15. A Cross Releases Power To Christian Ministry

Welcome to track #15 of the powers of a cross. You must understand the powers that are released. So the first one, number one, there are 65 of them. A cross or your cross releases power into Christian ministry. First Corinthians chapter one verse 18. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved is the power of God. Amen. Your cross will release power. What do you think to the ministry? How many want to have a powerful ministry so fast? A little cross brings power. The reason why when you have some fasting, there's a little more power in what you do is because you've sacrificed a little. That's the reason why there's some a little. And every preacher feels a little more powerful and feels a little more impact and punch in your ministry and your preaching when you fast. How many experienced that? Raise your hand if you experience that. Yeah. But you see, you can. You can fast forever, so there must be some other sources of power, all right? When you overcome temptations temp, you are tempted to sin, temp to do this, temp to do that, and you are able to survive, all right, And you sacrifice your flesh. There's also a release. There's also a release of power in your life. God designed us to eat our body naturally. Just either the anus is not designed for sex, it's not designed for that. So when it's used for that, it is something that is not good. So the body is designed to eat. So fasting is is abnormal. It's something that is done spiritually for a reason, but it's not something that you can live on always. Fasting, fasting, fasting, fasting. It's not normal. You see the real source of power. There are many things which release power. It's not only fasting which is a form of sacrifice. The very giving of your life releases a certain pervading power in whatever you are doing. Time, sacrifice, you get it. That is, that is one of the reasons why somebody preaches the message. You also preach the message, but there's less power in your message. I become, huh, Now I see you preach, you take over. These are the notes. You say what you don't want to take over. I don't think I can do it, Bishop. Why? Why not? These are the notes. Come this the first point. Do you want him to take over? You go home. Bishop. I think they will go home. Bishop. Look, these are the points I have no secret. What's the topic here? The mystery of the experiences of the Cross. Yeah. And then what is this 1 here? Understanding the powers of a cross. And what this one? 65 reasons why the cross is powerful. So take over this the number one, this 2345, I want to fast. OK, go upstairs and fast. Why? Why wouldn't they listen to you? Because they didn't come for me. They came to to listen to you. But you have the power. By the grace of God, I will get the power. Power, man, You see, if you were to have a camp, not so many people may attend, you know that. Yeah. Monday to Wednesday, Monday morning, when they're supposed to be earning pounds. Go and sit down before something bad happens to you. So it it is not oh, that's why ministers have a certain power and they don't even pray. There's some power in what they are doing even when they haven't prayed, because power belongs to God and God has determined how power comes. Now every woman who has been in love before knows about love. They talk about some pain when their hearts are broken. Is anybody who has been broken before? Raise up your hand. Raise your hand. OK, Listen, when I read Catherine Kuhlman, I'll be about Catherine Kuhlman's miracles. As a doctor, I tell you this very wild. Advanced, advanced, advanced cancer. I have a book that was written by a medical doctor about her miracles. A medical doctor in the book, he has the X-rays, the IV U's, the all the different, the pictures of them. Yeah, it's very wild this little child with cancer of the hip reticular cell car sarcoma or something of the here the thing just grew and grew this way inside and she was just sudden out of pain in the leg and sudden Olympia and then out the leg was and she was advanced dying. You see the cancer, You see they took an X-ray of the of the ureters going down. Ureter is from the kidney to the back is coming down to the bladder. So that you see the cancer. The the the urethra comes down like this from here comes down, straight down. You see the urethra go like this because the cancer pushed the whole thing from the hip. It was coming into the abdomen. Then you see the child brought a miracle service. The chances are I feel better. That's all. Nothing. I feel better. Then the cancer disappears. It goes down. Then you shoot the X-ray, the thing that's like this, it's going like this and it comes like this, and it's straight. The cancer. It recedes power and it goes through the type of mirror all the time. Very, very, very powerful, Fantastic. I'm talking of from the doctor's point of view, because there are many things that impress people, lay people that don't impress doctors. You know, there are some diseases when you mention to a doctor you also have a certain some way mind about it, this thing in some way. I mean, one day I remember with one of my pastors, I saw an X-ray, you know, when we saw the X-ray and then the radiologist also saw the X-ray, you know, and he said, he showed me, he said this. I said when I saw her first, I didn't see you. And she said this finished within a few months he was dead because we know what it means. Just a few months he was dead. So when you see things like that, you see the X-ray, then you see the comforters, just I just felt I should stand up. I just stood up. I just thought that I was well. And then the thing changes and you know, because you see there's three months he's dead. Within a year, he's dead within this number. Dead that they die like that. And you see them being healed like that all the time. Catherine Kuhlman I found out when I'm going for miracles, I take a book and I read the miracles to just encourage myself that miracles are real. Yeah. They're real things that happen after six years of being with her husband, her womb, no child. You know that the way the manner is said that it took barrenness, childlessness, childlessness, the cross, the pain, the difficulty of her life. And she told her husband, I am going. And she went with him. And he knew that he cannot control this woman again after six years of living together. One day she was being taken to a hotel where she went to a hotel. There were mirrors. She's she's a normal woman. There were mirrors in the hotel, up in the up in the ceiling. Leave it. Leave it up in the ceiling. And something she just like that. I know what all these mirrors are for. Oh, you don't understand what what I'm saying. Oh, yeah. So it's a normal person. I know what all these all these things are for. And when her husband took her to the train, he told her, when you go, I will never interfere with your life again. He said when she stood there by the train, the train came. She look at him, she turned around and she hugged him, she kissed him bye bye. That is the end. She got on the train when she said something died and she never. And one day later in her years, I think it was Valentine's Day, he sent her card and he signed Mr. Doesn't sign his name. So Mr. And this man who wrote the book was then she opened the card and she looked. He said nobody knows what this ministry has cost me. He said that a power came into the room. Hey, he said he had to run away out of the I had to get out of the room. Nobody knows, he said. Never talked about it. You see, I'm talking of not fasting. In fact, in the entire book you never mention one that she fasted. What are the two reasons? I'm talking of power in your life. The power comes through the cross. Center for the preaching of the cross is the power. Cross power, cross power, what I give her. What if a woman, when a woman gives a man, she's giving her high, very high thing. Somebody that she really laughs. It's her. It's everything that is at a certain time of your life, maybe at a certain point where you know, even care, no foolish man you tear away and it's whatever. But there is a place and a time that giving of a man, giving up of a man is very real. Sometimes when I see young ladies fall in love with men and you try to talk with them, they will never listen. You don't even bother to wish them because it's too precious and too great to them. That is why a lady who is married when she's young and a lady who is married when she's middle age, they are different. They think even differently than you. I know all the things you are saying. Oh, it is when you are young that you believe it. You are the only Pebble on my beach. I had a mosquito in my net. When I saw you. My heart, I couldn't. I've not been able to sleep since we met. Nothing new to say. Were you created or were you crafted? Ah, look. And when you married a person, a person has taken off all the dresses working there. You don't even see the person. Will you hurry up and dress? We are late, Put on those clothes and hurry up. It's a mysterious thing. I'm talking about power, the power of a ministry. You can't, you see, it's not like the fast fast, but there are people fast faster, but they are not doing much. No, it's not that. A little bit of power comes. So the fasting can give a certain power. So there's a cross power even at the point she stopped praying. The the wrote about it is that where was she praying? Wasn't having time to pray. So she used to pray. She's always then they said, she said she always prayed. She prayed when she's driving, when she's moving, when she's travelling, she's praying. That's what she said and pray always in the north time. But the power was there and that power came on that by the train, the train when she turned around and hug him Papa never again. She left what was precious to her and walked away to become a single woman. She said she stopped lying to herself that it didn't happen. Pawala, Pawala, are you listening to Mila? So there is a certain power that is in my life, that is in my life because that's what he doesn't have. Even though he says the grace of God can help him to take over the camp. He wants to take over the camp. He wants to take over from me, but I'm giving him the notes. Yeah. 65 He said the only reason that the only reason that is that God, they came for you. So that is all. But apart from that, he can take over and you can't do it by the grace of God. They're talking about power law, not grace law. There is a power that comes when you have sacrifice or you do sacrifice, or you do give up. Some people, God. That's why there's more power in this UK ministry than in the US ministry. The US have not had even one person to move out because of this. I'm going at least I don't know. I can't remember, at least as I'm speaking. Everybody is there for whatever, but I know that they will also. They will also slowly, surely, certain things will be sent to them. What do you think? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There is a power that is coming, you know, into your life. Is this Nana Yao? Nana Yao. Powerful guy. A guy with a vision. I always remember your vision. Do you remember his vision? Yeah. Have you finished your PhD now? Oh, why you are released to finish in Jesus name. Every barrier we break it down in Jesus name. Finish law, power. You know, I've been praying for Kathryn Kuhlman's type of power. I've been wondering what to do. Serious. I'm just telling you the truth. We're praying for this kind of power. And when I look, I realize that that I'm telling you the source of the power. Very wild, very high. I mean, everybody's cross is different. You see, everybody's cross. Some are. Some are supposed to be single. Some are supposed to, you know, different things. Yeah. Some are supposed to enjoy marriage. Some are supposed to enjoy marriage. Yeah. Enjoy and enjoy. Yeah. Different life. Lord, I'm giving my life for you, following you, Amen. Is it not powerful? Oh, why don't you lose your life for something? Give yourself, give yourself, give yourself, and the power will be released. Amen. The power will be released. Power will be released. That's what I mean. I mean, like, you know, everybody has what brings power. You know what the cross is for you. Yeah, you see, maybe, maybe for you, you know, it will be something so different, but it's still to you. You see, pain cannot be easily quantified or understood. There's something about pain is very relatively. So you know, one time I was, I was talking with Bishop Saki, you know, after his wife died. And I was saying that, well, Bishop Eddie 2 was there. I said, look, we are with you and you are suffering and we are also suffering, but your suffering is different from our suffering. Then I said to him, I said we are men of knowledge without experience because you can only imagine what is the person experiencing, but you don't really know what the person is experiencing. You can have an idea and empathize and sympathize with the person, but there is a level that you will not really understand. So sometimes, you know, when you talk of pain, like when you say like a woman, I mean like Katherine Kuhlman. I as a man, I could say I waiting a guy. He be some beastly man who has come to spoil your ministry. You had a big church. You married this guy. I mean spot your whole life. I mean just I mean what I mean just leave the guy you see, but I am empath. What is the meaning of empathize, feel the pain of the with a woman. I'm just assuming that it's a very great thing for a woman, but I'm not a woman. And it is, I mean, you say to live the thing that was not even yours in the first place. Do you see? It's like it not be anything. Oh, this one. But you see, when you look at it, you realize what the person has been through. That is the thing. So for everybody and every pain. And I was talking to her sister. I was telling, I was telling her, look, you see a woman who does not have a child or has cannot have a child or whatever or does not have a child, they don't just talk. Even that question where you ask, are you pregnant or are you? Did I say it's not a good question to ask? Yeah, it's not a good question to ask. You may not know. And I was telling her, I said, look, I was explaining. I said you see this situation, you see this situation, you don't know what the person is explaining. But the person did not understand it. So as the years went by, the person also grew and entered into maturity of after some years also no child. So I called the one that I said, how do you feel? She said when you used to say it, I realized that I didn't understand what you were saying. But now that I am also in it, I see that it's a different thing all together. That's why when we talk of pain, mine may be just leaving this man who I view was not my husband. But the effect, it's like carrying a cross and then nailing me in town. That's the effect. So to you, it may be giving money. I'm telling you, some people it may be money. And you give the money in a way that you feel something and you know that you have actually, I mean, tarried across, carried a ministry on your head to you. It may be leaving a country. It may be, like I say, leave a church. It's those who have had to leave churches. You don't understand. When I'm, when Pastor Kakras said, he stood there, you know, and he cried. He just started. He broke down the other day. I wasn't feeling so when I went to church. When I got to church, they say I've come, so I should press it. Why are you treating me like this? I've come. It's like when I come, I have to preach, so there's no church I can attend. There's no church I can attend. I was not happy. I was upset. I said, so where, where can I go to church? I just I'm also not feeling I just want to come as a Christian, sit in my church and just also, I mean participate in the service. When I came, they were looking at me ahead. So when they said want to welcome this bridge, then they were looking at me. I said, oh, what is this? Like there's no church that I go LA and then they enjoy the church service LA. But you see all these things when we say it's like, oh Bishop, I mean you go feel preachy. But every pain I tell you is so subjective and so relative. Don't ever. That's why I told you something that no matter what we say, we also feel, we also cry. We feel this. As I look, yours is different. When we see one ourselves, then we will know what it is. We may have an idea, we may sympathize and empire with you up to a point, but there is a place that you are alone. So be careful to minimize somebody's pains should in case those pains are also transferred to you that you may experience those particular pains. Must have a soft heart. One day I was in Malaysia and it was Mother's Day. My wife was preaching. And then on Mother's Day they give all mothers. They give them that, they give that year, they give them a mug or something, mother something. So they said all mothers should stand up. So they went around, they were giving everybody, they give all their mothers. And when, when, when I did that, I was sitting like here. Then I just turned on. I saw the women who were sitting there, so many of them who were not mothers, older women, and oh, they were just sitting there. And I just felt something in me. I felt so sad. So when later we went away with the pastors, I just asked the pastor's wife that, you know about that. I said, oh, I was thinking about these other women and I was feeling so sad. Then she turned to my wife and said, hey, your husband is hard, but he has a soft heart there. He's soft heart life it affects now I feel sorry about it. You know so those type of things instead of doing that make somebody feel odd. He said all all women, all of you, everybody is a mother. We are all mothers. Oh so let people be careful. Oh, be careful, be careful, be careful, be sensitive. Be sensitive in your things. So she said to me that I when when you used to say it, I didn't know. And now that I've seen one myself, it's different. But don't wait for it to be different, OK? My wife is also there. So I've now seen what Bishop Saki experienced. Don't wait for that. Have the your heart be touched. What do you think? Is it a good message? Is it a sausage sizzling sausage? Spicy sausage? Is it an interval sausage? For somebody, just the relocation to a country is enough for the person's whole life. It's OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't know. You see, recently my little daughter went to school. Everybody in her class could read, but she couldn't read. Yeah, everybody could read, but she couldn't read in the same class, see, because she's a little behind. You don't know why. You don't know what it cost somebody. Because when she was to be born, I made her to be born before premature. It's actually premature because we're having a program and I needed a baby to be out before the programme. Dr. Chu was coming and I couldn't have that situation, that coming have a baby because I wanted to be there. So I said now Ellie, no induce, no induce LA, it's cut out. So as she was not reading, everybody could read. Children could read their parents texts on the form and she couldn't read. She couldn't. She couldn't read any of the of that. Let's look at. I see you don't know what he calls somebody, what he's doing in the ministry. Yeah. So everybody in his cross. But when your cross, can you take it and you just flow with it. Don't talk too much. And we are suffering. We are dying. We are not dying. You just do it. It's what you have to do. That's all. It's your path. Do it and just flow. I don't say it's too much. I'm dying. This, this, that. No, no, you don't know. My children don't speak with British accent. They speak Ghana accent fully. Yeah, yeah. Let's not go into things. You get it? Let's not go into too many things. So, brothers and sisters, there is power for your ministry, even your words. There's some power. That's as I was calling Abby as you come and take over. I've shown him all the points, the scriptures, everything. All 65. Yeah. That we are all #1. That's what Catherine Kumara set in power that another person doesn't have. One time I saw a lady pastor. She had married A1. Do you know a one? Yeah. Everybody knows A1. She had married an A1 and she came to a crossroads where she would either forsake this A1 or follow the A1 into Christian morality and Christian dignity. And I never told her what I was thinking, but I was thinking to myself that I don't think you can do that. You are not strong enough and not great enough in the Spirit to do something like that. I never, of course, I never advise her, but Catherine Cuman did that. Amy Semple manifesting did that left as I said, Charlie, look, I cannot follow you. My first husband was not behaving like this. Who she just left him cry just went to carry on doing a ministry and every simple my first married and A1 dead. Very good Christian moral husband he was. He was not into this preaching, travelling, going No, no, no, no, no, no A1 up there. You see, good is the greatest enemy of best. Good is the great enemy of best. It's worse than bad because back there you know you are, you are cold and you need to be heated. That one you always say I'm OK, I'm so heated, are you there? May you carry your number one cross and may you become what God wants you to become. Amen. Stand to your feet everybody. Father, we thank you for your blessing, your power in Jesus name, Amen.