 Finally, the sky is bright and beautiful. Thank you, Enok and thank you, junior, for that. For those items of music. Welcome back to the afternoon segment here we have prepared a series of songs, we have the induction, no, investiture service, by the Pathfinder Ministry and thereafter, we will crown it with the armor week of prayer. We will crown the armor week of prayer We're having just an overview of all that has been taught and delivered during this week. We want to invite you to stay tuned. As usual, our prayer and our disease, you invite as many to partake of these blessings. The same team that was there in the morning is here to continue praising their maker and your maker too. Therefore, I'll request Mr. Felix the tree to pray for us. You forgot to say that all creatures are great and small. Thank you indeed. Okay, shall we pray? Now eternal Father, we are eternally grateful for this moment that you have allowed us to be here. May you inhabit our praises a lot. May you reach out to the listeners that they may be blessed to Lord even as they join in these courses and hymns of praise and worship to you. Is Mahambu prayer in Jesus' name? Amen. Amen. Thank you to start the afternoon session. We'll make use of Nyimbo Zetuza Christo. Wimbo nambamia mojana kumi 110 in Swahili. I believe the words will be shared or projected on the screen. In English it says there is a gate that is wide. Rafi. Waisu Shinda. Thank you. The next song will get it from our SDA hymnal. It's hym number 415. This talks about the judgment. Yes. That Christ, the Lord, all power possessing. He came. Then we look at the judgment hour and what revelations you know fulfills. Okay, 415. Now the tune that you're going to is maybe if you're not so familiar with the song is Guide Me of the Great Jehovah. That's hym number 538. So this song 415, 538, they share the same tune. And I'll pick it up. Christo. I think about songs that speak about His coming. They can never be sung while in Swahili we say He vivi. Like that, like that. Yes, like that, like that. They call for power because Christ will not come in secret. He will command His army and the earth everything will be shaken. But I pray that we will not be the ones to flee but rather be ready to meet Him in the clouds of the air. In fact, as we talk about how ready we need to be to meet Him, the song in the SDA hymnal 440, How Cheering is the Christian Hope, is what we'll sing. Amen. 440 and although I was not at the University of Nairobi, I know the Juwanster members. This was like the theme. I think anyone who went through Juwanster at a certain time loves this song. So if you belong in that class, welcome as we sing 440, How Cheering is the Christian Hope. Thank you for that nice selection. Before we see our saviour, our hearts need to be cleansed. We'll do the song in Swahili, Nyimboza Christo 116, Miakumina Sita Una Osema, Moyo Saffi. One thing I of the Lord desire is that I be cleansed and made as white as snow. Nyimboza Christo Miakumina Sita. Can we it in harmony the first stanza? Second stanza the man? Amazing, I could hear them sing in French. It was a time they did that song in French. Great, we'll turn to him number 338 and we'll still follow the same order. I think I got mixed up a little bit. So 338 redeemed how I love to proclaim it. We'll do it in harmony. So just follow us how we sing. Then the second stanza if you're in a home, we have your mom, dad, uncle. If you're alone, if you're a man, you'll belt out the second stanza as the ladies do the third stanza. Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. I'll let Jo introduce the other song but I was reading someone and somebody asked, I think it was a meme, but how adventist are you? And the response was, well, I know the difference between him 337 and 338. Great, Jo, please introduce the next one. Thank you so much, Steve. We've talked about how redeemed we shall be and so we are still in the theme of heaven and we are going to sing song number 464 that says, when can I read my title clear to mansions in the skies? I'll bid farewell to every fear and wipe my weeping eyes. 464, maybe not so many, maybe familiar with it, but I'm certain you've had the tune somewhere 464. Two mansions here. Thank you for that selection. Now we want to do the last title, maybe one or two, before we asha in the pathfinders for the investiture service, which will be brief but amazing. Not all may be represented here, but a few. I know the rest will follow from home, but those who are here will represent you who have qualified in their respective classes. O brother, be faithful. Heem number 602. I get encouraged that despite this pandemic, the online service has enabled us to interact virtually with many who will not have been able to reach to. I can mention very many names whom we see commenting, but the encouragement we can give you through your screen, your laptop, your phone is be faithful for Jesus soon will come. O brother, be faithful. 602. Unison? O brother, be faithful. Soon Jesus will come for whom we have waited so long. O soon we shall end us home and join such deep, such unbound. Ever with Jesus, may you abide and find peace, comfort and love in him. Stay tuned as we share in our blessings. This is Nairobi Central SDA Church. Go bless you. Good afternoon viewers. I welcome to this afternoon's session. My name is Steve Kisuka. I'm here on behalf of the Adventure Club. Just to let you know what this club is about. Adventure Club is a seventh day advantageous church sponsored program under the youth ministry. And this club is open to all children who are 4 to 9 years old. And the aim of this club is to help children grow. And they grow joyfully in wisdom and stature and in favor with both God and man. And the classes in adventurer are busy bee who are 6 years, sunbeams are 7, builders 8 and helping aunts 9 years old. We have had a few challenges, especially this year. And our main challenge has been the COVID-19 pandemic which because we usually have regular adventurer club meetings, this was impossible. We have special services such as adventurer day, investiture day, these were all impossible. And even today we are having an online investiture for the very first time because of this challenge of COVID-19. We usually have community services and activities such as in gathering and singing bands. All these were suspended. So to the Pathfinder Club Director, on behalf of the Adventurer Club Director, I bring before you a total of 22 adventurers from helping aunts who are 9 who are crossing over to the Pathfinder Club. I will read out the names and request you and your team to receive them because they are following right online. They are the following Aaron, Opio, Caesar, Odongo, Agneta, Mihaki, Desiruth, Moseti, Omosa, Hawi, Oyeke, Meech, Alexander, Neli, Chelangat, Hera, Terika, Patience, Rono, Lexand, Pipim, Grace Pendle, Blessing Mudungu, Natasha, Sahandonga, Okia, Edling, Chepkwet, Joy, Matoya, Roy, Alvin, Masimba, Edgar, Otino, Immanuel, Gweath, Maria, Hera, and Darryl, or Piatah. Now, as before, I invite you to the helping aunts, these children who are crossing over. Just a word for you. I am reminded of your sincere faith in Christ Jesus that you have been taught in Adventurer Club by the Adventurer teachers and all the life skills you acquired in that class. And what more shall I say? I have made to take a recount of how you have been obedient, pure, true, kind, respectful, attentive, helpful, thoughtful, and reverent. So, the Lord be with you as you cross over to Pathfinder Club. I, together with all the Adventurer teachers, we will miss you. So, I invite that the Pathfinder Club director together with this team to accept these 22 names that are crossing over to Pathfinder Club. Welcome. Now, because of the circumstances around us, we could have done it much better but they have come, they have acknowledged. So, we wish you well as you cross over to Pathfinder and God bless you. Happy Sabbath and a happy day. My name is Brandon Kiprono Maywa. I'm here on behalf of the Pathfinder Club and I'm here just to give you an overview of what the Pathfinder Club is about. The Pathfinder Club is made up of five classes, namely the friend class which consists of the children between the children of ages 10. We have companion class which consists of children who are 11 years old. We have the friend companion explorer. Yes, we have the explorer class which is children of age 12. We have the ranger class which is children of age 11 and the voyager class age 14 and the last class in Pathfinder is the guide class. Now, this year with the coronavirus we have not been able to meet physically. However, that did not stop us from meeting. We were able to meet through the zoom on the days we were supposed to meet and we thank God that up to now we have completed or we have come this far and we thank God for the opportunity that has given us and we are here to invest our students to move on to the next class. If they are in friend class they will move on to the next class and so on and so forth. We thank you and God bless you. Good afternoon and happy Sabbath. Once again we gather here this afternoon to invest Pathfinders who have been attending class as Tisha Brandona said from the beginning of the year to this point in time. Like he mentioned unfortunately due to COVID-19 pandemic we were unable to meet physically but we thank God for parents we thank God for the dedication of the Pathfinders that we were able to meet on every alternate Sunday very regularly as we were expected to to this point where we are now able to invest the Pathfinders. We also thank God for enabling us to complete the Pathfinder curriculum we thank God for enabling us to complete some of the honours that are mandatory for each and every one of the classes that Tisha Brandon has talked about and so at this point in time we just want to come before God and basically thank him for enabling us to go through a curriculum amidst the challenges that we have faced this year and more especially for providing the means to the parents to enable the Pathfinders attend class it basically means that on every Sunday it basically means that on every Sunday that we are supposed to meet the parents are able to make provision for the children to attend class online. As we begin this program I just want to introduce to you the team that you might not be able to see for obvious reasons but we have our director in charge of the club here with us this afternoon we also have the director in charge of girls with us as well and we have the Pathfinder team that is in charge of drills ready and committed to be able to showcase what they've learnt throughout the year. At this point I'd like to ask the drills team to present to us the Pathfinder pledge and the Pathfinder law. Pathfinder pledge by the grace of God I'll be pure kind and true I'll keep the Pathfinder law I'll be a servant of God and a friend to man. The Pathfinder law is for me too keep the morning watch do my honest part care for my body keep a level eye work softly in the sanctuary keep a song in my heart go on God's errands As you would rightfully see or as you would have really noticed the group in front of us is made up of girls only unfortunately that means that parents we are not doing justice to our boys we need to make sure that boys attend the club and are dedicated so as to be able to take up the mantle of leading the church and just taking the cue the fact that this week was ammo week it is important that as men in our homes and as fathers in our homes we instill in our sons the desire to serve God the girls as you can see here have been very dedicated and it is if you had a keen eye from the point of induction to this point you'd realize that it's probably only one or two boys who have been in attendance but most of those who have been coming forward have been girls and girls we want to thank you for your service we want to thank you for your dedication and we want to thank you for your commitment I hope that this will carry on for those who are moving on to Voyager those who are moving on to Ranger ETC that this will continue so that you're able to serve God and serve man as the pledge dictates at this point in time I'd like to invite the Pathfinder Director to come forward and charge the various Pathfinder classes who are graduating to the next class as we move forward with this Investure Service Happy Sabat once again one of our deputy directors as said my name is Asulman Ochola I'm the director for the Pathfinder Club Nairobi Central SDA so to the Pathfinders and Adventurers today you have completed the work outlined in both Adventurers and Pathfinder class the virtual insignia you are receiving today represents the highest ideals of the Seventh Day Adventist Youth Organizations the insignia you should help you for your daily life as you abide with adventuring and Pathfinder pledge as well as the law therefore I charge you both for the helping hands who are actually moving from Adventurers to Pathfinders and the Pathfinders as well that by the grace of God you endeavor every day to cherish those high principles and to live through out your words and actions that by so doing you may prove to be a true servant of God and a friend to man may God keep you true to Him as you serve Him both at the local church at the conference level the Seventh Day Adventist Church worldwide I will therefore call our guest after this so that he will be able to pray then he will be able to proceed on with the work of the Lord as we continue to bring souls into Christ before he comes I just want to make the following announcements that we are actually ending our term for this term today we will be able to open at a time when it will be communicated later probably by January and I want to thank the parents I want to thank the teachers I want to thank the Pathfinders themselves as well as the entire church who actually have been supporting us in this ministry thank you very much for those who would still be having assignments that were not submitted right on time kindly please do so with your respective class teachers thank you very much I welcome the man of God to come and give prayer to the children thank you good afternoon everyone forgive me sir I will divert just a bit I noticed and I was really concerned especially within the context of the ammo we weak of prayer there was someone who mentioned that we've got girls only and I'm wondering where the boys are because these boys are going to become men amen and you're going to call a preacher all the way from America or from Zimbabwe to come and speak to the men to get the men back into church to get them back on track and yet we have an opportunity to have the men or the young boys to be trained to become God fearing men now imagine all these ladies when they grow older which adventist man is going to marry them when they've not grown together in the church so I'm appealing to the parents to the men, to the fathers in this church to the mothers in this church let's encourage our young boys to come and be part of pathfinders so that we can have a church that is complete a leadership which is complete which has men and women who fear God, amen thank you for allowing me just to make that comment 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 that we can be witnesses to this wonderful arm of the youth ministries of our church the pathfinders, the adventurers the youth leadership training that we are giving to these young people the pledges and the pathfinder law and an understanding of the mission and an understanding of adventurers will teach our children to love God as they grow I pray in a special way and I want to thank you for all the efforts that these young people have put into their curriculum in order to be invested to today I also thank you for the leadership of the youth department in this church and the work that they have done to ensure that even in these circumstances of COVID-19 there is an investiture thank you so much Father we also encourage the young boys in the church and the young men Father we pray that may you bring their minds to a point where they understand and appreciate the importance of pathfinders so that Father we may have the blessing of knowing that we have instilled in the coming generation the fear of God as we are instructed in your word blessed be your name thank you so much for the support that the church has given ultimately Father may our work on earth be a work that enables us to enter into heaven in Jesus name we have prayed amen may God bless you Happy Sabbath once again thank you for joining us this afternoon for our afternoon service we have just done the investiture and now we are moving into crowning the ammo week of prayer and with Pastor Moyo he is the one who just spoke and prayed and so we are looking forward to that our message is going to be about faith and based on Hebrews 11 and so to that regard our opening song shall be song number 304 Faith of our Fathers thank you very much for that song happy Sabbath everybody I am very happy to be here at the conclusion of the Adventist Men Organization week of prayer I believe that all of us who have attended from beginning to end have been blessed and today we have had a climax of Jesus being the foreigner the one we should follow all of us ammo should be or is supposed to be one of the strongest departments within this church I am a bit disturbed like Pastor Moyo say that the pathfinders who are being inducted were mainly ladies but I am not worried about that because I believe we are after this ammo week of prayer we are on a trajectory to attain higher levels Pastor I can assure you that we are in a trajectory I was the leader of ammo before El Dabura took over and the person who gave me the letter when I was appointed ammo leader was none other than Brenda Brenda Kedi thank you very much I wanted to decline but Brenda was so nice she came very gently and gave me the letter while my wife was there and she said you have been appointed an ammo leader and the way she was smiling I couldn't refuse Brenda God bless you you don't know what you have done to some of the leaders around the way you have been presenting yourself the way you presented me with the letter was wonderful and God bless you for that therefore even within ammo we still have to have ladies to be able to directors in various directions and to give us the touch of kindness which comes with godly service we thank ammo leadership for having arranged this week and I believe all of us have been blessed ammo in the past has been dealing mainly with prison evangelism and because there are so many prisons and the ammo could not go to all prisons we selected two prisons that is Kamiti and Athe River and I can tell you we did a lot in terms of baptizing people who had given their lives to Christ and a lot of people gave their lives to Christ and they became they reformed have been released what we are grappling with now is just how to integrate them into the society the other area ammo has been working on is public evangelism in public evangelism we have had a lot of evangelistic campaigns in Nairobi area those of you who have been here remember our evangelistic campaigns in KICC Uhuru Park Kawanguare we set up a church there in Kamaeda in Kibira we set a church in Lindi in Bondo we established the Great Hope church in game we established the Nya Piedo church in Embu we established the church in one of the smaller towns there and the ammo as a department as planted churches far and wide within Nairobi and outside Nairobi the last place we were expected to go and establish a church was in North Hall in Masabit but we have had two tsunamis in this church the first one was something which went on in the church and then followed by the pandemic and this destabilized us a bit but God has been good God knows what's going to happen and fortunately during the nominations Burakafiani was appointed the leader of ammo and you know is a young man used to digital matters I wonder what would have happened if somebody of my age was given that leadership we would not even be having some of these things we are doing now but because God picked a young man who is up to the job at least we have managed to get this far and I would like to thank the ammo council for organizing this very very successful week of prayer the week of prayer has had a major impact people have been ringing me from Botswana people have been ringing me from all corners of the world they have been following this very powerful week of prayer and everybody has been blessed I believe that ammo is in a trajectory but we have to pick a few things which we have to focus on and I believe that we can focus on a few areas where we can make an impact going forward we have a new normal so we will have to improve our ICT the first person who gave about a million shillings for a call center was an ammo member we had an ammo meeting here and he offered one million shillings 500,000 shillings was supposed to go to Gatikuyu and 500,000 shillings was supposed to establish a call center here where we would have all the records we need we know the records within this church are needed to be improved a bit I believe that we can go in that direction so that we can reach people in a wider area than we have ever done before even when we are doing public evangelism we can do virtual evangelism globally and then know how we can get about following on people who have offered their lives to Christ this is an area where we need to focus and move on we also need to support other departments just as we worked with the women ministries in Gatikuyu ammo needs to give the leadership I mean as you all know the good Bible says that the man is the priest of the home we need to be the priests we need to be priests within the church and support all other departments to do proper evangelism a number of you know what Amu did together with amazing facts we need to train everybody within the church all the membership of the church to be able to conduct evangelism a number of people who are trained by amazing facts team who are now in Uganda have been doing evangelism and they have had a lot of successes I hope we can strengthen that personal evangelism and move with it so that we can answer to the great commission which was given by Jesus Christ for He went to heaven now the area in which Amu should be doing a lot is in the area of evangelism and you know when Jesus Christ was calling the disciples He called them just for one reason follow me and I will make you what if you are a disciple of God you know you have only one mission one mission is for fishing for men because that is the reason Jesus Christ came to ensure that He could reconcile the whole humanity to God and He gave us a commission to cooperate with Him in getting lost souls to reconcile with Him I believe this is the area which we should strengthen and we can strengthen this through using ICT and through training people training all members of the church to be able to conduct personal evangelism because it is not an assignment for pastors it is not an assignment for elders only it is an assignment for all members of the church Jesus is calling all of us to follow Him so that we can become fishers of men I would like to encourage the AMO Council to continue from this platform which has been given to us during this week let's move forward and have a serious impact in winning souls while we are still here and we should not fear fear is one of the worst things the only person we should fear is God we should not fear anything else pandemic, no pandemic we should go out and evangelize may God bless all of you I want to thank everybody who has participated in this program for the whole week the choirs have been wonderful the voices which have been coming when I talked to my wife she said that the voices who were singing today were wonderful all from the sopranos up to the basses were being heard clearly by people who are following on the various platforms I would also like to thank interpreter for those who are not able to hear I'd like to thank everybody every time I come here I'm very much impressed with the way the communication team here is organized I believe that you have a major role to play in the future may God bless you as you continue to support AMO and support the church in its activities God bless you and I would like to conclude by saying that our pastor our pastor is called Levan Moyer and you know Moyer in Swahili is what heart our pastor has been very passionate he is speaking to us from the heart this is the passion he should live in the youth who are here thank you very much pastor for what you have done and I believe AMO will be encouraged to move forward from now on and be able to produce some young people who can also have the word of God and have the mission in their hearts and be able to deliver the message the way you have done may God bless you with your family and when you go back home please send them our greetings and we look forward to seeing you again I've been to Zimbabwe several times my daughter was in Celusi Mission and I thought that Zimbabwe was going to be one of the top countries in Africa but there's something wrong we'll talk about that another time because it had a lot of potential in minerals, in human resources and in everything you could look for all the things which are troubling us in Africa can be sorted out if AMO members commit themselves the members who are committed in AMO in this church are just below 100 while we have a membership of about 7000 we need to get men to be committed to AMO work so that they can not only do church work but also be able by their examples and by their life to motivate our people in Africa to be able to attain certain objectives we want to obtain as Africans and one thing I've come out with is the whole concept of inclusivity it has been running through the week image of man I mean the image of God everybody has been created in the image of God and the fact that everybody else is a foreigner Jesus Christ and all of us should be able to go to the promised land who is going all of us with men being the priests Men, good afternoon everyone once again we want to thank God for the wonderful privilege that God has afforded us that we can come on this Holy Sabbath into His presence allow me to thank Nairobi Central Church for the warmth that I have received in this week of prayer thank you so much for the wonderful words and the eloquent and warm compliments but we give the glory back to God because it is Him who enables us to do what we do once again let me extend my gratitude even as this is the last sermon in our week of prayer let me extend my gratitude to God Almighty for the power that He has given us particularly me as I was sharing from the word of God what a privilege and an honor it has been thank you to those who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure that this program is a success I took a peak at the comments on the YouTube channel and I am so glad to know that we have people all the way from Canada the United Kingdom all parts of this globe who are watching and we have been following this week of prayer may God bless you in a special way there is one individual or should I say there is a couple I want to thank the couple that has hosted me their names Anyasha and Blessing Mosha they have accommodated me in their homes in their home and it has been such a blessing to be in their home to share and to catch up on many things that the Lord has blessed us with once again as we open God's word this is our last service this is the very last service and I want to invite anyone who feels moved to accept Jesus as their saviour and anyone who feels moved that they have something that they need to talk to someone about I would encourage you to post it on the YouTube channel our IT and our communications team will respond to you immediately there are some who are requested that they have my contacts our communications team through our pastorate will communicate that to you the Bible says to us in the book of Hebrews while it is still called today today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts so this is the time of salvation this is the time when God is calling us into his kingdom and it is my prayer that as you open your heart to the promptings of the Holy Spirit as you open your mind to the action of the Holy Spirit that God will come into your life and speak to you and bring a transformation I have been thinking and ruminating about several concepts that are in the Bible and one of them is the gospel that we preach and the truth that we claim must mean something this can't be vain that a pastor comes and preaches it can't be vain that we have pathfinders it can't be vain that we have adventurers and ammo this must mean something and it can only mean something when we have a connection with God when we are anchored in Christ and I want to thank God this morning we dealt with the subject Jesus our forerunner and what a blessing it is to know that we have someone who understands our infirmities someone who understands our weaknesses and he is representing us in the Holy Sanctuary in heaven so may God bless us as we open our Bibles this afternoon to the book of Hebrews chapter 11 now those who know me know that I love the book of Hebrews why because the book of Hebrews deals in a very deep sense with the spirituality of the sanctuary message so many times our emphasis is on the structure and on the representation of the articles and of the building of the sanctuary and yet God wanted to elevate and implement or instill in the minds of the Israelites the greater and elevated truth that there is redemption for those who come to God in faith and so we are reading from Hebrews chapter 11 from verse 13 we are reading verse 13 to verse 16 as we open our Bibles let's pause as we pray Father in heaven we are always grateful for the privilege that is ours that we can come and learn at the feet of Jesus we may be busy like Martha who was busy concerned with hosting people and yet in the same geographical location her sister was sitting at the feet of Jesus help us Father to sit at the feet of your son for as we sit at the feet of your son you teach us your ways thank you Father for hearing this prayer as we open Hebrews chapter 11 minister to us one more time in Jesus name we have prayed amen I will return to Hebrews chapter 11 we are starting with verse 13 now before I go to verse 13 we know that Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 no no need to open it there Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 says to us now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen that to me is a very complex but simple statement if we analyze that statement a bit closer you will agree with me that faith is not tangible are you with me church faith is not tangible and hope is not tangible but the bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for in other words how can that which is not tangible be the substance of that which is not tangible the apostle Paul who writes the book of Hebrews presents to us somewhat of a complex situation but if you ask me is there heaven I will tell you heaven is there and if you ask me have you seen heaven I will tell you I don't need to to see heaven why because faith has taken hold on the promises of God that God is faithful and that he has promised paradise for those who trust in him and not only his faith the substance of things hoped for but faith is the evidence of things not seen let's go to Hebrews 11 verse 13 which is our key passage we will read from verse 13 to verse 16 once again we are in the new king james version of the bible listen to what the text says these all died in faith another translation says all these people were still living in faith when they died but the new king james version says all died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them are far off were assured of them and they embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth the next verse for those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland verse 15 and truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out they would have had opportunity to return verse 16 which is our last one but now they desire a better that is a heavenly country therefore God is not ashamed we recall their God for he has prepared a city for them may God bless the reading of his word let's go back to Hebrew 11 Hebrew 11 verse 13 let's unpack and analyze that passage of scripture the bible tells us that all these died in faith in other words faith is a concept that comes not at the point of death but faith is a concept that comes when you are still alive faith comes when you hear the word of God Romans chapter 10 verse 17 says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so when you hear the word of God when the gospel is preached reading from the word of God when you hear the preacher speaking about the things of God the bible is saying to us that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God John 17 verse 17 the bible says to us as Jesus is praying for the disciples in the garden Jesus says to God sanctify them by your truth for your word is truth will you say amen out there in other words the transformation of the character can never take place without an exposure to the word of God sister white in the book the desire of ages says to us that it is a law of the mind that by beholding we become changed that which we dwell on is that which we become to dwell if you dwell on the things which tend towards earthly things then you become that which you dwell on if your mind dwells on the superior and supreme truths and principles of the word of God then that is what you become so the bible tells us that all these died in faith are you with me friends the word was in them a burning fire and it created in them faith listen to what the next statement says they did not receive the promises and here is where the bible becomes extremely interesting when you read the bible when you read some of the verses before you get to this particular verse the bible in Hebrew chapter 11 speaks about by faith by faith Inok worked with God by faith Noah built an ark by faith so the bible is saying to us that faith is the currency that qualifies us or enables us to take hold of the promises of God I like the text which has been put there by faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance and he went out not knowing where he was going and I must pause there for any man who is married you will understand this example I am imagining Abraham going to Sarah his wife for chapter 12 tells us that God had called Abraham out of the land of his fathers so I am imagining I have been married for close to 11 years now and I am imagining coming to my wife and saying to her God has told me that we must leave this country and obviously my wife would ask oh that's fine God has spoken to you how are we going and I am imagining telling her that I don't know where we are going but God has said that we must go but I want to compliment his wife because his wife never argued against him I want to imagine that she understood that Abraham had a relationship with God but to think that Abraham obeyed and moved by faith by the assurance that he who had promised was faithful he did not need evidence and I like what the Bible says and he went out not knowing where he was going but I can assure you that he knew that the one who called him knew where he was taking him to sometimes faith requires not the evidence of the promises or of the fulfillment of the promises faith needs to be anchored in God so all these people Hebrews 11 13 were back there all these people died not having received the promises listen to what the text is saying the text is saying their faith did not need to see the promises to know that God is faithful many of us according to their purpose of Paul their purpose of Paul tells us we walk by faith not by sight if we were to walk by sight we would not even dare step out of our homes but we walk by faith but think of these heroes of faith they did not receive the things promised God told Abraham you shall be the father infact when you read in Genesis God tells Abraham stand outside look at the heavens look at the stars your offspring shall be like the stars of heaven look at look at the sand on the sea your offspring shall be like the sand off to the sea and when Abraham looked at that it did not appear evident that God could make him a father of many nations but the bible tells us that he died not having received the promises listen to the word but if you look at the grammatical construction the word but when it is used is simply erasing or it is simply making you pay attention to what is after listen to what the text says but having seen them are far off new king james version says having seen them are far off we are assured of them the king james version says they saw them from a distance or they saw them are far off and were persuaded of them and having seen them are far off they were persuaded of them and I like what the king james version says after that and they embraced them follow me closely the bible is literally saying to them they saw today the fulfillment of the promises tomorrow and when their faith held on to the promises of tomorrow the bible tells us that first and foremost they were persuaded of them or a synonym which can be used there is they were convinced of them or you can say in their minds they had the conviction that the promises were true because he who had promised was true not only does the bible say that they were persuaded of them the bible then says to us they embraced them they saw them from a distance and they embraced them not only did they embrace the promises of god the bible is saying to us they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth what is the bible saying to us you can only embrace something that you are convinced is in existence one thing I can tell you is I look forward to going back home and seeing my family and I'm excited to be going back home to see my wife and my two boys the bible is saying to us that while pastor Moyo is in Nairobi even though he has not bordered the plane even though he has not checked in but his faith has already landed in Harare and his faith has already embraced his wife and his children though they are not physically here with me but because I know that they exist and because I know that they are there and that because I have a relationship with them the bible is literally saying that I am embracing faith embraces that which is tomorrow today one young man when he prayed to God and he said God I want a car he would simply he looked for a key and then he would walk around with the key in his pocket and people would ask him but how do you walk around with the key in your pocket when you do not have a vehicle and the young man would simply respond this is my expression of faith because my faith has embraced that God has already given me a car so I have the money to buy it that is what faith does Abram looked into the future Jacob looked into the future and they looked at the promises of God and they were persuaded and they embraced them not only did they embrace them but the bible tells us that they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth I need to talk to somebody this afternoon who has had a sense of being settled in their minds we have bought cars and we have bought houses we have established ourselves in business we have become comfortable with our achievements we have become academics we have masters degrees and PhDs some have several PhDs and we have a spirit we have arrived the most dangerous person on earth is the person who feels that they have arrived the bible tells us in Genesis chapter 11 that Terah Abram's father and Haran his brother died along the way because for some reason they became enticed with the things of earth the bible tells us in Genesis chapter 34 from verse 1 the bible says now Daina the daughter that Leah had born unto Jacob went out to see the daughters of the land follow me closely verse 2 they then says and when Shechem the son of Hamo the Hivite prince of the country saw her he took her and he lay with her how the translation say he raped her what is the bible saying to us commentaries tell us that Daina went out of the confines of the principles of her father's house do you realize that if Daina had not left her father's house the prince of the country would not have seen her can I just talk to the young people I am sure of the freedom to talk to anyone who I wish to Daina who was a youth decided to step out of the boundaries of the principles of the house of pro promise follow me closely you see the household of Jacob was the house of pro promise and within the household of Jacob there were principles that governed the house of promise and so when she stepped out commentators when they write about Daina they said the season that Daina went out was a season of festivities and when she left her father's house she wanted to see the nature of festivities in English they say curiosity killed the cat and the bible says to us when she went out to see the daughters of the land Shekem the son of Hamo the hivite prince of the country saw her he took her and lay with her and defiled her let me talk to the young people some of us have had our Christianity violated and defiled just because we just wanted to see many of us have had our virginity stripped from us just because we wanted to to see some of us have had our Christianity and our principles violated the reasoning and the logic in Genesis chapter 34 is simple if you stay within the confines of the principles of the world of God Bible says to us how shall a young man keep his way pure by taking heed to your word then the psalmist says to us I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against thee thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path Ecclesiastes tells us young man and I say young woman enjoy the days of your youth make your heart rejoice in that which you want but remember that God will judge you friends some of us have been violated by the evil one I have heard young girls who say in the church there are no men and I have heard them saying pastor we are going to go outside the church and as they go outside the church they begin to tell us all sorts of they tell us that the young men of the world are more intelligent they are exciting they are nice to hang around with these young men in the church are slow when I look at the majority of the people who are in the technical department here the ones in the communication department working behind the scenes spending the whole day and the whole week in church working a preacher some of our young ladies in church see that as being docile and they go outside the church and they say the men of the world are exciting and they even have bible verses to justify it they will give you verses like the children of this world are wiser than the children of the kingdom but I come back and I say the bible says the preaching of the cross is foolishness those who are perishing but to us who are being saved it is the power of God ah wait a minute let's do a bit of English language there when you say that the young men in the church are docile I can assure you that you are perishing when you read the English dictionary the bible or the dictionary will tell you about a word or when you put the suffix when you put the suffix to a word if you put ing it is a present continuous action follow me closely so when the bible says perishing it is not an action it is not an activity which takes place in one block of time perishing is a process every day you make the choice in the wrong direction you are perishing so every time you look at the young men in the church and you say they are docile how can someone spend the whole day at church how can someone spend the whole day reading their bible well on the other hand sometimes young men are not very smart can I just say that yes we must read our bibles we must pray we must come to church but the bible says labor for six days amen but the bible then says to us I must come and preach about this one day but the bible then says to us who are being saved another present continuous action it is the power of God friends I am saying to you if you are young do not be like Diana let me talk even to the young men brandas and sisters you have to listen to me marriage is not an evangelistic tool Jesus never said marry them to bring them in the church Jesus said go ye therefore but some people are saying there is no one in the church some young men find the women of the world very exciting they go to parties and they find that exciting let me tell you something when you have the spirit of God in your being God's impulses become your impulses so when you have the spirit of God in your heart you can't go where God does not go that's why it tells us that some of us dare to tread where angels fear places that angels say we can't go but the audacity of mankind let me take you back to the book of Hebrews 11 I haven't forgotten we are still on Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11 tells us that they embraced and that was an emphasis on the concept that they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth you say amen out there those who have faith confessed that we are not we have not been possessed by the spirit of arrival let me talk to a couple here just one moment as we go on to verse 14 allow me just to enjoy myself just for one moment one of our preachers in Harare speaks of the spirit of arrival his name is Pastor Mlambo you see when a young lady or a young man are you with me when they are trying to dress well they smell good but when they get into the house they have been married 5, 6, 10 years they are possessed by the spirit of arrival because they say we have arrived we are not going anywhere this might not be family life but let me throw in something there do you possess the spirit of arrival or are you possessed by the spirit of arrival you don't look as good as you used to you don't dress well why because you have said I have arrived my wife knows it my husband no knows it do not be possessed by the spirit of arrival be possessed by the spirit that says we are strangers on earth you must know that when your husband comes out of the house he is bombarded by pictures of nudity and women who want to get his attention for goodness sake my dear mother and sister if you are married make it make sure that your husband thinks of you first sometimes we think that is just prayer prayer is good it sustains our faith but sometimes as wives and as husbands we need to dress well am I talking to a church sometimes as husbands we need to dress well we need to look good so that when those who have got money and who are attractive come to our wives they'll say it's okay you've got your business but I've got my husband at home so always remember let me leave that Hebrews 11 verse 14 listen to what the text says for those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland do you realize that in verse 13 we've just been told that these people are strangers and pilgrims now if you read that passage carefully a stranger and a pilgrim knows that they somewhere am going but the place I am now is not the place I am going read the text carefully a pilgrim and a stranger will tell you that yes though I am domiciled in law being domiciled though my address is on earth but my home is in heaven a very good example of a stranger is myself I am in Kenya at the moment but Kenya is not my home am I talking to a church my home is in Harare my home is in Zizimbabwe now I've been to some sports my friend has taken me to some very very nice sports yesterday we had lunch at a place called CCJs was very very nice I've been to the hub I've seen some very very nice places but no matter how beautiful no matter how much I love being in Nairobi and I love being in Nairobi but Nairobi is not the place of my citizenship and no matter how hospitable Nairobi might be in the back of my mind I have a consciousness that continually reminds me that I am passing through listen church my mission is to preach the gospel in Nairobi but my home is settling in Harare what is Papastamo you are saying when you apply this on a larger scale into the kingdom of heaven the apostle Paul tells us that our citizenship is in heaven apostle Paul is saying while we are on earth we may enjoy what the earth offers but in the back of our minds we must always remember that we have a mission on earth to show the glory of God though we are domiciled on earth we are strangers and we are passing through so the bible then says to us for those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland and truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out they would have had opportunity to return let me unpack that just for one moment listen I usually like to use the example of the children of Israel and I alluded to it during the wee week of prayer so many times the children of Israel would tell Moses we want to go go back we want to go back but I want to reveal something to you whenever the children of Israel said to Moses we want to go back to Egypt they were literally saying that God must reverse the miracle of the Red Sea you can't go back to a Pharaoh who is nonexistent so they were literally saying by asking to go back they were saying to God and to Moses reverse everything that you have done Resurrect Pharaoh because we have said we want to go back we want the flesh pots of Egypt we want the vegetables of Egypt we want everything about Egypt we want the graves of Egypt we want the food of Egypt we want the housing of Egypt take us back so by them saying take us back they were literally saying God you must open the Red Sea again God you must resurrect Pharaoh God you must send God that passed over he must reverse his course but the Bible is saying to us if they had called to mind the country from which they had come out they would have had opportunity to return let me speak to the young people as well as to the elderly if you are thinking of the country from which you came from in terms of marriage and relationships if you have the opportunity to go go back let me just say something to you when Mrs. Moe and I council young people we say if you walk into marriage with an option to leave you will always find a door that is written exit if you walk into marriage and it's a trial and error and you say I want to try this on for size you know when you walk into Babata you try a shoe on for size I want to try this on for size if it doesn't fit if I don't like its style then I'll leave it many people are divorcing now because someone walked into marriage thinking of the country from which they came so the Bible tells us that truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out they would have had opportunity to return let's close with verse 16 what does verse 16 say to us the Bible then says to us but now they desire a better country amen that is a heavenly country therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he has prepared a city for them the Bible is saying to us in the depths of their hearts in the greatest desire that they had in their hearts was not to go back where they came from but they looked forward to a city the song writer says in the land of fadeless day lies a city for four square it shall never pass away for there is no night there friends, I want to assure you that when in the depth of our hearts if we are committed to the mission of reaching the promised land if we desire a better country if we desire a heavenly country as the song writer says this world is not my home I'm just passing through my treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue and he says oh lord you know I have no friend like you if heaven is not my home then lord what shall I do if you are thinking of the country where you came from you will find opportunity to go back but the Bible tells us that they desired a better country not only was it a better country they desired a heavenly country and what is God's response the Bible tells us that therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God why because he has prepared a city for them will you say amen out there John in chapter 21 of Revelation says I saw a new heaven and a new earth the first heaven and the first earth passed away and there was no more sea and I John saw the holy city new Jerusalem coming out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from heaven saying behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people God himself will be with them and be their God and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes there shall be no more death no more sorrow no crying there shall be no more pain for the former things have passed away verse 5 then he who sat on the throne said behold I make all things new and he say to me right for these words are faithful and true and in chapter 22 John sees the holy city the Bible say to us the city was prepared by God now I may not have any more time more energy but one thing I want to assure you that all these people were still living by faith when they died they did not see the things promised but they saw them from afar and embraced them and people who show or people who say such things people who have an understanding that were pilgrims on earth display clearly that they are looking for a country which is better I want God to stand in heaven and I want God to say of me I am not ashamed of you I want God to stand up for me and to say you are a hero of faith Hebrew chapter 12 verse 1 concludes it and I close with this text after the writer of Hebrews looks at all these elements he then says therefore we also since we are surrounded by so greater cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every sin and every weight which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us listen to what the text says to looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him enjoy the cross despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of me majesty here is the charge the charge to you and I Amu is now run the race I have done my part for this week now it is up to us what God has said I want to pray with someone I want to pray with someone and I want to pray for someone I want to pray with someone who says I want to belong to this group of people that the writer of Hebrews says all these people were still living by faith I've heard many preachers many Christians say that when we get to heaven we want to speak to Abraham we want to speak to Isaac we want to speak to Daniel we want to speak to Noah but did you know that when we get to heaven they will want to know our story they will ask but what was it like to live in the time of the COVID-19 virus what was it like to be a virtual church and we will tell them that we came here by faith if there is somebody still who gave the invite before I began if there is somebody who is watching on our digital platforms if there is someone watching on Facebook and on YouTube who is saying Lord I hear the voice of God speaking to me I want Jesus to come into my heart I want to be a hero of faith I want to walk on streets of gold I want to see the pearly gates if you are there as I pray we want to communicate your decision and our team here will take note of your name and contact you our heads are bowed and our eyes are closed Father in heaven we come boldly before your presence and before your throne knowing that we can have the confidence to be called your children Father we don't doubt your power but we thank you for the words of inspiration that are recorded in your word words that remind us in heaven not by our own effort but we enter heaven by faith and it is faith that produces works which are relevant to faith Father we thank you for this week of prayer which has come to an end Father I thank you for giving me health but above all I thank you for giving me the privilege to minister to your children now father may your spirit continue to speak and when your spirit has spoken you respond in loving obedience I pray for anyone who is in distress anyone who is in depression and anyone who is in oppression I pray for them Father loose them from the bounds of sin that the devil may have no power over them thank you father for your grace thank you for your mercy blessed be your name both now and forever more we pray let everyone say amen may God bless you may God be with you thank you so much pastor for the wonderful message we are blessed and we are encouraged and I noticed that in the message there was also a lot of council for both young ladies and young men and so we are very grateful for that that you really just guided all of us and not just the men only and when you guide the men it's for our benefit as well so we'll sing song number 511 in the spirit of having faith and knowing whom we have believed and truly depending on God fully to accomplish our work on earth song number 511 1 so we're just going to have a closing ceremony for pastor we just want to thank him for having been with us the whole week coming all this way to just minister to us and I will call Broja Sabura the leader of AMO to give a word to pastor good evening once again church we want to thank you all for making our program a success it wouldn't have been a success if there was no audience whether virtual or the few technical experts in the congregation so we thank God for all of you who have taken part and of course all of the support that we have received from the membership of the church of course to make this program a success we want to thank you so much and may God bless you we also want to thank the leadership of the church from the church board to the elders to the pastorate and the AMO council for having organized and approved such a program that the men of the church may be revived and of course as elder mentioned more than a handful who are on the WhatsApp group we are more than that who are actively participating regularly so this will be an opportunity for us to be revived and to be able to mobilize ourselves for the great work that God has placed in our hands as elder spoke earlier elder mentioned regarding the ministries that we get involved in we are out in the prisons we go out for evangelistic work and of course elder also mentioned that we have a big evangelism that was planned to have come up somewhere in the farthest north and part of Kenya called Northhor and we were not able to follow up so far because of the pandemic and because of the circumstances in which we are living in so we really want all of the men as we fulfill these obligations we take this opportunity to thank our pastor Lavan Rangarira Moyo we thank you so much for having honored our request and having come all the way from Zimbabwe to Kenya we thank Tavadzo Moyo for having released you we are happy that Tavadzo Moyo was able to come and we hope that next time you guys are coming together because I know that she is an active evangelist and so it will be good if you guys come together and help revive all of us even as we continue in this genuine faith indeed as pastor has mentioned we are all pilgrims and you are passersby looking forward to the heavenly home and of course our ministry and our work is recorded by Christ saying that the things we do to the list of those we regard as the list in the kingdom we have done it to them Christ says in the book of Matthew 25 he says that when I was hungry you gave me to eat when I was thirsty you gave me to drink when I was naked you clothed me when I was in prison you came in unto me when I was sick you came and visited me when I was in prison you also came to see me and then of course the saints will ask when did we do all these things and Christ will answer them because they did it unconsciously they did it with the spirit of mission which I'd like us to be embraced with to be able to go out and reach to the souls that are perishing out there you did it unto me we are not called just for program sake but we are called to be able to fulfill the great commission win souls for the kingdom and I know there are many who have been following us on this program and are wondering now what do we do next that the ammo program is over and of course I just want to remind us that what we can do we can register yourself in this church there is an online baptismal class that goes on you can register with yourself through our online platforms then of course your registration will be picked up and you will be directed on how to join the virtual baptismal class you may not be baptized in this church because of distance and time but the church is a worldwide body of believers we will be able to organize the closest congregation near you and be able to hand you over to them so that you can be able to be nurtured and grow together even as you prepare yourself for the heavenly home that we have learnt about so I'd like to thank pastor so much I'd like to thank the leadership of the church so much for everything that they have done and the elders and all the people who have supported our program we really thank you we must come to an end and we thank all the participants communication department and all the other organizers there are many people who act behind the scene that make the program work sometimes when you are watching it from your screens you just see pastor standing behind this podium and speaking but there are a multitude of people who are doing a lot of things behind the scene to make it access to make the program a success and we thank you and we pray that God may continue blessing you and giving you the ability to be able to fulfill that which he has blessed you to do so I'd like to hand over the program back to my sister to proceed thank you so much brother Roger Zabura passed on behalf of social committee we just want to give a big thank you and we really have seen your faith because it's not easy that in a time like this that we're living in you're able to have faith to come all this way to preach to us to preach the word of God and know that you will also go back home in the same way you know that's big that's really big and so we hope that even with all the circumstances you are able to enjoy you're able to enjoy the warmth of the members through brother Roger Zabura I personally know him he's actually an uncle to me and so yes I am sure that he has made you feel at home amen that's wonderful and so please come back again yes we will have a closing prayer from elder elder in charge elder Arunga but before we do so we will just have two songs and then we'll have the closing prayer thank you so much for joining us today we are sure that you've been blessed we don't doubt that please keep in the presence stay in the presence of the Lord praise him praise him we will sing song number 449 but I will let brother Steve introduce this song for us and lead it as well thank you joy 449 never part again there is a land of pure delight where bliss eternal reigns no crying no sorrow no pain we can only encourage you to abide by the precepts the commands and the promise because one day we know for sure if we are truthful if we are obedient and if we love God's commandment and do what he calls us to we will meet it's a place where we'll never part again it's my prayer to be blessed by the words and the harmony of this song 449 last hymn is hymn number 560 but what we'll do before we do that hymn because it will be the closing hymn I'll invite Eldarunga to pray kindly thank you very much joy Zawadi, Felix and Biko I imagined I was walking on the golden gates of heaven with that song and after the preaching of Pastor Moyo thank you very much may God bless you I'll call on a little ammo no in this church we want to appreciate people we have to do it in a way that befit the church so I'll call on Abura to do the needful alright pastor we welcome you back to the podium of course as a church we have appreciated your ministry and the church just gives a small token of appreciation and we hope you accept it thank you so much thank you may God bless you alright thank you thank you very much may God bless you pastor and your family let's bow our heads for our final prayer we thank you for your masses and for your grace we thank you for this week we thank you for life we thank you for the songs for the praises we thank you for the beautiful summons and the powerful summons we have had through the week we thank you more particularly for your son who died for us on the cross and that we can come in confidence knowing that if we follow you we will be saved if we have faith we will be saved if we have faith we will be delivered our heavenly father we ask that our faith should grow as we study your word as we fellowship together as we go out to evangelize you have not given us the heart of fear but the heart of courage let's have courage to go out and win souls the problem is fear of failure but we know that if you were with us there would be no failure as you finish your command you say you will be with us always put the heart of courage into the ammo members in this church and to the whole membership of this church that they can go out boldly to witness on your behalf we take this opportunity to pray for the pastor who has been with us throughout the week you have taken care of him despite the difficulties and the new environment you have given him power and strength to continue until the last day our father we may have done certain wrong things during the week but we ask that you forgive us all those things which you have done according to your will let them give your name glory and honor our father we thank you for people who have been serving continue to give them the strength to serve you even much better this week should be a landmark and that the men of ammo the men of this church can join ammo in large numbers so that we can deliver to your commands father you have said that even before we start praying you know everything we ask that you meet each and everyone of us at our points of need take care of the pandemic take care of all the problems we have but more importantly sanctify us on a daily basis with your blood as you prepare us for your second coming we thank you for everything we thank you for hearing us we thank you for listening to our prayer and answering accordingly because we pray in Jesus name amen 560 from our SD hymnal let all things now living as you go out and start a new week may you have a song of thanksgiving and thank the Lord for His blessing 560 God bless you have a lovely week and hope that you'll stay tuned come next sabah and in the course of the week whenever you want to review any of the messages that have been delivered God bless you