 Never too long. I've ever imagined that I've been on a journey. And it has taken some time. You aren't expected to be there on time, but it has taken some time while on the road. And some things have come to be on your mind. And you are asking, can I make it? Am I going to be there on time? Can I be able to be able to be in that venue at the right time, speak the right people and maybe deliver what I wanted to do? Sometimes I've asked myself, when I have taken time and I am there at that place, am I going to give them the best? Sometimes I just sit down and ask myself, when I've been called for a certain assignment, and I've been told, Edna, you're supposed to be here by this time. And our program is supposed to take such and such minutes. Am I able to beat that time? Am I able to sit there and be able to give those people whatever they need? Sometimes in this world we have worked and people have seen us. Sometimes we have even misrepresented the one who has called us. But today I want us to picture something about Jesus Christ. The journey we are in, the journey that we have taken and the one who has called us is just right here with us. But one thing that is supposed to ring in our mind, we have been told all over the years that Jesus is coming and we know for sure he is coming. But for us who have been waiting, it seems that God is taking too long. But I am here to remind you today it is not wrong, but God is coming back again. But just before then, there are things that we pass through. There are things that we pass in and there are channels that we need to go through. But it is not going to be too long for us as we wait for our Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. So this morning as we figure out about never too long in this journey but what are the things that I need to put on as a Christian as I wait for my Jesus Christ. Then one writer said this, that discouragement is dysfunction of the past, distrust of the present and distrust of the future. What am I saying? That when I am discouraged on this journey that I have dysfunction, dissatisfaction of the past. I am not satisfied of the things that I have been going through. But at the same time, I am not able to say that the things that I am passing through in the present world they can make a meaning. But what about the future? I have lost trust. I don't trust anything about the future. And the journey of a Christian who is going home it is all about the future. So if I lose trust of the future, am I able to get home? Because our ultimate goal for any Christian is going home. But just before then, I have lost trust with Jesus Christ. I have lost trust with the future that I am supposed to have trust that God is coming and as I pass through issues here and there that discouragement is not going to take any course in my life that I am going to see Christ and Christ alone. Therefore, discouragement is not a tool that can be able to lead us home. It is just a sale of brightness in gratitude of the blessings of yesterday than in difference of the opportunities that have been given unto us. Discouragement is insecurity of the things of today and even it has taken our strength of tomorrow. Meaning if I am on this journey and I have this discouragement anymore in my life am not going to make it for the future. Therefore friends, the journey might look tough. Things might look discouraging but never be discouraged. Hallelujah. Because you are going to lose you are going to feel insecure and lose the strength for what? For tomorrow. We need this strength for us to keep on. Therefore friends, do not allow discouragement to come into your life. Why? It causes you to be unaware of the presence of God. Discouragement. It causes you to feel that God is not here. You are unaware that God is ever present and we know that our God is always concerned of our needs as fellow human beings and he has given us promises. But when I get discouraged when I am on the road it gives me unbelieve of the promises of the word of God. Remember the word says do this but when I am discouraged we lose meaning. I say I am living in this world, why? Because I know the devil wants to put in me unbelieve and unbelieve is the greatest tool that can drive me away from Jesus Christ. Therefore friends, do not be discouraged. It is not going to be long. Soon we are going to be there. So do not be discouraged because this is one of the greatest tools of an enemy that is using to capture our minds to tell us that our God can never be able to do impossible things in our lives. But Hamia this morning tell you that our God is God of impossibilities. He delights doing the impossible things for the people to know that you can never limit God. But God can never be able to go an extra mile. Hallelujah. You can never be able to limit God and therefore and when God says He delights to do the impossible it is because He wants to open our eyes and we be ready to see that the promises of God are yes under man. They remain true. They will never be changed. Therefore friends we do not have hopeless situations in life. We do not have hopeless. Sometimes I walk around here people say I am hopeless. We do not have hopeless situations in life but people have grown hopeless. People have grown hopeless. And this morning we are going to see and go deeper into the word of God and see when I am discouraged but I have Jesus Christ what am I supposed to do. When I feel that I am hopeless and I have Jesus Christ what am I supposed to do. Because Him He can never change situations. Therefore do not feel discouraged. Hallelujah. See and look to Jesus Christ. Know that He is the author and finisher of your faith. He can order things in your life. He can rewrite your biography. He can be able to move the unmovable things. He can be able to move and run away the stones in life and he can be able to see our situations and speak to them powerful words of life. Hallelujah. Therefore I am inviting to the book of John chapter 5 one of my best someone that I love that God is speaking to us one on one. Chapter 5 I am going to read from verse 1 up to verse 8 so quickly for me there. Chapter 5 the book of John in the New Testament John is one of the beloved disciples of Jesus he is writing to us he is saying chapter 5 verse 1 after this there was a fist of the Jews and Jesus went up to Jerusalem now there is at Jerusalem by the ship market a pool which is called in the Hebrew Tang Bethesda having five porches verse 3 in this lay a great multitude of important fork of grind, halts withered waiting for the moving of the water verse 4 for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepeth into the inn was made whole of whatsoever disease he had and a certain man was there which had an infirmity thirty and eight years when Jesus saw him lie he knew that he had been now a long time in that case he said unto him will thou be made whole verse 7 the imported man answered I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool but while I am coming one stepeth down before me verse 8 Jesus said unto him rise take up thy bed in the ship market there was a pool that was named Bethesda my focus is on the Bethesda on the pool and what happened until Jesus comes in the word Bethesda means a house of grace a house of mercy and we see the pool in verse 2 verse 3 saying now there is in Jerusalem by the ship market a pool which is called the Hebrew Tang Bethesda having how many potchas five of them now look here my friends Bethesda means a house of mercy a house of grace there they lay people of different diseases a house of grace a house of mercy but there lay people of different word diseases I just want us to look into these words a house of what grace a house of mercy a house of a house that can give people a new beginning but in that house there lay people of different word diseases something struck my mind something struck my mind I know we are Christians going to heaven and when we come to the house of God where we expect to find mercy and grace in the same house of God we find people who are sick hallelujah we find people who have troubles people who are working in here those people have been without food people without a shelter people who have been going through troubles here and there I am told in that house in that house there lay people of different word diseases they lay there they were just sleeping and I am told in verse 4 that as they were sleeping in that place I am told from another commentary that they even made sure there was a shed that was made that when you come because people used to visit the place when you come to that place you can able to find a place to lie down never to be squashed by the want by the son they knew that the angel of God will come down to the pool and once he comes down to the pool he will trouble the waters then what happens that whosoever goes down to the pool the first one he behil of the diseases hallelujah whichever disease that you are ailing from but let me come back here the pool had 5 poches let me remind you friends the church of God has an entrance hallelujah the house of must must have and want an entrance the 5 poches it is the representation of the knowledge of the word of God hallelujah representation of the what of the word of God and that word of God is leading us the truth and the promises of Jesus Christ hello am I speaking to someone here that as people were coming to the house of grace they should be able to find a place by the way when you walk to Nairobi center as they church you know that is our entrance that is another one that is another one okay so when you come in you do not wander around looking for a place to get in you know that when I get I know where I am going to get into the word of God it is the only way it is the only poch the only tunnel that can be able to show us Jesus Christ when we talk about the must of God masses they don't just flow no it comes with a tunnel therefore the massi that was supposed to reach these people they had to get through the right channel hallelujah and let me remind you the channel that they were supposed to get second team of the chaplat river 16 second team of the chaplat river 16 am there someone there also to say amen chaplat river 16 it says all scripture hallelujah is given by inspiration of God and it is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction and instruction for righteousness hallelujah the only way you can get to the house mass of God the only way you can be able to get to the righteousness of God it is through the Bible and the Bible what so you do away with this word of God you will never get a place to the pool because the pool has a what a poch and the poch is the tunnel what is that tunnel the word of God and what about the word of God it shows us the knowledge and the promises of God hallelujah verse 17 says let me finish reading it verse 17 verse 17 says therefore sorry that the man of God may be perfect through thoroughly finished unto all good work hallelujah as people were coming to the pool of the cider they wanted to be classed they wanted to be healed and to be healed completely no one here visit the doctor my elder you can't visit the doctor and he says now elder go home you are somehow but you can manage no when you walk to a hospital you just want to walk out when you are what when you are thoroughly and completely want okay so as people were coming to the profession at the house of massy they wanted to be finished to be classed and to be forgiven as they have been given the word of God hallelujah my friends let me remind you this morning if you want to experience the massy and the grace of God the only sure way is the word of who the word of God it is saying it is for what for doctrine for reproof for rebuke and it trains a righteous man for what for what for the righteousness of God therefore as people were coming they were waiting that pull and that's why the massy is saying for the word of God is the lamb unto what and to my feet it is there to show me the way to do what to walk in that is some 119 verse 105 that word because in that one we can be able to connect with you with Jesus Christ are you sure one some people say they say that we are reading the spirit of prophecy and we are superior let me remind you today that the spirit of prophecy is a lesser light reading us to the greater right that Jesus has given us through the Bible hallelujah this one is the inspiration of the word of God himself so when we see the word we know that God is authoritatively talking to us what happened when they went in through the five churches I'm told any man who went down to the pool of the troubling of the water by the what by the sorry by the angel this man would be made made a hole let me remind you this that effect of troubling the water people are saying it is the troubling of the water but I'm here to tell you this when almighty almighty God is coming to our situations and because many of our situations are because of our sins it looks like a trouble hello why because our our attenders it is not connected to who to Jesus Christ so when the righteous God is coming to us it disturbs all the unrighteous things he cleanses them away and that one those people they used to say it is what troubling of the water but it was a divine disturbance divine operation that was meant to make unclean men clean for Jesus Christ hallelujah stepping into the water stepping into the water it is throwing the instruction in the knowledge of what God has given us through the word of God I already said that that the word God is there to give us what instruction so when I am when I am told but when you go to hospital you are told these drugs you can be able to take them 2 times 3 instruction you follow them 2 times 3 for 5 days so when I am following the instruction means that the word of God it is true and I have to follow the word the promises so these people as they were crumbling they were just going to the water they had been told that the only way you step into the water and you are given what a new life therefore this man this man verse 5 he is saying and a certain man was there which had an infamity 30 and 8 what years how many years are those how many years are those 40 minus 2 30 80 years somebody has been sick literally has been they are waiting for the troubling of the waters and when I am reading verse 6 and when Jesus saw him lie when Jesus came to the pool of Bethesda he found many people who were sick many people were sick but I am told he went directly to this man hello and when he saw Jesus when Jesus when he saw this man he knew this man had been here for a long time he knew that this man has been here for what for a long time how how for a long time and I was thinking in my mind how would Jesus come directly to the pool and say that this man has been here for a long time I am here to remain with these friends there is nothing in your life that escapes the eyes of Jesus Christ hallelujah he is able to see every little detail in your life and when he comes in he knows for how long you have been in that situation for how long and when he comes in he knows even the second and the minute and he knows that now this one you have been troubled enough and you have to be assisted to get out therefore when Jesus came in he is asking this man have you been here for a long time then when he saw this man he said unto him will thou be made whole will you be willing to be one to be made whole I know you have said here for a long time it is that eight years but are you ready to be what to be given a new life this is my question this morning many times we have been we have been complaining to Jesus Christ I am economically crippled Lord even you know my family is just coming down you know I have heartache here and there but sometimes you have been in a problem just in a few days in a few seconds and you are complaining and when Jesus comes he just comes directly to this man to this person who has been there for a long time and he says I know you have been here for a what long time friends nothing escapes the eyes and the ears of Jesus Christ is able to read into our work into our issues and when the man is asked oh my friends this is another one when the man was asked will thou be made whole are you willing that you be given a new life are you when Jesus was asking this question he not even tell this man do you want to be made whole no he ask this man are you willing to be made whole to be made whole and the silly answers that this man gives here sir I have no man did Jesus ask him of a man no he was not asking of anything the only question here is do you want to be whole then he saying you see Jesus I do not have a man who to do what troubled world but while I am coming someone passes over me Jesus did not need all this explanation the only question was do you want to be whole hello can I speak with the young people Jesus comes to your life and ask you so and so do you want a partner in life oh you see Jesus the other one I was talking to oh I do not know what happened she said I am not beautiful the question is do you want a partner in life yes or hello Jesus comes to your life and asks you elder do you want your children to be given this and that he ask us whether you have taken them for a diploma or a degree or a master's program what Jesus says are you willing are we there friends sometimes we give God excuses you see sometimes sometimes back I was talking to another lady somewhere she came to me pastor I have been praying for my daughter for six good years to get a job I am like six years okay and what about it but now you see I do not know what to do then in that meeting where I was we prayed for this girl then God answered our prayer that girl got a job somewhere then later when I went back my girl was considering for a good job then what happened then she is saying I have only one thing that she was asked to go to job on sabat what was our issue when we were praying God give this girl a job not on sabat then she is saying pastor no no no remember my girl has been asking for job for many years six years so no excuse she is going for that job until sometimes when she she has gotten enough money by the way when do we get enough money we want to give God excuses you see God comes to my life your house is on fire do you want your house to be okay then I say you see elder train pastanyaga came they prayed I do not know what happened they told to my no no no no explanation what Jesus wanted Jesus wanted that this man can be willfully be able to be given a new life in Jesus Christ let me go back to the science world the man was giving excuses but before we get over said Isaac Newton first law of motion I am not teaching v6 but anyway hear this he says everything continues in a state of rest unless it is compelled to change by forces impressed on it everything it is motionless it is on rest until a force has been applied on what on that object meaning that in our Christian work everything is stagnant everything is not moving until the word of God comes to effect our ways hello see v8 is saying Jesus said after hearing those excuses Jesus said unto him rise take up your word your band and do what and walk and immediately the man was made whole hallelujah Isaac Newton is saying that everything is in a rest state everything is motionless a force a push a force a change is given to it by a force meaning this force I am talking here I am borrowing words from Isaac Newton this force that must be affected on the object who is me it is the word of God hallelujah when the word of God goes forth a change must begin automatically hallelujah 40 years it might take 100 years but when the word of God comes forth there must be a change hello don't mind for how long you have been without children don't mind for how long you have been without a job do not mind for how long you have not been able to get a husband no when the word of God says it is time it will be a change we mean the book of Hebrews see what the word of God says the word of God says chapter 4 verse 12 Hebrews 4 verse 12 it says for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and to the joints maru and is a designer of the thoughts and the intents of the heart hallelujah that word powerful when it gets to me it descends it cuts even to the word to the bond maru the word of God can make a change if you like it in your life that word the word of God what does it do remember in the book of Genesis in the beginning there was heaven and earth and the earth was formless was void and the spirit of God was just hovering on the earth but in verse 3 when you read it says and God said let there be light and what happened the word of God is powerful and when it gets into us it takes us out of the prison of hopelessness hallelujah it doesn't matter how long you have been in that trouble but the word of God is a window to anyone who is willing to open for it and when it gets to your heart ho ho my friends it takes you away from the prison of what hopelessness it gives you a new look to Jesus Christ see this man Jesus said to this man rise and take up your work your bed and do work and walk and immediately and it just walked away hallelujah what happens what happens when the word of God it is in our life it increases our faith hallelujah it increases our faith and faith is just believing of something that are unseen therefore when my faith is increased it also give me strength to withhold on to the promises of Jesus Christ therefore my favorite writer this in the book our high calling page 119 sister white says faith is not a happy flight a happy feeling it is simply taking God at his word hallelujah believing that he will fulfill his promises because he said he would do that hallelujah meaning you are not going to help God fulfill his promises so long as he promised he will do it hallelujah so even if I have been sick for 40 years and I know God has said call unto me and I will answer and I will give you a new life it will never be too long for me Jesus himself will do what will come down and answer that because he has said it in another book called decide of ages 166 paragraph 3 she says the man's faith this man's faith took hold of the word and every nerve and muscle thril in a new life hallelujah and there was a helpful action that came into the crippled limbs of this man hear this without question he set his will on the will of God hallelujah without question he set his will to obey the command of Christ and his muscles responded to the will of God hallelujah I love that that when I just obey the command of God if God comes to my life and says this one is not good this one is supposed to be done and I move without questioning he says that even my muscles will be able to be thrilled and the moment I respond to the will of God everything becomes new I love that and I love the way God does his things this man believed God's word and in action he was able to move and he received strength how many years by the way how many years this man was was important 38 years 38 years and when God came to him without being made without being made whole and the moment he was told rise up and take your word your mat and go the moment he he was able to obey that command that time his muscles responded I love the way sister White he says that the angle bonds were able to connect and there was life and he felt that now I can able to stand somebody was not able to stand for a long time he was able to stand and in the same faith you can receive your spiritual blessings your physical healing by taking the word of God the way it is hallelujah the same way you can be given blessings you do not need complain that God you have shut your doors from answering me God can answer our prayers anytime anywhere and is able to do what to come down to our issues let me remind you my friends let's those who are despondent those who are struggling look up in faith hallelujah those who are struggling in whichever situation that you are in it will never take long for Jesus Christ why he says the savior is bending down hallelujah I love that statement that as I in my despondent moment in my struggling moment as I look to Jesus in faith he is just looking down he has bent not even looking down he is bending over for the purchase of his blood is on course hallelujah and the moment he has bent to look at me the only thing Jesus can able to say in tenaness in piti he says will thou be made whole are you willing to be given a word a new life he means us rice and take up your mouth and in the same spirit when you look back I said it is this state of the word of the past when you look at the past it is just the other day just the other day just the other day why because God is concerned do not despair for God is the answer hallelujah do not be hopeless because we have hope in Jesus Christ hallelujah there is hope in where in Jesus Christ he has promised and is saying that for those who hope in the Lord hallelujah your strength will be renewed hallelujah you will be able to see that I have wasted my 40 years I have wasted my 20 years looking for a job I have wasted my 20 years in a marriage that is not working but I will remind you this God is able to renew your strength hallelujah and you will be so higher as an ego he will give you strength that you will be able to run and never grow weary why we have a powerful God who has promised those beautiful promises in this word hallelujah cling to this word and all your infamities will be given a way out therefore sister why she says in the book of prophets and kings page 266 when in faith hallelujah when in faith we take hold of his strength he will change what will he do about the change and wonderfully change the most hopeless and discouraging outlook in our life hallelujah when this man was sleeping there at the pulup at the side he was hopeless he did not have a way to be able to believe on he did not know what to do and that's why when Jesus is coming will you be made whole it's like you see Jesus no no no when you look unto Jesus take hold of his strength he will wonderfully change and give you the most hopeful situation in your life therefore friends this life can able to throw you many infamities there are so many people suffering in this church and we are looking to Jesus as an answer over our issues but the only thing I can able to tell you do not be discouraged do not tell Jesus excuses do not give him anything but do this just take hold of him and take hold of his strength and he will wonderfully change your world just situations therefore poor life on earth may bring a suffering and pain and disappointments we look forward with hope to a time when all will be made new and right before the eyes of Jesus Christ hallelujah do we have somebody in the congregation who is saying I have been struggling in my infamities I do not know which infamity you are struggling with but you are saying Jesus I would want you to make me whole and I don't want to give an excuse I don't want to tell you on how to do it I don't want to ask of anything but one thing I am asking that God may you heal me of all the infamities take them away because I think it has been long but I know you know and now you are going to change everything is there somebody in the midst who is saying that God changed my infamities and make sure that you are going to give me a new life in Jesus Christ let me see I know people are struggling in this church we have different infamities but God is speaking unto us and is telling us he will wonderfully do what change and before these kids come to sing I am going to pray but ask yourself am I given Christ time am I able to obey and if that is what you are saying just raise up your hand eternal God these hands are just saying that God I have been in this church for a long time but one thing I know you know and you understand now come to our issue and change them and do it according to your will and make us to be subjects that are going to be able to glorify your name because God you have given us power and grace to be able to hold on to this world that you have given unto us let this world speak to us change us and give us new life in Jesus Christ for we pray and trust in Jesus name may God bless you