3rd November 2024 - Communion Service - KV Cherian - Dressed for the Task - Clothed with Christ

You to speak to us in Jesus' name. We receive

the word and we bless you. Amen, hallelujah.

I'm quite loud. I don't think I need the Michaels. Yeah,

you know, when I was standing back there, this thought

cameto my mind. I'm not sure how it is in

the UK culture, but back in India we have this

unsaid rule. The family sits together closer. All right. Maybe

it's not a UK thing, but yeah, Can I request

you one thing? One request from you the entire time

that you'll have to bear with me. There's only one request,

can we whoever is able to come forward? Can you

please come forward? If you see a chair before you

or beside you, empty, please come forward. If you don't know,

I think that there's no chair in front of you,

all right, okay, good, I think all the other chairs

are taken. Then yeah, thank you. All right, there's first,

you know, before the subject is thought, there's a test

in this. In this point of time we're gonna do,

We're gonna do something together, all right. I'll wait for

you all to settle down, okay, before I can talk anything.

For the little time that I have, I would request

one thing that is your cooperation in doing one small

task for me. I'm gonna say, uh, the name of

the most important person in my life. Right, I'm gonna

spell it to you, and you're gonna repeat that. Can

you do that? Yeah? Okay, so it's basically Jesus. Yeah,

some of you think you're so lame. Yeah. Anyway, all right,

we're gonna do this in turns. Right, we'll see which

team or which section of the crowd gets to do

this better. We'll start with No, I'm not gonna say that.

We're going to start with this side. Give me a jay,

give me an E, give me an S, give me

a you, give me another S. What does it say?

Not bad? Not bad? You know the bar that you

need to measure up. Now all right, I'll come close

it to you. Give me a jay, Oh, oh, give

me an E, Give me a S. Gimme a you,

give me another S? What does it say? What does

it say? The humble shall stay silent? Now I know

all of your love, Jesus. I just wanted you to

remember one thing more than any one of us. Here.

Jesus is excited to see you, just to meet with you,

you know, just to see you here. He is super excited.

The Holy Spirit is super excited to see you here. Okay,

Today's message, I have no idea what I'm gonna cover,

what I have to cover, but I'm just gonna trust

a lot. Today's message is gonna bless all of you.

It's gonna change all of you. It is gonna heal

all of you. It is gonna offend some of you.

It's gonna make some of you uncomfortable. It's gonna make

some of you saying ouch, I didn't like that, thank you,

I didn't like that. Amen. Before we start, I just

want to ask too many questions. You know, I know

why I'm asking all these questions, But how many of

you are saved? That means I'll just clarify that. That

means accepted Jesus as your savior, personal savior, right, you know.

And to me, because I'm a bit dull minded, to me,

this means I am really not sure what I'm doing here.

This means yes. This means no. This means I still

don't know what I'm doing here. So if it is

a yes, it's this Oh, okay, okay, this is somewhere

I'm coming close to yes. All right, that's good. So

that means at least it'll make sense to you what

I'm going to say. Right, So we're going to start

with a fictitious character. Right today for the people who

are taking notes, maybe the topic of my sermon would

be dressed for the task. Subtitle will be clothed with Christ,

nothing fancy, nothing new, actually dressed for the task today.

When we thought of going to church, how many fuel

took out your pajamas and walked in with your pajamas here?

None of you all? Why? Because when you want to

go to church, there's there's this principle which my father

in law used to practice when you used to when

you to go when you go to church, you're going

to put on your best clothes. And if there's a

new pair of clothes, he's going to first wear it

to church. We know where he's going to wear it.

He's going to wear it to church because he believed

and he practiced that the test is for God. Right.

So today when you came here, you put on something

to come here, right, You put on you okay, not

the greatest, not the party were because you don't want

to have a party were And then come here and say,

you know, I have come to church. No, right, we're

all very sensible people. Similarly, when a person accepts Christ,

God expects him to put on something, and that is

the worse. Galatians three twenty seven. What is that? Galatians

three twenty seven reads for as many of you were

baptized into Christ. Let's stop that. How many of you

all are baptized? Okay, that's a majority. Okay, that's good.

That's good for all of us who are baptized. What

are we supposed to do? Can we read that? Have

put on Christ? And we don't like the second part though,

you don't like to put on Christ? Putting you on Christ?

We will. We'll get to that. But remember this verse

the whole time we're going to talk about this verse.

I'll read it once again. For as many of you

were baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. You know,

the gospel, the good news is a very partial good news,

according to my personal opinion, in what is being preached

in today's world. You know what the message today is

being preached. Accept Christ and you have eternal life. It's

the truth. I don't deny that. But that's not the

full gospel. The full gospel is accept Christ have eternal life,

and why are you going to spend that eternal life

in the Kingdom of God? I think it has John

the Baptist says, repent before because the Kingdom of God

is at hand. Have you ever thought about it? Nobody

speaks about the Kingdom of God, whereas Jesus always emphasize

the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of God.

I'll give you one free fact, whether you accept Christ

or not, your eternal life doesn't make any difference, as

in you're not going to die anyway. It's not that

because if you accept Christ, you will not die. Okay,

well you know the blank face. If you accept Christ

or don't accept Christ, it doesn't make It doesn't make

any difference as in whether you will live forever, because

you know what. Integrally, your soul is eternal. However, when

you accept Christ, where you spend that eternity will be

decided on that choice. You can forever be eternally in

hell with the enemy, with Satan, or be eternally with

Christ and not in suffering. That is what you decide

when you accept Christ as your savior. You know most

of y'all would know that because you've already accepted Christ

and just re emphasizing what that decision meant, you were

born again. But you need to enter into the kingdom.

You know, most of us don't understand what a kingdom

is because we live in a democratic world where my opinion,

my rights, what I think is what matters. You don't

understand how a kingdom works. You know, when we say

a kingdom, kingdom has what first, a king right and

the king's word, king's law is what governs our lives

in the kingdom. Amen, let's just read one verse Romans

fourteen seventeen. For the Kingdom of God is not eating, drinking,

but righteousness, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost. That's such

an important word in the Holy Ghost, in the Holy Spirit,

it is not eating and drinking. That doesn't mean you'll

not in eat and drink Heaven. I'll tell you my

version of that was, Heaven is the best party that

you're ever yet to attend. It's not a boring place.

I'll tell you which is a boring place. Hell, the

only thing that you will do is cry, weep, grown

in pain. But in heaven that's not the scene. Have

you how many of you guys, you know the looks

that you're giving me is like, I don't know what

you're talking about. Brother, I don't know what a party means.

How many? How many if you'll have been to a party.

This side is the holy people sit. That side is

where the sinners sit. Anyway, for all you transformed sinners,

and I'm in that camp. I'm not here reach this camp.

We know what a party means right where there is music,

whether it is dancing, where there is celebrations, joy, all

of the things that we really secretly seek for. Right.

I don't know who in Christianity told us that when

it is church, be like a dead body. I don't

know have you seen dead bodies? Thought that when it

is church, I need to be like this. Don't move,

don't open your mouth. Most of them close your eyes,

sleep off. When they say amen, just say amen, Amen,

you're the devil. Amen. Yes, that's not true. You've got

to be alive in the church. The Kingdom of God

is something that you need to enter into. That means

you need to make a choice. Your choice doesn't stop

with accepting Christ. You don't think about this. I think

yesterday we had such an amazing time for the men.

The men in the church, hallelujah. Did we have an

exciting time? Amen? We did have, And the best thing

about it was that for us to get a space

to talk about things that we struggle. For those of

you thought men don't struggle with anything, we struggle desperately,

but we are too too proud about it to not

talk because of our ego. Right, But we do struggle.

But thank God for his mercy that he helped us deal

with those things yesterday. Many of us think that the

only decision that you need to do as a Christian

is except Christ. After there's nothing, no other decision to make,

nothing to make. Automatically, I'm going to go to heaven.

You're almost backed to your backs and you're ready to

go to heaven. Whenever you call me, I'm ready, Lord,

I'm going to come home. No, that's not it, you know,

if that's what it is. The day I accepted Christ

of fall dead and been to heaven. The very purpose

that God has you still here. That means He wants

to do something through you to me. Yeah, yes, you

you right there. You the one who doesn't talk too much,

the one who's too shy, the one who's to confuse yes, you.

God has a purpose and he wants to do that purpose.

But he is a gentleman. He is not your old

ex need be careful of using that ex ex master.

So many things that come to my mind, your ex

master who is a wicked one who whips you and

who demeans you and tells you do this or that

and gets you to do things. In case you're wondering,

who's my ex master, I didn't have any master. Your

old buddy Satan, Yeah, my old old budy before. The

Holy Spirit will always wait for your participation. The more

you participate with him, the more you will walk in

the kingdom. And man, can we have First Corinthians four

twenty what is the Kingdom of God? For the Kingdom

of God is not in word, but in power power

how you pronounce it. The Kingdom of God is not

in word. That means in simple my version, it means

it's not high phi theology. It's not beautifully said words

or emotionally charge words. That is the Kingdom of God.

Kingdom is Kingdom of God is pure, hundred percent the

raw power of God. I want you to do this.

Think about when you got saved, when you accepted Christ.

Was there some fancy ambient music that was swelling up

and you felt so emotional, I need to run to Christ.

No it was not, it was not there was it

the fancy words and high vocabulary English that got you

to believe Jesus. No, if it did, you can say yes,

I don't mind, but you and I can't explain really

in plain English, what made you to accept Christ. There

was a real sensation or suddenly a fact came to

you alive that Jesus died for me. Forget the whole world,

He died for me. When that realization happened is when

you gave your life to Christ. Am I speaking the truth?

And the way you guys are looking, you are piercing

a hole through me. That is the work of the

Holy Spirit. That is the power of the Holy Spirit.

I believe days are coming when people are not going

to debate about whose theology is right. But it's going

to be the pure act of power. You know, just

like in the days of Moses when he had to

deliver his rights. It will be the pure act of

power because in current times, in the current times, there

are so much demonic activities left right center. It's it's

as though. You know, the demons are going outright evangelizing people,

join us, we can do this, we can do that,

and all of that. And in the end, it's not

going to be about going to give a beautiful sum

or who is going to have the best debate about God,

about Jesus. No, it's going to be just like Elijah

can display who will bring down the power of God.

And God knows to validate it himself. He's not weak.

He doesn't come out for every whims of Satan. And

you know, wherever Satan displays his power, he's not going

to feel inferior. He's not insecure. Oh my God, Satan

did that. I need to show myself. He doesn't have

to A cop never has to prove that he's a

cop to a robber. I'll repeat that. A cop never

has to prove to the robber that he is a cop. Amen,

think about this when you are born again. Right now,

you're a new born Christian and you're thinking, okay, what's next.

You got baptized, right after that? What after that? The

important part is knowing how to function in the Kingdom

of God. And it's a big tragedy there. Most of

the churches in Christianity don't have people who can function

in the Kingdom of God. They are still Christian, but

function in the Kingdom of the Devil because they follow

the same rules. It's I'll give you a simple example.

I got enlisted. Think about it. It's not where the

the armor. I'm going to handle all those big guns

which I played in PUBG. You know, I'm going to

do all the head shots and all of that. I'm

thinking all of these crazy things and I'm going to be,

you know, part of the black Ops and all of

those movie ideas that I have in my mind. But

I have no clue what it takes to reach there.

I have no clue that I need to go through

that discipline to reach there. But do you think if

if I'm just going to walk into the the wheather

drill happens the way where the exercise happens. I suppose

there's a a gun practice, a shooting practice, right, and

I go there and say, yeah, I've played a lot

of PUBG. I know how to operate this gun. I'm

going to do very well. You know, for your information,

there's no auto aim in the real gun. It's only

the PUBG and your games in the tap and you

go there and for the first time, when you shoot,

you just fall into the ground because of the recoil.

And suddenly you understand, oh my god, there's so much

more than I thought about. You know before you used

to just click off a button and it shoots the bullet.

The same thing happens in reality. When you're born again Christian.

It's not a bed of roses. There are certain disciplines

you need to incorporate. You cannot walk in the kingdom

of the enemy and follow those principles which the world

is following and expect a different result. Call me insane,

but I do this throughout the week. There's no prayer,

there's no Bible reading. I'm gonna party, I'm gonna smoke,

I'm gonna drink everything. But I'm a Christian. Don't tell anybody.

Don't tell my office people. I'm a Christian. I don't

even tell myself. Let's keep that as a secret identity.

I'm not gonna tell anybody. If somebody talks about Christ also,

I'll behave like, I don't know what you're talking about.

But when I come on Sunday, praise the Lord, Brother,

I know all the church phrases that I need to say.

I know exactly when to say the hallelujah, when to

say an Amen? Who are you fooling? God's not fooled, Satan,

definitely not fooled. He's the one who gave you that idea.

You just fool yourself, and then when an issue comes up,

you're wondering, this God thing doesn't work. Man. I prayed,

and I prayed sincerely, but God didn't answer me. But

God's going to ask you only one question. Did you

follow the principles in my kingdom? You didn't? Did you

follow it? Because if you follow the principles in my kingdom,

you will see the result. Amen. It's this Another thing

is about we go to So that's another extreme, the

opposite of it. I go to church every day. I

pray five times a day or six times, which was convenient.

I read one chapter every day, and I fast on

a Friday. I don't know why people fast on a

particular Friday, but anyway, I fast on a Friday. I

do everything. I attend all the meetings possible, I do

everything possible. I have all the ticks in the boxes,

but still I don't see the Holy Spirit. You know why.

I'll give you this phrase. Works don't work in Christianity.

I'll repeat that, works don't work in Christianity. You need

to be led by the Holy Spirit. If you seen

that worse first Karrirenthians four twenty. So the Kingdom of

God is not in word, but in power, which power

the Holy Spirit. The most important thing that Christians, we

Christians lack is the power of the Holy Spirit. You

cannot live the Christian life without the Holy Spirit. It's impossible.

Try living it is worse than being unbelievable that you

were before. You will just hat. It's easier to live

as an unbeliever, but not as a Christian without the

Holy Spirit. Every single one of us has to depend

on the Holy Spirit. It's a very simple thing. How

can I get the Holy Spirit? Some will say I

have five golden steps of getting the Holy Spirit, or

some will say read this book and you will get

the Holy Spirit. Or some will say if you lay,

if I lay my hand on you and pray in tongues,

you will get the Holy Spirit. You don't need to

do all of that. You don't need to do all

of that. It is back to the basics, and you

know what the basics say. How did you receive Jesus

as your savior. There are two things you did. One

you believed. What did you believe? You believe that He

died for you. Second, you obeyed. Your act of obedience

was getting up from your chair, going to the front

of the altar and saying, pray for me to receive Christ. Believe, obey.

There is no a mysterious way of getting the Holy Spirit.

It is simple. Every single thing in the Bible, you

get it by believing being today. If you want the

Holy Spirit, the simplest thing, believe. First of all, he

is not a mystical power. He's not from Marvel, neither

from DC, whichever you subscribe to. He's not from both

the camp. He is a living person. And I always

thought about this Chad Jesus was there, you know, we

could hang around with him and then learn about how

to do things. It would be much more cooler. I

don't know how to work with this Holy Spirit. But

then Jesus himself says, thank you. Know it's better that

I go and he is here because He can be

everywhere at the same time with you, with somebody else

in the other part of the country. Or other part

of the world at the same time, and do much

more with you than with me. Amen. All right. Two.

One of the things that keeps you where you are

in your Christian walk, you know, is what pride. It's

the most amazing topic that we don't want to talk about,

and we don't acknowledge it. Some of us acknowledge it,

and we say we are the cream, we are the worm,

and we are nothing. No, that's not true. But the

other extreme is I don't have to do anything. I'm perfect,

I'm good. It's like this. I take the train from Egham,

I go sit. You know that are compartments what do

you call Bogie's compartments? Right in the train right now.

I go to the compartment that's the closest to the driver, okay,

and I go sit there, and I travel from here

to Waterloo. And when I get down at Waterloo, the

person who meets me, I tell them, you know what, today,

I was driving the train, well laughing, that's the truth.

I was driving the train. If you if you laughed

at it, that means all of us here have better

common sense than me. Because I have this view thinking

that if I come to church and sit and watch

everybody do everything and observe keenly which snacks are out?

Why is the slight looking lad? Or Oh, I can't

lift my head, but I can put my head down

on my phone, but I can't lift my head and

see the screen. Though, if I'm going to observe all

of that and then go back and feel that I

am a child of God, have that feeling. I think

if I do all of that, I'm a child of God.

It's the same thing as me sitting in the train

and reaching water and saying I drove the train today

very good. Just because you're an RCF here doesn't make

you a Christian. When you practice being a child of God,

walking in his ways, walking in his plans, then you

are a child of God. You know. There are so

many verses that Paul says, you would be familiar with this.

You will not inherit the kingdom of God. Remember that

verse he has on big list. He says, you know,

if you are homosexual, if you are you know, envy, filled,

a deceit or drunkenness, or whatever that you can think about.

He ends up with, you will not inherit the Kingdom

of God. You know, why have you ever thought about it? Why?

Why is being so mean? He's not open minded, he's

not inclusive. He doesn't understand diversity. Paul is an old guy.

He doesn't get it. It's not about inclusivity or diversity.

It is about those characteristics belong to the kingdom of

the devil, and the characters of love, joy, peace, righteousness

are the characteristics of the Kingdom of God. You don't

want to be an odd man out when you reach heaven.

Imagine all your life you were born again, You're a

baby Christian all your life till you diet, and then

you and you were mean. You are selfish, unhelpful to anybody.

Always give me, give me attitude, give me prayer, gimme gifts,

give me help. All the help that I want I

need to get from you, all the prayer I need.

You need to pray for me. I will not pray

for anybody. Say you are a gimme child. And then

when you get to heaven you feel strange because everyone

else behaves differently than you. That is something that we

need to avoid. Amen. Before I close, Oh, no, talk

about or highlight to you. How do we how do

you identify that you are operating in the kingdom of

God or in the kingdom of the devil. I'll tell

you this in a very small way. Every time I

don't know some of you all may identify this. Every

time there's a there's a there's a situation in your mind,

and he says, I don't know what's going to play

out in my future. I'm so worried. I'm so worried.

Worrying is from Is it from God, from whom wow

so much respect for him. It's from the enemy. Worrying

is from the enemy. Every time you worry, you need

to say the Lord has a good plan. You know.

That is agreeing, and that is believing. I don't know

why we are so hesitant to say the good things

that God has told us. We are so we literally

jump the gun to say if you're tired, you won't

see you're tired. I'm shattered. You're not shattered. You're still

one piece. You're still it's still one piece, You're not chattered.

But we are so eager to tell the negative. But

if I if I ask you to say, say I'm whole,

I don't get that. You know, it takes for us

such a big motivation to say something right about ourselves.

If I'm going to talk to my friend and say

I don't know what my future is, I am so

worried about it. You see the flow. It comes automatically.

But if I'm going to tell my friend God has

a plan for me and he will do it, you

are almost thinking what my friend is going to think

about me. He thinks i'mout crazy guy. That doesn't sound

very realistic. But you know what the truth is. That

is the reality, and it depends on you. It doesn't

depend no matter who prays past a Dave can pray

away a head till you become hairless, but still it's

not going to change. He can place his hand on

your head, keep praying, but it's not going to change

until you speak from your mouth and declare over your

life that you have a blessed future. When you feel fear,

what does God say? Yeah, do not fear. There are

so many verses, three sixty five verses and above that

God saying do not fear. But he's not going to

It is not up to him. He's already told you

the word of the king is the law in the kingdom. Right,

He's told you do not fear Now it is up

to us to believe it and say it out. Confess it.

Just the way you got saved, you believed, you confess.

So when you enter into fear, confess the Lord has

told me not fear. I will not fear. I will

not fear, but trust in the Lord. And the moment

you speak it out is when the Holy Spirit activates.

Is when the power of the Holy Spirit starts working

in you. You may not feel goosebumps, you may not

feel suddenly like a lion. No, you not feel all

of that. But believe me, the more you say that,

the spirit that brings fear into you will back off.

What we do as good Christians is when we feel fear,

we say I feel fear, I feel fear. I'm so scared.

I'm so scared. You are just reinforcing what the devil

is telling you. Let me get something more personal. I'm

not confident of doing it. I don't know. I have

lack of confidence if I can do it. What does

God say any idea when you're not confident of doing anything?

I can do all things. Why because I'm super smart

or because I'm Tony Stark. No, I can do I

can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Not

because I'm some great person that I can do something.

I know my capabilities, but I know God who lives

inside me, and he can do it through me. The

Holy Spirit wants to do amazing things. You know why

so many characters are given in the Bible so that

you and me are without excuse. Because my number one

excuse back in my teenage days when one of the

prophets came to my college and we invited a prophet

to my college, and then that prophet was praying over

me and he said a word that I'll never forget.

He told, God calls you the King of excuses. I

can write a book of excuses. You can give to

God all sort of excuses. I've given all sort of excuses.

You know. God has given so many examples in his

words so that you and I are without an excuse.

The easiest excuse that we say is, oh, Jesus can

do it. I'm not Jesus. If Elijah can do it,

you can do it. If Peter can do it. Peter,

remember Peter Man, he was a mess. It was a

hot mess. And if he can he can do it,

you sure can do it. If not. When you reach

up in heaven, Peter is gonna ask you, dude, you

could have done better than me, but it was your

choice to not do it. So let's kick off excuses

out of the window. Because God says you can do it.

He will empower you to do it. I'm not sure

how to proceed. There is something with all of us.

You know, I just finished my course. I don't know

what I need to do next. You know what God says,

I will direct your steps. You know. It's a god

so interesting because you know what He put the precious

metals where on the top of the top of the

surface of the earth. No, it would have been easy, right.

Goal is everywhere. Go pick it up, my ecconom and

sell it. Do what you want. Oil is flowing like

a river. To use it. No where did he put

deep in the ground? Why? Because you need to do

some work. You need to do some work. God is

not the god of laziness. If you didn't know that,

I'm letting you know. God, our God is a god

who appreciates, who expects you'll put in your effort. Because

nothing works without you. He will not do anything in

your life without you, without involving you. He expects you

to be part of it a man. When you say

I don't know how to proceed, God says, I will

direct your steps when you feel all alone. Oh my god,

cod Cod really showed reality to us, as in, how

many people have mental illness in terms of loneliness, in

terms of I don't know paranoi or whatever sort of

mental illness, and what does God says? I am with you.

I will never leave you now forsake you. Believe me.

People around you can leave you, yes, you, they can

leave you. But he, God is the only person knowing

everything that you do, knowing all the tantrums you have,

the tendencies that you have, the temperaments that you have,

He's still going to be there with you. He will

never leave you. The last one, last second one. I'm

not beautiful enough. Oh my god, you know, I think

I think it was my wife my daughter was talking about.

There's this new trend in China, you know, a four

a four sheets something. I don't really know what that was.

Afore you know, your waist size should be a four

size or something like a four sheet size. They have

some amazing crazy standards of beauty and all of us

most of us try to subscribe to it. We all

want to look beautiful by what standard, by what they

shown the TV, by what they show, or what people

prescribe on social media. Oh no, I put this pic

that I was in this park and I didn't get

any likes. Nobody even sent me a heart. I'm so

depressed now I need some medication to get over my depression.

Come on, grow up. That's not the end of life.

But when you think you're not beautiful, beautiful, and no

matter how much you may look absolutely stunning. But if

you think in your mind, I'm not good enough, I'm

not beautiful enough, that's a trap of the enemy. And

when you think you're not good enough, what does God says?

God says, I have beautifully, wonderfully made, fearfully made. Literally,

God's fingerprint is all over you, whether you like it

or not. He has formed you. And when he has

formed you, you have no question to say I don't

look good doesn't matter. The one who made you things

You are absolutely stunning, masterpiece, one of a kind. He

doesn't want you to be somebody else. And the last one,

I am not good enough. I'm never good enough. I

do all these things at church. I'm trying to be

the good person, but inside you are so critical about yourself.

You demean yourself, you critically look at yourself. No matter

what you do, you don't feel good about yourself. I

just don't feel good. I still feel I'm a horrible person.

You know what the antidote to that is, God says,

I am your righteousness. I am your righteousness. It is

not in you. It is not because you did something

good that you need to feel good about yourself. You

need to feel good and real good because I am

within you. It is not in your works. It is

not in your ability to feel good or you know,

to feel worthy. But it is because you have clothed

yourself with Christ. You know it takes. This is the

battle that Paul talks about. Every Christian need to get serious.

It's like this, go to a battlefield without any gun.

Right suppose I don't know which country, some country, Ukraine.

You've been sent from here to Ukraine to go fight,

and they never give you a gun, or you never

took a gun. You're just gonna walk there. What will happen?

You'll get fired, You'll die. Why because you don't have

a weapon. You're just gonna stand there and walk and

talk to people. Nobody's gonna listen to you. You're gonna

be shot that the first moment you take the first step,

and that is exactly what's happening to every single Christian

in the world. You've got to take those actions. You've

got to confess, fight your battles, put down your foot

and say no, devil no. When you are standing in church,

the devil say you don't need to worship that, you

don't need to do this, you don't need to sing

this song, and you know you not come on time.

You don't need to do all that. As long as

you don't do all of that, he still has the

grip on you. Simple example, when we call for prayer,

I don't want to get up and go, or if

people think I have some issues, yeah you have issues.

Nobody is there without any issues. Everybody has issues. But

when we sit there, that is literally pride, and it

grieves the Holy Spirit. It grieves the Holy Spirit because

you know what He wants to set you free, but

he cannot invade your will. He will not He will

not overcome your will and say no, no, I want

to make you right. Come on, I'll make you right. No,

he won't do it. He will wait for you to

willingly come to him. If you come to him, he

is faithful to set you free. Every time when there

is a call for prayer, please it's my humble request.

Step up, step forward. It doesn't matter what anybody thinks,

because end of the day, you're the one who's going

through it. You're the one who's facing it, and only

you know the pain that you have in your life.

And if you want to be set free, you got

to take that step. You've got to put that foot

forward and come forward and get set free, because you

know what, the Holy Spirit is here to set you free.

It grieves the Holy Spirit every single day when you

come in, every single Sunday you come in, you go

back with the same issue, with the same mental illness,

with the same physical deformity, every single thing that you're facing.

It grieves him because he is just waiting. It's like

Jesus saying, Oh Israel, oh Jerusalem, how I could set

you free. It grieves him to see you struggle with

something that he is already paid for. That is you

that God wants to give you the access to every

time you get an opportunity, somebody wants to somebody's calling

up for prayer, run forward, literally, run forward. You know

that scarce the enemy. As long as you're going to

sit there and say it's okay, maybe next Sunday. Brother,

you're not going to live tomorrow. Forget next week Sunday.

That's a long shot. You are not sure about tomorrow.

So don't wait for next Sunday. The moment you take

that step of faith and say Lord, every person you

go through the Bible, every person that step forward and says,

son of David, Jesus, heal me. What did Jesus do?

He said, come tomorrow, what did he do? He did it?

Thank you Joel. He healed that person. He set that

captive free. Now today, if you want to be set free,

look up to God. We're gonna pray. But I would

request everyone if you need prayers, so they will be there.

Other elders Simon o Yasmin can join us and they

will pray for each one. My desire is this. I

don't want to see one soul stepping out of this

door without being prayed. Because you know what God cares

for you. God loves you and it hurts him terribly

to see you in pain, and it hurts him terribly

to see you walk out in pain after coming and

meeting him. Amen. So I would request everybody will be

getting into worship in a few moments from now. But

as the worship team leads worship, I would request each

person cameras are not looking at you. It's only you

and God. If you need prayer, you need to step up,

get up from your seat, or write to the people,

to the past, Dave and Simon and Jasmin, to the

elder standing here, they will pray over you. But today,

make this very clear. You are not going to step

out of this place the way you came in, because

you need to be set free. I hope you're getting this.

God is not interested to play religion. He is interested

to see his people set free, walking boldly, healed and

walking in strength for the Lord. He is the God

of the redeemed. He is not the god of the

weak the failing. Let today be the day where Satan

loses his grip on you. Let today be the day

whether chains put by the enemy is broken off you.

Let today be the day you say no not anymore

to the devil and say yes, Lord, lead me so

that I may run the race that you have for me,

so that I may walk in your kingdom. Amen, We're

gonna pray now, but I would request past Dave Simony

asked me to come forward. Lord. We thank you Lord,

as the worship team comes and leads us in the

background with the song. I want everyone to introspect, think

about areas that you are struggling with. Lay it all

down before God, come before him. Don't let the enemy

win today, but get up, come forward and get prayed over.

Let the Lord do in your life what nobody else

can do. Let the Lord set you free in areas

where the devil has caught you, trapped you and kept

you as a prisoner from not excelling in your life.

Let the freedom of God. Let the power of God

manifest in your life. If you need prayer, come forward.

This is your moment. Step up, step forward, come come

and get prayed over. Let the power of God manifest

in your life. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord for

every soul holy spirit that you are working upon them,

that you are giving them the strength and the boldness. Lord,

to stand up and walk forward, Lord, to get prayed over. Lord.

We thank you, Holy Spirit, because you are a good God.

You are a merciful God, Oh Lord, and let your

love manifest. Let your compassion break through in this place.

O Lord, thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you

Holy Spirit. Let your power move Lord. Let the hearts

be changed. Let every wall of pride be broken in

the name of Jesus. Lord, let every stronghold be broken

in the name of Jesus. We thank you for the

souls that are standing up and coming forward. Oh Lord,

We thank you Lord, because you are at work in

this place. Lord. We thank you Lord. We thank you Lord.

We thank you Lord. Let every soul Lord move forward

in the name of.

Jesus, be set free in the name of Jesus. Be

set free in the name of Jesus.

Lord, we thank you, We thank you, Lord. We thank

you Lord. I see change be broken in the name

of Jesus. Oh rab Lord, I thank you. I thank

you for the strength and your heart soul. Lord, I

thank you Lord for that desperation Lord that you're putting

in your heart's Lord to meet up with you in

the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. We

thank you, Lord, We thank you Lord. Oh we thank

you Lord about shut out the ni Oba city. Say,

oh Jesus, come and have your ways. Come and have

your way. Oh coming, have your way. Oh I laid

on my pride and laid on my pride in your presence.

I laid on my pride. Oh I come. H m

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