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19. 7 Things About Quiet Time

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills
January 9, 2025 1h 7m

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Camp Title - Lay Power. Machaneh Collection - 60. Preached in 2009, Ghana (Bonsu). 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 #19 of lay power. Do you want to dance in the light? Dance. Dance, dance. Dance, dance, dance. Dance, dance. It's been in the light of gone oh, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump. It is a great day. The side along it is a great day. The side along it is a great day. The. The Lord walking in the light of God. Read your Bible, read your Bible, pray every day, pray every day, give the Lord a contact, read your Bible, pray every day. If you want to go, if you want to go, if you want to go the Bible, pray every day, pray every day, pray every day. Be your Bible, pray every day. If you want to, if you want to go, if you want to go Hallelujah read the Bible, pray every day. Pray every day, read your Bible, read every day. If you want to all singles all singles. Single single, single single power. Power. Mighty power. The. The Lord of Lords is the train I am. Praise his name, magnify his name, glorify His. Name. When I was in medical school, I remember I was in the Pediatrics department. You know, Pediatrics, that is children's doctor. Somebody should give me a piece of paper. P

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Welcome to track #19 of lay power. Do you want to dance in the light? Dance. Dance, dance. Dance, dance, dance. Dance, dance. It's been in the light of gone oh, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump. It is a great day. The side along it is a great day. The side along it is a great day. The. The Lord walking in the light of God. Read your Bible, read your Bible, pray every day, pray every day, give the Lord a contact, read your Bible, pray every day. If you want to go, if you want to go, if you want to go the Bible, pray every day, pray every day, pray every day. Be your Bible, pray every day. If you want to, if you want to go, if you want to go Hallelujah read the Bible, pray every day. Pray every day, read your Bible, read every day. If you want to all singles all singles. Single single, single single power. Power. Mighty power. The. The Lord of Lords is the train I am. Praise his name, magnify his name, glorify His. Name. When I was in medical school, I remember I was in the Pediatrics department. You know, Pediatrics, that is children's doctor. Somebody should give me a piece of paper. Plain You are blessed now there were. 3. Like main lecturers at the time, I can remember professors and then there was this and the lecturer, one of the professors said that he he is so intelligent and he has so much knowledge. When he died, his brain should be preserved in whatever because of the amount of knowledge. Another one was he, he, he, he is he has so much knowledge. When you have an exam with I was even wonder look, when you go and you are saying the things and you know a lot, be careful. He he always needs to be able to be the one who say the last thing he said. You see, you don't know you are students, you are nothing because he has too much knowledge. And the other lecturer, we used to call that that lecturer A Wolloic A. When you say A in medicine it means without so anemia, anemia without blood. A a other word. You amenorrhea no periods asymptomatic no symptoms aplastic no what? No plastic OK A level no. No Level No, no, no. So we used to call that lecture. A wolloic, a wolloic. Now this lecturer who they said was a wolloic, when she's giving a lecture or she's teaching and they said this child has got partial call. You see the face, the legs are puffy, the hair, everything. So this partial call, So what? How do you treat it? Then the student will be mentioning things and she said you have to give a child me. Then she give you paper draw the size of the meat, draw the size of the meat the child has to eat. Yeah, Yeah. This side this issue. So see, because some people will give their child a small meat, show the meat. Yeah, you see. And she showed that patients still. Is it true? It's not true. Yeah. Should it be this a meat and the students used to like, so the woman should be able to look no, no gap, just meat and whatever. So one day they did. That's what I'm talking about. People who think like we are sort of like we've advanced. One day they did. What do you call it, mortality rate or something for the different flaws. Everybody has a flaw. This person has a flaw. This one who knows so much has his flaw. The other one who knows so much the other flaw and they found out that the death. Rate and the mortality of the woman's awolowic personnel was far lower than this high. Alluting professors by far, because you see somebody who is just practical say look, mix, give the child meat, draw it like that, see this but the patient count the the patients. Count their mothers. They don't. They don't give the children meat or protein or whatever they need. Do you see? That person violent, you see, So what I'm saying is that this apparent advanced but nots special music and what are new is leading to nothing. It's all I I have no respect for it. I I honestly, I'll be very honest, I have no respect for it. Me. I rarely sing praises and what I don't know the songs and I don't enjoy them. I rarely I I can't flip with it. Not that I can't learn a new song because Bishop Eddie, I used to give him songs. Are you? So this song is just. Like I find some. I find some I give to I, I like music, I listen to it. Honestly, we need to rise up and lick the congregation. You see, I, I was reading a book. I'm reading a book called Out of Shepherd Out. It's all in that book. There's this guy who I don't know if he's a pastor, but he had a job for eight years as a shepherd in, I think in New Zealand where he describes a sheep. He said look sheep, they most made people just look at sheep and dodo. Just leave them in the grass. He said there is no animal that needs more detailed instruction. Be here, not here, not yet done a sheep. They need detailed guidance. He said. If you leave them to themselves, he said, they'll eat the grass. To the way they eat. It in the ground and make holes. In the you can't just leave them. But the mind is that, oh, just leave the just leave the goats out there, or just leave the sheep out there. So there is no animal that needs more detailed, personalized guidance than a sheep. And this is from a real. Shepherd. Who has been a shepherd for eight years, practically? Are you listening to me? So what I'm saying to you, my dear friend, is that. The ship need detailed guy as we are singing the song. It's sort of the the joy as we sing the song. It's not artificial and I'm speaking to those of. Us who are the controllers of the music in the church, the joy is not artificial. We are not. We are not fooling. Many people didn't know these songs before. How many didn't know these songs before? Raise your hand. He didn't know them. How many knew them before? It's amazing that you know them. But some of us didn't know these songs before. But the joy. Is is your joy artificial? Are you fooling? Are you fooling as you are singing, that it's a great thing to serve the Lord? Are you fooling around? It evokes joy. It's genuine, it's real, it's different. The feeling is different. And you see that it. What I will say is songs correspond with teaching. You have a song that all the things that I'm teaching either basically doesn't have any song that corresponds with what I'm teaching. That's why she's not singing much. The music always corresponds and complements the teachings. So the teachings of those days, you understand the teachings of those days, which are the real teachings were complimented by these songs as when I was out and I had the singing the song it is a great thing to serve. I said what a song. I thought it's a long time since I had and I I mean just even the word. It is a great thing to serve the Lord a Christian. It is a great thing to serve, which has been I said this song is that it's like the embodiment of the message I've been trying to pass along to all of us. It's a great thing to serve us. It's a great thing to work for God. Why don't you work for God? It is a great thing to work for God. Is this the all I've been preaching? All that I? Preach. You go up and down about it comes to this point that it is a great thing to serve the Lord, so serve him acquitting stand up. Is that not what I'm telling you? That is a great thing to serve the Lord. Last, I did not know what I told you. That is a great thing to serve the Lord. Did I not tell you? That's my whole message. Why are you arguing with me? That is the message. And the people, they sing what you make them sing. Even the singing people have as much sex as you teach them to have. You may think that it's natural. Tigers and leopards, they don't have instruction on when to have sex. They just do it. That's why they do it so much leopards. They don't eat for one week. And they have said every hour for one week you see them blind by each other like that. Hourly for one week. You say you want to do without instruction, then learn from a leopard without eating the one that we are teaching you guys less. Will lead you to nature. See the professor. His children were dying. His ward was full of dying children. Mortality rates. And the one that the people you see, and that is the voice of the people, even the students. So that is among the students that were saying that she's awoloic. Wallow is book a wallowic. So no, book she doesn't know. Book a wallowic she doesn't know. Books. So we call her a wallowic. Is that our own word? Martha? Do you remember? Did you also hear it? Did you hear it? You know what I'm talking about. And you are about. Six years behind me. But you know the person, Stella. You know you don't know. OK, but you know. Yeah. And other doctors did you know? You know. Yeah, you know, doctor. So you know you know who I'm talking about? Yeah. Is it you are trying to say as in English is bereft of knowledge but among the medical students a wului she doesn't know the wulu Wulu is book in gang in the gang language Wulu is book so a wulu a is a medical term. Wulu is a gang term ick is just been added a wului. This how the students are taught me what she's the best doctor, she's the best her her children are living. Her. Her babies. And the children were surviving, growing, getting cured in the war. She's giving practical advice. She's the one that he said doesn't know they're getting. She will draw. Students were asked to draw their meat, were asked to draw. That's why I asked for a sheet of paper. But I always remember I was told she will ask you for that. So you see you people who think you are advanced in this way, you must look. Bible says by their fruits you shall know them the. Fruits of what we are producing are revealing that what we are giving is poison is poisoning the church and diluting the church and destroying the. Fiber and the fabric and the foundations of the church if the products that are coming, our world is coming. We are the products of the Scripture Union. I'm a product, Bishop Saki, my wife, Bishop Eddie. We are product of the Scripture Union and this we are product of these songs. We are product of these kind of messages. We are product of Bible study. We are product of the Bible. I'm telling you how you sit here. You don't know where is resurrection, where is? Love, where is faith? Where is anacazo? Where is this? You don't know? It's your product of us and our kind of books that we've written and our kinds of teachings and the kind of thing that we have fed to. You it's true. Telling when you put out our kind of. Songs. Where make you sing song that you know we feel was an advanced song and. We have despised the songs that made us what we are. See how we are still preaching on? I'm telling you, we've been preaching since we were teenagers. I've been preaching since I was 16 years old. Since I was 16 years old, I've been preaching this same thing. Going around visiting, drawing maps to people's houses, finding people. Since I was 16 years old, they thought that I wouldn't last and I'm. Still doing it and I'm telling you this what I've made-up and I'm sharing you this is what we this is the way we are going. So all those who want to go a different way work to you. So quiet time is that, and I dedicated my book of quiet time to a sister who taught me how to have my quiet time. The first thing she taught me when I came into the fold was to have a quiet time. Not that I'm imagining, or I'm trying to say something nice about her, or I'm trying to remember an old friend, but the. Fact of the matter is that she was sitting here and I'm sitting here and she has where is the Bible? Bring the Bible and where is the book DAILY GUIDE? Open here. We sit together, she said Read here and then read here. I did it at Shimota School in the dining hall. She taught me. And it became my best habit, the best habit that I ever learned in my life. Yes. It's not that I just want to mention somebody's name, but it's a fact. And all my messages come from my quiet time. People don't know if people think I'm listening to tapes. I listen to Tay, but my main messages, they are all from quiet time. Yeah, my books are from my quieter. If I have to throw out something, I'll throw out the messages and take the Bible and have the quiet time. It's true. OK, so quiet time makes you have the personal relations, the most important habits #3 during the quiet time, you draw near to God and He draws near to you. All right, draw an eye to God. He will draw an eye to you. Number 4A Quiet Time makes you read the most important book in the world. So this is the fourth reason why you must have your quiet time. Amen. Because it makes you read the most important book. It makes you develop the most important relationship. It makes you develop the most important habits. It makes you draw near to God. It makes you read the most important book in the world. Have you got 4 reasons? Huh? Now #5 the fifth reason the Bible is the most important book in the world. Amen. And Monterio William in comparing other religious books, the Bible said, pile them if you will, on the left side of your study table, but place your own holy Bible on the right side all by itself, all alone and with a wide gap between them, for there is a. Gulf. Between it and the so-called secret books of the East, which severe the one from the other utterly, hopelessly, and forever a veritable gulf which cannot be bridged over by any science of religious thoughts, he said. Pile all the books on the left, but put the Bible alone on the right. There is a big gap between every other book and the. Bible pile them if you will, but pile them on one side on the left and put the Holy Bible alone on the right. It is alone in its class. There is nothing that compared. My book can never be compared to the Bible. The part of my book that is of value is the part that is related to the Bible. And that's why I don't write books that are not related to the Bible. I could write books on economics, prosperity, success I've written, but even the books I've written on those things, they are related to the Bible. I don't want to go to heaven and want to crush my books into powder when I see them over there. I pray that every single book that I've written will have approval before God, Amen. So let people, you need quiet time. Amen #5A quiet time is your personal school of the word, Amen. In John chapter 16, verse 12, he says, I have many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them. Now how be it? When He, the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth, and He will show you things to come as you read your Bible. The Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth. Amen. Amen, number six, The sixth reason why you must have your quiet 7 things that are happening through during your quiet time #1 is what you're developing most important relationship of your life #2 is what you're developing what most important habits and #3 you are drawing dear to God. That's why I must have your quieter #4 you are reading the most important book in the world and #5 it's a. Personal School. How many want a personal school extra classes? You need a personal school of the Word. Extra classes #6 During your quiet time you increase in your personal knowledge of the Scriptures. Amen. Bible says add to your faith virtue, and to virtue add knowledge. Amen. What do you think? Second Peter, chapter one, verse 5. Add. To your faith, virtue and add to virtue knowledge. You must add knowledge even though you are like us, Amen. What is this? Amen. OK, and number seven or second Peter chapter 3, verse 18, it says, but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. Second Peter chapter 3, verse 18, grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And #7 during your quiet time you experience the presence of God. Adam experienced the presence of the Lord in the Garden of Eden until he backslid. Amen. Bible says, and they had the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord. Amen. Are you there? Hallelujah, Amen. All right, how many are blessed with a quiet time? All right, Ida, sing something. It's those quiet times, quiet times. They are so precious to me, to you. That's when you tell me those secret things I know that you want me to be. It's those quiet times. Quiet times alone together, just you and me. That's when I tell you that I love you, and you remind me that you love me too. Together, they're in nothing we can do. No, they can't take them away from me. But no, they can't take them away from me. Why get time? Quiet times, Day or night, It's all right with me. My doubts and fears seem to disappear just because you are with me. It's those quiet times, wine and eyes. They pulled that sparkle back into my eyes. That's when I tell you, Lord, I love you, and you remind me that you love me too. Together, there is nothing we can do. No, they can't take them away from me. Oh no, they can't take them away from me. There are precious days in my life. They're the days I spent with you and they it's your gentle touch that I love so much. It moves me through. It's those quiet time, quiet time, Day or night, It's all right with me. That's when you tell me those secret things and all that you want me to be. It's those quiet times, quiet times alone together, just you and me. That's when I tell you, Lord, I love you and you remind me that you love me too. Together, there's nothing that we can't do. No, they can't take them away from me. Although they can't take them away from me. It's those faggot times. Oh my Jesus, just you and the faggot times. Tell me those secret things, faggot times. Oh Lord, I tell you, I love you Quiet. Time. All right. 15 Powerful Effects of the Quiet Time on Your life #1A daily quiet time prevents, hurts, and reduces pain in this life, Amen. John 812 Jesus said, I am the truth, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Amen. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Amen. There I will make the horn of David to bad, and I have ordained a lamp for mine. Anointed Psalm 132 verse 17 Amen. 15 powerful effects of a quiet time. The first one is that it reduces hurt and pain in your life. Now how does a quiet time reduce hurt and pain in your life? It reduces pain in your life by giving you light. What should you do in this life? What should you do? Where should you go? What should you say? There's a song like that. What to do, Where to go? We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. Learn our lessons. Well, in his timing he will tell where to go, what to do. What to say? We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. Learn our lessons well in His timing. He will tell where to go, what to say, what to do. We must wait. Come on everybody, wait, wait on the Lord. We must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. Learn our lessons well in His timing. He will tell where to go, what to do and what to say. We must wait. Wait, just wait on the Lord. And we must wait, wait, wait on the Lord. Learn our lessons. Where? Oh, in his timing he will tell where to go, what to do and what to say. How many want to know where to go and what to do and what to say? We must wait on the Lord. We must have our quiet time. Someone said, Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. Amen. It's a light for my path. The word of God you may not know. How what it does to what do you call it to to to guide you? You see, one of the things about the Word of God is that it works in a certain way. In a little by little way, Amen. Hallelujah. It's not something that happens to you overnight, Amen. And it's something that works. I mean, if you take, if you look at at Mr. Brother, Brother Ben Johnson, will you stand up, please? How many of you think that this brother became tall like this when his mother gave him? You know, one big bowl of Kontumbre and yam, and then he grew tall. No, it is not the case. So when when we say that the Bible, really the Bible will show you where to go and what to do, people don't believe it. They feel that an Angel must come and say to you what to do today. No, by reading the Bible gradually, daily, daily, daily, and personally having a personal revelation, it forms a kind of guidance for you and where to go, what to say, what to do becomes something that is part of you. I mean, it's not in one day that Brent Johnson was told how to use a fork and a knife. Gradually, gradually, anybody who is big and tall did not become big and tall spiritually. Suddenly, yes. And look at how tall he is. It's not overnight. Slowly, step by step, step by step, he became who he was. And so this light of the world I tell you. That's why sometimes you see somebody who doesn't look so spiritual or so spooky, and he would say he will not say so much. The Lord spoke to me. I had in the night. The Lord said the Lord, I seem always doing the right thing. Because the word has been coming. Keep some for me, OK? Don't be proud, OK? Be humble, OK. By only by pride cometh contention, OK. The wisdom that is from above is pure. First, pure, peaceful. So it means you should be pure. It's wise to be pure. It's peaceful. It's wise to be peaceful, Easy to be untreated. It's wise to be easy to be advised. Not something that difficult to talk to. Full of good fruit without hypocrisy. It's wise to be without hypocrisy. Gradually it will guide you without hypocrisy, without partiality. It's wise not to be passionate. I mean, all these things will form your life. And a day comes, you know what to do, you know where to go, you know what to say without having a vision on that very day of where to go and what to do and what to say. So the greatness of your life, it comes by daily quieter. And when I tell people that my greatest secret, I wrote a book, a little book called The Secret, that the greatest secret of my life is the quieter people, they don't believe it. But if I ask, how did this person become so tall? What the secret? Little by little, little by little, little by little, not suddenly one big what do you call it? Of contamory and yam. And then you suddenly shoot up, Sit down. You see, one day a certain mother was advising her little daughter. Yes, and she was advising the daughter because the daughter had had a baby. And was getting bigger, so the mother called the daughter and advised her and told her that listen hips Lemo is it in gun Hips Lemo can musu Abu femo a violent few of you do you understand it in gang heaps lemon the widening of which place are the heap is it here the side this place the heaps lemon can musu musu. This is the Musu Akbo is big famous is becoming a ballet fuel fuel, fuel, fuel with small small little by little. So she was only a little daughter that chalet hips lemo kamusu agba febo a ballet what feel few I. This is a very deep saying and worthy of all acceptation. Tell your neighbor hips. Lemo if you want to have spiritual. Hips. Yeah, spiritual hips that are very wide, spiritual hips so that you'll be spiritually beautiful. Hips lemo. Tell somebody hips lemo. That means that when the hips are lame, lame means that it's becoming lame. It's lame. Lemo. Hips lemo musu akbo, akbo. Musu is stomach akbo theme of theme of becoming stomach is going this way and the hips are going this way about what feel feel. So how many want to have beautiful spiritual megahips? How many want to be a mighty heaped megahip spiritual brother and sister? What about a spiritual brother with a big stomach like Gulat and by the how feel, feel, feel. Yeah. Do you think I came to be preaching? What I'm preaching? Suddenly I just woke up and said ship I've arrived. Yes, I'm the man of God. I'm coming to preach. No, the lane of my hips and the Abu fame of my musu. It came how feel feel and the length of your hips and the of your Mussu. It will come feel feel every day small quiet. This Anytime I preach about quiet time, I remember this particular advice that this mother a very good mother. Gave her daughter very good advice see out of experience you will not know say that look just keep lemon and this stomach you. Will not see everyday. Small fufu, small rice, small jam, small bread, small mellow Curry is becoming slowly, slowly, before I realize you cannot pass through the door when you sit on the aeroplane, You have to hire. Two seats. 2A and 2B or 42A42B Hips lemo K musu Abu Femo. A ballet feel, feel, even if you don't understand guy, you have to know this is the only guy. This is the only guy you know in the whole world. Is this statement you have to let have you written it, Hips lemo. Hips lemo K musu Abu femo a ballet feel feel Hips lemon If you don't speak this one there, you must speak it. The back one. How does it say she said the back one? That one? How did they say no? No, no, no, no, no, no. I cannot add that one. I I should add a do not do not do not miss no that that is not part of the original quotation. I cannot add it. That was a do not add or subtract from the web. So if you are going to be a lay person who is rising up and becoming what God has ordained for you to become, you are going to have to do what? Quiet time. Daily, daily, daily. Feel fuel. Feel fuel, everybody. Say feel fuel, feel fuel. How do you say it in Tree Kakra Kakra. How do you say it in every VDVDVDVDVDVD VD Small and smaller Jose Vire. Jose Vire. Eva like what do you want to be mighty as a Lycos? A mighty Lycos? Then what do you need to do? Few, few, many times some wives will be growing fat. Their husbands will make a comment and they will flare up. Go for those other slim ones. Because of that, they are not able to receive advice until they receive advice in the town when they realize that none of the dresses of clean ladies fit them through and it has come. Feel. Feel until you have changed. Completely. Even people cannot recognize you when they say oh, you are oh. Oh, are you, sister? Anyway, it's been a long time what they are trying to say. It's not that it's been a long time. They are trying to say you are not like a balloon. And Ibale what? How many want to be a spiritual balloon? Mighty spiritual balloon? Ibale what if you want to put on weight, drink Milo every day? Yeah, in the evening before you sleep with milk and sugar. If you want to put on weight, feel for every day sugar bread too. I I had somebody who worked for Milo and and she used to work for Milo. She gave us that advice that if you want to put on weight every evening. Milo. Milk sugar mix it drink and sleep feel it will just enter the. Hips. And mussu tell somebody hips lemon. Ke mussu agufemo a ballet fuel. Fuel tell your neighbor spiritual hips lemon can spiritual musu al buffemo a ballet few few Amen. Thy word is a light. Look, the Bible says that was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Jesus, His word is the light of your life, just as I'm the light of the world. He that what followeth me, John 812 shall not is one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible. He says He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. In other words, the light that you need for your life, the light of life, the light that you need for your life, you have it through Jesus and through His word. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. This life, the light you need for this life is found through Jesus. He that followeth me, Jesus said I am the light of the world. John 812 I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness. If you follow Jesus every day, you read his word every day He talks to you every day, you shall not walk in darkness, but you are rather going to have the light that you need for life. This is not a powerful verse underlining thing about before it's too late. He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of not the light of the world, not light, the light of life, life's light, life's light. Comes by following. Jesus Christ, Michaela, do you want life's light? Do. You want light for your life. What should Michaela do? Come, come, come. Is this? Is this your bag? OK, it's a nice bag. Now supposing you are working in darkness of life, isn't it? Isn't it? close your eyes. You are in the darkness of this life. Now she doesn't know what to do, so she goes this way. So you are causing problems in your life. You've gone to bump into an important person then. Don't you know what to do? They're doing the wrong thing all the time. You're doing the wrong thing. You're going the wrong way all the time. You're hurting your life. That's why I said the first point of quiet time. It relieves you of a lot of pain. Because she doesn't have. I'm about to put on the lights of her life. close your eyes man, you are still in darkness. We are yet to put the lights for her life. This well, the the the way that she's supposed to go is here when she goes and then she'll come through the prosperity grass cars, all the cars that she need, they're all out here, but she's still going to the wrong she's going to the wrong place. She's going to the. Oh, don't you think? Don't you see now Joe is taking wrong decisions in in life? Look, he's married. He's married. He's married already. His his wife is right here. He's also married. He's a pastor. OK, now she needs the the light of life. So come in Lawrence be the light of his light. Put on the light, hold it in the lamp. OK, now the light has come up. Now lead, lead the light. Let's show the light of light. Wow, peace has come all her problem. First lead her to the cars. Look at look at the four wheel drive nice car and a nice husband outside waiting for her. Wow, that is time. There's no crisis anymore because she has what the light of life. No pain, no pain, no pain. And then husband come husband come hold her hand. Now she come visiting. Come visiting with the light, The light you need to need the light of life. She's got her nice, beloved husband. The light of her life, the light of her life. Oh, hold him well, hold him well, hold him well. And what were? The khakis, the khakis. The khakis that you the car keys for, for for that, that that car. Now look at that husband has bought a car. No, she should hold the keys. ASICS, what's the car? Car. Hey, hey. Or the Essex. Hey, since you have the light of life, lead them. Lead them further to the ministry. Down there, down there, to the ministry, lead them to the ministry. The light of the world, the light of the world. Wow the light of this life after so many when she didn't have the light, she was going for a defendant and people's husbands crashing into people spoiling the keyboards. Oh, but when the light came, look at how she's. Look at how she's lifted up and she's so happy. How many want to be happy like that? Then what do you need? The light of this light. Light of life, Light of life, life's light, lifes light. Okay, glad for the actress. All right, So what feel feel. Don't think that you just suddenly one day, you know, you got to stand there and say small, small. Every day you learn something. Don't do this. Do this. This is good. This is why. This is. This what happened. This what happened to Jacob. This what happened to Esther. This what happened to this, This what happened to every. That's why we read all those stories, how it happened to Esther, how Esther did this, how this, what Ruth did, what this person did every. Day small, small, you cannot learn quickly, That's why we have class one to six before you learn 5 * 5, you go for six years. It takes a long time to learn a lot of things, so that when I look at my little daughter and that I mean how the whole year they will learn 2 * 2 two 2 + 1 two times 2 for one year. Hey, when will she Start learning light physics, geography, literature? This. It's so long, so see how long it takes for a child. That's how long it takes for us spiritually to learn. That's why we need continuous camps and continuous meeting. That's why because of a before a camp before. So that's it. And that's why pastors who sit in front, we must not inhibit people who are preaching. When you say no, these are basic, these are fundamental. This man is dead like he doesn't have any other thing. No, you are preventing people who are in school who need to go through six years of learning 2 * 4 you are preventing people. What you say, what is this? Then four people will shout. It's this as if everybody knows it's not true. Stop that thing, stop it. You are deceiving everybody. It takes years and years and years for people to know things. They need experiences. Different things. Huh. Before. People know anything. So stop, stop this type. Oh, these are basic. Oh, these ones are just fundamentals. These are what? It's not fundamentals. It's what there is. All right, 15 Powerful Effects of quieter people don't know. Why do you think they know? They don't know it. Yeah, to say it again thousand times we are going to say Amen #2 daily quiet time guarantees a harvest of nice things. Amen. Wow. This is from the book Quiet Time. I hope you get your copy outside. Huh? Get your copy out. Should I give you a break so that you get your copies? So you just go to the chapter? Because if the chapter is right, they don't have to write all these points. Chapter 11. Since we came this morning, I've been preaching from the book Quiet Time. Do you want a copy? Who wants a copy? Raise your hand. They'll bring to you with your money. How much is 1 now? We don't just give books free. We have stopped that thing. You have to buy it. It shows that you value it because we have money for everything. The Word of God there should be dashed. A daily quiet time guarantees a good harvest of nice things. Amen. A good harvest of what? Why does it guarantee a good harvest? Because Bible says the Word. Is a seed. The seed is the word. So if you keep putting the word into you, it is going to lead to. A seed being put into you and that seed that is in you is going to bring for the harvest. So as you keep planting the word in you, it leads to a certain kind of harvest one day in your life. And that is why the quiet time is so powerful. It is somebody putting a seed into himself every day. Now when you sit down and you watch pornographic films, or you sit down and you watch certain kinds of films every day, you are putting a certain seed into your life. If you sit down and you watch Bold and Beautiful and some of these other soap operas, you are putting a certain seat. Your mind will always be thinking about affairs. There are some people whose mind always thinking of affairs. Any, any boy and girl, you sit together. Now this, this your mind starts to work out. All those things are in you. Yeah, the seeds that have been put into you either by films, by life, by whatever experiences. So your whole mind only works on affair. You have never seen anything pure. Before. You do not know anything that is pure. You have never seen it before. If somebody says a veg, you say he's lying. If somebody says I've been with this person, I don't have any bad thing to do. You can't believe it, but you're my only one. That by all means, this is what has happened, because that's all that you have referred into you. And a lot of people, that's all you've read books, you've seen things. There are seeds that have gone into you. Events have happened, things have happened. And those are the seeds that are you. And that's all that comes out of you. Affairs, relationship, affair. This one is doing this. This one will do this. This one will do that. And this happened, and that happened. And that, oh, your mind is just twisted and twirling. Yeah, it is the harvest of what has gone into you. And sometimes people are filled with fear because of what they have watched, films they've, what things they've seen. All those things feed into you and in the end you get a harvest. So the word of God is a seed that must come into you and that seed in you will one day lead to a harvest, a particular harvest of something. Yes, mainly things that are in that are. Put into me from childhood for the learning. It takes years. It takes years and years. If you want a quiet time book, just leave your hand. They'll give you 1 you, you buy right here 20 CDs. That's another thing carried away and you when they are doing exams. It's just like the evangelism that we are doing that is not from my heart, the reading of the book, not from her just to pass an exam. So the C doesn't get into us and when the C doesn't get into guys. It says when I say the C gets it, you don't understand. The book is in your handle. Or that you've read the book, but the seed of the world has entered your spirit, and that's that seed does not enter your heart. You understand? Because that seed does not enter your heart because you don't put it in your heart. You put it in your head for the exam. And so you don't get the harvest. That is why even though people are being forced to do exams in the church, the harvest of mature believers who know the Word and pastors is not coming forth because all the reading that they do is for an example. OK, he that soweth through his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption every look. Everything you watch. Everything you hear, every music you hear is all a seed. Yes, it's all a seed number 3A daily quiet time bends away and wanted things in your life because the Bible says in Jeremiah 514 he says wherefore that's there the Lord God opposed because you speak this word, I will make my words in thy mouth fire. And these people would, and it shall devour them. The word of God is fire. Amen. Only the Word of God can remove certain things that are in us. Some of us are trying to change our husbands, trying to change our wives, trying to change our children. Charlie at the end of the day, only God, only his word, can change a person. Somebody visited a prison. And when he came back from the prison, you know what he said? He said he it's hello, I'm the only one preaching, please. Somebody visited a prison. And he said when he visited a prison, he interviewed so many people. Everybody said, oh, you know, yeah, I didn't do it. I'm not guilty. I was framed this and that. So by the time he came out of the prison, he made a comment, said I've never seen in America. The largest group of innocent people that have been gathered in one place like this because people in our life, we do not admit things. Like what I'm preaching? There are people who do not admit what I'm preaching. Amen. People do not admit. When you point out someone you are doing this, you are doing. No, people don't admit things. That is one of the things that caused a lot of husbands and wife to have conflicts because there's no referee and especially if your spouse says something, you are not likely to accept it because we have become like equals. It's true. So you find out that that is where but in the church setting when there there are others there. When you do this, ever say what you are doing is wrong? How can you say that you are causing a big problem? That when you are alone, only two people, there's no one there to point out that this thing that you are doing in some way. So that's what leads more and more and more and more so because people do not admit things, even people. You take a gun, you shot somebody, say I am not. I say I have not killed. I say I have not basic. Character of human the only God can. Actually change people. Amen. Only God can really change somebody so. That is why you need to have your quieter because the quiet time, God himself will work on things. And so anybody who has his quiet time or a quiet time, you see that the person gradually changes from the quiet time. The quiet time is what changes, but not when somebody. Confronts you with something. When somebody confronts you, that thing doesn't change you. Yeah. Pastors, when you convent, they don't see. One day I made a grave mistake. There was a pastor who was being rebellious, and I made the grave mistake of making a reference to Isaiah. I was trying to explain to him that because he had gone abroad and come, it had affected him. And he was becoming proud, and that's why he was saying the things he was saying. So I said that the Bible talks about Lucifer, the son of the morning. That he said thou has walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire and thy heart has been lifted up. I when he had that thing, he said me today I am Lucifer. That's why it was. I am not. Lucifer, you see. And he shifted the whole thing. I was expelled using an analogy like how Jesus says I will come like a thief in the night. It is it. Now I'm a thief. You know, it doesn't mean I'm a thief. Like he said, I'm calling you a thief. I'm not calling you Lucifer. I'm saying that Lucifer was in heaven walking in the midst of stones of fire and then it affected him and then his heart was lifted up. That's what I'm saying. So I said that the Europe that you've gone, it has affected, you were not like this when you were in Ghana. You have not travelled before, you have not got a visa before. We got a visa before for you. We put you on a plane, we went. We have not seen Abruchi before. Now you've gone and come. Now everything is different. That's how people change. So we are trying to point out to the person that you have changed. I'm Lucifer today. I'm losing since that experience. When I see a very bad thing, I don't say it. I will let the person have this quiet time. Through the quiet time, God may show the person that he's behaving like Lucifer. How many understand what I'm talking about? How many want to have your quiet time every day, quickly from now? Do you want it so that God can work on you? Yeah. People don't admit things. If you like go to prison, maybe all of us must go to prison. I mean, on visitation. And every prisoner you ask, ask him. So how? Why are you here? So I've not done anything. They brought me here. I don't, I don't know if you know why I'm here. False accusation. Wow, isn't that fantastic. So that is why in court they don't even know whether you say you are guilty or you are not guilty. In fact, actually they prefer you to say you are not guilty because whatever they are going to prove it. You did this, you did this. So based on the evidence, not what you see, based on the evidence, you are guilty. Whether you say you are guilty or not guilty, it doesn't mean anything, Huh. Yeah. Sometimes when you say you are guilty, they say no, no, say you are not guilty so that we do the case. The judge, the judge who says no, say you are not. It's like I'm not just ending by what you say. Is it not amazing? Isn't a fantastic OK #4 Daily quiet time breaks down. Breaks down What evil strongholds? The same thing number 5A Daily quiet time leads to the cutting away. Because the Bible says in Jeremiah 2329, it's not my word like a fire and like a hammer. Amen #5 Daily quiet time leads to the cutting away of unwanted aspects of our lives and our character. The Bible says that the word of God is a sword, isn't it? The word of God is also a knife. So that knife is what? Cuts. Away and wanted parts of our lives. Amen. So you see why I'm encouraging you to have your quiet time. How many can see why I'm encouraging you to have your quiet time? Because when I encourage you to have your quiet time, that will cut away the things because the word of God is a hammer is a sword. It will cut anyway. And if you genuinely have your quiet time a lot of things about you will change. Yeah. So if I'm going to marry somebody, I would like to marry somebody who has a quiet time every day. And to me, when you have your pie time every day, it's more important than if we have a family devotion.