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18. The Beauty Of Visitation And Counselling
Bishop Dag Heward-MillsAbout this sermon
Camp Title - The Beautiful Job. Machaneh Collection - 82. Preached in 2013, Ghana (Elmina). Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a world-renowned evangelist, bestselling Christian author with over 100 books, and leader of the United Denominations, present in 100+ countries. Through his Healing Jesus Campaigns, thousands have been healed, and millions saved across Africa and beyond. As you follow this podcast, may you begin to know God in a way you have never before! Don’t forget to click the follow button and turn on notifications.
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Welcome to track #18 of the beautiful job. Not too temptation for you with innocent these victory will help you some others win so far not fully on the world dark passions of you know ever to change easers. And. He will carry through. So ask the Saviour to hell for you to come for strengthen and keep you. He is the willing to help you and he will carry you. Oh so ask the Savior to help you to come for strengthen and keep you and he is willing to be you and he will Harry through. Sushant evil companion that language does day the God name holding reverence. Don't take it in vain, because full and honors kind harder and true look ever to Jesus and he will carry you through. So I'm gonna tell you to ask the the singer to help you to comfort to come for spent there and keep he said in his word that he is willing to help you and he will carry you. So I saw Oh. Ask. The savior to help you to come for strengthen and keep you and he is willing to aid you and he will carry it through. Oh oh ask the Savior to help you to come for strengthen and keep you heal. The willing to aim you and me will carry you. So as the Savior to help you to come for stre
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Welcome to track #18 of the beautiful job. Not too temptation for you with innocent these victory will help you some others win so far not fully on the world dark passions of you know ever to change easers. And. He will carry through. So ask the Saviour to hell for you to come for strengthen and keep you. He is the willing to help you and he will carry you. Oh so ask the Savior to help you to come for strengthen and keep you and he is willing to be you and he will Harry through. Sushant evil companion that language does day the God name holding reverence. Don't take it in vain, because full and honors kind harder and true look ever to Jesus and he will carry you through. So I'm gonna tell you to ask the the singer to help you to comfort to come for spent there and keep he said in his word that he is willing to help you and he will carry you. So I saw Oh. Ask. The savior to help you to come for strengthen and keep you and he is willing to aid you and he will carry it through. Oh oh ask the Savior to help you to come for strengthen and keep you heal. The willing to aim you and me will carry you. So as the Savior to help you to come for strength and empty you, He is willing to aid you. And he will. Carry you. Glory to God. Now before we move on to the next area, I want to talk about the one of the nice aspects of the job. Amen. Because in every job there are parts you like more than other parts. For instance, if you are a doctor, you would have to do, what do you call it, ward rounds. You have to do outpatient clinics. You may have to do surgeries. You may have to do night duties. You may have to do home visits. You may have to do some work at the Mortuary. You may have to identify the dead. All kinds of different things. Diagnosed people are dead. Emergency treatment, so many variable aspects. Stay in the emergency room all night and anybody who comes in there, you have to be the master of ceremonies and solve all the problems. This comes unconscious breathing, vomiting, breathing, not breathing, everything you you are supposed to solve every problem once you are there. So every job has different aspects and there are some nicer parts and there are some not so nice parts in it. Now what are the, what are the main 8 areas of the beautiful job? Eating, carrying, prayer, visitation, counseling, interaction. Amen. So one of the nice parts, one of the nice parts of this beautiful job is visitation. The nice is one of the nicer aspects of the beautiful job. For those who have ever bothered to do visitation. Now, visitation involves physically going to the place. Amen. And visitation is important because it is the only vest is if the word pasta is not mentioned much in the Bible. Can somebody turn on the fan of the back, please? Can somebody turn on the fan of the back? Go to God. All right now for all of us, right? We all come to the church, but there is a difference when somebody comes to you where you are and you feel so happy that you'll be visited by someone. All right, now the the excuse me to use the word bigger you get in society, the less you want visitors, but the lesser you are in society, the more you want visitors. It's like it's like a busy person. If you are not so important, few people may ring you or text you. But if you are very busy, you may always get a lot of calls. Your phone is even something you threw away. Sometimes you get it. So it depends on on who you are. Most of the people whom God is giving to us are not important people in the sense of the word, important as you may consider it to be, in the sense of the world, a worldly sense of importance. They are not important people. They are ordinary people. Ordinary people. Is there a song like Ordinary People? How does it go? Hello. Just ordinary people. Hi. Just ordinary people. I'm glad God uses ordinary people. Oh, he chooses people like me and you who are willing to do just as he commands. Oh yeah, God uses people who are willing to give him all, no matter how small your almighty to you, because little becomes much when you place it in the Master's head. Just ordinary people oh I'm the life God uses lame folds. Ordinary people chooses people like me at you who are willing to do just happy come out. Oh God use people who are willing to give it. You see, with God it never really matters how small your old might send to you, because little becomes much, they say in the Master's head. Oh yeah, it's just like that little light who gave Jesus all he had, and the multitude was fed with the fish and the loaves of bread. What you have is nothing like very much. But I want to yield unto the time I'm a Master's loving head. You will begin to understand that your life will never again be the same ordinary people. Ordinary people, ordinary. People. I am like, dirty, you say? Ordinary people. Ordinary. People people, people like me, people like you. People willing to do his the bad. Are you willing to do just what he's about? Got to use this people who are willing to give him more no matter how small your all might seem to you because little becomes so long. But the difference is when you place it in the master's house. All you need to do is give him a little becomes much when you place it in the master's house. Great. God. That's why I'm preaching to you. Ordinary people. God uses ordinary people. You see, sometimes you you wonder why I'm talking to you, isn't it? Yeah. No, it's, it's it's because God, these are the people. You are the people God uses. God uses ordinary people. Yeah, yeah, God uses ordinary people. I'm ordinary and you are ordinary. Yeah. You know Vivaldi, Yeah. They, they, they laughed at her. She couldn't sing Yeah, they used to laugh at her that she couldn't sing try to sing and everybody best out laughing. She decided to sing. God uses ordinary people. When you come to Healing Jesus Crusade, she's the main person that controlling all the music, singing everything, very powerful. You see thousands of people, Everybody is enthralled by her and her music. It's amazing. So God uses ordinary people and the people you are visiting are ordinary people. And because they are ordinary people, they like it when you come to visit them. One day I went to visit a rich man and when I got to his house, I told the servant who was at the gate and at the outer, outer part of the house, but tell Mister so and so that I'm here. And he was very hesitant and relaxed because he had not been told that every visitor was coming and he didn't know who I was and he had not seen me there before. So he was not very happy because you see a rich man or an important person, you do not be so happy to have a visitor that is not expecting. I brought you as tell people you are coming before you go. You can't just bump into people's houses. I was just passing by. We cannot just be passing by. Hey, I was in the area to say hi. Can you imagine if everybody was passing by my house to say hi? No. So it was when he told the rich man that I was there. Then he came back with a spring in his step. It was when he was going. He was going reluctantly, but then I think the man was happy to see, to hear me, to see that I had come. So he came back with a spring, please come, please come. Because you are never sure when this person is not an ordinary person. But for ordinary people they are always happy that you came by. And they said Can you believe? Can you believe so? And so pastor came to my house. What? He sat here because they are ordinary people. So you must not deny ordinary people of your visit because a visit does what preaching does not do. Amen. If it was the same thing, the doctor would not need to do ward round which does something different from OPD clinic, outpatient, which does something different from surgery, which does something different from emergency duty. With all these are different things. It's all a doctor at work. Are you listening to me? All right, Puna. I need. I need something. Right. OK, so there are three things that a visit does for you. OK. Number one is an expression of love. Everybody say love. How do you feel touched on them? When somebody comes, you can't believe you came all the way. You came to see me. Wow. Amazing. An expression of love. I didn't think you would come here. How many would like me to come to visit you in your room? I'll pass by one of these days. In fact, and it's such an expression of love that often when you visit somebody, the person believes that you like, you love the person in a way. Yeah. That preaching from the pulpit doesn't convey that love. All right. What's your name? That is Vidal. He was sitting here yesterday. OK. I was wondering where you were. Glory to God. Right When moved left. Hallelujah. And it made his person love. So every time you walk. See, that's how I got somebody like Bishop Saki to to be my friend and to be with me. I went to Okongglu from walking to water hall, the back of water hall P20 and down to Upengalu. It's not a small journey. How many know that it is not a small journey and climb up only to see their Britain on his woe is me if I preach not the gospel. That's how I knew that it was his room and we loved them. I thought, oh come on. This brother, I don't know him so well. I don't know him, and I was coming. See, that's how I got somebody like that. But see, even the fact that I came and he wasn't even there, the person will be amazed because I did not know him before I came to university. He went to a different school. He went to Augustine and I went to Achimoto. Yes, Achimoto. Oh God, And I wouldn't meet people from Augustine's. That's how I got a wife. I was visiting the people that I knew from Achimoto. There was a sister I knew from Achimoto. Now I went to see her. Going around. I started my I've been praying before I came to the school for the work of the Lord. A young person can work for the Lord. I've prayed in the gardens and fasted many, many, many days before I came to Lagon visiting her. This person, the only one person I knew from my Chimoto, I didn't know all these people from Cape Co schools. I didn't know anybody when I visited her. She had a roommate and that roommate was my wife's very good friend and in fact was the maid of honour at our wedding. Yeah. So another time when I visited, then she was around so and I started to know other people. Visitation a year. Powerful. I can tell you many stories of victories God has given me through visitation. The second thing is that visitation is a powerful ministry of the Word. Amen. Ministry of the Word. Hallelujah. You get an opportunity to minister the Word. Now, the Word doesn't mean standing behind a pulpit. Mary, are you OK? You sure the Word doesn't mean you've got a pulpit? Isn't it? You see, the Word is something you share. It becomes your conversation. What's your name? Manuel. From which school? Whenever It's like conversation. You're always sharing the word all the time. That's what it means. So you're chatting, you're laughing, there will be a scripture in it. You mix it and before you realise you are ministering the word. One time I met my she was not my beloved. Then I met her and she said she was going to watch a film with some somebody. And I made a comment like what? What is going on? Where Christians and all things are lawful, not all things are helpful. And she, she turned around. She made AU 10. Yeah, I came, I had so many people have invited her to parties, charms. Yeah. And I just see scripture just come out of my mouth to scatter all these invitations. Are you listening to me? So on every visit, some minister the world. And thirdly, you can minister prayer. These are the three things that happen when you visit somebody. Now, when I visited the president of Mali, I visited the president of Mali. When I went to Mali, I decided to visit the president. Yeah. And you, you learned a lot of things. When I when I went there, I saw that a castle that has been built by the French. Beautiful palace, French design interest, very beautiful. The the, the the Malian president is nicer than what we have. Yeah. Beautiful, really beautiful, exquisite. And so when I visited him, he was in deep crisis. That was before this Malian war was started to show him love. Then I shared the word with him. I told you three things, three things. I ministered the word. I said Jesus Christ came to die on the cross for everybody. Doctor, you were there did too did I did I did I minister the word, you minister the word. You shared the word to a nice environment and I was amazed that you you would seize that moment to share the word of God. I mean, not many people would would speak politics. We speak politics and we've come to your nation. It's a nice nation, but you just went straight for the gold. And I mean, I wow on my visit, you see on a visit, these are three things that are happening little the word prayer. So when I finished, I said, let's pray. And then the president put his hand. I prayed him. He did his hands like this and when I finished praying, then he, you know, I don't know if you've seen how the Muslims do. They put them. They are receiving their prayer. Muslims, they are great too. There are a lot of very nice things about Islam and Muslims. Yeah. Their way they believe in God is very attractive. Yeah. He received a prayer. Hey. And they were very happy with the with the when I was going, I was leaving Mali. They gave me a presidential escort to the foot of the plane. Yeah. So when I got there, I didn't even know what was going on. But when I got to the foot of foot of the plane, the guy took me in a car, the presidential whatever when I got there. Then he he helped me to receive a blessing before I climbed the steps. Yeah. You remember that night? Were you there that night when I went to the airport? Mali. Yeah. Catching a flight out of out of Bamako. Yeah. Bless him. Not knowing that he had planned to receive a blessing before I go out. He has seen that his president has received prayer. Now, don't think you don't have any blessing to offer. You see, That's the see. Don't know why you are mine. I have appointed you as another. What else do you want? To be appointed as a Pope? You have a blessing. Pray. You see, people don't know what to do. I could also have said, well, I'm just a small pastor from Ghana, what do I have to have? I said no, I said I want to. I came here because of this and I want the ambassador of Ghana introduced me to the president. Ghana's ambassador. He said this is a pastor. He is this and this. And I gave the long introduction of who I am to the president before I spoke. Yeah. So you, you are also important. Don't lower yourself. So ask me when they don't. When I speak, you speak out, speak the speak the word pleasant. Words are like honeycomb, powerful and word fitly spoken. It's like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Speak the word fitly, properly. You see the Bible says a word fitly spoken, properly spoken. That's what I was talking about preaching is it's like a it's a special job. It's like apples of gold US you are speaking golden apples are coming out of the Do you think a president would not like to receive golden apples? How many people have golden apples in their houses in pictures of silver? Speak out sister. Speak out brother. Don't think you don't have anything to say. You are the one God is going to use. Amen. So you must go out there and do the visit. Now, one of the key things is that as an elder by a pastor, all right, never refuse to visit somebody, especially when the person wants to visit to be visited. You see, the only reason why I'm not visiting you as of now, it's because of time. That's the reason. If time would allow, I would face everybody in your rooms from campus to believe me. Yeah, believe me. If it can be done, it must be done. That's the rule that we came to learn in this test. If it can be done, it must be done. Yeah. It's like, it's like praying for somebody when you are praying for you would like to lay hands on everybody. But because of time, we just pray general, because if we are to pray for everybody, the service will even end in confusion because you do not accept the reality that you cannot physically, practically do it. That is why we have elders and pastors who have fewer members. If you have 10 members, you must visit them, every single one of them. When you come, you say, oh, pastor or elder, they should call you elder. No, they should not call you. I mean, whatever Francisca this is Elder Francisca. Don't just recall him. Francisca. Of course, don't tell them. Call me. I'm not a I'm not a small. I'm not a small girl. Don't just mention my name like that. See why you do that? You are not. You are not working in meekness. Amen. Now visitation takes time and because of that you need wisdom. So you must always use wisdom during or for visitation. How do? What do I mean by that? You must combine visits with journeys that you are going to make already, like you are going to church, then you can visit somebody on the way. He doesn't know that you are going somewhere that you can visit on the way and on the way back. And also multiple visits, like you are going to al Esquaponpol and you know that there are three of your members there, then you must visit all of them. You get what I'm saying? If you don't use wisdom, you are going to go from Sabah Hall to Al Esquapon and back. Walking up and down three times. You will be tired and your feet will be paining you. Already There's not much food in the system. Amen. Now you can visit people in many places. You see, a visit is to go to somebody in this location. So one of the powerful things is to visit people at home. You can also visit them at work or you can even visit them in their lecture room or at their business. I've visited people at their offices, namely banks offices. I'll visit you there, your house, everywhere. And they see you say, ah, what are you doing here? I visited somebody in the bank. He was surprised to say, oh, after we start at the reception of the bank and I spoke to him. Yeah, he was surprised to see me. Oh, yeah. I've come to see you. How are you? How is everything? I've visited lawyers in their chambers. Yeah. So I want you to be a professional visitor and gradually God is going to give you more higher profile visits to do. Yeah. Now I've been visiting presidents, but I started by visiting ordinary people. Amen. Now the visits in the Bible are the ones that are the most fantastic to me. Number one, fibre visits. Jehovah visited Adam and Eve in their house. Do you remember in the cool of the day? And what did you do to solve a serious problem that had started? Sometimes when you visit people, you see that there is tension in the house. So they say beasts hey, that you can never see. When they come to church, they wear the same material, brown, brown. Meanwhile they are not talking. When you see that you are ironing a brown. I also iron a brown, all for showmanship. God visited Abraham when Abraham was 90 years. He visited him. The Lord appeared to Abraham and said you shall be a father. Sometimes during a visit you will minister powerfully. So God, Jehovah is a visitor and that's why he is angry with you that you don't visit. Jeremiah 22 said, I'm against the pastors because they have not visited my people #3 God. Jehovah visited Isaac. The Lord appeared to him and said, don't go into Egypt, Don't do this. During the visitation I told you, you always minister the Word. So Jehovah visited Isaac on earth in his house and told him don't go to Egypt. Genesis 26, he said, don't go here, it's a bad idea. And sometimes it is only during a visit that you can give a very important piece of advice, but from the pulpit you may not. It may be too general. Amen #4 God visited Jacob and it was Jehovah visited Jacob, and it was during this visit that Jacob decided to pay tithes. Yeah. Genesis 28, verse 16 purposes. And Jacob, I woke out of his sleep and said, surely the Lord is in this place. If he's in this place, he must be visiting because he doesn't stay under that tree. And Jacob took her decision to pay tithe. There are many things we can talk about during a visit. Amen. And God visited Moses to get his attention. Remember the Benin Bush? The Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame. Do you think God lives in a Bush? There is a Bush on the Colegonal Rd. They've made it and they've made a wall around it and they say it's a God. Do you think God lives in that Bush? I don't think my Jehovah lives in that Bush. If God has come to that Bush he is visiting is passing through, Hallelujah. And what happened when he passed? He got the attention of Moses. So sometimes a visit will get the attention of somebody, Amen. Jesus Christ visited, Jesus visited this world for three days, three years, He ministered the 1st 30 years He was just doing carpentry. But after that he came in his anointing. That shows that when you visit and you don't use the anointing, it doesn't have any effect. Because when Jesus was here for 30 years, he was doing carpentry. Then he took on the cloak of the anointing, and then his visit started to work. So that's why when you visit, you must speak with authority, relate and flow. So Jesus visited this earth. Has this world been the same since his visit? Why didn't he stay in heaven and say hi? Send us a WhatsApp, Twitter, you would have tweeted us from heaven, tweeted us or send us a Facebook message. I say look up, I'm here, look up, I'm here. This is a visitor brought salvation. You can visit people and leave them to Christ. Everybody look, if you can't leave people to Christ, resign. You are not an elder. I visited somebody in his room and I led him to cry. I've led many people to cry personally. That's why I know difficult cases. Whether you don't meet a Jew, when you are trying to convert a Jew, you see how difficult it is or to convert a white man from Europe. Correct. White man. Yeah. Salvation, salvation came to this world 3, three years of visit. So you'll be surprised all your preaching and so on one visit before you really you have got a word member. You'll be sending what's up, saying what's up view. And so one visit, one real visit. It has changed the ministry. Look, I remember when I went to study church, the 1st test I started first, apart from the one we have at Olegono. Yeah, Olegono Church, the 1st test was the first branch was Geneva. I needed members. I didn't have members and I knew that. I remember a friend, my my mother's, my mother's friend's son whose father is also a Ghanaian and the mother is raised and I said he lives at a certain place far away from Geneva. So one day I said let me go and visit this guy and I took a train and I went there 1 1/2 hours on the train he found his house. He was so surprised to see me a fellow have cast and I said oh I've come because I've been inviting him to come to jail but I didn't come. He said where we are is far. When I went, I demonstrated to him that he's not far from that time after today a member. Now he's a pastor. He's a pastor in the church from that time, 1919921992. I got a member who has become a from a visit. I will never forget that visit. Yeah, I got long lasting friends, long lasting members, Amen. Long lasting of everything, Hallelujah from a visit. And I can tell you that I know many of my presidents whose churches are not working, they don't do these things. They don't do these things. That is why in the ministry now we have disconnected ourselves from everybody and said become who you can become. That means try to let your church work if it doesn't work, it's up to you to end the problems will end up where you are. It's not that it's connected to everything and bring all of us down. If you don't want to do these things which we are sharing what we have done that we have members have you have gone on visitation with Bishop Saki will drive from house to house through Sakumono, through Islegon, through here, through different areas. Who go to this person's house have to be Bishop Saki is that If you want to learn visitation, follow Bishop Saki. He's the professional visitor. He knows everybody's house. That's after I knew that look, this guy is anointed to to do the pastoral work. He knows everybody, everybody's house. So as here, this one is here. He knows their work. He knows everywhere. He has been diagnosed, he knows everybody. He's a visitor, professional visitor. Since Bishop Eddie started taking, he took up the church at airport. And so when I call him, I ask why are you? So I'm at the Balboa or somewhere I'm at I'm. So what are his own visiting Some? No, he's visiting. So he's visiting people. A real pastor, somebody who just works. He knows everybody's house. Oh, he's going here, going here, doing things, going here, go here after I'll be there. Scam. Go for this program. Different things stand up. Where is the gun fire execution? Doctor Kumar. What is his name? All of you get to the job. Wow. Don't say that your church is not working. Did you hear that? I said, don't say that your church is not working. Don't say that people are not coming. Don't say that people don't like church in that area. Don't say that these people are like this. Start doing the things that are written down that will say do this and do this practically. Don't say that you don't have people. I'm not interested to hear that. Jesus visited the next one, number six. Jesus visited Peter's house, Matthew 814. And Jesus was coming to Peter's house and he saw his wife's mother late, sick of a fever, and he ministered to her. Jesus visited Gyros's house. Do you remember Gyros's daughter? They came to ask, can you visit? And he said, I can, Amen #4. Jesus visited Mata and Mary and started seeing those who could cook and those who couldn't cook. So the matter was into cooking. Mary was into the scriptures. If Jesus was to have married, he would have married Mata. It's true. Not marry because when you marry you are not marrying the spirit. Look, if I was to choose between Martha and marry to marry, I would have married Martha straight, I have no question. But if I wanted a church member, I would have chosen marry. Some people are good as members, but they are not good as wives. Yeah, because when you come and you need to eat something and you say Mary is in the spirit, Sabala. Sabala, Sabala Mary is in the spirit. Mary. I say I'm hungry. I say I wonder food. I'm in the spirit I'm I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm into the, I'm the God is just giving me a revelation. Wait, wait, how can God be giving a revelation when I need to eat now? That is why sometimes people are disappointed when they marry Christians because they said, but she was flowing. She's a flowing sister. She flows in the church. She sings. She's at a prayer meeting she's by. So you can't eat prayers when you go home. You can't eat songs when you go home. It's singing nicely. Hey, you need culinary skills. Better find a culinary star and marry 1. You see, if I wanted a star to marry, I will choose a culinary star rather than a singing star because I cannot eat a song. I cannot eat a song. We don't eat songs. Hey, you eat pocket when you are hungry. What do you think? Is it fantastic? Is it amazing? Yeah. You cannot just eat songs when you are hungry. So let me sing to you. You are singing me to sleep so that I forget about the food. So when Jesus visits, it is when sometimes when you visit people, you will see how dirty they are. I remember when I was on campus, I, I, when I was in school, that's when I saw, I can see, I can, you can know somebody by visiting them. You see, and brothers, you see visiting. That's why, you see, when you are doing the work of God, you are the one who benefits us. There's, there's some side effects somewhere. Always. You see, I'll show you a scripture, shall I? Don't tell anybody. Will you tell people? This is Private Proverbs 1626, says he that laboureth, laboureth for himself. He that laboureth, laboureth for himself when somebody's working and he's actually working for himself. Like maybe if I'm here, I'm preaching and I'm actually working for myself, it will benefit me very much. Yeah, more than even you. So that when you are visiting you will be surprised that it will benefit you. You can see that your house is going to be very scruffy by visiting somebody in her room. When you enter the room, you see this is the future. You see the lack of hospitality, the lack absence of food. See, one day Bishop Eddie visited a sister on campus, and this sister didn't know how to cook. I don't know what how come he was there when she was cooking or when she was, but she gave him some food. And I tell you, I'm not surprised after today that that sister has not been able to marry. Yeah, because the Stew, I have not seen some before. It was. No, it was not the sort of a Stew. Do you know the Stew? It was onion Stew. Onion Stew, I tell you. Only onions. So when he came back, he came to tell us about the onion Stew. He said hey, I can I could not eat it. And she was asking are you eating it? And he was looking at the onions. This onion Stew said Hey I can I eat this onion Stew? So he's that labourer, labourer for himself. Is that any work of God you are doing? Remember that you are actually the one who is benefiting. He's that labourer. So he shot the onion Stew and said never, I cannot go this way. Onion Stew. Ask your neighbor, are you into onion Stew? You see as you are labouring, listen to as you are labouring, you are labouring for yourself. Oh, if you are doing some people, you are seeing realities for all these. Some people, they can paint their face, they can dress, they can do but challenge when it comes to the food, it says onion Stew that is coming. I Oh my love. So Jesus visited Martha and Mary, then he saw that Martha was into cooking. She was going up and down, up and down, up. And he said that this Mary, she's sitting there at your feet like an Angel. There's nothing, there's nothing Little look at her nails instead of she's just sitting there at Mary and some other unbeliever would have come and said, oh, she's in love with Jesus the way she just sits there. Listen to him while Martha was organizing things matter and Maria is they should thank God that Jesus decided not to marry because Jesus would have chosen matter one time for marriage. Last shot marry you say that you are just into a spiritual attainment. You only making onions too. He's that Laboureth. Say it again. He's that Laboureth. Laboureth for himself again, Say it again. All this work that we are doing, we are doing something for yourself. But you don't know. You don't know that you're actually doing something for yourself. I can't tell you all the things. If I tell you, you won't believe it when I say he's that label. About 5 stories come to my mind. I want to hear that label. When you are learning how to preach and you are preaching that your little room and you are talking and you are learning, you are doing something for yourself. Don't say, look, I'm doing a Bishop and I say, no, I'm not over there lighthouses. I'm not on the first class. Look, there's something wrong with you. You are helping yourself. You are, you are learning a very fantastic job that is very amazing, very great, greater than what you are learning in school. Yeah, see that Laboureth play And last thing you say, look, the rehearsal is too much. Keep helping yourself. When I was in Cambria Rd. I joined the musicians. I I didn't know how to play by ear. They taught me a bit. Then the drummer showed me how to play drums and the guitarist showed me how to play the guitar and I learned how to play all of them, at least a little. And I was, I will help with them, all the instrumentalists. And that's how I come. I got to know people who are very busy when we are working their backslide, because when we are now, let us pray that you see them joining cables and arranging things. That's when I saw it. When I went to Geneva many years later, all alone, I came and met totally green people. Nobody knew anything. Then I said let's go and buy instruments. I knew how to fix. I knew how to buy. And I said OK, I'm not feeling well there as a Kushner. I did finish OK. I was in Geneva and I needed somebody. I needed people to do everything to play instruments, drums, this. I bought drums and I I because I had done that work before I knew. So I called Pastor Jimmy and I said, let me show you how to play drums. I remember how I had been taught how to play drums in Caveru, to play this, play this, this, like this. So I taught him and he became a drummer. I taught a little girl. I taught her how to play the keyboard. So play like this. And she didn't know how to do this. So I taught keyboard. I taught all, all of them. Yeah. Then I taught songs. Yeah. Everything. I've done it before. I didn't know that I was helping myself. And I can tell you the effects of that later on. So many things, yeah. It's wonderful when you are working, you are just working for yourself. You see, I'm doing account. You are counting money in the church. You are doing something, you are suffering, you are sweating. Look, move on you. Where do you, where do you? I mean, where do you get this attitude from? You are doing something for yourself. So Jesus, I tell you, he saw through the beautiful. Come, my dear, Come, my darling, come. This is Vidal. Let me take some of these beautiful girls. Here. Come. What's your name? Esther. Wow. Esther. From where? Tech. And who's this? Huh. Another from where? UCC. Wow. You have a husband already, Sushu, Let me stand in the line. No, no, this is Veda, this is Huh, Queen Esta, and this is Amanda and Situ. There, Macbeth said. There is no act to tell the mind's construction in the face. You. Cannot know what these four presents. One of them may be very scruffy. How many sisters know some sisters who are very scruffy and dirty? Not you, but you know some people. They may not know how to cook at only onion Stew onion Stew makers. One day I I went to tech with my first time I went to tech and I went with my beloved. She was not my she was my beloved. And when she said she said she told me, you know, I have a friend, a very good friend from Wesley girls. When we go, we will go to her room and we will she will have food and everything. Wow. So I was I was excited. I thought that it was a good, good news. So when we arrived on campus as a student, we went to this Africa Hall of them when we got there. So I was sitting there expecting I still have friends. So I was there thinking, so something good is going to come soon. Something good. Then I saw some Gary. Gary and boiled egg. I was I tell you, you can ask my wife carry and boiled egg. That's what we were given No Stew. There's nothing Carry and boiled egg. There was some shit up. There was some small sit up carry and boiled egg. So I told my wife, I said, oh, you said, this is very nice to say. Oh, you see, because you will not know that aspect. Some girls, they are like carpenters. When they go into the kitchen, when they enter the kitchen, it's like a Carpenter is in the kitchen, doesn't know what? Look at the egg and say, ah, what shall I do with this egg? Visitation will show it all. Yeah, so this one I visit Sicho and I visit Amanda and I visit Queen Esther and I visit Vaida in Tsunani. Then I will know what are they like. That's not the reason for visiting. We are going to minister. I'm showing that these are side effects. He is a Laboureth. Laboureth for himself, he is that Libereth, Libereth for himself. You are doing something for yourself. When you are singing, are doing something for yourself. This place that goes like this and this place that goes is very attractive to men. Thank you for yourself. That is why a lot of sisters no more are in the choir after they marry. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. It's vacuum. You are. Let's breathe for yourself. Why do you think God made here bigger and bigger it is to be calling shooter shooter? So when you are. Singing. Not longer. You are enhancing. Hey, hey, hey, hey. He thought you were doing rehearsal. He thought you were getting tired. Music rehearsal. He's that liberate. Liberate for himself. One day a certain sister, she came to the church and she decided you see there are some people, they can see through that when you are labouring, you are labouring for yourself. So she said I want to join the first time Miss Reception Committee. So she was acquired. I don't know what she was. They used to meet, meet with people who have come for the first time. Suddenly I saw a man with a Cherokee Jeep. I tell you, captured as a just as the new person, this one too is a new person. And she, I, I, I felt in my spirit that that is why she joined the first time. So they can see that this labour law, there are there is something in it for sit down as someone. Oh God. And then a visit for Jesus visited a Pharisee as well. That's the 10th visit, isn't it? These are when he visited the Pharisee. He blasted them. He said your inward paths are full of ravening and wickedness, you fools. Hey, he ate their food when he told them that they were food. Wow. Is it not amazing what visitation can do? How many are going to become experts? Experts at visiting? Yeah, and the preaching, too. You are going to be wild at it, isn't it? The feeding, isn't it? Yeah. And then gathering and carrying. Carrying. You just take the person along. Sir. Let's go. Talk. Where are you? Come, come. I'm waiting for you also. I I just. I I I'm sleeping, so I haven't. Bath. OK, I'll wait. No problem. You bath. I will fetch water for you right now. That is the caring. I'll iron for you. Whilst I'm waiting. I'll be ironing you. Bath. No problem. Oh, you will be late. No, it's OK. Not a problem. Carry me. There's a song like that. Carry me. Where are they? Why do they take a long time? When? When they move. Why do they take a long time when they are called? Why do they take a long time? They think that because they are stars, nothing can be done to them. Wait. They think that because they are stars, nothing. So are they bringing for yourself. We know that you are living for yourself. Jesus. Carry me, help me to follow you. Help me to serve you. Help me, Jesus, help me. Help me to start you. Jesus, Lord is my shepherd. I shall love. Nothing. I shall not. Want Jesus who will leave me in the valley and go back? Jesus they will lead in the panel righteousness for your name. See, as things are seeing me in the valley, the valley of bed, and the daylight there a day before, in the Prince of May, the lead. Oh all we like we have don't faith if we turn to his own way now when we turn to worship. The. All of my life, take care of me, help me, help me, help me to serve, help me to serve, help me to serve. Counselling. It's a very nice part, Amen. Why do I say that? Counselling. You see, everybody needs somebody to talk to, Amen, Isn't it? People need somebody to talk to. Now remember that I said to you, always believe that the scripture is inspired by God. So have scriptures. When you go, people want you to open your mouth and speak a verse or a scripture at once. You are in a in a different realm. When you stand and you are talking to people, you are just giving, oh, you know, at the end of every tunnel there is a light. And then every day is followed by evening, followed by morning. And so because of that, these are not what people want. We need scriptures. My word is a lamp. So my as soon as you go to somebody's house and you come with a scripture and you explain something to the person, it's like light has come on. So it's like you go and then you put on the light, the light from you, a sister, from you a brother. Because we were hoping for somebody who would talk to them. And then maybe you didn't talk, you didn't come. And they were they were wishing they could have somebody who we could sit down and talk with knife fast. Half of my Christian life. All my messages were private people talking 1 to one. When Betty told me abstain from my appearances of you. That's why I shouldn't go to the gambling on Saturdays. It was a one to one, one to one. She was explaining every part of Christianity to me with Scripture. And when when we meet somebody and you are not there because she said you don't want to be an elder. So I'm not that tight and I'm the quiet type. I'm just a little girl. Remember little Cadella, she was preaching and boys are receiving messages and they touch their heart and they are moved to come forward and they came forward. We are touched, we are moved. We will feel the power ash. We feel that naughty and the grace. Amen, OH. My brother, where was I when you called out for me to help you for? You where were you? Did I seem? Too busy? How could? You have known that I I had a problem of my own. Oh, did it seem to you that I just. Did not hear Don't. Condemn me. For. Not being there when you really need everything all. Just understand that each of us have burdens that we've got to bed. You said that I should understand that I too. I also had a problem because of that I didn't come to you when you needed me. And I should understand, I can't understand that because the Bible says we should be instant in season and out of season. So now that it's an out of season time where you are also having your own problems, you are saying that you won't speak again. I don't think it's right. Is it right? And your hardness suffer trouble? Is it not part of the instructions? Private instructions. Go through it and preach the word. Preach the word. Stop telling us that you understand that. I also had a problem and I want you to understand. You must say so. Sing it again. But we will not believe what you are saying. Can't talk. Talk like that. Can't understand. Come. On Oh my Brother, where was I when you called out for me to help you? Did I? Too busy now that's. Where to? Be too busy to hear to visit. How? Could you have long that I I had a problem on my own. Did it seem seem to you that I just. Please don't condemn. Me. For. Nothing there when you really need anything or just understand that I'm burning back. We've got to bear. Oh, but there's one. 1. Who's always, always willing to help again, and it's Jesus. Give him your. Each other. I don't want time for another, but the one that we always leave is the Lord, and we don't need a helping hand or the sister or the brother or the one we can always. About the fault of mine that carried around for so very long, I couldn't share it with just anybody. Anybody, everybody would understand me and when I couldn't talk with you, that's how. I felt. So all along don't understand me, but I've been there when you really need everything, all just understand that each other. Oh, and I know I know that you love me. But sometimes you don't know what to say. You don't know what to say. You don't know what to do don't know that'll give me the strength to make it through. But there's the 11 who's always, always willing to help us God and Jesus loving sister to give him Lord. Yeah, see, this is sticking to the eldest. It's like where were you when I somebody to talk to? Where were you, huh? And what did you say again? You needed somebody to talk? I couldn't. Share it with. Everybody with just. Anybody. Pasta. Everybody, everybody wouldn't understand me and when I couldn't talk with you. That's when I. Felt so alone. Oh I know, I know that you love me. But sometimes you don't know what to say. You don't know what to say, you don't know what to do. Give me the strength to make Oh, but there's the 11 who's always always willing to help of you and it's Jesus loving sister. Just give him your care. This one is about. Counseling. It's about counseling. So sometimes you don't know what to say, you don't know what to do. Sometimes we don't know what to do. Somebody sent me a message. They are bringing the dead body of my father to the house. I didn't know what to say. Sometimes you don't know what to say. I didn't know what? What should I say? Yeah, starting with somebody's wife and the husband is lying in the coffin. I don't know what to say. And it's true. Sometimes we don't know what to say. But you see, God put us there to say something. That's why I got and that's why you are there because in the room with a person, you know, you have to have something to say. That's why we want 100 elders, not ten. And pastors, who is going to talk to somebody, Talk to them. I remember one of my pastors, he was, he was, he was, he was, he was looking after his sister, you know, and they're Bambas. One of them wasn't getting mine. No one, no one was proposing to her. She needed somebody to talk to her because some people are, they don't talk, they are not friendly. They need somebody to tell you, come on, you are beautiful, you are nice, do this. He took at her and said you are always wearing trousers, you are always wearing trousers. You don't wear a dress, I don't have dress, become become a lady. She needed somebody to. I wasn't there. He was there. You need dresses. He said get this dress. And you see when this was there, he moved from talking to Kareem. He took her to the shop, said buy take this 1/2. She told me he said he bought me 5 dresses. She said. I remember those dresses. He started wearing the dresses and the brother came to serve. Sister, good evening. I was passing by the coconut tree when I saw you standing under the mango tree. And I was. Thinking that the coconut tree is nicer than the mango tree. Would you like to come this way? Hey, wow, you see you. A pastor moves from feeding and gathering. Then at a point he lifts the person up and say, come on now, come on now. I'm holding you this time. I'm holding you myself. I'm carrying you. A shepherd carries us the time he lifts the sheep up himself and carries them out of the water. Yeah, because they cannot carry themselves. They cannot walk. One day a certain ship, Lady Ladyship. She needed somebody. She You people always need somebody to talk to. Sometimes I don't know what people will do if there's no church, What will you do? You just. I don't understand what your life will be like if there was nobody to talk to. When? Loving sister, tell me, where were you when I needed somebody to talk to about a fault of night that I had carried around for so very long? I couldn't share it with just anybody. Just anybody. Everybody wouldn't know. When I couldn't talk with you, that's when I felt so. Oh, I know. I know that you love me. You don't know what to say, you don't know what to say, you don't know what to do. That she had a. She had a, she had a boyfriend, boyfriend and the boy she, she was weak. When the boy comes and he says darling, then something moves this way. Oh funny, funny, funny, touches her. She just melts. One day she he came and so he just comes to her sleeps with her. He now was like a husband in and out at whale. When she when she can, she knows that it's wrong. The guy is not correct. Another when she can. She just, she just moved. She would. Fry something? She would cook something. Oh. The shepherd was annoyed. What is that? He was talking to ABBA chief, so he went to the shop and bought tools, carpentry tools. I'm talking about a chef. I see he preaches a place. The counselling, finish with the counselling. We've put the preachy aside from the church. Then he has moved into carpentry to Karen. So he went to the house with his carpentry tools and unscrew the door, the lock and change the lock with a new key. And so this is the key. So this guy who has now his key is an old key. He cannot enter. What a shepherd. I say, what a shepherd. He's a blocker. He changed the keys. This is a real these are the type. When I hear these type of stories, then I I become happy that people that have trained her. This is not not me. People that have trained and these are how they are shepherding people. They come to change the lock of the house. Nonsense. Nonsense does come here and just misbehave. Pardon me. She needed. Somebody to talk to about a thought she had. She couldn't just tell anybody because anybody wouldn't understand. They said, I mean, how I mean how this year I talked to her sister, a very strict sister. She goes, I mean, how, I mean how pull yourself together. Hey, back up and walk away. But this is my heart. My heart is bleeding. Oh, we need shepherds. How many relatives? We need this. I mean, we need strong shepherds carrying people with power to carry you. One day one of my sheep was being destroyed by a boy. At the point I said where is he? Where is he? I said, what is his number? Call him now. I want to see him now. When I saw him, I said listen to me. Let he tell you. Let me hold you. Yeah, I warned him. I said never touch this girl again. Yeah, and I told him something that will happen to me in the future. Immediately he back and said I will not, I will not stay back. What do you mean? One day I went to look for one of my sheep was in the in the boyfriend's arena early morning. I said check starts around 9. I was there 6-7 because I knew you say that she cannot come. I said so she hasn't bathed. And I said I'll wait, it's not a problem at all. Get up out of that bed, have your bath and I'm waiting. She got up, she had her bath. I own her dress. Let's go to church. It's OK. Long distance. Yeah. Rescue, that is. Carrie, You. You held that person up. Let's go. And up till today, more more than 30 years later, she's still serving the Lord. Carry her. Is that fantastic? Is that amazing? How many are going to become carriers, aircraft carriers, ship carriers? We have aircraft carriers, we have ship carriers. We have aircraft carriers, but we have ship carriers. Aircraft can be carried. How much more in ship? How many are enjoying this beautiful job? How many do that? If it's a nice job that must be done, the nice job that must be done, What a job, what a job, what a beautiful job. There is far more honor in being a shepherd or a pastor than in being a doctor or a camping tag or an actuarial science. What philosopher? Statistician. What is that? Why do you compare things that are not equal? Health Science, meteorological, climate? Who is the climatologist? Ha, is it amazing? Is it amazing? You know, that's why Jesus said, you know, Jesus said, do you love me, Peter? Do you love me? Peter said, Oh my Lord, why do you even ask? You know that I love. And Jesus said you love me, you really love me. Feed my sheep, that's all. Look after my little ones. That's why God sent me to the first class. Look after the little tender lambs, because that is the expression of the love of God is to look after the children, the little lamb, my feed, my sheep, my people I died for I redeemed them. Remember yesterday how Rhoda redeemed her brother with her life? She said that I'll give myself and she was shot down for her brother. Wow, that's what Jesus said. He came down, was shot down for us. He must be very precious and he said please look after us. He has moved from that chair. Where is He? You are spreading the word now. You've moved around. It's a missionary. So Jesus asked me that. Do you love me? Where are they? Do you love me? Do you love you? See? You see Now Why does it take a long time? Fire. The Mazek arrived. Not too close. You are too wicked. Do you love me? I'm asking do you love Jesus really needs to know if you love him, then you are going to do what? Feeding, gathering, carrying, leaving, pray, visitation, counseling, interaction. It's a beautiful job one. Day Jesus turned to Peter and said, I want to know if you really love me. Simon Peter turned to him and said, O my Lord, why do you even ask, 'cause you know dear Lord, how I love you. I will keep your command, I will feed your sheep. Jesus asking you the same. I'll take the show out. It's all up. It's going to learn and it needs to know that you're going to surrender world all of your life through this will and it's coming. That's the least that you can do. One day, Jesus turned to Peter and Ted. I want to know if you really love me. Simon Peter turned to him and said. Oh Lord, why do you live in that 'cause you know, dear Lord, how I love you. I will keep your command. I will feed your sheep. Jesus asked. Can you, the servant, go get this all out? Turn up the Ester. He really needs to know that you're willing to surrender the world all of your life. That's the news that you can't do. Was a Christian then attending church. And. I believe that I love the Lord. But there was that day I went to church and the preacher spoke to me. He said Jesus said, either you love me, keep my word, my commands, listen to my voice. Jesus, really. Needs to know. How these things I love surround the deepest I love. He really needs to know. And you're willing to surrender all, all of your life, do this will. And is the man that's the least that you can do. Greater love has no man than this, that a man should give his life for you. Do you, the Lord, like he loves you? Do you really want to do His will? What will you do in return for His love for you, you and the way? Or just walk away? Jesus breathing needs to know I'll eat the love. It's your love, it's your love. He really needs to know that you're willing to surrender all, all of your life to his will. That is the man. That's the least that you can do. One day Jesus turned to Peter and said, I want to know if you really love me. Simon Peter turned to him and said, Oh Lord, why do you even ask 'cause you know, dear Lord, how I love you. I will keep your command. I will feed your sheep. Jesus asking you the same. I live is your love, is your love. He, there's your love. He really needs to know that's where it is. Surrender all of your life this will. That is the way. That's the least that you can do. Here is voice in your heart today. Do not harden your heart. Do not turn away. That's the only way to sow out in the soul. So love, how deep is your life? He really needs to know that you're willing to surrender all of your life to Miss Will. That is command. That's the least that you can do. Da da da da da, your love. I did is your love. You really need to know that you're willing to surrender all, all of your life. Is it fantastic? Is it wonderful and amazing? That's the least that you can do. That's the least that you can do after all that the Lord has shown you. Wow. Are you excited about it? Are you wonderfully happy? Are you going to get into this beautiful job? Beautiful job. Wow. So if this is chapter one, we have 6 more chapters. Miss, You see that we need 6 more camps like this to go through this job. Wow, that's the least that you can do. No shepherding is is is the most fantastic, wonderful, exciting, beautiful, half lifting, uplifting, exciting job that a person can ever have to do. Yes, fulfilling. Oh yeah. One day I invited somebody to, you know, minister him. When he finished, I gave him an honorarium and he was going. He said, listen to me, pastor, I would pay you to come here. I would pay you to come here. You see, it's not that you will get something that I would pay the Lord to have such a job, not that he would pay me. I would like to pay him to please employ me to work for him. What a word. That's how wonderful this job is that he would even pay. He would even pay to get to get that job. Amen. Are you listening to me? All right, so now they are going to go through. I want us to just go through all our points before we come. We'll be getting near to the end of the camp soon. Amen. Oh, everybody needs a little help to get their life together. I've heard news about you a little while ago. I. Tried to. Call you, but you weren't at work. I'm glad I caught you at home. No one else in this whole wide world could mean as much as you to me, so I thought I'd drop by for a little while in case you needed a friend. Because everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. You're no exception. Everybody needs another head and they can hold on to, OK? Everybody needs a little help to get their eyes together. Jesus gives that to you. Yeah, you can cry if you need to. You. Don't all. Understand. You can tell me everything that you feel inside. Don't you hold it in. Don't you worry. Don't apologize for everything you do or say. Guess what A. Friend's for about to be around in case you're feeling that way. Hey, everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. You're no exception. Everybody needs a life and then they can hold on to say everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. Jesus, guess that you get Oh. Everybody. Needs a little help to get their lives together. You're no exception. Everybody needs another heaven they can hold on to. Yeah. Everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. I want to give that to you. Yeah. Oh, nothing to you. Never. Let's see, everybody needs a little help to get their lives together. You're no exception. Everybody needs another hell and they can hold on to. Yeah. Everybody needs something all together, life together. See. I want to give it to you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I want to give it to you. Yeah. Yeah, I want to give it to you.