02. The Two Foundations

Welcome to track #2 of significance. The theme for our just a few hours that we have here is one word, and the word is significance. Significance. All right. Now, some of us may not know what it means to be significant. So significance means to be large or important enough to have an effect, to be large or important enough to have an effect. Now there are many ministers who exist. Is that not so? And who are in the ministry but are not large enough or important enough to have an effect? How many want to be large enough and important enough to have an effect? I believe we all want that. Is that not so? And we need to rise out of insignificance in the ministry. The next one is to be large enough or important enough to be noticed. That's another meaning of significance, and I believe that after this conference, everyone standing here and receiving and hearing is going to become a truly significant minister of the gospel. I see you becoming a significant minister. Hallelujah. Now the next one is to be large. Or. Important enough to have a special meaning, for instance, to to be large or important enough to have a special meaning. Amen. Now when you say the word John Wesley, it means something. Is that also because because he became large enough to have some meaning when his name is mentioned, it has some special meaning? Is that not so? It it means the Methodist Church, that's what it means, has a special meaning. You shall be large enough, and I say you shall be important enough. To have a special. Meaning when your name is mentioned means something, it also means to be large enough that I'm, I'm, I'm saying the same thing to have a special mean when you mention the name Benny Hinn. It is a special name with a special meaning associated with something. And most of us, when our names are mentioned asamwa Asari or SE or chedaku O brierbois or fori asamwa I mean. It doesn't have any special meaning. But if you mention the name in Kruma, it has a special meaning, Rawlings. It means something such as. Special. Meaning if you if you mention the name Autry Yebua, you see you. Can't write an essay about it, but if you if you mention the name Rawlings, you can write an you can write a book and you have comments opinions. Apart from what has happened, what people think newspapers do you see if if the newspaper says tomorrow, Rollins hates jackpot. It would be very. Interesting, what's the jackpot? But if they say ochreinaku hates jackpot. Hey, who is? Ochreinaku, do you see? No, no, no one knows him. So when you become large enough or important enough to have a special meaning attributed to you, you have become significant. I see hundreds of people becoming significant. Hallelujah. You are the next star to rise in Ghana. The next one is that it means I'm just giving you the dictionary meaning of this word. It means to be large enough or important enough to have an effect on the future. Amen. Now you can be large enough such as to now have an effect on the future, future generations and future citizens and future people who are now three years old and four years old and five years old are going to be affected because of your existence. But it is also possible that you will be insignificant. I will also give you the meaning of the word insignificant and that one is also somewhere mercy. Do you think John Wesley has had an influence on the future of Ghana, of Ghana, of England, of America, the future, the future of Nigeria, the future of all countries, the whole wide world? That is. That is what I mean by becoming significant. You are the next significant person in this land. Hallelujah. The next one is to be large or important enough to affect many people. When you affect many people, you have become significant and during this conference I want to share with you some keys or some ideas or some things that I believe are going to cause you to move from insignificance to significance, that are going to move you to become large or important enough in this life to affect many people. How many want to affect many people? You shall affect many people. Amen. The next one is meaning of the worst significant number six is to be large or important enough to leave a mark in history. Most of us don't leave a mark in history. Is that also, I mean when, when we are dead and gone, we will not be recorded in the history books, first of all. But I believe that when you are gone, Winnie Bus, history should remember you, that you came and your story has affected many and it will be recorded in the history books. You cannot write history without writing your name or whichever town you are or whichever nation you belong to. It is possible. I said it is possible and I want to show you something that I believe. In the next few minutes I'll be showing you what I believe is a very important key to becoming significant in the ministry or in the Lord. The next one is to be large or important enough to be pleasing to God. You see, you can be large or important enough to be noticed by people, but if you are not pleasing to God, the history books of heaven will not record your name favourably. May you be pleasing to God. The next one is to be different from others in your class. Who are the people? We are all ministers here. Who are the people in our category? There are others in your category. There are ministers your age, How old are you, 353840454250293631 There are people in your class, Are you listening to me? But when you become significant, you are not just someone who is mentioned, but you are someone who has who, who is now different. You are noticeable. Hallelujah. The last one it means to become outstanding, to become outstanding. And then the final one is to have importance of a considerable degree. Amen. So to be insignificant means to be small and unimportant in such a way as to have no effect. I'm now moving to insignificance. Are you with me? And insignificant means to be small and unimportant in such a way as to have no effect. What do you think? How many want to be insignificant? Forgive to be unimportant in such a way that you have no effect, you are not important, you are so small that you have no effect. Forgive. The next is to be small and unimportant in such a way as to never be noticed. If your ministry is in Tama, it may be small and unimportant in such a way that it will never be noticed in Tama. That is what it means to be insignificant. But if your ministry is becoming significant, and I believe God wants to confer upon you significance so that you will not be small and unimportant in such a way as not to be noticed, you shall, you shall be noticed. The next one is to be small and unimportant in such a way as to have no effect on the future. To be small and you are so unimportant that your presence or your absence has no effect on the future, How many would not like to be insignificant? I think it's a very bad thing. After giving up your profession, coming to work in the ministry, and you are so unimportant that you don't have any effect on the future. I think it is an unfortunate thing. You shall never be insignificant. Hey, you will receive it to be small and unimportant in such a way as to not affect anyone. You don't affect anyone. Nothing that you do effects anyone. The next one is to be small and unimportant in such a way as to never make a mark in history. The next one is to be small and unimportant in such a way as to be not pleasing to God. And then the last but one is to be just like any other person. How many want to be just like any other person? I don't believe so. And the last one is to have no importance at all. Mercy, now insignificance also means to be of no consequence. I don't believe that God called us to be of no consequence in the ministry. What do you think? Do you think God has called us to be of no consequence in the ministry Of no importance, of no relevance? I think that is a mistake. Another one it means to be immaterial. You are immaterial. And another one means you are not worth mentioning. Not worth mentioning. I mean, there's no need to mention you, your church, your ministry, your contribution. You are not worth mentioning. But God is transforming your life and your ministry to the point that you will be worth mentioning. In fact, when they are talking about certain things, if they don't mention your name, they, they, they, they have not mentioned, it's not complete. You shall be worth mentioning. Can I have an Amen? I said you shall be worth mentioning in the ministry. I said you shall be worth mentioning in the ministry. You shall be worth mentioning. You shall be material, you shall be important, you shall be large enough and important enough to have an effect in the name of Jesus. Another word of meaning of insignificance is to be trivial. Another one is to be irrelevant. OK, you are not relevant. Amen. Hallelujah. Now I want to give you what I believe, not what I believe, but what I think is in the Bible. Very clearly the first key that I believe is going to make you significant is what made people significant in the Bible. Amen. Now, when you read through the Bible, there are many, many, many names mentioned, but many of them were not large enough or important enough to make a mark in history. They haven't done anything. Many of them were not large enough or important enough to be noticed. Many of them were not large enough or important enough to affect history. Do you understand they haven't affected history? Now when? I when I read. Certain names. Unfortunately I I cannot seem very well today. I don't know, but when I read certain names from the Bible, are you there? You begin to see names like Mahalil. If I, if I just mention the names, you know, I think are that more significant? Is that not so? Yeah, Allan was an important person. He has affected the whole future. He has left a mark in history. He was large enough. His name means something. But there are other people. Seth. What has Seth done? Seth is a common name. My neighbor used to be called Brassett and then Inos all right, and then Mahalil. Mahalil is not important enough or large enough to make any difference. Mahalil when nobody studies about Mahalil or thinks about Mahalil. May your name not be like the name Mahalil. And don't call your child Mahalil because you are superimposing insignificance on the person Mahalil. And so all the days of Mahalil were 895 years and he died. That is all. He lived and he died. Finish. He was here, but what is the effect? Of his ministry on our lives, He was not important enough to make an effect or have any mark in history on the future. But you, you shall have an effect on the future, and you shall have an effect on history. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Then another guy. Jared. He lived 162 years, huh? What do you think? He's another guy? We don't know what he's up to. Then another guy, Lamech. Lamech, he lived 182 years. Amen. Then Lamech began his son, and he called the name of his son Noah. Aha, aha. Suddenly you are seeing some significance, somebody who is large enough or important enough to have made a major impact on history and on the future. His name has been mentioned and his name immediately when you you, you mention, you see pictures of boats with animals and other sustains. You get it. It's important and significant enough to have for his name to have a meaning. Are you listening to me? So God wants to take your name from the many names of pastors and of ministers and make it a significant name so that when the long list is mentioned, when they mention. We have to pause. We can't just write. He lived and he died. Finish. There's much to say. All these guys, they have one. Sentence. But Noah, we are now going to have to read chapters about him. May there be chapters written about your life. I said may there be chapters written about your life that you came and you were significant and you contributed and you made a difference. Hallelujah. So you immediately see that we have mentioned somebody who is significant. Amen. Now Noah had three sons. Is that also? Sham, Ham and Jaffef, you get it. One of them is significant Ham. You know there is a small story about ham, you get it. And so on. Now other names, sons of Japheth, Goman, do you know him? Magog. May your name never be like the name of Magog and Goman. The next guy, Madai, Javan, Tuba, Meshech and Tiras. Still, we are not getting any significant name a person who is large enough or important enough to have an effect. I am in Genesis chapter 10. I'm not getting any pastor's name. The sons of Javan Elisha, that is a different Elisha, Hashish, Kitim, and Dodanim. None of these were large enough or important enough to make a mark in history or to affect anything in the future. Are you there then there sounds like miserable foot Canaan the sons of Kuf Siba Havila. Do you know Reverend Havila Sapta Rama Saptecha Rama Shiba Didan Nimrod then? Ashu. You know, Ashu resin miserim, Ludin patrusin. Kalusin is it? Sounds like many pastors, Reverend Otrenaku, Reverend Otrevoir au Brivois or say something this. But if you mention a name like Duncan Williams, it's significant. It's large enough and important enough to leave an impact and to affect a lot of things. May you become significant in the name of Jesus, Amen. And that is how it is. There will be many names mentioned, but when your name is mentioned. It will have. An impact on many people's lives. I'm just avadite the zemarite Hamara heights. Do you know these people? May you never be unknown like these guys. Elam afaqsat. Lud. Aram Hadoram, Obaab Abimele. It seems that the insignificant people are a lot and the significant people are very few. May you be among the few significant ones? What do you think? You see in a choir? You have a lot of people about. One of them becomes significant if the person is not. There they Can't Sing most of the songs. May you become significant now. I believe that there is one particular feature that is on my heart that I believe. Makes people significant. Can I imagine some of the significant people Abraham. Abraham too had relatives who look at Genesis chapter 12 you see that he had relative but when his name comes up Genesis 12 or even 1111 verse 26 and Tara lived 70 years and begat Abraham Nahor and Haran Tero Terra is it a major name Nahor is it a you don't even know who they are Haran you see Haran died before his father Terra in the land in U-verse 29 Abraham and Nahor took them wives. The name of Abraham's wife was Sarah and the name of Nahor's wife Melka and the daughter of Haran. These are names. But Sarah was born and she had no child. And Tara took Abraham his son and loved the son of Haran his son S son and Sarah. We are now beginning to get names and Haran. The 32 and the days of Tara were 205 and Tara died. That's all. But from chapter 12 to almost 20, we have to deal with only Abraham, father Abraham, because he was significant. Out of that family you shall be significant. In your family. Hallelujah. Now I believe that one of the great keys to becoming anything in God and that differentiates these people. Right. Is the fact that. God. Speaks to them all. The people who become important enough to have an impact are people whom God speaks to. You never see the Bible say and the Lord appeared to Afaqsat and said something or the Lord appeared to Ashu. Or the Lord spoke. To Mahalil the Lord. You didn't speak to Mahalil. I said the Lord didn't speak to Mahalil. But starting even with Adam, you see the Lord coming in the garden. But let's even start with Noah, who had a lot of other relatives. You get it. And Noah in chapter 6 of Genesis, All right. And it came to pass when men began to Moscow on the face of the earth, and daughters were born, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, they were fair and took them wives. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man. His day shall be 120 And the giants in the land, Amen. And there's five. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great. All right, Hallelujah and verse 6 and it repented the law that he had made man on the earth. Amen. Are you there and the law said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth. Verse 8 but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. He was still not significant. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man in verse 9, perfect. He worked with God. Noah begat 3 sent the earth was also corrupt. God saw that the earth was filled with violence. Verse 12 And God looked upon the earth and behold he was corrupt, but all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end of all God said. God said to Noah, We are beginning to see somebody is about to change because God is speaking to that person, Hallelujah is about to become an important person. He is about to become large enough to make a mark on history only because of one thing, that God is about to speak, or God is speaking to this particular man as against not speaking to the others. That, I believe, is one of the characteristics of men, of God. Who? Become or amount to anything in the ministry is that God speaks to them but for many of us God does not speak to us or if he speaks to us at all. We do not listen to what he said or we cannot hear what he's saying or we never listen or we never hear. But what's separate? You see, Noah, wicked people were there, but this. One God. Speaks to him Hallelujah. And God said to Noah, what did he tell him? The end of all. Flesh is come before me. For somebody to tell you how he feels, he's speaking to you. For somebody to tell you what he's thinking about, he's speaking to you. And God was telling Noah what he was feeling and what he was thinking about everything that was going on there. And he said, I, I the end is that the end has come. And behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Then he gave him an instruction. Make thee an ark of Gopher wood Rooms shall thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without. And this is the fashion. Thou shalt beak of now God is telling him more things. The length of the ark 300 cubits, the breadth 50, and the height 30. A window shalt thou make all right. Verse 17. And behold, I do bring a flood of waters to destroy. All. Flesh, wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die, but with thee I will establish my covenant. And of every living thing of all flesh. God spoke to Noah. Everybody said God spoke to Noah. That is the difference between insignificant people and people who are insignificant. In the Bible. There's a long list that you see and the law said to this particular person. From that time onwards, that person becomes a different person in the system. Yeah, and that person is usually with others. You see Noah, Noah is in the long list. About as soon as we get to Noah and God speaks to him, everything changes. That person becomes different. That is why I believe that every. I have particularly said somebody asked me if I was to recommend one book. I would recommend this book The Art of Hearing, because I think that and I am not my best, It's not loyalty, it's not loyalty and it's loyalty, but it is the. Ability to hear from. God is is different or even to have heard from him. In fact, I think that to to acquire any amount of significance in the ministry or in this life is to have a quest to hear from God. That is why personally, I have a quest to see Jesus. I I really want to see Christ in a vision personally before I go to heaven. It's one of my great because there is nobody who and has met God and has seen the Lord who is normal. Afterwards you'll never be normal, you'll never be the same. Remember the song that we sing. I will never be the same. That is the best and the highest thing. And so suddenly, for all of us, there should be an invisible attraction to the ability to hear from God and to navigate through the dangers of hearing. From God or claiming that you hear from God. It's one of the dangerous areas to work because it can quench. You fully. The so-called hearing from God. When the God you say you are hearing for is now something else, you can easily go off. Course, so it's actually one of the it's one of the blessed areas and one of the dangerous areas because. You can always come up with something and whenever people want to do something bad, they come and say God said to me yesterday this and this and that. In Tina, I am doing what I am doing. It's like if you are playing golf, if you hit the ball. Very hard. It's a very. Good. Thing if it goes straight, but if it goes right or left it's a very bad thing. So most of the professionals when they are playing, they just hit average because when you hit very hard and it goes far, it's very good. But if it goes off, you are also in big trouble. So it's like it can either go, it's like going somewhere very fast. You are going full speed, you can get there quickly and save time, but you can also die and never get there. So it can be very good or very bad. Mercy, mercy, are you listening to me? Good in Genesis chapter 12 you will see in Chapter 11, Abraham you see are you there? In Genesis 11, Nahar lived 9 and 20 years. He begat terror. Nahal lived after he begat Terra. 119 years was 25 Terra lives. That's all they will say. Vaughan died. He was born on this time. He died and then Heron. He lived before his father. He died. Abraham and Nahal took wives. You get it. Now they are mentioning their wives for the first time, you see, because the person is becoming important. And then in chapter 12, Bible tells us in verse one, Now the Lord hath said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy country, Hallelujah, And from thy father's house, and from thy kindred unto a land, I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, Hallelujah. And Abraham departed. Amen. In Genesis chapter 17 also the Lord spoke, if I hear for Abraham, you see, and the Lord said unto Abraham, so many places, you see, that the Lord would speak to Abraham, Amen. In Genesis chapter 13 verse 14, we can see in different places. And the Lord said unto Abraham, after that Lord was separated from him. Again, you can see that this is a very important person because God speaks to him. How many want God to speak to you? I believe God must speak to us as ministers, as pastors, God must speak to us. We must now begin to hear from God. And I'm not talking about you see, there are many ways by which God can direct you, but when you haven't reached a certain place, God will never speak to you. That look God told Miriam, Were you not afraid to speak to about Moses, seeing that I don't appear to him in visions and similitudes and dreams, but I appear to him Philippily, were you not afraid? That thing, the intimacy with God and the level to which God speaks to you, is a very important sign of who? You are in God. I'm telling you. Those of you who say you. Don't have dreams, you say? When you sleep, you sleep, you wake up. No dreams, no visions. No, I mean God spoke to me, though you don't understand when they say how many feel the Spirit of God don't feel it and you don't. You don't have any anything. Watch out. Were you not afraid? Were you not afraid when they were dealing with me? Me. And he asked me, were you not afraid seeing that this guy, when I speak to him, is not like a dream or a bit, but really. That is one of the reasons. Why I became so? Attracted to Kenneth Hagin because the Lord. Appeared to him eight times. If somebody whom the Lord has appeared to them, I'm very interested in that person. 8 * 1 time he was sitting on stage praying for his wife. His wife was thinking they were having a prayer meet. Wife had a cancer of the throat or something and he was praying and suddenly to the right it appeared to him just standing there. On the stage and he, the Lord told him, tell your wife to go and have the operation. I will heal her. She will not die. Hey, operation, most of us are using common sense to decide to go and do the operation. Somebody has seen Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ has asked him to go and do the operation. Do you think his life will not be significant? He's a very significant person in this life. Another time he was he was on admission in hospital. Who should come and visit him? In this book, I Believe in Visions, you see eight times the Lord appeared between 1952 and. 19. 60 The Lord appeared to him eight times. From that time on. The Lord He had appeared to him again. Who should come? He had the best of care and he thought was the next. And the door opened. Who walks inside Jesus, and Jesus comes to him by his bed. He said his hair, his hair stood up like this. It's a very frightening thing. People want to see Jesus, but I'm telling you it's very frightening to see Jesus and pulled a chair and sat down and said I've. Come to talk to you. About what happened yesterday, because he was pitching and he fell down and broke his arm in the pulpit. That I've come to talk to you about what happened yesterday and also. To show you certain things about and he sat down with him for two hours and talked with him and got up and went out of the door. Hey, are you not afraid of something like that? We are not talking about imaginations. We are not talking about vision. That you it's like as if you are seeing something, the vision of the mind. It must be. One of your. Greatest quest when I say a quest, a search to have God speak to you, that is what makes people different. Many people are there, but. None. Of these people have and the first time you see the person become important and the Lord said to Noah, I the end of all flesh is before me build an ark. Suddenly Noah has become important and the Lord said to Abraham, go out of this country. And the Lord said to him, Do this. When Lord separate, the Lord spoke to him, and you will see. And the Lord appeared to him. The Lord appeared. The Lord said to him. We go on and then Genesis chapter 15 first one after these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision saying fear not, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, fear not saying fear not Abraham, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. And Abraham said, Lord God, what shalt thou give me seeing I go childless? Is the Lord not speaking to him again? Is the Lord not speaking to him again? And then you go on and you see in chapter 17 verse one and when Ibraham was 90 years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abraham and said unto him, I am the almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect. I will make my covenant as if not a powerful then in verse 15 of the same best. And God said unto Abraham. May God begin to speak to you so many times. As for Sarah, blah blah blah blah, Hallelujah. And then in chapter 18 again, Genesis chapter 18, notice, because as I was reading through this book, I realized how significant it was. And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mummery, and he sat in the tent in the door in the heat of the day, and he lifted up his eyes. This is a vision like the Kenneth Higgin 1. And there were three. Men standing by him and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent. Hallelujah. These are three spiritual beings who have appeared as human beings who eat food. You understand They have appeared as human beings who eat and are coming to eat food. Huh. Are you listening? How many want to have a spiritual being who eats food? Come and visit you? Would you like it? Who? Drinks and eats, they know that the person is physical and after he vanishes, hey, it is wild. Amen. Now I am sharing this with you because God is going to increase the visions and dreams and revelations to you. And as He does that, your ministry is you are going to become important, so important as to have an effect and so important as to accomplish the will of God, and so important as to do what God has purposed. He will speak to you. I said He will speak to you. Amen. Now the next person who is significant is Isaac, and you find the Lord also appearing to Isaac. Now who were Abraham S sons? Who are Abraham's sons? Ishmael and Isaac? Pastor Ishmael, you get that? But do you ever hear the Bible say, And the Lord appeared unto Ishmael and said to him, this and this and this and that? You don't have that. Genesis chapter 26. That's one. And there was a farming in the land beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines, and to Gerard, verse 2. And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt, and dwell in the land, which I shall tell thee of. Amen. Are you listening? So you see that Isaac was not just important because he was Abraham's son, but because the Lord had also appeared to him. One of the difference between Solomon and David was that Solomon could not have a vision from God for himself. He was just doing what his father had. The original vision that his father had he carried out, and when he finished doing that, he started backsliding. When he finished carrying out his father's vision because he could not hear from God himself, he started backsliding. Yes, he had his father's vision to build a temple and all that. God said, OK, I will let your son do it. But he himself was not like David. You'll never hear where the Bible says. And David inquired of the Lord, And David inquired of the Lord. And David inquired. Of the Lord He knows how that from Solomon he was told what to do by his father. But he himself could not find God himself ain't enough after his father died and he finished building the temple after 10-11 years by sliding throughout and following. Women. So God speaking to you, I tell you, no matter who you are, you see that even though Isaac was Abraham's son. God also spoke to Isaac. God spoke to Isaac. He appeared to him and spoke to him and told him this, this, this time, no matter whose son you are in the ministry, you have to find God yourself and learn to hear from God yourself. And if it's the same God, you will notice that God didn't come with a different thing. What he told Abraham, I've given you Canaan, then he come to the sun and say, I'm giving you Alaska. Because you see, God is not confused, I said. God is not confused. He's not going to come with different things. And when you read. History, you will always see what God says is similar. In fact, none of us are doing any new things so that we are not reading history. God doesn't say. I mean, it's like a new thing is get up suddenly you must start a new ministry naked. I came naked. I shall return. It's not from God and all these other kinds of things. They are not from God, but it's because we don't really know God and people are claiming to hear from God when they haven't really heard from God. But if you hear from God, what did Isaac hear from God? A completely different thing. You can see what God says when you see what God told. God told John Wesley, God told Martin Luther, God told John Calvin. God told all these people. It was basically the same thing because God is so confused and his word is here to guide us, Every Father who is. Afraid for his Son to hear from God is is not afraid of the right thing. Every son, true son, must hear from God. Even if it is the same word that he gave your father, you must hear it yourself. You know that this is what God said. But when you have a son who does not hear from God, it's not good. You have no vision. That's why when you listen to a tape. You soak in a tape. It's not just the. Presence. It must become something that God has revealed to you, and when you share it, it is very powerful. It is like your message. Most of my messages are here and I preach. If you don't listen to tapes, you are not wise. You shouldn't be a preacher, you should be a footballer or something else because footballers, they watch soccer all the time. Even now when they are showing the live matches, I don't know if you are watching South Africa and Ghana whilst they were playing the match, they will put arrows. Did. You see it, they put an arrow and show the open space somebody should be running. Into this space. There's a lot of space here and I was saying they are analyzing the team, watching the players, analyzing the team for soccer. And you, you call yourself a preacher and a minister and you don't listen to preaching and even analyze it and get these are the open spaces. This is where this where he should have. Sometimes when you when you analyze the message and you listen, you even know he should have ended the message at this place, but he didn't end it. He should have done this, this and that and that you begin to know more. These are open spaces to run into. So that's what I'm saying that if you call yourself a pastor, call yourself a preacher, call yourself a a you are you are not listening constantly to messages and to tapes. You should be a footballer or some other profession, but don't call yourself a minister. God spoke to. Isaac. God spoke to. Jacob. God spoke to Jacob. Let's look at Genesis, the Son, and why is he smell no sign, no sign, anything that he fades away. When God doesn't speak to you, you fade away into oblivion. You fade away. You fade away and you see I am preaching this message to try hard to stimulate your interest and desire to personally hear from God, even to the highest level of Jesus actually appearing physically in your room. Because me, I haven't seen Jesus physically and I am praying for it these days. I when I open my eyes, I feel there is somebody there, but I still haven't seen. No, I've had different, but I haven't seen Jesus and I want to see him. Yes, because I think that it is the one thing. That changes a person and separates him apart from all the others who are there. You are very different. You shall be a different person in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Genesis chapter 35. Now look at chapter 28. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Oh, that one is nice, you see, for God to bless you, your Father to bless you, but we want God to speak to you. When God speaks to you, you understand you shall be blessed. Amen. Are you there? And Jacob was left alone. We are never alone. Anything that God cannot speak to us, I said. We are never alone. Sometimes to have a good relationship with God, you have to be alone, not with your wife, not with your children, and not with your church members, and not with your church and not with your pastors, but alone. Can I have an Amen? And he wrestled with a man. Amen. Are you there? And when he saw that he prevailed not against him. He touched the whole of his thigh. Wherefore Jacob's time was out of joint, and he wrestled with him, and he said, Let me go for the day Breakers. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said to him, What is thy name? He said, Jacob. He said, Thy name shall be called no more. Jacob. This is God speaking to him about Israel. For as a Prince thou hast power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name, Who are you? And he said, Wherefore is that, that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him, and Vestethi. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel. For I have seen God face to face, and my life is present. The one who appeared to him to fight with him was God. He fought with God face to face and God told him his new name. Do you think he can ever be the same? He was a different, a very bad man who has cheated people and was now becoming a great person. Why? Because he has met with God. May you meet with God face to face. Hallelujah. You see, when I. Started in secondary school in the Lord I I I became enchanted with people who could meet the Lord. That is why I was very attracted to Kenneth Hagin. And that is also probably why I became very attracted to Rick Joyner, whose book I recommend to everybody to read 100 times over the final quest where he was caught up to heaven and he met with people who have died and met with the Lord who talked with him on several different occasions in his journey through heaven. To me, it's almost like the Bible reading that book. Amen. It's not the Bible, but it is. I read it. Almost like the Bible. Yeah, I believe. I believe in prophets. I believe in visions. These are things we can't do without. We need them. That is what's going to make us great in the ministry. Hallelujah, so I am attracted. Why are you not attracted? You must be attracted and you must seek it. You must want it. You must not be content to just read your Bible and say, I have received an understanding from Ephesians chapter 5 verse 3 and 8. Wherefore I feel that God is showing me that I must do this and this and that with my church. You must have a. Quest to have God reveal something to you or speak to you. I'm telling you it's very that is what have made people significant. Read your Bible, read your Bible. I'm showing you from the Bible. I'm not finished. I'm coming to Moses. You will see of all the Israelis who were there. It's God spoke to God spoke to Moses by the burning Bush and told him that was that was the big We can't stop writing about Moses from the day that he met a madra, a madra. We can't stop writing about him. He becomes of great significance. I believe that a young minister and a minister of any caliber must somehow pray for it and search for it and hope for it. Do you understand and desire it? Babo says desire the best gifts. When we say desire the best gifts, it means that the highest things are possible for you. If, if, if he said desire a gift, that would be different. But for him to say desire the best gifts, then it means that the best type of revelation is available to you. It means that it's possible for Christ to appear to you because he asks you to desire the best convert endlessly the best gifts. It means that you can actually have it. Why would God tell you to desire? Something you can never have? Think about it, think about it, you call a man and you tell a man you desire to have pregnancy. Meanwhile you don't have a womb. How can you have only intestines? How can you give birth? Huh. So God is telling you give birth by next year. Meanwhile, you don't have a womb, you are a man. God is telling you to desire something that is impossible, impractical, and that will never happen. God does not tell us to do and desire impossible things, Hallelujah. He is rather calling us to do possible things. That can actually happen and things that are possible. And I believe that when we desire to know God, you see, we will even desire to be in heaven. But today's pastors, we just want to be successful. We don't want God. We want to be successful. We don't want God. It's not God we are after. We want more money for our churches and more money for our ministries and more money for our lives, but we don't desire God or to hear from Him. That is why God also doesn't mind us. Amen. You see, as I'm preaching now, if you start to yawn, I will immediately have the perception. I'll perceive that you don't want what I'm saying. Then suddenly you the this. You see what I'm? My message can be preached in 3 minutes. It can be preached in three hours. I will suddenly see the conclusion of the message right before my eyes and say that to conclude. God. Has shown us that it's important for us to hear from him let shall we stand to our feet and pray at. The end of the message, because I can proceed and feel that you are not interested in what I am saying. You understand. So God himself does not speak to people who are not interested in what he is saying. He's quiet and dumb. He's he's silent. And you have to be sure that somebody is interested before you start speaking a lot. And so we have to be not interested in being successful. I am not here to preach about success, because success, as defined by the world is. Very different. We are here to define, to search for God. We have to desire to hear from Him so that He will speak to us and when He speaks. To us, what a difference it makes in our lives. We have to desire to go nearer him. Success cannot be defined by any of us. Look, what is success? What is fruit? Think about it. Think about Paul. The places that Paul ministered with great zeal today, what are they? That's Turkey, the only nation in the world. Who has an Islamic symbol as the flag and all those places are Islamic fully. That's where he struggled. Is that fruit? Is it everlasting fruit? No. But when he was in prison and he started writing letters in his frustration, do you understand? In Unable to Come, I have to write to you not knowing that that was the actual everlasting. Fruit. That his name is mentioned every day in every church all over the world and every day in every church, in every church, in every country, in every part of the world. Paul bears fruit up till today, 2000 years later. Hey? And that was what he did in his last minute frustration. That is the fruit. What is your fruit, people? Can never say you are successful. How? Can I know whether Pastor Ivor is successful by looking at the number of people in his church? How many members did Noah have? Noah's work was to do carpentry successfully and sailing carpentry and. Sailing. His boat that he built was 150 meters long. I hope I'm getting the measurements right. 150 meters long. This hall is about 40 something meters long. This hall? Yeah. His boat was 150 meters long. It was 25 meters wide. This place is about 10 meters or 12 meters. It was 25 meters wide and it was 15 meters high. This is about 10 meters high, or 12. Would it be 12? About 10:12, 15, He built a boat without machines, without electricity, without anything with his hand, and he built it. For about 80 years he was building. That was his record, he said by the which he condemned the world. His name is the carpentry. And when he finished, he entered into the boat and closed the door. 7 days, no rain. He was inside by the which he condemned the world and. God has approved of this. Man that he has worked. For him then sailing he sailed for about a year sailing and a zoo zookeeper he was a. Zookeeper. He was a successful zoo. How to keep? Lions, Tigers, There's. Everything that was the work of God. Hallelujah. You can never tell that some. When you go to a Krupong, you will see a church, a small church with a list of names, and those are the Swiss and Germans, Swiss people and German people who came to Ghana in 18-40 something and started a church here and died. You see the date of arrival, date of death, three months, six months, most of them. The longest survivor was two years and they all died. Through them we are not Muslims today, but their names are not as popular as the name Bishop Duncan Williams today. But they saved an entire nation through their. Blood. Yeah, by the which they saved an entire nation. So you you say they are not fruitful. You say they have not done much for God. Be very careful. That's what the Bible says. Judge not. You will never know. Don't even try. Judgement is very difficult. Any time I see a judge, I pity him. I say you, you are going to judge people. It's the worst job in the world. My father was a prosecutor, you know, and the prosecutor is somebody who, like, he was a defense lawyer and he was also a prosecutor. Like in the Michael Jackson case, the defense lawyer was defending Michael Jackson. The prosecutor was prosecuting him, saying accusing him. My father did both. And then he became a defense lawyer, defending people. And he used to say sometimes in the night, he's just afraid. He's seen this. He's seen because maybe somebody has killed someone and you are defending him. And then the blood of the person is crying out, me, this man has killed me and you are defending him. He has hurt me. He has killed somebody's father says hey, you are defending him or a judge will say you, you are free when you are a killer. That's not an easy. Thing to be a judge so we cannot attempt to know and that is why you need to hear from God. What will God tell you? That you this is what we are supposed to do and then you do it and you look at Mary. What did Mary do? What was her job God was about? To use her vagina and her womb. And her breasts. And her pituitary gland. He used her breasts. He caught this. I need application. I'm coming to use your breasts for something. I come to use your breasts. To feed baby Jesus, will you accept? He said. Be it done or to me, if this is the work I can do. If this is what you can use, you can have them then the Lord applied for. Nine months residence permit. I need my child to be in your womb for nine months. Will you accept it if you like it? If it is? If it is, that is what you need. He accepted it. He accepted to use her breasts and when is that was the that was the whole work and the Bible says she said the Angel appeared. Look, you people. You don't know who, Mary? Is me When I say Catholics pray to to Mary, I I realize a lot of people criticize him, but if you think carefully about Mary you can easily pray to her. Holy Mary, Mother of God, hey blessed that thou amongst women, and that is what blessed is the fruit of hell. That is what Jesus, that is what the Angel told her. Blessed art thou amongst women. You are outstanding. Amongst every woman that shall ever be significant, when you mention the name Mary, you can easily pray to her. Me. I prayed to Mary before. I know what I'm saying. I've prayed to Mary many times. Pray for SMS now and in the time, in the hour of our death, you can easily pray to her. That was what she did. That was her work. Do you think, do you think you are going to see Jesus on the cross? His last instruction? Look after my mother. Where do you think she is now? Which church has she planted? What has she done? Lester Samuel. He was a fiery pastor, preacher Banja. He laughed. Maybe, he said, nobody would know. You see me sharing food, rice, oil. You, you see, you don't know what God has told him that in in this part of his life, he's sharing oil and rice. Somebody who has been spending time casting out devils. You may never understand it, and you may say he has backslidden anything that he's now sharing or. Or a bad anointing. That is why he's. Moving around, sharing Rice and all, he has no anointing. Even John Wesley was like. That as he. Approaches that he started doing other things apart from starting churches and preaching. Love works. You sit there and say you are praying for success. Success at what? So that Millennium Ghana Awards will call you and give you an award. When did sinners become the approving standard for pastors in Ghana? When unbelievers to tell us who is a good pastor and who has accomplished something from the where, when when when when did. Unbelievers start to tell us who is a good pastor and who is not a good pastor and which is a good church and which is not a good church. A man did an altar called only one person came forward only one out of the and that one person was Billy Graham. He was very depressed that day when because it was like he was very sad and one person came to a small boy gave my life to Jesus Christ. That's why President. OK, go here. Millions of souls who. Crusades are walking away like that and you are feeling depressed. I mean that day you are sad, you have got the biggest fish and the biggest soul you can ever catch and in the eyes of people you have not successful because even when people were. Coming forward to give their That big man didn't come, that woman didn't come, that Madam didn't come, but just a small boy, a student. He is the one who came forward to give his life. They are not successful. You. Must not pray for success, rather pray to know God and to, if possible, to. Hear. Be attracted to this concept that you can hear from God, that you can close your eyes and have a vision that will mean something, that you can hear God. Speaking to you. I think it's the greatest thing that any minister can ever have is for God to actually speak to you and say certain things to you. In fact, to navigate your way to the place where you can stay confident. Yesterday God spoke to me. Let me show you the last person, Genesis or Genesis the last chapter. Are you there? OK, now in Genesis chapter 49 you see the mention. Of all these people, notice Jacob called unto his sons. Gather yourself. Then in verse three, he speaks about Reuben and he says Reuben is Reuben, a significant name. There's five, Simeon and Levi. Did God speak to any of them? So they all just passed away. Do you understand? Everybody passed away. Even though these were the sons of Jacob, God didn't speak to any of them. Judah, there's 8 Thou art this and that and that. Then he goes on the state in Zebulun. What is Zebulun? It's just a name. He came and he went. Then Issaka, a strong ass 16 Done shall judge his people. Still there's nothing great coming out. There's nothing God. A troop shall overcome him. 20 Out of Asha, his bread shall be fat. 21 Naftali is a hind let loose. 22 Joseph a football Benjamin verse 27 and verse 28, these be the 12 tribes, and this is that their father speak unto them and bless them. And he charged them Hallelujah. And you see, they never became significant for us to write a history on Zebulun. Never or God or Judah or Levi, nobody but and nobody was going to come from somewhere and his name was Moses and that Moses, God would speak to him. And when God speak to him, he will become an important person in this world. Turn to Exodus. You see, even though you may be in a great ministry, if God doesn't also. Speak to you. You are you are nothing. You need to have God to speak to you also, even though you may be Jacob's sons. What do you think? You may be sons of Jacob, but if God doesn't speak to you, you just die being called sons of Jacob, but you will never become anything. May you become something in the ministry. Amen. What do you think best? Chapter 2, Exodus. And there went the man of the House of Levi, and he took to his wife, a daughter of Levi. Amen. Are you there all right then in chapter 3, Moses was now in medium. The whole story has changed. And verse 2 The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a Bush. And he looked, and behold, the Bush burned with fire, and the Bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside. That's for. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside, God called him out of the midst of the Bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. Then he said, Draw not nigh, put up thy shoes from up thy feet, for the place where ROM thou standest is holy ground. Moreover, he said, I am the God of thy father, and the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and the God of Zebulun, and the God of God, and the God of God and the God of Naftali. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The next important person that is coming is Moses, and it's not because of where he belongs, but it's because God is the one speaking to him and he identifies himself. I am the one who spoke to Abraham, I spoke to Isaac, I spoke, and I'm also now speaking to you. From then onwards we begin the history of Moses that goes through Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Exodus. All. The way to numbers. He has become important. May you become significant. Hallelujah. Let's stand. Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. Amen. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we need to now come to the point where we desire to be spoken. How many won't go to speak to you? Why you won't go to speak to you? You'll become significant, Amen. That's more important than being successful. It's more important than being doing anything. Anybody liking you? You pleasing anyone now? How? Will God speak to you? And that is what you know is where the difficulty now comes. You see, the difficulty is how God will speak to you. Amen. That is where we now move into challenges because now we are outside the Bible. I'm talking about God speaking to you outside, apart from the Bible. The Bible is not necessarily how God will. Speak to you. The Bible says that Jesus said I will I go away and I will send you a book. I will send you a book. No. I'll send you another comforter. He will guide you, He will show you, and I'm telling you something you have to learn. How to speak if the Holy Spirit speaks? Chinese. We must learn Chinese so that we can speak to Him. Can I have an Amen. And our problem is that we don't want to learn the Chinese that the Holy Ghost speaks. Hallelujah I. Said we don't want to learn the Chinese that the Holy Spirit speaks now. There are two foundations that you need in place. Two pillars that are going to be your stability when God speaks to you. 2 important pillars, Amen. The first pillar is the scripture itself, Amen. And the second pillar, I'll tell you the second pillar. Remind me, I believe that when you are anointed and God is with you, you will learn to hear from God through His Word. Amen. You people are very quiet. Are you all right? Are you around? Are you here? Amen. Now you have pastors who don't read their Bible every day, who don't have their quiet time every day, who don't know how to study the Bible. How many do not have a Strong's Concordance? Strong's Concordance. Raise your hand, please. I want. I want to know how many don't have it? Stand up, please. Stand up. You don't have Strong. Strong's Concordance. Most of us don't have. OK, Thank you. You may. You may Sit down. Thank you. How many of us don't have Dick's Bible? Dick's DAKE. Dick's Bible. Raise your hand, please. OK, sit down. Oh, a lot of people raised your hand, but a lot of you didn't stand. You're tired of standing. You're not in kindergarten. I'm sorry. How many of you don't have Thompson Chain Bible? OK. Is there somebody in the van? OK, just stand right there. You have Thompson Chain Bible. OK, How many don't have Thompson Chain Bible? Let's see Most of us. OK, put down your hand. How many don't have Oxford Dictionary? Raise your hand, please. How many have Oxford Dictionary? OK, Do you have Oxford Dictionary? There? You don't have tomorrow you have. OK, thank you. Now. You see, it was a trick. I'm not asking you whether you don't have because I want to give you all because. I want them to sell it to you, but I want to prove to you that you don't have a good foundation in the Scriptures. Ain't Tina, You don't have strong concordance. I mean a pastor. You don't have a Strong's Concordance. Do you see Strong's concordance? Strong's Concordance is the concordance that has everything, and then apart from that it has the Greek words and the Hebrew words, so that if you see a word. And you want to know that this word compel you. You want to know that this word is anacazo or this word is anadea or something. You can use the strong concordance, but we don't even know how to do it. They understand. So that alone, you see, is a sign to you. You see that you don't have a basis, a scriptural, a basis, a foundation for him to speak. To you are a dangerous person. To, to, to, to. You know, the Bible says holy and full of prophetic words and directions and foundations that are so foundational and important that God cannot speak to somebody who does not have this scripture. So if you don't know how to do Bible study. I am telling you they can lay hands and lay hands and lay hands and lay hands. Recently, I find myself becoming more anointed by reading my Bible than praying. Oh yeah, God is not a Hindu. Sometimes we come. It's like God where we shout at you. You, you have to move. But I learnt this lesson when I was a student in Achmata school. I belonged to Carvery Road and we were going to a program in tech. That was the first time I went to Kumasi and we shouted at God to move. We we prayed so much that our voices, the voices of the singers went and we had. That's where I learnt that banana is used to cure hoarse voices. If your voice is has gone, eat banana, it will come. I learnt it. From cavalry. Because the singers had that problem. Their prayer removed their voices and they were all hoarse when they started. They Can't Sing. And we will shout and pray. I mean, we, we forced God. Yeah. If you know what is good for you, arrive and save the souls. If you know what is good for you, come and save. We are giving you a last chance. We came to Kumasi with all our everything and that time I tell you we were surprised. Very few people gave their lives. We were we were we to us. It was a total flop, that particular program. And that's when I learned for the first time, that is if God can be moved by more hours of prayer then. Tell me if it's 82 hours, we'll stay here. We'll pray from now till Sunday and everything will happen. Till the 80. Two hours are coming, then we move and we know that by all means, but if you like, try it and see. You will soon discover that you may pray 1,000,000 hours. You'll be looking at you. You'll find out. I'm not saying that prayer is not good. I believe in praying for hours and I pray for hours, but I'm showing you that. God, you see every. Formula that a human being comes with, God will disprove it. If you if you lay hands, they get healed. So one day you lay hands, they will not get healed. Then you see that? Yeah, God is not a formula. It's not a computer. You press delete, then it happens. Enter F7, Shift this. Then something is happening. No, God is not a computer. Hallelujah. And God has no formulas. I want you to pray for four hours. That's why you go to America and see. People, they don't pray, they have big churches. God is trying to disprove your formula. You may think that miracles will bring a big church and you go to a church, you see the pastor doesn't have even 1 miracle. I remember once some people, they went for a funeral. When they came out they said they didn't serve us even 1 groundnut, even 1 groundnut and you can. Go to a church there's not even 1 miracle and still the churches full up. How many have seen churches no miracles only this type of logical teachings and the churches fall. God is disproving your theories. Can no peace outside members are coming more with cars, souls, poor people, rich people. And you are there with all your miracles, anointing, say, oh, nobody's there, mercy. None of these things are a formula. We. Must come to God for everybody. There is something that will work, and we must. Hear from God, Amen. And we must have. God's Word as a foundation. Honestly, honestly, look, I realized as a charismatic pastor that most of the charismatic people, because we go to church and we have good pastors, good preachers, the people in the church were not reading their Bible. Hallelujah. I realized that charismatics. Did not read the Bible. That is why I wrote the book and when I wrote the book I said I do not want the book to be. Called Secret of something, Power of something. Key of Psalm. I just wanted to call it quiet time because that is what is not in the church. These ones and the pastors and Christians have shifted from the very basic act of daily having time with God and reading the Bible daily, daily. Daily Bible readings. How many would agree with me that not you, but you know many pastors and misses who do not read their Bible daily. Raise up your hand. If you know people like that, not you, but you know of people raise your hand. You will not raise your hand. You don't know anybody or you feel that when you raise your hand it means its you. Amen. And so I wrote this book. This book is about quiet time. What is a quiet time? Chapter 2 says follow the great men who had quiet times. Follow the great men who had quiet times. Then I have Moses had quiet times with God. And the Lord said unto Moses, he did 2 tables of stone like the first. And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai, and no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mounts, neither let the flocks. Nor head nor that the business you are doing let them not feed before that mount. By the time Moses, God commanded Joshua to have a daily quiet time, he said, This book of the law shall not be part. Of our mouth. But thou shalt meditate therein day and night, daily that the law. Adam have quiet time until he backs late. Adam used to meet with God, and they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. And the Lord God is calling where Adam. Adam used to come. God used to speak with him every day. Mikaya knew the habit of quiet time. But Zedekiah the son of Chenana went near and smote Mikaya on the cheek, and said, Which way? When the spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee, he was slapping another prophet and asking him that How come are you saying that the spirit has left me and is using you? Listen to the answer. And Micah has said, Behold, thou shalt see in the day that thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself. That is the day that you will know why it seems that God is using me and is not using you. You shall know in the day that you shall go into an inner chamber to hide thyself, that you yourself will know why God is using the Spirit has come to me. The anointing and the Spirit is moving towards people who are spending quiet time with God Jesus Christ. Have quiet time. Babu says that in the morning, rising up a Great Wall before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place. And there he prayed. Amen. Are you listening to me? So I wrote this book Amen because I want to reintroduce the concept of. Quiet Time, which has vanished from the charismatic world, and I have. No other. I don't have any ambiguity about it. I mean, quiet time. I want it to be called quiet time. That is what it is pastors must have. One day. I had the unfortunate experience of listening to somebody's child talking. She was talking about her, her, her mother who was a pastor. She said my mother, my mother doesn't read the Bible unless she's going to preach. She said my mother is always watching films. That's all that she does. She was even comparing her mother with her father. So my mother, my mother watches films from morning to evening, he said. I will never see my mother, who is also a reverend ordained minister. I will never see my mother reading her Bible unless she is going to preach. And you can say that for many pastors, and many, many, unless we are going to preach, we don't read the Bible. And that's why we. Ask that question, wherefore when the Spirit of God from you to to, from you, from me to you to speak, is that you will know. When you go also into the inner chamber, you will know mercy. Tell somebody. Mercy, it is a foundation for God to speak. To have the scripture as a basis, I cannot preach about anything more important than what I'm saying. There's nothing more important than what I'm saying. There's nothing. Almost all my messages and all my books are basis of my quiet time. The person. Who taught me how to have a quiet time is one of the most. Precious people, whoever God gave to me, because it's the greatest key that has helped me in my life and my ministry is to have a quiet time. All my sermons, all my preaching, all my messages is The Secret. That's why I wrote a book called The Secret. Yeah. Do I have that book, The Secret? Give me a book called The Secret. Seven things that happened during your quiet time #1 During the quiet time, you develop the most important relationship of your life. How many realize that any time you have a quiet time with somebody, you are developing a relationship with a person? There's a book called The Secret. How many want to know what the secret is? What is the secret? Quiet time is the secret. That's the secret. That's why I call. The book, The Secret, Because it is the secret. You shall know yourself when you go into the inner chamber. Amen. Are you listening? You know yourself. That is the secret. When you also go into the inner chamber. Somebody should take that. Hallelujah. Are you there? How many want to develop a relationship with God? Only four of you. Very good. #2. A quiet time makes you develop the most important personal habits. It's the most important habit you will ever develop. You all have habits. Some of you bath every day. Is it a habit? Some brush their teeth every day. It is a habit. Some of you shake hands with your right hand, it's a habit. Some of you use your left hand for other things. It's also a habit. Are you listening to me or you are not listening to me? Yeah. These are habits, but this is the most important habit. Even if you don't bath every day and you have your quiet time every day, you are blessed. You don't bath, have your quiet time. It's better. It's a better habit, yes. President, do you agree with me? If you don't bathe and you have your quiet time, you are blessed. If you don't brush your teeth and you have your quiet time, it's OK because it's the most important habit. It's more important than bathing. I know a lot of people who are bathing and are going to hell straight. I know a lot of people who are brushing their teeth and are going straight to hell. The next one. During your quiet time you draw near to God and He draws near to you. Is that not what the Bible says? Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you. Amen. The next reason why you should have your quiet time is because a quiet time makes you read the most important book in the world. This is the most, not this book. This is the most important book in the world, the Bible. And a quiet time makes you read the most important book in the in the whole world, so that when you are going to do an exam, you need to read a particular book. It's the most important book for that exam and you don't get a chance to read it. You've missed, you fail because you didn't read the most important book, and a quiet time makes you read the most important book before you read any other book. Then a quiet time is your personal school of the Word, Amen. And the next one is your quiet time. During your quiet time you increase your personal knowledge of the scriptures. And the last one is that during your quiet time, you experience the presence or even the anointing of God. Hallelujah. How many want to experience the presence of God in the anointing world? So I want to say that, you know, the lack of Bible study, the lack of quiet time, Amen. You know, it is, it is something that you know is, is affecting us. It is it is keeping us away from God, Amen. Hallelujah. Now I am talking about a foundation. There are two foundations that I, I want us to, to go. Is it because we, we can have anointing, we can have all these things, but if you don't have this foundation, and sometimes we are, we are using the foundation, but we don't tell you about the foundation. If you meet somebody like Bishop Duncan Williams and some of the older ministers, you'll be surprised that all these are. Part of their lives do. You understand what I'm saying? It's. Part of their lives to have a daily time with God. Amen. When you have your quiet time, you develop confidence in the greatest book of all time, right? Six things that the Word of God is to us. I'm just reading out from my book. It is a specific revelation to man, Amen. It is the gospel of salvation to mankind. When you are reading the Bible, you are reading the gospel of salvation. How can you be a preacher and you don't read the God? So you see, unlike those prophets, I mean, in those days of Calvin, John, who's, and some of the guys we've been mentioning, Martin Luther, they have the Bible in Latin and they were not reading it. We have the Bible in English and we are not reading it. It's amounting to the same thing. I said this amounting to the same thing. They had the Bible in Latin. They could not understand it. We have the Bible in English and it contains that. Look. My books cannot be compared to this book. There is nobody's book which can be compared to this book. Nobody's book comes near to this. This the book that has been is the most published most. Read. Most published, both circulated, most printed book in the whole wide world. There is no book like this book. Hallelujah. It's an all the all time bestseller of all time. And when you read it, you are reading the revelation of God to man and you are reading the gospel. So when we don't read our Bible much. And we are ministers. I think we are deficient ministers, greatly deficient ministers and and you see, the Bible is is born. How many find the Bible boring? Sometimes raise your hand. OK, How many find it boring many times? I know you wouldn't raise your hand because you are ministers, but I can. Assure you the Bible is boring many times and that is why God gives us people who have written books. Tapes who have made. Comments on Oh, my Book is a comment on some of some scriptures. My my book is a comment on scriptures. If you look at a book, you see I have a scripture. All the scriptures are bold, darker, and then I make a comment. So anything that I call a book is actually a comment on of the on the book of. Books. That's all. It's the gospel. It must be read daily. Then the number 3, the Word of God, is final, authoritative. It's an authority for everything. It's an authority. It's final. It's the final word. One day I sat in front of a. Couple they wanted to divorce and I said why do you want to divorce? And I mean they, they were not going into that. And I said, look, do not divorce and then. One of them said I will divorce and the other one said I asked the other one will you divorce and no I will not divorce. So I talked and talked and thought. Then I turned to the one who said he will divorce and I said will you divorce? He said I will divorce and I turned to the other one. He also said I will not divorce. Then I said the Bible says because the Bible is the final word. How many are looking for the final word? The final word is what we need. A pastor does not have the final word. The Bible has the final word. How many want the final word on all things? Oh yes. The final word. So you are reading the final word, the authority, You are reading the gospel of mankind. You are reading the revelation. Of God to man. Oh. You are reading the Bible is powerful and searching powerful. It searches out Bible says the word of God is quick and powerful. You cannot read this Bible without becoming start searching your life. You start to search and you begin to lose confidence. As soon as you read the Bible it's because you have not been reading the Bible. That's why you are overconfident. When you read the Bible, you see Daniel, he's a man of God. Lions could not bite him and we call ourselves men of God and mosquitoes are biting us on a daily basis. I remember when I was in school. There was a brother. Who used to use the word of God to fight mosquitoes? Yeah, he used to speak to the mosquitoes in the room. I command every mosquito to desist from biting me from this moment. And he used to have resources. Mosul cannot bite me because I've spoken to them. He was a man of faith. When you go to the top. And there was no water because we believed. We were faith people, but our faith was very high. Speak to the tap. I command you to bring forth water, and water will come at least a few drops. Oh Hallelujah. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper, piercing to the dividing. Asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow is a descender of the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hey, it has gone deeper. It has questioned you about things. Nobody can question you. As you come out confidently and people are having visions about you and say, brother, I saw, I saw this, I saw. When people have visions about you, especially positive visions, all you have to tell yourself is. You don't know me. Anything you have had such a nice vision? Ain't it now you have had such a nice vision? You don't know my troubles and my problems. Sometimes you have to encourage yourself, but sometimes too you must, otherwise you will be receiving too many nice visions. One day somebody saw me, I was preaching, he said. I saw you a ministry and rain. Rain was. Pouring round you and the rain was. Only around you and it was raining, rain, rain. Then doves came on your head, I said. Doves and rain. Hey, very nice vision. But I immediately said to us, I don't know my troubles and. Then after that, he said. Then I saw 2 angels standing by your side. Yeah. And as you were sharing the word, the angels were opening the books and the book were very old and they would just open then I'll be preaching very ancient books and they were telling and I was speaking the word just recently. Nobody came with this when he when he was sharing, I said yeah, yeah, as soon as I saw my soul. So I said wow. And I said to myself, you don't know my troubles. You don't know I travel. That's why you are seeing such a great mission about me. Hallelujah. By the word of God, it will set you. It will question you. That's why when John Calvin was dying. He said I was really sorry about all my mistakes and my sins. That's what he said. That's why he last went. I was really sorry. You when you are dying, that's what you say. You say I was really sorry. And you are very confident me, I'm going to have it next week, this and that. Hey, John, who's he prayed God should have mercy on me, mercy for my soul. After standing for the scriptures to the point of his death, all that he's concerned about is mercy. Oh my sins. Because the Word of God is searching and we ourselves, we know ourselves that sometimes we are not sure of our intentions. How many realize that sometimes you are not sure of your intentions. It looks as if you have a good intention, but could there be another intention? Could there be some other motive that is making us do what we are? Doing the word of God. Will search. You will never be free. You will never be confident or overconfident. Amen. And that's the power of a quiet time. You begin to have this powerful exposure. Amen, he said. Therefore we ought to give them more endless heed to the things which we have had less at any time. For if the words spoken by angels were steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience receive a just recompense of reward, how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed? Unto us, by them that heard him, God also, bearing them witness with both signs and wonders, How shall we escape? It's the final word. We cannot escape from such a final word. And when you expose yourself to the Scriptures. To the concordances, to the dictionaries, to understand the scriptures. You are exposing yourself to the final word, to the final authority from which you cannot escape. You are exposing yourself to different levels of divine revelation, of God speaking not through man, which a man is a filter. I have a filter. By the time the pure Word of God passes through my mind and my background and everything, you will get just a fraction of what is the truth or what is the purity of God's greatness of His Word. But when you pick it yourself directly, you are beginning to expose yourself to the gospel and it asserts. You there are many things when somebody tells you you will not here, in fact you will be so insulted and you will say what does he mean? I remember when they attacked us and they broke our walls. I heard somebody saying, you know, do you pray? Are you prayerful? If you were praying, would this happen? Will it be like this if you are prayerful? They asked me, do you go for prayer walks? Do you have communion? Why are all these troubles? Happening to you? Are you in the? Spirit, do you have prayer walks in the community? You know, as they were saying this is I was getting this step. But when I say them to myself, it's easier. But if somebody comes to tell me it's very good for you, you see you it's good for. You that this happened. I will hate the person I was, like look at somebody, he has a bad mind towards me. Come and tell me that this is a good thing. It's good for me. But when I read my Bible and I see certain tribulations that people went through, that was a. God led the people of Israel to the bitter. Waters to drink the bitter waters. It is good for me that I was afflicted. Then I see that it's good. Oh. How? Can you say you want to hear from God when this one you are not having it in your life? The Word of God is God's method for man's prosperity. When you study the Word of God, like God told Joshua, even an army general, you will prosper when you read my word. For thou shall make thy way prosperous, and thou shall have good success. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth. Today, pastors cannot. Quote Scriptures today. Today, pastors cannot quote Scriptures. Amen. Pastors, we, we do not have scriptures. Are you listening to me? We do not. We cannot quote modern pastors, pastors who are whose basis they didn't go to SU. If you went to Scripture, you know, usually you are different. But if you didn't go to SU and you got saved afterwards, you, you, they can't quote scriptures. They don't know many things in the Bible. They don't know so many basics. That is why I wrote the book Quiet Time, because we must have quiet time again. Yeah. And I believe this one of the most charismatic and powerful and anointed things. Amen. Hallelujah. Now, as we study the. Bible. I believe that many, many blessings are going to come to us because #1 the Bible is God's revelation unto it #3 the Bible is God's will that is revealed to us. I don't know if you are trying to write, but I think it's too fast so you must get the book. The Bible is the record of God's dealings with man in the past, present and future. And that can also tell you how you how God will deal with you. That's how God dealt with Abraham, how God dealt with Isaac, how God dealt with Moses, that's how God dealt with those people. He would deal with you like that. When you see Babu says that, what do you call it gave? Birth to a son and the guy was wicked and the Bible says God killed him. You must know that when you are very wicked, God will kill you. Hallelujah. Amen. So all these things are. Very, very, very powerful. And I believe that as we get the scriptures, we begin to have a very good foundation of what we have. And this is what I personally, you know, we are not becoming significant because God does not speak to us. And this foundational thing, you know, I believe is very important. So that's why I wrote this book quieter and I wrote these ones to These are daily devotion that you can have your quiet time from every day you can read. A piece you see now Charismatic pastors we prefer to build. Snack squares or what do you call it, Eating spots? Canteen spots rather than book shops. Even our church. We are going to build 1 now because. We have seen that it's. Something that the people want. Do you understand? Yes. So we have decided to build 1. Yeah. A cantina or a cafeteria, whatever. Because the Mendes, they like chicken rice, this meat pie, not the. Bible Few pastors are building book shops. Recently I went to a church and I was introducing the Bibles and the things that were in the van. I sounded like a moon. Somebody from the moon. I'm telling you, person TEFL, somebody from the moon who was introducing moons, moon books, Mooney books, and I was starting introducing my book. I was telling them we have this Bible and you see how many of you don't have strong concorder. We have all come for a minister's conference room and these are basic tools of Christianity. Most of us from different places, basic tools. You call yourself a minister, you call yourself a pastor, you call yourself somebody who is in the ministry and you don't have the basic, just like a doctor, you don't have a stethoscope and you don't have something basic that you can use to hear, to listen, to feel. It's very basic. It's very. That is why we are having shallow people and that is I'm telling you the reason why we have great charismatic churches today in Ghana is because both the Scripture Union and. Groups like Calvary Rd., Joyful Waves Singers and Pinkerfield Singers and where? Comeback Incorporated and so on have sown the seeds of the foundations of studying the Bible. Scripture study, Bible verses, memory verses and such things are in US. And that's what somebody like Otabel, he's from the Scripture Union. He was a preacher on Calvary Rd. He was part of what you call it, fellowship. We have fellowships and that fellowship and so on. You know, these are these are the, the people who are they have, they have the basis. I was in scripture union. The the games I used to play was scripture. I had a friend called. Senior, we used to play a game. We quote verses until I quote and you cannot quote. So if you quote Genesis 11, I'll quote John 11, then you quote, I quote. We write what we've quoted. You can't quote what I've quoted until our scriptures are finished. And whoever can quote and you cannot quote has won. I tell you, that's the game. And I played with him many, many times. It was a favorite game. We used to call it Felon B game. You know, like felons, horse racing, GO-8 felons, whatever. Bible felon. We used to call that and we used to play that all the time. You quote our quote, you quote our quote. So I'll go and learn some surprise scriptures so that we will go through all and then we'll get to then I'll say how about cock this this and I am I right it this, but not just scripture. That was our game. That's. Right. And today, past this television eating, useless socializing, I'll say it again. Useless socializing, talking, chatting. Phone calls. More for Scripture. And so in the future you can tell what type of church will be after our era. You won't see you. I tell you, you won't see this type of church there. And when somebody gets up and starts preaching Scripture, he will be seen as an odd one. Now recently I went to preach somewhere. I was preaching powerfully the word. Afterwards they told me you are John the Baptist, I said. How do you copy John the? Baptist because I'm preaching about hell, something that is in the Bible if I preach about dominion. And I preached about prosperity. You wouldn't have called me John the Baptist, because I done the Baptist like an unusual guy with unusual messages. And you know the scripture I preached from, I preached from only one vest. You know the scripture I preached from. John 316 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish. Is the perish that I said should not perish. That means should not go to hell. That's the reason. Why Christ came? Then I become John the Baptist for preaching John 316 in a church. It's an unusual message in a church. So if tomorrow, one day our bishops, archbishops, popes and Cardinals of these charismatic churches are completely different, we have ourselves to blame. That is why I wrote this book and I am saying it and I'm emphasizing you must know the Bible and you must be a Bible reader. Otherwise, go and become an astronaut, or go and become a. Footballer go and find API want the guy who scored the goal API and the other guy ACN C ACN. To help you C ACN to connect you. ACN will connect you to to to to for a job. Your quiet time, Oh, I cannot even get away from it. Your quiet time will reveal. The total message of the Bible Most of us don't know the total message of the Bible. Do you know that the Bible starts with the garden? Everything is great and nice in the garden, and it ends in the garden and everything is nice again. You may not know that it starts very nice and all the trouble starts, but it. Ends back with the river of life, the tree of life, and we are back with God in the garden. That's the end. The Bible is a complete story, but most of us don't know that it's a complete story. Starts in the garden, becomes very dirty, nasty, messy. But God's divine plan is to bring us back to his presence where there's no more tear, no more sorrow, no more crying back in the garden. And how he eventually accomplishes it and what He does is all in the Bible. And quiet time will reveal as you start to study the Word, the total message of the Bible to us as pastors. Many of us are ministers. We do not know why we are not Muslims. If I challenge you right now and I start and I open my Quran, I have two Qurans in the house. If I open my Quran now and I start to resetting suras to you now, you'll be confused because you don't know why you are not a Muslim. You just know that you. Are a Christian but I don't know why you are not a Muslim. If I start to open SURA 1143 and set in suras now and I start to quote make certain quotations. When I went to Malaysia, I told the pastor please get me a Quran, I need a Quran. I bought a Quran and then I need to have a Quran in my library. If I get a most. I'll use the Quran to evangelize him. So let's turn to Surah this one and start to evangelize him. You are looking at me. You are afraid of the Quran. You can't read it because you don't know what is there and you don't know why you are not there. You are just there in Christ. Another thing is that you will know the nature of. God Amen. That God provides. God is holy, God is loving, God is just. He has two sides. He's good and he's severe. And when Bible says that we are destined, predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ, what image is that? How is it like when you are like God? We don't know. How is it like when you are like God? What's the nature of God? How? Do you know when you become like God? You see, recently the law started to deal with me about certain things. To care for the poor, to care for the sick, to care for orphans, to care for prisoners. I've never been to preach in a prison before to the last one year or so. Because, you see, I thought all these things are sidetracking from the main work of God, which is to evangelize and to wind souls and to plant churches. But you see, God's nature is to care for hopeless and that look, there is no more hopeless place than the prison when you go to the prison. And you see the people there, prisoners. Oh, man, hopeless. Hopeless, I'm telling you. Condemned. That is the nature of God. Even you you have. Some of the nature of God, that's what, when you are watching a soccer match. Between two teams. That not from your country or anything, and you see the losing team, you start to support the losing team. How many have realized that? You start to support the weaker side and you start to wish that thing is the nature of God in you to help something that is down. He wishes there can be some help. That's God's nature working in you. Yeah. And God's nature is to love and say, what does it mean to love your brother? That's the most important command. Jesus told us there was a man going to Jericho. He was beaten, he was left for half dead and a man came and took this man who was hopeless and helpless. He said a priest came by, a Samaritan came by, a Levi came by. All of these were holding the collar. But then here comes the Samaritan and he finds the man who is in trouble and difficulty and just helps him. He said that is your neighbor. That is how that's the person you are supposed to love. That's the nature of God. If you don't read your Bible, you will never know the nature when you get to heaven. You say I have faith to move mountains, I have faith to start churches, I have faith to be a full time ministry. But you didn't have the love of God and it will be nothing. You'll be surprised. Your judgment will bring you to 0 Bible say you have faith to move mountains to do this, and I have not love. I am nothing, it profited me nothing. I am nothing and it profited me nothing. When I realized that, I started to build my orphanage quickly. My orphanage is complete now and the hospital is also almost complete and my prison ministry is working and other things to help anything that is hopeless and helpless. That's the nature of God. Why? Because I'm finding out more things by reading my Bible, not from anybody else. I didn't learn it from Kenneth Hagin. I never heard of Kenneth Hagin doing that. My my learning from Kenneth Hagin did not include that. But I learned this from the Bible, so I was sick. You didn't come come to this side. Come to this side. I was in prison. You didn't come. Move to the. Side those that I never understood that scripture because I couldn't see how. I was hungry. You didn't give me. Come to the side. I was thirsty. I was just looking for just a drink. You didn't help me. Come to the side? No, but I said come to the side. Don't argue. I was a stranger. You did not take me in because. You don't know. Where I was born and how I was. Born. You didn't take me and you took your cousins and your relatives. Come to the. Side quickly, there's a whole chapter on that thing in the Bible. It is only reading the Bible that will. Reveal to you, somebody said to me, hey charismatic church, you are doing an orphanage. I said, yeah, we are also reading the Bible. We also read the Bible, not only charismatic books. The charismatic book will not reveal it to you by Lester Stammer. At the end of his life, he's sharing rice and oil. He has got a big ship called Feed the Hungry and he's going around feeding the hungry. It's not easy to understand, but when you start reading Hallelujah, are you still in the church or you are going home? And we are destined to be conformed to the image of Christ. That is the destiny. I heard somebody on television preaching. He opened that scripture. He came to. Predestiny destiny and said we are predestined. It was 31st night predestined to be confirmative. Then he came, he said your destiny, the year 2000 and whatever your destiny. Shall be this, you shall be great. You shall have money. This destiny, Destiny, your destiny. Read the verse. You are destined to be conformed to the image. Of Christ to look like Jesus Christ. The thing has turned into a destiny prosperity. Your. Destiny of prosperity, just the word he was looking for the word destiny to lift the word destiny out and then take us. Take us into prosperity. Forgive, I said. Forgive destiny. Your destiny is to become like cry when they see say love it. Somebody who lived with Kenneth Hagin worked for Kenneth Hagin. And, and, and Kenneth Copeland, the one you saw on TBN, he was with both Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland for how many years, 20 years or 25 years? And he was interviewed on TBN and he said, what did you learn by staying so close to Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copla for 25 years? You know what the guy said? He said I didn't learn faith. These are the wildest faith preachers who? He said. I didn't learn faith, I learnt love. He said when you are. Close to them you will learn love, not faith. Love and not faith, Yeah, he said. What I learnt when I cut close was love and not faith. Yeah, it's very interesting. When I got close, I didn't learn fake, I learnt love. Brothers and sisters, we are destined to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. And how will you know but when you read? God's Word. Wait, you talk about the widows and you talk about hopeless people whose state cannot be retrieved and cannot be rectified on this earth, and you see God's loving. Hand is stretched out and you ask yourself, what has this got to do with winning the whole world for Christ? It's like the one who is winning the world must be full and covered with God's love. It must be a loving hand that is stretched out. Not just a hand, not a hand of salvation only, but a laughing hand of salvation. God wants the one who is stretching his hand out to be full of His love. And without the love, even if you have faith and prophecy and this and this, in the end you will amount to nothing as far as God is concerned. The government may call you and say, well done, you built a school, you've done this, you've done it. But without the love, God will say you are nothing. You have even, you say even if you give your body to be bent, you're very sacrificial. You give and give and give up to the point where you give your body also to be burned. And you don't have life, it profited you nothing. So I can learn the nature of God by reading my Bible. So if now one day God tells me. Build a hospital. It will not sound. Strange to me because the. Hospital is not for a profit. But to show care and love to people who cannot even afford it or help themselves, then I can see it in my Bible. In so many places and I will know that it's not an off course. Prophecy. Yeah, Amen. And that's why I'm saying that this thing is the foundation for you to hear his voice. For you to hear His, when you hear His voice, you become significant. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm standing here ministering to you because I've heard God's voice speaking to me and I'm doing things that He has told me apart from the Bible. I will share some of those things with you. I've heard Him speaking to me. He has told me and every stage of my upward client in the ministry has always been. Do this. If that is what brings I was a lay pastor. I was I was a businessman. And God said to me, it was in the end of 19901991 or 1990, God said to me, stop every business and he gave me a scripture, stop every. And the scripture also was in line with it. Stop. I remember the room, I was lying in my father's hotel. Stop all your business, stop all things and give yourself wholly to the ministry. Because of that, I went to see my sister who was living abroad, and I asked, I said please, I want to ask you for money. I've not asked her for money before. I said I want you to give me some money every month because I'm going to give myself fully to become a pastor, a Doctor Who has been. She didn't go to the university. I said help me. You know what she said? She said. If you're going to preach and you're going to do that, I will. I will help you. I will support you. I will give you money. And she gave me money. Every month she sent money to me. That is what I have changed. Few dollars. I change it and I share it. And we survive for one month and another month and another month and another month. And I'm here today. Yeah, I'm here. Today in the ministry full time, you know and. It's like God said to me, but I have to start thinking how I can obey what he is telling me to do. Everything I have done usually, especially when there are significant tense, you know he will speak to me about it and then I do it. So what I'm doing now, I'm doing it because God. Has spoken to me. Some of the things are vague, sometimes they are specific, like for instance. You know, and you see, usually when God speaks to you, usually it's not easy. I mean when he speaks specifically, but. Like I've started. Many churches, but most of the churches have started. God didn't speak to me to start them. He didn't tell me go and start this church, but there are one or two churches that He told me specifically to start. Out of 400 maybe he's told me to start about 3 or 4. OK, when I you see, when I say God said to me, it's different from I believe God wants me to do something. You see, that's what I'm saying that I want us to introduce. Ourselves to the world where we cannot differentiate. When you speak, you don't say, God said. When it's not, God said it's I believe, or I think, or I hope, or I'm praying, or I'm. Trusting. Or I feel or I perceive it's different from God said and the God said to there are levels of God said, yeah, there are levels of God said, Amen. But every realm that you get to is because God has said. In his way God has said to you, and when he starts to. Speak means you are going higher. Look, Kenneth Higgins said it. He said the one thing that has taken him in the ministry is hearing the voice of God being led by the Spirit, He said. That is the key. In his whole life is hearing God's voice, he said. One day he was. He said everything we are doing, the school, the tapes, the books. God spoke to me specifically to do them. So brother, I believe, I feel, I trust is very good. There is another level God said that. Even the God said there are realms in it. May God speak to you from today. I see God speaking to you. Hallelujah. Then you begin to know the fall of man, the consequences of the fall. When you read your Bible and you have your quiet time, you know the consequences. You know a. Person. Who read the Bible? You will. See sin, like for instance, rebellion. Rebellion. Look, it is because you don't read your Bible. That is why you become disloyal, I'm telling you. Or ever become a rebel? Ever ever ever ever ever to rebel against anybody. It's because you don't read your Bible, Martin. Luther, even Martin Luther who? Came out strongly against the the Catholic Church. I was watching the film. I, I, I believe that it that's what he said. He said rebellion will never get us anywhere. Most of the reformers did not want to leave the Catholic Church. But I think the best example of somebody. Who? Started a church. And refused to be a rebel even though he was pushed to be a rebel but refused until he died. To ever be a rebel, the best example is John Wesley is the best example because he started his Methodist society. People pressurize him, leave this and that. One day he was preaching somewhere and they asked him, by what authority do you do this? You know what he said? Because he was an ordained Anglican priest. He said I am doing what I'm doing by the authority conferred on me by the Archbishop of Canterbury who ordained me to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's the authority under which I am doing what I'm doing. I am an ordained priest and my work is to preach the Gospel, and that is what I'm doing. I'm preaching. Till he died on his temple, he said. We are members of the Anglican Church. And he died like that. It was, yeah. It's just a society after he died five years after they completely. Cut off ties with the Anglican Church and became Methodist Church. Yeah. He refused it. He, in his capacity as the leader, refused. That is why. It is a very. Stable. It is not founded in rebellion. It's not started in rebellious minds and a rebellious spirit fighting fathers and whatever. It is institutions and so on. When Princess Diana Dara was with Bishop Nick, he said the night that the day she was buried, I was with he. He just made a comment, he said. These people who fight. Institutions and ancient institutions which have been there for years, watch them, he said. This royal family something has been there for years. You just come. Inside you are fighting the Queen, fighting the ancient ambitions and other things that have been there. It's a very dangerous thing. That was this government debate and we continued our meeting, he said. Hey the. Man is saying some deep things. These people who get up and something is ancient. It has been there for years. You just get up with your mind. You are just. Coming to fight it and condemn it and ridicule it and just spoil it with your life. You are going, you are going, you are going to marry an, an Egyptian, an Arab, so that the king of England's father-in-law will be in Egypt or the stepfather of the king, he's in Egypt. Watch them. Things that are born in rebellion. John Wesley refused it. Refused it. Refused to be known. As a rebel of somebody refused to be a rebel of somewhere, no. No, whatever you have to go through, they say kneel down, kneel down, stand up, stand until you are clear of all charges. Hallelujah when you read your Bible and you see the rebels. There and how they ended up. You yourself will know that to be a rebel is not good. It will never end in any good thing. But you don't read the Bible. That's why you follow foolish things, and you follow associates who are rebelling, and you follow pastors who are breaking ourselves. This guy, there is no basis. Even if the person is most corrupt, there is no basis. The best you can use to step aside, the person can be like the Pope. And today, look at the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has helped us remember. When have you seen, did you see President Bush kneeling down, kneeling down in front? Do you think if any pastor dies in Ghana, the President Bush will come and kneel now? Yeah. The whole world was brought to attention by the Pope, huh? Christ was. And when you see the Pope coming with his stuff with Jesus Christ, when I saw the cross here first, those days when they used, we used to laugh at those things. So hide me behind the cross. There's a song. Oh. There was a song they used to read because. Hide me hide Why do you say we hide the Christ is risen of prayer. How do you say Christ cross Christ is risen is on the cross. Why should you wear a cross? Why should you have the? Cross, cross is what you must have. And when I saw the Pope coming with his staff, with Christ as if he's falling down from the cross, I remember the scripture that Paul said that I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified. That's what I decided. To know amongst you only Jesus Christ. And I saw the Pope coming with his Pope holding in front of the CNN camera. Jesus Christ and him crucified. Wow, the cross, I said. The cross. Yeah. And him crucified. So just leave them. They are too mighty and they are too great for an A small fly like you or me to fight or change. You can never change it. You cannot change it. There are two ancient institutions. Somebody say ancient institutions. You cannot. Fight. Yeah. Ham had no business going into his father's tent. One guy, Bishop Nick, was preaching. He said Ham had no business throwing into his father's tent. He had no business he could not. Then he said he could not handle it. He couldn't handle it. And then he said, every man of God has a tent where he can be himself. Every man of God has a tent where he can be himself. He couldn't handle it. That boy couldn't. Handle it. Are you listening to me? If you read the Bible, you will know that. Look, the Father, huh? You are coming to laugh at him because he's drunk? Why Charlie? If he hadn't. Built that ark. You would have been dead by now. It's because of the ark that he built that you are alive now. You have come. You see that he's drunk and he's naked. You are calling people to come and laugh at him. Hey, some 150 meters long, 50 meters high, 25 meters. While he has built it. Yeah. So bed call for about 100 years, you just get up and you come and start laughing at him because he was he was drunk in whatever moment in his own tent. Ham have no business. He couldn't handle it. Tell somebody he couldn't handle it. That boy couldn't handle it, that one. Are fighting ancient institutions and traditions. Are you listening to me? Yeah. So, brothers and sisters, the Scripture. Oh, I don't know what I can emphasize more than this book. The Bible. You will see. How God dealt with Israel. Amen. How God dealt with them, how he was, he saved them. And one of the things you will see when you read the Bible, you will see that there's nothing that is by chance. You will see a woman of Levi, a man of Levi going to see another woman and he she gives birth and the boy is called Moses. So it means that when the man saw the woman and he was attracted, he said, wow, that's a beautiful lady. God has started his deliverance. This was the deliverance of God for Israel. It's like the moment had come. God had started. It was not by chance. If you read the prophecies about Christ, if they prophesied that people would pass by, they would wink, they would they would part lots, they would cut. And so on all these things, you would say it's not by chance, but I think the most amazing thing is when you see that, you see that Tiberius, or so Caesar, he gave an instruction that everybody should be counted. Meanwhile, Joseph and Mary were living 160 kilometers. Away in Galilee and it's time to be counted, huh? So he August and everybody must be counted. So everybody has to go to Jerusalem for counting. And here is Mary. Full pregnant. Even now, if you are seven months pregnant this month, they will not take you on a plane. You don't travel with certain types of pregnancies, You check from the airline, but still this woman was nine months. But you see there was a prophecy that he will be born in Bethlehem. So that 160 kilometers that you are is not the place the Scripture must be fulfilled. So that man unbeliever sitting in Rome with the idea that is occurring to him, that count all my people so that I will calculate my tax and see how much I can get from everywhere. That thing is the hand of God pulling the prophecies for years and years have gone by. What? So the study said it was time to be counted and when they got there, there was nowhere and she was time for her to deliver and there was nowhere. There was nowhere for her to deliver. So she has to be born in a stable, in swaddling clothes in Bethlehem to fulfill all these things. When you look at you say so. Everybody that I have met, I have shaken. Hands is not an accident. God has done. God is doing. God is bringing people. God is making me meet people. God is telling my life in a certain way. He's doing things. There's no accident. Oh, that's one of the things you can see when you read the Bible. You say wow. The hand of God? The hand of God, huh? When you read all the women in the Bible who couldn't have children, not even 1 was an accident. Every one of them, there was some special reason something was happening. When you think of the the Moses Joseph, his brothers hated him. God gave him the vision when he was 70, so he didn't know, he just told them. I saw people bow and you were bow. What do you mean? Hatred. The hatred was part of God's plan. Ruben, the oldest. He went to urinate, or he went to Pupu or he went to do something. And the rest of the ten brothers were there. Or maybe 9. Benjamin was in the house and they saw camels passing by. They were going to Egypt and Judah. Judah, Judah, he told his birth. Let's us sell him rather than killing him. Meanwhile, Ruben had gone to Pupu. So the Pupuin was part of the plan of God because Ruben. Ruben was against it, Ruben was against it. Even when the brothers of Israel, when they came to Joseph, when Joseph was in Pharaoh's house, Reuben I. Told you you should never have given this boy. How do you sell your brother? Because he was against it, but he had no choice. Because it was once he was away. And it was Judah's idea. So that means a thought. It's not by chance. The idea was not by chance. Good or bad, It's not by chance. The there's some scriptures in the Bible. All things are for your sakes. Have you seen it before? And there's another one that all things work together. We don't understand them. So you start reading the whole Bible. When you read the whole Bible, say, wow, if I know somebody, if I know somebody, God is part of the knowing that person. There is no accident in the word of God. There's no mistake. Wow, all that is happening. I. Tell you it's so divine. And then Joseph goes there and he goes to Potiphar's house. He was a goodly son and well favored, well favored. He was well favored and goodly. Why is he that? Everywhere where he was liked, why was he liked? And he kept rising. Then one day, Potiphar's wife, you see, God wanted him to be in the prison. God wanted him in the prison. God was planning to take him from the prison. It's only in the prison that he'll meet Pharaoh's servants. So he met Potiphar's wife with you. She started lifting up her skates. It was all part of the plan of God. Everything was going well for Joseph. He thought this was the end of his nightmare. He was rising in Potiphar's house. He was soon going to be Potiphar's son and he will take on his name Potiphar. But God had a higher plan. So the serpent was. Allowed. Some of you, when the serpent came, you were annoyed. The serpent was allowed to come to the house to spoil the whole stability in the house, because that's not the place. Then when he goes to prison, look at who has become a prisoner. The Butler and the Baker, then they have a dream dreaming. That dream too is from Joseph. He only had two dreams though that the beginnings after that dream. Again, some of your dreams are too many, that's why they are meaningless. I'm telling you how come to that too many dreams is not good. When you have too many dreams, God is not in the dream. Bible says that in the multitude of dreams, the multitude of of business. And there is vanity. He had only. Two dreams at the beginning. From that I stopped dreaming for just interpreting interpretation of dreams. And he was. There and here comes the man with the dream. I said, what is this dream? What does it mean? Immediately, You know, I've read those dreams over and over. I was trying to find how would he know that this dream means you will live and this one means you will die because 1. He was squeezing the grips into the hand of the whatever, and then he gave it to Pharaoh. And the other one, his head was, what do you call it, full of he was, he was a Baker, and he was carrying bread on his head again, so much bread that even bears could even have the surplus. Do you see? So how did he know? This one means you would die and this one means you live. Because he's blessed to be a. Baker again, a lot of bread. So I think the key was the one who was eating the bread was the birds, not Pharaoh. I think when you see a dream like that, you. Should be very. Careful, because for birds to be eating what Pharaoh must be eating, something bad is about to happen. And the other one Pharaoh was drinking, holding the cup again, so. There may be something good there, but. He got it right. Even can I take And he said when he gives an interpretation, he asked did I get it right? When he gives a baby a word, he said, I hope, tell me if it's not right, let me know because I can make a mistake. Yeah, I mean. So he got it right. But I said prove all things. He got it right 100% three days exactly 1 was killed, 1 and he said. He told them. But. Think on me when it is well with you. Think on me when it is well, exactly the woman forgot him exactly went to have parties. That went to was the plan of God because. If he had been released, he would have run away, he said. This place I almost died twice. I almost died in participants house. I almost died in the prison mean tofuy. I'm going back to my father. I will. Find a way to go even if my brothers killed me, so God. Kept him in the prison. Till Pharaoh had a dream and he said he said he saw seven I'll favoured cows such as never. Been seen in. All of. Egypt for Vadnais such I'll favoured cows that have not been seen in Egypt for Vadnais and they ate up the seven well favoured cows and Pharaoh was so disturbed and he saw 7 shifts I'll favored blasted by the east wind coming to consume the well favored shifts. What is the meaning of this dream? And here comes the interpreter, God. I've given him his colleague from the age of 70, but he was 30 years old when he entered into Pharaoh's house. 13 years of nightmare. 13 years of terrible. Experience. It was 30 years. Your ministry usually begins around the age of 30. Jesus started his mission at the age of 30. John the Baptist, Joseph and in the Bible, the Levites. 30 years old and upwards. A Levites. Mercy. Some of you are late. When you read your Bible, you become happy and confident because you can see that things are not by chance. It's not that even the very bad things are good things, but when you don't read the Bible. You'll be. Cursing things God has sent. One day I was in Zimbabwe, I met a pastor. I said to you, I was looking at the what Mugabe has pulled the place, whole place has become somewhere they queue for. They don't have bread, milk, they don't have bread, don't have petrol, they don't have milk, nothing. I told him, God has sent all these people to us to make us poorer, to help the gospel. When I said that, he said, what, what did you say? I said, God, is this all the blessing of God, this poverty and all these Mugabes and all these people, they have all been sent by God. You know what he said? He said, I'm very surprised that you will say something like that. I'm, I'm very surprised at you. And I said, why? He said because I've read your books. I said with books, success, fugality and I said those are earlier books. They are true. They are all true. They are true. That's good. I wrote them. Otherwise I wouldn't be writing them. I said look. God has sent us all our leaders to. Make us poor. That's what I believe. A champion. A. Kufu, Rollins, Babangida, Abacha, Kufu, all are sending us deeper that we may turn our face to Jehovah and say, Lord, help your children so that we call on God. But if you only read a part of the Bible, you will see only Ted. John 2. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and being this life. That is just one part. Read the whole thing, Read the end. Read how it's like in heaven. Read what judgment is about. Read how your judgment is going to be in 25 years or in a few years time. You will see that it doesn't matter at. All it doesn't matter at all. So many things don't matter at all. I have gone to Switzerland, Germany, Europe and I look and I said the poverty in Ghana is better than the wealth of these people which have driven them away from God, that nobody in Europe believes in God today. Today less than 1% believe in God and go to church. I told my wife. I said even if I am dead, never send my children to. School. Abroad they should go to school in Ghana until they finish university dance so man talk or wherever they should be here I will not like my. One day I saw a certain guy, he lives at airport or whatever, he went to America and he came and he said I asked him, you know, he doesn't go to chess and why don't you believe me? Because I don't believe in God. Then I said to him by you, if I put you at I would have made cemetery. Now you'll be afraid. He said I'll be afraid because it is superstition. Our parents have have taught us superstitious things. That is why we will be afraid. But there's nothing to be afraid of. How? I said I know, I know I'll be afraid, but there's nothing there. I talked to him about God. You know what he said. To me, he said, if you can prove God is real to me in a test tube, in a test tube, then I'll believe in God. And he said to me, I am a scientist. That is why I am saying what I'm saying. I said scientist. So I was afraid. That was the first time, he said, hey, this guy is a scientist. So I just kept quiet because I knew this must be a scientist from abroad, you know? So one day I found the courage to ask him what science he has studied. Do you know the Science computer? Science, computer science, and it's because of two years computer science in America. You are saying you are a scientist? And you do not believe in God and I have to prove God to you in a test tube. So I would not like my child to go to such an environment. I would not like to even have a child bring forth a child who will go to hell. I shouldn't give birth then. Then I should bring forth somebody. Who should go to hell? But most of us. Those are not our values. No, we don't read the Bible. We want our child to be in America. We want to give birth. Most of us, our wife should go and give birth in America to have green cards Who sacrifice anything to send your child to speak French. What is French? The most godless nation on this earth, which does not even allow charismatics and so on. That's the language you want your child to speak French. Even where the gospel is in Africa, where it is in French is difficult. Even in Cameroon where they have English and French, you cannot breakthrough in the French, but you can breakthrough in the English side of the country. You want your child to learn how to do ballet, dancing, speaking French, violin, play, other useless practices. But not Christianity, not Bible study, not going to church. We want to go abroad because we value earthly things, because we have not read our Bible and see what is in heaven and what is coming and what the future holds and what the glory is about. When Paul said my life is hit with Christ in God, and when Christ shall appear, then we shall also appear with him in glory. Your mind is not on that because you do not read your Bible. You are reading everything else and attracted by silver and gold on this earth. And the more you read your Bible, you will be confronted with with the scripture. It will set your heart descender of the thoughts and intentions of the heart. You read where the Bible says do not lay up treasures on this earth and you will look at every treasure you have and ask yourself, my goodness, is it a sin for me to have all these treasures Am IA good Christian when Jesus said to us lay love up for yourself treasures on earth and we as pastors we call people and that is all we teach them. 25 steps to gather more treasures How to increase your treasures on this earth Stepping steps to more prosperity and treasures. 18 reasons why when you pay tithe, the treasures don't. Come to you. Oh man, and we are teaching all about the one instruction that Jesus said, do not this thing. Do not do it. And that is? All we do, we are. Professing That is why pastors are called to speak in banks. Recently I was invited to speak at a bank. And I was asking myself, why would a preacher like me called into such a place? You know, why do you think a preacher like me will be called in such a place? Because we are seen as successful, as rich, as part of the upper class and upper crust of society. And we are and that is why we teach in our churches Stock Exchange. We have banners camp for seminar on Stock Exchange in the church, not in the bank. Even in the school they don't teach, but in the church they are teaching it. But when you. Read your Bible, you will be challenged and you know that. Look, there is something wrong with me. That is how I feel when I read my I cannot. That's what I'm saying, that me, if I'm tired now, this is my prayer of the Lord. Two things. I was sorry for my sins, the ones that I've committed that have already confessed, and I'm asking for mercy for any others that have not been confessed. But we don't read the Bible. That is why we are so oriented differently from the way God's Word is and we can actually take scriptures, things that are completely contrary from the Bible and make them measure the for instance, thanks. The original prophecy which introduces the Holy Spirit to the church does not mention thanks, but we, we have made thanks. The reason, the main thing that when the Holy Spirit comes on you, you speak in thanks. Now go and read it. It's that it is in Joel and it is in Acts. And I shall pour up my spirit on all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophecy, your young men shall speak in tongues, and your old men shall speak in greater tongues. No, the sign of the Holy Spirit is visions, dreams, and prophecies. We have made it. You summarize it as tongues rather. If you don't have a vision, I don't have a dream. You should ask yourself whether you have the holy. Spirit. That's. What I say you sit there and don't have dreams. How come you don't have any dream? At all. I'm me, a spiritual dream, the Holy Ghost. You see, that's when you start reading the Bible, Claire. If you read the Bible to discern your thoughts and start questioning, you'll always be under interrogation. How come I don't have dreams? The thing says that if the Spirit comes, you will have visions and dreams. How come? It is that. You have, you say you have the Holy Spirit. You don't have. When I started to pray for these things, at a point I could know I'm about to have a dream or a vision and I will actually go and sit down so that I just pop off. I just go into a vision. I know that it's it's there, it's coming. I get my book ready, everything, my pen. I sit down and I pop off and return a few minutes later. I've had a wild vision of something. Yeah, but it never used to be so. And I used to be confidently say, me, I'm not that type of dreamer. My head is blank, like a total white paper, nothing on it. When I sleep and I wake up and I say blank. And I was. Happy because I speak in tongues. Where are your vicious? You say you have the Holy Spirit. Read your Bibles and I shall pour out of my. Spirit on all flesh. Many years ago I had an old man who used to share the word Uncle James. He told me speaking in tongues is not the only evidence of the Holy Spirit. In fact, a lot of the tongues that are being spoken are not the Holy Spirit. Well, it's only if you read the Bible that you can start to having questions, interrogations. Are we like Christ? Am I like Christ? No. I'm not like Christ from the one I can see, I'm not like Christ and I'm now fighting for my soul to be like Christ. Mercy, are you understanding what I'm saying? I said. I'm fighting for my soul to be like Christ and that's why I'm reading my Bible. Amen. Are you that stands to your feet for a moment. Oh Hallelujah, lift your hands to the Lord and ask the Lord, I want to you to reveal yourself to me. Lord, I want a foundation. Foundation. The. Thank you, Lord, Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Lift your hand and thank him. Thank you Jesus for your blessing. O san igles. Say you le clear, I'm Tazan E Leslie Blancos de la Monon, she said. I love you, Jesus. I want to know you more. I want to know you better, Lord. Oh, I praise you, Father, Oh God. Lord, I want to have dreams and visions. I want to have the presence of your spirit upon my life. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I praise you. Jesus, I thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you so much. Oh yes, yes, yes, Lord. Hallelujah. You may be seated all right. Are you still around? Are you still alive? OK, Hallelujah. Now I will share. With you about significance, how many are going to become significant? Yes, and that starts when God speaks to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, God speaks to you and you are safe with God speaking to you when you have certain foundations you understand. For instance, if God tells you that this person who is in your life is not by chance and is important, you may doubt it. But when you read the Bible and you see the things that are not by chance, you begin to look carefully at the people who seem to be in your life and say, wow, this thing. I have to think of it as not just as coincidence, but as God's hand making me meet somebody. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes. So you begin to be open. Now. Recently I was studying a book by Rick Joyner and he was saying something which kept striking me, which which is bringing me to the other foundation that I believe you need if you are going to be open to God's direction and God's Spirit, God speaking to you, angels appearing to you, visions, dreams. Right. And that is the the the reality of history. Historical facts and truths apart from the scripture. Now he said something that as he was searching to become a greater prophet and to seek God to go higher in the prophetic things, God asked him to study history and told him that if he studies history then he will have a greater insight and prophetic insight into the things of the future. So I thought. About it. And I said, ah, maybe this is just a personal word to him. But then as I thought about it, I realized that it is a foundational. Truth of the Bible that somebody who knows history and historical things is very prophetic even in his casual speaking. Just by the fact that he knows a lot about what has happened before. Turn with me to Ecclesiastes. Are you, are you, are you with me or I lost you on the way? Did I lose you on the way? First foundation is the Scripture. Second foundation is history. Are you there? Ecclesiastes chapter one, verse 9 can. Everybody cover the 1st. 5 words of that verse in your Bible. Find a way of covering the 1st 5 words with your with your finger if you can. OK after you cover the first five years, what what do you see? It's that result Stop there. It is that which shall be. How many want to know? What shall be? Raise your hand. It is that which shall be. Is that not a prophetic? It is that which shall be the future. Now uncover the words that you covered and let's see what is the what that shall be the thing that has been. Hallelujah, the thing that has been. It is that we shall be. So anybody who is truly a prophet or becoming more prophetic insight what you did greatly is history and especially history of the Church, of pastors, of men of God and the history books in the Bible. The Bible has only two. Kinds of books, history books and prophetic books, most or some are about the past and some are about the future history and in fact history. The word history is the word comes from the word, his story, the story of Christ. Do you see that is where the word history comes is. His story. His story is the word which became history. Are you with me? Are you listening? Are you still in the church? His story. So as you study history, and one of the major sources of history is the Bible, so you may wonder, what's the use of reading Genesis? What's the use of reading First Samwell, second Samwell, first Kings, second King? That which has been, that which shall be. It happens all the time. You. Can tell absaloms. One day Bishopnik came to town and certain things were going on in town. So I met him. We were somewhere and then he asked me what's happening in town. I said, oh, certain things were happening in town. Then he brought, we brought, he brought up a particular issue, a church. There was a big issue in town. Then he asked me what? What do you think about it? Then I was quiet. Then before I could answer, you know what he said, he said it's an Absalom. It's an Absalom spirit. He immediately knew Absalom had been reborn in Accra and Absalom was fixing in the news on a daily basis. Yeah, when he asked me what? What? What do you think about it? I just hesitated. But before I could speak, he said it's an Absalom spirit. He said it's. Absalom. Absalom is back. In town, his back is alive, he's attacking his father. Everybody you see attacking the one who set him up and the one who established him and or laid hands on him and ordained him and created him and put him there. Now you are attacking that. It's an. Absalom Born, born again. Fully So anybody who knows the story of the word, do you understand? Yeah, history. One day I met somebody. He said you. Know I'm married in the night. I said what do you mean? He said, like Jacob. Jacob married in the night. He shouldn't have had his wedding in the night. He couldn't see the woman that he married. When he got up in the morning, he realized it was Leah. It was not Rachel. I'm married in the night, in the dark and said you see certain people marry in the dark in the night, so when they get out they realize man. Look at what I've. Married because I didn't know I married in the night. So you realize that I'm marrying in the night? How many realize that sometimes you get married, you didn't know what you are marrying, that is marrying in the night, and you are not the first person to marry in the night. Hallelujah. Are you listening to me? Amen. So brothers and sisters, I tell you the Bible, what are we talking about is full Amen of predictions that. Which shall be and all you have to do is look back as if the thing which has been So when you are full of. The historical books of the vibe, Genesis. When Genesis is in you, you'll always be predicting things. First Samwell second Samwell. When it is in you, you'll be like a prophet. You'll say this thing. This is what will happen when. 1st and 2nd Kings. I knew you said this one. This is what will happen. You watch it. One day I was with Bishop Nick at airport. He was in his house and we were talking, then certain there was a church was doing certain things in town. Then he lifted up his finger and he said even if it takes 10 years, he lifts even if it takes 10 years. If you. Break somebody's house to build your house. Your house will also be broken. It took exactly 10 years for his prophecy to come to pass. Exactly 10 years later, the house. That was being built by breaking so many small small houses was broken into two. Not even by seeing a visual, but somebody who knows scriptures and 2nd 10 history. You see that it's almost like a prophet. When he speaks, you'll be afraid. He said this one. This is how it is, especially with the president. I've seen one of these same. Thing before? I've seen one before. That's why even doctors, most doctors operate by history. When you have seen this before, when he said this one, this is how it becomes. So we have something in medicine called prognosis. When When you meet the doctor, say. You ask him what's the prognosis when you are going to a patient, He said. What's the prognosis? The doctor will tell you good for very bad prognosis means what is the outcome? How is it going to come? And you only know when somebody has cancer of their breast is going to live for five years. By looking historically, all those with cancer of the breast, whether the cancer has moved into the armpit, they die after three years. Those who have the cancer but hasn't moved to the armpit, they live for six years. Those who have cancer, 2 breasts, they live for one year. Those who have this study, they do the history, then they Add all the history and say now. When we see you say why is your own? Here here you have 8 months to go. Prophetic Dr. Prophet The. Thing which has been that we shall be. So what this man of God said God. Told him I think is very. True. That to have an understanding of the prophetic. How will your church turn out? How will it be? Like for instance, when I read history and I read about Amy Semple MacPherson, you know Amy Semple MacPherson, she is the founder of the Four Square Gospel Church. She had, what do you call it, a very large church with conceived. 5. 1000 people and in the heyday of her ministry for just a few a short. Period of a. Few years, maybe 5-6 years or so. She filled that church 3 * 4 times every Sunday. Was having services. After a few years, various things happened and she died. But before she died, she ordained a lot of pastors, thousand 2000 pastors, 6000 ministers. She ordained, appointed, ordained, set up so many and they started the Foursquare denomination. When she died, the. One big church. Was closed down and the small small churches Foursquare has spread all over the world. So when you look at that. You can have an idea what is going to happen to the one big church and I read recently the thing has been closed and recently it was sold. The building was sold and many big churches are sold like that. But when the founder or the big person of The thing is gone, usually nobody can have or maintain that level. So it is the I was recently in a four square Gospel church in a in Nigeria. Are you are you there from First Square? Yeah. And they have thousands of pastors there, thousands of pastors, you know, thousands of churches. Therefore, do you understand? And that's her fruit. But the one big building that she built is gone. It's even been sold. But the Four Square reservation in Ghana, in Nigeria, all over the world is one of the strong. This man, Jack Hefford, he's from 4 Square Gospel Church. He's the president now, yeah. So. One day I was in a certain African country and I went to a pastor. He has a very, very, very, very. Big, in fact. Very massive church. So one Sunday evening I was in that country, in another part of Africa, not West Africa, another. So I said let me go and see if my friend is there. I know him. So we went. When we got there, his church I think who was coming to dedicate it on Sunday, I forget. Somebody by all these big Joyce Mayer and others, they have all been there. You. Check the trusses that are in the church in fact. It should never. Fall down because the still that is there in the in the sky. Massive. So he took me around. He took me around his church. I said wow. Then we went to the back. There's that buildings they were building the nights casting concrete because they were doing their dedication. So I told him, I said, have you heard of Amy Sample McPherson? He said, who is she? I said oh. She built a very big church just like yours. You know, I thought I should share it with him because I also have a picture. But I have a lot of small churches and I've realized that my future is in my small, small churches that I've started all over the place. That's my real future. My real future is not where I am in one big church. I I. Believe more in the small if if you have if you ask me, which ones do you want? All the small. Branches you started all the one bitches so take the one big church. I would like the small churches there. There are plenty churches all over. So I told him and I told him she had a church. He said he was listening and I. Said when she died. I must read it. I must. Read it and I had to go. I said brother, see you again. But you see, it's not that you have seen a vision, but you become very prophetic and predictive when you know that which has been a start, which shall be. So I said to every pastor, start more churches and more branches. Your future is in the plenty. And when I saw that, I mean, I ordained a lot of ministers that me encouraged. Let me ordain a lot of people, let me appoint a lot of pastors and ordain more before I die. To ordain thousands of people, shadow me to the well, everybody go and do something, Go and do something. Oh, that's the future. That which has been that we shall be. Hallelujah. So now. My favorite books have become history books and biographies, life stories of people. When you read about this guy John Wesley, how he was faced, he had oranges who took over his societies, all those people have disappeared. We never hear of them again. When you research a story, see, because you don't read history, that is why you want to break off somebody's ministry and spoil it. Not doing that in future. Nobody, you see, you don't even know the name. You know John Bennett. You know, John Bennett was one of his. Top Oranges took over the district and fought against John Wesley throughout his ministry. In fact, he even married the girl that John Wesley wanted to marry, I tell you. And then he fought him and he became his top opposer. But you've never have you heard of you never heard of, but you've heard of John Wesley. We have Wesley girls, Wesley Grammar, Wesley High School, Wesley Cathedral, Wesley this all over Ghana. Go to the far village and corner you see W Methodist whatever Wesley something there. But you don't see Bennett Cathedral. John Bennett Chapel International. John Bennett Ministries. No. So when you find yourself now. Beginning to be John. Bennett and modern John Bennett. You must say that. Hey, so you see when you see. A. A man. Of God and an experienced historian and reader, and he sees something you say, oh, you ask, what is your visa? Oh, that's John Bennett, huh? It's a John Bennett. Spirit. And you know, you know amount to much as you wake up fighting ancient institutions and traditions. Ancient institutions and traditions. Are you listening to me? Yeah. You'll be blessed greatly. You'll be blessed. Greatly as you study history, so when you ask yourself so why should I read Genesis I'm telling you why to read Genesis so that you see what Noah did that by building those of us who don't build you know that building too is important to further to build a a house for God to preserve God said to keep seed alive. Some of your churches are seeds, but they are in classroom the day they announce all churches should not be in classroom. Your seeds that you have planted will be transferred and that will be the end of it. Your church will get finished in Tina. I am building a lot of churches, church buildings, he said. To keep seed alive. Most of our churches are in the. Seed stage if you don't. Have a building to encase it. The seed will die, so God has spoken to me to. Build churches. There must be a building to encase even that lot. When his sisters, his daughters, he came out of the Soto manguma, they said there's no one to keep our father, our father's seed. Let us go and sleep with him to keep his seed alive in us. So they went and they masturbated their father, and they started his seed. To keep seed alive oh man these two will help you and will be the scriptures and the history will be a great I said there will be very little erroneous directions that can come when Bennett this. Thing. I've seen one before. Why am I being directed to do this? Is it from God? Is God causing me to be a rebel? That's why John Wesley refused to spoil a church. Even if it's these two foundations. We are ready to explore the supernatural and we are ready to find and perceive directions and other inspirations. From the Lord that can bring us into the higher places of God's calling for our lives. Stand to your feet, everybody. Hallelujah. Amen. Significance. God's Book. And they became significant, they. Left the long list and suddenly they became a chapter on their own. May you become the next chapter that is being written out of the long list. May you become the next chapter of God's. Blessing because annoying. I want to recommend to you to become a reader. John Calvin, he said. I ate little. I slept little. And I read. Much. Yeah. I ate little, I slept little, and I read much. Everybody say I ate little, I slept little and I read much. That's what John Calvin said. That is why he could become the person that he he became because he ate little. He slept little and he read much. I ate little. I. Slept little and I read much. Lift your hands to the law. Father, thank you for the grace and anointing that is poured on our lives as we move into the higher things that you've called us for. Lord, may we experience your great blessing. We thank you, we praise you, we honor you, We give you praise, Lord, because we know, we know, we know. It's a great special opportunity and privilege to enter into the prophetic church. The church which sees the future, the church which hears from God, the church which becomes significant because we hear from the Father which is in heaven. Lord teach us the act of hearing. The act of hearing teach us the act of. Hearing we thank you in Jesus name, Amen.