 My dear viewer, welcome again today to our 40 days of prayer and we are on the series Holy Spirit. Today is the 30th and we are looking at a reflection of Jesus character, a reflection of Jesus character. I want to invite you warmly at the feet of Jesus that we may share together the privilege of prayer. Before we get into the text, let's seek the rolling prayer. Our gracious for the heaven we thank you this moment for the privilege of fellowshiping together with you. It is not in vain anytime we have come before you in our prayer that I know that even today this moment shall not be in vain. We invite your presence to be with us in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you my dear viewer. We are glad and privileged to be joined in this show with my friend and pastor, my colleague pastor here in Nairobi Central Church. Pastor Stephen Tiropp who is happy to be with us today, to fellowship with us and join us in this prayer. Man of God Pastor Tiropp, how are you? I'm fine my dear pastor. Thank you for accepting to come and be part of this ministry today. Briefly, this is our prayer moment. I want maybe in one or two words or statement, how is your prayer life like? Prayer is opening the heart to God as to a friend. And I've realized that I don't need to actually fast or pray while kneeling. Even when walking, I can talk and my mind is connected with God. So that whatever bothers me, I can whisper a prayer spiritually to God through my mind. Wow. Very, very important. Prayer is just talking, the way we are talking, me and pastor here is how you need to be talking to God. It doesn't have to be in any form. Just anytime you feel to talk to the Lord, talk to him. Of course we have such programs like these ones which gives you specific moments to pray and all that. We are seeking that you may be revived in your prayer ministry, prayer time, that you may continue being encouraged through the prayer. Now today our thought is from the text of Galatians chapter 5 and verse number 22. And I will be bringing a pastor to briefly discuss with us on base, but let's just read this text. Galatians chapter 5 and verse number 22 and 23. If you are there with me, you can join me reading. The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, migness, temperance. Again as such, there is no law. Remember we are in the series of Holy Spirit. Yesterday we were looking at a connection, a connection that the Holy Spirit brings to us. Today we are looking at a reflection of Jesus' character. When the ministry, when the Holy Spirit is working in us, He also produces results. He leads us. He plant a seed that germinates and that bears fruit. And so the product of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is our discussion this morning. And actually when you look at the title for this message, a reflection of Jesus' character, it tells you the fruit, the product of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The product of the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives is to give us a character like that of Jesus. Because He is like Jesus. And so He produces in us a character like that of Jesus. But Pastor, I find here that man of God Paul talks about the fruit of the Spirit. What exactly is this fruit of the Spirit? Pastor, as you have put it, this is a result. It is a development. It is a stage. We have the plant. We have the seed. It grows. And as it grows, the process will give birth to a result of that procedure. That process where the fruit which can be eaten is seen. And so here it is the progress of regeneration. That we are entering into the character as God brings us into His very own nature. And so here the apostle is saying the fruit one of the Holy Spirit is love. But we may not understand and define love fully. Until He goes into defining and explaining every aspect of love. And so He talks of faithfulness. He talks of patience. He talks of longsuffering, gentleness, peace. These are characters, habits that reflect how we mature to be like Jesus. So God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit are in business of shaping up men and women who will reflect the Father above. So the three are in the business of regenerating and creating sons and daughters who look like the Father. I think this is a very important media viewer that the fruit that we are talking about here, the manifestation that we are seeing here of being gentle, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, peace, longsuffering, all this kind of attitudes, attributes, character cannot be actualized, cannot be realized in your life as a Christian until there is the working of the Holy Spirit in your life. By yourself, by your own self, you cannot produce this. This is not your fruit. There is no seed you can plant to harvest this one. It is only the seed of the Holy Spirit that can germinate and produce this. This is why Jesus said it is expedite that I may go so that He may come and when He will come, He shall lead you and convict you of seeing, of righteousness and of judgment. Righteousness is what is producing this. I said yesterday when we have been convicted of our sins, then there is a prompting to turn away from that sin. Now when you turn away from that sin, then you are redirected into the environment of righteousness. Now once you are in this environment of righteousness, then the Holy Spirit begins producing in you the meekness, the gentleness. All these attributes of this particular fruit. Once you have this in totality, then you actually have developed the character of Jesus. That's why today we are talking about a reflection of Jesus' character. It would be possible until we allow the Holy Spirit to work in us. Why don't you join us praying this moment for the moving of the Holy Spirit in our lives? Why don't you join us praying this moment that the Holy Spirit in our lives may produce this fruit, may produce a Christ-like character in us, that we will be the examples of what Christ is in this world. Pasta? Yes, I have just one passage which I would like us to think about. This is in 2 Peter chapter 1 and it goes on to verse 5. I want to read this and ask you to follow it in your own Bible and digest it because what Paul said, Peter said in other words and he says this, Simon Peter 7 and Apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence by which he has granted us to his precious and very great promises so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desires. It goes on to say you have to supplement faith with gentleness and you grow into all these characteristics, all these attributes of godliness because the divine nature is now part and parcel of the life of a believer. This is our prayer. This was your seeking as we pray here that we may reflect the nature of Christ, the divine nature, the character of Christ in our lives. Remember, we are praying for the many requests that have been posted by the world church and I want you to join us as we pray together with the world church. Number one, pray for God to develop in you as a person the fruit of the spirit, every aspect of it. Number two, pray that God would show you if there are specific areas in your life where you have resist and the spirit works. Number two, pray for forgiveness if you have grift the spirit because spirit can be grift. Pray for the thousands of ethnic groups around the world that make up 69% of us population that have not yet had a clear presentation of Jesus. Pray for new innovative ways to reach them. Pray for mission to the series in initiatives around the world including our sitting in Kenya and Nairobi examples of some especially project underway at Calcutta, India, Tokyo and Japan where our work faces major challenges. Pray for the teams who are working diligently in these locations. Pray for your community where you come from that they may truly embrace the world of God and be transformed by the world of God. Pray for revival within your family, revival within the church, revival within the communities that we are in and also we pray especially when you pray for the cities. Remember the country of Kenya, we are in the election season we are seeking the Lord also to intervene to give us the right people in leadership but more importantly peace because you can do without leaders but you can't do without peace. Join us in prayer prasta. Please take this time to commit this prayer concerns before the Lord in prayer. Shall we pray please join us eternal heavenly Father as the whole church is going through the season of 40 days of prayer. Lord Jesus will remember that before you engage in the ministry after your baptism you took 40 days in the wilderness to contemplate and meditate upon what you were going to have to do ahead of you. We too are aware the Lord you may not have been ready to give us three years just as you gave your son. We are praying that as we engage in the ministry heavenly Father for the time that we will be here the same results that came from praying from fasting may be experienced that the power of the Holy Spirit the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as it happened in the apostolic church may happen in our time and so heavenly Father we are praying that you may forgive us because at times we grieve the Holy Spirit by not cooperating that at times oh Lord we somehow are not ready to heed the advices the conviction of the Holy Spirit and so we pray oh Lord that you may forgive us may open the so many billions of people 39% who have not known 69% who have not known you Father we pray that you may feel us who have believed in the advent message who have believed in the Bible that Father we can witness for you we pray for the mission for the cities in Kolkoda here in Nairobi and in various cities the great cities of the world that Father you may move your main servant your main servant to witness for you with the outpouring the power of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and so Lord even here in Kenya we are praying that we may have peaceful electioneering and we may have leaders that you have chosen and whoever you will chose heavenly Father may we witness and experience peace and have time to witness for you bless us and guide us bless the viewer, bless the listener watch over him may we experience the fruit of the Holy Spirit in full in our entire being and be part of the nature and the kingdom of God thank you Lord for this message which you have given us continue impressing it upon our minds that you may understand and accept it and believe in it and experience it in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior we pray Amen Thank you for being part of this ministry we want to encourage you to keep on watching and following these programs if you have not subscribed to our channel please I just request you just click that red button there anytime we upon these programs or similar programs you should be not find and you should be part of this we also request you just to click the share button share with as many people as many people you have no idea who needs this message for such a time like this just share just share as many people as you can remember the seven member list if you have not prepared a list for seven people that you need to present before the Lord every day please come up with a list of just seven people that you are praying for every day as you join in this prayer we pray for miracles but remember today we are seeking to reflect the character of Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit God bless you tomorrow God be with you Amen