When life. Belongs you are Tempest or when
you are this kind of thinking of is lost count your many
blessings in them once I won and it will surprise you what the
Lord how's your blessings men them one by one how God blesses
men them one by one. How's your blessings?
And I'm one by one. How's your many blessings?
Do what? Go on when I like you, when you
are desperate thinking Lord is Lord, come your baby, bless his
name, come one by one and into a praise.
You are the Lord of God called your blessed his name #1 by 1.
But your blessings see what God has your blessings man down 1 by
1 cause your many blessings see what God has done how you every.
Hello from here. Does that cross seem heavy?
You are called to how's your many blessings begging on the
fire and you will be singing as that days go by count your
blessings. Never come one by one count your
blessings. You want to come as that, count
your blessings, bring down 1 by 1 cause your many blessings.
See what God had done. When you look outside as with
your lies and God think that Christ has promised you his
world on top. Count your many blessings.
Morning. Come on by.
You're rewarding heaven or your home on earth.
Count your blessings. Let them one by one.
Count your blessings. You are called eyes down.
Count your blessings. Let them one by one.
Count your many blessings. She was gone.
Eyes down. May the conflict where the.
Great or small do not be despaired.
God is so far all come show many blessings and just will I turn
help and comfort give you to your journey.
And come show blessings, name them 1 by 1.
Count your blessings, see what God are done.
Count your blessings, leave that what my wife.
Count your baby blessings. See what God walk out your
blessings. Walk.
Out your blessings. Walk out your blessings.
Touch your blessings.
Make them one by one. Catch your many blessings.
Be. What God has done, count.
Your blessings, Name them one by one.
Count your blessings. See what God has done count.
Your blessings. Oh, give a clap off it unto
Jesus. Let's clap, let's clap, let's
clap. Yes indeed.
Today we are celebrating our CCA anniversary.
I think this is today. I've, I've, I've, I've heard
something nice in my ears. Yes, oh, if you have also done
the same, yes, give a club of pronoun to our choir and we are
praying that as they have started, their encomium will be
something extraordinary. Oh Hallelujah.
And as you have seen them wearing their encomium shirts or
their T-shirt or lacos or whatever, if you don't have
yours when we close, please sit them and get yours so that that
day we all go and support them and give praise unto Jesus.
Hallelujah the day. Today is the day that the Lord
has made and Bible said we have to rejoice and be glad in it.
We are clamacing our local week and also our six years
anniversary in the house. We are so fortunate and we are
so grateful to have our daddy and our mommy in our meets.
Oh. I said I'm a kind romantic.
I said we are fortunate to have our own mommy and our own daddy
in our meets. Yes, we have our father, Pastor
Emmanuel and our mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Jose Acosta in our
midst. Let us all give a clap of
finance to them. Let us all welcome them once
again. You are welcome Daddy.
And now leave the podium on to our father.
Let's give up a clap of finance. Our daddy mounts the puppets.
Oh praise the Lord. We thank God for today and we
have every cause to be thankful to him.
Today we are celebrating God's goodness.
Six years. Last time I was trying to
recount that we need to thank God that six years we have our
own place where we worship God. That alone we should thank God.
Some locals have been in existence for 50 years and they
don't have a place of worship. So if we are blessed to have our
own space and we are blessed to have this beautiful hall, we
need to celebrate God for that and the many things that the
Lord has done, we need to thank him.
Six years is not a little journey.
It is God's grace which has kept us as we thank God and we end
the week, we have in our midst a servant of God, a minister of
our church. I mean CEOP, he is currently
stationed at the Dion Qantas area in a district called Bro
Sankro moving in Anka Bro Sankro meaning he said Abrasenbach or
one story of a building long ago that there used to be just one
story building over there. So when they are going, oh, Udu
Kruna Bro Sankar or not, but now they have multiples, they have a
lot of them there. So if you want to get the
location is from in between Beecham and Tepa, very close to
Tepa. So it's a very they're almost
now almost messed with it already.
And he's here to visit us. Oh, I said he's here to visit us
and when I when we had a call on phone, I told him that he was he
will preach and he said, yes, you, you preach.
So church, I am happy to inform you that we have Pastor Solomon
Quay CUNG in the house and and he was called from Medina area
in Accra here. So he now he's a boy already.
So he is a boy from Accra now a very strong man from Accra.
So church, I will now humbly hand over to Pastor Solomon
Yenchi and as he's LED. You preach.
Unto us. But today you were late and
today I don't know what Spirit is telling you to come late.
There are still many of us who are still on the way, but we
can't wait for you. We have to go on.
So listen to the wet weather. You minister in wet and you also
minister in prayer. Put your hands together as you
see Pastor Solomon. Praise the Lord, you can do it
better. On to the Lord.
Hallelujah, this morning we are so blessed to be here and we
thank God so much for the space and opportunity granted us.
Honestly blessed be the name of the Lord.
Hallelujah. I also want to thank Pastor and
Mrs. Hakosa for the space to come into your midst to
fellowship and let us bless them for us.
I was with Mama throughout the week at BCC for a certain
assignment about God's grace. We finished yesterday.
My in law stays around, she stays close to one of the
assemblies up there. So we had a family funeral, my
wife, my wife's uncle, the wife passed.
So we had to come around and I had to call pastor.
Pastor was my area secretary when he was in the ion quanta,
and he's a very good friend and boss.
So I called him and I told him that I'm around.
So he requested that we come around.
I'll be leaving for Thanksgiving service at I think the United
Church or something. Yeah, later on.
So he told me about coming to join you and we accepted because
it's been about 3 months since they left us and we long to see
them again. So this morning we will be
ministering. The word of God.
And I have titled my message sacrifice that honest, Sacrifice
that honest as per the directive given to us by leadership.
So I've shared the slides with them will be projected very
soon. I want us to sing this song and
the choir can help me. My lifetime.
I will give God my lifetime, my lifetime I.
Will give God my lifetime. If I give God my life.
I want you to sing it in faith. Oh.
He will take. Care of how many of us believe
this? Oh, he will never ever let me
down. Oh, I will give God blessing
once again. My lifetime, Oh my lifetime.
I will give God my life, my lifetime, my lifetime, Oh my
lifetime I will. Give.
God my lifetime or if I give God my life.
He will take care of. Me.
He will take care of Hallelujah. He will never ever let me die.
I will give God my life. Thank you so much, God bless
you. Oh this.
This song often gives me nostalgia because I remember
singing it all the time during my childhood.
I come from a very deprived background and looking at the
sentence per the fee that I had gotten, my only trust and hope
was God. So I always sing the song and I
had that confidence that God never thinks, God never fails.
If there is someone to testify to you this morning, that
testimony is right in front of you that God never fails.
Wherever, whenever you commit your life to Him, you give him
your all. He's going to repair you.
So this morning, sacrifice that honest.
I want us to take a team text from Second Samuel chapter 24,
verse 24. Second Samuel chapter 24, verse
24. Then the king is sent to Aruna.
No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, nor will
Ioffer bent offerings to the Lord my God with that which
costs me nothing. So David bought the threshing
floor and the oxen for 50 shekels of silver.
So there's a spot of the theme text that we were given.
There's a story of happening in Israel where David, after going
against the Lord by numbering the people of Israel and God,
had become so angry with him. And in the punishment he gave
him three options. Either he was going to cause
there to be a famine. He was going to make David flee
before his enemies for three months.
Then the last one was that God himself was going to handle him.
Then he he told God that God, men are wicked, and if you allow
men to deal with me, I'll die. Let me fall in your hands and do
whatsoever you want to me. So in God's own wisdom, the
punishment was that he was going to allow an Angel come and he is
going to go through the land and struck the people down.
So the Angel started from morning and by noon he had
killed 70,000 people. It tells you how merciful God is
sometimes when you look at the things we do and the things we
engage in sometimes human beings.
Are lawless so lawless and. For some of us we are overly
stubborn that it is only God who can manage us.
So when God leaves us to the angels, they would have killed
all of us. So from morning till noon 70,000
they were gone. Then God looked at the Angel and
what he was doing. In that short space, 70,000
people, if I don't stop this Angel, he's going to cause
havoc. Then God told the Angel to
restrain his hand, and David, in his bid to thank God for his
mess, wanted a place to sacrifice.
So he went to this man called Aruna.
He had a treashing floor where he used to trash his wheat.
Then he told him that he should give the place to him.
So he could sacrifice to the Lord.
Then Aruna, being a native of Israel, knowing what was going
on, offered to give his trashing flow and everything that it
consisted of. To David for free so that he
could sacrifice to the Lord. Then in David's statement,
that's where we read from. He says that please, I will pay
you. Because for me, doing something
for my God has to cost me. It has to, it has to touch
something. It has to bring me.
It has to bring me to the point of paying a price.
So I will not allow you to sacrifice or offer anything to
the Lord that will cost me nothing.
So the Bible says that David bought the treasure.
Floor and the oxen everything that he had for 50 shekels of
silver. I want to submit to all of us
that one. The meaning of sacrifice is that
it is an act of devotion or commitment to a supreme being or
deity where 1 is where one let's go of his interest and benefits
at the expense of a higher authority or good so.
It is when someone let's go of his interest.
But when we talk about sacrificing, it will get to you.
You are going to lose something. You are going to let go of
something. You, you, you have to do without
something. Something that brings you
comfort, something that brings you that kind of joy and peace
that you always wish you have. But when it comes to sacrifice,
you have to let go of something. So sometimes it will have to be
letting go of your resource. Letting go of your skill,
letting go of something that is of priority to you.
That is what it's called sacrifice, and it is an act of
devotion. So how devoted you are
determines the magnitude of your sacrifice.
Let me state that again. How devoted you are determines
the magnitude of your sacrifice. So little devotion results in
little sacrifice. Great devotion results in great
sacrifice. Many Christians in this
generation are unable to sacrifice holy because their
devotion is not deep. So a man without deep devotion
cannot give deep sacrifice. Let me paint the picture of
Abraham to you. Abraham was a man.
Who was 75 years when he was scored by God.
Then at the time of a scholar, he was 75, his wife was 65.
They had no child. So making all the calculations,
you understand that for all the years they were married, 75.
In today's world, if you are 75 and you are not married, it
means that you can never you you are.
You haven't given birth. It means that you are past the
age of childbearing. So 7560. 5:00 But when God
called them, he made them a promise, and they placed their
hoop on their promise. So after working with God for a
while, about 14 years, the Bible recalls that when he was 89.
The reason why you can deduce that he was 89 was that when God
came to him. The Bible talks about the
period, the 14 year period when he came to him after he had
given or he had taken his wife's maid servant and had given birth
with her. Then God appeared after a while.
He had not spoken to him for a long time.
So from 7585 God revealed himself again.
Then he made that mistake of taking Hagar and giving birth.
With her then after 14 years at 99.
God appears and tells him that Abraham I am the Lord, walk
before me and be blameless. He was making a statement of
intent, telling God, telling Abraham that for me I don't
forgo my covenant. But you humans, you are the ones
with the problem. So he tells Abraham that the
promise I have made. To you that you give birth to a
child by Sarah will come to pass.
It still stands. Hallelujah.
So whatever promise God has given to you, it will come to
pass. It doesn't matter how long it
takes. Sometimes.
Maybe you have received the prophecy and it seems like the
the trajectory of your life does not give any indication that
this thing can happen. But I want to assure you that.
God never thinks he is good and. He is kind.
And He will always keep to His word.
The Bible says that He does not lie.
I told my wife one thing some time ago.
I told her that God has never disappointed anyone and He will
not start with me. Little me, who am I?
What is my background? That God will risk his
reputation to lie to me. Same applies to you.
Whatever promise, whatever revelation, whatever profess
that you have been given, I stand here as a servant of God
and on the authority of the Word of God that it will come to pass
Hallelujah. So wrapping up the illustration,
Abraham after all these years when his wife had given birth at
the age of 90 and he was 100, God knew that there was going to
be a challenge. That was why.
First of all, in my opinion, I think he was upset with you.
Then Sarah, I believe strongly that God stirred that up in her
spirit, because according to God's promise, the Son who was
to take over from the Father, and it's a typology of Jesus
Christ, was Isaac, not Ishmael. So one day Sarah begins to
observe that Ishmael is going to be a trouble for Isaac.
Then she starts troubling Abraham.
Let. This boy go.
Now when you when you carefully observe Ishmael is not related
to Sarah, but Ishmael is related to Abraham biological.
So for Sarah, she can freely say that let Ishmael go, but for
Abraham. It is his son.
And what will be your response for the wife?
She is protecting the sons inheritance, but for the father
they are booth his sons. So Sarah keeps troubling
Abraham. The Bible says that every day,
every day. And he I don't believe he would
have ever heeded her petition. But one day God comes into the
equation and tells Abraham that Listening to your wife.
Then, because Abraham is a man of such great devotion, early in
the morning the Bible says that he prepares Hagar and Ishmael
and sends them off. And it is not like today where
when you send someone off, you can keep track of them.
Sending them off means that cutting ties with him,
dissociating him from everything.
But God gave him a promise that because he is your lineage, I am
also going to make him great. But it was such a difficult
thing because that was the last time he was ever going to set
eyes on the boy. Then he goes.
Then the long and short of my illustration is that this same
God, after some years, comes back to tell Abraham one morning
that Abraham take your son, the one you love at that.
Point per my investigation, Isaac would have been around 40
years. Also then calculating Isaac's
age to Abraham's age. If he's 40, indeed, he'll be
around 1:40. So if he.
Sacrifices this boy. When again is he going to give
birth? When again is he going to
nurture the boy? When again?
This is a tough request, but like I submitted earlier, a man
of great devotion is able to make great sacrifices.
So God tells Abraham that take your son and he.
Hits to God's voice. Hallelujah Christianity is
premised on sacrifice. Christianity is premise on
sacrifice, God's love for the world and the subsequent
offering of his only begotten Son.
So the Bible says in John 316, next slide, he says that for God
so loved the world, for God so loved the world and he gave.
So the Christianity we are enjoying, the liberation we
have, the peace that we have, the hope that we have is
premised on someone's sacrifice. How many of us will be willing
out of your three or four children to give up 1?
For a cause. How many of us?
But the Bible says that for God
so loved the world that he gave us only so it tells you that God
was not ready to withhold. The Bible says that He made Him
who knew no sin to be sin for us.
So God freely gave his Son, so that many of us seated here or
have what we have. Hallelujah.
I often tell my friends and those who are close to me family
that maybe for our generation we didn't come to experience the
the the things our grandmothers and our grandfathers went
through. But many of us, if you go home
and you ask of your background, you will see that God is good.
God is good. One of my friends was telling me
that for him, he had a privilege to come and meet his great
grandmother and she tells him that she was such a great
priestess in their their hometown and for her when she's
in the spirit. She's taken by the fetish
spirit. What they do is that they start
preparing fire so that she can do her incantations, and when
they prepare the fire, she jumps into the fire.
Then when she jumps into the fire, she she uses that as a
springboard. Then from the fire chanting in
the fire, then she jumps up, then she begins to walk on the
rooftops. Then she can walk for about such
a distance from about here to let's say in Cocoa.
Then after the Spirit has left her and she comes back to her
realization. Maybe she stays here in this
vicinity. Then the spirit will live there
at in Cocoa. So how is he going to come back?
So without Christ, this would have been a succession.
The mother or the father or the uncles would have inherited.
Then he would have inherited. And when that spirit begins to
torment you, who will save you? But for Christ, but for Christ?
But for Christ, the Bible says that.
Thanks. Be to God.
Because he has given us Jesus Christ who always gives us VV
over the devil, so we are able to say no.
Growing up, I saw my aunties when there is time for a
festival in my hometown, we celebrate ujra.
They go and fetch the festival by a spirit and when they come,
I witnesses. I witnessed it first hand.
And my aunties, my aunties, my father's sisters.
They will be carrying pots, following the people.
Then you see that they are possessed by spirits.
And my grandmother herself used to be feeding the gods in my
hometown. So from my generation to hers is
not that long. The only person who is
intermediate is my father. So from my Father to me, if not
for Jesus Christ, but God so loved the world and he.
Gave his only begotten Son. Christianity is premised on
sacrifice. The second point under that is
that Jesus acceptance and his subsequent obedience to the
latter. So Jesus also accepted.
So God gave him, but he also accepted Jesus.
He freely decided that I am going to give myself for this
task. If Jesus had not given up
himself, it wouldn't have happened.
So when you read the Bible in Luke chapter 22 verse 42, the
Bible says that and he said, Father, if it is your will, take
this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but
yours. So it tells you that he freely
gave himself. The Bible says that he lays down
his life. While we were yet sinners, God
showed forth his life. So Christianity is premise on
sacrifice. That's Christianity we are
enjoying today. Even the.
Church we have today, the Church of man is premise on sacrifice.
Those who who who pioneered this mission, James Machion.
When the foreign missionaries came, they were just dying, and
a prophecy came that Machion should live the United Kingdom
and come to a place in Africa called goggles and come and
propagate the gospel. Pet the history and what they
were hearing. Reading one material, they were
saying that even for some of the missionaries, when they were
leaving, they add their caskets. They add their caskets because
they know that for this. Mission.
They won't come back. So Christianity, the one we are
enjoying today, is premise of sacrifice.
Apostle regular to Addison was saying that in in their time
when they go for evangelism, sometimes they'll be walking
through thick darkness. And maybe they would have had
cuts and scratches on their feet and other parts of their bodies
because of that thick darkness and the zeal and the adrenaline
flow of blood in them because of fear.
They will not realize till they get to where they are going.
Then they realize that they are going through things.
Praise the Lord. Now I want to talk a little
about features of sacrifice. When we talk about sacrifice,
what does it entail? 1 Sacrifice always involves
making a choice. So when it comes to sacrifice,
we are, we are saying that you have to make a choice.
Their choice is always with you. In sacrifice there is the
subordinate and the higher authority, the one making the
demand and the one being requested of, but it is always
dependent on the one responding to the request.
So when God told Abraham that I want you to bring your son, if
he had said. No, that would be the end.
So one again and at that point the choice of Jesus to
accomplish his tax despite the great distress he faced.
So I want to use Jesus example a little when you look at the
distress he faced. Let's read from Mark chapter 14,
verse 33 to 35. 33 to 35, Mark 14.
He took Peter, James and John along with him and began, if you
can give me NKJV, I'll be, I'll be glad if you have that good.
And he took Peter, James and John with him and began to be
troubled and deeply distressed. What this means was that he was
not comfortable with what was going to happen and what he was
going to go through. He knew it.
I tell people that for Jesus before he came on earth, they
read their manifesto, they give him a description of everything
he was going to go through. He knew it.
So when that time came here, so you realize that after he he had
chosen his disciples, after a little while he started telling
them of his death because that thing was, was a bedding on him,
was a bedding on him. And at this point that thing had
become so close and it felt so real.
And sometimes when you are going through certain things, people
don't get you. You are the one facing the
danger and that and the troubles.
And sometimes it feels like your spirit has even left you.
Then the Bible says that he began to be troubled and deeply
destroyed. This is Jesus, this is Jesus.
Next verse please. Then he said to them, My soul is
exceedingly sorrowful. So sometimes in making
sacrifices, you'll be distressed.
Praise the Lord. Oh respond, praise the Lord,
you'll be distressed. Yesterday I was sharing a bit of
my my life story with one of my friends.
I was telling him that what God did to me, I have not recovered
from it even up to now. I decided to go outside to stay
and to do for me my my mindset or my dream or my vision was
that I wanted to become very useful to God both spiritually,
physically, financially in every aspect.
So I had, I had wanted to go outside, steady work, do some
establishments, come and do ministry, not ministry as in the
one I'm doing now, but the one Chairman Yamiche has told all of
us that we are involved. So as I, I, I envisaged this.
He always gave me joy. So I prayed about it and I felt
that it was a good decision. Then I told my wife we had
before we had, everyone had the Aviki.
We sold them the money we had, we gathered them, we made
provisions. Then I had gone for a document
that was going to assist me to travel, and that day I brought
it home, placed it somewhere safe.
Now it was time for me to take the document, go for validations
and make some two or three processes.
Then I'll be through. Then I went to the place I I
hardly misplaced things. I went to the police.
I pleased it. Then I searched, I couldn't
find. Then I asked my wife, have you
taken this thing? She said no.
Then I began, we have two girls and they are quite troublesome.
Began getting angry with them because I thought they are
taking it. I was giving everyone pressure
in the house because it involved a lot.
There was a lot at stake. Everything I had I had worked
for, I had done in life, my wife's own included.
Gone. Then this thing is missing.
Then one old retired minister called me one day and told me
that God had told him that I am running away and that is not his
will for me. Then I sat down quietly and I
was wondering so God, if you knew that you would not allow me
go through this, why do you let me sacrifice everything like
that? Why?
Why then after I prayed our prayer, in fact, since that time
whenever I was going to church, I was I was down spirited.
Then one day I had clearly God told me that why are you
trouble? I can use a minute to.
Change your life around. Turn your life around.
I can use AD to let you recover everything you have lost in 10
years. I can use AD.
Then that day upon hearing that, I became encouraged in my
spirit. Then the next morning my wife
told me that one of her family members, we hardly engage with
them, but she said that one of her family members one morning
called and asked her that she need a car, a VQ.
Then just like that, the person gave us money to go and purchase
a vehicle. Just like that.
So one of my troubles where I
used to stay when I was in Accra, it's quite far from my
workplace, my church place. So without a vehicle we
struggle. My children's school then.
We had a vehicle just like that. Then the thing came together,
pieced together. Then, interestingly, after I'd
finished my Bible school or my ministerial formation, I was to
leave for my station. The week I was packing that same
box, I placed the document I picked.
The box here was the document and it had expired three years.
I picked it. My wife was the one searching
when she saw it and she mentioned my name.
Where are you Come when we looked.
At each other's face, she told. She just said that God took it.
God took it because I can say by what I knew, I searched.
I searched. Praise the Lord, So sacrifice
sometimes will cause you to be distressed.
When that thing happened, that thing that I am talking about,
it easily like that, the distress he gave me, I couldn't.
Sleep because more than 50,000 was gone at that time.
Even today, 50,000 is no small money at that time. 50 gone.
Gone. So the Bible says that my soul
is exceedingly sorrowful even to that.
Stay here and watch. So he tells them for them, they
don't have any problem, so they will sleep.
Sometimes when we are making sacrifices, it's not just about
giving offerings, monetary offerings, sacrificing your
time, your skill, your, your, your, your ability, all these
things are important. Some will be sleeping.
So sometimes it seems like in this house that we have come, it
is our Father's house. But it seems that some people
are more of God's children than others.
So in this example, Jesus goes to pray, telling them his
challenge, expecting them to bear him up, but they went to
sleep. So sometimes we want to achieve
a purpose. Maybe there is a project we have
been given a focus or a vision. Let's all gear up towards it.
Once some are burden, some are asleep.
Then he said to them, OK, next slide he went a little further.
And fell to the ground and prayed that if it were possible
that our might pass from raise the law.
I will conclude very soon, Hallelujah, the choice of David
to pay the cost instead of choosing to take it for free.
So that is another aspect or feature of sacrifice always
involves making a choice. So David could have said that I
am the king, give it to me, but he choose.
So in making a sacrifice, you always have that time or that
free will to make a choice. So what choices do you make?
What choices do you make? We are going for environmental
care campaign. Someone would say that all
throughout the week I've been working, I'm tired, I want to
sleep. But it is part of the vision God
has given us. You see someone too.
He's the Czech tankers he will become.
He involves making a choice. All right.
Another choice that sacrifice is involved with is the widow.
So our text Mark chapter 12, verse 41 to 44.
Well, I'm still on sacrifice involves making a choice.
So I'm giving you illustrations. The widow pair our theme text
again. So offerings are being given in
Jerusalem and Jesus well goes to stand by the offering book.
Then he looks at all of them. Then let's read now Jesus said
opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into
the treasury and many who are rich pretty much so look at the
the the weddings many who are rich putting much so to them
they are sacrificing. So most of the times.
We all assume that we are given a sacrifice, but Jesus is
observing. So in this church, Jesus always
observes. And before you make the step, he
knows your heart and he knows the motive.
Always remember this, Always remember this.
We gave up. An offering About six months
ago, I had given offerings. I had gone around giving
offerings, invitations, my own church and in my area.
Then we we wanted we wanted to do a project.
Then that day was fundraise. Then my my wife asked me how
much are we going to give. She supposed that because I've
been given offerings I didn't have much.
And it's true I didn't have much.
I didn't have much. Then she suggested an amount to
me. Then I laughed and I told her
that God had told me to give this and she looked at my face
and she was shocked. But I told her that God knows
that I don't have, but He's requesting of me when I went to
prayer. That is what He is impressing on
my heart. So what do I do?
I don't have to give any excuse. The one who gives.
Seed to the sewer and bread to the eater.
He will take care of all these things.
So when it comes to offerings, when it comes to sacrifice,
Jesus is always watching. So he saw how they're rich.
So I always tell. People, when it comes to Titan
offering, making sacrifice, it's not about the abundance.
Now let's continue. 42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two
mites. So per physical standards, if it
were the presiding of this who were observing, they wouldn't
regard this woman. No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah. Near brave we are.
We are serious looking for or targeting 100,000 and you bring
5 CD. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. We won't appreciate it, but.
She threw in two mites which make a quadrants.
So it means that even quadrant a quadrant.
She struggled before she could get and she had to get that 2
mites. Two mites were the lowest of the
denominations in those days. It is like.
One pesua today, and to get, let's say 2 pesua or five pesua,
she has to put that 2 together and bring it.
So she dropped two mites, then 43.
So he called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
Assuredly, I said to you, This poor widow has put in more than
all. Who have given to the.
Treasury more. Why is he saying he has given
more for us? We will argue Jesus is not true,
but Jesus is not looking at just the substance.
He is looking at the heart. He's looking at the motive.
He's looking at the. Intent.
How do you sacrifice? Do you sacrifice out of your
luxury? So I remember when we were in a
crowd, one lady told me that people you can't force them
because they have chosen to serve God and they are doing
their best. And I said, who told you that is
not Christianity? Your sacrifice must be out of
distress. It must cost you.
You must lose something, praise the Lord.
OK, so another feature of sacrifice main point.
Sacrifice must be willing. It must be willing.
One must not be cajoled or manipulated for some people
before they sacrifice the. Convincing you have to do
sometimes. My ambassador told me that the
most the most complicated assignment on earth is to work
on people. Because you are trying to help
the person. The person also has his own
mindset. And you are convincing the
person to help the person. If you ignore them to problem
sometime you have to cajole them then.
So I find it hard when let me use monetary offerings.
We are giving offerings then they will have to be using many
methods if come and pay for insurance.
Give offering on the head of your children.
Meanwhile, you have the money there, so we have to be cajoling
you, so you'll be bringing them 1 by 1.
Sacrifice must be willing. It must come out of the depths
of your heart and the recesses of your spirit.
You must decide that I will give this and I'm not looking back.
It doesn't matter what it cost me.
It doesn't matter how distressed I will become.
I am ready to give it up. I had a young man in one of my
locals and he he is an electrician so he was asked to
fix funds and he was engaging the local church like a
professional. Then I was told about it.
That time I left that look up and I called him.
Then I asked. Him for you, you that I knew you
don't give any good offerings. You don't give your time for the
service of God. You you are not doing anything
to impact the look up. Now you are in the church and
there is this opportunity to save God with the skill He gave
you. Then you want to engage the
church professional. Then I told him that you have
challenges if you continue like this because Jesus is watching.
Praise the Lord. I want to wrap up.
So one must not be coerced. So you must not be cajo or
manipulated for some people. Recently, as of our KUSA left
us, we we held a prayer meeting and one, one woman came in.
Her testimony was that she had she was having a challenge with
a leg for five years and she had done all she could, attended all
prayer meetings she could. And and someone suggested that
there was a herbalist somewhere she should try him.
And she went there and you had it.
Then the herbalist told her that bring thousand CDs and she said
she negotiated I don't have 1000, let's make it 700.
And she give the herbalist 700 CDs.
And at our place when you look at some of the people and they
are mentioning that amount, you will be shocked.
And after the herbalist had administered the helps and all
that he had on her, it didn't work out.
Then she came for a prayer meeting.
Just by one prayer. If you are sick, in the name of
Jesus, may it go out. Then she said that from that
prayer, she was who she didn't feel the pain again after five
years, five years. Then after when she was given
her testimony, one woman, an elderly woman, she's a dickness.
That day I was late. And when I sat down, she told me
that pastor, this woman, she has given a testimony.
She went to give someone 700 CDs.
Nothing happened. And she said that you, you
prayed and she was healed. So she is owing you if you don't
take care if you the least you should take from her.
Is 500 CDs the least. But as she told me that I I, I
inquired that what amount of offering or how much did she
give for offering and when. I will not mention the amount
but when I had it, I was sad. Some people want to be
manipulated, manipulated. Recently, a lady, one of a lady,
one of the ladies in one of my locals told me that she had gone
to the hospital diagnosed with HIV AIDS.
She said she was. Weeping pasta.
After I am not in contact with any man, I do nothing anymore.
I don't know, I just went three times.
They checked and it's confirmed that I have HIV.
Then before I prayed for her, I told her that if God heals, you
don't. Hide this one.
Testify about it. Praise him and make a great
sacrifice for him. Not only monetary, but your
life, your time, everything. Then she agreed.
I prayed. By the grace of God, she's
healed. I'm just looking out that she
will keep her end of the bargain.
Please let us not sacrifice in this manner.
Don't wait till you are cajoled. Sometimes you see God measures
as He knows. Someone will say that I can't, I
don't have, but when issues of priority arise, the person who
is saying that I can't, I don't have, they can't be, will have.
True or not true Jesus? Is watched.
Praise the Lord. Sacrifice must be cheerful, so
you must give sacrifice cheerful.
David found himself privileged to give to God.
He says that what am I and what is my house?
What are you and what is your house?
My in law. She is very influential, but
even in her influence, many people still don't know her.
Many people don't know she was. She is the former director of
one District 1 Factory, former director, very influential.
But many people don't know her because when we come together.
As a people, it is only a few of us that are so important that we
are going to be given preference.
But look, God, the creator of heaven and earth, everything
that it consists belongs to Him, visible and invisible, and he is
requesting of you. Look at how small we are.
Look at this building. It doesn't even occupy was the
space of this this vicinity, and we are in it.
And look at where you are seated and this big.
God is requesting something from you.
Shouldn't you be happy if the president request of you that he
give, he puts a call through that tomorrow.
He wants you to come and do an assignment for him.
I bet you everybody will hear. Everyone will hear.
Everyone we, your family, your friends, everybody social media,
everyone we hear. So sacrifice must be cheerful.
You offer us instructed not as intended.
So when you are being requested of the Bible says that, I
beseech you, brethren, that he says that we should, we should
offer our all, offer our all besieging us, that we should
offer our hope. So God requests that your
spirit, your soul, your body, everything you give it out to
him. So I want to ask of you, how
many of us throughout the week spend time every day?
With the Lord, it is part of their sacrifice.
You are very busy, but your sleeping hours.
You are not going to truncate it for anything because it's
important to you. Hallelujah, you offer as
instructed, not as extended. Exodus 25 as to speak to the
children of Israel, that they bring me an offering from
everyone who gives it willingly with his heart.
You shall take my offering. So God is saying that I am
requesting they should bring me. So like I told you, you are not
the one who determines the sacrifice.
God is always the one who places the demand in conclusion, your
sacrifice to God, material and immaterial is an it's an
opportunity to show reverence and Anna to God.
So whenever you are sacrificing, it is an opportunity for you to
show God that God I respect you. I Anna God says infer some more
that those who Anna me, I will Anna.
So it's an opportunity when God is requesting something of you,
maybe your pastor has called you.
We need someone to do this or we need help with this.
You can do it. Then you see people giving
excuses. I met a pastor in the beginning
of the year and he was making a complaint to me and I was sad.
I was sad today. When you are looking for people
to carry out assignments you won't find and sometimes the
church, you have to be engaging people professionally and and
the monies that we are trying to gather to help the cause of
mission, then we will still have to be using them.
What do you do? What do you have that you did
not receive? What do you have that you did
not receive? So in conclusion, I'm asking you
this question when you go home, ponder over it.
Paul says in First Corinthians 4 verse seven that for.
Who? Makes you differ from another,
so who makes us different? Look as look at us.
I was saying somewhere that look at us, we over 8 billion on this
earth. Today being the first time I've
come here, I don't know, maybe pastor didn't inform you that
anyone is coming. But if I'm going somewhere and
they say, oh, a pastor is coming, you can imagine,
envisage or whatever. But when I appear, you realize
that you've never seen the face anywhere before, and the face
looks different, is it not? Even your own sibling, you look
different. You can resemble your mother,
your father, your uncle, whoever.
But you look different. And Paul is asking who makes you
different from one another. So as we are seated here, we
know each other, but look at our faces.
Even for twins they are different.
And his accent. And what did you do?
Do you have that you did not receive?
What do you have? Beauty, money, time.
If God says. Today that from this evening,
like the rich food, the parable he gathered into his bands and
he was telling him, Oh my soul, rejoice for your years ahead is
going to be glorious. But that time that he had, he
forgot that someone gave it to him.
That opportunity someone gave it.
You have been able to go to school, gone through school, and
now you have an occupation and it is fetching you something.
Who gave it to you? One, one guy I know.
He's a secular humanistic person.
Very, very strange philosophy that he has.
He says that, oh, I'm the one who wakes up and goes to work
and when whenever he's talking, my wake my OK.
Now if you didn't receive it, why do you boost a sieve?
You did not receive it. Why do you boost?
Your sacrifice to God is a continuous proof or test of
obedience and loyalty to God. So please your sacrifice, as
long as you remain alive and as long as you are a child of God,
God will still test you. At each point He will test you.
So as you receive, be ready for tests.
Praise alone and I have told you that the deeper your devotion.
The deeper your sacrifice. So between us, God will not give
us the same test or make the same request of us.
He has every question. But you see, whenever God is
requesting something from you, He tells you.
And even if you don't hear through mediums that you can
comprehend, He will tell you. So sometimes the persona and I
will come and say something. God is talking to you.
And for some of us, even when we're here, we pretend not to
have had because you didn't like what you had.
Hallelujah, this one. I've never said it.
Anywhere before, but I think I can see here because I'm out of
my jurisdiction. We went for ministers and wives
and for as pastors. It is by God's grace and your
benevolence that we are sustained.
Then as I was praying, I was going for one of the sessions.
I was sitting in a friend's VK. Then I had God telling me
clearly one of my locals, their structure had collapsed and God
told me that I should give them a huge sum of money, a huge
amount to help them in constructing their.
I had it emphatically. So before Pastor came in a
Javier report, I made a donation.
That was why I made that donation and sometimes I have to
gather all the money that I have to go ahead.
God is telling me I've had. So when I say that I didn't hear
it well, but if God had told me that I am blessing you, I'm
bringing you a car, I am opening this door, you will hear that
one this morning. If you give him your lifetime,
if you give him your all, he's going to take care of you.
My challenge is that after hearing this message, it's not
about feeling sorry, but it's about taking it in good faith
and making a resolve that I am going to move in this step and
let us see what God will do Amen.
Let us rise up on our feet. Please lift your hands gently.
I want to pray. What did God speak to you behind
the voice? You heard the human speaking,
but I know that God was speaking to someone.
What did you hear God say to you?
Sister, you have come to God, not to any man this morning.
He requires greater sacrifice for you, deep devotion, deep
commitment to Him. We want to pray in this short
while. As you stand before God, I want
you to go to him. God, help me, help me to fall on
the altar. Help me to give, to give me you
my all. Help me so that I will let go of
my interest, my will, my desires, and pursue that which
is yours. And out of that, God's divine
grace and blessings will always look at you.
Want to pray? Lift up your voice now.
Let us pray, Church. Let us pray as you had.
Pray with faith in the name of Jesus.
Lord, we pray. Lord, we pray help us.
Let me ever be firmly grounded upon Thee, ever in thy works
abide ever in thy wounds recite. Help me Lord, brother, sister,
God is waiting on you. He expects you to come.
He calls you. Come, come, come, come.
Let us reason. Come, let us walk together.
Kabai, MO. Shanda baa baa ba ba baa.
To Jesus, that Savior, I surrender.
I surrender. Hallelujah, I surrender.
Listen, recently God has given me this intuition that when we
come before him and we hear messages like this and pretend.
Someone pretend they don't like what they are hearing, but they
will be pretending. When you pretend, Jesus sings.
But I want you out of your spirit and a good heart and
resolve that God help me and he's going to hold your hand.
He's going to help you. God is telling me that for some
of you He has greater heights for you.
He wants to take you places, but He's waiting for you.
Let's sing finally. Then we launch it to pray again.
I surrender. Now let us go to God and pray
once again. Pray, pray, pray.
Tell him that I am surrendering. I am surrendering my life.
I am surrendering my time. I am surrendering my skill.
I am surrendering my gifts. I am surrendering my resources.
I surrender them all to you. Bye.
None. I surrender to you.
I surrender to you.
I surrender to you, Lord. I surrender.
I surrender.
Yeah. Thy thy will oh while I am
waiting, O you then, and still while I am waiting, O you have
thine own way, Lord. And make me.
Someone is contemplating how am I going to be able to do this as
a possible those who work in sacrifice work hand in hand with
God go told Abraham that now I know now I know we want to pray
that after this encounter. May our lives be a sacrifice
unto God. May we not turn back to living
for ourselves, living for our desires, living for our own
accomplishment, living for the world.
But may we live for God, and the heavens will be at our response.
Let us pray. Pray God have thine own way.
Have thine own way in my occupation.
Have thine own way in my family. Have thine own way in my
personal life. Have thine own way in the name
of Jesus. Let me wake up in the morning
always seeking to live a life that is sacrificial.
Let me go to work always then with that mindset, living a life
that is sacrificial. Let me come to church always
with the mindset of living a sacrificial life everywhere I
find myself. Have thine own way.
Mode me, Lord, Mode me take my fears.
Oh Mashanda Basai da ba ba ba ba ba.
Lord, address my fears, Address my anxiety.
Ha ba ba ba ba ba the uncertainty in my heart.
Lord, deal with it. Ha ba ba ba ba.
Talk to him. Talk to him, you not return the
same after this morning. May your life change.
Have died on way. I am the friend, You are the
brother. Have died on way.
You have a purpose. You have a desire.
You have a design for my life, for my existence.
Lord. Have died on way.
Messiah. Humbly sing the song with me.
Sing it out of the depths of your spirit.
Take my moments and my days. Let them flow with ceaseless
praise. Take my life and let take my
life, Lord, O God said. Great Lord, to thee, O take my
more man. It is you we have come to.
You have never failed, You have never disappointed, You have
never lied, and for your name's sake, you always keep us to the
path of righteousness. This is the word you have given
to us. We pray that it blesses our
spirits, we pray that it causes an action in US, it ignites a
desire and that we are able to take a stance.
That from this morning we will no longer leave for ourselves,
we will no longer exist for anything, but all we do will be
to your glory. And in this we know that great
gain and blessings will be our reward.
We pray that. Let this word always remain
alive in our hearts. In the mornings, let it minister
to us. In the afternoon, when we go
about our duties, let it remind. Us, when we retire to bed in the
evening, may it come as a revelation and may you keep us
in the spot always. We bless your name.
We pray, pray that if there is anyone with anybody, if anyone
is distressed, if anyone is inconvenienced, in the name of
Jesus, may you bring. Liberation and peace to
everyone. Here we pray that you make
connections, you sought out every need, and you bring
responses. We thank you for a blessed time
and an answered prayer. Jesus mighty name we have prayed
and then all the same shouts a big Amen.
Three eyes together for the Lord and what I.