17.How To Fulfil Your Ministry Through Your Gift

Welcome to track #17 or fulfill your ministry. Africa shall be saved. But tell me, how long is it going to take for you to obey me? See, I have a feeling that I'm waiting there for you to do my will. I have a feeling that I'm waiting in vain for you to do my way. Oh, whoa, I'd like gonna wait in vain for your love. Am I gonna wait in bed for your love? Oh, am I gonna wait in bed for your love? Oh, am I gonna wait in bed for your love? Do you remember what I told you? I told you? Build a makeup church and I told you have a burning vision, that your vision must be fake. But all you do does not lead to church growth because your mind is on other things. So I've been thinking, thinking to myself that I'm just wasting time on you. So this is what I want to do. I want to change your position, replace you, and bring in someone else because I really have a feeling that I'm waiting and just waiting vain for you to obey thee. Oh, I have a feeling that I'm awaiting vain for you to do my bit. That's why I'm asking. Am I going to wait in vain for your love, Abigail? Am I going to wait in vain for your love? Why are you so difficult and why don't you want to move? And why don't you want to change? Why don't you want to change? Like I said, for a long time I've been calling out to you, AJ. There's always an excuse. Census, a mega church, a mega church, but you have excuses. More and more excuses honestly, I don't think that you love me I think your heart is somewhere else because if you love me, hey, if you love me, hey you don't beat me you would work much harder now but I. The feeling that I'm waiting, just waiting there for you to do my will. God is asking, Is he gonna wait in vain for your love? Oh, is he gonna wait in vain for your love? I mean, is he gonna wait? How to #2 is what #3 is what? Through what? I can't hear you #4 is what? Through the call #5 is what? What Number six is what? The mission? Wow, that's number one. What's your mission? What's the first thing a shepherd is going to do? Huh. Wow, are you going to find sheep? Are you a sniper? How many are you killing at a time? Is the enemy going to be demoralized? Are you going to take out kennels? Offices. Hey, major generals, Kennels. Wow. And then who else? What else? Number 87 is What visions? Has your blindness been healed? Is your blindness healed? Wow blindness is gone in Jesus name #8 is what how to fulfill your ministry through the gifts. Amen. Now the gift of God is the is the thing that now comes to really change your ministry into the higher gears and when you have the gifts, you begin to stand out. First Corinthians chapter 12. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Amen. You know that you were Gentiles all right, carried away. Amen. Now verse 7, the manifestation of the Spirit is given to everybody to profit with all. Amen. Now the next very important thing is that gifts, gifts that are being given, are you there? Gifts that are being given are fantastic things. Now a gifted person, many of us are gifted, but you would be surprised that many people don't use their gifts. Do you understand? So what are the gifts? The 9 gifts of the Spirit. But at the end you see a lot of gifts there. Verse 28, God has said some in the church which are the gifts? First, what can somebody read it? Can somebody read it? And God hath said some in the church. First apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly, teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing helps government, diversities of tongues are all apostles. So this is the list of gifts. These are gifts you can have. And what it is is that the name of the gifts here fall into a category of great gifts helps. So many things fall under that government, so many things fall under that. So when you put these ones together, everything is there helps And governments, you know, everybody fits in somewhere. Now, a gift is an ability, and you have to use your gifts very, very, very, very well, especially if you locate something. Now, how do you know that you are gifted or how do you know that you have a gift? You know you have a gift when you do something that others can do as easily as you do the same thing. Are you listening so maybe somebody can sing? You Can't Sing at all. Do you see at all? And a person is able to sing. That is a gift. Somebody can, I mean even preaching, everybody can preach, but then you start to see that somebody is able to preach in a way, you know, and people appreciate the gifts. So giftedness is something that God gives at a point, and sometimes the gift has been there for a long time, but you must develop the gifts and use the gifts. OK, Now, in fulfilling your ministry, I will tell you that for me, the gift is not so important as you may think it's important, but from what I have seen, many people who don't have gifts do better than people who have gifts. Yeah, like a man, A man from a rich family, a man from a rich, a child from a rich family. They are even the ones who don't go to school and they are the ones who don't make the use of the gift that they have had. True. So if you see this is it is around this word gift that people reside from the ministry to me. I'm not, I'm not gifted. I'm not like this person. I'm not like this person now what we have said so far, just how to fulfill the ministry through Messi or the lab, through the separation that has happened, through Iris, through what? Through the will, the mysterious, and then through what the call and through the purposes and through the mission. Just do something. Just do. You'll be fulfilling your ministry. Yeah. And it was in 1988 that I believe that I received a gift of a certain type to preach and to teach, which is what we are all enjoying. The campus we are in is part of that gift now because it's that gift that produces so many things. Now what I what I want to say is that most of us have either no gift or probably a small gift. And if you are going to wait to say that I am gifted before you start doing anything, then doctor go, you want to take their resignation letters now. You can, you can, you can receive the letters now and you can bring the letters now and leave the camp. There's a car, the car park waiting to take you home. People who have gifts, many of them don't use the gifts. I can see why God would rarely give gifts to people. I can see why God wouldn't share many gifts to people, because when he gives gifts to people, they they they even despise it because a gift, when you have a gift, when you go to excuse me, excuse me, The example, When you go to we, we do you think you are using a gift? People who have gifts, it's like they are urinating. They don't notice anything they are doing unusual. Yeah, they don't. They don't. If you can sing, you don't even know that you can sing. They don't even notice that they can sing. If You Can Dance, you don't even know that You Can Dance. You Just Dance. Yeah. You start to see that you are gifted when you see that people cannot do what you are doing. Are you with me? Yeah. But those who have it, they don't use it. They don't use it. Most of the people don't use it and don't use it much. And many people don't like the gifts they have. The story of the gift is in Matthew 25 is the story of the talents. That's God gave everybody 2 talents, 10 talents, 5 talents. And what did they do with it? Number one, fear. To use it to sing well. You see, you need to overcome fear because you can make a mess of yourself in front of the people and everybody knows that you were trying to sing. Everybody knows that you are trying to sing. It didn't work. And then the fear of shame and disgrace will keep you back. If you're going to start a church, everybody knows you're trying to start a church. If you are preaching for the first time, everybody knows you are trying to preach. Isn't it true that there's a lot of fear with people who have gifts? All right. And because of that, a lot of people don't use their gifts. A lot of people don't use their gifts. But if you use your gifts, you know you fulfill your ministry. Your gift will make because we've already gone 7 stages. Your gift to make your ministry catapult favour towards the fulfillment of your deposit that has been given to you. Yeah. When I received a gift to teach, there was a sister in the church. I don't know if one of her children is here. I don't know if there has any children here. Is he here? Ah, that's that's that's her son. She's the first person who saw that. I was anointed. Yeah. She wrote a letter to her friend. She wrote a letter to her friend and told her friend that brother Doug is different. Sounds different. Says something about him. Different. That's that's her son, huh? It's amazing. Everybody's child is here. What is his What is his name again? David Dyke. Yeah. David Dyke. Name after me. Wow. Yeah. It, it, it augments what you are doing. You need to overcome fear. Amen. That's that's her son. That is her son. Yes. Wow. And from then there was something just a little more than the ordinary, just a little more. It is that same gift that turn into books. It's that same gift that make people read the books. It's that same gift that makes people understand the books. Do you understand? It's that same gift that makes me be able to have camps. People come to attend camps and programs like that. So thank you young man and so people are afraid to use their gifts then people and help help every almost everything falls under helps sing there's no singing gift in the Bible, but helps any kind of help anything that you can say is helpful. There is an anointed 1 of it. Yeah. Anything that is helpful, there's a gift of that thing. Yeah. But people, don't, you see, you despise it because it's natural. You know, as I've reached this point, there's the point where I feel that some time ago I would say, oh, you must have a gift. You must have a gift. But I don't really feel that way. I feel that whether you have a special gift or not, if you follow how to fulfill your ministry through mercy, through separation, through the mysterious will of God, through the call of God, through the purposes of God, through the mission, through the visions, whether you have any special augmentation. Because I'll tell you that if Ida was not here to sing, I would sing the songs myself. Oh, yeah. I just have to practice. I can sing most of the songs that you sing with if I have the time to practice. I will just practice and I will be able to sing them if I really wanted to. Speak melodiously and it will take me a long time and waste my time. Amen. A gift picks room for a man and causes him to come before great people. When you become gifted, you start to move up the ladder. That is why it's not good to be giftless. Yeah, but you are already very far advanced in the ministry even without any gift. If only you walk in what you have, you will be fulfilling so much already. Then people hide. Matthew 25 as 25, he said. And I was afraid and I went, and I hate thy talent in the earth. Today, as I speak, there are many hidden talents. Whenever I put anybody out here to try and sing, I'm trying to unearth hidden talents because nobody is already made. Everybody will have to be unearthed from the hiding place, Amen. So people actually hide because they don't want to, Amen. That. Also the gift does not work because people find faults instead of admiring things. So as you sit there, you'll be finding faults with somebody who is preaching, singing, dancing, acting. And as you keep finding faults, you even become more frightened of trying yourself. Instead of admiring and seeing what is good, you become more scared of trying yourself to do something because to use a gift is scary even if you are gifted. Because you can make fun, fun, funny, funny foolishness of yourself even though you are gifted. Amen. So I was afraid. I hate myself, Amen. May your gift come out in Jesus name then. Also, many people when they have a gift have small gifts, little gifts. Wow. And because of your small gifts, you don't want to use it. Amen. Now, one talent. The man who had one talent. All right, The man who had one talent. What happened to him? He did not use it. All those who don't use their gifts despise the smallness of their gifts. And it looks small to them. Amen. Are you there? I had one talent. Amen. Then #5 or number 65 is people are too proud to accept. Look at me, look at me. Stop writing. Stop writing, stop typing. Listen to me. If I want to give a lecture in a school, I'll tell you that I want to give a lecture. I'm not giving notes. I am telling you that. I'm explaining to you why people don't use gifts and one of the reason is that they think they are easy. Like when I was sharing about the visions, the vision that you are being given, you find you find it not a dream. You want Jesus to pull a chair and sit by you. It's not going to be like that easily. You get it? I'm still waiting for Jesus to appear to me like that. I'm going ahead with what? Look at one of the biggest part of my ministry, which is the books. I just believe I should write a book, that's all. No vision, nothing. It was after that I was looking for more direction. I was surprised to get some attention. That is the books. I never thought anybody would ever read my, but I just felt God wanted me to and I should just do it so I don't have any problems. Yeah, There are things that I do. I don't. I don't want problems, so I just do them. Wow. Now we come to the greatest junction that all gifted people come to. And almost everybody here probably has some kind of a gift, either hidden or whatever. But this is the junction. How many want to know the junction? The junction of giftedness? This is the junction where gifted people divide into two groups. 90% go to the left and 10% to the right. This is the junction of gifted where? What happened to gifted people? The junction of gifted people is the junction of laziness and hard work. Laziness and hard work, he says. Slothful servant, you had a gift too, but you were lazy. Slothful means lazy. Many gifted people are divided into two groups, lazy and gifted and hardworking and gifted. When you meet hardworking and gifted which are just 10% you get confused as to is it a gift or is it a hard work? And when you meet lazy and gifted people, you see amazing gifts, but a certain lack of discipline that you wonder, can a gift be in a person without any discipline at all? Wow. So my prayer for you today, Christian friends, is that you will be hard working. Because if you are not hard working, you cannot. If you are if you are a musician, you cannot sing better without hard work. You cannot remember the words of a song without hard work. You cannot improve on your singing without hard work. You cannot get rid of bad habits in music without hard work. You cannot make a recording without hard work, no matter how gifted you are. So although Andre Crouch received the gifts of 2000 songs to turn it into an album, that's the hard work part. So when you see the productions, you see three years, another one, three years, another one, three years, then eleven years, no album, then one like that. But he said he had 2000 songs, but you don't have 2000 recordings. And I actually, I had once I had him singing a song once and I realized that he had not recorded that song. It was a nice song. And I thought to myself, wow, do you remember when he came together? He sang something. I had him just a snow short snippet. I said wow the gift goes along with hard work or that's it. So a lot of people who are gifted become like ungifted people because they are lazy. Yes true. If you are gifted at cooking, it takes a lot of hard work to cook. If you are gifted at being friendly, by all means there will be some time you'll be depressed. It takes energy to rise out of your depression. Hello. You don't feel like it at all. This is the crossroads. Oh, the gift. You will not believe it. I was once with a man who was very, very close with Andre Crouch. He said I'll go with him. I stayed in his house, I'll go everywhere with him. I said I went to America. He said he's very nice person. He stayed with him, even left his house for him. He was there going up and down with him. I said that when he left him, he doesn't call, he doesn't communicate with him. He didn't stay in touch, but he was very close to him. But that is it. I'm sure he was also a sanguine. I don't know. Yeah, he told me. I remember my friend like this. I said really said. Oh yeah, very close. I stayed with him a long time in his house for Vivaldi to sing the way she sings in vendor Sutu Shangan Sipedi. What the language is Senegal, Wolo olof creo des dat hauza Yoruba, French, Portuguese, French, P English. No amount of just giftedness without working hard can make the gift useful. This detunction your gift becomes useless. All the gifted people are useless because they are lazy. I didn't write the Bible. The Dao, slothful and wicked servant. And their ministries amount to nothing and a lot of people don't use it. They don't use what they can do. So it's amazing. It's amazing. And that is the point at which you'll be surprised that God now picks people who even he has said in the word he shouldn't be pastors. Yeah, some of the people that got used, you may wonder how God himself choose that. He said the person shouldn't be a striker. He shouldn't have two wives. He shouldn't be this. He shouldn't be there. You'll be surprised God will use somebody with three wives to minister powerfully as you are there with your Holiness and one wife and He has given you a gift. You won't use it be that true. So you better open your mind, open your heart, open your soul. And to me, it doesn't really matter whether you think you have a gift or not. But the day you see that I do seem to have some extra something, you see, the gift is like something extra. Let's say come, I give you a gift after church. Solomon, I give you a gift. Everybody may be going home with nothing in their pockets because I gave you 100 CD. See me after church, I'll give you 100 CDs because I because I gave. Actually, if somebody has 100 CDs, give me 100 CDs. Can anybody give me 100 CDs? Yeah. You know, those of you, those of you who don't like sitting on the aisle, you lose a lot. I need 100 CDs quickly. Yeah. Martha, come. Yeah. OK, Solomon, that's your money. Put in your pocket. Put it. Put in your pocket. Now. Come. Now, this brother has a gift of 100 CDs. Now, what does he have? He has a little extra of something, isn't it true? Just a little extra of something, that's all. That's a gift. Just a little extra of something. Yeah. Most gifted people have just a little extra about like that was freely given to them. They didn't work for just a little something. He's got a gift of 100 CDs, brother. Got it. Just a little extra. Isn't it not fantastic? How many would like to be him? No, he cannot share it. He cannot share it. He's going to use it. It's a little extra of something, but if you are lazy, you're not hard working, or you are wicked, we will never know. Thus wicked and slothful servants, wickedness. People don't use their gifts. But I wouldn't say there's so much difference between Solomon and the rest of you, even though he has an extra 100 CDs now, maybe you don't have anything at all. But it doesn't make like a difference between us, though you are dead and he's alive. Oh, you're all alive. You can all walk. You all eat, you all go back. So even though he has a gift, it's not making so much of a difference. Although there is a difference, but not much. Yeah, if he is wise and he knows how to use this money, it may turn later into something more. It is not. The difference is not like you are in darkness, you are in a coffin. He's alive, he's in Laboni and you are in a USU cemetery in under the No, no, no, no, no, it's not. It depends. The difference is not that much. Even though I am not ATSA, you know what is Atsa? Talented solo artist. Even though I'm not Atsa, if I work very hard, I can sing a lot of songs. I can and I can play if I work hard. It's just about working hard part and also what I have to do. So a gift is just a little extra of something preaching. Then one day you don't need a gift to preach. Everybody's supposed to preach. You don't need a gift to be a shepherd. Everybody's supposed to be a shepherd. You don't need a gift to have a call. They are all different things. You can be called no gifts, gift less but with a call, gift less but you are with a with a call. So you may not stand before great men or you may what you have. You're called Claire and then you may be given a mission. Most people don't even do the mission. Why should I give you a gift? Something extra small mission. When I was in caliber, I was given a Commission. I was talking to people, preaching, going to Calegon or witnessing, going to bring people. Is it any surprise that God would give me a gift and select me into whom, when I'm praying in the night, select me and give me a gift? Should it surprise you when there were many even better, holier Christians than me there? But it's like the little mission that you have their separation, their salvation, their mercy does not mean much to you all this Hallabalu about gifts. I mean if I knew my gifts and Bishop, I don't have any gifts. You don't have a gift but you have a call. That's why I say you fulfill your ministry to your call. You fulfill your ministry to the purposes of God. The message that has been shown you the separation that has been done before we come to gifts. It's a gift now that will start to make room. It's true, the gift that I have been invited to nations and to places all over the world. But for years I work. No one ever invited me. Ever. You know, no one. Two things. No one ever invited me. And no one ever gave me an offering. And if I was ever invited, and I preach, they will hardly give me peanuts to take home. Nothing for years. And suddenly one day it changed. Just in a day it was. It was different. I'll be there. This one is inviting. This one. I don't know. You. Yeah. And then they began to appreciate the gifts more and more and more. Yeah. Wow. So the gifts, You see, Solomon is not much different from you. Will you agree? Do you have some money in your pockets? You don't have any money at all. At all. Pardon. Yes. How much do you have? Check how much you have. And you how much you have. You have only one city in this whole world. No. Tell the truth. Otherwise something only 100 cities. No, I'm not saying what offering do you have. You don't have money. Stand up. I'm making a point. Do you have any money? Yes. I mean multiply it. You have how much? Let's say 15 cities. Good. Do you have how much? Only one CD. OK. Do you have any money? Nothing at all. You have bring you have how much in your big bag? Only 5 CDs come only fives in the whole world, not the whole world right here you have only 5 CDs. How about you? You don't have your money is where? Where is the money? It's in the in your bag. And how much is in your bag? 20 CDs, stand up 25. And then how much you have 27 CDs. Very good. Stand up 27 CDs. How much you have? Yeah, No. What about around here? About 40 CDs, Yeah. So if they, you have some money in your bag, yes, 5 CDs over there and one CD here and then you have how much 15 CDs you have how much 5 CDs here you have how much 20 CDs and he has listen and he has 100 CDs. So he has a little something a little more. That's the point I'm trying to make. It's not as though like he has $1000 or $10,000. He has hundred. He has a little more. This one has 27 CDs. This one has 40 CDs and it's got 100. And then you have how much? 15 and you have how much? One CD, Yeah. How much is watching? How much is watching 55 cities work? Well, five cities work, yes, but roughly 5 cities can work nights, Markets, so so notice, notice, notice. All of them can have some watches. Except the difference is not so much. It's not as though he can go and buy a second hand car, a home second hand car, or even a new car costing 30,000 Ghana CDs. He cannot, is nowhere near a car is just a few extra plates of watching. Yes, about 20 plates of watching more. That's what it means to have a gift. And even without the gift, you can go so far. You watch all these guys who get home to where they came from. They will all be next week, you see. They will all be alive, breathing, flowing, I mean doing everything even without this gift that has been given to this guy. So as you are here and you'll be saying if I have that gift that this mother now, please, please, that gift, a gift you have can bring you before great men. That's if he uses it well, now, how could he use his gift? Very well. Do you see? Now I need. I need an envelope. Can I have an envelope? An empty envelope? An empty envelope. Now, brother, there's an envelope. OK, Put 50 CDs in it. 50 CDs. 50 CDs. Get a pen. You see, I'm making him use his gift. Very well. You watch and see. Get a pen. No. Seal it. You're going to show a seat. I need another envelope. Huh. You want to use Daisy's envelope? OK, All right. Now take a pen, put one envelope in your pocket and making him use his gib. Very well. Yeah. OK. Now that's has. What do you call it, Doctor? Bishop Ogo. Has he been a blessing to you? I mean at the camp. And his Bishop, does he know you personally? Only met him once I've. Never write. Write his name and go and sow a seed in his life. Let's go, let's go. We're going to sow a seed. You see, he's using his gift very well. He's taking half of the gifts and you want to you want to say one or two things to him as you present. Here's Michelle. OK. And Bishop, I don't know you personally. I've never had a one-on-one interaction with you. Before. But you, you inspire me because, because, Because for me, I've had many fears about combining church and academics, seeing people like you in the ministry and doing it. I am always inspired that I can always do something for the Lord and, and, and, and moreover, I've realized that today when the times you've had you shared with us is different from other camps because I, I don't know about it seems it's quite different from how you've been sharing things with us for the previous camps. So I think, I think I'm being blessed, yes. But. That's what I have to. Say. So, Bishop, I want to present this as a seed I'm sowing to your life for being a great blessing to me and for all of us over here. Did did you write your name on the envelope? Write your name. Write your name so that he will he will remember you. Thank. You so much. Bishop Yeah, OK. He wants to say something. Brother Solomonte, phone number O26. I'm greatly touched by the show of appreciation and the love that has come to me through this gift. I feel very honored and in the 1st place I give glory to God. For any virtue or any gift you've seen in me is by the grace of God through my father and my pastor, Bishop Dagua Mills. And you don't look very rich and very great, but you've shared your letter with me. Let me, let me before I speak, let me just see what was there so that. Wow. 50 Ghana cities, that's somebody's salary. And so, Solomon, I feel very honored, and I want to say that this honor you've bestowed on me will bring the blessing in Galatians after 6 by 7, that whatsoever a man sows, that shall he reap. So I pray that the anointing you saw, because of which you sow the sea, may you read a hundredfold of that anointing, and may your life and your ministry become magnetic. May you magnetize not just people, but also seats just like this in your life. Above all, if you are not married, may you have one of the most romantic. Beloved. In Jesus name. So thank you very much Solomon, give me a hug. God bless you. And Bishop, this I would like to see. I wouldn't have been here, hadn't been for my shepherd. I wouldn't have been here to someone invite my roommates actually invited me to church. I came and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be standing right now here. So I just want to say thank you to LP Kadela for. Being a Good Shepherd to show another seat. LP I want to say thank you so much for showing me so much love. When when I came to the church Bishop, she loved me so much. She just loved me so much. Even even at times I I didn't do the right thing. She she never complained or rebuked me. She just just loved me all the time. So I just want to say thank you so much. LP Cadila. Thank you so much, Bishop. Wow, wow, now you can see somebody who has used his small gift very wisely. Very wisely, he will be remembered by this Bishop who doesn't know him. Let me tell you, in this world, to be known is more. You see, when people went to him and said I did great works, I cast, I said, but I don't know you. It's more important that I know you than the other things I don't know you. To be known by name is more important than the things you are doing. If you don't know, I'm telling you yes. Now he's going to remember. And then you have his phone number. Yeah. And then also he has soon they see, because the one who cared for his soul and brought him to church went to look for him, followed him up, and everything is Cadela. So he has fulfilled Galatians 66 even more than with Bishop Ogo. Bishop Ogo was just, I mean, like a prominent personality who he saw moving around. He just thought, let me sow a sieve. So the Galatians 667. It's really coming by the sea that he sowed in Cardella's life more than anything else. Yeah, he has used his skit very wisely. Don't be surprised if he reaps great harvest from it unlike somebody else will be given the same and recipes and say hey today I'm buying wache rice. 10 cities meat how much? 10 cities? What Willy Malt? You buy macaroni, you buy. You buy Gary. You buy Giza. You buy salad. You buy egg. You buy sausage. You buy plantain. You buy fish. You buy bees. You buy. You buy Mortar Guinness. You buy. You buy Alvaros, then you call your friends, you invite friends to come and join you, then you spend the money. That's the end. How much will you use you? Use about let's say 70 CD with your friends. You are, you are, you are spreading with your friend. You are spreading them that you've gotten money on you. So you want them to know that yeah, there is money. Yeah, you have some money or you spread them. Wow. Sit down. Yeah. Not everybody uses his gift wisely. You may be gifted, but not everybody uses a gift wisely. He has used the gifts wisely. He has used a gift wisely. He has sown a seed. Yeah. Wow. You know, I feel very sad when I see people who are gifted, but some people the gift is there from early you can see you are gifted in this gift and about no hard work, no wisdom, wickedness. You see this camp is I it is my gift. It's a gift that I used to have a camp. Why? I was just meeting with some people on Sunday. I said, well, let's have a camp. I don't know what I'm going to talk about. I just came. I just came to talk to you. Yeah, I just came to chat with you. I don't. I don't need to have a note, something that I'm coming to say to you to stay with you for three days, to talk to you for three days. Yes. And does it look like I'm struggling? But I could have not used my gift. So this week I'll just be in the house resting. That's how people use their gift. They don't use it. They don't use it at all. That's all. So brothers and sisters, giftedness is what now lifts you up to the next level, to a high level of fulfilling ministry at a higher and greater level. Long before we can say that you are gifted, you'll be practicing your mission and so benefits without any gifts. I started the church. I felt God had called me. I was standing in front of Sabah Hall and I said I believe God has called me. I believe thought has come and I will be a pastor. That was around probably 1986 or 8686 or 87. It was when I was in 1988 after I had already studied at church. We were just a few in a room. That is when the power of God came on me and I heard a voice say from today you can teach. That's when I have a gift. And even after that you it is some people see slight difference and you see there was there was a sister, she noticed a slight difference, but it's not much. Solomon's life is not much different from these other people because of the 100 CD. Even this guy who was going to spread stand up, he was going to use the money to buy 70 CDs watching for all his friends. When he is even full, how much can go into his stomach? He was going to buy Malta, Guinness and Alvaro. Wow. How many are prepared to operate even without the gifts? How many realize a lot of gifted people don't use their gifts? Yeah. Wow. Michael Jackson was gifted from. It was. He was. If you see him singing when he was like small like this, you should see I have documentaries on on Michael Jackson. It's live. You see him like a child singing high across latitude. Here they are being excellent. More than a grown up, he was, he was like this. He was more like this when he was 25 years old, that's when he made Thriller. He was 25 years old, became the largest selling. And when they made it, he put on a video. People said, Oh no, no, this is not something, it cannot really work, it's not very good and so on. It took three to four months before they played quartet. It was too long. It was 15 minutes long. It's too long video. We don't have whatever. It was the first time a video came like that. Then it started to sell and sell and sell until a multi, multi, multi, multi, multi, multi millions. A gift just puts you out there. 25 years old. How old are some of you? Giftedness is very wild though. When you are gifted, You Can Dance, you can sing, you can do everything. It doesn't mean we will end up well, so don't concern yourself too much. So I want the gift of music, the gift of this, the gifts of that, the gifts of that look, but check your separation. Check your what separation. Check the what mercy respond to the mercy. Check the what the mysterious will check the what the call as they are called. Check the mysterious purposes. Why is God doing this? Flowing it, flowing it, flowing it. Just keep using it, keep doing it keep doing it keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it. Then He will pop on you the gift, and the gift will suddenly change the level. I always remember one day I was preaching Tuesday service, Tuesday service, Tuesday service in Kolebu. The maximum people who attended Tuesday service was about 8. Yeah, eight people. We sat around like this and I was the same person. Tuesday. All the preaching I've had on Tuesday, weekday. Now I don't do Tuesday, I do Thursday. That's why I'm here. Thursday I don't do. I do Thursday. It's the same weekday. This is my weekday service, my weekday services that come. But the reason why I'm busy, I realized that's my gift, so I should use my gifts. I'm just trying to use my gift. I don't want to struggle. Yeah, around. Keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it. Keep towing it, Keep towing it, keep towing it, keep towing it, keep towing Tuesday, etcetera. I remember there was a man I was telling about marriage. He said I would like to see when you get married. There were about eight people. Yeah. When the church responded, we made two circles. Tuesday service. Nobody will come. Call Abu. Nobody. Ebenezer Secondary School students, they will come to the Ebenezer Secondary School. Ebenezer Secondary School, These were the members we had in the church. Ebenezer Second. Do you know Ebenezer Secondary School? It's called Padua. Padua. That's your school. Ebenezer Secondary School. But keep doing it. Keep doing it without a gift, without a gift, Keep throwing it. Keep throwing it. Sit down, keep throwing it. Keep doing it without a gift, keep throwing it. If God himself decides He will pop the gift on you and then it will just change. But even then, even pop the gifts on you. And out of your laziness, you will not, you will not do it. Yeah. Laziness, lack of discipline and other vices make gifted people become zero as if they never had a gift. So don't emphasize yourself on the gift, but rather on these first ones. The love I have for my God, the separation that has taken place, our flow in it, the mysterious will of God that you keep on praying. Thy will be done, Thy will be done, Thy will be done. You will be doing this will, you will be doing this will you keep on praying about it will be happening. Keep praying about the mysterious will of God. And then what else, Iris and the call. Has there been a call? They said yes. Once you call me, I believe it. Gift or no gift, gift or no gift, Gift or no gift, gift or no gift, gift or no gift. Because even those who have the gift is so small, it doesn't make much of it. And they don't even respect it. If you are diligent with the separation and the mysterious will even to it where the gift comes on, you see how diligent you will be? Oh yes, Oh yes. You see, you can, you can single. But to make a recording, that's where the work is Such a small thing. Yeah, it's I preach, I can preach. But to make a book, that's another thing altogether, like what I'm preaching. Now, if one day you see a book and you see a nice big book, how to fulfill your ministry, do you know the work I have to do? From now till you see that book, you even pity me. Yeah, that is why I said the junction where 90% of gifted people go to the left, only 10% go to the right is the painful hard work and also wickedness. Yeah, because if you don't do it, it will not be done. It's very sad to see gifted people who just retire their gifts and hide it. What do you do that is easy for you? You know, one of the things you should, you should learn to do is when you see somebody operating in this gift, tell yourself, you know this thing that you are doing. I find it difficult. Like for me, when I see people sitting behind computers, I say, hey, me, I cannot look at a screen. What is that? No, I've never, I've never owned a computer. I've never owned one. I've never used one. Maximum is iPad. I don't even know how to switch it on. So that means those of you who use it effortlessly, you know, there may be a small gift in it, but you don't even see, you don't even develop it. Many of the people who use computers and who do things, I have to tell them what can be on the computer before they even do it. They don't, they don't, they don't, they don't, they don't use it. Many things in the church, I will say this like this, like this, like I would describe it to them because I imagine that this what must be, but they will not. They don't come to me and say it and do it. Me who doesn't know anything. But I give them using the gift of government. Yeah. And also the gifts of the Spirit to deliver me from evil in the absence of real helpers. True. Wow. Are you there? Are you listening? Yeah, and you say you prefer not to have a singer than to have somebody who's coming to mess around and foul up the atmosphere. You foul up the atmosphere with an unfortunate song. You foul out the atmosphere with mistakes and other things that don't work. Well, before I realize the whole atmosphere is changed to an unfortunate atmosphere. Yeah. So then you just do that. You flow by the Spirit. Yeah. Look, I'll tell you something. Whatever you can do and there's a gift, just do it and stop, Emphasize am IA pastor, teacher. I'm a this or I'm that. You are, you are Christian. You are Christian. Just do Christianity. Just practice Christianity. Practice Christianity. But if you use your gifts, you, you, you, you, you. You change everything. Yeah, you change everything. You see, that's why I'm preaching at a camp, not at a convention. I could be at our Achimoto church having a big convention or identity of having a big convention. Big all the branches everybody will be there, but this one I'm just talking about the work of God. It's also a gift. People cannot also do it Yeah yeah, I just we can be here. I don't need to prepare to have a camp. What I mean is that I don't need like notice to, to, to stand with you and to talk to you for three days, which for some people, if you even tell them that you, you'll be speaking on Saturday, you have to tell, will it be in the morning? Will it be in the afternoon? Will it be in the evening? How long? What are the topic days that you need to give them? You need to prepare so many scriptures. And I mean, they don't like it at all. If there's anything uncertain about it. Wow. So I would say that most of you haven't really got any gift. Yeah, you are giftless as at now, but you have been shown mercy respond. You have been shown what, Iris? You have been shown what separated flow in it #3 you have been, you are praying about the mysterious will of God and it is happening every day #4 you've, you've had a call. You all said you were called hey #5 the mysterious purposes of God. You are finding them out and finding the reasons why God wants certain things. Number six, the what your mission ask for the mission that you have been given the work to do, isn't it? Yeah, that's for the work. It's one work to be a shepherd, to look for the lost and to look after them and to feed them, isn't it? And then #7 as well, visions, how many? I've had some. Few are not 2 visions. You cannot have the Holy Spirit without having visions one or two. And then now you start complaining. Lord, if I know the gift you have given me, I know the gift you have given to TL Osborne. I know the gift you have given to this man Benny Hin. I know the gift you have given to Catherine Coleman. Lord, if you show me my own, then I also get to the job. But until then, Lord, I cannot be in the ministry because I don't want to make a fool of myself. You are already a fool. Yeah. Wow. Keep preaching, keep preaching, keep talking.