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14. Faith - 10 Qualities That You Need 1

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
January 15, 2025 1h 0m

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Camp Title - Why Are You Not A Missionary. Machaneh Collection - 63. Preached in 2010, United Kingdom (Bournemouth). 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 #14 of Why are you not a missionary? 10 Qualities you need to be a missionary Matthew 25. For the Kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto 1 He gave 5 talents, and to another 2, and to another one. And every man according to his several ability. And he straight away took his journey. And he that had received 5 talents went and traded with the same, and made the other 5 talents. And likewise he that received two, he also gained other two. But he that had received one went in digging the earth, and hid his Lords money. And after a long time, the Lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them. Amen #110 qualities that you need to be a missionary. The first quality you need is faith, Amen. You need faith to be able to become a missionary, Amen. This gentleman was given one talent, but he did not use his talent. He did not use his gift. Amen. And the reason why he did not use his gift was because he had the opposite of faith. He was afraid. So if the so it means that the other guys, the one who had five talents and two talents

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Welcome to track #14 of Why are you not a missionary? 10 Qualities you need to be a missionary Matthew 25. For the Kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto 1 He gave 5 talents, and to another 2, and to another one. And every man according to his several ability. And he straight away took his journey. And he that had received 5 talents went and traded with the same, and made the other 5 talents. And likewise he that received two, he also gained other two. But he that had received one went in digging the earth, and hid his Lords money. And after a long time, the Lord of those servants cometh and reckoneth with them. Amen #110 qualities that you need to be a missionary. The first quality you need is faith, Amen. You need faith to be able to become a missionary, Amen. This gentleman was given one talent, but he did not use his talent. He did not use his gift. Amen. And the reason why he did not use his gift was because he had the opposite of faith. He was afraid. So if the so it means that the other guys, the one who had five talents and two talents had faith, you understand, But this other one had fear because the opposite of faith is fear. When you believe, you believe. When you do not believe, you are afraid. All right? So fear is actually faith, but it's faith in the negative. Do you understand? Faith comes by hearing. Fear also comes by hearing because Goliath, when Goliath I was attacking the children of God. The Bible says that Goliath would come in the morning and stand there and speak to all the people. And then when he spoke to the people, all right, the Bible said they were all afraid. They were all filled with fear. When the head, do you want to turn to that Scripture? Why not? Somebody can find it. Find it first, 1st Samwell 17 and then what's? OK, all right, first Psalm 17 And he stood and cried onto the armies of Israel and said, why are you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine and are, you know, servants of Saul? Choose a man, you know that he was bigger than all the men. And he said, Choose a man for you, and let him come down to me, and if he be able to fight with me and to kill me, then we will be your servant. But if I prevail against them and kill him, then you shall be your servants. And the Philistines said, I defy the armies of Israel. Verse 10 This day give me a man, that we may fight together. But notice verse 11. Now when Saul and all Israel had those words of the Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. When the head, they were afraid. So faith in the negative, faith in death, do you understand? Faith in defeat, faith in all the negatives had come to them, and that is fear. So fear is a belief that a negative thing might happen or is likely to happen is a fear of something. When you think that this negative thing is likely to happen to me, it means you are afraid of that thing. Do you understand? So a person who does not fulfill the ministry is full of that negative kind of faith, and a person who fulfills his calling has faith. Now, that is why the Bible tells us that all the people who had good reports were men of faith. They all had faith, you understand, and that without faith you cannot have a good report. You need to believe a lot of things. So when the people said that we are easily impressionable, they were actually saying something positive because you need to easily be impressed, you see, not easily understand, but easily impressed. Do you get what I'm saying? Like, for instance, one time I was in America or I was in a place where there were a lot of Americans, and these Americans were, what you call it, listening to me. Speaker And I spoke and I mentioned with Joyner and I looked at their faces and also the remarks that some of them made after I finished speaking, you could see that they were not so as impressed with the Regina as I was. Do you understand? And so you realize that where people have more negative thinking. And that's why when somebody is a visitor, you don't know so much about him. You have more faith in what he does. When a person becomes less of a visitor, Let's say, if you take, let's say we have a visiting preacher who comes to minister, he keeps coming every year. He becomes less of a visitor than he was when he first came, you see. And then there is less of the spectacular and amazing whatnots because he is less of a visitor and you know more about it and you have more analysis about the person. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's why a pastor is a very special person, because a pastor is somebody who, in spite of your constant analysis and reanalysis about him or her, he's still with you, still with you, still sharing the Word is still with you, still sharing the Word is still with you, still sharing the Word is still with you, still sharing the word. The word, the pastor is a fantastic and the Bible says the people were scattered because there was no shepherd. He didn't say they were scattered because there was no prophet or they were scattered because there was no evangelist. They are scattered because there's no pastor who stays with the people all the time. They criticize him, they talk about, but he's still with them. Are you there? So people do not fulfill their great, great callings because they do not have faith. Now you must be easily impressed. It's very important to be easily impressed and quickly impressed. When you see a prophet, when you see a vision, when you hear the word, you must be easily impressed, like as I'm preaching. Why? You know that you must be quickly impressed, but not that you are not impressed. Do you see? So you find out that those who have gone to the mission field, they are people who are impressed by what was being said. Do you see? Yeah. And you, they were, they believed. They believed they were impressed quickly. They felt so bad. Others did not really do. They said, yes, I know what you said, but, you know, there's this and there's that and there's this and there's that and there, you know, therefore this and that and that and that. So they don't really believe that's a that's a fact. That's a Jude. What do you think? Yeah. And everybody gravitates towards people who believe in him. Love, love. One of the great components of love is believing. The Bible says perfect love casts out fear or perfect love casts out the faith in negatives. So the more you love somebody, the more you trust the person. And that is why Jesus said, if you love me, obey me, keep my word. But that is how I know that you love me. So obviously you could, you could understand if I become closer to people who believe what I'm saying by their actions because, oh Bishop, I believe what I'm preaching about. Raise your hand if you believe. Please raise your hand if you believe. But you watch and see, after this camp, many of us will have different explanations and reasons why based on one or two, one or two, one or two, one or two, one or two. And you see that after all is said and done, just a trickle, a handful trickle through. Those are the ones that really believe. Because I tell you, anybody who listens to me preaching over and over and over and over again, honestly, you will find that. You will find it difficult to do anything other than to save God. How many realize that it's true? Yeah. Yeah, but who are those who rarely believe it and then they act it out. So you may say I believe that I will show you my faith by my actions. You to show me what you believe by your actions, no matter what you say. And that is why this was our Bishop. I wanted them. I thank you. You know my address. You know everything. What you want to do, you do. That's it. No talking too much. Are you listening to me? When Saul and all Israel had the Philistines preaching and Goliath preaching? Hey, they were, they were afraid greatly. Goliath was preaching. He preached several verses. If somebody has verses in the Bible, is he not preaching? If somebody has verses in the Bible, is he not preaching? He stood, and he cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are you come out to set up? Don't bring a battle. He was reasoning with them. Am I not a Philistine? And you, servants to Saul, choose a man. Just one person should be sacrificed for this matter. And let him come down to him. If he ever fights me and he kills me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then shall you be our servants and service? And the Philistines say I defy the armies of Israel this day. Give me a man. He was. Now does the altar call. Give me a man. What a man. Hey, when Goliath did his altar call, the fear became more Nobody came for the altar call. When he did the altar call, nobody showed up, through or not through. And then you see that people were afraid it was because of what they had heard. Amen. First time I was going to, I was going to a certain country and I heard so many things. I was told that there was a man who had lions in his house as security. Yeah, security, he had lions. And that there was another man who had snakes as his security guards. And he releases the snake in the evenings. Yeah, but I became more afraid of the country and I had so many different things. And all these things multiply the fears that you are. And when you are in the country yourself, you will not see all those things. But what you've had, it builds up your great fear for that nation or that place. Are you listening to me? Amen. I remember one time I was, I went to Nigeria and I was talking to a brother who was driving me around and I told him that I had ahead of these terrible things that happened in the country. So well As for me, I live here, I'm a pharmacist. I've never seen all these things that you are talking about. Yeah, I've not seen one before, Never seen armed robots before. I've never been attacked before. I've never had any of all these experience that you hear about. I've never had. And I live here and the farmer says this is the work I do. I'm in the church, I work here, I live. I've not seen any such thing before. So you see, depending on what you hear, then your fears or your faith rises. So you need to be a man of faith, Amen. You need to be a man of faith. And you are already a man of faith. Are you not already a man of faith? You must be a man of faith. Then why are you becoming a man of fear? What are you afraid of? Why are you afraid? I'm asking you, why are you afraid? Chuko Lian. Faith is very important, Amen. In anything that's you do with the Lord and you must be decide to develop faith. faith in God is very, very, very important. Amen. Do you believe that faith is important? Are you sure you believe that faith is important, but fear has taken over from faith in many cases. But I want you to decide to be someone who believes. And when you come and you listen to the Machinae, or you listen to some of these camps, you begin to have faith that you can. You didn't believe, your doubts decrease, your beliefs increase. You are encouraged, you know that you can also do what you can serve the Lord. Why faith is important #1 I'm sure, I'm sure I can give you maybe 20 reasons #1 Faith is important because we are saved by faith. Amen. He that believeth is baptized and shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned, Amen. He that believeth shall be saved. You're going to be saved by your faith. You're going to be saved from poverty by your faith. You're going to be saved from disaster by your faith. So try to believe more things than understanding how many are going to believe more. I'm going to believe more. Believe the things more. You'll be saved more. Amen. I've been safe from working from 9:00 to 5:00. Yeah, it's true. By having faith, God. I've been saved from so many things by having faith. Amen. Faith is important in being a missionary. Why faith is important to a missionary? Faith is important because you are saved by faith. Faith is important to a missionary because you cannot take even one step without faith. You cannot take a single step into missionary where you can never become a projectile. OK, You can never become a projectile. Gentleman. My brother in the glasses, I think he's having a difficulty. No gentleman right here in there. It's your second year lookout. One step into the mission field you cannot take because you don't have faith, because the Bible says for we walk by faith and not by science. Amen. 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 by 7 #3 You cannot live on the mission field without faith. That's why faith is important to a missionary. Amen. Cannot the first step you cannot take. So, so ideas, so so comes. You will attend so so clapping, you will clap. So, so. Buying of books, buying of bibles, buying of materials, attending of camps and conferences. But just one step. We cannot take it one step because the first step we walk. We walk means we take steps. Walk means we take steps. Walking is equal to taking steps. We take steps by faith. And if you want to know everything of the future? Faith. Faith leaves you in the dark. You have you are supposed to be in the dark. You are supposed to not know whether it is good or bad, whether it is right or wrong, and you are supposed to have some faith. Without that faith not being sure, you there must be things that you are not sure about. If you have everything that you are sure about, then there is no faith in it. You have to do things that you are not sure of. You have to do things that you can't determine the outcome. You have to do things where there is a risk. Otherwise you are not taking even one step. You'll be there. Social conferences, tell your neighbors, social conferences, social camps, social buying of books, social mechanic, Oh, materials coming for homecoming. Oh, but you cannot do what? Take a step, Take a step, take a step. You cannot. Hey, mission to be sent, to go to mission, it means a mission away, a journey to be going on an assignment, to be sent as a projector, to be an envoy, to be a propagandist. You cannot take one step into that area. You just analyze. You cannot be swift and sudden. Sudden. No, no, no, no, no. Sudden we need suddenly means you stop thinking. Suddenly means you didn't think about it, you didn't analyze it, anything. Now you cannot take one step, one step. But we walk. We take a step. We can only buy books. You can buy tips, buy DVDs, attend conferences, download messages, shout Hallelujah, make comments, say ah, you can sing the song. 1 branch, 5 branches. 6 branches, 7 branches, 8 punches, 9 punches, 10 punches. But you can't take a step. You can't take a step. You can shout. You can say what? But you can't take a step but hold your neighbors and say we are moving forward, we are going this way. We are going, we are taking a step this way, this way. 2 branches. 3 branches. 4 branches. 899 8 But you can't take a step because you don't have faith, but you can say Lighthouse light 3 OK, tell your neighbour, tell it from today. I can take one step. I can take 2 steps. I can take 3 steps. Lighthouse, Lighthouse, sit down, sit down. Faith. You need faith to take a step. Sit down, sit down. Once you have faith, you can always take another step. Don't worry when I say sit down. Then you just sit down because you can take a step. Ask for step. There you can take. How many can take a step? Can you write a letter? Can you buy a ticket? Can you travel? Can you take a step? 2 branches, 3 branches, 4 branches, 5 branches, 6 branches. 7 branches, 8 branches, 9 branches. OK, sit down #3. Why faith is important to a missionary I'm giving you ten ingredients for being a missionary. The first ingredient is faith that one has taken us to Why 20 reasons why faith is important to a missionary Number one, because the missionary is saved from by faith, from secular work, from working, from Pharaoh, by faith nine to five Shabalu Allah balaba a la mazo shindala mikabaya, oh shame sabayo in the name of Jesus #3 faith is important. Number one is what #2 is what? Take a step #3 you cannot live #4 you cannot please, you cannot live on the number three. You cannot live on the mission field without faith. Yeah, When you are on there, when you are, while all the time, whilst we are obeying God, you'll be believing, believing, believing, believing, believing, believing. Do you know when I see the film that we show I am touched? I'm telling because you see, when I see, I feel a certain feeling. Because when I'm there, you don't know the kind of troubles, issues, tensions, problems that I have. So I see myself say, hey, The thing is, I mean, some fantastic something. Yeah. A ballistic effect. Totally ballistic. What's the definition of ballistic? Check. Check the ballistic. It means what I gave you the definition. It has a capacity to do what? Suddenly become greater and more powerful ballistic in a surprising way? Who expected something different and in a surprising way? Suddenly become greater and more powerful in a surprising way or unwanted way. Ballistic. We expected something different. You have to live there. You buy rice by faith. When I got married with my wife and I said I was in the ministry, I had to have faith that I will have somewhere to stay. Yeah, because I was staying in my father's room 14 of his hotel, and he's told me you have go to Oxford, go to Cambridge. And I said no, I'm going to pass out this group of people. Yeah, I needed faith. How I was going to live. Yeah. No branches and not even branches, but it has never occurred to me before that a money that is collected in the offering I can eat some. I've only known about bent offerings. I've never known of wave offerings that you wave and then after you eat it some or you heave and then you eat because I didn't grow up that way. All my church life was experienced was just just do whatever for God. So even that the concept oh, and I said I wouldn't work at Colaba Hospital again. I said I'm going to work for God. There was no church, just a few people and everybody was going abroad. I never did even one of those exams. It was just not in me. The medicine that I did was not. I mean, that's why I said when I said that you sacrifice Isaac, I wish I could say that it was Isaac is not true. It's about K2 rest. I mean Ted born or fourth born, not on Isaac. You, you live by faith. I remember many times on Sunday, you know my wife and I will be looking for money to buy a tin of corn beef. Single one. Do you know corned beef? Do you know there's corned beef? Do you have corned beef in the UK? Charlene? Do you have corned beef? Do you know corned beef? Do you know how to make corned beef Stew? Look, do you know how to make corned beef Stew? As a born again Christian, do you know how to make corned beef Stew? Corned beef Stew? No, but do you know how to make corned beef Stew? See me after church? How many things that you should see me after church? Hey, we have to sort out some family affairs. Do you know how to make royal corn beef Stew? We have royal, we have corn beef, and then we have royal corn beef Stew. You know that 120% of your life is gone. It's like rice and special fried rice. Yeah, there are two different things. Yeah. One single wanton. Today I can be in my house and somebody will bring me a cartoon. A cartoon of corn. I'll have corn beef. I don't know how many I have. I just and then I eat now. We were calculating. There was a shop that we used to buy combi from the shoppers called Juniors and we'll pack them and we'll calculate. What do you have? Do you have this? OK, I have this like that. My salary was 25 CDs, so old kind of cities and I used about 16,000 to buy petrol and about four or five to buy engine oil and I was left with four or 4000 and I said I won't go, I won't go to the hospital to work. I said I'm going to be a pastor without faith, Without faith you cannot continue to live. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Yeah. But you see people say, oh, Bishop, oh, you have a lot of money. That is why I just look at you and say, I commend you to the current, the winds, the current in the atmosphere. May you be removed by like, a bed. May climate change carry you away? The economics of global warming will catch you without faith. Without faith. Yeah. People on the mission floor. Excuse me to say. Excuse me to say you see them doing certain things in calculations and certain things I excuse me to say I cannot say. I cannot say them to to get to survive. To survive. Yeah. On the field. Oh, go. What about that? No, that's right. Right here. Right here, Right here. This beautiful, this beautiful lady, Doctor Ben is why this beautiful lady give her a red card. No, straight red. Straight red. You miss the next match. Straight red. Living by faith. By faith. You live every day. You breathe, you eat, you pay water. This, that, that by faith. Bishop Saki wanted to be in the ministry also. So I said let us be in the ministry. We could not rent AA car a house. So I found a certain watching seller. Yeah. And the watching seller. Do you know watching? It's a certain type of rice. We have it in Ghana. Calla Brown. Calla Brown with beans. OK, it's called what? Watching? Yeah, we eat it at homecoming. I found a certain watching seller and the watching seller will sell the rice in front of the house. Then one day we saw that behind the house there was a certain boys quarters and then they said that that place they are they are renting it. So we went there. I went with Bishop. The room is like this one room is like from here to here, another one and another one is from here to here like that two rooms and then the veranda. I told him that if we can buy mosquito net, we can put mosquito net from here to here and then we will add the small veranda. It will become something like a corridor in the house. Then you go behind there, that's the house. That's where we were there. That's where we watch Africa Africa Cup finals when Ghana played with Cote d'Ivoire. I was sitting, we were sitting in that room. The the room is very hot. The watching, the watching sales outside. We are at the back of them. We are at the back of the watching sales. I'm saying it we we live by faith. We live by faith. Yeah. We trust that God, that God would take care of a lawyer and a doctor. We believe that God would God would take care of us. Look after us. We'll be OK. But if it's a with your calculation, there's no faith is you are. They're suspended in the airline that you just will it work? Will it? No. I'll die or not die. I mean it. That's how faith is with us, where we watch Africa Cup. Since that time I lost interest in soccer and I was right in that room behind the rice. There was a watcher seller and a rice seller. All of them. They have made a combination at the gates and we were behind it. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We had faith and I said, I said to vicious that you can have a car to have a car. So we saw a certain blue Toyota Carina that they were selling the body. The body is here and then the the the inside of the car is also here. So we bought the this place and then joined them and then one day we are just finished repair preparing the car and then he was reversing and there was a pool, this type of pool when he then he scraped the whole side of I remember, oh, we have to find another way of repairing it. We couldn't buy fuel for our cars. We didn't have money to buy fuel. So we discovered that there is something that they used to join cooking cars. The gas that we used to cook, Yeah, gas for cooking. And we, we made a tube called a bimbola. We gave it our own name, a bimbola. And then we connected. You see the gas for cooking gas, we put it in the car. We connected, sparked the car. We went to Tamar to make it. Or we made bimbolas in our car. We connected and we'll be calling us. My my team has lasted. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. It has lasted. Yeah. Today I cannot. When I if I stand at a fuel station to buy, all of them will be looking at me. I cannot even go and buy. Yeah, but in those days I was buying petrol, gas, everything. Bimbola connecting and we believe. We never complain. I also we are blessed and our wives too, they never complained. Flowing, flowing, flowing wives, flowing, flowing, flowing. We have faith. Without, without faith, a missionary, somebody who has been sent, he cannot even live. He would grumble, he would save our fish. What are the fish that we used to have, our meat, our meat. If I was to look back to my life, my life, my life when I was a child, I was flying first class, 1st class I remember was how I alone and the Chief Justice of Gala, we were in the first class coming together, just the two of a child. My father never traveled economy class. I've never seen my father travel economy class before, ever. My father can stay in a hotel for six months. My father says he doesn't know if he stay in somebody's house. What are you talking about? In London he doesn't stay, doesn't stay anywhere other than West End. My father, oh talk of Mayfair and these are the places that he goes to. I am mighty. I've never seen. I mean Streatham and Braxton and all these type of places, Peckham and all. I don't know where they are through my childhood. Northern Line, Northern Line and underlines going underground. We remember the fish, we remember the leaks, People that have eaten the real fish, the real leaks. The first time that I ate fish and chips, I was with my father, a restaurant. After today, I'm looking to see such a restaurant in existence efficiently. Only rich people buy fish and chips there only rich people. This fish and chip that you see. No, no, no, no, no, no. These are not the fish and chips that I was introduced to. These are not the fish and chips I was introduced to. We are talking of, I mean, another level. Oh, what are you talking? But when you have faith, you will not be saying I remember the fish. I remember that this. I remember that, that, I remember that this. Oh yeah, where I grew up in Accra, in the city of Accra, I grew up on the Porsche side and I live on the other side. I've never found it a progress. So I'm blessed. When I hit time, I say I'm blessed. I knew that. So God, thank you for bringing me home. Thank you for your blessing. I'm blessed. I have faith everyday complaining some people who live abroad, you say hey, that's what Ghana this I mean, excuse me, give me which which where? Where are you from? Where is your house? Where is your Show us your actual house, show us your actual house, show us your real house and you'll be lifting up your nose when they are sending you somewhere that you can no more live that way. I cannot live that way. Live that way. Your mouth show us your original house. One day, a certain pastor, he was invited to America to preach. When he got to America, I will never forget that story because I was touched. I said that this is a a good person. As for me, people who remember things, they are good people who don't remember things, be careful of them. People who remember their aunties, they remember my uncle, remember my days, my days, my Those are good people. This is somebody who used to sleep outside. Some of us have the house, sleeps outside, sleeps on a bench, sleep in the church. He was invited to America. The carpet, the carpet in the they put him in the hood, the carpet white, this type of fantastic bed, whatever. When he saw it, he knelt down and he prayed and said, Lord, I give you the bed as an offering. I cannot sleep on from where I have come from that I should be in such a place. So he slept on the floor and gave the bed to the Lord. He said, thank you, Lord. He slept on the floor and Pastor I, it's my friend. He slept on the floor and gave the bed to the Lord. I mean, I, I am not ready and I, I mean, what an honored I should be here. So he slept on the floor and left the bed for the Lord. Yeah. These are the kind of people that we meet. I don't like them. I don't like the South of London. You know the north of London. You know what? I'm stunning. Don't let me knock your head right now. Are you listening to me? You want to be on the mission field? Need faith to live just to let it to drink, to bring your children up. I met a lady in America, a white lady, an American. She said to me the first time that I attended school. The first time that I attended school class was in university. Yes. Is that all I was school with? It was in the house. Yeah. School in the house from Class 1 to whenever in the house. I've never been to a classroom before. No. Her mother teaches her. Her mother taught her homework and everything. Yeah. I've never been to school before. Yeah. If you have to do that for the gospel, that is it. I met a white man. He lives in a village. There's no light, no water. I said, are you not afraid of this? Oh, if they come and we kill them, so as, as as a snake. I'm so, yeah. The other day I killed a Bay cobra. So how do you know that there's a cobra? There's oh, in the night, you hear the chickens, because he has chickens as well in the forest. He lives in the forest. He has made love grass, you know, love grass. The, the real lawn. He has made a lawn in the forest. He has made a Hut. He lives there with his wife. They are white Americans. He's dead to preach. He has been there for eight years. When I saw him, they make, they made have they made long grass, green grass in the forest and they made a place for chickens. And you hear that you know that mistake that he takes his Lantern. They take the Lantern and he goes, they say a big plastic. Then he fight the snake and kill it. Then he comes back to his wife and his wife to And as of what do you have children? I said I don't have children. I don't have children because of what I'm doing. I cannot have children. So I've said that I will not have children. So I saw little, little Ghanaian children. She said, oh, these are all my children. Oh yeah. If you don't have faith, if you don't have faith, you cannot do it. That's why people cannot be mixed and they don't believe. You must believe something before you do something like that. It's one of the people I respect highly, highly in fact. I hope one of these, I'll have a company invite him to come and speak, if you even come. Yeah. So I said how? How much? Why would you say the work is early? Said that the roads they go, they never end. And there are always people, people, people say there's no end to the roads, these roads, people all the way, all the way, all the way, all, every direction. When you drive and drive and drive and drive, you never reach the end. But if we have faith, then we can live in a village. We can make a loan for yourself. You can kill a snake. If it was some of you say, I can't say, I'll tell us a snake, Logan. Logan, that's what you'll say with snakes. That's what you'll say with snakes. You don't have faith, You don't have faith. Sit down #4 faith for conditioner. Faith is so important because without it you cannot please God. Hebrews 11/6. Without faith it is impossible to please Him. Wow. You cannot be a missionary. You cannot please God on the missionary field if you don't have faith. You may have money, but you don't have faith. I don't have faith. You may love your wife. I don't have faith. You must have faith to be a missionary. Then you please God. That is why it doesn't really matter that your mission succeeded or didn't succeed, but that you had faith and that you went and that you believe in God. You believe in the man of God and you believe that he's sending you. That's what makes God like you because I tell you all of us are inherently dirty and sinful. How many preachers I want I want I want people. If you're not a pastor, close your eyes. I'm going to ask the pastor, Sir, because ever you can look through slightly pastors, how many of you have preached before and you know as you are preaching and you feel sinful. No congregation close your eyes. You can look just too small. Pretend to look away. Pastors, raise your hand if you're OK put your heart quickly before they open their eyes. Which aspects of you is going to make please God? Which aspects your holiness, your righteousness and mother? I've not fornicated before. Oh, oh, pastors. The rest of you, close your eyes. Pastors, how many of you have seen pornography before? I mean, as pastors, As pastors, as pastor, you've seen it. You you saw it. You saw. Yeah, yeah. It was on the challenge. You didn't change the challenge. Raise your eye, congregation. I told you to close your eyes, Pastors. Go and make sure they close their eyes before you confess your sins. There was pornography on the thing and you saw it and you watched it and you couldn't find the remote to change it. Raise up your hand. Raise up your hand, congregation. What are you? What are you doing? Back on your head, back on your head, back on your head. Small boys and girls, grown-ups are confessing their sins. Who is a righteous man amongst us? What can you do? What can you do in this world and in this life that will impress God? OK, close your eyes. The congregation pastors, which of you, you have quarrelled with your wife before coming to church? Before congregation, close your eyes. You quarrel and you came to preach. Raise your hand. OK, put that hand. You can open your eyes. And you came to preach of our lab. One day a certain pastor came to church and he was preaching. Then a certain pastor came to church, and then it was time for him to pursue. He came hostage his Bible, and then he took his Bible and opened his Bible. Then he looked up and he saw his wife sitting on the front row, smiling, I mean not smiling, but sitting there like an Angel. Then something came over him and he said he told get up, get up, go to the back. You are sitting here like an Angel and you are in the house, in the house you are quarreling, doing all over. Go to the back, go to the back. And he sent her to the back of the church, his own wife sitting here looking like an Angel, angelically sitting down, smiling. You've made your face, your hair, your this matching shoes, matching back, whatever, sitting like like some corrector perfecto, not knowing that when your face comes, you have peppered your husband in the house to the back. And after that, he preached, but I don't know whether his marriage continued after that Sunday. No, no. It's a true story to the back. So yeah, I think we have not done it. We are sitting like an Angel. Angel, that's joking to the back. But you are still a pastor and you are preaching. Yeah. How many persons have not divorced? I can mention big, big, big names that you know, all of them are divorced on that song that the divorce happened so long ago that you don't know that this is the second marriage, that you are buying their books, reading them, watching them on television. They are all second marriages. Some of them, Ted, look, the Levite had more offerings than others. A Levite, a priest, he had sin, offering guilt, offering peace, offering birth offering he only for that. I mean, and every time offers for yourself, offer for yourself. There is nothing righteous about a priest or a pastor, I'm telling you. And that's why I keep encouraging people to be pastors because I know I am one myself. There's nothing special. We are just ordinary strugglers all our lives, our marriages, our women, everything is just the same as yours. Slight directions here and there. I mean, you may marry somebody who cannot make convicts to you, or you may marry somebody who can, I mean royal convict or something just like OK now or who can make that will not make it. Only when visitors come and you see them coming with new forks and and plates. Will you have rice? Will you eat? Will you eat potatoes? Will you have orange juice? OK. Then they will ask you, honey, Honey, would you like, would you like some? When I'm in the house with you, do call me Honey. OK, come back to the front now. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.