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Welcome to track #4 of significance. I believe that the Lord is showing us that our significance is very much related to hearing His voice. Amen. So yesterday I shared with you about how you need to hear His voice in different areas. And one of the areas is in relation to to what? And also in relation to giving to the man of God. Do you remember? And I was sharing with you several examples that I have experienced myself and have come to believe that it's a spiritual thing that the devil fights because he knows the blessing that comes into your life. Amen. Now, another area, and I'm sharing these things that I'm sharing from this book, almost most of the things I preach now are in books if you read them. But you know, most of the time we don't read, so we have to write it and read it to you. Forgive. But one of the areas that I believe is going to be very helpful for us is if we can hear the voice of God in relation to our needs. And I believe that you, your, you will become significant and your life will be greatly improved in relation to your, your, your, your needs, what you need in this life. In other words, if you follow him and his v
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Welcome to track #4 of significance. I believe that the Lord is showing us that our significance is very much related to hearing His voice. Amen. So yesterday I shared with you about how you need to hear His voice in different areas. And one of the areas is in relation to to what? And also in relation to giving to the man of God. Do you remember? And I was sharing with you several examples that I have experienced myself and have come to believe that it's a spiritual thing that the devil fights because he knows the blessing that comes into your life. Amen. Now, another area, and I'm sharing these things that I'm sharing from this book, almost most of the things I preach now are in books if you read them. But you know, most of the time we don't read, so we have to write it and read it to you. Forgive. But one of the areas that I believe is going to be very helpful for us is if we can hear the voice of God in relation to our needs. And I believe that you, your, you will become significant and your life will be greatly improved in relation to your, your, your, your needs, what you need in this life. In other words, if you follow him and his voice, you shall not want. That's why I said the Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want. So as you follow the voice of the Lord, I believe that you will not be in poverty or you shall not want. Hallelujah, how many understand what I'm saying? And I believe, I believe it strongly. You know that you must follow His voice. You know it. It raises you up. To be significant or significant means you know to get to a place where you are important enough or large enough to make a difference, or to be noticed, or to be mentioned, or to be included, or to leave a man. And to be insignificant is to be so small and so unimportant in such a way as to not have an effect. How many want to be insignificant? How many do not want to be insignificant? Very good. So when this voice comes to you and you begin to detect the voice, what will happen is that you begin to change. There will be a long list of people, but you will become different from them because the voice of God has been directed into your life. Now when you follow the voice of the of the Lord, you shall not want, I believe it will take you out of difficulty, financial difficulty. Amen. Do you understand? Yes, because for some of us, if we were to follow the voice of God, we will not be in full time ministry. Yes, we will not be in full time ministry, but you will be a lay pastor. Amen. And as a lay pastor, you work somewhere, you get your salary and you pastor the church. And some of us, if we were to follow the voice of God, we will be full time in the ministry and be blessed there. But I don't know which one He's telling you. And I cannot, I cannot try to tell you, but but I can say to you, and I'm trying to, I'm trying to show you because I believe that it's the absence of hearing from him and listening to him that affects her. But I remember, you know, this thing is very true. When I, when I was a lay pastor, I was a doctor, but I was doing business. I was a standing stone contractor. I used to supply sand and sand to Tamahaba when they were rehabilitating the hammock. I used to supply from Akusa to whatever. I had a tipper truck. We were going up and down providing sand and various things and I was dealing in pens, files and other businesses. Import and export, general trading, general merchant. But the Lord said to me, stop everything and give yourself holy to my work. And I did, and I have been blessed. Amen. One day I went somewhere to preach and when I finished, pastor gave me some money in a foreign country. And when I look at the money, I was surprised and he said to me, I was just looking for a chance to bless you. That's what I was just looking for a chance. I'll not tell you how much he gave me, but I'll just for security reasons. I just, I was just looking for a chance to bless you. You shall be blessed in Jesus name. Hallelujah. Yeah, and I believe with all my heart that if you follow Him, He will bless you. I have been more blessed than I could imagine with my thinking box. But as I was doing the ministry, I knew in my heart many people should not be full time. So I encourage people not to be full time but to be lay pastors. And the church flourished with lay people. Sometimes people want to. Before that I said no work and be a pastor. So I was the champion of lay pastors for a long time. Then a few years ago, about 2-3 years ago, the Lord said to me employ people. Now employ. In fact, He said to me employ 20 people. So when he said employ 20 people, I counted the people all over the world. I said we are almost 20, let me employ about two or three more. Because when you employ people or when people are full time, it drains the money of the church because one human being is very expensive. The very expensive thing to have is a human being. His house, his clothes, his shoes, his health, his wealth, everything. His food, his everything. Because that is the work he does. He cannot do connection. He's a pastor. Pastor should not do connection. One day when we were building our church, the one pastor was telling us what he said the the man who was supplying the stones, he came and he said when we bring the stones, instead of 200,000, we make it 2 two 50,000. And then you show me your site so I will deliver your stones to your site. You don't understand the you don't understand it. You understand it. So instead of instead of 200,000, we make it 250 thousand and then the the the 50 thousands for you or I deliver the stones to your site. So 4 trips, every four trips I bring here, I bring one to your to your site, to your house. And the pasta was very surprised. What are you saying? So then he mentioned it just, oh, let's check. That's what we do there. That's how we, that's how we, that's how we deliver stones there. I do not think that a pastor should be involved in such connections and such things to make your yourself get money. You see, you have to pay yourself properly so that you don't need all the somebody coming to bless you with this. Somebody coming to bless a pastor should not make himself like he needs money. That's right. It's not a good way of looking. I need something. Please bless me. Let me the Lord speak to you today to to neither to preach in a way that people will give money to you. Amen. So what was I telling you? I was telling you something that you shall not want. And so now the law said to me, and again when I say the law said to me different from I felt or I perceived because Paul said, I perceive that this journey is not going to be end well, there's going to be a storm. That song was different to me when the next day he stood up and said, the Lord has spoken to me and said this ship shall not perish. There are different things. So you have to learn the difference between I perceive. And then the Lord said to me, and I said, the Lord said to me, employ 20 people. And I'm saying that yesterday I was trying to show you that a thought comes to your mind and you said this thought. I know it's the word of God to me. By experience only you can know. So you have to experiment. Try one, if it doesn't work, try again. Soon you will see the one which is the right one. So 20 people employ. Then I employed about 3. The law said I said employ 20 people. Then I just opened the doors and started to work. But now I thought that we are going to get poorer as a ministry. But you see, the Lord knew that there was not a need for the people to come in floods to come and be full time. You see, the Lord wants to lead us and He will lead us like this, like this, like this, like that. Today He will say this, tomorrow He will say the opposite of what you do. For instance, if you are not married He will teach you do not have sex. Then six months later after you are married his instruction will be have sex more. What do you think? So you are the same person who in the same year you are having 2 instructions. First time you told do not do it, the second time is do it a lot. Are you ready to follow the Lord and to become significant? So through following him, right, you follow Him into prosperity. The Lord is my shepherd. He's leading me. I shall not want because the Lord is leading me. And as you follow him, you shall. So you must praise the Lord. Guide me, guide me. When He guides you, you see, you will be blessed financially. You will be OK financially if He leads you. But you see, we don't spend time praying that prayer. Lord guide me. Lord lead me. And that is why we are not becoming prominent and significant in the ministry as God would desire. How does a shepherd lead? He leads through his voice. Rick Joyner was describing something that he saw. A shepherd was was was telling somebody is a shepherd or something that he saw or somebody saw. He said that there were two shepherds. They came to this water place to drink and each of them had a lot of sheep. And this is a real story. It's not a vision. Each of them had a lot of sheep. So when they go to, all the sheep went to the water. So as he was watching, he was wondering how is each one going to get his sheep back because they are all mixed up and they were all drinking. Suddenly when they are after some time, one of the shepherds went this way, another one went this way, and this one started singing. All the sheep that belonged to him, somehow they knew his voice and they all went that way. And the other group also went with the other guy. They found their shepherd, everybody. But although they all look the same, they know the they knew the voice of their shepherd. They said my sheep know my voice. That's what you know. And so you, you must develop. It's something you must learn. You don't learn somebody's voice for the first time. When you hear, it's by experience. The one you hear is 0 rather this I know who it is even if it's very close to somebody else's voice after you've heard it for a while and said that is that you shall not want in the name of Jesus. How many believe that you are going to hear him and find his voice so that you can navigate look the ministry. You can be poor or rich, You can be poor or when I say rich, I mean you don't need. Many people don't want their children to be in the ministry because of poverty. But I believe that everywhere you are, God can bless you. Even in the village you can be blessed. I am sending a lot of pastors now to the villages of Ghana and I am going to show them how to be prosperous there. One day I went out. Pastor Patrick was going to Tamali. What did I tell you? Come. What did I tell you? Do you know what I told you? Yeah. Tell me to do the welcome call. We're trying. We're trying to start an NGO. But I told you, one day people will come there. For what? For honeymoon and for holidays. I told you one day people will come to Tamali to visit him for honeymoon and for holidays. As it happened, it happened twice already. Three times the people have been coming to Tamali for honeymoon to his place. But when he was going to that desert, I said there's nowhere in Ghana with sand and heat like Tamali. For the first time I went there. I said if God is angry with me then he will send me to this place, God bless you. I was afraid that God would be angry with me and send me to Tamalay to be a missionary there. But he has flourished over there and prospered that now we have couples when it's time for their honeymoon, we are going to Tamalay to Pastor Patrick for honeymoon. No, they are not going to Labadi Beach or they are going to Tamalay. I believe that even in the wildest town and remote place, God can raise you up, and I see Him raising you up and He'll bless you with wisdom and you will be blessed and you prosper. Everybody here will build a house in the name of Jesus. Every pastor must build a house. You must have your own house. I believe that you must have instant human rights in the United Nations Charter, because when you die, nobody will care for your wife. At least you have to hope. You have to think that nobody will care for your wife and children. Yes, you have to assume. Maybe there will be kind people who will remember. Oh, this is this one's wife. But there are many people who don't remember and who don't care. So every pastor must have your own house. Amen. So that should in case you die, your wife and Syria have somewhere to stay. What do you think about that? Is it a good idea? I see you building a house in Jesus name. But you shall build a house if you are led by the Spirit of God and God shows you how you will be able to build a house. But if you are proud and you don't want to learn you will never build a house. Then the next thing is you have to depend on your Holy Spirit for your marriage and your home. How many? No. The Bible says that he maketh me to lie down. This, the Lord is my shepherd. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures by still waters. These green pastures are your house. These still waters are your resting place of peace. Huh. What do you think? Is it a good idea? Yes. You need to be LED as far as your How many are not married? Raise your hand if you are not married. Please raise your hand if you are not married. Put down. Please raise your hand if you are married. Yes, many of us, instead of your house being still waters is more like the sea, which is moving with waves coming room and instead of this being quiet, you can hear shoo. Look, one of the most difficult places to pray is the sea because you cannot hear your voice. Maybe you have not been there before, but instead of your house and your marriage to be a place of green pastures and still waters, it is more like a sea with a desert, desert patches and salty water. Tsunamis coming all around. How many pastors have seen certain tsunamis coming to your house before? Raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand. You see, one of the reasons why you cannot get help in your marriage is because you are not honest and you are not open. You always smiling and giving a good impression and you want people to think that everything is perfect, but everything is not perfect. One of the things that you need direction for is in marriage. But before I come to the mind, let me just say something to you. I shall not want when we wanted to build our church by the church, that we are the cathedral. A friend of mine came to help Pastor Paddy Brew. He did a fundraising for us. Sometimes pastors, we don't know how to do fundraising. Somebody has to teach you. He did the fundraising and I saw how he was doing it. I've watched, I've learnt, fan, I've learnt what reverend is to different people about how they do fundraising. I've learnt how to do fundraising. It's an act. If you don't know how to do, you will be poor. You have to know how to raise funds and take offerings. Say Amen. We took a big offering, the grand fundraising for the church building and we gathered all the money and everything. And as I stood on the church praying over the offering, the Lord said to me, give the money, all the money that you have raised. Give it to the pastor who raised the funds. I said, Lord, it's not possible. I said, Lord, he has come to raise the money for our building. This is what we need. But I'm I'm telling you something that's happened to me. I was standing on the States. Then I became afraid and I remember the scripts. I said give ishampi given unto you. As you follow him, I tell you, become rich. Papa Higgins said an Angel, he was there. An Angel appeared to him. The Lord appeared and told him if you follow me you will be rich. He used the word rich. If you follow me you will be rich. We gathered all the money. We didn't have money. We were. We were being driven out of the medical school canteen by the medical school and we needed to buy the cinema hall and move there. We didn't have money at zero. We never even took Tithes Tuesday service. We didn't take offerings because we were not used to taking offerings. We didn't know how to raise funds. And now I've been able to gather the major fundraising. We've brought all the important people. Everybody has given give it. I just gave it to him. I said bye bye, bye bye. God bless you. God said I should give it to you what he was. No, it's not. It's not right. I said no. This is what the Lord asked me to do. And the Lord said you will never lack. We never lack money. We never lack. I'm telling you, we never lack anything. No, we have more. God had his own way of providing. Yes. If you follow him, you will be rich. If you follow his boy, you'll be significant. I'm telling you and the following of the law, I can never tell you that is this or this or that. There's always something different. There are times God has told me when some it Oh yeah. There are times when something is to be prayed to me, don't take it. And there are times he has told me take it. Oh yeah, that time he has told me this, that they are bringing it to don't take it, don't accept it. And there are times he has told me accept it at different times depending on what it is I'm talking about following him. That's why I'm just sharing with you some of the things that I I believe about talking about. He says that he leads me when you follow his voice, you, you will come to still watches in your marriage and your home. You better ask God for direction. Some of you, you have tsunamis, setting storms, certain things you need to pray. Lord, show me how to handle my husband, how to handle my wife. I remember one time I was experiencing a tsunami in my house and I at the point I began to pray because I didn't know how to overcome and let the waves of in the house become a a calm water. Oh, I remember praying. I will pray and pray. What is the Lord? Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. And I remember I was working on a particular plane and the Lord just gave me a word. He said to me this and that. I cannot, I mean go into the details because it will be too long. I did give me a word, this and that. Suddenly I had a revelation that brought about a direction for me, me, just to me, that took me to the right hand. And that was the end of it. Suddenly, Oh yeah, more than once I have had the Lord direct me, please and that do this, behave like this. I tell you, my brother and my sister, if you don't learn how to follow him, you will not even, you will not even end up well in this life. He leaded me by steel waters and by green pastures. You keep being there trying to do natural things all the time. God wants to speak to us and lead us. And the Lord said, look, when Abraham had marital problems, when he married this Hagar, she gave birth. The thing was he, he never said that Sarah sacked Ishmael. Is it the first time? When Sarah sacked Hagar, she was pregnant, She had not given birth, but later she gave birth and she had a child. The Ishmael was in the house and the Bible says that Sarah dealt hardly with hecka. She dealt hardly and she drove him out. And the Bible says, and the thing was grievous to Abraham. It was grievous to Abraham because it was his son. You people must realize when you marry somebody with a child already, or you have a stepchild or whatever, you must realize that the child is the child of the person. Even if it's not your child, it is as much his child as those other children. They are all his children. And the Bible says, and Abraham was grieved and then the Bible says and the Lord said to him, do this and do this and do that. The Lord actually told him it was a marital crisis. That's why Abraham was a significant person because the Lord spoke to him about almost everything. The Lord said to do this, do this. In fact, he said to him that he said, I think if the Lord told him your wife is right, is that not what he said? Do what your wife is saying, Obey your wife. Yeah. And another time when he went to sacrifice Isaac, I don't think he told his wife because after that, when he came back, you realize that I think there was probably a terrible maritime division. After that he went to marry Keturah because you have given birth to 1. You say you are going to kill him on the mountain. I don't think Sarah will take such a message lightly. Oh yeah. You see many pastors. Your house is like, you know, the ministry is like boxing. Come, let me box with you. Come, Doctor Brown. That's his corner. And then that's my corner. So we're boxing, OK. Oh, are you afraid? So when we hear the bell, KKK, then you go to your corner and I go to my corner. Your corner is your house. Now, when you get to your house, sit down. What are they supposed to do? Put water? Give you this? But instead of refreshing, start beating him. Also, I said instead of when you go to your corner you get refreshment, they are now slapping you, said a foolish boy. They said that. So you wonder whether it's better to go to your corner or to come back to the boxing ring. Mercy, is it better to go to your corner or to come back to the boxing ring? And that's how many pastors are. You go out, you are fighting the ministry. When you come home, instead of coming to peace, you come to another slab, you this and that. And don't let this be the last time. This time, Hey, it's not a small thing. It's not a small thing. And you see, pastors, you cannot say it, but it's there. And I tell you, I'm talking to the pastors. Yeah, it looks very peaceful because all women have a certain peaceful, charming appearance. Nyamina Adam, Pastor glory to God. And and so by the grace of God into now. Yeah. But oh, what a wonderful, beautifully looking. But they are more than tigers in the house. When when you come and sit down and themselves come out, it's not a small thing. Slabs and blows in your corner. Then you see the pastor is running back to the middle of the race. It's better to be fighting than to go to my ring. Mercy. Yeah. And it looks as though in the out where many people have the impression at all at the end of the bus ring, it's peace. But it's not peace. Sometimes that's where the devil presses hardest. Do the pressure. So women who are here, those who are ministers, wives and so on, take note that you will not be the type when they as soon as the ring can can can end of round nine, then you come and sit down, you fool, you have not kicked your ball. You out shouting something that is not done in the boxing ring. Look at what they are doing to you in the house below the belt. It being the ring that is order. When you read about John Wesley, how he suffered in his marriage, it was not easy for him. He said at that point, the only place one time his wife, when he said his wife, when he said I did not send her away and I will not call her to come back. I will not call her to come back. He was struggling too much. She was accusing him of so many things all the time. One time he was having dinner with some other person. After the approach he came, then the wife entered the room shouting this woman who is serving you, she's a witch. She's this is this is that oh this Christian, the man talking, she used to write. Look at the letter he has written to this lady. Look at this coming to show people it was wonderful marriage. He said at the point, you see that now just go he said, he said he said he wrote in his genre. I said I go as one broke from chains when he was going to preach. I go as one broke from chains to go to the field. Let me go and preach. I go as one broke from chains. Mercy, which chains are holding you? May God guide you in the house with supernatural wisdom. But you see, maybe you are a very bad husband and God needs to speak to you. How to be a better husband? Yeah, because some of us, we are. We are. Our marriage is like dogs. Dogs don't talk, dogs don't communicate. Or they are just moving in the same area. I said they are just moving in the same locality, occasionally mating. And we have not seen any good example of marriage, and so we don't know how to relate. And you have married your wife as though you've married a man. And a man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. A woman is completely different and complex. And if you don't adjust yourself to marry properly, it's not going to be easy for you, no matter who you marry. And one day the serpent will come to your house and tell you that you see you married in the night. If you have seen you see this sister in the church, she's far better than your wife. If you had only seen her earlier. But unfortunately you were in the dark when you married and you put rings on everything. Now look at what you have. You see this sister, She's so gentle. She's so sweet. She's gentle and she's sweet because she meets you in the church, but her true behavior you cannot tell. You need to do you You see, the behavior in the house will be different from the church one. We have two behavior, church behavior and house behavior. We have church behavior and house behavior. Sometimes the the the behavior that you see in church is just to put on a night 1 past 9 I think was in Nigeria. His wife was in church. He came to church. His wife was sitting on the front smile looking so sweet as when he saw her name. He was he was he was very angry said get up, get up, get up, go to the back. Oh, coming to say tears smiley looking so sweet and gentle. Why you've been behaving up. Go to the back now. Yeah, this sucker from the front. Hey, you're sitting here looking so sweet. And I said you are so gentle and so nice and so on. And look at the things you say in the house and how you behave in the house. And some people, some women, they are like men. They are amartazan or we are humble. They don't cook, they don't cook, they don't provide. You would think they can cook, but they can't cook and they don't want to cook and they don't provide. Wicked One pastor for a great church. Not in this country. There are thousands of members, he said. One day he was sitting. He told me that one day I was sitting in church and my wife was on the pulpit. She was talking and she was saying, I loved my husband and my family and God has blessed us. And he said he was looking at him to say hypocrite, liar, hypocrite, liar. And he said, look at how you tricked me in the house. Liar, hypocrite. And she was there. Stop saying hey. Oh, yeah, At the time I was talking to you, he was separated from his wife. He said, look at this, a liar. We want to have sex with you. It becomes a struggle. He's like a Mikushisi. Let's sit down to discuss peace talks before we can have access to this vagina. Oh, you don't like my message? Negotiations because of what? One vagina that you have, you are using it for various negotiations. You are using it for peace talks and bargaining. Bargaining. OK. One day I saw a certain lady. I said, when was the last time you had sex with your husband? About nine months ago. I said, hey, yeah. I said, your husband has got a girlfriend. She said, me, I said, oh, I'm I'm sure that he has a girlfriend. Nine months to one year. I'm sure he hasn't said no by the time she found out it was true. You sit there, you are happy that they don't touch you. You should rather be worried. Say please touch me, please touch me, please hold me, please touch me, please hold me. He lifted me by stale waters. Yes, you need to pray. God guide me in this, my marriage. Guide me. One day a pastor said to me, Pastor, I want to be castrated. I said why? I said you want to be castrated, why He said so that I will not have any feelings again. I said why? He said my wife even I am talking about sex. I just want to remove it so that I have the feelings again. Hey, every wife must be happy. If your husband have sex with you, it's a sign. One of the signs that he's not having sex with somebody. Yeah, it's a sign. You must be. You see, Viagra is the most sold drug in the world, drug that causes erection because erection is one of the difficult blessings to have erection. You must be thankful if your wife is not here, go and play this step in the house for us to hear because many men The thing is not working anymore, it's just used for whewing. It doesn't work. So if your husband is coming and you see him say come, come and you can come back again anytime. I'll be ready. Are you OK? You want more? Amen. Nobody knows. Most of us. See, we would not like to talk about details, Yes, but nobody knows what people are experiencing in the house. Never be deceived by the church behavior or the church appearance. Yeah, because that thing is not a sign of how the person behaves in the house. So you need direction. Jung Echo was said one time he was he was happy marital problems serious, he was praying guide and he said the Lord said to him, the Lord spoke to him and said look, you know his marriage, he has to have time to talk to his wife. This wife is like the Holy Spirit or either he was using that feature about the Holy Spirit. You know he had to go window shopping, whose wife wants to go and look at things. He would just follow her shopping with the eyes not buying anything but she wants to go. If that is what will bring happiness, you do it. What do you think? If talking to her will bring happiness, you talk. What do you think? Yeah. Anything that brings happiness or many things that have been, you must do them, not just be there. I can't do. I don't do. I'm not like that. Then also don't expect to be happy. Hallelujah. So guidance will bring you into peace in your home. Amen. He restoreth my soul and leadeth me in the path of righteousness. He will guide you, Hallelujah, in the path of righteousness. To the right church, to the right man of God, to the right ministry, to the right book. Rick Joyner, he said, pray for God to guide you to the right book. Pray that God will give you the right tapes that you need for your life. Yeah, and I believe it is one of the great, the thing that has changed my life more than anything. It's the right books and the right tape. One book can change your life. So pray God guide me so that when I entered a book I said, Lord, show me something, show me something. So there is a book that I discovered about five years ago called The Final Quest. Nobody introduced that book to me. Meanwhile, I had that book in my house, but I had never read it. I thought I had two copies. The Final Quest 2 copies were sitting in my house, but I had never read it. So I was interested in the prophetic ministry and I was looking for anybody who had written anything about prophetic me. So I saw this boy, Eric Joyner, and I'd seen his name, but I'd never read his book. So I bought that book and I went to my hotel and I was reading and I said it's a very good book. Has he written any other book? So I went back and I said I was looking and they said author of the Final Quest, author of the Final Quest. So I said, what is Final Quest? So I went and bought Final Quest. If there's anything that has transformed my life or changed my life more, more significantly in the last five years, is that particular book. Yeah, it has. It has greatly helped me and greatly been a benefit and a blessing to me. So many ways that I believe I've gone that are the right way. I have learnt it through reading that book and others from him. In fact, even now my interest in history has come because he wrote a book called Shadows of Things to Come. He said it's just history. And he wrote and he said the Lord told him if he wants to be a prophetic, he should learn about history. That's what I was sharing with you yesterday. And it is a book nobody introduced me to, but God led me to that book. He leaded me in the past. You must pray when you stand at the bookshop. You must say, Lord, show me. Don't just take a book for money, frugality or something to help you to become Lord. Show me what you what is right. Show me. Let Him guide you to what to read in the Bible. Let Him guide you where to read because I believe that I am guided by the Lord what to read at any particular time. I pray for direction. It's part of the thing that if you follow His voice, He will show you what to read in the Bible. Your quiet, your quiet time, Lord, where then you say OK, now we study Leviticus, why? And he'll show you or Robert, He said before he started me, he prayed and the Lord said to him, read through Matthew, Mark and Luke and John. Read it 3 times or 4 * 3 times or four times. Read Matthew, Mark, Luke to understand I said that so he started that project reading Matthew mark, Luke, John, Matthew, Mark Luke John Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John before starting his ministry. He said you will see the nature of Christ when you read it before he started. And all I'm trying to say is that even or a Robert, you see a significant person that he has heard from God, he has heard from God and he constantly said God said to me, build a university. You know when God told you to build a university when he was paralyzed with tuberculosis and his sister said there is a pastor who is preaching in a tent, let us go. He was lying in the back of the car and they were going and on the way to the crusade before he was even born again or or he was born again before he was even healed to even start his crusade. More than 20-30 years before he started this crusade. The Lord said to him in the car, I am going to heal you and I'm going to raise you up. You will preach my gospel and you will build me a university at the 1780 years, a teenager or young boy. You built me years ago. It's not a new thing. And he built a university cache without owing anybody. Everybody who is significant, you see that the person has had a significant direction from God before at some point in his life. This is the point that I'm trying to and I'm saying to you, seek the Lord, ask you shall receive knock. It shall be open. Seek you shall find. Let's seek, let's seek the voice and I'm showing you the areas. I'm showing you the areas that you can seek him for. You can guide. He can bring you guidance for your marriage, even who to marry, who to marry. I think you know so much about that. You need guidance. It's not easy to see, but when you are in the thing to with all the mistakes you have made, you need guidance for the thing to become peaceful. You need a lot of guidance from God. You need guidance to get to a place where you are wealthy and prosperous. You need guidance to be LED in the path of righteousness to the right book, the right tapes, the right man of God, the right text. He listed me in the path of righteousness. It's part of the guidances of God. Hallelujah. Every man of God who has ever become significant, God has spoken to him before. And if God hasn't spoken to you, let's start speaking. Let's start praying to him. Amen. Then yeah. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. For thou art with me. Thy rod. And I start. They comfort me, pray. Depending on the Holy Spirit will guide you. There are certain castes you shouldn't sit in. Yes, there are certain days you shouldn't go out. There are certain journeys you shouldn't go on. There are certain places you shouldn't be. If the Holy Spirit is in you, He will guide you. Don't go to this place. Don't go, don't go on this journey. Is it possible? You need to depend on Him. One dear brother was standing at my motorway. He was going to take my friend. He was getting into the car and somebody said don't go in this car. But he still went in the night. He was going home. He stood starting the car. There was one guy in front and another guy and he was at the back. As they were going, the driver turned off the light in the car and started to sing Lead Kindly Light. Then they told him we are Wizards. We are taking you to the cemetery to go and kill you. So they went off the It's not the fairy tale of my friends called Ajmani. He went off the motorway and took him to a cemetery and they took him out of the car and they were coming to kill him. And just as they were about to kill him, they asked him whether he would join them, join them Wizards. He said oh, he would join them. They showed him what they do, they do this, they said he would join them. So they said OK, took him back to the car and they took him to Tema. So he was now a member of their group. When he got they opened the car he got. I will not join you. But I tell you, when he told me this story, it was many years ago. He went to church and he was going home. So ladies and gentlemen, there are some cars. You know this car. I must not be in this car. And the Holy Ghost will guide you and keep you. I see Him keeping you and guiding you. Hallelujah. The next one is you depend on The Voice of God for the anointing. If you follow His voice, you will come to a place you will be anointed. Hallelujah thou anointest my head with oil, my cap runneth over. Amen. I remember I used to preach. I didn't have any miracle ministry at all. But one day I decided I want to have a miracle ministry in my life. I felt that it was important. So one day I was praying and I said, Lord, what shall I do? Because you see, when my preacher teacher, it's not easy to move into those things. You can easily be without it. Not a drop of the miracles or the supernatural. So one day, listen, I'm just sharing with you my own, how many want to be miracle workers, all of you. So I asked the Lord, what shall I do? And the Lord said to me, no. And, and I said to the Lord, I want to follow somebody. And the Lord said to me, follow this person, pointed out to somebody said this person is carrying the anointing of that person, Follow this person. And from that time, I decided to follow the person listening to the tapes, watching the video. And on this particular preacher, when I listened to him preach out in those days, I didn't understand what he was saying. His preaching was too complex. I didn't enjoy it. Even my wife, when I put on it, he said, what is this man saying? But you see, the Lord had directed me into it and I said one day I was lying in my study watching this. I wasn't even watching, I was just the thing was on. And suddenly I began to understand what the man was saying. I said this is what this man has been saying. And for the first time I began to understand his messages and to the point where I began to even admire him. Until recently I was looking at him. I said there is nobody like this man in in the world. I realized that I was being drawn closer and closer into something from a very far place. Because the Lord, he said he leadeth me. Huh. Thou anointest my head. You see, God is by his voice going to bring you to a place where there will be oil over your head. I believe it and it is a journey. I said it's a journey and you must assume you are not anointed and rather be looking for anointing rather than saying my position shows me that I'm anointed. Your position doesn't show you anything. Your position doesn't show you anything, especially if you inherited the position. You must look for anointing, you must seek to be anointed, and you must know everybody doesn't have something. That's why I'm saying that. I was. Then I checked. I was a good teacher. There's that that. But there's no power, miraculous, nothing. And I felt that as a minister, when I look in the Bible, that's not how Jesus Christ was. Jesus Christ was associated with miracles, with power, with healings, with whatever. And I call myself a Christian, so I must try to oppose myself to Christ and become like him. That was the motive that started me on that journey. I'm too different from Christ. I'm too different from Christ, my Savior and the one I'm following. I'm too different. You understand? Sometimes you must ask yourself, I'm following this. I'm too different. What is the difference? How can I close the gap? The difference is too much. The difference between what I'm reading and what I'm seeing in myself is too much. How can I close the gap? What an honor it is. Whenever somebody tells you, ah, you remind me of this person. When that day comes, then you realize you've, you've come somewhere. Person said, ah, you know, you remind me of this person. And when you are preaching, it seems you remind me of this person. Or it seems that it's not as if this is that you can see that you are beginning to get somewhere in the ministry. Oh, yeah, Everybody is learning from something. Everybody is copying something. Me, I'm copycat. Class 1A fully. I'm copycat. Professional copycat. See me for copying skills. Oh yeah, one of my great secret baby, I have to write a book called Copycat. Learn how to copy things until you do it very well. Then after that you start bringing your variations. That is what have made Korea and all these countries advance quickly. If Ghana, we were to just copy certain things, just copy fully and we would advance. That's what the Asians have done. That's what they call them the Asian Tigers. The first car I remember I bought a Daewoo. The cars Opel exactly with Opel engine, Opel body with Opel Today can you see the similarity between Daewoo and Opel? You can't see the similarity. They are completely different, but they learn how to do it by copying, Learn by copying. When you finish copying and you are very good at copying, you would have learnt thousand different things in order like the way I'm preaching. You need so many things to learn, so many things to preach what to preach, the way I'm preaching. Maybe if you can preach what I'm preaching, you would have learnt a million different things to be able to do what I'm doing. Now you have learnt it. Now you are now ready to learn more things. It's like singers, you have to listen to somebody singing and singing and copy what the person is singing. After you have learnt it fully fully, then you can start your variations. Then we'll see whether you are a singer. Me, I am copycat, Class A champion. Point me, I say champion, champion, copycat. That's my work. Whether it's buildings, I say look, this building is nice. Copy fully. Don't vary it. It's the same thing. Don't change it. When I'm building things, I said you see this thing, the same thing, don't change it. And when they are bringing to it, I say, my friend, the same thing, do it. That's how I build, that's how I preach, that's how I design. And when I've done it, I learn exactly. Then I'm moving. And you must ask yourself, why am I so different? The difference is too much. Why is that? When you preach, nobody laughs. You think about it, you have to learn something that may take you a long time before you can preach. And you see that people are happy when you are preaching, because when we are preaching it, people look very worried. They are thinking serious, you see. And that kind of preaching, you can do it nicely for 45 minutes, one hour. But after that you can continue. I can be with you without a break from now till 5:00 and you'll be here with me. Those of us who are from Lighthouse, you know we have done it many times. From the morning till the night, we'll be here till midnight. No break. 5 minutes, 10 minutes. No, we'll just be going through. You will not sleep. You can't sleep the way it is. You can't sleep, you may have one or two yawning, you may have one or two sleepy heads here and there. But I mean, even poor had Uticos and others in the church. So how, how much more somebody like me. But if you can just ask them, how can I do this exactly, just the same particular thing because it's a good thing. The way you can do it 100 percent, 100%, then flow. That's the way to learn. You want to know how to dress, put on CNN when you see President Bush. And so just follow the reason why I wear the only white shirt I have seen that those who are dressed up by professionals, they wear white shades. They don't wear pink stripes with blue whatever this this Dada, just look at the thing people are paying millions of dollars to come and dress a president or dress or whatever he wear white shirt, sometimes blue, but usually white with what a standard dressing. You want to dress a lady to look formal, go to KLM or go to one of these. You see, you see how it is, you see how it is, copy it fully. Don't change anything. Don't try to invent. Something that has been infected very well. When I wanted to get dressing for my lady pastors, I went to KLM. I said you see these people, they look for some of them are prostitutes the the air Hostess, some of them are very bad girls. But when you see them distantly coming with them, they are like professionals and we were. Some of them are very bad, sleeping with the pilot, sleeping with anybody doing it. But when they are waking, you can't see whether the breast is size 89 or size 27, whether the bottom is protruding this to the left or to the right, you can't see. But some of us, even the pastors, when we are ladies, women, we are pastoring, we are preaching, everybody's assessing, you know, in a, in a case about 2cm this way, 4 centimeters that way, this one, the breast is like this, this one. Why you can't dress there where nobody can tell whether you are slim, fat, sharp, this whatever. But if you want to learn it, there are people who have gone to school to learn it, and they are showing people so happy. I said media. I'm copic champion Copic at #1 that's it. Cloning. I'm the cloning factory. I make up the cloning factory. That's why we don't do well. Yeah. Why shed this that simple? It's your tie. Farrah Khan, you see his people, black suits. If you want to look sharp, wear blue, wear light brown, light brown or green or Gray, something black. You see Farrah Cancer bodyguards and those type of people, black, black, black. One of the best colors is black. Yeah, because you can't see that. You can't see when it's not iron. You can't see when it's not new. You can't. It always looks nice. Yeah. Black. When you want to wear your best, wear black. Including the ladies, wear black. Learn how to wear black. Things. Look on television. You see American singers, American churches, they wear black, Black. Black. People wear black. And they say black is beautiful and it tastes beautiful. It was also created by God, but when you come with your pink, something yellowish mixed with brownish green stripes and other things, it's different. It's all I know. It's nice for variation. It's there, but I'm just showing you something. So you need to learn by copying. And I was asking the Lord. Lord, I don't have any miracle in my life. The Lord said follow this man. Yeah, He has told me before this person, follow him. And also that's why maybe I may be more significant than you in the ministry because I can hear Him when He tells me. Follow this man. How come you cannot hear when the Lord tells you follow somebody or you've never heard anything like that? Start seeking the Lord because it's one of the things He does. He leads me by the path of righteousness. That is one of the things He does and He anoints my head with all. He leads you to where there is anointing. He brings you always to a place where you will become anointed. So if you are not getting any direction where God is bringing you to anointing, then I don't think you are really hearing from God. Yeah, it's one of the, if you follow the shepherd, you will get to a place where a cup, I said a cup will be poured over your head one day. One of our pastors, he had a vision. I think he's he's here. Pastor Yeley, come, come and tell us your vision. Remember the cup that was going to be poured over your head? Come. That's that's a doctor. He's a doctor, a surgeon. Give him a mic. You see, I'm talking about direction. Tell us. In this vision. First of all, he's full time pastor now in Kufuridra, but he's a surgeon. But in those days when he was working in the Confernochi Hospital. Tell us the vision you had. In this vision, I saw a cup of of oil. A cup of oil. When we poured over my head. From heaven is that also? Yes, yes, please. And then they had written the word of God in it. So just as the cup was going to be pulled over over, over my head, I heard somebody called me, called doctor and I attended. So when I attended and then the vision just went off. So I realized that no, I think that I was in the I was in the wrong place. I needed to move out of the medical practice and then do the work of God full time because. That was rather something when they started the Doctor. It's like the anointing. Or was it ever poured on you? No, it was like a distraction. A distraction of made intent and then it's like the oil. The hotel vanished. Messy. That thing alone, you see, is the is the is the is the form of guidance to show you that a spiritual gift that is to be given to you because of something, that thing is not going to be poured on you. Yeah. And what is that thing, Doctor? Mercy, Doctor. Then it's like The thing is going off. Can you receive from God? Can you hear from God? See, people are hearing from God. That is why He is even where He is today. I tell you, God leads us to anointing and you have to pray. Lord, what can I do to be more anointed? President? Do you understand, Lord? What can I? I want some more, president. Lord, I want more to anointing. Anoint me, lie on the floor and pray. Lord, lead me to the oil, lead me to the anointing. God will show you, He will. His grace will bring you to a higher place. Even things you don't plan, He will send it to you. I'm telling you He will open doors for you. He knows what you need to help you and to just mix you up so that you become more open to His anointing. And I see that he's going to do it in Jesus name, Hallelujah, Amen. Then depend on The Voice of God for the good things in this life, like the prosperity. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. Then another important thing is you need guidance and the Holy Spirit to make it to heaven and to fulfil your ministry. I shall dwell in the House of the Lord forever eternity. Look, if you don't have spiritual guidance, you will not make it to heaven in a good way. You will get there with so many surprises. One of the reasons why I was really attracted to this Rejoiners was he. He's so past this. There was a pastor in the vision. The pastor had been a pastor of a large church which had started many branches. But when he got to heaven, he was demoted to the lowest rank. And he was trying to find out why. And it was like the guy was having serious crises with his wife. He was have been fighting other pastors. So many things were going wrong with his life. But on the outside he looked like a most successful person. I became afraid for myself. Then he met another guy who had written a lot of books. I immediately became afraid for myself because this guy had written books, started churches, done so many things, but when he got there, he was sent to the Lord. I realized that it's not just the things you are doing, but even love, Christian love, and it's in the Bible. Though I have faith though I do this though I give my body to be begged why I sacrifice and I have no love. It's nothing. It profited me nothing. So I began to see that the love is so important, no matter who you are and how you are. And these were people in heaven. So if God does not guide you, so God guides you, that love is now important. The Spirit is now leading you in the way of love, which is not so traditional or soul women reaching out this and that, but showing love and mercy is God's will for your life and your ministry. I tell you, if you don't have the guidance of God when you get to heaven, you'll be surprised. One day I was sitting down there. Can I, can I please, can you get me a chair, please, One of those chairs. One day I was sitting down in my study, you know, and I prayed. You see, I'm talking about guidance. It's some vision that I've seen that I've had so many guidance, different experience of guidance. I was sitting down in my study and I said, Lord, how can I be fruitful? I've started seeing that Paul and other people, it wasn't even the things they did that made them fruitful. And suddenly I saw a vision of a hand holding a book like this. And the Lord said to me, the books, if you want to be fruitful, this I was. I was genuinely surprised. I remember I was where I was sitting on my chair. I have a chair that I sit on. I was sitting on that chair and I saw that the books. Is it not surprising perhaps for you, you may not know the importance of a book. How many have been blessed by books? Yeah, maybe that is why you are even here. And you sometimes you see that somebody is somewhere, but he's teaching you through a book quietly. He's sleeping, snoring, but he's talking to you in the house, just in a book. And so the Lord told me the books. So now I began to take my books ministry more seriously because it's like that is my food. That's why I like to give books free. Yeah, I like to give books free, worth thousands and millions. Oh, somebody said, why don't you? There's that. No, no, no, no, no. And I was reading Revelation. I saw John when he had the Revelation. I was thinking if John had used that Book of Revelation that he had written as a business to make a lot of profits and to become a millionaire, what what would be the use of it today? It's useless if I can give all my books free of charge, which I'm trying to do. And I was reading some of us, we haven't seen certain things. Ora Roberts, he said he printed 50 million books. Almost every single one of them was given away free of charge. 50 million. If you like, go and try and print 2000 copies of your book. You will see how difficult it is to even sell the 2000. Huh. I've not yet printed 1,000,000 books. I'll always printed 50 million free. He was giving them. Sharing. This is not a powerful thing. Yeah. So I would like my books to be almost free of free all the time. I personally, I have not earned any money. I don't earn money. When you buy a book, I don't get anything. I have never earned money from a book. I have never collected. When you launch a book, you keep the money. It never comes to me. It is not my money. I don't consider it as my money. And it is not. And I'm so blessed, and I feel that if God can take my books and make 50 million books, hey, it's a great thing. When I get to heaven, there will be more fruits. That's what I think. What do you think? Yeah. Is it a good idea? Yeah. I'm talking about the ministry. I'm talking about Jesus. I'm talking about guidance. I said. I'm talking about guidance. He leadeth me. I said he leadeth me. You will become significant when he leads you, when he guides you and he tells you what to preach. Don't just preach because you preached this last time and it worked. Everywhere you go, you preach that particular thing. It's wrong. You must wait on call for a fresh message every time. You can't just say this particular message. It works. When I preach it, they laugh. They say this, they do. So I will say it every time. Huh. How many have done that before? It's like the message that worked. You just release it. Mercy, before I preach, I always pray, Lord, what do you want me to say? What do you want me to preach? Because I can preach about so many things, but I believe the Lord is making you significant at this camp. Stand to your feet, please. How many do not have a copy of this book? The Art of Hearing. How many have a copy of it? All right, those who don't have a copy, I'm sure. How much has it been sold for? These are 20 thousand, 5025 thousand. I think it's quite affordable. Is it affordable? 25,000 cities. Somebody is cooking. Is somebody cooking? It's not an easy breakfast aroma that we are experiencing here. Hallelujah, lift your hands to the Lord, Thank you, Jesus, Draw me deeper, Lord, deeper into your word of truth, Romijeepa, Lordipa, into your love for me. Romijeepa, Lordipa to the place where you are, Romijeepa, that I may know your mind from me. Deeper, deeper, from the deeper, the deeper to your world. The truth from the deeper, the deeper to my love for you. From the deeper, the deeper to the place. Hallelujah Father, thank you for guiding us deeper and deeper into your word of truth in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. Now I just want to we are going to take a 5 minute break very soon, but I want to show you what I call lower methods of guidance. Do you see, sometimes when the Lord cannot get to you in a certain way, He has to lower His method of guiding you? Amen. For instance, when the Lord wanted to get Moses, do you see, to go to Median so that he could teach him his word and make him into the apostle, that he was going to make him. He got him by letting him make the mistake of murdering somebody and be driven out. Do you understand, into the Bush? Are you understanding what I'm saying? So Moses was brought to the place of God's will by his mistakes and by so-called circumstances of life. And it is important for you to realize that circumstances of life are a lower form of guidance, but it is a form of guidance. Amen. Turn with me to Proverbs chapter 3. This is what I call guided paths. When the Lord is guiding your paths. Hallelujah. Now Proverbs chapter 3, Are you there? He says, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to thy own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy He shall direct you. Amen. Shall he direct you? No. What is he going to direct? The paths, not you. There are two ways to know the way. One is by having been told the way, and the other is by the paths being directed into a particular way. Are you listening to me now? Many times when you spend a long time praying, God mercifully directs your paths so that certain things are closed and certain things are open so that you can come to the right place. Hallelujah, for instance. Because see, there is a time when we are not so close to God for Him to speak to us in that higher way. So most of the time He has to use directed path. So for your own safety, it is good for you to spend long hours praying for the future and for whatever is ahead so that God will direct your path. Are you listening to me into so that you, you walk to the right place? What do I mean by direct your path? One time I I got to an airport and I had never been to that airport. I think it was the Miami airport. And when I got down out of the bus which brought us to the terminal, when I got down, I was the first person at the door. So when I got down here was I standing at a very, very, very large airport with many, many, many terminals, and I was now going to find my way to a particular aeroplane. Do you understand? And because I was confined to America, I had to clear into America, go and check out with my luggage everything, and come and check in, you understand, to connect to South America. I think that's where I was going. So I was wondering, and I was the 1st place, there was nobody in front, so I wasn't following people. So I was wondering, where will I go? How on earth do I find my way to the place far away in Amsterdam, at the airport? Many times they will write on it. They will say from here to here, 20 minutes walk, 15 minutes walk. It can take you 20 minutes, thirty minutes to walk to the next aeroplane, because it's very far. So in this particular case, I was now the leader. How shall I find my way? Because now there are no passengers in front of me and I'm just walking. Do you know how I found my way straight? I went straight to the place. Do you know how I found my way? There was, first of all only one door that was open, so I just walked through. When I got in, there was a space. There was a door here, but it was closed. There was a door here and there was a staircase here. Since this door was closed and this door was closed, I walked up the stairs. When I got up the stairs, there was a corridor going here and another going here. But this way was blocked. So this way was open. So I went this way and as I went on, there was a place block. There was a place block, and this place was open. So I just continued. I got to a place where there was a 123, here was close, here was close, here was open. And I went through until I came to exactly the place as though I I was the one who built the airport because the paths were directed, not me. I was not told anything, but the paths were told how to arrange themselves because I was coming there. Hallelujah. And that is one of the ways God directed that he will not speak to you. How many? I realized as soon as you can pray for 10 hours, Oh God guide me and he will say it's been a wet like this. Mercy. I remember one day I was in South Africa, I was in a hotel praying. I pray from morning to evening. I particularly remember that day because I got that it was dark. I prayed the sun like him. I was kneeling on the bed. I prayed till the evening, till the sun went down. I was trying to hear from God. By the evening I said, Lord, where are you? Where are you? I've been here since morning trying to locate you. I cannot hear from you. 0 Hey, I see all these prayers, they work. God hears and he starts arranging. Make sure you don't meet this particular bad person. Make sure you meet this good person. Make sure this person, when you meet, you quarrel with the person so that you don't have friends with you, not become friends with that person. That's why you have quarrel with certain people, because God is trying to finish that area. You shouldn't go to that place again. Yeah, God is trying to this place to get spoiled or there's no flow there because God is trying to finish certain things and make this place work. Oh, yeah. He doesn't speak a word. At Miami Airport. They didn't say a word, even one word even. Welcome. Hello. This way that we know. And I just went the first place. It was wonderful because I was standing here. I was outside. Outside. It's a road. A bus dropped us. And this was the only place I was open when I went to. That's a square. This place was closed. This place was closed, but there was a staircase going to the right up. I look here, look here. When I look back, all the people were following me. Let's go. I'm the leader. I know the way because somebody has directed the path for me before I came here. Hallelujah. And that is the only way you can have confidence many times that you are doing the will of God is by praying beforehand. Acknowledge the Lord in all thy ways. That's what it means. Acknowledge the Lord in all thy ways. It means pray. It's a simple way of saying pray. Pray in all thy ways. Don't pray in crisis. Pray before. A pastor cannot pray during crisis. Christ did not pray when they arrested him. He prayed before. When the crisis comes, don't bother to pray. You can't even pray. I said you cannot pray when there is trouble. Stop trying, pray before and trust him and he will guide you to the right place. You want to get married, you propose to this girl, she says no, just keep moving, that door has been closed. The next one will say yes. If she also says no, thank God you didn't marry that witch and move to the next one. Yes, yes, move on to the next person. God has closed so many doors and He's going to leave one particular one that is going to work for you. How many believe that God is great? How many believe that He's guiding you? I see God leading you by His Angel, by His power. Oh, I tell you, I feel so much that if God speaks to you, you will become a great person. How many can feel that way too? That if God speaks to you, you will become a great person in the ministry no matter where you are. You will become significant. You will become great in the ministry no matter who you are. It's my prayer for you that you will rise up and listen to the Spirit. Call on Him until He say, and even if He doesn't say something, invoke Proverbs 3, five and six on your life. Whenever you pray, there's no answer. That's your last hope, that you have acknowledged Him and He is going to direct your path. What do you think? Isn't it not a good last hope? Yeah. Pray that there was nothing that was said clearly. Just trust the Lord and keep moving. That's how sometimes I sometimes when I'm taking decisions. Have you prayed about going to start a church? And no, I've not prayed about it. I've prayed already and I don't know what to do. So I just take decision. One day somebody asked me, do you know what I said? I don't know what I'm doing. I am not sure of what I'm doing. Are you sure? How many are sure? I'm not sure. I'm not sure of most of the things I'm doing, but I'm trusting and I've prayed before. That's why I won't lie to you. I've prayed about it. I've committed it to God. He hasn't said anything in particular, so I'm sort of having to use my mind. But because I've acknowledged Him, I'm expecting that the mistakes will be stopped. The ones that are supposed to go on will work, and the Lord will work things out according to His divine plan. Hallelujah. So lower forms of guidance, lower forms of guidance are in existence. And that's why after God sacked Moses from Egypt without speaking to him, after that he began to speak to him. Yeah. May you begin to have higher forms of guidance? Yes, higher forms, higher and higher and higher and higher and higher and higher forms of guidance. But you see, you must trust God. I said, You must trust God. How many trust God? When the door here is closed, believe that God has closed it. When the door here is open, believe that He has opened it. When you see something that is not what you want, believe that this is what God is doing. You must believe in God, believe in God. Paul said, Whose I am and whom? I said, you must believe that you belong to God. Nothing can happen in your life unless God is directing it. I would say the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord. Even the thoughts of the king, he turns it like this. He turns it like that. It's God's hand that is turning the mind of the king this way and that way and that way must believe God. I said you must believe in God. You must believe in God. Stop believing in yourself. You can't do much anyway. It's God who can help you. It's God who can raise you up. It's God who can turn things in your favour. You must trust God. We must trust God in Africa. We mustn't constantly say, oh, if we had money, oh, if we had this, oh, if God was to do that or if we had that, no, well, let's believe that. That's how he wanted it to be, and that's how we are working with it as it is. Do you believe in God? Hallelujah, Stand to your feet. All right, Hallelujah. I want to recommend you everybody to get a copy of this book. Don't forget you don't make me rich. When you buy a book, I don't get even one CD. You are helping yourself. I will recommend to you. So this book has many small chapters. Read it, read it 50 times till it means something, till the Spirit in the book enters you. I said till the Spirit in the book enters you, When you follow the voice of the Spirit, you are going to get to a place where you will not be replaced. Amen. How many want to be replaced? Today the Lord was showing me. He showed me that everything he gives to somebody is for someone else. Yeah, Anything he gives you is for somebody. The Lord told Moses, I'm taking you to the land, a land of Canaan, a land that flows with milk. And not only does he flow with milk and honey, but it's the land of the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites and the Paris. It's for somebody, but I'm giving you what is for somebody. Mercy, that is, one of God's expert moves is to give you what belongs to somebody and to give somebody what belongs to you. If you like, joke with what you have. Take from him the pound and give it to another. Take his pound and give it to another. You see this guy with a gift? Take his gift and give it to somebody else. Yes, sometimes when we make certain pronouncements, we are opening the door for God to remove the gift and give it to somebody else. The church I'm pastoring is somebody's church that I'm pastoring. It was the Peru's eyes and the Hivites church and God gave it to me. Even the building was for somebody. The land is for somebody because I'm giving you this man's land. Sometimes God is giving you someone else's ministry. Look, one day, pastor, therefore come, let me show you. Let's. Can you see? Can you see from there? Yeah. Sit in the chair. No, I wasn't sitting. I saw a vision. Sit down like this. Go down. Crouch. No, no, no, no, no. Don't sit down. Crouch. Squat. Uh huh. Squat. I saw a vision. In the vision here, the Lord lifted somebody like this up and put a person here. Then I saw myself being held here also and being brought to that place and the Lord said to me, you are replacing somebody. I tell you said you are, you are replacing somebody. Some years ago I'll never forget I said, hey, what does it mean I am replacing? Who am I replacing? But you see, the Lord is also showing me that we are all replacing somebody. And if you joke with what God has given you, you will be replaced by somebody else, a better person who come for you. God, Yes you can. God said I am sending you. It's not just a land of milk. And I thought some people, let me mention their names. He invite Jebusite, Philistines. Kalamite is for them. If you don't like that ministry in Takrani, God will give it to somebody else. If you don't like it, God will give Pastashi. The church. Why was it not for somebody, Somebody's church? My ministry is somebody's ministry. Yeah, I have replaced somebody. And somebody can easily replace me if I don't like what I'm doing. If I like, I should start complaining. Mercy. That is why you need guidance to be careful. Because if you if you don't have guidance, you can easily act in a way as though you don't appreciate the calling of God and you don't appreciate the gift of God. And God can say, my friend, too much talking is no good. Come to the side and then somebody will be brought in. Cast you, the unprofitable servant. Cast him out. He's my servant, but he's not useful. Take him out. Because I gave you one talent, but you wouldn't use it. I see. What talent is too small? Oh, it's too small for you. It's too small. I'm going to bring somebody else who likes it. Cast you out, the unprofitable servant. I gave you a gift. You wouldn't use it. I will change you. I will replace you. It's too small. Thank God for what he has given us. Let's be led by his Spirit before we are. You remember the story of the prophet who was going? The Lord said don't eat bread in Bethel and another guy came and advised him it and when he ate and on his way a lion at him. Guidance will prevent you from losing your place. Lift up your hands. I want you to pray, Lord, help me to seek your face. Help me to search for you, Lord, till I find you, till I find my place in you, Lord. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your great blessing. San de le mere gilesh parim belle re menende re belle grandes and legendo la maraca calam de le belle quedoso cuerimbos cuarambas perino lo chimble cresample rimaldos cuen plele crandel cuandeles caleglobreses shelli bolandos suli cuel de cualdirola blos suiglere mandeli Corolla vise manancines a vegon vise vendo la branes en Angelo prez de Libra. Oh, yes, Hallelujah. Thank you. You may be seated. All right, All right, Hallelujah. We are going to take a break. Amen. And we'll restart in about 50 minutes. But I want you to pray that the Lord will show you which book to have, because I believe that He has some books for you. What do you think in Tulsa, OK? Dennis, it was the year you didn't come. You should have come that day. Papa Hagen was ministering. I'm talking about what made I've never been in a service like that in my life. It was supernatural. He was just at a point. He prophesied and he fell down. He gave him a chair. He continued. Then he spoke and he said he told about how an Angel appeared to him. He was in a service and the Angel said to come. And follow, follow me. So here he followed the Angel down the aisle. The Angel turned right and the Angel stood by a man said, pray for him. Whilst we were in the church. The Angel appeared to him that that day. And the Angel said Come. And he followed the Angel. I said it was like a film. He's the only one who could see the Angel. It was like a film. Follow me. And he followed me, brought him to a particular pastor, pray for this, pray for. And I thought about that the Angel himself will not minister by a man because God in this era has chosen that man will minister to a man. And the angels pray for this one. Hey, In fact, you see, once a person gets to a realm where God is speaking to him, it's like he has just gone into another realm level. I see you rising into that level. How many are going to get into, you know why God is making me speak to you about it? Because when I stir up your interest and your desire, Baba said desire, spiritual desire, the best if you desire it and you are going to. I know there are a lot of people here are going to go higher at the minute. Oh yeah, God will speak to you wherever you are. You see that he has spoken to you. If he has told you something about something, even your marriage and your life. You say do this. Papa Hagen said he was sitting on the on the stage. His wife had got a goiter. It had become so much that she was now choking and she could not breathe. And he believed in faith healing and he did not was afraid say if the operator, in fact the doctors have said if you operate on an issue, she may die Suddenly the Lord appeared to him on his right. He said operation, let her go and do the operation. Hey, if in hospital that you go, Jesus is appearing to guide you, Will you not be an important person in this world? Hey, I want more supernatural visits from the Lord. Yeah. Bishop Oyedepo in Nigeria, Winess Chapel. He always talks. He one of the common phrases he uses. This Commission, this mission, this Commission, because he said God spoke to him and on the beginning of all his tapes, they write, they say God spoke to him to go and deliver the masses of oppressed people in the world, in Africa and so on. And God has sent him to, he continually harps on that thing that God has spoken to him and has sent him to Africa, to minister to the oppressed peoples in Africa. That's why he's significant, because he's not just doing something. God has spoken to him to do that. May God speak to you about something and show you about something. Hallelujah. How many feel that you are near an Angel this morning? There's an Angel nearby. Did anybody have a dream yesterday? You had a dream yesterday. Do you want to share your dream? Oh, it's for you. OK. May you have more dreams. I said. May you have more dreams and visions. Just a dream can elevate you above your brothers. Joseph was elevated above his brothers by the dream they added. Judah Rubin. All those guys, they don't dream. Pasazak, may you begin to have a series of dreams. A series of dreams. Important dreams receive visions and impartations. Supernatural visions. Well, now you even get to the place where the person does. You see like a Jacob and all those guys, the Bible says they came, three men came to the house, they were spiritual abiso, they ate food, they drank water, and then they vanished. These were real. These are visions where the person has become physical, like how Jesus came to his disciples and act with them. Can he not appear again to eat with us? If one day I'm sitting upstairs in my house and Jesus appears to come and sit with me to eat and, and I, I, I guess I said sit down, sit down. I've come to talk to you about AIDS. It means that something is happening in my life. Oh, it will happen. I said it will happen practically in your life. A ministry. As I've been preaching, remember myself, I'm surprised at how many different things the Lord has spoken to me about. There's always something apart from the ones that I perceive. That's sometimes I perceive something. No, I perceive something, but that's different. There are a lot of things I perceive and feel, but I'm talking about now. You, you, you. He's told you something. Now He's giving you a dream. He's giving you a vision. Just told you something in your ear. Audio. Have you had an audio vision before? Were you here, Doctor Brown? Like this? You like this? And the voice said hello. Yeah. It's like a voice in your ear. Lay your hand on your father. Open our ears. Let your spirit speak to our ears. Let us hear. Lay your hands on your eyes, Lord, Let the blindness go, and let the spiritual eyes be open. Let our eyes be anointed with eyes salve in the name of Jesus Christ. Oh Hallelujah. All blind pastors are healed today in the name of Jesus. All deaf pastors are healed today in the name of Jesus. All spiritual ears and eyes are enlightened today in the name of Jesus. A new chapter and a new wave of enlightenment and glory is upon your life and upon your ministry in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. You will never be the same again. You will never be the same again. No matter your calling, no matter your village, no matter your town, God's grace and God's ministry will be upon you. God will call you from your corner. God will raise you from your corner. God will raise you from your corner. God will raise you from your corner. God will raise you from your corner. God will raise you from your corner. God will raise you from your corner. God will raise you from your corner and bless you from the corner. He will bless you from your little corner. By his voice He will speak. He will raise you up and separate you from your brothers and your sisters, from your colleagues and those that are with you. And He will lift you and take you ahead and forward and bless you, and bless your heartland, bless your right hand and your left hand, and bless you in the morning, and bless you in the evening. And it will cause you to go forward and excel and exceed. For the Lord shall be with you. He shall speak with you in the morning. He shall speak with you in the night time. He shall speak to you in the new day. For the Lord is with you. He is your blessing. For the Lord said to the Levi, he said, I the Lord shall be your reward. You shall have no portion, but I am your I am your portion. He said to Abraham, I am your great and exceeding great reward. My existence and my presence and my voice is your reward. My existence in your life is your reward and your blessing. I am your exceeding great reward. Thank you, thank you Jesus. May the dullness of our hearts be taken away. May we believe in you, oh God, that you are able and more than able. Hallelujah, God bless you. You may be seated. Amen. Now when we come back after our our break, I want to share with you about spiritual authority because to become significant, you need to become a person of spiritual authority. Spiritual authority is not given to you by complimentary cards or other such things. And I believe that when we come back during the next session, God is going to raise you to be a person of authority where your name will be more powerful than your title, the title you are bearing. Did you understand me? I said where your name mean more powerful than the title that you have added to your name. The mention of your name, Hallelujah. God bless you.