It's God's design.

By the time this month is over, your self-esteem will change, hallelujah.

You may be as dark as Alex Barton, but I'm telling you it is for a purpose, hallelujah.

The only time that he can be seen in the dark is when he smiles.

But I want to tell you this God is a good God.

Hi, alex.

Reasonings, ah reasonings, and there are many.

You open magazines.

Oh, you have to be in this house.

You have to be in that house, and you sometimes walk around saying why was I born?

You are created in God's image.

You are recreated in God's likeness.

Let not the devil lie to you.

You are special.

You are a treasure in the sight of God, in Jesus name.

But I want to finish by saying this the word of God defines you.

Faith locates you.

Human reason will deflect you, but the spoken word will activate you into God's design.

Let me read Mark 10, mark 2, verse 10, as we prepare to pray.

Mark 2:10

Are you need telling something?

Yes, is something landing where you are?

Yes, in Jesus name, oh, in this month of March, you are marching into your miracle, you are marching into your breakthrough.

In Jesus name, you are going through.

I'm saying you are going through In Jesus name.

That verse says this, but that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins.

He said to the paralytic, he said something, he spoke, and this is what he said.

I say to you arise, take up your bed and go to your house.

The Bible says immediately and for some people I pray that it is in this service immediately.

Immediately, acceleration is about to take place.

Immediately.

Something will happen in your life Immediately.

He arose, took up the bed and went out in the presence.

In other words, he did not define himself anymore, according to what people are saying.

He had an external problem that was brought about by an internal problem.

He needed his sins to be forgiven.

He needed to see himself in a new light.

The moment he saw that light, his physical body stood up and he walked, and the people were amazed and they glorified God, hallelujah.

I want to talk about a certain Tanzanian that you do not know about.

I know that the marathon was ongoing in Tokyo, hallelujah.

And there are these marathons and the marathon is about 42 kilometers.

Whatever that is, is it 42 kilometers or miles?

42 kilometers.

There is a Tanzanian who blew my mind as I read his story.

You don't know him.

You may know Elid Kipchogge and you may know other people.

There is this Tanzanian called John Steven Aquari.

I don't know if you've ever heard of that person, john Steven Aquari.

He ran in the Olympics in 1968.

Some of you are not born, but he ran in Mexico City, the Olympics, and when he was running, there were 75 marathons who were running and then, in 1957, finished.

There was an Ethiopian who won that race at two hours 20 minutes, but John Steven, as he was running at 19 kilometers, he fell down, he hit the pavement, he bruised his knee and dislocated it.

He also hit his shoulder and it was quite hard, and so he started running with a dislocated knee and decided he is not stopping.

He ran and ran 42 kilometers in that pain.

When the first marathona arrived, two hours 20 minutes people celebrated.

They were so excited.

But do you know what time?

John Steven arrived an entire hour later, at three hours and 25 minutes.

That's when Steven was entering the stadium.

By that time, most people had left.

At that time, even the journalists were leaving.

But somebody said there is a marathona who has not finished because he finished last and he's coming in and he's limping up to the tape.

And when he hit the tape and he was sitting down, the journalists just the way they are came to interview him and they said excuse me, john Steven, how come you finished last?

This is what he said and I really like this quote.

You can read it elsewhere.

This is what he said my country, tanzania, did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race.

They sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race.

That is a man who got to hear God saying arise, pick up your bed and walk.

What has happened to you?

Maybe you fell at 19 kilometers?

You have dislocated your knee.

Your shoulder is hurting.

Why should you finish this race?

Why, it is the Olympics.

The whole world is looking at it, but inside you are saying the nation of Tanzania did not call me to start the race.

They sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race.

I will arise, I will pick up my bed, I will run, I will finish.

This is why you are designed not to start but to finish, and she is our name.

And she is our name and she is our name.

So look at your neighbor.

Tell your neighbor don't stay there, rise up, pick up your bed and walk.

Finish the race.

You are designed for that and she is our name.

Also, speak the right words, activate yourself, rise up and let the miracle be your push.

So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor.

Pastor has talked about four things.

These are the four things.

So let me tell you by the word your what Defined by faith.

Your what Located by human reason Defined.

You are deflected by the spoken word of faith.

Your what that is your portion.

Come on, let's give God a big hand Now.

Let's stand on our feet.

This is going to be an exciting month.

So tell your neighbor we are marching into God's blessings and if you don't join me, you can stay, but I'm going for it.

Amen, amen.

How many of you are believing that, starting this afternoon, your miracle is coming your way?

Jesus name, jesus name.

Why don't you take a minute just to utter a word of thanksgiving to God for what you have heard, and then I will pray for us and release us in Jesus.

Just speak out from your mouth and just tell God, thank you.

Tell God, thank you.

Tell God, thank you, father, we bless you.

What a day, what a day.

What a day.

We shall arise, we shall pick up our bed, we shall walk, and I'm praying, even for somebody online.

Maybe you are in a situation where you gave up.

You are no longer running.

You fell at 19 kilometers, you're not going any farther, but today the spoken word is coming your way, saying arise, pick up your bed.

Alright, goodbye.

Maybe you are retrenched and now you're sitting at home in despair, but this afternoon I speak a word of faith into your life and I say listen, the world may have retrenched you, but God has not retrenched you.

So arise, pick up your bed and walk.

Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.

God is doing a new thing just for you.

Father.

We thank you, father, we bless you and Father, we honor you.

You are a good God.

Lord, we are entering into this month of March.

May you define us, may your word define us.

May our faith locate us.

Lord, we shall not enter into reasonings, human reasonings and philosophies, dear Lord.

We are going to speak instead the word of God and it shall activate us to a new season and a new place.

So thank you for speaking to us, o God, thank you for the miracles that are coming our way, thank you for the testimonies that are coming our way.

Something good is just about to happen and, father, we receive it in the mighty name of Jesus.

If you receive it, you better say I receive it, I take it, it is my portion, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.

Ah, now give God a big hand and just tell him thank you, amen.

Come on, give God a big thank you.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Tell the righteous it shall be well.

Yes, it shall be well for you In Jesus' name.

It shall be well for you watching us online In the pavilion.

It shall be well.

It shall be well.

Don't give up.

It shall be well.

It shall be well In Jesus' name.

Amen, amen, take it, it is your portion.

Amen, walk out with a smile, with your head up.

You are an ambassador of the kingdom of God.

Hallelujah.

I would like us to appreciate His Excellency, the ambassador one more time for the door he has opened for us.

Amen, amen, amen.

So pray for their journey as they go and travel, and we thank God Also for many of you in the congregation who are flying out this week travel well, I'm saying it by faith, yes, I'm saying it by faith.

And for those who have just traveled in, welcome Hallelujah.

And all those who have gone as far as Kino, welcome.

We appreciate you.

So I want to release us with the words of the benediction, but I'm so glad, pastor Simon, because this month is an amazing month.

Yes, this month God is doing a new thing.

Yes, forget the former things.

Remember we are designed.

We are designed.

Therefore, have your vision, declare it, authorize it and your design will be actualized.

Hallelujah In Jesus' name, because let me tell you this God is a very good God, amen.

And the Bible says that God wants you to look like him.

So tell your neighbor I look like God, I see like God, I think like God, I speak like God, I act like God, I am power like God, I live like God.

I live like God.

That's my design, that's my design In Jesus' name, amen, amen.

So lift up your hands as we release you.

Father, thank you, thank you for that, this word.

It has blessed my spirit and I know it has blessed our spirits.

Lord, help us to get away from reasonings, philosophies, the negatives of this world, the facts that seem to paralyze us.

Let us get to know the truth.

May that truth that we get to know set us free.

And now, in the name that is above every name, I decree this blessing to each one of you.

May the Lord bless you.

May the Lord make his face to shine upon you.

May the Lord be gracious to you.

May the Lord bless you when you come in, bless you when you go out, bless you when you rise up, bless you when you sit down.

Your Monday is blessed.

Your Tuesday is blessed.

Your Wednesday is blessed.

Your Thursday is blessed.

Your Friday is blessed.

Your Saturday is blessed.

Sunday, you're coming back with a testimony in the name of Jesus Christ.

In the name of Jesus Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, we have blessed you.

And, of course, people say Amen.

Look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor, surely goodness and mercy Shall follow you all the days of your life, all the days of your life, and you shall dwell in the house of the Lord Forever, forever, and there's nothing the devil can do about it.

You are blessed To be a blessing.

You are favored To be favorable.

You are lifted To lift others up.

Jesus, that's your portion.

In Jesus name, amen, amen and amen to grace Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit Be with us now and forevermore.

Amen Shalom.