Lord, our prayers are directed at you, the
almighty God, the Lord of hosts.
Great is your salvation, and your glory, and
your royalty, and your kingship is so high
and so uplifted and is unlimited.
We cannot get to know it, we cannot
find it all out.
We praise thee, our God.
Be with us now.
Let this service, Lord, be in your hands.
Work so that it would dawn upon all.
For, Lord, we know that thine is the
kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever
and ever.
And, Lord, we want to be in that
kingdom now.
Amen.
Yesterday you heard how DSS began.
You saw the slides?
I'd like to ask some of the learners
that they should share with us, and let's
hear from them.
That they've heard what the original goal and
vision was, what do they say?
What is their response?
So I'm going to leave it over to
them now.
After that, when they've finished, then I'll close.
Thank you.
I'm so grateful for this opportunity I receive,
as today is a day of thanks and
of praise.
I'm so grateful to God that he organized
it, that we should have a school such
as this.
I don't know what my life would have
become.
I think it would have all come to
an end long ago.
I was thinking earlier on today what the
Lord has done for me all these past
years.
I took a pen and paper and began
to write down, but so much came to
me, and I filled so many pages that
I decided, no, let me just leave it
and just speak spontaneously of what the Lord
has done.
There is much, and my heart bubbles over,
overflows, but I'm going to just try and
make a summary of it.
I came to this school in 1996.
I was sent
here
not because I wanted to, but my relatives
realized that I was in a desperate situation.
I was on the edge, and I needed
help.
What had happened was, when I was nine
years old at the time, I'd lost my
mother recently.
She was dearly loved to me, and it
was an awful blow.
So when I was orphaned at that age,
I felt totally deserted, as if though I
was all alone in the world, and I
developed a hatred for just everybody.
When others would try and tell me something,
I automatically rejected it.
I didn't want to be spoken to.
Life was just terrible for me.
We had TV in the home, even though
we were meant to be a Christian family,
and I would do all sorts of terrible
things with my friends, even though I was
only nine years old.
My aunt said, it's better that I come
to this school, otherwise I'll never get anywhere.
I was a very troublesome child.
I was especially against those who truly took
their faith seriously, and I said they're acting
holier than thou.
I was a nuisance to the teachers and
to the aunties at the hostel.
There were times when I could appear better,
but I was really bad.
At home, they began to feel that there
was no hope for me.
They didn't know what they could do to
try and change me.
Sometimes I'd just storm out of the house.
I began to think that it's better to
be dead than to live such a life
on earth.
I thought, well, I'm so small, I don't
know how one does it.
How does one kill oneself if you're so
young?
I began to fantasize about perhaps the car
or the vehicle in which we were traveling
back to school would overturn and be in
a crash, and then I would die that
way.
I would wish for death by lightning.
If there was a storm, I would hope
that the lightning would strike our house and
that I would be dead with them all.
Now, both things happened.
Both incidents happened.
I remember correctly, we were at home, and
we got together some of our relatives and
got into a vehicle to go and visit
someone else, some friends.
We met with a terrible accident.
Somehow, none of us were injured, although both
cars were write-offs.
But amazingly enough, I was the one, when
in that accident, I just cried out and
said, no, I don't want to die, don't
let me die.
At home, they would beg me to give
my life to the Lord, to open my
heart to Jesus, to come in.
But I thought, no, I can't do that.
At such a young age, it would just
be the end of the world for me.
Then, there was a storm.
And then, it also happened that there was
a storm at home.
We were all in a little room, singing.
It was like a ball of fire when
the lightning struck, and it seemed to come
straight for me.
I was the one who got off worst
with that lightning.
Right through my leg, it turned white.
I thought that was the end.
Some neighbours rushed us to hospital.
And we survived.
And amazingly enough, many had been killed by
lightning in that very storm, but the Lord
protected me, I didn't die.
Again, I saw, I need to change, I
need to do it.
But somehow, I was just pulled back.
Now, in 2002, remember, I had originally come
in 1996.
I began to see just a little bit,
just a glimpse of the necessity for me
to be changed.
And as I looked at our teacher, I
liked the teacher, I didn't know why.
One day, the teacher called me and spoke
to me.
I don't know whether I should mention, but
let me do it anyway.
I think many of you know her, Ms.
Hatebe, the one who's from Escort.
Even though I cannot say that she changed
my life, but the Lord used her as
an instrument to change me.
She spoke to me, and it was just
so clear to me, I had to give
my life to the Lord.
I've been rescued from death so often, I
must give my life to him.
I was in a clique at school, and
I decided I need to go to each
one of that group and apologize to them.
I contemplated that, but it was just too
enormous for me to think of going and
personally apologizing for how I'd lived before, but
still, there was that urge.
I felt rejected by them, and I continued,
I persevered, nevertheless knowing that the Lord loves
us, even if this is their response.
At home, too, I apologized to my grandmother
and the other relatives, and I apologized for
the way I had lived in such a
terrible way in the past.
As I made restitution and put things right,
I felt like this burden, this load, which
I'd been carrying all the time, like a
load of bricks, was being removed brick by
brick.
Today, I stand here, and I praise God
for what he has done, and I beg
him to continue with his working in me.
It's also made a difference to me academically.
I was doing very poorly, and I was
struggling.
Satan, of course, was messing me up before
that.
But one thing I seek now
is that I would always continue being in
a right relationship with the Lord.
Not that I have anything between me and
the Lord that I am conscious of.
I always put it right, and I want
to continue in that way.
It concerns me that there are many young
people.
I'm also young.
When I just consider the condition of young
people, I feel so terrible for them, and
I just don't know what I can do
to try and help them.
I also regretted the way that I had
been in the past.
I'd thought that, well, many good things will
make up for the wrong things.
But I was wrong.
I was wrong.
I don't know what I can do to
be able to act differently and be one
who wasn't like as bad as I was,
but that I'd be a different person.
I don't know what I can do to
change the lives of other young people.
Please pray for me, all of you, that
you'll remember me as I serve the Lord,
that I would serve him with all my
strength.
Pray not just for me, but for all
the other scholars as well.
There are small little children who have been
coming to me and they're also seeking the
Lord and want to get right with God.
Yet there are still some of the older
ones who haven't yet turned to the Lord.
It would be awful to hear if some
of them would be in an accident and
lose their lives.
And I would say to all of you
who are living for the Lord, and maybe
you who are still seekers, maybe you're a
doubter, you're not yet fully sure, you persevere
seeking the Lord, be on his side, be
with him, and we will live forever and
ever with him in his kingdom.
Should you be an orphan, remember that with
the Lord Jesus you can resist temptation, you
can recognize if Satan is tempting you and
coming from different directions, and stay true to
the Lord.
I'd love to share so much more, but
I'm going to just stop at that point.
And I do know that I have the
devil up against me, and he's angry at
what the Lord has done in my life.
The days seem to be passing by so
quickly, it's as if time has just fast
-forwarded.
And let it be also true of the
way that we live, that as time is
passing by so quickly, let our lives be
in tune with the Lord, and be with
the Lord, and let's be living for him.
Thank you very much.
I'm Sipo Mapanga from Tunzini.
I stand up thanking God for what he
has done in my life, as this is
a celebration thanking the Lord for what he's
done over the last 20 years.
We've heard often at school, we've heard the
gospel, but many of us didn't listen to
it or didn't heed it.
I'd like to read from Romans 1 verse
18.
The wrath of God is being revealed from
heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of
men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
And saying that, in verse 22, that they
claimed to be wise, they became fools.
And exchanged the glory of the immortal God
for images made to look like mortal man,
and birds, and animals, and reptiles.
We at school, as scholars, come with two
things in our hands.
And it is up to us whether we
come out with blessing or with the curse.
I began school here in 2001, and I
came not as a Christian.
I came as a very shy person, not
knowing who I was and how, just being
very, I had no confidence.
Yesterday, as I was looking at the badge
of the school, and I looked at the
symbol of the flame and its explanation being
revival, but we had fought in every way
to try and extinguish and get rid of
that flame, and not realizing that it was
like flames of hell in us.
And as I see the symbol of the
Bible, we were like those
who would take that flame to want to
burn the Bible because we resisted the word.
The sword to us was rather something to
hurt other people who had faith.
Because we were wanting to just upset everything.
I told myself, nobody can change me and
make me a Christian.
And years went by, I listened to many
services and somehow was just not touched.
Satan gave me the gift of mocking real
believers, and he used me in that.
And I brought many of my colleagues who
slept up there in the boys' hostel, brought
them down.
So that through my mocking, they would see
that being a Christian is just worthless, and
some of them believed me.
But until my day, my day came.
When the Lord revealed himself to me, I
didn't see my friends, my colleagues, nobody.
I just saw myself alone before God.
I began to realize immediately that if I
die, where I'll go to?
It was at night.
I wasn't asleep.
We were with some others.
It was about 11 at night.
But that night, I went to put my
life right before the Lord in all honesty.
And in giving my life to the Lord,
I immediately became aware of those that I
need to go to and apologize, because I'd
been mocking their faith.
And the Lord answered and said, those very
ones that you were mocking, they are repenting
too.
And I see the genuine faith in such
a way, and I know it for myself
personally, that if anybody mocks me about being
a Christian, I know exactly where I stand.
I thought of my Lord crucified, how he
was mocked and spat upon.
I haven't been, I've never got to that
stage, and I need to be fully identified
with him and learn what it is to
suffer with him.
I had a hatred for the mission, although
I didn't express it to most.
As well, towards the co-workers, I had
this hatred in me, although I didn't say
it.
They had told me many things, rules, how
to live, but the amazing thing is now
the Lord has taken those very rules of
living and written them into my heart.
I had, before
my conversion, told my friends, you just watch
me, five years after I leave school, you'll
just see what I'm going to do.
You'll see what an important person I'll be,
and I'm going to go headlong, boots and
all, into the world.
When my friends reminded me of what I
had said, I was indeed ashamed.
It's a difficult thing to go back and
to make right the words that you've spoken,
perhaps lightly before, but now you need to
seriously put them right.
So I throw out this challenge to you
as well.
Don't speak things that hurt others and break
them down, but that which will be up
-building and a help.
Many of the past pupils who've left the
school say, oh, the services at KSB are
so boring.
Well, I agreed at that time.
I also thought, well, here, you sit down,
you hear singing, you hear preaching, and you
can't move at all.
But I didn't realize at the time that
Satan comes to a person and he brings
like a rotten potato, a filthy smell, something
that will just work its way into you
and infiltrate all your thinking about others.
And then you go out as the rotten
potato, and you are one who spoils others,
and you land up in the place where
that comes from, in hell.
But you need to know how wonderful it
is to just get rid of that rotten
potato in front of you, remove it from
you, and you'll see how wonderful life is.
Some say, well, I'm so well off, I've
got everything, I've got a car today.
Remember that that car can become your coffin
as well.
You can drive home from here, and you
don't know that it is your very grave.
Therefore, let's get right with God.
Let the wrath of God be upon us,
for he still shows his hand of grace
at the moment.
Remember, you were born alone into this world,
and you'll die alone in this world.
You won't have your pal to boost you.
Rather say, well, those who are friends of
mine, Lord, help them to reveal what I'm
like.
You are maybe ashamed to stand for the
truth.
You're afraid of even the slightest scoffing.
Remember what the word of God says, where
Jesus said to us, he who is ashamed
of me, I'll be ashamed of one day.
Maybe somebody said to you one day and
whispered in your ear why they would never
become a Christian, and you need to remember
and recover that which was spoken to you
and deal with it.
That is why the potential is still there
for scholars at DSS to go right through
the system, to leave school, end up in
jail, or whatever, in death, and experience the
wrath of God upon them.
Your academic excellence is utterly in vain if
it's not with the Lord.
I'd like to refer to Revelation 2, verses
4 and 5.
Yet I hold this against you.
You have forsaken your first love.
Remember the height from which you have fallen.
Repent and do the things you did at
first.
If you do not repent, I will come
to you and remove your lampstand from its
place.
I'm Sposiso Mavunja from Greytown.
I'm a learner here at the Domino Savita
School.
There was a time when my only ambition
here at school was just to get a
good education, to get out, get a good
job, get married, etc., and have everything.
Christianity and the faith were something that just
didn't influence me at all.
In 1994 is when I came.
Think of it, 12 years I'd been rejecting
the Lord, not wanting to be a Christian.
The Lord would speak to me, but I'd
just brush His words aside.
I had a hatred for the mission, from
Uncle Elo through to every co-worker, the
teachers all included.
I would be so sharply critical of the
mission, I just didn't want anything to do
with it.
I would speak in this manner also at
home when I was there.
I began to look at the mission through
political eyes.
I tried in every way to resist the
mission and the school.
I didn't realize then that I wasn't fighting
against the mission or the school, but against
the Lord Himself.
I had decided for myself that I would
choose a life that was the opposite of
the mission.
Flirting around, boozing, being with the boys, the
pals, that was my life.
I was so arrogant that should I bump
into anybody from the mission, accidentally, outside of
the mission, I would do anything I could
to be critical.
I would be sharply critical of Uncle Elo
at home and speak about him and the
mission there at home.
If you could just try and fathom the
hatred I had, you would be just amazed,
you would be shocked.
Those 12 years went by and towards the
end of 2005, the Lord spoke to me
and said, repent.
In my heart, I immediately rejected it and
I wanted to put it to one side,
but God insisted and said, you repent.
The Lord Jesus came and opened my eyes.
He showed me my sins
and
I suddenly realized what a fool I had
been in being such an enemy and so
critical of the Lord's working at the mission.
The Lord spoke to me directly and said,
you are the fool.
You are the one who is in trouble,
not the mission.
I repented at that time.
I found just instinctively that the very people
that I had hated and spoken so badly
about, suddenly there was a love that filled
my heart for them.
Things just changed so instantly.
When I would look at Uncle Elo, I
would have a feeling of joy.
When I would look at the co-workers
or the teachers, there would be gladness in
my heart.
Those who were so close to me before
my conversion, there was a distance between us.
I thank the Lord so much for His
grace, for waking me up at that time.
Otherwise, if He hadn't have interrupted my life,
I might be in hell already.
I am in grade 11 now.
I almost got right through the school system
not knowing the truth.
I say to you, if you are still
in the school or you have left the
school already, if you have that attitude which
I had, well, what can I say?
There is just a woe upon your life.
If you persist in rebellion against God, it
is like you are putting your finger in
God's eye.
If you die, where will you go?
If you are still busy complaining, murmuring and
murmuring against God, think
of yourself, you past pupils.
What have you done?
What have you been speaking about at home?
What could you have been doing for the
Lord?
Had you been living for the Lord?
Just think of how He could have been
working through you.
If you still continue in rebellion against the
Lord, you are binding yourself to Satan himself.
I am sorry for you if you identify
yourself with Satan.
Just think of how terrible hell will be
for you if you die in that condition.
Remember, you will never be condemned for somebody
else's guilt, only your own.
You won't go to hell because somebody came
and hit you.
It is your response.
It is the way that you respond that
matters.
Remember, you may have done all you could
to criticize, but it is not the mission
that suffers, it is you.
May the Lord help you to wake up
and set your lamp alight.
Or is He saying to you, awake, but
you still brush Him aside and you ignore
Him?
The next stage, if you ignore that rebuke
from the Lord, is that He will remove
your lampstand completely.
I know now that I have no shame
about the Lord.
I know that I can go with the
Lord anywhere.
Even when some of my friends were startled
by my conversion and thought I was going
crazy, it only brought joy to my heart.
And it just says one thing to me,
that God does speak.
God is there.
He exists.
And I don't know how it is possible
to go through the school and to leave
and not know and have the assurance that
the Lord is alive.
There is much more that I could say
in testimony to that the Lord is alive,
and that Satan is also there.
Maybe you think that even Satan is just
a symbolic figure and doesn't exist.
He is there too.
So the Lord says to you, wake up
and repent, lest He remove your lampstand from
its place.
Thank you very much.
My name is Paul Petersburg.
I was also one of those that Satan
used.
At home, my mom is a Christian.
My father is not.
So I hated my mother because of her
faith.
And I thought, why does she make so
many rules and stop us doing things that
we want to do?
Sometimes I would just break out from home
anyway, go out with my trousers on, go
to a bash, and do it knowingly, purposefully.
I would flirt
around.
I had boyfriends much older than myself.
My mom could see through me being spiritual,
but though she could see what I was
up to, I just ignored that and I
wanted to do my will.
At home, we do pray together.
We live by prayer.
I'm thankful that even in this period where
I was not a believer yet, I was
sure of the existence of God and I
could see the real faith in my home.
My mother used to pray earnestly for us
and surrender us before the Lord.
Even though I did my best to try
and run away from God, there was still,
nevertheless, the knowledge, what if I die?
The Lord has worked wonderfully at home.
I don't know where we would be without
God in our lives.
One of the children in our home was
involved in a car accident.
My mom prayed for that child and
it was just hospitalized for two days.
I don't know how to thank the Lord,
and I also don't know what to say
before Him, if I think back of the
16 years of my life that I've wasted
before Him.
But I'm so thankful for the Lord's love
for me that He could bring me to
that point where I could surrender to Him
and be cleansed from my sin.
And I know that what the Lord has
done is something that is permanent and there's
no going back again.
So I throw out this challenge to you
who haven't surrendered your life to the Lord.
There's nothing else for you to do but
to surrender your life to Him.
Thank you very much.
I'm from Mapumulo.
Let me just describe to you a little
bit of my life that I lived here
at Dominus Evitae in the last 11 years.
If anybody tried to help me or be
nice to me, the very hands that would
be helpful, I would just brush aside.
If I think of the many opportunities that
we used to try and break down the
mission and to sharply criticize, it's been so
often.
And it appeared that those who had left
the school and when one looked at them,
they had left the school and were successful
even if they weren't Christians, they got nice
things and cars.
So I thought, well, to be a success,
I don't need the Lord.
I can leave school, go through school, leave
school and make a success of my life
without binding myself to these Christian things.
So I also had this hatred towards the
mission and everything Christian and everybody connected to
the mission.
There was this inner hatred.
But now as I look back and reflect
upon these 11 years, I deeply regret it.
I think now of a person who is
not yet a Christian as one who is
wandering near a cliff.
If I think of myself, that was my
condition.
I was right at the cliff.
In fact, having stepped over, had the Lord
not caught me at that moment, I would
have just gone down.
But I thought that it was through my
strength that I haven't done anything major that's
wrong and bad.
And so that is why I have asked
the Lord's forgiveness for having pushed him aside
for these last 11 years despite all the
many messages where he spoke to me.
It has all radically changed.
Now I have such a love towards the
Lord's work, towards all the people here of
the mission.
Now there's a word that the brother previously
read that I'd like to refer to which
I think is in accordance with that.
In Revelation 2 verse 2,
I know your deeds, your hard work and
your perseverance.
I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men,
that you have tested those who claim to
be apostles but are not, and have found
them false.
And then to verse 4, yet I hold
this against you, you have forsaken your first
love.
Remember the height from which you have fallen,
repent and do the things you did at
first.
If you do not repent, I will come
to you and remove your lampstand from its
place.
Maybe you've left DSS already and you've now
tasted of the world and you've thought, wow,
it's so lovely in the world.
Maybe you've never been through DSS but you
know once upon a time the Lord spoke
to you, He maybe called you here to
the mission and you remember that first fervent
love.
But that love has now diminished.
And Jesus says to you, if you do
not repent now, I will come and remove
your lampstand.
It is the grace of God alone that
you are in the place you are.
It is because of His mercy.
As has been spoken previously by the European
representative that the Lord came and said, I
want your children.
But now the Lord says, I want your
soul.
The Lord stretches out His hand to you
and says, hold fast my hand.
The Lord brought you here with a purpose.
He wants to accomplish something through you.
But woe to you if you harden your
heart and you turn away from that first
love.
Now another type of person who needs to
really cry out to the Lord is the
type of person who goes through the school
and leaves and is just so complaining and
critical of the school and the mission.
I say to you, the Lord still holds
you up in His mercy and has still
protected you.
And so far, so good.
You are experiencing things are going smoothly.
But the time will come where God says,
enough.
But if
you
repent, you can turn back to the Lord
even now.
You can give your life back to Him
even now.
Maybe you've never had that first love.
You can still make a decision even now.
Some say, well, I'll get converted when I'm
about to die.
The one brother said just now that if
you get into your car, it could be
that you're actually locking yourself into your coffin.
I don't know how to bring this across
to you that you would see that it
is the time to repent.
Don't ask yourself, well, maybe there's another time.
No, now is the time.
Repent and return to that first love, lest
I come and remove that lampstand of yours.
Now the others have spoken.
There's finally what I'd like to say.
In Revelations, it often says, he who has
an ear, let him hear or listen to
the Spirit and what He says.
And I say to you, listen to what
is said to the churches.
Because one day the Lord is going to
bring up this topic and say, remember the
time when I showed you grace and I
urged you to come to me and you
brushed me aside?
Where there's no opportunity anymore but only hell.
That is why now is the time that
you'd call upon the Lord, call upon Him
indeed to save you.
Don't let even this day go by without
your calling upon the Lord and saying, Lord,
I surrender to you that I will serve
you alone from now on.
Thank you for this opportunity I receive.
As I listen to what they have spoken
and what they have testified about, my heart
is touched.
It is a privilege for me to observe
this because I know them from that very
first year.
They have passed through my hands.
I know them from when they were still
very young.
When they say that they were rebellious, I
know more about that rebellion.
It's worse than they say.
They dislike me personally.
They felt like they could just get rid
of me.
And I would say, does freedom come from
a person?
But now I experience such fellowship with them
and they have such a desire that we
share together.
Sometimes it's one o'clock in the morning
and they still want to continue speaking about
the things of the Lord.
Daily, they don't grow tired.
I'm just astonished at the clarity of heart
and of mind where they daily pray for
repentance.
They say, Lord, give us the repentance of
this day.
And if you observe what the Lord is
doing, the Lord is pointing and is showing
in a direction.
In the beginning, I thought, no, this is
just perhaps just childishness, that which is happening
with them.
But then I realized, no, they are wise
beyond their years.
And that is something that God will show
to you and reveal to you if you
repent.
If the Bible says that time will come
to an end, go back to the Bible
and look at what it says, for you
can observe what is happening.
Now, if even after the celebration, you as
a past pupil, you know that I've just
been running away from God?
You need to get back to the Lord
and come speedily back to Him.
The Lord can show you mercy.
I also ask, well, why do they speak
before us all?
It is because the Lord sees our spiritual
need as well.
This is a challenge that is thrown to
and given to each and everyone, and I
include myself.
I don't want to point to anybody else.
Like one of them said, you won't be
judged for somebody else hitting you, but your
response, who you are, is what matters.
May the Lord help us, help those other
students.
Let us run with the Lord's revelation, what
the Lord is doing.
Sometimes I'd phone Uncle Elo and tell him,
you know, I haven't got to bed, and
it's one, we'd encourage each other, he wouldn't
have got to bed before two.
And if I would tell him, you know,
Uncle Elo, I don't get to bed before
two, there are so many people that want
to make right and counsel, he'd say, well,
I didn't get to bed before three yesterday.
It spurred me on.
Sometimes it is dawned, six o'clock in
the morning.
I would get a chance then during the
day to have a nap, and then knock,
knock, there would be some students saying, the
Lord has spoken to me too.
Let me emphasize this.
This revival which you witnessed before you, I
can really testify to that it really has
happened a million times.
If you finished DSS before 2005, I really
sympathize with you because you've missed out.
But still, you can run and you can
find some of what the Lord has been
doing.
Don't say, well, it's enough because I've given
myself to the Lord and to His work,
because there are times when the Lord carries
you beyond that and you sacrifice yourself completely.
But experiencing the joy of being completely and
wholly doing the Lord's work.
And Satan, when you are living for the
Lord in that way, Satan doesn't get a
chance to put his dirt on you.
Because you are in the work of the
Father.
Whatever the Lord is doing, remember, you've got
to be busy with the Lord's work, the
Father in heaven.
But if you have been sidetracked, it's Satan
who has got you to just fold your
legs and not doing anything.
The Lord Jesus says to you, brethren, either
be hot or be cold.
This is a different time.
So let's see it properly and change our
minds, transform our minds from the smallest to
the oldest.
We say thank you to Uncle Elo and
to all the co-workers.
We appreciate that you've been in the very
heat of the battle and you see the
fruit now of what the Lord has been
doing.
By the Lord's grace, we have seen the
Lord and we are going to live full
out for Him to the end.
And you, older people as well, come closer
to these school children and feel the fire.
There is such a thing that a person
can live right next to, very close to
revival, seeming to you
that you are in it, but it's just
passed you by.
But by the grace of God, there is
such a thing that you are truly in
it and be part of it.
I don't desire anything else.
The principal had been saying before, well, I
don't know what will happen if it had
to rain with the outdoor arrangements we have.
I said, well, what will you do if
it does rain?
And we prayed and said, let the Lord's
will be done.
But
I
wasn't...
I
said,
well, let the Lord's will be
done.
I was never anxious about the weather, even
if it had to pour buckets of rain,
it wouldn't matter because we are busy with
this great thing that the Lord is doing
from morning till night.
That is why I realize that God is
far greater than anything else.
All our sports, all our fun things, far
greater than rugby or cricket.
Jesus Christ is the first.
He must be number one.
And woe to you, we'll have to see
what happens to you when you stand before
God one day where heaven, it's either heaven
or hell, what will happen to you if
you resist God.
I often mention also overseas that Jesus Christ
is far greater than soccer.
Is Jesus the greatest one to you?
Is he the first one to you?
He's greater than sports.
There's nothing else.
Is that true in your life?
If not, repent.
You are not where God wants you to
be.
If he's not greater than money, than fame,
than sport, than youth, whatever it would be,
even marriage.
If you ever get married, your husband has
got to be the second one and Jesus
the first.
And the same with you.
Otherwise, you're an idle worshipper.
I'm closing with the word I read to
you.
The first Chronicles, 16 from verse 8.
First Chronicles, 16 verse 8.
Give thanks to the Lord.
Call on his name.
Make known among the nations what he has
done.
Sing to him.
Sing praises to him.
Tell of all his wonderful acts.
Sing out.
Call on his name.
Nothing else.
I could speak about this topic till the
sun goes down.
But if the Lord allows us in his
will, one day we can speak about that.
We thank you Lord for what you've done
for us.
We thank you for your working.
Lord, never stop with the work of your
hands.
And may your gospel go forth in the
power of the Holy Spirit.
That your name would be made known throughout
the whole world.
Starting among us and then going forth in
mighty power, going across the whole world.
Thank you Lord Jesus for the mercy and
the grace that you've shown us and to
the young people.
And the grace you've shown to DSS.
May your grace Lord Jesus abound to us
all.
Amen.
The Lord be with you.
Go well and live for the Lord.