 I just nest alone, faultless to stand Before the throne is sinking sand We will turn to our Nimoza Christo, Song number 34, Hadithi Kisa Chayesu. Tell me the story of Jesus, that's in English, but we'll sing it in Kiswahili. Song number 34. Song number 35, Hadithi Kisa Chayesu. Good afternoon everyone. Happy Sabbath Saints. It's good to be here. Oh, sorry we say that in God is good. And all the time God is good and that's his nature. What a privilege and what an honor we have been given that once again we can come and learn more from God, learn more from his word for the transformation of our lives. And so let me come here as I had promised. Yes, I always like to feel closer to the congregation on this happy Sabbath. What a wonderful message we receive this morning. Amen, a beautiful message. I specifically and particularly liked the point where the preacher said God's elevation always results in Satan's agitation. You know in Africa when you succeed it's ascribed to witchcraft. This one is witchcraft. I want to use that as a basis for our talk on stewardship this afternoon. So before we begin, let's bow our heads as we pray. Father in heaven we thank you so much for yet another privilege that you have bestowed upon us. We thank you heavenly father for your grace and we thank you for your kindness. We have been in the mountain top. We have taken in the things that you have prepared for us in this week. Father now we are going to do our last session even as we draw closer and closer to the end of this come meeting. We pray that all the things that we have learned may they be for our edification and may they be for our transformation. In Jesus name we pray. Let everyone say amen. What a blessing it is. I'm sure you saw on the program that today there was no stewardship but I think I've just come in there some way. Don't ask how but I'm there. Are you with me? But we were so grateful to God. For today I'm just going to re-recap on some of the things which we touched and I noticed from the feedback that I'm getting from the people who were there during the week that the subject I presented on wealth creation really sparked an interest. Are you with me? And this is why even when we come down to the cracks of it when we come down to the very last topic we will always speak about what? We will always speak about our pockets. Now excuse me. Now the first thing I want us to appreciate Nairobi Central Church is that a community, a family or an individual will never excel above the limitations you have put for yourselves. Amen. Now have you heard it being said think outside of the box. Hello. You've heard it being said, right? You must think outside of there. So one day I sat down and I asked myself who put that box there? Better still, who says there is a box? Which culture told you that there is a box you must think outside of? So the approach we have used to stewardship in this camp meeting is not to come down to the nitty gritties of how much must you return. We all know that. Are you with me? You've had so many camp meetings where you have been told you must return tithe. You must return offering. You must return of your first fruits. You must honor God with your substance. And we all say amen and amen. But we go back home and we still do not return. We still do not bring to God. So my emphasis moving from the relationship has been the people of God must come to a point where they appreciate that according to the Bible God said I will make you the head and not the tail. And number one, number two you will be lenders and not oh, you see when I said tail all of you said tail but now when I said you will be lenders borrowers, borrowers you know I shared with the young couples and young couples you are going to yes some of the things I said listen to me, if you are in debt you will always be a slave to the person you owe money. Amen? If you are in debt you will always be a slave to the person you owe money. So pastor what do we do as believers? I believe that when it comes to creation of wealth my job as your pastor or our job as your pastors is to encourage congregants is to encourage God's children to make that step into venture and I will stand next to you when you have succeeded and say where is God's money are you with me? So my job as a pastor is not to go and start a business or to look for money that's your job and then you come and give me amen the church is not saying amen why? Are you with me church? So let's look at some statistics if you look at some statistics we which are there you will discover that by the year 2030 over 60% of the population of the global population will be living in urban areas okay? So let's look at it like this it means by the year 2030 you will have a lot of people living in towns okay? So here we are as the Adventist church we are saying we are going to spread the word that three angels messages where? Mission to cities are you with me? So we are saying we are going to preach to cities we are going to preach the gospel in cities but remember that even in those cities the gospel of Christ is a gospel that teaches people that God wants to redeem you from the slavery of sin and from financial slavery from economic slavery from emotional slavery the gospel in its truest sense emancipates us from all forms of slavery amen you can't tell me that you are a true believer and a true child of God if you are bound in debt ah have you can I talk about fear? can I show you the power of slavery? right so remember the other day I told you I have a problem with dogs now can I tell you this story now the other problem I have is I have a problem with snakes so one day we are sitting in our home we've got about 20 friends ok so we are sitting and we are watching TV and we are talking and it was a big big lounge so the dog walks into the house and the dog has got what looks like a snake in its mouth hello it's got what looks like a what a snake in its mouth so the dog walks in I'm watching TV and then our helper says the dog's name is Matitilda Titili she says Titili has got a snake in her mouth yes what happens now I'm the father of the house so I'm the father of the house and my instinct says run now I'm running my wife I've left her behind my boys I've left them so when I stop everyone is laughing and they say no it's not a snake it's a blind worm then I said ah I was going to get a broom to kill the snake how can you say me the father of the house and anyway you must follow man of the house why did you remain behind that is what fear what that's what happens when you are a slave do you know that for some of us every time your landlord calls you have no peace amen you have no peace every time the phone rings so when God emancipates us when you are a true steward God cannot put you in a place where you are a slave but I want to extend the concept further what is wrong with God's people determining or dictating the pace of business in the places that they live in hey are you with me church let me highlight to you if ever you told people that money is evil you were lying to them money is the root of what of all evil number one number two our aim on earth is not to be lovers of money but our aim is to show people to the kingdom of God and part of that requires resources are you with me church imagine a scenario where the church fully resourced now look at this kekika meeting how many are you leader 40 okay how many preachers did you see here over 10 are you with me guest speakers look at those screens that's the first thing I said when I go back to Zimbabwe I want to make them buy those screens do you think this comes by prayer alone we faster than God we automatically range the screen down from heaven so what is the pastor saying the pastor is saying in your little space or at a national level or at a global level let's have a mindset to ever say in the way the economics of this world is run and you won't say amen here adventist you know why now can I just give my credentials I'm a pastor son that's all I need to tell you oh you didn't even say amen don't I'm a pastor's what son I grew up in a system where the mentality among pastors was poverty where in order for you to be called right with God you must suffer some of us want a religion where we are suffering aha okay so my father said no I'm going to provide a better future for my family you know what my father used to do he had a garden I would wake up every morning at 4 o'clock 4am I would be up every morning parents if you are here can I just teach you something which is in line with stewardship hard times hard times create strong men strong men create weak men weak men create hard times what does papastamo you mean do you know that because I struggled not because I struggled but because my father took me through the training of hard work I have a tendency to want to make life easier for my son so I'll tell my son you can wake up at 8 a man wakes up at 9 o'clock after his wife is dangerous aha so my father taught me if you are amenza you are scratching the surface but when they go quiet no you are hitting below are you with me church church we need to teach our children to value work work does not kill anyone so I used to wake up at 4 and I'll go to the market sell vegetables sell vegetables at 5 am around half 4 by 5 am I'm back I'm taking the next lots by 6 am I'm back by the time the clock would hit 7 o'clock I would have delivered 3 orders 3 orders by the time the day hits 10 am hello church I'm going to cash the checks and I'm collecting payments by the time we hit 1 o'clock my day is done so as adventists and as believers in the word of God even as faithful stewards over their affairs of God work is a critical element it is a gift to humanity I want you to look at economies in Europe look at economies in Asia look at China look at India look at the United States look at the amount of hours they put into work are you with me but how long do you spend on social media companies are making money from people who are on social media most of the time instead of generating ideas oh you think multiplication and being fruitful is just producing babies you have missed the point fruitfulness and multiplication in the mind what does this mind create ideas were created here's a question to you Kenyans is this on the national TV ok ok ok let me choose my words carefully I was speaking to the young couples the other day I found it weird that even in my own country I'm complaining about the economy I'm complaining about the government hello I'm complaining about the currency guess what they are foreigners who are seeing opportunities they are opening up businesses ha I'm coming to church I come to church I pray I go to the prayer ben I said God help me for a breakthrough powerful message the things which prevent your breakthroughs are in your head some of us are too smart to work me I can't be seen wearing an overall but guess what they are doing they are wearing overalls and they are in the dust and in the mud and then when you see them in restaurants and hotels and driving expensive cars you say ah these people they are corrupt whoever they are I don't want to say names are you with me church the question is the children of the kingdom why are they not seeing these opportunities the idea is not to get rich but the idea is to multiply our talents amen Jesus gives a parable of a man who gave his servants what talents okay and a lot of times we think of talents strictly within the context of church no your talent can be creating wealth are you with me your talent and listen you remember I mentioned that by the year 2030 over 60% of the global population will be living in urban areas okay so to someone who studies populations what's the first thing you think of overpopulation alright overpopulated but to a person who thinks of opportunity what are the four basic things that that people need housing food clothing what else health education so you've got about five things that people want need so here's the question what sits down and does an analysis will see opportunity okay in the development world now guys church why do we need to wait for the united nations to give us 17 sustainable development goals and yet we have the bible number one reduction of poverty reduction of what justice and fairness water clean water and here the believers the believers are praying the believers are reading their bibles I won't show the label because I know they are marketing and copyright issues otherwise these guys would have to pay me for advertising their product I don't just read the bible but by the way so pastor what's happening someone is sitting down from Sunday to Sunday and is thinking how can I provide clean water at a cheap cost you are praying dear Jesus turn this water and make it clean so what pastor Moe is saying in this year in our stewardship pastor Moe is saying we need to shift our minds out of our comfort zone and take a leadership role why is it that we as individuals we as children of God are not seeing the opportunities that God has given us in this globe let me give you one one fact if you look at the African development bank the CEO of the president he says I can't remember his name but in the foreseeable future the next set of billionaires will come in Africa will come from the agriculture sector go and do your statistics go and do your research what is the demand for maize in Africa what is the demand for potatoes but if I tell you as an adventist go and remove your church clothes and go into the field you will tell your pastor no in other words we want get rich quick wads can I tell you one concept of stewardship it's called growth hello when you plant a seed it does not become it does not bear fruit today the difference between seed and fruit is time and nature you have an idea plant the seed do all the necessary requirements that give you yield one of the countries with the best drip irrigation system and agriculture system you know which country it is who wants to guess thank you it's Israel what is in Israel besides the name of Jesus where he was born don't tell me Jesus we all know Jesus was born but can I can I tell you the power of Jesus even for Israel his name alone brings in tourism ay that's the same one are you with me even if okay let's go back to agriculture so here we are Israel is developing an agricultural sector that is what exceptional but most of their land and their climate is not favourable what is the question the question is what is it that I'm not doing with all this green land the issue is no one is taking time to exercise the thinking that God gave us Nairobi Central are you still with me don't worry I'm left with 6 minutes ideas seed needs to be nurtured and seed needs to grow to produce fruit now many of you are asking me some are asking pastor how do I start my business I'm not a big business can I give you that disclaimer I'm not a business what and I can assure you once you make money I'll be the first pastors and elders please tell me when they start making money I want to come and pray for them and say that God is good now give to God do you know that your affiliation as an individual is always going to be is always going to be to the institution that has sharpened your skills to change your life so that's why some of us are indebted to our universities or we are indebted to individuals and here's the question why can't the church take a position to say let's empower our people to come up with wealth are you with me and I can assure you that if that happens we'll be affiliated to our church without a question looking at opportunities changing people so the gospel I know that as a church we preach the three angels what message and what is that message what's the first one fear God for the hour of judgment what's the second one bababilonez what what's the third one if anyone receives what are you with me so here's the question while we are preaching while we are waiting for the coming of Christ what are we doing to better our lives I want to challenge someone that the truest testimony of the truth or of your conviction of what you preached of what you preach is seen in your life are you with me I can't be telling you that I do this and yet I don't do that it's contrary to what I'm what I'm saying 7 day adventists people are waiting for the second coming of to Jesus Christ those who are waiting let's not be too heavenly minded you have no earthly what you same man may God bless you can I leave any questions can I just leave a few minutes for questions any questions so I leave it to you go and look for opportunities and when God has blessed you do not forget the Lord your what your God Jutronomy 8 we read it where God says when you have entered the promised land and when you are fruitful when you have built beautiful houses and you are now staying in them and your bands are full do not forget the Lord your God lest you say of my own strength I have acquired this wealth for it is God who gives you what strength but always remember that at the core of our message is the salvation of souls amen and salvation of souls bondage from social bondage from emotional bondage and from economic bondage will the church say amen thank you so much thank you so much to Nairobi Central Church for giving me this opportunity to share on stewardship in this week I pray that it has been a blessing and I pray that we will use these things to transform our lives our society look chapter 6 and verse 38 the bible says give and it will what come back to you good measure press down shaken together will be put in your lap ultimately the end of stewardship is Christ himself John 3 16 for God's own love that he gave when God has given let it be your desire to give as well let's bow our heads as we pray Father in heaven we thank you for yet another opportunity that you have bestowed upon us Father we pray that may you extend the boundaries of our imaginations to divinity itself that we may think and understand more than we ourselves can think or imagine you won't say to us now to him who is able to do exceedingly and abundantly beyond more or beyond what we can think or imagine Father I thank you for this opportunity that granted me in this week all this precious subject in holiness to remind your children that everything that we are is because of you without you we are nothing bless us heavenly Father may this committing not be merely a religious exercise that we do every year but may it be a life changing experience for the salvation of souls bless your children may they become faithful stewards as they will desire to make better of themselves as we wait for you coming in Jesus name we pray amen and amen may God bless you children of God good afternoon and happy sabah and happy day God is good and all the time read the scripture echo with the sounds of singing and at creation the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy we get that from the book of Job chapter 38 verse 7 Ellen White in her book steps to Christ notes that the soul may ascend nearer heaven on the wings of praise that steps to Christ page 104 and she adds this that singing is as much as an act of worship as is prayer and we get that from the prayer just only you can give to me great those who are working in are the children they are quite a number so this is such a blessing so let's just be patient then they are hundreds if I'm not wrong so this is the children ministry and they'll present a series of songs just to praise their Lord whom they love thank you what do we tell our lovely children let's say a big guy man now we're going to do an exercise even as we give them time to exit the stage Christ said that the kingdom of heaven belongs to a such who are child or other the children but he didn't talk of them being childish so I want you to do this point up let's all point up down out then when I say happy I want you to clap 1 2 3 4 happy 1 2 3 4 so let's try in out down happy 1 2 3 4 so let's try as we are singing in what out what down what out up what down what since Jesus Christ came in I gave my life to out what down what happy all the time great so we'll try and I really want to appreciate the young man the pianist let's give him also another big amen yes that's talent for the Lord okay so let's try I'm in what out what down what happy all the time I'm in what out what down what happy all the time since Jesus Christ came in I gave my life to him I'm in what out what up what happy all the time I'm in what out what up what down what happy all the time since Jesus Christ came in I gave my life to him I'm in what out what down what happy Sabbath church happy day blessings reaching your hearts are they okay just two announcements as I welcome the Riyaga sisters we're still waiting if there is anyone with a testimony kindly visit the youth desk and talk to Pastor Jack Ogeda and then there is a girl or there is a mother who has lost the girl Anira there she is so if you're the mum kindly your beautiful girl is with the deaconess thank you and God bless happy Sabbath would you for a moment help us think about that beautiful scandalous night if you know what I mean when our dear savior had to shed his blood and die for us but before that let's think for a moment how he walked on this earth and how beautiful were the feet that walked on those dusty roads just to save a wretched soul like you and me just think for a moment how beautiful is the body of Christ it's a beautiful item of music hallelujah hallelujah great thank you thank you I'll just call them my fellow choristers so it's a time that we get to do congregational song and there are two hymns that come to my mind when it comes to singing in Nairobi central SDH church one is hymn number 10 come Christians join to sing hallelujah amen the reason why I love this song is the beautiful voices that the lady is singing both the young and the old still another that takes us back to two or three years ago when we introduced it to this congregation and within two weeks the entire congregation had mastered that song we will keep our faith alive let me see how many remember that song great so I invite you all to rise we will start with the song we will keep our faith alive then once we are done with that we will do come Christians join to sing so let me do this but we will keep our faith alive let me request you to be seated then once we finish that song we will do come Christians join to sing we will keep our faith alive ladies we can change each passing day second stanza calls us to live as God has planned so the ladies start the men echo ladies don't understand we take it fast when we share I watch me we will stand we will stand is full show maybe seated so we are into the second segment this is the order we will have the orchestra heritage family silver code then our elders we have elders who sing hallelujah then once the elders come youth choir then we let our guests finish that session with 20 or 30 minutes of singing God bless you praise God amen so we are going to sing a song that is basically coming from not the end but right after Jesus had risen He was walking with two men on a road to where yes the road to a mouse and they were just talking and they realized kumbe the guy we were working with is actually the same Jesus praying about and the thing we are going to sing is the exact same message saying that many times we are crying and you don't know that God is in your situation praise God church the Lord is good and all the time the Lord is good one says that lets everything that has breath praise the Lord amen silver code is going to sing a song that says that everything that has breath praise the Lord in one of the heavenly languages be blessed we want to thank you all for your patience it's still the Sabbath hours and we just want to thank God for the heralds who graciously accepted to come and minister during this camp meeting the year 2022 I just want to invite Elda Daniel to come and thank you for your patience we want to thank you we just want to invite Elda Daniel who happens to be the oldest oldest in terms of having served with this choir since its inception 27 years ago just to greet you and just to say a word what has been the greatest highlight of this group seeing that you saw it from when it began its inception 27 years ago up to this date today mkamamulunji I told you that the other day if I say mkamamulunji you say enaku mkamamulunji enaku zonna mkamamulunji we are blessed it is really a privilege for us to be in the music ministry since 1995 the heralds choir has become a family and we have enjoyed ministering through music it is one of the things that we love very much and we thank God for giving us the voices thank you you've had it so let's give them time as they do the items of praise to God thank you happy day we want to take this opportunity appreciate and thank the Lord for come meeting Nairobi Central SDA charge 2022 what do we say this has been a great success and we want to thank the Lord for giving us such a wonderful kump we want to believe that the souls that will have been won courtesy of all the work that has gone through this particular kump meeting we wish to get to a session whereby we want to appreciate guests the church the eldership the planning committees the kump meeting committee and without much ado I'm going to go straight away I'll be inviting pastor Nairobi shortly after this and we want to appreciate in a very special way pastor Jean Donaldson want to appreciate pastor Mazuba Lavmo we're going to appreciate the heralds choir hallelujah has in that rendition been awesome wow we only used to believe that Ugandans would beat us in football but this time you took it all this trophy has been in Tanzania but I can see it is now in Uganda hasn't the singing been wonderful yes God bless you God bless you mentally we wouldn't forget pastor Felix and of course Jaffet and Jess Rono you'll be getting to see them pastor Benjamin Okindo not forgetting pastor JP Mayua and of course the awesome wife and sister Jacinta Wery you'll be getting to see him professor Miriam Wita my latest found friend prof you've been profound and of course pastor Levin Moyo pastor Levin where you you're right there and about stewardship has been powerful and yes when we get successful we'll call you so that we share I think you left a powerful message this afternoon and of course I attended your class and that was beautiful and I want to remember also the never tired Dr. Jerusha Muga wonderful mum and my friend is the only Ghanaian friend I have pastor Dr. Daniel Ganu and our promise sticks ya I'm coming to Ghana courtesy of you very soon and of course Dr. Simon Ochanda not forgetting our pastorate pastor Nyaga pastor Jack Ogeda pastor Tirop and wow there's a man who's worked all through Soso had El Dabilia Paula while all these people are working there are some unsung heroes and these unsung heroes are some of them you won't get to see them especially for those of you who are watching us virtually the communications team wherever you are in a special way can you just be upstanding whether you're in the control room wherever you are just be upstanding please wait and let's give them a big amen it's been wonderful for those who had the opportunity to stay glued on our screens these people have done a nice job the other team and this is a team that we work with and they've done such a wonderful job to our guests I want to believe none of you slept hungry ya and you are all warm and comfortable and this has been courtesy of this wonderful group of the social comm of this church social comm department kindly be upstanding and mask and wave back social comm please be upstanding and mask and wave back this has been the team that has brought us this far and at this moment I wish to call upon our senior pastor pastor Peter Nyaga I had the opportunity of asking him hey pastor you don't look like you're stressed in any way and he was like why would I be stressed when we have such a powerful team pastor Pete please welcome come and let's appreciate our guests in a special way so at this point in time allow me to hand over to pastor Nyaga to bring us our guests as we have the team of social comm doing the handover of the gifts thank you thank you thank you so much elder Jeff elder Jeff is elder in charge of social comm and he's doing so well with the team thank you so much for providing very good leadership for the church I was going through the youtube platform and I have seen people crying and asking why is this comm meeting ending so one thing I wish it can be extended to tomorrow another one I wish it can go for one month I don't know what you're feeling inside here but the reality is the reality is kili chonamuwanzo lazima quna misho and so I think we come to the end of our great camp meeting the Lord has been so gracious just looking like we are starting and we are appreciating the Lord for his blessings in our meetings I'll be very brief because of time we need our pastor to one more time to speak to us before he takes his flight he's flying tonight I'm sure now he's mind and heart and everything is back home because he's thinking about the flight and all that in the next few minutes coming Allow me first to thank the church Nairobi Central SDA church you are amazing people I've been with you for long now and being asked to choose to go to another church or seal to choose on you there are people that are deeply in love with God and what amazes me about you is how you quickly think through on what to be done and do it so meticulously to the glory of God May the Lord bless you so much you have supported this event right from organization giving your tides and offerings and expenses for this camp it's been an expensive camp spending close to 3 million just on expense only we want to thank you for the great support that you have given us I also want to thank the church board really for providing leadership we have several meetings discussing and talking and seeing what can be done providing leadership I want to thank you so much the church board for your leadership especially the team of elders led by elder professor Loach we want to thank you so much for your leadership elder bill kindly can you come up front here and I want to invite the entire committee for the camp meeting just the camp meeting committee kindly come it's good for our visitors to see the people who have been spending time we started our meeting way early in this year I'm waiting for the committee members I meant the committee members yes thank you we have had several meetings over a number of months planning first thinking especially assembling the team of leadership that we have in terms of speakers it's not easy and we have had several meetings several meetings I've been the person in charge of the camp meetings and I can tell you this team has worked very very hard to make this meeting be the way you see it and sister Ruth come here thank you now let me talk about sister Usiri this lady is very instrumental she is the vice chair of the camp meeting committee silent but very dara and I think it's true behind every success man that is a woman and we want to thank you so much this team has been so gracious to us elder Bill this is the third year for the fourth year the fourth year being the chairman of the camp meeting committee together with sister we want to thank you so much even next year we ask you again to chair please I want to give you just a minute elder and sister just a minute to speak to the church happy sabat happy day I don't know what to say but it's truly an honor God has given us this opportunity as the committee to be able to plan and arrange for the camp meeting the pastors are also part of the committee although he has not mentioned that in terms of also helping us get the speakers we had to rely heavily on the pastorate so we also thank the pastorate for the assistance music is also part of this committee and I'm trying to look for Steve Biko I don't know I can't see him just to let you know he's also part of this committee and and the music department were able to assist us in identifying inviting and looking into the logistics for the choir from Uganda so we thank also the music committee for that and choir also is continue thanking you for the good music that you've given unto us thank you and members also we want to thank you sincerely for your support prayers and also contribution towards the camp meeting expenses in particular because that is where our money is used the social committee has been very instrumental I if this camp meeting was to take place just know the social committee did about 80% in terms of invitations, logistics flight, transport swallowship all those the social committee has really been instrumental and the guests have asked me to single out one person in particular Brenda Akedi thank you very much may God bless you abundantly that's all I have for you thank you and God bless you happy sabat I can only say I can only add and say that if you didn't come after we planned as a team great team prayers if you all didn't come as much as we would have planned this camp meeting would have not been there give our own success or failure it wouldn't have been there so I request all of us to make an understanding ovation by requesting all of you to stand up and say to God thanking God for what you did by coming and say hallelujah to God kindly stand up and say hallelujah to God thank you very much it is you who made this camp meeting happen by being present those online and those present God bless you and see you there when I will be present but not as how far is it here committee you can have your seat thank you so much for your leadership allow me to then come straight to the list of our guests and this the format I'm going to use I'll be mentioning the guest and then I'll invite you to come up front here and then we ask the social comment to appreciate you and then you go back and take your seat I will begin with our lovely powerful inspiring team from Uganda the heroes you are amazing people I think next camp meeting still you are coming back can I request you to stand all of you just stand as invite your leader to come up front here chat what you say this team arrived here on Friday morning where are in the morning and went the bus stopped there getting out of the bus I could feel something is happening here and I've been here every day with you I've seen your power, your zeal your commitment with the Lord bless you so much when you go back to Uganda go and tell your brethren there we love them so much, we love you and please do us one favor as in this church we have a date with God we want to meet with you there so when everything has been done and said about your ministry may we be found in this kingdom can I have your leader come and receive your gift thank you what do we say to them we have sister Ketikidai handing over the gift for the cameras wait for the lady there you go what do you say sir praise God we thank God for this chance that he gave us to minister to this cup meeting and we want to thank the organizing committee of this cup meeting thank you for giving us this chance and I assure you next time you call us we shall be available God bless you thank you so much we love you so much with the Lord continue blessing you on let me invite our brother and Mrs. Japheth Rono this couple was taking care of our college youth that they have been so inspiring I want to appreciate you and say thank you for accepting to come you are part of us and you have given us a powerful ministry for this week with the Lord bless you so much we appreciate your ministry in our church if they are not using you you can transfer your membership to our church God bless you you can just receive the gift elder please do the honors thank you so much you have a word for us please before you leave this thank you it was a wonderful experience Maryf actually wants to move to this church that's how good it is God bless you so much elder please get that name to our church and sport on next pastor thank you so much brother Japheth and your wife for being so kind to come to us allow me to bring a pastor Benjamin Okindo pastor Benjamin Okindo the youth approached me and they told me pastor we want pastor Ben to come for my meeting and speak to us I remember that day I was driving going some place and the youth leader called me and she told me this is what we want and I told them grant it and pastor we thank the Lord for you you've been a blessing to us he has not just been talking to the youth he has been doing the first someone in the morning very powerful messages if you go online you're going to get all his messages for this week pastor came along with his wife today where is sister Sheila she just left thank you pastor can you receive our gift wow elder moachi please do the honors pastor thank you so much and for your information pastor is pastor's brother this pastor is the brother to this pastor feeling the rest thank you so much what do you say sir good afternoon and happy Sabbath I am greatly honored and I was truly very happy to be among brothers and sisters in Christ may the Lord bless you thank you pastor pastor came to us from pipeline SDA church district when you go back pastor say hi to your congregation the next guest I want to bring online is pastor our former senior pastor I still call him our former senior pastor and he is a member of our church and our youth director pastor JP pastor JP we introduced him in the morning because we were online and I feared he was being introduced again in Glowland where was the guest speaker but this afternoon he has been able to come and to be with us we love you so much pastor and we thank you for your ministry in this church because you know pastor and his wife are bereaved yesterday we hand a team all our speakers and a few of our members visit with them in the afternoon pray with them we thank you that it could be strong to talk to our young people even when you are bereaved at the same time being the guest speaker in the other camp with the Lord bless you so much pastor JP always a pleasure seeing you please receive a gift on behalf of your church yes God bless you to our guest I just let you know I served under pastor JP as my senior pastor not too long ago thank you so much pastor for coming back in this church this is the first time pastor JP has left up here without saying something and pastor JP pastor JP due to demand please come back and give us a word yeah it's going to be very different and I know Sarah will be asking what happened yeah please happy sabah happy day I am humbled to stand on this pulpit and that's why you see me rush out because I can shed tears if I stay long this is very special and thank you church for honoring God we appreciate it and may the Lord bless you thank you thank you so much thank you so much pastor we want to go back to the conference you give them our regards and we thank them for allowing you to come and minister to us on this week let me bring sister Jacinta Ware sister Jacinta Ware she was taking handling our singles class and she even whispered to me that they have an agreement even after the camp they have made a regiment on all this of the meeting to have a number of sessions going forward thank you so much sister Jacinta was my chat member in new life chat before I came here that's where I knew her from and she's very very inspiring to our sisters this is the second time she's coming to minister to us in our road thank you God bless you please receive your gift sister Susan Muachi do as the owners she's been wonderful they are already at home please say something happy sabat happy day I just want to say thank you so much it has been a pleasure being with you and as we end the camp meeting I just want to say that there was that Paul told the Philippians that only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ so that whether I come to see you or am absent I may hear of your affairs that you stand in with one spirit for the gospel of Christ amen amen thank you so much God bless you once we go back to new life church pass our grants to them we appreciate the allowed you to come and minister to us in this week allow me to bring my teacher professor Muita whenever I see I remember those days in baraton wow spare humbling professor to serve with you this week and for the time in a row the church loves you and you know it's because of what you bring to our sisters and brothers in this church wow this was your teacher she was my VC your VC thank you so much you can tell us what kind of student pastor was happy sabbath everyone I just want to take this opportunity to thank Nairobi central church I did not come to minister instead I have been ministered to I really appreciate that and I won't forget the last 2 years I could not come this year again when I was preparing to come the CS for health said masks on I said Lord I must go to Nairobi central church and I thank God for this opportunity when we are a pastor's children we pastor in many ways so pastor Nyaga is now my dad because I'm a pastor's kid but he has been my student and there are so many here you can't believe it there are so many baratonians here I've been in baraton for the last 32 years so you can imagine how many students I have I thank God but Nairobi central church when I was in University of Nairobi this was our mother church so Nairobi central church you done a good job Doctor Chanda was my senior and many many many more I thank the Lord for the opportunity I don't take it for granted any time you want me for any service please call I will come thank you very much will surely call you thank you thank you so much let me ask pastor Moyo wow pastor Moyo you have touched lots of Moyos very many of them yeah pastor Moyo was dealing with marine couples from 0 to 10 and of course taking stewardship thank you so much pastor for accepting to come one more time God bless you so you have to come back again and come with her please when you go back give our grants to her our grants to her thank you can appreciate your talking thank you so much pastor Moyo he has had very good energy how many of you conquer let him just say a word before he leaves thank you Victor for handing over thank you so much happy sabbath church thank you for I'll be honest with you East African Hospitality it's always a joy to come here and Nairobi Central Church thank you so much for the time we had and may God bless you in a special way amen God bless you too thank you thank you so much pastor Moyo for accepting to come couples married 11 to 20 they got a saviour they saviours none than our own sister sister Milsent Onyoni I don't know how much Milsent can thank you we just called her on sabbath afternoon and sister we in trouble can you help and she said pastor what we have to to say but to accept thank you so much as a pastor I'm so proud to know within my church I have resource and your team has given feedback they need you more now I know where your strength is thank you so much alright sister Priscilla Kete I think you gave more of the hug than the gift that is okay we appreciate so much love thank you pastor I thank God for this opportunity to serve I think God wanted to fix my marriage and so I learned how not to be a destructive wife and I hope elder you learned how not to be a destructive husband yes I did and we agreed we are going to talk more and we are going to manage our money and we are going to love our children may God help us as we await his soon return amen thank you so much I will now invite my mom Dr. Jerusha Moga and now I invite her to come together with her husband wow this man has been praying for her every day as she stands to look at that love hand in hand wonderful Dr. Jerusha Moga has been an inspiration to so many young people and I keep on telling her she has no idea how many young people she has inspired in her lifetime I knew her before she knew me she inspired me when I was in college whenever we used to hear Jerusha Moga has got me to speak to us we want to stop we want to listen to her thank you so much ma'am we are what we are because of your inspiration God bless you we pray for a long a bit of life that may continue serving the people of God receive the small gift that we have for you sister Mary and Chola please to the owners thank you so much sister Jerusha you may say a word or you may hand it over to your loving husband the choice is yours I just want to say it is nice to be home it is nice to be a visitor in your own house and I want to thank the church for thinking about us and inviting us to come and just relax we didn't do much just relax we were fed and then we were ministered too we are going home full spiritually enriched I want to say I am or we are what we are because of Nairobi central church the church has ministered to us the church has encouraged us and the church has blessed us in many ways may the Lord continue to bless the church the 20 to 30 21 to 30 couples it is about renewing love that's all it is all about we have a lot of issues but we are renewing our love and may the Lord bless every home thank you isn't this a rich bank where you renew love look at that elders we have so much to learn in holding our wives hands Victor I hope the camera was able to capture that clip you should start trending thank you thank you so much Sister Jerusha was taking 21 to 30 class of marriage and so powerfully speaking to us on issues leadership I think we need her more on leadership in the church thank you so much ma'am allow me to also bring my it's another tisha of mine Prof Ghanu and please come with your wife I hope she's still with us Doctor Ghanu oh great man by the way where is ma'am she's somewhere else she has to come thank you whenever we invite pastor he comes alone or either she comes and hinds herself it's good for church to see because we've been using pastor in so many occasions in this church and next time we'll be giving her a pulpi to preach too thank you thank you so much ma'am and Prof they are both professors at the University of the Advantage University of Africa we love you so much pastor at your ministry ma'am thank you so much for coming we have not done a very good job for the whole week and you can see some debt in your husband forgive us from tonight we are releasing him to you thank you receive his gift on his behalf the Charles Chola please hand over that to Prof and Prof this is Prof on because I think these are the first Adventist professors who are married to each other that I know please in Ghana if I want to tell you thank you I will say midasi pa thank you very much midasi pa can you say that midasi pa thank you midasi pa midasi pa let ma'am say something thank you so much Prof please also say something God is good and all the time may I also use this opportunity to say thank you to Narobi Central Church I know we are your friends every other year you invite us and we thank you for that God bless you all thank you you are awesome I had the opportunity of seeing ma'am carrying the suits of Prof and she was calling them with so much diligence when you tell me she is a professor now I am astonished awesome thank you so much back to the university pass our regards to the Weth Chancellor and the team of leadership there we thank you to come to serve us for the whole week let me proceed of course of time now we had Professor Felix Poniatoske from AUA but unfortunately yesterday and today he was unable to be with us he fell sick and pastor we want to appreciate you in absentia we were asked through Bible study it was very inspiring discussions and I want to invite pastor to come and receive his gift because your neighbors Prof Ghanu come and receive his gift I am sure your neighbors should be able to get him and hand it over to him tell him you are praying for him and because he has not completed and what was drink for this week soon you inviting him to come back and complete assignment sister Brenda please do the honors on behalf of pastor Felix please receive that and Prof you can say what would you that I don't know I believe I want to believe that pastor Felix will be saying thank you if he were here and I will deliver the thank you so much God bless you Prof thank you we keep praying for Prof go and tell him you are praying for him and ask members to continue praying for him and also his country Ukraine because he has family members there are other teams that are faced with the world that is there let's keep them in prayer Daktari Tamion please man of Godella please come Doctor Chanda we knew Doctor Chanda when I was a student and we were being housed at South Church as a student we were hustling they are selling books for school fees that's when I came to know Doctor Chanda and his family and they could invite us for dinner when we were almost so weak we would go and feast in his house thank you Daktari please receive this thank you very much Doctor Chanda award for us good afternoon church just want to say thank you very much for welcoming me to speak to you on matters of health just to remind you of 2 things touch on verse 2 brothers brother I wish you that you be in health as much as you do spiritually and 2 Corinthians 5 verse 14 for the love of Christ constraints me for I am convinced that if one man died he died for all and he died for all so that those who live may no longer live for themselves but for him who loved them and gave himself for them if you live for Christ and you live for others life is worth living live for others may God bless you thank you so much Doctor Chanda doctors are very busy and to be available the whole week for us here it's again a big sacrifice thank you so much Daktari for love we were blessed to have literature evangelists with us and I want to believe that a number of us have taken those books I want to invite the literature evangelists to come that they can receive their gift I'm told one of them has stepped out but those could be in please come brother Isaiah Maingo thank you thank you thank you and brother Elijah Monserigo are you still in Monserigo thank you thank you thank you show your leadership we appreciate so much for assigning you to come to our church thank you so much elder it was nice meeting you and we are Monserigo alright please please do the honors of handing over their gift a gift is a collective gift for the three of them and we appreciate the ministry in our church just a word I appreciate for those who to feast our desk but for those who didn't have time tomorrow as we books from here here at around nine so please come and if you want any book and for those who wanted the book but in time back home we will be attending our meetings what greetings thank you thank you so much our evangelist and it's been nice having you there and thanks for the books now allow me also to invite my two colleagues pastor Ogeda and pastor Tirob and I'm inviting you together with your spouses just come up front these are our pastors we have worked around the clock with pastor Ogeda and pastor Tirob make sure this camp succeeds and you have seen them this week pastor Ogeda was in charge from Saturday up to Monday pastor Tirob was in charge from Tuesday up to Thursday and I was in charge today and yesterday and I laughed the teamwork that we are having in running the church thank you so much pastor Ogeda and pastor Tirob without you this thing could have succeeded May the Lord bless you where is pastor she's not in thank you thank you thank you it's been wonderful having our pastors and at this point we wish to seek that sister Ketgidai to the owners of handing over the gifts to pastor Jack Ogeda wow what do we say to pastor thank you for your sacrifice he's been with us all through and let him say something after the other pastors been appreciated now to pastor and ms Tirob through courtesy of Brenda welcome welcome thank you so much pastor Tirob that could be your first gift many coming so hanging still please don't leave thank you so much church indeed the way we have seen exemplary leadership in Nairobi central church cooperation indeed I know that we are going to end this camp blessed people we are filled and we can go up to another again may the lord bless you all I didn't know Nairobi central church I didn't know how warm are people you are thank you for being so large yet so accommodating to make everyone feel at home thank you so much for the appreciation and may god bless those who planned it thank you so much pastor Tirob and pastor Geda thank you thank you so much pastor Tirob pastor Tirob we are generous just keep stay with us see you again next pastor wambian ulyze ulyza pastor pastor Nyaga he has a gloss on his face even he will be glossy soon thank you thank you so much I mean to our guest pastor Tirob just joined us the other day he is very new in our chart but he is catching up and we thank you pastor he came and he has just seated in and is already providing a lot of leadership for this church pastor and your family we thank you so much and also I invite elder bill the chairman of the community it's going to appreciate him oh yeah in fact after I was succeeding in the speaker I had it over elder bill to do all correspondences and discussion to the speaker and have him comfortable come and he has done that so very well thank you so much elder very humble man so have spoken but very very firm in leadership and your family yes four years as committee chair wow we should graduate you now to be the first elder of the church thank you so much elder bill he is that humble he has smiled back thank you thank you so much now I have left two of our speakers and I saw some of my colleagues signalling me they come forgetting I was not forgetting I knew very well pastor Laven Lafmaw and the reason why I left him is to introduce him because he has been the main speaker for the children camp yes man and pastor I want to really appreciate you and invite you to come up front here and Lafmaw Lafmaw Pasta can't wait I told you he is already Pasta Jean I like this psych you have Pasta it's coming Pasta it's coming it's coming hang in there brother alright where is the children ministry leader he is a tabi could you be in oh she is not in on behalf of the children department I know the volunteers have been appreciated from the department but I want to say this church we we've got to in a big way say thank you for our children teachers in this church the work they are doing the sacrifice the commitment even the resources in this ministry is amazing and we want to thank you all volunteers for this week they were a hundred plus of them in that team we want to say thank you so much and I'm sure Pasta has seen your commitment as you are serving with him we want to thank you Pasta you were in charge of that camp my daughter was a member of your congregation and she could tell me every day what you taught them God bless you so much as go back to your country let them know that we love you and we love them, let's keep faith let's keep serving the Lord just appreciate our little token Pasta chero plays to the honors this is the only pastor who has a name that is a salmon love more I didn't know men love hugs here we go spiritual hug alright hey allow me to say thank you to the church at Nairobi central the leadership and the children ministry for the work that we have done allow me also to say thank you to the Zambian community in Nairobi I think there should be some amen amen thank you so much we praise the Lord it was an owner that I just learned that our deputy high commission also came to worship with us I think the wife is around here with us can Zambian community stand he is also around amen wow wow amen thank you so much from today this is your church this is where Zambians come thank you so much allow me to leave you with one verse Philippians 1 verse 6 that he who has begun a good work in you will completed until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ amen God bless you pastor may you pass our love to your family and to your church thank you I want now my friend finally finally finally it's here Pastor Jean Jonathan he's been waiting man you're not missing your flight wow wonderful pastor we thank the Lord for you it's all good we thank the Lord for you pastor what many of us may not know pastor accepting our request to come we started planning but somehow along the way being changed from inside he communicated to me that pastor I'm not able to come I got so frustrated and he sent another person to come talk to me to let me understand where he can't come and I told him no no no you have to come and we prayed the Lord made a way out for him to be here how many of you have been blessed by his ministry hallelujah thank you so much pastor we love you so much pastor thank you very much I'm only feeling for you because I know which is here the rest of you has already gone back but once you're back please let your wife and your family and your conference team know that we appreciate so so much we're inviting you again and that time please remember you have to come with your wife no don't give us excuses anymore you have to come with her thank you we appreciate our little gift wow we have Shepardes handing over the gift wow this is nice yeah what do we say thank you wow it looks like there's a double portion I am so embarrassed my sister gift is for pastor also it's for the wife so from the Shepardesis to the other Shepardesis alright you see how wonderful it is to be a pastor's wife you just receive gifts in absentia please pastor Jean say a word just a word first I am so embarrassed by coming up don't worry yeah but I do want to say how much I deeply appreciate opportunity to come to not only share with you but to also receive so much from you and the kindness shown by this church and its leadership has been otherworldly you just don't find that in many places and I will be leaving not only physically but I will be leaving with many things that will remind me of this experience the friendships that were forged here that will blossom and continue and so I will always have a link to this church and it will always have a very warm heart in my heart I want to say a very special word of thanks to your senior pastor and your other pastoral leadership who have been so gracious in sharing their pool pit so gracious in all of the things the little special things that they have done to make my stay here a memorable one and I want to thank all of the pastors personally and I want to thank your chairperson Billy Opala who we have had a great time together over the last several months and he feels just like my brother he is stuck closer to me almost than a brother and I really appreciate his ministry of you have a real jewel in terms of a person who can coordinate and use their administrative skills in Elder Opala and I just want to thank him personally all of the social team who have been so special and gracious and particularly to this congregation who has come out night after night and morning after morning to support this program the only thing that is missing believing is I didn't get my Kenyan name oh your king Kenyan name we gave you one the other day no we put that one aside so you want one more you want us to try it again we want to try it again can we give him a Kenyan name yes let's hear one choice oh Otieno ok let's hear from this middle side Mogambi Mogambi so I hope you are choosing and one more from that side Karyuki Modo and Yoba you can see he said Karyuki Karyuki so which one do you choose oh Mogambi Mogambi was the middle one from him ok Mogambi ok Mogambi so let's give a hearty clap Mogambi we expect Mogambi let me let you know the name you have chosen my brother I have interacted with here who stays the other side it's called Mogambi what did you say the brother lives in the US and his name is Mogambi so you will be two of you you met him here so profound thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much I request we have that carried for you yes we have an able brother here he has a six pack he can carry six of those thank you so much thank you so much wow wow wow hasn't Pasta done very well what do we say to Pasta Nyaga now allow me to bring to you main speakers who was doing prophecy and if there is a difficult subject that many of us hardly understand to date is prophecy and that has been none other than Pasta Peter Nyaga amen I wish to request that Isabel please come and receive this together with your husband this is a very supportive lady and I love Isabel because you always show Pasta so much love please swing one hug on our behalf wow this is a wonderful couple may I have the honors of handing over this to you and as you hand it over to Pasta Nyaga he is wow they have a coded language for home Pasta Nyaga please say a word before I take over for the next session thank you so much and I'll be sent to church for inviting me to be one of your guest speakers when the invite came we started praying about it the Lord has been faithful and I want to believe that you've been blessed I pray that if you invite me again I'll come back we surely will it's been wonderful having you Pasta and thank you for this wonderful organization that you've rendered for our church and Pasta I believe and I keep saying it of late that it's important that we appreciate somebody when he's alive and tell him how good he is you're a good man God bless you thank you wow that brings us to the end of our gifting session for the rest of us who didn't get gifts Sister Priscilla Brenda Jeff our sign interpreter our elders our pastors and the rest of us you have a bigger gift amen so please take that home with you it's been wonderful all of you have done such a nice job and at this point in time I wish to bring this to closure we're going to get a brief summoner from Pasta Jean before he leaves but before that our choristers are you here you can give us one item our choristers and then thereafter Pasta Jean shall be coming over and for me who has done this job I'm normally forgotten please just give me a big amen thank you so much and allow me to bless myself too thank you and brother Biko and to our choristers you people always do a nice job Felix our sisters you are awesome I don't mind being your MC during your wedding in advance amen we have beautiful people here and to the Herald choir we give you there's more choice so whoever sings good please feel free to have a ticket to go together Felix it's been nice you are taken God bless you all and let's just get to listen yeah want to do five strong songs alright you shall do your songs one or two after we are done with the summoner alright somebody actually called it there the after party you will stay here and keep singing God bless you all and let's get to hear from this wonderful voices asanteni happy sabah aren't we all happy to be here today happy sabah and happy day we'll sing hymn number 422 Marching to Zion adukestas to rise as we sing this song even as we come to the climax of our come meeting 422 Marching to Zion beautiful beautiful Zion we're marching to Zion join in a song we tweet our chord join in a song we tweet our chord and bless us around the throat we're marching to Zion beautiful, beautiful Zion we're marching up what's to Zion You're the beautiful city of Khaustusim Whoneva Chilking The children of the Hadespeak Belaching Tuzah Old city of Khaustusim Old city of Khaustusim Swams up We're marching through the ground We're marching through the ground To fair to fair road Tuzah It's the beautiful city of Khaustusim And our 20s IU You can see I'm totally discombobulated Oh brothers and sisters, we've come To the end of this camp meeting At least in terms of time and space But if you're like me, it will be a memorable camp meeting And one that I will cherish in my heart For a long long time Our time is short So let me call your attention to our passage of consideration As we have our closing message for this camp meeting If you have your Bibles, want to call your attention to the book of Hebrews The book of Hebrews, the 12th chapter And I'd like to read several verses in your hearing Beginning with verse one As has been our custom I want to invite you to stand as we give honor to God's word Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded By so great a cloud of witnesses Let us lay aside every weight The sins which so easily ensnare us And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us Looking unto Jesus The author and finisher of our faith Who for the joy that was set before him Endured the cross Espising the shame Now has sat down At the right hand Of the throne of God I want to talk as the Lord she'll guide On the subject Keep your eye on the prize Keep your eye on the prize Father We thank you For all that we have experienced On this blessed Sabbath day And now as we dare Open your word one more time We ask that you would honor us With your presence Bless us Open our minds Open our hearts Be with us and keep us And hide your serve and I pray in Jesus name Amen and amen You may be seated in the presence of the Lord Keep your eye on the prize My brothers and sisters and friends and guests The Christian experience has been Metaphorically linked to many things in scripture In Ephesians chapter 6 Paul tells us it's like a wrestling match Against a cosmic enemy In first John chapter 3 verse 1 and 2 we have the picture of a Tender father and son relationship In second Timothy we have The motif of a hardened soldier Battle tested tough and ready But in our text of consideration Hebrew writer calls our attention between the life of a Christian And the celebrated Olympic foot race runners Who ran their races throughout the Roman empire In chapter 11 the writer it eloquently reminds us Of the faithful hall of fame Which houses the forerunners who finished their course With distinction And now in our text he reminds us that it is our turn To run the race of grace To pick up the baton to finish the course To press toward the mark And to keep our eyes on the prize Of all of the games instituted by the Greeks and the Romans The Olympic foot races were the most highly esteemed and prestigious Young men throughout the empire Would shrink from no hardship or effort in order to achieve victory And to hear their names declared as champions They would subject themselves to vigorous preparatory training And they did it for one prize There was no recognition for being runner up No second place no silver meta no bronze medal There was only one prize and one winner The race itself was arduous and brutal And it was not unusual for runners to literally die From exhaustion before crossing the finish line It is interesting to note just parenthetically That the Greek word for athletic contest is argon For which we derive our English word agony And referring to these races as a figure of the Christian experience The Hebrew writer hopes to vividly impress our minds With what it takes to win the high prize of the high calling of Jesus Christ And his point is clear if ancient runners put aside every indulgence Made every supreme sacrifice subjugated themselves to rigorous discipline And they did it only for a corruptible crown How much more important is it for us Who have eternal interests to do it for heavenly aspirations In other words the Hebrew writer is calling upon us To exercise a determination and discipline In the will and way of God For the race for the Christian is not a hundred yard dash Where you get to show off for a short period of time You are not in a relay race where you get to pass off to someone else No the Hebrew writer is talking about a lifelong marathon That lasts until the end of you or the end of time Now marathon is a different kind of race Because it is not based on how fast you start Its outcome is determined on whether you finish the course Up the mountains of hardship down the valleys of challenges Through the ravines of struggle into the contrary winds of affliction And across the troubling waters of difficulty And I want to suggest to you today That that's why our passage takes on profound significance For it is pregnant with insights that if heated and followed Will allow even the weakest Christian To run the race with certainty until you hear those immortal words Well done my good and faithful servant So the first thing I want you to see from the text is that you must remember The bible says in verse one of chapter 12 in the book of Hebrews You are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses Now ancient runners performed before crowds Consisting largely of wealthy people who had little interest in the runners They were there because of the status points that they received by being seen At such a momentous and important event They were spectators they were not fans and there is a difference Spectators just viewed But fans cheer the home team on Spectators are moved by the event But fans believe in the cause Fans as opposed to spectators Live and die with their prospective teams And anyone who's ever watched a sporting event knows That fans can provide a decided advantage They can rattle the opponent by their vocal input They can inspire the home team to extraordinary extraordinary effort Well the writer is saying as you run your Christian race Be inspired by remembering that you are surrounded by a great cloud Of fans The writer is saying if you find yourself slowing down Getting off track go back to heaven cd drive called the word of god Push the start button We're able testifies That there is power in the blood Fast forward to where enox says I want Jesus to walk with me Rewind to that part where Abraham Raises the knife while singing trust and obey For there is no other way Turn up the volume long enough to hear moses speak from the heart You can have all this world But give me Jesus Here paul say I can do all things through christ Who's strifing of me What I'm trying to suggest is when you are spiritually exhausted If you get lead cramps along the way in your journey in your religion When you feel like you are running on empty if you become so winded that you are tempted to give up Turn back to chapter 11 Read about the hall of faith and remember those that went on before Look at the list Noah the drunkard Abraham the liar moses the convicted felon Rahab the hollet David the adulterer and murderer Samson the lustful food And yet despite their shortcomings They finished the course The bible said they attained a good report And that's good news Because if these men and women of light passion And same struggles receive the prize It means defective and infeeble though we may be You can make it if you try So the first thing is to remember The second thing is If you're going to keep your eye on the prize and finish the course You've got to reject some things Look at Hebrew's chapter one Lay aside every weight and sin that so easily besets us Olympic runners did not want anything to slow them down Nothing that added weight was retained And frequently they ran the race In the near nude Because they did not want a whole lot of clothing on Likewise brothers and sisters We cannot afford to be hindered in our race Which means as Christians I have to understand that I forfeit the right To hold on to stuff that God specifically told me to let go Worry, doubt, unbelief, anxiety, burdens, guilt, emotional debt from others Jesus said cast all your cares upon me For I care for you Come to me all ye that labor And are heavy laden And I will give you rest Don't you know brothers and sisters when you hold on To worry and doubt and unbelief and anxiety and burdens and guilt That you are actually stealing from God You are a child of the key You have no business conducting your affairs As if you have no God When you have trouble in your life Take it to Jesus Develop the posture of the songwriter I must tell Jesus all of my troubles I dare not bear my burdens alone I must tell Jesus for Jesus can help me and Jesus alone Notice the text The the the Hebrew writer says that no vice no habit no propensities or sin Or to continue unchallenged undisturbed in our lives For the race is too serious And you cannot afford to be a seventh day at finish by day And a Babylonian by night Remember The second thing is to reject But the third thing is if you're going to keep your eye on the prize You've got to have resolve You've got to run With endurance the race that is set before you For an ancient olympic runner to make it to the finish line They had to endure the rigors of the race Endurance is the ability to withstand adversity You will not obtain the prize without understanding that you cannot make it up there Without going through something down here Easy street and the straight and narrow path never intersect And God has never promised any of us A calm passage He's only promised a safe landing God is not looking you over for medals and medallions and degrees and diplomas He's looking for the scars That come from sacrificing for the kingdom And it takes resolve To run the christian race In order to get the prize you've got to remember That you've got a whole host of people In light passions who have made it And you can make it too In order to reach the prize you've got to reject some things You've got to stop allowing worry and doubt To keep you from turning those things over the christ So that you can be free to run your ways And you've got to have resolve You've got to have endurance Sticking power But the last thing that I want to tell you that the text teaches Is not only must you remember Reject and have resolve But you got to learn how to reach Look at verse two and three Look to Jesus And consider him As an ancient olympic runner in order to be successful They could not afford to keep looking back Anybody that runs a race knows That if you keep looking back It won't be long before others will be passing you Nor could he waste time Focusing on what His fellow contestants were doing When you run your race you run your race Stop worrying about the race that others have to race His focus and attention must be dominated on the vision of finishing The finish line and getting the prize One tactic used by olympic runners Was to place strategically Their coach near the finish line The coach would position himself or herself In such a way that when the runner was nearing home He could see his coach The coach realized that the runner by this time would be exhausted But if he could just see the coach The coach was indispensable to the success of the runner Because nobody could inspire the runner like the coach The runner had supreme confidence in the coach Because he knew that his coach was eminently qualified to guide him to victory The coach was qualified because the coach was usually A former champion who had completed the race before And throughout the hardships of training Through all the bad days, through all the mistakes It was the coach who never lost confidence in the runner It was the coach who understood that the runner knew that the coach cared Beloved We are nearing home This race will soon be over The signs of the times are signalling That we are in the last lapse of Earth's history There is no time to look back No time to look around It's time to keep our eyes on the ultimate coach It's high time to wake up Because now is our salvation nearer than when we first believe Paul said it this way This one thing I do I forget those things that are behind And I reach Reach for the things that are before I press toward the high mark of the calling of Jesus Christ In other words, I stretch myself I singularly purpose to keep my eyes on the coach And our coach is Christ And what do we see when we see our coach We see a caring coach Who looks beyond our thoughts Sees our need Who knows just how much we can bear And whenever we need him He's always there Jesus ministry motto is I Had lift you back up again I see a qualified coach One who was touched with my infirmities One who was tempted in all points Like us Yet without sin He's a board certified savior He matriculated at a school on a hill far away He passed his final exams by staying on the cross long enough to declare It is finished He ranks first in his class Solo kumladi Because there is no other name Under heaven whereby you can be saved He graduated early on Sunday morning When Gabriel shouted at the tune You passed Jesus And he is capable Because he now lives to live To make intercession And anybody that comes to his office The throne room of God Will receive help in the time of trouble And he is a compassionate coach He'll take anybody's case Just come just like you are And he will in no wise cast you out I see a committed coach Because every time the soldiers plucked his beard Every time they Slapped his holy face and spit on him When earth became a shamed man And the sun refused to shine It was nature's way of saying Jesus quit When he dug his hands in the ground Sweat mingled with blood When he cried from the depths of his being Father take this cup The angel said don't do it Jesus They are not worth it When he could no longer see his father's presence Hanging like some gruesome tale Between heaven and earth His very soul said quit And yet he didn't give up Until he could declare it is finished Jesus crashed through the quitting points He kept his eye on the prize And the Hebrew writer says For the joy that was set before him Now don't miss that Our joy is him But thanks be to God His joy is us And he did what he did Even if just one of us Had decided that we wanted God's salvation Look down the corridors of time Saw your face in my face And the writer is saying that if anything ought to inspire us It ought to be what he has done for us In fact That he did what he did for us The fact that he did it for me and you Ought to be The information we need As we get close but weary And when we are weak and waxing in our feet grow weary We can remember the cloud of witnesses But if that won't do You can run with resolve But if that won't do When all else fails The Hebrew writer says When nothing else would do Your trump card Consider him Focus on the coach Keep your eye on the prize For the prize my brothers and sisters is not to the swift Not to the strong But to those who do endure to the end May Nairobi central Be full of those Who keep their eye On the prize Kama church What do you say honestly It's real real blessings To all of us If you see the way we are still Seated This evening You know indeed That we are blessed And I want to take this opportunity to pray For all the guests As they travel Pastor Jin is traveling tonight We want to dedicate him to the Lord in prayer Pastor Moio And Love Mo are living tomorrow on Sunday We want to dedicate them to the Lord in prayer Sister Jerusha We want to dedicate them to the Lord in prayer Sister Jerusha We want to dedicate them to the Lord in prayer Sister Jerusha Sister Jerusha And all of us This choir will be leaving the day after tomorrow We want to commit them to the Lord in prayer And therefore I want to invite our speakers to come upfront I want to invite you to come upfront And I want to invite our elders to come also You know please we just want to Of course only one person will pray But your presence there standing there Is a sign that we are saying Lord watch over them As they travel Watch over them as they travel They have been a blessing to us And we don't know how we can gift them Or say thank you All we can do is just to say We are standing here with you Blessing you Dedicating you to the Lord That you may have a safe journey As you go back to your destinations Thank you so much elders Thank you so much I know elders have an anthem An anthem which I don't know what time we are going to sing it It's a wonderful one I've joined the choir For your information Thank you for receiving me I've seen my senior here Has also lifted the box We can't forget this box also We can't forget the boxes And To our guest Thank you The herald Are telling me That they have music, CDs And flash Please, if you Want to get one For yourself And even as a gift to somebody Please just see them I know people are going to get one For themselves and give to somebody also Now I want to request Our guest to kneel Our guest is including the choir Just kneel here As the elders will stand Remain standing behind Yes, all the guests please just kneel Thank you so much Thank you so much Our elders will remain standing And we are going to pray Allow me also to kneel with you And dedicate you to the Lord in prayer And church I hope Silently you will join me to pray For our wonderful guest Who have blessed us this entire week Let's close our eyes for a word of prayer Father Our Lord who lives above in heaven Jehovah Lord we are kneeling down Before you this evening to say thank you When we were planning We did not know That it will end this way And Father As we kneel before you We are kneeling before you As those who have been blessed by you Your sons are standing before you Just to say Lord thank you For these guests They have blessed us oh Lord We now understand Father that when you have blessed us The enemy does not sleep He also advances attack on us But Father we know that if we remain Trusting and believing in you We will overcome Heavenly Father We want to dedicate our pastor Will be living tonight Carry him on your wings as he travels to the US And Father when he arrives safely Indeed we will glorify and thank you Those who are living tomorrow First up Lord we want to dedicate them to you That as they travel to Zambia And Zimbabwe take them home Back safely for the glory of your name And Father the choir that is living to Uganda Watch over them as they travel Lord As they arrive Lord home And we get the report that they have arrived safely Lord we will glorify your name and thank you And Father even those who are travelling locally We dedicate them to you Lord Take them home safely And keep them safe home So that next time Lord we can invite them again This camp meeting was a reunion We have seen the people we could not see on earth Father now we know them Even as we meet in heaven Looking forward to meet them in heaven And thank you Lord for that opportunity Now Lord I want to pray for Nairobi Central Church In this boxes are prayer requests of your people Who needs breakthrough And Father today we've learned That you are ready to give us breakthrough in our life I dedicate all these prayers to you now As this camp meeting is coming to an end Give your sons and your daughters breakthrough We will be waiting for testimonies of heavenly Father Of breakthroughs you've given them Thank you so much for listening to our prayer Dispass us with your blessings now For this I pray believing and trusting In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior And let all of us say And God bless you up up just one minute please Eldar's Voice can you come and dismiss the congregation please Eldar's Voice Okay, while Eldar's Voice is coming to give us all just a brief song We are still in God's house. Let me have silence. We are in God's house. Those of us who are living live quietly. Can we have silence? Elders are going to do just one stanza of a song to give us all a farewell travel. Otherwise, on behalf of the church once again we thank all of you and we trust that the Lord will be with you and will continue taking care of you until we have such a wonderful camp meeting again with this will. Thank you and God bless you as Elders dismiss us. It's my prayer that we have all been blessed and now as the chair of 2022 camp meeting together with the committee we declare the camp is over. Amen. So I kindly request that we rise and say the grace. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore. Amen. Blessings everyone.