Speak Lord for your Servant Hears | Pr. Everson Mose

Shall we pray as we impark to what the Lord has seen it better for him to speak to us this very morning? Shall we pray? Our heavenly Lord in history when we read the Bible it tells us that you usually speak to your children. You spoke to Adam. You spoke to Abraham. You spoke to Samuel. You spoke to many others. You you spoke to battle. You spoke to many. And even this very hour you are going to speak to us. And therefore, Lord speak. We are listen. Speak to us from this very beginning up to the end because you have prayed all these things believing and trusting in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. So um the world pathfinder Sabbath is here with us the 19th September 2026. It is a 76th year since Pathfinder was formed. I don't have time to go through the history on how it began but on a nutshell one time when um young people had a campfire a story was told a story was given with one of the leaders. So it is through that story in a campfire that uh the author of the story and the narrator of the story spoke about issues to do with pathf finding and therefore a name pathfinder was born and therefore in 1950 it was put into the entire world church that let every church have a club called Pathfinders um in our memory verse that we have been narrating and I want to appreciate that these young people uh summarized everything. They they made it clear uh what it means and uh and who was told to listen you know who was told to listen. They have given it clear that it was Samuel. the Lord spoke to him. And this morning I will uh uh like to let you know uh that God is still speaking to us and he has chosen it better to remind us that he still speaks on this faithful day for the Pathfinder Sabbath which is celebrated along the world and the title the theme is speak Lord. That is a comma. Speak Lord. Speak Lord. Speak Lord. For the 76 years uh pathfinders have marched. For 76 years they have camped. For 76 years they have learned skills. For 76 years young people have been trained to serve God with humility. But today God is asking something deeper. After all our marching, after all our learn skills, have we ever listened to him? After all our camping, have we ever learned on how to hear the voice of God? After all the honors that we have acquired, have we learned on how to obey God? After all our pathfinder activities, do we have Jesus personally? Because Pathfinder ministry is not merely about uniforms. It is not merely about badges. It is not merely about camping. It is not merely about matching left, right, attention. Mm-m. Pathfinder is about disciplehip. Amen. That is what it entails. It is about helping a young person discover Jesus somewhere someplace. It is about preparing young people to recognize God's voice. It is about preparing a generation to serve. And that is why today theme IS ALL THAT POWERFUL. Speak Lord. Speak Lord. A world full of noises. You know we live in a noisy generation. Our young people hear many voices. Our children they usually hear many voices. They hear voices of friends saying everybody is doing it. You can also do it. Social media is saying follow me. Entertainment is saying this is no more. Peer pressure says ah don't be different. The world says do whatever makes you happy. But God today is is telling us listen to me. The challenge today is not that God has stopped speaking. The challenge is that there is too many other voices competing for our attention over TV everywhere. Everywhere streets everywhere. Many voices competing with God. The voice of God is particular. And this morning, God is speaking to us. is reminding us that he is speaking. I have a few points to make. Point number one, I want to let you know that God knows your name. Wherever you are, you know the church may not know you. Pastor may not know you. Church leadership may NOT KNOW YOU. THE GOVERNMENT may not know you. Even the family may not recognize you. Do you know that there is some of you here who are here and your own family has got a group where they communicate and you're not there simply because you don't matter. This morning I'm here to let you know that God knows you. GOD KNEW SAMUEL, BUT ISRAEL KNEW SAMUEL as just a young boy from a given village. But heaven recognized Samuel. The book of 1 Samuel 3:4, the Lord called Samuel and he answered, "Here I am." Samuel was a young man. HE WAS SERVING IN THE TEMPLE UNDER ELLIE. ELLIE WAS THE PASTOR OF THE DAY. HE WAS LIKE A CARETAKER YOU KNOW A REFUGE A BOY WHO HAS BEEN BROUGHT BY THE parent particularly the mother that be here one night something happened God called Samuel Samuel had his name that is important God did not say hey boy he called him Samuel he never said hey young man he called him by his name Samuel He never said hey a son of Anna but he called him by his name. God did not say hey boy. God called Samuel because God knew his name. This morning Pathfinder Pathfinder is listening me in this church and beyond. I want to let you know that God knows your name. Maybe sometimes you feel unnoticed as a young boy as a young girl in the church. MAYBE NOBODY APPRECIATES YOU, you know. MAYBE AT SCHOOL YOU FEEL LIKE nobody understands you. Maybe you have problems that you don't tell anybody about. Maybe you have dreams that nobody knows. MAYBE YOU ARE STRUGGLING WITH SOMETHING with something secretly. But hear this today. God knows your name. Amen. God knows your name. Can you mention your name by yourself? More louder. Mention your name. Hi. Mention your name. So maybe what I've just heard is a noise. But God knows your name. You know to others you may make a noise to them. But before heavens recognizes you, God knows your name. He knows where you live. You know, he knows your family. He knows your struggles. He knows your gifts. He knows your weaknesses. He knows your potential. He knows your future. And the Lord who knew Samuel's name also knows your name. God does not wait until you are old for him to know you. He don't wait until you become a youth director. He don't wait until you become a women ministries leader. He don't he don't wait until you become a pastor. He doesn't wait until you become an elder at your age as a pathfinder. God knows you. When I grow older, then I will serve God. You know, those are a few questions that we come about. But Samuel was young. David was young when he faced Golath. JOSIAH WAS YOUNG when he BECAME A KING. TIMOTHY WAS YOUNG when Paul called him into ministry. Mary was young when God entrusted her with a great responsibility of carrying Jesus. God does not say wait until you become an adult. Then I will use you. God says I can use you now. Even today pathfinders who are with me, God is ready to use you. Anybody who is here, regardless of your background, God is ready to use you. Pathfinder, you don't have to wait until you become a pastor. I repeat, no, you don't have to wait UNTIL YOU BECOME A MASTER GUIDE. You don't wait until you finish school. You don't have to wait until you get married. God can use you today. Can I see the pathfinders who are saying, "God, use him. as you used B as you used Samuel and the rest. God bless you. Point number two, learn to recognize God's voice. Uh for the married people who are here, you know the voice as a husband, you have to know the voice of your wife, right? Even if your wife calls you with a different number uh just a segment first step you are able to recognize her voice unless you have a certain confusion that you need a spirit a spiritual I don't know treatment so that you can be able to recognize the voice of your wife and the voice of your husband. So uh today I'm here once again to let you know that it is good to recognize the voice of God. You know because there is many voices around which are making noises everywhere. Samuel had a voice but he did not recognize it in the book of uh in in verse seven of chapter 3. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him. This this is one of the most important lessons in a in a story. Samuel had God, you know, he just had God. He never had experience. He never he had never seen God. He had never had, you know, a conversation for him to distinguish his voice from other voices. He never recognized him, but he just heard him. Why? because he had not yet had learned to recognize it. Many people hear about many people here but do not recognize. God may be speaking through scripture and you have never heard. Do you know that uh you sitted here there is a time God spoke to you and you never heard him? You know there is a point he spoke to you directly and you never heard him. Do you know that that that there is that strange voice that you heard speaking before your ears and you never recognized? DO YOU KNOW that he has ever spoke to you even in the scripture and you've never heard it? By the way, I can ask you, have you ever opened a given verse uh when reading it, you read as if it is you who is written in it? You just read something and then something clicks in your mind. How comes and you close it and you open it and you open the Bible again in another in another chapter in another book and a story which is narrated there perhaps the book of Acts perhaps the book of Exodus when you hear it it is as if the story is all about you. I'm here to let you know that is God whispered to you. Sometimes you find a given sin that you commit is mentioned before the verse that you read. This after this morning I want to let you know that that is the voice of the Lord. Learn to recognize it. Yes, we may not have time to read the Bible. God may be speaking through our parents as young people and we say they don't understand me. You know that is what uh we young people uh we usually say. You know mommy you don't understand me. Daddy is like you don't understand me. Pathfinders I'm speaking to you. God may be speaking through a pastor and what do we say? He is preaching at me. And I've ever had an experience of uh a sermon that I preached a few years ago and uh uh a member came with a lot of anger during lunchtime and I was new. I was invited an invitation as of today. So after preaching then that uh uh an average old woman came to me with a lot of anger. pastor you know it worried me I don't know this woman actually in that church I only knew the pastor and even I asked the church how many of you knows me by the way how many of you who knows me who have ever met me somewhere I can see at least Here I have a few I have a few I can recognize a few faces that recognizes me. But in that church I was clean. I was new. Then I ought to call the pastor that come and rescue me. She was she was even she even wanted to fight me because I've been told by other women by other church members about her and I've made her to be the sermon. You know when the pastor is preaching sometimes we tend to say that pastor is speaking to me is preaching about me. Young people, pathfinders may say that no is mom who told p who told pastor about my behavior. I'm here to let you know that God may be speaking uh to pastor to you so that you can understand that he wants your soul and there is something which is new which is new that he want that he wants to use. God may be speaking through a pathfinder director to you as a pathfinder and we say they are too strict. God may be speaking through the Holy Spirit and we say, "I'll do what I want." The problem is not always God's silence. Sometimes the problem is our inability to recognize his voice. Therefore, how do we know God's voice? We know God's voice through the Bible. In the book of 1 Timothy 3:16, the Bible says, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God." Amen. When the Bible speaks to you, THAT IS GOD SPEAKING TO YOU. If you want to know God's voice, open your Bible. Hallelujah. Learn to read the Bible. God's voice will never contradict his word. It remains. He is THE ONE WHO WAS THE ONE WHO is the one who shall be. He doesn't change. He speaks, he spoke, and he will speak. Where again, how again does he speak to us? It's through prayers. Prayer is not only talking. Prayer is also listening. Sometimes we kneel down and tell God everything. Then we wind up by saying what? Amen. And we leave. But today God is staying is saying stay a little longer in your prayer. You know sometimes the way we pray even the devil himself wonders especially for food. May God bless the millions in Jesus name. Even before the heaven opens you are done. You watch on how sometimes you pray. You begin to pray at uh at 9:00, then you wind up your prayer uh at 5:00 in the morning and then you call yourself a prayer warrior. Today God is reminding us that uh he also speaks to us through the prayers. When you pray, just create time for that. Don't pray as if uh as if a flight you are going to miss a flight. HAVE A QUALITY TIME with God. Have a quality moment at the feet of Jesus and allow God to guide you even after the prayer. How again does he speak to us in the book of the book of John chapter 16 verse 13 when he the old spirit when he the spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth. The Holy Spirit speaks to the heart. How does he speaks? He wants you. There is a time you do something and you feel no that is the Holy Spirit speaking to you. There is a time I'm speaking with with youth. I am going to have enough time with you come the month of December. But this is just a nutshell. When you hear and then you feel no is something never avoid it. It is the Holy Spirit who is speaking to you. He wants you. There is a time you plan to do something which is evil according to your understanding is right and therefore you feel nervous. I'm here to tell you that it is the Holy Spirit who is speaking to you. He wants you. The Holy Spirit directs you. The Holy Spirit convicts us. The Holy Spirit is there to encourage us. He guides us. When you feel that quiet conviction, don't do that. Stop. When you feel you need to apologize, do listen when you feel YOU SHOULD NOT HELP THAT PERSON. LISTEN when you when when uh you know when God says uh come to me listen he is speaking to you. Point number three speak Lord. What does it means? It means surrender. Speak Lord is one means surrender. Some will eventually learn what to say in verse 9. Ellie told him he calls you say speak Lord for your servant hears. You know he went and looked for guidance. Therefore, he noticed the word servant. Samuel did not say speak Lord because I want to know the future. He did not say speak Lord because I want a blessing. You know that is where a problem comes to us humanity particularly the Kenyans. uh when the Lord is speaking what you will when once you hear is God who is uh here with you and he want to speak with you you know we only we sometimes retiterate instead of him speaking to you now is you speaking to God you know my problem my child applied for the you know there is this school fees you know there is this you know there is this problem you know uh there is this house that I've never finished to build. You know, there is this that thing that I've never that I've not done with it. But this young man, but this young man Samuel said, "Speak for your servant." Yes, your servant has got his. This is a sign of surrender. This morning I want to let you know that it is good to surrender. What does surrender mean? Surrender means Lord my life belongs to you. What does surrender means? Surrender means my future belongs to you. What does surrender means? Surrender means to my pathfinders surrender means my EDUCATION BELONGS TO YOU. What does surrender means? Surrender means my talents belongs to you. What does surrender means? Surrender means my my friendship BELONGS TO YOU. WHAT does surrender means? Surrender means young people my phone even my phone belongs to you. What does surrender means? My surrender means my body belongs to you. What does surrender means? Surrender means my plans belongs to you. What does surrender means? My surrender means my whole life belongs to you. Now speak Lord. It is until we learn on how to surrender. That is the time the Lord will have a chance to speak. You know what is killing us is what killed Lucifer. Just a single thing called pride. No wonder uh the old man said that uh uh before you fall what comes ahead pride. So it is until we come down is until we surrender. It is until we bow. It is until we fully leave everything and come back to his feet. That is the time we'll surrender. And once we surrender, the Lord will speak to us. Speak Lord, not speak Lord, but only tell me what I want to hear. You know, sometimes we usually like the sermons that you want to hear. Sometimes when other when somebody's speaking to us, you feel like this person should tell you what you want to hear. Speak Lord. He never said speak Lord but don't interfere with my lifestyle. Not speak Lord but I will decide whether I obey but Samuel said speak Lord speak Lord whatever you say I will follow. This morning as I conclude I want to tell you number four hearing God must lead to obedience. There is a difference between hearing and obeying. You can hear your parent and still disobey. You can hear your teacher and still disobey. You can hear your pathfinder director but still disobey. And unfortunately we can hear God's word and still disobey. The book of James 1 verse 22 says but the doers of the word and not the hearers only. So we have to be doers. Whatever we hear from the Lord, it is a high time after hearing, we put it into action. You know what God told Samuel. Finally Samuel in the morning. Though he was nervous because it was an information that he was to give to his superior, to his leader, to his pastor, to his priests. But because he ought to obey, he told him. So therefore, may God really help us as young people, as a church, so that we can do what heaven would like us to do. It is my prayer that uh the pathfinders of Nairobi central and the pathfinders of the entire conference of central Kenya conference, the pathfinders of the whole world may learn on how to fully surrender. Not only the pathfinders but the entire membership of the church may learn on how to fully surrender before the feet of Jesus. How many with me who are saying Jesus teach me to surrender teach me to listen to your voice and forgive me because there is a time I'd avoided your voice and I've hearkened to different voices but this morning Jesus I'm saying forgive me and teach me so that I can hear you speaking Lord if you are there please rise up with me as we do the final prayer for this. Shall we pray? Our heavenly master, before you and before your throne of grace, we come. We come because we are your children. We are like Samuels of these days. whom you have called two times earlier. And now today through the early of the World Pathfinder Sabbath, you have reminded us that when you call, we should say, "Speak, Lord, your servant is listening." Honestly, we have heard different voices. Not limited to what our peers tells us, not limited to our friends, no not limited to to to uh even to the social media. We have listened to many. But today Jesus, we are saying sorry. Return us as a church. return us as young people to your feet so that we can hear your voice when you are speaking to us. Help us to grow as you speak to us. Help us to surrender as you speak to us. And also let us help us to execute after listening. Teach us to obey for there is no any other way but to trust and to obey. Be with these young people, the pathfinders. Be with the parents. Be with the leadership. Be with everyone who is listening. That God, we may not only be listeners, but also we may be doers for the glory of your name. Thank you because you have heard us. Thank you because Jesus, you have done what is possible. And thank you because you have called us. Thank you because you are a change of lives. Change users once again because you have prayed all these things believing and trusting in Jesus holy name. Amen.