 Good evening everybody. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us this evening for our service this week where we have been talking about peace and freedom in Christ Jesus freedom from the enemies of society. We are now on the Wednesday which is day four and we thank you for taking the time to join us. Those who are joining us virtually, thank you for connecting with us. Those who are present in the sanctuary, thank you as well for joining us. We thank you for being with us today. I pray that you share the link with anybody you think may need to see this message and may worship with us. But for us to start, I'd like to request that we stand up and pray and then we can start our worship in song. Let us pray. Our father who art in heaven, we thank you so much for being our father, for calling us your children, for preparing a message for us specifically and individually. I thank you for giving us the opportunity to come to your presence this day. I thank you for bearing with us even when we have not been faithful and true to your word. I pray this day that as we worship together, your Holy Spirit may speak to each of us individually. Prepare our hearts to hear from the message today for our faith in Jesus name. Amen. So we're going to start our worship through a few songs. I'll start with song number 441. I saw one weary, 441. I saw one weary. Okay. We'll sing. I saw one weary. Together let's sing. I saw one weary. Sad and torn with eager steps. Press on the way. Who long the hallowed cross had born. Still looking for the promised day. Number 248. 248. Oh how I love Jesus. 248. Oh how I love Jesus. Let's sing together. There is a name I love to hear. Together let's sing. There is. Into this service and before we begin, may I ask each and everyone of us to rise for our word of prayer. May we rise for our word of prayer. Our God Lord in heaven. Father in the name of Jesus we thank you for who you are. We thank you for our creator and our protector and provider. We thank you for an opportunity you have allowed us to have this evening to hear what you have for us. We want to commit everything to thy hand. We want to commit the preacher Pastor Jacob. Even as his time will come to present what you have for us. May you prepare our hearts and also may the Holy Spirit go ahead of him. So that the word that he gives us find a place in our heart grow and we apply it in our life. We commit all the program into your hand because you believe and trust. In that holy name of God Lord we believe and pray. Amen. May you be seated. I take this chance to welcome all of you. Those who are in the sanctuary, in person and those who are online. We are continuing with our learning series. We are doing day 4 today. The teaching will go up to the end of week. That is Sabbath. Man of God leading us is Pastor Jacob Lichena. Please continue to pray for him as he gets a word from the Lord to give us. Serving you here. The chorister is Sister Cheng O'Rero. My name is Jared O'Piata. The sign language will be Sister Kwamboka. And be blessed even as we continue to listen to the word. And I admonish you please continue to invite our friend. And those who are online please share the link with our friend to get blessed. God bless you. Good evening everyone and welcome to our service this evening. Let's turn to our Bibles to the book of Romans chapter 12 and verse 1 and 2. Romans chapter 12 and verse 1 and 2 and it says, Therefore I urge you brothers and sisters in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. And you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. His good, pleasing and perfect will. Amen. Let's turn to our hymnals. Song number 614, Sound the Battle Cry. Welcome the chorister. Thank you. Let's rise. Those in the sanctuary please stand up. So that we sing together. 614, Sound the Battle Cry. Sound the battle cry. Together let's sing. Sound the battle cry. See the focus now. Raise the standard high for the Lord. Guard your armor on. Stand firm as upon his hold just rally. Shall we pray before? Heavenly Father, we are before your presence again. And we thank you for giving us this opportunity to come to this holy place that is called by your name. We want to invite you to take charge of this meeting today. Father, we pray that your Holy Spirit will abide with us, that it will speak to us. You draw us closer to you. That the burdens that we could be having will be lifted off our shoulder and off our mind. That we will leave this place filled with your Holy Spirit. We pray for the God for those who are at home or those who are watching from different avenues that you equally meet us together and bide us through that Holy Spirit that will be united in one purpose to understand your will this evening. Thank you Lord for yearning to pray and promising to abide with us for we did pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise the Lord church. The Lord is good. I am delighted to be in the presence of the Lord. God has really been good to me and I equally hope that you are equally blessed as you come this evening to join us and we want to continue to invite you, we want to invite those who are online with us that you equally continue to pray and we want to make this clear that we have a prayer box in the house of the Lord and after we finish the sermon we will lift up the prayers before the Lord so we invite those who are in the house of the Lord for prayer please feel free to drop your prayer request and those who are online following us online is a team that is working please forward your prayers too and we will be glad to continue to respond to the prayer request. Yes. And God has been good that this week of drug awareness or the addiction conference as it was we are continuing to learn many things and we are inviting you to continue sending your questions to those who are online we want to respond to the questions as much as possible as we can continue to learn more and see how we can position ourselves to fight the enemy the enemy of the society being the challenge of addiction and tonight or this evening I want to invite us to turn to the book of Romans 12 Romans 12 verse 1 and 2 which is going to be our text of meditation this evening the Bible in Romans 12 verse 1 and 2 says I beseech you there for brethren by the masses of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good an acceptable and perfect will of God the title of our sermon is renewed minds or if you wish transformed minds and this text is a call to stand out it presumes that this is a challenge and Paul when he uses the word beseech beseech is pleading and he is beseeching because of the challenges that are in the world today of not hearing the word of God of not responding to the masses of God and he says the calling is to do two things one not to be conformed conformity is the assumption that many people are doing it I can also do it everybody is doing it I should also do it I find this a lot among the young people they think that everybody is dressing in a certain way or everybody is doing things in a certain way and they start to comply, to conform and out of the book Creeping Compromise Joe Crew says that there is a creeping compromise in the church of course he wrote the book in the 80s and somebody was making a joke saying that yes the compromise to conformity was creeping but right now I think it's standing it's evident that the Christian community today is struggling to identify on the issue of conformity on what is right and what is wrong so much that the world is sometimes dictating or guiding the church on what is right so Paul in a split says that the only way we can avoid this challenge that is incited today this challenge that is in the world today is by being transformed a mind that is transformed will do three things one it will prove what is good a mind that is transformed the Bible says will prove what is good and what is bad in this fast I see Paul bringing out that we need a renewed transformed mind to be able to say this is good this is evil this is wrong this is right this is moral this is immoral in the question of addiction this becomes a challenge where people are not sure of what they should eat or drink or how they should wear or dress how they should give their past time and yesterday when we were looking at the passage I mean someone we realize that is actually a battle to choose that which is right is a battle number two the Bible says that we will prove what is acceptable what does God accept as is perfect will what is acceptable are there things that are not acceptable the answer is yes we should have a standard of what is right and what is wrong and I thank God for the minister of the semi-adventist chart that during baptism one is asked questions about that relate to the issue that we are discussing do you accept that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and do purpose by God's grace to keep your body pure the standard is that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and we should keep it pure and the standard is perfection the perfect will of God and when you talk about perfection then comes the question of are we able to live a perfect life a renewed mind will be able to do these three things what is good what is perfect and what is acceptable in the presence of the Lord our ministry as a church includes looking at all these aspects of health where we are saying that we are not only looking at the spiritual aspect or component of health we are also looking at the emotional and the mental aspect of health and so in keeping intact with mental health addiction becomes one of the issue that we need to look at in the ministry of healing the pen of inspiration says that our Lord Jesus came to the world asked and worried man to meet man's necessity it was his mission to bring to man complete restoration he came to give them health peace and perfection of character that Christ came to show us that it's possible that we can reach the highest standard and that's why none of us I'm talking to one young man who is listening to me this evening to the word of Lord this evening that there's nothing that is impossible to do there's no challenge that is impossible to overcome because the devil wants us to feel like yes if I'm struggling with smoking if I'm struggling with alcoholism if I'm struggling with sexual addiction if I'm struggling with we call it internet addiction I'm not able to make it and we easily give up but the promise that we are being given in this scripture passage is that God is able to transform and renew us that we can experience change however we said it is a battle that we are willing to fight the Bible when it refers to is a struggle that our struggle in Ephesians 6 is not against flesh and blood but against principalities it shows yes it's a struggle of the mind to overcome the challenges that we have therefore the brain the mind or the mental realm becomes the battlefield that the battle that we are fighting is fought in the mind and now we need then the Bible to insulate our minds you see friends the mind does a lot of work as it was is what guides and to make judgments it retains memory leads us to coordination and once the mind is compromised once the brain is compromised by addiction then we lose the sense of focus we lose the sense of judgment and coordination we lose the sense of right and wrong and the Bible of course makes it clear by saying that the devil as a crawling lion seeks and says that the only way we can win this battle is by being sober having a clarity of mind and choosing to avoid anything that destroys the framework of the brain friends addiction affects the brain functions in such a way that the person who is in addiction is not able to decide for example let me say this that the brain as a circuit is like an electric connection where there are chemicals that are being transmitted or channel to different part of the brain to do different things to create focus to help the heart to beat to help in the breathing to help us enjoy life to help us eliminate pain to help the blood to flow to calm us to help us relax and once those circuits are interfered with by the drugs that we take then we are not able to make the right decision let me bring it closer for example when people take BANG or marijuana which many are struggling to say that it should be legalized there is scientific evidence on the effect of BANG on the brain that BANG as a soluble or a solvent actually a solvent is the right word or a chemical component called THC just like any other drug of use whether it's alko alko as I know as it's key component a cigarette of caffeine and among other toxic components mirar or cart as kadinoin and kaden and every drug of use as some chemical component when it's introduced to the brain it alktas the no more functioning and the brain that is not functioning normally is functioning abnormally so the psychoactive chemicals in in BANG for example will work on the brain that is concerned with memory and coordination and the reward system so that then the intake of BANG let me call it one path of BANG is able to send a signal to the brain a wrong signal that reward is coming and the neurotransmitters will receive a message that is sending good coming but then after time there's good feelings interferes with the memory with the cognition and with the motor coordination and that's when you find that people who are taking BANG will have effects like a false sense of self or false confidence they could be struggling financially but they still believe they are well off I mean they are good some of the things like gloss of memory have been associated with constant use of BANG confusion of the past and the present and future not to mention hallucination people who usually hear things that none other person can hear hallucinations some auditory others visual or even we call it words subcortino the skin people will hear the things that are moving in their body when nobody else can hear or can sense as it was not to mention on the cardio respiratory system the heart and the blood flow affected by the use the paranoia feelings of BANG altered sense of time the shrinking of the brain in a condition called a motivational syndrome which psychiatrists say that is characterized by cognitive and emotional state such as detachment or blunted emotions the executive functions of the brain and memory and attention being this interested and lacking motivation I have had a privilege to live with people who smoke weed in my childhood maybe if the spirit allows me I was shown Sabbath I grew up in a slave pool and I have seen many people smoke weed and you are sitting with people and you see them just turned and get soaked that something is happening they see a fly coming by and they bed like I mean a small fly is kind of like checked out as a big fly or you meet somebody who is and all of a sudden somebody is laughing loudly on their own and they are laughing they are laughing so the mind there is a delay even in transmission of information like I crack a joke with you today and you laugh tomorrow or next week and so you are laughing about a joke that I told you yesterday and you can imagine now those who are not part of the joke and what is meant to happen it is interesting that sister white in a time she lived in the I mean after the 1927 and she writes in a book how to live that writing about opium stupifying the brain and I am surprised that this wisdom in a time when people had not done a lot of psychiatry and psychology but she says listen to my quote in page 56 the book is how to live she says that this poison this drug poison opium gives temporary relief from pain but does not remove the cause of the pain it only stupifies the brain rendering it incapable of receiving impressions from the nerve but the brain is thus insensible the hearing, the taste and the sight are affected when the influence of opium wears off the mind arouses from its state of paralysis the nerves which have been cut off from communication with the brain shrinks out loud than ever because of the additional outrage of the system are sustained in receiving this poison I am surprised at such immense wisdom that is given in many years ago and I was confirming whether there are studies that are showing the same that today studies have been done that show that yes the brain is affected not only by opium but by alcohol one of the study that is done by one professor Remy Divyet 2002 comparing the brain of the user says that the brain of the user shrinks listen to this the brain of a non-drinker who is consuming an average of alcohol unit a day shows an equivalent a half of the aging according to the study and that it gets worse with more use and further says that drinking listen to this will age the brain's person by more than 10 years whether alcohol the point is whether alcohol all opium the brain is compromised and it's interesting that even some of the things that could look salient like energy drinks monster the predator the red bull studies are showing they equally have the same danger creating the brain the art function creating anxiety and nervousness insomnia and lack of sleep so friends our emphasis or what you're bringing out in our salmon this morning I mean this evening is that the benefit which might appear because that's what most of the people are arguing that opium has some benefit and even alcohol haven't you met people who say that alcohol a little bit of what alcohol is good for your health I mean I've met many young people who give the argument and they quote the scriptures as it were in the book of Fastimody 5 verse 5 verse 23 and they say yes the Bible says drink a little alcohol it's good for your health and it's true that Fastimody 5 verse 3 says drink no longer water only but use a little wine for the stomach's sake and thine and thine option affarmities Paul in writing this does not justify the use of alcohol or suggest that alcohol as a benefit as many people will want to say or would want to suggest but from a biblical point of view Paul is making reference of wine here and the Greek the Greek word for wine in this context is oinos and oinos is unfermented grape juice unfermented grape juice as health benefits and so when Paul is telling Timothy drink no longer water but use a little wine he is telling him to use that which will benefit his stomach and yet people contradict this to say that this is a reference to the goodness of the brain can you see the alteration that we make into the scriptures and apart from that from current studies it's showing that alcohol does not have benefit on the stomach beer the cane or the drinks that people are using today have been known to cause not only stomach challenges ulcers and other related challenges but to the body parts that that cannot be justified as a matter of fact doctors who have stand the world health the world heart foundation through many studies is saying that no level of alcohol conception is saved for health that you can't say I can take a little and it will help me the brains of people that age who said that they drunk 3 alcohol units a day and reduction of both white and gray matter that looked as if they added 3.5 years to the age of their brain listen to that the people who took a little alcohol that is like 3 units that they added listen to this they looked that they added 3.5 years to their age the age of their brains I am saying yes you are in your 20s and you look like in your wards or your brain is like in its wards that is tell me continuously or cumulatively what will be happen after taking alcohol for 20 30 years the brain will age faster and that is what we are saying and maybe I am just being impressed by this that the Adventist Church has really done a lot on health studies like in 2018 the World Health Survey where they said that there is this phrase that has been being used that an average Californian lives 8 to 10 years longer than an average Californian that this study the health study that shows longevity and good health living that eating well sleeping well drinking well will help our body to live longer or will help us to live longer and will improve our brain function that's why in our study we are being encouraged to commit ourselves to the Lord and submit our brain to God submit our mind to the Lord and say Lord I want you to take over my brain I want you to take over my body and the reason why we must give our brain our mind to God and say God I want to live a pure life I don't want anything that can destroy my function because I want my brain to be only yours in testimonies to the churches volume 3 page 69 the pen of inspiration says that the brain is the capital of the body the seat of all the nervous forces and of mental action the nerves proceeding from the brain control the whole body by the brain nerves mental impressions are conveyed to all the nerves of the body as by a telegram why of course it's a white is making that that comparison of the cables I think if she was living today she would say like what you call that this way that safari kum is using fiber yes she would say that it's just like the fiber what the fiber cable that is going is able to transmit information wherever you are and she further says that and they control the vital actions of every part of the system all the organs of motions are governed by the communications that we receive from the brain you see then friends that the devil knows that if our brain are inebriated if our brains are compromised if we are not able to think and reason well he has already won the battle by giving us malice by giving us sicknesses by making it impossible for us to commune with God for father the pain of inspiration test monies for the churches volume 2 page 347 says the brain nerves which communicate with the entire body are the only medium through which even can communicate to man there is no other way God can speak to us expect through the impressions that come to the mind whatever distracts the circulation of the electric current of the nervous system lessens the strength of the vital powers and the result is deadening of the sensibilities of the mind remember yesterday we stated that many addictions from drug and substance abuse to internet disorder to sexual addictions to shopping addictions there are many of them and we are saying that each one of them has the sequence of experimenting trying to do it again and again the pain of inspiration is saying deadens to the sensibility of the mind my day to day interaction with people who are in addiction is how much they want to get out of it I have not yet met somebody who is in addiction and doesn't want to get people might put on a strong face but instead they are saying first I wish I could get out of this and we pray we bounce back to it because it is a chronic and recurring or relapsing mental challenge but the hope that we are given is that we can make a decision we can choose to live a temperate life temperate here meaning dispensing entirely with everything that is at full saying that this heart to body I choose not to use it last week but when I was bringing the drug talk and I was talking to students and when I got to the point of talking about energy drinks I saw a reaction that made me ask them how many of you use energy drinks this was a Christian congregation I mean it's a Christian group with more than 75% of Christian young people and I was shocked that almost all of them were saying past that we use what energy drinks and the energy that they get is deceiving it is until that I got to a class of a unit that we were studying about it's called permacology and neuro permacology yes neuro permacology and the teacher who is not of my faith was saying you know caffeine as an effect on the brain just like tobacco and I said wait a minute say that again that the conventional science is showing that even caffeine is addictive as tobacco and many of us including my friends will say that if I don't take a mago for coffee I cannot say things clearly by 10 o'clock I will start having a what I had it we are saying that we should do our way entirely with everything that hurts the body hurts the brain the center through which God uses to communicate and then even that which is helpful we must use it judiciously that is the health temperance message that we must protect our brain the center through which God uses it is with this that Paul when he is writing to titers in titers chapter 2 verse 11 and 12 says for the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men teaching us to deny ungodly ungodliness and the world last we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world the call is sobriety some translation say having moderation or self control in action thoughts and feelings and friends this evening I want to suggest that addiction interferes with our self control whether it is a phone addiction or internet disorder it interferes with our self control and our actions and our thoughts and our feelings are inebriated we are not able to make the right decision the reason why internet addiction has now been classified as an addiction disorder is because of the way we interact even with our gadgets the actions that we take sometimes we find ourselves waking up in the morning and the first thing we stretch is what the phone are there times when you just find that you are actually on the phone when you didn't want intent to or you are watching things that you didn't plan to watch I am talking about the brain because the bible is saying brethren I urge you I beseech you that you present your brain as a living sacrifice God wants to use our brain to communicate with us and once our brain is compromised we cannot be transformed we cannot be renewed the renewing only spirit works with us even as we comply to his bindings so when the Holy Spirit is not guiding us the wise man in Proverbs 25 verse 28 sees a person without self-control is like a city with broken down walls that one self-control is compromise that we are not able to make a decision about the addictions that we are talking about we become like a city without walls a home without the perimeter wall and you know what that means anything anyone can walk right in so when the bible is calling us to insulate our mind with the word of God to cover ourselves it is with understanding that the condition of the mind has much greater impact than we believe our brain has such an important actually as a matter of fact writing in the minister of healing in 1905 says that many illnesses are as a result of depression sorrow, anxiety frustration, remorse guilt, difficulties with trust and the mind's vital forces and result and death, courage on the contrast hope, faith, trust love promotes health and prolongs life but the choice is that I want to choose not to feel anxious I want and of course is a lot of mental health talk and they say that it's about anxiety stress and what and depression these are the challenges that are affecting us today and we are saying apart from addiction we can be addicted to these things for somebody said if you know how to worry if you know how to worry then you already know how to meditate anybody who knows how to worry knows what meditation is are you with me that if you constantly worry about something and it keeps on popping into you then you are meditating on it it's the other side and we must choose then to say that I choose to be happy I choose to be bold I choose joy I choose to trust I choose to love and all the gift that the bible talks about in Galatians chapter 5 verse 22 I choose self control it is a matter of choice and that's why Paul is saying I beseech you brethren that by the masses of God I beseech you I beseech you by the masses of God that you present yourself and say here I am Lord I am willing to be renewed I am willing to be transformed I am willing in counseling in addiction counseling we talk about I am willing to sit down and do an inventory an inventory of my life what is it that I'm using that is affecting me the matter of fact we call it a fearless inventory a bold inventory of saying if this one it's a struggle that I'm having I know I'm addicted to this and then after that we present ourselves to the Lord and say Lord I need your strength I cannot do it alone I need you to help me out I'm Christ during his ministry he devoted himself most of the time or all the time in healing people who sought out for help the Savior made this is nopu wak implanting divine principles into the mind and the soul was his main purpose imparting earthly blessings and change the heart and the mind of those who sought after him he healed the emotions that's why in Isaiah 61 verse 1 and in Luke also for verse 18 he says the spirit of the Lord is upon me for I have come to bring healing Christ has come to bring healing to bring healing says because the Lord has appointed me to bring good news that your mind can be renewed to those who feel poverty who feel the need because he says I have come to proclaim good news verse 1 I have come to proclaim good news to the poor and this poverty is not poverty of riches is not poverty of money as he says in Matthew chapter 5 the blessed are the poor in spirit for the kingdom of God is theirs Matthew 5 verse 3 that we need is to recognize that I am struggling under freshman Christ says father that he has sent me to bind those who are broken the broken heart head and to proclaim freedom to the captives release from darkness those who are prisoners is that not good news that when you are struggling with addiction whatever addiction it be when you are struggling mental agonist Christ is saying I have come to set you and he says and when Christ sets us free we are free indeed I will not struggle again I will not finish without looking at this verse as I conclude because it is something that I read and it struck me 61 I am finishing 61 verse 61 verse verse 3 yes it says to appointed and to them that mourn in Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes and oil for joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called trees of righteousness some translations say that they will be called oaks of righteousness friends tonight Christ is calling us to come to him he is besitching us please come unto me all you who labor and I have led them and I will give you rest as elder comes I invite you whatever burden you have write it down put it in the prayer box if it is personal and you don't want to share it with anybody please give it to one of the pastors or elders on Sabbath write it down somewhere and claim this promise especially for those of us who are online and there is this struggle that we have been struggling with there is this habit there is tendency that you find yourself whether they found the drugs I want to tell you that there is hope in Christ Jesus says come and I will give you rest come and I will make you whole again Christ promises to renew our mind it is my prayer that you will eat this call that Christ who formed us in God's image when he says let us form man in our own image and when the devil says I will deform man by sin and when the world says we will conform into our own image and when the society says that we will reform by culture and when education says let us inform man by knowledge only Christ says I will transform and renew you He holds out his card arms and says I died for you I died that you may be whole I died that you may be saved will you receive this Christ tonight and tell him I am willing I am willing to come for you I want to say a prayer for you even as elder comes who left this prayer for the Lord if you are saying yes I have had this clarion call I have had this call and I want you I want to commit myself to the Lord don't commit yourself to me don't come to me but bring yourself to the Lord did we have a song that you wanted us to sing yes we will do this song we will lead us with the song and then we will be upstanding and then we will say a prayer elder will say a prayer and I will also say a prayer in closing please elder come with the prayer request that we can do this together come and let us left this prayer before the Lord together elder will pray for the prayer request that are with us here and then I will close also and pray and commit us to the Lord saying yes we have had the decision call and we want to be united to the Lord let us rise and we sing song number 331 oh Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end 331 oh Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end let's sing together oh Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end 341 oh Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end 342 to the end you are releasing your might and heavenly father these messages have brought blessings to many of US we thankful Ok Heavenly Father for this spirit the Holy Spirit Man-Savan. For our Father we pray that as these programs continue, may your people get convicted, Lord. Amen. That they will understand and hear your message, your voice, talking to them, heavy father to your Man-Savan. Amen. This message is Lord, are meant to bring us closer to the... Yes, Lord. ...to clear our minds, Lord, heavenly Father, and to hear your voice telling us on how we should live. Yes, Lord. We have realized that the devil brings addiction in our lives. Yes, Lord. We have addictions within our families members. Yes, Lord. We have addiction with the children, our children, Lord. We have addiction with all of us. Yes, Lord. But you have good and saving messages that when we hear heavenly Father will relieve us from the chains of the devil. Yes, Lord. And we will respond to your voice. We thank you and we continue to praise your holy name for these messages, Lord, that you have us. Yes, Lord. In this box, Lord, lies the many messages and requests of your children. Yes, Lord. Those that they think and know are beyond their control. Mm-hmm. But you, who is our creator, who is our edema, who is our saviour, who knows where we are ailing from, heavenly Father, you have the solutions for all these prayer requests that have been put into it. Yes, Lord. Your children are wondering from here and there, left and right, what to do because the economics of this country, heavenly Father, is worse. Mm-hmm. And financially, thy children are suffering. Yes, Lord. Health-wise, heavenly Father, thy children are suffering. Yes, Lord. And in their minds, heavenly Father, there is addiction from every side of our lives. Yes, Lord. We have to bring all the requests before you, Lord, that you will reach them. Mm-hmm. And minister to each one of them according to your riches in glory. Amen. That, heavenly Father, at the end of it all, even at the end of these programs. Mm-hmm. Lord, your children will respond and say, we have been blessed. Yes, Lord. By the spirit of our Lord and our saviour. Amen. We thank you for this evening. We thank you for those who joined online from various platforms. Mm-hmm. So those who have come, heavenly Father, this evening right physically in church, we pray for them, Lord, that you may reach each one of them according to abundant blessings from heaven. Yes, Lord. And heavenly Father, as we leave and go back home, we pray that may you continue to keep each one of us safely under your wings. And as we prepare to come again tomorrow, may your name continue to be uplifted and glorified because we have prayed in Jesus' name. Amen. And together with that, heavenly Father, you have spoken to us, together with your man, Savander, spread. We want to dedicate those who are making a decision to renew their minds and to give their lives to you as your personal saviour. For Lord, we acknowledge, we cannot do it alone. We awake and frail. But you're mighty and powerful. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that gives us deliverance. And this evening, Lord, we pray for deliverance from any sort of addiction, whether it is drug and substance abuse, whether, Lord, it is sexual addiction, whether it's addiction, Lord, whether it's shopping addiction, whatever addiction it be, Lord, give their children victory and glory will be to your name. Let this day be a day of testifying that we are able to control ourselves, not by our might, but by the mighty of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for your into a prayer, for we pray all this believing and trusting in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen and amen. God bless you, God keep you. See you tomorrow. Thank you. We have come to the close of our meeting for today. We just want to bring to your attention a few remarks as we continue with our program for this week. We'll still meet tomorrow, same time, 5.30 p.m. and then we continue to ask you to bless the speaker in prayer so that he gets the word and present it to us. We also request for your donation, your giving to fund this program and we are doing virtual giving. We can use M-Pesa, the pay bill number is 320-100 account health. I'll repeat, mobile money, pay bill number 320-100 account is health. And then for this week we have a special arrangement to offer pre-counseling services and it will go up to the end of this week. So I'll give you two numbers which you can reach out to. The same has been shared online. The numbers are, I'll give you a second to find a place you can record it. The numbers are 0724-362-216. I'll repeat, 0724-362-216. The alternate number is 0715-620-088. 0715-620-088. May God bless you all. We'll rise up for a final closing prayer by way of grace. May we say the grace. Now may the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now. Amen. God bless you. See you tomorrow.