 Good evening. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Thank you for joining us for this last part of the service. We are going to start off with a music session. The song is 5-5 in Nyimbo Zakristo that says to Apandama Pema. The song writer in English says bringing in the sheaves. The song is 5-5 in Nyimbo Zakristo Good evening church. Me, Motha, and my sister here, That is how we can speak the name of Jesus, whenever we want to cry out the name of Jesus. Just speak the name the most precious powerful name that has ever been. Hava ni's waiting for the mention of his name The spirit is moving, burning like a flame Healing the broken by the words we proclaim Raise it up, chains will fall, mountains move We thank you for your love that you brought us this far Thank you for the programs that we have gone through this day That you brought us now to the last session for the day We invite the presence that you lead us through Take control of everything In a special way I pray for Pastor Donaldson As he will come to minister to us Be with him, use him Speak to thy people In Jesus' name we pray I want to welcome each and every one of you To this last session of the day From your return I can see that you enjoyed the family life programs very much And sorry that the time was not much longer But we have a few more sessions coming So this evening I want to welcome Those who are inside the sanctuary And those who are watching online Wherever you are Please feel welcome to join In this last session of the day We in particular want to thank those Who have participated in leading the first programs Especially those who have been leading The family life programs which have just gone by And thank you for coming back quickly at the bell Please feel at home, relax As you enjoy the last session of the day In a moment Pastor Donaldson Will come to speak to us And is no new comer to you anymore Because he has spoken to us a few times before So feel welcome Thank you Another time to listen to the scripture reading of the hour May I say a prayer before I read Thank you, loving creator Almighty dear father in heaven above For the hour that you have granted unto us, O Lord As we read your word, O Lord, Father May your name be glorified For through manifestation in us In Jesus name, our praying Amen Our scripture this morning is taken from the book First Kings chapter 19 Versus 19 through 21 And I'm going to read from King James Version I read First Kings chapter 19 Versus 19 2021 It says So he departed from there And found Elisha the son of Shafath Who was plowing with 12 yok of oxen before him And he was with the 12th Then Elijah passed by him And threw his mantle on him Twenty And he left the oxen Ran after Elijah and said Please let me kiss my father And my mother And then I will follow you And he said to him Go back again For what have I done to you? 21 So Elisha turned back From him and took a yok Of oxen and slaughtered them And boiled their flesh Using the oxen's equipment And gave it to the people And they ate Then he arose and followed Elijah And became his servant That's the word of the Lord Let us stand for the opening song In our SDA him knows The song is 5-2-2 And the songwriter says My hope is built on nothing less Kindly does us be upstanding Let's sing together My hope is built on consciousness I did not trust the sweetest frame But only lean on Jesus' name On Christ the soul Changing grace As much as possible I would like to request us to kneel As we seek the Lord in prayer Before your throne of grace Our God and our Father We come this evening to thank you For God you have been with us Through the day And the message is father That you have allowed This Lord to be able to listen to Have been uplifting Giving us hope And giving us a sense of belonging Father renewing our faith in you Lord that you would always be with us At this moment Lord we want to take time Lord to remember those of us Who are watching They are those who are here in person They are those of us Lord Who are online Lord And in various places Father want to pray for them Even as we seek your face This evening Father we know Lord That they are those who are in support system They are those Lord who have gone hungry And for a period of time Lord we want to pray Lord that you may be able to provide for them We ask Lord that you may also Reach out to those who have not known you And who are struggling in their heart Father to be able Lord to find you Wherever they are We pray Father that you may be able To guide them into this truth Father that you are going through And for those of us Lord who are here We ask that you may give us Presence of mind Open our hearts and our minds Father that you may be receptive To the message Father that you will be getting In various forms either through music Or by the spoken word For we pray in Jesus' name I will read from The book of Deutronomy Chapter 16 Verse 17 Which says Every man Shall give As he is able According To the blessings of the Lord your God Which he has given you Every man shall give As he is able According to the blessing Of the Lord your God Which he has given you Is time Return Offerings and tithes to the Lord And may I request That the deacons and deaconesses Will stand as we pray Let's pray Thank you Lord For thy blessings So much that we can return only Potion to you Please bless us That our offerings may be acceptable In thy sight For thy work Because we pray in Jesus' name We certainly want to thank the choir Once again Would you join with me In saying amen again Thank you Harold Singer Well brothers and sisters Once again Lord has given us one more time To worship him Isn't the Lord good Isn't he worthy to be praised Anybody know out there If it had not been For the Lord Where would you be Jesus Is worthy to be praised Would you turn to your neighbor Tell your neighbor Praise God And thank you Jesus Our theme has been I will go And proclaim God's last mercy Message I want to talk More specifically What it means For you individually What it means To be Kind of Disciple That Jesus is looking for In these last and evil days And what it will take If you want to make A decision To be one of those people Who the Lord can use Your hands and your feet Serve As a backdrop To what I want to say tonight I call your attention To our Scriptural reference That was read earlier And I want to Emphasize one Of the verses there If you have your bibles I invite you to turn To the book of First Kings And it is the 19th Chapter that calls Our attention First Kings the 19th Chapter And we want to pick up Beginning With Verse 20 And 21 As has been our custom this week Would you please stand To give honor to God's word As we read it The Bible says this In the 19th chapter Of the book First Kings I'm going to Read verse 20 In the new King James Version You have Will carry its import And he Meaning Elisha Left the oxen And ran after Elisha And said Please Let me kiss my father And my mother And then I will follow you Elisha said Elisha Go back again Or what have I done To you And the record says In verse 21 So Elisha Turn back from him Took a yoke Of oxen And slaughtered them Broiled their flesh Using the oxen's Equipment And gave it to the people And they ate Then he arose Followed Elisha And became His servant I want to talk today As the Lord shall guide On the subject entitled Burn your Ship Shall we pray and ask God's permission Once again, father You have privileged us By allowing us This awesome gathering To worship you You have blessed us Word With song Now, father We ask that you would do for us What we cannot do for ourselves Speak to us Through your word Challenge us once again There's only one problem And we know it That which you have ordained To life For some mysterious Reason You have decided To use human lips Perform the miracle That we need So that we can hear A word from you This is our prayer For we are careful to ask it The loving And precious and holy And righteous name of Jesus Christ God on a cold cruel cross For us rose again on the third day And now lives to intercede What will make it all worthwhile Is that soon and very soon He will come back again This is our prayer Let everybody say amen And you may be seated In the presence of the Lord Burn Your Ship On February the 19th The year of our Lord 1519 The Spanish Explorer Hernan Cortez Set sail for the country Known today as Mexico With 11 ships 13 horses 110 sailors And 553 soldiers The indigenous population Upon his arrival Was approximately 5 million people From a purely mathematical Standpoint The odds were stacked Against Cortez By a ratio Of 7,541 To one Two previous expeditions Had failed to establish A settlement In the new world Yet when the dust cleared Cortez conquered much Of what we call The South American continent today Now what caught my attention When I read this little historical tidbit Was what Cortez did Differently On his third try Rather than the first two tries History records that Cortez Issued a order That turned his Mission Into an all Or nothing proposition Like the previous two Expeditions to the new world As did something different On the third try That he had not done On the first two As soon as he landed On the shores And the soil Of what was known then As the new world As commanded his men To burn their ships As the crew watched Their fleet of ships Burn and sink They got the message Up front and personal Cortez was saying to his crew Retreat Was no longer An option And if today you can For the few minutes of this preachment Compartmentalize The moral dilemma Of colonialism I want to suggest to you That there is a spiritual lesson That we would do well To cogitate And learn today You don't hear anything else I say, hear this God's movement In our lives Is always Forward And never backward And like Cortez In God's construct Retreat Is not An option For his church Higher than the highest human thought Is God's desire For you and me God says I know the Thoughts that I think toward you Thoughts of peace And not of evil To bring You Are expected in God wants his church To be the head And not the tail He wants Each one of his people To ride upon the high places And to give clear evidence That we are blessed And not stressed God wants us to reach Our fullest potential in him For us to live Like people Who have been called Out of darkness Into a Marvelous life Don't you know That when you come to Jesus Christ That you are a royal priesthood And a holy generation Authorized And recognized As sons And daughters Under divine favor In order for us To receive God's best In order to sit in the First class seats With the Holy Ghost We must be dedicated To the proposition Of all Or nothing Hear me today The clarion call For today Is for the people of God to stop Living below Your divine Inheritance What God is after Is for you and I To move out In order to move up That's why I want to suggest today That our narrative Is important Because the testimony Of our text Teaches That through the experience Of Elisha We can learn What it takes To press toward the mark Of the high calling of Jesus Christ Indeed To meet this Lofty Challenge From your leadership To go and proclaim The three angels' message Elijah teaches us What it will take First thing that I want you to see Is that if you are going To ride on the high places If you are going to go And proclaim If you are going to meet The high calling of Jesus Christ You've got to learn How to negotiate The people In your life In verse 21 The Bible says Elijah fed the people They ate And then He arose And followed After Elisha Whatever God has Designed for you Whether individual Or church You are going to need Other people To pull it off Because a God Given assignment Will always be Larger than your Personal capacity And ability If your plans In this church Are plans That only include What you have The resources to do Than your plan is too Small Because a God-given plan Always stretches us Larger than our Capacity and ability What I'm trying to suggest to you today Is all of us Need somebody And none of us Can make it Alone God will bring people into your life That will contribute to your growth But if you've lived Long enough If you've lived any length of time You know That in addition to how God Pours into your life Through the lives of other people There will also be people In your life That don't quite fit For the purpose of our discussion I like to call them Ray Ray and Pukie Necessarily Negative influences They just are not interested In going where you need to go For God Nor capable Of helping you to be all That God wants you to be And God expects you To use your Sanctified intelligence To discern whether People Represent a blessing Or curse A compliment Or detriment to your life Notice That Elijah Cooked a meal for the people Who knew him But when the meal was over And it was time to Make his move The record says He arose And left them behind You see Elijah understood That Ray Ray And Pukie were alright When he was farming But in order to Go and grow Where God wanted him to go Ray Ray and Pukie Had to go Can we talk Everyone around you Doesn't have Your best interest Everybody didn't like Jesus And news flash Everybody will not like you The record said He came into his own And his own received him Not Can you imagine that 33 and a half years Was all That the world could stand Before they shifted from Hosanna to crucify him And if folk had A problem with Jesus Guess what Somewhere along Your spiritual journey Somebody's gonna have A problem with you Back the Bible says That the people closest to Jesus Are the most And I'm sorry If I have to be the one To disturb your Delicate sensibilities today Don't tell anybody I said it But You can get Roughed up In the sacred halls of the church Don't fool yourself There are saints In here Who can be rough And rude And who think that their tongues Give them a license to kill In the name of the Lord Tap your neighbor and tell your neighbor The preacher is trying to help you today Focusing on what People do or don't do Stop being so emotionally Needy That what brother so and so says Is more important than The say of the Lord Stop spending Energy trying to get People to like you Stop wasting Your time trying To please and appease People they just Are not worth it In fact Jesus Said be careful When everybody speaks Well about you for they did Exact same thing For all of the false prophets If everybody likes what you Are saying It's a sure sign You're not saying Anything If everybody likes where you Are headed It's a sure sign That you're not going anywhere And if everybody likes What you're doing Means that you are not doing Anything If everybody likes Who you are Then it means that you aren't Who you think Whenever you try to do The right thing brothers and sisters Somebody is not going To like it And the sooner you come To grips with that The better off you will be To be a Christ Or in these crisis times Means You're going to have to cultivate The art Of exchanging Zeros For heroes Let go of people Who just want to Keep you farming And gravitate toward The Elijah's in your life Who desire to elevate you And make a positive Deposit in you Infact my advice Is simply stop wasting Your time Fooling with folk Who are negative influences In your life Go get a box Of sympathy cards And send them To all of the people Who are negative influences In your life All of your ray rays Put the following note On the inside Because when you let me down God picked me up When you walked out God walked in When you did What all ray rays and pookies do God came through And what you meant for bad God has found a way To turn it around To good God always has somebody Ram in the thicket Some Elijah Ready to contribute to your dreams Your plans Your visions in your goals Hook up with them Do yourself a favor Find and focus a friend And follow Elijah The Elijah's in your lives That God will send your way Leave all the negative people Eating at the table The text teaches That we all need somebody But the difference In those who are going to make an impact For God Are those who move forward And choose wisely Who they take On their spiritual journey The second thing I want you to see Is not only must you Negotiate the people in your life You've got to learn how to negate The past tense in your life Pick me up in verse 21 Elijah slaughtered And cooked the yoke of oxen Using his own plowing equipment So the first step forward Is to eliminate the possibility Of ever going back There are moments in your life When you need to make a definite defining decision That eliminates the possibility Of going back to the place of your past God is calling you to move past Who you were In fact, God is calling you To move beyond Who you are right now If at the start of this camp meeting You're the same person At the end of the camp meeting Then nothing has changed And you're going in the wrong direction God is calling you to rise up to higher ground On who you can become God is calling you To burn your ships Burn the ship of past failure Burn the ship of past guilt Burn the ship of past regret Burn the ship of bad habits Burn the ship you fill in the blanks For that's exactly what Elijah did He burned his own plowing equipment In the kindling And his oxen into a barbecue That bonfire was Elijah's defining signature statement It was the most meaningful moment in his life Because it symbolized the last day of his old life And the first day of his new life with Elijah Burning the plowing equipment Was Elijah's way of burning his ships He couldn't go back to his old way Because he destroyed the very farming equipment That had the potential to lure him back It was the end of the Elijah as he was And the end of Elijah as a farmer And the beginning of Elijah as a prophet The Elijah God intended him to be Now don't miss that Think about the symbolism of what Elijah did Elijah literally cooked his old way of life Aided for dinner Digested his past And then through the process of elimination Got it out of his system Let me just say parenthetically to you To that person who senses That there is more to having a relationship to God Than what they are currently experiencing The way to accelerate going forward The way to get closer to God Is to eliminate any possibility Of going backwards It doesn't matter whether you're trying to lose weight Write a book, go to school Start a business, get out of debt Reach a personal goal Break up an addiction Reconcile a relationship Fix a marriage Stop a persistence in Whatever you are trying to do Whatever you are trying to stop The first step is always Burn your ship Because you cannot go forward Until there is no way You can go back Which means your own self Some television shows You can't watch Some music Or not be found on your electronic device It says right here to get real quiet Some places you can't go And there are people in your life Who you need to give a daytime curfew to Can we talk? If you are struggling with certain internet sites Go back to the computer store Where you bought your computer And let the technician put some blocks On your computer Being serious about God And you are serious about God When you burn your ships Because you cannot go forward Until you eliminate the possibility of going back See one of the constant spiritual problems That doggedly plagues many of us Is that we want God To do something new Something great Something bigger And something better in our lives Without disturbing our routine And with minimum intrusion Into our low level of Christian living And while we pray and desire to be changed The truth is we are resistant to change What we really want is God to alter our conditions And the circumstances we are in And we get upset when God is quick To work on us And slow to work in our situation In the Book of Amos chapter 5 verse 4 Is this powerful word that the prophet says Seek me and live Do not seek Bethel Do not go to Gilgal Do not journey to Bathsheba But seek the Lord now and live Now Bethel was a place where Jacob had his life Changed by a dream It's one of the keystone places in the life of Jacob Where he built an altar to God Gilgal is that place where the Israelites camp After God marvelously and miraculously And they step foot for the first time In the promised land Bathsheba is the place where Abraham made A treaty with Abimlelek And called on the name of the Lord All three places were special places Significant places Sacred places in Israel's history And yet God said Tell the people Amos Do not seek me Not in Bethel Not in Gilgal Not in Bathsheba Don't look for me in the past Because you will never find me The answer is His name is not I was His name is I am Is present tense God is a God of the now God is a God of present help Today if you hear his voice God is always doing a new thing And his new thing never hangs around in the past Which means If God is not in the past Why are you? You cling tightly to what God did last You will often miss what God is trying to do next Because what got you where you are yesterday May not get you where God wants you to be today Elijah teaches That you will never go forward until you eliminate The possibility of going backwards And for Elijah to admit He burned his plowing equipment Because his plowing equipment Reminded him what he did in the past As a farmer Not what God was calling him to To be a prophet Burn your ships They gate your past tense The third thing I want you to see That you're going to be the man or woman for God today You've got to navigate The purpose of your life The Bible says Elijah passed by Through his mantle on Elijah And Elijah rose and followed Elijah And became his servant In order to begin a new chapter in your life You've got to end the old chapter However, the way that you do it Often has a direct bearing On whether you are going to be successful For the long haul or not Plenty of people start on a new journey Only to end up right back where they were Two steps forward and three steps back But if you want to have steady, consistent, permanent Moving forward Then how you negate your past How you move to a new chapter Your life is important In English Grammatical rules dictate That you indicate that a sentence is complete By ending that sentence with a punctuation mark Now punctuation marks are important For a reader takes clues On what you are attempting to convey Based on the punctuation mark And the degree of emphasis That the reader should put on whatever it is That you are saying Is guided by the punctuation mark Now you can get the job done with a period But whenever you want to make a more dramatic statement If you want others to know emphatically What you are trying to communicate You use an exclamation point An exclamation point is bold And decisive and definitive It makes your statement as something That is more significant And the reader is alerted That this is worthy of my attention We make exclamation points all the time Not only in what we write on paper in English But also in our lives For instance, we mark our date of birth With an exclamation mark Why? Because the day that you were born Is different from any other day The day that you were born Establish you as a member in the human race We put exclamation marks When we achieve academically We call them degrees and graduation We highlight marriages with exclamation points People can just go to the state and get married But most marriages have weddings and receptions Because we want to highlight this important event Now don't miss it Elijah didn't need to burn his plowing equipment In order to follow Elijah By the time of our text Elijah has already given him his mantle Which means Elijah already possessed The blessing before he burned his equipment But why did he do it? He did it as a response to God's graciousness The mantle was the unexpected gift That God placed on him He didn't deserve it But God said, I'm going to call you Simply because I'm calling you Elijah did it in order to make a strong statement of faith That he was purposefully committed to God Elijah did it Because it was a spiritual milestone of such magnitude Receiving the mantle of God That he must acknowledge it A period wouldn't do Only an exclamation point would make the point Elijah did it Because he sensed a movement of God in his life Calling him to higher ground And he wanted God to know That he was prepared to order his steps In God's will and way And Elijah teaches us What's true for grandma Is also true in our spiritual lives You really want to change You really want to grow If you really want what God has for you That is best If you want to rise to another level spiritually Then show God an exclamation point Not a period in your life If you want to break a habit Hold an addiction, stop a conflict Get past the past A karma won't cut it Semi-kolins can only put band-aids on it But change in your life happens With exclamation points Don't miss it Elijah made a powerful declaration Regarding his intentions and purpose I want God's best for me And I'm willing to do whatever is necessary To get it Therefore, I want to punctuate My spiritual sentence With an exclamation point Not a period so that God can get the point See, this is not a willy-nilly, knee-jerk decision by Elijah Elijah is serious You're not getting it, so let me see if I can say it this way Elijah was raised in a region of Israel Known as Mahola It was considered the bread basket Of the Jordan River Valley His family must have been wealthy Because we're told in the text that he had 12 yoke of oxen Most people were fortunate if they had one Burning the plowing equipment Was more than just quitting his job Rightly understood Elijah was divesting himself of his inheritance Did you get it? Elijah was handing in his resignation As CEO of Elijah Farms Incorporated For an unpaid internship With an itinerant profit Elijah was ready to go all in and all out For an all in all Lord Permit me to pause here Because Elijah's exclamation example Poses some pertinent questions That beg for answers right now Do you really want God's best? And if you do Are you willing to pay the price to get it? Be careful how you answer For the one thing that is most disconcerting to God Is our pension as Christians Of living below our divine inheritance God wants you up here So many of us live on this low level Of spirituality We don't have the fortitude Of the energy to reach out to others Because we are spending so much time Drifting ourselves Comfortable with a go through the motions Relationship with Jesus At ease with mediocrity Instead of God's best God reserves the worst indictment Incidentally for those who are like that Not for those who are cold And decide that they don't even want God No, his most damning indictment Are for those who are stuck In the middle of mediocrity Luke warned Not hot, not cold Not saying what God wants for you Stuck in the middle Now hear me now If you're going to do business with the Holy Ghost If you really want to make an impact for God You need to understand That Jesus did not die to make you safe He died to make you dangerous You're going to do business with the Holy Ghost You better understand That faithfulness to God Is not holding down the fort No faithfulness to God Is tearing down the devil's playhouse You're going to do business with the Holy Ghost And be serious, you need to understand That salvation Was not given to you Just so you can have An eternal insurance policy No, salvation was given to you Because it's a daring journey Moving from faith to faith God taking you from this experience to that experience Until you reach The high calling that he has for your life Complete surrender of your life To the cause of Christ Is not radical In God's construct It's normal It's the minimum you could do Paul said it this way I beseech you there for a brethren By the mercies of God That you present your bodies As a living sacrifice Holy and acceptable to God Now watch this Which is your reasonable service In other words, when God is asking for your best That's not something radical That's not something exceptional It is your reasonable service Heaven's minimum What I'm trying to tell you is It's high time for the people of God To quit living as if the purpose of life Is to arrive safely at death A century ago There was a band of famous Christians Called the one-way missionaries They were called the one-way missionaries For three reasons They always targeted the most remote places And difficult destinations To share the gospel They would only purchase One-way tickets to the target mission field And they would punctuate Put an exclamation point That they were serious about what they were doing By their unusual luggage See, instead of suitcases They packed all of their clothes and belongings In coffin They used coffins Because they knew That they were never planning to go back Because retreat was not an option for them It was all or nothing For them there was no plan B What I'm trying to suggest to you today You want to go and proclaim If you want to make an impact If you want to do something great for God If you want your church to be known For more than just what address It's located God is challenging each one of you To stop resorting prematurely to plan B Because God's plan A appears too risky Too costly or too difficult Christ requires a burship attitude And if you're going to deal with him You've got to have a coffin consecration In other words, it's time to go all in And all out for an all in all Lord And Elijah teaches us That you must negotiate the people in your life You can't let other people keep you From what God wants for you You've got to negate the past tense Stop living in the past God is not there God is a God of the present tense And the future tense You've got to navigate the purpose in your life Put an exclamation point Let God know Hey, I am really serious about your business Well, I've said a lot As I close something else caught my eye It's in verse 20 Elijah said to Elijah What have I done to you? And I thought about that Because I'd like to ask the same question This way What has Jesus done for you? Well, for some of you That's an easy question You were sick And you couldn't get well And he healed you Or you were down and depressed Couldn't get up But he lifted you up You were confused And he straightened you out Or you were too loose in your life And he tightened you up Or you were too wound, too tight And he freed you up But for some people listening to me That's not an easy question But I've got good news tonight Even if it's not an easy question for you Or if you are still too mean I want you to know tonight That he can soften you up If you are ruining your life And you know it But you don't know how to fix it And you need to be rescued The good news tonight is He can do it If you're living life's blah You've got the right house You've got the right job You've got your 2.5 kids And a marriage But yet you're empty on the inside He can restore you If you're sinking But you've got a past That's uncomplimentary I've got good news He can erase the way your past Just like that If you a new name And a new reputation If you're stuck in sorrow He can put a song back in your heart If you've been one deed From the penitentiary One hit from the cemetery One bill from bankruptcy And you need somebody to snatch you back From the clutches If you've ever felt like A favorite songwriter of mine Who wrote a song that says God I need you now Not another second Not another minute Now wait I need you now I'm here to declare Without hesitation and equivocation That the God I know can step in Show up, show out, show off Just when you need him the most Because can't nobody like Jesus There's power in his name Salvation in his name And deliverance in his name So when obstacles obstruct Move forward When mountains of demands are high Move forward Straight places start to become crooked Move forward When your burdens are heavy Move forward Burn your ships Bring your coffin Put on your manor Move forward Trust and obey For there is no other way To be happy in Jesus To trust and obey I don't know about you tonight But I feel in a special sense To say to the Lord and savior Jesus Christ But I want him to know I want the angels to write it down I want him to know What was he Has in store for me In accordance to my divine inheritance If you're like me and want to join in the prayer I'm going to pray I want to invite you to stand Now don't stand if you don't meet it But if you're all in If you want to say to God Lord, by your grace I want your best I want to negate my past I want to start surgically Negotiating my relationship So that I'm surrounded by people That can move me forward Purpose in life I want to be a part To what you are trying to accomplish That's why you're standing God is looking for exclamation points That's what we're doing Shall we pray Father, tonight Through the example of Elisha His experience We learn today That we cannot go forward If we leave any room to go back Every person is standing today And they're standing For one singular reason We want you to know That by your grace We want to put exclamation points On our lives Of below Our divine inheritance We want to be the head And not the tail We want what God's best is And we are willing To pay the price But entrust every person That is standing With the ideal The highest thoughts That you have toward them And make each one of us Cognizant enough Committed enough Consecrated enough Dedicated enough We are willing to do what it takes In order to receive your best I ask a special prayer upon each person You know the secret desires of their hearts You know the struggles That they are facing I pray now Lord In according to their faithfulness And by their standing today That you would dispatch angels from heaven Whose only job it is Is to support them And to make this decision today A turning point in their lives Thank you Lord Thank you Lord Thank you Lord For giving us one more time To declare Whose side we are on This is our prayer In Jesus' name That everyone say amen and amen Turn to your neighbor And tell your neighbor Burn your ships How many of us have blessed this evening Hallelujah We give honan glory to God We thank him for using his men's servant To speak to our hearts And to move us to make the decisions that we make This evening I want to invite Dr. Ghanu And Pastor Maywa To come and hold the prayer request boxes That we have this one this side Please may you bring it closer And I want to remind each and everyone of us That when we write Our prayer request When we do what we do And bring it into the house of the Lord We are making a statement And so I can see Some of us making their way Please come Please come And I want to ask us to Remain seated because we'll have Our guest choir Whom I request to come and Stand as we have our brethren Bring their prayer request You can make your way Arrange yourself Tonight before we break We'll have a short message from One of their leaders Who will tell us what they have Other than the singing That they have How many are blessed by this Wonderful choir The guest choir We want to thank the Lord For every singing group For every family Like the Akali sisters And we had yesterday Sisters also standing And doing the choristering Indeed come meetings At times when we Give the best as families To the Lord Because we are gathering Before him who has called us And just like Joshua We say You choose today but as For me and my family For me and my house I will serve the Lord May we choose to serve the Lord May we choose to be more committed I feel like most of us Are ready to Write and bring their prayer request And I would not like to Close anyone out Can the choir sing one song Even as we do so Yes Thank you so much maybe Is it heavy pastor? Yes please You can write your prayer request And bring them As the choir finishes Pastor Maywa is going to pray We are praying Gracious And merciful Lord And Father in Heaven You have asked us to draw Closer to the throne We are praying We are praying We are praying We are praying We are praying Gracious And merciful Lord And Father in Heaven We ask to draw closer to the throne of grace That we may find help in the time of need And this evening Lord We draw close to your throne With a burden On behalf of this congregation I bear on my shoulders their requests And prayers and petitions Which are mountains in their lives We come to you Lord With the faith that You are God who moves mountains And so with the mountain moving faith We present our petitions And pray our Lord that you will be Massiful and gracious to us Not only to answer Our prayers but to move us And to order our steps in accordance With your word So that as our grant Our desires are granted And our lives will be transformed In line with your will for our lives Those with sicknesses Lord I pray for healing Those with petitions of children Who have walked away and drifted away from God I pray Lord for restoration of their children And those who are looking for jobs Father in Heaven I pray Those that are being closed may be open for them And doors that are being slammed in their faces May be open as well And those with broken lives Because of seeing the life of disobedience I pray Lord for a revival of their lives That they may have a new life in Christ And walk in the paths of righteousness Again for your namesake And those with marriages That need healing and visitation Divine intervention Father I pray that you may intervene in Jesus name Bring understanding Bring love, revive the old good days And the old love Bring back the reason that brought them together And for the petitions on behalf of this church Father I pray that in the name of Jesus You will grant So that this church may move forward As the word has appealed to our hearts to do today And we can only do that if we can burn our ships I pray Lord that you will burn and destroy completely That which the devil has invested in our lives The ships that may have given us a temporary feeling of comfort But I pray that you will disturb the waters Of the lives of your people And that your spirit will bring salvation A full delivery We thank you for this come meeting And we pray that for the petitions That have been placed in this box On behalf of the leaders of this church That we may have a successful come meeting Father we pray for the remaining days That we will hear you speak to us Speak O Lord, clearly So we may understand what you want us to do And thank you for hearing our prayer Thank you for hearing our petitions And thank you for granting more than we ever think Or even pray for For we pray in Jesus' name Amen Loving heavenly Father A prayer answering God What a privilege it is to come before you We count it a privilege and honor That you are always willing to hear and answer our prayers Your children have nowhere to go They know only you The creator God They know only you The redeeming God They know only you The faithful and the compassionate God And so they have walked in faith And they have approached your throne of mercy Your throne of grace With their prayer requests Father in heaven I bear in my hand Numerous prayer requests That have been dropped into this box You who see in secret You know what is written In all these papers So Father we lift them up into your holy arm We lift them up into your merciful hand Oh God That Lord may you have mercy on your children Whatever is pinned down And is written and dropped into this box Lord Father may you have mercy Now you look at these requests According to your mercy According to your grace That Lord your children May be free and may be free indeed Father we are mortal human beings We do not know what is written here But you know it So therefore Lord May you descend in your mercy Descend in your grace And hear the cry of your children May you grant us testimony In this camp meeting That we can say that when we come For this week Lord we have met you And you have heard and answered our prayers We praise you, we worship you May glory, honor, dominion, holiness Belong to you forever in Jesus name we pray Amen Thank you so much Pastor Maywa And Dr. Gano I now want to request whoever is speaking To say something And then we will have a piece of music Before we are dismissed May God bless you God In our motherland Uganda We say mukama mulongi And then you reply enakuzonna Mukama mulongi Enakuzonna Amina Okay We are privileged to be here And we are requested to give A brief history about this choir It started in 1995 I'm privileged that I was among The four people that began this group And then later God has helped us to Increase in number Almost we are 40 now The Herod's Choir is just a messenger A group of messengers who are taking The word of God to the world We have managed to visit a number of countries All the East African countries at least We have visited and we have Managed also to serve online In a number of countries UK, USA, Canada, Denmark And many others online We are privileged that we have A number of elders in this group One of them We have elder Dennis behind there And then we have elder Vicent We have elder Godfrey We have elder Joe And then we have elder Douglas We come from a church The Central Uganda Conference In Kampala Called Najanankumbi SDA church That is where we are best God has been good to us That a number of us are married Although we have also the singles I will not tell them to put up their hands But you will interact and you will know God has helped us in the 27 years now We have been able to record 9 volumes, audio volumes And then we also have 4 video volumes We traveled with our photography directors Rufas is on the camera there And another one called Michael I think he's seated somewhere To those of you Who would want to get this music It is available outside there We have a number of CDs And then we also managed to put this music on Flash Almost all our music is on this flash Last time of the video CDs Video volumes So if you want them When you go out you will meet them there In the 27 years God has helped us to open up Recording studio for audio music And it has recorded a number of choirs In Kampala and out of Kampala We also have A P.A. system we rent out On a number of occasions To serve the Lord through music May God bless you as you listen to this song It's the Lord He's great to shine upon Precious and be great Precious Mukama Melunji Mukama Melunji You are not listening Okay, so you listen now Mukama Melunji Praise me to the Lord That's what we were saying So be prepared to pick Some words of the Lord Are picked Mukama Melunji Are picked Lero And I don't know what you are picked But I must say that We've had a great wonderful day And we thank the Lord For giving us this opportunity To listen to His words Through His servants I believe from morning At 8 o'clock That's when the services started And we learnt about Gideon How Gideon burnt the altar The Baal altar of his father Gideon was wonderful Do what you have to be done Do it And then concluding Climax of the day Burn your ship I believe that we'll have the opportunity To reflect And internalize the messages To give us the opportunity To be drawn closer to the Lord I want to thank the members Who have been with us here since morning And our online audience We are grateful And we are praying that May the Lord continue To give us the determination To continue to listen to His word So that we can be able to get And pick the right path of salvation I want to thank the facilitators Of today Our speakers May the Lord be with you May the Lord continue to give you energy May the Lord continue to give you good health And may the Lord bless your families Which you have left behind To come and share His word here Our guest choir Thank you May the Lord continue to bless you Individually And bless your families I hope tomorrow You will bless us with another word Apart from Kama Mulungi So that we can all learn As we wait for the language of heaven Which will join us all together I want to thank the communication team May the Lord continue to give you energy To coordinate us For the glory of God The sign language translator Is just left May the Lord bless you The pianist May the Lord bless you too They are Kali sisters They have blessed us with songs A Kali was one of our pastors here Sometimes back Those, the ones that were singing here Are his children May the Lord bless them Our choristers, we can't forget you May the Lord bless you The Nora Kajoang family They also blessed us with songs here May the Lord continue to bless us all May we close and go to our homes Let's rise up to say the grace We rise up to say the grace So let's say the grace May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ The love of God The fellowship of the Holy Spirit Be with us now and forever more Tomorrow we start at 8 a.m. We join as Kali to be blessed Thank you