Transformed by the Renewing of the Mind

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gathered there foreign to respond to Paul's message foreign a Apostle Paul a Christian and Apostle Paul was preaching about Christ many people were listening but wonderful thing happened the heart of Lydia what was Pastor Paul was talking about [Music] before this I was reading the Bible and it was was close to me I didn't understand anything but the 23rd of September 1979. in Moscow for the first time I heard the word of God when I stepped into the house of God in that moment the faith opened to me you know we'll be praying that maybe someone something new will be opened maybe today that God would open your heart without the Holy Spirit no one could understand what is speaking in this world we're going to be praying we have guests who will be preaching and may God give him a word like they in the apostles had the word of salvation let us pray ER is foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] this is [Music] [Applause] [Music] twinkle twinkle little [Music] [Music] seasons yeah I 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us serves in 13 different countries United States of America and one of them of course is the United States and he's a missionary missionary is everywhere yes we'll be paying attention what they have to share insurance that we would not fall away but if you have oh my God praise God brothers and sisters this is a wonderful beautiful sunny day that the Lord has given to us [Music] [Music] the wisdom his wife that his strength would be filled filled and thank God for that you know praise God for the ability to come to this place today with our literature yeah you know as a volunteer of the mission Ebenezer and the Lord has blessed it every single day we see the results people come to Christ when you buy a Bible for your child or when you buy a book or Bible for yourself [Music] in the same way you're preaching to the P to the the Bible or the word to other people you know from all of this we don't take anything for us [Music] an after church service you are more than welcome to purchase all types of payment cash card check you know at this moment I would like to share with the word of God we're going to think about it and we'll pray foreign [Music] but God pays attention to the little stuff in our Lives Many examples we could hear from the word of God um first case first Samuel first Samuel no I'm sorry we'll do the first game first king chapter 17. chapter 17. and we will hear the story about the prophet and the Widow cool and there was no rain was sitting there and the stream dried out equilibrium pressure of books and God told them go to a different town and he met a woman there a couple of dovah and she was a widow even yes and he told her he'll bring me some water and when she was getting ready to leave and he told her as well verse 11 take up some flower that you have um right I'm sorry and she replied to him um as surely the Lord lives she replied I do I don't have any bread only a handful of flour in a jar and a little bit of Olive in a jar I am Gathering a few sticks to take home and to make a meal for myself and my son then that we may eat it and die this is Elijah said to her do not be afraid go home and do as you have said but first make a small loaf of bread for me for from what you have and bring it to me and then make something for you and your son praise God brought you more we all know the story very well the um said I only have a little bit of flour and a little bit of oil and he told us what to go for to this Widow go first make me a piece of bread but then for your son and for yourself and look at the great results that happen in God's movement or action for many days we don't know it doesn't say how many the length of time never came to a stop not only in this home and the prophet that lived there and this woman when her son at one time died he came she came to him and said you came to me to remind me my sins but he didn't come there for that reason but he came for that purpose to save that Soul because he said give me your son and he this prophet he gave him Health he resurrected her son and brother back to his mother and then she said praise God the Lord is wonderful you know when this War began in Ukraine a quick testimony that I would like to share that my brother shared with me two months after the war started she flew over there she went there to see what was happening and see where the support or where the where the help is needed and he was by a city butcher where a family lived and this family had 16 kids in in their home you know six teams that they adopted four of Their Own brothers and God blesses his family and they were a big missionary who lived in their young ages they were um drug addicts the the parents were drug addicts he gave them their own family you um and a week prior to the to through uh before the war and the wife said go to the husband go buy food for the week but usually they would buy food for about two weeks two and a half weeks usually he would buy one bag of flowers 50 kilograms hey should I get a little bit extra maybe nobody knew about the war because [Music] and he said usually out of the 50 pound kilograms they would make 80 loaves of bread but this time God blessed him so much with two bags that they were able to do 800. and today's moment God has not changed how much do we rely or depend on him at that time there was a widow because but this woman this missionary who took up 16 or uh adopted children and they would take that bread that they would make and they would give it to those people who would be hiding and she was able to remove or take the children away from this hot spot they wanted to kill her a group of people matter and she had a a folder with all the documents for all the kids [Music] and when they would be beating her up or they were terrorizing her you know the folder fell on the ground in the office of this team took the picture saw that she was on it many kids and her husband because who are these people she goes these are all my children and they said foreign Christ many times fed people seven and one um one time he fed four thousands not including wives and children five thousands not including wives and kids the Lord is wonderful and Powerful just uh stop here in this moment to pray to to bless you and me if our hearts when we give our hearts to into his hands he stood on the mouth and he bowed his head before in his knees and he asked for the rain and if we be that people in in battle for him we ask God for his Blessing on you and I rely on him she is a powerful God before we pray a little testimony five months pregnant I was laying in bed you know I didn't hear this but she was starting to suffocate for 30 seconds at a time 40 seconds she was she got afraid but God sent him a thought and she called her because she goes to Grandma um please pray for me because I cannot breed but the grandma said pray in the spirit and when she woke me up because and she said stand let's pray together and when we were praying I don't know how long this happened but she was able to breathe when we were praying and when she went to bed and this happened again at 11 A.M in the morning and we started to pray again but because she was pregnant I had to take her to the hospital you they were able to give her help and I believe this but the prayer in the Holy Spirit time came uh time passed and God healed us God was able to let us go through you know they told us she's going to have to have a C-section she has to have a baby now but this didn't happen God he controls he observes his children and he gives us that Victory Christian and that Victory is in Christ today in his blood through his blood but one time a person came to me and said when you when it's going to be hard for you it's in the whole hole go to the Cross go to the Cross whether it's healing and there's victory and we're going to pray because foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] I mean foreign service as you probably know we all are participating as a church in Daniel's fast yes we have one more week left till next Sunday yeah no kakut is the Ezekiel he went deeper and deeper into the presence into the depths of God you know if you haven't participated yet we would encourage you to do so and this week we'll have special services special prayers 7 30 will have a prayer meeting we will be praying for purification for Holiness for salvation of our clothes those who have fallen away but we'll be praying for our own sanctification as always we pray for Ukraine as well the future activities that we have planned for this year if and we would encourage and invite every full day fast and we will be praying for Sunday as well for the Lord's Supper he was and as a reminder at 10 30 we will have the if you participate in the washing of heat and 11 A.M we will have our normal service and that's the day we will finish our past we will have just a reminder to love offerings as a reminder the second offering always goes to the supporting the Ukrainian fund it was socially uh you could um purchase Christian literature this will happen after church service and financially you could support the mission of evaneser no charitable contribution letter and if you need a charitable contribution letter for 2022. for your taxes for last year is those are all the announcements that I had for you we're going to read one verse and we will participate in our Free Will offering why are you more than welcome to take the position they will serve us foreign Corinthians 9 12. second Corinthians 9 12. everybody the service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people but it's also an overflowing in the many expressions of thanks to God it is called a service to God when we uh when we give financially it doesn't only Supply the needs of the people yes it is a support for our local church but it's also in a a big or Great Expression to God we'll be worshiping together we will be having our love offering [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] are you stories [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh yeah [Music] it is [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] see [Music] [Music] positions [Music] [Music] oh [Music] where I deeply move them yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] lost for sleep dear children we ask you to come up we're going to bless you before you go to a Sunday school please while the kids are coming out when I just touch up on couple points as you know the scripture teaches us to teach our children when they walk when they sit when they lay the teacher the scripture teaches us to teach our children when we walk with them when we sit with them and we want to put what God has taught us the scripture the lessons that we learn to put that into their hearts so that they may grow up to also fear Him to love him and to obey him eventually also to meet him as their lord and savior also I'd like to encourage you as parents to check up on your children and their Sunday school the other question is if they get homework or after Sunday school ask him what did you learn in Sunday school today will encourage him to keep on reading and doing the homework that they were provided let us let us stand we're going to pray the heavenly father we thank you for this day we thank you for each child that you have given us we ask you to bless their minds bless their hearts bless their hearts help them receive the word that Sunday school has prepared for them open their hearts to receive to receive your word to receive the scripture that tomorrow might be able to walk in your way we ask you to bless the teachers bless Sunday school and whole that your spirit might lead him to give him hope wisdom and understanding for every children every child again we thank you and we ask you to bless the Sunday School in Jesus name we pray amen foreign seven years ago God has called us [Music] of course Ukraine the China a couple semesters went by and we uh graduated 200 users and now those out of those students about 70 churches but what I realized is the main reason in which we came to Africa and by fact it actually seems as if it were something secondary but God had a different plan with his second plan I believe he wouldn't have even uh taken us at first driving in the uh streets of the Cities we lived in uh and every time you would see a different picture of the local life but what I always turned my attention to is the children that lived outside and so we would drive one two ten times you know sometimes you see like when the water's dripping drip to do something for these kids and uh God oftentimes be uh is very book is very short like uh so he very quickly turned my attention to the scriptures maybe maybe just pointed my attention to the whole point of Christianity the question state foreign and so we had this question uh what that day what who could we help you and by which criteria are we going to judge who needs more help and so we went through the whole day interviewing and looking into documents we took a little more children and brought them to the orphans we cleaned them um uh changed them and fed them and here they enter this uh this place first time for a bad viewers first time in their life and I it was interesting to me foreign anyone wow it's a while for me actually uh and I speak to him uh your favorite toy before and he looks at me yeah I see these eyes of a hero he becomes a truth and I understand something great is going to happen he says the first favorite toy I had I made myself and I was said what could this be what and this expression of a hero yes I made a car out of plastic bottles and this was my first favorite this is uh some of the qualities of the kids working in Africa I always ask myself this one question why but she moved Africa Africa why is Africa like Africa but what is the root of the problem in all of the continents you may have many uh thoughts in different ways but I made I came to one conclusion myself and it's in Romans chapter 12 verse 2. foreign to the pattern of the world but be transformed by the renewing of the mind then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good pleasing and perfect world transformed and in the English translation the word transformed in Russian transformed they truly believed they you know there was some kind of crusade they received but one small problem but I could be mistaken there was no moment God changes or renews the uh Mind of a person if we turn our attention to our life our lives and if we could truly look at ourselves and analyze ourselves and then through this way we can move into the direction that our mindset is changing our values are changing of course if we are be abiding in God and allowing God to work in our lives the more that word transforms transforms our values and this is a very important oftentimes we want to change just because we want to change but prior to that word in order for that is and it's not necessarily because we need to force ourselves it's a it's a moment of realization that we actually need to feed ourselves it's what will will change us and transform us that's amen always transforms our our being just the same way Bad Company Transformers people around us it was the foundation verse for our missionary and I was thinking about a question how do we know the the quality of the work that we're doing with the children or maybe we're just it's just stupid and I uh notice I turned my attention too when I ask the children what are you dreaming about yes I heard the same thing always on the first day yeah I dream about having something to eat and months would go by and still they always dreamed of course they don't have the uh the fact that there is there's an abundance um so they actually were having in a box of food portions and I said and a moment and I I was wondering when that moment would come that God would transform them the first symptom of that is but when I was little yeah I uh was um I had I had Higher Goals a mayor of the village yeah but um uh they had just the desire to eat and so two years went by and then two years went by and I I heard an answer that was uh an outlier uh what are you dreaming about today is [Music] one boy looked at me and I I desire to be or a dream um personally he didn't even go to school before school but he is actually the best students I said Lord maybe truly you are raising a president or uh and I looked at him and I said listen when you become the president and he was still like this small and Michael with a stick it was like the tip of the iceberg because the problem is the second project that we started was for boys that live in the streets it's a children that do have uh but the main reason by which they are [Music] the reason why they're outside is because there are circumstances in the home of somebody and so they're uh in order foreign and so that's why we are forced to work with not just a child but the parents so that we can restore their relationships about 50 boys were able to restore those relations so that they would return home and not go back our third project came uh from the from an instance where three-year-old and we can say that her behavior was a little bit different um her mother passed away a month before that is and she never knew that means and so a period of time went by when the mother died we understood that she has experienced sexual abuse and then shortly after there were other girls and they came to us in a in a period when they have lost their ballistics and for the reason for it is because there's a statistic in Kenya that every third girl experience we began to pray seriously about this because this is a whole separate topic and so we realized as soon as we started praying and there wasn't much attention from the local witches but as soon as we started touching this topic and so we experienced some difficulties because of this but with the end result we still were able to get the sentence and it's open for more than two years so the first year we had a rehab for girls from 6 to 14. and from from that number 58 of them were pregnant have and had children uh it's uh it's children that give birth to children and then we realized another problem it seems like in tribal culture yes if a child is born um that child does not have a right to life they must be exiled or killed and for us that's a completely new shock we weren't even able to understand that and we began to pray what should we do and so we bought more land and so we're building a whole new uh it's called women's Paradise if you're able you can play the video of the orphanage if you could uh turn up the volume it's not very easy foreign being like a father of 42 children is not very easy [Music] but I love to engage with them I don't take them as children I take them as human like they have feelings Expressions we have something to share so I also learn from them as as well [Music] my name is Jojo nyango I'm 13 years old the reason why I mean I'm a orphan [Music] my name is my mother died in 2015 with the typhoid and my father died before I started school not having like good Christian background or truth about the word of God so people engage in activities that lead to early marriage or early pregnancy many people die maybe because of alcohol HIV or something and others divorce somebody is a farmer when you don't have enough rains they don't have like a stable job so the children like suffer they came with a lot of fear of the future of their known [Music] right now I say they've really grown they see the future they think they plan foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] is not performing well because I have a lot of stress and now here I can perform well this Advantage I've been taught many things I can dance I can sing and play keyboard I wish to become a great musician and Dancer foreign we have the widows Ministry and we are teaching our children on how to give back to the society so apart from giving the food stuff we also teach them on how to give the word of God which is very important I believe through whatever we are doing or whatever we are planting to the children's lives it is giving them view of life in a different way better than what they used to see so I call upon you to keep on praying for them fast and also I ask that you continue giving towards the ministry because somebody's life is getting changed through your support [Music] who's ready to go to Africa with us I don't want to overwhelm you too much I noticed yes that if you try and have the right goals time then that of which you we often talk about it the changing or the transformation of a being it's something that is possible if we look at the lives of the people which we call the Heroes of Faith is we can look at Heroes of Faith in the Bible or even the after the Bible those moments by which God supernaturally changed the the beings um and therefore they have nothing uh for God it's not there's nothing impossible and therefore if we now look at ourselves and if we do a comparison between us and God and we see a huge distance I mean by fact it's true but that does not mean that he wanting Our Lives you know what I um I love about God and what I dislike about people we oftentimes like to put a remark on the lives of others even oftentimes when we pray for others you know we we know everything he doesn't even need anything he uh nothing will help him but God has a different uh perspective he does not put a period he believes in people much more than you and I would and he is ready to be patient even then when we drop our hands even when you and us we often that's because we are lacking faith and it's not it's not even that we lack our faith but we actually lack in our faith to believe God that God is willing God is the one that is to translate the life and the being beings of all of us I mean amen God is able God is able let us not forget about who God is alive one small testimony not from Africa When we arrive to Africa um to the Middle East to the Middle East so it's a dilemma is and we began to serve in different ways for example refugees from Syria we lived in Jordan and a lot of people that were running from Iraq is and many of them were illegals and we're serving them and it's very hard when you started and uh it was like that for the first couple months we're doing and then this one situation we're having a conversation at the time she was 22. at 13 years old she was given into marriage by 22 then we're having a conversation with her and telling her about God and it seems like she is agreeing but at the same time maybe because she was accepting it but she was not agreeing and soon she starts to say I felt bad so I went to the doctor and the doctor's diagnosed me uh she had some kind of fluid in her and the doctor said you will live approximately three years and she meets with us I'm gonna die soon I have five children my husband I don't know I just take care of my children I I told her I don't know what will be how much and the law also forbids uh Christians or Christian organizations to take care of children from Muslim families but what I tell her that we are able to do it turned to God and she says okay and we prayed for now nothing uh you know yeah for your mercy and healing we went away and a period of time passes and we come to her and she meets us with these words I believe in the god of which you spoke about I said what happened she said I all of a sudden felt good yeah I went to the doctors and the doctor said that I'm fully restored and healed and she said it was immediately after that prayer and therefore I believe in the god of which you speak about Hallelujah then it was like the first salvation um if God is able to work in these critical circumstances so your life for him does not appear to be impossible your transformation to him does not seem impossible he is able to influence to change you to transform you and the processor a British versus you just have to surrender your heart in your relation to God into heaven desire change and he is able let's look together and pray foreign foreign foreign foreign um for example to support one child in Africa it costs 20. 20 a month and a child will have um everything he needs voice and another child will go to school and therefore we have the ability you can meet us there if you have the desire along with the literature that will be sold outside um if you want to contribute to this missions you can uh donate financially into the boxes praise God our gathering has come to a close yeah and once we sang the song our gathering has finished and we are going home in our chilies and everything what we learned uh we'll come we will receive in our hearts and this is very important to remember maybe at some point we'll sing the song brother preached for us not to conform to this world but to be transformed into the image of Christ and this is very important you know we oftentimes think why are we thinking or maybe why am I saying this or why I live like this because at some point someone told you Thanksgiving if you have any uh our brothers Nikolai and Sergio will be returning from a conference today we'll pray my sister's husband had a stroke but everything is coming together and getting better so we'll pray for my wife the child that we're awaiting and to the church for help and support greetings from Ukraine Thanksgiving Thanksgiving that God blessed us in travel in the prayer foreign I know families that are falling apart and I pray that God gives renews minds and gives wisdom and to pray for that so that God would give us the strength to do this need a prayer for for work if that's all we can stand to our feet and first of all well thank God and bring forth all the needs before his face every person foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] luja I mean God blessing to you yeah [Music] so support these missions be blessed and we await you