16. Faith - 10 Qualities That You Need To Be A Missionary 1

Welcome to track #16 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 straightaway 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 another two. But he that had received one went and 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 talents. He did not use his gifts. 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. Alright, so fear is actually faith. But is 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 Gulas 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. First Samuel 17 And then what's all right? First Samuel 17 And he stood and cried unto 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. He knew 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 they had, they were afraid. So faith in the negative, faith in death, you understand, faith in defeat, faith in all the negatives had come to them, and that is fear. So fear is, I believe 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, 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 speak. And I spoke and I mentioned with Joyner and I looked at their faces and also the remarks of that some of them made after I finished speaking, you could see that they were not so as impressed with 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 real analysis about him or her, he's still with you. He's still with you. He's 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 is still with you. 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 is 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, which 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, you see? Yeah. And you, they were, they believed. They believed. They were pressed quickly. They felt so. But others did not really. 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 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 because 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. That's all, 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, not by what you say. And that is why this was our Bishop. I wanted to I 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, they were they were afraid greatly. Golath was preaching. He preached several verses. If somebody has verses in the Bible, is he not preaching? Huh. 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 say, 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 if he ever fights me and he's kills me, that we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then shall you be our servants and serve us? And the Philistines say I defy the armies of Israel. This thing. Give me a man, give me a man. 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. The 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 pet 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 a head 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 we are talking about. Yeah, I've not seen one before. Never seen armed robbers 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, huh? 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 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're 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. They are going to be saved by your faith. They are going to be saved from poverty by your faith. They are 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 saved 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. Gentlemen, my brother in the glasses, I think he's having a difficulty. No, gentleman right here. It's your second year. Look at. OK, 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. Huh. Cannot. The first step you cannot take. So, so ideas, so so camps. 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. You cannot take it one step because the first step we walk. We walk means we take steps. Walk means you take steps. Walking is equal to taking steps. We take steps by faith. And if you want to know everything of the future, 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, 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 it in one step. You'll be there. Social conferences Tell your neighbors. Social conferences, Social camps, Social buying of books. 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. Sudden means you stop thinking. Suddenly means you didn't think about it, You didn't analyze it. Antenna. You cannot take one step, one step. But we walk, we take a step. You 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 branches, 9 branches, 10 branches. But you can't take a step. You can't take a step. You can shout, you can say. 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. But you can't take a step because you don't have faith. But you can say lighthouse, Lighthouse, OK, I can take one step. I can take 2 steps. I can take 3 steps. 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. As for step that you can take, how many can take a step? Can you write a letter? Can you buy a ticket? Are you trouble? Are 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 alabalaba ella mazou shindala mikabaya. Oh shame sabayo in the name of Jesus #3. Faith is important. Number one is 1 #2 is one, 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 the, 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, 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 age. 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 even occurred to me before. That and 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 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's the concept. Oh, and I said I wouldn't work at Kalibu Hospital again. I said I'm going to work for God. Hey, 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 crap that I did was not. I mean, that's why I said when it said that you sacrificed Isaac. I wish I could say that it was Isaac, but it is not true. It's about K2 rests. I mean Ted born or fourth born, not an Isaac. This message continues on the next track. Keep listening.