15. Using Technology & Research 1

Welcome to track number 15 of break forth and become who you can become. OK all that calls should be made Amen passes must not run off now the next one the principle of using technology and research Amen now. The spirit of wisdom is made-up of the spirit of history and the spirit of statistics wisdom is profitable the Bible says to direct you and 2 very important things that give guidance are number one history because history the Bible teaches us to use history as a key for the future. That says that which has been is that which shall be and then Isaiah 41 I read it to you 2122 says that show me the things which have happened what they be and tell us based on that what is the outcome and what the things that shall be after AOL 35 what does it say say it again. Overcome the disadvantages of youthfulness and inexperience by studying history. And there's another one about predicting the future yeah where's that one AOL. 28 predict the future in a general way. Yeah predict the future you must be able to predict the future so we were not wrong when we were predicting that perhaps Ghana will go up in the form of a war. When we were seeing Sierra Leone Liberia code F one and it was coming if you are not even a prophet you you should in a general way expect it and prepare for it but it may not be because by the grace of God it has not been and we pray that it will never be Amen now there are 2 things that help guide? You that is wisdom one is history and the second one is statistics statistics is a spirit of wisdom OK what do you think yeah you see statistical information what is statistics check it. Figures. Given information about something. The science of what yes let's start start start again the what why are we having problems with microphones. OK the practice of the practice or science or the science of collecting and analyzing numerical data OK that's all that I need the practice and the science of collecting and analyzing numerical large numerical data. In large quantities yeah to me perhaps one of the most important things that I believe in is this thing statistics is the is the spirit of guidance yes because you never know what is happening till you know the statistics. And therefore you know what will happen Amen so the church must become specialized in collecting numerical data in large quantities for analysis and for what. Prediction that was an inferring this was an infer to conclude infer means to conclude about something so we can conclude about your pastoral performance when we collect the numbers numerical data means write the numbers what do you think that will guide us that we should close this church that will guide us that it's not working. When we collect the numbers of the offerings the numbers of the people the numbers of anything that we do we will be guided constantly since we started our crusade we have been once again using this great great great wisdom key that is what has allowed us has guided us to do better? You see yes because we look at the attendance we count the attendance accurately because if we count it inaccurately we will be misguided we mislead ourselves we don't get ourselves anywhere we never improve you have to get the data numerically and measure it and then you can be guided I tell you. So one of the wisdom keys here you know is to use technology research statistics numbers to collect them and to use them to guide you yeah now how does it apply to you pastor Richard over to you because I can give. 1000 ways it applies to me but it will not apply to you so you will not do it all right let's check it out how would you apply this to yourself and to your church. Yeah thank you very much I. Do you use it in the first place do you do some things and then yes you? Do it yes please for instance we have the template the Malachi sheet and then the report so when you enter the PDS let's assume tight pay? And then you realize that this particular man the number of people paid like like with let's say 20 people and then this party dropped to 10 you can predict that it will affect your income directly So what you do maybe next month you have to ensure that you you concentrate and then focus so that you can bring the number back to 20 or more so that your income. Will will grow? And the same thing also applies to the attendance maybe. Last month we were about 50 and then the pulling might drop to let's say 30 when you look at the graphs to show you so we said that maybe we have to do more visitation or more outrageous so that's the way I I I applied for negative. So all those things have been set up for you already you are not the one using research and whatever because you have the forms we've told you Charlie fill it otherwise we'll suck you from the chest so you've been filling it. Attendance this this this you know it you do it already isn't it yeah anything I do I will involve statistics somebody may make fun of it and say oh this is obrony what do you call it but that is why they are far advanced because they can tell us that only 20% of people in our cry use running water? And have toilets in there but they tell you the data you will not even believe it so sometimes you you ask yourself why does the American embassy describe us as this why does the only 20% of people in Accra have toilets in their houses because they've counted everybody and they've counted the number of people that have toilets and they found out the truth is. Only 20% have now Africans don't like data so we live in darkness and we live in blindness and that's what causes blind leaders the greatest your greatest blindness is caused by your lack of statistical information that's the cause of the blindness of African leaders is it if somebody if somebody was to say oh Ghana has we have a lot of road why they say we don't have road we don't have why they say we don't have road. If we go to Accra and we look at the percentage of Accra which has a road you'll be surprised that only for 30% of Accra has roads in the capital city after 52 years by so while we drive on ring road because you see if you are going to kaswa from the airport you arrive you're going to car you can drive on a car road from the airport up to kaswa with traffic lights? Street like this all the way so oh kana is very developed you see that's but but if I'm driving look look if I'm driving from this point to the door and it's all tad straight I turn right and I go it's tad. What is the percentage of this from here to here as you compare in between here here here here here here here in between all the chairs as I'm going all is not tired and only this is tired that's when you realize that actually we have done only 20% unless and that areas where people have lived in my area where I live the people who own the houses you know where in my area? Many of them are already dead because it's an old estate that was from dead from a champions time it's those people in those days who that area was been long ago that 70 something so if those who lived in the 70s up till today we have not had the privilege you see of having a road being made where we are staying how much more than newer settlements. Which are going and going and going and going and going and if you take the oldest settlement recently I went into Mata heiko and I was driving on the main Mata heiko road where our Mata heiko church and I turned left Oh no no no no and when I went that's why I understood some people who don't want to stay in Ghana no you may not understand because when you see the way the place if you live there it's like you live in a rubbish down I mean you are you you are always like an animal? You have forgotten but you see the blindness of our leaders is caused by the absence of statistics that's why I said to me the spirit of wisdom is the spirit of history and the spirit of statistics statistics tells you more of the truth than anything else yeah I tell you that is very well. That's why when you hear the US ambassador we are the highest indebted for the army how can I say we have papaya we have koala we have what frankies we have this I mean have they not seen all those things that we have we have a crab mall we have this we have the if you see it like that you say yes we are developed now when you take a percentage you see which is numerical data. That is collected there you see how the truth comes out the truth is often revealed by statistics the truth is revealed by statistics so black leaders African leaders are bereft bereft of statistical check bereft yeah bereft of statistical information. Neither do they have the energy the love or even the understanding to fill forms because collection of large numbers of data starts with filling of forms so anybody who is against filling of forms Jonathan is is is is sentencing himself the bereft deprived of. Or lacking her room was bereft of color deprived of or lacking something so when I said you are bereft of the information that you need to really tell the truth and take the decision you look at a crown airport residential area paved repaved repaved repaved as the years go by so those are pataiko who are they animals are they goats so you even wonder. Whether there is a leader by see he's bereft of the truth and that's why he keeps retiring airport residential and resurfacing laboni but he will never come to matter which is also part of Accra and he's not even far out of Accra he's fighting the centre of the city by see we are bereft of the truth if you were to put on on a map. A table and right put all the roads and put the ones that are not done in brown and the ones that are done in green you see single green lines everything else is brown that's the truth that is why most Ghanaians we felt insulted when they said we are highly injected in poor country look Ghana is one of the poorest countries in the whole wide world and we are far poorer after having. All the leaders we've had from improvement through Rollins could form everybody we have we have been more impoverished and deprived of all our I mean possible wealth we are far poorer after kufuo has finished and that's we are starting now we are even going West that's the fact if you like just get statistical data don't you so but they've done the Kumasi road oh but they've done from here to here they've done from here to here you see you are an African leader. You are a typical African leader typical typical berest of true information berest of development that was a oh they turn from here to they turn from here to kaswa they turn from here to can't you see oh they did the Cape Cross Road they did the Cape Cross Road look at the picture look at the numerical information then you will see that oh look I will never forget when American embassy data came toilet in a crowd 20%. Said never when they say water there's the the countries what then there's the another of that you see U.S. embassy if you like get in fact somebody should make a note U.S. embassy data on Ghana to the right abaca is the largest suburb in Accra ashima is the largest community all this is you never know but you see they have information they have photographs they have information data that's also our church in abaca should actually be one of the our largest Centers for church work. Because in the city of AKA the largest section there asaman is the largest what do you call it population is followed by abbasi and other places asaman is ahead of them but you will not know you see unless you are you are African African leaders we are bereft of we are bereft of truth and therefore we are bereft of guidance and we live in our darkness and follow dark things. And plan things in that way and lighthouse you realize that this attendance thing that we have that's what has been able to guide us I said no no no that thing is not working you see that data for what is preached you have to write what is being preached and then the number of people who paid tithe was another statistical information we fought for because what what the number of tithe payers also changes things and then the number of children. See so somebody like me I depend on that data when I look at the crusade you know for instance I remember one data that was very when I did boy came to our church came to preach on tithes then you see the figures like that very high tight pain then you realize that look if you preach it it just goes like that so you see follow your data you see chikata use your data very well. It is a tool it's not something that the headquarters says you should do if you don't understand it you will not like it but if you understand what it is you will be even what we have given it should be small so this one the headquarters this what they need me I need another information that I'm going to set up personal 1:00 in the system here a crowd people want the information or the upstairs people want the information. The abstract people want the information that is hard look we started out to say we arranged 600 chairs we started and I tell you to get 5000 people to come. We struggled we pray but see we knew how many people can we know the number of chairs that we arranged do you understand each crusade you see that we sit down ask for information data that crusade and then we analyze so many times I ask the guys they're preparing on the field what is the population of the town. We have the population of the town there's a practice of using large amounts of numerical information what's the population of the town we are going to what is the attendance of the crusade relating to the town that we went to then what are the number of towns that are connected to that town we have it before we start we have maps we have data we have information we have. All those things with that that's how I'm working you see and when I'm doing it and you don't do it and it's helping me to go higher then I should do what redistribute what I am getting to you who is not doing that in redistributing may redistribute may redistribute. I recently stopped all my TV programs everywhere Nigeria you know why because I was bereft of information as to the response I don't know how whether people listen or not and I can't I cannot waste money on something I don't know because I'm bereft of what statistical information. How many people call how many texts how many interested how many bibles how many if I don't have it I don't know it's too blind too dark I can't I can't continue and I stop everything I say I don't care stop stop stop stop stop stop until I can set up a system that will give me statistical information each time we had a crusade then we asked ourselves for the population of the town 12,000 how many people came? 30,000 so how many weeks did you spend there how many people worked how did you do did you go to every town we have just to know all the towns so that 300 towns they have to go to each town how many of the towns do you show videos in and prepare the people to come for the crusade how about that information and gradually I've been using that information each time you see something we will go to a crusade say that this crusade is an experiment with a new plan that came based on the last crusade. Oh yeah Roger that's why when I say that we had 320,000 people in abbasi I am not I'm sure I'm not deceiving myself yeah I'm sure I'm not deceiving myself because we counted asan Craig how many people did we have there about what. 30,000 isn't it yeah so it was as and we sat down and I I sat down with them I said no how this this this this this what the population of as Andre well why do we have a crusade idea why did we not do this why this this this that all the data came in and we took a new decision to do something completely different than we haven't done before it was guiding you see statistics the spirit of wisdom statistics the spirit of wisdom it change it is the anointing because God gives you spirit of wisdom is anointing? And we step up into a salaga salaga which has a smaller population you get it we have attendance of about 60,000 I'm sure 77,000 pick attend I'm talking of per day maximum even smaller salaga population is how much you see how the people are giving me there for 16,070 7000 is the practice of what please read it the practice of what. Using collecting no collecting what the signs of collecting of collecting large amounts of numerical data analyzing it to infer yeah and to predict Amen you can use it in your marriage. Statistical data Oh yeah statistical data in your marriage can guide you it's a statistical data that gave us the revelation of PPQ 3 preaching quarrels that the quarrel comes around this time. Then we realized that no it's a spirit and it's caused by tension and evil spirits that come around those times yeah certain problems you have you can statistically when you follow them I realize that no this is actually the cause of this problem it's not what I originally thought yes. One day a certain brother was complaining my wife he made us move here then we moved to this country then we moved to this country but it was after his whole marriage has collapsed that he was sitting down and analyzed statistically that each time he destabilized his life and moved from here it was because of the pressure that he was getting from the wife. So that revealed to him by see the revelation have come too late I mean it have come too that's the thing you only collect it of you after your life is over that is when you know that challenge this problem is actually being caused by something else sometimes you may be accused of something and you may think that this is the cause of this but after it has happened several times. Without that thing precipitating it then you realize that no this is not really the cause of this but it's something else within you which is the cause of this that's what statistics does it actually guides you and you begin to know the truth in fact it's the spirit of truth that's how come I know that if you preach on tithe your tithing will go up automatically but I've seen it before on a chat. I just asked her how did the tide go up like is I did so they went out vertically like this and came down that's why I also do that after some time the effect of your tithing preaching is lost and you have to preach again yeah what do you think how many realize that statistics are one thing are you going to use it in your church yeah research technology. Very very important in your life Amen how many points do you have a lot basically I've also noticed that people become going to the ministry after camps yeah it's also something that I started noticing you see someone said I work for God from today. When I came to this campus but I didn't hear that when people say when I went to I came to Sunday service this I came that's what he didn't guided me to know that camps are very important because I started noticing I keep getting so when I attended this camp I decided I will not work again and when I listened to this then I realized this when I listened to that then you see they guided me that's what makes me even focused and stop having conventions somebody asked me black can I come and do 3 day convention instead I said that based on my statistics? I've realized that I am able to achieve more of my calling by doing this than having Sunday Sunday service or convention to do miracles and raise funds and other things like that yeah statistical there's not much money but there's based on a purpose but many pastors say oh the whole of outside was full. The whole place was full very well service people came by it was powerful the presence of God was there thank you So what are the statistical Mister African man what are the statistical realities how many agree with me that most of us felt insulted when they said we are highly indebted and poor raise your hand. I mean fellow army what why why do you say we are epic it's like propaganda or some sort now you see that's the truth statistically when you go through you realize that if we are even more than highly indebted highly backward highly hopeless every industry is destroyed. And if you look into statistically everywhere they have introduced free markets IMF all the industries are closed all factories are closed nobody produces anything in the country you have 3 things that develop de industrialization de agriculturalization all mass agriculture stops and finally depopulation. Only those less than 14 years and above 60 years are remaining in the system and that's why in Ghana you'll find out it's an unusual person who stays in the country yeah at least in my time if you see somebody who is staying in the country is a doctor it's like it's unusual everybody goes abroad pastor Richard goes abroad pastor drug goes they're all going to seek greener pastures. No no no no the 8020 rule Amen you must focus on the important people OK stand on your feet let's take a break for 2 minutes and then we come back. This message continues on the next track keep listening.