 Good evening, good morning, good afternoon from wherever you may be. We welcome you to this hour of worship. It's been a whole week of Stewardship Week of Prayer here from Nairobi Central SDA church. We are streaming live from Kenya and we welcome everybody to enjoy this worship session with us. My name is Damaris Ndira. We are part of a family worship choir. We come from the same family. Ndira is my daughter, the second one. And later on we shall be joined by Jasmine, the last one. Joy is not here with us today and we want to welcome all of you. Please join us as we sing together. Before we start, I would also want to thank the pianist and his name is James Amayo. Let him give us a note. Yes, let's pray before we start. Lord, we come before you. We thank you for your goodness, for your kindness, for your mercy, for your grace that is renewed each time in our lives, Father. The day has come to an end and the Sabbath is here with us. How we pray that you may teach us to know how to bring all our burdens unto your feet that you may have right. It's been a difficult week for some of us. It's been a good one for some of us. People are in different situations. Lord, I want to put each and every person in your hands, especially those who are logged into this session and even those who are here in church with us. Father, I want in a special way to put the preacher of the day before you that you may bless him and put the words in his name. And us who have come here to worship you in song, we pray Jehovah that you might accept worship. Bless us and give us the Holy Spirit to dwell with us and in us. Forgive us our sins in Jesus' name I pray. So we'll start with song number 655 from the SBA Himnals. Happy the home. And we shall sing it in our mother tongue that is Lou. It is song number five connectivity as you continue praying for communication team that is bringing this at your comfort. Thank you for this worship. Wherever you are, good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. It is a wonderful moment that we are here at the feet of Jesus Christ just to be fed with His bread. Those who are serving today, we have Jesse Orwa. He will do the scripture reading and the song service was presided over and willed by Damaris and Joel Andera. Those are the choristers. Our brother James Amayo is at the piano. Our sister Yoizkwamboka is giving us the sign language interpretation. Then the communication team is led by our brother Victor Nyacharo. It is the sixth day of our worship living in view of eternity and this is brought to us by our pastor, pastor Elijah Makhanu. Thank you and please feel welcome at the feet of Jesus. Evening to you all once again. I welcome you and we want to read from the word of the Lord. Our scripture reading will come from the book of Mark chapter 12 from verse 41 to verse 44 and it says Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts but a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, I tell you the truth. This poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out their wealth but she out of her poverty put in everything and all that she had to live on. That is what the word of the Lord says. Be blessed. We are going to sing the theme song for this week. That is song number 359 from the SBA hymnals. Heart the voice of Jesus calling. The opportunity you've given us Lord to join in this worship as we also welcome all situations father. We have those who are sick looking upon your face Christ Jesus. We have those who are struggling to make ends meet. We have something in the table listening to their prayers. We have families who are believed father. We have families who are having turbulence in their family lives father. Turn your face, father. We have those who are living father. We thank you Christ Jesus for having given us various gifts. A gift which we should use to serve you father, your vineyard. Let us be good stewards as we serve you as a journey with you father. Remember us in a special day as you bless your children bless those who are also participating in this worship. Father we are now presenting our pastor Pastor Elijah and Lord as he delivers your word unto us let that make a difference and change the more we are and be closer to you. This is our humble prayer in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen. Okay. Good evening everyone. Happy Sabbath and happy day. We welcome all of us to our worship this evening as we celebrate the incoming Sabbath. We also want to thank God for the week that has been to thank God for the blessings we have experienced. Each one of us must be having a reason to say God thank you for what you have done and we want to thank all those who have had a chance to hear or follow us through whichever media to catch up with us. We just want to appreciate in a very special way. We don't take it for granted and I am so humbled that I got a chance to be here and as we come to the close of the week I want to let you know that I'm enjoying being here. Amen. Amen. I'm really enjoying and so grateful that the Lord gave me a chance to come and spend more time to read and spend more time to hear him talk to me and also get a chance to share. Amen. Amen. So you are welcome. Thank you for the peer crew. Thank you for the choristers. Thank you for the pianist. Thank you elder for the good introduction. We want to appreciate all of us who are in the sanctuary. Please feel at the feet of Jesus and all those following us online we also welcome you and ask that you may feel at the feet of Jesus. Today is day six and just before we go to the word I will invite all of us to a season of prayer. We would like to commune with our savior and our creator. Speak to him or talk to him. Open your heart to him. Alan Juhai tells us the wonderful gift that the Lord has given to mankind is the gift of prayer where we get a chance of being transported into the presence of God and in the presence of the Lord you know there are blessings. Amen. If you got a chance of visiting our state house just across here you can be sure that you when you go in you will not come out the way you went in. It's just earthly monax and when you visit things are different how much more the creator of heaven and earth amen. So I want to invite us to go into a season of prayer and in this season of prayer we are just going to open our hearts talk to God. If you have some burdens share with him if you have some joys to celebrate please remember to invite him to celebrate with you. Is that okay? Let us pray together. Our father and our God our creator and redeemer the monarch of the great galaxies to you or God is power and greatness and honor. You are so good you are so loving and so merciful that we who are human beings feeble and weak as we are we can get a chance to come into your presence by way of prayer and by faith that we are communicating with our savior and our creator it makes us feel so good it in itself is a blessing that makes our hearts excited yet we still as we praise you come along with burdens of the week the challenges that we may have gotten along the way interacting with others doing what we were doing we come with burdens and we want to thank you because at the feet of Jesus all burdens are always taken off and so we pray heavenly father that even as we sit in your presence to hear you speak to us we pray dear Lord that you may inline your ear to us or God and grant us your peace I pray that you forgive our sins or God and I pray that you minister to our individual challenges in your own way or God and we pray that each one of us may find a reason may have a testimony to attest to the fact that you are a loving God and that you are able, you are powerful there is nothing impossible with you or God so we present all our burdens to you and we also want to share with you the joys coming from the successes that you have given to us along the week the breakthroughs that we have seen the healing messes that we have experienced and many other blessings that have come our way or God, we want to celebrate with you and at the beginning of this Sabbath or God as we sit down we just pray that we may be able to contemplate on the wonderful works of creation and as we do so we offer our hearts to be recreated anew and afresh that we may experience you in a new way in a new fashion and in this worship or God we pray that you may come through to each one of us we pray in Jesus' name Amen Amen Amen Thank you so much brothers and sisters I would like to welcome all of us to the study of the word as written in the book of Mark 12 that is where our text is coming from Mark 12 and we are considering verse 41 up to verse 44 Mark 12 verse 41 it says and he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box many rich people put in large sums and a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins which make a penny and he called his disciples to him and said to them truly I say to you this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box verse 44 for they all contributed out of their abundance but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had all she had to live on this is the word of the Lord this is a very interesting story it's a very interesting story that Jesus shares with us and this story is going to help us to understand what we call the principle of sacrifice is one of the means through which those living in view of eternity are supposed to order themselves you know somebody has said that people live their lives in three ways one they waste it by living selfishly that's one way of living life and secondly they wreck their life by living sinfully living sin anything that you are attracted to any sinful thing that attracts you you go for it and the third group or the third way of living life is where people give their life away by living sacrificially and I would like to propose ladies and gentlemen at the onset of this presentation that we choose to live sacrificially because living sacrificially is very fulfilling amen you see one famous missionary called Jim Elliot had something that is so profound to say that no fool is a man who gives what he can't keep to gain what he can't lose it is not a fool when one chooses to do away with that which you can't keep even if you try to hold onto it time comes when you cannot continue holding onto it it's not a fool who gives it up so that you can in return receive that which once you have it you cannot lose there are several things about this passage of scripture that I have just read there are what we call upside downs in this passage things that are out of order things that disturb our intellectual abilities they throw us off balance take a close look at who for example Jesus is presenting as an example of a spiritual discernment and worship look at this particular individual this unlikely model that we are supposed to emulate has three fundamental things going against according to especially her society or the society of this particular person number one is that she is a woman so Jesus is presenting a woman as a model and especially a Jewish setup it is different from us number two this particular individual is a widow and number three she is a poor person both in the times of Jesus not so much like our time but in some societies and places yes it is like that but our traits would simply make some of the elites of her time and our time in societies where this problem exists to simply switch off God wish to sit in a place where an individual characterized by the three things is presented as a model to emulate her gender makes her inferior and voiceless her marital status makes her helpless and needy and her poverty makes her empty handed and a devoid of anything good to offer to anybody yet in the passage and the story as we are going to see Jesus presents her as an assembla she is presented as one that we are supposed to able to copy to emulate as one who presents an ineffable standard of worship and a standard of reverence as a standard of true living is what Jesus presents her to be everything about this particular person screams of scarcity not enough to give not enough to matter not enough to make an input or impact not enough to be noticed not enough to be special or significant not enough to justify her existence Jesus makes her to be a model for emulation that's why I said the passage has upside downs the story is within an event that took place on a Tuesday of the passion week Jesus has just had an event called triumphal entry in Jerusalem it comes in with pomban ceremony and songs are renditions and other carols filling the air and everybody else is disturbed those in power are not able to contain he has been to the temple and cleansed the temple he has come again on a Tuesday morning and on this occasion he encounters a team of lawyers they are asking him trying to put him to test to know whether he understands what he is saying or doing and so after encountering them and helping them to understand this and that then he goes to what we call the court of women in the temple of Jerusalem people did not sit together we didn't have men and women sitting together men occupied the main hall like this one women occupied another part it is a porch attached to the temple in the Solomon's temple it measured about 200 feet 200 feet square and so in that particular court of the women there were 13 collecting boxes of offerings they were called the trombets because of the shape they were in V shape what we call the offering plates they were in a V shape and they were hooked up on the pilas 13 in number each one of that particular box had an inscription of which kind of offering is supposed to be put there so there were all mana and the nature and kind of offerings that were placed there the sin offering the harvest offering and so many offering the offering for the poor, the offering for building the offering for oil the offering for timber the offering for calls to be used perhaps in most cases on the altar 13 in number for us I think the most that we know is the tithe and offering and then we end there the Jewish society had an elaborate system now this particular collecting boxes called the trombets in the Hebrew were called Shofa you may have perhaps heard of Shofa the choir called Shofa is the trombets that's what it simply means now on this particular occasion jesus sits there now the question is why have I said it was in the court of women because it is not written here in the passage and this is very very important because during that particular worship as they were offering a woman came in so you know in this particular separation women were never allowed to enter the official place of worship where men sat because they are a man but where women sat men were allowed to go there so because women were only allowed to go up to a smatch where their confines were that is why the setup of this particular thing was in the court of women is that very clear to everybody? very very important now Mark 12 verse 41 says that jesus sat opposite the treasury and he watched other versions say he beheld he sat there and he beheld he was watching he was looking at men and women as they were bringing their offering this is very very important that this this man jesus he sat and beheld and the word used what it is an imperfect taste meaning it is not a completed action which simply means beholding or watching refers to this thing that was happening continuously so jesus sat there and continuously watching he was kindly watching his eye was never removed from the act of worship that was taking place the offertory as they were offering that particular moment jesus kept on his eyes were glued to that place where the offering was being brought allow me to let you know that this occasion was what we call the past call week the Passover week and all Jews of necessity were supposed to travel from whichever countries they were living to come to Jerusalem and celebrate with the entire nation of Israel Passover was very very crucial and of course the day of atonement and some others they were of necessity to travel so they have traveled from different countries where they were they have come and those days we did not have the checks we did not have the ATMs that we have we did not have the electronic money transfers their monies were not even paper monies they were copper, silver and brass monies made of those coins so from wherever they have been several months have passed almost six, seven months have gone they have had their earnings, they are carrying it and they are coming to Jerusalem for a major celebration so jesus sat and watched as they were giving their offering on this occasion my friend people came with their servants helping them to carry sacks of coins and they would lift up and empty it in the shofas as everybody was watching as everybody else was following that was a great occasion a moment when men are giving back to the Lord big monies no joke celebrating God you have been so good we have come to this past circle week and we are so happy we are grateful God that we can come to remember our history of redemption as they were pouring monies in the offering plate now the Bible says that jesus sat just opposite the treasury and he watched as men emptied their bags into the offertory plate into the trombets or the shofas if you may please now please take note of the fact that Christ observes he is ever present in our worship and he observes he beholds he sees he watches as we come to worship and adore the king he is ever watching he keeps an eye on any element of worship that we participate in whether it is singing whether it is praying whether it is offering he keeps a close eye on those what would call elements of worship that is the cross that we worship he observes all men and all things all our actions are before his eyes what we do in public and what we do in private he also keeps a close eye he knows it and he sees it so clearly so clearly he saw the abundance of the rich and at the same time he saw the poverty of this poor widow he sees it he sees it they say when you keep quiet everybody thinks you are the most wise when you open your mouth you confirm either their worst fears or otherwise in worship if you are doing nothing you are not singing you are not praying, you are not praising you are not giving an offering we think you are okay until when you stand up to offer the element of worship that is what determines who you are it either confirms the worst fears or otherwise but when you are in your house the eye of Jesus keeps a close watch though I have little it doesn't matter it doesn't matter I have come to worship but Jesus keeps an eye not only to the element of worship that I do but keeps an eye even to the motive behind the element of worship that I offer that is why to this poor lady though little in itself that she gave it was an awful rebuke later at the end of the service to the abundances of the rich God sees every penny I possess constantly observes how I use it how I lay it because the most merciful and bountiful Jesus is continually watching beholding my poverty my abundance he watches and he is able to cause both my abundance or my poverty to work for my good and this is a case in point where he makes the poverty of this poor old widow she came in stealthily left when she had been pronounced the public figure cross sees different motives which lead men to perform their respective actions he knows whether people are acting out of vanity out of self love ambition interest hypocrisy or whether it is because of love charity zeal for his glory and a heart desire to please him he sees it and he knows it the principle of sacrifice he observes as he looks he observes the circumstances which accompany our actions especially in our case in elements of worship whether we act with care or negligence with the ready mind or with a reluctance he is ever watching he observes as towards how we operate how we practice our stewardship he watches skinly because he has an interest in the same way he had an interest in the fruit in the garden he has an interest in your stewardship you know Jesus is observing how the wealthy and the privileged are making their contributions to the treasury and at this time law and behold suddenly comes in a lawn and impoverished poor widow she also makes her contribution she goes I can imagine as she walks she doesn't want even to make some thuds that will be heard by people she has to walk perhaps at the end of her toes to go through and in the middle of man and stealthily throw in what she has unnoticiably and go back to her seat she also wants to participate in worship this leads me to a principle that is very very crucial whether rich or poor the Lord created us for His own glory to worship Him and honor Him with our substance none is excluded in the economy of God the reason for stewardship is does not exclude any individual best on your status or how much you have stewardship everybody whether poor or rich and stewardship has a way of bringing out the concept of Iguiti it is not equality therefore with my so little I can still worship and practice my stewardship and with my abundance I can also worship and still in the element of worship still practice my stewardship her contribution was so insignificant in Jesus eyes however it was an offering beyond ordinary measure suddenly he calls his disciples and the word calling here from its original is a command that is given by a king summoning people an urgent meeting he called the disciples and all of them stood and ran to where he was it is interesting that this so insignificant offering of this poor widow has got the attention of Jesus and not the huge amounts that had been put in the offering plate does it make sense to be filled with irony because the widow's offering is not greater according to Jesus it is greater she did not carry any bag she didn't have even a pass she only came holding clinging it in her face not much it is ironical Jesus he says this is greater than anyone else offering it is interesting he then explains that the value of the offering according to Jesus is best measured against the financial worth of the offerer it is only in accordance to your abilities and your abandonies that we can determine how much has been given in the kingdom of God God seems to be operating on a different kind of mathematics probably not Kel Franz it's not even Chiruel it is not even of Malki at Sino Patel it is a different kind of mathematics to him much is not determined by how much literally or arithmeticly but against the backdrop of the worth of the offerer there is determined how great or how much has been given we might say somewhat crudely perhaps that the quality of an offering is best measured as a percentage of the total assets considered in this way therefore the poor widow's offering was fast period to the others it was all that she owned this incident contrasts the spiritual poverty and the physical prosperity of the scribes on one hand and on the other side and spiritual prosperity of the widow it also contrasts the greed of the scribes with the generosity of this widow it explicates the difference between humble sincere anonymous devotion of the widow and the outward superficial ostentatious display of devotion on the side of the scribes according to this rate therefore the widow's two mites made in silver the weight of a middle balikon you know the worth of what we call the two mites was like the worth of one maize cob like you got passed by the road and these guys are roasting maize and you get there one cone one cob that is an equivalent of the two mites that she gave that was all that she had the saviour calls to the attention of everybody that she had given more than anyone else and in the original language this word Jesus uses it simply means she gave that she gave what she had between her life and herself this is the only thing that existed if she could have said I'm worth this this is the only thing that she could have said in fact whatever that she had was not enough to take her beyond today it was only able to give her a roasted cob of maize that is all that she could properly and then wait to die she is not as privileged like we are because some of us we have already stored grain that could take us the next 2, 3, 4 years she is not as privileged as we are because we have fat accounts but we can manage even if I lost a job today some of us if we lost a job today we can go for 6 months for one year for 2, 3, 4 years as we look for something else we still can live and survive she is not as much privileged and so Jesus calls to the attention of everyone and says all that she had to sustain her all that she had to uphold her life for one day this is what she gave for it is said that the quantity was usually reckoned as her livelihood that which she had the worth of it was what she would get probably a meal that is not even a good meal something just to ensure that the pangs of hunger won't beat so much against her this was all that she had then Jesus says she has given she has cast in more than any of the rest for the rest of the men Jesus makes it very clear look at how he puts it this is how Jesus makes it verse 44 for they all contributed out of their abundance that which remained was so much and if you calculate in terms of percentage that is how God operates it's equitable that's why he gives a percentage he says 10% and I can assure you 10% to a poor person is the same as 10% to a millionaire if one person who cannot afford food 3 times a day has to offer and return a tais that is faithful it is equally disturbing to a millionaire who has to give 10% the percentage is enough to arrest our selfishness and that is why Jesus reduced the percentage somebody says we should be thankful to God in terms of pay as you are I think some people are paying 40 others that is due at 2% I do that 3% that's what comes out of my salary and if they want to increase they increase like what they are doing any time they want to push it up they don't consult with you when you just go you are only shown you are only advised that this was taken God from time immemorial from creation to debt is still at 10% we should be thankful because he should have increased it a little bit that would have probably been better no wonder it's very hard for us to return because it is so small it equally bites to a poor person and to a rich person that percentage comes to you and to that person is the same and so when you look at what Jesus is simply saying is that in terms of how much one has given it is never how much you have given the figure that you will indicate on your taisa envelope the figure and the amount you will show whichever means God does not look at that amount in terms of what the figure that came in he looks at it at the backdrop of ya in terms of what this is given what is the percentage of what has remained that is a very difficult one out of the abundance they gave out of her poverty she gave their offerings though great in respect of hers bore but a little portion to their remaining estate but she of her wand did cast in all that she had her offering was the whole of her income on that day or perhaps you can say of the money in her position at that time here are a few lessons we can learn from this story God doesn't measure our gifts by the amount never rather he measures it by what it costs you how much does this gift you are giving how much does it cost you in other words how much of the sacrifice is behind the gift that you are giving praise the Lord no wonder David would say hey I will not give to the Lord that which costs me nothing what is the cost if you can simply go to the pocket and take out some coins throw in the offer to replace there is no sacrifice that has been made no cost to it God has not regarded it it is the principle behind our tites and offerings and all other offerings the principle is does it cost you is there something you have sacrificed for gone is there something that you have skipped from getting something that you have decided for the sake of others I am not going for this and so let it be for us is there a cost that is the concept behind the offerings that we give and so to Jesus we give much more because it costed her everything for that day real giving number two must be sacrificial the amount of the gift never matters so much as its cost to the giver not the size of the gift but the size of the sacrifice because real generosity until it hurts when it does not hurt then there is no sacrifice that has been made for many of us is a real question if ever our giving to God's work is any sacrifice or it is always out of abundance no wonder maybe even what we give that has not been so much blessed not done what it ought to have done point number three real giving has a certain recklessness in it the woman might have kept one coin and given out another coin it would not have been much but it would have been at least something has been given she also was seen dropping in the back yet she gave everything she had there is a great symbolic truth here it is our tragedy that there is so often some part of our lives some part of our activities some part of ourselves which we do not give to Christ we do not surrender totally it is a lesson we advise everything on the altar of Christ not on the altar of convenience and experience it is strange number four and lovely thing that the person whom the new testament and Jesus hands down to history to our time as a pattern of generosity was a person who gave a gift of half a far thing and equal to the prize of a roasted maize cob we may feel that we have not much in the way of material gifts or personal gifts to give to God but if we put all that we have and are at his disposal he can do things with it and with us that are beyond our common imaginations our life ought number six ought not to be dearer to us more than Jesus life was to him he left the courts of heaven above all the glory, the power, the greatness he came down, gave his life so that you and I could live we cannot make our gifts more dearer to us than his life to him unless we do not know the gospel the apostles and martyrs acted on this principle it is possible ladies and gentlemen to be poor and be a Christian but you can't be a Christian and be stingy you cannot it goes against the life and the teaching of our Lord Jesus you know, imagine there is a small little book Fox's book of Matayas if you can get time just to go and read about what happened to the apostles but then you can also get the earlier version about the death of the prophets and you'll be surprised prophet Isaiah because of his willingness to share the gospel he signed the gospel pages with his own blood it is said in some extra canonical books that he went and he was being chased by the king Manasseh and he went and hid himself in a hollow part of a tree and the king ordered that they don't have to struggle to get him out all they needed was to have a saw the kisi type of saw the saw that comes from kisi two men holding on both ends and they cut the tree and so they sliced him in between that was how he sealed the testimony of his life and there is not a single prophet according to Jesus all of them died while they were hanging on the gospel because they did not want to give up otherwise that was a different life other than the life that men and women who are called by God are supposed to live by now is your time to talk about the apostles when the Holy Spirit had come all of them collected their wives and children in Jerusalem and left them in the tents I can imagine that particular evening when they were bidding bye men hugging their wives and children crying because they would never ever meet again it was one way after hugging they told them bye see you in heaven period they left never came back they died from wherever they were they had sold everything they had everything however little it was and brought it to Jerusalem left it with the deacons who were then to be buying food and giving to them sacrifice a hundred percent to lay the foundation of the face that you and I belong to how can you receive these gifts of God at no cost that hurts how? I want you to move with me from here and imagine we are in heaven together to get to the sea of glass you meet these apostles you meet Peter you meet Paul you meet John you meet James and they are there having literally sacrificed everything including their own lives and for you it is not even life it is just an amount some section of your income and you can live out of your abundance you don't want to give the question is how will you find yourself in a kamban of such men on a Sabbath evening like now trying to bell job their carols singing glory the song of Moses and the Lamb how will you find yourself in such a group it is my prayer that the Lord helps us to choose wisely to sacrifice for the Lord it doesn't cost much even if it did it is worth it I challenge everyone listening to me tonight to consider reordering your stewardship priorities as I invite my sister to come and help me do this song take my life and let it be consecrated to you all God take my silver, take my feet, take my lips take my love, let it be I pray that this would be a blessing we sing together this song and I want to invite all of us to rise up whatever you are watching us from as we do this number it is 330 330 take my life and let it be and as we sing this song I want to challenge all of us to right fleachus take a right stand to declare themselves as faithful stewards of God from now because of the rewards that are there we can't miss them this is both sacrifice take Lord to death Father take my life Father in God we just do not know how else we could thank you we do not know how could have possibly been more than what you have been tonight to us we do not know which other time we could have made na kutua mkingi nakuha kufu'u na uwa mngu ya mmeri yukia kwa ta kutuja kwa nakimiti nga ni mngu takuwa hika kikirti kumodejo kwen And for speaking so directly to each heart tonight, save us oh God, because if you don't we will be lost. We choose oh God conscientiously tonight to belong to you, to live sacrificially, to make a sacrifice, Because this is the only way we will then experience newness of life. Take our lips, use them, take our feet, use them oh God, take our wallet and use it to the honor and the glory of your name for by so doing oh God we are commended, we are commended, we long for that day when you will come when we will be home by the sea of glass we feel so ashamed oh God for what we have done all this with that which you have given to us we have molested you we have pitefully treated you we are ashamed before you oh God oh God we thank you because you are a forgiving God you are a merciful father accept us oh God remove our stone hearts fit us anew with the flesh hearts may we live according to your will oh God may the spirit order our states after your will may we be willing to practice and experience a new way of doing stewardship as a responsible and as men who will give an account one day we thank you oh Lord for hearing our prayer the pain we have with which we express these is more than what we can explain for having let you down all this time may this deep repentance bring about deeper convictions and and deeper changes in our hearts oh God we thank you for hearing this prayer as we go home please Lord we pray that you dismisses with your presence and blessings may we enjoy may we rejoice have been in the presence of the Lord and consider coming here in the morning to worship and celebrate in any given element of worship that your eye is focused on we pray that we'll do it out of hearts and not hypocritical and superficial as we have always done we thank you because we have prayed in Jesus name amen amen yeah we are going to sing a song that we always sing during family worship jasmine just introduced it it wasn't so clear so help this song talks about wherever we are God is always there watching over you so join us thank you donating the song service worship of today faster thank you very much for again calling upon us to remember to give and give until such a time that we given on because God the Father gave is the best and Christ Jesus gave his life so in giving we have to make sacrifice thank you again brethren saints for getting the opportunity to join us today for this worship and also to welcome the holy Sabbath which we are wishing you you have a lovely Sabbath evening and tomorrow tomorrow will be the climax of this worship and therefore we invite all of you to join virtually and also in person tomorrow and in the afternoon we have our young people the youth of this church will be having coordinating panel discussion otherwise thank you and welcome tomorrow may we all rise as we say praise may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more amen have a safe journey home and have a lovely Sabbath evening thank you