 Ya viwa, wakam tu this special moment when we are starting the 40 days of prayer. I'm sure you have had the 40 days of prayer. And today, 3rd May, 2022, max the beginning of a wonderful experience with the Lord. The General Conference of the Seventh Day and Vintage Church, moved by the Power of the Holy Spirit, came up with this very noble idea that the church globally would come together in these 40 days to seek the Lord in prayer. You see friends, there's no better way to be sure of your strength than to be with the Lord. There's no better way for you to experience the moving of the power of the Holy Spirit, that to secure time for prayer. As we start off this experience of 40 days of prayer, I pray that indeed you may find a place at the heart of God, where every single day you will desire to be, listen from Him and experience His presence and you shall be revived. As we start off this day, the first day, that of May, the topic that we are looking at is revival of true goodness. I am Pastor Peter Nyaga right here from Nairobi Central Sd Church. And as we begin this program, I want to invite you that we seek the Lord in prayer together. Let's pray. Gracious Father in Heaven, we thank you for the privilege of prayer. And as we begin the journey 40 days praying, Lord we invite your presence. We pray that this will not be another program, but another experience with you, another moment with you, another renewing from you. Lord, we shall be more revived and more prepared for the soon coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we pray that my viewer will be blessed of you and that this moment of prayer shall be the experience they are yearning to have in the next 40 days is our prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. You see, as we begin, the topic being a revive of true goodness. Of course, this will have to take us to that beautiful quote from Selected Messages Book 1, Page 121. And allow me just to use my phone to read the very beautiful text here that comes from the pen of inspiration talking about the need to pray. A revive of true goodness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs. To seek this should be our first work. There must be honest efforts to obtain the blessing of the Lord. Not because God is not willing to bestow His blessings upon us, but because we are unprepared to receive it. Our heavenly Father is more willing to give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him that there are free parents to give good gifts to their children. But it is our work by confession, humiliation, repentance and honest prayer and underlying honest prayer to fulfill the conditions upon which God has promised to grant us His blessings. Now, the blessings of God according to this quote is as a result majority of how we conduct ourselves before Him, how we relate with Him, the confessions we make of our sins, how we humiliate ourselves before Him, how we work with a heart of repentance and how we seek the Lord in prayer honestly. And she ends this quote by saying, a revival need to be expectant only in answer to prayer. Now, what does this one mean? If you do not pray, then you don't expect revival. And if you pray, then you expect revival. No, imagine this way. From this quote I see, build prayer, build revival. More prayer, more revival. And as you get more revived, we get more reformed. You see, we are guided by the text of Psalms 85. If you come along with me, Psalms 85, we are going to read verse number 6, 7 and 8 as we take a moment to pray. The word of God says in Psalms 85 verse 6 through 8, Will Thou not revive us again? That Thy people may rejoice in Thee. Powerful question. Verse number 7, Shoe us Thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation. Verse 8, I will hear what God the Lord will speak, for He will speak peace, and few people, and to hear sins. But let them not turn again to foley. Now, this takes these few verses here. Verse number 6, Is a question, is a desire, is a prayer, Will Thou not revive us? The man of God David knew the place of revival in our salvation. There's no salvation that we will attain if we will not be revived. The vision being when sin came, we all sank into sin. We fell short of the glory of God, and salvation through Christ Jesus brings us back to God. And so because we have the privilege of the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, what we call sanctification every day, that is six to make us have a genuine walk with God as we being revived every day, being re-energized every day, being moved from one glory to another, getting more connected with the Lord, getting a desire to sit at the feet of Jesus every single day. This is what we are calling revival, a desire to stop certain ways of your life and desire to have virtues of life where you seek to fulfill the will of God. Now, the quote that we learned from Selected Messages, Book 1, intimate that, then this will not be possible until we shall seek the Lord in prayer. At this moment, this experience of 40 days of prayer is basically to give us an experience with the Lord. But I also know something about the power of prayer. I have experience in my life where never I pray something happens. I have hand testimonies of people of God sharing what happens when they pray. And I want to let you know that at times God orchestrates event in your life just to cause a blessing in your life. God brings issues and challenges and events and that image just reach out to you. And I can tell you for sure one of the things God has done this particular season is to bring about the experience of 40 days of prayer just to bless you, just to come close to you, just to draw you closer to him, just to give you high experience in this life. It is my prayer that as you seek him in these 4 days of prayer it shall not be a program but an experience with God. The first number 7 is to ask the mercy of the Lord and grant us salvation. We need the mercy of the Lord. We have just come from a difficult experience of COVID-19, 2 years of lockdown and economic turmoil. We are still recovering from that and many people have been affected and we are still struggling from every part of the world. We are faced with a war in Ukraine and Russia and we are not sure of what is going to happen tomorrow. It is a moment that we need the mercy of God and the man of God David says shoot us the mercy of the Lord and grant us salvation. Mercy God understands our language when we sit before him. It is when we are done on our knees in prayer that our hearts are connected with the heart of God and God seeks to understand our purposes in this life. Verse number 8 ends by saying I will hear what God, the Lord will speak. The moment of prayer is not just a moment of revival it is not just a moment of experiencing the mercy of the Lord but also is an experience is a moment for you to listen as God speaks. He says I will hear what God, the Lord will speak. So in this 4 days of prayer I am praying that you may have a moment every single day to hear from God and I will be here with you and for you that to allow you to listen to the Word of God. But I want to challenge you more in your own time, out of your own place take a moment with the Word of God and listen to what God has to speak to you because there are certain things you will speak to you in these 40 days that he has never spoken to you and listen to me and you are going to give a testimony there are things God is going to review in your life in this experience of 4 days of prayer that he has never done before because whenever God speaks to us he speaks good things to us he speaks new things to us he speaks hopes to us he speaks peace to us and he even says here I will hear what God, the Lord will speak for he will speak peace and his people and we sit as we pray in this very first day of the 4 days of prayer I pray that God may speak peace in your life see when God says peace be still if God speaks peace be still indeed there will be peace in your life at this moment I want to invite you as we pray that whatever challenge you are going through it could be economic situation in your life it could be marriage issues it could be your family issues your children or your parents it could be health challenges in your life whatever it could be I want to let you know that God is able and willing to speak peace in your life just listen to him and come before him in faith because he rewards those who come to him in faith who do you want as we start this 4 days of prayer to start it in faith believing that whatever we ask of him in Christ Jesus shall be granted and so wherever you are just pause and share something with God this moment just share something with God just look into your life and your heart and share something brief with God this is what I give to you today that you may take for me and give me strength give me peace give me hope give me salvation revive me and reform me let's pray together our gracious Father in Heaven thank you so much for the privilege of prayer that you have prepared for us 4 days experience like that of Jesus Christ when was in the wilderness after baptism 4 days Lord we thank you and I know for sure that this experience shall not be in vain after this experience it doesn't matter what kind of temptation shall come just like it was for Jesus we shall overcome in Christ Jesus Lord I take this moment to pray for sins whatever we may have done before you Lord we are men and women so weak yet we love you Lord I am praying for your grace to be sufficient I am praying for a cleansing that comes from you that you shall cleanse us and wash us clean from all man of unrighteousness and accept us Lord before you and for you the Lord whatever potential we shall bring to you these 4 days of prayer it shall be answered by you according to the riches in glory this first day of the 4 days of prayer I want to commit my dear viewer to you my father as we have seen from the text of David in the book of Psalms that you are seeking to revive us that we are here to receive your mercy but we are also here that we may listen and hear what you are saying and you are going to speak peace to us my father whatever challenge the struggles, tribulations conflict or whatever issues could be in in our lives I am praying and speaking peace in Jesus name Lord may you come and give your children peace may you give them understanding that doesn't matter what the experience is this moment it shall be well if Christ is invited in it and so Lord we begin with you we seek for truly an experience with you like that of Moses we seek for an experience with you that we shall say after we worked for this 40 days see what has happened of us because they know that is something unique you are preparing for my viewer that this 40 days of prayer shall not be just a program but a testimony because of what you are purpose to do just for them in this 4 days of prayer Lord I pray for myself that you shall revive me you shall reform me my father I need you this time more than another time I need you my father to guide me my understanding my steps and my desires that I shall be truly your servant and as I lean this church and I say as I reach out to many other people out here the Lord your blessing shall be upon me bless my fellow pastors Lord I pray for my colleague pastors of pastor Jacko Garrett pray for my pastor Tyro Stephen Lord together with their families as we join together in this 40 days of prayer I truly pray that you shall revive us and show us what you expect of us and that we shall have an experience with you even more than we have ever experienced before thank you Lord thank you for this experience thank you for this privilege we pray all these things in Jesus name amen amen thank you my dear viewer thank you for being part of this ministry I'm glad that you have a privilege and opportunity to watch this video I pray if it blesses you share with as many people as you can invite people to come for the experience of 40 days of prayer now as we join it on just choose 7 people think through and get 7 people that we shall be praying for in these experience of 40 days of prayer if you pray for them perhaps in the first 7 days you can choose to get another list of 7 however you can choose but let's see how many people we are able to pray for in this season of 40 days of prayer day 1, 3 or may 22 revive us revive us that we may be reformed according to God's word revival of true godness may God bless you bless me, bless us all let's meet tomorrow thank you