07. Questions and Answers

Welcome to track #7 of significance. Now we want to have some Question Time and if there are? Any questions you have? Concerning the Ministry, I would like you to ask them at this time and then we can answer the questions if we have the answers. If not, we'll put them in the wardrobe and answer later. So if anybody has any question about the ministry that you would like to ask me or anybody else, you can feel free and do so now because we can go on teaching and teaching. But maybe there'll be some things that you may want to ask and we can be blessed. Is there anybody? No questions. Sir, in your last session that we just finished you talking about a lawyer person, you, you said something that is somebody who does not bear witness of himself. Just want to just know whether is out of place to give personal examples. Just like you're saying you're giving an example about some things you pass through and all that. Is it out of place to give such personal examples also? You know about the things you've experienced and all that, but and how do we get our limits? You know, you could go into that also and then begin to promote and project yourself above measure hard 1. You know, you know know how to tailor mentioning your personal examples as your ministry and then not really projecting yourself about that. Well, I believe that there is a fine line between projecting yourself and sometimes using personal examples. One time I was preaching somewhere and I was using my personal examples and then the pastor. Told me. Afterwards that when I'm preaching, I should just preach, I shouldn't talk about my church. The next time I came to preach, that's what he told me, but I'm preaching, I should just preach, I shouldn't talk about my church. So I realized that the personal example that I was giving was not encouraging him, but rather he felt that I was maybe boosting about my church or something. So he told me I should just preach, I shouldn't talk about my church. What do you think? So I think that. It first of all depends on the motive or the heart of the person who is speaking. Because you know, sometimes you can say something to help somebody. That's the only reason why you are saying it. But somebody can also interpret it like if I. Say, oh, I. Started in a classroom and I just had a few people. But now I have 400 churches. Somebody may say it. I'm projecting myself that I have 400 churches. They understand, but I think that it will depend on what is being said and done. What do you think? Amen. Yes, Sir. One of the references you made is the longer you stay, the greater your authority. But I want to see the line between the head is there and people are under him serving and one has stayed longer there. And as long as he stays there and he feels that he has been there, he's known all that the leader has been doing. He he knows his messages, he knows this and begin to incite situations, agitate people to all that is the situation. That is what he does. That is, we know what this is what he is doing. How beneficial would that stay enhance the growth of the Church? OK, well, when somebody stays for a long time. The person can either develop good behavior or bad behavior. And when a person develops bad. Spirits. Then the person. Is not gaining authority. But is losing authority. For instance, you can work with a man of God for years. And you will leave. Him with a demon instead of the anointing. But you can also work with him for a long time and you will catch the anointing. Judas worked with. Christ for three years. When he left him, he left with a demon. An evil spirit, Peter, James and John left. Christ. Or finished with Christ? On this earth. With the Holy Spirit. So staying. Around for a long time does not necessarily. Make. You a man of authority per SE, but. If you are going. In the right direction, the longer you stay. In the right direction and the longer you are. Doing the right thing. The more your. Authority increases, so that's what I'm saying. That like Benny Hinn is doing the right thing if he's able to continue 10 more years, 20 more years, 30 more years, 40 more years in the same line his authority and as a father, because all the old people will be dead. He will be like the oldest healing evangelist who is still in the system, preaching and. So on. Which is the case of Billy Graham, Ora Roberts, Yongicho. They are all international fathers with international fathering ministries and the older they are and the longer they have been. Around you understand the. More of authority they have, but if they start going around, if you take somebody like Jimmy Swaggart, you understand his authority is not increased now, rather is diminished and his presence, his voice and his authority is gone or is very low. You understand even though he's. Been around for also a long time and he's now an old man, probably about 70 years old now. Do you see? So just being there for a long time is not the point, but on the right road for a long time you will be a man of authority, definitely. Have I answered? Your question, all right. Thank you. Yes. So Hallelujah, You don't only have to ask something relating to what we have said. You can ask anything about anything. I want to talk. About about the coven, you made mention about coven, I said yeah, whereas when somebody breaks out of his coven or her coven in ministry that the person suffers. Then I want to ask, what about when you are serving a man and the man somehow deviated from the truth and you decide to go out of him? Is this the breaking? Out of covering. And what do you mean by deviation for? Later, I mean, going out of the ministry, that ministry. I mean, the person is no longer in ministry. No, listen, get me right, I said. You are serving a man, Mr. Minister. We are talking about covering the man of God. We are preaching about covering as a father, covering the son. That's right. Good. I said when the Father, some are deviated from the truth. So what? What? What level of deviation? What truth I mean? Is written maybe heres. OK, OK. Or involve. Himself in other doctrines that is not in the doctrine of. Christ. OK. So and the. The the. Servant decided to walk. Away. Is this the breaking out of coffin? Is the sun going on shorter? Amen. OK. Can you give me two examples of heresy or three heresy? OK. When somebody is no longer preaching the will of God, that is heresy. So can you give me 3 practical examples? Let's say a message. That is a heretical message. OK, like you were. Let me use the example of a Judas Iscariot when Judas no No. No, no, no. Today a practical example of a message that is heresy. What you are calling heresy or not example of Judas. But like somebody in the world today, this message that he is preaching is heresy. Give me. One example, two example. OK, let me see if I could remember 1 Amen. No Amen. So when somebody is preaching like the Jehovah Witness does not present Jesus Christ as God, Yeah, it's heres. OK #2 when? Somebody, a preacher maybe, Let me. Yeah, if I'm you are serving. And a pastor who has become a Jehovah Witness. You, you, you excuse yourself. You excuse yourself from that church and ask permission to leave because you, you, you don't believe in that doctrine. You are not going out of the. Covering. But many of us are attacking people like I heard somebody say if he has. Divorced. Is that so? Is that also part so? If he's divorced, you should leave him. Is that not so? You are asking, Yeah, is it those things? They are grey. Areas. Because you can't really tell whether a person, well, let's say maybe you say, oh, somebody stop preaching Christ. Well, what do you mean? Or maybe the first, because there are many doctrines that are being preached. A lot of the prosperity gets rich quick type of messages, Bless me, club messages, They are not the Word of God, but they are in the word of God. They are all in the Bible and can be substantiated. Somebody has a message. Money, come to me now. Come quickly. Money come quickly. It's in the Bible. Somehow he will find a lot of scriptures to support it. Money, come to me now. That's a message of his message title today I'm sharing with you. Money, come to me now. Do you see? And so on. And are these heresies? They could equally be called heresies so. But it's not our. Duty to pass. Judgment on those things, because even if we pass judgment, it won't change anything and you are not. Called to be. A judge you. Are called to. Join the church. Hallelujah. So instead of getting yourself into trouble, do. You understand? If you don't want to be in the church, just say can I ask a question? Can I say something? Say what? Do you say? I have. I don't want to be. In this church again and leave the church. It doesn't mean you are going out of any covering or whatever because you, you, you don't believe you are supposed to be there. So you go to another place, but go quietly because what you are accusing your father of, you'll be surprised. You will do 10 times as much if you say your father has divorced. I heard somebody saying that. So this person is divorced. I can no longer receive from him because he's divorced. And so on the. Sepent that the person has seen you have not seen it. And when you see it you may kill your wife and be a murderer and and you will not just be a divorcee but a a murderer. Then you will now say, hey, my father was very good. Oh, what have you been through? What have you survived? What have you suffered? Powerful I. Have one more question. Yes, this one now is somehow related. To. The first one, but this one goes like this, Somebody observed a man of God, and the man of God we desire releases the person to go to start a church. Yes. And this person goes out and is struggling and is suffering things is not moving well with him. Yes. For some couple of years which covering is that person sharing? Which covering is the person sharing? Yeah, he he is not under any covering. He's he has a defenseless head. You see, as it is, it is you. You can be a person, for instance. You don't. Maybe you don't belong to this church or even let's say 4 square, not in four square, but spiritually you relate with the overseer there or with somebody there and the person is like whatever, although your church is 7 squares, 7 square. Gospel Church, that one was 4. Square, do you? Understand, So what I'm trying to say is. That there are people that I provide a covering for who are not pastors of Lighthouse Church. Do you? Understand what I'm saying? So you can go out of lighthouse. And I will still. Be a father or a covering to you. If I am a covering, it's possible you don't have necessarily. It's a spiritual thing anyway, because you can be in a church and your father can say you come. I my covering has Depart my covering has. Departed from you. Yeah, I've seen it before. Huh. Yeah, I've removed my covering from you. I remember 1 pastor he was saying. The pastor said to him, I have removed my covering from you. He said that week his son was knocked down by a car taking to intensive care. He used all his money, about 40 million CDs. By the time he finished everything it was he was broke. His dad was unconscious for about 3 weeks before he woke up and he said that all the trouble started. The man said I have removed my covering from you and he was in the, I think he was in the church where he was living. So it's a spiritual thing. So I think that if you have left and you want to be part of some people, you don't just be part of something by saying I want to be part of you or please be my spiritual father. It's also a process. You understand? And also maybe where you left it, you left in rebellion. It's possible you understand. And you have to correct that. Even if you are on your own, don't rebel and don't be rebellious and don't insult the place that you came from. So that you will not be kissed, Amen. So that you will not be an accused child who has no blessing in him, Amen. So you can be on your own. There's no problem with that. Methodist Church is not the only church. Lighthouse is not the only church. Pentecost is not the only church. You can be on your own. But if you came out of Pentecost, you must not spend your time saying bad things about Pentecost. Pentecost has made a lot of us what we are. Methodist has made a lot of us what we are. If you If you don't, you don't. Want to be like, I don't want to join the Methodist Church. I I don't want to join the Methodist. But it doesn't mean that Methodist is a bad church. It's a church. God bless Methodist Church. I pray for Methodist Church, but I'm not joining Methodist Church. But I don't need to join Methodist. And if I was to, I was not a pastor and I wanted to join the church, I don't think I would join the Methodist Church now for various reasons. Most of the members are older than me. Yeah. Is it not true? Yeah, have I answered your question? So your question is, whose covering are you under? Perhaps you did not want to be under somebody's covering, so you are now on your own. So you are not. Under any covering. OK, it's amazing. I think this book, Bishop, one of the chapters Bishop talked about the fatherhood, really that fatherhood is like a really, sometimes somebody fathers you for a while and then hands you over to another person spiritually. I think that you should read this book. Very, very important. My father, my father, it's various as one of the chapters in it. So like Bishop is saying, sometimes you can choose your father and depend on how you live with the person and then also where you live from. But I think that it's important to understand that as you move along, sometimes your bilingual father dies and some of the children looks after you, even materially takes you to school. Sometimes you join a church. And some of the things that you learn from your spiritual father didn't learn it from your bilingual father at home. So that really the thing has been handed over to another person who is naturally looking after you. So fatherhood is like a relay that we should know. That's why you can be in maybe your ministry, your own ministry and still have your father in I mean in another ministry, who is who can obviously watches over you and and really nurtures you. It's a very important book to have. And then the captains on the is on the the whole thing is fatherhood. I believe you'll be blessed. All right, any other question. So you stand up just if you can just ask one question, read let's those who haven't asked any question at all, just mention your name and where you're healing from or coming from so that we get to. Praise God, Yes, my name is Pastor Eddie Ofre from Hermon City Church, Kalaba, Nigeria. Kalaba. Yes. I want to ask a question about being led by God. And the bishops said that one of the lowest methods being led by God or hearing from God is through circumstance of life. And I want to say that if you are a professional, I'm a lawyer and you are an associate pastor, you are not under salary or anything, but you are having the color of your life and you are in in the church. And then along the line, you seems to get to a point where you you spend more time with your ministerial work as a pastor, you enjoy the work. At the point you don't even enjoy your secular calling again and you don't even have enough time again for your secular calling. And I don't know, Sir, at what point can one really feel that I should go into full time? Or is it that you must hear God speaking clearly or your circumstance that you are passing through? Which somehow make you feel that you should go into full time. I want some clarification on this. Thank you, Sir. OK. Well, I think that. I think that. It's very important for you who has the question, please. OK. Thank you. I. Think that it's very important for you to know that. Direction of the Holy Spirit. It's something you have to come to your own conclusions about. But this one, God is saying this to me. Nobody can say for you that the fact that you don't enjoy the secular work at all and you find yourself naturally doing the work of God all the time without even thinking about your secular work, because that's what happened to me. When I was. A layperson. I was doing business. I had a tipper track at the weekend. I'll say, hey, I've got a track, where is it? I've forgotten about it. People are using my track to do business, getting money, doing various things. I've forgotten all about it because I'm thinking about something else. So that was what was happening to me. But that is not why I decided to be Fotan. The Lord spoke to me that it's time to leave everything and do it. So I also believe. How did I know that? That's the thought that came to my mind was God speaking. That's what I was preaching about yesterday for a long time that you, you, it's experimentation until you come to the point where you know that when this thing I've heard God has spoken to me, and gradually when you say God has spoken to me, people will even begin to see that when this man says God has spoken to me, they will all realize that The thing is real. It's not I perceive or I feel, but God has said so maybe that experience you are having is actually God's direction. Maybe it is not they understand and that there are different ways that God. Maybe you are going to be sacked from your work, then you'll soon see that there's nowhere else to go back to the church, which is a very low form of direction. If only you can hear from God directly that go and work here rather than your work has been closed down or you have been sacked before. You can see that God is now sending you to work for Him. Try and come to a disease. I have a lot of people when things are very bad, then they come and say we want to work for God. But when things were good and things were working well, they couldn't hear such a message. But when their business has been closed down to further notice and other like Ghana Airways has been closed, you see that people who are working for Ghana, they are now coming to work in the church. But when they were flying to Dusseldorf to hear, to hear, to hear New York days getting done less every time and so on, they never came to say we want to work in the chest. Now that Ghana Airways is no more Monarch Airways and after Airways are taking over, they have received the call of God to come and work in the chest. You understand? So I hope I've answered your question. So you have to get to that point where you believe. Amen. All right over there. OK. And please especially be fear Presbyterian Church of Ghana since Paul's congregation Cape Coast. OK. Please, talking about Fathering, some of us has been in this church. If you have been in the Orthodox Church and maybe you became a Christian through some fellowship or some SU meetings and things like that and you decided to be in the same church, coincidentally, we have a lot of this, there's some sort of, I can't call it revival or something in the churches where we have groups who has taken over some of these issues and are working at it. In the Presby Church, we have the Bible study and prayer group and they, we, we, we, we see ourselves working there. Maybe through that you become a pastor or something like that and talking about fathering. These churches have structures. You know, you go to the SU meeting and you don't actually have a particular person. You can call that this is my father or you are in the group or probably your pastors come kept coming and going, one of them inspiring one after the other and you have been maybe I'm just hearing maybe for the first time that you have to have a father figure as a Christian in your life. And but for all this time up till this time, you never really can pinpoint to somebody and say that this is my father. Where is your position? So what's your question? Should you have somebody? Who is? Becoming. I want to know what to do. Yes, I also. I also. Question. Yeah. Can you answer? Yes, OK, My sister, I think that when I was in the Scripture union, which also has structures, you know, I had somebody who was in the Presbyterian Church. He never left the Presbyterian Church. His name was Uncle James Christensen. Do you know him, Sister? Do you know him? Yes. Uncle James is one of my father's my book Born Again. I dedicated it to him. He's one of the people that I would just go to and he would talk to me. Even though it was a structured organization like Scripture Union, and there were other people like the leaders for that season that I was there. Do you understand who had things to? In fact, one of the people who was like a mother to me, her name was Betty. She was never a leader of anything or I mean, I don't remember if she was a leader, but she was not a leader. Somebody who preaches him, but just a quiet person there. But she was a mother to me. She taught me so many things. And I can see how all these people brought me up in the Lord. So I think that maybe if you look carefully, you'll find out, oh, there's somebody who are you born again? How did you get born again? Yes. How did you get born again, please? Back in secondary school and that time we have and who influenced you when you were in secondary school? When I was in So we have the SU teachers responsible for and there was which. Particular teacher. Taught you or? Did something? We have one called Reginald Darkoon. And so maybe that person is a kind of a father to you, you know, because a father is not somebody who is everything. Oh, you see what you must realize that a father is not everything. No father can be everything. That's why the Bible says don't call anybody father because no one can do everything. So everybody has a series of fathers. That's why Paul said in First Corinthians 415 you have not many fathers. So in your life you are likely to have easily, maybe up to 10 people who are like fathers to you. In the ministry. You will find out. And everybody is for a different purpose, a different time, a different season, for a different reason. God is bathing you into different things depending on who it is. As such as you can have different fathers even at the same time, 1 is fathering you in one area, 1 is fathering you in another area. It's possible. You understand, somebody is by afar, somebody is near. For instance, if I talk about Papa Hagen, Papa Hagen was a father from afar. So the things that I got from him I can never get from a father who is near. A father who is near may even offend you, but he could never offend me because he was too far to offend me, you understand? But I had Bishop Nick to hurt me from time to time, like when I wanted to start my church and he didn't. Come to help me. Rather did whatever, they are all good experiences and to see whether I will still flow. You understand they are all part of whatever. So this one is also providing something from afar, something from mere, something in this area, something in that area. Are you listening to me? So God provides, and you may not have seen the particular role that somebody plays when the person is in your life. You don't know. You just like water. You see, like when you have water, you don't know that it's important. But if water goes off, like when I was in Nachimoto school, the water went off. Initially, we were surviving. We collected the water from the swimming pool in the school. We collected the water from underground tanks until the day came. There was no drop of water at all. After some weeks, until the whole school had to close down. We never knew how important water, water could drive everybody from the school until we were driven away. A time came, we were like animals going to the Bush to toilet. Everybody was finding this time to go to toilet. We are all in the forest moving through the Bush because there was no water, no bathing, no water, nothing. But you never knew how vital it was. So you may say I've never met a life saving agent. OK, let's turn off the water then. You see that you you have a life saving agent all the time, but you don't know that it's a life saving agent. Are you listening to me? So I hope I've answered your question so it's. Possible, but even as you go on in the Lord, the Lord may show you the. Effect that different people. Are having on your life. I would say, for instance, that somebody like Betty who was a blessed. I didn't know what she was. It is recently in my life that I realized that every time I preach, I'm preaching from my quiet time. Then I remember the day that she taught me how to have my quiet time. It was not. It's not so long ago. Then I realized that this person has really done something for me. She has given me the greatest habit of my whole life to have my quiet time daily and a few other things. But at that time, I didn't see through university. I did it. I just saw my good friend that I used to have, but then later I realized, wow, this is what this person did and has done for me. So there are people like that in our lives. Maybe because I'm preaching about it. You now begin to think and see fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers where you are looking at things and you can see fathering in different people. But it reaches a place where you you realize you being a place because it's not talked about. You don't know what a father is. So as you are hearing it now, you begin to find a situation, Hallelujah, where you begin to say, wow, this thing is a father's behaviour. Like say, let's say Kwame Nkrumah, we may not understand what a father. Of a nation is. Or even a president. Do you see most of the time they are dead and gone. Then we realise that Kwame Nkwumah built all these Taqwa secondary school, this secondary school, this secondary school, this secondary school, University Cape Coast University, UST, Atema Harbor, Akosombo. This done everything for us. But we didn't know who he was. So when he went, we were so happy, rejoicing, cutting him off whatever. Since the motorway was built 21 kilometers the whole Ghana for 50 years of independence, we cannot extend that 21 kilometers and even 1 inch. It is now in President who first time we have been able to extend it over Tetekwasi circle and if you are driving across the Tamoto, we will be very careful because just after the Tetekwasi circle it returns to the Tetekwasi circle because the the thing has finished just here we have been able to extend it by 1 kilometer since independence. You may not know what a father is doing for you till he is gone or you have sacked him from your life. Then you realize that to build a concrete road, 2 here, 2 here, separate Rd. Look at the road we drive on to Cape Coast to Takrabi. For years we are begging Japanese people to come and build and now that they do, look at the dangerous Rd. they build from Accra to Winneba. Small Rd. like this with a valley on each side. Preda you know is the one of the most dangerous. Me, I've had an accident before somersaulting head over in on the way to Tamali. It was a road just like this. It's one of the danger when you see like that. No, slow down. The whole Rd. is safer, I'm telling you so you, you, you, you see, you didn't know that Kamin Kumar has started. Building from Tema Accra. And maybe we, maybe we would have continued. Maybe by now there will be two lanes to Kumasi like this, two lanes to Tamil, 2 lanes to a flower, 2 lanes to everywhere being ruled by a white man. 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