2023-01-14_Sunday 2nd Service. The Uplifted Open Door. By PBC Senior Pastor, Rev. Ambrose Nyangao

It's good to be here this Sunday and, pastor Simon, like you said, many people have come.

We thank God that we are still having a family Sunday and all of us are here so that we can cast the vision.

And your path is to do what?

Catch it.

Amen, Don't duck, don't, don't, don't help us Catch the vision.

We want to read John, chapter 10, verse 1 to 10.

John 10:1–10

It's part of our passage this year.

We want to talk today about the uplifted open door and I want to read those verses.

There are 10 verses.

This is Jesus speaking Very truly.

I tell you, pharisees, anyone who does not enter the ship pen by the gate but climbs in by some other way is a thief and a robber.

The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the ship.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him and the ship listen to his voice.

He calls his own ship by name and leads them out.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them.

May the Lord go ahead of us and his ship follow him because they know his voice, but they will never follow a stranger.

In fact, they will run away from him because they do not cognize a stranger's voice.

Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees do not understand what he was telling them.

Therefore, jesus said again very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the ship.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the ship have not listened to them.

I am the gate.

Whoever enters through me will be saved.

They will come in and go out and find pasture.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

This is God's word.

God's people say amen, amen, please, you may be seated across this campus at the pavilion, youth sanctuary, overflow and right here, and God bless you big time.

Shall we pray, father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I really want to thank you because I know that you're an awesome, awesome God and you have an awesome word for each one of us.

It is my prayer, o God, that, as this your servant stands, that it is not his thoughts, his ideas that will prevail, but that your word will have access through him to the people of God.

The Bible says that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word, every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, may your word proceed this afternoon.

May you minister to us at our levels, lord, as we begin the year, as we are seeking fast your kingdom and your righteousness, may these other things that do occupy our minds be added to us, because we sought you fast.

And so, holy Spirit, these are your people.

Touch them, speak to me, speak to them, glorify yourself in the word today, in the name that is above every name, we have prayed and believed and God's people say amen.

Let's give God another big hand.

Let's appreciate him.

Last Sunday, we talked about unveiling the theme for the year.

Why is this theme important?

The theme is important because we want to be of one mind and one spirit as we journey this journey.

Of course, like you know, we have theme visions from many churches, different churches, and the reason why God gives you a theme vision is for you, for you, particularly in this place.

Sometimes we tend to run with about 10 visions from different churches and make them ours and tell your neighbor, god is not a God of confusion.

I'll tell you, neighbor, god is a God of order.

There's a reason why you come to Parklands, there's a reason why you connect to Parklands and when you do, connect to that which God releases where Parklands Baptist is concerned, and we're not just releasing the vision.

Especially now, in the year and the season of the internet and the online platform, we know that many, many themes and many words are going across the world and the reason why God created the online platform and limited this God owns the internet.

I'm saying God owns the internet.

That thief and the robber, who is the devil, just sneaks in and passes his own things on something that God established long ago.

Why?

Because Jesus is coming back soon.

We used to wonder how everybody in the world would hear the gospel Right now.

That is very true.

That is not very clear.

People are connecting from all over the languages and things like that.

Why?

Because Jesus is coming back soon and he may come back this year.

Of course, some of you are praying and saying not this year, because this is the particular year you're planning to get married.

So you're saying not this year.

I have to get married before Jesus shows up.

And whether he comes this year Alex, thank you Jesus or whether he comes another time, let's leave like he is coming.

Amen.

We unveil the vision, the year of the Lord's uplifted open door, and again I'm saying it is a door, not doors.

There is no S at the end.

It's a door, and it's a big door, and it is a very important door because it is the access to the things that God has in store for us.

One of the things that God wants to do this year is to make things move very fast, and that is why the watchword is the word accelerate, hallelujah.

No wonder the rain is raining in January instead of April.

Thank you, lord.

God is accelerating situations because God wants to do new things in your life a new season, new possibilities.

We are talking about the open door and we've talked about John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, who later became an apostle, who later, many years later in his life, was going through a very discouraging and dark moment in time, but God, in his good pleasure, opened his eyes to see another realm, an amazing realm.

Let me tell you this we are not the only ones around this world.

There's a realm around us, a very real realm, where angels, demons, spirits, all kinds of things, are moving.

But God is accessing us to a higher realm, and so not these low, low, low realms here.

It's a very higher realm.

That's why the door is uplifted high and lifted up.

Let me read those verses in Isaiah, chapter 6.

Isaiah 6 · chapter mention

He saw the vision and he saw heaven open.

Just a glimpse of what John would see in more detail many years later.

The Bible says this Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 1.

Isaiah 6:1

It says in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord.

Where was he?

He was high and exalted, seated on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple.

Ladies and gentlemen, when I was much younger and I used to read that verse and that train every time I saw the word train because my father worked for Kenya Railways, so you can imagine in my head I used to say just go back to verse 1.

It says this he saw heaven and the train of his robe filled the temple.

Now, I never used to see the word robe, I used to see the word train and I thought that there are trains in heaven, many trains in heaven.

That is the train, the train of his robe.

In other words, I don't know if you saw when King Charles was being put up and he had a robe and there was this.

There was a robe behind him, there's a train.

Is he like my brides when, hello, it's called a train, a train of his robe.

So he's seeing this vision of God.

He says on the train of his robe filled the entire.

I cannot imagine what kind of vision that is, but God is trying to give us a glimpse of another realm.

Look at the next verse.

Above him were what Seraphim, each with six wings.

Now, seraphim the word seraph means fire Are we together?

These were fiery angels.

And seraphim, each with six wings.

Now, we usually know that if people have wings, there are how many?

There are two, but here we're having six wings.

With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying and they were calling to one another Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty.

The whole earth is full of His glory.

The sound of their voices and doorposts and threshold shook the temple.

Let me tell you this there's a lot of noise in heaven.

I'm saying there's a lot of noise, there's a lot of sound.

There's just a lot of brightness, light, sound, all kinds of things in heaven.

And so, if you like quiet places, thank you Jesus Don't go to heaven, hello, because let me tell you this, it is a place of blessing and glory.

That's what Isaiah saw.

Now Isaiah gets so upset and then he says and the temple filled with what Smoke?

No wonder, maxi, these smoke machines, that people I think they got it from that verse the smoke filled the temple.

And then Isaiah really gets scared because he started saying oh, it's me.

I cried, I'm ruined, I'm finished.

I'm a man of unclean lips and I live among people with unclean lips.

You know, he was just shocked at what he saw.

And many of you who say, oh God, if you could just reveal yourself to me.

I just want to see you.

You don't know what you're asking, because the day he does, you're going to fall flat like Ezekiel on your face, boom, Because this is what happened to Ezekiel.

Let me read Ezekiel, then I come to Revelation.

The Bible says this in Ezekiel, chapter one God is just preparing us for a great season in time and he's giving us visions and revelations in a mighty way.

So Ezekiel, chapter one, verse one he says in the first year of King Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus, king of Persia, to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing.

All right?

Okay, now let me read this again.

In my 13th year, in the fourth month of the first day, while I was among the exiles by the Caba River, the heavens were opened and I saw what Visions of God.

On the fifth of the month it was the fifth year of the exile of the King, jehoir King the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel, the priest, the son of Boozy, by the Caba River in the land of the Babylonians.

There, the hand of the Lord was on him.

I looked and I saw a windstorm coming out of the North Immense cloud with flashing lightnings and surrounded by bright light.

The scent of the fire looked like glowing metal and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures.

And these four living creatures really scare people.

That's why people do not read the book of Revelation.

Hello, in other words, god was trying to take you to another realm.

Tell your neighbor there's another realm.

Sometimes, when you look at the realm where you live in, there is sickness, there is scarcity, there is depression, there are muggings, there are rapings, there are drunkards, there are prostitutes, there are all kinds of things, things around you that depress you so much.

Remember, there's another realm, hallelujah.

There's another realm that wants to invade this realm, and so Jesus Christ then became the door, the access from that realm to this realm.

And that is why Jesus, for three years, when he walked this land, the doors were open.

The blind started seeing, the cripples started walking, those who did not have food, food got multiplied because the realm that was unseen was connecting with this realm in a very small dimension.

But I want to tell you this there's a greater dimension that is coming in this season and in this time, when heaven will kiss the earth.

I'm talking to somebody heaven is about to kiss this earth, heaven is about to embrace this earth, not so that it can destroy this earth, but so that God can show himself mighty on your behalf.

You serve an amazing God, and so when we talk about access, we are talking about a door.

Jesus, before revelation came, he started trying to introduce the subject of the door that's why we read John, chapter 10 and he started talking about this door, and he started talking about the gate and he said I'm the gate, I am the door.

John 10 · chapter mention

Let me read John in the New King James Version.

I'm reading verse 7 about Jesus introducing himself as the door, the door, the door, the door the Bible says.

Then Jesus said to them again most assuredly I say to you, I am what, I am the door of the ship.

Then he says in the next verse all who ever came before me are thieves and robbers.

But the ship do not hear them.

And then he said one more time I am what, I'm the door.

I'm the door.

He was trying to say, I am the access to everything you need.

And so today, as I summarize and just give you three points, I want to talk about the access into the uplifted open door.

This door is not closed for you, it is open.

I'm saying this door is not closed, it's open.

And so it says this three things that I'll be talking about God is giving us access into the realm of power.

Number two, access into the reality of provision.

And number three, access into the realm of life.

I repeat, the realm of power, the reality of provision and the realm of life.

And Jesus is the access.

Jesus is the door, the door.

I'm saying the door.

I'm saying the door.

You need salvation.

Jesus is the door.

You need healing Jesus is the door.

You need new ideas that are going to impact your environment.

Jesus is the door and I'm praying even for our country, kenya, and even as they're listening to me and maybe the president is listening to me and the cabinet secretaries and all those people and some of the challenges we are going through as a nation, I want to say this heaven has an answer.

I'm saying heaven has an answer and Jesus is the door.

He is the access.

He is the door.

He is the access.

He says come unto me all of you who labor under heavy laden.

I will give you rest.

And then he says take my yoke upon me, take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Hallelujah, my yoke is easy.

Again, let me tell you this when I was young, I used to suffer with that statement.

You know, you have imagination.

I was reading that and I said my yoke is easy.

Now, in my head, I was not thinking about the yoke of oxen, I was thinking about the yoke of an egg.

So I used to wonder how is this yoke?

How is this yoke easy?

Kuman, yin, yin.

And that's why some of you, when you read the Bible, you read the Bible with your mind and sometimes you go off.

But today I want to tell you this God is going to straighten your mind.

I'm saying God is going to straighten your mind In Jesus' name.

Tell your neighbor, revelations are coming our way.

Tell your neighbor what I have not seen, I will see.

What I have not heard, I will hear.

What the heart has not conceived, I will conceive.

Tell your neighbor I'm about to become pregnant In Jesus' name.

How?

Don't ask me.

Hallelujah, yes.

And we need to do that right at the beginning, because this year you must bring it forth in Jesus' name.

So Jesus is talking to them and he's starting to say I am the door.

I am the door to the realm of power, to the realm of power.

And you see, john was feeling very discouraged because the Roman power was so powerful.

It brought Palestine down to its feet.

Jerusalem was crushed, there was nothing left and John is tied in chains in the island of Patmos and he feels helpless and things are dark.

But then God comes his way and says let me give you an access to another door, the open door.

So Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, god intercepts him.

Revelation 4:1

May God intercept you this year.

May God intercept you this year.

May God interrupt your situation this year.

And the Bible says in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1,.

Revelation 4:1

After this I looked and there before me was what A door standing open in heaven.

And the voice I heard first I first heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said come up here.

It was such a strong statement and God was saying come up here.

I will show you what must take place after this.

And the Bible says at once and that's what I was telling you, this is our watch.

What accelerate Things are going to happen to you at once.

They're going to happen to you immediately Because God is engineering your breakthrough.

I'm saying God is engineering your breakthrough, don't try to figure it out.

God is engineering your breakthrough in Jesus' name.

And suddenly John finds himself in another place.

The Bible says at once I was in the spirit and there before me was a throne.

Now, remember Isaiah.

Where did he find himself Before a throne?

Ezekiel found himself before a throne.

John is finding himself before a throne in heaven.

I was someone sitting on it, and the one who sat there had the appearance of Jasper and Ruby and a rainbow.

He begins to see colors that he has never seen before.

Let me fast forward this, because God wants him to see the power that is behind him.

Chapter five of Revelation.

The Bible says this, verse one John is still there in heaven.

And this is what it says in Revelation, chapter five, verse one.

It says Then I saw, in the right hand of him, who sat on the throne, a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.

And the Bible says and I saw a mighty angel.

Now guess, this angel is mighty.

And if they are mighty people, they are mighty.

These angels are mighty, proclaiming in a loud voice who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll, but no one in heaven.

This is interesting.

No one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.

Plus, this mighty angel and the Bible says I wept this is now John speaking.

I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.

Then the one of the elders said to me Do not weep.

See, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed.

He is able to open the scroll and it's seven seals.

Praise God, this is a door.

That door suddenly opened.

That door is Jesus.

Then he sees a throne.

On this throne he sees a lamb, he sees a person.

He sees a lamb, weak, but then he is told that lamb is the lion of Judah.

That's the mighty one, he says.

Then I saw a lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne and suckled by four living creatures and the elders the lamb and the elders.

The lamb had what?

Seven horns and seven eyes.

Usually, when you look at people, how many eyes should they have?

Two?

This is a lamb.

Use your imagination.

Look at your neighbor.

Are you using your imagination?

So, pastor Simon, there's an amazing throne.

On that throne there's a lamb, but the elder is saying that lamb you're seeing is the lion of Judah.

That lamb has seven horns and seven eyes.

Now look at the next statement the living creatures and the elders.

The lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God.

Tell your neighbor they are seven spirits sent out in all the earth.

Now, that's why, pastor Simon, people don't read the book of Revelation, because it's full of dragons, dragons, sapons, lambs with horns.

There are seven of them, their eyes, in fact, those angels have eyes everywhere and you wonder what to do.

Seven spirits?

Let me ask your neighbor do you think God has seven spirits, and who are these seven spirits?

So just to help you and give you information, to help you so that you don't dream bad things tonight.

Hello, the seven spirits are explained in the Bible.

So let me read Isaiah, chapter 11, verse 2.

Isaiah 11:2

It's talking about Jesus, the son of Jesse, who is going to come later.

And the Bible says this this Jesse.

Go back to verse 1, because some people do not understand what I'm saying.

In verse 1 it says a shoot will come up from the stamp of Jesse, from his roots, a branch will bear fruit.

The spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

So let's count those spirits.

So go back.

Number one the spirit of the Lord.

That's number one.

The spirit of the Lord is the spirit of power.

That's why Jesus said the spirit of the Lord is upon me, the anointing spirit.

That's number one.

The next one is the spirit of wisdom.

Third, spirit of understanding.

Fourth, spirit of counsel.

Fifth, spirit of the might of might.

And then sixth, the spirit of the knowledge.

And the last one, the spirit of the fear of the Lord.

Those are the spirits, hello.

So when the Bible says that the seven spirits have gone to the earth, he's saying the spirit of power of the Lord, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of wisdom.

No wonder, when Jesus was walking around he says he grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Those are the spirits.

And so, just to help you, so that you don't get scared, those are the spirits.

Don't think that you go to heaven and you hear spirits coming Suddenly.

Spirit number one comes, number two, number four, when wisdom comes your way, what spirit has come?

The spirit of wisdom, hallelujah.

But this guy needs to see how much power there is in heaven.

So let me finish that verse, go back to Revelation, revelation chapter 5, because this guy could not believe what he was saying.

Revelation 5 · chapter mention

Then I saw alarm, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by four creatures and the elders.

Okay, just go to the next verse 6.

Verse 6, just go forward, all right now verse 7.

He went and took this is the line of Judah took the scroll from the right hand of him, who sat on the throne, and when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the 24 elders.

Remember the four creatures, the Zikubadu, zikur, nazitakua.

And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before who, the Lamb.

Each had one harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God's people.

And they sang I'm telling you in beautiful harmony and they sang a new song.

May God put a new song in you.

I don't know what you were singing last year and it was out of tune.

May God give you a new song.

May God give you a celebrative song.

And they sang a new song saying you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you are slain and with your blood you purchased for God persons Guess what?

From Meru.

Thank you Jesus.

Hallelujah for every tribe and every language and people and nation.

You have made them to be kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they reign on the earth.

Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels numbering thousands upon thousands and 10,000 times 10,000.

Have you tried multiplying 10,000 times 10,000?

You find out how many.

There are many.

Tell your neighbor there are many angels.

Then tell your neighbor you have one.

And I'm not talking about your babe, I'm talking about the angel of the Lord.

Hallelujah Ambrose is talking about my babe.

I'm talking about the mighty angels of God.

The Bible also says, because we have children here, that God has designated angels for each one of those children.

So watch out how you treat those babies, because the angel might slap you out of this world.

Take care of your children.

I'm saying take care of your children.

Come on somebody.

I'm saying take care of your children.

There are so many angels.

And then verse 12, the noise that was happening In a loud voice.

They were saying word is the Lamb, who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise.

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them saying together to him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be praised and honor and glory and power forever and ever.

The four living creatures said amen and the elders fell down and worshipped.

Can you imagine that power?

And yet you come to God with a small issue, and that small issue is causing you to faint, causing you to tremble.

Let me tell you this there is awesome power ready to act on your behalf.

I'm telling you somebody, better give God a big hand and tell your neighbor, there is power, there is power.

I want to tell you this we are in the corridors of power.

Forget state house.

We are in the corridors of greater power and let us walk there and know that God will go with us.

God will go with us this year.

God will be with us in January, god will be with us in February, god will be with us in March, and so we don't care what is going to happen ahead.

Our God is with us.

No wonder he said to them I am the door to the ship fold.

I am going to secure you, I'm going to protect you, I am that door.

You can trust in me.

Tell your neighbor power.

Tell your neighbor corridors of power.

Tell your neighbor Jesus is the lion of Judah.

You may look at him as a lamb, but in that lamb is a lion.

Many people looked at Jesus during his walk here on earth.

I look at him soft, soft.

This time, when you meet him, you are going to meet the majesty of heaven, the majesty of heaven.

But I want to first forward this message and come to number two access to God's provision, access to the realm of provision.

Tell your neighbor provision.

Let me read John 10 9.

John 10 9 says this Jesus again is speaking and he says this I am the gate.

Whoever enters through me will be saved, and they will come in and go out and find what Pasture Provision.

Let me read Psalms 23, verse 1.

Psalms 23:1

Again, jesus is our good shepherd and this is what he says the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

So can you imagine, with a splendor of heaven, with a blessings of heaven, can you lack anything?

Jesus is your access, he is your door.

So let me finish that verse.

The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

Then he says this he makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me besides quiet waters, he refreshes my soul, he guides me along the right path.

In other words, ladies and gentlemen, god is saying I will provide for you.

I will provide for you, I will provide for you.

Let me read Psalms 24, because this is the year 24.

Amen.

Psalms 24, verse 1 says this, a very good verse for you to remember.

Psalms 24:1

It says Psalms 24, verse 1.

Psalms 24:1

The earth is whose.

The earth is whose, even your one eighth plot, thank you.

Jesus Is whose, is the Lord's.

Don't act as if you're the smartest girl on earth that you have land.

Let me tell you this it is the Lord's.

You may have a title deed, but it is the Lord's.

In Jesus, the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, including the houses you have and all that, the world and all who live in it, including all tribes of the Simeon, whether they are Indians, africans, caucasians, all of them, they are the Lord's.

So don't despise anyone.

They are whose.

They are the Lord's.

So God is saying I have so much, all that I have, I can dispense it to you, I can give it to you.

God is going to provide for you.

I'm saying wealth is coming your way.

God is a provider, god is a giver.

God likes giving and giving and giving and giving and giving.

The other day I was preaching and I said Job, in his limited mindset, when he lost everything.

He says the Lord has given and the Lord has taken away.

Please, in funerals, never say that statement, because it is a wrong statement.

It is limited to Job when he was going through a very difficult time.

The first statement is correct the Lord has given.

The next statement is wrong.

The Lord has taken away, because in that scripture it's so clear the one who took it away, it's the thief who comes to steal, kill and destroy.

He came and took away, but guess what?

God is still such a giver that in Job 42, god gave double.

God gave back so much.

And I'm saying in Jesus' name if the devil has stolen anything from you in 2023, may 2024, may you get double what he was taken away from you.

In Jesus' name, may it come to you, press down, shaking together and running over.

God wants to give you plenty.

But while I'm talking about plenty, let me caution you.

Thank you, jesus.

Deuteronomy, chapter 8,.

Deuteronomy 8 · chapter mention

I'm telling you you will love this scripture.

This is an amazing scripture.

The Bible says Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 10.

Deuteronomy 8:10

The Bible says this.

It says it starts by this statement be careful.

So look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, be careful.

Tell your neighbor, god wants to bless you, but be careful, hallelujah.

Be careful to follow every command I'm giving you today so that you may live and do what Increase, and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on earth to your ancestors.

Then the Lord says remember how the Lord, your God led you all the way in the wilderness these 40 years to basically do what?

To humble and test you.

You know some people are going through a difficult time, not because God hates you.

He just wants to do what To humble you and to test you.

That's all he's trying to do.

He's going to bless you big time, but he wants to humble you.

Why?

Because you're very prideful.

Then you're a macho man.

Amen, god is going to humble you.

It says he wants to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna which neither you nor your ancestors had known.

He taught you that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Keep going.

Your clothes did not wear out.

You know, sometimes I read verses like this.

It blows my mind.

For 40 years, their clothes did not wear out because in the wilderness there were no fundies.

Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these 40 years.

Can you imagine?

Instead, even in their shoes, they just had only one pair of shoes, but their feet grew in their shoes and the shoes also grew at the same time.

That is good for you, hallelujah, that is good for you.

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

So it says this Know then in your heart that there is a man who disciplines his son.

So the Lord, your God, disciplines you.

Then he says observe the commands of the Lord, your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him, for the Lord, your God, is bringing you into a good land.

I'm talking to somebody.

This year You're going to have good land In the name of Jesus Christ.

Good land Because the Lord who gives it for the Lord, your God, is bringing you into a good land.

A land with brooks, streams and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills.

A land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey.

A land where bread will not be scarce.

Thank you, jesus.

I think this particular verse was for the Luias.

A land where bread will not be scarce.

You know, you think about that and say yes, and you will lack nothing.

A land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the fields when you have eaten.

Now, this is something you need to remember.

When you have eaten, tell your neighbor we shall eat.

When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord, your God for the good land he has given you.

Be careful that you do not forget the Lord, your God, failing to observe His commands, his laws and His decrees that I'm giving you this day.

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your hearts and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increases and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness and all kinds of things First forward.

This is for me.

I want to bring it to verse 18, because this verse is important for us.

The Bible says this but remember the Lord, your God, for it is he who gives you what?

The ability to produce wealth.

And Pastor Simon, he doesn't give us wealth, he gives us the ability.

That's why some of you are dentists, some of you are doctors, some of you are lawyers, some of you are politicians, because God, through those platforms, gives you the ability to make wealth and so confirms its covenant, which is so to your ancestors.

As it is today, I like that, but this is the verse I don't like.

It says if you ever forget the Lord, your God, and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely destroy it.

Tell your neighbor.

That is not my portion.

No one of us will be destroyed because we shall seek the Lord.

You know, pastor Simon, sometimes when we think about God's provision, our brains are so locked we don't realize that God is in real estate.

I'm saying God is in real estate.

I want to share this verse so that you can trust God to provide for you.

John saw things he had never seen before.

The interesting thing is that John, because Jerusalem had been raised to the ground, he thought that Jerusalem will never rise again.

But God had another plan.

So let me read those verses Tell your neighbor there's a new Jerusalem coming In Revelation 21,.

I want to read those verses, starting with verse 15.

Around there, the Bible says that he saw a new Jerusalem and then an angel came to measure that city to see how big it was.

I want you to use your brain so that we can get this together.

Verse 15 says the angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold.

See Ombao, tell your neighbor, god is rich, talk with me.

He had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.

Now listen to this.

The city was laid out like a square.

That's how it was laid out.

It is a square as long as it was white.

He measured the city with a rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia.

Now let me read this in the amplified version, because we need to know what stadia is.

So study.

This is something that he says.

The city is laid out as a square, its length being the same as its width, and he measured the city with its road 12,000 stadia.

About what?

1,400 miles.

Now, that is just the length, 1,400 miles.

If you calculate in kilometers, it's about 2,400 kilometers.

If you want to know how that length is big, from Narobi to Harare is 2,600 kilometers.

So that is just the width of a city, the width, then the length is another 2,400 kilometers, then the wall going up is 2,400 kilometers.

Hello, and that is just a city, pastor Simon.

And God is saying if I can own a city like this, can I not provide for you?

And then it says the city is just made of gold.

So let me keep reading it.

The measuring he measured it Its wall also 144 qubits, about 200 feet, according to man's measurements.

Keep going, which are also angelic measurements.

The wall was built of jasper and the city of pure gold, transparent like crystal.

It was pure gold.

The foundation stones of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of precious stone.

The first foundation stone was what, jasper, the second sapphire.

Now, if you want to understand this in mathematics, remember it is a city to square 2,400 kilometers, 2,400 kilometers.

What is that in square kilometers?

I'll tell you it's about 6 million square kilometers.

And imagine, the first layer is jasper, on 6 million square kilometers.

My friend, if that is not wealth, that is a lot of wealth.

And that is just in one city.

Let me tell you this God can fulfill the budget of this country with a snap like this.

All we need to do is to somebody to go to heaven.

I laugh, I cut it to a piece.

I say may I not deny you happy Kenya.

So join me to pray that God will create a piece Kakuja wapi.

Of course, with the corruption and the challenges that we face before we know it.

Where that piece will have gone, nobody knows.

But you know, pastor Simon, I was making those calculations.

They blew my mind and I said, wow, it's amazing.

And then if you are again in maths and you do it in cubic kilometers, so that you have the square, and then you have the length, and then you multiply three times 2400, times 2400, times 2400 times 2400, going up cubic kilometers, do you know how much that is?

It is 13 billion cubic kilometers.

One city, and then guess what?

The city is in space.

There is no Kenya power in there.

Jesus is the light, it is shining, it is crystal clear.

Let me tell you this If you stood on a mountain and watched that city, that thing is glittering, that thing is shining.

God is into excellence.

Let me tell you this God is preparing an amazing place for us.

God is preparing an amazing thing for us.

Somebody better give God a big hand.

And so, because he's an excellent God, he wants to do excellent things for you.

I'm saying he wants to do excellent things for you.

May God provide for you.

I'm saying may God provide for you.

But finally, I want to say this Not only have we access into the realm of power?

Not only do we have access into the realm of reality, we have access into the realm of life.

John 10.10,.

When Jesus was talking to the disciples and the Pharisees, he said that thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, but I have come that you may have.

What Life?

Let me tell you this God wants to give you his identity, more than giving you things God wants to give you himself.

I came that you may have life, and have it abundantly.

This year 2024, let God give you his life.

That's why he's asking you to give him your life in exchange, because what God has in store for you is more than you can imagine.

He wants to give you life, life, life more abundantly, life, life, life more abundantly.

He wants to give you a life of success.

I'm talking to somebody.

God wants to give you a life of success.

Earlier in the service the other service I was telling them one of the challenges is that God has so much but very few people receive it.

So I want you to receive, I want you to receive the realm of power so that you're not keeping running, running around from which doctors, wait, wait doctors.

Which doctor that after me there is.

You have a realm of power.

Some of you sometimes wake up and you can't wake up, you can't breathe, and you're trying to say Jesus, Jesus is not coming out, jesus is not coming out, jesus.

And then you wake up, ping, let me tell you this 2024.

That's not going to happen to you.

I'm saying 2024.

That is not going to happen to you.

Jesus is giving you a life of success.

I'm saying Jesus is giving you a life of significance.

Receive it in Jesus' name.

Jesus is giving you a life of fullness.

God is a generous giver.

I'm saying God is a generous giver.

Let me make this statement.

Maybe somebody needs it In 2024, don't settle for the ordinary.

Let me say it one more time Somebody needs that.

You need to receive it now, in Jesus' name.

So let me say it again Don't settle for the ordinary.

This is the next statement Expect the extraordinary and possess the blessings of the uplifted open door.

Somebody received that in Jesus' name.

One more time Don't settle for what, but expect what In Jesus' name, starting when, right now.

Because, listen to me, god is opening for you new doors of divine grace, new doors of wisdom, new doors of provision, new doors of destiny help us, new doors of Holy Spirit insight, new doors of ministry opportunities, new doors of kingdom engagements and new doors of service to the kingdom of God.

Come on, let's appreciate Jehovah, god, amen.

So one more time, look at your neighbor, tell your neighbor, don't settle for the ordinary.

Expect the extraordinary and possess the blessings of the uplifted, open door In Jesus' name.

Somebody better say that is my portion.

I take it in the now In Jesus' name.

Now, let me tell you this After John saw all those revelations of Jesus when he came back to that island, he had a totally new perspective to life.

May you have a new perspective to life In Jesus' name.

May God unveil himself to you, not to scare you, but to cause you to be in awe Instead of walking around and you're being stressed by the things of this world and all you keep saying is this Change way too.

Amen, and that's your portion.

That's your portion in Jesus' name.

Amen, be a receiver.

I'm saying be a receiver.

The Bible says but to those who received him, who believed in his name, he gave them the power to become the children of God.

Yes, just a good advice to the ladies who are planning to get married soon.

Thank you, jesus, that the man that God will bring you away may not be packaged the way you think.

Hallelujah, thank you, jesus.

A man may come to you.

He's not well done and you know he doesn't have a suit, he doesn't know how to tie shoes and his walking style is not a very good walking style, hallelujah.

And because you may not be a very good receiver as a lady, you look at that gentleman.

You say not this one.

You want a man with a Mercedes, a man with a plot, hello, a man who has a good haircut.

Thank you, jesus.

Let me tell you this Now God gives you something that is not complete, because the Bible says it is not good for a man to be alone.

Because he's alone and not complete, I will make for him a slay queen.

No, that's not in the Bible.

I'll make for him a suitable helper, somebody to do what?

To help him to move from where he is to where he's supposed to be.

Am I the Maxi?

Yes, when I see fewer.

And so, ladies, when God brings a person like that your way, remember this.

That's just a package, but inside that man there's gold, inside that man there's silver.

So don't be in a hurry, check that guy out, hallelujah.

And if you are very confused about that man, bring him to Pasa Ambrose.

I have a discerning spirit, one as a favor.

I have this thing on the side of it.

When I check you out the security, I just go and say, check it in, check it in.

So this guy Atakuza, this guy will sell you out.

But let me tell you this God is a good God, because God leads us in parts of righteousness.

May God lead you in parts of righteousness, amen.

And for you, men, not everything is an asslake.

You may find a very ordinary, ordinary lady, nyele Hadyukuchana.

Thank you, jesus.

So you are there to provide what is necessary for that hair to look good.

Buanasifue, you think, the way I'm looking.

That's how Mata found me, my friend Nime Undwa, hallelujah.

God had to bring mother in my life, to shift a lot of things in my life, and I thank God for her.

And now God has given the Holy Spirit to sort us out so that we can look like Jesus, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

Have you received the word of God?

Look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, be a good receiver, not just in matters of marriage, but also in matters of wisdom and grace and all these things that God is sending your way.

God is sending power your way.

He's sending wealth your way.

He's sending life your way.

Be a good receiver.

Now stand on your feet.

Now look at your neighbor and ask your neighbor what do you remember about Pastor Ambrose Samo?

I know you, I know you, some of you the only thing you remember is slay queen.

That's the only thing you're remembering.

I'm telling you, that's not what I was talking about.

I was talking about Jesus, the uplifted open door.

That's what I was talking about, because sometimes people forget and do all kinds of things Amen, god is good, and all the time.

So what did your neighbor tell you?

They will remember.

Did they say something that I said, okay, Okay, I'm glad, I'm comforted, I'm encouraged.

And because some of you go home and you say, mazet, today Pastor preached, hey, he preached burner.

So what did he say?

Ah, yeah, yeah, you don't want to know.

Come next Sunday, we are picking up the scripture, by the way, as I prepare to pray.

The anointing service is a service you do not want to miss.

I'm telling you, it is going to be a new anointing for a new season.

So get ready that day.

Pastor Simon was talking about coming at 2 o'clock.

If you come at 2 o'clock, you'll find yourself outside.

Come around 1, you'll find a seat in the sanctuary.

At 2, you'll be in the pavilion and then we'll tell you what you need to bring, because we are not going to anoint people one by one, especially if there are 4,000 of you.

We want you to go either to Naivas and buy a bottle of oil.

That oil is ordinary.

It's ordinary oil, nothing supernatural.

That day, when you come with that oil, we're going to pray and consecrate that oil and it will move from being ordinary to extraordinary and we'll be anointing not one another, yourself.

That will make our work much easier.

After that, we shall invite the Holy Spirit to invade that place and I'm telling you that's the anointing you need to prosper in 2024.

So prepare, tell your neighbor, prepare.

We'll be making again this announcement next Sunday so that that Saturday you'll be ready and there's going to be a lot of music, a lot of celebration, but we're going to also pray and Jesus will release the presence of the Holy Spirit in ways you cannot imagine.

So that's my announcement to you and to those who will be preparing to come from other churches, your friends, let's fill this place and glorify God.

And because we simply are surrendering ourselves to God, let me say also this very quickly Parklands Baptist Church does not sell oil.

So let me say that again we do not sell oil.

You buy your own oil.

Come with it.

It is ordinary, just like you.

You guys look very ordinary, but when God touches you, you become extraordinary.

Jesus name, jesus name, jesus name.

Get yourself this copy and read it.

Please read it.

I'm saying read it.

Yeah, I'm going to I've said many things I'm not able to say here the pulpit, so read it.

The planner get a copy, write notes, read the verses that are there for each day for the year, and God will bless you indeed.

So today, thank you for coming.

Those in the pavilion let's appreciate the people in the pavilion, amen.

Our brothers and sisters here at the overflow let's appreciate them, jesus name.

Those in the youth sanctuary let's appreciate them in Jesus name.

And those in house let's appreciate us, amen.

And get the opportunity of giving your neighbor high five.

I just tell them this is for the year In Jesus name.

You can even give them the 10, the 10, the 10, the double portion In Jesus name.

Amen, amen.

So we are praying.

Let's appreciate the worship team again.

Amen.

Do not settle for the ordinary, but expect the extraordinary.

John did not know on certain ordinary day things would shift for him this week.

There's a testimony that is coming after you.

I'm saying there's a testimony that is coming after you.

Receive it in Jesus name, and even as we pray for the from ones who are going to, from one, I know we have prayed for them.

God bless them as they start this new season of their life.

Let us pray, father, we bless you, we honor you and we thank you.

My God, you know my heart.

I am full of expectation and, dear Lord, it is not just sitting there thinking that things will be ordinary like they were last year.

Father, because I'm not settling for the ordinary, I'm expecting the extraordinary.

And even for God's people in this place who are connected to this church, may this be a year, unprecedented, year, that the gates of heaven will be lifted up for them, that the King of glory may come in.

Lord, use this message, even when it is listened to later, that it will carry the same anointing that it had when it was being released and, dear Lord, set our path straight so that we can receive what heaven has in store for us in 2024.

Thank you for your word and thank you for the hearts that have received this word.

And, lord, even as I prepare to bless your people, we are humbled to be your people.

We are humbled to be your people.

And, lord, even as we pray, we also bring Kenya at your feet.

Lord, we know that the president may be handling things sometimes that are beyond him.

May he find an answer from the throne of heaven.

We pray for the cabinet secretaries and his cabinet.

May they find solutions from the throne of heaven.

And, dear Lord, all the people in ministries, those in defense, the military forces, the police force, our security people, wherever they are, may their help come from the Lord, the make of heaven and earth, the business people, those in the public sector and the private sector, my God, we surrender each one of them at your feet.

That, lord, even in a season of famine, there will be abundance.

Open doors that no man can shut, bring ideas that are heavenly, ideas that are going to cause this country to begin to access the wealth that is already theirs.

So, father, thank you for hearing my prayer and, lord, thank you for touching us at our various points of need.

And I believe not only did you come to grace us with your presence, you came that we may have life and have it abundantly.

And it is my prayer for some of you who have never given your life to Jesus Maybe you wanted to give your life to Jesus last year and you didn't get an opportunity we're telling you the opportunity is here today and you can give your life to Christ.

You can surrender your family to God, your businesses, your houses, your careers, and God will take charge, god will take over.

In partnership with you, you're going to go to great heights.

Thank you, father, for hearing our prayer.

And now, father, as I bless your people, I know the blessing will attach itself on them.

I want you to say this after me, I receive all that God has in store for me.

I receive his life, I receive his wisdom, I receive his favor, I receive his success and I'm going to be a person of significance.

This is my year, this is my season.

The possibilities are coming my way and there's nothing the devil can do about it.

This year I'll have a testimony, and not just this year.

Every month of this year I will have a testimony.

I receive it right now in Jesus' name, and God's people say Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.

Now lift up your hands as I bless us.

I decree and declare in the name of Jesus, to you today, wherever you are, pavilion overflow, youth sanctuary, this sanctuary online, we appreciate your presence and we decree and declare this to you today.

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 lift up his countenance upon you and may the Lord give you peace.

And I decree and declare today that your Monday is blessed, your Tuesday is blessed, your Wednesday is blessed, your Thursday is blessed, your Friday is blessed, your Saturday is blessed and Sunday you're coming back with a testimony In the name of Jesus Christ.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I decree and declare that you are blessed in the city.

You're blessed in the countryside.

You're blessed locally.

You're blessed internationally.

You're blessed when you come in, when you go out, when you sit down, when you rise up.

The uplifted open door is here for you to take you and access you to the blessings of Jehovah that are waiting for you.

Receive this in the name of the Father and in the name of the Son and in the name of the Holy Spirit and God's people said Amen, amen, amen, amen.

Tell your neighbor wow.

Tell your neighbor, no more woey.

Tell your neighbor, it is a wow season.

In Jesus' name.

Tell your neighbor, watch this space.

You may not recognize me the next time you see me.

I may just have grown taller and it might shock you, but guess what it's?

God's favor on my life.

In Jesus' name, amen, amen, amen.

Look at your neighbor.

Tell your neighbor, surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life and you shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever, 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 in this season and in this time.

Amen Be with us now and for a long time.