Effective Witnesses Filled With the Spirit
June 13, 2021 · 1:57:41 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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Summary
This Sunday evening outreach service centered on one question: how do we become effective witnesses of the gospel? The youth and Sunday school led worship, and the open microphone filled with honest testimonies - of clinging to Scripture against worry and fear, of finding peace by sowing peace into others, of unexpected conversations with strangers that God Himself arranged. Each story showed that even a small, ordinary moment can carry the love of Christ to someone who needs it.
Brother Peter offered a living illustration of street evangelism, with volunteers role-playing three kinds of people - the settled believer, the undecided, and the atheist - to show that the gospel can be shared simply and personally with anyone. He pointed to the unnamed captive girl who directed her master to God's prophet: a child far from home still knew what the Lord could do.
Brother Nick brought the heart of the evening from Mark 6 and Acts 1:8. Jesus told His disciples, You give them something to eat, then asked, How many loaves do you have? In the same way He asks each of us today: what do you have to give? You cannot hand the world something you do not possess. Before we can be witnesses, we must first receive the power of the Holy Spirit and truly see Christ at work in our own lives. The call was clear: deepen your prayer, dwell in the Word, be filled with the Spirit, and then go and shine.
Key Points
- An effective witness must first BE a witness - you can only share what you have personally experienced of Christ.
- Acts 1:8 puts power first: the Holy Spirit comes upon us, and only then do we become His witnesses.
- Jesus asks, what do you have? You cannot give the world something you do not possess yourself.
- Even small everyday moments and a simple testimony can carry the gospel to someone who is searching.
- God uses anyone willing and available, even a child or an unnamed servant, as the captive girl's story shows.
- Prayer and time in the Word are how we are filled and refilled for ministry.
- Like memorial stones, remember and retell what God has done in the hardest places of your life.
Devotional
Ask yourself the question Jesus put to His disciples: what do you have to give? You cannot lead anyone into a light you have not walked in yourself, or offer a freedom you have never tasted. So come first with empty hands and let God fill them - sit in His Word, linger in prayer, and let the Holy Spirit make Christ real to you. Then you will not have to strain to witness; you will simply overflow, and people will sense His presence before you say a word.
You cannot give to others what you have not first received yourself.
Jesus still asks each of us today: what do you have to give the people around you?
First receive the power of the Spirit, and then you will be My witnesses.
Transcript
Auto-generated transcript of this service.
[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] assistance [Music] we welcome you to our sunday evening outreach english service and we are glad to see everybody here and uh we thank god that he gives us the opportunity to gather tonight to serve one another and others and hopefully one day we will be serving our local area um with with the word of the gospel and uh as many of you may know we have our sunday school here today that are very excited from what i am already seeing to serve god and serve us and lead us in in worship and in praise and and share the words of encouragement as well so we are very excited to see what god has in store for us today and uh we're gonna begin with our youth group and they will lead us in worship and you know i would like us to just uh you know with all our hearts just center onto jesus brother nick actually shared a word with us in the morning service that you know we we need jesus jesus we should be a reflection of jesus he is our example we have to be like him so in our time of worship let us just focus on jesus and who he is so that we can also be like him and reflect him so let's stand to our fee and i'm just going to lead us in a short prayer before we begin uh before the lead the word the youth leads us in worship so father god i thank you so much for this time that we have gathered here today the time that you have given us and that we are here in your presence and we are here to worship you god we are here to center our focus in on you jesus we want to become more like you we want to live a life that exemplifies you jesus because it is your kingdom that we represent and we want to serve you so just lead us with your holy spirit and everything that is that all the words uh songs that are sung and all the words that are spoken god let it be your spirit leading and in jesus name we pray amen in the darkness we were waiting without hope without light till from heaven you came running there was mercy [Music] endless glory to a cradle [Music] raise the sun [Music] glory [Music] to reveal you did not despise the cross praise the spirit [Music] [Music] of heaven held its breath till that stone was moved for good for the lamb had conquered [Music] christ was born is praise the lord [Music] race forever [Music] before we go into this next song i actually want to pull up a verse i was reading in revelations this week and it just made me reminded me of this song so this song you could see it talks about jesus's from his birth to his life to his resurrection to him resurrecting us and in revelation it says in chapter 17 verse 14 it says they will wage war against the lamb but the lamb will triumph over them because he is the lord of lords the king of kings and with him will be his called chosen and faithful followers i just want to tell you guys that we're on the right side today that it says that he will win and we're going to win this war and that he truly is the king of kings and we're gonna go into the next song which is what a beautiful name it [Music] the is at the beginning [Music] what a beautiful what a name name it is the name of jesus christ what a beautiful name it is nothing compares to this what a beautiful name it is the name of jesus you didn't want heaven without us so jesus you brought heaven down [Music] my sin was great your love was greater a wonderful name it is what a wonderful day what a wonderful name it is [Music] [Music] [Laughter] death could not hold [Music] the praise of your glory [Music] you have no yours is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is is is [Music] is father god we are able to call upon you in every situation father god you walk side by side with us father god hand in hand and whenever we need you are right there by our side father god what a powerful name your name is father god how wonderful are you nothing compares to you father god hallelujah jesus we thank you we thank you for the opportunity to be in this place and worship your name to have this night of worship lord hallelujah alleluia lord and let us just always call upon your wonderful name let us have just faith in you faith that you are always there by our side let us never waver father god and you alleluia and you call us up upon the waters [Music] my faith will stand and i will call upon your name and keep my eyes above the waves when oceans rise my soul will rest in your embrace for i am you are mine [Music] surrounds me [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] let me walk upon the waters [Music] and my faith will be made stronger in the presence of my savior and my faith will be made stronger and keep my eyes above the waves my soul rests in your embrace [Music] yes jesus we lo we we put our eyes on you lord it is it is on you jesus that we have our eyes on take us deeper take us further into your love take us further into your embrace lord let us experience your love let us experience communion with you jesus we want to be renewed by your holy spirit we want to grow in relationship with your holy spirit lord we ask that you come in your spirit jesus and touch the hearts of all of us in this place lead us in this in this service lord let everything be done by your holy spirit and the will of the father lord we pray that now you just begin to work on our hearts and just work on our minds begin to renew our minds let us be transformed by your spirit let us become a generation that will carry your gospel lord to all the people that have not heard of it yet lord let us not be afraid let us be bold and let us carry the gospel of the kingdom of jesus christ to your people lord we pray that your holy spirit lead us in everything that we do and in this place in jesus name we pray amen amen thank you youth group you guys did an amazing job and that was you know i could feel the holy spirit move and i thank you so much for preparing and all the time you guys you know put into uh practices and and uh prayer of course because without prayer you know it's just empty words and i truly felt you know that you guys were preparing on a on a physical level and on a spiritual level so i thank you guys for that and um of course we have our special guest the sunday school but uh we're we're actually going to have like a intermission and as many of you know that come to the english services we do an open mic so we allow people to kind of share their testimonies or things that they have they've been through maybe throughout the week experiences maybe something that god did in their lives and they want to share and to encourage someone else or maybe just just a short word of encouragement to uh maybe share with somebody that you know maybe isn't in their time of need will need to hear so this is the time that we will have before the sunday school uh shares their part of the program and uh it's open mic so whoever's hand goes up first has the uh privilege i guess you could say to to share first so i know the bible says first shall be last and last shall be first but in this case don't worry about being first i know i know there are people ready so it's just a matter of you guys coming up and we have one okay awesome so ellen here you god praise god brothers and sisters okay so as many of you guys know it takes a lot for me to be up here but um i promised god that i would share my share how he was in my life this past month so i wish utility was here but last english service if you guys could remember she was sharing about how she or she encouraged um the youth to put up um like to memorize a verse and every time like you come into like a challenge in your life sorry i'm really nervous a challenge or anything like to rely on this verse and the verse she brought up was matthew 6 34 it says therefore do not worry about tomorrow forever tomorrow will worry about itself each day has enough trouble of its own so after the service i was like talking to dan and i was like dan i think this is for me like i'm so worried with like i just had a lot going on at that time and i was like i don't i feel like i can't do this on my own so i was like i'm just gonna memorize this verse and this past that past week you know every time before i'd go to sleep i'm like ellen do not worry you know the bible says the bible is the true word of life so i'm like if it's there you know i still had that doubt sometimes but i was like in that week i had so many different like long story short applications and stuff going on too so i just went every time i'd worry i repeated and repeated it and it really did come to life where like everything that i was worried about like it was impossible for like me to even imagine what god put in my life and and after everything went through like in personal life it was like going on with insurance with the pregnancy and everything and i was like after it all i just like cried to my mom i was like mom this is impossible like no human person deserves this kind of love from god and so i was like god next english service i will go on stage and i will i will share the testimony like of what you did in my life and i'm here there's a lot more people that i thought were going to be here but anyway so i just wanted to encourage everyone who sits here at these english services like for me i don't know if i would have had that peace going through this if deutero didn't have on her heart to come up here and share what you know she went through at that time and to share that encouraging word and like every time i sit there every single month people come up here and they may think it's something so small or something little testimony in their life but you can impact each person here in in their own way so that's just i love coming here because of that because you guys are open with your hearts so i just wanted to share this brings me back to a while ago one of my favorite verses was in psalms 119 105. it says your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path so the way that i used to always look at this when i was way younger was it says the light is on your feet right so when you're going through a trial in life whenever you're walking through anything we we tend to worry about you know like what's going to happen next year am i going to live in a house next year am i going to have a baby next year what's going to happen you know but the bible verse just reminds you god is the light and that light is at your feet so you have to walk day by day and then back to the first verse every every day has its own worry you know when you wake up you don't know what's going to work you don't know if you're going to be late to work you don't know anything and so long story short i learned through that that i just stopped worrying and put everything in god's hands and i'm here to testify that god did the un unbelievable unremarkable like things that honestly we do not deserve and his love just like poured over me and now the stresses are all gone everything worked out and i just want to praise god and i have to be on here because i promised him i would be but anyway so yeah i just want to encourage you guys all to step up out of your comfort zone come up here because your your testimony will impact somebody else and the and like people will be moved and so i just yeah praise god thank you ellen that's a powerful testimony and thank you for being obedient to the holy spirit and uh remembering that you know we are we as christians must testify over the remarkable things that god that remarkable things that god does in our life so thank you thank you for sharing um anyone else you know today's service is actually about being an effective witness of the gospel so you know that's that's what the service i mean that's what these gatherings are for to begin with is to outreach and to bring people to christ so you know if somebody maybe has the testimony about how maybe they were used to witness and or to share you know jesus with somebody or just to be the light for somebody uh maybe and to sow a seed but other than that open mic still still going so next hand gets the mic welcome katya god bless you hello everybody how's everybody's night going okay so i it's not what you said i'm sorry i had something on my heart beforehand i'll think of i'll think of something maybe by the end of the service to share but um so recently i started whenever i do plans on my bible app i started going in my notes and writing down what i like from each bible plan because other than that i just finished the plan and i forget about it it's just it's just in my little completed plans file and i just forget about what what i studied for whatever that seven days was and uh back when i worked at marshalls one time it was late at night just got off and i was driving home and i was listening to a worship song i don't even remember what the worship song was and in my head i was thinking like this is what true peace feels like like there was no worries in my heart you know i didn't have to go to work the next morning i didn't have to worry about waking up early and i was just driving home it was maybe like 10 o'clock and i was just listening to worship music and it's like i i didn't go fast because i wanted to take my time in that presence and after that i started a couple plans on pursuing peace because i wanted to have that feeling in me all the time and it's not just like i learned that peace is not just like the peace that the world can give you i feel like i've shared a little bit about peace before but i want to share something new that i inquired in james 3 18 it says peacemakers who sow in peace reap the harvest of righteousness and i wrote down from my bible plan when i read this i wrote down that something like to receive peace like just like the bible says it's what you reap you sow what you reap so if you're sowing peace in other people's life like for me that was taken as not putting stress on my mom coming home on time and doing everything that she asked me all my chores getting them done and so i i'm sewing that piece on somebody and you receive that peace from god back as well and i just want to encourage all of you guys to sow peace reap peace all of the all the peace praise god thank you katya yeah so everyone in sunday school heard that so if your parents are stressed out and come home from work you know from a long day of work sow peace you know help them help them wash the dishes help them clean help them do things around the house and just as catherine said the bible does say you will reap what you sow so the lord will bless you with with un endless peace if you sow peace into the lives of others so um actually we i will take uh we'll give the youth i mean the chinese school opportunity to uh for a part of their program so if ruta with your song i believe you can go to the piano um so she's gonna share a song with us and i think we can stand to our feet i believe it's a worship song and let's let's just worship god and you know and praise along with her and whatever she has prepared for us so whenever you're ready there's nothing worth more that will ever come your presence [Music] my shame is undone in your presence [Music] your glory god is what our hearts long for to be overcome by our present lord let us become more aware of your presence let us experience [Music] this place in [Music] [Music] by your presence [Music] praise god thank you so much luther for sharing with us and leading us in a short worship session you know who says you can't have worship in the middle of service you know we can praise god whenever our hearts desire and i really appreciate that you prepared that song and you were willing and had the boldness and the courage to come up i mean like was said earlier it's a decently large crowd and you know good job for that much much respect much respect um so we'll continue with our with our open open microphone if anyone uh and open mic doesn't last forever for those of you that have it there and don't want to share it with the go ahead so she's gonna double share guys learn learn so i have a quick thing to say um these past few weeks i've had some like sometimes we can have these bad thoughts you know this um stuff that we think may be negative something something negative about ourselves but um when i'd be going to bed and to sleep you know you're only when you're trying to fall asleep you're thinking a lot and so this bad like this information or this these thoughts like sometimes kept coming into my head and um this verse that i said in church last week um it was psalm 91 it was like whoever dwells in the shelter and whoever dwells in the shelter the most high will rest in the shadow of the mighty i will say the lord he is my refuge and my fortress and there's more to it but um when i had those thoughts i kept on repeating this psalm and this other psalm the one the lord is my shepherd that was the other verse that i kept on repeating and it gave me peace from these thoughts and the attacks of the devil so and you know thank thank you with us so much for sharing that because we actually for those of us that come to these services often we know we've heard a similar testimony before and uh we see how much the devil attacks you know the youth and um you know middle-aged people as well and elderly but we see like these common you know battles that people are going through that aren't even you know they're they're they're they're so hidden and sometimes people don't even know that person's going through a hard time and we're not even able to help a person that you know we don't even know is going through it so like that's another reason why we have you know these moments is to is to be you know transparent to share you know to testify and to and to share how god has redeemed you out of the you know maybe darkness you were in maybe maybe you were born you were living in bondage to sin and you have found freedom and when people hear these stories and they and they they're like wait a second i can truly be free i can truly you know find light in the dark place that i'm in and it encourages people it builds up their you know their desire to seek god too and they and they have it builds up their faith and they believe truly that jesus can provide them with that answer that they're looking for especially in the you know time that we live in and in the world and you know you could get so caught up in all of these things and and we know as believers that christ is the answer but we need somebody to testify that and proclaim it in order for people to for it to be made known to people so again this is why we do it we're going to keep going with open mics so yeah all right thank you uh praise god everybody um i'm just gonna share since uh i didn't really have a testimony to share but then when taras brought up what today's topic was about witnessing since a lot of the sunday school members are going to have a lot more free time they're going to be able to play with all their neighbors all summer long they're going to be just having a ton of fun but um i'm gonna share a little bit uh when i was in bible school in north carolina and i may have shared something along the this line a while ago but it's already been almost three years ago two three years ago because i've already been married for a year and a half so it feels like a distant memory at this point and um one day after i i whenever i was in the school we had to log hours basically serving in the church and youth ministry um camera and sound engineer everyone had their own different thing but i kind of did a little bit with sound engineers with live video and i had friends uh that were part of the church so i'd like come to most of the youth services whenever i was there and after one of these youth services they ended pretty early uh i think we ended around eight o'clock or so and i was driving back to hang out with my slavic friends it was probably about half an hour away from where the church was and the youth service was great i remember the the pastor's son actually preached and like we had an insane like just a lot of people coming to the front uh just teenage i i think it was the summer bash so we had like the most students we had had up to that point because a lot of them are bringing their friends at the beginning of summer they all have free time so they're all coming together and we just had so such an outpouring of kids come up to the front just bawling uh give giving their lives to jesus uh overcoming different things and everything and it was just such a powerful service and uh we i drove anyways after that service i was driving home and i don't know why i needed to go to marshalls i believe so i went to marshalls bought whatever i needed i already forget what it was but i was in line and there were two ladies behind me and um like i don't know i kind of struck up conversation with them i already i don't remember what we talked about but the three of us were kind of talking about then like i had to go i checked out and everything and as i was walking out uh one of them like kind of caught up to me and she starts talking to me and we're talking about church i tell her like oh i was coming back from this and she was like oh yeah i go to church too you have to check out we have an awesome website and everything like this and i was like oh that's awesome i'll definitely like she's like oh i actually have a card for you and she gives me a card and she kind of like walked away she's like okay god bless you god bless you and we parted ways and then later i saw the card was the jehovah's witness card i didn't realize at first because i looked at the front it's just the cross on the on the card and then like i just walked to the car i don't know i was kind of hurry to get to my friends but anyways uh besides the point i drove and i like as i was driving like man i kind of missed an opportunity maybe to witness the like about my religion and everything she she took the opportunity and kind of witnessed to me but i miss my chance as well and anyway i got close to my friends i forgot they needed me to pick something at cvs i go to cvs and this like complete you could say coincidence but my friend vlad likes to say god incidents so i like walk into cvs and i forgot what i'm looking for and this lady kind of walks up beside me and like she talks to me she's like oh my goodness you were just at marshalls we were just talking i'm like wow i didn't i didn't even notice that was you i was just looking whatever like she was like i saw you talking to a lady outside and everything i was like yeah i didn't notice but she was jehovah's witness and she was like oh anyway we started talking and she's like we just like she asked me about what i do i told her like how to work in the church i've been living there for about a year or half a year or so whenever at the time and she was like wow that's so cool how like you just took it up bible college and everything and like she's like man i like as soon as i saw you like you just have this presence like i just felt you walk by me and i just felt god's presence just rush over me and i'm like oh my goodness that's like so i've never had anything like that happen in my life she's like yeah it's just so awesome that like you're so filled up with the spirit that like while you're walking and i've never had this happen in my life that like someone came up to me and it's just our youth pastors told us how stuff like that happens in his life and we're always just sitting there and all because we were always younger we're always like man one day whenever we grow up we'll have instances like that occur in our lives but i just want to share that when god just fills you up you have opportunity to witness at any time and that family that i spoke with at cvs after they still i i text them every once in a while probably around christmas time they wish me a merry christmas ask me how i've been doing we just kind of catch up and keep each other in our prayers so i just want to share the importance of always being available always being ready like even like something so small in the marshalls line i kind of struck up i thought it was a random conversation just trying to like be funny maybe or be uh happy to people or joyful to people around me but they took that and like it just kind of impacts their lives they want to talk to you more and more and it's just such a powerful thing whenever you're just filled with the joy filled with the peace and you make yourself available to for god to use you in that sense so i just encourage everybody amen and speaking of being available i wanted to ask the sunday school if you guys are available to serve for us right now are you guys ready are you guys ready okay so if you're available to come up here on the stage you guys can start getting ready your chairs and your guitars um but if you're available to you know to come here and church and share and sing songs and you know share something about jesus you are just as available to you know when you guys are at school or maybe you're at the park or you're playing with your neighbors you know just just tell them you when you pray the jesus will give you what you need to talk about when you when you develop a you know closeness and relationship with jesus he gives you the words to say what you need to you know maybe do for somebody maybe maybe it's just acts of kindness that or gentleness you know and you allow the fruit of the spirit to to be shown to to your neighbors to your friends to your schoolmate classmates and by those means you guys can be effective witnesses of the word of god so uh they'll get ready and whenever they you know it's all it's all you guys so you're in charge huh all right sound engineers just make sure you guys have uh everything ready to go and then you guys are in charge so one [Music] bless the lord o my soul oh my soul worship this holy name sing like never before let's stand up and join them my [Music] sun comes up it's a new day it's time to sing your songs again whatever maybe lies before me let me be singing when the evenings come bless the lord o my soul [Music] [Applause] [Music] your name is great and your heart is kind for all your goodness i will keep on singing ten thousand reasons for my heart to fight bless the lord of my soul oh my soul worship [Music] name and on that day when my strength is failing your name is great and your heart [Music] ten thousand reasons [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] sing like never before oh my soul i worship your holy name yes i will worship your holy [Music] i'm washing your heart one thing [Music] okay so i want to give another chance we have a award prepared uh for us by one of our dear brothers so before we give him the mic oh look at that i didn't even have to ask come on up hello everybody um as we all know school actually many of you already finished school but i started later because i'm homeschooled so i'm not done yet and um like this past month i was really struggling with one of my classes and i thought that i was gonna have to i was gonna fail it and i just had so much stress and anxiety and like every day i would like pray to god i was like god please don't let me fail i need a summer i need a summer and i'll um and a verse that really helped me was psalms 94 um 18-19 it says when i said my foot is slipping you're unfailing love lord supported me when anxiety was great within me your consolation brought me joy um so i would like always read and i was like god please i really need your help i need your wisdom guide me through this class god so i could finish it i i asked a lot of my friends to pray for me i was like please i need i need prayers and the lord really hears our prayers i know i said this already before in my last testimony but prayers are very very powerful and i just wanted to say that um when we go through like these things to just count on the lord because he does know he knows the ending of it and that's what i want to say oh glory to god and we have ileana she made sure that she we made it clear that she was next so eliana's next i'm so sorry yes because i know because every single time i always say i'm not going to talk this time i'm not going to go on stage and every time i know but every time someone says something and i'm just like wow god this is exactly what's in my life so when you just talked about it in her life and it's um it's crazy that god actually does like it reminded me of a verse in like i shared last time in first peter that um you know that your brothers and sisters in christ are going through the same struggles as you are and i've seen that a lot recently and whenever ruta was talking about like the thoughts she was having and even ellen was talking about the verse that you memorized to help you get through times it reminded me of like the like one of the greatest struggles that i've ever went to through which is also like in your mind and trust leaned over to me when ruta was talking and he said um wow we just heard a testimony about this and i thought to myself and i told him i said this is one of the most common battles for people like especially in this time like for i know a lot of people i know have struggles with thoughts in your mind and um mine were thoughts of like like guilt um of like i don't i wouldn't even say like like no it's just like the the closer and closer i got to god last year i mean i got really close to god and when you read the bible every day and you read and you listen to sermons and you um you spend time in worship like the holy spirit convicts you inside and tells you how he wants you to act and but i think i kind of took it too far in my mind i heard a quote by billy graham and he said the closer you get to god the more sinful you're going to feel because you want to turn from your sin and you want to be pleasing to him and but it was kind of like a constant battle where like katya talked about peace i had no peace at all and i was always thinking about it and um it was like kind of like the enemy like took what is good from god which is the conviction that you get when you're closer to him and made it into like like almost like i was a slave to it and it and there was a verse that i heard um a verse that i read that i clung to that i wrote down on a piece of paper and i kept it on my desk and i saw it every single day and it was galatians 5 1 it is for freedom that christ has set us free stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery and that was what i was feeling in that time and i just wanted to encourage everybody that these thoughts that we have as christians and when we get closer to god and we feel all these things it's important to turn from our ways but it's also important not to be a slave to these thoughts and this guilt and i just wanted to say that i couldn't not so amen yes hallelujah tonight is the night of the outreach missionary how you can be effective missionary right and i want to show you the pictures so you would have a special for a sunday school people who is the first time or new to this evening nights services which has come to the world let's go to the first one brother danix can you show me the pictures i looked through my phone and i found few when we preached the gospel jesus said do not depart from jerusalem you will receive when you receive the holy spirit you will be my witness to jerusalem come help me out judea samaria and end of the earth so these people they preach the gospel on the streets so with you summary starts you know you have a lots of hints lots of time on your hands you will go probably if family vacation you will stay at home and we would like to share with you a special with the people who is out of the school for this next two months how you can start to witness to christ for example next picture is when we preach the gospel the people supposed to be healed pastor nikolai preached today those who believe those wanderings and signs will follow that's what we we're not aiming just to miracles no we don't but it's part of the deal when we preach the people get healed people can stand up people that we see this on today the bandage was broken that's what all about tonight that's what we should aim it we're not limit to god if we see people need help we just say well we come to that part and next one i'd like to show you there is when you stay one on one and preach to you see the brother taras who recognize the brother taras who is over there when he look at his expression on his face look at the passion he got it was a street of new york i believe it's a broadway when par when the brother taras he preached the gospel he shared what he believed look look at him he's ready he have his uh the the what is that across this what is it what do you call this come on help me out what do you see in the brother taras what did he have yeah he have a word of god with him what else he have he has like a little bag he's ready he prepared but most important look at him can you see well because my glasses doesn't let me look he believed when he preached you think the big man did he believe what brother terrace told him he better be he better be almost let's go to the next one when we preach the gospel let's go to the next one brothers see we prepare and we send tonight is a night to prepare you for the ministry with the church as a pastor's pastor nikolai all the ministers your parents you've been preparing right for the play on the guitars brothers how long have you been prepared that who can tell me how many times you have a practice a lot see you hear that a lot when today you know i like when you answer today when they ask the question what do you have a problem who are you gonna run into somebody ask mom or dad they answer to the parents that was a cute answer with parents thank you a lot wisdom even with the children so we prepare and we send that's what church do tonight hopefully through all the testimony what god did we're going to have a prayer later we like to see the preparation for the summer maybe small but it's gonna happens tonight it's gonna happen tonight when we say the personal testimonies because we don't know much about but we know our life we know what god's doing in my life in yours and you can share when you share people say oh my goodness god help them help him help her god definitely can help me so we prepare as a church and we send for what we send for next one to do the god's ministry in the next picture no not this one before one see this one see this guy you recognize him from half of his his his face is here he's praying his praying with the people because he preached the gospel and they believe and they stretch their hands and say pray for me he's right there that's what god wants you to have and the next one yeah no it's one more before you're skipping the one there's another guy we prep them and they minister into the people and finally let's get the one one should be over there also let's get another one no and one before we get to that one one before next one next one do we have one was ellen speaking to the lady you should have one oh ellen i have one when you met the older lady who was on your yard and the uh the the what you call the uh yard sale and you speak to her i have on my phone i show you and then it was a picture with ellen sitting at the table with a lady and she witnessed to her somehow the technology guys that's brothers that happens there was a she was a one-on-one let's pretend you see the picture with ellen speaking to the older lady you remember that ellen i have a picture on my phone on missionary department if you look at the missionary chat you'll find that it's years ago say and then we do this look this is the man it's been prepared look he's on the move he's not standing you see his uh left leg is in the motion right and his left hand is not empty he's ready and he's on the streets that's what god wants us to be true tonight to be prepared to go and preach the gospel it's a big word to preach the gospel start with the small testimonies i'm going to wrap it up and i need the three volunteers who can come over here three volunteers anybody volunteers okay i see the one hand anybody else the second hand anybody else the third one all i need just one okay lady dubois since you already who's first pick up the hand from the first one who was hand first the first ones come over here the second one come over here and lady yeah yes i see your hands raised up don't be shy come you'll be volunteers then i'm right here so people can see you we're gonna practice few things no right here right here so esther come all right so we're gonna have an assignment there is a bible study about the young lady it's written in the kings if you open up in a second kings five can you open up the second kings five so who's gonna read this word on the screen grab the mic [Music] hurry up hurry up can you read it yeah the verse three it's a story about general neyman i wanna i wanna short my time because i wanna get to the and i will freed up the mic for the next person all right there was a story about the general he was a big guy there was a lady young girl she was a captive how old do you think she was 29 how long she was 13 keep going younger 10 7 i think right there how old are you you're 10 so she's about your age we don't even know her name i think nick brother nick thinks and somebody say seven we think she's about under 10 years old because she was a servant girl she was not even youth she probably was somewhere from the sunday school age imagine if she have a curly hair she looks like you or different wood or not but i was a young lady young girl not even lady he was a young girl she was far away from mom and dad and she was a slave we didn't even know her name but she know one things even graduated today from the sunday school she had the same thing she have a good graduation from home she know about the lord does she know about what what what he can do and that's what she said go ahead david he said to her mistress if only my master would see the prophet who's in samaria he would cure him of his leprosy naman went to his master and told him what the girl from israel had said by all means go the king of aram replied i will send a letter to the king of israel so naman left taking with him ten talons of silver six thousand shekels of gold and 10 sets of clothing that's it all right thank you david that was good good right did you follow up make sure you don't miss that mullet yet thank you we're together in this so basically this is the story of that young lady young girl and she was witness to christ not christ but god prophet lord in israel so when summer it's come you can tell the people about jesus how we can start i give you the one example that will be it and then you can take the rest of it we i will use the three volunteers so let's assume we have a three category of the people so one is going to be we need the two believers no one strong believers one i tell you this you pick the what you want to be one we need a devoted strong believers one we needed halfway believer we don't know and one we need the atheist the person who do not believe the god so you want to give them choice to pick first who you want to be who want to be strong believer okay you're going to be a strong believer that's right you're going to be like how about you just for a moment you're going to play that because i'm going to ask your questions you're going to answer like you're halfway christian all right like your parents christian but you still kind of decided if you want to be a christian or not that's what i was when i was 10. and it was 100 i know where you're going to bible college and all this stuff but we're just gonna say how we can practically outreach the christ so for example okay you got it so you're the devoted christian so you kind of like you know in a way maybe so so 50 50. but you're definitely not sure about you definitely do not believe christ can we just pretend so because on the streets there's a three category of people some of them you give them a gospel they look at you he said i'm all in brother god bless you you can see another pastor another believer and it's like you don't preach to the choir right you just say thank you pray for me the other one is going to say ah no i mean maybe i go to church once a while the other one's done okay how are you gonna approach the gospel to people who is actually the strongly believer so i come to you so let's just focus on this spotlight on this young girl we know your name but we don't know name from the bible if i come to say hey did you anybody ever told you that god loves you give her a mic so what are you gonna say if somebody come and say yes sir or like do you know that god loves you god is real he have a good plan and purpose a perfect plan for you what do you answer to him yes i know yes i know i believe in god i believe in god so what do you do then you know what pray for us we go preach the gospel what are you going to answer if i ask you or can you pray for us when you go home just keep us in the prayer because we have a two more streets and i have a five people can you pray for me then you also can say you're christian right so you will pray for me but can you share the gospel do you have somebody in your family who is not christian do you know somebody you know in your life that your friends who is not christian will you do the same as i do can you share the gospel with them yes someone will depart maybe tomorrow next week can you do that yeah so that would be the one when we have a christian who believe okay perfect now we're gonna move to the david for example i say hey david how you doing man nice oh a long time didn't see you or like i never see you before i said listen do you know that god loves you god is exist which you're going to be answering remember you're 50 50. you don't know i know i know but are you following christ you go to church once a while but if you die once a while see but if you die if you for example if you're not i mean i don't want to scare you anything like that but may i ask you some if it happens you're dying tonight like i mean you know but i hope nothing happens to you but if do you know where you're going to spend your eternity in heaven and hell do you know man i truly don't know but i hope i'm in heaven in heaven are you hoping heaven do you know to order to be in heaven you know you have to believe the lord is the god sent his son jesus christ die for you so if you truly believe you confess with your mouth that he is your lord he is your savior you can accept him as a personal savior and you can be safe you don't want to gamble with tomorrow aren't you are you ready to accept lord as a personal savior yes sure yes sure okay would you like to do any help with the prayer do you want to pray with me do you want to follow my prayer okay i'll try my best okay then we can do like this lord i do believe you die on the cross for me you pay for my sins forgive my sins i repent i accept you as my personal savior and you're supposed to be uh repeat but we just practice and um listen and i and now please come into my heart and in my life please be my lord and be my savior in my lord i promise i want to follow you i accept you as my personal savior so if you if person will pray this prayer right and then you're gonna say from now on can i keep in touch with you it's okay if you're going to call me i call you he said yes and do we have a nice good christian bible in a new area for example he's in tarpon springs he came from massachusetts right and he's going to live next week and fly out you're gonna say it's okay if i in touch with you you're gonna see i have the phone number in my wallet perfect let's just exchange that oh you can find me on on facebook and also on snapchat or what is it what else instagram yes let's have twitter let's keep in touch and um when you come home just find a good church start searching around if you think you need one you always can come back to me let's keep in touch i've been working for two months so i found some good churches perfect that would be this candidate okay you did good did he do good yeah let's go for this one hey man how you doing you're looking good you look tight hey did everybody told you that god loves you and god loves you so much i don't know about all that stuff what do you mean you don't know like i don't know how i feel about all that do you know do you believe in when you die i mean you have a three body soul and spirit or what i mean do you know that no i'm an atheist what do you mean atheist i don't believe in god what how you can explain to yourself how you can explain your uh yourself being i mean you're conscious you're you're look look at the sky look at all the complexity in the world i mean creation how you can explain all that i don't know i just don't think about it much i just live my life you know man but still i want to share with you if you don't mind the god who create heaven and earth the god who creates on you and me all the world we see we not see that his exists he is real and i hope one day you will realize to this if you ever ever come to the run dead end and you don't know if anybody can help you cry out to him call his name can you promise that at least if you you accept this list i don't i'm listening i'm not pushing it i'm not pushing it but i'm pulling it yeah i guess i'll do that yes thank you let's just give up for this let's thank you thank you thank you sister esther thank you david i'll see you in the church david if i see you in the church on sunday thank you i'll see you in the new life that's about it it's all i want to share and tonight remember it's a night off that how to be effective witnesses all right thank you peter thank you for a practical example and for us to visually be able to see you know and the different different varieties of people that's very good uh experimentally i guess we can say so and right on topic i also i just to add on to that before i let brother nick share his main word you know the we know that the holy spirit is an inner witness because it says how to be an effective witness so a lot of people may think oh well i'm not that good you know i'm not that good of a witness so a key here to in order to be an effective witness is prayer and and your private time with god if you spend a lot of time with god and grow in a relationship with him read your bible and pray and you will be filled with the holy spirit of god which the bible says is an inner witness so then when you're standing in front of these three types of people you will be the holy spirit will let you know what to say in order for them to hear what they need to hear in order to come to that acceptance of the gospel and salvation so a lot of you may think i mean if you're in sunday school you're young so you maybe don't know your bible as well but and youth as well you know the key is grow in your relationship read your bible pray and be filled with the spirit and when you go out and you become when you start to notice these opportunities be someone said available i don't know who it was someone said available dan i think it was and and and then the holy spirit will give you what you need to say in order to plant that seed or sometimes lead him into salvation you know and to freedom into whatever it is that the holy spirit desires for them at that given moment so praise god i i love what's going on in this service i love how the sunday school is involved and they will have one more song for us but before that i would like to give nick the word and then we'll go from there so brother nick god bless you thank you praise god dear brothers and sisters you know when i really like the time of the testimony when we have those services that we have on sundays i think it's very important there's a story in the old testament when the nation of israel was crossing the jordan river to go to the promised land what's interesting to point out bible says that the rivers of jordan were full they were flooded so even right now when you go to israel you might look at the jordan river some tiny river there but in that time it was the season when it was flooded so it looked like a big pool of water it was impossible to cross just like that and god does a miracle whether water water separates before them and they able to cross it on a dry land but when they were doing this it seemed like it's impossible for them to cross that river and god told the nation of israel very important point he said when you cross this river from the bat from the bottom of this river make sure that you grab stones each tribe of israel there was a 12 tribes of israel the requirement was when they are crossing that river when they're going on the dry land because it was a miracle there was a lot of water just like it was crossing the dead sea very similar and he says when you cross that river you need to do something very special make sure you take the stones each tribe of israel from the bottom of the river and you build a a a altar and this is going to be a remembers and remember it's for your people for your generations to for your children when they're going to see those stones you're going to tell them hey in our life god did something amazing when it was so hard when it was impossible for us to cross the river but god was with us and as a proof of that here are the stones this is why it's very important for us when we go through these difficult moments in our life that we take out those those stones there's actually a word in english that says a milestone you put a stone when you accomplish something and that's exactly what it is god is telling us when we go through those valleys when we go through those deep moments in our life we would extract something out of there and remember what god has done for us there's just a side point it's not my main sermon today and i just have a few minutes and i want to share something with you what it is on my heart i actually meant to share this service sermon when we have our missionary service it's all the missionaries but the fact that we have this topic how to be effective uh sharing gospel how to be effective missionary on on this topic i wanted to go ahead and share what god has spoken with me i actually look at my notes and this is something that god spoke with me last year last year in september but i want to share those notes with you what god has put in my heart in mark chapter 6 verse 35 and below it says the following by this time it was late in the day so his disciples came to him this is the remote place they said and it's already very late send the people away so they can go surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat but he answered you give them something to eat so disciples came to jesus and they say hey it's very late people are very tired send them away so they can get some food and jesus replies and he says but you give him something to eat they said to him they were so confused and say jesus why are you saying this there is thousands of people and you're telling us that we're going to give them food and feed them and this is what they say they replied and say said to him jesus that would take eight months of a man's wages are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them they're questioning jesus and then jesus says how many loaves do you have he asked go and see when they found out they said five and two fish we know the rest of the story would happen but here is what i wanted for us to be to extract from this from this story you know so these disciples they are walking with jesus they just picture for a minute they see jesus doing those amazing things he's healing people he is saving people he's doing all those great things so if i was living in those times and i was one of disciples i would want to be there it's kind of nice you know you're kind of popular you know you you jesus is everybody everybody wants to be with him you know he's doing those great things you you see with your own eyes those great miracles i think it's it's very nice i think if there was somebody like this these days you know people would gather around him very quickly and i'd be probably one of them so they just want to be there they just want to see where this action where this everything is going on and taking place and nothing else they are thinking about so it's like oh look what jesus is doing oh look at this but jesus puts him on the spot so they actually came to jesus and said jesus listen we have a little problem we have people that are hungry we need to do something about it but in their mind they thinking hey jesus it has nothing to do with us there's nothing we can do it's out of sight what we can do it's all you but then jesus jesus turns back and he asks him a question and say you give him to eat i mean think about it they were they've been saying jesus do you realize how much money i mean even if we like even if we wanted to help them they would just take years of working just to pay for this bread for these people it's like jesus what are you asking why are you saying this and i believe why jesus asked him these words he wanted for them to realize something it's not enough for you just to hang out with me it's just not enough for you to say oh we're going to be with this group of people we want to be with jesus we are his disciples oh oh look at this he is one of us he wanted to remove the thinking he wanted to say listen you need to be part of this you also need to do something don't just say no it's just you it's you it's you it's just it's no there is some responsibility for you you know for all of us as believers the point that i would like to share with you today we have a tremendous responsibility the question to you you want to go and preach the gospel and jesus is asking you today what do you have what do you have i believe in order for you to be effective in order for you to be to to to preach the gospel you have to have it you have you cannot just you have to have that gospel that gospel has to be in you let's open up another word of god that says in acts chapter 1 verse 8 it says but you will receive power when the holy spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses peter already mentioned that message in jerusalem and in judea and samaria and to the end of the earth we are taking apart the book of acts and we already talked about it on wednesday services about this jesus before he sent his disciples before he sent the church before he said hey you're going to do all these great things he told them you need to be in jerusalem and wait for the power of god the church was not activated this missionary action was not activated until what happened you receive the power of god because it says clearly over here you will receive a power of god when the holy spirit comes in you and then it says and you will be my witnesses so this power of god comes first in our life question is to you do you have that power of god in your life listen what it says over here but you will be witnesses what is witnesses means witnesses it means that you saw something you experienced something personally and because of that you saw things with your own eyes now you can share with others and when you go to court and says listen i saw it with my own eyes i experienced this in my life therefore i'm sharing that with you this is very important brothers and sisters we think of witnesses it's just for us to open up our mouth and start saying something no question is to you are you a witness what have you witnessed in your life have you witnessed christ in your life have you witnessed the power of god in your life have you what do you have what do you have you're going to go to these people and supposedly you are giving them something and jesus is asking you and me today what do you have to give to those people why do you keep walking why you keep going with empty hands when you go to give you need to bring something when you want to be a witness you need to witness something yourself in your life and the word of god is reminding us we need the power of god we need that power of god my message is very short but this is something that i wanted to share with you brothers and sisters you cannot go out in this world with empty hands you cannot go out in this world and have not be filled with the holy spirit you cannot go out and not to have the power of god in your life you cannot be a witness be effective witness if you have not witnessed god in your life you know see how it changes everything the focus for this world kind of focuses back on us where do you stand where do i stand what's in me what do i have what i have to offer the people around me you know i really like there was this one preaching in our church and he said those powerful powerful words and i want those to be the the kind of the highlight for all of us to preach the gospel he says when i preach the gospel sometimes i use words sometimes i have to use words early in the in the service today we were reminded by that we are the light to this world and bible says if you delight automatically it doesn't go under the table it automatically goes on top of the table the question is to you do you have the light of christ in your life maybe you are don't have the light it's it's it's the word of god that is reminding us we really would like to reach people we would like to reach the community we would like to be effective in your schools and your in your neighborhoods right kids i caught you off guard there but you have to understand kids if you behave not nice with your friends in school if you use words that you shouldn't be using with your friends if your behavior is not where it should be let me ask you a question how effective your gospel is going to be with your words is it going to be effective effective how's it going to be effective people going to call you a hypocrite you use bad words and you're telling me not to use it you're telling me not to [Music] do certain things but look at you you doing those so for each and every one of you i know that some of you older ones you might be already questioning and saying god i really would like for you to use me do you guys have those thoughts have you esther any boys not yet stephan that's okay that's nothing to be ashamed of because when you grow older you're going to be asking this question you're going to say god i want you to use me but remember in order for you to be used by god he needs to fill you with his spirit he needs to fill you with his word you cannot go to this world and give something to people if you don't have it yourself if your faith is kind of struggling you're not sure about god yet how are you going to tell those people outside that there is god they're going to ask you two three questions you've done because you have nothing else to say back but when your faith is real but when you're filled with the holy spirit nothing can stand against you i don't know what's what's the next step for us i would like to call you for a short prayer if that's okay with you or you have something else was your prayer interest agreed to with the word of god we would like to invite people for altar call if you would like to be filled with a spirit if you like to be a good witness for god was brother nick was preaching today it doesn't matter how old are you that name in the bible we read have a no name i would like to stand up i would like to stand up we would like to invite you for this prayer if anyone in this room who said lord i want to be a witness when i come one-on-one like this alan has a picture of it like we have a picture we found a picture of that we're missing picture from the previous one nick we're gonna pray i will invite pastor nikolai to pray today right now we will have a prayer and i want to speak to the sunday school and to the youth like what nick is talking about is very very important i touched on it i touched on it before he even spoke to be filled with the holy spirit to have a strong and effective prayer life to read your bible to actually have something to have the holy spirit in you as that inner witness because you out of your own mind out of your own understanding out of your own ability will not be able to bring people into the light you won't be able to bring them into salvation you won't be able to bring them into the things of god or into the kingdom of god unless you have the kingdom of god within you this is this is what jesus taught and if anyone here you know youth not you you're maybe you're older but you want you have this desire this urge to just to be somebody that can be that light when you enter into a room and you just glow like dan shared earlier in a testimony people just feel that presence the presence of the holy spirit it is not of you but it is because of the time that you spend in the prayer the time that you spend in your word reading the word of god and being filled by the spirit of god and you walk and you just reflect the kingdom of god in your school you reflect the kingdom of god in church and and even to people in your neighborhood anyone that you are around can can even see and feel and experience the power of god just without even talking to you just how just how nick mentioned no without even he tries to keep the words to a minimum because he wants to allow the power of the holy spirit to touch the hearts of people so this is something that through prayer the leaders of the church you have nick pastor peter pastor paul will pray over you for you to be filled with this spirit to be filled with the spirit of god so that you can be effective witnesses this is key to tonight i believe this is this is a key part of actually being good witness is to be filled with the spirit of god so whoever is whoever is willing and has a desire this is your time and i would actually like the worship group to come up and and to sing one song in this time just for us to worship god's name and go into prayer for there to be an outpouring of the holy spirit of god are we in agreement brothers yes yes yes while the worship team is coming out you prepare yourself for a prayer we're going to have a different prayer today we're going to share with what god put on my heart brother nick brother taras we have a collectively prayer but you see this one worship teams come up and get ready for it with the song while you're doing this i'll take the moment to talk finally we found this picture and we'll we'll pray with the people well finally we see this picture you see the ellen she's sharing one to one you will have opportunity to share the gospel one to one people will ask you and you have this desire to preach the gospel share we will pray today that god will give you everything you need who is in this room wanna share the gospel anybody i see your hands i see your hands i see these hands we're gonna pray and then we're just gonna send this on when we will be called to the altar like brother is already here david you're here you want to pray you want to be witness to the christ is that what you're standing here look it's two people right here you know god honored this it's not we're gonna do this it's not a show but it's the answer to the call people when god call us can you go and witness for me can it be my witness yes but i don't have much in me tonight we're gonna pray god will change stuff we're gonna we're gonna pray through the prayer first the church in the in the jerusalem they were staying in a prayer as they pray the holy spirit come they received the power and there was witnessing is the worship team let's just have that you know continue in the worship and through the worship team one of you come and we will we'll have a prayer yeah as you worship and and if this desire is in your heart come to the front and and uh to the altar and allow the brothers to pray over you to to to so there can so the holy spirit can fill you fill your life and then make sure that after you are filled by the holy spirit you guys go home and begin to develop a prayer life begin to develop a life of reading your bible of really deepening your relationship with god to be to be filled with the spirit because you can't just feel once and and and forget about it but to be filled and to be renewed and refilled and and live a constant lifestyle of a true christian that is a successful witness of the kingdom of god so worship team foreign [Music] you call me [Music] oceans deep my faith [Music] when [Music] the grace [Music] now [Music] and keep my eyes above [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] let me walk upon the waters wherever you would call me and take me deeper than my fear could ever wander and my faith [Music] wherever you would call me and take me deeper than my feet could ever wander and my faith [Music] i will call upon your name and keep my eyes above the waves my soul rests in your embrace i am [Music] wherever you lead us god as you lead us out father god let us just have faith to walk in your footsteps father god as children father god let us have the faith of a child to just believe in everything that you do for us father god so that we have those pure minds father god so that we just keep following you father god allu and i pray that you just bless all the children in their summers father god bless them as they go on father god hallelujah every single day of their [Music] lives [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] does everybody receive the prayer who say yes lord tonight yes um we're going to have another worship song and that's going to be end of the service oh no not yet the last song will actually be the sunday school they prepared a song so we're gonna yeah so um the sunday school uh for testimonies and the songs so if you guys do have testimonies that you prepared this is your chance and then after those testimonies i see melvina's hand so we have one and after those testimonies you will we will have your song and a final prayer and we will call it a night and a very successful night so uh thank the lord and melvina will start us off come on up here yeah she doesn't even need it sometimes sometimes i get frustrated with my brother but god gives me forgiveness praise god so all of you little ones that get frustrated with your siblings call upon the name of the lord and he will give you a way to forgive them so that's a very powerful word moving and i see raphael's hand as well so we'll give you an opportunity okay so um a while ago okay super random though but a while ago um i needed to get a new caller for my dog and so we're walking um into the pet store and so honestly the prices for dog collars are just super high but um so i prayed to god i'm like i only have twenty dollars and i can't spend all of this just on a dog collar and um uh so sorry i'm really nervous uh so we're walking out and by the cash register um there's like this basket and it's like 25 cents for dog collars buy or donate so we got some dog collars and then we even got some for a friend of mine who has a dog and so god just blessed me with a dog collar it's just some random thing um uh five five maybe she was worried she was she wasn't even gonna be able to get one caller and here she is with five callers because because of prayer just like jesus prayed for the fish and the loaves you kids know the story about the how he multiplied the fish and the bread so it looks like rafaela had a multiple you know multiplication of colors so you know we trust the lord with with anything we believe that he knows the desires of our hearts he knows the things that we worry about and and if if if he needs to multiply callers for the salvation of one soul who knows he's gonna do it he's gonna do it because that soul is so valuable to him so again testimonies testimonies especially from the sunday school before you guys come up and sing boys any boys because there was two girls i mean any boys that have that courage maybe especially after that prayer all right well next time next time i'll i'll i'll be you know i'll ask you guys because i know i know you guys are you know with the guitars you guys served strongly and you prepared for that so god bless you for that but next time one person with a ward how's that is that good one person to share a word of encouragement okay is that it's it's a challenge but you know if god puts it on your heart you guys were filled with the holy spirit so if you pray and the lord gives you a ward be sure to share it okay good all righty so now who for the last song that you guys have prepared you guys can come up and go ahead and share that [Music] [Music] let's stand up they're leading us in worship so let's join him and praise god he is a king of glory [Music] this is amazing grace this is [Applause] you lay down [Music] all that you've done for me [Music] the king of glory the king of glory nation with truth and justice [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all that we've done okay praise god wow what a what a wonderful job you guys did such an amazing job and we can see the talent and and the way god is working through our sunday school and i'm honestly i'm not even worried you know for the next generation because right now our youth has an amazing group right but eventually time will you guys can take your seats for now time will you know pass and and you know they will get older get married and we see very clearly that god is already preparing the next group of youth in order to be able to serve and praise god and lead people in praise and worship so this was an awesome night i'm sure many of us would agree that the lord you know lord's blessing was here and we saw his work and i think everyone that came here and joined us and you know supported the youth supported the sunday school and i believe you know i was talking to pastor peter and he was hoping that the sunday school would join us once again maybe before school starts may we we don't know we don't know a date as of now but it would be a great experience i think to have something like this in the future so for next month we don't have a specific specified date um but we do do these services once a month so in the morning service if you're present you know there will be a announcement of the exact date so if you'd like to come back and join us the date will be uh given at the main service uh so and i'm i'm hearing that the youth is uh having an instagram i guess they started an instagram account so you can follow the instagram i'm sure they will help with all the information on that um in order to be updated with dates and times uh for different events and for this event of course so let us let us all stand to our feet and just thank the lord thank god just for what he is doing what he has done and what he continues to do through our youth and our sunday school and that the lord will bless the future of our church and the future of what is to come and that it would be his will the art that we do what he wants to do so let's stand to our feet and just and just close in prayer father god we thank you for this time for this day for for this service that you have given us for the opportunity for the youth to serve and for the sunday school to serve and the the time to fellowship with each other and just share testimonies and just have heart to heart moments and and so that we can grow together so that we can we can pour into each other's lives and edify the church as a whole lord and we have multiple generations here in this in in this service lord and we pray that we dedicate this church to the work of your kingdom we dedicate this church to your will lord and whatever needs to be done lord whether it's through the youth whether it's through the sunday school or with the current the what the church is currently doing lord let there be revelation let there be a proclamation of of the kingdom of your kingdom lord in our church let let our church do the will of the father lord just like just like you when you came down jesus did the will of your father we want to do the same and do the will that the father has for us and for us to proclaim his kingdom we know we are commissioned to do his work we have received the power of the holy spirit and we pray for that today lord and we pray that everyone goes home and they dive into their bibles and they dive into their prayer closets so that they can deepen their relationship with you lord so that we can become more effective witnesses of the gospel of your kingdom that you have brought 2 000 years ago we will continue to bring today based on the words that you have spoken in jesus name we pray amen you guys can greet each other and blessings have a good night [Music] [Music] uh [Music] foreign [Music]