06.What Is First Love?

Welcome to track number six of Fulfill Your Ministry. So first lap, you know, what you do at the beginning is always bring you to 70% of your calling? Yeah. And many, many, many pastors don't leave their, they leave their first lap. Many live. So you leave your ministry. You got to say, 1 you know, you know something, you are going away. You are not fulfilling my calling. You are not going to fulfill your ministry because first love things I got. And that's the same thing with marriage, first love things you don't have. You don't need no notes, you don't need no books. You don't need to be told to forgive Jeremiah chapter 2, verse 2. What does it say? Who's reading verse 2GO and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee. The kindness of the what? The kind the What are you kindness? Kindness of thy youth. You see, the love you have when you are young is kind love. Oh, then what else? The love. The love of thine espousals. Oh, when you proposed the love of thine espousals. When thou wentest after me. Where? In the wilderness? In the land that was not soon. Oh, huh. Wow, you see, this is a young person's love. Thou when test after me in the wilderness. Shabbaya. Thou when test after me. The kindness. As you stay on in a relationship, there's one thing you desire. Kindness. Yeah. Kindness from both sides. Kind to the person. Wow. Kindness. Kindness is required from the man to be kind when they are in love. Are you all right? Everything OK? OK. Everything very nice. Oh, are you comfortable? I remember the kindness of my youth. I remember how kind you were. Haven't you seen some of the strict old ladies or older ladies? Elder ladies with their glasses looking no nonsense, headmistress approach. Yeah, I remember the kindness of that youth. One day I was looking for a certain important person and I couldn't find the person. And they said, oh, he doesn't stay in his house. So where does he stay? Oh, he stays with that friend. Why? I said, oh, that is the man who brings him all the small, small girls. You see, he said. He said, oh, the small girls who show him kindness. Yeah. He's not a Christian. It has a need to follow any principles. It's getting the young girls to show him kindness. Yeah. The young girls to show. Because I remember the kindness of that youth. You don't understand my message, right? My message is confusing, right? But you look puzzled. And. But you all have parents. You all have parents. Some. In some houses there's even a competition between mother and daughter because the daughter shows kindness to the father and the mother is jealous of the daughter's kindness. Or you've not seen one before. Does it happen? I remember the kindness of thy youth. Kindness. Wow, is it amazingly fantastic. Do you want me to talk about these things? So I should shut up? How kind you were when we were in a relationship, when that went test after me in the wilderness, when test after me, when test after me. You see, do you know what I'm why I'm preaching what I'm preaching? I'm saying it not to just describe, but to immunize you so that it does not befall you. Because without any immunization, you are the next person to become a beast. It's true. By default you become like that. Look, never think that anything your parent is, it's not you. You are. You are just a younger version of your parent coming almost about to anything you are. You are worse. I remember the kindness of thy youth. That's why the guy said he stays at that place where the man brings more small girls. The small, small girls will come and play. But the strict head mistress in the house now? Yeah. I was reading a story in a newspaper, one guy, all these are unbelievable, but you know, sometimes you can let when you read their stories. He went to have something to do with a young girl and then a girl was doing up wonderful things for him sexually. So they were writing the things that he was doing. And then he he made a comment as the young girl was doing this. I've not had that for a long time. You know, it's like I've not, I don't remember the last time I had that, what the girl was doing for him. It's like that. Whatever it was, I've not had that for for so, so many years. I've not had that kindness. May you never be like that. In the name of Jesus. Hey. Yeah. Brothers. Tally. I'm fighting for you, brothers. But you see, you must be a one, brothers. Oh, if you are not a one. But this one has applied to you. Yeah, You are not a one brothers. It doesn't apply to you. Yeah, You have to be a one brothers. Like idealistic brothers, Brothers who help in the kitchen. Yes. Yeah. Because some of you, you have suffered for so long. You have learned how to cook. When you marry, you must continue in that good work. Yes, must continue. You go to your beloved's room and you see that there are some plates that have not been washing. You go and wash it for her. That's what she said. I remember your kindness. Now that you are married, you have to do the same. Listen, when you are young and you are serving God, there's some kindness. It's natural kindness towards souls, people who need the Lord. You know, we have to reach out to these people. We have to show that we have to talk to them. We have to go to their room on Sunday. Sunday, everybody must go and bring somebody from some. Don't just come to Ted Bare to just come and receive. Why do you want to receive like that? Go, the person will remember you. So this man came to knock on my door when I was drunk. I just come from my boyfriend's house. This one came and waited. He said, I wait for you. Iron, dear. I said we have no iron. Our iron, There's no light. Oh, this one can also work. Wait for the person. Bring the person to church. Kindness. Saving somebody, Save somebody. Save somebody, Huh. So, brothers and sisters, look, God is looking for our young love. Yeah, but is he young love? Not in a young person. You are not going to love God only for a period. You are going to love God all your life with young love, with young love. Amen. Are you ready to do that? Are you sure you're ready to do that? Are you really, really ready? Ready to do that? Great, let's carry on. Let's carry on. First love is the love that you have for God when you are pure. Pure First Timothy 4 verse 12. Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity. Show yourself as an example of those who believe. First Timothy 412 is the love you have when you are pure. What do I mean by pure? Every time you think of pure, you think of a glass, tall glass of water, OK. And then you put one drop of ink, one drop of something in it. It's no more pure water. It's impure, dangerous. OK, So what happens is that as you are young, when you have first lab, then we get one drop of what? Head which you've never had before. One drop of disappointment, one drop of shock, one drop of a boy, one drop of a girl, and you are no more of the same. You see, then you change. That's how that's how people are. That's the difference between the, that's the difference between people your age and then those who are older. They don't believe in God. Oh, they believe in God. But some of them have been pregnant, lost their baby. Some of them are married, no child. Some of them sick, some of them husband, no husband. Many people don't have normal marriages. Most, I should say, if I look in a grown object, most don't have husband, wife. These are the children. There's nothing like that. Very few have it true. How many? How many come from home? That is not. Here's my father, here's my mother. This is their room. And we are their children. We we stay here. How many? Your house is not like that. Yeah, most of us. Most of us don't have a pure, straightforward situation. You see your mother and your father fighting. It enters you. Then you change. Sometimes you fear. You watch a film and you become afraid. You watch these soap operas. It drops you. You are no more sweet and pure as you used to be. So now when they say laugh, you like. Huh. Yeah, yeah. You know, laugh. Yeah. But you see, it's not just like that. You know, there are things you have to think about. You know, everything doesn't end in that way, you know? You know, You know, You know, You know. You know, you know, You know, You know, you know, you know, you know, when you were pure, your love was so nice. Yeah. So God wants you to turn to him pure. Just here I am not thinking, oh, but this man of God said this. Oh, this man of God did this. Oh, this has happened in the church. Oh, this one. This was a Christian mother who did this. Oh, that. I never thought that this. Stop thinking about that. Be pure and respond. When you are pure, you don't think about so many negative things. Yeah, that is why our life, it's not easy to laugh, even in the church. If I say I love you, and sometimes that is the most obvious thing, I love you. But you can't say. Try and say you see something that happened to you just now, you'll be surprised. Get up now, say I love you. What do you mean #3 First love is the love that you have when you are passionate. First Peter one verse 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, and to unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart, fervently, fervently these with feelings. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them that they remain even as I. But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. It is better to marry than to burn with passion. It is better to marry First Corinthians 7-8 and nine. It is better to burn than to. It's better to marry than to burn. How many have been burning? Feeling everybody say feeling, say feelings. Wow. You know that is a very nice thing to have. Feelings, huh? It makes you, it makes you enjoy what you are doing. Yeah, it makes you actually enjoy what you are doing. Do you see feelings? Now, when you have these feelings, you immediately know you're calling. Yeah, actually, I want you to explain exactly what we are supposed to do. We are getting married on Saturday. So when we marry in the afternoon, we're finished with the church service and then we go to the hotel. What are we do? What are we doing? Listen, your feelings for God will show you your calling, your gift, your abilities, your fruitfulness, the details, everything. Just having the feelings. You will. You will not ask anybody. I don't know those who are have married and those of you who have not watched pornography, you see that the feeling that you have will guide you, will guide you. Even when there's doomsaw, you will find your way. Wow, I tell you, even in Doomsaw, the topic for the camp is fulfill your ministry. And some of you voted yourself out of the camp by saying please, I don't know my ministry and I don't have my ministry. And I'm saying that love with feeling. You know your calling immediately, Mercy, just responding to the mercy and the love of God with a feeling you know what to do. Yeah. You know what? I've never had a call from a wedding chamber saying we don't know what to do. We don't know what to do. We are lost. Bishop, help us. We are lost. Huh. Is it not amazing? Is it not fantastic? Yeah. Amen. Hallelujah. Yeah. You will never, never, never get such a call. The feelings will guide you. That's why I say that. You saying that you don't know the call. I don't have a clear ministry. I cannot sing like Ida. I cannot compose like Andre Crouch. And dear Mr. Bishop, I cannot preach like you do so. And I don't have a church. Mr. Bishop, man. And I said to you, my sister, do you have feelings for God? Follow the feelings. Yeah. Look, we have cows. We have cows on the campus. Just watch them to follow their feelings. They will know what to do. And they have given birth. You see their children, many of the cows that were born here, they were born here. Guidance by feelings of these cows made and some of them, excuse me to say, have given birth with their mothers. Like the son cow grew up and followed his feelings and gave birth with the mother. I think that's quite serious. Why did they learn it? Yeah. So stop all these spooky hocus pocus about, oh, am I an apostle, Bishop? I want to know that my colony is evangelist. I feel that I'm an Apostolic evangelistic prophet and I'm a prophetic evangelist. I'm an evangelistic apostle. I'm an Apostolic pastor. And please just be a lover. And you will start to see and you will see your babies will be walking around and the babies will keep increasing and increasing and increasing and increasing and increasing. Hallelujah. Are you still around? Are you sure you are still around? Are you strong enough to carry on? First love #4 is the love of God you have when you are innocent. Wow. Innocent, I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the Rose and by the Hinds of the field, that you stand up not awake, my love, till he please. How nice it is to love somebody who is innocent. Amen. To love an experienced person is different from loving an innocent person. Amen. When you hear the word of God innocently, you died for me, so I will also die for you. So clear. Your mind is so clear, so clear. There's no question about what to do or what not to do. It's so clear. You die for me, I die for you. You love me. I love you when you are not innocent and you come to a person, I love you. And the answer will be what? What? What exactly do you mean by what exactly do you mean by you love you? You're not a child. A certain man went to love a certain lady. And when he was loving this certain lady, talking to her, she told him, listen, I am fiercely independent. Fiercely independent. Yeah. It's like, can't. You can't just take me around. I know what I stand for. Are you fiercely independent as God is coming to you with his great love? God is caring for you, showing you such wonderful love. Just innocently respond, You gave your life for me, I gave my life for you. What does it mean? I say take my life and let it be, because what does it mean? What does it mean? What do the words mean? What do the words mean in English? Lord, I give you my heart, I'll give you my soul. I live for you alone. Every rest, every moment. I write high, young. What does it mean? Innocently. Truly. What does it mean? All the people who sing this song are not innocent. They don't mean a word of it. How different it is when non innocent people are loving each other. Once. I love. So Yeah. Thanks. I love you too. OK. It means something else. I love you. Yeah, me too. I love you. But when innocence. I want to be with you. I also want to be with you. I like you. I like you too. When it's innocent, it's nice. I want to stay with you in a big room. Me too. I want to stay with you in that room. It's as simple as that. When you're not innocent, I want to stay with you in the room. Really. And, and, and by the way, who else has been in that room before? Who else has been in that room before before me? Or by the way, who else did you tell that to? These stories you are saying? Who else did you say that to? Who else did you tell these things to these things you are saying? Who else did you tell? It's no more nice. So God is listening to songs now? Nobody means it. I surrender nothing. That's what you should say. I surrender nothing. How different it is when an innocent person is speaking. Draw me after you and let us run together. I will rejoice, Amy, and draw me after you. Let's run to you. Draw me. After you and let. Us run together. I will rejoice if you When people are in love, they hold hands. Come and you see them skipping. Draw me up. We'll be happy skipping. But all of you who are not innocent, if you look and say, do you see people on the beach holding hands and skipping like that, It's like these are maybe innocent about me. When the innocence is gone, when I even hold your hand, they say, let's run together. You'll be asking, who else's hand have you been holding like this? How many are we who you've been skipping like this with? Draw me. I'll tell you and let you be thinking. I'm not a fool. You think I'm a fool? No, me, I'll tell you. I'm not a fool. I wasn't born yesterday. Draw me, I'll tell you and let's try. That's why you don't skip like a child. Wow. It's gone. When you marry an experienced person, a certain brother married an experienced lady. I don't know the man. He said that that was on Saturday. Sunday, they came to church and they came to see the pastor. The man said no, no, no. I've married a very bad girl. Even I cannot say in the microphone what he said, He said, Reverend, reverend, what happened to me yesterday? Reverend And the girl became annoyed. Yeah, she said. That is what you are saying about me. You see, it was part of the first laugh, evaporated on the first day. That's what you are saying about me. Is that what you are saying about me? When I have come to express myself to you, I'm expressing myself. You look at what you are saying, it's a reverend. The girl is very bad. I tell you, I've married a bad girl. Innocence is gone. Wow. So when God calls you, how many of you want to go all out for God? Innocently, you just come, you lift your hand all out and then that innocence will guide you to what? What must I do next? I must do this. I must go to China. I must go to Cambodia. I must. That is normal. It's normal to do all these things. If you just innocently respond to God, it's normal. It's normal. I'm telling you what we are seeing as abnormal. I'm sorry. Hey, I hear you. I also going on mission and I, it's because you are not innocent. But if you are innocent, yes, of course I'm going on missions. What would I do? Of course I have to give myself to him. I love him so much. When you see somebody who is in love with the husband. So of course, yes, I'm going. I hear you. I hear your husband is good. Oh, yes, he's going and I hear you. I go. Of course I'm going with him. I love him. I will. I will never be by his side, but we're going to help him. Oh, I love him. In fact, you don't know the love that I have. Innocent love is nice. Oh, very nice. When you meet an experienced person whose innocence is gone, yeah, all of you who have lost innocence receive it back today in Jesus name. And, you know, there are many ways to lose your innocence. One way is to actually be doing things. Another way is watching films. Yeah. So that when you watch film, you become polluted. Like pornography is 1. It's a great pollution. Another one is these films. These love films. Yeah. Especially the girls like them. Very polluted. You develop all kinds of ideas. Wow. Are you still around while you're going home? First love is a love that you have for God. When you have no fears, No Fear, No Fear. Are you not afraid? No, I'm not afraid. Are you not afraid? No, I'm not afraid. Are you not afraid? No, I am not afraid. First, John 4 verse 18, What does it say? There is No Fear in love. Pray that you don't marry somebody who has a lot of fears. Fear. I fear this. I fear that. I fear this. I fear that. Can I check your phone? Your phone? I want to see who you called. Reader, Reader, reader, reader. Who is John? Who is Koku? Who is Jose? Who is Niyamu? Pray you don't get somebody who is afraid of of you. Not everybody is suited for everybody. Some people are such that the day you marry the person, you'll be afraid. Especially handsome Princess. Not everybody is suited to marry a handsome Prince. Check the nearest sister and see where are you suited to marry a handsome Prince. None. What is a handsome Prince? All right. You need a strong personality to be able to marry a handsome Prince Abas. You shouldn't. If you do, you'll only be engulfed with fears. You can't laugh. Yeah, you can't laugh. Your love will be equal to fear. Oh, Naley happy, but she's worried. Oh, Naley, happy, but she's worried. Sisters, do you understand what I'm talking about? Oh, Nala smiling, But Charlie. Thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking. Wow number six, strong First love is the love when you have God where you have no doubts about his ability to care for you, isn't it? You see a girl going to follow a boy who has used penniless but she believes he's going to follow. Wow #7 First love is the love you have forgotten. When you are strong and energetic. Once you are energetic you will see your calling. Yeah, if you want to just be lazy in church, you will not do much for the Lord. You will say, oh, we cannot do this, we cannot do this. Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm. For love is as strong as death. Love makes you strong. Yeah, love makes you strong. What a wonderful thing. Energetic. When I was in school experiencing first love, I used to go from Kolibu, from Lagon to Kolibu in the night without a car. After lectures and everything, I can leave Kolibu around 9:00 without a car. I walk from the hostel to the main road, take taxi, not dropping. Taxi from Kolebu, bus stop to Circle, circle to here, here to Achimota, Achimota to Lagon to the gate. Then I walk from the gate to Sabah Hall, the main lagong gate to Sabah Hall. Now I get there around 10:00. I've come to visit Energy. You see, you don't need notes when you have love. You don't need a compass or an Angel to tell you what to do. And then I'll stay there visiting from around 10:00. Somebody who has lectures and exams, I will be there visiting around 12:00. 11:45 to 12:00 I'll say I have to go and I'll say a very emotional goodbye. Oh and walk from Sabah Hall Annex to the main gates through a quaffo whatever all the way to the gate. Then I'll stand at the junction and look for a car, a taxi or any lift. I remember one day I was doing this. One day when I did this I came to my next door neighbor, committed suicide or attempted to commit suicide whilst I was at Lagon. Visitation, not visitation of a spiritual nature. I mean, it's this type of visitation. So when I got back, there was a whole thing there that he had committed, tried to commit suicide. And I mean, he was, he was actually being operated on all night, about 5 hours. But my, my next door, they had the pop and I was not there, but somebody else had it and they came for him. Yeah, one time when I went on this energetic, you see, when you have energy, nobody will tell you to do a carnival. You do the carnival. Is there a calling? Is there an Angel? You do the carnival, you sink, you preach, you go out. That's what I'm saying. That stop that nonsense of telling me you don't know your calling. Just love God back. 70% of your calling will be clear clear. One night I couldn't get any car and somebody came by, was driving a PIJO 505, and I asked and he saw me standing there alone in the night. No, no, no car. None went out, none came in. I was standing there alone, midnight. Plus. Out of what? Love. First love. Energetic and strong. Yeah. And he took me, gave me a lift, when he got to he was wrapping one of the Legon girls and he sacrificed for me to sit at the back. Once I sat at the back, he was whispering to the girl throughout and I was just enjoying the air conditioner at the back. When we caught 2, 37, he said that he's going to OSU. So I said when I when I analyzed said that OSU is feder than 37. So I said I'll go to OSU. Look, you don't need notes, you don't need a compass, you don't need an Angel. Don't tell me you don't know your calling. So he dropped me at Dankwa Circle and he went to Blue Time. So this is now getting towards 1:00 AM. Yeah. And I stood at Dankwa Circle praying for either a lift or a taxi, and I couldn't get any. Yeah, when this guy finished blowing time, he came. He was now going back to Lagon with a girl. When he came I was there. So I I was stopping all cars and he saw me say, oh, we are still here, I'm going to Lagos, Azaria, I'm not going back. So he said I will drop you, I'm going this way. So he dropped me at Sankara. Do you know Sankara? They still call it Sankara. Yeah. So he dropped me there and continued to Lagon and I was there praying and I got another car at that point to Circle and Kollebu. The next one I was at lectures fully and I came back again to Lagon. Do you remember that scripture that I gave you? The first one? I remember thee the kindness of thy use, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness. No notes, no special angels telling me these are the things to be done. Strength and energy applied to your love. Yeah. Pray that when you marry, you have an energetic person. That way you touch the person to be. So that when you touch the person to be. First love is the love you have when you have a lot of faith. Yeah. Belief, faith, wow, faith, believe #9 first love is the love when you have. You are full of zeal. Psalm 69 verse 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's children, for the zeal of thine house has eaten me up. These days even you don't young people, you don't have this kind of love. Love with Zelda has eaten you up. My beloved travel to America. Love was eating me up. What? Love was eating me up as my beloved was in America in those days. How did we? I think you write letters. When I finished school, I myself knew what I have to do. You know what I'm saying. When I finished school, I myself knew I must marry now. I had no time to waste because the love was eating me up, He says. The zeal of my father's house has eaten me up. Wow. When the zeal for God and the love for God is eating you up, nobody will say we will start a church. Thou art called to start a church. Thou art called to win a soul. My daughter, this is thy gift. Thy gift is to sing. Thy gift is to this you just do it. I myself, no one counsel. I had not even one day of counseling, marriage counseling. I had not even one advice that is a good thing to marry, Marry now, marry later. Nothing, just zeal, The Bible. I said I don't want to sin. And my zeal and my love for my beloved, that was it, had faith. Everything is going to be all right. Everything is going to be all right. That's the zeal that with which I started the Church. That's the zeal with me. I can never say anywhere that God told me, My son, live thy pro medical profession, for I the Lord shall provide for thee. I shall give thee silver and gold. Thou shall not need any good thing all the days of thy life upon the earth. For what is medicine unto me, my son? Medicine is nothing unto me. Yeah, as you lay aside your stethoscope, I shall give you silver and gold in return. Yeah, my son, the earnings that thou shall make in America, I replace it 100 fold. For a shall come to pass at the latter end, that thou shall spread thy wings across the earth, and I shall take thee to places made of glass and gold and silver and concrete that thou has not seen. A doctor cannot take you there, A medical practice cannot take you there. But I, the Lord Jehovah El shall die, the Lord of Jacob, the God of Isaac, the God of Abraham, the mighty one of Israel. I the Lord shall perform these things. It's not true. I have not heard any such message, just my zeal, that, look, I want to really serve God, you know, and when I go to Kolebu, they are always calling me, come to work at this time, come to this. And as I want to do, I want to work for God all the time. I wish I had heard all these, but I can only hear the Spirit saying that, yes, that's what I had in my spirit anyway. But I can never say that though. That's what I had. And so that's what I followed. No, no. But that has been my story. Yeah. My son, my son, my son, my son. Thou shall not look for bread, but thou shall find it. Thou shalt not look for gold, but thou shall find it, for I shall bring it to you in the caravans of the East. They shall come unto thee with horses and camels. My son, my son, my son, my son. I have spoken. And who shall annul it? I have stretched out my hand and who shall turn it back? I wish I could say that that is what I had, but all that I had was a love for the Lord. Come on now, let's do it. These people in the canteen. We had these people in the canteen. Let's do it, thought Bishopsaki tea. Let's do it, man. Let's do it. Let's do the check to work. It to work. Oh, we prophesied. Pray 70% of your calling, 70% you say gifts you need to hear from God and this and this and that. 70% of everything you're supposed to. It's so clear if you just respond only one thing, there are 10. This is the #170% is covered by it. You think you'll get up in this one and see you. I have a gift of this, a gift of this gift of this. I'm coming to the gift is #7 it is perhaps later down the line that you may realize that it is a gift. You see, gifts, because of the way gifts are gifts, is like one of the least things to guide you, but it must guide you. But it's not easy to see that you are gifted the gift. You see, when Andry Crouch wrote the song The Blood that Jesus Shed for me, he threw it away. It doesn't sound good, and it reaches to the highest. It doesn't sound like anything when he was sorry after he he lost his love, the person was going to marry him didn't marry him then he's he made it all through it all. I've been to many places. I've seen so many faces there are. Times I felt alone. Because maybe Jessica or Francisca left him. My lonely hours. Precious lonely hours. Jesus let me know I am his own. Yeah. And then and then they learned with time that this thing is a gift. Like when it composed the song We Need to Hear From You, It was not composed by and it was composed by his sister. When they were throwing it, I said no, no, let's record it first before we lose it. After some time you realize that what looks natural to you is actually a gift and people don't can't do it. They cannot do it. But it takes years before you even see that there's gift on your in your life. If you are looking for gifts, I want to say I want I have a special gift of I have a gift of administration, a gift gift of helpers have a gift of singing gift of drama, gift of this gift of this my friend, just follow love. Follow love. It takes years now. My wife didn't know who I would become. She just followed her laugh and she married me. Yeah, you can't know this or this person is a gifted, gifted in this. If even I don't know, I don't know my I'm now watching out. I'm a bit more interested now in my gift because I'm seeing a lot of things that are gifts. I'm a little more interested, but I'm seeing things. I say, hey, this thing is a gift. Even people being happy in a church, if you go to a lighthouse church and from where to where you see that they stay in the church and they are happy in the church. This is not like that in other places. Maybe they are not like happy. Why are you still here? Would you go home? And that is what somebody said. There is me share in the church. It's also a gift. Vivaldi, you've been in other churches. Is that how it is there? It's not like that. Come tell us, baby. Tell us. It's it's never like that in other churches. When I joined Lighthouse, I was like these people because where I have been, when we close, we are out 1:00. There's nobody in the church, there's nobody to talk to. But then when I came 1:00, people are still around, 3:00, they are still around. Even at dawn they are still around, very happy and chatting. And it is never like that in other places. That's all. Wow, so you were surprised? Very, very surprised. In fact, it's happened. I joined Lighthouse through marriage and one evening many times at Kolebu when we close it's that Tuesday service that we have come which was around 10:00. People are just around 12 midnight their day and then after 12 there's a class, loyalty class, lazy people. Shepherd and I had to join these classes. And when I got like I would the people, whether they are happy 12 midnight, whether they are happy to be here being taught and the people are happy responding to Bishop Fabian, those people, do they really understand? And then finally I got married and joined. And then we had to say hello one day to Daddy. Hey, it was 9:00 PM. So we went to one room to wait. And the missionaries had come somewhere, lifting their heart. Charlie, they feel dead. 10:00 PM. We're still there. Oh, no. So then I'll go out, I'll go out of the place, then I'll go and sit in the car, then my husband will come. Then he said why what is happening here? Lazy PM were still there and they were chatting, very happy. So like disturbed. Nobody relaxed. 1:00 AM were still there. I said no, no, no, 2:00 AM were still there. 3. AM we were going to say hello, just hello? And the people are very happy teasing themselves. Then one day and then in in Colegono to one day we said we're going to say hello. Then we went to some basement beat. In fact, I was watching the people seriously. So I just look at them and then Bishop Coke came. I was wearing some silver shoe of mine. And I don't know they could like 1 can tease freely like that and be happy. I was wearing my silver shoes. She came say, hey, lady, this is your silver shoe. And they started laughing. Everybody was like that. Everybody was happy about it. Yeah. There's so much shoe. Yeah. Yeah, lady. Oh, this one. Yeah. And then about the songs. I tell you I have a story and that that. I mean when we are asked to share the grace. Hey. One grace that we are coming to share. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love but when we get to that the Caillou, the strength, the power, the glory, the strength and the people are so I told myself that I will bring somebody. So I used to bring someone when we had sent again and I know this point. We have nothing to say. Just watch that Bishop. I am preaching. Good. I am preaching. You love the word I say. This is a happy church. But I found joy when I had something to do in church. Once you join a group, once I I joined the choir and I started singing. Then I said, this is the secret. This is the secret. Once you find something doing, oh, you'll be very, very happy. Now, sometimes when my husband will close, I said if you want to take the lead, Charlie. I enjoy waiting crowd and I understand what is the secret that that was it crowd. There's joy in the church. Misha Misha Misha, wow is it fantastic. You are the next person to find happiness. You need me? There's mincha in the church. So mincheri church, Hallelujah. Amen. You are yet to find something to do in the church. Some of you don't have anything to do in the church. That's why you are struggling. You are always watching your time. When are we going to close? Hallelujah. But you must find something to do Amen. You must find something to do in the church because there's a lot of work to be done, souls to be won. Amen. So obviously I even thinking of somebody you could have brought to the camp and you are feeling bad that oh, I could have, I could have brought this brother. I could have, I spoke to him. He said he had to do this. Like you could have just a little effort and you could have gone to bring him Hallelujah. Let us think about ourselves. Amen. It's important to know that as you are here, you see what is ahead of, you know, you need joy, Amen. And I think that testimony that was shared by LP Vivaldi is very, very powerful, Amen. Because you see, once again, Bishop said something that we are going to love God for the rest of our lives, Amen. We are not loving God for two years or six months, or when we are up to 30 years. We are loving Him till we die. So how do you love God? By having first love, the love of a young person till you die. Amen. Now, in the same way also to be in the church and to be happy in the church, in the ministry, be a pastor, serve God, it is important to arrange yourself. Amen. In such a way that where I am, I'm going to be very happy because, see, you can't be here for too long if you're not happy. How many of you understand what I'm saying? You can't be in the church for too long. You will be here for just six months. I have been in the church for over 20 years and I'm excited. When I was coming to the camp, I couldn't wait to get here. Oh yes. But some of you have been around for just one year. We have to tie a rope around your neck and pull you into a camp like that. As we are pulling you are, you are, you are you know, so. So I believe that it is very important for all of us to understand that joy, happiness, it's a very, very important thing in the ministry and you must have a lot of it. Amen. And we have to ask ourselves, how do you become happy? How do you become happy? When you were going to the clubs, How how did you become happy going there? How did you become happy? You became happy by deciding to be happy. Amen. Yes, some of you were with girls. You didn't even like mad, but you saw that your friends had girls. So you must like that thing that is with you. Yes, it is very important. You see, there are people who don't last as shepherds. Yes, recently I was not just a few weeks. If I last week, I was told about a former senior chief elder. Chief elder today he doesn't go to church. Yes, a chief elder today we want to know whether he's even a homosexual or he's a normal person. Yes, because So what do you see? Somebody who has been in something for a very long time. You see, it's the ministry we are talking about. And I'm talking about arranging yourself. You must arrange. You must, you must, you must arrange yourself. You see how you can arrange yourself on your bed to sleep the way you arrange, then you sleep. Uh huh. You must arrange yourself in such a way that you will be around in 40 years time. Yes, That you'll be around in 30 years time. Not as a grumpy old woman or a grumpy old man, but as an excited person. Yes. And it begins with just deciding that Charlie, this life, no, this is what I'm going to do. I mean, if you are in this room, ministry must be your number one life. Amen. It would be very sad for us to meet you next two years, next year. And it's like when we talk about that ministry, it's like we are discussing something very, very. It's like we are talking about pornography. But already there are people like that who some time ago were excited, were serving God, were happy. And today we don't find. We cannot find them. And I remember. What's your name? Dorothy. I remember you. You should go to the hotel. You see a nice guy. Do you remember Dorothy's story? Yeah. I like your tie. Your tie is nice. I mean things that a boy must do to a girl. A girl is rather now. So it's called reverse osmosis. The thing is going in the opposite direction. She goes there relaxed. I like your perfume. Why did you buy your perfume? And the intention is that this man sitting here drinking tea alone in two hours time, I must be in a room with him. It's a it's a decision to be excited. And like she said, to to join something to join. You see, in Lighthouse and in the ministry, you can never be happy and excited alone. Some of you are you have made happy your mind that you'll be a super melancholic. You won't smile, you won't flow when you are around. We shouldn't laugh, but I want to inform you that we will laugh because here we laugh, here we are excited and and when we see that your face is a persistently dull face, we will remove you and say away, away, away, away, away. Yes, we will not allow you to be a thermostat amongst us to determine the temperature of the environment. Ask your neighbor, are you a thermostat? What type of person? There's no energy in you. Even as I'm talking there, I can see a guy. He's he's, he's at the birthday. You see, he's, he's sitting down. Give me a chair. This is this chair. Give me another chair. Let me sit down. Let me demonstrate. Sit down. Now. Now he has sat up, but he was sitting like this. It's like what we are saying. We are, we are, we don't understand. We are too young. We don't have any. Geez. It's like we don't understand what is happening. But he's a mature person. We are immature. We are young. We don't understand. We don't have problem. Yeah, these guys. These guys. Yeah, you say it. I'm just giving you a little time. You all understand that this excitement and me share and things. I just let my friend, I want you to understand that we'll be excited. How many of you believe you are going to be excited, Sir? Yes, sit down South a very listen. Listen is that you must go back to your first love. And we are being taught that the first love, one of the hallmarks of first love is zeal. Zeal means that when we see you, you see, when you are sitting down, you must sit like all these people. You must sit with enthusiasm. You must sit down with interests. You must sit down with what is the next point that is going to be given. Not that you are just, you know, this type of hurry up and let's give the next point. In fact, I can see what going in a certain direction already. How many of you believe that you are going to be around for a long time. You'll be a shepherd for a long time, a pastor for a long time. You will serve God for a long time. Let me see your hand. So therefore, if so be the case, then better develop zeal. Sit down. Zeal, zeal. Zeal is not going to be given to you as a gift. Amen. Are you happy? You are excited? Nobody will give you zeal wrapped with rebels. Yeah, you have to develop your zeal. Anything that you have ever done with excitement outside the church, you use catalysts, you use catalysts. And one of the major catalysts in the ministry is joining a group. So find some people who are excited and exciting and excitable. 3 words excited, exciting and excitable 1 is what? Excited, exciting and excitable? Yes. And I am excited to announce that. I'm excited to announce that these 3 words which are what? Most of you already know it's in practical terms, in somebody's car, in somebody's room, under a tree. Some of you used to climb trees. Are you a baboon or a leopard? What are you? Suddenly you are sitting in the church is I see what we are saying is what? What are we talking about? Lift your right hand and say I will work with great zeal. Say I'm a Zelu brother, Zelu sister. Say I have zeal, it is a sign that my first love is intact. Say strong zeal in Jesus name, Amen. We are taking a break for. Two hours. So those of you who must poo poo, when poo poo we we and then we'll come back. What the time now? 12 beautiful. So 2:00 God bless you.