God willing, we have a lot of things to discuss, but we will
try and do what time allow us to do so.
We will do some discussions, so please kindly take your time and
note things down as and when we give you that opportunity.
Please ask all you want to share with us anything that God has
laid on your heart. So for today, we want to share a
word with with you. And then we'll pick some few
things about the church with respect to some things that we
expected from us. I have in my hand here the
Pentecostal songs book. Pentecostal songs book this is
our this is the the Church of Pentecost book of songs.
So we have English parts and we, we have the key fancy EpiPen
parts also following. So I will encourage everyone
here, if you are a leader in this church, it is very
important to have one because if someone sings or if someone does
not sing a song, well, how can you, you will not be in a very
good position to bring that correction that it needs.
So I will sing one song from it. I will sing the very first hymn
and is a hymn by Charles Wesley. This book has songs from
Presbyterian hymn, Presby Redemption, Human Now, and our
own as well, so you find a lot of them in there.
So I will sing the very first song of this book, the first
one, a charge to keep. I have a God to glorify, a never
dying soul to save and fit it for the sky to serve the present
age, my calling to fulfill. Oh it all my powers engage to do
my masters will I'm mean with jealous care, as in thy sight to
live and all thy servant Lord, prepare a strict account to give
the 4th one help me to watch and pray, And on thyself rely
assured. If my trust betrayed I shall
forever die by Charles Wesley MHB 578 If you can sing, want to
sing the first one only a charge to keep 1/2 tune one go.
A charge to keep. Thank you very much.
So this song too, we have the soft one which you can also have
it on your phone so that you can easily have it anytime you want
to refer to it is also good so you can help with the soft and
the hard anytime. We are looking at a topic that I
want us to have a look at partnering the Holy Spirit,
partnering the Holy Spirit for ministry, partnership with the
Holy Spirit or if you like fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
But I want us to focus more on the partners partnership.
That word carries much more meaning to us now the wits.
So read from if we're going to look at the book of Numbers
Chapter 11, we're going to look at the whole chapter, but we
read from verse 31 and 32. The story is there, but we'll
not read the whole chapter. We'll be looking at them as and
when I want to refer to. So Numbers 1131 we want to read
from which one do you have and if your kid is good so that
after that to try and read from other versions.
Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove Quill in from the
sea. It scattered them up to 2 cubic
deep all around the camp, as far as a day's walk in any
direction. All that day and night and all
the next day, the people went out and gathered quail.
No one gathered less than 10 homers.
Then they spread them out all around the camp.
Amen. So the wind from the Lord, The
wind from the Lord. There was a very serious demand
for meat in the camp because they had just left Egypt and
they were on their route to a land that they have not seen
before, but they are assured and they were carrying with
experiences from Egypt, 400 years plus 30 years more in
Egypt. So they left.
On their way they remembered Egypt.
So the first one he said that soon the purple began to
complain about their hardship, and the Lord heard everything
they said. Then the Lord's anger bleeds
against them and He sent fire to rage among them and to destroy
some of them in the outskirts of the town.
So the whole thing was that they, they were complaining
against the hardship and they remembered Egypt.
So there was a demand for meat. And I'm yesterday we were
discussing I was of Miami and I were looking at some of the
powerful drives in the human being.
One of them is hunger and thefts.
Hunger and theft. It can drive you to drink in the
water only we are not even in and then sex drive.
These drive drives are very powerful.
So the hunger drive and the tests buttons in them had
activated and they remembered Egypt.
So the people question God, why God had delivered them from
slavery and He was taking them into the foreign land.
Another thing that influenced them was that whilst they were
coming, some foreigners join them.
So it was the foreigners who caused that stirring.
Verse 4. Please if you can show us verse
4. So be jumping the rubble among
them, those, the foreigners with them began to crave for other
food, for other food. So they began to crave for other
food. And those, those foods, those
foods, other food, meaning that God had been, God had given them
food, mana, but they were not craving for others.
And they were crying. If only we had meat to eat.
So they were crying Oh for some meat and they exclaimed.
Then verse 5 go on to the fifth vest.
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost.
Look at it too. Also the what the cooking vest,
melons, the leeks, onions, garligeni normal fidgini cake.
Look at them the the things that will can easily purge they were
now craving for them. So I've been sharing that
someone has said that it took God one day to take Israel out
of Egypt, but 40 years to take Egypt out of Israel.
These things the marine feeder slavery mindset.
Changing a mindset is tough. To change their mindset from
slavery into freedom, it took God 40 years and he had to bring
up a new group. So to change their mindsets, God
had a very wonderful time with them.
So they complain about manner, God's provision.
What do we have? Only this manner.
Only this what manner? But they have forgotten that
they have survived and God had taken care of them.
They had forgotten. They had forgotten that God
performed 10 powerful signs and wonders in Egypt to take them
out. They have forgotten that God had
to put the Red Sea for them to walk through and Pharaoh and his
soldiers died. They have forgotten that God had
provided them water, has given them manner.
Soon they had forgotten. May we not forget, but may we
always remember. Then came another thing that we
want to one thing that we want to look at complaining,
complaining. Complaining is infectious
complaints, rumouring, murmuring, it's infectious.
Complaint, it's infectious. So the foreigners just started
like yeast, and it spread through the camp and touched
everybody. So now Moses had the all the
families standing in the doorways of their tents winning,
and the Lord became extremely hungry, the Western good.
So Moses had the people wailing at the entrance, and the Lord
became exceedingly angry and Moses was troubled.
Then we look at Moses to became troubled.
Moses to be became one troubled. That is where leadership comes
in. Look at the weight of the
people. They were just in slavery,
enjoying it even though it was hard.
They were getting free things. Then you came from nowhere and
said that the God of our Father says that I'm taking you to a
land. Yeah, smile.
But you have said that you have met a God, so every leader
should always know the God who sent him.
Other than that, when tough times come, you can never stand.
And every leader will be tested. Leadership will be tested.
Your power will be questioned. Your authority will be tested.
They will come and test you. Tough times will come so Moses
to you can feel the weight. You even see it much more even
as we go on. So the first the thing I want us
to learn here is that as a leader, guard your hearts guard
your hearts. The Bible says that above all
things, guard your hearts for everything you do flows from it.
Guard your heart with all diligence.
Guard your hearts. In this church you need to guard
your hearts. I've been saying that I saw you
know Uber bibrim ababe for accommodation.
Freeze. Always cool it, don't let it
boil. Always have a backup fridge be
so that you can cool it down, cooling down.
Otherwise, look at Moses. You see through the effects of
the complain on him. So guard your heart as a leader.
If your heart is bad, your sermon is bad, your ministry is
gone. Have you ever met a pastor who
has been complaining for a long time?
You only hear from him in his sermon.
The very time he stands to preach.
You will see it. Or the mammal Roth when you sit
at his feet. Boom boom, boom, boom.
They say that the heart is wrong.
We pray that may the Lord help us so that we check our hearts.
Yakuma nu, Yakuma nu Eradum wine.
Because the races long. It was therefore the journey.
The journey. It is not happening, Miteso,
where you can just Sprint and get to the line.
This is marathon. There are sometimes you run and
you get a point and you are tired, but you cannot go back.
We meet me. Yeah, dear man, Only now, soon
it's here on your Hong Kong. Dear Ben, itchy and undesired,
somebody from another station will not come and harm you.
Sometimes we will be stepping on our toes.
So guard your hearts above all else.
Guard your hearts, for everything you do flows from the
heart. The issues of life flows from
the life complaints of Moses. So now Moses too has been caught
by the viral disease in camp call complaints.
So Moses also now describes the burden of leadership.
Now let's so let's go. So you know you too the man.
So he asked God, why? Why have you brought this
trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease
you that you put the bedding of all these people on me?
Leadership comes with carrying off burdens.
So as you have been entrusted with ministries, as God has
given you parts to play in His church.
Yeah, this war, this war in Pentecost in depos message
saying in COP we don't chop post, we serve.
Oh, some crowd beside Dua Tama Busan.
I wanna if you don't have a reference point to God that you
can turn to God. Moses when, if, when the wheat
and the bedding of leadership was crashing on him, he ran to
God. He prayed to God.
But As for this prayer, well, let's see what will come out of
the soul. The burden of leadership means
that he carried the burden of the people.
You know, you, you carry your own plus Abu Mudiya.
So every work that you have been assigned, you are going to carry
burdings and this one and youth leader, I had this one but we
have polished it nicely and you've asked leader.
So leadership is carrying of birdies.
If you get this right frame, you will not depend on your strength
but you run to God for help. May we not carry the in fact
yenti Minsua, we need God to help us.
May God equip you in this church when you are called and the
position you have been called to does not scare you at times that
is sometimes you'll be like this way.
God, Are you sure it's me? Do you think I can do it?
God is you now you will do it. So be settled in your spirit
that by now God has put so much trust in you and he trusts you
that you can do it. One of a young of OBM free mass
and we are going to do it. So be settled.
So he was touched to carry them in his arms like a mother.
Next verse 12. Let's move on to the 12.
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give birth to them?
Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms as a nurse carries an
infant to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors
already were in, were removed to their ancestors.
So it also means that leadership means that he's given us a
metaphor for leadership to carry people under you like baby,
baby, car, food. Babies can misbehave, they can
cry, but you don't go in and dump them.
You help them or Casa aunty, also Casa aunty.
So you need to device a means to communicate.
Then you see how good our mothers will be.
Moment no for no. So as a mother, leadership.
Media now Hassan wabe Oba time obia habits NIA baobi be apple
free. So it means that as a mother Oba
you're the baby can ease itself on your laps.
Yehuru yin Chao nai and tension. So Moses is giving us a very
powerful way that we are to carry them.
It means that, yeah, you know, we are well placed.
It means that a leader has a revelation that the followers do
not have. Leadership has been defined in
many ways and forms, but one of the simplest ones that I always
want to remind myself is that a leader is someone who sees a
vision and is able to influence those with him, though they feel
reluctant to go, but he's able to use his influence abilities
and skills, everything at his power to help them go to that
same place. And when they get there, they
will exclaim that that is leadership.
So you may need to employ several skills, several ways to
carry them there I don't know about, but they don't want to
go. They don't know that it would be
beneficial to them. So it's up to you as a leader to
carry them there. And when they get there, they
will enjoy it. So as a leader, we need to see
beyond what the two eyes sees. We need to have a vision.
So please, you need to have 1A vision.
Moses is the one who had the plan.
He was the one who would always go and receive from God.
So as leaders, it shouldn't be on the same level.
How can a baby nest a baby a baby a baby cannot nest a baby.
It takes an adult to nest an infant.
Three of us. So as leaders, we need to grow.
We mean and can grow or can be a free grow.
I can't see your your face until Izzy right and I just Lizzy.
I say what me who won't about you come and sit where and
Auntie Sarah. I can also feel your face well
and thank you so that I can easily see everybody's beautiful
and handsome face and leadership.
We have our destinations to Moses, it was the promised land.
So every leader, if you have a vision, a dream, what you seek
to achieve as a ministry leader at the end of my first term or
at the end of my term, what do I want the youth ministry to be
like? As the envy of the choir?
Five years from now, if said, will he enter Konya?
And I say until Konya and I say a year from now, how do I want
the poor to be like? Everybody should have that
mental picture. You should dream it, you should
have it. And that thing should scare you.
If your vision does not scare you, if your dream it's not big.
In fact God always he gives you. One thing you can test if a
vision is from God is that God's vision always scare you.
Go and check Obi be dreams. It was scary, it looked
impossible. Hey God me.
So God's vision for us will always scare us.
It must scare you so that you will run to him for help, so
that you know thy name. It is not by all minds, by this
God. So every leader, please write
down your vision for the women's ministry, for the men's
ministry, for every rule, everything, everything entrusted
to you. Have a vision for it.
Don't come and kill that group over by.
We are 10 Uber fish and reduce Saba five.
You have killed it. You came with no vision as far
as we will not do that. We will leave a handover with a
more beautiful and a more glorious than what we came what
we came. So Moses was now trying to
figure out how he can meet the needs of all these.
Next verse please. Next verse 13.
Hi. OK, so now I ask a very
important question. Where can I get meat for all
these people? Leadership is there to solve
problems. Leaders are called to solve
problems. If there are no issues, leaders,
maybe there will not be so much of good use to us.
So now Moses is not defining his role to meet a need.
Where can I get meat for all these people?
They keep willing to me give us meat to eat.
So the people were not just saying it for a day.
Continuous willing. Yeah.
Panam. Yeah, Panam.
So Moses is now trying to figure out how to get meat for them.
So he felt the weight. He felt the weight.
Let's go to the next verse so that you see how you feel the
weight. I cannot carry these people by
myself. The bedding is too heavy for me.
If you attempt to do it yourself, it will be too heavy
for you. So I'm showing you a more
excellent way, partnership with the Holy Spirit.
That is the easy way to carry your burden of leadership,
partnering with the Holy Spirit. If you would partner with the
Holy Spirit, then the answer, where can I get meat for all
these people? The answer is there, we will get
there soon. And you see, so most felt the
weight of leadership and leadership became a misery to
him. The colony.
If I feel the pain because when we turn left and everybody and I
saw four and I'm and everybody and I'm and I'm, there is a
need. There is a need.
So he felt the pain, the pain, the pain.
Next verse, please, if this is how you are going to treat me,
please go ahead and kill me. Look at him, Moses, someone who
could talk to God face to face. Leadership can do you.
If it's my armor, you can even you flee, you run, you run and
leave your boots, you leave everything.
So you got to that point. It wasn't him who got to that
point. Elijah to you.
Lord.
I'm the only one left. Jezebel.
That devil, devilish woman has killed a lot.
I'm the only one. I'm not better than my prophet.
Oh, kill me. We're going to learn from this.
It says that if I have found favour in your eyes and do not
let me face my own ruin. Next verse let's look at the
answer God gave him. The Lord said to Moses, bring me
what? Oh, let's all try and read it.
Bring me who? Who are known to you as leaders
and officials among the people. We have strict criteria.
Let's learn two things from here.
Anytime you complain about leadership, God will replace
you. That is very sad.
When Elijah complained, it was there that God told him to go
and find Elijah and God told him to also go and anoint Jew.
He gave an instruction go and annoying this person, go and
annoying this person and that
was when Elijah faced out. Moses was carrying the bedding,
and he was the reservoir or repository of the Spirit of God.
So the moment he complained kill me then God said that OK, I will
take the Spirit on you and give to others so that they can carry
the bedding with you for him. There he was lucky that OK good,
who is doing it? You are doing it.
So Elijah, the moment he also complained, you see anoint you
son of Nimshi over king of our Israel and anoint who Elijah son
of who suffered from Ebel to do what succeed you as prophet.
So the moment he finished anointing these people, his work
has come to an end. So we should be mindful when God
is with you, the weight of leadership, the misery that can
come out of it. Why we are you resign in your
heart, but you come to church. Our dear chairman, he has been
saying it that there are some super ministers, they have
resigned in their hearts. They only come to church because
he has to come. Some of them.
It can happen to you. You can resign and come to
church. Characteristics of somebody who
has resigned and NIMCO and I am Mimco meko merely men contempt
meeting. Don't resign in your hearts,
your work is not over or you might be so don't resign.
The beautiful thing is that the people who caused him to talk
like that, they were not the ones who called him.
We can give you examples and I'll see if if I can get another
one which is very similar to this one.
So please, nobody in the Kingdom of God is indispensable.
God can dispense us and pick others easily, because he told
Elijah that I have others who have neither bowed down to bail.
How many? 7000 in Israel whose knees have
not bowed down to Bill, and whose mouth have not kissed him?
7000 So he was like. Then God will bring it happened
at before we went there there was this guy who we used to
leave chorus. Oh Charlie.
Then, out of nowhere, a young man came to his home for his
national service. Or by Aquina, what, Billy,
didn't you mean? And that was the when we went
there even trying to lead cross again, he struggled.
Honey, he has lost it. Sometimes we don't take care we
can lose it. May we not be proud because
nobody in the Kingdom of God is indispensable with me at this
car being not just who do you think you or the scandal can do
it? Because he told them that I can
raise up stones. Stop saying that we are children
of Abraham. We are some children of Abraham.
God can raise stones as children of Abraham Abu everything will
be so. Don't let stones.
And the painful thing is that when stones are praising God and
you human being, you are there when you be rough.
I give my answer me so please don't let us get that hot.
Save this Our time to save a time is coming.
Your body will not allow you to come.
You know you wish to come, but we see severe action and you are
just there. Watch your kid.
Welcome to being a go back. You cannot come.
So this is our time. May we serve God well.
Hallelujah. So when we complain, when you
give excuses, God also excuse you.
I've been saying that this is the air, me, the power.
Whenever we give excuses, God also excuses us.
Remember Elijah and remember Moses.
Has Moses had the spirit without
measure? Jesus the Spirit OK and he had
some kind of measure because it's me by Jesus.
He had a spirit without measure as John one would say it for us,
the spirit without measure. May God anoint you and may we
not be like most. Let's go back to the book of
number. So the first answer to him was
that go and gather before me 70 men and let's look at the
criteria. God, he holds a very strict
criteria always in choosing. Let's look at how he chose them.
Bring me 70 Israel's elders. So they already were elders.
They were already elders who are known to you as leaders, who are
already what? Known to you as what leaders.
So the rule here is that in this church we ordain what we see in
you. So we will not ordain somebody
as a Deacon if we don't see the spirit of dickenship in him.
Of course, as human institution, you may make room for class or
-10 B and 10B better plus or minus.
But the critical Mass like you know, dear, we always confirm
what you are doing. So it is not the dear He
ordained me as Osophono enquana, Emma me Osafo.
They saw the calling as Osafo on me and they confirmed it.
The eldership in you is already there.
So we always confirm it. It's Yahuma, we see it.
So elder only and the team and the leadership here, they have
seen the leadership in you Internet Afro eduaver you are
what a leader, you are a leader. But when the Spirit of the Lord
comes upon you, look at the difference.
There were already known leaders, elders, officials among
the people, but then the difference came when the Holy
Ghost hates them. Hallelujah.
So when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, that is what will make
the difference. Let's go on to the next papers,
please. And you told them to come and
stand. Stand.
You should stand. Stand to the tent of meeting,
that they may stand there with you.
You are coming to stand with what?
The leadership, the presbytery? You are going to stand with who?
The presiding You are going to stand with you the elders, you
are going to stand with the deeking, the deeking.
You are going to stand with the oly deeking, You are going to
stand with the deeknesses. They're going to stand.
Can 2 work together? Unless they were they agree.
So you cannot stand with them. If you don't support them, you
cannot stand with them. And have the same vision or
sight if you're looking elsewhere.
You cannot make a move with the leadership.
So they were standing with them to receive the Holy Spirit.
They were standing with them. Stand with your presiding.
Do what stand with him. I told you have some decisions
you now want supporting, but once the whole house, the bigger
house says yes, Vachoka Montier, Carano, Pardo leadership will
train you. Media me no me support you make
catch wrong. I told them that this thing they
want to do is not good. You have betrayed standing with
them. Nadine said.
Yeah, cop banging and summer, some of the areas, do you think
they are all enjoying it? They're all happy you like it by
force that is leadership until we all say that.
No, let us now change. Don't go and stand.
You know we betrays all of us, so you are standing.
Leadership here means that you're going to stand with your
presiding. So once a decision comes, let us
all try. Even if your inner man is saying
no, tell the inner man that now I am standing with him.
I cannot go and do otherwise until about meeting.
If you have another view, please say it.
Please do what? Say it.
You want more? Some of us will not talk when
you come to meetings to don't go and sit at the back, sit in
front. I don't know that there's some
kind of spirit always and you're all good.
You don't and you know why it is no you, but I'm become awesome.
So please, even if your your view was not picked, leadership
will require that when you leave this forward, don't go and see
what do you. I brought the idea that we
should do this and now it's working.
You see that near JJ by the day I'm paying for no matter how
don't be like Ghanaian politician.
I said when the Supreme Court rules in their favor.
Oh, they are the best they are the best when it goes against
them. I'm I'm not from what they're
from. I'm from, I say baby, I'm
eleven, I say I'm from so don't be you Unanimous FC.
So he's the same guys, the same guys when they were not doing it
unanimous FC. So don't be like a politician,
especially a Ghanaian. 1 Yeah, Father.
Oh, beside you, you good. But the day it chokes you
beside, please no. The interest is in the church.
Jesus is our focus. So by this I'm saying that in a
meeting not always that the entire house will agree with
you, Omar and Father Pacho. But what if God told you to say
it and they refused to follow it?
He said it that you should do this next time when when you're
talking, they will pay attention.
So when they don't take care of you, don't, don't worry.
Pray if it's from, if you had correctly from God, don't worry.
Next time they will take. Amen.
So the leadership of a local
assembly is not one man show its Presbyterian system presbytery.
We meet together and we come to a consensus.
You can in Sia near Tuaba. You are near Tuaba A paya.
Then we leave the veto to the one in the chair.
So they will say that on my uncle hadn't say so.
After all, we have exhausted every means possible.
The one sharing, presiding, whether presiding or anyone who
is sharing, will now veto. So in a meeting, when you come,
please talk. Please do what you will be who?
I will not talk if someone brings that one next time.
Meeting. Talk, talk, talk, talk.
It's better in a meeting me. I prefer a meeting where you
talk than do the in you. I don't know how it's going to
explode. It is going to kill all of us.
So please in a meeting, don't harbor if some if you feel
offended, please talk, but mind your language too.
Mind your language. Let's go on, but look at the
leadership lessons we are learning from Moses.
So God save verse 17. Let's speed up a Azamu.
It's almost time. Yeah, BBC is here.
I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some
of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them.
They will share the burden of the people with you so that you
will not have to carry it alone. So please, we have all been
called to share the burden. The Vision 2028 Apostle Yamiche
received it on Ankwa but he cannot drive and possess the
nations of the world. So he discussed it with
Executive council so that they also carry a part of it from
there. Once to the IT went to the
National House and the area House.
Then he shared the burden with them, and when they received it,
they came down and share it with all the ministers and wives all
over the COP. And when we also received it, we
came to our districts and we shared with officers every
officer, and then the presiding orders carried down to the local
and they came and they shared it with the local presbytery.
And the presbytery, we are all supposed to carry it and share
the burden with the congregants so that the vision of possessing
the nations will become a reality.
So if chairman should carry it alone, it wouldn't be a vision.
It can never be a vision. But until we all carry it and
share the burden, then the vision will come.
So we are here to carry burdens. Next verse please. 18 Tell the
people to consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow.
When you eat meat. The Lord heard you when you
will. If only we had meat to eat.
We were better off in Egypt. Now the Lord will give you meat,
and you will eat it, Sir. The Lord will give you meat, and
you eat it. Now in Kui very far, very numb,
but very the Lord will give you meeting.
So we should be mindful of what we say.
So God coming down required consecration, consecration,
prepare yourself, set yourself apart to meet God, prepare to
meet your God. So we need to consecrate
ourselves as a leader. It's not everything that you
will do. Leaders can do everything.
There are some things. There are some places I cannot
go. If you see me there, you see me
VVC 10 glucose every day. And when I'm evangelism, you,
you see me in some way there. He loves this glucose too much.
So consecrate yourself as a leader.
There are some things you cannot do and there are facts because
now you're through our software and we will open for yourself.
I'm on for yourself, I'm for yourself.
And you will be seeming the core bank and they call him also for
you also for and to wherever you go.
People are looking up unto us especially So what Church of
Pentecost. Then they begin to look at you.
Mana must see me Holy Mana must see Mana must see the reason why
that 2010 10A Trendy. I had him.
He said that it was not my new cool.
Hey, go and see the Asamancases. And they were done.
And this room where COP through machine.
It was war Second D somebody went straight to the late
Apostle Feng. The elders were agitated.
Why? Because your position is that
you holy you took her first thing to know that they had that
we have opened the gates. They were like, hey, money and
some somebody from CSC, you're called GPCC meeting and I think
minister you're Pentacles for sale.
Is that what will give you take you to heaven?
Did duku that die for you? No, these things, they are not
salivic and from Quan Jem Rain, but they help us to serve God.
Depending on your culture, there are some people they come from
the Akan background. They always cover their head to
go and see their king. A sign of respect to Budukuyen
Duku bono a resonating with our culture are very cool.
That is why a trend to her. Now that we are going to possess
the nation, are we going to impose Dukubo on those in the
wherever ever? It cannot fit, but Christianity
is more than that. Hallelujah.
And yes, honey, so consecrate yourself because people are
looking at you. You will not eat it just for one
day or two days or 5 or 10 or 20 days, but for a whole month
until it comes out from your way, no stress.
And you love it because you have rejected the Lord who is among
you and you have wheeled before him saying, why did we ever
leave Egypt? So they were telling God that
God, you don't know what your work.
You were bad father, and in pain God.
So in the same way to we should be careful the things we crave
for, be careful the things we crave for in this church.
This is the Church of Pentacles. We open truths, open secrets.
Look at how God brought those who were in house.
There was OK, so there was some kind of some kind of God brought
a very nice. Others were on the executive
committee, those who train him as overseer, those who showed
him how to be or suffer. He became their chairman.
So let us be careful when we're working with God.
Let God. He knows your need.
He knows the things that will kill you that will not be
helpful to you. So allow God to make you.
Don't run ahead of God. Those who try to amass wealth
for themselves, they died and left them for even strangers to
come and enjoy it and insult them on top.
That is what happened to them. They were craving, they were
craving, they were craving. It's like, oh fina.
The woman, it is not from your heart, true of us, but now come,
this is it, the child will enjoy it.
So now we need to have confidence in our goal.
The faithful is he who has called us and he will do it for
us. No matter your ambitions and
your plans, God can help you to get them.
But don't run ahead of God. Why did we ever leave Egypt?
God told them that Egypt don't go there again.
Now your question, God, why did we leave there and in pain?
God one month and truly God killed them when he gave them
meat, he began to kill them. He killed them, he killed them.
Let's let's go a bit faster. So OK now still Moses engine.
I said they have about 600,000 God where are you going to get
meat? But must say here man, here I
please go back. Here I am among 600,000 men on
foot excluding women 600,000 You see I will give them meat for a
whole month next verse. Would they have enough if flocks
and heads were slaughtered for them?
Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught
for them? Next rest, please, please go on,
the Lord answered Moses is the lost arm to shot.
That means the Lord is saying that.
Have I lost my point? Say that.
Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for
you. So God is saying that my his
power has not diminished. He is still powerful and he's
got the answers to our questions that we'll be asking.
Let's go on in some show, but let's go on.
So Moses went, went out and told them and told them blah, blah,
blah. But jump to let's jump to let's
see, go to verse 20. Let me check let me check key
and also something show but our time and what the mommy some few
minutes and you read it through so that you appreciate how the
whole thing. So Moses went out and told the
people what the Lord had said about your mom.
He brought together 70 of the elders and had them stand around
the tent. Please go on.
Then the Lord came down in a cloud and spoke with him, and he
took some of the power of of the Spirit that was on him, and puts
on the 70 elders. When the Spirit rested upon
them, the first signs were they prophesied, but unfortunately
they did not do so again. Let's go on.
However, two men, whose names were Elder and Midad, had
remained in the camp. They were listed among the
elders into those who are on the virtual You are the 2.
They are remaining in the camp. They were listed among the
elders, but they did not go out to the tent yet.
The spirit also rested upon them.
May the Spirit also rest upon you.
So they were listed among so yes people and they prophesied in
the camp. Let's go and pick a young man
ran and told Moses elder and me that a professor in the camp,
Joshua son of Nan, who had been with most, who has been Moses 8
since youth, spoke up and said, Moses, my Lord, stop them and
let's see. Let's see let's verse nesve
Moses said are you jealous please next verse are you
jealous for my sake, I wish that all the lost people were who
prophets this verse is it carries a powerful
interpretation. Moses like Paul come on, you
know when she come so you see the heart of a good leader.
He wants everybody to have what they have.
They don't monopolize the grace of God.
They wish that everybody is like them.
So today the prayer or the wish of Moses can be fulfilled.
That you and I will be what prophets so that we can hear
what God says, and that the Lord will put His Spirit on them.
As for us, the Lord has put His Spirit on us.
We have the Pentecost on us. It's going to say next verse
please because of our time. Then Moses and the elders of
Israel will return to the camp. Now everyone say now.
Now the author is saying that now I feel this is not now God
is going to give them the meat, the meat from Mohini ma Bano.
Now the time has come. Now the time has come for the
need. Now that God has strategically
positioned Moses and taking some of the Spirit and put on 70 and
he has dealt with their mindset and I've told them, you know
that is going to give them the meat.
Now a wind went out from the Lord, and when we went from
where? From the Lord is the same thing
as AX2, AX2 OK, a wind went out from the Lord and drove Quill in
from the sea and did what drove Quill, Quill.
They are very small and they are difficult to catch.
And then these are they laid those small, small eggs, nice
and brown, with some hair. Those were the best.
When you have me a moment and number can see you and number
lean meat, I'll move your own befilly.
That was some very numb. So he drove the quilt in from
the sea, and what scattered it? The wind or ghost scattered them
up to four cubits up to. So it was about, they were
about, they were three feet from the ground, Three feet.
Engineers knowing 3 feet maybe, I say, what do you imagine?
So 3 feet, some of us, we are five, we are 6, 666666.
Maybe they're me, BB or me or hobby.
Even the shortest 3 feet from the ground and crying
everything. Archie B.
Look at how good, how good it is 3 feet from the ground and I'll
say as far as a day's walk in any direction.
One day Walker was so crazy you can catch them next verse
please. And all that day and night and
all the next day in tomorrow year, 24 hour quail catching.
And almost out of the following day, Amanda, interestingly, no
one gathered less than 10 hummus.
No one gathered less than 50 bushels, which is about 2.2
kiloliters. Be everybody to being an amory
then almost ready almost then unfortunately, the next verse
while the meat was still in between their teeth and before
it could be consumed. The anger of the Lord bend
against the people and he struck them with a severe plea.
But when you want to make it's OK.
So my concern is that the wind from the Lord.
Let's go back to the wind. Yes, the wind from the Lord is
the same thing as Acts 2. When the day of Penteco.
Please go to Acts 2. Not young when the day of when
the day of Pentecost came, they were all together, you know.
Please, let's pick this one from the new King James.
New King James go to the best one.
When the day of Pentecost had fully come, when they working in
the town fully come, they were all with 1 accord in one place.
Next verse. And suddenly there came a sound
from where? Heaven as of what?
A mighty Russian wind. And he had the wind in it to
Tuama. Holy Ghost, you want to do some
few things and compare. So the win that brought the
answer to their need was the Holy Ghost.
And it's the same Holy Ghost. When we partner with him, we'll
bring out the need of our time. That is it.
But Moses had the Spirit upon him, and he himself was
complaining. Until you can be aligned but
complaining can be infectious that you forget your anointing.
Amen. While we are real beefy and you
will join them to complain, may we not join them?
Elijah too was anointed. Elijah, he didn't.
He'd never died. Well, but so you could have
anointed. But say, Echo, when do those
things catch on on you? You can run and leave it and run
and run and run. So please, may we partner with
the Holy Spirit so that whatever need we have, don't look inward,
look upward. Listen, look to God.
He has called you, but we're fire.
So there but no, no offer is the voice behind the human voice
calling you that. Come and be the youth leader, or
should be. Isaac, you've I went to Gaza.
He's there, he's there, he's there.
So please save God. Do your best, yeah men Afro.
So when things get tough, go to him men, for when Ibrahim was
swa the congregation. But turn unto your God and he
will bless you. May the Lord God Almighty bless
us all. Amen.
Praise the Lord or shall we bless our pastor.
Looking at our time, we have 9 more minutes to close.
We want to plead with you so that we take additional 30
minutes of your time. If you agree, if you agree so
that we can ask questions and have some time to pray.
So I'm waiting for your answer. Hey, are you here?
I can't hear you. Those of you who agree, give me
a wave. I mean you.
We want to open the floor for question.
Maybe you have a question you want you want to ask.
The floor is open. After the presentation, you have
a question you want to ask. The floor is open.
Those who join us online, if you have question you can also write
and it shall be responded. Please see any question.
So I want to ask this question. When our father was speaking, he
was saying that leadership comes with a burden and sometimes the
burdens are too heavy, that we are human beings.
Open cell Ujjai Wapen and I'm asking after praying and we are
not sharing anything from God. Can you speak to someone that
you trust that who may catch any power?
We are the person is going to help me or talk to me because
sometimes you are fed up and you need someone to talk to.
Yeah, that's my question. So can you do that?
Yeah. Any other question?
Any other question or contribution?
Maybe you you want to share some comment with us out of the
presentation? OK, Yeah.
OK, so please, I want to ask, I don't know if it's an addition
to what pastor said, but this is something that someone told me.
So she works in the church, She's a church worker.
But what she does at a point she's, she feels like someone.
Yeah, will be Internet with time, I said.
Like it felt more like a response, a responsibility, more
like a responsibility than like a work he or she was
volunteering to do for good. So when it gets to that point,
what do you do as a Christian? Yeah.
So the question is to all of us, anyone who wants to help with
the answer, Ben, help us. What do you think about the two
questions? So share your view with us.
So I'll answer the second question.
The second one, the person shouldn't feel like it's a
burden. I mean, we are.
It's a privilege to be called to serve God.
So you shouldn't feel like you are doing it for men or because
if you are not there, somebody, nobody will do it or something.
You should see it as a privilege and a grace and then give it
your all. She didn't think that if
somebody is not there and of course God can raise anybody to
do the very thing that you are doing.
So you should see it as a privilege and give it their all.
Amen. Praise the Lord and please, I
want to answer, answer all this question.
So when it gets to a time when you feel you are tired or you
are further as a Christian or as a leader, you have to go to the
Holy Spirit because He is able to give you strength.
And you ask whether you should go and tell somebody, huh.
You can go and tell somebody to make sure that the person you
are telling is a person who encourage you, but not to bring
you down because so if you get go to that person and that
person wouldn't give you any advice to uplift you.
So just go to a personal Obed like Obed and carried you
because that work. You mean we are all here, but
God chose you to do that work. It means that you were able to
do it. But when it's time, maybe when
you get worried or when you are fed up, go to God.
He will, He will strengthen you. Amen.
Yeah, maybe I also want to ask something.
You see, I believe that our understanding of leadership
counts a lot. Maybe you're a leader.
Your intention is to please men all the time.
Let me give you a typical example.
Maybe whenever you are called upon to come and do something in
front of the congregation, you are here to impress, impress the
the members. If you have such mindsets, I
hope you understand you give up early.
And so I believe that the kind of mindset we have on leadership
counts, that is the number one thing.
If you believe that you have been called by God and you have
been called to work for God and please God all the time, that
alone can encourage you. But if you think or you, yes, as
a leader, you want to please men all the time, you'll be
disappointed. So I just want to say that we
should believe and trust in the one who has called us and at
every given time we should do our very possible best.
To please him to work. For him and he will give us the
needed strength. Amen.
Yeah. Any other person?
Thank you really. OK, so since we don't have any
question, what did you hear? Maybe 5 people.
Then we bring it to a cruise. What did you hear?
Yes. What did you hear, Barbara?
What did you hear? We are not a brother, Ezekiel.
I heard that when you actually when, when you give to my many
excuses, God will also excuse you.
Yes, OK. Family is here, sort of chain,
we are not. I heard that as a leader you
need to help. You need to get have a big
heart. You have to know how to control
your temper and know how to keep secret as a leader.
I also heard that we should not relent in doing the work of God
and also the road will not always be smooth, sometimes it
will be rough, so we should endure.
If you finish, you give it to Peggy and then Sarah.
I also heard that if you think you are the only one who can do
everything, God can easily replace you when you begin to
give excuses. I also learned that as a leader,
you are supposed to have a vision for the people that you
lead. Amen.
Praise the Lord OK mine is talking about the vision as
Peggy said and I have a question to that OK so a leader is
supposed to have a vision me my main focus coming here is a
person mean one vision be I have I've been introduced to a new
leadership in this church. I don't really have any idea
about it, so I. Which said this time I hear
retreats no pastor will go a bit of better be bigger crack
concerning the I'm not saying anything about it.
OK. Thank you.
Yeah, Kingsford, So I also learned that when we are called,
we are not just called us the physical beings of the person
and what we have in US. I also said that I shouldn't be
a typical Ghanaian politician. Yes.
I also learned that in a meeting, I should voice out my
opinions. I shouldn't keep things to
myself. I should talk in meetings.
I also learned that in every position they put, you see God
as your help so that if anything happens, you run to him first.
Please. I also learned that as a leader,
if you are doing something, you should do it wholeheartedly.
Don't think if you are not there, someone will be able to
do it. OK, so as a leader sometimes
your vision should scare you and you know that God is your
strength and God is with you. So do not shake.
Not sometimes, he said. Any vision that comes from God
must scare you. Please, I also learned that when
you are in trouble or you find something difficult, we should
talk to the Holy Spirit. He will guide us and I also
learned that we shouldn't run before God.
And then please I have a question I wanted to ask.
Please tell us what you had before you ask your question.
We gave you the opportunity. You didn't ask, so tell us what
you had. Then you ask your question.
So we shouldn't like go before God, we should always make him
take the lead. And then the question is, is he
always bad or wrong for a leader to retire?
Maybe when you are looking at your other activities, the polls
that have been given to you, you yourself, you see the way maybe
you are handling it. Is it a bad for you to say say
you just want to retire or resign you?
Believe that. Oh those are the bags you talk
then pastor or or if someone has an opinion you can share.
With us, I will say mine before I go back.
Yeah. I also learned that when one
thing we can do as leaders is we should stand with our other
leaders in decision making, whatever the decision may not
favor us, but we have to stand with the other leaders.
Pastor says something about those who always sit at the back
room. I hope you heard it.
Yeah. OK, I heard that.
He said you shouldn't be a leader who always complain.
Yeah. Yeah, I also learned that
leadership comes with caring of bed, so you should just prepare
for that. Please hurry up.
OK, I learnt that the moment you start complaining, God make sure
to bring your replacement. And we learnt that from the
story of Elijah and also that of Moses.
Amen. Mr. Opuku has raised their hand.
I don't know whether he has a question, so please here is
Dennis. We shouldn't let the complain of
others affect us. Then Frank, have you spoken?
Yeah. Then Teacher Vida will be the
last person. OK, so I also heard that any
time we make excuses, God also excuses us.
So we should be relentless when we are given the authority or
opportunity to serve. It is not going to be easy, but
we have to look up to God and then not be on our own.
And I also want to ask, what does it mean if you have been
given the opportunity to save or lead and that doesn't scare you?
Amen, Teacher Vaider. Please leaders are called to
solve problems. Thank you.
OK, So we want to talk to the issues that were raised that if
you want to retire, it depends on many things.
If your if your church has that limitations for you, for us as
COP everybody should retire at 65.
Everybody we encourage if you as COV minister composed by force
you retire at age 65. But if personal things and other
things you have to also right to justify why you want to retire
or resign. So you would have to come to
that point yourself and be convinced yourself.
But if it can also come because of health, your health too may
not even allow you to go on and on and on.
And if there are issues that probably we can address it to
when you come up, we will attempt to solve it.
We'll attempt, we'll not say we'll solve it.
We'll try to to help you so if all these things feel they will
deliver to you. So if you want to retire to, but
we always want to encourage you to run the race to the end.
It is good to run to the end looking onto Jesus, the author
and the finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set
before him endured the shame, the pain and the shame.
You run out to the finishing line.
So if you look to Jesus, you give you grace.
We give you as grace to run to the end.
So and the other one, if your vision that does not scare you
enough, what do you do? If your vision that does not,
what does it mean? It may look very simple, but you
go and start. You see that it's not as easy as
because even Jesus Christ, before he went to the cross, the
vision of the cross scared him a little bit and he was like
Father and so he got scared. Everybody, your vision will
scare you if it's from God Air points you feel scared, but when
you encourage yourself and you get filled in the Holy Spirit,
you can do it. Thank you.
Ma, please, did you talk? Hello Enoch, your your hand is
out. You can unmute, unmute yourself
and speak. OK, thank you.
I think your question has been answered.
I was asking that. So if you tend to want to resign
before your due dates, they proceed.
Yeah, I think Pastor has answered.
Thank you. But please don't be in a hurry
to resign. Don't resign.
Please don't give up. God will take you to the end.
OK, God will take you to the there's a cheese saying which I
like that one. And you must see any Arkatia and
you must see any Arkatia until you should end so that we know
that I have finished. Jesus said that I have finished.
Paul said that I have finished the race of Copanama query.
Don't give up. So please don't resign.
Please don't do. And can I ask another question?
OK, sure. Yes.
OK, so you see, we, we, we have one leader, OK, it says Christ
is the, is the head of the church.
OK, I, I used to ask my friends that why is it that I attend
Pentacles, then they attend the church they attend If we, if
their pastors were to be my church, once the church be a
very powerful institution. We have prophets at different
churches, we have teachers at different churches, we have
apostles and different churches. If we're all to come under one
umbrella once it's be a wonderful thing.
And then I will proceed to now ask that what happens if you
have a vision, OK, be it's a vision God has laid on your
heart or a vision God has told you to pursue.
But then the church, it's it can't fits under the church.
It's not permissible under the church.
What do you do? You then tend to break away like
we have or what do you do? Let's say you are the you are
the evangelism leader. And then there is this.
There is something you need to undertake.
OK. But then it's not permissible
within the church. What do you do?
Thank you. OK, so for your first one, the
church, when you talk about the church, the church universalize
one body and we have different parts, but we are all serving
the same Lord. So it is Jesus who sees that
beauty. We don't see it.
And so for him, he's doing his work through all the groups, all
the denominations, and we shouldn't look down on any
church. We shouldn't preach against any
church as much as you can. If you are not, I'll say you
guys sent here, but restrain yourself because James Macon
warn his followers not to preach against any church, but to
preach Christ, because the Christ, the Christ, I'm
preaching against another church.
So it is not part of our work. So the beauty of the church
universal is what we are looking for.
That all may be one. We will get there, but not now.
So the second part, if your vision does not fit into your
church now, what should you do? You should explain your vision,
make it plain for us to hear it. If it does not, if you think it
does not fit into your church, you need to engage and explore
avenues. Breaking away to form a church
is tofu Massa. It's lots of work bending out to
come inside. You get frustrated, many many
started, but there are nowhere to be found, so you may have to
go back to God for better and further clearance.
No clarification and you'll be revealing.
We see in parts. So don't rush to run away, but
sell it, explain it. And I think that for COP now, no
evangelism beyond what it cannot fit because no one member of
another one God would say that we have finished what I've given
you before, I give you another one.
So when it comes, you need to also seek advice in the
multitude of counselors, there is safety godly ones of course.
So not just many other in the phobia godly ones.
Seek help and let's see how it fits into it.
But for the church, I just say via Uber communipa and then the
evangelism communipad. But for what those that will
bring souls to the Kingdom of God will give you, I also want
to guide you and help you to do it based on godly way of doing
it. OK.
And then one thing I also want to draw attention and maybe
pastor, I will want you to advise us on that.
There are some leaders who are not update officers.
And so when the bedding of leadership falls on them and
it's become so intense before you realize me and I'm a by me,
I'm a cock me, I'm a sanko and true, true before you realize it
and we're far back door. No, I think say, even though you
have spoken about it, you know, it is some some people have that
mindset. One because he he or she is not
an ordained officer. So he thinks that Obed to me.
I found one course and I just say he's not responsible to
anyone, not unscribe to anyone. So since we are learning, I will
want you to speak to it so that we can take some lessons from
it. Yes, OK.
So please you are a leader, get it into your heart.
You don't need to be ordained before you start working.
Start and work. We have seen countless number of
people in the history of the Church of COP who were not even
ordained but the open assemblies.
So go and check how the COP church spread to West Africa
along the coast fisherfolks Mukuinam and when it's on Sunday
like lost and they already did you even they they gathered just
to pray and while they were praying Holy Ghost Father now
Benin to go. That was how fisherfolks and
nobody inside Nicole Liberia and other people.
They took the church to the nation.
Some people also were schooled. They went to do pH, DS and other
things in Europe. One of them is elder lawyer,
Doctor Ken Abwa, a lawyer, a doctor, a specialist, urologist,
specialist, a paper and the way he does evangelism, the church
in Germany and Holland especially, it was through him,
Elder, our former genius Appos Camilla, he went to Germany to
go and study. He opened the churches in some
of the states in Germany. He went there to study and then
it's, you know, they open. So like I said, when you're a
posture, so you know, open a church, but they open.
So please don't wait son. Yami be chair and car, Unka
said. Because you are not ordained as
an elderly minty worker, I will pay you, even quadruple it for
you. So please don't let that mindset
say unless I am ordained as an elder, a Dick in a dickness
medium in kaho O kaho assemble with Shim.
Yeah, Jessica, even more BAD. And you might be.
So please, when it comes to food, Yeah.
Chennai. Yeah.
You feel mass and you're there. So in the same one we wait to
come. Don't.
Don't leave us. Please don't leave us.
Amen. So we want to pray, OK?
OK, pastor, I have a personal problem that I want to share
with you. To see how best you can help me
concerning leadership apart from the church that will play as
leaders outside the church I play a lot of rules or I lead so
many people in so many institutions and.
Is. So time consuming.
It takes my time. So many of them I belong to so
many community leader and they all need me.
The church also need me. So I am just on my way.
I have made-up my mind to resign from some of them and I when I
was sitting there and we were just talking about it to adjust
running through my mind whether to go ahead and resign or I
should stick to it because they also need me, but they are
taking a lot of my time. They need me as well, OK.
So the best way is to try and multiply yourself in them.
That is the best way. So train others to also be like
you so that they can share the weights together.
There is this saying that do you grow from if you stand Willie,
did you approach him from me? Please 13 as I say, will be
kind, say I should try a Baron. And then I say in English, I say
my former representative, and I see a blue which is inevitably
yours once taking extricate you from feather encumbrances.
I'm not forgetting a blue which is inevitably yours once taking
extricate you from feather encumbrances.
All right, So please, we wanted to try and delegate.
You cannot do everything. The delegation is also very
important. And then pick some, train them
and unleash them so there are some of them.
You can ask them to go and do it on your behalf.
And you pick feedback. If it doesn't go how you want it
to go, then you step in so you can throw your weight,
resources, your strength, your voice behind him so that he can
stand in your shoes and also act for you.
So please don't resign now that we are in the period of
possessing the the nation's memories and in Emma
resignation. Did you even add more to it and
do it for us? So please want this all we want.
We want you to take up this key, key key things within the
community so that with your godly advice, it can turn
around. You have no idea.
I've heard it that you are settling the disputes hard ones,
tough ones. That is what God will want you
to do so to ask all please, whenever there is the space of
keen man with whatever champagne, whatever, present
yourself vote for me. I want to now because they know
that you, you are a Pentecost woman.
You a Pentecost man on this guy. Would this guy do come to me
here or they will bring you to me and they can tackle you for
their money. So when they come, go for it.
Workplace, even if they're voting for minister for sweeping
our face, take it, Please take it.
Let's be on our feet even as we want to pray, Let's pray, shall
we Lift up our voice. I'm going to thank God.
Thank the Lord for what He has done with us today, for a time
with him. Lord, we are saying thank you.
Thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord, in the name of Jesus.
Thank you in the name of. Jesus, Lord, we thank you, bless
your name, wonderful Savior. Thank you, God, thank you that
these things happen. For example, so that we may not
repeat what they do. Help us.
So Lord, Lord, help us. Lord help us aju Mai Yi asudi da
medu E. The.
Lift up your voice and you know, pray in tongues you want to blow
some. Tongues.
Lift up your voice and pray that May God give us grace.
May the Lord give us the grace so that the bedding of
leadership He will help us carry it through.
Lift up your voice. Blow some tongues.
Blow some tongue. We have about one minute to
close. Blow some tongue.
In the name of Jesus, free, free, free.
In the name of Jesus, Lord, let's pray.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for a way that you
have given unto us. We trust you, the Lord, you help
us, help us so that may our leadership, may the vision that
you have given us. Though with humans is may seem
impossible, but with you God, all things are possible.
So Lord, we ask for a fresh touch, anoint our eyes to see
what we see. May we begin to see things from
your perspective. Cause us Energizer, strengthen
us to be able to accomplish it in Jesus name.
We pray that O Lord, your way that has come is spreading their
life. May that life transform our
ministries and our giftings to become better and the best
version that you have ordained for us in Jesus name.
We also pray that even as we depart from here, we commit
ourselves into your hands, continue to review yourself unto
us and build over us, review visions and dreams so that we'll
know and we can accomplish. We thank you for, if asked, all
these three crises. As we depart from here, take us
to our homes safely and bring us back tomorrow throughout the day
to be faithful. May we see your faithfulness in
our lives and your mighty hand also moving on our behalf in
Jesus name, Amen.