06.Inner Strength Of Faithfulness, Gentleness And Self Control

Welcome to track #6 of wiser serpents. Faithfulness, faithfulness. Faithfulness is not in talking. There are some people and they will never change. I mean, when they are loyal to you, they will never change. And over the years, I've seen that. I've met people like that. I know people that I believe that no matter what will happen to me, they will be faithful to me. Yeah, that's how they are. It's almost like a character the person has, like, I won't even change my mind about about you. Fans have plugged in. That's it. Yeah. And there are people with speeches to stand up and give speeches and explain. Look, recently we had a pastor, you know, who left the church. And when he left the church, I mean, as soon as I was told that this pastor has left or was resigning or was leaving, I remember the meeting where he was challenged but his attitude was not demonstrating good loyalty, hey? And he stood up and he gave a speech and explained himself. And he went further to say that people who are sitting there at the meeting challenging this loyalty, we will all be in the church and we will see that those people who think they are lawyer would have left whilst he we'll still be around. I will never forget that meeting easily because he stood up and repudiated what was said. And check your words. I've finished and I'm giving you a new word. He rejected and threw away what the people had said. When I heard that he had left, I was amazed. And I remembered him, another guy, he got up and he gave birth to a son, one of our pastors. And he, he named the son after me. Yeah. And then he said who were who were at the meeting and he was describing his loyalty and his faithfulness and he stood up and he said, look, when I'm going out, my children, when I'm going out for the church and I'm doing the work, my children will be asking Daddy, why, Daddy, why? Why are you going? Daddy, where are you going? Daddy, don't GoDaddy, don't go. Daddy, stay. I remember his speech. And one day this guy who gave the speech and who named his son after me. Dad, he called the star God. He came to see me. The officer, he wants to see me. I said no problem, I'm always available. Anybody wants to see me. Once you know the way, you can come and see me. When he came, I thank God for my life. I said I also thank God for my life. He thank God for the church and I also thank God for the church. And he said, well he wants to start a church. So I said that is wonderful. Then I asked which church? I mean, I thought he was going to start a branch and he said, oh, it's not a lighthouse church. I said, wow, what is that? I said, oh, it's a church. That's the church is expanding the church. So then I asked, So what, what does it mean practically? Are you living? Oh, somebody's living, but you know, he wants to start this other church. So in there we said, look, the reality is that you, you are living. You want to live, So we said Sunday, this Sunday we are going to come there to the church so that you can say goodbye and you hand over the church. So on Sunday, Bishopsaki went to the church. The pastor who made me start after me and the pastor who said, Daddy, don't go. He's so committed that his children are always crying when he's going out to do the work of work. And his children are always crying. Daddy, don't, GoDaddy, don't go. And he would tell himself, I gotta go. I gotta go. When Bishop Saki arrived at the church, usually we have a banner. There was no banner. There was a sign painted on the building. There was no sign. I don't know. We didn't even have banners have signs. I mean like it was painted. So he asked where is the church? Where is where is where is our church? This pastor who named his child after me and whose and who gave the speech and whose said that his children always crying when he's going up, but he goes up so much. He's so committed to the church that the script that he don't go. That is why he says I gotta go, I gotta go. This pastor when he was asked where is the church, he said today we are having a joint service. What joint service? It's a lighthouse. And the church that he is starting at having a joint service. A joint service? What do you mean by a joint service? I thought you said I'm now going to start a church and I'm having a joint service. Wow. And I remembered his speech that he don't go, I gotta go, I gotta go. Another pastor who also stood up at the meeting. That's why I said faithfulness is not speeches. Oh, you see that this person when the person is committed to you, that's it. The best I can describe would be this is really woman who was caught. Shula, the spy, he never spoke. He removed all her teeth. They removed all her teeth. They did everything. Removed all her nails, all her teeth. They have special torture. They put your head in a listen and squeeze the heads. She never said she doesn't, but she had it. Those type of people, that's faithfulness. The speed you see special torture with metals that press your head together. Yeah, she cannot even be normal. Another pastor, he also gave a speech and he came and he said we are living because we are going to start a church. We want to start a church, Fine, don't tamper with the church. He said, no problem. Ask. We are now praying to see where and if we start a church, maybe in our area, because in our area we have a school, OK. That's why when somebody's leaving the church, we never pray for them again and let the person has left for years before we pray for you because most of them are full of tricks. When this faithful pastor who stood up to give a speech left the following Sunday, the following Sunday he entered a new church with ribbons and banners that he has built next the very next Sunday, not knowing that As for Moir, he was building a a place somewhere as a plan. And I remembered again this man's speech. That's why I say that faithfulness is always. I will promise you your God will be my God, your this will be my God. This don't talk too mucho just in your heart pray that this particular quality of somebody who is locked in, it's like death is what will patterns. Death is what will make us say goodbye. That is the way your mind must be. Yeah, that whatever is with you and whatever commitment is with you is like that is it. You can't come up with a story later. And most of us have stories that come up and say, Oh yeah, that's what I said. That's you see things have changed. That's where faithfulness comes in. Faithfulness is not important when you are signing your marriage. You wait and see all of you girls who look how cute and pretty. Now we can see your shape that from here is this way. This side is sideways, this side is bigger and it is changing. A time will come when there will be no shape anymore. It will be straight. It will become like the can't cook. That is, when we see faithfulness, we become like can't cook. Wow, Faithfulness is not about faithful when you are rich. Let me see whether you are faithful because we are. We are all flowing the church. All of you don't have any money. You don't have any. It's when you are rich and we will see. How many people do we see in churches who make a difference to the church when God blesses them and they become rich? Some of you, if you were blessed like Esther and you were some very whatever person came and married you and you became the queen of whatever, the queen of your village or whatever, and you go there, you know, we wouldn't even see your ways again. When we call, you say, oh, call my secretary, call later, you know, check me out on Facebook. You can go to my Facebook. Just send me an e-mail, send me an e-mail, e-mail now. We should send you e-mail. Really. As soon as some small prosperity. That's why we see faith. Faithfulness is not for good times. Faithfulness is for variation in times. Yeah. See, some of you, you don't know that you are pastors. I have seen that you are pastoral. I'm going to appoint you as a pastor. You are. Some of you are going to become pastor. When you see that you now know how to because you are well in the house because you are, you are being trained how to preach, how to do this, how to do everything in the church is how to do it, how to do mirage everything we do and we practice it for you to see how you've learned how it is done. And before I realized, I saw it didn't change. And you see that you don't have some kind of locked in permanence. That's what we are talking about. When we lie down, we feel, we feel safe. We know that As for you, there is for life. It is a funeral that will make us separate. A funeral that is where we'll say goodbye. No other place would be a goodbye except a funeral. Either you see my dead face or I see your dead face. And there's some pastors, if they die today, I can't even go to their funeral. There was a pastor. He lambasted the Archbishop. All sorts of things happened. Then he suddenly got sick and died out of the blue. An Archbishop was telling me they were now saying that I should come. He said how can he go there? This guy says so many things about him, has said this, has said this, has lambasted him. He's this, he's nobody, he's whatever. Is he now going to take himself and go there? So I'm talking about faithfulness. It's a certain quality. And that is why when we had an eldest meeting the other day, Cardena was asking some people that, yes, you stay at the Wenya or you stay at wherever. But we were expecting that that distance will not affect your presence or absence. But it has affected you. Why should it affect you? Distance, small distance, money, sacrifice, lateness, negotiations with parents. That one you can't negotiate, but when it comes to some other things you are able to do it. One doctor that I know was doing abortions in his clinic and he was doing abortions for our Lighthouse campus sisters and they were coming for the abortion. I was saying, look at this. If they know where they can do abortions, they know where to go and scrape the wound, they know how to do it, they know where to do it, they know where to pay and they know everything practically. But when it comes to do this or do this, ah, it's as if their mind becomes foggy. So I'm I'm teaching you faithfulness. And you know something, if you don't develop faithfulness, nobody will also be faithful to you. You see this guy Absalom, you get it. He went and he turned against his father, you see, and he became a terrible orangu against his father, treacherous, slept with his father's wives. I mean, just tried to drove out. His father's father was running. David was this a warrior? All these things, all running. Oh, and we're chasing him, David, glorious king. So God sent him someone who was equally treacherous. Hushai the Archite. Every advice that Hushai the Archite gave was against the advice of Ahitofel, so the two were standing by side by side. But God touched the heart of Absalom to believe Hushai the Archite and rejected Ahitofel. So now Absalom has received a liar and a treacherous man who was a deceiver and a pretender and he became his right hand advisor and everything. Hushai told him he needed David to escape and refresh himself and and that will be it. So when Ahito fell said go now David has never run away from anybody before tonight he's running this is the time chase him now again. Kushai told him hey your father is is like a bear and a bear when you catch him in the wrong time he becomes Wilder. Rather let us wait tomorrow, you see. Then we take some more troops and we go. And then he told him, you go yourself. And God had given him a Moran Gopal, a real liar, as his right hand man, because he was also a wicked man and a treacherous dealer as a son to the king. So God has given him those swerving things and made him RIP hundredfold. So as you take yourself a swervo and a swervo of people, there ha, a day cometh when you shall reap treachery, and you'll see that God will give you a harvest, as you were standing by the side of somebody being treacherous. And you see that you also now have a treacherous person with you, that you will now experience what it is like. So watch out, watch yourself carefully. So faithfulness. You know some of you. We are here. We love you. We spend time with you. We talk with you next minute. We'll never see you again. Hidden. Bye, Bye. You see somebody? Look, a pastor told me he was the head of Assemblies of God. He told me I had only, I had only two children, my son and my daughter. He said one day I went out for dinner with my mom. When we came in, there was an answer machine. Those days we have answer machines, answer phone. When he pressed the answer machine, he said hello, Danny, just to inform you, I got married today at whatever, whatever he said. What? The president's daughter, she has swept him. Yeah, she swept him. Not even hello or bye. Bye. She just went with some boy and unbeliever, married him and sent a text, a message that Amen. As you are unceremoniously living, expect unceremonious departures from your life because you have shown that you don't have a spirit of faithfulness. You expect it? Yeah. You stay with somebody you are not grateful. Ah, you will see it like something happy as it is flowing. Many things. We don't remember where it came from. That's something when I'm experiencing some bad things, I just say, Lord, I deserve it. Yeah. Something when I'm experiencing bad things, I just say, Lord, I deserve all this. I deserve it because maybe I have sown some seeds. I'm reaping faithfulness. That's what we can count on you. How many of you can we say that? We count on you. We count on you for tomorrow. We count on you for the day after, we count on you when there is nothing, or we count on you in time of crisis. Not so many. It takes time to show that you are a faithful person. But there are people like that. There are people like that. Shazaki has been faithful from the time we spoke as students. We were all students, we were friends, we were students. And I said, I remember sitting at my father's hotel under an umbrella. There was the white table with white chairs. We sat there in the evening and I said I'm going to start a church and I wanted to be clear that I am the leader of the church and will you be with me? Will you have said I will be? That's all. And I'm part of it. And then I spoke to Bishop Eddie. I took him to Sankara Sagar. That time it was a runabout and there was a big gatta there. We start on the gatta and we spoke there. I spoke from Legol all the way there and I confess I said come and me, just try me. We are going to do a church to work. We start at that gatta and he said I will be there. Yeah, there are people like that. They will be always with you. And there are people. One of Benny Hinn's assistant, he worked with him for 18 years. Recently he just decided to leave. He said he didn't. He didn't send a text. He he just changed his numbers and didn't come again. Never up there. You see him on television all the time. We can we just left suddenly with even a test of I'm going all bye bye all. Thank you all. Something just absurdly disappeared from the scene. These are people are. And I remember that guy. I remember I met him last year and I told him, I said be faithful to him, be faithful to him, be careful. He's a very important person. You people, when you are with somebody, a great person, you don't know what you are, who you are with. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard what he did. Yeah. So faithfulness is not about today. One pastor was saying, you know, when he got divorced and he was saying some of his church members, the crisis that they have been through, the problems that they have seen in their life, he has been with them. He has never turned away from them. Some of them have been to prison. He has visited them in prison, different crisis. And today he is experiencing divorce that he never intended to experience. And you don't know why. And you see them, they turn away. They just then you see them. So how can you be this? Why this, this, this. That's where you see people when it was your turn and you were down and you were in darkness or even you fell into sin. They, they behave as if you have never fallen in sin before then what they know about it. And today you have got a chance, a small window. And it's like there's no mercy. There is no, I mean Capitol. You see how people are. Faithfulness is the is the spiritual character and it also breeds faithfulness. Faithful people stay with you and people who are not faithful cannot stay with you. Are you listening to me? Yeah. Faithfulness means permanence. You see, you are not faithful unless your parting point is deaf. Yeah. We part at death. I say goodbye to you when I when I'm dying or I'm dead. That's how. That's how to say bye bye. Why should I? Even all my friends from school, I don't see why I should not be friends with them again. All my friends, my roommates, and especially if my roommates or my friends are in my church and even I must be closer to them. I must be friends that I was in school with. They are my, they are my best friends, people that are my mates. They have believed in me, supported me all these years. They are my main people. I would never never go away from them. I see some of you don't know the value of old friends and friendships and all people are better than new people. All people are better than new people. And some of you because of your sharp swabbing, whatever you, you forsake the oh, so you see a person in the church who you should be like a dose, but a fresh sister coming from Elizabeth say, oh, when she walks into the with some moving the hips to the left and the right, the fatal ones that are there, who you know you'd rather go for an unknown character. You've seen ties and hips. You eat them and you see what it is like. And a faithful one that you know very well. That one, you don't, you don't know those ones because you don't value faithfulness. Somebody was asking me how do I employ people harder? I can tell you quite easily, you see, to employ somebody or for somebody to work for you, the characteristic that doesn't loves you. I told a millionaire, I said, I said yeah, for me. And I'm also very successful in my work. I'm also successful in if my church was a business, it's a successful business. And that love is love is faithfulness endures deaths, all things this it's always that never fails, never fail, never fail, never leave you never change, never fail. That's how you see them. It's not about money. Some people, they like you when you give them something, they don't give them something. The the the math has twisted like this is a broken eggs. You have an old friend, That's one. You don't value hair, but you've seen a new person shaking the bottoms around. This is what you like. That's what you are interested in. My best people in my life are the oldest, longest. That's it. We all die together. Either you die or I die. Then you say bye bye. Who is this Saki? She died and I said bye bye to her. Nothing could separate us till death. To separate us till bye bye a death. You say bye bye. And that's one of the painful things of a faithful person. As you grow older, you say bye bye to a lot of people you love. The older you live, you will be saying the bye bye. The people will be going. So friends, faithfulness is, is is a quality. It's not my speeches. And always remember the people who are giving speeches that there are people, I say they are their stubborn. Their faithfulness is a form of stubbornness. You see, faithfulness is a form of stubbornness, but it's a good type of stubbornness. It's like, it's like my, my, my relationship with Archbishop. There's nothing there's I'm not, there is nothing about him that you can tell me that has any impact on me to even make me dislike you even make me dislike. If you, if you say something negative, you can't easily come and say something. Even you see, I like it because when I first became a Christian and somebody, I, I received the Holy Spirit and I was speaking and I didn't know left from right. He had also started a jet wearing white shoes with some few members and he laid his hands on me and prayed for me. What should I forget about that? Why should I, why should I quarrel with him When he brought international guests, Oral Roberts, Jerry Stavelle, Michael Bassett, different people to Ghana, I was there in his church in the corridor. Why should I now wake up and I've become a grown wings. Oh, now I am what? I don't think so. I am sharing with you faithfulness. It's an important spiritual characteristic. And today I am, I am blessed with people that are faithful. Look, when I sleep, I don't, I am not worried. What is my pastor in New Zealand doing? What is my pastor in Australia doing? What about my pastor in London? Honestly, my mind doesn't even go to that. My mind doesn't even go to that. I'm blessed. I'm resting because I believe that they are faithful. I trust them. If you have faithful people, it's a strife in now, just like a snake. You see quietly about the power that is in. It is inside the mouth. I can kill all of you now. It's inside. It's called faithfulness, Lovejoy, peace, gentleness, patience, goodness. It's internal power. OK, where are we? Has your lunch come? Yes. Oh, OK. Are you having supper too? Hey, then we must eat. Then the next one. Gentleness. Wow. It's also a power, taking your time. See, that's why some of you brothers, you are always bounced. You don't have gentleness. I don't want to insult the girls and I'm not insulting you. But I'll tell you, few of them will not respond to gentleness. Here you come, Sado. My name is Osaio Puachi and I'm here to propose to you as you have future. Will you please accept me? The answer is no. Brothers, let me give you a tip. Gentleness, gentleness, gentleness. They can never say no. You have not developed the key and the personal strength of gentleness. Have to propose now. Just have to smile, be to be kind, be gentle, be night. She has already heard wedding bells. That's your small gentleness she's hearing. And the last one, self-control. Now when you say self-control, it's control of the self-control of the self. And you see, once you do not admit what yourself is like, it allows yourself to run wild and yourself is moving all over the place and manifesting. So you have to start controlling self. Other people think you are weak when you admit and you say what's for me? Me jealousy is my the thing that I am. I mean, that's how I am. So I'm on it. I'm controlling it. Yeah, me, depression is my speciality. I'm a specialist of depression. For me, I'm a master fornicator. Young girls are my weakness. And you have to develop, you see how to control the self, but a lot of people don't deny that yourself. And that's what will make you put poor on yourself when yourself is saying I need to and you say it's not the case, it's not happening, but it's happening. Wow. Have you people put on yourself before? What was the cause? You need not accept you couldn't handle it. You thought you could handle it. You thought what when you calculate the time you can handle it. But asthma thought you can survive before you get through. I thought you could survive. You didn't know yourself was yourself, was moving faster than it. And as you are getting nearer, it's coming Wilder. That is the dangerous part. Self-control. So when you have all these inner powers, you are like a snake. Yeah, With that, before anointing comes for the anointing comes to pour on this man of self-control, of goodness, of faithfulness, patience and joy, love, meekness, kindness. Yeah. Do you understand? So that's what God is working on you. And as a little child, as a young person, this is all that you are supposed to learn. These are the qualities. That's why I want you to wake up early in the morning, learn how to pray. Like Priscilla was telling her the other day, learn, get up early, pray. Ah, I see that qualities are developing, good qualities. That's why. That's why I talk about cooking. Who are going to marry expecting something? You have nothing to give. Hook your hair. We cannot eat your hair. We cannot eat all the things. The dresses you are wearing, We cannot use it. Nobody can. When you come home, you take it off and you are now yourself. You are like a Captain Tan in the kitchen. OK, how many kids have I given you about how to be as wise as a serpent? How to be as wise as a serpent? 1 So we have a long way to go. So we are going to take a break and have lunch, isn't it? Would you like to have lunch? Or you can control yourself.