Pastor Rejoice Ndalima

I greet you in the name of Jesus.

My name is Rejoice Ndalima.

Rejoice Asubicia Ndalima.

That's uh African name from Tanzania.

Tanzania is located in, we say East Africa, but really is uh southern east of Africa.

Uh some people here think Africa is a continent, is a country.

You know, it is a continent.

We have about 55 countries.

And uh we have biggest countries like um uh Congo, Algeria, and other countries plus Tanzania.

Uh the size like uh Kenya is two times, and Uganda is three times, the Malawi and Congo, and uh Malawi and Rwanda and Burundi are eight times is a is a big country.

We have 55 million people, and we speak about 126 tribal languages.

But we have a national language which is Swahili, so everybody can speak Swahili except old people, like my grandmother couldn't understand Swahili.

So when I visit my village to preach in Nyakusa, and Ben cannot speak Nyakusa.

So we learn English as a subject in school.

In now we have English, Germany, Chinese, a little Spanish.

So we have different uh uh foreign languages that we learn in high schools and college.

So if you are healthy, up here you can pick up foreign languages, but it's very difficult for most people.

I'm blessed to be here this morning, and I know some of you have never met us before.

We are the parents of Ben Dalima, and here's my wife, Beatrice.

Can you come up, Beatrice, please?

We have four children, two boys.

Ben is the second born.

And we have uh Hope, Ben, Lightness, and Lois.

So we have four children.

This is the mother of all those four children.

Amen.

The better man.

The better man.

I would love for you to hear her voice.

I'm Beatrice Nalima from Tanzania, Daresta.

I love you so much.

I came here two years ago, and I'm blessed to be here too.

Thank you for your love and kindness.

We have seen you working with us together in Tanzania.

Thank you, Pastad, for inviting us and everyone.

We feel free.

We are moving everywhere we want since you gave us a car.

We are moving like we are just free like a mullig.

Amen.

God bless you.

She's a scientist, by the way.

She teaches mathematics and chemistry.

So we are very happy to be here.

We want to extend our gratitude to the church here for taking care of our son, Ben.

We love him.

Thank you very much.

And uh we want to extend our invitation again.

Dr.

Dan, please come back to Tanzania.

We started a Bible training with him about eight years ago, and uh we have trained hundreds of pastors now.

We just have had another graduation a few weeks ago, uh, about a month ago, and uh we train church leaders, pastors, evangelists.

We have some people from Congo and Zambia and all over the country who come to attend our training.

And uh we have a training uh building, a small building that we start with Brother David.

He helps us get us started, although it's not finished yet, but is it there?

It is a mark that we always remember, and we are thankful for what uh God has done through the life of Brother David and his family.

We are praying that maybe the church can uh pick up from there and make the mission accomplished.

Um probably we are talking about maybe next year, past and to come back.

And uh we have uh regular trainings that we do every Tuesday and Thursday, but also we do uh uh short-time training where we can get uh more pastors to come at least once a year.

You remember that time we had close to 500 pastors who came for our trainings.

And because they know what we offer, when I invite them to come, they they do come.

So we are praying that God will make a way so that next year, around maybe July, that we can uh get another training program at least for one year, for one week.

So I'm praying that God will uh open the door for you to come.

Uh in Tanzania, we do uh training for ministers.

We do evangelism.

I'm an evangelist also.

I started as a preacher, just preaching.

But later I became a pastor about 30 years ago.

So now being an overseer or a leader for all these pastors, we also do ministry for the needy, like the widows and orphans.

In fact, we have our hands full.

So in Tanzania, no vacation.

So if we want to get out, it's just like this one.

We um get out maybe for a couple weeks just to get um relaxed and just meditate and pray.

In Tanzania, she's missing me.

She doesn't see me a lot.

So we had to travel to go somewhere else for us to get good time together.

I'm really enjoying my time here.

Before we, I have a lot of things to share, but I don't think I have enough time to do it.

It can take hours, hours and hours to finish the whole story.

Raised in a my father was a pastor, but he was raised in a polygamist family.

Eight wives, my grandfather had eight wives, sixty children.

Then a missionary came from uh America to my village.

He learned my tribal language in Yakusa.

He was very smart by the name Paul Dr.

Very smart.

Then after that, he started preaching in my tribe.

Then one of my uh uncles got born again, then my dad, my aunties, then my other relatives.

So it began just like that.

Then he became a pastor.

I'm also a pastor.

So we are blessed to see what God can do with just one faithful servant who can take time to share the good news.

And I'm gonna uh encourage you this morning that God can use any anybody, any one of us.

And I want you to take it seriously.

If you are a Christian, you are born again, even if you are not, there's a chance for you to get born again.

God is looking for many women who can avoid themselves and share the good news to the lost, and you can do likewise.

Amen.

I'm gonna sing in Swahili.

I would love for the praise team to help me, the musician, drumist, Ben and Benji.

I sing in Swahili.

You play in Swahili.

This is called Ten Zarhone, is like Baptist hymnals, so you can easily sing in your language.

I'll be singing in Swahili.

Amen.

Yes, I am being good.

And I used to witness to him about 35 years ago.

And he asked me, you talked about Jesus back then, and I'm hearing you again talking about the same Jesus.

And I've heard that you've gone to school, you have a doctorate degree, and all that.

Do you have anything else to talk about?

This is my melody.

This is my story story.

Jesus is the only savior.

His name is above every day.

Every knee must bow.

And every time must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

His name means Yeshua in Hebrew, meaning deliverer, savior.

He's able to save you from every kind of captivity.

Just believe in him.

You don't need to change a little bit to be born again.

Just come as you are, as messed up as you are.

He knows what to do.

Some people take a long time to come to Christ.

They think I better change a little bit to be a good person.

If I was smoking 10 cigarettes a day, maybe after smoking maybe two or three, then I come, change a little bit and come to no.

He is the savior.

He is the deliverer.

Just come.

As you are, he will change you.

He changed me.

He changed him.

He changed her.

He's able to do exceedingly abundant above all that we ask or imagine according to the power.

The gospel is the power of God unto salvation.

It's not just mere words.

Powerless, useless words.

Brothers and sisters, this gospel can change you.

It can change anybody.

I've seen drug addicts, Muslims, crooks, Catholics, Seventh-day Adventists, pagans like my parents.

God can do anything.

He's able.

Omnipotent.

Omniscient.

He's able.

Omnipresent.

He's everywhere.

Or he's here in America.

My people are sleeping now in Tanzania.

He's with them.

He can do anything.

I've seen him work.

I've seen his power, his protection.

I shared with you previously, I think two years ago.

One time burglars broke into our house.

That's British English.

Burglars.

Robbers.

British British, we call it burglars.

Broke into our house with three guns.

And they say, we have come to kill you.

It was just eight o'clock in the evening.

I'm like, killing me for what?

I don't know of anybody.

I don't curse.

I don't mistreat people.

Yeah, we have come to kill you.

I told them, don't kill me.

Just take whatever you want in my house if you want to take it.

My TV, whatever you have.

I am not a businessman.

I have a little money in my pocket.

You can have it.

They say, Yeah, this is okay, but we want to kill you.

This is our first mission in this house.

We must kill you.

Then they pocket on my side, on my chest with a knife.

On my head.

I said, don't do that to the preacher.

The later they tried to shoot at me.

They tried three times.

They kept it missing.

How can you miss such a big head?

Because I was praying, God protect me from these people.

They're gonna kill me for real because I have a mission to accomplish.

And it's not done yet.

So they kept missing.

When they shoot this side, they are doing okay.

They tried to shoot at me, they couldn't do it.

Then the leader of the gang announced, this is the wrong place.

Let's go! Wrong place.

Brothers, sisters, and sisters.

God is able to protect us, to keep us safe.

Even in dangerous and perilous situations, he is able to do it.

We just need to commit ourselves fully.

Be radical in this way.

Muslims cannot do better than us.

We can do better than what we are doing.

Don't put your Holy Spirit on refrigerator, put it on fire.

Lukewarm and cold.

Trying to be civilized.

No, there's no civilization in the kingdom.

Whether you're an American, hey, I'm gonna be a little rough.

Just bear with me.

Back up because I'm preaching today, I'll be gone in a few weeks.

Just bear with me.

I'm gonna shake you a little bit just to wake up.

Sometimes you take things for granted here in the States because of the country is peaceful, you are free, you have everything you need.

Roads are good, you have food, you have all that.

But if you travel, go somewhere else and see how people struggle, then you can know what God has done in your life.

We need to be thankful.

Never take it for granted.

I'm gonna share with you from the book of Timothy chapter two, first sorry, second Timothy chapter two, from verse one.

Just a little preaching here to encourage you.

Reading from King James.

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

And the things that thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit you to a faithful man, who shall be able to teach others.

So therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

No man that worth entangles himself with the affairs of this life.

And he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.

That's fine.

And if a man also strives for masteries, yet is not crowned except itself lawfully.

The husband the husband's man that labors must be first a partaker of the fruit of fruit.

Consider what I say, and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Remember that Jesus.

Christ was the seed of David that was raised from the dead according to my gospel.

I'm trying to get what I'm trying to share with you.

Okay.

Let's go from from here and we move forward to the first chapter.

Let's continue.

Pick up from verse three.

I thank God whom I say from my forefathers with pure conscience that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day.

Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy.

When I call to my remembrance, then unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother, Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that this is in thee also.

Verse 6.

Therefore, I put thee in remembrance that you steer up the gift of God, which is in thee, by the putting of hand of my hands.

Verse 7.

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and of sound mind.

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.

Father, in the name of Jesus.

We know we can do nothing without you.

Being a soldier in this kingdom is not easy without your help.

We need your power.

We need your guidance.

We need the Spirit of God to saturate within our hearts and enable us to do just that.

To do what you want us to do.

To be the light of the world, the sort of the world, to make a difference wherever we are.

Lord, we need you.

And we pray that you speak to us today in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Just briefly, I want to share with you about stirring you up your gift.

Stirring up your gift.

Every born-again Christian has a gift.

If you're really born again, God has invested within you a gift.

A gift is a virtue that God enables you to have after you receive salvation by the conviction of the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Spirit doesn't come to you just to rest and do nothing.

He comes to you so that he can use you to make a difference.

And Paul writes this letter to his son in faith, Timothy.

Timothy now is a pastor in Ephesus, and this was about six months before the death of Paul.

He's writing to his son, very important uh encouragement of what he was supposed to do in the kingdom of God.

He is in Roman prison and he's trying to give this instruction to Pastor Timothy.

In 2 Timothy chapter 4, verse 6, for I am ready to be offered.

2 Timothy 4:6

Chapter 4, verse 6, I'm ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

Verse 7, I have fought a good fight.

I have finished my course.

I have kept the faith.

Verse 8.

Henceforth there is laid upon me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day.

Not me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

This crown is laid, it's prepared for all of us.

You are in the States, I'm in Tanzania, those are in Honduras, you are in Nigeria or in Japan, in China.

Every one of us must stand as a soldier in the kingdom of God.

So we write to Timothy.

Now this is a message to us, my brothers and my sisters.

Specifically to this chat here at CCW.

Steer up the gift that is within you.

Stir up.

Get it alive.

Get it work.

Stirring up in the original language means rekindle.

Make it alive.

Make it active.

Make the dormant part active again.

Or accelerate, which is slow.

Make it alive, make it work.

God is calling all of us, all of us to do something in his kingdom.

God never called anybody to be, I call them a nothing doer.

Just sitting in church doing nothing.

No.

Even if you think you are not eloquent in speech, you don't know how to talk, you are not that educated, no.

You don't need to be complicated.

One theologian said it's just about one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

The simplicity of the gospel.

Anyone can do that.

Tell your story, how God changed you.

So you cannot share with others what never happened to you.

It has to happen to you first.

If you are a really changed Christian, you can also share by the change.

Unless you're just uh you just joined church.

There are people who just join church.

Sometimes the door of the church is open.

Sometimes we do that, we say that, and people just join the congregation, but they don't join Jesus.

If you just joined the church and you didn't join the family of God, being a soldier in his kingdom, then you cannot make a difference.

That's right.

That's right.

So this thing must get into your life, into your system, in your mind, in your body, in your heart, in your spirit.

It must change you first.

Then when it changes you, you'll be like Jeremiah.

It is like the fire tied up in my bones.

I can help it but speak it.

One time they tried to speak uh to stop Peter.

Hey Peter, this is too much.

Stop.

You are making noises.

We are tired to hear your story.

Say, hey, I can stop or help it but speak the things that I have heard and seen.

If you have heard and seen, you tell it, you say it, you speak it.

So you have to be a witness.

A witness, if if we've uh in a lawyer's here, a witness is somebody who is sure.

You have seen first hand.

You have seen for yourself, you know how it works, you know how it is.

If God has changed your life the way he changed me, one time they put me in prison because of witness.

I was witness witnessing in a very strict place.

It was the army and the leaders were Muslims.

I couldn't help it.

I had to share the gospel.

Sometimes it's just like fire burning in your heart.

Amen.

You just heard it.

So they arrested me, put me in jail, and inside they took my belt off, my shoes off, my tie off, just to mistreat me.

Um, and so I found some people there who have had never heard the gospel.

I said preaching inside.

And they got born again.

So these policemen, they come to me and say, Hey, we thought we are trying to stop you.

You are locked up in prison, you are preaching again.

I told them I cannot stop until my last breath.

Because the gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God until salvation.

And when we tell it, when you speak it, when we preach, when we share, just the way you are, if you have a lower voice, just use your lower voice to share with someone, whatever you are, your family members at your workplace, if you are a student, tell it.

Let us make Jesus famous.

Yes, let's make him known more than a Coca-Cola.

Let everybody know that Jesus is the savior of the world, and this gospel can change people.

So now, Apostle Paul is encouraging his son Timothy, steer up your gift, make it alive, use it, do something, don't just sit down and you cry.

Yeah, you may go be going through some difficult situations in Tanzania.

Sometimes life is very hard.

You don't have money, no transportation.

Like now, my my vehicle is dead, so we use public transportation.

We don't care.

Whether we we are in our own car or we are walking, we're using what we call bajadia, three wheels, motorcycle.

Just tell it.

Everybody must know, must hear whether they get born again or they don't, but our responsibility is to share.

Stirring up the gift.

There are three reasons that I have to share with you this morning before I take my seat.

There are important facts that I want you to bear in mind.

Stirring up your gift or using your gift is good for your spiritual growth.

You cannot grow spiritually if you do nothing in the kingdom of God.

You don't pray, you don't share the gospel with anyone, you don't do anything, you don't participate in the worship team, you just love Jesus and come to church and go home.

That is not enough.

So that's good for your spiritual growth.

A gift, when you steer up your gift, it does three things.

It glorifies God, it edifies the body of Christ, the church, it helps people.

You lift someone who is discouraged, who was just going astray because you are stirring up your gift.

As a result, it's good for you and others.

So it's good for your spiritual.

If you want to grow spiritually, you have to stir up your gift.

It is like a capital for your spiritual life business.

God has invested this gift within you as a tool for you to use to grow spiritually.

You cannot grow if you're doing nothing in the kingdom of God.

Being a pastor for almost 30 years, I've realized that the troublesome Christians, church members, are those who are doing nothing.

They want to question everything, they don't like anything, they don't like everything.

Why are they painted black or white?

Why are those lights?

Why is a black preacher coming to preach to us from Tanzania?

Why is why he's wearing that?

Hey, by the way, this is Tanzania, every color has a meaning.

I'm gonna share with you later if I remember, if I forget one word about it.

So there are some troublesome Christians.

Maybe they are not here at CCW, but in Tanzania they are.

Those that do nothing in church.

If you are participating in the ministry, you don't have time to grumble and blame and hate and complain.

You don't have time for that.

Amen.

Hallelujah! So it is good for your spiritual growth.

In John 15, chapter 2b, the Bible, sorry, John 15, verse 2.

John 15:2

Every fruit that bear every branch, every tree, every branch that bears fruit, he pegeth it.

And that it may bring forth more fruit.

God takes care of those who are productive.

He will protect you.

He will provide for you.

He will take care of you.

But if you are doing nothing, there's no reason to protect you.

Because you don't bring any profit in his kingdom.

More responsibility, more protection.

If you are effective in a church in a kingdom, then God will provide for you.

Make sure you are alive and safe because you bring forth fruit in a kingdom.

But if you do nothing, you just talk.

A talking church is a weak church.

But a working and praying church is a strong church.

I would discourage all people who like to talk or grumble or complain.

Because agrees.

You got it, brother.

That has never helped any church.

That's right.

Never.

I've been in church all my life.

My father was a pastor.

I'm a pastor for about three uh 30 years now.

I've seen that work.

Those who are effective in church, they are the happiest Christians.

But those who are not effective, everything is bad.

So I want to encourage you, brothers and sisters.

If you want God to purg you and provide for you and protect you, be effective.

Steer up your gift.

Do something in His kingdom.

You may not be a good preacher, but you can participate in the advancement of the kingdom in one way or another.

By doing so, we also attract God's blessings in our lives.

What is the blessing of God?

The blessing of God is not just finances, it's more than that.

The faith of God, the protection, the provision, the guidance, finances, the joy, blessed family, joyful family, all that is a blessing of God.

And God will honor and bless those who bring forth fruit in his kingdom.

It is the undeniable fact that every time we diligently serve him, we are joyful and happy.

We see God glorified, we see the church edified, we see people changing, we experience the blessings of God.

Many things will happen if you do that.

So I encourage you to continue stirring up the gift within you.

In Exodus chapter 23, Exodus 23, verse 25, the Bible says, And ye shall serve the Lord your God.

Exodus 23 · chapter mention Exodus 23:25

When you serve your Lord your God, the Bible says, God will bless thy bread and thy water, and I will take away sicknesses from thee.

God wants to get your attention sometimes.

He will allow things to happen, but he is able to take things that are troubling our lives away.

If you need joy, if you need good health, protection, wisdom, guidance, whatever you need from God, be available.

Do something, steer up your gift.

In Romans 10, 15, the Bible says, How shall they preach?

Except they be sent.

So you may not be a good preacher, but you can send someone.

Isaiah 52, verse 7, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bring good tidings.

Isaiah 52:7

Even in the Old Testament, those who participated in bringing the good tidings, the good news, the gospel, you van Jedi on in Greek, in non we no in my tribal language, in Jiri in Swahili.

That's good news.

Everybody who is born again has some good news to share because the world is frustrated.

Everybody is sad if you turn on your TV every time you all you hear is bad news.

Bad news.

That's the news to them.

No good news.

So people are thirsty and hungry to hear a good news, some different story, something that can come forth through your mouth.

Don't talk like them, don't think like them.

Don't behave like them because you are a peculiar person, a royal priesthood, the people of the kingdom.

You have something to share that the world is looking for.

I know that in Tanzania, and I've seen it working.

Every time we do that, if you participate in this, you'll be uh surprised how God can bless your family in your life, he'll give you good health because you are needed in the kingdom.

You are profitable, you are effective in the church.

So every time we steer up the gift, we participate in the ministry, we do something for the kingdom, we attract God's blessings in our lives.

That's where God is.

When you do what God wants you to do, that's who He is the gospel, the good news.

But also it helps us to examine our foundations in our faith, in our giftings, in our spiritual lives.

When you steer up your gift, you do something for the kingdom, it helps you to check and balance, to examine the foundation that you have in your faith.

The Bible says 2 Timothy 1:5, when I call to remembrance the faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded also that it is in thee.

2 Timothy 1:5

One of the strictest apostles of Paul was very strict.

If you are lazy, remember the story of John Mark?

When they started the first journey, Barnabas and Paul, the first missionary journey in Garacian province, you read about five churches, Perge and Antioch, Pisidia, then Listra, Conium, and Derbe, those five churches, Gratian church.

Then on the way at Perge, John Mark could not withstand the hardship of the gospel.

He abandoned them and returned home.

So now this second missionary journey.

Paul and Silas had to start this journey, and Barnabas could take John Mark.

They start the journey.

Now, when they arrive in Listra and Iconium, they hear the story about this young man, Timothy, in Acts 16, verse 1.

Acts 16:1

Then came to Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a certain woman by the name Eunice, which was a Jew, and believed that his father was a Greek, but per se a Gentile.

Verse 2, when he was well reported, everybody knew about the radicalism of Timothy in his faith.

He was effective and radical.

Everybody in Lister and Iconium knew that this young man is born again.

Do your neighbor know that you are born again?

Do your brother, your sister, your siblings, your family members, your neighbors, the people that you work with, do they know that you are born again?

Oh, you don't want to talk about your Jesus.

You are afraid.

Afraid of the gospel, afraid of the good news, but both will speak about other things.

This is the best message that we have.

The world is looking for.

That's why he was able to send him to Ephesus, a strategic city in the province of Asia Minor, back then.

It is the modern Turkey.

You stay here, son.

You do this, still have your gift.

Make sure you appoint the right people in positions in the ministry.

Do this, do that.

Paul was very proud of Timothy because the testimony of Timothy was known to everyone.

Everybody approved Timothy because of who he was and what he was doing.

So we must examine our foundations.

We must examine our spiritual lives.

We must remember where God took us from.

We must take heed of the things that God has done in your lives.

Sometimes when you go through hardships, we forget the victories that God performed in our lives.

I remember the story of David when he met King Saul, the challenge of Goliath.

Everybody was afraid of him.

And God gave David the courage to fight Goliath.

He comes to King Saul and says, Allow me to fight this giant.

And King Saul says, Hey David, you don't have experience.

You don't need an experience.

Because God does not use the qualified, but he qualifies those who are willing and ready.

He will give you qualifications and courage.

Just like Peter, just a fisherman.

He was not a linguist, he wasn't, he didn't have a diploma or a degree in college.

But he was filled with the hey, our gospel is not with enticing words, but with power.

When we speak with convictions, the Holy Ghost empowers our preaching and our sharing, and people start crying.

Not because you made them cry, because you are available, you are willing to be used.

God will use you to change lives.

Everybody must do something in the family of God.

Stir up the gift of God which is within you.

God wants you to do something.

Yes, you can do it.

In Romans 12, verse 5 through 10.

Romans 12:5–10

We have different gifts according to the grace that God has given us.

Some can do prophecy, some can teach, some can do exhortation, some can show mercy, some can rule.

All these things.

Everybody can do something.

Everybody can do something.

This is my encouragement to you, my brothers and sisters, that we must remember to steer up the gift which is within us.

And if you are not born again, you need to get into this army.

You need it.

Because by the time you share the gospel, it begins with you.

It changes you first.

Jesus said, The words I'm speaking to you are truth and life.

It brings life to you, then life to other people.

Steer up the gift.

Make it work.

Accelerate it.

Make it alive.

God is calling upon us.

Calling men and women to stand up for their faith.

No trembling.

No backing down.

No lukewarm.

Get on fire.

Take time to pray.

I read a book the other day.

It has a title, If you're too busy to pray, then you are too busy.

Don't get too busy.

Calling, chatting, and watching football.

It's okay once in a while to watch football.

But if you take five hours driving from here to Urban or Atlanta, Georgia, you stay there five hours, then you drive back to Chelsea, was over, and you are too tired, you cannot pray.

Tomorrow you go to work.

If you try to pray, then it's just one minute or two.

That is not prayer.

You are just giving God information.

About your dead.

So I want to let him know what happened today.

And sometimes you are you are afraid, you want God to protect you.

I'm traveling today.

So you use God as an emergency solution for your life.

God does not talk to strangers.

He is to know you.

You are available.

You bend your knees all the time, every day.

You speak to him daily.

And when you come with your request or your uh need, then he knows this is my brother, this is my friend.

He calls us friends.

You must be a friend of God.

Don't use God as an emerging solution.

Lord, hey, intervening now, Lord, now, today.

If you don't do it, I'm done.

I'll be dead tomorrow.

No, God does not work that way.

God is the Father.

He wants to talk to us.

He wants to use us.

He loves us.

He can change your uh your heart and your life and everything, your history.

He is able to do that.

That he wants us to stand up and do something and take action.

Everybody can do something.

Somebody has to do something.

Sometimes I look at what is happening in Tanzania and in Africa.

I travel a lot.

One time I went to Congo.

They are fighting all the time.

Now I'm on the other side of the country.

They are fighting in the west.

Now I'm with the east.

It's like, what in the world can somebody treat a fellow human being like this?

One time I went to Burundi and in Rwanda and Uganda.

I've never been to Sudan, but I want to visit one time.

I have some friends there.

But it's just amazing how a human being can treat another human being just like that.

Somebody has to do something.

There are people around us everywhere who need to hear about Jesus.

And you are the one to share the good news.

Steer up the gift, make it alive, accelerate it.

It is time to rededicate our lives to Jesus.

If you are doing some some of these things and now, for some reason, maybe because of being busy with the family, your work, your job, you slowed down a little bit.

It is time to accelerate.

To start all over.

To pray that God will use you one more time.

Let us redeem town time because this time is evil.

It is evil.

Let's redeem time.

Let's do it.

You'll be surprised, you'll be amazed.

When you start doing that, God will use you in the magnitude that you never thought that he could use you.

Yes.

He used Gideon.

He used David.

He used Timothy.

He used Titus.

He used a Samaritan woman in the well.

She never went to a Bible school.

Just after being changed by Jesus, she started right away to preach the gospel.

And the whole Samaria heard about Jesus through just one new believer.

You can do better than that.

Father, we need you.

Father, we rely upon you.

Speak to us now.

Change our hearts.

Change our mind.

Help us to wake up and do something.