03. Endure hardness, Don't Entangle Yourself And Strive For Mastries

Welcome to track #3 of the beautiful job. Endure hardness. Second Timothy. Chapter #2. Second Timothy. Chapter #2 222. Second Timothy. Chapter #2 Verse 3. Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier. Amen. So you need to endure hardness. Amen. Do you understand me now? Again, similar to the point I was making about being strong, there is a lot of hardness in the ministry. Do you get it? And so you need to stiffen your resolve and decide to be to be what? Hard. Now, what does hard mean? When something is hard, you can press for a long time and it doesn't vent. Do you understand? Now, if you are pressed for just a short time and then you are changing your attitude, do you get it? Some people can sit over here or you like the floor. You all right? You sure don't be scared of these chairs. Amen. What I'm trying to say is that your attitude should not change after a short time. When we stay for one hour, then you are wearing, then you are not a soldier and you are not used to any hardness. Or we are doing rehearsal for two hours, for three hours. Or let's say we are having a camp. The reason we are having a camp is that if I want to meet you every day, today is Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Every day like that it's going to take for 1000 years. OK, so we enjoy a bit of hardness by staying together for a little prolonged time, and then we achieve all that we need to achieve. Sometimes you want to pray for 100 hours or for 40 hours, but you can't get 40 hours. You're going to spend 40 hours prayer. You have to pray today, two days, tomorrow, two days, then the next day you can't pray, then another day, one hour, then 30 minutes, 15 minutes and two minutes. So look, if you want to pray for 40 hours, why don't I start today, OK. And I pray long prayers. That's hardness. And I pray for a long time for two days. I can pray for 40 hours in two days. Yeah, two days or three. If I have 3 days, I can easily pray for 40 hours because I can get the 10 hours to 15 hours in a day or more. And when you start praying like, you know, stay praying late, you can pray. And so if you are not hard, you you can't do certain things all right. You have to be able to survive the snow, the winter, cold, hot everything. So you are a softy. You know, there are a lot of people they say they want to be in the ministry, but they are softies. They are softies. And we said, you say it's too hot, it's still cold. I don't like the food, I don't like this. I don't want this. I don't have this. I don't know where to sleep. I don't have this. I need this. You are a softy, you see? And the hardness shows in your flow. Because when you are not in the flow, like if I bring some people who are not, I can't stand. I mean, how long is he talking? How long is he speaking for? You know which? Yes. How long is this? How long? What time does this end? You know, I can't take this. You know, I, I, I, I got, I got to have my siesta. I have to have my, my rest and so on. Hey, what are you talking about? What's going on? You have to have your siesta. You have to close. That's why you can never pray for Lord. The way life is, you will not easily get a long time to pray. You better force a Marine force and pray. Yeah, One day I went to the golf course and I was playing. My ball went into the corner. I was playing in Kumasi or somewhere. I think it was a craft and I played the ball out of the corner. And my caddy says I married first ball Agorica. It means I forced the ball out. I don't know what language it was. I'm a forced ball agorica. It means I forced the ball out of the room and that ball needed some hardness. So I don't want softies. If they're going to be a softie. You can't be in this group. This is a group of endure hardness people. If it's a camp, no problem. Time 8 O clock no problem. 9 O clock, no problem. What time is it not a problem? Is there food? No, no food no problem. No food is no problem. No, that after some time that your face is going to change, attitude is going to change, and you start slouching. Is it the right thing? They've given you rice and Stew without meat. No problem. Hang on for the rice and let's Stew. Not a problem, let's stop meat. Or they're giving you rice and Stew and meat that your friends meat is far bigger than yours, No problem. Or they gave you rice and Stew and your friend had meat and you had an egg to replace the meat. What are you going to do? No problem. So I have noticed that people who do not endure hardest, I'm sure Paul had a reason for telling his Timothy privately that enjoy her time. Be very hard, hard. When hard things come, don't complain. That's what he was saying. When hard things come, don't, don't, don't react. Don't withdraw. Don't withdraw because there is something hard. Don't withdraw because there is something hard. Just flow with it. Yeah. Marifos, Marifos Ministry Agorica too much. Don't say it's hot. Don't say all those in their their words of softies. Are you a softie? It's hot. It's cold. The bed is small. The bed is hot. There's no water. There's no light. Look, we are happy. There's doom. So we are happy in it. We have no light. It's OK. No water is OK. But a lot of softies when they come to Africa say there's no electricity. I've been. I carry. Oh, the lights go off. No, I can't take this. I have to go back to you. Look, please. This is not the place for you. You come to the wrong place, go back, go back. Go back. Go back to where you came from. There's no Rd. No problem. Yeah, we are flying without the roads. Oh, what's that? No problem. We will dig it. Well, so when you are like that, you can be a good missionary. Because if you think Ghana has a problem, you are. You got to travel and you see that there is nothing. There's nothing like dooms or outside. It's doom, it's off, there's no light at all. It's a doom total. We had a when I got married, we had a baby. My, my wife had a baby seven days later. I'd been invited to a church and my, my baby was born in November. It was winter and I was, I'd been invited to a church in the winter. And I said to her, let's go. I've been invited. Pack the baby in a in swaddling clothes and let's get out and find a bus in the snow, in the darkness. Yeah. Because I've been invited to preach. So I wrapped the baby, seven days old, new baby with a new mother. Yeah. And caught on the buses, different buses to climb the bus to here. Because an honour that I've been. I've been invited to preach in Switzerland. Yeah, it's an honour. Have you been invited to, to to preach achimotar before? So keep complaining. Keep complaining. Amen. And you are going to get nothing out of the ministry. Yeah. So the person's room is very far. I can't go to the the person. That's how, that's how come I have somebody like Bishop Saki, man, because I went to visit him in the bungalow when I was in Lego Hall. My wife was in. My beloved was not in my beloved. She was my friend. She was in water Hall. We walked all the way down to Pongo to be in those days. There's no text, no mobile phone, nothing. You go when? When I go to his room, he has Victor is on his door. Woe is me if I preach not the gospel. And he has gone out. That's all. That's how I gave it to us. His room, it has written. Woe is me if I preach not the gospel. Yeah, but he was not there. So you go back. You do not follow up. The first thing is not there. Then you go back and you climb Commonwealth Hill to the top. Somebody should whatever in the corner, you know he's not there. Go back down the hill to where you came from. Yeah, that's how we did follow up as he's not there. You come, come, you go. There's nothing like you are tired. Yeah. No WhatsApp, no calling, no nothing. You just physically go. Yeah. And we have all night, every Friday, every single Friday. When I say all night till daylight, many times I sat on the water hall steps chatting. That is where I did a lot of beloved doses first. Bahani. Yeah, I sat there after all night on Friday. We have done the all night prayer meeting and we have done all morning dumb broadcasts and we are finished. I've not slept a wink and we will sit on the stairs there and sat for a little while and then I'll go home to Ozu to my father's house. And when I when I got home then I would I would watch Jimmy Swaggart preaching other preaching on a video and then I'll come back to school. That is when my father saw me watch a video and said to me, do you think you can become a priest by watching videos? Because I was always watching. He used the the video was next to his room, so he always passed and see me sitting there. I come from school now. What video had just been invented? It was a new thing when I was watching video. Yeah, like he noticed how I was watching. So when he said, you think you, you think you can become a priest by watching video, video. And then he just went out of the room. But I was becoming a priest by watching video. That's how I became a priest. Night after night, Friday night after Friday night, Friday night after Friday. It's not your prime meeting that you stop at 11 after 45 minutes on the field. And I took my prayer group. I took them to N2IN Ligon Ligon. I took them to the gardens in the night. Do you know gardens? Have you seen that place? Yeah, I took them in the night. I said let's go and pray. It's good for us to pray there in the night. Yeah. There were some people that were annoyed. I said no. I said we are going there to pray. Yeah, there were some soft teeth amongst us. Look, if there are no hard, you cannot pray, You cannot fast. Anything that involves hardness, don't run away from it. When it came to fasting, I determined to fast or any type of fasting that there is in the Bible, seven days, 21 days, 40 days, whatever, I almost died. It was when I almost died during one of my fastings that the Lord was able to control me. Because if it can be done, it must be done. Yeah. If it can be done, it must be done. No, if it can be done, it must be done. Yeah. If there's something like 40 days, then I must be part of it. Yeah. One day I was fasting and I fell down. I've fallen down a number of times during fastings. Collapse, what I say for, I mean collapsing. Yeah. And the law said to me one time when I was fasting, I said no, because I said nobody knows that I'm here as I'm lying. I couldn't move. And as I've collapsed, I don't know what is happening. I didn't know what was happening to me. I didn't know whether I was dying or what was happening. And the law said, I've not asked you to do all these things that you are doing. I will not ask you to do these things. Yeah, yeah. One time I was passing. I went to the toilet. When I went to the toilet, I started viewing and then I just collapsed. I just fell down. If it can be done by Moses or anybody, it must be done. Am I the 1st? Have you read it? In about 21 days? You better get to the job and start doing it. When you get to my age and you start to have certain reasons, medical reasons why you shouldn't do certain things, then you, you, you, you stop back until then. Yeah, you must do dry fasting without water, with water, with only juice, stay without meats, pleasant meats. When I read Kenneth Higgins describe here fast, he says fast is from 6:00 AM to 6:00 AM. Yeah, it says say the Bible fast is 6:00 AM, He says not 6:00 AM to six PM, 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM. I'm talking about hardness. The soldiers, they are trained to wear the same trousers, the same boots and they don't bath for days. You don't bath, you don't do anything. They take tablets, they take tablets, no food. You have tablets and you are moving with your tablets, 1 green, 1 blue and you are on the way, keeping you going. When we talk about hardness, these are the things I'm talking about. Fastings, prayings, walking, heat, cold, discomfort, sleeplessness. All this is part of hardness. All those who want to resign, resign, Get up now and leave. I'm giving you a lot of gold. I help them. Those who feel you can't, you can't take all this, Just take. Decide now it's over. Ask your neighbor right now, are you are you into resigning? Are you a softy? Tell the person, tell the person the look in your eye. I feel you want to retire so own up right now. Is there anybody? Inspect your neighbors face and let's see. Are you all prepared to fight? Ask your neighbor. Are you hard? There's no place for any softy here at all. And if you are a lady? Tell your next door neighbor that I may be a lady, but I'm hard. Look at me well tell a person. Don't be deceived by my hairstyle at all. I am hard. Can be done what? It must be done. I didn't hear you say if it can be done, it must be done. As for me, I am. I am one for doing everything I find in the Bible. That's how come I got into miracles. I saw that there was miracles. There is this, there is that. So if it can be done, it must be done. Embark on a project to get it done. Experience one. We are going to see more miracles. We are going to see the dead raised some people. If we were to send you on the mission field to be a missionary's wife, when you arrive there, the mission will change because you've come with your things. Why do we have to use the same cooking pot as this other as my husband doesn't like mixed you, my husband only likes fish and I don't want the desert. And you say you have mixed my things with Why have you put my things? Hey, before you came everything was OK in the mission house. As you've come, what was the first mistake of a of a man on earth? I remember 1 mission we had. The missionaries were happy, it was working. Then they went, came to Ghana to marry. So the wives are coming and they also came. That is it. Today, as I speak, I have wives of mission who say that I will never go there. I won't go there again. They've gone and they've come back. They say I won't go either. My husband, the church and everybody must follow me. I'll not go back there. Too difficult. Yeah. You got to be careful. You got to be careful what you complain about, OK? Because when you do that, you are not a real son, the real Son of yours. Hardness. Amen #7 be a soldier #7 be a soldier. Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. So you have to become a soldier #8 Learn about war. Learn about war. Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier. No man that warreth. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of his life, that it may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier. No man that warreth. One of the things we are doing is warring. We are at war. I would love to teach you some more things about war. So since one of the things is to be a fighter, let's pray that I can get into the other principles of war. Yeah, that are taught in the military academies. Yeah. You must learn all about war. I am. I am at war. One day a certain wife, she asked her husband. You are tall. When will you have peace? You are tall. When will you have peace? You are tall. When will you have peace? You see, how can you have peace when you are a soldier? And when you are at war, there is no peace. So as you see me standing here, it looks not. It's only you are not close enough to know the war that is going on. Yeah. How I am battling to survive in fighting. Yeah, many fronts. Yeah, it's. True. That's that's that's the nature of real. When you get into ministry, remember this, You will realize that you are in a war and you better learn all about war. I hope my book on war will be out soon. Hallelujah. You want to see that book? Yeah. No, man that Warrath. Warrath or I thought that my said that thou mightest by this war. A good warfare. War is on the Bible. Plenty in the Bible. So if you are ready to join. So you see, you can never be close to me unless you get into the heat of the battle. Then we will understand why we talk about fighting. Yeah. So those of you who can, my mother said, My mother said I can't come back. My mother, my mother said. My brother said. My brothers are really worried. Me and my sister. Look, these things are minor aspects of the war. Minor. Get on with it, get on with it. There are real issues and it's part of the war. Your issue with your parents and all that. It's a war. Amen. Glory to God #9 do not entangle yourself with this life. Do not entangle yourself with this life. No man that Worreth, Second Timothy 3, Second Timothy 2, There's four. No man that Worreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life that he might please him who have chosen him to be a soldier. Wow. Do you want to do well in this, in the war? Don't entangle yourself. What does it mean to be entangled? Does it mean don't be in the world? No. When you are entangled, you are deep, you are connected. So, so that is why sometimes when people get into mortgages that connect them to something to pay a debt for 25 years, for 15 years, for 18 years, they have gotten themselves so entangled. Or you embark on your PhD for the next 6 years. I mean, it's like you are educated, but now you are taking the education deeper. You see, you get entangled. The more deeper you go into something. If you are not deep into it, you don't get entangled. So you can touch something, but you are not entangled. You can touch it, but you are not entangled by it. You can have it, but you may not be entangled. But if the deeper you get into things, the more you are entangled. So if you take every stream, you can go to the entangled, there's a, there's a, there's a line. When you cross, you are entangled. Take finances. When you cross a certain line, you are entangled. You can't easily, let's say you are working in the bank. You want to work for the loan. By the time you get yourself into a wild loan that is going for so long, you can't come up because remember you have to take 12 years to pay for your car and you have also got another loan for 16 years to pay for the two-bedroom estate house that you have bought at Abuba. Do you understand You are deep in the financial So when you are entangled, you can't just come up by that. So you know that you are entangled by the difficulty of extraction. That's finances, education. You can get so deep into it that it's difficult to extract yourself. You see, you can do. You are a doctor. What course can you do again? Surgical disciplines are going to neurosurgery. How many years? You have to do general surgery first, I think five years and then now go into such such specialties. How many years? Four years 4 Which one you're doing? So you know, Yeah, at least nine, 9-10 that you are already a doctor. So you are already a doctor and he's taking it further. So when you add the nine years to the seven years, it means you have been in school for 16 years. Why? So you see that you are getting deeper. And so it's not easy that after you've spent all that time learning whatever, plus the two years out of 18 years. So after you spent all that time learning how to do neurosurgery, you are now a specialist neurosurgeon. Is it time at this moment you walk away and you don't even use it for one day it is more difficult and you have to use it at least to spend at least four to five years practising to give back to society what God has blessed you with. Isn't it so? So five years plus 18 is how many years, 23 And at what age did you become a doctor? 20? 6. 23 + 2649 15 and that's the end of your ministry. 50 years. You are out, you are downfall. Sit down. So with education, it's not that we are against education, no, but education up to a point. If you are interested in ministry at a point, you realise that this education, I cannot take it beyond what is reasonable. Yeah, I thank you for this education. It's good. I'm educated and all that, but I think it's enough. Then we come to marriage. I'm talking about don't be entangled every every field of endeavour. You can get told you that coming out is difficult. Children you see you can have a child, you can have two children. You may as you start going 345567, how to even detach yourself from these plenty children that you have brought on so that you can either go to test on a Tuesday or on a Wednesday or go for a crusade or go somewhere. You realise that the plenty that you have given birth, hast thou locked you in? Yeah, You see, you know that it has entangled you by the difficulty in separation from it. You see, when I when I hold this man's shirt, I'm not an entangled. I just leave it like that. I just walk away. I'm not a triangle. It's a touch. But if I now put my hand into his trousers deep and somewhere there and then I start want to run away before I realize I'm pulling something I shouldn't be pulling, it means I went too deep in that area. You went too far in that area. Yeah, you went too far. I mean, when I say far too deep in that sphere of life, too involved. So it's now you are connected with six children. You see, you are not serious. You have three. You have three children already and there are twins in your family. And you have not secured yourself properly. The next pregnancy is twins. You have 5. How can you? Even as a man, even the husband, it's not going to be easy for you because you are also a father to all these pies. Most most most most most more children. They are following you like a Sikh in a garden school. It's in your house. Sit down, sit down, business. You have taken up business. Now you are going WADA. You have gone for loans from UT Bank. A loan in 48 hours, you've gone for one. A loan in 48 hours you've gone for one. Less than 48 hours. Other issues and you are going deeper. You are standing quarter chair. You are doing this the more deeper. So then to come out, it's not a small thing. Yeah. And these 5 little children I've been giving birth to, wait. When they grow up, you see how it will affect you? Yeah. One day I sent a pastor of mine. At that time, I didn't know that I shouldn't send people who are entangled, that I didn't know what entanglement went. You know, this brother was entangled with with so many children. So I sent him to the mission field. As he was on the mission field, he wrote a letter to me. Sections of the letter were in capital letters. Some sections were in capital letters. Hey, yes, please. Every one of his five children where this one is just. I said please return because first of all, to send seven people to fly to that country was not easy. Yeah, because you have got five children. I I didn't realize I've taken somebody so deeply into things, all to people with mortgages, people with a lot of children, people deeply into business, people who have gone so far into education that it doesn't even make sense for them to detach from what they are doing. It's actually like absurdity because why do you spend 9 years extra postgraduate medical training after becoming a doctor? Doctor one alone is 7 years plus nine years more. You imagine nine years more plus where you are 49 years old, it doesn't make sense. Yeah. So if you take somebody like our specialist here, it's a miracle that he was even able to do his speciality very quickly. He was one of the first or the only people who just passed straight. Yeah, they usually they just, they decide how many people they are passing. Let's say this year we are passing 3, We are passing 2. So whether you pass or not, there's only three that are passing. So only three pass. That's how they do it. It's a fellowship. They are meeting you. So fellowship of West African College of, of Radiologists. And if you are, if you are not in it, sorry, only three are being taken this year. So he was one of very he was lucky to just come when he was out. Yeah. And and I don't know why he just at the point I said, I told him you don't love God, you don't love, you don't appreciate. Yes, I told him you have not taken your salvation this year. It was in this hotel. I told him you are not to kill your salvation and and you, you tell us what you were telling me. You you were wondering what you are doing here? When he asked me to to tell you who my father in sin was, I was really wondering the the things I had done at a very early age. And I was wondering whether, I mean, if it had not been for church and the ministry, I would not be in an environment like this because I had this father and son. I mean, my father died when I was just nine years. So after nine years, there was no covering, there was nothing. And I went to school, got this father in school. So he, he taught me how to go to nightclubs, how to smoke, how to drink, not just, I mean, drink heavily, you know, and, and I believe that God really had great mercy on me because many people who had had such an experience wouldn't have even been interested even in church. I mean, there's no way I would even be in church. I mean, he is not in church. He is far from the church, you know, but I got into church, got interested in ministry, became a pastor. Became full time and that is why I said you don't value your salvage. At that time I was still, I mean, not very serious. I thought it was here, right here. One night you had come, you had come from a crusade and Bishop told that you are not serious about your salvage because even to decide to be full time was a problem for me. I just didn't see why I should. I mean, I was a lay pastor doing well. Be careful, be careful. So to me, that was it. But if God had a greater plan, because where I had gone, that by his grace he had disentangled me from all those things, there must have been a purpose for me. And I couldn't just be walking around superficially masquerading as a pastor as a Christian, but by the grace of God through a Father, I got to understand my, my God's God's plan for my life. And I, and I believe that it's a it's a really great thing for us also that and some of us here, maybe you didn't smoke, you didn't drink, but you, you were deep into things this year. It's a sign that I mean, for you to be sitting here, it's a sign that God has a plan for you that is far higher than being a being a doctor or being an economist or a banker. And that is the plan now where you went, that God has been able to take you from that place, from that boy. And there are some boys. When you have them, you cannot separate yourself from them. Do you see me? You cannot. Yeah. And by the grace of God, you have separated yourself from them, from from a certain type of girl, from a certain type of friendship, you know, deep into things and just some of you even went into occult and all these things. Yeah, but God has brought you out. It's your life, it's your time, and I believe that as we get deeper into it, we see if you went deep into the world, then it is time for you to also switch and go deep into the ministry. Yeah, that is it. It makes sense that if you were there and God has brought you out, He said he brought us out that he might bring us in. So I believe we can go deeper, just as we were also in the world. Wow. Another one is deep. You cannot entanglement in love and marriage. You see, it's all these things. They are legitimate. You are allowed to be that. When you are so deep, you cannot easily die. Yeah, that's what you think. Jesus didn't marry when he was on the cross. If it was his, his wife would have been Christ. Don't leave us. What will happen to our babies? Baby Jesus is here. Daddy, don't GoDaddy, don't GoDaddy come down from the cross. Daddy, come down. Is it not true? That is why even Hitler somebody like as as weird as Hitler said that why? How can I marry it? How it would interfere with my work. That was his his like me. So he married when he was going to die, when he knew that he was going to die, the, the Russians were just within some yards. And he called his people and he, he married the girl that he had been in with for, for so long, Eva Brown. That's her name. And he called the, the, the, the, the, the, the mayor of Berlin to come. And he signed the register and she came out of the now you can call me now from Hitler, which means Mrs. Hitler. And that was it. And then he sat in the room and he chewed the cyanide and shot his brains out. That was it just after that. Now it's to marry and then we will be living to disturb when you see people who are too much into loving, Loving. So, my darling, my, this, this and that. Oh, sweetheart. OK. So, man, I see you. Bye. This and another. Many times. They cannot do the right thing. Yeah, they cannot. They cannot even receive good counselling because they will not even be open. Yeah. And they are. They are that I know people all their life is going to meetings about marriage. Yeah you see instead of giving themselves to the ministry, they are always having meetings about marriage singles couples seminars and they have groups among themselves. It's about how to relate relationship even in the even in the even on campus, if we just having how to choose a partner. This, this all those things. You just keep on going around those issues. You cannot go further into the work of God because it's like life ends at the place of finding partners and living together happily ever after together. I'll sit here, you sit here, I'll put my fork and knife. You sit fork and knife. Then we sit to eat. We wear the same clothes on Sundays and on different days, and we are moving. Wow. You make a you make a dress. I use the material to make a tie. Yeah. You see that? We are a couple. This is a couple. This is a real couple. Christian Christianity at work. So do not listen. Total Timothy, you see this one I can't. When do you think I can preach this in the Kodesh? I will not say anything like this. What did the Kodeshian say? They are going to take the marital this this this this this business. I will be telling how to prosper business. This is inside the things I said you shouldn't entangle. I will preach to extreme now go this way. But when I call my Timothy privately, I will tell in Italy don't go deep in this world. When you go deep it will not help. You don't think I can stand at the Kardashian and advise people not to have too many children when we are blessing people for the mind. You say that and you shall have the the fruit of your womb. You shall be blessed. You bless them plenteous. You shall be plenteous in the fruit of your womb. God is going to give you 5 children always. I give five children at every wedding. Take it one. Take it 2. Take it three. Take it 4. Take it 5. These are the number of children I've been sharing during wedding ceremonies and others. And I always advise that in case you don't want or you see Mr. Kofi, the pharmacist. Yeah. This is a private look. This, this meeting is private. How many are realising that? It's a private letter. I'm writing, Paul wrote and he's saying, look, Uncle Depot, in this world of affairs, not in today, don't entangle yourself in sin. No, not sin. We are not. You are a pastor. We are not talking about sin. I'm not expecting that when you talk about fornication and sin and all those, it's too efficient. To the whole church. This is a private letter. It's a private distraction. Certainly, my son, don't and be hurt, be hurt and don't go deep in anything that extraction becomes difficult. Extraction from business, finances, marriage, children. Some people, they go so deep in the matter. If it happens that God has decided for you that you are having 3 chapters, that is chapter one, the first chapter without the spouse. Chapter 2 is with your and chapter 3 is with another spouse that God has determined for you. Maybe you have 3 phases for your life. When Phase 2 ends, you will say that's the end of my life and you will go into depression. We have to inject you before you. You, you, you, you. You will be OK. We have to inject you. Yeah. And depression. Recently, Rick Warren, son committed suicide. Pastor. Famous pastor in America. Yeah. He was always suffering from mental depression. Depression is very, very. You don't want to live anymore. Yeah. Very sad. You are very, very sad all the time. And you feel life is useless. And that's what happens when people die. You feel that it's useless. It's useless. There's so much into it that it's like once this person is gone, that's it. Yes, because I have in mind one life, one marriage, my sweetheart from the person I saw, this is my sweetheart that I I came to this world and she's the one and my illness. There is none like you, but fine in the in the big church, we will accept all those things. But privately as pastors, I tell you that, Charlie, don't go too deep. Yeah, it's a private advice. Don't be too deep that you coming out. What if I gotta decided you are out. In fact, I will tell you privately it's very dangerous to laugh anything too much. Anything you laugh too much is a candidate for removal. If you like, try it. I'll dare anybody. Anybody want to bet? I'll bet with few 100 CDs. Try loving anything too much and watch. God will take that thing away from you and show you that he is the only God and there is no God beside him. Anybody wants to bet with me only 150? I reduce it to 50 CDs, 10 cities. One day I bought a a jacket, very beautiful jacket. I bought it in England. And I said this is the nicest jacket I've ever wore. As soon as and I liked it very much. As soon as I said that and I thought I felt danger, I felt something can take the jacket from me and and and surely I was there when I was hearing the Holy Spirit that I give this thing away, keep this thing away. Keep this thing away. Too important, Too important for you. Too nice, like it. Too much good. Too much, too much, too much. What are the too much dancers? Wow. How many are going to? Don't tell anybody I told you and it was when we went to the camp, they told us that we shouldn't love. We shouldn't love your wife too much, we shouldn't love your husband. Arrest the person next to you in case he's the one who is bringing that. This is a private thing. I'm discussing with you as young fastest. I'm trying to help you. You have two children and you want more? 345 and now 2:00 and 7:00, your ministry will be looking after children. That's all. Wow, is it amazing, is it fantastic #10 strive for masteries or strive for excellence. Amen. Now striving for masteries. You see, when you say, like in golf, they are playing the masters, in tennis we have the Masters. That's where these words came from. Masteries. It's like the prize, the first prize. You see, I don't know why you want to be an elder or a pastor, but just to be an average pastor, why don't you want to be the pastor who's going to get the prize? Prize in shepherding, prize in church growth, prize in anointing, prize in soul, winning the best prize. Yeah. When I was in school, I got the best prize in pathology. Yeah, but I also, I would like to get a prize for church planting. I'm striving now. I'm striving to get a prize in heaven, though. If I can get one prize, at least I can get a prize for church planting. And when I go to heaven and they say church planting prizes, I didn't write the Bible. Look, it's a strife for masteries. I don't think so. I don't see. I can see now. Yeah. Second Timothy, verse 2, verse 5. If anyone compete as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules. So he is supposed to strive for masteries. You are supposed to strive Amen, and strive lawfully. That's another point. But you should strive for a prize like the best in that thing. You see. Now, Rebecca, you didn't realize that you were supposed to get a prize in something. You see, the ministry has prizes. I didn't write the Bible. I keep explaining to you that I'm reading messages to you. There's a prize for church planting. There's a prize for anointing. There's a prize for church growth. There's a prize for best son, best follower. There's no surprises in heaven. Let's try for. So who is going to get the prize? Who's going to get prizes? So instead of thinking I just want to tag along, I want you to aim to be the best of what you are doing. So since I went into evangelism, I want to, I'm trying to get the best prize in evangelism in Africa or anywhere. Yeah. So I, I the person I think is the best or has done a certain level is Bonky. So I always look at his things and try to learn from him and see if I can do something a bit more. Yeah, I'm trying to get a prize. I wonder that with the angels will come as our best price that they will be standing far, will be thousands and then they will all be standing there. The angels will come see the throne very high, very great and millions and thousands and thousands will be there to cover best price for church planting and maybe they may call Bishop political or some other people come for the price. People be clubbish for Chinese, Indians, Africa, white people, Europeans or Abraham. They all be there. It's a price for evangelism and different different price for singing, price for best this, price for best that, best that. In Africa that and even on earth we give prizes. The best student in this best obedience, best whatever. Even if you don't get a prize, you can get prize good behaviour. I mean something Nita S boy and also those who don't come late. You can get a prize for never coming late, always on time. You see, you never thought there would be. So it's try for masteries. These are old words. We don't use them. But if you check American says prize straight, it's in English. There are prizes. I said there are prizes or bed preacher. Can you imagine thousands? You know, there's going to be a huge I hear the throne of God. It's like, Can you imagine the biggest house or the biggest building is like that? It's like when you see it's like the hugest sky rise high as huge. It's like that's the throne. So it's like millions that we are all there. The Saints, they are calling price for this price for that price for this price for best elder. You didn't know that the word elder was used in heaven. The elder on campus. Lighthouse within lighthouse prices denominations. Best denomination in Ghana. Longest lasting church. I'm sure Catholics will win that one. There's no Challenger for the longest. We, we will not, we, we will not have unless the the world goes on for many, many more years. But I mean, we are just 20 something years old. Yeah. I mean, they are, they are like Methodists. I mean hundreds of MO zealous. Look, I I sent a missionary to Mali and a friend of mine told me, oh, there is a Czech just like your Czech in Ghana. He mentioned the name of it. They said they send missionaries to different countries. They sent a missionary to Mali. He was there for five years. He had five convicts and he has come back, he said, He said it's just like your Czech. They send missionaries to everywhere. It's a fully Islamic country. We can't be there for yes, we will not see any understanding of what's happening. Best evangelism among Muslim countries. Wow. Best missionary with no results. Yeah. Because it's not easy. If I send you to a place where there are no results and you are able to stay and persist and persist and persist. Like when we went to Niger, there was a white man, an American. He has been there and moves the people. Hey, SH. He's there with the members, he and his family. Yeah. You saw the Guinea Bissau film. You saw those Brazilian missionaries there. Wow. Best combined singer? Pastor. What about that prize? Would you like to get that prize? Because some pastors sing and preach. Like, what's that guy's name? McLaughlin. Or is he not a pastor? Is it? Marvin Winans is a pastor and a singer. Best combined pastor, Singer, best lady worship worship leader, best lady African worship leader, best Ghanaian worship leader, best worship leader in lighthouse denomination. They are giving denominational prizes for worship leaders. Lighthouse denominator days Pentecost central this day. So best worship leader, best minstrel who can bring anointing when the pastor is going to teach. Wow. Best group Best group Groups Carvery Rose Singers Pinkerfield singers Joyful Waste singers Harvest Race singers Abundant life singers Better life singers Milky Way singers Honey waste stars Milky Way stars. I see bands. You'll be surprised. Of course. The best Sunday school teacher, everything I'm doing, I'm trying to do it better. I'm trying to write, writing a, a book for Sunday school teaching with pictures to teach because to teach children with pictures, because in the, in the, in the olden days, the Catholics and so on, they believed that the common people didn't understand a lot of things. So they had to draw everything so that they could see the pictures and they will understand. That's where all those paintings in the Vatican came from. So if you come to the Prophet's land, you see those paintings, some of those paintings, they are all paintings from there where they are trying to show the common people so that they can just understand without a lot of talking, but they don't understand easily. Thanks. Best spiritual artist, best Sunday school teacher. So as best marriage counsellor, prayer warrior who used to pray for Charles Finney, his knees made a hole in the ground. There was a hole in the ground by the bed. He was praying. His name is Father Nash. He was praying for Charles Finney. It made a hole in his knees. Father Nash, Best prayer warriors, Best secretary. Wow. Best church secretary who doesn't cause the pastor to fall. Some will be given W 2nd. Through them the church came down. When they came into the church that was the sign of that. That cloud have entered the church because through them the church was destroyed. Their presence brought down the church. Wow. Best missionary wife? Best Sakura of the Saints, like Phoebe, she used to look after the Saints, care for them. If you were to ask me all these people, I could give you my, my maybe they maybe ask me for all nominees. I can give you a nominee for each of these. Yeah, each of these I can give a nominee. Best lady worship leader. I would I would nominate somebody I know in in London. Best lady worship leader, Best male worship leader, Best missionary wife. If you ask me, I I can tell best missionary wife, best Sakura of the Saints to understand what it means to do that, to like somebody who I mean cares for you and looks after you. Not everybody can look after some people. When you go to them, it's like you come to another boy. It's like a boy to boy. You don't feel comfortable. You don't feel comfortable, huh? You don't get what I'm saying? Yeah. You don't feel comfortable. You feel hungry. You even feel afraid to say that you are hungry. If they ask you whether you want to eat, you better say no thank you. I'm OK. Wow. Best pianists, Best guitarist, Best denominational guitarist, Best combined instrumentalist pastor, Best woman preacher, Best woman teacher pastor who has travelled most longest travellers, has travelled farthest distance. Most distance covered, most, most countries visited, most pastors they met. I've been to 100 and so and so countries. Yeah, people always write that as their credentials. Been to 113 countries. Wow. Strive for the best. So as I'm doing marriage counselor, I'm trying to do the best that I can do. Write the best Manoir, what I know best. The children's that were trying to draw the best pictures for the children's teachers who used to teach the children. Best kebab maker, least quarrelsome wife. Surprise. I say surprise. Wow. Amen. Well #11 Strive lawfully. How many numbers do you have? 11 Strive lawfully. You know what I'm saying? My thing says low battery. Strive lawfully. Now what does striving lawfully mean? That's the next thing. Do legal things, write things. Amen. You see, when you are running 1500 meters, you cannot cross the track. All you can 1005 you can 402 hundred, 808 hundred you can up to 400, up to 400 you cannot cross. So 100 meters, 204 hundred you cannot cross. You must stay in your lane. So if you want to win 400, you have to win in your lane. So even though you are striving for the prize, you must strive in the right way. You cannot do the right thing in the wrong way. Yeah, you cannot do the right thing in the wrong way. Breaking rules, telling lies. You know you cannot come to the church and tell lies, so Bishop sent me. That is why I came late. You know that is so. I hope you are not angry with me because I've come, Bishop said. Meanwhile you haven't seen me. So you cannot come and succeed in the check through telling lies. Or maybe you want the people to give money so as striving to get enough money to go and do your evangelism and through that you tell lies of what you are doing so that people give money. So once I get the money I can do more. Then it's for evangelism. So we should just do what we need for evangelism. So it's like you are striving, but you are striving with wrong methods. I, I want people to come to church so I know that my breasts are fair colored. So I just released this this part and I used the fair colored part to be. My God, Amen. You are taking offerings. You have to take the right way. Amen. Everything you are striving for the best and the greatest. You cannot do it. You want to have a great church. You can have it, but you have to do it lawfully. When when people break away from churches and destroy, you are part of lighthouse and you break out and destroy the lighthouses that you are part of so that you start a church and you are part of a new, you have a new church, but the church you started, it's nice for you to have a church. We are wanting you to have churches, but the way you went about it has spoiled another church. So you are not striving in the right way. It's not lawful. So that's all the loyalty books are about striving lawfully. We even have a book on how to resign so that if you are resigning, you resign properly. Yeah, I have a book like that, Ministerial ethics. And there's a whole chapter of how to live when you want to live. This is how you live. We have two ways of living, the way Jacob left Leban and the way somebody else left two ways. And one of the ways, he told him, Devan told him I could kiss you, that God has appeared to me in a dream. You left my house. You left in the wrong way. You took my my children. You did this. You do this and you took my gods, I can kiss you, but God appeared to me in a dream. So I shouldn't kiss you. Yeah. So you are doing it OK, but you are not doing it in the right way. You should have said bye bye. You should have allowed the man to say goodbye to his children. He can kiss you. So a lot of people whom I have been a blessing to, not a lot, but there have been a blessing to have wanted them. They have anointed them, pray for them, whatever. And then they turn around to break the church, which I allowed them to pastor. I could have told the people don't listen to him, but I met the people I told, oh, listen to their elder, he's a good person, listen to them. Then after you turn around and tell the people to follow you and I'm starting a church, I can easily curse you. And even though you are striving and still doing the work of God as a pastor, you did not strive lawfully. Because I have people who started churches, their churches are working and all that, but you have to strive lawfully trying to do what is right. Some years, many years ago when Lighthouse started, I had, I went to Calibu. I started a fellowship and I called the fellowship KCC, Calibu Christian Centre and I was part of Harvest. It was not called Harvest then, it was called Calvary Rd. So when I went, I said I have formed Calvary Rd. I just because that's the group I belong to. Then at that point I changed the name to KCC. I said it's called Calibu Christian Centre. So the Calvary Rd. people came to see me and told me that they don't want a church and they don't want that group. And I told them that no, no, no, no, no, no, you cannot come here. I said. I told them I want to win the souls. I went to win the souls. Do you understand? And I've gone round bringing, working to gather the people and so on. So I went to win the souls and it's you cannot just. So they came one day and they said OK, they were not happy with me and with all of us. So they decided to write a letter and disowned me. How do you call it that way? They excommunicate me. So they wrote a letter, 13 people. So signed the letter and they came on Sunday morning while we were having sex in the classroom. It was a small classroom OK but it was a classroom and it was originally started in the name of Taree Rd. became Kalibu Christian Center which they said they are not a church and they don't want a church. It was later that they decided to become a church. So I said oh so they came. They said they are come to his communicators with the letter. I told Biswasaki go and meet them. They were upstairs in the corridor but I don't want to see them. So he went to see them. This is the letter. My friend was my my very good friend who came leading them with that letter. So we were somehow excommunicated as a group. They don't want to have anything to do with us. But we didn't allow them to come to the church. We didn't allow them to bring their letter. So I said, OK, I'm doing my own thing. I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing, I was doing. And one day I had a dream. And in the dream the Lord showed me, I changed the name to Lighthouse. The Lord showed me a lighthouse that was falling into the sea like in this picture. It was half in the sea and it was 1045° and God showed me. He said there is something wrong with the foundation of all that you are doing. I said what is wrong there? He told me, remember two years ago these people came with their letter and they were Esther there He told me that you were wrong and they were right. You have made a serious mistake. Hey, I want to win with now I saw that I was barely said they were wrong. They were right, you were wrong and like I have a small church in my classroom. My Lord said go to them and apologize to them and whatever they tell you to do, do it. And I knew that they can easily say they are taking over the church or the small church that we had and all that. But I said I want to. That's what I'm explaining to you. Strive lawfully. We are doing it. Do it. You get in the beloved, get in the don't get somebody's beloved. The whole relationship will never be happy with it. I'll come to that one. You remind me lawfully. Strive lawfully. So I went to see the Cauvery Rd. people and I spoke to them. I went with Bishopsaki and I said we have come, why have you come? Said oh we have come to apologise. That time when you came, you were right, we were wrong. They started crying, they were surprised. Well, see, in Christian people don't say sorry and don't admit that it's a mistake. So I said whatever you want to do let us know. And the leader said to me we have only one thing, his name was chaos. He said we have only one thing, we want to come to the church and preach. I said you are welcome to please come. So they came. The whole kavery room came to the church. We had just moved to the canteen and we preached there. We had a nice and everything was OK for me to go on. Then the Lord showed me another vision, showed me a lighthouse standing bright, siding tall. That's the lighthouse. That's really not the broken down one. Hallelujah. So it's true that you are doing the right thing, but in the wrong way. That is going to be a beast for you. So thank God you want to get a beloved. You see ladies, when a man doesn't really like you and don't force him to like you, or if it is somebody's beloved and you go for him, you will become like Princess Diana. You will never be secure once you are with your Prince. You see, Princess Diana wrote in her Diaries. She said when we went on the ship, when they got married, they went on a royal ship on a royal honeymoon. She said from the first book, I thought that she said I thought that he was sending texts to his other lady all the time, every 5 minutes. I thought he was getting up to go and text her to tell her challenge, hey, we are doing this, the whole challenge. I wish it was rather you. OK, bye. Then you go back to the print. This is what she thought. So she was almost going mad, which I mean, some of the people diagnose a borderline personality disorder on her. Yeah, Then I give you the 10 personality disorders. OK? Yeah, I'm telling you, yeah, you always should think that, hey, it is this person that she really wants. It's this one that she really wants. So instead of being happy with your whatever you say, that's what you are thinking about. You've got your Prince, so you've got it. You've got the wedding. You've got everything because originally the man came to the house to look for Princess Diana's sister. Oh, and then she came into the picture. Then his real friend was Camilla, the one he's married to now. Yeah. Oh, she's playing. Used to go riding with her. You 2 don't like riding, Only dressing, sporting and staying in the house. Yeah, fashion. Everybody in the world likes you, but you are not much in the house. So she she would go riding with his friends. She was in the castle crying, not eating, growing lean. Yeah. So the whole marriage is to remember she was never happy. And those who were on the prince's side that expressed. Look, for five years he tried, but she was just it was like a crazy day. After that. Hello, Charlie to her. She also started blowing other men. And she also started having his own time somewhere. So everybody was doing whatever. Yeah. So as you are getting something, you are getting your man. Get him lawfully. Strive. What? Lawfully taking of time. Don't force a man to tell you have. Tell Anna he's married. You asked. You were never. One day I told a second sister she was she was she was in tech and the the beloved of the brother was in Cape Coast and she was in Tech and the beloved was in Tech and the guys beloved was in Cape Coast. So they were moving, moving, moving, moving. In the end the beloved transferred the beloved ship transferred from Cape bus to Tech. So the Cape Cape Coast one was left and then she took. So I met with them. I told her I said that. I told, I told her all the things that will happen. I remember when I sat down, I said this is what will happen in your marriage. You will say this, this will happen. You will become like this. You become one day I met and I said, you said everything you have said has happened. No happiness, no peace. Because you got him. You sign him in, but not lawfully so. They have no peace, they have no happiness. They have an apparition, a phantom and mirage. You don't understand my message, right? You are confused. Wow. Is it amazing? Is it fantastic? So those of you who feel that God has given me a prophetic. Ministry. Even though I'm in Lighthouse, I feel a prophetic sensation from time to time. I'm having these dreams and visions and intellectual interactions and I know that something is moving in me. I feel something moving in my story. OK, but please do it lawfully. One brother, I sent him to a certain island, I bought a ticket for him visa everything to so many because as a missionary so many things have to be done. When he got there, then he sent a message back that God has called him to write books. He said I don't understand. He said God has called him to write books. Which books? He said, oh, that is the feeling that he has that God has told us not to be a you were here all this time. We were preparing to send you. Why didn't you say that God has called you to write books, huh? Now we have spent all this money to fly you to that place. We have to fly you back this and that and that. Be careful. Yeah, See, God has called you to, to, to, to write books. Write it now. You want my my input in your marriage. They want you to tell me what I should do because you know this brothers come to see me. He says that. He says that he likes me and I don't. I don't know what should I listen? Meanwhile, he has already proposed that you've already said yes. So my advice that you are coming for you are even deceiving me. So it's not nice. See when you do that, it's not nice. You are not really asking all your heart. You have already fallen in love as you are asking me what you should do. That is why I also give you 7 options and tell you choose one and pray about it. Strive, love, talk to your feet, everybody.