 all those who are in the congregation here at Nairobi Central SDA church and to all the congregants online we praise God for today this is day seven of our 10 days of prayer and I want to welcome each and everyone to commune with us and before we start I would like to offer a word of prayer that's all humble ourselves as we pray for those who are in the church may we stand we are praying heavenly father we thank you for this day Lord we thank you for the gift of life and for all the gifts that you've given us father we thank you that you have given us yet another day to come and worship Lord I want to put this evening into your hands pastor is about to come and break the bread of life may you give him the courage may you give him the strength and put your words in his mouth Lord I'm standing here before you and we ask that you may bring your Holy Spirit to dwell with me as we lead in song father we ask that each and every heart that is joined in this service may find your comfort and may find your blessings because you believe and trust in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior amen for those of us who are in here we want to ask that you take out your hymnals SDA hymnals we'll start with song number 229 all hail the power of Jesus name those who are online you can sing from wherever you come number 10 come christians join to sing and that is beautiful singing thank you so much for the blessing and for the song I would like us to have a word of prayer as we begin the session shall we all bow down for a word of prayer um We are going to sing the opening song and we'll do song number 50. We are going to sing the opening song and we'll do song number 50. Upon us to sing the opening song and we'll do song number 50. Abide with me, first falls the eventide. Please, may we all rise and turn to song number 50 on our SDA hymnals as we sing together. For gracious heavenly Father, I want to thank you this evening for the many blessings you've given us for all the six days which have gone before us in these ten days of prayer. Lord, it is another opportunity to know you better and to have a deeper relationship with you. It is another opportunity to hear your voice through your servant. It is another opportunity you've given us which we need to come before you boldly as we are so that you make us holy. Our Father, we remember those who are far, who are not here in church with us, who are following these programs virtually. Lord, give them an ample time and a listening spirit so that they may hear your voice and understand your word the way you've prepared it to us through your servant. Lord, those who are having challenges wherever they are and may not join us. Lord, I pray that even as this message is recorded through YouTube and other platforms, they may have time later and continue listening to your voice. Be with us as we begin now and in a special way, touch your servant as he prepares to step forward to share your word. As we sit to listen, Lord will meditate and continue praying so that this message may reach us and touch us. Be with us now as we begin till we end because I'm praying, trusting and believing in Jesus' name. Amen. May we be seated. Good evening. Yes, my duty before the servant of God and part of the program continues is to welcome you to join us in a special way to listen to the word of God and to participate in the season and sessions of prayer which have been prepared for us for these 10 days. And today is the seventh day of the 10 days of prayer. Today, the Tuesday, the 11th of January, 2022, is a special day and God has brought us here. And I want to welcome those who are in other parts of the world who may not be with us right here in Kenya, in Nairobi, where Nairobi Central SDA Church is. You could be at home, you could be in your office, you could be in traffic or somewhere in your car or wherever you are. Feel welcome to join us as we continue listening to these wonderful messages from the servant of God. It has given us confidence to approach the throne of God. As we are knowing that he's our advocate, he's our friend, he's there to mediate for us. If you've been listening in the past, that is the gist of the message. And I know today, as the servant of God comes here, let's continue praying for him that God may use him in a mighty way so that that message comes to us afresh. Before I sit down, I want to introduce those who are participating today in the program. My name is Ezra Mayo, one of the elders and servants of God in this church. The opening prayer was offered by Brother Roland Mighok, and he will also lead us in the offerings. We have the scripture reading which will come to us shortly through Sister Angela Amayo. The chorister who has given us wonderful songs and continues to serve is Sister Damaris Ndira. At the sign language we have Sister Joyce Kwamboka, and the pianist today is our brother Eric Mutembe. I've seen our pastor, Pastor Jack Ogeda, who will be with us today, also will come later. And I also want to thank the prayer team led by Sister Nora Kajouang. And my prayer is as we listen to the servant of God, Pastor Samuel Misiani, who has come to us from West Union Conference, is accompanied by his wife. And my plea to all of us is let's pray for him that God may use him in a mighty way and also God gives us clear minds so that the Spirit of God speaks to us today. May God bless you. The scripture reading is taken from Isaiah, the chapter is 56, and I am reading from verse 2 to verse 7. I will read from the New King James Version, and you can follow in your various versions. Verse 2, blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and keeps his hand from doing any evil. Do not let the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak saying, the Lord has utterly separated me from his people. Nor let the eunuch say, here I am a dry tree. For thus says the Lord, to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and those who, and those that please me, and hold fast to my covenant, even to them I will give in my house and within my walls a place and a name. Better than that of sons and daughters, I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. Verse 6, also the sons of the foreigner who joined themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love the name of the Lord to be his servants. Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath and holds fast my covenant, even them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. May the Lord bless his word. Praise the Lord and thank you so much. Once again, I want to come before you so that I can invite you for tithes and offering. But before we get to that, I'd like to read a verse, 2 Corinthians 9 verse 7. The Bible tells us that God loves a cheerful giver. So I'm going to invite you so that we can be able to all come together and give our tithes and offering in a cheerful way because God loves a cheerful giver. The pay bill number is 320-100. The pay bill number is 320-100. 320-100. And the account number is 10 days of prayer. I repeat, the pay bill number is 320-100. And the account number is 10 days of prayer. May I pray so that God can bless our offerings and tithes. Our kind and loving Father, yet again we come before you that you may be able to bless us. Help us to have a cheerful heart that you may be able to give more abundantly in your service, in your name. It is in Jesus' name, I pray, believe in and trust Him. Amen. So we are going to sing the theme song, Not I but Christ. It's song number 570. Let's all join in the song together. Not I but Christ, be seen, be heard, be exalted. I think that's a wonderful summary of what you're talking about in the everlasting gospel and the three angels' messages. Good evening. God is good. And all the times, yes, the Lord is good. And that is His nature. What a wonderful greeting. God is always good. I want to welcome each one of you that's in the church today. And by the way, I want you to invite your friends. As the pastor said, I think this Sabbath day we are going to have one of the greatest celebrations. The pastor said there will be a baptism. And if he allows, on Friday we will have a prayer, a prayer time, a very special prayer time for each one of you who will be on the church on that day. It will be a prayer like never before because we want to touch the throne of God. We believe everything we have been talking about are God. Today the author of the Ten Days Prayer guideline gave us a title. And the title is the Three Angels' Messages, The Sabbath and Prayer. I believe this is one of the greatest subjects that you can ever talk about in the Bible. And so I'm already excited that we're going to talk about the Sabbath. I don't know whether it was planned or whether it was a coincidence that on the seventh day of our Ten Days Prayer, we talk about the seventh day Sabbath. I don't know whether that's a coincidence that before we move into that, allow me to pray again. Lord, here we are again. Let your spirit take over and bless us in Jesus' name. Amen. As I've said today, we are talking about one of the subjects that heaven loves so much, the subjects about the Sabbath. Many good people, even wonderful religious people, do not fully appreciate what the Sabbath is all about. It's one of the blessings that the enemy of righteousness and truth and holiness would love to keep away from God's people. And the reason is that the Sabbath is about the perfections of God's character. There's nothing else that represents the perfections of God, the goodness of God, like the Sabbath day. And that's why today we are talking about the Sabbath and prayer. And for context, we have already read the book of Isaiah. So let's move to the book of Revelation chapter 14. As the angels go out in swiftness with speed and with a loud voice proclaiming the everlasting gospel, they also say in verse seven, fear God, the first angel saying, fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment has come and worship him who made heaven and earth the sea and the springs of water. Yesterday we were talking about judgment and I think some of you got just excited as I was when we realized that this judgment is something that we say, come on, bring it on because we know who the judge is. Bring it on because we know who our advocate is because we know that he has already ascended and is seated at the right hand of the Father and has gone back. He came as the Son of God, but he went back as the Son of man and the Son of God. He went back to heaven as our representative. He came down as God only, but he went back as Emmanuel, God with us. And so he took us into the presence of God and when he sat on that throne, it was like the way when the high priest used to go in the most holy place and sprinkle the blood seven times during the day of atonement. Our elder brother, our high priest did not have to hold blood to sprinkle because blood represents life. He took his own life and when he presented his own life before the Father in all that perfections, beloved, he was accepted and he didn't have to sprinkle it on the throne of mercy because that throne of mercy is his own throne. Hallelujah somebody. And so he just sat on it. The Bible says he is the seated high priest. Every other priest used to minister before God standing. No one ever went to the most holy place and sat down because they were human beings. They were fallen. They even had a rope on their ankle here so that if they fell dead in the presence of God, they would be pulled back out of the presence of God. But beloved, when our high priest who took our fallen human nature died and rose again, went into the presence of God, beloved, he sat down because he is the Son of God. But he also sat down there as the Son of Man, signifying that in him, humanity is already accepted and seated in the presence of God. Beloved, he is the reason why Moses is there. He is the reason why Elijah is there. He is the reason why Enoch is there because all of them are there. They went in advance in anticipation of what he was going to do on Calvary. He did it. He died. He rose again. He is there for you and for me. Therefore, in judgment, we have the confidence that if we hold on to him without wavering in our faith, standing in all his righteousness, we are accepted in the beloved. Therefore, we can even today approach the throne of grace with full confidence that when we pray, he hears us. Hallelujah. That summarizes what we dealt with yesterday. Now today, you notice that this does not end there. It calls us not only to fear God and give him glory, but it calls us to worship. Worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea, and the springs of water. If there is anything that the enemy of righteousness, the enemy of God hates, it is this thought, this truth that you and I did not come into this world by accident. You know, one of the foolish, one of the most foolish things that any human being can believe and thousands, millions believe it is that you and I were not created. That we are as a result of accident. That there was a big bang. Whatever they are saying, the bottom line is that the world is getting better and better and better and soon and very soon we will reach a place where every human being is perfect. That's the essence of evolution. We are evolving. Once we were not as good, we are now progressively getting better. If there was ever a lie, that is the greatest lie ever. And history has revealed that the world is not getting better. Humanity is not getting better. We are not becoming even more loving with all the education that we have, with all the travels that we have made around the world. There are still people who think they are better than others. Humanity, we are still at log ahead with one another. There is still tribalism. There is racism. There are all isms that separate us from one another. There is pain. There is death. There is hatred. There is everything that is evil. Evil is present with us. And so we need to go beyond what science falsely so called is calling evolution. Our source, beloved, is in the Word of God. And the Word of God is revealing that God made us in His image. And so, beloved, the first thing that I want you to recall about the Sabbath, that the Sabbath gives us our identity. That's point number one. It provides for us our identity. It is a celebration of a perfect creation that we were created in His image. We were meant to be like God. It was after God had created the woman according to Genesis chapter one. Genesis chapter one tells us the purpose of creation. Genesis chapter two tells us how God did it. So Genesis chapter one ends on the sixth day when God had created man, male and female and gave them their purpose to be rulers on earth. When God looked at it on that day, He said, This is not just good. This is excellent. Very good. And the next day, the first day that humanity had together, the first 24 hours that they had, the Sabbath day was a day of rest. That's our origin. That's our source. That's our identity. It is in God. Our purpose also is found on that creation also. We were meant to be like God. That's why God gave us the free will, the ability to think and to do was given to us so that we can act on God's behalf and reign with God on planet earth. The Bible says that the heaven, even the heavens, the highest heaven is for God, for the earth was given to us. Beloved, this is our home, messed up as it is. This is our home. And as we celebrate the Sabbath, we are reminding ourselves that God is going to restore our home because it came perfect from the hands of God. When you realize that you are made by God, you find that your identity is in God. And as long as you are not like God, you will remain in restlessness. You will never be satisfied until you are able to be like God. You know what God is? Who God is? The Bible says just in few words, God is love. You are made by love and you are made for love. And that's why love is such a painful word. There are so many people who have died because they were looking for love. And that day I said there are so many people even looking at me right now, maybe even on YouTube you may smile. But if you are a married person, chances are you got married to that man because of this idea of love. Some of you left better homes to go to the place where somebody is living because of this word love, so you thought you were in love. Most of the songs, I remember before I met Jesus Christ many years ago as a teenager, there used to be a program in Kenya called Sundown. I don't know whether it's still there. And they used to present these songs, you know, the Rhythms and the Blues and most of them were about love. And I remember around six o'clock somewhere there we were in school and we'd just be sitting by the radio and listening to those songs and somehow we felt like they were speaking to us young as we were. I remember one singer in the world, I will not mention his name. I think he died many years ago, Elvis Presley. It's one of the songs that says we cannot walk together with suspicious minds. And imagine a little boy of 13 years old singing about suspicious minds. We didn't even know about love but we sang about love. Every human being loves to sing about love because we were made in the image of God and God is love and at the depth of our being we are all seeking for love. Little do we know that when we are looking for love, we are looking for God because God is love. And that's why we tend to go this way for love, that way for love, everywhere for love, looking for God but in the wrong place. Beloved, go back to your creation and you will find that you were made in this image and according to Colossians chapter 1 by 16 that we read previously we were made by him and we were made for him and it is only in him that we find love and full satisfaction in life. And that's why at our creation the first thing that God did was to bring humanity into his presence so that we can celebrate him. The Sabbath is a celebration of God in his perfections. There was nothing amiss. Number two, the Sabbath is about our purpose as it is given here. Our identity gives us our purpose and that is worship. Worship is an awesome thing. In worship, beloved, we marvel at the awesomeness of God, at the glory of God, at the greatness of God, at the power of God. We marvel at the character and at all the attributes, the perfections of God. In worship we come and we forget about ourselves. We just look at this awesome God. That's what happened on the Sabbath day. God set everything aside that Adam and Eve just looked at God, just fellowship with God, just talked with God. There was nothing else to do. Everything was perfect. They were just rejoicing in the presence of God. That's why even after the fall, God left humanity with marriage and God left humanity with the Sabbath because these two institutions celebrate the perfections of God. In marriage, we celebrate the act of selflessness. The greatest problem in our marriages is the three problems. Number one is selfishness. Number two is selfishness. And number three, you guessed, is selfishness. That is the greatest problem in any marriage. But God gave us marriage to continue so that we may seek after Him because God is selfless and the Sabbath is perfection, is rest. So God gave us these two to help us know where we came from, what our identity and what our purpose is all about so that even in the midst of our fallen state, worship may continue. Beloved, in worship, we are caught up in the awesome wonder of how great God is. That's why I love that song that says, How great thou art, how great, how great, how great is our God that has spoke this universe into existence. You go into the YouTube and look at how big the universe is and then compare our little earth where we are in relation to the big universe and then think about it. Go look at the sun itself in YouTube and see how big and how hot our sun is and only to realize that it's just one of the billions and billions of suns outside there. Our solar system is just one of them, probably one of the smallest. And our God spoke this universe into existence. Do you believe that? That God said let there be and all of them came from his mouth, from his mind in such an organized manner that everything is going around and none of them is colliding with the other and that came from this God who is able to speak everything into existence and he spoke life into existence. And you look at a tree. Some of you are too busy even to look at a tree and they tell me that there is no one leaf that looks like the other and then he made my friends the bees. I love bees because I love honey. Bees make that honey for us and how it takes water and mixes it with other things and produces honey beats my mind. Those are some of the things I want to study when I go into heaven. Beloved, how he made that little cell, that little tiny little thing that is microscopic can come together, things that you cannot see and in it God coded who you are from eternity and it brings them to meet together and out of it comes water your blood and comes bones and comes even your ears and your look and somebody looks at you and says you look like your father. Beloved, you may have a PhD in genetics but you don't understand it. You don't understand how God holds it all together. How it continues generations and generations. You talk of your genomes and whatever you are. Beloved, if you are a scientist you ought to be worshiping God worshipping God every day because every day you are exposed to the wonders of the living God and God did this so that as we look at his perfections his power, how awesome he is we would fall down and worship him. Beloved, heaven is a place of worship because when we go to heaven it's going to open our minds and some of the questions that are not answered today things that you don't even understand when we begin to understand them one by one and the other will be going holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty will be going glory, glory, glory unto God as he exposes to us all that he has done and God will be doing new things from generation to generations eternity to eternity we will be marveling at the greatness of our God Beloved, that is what the Sabbath is all about time set aside for us to marvel at the glories of the living God in worship, beloved, we catch a glimpse of the holiness and the highness of God and then we wonder that this high and holy God humbles himself to commune with you and I God who gets the worship of angels above when you speak he listens to you the mighty God we serve in worship, beloved, as I've said we see the God who dwells on high and holy place and yet his eyes upon the little sparrow and he says that even the hair of your head are numbered and not even one falls out falls off without God noticing that hair number 360 from Pastor Missian head fell off, hallelujah you know what that means? that means that you are safe that means that you are secure in the hands of God he is watching over you there is nothing that can happen to you that will take God by surprise you are fully covered by God whatever you are going through no matter what temptation may come to you God is watching over you and if you only remain connected to God you are a victor the Sabbath is our victory because it tells us all that God is that is watching over us he watches over you and not even one hair of your head can fall down without him noticing the Sabbath also is a demonstration of his love for us you well the only one if you are the only one on earth Jesus would still have come for you that's what the Sabbath is all about it's about the great love of God that everything that God has done he has done in love for you and for me so in worship worship is the greatest expression of our gratitude to God when we see that this half was made for us and we see that God the same one who gave himself for us on the cross is the same one who made us we come to the Sabbath day and we recognize our unworthiness and say father we are so grateful father forgive us of our sins father we want to be like you because we have read in Genesis that we were made by you and for you that gives us the content of prayer we want to be like you our God and we never rest we are testing for him because only in him do we have that joy only in him do we have the fullness of pleasure that our hearts are longing for and so the Sabbath is a constant yearning for the reunion of God face to face with Christ our Savior that's what the Sabbath is all about we see where we have come from the Sabbath drives us pushes us forward to where we are going when we know where we have come from the Sabbath leads us on day by day we long every Sabbath as we rest with him we long for that perfection of fullness of him and rest with him the reunion that will take place among the sons and daughters of God that's what the Sabbath is all about it's a rest of history but it's also a rest of hope that we have in Jesus Christ so beloved in worship we express our gratefulness to God the Sabbath is also a universal gift to God to humanity the text that we read in Isaiah 56 tells us that the house of God is a house of prayer for all nations and it talks about the Unix it talks about the foreigners the Sabbath is universal and beloved the Sabbath is not only universal but the Sabbath is about our equality before God mark that down commandment number four says that on that day neither you nor your servant nor your cattle nothing works on that day we are the same if you have somebody walking in your house on the Sabbath she or he does not work we are all equal hallelujah and among the people who understand the Sabbath you go to Israel they don't even drive on that day everybody's just walking that's why the Jews love to leave next to the synagogues because on the Sabbath they forget about everything else they just walk to go and be with their God how I wish that they would understand him who made the Sabbath day is the same one who died on Calvary and the day they understand that they will turn to God in thousands and thousands of thousands and I'm praying about it and you ought to pray because according to the flesh Jesus was a Jew but he was for all humanity and the Sabbath is for all humanity and the Sabbath demonstrates our equality on the Sabbath day beloved we are all equal you know there is somebody who was saved in this church many years ago I will not mention his name but he walked into this church and he found a whole justice carrying a bench from a Sabbath school and he said is that not justice so and so and he said yes why is he doing that he is a deacon and he said I'm coming back to church he was born from Adventist background beloved the Sabbath demonstrates our equality and our humility in the presence of God when you worship God in the Sabbath as a seventh Adventist you can even sweep the church even if you are a chief justice because on the Sabbath day we are all equal in the presence of God hallelujah and then the Bible tells us that on the Sabbath day we all worship God the same way there is no different worship for different communities we worship God the same day on the Sabbath day worldwide because of its universal nature the Sabbath is about our redemption complete, perfect and finished in Christ Jesus the same one who said it is perfect and very good is the same one who came for the restoration and on the sixth day 2,000 years ago hanging on the cross in Calvary Jesus said it is finished and he provided for us once more a perfect salvation and so on the seventh day Jesus rested and rose again on the first day of the week but beloved when he rose again he brought up a new humanity humanity in Christ that is perfect, that is righteous, that is holy and all that is in him we relate ourselves to Jesus Christ through faith all the perfections of Christ become ours immediately that's why as a Christian you can come and rest the Sabbath first and foremost beloved is not works it is rest it is not salvation by works the Sabbath is what demonstrate salvation by faith in Christ is salvation by faith through faith because on the Sabbath day we come before God and sit we rest with him God invites us to rest to relax to be in his presence to focus our minds on what he has done and not on what we can do beloved the Sabbath is the evidence that heaven is yours our work is never finished our work is never perfect but on Friday why? because we are looking at the works of Jesus Christ alone that's why we rest there is no rest for the wicked says the word of God but you and I who believe in Christ we can rest because we are looking at his righteousness not our righteousness that's why you cannot proclaim the everlasting gospel and ignore the Sabbath day that's why you cannot be a Christian because on the Sabbath day God has put a margin on your time margin if you look at our new logo there is that margin that has been created that's the seventh day it signifies it means that God is telling you to stop and trust in him do you know that the Sabbath is a trust in God? people are out looking for money people are providing for themselves but on the Sabbath we say that the Lord will provide therefore we rest and he demonstrated it in the Old Testament on Friday they were able to collect money and on the Sabbath day that money never rested never rotted the thousands of people who give testimony they rest on the Sabbath day and on Sunday the Lord provides even double in their businesses there is not one business that has gone down because the honor rested on the Sabbath beloved the Sabbath is the evidence that we are walking by faith and not by sight the Sabbath is the evidence that we believe in the righteousness of Christ and not on our own righteousness so the Sabbath, beloved is about Christ himself as our maker our redeemer our provider and our restorer the Sabbath therefore is a commandment it's not something optional for Seventh Adventist it's not different for different people the Sabbath is not optional it's not even yours left for you to choose which day the Sabbath day is the Sabbath day of the Lord your God he is the one who has the Sabbath only God has the Sabbath because only God is perfect perfect in creation perfect in redemption that's why Jesus said the Sabbath is the Lord of the Sabbath and he made it for us even as he made the whole earth for us so that on the Sabbath we come and rest in his perfect creation and rest in his perfect redemption as we look forward to the restoration of the universe and everything back in the image of God so you and I are simply invited to rest in it and to keep it holy and to cherish it but it does not belong to us it belongs to the Lord amen the Sabbath is the secret for your prosperity and biblical success go and read Isaiah 58 he says let me read that to you let me read that to you because some people don't understand what God is saying but as I prayed I'm trusting that the Holy Spirit is giving you revelation as we read the Word of God listen to what the Bible is saying verse 13 of Isaiah 58 it says if you turn away your foot from the Sabbath from doing your pleasure on my holy day underline my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight a joy the Bible says the holy day of the Lord honorable and shall honor him the Sabbath we are not honoring the day we are honoring whom God he says and honor him we honor him as our creator we honor him as our redeemer he says and honor him not doing your own ways resting salvation is a call to rest in Christ that's why Jesus said come on to me and I will give you rest salvation begins by resting then on the first day we stand and start walking that's why the Sabbath came before the first day of the week man first had the Sabbath before he had a Sunday think about that he was created on the sixth day he had the Sabbath and then he had to work so you come that is a demonstration of righteousness by faith by grace through faith you come to God you rest when you rest you find your purpose rise up to work and as you work beloved you meet challenges you know who you are in Christ therefore you are able to stand up and pray again to God and it gives you a breakthrough I want you to remember that so the Sabbath is a call to rest so he says that if you honor him not doing your own ways nor finding your own pleasure don't go your way to find pleasure perfect pleasure is in the presence of God Psalm 16 verse 11 in his presence is the fullness of joy pleasures forevermore so don't seek your own pleasure find your pleasure in God no speaking your own words then verse 14 then you shall delight yourself in the Lord remember what he says in Psalms delight yourself in the Lord and it shall give you the desires of your heart you shall delight yourself in the Lord and he says I the Lord says I will cause you I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father I want to invite you if you have never rested in the Sabbath I want to invite you if you want biblical success here it is God himself will cause you earlier we read in Deuteronomy 18 that I the Lord 18 I think he said I am the one who causes you I give you wisdom to create wealth God says I will make you to ride high in the high places of the earth he is the one who will do it and make you participate in the heritage of Jacob your father so beloved the Sabbath how do we keep it the Sabbath is simply resting in him 24 7 when you come to Christ you don't just rest on the Sabbath day you rest 24 7 because you are in Christ 24 7 the 7th day is only a pause we stop to celebrate his perfections we stop to celebrate who he is we stop to look at ourselves as who we are in him therefore I want to invite you the Sabbath to celebrate the Sabbath day with God this coming Sabbath day and it will be your expression of absolute trust in him that's why the Sabbath is so important and so significant for you and for me because today you may be lying in pain but I want you to know that the Sabbath is the evidence that God still has you in mind a day is coming when you will be restored into perfections even if you don't have money today look at the Sabbath day and say that my maker is perfect my redeemer is perfect and I'm living in hope as long as you are celebrating the Sabbath day the devil cannot keep you down because every celebration of the Sabbath is a demonstration of your faith in him who is perfect when you come to the Sabbath day you may have questions in your mind but the Sabbath answers all of them you may have pain in the family disagreements at home dysfunctional families when you come to the Sabbath you find the answer because the Sabbath reminds you that that's not what God intended God intended you to be perfect beloved the Sabbath is the answer that Jesus has given to humanity to look back to history and to look forward and to rest in him saying I will trust him I'm going through I see what God has done I will hold on to him I will look to Jesus the author and finisher of my faith and my troubles my challenges will not keep me down as I continue to meet with him every Sabbath I am looking forward to the day when I will see him face to face until then we celebrate him daily and we come together sons and daughters and we rest in him signifying that his righteousness is what we are counting on therefore we can rise may God bless you as you celebrate the Sabbath this coming week is my prayer for you in Jesus name thank you pastor for telling us that the Sabbath for reminding us that the Sabbath is the secret prosperity let's do song number 501 it is the blessed hour of prayer in my spirit that I need to tell somebody that is going to be well in your restlessness Jesus says come unto me only that labor and I will give you rest the Lord is holding you in his hands and is giving you rest from your restlessness from the perplexities of life this is what he made the Sabbath be all about this is why he left it with us so that we can come back to him and just rest and look at him and to him alone so we are going to go into prayers and she's going to guide us how we are going to pray today and I just want you to know that God is watching over you and it's got you covered and just rest and trust in him we will come through for you in Jesus' name good evening everyone today the four of us are going to pray and we trust and believe that we shall find rest in Christ as we commit our lives to him let us bow our heads in prayer eternal father king of the universe Lord of lords we thank you once again for the opportunity to come before you and we thank you for the assurance from your word this evening that you created the Sabbath for us to put a margin in our lives and to come to you with our burdens and worship you Lord to look into your holiness and to look into your face and worship you thank you so much for the giving us the opportunity to worship you every week with all our family members and even with the workers and the animals and everything that you've given us to pause and worship you we come before you this evening with thanksgiving Lord your children are thanking you father we have thanksgiving some that have not been presented but we know that we have sisters Grace and Quinta we are thanking you we thank you Lord for the new life that you are giving your children for your children Lorraine and Leni who are desiring a new life in Christ father may you elevate them spiritually as they have desired so as we continue praying this evening we trust and believe that all the prayers will be answered according to your riches in Christ Jesus and amen pray together with that Lord we have received numerous prayer requests which have been put in the prayer boxes we've also received a lot from online viewers Lord we bring them before you you know each and every need you know everything which is behind all these prayer requests Lord I pray that you may touch each one according to your riches in glory may they feel light may you lift up the burdens and may you come into their situations and may they have a testimony to share with others that when we come with our requests as your word tells us you will hear us and you will answer thank you Lord because there's nothing too hard for you you know the future you know what lies ahead of us those who are sick in hospitals those who have various challenges I may not mention all but Lord they've been noted before you we thank you because you've answered and we thank you because you are our father we pray amen our father in heaven we tarry a bit longer in your presence we want to give you glory and honor father we bless your name we worship you we adore you for all the good things you've done in our lives after this moment father with humble and contrite spirits we come before your presence we ask that you might meet each and every one of us according to our points of need and that father your glory might be manifest in and through us father in a special way father we thank you for guiding us through these 10 days of prayer you brought us to this seventh day of the 10 father we still commit ourselves before you you know our hearts you know what we desire and father we pray that you might continue to meet us at our points of need and father even as you said that even before we ask our prayers thank you father for answering our prayers in a special way father at this moment we pray for the outpouring of your Holy Spirit upon us that you might be effective witnesses of you both here at home and even abroad wherever you've taken us to thank you father for the prayer requests that keep coming father those who are sick those who are mourning every person in whatever situation they are father we commit them into your hands and we pray that all the devices that Satan has desired for us may you defeat them in the name of Jesus father may you come and work in us both to will and to do to your good pleasure and above all father may your will be done in all of our lives and here on earth as it is done in heaven we pray this in Jesus name and now lord here we are once again in your presence we are thanking you for the blessing of the Sabbath that you gave us and the hope that is within us that lord all these prayers that have been uttered before you are being received by the same one who created us in his own image that you are the living god you are not a result of accident that you hear prayer therefore we can praise you we can bless your name thanks to you because you have heard these prayers and so lord today we are praying for those who have been restless in their lives some are restless because they are in a restless relationship some are restless because of pain in their bodies they can't sleep they can't rest some are restless because they are worried about tomorrow the anxiety of joblessness lord when will they get a job and some are even saying lord I've been asking you for a spouse for a husband for a wife lord all these needs that have been brought before you that are in the boxes that have been uttered here we know that you hear our prayers because you made us in your image and you have demonstrated your love by saving us through the blood of Christ therefore we boldly approach the throne of mercy asking you lord that this week touches like never before in these 10 days do something special something that only you can do in the lives of your people someone who has been down for so long father let them rise and walk again let somebody who has been looking for a job for so long find a job and walk again because it is in the Sabbath commandment that you also tell us that we must work for 6 days lord it is your will that your people should work because work is good therefore we are praying oh lord that you find work for your people do a miracle for the young people who are looking for jobs and father the Sabbath is about relationships God and man together in fellowship we are praying for those whose relationships are in danger that lord this Sabbath day those who have been fighting for their relationship to be restored for the restore for your own glory and we thank you so much that we have this hope that keeps on burning in our hearts every Sabbath we are looking forward to that day of the restoration of all things into unity and harmony in the entire universe may that day come soon and so lord keep us faithful looking unto Jesus no matter what your servants are going through tonight lord keep their eyes focused on you because soon and very soon it will be all over the dead shall be raised lord I am praying for those who have been grieving for so long may they find rest in you lift their burdens of grief tonight that they may rest knowing that Jesus the author and the lord of the Sabbath was given us this hope and this rest is the same one who is coming again and there will be a restoration thank you so much lord the devil want to hide these truths from us but today I pray that all within the reach of my voice will start rejoicing as we see your perfections your attributes you are a holy god you are a just but also a merciful god who calls sinners into fellowship with him blessed be thy name both now and even forevermore in Jesus name we pray Amen thank you sister for that good song as we come to the end of today's program we want to thank all of you for coming to the sanctuary for worship those who tuned in many of you from various places to fellowship with us to thank you so much and to request you humbly again tomorrow please come tune in share links with your friends invite a friend to come to the sanctuary that as many as possible can be blessed through the ministry of the 10 days of prayer I also want to request as we will be praying if there are unsung prayers please start sharing them with us those who also have testimonies we encourage you on sabbatu be having a testimony time but also we want to encourage as much as possible to write your testimonies because we will be sharing with prayer ministry