 paraumili nama tsutikiavenia paraumili nama tsutiki Bili nama tsutiki paraumili nama tsutiki paraumili nama tsutiki kwa duhaya Maathu 11 Maathu 11 Naibat 28 Naibat 30 Matthew 11, verse 28, down to verse 30. Bible says, come to me, O you who labor in a heavy laden, I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you go find rest for your souls. I will read one more time, come to me, O you who labor in a heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you go find rest for your souls. Vasdati, for my yoke is easy, my burden is light. Let's pray. Gracious Father in heaven, hallowed be the name thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in this place and for this message as it is in heaven. For thine is a kingdom, is a power and glory. You said if you be lifted up you shall draw all men unto yourself. Lord this morning I pray that may I not be seen, may I not be heard. But may you be seen and heard as you speak to us all. My request, Father, is that you may put your words into my mouth and order my lips and my vault to your glory in Jesus' name I pray, amen. Give them all. Now today is the first Sabbath of the new year, and of course it is prayer and fasting Sabbath. This is to Asha in the 10 days of prayer. I will be starting this coming Wednesday. But as I was thinking through, why do we dedicate ourselves to prayer? Why do we as a church have to set apart time and season to call everyone to come in for prayer? I discover that friends as you also know that life has its feel of conflict, sorrows, pain, suffering, troubles piled upon troubles. I know even as we've closed into the new year, most struggle to find meaning in this meaningless world. In fact many people perish without hope. Many are giving up even as I'm talking right now. But we are glad to be here today, the first Sabbath of the new year 2024. We are excited, we are greeting each other, happy new year. But I know that somebody is asking what is new in the new year? To me or just a change of date in the calendar, nothing seem to have changed. I have just transitioned to the new year with the baggage that I bought in 2023. I feel no change, no relief, my heart is pained. And so somebody is wondering what is the excitement for, what is the celebration for, for my bills and all paid? And somebody is asking is there hope in this world? Is there hope for the way we saw? I invite you friends this morning to reason with the words of Jesus, who spoke, gave a very special invite. He says, come unto me. You see Jesus over time has mastered art of ministering to our needs. He knows us more than we do. He is acquainted with our situations. And he meet us at our very point of needs in different situations of life. There are different invitation that Jesus has given. You know, to they who are dying or dead heart, Jesus would say, come forth like he spoke to Lazarus when he was dead. To the wanting heart, Jesus says, come down. He looked at Zekias on the tree. Zekias need and salvation. And Jesus speaks to him and tells him, Zekias, come down. He understands what to say when you need him for salvation. To the seeking curious heart, like that of John, the disciple of Jesus. When Jesus was with him and they met Jesus for the first time and they decided to be with him. And they asked Jesus, Jesus, where do you stay? Jesus answered them and told them, come and see. To the seeking heart, Jesus says, come and see. But I find also to the weary heart, to the heart that abounded, Jesus has a special call, a special invite. He says, come unto me. Can you say amen or bear? When Jesus sees your awareness, and he sees your burden, and he sees your struggle, and he sees your pain, and you feel like there is no hope for you, Jesus invites you to himself. For he, the only one, back out, deal with your pain, can deal with your frustration, with your disappointment. So he speaks to the world and says, come unto me. Or ye, o labor, that I have laid, and I will give you rest. Take my yoga upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowling heart. Yet you shall find rest for your soul. I find that the reason why many are struggling, many are disappointed, many are down with the depression, many are frustrated is because they have no peace in their souls. This morning I speak to you and I invest in you here. I know there is somebody here today who's heart is so troubled. But I want the next few minutes to invite you to walk with Jesus and look at his beautiful invite this morning. He says, come unto me. Now let me consider this phrase, come unto me. You say, Jesus is always inviting. Can you say amen? Jesus will never send you away. Jesus is always inviting. And he says, come not to the pastor. Come not to the church, but come to me. You know, he calls people to himself. This in fact is the favorite word of Jesus. He left the glorious of heaven just to speak one path word. Come, he came to seek that we may go to him. He came, those who were desperate, they may have hope not to Jesus. Those who come to him, he makes them what they were yearning to hear. Gives them a personal relationship with him. Coming to Jesus, I declare today as the fastest step in getting peace for your soul. You will never have peace in your soul. Your soul shall not rest until you come to Jesus. You see, the Bible says, men are trusted in chariots and horses, but they will never have peace. Deven says, I looked up them, he was where so may help come from until you come to Jesus. This morning Jesus is inviting everyone who has the privilege to be in 2024. The invite is come unto me. May I inform you friends this morning that the Lord has instructed me prayerfully to announce to my church that in this new year, 2024, this is the year of come back to the Lord. The new year is inviting us if there is anything you need to celebrate for if this new year is not the food you ate or the phrase who took you out but the new and kind invite from Jesus come back to me. 2024, he is a new year to come back to the Lord. Is a come back year, come back to your senses, come back from your wandering, come back from the vanities of life, come back from your disobedience to obedience, come back from your brokenness, come back from all your frustrations, come back from your slavery to freedom, come back from bad health to good health, come back from loss to gain, come back from lost jobs to new opportunities in 2024, come back from your failed marriage or to enduring thriving relationship, come back from your drunkenness to sovereignness. Jesus is inviting you in 2024. He declares the year of come back and you come trust him and come back to him says come and to me. Can you say man? You see friends, when Jesus spoke these words, he studied the souls of men and women. He looked at situations of people, the tribulations of his people had in new, there was no bomb in Giviat apart from coming and to him. Best morning. I just came by to spek you to let you know we have been privileged to be given a year of come back. He says you will labor and I have a laden. You are my target in 2024. Come and to me. You will labor and have a laden. You see, in this statement friends, Jesus speaks to those who labor for vanities of life. But what Solomon calls chasing after the weed. He calls those people who are twiling every day, had twilers in this life, but people who will never be satisfied even as they worked early in the morning. They seem not to touch what they were chasing after. They are so worried, they are so troubled. They are so broken in life and Jesus looks at them as they step in the new here and they are asking what is new in 2024? The Lord says come and to me. I have seen you labor, I have seen your vanities, I have seen your struggle, come and to me. Jesus, this morning is speaking to all men that have tried and tried in vain to satisfy their conscience and to obey the law of God just like the woman of the world who was seeking for things that cannot satisfy. Many this morning have been seeking, are seeking, share their heart and are satisfied. Jesus is inviting, he says come and to me. You see Jesus, he looks into this congregation and you see the woman, and you see the man, and you see the young man, a young woman, she is a child whose heart is troubled. You say seize your efforts for you can do nothing without me, to me. Let me speak about labor. I find there are two or more than two types of labor that Jesus or badm brother that Jesus is talking about here. You see those who labor and have learned it. And I was asking myself why was the difference between their statement those who labor and have learned it? Do they mean the same thing? And I have discovered that Jesus is very careful. You see there are two types of badm's. There are badm's that we labor for. Badm's that we take upon ourselves. Badm's that we cause for our own self. Badm's that are not caused by people. We are the ones who labor and work very hard to get those badm's. Have you seen people who caught trouble? I mean everything is okay. Every being seem to be going well until you do something and help break loose. People who work hard to create trouble for themselves. You wanted maybe a quick money. You wanted quick money and you got yourself into questionable business deals. You thought no one would find out and now you are in trouble with the laws of the land. Now you have sank all the savings of your family. You are struggling. You worked hard to get yourself in that space. You bearing a burden. Jesus has come unto me. Even you worked for your pain. Even you worked for your badm's. Come unto me. Could be a young man, a young woman who has worked themselves through addiction. You know, it could be a drug addiction or sexual addiction or internet addiction or pornographic addiction or whatever kind of addiction. You put yourself in that space. Friends were telling you that is not right. Your parents were warning you that is not right. You worked very hard. You kept it a secret. You would do everything to assure your parent you not find out what you are doing. You did it in secret but today it is troubling you in public. You are carrying a huge burden. You struggle to live this life. You can't function without appeal. You can't function without sex. You can't function without washing that material. You put yourself there. You are addicted. You in prison. You levered for your parents. Even so, Jesus is inviting you this morning. Can you say, man, my grace is sufficient. Bring your burden unto me. Your soul is troubled. Come unto me that I may give you rest. I see you love me. You are struggling. You hate yourself but come to me. I also give you rest or maybe it's a young man or young woman who was raped by his relative or relative and though it appears that you care for my outset, he said you're broken, you're horrible, you do not appreciate life, you wonder why you were born, you're working and working, you're troubled, your heart is so sick. And wonder what is new? Either new here, Jesus says, I recognize your trouble, come. I don't know who I'm talking to this morning but I just signed. There are some people whose burdens they live and fall. But also, friends, there are some people whose burdens they never worked for. You see, the statement or the phrase heavy laden, air means you may have hit on yourself the burdens or somebody else may have hit the burdens on you. Somebody loaded on you the burdens. Now Jesus recognizes, there are some people in their sanctuary this morning, those online watching and following this program. Jesus recognizes, there are some innocent burden bearers, people who never did anything wrong for the misery, for the trouble, for the tribulations and afflictions and the pain. They are simply innocent burden bearers. They don't know what to do. Jesus is sympathizing severe. He reaches out to you this morning. He says, I recognize your situation. Come unto me. You see, friends, indeed there are many people sitting here this morning who are victims of circumstance. And you know yourselves. The pain you bearing today, the situation you find yourself in then fortunate situation in your life. You never expectant. You never want to fall. It just came your way and you hear trouble. Your heart has no peace. Jesus assigned me to you this morning. Maybe you lost a job not because of any wrong you did but because somebody somewhere was simply uncomfortable with your success. They worked very hard to frustrate you. They worked very hard to make you be removed from your job. You have taken too long maybe to graduate from your college. Maybe because your professor are sat on your grade because you turned down a seduction, moves and because of that he said she will never graduate just struggling in college. You are pure standing upright with the Lord but yet you are living in pain. Jesus as I understand you are here in Vesniosabab of the new year 2024. I invite you to come unto me. And I am here this morning friends, let you know there is hope for the way I saw. There is hope. There is hope for the way I saw through Jesus Christ. You see he says come unto me and I will give you rest. The promise, the assurance is that as you come to me you are not coming for stories. You are not coming to be shamed. You are not coming for anything else. You are coming to receive rest for your soul. You receive rest for your heart. Jesus is inviting this morning that you may be at peace. I don't know what I'm talking to this morning but I am feeling somebody needing this message this morning. He says I will give you rest. And so friends this morning I just came to let you know you can trust Jesus with your parents. Not one, not two all of your parents bring to Jesus. Bring to Jesus. Give them all to him because he has been made the burden bearer of the universe. He carries your burdens. He carries your burden. You don't have to struggle carrying your burdens once you believe in Jesus. Lay them at the feet of Jesus. He is a qualified burden bearer. You can trust him this morning. I came this morning to let you know friends that in a troubled world like this one we are living in you need rest for your soul. I stopped by this morning to let you know that in a world where wickedness seem to be thriving and about taking righteousness you need rest for your soul. I just came this morning to remind you that when you discover that your enemy is actually your closest friend and your heart is so troubled you need rest for your soul. I came this morning to let you know when you feel troubled, tired and tired in the inner part of you you need rest of your soul. This is found in Jesus. So Jesus is inviting us this morning come and give your burdens to him. I rend a song somewhere. The writer of the song says oh soul are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness as you say. Yes I promise you that is hope for there is light for a look at the Savior and the life more abad and free only if you turn your eye upon Jesus he says come unto me you labor and have a lad and I shall give you rest Psalm 55 verse number 22 7 says through the prayer cast you burden unto the Lord and he will support you he will lift you he will strengthen you God you never let you be second he will always strengthen you in your pain in your frustrations in your loneliness Jesus is inviting you to come to him as all friends I suggest to us today in this new year 2024 make Jesus your burden bearer I propose to you today if you want to be at peace in 2024 if you want to celebrate as you come to the end of 2024 if you want to realize your potential and go from one glory to another make Jesus your burden bearer you are shat and dreams from 2023 give them to Jesus the brokenness of your life that you've carried from 2023 you start into 2024 with them give them to Jesus give them all to Jesus because he is a qualified burden bearer you see he bow the burden of the entire universe on the cross though he was deemed to have lost it we all know on Sunday morning he resurrected to victory and he says in the word you shall have tribulations but be of gunchia I have overcome the one you can say man you can come to me you can trust me and pauses in Hebrew chapter 4 verse 15 for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses but we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we all yet without seeing he is inviting you this morning to bring your balance to him because he understands the situation because he sympathizes with your tribulations you see friends maybe yours is a temptation and this temptation is so deep cutting deep in you how can I break off from this temptation Jesus is inviting you to bring your temptation to him because he was tempted for 40 days and 4 nights in the wilderness are you with me Jesus is a qualified sympathizer of our situation because if you thought you were poor he said foxes have holes and birds of air have nests but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head he walked in the dirty street or palace in a poor man he understands those who are poor you can bring your property to him are you feeling frustrated disappointed or I will let you know this money Jesus shared disappointment frustrations one day he looked at the people and he spoke and cried and said oh Jesus oh Jesus how often have I longed together you children together as the hands gather the chief but you are not willing he was so disappointed he was so frustrated he came to abandon them because they never gave their house to him he understands those who are frustrated are you feeling rejected Jesus is acquintent with rejection you see before he died on the cross the Bible says that he has disciples when you check in the book of Mark chapter 15 verse 19 in fact the Bible says he has disciples left him and they never followed him the only thing we see at the very close of his ministry is people denying him people denying him people betraying him he was rejected he is acquintent to those who walk through the path of rejection I don't know what I'm talking to this morning maybe you are feeling rejection in your life Jesus has an experience in addressing rejection come to him maybe you are being ridiculed from every side Jesus experienced ridicule and again the Bible says in Mark chapter 15 verse 19 they struck him and spit on him they called him names they mocked him if you are the son of God said yourself he was mocked he understands those who walk through the path of mockery you too can come to him maybe somebody this morning is walking through a path of loneliness and this is the greatest battle of your life this is what has taken away your joy it has eaten up your joy you are so lonely in life let me remind you this morning even you Jesus says I can address the situation because I once felt so rejected I once felt so lonely in fact the Bible says he cried my God why are you forsaken me he felt completely alone alone in this world if you are there this morning and you are feeling alone Jesus was there before you you can come to him he says I understand your pain I understand your tribulation he understands your pain your frustrations your brokenness your loneliness he understands your emptiness your sickness your failed or failing marriage your job situation your business your stubborn child Jesus understands and invites you even in your financial constraints Jesus understands come to him curse or your care and to him for he he's bad and bearer of the universe give them all to Jesus you see friends Jesus no matter what you are going through I need to encourage you this morning you about God who is intimately acquainted with all your ways and tribulations and he doesn't want to stand back remaining distant from your pain no Jesus in this invite come unto me you old neighbor and I shall give you rest in that invite Jesus want to crawl down into the darkest part of your life where your pain found residence Jesus want to come there not just to come but to remove it not just to remove your pain he want to wrap around you with his arms he want to whisper to you shall be well my child Jesus want to give you a new beginning in this new year can you say man he is committed bring them all to me want to whisper comfort to your pain more than I want to infuse you with his strength to withstand whatever comes your way in 2024 I don't know who I'm talking to this morning but I just want to let you know this morning you can give all your troubles to Jesus and I want to invite you this morning bring them all bring all your tears to him bring all your diseases to him bring all your sins to him bring all your frustrations to him bring all your shatan brings to him bring all your your bruised souls to him bring them all to Jesus and he shall give rest to your soul I don't promise that 2024 you'll be better than 2023 but I can promise you Jesus is willing to bear you up Jesus is so much willing to bear you up in every turn and twist of your life Jesus is committed in this special invite today that if you come to him he will make your life get peace and comfort because he never promised we shall not go through tribulations but his promise is even as we go through afflictions our tribulations he will be there with us just come to me come to me and I want to invite Charestazia and give us the song nearer to the heart of God song number 495 nearer to the heart of God I want to invite somebody this morning I don't know who I'm talking to but I want to invite somebody who feels that in their life 2023 was a struggle they are still carrying a burden they are still carrying pain they are still carrying depression they are still carrying frustrations disappointment you are here this morning 2024 does not look brighter as you see it from your perspective Jesus is inviting you to come and try 2024 together with him because he will give you rest