The Cross & the Comeback | C3 Nairobi

The Witness Within Us | C3 Nairobi

You were never meant to navigate life alone. Before Jesus ascended, He made a promise that would change everything: the Helper was coming. Not as a distant force or a religious concept, but as a Person. One who would live within you, speak to you, and remind you of exactly who you are. This message from Naomi Lombard unpacks one of the most underestimated realities in the Christian life: the Holy Spirit is not here to expose you. He is here to remind you. There is a difference between condemnation and conviction, and understanding that difference can completely reshape how you relate to God. Conviction draws you closer. It does not push you away. Drawing from John 16, 1 Corinthians 2, and the Song of Solomon, Naomi traces the threefold ministry of the Holy Spirit: He convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment. But not in the way most people expect. The sin He convicts of is the root sin of not trusting Jesus. The righteousness He convicts of is yours, in Christ. And the judgment He reminds you of is the devil's, not yours. He is continuously pointing you back to your identity, your inheritance, and your victory. In this episode: * Why conviction and condemnation are not the same thing, and why the distinction matters * How the Holy Spirit's primary ministry is revealing what you already have in Christ * What it means to find yourself in Scripture, the way Jesus and John the Baptist did * Why God wants to speak into the things that confuse and trouble you, big and small * How the Holy Spirit is singing over you right now, and what it means to become familiar with that song The witness within you is not silent. Press play and listen. This message is brought by Naomi Lombard, a leader with Andrew Wommack Ministries Kenya and a member of C3 Nairobi. Find them at https://awmkenya.net/ [https://awmkenya.net/] www.c3churchnairobi.com [http://www.c3churchnairobi.com]

The Spirit Who Expands Us | C3 Nairobi

Imagine standing in a room and taking one step forward every time life handed you an advantage. Private schooling. A safety net. Connections. Paved roads. And then the room goes quiet, and you look around, and the gaps are obvious. Some people are ten steps ahead. Some are still at the back wall. The world has a lot to say about those gaps. It says the ones at the front are more likely to make it. It says the gaps are permanent. It says your starting line is your destiny. But the Holy Spirit is a great disruptor. This episode opens with a striking exercise that exposes how much of our positioning in life was shaped by factors we never chose. Then it does something unexpected: it refuses to leave you there. Because the real gap is not between people in a room. It is between who you are right now and who the Spirit is commissioning you to be. In this message, we explore what it means to grow in the knowledge of the Holy Spirit. Not just that He lives in you, but what He actually came to do. He does not come simply to comfort. He comes to enlarge. He expands your identity, your vision, your courage, and your capacity to carry what God has placed in your hands. In this episode: * Why impostor syndrome is not a confidence problem but a theology problem * How the Holy Spirit upgrades your identity before He upgrades your circumstances * The difference between information and illumination, and why only one of them changes your future * What it means to move in courage before you feel ready * Why the oil stopped when the vessels ran out, and what that reveals about your capacity Your starting line was largely outside your control. Your finish line is pure divine appointment. Press play. www.c3churchnairobi.com [http://www.c3churchnairobi.com]

Hearing God's Voice | C3 Nairobi

Most people are not waiting for God to speak. They are waiting to hear something that confirms what they have already decided. The Hebrew word for "hear" is shema, and it does not separate hearing from obeying. They are the same motion. Biblical hearing is not acoustic or passive. It is a whole-life response: understand, believe, act, move. Philip demonstrated this when he left a thriving revival in Samaria to stand on a desert road, with no explanation given. He heard. He moved. And on that road he found one man who would carry the gospel into Africa. God rarely gives the full picture. He gives the next step. And the next step is only available to the person who obeyed the last one. But hearing gets complicated because three voices are speaking into your life at any given moment: the enemy, your own desires, and God. The most dangerous of the three is not the enemy. It is you. Your own ambition can generate an internal voice that sounds exactly like conviction, that feels exactly like God. Discernment is not the ability to tell right from wrong. It is the ability to tell right from nearly right. And it is not a gift that arrives fully formed. It is a capacity built over time, by reason of use, by years of bringing decisions before God and tracking what happens. In this episode: * Why hearing God is obedience, not passive reception * How to identify the three voices speaking into your life, and why your own voice is the most dangerous * What discernment actually is, and how confirmation bias quietly distorts it * How community is not optional for the hearing life, and what to do when two sincere believers claim opposite words from the same God * How to cultivate a hearing life, and why seasons of silence are not abandonment He is not silent. The question is whether you have become the kind of person who, when you hear, moves. www.c3churchnairobi.com [http://www.c3churchnairobi.com]

When God Speaks | C3 Nairobi

You are not waiting for God to say something. You are waiting for him to say something you agree with. That is the real problem. Most of us have been told that hearing God is a rare, mystical experience reserved for a select few with a special spiritual connection. The result is that ordinary believers outsource their entire relationship with God to someone else's voice, and then wonder why they feel so far from him. This message takes that idea apart and rebuilds something far more grounded and far more personal. The sermon starts not with the channels but with the architecture. God is Trinitarian. The Father initiates. The Son is the Word made flesh, a message so complete that everything before it was partial and pointing. The Holy Spirit takes that word and makes it living and active in you, specifically. This is not mysticism. It is covenant. And a covenant, by definition, requires communication. The primary channel is Scripture, and this sermon does not let you off the hook about it. God has already spoken extensively across the whole of human experience, through melancholic prophets, a king writing songs in a cave, a wise man in existential crisis. All of it is one story. All of it points to one person. And most of us have the instructions sitting unopened while we wonder why life is not assembling correctly. In this episode: * Why God speaks through covenant, not because he is warm or communicative by nature * The Trinitarian architecture of how God communicates, and what each person of the Trinity does * Why Scripture is the primary channel, and what that actually demands of you * The role of wisdom: when a new prophetic word is not what you need * Dreams, the still small voice, other people, and inner conviction as real, tested, and biblical channels The door is being knocked on. The question is whether you are listening. www.c3churchnairobi.com [http://www.c3churchnairobi.com]

The Cross & the Comeback | C3 Nairobi

She came to that garden with burial spices and nothing left to believe for. Head down. Red-eyed. Ready to anoint a corpse. She left running, carrying the greatest announcement in human history. That is the resurrection. Not a symbol. Not a sentiment. A fact, witnessed by hundreds, recorded by eyewitnesses, verified by an empty tomb that not even the Romans could explain away. This Easter message traces the story of Mary Magdalene in the garden and finds in it something that speaks directly to anyone living in what Pastor Kevin calls a Saturday season. Saturday is the day between the death and the resurrection. It is when the diagnosis did not change, when the marriage did not recover, when the prodigal has not come home, when heaven feels silent. The disciples went to sleep on Saturday night with no hope and no promise. But we are reading this story from the other side. We know Sunday is already scheduled. From mistaken identity to one word that ended the longest weekend of Mary's life, from the triumphal procession of ancient Rome to the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead now living permanently in your body, this sermon builds to a declaration that is not theoretical. The tomb is empty. Death is defeated. And you are not waiting to be empowered. You already are. In this episode: * Why Mary could not recognise Jesus and what that reveals about how we miss God moving in our lives * The difference between Saturday grief and Sunday hope, and how to hold both at once * What Romans 8:11 actually means when it says the resurrection Spirit lives in you * Why the encounter always leads to a mission, and what yours already is * How to stop fighting for a victory that has already been won The parade has started. Take your place in it. www.c3churchnairobi.com [http://www.c3churchnairobi.com]