 world for this privilege and I don't take it for granted and I just tell let us have a reward of prayer father in Jesus name we thank you for this hour thank you for your word we are about to share it's a bit of a purifying Jesus name and we about to share your word father manifest yourself in your word in Jesus name in Jesus name I pray be me his topic before me this morning to share with you is a waiting upon the Lord waiting upon the Lord and the text shall be taken from the book of Isaiah chapter 40 verse 31 for they that wait upon the Lord shall ignore their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk not fringe and I make me to say this the purpose of our life on it is to grow is to develop and be strengthening through our own experience how do we do this the scriptures give us an answer in one simple phrase wait upon the Lord wait upon the Lord what does it mean to wait upon the Lord in the scriptures the world which means to hope to hope to have hope in God to our city peace anticipate and to trust God to hope and trust in the Lord require some things one of the one of them some of them are fit so to hope in the Lord to trust in the Lord require our feet require our patience require our humility require our makeness our longsword frame keeping the commandment and enduring to the hand so to wait upon the Lord means planting the seed of feet nourishing the seed and allow it to grow so you need to plant the seed of faith and nourish the seed and allow the seed to grow so by doing this you'll be able to pray as our God our saviour pray to God to our heavenly Father saying that kingdom call that we be done in my life in our lives so when you are waiting upon the Lord your final prayer must be that we be done this a prayer we offer with our whole soul in the name of our Jesus of our savior Jesus Christ waiting upon the Lord means pondering in our hearts pondering in our heart and receive holy goose so that we can we can know all things we should do and the plans of God for our life so we pondering our heart and receive the holy goose so that we can know all things that God has for us and what to do waiting upon the Lord means stand fast stand fast in feet and stand fast and pressing forward in feet so when you stand fast and pressing forward in feet so we help you to perfect your hope in brightness so you have you having you having perfect brightness of hope it also may rely alone upon merit of Christ that is you don't have any idea but you have you have any you don't live into your understanding we say we should not then on to our understanding so we're with this grace attesting and saying that we be done in our life not ours so as we wait upon the Lord we are immovable in keeping his commandment this waiting upon a lot we help us to keep all God's commandment so knowing that we want the rest from all our affliction so we cast not away our covenants according to the book of Hebrews chapter 10 verse 35 so waiting upon the Lord means by pressing forward feet and sorry waiting upon the Lord means that we give God the benefit of that that he knows what he's doing so when we wait upon the Lord you are telling God that God do I know what you are doing concerning my life concerning my concerning concerning my my future so because the Bible says I know the thought I have towards you thought of good not of evil to give us an expected end so when we wait upon the Lord we are telling God we are giving God the benefit to doubt that you know what is doing and is this we remind us that God is in control of our life God is in control of our life we are not in charge is God that is in charge we are not in charge God is and give us this one we give us a natural that God is doing something concerning about our life now in terms of waiting what do we do what do why we are waiting upon the Lord number one we need to pray always pray always praying always is the one of the caterer things you must do when you are waiting because when you are waiting upon the Lord you must do something to show that God I'm waiting for you so one of the things that you would you do to show God that you are waiting for God is by praying always Bible says the book of 1st of Selenia chapter 5 and 70 says praying without ceasing and if you want to know you want to know more about God put yourself in the atmosphere of a prayer because the time of waiting is the time of prayer number two read and study read study and learn more through the scriptures because the secret of God is in his word you want to know more about God study more about his word for the particular you can study lies of car lots of character of Bible characters who waited on God for a long time we have many of them that waited on God for a long time like Abraham he waited for 25 years for God to give him a promise child through Sierra for good 25 years Abraham waited for good 25 years like Joseph he was unjustly delinquished in a jail for more than two years before God cataclypt him to catapulted him to prominence prominence and his administrative destinies was fulfilled and I sample is was a David Samuel anointed series over 20 or about 25 years before it was a zoom as a king assumes a zoom to the throne of a of a Judah call it ganking so if you read all the scriptures we help you to wait more so that is why studying the scriptures learn money from learn learn more from the word of God we help us to wait you give me give us more hope when we are waiting upon the law number three ready to serve you want if you are waiting upon the law serve God serve people around you serve people of God do something don't wait even your grace may come in course of your serving orders so your manifestation will come may come in the course of what serving order the Bible says in the book of John chapter 6 verse 11 in the year and serve him they will hand their days in prosperity and their years in prayer so that is the outcome of serving God when you serve God your days will be filled with prosperity and you hand everything in prayer and I pray as wait upon the law go releases prosperity in our life and we enjoy his player in Jesus name what is the benefit of waiting on the Lord we have so many benefits in waiting upon the Lord number one you will not be put to shame so anyone that wait upon the law will not be put to shame Bible say and they are called to the size of 49 verse 23 says they shall not they shall not be wait they shall not be put they shall not be ashamed who wait for me if you wait on the Lord shall not be put to shame and others and it says once and it says they look unto you and they were lightning and they were faces were not put to shame if you look upon the Lord and you wait for him your face will not put shame and I pray as we wake upon the hymn will not be put to shame in Jesus name number two he will be blessed if we put upon the Lord you will be blessed as a part of his 18 says for the Lord is a good of justice blessed are those who wait for him if you wait for him surely you enjoy his blessing anyone that waited for waiting for God we enjoy girls blessing as I pray to everyone of us this morning as we put upon the law blessing of God we locate us in Jesus name number three you will experience Lord goodness everything about you we explain Lord goodness when you wait upon the law lamentation chapter 3 verse 26 the Lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him wait for him and seek him everything you lay your hand upon your life we experience God goodness number four you will receive every answers to your prayer so go we answer your prayer if you wait for him in prayer you wait for him in prayer go listen to you and hear your prayer the Bible says in the Micah 7 verse 7 say therefore I will look to the Lord I wait for the God of my salvation my God we hear me so that is assurance of anyone that waits on the Lord number five you will obtain your promise blessing there is a lot of promise for those that wait on the Lord we have series of blessings in the in the in the scriptures you obtain all these problems you have one more minute you only if you can only if you can watch if you can wait on the Lord I pray as we wait on the Lord God blessing we and we locate us in Jesus name finally my point you will obtain salvation and establishment God we establish you and you will save if you wait upon the Lord you will enjoy deliverance safety perseverance stability and David understood this in this in the book of Psalms 62 verse 1 and 2 truly my soul silently wait on God for him come my salvation is only is my rock and my salvation is my defense and I shall not be greatly moved as I pray as I as we wait upon the Lord God we establish us we see us and we give us in Jesus name pardon me pardon me to sing this song before I close are we wait wait on the Lord do it hurry still are we wait my God we perfect what he has started something glorious is coming on my way are we wait are we wait wait on the Lord do it hurry still are we wait my God we perfect what he has started something glorious he's coming on my way thank you very much thank you thank you Abu Bakr that went slightly over time but thanks for the finishing of that song as well um thank you okay so next we have um Leah Lama uh if you're ready you could um you could start is Leah Lama there yeah okay yes you could um do you have a power point presentation yeah yeah so you could you can try switching on the camera and also um sharing the power point presentation once you're ready we'll get started yeah okay in the meantime I think Elisha's asked a question is it possible to change the topic I'd prefer if you stayed with the topic that you shared Elisha um I think yours is eschatological hope of the believer right uh I'd prefer it but um yeah but if if not uh I'm not sure why you want to change it the last minute um you could let me know okay in the meantime we'll um we'll have Leah Lama share um Leah are you able to um switch on your camera as well camera uh yes uh yes it is on okay but I think you're presenting from your phone no it's from laptop laptop okay because your camera is off I can only we can only see the power point yeah I'm still in bed that's why I wasn't becoming and is it anniversary yeah because we just need to yeah okay since it's preaching class it's better if um yeah so that's the thing and also just one now thing um you don't have to necessarily pray before you you know during the message or anywhere because um we have only 12 minutes to present so it's um you know since we've already prayed and started so we um you know I started the day rather um you can just go straight into the message okay so it's it's not really uh this thing to stop in between pray or start um we can understand but uh you know you're you're prayed so I just wanted to share that you know because you have only 12 minutes okay okay let's um if you're ready we'll start um yeah hello everyone um today I'm going to share about an encounter my topic is encounter so uh before that I would like to read uh this verses here I've heard of your you by the hearing of the ear but now my eye sees you job 40 to 5 you will show me the path of life in your presence is fullness of joy at your right hand our pleasures forever more some 16 11 and uh before that I will I want to tell you what encounter is uh just a second so I can do it again because I I couldn't move it I'm sorry what happened um I don't know I couldn't like you know something your power point is it yeah okay can you just try that now is is it okay now well we we can't see oh yeah it's just coming on um but it's not the your presentation it's uh I think it's showing your screen I'm okay um I've paused your timer so we'll start from where you've left off once you get your things ready yeah it's having problem with the sorry okay maybe I can do now like this is it okay sir um it's not come up yet yeah it's coming up now um no what are you uh yeah yeah now it's coming up it's okay now uh now it's not I think I'm in a problem with the slides I can I present with absolutely yeah now it's fine now it's fine yeah I can so I I want to start with what is encounter what is an encounter an encounter with Jesus is an unexpected experience of meeting him through different means where Jesus reveals his presence to us and the encounter and today I'm going to cover the topics like why is an encounter with Jesus is important how can we prepare ourselves for an encounter with Jesus what are the obstacles an encounter with Jesus okay first way is an encounter with Jesus is important in Jeremiah 29 13 uh it says and you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart and an encounter with Jesus is the most wonderful experience anyone can have it sets us free allows us to restore our relationship with the Father gives us eternal life gives us an ending peace and joy and the fullness of his blessing when we truly encounter Jesus we can be certain that he will get to the heart of the issue no matter what it is he recovers and heals it with his love and kindness in act chapter 3 verse 19 it says repent therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord encounter leads us to the repentance of our sins and makes us surrender surrender to him fully it changes our life it heals us from inside out and gives us a deeper understanding of him when we truly know him and he's done all his work in our heart it never allows us to return where we were before there is no turning back it turning back because encounter drives us forward and upward when we are filled with the Holy Spirit and his presence nothing can stop us from moving forward it renews our mind and revives our soul it gives us hunger passion and steel it gives birth to a wonderful and miraculous work of God and and the next point is how can we prepare ourselves for an encounter with Jesus according to Psalm 42 verse 1 and 2 it says as the deer pants for the water brook so my soul serves for God for the living God when shall I come and appear before God we if the verse tells us to be thirsty for his presence we must seek for his presence we must move up in our faith spend more time in prayer asking for his encounter study his word continue pray praise and worship we must be able to discern between pure and able truth and lies we must believe that his work is power is at work within us as we ask and imagine that or believe that it's done we must trust and have confidence in Jesus as we trust we become like a tree planted by the stream and it leads us to the blessing we must approach God and courage and humility which means to accept our sins and recognize who we really are and and to accept that we are in need of God's love and mercy and his kindness without his kindness we won't receive we will we won't be able to encounter with Jesus but when we have encountered like we have some obstacles in encounter with Jesus and they are first obstacle is destruction we are living in a colorful world where we could be distracted by many things like like you know like wealth or love for money greediness and then like for adultery fresh freshy desires sinful heart these are the all kinds of distraction that that stops us you know that invulnces us to have encountered with Jesus and now there is a fear when we fear like like what people will say if we I will do something new I will start something new or like like I could like going to the new places moving to new places like we're always trying to be in a comfort zone trying to be in a place where we are comfortable and trying and fearful of trying new changes that also becomes obstacle and encounter with Jesus and the third point is guilt as we are human being when when people and they know that they have done something unpleasant in God's eyes God's eyes they instead of repentance and asking for forgiveness they they feel very guilty and then the thing that they have done very they have done something something wrong and maybe God will not accept them be accept them maybe they they couldn't pray and worship like like they used to do before and stop praying reading the word of God went to the church their guilt consumes them it becomes hindrance to their encounter with Jesus we could see many examples of encounter with Jesus in the bible like Paul who encountered when he was on his way to Damascus that totally changed his life Paul became sold and he increased all the more in strength and started preaching with Jesus that Jesus is Christ he performed numerous miracles and wonderful works he killed a man who was who was bedridden for eight years restored the the life of Dorgas and many more we could see another example uh uh of uh is of us a Samaritan woman as she unexpected encountered Jesus for the first time she listened to him she realized her sin her hadn't began to soften answers for knowing Christ greater more and she began to experience a new life she began to understand her true identity and father's unconditional love for her she learned about the blessing they could share that she could have in Christ when she learned about all these things she couldn't keep it to herself and she went to the town and told everywhere everyone and brought everyone to the Jesus her testimony brought many many people to Jesus and they believed in Jesus so this is what encountered or she encountered the Jesus and it changed her life and and through her life many people's life also changed it encourages us for our callings that was encountered us can you imagine doing like something very ordinary like your daily and daily things that you're doing or like uh like just we saw like fetching water or being on the way somewhere and suddenly having it having your uh your life changed for forever that's what encountering is think about the time in your life when uh when you knew Jesus or maybe after you knew Jesus you were wondering or struggling and you were in a you were feeling like you need something and you uh that at the time did Jesus reveal something to you that even didn't thought that you you are in need of that thing you were you needed that thing so encounter can happen anywhere encounter is like that we don't know it's not expected it is unexpected we don't know what will happen but it happens when God sees that it should happen in our life and and it can and happen anywhere God is not limited at church and buildings are you know in house of school God wants to speak everywhere wherever we go God wants to speak us through encounter us through maybe in in school or maybe in our dreams or maybe we are walking or chatting with someone you know encounter happens like that and we must know that true encounter is bound to produce fruit when encounter happens after encounter there is changes there is progress there is we we have to like we see the fruit of our ministry something happens something wonderful works happens after the encounter of Jesus so we almost prepare our hearts to seek and encounter him because God wants to dwell among us he loves us very dearly and with his whole heart he wishes to give us more knowledge wisdom and power he wants to send us out to tell others about him he wants to fill us and and teach us and send us out to tell others about him so so the learning from today you have one more minute yeah so learning from today I have some points here I will like I will quickly read it out to you guys it's like an encounter with Jesus is important for every believer we must seek and pray for his encounter an encounter leads us to repentance and restores relationship with father an encounter produces fruit increases faith and hunger for him an encounter can happen anywhere and unexpectedly an encounter happens because God loves us very dearly he wants to have close relationship with us and dwell among us thank you thank you for listening this is all my sharing thank you so much thank you linear thank you yeah it's good okay right okay so who's next we have okay look okay lubricant okay if you're ready you can start okay I'm trying to put on my video yeah your video is on we can see you and okay I'm trying to share okay okay just want to remind us we will go slightly beyond our 50 minutes probably we will go maybe maybe another 30 minutes beyond our 50 minutes so just want to remind us about that yeah okay um my yes pastor I'm trying to share but it is okay a bit slow yeah I don't know if it always takes this time to have to share um okay it's depends on the yeah I guess the internet speed but what does it say what does it say on the screen it is telling me that chrome wants to share the content of your screen with me meet google.com and they have given me two things share and the council but I am trying to highlight share but it is highlighted in um well in the classroom do you see that um that that arrow which says present now you know the bottom of the screen on the bottom of the screen you see that arrow which is in that box yes I'm seeing yeah yeah you yeah you click on that and then you they're asking me your entire screen yeah so it's it'll be mostly a window okay so it's a window which is open already open in your computer so if your presentation is already open the document then yes it's already open I'm there thank you pastor yeah okay it's well it's still not come up on our screen yeah it's coming up okay yeah we got that okay okay can I start your timer yeah yes please thank you for being kind okay please start okay good morning everybody this is Rebecca and I'm going to talk about kingdom management principles and we all know I'm presuming pastor that we are also regions here and we don't have time so I'm going to this is not a vast of us or a word to word someone so I'm going to paraphrase most of it so that I can finish my content you have 12 minutes you have 12 minutes so it's fine okay so ladies and gentlemen uh you and I really know that um that the king is on the throne first time I they are not moving to click on the next you have to click on the next slide I do but I have access to that I'm doing but it is on my computer it's not moving I can see I'm not sure if you know if you can even I can see but on the left you have all those slides listed so you can just choose which side you want to present you can just click on the next one and and then I see that you have actually selected the yeah yeah so you just choose what you want to select yeah okay okay the king is on the throne always everything we have in our control is is god is things every believer must understand that everything in life that we possess is not ours it is for the kingdom for instance when it comes to our life it is for the kingdom the talents given to us it is for the kingdom the people we meet it they are in our lives because of the kingdom and god gives us reasonable time so we know that time will come that we will appear before him to give proper account of what he put into our dear life so that today someone is are you ready for the king is audit that's a question because after everything we have time will come when god will call us on the other throne you've seen in the first two slides to share to explain to him what we did and give a clear audit of what we passed through in our dear life and today someone is going to be from Matthew chapter 25 verse 14 to 30 part one says for the kingdom of god this was Jesus Christ saying for the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them and one he gave five talents to another to another one and to each according to his ability after a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them so you see that everything we see that god gives everybody everybody not selective god does not select in people he gives everybody something number two he gives a talent according to your ability might give you so many talents he might give you one two three depending to you according to your ability number three he gives you reasonable time for activity be it four years be it 20 years be it 80 years be it how long he will give you reasonable time to use those ability for the expansion and the extension of the kingdom lastly but not least everybody will appear for the audit god will come and ask us after you know we have two ways of audit there is we have two types of time we have number one can be physical that is from my birth to death and there is another on spiritual that will be I will go in front of god on the day of judgment to give clear accountability for how I use all the resources in my heart we continue as far as Matthew 25 is concerned part two so he who received five talents we all know what happened there he multiplied it and the god was happy with him and another one he was given to god was happy with him he multiplied it and paraphrasing and then we go to our dear friend the third one 24 verse chapter 25 verse 24 says then he who received one talent came and said lord I know you to be a hard man reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seeds and I was afraid and I went to hide your talent in the ground look there you have it it is yours so you see this one was our little brother he did not use the talent he hid it away and god spoke the following after his presentation but his lord answered and said to him you wicked and lazy servant you know that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seeds so you ought to have disposed my money with the bankers and to my coming I would have received back my own my own with interest so take the talent from him and give it to him who has tell we shall skip and go to 30 which is the last verse and cast the unproved servant into the outer darkness there will be gripping there will be why weeping and grinding of teeth this is the person that I want us to concentrate on on this in this lesson you see usually it is so bad that failures in life don't give seminars we only hear successful stories but if this guy was to come back to us and tell us this is what he will tell us complain not he will tell us that I suffered because I did complain in front of God because he gave me one I know how hard it was he was he will always tell us that complain not he will also tell us use all that king gave you you know the king does not you don't decide what he gives you if he gave you one if he gave you this just use that for the expansion of his kingdom number three asked for help from fellow men or from fellow humans you see this guy this little brother of ours the third one did not much as he was having fellow servants who multiplied everything who used whatever they got this guy did not ask help from them so as we are preparing for the king's audit we should always always ask help from people who are around us and also ask always for god's guidance as believers since he's the king who is going to give us audit we should always ask for his guidance say lord I have this what am I going to do he will always add people he will always add a book he will always add a video or new so that you can understand more how to put everything he gave you into consideration my beloved ones brothers and sisters as Christians we will ask the same question how are you seeing it are you really ready for the king's audit in case he comes today I do invite you mind our constitution our constitution is the bible you should always read and listen to what the bible says use your cognitive cognitive means using your god given ability to think to reason out to see what is suit in the eyes of the lord learn from others you can learn from others in two ways actively meeting them you can learn from others passively reading their books the books they wrote you can listen to their videos you can watch their videos you can listen to their audios you can watch a podcast as much as you can so that you can prepare yourself to go onto the throne of mercy for the king's audit compliment to the kingdom always compliment would mean that add something if you are there try to preach preach to others bring so many other people to the kingdom so that god on that day you have a chance be compassionate to others compassionate means get those people who are not in the right way who are not doing the right things and teach them bring them to to to christ it is your work to preach to them and the rest of the whole spirit will do it and in case you have others under you train them try to do things that are expanding to the kingdom we should let us pray for his mercy and grace on that day so that we can as well pass the audit because god is not a respect of humans each and everybody you me and everybody in the house will appear before the lord the question will always be are you ready for the audit are you going to do something today to change the way you've been doing if you've always been doing it for the king is audit keep it up if you've not been doing it please try to change something try to look around and see how you can straighten your ways and in case you've been doing it again find others educate others on how the lord is on the throne on how god will one day come and ask them on how they use their resources with that said thank you pastor colleagues and i will say sharon thank you lubricant it was you have one more minute left but that was um yeah well within the time thank you thank you so much enjoyed that okay so um it's it's 12 known here we have two more people to share um i think um even i saw georgia uh and also elisha is also there uh who missed out on the previous day this presentation so right now we have ribika to share so ribika you can go ahead and share please following which we have aradhana come play um and then um what about you georgia georgia are you ready to share today yes boss i'm ready to share today okay so you might have to wait for some time and also elisha might have to wait for some time we will have ribika now followed by aradhana after which georgia and elisha can share okay over to ribika ribika you can share now can unmute your mic unmute uh i mean switch on the camera and um share please okay if i'm not sure what the problem is but i'm not able to hear nor can we see you um so ribika are you going to share today um okay we'll come back to you if aradhana is ready then we'll start with aradhana aradhana you can go ahead and share we'll come back to ribika after you've shared are you ready to share please okay let me see in the chat are you putting anything in the chat um yeah ribika i didn't understand you said something is happening um what about aradhana you can just unmute speak check your mic same for ribika yes we can hear you um so you can please switch on the camera if you're presenting share the presentation as well okay some issues with the phone um maybe ribika maybe you can log off and log in again try doing that um maybe till such time we'll have aradhana share aradhana what seems to be the problem any challenges okay are you presenting from your phone or your laptop okay so if it's a laptop then um you could uh click on that icon at the bottom of the screen within one box there is an arrow so you click on that you have three of yeah okay we are okay persecution yeah we can see the screen and you can switch on the camera as well and we can start you can switch on your camera unmute your mic switch on your camera yeah okay yes aradhana can you unmute say something so we can yeah can you say something it's not very loud you might have to come closer to the mic or increase the it's faster your mute I'm sorry can you speak some sorry thanks John can you say something yeah it's audible but you need to speak louder so all of us can hear thank you yeah please start what is persecution yeah keep it closer to you please that mouth please just keep it really close to your mic your mouth then we can hear you yeah just move it closer move it closer to the mouth yeah fine what what is persecution persecution is the axe done against Christians in the name of religions which has a short slander, whole accretion, imprisonment, murder, burning, vandalism, explanation from society and this type of all works etc any example in the bible but let's see an example in chapter 3 left up the left up the land beggar in the name of Jesus a great miracle had happened Peter explained that this buildings was because of Jesus and some religions people start hating out of that hate it they began to persecute the believers of Christ and they are arrested and imprisoned and treated treated not to mention the name of Jesus and boldly praise the gospel for God began many miracles through the apostles chapter 5 us 12 16 people were killed by Peter's shadows and even those possessed by evil spirit were also killed possessed by evil spirit were also killed this thing happened in chapter 5 some people believe and some religions people should hating hate they began to persecute the believers of Christ we can't we can't see you or other names sorry yeah yeah are arrested and imprisoned and treated not to mention the name of Jesus began afraid they started to rejoice rejoice Jesus acts up to 5 us 14 to 41 to him they agreed and when they had had called the apostles and with them they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go departed from the presence of the counselor rejoicing counter worthy to suffer shame for his name Jesus at the 5th, 10th and 11th are those who are persecuted because of righteousness or there is the kingdom of heaven let I know when people insult you, persecute you and boldly say all kinds of evil things to you because of me because rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in heaven for in the same way that persecuted the prophets who were before you I say love your enemies pray for those who persecute you when Jesus was crucified he prayed father forgive them they don't know what they are doing them instead of hating them then did the same when people began to stone him at chapter 7 verse 15 and 2 while they were stoning him Stephen prayed Lord Jesus received my spirit then he filled and cried out Lord do not hold this sin against them don't even delight Jesus that the chapter 8 verse 36 wants to save their lives we lose it but whoever lose their lives for me and for the gospel will save it instead of being afraid rejoice pray for them forgive them instead of hating them don't lose your life don't even night Jesus thank you pastor okay thank you thank you Aradhana I think we had some issues there but yeah thank you for making that effort and for sharing thank you okay so next we have you can stop sharing the screen Aradhana um hello yeah Rebecca go ahead um do you can hear my voice yeah loud and clear you can hear your voice um front camera is not working sir I see okay but I'm ready for sharing the sermon okay um so your camera is not working okay and you're also do you have a presentation so no no I'm just share videos sir I'm not prepared okay okay Rebecca so that is the case you can go ahead or just give me a minute one second okay okay so I'm going yeah yeah please start yes please start yes good morning to all and praise lord to all my class and my pastor I'm very happy that the today um this hour sir is given the opportunity to say some message I'm very happy and again once again praise lord and thank you to all and my message my topic is my parable of 10 bright max and my sermon title is be ready make others ready in Matthew we we see in the Bible Matthew 25 uh 14 there is written that then the kingdom of heaven will be like khen vijin who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom five of them were foolish and five were wise for when the foolish took their lamps they took no well with them but the wise took flags of well with their lamps as the bridegrooms was delayed they all become drowsy and slept but at midnight there was a cry here is the bridegroom come out to meet him then all those busy rows and trim their lamps and the foolish said to the wise give us some your well for your lamps are going out but the wise answered saying see there will not be enough for us and for you go rather to the dealers and buy for yourself and while they were going to buy the bridegroom came and those who are ready went in with the to the marriage feast and the door was set afterward the other we just came also saying lord lord open to us but he answered truly I say to you I do not know you watch therefore for you know neither the day nor the hour moral my moral lesson from the parable of the 10 bridges is the three points number one point is the parable of 10 vision is remind to be prepared for the unexpected second coming of Christ when we face the internal judgment second point the wines are prepared are ready for the Christ return number three points the foolish do not prepare themselves for the final judgment and will find themselves out of God's kingdom in the same Bible Matthew 25 13 there's written that therefore keep watch because you do not know that they or the hour we see there are two types of bright words five of the wise men's and five where foolish man who is five wise men and how we will identify it a five wise men's are a sincere Christians or we say the two believers they took the extra or more well in their lamps we'll see some points that lamps what is lamps to whom it represent lamp represent our own life we people are each vessels of God lamp is needed to hold the light Matthew 5 14 there's written you are the light of God world and the light is God word a light to our path amen hallelujah and we see the extra oil that a wise woman are kept in their lap what is the oil is represent we will see the oil oil is a spiritual preservance is the key only those who preserve to end will save and it civilize also righteousness and obedient to God means more prayer more meditated scriptures more save the faith more keep holiness toward the gods and stay away from the work of the world it is our spiritual journey you need you need the extra oil and we see that a olive well is represent the purity and the presence and the influence of holy spirit heavenly father blessing us blessing us for our rightness action that cannot be give to the disobedient people so we have to take a oil in our in our life that it can take a spiritual development and a spiritual business is the key that we take the take to the kingdom heaven now second point we will see that who is the five foolish virgins how we will identify the five foolish virgins the foolish virgins represent the false believers who are unprepared right maids they took but no oil with them for this they find set out of God's kingdom they were those unrighteous women who were unprepared for the coming Christ or we say the foolish ones or hypocrites means they're not they saw the love to God and so many other signs of being faithful to Christ but the truth is only found within we might try to fool one another or even ourselves into thinking living for Christ but I say God never fooled he see if we have bitter or hollow heart he know if our words and accents are for so so my dear time will run out for each of us one day do not be caught off guard and unprepared look 21 34 is it in but watch yourself rest your heart be weighed down in the dissertations and darkness and care of his life and the dead they the come upon you suddenly like a track before your time run out give your heart mind and soul aligned to God your eternal resting place depends on its my dear so be ready always for God now we'll see the why did not the five virgins said the oil why as Christians we are called to help those in need so you might wonder why the five virgins who brought extra well did not say it in this case we see the 10 vision is spiritual preparedness with the oil representing God grace the ladies could not say to them we cannot give grace or spiritual readiness to another person each person relationship with the Lord must be established with their own heart and soul so at last i will say that be ready like the vice virgins be prepared to wait because do not be fooled that you can wait and still be prepared when it matters because when it matters because you do not know when the time will be we must prepare our heart and soul for the long time in his timing we are often called to wait so be prepared to wait and be ready for judgment also we see in bible that just like a Samrian woman when she come to Jesus and when she sees take the when she know the Jesus is the Lord and she take the gospel to the village woman and say about the Jesus the village people are also the village people are also accept the Jesus because Samrian women are also ready and see God take the gospel their village woman and they she make the peoples ready for the Jesus Christ so my dear in bible we say at 1691 we see that and they said believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved you and your household my central message in this parable be ready at all times for Christ's second coming Matthew 28 19 is written go therefore and make disciple of all nation baptizing them in the name of father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit mark 615 is written and he said to them go into all the world and proclaim in the gospel to the whole creations yes this is a time my dear be ready and make ready to others because time is running out when Jesus will come we don't know so we in all time we have to ready for the Lord Jesus thank you God bless from this message to all and praise Lord thank you to be gone thank you for sharing that yes yeah you still had some three moments but yeah thank you for sharing that okay so next we have I think our adana shared so who do we have I think Georgia and Elisha so Georgia would you like to share now please yes yes I would love to yeah we have a presentation and no I don't have a PowerPoint presentation don't have a PowerPoint okay okay yeah yeah you can start now please good morning everyone my topic for today is stewardship and my subtopic is stewarding your rebound and I'm focusing on the scripture 1st Samuel 30 verses 1 to 8 and 18 to 20 now for the interest of time I won't read the entire scripture because it's extremely long but I will go ahead according to the Miriam which the dictionary rebound means to recover from setback or frustration in the scripture and his men arrived home at their hometown in Ziklag and found that the Amalekites had made a raid they took everything and everyone without killing them and burned Ziklag to the ground now the men that David came back with were bitter and wanted to stone him however David encouraged himself in the Lord he then sent for the effort and sought God on whether he should pursue the Amalekites now in this ongoing pandemic we see persons losing jobs we see youths and even adults being trusted into depression anxiety suicidal thoughts among many negative things they have even reached the point of isolation and spiritual dryness or stagnancy what's so funny about this is I am a living testimony of this very thing as I've always heard you cannot take someone where you have never been so I'm here today to tell someone that you can come out of your depression out of stagnancy and spiritual dryness because it is time to rebound earlier in the pandemic I had lost my job not only did I lose my job I was also pushed into another state of depression and spiritual dryness I was like God another round of disappointment again I went days even months isolating myself I was depressed reading the Bible was a thing of the past I wasn't praying fasting had become a curse word and I was just in a state of I can't do this anymore until I heard a ream a word of God which pushed me back into the present I just wanted to pull a few nuggets from the scripture and I want to highlight the fact that even though the enemy raided Ziklag they went away with flock herd and even people but they didn't kill anyone I just want to tell someone that even though the enemy stole your joy he couldn't kill you even though he stole from you he couldn't take your life but this is your time to rebound this is your time to recover I also want to highlight the definition of rebounding basketball it means to retrieve and gain possession of the ball as it bounces off the backboard or a ring after an unsuccessful shot to catch a basketball after a player has tried but failed to get a point when we look at first Samuel 30 verses 18 to 20 we see that David got back everything that was taken from him he recovered all not some but all plus extra I just want someone to realize that the enemy tried but his shot was unsuccessful he tried to isolate you he tried to make you feel alone but this shot was unsuccessful you are now in the position to rebound now I want you to understand that you are in the position to rebound however you have to manage and maintain this rebound according to strong concordance the greek word for stewardship is oikonomia which means administration or management child's bug defines stewardship in the holman bible dictionary as utilizing and managing all resources god provides for the glory of god and the betterment of his creation as we can see we were placed here to utilize and manage all the resources that god has given us for his glory we are stewards which means we are managing the possessions of god whether it be our time money abilities information authority or relationships you have been pulled out of depression out of spiritual stagnancy and dryness and you are now blazing and on fire for god I'm going to give you some ways in which you can steward this rebound the first way is prior Luke 18 verse 1 says one day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up prior is one of the major keys to steward in your rebound I've always heard a bishop say if you are not praying then you are fainting prior is communication with god remember it is monologue not a dialogue you shouldn't be the only one speaking sit and listen to the voice of god as prior will continue to fuel the fire and keep it going point two the word Hebrews 4 verse 12 for the word of god is alive and powerful it is sharper than any two-edged sword cutting between soul and spirit between joint and marrow it exposes our innermost thoughts and desires another another major key to steward in your rebound is the word of god feast on the word as David said he hid the word in his heart so he will not stand against god stay in the word the last point is worship Isaiah 61 verse 3 to a point onto them that morning Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called trees of righteousness the planting of the Lord that he might be glorified for those who have been experiencing depression or pushed into isolation worship is a major key worship is also a weapon whenever you feel as if you're going back into that state just worship we ha we all have to be stewards of our rebound and we have to do it well manage your time make a schedule seek god a relationship with god is the most important because when you know is hard for a thing it will be hard to mismanage what he has given to you don't be like the man in Matthew 25 verse 14 to 30 that hid the bag of gold because he feared he was going to lose his master's money you have gone through spiritual stagnancy or dryness you have gone through the depression you have been through it you are out know it's time for you to help someone else you have the information the solution to help someone do it so in closing I just want to say you are in the position to rebound you have rebound remember to steward your rebound as you will give a count for this and what you did with what got entrusted you with steward it or you will lose it I end with this verse Matthew 25 verse 29 to those who use well what they are given even more will be given and they will have an abundance but from those who do nothing even what little they have will be taken away thank you so much thank you Georgia you still had about four minutes left so there's a lot of time left thank you for sharing that so good okay next we have Elisha Elisha if you're ready you could go ahead and share okay okay thank you thank you do you have a PowerPoint presentation or something that you want to share yeah I don't have a PowerPoints okay I'll try I'll try and see if I can share the the PDF screen yeah but that should be good also yeah sure okay I'm sharing on the on the topic peace with God I I I sought to replace the initial topic with this one so I'll be sharing on the topic peace with God I'll be taking I'll be taking my scripture reading from Romans chapter 5 verse 1 Romans chapter 5 verse 1 I'll find the challenge in sharing this screen so I would like to present I would like to present okay so go ahead go ahead Romans chapter 5 verse 1 reads therefore since we have been justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ amen peace is one of the greatest quest of humanity nations and organizations and individuals make a lot of great investments in the attainment of peace the price of peace is very expensive but in Romans chapter 3 verse 7 the Bible says that the way of peace no man have to know the way of peace we have not to know so it's it's strange that with all the investment that people make in the attainment of peace the Bible tells us that we have not yet known the way of peace it means that there is a way of peace that we have missed out and that is what I want to encourage my fellow brothers to also consider and if we have not found that one way of peace you will pursue it now humanity has come under God's wrath because of the sin that occurred in the Garden of Eden if you read in verse chapter 3 verse number 6 you realize that God when man sinned against God an enmity broke between man and God man came under the wrath of God Ephesians chapter 2 verse 14 says that there is a war of hostility between man and God man couldn't approach God because we have sinned as in chapter 57 verse 21 says that there is no peace for the wicked man so because of the sin of humanity we all have no peace we have all become enemies of God now because of this peace our destiny is in ruins we are suffering in this world we have lost access to God we have come short of the God of God's glory Romans 3 23 we have become slaves to sin and we have no hope we have no hope in fact I know Nahum chapter 2 chapter 1 verse 2 says that the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keep wrath for his enemies so because we have become enemies of God the only thing that we deserve or we are deserving is the wrath of God is the vengeance of God is God to pour his anger on us and destroy all humanity now we all cannot stand this wrath of God that he wants to pour on humanity therefore someone needed to pay the price for to broke peace between man and God someone needed to mediate between man and God so the Bible says in first multi chapter 2 verse 5 that Jesus Christ became the mediator between God and man through the cross Jesus died paid in full the penalty of our sin and he broke the peace deal between God and man and so Colossians chapter 1 verse 20 says that and through him we have been reconciled to God making peace by the blood of his cross so the blood and the cross has broke the peace deal between man and God so before Jesus Christ we couldn't have enjoyed the peace of God Scripture teaches us that by faith in Jesus we come to this peace with God it is not by words it is only by faith so Romans chapter 5 verse 1 says that it is by faith that we have been justified it is by faith that we have been justified therefore peace with God through Jesus Christ indeed if any man comes to faith in Christ he comes to peace with God and what this peace with God means is that we have been absorbed of God's judgments we have unrestricted access to God now through the blood of Jesus we are not ashamed but we can confidently approach the throne of grace the throne of God to receive grace and mercy in times of need it also means that we have been redeemed from the power of sin 1 Peter 1 verse 18 and what peace with God also means to us is that we we now have a glorious hope in the resurrection so anybody who comes to faith in Christ comes to peace with God and all this becomes his inheritance now it is by faith alone the Bible says that in Romans chapter 10 verse 9 and 10 that it is with the mark with the heart that we believe and with the mark that we confess that Christ is Lord unto salvation we don't need to do any magical things to come to peace with God we don't need to pay any price again we don't need to to do any strain us exercise again to come to peace with God we only have to surrender and have faith in Christ Jesus and through the cross Jesus paid the full price for our peace and will be reconciled to God and will become children of God we will have inheritance with God the Father and Jesus will become our elder brother so I invite anybody who have not attained this peace to come to faith in Christ and receive the peace of God and enjoy the full blessings through Christ Jesus Amen thank you thank you Elisha thank you for that you also had about four and a half minutes left so that's thank you so much for sharing is there anyone else I think everybody has presented your sermon is there anyone else left I don't think so okay so that's good thank you so much everyone for your presentations I think you you picked some good topics some of you had some challenges sharing it I know tech technology and language and so on but good effort from everyone overall I really appreciate that okay so that brings us to the end of this semester and this subject I really enjoyed going through this course with each one everyone of you let's continue to be proclaimers of the truth with integrity and with boldness right and God has called us to be spokespersons for his glory and none of us are exempt each of us you know God is interested is with this ability and the responsibility right so in whatever sphere of influence we are in let's do that faithfully whether it's it could be what we call code and code ministry like a platform or podium or it could be elsewhere but let's continue to be spokesperson representatives of the kingdom of God right God bless you all with that we love let's pray let's pray and then close right father we thank you for this time we thank you for this journey through this semester Lord I come at each and every one in this class into your mighty hands God online and e-learning I just pray that even as you empowered us even as you called us Lord we pray for that you would orchestrate Lord circumstances people places Lord and the way you can the way you will enable us God to to speak your truth to proclaim the message of the gospel the the message of truth from your word Father God and I just pray that we will be faithful to do it and that we will continue to Lord grow in this grow in the skills and abilities and also in the anointing Father God that we will be faithful to share wherever and whenever you ask us to we want to thank you we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus matter's name we pray amen amen okay God bless you everyone we'll hopefully we'll catch up next semester yeah okay God bless bye bye thank you thank you thank you thank you