04. Things You Must Do With The Ministry You Received Part 2

Welcome to track #4 of Mission America. We have a whole song just dedicated to you fantastic American Dream. The song is called American Dream. Right, glory to God, we're just going to have a short session and then we will close and come early in the morning, right? 7 things to do with the ministry you have received. 1 is what? Pardon. Do not become wary of the ministry #2 take heed to the ministry #3 fulfill the ministry #4 do #4 be faithful in the ministry. First Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 2. Moreover, it is required in Stuarts that a man be found faithful. Moreover, it is required is to and now what does it mean to be faithful? It means to be constant, Amen. It means to be the same. To be faithful is to be constant is to be the same, Amen. Now, how many of you have not? I'm not trying to say that I have any good qualities, but how many of these have been saying the same thing for some time? I mean, I was surprised when a pastor from Mozambique said that I preached about what missionary The missionary church in Kumasi in 1999. Yeah, that is, there must be mission. Mission Kumasi, isn't it? And today there are missions. And I think out of that, I've probably had some churches. So I I have strong faith that out of this camp meeting, there are going to be missions. Amen. I really believe so, Amen. And I want you and I want to speak now to the older pastors. To be faithful means to be constant. You see, many of you have served the Lord. You are very, you are being very faithful now. This is the whole idea. Be faithful to the end. Amen. Because Lighthouse Chapel is 20 years old here. So 1994. I came 2014. And if we were an anniversary church, this would be a big anniversary. Yeah, and there is a lot to celebrate. If there's nothing to celebrate that I would say to celebrate to be the faithfulness of the pastors for 20 years. That's what I can say. Pastors have been here faithful for 20 years. I've lay pastors. This is a great thing. So now it's it's time to be still be constant in faithfulness, in obedience. And what I have, what I have been sharing, you see, is now produce your sons. You know, if you produce churches now, I want you to produce your sons and your children and I tell you your own biological children, God will touch them. You will look at your children and say thank you, Lord. Yes. And I know God is going to bless some of your children because of you, not not because of them, but because of you. God will touch them. It's, it's look, if you ever have children, you will know that it is only the power of God that can make your child sit in the congregation like this and be serving the Lord. Because children have their own minds and sometimes they grow up. Sometimes they grow up and they choose what you are against. That is what they choose. There are two types of children, those who choose against you and those who choose for you. I'm telling you, and something can descend on your child. If you choose this political party, he will choose the other one. Like if you choose, is it what you have? You're Democrat, he would choose Republican. If you choose church, he would choose something else. The world, I mean, everything different. Yeah. So God is going to use your children. So this is not the time to be unfaithful. This is the time to show your children a steady example so that they are stable. Because just as physical divorce effects children's stability spirituality, when you divorce and you break away from your family, it also effects even your children's outcome and future. There are people whose children are 2321 years old who would have been maybe sitting here and maybe becoming pastors or even being inspired or going along, but because their parents left, they are completely in a different world and a different life. So right now, what it is is that the faithfulness of us as ministers at a certain stage and age, it's almost like the effect of it is not Even so much on the church, but on you as a person, your children and the life even on other things. Yeah. The marriages, even of your children. Yeah, because you, you, you disconnect them and you divorce them from whatever is home and they become confused. They don't even know how to relate with me. Maybe I would have been their best. I would have become. Maybe I may have been a role model to them, or maybe they may have really liked me because a lot, a lot of the pastor's children, they know me and they like me. I mean, we do not prefer your child to like a pastor than to like, I mean, a singing pop star or some other person, a basketball player. Because whatever you, whatever you, whatever you say or not, your children are choosing some kind of a role model. Why disconnect them from what is a blessing to them? I'm telling you so, brothers and sisters, honestly, this is rather the time to be constant if you have been constant up till now. And I know why I'm saying that because there are devils that want to spoil and destabilize. You see, when something happens once, it means that a spirit has come and that spirit wants to take people. Yeah. So as we have had it, at least one in America, one or two in America, that spirit is here. And you feel that we don't know that he's here, that he's around and he wants to take one after the other, you know, but he's going to be unsuccessful unless you flow with him. And you flow with, you see devils are the most real things. You see angels and human beings have always interacted. Angels and human beings. We are like a sister creation. The Bible tells us in Job that the sons of God rejoiced when they saw the creation of this world. The sons of God were already in existence. We know they were there before we came because when Adam and Eve, God, somebody was there already. So Job tells that the sons of God rejoiced when the heavens and the earth were made. As soon as this world came into existence, they started to infest, trying to spoil things. And you see, it was like we are sister creation. And it's like as some of them have fallen, that's the time to get others to fall as well. But you see, God, you may ask, why doesn't God protect the human beings from the devil? Because for the same reason, the same reason for which I don't want to be with anybody who doesn't want to be with me. I don't want anybody to join the church who doesn't really want to join the church. And I don't want anybody to work for me who doesn't really want to work. I don't want any. Look, maybe some of you haven't had a chance to work with that. When you rather work full time, we'd rather give you money to go. If you stay rather, we may not give you money, but if you want to go rather we give you money to go because we don't want anybody to stay who doesn't want to be here. I tell you when you have people who don't want to be with you and who are forced to be with you, it's like having a snake in your in your bed. Yeah. So God is asking people to choose, do you like me? Do you want me or you want something else? And the devil plays that role in serving as a test. And it's like we have to choose what we will do. And that's what Adam did. He he he was tested, you know, he and his wife. And then, you know, here we are. And since then, he's always been around. You can hardly do anything without the devil coming into the picture. Jesus came on the scene. I mean, Matthew, chapter 1, chapter 2, he's born. By chapter 2, he's born. Chapter 3 is moving. And then chapter 4, Satan himself come to meet him in the world. And they totally try to sort him and finish him off. Yeah. And through after that throughout Jesus kept on meeting and interacting with devils in individuals, in people and in animals. You know, in recent of the historical text, even after Noah's, Noah's, when Noah's flood came, it was because the sons of God had had intercourse, the distance of God where on earth. And to have intercourse, they must have become human beings to have intercourse. Yeah. How do they become. So it's like some of the men were like they were angels. They turn into angels into men. That's how you meet angels, by turning into. That's why I said that many have interacted with angels unawares. Some of you, you've had sex with certain people and you changed after that. Maybe it was an Angel. You look, there are people who tell you, I don't even know the people I've slept with. Many people you don't know I you slept with, you don't know who you slept with. Don't Look, I said, oh, what? You know what I'm talking about. You slept with people, you don't know who they are and you, you. So then you give birth to a child or you have some kind of spirits in you. So when the Noah, when Noah, when God saw that the whole creation was destroyed by this interaction, he wanted to wipe them out. If you read some of the ancient texts, when the flood came, all the, the, the, the every, all the human beings died. But the fallen angels and their offspring, their offspring was human beings mixed with angels. The angels don't die, so they couldn't die. And then the the watchers, the angels, The Who came to do that were there. Brother, brother, brother, stand up. Where is he? There must be this one. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. This one, you don't know how to do it. Come, come. No, no, no. That's not how to come. No, no. Turn around. It is not yet 11:00 and your eyes are closing. There must be water. Please get your Coca-Cola ready. That one. We are going to use that one. There's sugar in it. It is sweet. Hey, are you there? What was I? What was I telling you about? Yeah, I knew what I was telling you. I wanted to see if you knew what I was telling you. So when the Noah's flood came, some of the, you know, the Asian texts, they tell us that. And when the flood came, the watchers of the angels and their offspring escaped. They had escaped and waited. They escaped and they waited. Yeah, of course they escaped and waited. All these things are implied without seeing it even in the Bible. But there are some texts which have all these included. They must have, otherwise how do you explain? After the flood, here comes giants again when Joshua is about to enter the promised land. The whole promised land fiasco came about because of these giants who were there. They were real giants. Joshua was the sons of Anak. And there are other giants earlier on, but I don't, I'm sure you wouldn't know them, so I don't want to mention them in the Bible. They are amims and Zimmons. Yeah, when you check the meaning of those where they are all giants, amims and Zimmons. And after Joshua, David encountered Goliath and Goliath's brother Ishbibenob and other giants of the king of Bashan, Where did these guys come from? And the dinosaurs, and you find out that this Angel, this spirit, they, they are like, it's like whatever human beings are doing, they came to spoil it, to corrupt it, and they committed all sorts of sins against men and animals. That is why you find like, like, like dinosaurs and a mixture of reptiles and birds. Yeah. They have like lizard type of features. And then with the fish bone, the tail of the of the bed, and their bones are hollow. If you watch Jurassic Park, you'll see that they are both birds and reptiles mixing the animals. When you read Leviticus, you see that it warns against all these things. But all those things were wiped out and the giants and all that that came back. So, brothers and sisters, you can hardly do anything step on this earth and not interact with devils. We can hardly be in America without meeting devils. And if you are prone to it, they will take you out. They will take you and your family out. Yeah. If you are prone to depression, you are prone to pride, you are prone to independent spirit, you are prone to open yourself to Lucifer, you'll be out. Yeah, It's just a matter of time. Something will speak to you. And before you realize you put two and two together. So I'm off. Yeah, it's just a matter of time. But for 20 years, these demons have not been able to affect the judgements. And I'm saying to you, if they are able to take one or two, you should expect that they are trying to take 3 or 4 and that they are still around. Yeah. And so you, you, you don't, you don't have to take it for granted. And that is why I'm, as I'm telling you, be faithful. It's like I'm telling you, be loyal. You have to be faithful in your ministry to the end. And I'm now showing you the way you are going to be faithful is see the young people as your products that will give you joy. That's what I'm saying, that when I see some of you in America, I mean, you see, some of you treat me like a celebrity, like you're happy to see me and all that, But that is not what I need. If you do the work, the will of God, if you do the work, I have filled with more joy. I will be closer to. I will be your friends. Yeah, I'll be your friend. It's not all the apps. Oh, Bishop. Hello, Bishop. So happy to see you. Bishop. Oh, Bishop. That's not easy. Thank you. I'm glad that you're happy to see me, but it's not about that, it's about the doing. Otherwise it's secure 32. Three, put it back. It's secure 33. That is what is happening. And Lord, thou art unto them a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument. For the hear thy words, but they do them not Amen. Amen. Try, try and do something for the Lord. Try, try to bring up the young. Those of you who are pastors, ancient of these pastors in churches have a young person as a pastor. I appointed so many young people as pastors, even my little Cadela who is my chief elder more than 19 years, 20, I've met all I've appointed all of them as pastors. When I'm not there, they are preaching. Oh, yeah. And they are good preachers. Yeah. You see this little girl like that, skinny little child like that, They are preachers. Preach powerfully. They rather are even the faithful ones, small, small boys and girls preaching to 1000 people. Yeah. Yeah, Why not? Why not? When I was 18, was I not preaching? When I was 19, was I not preaching? When I was 20, it was kind of following up people and visiting without having written a book on visitation. I was visiting. Yeah, with maps. So be faithful. It is it Actually, I am. I am. You see, you didn't even know you were having an anniversary. I have come to tell you, Charlie, it's 20 years anniversary. 20 years anniversary. Maybe that's why the Lord said I should come and have a camp here. I believe the laws. I should be here to have a camp. 30 years anniversary of faith, 20 years of your faithfulness. You have not changed. You have not turned against me. You have not been angry. 20 years. You live in America, I live in Ghana, and you have maintained your faithfulness to me and me to the whole chest. Bishop Joel has been here. I mean, it's a wonderful thing. It's worth thanking God for 20 years of faithfulness right here in America. Yeah, and they still, there's minshe in the church. Tell somebody, I don't know if you are learning that new word, but there's a new word in the there's a new term in the church. It's called minshe. Minshe, 20 years of minshe in the church. They are still happy to see me after 20 years. And all of you here, you are just a small section of the church, a small section of the church. And and you see, my small complaint is that I am not seeing the people you are covering. Yeah, I want to see them. I want you to lift the blankets and suck them from the church and say that's your father. That's what Bishop Saki has done all these years. He always points the people that see he's the he's the real, he's the main pastor. That's why I can I can walk out of the Kodesh and come back to the Kodesh. I don't feel even that old. The people do the people like the no here I can always this Is he the real pastor? We are. We are assisting. He's the main man. All the people that I work with me, many of them come to him first and he says, oh, no, here, this is the way. Open the door. Come and see. Yeah, it's a blessing. It's a blessing. But some of you, you have covered them with black. This man is an extremist though. Just you know, we, we are, we are the, we are the, we are normal pastors, you know, just listen to our small, small messages. Everything will be OK. Then don't, don't get too near. You know when you get too near, I realize you are a full time ministry. Just just take your time. Kill, kill yourself for Jesus. What happened to you? No, no, don't do that. Don't do that. It's your children. Oh, it's your children. Yeah, your children. Yeah. And you've, you've you've done a mission. You know that. I told you, I just came from Denmark. I mean, the guy has stood in that country for 20 years free. And the church that he has is just like many of the churches we have here, 20. That's 20 years mission. Yeah. That's what you can get in places like this. You have been missionaries, but you don't know. Yeah, you have been missionaries here. It's true. You came here for another reason, but the reason was converted on the way. Yeah, the reason was converted. I had a dream, the American dream. But now I have another dream. I have another dream to build the Kingdom of God. I mean, how many of you didn't? You have the American dream. You had the American dream. Only one person is admitting that you had a dream here. The rest of you, you had a Japanese dream or what? Then why did you not raise your eye? Power town, all of you. You have a better dream, but it doesn't mean that you didn't have. You had the American dream. I I need your faithfulness to continue into 40 years of faithfulness, 40 years of faithfulness, another 20 years. Let's continue by 20 years. Add 20 to your age. Most of you will be like this. Like this, You'll be, you'll be happy. You say, Bishop, you know, when you came to talk to us about these young people, we thought we didn't understand what you were saying. But now look at us. Some of you come there. I'm blind. I can't see with this eye. I tell you, I can hardly see. They have to drive me around. Yeah, I can hardly see. They driving me around. I'm so happy that I tried to raise up some young people. Now, instead of 1 church, we have 15 churches. And I don't even have to be at any of the churches. They are all people. All these young, young people do. Well, they are past. Even now they are in their 40s. Wow. Then you call them and say, listen, my son, come. You need other younger people than you. You know, you are getting old. There must be missions. There must be new pastors, new workers. Amen. If you can have sex. Yeah, yeah. I firmly believe if you can have sex, you can have a church because no, because no, no, not because sex. It's a thing that mature people do and you are doing it or you have done it. And if you are able to do something that grown-ups are supposed to be doing, something that only grown-ups are supposed to do, you are not supposed to do, but you are doing or have done and know all about it. Even if you have been done by video lessons, you have, you have you have you have discovered everything online courses. Wow, tell somebody I'm going to be faithful, I'm going to be faithful #5 Approve yourself as a minister. That's what you must do. Approve yourself in the ministry. Approve yourself. 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 approve yourself as a minister of God through patience, afflictions, necessities, distresses, etcetera. Now if you notice in Second Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 4 it says that in all things approve approving ourselves. You know, approving means like making foolproof or proving that you are truly a minister. In what? In much patience, huh? You see, you prove yourself and you prove your ministry in patience and then in afflictions. OK, nobody said everything is going to be easy. If you are expecting things to be easy, then resign now. Just resign and forget about everything. Ministry is not easy, Amen. Ministry is not easy in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses. There are things in the ministry that are going to be distressing. Amen. In stripes, beatings, pondings. I can't mean you must be able to receive water and coke and everything poured on without being angry. Listen and and if you make your face we pond you again, then I'd be happy that you have been ponded. There's Misha in the church. Imprisonment. When you start a church, it's like a prison. You can't go anywhere again. Every Sunday you have to be there. Yeah, that's what happened to me when I started a church. It's like I can't go on holiday because these people are always there. It's a kind of imprisonment in Tamils, in laborers, in watchings, labor, hard work. That's why some people's churches don't grow. They are not into labor. And because they don't labor hard, it doesn't prove that they are good ministers. Or you can always see a hard working pastor's church. You see that Charlie, the guy doesn't rest. He's always on the move. He doesn't just lie down. Even your members, for your members to be at this camp, those who have a lot of members at the camp, it's usually from the pastor, the way he mobilizes the people. It is usually the how many of you are pastors really mobilized you and really impressed on you to come stand up if you you upper. Which church? Which church is that? Bronx. What are the Bronx people? Stand up. Bronx people. Yeah. Some are at the airports on their way here. Their flights are cancelled. Who's your pastor? Reverend who? Right? Uh huh. Yeah. Why do you say he mobilized you? We don't have an option. What do you mean by you don't have an option? Give me a microphone. What does it mean not to have an option? He only finds out those who are not coming. He only finds out. About those he he looks out for those who are not coming. He doesn't ask whether you are coming or not. Everybody is coming. Hello. Will you give a volume before something happens to you at the back there? Just give a volume, OK, I say again. He doesn't give us an option. He doesn't give you an option. An option of what stain he? Doesn't even ask if you are coming. He knows you are coming. We start from the the fact that you are coming. Yeah, really, That's what they're all. They're all starting here. Bronx people. Isn't it fantastic? Are you also from the Bronx? Phoenix. No, wait, I'm talking to Bronx. But why do you stand up when you are not from Bronx? Be very be very careful, OK? Yeah. You see, there are members who are already on their own motivated baby through podcast or some other reason. They all come on their own anyway. But there are those who are here because the pastor is such that he will even make you come before you yourself will become addicted to coming for camps. That's why I see those who have come for camp. They come for camps always. Yeah. You see it from the pastor. I'm telling you so. I'm not saying that other pastors are not doing well. That's the at least the Bronx Pastor Ransford. Who's shouting. Ransford, stand up. If you shout at Ransford, why do you shout Ransford? Reverend Ron has done what give me. He's not a good pastor. Come, come, Madeleine, come quickly, he said. Reverend Ransford was not a good pastor. You are coming. You have to be here. No excuse. There's no excuse. You will make your way. You will find money. You will come. Bottom line. By who? Said by who? Reverend Ransford. Reverend Ransford, Wow. From which country is that? Dallas. Wow. What are the Dallas Syrians? Stand up. Let me see. Dallas, people. Wow, you will come, you will find money and what again? No. All the excuses, there's no excuse. There's no. Excuse. Talk to your your supervisor. Talk to your manager. Talk to your supervisor. Talk to your manager. Wow. We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll take money from and who's not going give money? Who's not going take money, get money. That's what I'm saying. You see, when you are experienced, you, you, you see you all the things which you think are little tricks. I said, oh, most of my people are not about to come. That's about this one said that it's having this same the supervisor service and this one said the manager service. But when you are experienced here, the manager service, when you get to the job, we are going. No manager. Nonsense. Find a way of going. Yeah. You think I we think we don't know that. You think I didn't know that? We organized this camp on Monday, on a Monday and Tuesday. I know they haven't come. It's been 20. Look, by this time I should know one or two things. 20 years of this work in this country. Our armies know something. One or two things. We can have come. But if people want to come, they will come. I need the pastors make them come. They will come. You'll hear your father say, my friend, there's nothing like you are not coming. We are going. Start singing. We are going. Heaven knows I go away. We know we will. We will get there. Heaven knows how we will get there. We know we will. Simple. It will be hard, we know, and the road will be mighty and rough. But we'll get there. Heaven knows how we will get there. We know we will. We know we will after 20 years of listening, all these things you should have said to somebody who has just come to America for the first time, that somebody who's been coming for 20 years, he must know one or two things. And you 2 should know one or two things. Amen. So it's nice to see all of you, and I'm sure all the other pastors can. I'm sure you are all, you are all mobilized. And those of you whose members always have a good excuse because you are their pastor, you know, you should change so that you don't lose your reward. Yeah. Expose your people to what is good. You see, some of you rather keep your, your your members from me. You see, one day somebody said, oh, I don't want my husband to be friends with Bishop. Yeah, I don't want my my husband to be close. If you he will be full time you just now he's working at the bank just now when he's become friend with Bishop, he before I read I say he's coming to full time ministry. Yeah, he don't want your husband to be my friend because if he becomes my friend just now, now he'll say that he's coming to full time ministry. So let's keep him away. Hey, no problem. He will find another friend, and he finds the other friend. You come crying. So, Bishop, you don't know what I'm going through. You don't know what it's like to be married to somebody who is doing this and this and that, who I don't know what it's like. When he wanted to come close to me, you said you don't want him to be close to me because if he comes close to me, he'll start getting ideas of a full time ministry. Hey, so you keep him away from me or your child. Hey, I don't want my child. Bishop said no, his child is going to be whatever. Let me keep my children. Let me keep my children, OK? Your child will come to you one day and say, Daddy, I realized that I'm really a woman, a man woman. Then you start to say, oh, no, no, I should have let my child go closer to Bishop. Yeah. To be a first life child would have been better. Yeah, would have been better. Your child will come and tell you a lot of a lot of people you know. It's a spirit, it's a homosexual spirit. It's plenty all over. Sit down. A lot of boys think they are not sure whether they are boys or girls. A lot of boys, if you start talking to them, they'll tell you. You know, I sometimes have. I sometimes have probably. I don't know what I feel, what I'm feeling with it, to ride this way of that. It's not what I'm imagining. It's what I what it is. I've had it. Yeah, 'cause I'm a pastor, practically. You don't know that the boys have had to tell that you are not a girl. As a pastor, I said you are not a girl. I proved to them that they are not girls. I explained to them you are not a girl. Don't listen to that. I explain it to them medically. You are not a girl. You are not like a girl. There is nothing girl about you. Hey, to save them, to save their lives. You don't know people's children who have have stood there to fight for them. And you are not a girl and there is nothing girl about you. They say you don't want them to be close to that. They will become full time ministry. Have they be full time homosexual Mercy. So my friends, let's be faithful. You've been faithful for 20 years. It's an anniversary. Thank God. Let's let's, let's thank God for 20 years of faithfulness. People are jealous of the faithfulness. This is what we have, and the devil would like to destroy it all, but we are not going to allow him. Hey, we are not going to allow number six. Devote yourself to the ministry now. I urge you, brethren, you know the household of Stefanus, that they were first fruits of Achaea. 1st Corinthians 16, verse 15, devote yourself to the ministry, and that they have devoted themselves for ministry to the Saints. What version do you use there? NASB, please. They have devoted themselves for ministry to the Saints. Be devoted to the ministry. Amen. Devoted. Be devoted to the ministry. What does it mean to be devoted? It means to give your heart and to give you everything and your all to ministry. It's a good thing to be devoted to God and to be devoted to the ministry of Jesus Christ. What other job would you want to be devoted to? It's a good thing. So since you have received a ministry, all these are supposed to be responses of a Christian to ministry. Be devoted to the ministry. Approve of yourself in the ministry, Take heed or pay attention to the ministry, Fulfill the ministry. Be faithful in the ministry. Don't be tired or wary of the ministry. And finally, do not receive the ministry in vain, in vain in first Second Corinthians chapter 6 and verse one 2nd Corinthians chapter 6. We then as worketh together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain. You see, the Bible tells us that we have received the ministry of Jesus Christ. Amen. Now we must not receive the ministry in vain or for nothing. And that is what I was telling you. Since we have received mercy, we faint not. We're going to work for God. Amen. Since we have this ministry as we received it, we faint not. It must not be in vain, like it's useless for all the kindness that has been shown to you. Are you glad to be alive, Charlie? Thank God for life. Oh, thank God that you are sitting here alive. Yeah. And I don't know if you know Kamala Dumoure, He was a journalist in Ghana, BBC. His death, You know, it was Saturday afternoon when I I had a text. I said, what kind of bad joke is this? And I, I told the person who sent me the text there don't do not forward stupid stories around and and the person apologized. He apologized. So I'm sorry, Bishop, I'm sure that it is not it's not true. I said don't send such things, but it was not. I mean, then a few minutes later we started to get more. He's dead. So wow, just like that, 41 years old as you are sitting here, you know, you thank God if you are still here, you could be dead and gone, forgotten a long time ago. Should his grace be in vain, His grace to be alive? Thank God that you are here. Amen. I mean, not for much longer, but you are still here. You are here 50 years from now, it's not likely that any of us will be breathing. If I'm alive in 50 years, I'll be 100 and almost one-on-one. And that's, I mean, it's possible. It's possible. I have tap some of Adam and Noah's anointing, Lamech and Jarrett, those guys, you, you, you, you, you. It takes the grace of God to keep living, to keep breathing. There are so, so many reasons why you can be dead. So many diseases which can wipe you out, so many Kansas. You know, I was in Seattle. I was talking to a pastor that is even dead now. And I told him that, oh, you know, the thing that affected us more than anything was the death of Mrs. Saki. I said since I came into the ministry, like one of the things that really was something to affect me and to the church, that was that thing. And he said, oh, because you are young. He just said, oh, because you are young. I said, well, what do you mean by that? I said, oh, as you grow older, he will see more. Yeah. I said, oh, that was he said you are young, your church is young. Is that so many people have died in our church 1 after the other, one after the other try that. And, and I didn't even know when I left his assistant at that time, he had been diagnosed and they they called him on the way He was, He said, look at his funeral. He he wrote a book and he he gave how he was dialed. We said he just went to do a routine test, blood test. So he was driving on the way to a wedding in Oregon. He was on a waiter wedding. And then they called him on the phone. He was in a car driving. Hello. So this your test you did for insurance. We found whatever was it? Yes, And you have. And they mentioned the disease. He said what? What is that? He said, oh, it's cancer of this and that. Well, he said, well, no, I don't feel sick. Yeah, yeah, I know you don't feel sick, but you have this. So what does he mean? He said, oh, you have these three years. What? He was on there. He was covered with a cold sweat on the way to a wedding. And when he got to the wedding I'm talking about, his grace should not be in venal. If you are breathing, it is the grace of God. He said when he got to the wedding, he was confused. He was with his wife. He just has to call you on the phone and say, OK, you know, these are the number of days left. Yeah. And then when he got to the wedding, after the wedding, there was some reception. They were just milling around. Lady came to him. Oh, hello. How are you so long time. How is your husband? How is this? And he says, oh, yeah, you know, he died. That's oh, how, why? So he mentioned the disease. The disease was the disease. They have just told him on the phone that's the disease. They told him at the wedding, Oh my just died. He said he he became confused. He left the wedding. He said we left the wedding immediately and went to the hotel. That was the beginning. Yeah. But before he could even die, his associate assistant pastor died. Yeah, before he could even die. Everybody thought he this one is going to die. He didn't die. The assistant who was a basketball player, healthy, no, not healthy, said they went for a convention just like this, where at the convention, his wife told me, say, look, I'm 49 years old. I've never thought I'd be a widow at this age. We have. We finished. We were so tired. Two of us, we lay down in bed. We said, wow, we are so tired. This program, every year they have that convention and they lay down. They were asleep in the middle of the night. Then she just heard their husband breathing. She pushes something. You know, sometimes when your husband is breathing, you push him so that he will breathe better and you stop snoring. Yeah. Change the position. Change your style. It was not like it was not like that. It was something else and he continued to do that business. He should rather there's something wrong. She called the phone 911 is it is that the number you call 911? No, no, no, no. Do this put the lid this like that when they came see he's dead. She said I had to sleep nothing no bye bye, no anything, no sickness, nothing just death. She told that my husband was too tall to fit into the coffin. Hey, what you see, I say my God with every people experiencing things, he said. That's why I'm explaining to you that just you are here, you are around everything you say, you are every happy, let's me say in the church. That's why you feel normal or even if you feel normal then they haven't even given you any diagnosis. Charlie see it as the grace of God. And you see, when you are young, you know, when you are a certain age, they never think of certain diseases. When you present, when you present in the hospital and you say, oh, I'm feeling this. You ask how old are you? Please, 23. Oh, you're probably having, you had some. I mean, apples and then apples. You'll be OK by tomorrow. Don't worry. Yeah. When you are older, then you mention that same feeling. How old are you? Inventions. Oh, OK. I don't want you to be alarmed either. Listen, there's no problem, you know, But we have to do some tests and this task before I realize you have joined the other section of the church. So I want to ask you, my friend, don't let this life God has given you in America be in vain. It is a chance. I'm telling you how difficult it is for somebody to come from Ghana with a Ghanaian passport or Nigerian passport to enter into. To enter into where? Guatemala. I've seen somebody. I don't know whether to enter into Guatemala. You cannot even enter. First of all, there is no even embassy in Ghana, Guatemalan embassy or Chilean embassy. There's nothing like that. There's no Argentina embassy. You are here, you have everything. Just decide to go and learn Spanish. Go and do a course or you sponsor your chance. Or might I want to go and do Spanish for three years in go and then go and start a church. That one is even you don't want it. It's amazing. So now you are going to go to a university right here in Michigan. You are American, true and true with your American accent. Oh, I have to send missionaries from Ghana, Kumasi, Mankasim to the Caribbean while you are here for 20 years. How many missionaries have come out from here? 20 good years thank God's power moves means able to able to move you from New York to Atlanta. Hey, the power of God is not it's like the power of God is. Hey, it's like a very great power I needed in America, the power of God, great power able to move you to get the same job in another town earning the same dollars just to move a little, just a little. Hey, power of God is Safrino. You will not even bother to check on the Internet to find out that as someone they are even looking for American whatever to do this and this and that and that. I'm not asking you to do anything just to go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Our days are numbered. I'm telling you, our days are numbered and God is expecting us not to take these days in vain. One day I had a vision or dream. In the dream I was in my house in my sitting room and two pastors who were dead. I'm I'm ending because we are going to sleep. But listen to this. They died 2 pastors and they went to heaven and they came back to earth. They were dead men. And they came to my house and I laid my table and we all sat in the sitting room to eat dinner. Me and two dead people. So I asked them what new message do you have for us here? And they said wow, first of all they gave me 3 messages. I don't know if I can remember all the three but one. And they said that first of all we were very surprised that we died. We never expected to die when we died he said, because we were so actively working for God. And then number 2 they said, you know since we came together, they said this you are the last time before we go back to heaven. He said we came and we went round trying to see the churches and encourage. We taught some of our old songs. They didn't want to hear our songs. They were not interested in our music. All the old things that we, the time that we were here, they are not interested in it. Then he said to me, this is your time, Charlie, this is the opportunity. It's your time. Yeah, don't wait till you don't have any more time. Then you start rushing. Rushing. Rushing to do what? Rush. Now don't be too slow. Yeah, don't be too slow. Otherwise God will choose somebody else and use the person. And the person will take your crown. The person will take your reward because you didn't move when you should have moved. May you be faithful and devoted. What are the seven things you must do with your ministry? Number one is what? Do not be what? Weary #2 I can't hear you. Take heed. Pay attention. Pay attention to what? Your bank account, isn't it so? Your taxes, isn't it? Pay attention to what you have ministry #3 fulfill it. Have we? Have we fulfilled our ministry in America? I cannot hear you. Have we fulfilled our ministry in America? Have we fulfilled our ministry in America? After 20 years of being here, have we fulfilled it? No, Ask yourself, are we in 20 states? 24 states? And how many states do you have? So in 20 years, we couldn't have gone to every state in America, Doctor Kojo? We couldn't have gone to all the states in America. After 20 years, who do you think are going to be? How old were you when you became a pastor? Please? 2029 you became a pastor and you started doing this work before you were 29. How come we haven't got pastors in our 20s? You know, when we checked the last time we checked the whole of life as there were just a few pastors under the age of 30. Few because young people. It's it's both ways. It's the fault of the senior blankets pastors and it's the fault of the young people who when we even say go, you start coming up with excuses. People who know all the bad things. When we say go, you say I'm a child. When it's time to do bad things. You are mature. Mercy #3 #4 is 1, the one faithful in the ministry. Amen. Are you going to be faithful? Wow #5 approve yourself as a minister, That one. I could have taken a long time, but I want you to make proof to everybody that you are a good, real, good minister. But it shows impatience, like you've been around patiently, true troubles, difficulties, issues that would treat me that way. Yeah. We're expecting you to approve yourself when we don't treat you well. And we are making mistakes. Please accept that the church is being run by people who make mistakes and give everybody time to do better. Amen. Wow, number six, devote yourself to the ministry. Everybody say devotion, devotion, devotion. Amen. Devotion #7 do not receive the ministry in vain. This grace has been given to you. Let it not be in vain. Look at this. This brother who was telling us his his friend who was a weed smoker, and he should have been dead with him, but he is alive and the weed smoker is dead without knowing the Lord. Is this supposed to be in vain? You have to give your whole life. Brother, there is no way to say that. You can't write God a card and say, dear Lord, I love you so much. Thank you so much for time. There's nothing God hasn't received these cards and these nice waves He expects. The only way you can say thank you is your life. I mean, you have to give Him yourself. If He gives His love to you, what will you give to him? You have to say thank you with your whole life. When you hear how people die, when you see people die, when, when, whenever you know, when you visit somebody who's sit down, somebody who's something is dead and they describe to you how the person died. You will even be afraid in your room. When he said he just turned in his bed like this and he lay there. Then when we called him, he didn't answer. You'll be afraid in your room when you are turning like this. Say, hey, is this the last 10? Is this the last 10? When they say, well, he started to breathe like this and you ask yourself, is this the last breathing? You'll be having even musculoskeletal pain, which is like, it's not inside. It's like just something in your bone and you you see that you'll be feeling, hey, is this it? It's not a real heart pain or just bones from exertion. You start to say, Hey, is this, it is that it's like it's like it's like one second and it's it's, you know, in a different world. So every day is a day of Thanksgiving. And once you are here, oh, let's give him our all. Let's give him our very best. Let's give him all we can give him. Don't wait. Then at the point I want to send a check to healing Jesus, if perhaps it will extend my life. I want to write a check now. Don't do that. Serve him with all your heart. Have a clean heart. Everybody here should think about this. Have a clean heart a lot. What would I have? What would I do if you call me now? I mean, have you thought about that? Have you thought about that? If if he says it's over, what would you do in relation to God? Then do it now. Just do it. There are many things like that in my life. I have done and I do. Supposing it's the last day, what will I do? Then do it and you'll be surprised. God will give you many days and you look back and say, I thought, oh, I thought when my father-in-law died in his will, he wrote it 20 something years ago and he never changed it. And one day he was driving on the traffic light and a man came to the car. I said, I thought you were dead a long time ago. He saw him on the truck. I thought you were dead a long time ago. Yeah. So I never knew you were still alive, but he was. He was so old. I thought you had died long ago. The people will be thinking you will die, but you are not dying. I see you living in Jesus name. Stand to your feet everybody. All right, listen, tomorrow morning we are going to have a session in the month before breakfast. So breakfast is at around what, at 8:30 or 9:00?