1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,360 Welcome to track #2 of significance. 2 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:15,360 The theme for our just a few hours that we have here is one 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,240 word, and the word is significance. 4 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,840 Significance. All right. 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:26,760 Now, some of us may not know what it means to be significant. 6 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:34,240 So significance means to be large or important enough to 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:42,720 have an effect, to be large or important enough to have an 8 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:48,240 effect. Now there are many ministers who 9 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,080 exist. Is that not so? 10 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:58,680 And who are in the ministry but are not large enough or 11 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,400 important enough to have an effect? 12 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,200 How many want to be large enough and important enough to have an 13 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,840 effect? I believe we all want that. 14 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:14,040 Is that not so? And we need to rise out of 15 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:20,400 insignificance in the ministry. The next one is to be large 16 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,520 enough or important enough to be noticed. 17 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:30,840 That's another meaning of significance, and I believe that 18 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:36,880 after this conference, everyone standing here and receiving and 19 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:44,200 hearing is going to become a truly significant minister of 20 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:48,000 the gospel. I see you becoming a significant 21 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,280 minister. Hallelujah. 22 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:56,680 Now the next one is to be large. Or. 23 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:05,640 Important enough to have a special meaning, for instance, 24 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:11,960 to to be large or important enough to have a special 25 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,160 meaning. Amen. 26 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,800 Now when you say the word John Wesley, it means something. 27 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:30,320 Is that also because because he became large enough to have some 28 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:33,640 meaning when his name is mentioned, it has some special 29 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,240 meaning? Is that not so? 30 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,200 It it means the Methodist Church, that's what it means, 31 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:47,520 has a special meaning. You shall be large enough, and I 32 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,400 say you shall be important enough. 33 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,560 To have a special. Meaning when your name is 34 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:58,360 mentioned means something, it also means to be large enough 35 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,800 that I'm, I'm, I'm saying the same thing to have a special 36 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:03,600 mean when you mention the name Benny Hinn. 37 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:10,440 It is a special name with a special meaning associated with 38 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,320 something. And most of us, when our names 39 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:20,760 are mentioned asamwa Asari or SE or chedaku O brierbois or fori 40 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,160 asamwa I mean. It doesn't have any special 41 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,600 meaning. But if you mention the name in 42 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,160 Kruma, it has a special meaning, Rawlings. 43 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,200 It means something such as. Special. 44 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:44,480 Meaning if you if you mention the name Autry Yebua, you see 45 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,280 you. Can't write an essay about it, 46 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,920 but if you if you mention the name Rawlings, you can write an 47 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:56,000 you can write a book and you have comments opinions. 48 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:02,920 Apart from what has happened, what people think newspapers do 49 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:07,880 you see if if the newspaper says tomorrow, Rollins hates jackpot. 50 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,000 It would be very. Interesting, what's the jackpot? 51 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,760 But if they say ochreinaku hates jackpot. 52 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,760 Hey, who is? Ochreinaku, do you see? 53 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,920 No, no, no one knows him. So when you become large enough 54 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:31,000 or important enough to have a special meaning attributed to 55 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,200 you, you have become significant. 56 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,520 I see hundreds of people becoming significant. 57 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,920 Hallelujah. You are the next star to rise in 58 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,560 Ghana. The next one is that it means 59 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,120 I'm just giving you the dictionary meaning of this word. 60 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,680 It means to be large enough or important enough to have an 61 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,520 effect on the future. Amen. 62 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:07,720 Now you can be large enough such as to now have an effect on the 63 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:15,880 future, future generations and future citizens and future 64 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,560 people who are now three years old and four years old and five 65 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,080 years old are going to be affected because of your 66 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,720 existence. But it is also possible that you 67 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,960 will be insignificant. I will also give you the meaning 68 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,800 of the word insignificant and that one is also somewhere 69 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:40,320 mercy. Do you think John Wesley has had 70 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:48,360 an influence on the future of Ghana, of Ghana, of England, of 71 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,840 America, the future, the future of Nigeria, the future of all 72 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:57,360 countries, the whole wide world? That is. 73 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:59,880 That is what I mean by becoming significant. 74 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,320 You are the next significant person in this land. 75 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,000 Hallelujah. The next one is to be large or 76 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 important enough to affect many people. 77 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,280 When you affect many people, you have become significant and 78 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:26,560 during this conference I want to share with you some keys or some 79 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:31,440 ideas or some things that I believe are going to cause you 80 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:38,000 to move from insignificance to significance, that are going to 81 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,800 move you to become large or important enough in this life to 82 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,080 affect many people. How many want to affect many 83 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,400 people? You shall affect many people. 84 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,720 Amen. The next one is meaning of the 85 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,960 worst significant number six is to be large or important enough 86 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:03,680 to leave a mark in history. Most of us don't leave a mark in 87 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,320 history. Is that also, I mean when, when 88 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,560 we are dead and gone, we will not be recorded in the history 89 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,360 books, first of all. But I believe that when you are 90 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:20,040 gone, Winnie Bus, history should remember you, that you came and 91 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,440 your story has affected many and it will be recorded in the 92 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,160 history books. You cannot write history without 93 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:31,760 writing your name or whichever town you are or whichever nation 94 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,920 you belong to. It is possible. 95 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,880 I said it is possible and I want to show you something that I 96 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,080 believe. In the next few minutes I'll be 97 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,720 showing you what I believe is a very important key to becoming 98 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,720 significant in the ministry or in the Lord. 99 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,560 The next one is to be large or important enough to be pleasing 100 00:07:53,560 --> 00:08:02,080 to God. You see, you can be large or 101 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,760 important enough to be noticed by people, but if you are not 102 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,080 pleasing to God, the history books of heaven will not record 103 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,480 your name favourably. May you be pleasing to God. 104 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:22,600 The next one is to be different from others in your class. 105 00:08:29,580 --> 00:08:31,740 Who are the people? We are all ministers here. 106 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:35,179 Who are the people in our category? 107 00:08:35,740 --> 00:08:37,980 There are others in your category. 108 00:08:37,980 --> 00:08:41,280 There are ministers your age, How old are you, 109 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:53,600 353840454250293631 There are people in your class, Are you 110 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,840 listening to me? But when you become significant, 111 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:02,800 you are not just someone who is mentioned, but you are someone 112 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,120 who has who, who is now different. 113 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,240 You are noticeable. Hallelujah. 114 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,680 The last one it means to become outstanding, to become 115 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:17,720 outstanding. And then the final one is to 116 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:23,160 have importance of a considerable degree. 117 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,880 Amen. So to be insignificant means to 118 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:33,000 be small and unimportant in such a way as to have no effect. 119 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,200 I'm now moving to insignificance. 120 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:47,760 Are you with me? And insignificant means to be 121 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:55,440 small and unimportant in such a way as to have no effect. 122 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,160 What do you think? How many want to be 123 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:12,040 insignificant? Forgive to be unimportant in 124 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:15,920 such a way that you have no effect, you are not important, 125 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:21,880 you are so small that you have no effect. 126 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,720 Forgive. The next is to be small and 127 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,720 unimportant in such a way as to never be noticed. 128 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:47,200 If your ministry is in Tama, it may be small and unimportant in 129 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,240 such a way that it will never be noticed in Tama. 130 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,560 That is what it means to be insignificant. 131 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:58,800 But if your ministry is becoming significant, and I believe God 132 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,080 wants to confer upon you significance so that you will 133 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:08,040 not be small and unimportant in such a way as not to be noticed, 134 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:15,080 you shall, you shall be noticed. The next one is to be small and 135 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,400 unimportant in such a way as to have no effect on the future. 136 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:26,880 To be small and you are so unimportant that your presence 137 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:34,920 or your absence has no effect on the future, How many would not 138 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,600 like to be insignificant? I think it's a very bad thing. 139 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:44,920 After giving up your profession, coming to work in the ministry, 140 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,440 and you are so unimportant that you don't have any effect on the 141 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,120 future. I think it is an unfortunate 142 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,120 thing. You shall never be 143 00:11:54,120 --> 00:12:00,800 insignificant. Hey, you will receive it to be 144 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:06,800 small and unimportant in such a way as to not affect anyone. 145 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,480 You don't affect anyone. Nothing that you do effects 146 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,120 anyone. The next one is to be small and 147 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,280 unimportant in such a way as to never make a mark in history. 148 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,360 The next one is to be small and unimportant in such a way as to 149 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,840 be not pleasing to God. And then the last but one is to 150 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:41,000 be just like any other person. How many want to be just like 151 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,640 any other person? I don't believe so. 152 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,640 And the last one is to have no importance at all. 153 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:58,920 Mercy, now insignificance also means to be of no consequence. 154 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:06,160 I don't believe that God called us to be of no consequence in 155 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,520 the ministry. What do you think? 156 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,640 Do you think God has called us to be of no consequence in the 157 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,720 ministry Of no importance, of no relevance? 158 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,720 I think that is a mistake. Another one it means to be 159 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,360 immaterial. You are immaterial. 160 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:31,200 And another one means you are not worth mentioning. 161 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,080 Not worth mentioning. I mean, there's no need to 162 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:43,160 mention you, your church, your ministry, your contribution. 163 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:51,320 You are not worth mentioning. But God is transforming your 164 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,720 life and your ministry to the point that you will be worth 165 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,360 mentioning. In fact, when they are talking 166 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,600 about certain things, if they don't mention your name, they, 167 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,160 they, they, they have not mentioned, it's not complete. 168 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:09,520 You shall be worth mentioning. Can I have an Amen? 169 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:14,080 I said you shall be worth mentioning in the ministry. 170 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,720 I said you shall be worth mentioning in the ministry. 171 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:22,920 You shall be worth mentioning. You shall be material, you shall 172 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:28,720 be important, you shall be large enough and important enough to 173 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,160 have an effect in the name of Jesus. 174 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,840 Another word of meaning of insignificance is to be trivial. 175 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:44,840 Another one is to be irrelevant. OK, you are not relevant. 176 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,800 Amen. Hallelujah. 177 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:56,000 Now I want to give you what I believe, not what I believe, but 178 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:01,960 what I think is in the Bible. Very clearly the first key that 179 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:06,080 I believe is going to make you significant is what made people 180 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,680 significant in the Bible. Amen. 181 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:15,040 Now, when you read through the Bible, there are many, many, 182 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:24,840 many names mentioned, but many of them were not large enough or 183 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,520 important enough to make a mark in history. 184 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,680 They haven't done anything. Many of them were not large 185 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,160 enough or important enough to be noticed. 186 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,080 Many of them were not large enough or important enough to 187 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:43,160 affect history. Do you understand they haven't 188 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,160 affected history? Now when? 189 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,680 I when I read. Certain names. 190 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,000 Unfortunately I I cannot seem very well today. 191 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:55,080 I don't know, but when I read certain names from the Bible, 192 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:02,800 are you there? You begin to see names like 193 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:11,040 Mahalil. If I, if I just mention the 194 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:16,080 names, you know, I think are that more significant? 195 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:21,360 Is that not so? Yeah, Allan was an important 196 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,560 person. He has affected the whole 197 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:26,960 future. He has left a mark in history. 198 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,720 He was large enough. His name means something. 199 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:37,120 But there are other people. Seth. 200 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,840 What has Seth done? Seth is a common name. 201 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:52,600 My neighbor used to be called Brassett and then Inos all 202 00:16:52,600 --> 00:17:01,560 right, and then Mahalil. Mahalil is not important enough 203 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:04,880 or large enough to make any difference. 204 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:09,240 Mahalil when nobody studies about Mahalil or thinks about 205 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,040 Mahalil. May your name not be like the 206 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,280 name Mahalil. And don't call your child 207 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,920 Mahalil because you are superimposing insignificance on 208 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:25,440 the person Mahalil. And so all the days of Mahalil 209 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,440 were 895 years and he died. That is all. 210 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,280 He lived and he died. Finish. 211 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:42,080 He was here, but what is the effect? 212 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:49,840 Of his ministry on our lives, He was not important enough to make 213 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,000 an effect or have any mark in history on the future. 214 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:57,200 But you, you shall have an effect on the future, and you 215 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:02,920 shall have an effect on history. In the name of Jesus, Amen. 216 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,840 Then another guy. Jared. 217 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:11,600 Jared. He lived 162 years, huh? 218 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,560 What do you think? He's another guy? 219 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,000 We don't know what he's up to. Then another guy, Lamech. 220 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:28,800 Lamech, he lived 182 years. Amen. 221 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,680 Then Lamech began his son, and he called the name of his son 222 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,040 Noah. Aha, aha. 223 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,160 Suddenly you are seeing some significance, somebody who is 224 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:48,680 large enough or important enough to have made a major impact on 225 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,560 history and on the future. His name has been mentioned and 226 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,000 his name immediately when you you, you mention, you see 227 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,800 pictures of boats with animals and other sustains. 228 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,600 You get it. It's important and significant 229 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,680 enough to have for his name to have a meaning. 230 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:14,720 Are you listening to me? So God wants to take your name 231 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:21,440 from the many names of pastors and of ministers and make it a 232 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:26,080 significant name so that when the long list is mentioned, when 233 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:27,760 they mention. We have to pause. 234 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:31,200 We can't just write. He lived and he died. 235 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,000 Finish. There's much to say. 236 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,840 All these guys, they have one. Sentence. 237 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:41,560 But Noah, we are now going to have to read chapters about him. 238 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,920 May there be chapters written about your life. 239 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:48,560 I said may there be chapters written about your life that you 240 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:53,920 came and you were significant and you contributed and you made 241 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,240 a difference. Hallelujah. 242 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,560 So you immediately see that we have mentioned somebody who is 243 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,320 significant. Amen. 244 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:09,160 Now Noah had three sons. Is that also? 245 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:16,080 Sham, Ham and Jaffef, you get it. 246 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:30,560 One of them is significant Ham. You know there is a small story 247 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:37,640 about ham, you get it. And so on. 248 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:44,680 Now other names, sons of Japheth, Goman, do you know him? 249 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,920 Magog. May your name never be like the 250 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:56,440 name of Magog and Goman. The next guy, Madai, Javan, 251 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:04,720 Tuba, Meshech and Tiras. Still, we are not getting any 252 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,520 significant name a person who is large enough or important enough 253 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,920 to have an effect. I am in Genesis chapter 10. 254 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:16,680 I'm not getting any pastor's name. 255 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:23,680 The sons of Javan Elisha, that is a different Elisha, Hashish, 256 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:30,320 Kitim, and Dodanim. None of these were large enough 257 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:35,760 or important enough to make a mark in history or to affect 258 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:40,240 anything in the future. Are you there then there sounds 259 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:48,800 like miserable foot Canaan the sons of Kuf Siba Havila. 260 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:58,680 Do you know Reverend Havila Sapta Rama Saptecha Rama Shiba 261 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:03,160 Didan Nimrod then? Ashu. 262 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:13,560 You know, Ashu resin miserim, Ludin patrusin. 263 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,440 Kalusin is it? Sounds like many pastors, 264 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:24,520 Reverend Otrenaku, Reverend Otrevoir au Brivois or say 265 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,160 something this. But if you mention a name like 266 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:34,640 Duncan Williams, it's significant. 267 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:40,960 It's large enough and important enough to leave an impact and to 268 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,920 affect a lot of things. May you become significant in 269 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:49,480 the name of Jesus, Amen. And that is how it is. 270 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:53,360 There will be many names mentioned, but when your name is 271 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:55,200 mentioned. It will have. 272 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,920 An impact on many people's lives. 273 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:06,760 I'm just avadite the zemarite Hamara heights. 274 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,440 Do you know these people? May you never be unknown like 275 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:17,000 these guys. Elam afaqsat. 276 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:25,360 Lud. Aram Hadoram, Obaab Abimele. 277 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,200 It seems that the insignificant people are a lot and the 278 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:35,160 significant people are very few. May you be among the few 279 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,200 significant ones? What do you think? 280 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,360 You see in a choir? You have a lot of people about. 281 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,800 One of them becomes significant if the person is not. 282 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,360 There they Can't Sing most of the songs. 283 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:56,040 May you become significant now. I believe that there is one 284 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,320 particular feature that is on my heart that I believe. 285 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,680 Makes people significant. Can I imagine some of the 286 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:11,960 significant people Abraham. Abraham too had relatives who 287 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,680 look at Genesis chapter 12 you see that he had relative but 288 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:29,160 when his name comes up Genesis 12 or even 1111 verse 26 and 289 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:37,400 Tara lived 70 years and begat Abraham Nahor and Haran Tero 290 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,400 Terra is it a major name Nahor is it a you don't even know who 291 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:47,240 they are Haran you see Haran died before his father Terra in 292 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,800 the land in U-verse 29 Abraham and Nahor took them wives. 293 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,760 The name of Abraham's wife was Sarah and the name of Nahor's 294 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,440 wife Melka and the daughter of Haran. 295 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,280 These are names. But Sarah was born and she had 296 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,120 no child. And Tara took Abraham his son 297 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,440 and loved the son of Haran his son S son and Sarah. 298 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,800 We are now beginning to get names and Haran. 299 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,680 The 32 and the days of Tara were 205 and Tara died. 300 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:20,600 That's all. But from chapter 12 to almost 301 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:27,320 20, we have to deal with only Abraham, father Abraham, because 302 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,320 he was significant. Out of that family you shall be 303 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:32,880 significant. In your family. 304 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:38,240 Hallelujah. Now I believe that one of the 305 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:44,240 great keys to becoming anything in God and that differentiates 306 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,520 these people. Right. 307 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,640 Is the fact that. God. 308 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaks to them all. The people who become important 309 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:01,760 enough to have an impact are people whom God speaks to. 310 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:10,240 You never see the Bible say and the Lord appeared to Afaqsat and 311 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,840 said something or the Lord appeared to Ashu. 312 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:21,480 Or the Lord spoke. To Mahalil the Lord. 313 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,880 You didn't speak to Mahalil. I said the Lord didn't speak to 314 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:31,840 Mahalil. But starting even with Adam, you 315 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,760 see the Lord coming in the garden. 316 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,200 But let's even start with Noah, who had a lot of other 317 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,320 relatives. You get it. 318 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:43,520 And Noah in chapter 6 of Genesis, All right. 319 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,920 And it came to pass when men began to Moscow on the face of 320 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,440 the earth, and daughters were born, that the sons of God saw 321 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,920 the daughters of men, they were fair and took them wives. 322 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:59,480 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with 323 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,560 man. His day shall be 120 And the 324 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,680 giants in the land, Amen. And there's five. 325 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,760 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great. 326 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:19,280 All right, Hallelujah and verse 6 and it repented the law that 327 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,160 he had made man on the earth. Amen. 328 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,840 Are you there and the law said I will destroy man whom I have 329 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,320 created from the face of the earth. 330 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,440 Verse 8 but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 331 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,720 He was still not significant. These are the generations of 332 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,480 Noah. Noah was a just man in verse 9, 333 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,120 perfect. He worked with God. 334 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,800 Noah begat 3 sent the earth was also corrupt. 335 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,760 God saw that the earth was filled with violence. 336 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,480 Verse 12 And God looked upon the earth and behold he was corrupt, 337 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,400 but all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 338 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,960 And God said unto Noah, the end of all God said. 339 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:10,120 God said to Noah, We are beginning to see somebody is 340 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:17,000 about to change because God is speaking to that person, 341 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,760 Hallelujah is about to become an important person. 342 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,600 He is about to become large enough to make a mark on history 343 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,880 only because of one thing, that God is about to speak, or God is 344 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,480 speaking to this particular man as against not speaking to the 345 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,120 others. That, I believe, is one of the 346 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,840 characteristics of men, of God. Who? 347 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,680 Become or amount to anything in the ministry is that God speaks 348 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,640 to them but for many of us God does not speak to us or if he 349 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,800 speaks to us at all. We do not listen to what he said 350 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,320 or we cannot hear what he's saying or we never listen or we 351 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:59,040 never hear. But what's separate? 352 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,120 You see, Noah, wicked people were there, but this. 353 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:08,760 One God. Speaks to him Hallelujah. 354 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,640 And God said to Noah, what did he tell him? 355 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,640 The end of all. Flesh is come before me. 356 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:25,120 For somebody to tell you how he feels, he's speaking to you. 357 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,160 For somebody to tell you what he's thinking about, he's 358 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,160 speaking to you. And God was telling Noah what he 359 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,960 was feeling and what he was thinking about everything that 360 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,080 was going on there. And he said, I, I the end is 361 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:47,760 that the end has come. And behold, I will destroy them 362 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,720 with the earth. Then he gave him an instruction. 363 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:58,560 Make thee an ark of Gopher wood Rooms shall thou make in the 364 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,480 ark, and shall pitch it within and without. 365 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,400 And this is the fashion. Thou shalt beak of now God is 366 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,680 telling him more things. The length of the ark 300 367 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,000 cubits, the breadth 50, and the height 30. 368 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,000 A window shalt thou make all right. 369 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,880 Verse 17. And behold, I do bring a flood 370 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,840 of waters to destroy. All. 371 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,960 Flesh, wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and 372 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,560 everything that is in the earth shall die, but with thee I will 373 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,000 establish my covenant. And of every living thing of all 374 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,680 flesh. God spoke to Noah. 375 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:36,760 Everybody said God spoke to Noah. 376 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,880 That is the difference between insignificant people and people 377 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,680 who are insignificant. In the Bible. 378 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,000 There's a long list that you see and the law said to this 379 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,840 particular person. From that time onwards, that 380 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,400 person becomes a different person in the system. 381 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,000 Yeah, and that person is usually with others. 382 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,640 You see Noah, Noah is in the long list. 383 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,600 About as soon as we get to Noah and God speaks to him, 384 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,880 everything changes. That person becomes different. 385 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,360 That is why I believe that every. 386 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,040 I have particularly said somebody asked me if I was to 387 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,000 recommend one book. I would recommend this book The 388 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:28,200 Art of Hearing, because I think that and I am not my best, It's 389 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:36,240 not loyalty, it's not loyalty and it's loyalty, but it is the. 390 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:43,000 Ability to hear from. God is is different or even to 391 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,240 have heard from him. In fact, I think that to to 392 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,840 acquire any amount of significance in the ministry or 393 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,080 in this life is to have a quest to hear from God. 394 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,360 That is why personally, I have a quest to see Jesus. 395 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:08,320 I I really want to see Christ in a vision personally before I go 396 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,840 to heaven. It's one of my great because 397 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:19,040 there is nobody who and has met God and has seen the Lord who is 398 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,880 normal. Afterwards you'll never be 399 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,840 normal, you'll never be the same. 400 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,640 Remember the song that we sing. I will never be the same. 401 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,760 That is the best and the highest thing. 402 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,960 And so suddenly, for all of us, there should be an invisible 403 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:43,440 attraction to the ability to hear from God and to navigate 404 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,200 through the dangers of hearing. From God or claiming that you 405 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,320 hear from God. It's one of the dangerous areas 406 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,920 to work because it can quench. You fully. 407 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,880 The so-called hearing from God. When the God you say you are 408 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:05,200 hearing for is now something else, you can easily go off. 409 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,640 Course, so it's actually one of the it's one of the blessed 410 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:13,760 areas and one of the dangerous areas because. 411 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,080 You can always come up with something and whenever people 412 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,400 want to do something bad, they come and say God said to me 413 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,000 yesterday this and this and that. 414 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,400 In Tina, I am doing what I am doing. 415 00:33:32,100 --> 00:33:35,020 It's like if you are playing golf, if you hit the ball. 416 00:33:35,020 --> 00:33:37,740 Very hard. It's a very. 417 00:33:38,940 --> 00:33:42,340 Good. Thing if it goes straight, but 418 00:33:42,340 --> 00:33:45,060 if it goes right or left it's a very bad thing. 419 00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:50,420 So most of the professionals when they are playing, they just 420 00:33:50,420 --> 00:33:55,320 hit average because when you hit very hard and it goes far, it's 421 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,080 very good. But if it goes off, you are also 422 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,680 in big trouble. So it's like it can either go, 423 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,400 it's like going somewhere very fast. 424 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,760 You are going full speed, you can get there quickly and save 425 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,880 time, but you can also die and never get there. 426 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,120 So it can be very good or very bad. 427 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:20,360 Mercy, mercy, are you listening to me? 428 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:28,120 Good in Genesis chapter 12 you will see in Chapter 11, Abraham 429 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,600 you see are you there? In Genesis 11, Nahar lived 9 and 430 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,760 20 years. He begat terror. 431 00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:41,199 Nahal lived after he begat Terra. 119 years was 25 Terra 432 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,080 lives. That's all they will say. 433 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,400 Vaughan died. Vaughan died. 434 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,600 He was born on this time. He died and then Heron. 435 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,719 He lived before his father. He died. 436 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:53,880 Abraham and Nahal took wives. You get it. 437 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,320 Now they are mentioning their wives for the first time, you 438 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,040 see, because the person is becoming important. 439 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:05,320 And then in chapter 12, Bible tells us in verse one, Now the 440 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:10,280 Lord hath said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country, 441 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,040 Hallelujah, And from thy father's house, and from thy 442 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:19,000 kindred unto a land, I will show thee, and I will make of thee a 443 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,400 great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, 444 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,200 and thou shalt be a blessing, Hallelujah. 445 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:29,840 And Abraham departed. Amen. 446 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:35,160 In Genesis chapter 17 also the Lord spoke, if I hear for 447 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,840 Abraham, you see, and the Lord said unto Abraham, so many 448 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:45,160 places, you see, that the Lord would speak to Abraham, Amen. 449 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:51,400 In Genesis chapter 13 verse 14, we can see in different places. 450 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:56,400 And the Lord said unto Abraham, after that Lord was separated 451 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,680 from him. Again, you can see that this is 452 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,760 a very important person because God speaks to him. 453 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:03,760 How many want God to speak to you? 454 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:09,240 I believe God must speak to us as ministers, as pastors, God 455 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:12,280 must speak to us. We must now begin to hear from 456 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,040 God. And I'm not talking about you 457 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,640 see, there are many ways by which God can direct you, but 458 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,160 when you haven't reached a certain place, God will never 459 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,160 speak to you. That look God told Miriam, Were 460 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:29,000 you not afraid to speak to about Moses, seeing that I don't 461 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000 appear to him in visions and similitudes and dreams, but I 462 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000 appear to him Philippily, were you not afraid? 463 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,960 That thing, the intimacy with God and the level to which God 464 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,080 speaks to you, is a very important sign of who? 465 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,080 You are in God. I'm telling you. 466 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,600 Those of you who say you. Don't have dreams, you say? 467 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,560 When you sleep, you sleep, you wake up. 468 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:57,200 No dreams, no visions. No, I mean God spoke to me, 469 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,680 though you don't understand when they say how many feel the 470 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,960 Spirit of God don't feel it and you don't. 471 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:07,960 You don't have any anything. Watch out. 472 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,720 Were you not afraid? Were you not afraid when they 473 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:15,960 were dealing with me? Me. 474 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,840 And he asked me, were you not afraid seeing that this guy, 475 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,000 when I speak to him, is not like a dream or a bit, but really. 476 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:26,960 That is one of the reasons. Why I became so? 477 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,680 Attracted to Kenneth Hagin because the Lord. 478 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,320 Appeared to him eight times. If somebody whom the Lord has 479 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:38,000 appeared to them, I'm very interested in that person. 8 * 1 480 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,800 time he was sitting on stage praying for his wife. 481 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:42,520 His wife was thinking they were having a prayer meet. 482 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,360 Wife had a cancer of the throat or something and he was praying 483 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,880 and suddenly to the right it appeared to him just standing 484 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,000 there. On the stage and he, the Lord 485 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,920 told him, tell your wife to go and have the operation. 486 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:56,800 I will heal her. She will not die. 487 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,760 Hey, operation, most of us are using common sense to decide to 488 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,600 go and do the operation. Somebody has seen Jesus Christ 489 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,840 and Jesus Christ has asked him to go and do the operation. 490 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,600 Do you think his life will not be significant? 491 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,040 He's a very significant person in this life. 492 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,160 Another time he was he was on admission in hospital. 493 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,360 Who should come and visit him? In this book, I Believe in 494 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,600 Visions, you see eight times the Lord appeared between 1952 and. 495 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,800 19. 60 The Lord appeared to him eight times. 496 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,640 From that time on. The Lord He had appeared to him 497 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,640 again. Who should come? 498 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,680 He had the best of care and he thought was the next. 499 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,760 And the door opened. Who walks inside Jesus, and 500 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,560 Jesus comes to him by his bed. He said his hair, his hair stood 501 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,400 up like this. It's a very frightening thing. 502 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,360 People want to see Jesus, but I'm telling you it's very 503 00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:55,560 frightening to see Jesus and pulled a chair and sat down and 504 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:56,760 said I've. Come to talk to you. 505 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,720 About what happened yesterday, because he was pitching and he 506 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:03,480 fell down and broke his arm in the pulpit. 507 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,800 That I've come to talk to you about what happened yesterday 508 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,280 and also. To show you certain things about 509 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,480 and he sat down with him for two hours and talked with him and 510 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:19,640 got up and went out of the door. Hey, are you not afraid of 511 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,800 something like that? We are not talking about 512 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,480 imaginations. We are not talking about vision. 513 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,480 That you it's like as if you are seeing something, the vision of 514 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,960 the mind. It must be. 515 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,000 One of your. Greatest quest when I say a 516 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:46,440 quest, a search to have God speak to you, that is what makes 517 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,720 people different. Many people are there, but. 518 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,040 None. Of these people have and the 519 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,560 first time you see the person become important and the Lord 520 00:39:55,560 --> 00:40:02,640 said to Noah, I the end of all flesh is before me build an ark. 521 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:07,760 Suddenly Noah has become important and the Lord said to 522 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,280 Abraham, go out of this country. And the Lord said to him, Do 523 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,040 this. When Lord separate, the Lord 524 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,400 spoke to him, and you will see. And the Lord appeared to him. 525 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,040 The Lord appeared. The Lord said to him. 526 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:32,040 We go on and then Genesis chapter 15 first one after these 527 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:38,000 things, the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision 528 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:47,200 saying fear not, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, fear not saying fear 529 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,800 not Abraham, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. 530 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,800 And Abraham said, Lord God, what shalt thou give me seeing I go 531 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,240 childless? Is the Lord not speaking to him 532 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:01,560 again? Is the Lord not speaking to him 533 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,200 again? And then you go on and you see 534 00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:09,840 in chapter 17 verse one and when Ibraham was 90 years old and 535 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:15,040 nine, the Lord appeared to Abraham and said unto him, I am 536 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,120 the almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect. 537 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:24,680 I will make my covenant as if not a powerful then in verse 15 538 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,640 of the same best. And God said unto Abraham. 539 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,960 May God begin to speak to you so many times. 540 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:35,520 As for Sarah, blah blah blah blah, Hallelujah. 541 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:42,200 And then in chapter 18 again, Genesis chapter 18, notice, 542 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,880 because as I was reading through this book, I realized how 543 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,520 significant it was. And the Lord appeared unto him 544 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,920 in the plains of Mummery, and he sat in the tent in the door in 545 00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,280 the heat of the day, and he lifted up his eyes. 546 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,480 This is a vision like the Kenneth Higgin 1. 547 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,240 And there were three. Men standing by him and when he 548 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,920 saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent. 549 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:12,600 Hallelujah. These are three spiritual beings 550 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,240 who have appeared as human beings who eat food. 551 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,360 You understand They have appeared as human beings who eat 552 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,360 and are coming to eat food. Huh. 553 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:31,480 Are you listening? How many want to have a 554 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,720 spiritual being who eats food? Come and visit you? 555 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,560 Would you like it? Who? 556 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:43,200 Drinks and eats, they know that the person is physical and after 557 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:49,760 he vanishes, hey, it is wild. Amen. 558 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,360 Now I am sharing this with you because God is going to increase 559 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,760 the visions and dreams and revelations to you. 560 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,000 And as He does that, your ministry is you are going to 561 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,480 become important, so important as to have an effect and so 562 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,040 important as to accomplish the will of God, and so important as 563 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,240 to do what God has purposed. He will speak to you. 564 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,880 I said He will speak to you. Amen. 565 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:20,600 Amen. Now the next person who is 566 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:26,960 significant is Isaac, and you find the Lord also appearing to 567 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,920 Isaac. Now who were Abraham S sons? 568 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:36,600 Who are Abraham's sons? Ishmael and Isaac? 569 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,080 Pastor Ishmael, you get that? But do you ever hear the Bible 570 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:48,240 say, And the Lord appeared unto Ishmael and said to him, this 571 00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:51,360 and this and this and that? You don't have that. 572 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,640 Genesis chapter 26. That's one. 573 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,760 And there was a farming in the land beside the first famine 574 00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,760 that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech the 575 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,120 king of the Philistines, and to Gerard, verse 2. 576 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:16,520 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into 577 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:21,080 Egypt, and dwell in the land, which I shall tell thee of. 578 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,520 Amen. Amen. 579 00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:29,120 Are you listening? So you see that Isaac was not 580 00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,800 just important because he was Abraham's son, but because the 581 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,240 Lord had also appeared to him. One of the difference between 582 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:40,880 Solomon and David was that Solomon could not have a vision 583 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:44,120 from God for himself. He was just doing what his 584 00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,560 father had. The original vision that his 585 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,360 father had he carried out, and when he finished doing that, he 586 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:55,640 started backsliding. When he finished carrying out 587 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,160 his father's vision because he could not hear from God himself, 588 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:05,720 he started backsliding. Yes, he had his father's vision 589 00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:08,720 to build a temple and all that. God said, OK, I will let your 590 00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:11,960 son do it. But he himself was not like 591 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:13,520 David. You'll never hear where the 592 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,920 Bible says. And David inquired of the Lord, 593 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,240 And David inquired of the Lord. And David inquired of the Lord. 594 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,720 And David inquired. Of the Lord He knows how that 595 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:24,240 from Solomon he was told what to do by his father. 596 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:29,000 But he himself could not find God himself ain't enough after 597 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,960 his father died and he finished building the temple after 10-11 598 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:39,120 years by sliding throughout and following. 599 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:49,880 Women. So God speaking to you, I tell 600 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,480 you, no matter who you are, you see that even though Isaac was 601 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,560 Abraham's son. God also spoke to Isaac. 602 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,960 God spoke to Isaac. He appeared to him and spoke to 603 00:45:59,960 --> 00:46:04,600 him and told him this, this, this time, no matter whose son 604 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,760 you are in the ministry, you have to find God yourself and 605 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,840 learn to hear from God yourself. And if it's the same God, you 606 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,840 will notice that God didn't come with a different thing. 607 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,280 What he told Abraham, I've given you Canaan, then he come to the 608 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,560 sun and say, I'm giving you Alaska. 609 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,520 Because you see, God is not confused, I said. 610 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,280 God is not confused. He's not going to come with 611 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,000 different things. And when you read. 612 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,320 History, you will always see what God says is similar. 613 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,560 In fact, none of us are doing any new things so that we are 614 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,800 not reading history. God doesn't say. 615 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,200 I mean, it's like a new thing is get up suddenly you must start a 616 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,160 new ministry naked. I came naked. 617 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:01,120 I shall return. It's not from God and all these 618 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,800 other kinds of things. They are not from God, but it's 619 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,720 because we don't really know God and people are claiming to hear 620 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:08,360 from God when they haven't really heard from God. 621 00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,400 But if you hear from God, what did Isaac hear from God? 622 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,560 A completely different thing. You can see what God says when 623 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,560 you see what God told. God told John Wesley, God told 624 00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,520 Martin Luther, God told John Calvin. 625 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,880 God told all these people. It was basically the same thing 626 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,040 because God is so confused and his word is here to guide us, 627 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,000 Every Father who is. Afraid for his Son to hear from 628 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:38,240 God is is not afraid of the right thing. 629 00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,480 Every son, true son, must hear from God. 630 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,520 Even if it is the same word that he gave your father, you must 631 00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,240 hear it yourself. You know that this is what God 632 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:50,720 said. But when you have a son who does 633 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:55,760 not hear from God, it's not good. 634 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,840 You have no vision. That's why when you listen to a 635 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,080 tape. You soak in a tape. 636 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,240 It's not just the. Presence. 637 00:48:07,240 --> 00:48:10,440 It must become something that God has revealed to you, and 638 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,520 when you share it, it is very powerful. 639 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:18,760 It is like your message. Most of my messages are here and 640 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,520 I preach. If you don't listen to tapes, 641 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,280 you are not wise. You shouldn't be a preacher, you 642 00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,520 should be a footballer or something else because 643 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,120 footballers, they watch soccer all the time. 644 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,360 Even now when they are showing the live matches, I don't know 645 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,920 if you are watching South Africa and Ghana whilst they were 646 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,520 playing the match, they will put arrows. 647 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,960 Did. You see it, they put an arrow 648 00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,520 and show the open space somebody should be running. 649 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,560 Into this space. There's a lot of space here and 650 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:56,240 I was saying they are analyzing the team, watching the players, 651 00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:00,720 analyzing the team for soccer. And you, you call yourself a 652 00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:04,320 preacher and a minister and you don't listen to preaching and 653 00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,480 even analyze it and get these are the open spaces. 654 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,240 This is where this where he should have. 655 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,040 Sometimes when you when you analyze the message and you 656 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:16,120 listen, you even know he should have ended the message at this 657 00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,560 place, but he didn't end it. He should have done this, this 658 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,920 and that and that you begin to know more. 659 00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,240 These are open spaces to run into. 660 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,280 So that's what I'm saying that if you call yourself a pastor, 661 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,320 call yourself a preacher, call yourself a a you are you are not 662 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,920 listening constantly to messages and to tapes. 663 00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:39,560 You should be a footballer or some other profession, but don't 664 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:46,840 call yourself a minister. God spoke to. 665 00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,360 Isaac. God spoke to. 666 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:51,000 Jacob. God spoke to Jacob. 667 00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:59,440 Let's look at Genesis, the Son, and why is he smell no sign, no 668 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,760 sign, anything that he fades away. 669 00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,120 When God doesn't speak to you, you fade away into oblivion. 670 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,720 You fade away. You fade away and you see I am 671 00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:15,840 preaching this message to try hard to stimulate your interest 672 00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:20,520 and desire to personally hear from God, even to the highest 673 00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,360 level of Jesus actually appearing physically in your 674 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,800 room. Because me, I haven't seen Jesus 675 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:31,560 physically and I am praying for it these days. 676 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,960 I when I open my eyes, I feel there is somebody there, but I 677 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:41,920 still haven't seen. No, I've had different, but I 678 00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,440 haven't seen Jesus and I want to see him. 679 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:53,320 Yes, because I think that it is the one thing. 680 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:58,480 That changes a person and separates him apart from all the 681 00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,520 others who are there. You are very different. 682 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,960 You shall be a different person in the name of Jesus. 683 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:13,560 Hallelujah. Genesis chapter 35. 684 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,640 Now look at chapter 28. Isaac called Jacob and blessed 685 00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:20,640 him. Oh, that one is nice, you see, 686 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,400 for God to bless you, your Father to bless you, but we want 687 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:29,840 God to speak to you. When God speaks to you, you 688 00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:34,040 understand you shall be blessed. Amen. 689 00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:36,840 Are you there? Are you there? 690 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:41,440 And Jacob was left alone. We are never alone. 691 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:46,280 Anything that God cannot speak to us, I said. 692 00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:54,080 We are never alone. Sometimes to have a good 693 00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:58,560 relationship with God, you have to be alone, not with your wife, 694 00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,520 not with your children, and not with your church members, and 695 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:07,560 not with your church and not with your pastors, but alone. 696 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:13,840 Can I have an Amen? And he wrestled with a man. 697 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,640 Amen. Are you there? 698 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,240 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him. 699 00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:21,240 He touched the whole of his thigh. 700 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,960 Wherefore Jacob's time was out of joint, and he wrestled with 701 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,800 him, and he said, Let me go for the day Breakers. 702 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:29,880 And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 703 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,120 And he said to him, What is thy name? 704 00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,640 He said, Jacob. He said, Thy name shall be 705 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,280 called no more. Jacob. 706 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:38,880 This is God speaking to him about Israel. 707 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:46,920 For as a Prince thou hast power with God and with men, and hast 708 00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,000 prevailed. And Jacob asked him, Tell me, I 709 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,960 pray thee, thy name, Who are you? 710 00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,000 And he said, Wherefore is that, that thou dost ask after my 711 00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,680 name? And he blessed him, and 712 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,000 Vestethi. And Jacob called the name of the 713 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,840 place Peniel. For I have seen God face to 714 00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:11,360 face, and my life is present. The one who appeared to him to 715 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:16,000 fight with him was God. He fought with God face to face 716 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:23,440 and God told him his new name. Do you think he can ever be the 717 00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,360 same? He was a different, a very bad 718 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,640 man who has cheated people and was now becoming a great person. 719 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,200 Why? Because he has met with God. 720 00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,920 May you meet with God face to face. 721 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:44,480 Hallelujah. You see, when I. 722 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:53,080 Started in secondary school in the Lord I I I became enchanted 723 00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,760 with people who could meet the Lord. 724 00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:58,400 That is why I was very attracted to Kenneth Hagin. 725 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,400 And that is also probably why I became very attracted to Rick 726 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:07,880 Joyner, whose book I recommend to everybody to read 100 times 727 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:13,160 over the final quest where he was caught up to heaven and he 728 00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:17,800 met with people who have died and met with the Lord who talked 729 00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,680 with him on several different occasions in his journey through 730 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,200 heaven. To me, it's almost like the 731 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,120 Bible reading that book. Amen. 732 00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,720 It's not the Bible, but it is. I read it. 733 00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:32,840 Almost like the Bible. Yeah, I believe. 734 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,480 I believe in prophets. I believe in visions. 735 00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:38,640 These are things we can't do without. 736 00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,440 We need them. That is what's going to make us 737 00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:47,640 great in the ministry. Hallelujah, so I am attracted. 738 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,880 Why are you not attracted? You must be attracted and you 739 00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,840 must seek it. You must want it. 740 00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,200 You must not be content to just read your Bible and say, I have 741 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,160 received an understanding from Ephesians chapter 5 verse 3 and 742 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:06,200 8. Wherefore I feel that God is 743 00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,480 showing me that I must do this and this and that with my 744 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,720 church. You must have a. 745 00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:15,560 Quest to have God reveal something to you or speak to 746 00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,360 you. I'm telling you it's very that 747 00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,120 is what have made people significant. 748 00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,520 Read your Bible, read your Bible. 749 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,080 I'm showing you from the Bible. I'm not finished. 750 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:29,040 I'm coming to Moses. You will see of all the Israelis 751 00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,000 who were there. It's God spoke to God spoke to 752 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,440 Moses by the burning Bush and told him that was that was the 753 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:39,080 big We can't stop writing about Moses from the day that he met a 754 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:44,360 madra, a madra. We can't stop writing about him. 755 00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,720 He becomes of great significance. 756 00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:52,680 I believe that a young minister and a minister of any caliber 757 00:55:52,960 --> 00:55:59,200 must somehow pray for it and search for it and hope for it. 758 00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:04,560 Do you understand and desire it? Babo says desire the best gifts. 759 00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:08,400 When we say desire the best gifts, it means that the highest 760 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,320 things are possible for you. If, if, if he said desire a 761 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,160 gift, that would be different. But for him to say desire the 762 00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:21,080 best gifts, then it means that the best type of revelation is 763 00:56:21,080 --> 00:56:23,640 available to you. It means that it's possible for 764 00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:27,240 Christ to appear to you because he asks you to desire the best 765 00:56:27,720 --> 00:56:30,040 convert endlessly the best gifts. 766 00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,360 It means that you can actually have it. 767 00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,600 Why would God tell you to desire? 768 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,960 Something you can never have? Think about it, think about it, 769 00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,800 you call a man and you tell a man you desire to have 770 00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,160 pregnancy. Meanwhile you don't have a womb. 771 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:49,960 How can you have only intestines? 772 00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:55,160 How can you give birth? Huh. 773 00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,240 So God is telling you give birth by next year. 774 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,320 Meanwhile, you don't have a womb, you are a man. 775 00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,760 God is telling you to desire something that is impossible, 776 00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,160 impractical, and that will never happen. 777 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,480 God does not tell us to do and desire impossible things, 778 00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:17,400 Hallelujah. He is rather calling us to do 779 00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,720 possible things. That can actually happen and 780 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:29,000 things that are possible. And I believe that when we 781 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:34,280 desire to know God, you see, we will even desire to be in 782 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:39,280 heaven. But today's pastors, we just 783 00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,400 want to be successful. We don't want God. 784 00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,720 We want to be successful. We don't want God. 785 00:57:45,720 --> 00:57:50,040 It's not God we are after. We want more money for our 786 00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:55,280 churches and more money for our ministries and more money for 787 00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:59,080 our lives, but we don't desire God or to hear from Him. 788 00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:02,120 That is why God also doesn't mind us. 789 00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,000 Amen. You see, as I'm preaching now, 790 00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:12,960 if you start to yawn, I will immediately have the perception. 791 00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,400 I'll perceive that you don't want what I'm saying. 792 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,600 Then suddenly you the this. You see what I'm? 793 00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,760 My message can be preached in 3 minutes. 794 00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:24,080 It can be preached in three hours. 795 00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,560 I will suddenly see the conclusion of the message right 796 00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:30,600 before my eyes and say that to conclude. 797 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,480 God. Has shown us that it's important 798 00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,040 for us to hear from him let shall we stand to our feet and 799 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,440 pray at. The end of the message, because 800 00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:45,960 I can proceed and feel that you are not interested in what I am 801 00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,640 saying. You understand. 802 00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:52,200 So God himself does not speak to people who are not interested in 803 00:58:52,200 --> 00:58:56,560 what he is saying. He's quiet and dumb. 804 00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,280 He's he's silent. And you have to be sure that 805 00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,280 somebody is interested before you start speaking a lot. 806 00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,400 And so we have to be not interested in being successful. 807 00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:13,120 I am not here to preach about success, because success, as 808 00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:14,800 defined by the world is. Very different. 809 00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:19,400 We are here to define, to search for God. 810 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:24,920 We have to desire to hear from Him so that He will speak to us 811 00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:28,280 and when He speaks. To us, what a difference it 812 00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:32,200 makes in our lives. We have to desire to go nearer 813 00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:36,320 him. Success cannot be defined by any 814 00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:39,920 of us. Look, what is success? 815 00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,760 What is fruit? Think about it. 816 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:49,000 Think about it. Think about Paul. 817 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:54,240 The places that Paul ministered with great zeal today, what are 818 00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:58,040 they? That's Turkey, the only nation 819 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:03,040 in the world. Who has an Islamic symbol as the 820 01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,360 flag and all those places are Islamic fully. 821 01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:12,360 That's where he struggled. Is that fruit? 822 01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:14,520 Is it everlasting fruit? No. 823 01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,720 But when he was in prison and he started writing letters in his 824 01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:22,480 frustration, do you understand? In Unable to Come, I have to 825 01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:26,920 write to you not knowing that that was the actual everlasting. 826 01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:30,160 Fruit. That his name is mentioned every 827 01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:34,040 day in every church all over the world and every day in every 828 01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:37,000 church, in every church, in every country, in every part of 829 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,880 the world. Paul bears fruit up till today, 830 01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:42,240 2000 years later. Hey? 831 01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,080 And that was what he did in his last minute frustration. 832 01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:54,480 That is the fruit. What is your fruit, people? 833 01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,120 Can never say you are successful. 834 01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:01,720 How? Can I know whether Pastor Ivor 835 01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:05,480 is successful by looking at the number of people in his church? 836 01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:14,040 How many members did Noah have? Noah's work was to do carpentry 837 01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:19,560 successfully and sailing carpentry and. 838 01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:31,320 Sailing. His boat that he built was 150 839 01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,120 meters long. I hope I'm getting the 840 01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,880 measurements right. 150 meters long. 841 01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:40,360 This hall is about 40 something meters long. 842 01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,560 This hall? Yeah. 843 01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:49,760 His boat was 150 meters long. It was 25 meters wide. 844 01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:55,040 This place is about 10 meters or 12 meters. 845 01:01:55,760 --> 01:02:00,680 It was 25 meters wide and it was 15 meters high. 846 01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,520 This is about 10 meters high, or 12. 847 01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:12,080 Would it be 12? About 10:12, 15, He built a boat 848 01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:15,600 without machines, without electricity, without anything 849 01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:21,760 with his hand, and he built it. For about 80 years he was 850 01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:26,320 building. That was his record, he said by 851 01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,840 the which he condemned the world. 852 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:37,120 His name is the carpentry. And when he finished, he entered 853 01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:42,840 into the boat and closed the door. 7 days, no rain. 854 01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:50,360 He was inside by the which he condemned the world and. 855 01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:52,640 God has approved of this. Man that he has worked. 856 01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:58,640 For him then sailing he sailed for about a year sailing and a 857 01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:00,720 zoo zookeeper he was a. Zookeeper. 858 01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:05,320 He was a successful zoo. How to keep? 859 01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:13,280 Lions, Tigers, There's. Everything that was the work of 860 01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,560 God. Hallelujah. 861 01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,520 You can never tell that some. When you go to a Krupong, you 862 01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:26,600 will see a church, a small church with a list of names, and 863 01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:30,880 those are the Swiss and Germans, Swiss people and German people 864 01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:37,080 who came to Ghana in 18-40 something and started a church 865 01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:41,160 here and died. You see the date of arrival, 866 01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:45,040 date of death, three months, six months, most of them. 867 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,480 The longest survivor was two years and they all died. 868 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:53,480 Through them we are not Muslims today, but their names are not 869 01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:58,000 as popular as the name Bishop Duncan Williams today. 870 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,600 But they saved an entire nation through their. 871 01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:07,200 Blood. Yeah, by the which they saved an 872 01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:10,800 entire nation. So you you say they are not 873 01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,200 fruitful. You say they have not done much 874 01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:14,640 for God. Be very careful. 875 01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:16,600 That's what the Bible says. Judge not. 876 01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,480 You will never know. Don't even try. 877 01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,960 Judgement is very difficult. Any time I see a judge, I pity 878 01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:24,880 him. I say you, you are going to 879 01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,560 judge people. It's the worst job in the world. 880 01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:33,000 My father was a prosecutor, you know, and the prosecutor is 881 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:36,200 somebody who, like, he was a defense lawyer and he was also a 882 01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,640 prosecutor. Like in the Michael Jackson 883 01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:41,720 case, the defense lawyer was defending Michael Jackson. 884 01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:44,800 The prosecutor was prosecuting him, saying accusing him. 885 01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:48,400 My father did both. And then he became a defense 886 01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:51,320 lawyer, defending people. And he used to say sometimes in 887 01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:54,160 the night, he's just afraid. He's seen this. 888 01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:57,920 He's seen because maybe somebody has killed someone and you are 889 01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,920 defending him. And then the blood of the person 890 01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:04,760 is crying out, me, this man has killed me and you are defending 891 01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,240 him. He has hurt me. 892 01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:10,240 He has killed somebody's father says hey, you are defending him 893 01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:16,120 or a judge will say you, you are free when you are a killer. 894 01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,400 That's not an easy. Thing to be a judge so we cannot 895 01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:26,120 attempt to know and that is why you need to hear from God. 896 01:05:26,120 --> 01:05:28,160 What will God tell you? That you this is what we are 897 01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:32,680 supposed to do and then you do it and you look at Mary. 898 01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:40,080 What did Mary do? What was her job God was about? 899 01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:44,440 To use her vagina and her womb. And her breasts. 900 01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,960 And her pituitary gland. He used her breasts. 901 01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:54,520 He caught this. I need application. 902 01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:56,360 I'm coming to use your breasts for something. 903 01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:00,520 I come to use your breasts. To feed baby Jesus, will you 904 01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:01,320 accept? He said. 905 01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,200 Be it done or to me, if this is the work I can do. 906 01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:09,360 If this is what you can use, you can have them then the Lord 907 01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:15,000 applied for. Nine months residence permit. 908 01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,600 I need my child to be in your womb for nine months. 909 01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,400 Will you accept it if you like it? 910 01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:25,680 If it is? If it is, that is what you need. 911 01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,800 He accepted it. He accepted to use her breasts 912 01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:35,120 and when is that was the that was the whole work and the Bible 913 01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:37,080 says she said the Angel appeared. 914 01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,520 Look, you people. You don't know who, Mary? 915 01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,480 Is me When I say Catholics pray to to Mary, I I realize a lot of 916 01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:45,960 people criticize him, but if you think carefully about Mary you 917 01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:53,280 can easily pray to her. Holy Mary, Mother of God, hey 918 01:06:54,320 --> 01:07:00,320 blessed that thou amongst women, and that is what blessed is the 919 01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:02,880 fruit of hell. That is what Jesus, that is what 920 01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,960 the Angel told her. Blessed art thou amongst women. 921 01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:10,000 You are outstanding. Amongst every woman that shall 922 01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:17,040 ever be significant, when you mention the name Mary, you can 923 01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:18,960 easily pray to her. Me. 924 01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,960 I prayed to Mary before. I know what I'm saying. 925 01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:30,280 I've prayed to Mary many times. Pray for SMS now and in the 926 01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:35,200 time, in the hour of our death, you can easily pray to her. 927 01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:39,960 That was what she did. That was her work. 928 01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:45,840 Do you think, do you think you are going to see Jesus on the 929 01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:48,440 cross? His last instruction? 930 01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,880 Look after my mother. Where do you think she is now? 931 01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:56,120 Which church has she planted? What has she done? 932 01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,280 Lester Samuel. He was a fiery pastor, preacher 933 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:01,320 Banja. He laughed. 934 01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:03,480 Maybe, he said, nobody would know. 935 01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:06,240 You see me sharing food, rice, oil. 936 01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:10,560 You, you see, you don't know what God has told him that in in 937 01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,920 this part of his life, he's sharing oil and rice. 938 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:17,840 Somebody who has been spending time casting out devils. 939 01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:22,880 You may never understand it, and you may say he has backslidden 940 01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:24,840 anything that he's now sharing or. 941 01:08:25,319 --> 01:08:28,120 Or a bad anointing. That is why he's. 942 01:08:28,200 --> 01:08:32,439 Moving around, sharing Rice and all, he has no anointing. 943 01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,279 Even John Wesley was like. That as he. 944 01:08:39,319 --> 01:08:42,960 Approaches that he started doing other things apart from starting 945 01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,760 churches and preaching. Love works. 946 01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:48,560 You sit there and say you are praying for success. 947 01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:53,080 Success at what? So that Millennium Ghana Awards 948 01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:54,680 will call you and give you an award. 949 01:08:55,279 --> 01:08:59,399 When did sinners become the approving standard for pastors 950 01:08:59,399 --> 01:09:04,640 in Ghana? When unbelievers to tell us who 951 01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:08,160 is a good pastor and who has accomplished something from the 952 01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:16,920 where, when when when when did. Unbelievers start to tell us who 953 01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:19,520 is a good pastor and who is not a good pastor and which is a 954 01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:20,920 good church and which is not a good church. 955 01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,040 A man did an altar called only one person came forward only one 956 01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:27,160 out of the and that one person was Billy Graham. 957 01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:30,520 He was very depressed that day when because it was like he was 958 01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:33,720 very sad and one person came to a small boy gave my life to 959 01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:35,520 Jesus Christ. That's why President. 960 01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:41,080 OK, go here. Millions of souls who. 961 01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:45,160 Crusades are walking away like that and you are feeling 962 01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,720 depressed. I mean that day you are sad, you 963 01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:51,600 have got the biggest fish and the biggest soul you can ever 964 01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:58,480 catch and in the eyes of people you have not successful because 965 01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:00,800 even when people were. Coming forward to give their 966 01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:04,680 That big man didn't come, that woman didn't come, that Madam 967 01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,360 didn't come, but just a small boy, a student. 968 01:10:07,440 --> 01:10:09,640 He is the one who came forward to give his life. 969 01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:13,760 They are not successful. They are not successful. 970 01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:18,400 They are not successful. You. 971 01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:20,560 You. Must not pray for success, 972 01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:25,240 rather pray to know God and to, if possible, to. 973 01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:29,560 Hear. Be attracted to this concept 974 01:10:29,560 --> 01:10:33,480 that you can hear from God, that you can close your eyes and have 975 01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:37,920 a vision that will mean something, that you can hear 976 01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:39,080 God. Speaking to you. 977 01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:44,480 I think it's the greatest thing that any minister can ever have 978 01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,800 is for God to actually speak to you and say certain things to 979 01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:53,120 you. In fact, to navigate your way to 980 01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:55,040 the place where you can stay confident. 981 01:10:55,040 --> 01:11:04,360 Yesterday God spoke to me. Let me show you the last person, 982 01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:13,080 Genesis or Genesis the last chapter. 983 01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:29,400 Are you there? OK, now in Genesis chapter 49 984 01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:41,120 you see the mention. Of all these people, notice 985 01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:45,920 Jacob called unto his sons. Gather yourself. 986 01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:50,720 Then in verse three, he speaks about Reuben and he says Reuben 987 01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:57,200 is Reuben, a significant name. There's five, Simeon and Levi. 988 01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,920 Did God speak to any of them? So they all just passed away. 989 01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,360 Do you understand? Everybody passed away. 990 01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:09,320 Even though these were the sons of Jacob, God didn't speak to 991 01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:12,240 any of them. Judah, there's 8 Thou art this 992 01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,760 and that and that. Then he goes on the state in 993 01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:17,880 Zebulun. What is Zebulun? 994 01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:20,240 It's just a name. He came and he went. 995 01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:29,160 Then Issaka, a strong ass 16 Done shall judge his people. 996 01:12:29,360 --> 01:12:31,240 Still there's nothing great coming out. 997 01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:36,960 There's nothing God. A troop shall overcome him. 20 998 01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:43,680 Out of Asha, his bread shall be fat. 21 Naftali is a hind let 999 01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:52,720 loose. 22 Joseph a football Benjamin verse 27 and verse 28, 1000 01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:56,320 these be the 12 tribes, and this is that their father speak unto 1001 01:12:56,320 --> 01:13:00,480 them and bless them. And he charged them Hallelujah. 1002 01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:06,000 And you see, they never became significant for us to write a 1003 01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:13,520 history on Zebulun. Never or God or Judah or Levi, 1004 01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:17,800 nobody but and nobody was going to come from somewhere and his 1005 01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:21,680 name was Moses and that Moses, God would speak to him. 1006 01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:25,200 And when God speak to him, he will become an important person 1007 01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:28,080 in this world. Turn to Exodus. 1008 01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:32,600 You see, even though you may be in a great ministry, if God 1009 01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:33,920 doesn't also. Speak to you. 1010 01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,960 You are you are nothing. You need to have God to speak to 1011 01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:42,400 you also, even though you may be Jacob's sons. 1012 01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:46,600 What do you think? You may be sons of Jacob, but if 1013 01:13:46,600 --> 01:13:49,040 God doesn't speak to you, you just die being called sons of 1014 01:13:49,040 --> 01:13:52,000 Jacob, but you will never become anything. 1015 01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:56,280 May you become something in the ministry. 1016 01:13:56,280 --> 01:14:01,840 Amen. What do you think best? 1017 01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:07,520 Chapter 2, Exodus. And there went the man of the 1018 01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:11,680 House of Levi, and he took to his wife, a daughter of Levi. 1019 01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:16,240 Amen. Are you there all right then in 1020 01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:19,920 chapter 3, Moses was now in medium. 1021 01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:24,440 The whole story has changed. And verse 2 The Angel of the 1022 01:14:24,440 --> 01:14:30,720 Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a Bush. 1023 01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:36,240 And he looked, and behold, the Bush burned with fire, and the 1024 01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:40,080 Bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn 1025 01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:41,480 aside. That's for. 1026 01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:46,080 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside, God called him out 1027 01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:49,120 of the midst of the Bush and said, Moses, Moses. 1028 01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:52,160 And he said, Here I am. Then he said, Draw not nigh, put 1029 01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:55,160 up thy shoes from up thy feet, for the place where ROM thou 1030 01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:59,200 standest is holy ground. Moreover, he said, I am the God 1031 01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:03,000 of thy father, and the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, 1032 01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:07,120 and the God of Jacob, and the God of Zebulun, and the God of 1033 01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:11,080 God, and the God of God and the God of Naftali. 1034 01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:15,800 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The next important person that 1035 01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:19,600 is coming is Moses, and it's not because of where he belongs, but 1036 01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:22,960 it's because God is the one speaking to him and he 1037 01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:25,320 identifies himself. I am the one who spoke to 1038 01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:28,560 Abraham, I spoke to Isaac, I spoke, and I'm also now speaking 1039 01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:31,360 to you. From then onwards we begin the 1040 01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:35,840 history of Moses that goes through Deuteronomy, Leviticus, 1041 01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:36,920 Exodus. All. 1042 01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:40,440 The way to numbers. He has become important. 1043 01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:45,640 May you become significant. Hallelujah. 1044 01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,960 Let's stand. Come now, therefore, and I will 1045 01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:52,960 send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my 1046 01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:57,000 people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. 1047 01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:02,400 Amen. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I 1048 01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:08,960 believe that we need to now come to the point where we desire to 1049 01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:10,480 be spoken. How many won't go to speak to 1050 01:16:10,480 --> 01:16:12,920 you? Why you won't go to speak to 1051 01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:17,880 you? You'll become significant, Amen. 1052 01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,240 That's more important than being successful. 1053 01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:23,000 It's more important than being doing anything. 1054 01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:27,480 Anybody liking you? You pleasing anyone now? 1055 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,560 How? Will God speak to you? 1056 01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:35,560 And that is what you know is where the difficulty now comes. 1057 01:16:36,480 --> 01:16:42,080 You see, the difficulty is how God will speak to you. 1058 01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:46,800 Amen. That is where we now move into 1059 01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:50,120 challenges because now we are outside the Bible. 1060 01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,640 I'm talking about God speaking to you outside, apart from the 1061 01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:59,120 Bible. The Bible is not necessarily how 1062 01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:00,040 God will. Speak to you. 1063 01:17:01,440 --> 01:17:05,800 The Bible says that Jesus said I will I go away and I will send 1064 01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:14,750 you a book. I will send you a book. 1065 01:17:18,350 --> 01:17:21,070 No. I'll send you another comforter. 1066 01:17:21,830 --> 01:17:25,710 He will guide you, He will show you, and I'm telling you 1067 01:17:25,710 --> 01:17:30,200 something you have to learn. How to speak if the Holy Spirit 1068 01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:31,320 speaks? Chinese. 1069 01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:36,400 We must learn Chinese so that we can speak to Him. 1070 01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:41,040 Can I have an Amen. And our problem is that we don't 1071 01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:45,120 want to learn the Chinese that the Holy Ghost speaks. 1072 01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:51,080 Hallelujah I. Said we don't want to learn the 1073 01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:57,040 Chinese that the Holy Spirit speaks now. 1074 01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:02,040 There are two foundations that you need in place. 1075 01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:07,640 Two pillars that are going to be your stability when God speaks 1076 01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:10,920 to you. 2 important pillars, Amen. 1077 01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:17,600 The first pillar is the scripture itself, Amen. 1078 01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:23,040 And the second pillar, I'll tell you the second pillar. 1079 01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:31,800 Remind me, I believe that when you are anointed and God is with 1080 01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:37,160 you, you will learn to hear from God through His Word. 1081 01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:40,680 Amen. You people are very quiet. 1082 01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:42,640 Are you all right? Are you around? 1083 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:44,640 Are you here? Amen. 1084 01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:50,360 Now you have pastors who don't read their Bible every day, who 1085 01:18:50,360 --> 01:18:54,120 don't have their quiet time every day, who don't know how to 1086 01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:57,080 study the Bible. How many do not have a Strong's 1087 01:18:57,080 --> 01:18:59,840 Concordance? Strong's Concordance. 1088 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:01,840 Raise your hand, please. I want. 1089 01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:03,560 I want to know how many don't have it? 1090 01:19:03,560 --> 01:19:04,520 Stand up, please. Stand up. 1091 01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:08,920 You don't have Strong. Strong's Concordance. 1092 01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:13,400 Most of us don't have. OK, Thank you. 1093 01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:14,320 You may. You may Sit down. 1094 01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:17,040 Thank you. How many of us don't have Dick's 1095 01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:23,000 Bible? Dick's DAKE. 1096 01:19:23,240 --> 01:19:25,240 Dick's Bible. Raise your hand, please. 1097 01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:30,320 OK, sit down. Oh, a lot of people raised your 1098 01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:31,400 hand, but a lot of you didn't stand. 1099 01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,160 You're tired of standing. You're not in kindergarten. 1100 01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:37,200 I'm sorry. How many of you don't have 1101 01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:44,520 Thompson Chain Bible? OK. 1102 01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:49,000 Is there somebody in the van? OK, just stand right there. 1103 01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:53,680 You have Thompson Chain Bible. OK, How many don't have Thompson 1104 01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:56,720 Chain Bible? Let's see Most of us. 1105 01:19:56,920 --> 01:20:01,800 OK, put down your hand. How many don't have Oxford 1106 01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:07,000 Dictionary? Raise your hand, please. 1107 01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:12,080 How many have Oxford Dictionary? OK, Do you have Oxford 1108 01:20:12,080 --> 01:20:12,720 Dictionary? There? 1109 01:20:14,440 --> 01:20:16,720 You don't have tomorrow you have. 1110 01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:19,480 OK, thank you. Now. 1111 01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:32,840 You see, it was a trick. I'm not asking you whether you 1112 01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:35,200 don't have because I want to give you all because. 1113 01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,960 I want them to sell it to you, but I want to prove to you that 1114 01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:44,600 you don't have a good foundation in the Scriptures. 1115 01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:47,800 Ain't Tina, You don't have strong concordance. 1116 01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:53,760 I mean a pastor. You don't have a Strong's 1117 01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:58,040 Concordance. Do you see Strong's concordance? 1118 01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:06,240 Strong's Concordance is the concordance that has everything, 1119 01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:10,960 and then apart from that it has the Greek words and the Hebrew 1120 01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:12,680 words, so that if you see a word. 1121 01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:17,000 And you want to know that this word compel you. 1122 01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,720 You want to know that this word is anacazo or this word is 1123 01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:21,960 anadea or something. You can use the strong 1124 01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:24,000 concordance, but we don't even know how to do it. 1125 01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:28,560 They understand. So that alone, you see, is a 1126 01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:34,240 sign to you. You see that you don't have a 1127 01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:39,640 basis, a scriptural, a basis, a foundation for him to speak. 1128 01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:43,040 To you are a dangerous person. To, to, to, to. 1129 01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:47,880 You know, the Bible says holy and full of prophetic words and 1130 01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:51,960 directions and foundations that are so foundational and 1131 01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:57,440 important that God cannot speak to somebody who does not have 1132 01:21:57,440 --> 01:22:01,720 this scripture. So if you don't know how to do 1133 01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:05,240 Bible study. I am telling you they can lay 1134 01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:08,280 hands and lay hands and lay hands and lay hands. 1135 01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:12,960 Recently, I find myself becoming more anointed by reading my 1136 01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:20,960 Bible than praying. Oh yeah, God is not a Hindu. 1137 01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:29,360 Sometimes we come. It's like God where we shout at 1138 01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:32,880 you. You, you have to move. 1139 01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:38,160 But I learnt this lesson when I was a student in Achmata school. 1140 01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:41,080 I belonged to Carvery Road and we were going to a program in 1141 01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:42,200 tech. That was the first time I went 1142 01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:46,280 to Kumasi and we shouted at God to move. 1143 01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:52,080 We we prayed so much that our voices, the voices of the 1144 01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:56,360 singers went and we had. That's where I learnt that 1145 01:22:56,440 --> 01:23:00,120 banana is used to cure hoarse voices. 1146 01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:04,720 If your voice is has gone, eat banana, it will come. 1147 01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:07,680 I learnt it. From cavalry. 1148 01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:09,880 Because the singers had that problem. 1149 01:23:09,880 --> 01:23:12,760 Their prayer removed their voices and they were all hoarse 1150 01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:14,200 when they started. They Can't Sing. 1151 01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:22,280 And we will shout and pray. I mean, we, we forced God. 1152 01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:26,160 Yeah. If you know what is good for 1153 01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:33,760 you, arrive and save the souls. If you know what is good for 1154 01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:37,040 you, come and save. We are giving you a last chance. 1155 01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:45,000 We came to Kumasi with all our everything and that time I tell 1156 01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:48,600 you we were surprised. Very few people gave their 1157 01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:52,160 lives. We were we were we to us. 1158 01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:55,680 It was a total flop, that particular program. 1159 01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:00,800 And that's when I learned for the first time, that is if God 1160 01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:04,000 can be moved by more hours of prayer then. 1161 01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:07,320 Tell me if it's 82 hours, we'll stay here. 1162 01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:10,800 We'll pray from now till Sunday and everything will happen. 1163 01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:14,040 Till the 80. Two hours are coming, then we 1164 01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:17,040 move and we know that by all means, but if you like, try it 1165 01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:19,640 and see. You will soon discover that you 1166 01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:21,840 may pray 1,000,000 hours. You'll be looking at you. 1167 01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:26,360 You'll find out. I'm not saying that prayer is 1168 01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,960 not good. I believe in praying for hours 1169 01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:34,200 and I pray for hours, but I'm showing you that. 1170 01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,280 God, you see every. Formula that a human being comes 1171 01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:42,960 with, God will disprove it. If you if you lay hands, they 1172 01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:44,520 get healed. So one day you lay hands, they 1173 01:24:44,520 --> 01:24:45,800 will not get healed. Then you see that? 1174 01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:49,520 Yeah, God is not a formula. It's not a computer. 1175 01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:51,000 You press delete, then it happens. 1176 01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:56,280 Enter F7, Shift this. Then something is happening. 1177 01:24:56,840 --> 01:25:01,960 No, God is not a computer. Hallelujah. 1178 01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,600 And God has no formulas. I want you to pray for four 1179 01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:07,040 hours. That's why you go to America and 1180 01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:07,960 see. People, they don't pray, they 1181 01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:09,840 have big churches. God is trying to disprove your 1182 01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:13,040 formula. You may think that miracles will 1183 01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:15,520 bring a big church and you go to a church, you see the pastor 1184 01:25:15,520 --> 01:25:18,840 doesn't have even 1 miracle. I remember once some people, 1185 01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:20,560 they went for a funeral. When they came out they said 1186 01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:26,880 they didn't serve us even 1 groundnut, even 1 groundnut and 1187 01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:28,280 you can. Go to a church there's not even 1188 01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:32,160 1 miracle and still the churches full up. 1189 01:25:33,400 --> 01:25:37,240 How many have seen churches no miracles only this type of 1190 01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:39,760 logical teachings and the churches fall. 1191 01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:44,880 God is disproving your theories. Can no peace outside members are 1192 01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:50,560 coming more with cars, souls, poor people, rich people. 1193 01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:55,600 And you are there with all your miracles, anointing, say, oh, 1194 01:25:56,360 --> 01:26:04,160 nobody's there, mercy. None of these things are a 1195 01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:08,640 formula. We. 1196 01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:12,840 Must come to God for everybody. There is something that will 1197 01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:17,160 work, and we must. Hear from God, Amen. 1198 01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:23,600 And we must have. God's Word as a foundation. 1199 01:26:25,440 --> 01:26:30,120 Honestly, honestly, look, I realized as a charismatic pastor 1200 01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:36,600 that most of the charismatic people, because we go to church 1201 01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:40,040 and we have good pastors, good preachers, the people in the 1202 01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:41,400 church were not reading their Bible. 1203 01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:46,920 Hallelujah. I realized that charismatics. 1204 01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:50,800 Did not read the Bible. That is why I wrote the book and 1205 01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:55,800 when I wrote the book I said I do not want the book to be. 1206 01:26:55,800 --> 01:27:00,320 Called Secret of something, Power of something. 1207 01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:04,280 Key of Psalm. I just wanted to call it quiet 1208 01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:08,800 time because that is what is not in the church. 1209 01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:17,840 These ones and the pastors and Christians have shifted from the 1210 01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:24,880 very basic act of daily having time with God and reading the 1211 01:27:24,880 --> 01:27:32,320 Bible daily, daily. Daily Bible readings. 1212 01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:35,520 How many would agree with me that not you, but you know many 1213 01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:39,600 pastors and misses who do not read their Bible daily. 1214 01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:42,320 Raise up your hand. If you know people like that, 1215 01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:46,720 not you, but you know of people raise your hand. 1216 01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:53,240 You will not raise your hand. You don't know anybody or you 1217 01:27:53,240 --> 01:27:55,080 feel that when you raise your hand it means its you. 1218 01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:04,800 Amen. And so I wrote this book. 1219 01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:08,720 This book is about quiet time. What is a quiet time? 1220 01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:18,160 Chapter 2 says follow the great men who had quiet times. 1221 01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:21,680 Follow the great men who had quiet times. 1222 01:28:21,760 --> 01:28:24,360 Then I have Moses had quiet times with God. 1223 01:28:25,160 --> 01:28:28,000 And the Lord said unto Moses, he did 2 tables of stone like the 1224 01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:31,120 first. And be ready in the morning, and 1225 01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:35,640 come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai, and no man shall 1226 01:28:35,640 --> 01:28:40,600 come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all 1227 01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:42,840 the mounts, neither let the flocks. 1228 01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:46,800 Nor head nor that the business you are doing let them not feed 1229 01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:56,200 before that mount. By the time Moses, God commanded 1230 01:28:56,200 --> 01:29:00,240 Joshua to have a daily quiet time, he said, This book of the 1231 01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:01,560 law shall not be part. Of our mouth. 1232 01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:06,280 But thou shalt meditate therein day and night, daily that the 1233 01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:10,600 law. Adam have quiet time until he 1234 01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:14,720 backs late. Adam used to meet with God, and 1235 01:29:14,720 --> 01:29:18,480 they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the 1236 01:29:18,480 --> 01:29:21,760 cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid 1237 01:29:21,760 --> 01:29:23,760 themselves from the presence of the Lord. 1238 01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:26,640 And the Lord God is calling where Adam. 1239 01:29:27,440 --> 01:29:30,520 Adam used to come. God used to speak with him every 1240 01:29:30,520 --> 01:29:38,990 day. Mikaya knew the habit of quiet 1241 01:29:38,990 --> 01:29:42,230 time. But Zedekiah the son of Chenana 1242 01:29:42,230 --> 01:29:47,160 went near and smote Mikaya on the cheek, and said, Which way? 1243 01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:52,480 When the spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee, he was 1244 01:29:52,480 --> 01:29:57,920 slapping another prophet and asking him that How come are you 1245 01:29:57,920 --> 01:30:00,160 saying that the spirit has left me and is using you? 1246 01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:03,720 Listen to the answer. And Micah has said, Behold, thou 1247 01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:07,200 shalt see in the day that thou shalt go into an inner chamber 1248 01:30:07,200 --> 01:30:11,120 to hide thyself. That is the day that you will 1249 01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:14,560 know why it seems that God is using me and is not using you. 1250 01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:18,640 You shall know in the day that you shall go into an inner 1251 01:30:18,640 --> 01:30:24,200 chamber to hide thyself, that you yourself will know why God 1252 01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,200 is using the Spirit has come to me. 1253 01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:33,400 The anointing and the Spirit is moving towards people who are 1254 01:30:33,400 --> 01:30:37,720 spending quiet time with God Jesus Christ. 1255 01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:42,040 Have quiet time. Babu says that in the morning, 1256 01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:46,960 rising up a Great Wall before day, he went out and departed 1257 01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:51,600 into a solitary place. And there he prayed. 1258 01:30:52,240 --> 01:30:54,480 Amen. Are you listening to me? 1259 01:30:55,040 --> 01:31:01,880 So I wrote this book Amen because I want to reintroduce 1260 01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:05,400 the concept of. Quiet Time, which has vanished 1261 01:31:05,400 --> 01:31:09,080 from the charismatic world, and I have. 1262 01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:13,720 No other. I don't have any ambiguity about 1263 01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:15,880 it. I mean, quiet time. 1264 01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:18,560 I want it to be called quiet time. 1265 01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:21,160 That is what it is pastors must have. 1266 01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:22,960 One day. I had the unfortunate experience 1267 01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:25,320 of listening to somebody's child talking. 1268 01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:27,880 She was talking about her, her, her mother who was a pastor. 1269 01:31:28,800 --> 01:31:32,880 She said my mother, my mother doesn't read the Bible unless 1270 01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:37,040 she's going to preach. She said my mother is always 1271 01:31:37,040 --> 01:31:40,880 watching films. That's all that she does. 1272 01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:43,720 She was even comparing her mother with her father. 1273 01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:48,520 So my mother, my mother watches films from morning to evening, 1274 01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,080 he said. I will never see my mother, who 1275 01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:52,960 is also a reverend ordained minister. 1276 01:31:53,240 --> 01:31:57,000 I will never see my mother reading her Bible unless she is 1277 01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:00,520 going to preach. And you can say that for many 1278 01:32:00,600 --> 01:32:03,720 pastors, and many, many, unless we are going to preach, we don't 1279 01:32:03,720 --> 01:32:06,120 read the Bible. And that's why we. 1280 01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:09,280 Ask that question, wherefore when the Spirit of God from you 1281 01:32:09,680 --> 01:32:13,000 to to, from you, from me to you to speak, is that you will know. 1282 01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:18,320 When you go also into the inner chamber, you will know mercy. 1283 01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:31,320 Tell somebody. Mercy, it is a foundation for 1284 01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:36,840 God to speak. To have the scripture as a 1285 01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:40,160 basis, I cannot preach about anything more important than 1286 01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:43,280 what I'm saying. There's nothing more important 1287 01:32:43,280 --> 01:32:45,920 than what I'm saying. There's nothing. 1288 01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:49,160 Almost all my messages and all my books are basis of my quiet 1289 01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:50,920 time. The person. 1290 01:32:50,920 --> 01:32:53,280 Who taught me how to have a quiet time is one of the most. 1291 01:32:53,360 --> 01:32:57,480 Precious people, whoever God gave to me, because it's the 1292 01:32:57,480 --> 01:33:01,880 greatest key that has helped me in my life and my ministry is to 1293 01:33:01,880 --> 01:33:04,680 have a quiet time. All my sermons, all my 1294 01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:08,600 preaching, all my messages is The Secret. 1295 01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:10,600 That's why I wrote a book called The Secret. 1296 01:33:11,680 --> 01:33:14,360 Yeah. Do I have that book, The Secret? 1297 01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:17,120 Give me a book called The Secret. 1298 01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:27,240 Seven things that happened during your quiet time #1 During 1299 01:33:27,240 --> 01:33:31,920 the quiet time, you develop the most important relationship of 1300 01:33:31,920 --> 01:33:34,680 your life. How many realize that any time 1301 01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:36,600 you have a quiet time with somebody, you are developing a 1302 01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:38,840 relationship with a person? There's a book called The 1303 01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:41,200 Secret. How many want to know what the 1304 01:33:41,200 --> 01:33:43,160 secret is? What is the secret? 1305 01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:46,720 What is the secret? What is the secret? 1306 01:33:47,240 --> 01:33:50,240 Quiet time is the secret. That's the secret. 1307 01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:54,520 That's why I call. The book, The Secret, Because it 1308 01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:56,800 is the secret. You shall know yourself when you 1309 01:33:56,800 --> 01:34:02,320 go into the inner chamber. Amen. 1310 01:34:03,240 --> 01:34:05,400 Are you listening? You know yourself. 1311 01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:07,400 That is the secret. When you also go into the inner 1312 01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:09,800 chamber. Somebody should take that. 1313 01:34:12,160 --> 01:34:14,680 Hallelujah. Are you there? 1314 01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:18,400 How many want to develop a relationship with God? 1315 01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:26,560 Only four of you. Very good. #2. 1316 01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:34,160 A quiet time makes you develop the most important personal 1317 01:34:34,160 --> 01:34:38,960 habits. It's the most important habit 1318 01:34:39,680 --> 01:34:42,680 you will ever develop. You all have habits. 1319 01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:48,800 Some of you bath every day. Is it a habit? 1320 01:34:50,480 --> 01:34:52,880 Some brush their teeth every day. 1321 01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:57,000 It is a habit. Some of you shake hands with 1322 01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:02,520 your right hand, it's a habit. Some of you use your left hand 1323 01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:05,440 for other things. It's also a habit. 1324 01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:09,560 Are you listening to me or you are not listening to me? 1325 01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:13,400 Yeah. These are habits, but this is 1326 01:35:13,400 --> 01:35:16,680 the most important habit. Even if you don't bath every day 1327 01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:18,920 and you have your quiet time every day, you are blessed. 1328 01:35:19,760 --> 01:35:21,560 You don't bath, have your quiet time. 1329 01:35:22,440 --> 01:35:25,240 It's better. It's a better habit, yes. 1330 01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:29,480 President, do you agree with me? If you don't bathe and you have 1331 01:35:29,480 --> 01:35:30,560 your quiet time, you are blessed. 1332 01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:37,880 If you don't brush your teeth and you have your quiet time, 1333 01:35:37,880 --> 01:35:41,520 it's OK because it's the most important habit. 1334 01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:43,040 It's more important than bathing. 1335 01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:46,480 I know a lot of people who are bathing and are going to hell 1336 01:35:46,480 --> 01:35:51,800 straight. I know a lot of people who are 1337 01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:54,400 brushing their teeth and are going straight to hell. 1338 01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:02,040 The next one. During your quiet time you draw 1339 01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:04,240 near to God and He draws near to you. 1340 01:36:05,840 --> 01:36:09,880 Is that not what the Bible says? Draw nigh to God and He will 1341 01:36:09,880 --> 01:36:13,120 draw nigh to you. Amen. 1342 01:36:14,440 --> 01:36:17,800 The next reason why you should have your quiet time is because 1343 01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:21,680 a quiet time makes you read the most important book in the 1344 01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:24,640 world. This is the most, not this book. 1345 01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:27,040 This is the most important book in the world, the Bible. 1346 01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:32,400 And a quiet time makes you read the most important book in the 1347 01:36:32,480 --> 01:36:38,320 in the whole world, so that when you are going to do an exam, you 1348 01:36:38,320 --> 01:36:40,840 need to read a particular book. It's the most important book for 1349 01:36:40,840 --> 01:36:43,560 that exam and you don't get a chance to read it. 1350 01:36:44,360 --> 01:36:47,560 You've missed, you fail because you didn't read the most 1351 01:36:47,560 --> 01:36:51,560 important book, and a quiet time makes you read the most 1352 01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:56,000 important book before you read any other book. 1353 01:36:56,800 --> 01:37:02,640 Then a quiet time is your personal school of the Word, 1354 01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:06,320 Amen. And the next one is your quiet 1355 01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:08,120 time. During your quiet time you 1356 01:37:08,160 --> 01:37:11,080 increase your personal knowledge of the scriptures. 1357 01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:15,320 And the last one is that during your quiet time, you experience 1358 01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:18,760 the presence or even the anointing of God. 1359 01:37:19,480 --> 01:37:22,800 Hallelujah. How many want to experience the 1360 01:37:22,800 --> 01:37:24,360 presence of God in the anointing world? 1361 01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:29,760 So I want to say that, you know, the lack of Bible study, the 1362 01:37:29,760 --> 01:37:35,120 lack of quiet time, Amen. You know, it is, it is something 1363 01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:38,160 that you know is, is affecting us. 1364 01:37:39,080 --> 01:37:43,320 It is it is keeping us away from God, Amen. 1365 01:37:44,640 --> 01:37:50,200 Hallelujah. Now I am talking about a 1366 01:37:50,200 --> 01:37:52,200 foundation. There are two foundations that 1367 01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:55,920 I, I want us to, to go. Is it because we, we can have 1368 01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:58,000 anointing, we can have all these things, but if you don't have 1369 01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:01,640 this foundation, and sometimes we are, we are using the 1370 01:38:01,640 --> 01:38:04,000 foundation, but we don't tell you about the foundation. 1371 01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:08,000 If you meet somebody like Bishop Duncan Williams and some of the 1372 01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:10,520 older ministers, you'll be surprised that all these are. 1373 01:38:10,520 --> 01:38:13,960 Part of their lives do. You understand what I'm saying? 1374 01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:15,840 It's. Part of their lives to have a 1375 01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:19,040 daily time with God. Amen. 1376 01:38:25,090 --> 01:38:30,290 When you have your quiet time, you develop confidence in the 1377 01:38:30,290 --> 01:38:34,010 greatest book of all time, right? 1378 01:38:34,850 --> 01:38:37,170 Six things that the Word of God is to us. 1379 01:38:37,330 --> 01:38:38,770 I'm just reading out from my book. 1380 01:38:40,250 --> 01:38:45,370 It is a specific revelation to man, Amen. 1381 01:38:46,090 --> 01:38:49,570 It is the gospel of salvation to mankind. 1382 01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:52,640 When you are reading the Bible, you are reading the gospel of 1383 01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:56,120 salvation. How can you be a preacher and 1384 01:38:56,120 --> 01:38:59,360 you don't read the God? So you see, unlike those 1385 01:38:59,360 --> 01:39:02,840 prophets, I mean, in those days of Calvin, John, who's, and some 1386 01:39:02,840 --> 01:39:06,040 of the guys we've been mentioning, Martin Luther, they 1387 01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:08,360 have the Bible in Latin and they were not reading it. 1388 01:39:08,520 --> 01:39:11,280 We have the Bible in English and we are not reading it. 1389 01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:14,800 It's amounting to the same thing. 1390 01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:20,360 I said this amounting to the same thing. 1391 01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:25,280 They had the Bible in Latin. They could not understand it. 1392 01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:29,240 We have the Bible in English and it contains that. 1393 01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:31,640 Look. My books cannot be compared to 1394 01:39:31,640 --> 01:39:35,400 this book. There is nobody's book which can 1395 01:39:35,400 --> 01:39:39,680 be compared to this book. Nobody's book comes near to 1396 01:39:39,680 --> 01:39:41,720 this. This the book that has been is 1397 01:39:41,720 --> 01:39:44,480 the most published most. Read. 1398 01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:49,360 Most published, both circulated, most printed book in the whole 1399 01:39:49,360 --> 01:39:52,520 wide world. There is no book like this book. 1400 01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:55,600 Hallelujah. It's an all the all time 1401 01:39:55,600 --> 01:39:59,720 bestseller of all time. And when you read it, you are 1402 01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:03,440 reading the revelation of God to man and you are reading the 1403 01:40:03,440 --> 01:40:05,960 gospel. So when we don't read our Bible 1404 01:40:05,960 --> 01:40:09,040 much. And we are ministers. 1405 01:40:09,440 --> 01:40:13,320 I think we are deficient ministers, greatly deficient 1406 01:40:13,320 --> 01:40:17,160 ministers and and you see, the Bible is is born. 1407 01:40:17,160 --> 01:40:21,320 How many find the Bible boring? Sometimes raise your hand. 1408 01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:25,000 OK, How many find it boring many times? 1409 01:40:26,440 --> 01:40:28,600 I know you wouldn't raise your hand because you are ministers, 1410 01:40:29,640 --> 01:40:31,720 but I can. Assure you the Bible is boring 1411 01:40:31,720 --> 01:40:36,840 many times and that is why God gives us people who have written 1412 01:40:36,840 --> 01:40:39,400 books. Tapes who have made. 1413 01:40:39,440 --> 01:40:42,280 Comments on Oh, my Book is a comment on some of some 1414 01:40:42,280 --> 01:40:46,160 scriptures. My my book is a comment on 1415 01:40:46,160 --> 01:40:49,280 scriptures. If you look at a book, you see I 1416 01:40:49,280 --> 01:40:51,240 have a scripture. All the scriptures are bold, 1417 01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:54,240 darker, and then I make a comment. 1418 01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:59,680 So anything that I call a book is actually a comment on of the 1419 01:40:59,840 --> 01:41:00,880 on the book of. Books. 1420 01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,960 That's all. It's the gospel. 1421 01:41:07,280 --> 01:41:10,160 It's the gospel. It must be read daily. 1422 01:41:11,720 --> 01:41:15,960 Then the number 3, the Word of God, is final, authoritative. 1423 01:41:16,840 --> 01:41:20,280 It's an authority for everything. 1424 01:41:21,440 --> 01:41:23,400 It's an authority. It's final. 1425 01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:27,120 It's the final word. One day I sat in front of a. 1426 01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:31,080 Couple they wanted to divorce and I said why do you want to 1427 01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:33,600 divorce? And I mean they, they were not 1428 01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:35,880 going into that. And I said, look, do not divorce 1429 01:41:36,720 --> 01:41:40,000 and then. One of them said I will divorce 1430 01:41:40,280 --> 01:41:42,760 and the other one said I asked the other one will you divorce 1431 01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:46,800 and no I will not divorce. So I talked and talked and 1432 01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:48,080 thought. Then I turned to the one who 1433 01:41:48,080 --> 01:41:50,760 said he will divorce and I said will you divorce? 1434 01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:54,800 He said I will divorce and I turned to the other one. 1435 01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:59,880 He also said I will not divorce. Then I said the Bible says 1436 01:42:00,480 --> 01:42:03,120 because the Bible is the final word. 1437 01:42:03,680 --> 01:42:05,680 How many are looking for the final word? 1438 01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:13,640 The final word is what we need. A pastor does not have the final 1439 01:42:13,640 --> 01:42:15,640 word. The Bible has the final word. 1440 01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:18,920 How many want the final word on all things? 1441 01:42:19,960 --> 01:42:22,800 Oh yes. The final word. 1442 01:42:23,440 --> 01:42:27,960 So you are reading the final word, the authority, You are 1443 01:42:27,960 --> 01:42:31,280 reading the gospel of mankind. You are reading the revelation. 1444 01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:33,440 Of God to man. Oh. 1445 01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:41,320 You are reading the Bible is powerful and searching powerful. 1446 01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:44,120 It searches out Bible says the word of God is quick and 1447 01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:46,920 powerful. You cannot read this Bible 1448 01:42:46,920 --> 01:42:49,600 without becoming start searching your life. 1449 01:42:50,720 --> 01:42:53,320 You start to search and you begin to lose confidence. 1450 01:42:53,360 --> 01:42:56,240 As soon as you read the Bible it's because you have not been 1451 01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:57,360 reading the Bible. That's why you are 1452 01:42:57,360 --> 01:43:00,680 overconfident. When you read the Bible, you see 1453 01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:06,800 Daniel, he's a man of God. Lions could not bite him and we 1454 01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:10,240 call ourselves men of God and mosquitoes are biting us on a 1455 01:43:10,280 --> 01:43:22,200 daily basis. I remember when I was in school. 1456 01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:28,120 There was a brother. Who used to use the word of God 1457 01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:34,840 to fight mosquitoes? Yeah, he used to speak to the 1458 01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:39,320 mosquitoes in the room. I command every mosquito to 1459 01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:42,040 desist from biting me from this moment. 1460 01:43:42,880 --> 01:43:45,880 And he used to have resources. Mosul cannot bite me because 1461 01:43:45,920 --> 01:43:49,320 I've spoken to them. He was a man of faith. 1462 01:43:55,560 --> 01:43:58,760 When you go to the top. And there was no water because 1463 01:43:58,760 --> 01:44:01,400 we believed. We were faith people, but our 1464 01:44:01,400 --> 01:44:03,800 faith was very high. Speak to the tap. 1465 01:44:04,080 --> 01:44:08,400 I command you to bring forth water, and water will come at 1466 01:44:08,400 --> 01:44:17,720 least a few drops. Oh Hallelujah. 1467 01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:23,200 The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper, piercing to 1468 01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:26,680 the dividing. Asunder of soul and spirit and 1469 01:44:26,680 --> 01:44:29,760 of the joints and marrow is a descender of the thoughts and 1470 01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:34,120 intentions of the heart. Hey, it has gone deeper. 1471 01:44:34,960 --> 01:44:36,920 It has questioned you about things. 1472 01:44:36,920 --> 01:44:40,400 Nobody can question you. As you come out confidently and 1473 01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:44,080 people are having visions about you and say, brother, I saw, I 1474 01:44:44,080 --> 01:44:46,360 saw this, I saw. When people have visions about 1475 01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:49,040 you, especially positive visions, all you have to tell 1476 01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:50,200 yourself is. You don't know me. 1477 01:44:50,200 --> 01:44:52,040 Anything you have had such a nice vision? 1478 01:44:57,400 --> 01:44:59,600 Ain't it now you have had such a nice vision? 1479 01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:01,600 You don't know my troubles and my problems. 1480 01:45:02,600 --> 01:45:04,840 Sometimes you have to encourage yourself, but sometimes too you 1481 01:45:04,840 --> 01:45:08,760 must, otherwise you will be receiving too many nice visions. 1482 01:45:13,440 --> 01:45:15,640 One day somebody saw me, I was preaching, he said. 1483 01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:18,760 I saw you a ministry and rain. Rain was. 1484 01:45:18,760 --> 01:45:20,920 Pouring round you and the rain was. 1485 01:45:20,960 --> 01:45:24,640 Only around you and it was raining, rain, rain. 1486 01:45:25,880 --> 01:45:32,520 Then doves came on your head, I said. 1487 01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:37,800 Doves and rain. Hey, very nice vision. 1488 01:45:39,600 --> 01:45:42,240 But I immediately said to us, I don't know my troubles and. 1489 01:45:46,040 --> 01:45:49,840 Then after that, he said. Then I saw 2 angels standing by 1490 01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:51,400 your side. Yeah. 1491 01:45:52,200 --> 01:45:55,600 And as you were sharing the word, the angels were opening 1492 01:45:55,600 --> 01:45:58,600 the books and the book were very old and they would just open 1493 01:45:58,600 --> 01:46:01,600 then I'll be preaching very ancient books and they were 1494 01:46:01,600 --> 01:46:05,960 telling and I was speaking the word just recently. 1495 01:46:06,520 --> 01:46:08,840 Nobody came with this when he when he was sharing, I said 1496 01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:13,400 yeah, yeah, as soon as I saw my soul. 1497 01:46:13,640 --> 01:46:18,240 So I said wow. And I said to myself, you don't 1498 01:46:18,240 --> 01:46:21,880 know my troubles. You don't know I travel. 1499 01:46:21,880 --> 01:46:24,120 That's why you are seeing such a great mission about me. 1500 01:46:28,160 --> 01:46:32,400 Hallelujah. By the word of God, it will set 1501 01:46:32,400 --> 01:46:33,840 you. It will question you. 1502 01:46:34,080 --> 01:46:36,120 That's why when John Calvin was dying. 1503 01:46:36,440 --> 01:46:40,000 He said I was really sorry about all my mistakes and my sins. 1504 01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:41,720 That's what he said. That's why he last went. 1505 01:46:42,680 --> 01:46:45,920 I was really sorry. You when you are dying, that's 1506 01:46:45,920 --> 01:46:48,160 what you say. You say I was really sorry. 1507 01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:52,080 And you are very confident me, I'm going to have it next week, 1508 01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:58,880 this and that. Hey, John, who's he prayed God 1509 01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:01,600 should have mercy on me, mercy for my soul. 1510 01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:05,000 After standing for the scriptures to the point of his 1511 01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:08,400 death, all that he's concerned about is mercy. 1512 01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:14,680 Oh my sins. Because the Word of God is 1513 01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:18,800 searching and we ourselves, we know ourselves that sometimes we 1514 01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:22,880 are not sure of our intentions. How many realize that sometimes 1515 01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:24,680 you are not sure of your intentions. 1516 01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:28,080 It looks as if you have a good intention, but could there be 1517 01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:34,640 another intention? Could there be some other motive 1518 01:47:35,240 --> 01:47:36,800 that is making us do what we are? 1519 01:47:36,800 --> 01:47:40,240 Doing the word of God. Will search. 1520 01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:43,600 You will never be free. You will never be confident or 1521 01:47:43,600 --> 01:47:48,520 overconfident. Amen. 1522 01:47:49,640 --> 01:47:51,480 And that's the power of a quiet time. 1523 01:47:52,120 --> 01:47:55,640 You begin to have this powerful exposure. 1524 01:47:57,280 --> 01:48:01,040 Amen, he said. Therefore we ought to give them 1525 01:48:01,040 --> 01:48:05,200 more endless heed to the things which we have had less at any 1526 01:48:05,200 --> 01:48:07,680 time. For if the words spoken by 1527 01:48:07,680 --> 01:48:12,000 angels were steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience 1528 01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:17,080 receive a just recompense of reward, how shall we escape, if 1529 01:48:17,080 --> 01:48:21,440 we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be 1530 01:48:21,440 --> 01:48:24,400 spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed? 1531 01:48:24,400 --> 01:48:28,240 Unto us, by them that heard him, God also, bearing them witness 1532 01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:31,560 with both signs and wonders, How shall we escape? 1533 01:48:31,880 --> 01:48:34,880 It's the final word. We cannot escape from such a 1534 01:48:34,880 --> 01:48:37,960 final word. And when you expose yourself to 1535 01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:40,920 the Scriptures. To the concordances, to the 1536 01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:43,560 dictionaries, to understand the scriptures. 1537 01:48:43,920 --> 01:48:46,760 You are exposing yourself to the final word, to the final 1538 01:48:46,760 --> 01:48:49,600 authority from which you cannot escape. 1539 01:48:50,400 --> 01:48:54,320 You are exposing yourself to different levels of divine 1540 01:48:54,320 --> 01:48:59,560 revelation, of God speaking not through man, which a man is a 1541 01:48:59,560 --> 01:49:00,920 filter. I have a filter. 1542 01:49:01,280 --> 01:49:05,200 By the time the pure Word of God passes through my mind and my 1543 01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:09,200 background and everything, you will get just a fraction of what 1544 01:49:09,200 --> 01:49:12,800 is the truth or what is the purity of God's greatness of His 1545 01:49:12,800 --> 01:49:15,320 Word. But when you pick it yourself 1546 01:49:15,320 --> 01:49:19,080 directly, you are beginning to expose yourself to the gospel 1547 01:49:20,120 --> 01:49:23,280 and it asserts. You there are many things when 1548 01:49:23,280 --> 01:49:26,360 somebody tells you you will not here, in fact you will be so 1549 01:49:26,360 --> 01:49:32,600 insulted and you will say what does he mean? 1550 01:49:34,360 --> 01:49:36,960 I remember when they attacked us and they broke our walls. 1551 01:49:37,920 --> 01:49:45,600 I heard somebody saying, you know, do you pray? 1552 01:49:47,120 --> 01:49:50,320 Are you prayerful? If you were praying, would this 1553 01:49:50,320 --> 01:49:53,840 happen? Will it be like this if you are 1554 01:49:53,840 --> 01:49:56,320 prayerful? They asked me, do you go for 1555 01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:59,400 prayer walks? Do you have communion? 1556 01:50:01,960 --> 01:50:03,920 Why are all these troubles? Happening to you? 1557 01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:09,600 Are you in the? Spirit, do you have prayer walks 1558 01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:13,040 in the community? You know, as they were saying 1559 01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:17,560 this is I was getting this step. But when I say them to myself, 1560 01:50:18,320 --> 01:50:23,320 it's easier. But if somebody comes to tell me 1561 01:50:23,320 --> 01:50:25,520 it's very good for you, you see you it's good for. 1562 01:50:25,560 --> 01:50:27,960 You that this happened. I will hate the person I was, 1563 01:50:27,960 --> 01:50:31,720 like look at somebody, he has a bad mind towards me. 1564 01:50:32,080 --> 01:50:33,760 Come and tell me that this is a good thing. 1565 01:50:33,760 --> 01:50:37,760 It's good for me. But when I read my Bible and I 1566 01:50:37,760 --> 01:50:41,840 see certain tribulations that people went through, that was a. 1567 01:50:41,840 --> 01:50:44,520 God led the people of Israel to the bitter. 1568 01:50:44,520 --> 01:50:48,000 Waters to drink the bitter waters. 1569 01:50:48,520 --> 01:50:50,280 It is good for me that I was afflicted. 1570 01:50:50,280 --> 01:50:53,880 Then I see that it's good. Oh. 1571 01:50:54,800 --> 01:50:56,160 How? Can you say you want to hear 1572 01:50:56,160 --> 01:51:00,160 from God when this one you are not having it in your life? 1573 01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:05,960 The Word of God is God's method for man's prosperity. 1574 01:51:06,520 --> 01:51:10,640 When you study the Word of God, like God told Joshua, even an 1575 01:51:10,640 --> 01:51:14,000 army general, you will prosper when you read my word. 1576 01:51:15,400 --> 01:51:19,480 For thou shall make thy way prosperous, and thou shall have 1577 01:51:19,480 --> 01:51:22,440 good success. This book of the law shall not 1578 01:51:22,440 --> 01:51:25,600 depart out of thy mouth. Today, pastors cannot. 1579 01:51:25,600 --> 01:51:30,360 Quote Scriptures today. Today, pastors cannot quote 1580 01:51:30,360 --> 01:51:33,000 Scriptures. Amen. 1581 01:51:33,880 --> 01:51:38,040 Pastors, we, we do not have scriptures. 1582 01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:41,000 Are you listening to me? We do not. 1583 01:51:41,080 --> 01:51:46,080 We cannot quote modern pastors, pastors who are whose basis they 1584 01:51:46,080 --> 01:51:48,920 didn't go to SU. If you went to Scripture, you 1585 01:51:48,920 --> 01:51:52,640 know, usually you are different. But if you didn't go to SU and 1586 01:51:52,640 --> 01:51:56,360 you got saved afterwards, you, you, they can't quote 1587 01:51:56,360 --> 01:51:58,760 scriptures. They don't know many things in 1588 01:51:58,760 --> 01:52:01,600 the Bible. They don't know so many basics. 1589 01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:05,720 That is why I wrote the book Quiet Time, because we must have 1590 01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:10,320 quiet time again. Yeah. 1591 01:52:11,440 --> 01:52:14,680 And I believe this one of the most charismatic and powerful 1592 01:52:14,680 --> 01:52:17,920 and anointed things. Amen. 1593 01:52:19,360 --> 01:52:24,440 Hallelujah. Now, as we study the. 1594 01:52:24,440 --> 01:52:29,000 Bible. I believe that many, many 1595 01:52:29,640 --> 01:52:35,360 blessings are going to come to us because #1 the Bible is God's 1596 01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:41,320 revelation unto it #3 the Bible is God's will that is revealed 1597 01:52:41,960 --> 01:52:44,800 to us. I don't know if you are trying 1598 01:52:44,800 --> 01:52:47,360 to write, but I think it's too fast so you must get the book. 1599 01:52:48,920 --> 01:52:52,400 The Bible is the record of God's dealings with man in the past, 1600 01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:54,760 present and future. And that can also tell you how 1601 01:52:54,760 --> 01:52:59,240 you how God will deal with you. That's how God dealt with 1602 01:52:59,240 --> 01:53:02,920 Abraham, how God dealt with Isaac, how God dealt with Moses, 1603 01:53:02,920 --> 01:53:04,360 that's how God dealt with those people. 1604 01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:05,600 He would deal with you like that. 1605 01:53:06,520 --> 01:53:09,880 When you see Babu says that, what do you call it gave? 1606 01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:13,440 Birth to a son and the guy was wicked and the Bible says God 1607 01:53:13,440 --> 01:53:15,400 killed him. You must know that when you are 1608 01:53:15,400 --> 01:53:21,200 very wicked, God will kill you. Hallelujah. 1609 01:53:22,080 --> 01:53:25,120 Amen. So all these things are. 1610 01:53:25,360 --> 01:53:28,240 Very, very, very powerful. And I believe that as we get the 1611 01:53:28,680 --> 01:53:33,560 scriptures, we begin to have a very good foundation of what we 1612 01:53:33,560 --> 01:53:35,200 have. And this is what I personally, 1613 01:53:35,320 --> 01:53:38,760 you know, we are not becoming significant because God does not 1614 01:53:38,760 --> 01:53:42,080 speak to us. And this foundational thing, you 1615 01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:44,200 know, I believe is very important. 1616 01:53:44,200 --> 01:53:46,480 So that's why I wrote this book quieter and I wrote these ones 1617 01:53:46,480 --> 01:53:52,480 to These are daily devotion that you can have your quiet time 1618 01:53:52,480 --> 01:53:59,760 from every day you can read. A piece you see now Charismatic 1619 01:53:59,760 --> 01:54:07,840 pastors we prefer to build. Snack squares or what do you 1620 01:54:07,840 --> 01:54:12,880 call it, Eating spots? Canteen spots rather than book 1621 01:54:12,880 --> 01:54:15,280 shops. Even our church. 1622 01:54:15,280 --> 01:54:17,280 We are going to build 1 now because. 1623 01:54:17,920 --> 01:54:21,760 We have seen that it's. Something that the people want. 1624 01:54:22,760 --> 01:54:24,400 Do you understand? Yes. 1625 01:54:27,120 --> 01:54:32,120 So we have decided to build 1. Yeah. 1626 01:54:32,200 --> 01:54:34,320 A cantina or a cafeteria, whatever. 1627 01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:43,040 Because the Mendes, they like chicken rice, this meat pie, not 1628 01:54:43,040 --> 01:54:46,120 the. Bible Few pastors are building 1629 01:54:46,120 --> 01:54:52,800 book shops. Recently I went to a church and 1630 01:54:52,800 --> 01:54:57,280 I was introducing the Bibles and the things that were in the van. 1631 01:54:58,200 --> 01:55:01,920 I sounded like a moon. Somebody from the moon. 1632 01:55:03,840 --> 01:55:10,840 I'm telling you, person TEFL, somebody from the moon who was 1633 01:55:10,840 --> 01:55:17,400 introducing moons, moon books, Mooney books, and I was starting 1634 01:55:17,400 --> 01:55:19,240 introducing my book. I was telling them we have this 1635 01:55:19,240 --> 01:55:22,160 Bible and you see how many of you don't have strong concorder. 1636 01:55:22,320 --> 01:55:25,360 We have all come for a minister's conference room and 1637 01:55:25,360 --> 01:55:27,960 these are basic tools of Christianity. 1638 01:55:28,840 --> 01:55:31,760 Most of us from different places, basic tools. 1639 01:55:31,760 --> 01:55:35,800 You call yourself a minister, you call yourself a pastor, you 1640 01:55:35,800 --> 01:55:41,160 call yourself somebody who is in the ministry and you don't have 1641 01:55:41,160 --> 01:55:45,080 the basic, just like a doctor, you don't have a stethoscope and 1642 01:55:45,080 --> 01:55:48,120 you don't have something basic that you can use to hear, to 1643 01:55:48,120 --> 01:55:51,320 listen, to feel. It's very basic. 1644 01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:54,160 It's very. That is why we are having 1645 01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:58,320 shallow people and that is I'm telling you the reason why we 1646 01:55:58,320 --> 01:56:03,800 have great charismatic churches today in Ghana is because both 1647 01:56:03,800 --> 01:56:08,360 the Scripture Union and. Groups like Calvary Rd., Joyful 1648 01:56:08,360 --> 01:56:13,800 Waves Singers and Pinkerfield Singers and where? 1649 01:56:14,520 --> 01:56:19,480 Comeback Incorporated and so on have sown the seeds of the 1650 01:56:19,480 --> 01:56:22,840 foundations of studying the Bible. 1651 01:56:23,000 --> 01:56:28,920 Scripture study, Bible verses, memory verses and such things 1652 01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:33,240 are in US. And that's what somebody like 1653 01:56:33,240 --> 01:56:35,480 Otabel, he's from the Scripture Union. 1654 01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:40,640 He was a preacher on Calvary Rd. He was part of what you call it, 1655 01:56:40,640 --> 01:56:44,280 fellowship. We have fellowships and that 1656 01:56:44,280 --> 01:56:49,560 fellowship and so on. You know, these are these are 1657 01:56:49,560 --> 01:56:52,040 the, the people who are they have, they have the basis. 1658 01:56:52,120 --> 01:56:57,200 I was in scripture union. The the games I used to play was 1659 01:56:57,200 --> 01:56:59,120 scripture. I had a friend called. 1660 01:56:59,120 --> 01:57:04,200 Senior, we used to play a game. We quote verses until I quote 1661 01:57:04,200 --> 01:57:08,320 and you cannot quote. So if you quote Genesis 11, I'll 1662 01:57:08,320 --> 01:57:10,880 quote John 11, then you quote, I quote. 1663 01:57:10,920 --> 01:57:13,520 We write what we've quoted. You can't quote what I've quoted 1664 01:57:14,480 --> 01:57:16,720 until our scriptures are finished. 1665 01:57:16,760 --> 01:57:21,920 And whoever can quote and you cannot quote has won. 1666 01:57:24,280 --> 01:57:29,000 I tell you, that's the game. And I played with him many, many 1667 01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:30,600 times. It was a favorite game. 1668 01:57:30,920 --> 01:57:36,440 We used to call it Felon B game. You know, like felons, horse 1669 01:57:36,440 --> 01:57:40,280 racing, GO-8 felons, whatever. Bible felon. 1670 01:57:41,520 --> 01:57:43,640 We used to call that and we used to play that all the time. 1671 01:57:44,760 --> 01:57:46,400 You quote our quote, you quote our quote. 1672 01:57:46,400 --> 01:57:49,600 So I'll go and learn some surprise scriptures so that we 1673 01:57:49,600 --> 01:57:51,920 will go through all and then we'll get to then I'll say how 1674 01:57:51,920 --> 01:57:56,320 about cock this this and I am I right it this, but not just 1675 01:57:56,760 --> 01:57:58,520 scripture. That was our game. 1676 01:57:59,800 --> 01:58:00,760 That was our game. That's. 1677 01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:05,920 Right. And today, past this television 1678 01:58:09,640 --> 01:58:17,880 eating, useless socializing, I'll say it again. 1679 01:58:17,880 --> 01:58:22,520 Useless socializing, talking, chatting. 1680 01:58:23,640 --> 01:58:30,920 Phone calls. More for Scripture. 1681 01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:38,760 And so in the future you can tell what type of church will be 1682 01:58:38,760 --> 01:58:42,080 after our era. You won't see you. 1683 01:58:42,400 --> 01:58:47,120 I tell you, you won't see this type of church there. 1684 01:58:48,160 --> 01:58:50,600 And when somebody gets up and starts preaching Scripture, he 1685 01:58:50,600 --> 01:58:53,320 will be seen as an odd one. Now recently I went to preach 1686 01:58:53,320 --> 01:58:54,880 somewhere. I was preaching powerfully the 1687 01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:56,320 word. Afterwards they told me you are 1688 01:58:56,320 --> 01:58:59,440 John the Baptist, I said. How do you copy John the? 1689 01:58:59,480 --> 01:59:03,000 Baptist because I'm preaching about hell, something that is in 1690 01:59:03,000 --> 01:59:09,360 the Bible if I preach about dominion. 1691 01:59:10,120 --> 01:59:12,360 And I preached about prosperity. You wouldn't have called me John 1692 01:59:12,360 --> 01:59:15,640 the Baptist, because I done the Baptist like an unusual guy with 1693 01:59:15,680 --> 01:59:19,200 unusual messages. And you know the scripture I 1694 01:59:19,200 --> 01:59:21,040 preached from, I preached from only one vest. 1695 01:59:21,040 --> 01:59:22,080 You know the scripture I preached from. 1696 01:59:22,720 --> 01:59:27,680 John 316 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that 1697 01:59:27,680 --> 01:59:29,680 whosoever believes in him should not perish. 1698 01:59:29,680 --> 01:59:31,640 Is the perish that I said should not perish. 1699 01:59:31,680 --> 01:59:32,880 That means should not go to hell. 1700 01:59:34,280 --> 01:59:35,880 That's the reason. Why Christ came? 1701 01:59:35,920 --> 01:59:39,160 Then I become John the Baptist for preaching John 316 in a 1702 01:59:39,160 --> 01:59:42,400 church. It's an unusual message in a 1703 01:59:42,400 --> 01:59:45,880 church. So if tomorrow, one day our 1704 01:59:45,880 --> 01:59:50,600 bishops, archbishops, popes and Cardinals of these charismatic 1705 01:59:50,600 --> 01:59:54,160 churches are completely different, we have ourselves to 1706 01:59:54,160 --> 01:59:56,840 blame. That is why I wrote this book 1707 01:59:56,840 --> 02:00:01,120 and I am saying it and I'm emphasizing you must know the 1708 02:00:01,120 --> 02:00:04,200 Bible and you must be a Bible reader. 1709 02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:07,840 Otherwise, go and become an astronaut, or go and become a. 1710 02:00:09,160 --> 02:00:17,400 Footballer go and find API want the guy who scored the goal API 1711 02:00:17,400 --> 02:00:26,640 and the other guy ACN C ACN. To help you C ACN to connect 1712 02:00:26,640 --> 02:00:32,880 you. ACN will connect you to to to to 1713 02:00:32,920 --> 02:00:42,440 for a job. Your quiet time, Oh, I cannot 1714 02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:46,880 even get away from it. Your quiet time will reveal. 1715 02:00:46,880 --> 02:00:50,600 The total message of the Bible Most of us don't know the total 1716 02:00:50,600 --> 02:00:55,240 message of the Bible. Do you know that the Bible 1717 02:00:55,240 --> 02:01:00,000 starts with the garden? Everything is great and nice in 1718 02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:04,200 the garden, and it ends in the garden and everything is nice 1719 02:01:04,200 --> 02:01:07,480 again. You may not know that it starts 1720 02:01:07,480 --> 02:01:10,600 very nice and all the trouble starts, but it. 1721 02:01:10,680 --> 02:01:15,960 Ends back with the river of life, the tree of life, and we 1722 02:01:15,960 --> 02:01:18,240 are back with God in the garden. That's the end. 1723 02:01:18,240 --> 02:01:21,120 The Bible is a complete story, but most of us don't know that 1724 02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:24,360 it's a complete story. Starts in the garden, becomes 1725 02:01:24,360 --> 02:01:28,760 very dirty, nasty, messy. But God's divine plan is to 1726 02:01:28,760 --> 02:01:33,440 bring us back to his presence where there's no more tear, no 1727 02:01:33,440 --> 02:01:36,520 more sorrow, no more crying back in the garden. 1728 02:01:36,560 --> 02:01:40,800 And how he eventually accomplishes it and what He does 1729 02:01:42,600 --> 02:01:46,280 is all in the Bible. And quiet time will reveal as 1730 02:01:46,280 --> 02:01:51,880 you start to study the Word, the total message of the Bible to us 1731 02:01:52,040 --> 02:01:55,640 as pastors. Many of us are ministers. 1732 02:01:55,640 --> 02:01:57,720 We do not know why we are not Muslims. 1733 02:01:58,680 --> 02:02:01,600 If I challenge you right now and I start and I open my Quran, I 1734 02:02:01,600 --> 02:02:05,360 have two Qurans in the house. If I open my Quran now and I 1735 02:02:05,360 --> 02:02:10,240 start to resetting suras to you now, you'll be confused because 1736 02:02:10,240 --> 02:02:12,480 you don't know why you are not a Muslim. 1737 02:02:12,960 --> 02:02:14,560 You just know that you. Are a Christian but I don't know 1738 02:02:14,560 --> 02:02:20,040 why you are not a Muslim. If I start to open SURA 1143 and 1739 02:02:20,040 --> 02:02:23,480 set in suras now and I start to quote make certain quotations. 1740 02:02:32,000 --> 02:02:33,960 When I went to Malaysia, I told the pastor please get me a 1741 02:02:33,960 --> 02:02:37,120 Quran, I need a Quran. I bought a Quran and then I need 1742 02:02:37,120 --> 02:02:43,800 to have a Quran in my library. If I get a most. 1743 02:02:43,800 --> 02:02:45,680 I'll use the Quran to evangelize him. 1744 02:02:45,680 --> 02:02:48,720 So let's turn to Surah this one and start to evangelize him. 1745 02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:59,040 You are looking at me. You are afraid of the Quran. 1746 02:03:01,240 --> 02:03:05,520 You can't read it because you don't know what is there and you 1747 02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:07,040 don't know why you are not there. 1748 02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:16,370 You are just there in Christ. Another thing is that you will 1749 02:03:16,370 --> 02:03:19,890 know the nature of. God Amen. 1750 02:03:21,530 --> 02:03:27,570 That God provides. God is holy, God is loving, God 1751 02:03:27,570 --> 02:03:29,970 is just. He has two sides. 1752 02:03:29,970 --> 02:03:38,720 He's good and he's severe. And when Bible says that we are 1753 02:03:38,720 --> 02:03:42,920 destined, predestined to be conformed to the image of 1754 02:03:42,920 --> 02:03:49,040 Christ, what image is that? How is it like when you are like 1755 02:03:49,040 --> 02:03:52,600 God? We don't know. 1756 02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:57,160 We don't know. How is it like when you are like 1757 02:03:57,160 --> 02:03:58,520 God? What's the nature of God? 1758 02:03:59,240 --> 02:04:00,640 How? Do you know when you become like 1759 02:04:00,640 --> 02:04:06,680 God? You see, recently the law 1760 02:04:06,680 --> 02:04:10,080 started to deal with me about certain things. 1761 02:04:11,120 --> 02:04:15,760 To care for the poor, to care for the sick, to care for 1762 02:04:15,760 --> 02:04:21,760 orphans, to care for prisoners. I've never been to preach in a 1763 02:04:21,760 --> 02:04:24,520 prison before to the last one year or so. 1764 02:04:27,600 --> 02:04:31,520 Because, you see, I thought all these things are sidetracking 1765 02:04:31,520 --> 02:04:35,600 from the main work of God, which is to evangelize and to wind 1766 02:04:35,600 --> 02:04:41,360 souls and to plant churches. But you see, God's nature is to 1767 02:04:41,400 --> 02:04:46,080 care for hopeless and that look, there is no more hopeless place 1768 02:04:46,080 --> 02:04:49,280 than the prison when you go to the prison. 1769 02:04:49,280 --> 02:04:51,760 And you see the people there, prisoners. 1770 02:04:52,920 --> 02:04:57,480 Oh, man, hopeless. Hopeless, I'm telling you. 1771 02:04:58,200 --> 02:05:02,200 Condemned. That is the nature of God. 1772 02:05:02,560 --> 02:05:04,400 Even you you have. Some of the nature of God, 1773 02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:06,080 that's what, when you are watching a soccer match. 1774 02:05:06,760 --> 02:05:09,320 Between two teams. That not from your country or 1775 02:05:09,320 --> 02:05:13,400 anything, and you see the losing team, you start to support the 1776 02:05:13,400 --> 02:05:15,920 losing team. How many have realized that? 1777 02:05:15,920 --> 02:05:19,080 You start to support the weaker side and you start to wish that 1778 02:05:19,080 --> 02:05:22,160 thing is the nature of God in you to help something that is 1779 02:05:22,160 --> 02:05:25,560 down. He wishes there can be some 1780 02:05:25,560 --> 02:05:29,480 help. That's God's nature working in 1781 02:05:29,480 --> 02:05:30,880 you. Yeah. 1782 02:05:35,320 --> 02:05:39,560 And God's nature is to love and say, what does it mean to love 1783 02:05:39,560 --> 02:05:41,680 your brother? That's the most important 1784 02:05:41,680 --> 02:05:43,760 command. Jesus told us there was a man 1785 02:05:43,760 --> 02:05:47,120 going to Jericho. He was beaten, he was left for 1786 02:05:47,120 --> 02:05:50,680 half dead and a man came and took this man who was hopeless 1787 02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:53,800 and helpless. He said a priest came by, a 1788 02:05:53,800 --> 02:05:56,480 Samaritan came by, a Levi came by. 1789 02:05:56,520 --> 02:05:58,320 All of these were holding the collar. 1790 02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:03,920 But then here comes the Samaritan and he finds the man 1791 02:06:03,920 --> 02:06:06,800 who is in trouble and difficulty and just helps him. 1792 02:06:06,800 --> 02:06:10,320 He said that is your neighbor. That is how that's the person 1793 02:06:10,320 --> 02:06:13,160 you are supposed to love. That's the nature of God. 1794 02:06:14,280 --> 02:06:16,800 If you don't read your Bible, you will never know the nature 1795 02:06:16,800 --> 02:06:19,240 when you get to heaven. You say I have faith to move 1796 02:06:19,240 --> 02:06:23,280 mountains, I have faith to start churches, I have faith to be a 1797 02:06:23,280 --> 02:06:25,840 full time ministry. But you didn't have the love of 1798 02:06:25,840 --> 02:06:28,040 God and it will be nothing. You'll be surprised. 1799 02:06:30,440 --> 02:06:34,760 Your judgment will bring you to 0 Bible say you have faith to 1800 02:06:34,760 --> 02:06:37,440 move mountains to do this, and I have not love. 1801 02:06:37,440 --> 02:06:40,160 I am nothing, it profited me nothing. 1802 02:06:40,760 --> 02:06:42,920 I am nothing and it profited me nothing. 1803 02:06:43,880 --> 02:06:47,720 When I realized that, I started to build my orphanage quickly. 1804 02:06:49,280 --> 02:06:54,000 My orphanage is complete now and the hospital is also almost 1805 02:06:54,000 --> 02:07:01,080 complete and my prison ministry is working and other things to 1806 02:07:01,080 --> 02:07:03,760 help anything that is hopeless and helpless. 1807 02:07:04,800 --> 02:07:07,520 That's the nature of God. Why? 1808 02:07:07,640 --> 02:07:11,280 Because I'm finding out more things by reading my Bible, not 1809 02:07:11,280 --> 02:07:13,960 from anybody else. I didn't learn it from Kenneth 1810 02:07:13,960 --> 02:07:15,080 Hagin. I never heard of Kenneth Hagin 1811 02:07:15,080 --> 02:07:18,080 doing that. My my learning from Kenneth 1812 02:07:18,080 --> 02:07:22,680 Hagin did not include that. But I learned this from the 1813 02:07:22,680 --> 02:07:26,800 Bible, so I was sick. You didn't come come to this 1814 02:07:26,800 --> 02:07:29,280 side. Come to this side. 1815 02:07:30,480 --> 02:07:34,200 I was in prison. You didn't come. 1816 02:07:34,760 --> 02:07:38,320 Move to the. Side those that I never 1817 02:07:38,320 --> 02:07:41,600 understood that scripture because I couldn't see how. 1818 02:07:42,480 --> 02:07:44,440 I was hungry. I was hungry. 1819 02:07:44,440 --> 02:07:47,480 You didn't give me. Come to the side. 1820 02:07:48,680 --> 02:07:52,280 I was thirsty. I was just looking for just a 1821 02:07:52,280 --> 02:07:54,400 drink. You didn't help me. 1822 02:07:54,960 --> 02:07:58,480 Come to the side? No, but I said come to the side. 1823 02:07:58,520 --> 02:08:01,960 Don't argue. I was a stranger. 1824 02:08:04,760 --> 02:08:09,360 You did not take me in because. You don't know. 1825 02:08:09,360 --> 02:08:11,120 Where I was born and how I was. Born. 1826 02:08:11,280 --> 02:08:15,960 You didn't take me and you took your cousins and your relatives. 1827 02:08:16,560 --> 02:08:19,960 Come to the. Side quickly, there's a whole 1828 02:08:19,960 --> 02:08:21,520 chapter on that thing in the Bible. 1829 02:08:22,760 --> 02:08:24,800 It is only reading the Bible that will. 1830 02:08:24,800 --> 02:08:28,720 Reveal to you, somebody said to me, hey charismatic church, you 1831 02:08:28,720 --> 02:08:32,640 are doing an orphanage. I said, yeah, we are also 1832 02:08:32,640 --> 02:08:39,240 reading the Bible. We also read the Bible, not only 1833 02:08:39,240 --> 02:08:40,920 charismatic books. The charismatic book will not 1834 02:08:40,920 --> 02:08:42,360 reveal it to you by Lester Stammer. 1835 02:08:42,360 --> 02:08:44,560 At the end of his life, he's sharing rice and oil. 1836 02:08:46,240 --> 02:08:49,640 He has got a big ship called Feed the Hungry and he's going 1837 02:08:49,640 --> 02:08:53,200 around feeding the hungry. It's not easy to understand, but 1838 02:08:53,200 --> 02:08:58,120 when you start reading Hallelujah, are you still in the 1839 02:08:58,120 --> 02:09:01,480 church or you are going home? And we are destined to be 1840 02:09:01,480 --> 02:09:03,320 conformed to the image of Christ. 1841 02:09:03,960 --> 02:09:06,640 That is the destiny. I heard somebody on television 1842 02:09:06,640 --> 02:09:08,040 preaching. He opened that scripture. 1843 02:09:08,520 --> 02:09:13,920 He came to. Predestiny destiny and said we 1844 02:09:13,960 --> 02:09:17,160 are predestined. It was 31st night predestined to 1845 02:09:17,160 --> 02:09:19,720 be confirmative. Then he came, he said your 1846 02:09:19,720 --> 02:09:24,600 destiny, the year 2000 and whatever your destiny. 1847 02:09:24,600 --> 02:09:26,400 Shall be this, you shall be great. 1848 02:09:26,400 --> 02:09:29,080 You shall have money. This destiny, Destiny, your 1849 02:09:29,080 --> 02:09:32,840 destiny. Read the verse. 1850 02:09:33,960 --> 02:09:36,480 You are destined to be conformed to the image. 1851 02:09:36,480 --> 02:09:38,520 Of Christ to look like Jesus Christ. 1852 02:09:41,160 --> 02:09:43,760 The thing has turned into a destiny prosperity. 1853 02:09:44,200 --> 02:09:48,960 Your. Destiny of prosperity, just the 1854 02:09:48,960 --> 02:09:52,800 word he was looking for the word destiny to lift the word destiny 1855 02:09:52,800 --> 02:09:55,760 out and then take us. Take us into prosperity. 1856 02:09:56,680 --> 02:10:02,240 Forgive, I said. Forgive destiny. 1857 02:10:05,280 --> 02:10:08,400 Your destiny is to become like cry when they see say love it. 1858 02:10:08,880 --> 02:10:12,280 Somebody who lived with Kenneth Hagin worked for Kenneth Hagin. 1859 02:10:12,920 --> 02:10:18,120 And, and, and Kenneth Copeland, the one you saw on TBN, he was 1860 02:10:18,120 --> 02:10:20,560 with both Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland for how many 1861 02:10:20,560 --> 02:10:26,240 years, 20 years or 25 years? And he was interviewed on TBN 1862 02:10:26,600 --> 02:10:32,040 and he said, what did you learn by staying so close to Kenneth 1863 02:10:32,040 --> 02:10:34,440 Hagin and Kenneth Copla for 25 years? 1864 02:10:35,360 --> 02:10:38,120 You know what the guy said? He said I didn't learn faith. 1865 02:10:38,560 --> 02:10:41,320 These are the wildest faith preachers who? 1866 02:10:41,600 --> 02:10:44,200 He said. I didn't learn faith, I learnt 1867 02:10:44,200 --> 02:10:46,520 love. He said when you are. 1868 02:10:46,520 --> 02:10:48,880 Close to them you will learn love, not faith. 1869 02:10:50,520 --> 02:10:53,960 Love and not faith, Yeah, he said. 1870 02:10:53,960 --> 02:10:57,560 What I learnt when I cut close was love and not faith. 1871 02:10:59,280 --> 02:11:05,040 Yeah, it's very interesting. When I got close, I didn't learn 1872 02:11:05,040 --> 02:11:12,640 fake, I learnt love. Brothers and sisters, we are 1873 02:11:12,640 --> 02:11:17,320 destined to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. 1874 02:11:18,320 --> 02:11:20,440 And how will you know but when you read? 1875 02:11:20,880 --> 02:11:23,960 God's Word. Wait, you talk about the widows 1876 02:11:24,200 --> 02:11:27,360 and you talk about hopeless people whose state cannot be 1877 02:11:27,360 --> 02:11:32,160 retrieved and cannot be rectified on this earth, and you 1878 02:11:32,160 --> 02:11:34,680 see God's loving. Hand is stretched out and you 1879 02:11:34,800 --> 02:11:37,240 ask yourself, what has this got to do with winning the whole 1880 02:11:37,240 --> 02:11:40,840 world for Christ? It's like the one who is winning 1881 02:11:40,840 --> 02:11:43,960 the world must be full and covered with God's love. 1882 02:11:44,600 --> 02:11:47,560 It must be a loving hand that is stretched out. 1883 02:11:47,560 --> 02:11:51,440 Not just a hand, not a hand of salvation only, but a laughing 1884 02:11:51,440 --> 02:11:54,320 hand of salvation. God wants the one who is 1885 02:11:54,320 --> 02:11:57,240 stretching his hand out to be full of His love. 1886 02:11:58,120 --> 02:12:01,560 And without the love, even if you have faith and prophecy and 1887 02:12:01,560 --> 02:12:05,360 this and this, in the end you will amount to nothing as far as 1888 02:12:05,360 --> 02:12:07,920 God is concerned. The government may call you and 1889 02:12:07,920 --> 02:12:10,240 say, well done, you built a school, you've done this, you've 1890 02:12:10,240 --> 02:12:12,000 done it. But without the love, God will 1891 02:12:12,000 --> 02:12:15,080 say you are nothing. You have even, you say even if 1892 02:12:15,080 --> 02:12:22,320 you give your body to be bent, you're very sacrificial. 1893 02:12:23,160 --> 02:12:26,240 You give and give and give up to the point where you give your 1894 02:12:26,240 --> 02:12:31,640 body also to be burned. And you don't have life, it 1895 02:12:31,640 --> 02:12:37,600 profited you nothing. So I can learn the nature of God 1896 02:12:38,160 --> 02:12:40,960 by reading my Bible. So if now one day God tells me. 1897 02:12:41,240 --> 02:12:43,240 Build a hospital. It will not sound. 1898 02:12:43,240 --> 02:12:46,760 Strange to me because the. Hospital is not for a profit. 1899 02:12:47,840 --> 02:12:53,440 But to show care and love to people who cannot even afford it 1900 02:12:54,000 --> 02:12:57,960 or help themselves, then I can see it in my Bible. 1901 02:12:58,480 --> 02:13:02,640 In so many places and I will know that it's not an off 1902 02:13:02,640 --> 02:13:03,520 course. Prophecy. 1903 02:13:04,800 --> 02:13:09,880 Yeah, Amen. And that's why I'm saying that 1904 02:13:10,280 --> 02:13:14,640 this thing is the foundation for you to hear his voice. 1905 02:13:15,360 --> 02:13:17,480 For you to hear His, when you hear His voice, you become 1906 02:13:17,480 --> 02:13:20,080 significant. I'm telling you, I'm telling 1907 02:13:20,080 --> 02:13:23,400 you, I'm standing here ministering to you because I've 1908 02:13:23,400 --> 02:13:25,840 heard God's voice speaking to me and I'm doing things that He has 1909 02:13:25,840 --> 02:13:29,560 told me apart from the Bible. I will share some of those 1910 02:13:29,560 --> 02:13:32,520 things with you. I've heard Him speaking to me. 1911 02:13:33,080 --> 02:13:36,280 He has told me and every stage of my upward client in the 1912 02:13:36,280 --> 02:13:38,240 ministry has always been. Do this. 1913 02:13:38,960 --> 02:13:41,120 Do this. If that is what brings I was a 1914 02:13:41,120 --> 02:13:43,080 lay pastor. I was I was a businessman. 1915 02:13:43,760 --> 02:13:50,920 And God said to me, it was in the end of 19901991 or 1990, God 1916 02:13:50,920 --> 02:13:55,160 said to me, stop every business and he gave me a scripture, stop 1917 02:13:55,160 --> 02:13:56,760 every. And the scripture also was in 1918 02:13:56,760 --> 02:13:58,680 line with it. Stop. 1919 02:13:58,720 --> 02:14:00,920 I remember the room, I was lying in my father's hotel. 1920 02:14:01,280 --> 02:14:05,000 Stop all your business, stop all things and give yourself wholly 1921 02:14:05,720 --> 02:14:09,040 to the ministry. Because of that, I went to see 1922 02:14:09,040 --> 02:14:14,720 my sister who was living abroad, and I asked, I said please, I 1923 02:14:14,720 --> 02:14:17,920 want to ask you for money. I've not asked her for money 1924 02:14:17,920 --> 02:14:19,840 before. I said I want you to give me 1925 02:14:19,840 --> 02:14:24,640 some money every month because I'm going to give myself fully 1926 02:14:24,640 --> 02:14:28,480 to become a pastor, a Doctor Who has been. 1927 02:14:28,480 --> 02:14:31,640 She didn't go to the university. I said help me. 1928 02:14:32,240 --> 02:14:34,080 You know what she said? She said. 1929 02:14:34,440 --> 02:14:36,200 If you're going to preach and you're going to do that, I will. 1930 02:14:36,520 --> 02:14:38,640 I will help you. I will support you. 1931 02:14:39,120 --> 02:14:44,560 I will give you money. And she gave me money. 1932 02:14:44,800 --> 02:14:46,600 Every month she sent money to me. 1933 02:14:47,800 --> 02:14:50,840 That is what I have changed. Few dollars. 1934 02:14:51,000 --> 02:14:57,080 I change it and I share it. And we survive for one month and 1935 02:14:57,080 --> 02:15:00,400 another month and another month and another month. 1936 02:15:00,720 --> 02:15:03,800 And I'm here today. Yeah, I'm here. 1937 02:15:03,800 --> 02:15:07,440 Today in the ministry full time, you know and. 1938 02:15:08,080 --> 02:15:11,560 It's like God said to me, but I have to start thinking how I can 1939 02:15:11,560 --> 02:15:13,600 obey what he is telling me to do. 1940 02:15:14,880 --> 02:15:17,840 Everything I have done usually, especially when there are 1941 02:15:17,840 --> 02:15:22,400 significant tense, you know he will speak to me about it and 1942 02:15:22,400 --> 02:15:25,360 then I do it. So what I'm doing now, I'm doing 1943 02:15:25,360 --> 02:15:28,880 it because God. Has spoken to me. 1944 02:15:29,280 --> 02:15:31,760 Some of the things are vague, sometimes they are specific, 1945 02:15:33,640 --> 02:15:35,840 like for instance. You know, and you see, usually 1946 02:15:35,840 --> 02:15:37,640 when God speaks to you, usually it's not easy. 1947 02:15:37,640 --> 02:15:41,480 I mean when he speaks specifically, but. 1948 02:15:45,240 --> 02:15:47,360 Like I've started. Many churches, but most of the 1949 02:15:47,360 --> 02:15:50,160 churches have started. God didn't speak to me to start 1950 02:15:50,160 --> 02:15:53,560 them. He didn't tell me go and start 1951 02:15:53,560 --> 02:15:57,080 this church, but there are one or two churches that He told me 1952 02:15:57,080 --> 02:16:02,640 specifically to start. Out of 400 maybe he's told me to 1953 02:16:02,640 --> 02:16:06,360 start about 3 or 4. OK, when I you see, when I say 1954 02:16:06,360 --> 02:16:10,480 God said to me, it's different from I believe God wants me to 1955 02:16:10,480 --> 02:16:12,480 do something. You see, that's what I'm saying 1956 02:16:12,480 --> 02:16:16,120 that I want us to introduce. Ourselves to the world where we 1957 02:16:16,120 --> 02:16:19,160 cannot differentiate. When you speak, you don't say, 1958 02:16:19,160 --> 02:16:21,440 God said. When it's not, God said it's I 1959 02:16:21,440 --> 02:16:26,440 believe, or I think, or I hope, or I'm praying, or I'm. 1960 02:16:26,440 --> 02:16:29,720 Trusting. Or I feel or I perceive it's 1961 02:16:29,720 --> 02:16:34,040 different from God said and the God said to there are levels of 1962 02:16:34,040 --> 02:16:44,600 God said, yeah, there are levels of God said, Amen. 1963 02:16:46,400 --> 02:16:51,320 But every realm that you get to is because God has said. 1964 02:16:51,320 --> 02:16:54,120 In his way God has said to you, and when he starts to. 1965 02:16:54,120 --> 02:16:55,200 Speak means you are going higher. 1966 02:16:56,040 --> 02:16:59,799 Look, Kenneth Higgins said it. He said the one thing that has 1967 02:16:59,799 --> 02:17:04,760 taken him in the ministry is hearing the voice of God being 1968 02:17:04,760 --> 02:17:06,680 led by the Spirit, He said. That is the key. 1969 02:17:06,719 --> 02:17:09,520 In his whole life is hearing God's voice, he said. 1970 02:17:09,520 --> 02:17:11,400 One day he was. He said everything we are doing, 1971 02:17:11,639 --> 02:17:13,600 the school, the tapes, the books. 1972 02:17:13,760 --> 02:17:15,920 God spoke to me specifically to do them. 1973 02:17:19,520 --> 02:17:22,799 So brother, I believe, I feel, I trust is very good. 1974 02:17:23,400 --> 02:17:25,400 There is another level God said that. 1975 02:17:25,400 --> 02:17:27,360 Even the God said there are realms in it. 1976 02:17:29,280 --> 02:17:33,320 May God speak to you from today. I see God speaking to you. 1977 02:17:33,320 --> 02:17:41,600 Hallelujah. Then you begin to know the fall 1978 02:17:42,480 --> 02:17:44,639 of man, the consequences of the fall. 1979 02:17:44,639 --> 02:17:47,760 When you read your Bible and you have your quiet time, you know 1980 02:17:47,760 --> 02:17:50,240 the consequences. You know a. 1981 02:17:50,360 --> 02:17:52,639 Person. Who read the Bible? 1982 02:17:53,040 --> 02:17:55,040 You will. See sin, like for instance, 1983 02:17:55,040 --> 02:17:57,280 rebellion. Rebellion. 1984 02:17:58,000 --> 02:18:01,440 Look, it is because you don't read your Bible. 1985 02:18:01,440 --> 02:18:04,760 That is why you become disloyal, I'm telling you. 1986 02:18:05,520 --> 02:18:11,000 Or ever become a rebel? Ever ever ever ever ever to 1987 02:18:11,000 --> 02:18:14,360 rebel against anybody. It's because you don't read your 1988 02:18:14,360 --> 02:18:19,080 Bible, Martin. Luther, even Martin Luther who? 1989 02:18:19,080 --> 02:18:23,719 Came out strongly against the the Catholic Church. 1990 02:18:24,719 --> 02:18:27,200 I was watching the film. I, I, I believe that it that's 1991 02:18:27,200 --> 02:18:29,360 what he said. He said rebellion will never get 1992 02:18:29,360 --> 02:18:32,920 us anywhere. Most of the reformers did not 1993 02:18:32,920 --> 02:18:34,400 want to leave the Catholic Church. 1994 02:18:36,840 --> 02:18:39,840 But I think the best example of somebody. 1995 02:18:40,400 --> 02:18:42,559 Who? Started a church. 1996 02:18:43,000 --> 02:18:46,799 And refused to be a rebel even though he was pushed to be a 1997 02:18:46,799 --> 02:18:52,559 rebel but refused until he died. To ever be a rebel, the best 1998 02:18:52,559 --> 02:18:58,799 example is John Wesley is the best example because he started 1999 02:18:58,799 --> 02:19:02,240 his Methodist society. People pressurize him, leave 2000 02:19:02,959 --> 02:19:04,639 this and that. One day he was preaching 2001 02:19:04,639 --> 02:19:06,799 somewhere and they asked him, by what authority do you do this? 2002 02:19:06,799 --> 02:19:09,120 You know what he said? Because he was an ordained 2003 02:19:09,120 --> 02:19:11,959 Anglican priest. He said I am doing what I'm 2004 02:19:11,959 --> 02:19:16,360 doing by the authority conferred on me by the Archbishop of 2005 02:19:16,360 --> 02:19:19,440 Canterbury who ordained me to preach the Gospel of Jesus 2006 02:19:19,440 --> 02:19:21,719 Christ. That's the authority under which 2007 02:19:21,719 --> 02:19:26,320 I am doing what I'm doing. I am an ordained priest and my 2008 02:19:26,320 --> 02:19:28,520 work is to preach the Gospel, and that is what I'm doing. 2009 02:19:28,520 --> 02:19:34,080 I'm preaching. Till he died on his temple, he 2010 02:19:34,080 --> 02:19:35,520 said. We are members of the Anglican 2011 02:19:35,520 --> 02:19:37,200 Church. And he died like that. 2012 02:19:37,440 --> 02:19:41,400 It was, yeah. It's just a society after he 2013 02:19:41,400 --> 02:19:44,719 died five years after they completely. 2014 02:19:44,719 --> 02:19:47,160 Cut off ties with the Anglican Church and became Methodist 2015 02:19:47,160 --> 02:19:49,120 Church. Yeah. 2016 02:19:49,720 --> 02:19:52,640 He refused it. He, in his capacity as the 2017 02:19:52,640 --> 02:19:55,000 leader, refused. That is why. 2018 02:19:55,600 --> 02:19:57,200 It is a very. Stable. 2019 02:19:57,800 --> 02:20:02,840 It is not founded in rebellion. It's not started in rebellious 2020 02:20:03,040 --> 02:20:08,720 minds and a rebellious spirit fighting fathers and whatever. 2021 02:20:08,720 --> 02:20:12,480 It is institutions and so on. When Princess Diana Dara was 2022 02:20:12,480 --> 02:20:14,920 with Bishop Nick, he said the night that the day she was 2023 02:20:14,920 --> 02:20:17,560 buried, I was with he. He just made a comment, he said. 2024 02:20:18,160 --> 02:20:22,000 These people who fight. Institutions and ancient 2025 02:20:22,000 --> 02:20:27,120 institutions which have been there for years, watch them, he 2026 02:20:27,120 --> 02:20:29,280 said. This royal family something has 2027 02:20:29,280 --> 02:20:30,880 been there for years. You just come. 2028 02:20:30,880 --> 02:20:34,640 Inside you are fighting the Queen, fighting the ancient 2029 02:20:34,640 --> 02:20:36,640 ambitions and other things that have been there. 2030 02:20:36,840 --> 02:20:39,120 It's a very dangerous thing. That was this government debate 2031 02:20:39,120 --> 02:20:41,480 and we continued our meeting, he said. 2032 02:20:41,600 --> 02:20:44,680 Hey the. Man is saying some deep things. 2033 02:20:47,880 --> 02:20:50,480 These people who get up and something is ancient. 2034 02:20:50,480 --> 02:20:54,440 It has been there for years. You just get up with your mind. 2035 02:20:54,440 --> 02:20:57,600 You are just. Coming to fight it and condemn 2036 02:20:57,600 --> 02:21:00,720 it and ridicule it and just spoil it with your life. 2037 02:21:00,720 --> 02:21:05,320 You are going, you are going, you are going to marry an, an 2038 02:21:05,320 --> 02:21:09,960 Egyptian, an Arab, so that the king of England's father-in-law 2039 02:21:11,760 --> 02:21:17,760 will be in Egypt or the stepfather of the king, he's in 2040 02:21:17,800 --> 02:21:27,320 Egypt. Watch them. 2041 02:21:28,920 --> 02:21:31,320 Watch them. Things that are born in 2042 02:21:31,320 --> 02:21:34,040 rebellion. John Wesley refused it. 2043 02:21:35,440 --> 02:21:37,640 Refused it. Refused to be known. 2044 02:21:37,640 --> 02:21:44,000 As a rebel of somebody refused to be a rebel of somewhere, no. 2045 02:21:44,760 --> 02:21:47,960 No, whatever you have to go through, they say kneel down, 2046 02:21:47,960 --> 02:21:51,600 kneel down, stand up, stand until you are clear of all 2047 02:21:51,600 --> 02:21:55,320 charges. Hallelujah when you read your 2048 02:21:55,320 --> 02:21:59,360 Bible and you see the rebels. There and how they ended up. 2049 02:22:00,360 --> 02:22:03,480 You yourself will know that to be a rebel is not good. 2050 02:22:04,000 --> 02:22:05,680 It will never end in any good thing. 2051 02:22:06,360 --> 02:22:09,560 But you don't read the Bible. That's why you follow foolish 2052 02:22:09,560 --> 02:22:13,400 things, and you follow associates who are rebelling, 2053 02:22:13,400 --> 02:22:16,240 and you follow pastors who are breaking ourselves. 2054 02:22:16,360 --> 02:22:19,680 This guy, there is no basis. Even if the person is most 2055 02:22:19,680 --> 02:22:23,640 corrupt, there is no basis. The best you can use to step 2056 02:22:23,640 --> 02:22:26,760 aside, the person can be like the Pope. 2057 02:22:26,800 --> 02:22:29,160 And today, look at the Catholic Church. 2058 02:22:29,440 --> 02:22:32,800 The Catholic Church has helped us remember. 2059 02:22:32,800 --> 02:22:35,320 When have you seen, did you see President Bush kneeling down, 2060 02:22:36,200 --> 02:22:38,560 kneeling down in front? Do you think if any pastor dies 2061 02:22:38,560 --> 02:22:41,080 in Ghana, the President Bush will come and kneel now? 2062 02:22:41,080 --> 02:22:45,160 Yeah. The whole world was brought to 2063 02:22:45,160 --> 02:22:49,960 attention by the Pope, huh? Christ was. 2064 02:22:50,000 --> 02:22:52,880 And when you see the Pope coming with his stuff with Jesus 2065 02:22:52,920 --> 02:22:56,080 Christ, when I saw the cross here first, those days when they 2066 02:22:56,120 --> 02:22:58,200 used, we used to laugh at those things. 2067 02:22:58,640 --> 02:23:00,520 So hide me behind the cross. There's a song. 2068 02:23:01,920 --> 02:23:04,640 Oh. There was a song they used to 2069 02:23:04,640 --> 02:23:06,520 read because. Hide me hide Why do you say we 2070 02:23:06,520 --> 02:23:09,640 hide the Christ is risen of prayer. 2071 02:23:09,920 --> 02:23:13,000 How do you say Christ cross Christ is risen is on the cross. 2072 02:23:13,240 --> 02:23:15,160 Why should you wear a cross? Why should you have the? 2073 02:23:15,160 --> 02:23:17,440 Cross, cross is what you must have. 2074 02:23:17,440 --> 02:23:20,600 And when I saw the Pope coming with his staff, with Christ as 2075 02:23:20,600 --> 02:23:23,200 if he's falling down from the cross, I remember the scripture 2076 02:23:23,200 --> 02:23:27,720 that Paul said that I determined to know nothing among you save 2077 02:23:27,760 --> 02:23:31,360 Jesus Christ and him crucified. That's what I decided. 2078 02:23:31,360 --> 02:23:33,680 To know amongst you only Jesus Christ. 2079 02:23:34,120 --> 02:23:37,840 And I saw the Pope coming with his Pope holding in front of the 2080 02:23:37,840 --> 02:23:41,120 CNN camera. Jesus Christ and him crucified. 2081 02:23:41,160 --> 02:23:50,840 Jesus Christ and him crucified. Wow, the cross, I said. 2082 02:23:50,840 --> 02:23:52,720 The cross. Yeah. 2083 02:23:52,960 --> 02:23:56,560 And him crucified. So just leave them. 2084 02:23:56,720 --> 02:24:01,960 They are too mighty and they are too great for an A small fly 2085 02:24:01,960 --> 02:24:04,480 like you or me to fight or change. 2086 02:24:04,480 --> 02:24:07,880 You can never change it. You cannot change it. 2087 02:24:08,240 --> 02:24:10,880 There are two ancient institutions. 2088 02:24:11,520 --> 02:24:13,800 Somebody say ancient institutions. 2089 02:24:13,840 --> 02:24:14,920 You cannot. Fight. 2090 02:24:17,400 --> 02:24:23,360 Yeah. Ham had no business going into 2091 02:24:23,360 --> 02:24:29,200 his father's tent. One guy, Bishop Nick, was 2092 02:24:29,200 --> 02:24:31,360 preaching. He said Ham had no business 2093 02:24:31,400 --> 02:24:37,760 throwing into his father's tent. He had no business he could not. 2094 02:24:37,880 --> 02:24:39,760 Then he said he could not handle it. 2095 02:24:39,760 --> 02:24:44,320 He couldn't handle it. And then he said, every man of 2096 02:24:44,320 --> 02:24:47,080 God has a tent where he can be himself. 2097 02:24:55,440 --> 02:24:59,120 Every man of God has a tent where he can be himself. 2098 02:25:02,360 --> 02:25:05,720 He couldn't handle it. That boy couldn't. 2099 02:25:05,720 --> 02:25:16,000 Handle it. Are you listening to me? 2100 02:25:18,680 --> 02:25:20,320 If you read the Bible, you will know that. 2101 02:25:20,320 --> 02:25:23,720 Look, the Father, huh? You are coming to laugh at him 2102 02:25:23,720 --> 02:25:27,520 because he's drunk? Why Charlie? 2103 02:25:28,480 --> 02:25:30,760 If he hadn't. Built that ark. 2104 02:25:30,880 --> 02:25:33,560 You would have been dead by now. It's because of the ark that he 2105 02:25:33,560 --> 02:25:36,040 built that you are alive now. You have come. 2106 02:25:36,040 --> 02:25:38,480 You see that he's drunk and he's naked. 2107 02:25:38,480 --> 02:25:40,280 You are calling people to come and laugh at him. 2108 02:25:41,200 --> 02:25:47,840 Hey, some 150 meters long, 50 meters high, 25 meters. 2109 02:25:47,840 --> 02:25:49,080 While he has built it. Yeah. 2110 02:25:49,080 --> 02:25:53,600 So bed call for about 100 years, you just get up and you come and 2111 02:25:53,600 --> 02:25:57,200 start laughing at him because he was he was drunk in whatever 2112 02:25:57,200 --> 02:26:03,320 moment in his own tent. Ham have no business. 2113 02:26:03,840 --> 02:26:07,800 He couldn't handle it. Tell somebody he couldn't handle 2114 02:26:07,800 --> 02:26:13,000 it. That boy couldn't handle it, 2115 02:26:16,360 --> 02:26:24,160 that one. Are fighting ancient 2116 02:26:24,160 --> 02:26:32,680 institutions and traditions. Are you listening to me? 2117 02:26:33,520 --> 02:26:37,000 Yeah. So, brothers and sisters, the 2118 02:26:37,040 --> 02:26:40,800 Scripture. Oh, I don't know what I can 2119 02:26:40,800 --> 02:26:44,560 emphasize more than this book. The Bible. 2120 02:26:45,640 --> 02:26:48,720 You will see. How God dealt with Israel. 2121 02:26:49,840 --> 02:26:52,760 Amen. How God dealt with them, how he 2122 02:26:52,760 --> 02:26:56,800 was, he saved them. And one of the things you will 2123 02:26:56,800 --> 02:26:59,000 see when you read the Bible, you will see that there's nothing 2124 02:26:59,000 --> 02:27:04,960 that is by chance. You will see a woman of Levi, a 2125 02:27:04,960 --> 02:27:10,320 man of Levi going to see another woman and he she gives birth and 2126 02:27:10,320 --> 02:27:13,440 the boy is called Moses. So it means that when the man 2127 02:27:13,440 --> 02:27:16,760 saw the woman and he was attracted, he said, wow, that's 2128 02:27:16,760 --> 02:27:19,160 a beautiful lady. God has started his deliverance. 2129 02:27:20,040 --> 02:27:22,080 This was the deliverance of God for Israel. 2130 02:27:22,080 --> 02:27:24,320 It's like the moment had come. God had started. 2131 02:27:25,600 --> 02:27:29,800 It was not by chance. If you read the prophecies about 2132 02:27:29,800 --> 02:27:32,840 Christ, if they prophesied that people would pass by, they would 2133 02:27:32,840 --> 02:27:35,680 wink, they would they would part lots, they would cut. 2134 02:27:35,880 --> 02:27:39,560 And so on all these things, you would say it's not by chance, 2135 02:27:41,840 --> 02:27:46,480 but I think the most amazing thing is when you see that, you 2136 02:27:46,480 --> 02:27:50,920 see that Tiberius, or so Caesar, he gave an instruction that 2137 02:27:51,120 --> 02:27:55,080 everybody should be counted. Meanwhile, Joseph and Mary were 2138 02:27:55,080 --> 02:28:01,640 living 160 kilometers. Away in Galilee and it's time to 2139 02:28:01,640 --> 02:28:06,000 be counted, huh? So he August and everybody must 2140 02:28:06,000 --> 02:28:08,160 be counted. So everybody has to go to 2141 02:28:08,160 --> 02:28:11,280 Jerusalem for counting. And here is Mary. 2142 02:28:11,280 --> 02:28:15,000 Full pregnant. Even now, if you are seven 2143 02:28:15,040 --> 02:28:17,280 months pregnant this month, they will not take you on a plane. 2144 02:28:18,800 --> 02:28:23,720 You don't travel with certain types of pregnancies, You check 2145 02:28:23,720 --> 02:28:26,560 from the airline, but still this woman was nine months. 2146 02:28:28,760 --> 02:28:31,400 But you see there was a prophecy that he will be born in 2147 02:28:31,400 --> 02:28:35,120 Bethlehem. So that 160 kilometers that you 2148 02:28:35,160 --> 02:28:39,520 are is not the place the Scripture must be fulfilled. 2149 02:28:39,520 --> 02:28:43,600 So that man unbeliever sitting in Rome with the idea that is 2150 02:28:43,600 --> 02:28:46,240 occurring to him, that count all my people so that I will 2151 02:28:46,240 --> 02:28:50,200 calculate my tax and see how much I can get from everywhere. 2152 02:28:51,240 --> 02:28:56,200 That thing is the hand of God pulling the prophecies for years 2153 02:28:56,200 --> 02:28:57,280 and years have gone by. What? 2154 02:29:01,040 --> 02:29:04,320 So the study said it was time to be counted and when they got 2155 02:29:04,320 --> 02:29:08,320 there, there was nowhere and she was time for her to deliver and 2156 02:29:08,320 --> 02:29:11,080 there was nowhere. There was nowhere for her to 2157 02:29:11,080 --> 02:29:13,320 deliver. So she has to be born in a 2158 02:29:13,320 --> 02:29:26,800 stable, in swaddling clothes in Bethlehem to fulfill all these 2159 02:29:26,800 --> 02:29:29,080 things. When you look at you say so. 2160 02:29:29,120 --> 02:29:31,040 Everybody that I have met, I have shaken. 2161 02:29:31,040 --> 02:29:34,120 Hands is not an accident. God has done. 2162 02:29:34,120 --> 02:29:36,200 God is doing. God is bringing people. 2163 02:29:36,200 --> 02:29:40,640 God is making me meet people. God is telling my life in a 2164 02:29:40,640 --> 02:29:44,080 certain way. He's doing things. 2165 02:29:45,600 --> 02:29:47,840 There's no accident. Oh, that's one of the things you 2166 02:29:47,840 --> 02:29:49,520 can see when you read the Bible. You say wow. 2167 02:29:50,560 --> 02:29:55,280 The hand of God? The hand of God, huh? 2168 02:29:55,920 --> 02:29:58,240 When you read all the women in the Bible who couldn't have 2169 02:29:58,240 --> 02:30:00,400 children, not even 1 was an accident. 2170 02:30:01,320 --> 02:30:05,440 Every one of them, there was some special reason something 2171 02:30:05,440 --> 02:30:09,960 was happening. When you think of the the Moses 2172 02:30:10,640 --> 02:30:14,720 Joseph, his brothers hated him. God gave him the vision when he 2173 02:30:14,720 --> 02:30:16,440 was 70, so he didn't know, he just told them. 2174 02:30:16,760 --> 02:30:18,600 I saw people bow and you were bow. 2175 02:30:19,680 --> 02:30:23,160 What do you mean? Hatred. 2176 02:30:23,960 --> 02:30:25,720 The hatred was part of God's plan. 2177 02:30:28,240 --> 02:30:32,240 Ruben, the oldest. He went to urinate, or he went 2178 02:30:32,240 --> 02:30:34,960 to Pupu or he went to do something. 2179 02:30:35,760 --> 02:30:38,040 And the rest of the ten brothers were there. 2180 02:30:38,320 --> 02:30:42,000 Or maybe 9. Benjamin was in the house and 2181 02:30:42,000 --> 02:30:48,760 they saw camels passing by. They were going to Egypt and 2182 02:30:48,760 --> 02:30:53,680 Judah. Judah, Judah, he told his birth. 2183 02:30:54,000 --> 02:30:57,360 Let's us sell him rather than killing him. 2184 02:30:58,000 --> 02:31:00,120 Meanwhile, Ruben had gone to Pupu. 2185 02:31:01,240 --> 02:31:05,640 So the Pupuin was part of the plan of God because Ruben. 2186 02:31:06,000 --> 02:31:09,920 Ruben was against it, Ruben was against it. 2187 02:31:11,160 --> 02:31:14,520 Even when the brothers of Israel, when they came to 2188 02:31:14,520 --> 02:31:18,000 Joseph, when Joseph was in Pharaoh's house, Reuben I. 2189 02:31:18,000 --> 02:31:21,200 Told you you should never have given this boy. 2190 02:31:21,440 --> 02:31:24,480 How do you sell your brother? Because he was against it, but 2191 02:31:24,480 --> 02:31:27,640 he had no choice. Because it was once he was away. 2192 02:31:27,680 --> 02:31:31,000 And it was Judah's idea. So that means a thought. 2193 02:31:31,680 --> 02:31:35,640 It's not by chance. The idea was not by chance. 2194 02:31:36,280 --> 02:31:40,920 Good or bad, It's not by chance. The there's some scriptures in 2195 02:31:40,920 --> 02:31:42,560 the Bible. All things are for your sakes. 2196 02:31:42,880 --> 02:31:44,360 Have you seen it before? And there's another one that all 2197 02:31:44,360 --> 02:31:46,800 things work together. We don't understand them. 2198 02:31:48,080 --> 02:31:49,600 So you start reading the whole Bible. 2199 02:31:49,600 --> 02:31:53,880 When you read the whole Bible, say, wow, if I know somebody, if 2200 02:31:53,880 --> 02:31:57,600 I know somebody, God is part of the knowing that person. 2201 02:32:02,120 --> 02:32:05,160 There is no accident in the word of God. 2202 02:32:05,160 --> 02:32:09,120 There's no mistake. Wow, all that is happening. 2203 02:32:13,040 --> 02:32:14,680 I. Tell you it's so divine. 2204 02:32:15,400 --> 02:32:19,040 And then Joseph goes there and he goes to Potiphar's house. 2205 02:32:19,280 --> 02:32:23,440 He was a goodly son and well favored, well favored. 2206 02:32:24,320 --> 02:32:27,080 He was well favored and goodly. Why is he that? 2207 02:32:27,080 --> 02:32:32,440 Everywhere where he was liked, why was he liked? 2208 02:32:33,000 --> 02:32:35,280 And he kept rising. Then one day, Potiphar's wife, 2209 02:32:35,440 --> 02:32:38,040 you see, God wanted him to be in the prison. 2210 02:32:39,080 --> 02:32:41,160 God wanted him in the prison. God was planning to take him 2211 02:32:41,160 --> 02:32:43,640 from the prison. It's only in the prison that 2212 02:32:43,640 --> 02:32:50,720 he'll meet Pharaoh's servants. So he met Potiphar's wife with 2213 02:32:50,920 --> 02:32:55,480 you. She started lifting up her 2214 02:32:55,480 --> 02:32:59,720 skates. It was all part of the plan of 2215 02:32:59,720 --> 02:33:03,120 God. Everything was going well for 2216 02:33:03,120 --> 02:33:04,640 Joseph. He thought this was the end of 2217 02:33:04,640 --> 02:33:08,240 his nightmare. He was rising in Potiphar's 2218 02:33:08,240 --> 02:33:09,320 house. He was soon going to be 2219 02:33:09,320 --> 02:33:12,800 Potiphar's son and he will take on his name Potiphar. 2220 02:33:12,840 --> 02:33:17,040 But God had a higher plan. So the serpent was. 2221 02:33:17,040 --> 02:33:18,840 Allowed. Some of you, when the serpent 2222 02:33:18,840 --> 02:33:21,520 came, you were annoyed. The serpent was allowed to come 2223 02:33:21,520 --> 02:33:25,640 to the house to spoil the whole stability in the house, because 2224 02:33:25,840 --> 02:33:32,720 that's not the place. Then when he goes to prison, 2225 02:33:32,720 --> 02:33:34,960 look at who has become a prisoner. 2226 02:33:35,520 --> 02:33:42,880 The Butler and the Baker, then they have a dream dreaming. 2227 02:33:43,600 --> 02:33:47,680 That dream too is from Joseph. He only had two dreams though 2228 02:33:47,720 --> 02:33:49,320 that the beginnings after that dream. 2229 02:33:49,320 --> 02:33:52,800 Again, some of your dreams are too many, that's why they are 2230 02:33:52,800 --> 02:33:57,520 meaningless. I'm telling you how come to that 2231 02:33:57,520 --> 02:34:00,720 too many dreams is not good. When you have too many dreams, 2232 02:34:00,720 --> 02:34:03,000 God is not in the dream. Bible says that in the multitude 2233 02:34:03,000 --> 02:34:07,000 of dreams, the multitude of of business. 2234 02:34:08,360 --> 02:34:10,160 And there is vanity. He had only. 2235 02:34:10,160 --> 02:34:16,200 Two dreams at the beginning. From that I stopped dreaming for 2236 02:34:16,200 --> 02:34:19,040 just interpreting interpretation of dreams. 2237 02:34:22,680 --> 02:34:26,360 And he was. There and here comes the man 2238 02:34:26,360 --> 02:34:28,880 with the dream. I said, what is this dream? 2239 02:34:28,880 --> 02:34:31,680 What does it mean? What does it mean? 2240 02:34:32,760 --> 02:34:37,800 Immediately, You know, I've read those dreams over and over. 2241 02:34:38,040 --> 02:34:41,320 I was trying to find how would he know that this dream means 2242 02:34:41,320 --> 02:34:44,680 you will live and this one means you will die because 1. 2243 02:34:44,960 --> 02:34:48,720 He was squeezing the grips into the hand of the whatever, and 2244 02:34:48,720 --> 02:34:53,000 then he gave it to Pharaoh. And the other one, his head was, 2245 02:34:54,640 --> 02:34:57,440 what do you call it, full of he was, he was a Baker, and he was 2246 02:34:57,480 --> 02:35:00,920 carrying bread on his head again, so much bread that even 2247 02:35:00,920 --> 02:35:02,520 bears could even have the surplus. 2248 02:35:03,640 --> 02:35:06,080 Do you see? So how did he know? 2249 02:35:06,080 --> 02:35:09,760 This one means you would die and this one means you live. 2250 02:35:13,560 --> 02:35:18,240 Because he's blessed to be a. Baker again, a lot of bread. 2251 02:35:21,320 --> 02:35:25,040 So I think the key was the one who was eating the bread was the 2252 02:35:25,040 --> 02:35:28,040 birds, not Pharaoh. I think when you see a dream 2253 02:35:28,040 --> 02:35:29,920 like that, you. Should be very. 2254 02:35:29,920 --> 02:35:34,640 Careful, because for birds to be eating what Pharaoh must be 2255 02:35:34,640 --> 02:35:37,680 eating, something bad is about to happen. 2256 02:35:42,160 --> 02:35:46,080 And the other one Pharaoh was drinking, holding the cup again, 2257 02:35:46,080 --> 02:35:48,280 so. There may be something good 2258 02:35:48,280 --> 02:35:50,000 there, but. He got it right. 2259 02:35:50,880 --> 02:35:52,480 He got it right. Even can I take And he said when 2260 02:35:52,480 --> 02:35:55,000 he gives an interpretation, he asked did I get it right? 2261 02:35:55,880 --> 02:35:59,440 When he gives a baby a word, he said, I hope, tell me if it's 2262 02:35:59,440 --> 02:36:01,560 not right, let me know because I can make a mistake. 2263 02:36:02,640 --> 02:36:05,440 Yeah, I mean. So he got it right. 2264 02:36:05,480 --> 02:36:09,400 But I said prove all things. He got it right 100% three days 2265 02:36:09,400 --> 02:36:12,320 exactly 1 was killed, 1 and he said. 2266 02:36:12,600 --> 02:36:13,760 He told them. But. 2267 02:36:13,760 --> 02:36:15,520 Think on me when it is well with you. 2268 02:36:16,280 --> 02:36:20,520 Think on me when it is well, exactly the woman forgot him 2269 02:36:20,640 --> 02:36:25,080 exactly went to have parties. That went to was the plan of God 2270 02:36:26,000 --> 02:36:27,600 because. If he had been released, he 2271 02:36:27,600 --> 02:36:30,720 would have run away, he said. This place I almost died twice. 2272 02:36:30,880 --> 02:36:32,440 I almost died in participants house. 2273 02:36:32,720 --> 02:36:35,080 I almost died in the prison mean tofuy. 2274 02:36:35,080 --> 02:36:37,400 I'm going back to my father. I will. 2275 02:36:37,400 --> 02:36:41,480 Find a way to go even if my brothers killed me, so God. 2276 02:36:41,480 --> 02:36:48,200 Kept him in the prison. Till Pharaoh had a dream and he 2277 02:36:48,200 --> 02:36:52,800 said he said he saw seven I'll favoured cows such as never. 2278 02:36:52,800 --> 02:36:54,080 Been seen in. All of. 2279 02:36:54,080 --> 02:37:03,960 Egypt for Vadnais such I'll favoured cows that have not been 2280 02:37:03,960 --> 02:37:09,760 seen in Egypt for Vadnais and they ate up the seven well 2281 02:37:09,760 --> 02:37:16,360 favoured cows and Pharaoh was so disturbed and he saw 7 shifts 2282 02:37:17,640 --> 02:37:24,200 I'll favored blasted by the east wind coming to consume the well 2283 02:37:24,200 --> 02:37:28,760 favored shifts. What is the meaning of this 2284 02:37:28,760 --> 02:37:30,560 dream? And here comes the interpreter, 2285 02:37:33,760 --> 02:37:34,840 God. I've given him his colleague 2286 02:37:34,840 --> 02:37:37,920 from the age of 70, but he was 30 years old when he entered 2287 02:37:37,920 --> 02:37:42,560 into Pharaoh's house. 13 years of nightmare. 13 years of 2288 02:37:42,600 --> 02:37:43,720 terrible. Experience. 2289 02:37:44,440 --> 02:37:46,760 It was 30 years. Your ministry usually begins 2290 02:37:46,760 --> 02:37:49,560 around the age of 30. Jesus started his mission at the 2291 02:37:49,560 --> 02:37:51,960 age of 30. John the Baptist, Joseph and in 2292 02:37:51,960 --> 02:37:54,680 the Bible, the Levites. 30 years old and upwards. 2293 02:37:55,600 --> 02:38:02,200 A Levites. Mercy. 2294 02:38:07,080 --> 02:38:17,000 Some of you are late. When you read your Bible, you 2295 02:38:17,000 --> 02:38:22,800 become happy and confident because you can see that things 2296 02:38:22,800 --> 02:38:26,600 are not by chance. It's not that even the very bad 2297 02:38:26,600 --> 02:38:31,480 things are good things, but when you don't read the Bible. 2298 02:38:32,560 --> 02:38:35,000 You'll be. Cursing things God has sent. 2299 02:38:37,640 --> 02:38:39,400 One day I was in Zimbabwe, I met a pastor. 2300 02:38:39,560 --> 02:38:42,720 I said to you, I was looking at the what Mugabe has pulled the 2301 02:38:42,720 --> 02:38:46,480 place, whole place has become somewhere they queue for. 2302 02:38:46,480 --> 02:38:50,400 They don't have bread, milk, they don't have bread, don't 2303 02:38:50,400 --> 02:38:52,880 have petrol, they don't have milk, nothing. 2304 02:38:55,720 --> 02:39:02,880 I told him, God has sent all these people to us to make us 2305 02:39:02,960 --> 02:39:09,360 poorer, to help the gospel. When I said that, he said, what, 2306 02:39:09,520 --> 02:39:13,000 what did you say? I said, God, is this all the 2307 02:39:13,000 --> 02:39:17,920 blessing of God, this poverty and all these Mugabes and all 2308 02:39:17,920 --> 02:39:21,680 these people, they have all been sent by God. 2309 02:39:24,120 --> 02:39:27,280 You know what he said? He said, I'm very surprised that 2310 02:39:27,280 --> 02:39:28,400 you will say something like that. 2311 02:39:29,560 --> 02:39:32,200 I'm, I'm very surprised at you. And I said, why? 2312 02:39:32,200 --> 02:39:33,560 He said because I've read your books. 2313 02:39:34,280 --> 02:39:38,080 I said with books, success, fugality and I said those are 2314 02:39:38,080 --> 02:39:49,840 earlier books. They are true. 2315 02:39:49,840 --> 02:39:51,920 They are true. They are all true. 2316 02:39:51,920 --> 02:39:54,320 They are true. That's good. 2317 02:39:54,320 --> 02:39:55,880 I wrote them. Otherwise I wouldn't be writing 2318 02:39:55,880 --> 02:39:58,920 them. I said look. 2319 02:40:00,560 --> 02:40:05,560 God has sent us all our leaders to. 2320 02:40:05,600 --> 02:40:08,600 Make us poor. That's what I believe. 2321 02:40:11,400 --> 02:40:12,320 A champion. A. 2322 02:40:13,280 --> 02:40:23,960 Kufu, Rollins, Babangida, Abacha, Kufu, all are sending us 2323 02:40:24,120 --> 02:40:34,440 deeper that we may turn our face to Jehovah and say, Lord, help 2324 02:40:34,440 --> 02:40:38,000 your children so that we call on God. 2325 02:40:42,960 --> 02:40:46,000 But if you only read a part of the Bible, you will see only 2326 02:40:47,200 --> 02:40:48,000 Ted. John 2. 2327 02:40:48,000 --> 02:40:50,960 I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and being 2328 02:40:51,560 --> 02:40:54,440 this life. That is just one part. 2329 02:40:54,440 --> 02:40:57,040 Read the whole thing, Read the end. 2330 02:40:57,200 --> 02:41:01,000 Read how it's like in heaven. Read what judgment is about. 2331 02:41:01,680 --> 02:41:04,480 Read how your judgment is going to be in 25 years or in a few 2332 02:41:04,480 --> 02:41:07,440 years time. You will see that it doesn't 2333 02:41:07,440 --> 02:41:11,000 matter at. All it doesn't matter at all. 2334 02:41:11,000 --> 02:41:12,840 So many things don't matter at all. 2335 02:41:15,600 --> 02:41:20,040 I have gone to Switzerland, Germany, Europe and I look and I 2336 02:41:20,040 --> 02:41:24,920 said the poverty in Ghana is better than the wealth of these 2337 02:41:24,920 --> 02:41:28,640 people which have driven them away from God, that nobody in 2338 02:41:28,640 --> 02:41:33,960 Europe believes in God today. Today less than 1% believe in 2339 02:41:33,960 --> 02:41:38,040 God and go to church. I told my wife. 2340 02:41:38,040 --> 02:41:42,360 I said even if I am dead, never send my children to. 2341 02:41:42,360 --> 02:41:44,480 School. Abroad they should go to school 2342 02:41:44,480 --> 02:41:48,960 in Ghana until they finish university dance so man talk or 2343 02:41:48,960 --> 02:41:51,960 wherever they should be here I will not like my. 2344 02:41:51,960 --> 02:41:55,840 One day I saw a certain guy, he lives at airport or whatever, he 2345 02:41:55,840 --> 02:42:01,120 went to America and he came and he said I asked him, you know, 2346 02:42:01,120 --> 02:42:02,680 he doesn't go to chess and why don't you believe me? 2347 02:42:02,680 --> 02:42:06,880 Because I don't believe in God. Then I said to him by you, if I 2348 02:42:06,880 --> 02:42:08,120 put you at I would have made cemetery. 2349 02:42:08,120 --> 02:42:10,000 Now you'll be afraid. He said I'll be afraid because 2350 02:42:10,000 --> 02:42:14,160 it is superstition. Our parents have have taught us 2351 02:42:14,160 --> 02:42:17,280 superstitious things. That is why we will be afraid. 2352 02:42:17,280 --> 02:42:18,800 But there's nothing to be afraid of. 2353 02:42:18,880 --> 02:42:20,520 How? I said I know, I know I'll be 2354 02:42:20,520 --> 02:42:21,800 afraid, but there's nothing there. 2355 02:42:25,440 --> 02:42:27,320 I talked to him about God. You know what he said. 2356 02:42:27,320 --> 02:42:30,800 To me, he said, if you can prove God is real to me in a test 2357 02:42:30,800 --> 02:42:33,880 tube, in a test tube, then I'll believe in God. 2358 02:42:35,960 --> 02:42:37,840 And he said to me, I am a scientist. 2359 02:42:38,680 --> 02:42:40,520 That is why I am saying what I'm saying. 2360 02:42:41,360 --> 02:42:44,360 I said scientist. So I was afraid. 2361 02:42:44,360 --> 02:42:46,200 That was the first time, he said, hey, this guy is a 2362 02:42:46,560 --> 02:42:49,640 scientist. So I just kept quiet because I 2363 02:42:49,680 --> 02:42:53,360 knew this must be a scientist from abroad, you know? 2364 02:42:55,080 --> 02:43:02,880 So one day I found the courage to ask him what science he has 2365 02:43:02,880 --> 02:43:05,000 studied. Do you know the Science 2366 02:43:05,600 --> 02:43:19,530 computer? Science, computer science, and 2367 02:43:19,530 --> 02:43:22,570 it's because of two years computer science in America. 2368 02:43:23,370 --> 02:43:25,010 You are saying you are a scientist? 2369 02:43:26,000 --> 02:43:28,600 And you do not believe in God and I have to prove God to you 2370 02:43:28,600 --> 02:43:31,520 in a test tube. So I would not like my child to 2371 02:43:31,520 --> 02:43:34,760 go to such an environment. I would not like to even have a 2372 02:43:34,760 --> 02:43:37,000 child bring forth a child who will go to hell. 2373 02:43:37,920 --> 02:43:41,800 I shouldn't give birth then. Then I should bring forth 2374 02:43:41,800 --> 02:43:43,280 somebody. Who should go to hell? 2375 02:43:43,840 --> 02:43:45,840 But most of us. Those are not our values. 2376 02:43:45,840 --> 02:43:48,760 No, we don't read the Bible. We want our child to be in 2377 02:43:48,760 --> 02:43:50,480 America. We want to give birth. 2378 02:43:50,760 --> 02:43:53,600 Most of us, our wife should go and give birth in America to 2379 02:43:53,600 --> 02:43:58,000 have green cards Who sacrifice anything to send your child to 2380 02:43:58,000 --> 02:44:00,000 speak French. What is French? 2381 02:44:00,400 --> 02:44:04,520 The most godless nation on this earth, which does not even allow 2382 02:44:04,880 --> 02:44:07,320 charismatics and so on. That's the language you want 2383 02:44:07,320 --> 02:44:13,000 your child to speak French. Even where the gospel is in 2384 02:44:13,000 --> 02:44:16,360 Africa, where it is in French is difficult. 2385 02:44:16,360 --> 02:44:19,320 Even in Cameroon where they have English and French, you cannot 2386 02:44:19,320 --> 02:44:21,120 breakthrough in the French, but you can breakthrough in the 2387 02:44:21,120 --> 02:44:26,240 English side of the country. You want your child to learn how 2388 02:44:26,240 --> 02:44:31,000 to do ballet, dancing, speaking French, violin, play, other 2389 02:44:31,000 --> 02:44:36,160 useless practices. But not Christianity, not Bible 2390 02:44:36,160 --> 02:44:41,080 study, not going to church. We want to go abroad because we 2391 02:44:41,080 --> 02:44:45,720 value earthly things, because we have not read our Bible and see 2392 02:44:45,720 --> 02:44:49,800 what is in heaven and what is coming and what the future holds 2393 02:44:50,160 --> 02:44:54,440 and what the glory is about. When Paul said my life is hit 2394 02:44:54,440 --> 02:44:58,160 with Christ in God, and when Christ shall appear, then we 2395 02:44:58,160 --> 02:45:00,440 shall also appear with him in glory. 2396 02:45:03,200 --> 02:45:07,840 Your mind is not on that because you do not read your Bible. 2397 02:45:08,600 --> 02:45:12,080 You are reading everything else and attracted by silver and gold 2398 02:45:12,080 --> 02:45:14,960 on this earth. And the more you read your 2399 02:45:14,960 --> 02:45:18,280 Bible, you will be confronted with with the scripture. 2400 02:45:18,280 --> 02:45:22,600 It will set your heart descender of the thoughts and intentions 2401 02:45:22,600 --> 02:45:26,720 of the heart. You read where the Bible says do 2402 02:45:26,720 --> 02:45:30,560 not lay up treasures on this earth and you will look at every 2403 02:45:30,560 --> 02:45:34,040 treasure you have and ask yourself, my goodness, is it a 2404 02:45:34,040 --> 02:45:37,640 sin for me to have all these treasures Am IA good Christian 2405 02:45:37,840 --> 02:45:42,440 when Jesus said to us lay love up for yourself treasures on 2406 02:45:42,440 --> 02:45:46,760 earth and we as pastors we call people and that is all we teach 2407 02:45:46,760 --> 02:45:52,120 them. 25 steps to gather more treasures How to increase your 2408 02:45:52,120 --> 02:45:56,480 treasures on this earth Stepping steps to more prosperity and 2409 02:45:56,480 --> 02:46:01,520 treasures. 18 reasons why when you pay tithe, the treasures 2410 02:46:01,520 --> 02:46:02,320 don't. Come to you. 2411 02:46:03,560 --> 02:46:08,280 Oh man, and we are teaching all about the one instruction that 2412 02:46:08,280 --> 02:46:13,400 Jesus said, do not this thing. Do not do it. 2413 02:46:13,720 --> 02:46:16,600 And that is? All we do, we are. 2414 02:46:16,600 --> 02:46:21,200 Professing That is why pastors are called to speak in banks. 2415 02:46:23,240 --> 02:46:25,640 Recently I was invited to speak at a bank. 2416 02:46:26,960 --> 02:46:33,440 And I was asking myself, why would a preacher like me called 2417 02:46:33,440 --> 02:46:37,480 into such a place? You know, why do you think a 2418 02:46:37,480 --> 02:46:39,000 preacher like me will be called in such a place? 2419 02:46:40,080 --> 02:46:49,080 Because we are seen as successful, as rich, as part of 2420 02:46:49,080 --> 02:46:52,200 the upper class and upper crust of society. 2421 02:46:53,200 --> 02:46:57,400 And we are and that is why we teach in our churches Stock 2422 02:46:57,400 --> 02:47:00,000 Exchange. We have banners camp for seminar 2423 02:47:00,000 --> 02:47:03,320 on Stock Exchange in the church, not in the bank. 2424 02:47:03,360 --> 02:47:05,920 Even in the school they don't teach, but in the church they 2425 02:47:05,920 --> 02:47:10,160 are teaching it. But when you. 2426 02:47:10,160 --> 02:47:12,440 Read your Bible, you will be challenged and you know that. 2427 02:47:12,440 --> 02:47:14,000 Look, there is something wrong with me. 2428 02:47:15,040 --> 02:47:17,280 That is how I feel when I read my I cannot. 2429 02:47:17,480 --> 02:47:20,240 That's what I'm saying, that me, if I'm tired now, this is my 2430 02:47:20,240 --> 02:47:21,840 prayer of the Lord. Two things. 2431 02:47:22,200 --> 02:47:25,720 I was sorry for my sins, the ones that I've committed that 2432 02:47:25,720 --> 02:47:31,160 have already confessed, and I'm asking for mercy for any others 2433 02:47:31,160 --> 02:47:40,880 that have not been confessed. But we don't read the Bible. 2434 02:47:41,720 --> 02:47:45,560 That is why we are so oriented differently from the way God's 2435 02:47:45,560 --> 02:47:50,480 Word is and we can actually take scriptures, things that are 2436 02:47:50,480 --> 02:47:53,880 completely contrary from the Bible and make them measure the 2437 02:47:54,120 --> 02:47:58,800 for instance, thanks. The original prophecy which 2438 02:47:58,800 --> 02:48:01,440 introduces the Holy Spirit to the church does not mention 2439 02:48:01,440 --> 02:48:05,400 thanks, but we, we have made thanks. 2440 02:48:05,840 --> 02:48:10,320 The reason, the main thing that when the Holy Spirit comes on 2441 02:48:10,320 --> 02:48:12,920 you, you speak in thanks. Now go and read it. 2442 02:48:13,080 --> 02:48:16,000 It's that it is in Joel and it is in Acts. 2443 02:48:16,480 --> 02:48:18,080 And I shall pour up my spirit on all flesh. 2444 02:48:19,280 --> 02:48:25,080 Your sons and daughters shall prophecy, your young men shall 2445 02:48:25,080 --> 02:48:28,240 speak in tongues, and your old men shall speak in greater 2446 02:48:28,240 --> 02:48:32,360 tongues. No, the sign of the Holy Spirit 2447 02:48:32,360 --> 02:48:34,840 is visions, dreams, and prophecies. 2448 02:48:34,840 --> 02:48:38,720 We have made it. You summarize it as tongues 2449 02:48:39,560 --> 02:48:41,080 rather. If you don't have a vision, I 2450 02:48:41,080 --> 02:48:42,640 don't have a dream. You should ask yourself whether 2451 02:48:42,640 --> 02:48:43,480 you have the holy. Spirit. 2452 02:48:43,680 --> 02:48:44,720 That's. What I say you sit there and 2453 02:48:44,720 --> 02:48:47,960 don't have dreams. How come you don't have any 2454 02:48:47,960 --> 02:48:48,520 dream? At all. 2455 02:48:48,520 --> 02:48:51,120 I'm me, a spiritual dream, the Holy Ghost. 2456 02:48:51,160 --> 02:48:52,920 You see, that's when you start reading the Bible, Claire. 2457 02:48:53,280 --> 02:48:55,760 If you read the Bible to discern your thoughts and start 2458 02:48:55,760 --> 02:48:57,840 questioning, you'll always be under interrogation. 2459 02:49:00,440 --> 02:49:05,480 How come I don't have dreams? The thing says that if the 2460 02:49:05,480 --> 02:49:08,040 Spirit comes, you will have visions and dreams. 2461 02:49:08,880 --> 02:49:10,480 How come? It is that. 2462 02:49:10,960 --> 02:49:12,640 You have, you say you have the Holy Spirit. 2463 02:49:12,640 --> 02:49:15,960 You don't have. When I started to pray for these 2464 02:49:15,960 --> 02:49:19,560 things, at a point I could know I'm about to have a dream or a 2465 02:49:19,560 --> 02:49:24,320 vision and I will actually go and sit down so that I just pop 2466 02:49:24,320 --> 02:49:28,440 off. I just go into a vision. 2467 02:49:30,160 --> 02:49:32,160 I know that it's it's there, it's coming. 2468 02:49:33,120 --> 02:49:35,560 I get my book ready, everything, my pen. 2469 02:49:36,160 --> 02:49:40,280 I sit down and I pop off and return a few minutes later. 2470 02:49:40,280 --> 02:49:42,120 I've had a wild vision of something. 2471 02:49:42,920 --> 02:49:45,000 Yeah, but it never used to be so. 2472 02:49:45,680 --> 02:49:48,280 And I used to be confidently say, me, I'm not that type of 2473 02:49:48,320 --> 02:49:51,280 dreamer. My head is blank, like a total 2474 02:49:51,400 --> 02:49:55,600 white paper, nothing on it. When I sleep and I wake up and I 2475 02:49:55,640 --> 02:49:59,080 say blank. And I was. 2476 02:49:59,080 --> 02:50:01,560 Happy because I speak in tongues. 2477 02:50:05,400 --> 02:50:08,440 Where are your vicious? You say you have the Holy 2478 02:50:08,440 --> 02:50:10,160 Spirit. Read your Bibles and I shall 2479 02:50:10,160 --> 02:50:12,000 pour out of my. Spirit on all flesh. 2480 02:50:15,600 --> 02:50:18,440 Many years ago I had an old man who used to share the word Uncle 2481 02:50:18,440 --> 02:50:19,960 James. He told me speaking in tongues 2482 02:50:19,960 --> 02:50:22,320 is not the only evidence of the Holy Spirit. 2483 02:50:22,320 --> 02:50:24,560 In fact, a lot of the tongues that are being spoken are not 2484 02:50:24,560 --> 02:50:32,280 the Holy Spirit. Well, it's only if you read the 2485 02:50:32,280 --> 02:50:34,200 Bible that you can start to having questions, 2486 02:50:34,840 --> 02:50:38,360 interrogations. Are we like Christ? 2487 02:50:40,040 --> 02:50:42,080 Are we like Christ? Am I like Christ? 2488 02:50:42,080 --> 02:50:44,440 No. I'm not like Christ from the one 2489 02:50:44,440 --> 02:50:50,120 I can see, I'm not like Christ and I'm now fighting for my soul 2490 02:50:50,840 --> 02:50:55,480 to be like Christ. Mercy, are you understanding 2491 02:50:55,480 --> 02:50:56,840 what I'm saying? I said. 2492 02:50:56,840 --> 02:51:02,240 I'm fighting for my soul to be like Christ and that's why I'm 2493 02:51:02,240 --> 02:51:04,680 reading my Bible. Amen. 2494 02:51:06,320 --> 02:51:07,800 Are you that stands to your feet for a moment. 2495 02:51:10,520 --> 02:51:14,720 Oh Hallelujah, lift your hands to the Lord and ask the Lord, I 2496 02:51:14,720 --> 02:51:18,480 want to you to reveal yourself to me. 2497 02:51:18,480 --> 02:51:22,000 Lord, I want a foundation. Foundation. 2498 02:52:04,800 --> 02:52:34,600 The. The. 2499 02:52:41,680 --> 02:52:45,080 Thank you, Lord, Thank you, Lord. 2500 02:52:51,760 --> 02:52:53,880 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 2501 02:52:55,360 --> 02:52:59,640 Lift your hand and thank him. Thank you Jesus for your 2502 02:52:59,640 --> 02:53:05,280 blessing. O san igles. 2503 02:53:07,320 --> 02:53:10,680 Say you le clear, I'm Tazan E Leslie Blancos de la Monon, she 2504 02:53:10,680 --> 02:53:13,480 said. I love you, Jesus. 2505 02:53:14,560 --> 02:53:18,400 I want to know you more. I want to know you better, Lord. 2506 02:53:19,520 --> 02:53:23,280 Oh, I praise you, Father, Oh God. 2507 02:53:25,360 --> 02:53:27,720 Lord, I want to have dreams and visions. 2508 02:53:28,360 --> 02:53:31,160 I want to have the presence of your spirit upon my life. 2509 02:53:33,160 --> 02:53:37,120 Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I praise you. 2510 02:53:39,040 --> 02:53:44,480 Jesus, I thank you, thank you, thank you. 2511 02:53:44,480 --> 02:53:55,840 Thank you so much. Oh yes, yes, yes, Lord. 2512 02:54:04,160 --> 02:54:15,560 Hallelujah. You may be seated all right. 2513 02:54:16,080 --> 02:54:18,680 Are you still around? Are you still alive? 2514 02:54:21,240 --> 02:54:26,800 OK, Hallelujah. Now I will share. 2515 02:54:26,800 --> 02:54:30,280 With you about significance, how many are going to become 2516 02:54:30,280 --> 02:54:34,320 significant? Yes, and that starts when God 2517 02:54:35,040 --> 02:54:37,520 speaks to you. Hallelujah. 2518 02:54:38,360 --> 02:54:45,520 Hallelujah, God speaks to you and you are safe with God 2519 02:54:45,520 --> 02:54:51,800 speaking to you when you have certain foundations you 2520 02:54:51,800 --> 02:54:54,640 understand. For instance, if God tells you 2521 02:54:54,640 --> 02:54:57,800 that this person who is in your life is not by chance and is 2522 02:54:57,800 --> 02:55:01,840 important, you may doubt it. But when you read the Bible and 2523 02:55:01,840 --> 02:55:05,280 you see the things that are not by chance, you begin to look 2524 02:55:05,280 --> 02:55:07,600 carefully at the people who seem to be in your life and say, wow, 2525 02:55:07,600 --> 02:55:11,240 this thing. I have to think of it as not 2526 02:55:11,240 --> 02:55:17,200 just as coincidence, but as God's hand making me meet 2527 02:55:17,200 --> 02:55:19,600 somebody. Do you understand what I'm 2528 02:55:19,600 --> 02:55:20,560 saying? Yes. 2529 02:55:21,560 --> 02:55:25,040 So you begin to be open. Now. 2530 02:55:25,040 --> 02:55:31,600 Recently I was studying a book by Rick Joyner and he was saying 2531 02:55:31,600 --> 02:55:35,520 something which kept striking me, which which is bringing me 2532 02:55:36,200 --> 02:55:41,960 to the other foundation that I believe you need if you are 2533 02:55:41,960 --> 02:55:47,240 going to be open to God's direction and God's Spirit, God 2534 02:55:47,240 --> 02:55:50,640 speaking to you, angels appearing to you, visions, 2535 02:55:50,640 --> 02:55:52,560 dreams. Right. 2536 02:55:52,680 --> 02:55:59,880 And that is the the the reality of history. 2537 02:56:01,120 --> 02:56:05,960 Historical facts and truths apart from the scripture. 2538 02:56:07,280 --> 02:56:11,720 Now he said something that as he was searching to become a 2539 02:56:11,720 --> 02:56:16,600 greater prophet and to seek God to go higher in the prophetic 2540 02:56:16,600 --> 02:56:23,200 things, God asked him to study history and told him that if he 2541 02:56:23,200 --> 02:56:29,840 studies history then he will have a greater insight and 2542 02:56:29,840 --> 02:56:32,480 prophetic insight into the things of the future. 2543 02:56:33,600 --> 02:56:34,520 So I thought. About it. 2544 02:56:34,520 --> 02:56:37,440 And I said, ah, maybe this is just a personal word to him. 2545 02:56:38,400 --> 02:56:42,320 But then as I thought about it, I realized that it is a 2546 02:56:42,320 --> 02:56:47,080 foundational. Truth of the Bible that somebody 2547 02:56:47,080 --> 02:56:55,040 who knows history and historical things is very prophetic even in 2548 02:56:55,040 --> 02:56:59,880 his casual speaking. Just by the fact that he knows a 2549 02:56:59,880 --> 02:57:01,920 lot about what has happened before. 2550 02:57:03,920 --> 02:57:13,040 Turn with me to Ecclesiastes. Are you, are you, are you with 2551 02:57:13,040 --> 02:57:16,360 me or I lost you on the way? Did I lose you on the way? 2552 02:57:17,880 --> 02:57:19,400 First foundation is the Scripture. 2553 02:57:19,400 --> 02:57:24,320 Second foundation is history. Are you there? 2554 02:57:25,240 --> 02:57:29,280 Ecclesiastes chapter one, verse 9 can. 2555 02:57:29,280 --> 02:57:37,560 Everybody cover the 1st. 5 words of that verse in your Bible. 2556 02:57:37,840 --> 02:57:43,280 Find a way of covering the 1st 5 words with your with your finger 2557 02:57:43,280 --> 02:57:51,360 if you can. OK after you cover the first 2558 02:57:51,360 --> 02:57:53,160 five years, what what do you see? 2559 02:57:54,640 --> 02:57:58,560 It's that result Stop there. It is that which shall be. 2560 02:57:59,840 --> 02:58:02,000 How many want to know? What shall be? 2561 02:58:03,720 --> 02:58:06,600 Raise your hand. It is that which shall be. 2562 02:58:08,200 --> 02:58:12,240 Is that not a prophetic? It is that which shall be the 2563 02:58:12,240 --> 02:58:15,880 future. Now uncover the words that you 2564 02:58:15,880 --> 02:58:20,520 covered and let's see what is the what that shall be the thing 2565 02:58:20,520 --> 02:58:28,760 that has been. Hallelujah, the thing that has 2566 02:58:28,760 --> 02:58:32,440 been. It is that we shall be. 2567 02:58:35,440 --> 02:58:40,200 So anybody who is truly a prophet or becoming more 2568 02:58:40,200 --> 02:58:47,560 prophetic insight what you did greatly is history and 2569 02:58:47,560 --> 02:58:53,720 especially history of the Church, of pastors, of men of 2570 02:58:53,720 --> 02:58:57,000 God and the history books in the Bible. 2571 02:58:57,560 --> 02:59:01,200 The Bible has only two. Kinds of books, history books 2572 02:59:01,280 --> 02:59:05,400 and prophetic books, most or some are about the past and some 2573 02:59:05,400 --> 02:59:10,000 are about the future history and in fact history. 2574 02:59:10,320 --> 02:59:15,440 The word history is the word comes from the word, his story, 2575 02:59:16,320 --> 02:59:20,480 the story of Christ. Do you see that is where the 2576 02:59:20,480 --> 02:59:23,120 word history comes is. His story. 2577 02:59:24,440 --> 02:59:27,480 His story is the word which became history. 2578 02:59:29,760 --> 02:59:32,160 Are you with me? Are you listening? 2579 02:59:33,080 --> 02:59:36,640 Are you still in the church? His story. 2580 02:59:38,040 --> 02:59:44,080 So as you study history, and one of the major sources of history 2581 02:59:44,080 --> 02:59:46,920 is the Bible, so you may wonder, what's the use of reading 2582 02:59:46,920 --> 02:59:48,960 Genesis? What's the use of reading First 2583 02:59:48,960 --> 02:59:53,040 Samwell, second Samwell, first Kings, second King? 2584 02:59:53,240 --> 02:59:56,880 That which has been, that which shall be. 2585 02:59:58,920 --> 03:00:01,760 It happens all the time. You. 2586 03:00:01,760 --> 03:00:07,160 Can tell absaloms. One day Bishopnik came to town 2587 03:00:07,680 --> 03:00:09,480 and certain things were going on in town. 2588 03:00:10,200 --> 03:00:14,120 So I met him. We were somewhere and then he 2589 03:00:14,120 --> 03:00:17,960 asked me what's happening in town. 2590 03:00:18,280 --> 03:00:21,680 I said, oh, certain things were happening in town. 2591 03:00:22,640 --> 03:00:25,240 Then he brought, we brought, he brought up a particular issue, a 2592 03:00:25,240 --> 03:00:27,520 church. There was a big issue in town. 2593 03:00:28,600 --> 03:00:30,400 Then he asked me what? What do you think about it? 2594 03:00:31,960 --> 03:00:34,520 Then I was quiet. Then before I could answer, you 2595 03:00:34,520 --> 03:00:36,880 know what he said, he said it's an Absalom. 2596 03:00:38,120 --> 03:00:46,360 It's an Absalom spirit. He immediately knew Absalom had 2597 03:00:46,360 --> 03:00:53,560 been reborn in Accra and Absalom was fixing in the news on a 2598 03:00:53,560 --> 03:00:59,480 daily basis. Yeah, when he asked me what? 2599 03:00:59,480 --> 03:01:01,320 What? What do you think about it? 2600 03:01:02,320 --> 03:01:06,480 I just hesitated. But before I could speak, he 2601 03:01:06,480 --> 03:01:10,880 said it's an Absalom spirit. He said it's. 2602 03:01:11,000 --> 03:01:13,160 Absalom. Absalom is back. 2603 03:01:14,120 --> 03:01:20,720 Absalom is back. In town, his back is alive, he's 2604 03:01:20,720 --> 03:01:23,960 attacking his father. Everybody you see attacking the 2605 03:01:23,960 --> 03:01:28,000 one who set him up and the one who established him and or laid 2606 03:01:28,000 --> 03:01:30,520 hands on him and ordained him and created him and put him 2607 03:01:30,520 --> 03:01:32,120 there. Now you are attacking that. 2608 03:01:32,160 --> 03:01:35,360 It's an. Absalom Born, born again. 2609 03:01:36,960 --> 03:01:44,680 Fully So anybody who knows the story of the word, do you 2610 03:01:44,680 --> 03:01:47,760 understand? Yeah, history. 2611 03:01:50,040 --> 03:01:51,400 One day I met somebody. He said you. 2612 03:01:51,960 --> 03:01:55,200 Know I'm married in the night. I said what do you mean? 2613 03:01:55,720 --> 03:01:58,240 He said, like Jacob. Jacob married in the night. 2614 03:01:58,600 --> 03:02:00,240 He shouldn't have had his wedding in the night. 2615 03:02:00,440 --> 03:02:02,520 He couldn't see the woman that he married. 2616 03:02:03,440 --> 03:02:05,680 When he got up in the morning, he realized it was Leah. 2617 03:02:06,240 --> 03:02:11,560 It was not Rachel. I'm married in the night, in the 2618 03:02:11,560 --> 03:02:17,080 dark and said you see certain people marry in the dark in the 2619 03:02:17,080 --> 03:02:19,160 night, so when they get out they realize man. 2620 03:02:19,240 --> 03:02:22,880 Look at what I've. Married because I didn't know I 2621 03:02:22,880 --> 03:02:27,320 married in the night. So you realize that I'm marrying 2622 03:02:27,320 --> 03:02:29,440 in the night? How many realize that sometimes 2623 03:02:29,440 --> 03:02:32,080 you get married, you didn't know what you are marrying, that is 2624 03:02:32,080 --> 03:02:35,920 marrying in the night, and you are not the first person to 2625 03:02:35,920 --> 03:02:38,760 marry in the night. Hallelujah. 2626 03:02:39,560 --> 03:02:42,920 Are you listening to me? Amen. 2627 03:02:45,320 --> 03:02:51,320 So brothers and sisters, I tell you the Bible, what are we 2628 03:02:51,320 --> 03:03:00,200 talking about is full Amen of predictions that. 2629 03:03:00,200 --> 03:03:04,280 Which shall be and all you have to do is look back as if the 2630 03:03:04,280 --> 03:03:11,800 thing which has been So when you are full of. 2631 03:03:12,040 --> 03:03:14,560 The historical books of the vibe, Genesis. 2632 03:03:14,800 --> 03:03:17,920 When Genesis is in you, you'll always be predicting things. 2633 03:03:18,720 --> 03:03:22,680 First Samwell second Samwell. When it is in you, you'll be 2634 03:03:22,680 --> 03:03:24,040 like a prophet. You'll say this thing. 2635 03:03:24,040 --> 03:03:29,600 This is what will happen when. 1st and 2nd Kings. 2636 03:03:29,600 --> 03:03:31,800 I knew you said this one. This is what will happen. 2637 03:03:31,800 --> 03:03:34,080 You watch it. One day I was with Bishop Nick 2638 03:03:34,080 --> 03:03:37,760 at airport. He was in his house and we were 2639 03:03:37,760 --> 03:03:42,680 talking, then certain there was a church was doing certain 2640 03:03:42,680 --> 03:03:45,960 things in town. Then he lifted up his finger and 2641 03:03:45,960 --> 03:03:52,400 he said even if it takes 10 years, he lifts even if it takes 2642 03:03:52,400 --> 03:03:54,040 10 years. If you. 2643 03:03:54,200 --> 03:03:56,120 If you. Break somebody's house to build 2644 03:03:56,120 --> 03:03:58,240 your house. Your house will also be broken. 2645 03:03:58,840 --> 03:04:01,760 It took exactly 10 years for his prophecy to come to pass. 2646 03:04:02,840 --> 03:04:05,120 Exactly 10 years later, the house. 2647 03:04:05,120 --> 03:04:08,400 That was being built by breaking so many small small houses was 2648 03:04:08,400 --> 03:04:15,040 broken into two. Not even by seeing a visual, but 2649 03:04:15,040 --> 03:04:19,200 somebody who knows scriptures and 2nd 10 history. 2650 03:04:19,920 --> 03:04:21,560 You see that it's almost like a prophet. 2651 03:04:21,560 --> 03:04:22,800 When he speaks, you'll be afraid. 2652 03:04:22,800 --> 03:04:30,840 He said this one. This is how it is, especially 2653 03:04:30,840 --> 03:04:32,920 with the president. I've seen one of these same. 2654 03:04:32,920 --> 03:04:34,160 Thing before? I've seen one before. 2655 03:04:35,440 --> 03:04:38,160 That's why even doctors, most doctors operate by history. 2656 03:04:38,160 --> 03:04:41,280 When you have seen this before, when he said this one, this is 2657 03:04:41,280 --> 03:04:43,080 how it becomes. So we have something in medicine 2658 03:04:43,080 --> 03:04:46,040 called prognosis. When When you meet the doctor, 2659 03:04:46,040 --> 03:04:47,880 say. You ask him what's the prognosis 2660 03:04:48,360 --> 03:04:50,560 when you are going to a patient, He said. 2661 03:04:50,560 --> 03:04:52,920 What's the prognosis? The doctor will tell you good 2662 03:04:53,040 --> 03:04:56,920 for very bad prognosis means what is the outcome? 2663 03:04:57,040 --> 03:05:00,880 How is it going to come? And you only know when somebody 2664 03:05:00,880 --> 03:05:03,040 has cancer of their breast is going to live for five years. 2665 03:05:03,040 --> 03:05:06,240 By looking historically, all those with cancer of the breast, 2666 03:05:06,240 --> 03:05:09,880 whether the cancer has moved into the armpit, they die after 2667 03:05:09,880 --> 03:05:11,680 three years. Those who have the cancer but 2668 03:05:11,680 --> 03:05:13,600 hasn't moved to the armpit, they live for six years. 2669 03:05:13,880 --> 03:05:16,680 Those who have cancer, 2 breasts, they live for one year. 2670 03:05:16,880 --> 03:05:20,040 Those who have this study, they do the history, then they Add 2671 03:05:20,080 --> 03:05:23,000 all the history and say now. When we see you say why is your 2672 03:05:23,000 --> 03:05:25,120 own? Here here you have 8 months to 2673 03:05:25,120 --> 03:05:33,680 go. Prophetic Dr. Prophet The. 2674 03:05:33,720 --> 03:05:37,560 Thing which has been that we shall be. 2675 03:05:40,920 --> 03:05:43,520 So what this man of God said God. 2676 03:05:43,520 --> 03:05:44,840 Told him I think is very. True. 2677 03:05:45,160 --> 03:05:47,240 That to have an understanding of the prophetic. 2678 03:05:47,480 --> 03:05:50,280 How will your church turn out? How will it be? 2679 03:05:51,080 --> 03:05:54,760 Like for instance, when I read history and I read about Amy 2680 03:05:54,760 --> 03:05:58,320 Semple MacPherson, you know Amy Semple MacPherson, she is the 2681 03:05:58,320 --> 03:05:59,840 founder of the Four Square Gospel Church. 2682 03:06:01,040 --> 03:06:06,280 She had, what do you call it, a very large church with 2683 03:06:06,320 --> 03:06:10,720 conceived. 5. 1000 people and in the heyday of her ministry for 2684 03:06:10,720 --> 03:06:12,360 just a few a short. Period of a. 2685 03:06:12,400 --> 03:06:14,120 Few years, maybe 5-6 years or so. 2686 03:06:14,960 --> 03:06:18,880 She filled that church 3 * 4 times every Sunday. 2687 03:06:20,080 --> 03:06:25,520 Was having services. After a few years, various 2688 03:06:25,520 --> 03:06:29,920 things happened and she died. But before she died, she 2689 03:06:29,920 --> 03:06:33,440 ordained a lot of pastors, thousand 2000 pastors, 6000 2690 03:06:33,440 --> 03:06:35,680 ministers. She ordained, appointed, 2691 03:06:35,680 --> 03:06:40,280 ordained, set up so many and they started the Foursquare 2692 03:06:41,480 --> 03:06:45,160 denomination. When she died, the. 2693 03:06:45,160 --> 03:06:50,080 One big church. Was closed down and the small 2694 03:06:50,080 --> 03:06:53,760 small churches Foursquare has spread all over the world. 2695 03:06:55,720 --> 03:06:59,720 So when you look at that. You can have an idea what is 2696 03:06:59,720 --> 03:07:05,200 going to happen to the one big church and I read recently the 2697 03:07:05,240 --> 03:07:07,200 thing has been closed and recently it was sold. 2698 03:07:07,200 --> 03:07:11,160 The building was sold and many big churches are sold like that. 2699 03:07:11,160 --> 03:07:14,240 But when the founder or the big person of The thing is gone, 2700 03:07:14,480 --> 03:07:19,440 usually nobody can have or maintain that level. 2701 03:07:19,680 --> 03:07:24,920 So it is the I was recently in a four square Gospel church in a 2702 03:07:26,040 --> 03:07:28,800 in Nigeria. Are you are you there from First 2703 03:07:28,800 --> 03:07:29,280 Square? Yeah. 2704 03:07:30,160 --> 03:07:34,080 And they have thousands of pastors there, thousands of 2705 03:07:34,080 --> 03:07:37,520 pastors, you know, thousands of churches. 2706 03:07:37,520 --> 03:07:40,480 Therefore, do you understand? And that's her fruit. 2707 03:07:40,480 --> 03:07:44,160 But the one big building that she built is gone. 2708 03:07:44,200 --> 03:07:48,000 It's even been sold. But the Four Square reservation 2709 03:07:48,000 --> 03:07:50,840 in Ghana, in Nigeria, all over the world is one of the strong. 2710 03:07:51,080 --> 03:07:54,360 This man, Jack Hefford, he's from 4 Square Gospel Church. 2711 03:07:55,960 --> 03:08:00,920 He's the president now, yeah. So. 2712 03:08:01,120 --> 03:08:05,720 One day I was in a certain African country and I went to a 2713 03:08:05,760 --> 03:08:07,680 pastor. He has a very, very, very, very. 2714 03:08:07,680 --> 03:08:10,840 Big, in fact. Very massive church. 2715 03:08:12,040 --> 03:08:17,800 So one Sunday evening I was in that country, in another part of 2716 03:08:17,840 --> 03:08:19,320 Africa, not West Africa, another. 2717 03:08:20,240 --> 03:08:22,600 So I said let me go and see if my friend is there. 2718 03:08:22,600 --> 03:08:24,560 I know him. So we went. 2719 03:08:24,920 --> 03:08:29,440 When we got there, his church I think who was coming to dedicate 2720 03:08:29,440 --> 03:08:33,600 it on Sunday, I forget. Somebody by all these big Joyce 2721 03:08:33,600 --> 03:08:35,000 Mayer and others, they have all been there. 2722 03:08:35,880 --> 03:08:39,200 You. Check the trusses that are in 2723 03:08:39,200 --> 03:08:41,040 the church in fact. It should never. 2724 03:08:41,040 --> 03:08:45,440 Fall down because the still that is there in the in the sky. 2725 03:08:45,600 --> 03:08:51,280 Massive. So he took me around. 2726 03:08:53,800 --> 03:08:56,600 He took me around his church. I said wow. 2727 03:08:58,200 --> 03:09:02,680 Then we went to the back. There's that buildings they were 2728 03:09:02,680 --> 03:09:06,480 building the nights casting concrete because they were doing 2729 03:09:06,480 --> 03:09:11,600 their dedication. So I told him, I said, have you 2730 03:09:11,600 --> 03:09:17,840 heard of Amy Sample McPherson? He said, who is she? 2731 03:09:17,840 --> 03:09:20,400 I said oh. She built a very big church just 2732 03:09:20,400 --> 03:09:26,520 like yours. You know, I thought I should 2733 03:09:26,520 --> 03:09:28,320 share it with him because I also have a picture. 2734 03:09:28,320 --> 03:09:30,320 But I have a lot of small churches and I've realized that 2735 03:09:30,600 --> 03:09:33,360 my future is in my small, small churches that I've started all 2736 03:09:33,360 --> 03:09:35,760 over the place. That's my real future. 2737 03:09:35,760 --> 03:09:38,040 My real future is not where I am in one big church. 2738 03:09:39,000 --> 03:09:40,960 I I. Believe more in the small if if 2739 03:09:40,960 --> 03:09:43,320 you have if you ask me, which ones do you want? 2740 03:09:43,920 --> 03:09:46,880 All the small. Branches you started all the one 2741 03:09:46,880 --> 03:09:48,080 bitches so take the one big church. 2742 03:09:48,240 --> 03:09:49,520 I would like the small churches there. 2743 03:09:49,680 --> 03:09:51,360 There are plenty churches all over. 2744 03:09:56,040 --> 03:09:59,040 So I told him and I told him she had a church. 2745 03:09:59,120 --> 03:10:03,080 He said he was listening and I. Said when she died. 2746 03:10:03,160 --> 03:10:07,960 I must read it. I must. 2747 03:10:08,000 --> 03:10:14,480 Read it and I had to go. I said brother, see you again. 2748 03:10:18,520 --> 03:10:21,320 But you see, it's not that you have seen a vision, but you 2749 03:10:21,320 --> 03:10:25,640 become very prophetic and predictive when you know that 2750 03:10:25,640 --> 03:10:29,040 which has been a start, which shall be. 2751 03:10:30,400 --> 03:10:34,600 So I said to every pastor, start more churches and more branches. 2752 03:10:34,600 --> 03:10:39,320 Your future is in the plenty. And when I saw that, I mean, I 2753 03:10:39,360 --> 03:10:41,840 ordained a lot of ministers that me encouraged. 2754 03:10:41,840 --> 03:10:45,160 Let me ordain a lot of people, let me appoint a lot of pastors 2755 03:10:45,200 --> 03:10:49,600 and ordain more before I die. To ordain thousands of people, 2756 03:10:50,200 --> 03:10:53,800 shadow me to the well, everybody go and do something, Go and do 2757 03:10:53,800 --> 03:10:56,640 something. Oh, that's the future. 2758 03:10:57,440 --> 03:11:00,680 That which has been that we shall be. 2759 03:11:01,920 --> 03:11:05,040 Hallelujah. So now. 2760 03:11:05,920 --> 03:11:12,040 My favorite books have become history books and biographies, 2761 03:11:12,040 --> 03:11:20,400 life stories of people. When you read about this guy 2762 03:11:20,600 --> 03:11:26,720 John Wesley, how he was faced, he had oranges who took over his 2763 03:11:26,720 --> 03:11:30,600 societies, all those people have disappeared. 2764 03:11:30,600 --> 03:11:33,640 We never hear of them again. When you research a story, see, 2765 03:11:33,640 --> 03:11:37,000 because you don't read history, that is why you want to break 2766 03:11:37,000 --> 03:11:40,400 off somebody's ministry and spoil it. 2767 03:11:40,480 --> 03:11:43,120 Not doing that in future. Nobody, you see, you don't even 2768 03:11:43,120 --> 03:11:44,400 know the name. You know John Bennett. 2769 03:11:45,440 --> 03:11:46,840 You know, John Bennett was one of his. 2770 03:11:46,960 --> 03:11:52,120 Top Oranges took over the district and fought against John 2771 03:11:52,120 --> 03:11:55,720 Wesley throughout his ministry. In fact, he even married the 2772 03:11:55,720 --> 03:12:00,080 girl that John Wesley wanted to marry, I tell you. 2773 03:12:00,080 --> 03:12:04,680 And then he fought him and he became his top opposer. 2774 03:12:05,560 --> 03:12:07,320 But you've never have you heard of you never heard of, but 2775 03:12:07,360 --> 03:12:09,720 you've heard of John Wesley. We have Wesley girls, Wesley 2776 03:12:09,720 --> 03:12:12,680 Grammar, Wesley High School, Wesley Cathedral, Wesley this 2777 03:12:13,360 --> 03:12:15,840 all over Ghana. Go to the far village and corner 2778 03:12:15,840 --> 03:12:19,720 you see W Methodist whatever Wesley something there. 2779 03:12:19,920 --> 03:12:21,920 But you don't see Bennett Cathedral. 2780 03:12:22,000 --> 03:12:24,280 John Bennett Chapel International. 2781 03:12:24,280 --> 03:12:26,720 John Bennett Ministries. No. 2782 03:12:27,200 --> 03:12:30,120 So when you find yourself now. Beginning to be John. 2783 03:12:30,120 --> 03:12:35,640 Bennett and modern John Bennett. You must say that. 2784 03:12:35,760 --> 03:12:39,160 Hey, so you see when you see. A. 2785 03:12:39,160 --> 03:12:41,400 A man. Of God and an experienced 2786 03:12:41,400 --> 03:12:46,280 historian and reader, and he sees something you say, oh, you 2787 03:12:46,280 --> 03:12:49,360 ask, what is your visa? Oh, that's John Bennett, huh? 2788 03:12:49,560 --> 03:12:50,840 It's a John Bennett. Spirit. 2789 03:12:58,010 --> 03:13:02,650 And you know, you know amount to much as you wake up fighting 2790 03:13:02,890 --> 03:13:05,570 ancient institutions and traditions. 2791 03:13:12,120 --> 03:13:14,600 Ancient institutions and traditions. 2792 03:13:18,080 --> 03:13:21,560 Are you listening to me? Yeah. 2793 03:13:24,600 --> 03:13:28,040 You'll be blessed greatly. You'll be blessed. 2794 03:13:28,040 --> 03:13:32,240 Greatly as you study history, so when you ask yourself so why 2795 03:13:32,240 --> 03:13:34,560 should I read Genesis I'm telling you why to read Genesis 2796 03:13:34,560 --> 03:13:39,760 so that you see what Noah did that by building those of us who 2797 03:13:39,760 --> 03:13:43,800 don't build you know that building too is important to 2798 03:13:43,840 --> 03:13:47,960 further to build a a house for God to preserve God said to keep 2799 03:13:47,960 --> 03:13:50,960 seed alive. Some of your churches are seeds, 2800 03:13:50,960 --> 03:13:53,840 but they are in classroom the day they announce all churches 2801 03:13:53,840 --> 03:13:56,760 should not be in classroom. Your seeds that you have planted 2802 03:13:56,760 --> 03:13:58,680 will be transferred and that will be the end of it. 2803 03:13:59,320 --> 03:14:02,200 Your church will get finished in Tina. 2804 03:14:02,200 --> 03:14:08,200 I am building a lot of churches, church buildings, he said. 2805 03:14:08,560 --> 03:14:12,160 To keep seed alive. Most of our churches are in the. 2806 03:14:12,160 --> 03:14:16,640 Seed stage if you don't. Have a building to encase it. 2807 03:14:16,720 --> 03:14:23,320 The seed will die, so God has spoken to me to. 2808 03:14:23,360 --> 03:14:26,800 Build churches. There must be a building to 2809 03:14:26,840 --> 03:14:30,640 encase even that lot. When his sisters, his daughters, 2810 03:14:31,040 --> 03:14:34,000 he came out of the Soto manguma, they said there's no one to keep 2811 03:14:34,080 --> 03:14:37,320 our father, our father's seed. Let us go and sleep with him to 2812 03:14:37,320 --> 03:14:41,280 keep his seed alive in us. So they went and they 2813 03:14:41,280 --> 03:14:44,920 masturbated their father, and they started his seed. 2814 03:14:52,200 --> 03:15:10,840 To keep seed alive oh man these two will help you and will be 2815 03:15:10,920 --> 03:15:17,200 the scriptures and the history will be a great I said there 2816 03:15:17,200 --> 03:15:22,320 will be very little erroneous directions that can come when 2817 03:15:22,320 --> 03:15:23,880 Bennett this. Thing. 2818 03:15:24,960 --> 03:15:29,240 I've seen one before. Why am I being directed to do 2819 03:15:29,240 --> 03:15:30,280 this? Is it from God? 2820 03:15:31,000 --> 03:15:36,400 Is God causing me to be a rebel? That's why John Wesley refused 2821 03:15:37,720 --> 03:15:40,400 to spoil a church. Even if it's these two 2822 03:15:40,400 --> 03:15:42,560 foundations. We are ready to explore the 2823 03:15:42,560 --> 03:15:48,800 supernatural and we are ready to find and perceive directions and 2824 03:15:48,880 --> 03:15:52,280 other inspirations. From the Lord that can bring us 2825 03:15:52,320 --> 03:15:55,960 into the higher places of God's calling for our lives. 2826 03:15:56,400 --> 03:16:03,000 Stand to your feet, everybody. Hallelujah. 2827 03:16:08,000 --> 03:16:15,560 Amen. Significance. 2828 03:16:17,360 --> 03:16:20,280 God's Book. And they became significant, 2829 03:16:20,920 --> 03:16:23,240 they. Left the long list and suddenly 2830 03:16:23,240 --> 03:16:24,840 they became a chapter on their own. 2831 03:16:25,320 --> 03:16:29,440 May you become the next chapter that is being written out of the 2832 03:16:29,440 --> 03:16:34,160 long list. May you become the next chapter 2833 03:16:35,080 --> 03:16:37,600 of God's. Blessing because annoying. 2834 03:16:38,160 --> 03:16:40,680 I want to recommend to you to become a reader. 2835 03:16:41,480 --> 03:16:43,560 John Calvin, he said. I ate little. 2836 03:16:43,560 --> 03:16:45,200 I slept little. And I read. 2837 03:16:45,200 --> 03:16:46,800 Much. Yeah. 2838 03:16:47,120 --> 03:16:51,680 I ate little, I slept little, and I read much. 2839 03:16:52,360 --> 03:16:59,000 Everybody say I ate little, I slept little and I read much. 2840 03:16:59,640 --> 03:17:03,240 That's what John Calvin said. That is why he could become the 2841 03:17:03,240 --> 03:17:06,880 person that he he became because he ate little. 2842 03:17:06,880 --> 03:17:09,040 He slept little and he read much. 2843 03:17:12,320 --> 03:17:13,880 I ate little. I. 2844 03:17:13,880 --> 03:17:19,680 Slept little and I read much. Lift your hands to the law. 2845 03:17:21,400 --> 03:17:24,360 Father, thank you for the grace and anointing that is poured on 2846 03:17:24,360 --> 03:17:32,640 our lives as we move into the higher things that you've called 2847 03:17:32,640 --> 03:17:36,840 us for. Lord, may we experience your 2848 03:17:36,840 --> 03:17:40,520 great blessing. We thank you, we praise you, we 2849 03:17:40,560 --> 03:17:44,600 honor you, We give you praise, Lord, because we know, we know, 2850 03:17:44,600 --> 03:17:47,520 we know. It's a great special opportunity 2851 03:17:47,520 --> 03:17:50,200 and privilege to enter into the prophetic church. 2852 03:17:51,320 --> 03:17:54,480 The church which sees the future, the church which hears 2853 03:17:54,480 --> 03:17:58,600 from God, the church which becomes significant because we 2854 03:17:58,600 --> 03:18:00,840 hear from the Father which is in heaven. 2855 03:18:01,880 --> 03:18:04,560 Lord teach us the act of hearing. 2856 03:18:05,040 --> 03:18:08,360 The act of hearing teach us the act of. 2857 03:18:08,360 --> 03:18:12,680 Hearing we thank you in Jesus name, Amen.