This song is our prayer this week, so I just want you to open
your mouth. Hallelujah.
That's open your mouth, sing, that's all from your heart, home
in spirit. Oh Jesus, we want to walk with
you. Hallelujah.
I don't feel the power. I don't feel the present.
You are telling God, God, I want to work with you.
This is an opportunity, David. I was glad when they said to me,
let's go into the presence of you can never be in the presence
of God. I can never work with you.
Hallelujah for me, I want to walk with you.
Jesus, I need you. I need you this morning.
Come into my heart. Hallelujah and the 2nd.
Everyone is English, please can you project it?
Annoying us with fresh oil. Hallelujah, we are all singing
together from the Father's golden throne.
The oil that never runs dry. The oil that never runs dry.
Go to the noted 1 flows through the night.
This is our prayer. Oh God, annoying us with fresh,
oh your fro. Oh please Lord, we bought this
morning carist on Caribbean. This is a prayer, This is a
prayer Jesus, waiting for your touch.
We are waiting for your touch, Lord, once again.
I just want you to open your mouth, speak the speak of the
language. Just blow your tongue.
We bow, Jesus. We now we need your spirit.
Oh Lord, we can never leave you the same as we came.
This is our prayer this week. Never post sucker by your day.
We bow before you, Jesus. We bow before your throne, O
Lord, waiting for your touch, waiting for your mountain, the
Lord, waiting for your hands. O Lord.
O Lord Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah. Oh, if you are, clap and clap to
the glory of the Lord. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah.
Last week I said as we are waiting upon the Lord and we are
going to dine with Him, each and every one of us should have an
expectation, and I'm of a firm conviction that before this
morning's service will come to a close, the Lord will do
something new. You don't need to believe it
before I believe it. I believe it.
And so whether you say Amen or you don't say it, the Lord will
do it. Amen.
This morning we are privileged to have our dear mother in the
person of Mrs. Josiah Cosa. Shall we welcome here?
God richly bless you. On this note, we invite our dear
pastor, Pastor Josiah Cosa. Shall we welcome him with your
father? Oh praise the Lord, Hallelujah.
May the grace and peace from our Father and our Savior, Lord
Jesus Christ be multiplied unto us all.
We thank God for today. Today we are going to dine with
the Lord and today too is Palm Sunday, so we want to also
celebrate the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem.
Amen. Friday we began looking at the
church. Unleash lessons from Job lessons
from Job and we read from Job chapter 29.
We read from one to verse 6. So today we will read from verse
7 following. But by way of recap, we looked
at the first point. We looked at why Job and we saw
that Job was commanded by God himself as someone who is
righteous and the way he used to live his life.
So this whole chapter Job is recounting how he used to live
his life and that is what we want to learn from that.
We want to pick some valuable things from the life of Job and
that was to help us that as the church we are being unleashed or
as the church unleashed, we can draw some valuable things from
the life and the story of Job. So we want to pick from Job.
Friday we saw that Job had a personal relationship with God
and he also had a household relationship with God.
So we are saying that charity begins at home.
We cannot possess the world if we fail to possess our homes.
So Job was someone who was conscious that God was with him,
so he knew that he had the presence of God, and because of
that he built artists to pray for his own children year after
year after they had gone to have their own in a way party or
things. So Job will erect authors and
pray and purify them, saying that perhaps they might have
sinned against God and that was his regular way of life.
So we are saying that fathers, we should carry the fire for the
home, for God bless us. We saw that.
The second thing we saw from verse 6 was that the path and
the steps of the church unleashed.
Job had his path drenched with cream and the rock poured out
for him streams of olive oil. We saw that it was a
representation of how Job was affluent.
He was rich, he was he had wealth and as a church, the
church unleashed. The world is full of dryness, so
we need to let our path be full of cream so that the world will
know that every step of ours we will leave lasting impacts and
God will be blessed. And also that the rock which is
Christ Jesus himself, may he continually pour for us streams
of olive oil so that we will not lack oil.
We saw that our head should never lack oil, so the church
should always be anointed, otherwise we'll leave.
We'll become as dry as the world is.
So we are moving on to the that point and that would take us
from Job 26, from verse 7 following Job 26, from verse 7,
following. Say that when I went to the gate
of the city and took my seat in where the public square, the
young man saw me and stepped aside.
The old man rose to their feet. The chief men refrained from
speaking and covered their mouths with their hands.
The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck
to the roof of their mouths. Whoever had me spoke well of me,
and those who saw me commended me.
Why? Because I rescued the poor who
cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to
assist them, The one who was dying, bless me.
I made the widow's heart sing. I put on righteousness as my
clothing. Justice was my rope and my
turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet
to the limb. I was a father to the needy, and
I took up the case of the stranger.
I broke the fangs of the wicked and sniped the victims from
their feet. I thought I would die in my own
house, my days as numerous as the greens of sand.
My roots will reach to the water, and dew will lie all
night on my branches. My glory will not fade.
The bull will never, will ever be new in my hand.
People listened to me expectantly, waiting in silence
for my counsel. After I had spoken, they spoke
no more. My words fell gently on their
ears. They waited for me for showers.
They waited for me As for showers and drunken my words as
the spring rain. When I smiled at them, they
scarcely believed it. The light of my face was
precious to them. I chose the way for them and
such as their chief, I dwelt as a king among his troops.
I was like one who comforts mourners.
Amen. Oh, I said, Amen.
So we want to move quickly through this, and we are still
learning from Job. We are still learning from Job.
So the third thing we want to learn from Job from verse 7 to
10 is that beyond the fortress, Job's bold step of leaving the
splendor for service. So we need to leave splendor for
service. Live in your splendor for
service. Job was rich.
He could have chosen to enjoy. He could have chosen to remain
in the comfort of his home. Sometimes the church, we are
blessed. We live in the splendor of our
homes, of our church buildings. We live in so much splendor of
what God has done for us. But the church on leash, like
Job, need to live splendor for service.
You need to leave the comfort of your homes for the gutters of
the ghettos. We need to descend from the
splendor of our luxurious places wherever you are comfortable,
and descend to the to the undesirable pits where men are
locked up. So Job he did not just remain,
he left. So Job went to the city gates.
The city gate was where they used to meet every city.
The their gates was the point of transaction.
It was the point where they conducted everything.
They would accept even they will transact, buy land, buy and
sell. So everything.
So by effect, Job, as we learned from him, did not stay at home.
He went out. He went out to the center of
action. So the church to the center of
action is not here. This place is not the center of
action. This place we just spent about
two hours to three hours and we leave.
The center of action is where you work, where you spend 8
hours a day, Monday to Friday, and even go beyond, where you
spend much of your time, your working life, that is your city
gates. And Job left his splendor and he
went to serve. So Job had his own sphere of
influence, his own sphere of influence.
We too, your sphere of influence is different from mind sphere.
Your sphere could be wider, your reach could be much more because
some of us will work with students, we teach them.
Some of us we work in the business field where we meet
high profile men and women. Some of us, we work with our
friends, with our colleagues. Wherever you spend your time,
that is your city gates, that is it.
And you need to go out there and make an impact.
So he went there and another thing he did was that he had a
seat. Let's go go back to the verse
seven. Job says that when he leaves,
when he left, he went to the city gate, to the gate of the
city and took mine seats. So Job had a seat.
Job had a seat. Where is your seat?
Sometimes we may think that, oh, I don't want to worry others.
The seat that you have at your working place, you are not just
there for yourself. If at the work you do, God
intentionally gave it to you, not just to go there and to earn
a living for yourself. If for that alone, God can still
reign mana for you so that you know it, but you are there as
His representative. You are there as His ambassador.
You are there ending a living. But God has strategically placed
us at wherever we are for His own intention.
We need to go back and ask God, Lord, what would you have me do
at where I work? You are there to change
somebody's life. You are there to be a source of
encouragement for someone. Probably you are there because
of one soul. That is why God is keeping you
there. So don't just gloss over your
ministry to your seats at your workplace.
Everybody has a ministry, everybody, every believer.
You are saved to make an impact. Look at the self to the disciple
name, that his name appeared just once in the Acts, but he
was the one who prayed for Saul to receive his sight.
He was the one who God Jesus showed him that.
Go to this house, there is a man there named Saul.
He is praying. Go and lay your hands on him to
receive sight and you'll be filled with the Holy Ghost.
But that man, his name appeared once since then.
It was poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor.
So Paul cannot glory in the Lord because the person who laid
hands on him to receive the Holy Ghost was not even an apostle.
He was a disciple. So in the Church of God, Jesus
is the one who is the head. Yeah, yeah, we are servants.
So please, you are there. Probably you are there because a
word from your mouth would save a generation to come.
So don't just think that me I go work, come home, work.
No church. Don't involve yourself with
spiritual things. You are here to work.
No, no, no, no, no. Don't draw the line of secular
sacred young people and free home.
We need to take our spirituality to fill the secular spaces.
Wherever we are, we are spiritual beings.
Wherever we are, Jesus is there. Jesus must be seen wherever I
work and wherever I go. So Job carried that thing and he
went out city gates. You need to have a seat.
You need to have a seat.
And honor was not merely bestowed on Job, but you soon
see what why they did what they did.
Let's try and then read from the verse 8, the groups, the noble
groups who when they saw Job, you may think that was just
because of his money, but it wasn't just for his money.
You will see. So that he was involved in acts
of kindness service, so that the young man saw me and stepped
aside. Your young men, young men, by
their nature, they will not just step aside, they want to occupy
space, but whenever they saw Job, they will step aside.
So there are about 5 of them, so that the first one is young men
and they step word aside. The second group is old men and
then chief men. Look at how the whole thing is
progressing. Go back to the verse 8 and let's
check. Young men, old men, next one is
what chief men, next one is nobles.
And the last one, so young men, all the noble groups, leaders,
the young, the ages, the Princess, the highest city
officials, when they all saw him, they honored Job.
Job was not a priest. Job was not a prophet, but he
was a businessman, A wealthy man who loved God.
So you don't have to tell me that unless you are a priest,
you cannot serve God well. Is a lie.
Go and check the scriptures. Abraham.
Abraham was a businessman. He was what, a businessman.
He traveled Isaac and ghost Jacob go and see him.
He was business minded. So God wants to use ordinary men
and women like us to transform the world.
Only that open up your heart for him.
So he wasn't a priest, but he lived a righteous life and his
life affected the entire space. So take your sacred life to the
secular world. Hallelujah.
Oh, I said Hallelujah. Oh, why are you angry with me?
So when they saw him, it wasn't just for fun, but Job was doing
something spectacular. Job had influence even to to the
point that the young men step aside.
Young men want to occupy in Chile from abrancia Obrana on
tea. Do you know how to bra Okanisha
like a cock? If you push it hard, another
water. Why?
Because of the strength abrancia.
So the young ones are not just easily to move away, but they
step aside. The old men rose to their feet.
Old men, they wouldn't just rise to their feet unless they see
another one who is older than. So Job was doing something
spectacular for old men to rise to their feet.
Verse 9 The chief men, they did what?
Refrain from speaking. Chief chief men, they talk, they
have wisdom. But when they saw Job, they
refrain from speaking, and not just that, they covered their
mouth. Just say no, not per SE a
Casacra, don't talk. Then the nobles, the voices of
the nobles that you always hear, they even kept quiet.
Not that their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouth, meaning
that the the voice, even the sound, their voice cannot even
utter even any sound. They needed to keep quiet.
Why? Because job is in town.
I pray that the church unleashed when we hit the streets, when
you get to your work, when you move out, when you as a church
unleashed at your workplaces, these things should happen to
you. If they are not happening at
your workplace, then please go back and sit down.
If they don't accord you, eat. We need you eat.
They will be speaking something bad, but the moment they see
your face, they know that you preach against them.
They know that you won't do it. They know that you you are also
for you are for Christ. You are you are godly.
That is what should happen and the church on leash should have
the impact. I pray that will transform our
spheres. We would change it and we would
change it and change it and change it.
Hallelujah. Oh, I said Hallelujah.
And then Job and all these things because of what he did
next verse, not against that. Those who heard of me spoke
well, and those who saw me commended me.
Two things are there. Please go back to the verse 11,
verse 11, verse 11. So those who had and so don't
you see something in line with our theme for this year?
The gospel must be preached to be heard.
The Holy Ghost power must be demonstrated to be seen.
Couldn't you see there? So in effect, when they hear of
us, they must hear about the gospel being practicalized.
And when they see us, they should see the power of God
demonstrated through us. And that is when the church will
be commanded. So the church on leash, we are
being on leash with the gospel, by preaching the gospel, by
living by the gospel. And also those who see us should
see the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrated in us.
The Holy Spirit power is not for speaking in tons.
So Tom, I repeat, the Holy Spirit power, it's not the
Hiribaba. You do like Ababa Baba.
No, no, no, no, no, no. That is the entry point.
That is the entry, just the entry points.
But the life in the Holy Ghost is much more deeper, It's much
more richer. It's much more, oh, very sweet,
because righteousness, joy, peace in the Holy Ghost.
The Kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but it is
more about demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit and the
Holy Spirit, His presence and his active presence with you,
you would definitely carry something.
Something will be there and somebody will meet you.
Who are you? And I'm I have entered places.
You are a pastor and I would say how did you know?
No, no, no, I'm not. I'm not even the way you even
speak shows that you are a pastor.
What did you see me? You're like no, there is
something about you. So the Holy Ghost something the
glory of the Lord she shine upon you, Hallelujah.
The church needs to arise and shine for the glory of the Lord.
So let your character behead, character behead and when they
see you, they should see that correlation between what they
are hearing and they are seeing in you.
Hallelujah. Let's move on to verse 12.
Because of something certain things he did, because of what
he did. Let's see.
Because he rescued the poor who cried for help and the
fatherless who had none to assist them.
Next verse please. The one who was dying blessed
me. The one who who was dying
blessed me. I made the widow's heart sink,
and then he put on righteousness as his clothing, and justice was
his what? His robe and his Tavern.
Next verse, please. I was eyes to the blind and feet
to the limb. Next verse.
I was a father to the needy and I took up the case of a
stranger. I broke the funds of the wicked
and snatched the victims from the athletes.
I think yes. So we will look up to verse 17.
So Job did all these things because of what he did.
What are you doing? What are you doing?
Before we go to the to that list, let me say that the
church, if we remain within the fortress of the walls, the world
will label us as they see us. I take it again the well, then
they are fond of labeling and what you do is what they see and
then they label. So the church that remains
within the fortress will receive a label, and the label from the
world is what they see them do. So when the church unleashed,
when we are on leash, we determine the labeling we get.
Let's look at Acts 11, Acts 1126, Acts 11/26 and see how
they label them. And when he had found him, he
brought him to Antioch for a whole year the Panabas and so
met with the church and taught great numbers of people.
The disciples were first called Christians at where they were
called Christians first at Antioch.
So the world at first, they weren't called what Christians.
They were just the people of the way, the people of the way.
They were just there. So if we want a very good
labeling, be on list. If you want a name, a good name
at your workplace, be on list. But if you sit there quietly,
they will consider you as one of their their own.
So be on list. Let us go to 17 six the same
acts, 17 six of the same acts. But when they did not find them,
they dragged Jason and some other believers before the six
officials, saying These men who have caused trouble all over the
world have now come here. These men who have caused
trouble other would say that there were people who have
turned the world upside down. Look at another labeling.
So whenever you unleash, the world will label you as they
see. But if you remain within your
within the church, they will also give you a label.
So let the church be unleashed so that we will go and we will
transform our spheres. Hallelujah or I said Hallelujah.
So the unleashing agenda is an expression and an embodiment of
the Great Commission. Let me take it again.
The unleashing agenda that the whole church to do and transform
our world is an expression and an embodiment of the Great
Commission. Because Job went, Abraham went
and all those were unleashed. Look at the impact they now have
on us. Abraham go.
The same goal that Jesus gave to us, Abraham to went and look at
how he has been blessed till now.
So if you can choose to remain, you can choose not to be
unleashed, but you will not have any impact.
But those who will be unleashed by faith, they will go out there
and they will make impacts. I pray that we will be
unleashed. Hallelujah.
So the Third Point that we have looked is that Job he chose, he
left splendor for service. The 4th 1 is that they praise
God because of me and that is from the verse 11 to the verse
17. They praise God because of me,
they praise God because of me, they praise God because of me.
There is something good in you that needs to be unleashed.
There is something special. So the life in the church, which
is trouble within the church, cannot be praised.
If we choose to remain within, when we fail to reach out to
identify our groups within our within our reach, God's name
will not be praised. Job received the accolades
because he refused to remain within the fortress of his
abundance of wealth. He went out, he was on leaves
and look at the people he touched.
Let's go back to the verse 11 and see Job's services. 1st
12:00 please number one, you rescue the poor because of time.
I want to combine. Please bring that chart that I
forwarded to you. We want to draw some
correlations between jobs groups and then link them to our COP
and the Vision 2228, the new ministry intervention and you
truly see that the church too as we are being unleashed.
We have also grouped or we have also developed ministries to our
identify groups in our time. So we want to draw that link
Jobs Acts of service for his identifier groups in his city
and correlate them to the vision 20/12/28 COP ministry
interventions. Then you see that it will truly
follow the vision, the document that God has given to the
church. We are also following a very
good example as the church on leash.
So the first one that we want to look at is that home and urban
missions harm. You see that link to what Job
did. He rescued victims of godless
oppressions and victims of injustice.
So the church, we need to also be unleashed through harm.
We need to go there and rescue victims of godless oppressions.
We need to go out there and with the gospel, the gospel.
The gospel is not just one sided thing.
It is not a one winged thing. It also goes with acts of
kindness services. So we can be math to those who
don't have voices. We don't have to walk around
through this town and city and overlook victims of injustice.
We need to speak up for them. We don't have to just drive by.
In this church and in the agenda of being unleashed today, you
may be thinking that it doesn't concern me.
Waiting concern me. Now make a pass and go.
No, tomorrow they will do to you.
So anything you see around the church, we need to rescue
victims. The next thing Job did was he
helped the poor in their need. The church also helped the poor
in their need. We need to help the poor as
individual, as a corporate body, we need to help the poor.
You may think that means how much do I have?
Peter said that if you don't have silver and gold, you have
something valuable in you that can transform somebody.
But after giving them, what do you have sometimes also show
concern. So job help the poor, let us
help the poor. You may think that so for I
don't have much, you don't have much, you don't have much but
the little that you have, I think I had somebody quote the
late mother that Theresa that you can serve with a great
heart, give you a little, but let it be accompanied with a
great heart. So no matter how small what you
look down on, you don't have someone's endpoints or waists is
somebody's raw material for life.
So what you you don't need somebody can depend on it.
The food that you think that oh, I am full, let me go and throw
it away. Somebody would thank God for it.
Your shoe that you think is worn out.
Somebody can glorify, go and say, oh God, I think they're
not. I have a shoe.
So no matter what you have help the poor, help the poor do what?
Help the he also help orphans who required help.
So there are some orphans who don't need help.
There are some orphans who are OK, but some orphans who need
help. Let us try to help them.
So Hum, we need to go out there and help and the Church of
Pentecost through hum sometimes we are feeding those who don't
have homes in Accra and it was called Pent 5000.
Jesus fed 5000. So I think last year or so they
also fed 5000. What would be the joy for escape
the English, you know, lookout to also go out there and go and
feed those who are hungry. They will be happy.
So he he helped them and help the hopeless ones, those who had
no hope, help them put some smile on their face.
He was a father to the poor father.
Sometimes you think that by advising somebody, just a piece
of advice can help somebody. So be a father to someone who
has lost or who had no father, be a father just being there for
them, supporting them, going with them, showing up.
What did these things joke he did?
He assisted strangers who needed help, strangers who needed help.
So hum is doing all these things.
Hum. The next one is he served as ice
for the blind. And I think this one I have shed
here before true of us. Is it here on top?
It was enough for any zoo. Is he here?
And yeah, it's at the top. Is he here?
Because it's like, I've shared it here before and I was like,
no, it's not here. So.
So MPWD. Peter, where are you?
Have you seen it? MPWD Job did it years ago, you
are doing it do it well this half year you do something.
Otherwise, if we come for reports, we do know an area.
So job he served as a ice for those who were blind.
So asking yourself, how can the church now serve as the eyes to
the blind? We have the ministry to persons
with disabilities and there are several forms of them, eyes,
mouth, ears, those who can even walk and a whole lot of them.
You can just pay them a visit. Peter, they have an association.
So please organize the whole church.
Everybody come. We are going to them, they're
going to pray with them. We are going to share God's love
with them. And then you ask them, what are
some of your needs? What do you need from us?
How can we be of help to you? Oh, talk to this person for us.
Go and see this person for us. And you have honorable here.
Just walk to here and say that honorable and people, you didn't
watch them one more year and some more to me.
So please show me where they are within the and honorable will be
glad. I said, oh, they meet here, go
and meet them here. Book a date for them.
Carry all of us. We will all follow you.
We will go like joke. Then they will talk to them.
We engage them. Yeah, we'll just buy some things
for them. Some of them just need assistive
devices. They need them assistive devices
to help them move about, to move around, to move around.
Amen. So we need to serve as eyes for
the blind and feet for the limb. Where they can't go, we can go
for them. What they can see.
We can help them do them. Amen.
The next one is chieftancing again, helping victims of
injustice. The chieftancing institution in
Ghana is a blessed one. It makes Ghana unique.
But the church, we have not
taken, we have not gone there, we have left them.
And we see them as abosom phobia.
They are just into idolatry because we haven't been there.
They are, they need help. They need help so they can
resort to a lot of things. And whether you like it or not,
that the chiefs, they are the custodians of the culture.
So if you want to make impact, if you want the gospel to hit
every group we need to tackle called the culture.
The gospel must engage every culture so that it would draw a
line and shift the things that are demonic related aside and
put all the things that Jesus relates to Christ and Jesus can
be found in every culture. In every culture.
There are some things that points to Christ already that
that is why Paul in Acts around 17 poor in Athens saw an
inscription to an unknown God and poor could preach from the
unknown God and pointed now he is now being revealed through
Christ Jesus. So if you don't tackle coaches,
conventions will be very difficult.
The reason why some people go to church and still go and consult.
I tell you the average African nephew, you had the 1st and it
said we buddia mediba, you know true of us, the average one.
Why it is our culture. It is deep seated in us.
So if we don't let Jesus touch that whole thing in our culture,
the person will come to church. But no, no Trina or Befetro of
alcohol. So we need to go with the
chieftaincy ministry. So if you know anyone who is a
royal, anyone who who has a link to any throne, please go there.
When they choose you to come and be there.
The Canon go follow you, You will come, we will come and we
take Christ to the throne room. So we have The Chieftains
ministry and through that we are advocating for those who are
oppressed and they teach our chiefs and our Queens, mothers
and our kings how to uphold righteousness and justice.
If our chieftains institution is well in place, Galam say will
end in a day. Oh true, they are the ones who
can help us. So if we push justice,
righteousness there President, President Muhammad and they will
sleep because our chiefs, they will have the ability to end it.
So As for me, I think that The Chieftains institution can be
strengthened to help us build the Ghana we want.
So we need to go out, please bring it back.
And I mean workers living honestly, honest, living life of
integrity, workers good. We are teaching each other that
as teachers how to live honestly, as GES.
You could read GES. So how can we can influence that
place as Ghana Health Service, as nurses?
Nurses, you'll not just be there and be tik toking while somebody
is dying. Yes, of these things.
The workers Guild are there to push for it and also to uphold
it. So if we do that, we will
transform this war. So it is up to us now to also
identify groups around us that we develop ministries to meet
their needs. That is the bottom line of
Vision 2020. The Church Unleash Unleashing
Agenda simply means that every local church let us identify
groups around us that need help and we develop ministries to
meet their needs by preaching Christ as the fundamental and
then reaching out to their help. That is all the Unleashing
agenda entails way adding we can do it true of us in your own
small way, you can do it in my own small way, I can also be as
a church. We can come together and do it.
So let none of us here say that there is no work for us to do
our church. Hallelujah.
Let me add the last one and end request.
We cannot even finish because there are a lot of things.
The fifth one is that though he was unleashed, but he was
anchored, though unleashed but anchored.
And that would take us to 19 verse 19, Job 2919.
Let us check how it puts it. My roots.
Look at how you know, describing himself.
My roots reach to the water, so we'll be looking at roots and
rich and water, and the dew will lie all night on my branches.
Let's take you from the NLT and let us see that one brings
another. For I am like a tree.
This one paints its will. For I am like what?
A tree whose roots reach the water, whose branches are
refreshed with the dew. The chi one gives it another
form that Mehimu Babu amends you Mehimu the roots a bit with the
open up for what the water and and they will they will dwell on
my let's go go back to English. So this one.
The fifth thing is that as we unleashed, we should also have
our anchor. We should be rooted strength
through divine connection strength so that the source of
strength for Jacob is liking to a tree planted with roots
reaching for the water. The roots had rich, the roots
had what rich. So his roots were not Job was
not a shallow person. I say again, Job was not what a
shallow person. He had depth.
He had rich, longer rich because waters are not just found at the
shallow. As a church, we need to go deep
and draw things from the depths of God.
We need to have rich. We need to go deep down.
Any tree that is shallow is easily uprooted.
Any believer whose roots are shallow is easily swayed by
anything. But if you look at the tree when
the depths, when there's a storm, all trees will fall down,
but that tree will still be remaining.
Why? Because of Rich during the
driest season. Have you seen the palm tree in
the driest season turning brown before?
No. Why?
Because the top roots and the roots the way it is, it can go
do do, do down and so draw nourishment.
So Jub will not just be swayed by anything because he adapts.
We need to have depths. Shallowness will not help you if
you are a shallow believer. You will struggle if God, he
will cry around because when cow sheep good, especially good when
they go to eat. Have you seen a goat chewing a
mighty tree before? They will only chew those who
have the shallow roots of when some Superman refused to be at
the shallow stage. Go deep down, go deep down and
that big tree you see Once Upon a time was a sibling, but with
time, not nourishment, with space, with many things due to
become a mighty tree. So if you have been in Christ
for a long time and you are still a sibling, it means there
is something wrong with you. You are sick with dwarfism.
No, you have gone past. No, there's something wrong
because there is everything wrong with your DNA.
So if I have been in Christ for a long time.
Paul says that you ought to be teachers, but you need to be
taught church being at the shallow stage cost all of us all
my brain because you need to grow quick so that we can handle
some of those who are coming as shallow to you.
But if you always shallow, shallow, shallow scuba and
Haberkwer 10 years without a degree scuba university bank and
you are still there by it's only in church.
No, we were back 10 years nationality ABCD that's then
must stop. You need to grow.
Tell somebody grow grow grow grow grow.
God is waiting for you to grow, and because when you grow,
certain things you are facing now would disappear.
So grow, have a depth, be connected, be connected and be
firmly rooted in Him. Be firmly what otherwise certain
things can seep you off your feet.
May the Lord God Almighty bless us.
We have at least learned about 5 things is left with about two by
only another time because we have sat down for a long time.
Shall we be on our feet. Let us be on our feet as you
pray in a very brief time everything you have heard, think
about it, ponder over it. So Job did not end all that the
things that you had by his He chose service over splendor.
He was unleashed. Today I pray that we choose
service over being in our splendorous states.
Jesus chose service and left his throne and its glory and came on
earth. So living splendor for service
is the way of the Master. And we all should also choose
that path. We all should choose that path.
Talk to the Lord, talk to God that oh God, help me to be like
Job. Help me to be like Job.
Pray to the Lord, ask God for help.
Pray, Pray to the Lord, pray to the Lord, pray to the Lord, pray
to the Lord, pray to the Lord. Oh Lord, help us, help us.
Lord, help us. Lord, help us to be like Job,
The seats that you have given to us.
There's a reason for it. Lord, help me to take my sacred
life to fill secular spaces. Pray to the Lord at your
workplace. What can you do?
The Lord gave you, has given your work for a reason.
The Lord knows why He has placed you where you are for a purpose.
You may think that it's just by your own strength, no?
God allowed you to be there because he wants you to
accomplish a certain agenda. Talk to the Lord, our Lord, help
me to take my, my spiritual life to the secular world, to
influence it. Pray about your, your world,
your sphere of influence. Talk to God, our Lord, Help me
to influence it. Help me to influence my sphere
wherever I sit and work, days and weeks in a year, wherever we
sit and we work and we engage many.
Lord, help me to influence that that space.
Lord, help me to influence that space.
In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of
Jesus. Lord, in the name of Jesus, in
the name of Jesus. For Lord, prepare me, Lord,
prepare, prepare me, Lord, to be a son, pure and holy, fright and
true. With Thanksgiving.
I'll be early.
We want to pray. The other time chairman was
saying that deep calls on too deep and he was sharing that the
deer, the deer pans for water because whenever there, there is
an enemy chasing after the deer, and the moment that the deer can
swim into the depths of the lake, no enemy can come there to
catch it. So we do.
If we dwell at the shallow, the enemy can catch us, but if we
will go deeper with the Lord, no enemy can reach to that point.
So today we are praying that Lord, help me to be firmly
grounded in you. Help me to be grounded.
I am tired of living a shallow life.
The shallow Christian life is deadly.
Things can easily approach you and you lose your faith.
So you are praying that Lord, help me to go deeper.
Help me to go deeper with you, in my work with you.
Help me to go deeper. Lift up your voice and begin to
pray to God. We are praying.
We are all praying that Lord, I want to go deeper.
Deeper in my work with you, deeper in my devotions, deeper
in my prayer, deeper in my Bible readings, deeper in evangelism,
deeper in giving all the spiritual disciplines.
I want to go deeper. Lord help me to go deep, Help me
to go deep, Help me to go deep. Lay Bakuba Satan Ababa E Masu
terrible Satanaba. In the name of Jesus.
In the name of Jesus.
In.
In the name of Jesus. One sing this song will your
uncle hold in the storms of life.
And the author say that when the clouds on food with the wings of
strife, when the strong tides lifts and the cable string, will
your uncle drifts of fame remain?
And see that we have an uncle that keeps the soul step 1st and
sure, whilst the billows roll fasten to the rock, to the rock
which cannot move grounded. That is where I want grounded
fame and deep in the Savior's love.
So I want to sing this, this song.
And as we sing, sing with with meaning the Lord.
You are my uncle. Please let me be deep.
Let me be grounded upon you. Let me be grounded, firm and
deep so that nothing will swim me away.
Go out. Please sing it.
In the storms.
Of life when the clouds on fall yeah, yeah, we so strike try and
sing when. The strong tides lift.
And the kill bull string will your.
We have an uncle. We have an uncle that keeps that
soul step fast and short. While that be lost fast into the
rock, fast into the road, fast which I not move grounded famine
deep in the same. We have an uncle.
We have an uncle that keeps that
soul step fast and short. While the bee Los ro fasting,
fasting to the road with time, Lord move grounded, fair and
deep in the same. We are praying the Lord, ground
me fair and deep in your love. May I be firmly rooted upon you
upon the Rock of Ages, so that nothing will swim me.
Lift up your voice, having you to pray to the Lord.
Lord, we want to be grounded in you.
We want to be grounded in your life.
We want to be grounded. We want to be grounded.
We want to be grounded, O Lord, fair and deep, fair and deep, in
the name of Jesus, so that things will not move us.
In the name of Jesus, let us please resume our seats.
Shall we be seated? Shall we be seated?
And I want to humbly call my wife to come and pray over this
word. We have an uncle.
Step, step, fast and short, while the bellows roam, fasting
to the wrong which cannot move, Grounded them and deep in the
Savior's life. Our Heavenly Father, we are
grateful to you this morning. We thank you Lord, for your word
we've given unto us. Father, we pray in the name of
Jesus that Lord, as Job had good relationship with you, as Job
had personal relationship with you, we also plead the Lord, you
help us to have personal relationship with you.
We pray in the name of Jesus. We learnt that Job left his
splendor. He went out to the city gates
and preached the gospel. So Father, we pray in the name
of Jesus that as Christians, may we live our comfort zones.
Help us to go out and share your word.
Help us to take every opportunity or any opportunity
to share your word. We pray in the name of Jesus the
Lord. We want, we don't want to be
shallow Christians. We want to be Christians who are
deep rooted in you. We want to be Christian who are
deeply rooted. So help Heavenly Father, help
us. We pray the Lord we know with
the help of the Holy Spirit, we'll be able to stand every
storm that will come our way. We bless your name, we give you
all the glory, You commit our daddy into your hands.
We pray that Lord continue to replenish whatever he has lost
and give you all the glory and Anna in Jesus name, Amen.