12. The Ministry, Work Or Rest 2

Welcome to. Track #12 of lay power. Ministry work is repetitive, repetitive and regular. When you are working, when you've started working, you will see that it's repetitive. It is the same thing over and that's how work is. Is that not how your work is at the World Bank? You go every day and you go and do the same thing. Spreadsheets. Spreadsheet. That's it. Spreadsheet upon spreadsheet, isn't it? Yeah. When you're working at the hospital, what do you do every day? You do what clinic you see? What is it? Not the same cases. Same cases. Enemies. And what? Hydrocels. Hydroceles. Appendicitis. Appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, goiters. That's a medical case. He is. He was a surgeon. Because Johnny Wems. Wems. You don't operate on Wems. You are a Lycos brother. What is your name? Emmanuel. OK. You have become famous. You have. You have a beloved? Yes. Is she here? She's not here. We would have got you one by all means, right today. But. Amen. Are you listening to me? Repetitive. What I'm preaching now. I'm preaching before, I appreciate it before. And I wrote the book too, so I'm saying it the same point. I have to say it because seven people here may know it, but the rest don't know it. Yeah. And you may think that you know, but if you really knew it, you would be you would be bearing the fruits of that knowledge that you are actually getting tired working, spending hours doing something for God and that it's repeated. So because at first when you come to Chinese and novelty something brand new, you are so excited about it. OK, do this, do that, do that, whatever. But at the point you see that it's the same thing that people have all the same problem, marital problem, the same. There's only a few marital problems, the same relationship problem, issues, this, that, all the same. It's true, it's a fact. But when it's your work, you just do it and you do. And until the ministry work, you realize that I'm doing the same thing. That's why when you watch the quiet here, a lot of people join the after a while they leave because when it gets to the repetitive time, then first warning. OK, did I call you here to give warnings? Let this be your last, OK? When it gets to the repetitive part, then we stop. At first it's nice to stand on stage. There's excitement in the air. In the air there's a sideman. There's a sideman. In the air, there's a sideman. Can't you feel it? Aren't you feeling in your heart? There's a, there's a in the air initially. When you're wearing your Kitty and you're white and you are marching, Nice assignment in the air initially. There's assignment. There's assignment in the air. Yeah, initially. But when you have to do it every week, every week, when you are tired, you have headache, you have to come early, you've been doing it for three years. Nobody has chosen you as a beloved. 14 sisters have been chosen as beloved except you and you are still singing and you are not excited to and. Rejoice in Him today. There's excitement. There's excitement in the air. How do you feel it in your soul? God is moving. Yes, it's moving in. This place let him. Take control and rejoice in Him today. There's assignment. There's assignment in the air. And yesterday you add pepper and it is moving in your stomach. When you are working, whether your stomach is going like this or not, you reorganize everything because there's a match through. Yeah, the way it is. That pastor, there are many times we have running stomachs when we have to preach. Have you experienced 1 before? One day we had a visiting preacher in the church and he preached powerfully, but he had a runny stomach in the middle of his same and in those days we didn't have a toilet in the chairs in Colegono. So to our surprise, he suddenly entered the message and gave the microphone. He entered into Colegono to find any house in the house. He went here and said please inuga, inuga. He didn't understand oh nuga toilet oh nuga that he was running house to house until somebody had messy person to person. Yes, because he drank milk Yes, country milk before coming to church when my pasta. You have to say there's a sight man. You don't have to drink country milk or a thing of you know that has been open for some time that you are not sure because tomorrow you are going to sing again. There's the. Sight man in the air, cast your feeling in your soul. God is forbid by his grace. Yes, he's forbid in this place once you let him take control and rejoice in him. Come and do. It there's excitement, there's excitement in the air. There's. Excitement in the air. Can't you feel it in your soul? Action. God is moving by his grace. Yes, He's moving in this place. Won't you let him take control? Yeah. And rejoice in him today. There's excitement. There's excitement in the air. There's excitement. In. The air, can't you feel it in your soul? God is moving by His grace. Yes, He's moving in this place. Won't you let Him take control and rejoice in every day excitement? There's excitement in the air. Can you feel it in your soul? God is moving by his ways. Yes, it's moving in this place. Won't you let him take control and rejoice? In your day. There's excitement, there's excitement in the air. There's excitement in the air. Can't you feel it in your soul? Come on, God is moving by his ways. Yes, it's. Moving in this place she's. Tired already, she wants. To stand rejoicing him today. There's excitement, there's excitement in the air. There's excitement in the air. Can you feel it? So you are tired already, you. Are tired already, You have to do it every Sunday and you don't have a beloved too. And you're not excited, you'll go headache, men's trapeze, diarrhea, no money in your pockets, no job. And the pastor has come with his suit and it prosperous and he said there's a siphon in the air and you have to go there. But that's how the work of God is. I have to preach when I'm not happy. When I'm not happy, I still preach. You cannot know whether I'm happy or I'm happy by when I'm preaching. When I'm preaching, you cannot know what I think. I may be very, very sad. I may have been crying before I came, but you never know when I come now. So yeah, that's how you said. There is a sign. We do. Everything we have to do and repeat it. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. Sometimes somebody starts to say his problem and you know the answer from the first moment, but you have to wait. Please the person will say that and you know the answer is second Timothy chapter 2 verse 8, but you have to wait. The person will say and you have to show that you are start from 98 repetitive regular take your time energy. You'll be tired if you are not tired, say anything, but don't say you are working for God, living worship and praise. Do you think that worship you that believe the songs, all the songs that they are living, They believe it officially, but sometimes and they are saying how great thou our Lord will have not been great for me at all. Nothing great for me at all. What, what, what, what, what? What is that song? The one that to the Red Sea. He took us to the Red Sea. And how does he go? No, no. How great is our God? How great is? His name. He's the greatest. Forever. The sea forever. Meanwhile, you drown in the water. So meanwhile you drown in the water. As far as you are concerned, you are a drowning. You are a drown person who has been drowned by the troubles of this world, and you are supposed to lead hero by the water. The Waters of. The mighty, The mighty, Hey, what? You repeat it when you are sick, when you are in the mood, when you are not in the mood, regular. Whether you like or whether you don't like, whether you are happy, whether you are sad, you do it. Go to the bank. You can't go to the bank and say my husband was irritating me. And you, this manager, you remind me of my husband too much. You are, you have the same attitude as he has. You don't want to do anything for yourself. Stupid. Sure, before you realize that will be your last day. And you see another, another point added. Another point. When you are working, you don't use emotions. And I mean, I feel I don't feel. I feel I don't feel you feel you don't feel you. Better start again, brother. You are a worship leader. You are a preacher. You are whatever. You can't use emotions. Sir, I don't feel it. Come on, I don't feel. I don't. I'm not in the mood. You will know how many times I'm not in the mood. Now you work. That's why sometimes the bosses, they sometimes benefit sometimes from these ladies who work, because when they come to the office, they don't bring those moods there. The moods are in the house. The moods are in the house to the husband. It's true. Sometimes when I see the people working in mouth, I say, is that how you are in the house? Not quite. Are you so eager, Flowing. Willing. Remus bouncing back, You bounce back. Yeah, fantastic game. What's the last points? You don't use emotions. Many Aquarius test. Many, many Aquarius test. They don't last. Singing is not a small thing. Every time you have to come up with a song, I just sitting there. Even the way she's sitting, I don't feel like calling her to say, yeah, I'm sure she doesn't feel like singing. Maybe she's not feeling well. I don't know. You see my work, you can't you can't come with a feeling. It's regular, repetitive. Me too. I don't feel like pushing out my lay people. And then I'm in full time. I'm in full time ministry. I don't feel like picture my lay power. I'm in full time ministry. Yeah, we are. We are forcing ourselves to be lay people where we have left it long ago. I've I've try to present the whole lay thing as something exciting that is for laypeople, something I've left long time ago. If it was so exciting, why do you think I've left it? If it was so exciting, why do you think I've left it so long ago? Joking. The next one is ministry work is supervised or unsupervised supervised or unsupervised Amen go to the and be wise Amen which having no guide, overseer or ruler provided her meet. There are two types of work in the ministry, lay work, the one that is supervised you and the one that nobody needs to supervise. You know naturally what to do and we want more unsupervised workers. Amen. Who will flow in the system? So how many people are ready to number one, to, to, to do their working hours? Are you ready to give your Sunday to God Sunday afternoon? What do they show on television? Football and what again? Cantata and what I got Preku one O 1 Peku one O 1 is on Sunday afternoon OK and what else? Yes, mention, mention if you know, lift your hand. Thank God is Friday English. What Premiership? What do they show on Sunday afternoon? Now, all those who know what they show, it's a sign that you are not a Lycos who is working for the Lord. The reason why I was asking the question is not to know, but the fact that you know, the fact that you know what is what is shown on television on Sunday afternoon. What are you doing in the house on Sunday afternoon as a Lycos, a layman, common man who is working for the Lord? How can you even know what they are showing on Sunday afternoon? You are not around, huh? If all you do in the in lighthouse is to enjoy it, then you are not a Lycos, a real layperson where you can't just enjoy. You need to. You need to be able to. When you think of Lighthouse, you feel tiredness. Gosh, she CC when I see the church and I'm trembling when I have trembled there, I tell you the work that is in this church Sunday morning, afternoon, Tuesday, Wednesday age, age. Then we know that you have joined what Lycos the lay power has been released. How you look at the church and you just oh, anointing that you are not one of the workers. Do you think that Dynasty Chinese restaurant, the cooks and the chefs and the waiters, when they pass by, they look and say, oh, what a nice restaurant, beautiful. No, this. I don't want to even see this place crash like Charlie. I've been suffering there for so many years as a cook every day. Beef with onions, beef with black bean sauce, chicken with what? Cashew nuts spare ribs with whatever. Fried rice I don't. Sweet and sour. I don't want to see it at all. Give me Kotumbari and then I'll be happy. Because your work is Chinese food. It's no more a pleasure, those of us who don't eat Chinese. But we go there for pleasure. We go there to enjoy. Oh, because normally in our houses, in your house normally normally normally average. Do you eat Chinese food in your house? So Chinese food is for some pleasurable whatever, but the day becomes part of your work. You will not believe how many can't believe that you you want this. And I don't like this food. One day I stayed on top of a Chinese restaurant, my house, yes, my house. And here is the Chinese restaurant under my house and here is the kitchen of the Chinese restaurant under Hey, my my wife and I, when we got married, that was our first house Charlie. We we, we managed to negotiate a peace settlement with the Chinese restaurant for setting free food that we just signed for. So after the negotiated settlement, anything that came to my mind, I just order and I sign. But the day came when I when I smell the the thing I said give me and young. You can't believe it all that you'll be tired of it. See. So the church. Yeah. Those of you who don't work here, that's why you remember conventions with Reverend Institute Convention with this, with this service. That was nice. You are not a worker. That's why the place is nice to you now when you become a worker, when you see the place. This church. I can only virtually. I've been tired in the church. It's true. The church is not a place of rest. It's my work. Do you want to join me? Do you want to join me in the work? Then it will not be a place of rest. A place of work. When I went to rest, when I come to the Kardashian, I said that the tension starts to rise. Yeah. A pastor, blood pressure. If you want to test a pastor, but you test it on Sunday evening, Don't, don't, don't bother to test it during Sunday evening. Those who are like us, when they work, you catch all the people with high hypertension. You catch them on Sunday evening. Yeah, it's true. That is a morning. Saturday. I mean Monday. No, Sunday evening. That's where the pressure is. Throughout the day they start. Are you listening to me? Yeah. So I'm inviting you to join me so that we work. Will you join? I said will you join so that we all work? Then you can say that you are one of the workers in the church. But other than that, don't say it, don't take it, don't imagine, don't take it. Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it. Don't say you work. I just say you attend. Just say that's my Bishop. Oh, this is my pastor. Oh, I love my church. Oh, the choir is very good. Oh, there's a nice singer there. Now don't say it. Don't say you work. Don't say you are one of the workers. Don't say you work for God. Don't say it. Don't think it. Don't imagine. Whatever you do, don't say you're working for God. Tell your neighbor Charlie, you've been caught. You've been caught. You're caught. Charlie. Red card. You are out. Clearly, clearly, clearly, clearly. There is no way out for you being caught. Say you are one of the workers. Say you are a shepherd. You are one of the workers. Then I'm an astronaut. I'm going to the moon on Friday. Now we are moving one step further to know the work that a pasta that you are going to do to get tired, Amen. Now the work that we are going to do that's going to make us tired has a very nice and easy formula which is being expanded today, Amen. Amen. P for prayer, V for visitation, C for counselling, I for interaction, R for radio, T for TVB for bus and E for evangelism. We are revising the Constitution. Hello. Are we there? Are you at the back? Can you hear us? Wonderful. So let's run through what we have done briefly and then we should come and take it out from there. So we we're talking about work, isn't it? What the first thing that we saw there? Work has word. I didn't. Work has word. Amen. So what's a call? What does it mean quickly? It means that it means that there are stipulated times that we are to be working. So in the church basically, I think as a Lycos definitely Sunday has been earmarked fully as a working day. And I think that in any official job that you are in during working hours, if you are found to be idle, it's a, it's a misdemeanor. It's it's inappropriate. It's inappropriate to be resting when everyone else is working. And so if we agree that we are like us, we are label working in the ministry, then we agree that on Sundays we, we are doing some form, one form of work or the other. Thank you. And then working hours, I think when you read the book. Bishop also explains that conventionally we we have told ourselves that if if it is work, then it must be Monday to Friday between 8:00 and 5:00. But depending on what your occupation is, you may have working hours that vary or are different. And I think visual gives the example of pilots and S2 was or what is flight attendants. Sometimes they can be called at 2:00 AM, one AM depending on when your flight is, maybe you may work two days in a week, doctors and so on. And so our working hours may not be the conventional Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 5:00, but definitely Sunday, the whole day we are working Tuesday and then evenings during the weekdays and then Saturdays during the day, our working hours as lay people or as Lycos in the church. On Sundays, we close after unquenchable, which also means that you shouldn't, if I think one of the best ways to know whether you are working on a Sun Hills or not is to know that you never watch the Evening News. If you don't watch the Evening News, there's one at 7:00 and 1:00 at 10, preferably the one at 10. If you don't watch the one at 10, I mean you can't remember the last time you watch 10:00 news because you were on the field working, then you are working. But if you can watch one-on-one today, I'm hearing programs that one-on-one and Kwami 2 on 2, Ajwa 3 on three, you are spoiling the camp. So yeah, so working hours. Amen. Wonderful. So they are working hours for the church, isn't it? Yeah. When we when you wake up in the morning and you come to church, you are working as a shepherd. Yes, according to Say Something. I just want to give this testimony. I, I naturally do not wake up early. Anytime I wake up very early, I get a stomach ache. I don't know where it came from, maybe hunger. I wake up with hunger. But I remember that the time our pastors on Sunday mornings, we come early to pray in those days used to be 5:30 AM. And I remember Bishop Adi said, listen, it is your work. I remember, yes, from that day, from that day, I came for each, I mean every meeting I come on time. And he was saying that he was very surprised because my temperament is not the kind of thing that would make somebody consistently come at that time. But when you have an understanding that it is not just a hobby or something you are doing to contribute, but it's something that you are doing as work and these are your working hours, that you must be here to pray. 530 It is your work Sunday morning. Your attitude and your psyche changes, and your approach to it also should change. So we are saying that the working hours is not only for pastors, it's for all Lycos, isn't it? All of us are working. So from now on Monday, is that when you're coming to church? I'm going to work, isn't it? When you set up from home, I'm going to work. Some people are coming to enjoy church. You are coming to work and we are working to a close and then the rest of the week is for almost said the devil. But I'm so I'm sorry. I mean, Sunday's work for go through and the rest of the week is for the the devil, sorry, I mean for all other gods, right? So you must always have that in mind in the back, at the back of your mind. That's it's work. Every time you come to work, if it comes you don't have anything to do. That means that you have to be laid off. There must be several things. Follow up all these things. I'm sure you'll talk, talk to us about it. Now, what's the second point that we see here? Wow, Erica. Explain that to us, Lady Reverend Erica. Bishop said that in explaining that point, he said that I mean you cannot come to church and spend 2 minutes reading scriptures and say that you are working for God. It must take a huge chunk or ample, I mean amount of your time. And if he spoke with Doctor Ali, who gave an example that sometimes he could work for 36 hours continuous as a doctor, as a surgeon, sometimes 12 hours or minimum 8 hours a day. And so also as like us, if we want to work in the ministry, then we must know that we must work for an amount of time before before we can say that we are actually working for God. Just two minutes or coming for rehearsals, that is 2 hours in a week cannot be considered as work. Just taking an offering. I mean, in the church, how? I don't know how many minutes to take on Sunday, but we can't just consider that as work or just reading the Scriptures. And then we sang the song. Reverend Johnny composed a very powerful song that we shouldn't think about it, we shouldn't say it, we shouldn't imagine it. And it will be a delusion to think that reading a scripture on Sunday is actually working for God. Yeah, it should always be. The accusation must be that why you always in church? Why you? If they don't say that about your family, your parents, your brothers and sisters who don't come to church, If they don't say that about you, then you have not been working yet. They must say that about you now. Why you always in church? Isn't it why you watch churches that always you're always there? What type of church is this? The church doesn't too close. Have they said that to you before? Then what? They have said that to you before. If actually I haven't heard that, it means that you are not working yet, isn't it? So they must say that about you all the time. And they must say that to you up to a point where they are tied. They didn't say. So. You came to look for him. Oh, he's not here. You won't see him today. You're waiting for him to come back. Oh, he's gone to church. OK. I'll come by 3:00. Yeah. Come. No, no, he'll not be. I'll wait at 3:00. The people in my area, they said they have area meeting every Sunday 3:00 PM. So so they said that some people in the area came saying that pastor, we have area meeting next Sunday includes like you don't come. So we are come to your mind that this Sunday we brought a letter we have an area meeting. I said that I'm sorry Sunday is my Kingdom. So OK, they will shift it to five. So they make room for me to come for the meeting. They moved from 3:00 to 5:00. I said no, I will not be here. So what about 6? I said I'm not 7. I said I said I'm going to church, but I said I'm not here. I said I'm not here. It's a wonderful thing, isn't it? So I said when? So when? On Sunday. I said Sunday is my working day. So I said where do you work? The guy said works at electricity or something. That's OK. We want to have the meeting. Monday 11:00 AM will be. That's when we have to have a meeting. So I'll be at work. I said I'm also at work. I said what about what about Monday, 3:00 PM? So I'm going to close. I said that's when I'm available because Monday is my update. You see, that's how it is. Yeah. So you must always be found in church all the time because must consume a little. You know like Bishop is saying we are just working for God. We are trying to do something little for God Amen. And we are dedicating most churches in Accra and I dare you go to any church or most churches in Accra I'll Stalin we shall be saying serving is awake and that's how God prospers us. Most churches in Accra, if you go there 1:00 PM, the churches are locked. Nobody you can find even a ghost on the churches compound. Most churches in Accra 1:00 PM maximum 2 because church ends at 12:31 PM, the security man is left. If we come to lighthouse, the cars on the car park at 5:00 PM. You think that church is now beginning to start? People are waking up. I mean, sometimes in the church service itself, the morning 63830 and so on, when like I said, these people, they're just waiting for the working to start their work. The preacher know that it's not a worker, they're waiting. And when we share the grades, then they begin to move beside the day has begun. That is real work. It consumes a lot of time, large amount of time. That's why I have a snack buy in the church restaurant in the church. That's why there's food all the time. We're trying to make it possible for everybody to stay there for a long time so that we can be working all the time. Amen. Marry somebody who will not complain when you go to church. I don't understand what I'm saying. You go and bring somebody from Methodist. I say, hey, you don't count. What? What do you have? It is this. Yeah, said Monday is our Family Day. I've mentioned before, Monday is our Family Day, the day that we all sit around together. We have a spoon and then knife and then fork and then we sit at table. They do it this way, OK, The, the, the plate is here, the spoon is here. Whatever they arrange it. Monday is our Family Day, Monday is our weekday. Sunday is our weekday. Amen. That's how we, that's what we're doing in the church. And so we must all, if we're, if we're late, late. If you're like us, you must always have that at the back of your mind when you wake up on Sunday. I'm not going to come now. Amen. I'm not going to come now. I'm going to be working the whole day now. What is the next thing about work? Energy and what? A lot of energy. Who can explain that one for US? Energy and money past our soul. What does it mean? But the point. Bishop made about that is that when you when you wake, when you wake at the end of the day you must be tired. So for instance, when you wake for instance, Dr. Yali said you, you would go to work sometimes for 36 hours. At the end of the time you should be tired and it should be such that the feeling you have even when you see the place or you are around, it's an energy sapping place, not a place to just come and enjoy. Those who come and enjoy are not the workers, they're they're just the passerby myself. Oh yes, I. Am forgive fully. I start early and closely. I'm very tired on Sundays. And then spending money as well. For instance, those who have to drive to work, they buy fuel and therefore they spent money in order to get to work and do the work. And in the same way, coming to church and working, you have to expend money to buy fuel, go to church, do not demand money for visitation and follow up, which is what you have to do. So that's it. Doctor so, so there's a lot of you've got to spend a lot of energy, isn't it? And you have to be tired every day. You have to be tired. You have to be waking up, following the people visiting, talking, doing this working. And you wonder what do you do? You know, like somebody asked Bishop one day, just say come away for God said if there's work, I will do it. Where is work? Show me the work. If there's work, I will do it. But the work never finishes. Work never finishes, but we're going to use energy to work for the Lord. Amen. You're going to spend a lot of energy, so much so that when you're, when you mandate, when you're going to a secular job, it's almost like you are actually so tired that your secular boss is not happy with you too much. But that is also working for God. God is happy with you. What do you think about that? It's awesome. And money, money is involved. Money must be spent. You've got to spend money to do a lot of things. Not money for your hair, money for the work of God. When it says spend money, then you're just saying you spend money to dress. I need money to buy shoes because I'm working for God. That's not it. You have to spend money to do follow up to go and visit people at Avano. You have to spend money. I mean Uncle Philip for a long time, every Sunday he'll go and go and pick until Virginia, the old lady, the oldest that you, you come drive his car, go and pick hair from the house, bring hair, take care after church, after. Sometimes people, people's cars are like check bus souls in them. People, they go here moving up and down as if they're paid for what they're doing. You think God doesn't see all of it? God sees it. Do you understand? Yeah. Some of you, you couldn't drop souls. And you go back and go and bring people and you bring them in. You know, some of the reason why God gave you the car is for the work of the Lord. I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah, you almost. You must always have the inner back of your mind that whatever you have, God gave it to you for the work of the ministry. Yeah. So you, you go, you pack them, you pack the souls, you go, you bring them some. You have to give the person money. I don't want it to go home. OK, I'll give you my own money and all that. All of it is the work of the Lord. It's you have to spend money. If you don't spend money to work to do the work of God, then you're not working. There might be time that me, I told you I'll stop putting money in my pocket when I come to church because every day minimum of 10 people come and ask me for money after I finished preaching minimum 10. Usual. If it's less than 10, then it's a miraculous day. But minimum, they will come when they start the story and I know how it's ending. And then so I don't carry money anymore. So that when I said I don't have money, I'm not lying because there's no money in my pockets. Do you understand? Because before I can spend money at other places, so you must spend money. Tell your friend you have to be ready to spend money brother. Not just contributing for life fees. I don't know who brought you to the front here, but the Max. This money can never leave the church. Isn't it the way we know him now? No. Go. Fabia. Sunday. Come and see my office. OK? I've been to office before. Why come and see me at church? In office, right? I'll give you. One of the nines of which one night Bishop is OK. Which one do you like? Choose the one you like. I'll dash it to you free of charge. Modern Marriage. For. Gay man works too fast. Hello. So energy and money, be ready to spend it. Say man, I want to spend some energy more energy for God. Those of you always calculate and book appointment for 3:00 PM today or they all cancelled Sunday don't have any appointment in the house in the office. You're working for God. When you arrive, you're just there doing things. Is there any work to do? You naive be tired. You come and see us. We'll give you a lot of people to follow up complex means that you go now you now you know that you are going to visit you jump over 17 gadgets and then you follow and get up and carry keep on going. You go to places you have to park your car and then. Lungo, you know. You see the Coco seller, you know the plantain seller would you like to bizarre that's it it's powerful, right and then you're going to spend money to him in what's the next one. It's just what ministry work is what repetitive and regular? Regular. Who's explaining that one for us? Who? Reverend Fabian? Well. Bishop said that it's just like any work that you do, You go every day, and I remember Pastor Ben was telling us that they do the spreadsheet over and over again. Every day when you go is the same thing you do. And that's how ministry work is. We come and as pastors, sometimes we come and sit down. People come with their problems, the same problems. When they start, you know where The thing is going. You, you just listen. The same people with the same problems come again and again. When they come, you see them. You know that is this problem, but you just sit down and listen to them over and over and over. And he also gave the example of the why people leave class because you come for rehearsals and it's like there's excitement in the air and you keep singing every day. The ex excitement the same formation dance. And there's no excitement because no beloved is coming, no money in your pocket, no job. Your wife is beating you and revenge on the revenge on the but you have to be singing. There's excitement in the air and it's the reason why some people leave the choir, because after some time it's like nothing is changing. It's the same thing. And then, but before I forget, Bishop also gave us a scripture in Malachi 313. Yeah. And he said that God is going to. Your words have been arrogant because. You have said it is vain to. Save God to save God. And he said, I think in verse 16 that God will distinguish between those who serve him, verse 18, those who serve him and those who don't serve him. And so he was saying that that's the reason why some people are not doing well, not prospering, but if we serve him, we will prosper in Jesus name. Do you believe it's that in this church? The prospectus is in serving the Lord? It's not in just Russo I receive it. I no, it's the same. Working for God is in done in the power is in. Do some follow up. It is in prayer. As you work God prospers you and we believe it and it's working for us. I heard it's working for us. Tell your neighbor watch out, watch out, watch out for my prosperity. You watch out, watch out for my prosperity as I serve God. Tell him as I serve God, Kofi, tell him as I serve God I will prosper. You watch out. I'll be giving you lifting my latest car one of these days. What one in my latest car one of these days as I keep serving God. All other things. Do you believe it? I said do you believe it? Listen, that is the understanding that has brought this church thus far. We don't organize deliverance for prosperity. We don't have deliverance for prosperity. We have serving Gods. God will prosper us. Amen. We see prosperity as a byproduct of serving God. That is not the main thing, but God gives it to us because it's part of his way. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's very interesting that many of the people who are going for deliverance for this one, it doesn't really work. Here's something. Yeah. So let's all work, let's all serve God. So we are talking about what? What are you talking about now? Yeah, repetitive and regular. We had a one time, one of our pastors in London, he was a train driver. Now Sunday he work, I mean work in the in the Churchill he work. And then Monday he has to go and drive train. He was sacked. We call out on Monday morning, he'll be sleeping as he's riding the train. I'm telling you, I think on two occasions he he passed there stop. He didn't stop, just went up because he was asleep. I was sitting. He's something. Then they began to call. So this money cannot wait. A dangerous person to keep driving the train. They said being direct. He's now a full time pastor. For gay, it's not person Richard, of course, all right, that is called. That's how God called him the type of calling spectacular calling forgave. It's just repetitive, Amen. Repetitive so much so that sometimes people may think that it's even boring. Do you understand? I mean, if you're doing something all the time, you if you don't take care, you may think it's boring. All those you are ministering to may find it boring. I've come again. Sometimes even as a person only see the people they've come again. Why did they come? Sometimes you and I book appointment I not all the time. So I wish that the person won't come because the same story again. But they come. Unfortunately they come and one has to listen and one has to the same story over and over again. Yeah, but it is the work of God that is real work, repetitive. You do the same thing all the time. Amen. I understand what I'm saying. If you get you always want to change what you are doing all the time, you will never be stable. Any job, you stay in the job for a long time and you're promoted and you have the job and you're promoted. But if ever since when you're looking for a new job because you're bored, you can never go for it. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you have to do the same thing. And it's said that women are fitful when it comes to repetitive jobs. They stay with you for a long time. When you employ a lady, she can't be there. Not because they are just content with what they are doing and then do it and they get more skillful and they do it well. Men are more adventurous. As a six man's know, I'm going to Tigu from Tiguan. I'm going to empty. If you had a Zen has come, you're on the way to Zen and and to Vodafone and then you started your own business. You're carrying your briefcase with watching the briefcase say, well, I'm self-employed and walking to you because you don't want to work for anybody because you're tired of this repetition every day the same way because if you wake up some, I mean some people alarm is set at the same time all the time. Four, 4:30 AM, it goes off and you jump out of bed and then you do the repetitive. You brush your teeth hopefully and then you have your bath and then you're on your way. Every day. There's not a time that I'm tired of brushing my teeth. It's repetitive. Do you understand? Yeah, I've done it. Become part of your life. Become habits. Habitual. When you wake up, it's normal to brush your teeth. Can't say that. I brush my teeth for the last 25 years. This week I won't brush my teeth. Teeth. I'm tired. You can't do that, do you understand? So work is repetitive, isn't it? And regular, Regular all the time. Sunday when the lectern or Sunday will come. And a Bishop saying you don't use emotions to do real work. You don't use your mood or your, your, your emotion and how you feel and how you are being hurt by somebody in the house. And then when you come to church, you're really present. You are present worship leader. And then when we come to church, then the way you are feeling at home because you had a little quiet in the house. And they come and sing some of these Moody songs. OK. I will see that one.