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10.How To Fulfil Your Ministry Through The Mysterious Will
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - Fulfill Your Ministry. Machaneh Collection - 94. Preached in 2013, Ghana(Mampong Akuapem) Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.
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Welcome to track #10 of fulfill your ministry. Now, I was talking about fulfilling the ministry. Isn't it all right now in fulfilling the ministry, OK, OK, you get it. What is the first thing that is going to help you to fulfill the ministry? Say again, mercy yes will guide you more than 70% to do the will of God. The mercy and the love have been shown #2 the separation will guide you #3 the will of God will guide you. You see, we haven't come to hire things like whether you are an apostle or a prophet or whatever, but we are already far, so far. Now the will of God. Ephesians chapter one verse 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which he has purposed in himself. Amen. Having made known unto us what the mystery of his will. Now what you need to know when it comes to the will of God is that after being saved, OK, after finding the law, the next important ability you need for your life is the ability to find the will of God for you. Generally, that's that's the most important thing every Christian should know and be concerned about the will of God. OK, now what do you need to know about the wi
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Welcome to track #10 of fulfill your ministry. Now, I was talking about fulfilling the ministry. Isn't it all right now in fulfilling the ministry, OK, OK, you get it. What is the first thing that is going to help you to fulfill the ministry? Say again, mercy yes will guide you more than 70% to do the will of God. The mercy and the love have been shown #2 the separation will guide you #3 the will of God will guide you. You see, we haven't come to hire things like whether you are an apostle or a prophet or whatever, but we are already far, so far. Now the will of God. Ephesians chapter one verse 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which he has purposed in himself. Amen. Having made known unto us what the mystery of his will. Now what you need to know when it comes to the will of God is that after being saved, OK, after finding the law, the next important ability you need for your life is the ability to find the will of God for you. Generally, that's that's the most important thing every Christian should know and be concerned about the will of God. OK, now what do you need to know about the will of God? What you do need to know about the will of God is the fact that it is a mystery. When you say something is mysterious, it means you can't know it so clearly, and so you need to have respect for the mystery of the will of God. Once you begin to respect that God's will is mysterious, you will not take Him for granted. You see, you may be young, but God may want you to die mysteriously, even though He has given us over 70 years guaranteed in His word. Long life is a blessing for those who serve the Lord. It's your guaranteed blessing, receive it in Jesus name. Let me hear your loudest. Amen. Even things that are written can have mysterious twists and tents. Because God is sovereign. Yes. When I first got married, sometimes, you know, when it comes to food, my wife would say, she would say something and I'll say, oh, I don't like this. Then later on it would come up and she would say, but I thought you said you didn't like this. And I said, look, if I say I don't like this, I can like it later, or I can have a moment where I will choose what I say I don't like. Is it not true? If you don't like yam yele, you don't like yam, huh? It should not. It should not surprise anybody if you say today I want yam. So you may know that somebody may say in general that this is what I want. I want you to live long. But mysteriously, he may desire for you to have the shortest life. Are you going to argue? Stop arguing. So this is what confuses people. And this is something, once you learn it, you will fear God. You will fear God. You will never take it for granted to live for a day. You live in fear knowing that God can say tomorrow, come upstairs for a meeting. True. And because God has the options, that's where you come in to seek Him for His will. Do you think that God wants his Son to be beaten by people, especially stupid, wicked soldiers, brutal men who don't fear God? Not at all. That is not. Is she OK? Not OK. I need to be involved. I'm OK. OK. Amen. So you may say, are you listening? That this is the way it should be. But you've got the fear. You got to fear that God can decide, I want it this way, I want you now. So the principles there are in the world, but that's what you got to do to fear the Lord. Even as human beings. You cannot assume when this present number, I know this. What you eat, I know either. His favorite is sardines. How do you choose for me my favorite? Last time I asked for sardines. Now you are giving me sardines you've chosen for me that asked for me. When I come, it's only sardine that I want. If I know, no. Fine. Are you listening? Yeah. There are people who will make those assumptions and they don't understand anything. So you can't assume anything with God, so you have to seek His will. And when you seek His will, if you seek His will, you'll find His will. You'll find His will even if He doesn't tell you His will. When you seek His will, you activate Proverbs 3, five and six. Do you understand? In all thy ways acknowledge Him, even if He doesn't say anything. Whenever you go and pray, do you understand about the will of God being done by the time you are coming back? You can't say that there is anything in particular that the Lord has told you. Don't worry, you have activated Proverbs 3, five and six at only the Lord. In all thy ways He shall direct thy paths. Amen. When I when I first came to Kaulibu, I went to the beach praying every night I was praying, every night I was praying thy will be done, thy will be done, Thy will be done, thy will be done. Never had a wet. The only thing I had was the sound of the waves. That's the only thing I had the sound of the waves, sound of the waves, sound of the waves. When I was praying about getting married, I was praying, praying, praying, praying. You don't even know when you are young, you don't know, you feel desires, feelings, you can't tell the will of God. I mean, Charlie at a point giving you say Lord, have mercy on my soul. 1 will that we'll find you said you can't see the will Maybe, but you've activated Proverbs 3, five and six. Acknowledge the law in all thy way. There's a song like that in all that ways. Acknowledge him. Come on, give us some reggae music, man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean on your own understanding in all your ways. Acknowledge Him, and He shall direct, and He shall direct your path. Oh, He will not allow your foot to be moved. He that keeps you will not love her. The Lord is near unto all them that caught upon him, to all that caught upon him in truth. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and not all your own understanding, in all your ways of knowledge in care. And He shall divert, and He shall divert your heart. Wow, so you must seek the will of God. Today many people go out of the will of God because you presumptuously assume you know the will of the Lord, and you just say Lord. This is an ideal, beloved. I commit him into your hands. My Father, speak down from heaven in the name of Jesus. Amen. The answer is yes. Now pray about it, so that when you marry in the day that a dark cloud harvests over your life and over your marriage, there will be an anchor for your soul. And you say I prayed about it. I cannot say I didn't pray about it. And there will come days. There will be dark days. There will be days you wish didn't come. There will be days you wonder rarely is there a marriage that they don't wonder whether they made a mistake, if they will be honest with you. These Iwanistic people, they always like to give a good impression. You know, they say, oh, yeah, it's not a marriage was made in heaven. And he said, God, this, you get it. But tell them, oh, fine, tell me the anger. Tell me the truth of the thing. You get it. And you don't tell you that. You know, there have been days when I wondered, Wow, did I make a mistake? Did I make a mistake? Is this not a song? Like, did I make a mistake? There's a song like that. Did I miss? Did I mean, there will come a day you will ask yourself, did I make a mistake? But in that day, you will remember, Oh Lord, remember. I lay on my face, I prayed, I called on you. I asked you. Yes. If this is your, what is your will? I accept it. Not that you come and you say it seems I've backed the wrong horse. Do you understand backing the wrong horse? Like you go to the race course, there's maybe 15 horses and then you, you, you back the wrong horse like you take. Oh, I'm betting on #3 maybe #3 is odo dodo duo or #4 is Kulu Kulu kutu or #5 is why worry or number six is miracle #7 is correcto perfecto #8 is odupod #9 is sweet melodies, sweet memories. Yeah #10 is celave #11 is flashing beauty #12 is coquette #13 is like a dis like a that. Which one should I bet on? And you take your hundred CDs and you say I'm betting on like a this like a that not knowing that the owner of like a this like a that has been as instructed the jockey to hold the horse. He doesn't run fully. And they are falling from one stable and they are no, they know who is running the one who is going all out. You know that is coquette. Coquette is the one who is running. The rest are not is the one going to win. And you have backed like this, like that. But it's not as you see it. The election is not as you see it, It's that's not the best that is winning. Yeah. So you realize that when when they start running 100 hundred CDs, Oh my, 100 CDs is finished back the wrong horse. Don't come after you marry and say you back the wrong horse. Don't come and tell us that when you choose. Don't change your mind. Pray about it. Be in a relationship. In the relationship, what you see is what you saw, or what you saw is what you will see. Be in the relationship for some time. There is nothing new that you will not see. Yeah, that one alone will cover you. Yeah. If the person has a face, it will come during the relationship. It's a matter of time. If the person slaps, you will see one during the relationship. So pray, you get what I'm saying. Pray, pray. Don't be Christians who don't seek the will of God. That prayer is the most powerful. And I will say to all of us who are ordinary, this prayer prayed, the will of Lord, not my will by fire will be done. You see what there's a thought in your mind, especially when you are thinking about something, you know, if you feel like it in your flesh, do you understand? And logically also you feel like it. Your flesh says yes, your mind says yes, but the spirit may say no. But it's very difficult to hear the voice of the spirit. Why? Because spiritual voices are not easy to hear. Spiritual voices when you hear over a long time, you know, like if for instance, you are far from the camp and you hear something, you may have to chew. Quiet, let's listen. Quiet when you quiet, OK, they are shouting. So they are. The camp has started, do you see? And that's how you have to quiet in the voice of your flesh, quiet, in the voice of your mind, quiet, quiet, quiet. Because it takes days to do that. And so that you fast and fast and fast. By the end of the fast, the only thing you are hearing is hunger. Has it happened to you before? The only thing you are hearing is hunger and you want to end the fast very quickly. Wow. So activate Proverbs 3, verse five and six. Trust in the Lord so that at the end of the day, whatever will happen should happen. Charlie, again. We have prayed about it. Yeah. Whatever has happened has happened. We have prayed about it. Yeah. That's that's that. It will stabilize you. To stabilize you. Your ankle will be down. The wind will even a dark thought enters your mind and say you know something. You cannot say that I met a certain husband one day, he said my marriage is as the day that Jacob married Leah. He said I married in the night. I couldn't see what I was marrying. True, most of us are going to marry in the night. We can't see what we are marrying. You can't really know somebody. Even it takes years to know somebody. My assessment of myself, of my wife, of different people and of their marriages today is very different. Of my assessment of it 26 years ago. Yeah, my judgment, what I think is different from what I think now. Yes, because I know more now. It's what I've seen it before. It is what I've what seen it before, but at that time I've not seen it before. So what you must understand and know OK is that the will of God must be sought. So now, so I love God. That is the first taking you 70% of the way. The second one is that you see you've been separated. Follow the separation. Third one, what is the will? That is your duty to seek at least the least you can do. Is to spend long hours in prayer. Never trust yourself to a Grupo. You see, when you are in a group, only as she is sleeping. But she's praying. You see, like me, when I'm praying you, you can be in the next room. You will not know that I'm praying. Yeah. I can pray quietly for a very long time. I will not be asleep. I know you think I'm asleep. I have a kind of sleep that comes when I pray a short 1 and comes often with a vision. After that I will not sleep. I've never used a desk even to learn before. Since I was born I've never used a desk. Like I sit down this a desk? No whether Bible, whether academic, whether I don't sit at desk. I only lie down. Yes. I don't use desk. Yeah, I don't do that. Is that what happened to you too? So when you see me lying down, you may think I'm sleeping, but I'm not sleeping. So don't, don't trust yourself with a group because. Oh, now? So we all slept. You didn't sleep. Oh, he was praying, you were sleeping. We all went to bed. No, don't trust yourself to a group. Pray yourself. Make sure you pray yourself because the will of God is mysterious to say the least. She may be beautiful, but he may not be the will of God for her. She may be nice. Watch out for very nice things. You see, sometimes when something is extra nice, the extra nice is a compensation for something else that is not there. Oh yeah, You see, God is kind. God is kind. Sometimes. He may not give porcupine teeth to defend himself against a lion, but he's giving him spikes. You owner. Less. More. But it has been compensated for the size and the speed with spikes. Yes. So many times. You see, each animal that is deficient in something is wonderful in another area. Yeah. One day her brother told me. He said, you know, I had a first beloved that I really went, But one day the beloved said, I don't like you. Then after that, he said I went somewhere. And then the pastor said to me, what about this sister? So he said, I just took care. I just took care. And I married her. Yeah. He said I just married her. But he said, Bishop, my wife is deceptive. She, she's far more beautiful than she looks when I'm married and I saw she's more beautiful because there are people like that, beautiful in clothes outside of clothes. I'm preaching. I'm preaching a good message. I'm preaching. Then he continued to describe. He said what she does to me yes, so you see the outward or when he described after today, I've never had any Christian couple tell me what he told me, which I will not tell you what she does and you see so God have compensated not that she's not beautiful, but it's like there are different levels. Sometimes some are more outstanding like you notice them like if they are 15 years old, your eyes go oh actually striking. Are you listening? So don't be too overtaken with such a wonderful looking you'll be surprised. Smashing. She's telling cooking zero. A cookie, a cookie, a cookie. It's mysterious. It's what you can ask the experienced pastors. You see, it comes in different packages. So sometimes God may mysteriously guide you. Go for this less attractive one and you may say Lord. But I noticed, I said I, I heard that you notice. Look at this one. The mystery of his will, I said the mystery of his will, the mystery of his will. His will is, if you can remember that his will is mysterious, you will have a good respect and you will not be presumptuous and say, oh, yeah, it's the will of God. Bishop said it. This one said it. I prayed about it. This one, number one, is this #2 she's this number 3 #4 is this. It will work. Peace. It's not like that. It's not like that at all. Any new one who does not respect the mystery of His will, you don't know God. In the mystery of His will you will see those who forsake forsook the earthly security gained great security. Amen. Hallelujah. How did Abraham become secure and rich? By forsaking his whole family and his nation. What can be more insecure than that? God told the man of the tower of Babel. They said they want to make themselves a name, and God said smash it and he divided them. Abraham rather, who was not making a name, but just forsaking all earthly security and fame. Today there are so many people called Abraham. He rather has the name. I'll make you a name, a city. All those things were given to Abraham. So mysteriously what people were looking for was not given to them, but the one who was not looking for it was given it. So it's mysterious. I have many things that people are searching for. Mysteriously. What they are looking for is given to me over and over and over and over and over again to the point of you can never testify of it. You cannot Mysterious. I thought that when I follow God and I enter the ministry, I will be the poorest church mouse ever to be seen pitifully on this earth. But I did not become poor. I thought I was going to become poor. I thought I would never travel again, but rather I'm traveling. Yeah, I travel. I thought I would never have a house to live in, but rather I have a house. Amazing. So it's mysterious. So don't think so. This is a good job is this is this. They pay this number 3, this number 2, this number 4, this. They have this, this, this, this. So therefore this, this, that. Now it could be the job on which you die one day when you are going to work. So it's not as straightforward. You have to pray about it. Once you start praying about it, you start to fall in the will of God. You are guided into the will of God. You are guided Supernatural angels block things. You meet stubborn people who oppose you when you are going the wrong way. You will even hate them, but they have been sent by God. God said I will have in his heart not that Pharaoh is bad or say God said I will have in Pharaoh's heart. He will never let you go because I want to do one this many times. When God wants to do one that he makes some people stubborn in your life. You will not change their mind. They will never yield. They will never say, yeah, they will never agree as he's doing his power in his will. That's how, that's how it is. God said I will harden his heart and I'm sending you, I know it will not work, but I'm sending you. I saw the mission and they went. When they came out, they said we were not successful. I said, look, God sends people to do things that he knows will not work. When he sent Moses 12 times, he knew He said really good to not work. But go, even the song we said tell them even if they don't believe you, just tell them. Even if they don't receive you, tell them, go. Even if it doesn't work, go. That's the mystery of his will. Wow. David wanted to build a house for God just out of love, but it's still important to seek the will of God. When he started to seek the will of God, God sent a prophet. He told the prophet, this is what I want to do. When he was going to build, the prophet came back and said, yeah, God has heard. He's very impressed, but he says you shouldn't build it. Do nothing, Stay there. By doing nothing, we'll build the biggest temple. Let your son come and build it. Yes. So you see, you can't assume with God. Oh yeah. When anything I decided to I'm the greatest builder. I'm into building of temples and I kill people and whenever God say I don't want your temple, I'll let your son build my temple. So by God may want you to do nothing rather than something Cholerics find it difficult to do nothing. When is gods stay in the house and pray? I have to move. I'm going somewhere. Cholerics. They don't like staying in the house at all. Every day on the move. Then they are moving. Are you there? You are going home. The mystery of His will. Many of the saddest things of my life have lived led to the best things of my life. Yeah. And I cannot even explain. Maybe I can explain. 1 The bombing of us at Colegono, that's what led to the Kodesh. That's one at least I can explain. But other other ones I can't explain. Yeah, I can tell you things about myself. You would just best out crying one day. I told somebody. I was just telling the person, the person, the person's reaction was the person just best out crying. Tears came out of the Arabic, started crying. Relax, that's how it is. You don't know. And you'll find that the will of God is mysterious. It's mysterious. That is his will. If you think God is only prosperity, money, breakthrough answer, you haven't read your Bible. God has other things that are painful, difficult, dark. What you don't expect that is Israel. It's part of Christianity. You see, you know that's what I'm saying, that you can't come. So as our Bishop, we know he likes yam. You know, how do you, how do you know that I like yam? Oh, the last time I saw him eating yam. So I, I prepared yam for him. You know, it's, it's a presumption that you know all about me because you see me eating yam once. So I saw a Bishop eating fried yam. Last time I saw him eating by the roadside, he was sitting and I know that is his favorite. Who told you that is my favorite? Do you know what? I was buying it for my dog. I said, do you know what? I was buying it for my dog. That is his favorite. Don't assume anything is God's favorite. This is all. This is God's favorite. As for God, this is his favorite. That is why a lot of people who preach faith healing, prosperity, if you really look at them, you see that many of them have not had faith. They've not had the healing. They've not had the prosperity. Yeah, and and they they are even sad. And it's as if it didn't work. No. But you see, there are other things you can't assume. You can't assume Jesus was 30 years old. He was gone 33. John the Baptist was 30. He was out of this world. 30 Finish your life. Your ministry is over 30. 30 go. So those who are preaching ask for God. Are they prosperity long like this? It's true, but it's part there are there, there may be Section 2. Section 3. Yeah. Welcome to life. Are you still there? So I'm I'm sending you off to go pray. OK. Yeah. Go pray. Hallelujah. The mystery of the will of God. Sometimes not travelling can make you reach the whole world like Jesus Ministry. Even when the Sarah Phoenician woman came. Say no, no, no, you are nothing. What's your address? Sarah Phoenicia. No, no, you are not included in the people I'm called to minister to. Yeah, you are not included. Don't you want to reach the whole world? Jesus? Look, I've been asked to stay within this group through that. The whole world knows about Jesus Christ today. So the will of God. You can't assume that since God has sent me to another world, he's turned to the ends of the world. OK, I'm going here. I'm going here. I'm doing this. No, you have to still seek his will. You can't say the man likes yam. Why did you learn that? What did you eat for lunch today? Rice. Supposing you're the person you are going to marry, Do you have a beloved? No, beloved. OK, supposing the one you are going to be like the dose one day she come to you Rice, rice. Rice. So why? So the way I saw you eating at the camp, I know that you like rice bar. Is it right? No, please. Why? Why is it not right? What do you like by the way? What do you like? OK, Rice. The mystery of his will is such that losing can lead to gaining. Yeah, it's really so mysterious that losing can lead to gaining. Losing can lead to gaining. I can show you. I thought that I would never. I'm now I'm because to be a Doctor Who has not specialized, you know, I mean, the medical fraternity is not as good as you could have been. And I thought that I'm now going to remain in the lower fraternity, but rather now I meet presidents. If I'd been working on my polyclinic, I wouldn't have seen any presidents. Yeah. Wow. Sometimes I get messages from presidents. Yeah. What do you think? Yeah. You see, I thought I was going down, but I went up. Wouldn't you like to receive a message from a president somewhere? Which president knows you? It's not easy to know any president, isn't it? One day I was talking with the president somewhere and he said please make sure you give me your card. Yeah. And I didn't have a card, so I had to make one quickly and give it to him. Yeah, he wanted to have my number. Wow, so amazing. You see, you think that going down is you are going down and my rather is going up. That's why the will of God is you. You just all I'm just trying to take away from you is presumption. That's as such. So I know you, you like yam, you like chicken pie, you like just one day that you saw me eating. That's why many places when I go, I don't eat. I just stand. I just look. They are all looking to see. He likes chicken pie. He likes rice pie. He likes malt pie. He likes it. There's no need of that. So I'll just be looking at you. Tell somebody I'm finding the will of the Lord. Not seeking wealth mysteriously can make you wealthy. Yeah. Not looking for money can make you find money. But you see, people wouldn't see it that way. But the Bible says, seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you, which is one of the graces in this house, one of the graces on this Commission. Amen. That not seeking money, but rather seeking the Kingdom can make you very, very, very wealthy. It's a mystery. Hallelujah. So it is very important, Colossians chapter one, verse 9, to be filled with the knowledge of His will. Colossians chapter 1. For this reason, verse 9, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you be filled with the knowledge of His will. Amen. Be filled with the knowledge of his will. So pray about the will of God to know, to have and all that you are saying is just you are just not making assumptions because the will of God is in the Bible. But you, you have to go carefully. I'm not I'll not assume that I'm a pastor. I'll not assume that I'm a teacher. I'll not assume that I'm a singer. I'll not assume that I'm this, I'm not assumed that this. I'll not assume that I'm praying still and seeking the will of God and seeking to be filled with the knowledge of his will. Don't assume he's nice, he'll be good to marry. Don't assume he's tall, he'll be good to marry. Don't assume she's beautiful. She'll be good to marry. That is the presumption for which you must be punished. You'll be punished for that. You'll be punished for that assumption. You shouldn't have made that assumption. You should have rather said, you know, when it comes to God, you can never tell He has written his word, but he is God and he can decide what he wants to decide. Yes. Otherwise, if that was the case, I would be. And I had a shock of my life when I was going to Tamale and I had an accident. I had the shock of my life. The shock of my life was that I thought that because I'm serving the Lord, Charlie, I cannot die now. Yeah, but when I saw myself somersaulting in a car, I said, Lord, I am going to Tamali to preach. I am 30 minutes from my destination. What bad thing have I done? Who am I with? I am with pastors. I am not with bad people. None of us are smoking in the car. We are going to preach the word of God and in addition to that you are trying to kill us. My car somersaulted 10 over, over, over, and we were found in the Bush far away from the road, so far that the next car that came, they didn't even see us. They just passed whom and the next one that came, whom they were just, they just came. No car ever stopped because we were so far off the road. When I came out of the car through the roof, I couldn't believe it. I said, Lord, why would you want to kill us? What have we done? Is it not preaching that we are preaching? Is it not going to places that people don't want to go? We're going to establish the church and to build a church. Why? Why do you want to kill us? I was shocked at God and I was angry with God. Yeah. I had to overcome the head. Yeah, I see. You can't assume. First off, we are doing the right thing. We are doing the soul. Therefore, this. Look, God is God, and there are things he can decide. So you have to be humble. You have to be cool. You have to learn it. If you don't know it. Welcome. Yeah. So you have to believe all the good promises that you have to know. There may be a reason that God has that he has not revealed. It's mysterious. It is mysterious. Yes. He wants us to prosper. But maybe in your case, there may be. I don't want you to prosper. Yeah. You're going to suffer. Wow. Are you ready for the mystery of his will? Yeah, but he shouldn't put you off. Don't be sad. Don't let it put you off. Because through it all, through it all, many times the saddest things of your life, they bring the best part of your life. The highest and the better qualities of my life and ministry have come from the painfulness. Yeah, you can never know. Because God has strengthened me with the strength that he's strengthened by the God of Jacob and will strengthen you by the help of the Almighty. He has strengthened my hands with strength by the hand of the Almighty. Yeah, but that is how the will of God is. It is mysterious. All good things, many good things come out of pain, out of sadness, out of difficulty. So those of you who have experienced difficulty, oh, God, why rather stop looking, say, Lord, what are you doing? Lord, what are you? Maybe you are in a relationship. Relationship is no more, you are crying, say Lord, your deliverance is beautiful, your deliverance is wonderful. How many have been in a relationship before? And the relationship, do they work? Raise your hand young people so young to be broken hearted at this age. Share Then what about the future? Amen. Tell somebody. I want to be filled with the knowledge of his will. Is there not a song like that about the destiny of the Lord? The destiny? Something like that. Yeah. Let's sing that song. It's beautiful. 2nd Corinthians chapter one, verse one Paul call as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, will of God, will of God, the will of God, the will of God. Dedicate yourself to the will of God. Dedicate yourself not to law, to medicine, to carpentry, to philosophy, but to the will of God. Whatever mysterious will is, whatever mysterious will it is, dedicate yourself. That's when you start to fulfill your ministry. I'm dedicated to the will of God. I'm not dedicated to anything. When people ask me what is my vision? So what vision of what vision is to do His will, to do His will? Whatever destiny He has planned for me, that is what I want to do. Can I have an Amen? Jesus prayed 3 times in the garden. OK. Paul Second Corinthians chapter one verse one. Paul called an apostle of Jesus Christ. By the will, by the will, by the will, by the what? By the will of God, The will of God. Dedicate yourself not to any particular ambition, but to the will of God. No matter the course you have done in this, in this world, your course is nothing. I say your course is nothing. Dedicate yourself to the will of God. Pray for the will of God and dedicate yourself to the will of God. I know people who I enter relationships today there are a lot of sisters. When they go into relationship with brothers and their sister, they say I'm going to be a missionary at where? They say I'm going to be a missionary at Where? Please. Pabbing. Pabbing what? Then you get a text. Please, I want to discuss something with you. When you go for the discussion, what is the problem, please? I was, I was talking about something the other day. You see, not everybody has that special ambition for these missionary funds. It's because of that I want you to excuse me from your life. Wow. Yeah, because you are dedicated to prosperity, not to the will of the Lord. Pray you'll get somebody to marry who believes in the will of the Lord. And brothers, Brothers, dedicate yourself to the will of the Lord. How can you dedicate yourself to biochemistry? What is biochemistry? Philosophy, banking, law. What is that? What are all these dedications? Dedicate yourself to the perfect will of God. The will of God is nice. It's good. So the will of God is very hard. It's harder not to be in the will of God, though. It's harder outside the will of God. So the will of God is hard. It's harder outside. Outside. Outside the will is much more harder than inside the will. Try outside the will of God and see how it's lined. Try it. Try being outside the will of God and see what happened to you. Try. Try a day. Try a year. Ask Jonah what it's like when you run away from the will of God to be swallowed by a will and to be in the prison of the will. Many people are in the prison of a will because they were just running away from the will of the Lord. They were running to go and do business in Tashish, business in Tashish. So the will of the Lord, so Jesus said Matthew 26. He said nevertheless, not my will, not my will. Stunned in in respecting God's will. The next thing is to not trust your own will. Don't trust your own will. Your own will is not good. I don't want my own will. I want his will. I don't like my own will. Yeah, when I was going to get married, I did not want my will. I prayed for a whole year. Because you see, when you are doing the find the will of the Lord, you get confused because you see the near beautiful, but all that glitters is not gold una le beautiful. But there may be something else you cannot handle, and you may never know. Limited, huh? So I prayed. I said, Lord, your will. Everything that I have, I consider it as his will. This is what he has planned for me. Yeah. I believe anything. That is the will of God. Yeah. You see, when you pray and you have prayed, it cannot be shaken. The wind will blow, the storms will come, the earth will shake. But you say, you know what, I prayed about this. And if this is what is happening, that's it, The will of the Lord. I like it, I take it, I walk in it, I have it in Jesus name, Amen. You will be in the perfect will of the Lord. You will escape all bellies of wills. The storms of life will never drown you, because you'll be in the will of God. Yes, seek his will. Thy will be done. Thy will. We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. Learn our lessons well in His timing. He will tell where to go, what to say, and what to do. We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord, learn our lessons well in His timing. He will tell where to go, what to say, and what to do. We must wait. We must wait, wait, wait. Under the law, we must wait, wait, wait on the lawn, Learn our lessons well. In his time, he will tell where to go, what to say and what to do. We must wait. I want to see you in gardens praying. Yeah, pray like AKA. Oh, but for prayers, what is happening? So I'm in prayers. Prayers, a House of prayer, a place where you go. What are you doing Palaba? That the will of the Lord should be done in my life. You can stay in a house for three days. What is your prayers of thy will be done? If you spend 3 days, bring thy will be done. Feel very happy about the future Oh yes, feel very happy about it because whatever happens, that's the will of God. That's all. Even if you didn't hear a voice Angel, nothing came. You are cool. You are what cool because you have you have activated Proverbs 3 privacy. Acknowledge the Lord in all thy ways. In all thy ways acknowledge the Lord and he shall direct thy path. After standing on the steps in the rocks of of the Sea of Cologonal. Thy will be done, Thy will be done, Thy will be done. We form a church called KCC Kalibu Christian Center. Wow. After that realized that the name was limiting. Then I changed the name to Lighthouse Chapel. Just Chapel. Lighthouse Chapel. A lot of people now call their churches something Chapel. By that time it was the first one. Then when I was getting married, my wedding, we went to the printer and the printer, we told him this is the card, and he made a mistake. Instead of writing Lighthouse Chapel presents dark Heward Mills and whatever in a holy matrimony, he wrote Lighthouse Chapel International presents. It was a mistake. Yeah, that's how International came to add to the name. It was a printing mistake on my wedding, my wedding card. So I told Mr. Saki Challenge that this sounds nice. Oh, Lighthouse Chapel International. So. So we we just accepted a mistake. You must accept some things. Yeah. Then our church was in Calibu Medical School canteen. We didn't have anywhere to meet. I'd never thought of building. We didn't even used to take offerings. We didn't know why you should take offerings. I used to say I'm working for the Lord. I don't need money. Working for the Lord. I love the Lord. And we were in the medical school canteen one day we came there. The watchman said we cannot enter. He said, why? Yeah. The watchman said we cannot enter. He said no. The school said you are making noise, you cannot be here. I said, wow, we managed to enter another time. We came, we got a letter from the the, the, the, the administration. What is he called? Is it a seat of the medical school? Not a Dean? There's another powerful person. The what? Not a executive secretary or something? Yeah. 8:00 Monday morning, be at the office. Yeah, I had that letter twice. Be at 8:00 when they say you have to move from that place. I say Lord, Lord, oh Lord, what are we going to do? And then when we said we're disturbing, then by the power of the Lord, the maternity block was closed down, maternity. But that is where we made all the noise into the maternity block. So it was closed down. There was no patient there. So the whole place was like a haunted zone. For two years we were there coolly making noise, everything. It was getting to the end of that project and they started to put pressure on us. We have to go. And when they came in, they said finally, we are leaving today, be today. We didn't have anywhere to go. That was this was the end of the church. This church you are in, this is how it was ending. Yeah. A small group in the Kolibo Medical School canteen go out. We had so many benches. We used to pack them behind the medical school canteen and we had instruments. We were keeping it as Zoty. Somebody gave us a container in his house at Zoty. So keep the instruments there in the benches and back and some of the surgical block that was the church. The whole of Lighthouse was hinging on this unsetting spots when they finally decided to move us. Then God sent a member. God sent somebody. I preached and he came forward and he gave his life to Jesus. One Sunday, just one guy just walked to the front. His girlfriend brought him to the church, an unbeliever, and he walked to the front. When he went to his house, his mother said what church has been able to change by son? I want to see the church. Yeah. So she came and grown up to see the church not knowing she was a member of the board of the Ghana Medical School. So when they said this is the final you are going out, she called them and said you cannot remove my church. He said We just have my church. My church is in different thing. Suddenly we had some more time. Wow. You see? Salvation. Yeah. She wanted to see the church, which has been able to change her son. And she came and she started coming from that time. Yeah. She said, you cannot remove my church. We checked through his doorstep. He said, no, it is my. That is where I go to church. Before we started to say, see that our days were numbered. We need #1 offerings to money 3A place. And then we saw Colegono. So when you've prayed, all these things are happy, Say God is guiding you. Yeah. Oh, you don't understand what I'm saying. Yeah, but when you have been prayed, other things come. We would have been in a cardboard box at Manprobi by now. I'm telling you, the lighter will never move beyond that spot next year. By now you will never be at the same spot again. In Jesus name, it is God who lives you from one spot to the next spot. Yes, We were lifted supernaturally from one spot to the next spot. Yeah, Yeah. And then I went to see the owner of that cinema without a roof toilet. They have stopped using it. I said I want. He said, oh, you can't have it, 100,000 U.S. dollars. Actually he made it a little more than that in those carries. If I mentioned the marginal not where nobody was 37.5 million, it was 100,000 was 35 million. That was the end of the PNDC time and the CDs was more. So I call the accountant. Where is, is it Michael and Philip? Michael and Philip Asari. Yeah. You see these two guys, their father, their father was the accountant. He was, he was, he was in accountancy school, starting to be a chartered accountant. Their father is now Bishop Steve. But at that time he was in chartered accountancy school. Yeah. He was trying to be an accountant. So I called him. I said, Steve, how much do we have? We need 100,000. So he checked the balance. He called me, he said we have 700 dollars, $700. So of course you don't take offering seriously. How will you have money? How are we going to get $100,000 to pay this? So I aroused myself and I went to Opera Square and I went to see the owner of the cinema hall. They own all cinema whose name begins with O Odeon au Fait Opera, Orion, Olympia, or if it starts with OS for them. And I sat with my fair Caleb face in front of this Lebanese man. I say, you know my father, I know your father very well. We need your help. Say no problem. If you have ever negotiated with a Lebanese man, you will learn how to negotiate. Money is on the left, The thing is on the right. Then we exchange over. That's all. There's no other negotiation. Money is on the left, The thing is on the right. We change over and then it's finished. Wow. And I told him with my $700.00 at the back and his request for $100,000 pay, and then you enter how to get, when the church takes offer, $26. Yeah, I'll call the people who used to count Joanne. Joanne, Her mother used to count the offering. Her mother used to count the orphan in the church. Yes, you see, I have evidence of what I'm saying. Her mother used to count the orphan 26 years ago. Lady Pastor Emilia as a daughter. When you take the offering, you see the account. 2610 Tuesday. We never took offering. You observe, we don't take offering. We don't need money, but we found out that we need it. We were children. We were playing with fire. We didn't know. And then I told the man, Mr. Captain, I said we will buy it. How will you buy it? Don't worry, I say we are buying it. But we started. Yeah. And I think he asked for some amount. I say what do we get? We will bring it, no problem. The house is on the left, the money is on the right. We change over. So they agreed, give us some time to pay and we started to pay. As we started to pay, the intensity of the hatred in the medical school became stronger. One day the Minister of Health came to the came there when it came that the benches were plenty outside the canteen. What is this? That is, what if it's packed a bit more? At that time we were now at office cinema trying to clean up. There were two toilets in the front by the stage, the smelliest toilet you can ever see. 1 here and one here. That was the first thing I demolished. I said break it, break it and there were concrete chairs with iron rods made of iron rods all on the floor. Old time cinema with concrete chairs with iron rods that for us to sit and be fixed without a roof. It was half, half roof and then half open, surrounded by rubbish, people gambling in the front everywhere. We gamblers, we smokers, traders around the whole place. We moved in slowly. We were able to pay and pay. They were able to get money. We raised funds, raised funds. My friend called Paddy, he's dead now. He came and made a model and I showed the church in the canteen. I said look, look at it. This is how it's going to be very nice. They were all looking at me. It will be nice, a great cathedral. We will have it. Wow. I made a model of of of the paper. The tech students, they know how to make it and they believe and we raise funds. He came and showed us how to raise funds and raise a lot of money in the canteen when he raised the man, I was so happy. I was thinking of this most Captain Jesus have to pay this man. Just as I was saying, Lord, we thank you for today for the grace and money that we have been written ahead. The Holy Spirit saying give away all the money that you have raised to who? To the man who came to raise it, give it to him. I said no, Lord, it's a principle that. The mystery of his will. The cardboard glass box of the cathedral was on the on the table and I was standing hood and all the offering, the pledges, everything people are given, collected a thing. And then I, I gave it. He said what? He said he told me, no, no, that's not why we raised it. I said, listen, God told me to give everything to you and that if I give to you, we will never lack money. Yeah. So I gave him all the money. Wow. We never lack money or up till today, all that you see here, we don't lack money. Yeah. He he kept his word. He kept his word. Yeah. You see, the mystery of the world is that you give rather you get give rather you get. Here we are. And we were there. Oh, we were so happy the day that we were leaving Kolibo. Finally, I made a lighthouse flag. You know, our flag is yellow and black. Boko Haram is white and black. Ours is yellow and black. I wore the flag as a cloth and I LED the church in the evening. I think it was Saturday, April 12th or so. 19901993, Is it 93? Yeah, yeah. You are calculating your age. Were you born the 90s or the 2000s? When were you born? 8393? And I wore the cloth like that round. And I danced from the medical school canteen, through the medicals, the gate, the main gate at Kolebu, dancing with the possession. I LED. Everybody withdrew. Randy, were you in that possession? Which way did we go? Through the back, through the mobile side. And then we crossed singing, dancing all the way to Colegono Cathedral victoriously. I was in Geneva one day and then somebody was watching the video and she said, hey, you must have been very happy here. You never know. That is true. Yeah. Are you listening to me? He holds your destiny. Once you place yourself in his hand squarely, don't don't worry after that. But if you haven't worried, be very worried. Every day when you wake up, be concerned. But if you have placed it in his hand, Yeah. And especially if you haven't been presumptuous. Oh, yeah, it's a good thing. Once. If this is the this is the desert, then it will work. It's not like that. Pray about it. Pray. Lord. Lord, your will is mysterious. Nevertheless. Not my will, Thy will. All those who have not been alone. And I say alone to pray. You must be worried. Very worried about the future. Yeah, very worried. Listen, you must be worried because you don't pray. Thy will be church. Fasting and prayer is not what you need. You yourself, is it a church who is going to marry or you are going to marry? Then why do you wait for the church to declare fasting before you are now fasting and praying. You are the one going to marry. Why do you wait for the church to declare passing? I don't pray, Answer the church praise. Oh, I don't fast. Answer the church fast. No, the will of the Lord. Stand to your feet everybody. Stand up on your feet, everybody. Change of iPad. All right, lift your right hand up and say I will pray. I will pray about the will of God. I will not be presumptuous. I will not make assumptions. I will not be proud. I will commit myself to the will of God, the mysterious will of God. From today I will follow the Scripture. Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, In all thy ways acknowledge Him. He will direct thy paths. From today I'll be like Jesus. I'll pray in the garden. Thy will be done, Thy will be done, Thy will be done, Thy will be done. Amen. Listen, listen, listen. Have you thought about it? The most obvious thing, Jesus was in the garden. God, I've sent you here to come. You yourself have said that you are here to lay down your life and you are still praying about it. You can't stop praying. Even the day before your wedding you should be praying. Oh Lord, thy will be done. As you are collecting the ring from the Goldsmith, Oh Lord, thy will be done. Thy will be done. Sometimes when I'm doing officiating weddings and I sign, I'm signing. I ask them what do I ask them? Who is that? Who did I ask that question? What did I ask you? Should I sign? Should I endorse it? Should I sign? Should I go ahead and sign? Or you want to change your mind, isn't it? Perhaps there could be a last minute change of mind. So when I'm about to hold out just as I'm about to, should I, should I go when I sign or that's it. You are married and usually they say please sign, please sign. The goalkeeper is already committed. You can't go back. Think about you see this is the great respect Jesus had for the will of God. Something you have been sent to do you know about it already? Everything looks good is the will. They are now coming to work for God and still they are praying about it. Lord, let thy will be done. Let thy will be done. That is what I'm talking about. Presumption. You have to know that his will is mysterious. Yeah. What again should you pray about? If I've sent you to Tanzania? It doesn't mean you shouldn't pray. If I've sent you to Tanzania. Oh, yes, I've been sent to Tanzania. So, Charlie, with a goal, whatever you must pray, pray. Let the will of the Lord be done before you ask. You have painted the will of God. The day you arrive at the airport, an important person will meet you. Somebody will come to. I want to help you with this. So another person will come, say that this person has joined the church. This thing will come from here before so many things will work out. Yeah, but when you are presumptuous, you always look at something especially spiritual. They say it looks good, man, It must be the will of God, but it is not like that. The will of God is different. Always pray. Once you've prayed, you are cool. Lift your hands. And once I've prayed that the will of God be done, I'm cool. If I don't pray for the will of God to be done, I'm concerned. I'm very concerned. I need to be concerned. But once I've prayed that the mystery of His will be done, I'm not concerned. Whatever comes today, tomorrow in the night, the storms, the wind, the rain, I'm not concerned. His will is being done. The mysterious will of God is being established in Jesus name, Amen. Give a lot of shine and a clap of them. Wow, how many believe that he holds your destiny? Wow, sit down for a moment. Jesus. Jesus pray three times in the garden, if it be your will, O Lord. You see Jesus. Pray let this come pass over me. But he said nevertheless not my will be done, but your will be done. Lord, I will accept your perfect will for my life today. Yes, You hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me. You have I have a plan for me. Oh yeah. I want to follow your will. I love your perfect will. I love the choice you make for me. Wow, are you listening? I just love the mystery of your will. I love the mystery of your will. Take my hat and walk with me. Oh Lord, I trust in your will. I believe in your word. I'll go away. Yeah. And Lord, I will accept your perfect will for my life. Today. You hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me, Yes, You have a plan for me. I want to follow Your will every day. Every night when I'm down on my knees praying here, then your will make me dark and your purpose fulfilled in my life. I will follow where you go. I'll follow. I will do what you say. I'll follow. I will listen to your voice. I'll follow. Forever, Forever. Forever. Yeah. And the fact to follow you because you hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me. You have a plan for me. So I want to follow your with the Lord. You hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have a plan for me, so I want to follow your will. It's all right. I'll do what you say. It's all right. I'll follow your will. It's all right. I'll do what you say. It's all right. I'll follow you. Follow your will. All right, I'll do what you say. It's all right. I'll follow your wings. I will. Alright. Do what you say. It's all right. I'll follow you all the way. You hold my desk for me. You have a purpose for me. You have a plan for me. I want to follow your will. You know what? I want you to sing the first part again. Sing it again. How many are understanding the mystery of His will A little better now, but that's what she's singing about. Sing it again all the way from the top. Jesus, Jesus prayed 3 times in the garden. If it be your will, oh Lord. If it be your will. Let this come Passover me what he said. Nevertheless not my will be done, but Your will be done. Oh Lord, I will accept Your perfect will for my life today. So you hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me and you have a plan for me. I want to follow your will. I love your perfect will. I love the choice you make for. Me, you love the choice he makes. I just love the mystery of your will. You love. The mystery My hair will be, Oh Lord, I trust in your will. I believe in your word. I'll go away, and Lord, I will accept your perfect will for my life to death, because you hold my destiny. You hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me and You have a plan for me. I want to follow Your will. Go Lord, let Your will be good. Let Your purpose be fulfilled in my life. I will follow where you go. I'll follow. I will do what you say. I'll follow. I will listen to your voice. I'll follow. Forever, forever, forever. And the man to follow you. You hold my destiny. You have a purpose for me. You have a plan for me. And I want to follow your will. Yes, Lord, you hold my destiny. Yeah. He has a plans for you. Oh, and he has a plan for do you. You've got to follow his will say all right, do what he says all right. Follow his will be all right. Just do what he says. It's all right. Swallow his Willow So right do. The mystery, the mystery. Respect the mystery. Respect the mystery to respect the mystery, respect it. Respect it. Respect of His will is mystery. Respect it. Respect the. Mystery of his will. He has a purpose for. Respected. If you respect it, he will respect you. If you respect his history and his will is history, he will respect you he holds. My destiny and he has a purpose for me. And. He has a plan for me. I want a boy.