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10. Sweet Influences Of The Holy Spirit On Your Charisma
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Camp Title - Sweet Influences of The Holy Spirit. Machaneh Collection - 78. Preached in 2012, Ghana (Mampong). 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 the sweet influences of the Holy Spirit. There's not so much beautifulness about us if you are a Nigerian. Nigeria has a bad reputation everywhere. It's so bad that it's almost a crime to be a Nigerian. I'm telling you, in many places, if you say you are a Nigerian. So being Nigerian is may not even it may even be negative for you because you if there's no nationality, I know they'll put it on the bank openly. We do not open an account for Nigerian in England. Yeah, they do not open say we do not or even the embassy that if you are below 35, we don't give visas if you are below 35. That's all because of what Nigerians have done. Every when you need, you need something else. That is going to give. You, some beautifulness and some gracefulness make you nice if you are away. There's a lot of juju and things that have been done. It's true. That that, that you will find now you may not know and instead of people, some people I didn't afraid of you and you mentioned them say hi. So I will not rent our house to you because you may do an hebbala on me. Yes. Is it true or it's not true? You say people don't like when you s
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Welcome to track #10 of the sweet influences of the Holy Spirit. There's not so much beautifulness about us if you are a Nigerian. Nigeria has a bad reputation everywhere. It's so bad that it's almost a crime to be a Nigerian. I'm telling you, in many places, if you say you are a Nigerian. So being Nigerian is may not even it may even be negative for you because you if there's no nationality, I know they'll put it on the bank openly. We do not open an account for Nigerian in England. Yeah, they do not open say we do not or even the embassy that if you are below 35, we don't give visas if you are below 35. That's all because of what Nigerians have done. Every when you need, you need something else. That is going to give. You, some beautifulness and some gracefulness make you nice if you are away. There's a lot of juju and things that have been done. It's true. That that, that you will find now you may not know and instead of people, some people I didn't afraid of you and you mentioned them say hi. So I will not rent our house to you because you may do an hebbala on me. Yes. Is it true or it's not true? You say people don't like when you say things as what is happening. They don't want you to say that is what is happening. I don't have to say really what has to just be preaching above, above, above. I don't want to say I have said a -1 about my family and then you, you. I shouldn't say I don't happen. When I was in medical school and I was going to do exam my my my name starts with H So my the person who started started with F EE FGH, they were with me. So four of us, six of us were always together for every exam, all from first year to the end. We divide that 4444 like that and this guy, any time we are going for exam, I've seen this. This is the door. This is the door to the. Biochemistry of the examiners are there. This is the door, this is the door and we are here and we are going in for the oral exam. All the examiners are sitting in the air conditioned office and they are about to open the door. Do you understand? I went in, walks and he stands. So when I saw him, he was doing it all the time. So I said what are you saying? What are you saying when you are going in, What are you saying? You are pouring government is drinking on the on the on the stamina before you enter the pouring government is drinking. You are bewitching the examiners. You are pouring commonly 20 on all the examiners. What you need is charismata, multiple manifestations of gracefulness and beauty. Say multiple manifestations of gracefulness and beauty. Say multiple manifestations of gracefulness and beauty, Gracefulness and beauty, gracefulness, Manifestations of gracefulness. And. Beauty. This is what you need. Multiple manifestations of gracefulness and beauty. Charismata. Multiple manifestations of gracefulness and beauty. All my life I've been called quesi broni. All my life I've been called quesi broni. When I passed the shot, Quesi broni, Quesi broni. Even 2 days ago when I came to the site here, Okon was there. Yeah, he's when he saw me. So I quesi broni, Quesi broni. That is the call right here on my On my Own building project. That is all Kerci Broni, Kerci Broni, this is all my life. Kerci Broni red, look all red. All I need is a multiple manifestation of gracefulness and beauty. Yeah. My, my, my, something has happened to my my volume increased something treble or something. Listen, when I went to my wife's father used to stay at Ringway Estate. I went there to go and see her that time she was just a sister I was visiting. She had an appeal, she had a magnetism that was attracting me, so when I went there. And the father saw me. He thought I was coming for her. Big sister called Irene. They were all they were roommates at that time. As soon as he saw Vinod, he. Took her out, he called her, said Camp Irene Camp. And he put her in the car out, drop out of the gate at Greenway Estate straight, he said. I don't want any Lebanese man to come from my daughter. No, Quesi Broly, you want to marry my daughter. You cannot marry my daughter. Quesi Broly. Quesi Broly, you cannot marry my daughter. Through the multiple manifestations of gracefulness and beauty, a certain attraction. One day, my father-in-law, the one who drove the daughter out, he looked at me and he said you look like Jesus Christ to me. Yeah, yeah. He said, you are like Jesus Christ to me. Yeah, yeah. Charismata. No. I had a camp like this, You see, just like this, this same size, the hall just like this. My father-in-law, an elderly man over 70 years, he sat at the back, awake. He sat you out. He and my mother and they sat there. They listen to me preach a separate camp like this. I preach. I was bringing string to people day after day. They were sitting there. Yeah. And one day he told his wife, he said that is very wise. But you see when at first. Without charismata, he took his daughter and said that too. Away, away. Escape. From the Lebanese man, that's what I recently met from Lebanese Christians and I told them come to the Kodesh because I am like a Lebanese man. I've been seen as a you come here, I'm one of you with this ISI have been a Lebanese pastor to come and preach. I see. I see myself also as a Lebanese man. I don't know why you are standing. Go sit down, Harris man. An appeal, I said. An appeal. An elegance, a flow, smooth, effortless, natural, natural, natural. Wow. I mean all that you need in your life is the multiple manifestations of gracefulness and beauty. Gracefulness and beauty. This all that you need. This is what a pastor needs. This is what somebody needs is in multiple manifestations of blastfulness and beauty. So that is why I'm going to give you the long list of basic charisma, personal Charismata, ministry, Charismata questioner. To be made charismatic, The next one, it means to be made mellifluous. Mellifluous. Spelled MELLIFLUOUS. Mellifluous. When? When the Holy Spirit comes and is increasing your charisma. It's making you mellifluous. Do you know what? You know what it means to be mellifluous? It means to be pleasing to the ear. Yeah. It's like what you say is pleasing to the ears. Like when you speak, it's pleasing. It's nice to the ears. Mellifluous so that when the charisma, the multiple manifestation comes on you and on your preaching, your preaching is pleasing to them. It's like, it's like somebody likes it. It's like, wow. One day I told them I said put it on the radio, Makanare put it in the middle of the night when everybody is asleep. Amazingly, amazingly, because it is mellifluous elderly people who are not. Pastors mellifluous when the charisma your charisma has been increased by the influence of the Spirit have been made charismatic, and multiple manifestation of grades will receive mellifluous abilities. Wow, for some of you, when you speak it, it even drives your beloved away. It even drives the guy was going to beloved. He changed his mind. Because you, you, you don't have. That Malief flow up ability. The next one. It means to be made. It means to be made euphonious. Euphonious EUP. HONIOU. S. Euphonious, having a pleasant sound, Pleasing, not harsh, not harsh, not harsh, having a pleasant sound. So anybody who can sing and you, you, you have a pleasant sound. This is a it's a manifestation of gracefulness and beauty that has been given to you. Think about it. When Ida makes a pleasant sound, I'm attracted. I I constantly feel attracted to her when she makes a pleasant sound, I want her to come. So let her come. She should come. I need her. It's it's a euphonious, euphonious ability. So those of you who are playing with your euphonious game and you will not practice your euphonios, skip Wow. Is that fantastic Euphonios the next one? It makes you felicitous. Felicitous FELICIT. OUS. Felicitous When charismata falls on you gracefulness it means to be made felicitous. I'm explaining what it means to be made charismatic, felicitous. And felicitous means exhibiting an agreeable, appropriate manner or style. Style, your style. Sometimes your style of saying hello. Hello. Is it me you're looking for? You see, it's felicitous. It's an agreeable style. All those, all those. Songs out there, they contain felicitous feelings, I just called to say. I love you. There's, there's some beautifulness about it, some gracefulness. I just called to say this is some of some of you brothers. You don't have felicitous capabilities. Your style, it's not felicitous. Gamma voice. What is left of you? You need an agreeable tire, an agreeable manner. You cannot just go and say I think that something has moved me and I've chosen you. Is it solicitous? Is it agreeable? Some of you, when God blesses you with that manifestation of grace and you are working in an office and you are working in an office and it gives you that ability, you can have a style that just your presence is OK. People will pay for your presence because you have a felicitous style, agreeable manner and style. Your presence is yeah. Some one day a certain secretary. She was employed in a certain office. When she came to work with her high heels, go go, go, go, go the boss look and say hey, another Madam has come here to take over this place. Others also said, please, Madam, you cannot be in charge here. I'm the head of this office. You see, She didn't have an agreeable style. Yes, agreeable style. It's something that works. The person is comfortable. He's not afraid of your presence. Not at ease. Oh, you need it solicitors Felicitors. It means marked by good. Fortune. Felicitors. Good fortune Eli, you always be chosen for things when you are Felicitors. What a word I tell you. Have I given you any? Elegance, refined quality of gracefulness, quality of meekness and ingenious simplicity. Wow, gracefulness. So that's that is actually what it means. So because it is grace. Charis grace, people call their children charis charisma, manifestation of grace, and charismata, multiple manifestations of grace. And so when somebody has charisma in the Greek, it's often just called. It's not even called what we call a gift, but it's just called a manifestation of gracefulness and beauty that is given to the best. So how we call it Zubia we are using the wrong word is not understood well that. Any gift of the Spirit. Is a manifestation of some beauty. Like if you take a pastor, which is a ministry, charisma, a, a manifestation of grace, it's, it's like it makes him naturally like people and care for people and wants the people and look after the people and always talk to the people and have answers for the people and like the people and you didn't cry with the people. It's, it's like effortless. It's a manifestation of beautifulness and gracefulness. It's like ease and flow. That's why it's very easy to say it's natural. Yeah. And some of the gifts God has to put them in your genes. He has to put them in your genes for it to wet, it has to be in your genes. Like if it's a voice or his ability to dance and all that. So because before he calls you, he knows that I'm going to call you to dance for me. Then he predestines how Michael Jackson would have been at the with the Lord, yes, with Jesus then call. But whether you even listen to the call or maybe when you call then listen to some other call or who have bewitched your witchcraft will now come in. Now you you can watch and you see gracefulness and that is why some of the gifts you think that the Holy Spirit has to put it in your genes. It has to come from birth. It has to come not it doesn't come when you start praying. It has to come because of the way the gift is. It has to be genetic. It has to be genetic, but it's a gift. And it's from the Holy Spirit too, because it was part of the predestination. You've totally miswired the whole thing. Your beautiful face, your handsome face is part of a plan. Yeah, it's going to be used to attract something. What a shock. Are you excited about gracefulness? The next one, It means ease. Ease, which means freedom from difficulty or hardship or efforts. Amen. Freedom from difficulty or hardship efforts. Amen. The next one. It means adroit, adroit or adroit. It means nimble in the use of your hands or body. Nimble in the use of your hands or your body. Wow, is it fantastic. The next one. It means aesthetic, AESTHETIC, aesthetic. Pertaining to a sense of the beautiful, having a sense of the beauty, love of beauty. I'm just trying to explain that. All. Of these wonderful gifts, you are just actually seeing a portion of beauty, attraction, magnetism, gracefulness. So maybe I should actually call this the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit on your level of gracefulness and beauty. The level of beauty and gracefulness. Now let us go into the charisma charismata, basic charismata we have. I'm going to give you 4 groups of charismata, Manifestations of beauty and gracefulness, number one, basic charismata, 2 personal charismata, 3 spiritual charismata, and #4 ministry charismata. So basic charismata righteousness. Romans chapter 5. If by 1's offence death reigned by one, Amen. How much more they which receive the abundance of grace and of the gifts of righteousness shall reign by one Amen. If you read from this, if you read earlier, you'll see the word gift verse 15 not as the offense. So also is the free gift. Charisma is the gift it's it's a certain righteousness is attractive. Righteousness is attractive if you are straightforward, you are attractive. So in the 16th Romans 15 sixties, and not as it was by one that sin, so is the gift, for the judgment was by 1 to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification for it by one man's offend death reign by one. How much more they which receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in one life by Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. So ladies and gentlemen, you are finding out that righteousness itself is a basic charisma given to you. Amen. The second basic charisma charismata, or the second in the list of basic charismata is eternal life. Yeah, eternal life. Basic charismata. Basic charismata for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God, the gift of God is eternal life. In that way, this charisma, charisma of God is eternal life or the, the, the manifestation of beautifulness of beauty and gracefulness in you is eternal life. It, it, it, it makes you different. I mean, when you see someone, so he's an unbeliever, you know that you are not. You don't want to be close to the person. It's true. Or if you see somebody in the person, Oh, this one is a people. Oh, don't let him come to the house. So. Oh, let him know. Show him. Don't come. Oh, this one, he was telling lies. So you see that a certain gracefulness is gone from you. A certain beauty is gone. A certain attraction is not there because, oh, this one is. This 1 is a liar. This one is told this or he still is. A certain gracefulness and a certain beauty is finished. Yeah. That's why the Bible calls righteousness a gift. Yeah, and that's why eternal life is called a gift, because when you have it, it's like you are, there's some gracefulness. I say, oh, once I walked into a, a, a breakfast meeting and all the people there thought I was an unbeliever because Chrissy Bruni has come a Lebanese man whom they, they, they felt that he is not a Christian. But when they realized that I was not just a Christian, but I was a pastor, then they said, oh, come. Then they rather brought me to the sit on the stage at Kolebu, made me come and sit on the stage. It's like there's some gracefulness and some beats. Oh, come, come and rather sit on the city drive Pastor. Yeah, the gift of eternal life. I have it. So this is basic charismatic and I have only two and I have basic charismatic. Now we are moving to Hestna charismata. Do you want to know the personal charismata? OK, the next personal charisma. So the first basic charismata is righteousness and then what? Turn alive then personal charismata. I have only one under that and that is celibacy. The ability to stay without getting married. The ability. First Corinthians Chapter 7, verse one. It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence. That is a pleasurable instruction, isn't it easy? And likewise also the wife and to the husband. The wife has no power over her own body but the husband. And likewise also the husband has no power over his own body but the wife. The spy defraud you, not one another, except it be with consent, talking about sex for a time, that you may give yourself to fasting and prayer and come together again. Wow that Satan tempts you not for your incontinency. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man that is as he himself was, which is not being married, but every man has his proper charisma of God, every man has his proper gift, one after this manner and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows, it is good if they abide even as I. It is good, it is good, it is good, it is good. But if they cannot contain, so the ability to contain is a gift. And it's beautiful. It's beautiful. Wow. You see when we when you when you see you marrying, you see that there's, there's a certain even even even women, ladies, you see that after young they are married. There's a certain, I would say deceptive attractiveness that goes. There's something that drops. This is like, yeah, just ordinary. It's true. A certain fascination. It's like there are some ordinary people as a SH, but the best, the best way if you want to understand this particular charisma, this personal charismata, or under the personal charismata is if you look at people who are divorced and those who marry and those who don't marry after divorcing. You'll see that there's a certain gracefulness and beauty that multiplies on them as they stay and marriage. Are you still shocked? I'll give you I'll give you how many examples. 2. That you may know. Let's say somebody like John Wesley. He probably had the gift to stay alone because he was 40 something years old when he married and then his wife was so much of a problem. She was so cantankerous and so problematic that it was like the greatest case for him to have married her. But when she left him, he never went for anybody else. And he lived till he was 19 plus. Yeah. And his wife was separated from him for more than 20 years. He never went for anyone. Then when his wife died, because his wife died before he died, long before he died, he never took any other woman. So you see, accepting gracefulness and beautifulness was there. You sort of realise that when I went to visit his house, John Wesley's house, there were pictures in the bedrooms, you see. And one of the pictures had a certain woman whom they said that this woman used to serve John Wesley. Because I visited John Wesley's house in London and he said this woman used to serve and look after help to look after him. And everybody thought that he would marry her when the wife died or was just gone. But she never married her because you may think that it's not the case. If you take example of somebody like Mike Murdock, who also got divorced, his wife left him after I think 13 years of marriage. He has been a lone for years and if you watch, it's become more and more powerful and more and more something on him. All the years have gone by. So I'm just saying that it's a good way of saying that we don't have many eunuchs and we don't have many unmarried ministers. But you see it in people who maybe were married and then they don't marry again. They know, but they don't go for it. But when we marry, we show that we we are weak. We reveal our weakness about something that we need and you subject yourself. To a very. Possible danger of your life soon to marry is one of the dangerous things in the ministry. If my wife was not around, God forbid, and then I chose Rebecca come. And then I came and I just chose. I said I've chosen one of the first love. How old are you my dear? OK, hello. We are back and I chose her. I said 19, so no, she's now my wife. This. Wow, hold, hold my hand. Wow, a number of you would be worried, I said. What is Bishop? What is Bishop doing? Yes. What am I? What am I linking myself to? And I'll say, who are those of you who are who don't like my wife? You will be careful. Hey, people will be afraid, praying secretly. Lord, he doesn't know her. He doesn't know her. He knows that he will not say that he is going to marry her. Yeah. Do you know NATO? And I get up and I come and I say, OK, Sam, you, you're my wife. Sit here. First Lady, what a shock. But if I do not, If I do not, and I'm just there, go go back to your chair, back to your chair. If I do not and I'm just there 60 years old without my wife, 65 years old, 70 years old, I'm just there. So I just come. It's like I I I look like some ancient prophet with some just heavily minded in divine I look. Divine, but as soon as I go for come back. As soon as I go for this little girl, we will be saying. So when I when I come, I come to church. So let's say I come, I'm preaching, I'm coming to preach, and you are the lowest people. And I come with my new little wife and I come with you all the pulpit leading the meeting. Then I come. Then we, we, we go, we come together. And you, you'll be looking at me. It's like, yeah. It's like, I know what is in your head. I don't know. I don't. Jesus must give you a life we have from the house, you see? Wow. Yes. OK, darling, sit down, please. It's like even though I still have some gracefulness, that there's something, it's like. What a Yeah. I mean, I'll be very surprised. I'll ask all. I've got your granddaughter. Is that what granddaughter? That's my wife. You wonder if I'm under the sweet influences. Wow. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to explain to you. The ability to stay and marriage. It's also. There's also something about it. Yes. I say grace. I say grace, some beautiful beauty and some gracefulness about it. Some mistresses like I'm above certain things and suppose in this one now she also dies, God forbid and she also dies and then I need a chef for her somewhere right here. OK, so she goes away then after that go there then I'm going to come, my dear, come and that's a go is pretty. This must be under the sweet influence of the police spirit power of God. You must have Jesus must do the work of God, must love him. Oh Hallelujah yourself to Jesus. I'm coming with my wants to use. I'm coming with my my, my new, my head wise. Clap her hands. Clap your hands and let's receive Bishop Dagwar mails. He has come to church. Oh, your your hand clap is immune. Not that's my third one. So honey, come and say hello to the congregation. Hello. Hello, this is Sai. This is Sai. There is a certain level of beauty and gracefulness that seem to be less. But we are happy. Once 1 Bishop is happy, we are happy. Are we not happy? And then, supposing this one also dies, find a place. OK, find a place and then I start scanning. Lord, open my eyes. Lord, open my eyes and. Then I'm coming again with a third one. So, so go, get into the pulpit. Come, my dear, come. Yes Sudha Sudha. So we have been looking at 3 words Charisma, charisma charismata on your life. Receive the this my said my thought. Clap your hands Bishop has come to church this morning. Just clap the Bishop that your male has come with some beauty and some gracefulness came to be reduced. Honey, come and say hello to the congregation. Good morning and. Where are you from? I'm very happy to be here, of course. OK, Yeah, sit down. What up? If your wife is around you, able to stay, it's a it's a gift and a gracefulness and beauty, celibate celibacy a gift. Yeah, you can go back to your chair. I should go for fifth one. Why you? I'm staying in my house. I should just watch television and alone there whilst you are having crackling laughter in your house you are enjoying. I'll take another one. I should be suffering in the house. I'll choose one just now, you see, Oh, you see that the level of something and. That's what happens to you when you marry. It looks natural in society, but actually a certain level of gracefulness and beauty is reduced because you have not followed Jesus fully. You have not followed Jesus fully. I, I, You see, I don't want to offend you, but I'm telling you that you have not followed Jesus fully. But Jesus never yoked himself to any woman. Is it amazing? Is it fantastic? Is it supernatural? How many levels of charismata do you have? Basic charismata. Personal charismata. Now I'm going to spiritual charismata. All these give you a certain appeal. Kenneth. Wow. How many rather that righteousness gives you a certain appeal? How many rather that eternal life gives you a certain appeal? How many rather that celibacy also gives you a certain appeal? It's very difficult to to operate in that charisma, but it is, yeah. One day I sat by a Catholic Bishop, He was coming to Ghana. I was also coming to Ghana. I asked him how is it like we are going home, we are all going home. There's nobody in your house, just a fridge, just a house television, He said to me, it's very hard, very hard. Everybody wants to go home to some something alive in the house. It's true. It's very difficult. I mean, I, I tell you, I respect Catholic priests. I mean, perhaps one of the highest groups that I respect, higher than any other group in the world. Yeah. But that that thing that they can stay and decide forever. Can you do it you? Couldn't Which one is your wife? Yes. And who is Enyos? Where is your beloved? He's not around. Yeah, he's also married. You couldn't, isn't it? You didn't control yourself and you went for her. You see? It's like you said. If it cannot contain, it's like cannot contain. It's a container. If I cannot contain, is it fantastic? Is it amazing? Is it supernatural? Is it wonderful? Charismata. Wow, we should have a nice one. Charismata. Spiritual charismata, Number one, word of knowledge, Word of knowledge. Number two, Word of wisdom #3 discerning of spirits #4 faith #5 working of miracles #6 gifts of healing. So when you have all these, then number #7 tongues, speaking in tongues #8 interpretation of tongues and #9 prophecies. These are spiritual charismata. Spiritual charismata, Amen. These make you attractive. Wisdom, Word of wisdom. It makes a person very attractive. It's like. Wow, I've never had anything like that. Wow, I want to listen again. Word of knowledge when a prophet knows something, all that you see on television, so many prophets, uneducated guys 0 education, I mean basic things that they could know. They don't know because they are like, I mean total they would have the house boys, beggars, laborers. Well, I mean whatever shoemakers you go on television and you will see thousands of people standing to listen to some uneducated people with. Cars and houses. Sitting there and you ask yourself now what is drawing the people? Yeah, What is causing the gracefulness and beauty, You see, it is the Holy Spirit has put on them. But there is a welder, but there is the captain. That is the Shoemaker. It's whatever, it's a magnetism, a prophet like a prophet. Salifu Ammakuya, his churches there, the Kodesh. Yeah. He was a houseboy of a a great man of God. And the day that he was travelling, he, he, he just laid handsome. He put his polishing shoes and put, put things into the car and he went there. He had an accident. He didn't come back home. Yeah. He was the houseboat. He don't speak a word of English. Yeah. Not just just free speaking. No English at all. Yeah. And I visited his church in England and the church. Full of people. Jamaicans different types of people different the the resident pastor was a pharmacist educated people. The resident pastor is a his his resident pastor was a pharmacist. I'm telling you, I'm talking about what there's something that makes you attractive, gracefulness and beauty fluent and appeal. There's some appeal. There's magnetism, his resident. Pastor. So I asked him. What? How did you join the church? He attended a meeting, and he had the prophecy. He told him he could not have a child. And he told himself he kept some fantastic thing in how he was able to have a child through the prophet's ministry. So since then, I've been here. Yeah. Charismata. I've been magnetized. Yeah. Gifts of healing. Healing and there are. So that's why there are diversities of this charismatta, different types. They make you attractive, they draw people. It's what draws his wife. He has not been to school. His wife is a graduate from the university. So a graduate is illiterate, beautiful Fair Lady. Let's intend a marriage that illiterate total. Illiterates, if I was you I would pray for the Holy Spirit all the time. Yeah, if you go on television, go TV3, TV Africa, this you will see different from You don't even know who they are apart from the couple of well known ones. There are many of them, all of them uneducated, all of them illiterates and people are listening to them. They are and God is using them because yeah, just slapped them with some one cover one or just. One or. Two charismatic and then that's it. It's working. That's why these days I'm just praying for the Holy Spirit every day. I say Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. Wow, is that fantastic? Is that amazing? Is it supernatural? Is it wonderful? Amen. Tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecies. I mean, you see all the people whom God used the charismatic revival in America, they were all uneducated people and that is one of the reasons why they have so. Many. Problems and, and, and you see, that's what that's what I said, that the judgment for those problems by God will be different from what you think because those people have not got any enough background to understand secular things that they have a gift. And so even when they make mistakes in some of those areas, God's judgment is, I don't think God's judgment will be the same because someone who has no idea of human resource matters, taxation, I mean, the laws, government, they doesn't know all these things. When he takes the offering, he takes it home. He takes his money. He takes it as his money. When he takes the offering, it's for him. Yeah. In fact, one time I was, I was at, I was at church in a large amount of people. And then I took an offering, a large offering, you know, and there was one of these uneducated prophets there. And he was shocked. He said isn't, isn't the money for the Bishop. He said no, he should, he should take it. Everything is for him. So no, it's not at all. I will be amazing for him in Jesus. Whatever I said how, how it was, it was it was blamagasted. He said that look, once I stand, I receive this offer, I'm taking everything with me. He said it's for him. He said no. But that is. What do you expect? You, you, you are too good to, to, to give yourself to this work. You want to do this and this and this. God just puts beauty on people and it baffles, it baffles people. They are baffled continually and they will always be baffled. But God is no respecter of persons. You just take, you come slap you with this, you come slap, you slap yourself. That the person is attractive without any any credentials that should make him attractive. Nothing in his background. So pray for the sweet influence of the Holy Spirit on your life. Hallelujah, Amen, Hallelujah. We are going to take a short break. Is it time for your tea break now? The next thing are ministry gifts. Ministry charismata and the Ministry charismata are the ministry that is doing the work of God. OK, The other ones, they, they really make You Beautiful, isn't it? But these ones are the ones that have to do with working. Now we have two groups of ministry charismata, human beings, human beings and special abilities. So human beings, the human beings self is the gift is the is the beautiful thing. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors or shepherds and teachers. These are the five ministry charisma, then the which are human beings, then a ministry charismatter which are just abilities, specimen abilities, individual freestanding abilities, abilities that can come on their own. And all those five charismatters have Ephesians 411 different places, prophecy ministry of serving Romans 12 has a lot of them there. Nicely reading out ministry. I'm giving you the list. Maybe let me just give you the list and then after that I'll talk about it a bit. OK. Ministry serving of serving he that ministerer and to minister like to serve like someone who serves someone, someone who serves people who serves someone. It's it's it's a ministry gift that it's not a person. You see that there are ministry gifts that are human beings. Apostle is a gift. The person himself is the gift, you understand. So serving or ministering, teaching again can hazard modest teaching, exhorting, encouraging, giving. There's another one leading, ruling, either ruler, governments, showing mercy, someone that shows mercy helps, someone that helps and assists. So some of these are vague. They are vague. That's why they still are applicable 2000 years after they are written. Governments hospitality. Vespita forename hospitality. Look at first Peter Phorn, I want to show you the gift of hospitality. Pray that the pastor whom you are visiting wife has that gift. First, Peter 49 use hospitality one to another without grudging, as every man has received the gift. Even so, minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Isn't it not fantastic? So pray that the house you are going to stay the wife, or if not the wife, the husband has the grace of hospitality and that makes the person beautiful. I remember my sudden sister. I used to go to her house all the time. She had a wonderful gift of hospitality. Her name was Edith. Yeah. When you go to a person who has a gift of grace, it's the the person is attractive. It looks natural. That's why I say that hospitality is also the charisma is also to be natural. I gave you the meanings of charisma. Isn't it natural? No matter the time of day or night, effortlessly she would, she would, she would just look after us. It's the main house that I would like to go to all the time. At that time, I was doing Apostolic work and starting a branch of the church myself. I was driving, getting a car, moving by instruments myself, doing getting drums, fixing it, teaching people how to play drums, how to do this, how to do this. Yeah, But her home was the place to go to at midnight, at 1:00 AM, at 11:00. Every moment. You say just sit down. What are you doing? So you wait. I'm coming gracefully and naturally with elegance, Fluence. Mellifluous. What is the meaning of mellifluous? Huh. Is it to hear? Not a harsh sound. Which yes, within within a few minutes you see that we are happy. It's an influence of the Spirit. It's from God. And although now I, I rarely see her, I always remember her for that. Yeah, always. And when I'm at that place and she's she's not, I immediately I feel her absence. I've always felt her absence. It's wonderful. But you go somewhere else and they will say I have some deep freezer. I have some fish in the deep freezer. Should I defrost it? Should I defrost? I can cook some rice. I can even remember the chair I was sitting on when I was asked that question. And I remember one of the lies that I've told as a Christian said, oh, are you guy? Are you hungry? Do you should I defrost very first? I say Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. It's one of fun, of fun, of the lies. Since then, whenever I travel, I always carry a secret package to secure myself in case. The person does not have the charismata necessary for hospitality. And to be hospitable means to be generous to guests. You see, if you are asking me whether you should boil the rice, you are not being generous. You should. Boil it even if I don't eat it. You have been generous, even generous, but. You are now so careful we don't. Want to boil it in case it is not eating, you should boil it without asking whether you should boil it. I said born again. This I should tell you. 11:00 When catch a chicken outside, kill it. Surrounding the yard, all about it. You step on a snake. What a shock. OK, back to our list. Let's go back to our list. You made me divert into this. Is it fantastic? The next one I'm on Charismata. Have I finished? Yeah, hospitality. So that's the list of Charismata that we have now. Attend with me to Ephesians chapter 4. Verse 7. But unto every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended upon high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Amen. How many want those gifts? The measure of the gifts, the grace, gracefulness, beauty. Wow. And I'm going to show you how to find your charismata. Do you want to find your charismata? You want to locate the charismatta that is for you. OK. When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended, what is it that he also descended? And he that descended is also he that ascended up above that he might fill all things. There's 11. And he gave some apostles. He gave some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, and some teachers. Now if you want to do listen carefully and notice verse 11. For the perfecting of the Saints and for the work. For the work, for the work, for the work, if you want to work, these are the five things that they are when it comes to work. For the work of ministry, for the edifying of the poet, these are the five main lines of work. Amen. Pastoring, teaching, evangelism, prophets and apostles, apostle is starting something. So if you are going to work and you are going to perfect the Saints and you are going to edify the body of Christ until we all come in the unity until we are a perfect man, then the four big lines of ministry are these 4-5 lines, 5 lines are you there? So to go higher you need these to work in any of these 5 lines Apostolic, which is that the the people use the hand to explain it. The apostle is the thumb. He can do everything. He can touch the all the other gifts. The prophet is the second finger. He points to you and says you, you are living in sin. You. This is what is happening with you. The third finger is the evangelist. He's the longest. He goes far. Then the this one is the ring finger for marriage is the pastor the kind one and this is the teacher. He can put his little finger into the ear to let you receive the revelations. So those are the five ministry gifts, isn't it? And these are the big 5 lines. And this is the real work. When we talk of the work of God, it's it is one of these pipelines. So if you are not you, anything else you do, including the long list, helping, ministering servant, any form of beautifulness and grace that God gives to you, gracefulness and beauty will be either complementing one of these or be part of one of these or be connected to one of these. Yes, that is what that is the work of God. So if you are here and you are going to work for God, you are going to be in one of these five line ministering, serving, doing anything or using any of it, even hospitality, you know, because hospitality is, is, is, is one thing. I mean, there are places I go to, I, I, I keep going there or if they invite me, I will go because they are hospitable to me when I go. And there are places you go to, you don't want to go again because they are not hospitable to you. Yes, and they don't, they don't really care. They don't even know how to be hospitable. And what people don't realise is that hospitality is one of the beautiful, attractive things. So when we talk to the ladies and we talk to the Ghana girls, you have lost the ability to even cook, you know, and the ability to even provide food effortlessly. It's a it's a it's difficult for you. Yeah. It's difficult for you to to, to use a rice cooker to make rice and not rice water or soggy rice. There. There is something that is gone from you. You see, when I look back at my wife in school, that was one of the most attractive things about her was that she will make foods. I mean, you see, the ability to effortlessly make food is a very important gracefulness that people can eat, everybody can eat. She would buy kebab that has been cooked and put it, make it a Stew. The students, they didn't have meat, they didn't have whatever. So they buy the kebab, then they put it, make a Stew. We all eat it. Very nice, your inability to effortlessly do such things. It's only that a lot of brothers are. You are blind, you just following bottoms and whatever, but after that, after that, you see, let me tell you it looks attractive to you now, but I can tell you after the first day, after your first day of marriage, you are going to discover that the Bible is true. The Bible says male and female created hidden, which means that the males and the females OK were made together. So it is very natural for you to be with a female and for a male to be with it. And that is why when you marry almost in the first day or the second day, it looks almost natural that you are together. The two of you are there naked, but not as shame. It's so normal. It's actually surprising that before it is not normal. It's very odd, but after that it's so natural. Yeah, it becomes. So natural and ordinary, those of you who are married, is it true or it's not true? So then the gracefulness and the beauty will have to shift from the bottoms and the breasts, and there is no ability naturally. But unfortunately, many of the sisters, you have this camp. Maybe that's the only thing that God is trying to show you that it takes away from you. Over the years, I've watched people who nobody proposes to, but people who no one proposes to. Yes, some of the characteristics, you will see people who don't talk because that's why when they do beauty contests they make you speak. Come, did you do come? What did they? What did they did? They made you walk around 1st. They made you walk around? Yes please. You show how beautiful you were, isn't it? They measured you. Did they measure you? No, please. They don't measure. You have some vital statistics that's in the height and then shouldn't be too fat, shouldn't be too short. They measure then after that. Did they make you speak? Yes, please. What did they ask you? For the audition to me or the pageant? Itself They they ask him. OK. For the the final key for the first round of the questions, questions are put in a basket and then you pick. My question was women are more corrupt than men. I think I should quickly write the question was are women more corrupt than men? That was a question. What did you answer? I said I wouldn't say women are more corrupt than men, neither will I say men are more corrupt than women. We are all special and we are all brought up. We are all special in our own way. It's your socialization, how you are brought up, where you find yourself, that determines whether you are corrupt or not, not your gender. Miss Malaika, and what else did I ask you? Then after after this round of questions, they chose the final five and then they eliminated to the final three. They were all made to answer one question which were that time it was during election. So they said in this time of election, what is the most important ingredients needed for a successful and peaceful election. So that was the question. What did you say? I said the most important ingredients that is needed for a peaceful election is love. Miss Malaika, what a shock. It's love. And what else did you say? I said love is the only ingredient that is needed because with love you learn to tolerate another person. With love, you realize that if someone is not in a particular party, you still see the person as a brother, as a member or as a member of a country, as a Ghanaian. So it's only love that would help you. See. Beyond the faults of a person and accept the person and then that would prevent false powers. That Miss Malaika. So, so you see that although they were looking at the vital statistics and all that, they wanted to look further, they wanted to look further to see whether there was something else behind. So that is what you need. Talking multiplies your beauty and that's why they do it at Beauty Mountains. And then thirdly, hospitality. Thank you, my dear. Hospitality multiplies your attractiveness also. So whether people can feel comfortable around you, Yeah, even even to be able to, to chat with you, to talk with you, to feel relaxed and at home. Now when I'm sharing these things and I say Ghana, just what is left of you? You think I'm just saying something like you want me to say Ghana boys? Instead of thinking of yourself, you want me to now bring Ghana boto talas, Ghana boto Ghana girls. You are thinking of revenge instead of instead. Of analysing how true the tennis. You are thinking of revenge. Is it not amazing? Is it fantastic? So. You need to. You need to Add all these wonderful things. You know, they they all work within any of the five strings, either the apostle, prophet, evangelist, a pastor, or a teacher. A teacher gives you a revelation into your ear, able to teach you. Remove the decks from your ear and let the thing go inside because it's a small finger. Pastor is the one who puts the reins on your finger, marries you, talks to you. He's the kind person, the evangelist, the one who goes far to tell people. The prophet is the one who points out the reality of what is happening. And the apostle is the one who can do all he can touch. Teaching he can do, pastoral work he can do. Because you see, this finger, the little 1 cannot touch all this one cannot touch all. This one cannot touch any other finger. This one cannot touch any other finger, and this one can do all. So a person who seems to be a pastor is also a prophet, is also a teacher, is also an evangelist. Usually that is an apostle. Are you understanding the word of God? Yeah. So Jesus was called an apostle. Paul was called an apostle. He's a teacher, an evangelist. He was a pastor. It was all those things. Jesus was a shepherd. He's a teacher. He was everything. It's called the apostle and the high priest of our faith. Amen. Are you listening to me? So this is the work of ministry. The work of ministry is pastoral work, evangelistic work, prophetic work, Apostolic work, teaching. This is the work of the ministry. Now sometimes there can be all this in a person. All that is needed to be a pastor can be in one person, shepherding, leading, teaching, feeding, loving. But many times people are not given all the gifts, so they are given just a piece of the gift. And that is where all these other charismatic that I mentioned came in, like prophecy or serving. Because a pastor is also serving. Maybe he has to serve his congregation, but sometimes somebody else will be brought to help to serve the congregation members with the knowledge about love or marriage or whatever. Others will be brought to encourage and to exalt. So that's why we even have conventions because another pastor is teaching nicely. But they just need a celebration, something to revive and make everybody happy. And as well, the person doesn't have the grace. So there has a convention with somebody who cannot stay in his church. When he stays in his church long, there's always a trouble. So he's always travelling around. Do you understand? And he when he comes and he stays for three days, he's able to bring exhaustation. Everybody is encouraging when we have convention. Everybody is happy after the convention, it's like. Wow, wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Yeah, but that very person, he cannot stay. When he stays in his church for a long time, there's always a problem. Amen. Giving, showing mercy, leading, ruling governments, all those kind of things. They are all wonderful. Different gifts. Helps a lot of things fall under helps Amen. But you must aim for the highest and you must all aim to do the work of the pastor, the evangelist, Amen, the teacher. So under this charismata you must be open because God is doing that when the Holy Spirit is working on your life, you are likely to be in the ministry. Amen. Now, the next thing I'm moving from charismata, I will come to how to find your charismata. I'm going to come to how to find to locate your own charismata or a likely charismata, likely charismata. Do you want to find and locate likely charismata in your lives? Amen.