 We've been with us through this entire week from the minute we started this week of prayer until now, you have taken care of all our worldly cares until this point, we are not worthy to be here but you've called us your children and you've asked us that we come to you in prayer. Lord I pray that even as we start this Sabbath service, this family life week of prayer service that you may be with us, speak to us at our points of need, open our hearts that we may be able to receive from you. I pray that everyone who is intending to join you may remove every obstacle that may prevent them from joining. For those who are trying to make their way to the sanctuary, Lord I pray that you may clear the roads for them. Be with us now and forevermore in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. We're going to start our service with a few songs starting with 501, taste the blessed hour of prayer. How sweet to be there in prayer with our saviour. We're going to sing 545, 545, saviour like a shepherd. Good evening everyone, it is yet another beautiful day that we have had. We have come again this evening to this sanctuary in order to worship our God. This is the last day of our family ministry's week of prayer and we really praise the Lord for having been with us, for the guidance, the blessings that He has showed upon us and the messages that we have received from His servant have truly blessed us. So I want to take this opportunity now to welcome you, all of you to today's session, this evening session. And I appreciate the services that have been rendered by our communication team to enable us transmit this message to all those who are watching from home, watching from across the globe, wherever you are, I take this opportunity to welcome you to this evening service family ministry's week of prayer. I also want to thank all those who are participating this evening and we have those who are going to lead us this evening. This evening is Sister Dorcasodipo who will be giving us scripture reading. We also have Sister Doris Marambi who is going to also take us through this special session on mango juice recipe. And the rest of the team we have Brother Zak Moenga who is leading us at the piano and also Sister Lillian Soy and Brother Ouko Odira. And also with us in a special way is our pastor who will be delivering the message for today. I want to thank you, servant of God, for preparing along the spirit of God to use you so that you can deliver the message. Pastor Jeremy Marambi is our special guest, has been a special guest for this week and this evening again is going to deliver his message to us. So I want to thank all of you and I pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly. Remain tuned those who are watching us from home and those who are watching from various destinations, various places this evening. Remain tuned and be blessed as we worship the Lord and as we receive his message from his servant. May the Lord truly bless you. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much. Our scripture reading this evening is from the book of first Corinthians, second Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11. Second Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11 and I'm reading. Lest Satan should take advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices. I'll repeat. Lest Satan should take advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices. May God bless the reading. I invite you now to session of prayer and may we humbly bow down for our prayer. O mighty God, we thank you and we praise you this hour. We humble ourselves before you and we thank you for the care that you've had over us since morning after this hour. Lord you have been gracious and we pray you continue sharing your blessings upon us. Lord we thank you for the gift of life. We thank you for the guidance that you have given us and the protection that has been ours. We thank you for the spirit that has been with us, guiding us and teaching us to know you and to appreciate you as our God. O Lord continue to be with us, continue to guide us. This evening we pray, committing each and every one of us unto your hands. There are those of us who are watching from home. There are those who are watching in their places of work. There are those who are watching as they travel. Lord we give you thanks for this technology that we may be able to reach everyone wherever they are. Those who have gathered also in the sanctuary, I commit them all unto your hands. That Lord your spirit may minister unto us so that as your servant stands here to present the message, may you touch our hearts so that we may receive this message and that it may touch us. It may transform us and may change us and draw us closer to you. This hour Lord I pray in a special way, committing your servant, pass some rambia unto your hands. That you may touch him, that you may touch his brain cells, give him the message that comes from above. So that Lord our seed delivers, may it use speaking through him. Lord we humble ourselves before you, as we listen to you speaking through your servant. May your spirit guide us and lead us in our thoughts, in our actions and in everything. So that Lord at the end of it all we look back and say yes Lord this fire you have brought us. We thank you Lord and we give you glory, we give you honour. We even thank you for all the blessings of resources that we have and as we share part of it this evening in terms of offerings in order to support your work we pray that you may bless us, bless the givers and bless the offering. We give you thanks O Lord, we give you glory and we give you honour. We will be done in all this for it is our humble prayer in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. We're going to sing our theme song for this week, The Family of God. The lyrics will be displayed on the screen for those who are joining us, for those who are in the sanctuary and may have the program it's at the back and that requests us to rise as we sing the theme song for this week, The Family of God. Shall we rise? This we say brother and sister around here. It's because we're a family and these folds are so near. When wash at the tears and rejoice in each victory in this family so dear. That is because I guess you know the reason it is Friday. It doesn't matter how my day was. I don't have to think about it today and thank God. I don't have to think about it even tomorrow. Somebody is approaching and we are happy to be in the house of the Lord. We can forget all the many things that we've been doing throughout the day and in the course of this week. Welcome and together let's enjoy the blessings that the Lord has in store for us as we climax a very important week. I hope you've been following and if you haven't you have a chance to go back and see what has transpired. In this special segment we have been talking about the mango juice recipe and as usual we want to do a little anthem before we proceed. Are you ready? Good. We whisper a prayer. Father we know we cannot pray enough. We're here to thank you once again for taking care of us in the five days that have passed and today the sixth day you've made it possible for us to meet here again. You've watched over us in our different endeavors. Even as we study one more time this mango juice recipe your creation O Lord give us understanding. Use me the speaker and my dear listener and viewer wherever they are so that this evening one more time give us profound lessons from this simple mango juice recipe in Jesus name we pray. Amen. I don't know if you remember yesterday's title. We said oops there is only one mango. Oops there is only one mango and yesterday if you remember in case you want with us you may want to go back and find out why was it oops and what was this one mango about. Today we want to talk about another title which says oh my the mangoes are spoiled. Yes when mangoes are spoiled there will be a problem with the juice making process that you can imagine it will affect not only the quality but also the quantity of the juice and what spoils the mangoes. I think that's a question you want to answer this evening. What do we really mean by mangoes being spoiled and I think by now we know what we've been talking about. So just like literal mangoes these ones here these mangoes these are small ones these are big ones just like these literal mangoes can have problems from within or without so is the case with the literary with the analogical mango we've been talking about. I hope you remember that in this video we are going to talk about remember that in this recipe we had the first mango the husband we had the second mango the wife and we had the small mangoes who are the children. So let us begin from what we know so that we can now come to the analogical or the literary mango juice recipe. We will start with the ones we know here. You buy such mangoes when they are just good from the market there is a possibility that they may get spoiled or they may be spoiled there is a issue of getting spoiled or being spoiled. So what are these possibilities and today in our analogy we are going to discuss two possibilities. This mango is getting spoiled we are going to look at two factors that can lead our mangoes to be spoiled and what it means to our families. So in the first case it is external factors external factors can spoil our mangoes. For instance if you went and bought them and maybe you bought not only mangoes but you also bought potatoes and cabbage and everything then you carry them in a manner that is not very good. By the time you get home you may not like your mangoes true or false and yet they were fine when you bought them. So that is the first one. And just in the same way that we have external factors which can destroy our mangoes like maybe how we handle them, how we carry them, how we store them in the same way in this mango juice recipe which refers to our families things can go wrong and these things are external. Which are these external factors they include? Things like sickness. Sickness can spoil our juice. Joblessness. Our in-laws. And all the other things you can imagine. Believement. When we are believed. Childlessness. There are so many factors we cannot list all of them now. So these have a way of pressing on the mangoes. They have a way of pressing on the husband, on the mother, on the children. But here this. This is the nice twist to this story. And we will go back to the mango, the literal mango we know about. What happens you want to make the best juice? Which mangoes do you use? When you want to make the best of juice do you get it with those nice farm sort of greenish mangoes? In fact when you go to the market you want to buy you tell the vendor you want to buy mangoes for juice which one are they likely to give you? Those ones which are seemingly going to the other side, right? Yes. So these are the mangoes which we are comparing to our families. And so there is also a good side to these external factors. So it is in the family and life. Those who have suffered these external factors and handled them well they emerge better juices, better families if they manage to handle them well. Compared to those who have never experienced a common enemy maybe as a family you've never experienced hunger. You've never experienced what is it? Joblessness. You've never had a course where you must turn together. You know what it means really to love one another. So troubles are not bad at all. This point mangoes have a good side. In handship we learn to become more understanding. We become more selfless, more for bearing, more loving. And when the handship is over we are even stronger and more united as a family. So we should not be very sad when we feel like these mangoes have been pressed, smoothed a little, defaced, looking like they are losing their shape and their color. No, they make the best juice. So what can we do now? Because even when we go to buy in the market like I've said you don't want to put the cabbage on top of them. There is a way you want to carry them so that they are okay. So how about in our families, what are we going to do? What can we do about these external factors? I want to remind you that external factors are somewhat uncontrollable and foreseeable. There may not be much you can do. How could you imagine that the mother of the man you love could hate you so much? And you're not going to separate with this man because the mother you don't agree. No, what are we going to do with external factors? A disease which you never imagined it has come to the family. What are you going to do? What you can do is ensure preparedness. Let's know these things happen. Let's seek help from all legitimate places. If we suffer some external factors that can be helped by somebody, maybe a counselor, let's seek help. And lastly, we want to ask God for wisdom, fortitude and everything else we need to sail through that particular storm. That's the first factor. I want to go to the second factor now. So if the first one was external, as you can imagine and I think you're following, then you know where I'm going. The second one is internal factors. Our mangos are going to be spoiled from what you're going to call internal factors. And once again, I want to use the mangos we can see here. And you know what? These mangos, without any external force, without anybody mishandling them, they may be having a problem and maybe we can't see or we can't see. Here is one. From there, you may feel we have a good mango ready for juice. And I want to try and see whether indeed we can make juice out of this one. Okay? Yeah, because we said this is our demonstration. Let's see. We want to make juice with this mango and we are ready for some juice. We are ready for some juice. Oh my. This one is spoiled. Do we have juice from here? Would you like this juice? Okay. Let's say maybe the problem is with big mangos, okay? So that's not good. Let's try the small one. Maybe there is hope here for some juice, okay? Let's do some juice with this one. Do you think we have juice from this one either? And it's a small mango. It's not even a big one. All mangos have a problem. Whether they are small, whether they are big, mangos can have internal factors. And they didn't look like so. And the same with our families. Our families may look fine. But only God knows what stays inside. Maybe they are not good for juice. What do I want to say this evening? There may be visible or invisible problems that emanate from within in our families. These mangos which were spoiled, the problem is right from the seed. And the same with our families. Our problems are right within us in our hearts. We may be ignorant. Maybe we don't know we have a problem. We may be self-deluded, you know, disillusionment where we refuse to believe or even maybe denial. But these problems are real. And what are we going to do about them now? What are we going to do? Because if for physical one we can preparedness is going to help us, counselors are going to help us, what about for internal problems? I want to end by saying only God can deal with our internal problems. Only God can deal with our internal problems. The problems that are going to make us not to have the best of juice, the juice we intended. And if only God can help us now, what are we going to do? Our only insulation, our only insulation, or I don't know what they call it, inoculation, safety, insurance against the worms that are destroying our mangoes is through prayer and the word of God. What did I say? Prayer and the word of God. Prayer and the word of God. No amount of preparedness, no amount of counseling, no amount of all these other factors are going to save us. Internal prayers only the Lord can deal with them. And you can only invite the Lord to deal with internal prayers. Internal factors rather through prayers and through the word of God. It is on that note I wish to take the pleasure of inviting the speaker, my daily prayer partner and Bible study member so that he tells us more about this important topic. Welcome. Thank you my love for reminding me every day to pray with you and when I forget you call me back and we do pray and when we do pray the Lord blesses us and our children. It is a privilege to serve you this week and without God that our week has come to an end. Today is Friday and the Sabbath is about to begin. Praise be to God because all the struggles have come to an end by the grace of God. Hallelujah. I just want to appreciate each one of you, our viewers those who come to church here and those who are from other countries following us from Nairobi Central in our Facebook and our other channels given to us by communication department. May the Lord bless you as you keep following as we have been talking about the enemy inside your family. You have seen in the fruit they look good from outside but from within there is a real problem. Who can take care of this problem that is what we are going to address today to give every family a hope to give every child the hope that comes from the Lord. Yesterday we received some questions from different people I assume and before we begin allow me to answer these three questions which are very pertinent and the persons who ask them we want to thank you in a very very special way and we take them very seriously as we answer we may not have every answer but we believe the Lord may give you all the full answers that you may want to hear and the first question is my husband divorced me because I have no children I have been single for five years what do I do he has another wife though they are though we were married officially that's the first question the second question is sarogase artificial examination and IVF wrong the third question can two divorces be chosen to serve as church elders after remaring these are the three questions very important we will begin with the first one and before we answer let's pray our father in heaven we just want to thank you because you have been faithful we have been here every day and you have spoken on our behalf you are blessed your children across the globe and above all Lord honor and glory be subscribed to you bless us today Lord in Jesus name we pray amen the first question has two areas the first one the person recognizes that she was married and they divorced number two she recognizes she didn't have children and as a result of that that what caused the divorce and now she is asking what should I do in other ones she is asking the preacher should I go ahead and marry I think that is what she is asking to be precise to the question and the person who is asking and the second part of the question is we are married and he has gone ahead my husband and married another wife though we are married officially we have never processed divorce that is what I am getting from this question and since all those comes into play I will go direct to answer you without much and rule and I will remind you of what we call marriage and divorce marriage and divorce from the biblical perspective the first one I would want to read from the scripture and then we hear what this question can bring on board to us when I was trying to check on my bible I realized that divorce is not permissible by God as from the beginning but he allows divorce on circumstantial reasons if there is no reason to divorce then there is no to have no child does not qualify someone divorce another person and as I was reading from Deutronomy 22 verses 13 through 19 you can read well you are at home when I was reading Matthew chapter 19 verses 8 when I was reading Deutronomy 29 verses 9 I read also Numbers 39 the bible allows divorce only on circumstantial reasons and that is when you are spouse as committed under tare or on other circumstantial reasons when there is physical violence in the family or through sustained physical violence those are the two that I found can allow you now to marry but having no child what you need to do is like what the man of God named Isaac when the wife didn't have a child he prayed to the Lord and the Lord hand his prayers and granted him his request and the wife conceived but in this case orender there is orender divorce and for 5 years they have not been living together now my sister what I want is that still the Lord loves you but the next question you are asking me what should I do what should I do number one I will try to remind you what you can do in Genesis 25 verses 1 we are told Abraham is a prime example of the Old Testament understanding that when the wife died you can go ahead and marry so the only time you can marry is when your husband or your wife has died you can go ahead and marry but for your case you can also go ahead and marry because your husband has already gone out he is already married he has another person but my my summary to you is follow the permissions and the provisions of the Lord number one follow the church procedures pray for the Lord to give you a man who will love you and if possible look for another person who has been divorced and if not possible for someone who is ready to enter into relationship with you though you are not married you are divorced and that is found in first Corinthians 7 verses 1 through 8 you can read you will get all those answers within that context that's what I could say go ahead and marry and another one go ahead and process divorce even if it has not taken place according to your question and the Bible gives room for when and how people can do and divorce and have rendered some of those texts if you go then you can read in Deutronomy 24 verses 1 and 4 where it talks about the context in which divorce can be done in the only testament concept and the Lord I believe will be with you I may not answer everything now but I believe we can keep on engaging you have my contact we have the contact of the church you can keep asking if you are not justifying and the Lord will give you grace the second question is is sarogasi artificial insemination and I believe wrong I will say if this is question the Lord give us technology and the technology is there to stay and the technology is there to help us and in the book of Daniel 12 verse 4 says God let's read this verse then I can try to put this question in context that is in Daniel 12 verses 4 most of us we love reading the book of Daniel in terms and context of prophecy but there are other things that are found in the book of Daniel please walk with me in chapter 12 verses 4 the Bible says but you Daniel shut up the once and see the book until the time of the end many shall run to and through and knowledge shall increase I want to talk about knowledge will increase that all these are available today for people who are looking to have for one to have children and they don't have children but what I will tell you that sarogasi is not biblical acceptable as from God's point of view but artificial insemination is possible if only insemination is taken from you and your husband because that is what is permissive and allowed by God because he said one shall join another one there will be one and now if it is from your husband and then you it's put in you and you cut it I know of one I know of someone who did this one and she was given a totobendress and the Lord blessed them with the children and it was from within the husband and the wife that one is acceptable from that point of view but the issue of sarogasi someone else carrying on your behalf that one then is not what the Bible ideal situation is although this is coming as a result of sin if only you know yourself and you can carry that semen in you and for 90 months the Lord blesses you like this one the Lord bless them with three children and the children are now there after suffering for many years looking for children and children and the fitas were dying after 60 70 months but now by this process the Lord bless them with three children but it was done between the husband and the wife that's what I could leave you with number two the question number three can two divorces be chosen to serve as judge elders after remaring I may not fully understand the context of the question but I will try to understand the mind of my friend who is asking this question number one already we have seen the circumstances in which divorce can be accepted and if these persons went ahead divorce and they followed all the rules the Bible has laid down and they have come back to church and they remarried and followed the church procedures as God has directed us I don't see any reason why they should not serve in the church but I will begin by saying if they were guided by their last and by their passion to divorce with reasons not what is mentioned in the Bible physical violence and adultery then they have to ask God for forgiveness and the Lord will be with them my dear fewer and those who have asked I got something I want to read to you on divorce and I believe this can help someone I found this information from one other by the name Neil T. Anderson in his book written 2000 and 2011 or so we will check the book is with me I can share with someone now the details when I finish he has spoken of the things that happens rejection and unworthiness but there is a message I found in this book written by a divorcee and this is what he said and I want to encourage the person who ask this question this sister and these sisters who have asked this question and this what this message says is a special prayer for special needs this is Lord I confess to you any part that I played in my divorce I ask you Lord and thank you for your forgiveness to forgive myself as well I renounce the lie that my identity is now in being divorced I am a child of God I reject the lie that I say I am a second class class Christian because of the divorce I reject the lie that I say I am worthless unlovable and that my life is empty and meaningless I am complete in Christ who loves me and accept me just as I am Lord I commit the healing of whole hearts in my life to you as I have chosen to forgive those who have hurt me I also place my future into your hands I trust you to provide your companionship you created me to need through your church and if it be your will through another spouse I pray all this in the healing name of Jesus my savior Lord closest friend amen that is a prayer dedicated to you my sister that this is your prayer I will try to post it and the Lord will bless you mightly where we are in in antiquity of answering your question may the Lord help you and fill them up now allow me we go back to our topic today the enemy inside your family we have seen the fruits before us the analogy of mango we have seen from outside the mango looks very presentable very nice to make juice and as a result of that when we have tried to slice them into pieces there is a problem from within but from without you don't see a problem there are many families suffering when we come to church or we go to public gathering we put an image that is not the true image of who we are because we want to reflect a good image outside the society inside us we are dying inside us we are crying inside us we are crying and that is the reason why we started to use this analogy which may help someone to appreciate but still the Lord loves all those regardless of any problem that they may undergo and now looking at the external factors as we have discussed them allow me to take you to 2 Corinthians 2 verses 11 the bible our manual to open my mouth as I proceed now to expound what we have the enemy from within 2 Corinthians 2 verses 2 through verses 11 and I want to thank my love for that good analogy she has been giving us every day may the Lord bless her less certain would take an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of these devices less certain would take an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of these devices or schemes we know the schemes of the devil divorce in our family is a scheme of the devil and the devil would want to destroy all the families but for those who have been gone that still the Lord loves you and the Lord takes care of you and this is what you want to do we don't want to be ignorant of the devices of the Satan the schemes of the devil how he want to destroy the families he began from the Garden of Eden in chapter 3 of Genesis chapter 3 let's go back to our manual because we said our manual the presentation this week was built on chapter 1 chapter 2 chapter 3 and today we are coming to conclusion of chapter 3 let's read chapter 3 and see what is happening here as we enter into the real business chapter 3 verses 1 the last part of verses 1 but I will read the whole verse now this happened konnten Wweich the Lord God veggies owned he sinned to the woman as God indaid sinned he dzyt h western S tempo Maybe if.. we took the question through and believe it but it just verify, but the society hat big problem and the cruel term which is to say is to say we need your spirit which is what built up what is what you have toton i think about stories about인데 you die, then this happens sent to the woman you will not surely die, that was the beginning of the enemy entering into the house of handram through the wife and the devil succeeded on this and this what happens in most families, the devil will try to cast doubt in our minds. We will try to change the norms that we know and the practices that we have known for many years by creating a situation in our lives. By creating something that is not there and trying to answer that question. She found herself into trouble. The second problem after the husband when she went to the husband I want you to see again when she went to the husband and she appeared to the husband what happened the Bible says so when the woman saw that this was good she carried it and she went to the husband and this what the Bible says so when the woman saw that the tree was good for food Was it not good before? I believe it was good. But what is happening here, or any doubt has started coming to our mind, and part two, and that it was pleasant to the eyes. Was it pleasant to the eyes? The Bible tells me, yes, in the beginning as we have been reading, number three from verses five. And then, and number three, what is happening here, she is trying to create a doubt here verse five, create a doubt here in our own eyes. And then she says, it the three here, what is and a trend is arabo to make one wise, were they wise even before this? Of course, yes. But now it's like now she says, ah, we were foolish, but now you are wise. And then she took of it fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband, with her, and he ate. Why did handram eat this one? Because he wanted to show love to the wife, but was handram able to say, no, I believe yes. If we consider all the external factors that can come to your family, these are, we are starting to see where the problem is coming from. And now that's why I'm coming to say that the enemy inside your family is not the fruit. The enemy inside your family is not your wife. The enemy inside your home is not your husband. The enemy inside your home is not your children. It is not the devil himself, but it is the scene that came into the presence of the family. And the scene here is the one that has brought the enmity between ourselves and between God. That's why our families will struggle until Jesus comes, but the assurance is in our struggles, let us keep working with the Lord day by day and the Lord will not forsake us. Hallelujah. The devil is working hard to replace the goodness of God with bad things. And that's why he started in the Garden of Eden. He want to destroy the oneness. That's another enemy I want to talk about. The oneness of this family is now introducing something we call homosexuality and lesbianism. Where men want to have this with other men and women with other women. But God created the tool to have that companionship that carries every concept and aspect of their life. But now the devil comes to introduce another enemy in our families and the enemy in terms of homosexuality. We have people who are prone to this problem and they are struggling. They want to come out of the problem. Some of them they have confessed and they want the Lord to help them. We have lesbians in this one and they are crying. They want God's help. Even some attend churches wherever they go, but they are lesbians. They are homosexuals. Yes, it is true. And as a result of this, they believe that is part and lifestyle of what God said. But from the reading of the scripture, God created man and a woman to feed one another, but not a man for a man and a woman to a woman. He created them to have that good life. But they are those who have overcome these problems by God's grace. Yes, the devil, we know the schemes of the devil. He has introduced this problem, but the Lord is helping them to overcome this problem. Hallelujah. And as I was reading, I have another letter from here. And it's good to read it for other people to appreciate what the Lord can do to someone who is suffering from homosexuals. If there is anyone struggling with this problem, to know that you are not alone, there are others who have suffered the same, but the Lord is faithful. Here is a letter from someone who was an homosexual and this is what he writes. He says, Lord, I renounce the lie that you have created me or anyone else to be homosexual. And I agree that in your world, you clearly forbid homosexual behavior. I choose to accept myself as a child of God. I thank you that you created me as a man. I renounce all homosexual thoughts, hajiz, drives, haks and cancel out all ways that certain as used these things to provide my relationship. I renounce that I am free in Jesus to relocate to the opposite, to relate with opposite sex and my own sex in the way that you intended in Jesus name. Hallelujah. Someone was an homosexual. He is confessing he was in this trap and now he has come openly to say what the Lord has done to him. Number one he says, I have lived a lie for many days. I believe that I was created to be homosexual and others were created to be so. But I have come to learn that homosexuality is not accepted and the Lord has not allowed it. And this person had gone outside the permission of God to practice homosexuality but when he came to his senses he came back to God God listened to him and he is confessing himself and he say now I want the devil to know that from today I have no relationship with him. I pray for those people who have the same problem. Take courage free yourself in the name of Jesus. Relate well with the people of opposite sex and God will give you assurance of life and your name will be written in the book of heaven. This is another enemy penetrating in our homes. Our children might be having this kind of a problem. Even parents they may have the same problems but the Lord is faithful. The Lord is faithful. He want us to be with him forever and ever. This is another letter which when I read I said it's possible that to share with ourselves to appreciate what the Lord is doing and what the Lord is planning to do for us in this life. The devil also brought separation and destroyed that perfect relationship as we said. Spiritual problems that have happened. That's why we see divorce is a spiritual problem. Homosexuality is a spiritual problem and the devil want us to dwell in the past and forget what the Lord has done. I love one how the my best order who said unless we don't need to fear the future unless we forget what the Lord has done for us in the past. The Lord has done great things for you. The Lord has done something for homosexuals that he want you to be delivered today in the name of Jesus. The Lord want all the lesbians who might be listening and hearing what the Lord is saying he is there to deliver you tonight so that you may have that relationship with him and restore your perfect love for him once more. The purpose of Satan is that he takes out the generation of holy seed outside the generation of God and make them an only seed. The seed that will not represent the character of God that is why he is working very hard to replace even the institution of marriage and to introduce other things that are not good for this humanity. Allow me to remind you another scene that entered in this wound we looked at the scene of killing brother that is killing them brother there is another scene that was introduced immediately after chapter 3, chapter 4 verses 19 I want to read for you chapter 4 of Genesis you hear the enemy of our families is this another problem here we are reading of a man called Lamek I want to read chapter 4 verses 19 this is what the one was saying then Lamek took for himself two wives the name of one was Anda and the name of the second was Sila people may say that I can have another wife the Lord created man to have one wife and the husband to have one the husband to have to have one wife that is what the Bible says it is clear from the biblical perspective you love God and you listen to the voice of God but now look here by the name of Lamek he introduces polygamy to be an enemy of God's family and that's why we have problems problems of inheritance when someone dies the children of this wife and the other one they are coming looking for property fighting, selling the old property when the man is no longer there but we pray for those who may be in that situation of polygamy trust the Lord and you know how to look at that property and cry to the Lord to help you to overcome this problem that was introduced by this man and do you know this man was born the father of Lamek is Medus Sila and Medus Sila in the Bible when we read about Medus Sila there are three things that his name provides for us and I believe that's why this man entered in the place of having two wives and he was entering into death to himself this man called Lamek and he could brag and say now here I have two wives so there are those who want to say I can have two wives because the Bible allows some people to have Habram did this it is true they had many wives but the Lord intended for one so all these others are as a result of sin very clear from the word of God this man Medus Sila means I won't tell you what means man Shedrak mean Michelle or a weapon or send something or someone Me too from the one Medus Sila means Moth or a meaning death and I believe this and Lamek when he entered to have the second wife who was entering to undead without knowing what he was doing because that harmony that the Lord wanted to have you may say I have two I have three I have four I have five no problem but I want to remind you I want it in God's philosophy and God's will it is that one man one wife one wife one man and that's what the Lord intended but the devil wanted to destroy the family from all angles and from all corners satan worked very hard to destroy handamandif to destroy their children to take them away from the presence of God and to enter and follow their generation and really he succeeded in this because Kain killed the brother and then the brother died and he was very innocent and you know the Lord may also introduce the same suicide notes to our children who think so the Lord has brought the families to be single taking the life of one partner and leaving the other one as we said yesterday leaves children behind orphans and the windows behind with no hope but still the Lord says there is hope for the parents for the windows there is hope for the orphans there is hope for them and the Lord is there but the devil is trying to destroy this family as much as he can what had the troubles the devil is trying to introduce into our families the enemies for fathers I am trying to continue is finances I may not have time to explain the finances in its totality but I just want to mention that finances has made many people to separate finances have made many people to abandon their spouses and their children and to run away from home finances have made many people not to care about the education of their children others have contemplated even killing themselves as we said yesterday and another day we are saying today finances has become a trouble to this world there are three things that we read about what money and Jesus can do money says is the answer to all problems if you want to live a good life you need money if you want to take your children to the best school you need money if you need to do great things you need money and also the Bible says that Jesus is the answer to all problems so I will subscribe Jesus to you when you take Jesus in your family all the other things will come into play the money will have their place you will not run away because you have more money you will not run away from the family because you don't have money the Lord will provide for you whether you have or not and the Lord knows how to take care of that I was reminded a story of one man who ran away from the family because they didn't have money they didn't have school they didn't have money to pay school fees and this what happened allow me to read for you this story again I said today I have many stories to read for us and it's a long letter two page letter written to and earned by the daughters and they are writing a letter to their father because the father ran away when they were young and they got this information the father lost a job the father didn't have money life became very difficult and the man decided to run away allow me to talk to the men who possibly are contemplating running away or those who have run away that the Lord may speak to you this is the letter the daughters wrote to their father and it's a long letter earned and says how are you it has been a while or for some of us it has never been we are women now you have missed a lot you missed so many important moments in our lives where do we start or our birth when you found out mum was pregnant you couldn't handle it you didn't know what to do you may have been too young you may not have had a father figure so you didn't know how to be a father who knows some of you stayed in the picture a little longer you stayed a few years after I was born at first things were great you and mum got along maybe you thought to have me will help maybe you thought sticking it out would help things got tough you began to fight with mum you lost your job you may have had a great job perhaps the stressors of home got to you we will never know what we do know is what you missed when you walked out of the door you missed the numerous first day of school you missed back to school nights and open houses you missed all the programs sports hollandaise vacations first in dating graduations and college acceptance letters the fun and exciting stuff the children are talking to their father you also missed the you missed then not exciting stuff when you left and didn't pay child support we had no money out of our home we went outside to collect financial assistance we had sold to shop at goodwill because mum could not afford clothing we had to grow her fast we had to take care of our younger siblings we had to be emotional and we needed emotional support for our mothers wherever childhood we had was gone we had to listen to mum cry herself to sleep we saw her dead man we saw men we saw her dead man who were not good to her or good to us we need to start working at the age of 16 because money was a little tight sometimes we miss our own parties and the school event to work because we needed to make sure the light turned on and the phone was on the table we started looking for attention outside the home we wanted love and affection that we did not have from you so we started looking at the places friends, partners, drugs, alcohol crime teen pregnancy or food many times we found in men to be honest the men did not treat us well as all however we didn't care it was a man it was someone that earned us sometimes was by our side sometimes called us sometimes told us they loved us sometimes married us or hand litre a child with us we don't care we just want someone to be there and tell us they loved us because you were not there although their love was sporadic and contingent at least it was there then they continue to say we can honestly say you are living really affected our self extreme our self worthy we didn't know we didn't feel good about ourselves at all we don't feel that we are good enough for any man partner friends or career we don't feel labable we feel like disappointed we feel we don't belong when you left we felt so many negative feelings we realize those feelings are still there hunger resentment sandness grief shame fear guilt doubt betrayal we are trying to work though those feelings through therapy ordering on these feelings is no longer serves us they are causing us to hate we love everyone else more than we love ourselves we are ready to love ourselves we are ready to look deep inside ourselves to see how our life has been affected by your living we are not here to blame we are women now we cannot blame you because you stand with the partners that didn't treat us right we cannot blame you for our lack of confidence in going to the job we want our childhood circumstances were not our fault we were thrown into situations that affected the way we looked at life and interacted with the world we are ready to take responsibility for our choices in handrode tune we made the choices that reflected how we felt about ourselves our past does not have to define our future we are now writing the new beginning and we have realized we are enough we are loveable we belong we are successful we get to feel joy peace happiness courage confidence acceptable hope love and trust at this point we no longer care why you left we can no longer hold on this history we are ready to write a new history if you would like to be in it and if you would like to write your own story contact us you had your own story and that is why you left we get that now we have learned it was never about us you left not because there was something wrong with us but it was something wrong with you we see that now love you as you and your daughter love always you and your daughter this letter has a lot of message that if you read you realize what the devil is looking up to is to chase men away from homes you want men to go and forget their responsibilities but one thing I love from this letter that the children have come to their realization that what they need anger, sentiment, sadness will not help them but they want to write a new story in their life children whose parents possibly could have left you at home I want to encourage you from this story you have hand you can write your new story and invite your parent to come and be part of this one also to write a story that the Lord may bring them back because the Lord loves all of us sometimes we experience emotional damage in our lives and this is what we are reading from here Emotional damage when they come to our lives we feel we don't belong now when we come to this text it reminds us that the devil want blind people and he want to take them away from God he want us to be hooked in the things of this world and when we are hooked in the things of this world he introduces many things to us worldly things to our lives and when this comes to us what happens we feel we can do nothing in our own lives and we feel that the Lord has left us and that's why he says that many children have been introduced to the risky behaviors hakoho, drugs, immondaret premiskwa sexual activities and such and during coronavirus period what was happening many children were left alone at home and they went through the media and its related activities and mostly left that concept of God in them I was reading an article written in around 2008 I was trying to look for a current one I could not find and I found that 75% of teens have small phones, MPS and they have all these they spend that 3 minutes in talking to their phones 49 minutes listening to their music and this is the research that was done in 2013 that 7% they are in the Facebook and that percent spent watching videos which have introduced them to things that have now brought problems in their life remember the case you saw someone following a video and decided to kill the father, the mother and the siblings because he followed from the YouTube and he saw how he can kill others and he says around 50% to 70% of children in $1.70 are exposed to such behavior through electronic media and now as a result here they have entered into real problems some even contemplate to sign the notes and they want to kill because this has affected their sleeping patterns they have destroyed their relationship with their parents it has introduced them to nightmares at night when they are sleeping they have been introduced to violence behavior in their families and they have been also following the fictitious stories they see what we call reading fiction stories all these have introduced them to many problems and the writer of this message called the half truth of gospel says something that life is messy life is messy and since life is messy we need Jesus, hallelujah and this when someone was reading these stories also contemplated I have two more letters to read and then we tried to wind up the message someone contemplated a suicide note but the Lord was gracious I want to read this one after this the book is written 2016 and when he says life is messy here what this message says Lord I renounce all suicide notes and any attempts I have made to me to take my own life or in any way injure myself I renounce the lie that life is hopeless and that I can find peace and freedom by taking my own life in Christ who said He came to give me life and give it abundantly thank you for your forgiveness that allows me to forgive myself I choose to believe that there is always hope in Christ Jesus name I pray amen hallelujah members my friends wherever you are the Lord is very gracious and he want to help us to move forward and to have a good life here the writer says life is very messy someone when he got a job this is what he did he abandoned the family and the wife speaks and says husband has abandoned us we are betrayed we are physically abused we are humiliated sometimes you can have all these things bavo and mental abuse and then all these problems can come to you away you feel rejected because there are andresion either in one of the family listen to this letter this letter is not a big one it's written by a man who was a good man but he was impregnated by the devil into little problems and what is the problem I want to read and you tell me I am sorry I am sorry for my upcoming behavior of late I hardly have time for you and your baby sure I have used the one to sure every time I leave work I resort in visiting the night club to take hakoho who is the guy is employed to take hakoho and he was a good Christian I understand your feelings at this moment forgive me of these acts I reflect on my behavior and realize that I am moving into andresion to hakoho I have already seen my counselor for rehabilitation I treasure you much I cannot afford you I cannot afford you you are my precious wife and the daughter because of hakoho kindly work with me as I seek to reform and get help from andrikshons when I remember the funny moment we had when Shah was below two years old I realize how valuable you are I yearn for this moment once more let's meet and talk over this matter before the end of the week I am sorry for hurting you and my daughter will overcome yours for life ma this message I am just quickly running over them because time may not allow us to say many things but this what happens during Covid-19 there are families who affected children got pregnant and many contemplated abortions but I want to read this message for someone who has realized it's not good to contemplate abortion and says Lord first that I was not a propagandian and keeper of life you entrusted to me and I admit that has seen thank you that because of your forgiveness I can forgive myself I realize that the child in your caring hands for whole eternity in Jesus name amen this person committed the crime of abortion but cried to the Lord for forgiveness I pray for young people in this world and those who are around us please when things happen before you do it remember the Lord is with you the last one is that we signed a note that someone wrote as a result of the problems that happened in his life and this was as a result of substance abuse that we have talked about in the letter which was written to the daughters and this is what the person says the last letter I am reading to you I confess that I have misused substance hako tumbako prescriptions or street drugs for the purpose of pleasure to escape reality or to cope with the difficulty problems I confess that I have abused my bonda and programmed my mind in a harmful way I have quenched the Holy Spirit as well thank you for forgiving me I renounce the satanic connections of influence in my life through the misuse of food and chemicals I cast my anxieties into you Christ who loves me I commit myself to yield no longer to substance abuse but instead I choose to follow the Holy Spirit to direct me empower me in Jesus name these testimonies are very powerful to me and they touch my heart when someone is affected he can create time to speak to the Lord now as I come to the closure there are many things we have left out but the Holy Spirit will help you I want to close with Isaiah chapter 3 verses 3 and 5 as we come to the end what do we need to have we need the assurance of Jesus hallelujah the assurance of Jesus will help us to go to the next level Isaiah chapter 3 verses 3 to 5 I want to read as the hope of your life today when the devil has attacked you from left to right from within, from without from external factors and from internal factors you need this with you verses 3 to 5 Isaiah chapter 3 says he is despised and rejected by men a man of sorrows and within grief we hide as it was our faces from him he was despised and he did not esteem himself surely he has born our griefs and carried our sorrows yet he esteemed we esteemed him stricken smitten by God and afflicted by his wounds that's what I want you to carry home by his wound for our transgressions he was bruised to our iniquities the sentiment for our peace was upon him and by his strife we were healed I pray that every person who have listened to me tonight may the Lord heal you from all the attacks of the devil in your family and may your family be blessed not only today but forever following or being the Lord's command and all the days will be with you I invite the owner to help us as we move to the next to pray for the request that we have received for today may the Lord bless you thank you very much the servant of the living God thank you for that powerful message we thank the Lord for being with us guiding us feeling us with his spirit message yes families are facing various challenges families are breaking up because of the machinations of the devil yet God intended for us to live happily as families so we need to come before the Lord for meet ourselves to him so that he can guard us and keep us together we need to pray that the Lord may shower his blessings upon us so that we can be able to fulfill what God expects of us as families to live together in love and in harmony with one another and to bring up children who are God fearing and children who are candidates of heaven thank you thank you servant of God we have received many prayer requests from many listeners from different parts of this country and from the rest of the world and I want to say that from the beginning that we have also received private confidential prayer requests this will be addressed accordingly by the pastorate we have prayers or requests that have come to us which I will highlight one from brother Robert Undiaki is requesting that we pray for this family who lost a baby through complicated pregnancy may the Lord reach you, may the Lord touch you and give you hope and give you peace they are also requesting prayer for their finances we have also Tobiasu Luke requesting for prayers for the family finances and for restoration you also have requests from brother Anthony Barrett also requesting us to pray for him and his family and also a kind request to pray for Rose and Melka we have sister Sandra who is also requesting that we pray for her son who is experiencing challenges and there is also a request from Wafik I'm sure this maybe this comes from outside the country I'm not sure he is requesting for prayers for he lost his wife and Tatsere is also requesting for prayer that he has been with a relationship with his spouse for several years and he doesn't seem to know what is leading to we pray for him so that God may guide his family to have a request for prayer for the family of Mrs. Oriema Mrs. Oriema and family are also requesting for prayers so this brothers and sisters are just a sample of a few requests but there are so many others so many we have not received so many we have not recorded some are still coming in but in the interest of time we may not be able to actually reach out or address each and every prayer request but I want to say that whatever request you have by faith belief that it will be addressed God knows, God understands and God will intervene so this moment we request that we rise up as we commit ourselves to the Lord as we give thanks for the guidance that He has given us and in a special way also remember this family so as I pray also request that we remember this families in prayer maybe just to ensure that we cover each and every request I want to request faster that we team up as we commit this request the Lord as we commit this families to the Lord we are living in difficult times families are facing serious challenges we need God's intervention it's a serious matter so as we pray let's remember these families I will start and I will request pastor to give us a final prayer remembering all these requests shall we pray almighty God in heaven we give you thanks we give you praise we give you honor because you are our God our creator you are God the everlasting God who is masterful and kind oh Lord we are living in a sinful world you created us and you created man perfect and from the beginning there was no sin but the result of the fall of our first parents sin entered into this world and with it came suffering and pain and death and all the challenges that we see now is a result of that fall oh Lord how thankful and grateful we are that despite all this you sent your son Jesus Christ who came and died for us who came and paid the price so that through him we are reconciled with you and we have hope of eternal life again through him Lord I pray this evening committing this church unto your hands committing all who have had this message through this week unto your hands Lord whatever challenges they may be facing you are there and you are able I pray that you may reach out to each and every family that is experiencing problems we have received this request stated Lord you know each and every person who has been mentioned here oh I pray that you may stretch your mighty hand and bless them intervene in the lives of these families those who are going through strife disagreements and those who are at the point of breaking up Lord may you intervene and bind them with your love open their minds open their ears open their eyes to see to hear and feel your goodness oh our Lord I pray that you may also console those who have lost their loved ones like the one that we have received that you may touch this all and give them and their family peace and hope so that they know one day they will be reunited with their loved ones those who have lost the child that family you know the pain that they are going through I pray that Lord you may touch them touch them and console them Lord the families who are experiencing financial challenges you know them oh Lord they have difficult time meeting their needs or I pray that you may reach out and open up opportunities for them so that they can be able to move on with life and meet all the obligations that they may bring glory unto your name oh Lord thank you thank you Lord because you here thank you Lord because you know even before we ask there are those that have not been able to send their request but you know you know what they are going through I pray oh Lord that you may reach out to them and intervene in their lives Lord I pray and I pray and request that you hear our prayers and Lord even as your servant continues intervention for you to reach out and touch this source I pray oh Lord that you may shower him with your blessings and fill him with your Holy Spirit so that the prayers that he's going to make may reach out to you that you'll have massy upon us thank you Lord thank you master for listening thank you for hearing us and thank you for answering our prayers I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior amen Lord we have hand from your servant the petitions he has presented on behalf of your children first Lord we ask you to sanctify us as a church as speakers as elders as members as Lord through your sanctification to us the request of your children may be granted as seen as we have nothing to offer to you but Lord we are forgiven seen as and as a result of that now we claim the promises that Lord you may descend from heaven visit with those families visit with them in hospitals in their homes in their place of work wherever they are today Lord visit with them in our voice that they may understand you Lord now we want to commit our lives to you we want to commit their lives to you that if there is anything that the devil is planning to destroy them that they may be defeated because the blood of Jesus was enough Jesus died that our wounds wouldn't be healed now Lord grant us the request of our hearts to you in eternity and in Jesus name we pray amen perfect love together let's see ask us to say a final word of prayer as we close this service may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the fellowship and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forever more amen thank you so much