02. Sweet Influences Of The Holy Spirit On Your Ministry, Emphasis And Priority

Welcome to track number two of the sweet influences of the Holy Spirit. The next one, the sweet influences. Has God spoken to you already? Right. The next one is the sweet influences of the Holy Spirit on your ministry. Emphasis and priority. Now, yeah, your ministry emphasis, you see, if you are a minister, and I believe you are all ministers. If you are a minister of the gospel, OK, everybody is a minister of the gospel. A lot of ministers are ministers, but the emphasis now, a lot of things that I'm going to say, I don't want you to be hurt or offended, OK? I just want you to receive it as what it is, OK? The emphasis of the Spirit, the, the influence of the Spirit on your emphasis. You see, when when the Holy Spirit is working on you, He makes you to emphasise certain things. He makes you to have a focus on certain things. He makes you to prioritise certain things. OK, now as a young person, when the Holy Spirit is working on your life, He, he makes you emphasise certain things, that makes you focus on certain things. OK, now let's take past this. There are many things we can focus on, such as what? Number one, we can focus on the nature of God. We can also emphasise or focus on the the what Old Testament prophets, isn't it? We can emphasise New Testament doctrine, isn't it? We can emphasise holiness, love, we can emphasise on love, we can emphasise on prosperity, we can emphasise on faith, we can emphasise. On. Joy, hope, giving, gifts of the Spirit, miracles, the Word of God, the work of God. We can emphasize on what dominion, the believers, authority, the origins of the Bible, history. We can emphasise on leadership. I mean when I say emphasise, I mean you have all these. Then this one becomes repeated. OK, when you are a young person, like many of you are young, you can emphasise on many things #1 you can emphasise on getting a beloved. Yeah, some people are very serious about that. #2 you can emphasise on relationships. What else you On campus you can emphasise on passing your exams, you can emphasise on doing Sats. Sats, is that what you call it? You can emphasise on what else? Getting a good job after school you can emphasise on having a first class or a second upper and it you can emphasise. On the continuation of your studies after you finish school. Ennett. You can emphasise. On doing what your father wanted you to do or your uncle wanted you to do so that you could take up after what he's asking you to do. Ennett you can emphasise on politics. You can become an SRC secretary. Nuke Secretary. What's tescon chain and tescon? Wow, so all these are emphasis that you could have. Let's take the emphasis on having a beloved. It is an earthly influence because on earth it is good to get a beloved as far as this earth is concerned. And then it's also a sensual influence because if I'm not spiritual, what am I? Earthly, sensual or. Devilish. If I'm not spiritual, that is what I am. I'm either earthly, sensual or devilish. Yeah, I preach 2 hours about that. If I am not spiritual, what am I? Are you there? So it is sensual, it's earthly. It is also important we have our senses, we have this earth to live on. It's not devilish. It's not devilish, it's earthly sensual. I mean, brothers, we have a lot of sensations. We have a lot of sensations. Or some of you don't have those sensations, athlete, sensual or devilish. Now you may emphasise. On your postgraduates, where you are going to do your masters? In Wales, In England? In America. In Singapore, it's good and it's a good athlete, ambition and aspiration. It's not demonic. Anybody doing masters is not doing something demonic. It is not demonic. It's a good athlete vision and aspiration, and I'm saying all this so that I can say what I want to say. Are you there emphasizing on your job that you are going to get after you finish your course in social sciences or sociology, psychology or political science? Whatever it is you did, you did a good job at at Lever Brothers, VRA, Tigo, MTN, Glow and any of these places. Or maybe to come back as a TA. You get it. These are all good visions, but they are earthly visions. They they come from the influence on the earth. And if you're going to do well in this world, in this life, you need to think about what they are going to do after school. You need to think about your job. You need to think about your postgraduate. You need to think about all these degrees. You need to. You need to think about getting a beloved. You need to think about the right beloved. It's going to. Affect you for the rest of your life, whether you like it or not. Are you there? So, ladies and gentlemen all. These are the focus of many young people in the university today, but. If you are under the. Sweet. Influence of the Holy Spirit. I will show you how your mind will be working. I'm not going to show you steps to work it that way, nor keys to help you to be under the influence of principles about it. I'm just going to show you what it is like when you are under the sweet influence of the Holy. Spirit, do you want to be under the sweet influence of this earth? I want to be under the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit. Turn with me to. Ask Chapter 1 the. Former treaties I have made all Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, until the day he was taken up. After that He through the Holy Ghost, had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom also He showed himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, Speaking of things that pertained to the Kingdom of God. And being assembled together, He commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father. Which said he, Ye have heard of me for God. For John surely baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. When they were therefore come together, they asked of him, Lord, will thou at this time restore again the Kingdom to Israel? That is, if these are men without the Spirit. They were waiting. For the Spirit. While they were waiting for the spirit, they became political. I I don't want you to be offended with my message and, and this is one of the last times I'm going to say, especially for the sake of those who will be listening to what I'm preaching, nobody should be offended because I cannot help but to preach the truth. Do you understand politics? It's not the impression of the Holy Spirit on you. It's because you have don't have the Spirit. That is why you've given yourself to politics. Yeah. You don't have the Holy Spirit. Read it for yourself. They didn't have the Holy Spirit. They were not asking whether the Kingdom, the Kingdom was going to be, they were going to win the elections or who was going to come into power in Israel because the Romans were in charge and they they were ruling. How many have watched this from Ben her, Ben her. Who has not watched it Ben her? Raise your hand if not, if not, what Ben her? Write it down. Ben Ben her. HUR watch it. Your your intelligence will be widened. See, when you watch certain things, you must watch certain films as a Christian, OK Ben Hur just as a normal person in the world to know what is happening in the world. Lot of films are just about what happens in the world. Are you dear Ben Hur? If you watch the film, you will see what it was. Like the Romans were ruling everywhere. They were. It was like how America went to Iraq and when the Iraqis want the Americans to go, that's how it was. Women were there in the Holy Land. They took over and they said we are the commanders here by force. They were there. So they always thought Jesus was coming to save them from these Romans. In fact, when they wanted Jesus to be crucified. Pilot was worried because of his wife's dream. He didn't want to. Crucify, because I tell you, many, many unbelievers have. Dreams. You should be. Careful. Sometimes even your security guard may have a dream, or even a person who is not a Christian can have a dream. You should be careful because sometimes even unbelievers are spoken to and through. Yeah, like Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a tree and all these type of dreams. Yeah, you see them in Pharaoh and all these guys, you know, they don't have the Holy Spirit, but they were given dreams because they had some connection with the Kingdom of God. You get it? What was I talking about? I was talking about something. Yeah. Khalid's wife had the dream that this is a dangerous pest. You don't. Just be careful. So he did not want to. So he tried everything, including exchanging a very well known criminal so that they would just say, Oh yeah, I mean, there's no one worse than Barabas. I mean, you cannot go worse than Barabas. So let Barabas stay in prison and this guy should come out. But then he tried that and it still did not work. Then he took water and washed his hands in. Front of them and he said I don't have anything to do with it. He was trying to but. He, he, he they. Never convinced him till they had a certain voice coming out in the crowd that you are not loyal to Caesar. Yeah, when he had politicians. You know, sometimes politicians can be so disgraceful when they do things. You would think they've never been to school. I mean, you look at Obama saying that a man, two men should marry. I mean, it's so shameful. And even in our own government here, you see where the, a law says that somebody should be given a house, they're going to court, court and everything. Then the, the, the government will now come and overrule what the court says. I mean, how can you do that? And it's done. By people who are. Lawyers who have gone to school and teach law, it's it's wonderful. So you should be careful. Politicians are some of the most dangerous people. Yeah. Anyway, so I was on pilot. What was my point? It's not loyal to Caesar. But I was telling you something. Yeah. Those of you who are going yourself into politics, it's because you don't have the Holy Spirit. And that is in exchange for your real calling, by all means, some Christians who have to do politics. Yeah. There is no nothing in politics that can be exchanged for being a minister of the gospel. Never suggested to me to be a president or to be anything as low as that. Amen. They did not have the Holy Spirit. Most Christians who go into power. I cannot say all I cannot say all because in everything I've seen God do the exact opposite. You know, he can raise up somebody and use the person in politics to do to do a great work is possible. That's why I I cannot say because it's not an absolute thing, but mostly. It's people who don't have the spirit who go into politics mostly. Yeah. And you will see people who claim to be Christians when they are there. They don't. They don't stand up for what they believe. Muslims are far more loyal to their religion when they are in power. So now they were saying, will you now restore the Kingdom? And he said no, no, and it's not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power. Those are seasons which God Himself changes. When it's time for war in Ghana, no amount of democracy and MPP and NDC will make the war stay out of Ghana. When it is time for peace in Ghana, no amount of shouting on the radio and whatever can bring war to Ghana. And it's all about seasons. If you look at certain countries, Nigeria for instance, I mean when I saw Ronald Donke there from the year 2000 till now till about this last season, just about their, I think they have stopped their crusade. For about 10 years, they were only in Nigeria. I said in my heart that a bad thing is going to happen to Nigeria and that is why God has sent Bonquet there to go and be a salvation, a warning of the gospel to them. And so I thought somebody said that it's likely that after Bonquet finishes, there will be a war. Oh yeah, I said it long ago. And we are watching as the whole place is becoming somewhere. Yeah. So God has seasons. Every country has seasons. Quiet like Abidjan years ago, if you went to Ghana from Ghana, I went to Abidjan, You're going to Europe. It was called Peti Paris, Paris, Peti Paris. It was a small part when you when you walk in the streets of Abidjan, it's like, it's like abroad. Yeah, skyscrapers, very beautiful. I mean, old is now spoiled, but it was like that my Ghana was nothing. Today they have had whatever and the whole place is some way and they have rebels coming from somewhere, all kinds of things going on. So it's seasons, it's seasonal. Peace is seasonal, Stability is always seasonal. So Ghana is in a season of peace. When the season changes, you will ascribe the reasons to this person, this, this, this. But it is not that. It's the season that has changed, Yeah. So those are not. Things that can be brought about by human beings. That is why most. Politicians are disappointed people by the time they finish their work, they are broken hearted and disappointed by the time they finish whatever they are doing and they can do very little. But when the emphasis of the spirit of. God, the Spirit of God is on you. He just switches from the politics, Hallelujah. And in verse 8 he said, You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in Judea, all Judea and in Samaria, and onto the uttermost parts of the earth. And when they are spoken, these things while they beheld, He was taken up in a cloud, receiving out of their sights. Amen. When the Holy Spirit is on you, it will emphasize on evangelism and soul winning. You will emphasize on going on missions to Jerusalem, to Judea, to Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. This is the influence of the Spirit, he says. And you shall receive tower after the Holy Ghost, and the power is to get. Wealth isn't it? You shall receive power to get wealth. You shall receive power to further your education now. So I want you to, I want you to realize that all those things are no scoring. God is not interested in all those things. I'm telling you, your little bitty job and all that, it's just nothing. Excuse me to say, you see, I don't want you to be offended. You see, it is not important. It's not important. You understand your job is your job is not important. Your, your education is not important. Don't be angry with me. I'm just telling. You the truth learners. It's nothing. There's nothing to it. You are not going to become anything. But you go to school for a long, it's nothing to turn into nothing. You wait and see. Yeah, it's nothing. We have been to school. I have been to school. There's nothing to it. There are little bitty visions of your life and what you are going to do. It's not. There's nothing to it. I don't want you to be hurt. No, I don't. Want you to be hurt. I'm just telling you the truth. It's a fact. People don't want to hear the truth. That's why I brought you to the camp, so that you can look at the grass and then cool your heart afterwards. There's nothing to it. It's going to amount to a hill of beans. Take it from me. You can work and work and work and work. To amount to nothing. It's a sun castle. There's zero. That's true. All these teachings on business, teachings on best teachings on there's nothing, it's useless. It's amounting to not business are not getting any better. You see, I don't want you to feel I'm not interested. In you doing well in life, you get it True. I'm just telling you the truth. People don't want to hear the truth. They be like, let's back and see five years time. Come back and see me and we see what you have. We write what you have put it on the. Left. We also write what we have on the right. Yeah. Five years from now, if you like. Let's you just if you like. Let's bet. I finished school in 1989. I'm in medical school. I finished in 1989. On that, I should have finished in 1988, but because the schoolwork were closed down, I finished in 1989 on the 10th of March. It amounts to nothing. Take it from me, there's nothing. All your course, your school is useless. I'll say, I'll say, I'll say. Oh, if you like this, it's. Like anybody with a bed, I'll bet you. I give you 5 years. The Holy Spirit, he says. And after this power, this Holy Spirit comes on you, you will now have power for Master's degrees and PhDs. And feather, feather, feather, feather, feather, feather, feather, feather, feather. There is no other work that is important that the holy. Spirit will influence you to do I. Can't. Lie to you. You see many places when I preach, I don't say what I really believe. How to? How to just? I restrain myself, God, I have to restrain myself. I have to restrain myself, I mean. It is there. The guys wanted to go into politics and Jesus changed the side. Look, it's The thing is by seasons politics. I tell you if you're if the season for peace and democracy comes. And you happen to go and stand for elections in a Democratic, whatever it will. Work for you? If the season of peace and democracy has not come, you can campaign. You will never, never be president. Yes, that's true. Yeah, you can discuss and discuss. It will never happen because the thing goes by seasons. Yeah, and when the season is over, the thing changes and you will see the meeting negotiating, meeting, negotiation. The civil war in Sierra Leone, it lasted for 11 years. Yeah, when you go to Sierra. Leone Now you see that the. People are afraid of war. Yeah, they have asphalted the road from here, Freetown to the other. Places and you see that the. People are afraid of they know. Because there are a lot of people with their arms attacked, Everybody remembers it. Most of the people. Are they were there 11 years? They know it. So you see that it's like 11 years. It couldn't go out, but it was so safe for us to be there to drive from here all the way to 1 end coming back because all those things have gone. Yeah. So it's like a new season has come and the yeah, the season has changed from the war season, but it took eleven years. All the talks, peace, this, whatever stale, it cannot. Go. Yeah, that's that's how it is. So Jesus was saying why waste your time doing something that depends on seasons? This is not. It's not a worth. While I'm patient anyway, you don't have the Spirit, so you just go and wait. When the Holy Spirit, the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit comes on you, your. Emphasis. The Holy Spirit has been. Upon me since I was in school. Since I was in school, yes. And that influence is what makes me want to evangelize. You see, that influence is still there. When I was in school at Legon, I would go out, out teaching in Water Hall, Legon Hall, clap my hands in Water Hall in the meadows, play my guitar, sing. I form a little group just like I came to you 20-30 years later because the the influence of the Holy Spirit is still influencing me. It's still having an effect on me. That is why on Sunday I was in Odogo Secondary school preaching to the children. I have been preaching to school for years because the influence, when the spirit is influenced, that will be your emphasis. I'm not showing you how to do it all steps to do it, but I'm just telling you what it is like when the influence of the spirit is on you. Anytime you watch somebody preaching a lot about money, you must about money, prosperity, earthly gain, you must have the suspicion that the Holy Spirit has left the person. Yeah, I'm telling you. Just have a question in your mind. In your heart that the Holy Spirit maybe has gone from that and rather what is influencing the person is earthly or sensual or maybe even devilish. Maybe even devilish. Yeah, that's why I thought I don't. Want to offend anybody? The money, all the money in the world is not winning any soul. You can have all the money in the world. Nobody is prepared to. Go. Out anywhere you see, the more the Holy Spirit is on you, the more mission minded you see. Jerusalem, Tuteya, Samaria, uttermost this fall, always. It's there from the Spirit. I'm telling you, you cannot take it away from the Bible. You can say whoever you are, you can be whatever, but it's there. Instead, you shall receive the power of. After the holy sports time, you will be my witness. You will go to Samaria. How do you how do you be a witness in Samaria if you don't go there? How do you be a witness in in the Atamos Park if you don't go there? How will you? How will you be a witness in the Atamos Park if you don't go there? Look at how be a witness in the Atamos Park of the Earth. And still be in Jerusalem. So you must accept it. You see, Don't quench him. Holy Spirit is very sensitive when you disrespect him. He's quenched. He feels it very much. He's very sensitive. He, he feels you don't like him. He feels that what you are saying. He feels that what he is saying. To you, you, you, you. You look down on it. He feels that you despise it, and you rather feel that money and prosperity and education and earthly life and earthly living is greater. That's how he feels. He feels that you don't respect this. The way he says evangelism and you say missions and missionaries. He feels you don't respect him. Yeah, he feels. He feels you look. Down on him, you look. Down on what he's saying so he feels offended, he withdraws and when he withdraws another spirit you see any? Time the Spirit of God is on you, and he goes away. Demons come because see when Saul was anointed, he was anointed by Samuel, but when the Spirit of God departed and evil spirit came. So many times when people are anointed, pastor, priests and others, we are anointed and we move away. From the Holy Spirit or from the Church? Other evil spirits come and take place. I remember one time clearly I saw a church in the. Congregation, the Holy Spirit told me. My Holy Spirit is not here, it's the spirit of the world. The spirit of the world is here and the spirit of the world brings the love of, of, of man, the love, the love of the, the love of this world, the, the last of the eyes, the last of the flesh and the pride of life. These are what will be in the system. That's all that when you go to the church, like to be a great person in the church, to have money, to be this you are this, you are that you are social. And so in the church, it's like all these big man, big manism, all these things are what you are after. Look, just read it for yourself. I don't want to change the Bible. Don't change the Bible. So I'm telling you, you, you, if you want to be impressed by the Holy Spirit, it's up to you. Yeah. It's not a step. No, it's not a slow step. There's nothing to do. I'm not teaching you something. Go and do. These six things. I'm telling you that the strict influence of the Holy Spirit sends you the you become more missionary minded, more missionary conscious. You you tend to move. You tend to. Go from your. Comfort zone you tend to accept the important. Work that you have to do. I was amazed when I went to India, to a place called Chennai and I said what you have tourist tourism wise, they said we don't have anything, but we have Thomas's church, a Saint Thomas church. I said why Thomas? They said, oh, St. Thomas, the 12 disciples, Thomas came to India. He is the one who came to India, Yeah. So I went to the place I took picture where he was killed. They have two places where he was killed. He was killed, you know, and then a church that was built around where he landed and where they came from outside. Yeah. That he came and brought Christianity. So that part of India is Christian? Yeah, that's that's a Chennai. All that is Christian. Influence. Because because one person under the influence of the Holy Spirit traveled. He traveled. Can you imagine how far in those days from as far as Jerusalem? To India, No planes. Maybe he walked. He must have walked. Yeah, he must have walked. He was under the influence. God, Jesus told him. What? When the Holy Spirit comes, is he a lot of the ideas we have, a lot of the feelings we have, a lot of the thoughts we have, a lot of the inclinations we are there from the Holy Spirit. Yeah. It's not just blank even. Even the thoughts you have, you will see a lot of the thoughts you have come from chemicals in your blood. It's true. Like when you have a lowered this serotonin, you get depression. You see, you get a lower either dopamine or serotonin. I'm not so sure that one of them is either lower or high, you get depression. So the drug serotonin uptake inhibitors, they inhibit the uptake. Oh, you have doctors here. Which one is it? You get lower level, lower of serotonin gives you depression. Yeah. So when you have the lower level of serotonin, then you, you, you, if you take the testosterone, it goes up and down. There's a cycle of 24 hours and it's highest in the morning. And that's that is where you see the boys have erections. Early in the morning. So if it goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down. Is that not true? Are are you not a medical? Is it not true 1:00 AM to 4:00 AM? Is that the peak of the Are you sure? 4:00 AM. So even certain things that have occurred. To you not knowing that there is a. Sweet influence of testosterone in you. So I am sharing with you, I want you to know the truth of the matter is that when the Holy Spirit also the an. Evil. Spirit is in you. You see that certain things are occurring to you, like maybe I'm preaching. You're getting angry as I'm preaching do. You understand I'm preaching, you are getting irritated, you are being offended. So you see that an evil spirit is working, demons are moving. All that I'm saying is that you cannot tell what is. Working. And that is why I'm showing you what it is like when the sweet influence of the Spirit is on you. You say that it. Affects what you think, what you do. Yeah, your priorities, your emphasis. Yes, yes. And as long as the Holy Spirit is on you, you will always. Have that emphasis. It's true. Always, whether you are pastor, Look at me, I am a pastor of so many churches. I still have all the churches. I have all. They are all my responsibilities. I'm still. Involved all the time I preach outside I can use only my outside invitations to have work to do only invitations traveling outside Ghana. I can use only that to be to be busy. It's true. I'll I'll even I don't have to live in Ghana. I can just live outside and follow invitations. I have so many Yes, week after week after week after week Yeah. But if the Holy Spirit is on you, you know you will have. And you see in Lighthouse we are blessed that God has given us this emphasis all these years. And people, people are looking and are saying in fact. Recently, some pastors were telling. Me said look. One thing that you have brought is that you have shoulders to lift up our eyes. And these are passes of big churches here says you have shoulders, lift up your eyes. There are places. Go here. This one can go here. This one can. It's possible. Go here. Go. We never thought anybody can go anywhere. Yeah. And you see that thing is the Holy Spirit send them to the uttermost. Send them to Jerusalem. Send them to Judea. Send them to Samaria. Bless them. It's the Holy Spirit that has been backing on us. And where we are standing is for the Holy Spirit to influence more people to go further because your life can be used to help somebody and bring salvation to somebody. Yes, I'm in 1989. How? Old were you? You are born. You were not born predestination. You were under predestination. How many were under predestination in 1989? You were not born undergoing predestination by the Holy Spirit. I'm expecting that in 20 years from now, if you are, if you are not fulfilling this scripture 20 years from now, you are a disgrace. Yes, I disgrace. Yeah, you are. You are a disgrace 20 years from. Now. You should be. Finding yourself fulfilling this thing. We are not here to joke. We are serious. Look. You can ask Pastor Aki and what are their names? Stephen Patrick. Patrick is here. Aki. Hollins, all those guys, you think we don't want them to be here with us. We like them. They got our children. We want them to be here. I see at a point. You have to get up and work. You have to go and work. You have to get to the job. Yeah, it's, it's not. About I mean you cannot just stay happy forever, just I mean roaming around you have. To. Go and work. Yeah, you got to go. I'm telling you. The Bible clear black and white. If you have any other scripture, bring it after the Holy Spirit, Jesus after the like after you wait, after the Holy Spirit, come, you will see your. You will be thinking about Jerusalem, Judea. So it will come to your mind, it will come to your mind, it will be in your head, it will be in your heart. Uttermost part of that it will come to you. You will know it in your heart that there is something to do. After the Holy Spirit comes, after the earthly spirit, wealthy spirit comes. Then you will say I have to get a hammer, I must have a Mercedes-Benz, I must build this house, I must be here, I must be there. I must have this. I must have all that all. These years I've been following the Holy Spirit. I have not lacked all these things that people ask, so that's why I said you've made it your priority. I have made priority to serve him and to do what he's saying. You have made the priority to get a car. You have made the priority to get the car. You cannot buy the car that I can buy. That's amazing. Acts chapter 2 when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all. With one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. OK, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, OK, and began to speak with tongues. OK then they were all amazed as 12 and in doubt saying what mean of this and others mocking said these men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with 11, lifted up his voice and said, Jerusalem, be this. Known unto you, and act into my words. These men are not drunken as you suppose, seeing in the third hour of the day. How can they be drunk? This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. They shall come to pass. I'll pour out my spirit and all flesh. And your sons and daughters shall prophecy. Your young men shall see visions. Your old men shall dream, dream. And on my servants and my handmaids I will pour out in those days of my spirit, and they shall prophecy. I will show wonders in the heaven about the sun shall be turned into gardeners. Verse 21. And they shall come to pass in that day. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. He man of Israel, here he swears Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles, signs, and wonders, which God did by him. Ask you yourselves, no, listen to how the preaching is going on him being delivered by the determinate counsel and fondly of God, you have taken him by wicked hands, have crucified and slain him, but God has raised him up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be holding of it. For David speaketh concerning him. And he said, I forgot the Lord always for my face, for He is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore keep my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad. Moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope, because thou will not leave my soul in hell, neither will thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. Thou has made known to me the waste of life that shall make me full of joy with countenance. He was just quoting a lot of Scripture. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the Patriot Table, that is both dead and buried, and his supper is without. And to this day, therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God has shown with an oath to him that the fruit of his loins, according to his strength, would raise up Christ to sit on his stone. He's seen this before, speak of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither did his flesh seek corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we are. All. Witnesses therefore be by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He has set for this which you now see and hear. For David is not offended into the heavens, but he himself said The Lord unto my right, and sit art thou on my. And until I make thy food, thy food too. Therefore, let all the House of Israel assuredly know that God has made that same Jesus for me. You crucified both Lord and Christ. Now when they had this, they were pricked in their heart, and they said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Madam, brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for the promises unto you and to your children, and to all that are Pharaoh, even as many as the Lord of God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhaust, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. And they gladly received the word, and were baptized the same day. They were added unto them about 3000 souls, and they continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine. What a word. Is it not amazing? Is it not fantastic that I tell you some of us if we had stood up to preach? The preaching would have been standard. Economics tends to see development as a process largely driven by accumulation of investment in physical and human capital. We have seen standard economic theory underlying today's development policies is generally unable to recognize qualitative differences between economic activities. None of today's failed and failing state could pass George Marshall's test for what creates modern civilization, as they have very weak manufacturing sector and are unable to generate the vector exchange between city and rural activities. They also have very little diversity in the economic basis and limited division of Labor, and they specialize in activities subject to diminishing returns or commodity competition where they have no power over prices. And where technological change? Tends to reduce prices to the foreign consumers rather than wasting their raising their wages. Historically, modern democracy becoming nations where this civilization trade between urban and rural areas have already been established, for example in the Italian states. In this model, economic growth tends to be activity specific, tied to casters of economic activities characterized by increasing return, dynamic imperfection, competition, and rapid technological progress. In addition to the capital, the process requires the transferring and mastering of skills and above all, the creation of a viable market for activities with increasing returns, where the absence of purchasing power and massive unemployment tend to go hand in hand. The premise of new classical theory is that if the investments are made, the acquisition and mastery of new ways of doing things is relatively easy, even automatic. More importantly, a core assumption of standard economics is that Saturn acknowledge that economic structure is irrelevant, as capital per SE will lead to economic development regardless of the economic structure within which investment is made. Hey. OK, solutions. Funds must be matched by the establishment of industrial and service sectors that can absorb the physical and human investment that investifies from raw material. Production is necessary for creating a basis for democratic stability and increased welfare, even if the new sectors will initially be unable to survive the world market competition. The poverty stricken third world corresponds more closely to conditions of diminishing returns and further competition, while the rich countries whose exports are produced under conditions of shantarian dynamic imperfect competition are rent seekers whose rent lead to higher wages and a higher tax base. This failure to understand development as Santerian, imperfect competition is at the heart of the argument against industrial policy. I'm sweating, I tell you. It's a powerful message. The importance of geography, that's an economic factor, is combined and compounded with the factor time. What Alfred Chandler calls economies of speeds, Oppenheimer calls this factor transport with a stand transport resistance, or resistance caused by time and geography. Historically, Australia's geographic isolation gave the country a higher transport resistance than that of Ireland. Time and distance, in other words, provided natural protection for the country's manufacturing industry. Hey. What a message? Are you been? Are you receiving a blessing? I'm preaching now. Let me speak about African problems, because we are, we are children of God in Africa, in the place of this economic development that made Europe rich and malaria free. Africa. Keeps the colonial economic structure, exporting raw materials with an underdeveloped industrial sector. Instead of development, enabling the continent to serve death, Africa gets death cancellations. Instead of development that eradicates malaria, Africa gets mosquito Nets. The structural problems underlying Africa situations are not advanced, just the symptoms of these problems are advanced. This is an argument we shall deal with. Let's move on to the Washington Consensus. Hey. You see now when the Holy Spirit is on you, you will not be talking about mosquito Nets in Africa and the Washington Consensus, but you'll be surprised. Sometimes when we are speaking as pastors, you wonder whether we are economists or pastors. Sure, but the church is so earthly and wealthy minded as transmitted by the pastors and materialistic that now a spiritual person finds it difficult to preach in a church. Yes. It's difficult for a normal person to preach in a church. For everybody's materialistic, looking for a way to do well in this life. It's true. So ladies and gentlemen, I want us. No, I'm not giving. You a step or a way? I'm just telling you. When the influence of the Holy Spirit is there, you will say, Bishop, I want to go somewhere, do something for God. Yeah. Then you are a true son, a true daughter. When the influence of the Spirit is on you, a man will come to you who says that I want to be the richest man in the world. And you will say, I don't think I need to be married to a rich man. When you have the influence of the Spirit on you, you will want to win all the souls in the world. Dr. Go, you are a pastor. If you are under the influence of the Spirit, you will want to win souls. Even though you have a big church and you have a pastor, you are a pastor. You will want to win souls. I challenge you. If you call yourself a pastor and the Holy Spirit is on you, I challenge you. When are you winning souls? When? Pastor. Yeah. Amen. Who is going out on the mission field? All that is happening in the church is the influence of the Spirit. Are you there or you are going home? OK, sit down. None. Now the next influence of the Spirit, the sweet influence of the Spirit, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the sweet influence of the Spirit makes you bold, makes you confidence. So I'm talking about the influence of the Spirit on your confidence level, the influence of the spirit on your confidence level. Now Acts chapter. 4. Then Peter acts of a four verse one, and they speak unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the people, and the Sadducees came upon them. Being grieved that they taught the people. And preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in the hold until the next day, For it was even tied. How did many of them which heard the word? Believed. And the number of them was about 5000. And it came to pass on the moral that the rulers and elders and scribes, ananias sapphires. They gathered the seven. When they are set him in the midst. They said, By what power or by what name have you done this? Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them. You know less. That is somebody who has been taken from prison. Yeah, He has just been brought out of the prison to come and speak and knowing that they have killed Jesus a few weeks earlier, they killed his leader a few weeks earlier and they put him in prison, which is one step to death, is one step to after. If you remember when Peter. Was. Warming his feet under the fire when they were beating Jesus, he was warming his toes by the fire and rubbing them and when a girl came to. Ask him. Are you not the Son of God? He said. What? Who is? Old lady? I'll beat you just now. Do you know me? I'll slap you. I'm a fisherman. OK? I'll slap you just now. You see something? I don't know him from anywhere. I am. I never have Never. I never joined them. I never. I say I never joined them. You cannot force me. I say I have not joined him before. I say I don't know him from anywhere. Be careful. I say I don't know him. Your. Mother, what do you what? Do you see me from I will. I will beat you. Test now. You know I will beat you. Test now. I'm official now from I will beat you just now. Foolish boy. Foolish woman. I hope on you. Foolish woman. I hope on you. I'll slap. You, I don't know him, they asked him. Do you know? Do you know Jesus? Name. I will. I will catch you and your mother. Just I will catch you. You and your mother and your father. Just now you see something? What do you see? What do you see me for? Have you seen me with him before? I say, have you seen me with him before? Stupid man. Foolish man. When you are speaking, you success don't get up and you speak by heart. Wow. But a few weeks later, after they took him to prison and spent one night, they brought them out. People who have shown themselves. To be Madras. They asked him, Peter, what do you know this time he didn't say I don't know him. He say you, you are Madras. He changed what, what, what made such a change? What made such a change come. And you see even the even the, the, the, the Pharisees were shocked. It's as if we have been examined this day, be it known unto you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus, whom you mad at, oh, God raised from the dead. It didn't matter, it didn't work. God raised him from the dead. Even by him does this man stand before you. This is the stone which was set up, nor of you, neither is there salvation. In any other, for there is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved. Verse 30 when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, remember in verse 8 and Peter filled with the Holy Spirit said unto him, you. Rulers. And elders of Israel now, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled and took knowledge of them. That they had been with Jesus. Amen, ladies and gentlemen. Boldness comes from the anointing. Some of you cannot even tell your parents that Daddy, I, I believe in, this is what I believe in. You cannot even tell your parents. You cannot even tell your parents. You cannot even stand and say, look, this is what I want to do. You don't even have the boldness. It's because you lack the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit makes you bold. Some of you don't have the boldness to step out into the ministry. You lack the boldness. You can't even make the move. There are many people who should have taken steps to working for God in the ministry. They are afraid, so timid. Fear has gripped them. They cannot do what is necessary. For years and years and years. They are paralysed by fear. They are paralysed into timidity and they are so. They are so me. You see me and you see them digitally lies. Because see, when you are not bold, you start telling lies. Many of you tell lies because you are not bold. And we even tell lies. About things that you shouldn't lie about. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, but you lie like maybe there's nothing wrong in coming to a camp. Then you say I'm going for classes. Sir, I'm I'm going for a class, but you are going to a camp. An evil spirit has possessed you all these years. You cannot tell the truth. You cannot tell the truth, but when the Holy Spirit is on you, one of the characteristics is boldness. You can be truthful and bold and say, you know, I want to work for God. Yeah, I believe it takes boldness for me to preach what I preach because I've. I've always felt odd. There are a lot of places that they don't invite me to preach. I don't mind. They want me to preach something else. That's what I want to preach. And they are not bold to say what they have to say and believe what you have to believe. Yeah. I believe in God. I believe in serving God. I believe in doing the ministry. I believe in doing the work of God. And I I'm, I'm not embarrassed by it. I'm not ashamed. Are you ashamed? Yeah. I remember some time ago. I mean, I remember, I think Nana Kufuado was being criticized by. I think his opponents were saying that he, he grew up in Paris and he was in whatever, he drove whatever. And he also came and said, yes, I was in Paris, I grew up here and I am not ashamed of it. I have no apologies at all for what? I am thankful to God for it. You see God. Has given us something we don't have to be ashamed of. Are you ashamed? Rise up. And be bold, you will. Always. Need this particular. Influence of the Holy Spirit. Yeah. To be bold when you start to pray for the sick in your ministry, you need boldness. If you are not bold, you cannot. When you start to minister the Spirit, you need boldness. Otherwise you cannot. It takes boldness to go into the throne. Even when when it comes to relating some of you, your relationships are stunted because you are not bold. Soon the relationships are scanted because you are not bold. The influence of the Spirit makes you bolder. Yeah, it's an influence. Many men of God have met them just for the first time and the Holy Spirit anointed on me, makes me bold to speak to them and I speak. I remember one man of God in a certain country, he had the largest church there, huge 30,000 plus. I just met him for the first time and the Holy Spirit emboldened me and I spoke about certain things to him that he was He was very amazed. And then he told that I I didn't know him. The one who invited me took me to see him. So he told the one that, you know, I like that guy. I want. Can you, when he comes, bring him to me again? Yeah. It takes boldness. Recently, when I met Benny Hinn, I was bold. I spoke to him. I spoke to his assistants. I talked to them about loyalty. As I was talking, I said you, you be faithful to him. I said be faithful to him. Yeah. I said be faithful. Yeah. I told them, I said you. You have to be careful. Of familiarity, I told them. I said Benny, him will be welcomed in many places in the world as if he was Jesus. Yeah. And you, you are with him. You must, I said. You can easily not receive the anointing because you are close and you are familiar, so be careful. Yeah, I was bold when I was with Benny Hinn and when I was bored, I spoke to him. I asked him about his marriage. Yeah, I asked him about anything I wanted to ask. At the point, it was almost like I was taking over the conversation because there was another host that was there. Yeah, but the Holy Spirit makes you bold. Yeah, many of you, your relationships are poor because that influence of the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Is he just quenched? Just shut up. He's he's so. Quenchable, that's why. I'm preaching. I'm a bit worried. He can easily be quenched. Almost nothing will just take him out. He will just be quiet on that area. Yeah, I wasn't. Afraid. I spoke to him. I didn't. I didn't want to invite him. I wanted, of course I would like him to come. And he said he would come. He said, well, if you can come, then he would come. And he gave a date when we would be in Senegal having a cruise. I said, oh, I cannot be there. He said I'll come to this. I said, oh, I can't, I will not be there. I can't be there. Yeah. Then he rather changed his date. He said look, you know what, let me call this other one, change the date and I'll come. The Holy Spirit makes you bold. Yeah, boldness. I said, oh, I will not be out. I will be at having a healing Jesus crusade. I'll be in another country and I cannot, even though it's my crusade, I can change the date. I said no, that time I will not be there. And if you were to come at this other time, fine. Some of you, you have poor relationships. Yeah, because that influence of the holy. Yeah, you've been. Sitting at the back, it's. Like you choose the back. When I was in school, the Holy Spirit told me stand in front, let them know you. It's better to be known than to be not known. Yeah, stand. Stand there, he told me. Stand. And I believe it was the influence of the spirit when they are doing wardrobe. I was scared. Yeah, I was scared. What about if they asked me a question? Stand there. There's something about boldness that is probably why they released Peter and John that day. You know, the boldness, it sort of paralyzes your opponent. He's disarmed. He's surprised at the question. He's surprised at your move. He's like, what a shock. So the Holy Spirit said stand, every war danced and it is what made me pass. My part Part 1 we call it at that. I don't know what you call it now Part 1 because I remember standing there every time my boss, she was shorter than me. Like when she turned round, she just looked behind. Who's? There I was, right there. And I will ask questions I will stand in front that where a group you always look behind where did CV stand itself you Meanwhile, I didn't know the answer boldness and in my in my Part 1 exam, I had a terrible. Experience I always feel I should have failed, but when I when I. Told my boss, I said, say I think I've failed, he said. You, he said. Go and drink beer. Are you sure? I said go. And drink beer. Because they are not going to have a meeting. Yeah, you know me. I'm with them all the time. I stand in front, I answer questions, I speak. Yeah. You cannot just feel. You can't just. Feel somebody like that? No, no, no, it's not like that. Boldness. When I spoke to Benny Hinn, I I. Asked him so many questions. What about this, everybody? Was at the whole table. He was sitting here, I was. He was at the table head and I was at the. End. So it was between the two of us. Everybody finished talking and all the people, they started signaling him for that. They want to go, say go, go, all of you go. He stayed at the table till 2:00 AM. When we were going, he we came. To the side again and he. Said, you know, thank you for making me talk. So they said thank you for making me talk. Yeah. Yeah, he said. Thank you for making me talk. Yeah, that's what he said to me. You know, I really, really be blessed, you know, thanks for making me talk. And he introduced me to somebody who was with him. This person is so and so. And this is what the person has done for. Then I turned to the person and I said, oh, thank you for your supporting pastor Benny. Yeah. I told him this was millionaires. Millionaires. He told me how much they have given us. I said thank you for your love for it, letting him turn. He said, oh, how sweet. How? How you know? I'm talking about boldness. Some of you, your relationships are standard because you lack boldness. I didn't say no. These are millionaires so I don't know why I may be 1000 years but the Holy Spirit gives me the boldness. Influence of the spirit Benny Hinn. He has a message called 7 steps to the anointing, he said. The last step, the last step in that message he has seven steps. The first is the Jesus Christ, the Saviour, then the blood. Different things up to the end. Then he said the. Last step, that is steps. To the anointing, to the presence, to the throne room, he said. The last step is boldness. Yeah, you step into the throne room. He said that that is the. Step of the Holy Spirit case In boldness you step into the Holy of Holies. So the last step is boldness. So boldness is something that comes from the Spirit. Without boldness, most of ministry cannot happen much of the things you will do. Hey, you will be afraid always if you even die of fear, because every. Time you will be under. Pressure. Can you imagine? Every day you are preaching, every day somebody is expecting a miracle, anointing, prophecy. Every day you have to come up with something to say, something to say to the people, Hey. If if you don't, develop boldness and trust in the Holy Spirit. You, you'll be tired. You see? Science and wonders require boldness. The last step into the throne, you need some boldness. You are right there. The last step and you are in. Many of you, you follow the steps to that noise. You have reached the last step. Now the boldness to enter, the boldness to enter and do what God has been the Spirit and the Bride have been saying come, come, come, come, come, come, come and then. Stay right behind the throne. Be bold. To Minister Magical signs and wonders, you need to be bold. You. See expecting things to happen. It will not just happen. You need some boldness to go for it. And and when I when I, when I remember one time I was watching Ben Hin live and I realized that you have to have a certain boldness. Yeah. And a certain confidence to enter and to see certain you will not see them by just being timid. You have to boldly enter and go forward. Yeah, you can do it. Look, young man, you can do it. You can do it. I'm telling you, you can do it. Whom he for knew predestinated you. Then he called you. Then you are OK. You are justified. Now you are glorified. You must have some boldness. One day, one. Day a pastor. Is a friend of mine, he had a conference and he put out a lady to sing. So she was singing powerful. But you see, when you are that producer, like if Ida is singing, I know when she Can't Sing or whatever, it's not working, not working in a song. And even the stars. Yes, you may be clapping, but I know it's not working and she knows that there's a problem after church, so. He. Knew. I don't know how he knew, but he knew. So after church he called and he told her. He said you sang well from this point up to this point, and from this point the song did not work, he told her. And he said why? What? What went wrong? She said Pastor, did you notice? She said yeah, I knew. I knew exactly the moment when you were disoriented, she said. Pastor, I was singing. Then I remembered something when I remembered. I. Couldn't. I couldn't concentrate anymore. See, something came for her boldness. The attack was an attack on her boldness and her confidence. It was a spiritual attack. And it was not just a spiritual attack on something vague, but it was a spiritual attack on her boldness. Satan has been attacking your boldness. Trying to take away your confidence, make you look like you are not qualified. But he knew you before he had a plan to predestinate you to be some before he decided to call. Wow. So I want you to open your heart. It's not a step, there's no steps to it. It's just information. That this what happens when you are under the influence, the last step and you are there, then you are a preacher, then you are a full time ministry, then you are a healer, then you are a miracle worker, then you are having church go just one more step and you are aware. You are just imagining. Yeah. Some people think you are a bad boy, but God doesn't think you are a bad boy. Jesus has already got a plan already already. I will show you how to find your place.