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05.Inner Strength Of Love, Joy, Patience, Peace, Kindness And Goodness

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
April 11, 2025 1h 44m

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Camp Title - Wise As Serpents. Machaneh Collection - 85. Preached in 2013, Ghana (Mampong Akuapem). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.

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Welcome to track #5 of wisest servant. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen, You may be seated now. I want to give you the Bible formula of your inner powers. You want that Bible formula? OK, power of you, your own power before we come to the Holy Spirit's power. Now when you are very good at this inner power, you come to another great danger, which is called self righteousness. Number one, Galatians chapter 5, verse 22. Now the fruit of the spirit, you see the inside. The fruit of the inside is love, joy, peace, gentle goodness, gentleness, kindness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. So this is the formula, the famous formula for your inner strength, your real strength is these are these things, OK. And and this combination, if you develop it strongly, right, that is when you will really be a strong Christian before the Holy Spirit anointing comes on you. So you have people who do everything they say they are praying, they say they are into this, they are prophets, they are this, they are that, they are whatever. But these are the things the Bible says, the fruits that is coming from the Spirit. Now they ask whether it's the

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Welcome to track #5 of wisest servant. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen, You may be seated now. I want to give you the Bible formula of your inner powers. You want that Bible formula? OK, power of you, your own power before we come to the Holy Spirit's power. Now when you are very good at this inner power, you come to another great danger, which is called self righteousness. Number one, Galatians chapter 5, verse 22. Now the fruit of the spirit, you see the inside. The fruit of the inside is love, joy, peace, gentle goodness, gentleness, kindness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. So this is the formula, the famous formula for your inner strength, your real strength is these are these things, OK. And and this combination, if you develop it strongly, right, that is when you will really be a strong Christian before the Holy Spirit anointing comes on you. So you have people who do everything they say they are praying, they say they are into this, they are prophets, they are this, they are that, they are whatever. But these are the things the Bible says, the fruits that is coming from the Spirit. Now they ask whether it's the Holy Spirit or your spirit. Some people believe that it's from your own spirit. These are the fruits of a born again spirit. Yeah. And the first one is the big word, love. Love is not sex. Now love, as you know, is defined clearly in First Corinthians chapter 19. In First Corinthians chapter What 13 tell your neighbor you see you didn't know. 1st Coronto 13 verse 4. Love is patience and is kind. I love it from the American because that's when I learned it first. I memorized verse four to seven when I was a teenager. Love is patient and is kind. OK, so patience, those of you who want beloved, patience may give you the best beloved, but without patience, it's even with the anointing, you are not patient. You see that you are spoiling just now I got this fault. You need patience. You're going to be a pastor. You need patience. Never say that anybody has spoiled your life because you came to work for the Lord, because in every field of endeavour you need patience. You ask those who are aspiring to do politics how many years they are. They have to hide in the woods. People have to die before you are chosen. Otherwise there's no hope for you. Yeah. Which job doesn't require patience, you tell me? And this is a problem that we have, we have seen in certain lay pastors. Because you see, there was a time when I was 25 years old, there was a time when I was 27 years old. That was a time when I was 29 years old. And I had colleagues and friends who were also 29 years old. OK. And it was like we've come to the cross, we are doing the church, you see, right. And we even bought a Colegono Cathedral. And I have a lot of colleagues, not only my own mates, but people a couple of years below me and some number of years below. We encourage a lot of people to come and work for the people. Look at the church. I think working for the church is a source of poverty or working in the ministry, But they feel that once you work in the House of God, you'll be poor. Fine, you can think that way, all right. But there's also a sense in which working for the Lord is like working anywhere and anywhere where you work, you start at the lowest, bottom line. And anytime you are switching jobs after you've worked in one place for a long time, you risk moving downwards and to start all the way and come up. Yes. So those who didn't take it up from the beginning, as the years went by, you began to see that those who took it up from the beginning and those who didn't take it up at the beginning. In terms of finances, everybody is about the same. Everybody has a car, everybody has somewhere to stay, everybody has a children, has a children who go to school, everybody is paying school fees. True or not true? Yeah. And as you go on, you realise that eternity is also coming and you realise that everybody has sweated, everybody has sweat. Yours has amounted to building Pharaoh's Kingdom, and this one has amounted to building the Kingdom of the Lord. And then now even sometimes God may even like, for instance, in my case, God has blessed me beyond what I thought. I never, I even thought. I never even planned in his life prosperity. Yeah, I never even thought I'll have people who work for me, whose work is me. Yeah, I never thought so. But all these, you know, they're all God's blessing. But I'm saying that then you find out that people are not realizing that in every field you need to be patient. Without patience, you cannot have anything and you cannot get anywhere. In every type of work, patience is required. So once you are not, you don't have these kind of characteristics and you start moving into things you are not supposed to move into, everybody will become afraid of. You say this person is a very dangerous person. The person has come. Now it's like, hey, what about this? What about this? So when will we be promoted? Get to Tibo right now and ask for your promotion there. Yeah, the people who everybody who seems to be somebody has started from zero and struggle. You see the lawyers in court who are fighting in the Supreme Court, you see them? Yeah. If you take the NPP side, the main lawyer there, he's my wife's classmate. The name that the name that you, you, you that you call him. That's not how she calls him at home. She has the name, they have the name. Whatever. These these their friends, Yeah, they're all their old classmates. The director of the Ghana law school. The overall their discussion with when they were having discussions in school, it was their discussion with they were, they were 4. They have studied group. There are four of them, including the director of the law school. But that was 25 years ago. They all learned together and went and did exams. Yeah, they pursued it for 25 years. There is nothing that, oh, if I had been in the secular world within three years, I would have been. You'll be there in three years. You'll be there in 25 years, just like I've also become a Bishop in 25 years later. There is nowhere that without patience you can achieve anything. So when you don't have that power, you get what I'm saying? Your power is small. Yeah. It's an internal power before the Holy Spirit. External power will come on top of internal power. So if you don't have patience, you can't do. That's what for God's work. They forget about it. And I will send you to the world to go and work and you will see whether patience was not required or not at that place. That's the place and that's where you need to go to learn patience. Yeah, I have colleagues and mates who are top, top in hospitals in America and different places. And that was 25 years ago that we were all in school. They were not top of anything after three years or four years. Yeah, my, my, my classmate, I, I just spoke to him outside before I came inside. When I came to, when I came to, I went to visit him in America. He had a second hand car, 2 door, second hand 2 door car, car with two doors. When I arrived in New York, he came to pick me an old jalopy with two doors, was a daughter working in America, and he was staying in A1 room, a house with an underground basement without windows. And he put me in the basement without windows because he didn't have any other place. Today he has a mansion and whatever, but that's after 25 years. And I'm also staying in my Ghana mansion after 25 years. It's a long time. So you because of patience, you see that you cannot. Some of you ladies, you are so impatient about getting beloved and you show it. It's it's easy to see on you and it will make you get the wrong person, but there is a person that is coming. It's not this, I mean area boys around here you need patience that shows your internal strength. When you get married, you start facing your husband. So when will we also have a car? So where, where, which school will our children go to? So where will we also move to a better place? So when can we buy a farm? When can we buy a carpet? Hey, you are spoiling the marriage. You, you are spoiling the marriage just now. Just now you started, you are spoiling it. You have married and the woman you married is not able to cook your delights. You need patience. These girls you see cannot cook. I'm telling you, if you like, bring your pepper outside lot of style. You see, they can cook. Oh, when you see them in church, shabba lava, it doesn't mean they can't go. Shabba lava is not the same as cooking. It's a less telephone. These are all that they know how to do. Dressing and impressing you, deceiving you, shelling. You are entering the marriage thinking that you are going to get something, but the person has nothing to offer you. Take it from me, I'm a pastor. I'm telling you something that I've seen. There is nothing for you. What's happening? So that will be what's happening. You will need patience to nurture them and it will prove various beasts. You see this? How to make a close to you. Please. This is how it is made. Your grocery store. This is how to make your chicken. Your chicken is so nice. It's not nice practically. It's so nice. Don't know how to season the food? Oh, you see that? You have married an empty doll. You have find a doll. You have married a fairy doll. Yes, Barbie doll. You have married an empty shell. Yeah, I'm telling you, shells. You are looking at shells. It's like shells. All these are the house shells. Take it from you. I'm a pastor for Yes, I'm telling you something. Practically. Dress it. Eyebrows, eyelashes, nails. Nothing love. It's not jealous jealousy. Some people cannot even wait for their beloved doses to be established as an engagement before they start showing their jealousy. Sometimes even people are jealous over somebody who is not their beloved. Now why are you talking to her? Why are you always talking to her? And it's always the same person. It's not your beloved room, just a member. A member. You are not married before you are showing the jealousy. You are not strong at all. This is your inner strength and there's nothing. There's nothing. It is as empty and mind you, it is as natural to be jealous as it is to be last four. Yes, we brothers who we suffer from last and we have accepted it. You sisters, you suffer from jealousy, but you have not accepted it. You have not accepted it and you have not confessed it. We brothers are confessing it always. It's time for you to start accepting and confessing so that God can heal you. And once you cannot demonstrate control, you see, jealousy is like last. Is it like last? It just takes you up. Jealousy is like that. It's also called so you have to control, Say hey, shut up, shut up. Control yourself, control yourself. Don't say anything. Say the right thing. You, you spoil your relationship, you spoil your friendship and you become ugly. You become so ugly. As soon as you demonstrate those things, it becomes So what is this person? What are you saying? What are you talking about? What are you suggesting? What are you imagining? What are you saying? What are you saying again? And you will not understand why the relationship has not worked. Or the brother has now withdrawn his his troops or he has withdrawn his forces. And you, your head says that he has withdrawn his forces. I can't take it. So accept it. God is telling us the power within love. If you see somebody is being able to stay in a marit for a long time, it's controlling a lot of things. It's been able to organize patience. When you see the person who's been married for some time and he looks happy that he's not happy, he's patient. He's not happy. He's patient. You think it's that. Be patient. Or a sister who is smiling for a long time. She still looks happy. It's not that she's happy. She's patient. And you don't have any patience you are down for. I tell you when you answer, you see that everything you thought is not there. It's not there. It's an empty shell. And you need now patience to say, OK. You are deceived, those of you. You think things are working out easily for people. Things are not working out though. People are patient. That is why things seem to be going on. What I'm saying, what I'm saying you will see practically, did you like keep the message? You just put it down. Cannot control your jealous love is not jealous. That's not boast and it's not arrogant. You cannot be arrogant and be and be successful. Even businessmen today are writing in their secular books that humility is a requirement for success. Yes, they are teaching it in their secular secular business success books. Yes, I recently had one of these books and I was reading it and he was describing how humility is necessary, that it is when companies become arrogant and they don't care about people, that is when they start to to to calm down. Even the politicians is when they become too big, too confident, too compass. I was watching them at the Supreme Court. Some were laughing, others were serious, some were laughed like they were just laughing. I said you are laughing. You may never know. Limited. Yeah, you are laughing at the others. People are complaining. You have you have used a throw in as a goal and the corner as a goal and you are laughing when I'm complaining that how is it that three corners have become goals? Is it possible? But you are laughing when I had said that a throwing is not a go. Now you are saying in this case it's a go. Those are dangerous signs. And you are so big you will not get a good husband. Yeah, because a good husband, it takes humility to see that he's a good husband. Few people, how they will be, you can't see as they are now. You know a lot of people who look like potential beloved. This is an ideal bachelor. This is an ideal beloved A1 As the years go by, you see, you see there are some brothers who are just like sisters who they are good at sporting and they look dignified and distinguished. But that's all. That is the end of them. There is nothing else to the person. Keep watching what I'm saying. It is real. They look distinguished, dignified. And I, I never knew till I started to work and employ some people because I was impressed by their outlet. Yes. Yeah, Not doing that as someone cannot do anything at all. Do you understand as someone, they cannot do anything at all. And in their workplace they they never prosper, they never advance, but they dress neatly and they look together and distinguished, hey, but there's nothing behind. It's just a shell. Cannot work, cannot drive, cannot move, cannot do anything. It's just there and when you marry, it's what we call fend for yourself marriage. Fend for yourself, Let that wake up and organise things. They don't believe it and you see you write it, you see it happening. Practically fend for yourself, organise things. Nothing will be organized for you. So love is patient. It's it's not jealous. Is there is this also say kind or kind? Uh huh. We miss kind. Pray to God, I'm only speaking to brothers, all sisters, you can go to sleep. I'm talking to brothers. Pray that God will give you a kind person because as a Christian, after you marry, the balance of power has shifted to that person. She will be now be dictating by her powers and her desires, A selfishness and a wickedness. What is going to happen to you? Yeah, when she hold her Master Zip and zip you are down. For there was a certain there was a certain sister and a certain brother when they were young. They were young when they were young, beloved. And so I called them to marvel. I said, you know, I'm going to marry her. I said, yeah, you are going to marry. You are going to will you be good? I asked a sister. Oh, this. Oh, I'm going to give him Italian massage. Hey, I'm going to give him a Spanish raps. Hey, different things. She was young and excited. Are you OK? Everything is all right. Fire this young man now. Fire him. This guy. One grenade. This is a grenade. Hey, one grenade. Comfort. Why you feel are feeling kindness? No. Why are you bringing the water here? Hey, why are you bringing the water here? I'm preaching here. You want to pour water here? You want to pour water where I'm preaching? You want to pour water where I'm preaching? You want me to fall down? Yeah. The next person is going to have the full OK kindness. Kindness. Yeah. She said she was going to do Italian massage, Spanish wraps and Ada infestations. So I said, Are you sure? She said, oh, this and Are you sure? So I I said bring paper. Bring your paper and I wrote the contract. I wrote her, I said I I wrote her name. So so promise that when I am married, I will do this. I will be this, I will be this, I will be kind of I said sign and I call 4 people as a witness. All the things I'm preaching, they are serious things. I know that you think when you look at me I look like a joker, like a joker. It's only when I tell you that I'm joking. I called 4 people and said witness witness sign, sign, sign, sign put it away. Recently a mobile her husband made a comment. He said Christian wives, they are so wicked. When he said that, I I remember that paper and I said sign it and sign, sign, sign, sign. It was as if we were joking. Man, I will always tell you when I will joke. Yeah, soon we cheat. You've got your child. You've got this. The paper is that I can. I can produce it for you. You see, I know. You think I'm joking. You'll be laughing. You think that he's joking, He's fooling. When I'm fooling, I will write to you that I'm fooling. So pray to God that you will get a kind person because the woman you marry initially may be giving you Italian massage and whatever and may turn into a a a Barbie doll without feelings and later may become your nest. Because when you get older, you, you need more of a nurse. Yeah, to care for you. So an older experienced woman, when an elderly man proposes to them, they laugh and say, you think I'm a fool. I should go and be a nurse for you. I've done all this work already. Yeah, because they know that at a point it become nursing. Sir, if your nurse is wicked, have you seen them in the hospital? Where is your bedpan? Put it there. Who told you that this? Where is your car? Have you not got the car? Go and get your car. Don't you know where to get the car? Then they make their face and they go and they come. You feel? You feel like an idiot. Idiot, here's your car. Don't you have a car? You see them in the house. They are the nest of the man, but they have no time. And then they start to manifest the wickedness. Yeah, yeah. That's where you see. They say, oh, he used to go out always. He used to go out all the time. Now he's here. Now I'm also. I'm going for meeting women's Meeting this, meeting this, meeting this. They should be in the house, Sir. Kindness. So watch them carefully. Ask the mother in the house. You see, anything you don't do on the left, you are not going to do it on the right. Yeah. This in your house. We cannot make food for your brother. We cannot make food for your sister. You, you don't care about anybody in the house. Who will you care for later? The man who look. When people marry and one of the married partners is dead, the first accused is the husband or the wife. Because marriage becomes so different from all these wedding looking, the wedding looking is different from the marriage. So the first and wife are in the house and the wife is the first accused husband. Or if it's the husband, first accused the wife. Yeah, it changes and now you're first accused. Do you think if you could not even you could not even look after your little sister or your little brother and you could not care for your mother or you could not care for your father or you could not save your father. Do you think you would care for somebody who is the 1st accused of your life? I'm asking you just a personal question. That's why you see the kindness of the person, that the person is an empty shell. And you see sometimes when you see a brother who is always looking for the mother, or do you say, hey, this is not what I meant. You like his mother too much or it will always because it's rather a sign of kindness. It's a sign of kindness that the person has even remembered his mother. The man who will remember his mother also think that way about his wife. I know my this is my wife. You know this and that. So instead of being annoyed, that is that for you. This by his mother is a Dada by is a mamaba is this and that. You see, you are a fool. You see, foolishness was already deeply embedded in you. Foolishness is deeply embedded. Oh, oh, you are left with dresses, shoes, hair, clothes, impressions. You want me to praise you? OK. I praise you. You are wonderful. You are. You are great. You are. You are lovely. You are beautiful. Everything about you is nice. Is that not what you want? Love does not boast. It's not arrogance. Hey, I'm now big. Madam. You cannot do a lot of things. So think Madam, your long nails cannot be cooking things. So Madam, chopping onions, cutting, pounding fufu. And then you are also telling it, also telling it with those long nails. Are you a cat? Oh, I should praise you. OK. I praise you. You are wonderful. You are beautiful. You are nice. I praise you. You are used to being an elder. Command. You are commanding, directing. Say do this, do this, do that. Hey, without humility. But when you marry, they will tell you stop, stop, turn around, lie down this way and stand up like this. Hey, people cannot do all these things. Can you imagine the Queen of England? Can you imagine the Queen of England doing all these things? Does not love, does not act unbecomingly. Inappropriate behaviour, inappropriate remarks, out of order, out of line, out of sync thinking, out of behave, out of other behavior. Somebody has parked his car in his house. You have taken the car out without asking whether you can take the car. Is this your car? Is it appropriate? But I'm not stealing it that you are not supposed to drive it. Have they asked you to drive the car If you go and have an accident now, who is going to pay for it? Somebody's soup is in the kitchen and you have eaten all the meat in the soup and left only the bones. So I've not asked whether you can eat that particular soup or the meat in the soup. You've eaten all. You've eaten all and left the soup as if you haven't eaten it. It does not act unbecomingly. You have come to town while wearing your dress with your breasts coming outside. It's not also appropriate. They are spilling over like fufu in 5:00-ish. You are spending the night in a boy's room. It's also not appropriate also. But I'm on campus. You're on campus, but you are in somebody's room. They are bathing at the boy's side. You are patching in the Commonwealth Hall. How do you patch that as a girl? How are you patching that? So you see, there are people who under the cover of not having a specific name to their bad behavior, they do a lot of some weird things. This is the vest that harvests all some weird behaviour. This particular vest, Yeah. Are you taking somebody's car out? You say we were just testing. You just went to buy a bread. You say all this is not in the Bible. That shall not drive somebody's car. It's not. We know it's not in the Bible, but it is in this is inappropriate. Love does not unbecomingly. We are having a meeting and you've made your face. You are looking towards the window once we are starting you, you are looking this way and it's like there's no verse to correct you or to address your eyes looking this way. It's addressed by this scripture allows us to unbecomingly this Scripture. Your behavior is not working well in this context. Yeah, it's out of order. Everybody smiles except you. Everybody is happy except only you. You don't have a smile, even just a smile. And you see that we don't know exactly what to tell you. This scripture is covering all those things we can't define describing it. When you you like now you don't bath. Some of you don't bath in their ego. So when you marry, see that you don't bath. You are still continuing that thing and it's not in the Bible. Thou shall bath or thou shall not bath. So you are continuing freely, freely into not batting. You continue. This verse is attacking you today. Love and without love you are not strong personally. On a personal inner power level you are. You are. You are like a little child and you are praying, Lord, I pray for Lord, I pray for a tank. But you cannot even spark a pejo and you want a tank to be given to you so that you use as an armored car. You are praying for armored cars to invade nations where you cannot spark a Pijot. You don't know where the clutch is or where the accelerator is. Pijot 104. You cannot spark it. You have nothing. There's nothing to you. You are an empty shell. Love does not seek its own. You think about your room. You cook your own food for yourself. It's like your roommate is not part of the calculation. You will never cook unless you are cooking for yourself. You understand you'll never give to anybody. You cook a very small amount so that you are the only one who is one plate, nobody else. Yeah. You seek only your own, your own life. How can you be a pastor? A pastor? I have my biological children. All of you have become like my children. I have my biological children. I can look after 123. They are four. I can look after them 1234, That's all. And then when you come, you don't. But you see, a pastor is taken after more, more than just your little life, your small community that you have those small little you and your two children, you and your small life. What is your life? Love does not seek its own. And when you marry, you will see every marriage, one person feels hot and one person feels cold. Yeah, that display you will see what is love seek its own. One is cold and 1 is hot in every marriage. Yeah. One person is always feeling hot and one person is always feeling cold. What will you do? One person always wants to eat yam. One person always wants to eat rice. Love does not seek its own. So how can you expand your reach? All you are looking at is your personal security, how you prosper. So you are looking for yourself, for your life, how you prosper. You can't think of anybody else? Yeah. You'll never be in the ministry with that because love seeks the souls. You want to win people? You want to help people for the Lord. Amen. Are you listening to me? Hallelujah. Are the dancers here? Are you all here? Sure. Some of you are here, those of you are here, and love is not provoked. And some of you are so easily hurt. Small. No, that's it. I mean, you are so provokeable and love is not easily provoked. It doesn't take long for you to be bored or to be hurt. Small thing. We always have to apologize. Oh, what you said yesterday. I'm sorry. Oh, we told you we were going to sing and you didn't sing. You rehearsed on Saturday. When you came on Sunday, you were not called. And So what? Go to hell. This is a problem. Go to hell. If we tell you it's a problem for you, it's a man. No. See. Before you rehearsed, you know the messages that I've also prepared to preach? When I saw you, Yoni, I had to change the message. When I saw you, Yoni, I had to stop. Yeah. You know how many times I have to cut short my message because of you? You come, You rehearsed. You rehearsed on Saturday and you didn't get a chance to sing on Sunday. So what? And So what? Go and join a church that will always guarantee that on Saturday. When you rehearse, you rehearse on Sunday. Don't come here again. We cannot. We cannot be apologizing to you every week. We don't know how the service will go. The spirit moves this way. We cannot be apologizing somebody who is always provoked about something. Oh, please. Why didn't you tell us when the meeting was? You should have given us advance notice. Look, excuse me to say you can go to. If it's hell you want to go, you can go there. That we cannot give you advance load. That's why we said get your phone and get your water. When we have opportunity, we will. What's up you, we will take you. And if you can come, come. If you can come. Why we, we, we feel tense because of you. You make us feel tense because you are around. You see, we always feel nervous that we are about to do something wrong. We have to apologize to you. We have to say sorry. We have to give you advance notice. We we cannot. We, we, we it's too much for us. Relax. Do you understand? Yeah. This is not a company or some a firm that will be giving advance notice, memos and so on. No, no, no, no, no. How old are you? How old are you that you need advance notice? Today you have it at this hall. Next week you are. You are here. Another week you are here. Hey, you come to check that they would dance? Why? Is it a dancing competition or it's a church? You have the problem. A serious problem. You wait till you marry or you get into a relationship. Every day your blood will come and see that you are Muji. What is it? Nothing. Why are you not talking? Nothing. Why is your face like That's how my face is? That's not how your face is? I've been in a relationship with you for nine months. That's not how your face is. Why do you say that? That's how your face. I said that's how my face is. You don't know how long do you know me for? How long do you know me for? I said that's how my face is. That's not how your face is. You are telling me your face is like I said, that's not how your face is. Is that how you want to talk to me? Is that how you want to talk to me? That's how you say, Bishop. I've been describing this. This OK. I'm sorry. Sorry for what? Sorry for everything. Sorry for what? I'm sorry for everything. Whatever has happened, I didn't want to. I'm sorry for whatever has offended. I'm sorry for that. You see how distly you are. You are about to lose your beloved. He's seen your character in the relationship. And he's wise because he has been coming for camps. Yeah, so he has. He has been giving some detector signs. He's wise because he has been hearing certain things. They are saying that you are an empty shell if they can make such a face on you during the relationship. And if they can, they say they are not talking. So I don't feel like talking as I need me time. You understand me time. I need some me time. I need some time to be by myself and some time to just think. Yeah, I just call me time. Hey, you need the me time. Wow, your mood has come. We don't know what we did, what we said that has provoked you so that you see somebody. After one week you are quiet. Why are you so bad? Nothing. And the last time I spoke to everything was OK. What is wrong or nothing? I said, I said there's nothing wrong. I said there's nothing wrong. There's something wrong. I will tell you there's nothing wrong. Wow. And when they turn around, they see like I hold your handkerchief. I am OK. They said there was nothing wrong. Oh, no. This is personal, personal, personal. What is wrong? Your face has come, your mood has come, your attitude has come. Everything has come. We don't know what it is that makes it come small. Now you are provoked. Laugh. You don't have laugh. You don't have Christian laugh. Today and tomorrow die. Tomorrow deep breath. Tomorrow I face you are personally diminutive and small and personally without internal powers. I'm telling you, you are a snake without venom. You don't have the wisdom of a snake to have the internal strengths. I preached and I came to stand in your area and I was given an example. That one has 10 years. I will come to the church again, then go to hell, Hell, hell, go to hell. I mean, I don't like, I don't like it when he comes to stand and he'll be waving his hand, waving his hand, waving his as if it is. Everybody will be looking at me. Everybody is looking at me. Everybody is thinking that it is me. Wow, it's fantastic. And then love does not take into account a wrong suffered. A lot of the ladies you take into account a wrong suffered till you die. Some of people will die. Recently one sister called her sister and the sister refused to answer and the sister called up and said why are you not answering me? Why are you making giving me a cold shoulder? She said because you didn't say anything. Anything about what? Anything about what that brother said. When she mentioned the name of the brother, ABBA, the brother is dead. The person who has died, he said yeah, the brother is dead and she's refusing to talk to this person because when that brother was alive and he said something, she didn't say anything about what he said. So she will not talk to her sister. I said, wow, people can quarrel into the grave. So love does not take into this forgiveness, forgiveness. People who you see are married for a long time and they look happy. It's not that they are happier. They are not taking into account wrong suffered. That is why they look happy. That's actually what they are doing. They're actually just not taking into account the wrongs of it. That's all. Their main thing is that they are not taking into account. This is the number one, yes, and I'm not taking into account the wrongs that have suffered since I knew you. Since I knew you, The wrongs that I have suffered are not taking into account. That's why I look happy. Yeah. For both sides. So you'll be there and don't develop these characteristics and see what will happen to you. You'll be in your house and see that your house is silent. No conversation. You are. You are like, this is deaf and dumb. School for the deaf and dumb. Nobody speaks in the house. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, Amen, but rejoices with the truth. Amen. I, I, are you listening? I will rejoice with the truth. I do not rejoice with NPP or NDCA. Christian does not rejoice with a political line of thinking what is politically correct. In fact, recently a politician met me, one of the top politicians, and he said something. And I, I thought to myself, well, this man, I don't know whether he's, I don't know where, where, where he's, why he's saying what he's saying. But what he said was very amazing. He said, you are, you are a pastor and I'm a politician. So I, I say what is politically right? You have to say what is morally right, but I will say what is politically right. Yeah. So it's like it's not what is the truth or now what is what is right politically for this group. You have to say what is morally good and right. I have to say what is politically good and right. So even if it's lies, even if it's deception, even if it's treachery, even if I have to say that a throw in is a goal, once it works for me, I will stand and defend at it. These three throw insurance are for my side. That starts my side that concerns. They must be considered as goals and we are prepared to go to court for 10 years to fight that. These corner kicks, corners are were actually goals. So the scores are 27 traits. Isn't it not amazing? But when you have internal power, love you rejoice with what is true, not what is politically right for these people. And I'm, I'm telling you because you people are politicians as well. The politicians come out of your, your, your age group. All these people are all from the school. They know it and that's why they do politicians on campus. They come to all the times I came to preach the carnivals and so on. Politicians and the MPs for the area came there, yes, they came there because they know the large government. They wanted to come on stage. Yeah, two of them came there because they see it as a place where politics begins. So they want to win your hearts. And I'm teaching you to be spiritually and morally true love. Christian love is not sex. It's something that rejoices with truth, not rejoices with my NPP line or rejoices with my NTC line or rejoices with my CPP line. Yeah, that's why I can say anything about this side or this side. That's why I don't know where do I belong? Because I belong to God. God employs me and God has given me what to do. Yeah, what has given me work to do. So a Christian, you see. And if you get higher and higher political, you should at a point you should even be able to change parties and say no, no, no, I cannot support this deception. I'm joining this group. They are doing the right thing. Now the next time you come back to these people, if, if these people are telling the truth, This is why are telling a lie? I mean, you asked me what do I, what do I support If you ask me what do I support for me. If you are going to play a soccer match before you play, you set the rules when you pass through years ago, when you pass through years ago, we all agree. And after you put corners in and throw insurance and then you add them. Of course, I don't suppose something that is not true. I support the truth. And you, whatever group you belong to, yes, whatever group you belong to, you should support the truth. No matter your tribe. You cannot be aware. And always you are blindly following something because you are an aware. I mean, please, I mean let your Christianity be above your tribe or your whatever influences. And we beg you, we beg you, you are not strong spiritual. You are not strong spiritual. I'm not afraid of you. I don't care you at all. I'm telling you. What do you mean I cannot tell me because all of us, 99% of us will vote in this line and this is a case I thought you have known yourself because I have a higher mind about you. I never saw you in a travel way, only to find out that once it is your tribe, your travel party, that that one is 1st and Christianity and truth is last. Oh, then then you are lower myself because for me, I will never support that. Yeah, I can support this. I can support this. I support Jesus. I never knew that you are you are a tribesman. Then you must as well reserve to become a native and get back and start wearing your your, your, your glass, your glass skirts and back into the village. I should praise you. I should just praise you and say you are good and great. Better watch out. Love rejoices with truth. Have rejoices with what is true, what is right, what is right for this politicians. I mean, look at Obama. He says he's a born again Christian. He has got a wife, he has got two children and he's promoting men to marry all over the world and he's sporting it outside, outside. And you say you are a Christian and maybe later you come out and say that was sported politically for his party. Whatever. Hey, that's what I say that which one comes first. Ask yourself, ask yourself which one is the first thing to you? Is it God or is this dirty politics that is best to you? You see, we must show ourselves. That is why, you see, unfortunately, you know, nowadays we have all this. An ewe girl or an ewe boys go to marry an Ashanti or a fancy or whatever. Then the families will be saying no, no, no, no, no, they shouldn't marry, no, no, no, no, you are going to bring a problem, this and that. And we Christians, we stood up and we said no, we are believers. We are believers first of all, before anything else. So that thing doesn't matter. But as the years have gone by, we have seen that it matters because the born against Christians, justice became more important to them than Christianity. We have seen it practically, not imagination, we have seen it practically. And those things became, that is why the older people, your older parents, that's all they will tell you. Never, never any bring anybody back, not somebody from here. Any bring anybody, but don't bring somebody from here. And we said no, but we are Christians, we are believers. Our believers are married even amongst us, even when we went to when we went for crusade, all the drivers who come from this region, all of them support NDC. All, all the others who come from this site, all support MPP standards. Even the crusade directors, all Airways support this group. All the other crusade directors support this other. I mean it's like, it's like that thing has become so much in us that the Christianity is Dallas and that's why the older people are scared for their children. When they say you are going to be careful because this thing will turn against you and you'll see. And they are speaking from experience. And if at this stage, you are liars, thieves, pornographers, thieves, I mean, you don't have any spiritual strength at all, then what about these things when they come up later? Because as you grow older, these things are all going to come up. The people don't want us to talk about these things. We have to say it because I'm expecting from you something higher. Yeah, never. I, I mean, since I've, I've never been able to tell somebody don't marry this person because of the tribe. Never. I mean, because I, I, I don't understand that thing. I understand Christianity, not tribes or countries. I've never advised anybody don't marry this person because of this tribe. It's all this 25 years I've been a pastor. I don't remember anybody so don't marry this to my but the other people they have always been against don't marry this, don't marry this, don't marry from their own experiences and as a pastor, I have seen it play out to my to my is like I was rather against those things and then to my shame. So look at it, you see. So Christians, let's grow up. You see if that thing was not enough, we will have so many options to marry you just look around. They are all sitting here. Everybody you need is just around here. We are all sitting here. You'll never think of tribe this. But now when you ask where is he from? Where is he from? Oh, yeah. Mobile. I am mobile. OK. We are finished. Almost finished. Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness that rejoices with the truth. Amen. Verse 7. Love bears all things. He can handle it. Love bears all things. Love hopes all things, believes, endures all things. Love never fails. Amen. So when you don't believe in me, you see you don't believe in me and I talk to you, you don't believe in me. It's not love and love is the marriage response. And you don't enjoy, I enjoy all things. I don't enjoy lots of stuff. So that's why we see when you're able to come to the camp and you're able to stay for the hours that we are here is training you in humility, endurance, stability, patience, I mean, humility. Yeah. And people will be asking me, where do you get all these pastors from? I get them from here. If you can't stay here, you can't be a pastor. That's why the number of camps you've been to gives you a lot of marks in the Anacazo Bible School. If you've just attended a camp, just you sit here. They are pod water. You are not angry. Stand up. Are you angry? Hey, you cannot be angry. Otherwise you are downfall. Are you feeling cold? You are feeling cold because of the water. But you are OK. You want to feel hot. It's OK. The cold is OK. Love endures, love bears, isn't it? I mean, would you think somebody can be a pastor if he doesn't come for a camp? He can't. He cannot be. So brothers and sisters, love is patient. So you say this is the first train to I'm on the first one. There are 9 and I want is love and what is love? Love is love is love is what patience and what else kind and the next one is what not not jealous. Can you control your jealousy #4 is what love is. Does not boast and is not arrogant. Too big queen and king and the next one is not UN, does not act unbecomingly and that one covers what? Oh some way behaviour is covered by this particular vest. Anything that we can put our finger on. This is the vest from today. You tell the 1st 1st Corinthians 13 verse 5 has arrested you, you've made your face and we have got a vest for you. Next one is what? Not easily hurt, isn't it? Every day we have to apologize to you. We have to ask you what is wrong? Why have you made your face? Is everything OK? Have you eaten? Is that? Are you OK? Everything all right? So you are OK? Nothing. You say nothing. Why? About your face? Oh, it's not. That's how my face is. It's not your face. We know your face is not like that. But still. Let's see. Do you want to be in a relationship with such a person? You want somebody who is what? Happy, smiling, Excited to see you, Isn't it? Not excited to see for you to come and start your pleadings? Are you OK? Everything all right? Why have you come at 5:00? You said you were coming at 2:00. I've waited. You said this. Why are you this? I waited after chess. I'm sitting outside. I'm waiting for you. You said this. Listen that. Hey, you didn't send a text. Why? You said the text? You just said. You just said a reply. OK, I see. And so on. Hey, so texts are two shots. When you are busy, you don't mind me, but I always mind you. But you don't mind me. In every marriage there is somebody who minds the other one more than the other one. It's normal if you see that they are happy because somebody has been burying all things and enduring all things in every marriage. One is always cold, 1 is hot, 1 is texting, one is giving short answers, one is calling and one is not calling. So I'm not happy about that message. And the next one Love is what has not taken into account a wrong suffered injustice. So Ghana is going to work in lab Whoever loses the Supreme Court will not take will not take it if they say, ah, if they come and they say, oh, Mahama, remove to the side please. A new president has our NBC will not take into account the wrong suffer. And if they come and they say MPP oh, today throw in is whatever, whatever we will not take it account. It's a constitutional goal. It's a constitutional. We shall not take into account any wrong serpent. Yeah. And if Ghana is able to walk in lab, there will be peace in Ghana. And it shows that Ghana is full of strength. Yeah. And what's the next one that's not rejoice in iniquity, that rejoices in truth. And what again? That's all things. Love births all things, believes all things. You believe things as I'm preaching, you believe it in this, you are strong internally. You have love. Believe things. Oh, believing is what takes people to heaven. It's one of the important attributes of a Christian, the ability to believe things that you can't see. It's called faith. Yeah. That's the thing, that which everybody can have and everybody can go to heaven. Everybody, no matter who and no matter how poor, no matter what language you speak, you can believe. And believing can lift you up from darkness and take you to heaven. So it's a very important thing to be able to believe things. So when you see someone who believes things quickly, believes things easily is a very good thing. But some people ask, come on, talk for a long time, they will not believe. They're explaining, explaining, explaining. Say, hey, you give illustrations, you bring aboard, you put a graph, you put a picture, you show videos, you do everything they still they do. And the next one is what? And just all things hopes, all things love never fails. So it's a very strong thing. So me, if I'm going to marry, I want somebody who is patient, who is kind, who is not jealous. Yeah, that's the person who loves you, not somebody who's stupid. Just stop the patient. Be kind. Be what? What? Don't be jealous. Enjoy all things, believe all things. Don't not easily provoke. You don't like my message? You see, I don't care If you don't like my message. I'm preaching from the Bible. I don't care. You may never know. Limited. And what I'm saying is true. OK, back to where were we the fruits of the spirits? OK, so we are developing the inner power, isn't it? That comes from the spirit and that fruit or that power, fruit or power is the same thing. Fruit is power. When you have pineapple fruits, mango fruit, that's the financial power of a tree. The the power of the tree, the importance of the tree is from its fruit. When you see a tree that has no fruit, it's like it's no use. It's no use. So the fruit of The thing is the power in the thing. Are you listening to me? OK. So use every opportunity to develop love #2 joy. Joy. Lovejoy, huh? Joy is very important though happiness. As you older you must maintain happiness. Don't be a fool. Don't think you're the only one who is having problems. You must be stay happy, rejoice in the Lord always. The joy of the Lord is our strength. So all Moody people, you are on the borderline of mental illness. You understand, because a lot of mental illnesses which have Moody people, mood swings, always the mood comes in. When it comes to mental illness, mood, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, mania, depress, manic depressive episodes, personality disorders, there is always some mood, like something somewhere. Yeah, you must be happy. Do I look sad or happy? I look happy, isn't it? I must be full of joy. Then him said, you know, one time there was a the, the people were looking for him and they went to some, see some old ladies. They were looking for him. And they told him when you go to the church, you see there's a guy that is always smiling. That's Ben him. Yeah. And he, he talked about the anointing. He said the anointing brings the joy of the Lord. Yeah, you see, when you go to the church, you see there's a cat that is always my dad's been here. Yeah. When you are anointed, you have the inner strength. Only inner strength can keep you smiling. If you have no inner strength, you start crying sooner than later. It's just a matter of time. See something? Nothing. Seen one before. And you say, my, Oh my, I was not expecting something like this. Never expecting something different. We are expecting something different. Was it that Oboshi lady who came? You know that story isn't it? I think was it an Internet relationship? And then she came. When she came she was very big and he asked the girl why the guy. Now we are expecting something different. Were you expecting a smaller size? I am a Meggar sister. In this life, you may be expecting something different. I pray for all of you to have children, but some of you may not have children. There are always the people who don't have children. I'm expecting something different after you've held babies and dolls and played your mummy and mummy and daddy. Yeah, some of you brothers don't. You don't have a single spam, No expertise said. Who was Peps? Those Peps. I know the single spam. Yeah. A certain brother was really surprised when when he did a test and he had no sperms. He was really surprised. Why? Because he has been having sex with so many girls, and every time he has sex, something comes out. When something comes out doesn't mean there's stem in it. Yeah. It's like rice without salt. You understand? Soup without soup, without salt, there's there's no salt in it. Yeah, wow. One day I had AI, had a dream or a vision, whatever. And in that dream I was in my house and two people came to the house and I was surprised to see them. They were dead people, people who had died, dead men. They came to visit me and I said, what are you doing here? So we, we've come from from the dead, go from heaven. God sent us, allowed us to come and visit for a short time and go back. I said, wow, So what are you doing? And these two guys were pastors. They had been pastors when they were on earth before they died. So actually when they came to my house, they had been to town already, they had been to their church, they had seen them, they had tried to introduce their songs, but everybody had forgotten them, had forgotten about their songs. And then the things they were introduced to preach, nobody was interested. So when they came to my, I said we should eat. They said we will eat. So they sat at the table. So as we were sitting at them, my table was rectangular. As they were sitting there, they said, you know, our greatest surprise was when we died. We never expected to die. And we're expecting something different at a different time. Yeah. So we never, because we were working for God, we thought we wouldn't die now. Never. We were so surprised. Most people are surprised when they die. Yeah. I once had a terrible accident. I thought I was. I mean, I was so surprised. I never thought that I would be somersaulting. Yeah, yeah. Some of you are expecting you. You will live. You will live even to be 30 of you may not even be 30 years old. You'll be ready. You be ready. I was expecting something different. So joy, when you meet something you are not expecting, you are still happy. Have joy. It's a very important quality. In fact, I need people around me who are happy. Yeah, me. I need it because I'm very serious. A very serious person. I'm. I never joke. I don't know how to joke. Everything, Everything I say, I mean it. I'm serious. Even when you are laughing, I mean it. You may be laughing, but I'm serious. And you'll find out that the things I'm saying are serious and that they are real. I need people who are lighter, light in the atmosphere, otherwise it's too serious. Need joy. Sometimes we need music without meaning. There's no good meaning in the song. Like some of the dancing music we have. There's no, it's just noise. But we are just happy because joy is also important. I see you being joyful now. Most of you are joyful because you are young. But as you get older I want you to be joyful. When you're married, you become pregnant, you're best become 2 1/2 size of what it is and you are now having a baby and babies following you like a nursery school teacher. You get it. You must still be happy. You must still come to church. You can't come and say you feeling sick, you are feeling nausea when you smell perfume in chess so that's why you stop coming. Oh you've married and your husband is not as you thought. He will never be as you thought. You watch and see and she will never be as you thought. OK, you take it that I'm joking. Everybody say joy. Joy cometh in the morning. We have a song like that, don't we? Yeah. Come sing for us, baby. Everyone goes through try and tie, Joy comes in the morning and even when it seems hard to find, He gives us peace. For you and me, be thankful forever and everything. Count it all joy. Count it all joy even. It seems so hard to know he's never give you the love. Then give them the evil one. They come and they try to take away your life. And even when it seems that he's wrong, we are to blame the victory, to be painful for everything and with everything. Count it all joy. And I don't see no joy, even when it seems no, he never give you love that you can have. Good morning, pal. Help me count that 123 leave away. It seems so hard to And no, he never, he will never give. 56786 I'm going to get over. It's going to be over either way. It seems so hard he never give you than you can come on and come. Let me come take say 123, say 123, say 1-234-123-4123 4. Let's go again, 12345. I'm gonna get over. It's gonna be over. It's gonna be over soon. Let's go again. 2345 I'm gonna get over. It's gonna be over 2 345 I'm gonna get over, Say it's over my soda. Yeah, one more time. 12345 I'm gonna get over and say it's over my soda. I feel joy either way. It seems so hard to live. He'll never. He's beautiful, love and somebody. Get all joy keep away. Yes it seems so hard to love. Never give you them you can have no so 12345 we're gonna get over over 1 more 12345 we're gonna get over and tell them my shoulder. So 12345 I'm gonna get over. It's over my shoulder. Are you counting them, Joy? Say 12345 I'm gonna get, you've got to head over. All right, listen, everyone goes through try and tide. Joy comes in the morning, and even when it seems hard to find, He gives us. Peace. For you, Wendy. So be thankful for every win and in everything count it all. Oh, Oh yeah. He seems so hard to know. He never if you then you may have the evil one may come and we try, he'll try to take away and see even when it seems that he's one. We are to save the victory. If you if you can pass, come on and fly. It seems so hard. If you can pass, help me count it. 12345 you gotta get over my shoulder. 2345, I'm gonna get over, over my shoulder. Let's have one more time. Say 1234, You gotta get over, Gotta get over. I. Right, all right, glory to God. Well, we got to really get on because we haven't gone far at all in our camp. So sit down. Love the powers of the internal spirits. Internal powers, number one. Love #2 joy #3 develop patience, which was part of the love. So it means that it's doubly important. It's mentioned in the main menu and it's mentioned in the sub menu as well. So it means that it is very important. It comes in the main menu and then the sub menu as well. You can't escape patience. Be patient, you're going to have all that look to eat, to drink, be blessed you have it. Take it from me, whether you are a pastor or not. And which lighthouse pastor have you seen in full time ministry who is begging? People are rather begging the pastor. I who brought aluminium pan here? What is that? Why do you bring cooking utensils to them? Fire. Oh, but why are you running away from them? And since people have met you, OK. OK, now patience, time #5 love number 12, joy, peace #3 is peace peace. Wow, Don't be anxious. Don't be scared. I'm not going to marry. You are going to marry. Why? You are going to marry? Why? Huh. You marry. Don't worry. What do we provide? OK, OK, relax. When you lose your peace, you start getting pimples. Relax #4 patience #5 Kindness is in the main menu again and the sub menu kindness is in the main menu. Patience is in the main menu. Number six, Goodness, goodness being good. God's been good to me. So she's a good woman. Recently, one of one of our, I'm not sure whether he was a pastor, I don't think he was a pastor, but he was a main member of the church was dying at the hospital. They couldn't find what was wrong with him. He had all sorts of symptoms, but I think at that point he knew that he was going to die. So his wife was with him. They were a young couple, they didn't have any child. And before he died, he blessed his wife. God bless. You, have been good to me, have looked after me, cared for me in a private hospital. But he was conscious and lucid, so he died. He didn't have any. Every test they did, they couldn't find anything wrong with it. But he was still dying. But that cannot be said about every person. Thus a certain man, when he died, he wrote his will, gave millions everything he had away to charity. He didn't give anything to his wife, but he gave only one thing to his wife. He gave her a Bible, said to change your ways. I'm giving you a Bible. Yeah, I learnt it in medical school. And yes, I learnt it in medical school. That's when I was, I was told that story we were talking about. We were talking about lucid moments. When a person is writing a will, different kinds of will that people write so that the person was not lucid will not write that will, and that he wrote it. He was thinking clearly. A very, very wicked woman. I've given everything away, but I've given her a Bible so that she would change her ways. So when I speak about goodness, you have to be in the house to see it. Some people are not good. Hey, So what are these people I'm talking about? Ask your neighbor. Are you one of these? I don't know where to find somebody who doesn't have these characteristics.