 Good morning. Good evening everyone. Good evening once again. It is so gloomy until it looks like it's still morning. But anyway, we give God thanks for giving us this opportunity to gather together again in His sanctuary, at least in the middle of the week so that we can fellowship at His feet. And before we start our service for today, we shall bow down for a word of prayer and then we shall do a couple of songs and then we shall have a elder break the word for us this evening. So before we do anything else, shall we pray? We are praying. Our mighty and everlasting Father, we are grateful, we are making our King for granting us this opportunity to fellowship at Your feet. Many of our witnesses but we knew we find strength and many of our challenges but we march by your masses that are new every morning. And Father who art in heaven as we begin this evening service ask that Your presence may calm down and we also dwell with us dear Lord. May we come out revived renewed and ready to face the rest of the week and we shall give you glory and honor when we finish it because we prayed in Jesus' name. Amen. So to start us off we'll open our hymnals. Song number 523, 523. Song number 523. My faith has found a resting place. Let's sing together. My faith has found a resting place Not in a manmade creed I trust the ever living one That he for me will plead I need no other evidence I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And rose again for me Enough for me that Jesus saves This ends my fear and doubt A sinful soul I come to him He will not cast me out I need no other evidence I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And rose again for me My soul is resting on the word The living word of God Salvation in my Savior's name Salvation through his blood I need no other evidence I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And rose again for me The great physician heals the sick The lost he came to save For me his precious bloody shed For me his life he gave I need no other evidence I need no other plea It is enough that Jesus died And rose again for me Amen I wonder what evidence you need But since Jesus died for us and rose again That is evidence enough for us To know that he is our resting place We shall turn to song number 528 A shelter in the time of storm 528 The lords are rocking him We hide Let's sing together The lords are rocking him We hide a shelter in the time of storm Sekuoteba may be tied A shelter in the time of storm Mighty rock, mighty rock In a weary land Cooling shed On the burning sun Faithful guide For the pilgrim burn A shelter in the time of storm A shed by day Defense by night A shelter in the time of storm No fees alarm No foes afright A shelter in the time of storm Mighty rock, mighty rock In a weary land Cooling shed On the burning sun Faithful guide For the pilgrim burn A shelter in the time of storm The raging floods May round us beat A shelter in the time of storm We find in God A self-retreat A shelter in the time of storm Mighty rock, mighty rock In a weary land Cooling shed On the burning sun Faithful guide For the pilgrim burn A shelter in the time of storm O rock divine O refuge mean A shelter in the time of storm Bidawa helpa evanin A shelter in the time of storm Mighty rock, mighty rock In a weary land Cooling shed On the burning sun Faithful guide For the pilgrim burn A shelter in the time of storm This evening comes from the book of Genesis 39 verse 5 And the word of the Lord says From then on because of Joseph, the Lord blessed the household of Egyptians and everything that he had in his house and in his face. May God bless the reading. Good evening once again. Our opening song is going to come from my SD Hymnos 511. Shall we all rise up as we sing together? I know not why God's wondrous grace, I know... Let's sing together. I know not why God's wondrous grace, To me he hath made known, Knoweth he Christ in love redid me for his own. But I know and am persuaded That he is able to keep that which I've committed And to him against the dead. I know not how the saving faith To me he did impart, Knoweth he Christ in love redid me for his own. But I know and am persuaded That he is able to keep that which I've committed And to him against the dead. I know how the spirit moves Convincing men of sin, Revealing Jesus through the word, Creating faith in him. But I know, but I know whom I have believed And am persuaded that he is able To keep that which I've committed And to him against the dead. I know not when my God may come At night or noonday fame Nor if I walk the veil with him Or meet him in the air. But I know, but I know who he read And am persuaded that he is able To keep that which I've committed And to him against the dead. Let us humble ourselves and pray God and our Father in heaven You have been with us Lord. The all of this day and you have brought us Lord to your sanctuary this evening That Lord we may worship you. May you father come and be with us and hear our prayers. We are feebo and unless we seek thee and we get thy strength Lord we are doomed. This is why we come before you this evening that Lord you may be able to Show us your face and your blessings may flow unto us May you father bless our souls through your servant who is going to speak to us In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. I want to take this opportunity this evening to welcome you all to the service this evening Those who have come to worship the Lord for the Wednesday Vespers And also those who are watching us online all of you are welcome It is a time for prayer we seek the Lord that the Lord may be able to be with us It is my humble opportunity to welcome our speaker this evening Elder Joshua Orua May God use you, may God bless you May God please welcome and speak to us Good evening saints Good evening I first and foremost want to thank Pastor Maya for the introduction It is very rare I can't remember the last time I had to wear the lapel mic number one number two To have my poster Paid everywhere and on screens On people's phones I know there are quite a number of people who are watching There is a lot of drama that comes to this But I want to thank God for it To a point where This is not the first time I'm preaching But I do not know why it has come with a lot of jeters for me I believe that the Lord will guide us even as we go through this Our topic for today And I was very deliberate on it Joseph Potifa and his wife I've read this story over and over again And it is a story that we are used to To a point where probably you'd want to ask yourself What is it that I do not know about this story of Joseph But I can tell you You probably will learn a thing or two today Or rather this evening First and foremost it is intriguing to me because then he was a young man Apart from that The kind of experience that he went through as a young man Is both inspiring and encouraging at the same time Joseph is one person who As a young man seated next to his father Jacob At some point he developed this He developed this self confidence And to a point where he almost Always disregarded his brothers But you would not quite say that One would say that he was becoming a little bit arrogant Out of naiviti because of the fact that his dad loved him And because of this His brothers got to a point where they hated him At age 17 He is close to his father And the more he presented himself towards his brothers The more they hated him And this jealousy developed And over a period of time This is what the commentary says Their brothers deep jealousy Had grown into ugly rage Completely blinding them to what was right The commentary father says that jealousy can be difficult to recognize Because of our reasons for it That seems to make sense to us who are jealous But if we leave it unchecked Jealousy grows quickly and leads to serious sins The longer you cultivate jealous feelings The harder it will be for you to uproot them The time to deal with jealousy is when you notice Your self keeping scores of others recognition Words and achievements Know very well that you are on the wrong path And so this is what happened to them Fast forward They had your plan They get hold of him They sell him to the media nights Who in turn probably tied him And he walked for a journey of 30 days That he was not prepared for He was not prepared for a journey of 30 days And it was on foot And you can imagine I can't remember the last time Sometimes past a journey to town Here and back sometimes can be difficult There was a time I did it about 4-5 times Now he walked for 30 days Together with the media nights And of course they reached their destination Egypt A very affluent society People who advance Both in culture And even in electronics and everything else And you can imagine the kind of culture shock That hit Joseph The Bible says again Commentary That suddenly He was thrust into the world's most advanced civilization With great pyramids, beautiful homes And sophisticated people Under new language While Joseph saw Egypt's skills and intelligence At their best He also saw the Egyptian spiritual blindness They worshiped countless gods Related to every aspect of life That was him He exposed himself to many things But one thing he did see Was the fact that These guys Or these people The Egyptians Had many gods I read something The book of Psalms chapter 18 verse 20 says That the Lord rewarded me For doing right And he restored me because of my innocence Verse 21 Father goes to say that For I have kept the ways of the Lord I have not turned from my God To follow evil Joseph is sold to Potipha Who in the Bible Is referred to as Captain of Pharaoh's Royal Guard He had a large household And he also had a wife Who had too many Too much time in her hands So Joseph gets in And the Bible tells us The scripture says that from then on Because of Joseph The Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian And everything that he had in his house And his fields This is why this story gets interesting to me As a young man We are being told that There are certain things that he did out of naivety And even as he comes up Age 17, age 18 He is being brought in in Pharaoh's You know, household Or within the king's palace And Potipha takes him up And we are being told that the Lord was with him And everything that he tightened Everything that he saw Everything that he got himself in Succeeded Because the Lord was with him It tells me something about those who believe in the Lord You probably may not be able to know And sometimes we take for granted The fact that we are We are worshipers If you are faithful to God If you believe in God If you trust in him If you walk with the Lord on a daily basis He will be faithful enough To reward you even in the smallest of things We are even told that even his livestock Potipha's livestock Prosperat How many times do we see something like this And sometimes Some of these issues are so tiny That we probably may not be able to notice But they are a blessing to somebody And so here is In Potipha's house And Potipha we are being told he noticed We are being told that The decision Potipha made To hire Joseph was the best ever Not only was Joseph talented But God was with him Because of Joseph Potipha began to prosper greatly And while Potipha was benefiting From Joseph's good work ethics There was this lady His wife noticed He noticed Joseph's good looks The Bible says that Joseph was handsome And very well built And sometimes We live in a world where A lot of things get to attract people No wonder nowadays people go for Faster we do go for You know, physical We go to the gym So that we can look attractive In one way or another And in a way sometimes When we are built We present ourselves in a manner that Would be attracting to the opposite sex Sometimes we forget And so here he is And aware that somebody was looking at him He was busy Doing his work as usual On a daily basis And then this lady is We are being told Was noticing Joseph's good looks So she moved from looking To seducing But Joseph continually resisted her advances Denied the thrill of chasing And capturing her prey Of feeling a few moments of illicit pleasure Potipha's wife became angry and hot And she moved a step further She coined She sat down, thought of how She was able to get hold of this young lad She cornered her And even that Joseph resisted But in resisting Joseph made a statement And a very, very profound statement That Potipha made me In charge of his household He literally handed over everything to me His wife I cannot sin against the Lord And notice I cannot sin against the Lord That is what he said As much as this lady was driving him To that corner And of course she was disappointed Our mothers, our sisters Our daughters There are times when What we have May lead us To do things that may not be acceptable And so this She did And when she failed What did she do? She went and told the husband And the husband, the commentary says Not knowing what was going on in his own house Was so furious He threw this man behind bars He got so upset Say that this young boy wanted to rape me That is what the lady says In fact, from being a handsome person The name now changed Now he was being referred to as This Hebrew boy That is how Potipha's wife was calling Joseph Was referring to Joseph now This Hebrew young man The name changed And immediately the husband acted And Joseph was to stay in prison for 2 years And even in prison That is the intriguing thing about the whole thing The Lord was faithful enough to be with him Faithful enough to be with him To a point where the Lord went ahead of him Influenced even the prison warden To like him The Lord was walking with him At this point I would like to stop and tell you Let me tell you something We all have a path As Christians we all have a path We have charted ourselves a path Like on the streets Keep to your lane Keep to your lane It doesn't matter what the other person is doing When you are driving And you are on the highway Those of us who have used the express highway People drive and at great speeds But because of the speeds at which people are moving And some of us are fast Some of us will be slow The fact that you are on your lane You want to keep your lane Because one small mistake will end up Getting somebody in trouble And so Joseph kept to his lane Fast and foremost he was very close to his father And for that reason when he knew who God was As much as he became arrogant about it He kept to that And this is what saved him And over a period of time Even as he walked in Potipha's house He kept to that same lane And he knew his God Said that I cannot do this He didn't say that I can't do it Because Potipha is my boss I cannot sin against the Lord I cannot sin against God I cannot do this sinful act That is what he said And that is what the Bible records And so he is in prison He finds favor with the Lord And even here He is still kept to his faith You know there are times when Strange things would happen to us in life Because we do not know If you are prosperous We thank God There are times when unfortunate things Would be able to catch up with us in our lives And you find yourself like him Today I was watching something on YouTube And this young man says that I've been in prison for 17 years He was from Narok For a mistake that I never did And I've just been released And so the reporters were asking him But he interjected and said that You people There are so many of us Very many young people Who are in prison For mistakes that they never did But they are there I want to appeal to you Please help a boy child That was the message that he was saying So here is Joseph He is here He has taken the fact that We behind bars positively He is still praising his God And people come And among the people who came in Who are joined Who are thrown in with him Were two people Feroz Kapbera And Feroz Baker And sometimes when you sit around I believe they talk I had an opportunity to go to The cells here One time when we had a problem Where I used to work Prisoners are telling you Those who are behind bars Are telling you that we talk How did you come here Ni nili ku leta apa What did you do We share the experiences They share the experience of How they got there What happened How they ended up there I want to believe that Joseph had Such a conversation With this With fellow Prisoners And they told him Time goes These two people The two officials Have a dream And They come and share with Joseph What it is And Joseph tells them again Listen to him That I am not able to Interpret dreams It is God who reveals The kind of dreams that we have That we get And after that he tells them What this dream means And what the next dream means For the Kapbera He was told that He One of them Kapbera If my memory gets me right He had a problem with the dream And when Joseph interpreted it He told him that You are going to be hanged And for the other fellow says that You are going to continue But then Joseph told them that when you get out Do for me one thing Please remember me When they got out they both forgot They both forgot That there was a gentleman We are being told of a story of An old man Who came to church And he kept on coming to church And as the Lord was blessing him With resources And all that And each and every time he came Kept on seeing the wondrous love of Jesus Seeing his masses And his grace The Lord blessed him First step I think I've had enough He reversed his pickup He put whatever it is That he had donated to the Lord And he said And sometimes we do that We turn our backs to the Lord We do Once we've been blessed We forget where we have come from We forget The kind of history The background where the Lord brought us from And we go You will only remember again When things turn around And so here is Joseph He's in prison An opportunity presents itself once again That now it is Is the king Who has had a dream And he calls his people And he says that who can be able to Interpret this dream They look around, they call the magicians People who they thought would be able To come up with something That would make sense to the king None of them could Then the captain remembers that We left somebody in prison And at once the king ordered Bring him Bringing over here Again Joseph says I don't have those powers They belong to God How many times do we recognize That which the Lord has given us An opportunity A talent that the Lord has given us Instead of taking glory What we do Is that We actually take glory for ourselves But then Joseph Had a different idea Everything that he did He recognized the fact that the Lord has been with him It is important for us Worshipers And those who are viewing us From wherever you are Whenever the Lord has blessed you with a talent Because it does There is nobody Who is useless in this world We all have an opportunity To be able to Even if you are not doing well in school You can be able to excel in There is something that the Lord has Given you in your hands An ability That would be able to make you Honor his name So Joseph says that I don't have this ability Except that which the Lord has done He interprets the dream And instantly And you do not know where This blessings come from Here is Joseph The Lord pulls him from prison He becomes A high ranking officer We are being told At age 30 He is up there And the state glorifies God He recognizes every step of the life I remember I was telling you Keep to your lane It doesn't matter You may have left school You may have left college You may have been working in the same institution While others are doing many things I say that People of my age When I watch a Numa They have this They own this They are doing this They are prosperous They are going to the best of schools Keep to your lane The Lord will bless you In that same lane Keep to that lane Don't look on the side No either on the left Nor on the right Keep to your lane It doesn't matter how long it takes We are being told that in his time He makes things beautiful The song says And like we sang The opening song I know whom I have believed And I am persuaded that he is able Never try to help God Never try to help God You can't help him Because if he left you alone You probably would not even be able to find your direction And so Joseph kept to his lane He years later When When now things are becoming Better and better for him He is in a high ranking position The same brothers Whos sold him out Are the same brothers That he would lord over them At some point The Lord brought it to Fusha Here he is presenting himself To them And they don't even recognize him He is taking them through a process And he is not telling them anything That is the reason why Somebody will say that Some of these things Jealousy, name it Vices that would otherwise Be able to bring you down Vitu and bazo zitaku Leta chini Wa chananas Leave them Keep to your lane In this church We have those of us who are doing this We have various people And I can tell you Each and every one of us Have a duty to play Each and every one of us Have a duty to play There are those of us who are in charge of these cameras There are those of us who are in charge of cleanliness There are those of us who Would want to make sure That things are in order They are in the offices Pastas are here to schedule us Kila mutua kukwaki And the Lord has blessed us differently The best that you can be able to do Is to keep to that Which the Lord has given you He will bless you there He doesn't matter how He does not matter how And He will take you to heights That you never imagine That you can be able to touch But one more thing It would be important for us to recognize That the Lord would be walking with us All the way through And this is what Joseph did I told you That this story is very intriguing to me And it's also very encouraging to me It doesn't matter The frustrations that we are going through And there could be somebody somewhere Who is busy trying to fight you Without your knowledge Busy trying to make things not work for you It doesn't matter You have a God who lives You have a father who is looking down And would be able to bless you In that man And so even as we go through Our lives on a daily basis I don't know who is watching me I don't know who is listening to me right now There are times when life Can be very difficult They say that it has become Even harder right now You could be going through Very difficult moment with children Right now You would be going through very difficult Moment with your relatives You can be going through Very difficult moments With your workmates People who do not want to see You succeed Once again I say Keep to your lane Make sure that you do the right thing Never try to help God Because you cannot Never try to help God Because you will not And you are not going to succeed Because then when you do that He will drop you like a potato Hot potato Sorry He will let you go To do it on your own Go ahead And so for Joseph And the kind of life that he led It's a lesson to me And probably to you as well That there is nothing in this world That would be greater than Being faithful to the Lord And that as we walk our journey And we do it every single day As we walk this life's journey On a daily basis That we need To find our space And keep to that same space Because in that same space On that lane The Lord will make things beautiful Because that is what he says I have seen people There was a I didn't plan to say There was a time we We used to have Morning worships here Into it was We used to come And there was this particular day That we came here And we were worshiping To date I can't remember Who was leading that service All I can remember Is that there are so many of us Who used to come And whoever it is that was leading told us Why don't you divide yourselves Into twos So we turn around I turned around I sat On the farthest end here Then I saw two strangers seated behind me People I didn't know An old lady and a younger lady So I asked the old lady Can we go and pray So we went and knelt Near the youth's desk And we started sharing And as we did I heard some sounds This was happening in this church I had sounds And before I could be able To tell where the sounds were coming from The lady who was kneeling Right in front of me Had tears running down her cheeks And she tells me That that's my daughter Then I asked her What happened And before we could Turn to find out Exactly what was happening Drama started out here And for the next three hours We were here Struggling with a young girl Who was demon possessed We held her down Five of us One of us was a pastor After all that drama She had Her ears pierced Pastor told us many things After prayer This started at about Quota to seven in the morning We were on our knees up till Nine a.m. in the morning I couldn't stand I could not stand But when we were done We brought one of those black chairs And she sat We tried to find out from her What happened Where she got all this And she told us everything that she possibly Could be able to say That was my first experience with a demon possessed person And sometimes when some of these things happen And you have made a prayer And it has been successful First and foremost, even as we held down I got scared because I said that If you have little faith pastor They say that That was the biggest problem that I had The biggest problem that I had Because I was right next to her mouth Was the one who was pressing her on the floor And nili kwa nimemi shikiliha hapun And nili kwa najuwa They only exit For the powers was the mouth Na hapun jumali nili kwa The exercise was such that by the time we were done The only thing I felt that I had a suit It was wet, pastor When we were done She told us Where she got it from And all that The only thing that we would be able to do Is that we give glory to God I started walking going to town And I felt like I was going to fly I thought that all those demons Had gotten into me I couldn't walk to town It was in my head That I see I came for service the following day And then I see these two coming Right from that door I told God I can't manage this again Not again But when they came The lady told us That we came for thanksgiving We came for thanksgiving As we speak today The Lord healed her She is long married I don't know whether she is watching She is long married Whatever it is that the Lord is doing In your life Help will come Whatever frustrations That are in your life today You listener Whoever it is that is watching me Help is coming It doesn't matter For Joseph it came after two years For others There's a friend of mine Whose help came after 15 years The Lord is never late And so I want to plead With each and every one of us Who is listening this evening And who is watching this evening The Lord is never late Joseph took time And he came to his lady And when help came He actually recognized That this same help came from God And that would be a prayer this evening That the Lord may see us through You may be going hungry with children You don't have fees You do not know what to do Help is coming All you need to do Is to keep to that same land Don't help God because you do not know how He is God And if you have believed him Over this period of time Trust me You can believe him going forward It does not matter You may be walking every day Looking for a job And nothing is coming Keep to that same land And that too But kumbuka remember To ask him Tell him And my prayer is that God May be able to give us this mind To be able to worship him In truth and in spirit And on a daily basis Remember Keep to your land As we finish I would like us to sing The same song that we sang 511 I know whom I have believed And I am persuaded that he is able That song would make sense To somebody who is probably crying right now Asking many questions Why Lord Is this happening to me only It happened to Joseph So it can happen to you We are not animals We are human beings Challenges would come And so even as it happens to you Rejoice in the Lord always And I say rejoice Help will come And may the Lord bless you We can sing the same song Okay we shall all stand up And we'll sing 511 I know not why God's wondrous grace Let's sing together I know Not why God's wondrous grace To me He hath made known Nor why Unworthy Christ in love Redeemed me for His own But I know Whom I have believed And I am persuaded That he is able To keep that Which I have committed And to him Against the day I know Not how this Believing faith To me Did impart Nor how Belize what Wrote peace Within my heart But I know But I know Whom I have believed And I am persuaded That he is able To keep that Which I have committed And to him Against the day I know not how The spirit moves Convising men Of sealing Jesus Through them But I know Whom I have believed And I am persuaded That he is able To keep that Which I have committed And to him Against the day I know Not when my Lord shall come At night On noonday Nor if I walk The way For me To me But I know But I know Whom I have believed And I am persuaded That he is able To keep that Which I have committed And to him Against the Before your throne of grace, our God and our Father, we come this evening. We want to thank you, Father, for the life of Joseph. We ask Lord That you may be able to guide us. That in everything we do, Lord, let your name be glorified. And that you'd be able to direct our minds, our paths And everything, Lord, that we do On a daily basis. Be with us, Father, As we Think about this Message from praying Jesus' name. Personally I have a take home That my God will never be late. He is powerful. He is able to deliver me From any worries, any challenge. Elder, my God bless you so much And That was powerful. I just pray that God may be able to bless you. Thank you for worshiping with us this evening. Continue to be with us. See you on Sabbath As we worship on Sabbath And also plan never to miss our come meeting From the 12th To 19th I request that we may rise And Say The grace May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ And the love of God And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit Be with us now And forevermore Amen