Pastor Rueben

Amen.

All right.

Thank you.

You may be seated.

I want to share with you the word of God from Jeremiah chapter one.

Jeremiah chapter one and verse four to verse ten.

If somebody could help us to read, I would be thankful.

Jeremiah chapter one, verses uh four to ten.

Jeremiah chapter one, verses four to ten.

Can somebody read for me?

Then the Lord, then the word of the Lord came to me saying, Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.

Before you were born, I sanctified you.

I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

Then said I, Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.

But the Lord said to me, Do not say I am a youth, for you shall go to all to whom I send you.

And whatever I command you, you shall speak.

Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.

Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see?

And I said, I see a branch of an almond tree.

Thank you.

He added some verses.

Yeah.

Praise the Lord.

All right, I want to share with you a message that I have entitled, God has an assignment for you.

God has an assignment for you.

In other words, you have an assignment from God.

Amen.

The words we have just read talk about Jeremiah, and God speaks to him.

He didn't know anything, but God comes to him, he says, Before you are formed in the womb, I knew you and I set you apart to be a prophet.

I ordained you to be a prophet to the nations.

But he was unaware of that.

He didn't know that.

And then we see him giving some excuses that I'm young, I cannot speak, and all that.

So as I was reading these verses, I felt lured to share to you because I believe we are also on assignment given by God.

We are not just here to be here so we can eat some chicken like I feel, eating about chicken.

We are on assignment.

God has blessed us on the planet earth because there is something that we need to do.

Everybody that is in this room has an assignment from God.

Everybody, whether you know it or you do not know, there is an assignment from God for your life.

You know, we are different from animals.

And when God gives us assignment, we can come with the excuses like Jeremiah did.

You know, I'm too young.

That assignment is too big for me.

I'm too young.

And I don't know what you might be saying.

You might be saying, Well, I'm too old.

I cannot do this.

But God doesn't care about your age as long as you're breathing, as long as you're still alive, there is something you can do to the kingdom of God.

Amen.

And he says, I cannot speak.

He focuses on his ability.

You know, when God gives you an assignment, you don't focus on your ability, you focus on his ability.

Because it won't be you doing, he will be doing through you.

And he says, I cannot, I cannot speak because he looks at his ability.

When we are on assignment, we don't need to focus at our ability.

We need to focus at his ability.

And his ability says, I can do all things.

What is not possible with man is possible with God.

Amen.

Amen.

I cannot speak because I'm a youth.

Brothers and sisters, if you can forget whatever, I mean, so many things that I might share today, I want you to remember that you are on assignment.

You are seated here wired with an assignment from God.

You are not an empty vessel.

Inside you, there is a work, there is a task that God wants you to do.

And you will never be satisfied.

You'll never be satisfied until and unless you start doing that assignment.

Your joy is on doing and completing the assignment God has given you.

Amen.

Sometimes we take for granted being alive and we think we are just here to be alive, to just be here.

No.

There is something that you can do in the kingdom of God.

And you know, when we talk of assignments, assignments are different.

There are others who have huge assignments, big assignments, and there are those that have got, you know, small assignments.

But it doesn't matter.

What God cares is your faithfulness to that assignment.

Whether you've got a huge one or a small one, he wants you to be faithful.

Do your assignment.

Amen.

And I want this to be clear.

You know, you might have your children, and so you're taking care of your children, and you think, This is my assignment.

Or you have a husband and you're taking care of your husband and you say, This is my assignment.

No.

No.

No, that is not.

I'm not talking about those things, you see.

I'm talking things that father the kingdom of God.

Those are assignments.

Where you witness to people so they come to Jesus Christ, you pray for the pastor as he ministers.

You know, those things.

You use your Facebook to witness to others, and you make sure you stay on it.

You do it until you can feel in your heart that this is my assignment.

Praise God.

Now let that amen be louder.

Praise God.

God bless us here so we can be on assignment.

And you know, when I read these verses, God tells Jeremiah not to be afraid.

Which means he was also afraid.

That was one of his excuses.

He was afraid.

How can I go and speak to those people?

He says, Don't be afraid, I will be with you.

I'll just be with you.

And so you've got to focus on me and see yourself being with me all the time.

Because it won't be you doing, it will be me doing through you.

So you don't need to be afraid.

I know the devil can try to do a lot of things, just as you have heard from Pastor Danny about my life.

He can try to do a lot of things.

But if God does not say you should go, you won't go.

I can go if he says I have to go.

And when he says I have to go, you know, people may feel so bad about me going, but when he has said his ideas or rather his plan is better than ours.

That's right.

See?

Amen.

And sometimes I note that we can not get engaged into our assignment because we look at what we don't have.

And you say, I don't have that, I don't have that.

How can I do the assignment?

But you need to focus on God.

When God gives you an assignment, He supplies.

He cannot give you an assignment and fail to supply.

He doesn't do that.

He can call you when you just have the stick in your hands.

And you say, God, I don't have anything.

And then he says, I'll use that very stick to bring water from the rock and do miracles through that stick.

So while you care about what I don't have and what I have, he doesn't care about that.

Because when he said it is finished, he meant it.

Hallelujah.

No, I said hallelujah.

So just focus on his ability.

You know, I remember this story of Peter, you know, going through the temple, and they see this lame person recruited, and then he's looking at them, expecting something.

And then Peter, what did he say?

He said, We don't have silver, we don't have money.

But he said, What I have, that is what I give.

So you can you can have no silver, you can have no gold, but then have what is inside you.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

And this is what gives me courage to stand here and preach to you.

Because there are so many things that I don't have, but I have Jesus.

Amen.

I may not have that and that and that and that, but I have Jesus.

And so the Jesus I have, I give you.

Praise the Lord.

Amen.

Does it make sense, please?

Yes.

Do you understand?

Yes.

You know, because coming from Tanzania sometimes may make you know to understand.

So I don't have the gold, I don't have the silver, but what I have, I give you.

That's why when you don't have certain things, you don't need to look down on yourself.

Because you have the spiritual that can bring the physical ones.

Oh, come on now.

Amen.

So when God puts you on assignment, you don't focus on what you don't have.

Focus on Him.

He will supply whatever you need.

Hallelujah.

And my God shall supply all my needs.

According to His riches in God.

Yes.

Amen.

I want everybody here to know that you are on assignment.

God has blessed you on the planet Earth because there is an assignment to you.

As a young man, you might be in a you might have an assignment to your fellow young man, an assignment to your fellow women, an assignment to your fellow men.

There's something that God wants you to do.

But as a person who is on assignment, there are three things that are very important to always remember.

And number one is your focus.

And number two is your commitment.

Your focus and your commitment.

And I would say the last thing is your faith.

As a person that is on assignment for God, you need all the time to focus on God.

No matter how bad things are, focus on him.

No matter what the devil is trying to say, focus on him.

Sometimes you might have some symptoms in your own body.

You feel like, well, it's not well with me.

Focus on him.

Just be in him, live in him, speak, you know, see yourself in him, walk in him, speak yourself, seeing, being in him.

Do everything as you see yourself connected to him.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

Yeah.

You know what he did to Jeremiah here?

He said, Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

And so all the time, look at yourself as somebody that has the word of the Lord on the inside of you.

You are not empty.

You have something in you.

Amen.

So have your mind focused on Jesus.

Have your mind focused on God.

Do not look at anything else.

People may say different things.

They may, you know, a lot of things, but just focus on God.

Why on God?

He sent his son Jesus Christ to die for you.

And the reason why he came to die and save you is because he wanted you to be on assignment.

You cannot do an assignment if you're not born again.

You can only do your assignment if you are born again.

Amen.

There is a word, let me see if I can remember.

John 15.

1516.

15, 16.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit.

That your fruit should remain.

That whatever you ask, the Father in my name, he may give you.

So you see, he chose us so and put us in the planet eighth, so we can bear fruit.

So we are here to bear fruits.

That is our task.

We are here to make sure that we bear fruits.

Amen.

No, amen.

Cannot hear you.

Amen.

Ephesians 2, 10.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hallelujah.

Thank you, preachers.

For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus.

Created in Christ Jesus for good works that he prepared beforehand that we should walk in.

That is assignment.

He prepared before we came.

You know, it's like inviting us.

He saw us and he said, let them go.

That's like an assignment.

That's why he's performing for the first time.

It's not because they're going to be able to do that.

To complete that assignment.

So focus on that because he created you for assignment.

He is your facilitator.

He can help you do that assignment.

He is your provider.

That's why you need to focus on him.

Amen.

Am I making sense?

And he's the one who has commanded you.

So focus on him.

You have not been commanded by anybody, you've been for commanded by God.

So focus on him.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

You are commanded by God, and the moment you are commanded by God, whatever you say has power.

Because it's no longer your words.

No, you have been commanded by God, and therefore the words you speak are not yours.

They are filled with the power of God.

They are able to make things come into existence.

Amen.

So the words that I share, you have power to transform you, to change you.

Amen.

Amen.

Right.

So focus on God.

Don't focus on your problems, on your difficulties.

Focus on God.

I know God is speaking to somebody here.

He is.

He is.

You are focusing too much on your problems.

Yeah?

You thought he doesn't know that?

He knows.

Focus on God.

Because the more you focus on your problems, the more you think of problems, and the more you pray like problems, and the more you dream about problems.

The more you focus on God, the more you hallelujah.

And what was the second thing that I said?

Commitment.

When you have an assignment from God, you need to be committed to that assignment.

Because there are so many things that can divert you from the assignment.

So many things.

But you need to stay committed to that assignment.

See?

Commitment.

Commitment.

You don't just do today and to tomorrow you don't do.

You do when you feel.

No, when you are on assignment, you do even when you don't feel.

You do it.

Our time of stay here on the planet Earth is too short.

We need to use it wisely.

And we need to stay committed to the assignment.

Two years ago, or rather three years ago, I started praying and I said, I said, God, I know I'm a pastor and I'm called to preach the word, but specifically, what should I be preaching?

What is my assignment?

And then he revealed to me through his word that I was to emphasize and emphasize about the greatness of Jesus Christ.

See, and so wherever I go, I say, forget about your weakness, forget about Your failures.

Just know about his greatness and connect yourself to Jesus.

And then whatever you feel you are not able to do, you will do it.

You know the problem why we fail sometimes?

We focus a lot on our ability.

Man is not able to do God's will by himself.

I don't know about you, but I cannot do the will of God by myself.

I can do if Jesus is in me.

Oh no, I did not hear an amen.

I can do if Jesus is in me.

Can you do if Jesus is in you?

Yeah.

And so no matter how a thing, I mean, no matter how big a thing is, when Jesus is in me, I have faith that I can do it.

And I'm committed to it.

Hallelujah.

So stay committed.

Even when it comes to coming to church, stay committed.

You don't come today, this Sunday, and next Sunday, you don't come.

No, we don't do that.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

You need to be committed.

And did you know that there are people, there are people that come to church?

They are learning from those that you know they have found in the church already.

If they don't see you in the church today, and then next Sunday, they think missing churches, I mean missing church is a normal thing.

I don't know about here, Pastor, and I'm not intruding your programs.

But but thank you.

Thank you.

But in my church, we say anybody that knows won't be in the church needs to let the pastor know.

So we do what?

Now we stand on the pulpit and say, so and so is not here with us because of one, two, three.

And then the people know.

Oh, so so and so gave an information that he won't be there.

You don't just disappear, man.

Amen.

I don't, hey, walk with me, please.

I don't, I don't get a picture of of Peter or James or any other disciples just disappearing.

And then Jesus is looking at them, he doesn't know where they are.

I don't get it.

I don't get that picture.

Do you get that picture?

No.

No, they were committed.

If they were not gonna be there, they would tell Jesus, Jesus, I'm sorry, I won't be here because there is one, two, three.

Let's shout Amen.

Let's shout Amen.

Some of you, some of you seem to be sad.

What's wrong?

Yeah, you need to be committed.

Yeah.

Need to be committed, amen.

You need to make sure that every single Sunday you are here.

If you miss Sunday, it should be for important reasons.

Reasons that even Jesus, if he were to come and find you with that reason, he would say, I understand.

Yeah?

You don't have reasons that if Jesus was to come, then you're afraid to tell him, no, you I did not go to church because I had this reason, and Jesus said, Yes, I understand that.

We were talking, I think I was talking to my mom here one day, and I said, You know, there are days when you wake up you don't feel like going to church.

Has it ever happened to you?

Then God bless you.

You are very spiritual.

You are very spiritual.

But there are days when you wake up and you don't feel like going to church.

You feel like you're tired, you feel like you should just stay at home.

But then you tell this body, I know you will not go to heaven.

My spirit will.

So I'm gonna force you.

We will go to church.

And you go take a shower and then you go to church.

So there are days when you don't feel like coming to church, but you need to come yet.

You need to come even when you don't feel because you are committed.

Can I hear a shout of Amen?

You need to stay committed, it's not something that you do today and then the following other day you don't do.

No, you need to stay committed.

This is part of your assignment.

It's part of your assignment.

Amen.

And mind you, mind you, there are some people who think so and so is better than me.

And so if I don't do my assignment, so and so will do it.

There are things that only you, only you and you alone can do.

Nobody I cannot do them, Pastor Danny cannot do them, and somebody else cannot do only you can do them, and that's why we have different fingerprints.

Why?

Because even our assignments are different.

That's good.

I know you thought maybe you don't have anything to do in the kingdom of God.

There are things that you can do, and God is waiting for you.

He has preserved you from a lot of things because he wants you to do that assignment.

So many people, your friends are no longer here.

The reason why they are no longer here is because the assignment was finished.

Yours is not finished yet.

God wants you to do your assignment.

And there is a report that you have to take to heaven that I've completed my assignment.

Jeremiah had an assignment, he didn't know about that, and it was a huge assignment to reach the nations.

You have an assignment.

You're not just here to eat, you're not just here to move around, do some works.

You have an assignment from God.

I want you as you get out today here to start thinking about what is your assignment.

And sometimes a question can be asked, Well, what if I don't know about my assignment?

What do I do?

Pray.

Pray.

Ask God to reveal to you your assignment.

I told you that you are a wired.

You are wired with an assignment on the inside of you.

So ask God to reveal it to you.

And sometimes listen.

Listen.

There is a place you will feel some pain.

Sometimes when you do you don't do certain things, you feel some pain.

Why didn't I do that?

I shouldn't have done that.

That is a sign that that is part of your assignment.

So listen.

Listen to your heart.

It will tell you your assignment.

Amen.

Amen.

Now remember when I say of your heart, I say listen to your heart because I know you are born again.

I cannot say that to a person that is not born again.

Because they don't have Jesus, and therefore, you know.

Yeah.

But as for you who is born again, your heart will reveal to you.

I remember when I got saved.

I would be bothered if I don't witness to anybody.

I would feel guilt.

I would feel guilt.

I would not, you know, I would feel okay if I had found somebody and spoke to him about Jesus Christ.

And there would be peace.

But if I don't do that, I would have no peace.

God was revealing my assignment.

And so that is how you can know about your assignment.

Listen to your heart.

Listen to your heart.

God is calling you into doing an assignment.

Listen to your heart.

Forget about your weakness.

Forget about your failures.

As you start listening to God, even your failures will be dealt with.

Amen.

Focus on Him and stay committed.

And finally, I said, you need to walk by faith.

When you have an assignment from God, walk by faith.

Where our church is, we had a small, a small, a small, I would say, a small land, piece of land, that we needed to add.

Because we had no parking lot.

So and it was owned, it was owned by other people.

So they wanted to build their office.

And I would go there every morning and I would say, well, this is a parking lot for the church.

This is our piece of land.

I declare and declare that this is our property.

This is our property.

This is our property.

And I would come receive some bad news.

They say we are about to start building.

I wouldn't care about that.

I go back again.

I say you you piece.

And I'm sorry if this sounds crazy.

This is me.

I'm sorry.

I would go to that piece of land and I would say, Hey, you piece of land, you not accept anybody else here.

Okay?

Okay.

Because I've stepped upon you, you are here for us.

You are here for us.

You are here for us.

And I would shout, hey, you are here for us.

You are here for us.

You are here for us.

Hey, you are here for us.

You are here for us.

You are here for us.

And then I received a very bad news.

They said, We are coming to build.

That day I remember I left home at 4 a.m.

I left at 4.

And I went to that piece of land.

They are saying they are coming to build here.

No, I said, You are ours.

You are ours.

You are our property.

You belong to us.

You belong to us.

This is kind of crazy, and I'm sorry if I sound crazy.

But I did that by faith.

And then they said, Reuben, buy us a small piece of land somewhere else, and we'll give it to you.

And we got it.

It worked.

It worked.

Ha ha! It worked.

You know, when I was when I was speaking, this this this is our land, this is our land out here.

The devil saying, but I couldn't care.

I said, none of your business.

Leave me alone.

Let me do what I have to do.

And we got it.

We got it.

Amen.

No, amen.

So as a person on assignment, you need to walk by faith.

And a person who walks by faith, you know, there are times when you have to speak some things that you believe.

You don't keep quiet.

When Jesus, when Jesus saw the wind in the sea, what did he do?

Did he just keep quiet?

He believed that the wind would be, you know, would calm down and he just taped like this.

That is what he did.

No, he spoke.

So if you got some faith in you, you need to speak.

Right?

Speak about your assignment.

Sometimes I wake up and I I speak to myself.

I say, Oh God, thank you.

I'm gonna have a huge church.

People coming.

People are coming.

And then you say, What happens then?

I go to church sometimes.

I don't find so and so in the church.

Does it bother me?

No.

No, I keep on speaking.

Keep on speaking.

And I've seen an increase.

I've seen people come.

Praise the Lord.

So walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

As a person who is on assignment, walk by faith.

When I say walk by faith, in other words, there are some places where where you can't be sure of that and that.

But just believe God.

Trust God.

Trust God and relax.

Rest in him.

Amen.

Just see him controlling everything.

Just see him in charge.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Yeah.

Imagine him being in charge.

Amen.

Amen.

Yes.

Just see him in charge.

Verse 10.

See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down, to destroy and throw down, to build and plant.

That is our task.

That is our responsibility.

But to do this, we got to do it by faith.

Do it by faith.

Amen.

I mean, I believe, even as I stand here, there are some things that are being rooted out in you.

Some fears, some unbelief.

Getting out of you.

And you're being set free.

Amen.

Amen.

And you just take it by faith.

Rechieve it by faith.

See yourself being delivered.

No matter what you're going through.

See yourself being delivered and see yourself being set free so you can be on that assignment for God.

Amen.

Amen.

So God put me here for an assignment.

And even when I came here, I came for an assignment.

I'm right now here for an assignment.

I may not be deep as Pastor Danny is in terms of the mercy, but I have an assignment to encourage you.

That's right.

To encourage you that God has an assignment for you, and you need to get up, start doing your assignment.

Yes.

Start doing your assignment.

Find something that you can do in the kingdom.

Don't just be there.

Don't just come to church.

Sometimes we just come to church.

You sit, you listen, go back home.

You come to church, sit, listen, go back home.

Sit, come.

No, you need to come, you receive and find a place.

You can give what you have received.

Amen.

Yes, you receive the word and you find a person.

You start, you know, giving out what you are receiving.

You don't just receive for your own sake.

Amen.

Amen.

Reach your friends at work.

Talk to them about Jesus Christ.

Witness to them.

Witness your relatives.

Reach them.

Be that person on assignment.

Amen.

Well, there are different assignments that we can do in the kingdom of God, and I will not dare mention, but I said, just ask God to reveal to you your assignment.

And we will show you.

If he has called you for singing, he has called you for music, he has called for and just stay on that assignment and walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

Amen.

Amen.

You know when we were studying the church at Mbez, Pastor Dani, you know what people said because I had left another uh place where I was pastoring, they said, he thinks planting a church is an easy task.

He won't.

He won't succeed over this area.

And in fact, for I would say for two years, I would not see people.

For two years.

Because we started in 2010.

2010, we had no people.

2011, no people.

I'm telling you, I'm preparing some messages.

I'm expecting people to come.

No.

I go house to house, witness nobody.

And I would hear people saying, He doesn't know this about this place.

But I kept by faith, you know, I would get in the in the church and I would start saying, Well, Father, thank you for the people that are coming.

I see you speaking to them through dreams, through visions, through different ways.

You are bringing them, they are coming, and I'm happy they are coming.

Then in 2012, they started coming.

They started coming little by little.

Started coming, started coming.

And now we are blessed.

We have some people.

Amen.

But how did it start?

You know, by faith.

These faith issues sometimes are very tough.

I remember one time I was invited in one of the regions in Tanzania, and so I went there.

I had a seminar of two weeks, and my wife is telling me, Hey, Pastor, you need to come back quickly because people are going away.

They've asked, they've been told that you are not here.

And so, and I get back, I see four people, they had left.

They are no longer there.

I'm trying to make some four-ups, and I went to visit them.

They said, No, we don't want to be at a church where the pastor is not around.

So we are no longer with you.

That hurt me.

But I went back to doing the same thing.

Father, thank you.

Because when you said it is finished, you meant it.

And I confess that I have people.

They are coming, Father.

You're bringing them from all walks of life.

And God started bringing them.

He started bringing them.

Bringing them to this day.

We have some people.

Amen.

So walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

There are some things that you may not understand why they happen to you and why they take place.

You are on assignment, but then there are these things that are happening and they bother you so much.

Just walk by faith.

Just walk by faith.

I don't know about you.

There are some times I don't understand everything.

I don't understand everything.

And if you would ask me why that and that happened, I don't know.

If we will be allowed to ask questions in heaven, please remind me.

Remind me, we will ask together.

But I know heaven is not a place for questions, it's for perfection, peace, and love and joy.

But I'm saying here there are so many things that I don't understand sometimes.

But I trust God.

I trust God.

The devil kind of troubled me when I was coming here.

You know, I don't know what happened from Chicago to Yeah.

I don't want I don't know what happened.

You know, I was in peace from Tanzania to Swiss and then Swiss to Chicago.

I was at peace, but when I took that plane, Chicago to here, I don't know.

The devil started whispering to me some very awful things.

And I said, hey, come on, keep quiet.

He kept saying some things, you know, and I don't want to be specific, but you know, they were bad things.

I said, you devil, shut up.

And then finally I said, You come on.

If Jesus was to come and preach to America, if he was in Tanzania, he would take this jet.

So keep quiet.

And he kept quiet.

He never opened his mouth.

Now you may ask me, Did you see him?

No.

But he came through thoughts.

I said, keep quiet.

And from there, I just sat on my seat and I started writing and meditating on the goodness of God.

And I was swimming in faith, hallelujah, and smiling.

And you know, meditating, looking at the looking at the cloud and saying, This is where I'm gonna meet my Lord.

And he bothered me no more.

Walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

No, walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

There is a reason why I'm repeating this.

Walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

Even if you don't understand some things, but I'm saying, walk by faith.

Walk by faith as you fulfill your assignment.

Walk by faith.

Walk by faith.

You know, when you don't understand some things, walk by faith.

God has good plans for you.

Walk by faith.

Whatever you need, He will do it in your assignment.

Walk by faith.

God bless you.

Walk by faith.

I pray that you in your assignment.