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01. Secrets Of The Anointed And His Anointing-Intro

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
February 28, 2025 2h 16m

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Camp Title - Secrets of The Anointed and His Anointing. Machaneh Collection - 79. Preached in 2012, Ghana (Mampong Akuapem). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.

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Welcome to track #1, the secrets of the Anointed and his anointing. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, let us pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this great opportunity that we have in you. We ask you to guide us and lead us by the Holy Spirit into all of your perfect will. We thank you Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. OK, please be seated now. Thank you Holy Spirit for your will that is being done in Jesus name, Amen. Now listen, we are here because I really felt in my heart that we should have a camp to help us to see the vision that we are working towards together, Amen. And we should have a vision, all of us working with the same mind. Amen. And the mind is a very serious mind. OK, One day somebody came to be with me. I've not been with him for some time. And then he said one of the things that he learnt or that he saw was that we were happy and we were having fun as we were serving God. Now one of the things is that people feel that if you are serving God, you must be either sad or depressed, or you must be very strict or you must look strict and unhappy always. But that is not the case. You can be happy and laughing and doing very serious things

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Welcome to track #1, the secrets of the Anointed and his anointing. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, let us pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this great opportunity that we have in you. We ask you to guide us and lead us by the Holy Spirit into all of your perfect will. We thank you Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. OK, please be seated now. Thank you Holy Spirit for your will that is being done in Jesus name, Amen. Now listen, we are here because I really felt in my heart that we should have a camp to help us to see the vision that we are working towards together, Amen. And we should have a vision, all of us working with the same mind. Amen. And the mind is a very serious mind. OK, One day somebody came to be with me. I've not been with him for some time. And then he said one of the things that he learnt or that he saw was that we were happy and we were having fun as we were serving God. Now one of the things is that people feel that if you are serving God, you must be either sad or depressed, or you must be very strict or you must look strict and unhappy always. But that is not the case. You can be happy and laughing and doing very serious things at the same time. All right. So I want you to have in your mind and in your heart the reality that we can do great things and very serious things. Because, you know, I'm always serious. It's you who are always laughing. But I'm serious. What? What I'm doing, I'm serious. I don't. I don't think we can be doing all the things we are doing. How many are enjoying our beautiful campus? How many? We cannot, we cannot be doing the things that we are doing if we are not serious. So we must be serious. But at the same time, we are happy. Yeah, why not? Why shouldn't we have kebab when we come to church? If you don't like it, it's your problem, do you understand? But we are, we are very serious about what we are doing. So as we are all here together, flowing around in the first lap church and so on, we must have a very serious vision that is underlying everything that we are doing. For instance, when we go to for a carnival, we will be dancing on planes and music. You may think that we are not even spiritual. Is it not true that we are very serious and what we are doing is intentional? Do you understand? So what I'm trying to say is that the fact that you are serious does not mean that you shouldn't be happy, and the fact that you are happy does not mean that you shouldn't be serious. So you can be happy and serious, you see, at the same time, Are you with me? So I want us to have a very serious vision of 1000 Children of God in the First Love Church. Now, do you believe that 1000 students on campus can come to church at the first lap? Do you believe that is possible? Yes, it is possible, all right. And so that is the aim of what we are doing. People may think we are just dancing or we are just making kebab, but we are serious. This is our underlying seriousness. There you get it. And under, under all that we are doing is this clear vision that we want to build a big church with at least 1000 people who have come to church on Sunday morning for one service. Hallelujah. So we have, we have, we have come here for today and for this camp because I want us to have this vision bend into our hearts, you know, because your vision is what drives you and makes you to do what you need to do. And without a vision, you're sort of aimless. If you sit into a car, sit in a car, and you start driving and somebody asked where are we going? So I don't know, I'm just driving. You can easily drive over the mountain and you're just going around and around and around and around and around. So a lot of visionless people are going around in circles. So I want you to be not a person without a vision, but a person with a vision. A vision is a good thing, you know, When you have a vision, you get it. You don't always say, when I sit with you, I have a vision, you know. But the vision you have guides you. Now there are some ladies who have a vision to to marry. It's true. And every vision, every vision so that you can have several visions. I forgot your name. Clara. Yeah, Clara. OK, I'll come back now. Every vision you see have other sister visions. You can have brothers, brothers and sisters of the main vision. But when you meet a sister with a vision to marry as her number one vision, you will see her making certain moves for sure. And, and I've noticed that such people marry. They marry in a certain way, sometimes a bit surprising, you know, the way they just marry. Yeah, they, they, they would, they sometimes they can because it's their number one vision. They sacrifice other visions, like a woman who is determined to marry as a number one vision, You'll be surprised that she will sacrifice her Christianity. Oh, yeah, serious. She's got an unbeliever and says, well, actually I want to marry and this guy is a serious whatever and his marriage is coming. So it's it's it's a it's a vision. I want to marry and have children. This is what I want to do. Yeah. They're starting like masters or this. No, no, no, It's his number one vision. And then they they've done it. And after marriage. Marriage or suicide? And I've seen a number of sisters like that. I mean, it's not so, so common, but you can see them. This is their goal. It's their vision. I'm doing it. I want it. And this is it. Yeah. And, and so sometimes they would, they would mention other visions they have, like want to work for God. I want to do that. It's not really true. The main thing is, the main thing is to marry. No, I've been, I've been, I've been. Well, I was 25 years old when I became a pastor and I'm, I'm almost 50. So I've been doing it for 25 years. So I must have seen a number of things. And even those who were so spiritual before, when they got married and then the spirituality flew away. And when a woman has a vision to marry seriously, sometimes they don't even just sleep around because that's not what they want. They know what they want. They would. They would tell their brothers, I know you will just sleep with me and leave me. You are not you are not serious. You are not serious. You are nothing. They know because it's a vision. It's something they've thought through. Yeah, it's not. They just don't want to just be going around. It's when you don't have a vision, you know, there you do a lot of things like that. When you have a vision, you'll be surprised. It makes you do your things in a certain way because you want to. So those who really have that vision and dream, they really play the cards in a certain way. So all of us have our number one vision. And that number one vision is the underlying and unspoken reason for a lot of things. Are you with me? So when it comes to the church work, there must be an underlying vision. And that underlying vision will make us behave in a certain way. So I want us to have that vision, OK, very deeply in our hearts, a vision to build a big church. You see a big church, a mega church is important because when you have a mega church, you know, I can give you 25 quick reasons why what an advantage there would be if we could have a big a mega church first lap church. Let me, I will just do that so that you don't forget it. Are you there right? Why we must have a mega church in the first Love Church. OK, thousand members. Thousand number one is because that's the most appropriate vision for a church. Amen. That is the most appropriate vision for a church. What other vision should we have? We want to be the most colorful church. We want to outdo others. Now, these are not good visions. Your vision must be. It's because it's the most appropriate vision. Amen. Then #2 it is because the First Love church must be huge, because when we're going to have a mega church, alright, the desire for that mega church will lead us on the right journey. Amen. Once that desire is in you, it will lead you on the right journey, OK, It will lead you on the right journey. That's why we want to have a vision for a mega church because it will lead you on the right journey. If you have a vision to marry, it will leave you on a on a journey. Is it not true? And that journey may be good or bad depending on that strong vision that you have. All right. So as a church, a goal must always be to set a number of people that we want to see in the church. That's why we are setting a number because because of our current number. And so it's reachable. Do you understand? So every pastor must set a number. If you don't have a number, it's not clear that that is the vision. It's just like people say I must be married by the age of 25. People have these visions and when a when a lady has a general of it, I want to be married in life. But when you see someone who she will not say it openly by this in her heart, by 25I I should be married. You, you will see certain moves, the dressing. And the reason why I say that is because for being around for 25 years and pastoring a chair. I know a lot of people who marry and they don't look like how you look now at home in their houses in a way they come sometimes to check so that they don't even do their hair. Yeah, because they already got married and they've lost their motivation. It's almost like their blood has been taken out of them. I'm telling you, they they don't even do their hair anymore. Are you there or you are going home? Mission accomplished and they switch off. All the engines are off and when you have arrived at the house, you turn the engine off. I'm home. Isn't it not amazing? So what this vision is there, our engines will be on, we will be doing things that lead the church to grow #3 we must have a beggar church because it is the prophetic destiny. Amen. Prophetic. It has been prophesied that the end will greatly increase Job Chapter 8, verse seven, Job 8, verse 7, it says and everybody turn with me to Job 8. I'll give you some time to find Job because I know it's not easy to find. Have you found it? What does it say? Amen. Is it a good prophecy? Although your beginning is small, your latter ends greatly increase. So that's how every church is. The beginning is small, but the latter end will greatly increase. And so those who want to do the work of God and became big, they can never start the work of God. Do you know that I came to Lagon to start this church, right? Yeah. And we met in a on a bench under the chemistry building, where they were, where they are, where it's finished now. By the that time they were building it. Yeah. With two members, this impressed lap church. So the beginning is always small, but the latter N has been predicted that it will be bigger. So why not go towards the prediction? Amen. And why let us not be discouraged by the beginnings, Amen. So I want us to have that vision that God has promised something that although your beginning is small, your latter N will greatly increase #4 The First Love Church must be a big church because we must not be deceived into thinking that the work is done on campus. Amen. You see, we must not be deceived into thinking that the work of God has been done. Everybody is in a church, is that it? Everybody is born again in the world. It is in your world that everybody is born again. But in the world, everybody is not born again. Discos are growing, nightclubs are growing. Discos have started opening branches. Yeah, so your world is born again world, but this the real world, many, many people don't know God and are not serving God. So you you have the sense that everybody you know is a Christian. So you lose the vision for a big church or for a mega church. Do you understand? Because you are so used. Everybody says Hallelujah, Amen, let's pray about it and so on. So you think everybody is a believer but the real world is not like that. Christians are few, Christians are very few. OK. And non Christians are far more than Christians. And most people are not saved, rather awaiting and in fact cannot easily be saved after this campus. Yeah, take it from me, people don't easily change after school. Even when it comes to non spiritual things, people don't change by a certain point. When you meet somebody who is NPP, you can explain everything about NDC. You will never change. That's what sometimes when I see them campaigning, I feel they are wasting their money because all those who vote NDC have already decided and those who vote NPP have already decided all the arguments they are having. I'm not going to change anybody's mind. People don't change by a certain point. It is younger, younger, younger, younger people who can change their minds. So the same thing goes to salvation. When you are a little older, you cannot easily be saved. We've got to change your mind, no? So in fact, if we lose the opportunity to win people, we are going to be making a big mistake. So Matthew 937 says the harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. Matthew Chapter 9, verse 37. The harvest is plenty, but the labourers are. And has it changed? Has not changed. Even in the First Life Church, the labourers are few. Those who are actually working are few. I was talking to the leader of the Selassie, the leader of the culinary ministry, and I was asking whether people are helping. And I found out that most people are not really helping. Geez, the the ones doing all the work go here, come here, go here, come here, go here. That is how the church is. So you see a lot of people, but few people are working. That is why when you are an employer, you are always wise to keep your employees to the lowest possible level because the more they are, the less they work. Yeah, so you see a lot of people, but few are working. So amongst us, that's why I threw out the invitation. If you can come to the camp, come. Because there are people due to boyfriends, girlfriends, they don't go to school. They cut lectures. Even this morning somebody is in the clinic doing an abortion this morning. Yeah, not, not that they say. I remember one of our doctors was explaining to me how students, you see, come for their abortions. Yes, and not even students far away, but students that we know come for their abortion from the clinic. You get it. So as we are here, so much so I can't come. I'm doing this, I'm doing this, I'm doing the when it's time to abort, you have time and you know where to go, how to go, what to do, and then still do your exam. Nobody knows when you see a lady who is now coming to have a baby. The right word pee. And then what? At the top 0 plus 0 plus? Yeah. Do do you understand this? I need just API need AP. Is there any P here? Oh, Chapo. You see, when they write the woman's name, like if you give your name at the clinic, they write your name. OK. And then they write Amatazan G1 and then P0 plus 4P0 plus they write it small at the top P then 0 + 3. Do you understand what it means? G stands for what you said, the right G the G what? G means how many number of times you've gotten pregnant. No, no, yes. So now on the right G what? Yes. No, no. That's the number of times you've gotten pregnant with the baby that's grabbed, let's say 5. So you have number of times gotten pregnant, grab it at 5. Yes, G5. Then P stands for what? The number of babies you've actually pushed. Out. So that's so that the so the gravity is always more than the parity. So let's say your your this is your third baby, but you have three children already there. So your two children already. You say your gravity has three para 2. So you have 3 the third pregnancy for your two children. I'm about to push your third one out. 2. Yes, but when you have gravity 5, para 0, then +5, that means you've gotten you've gotten pregnant. Sorry, that means you've gotten pregnant. You've gotten pregnant five times but have no children? Then they will now explain why you have no children. So you have P. 0 + 5. You have P0 plus so when you go to the hospital you not know what they are. Right there P 0 + 3 small at the top there the right GG3. Yes, G3. And then P 0 + 3 or maybe G-4G four pregnancy. Four pregnancy. And then? P 0 + 3 No, this is your 4th pregnancy, so this is your third 0 + 3. That means the three that came before this particular 4th pregnancy, we can't find them. So. So there are two reasons. There are two reasons why we can't find. There are usually 2 reasons why we usually can't find the pregnancy. Either you got pregnant and due to natural causes the baby died, or which is spontaneous abortion. Or. There is another one called induced abortion. That means you did something about the pregnancy, that he came for him. OK, All right. I'm just making that point that some people may say I cannot, but as there this month, today's what, Wednesday right now you see, there are clinics, they will ask you what? What do you do? So I'm a student at which university lay gone. Then they write the pregnant. They have a way. They write it because they have sometimes they have to know, especially if you are going to have a baby, how many times and so on. So you see they write the P 1 + 3 or 0 + 3 and nutrients, the three are gone. Three came back when whilst you were having lectures, whilst you were having IA's. So don't tell me you cannot label for God, you can. If you are going to have a mega church, it means we are going to attend to the work that has to be done, which few people are doing, and I will encourage you to be one of the laborers who will work for God in your lifetime. Never be in this church as a bystander, as someone who is making light of the work of God. Yes, if you are here, work for God. Be serious, be happy, but be serious. Amen. Everything that even your body needs, every pleasure we have it in Christ. I'm telling you, every pleasure that you can imagine. There is a Christian version. We have a Christian version of music, whether it's jazz, rocky, poppy, poppy, every type. We have reggae music. We we have everything. We have dancing in Christ. We have relationship between boys and girls. We have it in Christ. We have some in Christ. That is why in the church we use the term beloved because it's to distinguish the type of relationship, which you call my girlfriend or my boyfriend. She's my girlfriend. She's my boyfriend. That is why we disbanded that term 25 years ago. 28 years ago. Yeah. And we use another term. We use other terminology, and that terminology is beloved because it is the song. So Solomon, my beloved is mine, and I am my beloved. Oh my beloved, stand not up my love before the time. So we have Christian version, we have Christian version of falling in love, and we have even songs about falling in love. We have songs about falling in love. Sing one line for me falling. In love with Jesus. Falling in love with Jesus. Falling in love with Jesus is the best thing I've ever done. Singing again. I'm falling in love. Falling in love with Jesus. Falling in love when Jesus is the best thing I ever done. Come on, see you one more time so that the world will be jealous of us. Falling in love with Jesus. Falling in love with Jesus US falling in love with Jesus is the best thing I am. Ever gone in his arms? In his arms, I feel both sit there. All. Right, Hallelujah. So we have everything in Christ. Sex. We want to have sex, we have it in Christ. We have it in Christ. If you want to have sex under a coconut tree, we have it in Christ. We have it in Christ. What a shock. If you want to have sex in the moonlight, we have it in Christ. If you want to have sex in a hotel, we have it in Christ. There is nothing that we don't have in Christ. If you want to jump like a frog, we have it in Christ. There is nothing that we don't have in Christ. We have everything and the world is jealous of us. We are not jealous of them, they are jealous of us. Yes, what a shock. Yeah, sit down. We have everything. If you want to have a drink, a cool drink, we have it in Christ. You can have Coca-Cola with ice and lemon ice. Sit down if you want to be high. We have the Holy Ghost anointing. Come to church and see for yourself. When we are drunk with the new wine and we are full of the Holy Ghost. What are you talking about? When we come under a certain influence, sweet influences of the Holy Ghost. Anything that you need. We have some in Christ. Yeah. Saddam. We have it. So we must work for Him and whilst we are working for Him we can be happy. Amen #5 Why we should have a mega church in the First Love Church is because all right, it is God's will that his house should be filled. Isn't it true? What did he say? He said, go into the highways and the byways and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. Look 14, verse 23. Look number chapter 14, verse 23. Amen, that my house may be filled. God wants his house to be filled, and God, who gives us all good things, has a desire. Wouldn't you want to do something for the one? You know when you want to buy a present for somebody, OK, and you sometimes don't know what the person wants. Do you get it? Isn't it nice to know what the person wants and then suddenly let's get that particular thing from the person or the person, isn't it? So that's how God is, what God is doing. He's showing you what he wants for a birthday present. He said that my house may be filled. I wish my house would be full. The football stadiums are full, the discos are full, the shopping malls are full. What about my house? Is my house empty? So if this is what God wants, why don't we do something for God? Why don't we give ourselves to God? So at the first lab check we want to give ourselves to God and we want to campaign for His house to be filled whilst others are spending all their life and their money fighting like demons over issues which are not true. Let themselves know and they are not true. Let us give ourselves to fight for the wishes of our Heavenly Father. It says that my house may be filled, that my house may be. I want my house to be filled. Amen. Number six, we must have a big church because our harvest field is the whole wide world and the whole world on campus. Anybody who is a student and how many students are there in this school? 50,000, 45,025 thousand, yeah. 25,000 people in the school. I mean, if there are 25,000 people in the school, and I'm telling you that our vision is to have 1000 children of God, it is small. Yeah. You see, I told you, you think that the harvest has been completely finished. If you go round and you Add all the churches, 60 people, 502040. And when you add it, how, how many is it? You will be surprised that it will, it will not be. It will not be up to 2000 people who are going to church on Sunday. Yeah. So you see it, it is. It is bad leaders who focus on what they can see. But a good leader has a statistical department and looks at statistics and data. Data and statistics are more important for a leader than any other kind of information. Your pleasant face that is smiling OK is not good information. The data on you, how many times you've been to a camp, how many times you have not been to a camp, how long you pray, how often you do pray, how often you come to church, how often you are not around, Those kind of statistics. How many boyfriends have you had? How many girlfriends have you had? How many abortions have you had? Do you understand? How many people have you slept with? These are all important statistics that are more important than your smiling beautiful face, my dear, or your hair. The data. If our government was to use data or information, you get it. They would have provided a water system on campus better than they have provided. Yeah, instead of destroying all the courtyards with these huge water tanks, they would have provided a way of making water run. If the government, which are campaigning today, were using data and statistics, they would be far better leaders than they are. Do you understand? Because we have very, very poor leaders. If our leaders were to to be given grades in exams, most, most of them will not get more than 20% for leadership. They will get they will get marks. They will get marks for having been to school. They will get marks for being having ABA degree in this BSc, master's, PhD, doctors of this and that. They will get marks for all that. They will get marks for political campaign and impressing people and telling people to vote for them and going around and all that. But marks that you get for leading us, well, most of them will get less than 20%. Why we are, we are in Ghana, 54 years have gone by since we took over the reins of our own affairs in the capital city. Statistically, all right. Statistically right. There is no running water in the city. There's no running water in Adenta You are you not in Ghana. There's no running water in in East Ligand. When Anakufuado lives, there's no water attached in assortment. They started in a pipe and assortment. There's no water in Teshi. There's no water in Labadi Spintex Rd. There's no water Medina. There's no water. Where else? No, there's no water. I shall portray there's no water. So where is the water? And we have people, we have the ministry called Ministry of Water Resources and something. So the person who is there should resign tomorrow, but he will not resign. He will be there and there is somebody above him and years and years go by and they keep on having such people. If you take the Ministry of Highways and Roads and whatever, most of the roads in the city have have not been done, just the main roads that have been done, most of the roads have not been done. There's no road from here to Kumasi, even 20th century, you cannot get a good road to go and so on and so forth. So leadership where they sit in the castle or wherever they have the road from the castle straight in front of them is done. When the three doctors died some few years ago, about 4-5 years ago, right, and President Kufu was going to visit the widow of one of, I think he visited all the widows. So he was going to visit the widow of one of them. And one of them stayed at Dansoman and the road to that place was so bad and they came to grate the road because the president was coming to visit that widow. So what I'm saying is statistically, if they were to sit in the castle and look at the statistics that look at the state of Accra by statistics, then they will have the right motivation and not just be motivated. If there's a funeral, let's grade the road. If this even the road to Professor Nelson's house village on the road to Cape Coast, there's a small bypass there. They've just graded it when they have the funeral or whatever. What are all these so that everybody has to die before you come and do this road? So, so we too, we too, we don't, we, we don't have to sit down. We have to use statistics and know that there are 25,000 people here. They don't have to say. A lot of people have come to church or the church is big or, and we are happy or we are singing well or whatever. They have to also look at. Otherwise we become just like they are. We'll be praising ourselves. Well, we shouldn't praise ourselves at all. If they are bold, they should come and sit down for us to ask questions. Yes. Are you with me? Yeah. So let us also not fall into the same thing. Why? You see that we all sit back as if there's no work to be done. Well, actually, it's actually there's nothing done. Yeah. Because to me, to me, if you are living Ghana, you cannot make water run in the city. Meanwhile we have a lake, the largest man made lake in the world just here across from here. And as if we have been commissioned to fill the sea with water. So the lake is filling the sea. Do you understand Thousands and millions of gallons every second we are filling all the fresh water that we need is there. That's like the sense of the ability to organize whatever to come this way is not ability is finished. Or even a pipe, even a pipe, there's no pipe. You get it. So statistically you if you look at the statistics of the leadership of a country, then you will really be able to say that these are bogus leaders. Bogus. Yeah, go Gosley because you are given a currency, $1.00 is one CD. Then after you rule for 40 years, $1.00 is 10,000 CDs. When I was once in Argentina, you know, I was going to the airport, there was a strike. They blocked all the routes to the airport. I said what is going on? When we go to we come back, who here? Who here? I'm going to be made for my fact. They have blocked people. They blocked their own strike. I said why? Because the currency has been devalued and I said by how, how, by how much? I said, oh, it was one, it has become two, one to two, one to three, one to three. I said wow, you should have been in Ghana, you will see one to 3000 or if you are did in Zimbabwe, one to million. In my wallet I have $1 billion notes, I have even $10 billion, and then I have $10 trillion. One day I'll show you $10 trillion. Zimbabwean dollar notes, $1 billion note. Yeah, 10 billion. And the person who printed it has probably been to London School of Economics, has been to whatever university has a pH in the head of the Bank of, of, of, of the country. And you print money to the tune of $10 billion note and you use it to buy bread, 110 billion. One bread for $10 billion. What? I'm explaining something. Oh, when you look statistically, you see that these people are bogus leaders. They are even in Ghana. Whatever. Let me tell you something, no matter which government, MDCMPP or DDT, if whoever they are, don't listen to their economic policies, again, I'll show you. I'll show you what to look at. Should I tell you what to look at? There is something that never lies. Do you want to know that economic thing that it never lies? That's what you should look at. That will let you know whether it's a good government or and it is the exchange rate. The exchange rate is not controlled by them. They can figure, fiddle with all the figures and tell you our GDP is this. We are the fastest growing economy we have because all those things is just. You change this percentage to this, then we become 6.2 percent or any. But what never lies is the exchange rate because that one is from outside you. You have your CD, your currency is forced to be at the real level. Nobody will give you a real dollar for a city that is nothing. So the extend rate doesn't lie. When you look at it you see the truth no matter how what they talk. When you look at the dollar rate then you see that ah so every country can see how useless the economy is by the rate. So you see how useless garnered the economy was by when our money was one city to to 10,000. Now if you go to every country you can ask dollar to what dollar to what then you know the the value of the car. So if you say dollar to euro is like one point something dollar to pound is one point something. OK, when you as soon as you enter Africa, OK, it changes from 1:00 to let's say 100 and something in in Nigeria is how much 162 zip love the oil, the economy is stronger. So the 163 better than the 9000. So it has some value you see compared to the one to 10,000 and when you go to Kenya it's 1 to 80 something or like that different countries. When we come to Ghana, it was 10,000 then. So we just reorganized ourselves and we came back to 1:00 to 1:00 and then we have already started. Yeah, we are already 1:00 to 2:00. Anyway, all I'm saying is that it is easy to sit in your castles and praise yourself when actually the harvest is plenty and the laborers are few so it's easy to look at it. But when you start counting, you'll be sad with the real 8 general leaders to start counting. Truly they will. They will. All of them will resign and say we have made a strong case for recolonization of Ghana by the white man. We have. The thing we have proved most by being independent for 50 years is our need to be colonized. And they will resign. If they were to look at the facts, yes, and then the white people would say that we can't colonize you again. Hey, we are tired. We are also tired of colonizing everyday colonization. We are tired. Colonize yourselves. Assume let's say challenge. We too, we can't colonize. We have enough problems in our country, but you can never know that by looking at our parliament. Looking at also, I speak Kentucky Fried Chicken, Wudin Wudin shop, Akram Mall and all these things that we have in Ghana can never show you how, how, how bogus the leadership is, how useless it is. Yeah, you can't know when you see Akram Mall. Oh, Khana is nice. Look at look at this hotel movement. Pick this. Oh, Khana is really. That's not the statistics. Let's start. Let's go. Is there water in Labadi? Is there water in Teshi? Is there water in Mungua? Is there water in Asuma? Is there water in Adenta? Is there everywhere? Is there water? There's still running water. I saw they said one in five Ghanaians, one in five Ghanaians. Only one in five Ghanaian uses toilet or something. Yeah, I saw it on television. Yeah, your statistics. Then you start to know the true state of where everything is. You will never be happy in your church as a pastor, praising yourself. When you start looking at the statistics, you will sat up and be so quiet and pray for the help and the mercy of God. Yeah. So this is all that I'm saying to you that I want. I want more laborers to work. Yeah, let's be happy, but let's work. Amen. The next reason why we must have a big church it's because it is a biblical example. The Bible or the churches have thousands of members, thousands in Acts of the two verse 41, Acts 241, those who believe what Peter said were baptized and added to the church about 3000. In all on that day, Acts 241-3000 members came to join the church. Why can't we have at least 1000? I'm asking you a question. Why can't we have 1000? If 3000 joined in one day, then this week at the crusade we should be able to have 1000 members joining the church Acts after four verse 4. Many of the people who heard the message believed it so that the number of the believers totaled about 5000 men. Wow, so you see that in the Bible, how will they count hundreds or 10s, thousands. So it means we have not even started doing a church because we have not yet counted 1000 #8 We must have a big church because having a mega church means that more souls have been won, More souls have been won, Amen. We are going to have a big church and a mega church. Amen. Because it means that more souls have been won. Because who are the people in the church? They are the people. They are the souls who have been won who are now in the church. Is that not so? They are the souls who have been won to God and are now in the church. How many have been won? Before you were were you won? How were you won? You gave your life to Christ. You were invited to the church then? There was an altar call then I give my life to Christ in the church. Wow, you came forward and gave your life to Jesus. What about you? What? What was your name? Alice. Come, Alice, did you? Have you have you been won to the Lord? When were you won? How were you won? I was born in a dream. In a dream. Hey, salvation through dreams and what happened in the dream and. La Jean, I had gone to church, but I left and I went home and I was cleaning. Then he knocked on my door and asked her, what am I doing home? And I said, Bishop, I've been there. And he said, you've been there. I called you not to have been there, but for you to be there. Then I started coming to church again. Wow. She was one to a dream and to the dream. She's in church. So I was witnessing in the air at the time. This is what we call air witnessing. Air witnessing. Hallelujah. Are you still around? Are you sure you are still here? So how many have been one? Have you been one? How were you? One for me? It was more of a turn around. A turn around? Yeah. OK. Is there anybody who has been one? Yeah. You were one. Yes, for sure. How are you? One for me? I wasn't serious. But then when I became serious, then I gave my life to Christ fully. I came to church and I lifted your hands and you came forward. Yeah. Not. Not too many pictures. Are you part of the camp? Sit down, concentrate. Pick up the jacket. We are relaxed here. OK. Sit down. Yeah. Have you been 1? You are one, Rosina. Come and tell me how you are one. I was also not serious. I was joking while in s s and everything. And I came to Chechen. Somebody invited you to church. Somebody invited me to church. Then I followed. And I came and I lifted my hands and gave my life. You came forward. No, I didn't come forward. But you lifted your hammer. You didn't come forward. So some of the people who leave their hammer don't come. They are still getting saved. Yeah. And what about you? You were one. It was a holiday. My friends and I were on our way to the beach. I told you that whatever is in the world, we can have it in a church. Yes. Then I met a gentleman by our gates and then he invited me. There was an outreach in Cathedral, so the outreach was somewhere in our area. So he invited me and my friends and I went to was like a holiday. They played songs, they preached the word of God, they danced, They had food to eat and all that. And then it was Reverend Fabin. And then he made an utter call. I was on my way out when he made the utter call. Then he asked them to lock the gate. He asked them to lock the gate. He asked them to lock the gate and that he felt that I needed to give my life to Christ. My friends and I, that if only the two of us gave our life to Christ, God had a reason for us, so nobody should allow us to go out, that they should engage us. And then when they made the altar call, I gave my life to Christ and I came. To Christ you he was one. He was also one. Give him the mic. I I was, I was in a Christian. I was born in a Christian home. We used to go to church and all that, but I was not serious when I when I came to Ghana again and I had some friends who were all going to Lighthouse and they one day I was escorting one to church and I asked why are you always going to church? They said you come and you'll see why we're always going to church. So when I went there, I sat at the back and LP Lulu was preaching and when she finished, she made an altar call and I raised my hand after I wanted to come and give my life to Christ and rededicate my life to Christ. And I walked to the front, and I said the sinner's prayer. And I'm here so amazingly, many people who are in a church have been warned. Yeah. That is why the larger the church, it means more warned people. Yeah. So it's a good vision for a church to have a big church because the more you'll be surprised. Each person has a different story of how he or she came to be in the House of the Lord and you, you, you'll be surprised that it is in this era of your youngness, youthfulness. When you are young, this is the time that something can happen easiest and best in your life. So this is this honestly to to win 1000 people to be sitting in the church. It's a small vision, but it's going to be our vision and God is going to use us to accomplish it. In the name of Jesus, Amen. You may be seated #9 We must have a big church, because when there is a big church or mega church, all right, there are more labourers. Labourers, Amen. Because if there are more members, then there are more labourers, isn't it? So let's say, let's say some, only some people have come for the camp. You see those who have come for the camp to me are the laborers. The rest are members, isn't it? So if we had had a church which had 1000 people, maybe there may have been twice the number of people here at the camp. That means that there will be more workers, more laborers. So the church is the, the church is like the size that shows you the size of everything else. Do you get what I'm saying? The size of the church shows you the size of everything else within the church. So it shows you the size of the workers and the size of the laborers. Amen #10 Through a mega church we're going to have more ministers of the gospel. More ministers. More people are going to become ministers of the gospel. How many want more ministers of the gospel? Or more politicians? You are more. More politicians. More boyfriends. How about one more boyfriends, more girlfriends, more prostitutes, more DJs, more drug dealers, more thieves, more armed robbers. No more. A church produces ministers, ministers of the gospel. OK, so a good church, and that's why a lot of you are going to become ministers. Oh yeah, that's your future. I said that is your future. That is your future. You are likely to become a minister if you are, if you are sitting here, you are likely to become a minister of the gospel of Jesus. Hallelujah. Oh, what a blessing. Yeah, but think about it, if you were not here, you have been arrested at MPP Youth, MDC Youth and before you realise you are doing so many things #11 we must have a mega church because more people are involved in prayer when there is a mega church, Amen. OK. More people are involved in prayer when you have a mega church. Amen. OK, more people are involved in prayer when you have a mega church because the prayer warriors become more when there is a bigger church. OK, so we have more prayer, more prayer when there is more, more a bigger church, small church. You cannot have a small, a big prayer group. It's a small. And when there's more people praying, you have more prayer. Isn't it amazing? Because right now maybe our church in New Zealand is having all nights because it's night there. And as you keep coming, India and all, they are all different levels of time. So before I realized 24 hours, there's prayer going on, something like that all night, all night, all night, the same time everywhere. It's amazing #12 when you have a mega church, it's going to generate a larger crowd. And when we have a larger crowd, we have, when we have a larger crowd, we have, what do you call it, more expectation? Luke chapter 3, verse 15. Danny. Look 315 and ask the people where in expectation and all men mused in the hearts of John whether he were the Christ or not. So you can have expectation when there are more people, isn't it #1313? Listen, I've been to a crusade. I once, I once went to a crusade where there were, I mean, we once had a crusade, the whole stadium was full. And I can understand why people like soccer stars. I've never been to the stadium before, but only for a crusade. But I tell you, when there's a lot of people, there's some real excitement and they'll be singing the songs and all that. And I've been to a crusade where there's nobody there. The whole stadium was empty, just a few people down on the ground, whatever. And this international evangelist had come from abroad with so many people and the whole stadium was empty and just a few people that could have just fitted, fitted into, you know, somewhere these two halls and there was something. So your expectation goes down. You start to now pray in a certain ways. Oh God, oh God, oh God, have mercy on the crusade. What a shock. Amen #1413 #13 You have more miracles. Miracles. There are more miracles when there is a large crowd and there's a larger expectation, more miracles. We're going to have miracles in the first love chat. Would you like to have a miracle service in the first love chat? Why not? Why shouldn't we have a miracle service? And you have more miracles in a bigger chat because there are more sick people and there's more expectation. But if you have a few people, I mean, you will struggle. You have a headache. OK, I need somebody with a headache or somebody with a sore throat, at least. I mean, it's not likely that anybody here is blind. It's not likely. But in the last you get large another, you get a blind person. The blindness is part of a human race. Amen. I once went to a crusade where the ambulances were as many as the cars. Ambulances like cars. They brought sick people. Yeah, expectation #14 you must have a church, because more evangelism is possible through a mega church. More evangelism, isn't it? Yeah, you're going to have more evangelism through a mega church, more evangelism through a mega church. We have more and more evangelism. Don't we have a healing Jesus Crusade? Healing Jesus Crusade would not have been possible some years ago. But as the church gotten bigger, it's possible to do things you could never do before. So it's a very important thing. Amen. And as the First Lab church gets bigger, we are going to be able to do certain things we've never been able to do before. You're going to see first lap, we'll be reaching out to Cape Coast University. Maybe we maybe because of lectures or because of time, we may have to fly to Kumasi and the church is bigger. You see that the first lap, first flight, second flight, 10th. London. We have London over there for a major outreach or maybe the first lap that we can evangelize Tamale University. I see that you are all flying there. Flight, first flight has gone, second flight, third flight and then we are moving. Yeah. And some of you have never sat on a plane before. You see, this is an opportunity. You've only seen the plane flying over and you've not gone inside before. Thank God. When the church is bigger, more things are possible that were only imaginations before. Yeah, yeah, you dream about it. But when you have a big church, it is possible. Amen #15 We can have a mega church because when we have a mega church we have a larger and greater income. Money. Money is possible. More things you can do with money. Amen. Have you had your tea this morning and some sandwiches? Can you imagine what it costs to make all these sandwiches and your lunch is being prepared now? I mean, this would not be possible with a poverty stricken small church. Saddam, some of you have never had a sandwich before. Through the grace of God, you are now tasting sandwich. So when a church has more money, more people, there's more money. When there's more money, we can do many more. More things are possible for the church. Amen. Are you excited about that now #16 When we have a mega church, we can take care of special needs which develop within a mega church. Amen. Special needs. Psalm 41 verse one. Blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him. In the time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive. He shall be blessed upon the earth, and thou will not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. So when we have a mega church, we can take care of special needs and usually special needs are created by poverty. Now some of you are hungry from school, is it not true? Yes, and some of our special needs of hunger could be taken care of by a mega church. So you let's pray that they become more and more. When we know the labourers amongst us, you see that it may be possible more to take care of certain special needs. Just as the bigger church takes care of orphans. We take care of the blind, we take care of the beggars. Every month we gather a certain number of beggars in Accra and we pay, we pay beggars as a church every month. Yeah, You see the people who are begging, we look after a certain number of beggars in Accra every month. We pay them, they know they come. And most of our beggars that we look after are are blind. Many of them are blind. So we look after it will not, it will not be possible. It's a lot of money, because if you are looking after 100 beggars, we look after about 100 beggars. If you are giving, looking after 100 beggars and you give every beggar 50 CDs, that's 5000. Yes, that's a lot of money. Yes, you look, they are beggars and they are really, really poor people that are in the world and they cannot work and there is no support for them from the government. These people up there. Yeah, I'm telling you. You see, I watched, I watched a film and God touched my heart. It was a film about Congo and some cripples in Congo. And the cripples were explaining in French. They said, look, we have no choice but to beg. He said we would die if we don't beg. We have to beg. We have no work, we have nothing. We will die if we don't. We have to beg. It's our only way to live is to beg. There is no job. And you see them crawling on the floor like that, moving, you know, there's no government. Nothing helps them. So these people also need to be careful. So as you grow as a church, it's possible to do what Jesus said. When I was hungry, they didn't mind me. When I was thirsty, you didn't mind me. When I was naked, you didn't mind me. When I didn't have anywhere to stay, you didn't mind me. When I was sick, you didn't mind me. Depart. So some of you complaining that you are broke, you have no idea what it means to be blind in Accra or to be a cripple in Accra and be struggling just to get something to eat. Yeah. So brothers and sisters, I'm telling you, when a church gets bigger, it becomes possible for us to do these things and we are doing them. We are making books for the blinds. We are, we are supplying. No, no, no, I'm not saying for you to. We are making books for the blinds. Do you know that the blind people in Ghana, when they get to secondary school, when they get to JSS, they cannot continue because there's no book in Braille on English language science? Nah, there's nothing. So we are taking upon ourselves as a church to to to know how to manufacture and translate the JSS book into Braille and make the books for them, the JSS, so that they can use it to do the basic. Whatever, you can never do that if you don't have money. Yes, that's why the government is there is their work. They will not do it and nobody cares about them. But when a church gets to a certain stage, the church has the capacity and the capability to do things for four. That is why a pastor, you see, your number one goal should be that the church should be big and you should have a number in your head that the Czech must get to this number. Yeah. You can't just have a numberless vision. You must have a vision with a number. And when the church is bigger, there are so many things you may think you are special need. But when I show you the real special need people, you say Bishop these ones. It's OK. I am a super rich sister in the world. Amen. How many want the church should be bigger? Now do you think that it's very important for the church to be big, very good, very good, very good. You are getting the vision #17 When we have a, we must have a mega church because it will show that we are making full proof of the ministry. Because the Bible says make full proof, full proof. You are proving it fully that you are a real spiritual good church. Amen, Amen. Now it says in Second Timothy 4 verse 5, but you keep your eye on what you are doing, accept the hard times along with the God, keep the message alive. Do a thorough job as God's servants. Second Timothy 4-5 from the Message Bible, Second Timothy 4-5 or the King James says make full proof of your ministry. In other words, do it fully. So when you have a big church, you means you have done the church fully. You have done the church to the end of the end. You have taken it to the ultimate to the logical conclusion. You have made full proof of it. You've not done it half heartedly. That is why I came into full time ministry because I wanted to make full proof of my ministry. I wanted to do it fully all out. I didn't want to have partly done church or something. I'm doing half and half at the point I said no, I need to make full proof of my ministry. I need to do it fully and go to the logical conclusion of the road that I have started working on. The logical conclusion. And there's no other logical conclusion that I should give myself fully to what I'm doing. And it's not as though there were many people. If I had even all of you in those days, I would have even even not needed faith. Not I wouldn't have needed faith, but just a few people in my chest like this. And I said that I was leaving medicine, leaving everything so that I could be a pastor to keep myself fully to what I have decided already to do. I started as a young man. I've persisted in the same way up to today. I'm still doing it. I have no regret and I'm preaching the same things that was preaching #18 We must have the big church because in a mega church there are more beloveds, more beloveds. Acts 433 For there was not a needy person among them, not a needy person among them. For all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds to the to the bring the proceeds of the sales. Amen. When there is a mega church and a big first love church, there are going to be more beloveds. Wow. There will be no shortage of beloveds. Take it one. Why? Because every type of person will have your beloved in the church. Listen. Listen to me. Everybody has a type that he or she would prefer. Is it true or is not true? Wouldn't you have preferred somebody particular kind of person? Yeah. When the church is small, your type may not be in the church. That the facts that the facts or type may not be in the church. One day our church was very small and there was a sister in the church, a fair coloured beautiful girl. And one day I asked her sister so and so why are you not getting married? Get married. I told her get married as if you can do it by force, why are you not getting married? Get married. And she said she lifted up, she has a way of lifting up her nose. She lifted up her nose. She lifted up her nose and her cheeks in her way and said, my type is not in the church. My type is not in the church. What a shock. So because I was a pastor of a very small church, I grew wild and I started to blast her. I said, who do you think you are? What do you mean? What type are you? What do you mean by your type? And the waste of my type, My type is not in the term. I said never say that again. You are proud. You are too proud. I don't like your attitude. And I rebuke her totally and completely. And then I left her, but when I went away, I thought about it and I realized that it was true. Her type was not in the chance because a new child has been studied by a young medical student doctor, even with just some students from a Venezuela secondary school. And other people are, you know, it's like as she was this type, she had gone to London, she had gone to do masters and bills and darling and she had come with her new bargain and she said my type is not in the church. Wow. One day I came to church and I finished preaching. And after preaching, my wife used to give me some groundnuts and chips. Yeah, it was my favorite with minerals after preaching. So one day there was no groundnuts and chips. So I called and I said my darling wife, where are the garnuts and chips? And she said the lady who makes the garnuts and chips has left the church. I said why? And she told me exactly. She said that her type is not in the church because she was an older. She was not like sophisticated what what have you. But she was a bit older and when she looked at the church, she was like a giraffe with antelopes that she was looking over the heads of the antelopes. So she was above so she couldn't see her type in the in the church when she looked around, there was no of that age group. She was like a giraffe that was looking over antelopes were down on the field. So the lady with the car. And since then after today, I've never eaten that gangland and chips again. But you see if there's a mega church, whether you are old. Oh yeah, because some of you, you are in the university, but you are old. Yeah, you are in the university, but you are old. So the people who can marry you even in the first laps that there are fewer because of your age, because even though you say first year, but it's about fifth year based on the time that you came to the school. Are you listening? But when you have a mega church, all ages, we have your type in the church. One day a certain brother called me. He said, Bishop, I have a vision, I said. A vision for what? I said I want to marry a white lady. I said, really? She said, I don't want to marry anybody from Ghana. I don't want to marry. I want to marry a white lady. I said no problem, we have white ladies in different branches, we can see if we can get one for you. One day I did an altar call. I said all those who are not married and who want to be married, come to the front. Come, I'm going to, I'm going to pray for you. So by that time I was standing here. So I turned round to go to the stage. So I walked to the stage and they started coming. When I turned round, I almost fell down because because I was shocked because I thought that I will see only young ladies, all students and young girls standing in the front. So my shelter were the photos and the clothes that my mother, aunties, all of them have come to the front. Now those who want to be married come to the front. I was shocked. So since then I've never made such an order for if I if I may, I will give a certain age below 35, below 13. And I saw the elderly grandmother said aunties. Oh, that is when I realized that the girls really like marriage and really like boys no matter how old they are. So one day we had a wedding in the church. The bride groom was 72 years old and the bride, she was 65 with her white dress was coming down smiling. I said Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy. Hey, but it was her dream and it was happening. Her type was 72. Yeah, her type. And he also was not interested in these little little girls. He didn't want 24/26/28. He wanted his type some a lady in her 60s. I see your type in the First Love Church. By the time they are going out of the First Love Church, you see that God has sent your time into the church. Receive it one, receive it 2, receive it three and receive it 4. Do you want a mega church? Number 19, you must have a mega church because in a megazit there are going to be more marriages and weddings. Not every belavedosis ends in a marriage. Yes. So when we have a big church, we have opportunity for serial belavedosis. In case of belavedosis failure. Yeah, Yeah. In case of belavedosis failure, there can be a second, the God of a second chance, God of a second chance will give you a second opportunity, give a lot of shallow brain. Go, go away, go away, the Bible says. And the Lord called unto Jonah the second time. The second time God is the God of a second chance, it's the God of a second chance. So not all beloved doses goes all the way to marriage. Some even during their engagement, some at the wedding have been to have been for a wedding where some people came to the wedding instead of carrying handbags. Have you seen this Azhar paint? Have you seen zapping gallons? They came with it full of thummut oil soup. Thummut oil? Is that what they call it? Palm oil? Yeah, full. So they came and sat down in the church with the instead of handbags, hazop. They were waiting for the bride so that when she comes they would take the palm oil and point on her. I had come, I had come to officiate the wedding. I was wearing my suit and everything and we saw that the palm nut oil members, Aza, they were waiting. So the the bride ran away at the wedding. It didn't come on, it did not end in marriage. So it's not every beloved doses that ends in marriage. So we need a larger church so that if one beloved who used to sit here doesn't work, we can try somebody at the other end of the church. Give the Lord a. Go back to your seat. Listen, sometimes. Sometimes you see that somebody comes near you, but he doesn't propose. Have you seen that one too? That is what we call almost belavedosis. So sometimes you can have about two or three almost belavedosis before you have the belavedosis, 1 and 2 before marriage. Sit down, sit down. That is why I'm telling you we must have a mega church. When we have a mega church, even when your heart is broken, something inside you will tell you that I have a hope because I'm in a mega church. God will raise up somebody else and send the person to my life. Maybe your future husband is in TF hostel right now. Yes, he's waiting for us to come and have a Carniva. When we come there, he will come forward and give his life to Jesus. Yes, yes that he's waiting. He's waiting. He's waiting, I said. He's waiting. He's waiting for you and me to pull ourselves together and arrive and sing and dance and preach and pray for him to be saved. Yes, he's waiting. One day I had a vision. I saw a man sitting in a sitting room with glass, glass windows and doors, very posh with carpets. There was a carpet and he had voted his leg and he was drinking whiskey with a cigar and he was alone because he was lonely. Sometimes these very successful people, they are, they become lonely. They don't have husband, wife, they don't have anything, children. They have this gun disappeared. They're just alone in their sadness. And the Holy Spirit said to me, the Holy Spirit said to me, this man is waiting for you. He's waiting for you to come and talk to him. I will never forget. I always remember him. He's waiting. Sometimes your husband is waiting, sometimes your best friend is waiting. Sometimes even your employer is waiting. Even somebody may be a pastor or your wife. They are all waiting. If you just pull yourself together and arrive, you'll be surprised at what the Lord will do. So the mega church, you don't know what is in it. You don't know what is in it. God is going to bless us in the mega church. Your heart will never even your heart is broken. It will be a three weeks break. After three weeks of vacation, your heart will be fully back on the road. Give the Lord a shout of Hallelujah. Sit down #20. Do you want a mega church to be real #20 We must have a mega church because there are more contacts and connections throughout the people in a mega church. Amen. As we therefore have opportunity, let us do good unto all men. Amen. As we therefore have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. This particular point works best in Africa because Africa is a connection continent. Africa is the connection place. Yeah, nothing works in a straightforward way. It's by connection who you know and who knows you. That is how it works and that's how it is in Africa and that's where we are. So it means that the mega church is more important in Africa than anywhere else. One day I was in Nigeria, in Abuja and I was on an aeroplane coming to Ghana, Coming to Lagos, the plane started. You see the the doors closed before the engine starts. There is a noise you you hear in an aeroplane. Those of you who have not been in an airplane, you will soon hear it. Take it once, sit down, sit down. There is a noise when the plane is parked on the thermal. That noise is from the auxiliary tower unit. Do you understand? Auxiliary power is not the engine. The engine is not on. When they close the doors, then they switch on the engine, They switch on the right, another switch on the left. So you hear little, very little. You do not feel it much. And then they put on the engine before they'll get signal from the control tower. You can go before they move. They have their permission to put on the engine everything. Permission, permission, Permission before you do. Obey, Obey. Obey before you go. While there was in a plane, they have finished closing the doors. Put on Jin right and Jin left. Plane started moving. We were moving all brakes. Yeah. I've never been in a plane that has been stopped before. Only in connection Town. Connection Town. The plane stopped suddenly, the engines off. I think they must attend. Engines off, opened the door, brought the staircase back and the man in a big white Boo Boo came walking up majestically, majestically up the plane and we were sitting in the plane. I was sitting in the business class and the plane was full. As soon as he entered, somebody got up. Sir, Sir, yes, Sir. Get him the chair. And I don't know whether he went to stand at the back. I say yes. And I looked out of the window and I saw a hammer driving away from the hammer. This is power to stop aeroplane like taxis. Call them and say I'm here. Tell them to stop. I'm going. Yeah. Connection town, connection continent. If you like stay here without a mega church, you'll never understand Africa. Yeah, that is why those who stay abroad for a long time, they cannot come back to Ghana or Nigeria. They don't understand it. Here we go by connection. Who do you know and who knows you in the system, whether it is a school or whether it is working? My daughter was telling me she said that in her school they have those who came by different means. The headmistress has decided that instead of allowing the connection to be so well, what they are going to do now is that they are calling protocol. Protocol students. Yeah, it's a nice name. So everybody who comes to the school, they put your name on a list. These are your grades, how you came to the school. Then they after that, not the connection, even in the exam council computer, they have started spoiling. That's why if I, if I was the president, one of the first thing is to disconnect from West African exam councils. The first step, they have nothing to do and adopt French or British education and throw away something as useless as JSS and SSS. It's true. It has. No. But if you like, go with Vasi or whatever they say. What is Vasi? They, they they don't even respect if there's nothing UK anywhere, they don't accept it anywhere. Yeah. Only that it shows you can speak English and that is all. Even the computers, there are people who you didn't tell me, I would have changed it in the computer and then your child. That is why people get 10A S they don't get school 10AS8AS10AS. They can't get it to any school. You see when you are detached you never know what is happening really. You are detached. So now in the school they have protocol lists. So you know that after they come to go up the Cululo and the connection in the state, they have all the call justify your inclusion exam in the school. So we have justify your exclusion exam Max for everybody is there. And then those who came by protocol, they also have protocol. So the school will be there. Then you see school has started on two weeks, somebody start coming with the track. This is a protocol child who is coming to school. Is it true? What school did you go to? Agree. Memorial. You have protocol in fully, fully crap. Where NCC, Colabu and which school and which school? Medical school? The same medical school. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot. You see, protocol is arriving with Minister of Moon and Stars. Child is coming to school, medical school without without exam results. Connection continent. Connection city. Connection town. Yeah, we are. If you like, say you don't understand. Who do you know and who knows you? It's very important in Africa. University of Ghana connection university to get what even to get a room that there is protocol list to get a room. Hilali man everywhere Gallescapon protocol they get their rooms first before those who pay get their rooms. Come on now, Connection Town. So that is why we need to have a mega church so that when it's time for your child to go to school, you can pick your phone and call and say, oh, Charlie, oh, I didn't know that you were now the registrar. Lisa, what's your name? Diane. Diane will call Lisa. Lisa. My daughter is coming over here. Lisa. Say, oh, yeah. What's her name? Her name is Araba Lucy. So Chali Lisa. Yeah. No, no problem. No problem. It was even today that I was going to write all the protocols today. So. All right, All right. Yeah. Wow. Connection town. And it's going to get worse, Yeah. As the political parties stay longer, when they get, especially if they get a second term, the connection becomes worse. When they when they go out after one term, they are shocked. And those who come, they need time to establish their tentacles all around. Yeah, that's what has happened in Ghana over the last term. They get the second term. The challenge, the connection will be more. You need connection for water, connection for lights, connection for school, connection for everything. Sit down. Those of you who are young, surgery, go for surgery. There is protocol and if you if you come for admission before like you are, then the protocol people like emergency immediately they're born and you will still be lying there. You have paid your bills, you've got everything ready for surgery, but you you have collective hospital. So that's why you will be happy to know all these doctors. And you say, oh, challenge Geraldo, challenge, challenge my childhood. Yeah, mobile. So. So ladies and gentlemen, sit down please. You people are too rowdy. Connections. E #21 You must have a mega church because in a mega church there is a large pool of employers who can employ. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We gonna have them. You remember on Sunday somebody gave a testimony about a job because that person, she called him, and then when he came, then he had a job. So that testimony shows you that a megachek is already working for employment in the First Love Mega church. What a shock #22 you must have a mega church. Now listen, look at the scripture. Acts 432. It says Acts 432. You see, all these things are in the Bible. Connections are in the Bible, it says, as we have therefore opportunity, let us do good. And to all men, especially those of the household of faith, Yeah. So if it's doing good, Christians are encouraged to be connection men. For Christians, Christian connections do good, but especially household of faith. That's how Airways are. They do good, but especially and to the household of Airways. True or not true, they do good, but especially to the household of Airways. We are Bros, true or not true. So we have to learn from them and we have to transfer to Christianity and your Christian brother. The blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of Amazon Webland. Yes, Is thicker than the blood of Zomero, Is thicker than the blood of Jokoto. Is thicker than the blood of Tamaku. The blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of the the blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of Chikata. The blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of Apalu. The blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of Akbosu. Is William also from that place? Wyoming blood is thinner than the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of Wyoming. Please sit down. You people are standing up. Listen, we are supposed to do good, but especially so, my Christianity is more than my family. That's what it's supposed to be. Your Christian relationship is supposed to even supersede your blood, tribal and national blood. Yes, there are some of us. Our traditional family tribal blood is so strong. Even one day I remember a second sister we were having follow up so we shared the converts. Then they were having their group meeting, group meeting, group meeting, group meeting. Then one day her sister stood up and said she challenged one sister. She said why? Why is it that you are sharing all the Airways too yourself? Because she was an away so she was saying all the away convert to herself and all the other non Airways were being separated as goats. So she stood up. It wasn't something we did it. I'm just telling you what happened at the cathedral at the back after they were having follow up meeting. She stood up and challenged her openly. What are you doing? I've said I've been sitting in this fellowship watching. Why? Why you are doing good to the household of airway more than the household of Christ. So try so that your pesto blood you see will be less than the blood of Jesus. It's natural means when I see half caste, I feel a certain affinity because yeah, I feel so this before. They are just like me. Now my brothers in our land, we are called Yobuvi. Yobuvi under Yobuvi, is it not true? Yobuvi under Yobuvi it means white baby. But you must not allow that to overrule. Amen. Otherwise I would have been looking for 1/2 caste pastor to be my assistant and then 1/2 caste wife. Hey, what a shop Or at least a fair colored wife. I I was reading you you you see you are not like I have read that one to your household. Galatians 610 #21 You must have a mega chair because of the employers, isn't it? And that one is Acts 432. And the congregation of those that believe were one heart and one soul. None of them claimed that anything belonged to him was his own. All things were a common property to them. And with great power the apostles were given witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all, for there was not a needy person among them. Age for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales. Connections. You see, if I want you to have a beloved, if I want you to have that beloved. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'll say it again. If I want you to have a beloved, you have the beloved. Yeah. Because I also have some connections that I have. Yeah. Occasionally I use those connections. OK, it depends. So everybody has his power. So some of you may be one of one, some of you be president. You may be this may be that. Remember, remember. So this is my first laugh, Pastor, come, said officer, you now say I'm Presbyterian. You are Presbyterian now. You are now Presbyterian all the time. You were first laughed at. Now you suddenly, because you are the president, now you have become a Presbyterian. Wonderful, wonderful. We are now in EP church #22 we are finishing. You must have a mega church because all the needs, all the needs, everything you need will be solved in the church. Purpose is they have all things in common. All things, all things. Oh, when I see that you don't have shoes and I realize that I have more shoes. So, sister, come, what are you wearing? Come, let me see you. What slippers are these? This one? I don't know whether Taiwan or China or what Togo, so go shoes and then I'll say no, sister, take it receive. I'll send you a shoe all things and come on. I'm not going to send a shoes. It's just an example. I cannot be supplying the it's not messenger with shoes. Have you seen me sharing shoes before? I share a mountain and blasting no shoes. Go back, go back, go back. Look, we have not yet started the campo. We have not yet started the camp. So please, you need to be serious #23 you must have a mega church, because a mega church is more likely to accomplish our 25% biblical quota of souls. 25% biblical quota, 25% biblical quota. That's our quota, 25%. Where do I get that from? Matthew 4. Look for the story of the parable of the sower. He went out and he sold four types of seeds. Some fell on rocky ground, some fell by the wayside, some fell among thorns. Isn't it? But one out of the four isn't it? Is it not true? Matthew 13 when he had sold sound, fell by the wayside. Stony place, thorns hazard fell into good ground. So 25% goes to where? Wayside. Write it down 25% to the wayside. 25% of all our seeds go to the wayside, then 25% to Stony places upon Stony places. That's how much 50%. Then another 25% fell amongst ponds, that is 75% and some fell on good soil, as I said, good ground and brought forth foods. So only 25% works. So now if you say there are 25,000 students on campus, what is 25% of 2025 thousand 6250, that is the quota that should be in the church on Sunday morning. 6250 people should be in church on Sunday morning on campus and there's nothing like that on campus at all. When you Add all the churches, there's nothing like that, you see. So we are saying that, OK, yeah, we wouldn't even save everybody, but let us have that. We have so, so much seed that the 25% that should work has worked. And the rest which was Stony, we have left it. The rest which was thorns, we have left it. The left which by the wayside, we have left it. But there is 25% that should have worked. So if we are truly evangelized from Commonwealth Hall to Al Esquapon, two, TF Hostel, Ivandi Hostel, Pentagon, all of them, if we have done our work, at least 25% should be saved. What do you think? Is it fantastic? Is it amazing? Are we going to accomplish the vision? How many agree with me that we can have 1000 children of God in the church and that is our aim. They may see us laughing, they may see us dancing, they may see us going for a camp. They may see us moving around. And they think we are joking. Yeah, there is a great evangelist called Charles Feeney. You know, many years ago when he came on the scene, people said fun, his, his preaching, we can understand it. You know, he doesn't shout. He explains that he was a lawyer and they were amazed that they could understand. Sometimes people don't understand the style. They feel that oh, this is not real work of God. This is the work of God. We are serious. How many know that we are dead serious. We are dead serious and that's why we are having this camera as we go into the crusade and as we continue Sunday after Sunday, persisting, preaching, evangelizing, calling. Our aim is that God should build a mega church. God, a mega church means more souls have been won, more workers, more ministers are going, more prayer, more beloved, more everything, more income, everything that is good for a church. There is more of it when there is a mega church. And it's the good vision that we should have. And so that must be burning in our hearts, the Lord. We want to see 1000 chairs. We arrange 1000 chairs on a Sunday morning from in to out, everywhere they are coming surroundings, they are listening to the weather. It's possible God can do it. It's not by mind, it's not by power. And it will happen practically and you see that something good will be in it for you because there's always something good in a mega church. Everybody gets a blessing out of the mega church. There is nobody who is involved in church. You there. There is nothing you will ever be involved in church which will never not be beneficial for you, Let me tell you. Listen, it's been some years since I've been doing this. I can tell you that the mysterious thing about church is that somehow it affects things you are not. You are not even concerned about today that I have problem. They will all be affected by the work you are doing now. The church. Yeah, that's how it is. All your life will be affected by church. Yeah. How you think your life, your future, your marriage, your children, anything, your finances, everything will be influenced by church. Yeah. You see, if you are not in this camp, you'll be in another camp. Yeah. You see? Hitler. Have you heard of Hitler? He was a corporal in the army, the First World War Fighting with him in that army were different people and some of the most wicked people who work with Hitler, we call them Hitler hench men. They are people who were with him but in different places working. But they all have similar ideas. So as we move forward, we have people who even lawyers who did not believe in, in the law, who did not believe in democracy. And they, they tried. One of the people that was with him was a judge, a lawyer who became a judge. And he was, he was like a murderer. In fact, when he died, his family changed their name, his wife and child. They changed their name to disconnect the memory of their father for the wickedness. But when he is drilling somebody who who has committed a crime and is going probably going to be killed, you see how he would dress soldier and the man would be crying. He said, why are you crying? This was the whole cord. He would kill the man. So what did you do? You did it. Whatever isn't it? You'll see this. Why you crying? The crown of he'll be crying and he knows that the man is condemned. He'll drill him publicly and humiliate the man of the shout so that he couldn't even play the play it on television, the things he was saying. Yeah, frightened the people and killed them. Two hours after he rescued them, all these kind of people were together in a group with Hitler Gables, his propaganda secretary, and the people. He could speak and convince the people all the time. So what I'm trying to say is that if you are not in this group, you'll be in another group. You can be in the NPP group, you'll be with this type of Ashanti, with all type of people, and you'll be one of the real accounts who are really what about in the system. And it's like who believe that yes, you must be around, you must be in charge and so on. Yeah, you be in that group and you have a lot of sex, you have a lot of intersexual interrelations, money, corruption, all kinds of things. Just you be in that group. Like I've been the NDC group who are also another type of group with similar type of sex, this, that, all kinds of things, corruption. What are these? It is just a group. You can choose the church group as your group. You can choose the church group as your group. And the group that you choose will come out in the end to affect everything you are doing in this world till the end of your life. It's a group that you are choosing. You are choosing the right group to be in and that right group will be the group you will be in till the end of your life. And thank God, thank God, thank God that you are choosing the right group. Amen. Can choose a socialist group when you are on campus. Any group. They are all the communists, I mean Nazis. They are all presents. CDRS #24 you might have a mega church because a mega church is a force to reckon with, and it becomes a nation within a nation. It will be a nation within a nation. Amen. Are you there? And #25 must have a mega church because the glory of the end time church will be greater than the glory of the early church, the glory of this latter house. Haggai, chapter 2, verse 9. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, saith the Lord of hosts. Amen. So what should you tell me after I've given you 25 solid reasons? Thank you, thank you. Tell somebody thank you, thank you. You must tell me what is in #13 verse 30. That's what you should tell me. What is in #13 verse 30? That's what you should say #13 verse 13. Verse 30. What does it say #13 verse 30? Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it. Say thank you. Yes, this is what you should have told me after I finished my 25 reasons. You should have said, Let us go up at once and possess it. We are well able to overcome it. Let us go up at once. Let us, let us rise and enter the campus and bring people to Jesus Christ, for we are well able to overcome it. Is it not amazing? Is it not fantastic? Let us go up at once. When, When? When? Anything you don't do at once, it becomes different. Anything you don't do at once, it changes. You see you doctors. I started to change your things on Sunday. I sent you. You didn't go at once. So now we are changing. Yeah, at once. Let us go up at once. But we are well able to process it. Look, God is going to use us to win a lot of people to him. And when you finish the school, you will never stop being used by God to win people to him. You will never be born in this life again. I say you will never be born in this life again. So now even some of you ladies, you are going to say I'm going to have less, fewer children so that I can concentrate on my first lab? Yeah, I want less children so that I can focus. Yeah. One, not 2. I said 1, not 2, so that I can focus on the ministry and half thousand children of God. Wow, Is it not amazing? Is it not fantastic? Wandaba? All right, now, what do we need? What do we need for this mega vision? We need the anointing.